Getting my mojo back.

I am finally done with the stupid Davis Vision job and am starting to get my life back! Although I am quite poor.

I am working part time at hollywood video (which is kind of like an alcohlic working at a liquor store) but oh-well.

And today I have watched 2 movies! yayy! (and about to rewatch a 3rd!)

First was The Reader which I did enjoy. It was a little dark and depressing but very well acted. The kid in the beginning did an amazing job.

Second was Milk. Interesting, sad, heartwarming. I love Emile Hirsch and James Franco and thought they were both very good in their roles.

And Lastly, I will be rewatching Reservation Road. I saw it once already and absolutely loved it. Can't wait to see it again!

OH and YESTERDAY I went to the movies with my dad and Karen and saw Star Trek. Now, I have never seen a scene of any Star Trek what-so-ever, and saying that, I really liked the movie! Lots of action and I liked the story!

Ahh how I missed my free time to watch movies!

Spring Time Activities with Geoff and Gillian

My dad and I have done a couple spring-like things around the house the last couple weekends.

Last Sunday I deemed 'Gardening Day' so we set out to spruce up the backyard. My dog has effectively killed most of the grass by running and peeing which may be slowly driving my dad crazy. I, however, am more concerned with making a 'flower garden' which is rapidly evolving into a 'vegetable garden'.

'Gardening Day' went something like this:

Step One: Pick up 5ish months of dog poo. My dog is something special. He, unlike most dogs, is VERY private about going to the bathroom. He only pees in grass if no one else is around (and that took about 2 years...he use to only go under trees and in bushes) and he only poops in VERY out of the way places. My dads backyard is extremely small because of the whole city-ish thing. The main part is probably about 12x 30' and then there is a part that runs parallel to the house (since his house is so much longer than the one on the other side) that is about 4x 25'. My dog goes all the way down to the very back part of the run beside the house and poops. Every day. There are piles of dog poo back there...must be nice for the neighbors to open their windows back there...hehe. Anyway, it makes cleanup very easy. No hunting for poop piles just walk back there and start scooping!

Step Two: Go to store for plants! We wandered around for about a half hour and left with this:
-Strawberries
-4 different kinda of herbs
-a shovel
-gloves for me
-a fence to keep Phillip out of my new garden (and bunnies and such)

Step Three: Plant! I cleared out a little space for my new stuff and planted it. My dad dug out the base of a tree that had fallen down last winter. It probably took about an hour for each of us to do our respective activities. When we were done I assumed we would keep working on the rest of the yard which has various plants and beds that need to be weeded and such but when I turned around dad said "well, that's good enough for today!" Which is exactly what I was thinking but I didn't think I'd get out that easy. This is why dad and I get along so well.

Sidenote: we still haven't gone back to finish the yard nor have we made any plans to.



Another spring activity we set out to do was open the windows. This may sound like a simple task to most, but in an old house which had parts that were relatively uninhabited until I got here, it is not so easy. The room I have taken and now call MINE has 2 windows. One does not open. Period. The other opens, but from both ends. So if you try to open the bottom and put in a screen (yes you have to add the screen to prop up the window) then the top window falls down to the bottom and you have an open window from the top. I won't bore you with all the specifics but I will say the final open window product involved about a hour of labor, cardboard, and packing tape.



That's about as far as we've come with our spring activities though I'm sure there will be more!

And Another One Bites the Dust

Another great show has left us. NBC announced today the cancellation of Life.

Starring Damien Lewis, Life was a funny, suspenseful, and Zen cop show.

Charlie Crews, played by Lewis, was a cop that had spent 10 years in prison for murdering his best friend's family, including his best friend. New DNA evidence exonerated him and he went back to work for the LAPD. He practiced Zen and loved fruit. Crews got millions from winning a lawsuit against the city but spent very little of the money. He lived in a huge, unfurnished house with a crooked CPA, Ted, played by Adam Arkin, who was otherwise a good guy. His partner was a practical, straightforward cop, Dani Reese, played by Sarah Shahi.

The show was well written, funny and interesting. It had well thought-out story lines and mysteries that followed throughout the whole season.

Sadly, I'm sure this will be the 1st of many great shows to get the axe as networks announce their new fall line ups, while stupid, useless, mind-numbing reality shows keep on living.

I can't take the structure and its messing up my movie watching

I HATE MY JOB.

My week goes as follows:

Wake Up (to an alarm)
Let Out the Dog
Take a Shower & Get Dressed
Go To Work
Be Miserable
Go Home
Watch Some TV or Read
Go to Bed
Repeat

I hate it. I can't do the same thing every day. I need to be able to work different shifts. Different DAYS. I absolutely HATE having the weekends off. I prefer having days off during the week when the rest of the world is working.
I also hate doing the same thing for 40+ hours a week. Stupid Job also has MANDATORY overtime. WHO THE HELL WANTS TO BE THERE FOR MORE THAN 40 HOURS A WEEK? not me. I don't care. Id rather be poor. Ive had to work the last 3 Saturdays which makes my weekends even shorter.

My 90 day review is coming up next week (5/10). This is when they decide if they will keep you and you have to join the union (do call center people really need a f'n union? preeetty sure they don't.....if you saw the asses of some of the people working there you DEFINITELY would NOT think they were overworked) OR they let you go. My secret hope (not so secret since I tell anyone who will listen) is that they decide I've missed too much time ("We really frown upon ANY unpaid time in your first 90 days" -sorry i missed 3.5 days...it was flu season and its not like i have health insurance to go to the doctor) and let me go.

Anyway, my life is misery but there are no jobs out there for me try to get (well there might be but I'm so grouchy when I get home the last thing I want to do is apply for jobs).

OH. And I almost forgot to mention. I have NOT been able to watch all the movies I usually do thanks to this whole 'working' thing. My netflix list is OVERFLOWING and I barely rent anything from Hollywood Video anymore. MY DAD has watched more of the movies that I've rented lately than I have. Ridiculous.