I can’t wait till Saturday comes along so I can catch the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” - Hollywood must know me because this film couldn’t come at a better time. A movie about a guy after a breakup and goes on vacation. Does that sound like someone? Indeed. It was sort of a tough decision because I really wanted to catch that Jet Li & Jackie Chan movie “Forbidden Kingdom” but with everything that has happened recently… I think it’s only right to watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall. So I think that’s what I’m going to do with whatever left of freedom I have. Not sure if I should be taking my nephew to watch it but he did crack the hell up when we saw Superbad. Plus IMDB rated it pretty high so I hope for the best. But it also rated Forbidden Kingdom pretty high too…. decisions decisions and not enough time. Till I blog again, goodnight.
And I leave you readers with a bit of my sorrows, here is an excerpt from one of my favorite depressing songs:
Ideal - Get Gone
In the beginning you know I tried
To make it work but you and I
Seems like I was always by myself
Like you didn’t ever ever wanna help
The strain you put on me you let me down
Can you tell me why?
After all I’ve done for you and us
You know I really hate to say it
But I gotta tell you something
I think I better leave (leave) you alone (alone)
So get your bags (yeah) and get the hell on (on)
See because I don’t want you no more
I don’t want you no more
See I tried to do it right
Tried to make you see the light
All that I wanted, all that I needed
Was you in my life
(All I needed was you in my life, whoa)
Had me broke down and for what
Tried so many times
Forgot who the real me was
But it’s alright, I said it’s cool
Cuz I’m getting rid of you
I think it’s time to leave (leave)
Me alone (alone) get your bags (yeah)
Get the fuck on (on)
Because I don’t want you no more
Due to recent events, It looks like I have to make a change of plans for my vacation time. I’ve been working too much and too long without a relaxing vacation. So I ask my readers to suggest places for me to go. Where does a single 27 male go for vacation? Due to certain circumstances, it has to be a location based in the USA. I’ll be traveling alone so any suggestions will be great. I gave it only a little thought at the moment but here’s my list:
Miami Pros: Short flight. I know a couple people there. Lani said she would come hang out with me and my boy epidemic lives down there too. Cons: Humidity and although I know a couple people there, I don’t expect them to be hanging out everyday with me so I’m really not sure what else is there to do out there.
Orlando Pros: Short flight. My boy Steve lives down there. He’s a long time friend of mine that I’ve known since my programming AOL days. Cons: Same as Miami
Hawaii Pros: My brother been there and he says that it’s great. And Lani also suggested this. Cons: Long ass flights (12hrs each trip) - Don’t know anybody there.
Looks like I’m going to spend some time on Yelp.com to do some homework on what’s out there. I really don’t know where else I should consider traveling to. If anyone have any suggestions, please leave me a comment or send a message. It would be very helpful. Great part is… I won’t be paying for my trip. Rewards are great.
*Edit: Lani doesn’t recommend Hawaii while single. So I guess I need time to compile a better list of places to go and hang out with people who KNOW that i’m NOT A STALKER nor even think of it.
Today I was woken up at 6:25AM by a knock at my door from my brother telling me it was 6:30AM and well… I slept the 5 minutes off. Took a shower, felt tired as hell, brushed my teeth, and all that other good stuff. Since I’ve been carpooling (with my brother) for awhile now… I have to wake up earlier now. I miss those days where I woke up an hour later. Prior to leaving for work, I forgot to bring my Lotemax eyedrops for my eye inflammation (from my contact lenses) so I headed back inside but I couldn’t find it so I won’t be applying any eyedrops till tonight. Plus getting out of shape doesn’t help either. I actually weighed myself last night and I actually told myself “Holy sh*t, You’re a fat ass!” So the obvious thing to tell myself is to hit the gym right? Well, not really. Due to some personal issues for the past few months (let’s call it an ankle injury for now), My out-of-shape-ness has been getting out of control. Once my personal issue is over with, I’m hitting the gym again. And did I mention that I have a really painful ingrown toe nail?! After my “ankle injury” - I think I’m going to see the doctor to have it fixed (yikes! I’m going to have only half a nail left). It’s been like this for awhile, I just been withstanding the pain. Jesus, I just realized how many things are wrong in my life in that last paragraph… Not to mention the stuff that I left out.
But work wise, it’s been rather OK i guess… Work load is finally starting to ease up a bit. Thank god the spring break season is over. I’m starting to feel burnt out. I can’t remember the last time I even had a real vacation… I been with this company for over a year now. Last year, I took 1 week of vacation time and it was not for vacation purposes. Plus the job before that (8 months), I only took 1 day off. I’m seriously in dire need of a vacation. I just finished this google maps page for my company. It’s funny how it came about… my boss gave me 30 minutes to research the functionality and I ended up learning the API in that short amount of time. But the result was very satisfactory and alot of the head honchos at the company liked it. I learn things fairly quickly when I apply myself. I guess it’s my gift and my curse. And yesterday I sent out a newsletter email to 594,000+ subscribers and traffic to the company website tripled plus sales were up 50% over last year. Ah, how sweet does that sound. I remember last year, we had like low 400k subscribers. I guess I am pretty good at what I do. My job also requires a lot of research, I have so many webpages opened that I tend to run out of memory (2GB @ 800mhz) fairly quickly. Let’s see I have IE7 with 15 tabs opened and Firefox with 97 tabs opened. Not including all the other apps I have to use. Can we say MULTITASKER? Oh another thing, I sort of closed my myspace page last night. I’m not going into details so “no comment.”
I had about 3 meetings today. I found out that our information systems guy is leaving the company so we’re trying to make sure we’re ready for any kind of impact. So it’s been quite the busy day. And one of our CTO’s (Chief Technical Officer) had me help him write up (or update rather) some document on logging website metrics. It was very last minute and he wanted it done very quickly. I did it in 10 minutes. Not too shabby. Plus he gave me props in the email to everyone. Finally, recognition. But overall, it was a semi-exhausting day. Then I came home to watch the Celtics beat the Suns by a huge margin. Let’s bring home a NBA championship!
I’m going to get ready for bed, goodnight and godspeed. (whatever that means)
