Twitter BSB

A week or so, as I was browsing blogs, I saw the post of a long-time blog lady who reposted a tweet from Nick Carter from BSB. Awesome. I searched for him on twitter and tada I was addicted to his random, every now and then tweets.

Yesterday I had the fabulous idea that maybe OTHERS had twitter too! You know, others from BSB. I was sadly correct.

Sadly, you ask? Sadly because now I am 24, going on 25 following BSB on twitter. BSB and its members. On Tweeter. Sad. It is. But oh well. I’ll deal with it.

In the meantime I will follow them and if I end up with the opportunity to call them through thier promotional phone call things, I will do so. As dorkish, 10-year-oldish as that might be. Why? Because I am so cool like that.

I grew up with them. They were a big part of my life as a teenager and why should I forsake them now just because I’m a mature, educated, adult?  I shouldn’t. I went to thier concert in November, by myself. I had fun, enjoyed myself and had alcohol at a BSB concert which was right up there as a highlight of the whole thing.

To continue on with the randomness of my posts… I hope that if and when they play in LA again it won’t be at a standing room only venue. I’m old, I need a seat. I do not need to fight with someone for location. Plus? I’m SHORT.

Rewind a bit… November comes and I go to the show and wait HOURS to see them. I figure this will be thier goodbye show (it was the last for the tour) and my love for them will continue on with their hits from the ’90’s when I was in HS and early ’00’s. Then, much to my (and I’d imagine many others) surprise – they (AJ specifically) announced that they were going into the studio the following day to work on their next album.

Yes. You read that correctly. Another album. My mouth dropped, literally. I mean, they are getting a bit old. No matter how much I’ll argue that they are not a boy band at least in the bad connotation that others give that term, I thought it’d be done and over with. But, I figured, I’d have to see it to believe it.

Seven months later and on twitter I see posts “in the studio” – “with the producers” – “album is finished” – “tour dates released for Europe” and on and on. I follow picture links and video links and it has become true.

July probably for the first single and then, who knows, a month or two later a new album. European tour starts in late October.

Awesome.

Maybe I’ll have someone to go with this time.

6 Months

I cannot believe we are half way through the year. Yet, somehow, I feel as though we are closer to the beginning of the year than the end of it. June. July. It’s summer, the end of the year doesn’t come until September, October when the school year starts. My birthday is a good sign (10/1).

The year has been good and bad. No job, but no complete unemployment, either.

I have, however, finally applied to unemployment. I have a phone interview on July 20th and hopefully I will have a couple of unemployment checks.

As far the insurance thing, still nothing has been resolved – mostly because I just haven’t had a minute to sit down and find the number for the woman who represented me at AAA so I can give her a call for it. Next week, Monday – I will do it.

I’m feeling okay. Generally these days of being surrounded by family instead of feeling happy and relaxed I feel stressed and lonely. This has been teh case for the past few family “reunions” (or whatever you want to call them).

The biggest problems as of late have been the baby. He always wants something. If he’s here he wants to be there, if he’s there he wants to be here. He’s plain unhappy with being contained, which is what we have to do since we have so many sets of stairs in this house. I just put him to sleep, but with the noises in the house, how long it will last is unknown and it will probably end up being a short time.

Tonight the plan is to go to Chuck E Cheese. Sometime this week we were supposed to go to the Getty, but I think that’s unlikely at this point – which is fine with me.

The girls would love to go swimming everyday, and I would take them – but I know TEO would through ANOTHER fit about it, and I’d rather not risk that as it would just drive me insane and my mom would end up yelling some more. So, instead we would have to go in the evenings when my dad gets home from work (he’s home now, but if we’re going to CEC later on, not a great idea to go swimming – besides Mika is half asleep right now anyway). We shall see how the rest of the week goes in that respect.

My mom is on her regular stampede of wanting everything to be clean and organized just the way she wants it. She doesn’t understand, however, that when there are two additional little people in the house and they are sleeping in my room – it’s hard for my room to be top notch all the time. My room isn’t even a mess. Sure, it has some stuff on the ground, but the girls are little and playing – so that’s to be expected. She gets neurotic and doesn’t even realize it. Or simplifies it that it’s fine! She’s being invaded! Woo! So tired of it.

Many times it is the adults in the house that make the kids unbearable – and today it is my mom’s turn to do that job.

C’est la vie. Or, at least, mine. *sigh*

Summer 2009, Day Nine and Ten

So tired.

Before I can get to today I will recap yesterday.

I wish I could post pictures to go with the posts, but until the old pics get deleted I am stuck with no new pics.

We left for the Aquarium at about 4:30pm. It took us about an hour – not anymore than we expected it to take (maybe more than the kids wanted, though). The girls really enjoyed it. Mika most of all, I think. Personally I didn’t think it was as amazing as it should have been after all the advertising they have done about the Shark Lagoon, etc. Oh well.

