luxembourgish invasions

one lao person bombarded with 8 luxembourgish people? what are the odds???

none of which are actual native luxembourgish (1 german, 1 estonian, 2 parisians, 2 marseillians (?), and 2 slovakians.

but it was loads of fun and I'M SO DAMN TIRED.

maybe i'll give a more detailed version of the past few weeks...but suffice to say--there was a lot of walking, drinking, eating, talking, watching, touring, shopping, and other things!

loved every minute of it--but so glad to sleep tonight.

my turn next!

so my plan is to visit france/germany/estonia/2 days in luxembourg. i'll have to plan it abit better/more indepth about where to land/leave from, etc. but it should be great!

i reapplied for a new passport a few weeks ago--my 2 houseguests left today--and my new book arrives tomorrow!

pretty incredible timing. i think it's a sign that i really need to go.

september--europe--here i come!!

it works well monetarily too. whenever you play host to visitors for any extended period of time--your money takes a vacation too--as in--you spend like you're on vacation! so i have definitely been spending!

so i'm going to take the next few weeks to be a little more careful with my money.

anyhow. i'm tired and have to do some extensive cleaning/laundry/etc. today and tomorrow. i'll find the time to post some pictures!

soooo....

worn out. i'm just...worn out.

it's probably a combination of zyrtec, emotional frazzlement, work kicking into high gear, travel, and heat. but whatever combination it's from--it exists.

i need to rest, but work has gotten busier and friends are coming to visit this friday--which, don't get me wrong--i'm completely excited for--but it also means less rest--and all i want is maybe 3 solid days of sleep, recovery, and recuperation. i had the apartment all to myself this past weekend--which was GREAT. but weekends never last long enough. no surprise. it didn't this time either.

sometimes you make these tough life decisions--you know? the ones that tell you, "welcome to adulthood." and for better or for worse...what's done is done. and what's been done cannot be undone...cause you can't go back in the past. you can only move forward. and i'm not the type of person that has liked to dwell on the past much--i like forward. i like movement. i like hope. and i'm fascinated by faith. all these words tell me future. i guess i'm a bit of a stargazer. and that's the side of me that's romantic. that's why i love those sci-fi/futuristic/fantasy movies/epic compositions type stuff. it harkons of things..events...that...

could be. maybe should be. . . hopefully will be.

here's hoping.

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question: what do you do if you've fucked up.

answer: do the following steps IN ORDER IMMEDIATELY.

1. admit, sincerely, that you fucked up, to yourself and to the other person/thing.
2. acknowledge specifically what it is you did wrong.
3. apologize profusely until they accept it.
4. repeat as necessary.

unless you killed someone i can't see how this fails. here's to future happinesses and all that jazz...

so lately...

i've just been SO TIRED. like...unbearably. i hate allergy season. the homeopathic sublingual pills i found that were working in the pacific northwest don't work quite as well here in ny. that could possibly be due to the fact that i'm supposed to pop the suckers under my tongue 3 times a day. i'm sorry, but i just can't remember to do that. i remember once a day and that's pretty much it. it has to be easier than that. like the zyrtec. but the zyrtec is really messing with me. i just feel like a terrible walking zombie. it's an awful feeling. terrible really.

go adam lambert! (watching the results show right now).

the musician in me loves the versatility and all-around talent of kris allen.

the disctinctive voice of danny gokey is great to hear (you'd know that voice anywhere, much like hearing peter cetera or sth).

but it's the incredible range, power, purity, and evocative quality of adam lambert's voice that steals my vote...well. if i voted.

star trek

was absolutely awesome. overall a great movie for what it was supposed to be/do. i loved it. i loved the shoutouts to all the catchphrases from the original series and i loved zachary quinto (sylar from heroes) as spock. chris pine was perfect as capt. james t. kirk as well. overall very well casted and jj abrams did a pretty good job.

my only complaint is--during some of the hand-to-hand combat scenes...well. they lacked any originality--really--anything at all. they stunk. what's the point in having a combat scene with no combat? they could have been and should have been much better choreographed. hell, it may as well have been 2 babies fighting over a toy--and the eventual winner won only because the other baby's mama came to take him home.

that's not good. but other than that--GREAT.

in the end--i'd still go and see it--again. there were a lot of times i was sitting up in my seat (and considering i was in one of those awful front seat rows, that's saying a lot).

next stop:

--terminator: salvation
--up
--transformers:revenge of the fallen
--harry potter and the half blood prince
--there was a preview that i liked as well but i can't remember what it was for besides that it's got jack black and michael cera in it
--and maybe gi joe. maybe. i'm a sucker for action flicks with cheesy humor to break up the violence even though i never liked the cartoon as a kid.

swine flu

i am blogging from the hamptons--and will be back home tomorrow evening. when i left a few days ago--the swine flu news was "new" and now it's become my mainstay from every channel i watch. i'm not scared of going home to good ole brooklyn. but people here don't even talk about it.

i ordered 60 n-95 respirator masks online and they should arrive mid-next week. i will probably hit the cvs here in southampton before i head home tomorrow as well. i don't care how dorky i look--i will be wearing one while riding the subways! besides, my roommate was coughing and hacking the night before i left--i might want to wear one around the house too!

i've always carried around hand sanitizer so that was nothing new, but i have stocked up as well. i use this one:


i also take the new chapter organics "every woman's one daily" and the new chapter organics "immunity take care." i think i've done pretty much all i can do to prevent--so now, whatever happens, happens!

although i really should get on that living will thing. perhaps i'm getting paranoid, but i'm coughing slightly and i have a slight headache. we'll see!