They did have some sharks available to touch, which after some initial fear, Mika did and LOVED. I tried to take plenty of pictures of this – but we shall see how they turned out. We had plenty of opportunities to touch sting-rays (they had them EVERYWHERE!) – some were soft, others rough. We also touched some star-fish and other animals that are the stay-still type.

The Aquarium isn’t as big as I thought it was, or as I remembered it to be. I’m glad we went when it was only $12 and not the normal $30. It is NOT worth $30, $12 is doable. We didn’t walk around the pier as TEO and dad started to throw fits about this and that.

However… it was fun, the girls enjoyed it, and were ready to go home early enough.

Today was the day to go to Hurricane Harbor. After last night, though, I wasn’t sure that it was going to happen. TEO and dad were still pissed off and in bad moods (over what? who knows). We went through a few options. Me taking Camila and Mika, or just Mika. Nikki didn’t want to go, but she did, but she didn’t. Run around with her. She’s sensitive to others and what she does depends on others (specifically TEO) feelings. In the end we all went, as originally planned.

No pictures of this since I wasn’t about to take a $300 camera to a WATER park. I can assure you, though, that the girls again enjoyed themselves very much. Most of the time was Nikki, Mika and me going around to the different kid-safe areas, while dad, TEO and Camila were in other areas. We got seperated early on (as we got into the river) for some reason which at this point is quite unimportant.

We got there at about 11, 11:30 and we left at about 4pm. TEO and dad left to go straight home while the girls and I stopped at McDonalds and got food, dessert, and the girls got to play (this was a pretty nifty McD’s).

Nikki inparticular was having a lot of fun, while the other two were tired and wanted to head home. I promised Nikki we would go again before the other girls leave. She will only go in these structures when the girls are here (even if the girls aren’t even in the structure!).

We got home after 5pm, I took a shower, played with Jonathan and the girls did what they wanted to.

I’m tied, slightly burnt, but happy. It was a good day, and so far? This trip has been the best. No major issues with the girls (even if there were with TEO and dad).

Mac-PC Compatibility

I hate that things aren’t as easily compatible. I have an external hard drive which is formatted for a PC. I now have a Mac. That becomes an issue when I try to put pictures from my over-filled laptop onto this hard drive. It doesn’t work.

I have a few options. Erase the hard-drive and re-format it for my Mac. Awesome. So I try to take the things that are already on my harddrive and copy them to my laptop so I can then put them back on the HD. Won’t do it for some reason.

Another option is to connect through the network to my dad’s PC and move the pictures from my laptop to the HD that way… slow and again, for some reason it’s not moving the actual pictures.

Option 3 is putting the pictures, a bit at a time onto my USB drive (16G). I tried that but it put on some weird ass pictures and not the full-size ones. Well. NOW I’m trying to delete the images that were on the USB but my laptop isn’t reading the USB. YET when I remove it, it tells me that it has been removed “illegally” and some images might be damaged. GREAT. I want to damage all of them for goodness sake!

I get the feeling I might have to just wait until Sunday when BIL gets here so that he can deal with it (because he is mr. smart pants).

*sigh*

Summer 2009, Day Eight

Wow, these titles are getting old, fast.

Today we went to a book party at the bookstre which was lame except that Mika won a bracelet making kit ($8 value) because she answered the most trivia questions correctly. Woo!

We also spent an hour or so at the pool (and once you get yourself into the pool, it really isn’t that cold). The girls had fun, I enjoyed myself, Jonathan loved the water and walking around the pool area.

Dad and I headed to the supermarket and tonight the girls are spending the night at Nikki’s house while Jonathan spends the night here. We’ll see if we make it all the way until tomorrow. I get the feeling that Camila is going to do some crying and will want to come back here before the night is through.

Tomorrow we’re going to the Aquarium of the Pacific. I hope it’ll be fun. We went years ago and I think I was in that “fuck everything” stage and didn’t enjoy myself, but I will try to more tomorrow. It’s in the evening though – so it’ll be a be chill during the day so that we’re not exhausted by 4 when we leave for there. We shall see. Before that though we have to check out Wal*Mart (the other one) for water shoes for Nikki.

That is all for Day Eight.

Family Revolution

My family is quite dysfunctional. I guess most family’s are, but mine in particular. Barely anyone gets along, and when they do it’s for moments before it all explodes again.

My dad, for one, is depressed. He looses his will for anything. He and my mom are constantly arguing. I don’t know why they are together other than it’s financially reasonable and they don’t “believe” in divorce. My dad needs help (but so does my mom). Neither will admit to it and therefore the cycle of disaster continues on.

Where does this leave me? Having to pick a side depending on the argument. Many times feeling as though they are both wrong (and sometimes right). In the meantime I’m stuck in the middle and one way or another I’ll be on the wrong side and the drama ensues.