THANK GOD FOR AMERICAN IDOL AND ADAM LAMBERT! way to keep my spirits up. where others have failed you have come through.

life changes

i feel like i should do a lot of things towards securing a more stable future for myself. as if the economy isn't enough of a worry there's now swine flu. i was so busy glaring at the pigeons flying around me that i overlooked george clooney's former pet.

damn it.

i am going out and buying myself one of those hospital masks in the next couple of days. my roommate tripped in coughing something fierce yesterday night and i left this morning for my 3 day trek to the hamptons. so hopefully when i get back she isn't a mess all over the place and at least quarantines herself in her room a little. so i think sometime in the next few weeks i'm going to create a living will sort of thing. i actually now have assets to protect--imagine that!

anyhow, looking forward to a few movies. as intelligent as i am, i'm not so pretentious as to claim to only watch foreign flicks or whatever. i LOVE summer blockbusters. lovem--the more action, the better. hey, i was raised on foreign kung fu flicks!

--star trek
--terminator salvation
--wolverine
--harry potter and the half blood prince
--up
--angels and demons
--transformers revenge of the fallen

so i am basically going to be spending my entire summer at the theatre--or at least--the VERY HOT days. there's usually 3 times where there are 3 day stretches of interminably hot i-want-to-shoot-myself-and-everyone-else weather here in nyc.

what a productive weekend...

well. in the doing everything i wanted to do sort of way!

friday: went to watch monsters vs aliens in 3d. the movie had stephen colbert AND hugh laurie in it--and still stunk...BUT the 3d aspect was INCREDIBLE. so i recommend going to watch it just for that! they just don't make quality flicks like finding nemo and stuff anymore.

saturday: rearranged my room for "summer"--meaning i moved my bed from the window/fire escape so that i can get better access to it and didn't do much else!

sunday: i've been walking around EVERYWHERE...or at least what seems like it. went from union square to midtown to chelsea to lower east side to greenwich. had spanish tapas at a place called "pia tol" (the waiters were cute but the food stunk for the average/high price of tapas. euzkadi was better and euzkadi wasn't INCREDIBLE. best places were still the 2 places in boston. had some gelato...wasn't great either actually. oh well.

but i'm feeling good and maybe i'm acclimating a little to the weather here--it was in the 90s and i wasn't feeling too badly so yay!

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advice section:

question: how do you stay mad at someone who deserves you to be mad at them even when you no longer feel it and just want to be on the happy side again?

answer: remember the pain and hope they either mess up again--or if you like them--hope they are smart enough to make it up to you sooner rather than later!

so many things to look forward to...

and yet something out there is pissing me off to no end.

but here are the things i get to look forward to!

1. going home tomorrow after a week away!
2. dinner and a movie or a free concert tomorrow night
3. picking up my GLASSES!!!! :))))) tomorrow night
4. the end of a goal cycle this month which means a good chunk of money by mid-may...which comes just in time for...
5. angelika coming to visit from the 22nd of may to the 31st!!!!!!

not looking forward to:

1. hamptons on monday
2. short feeling weekends
3. nyc summers
4. diets that need to happen
5. being more aggressive with my savings and really trying the suze orman "live on half your income" diet. but i'm determined to really do this. and that's hard to do living here in nyc!

argh

so hungover.

we definitely overcooked for our lao new year's dinner party though.

a TON of larb gai
a TON of beeng gai
a TON of mieng
a TON of tum maak hoong
a TON of gang naw mai
a TON of beer lao

i wish i had 5 stomachs so that i could eat as much as i want and not gain weight in just 1 body.

week in jersey tomorrow and i got half of my glasses. i went in for my checkup last friday and the prescription sunglasses were ready--but the regular prescription glasses were not. sad.

i am testing out new contacts as well because the other ones were not very comfortable against my eyes.

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question:

what should i do if i think my boyfriend is cheating on me?

answer:

hire a private eye and gas him out. if he is, use the key you have to his apartment, let yourself in while he's asleep one night, and tie him up as quick as possible. then grab that 2 liter bottle of water and use it to spit at his face. inbetween spitting tell him off or do anything verbal to make yourself feel better. after you leave, leave the key under the floormat and call one of his friends to let them know he needs to be untied. move on and don't tell the next guy you date this story until you're married.

so excited!

it's going to sound totally stupid, but i'm SO EXCITED because i finally stepped up to the plate...and MADE AN EYE APPOINTMENT. it's been LONG overdue. i broke my glasses and then lost them about 8 months ago and have been wearing my LAST pair of monthly contact lenses for A YEAR NOW. it's stupid i know. because honestly it's not like i didn't have the money or whatnot...i just couldn't be bothered until now. so my own fault. but i'm stoked. totally stoked. i'm so freakin excited. so tomorrow i am headed to pearle vision and there is a bogo going on for glasses! so if i lose or break one--i will have an extra pair (of equal or lesser value) as backup. TOTALLY STOKED.

i'm also happy for other reasons. i do wish i could have gone to san francisco though.

i am hoping to catch some movies this weekend as well...

still haven't seen:

--monsters vs aliens
--i love you man
--duplicity
--dragonball evolution (comes out tomorrow)
--knowing

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i have also decided to start a little blurb that poses as advice giving--but really is more for my own amusement--though the advice given will really be what i believe! they will hopefully be short answers to perhaps complicated issues. the issues might range from the obscure to mundane--afterall, even obscure problems deserve answers.

for example:

question: i'm a guy and i just found out that the person i fell in love with is actually a dude. does that mean i'm gay?

answer: maybe dude. have sex to find out and let me know.