My dad is getting old. His mind isn’t as sharp as it used to be and his memory is going. Of course being a man, a human, he doesn’t want to admit this and it becomes a big problem. He gets lost driving while he says that he knows how to get everywhere. Afterall, he’s been living here for YEARS. Drama.

I’m still trying to get pictures burned to a CD and whatnot.

Picture Post – Niece/Nephew Edition

Summer 2009, Day Seven

Today was a good day. We slept in late (although I slept between Camila and Mika and THAT was horrible) the girls behaved. I went with Nikki and Camila to Jonathan’s one-year-old well visit (and he’s doing great, big head, tall and skinny – similar to his sister). Afterwards I went and bought the GPS and we got Jamba for lunch (BOGO coupons! Woohoo!). After a couple of snafu’s we headed towards Griffith Park.

We went to Travel Town (which, really? a disappointment – at least today) where they only had one train open to walk through. We went on a train ride around the place – which was fine. I tried to get us to this cool park, but we just couldn’t find it and no GPS would either. We were at the complex it should have been at – but I just couldn’t see it. Oh well.

After TT and our park-finding escapades we headed to the Observatory. We didn’t spend as much time there as I would have liked, and I would have liked it to have been Mika and Nikki and me, because no one else was truly interested. However, it was nice. It’s a cool place to go back to visit – especially since it’s FREE! I took pictures of the city, but it was a very smoggy day – so they will show that.

It was also a hot day (and continues to be damn hot right now!).

After that everyone was hungry so we picked up some McDonalds and came home. Nikki slept until past 10pm, Mika watched a movie, Camila went from here to there. Camila had a seperation anxiety issue from mom and dad, which was worse because of being extremely tired. I talked her down and got her to sleep.

Which is where I am headed right now.

Needs + Summer 2009, Day Six

At the moment I have several needs and wants. Maybe more wants.

The major need is to have some alone “me” time so as not to go crazy. That, however, seems unlikely.

Wants? These include a GPS (but $200? I don’t know!), some sort of furniture-storage-type thing that is a foot or less in width to put on one side of my bed so that the other side isn’t as close to the dressers as it has been – but I can’t find what I want anywhere. I also want a new alarm clock – but again, can’t find anything that I like. I also want a bench to put at the end of the bed, but that’s been a long-time in hunting and nothing is cheap enough to make me want to make the purchase.

These wants drive me crazy.

More crazy, though? Is that made bed is against the wall while the girls are here and that is NOT the way I like it, there is an airmattress on the floor next to my bed leaving my room with absolutely NO walking room and… well, I’m a bit OCD about these things.

That said, it’s been the least-troublesome trip of them all.

That said, I am stressed because of outside forces (GRE, insurance co., money) and that is making my temper short which sucks for me as well as the girls…. and everyone.

Today we didn’t do much. I took the girls to see Disney’s Up but the girls didn’t seem to like it much. It was a PG movie and I think the underlying theme of love lost, childhood love, and just LOVE LOVE LOVE was just too much for their minds to actually understand. Oh well. Personally I thought it was okay, I enjoyed the love theme, I thought it was cute and romantic and made me totally depressed but I got over it.

We spent the afternoon at home, even though I should have taken them to the library. I just couldn’t do it. Instead they ate and we lounged. At about 6 we headed to the Topanga Mall where we walked, did a tiny bit of shopping, ate dinner (they, not I! – and the beginning of my emotional/mental breakdown) and then came home. Not exciting. I didn’t get any of those wants and I just felt blahness all over. I wanted something for ME because it’s been all about EVERYONE BUT ME. I know, childish, whatever.

Now the girls should be sleeping but instead they are doing God knows what all around the house. My back is aching. I’m tired. I’m annoyed. I’m somewhat PMSing (but where the FUCK is the period? I mean, 5 days without the pill and all I got to show for it was one measly clot? WAKE UP UTERUS!).

Ramble much. Goodnight.

Summer 2009, Day Five

Wednesday. This day included going to the library and failing at it because the Grandma who was supposed to be reading books quit and therefore it was all a giant fail.

It also included going to the pool where TEO went on and threw another fit/tantrum which caused Nikki (who is very sensitive) to feel guilty and leave the pool and therefore all of us having to leave the pool. Very sad, disappointing to all involved. Well, except TEO. Who is inded EVIL!

After the library we went to Wal*Mart (and by we I mean the girls and myself). I bought them some random things (candy, a ball, water shoes, and I dunno what else). Oh. I also pierced my ear. Yea. Again. I’ll take a picture at some point. Sometime.

We were going to go to the Farmer’s Market but everyone was tired and so we just stayed in and relaxed. Dinner was eaten at McDonalds at Wal*Mart. How disorganized can this post be… just watch!

It also involved the four kids, mom, and me walking up to the bank in the heat then walking back and going to our local Frozen Yogurt shop. That was enjoyed by all.

(another predated post… hahaha!)