I finally got my new laptop delivered to me by IT today and it is so much better than my last one, it’s not even funny. Yay, now to get productive!

Oh, but wait, I have to install all my software again… doh… so here I am sitting watching three or four download progress windows slowly inch their way to completion as I type this blog entry. How entertaining!

I’m not sure what’s given me my drive to keep up with running around Town Lake, but it’s still alive and kicking thus far. Maybe it was all those things Nancy said would happen to me once diabetes has gobbled me up like a tasty treat. Or maybe it’s because I’ve somehow managed to find it nice spending time by myself and running around Town Lake is a good opportunity to spend the decent portion of an hour by my lonesome.

Yesterday, I spent some time kicking the punching/kicking bag at my parents’ house and now I’m a bit sore. It’s been a while since I’ve kicked for an extended period of time, I suppose… but it does feel good to kick something really hard sometimes. =) I had a dream last night about sparing… that was fun. I think sparing is the thing I miss most about karate…

“After chasing sunsets,
One of life’s simple joys
Is playing with the boys.” - Kenny Loggins (from Top Gun)

This is where I sleep every night. I’ve had that Disney blanket for who knows how long (a long time). I wish I had old-school Strawberry Shortcake sheets, but alas, I had to resort to the new version.

I should have exposed the Care Bears pillow cover (thanks Kathy =) under the blue pillow cover on that large pillow, but I forgot and I’m too lazy to take the picture again… that would have made it quite a bit more colorful and… goofy? haha…

Also present in the pic are some gifts from Nancy and my mom (the red smiley thing and the book, respectively).

“Who sleeps all night in a cake made of strawberry?
Wakes up bright in a cake made of strawberry?
Livin right in a cake made of strawberry?
Strawberry Shortcake, wouldn’t ya know.” - Strawberry Shortcake theme

A week or so ago I got kinda tired of my job tasks and started looking at other jobs in Austin. I wasn’t seriously thinking about quitting and going to another company, but I just wanted to see what other things were out there. I think every job has its ups and downs and I guess I was having a down at that time. However, my group recently picked up a project that’s gotten me pretty excited… it’s the type of project that made me want to join this particular group. I think this coming year is going to be a good one. =)

I think I’m getting more used to running around Town Lake… I actually had enough energy to somewhat sprint at the end of the run… getting there… getting there. =)

“You are my fire
The one desire
Believe when I say
I want it that way” - Backstreet Boys =)

So I drove over to Town Lake after work today and apparently they closed off the area I usually park at and instead forced me back onto Mopac south during rush hour. Thanks a lot. I spent the next 20 minutes bumper to bumper until I could finally get off and turn around to go back north. By that time I was so fed up I just gave up and went back to the apartment.

In other news, I have decided I am going to wear jeans and a pink polo tomorrow. It’s going to be hawt. And somehow, I think these carefully selected lyrics are very fitting… ;)

“(Ooh love Ooh lover boy)
What ya doin’ tonight, (hey boy)
Set my alarm, turn on my charm
That’s because I’m a good old fashioned lover boy.” - Queen

I have this bad habit of sticking things in my mouth and biting down on them. When I don’t have anything to stick in my mouth, I usually use my finger nails and apply some pressure to them with my front teeth. shrug Maybe it’s due to anxiety… who knows. =) I remember in CS310, when Van would decide to skip his equivalent EE class (forgot the number), sometimes he’d take my pen, throw it on the ground and stomp on it or something and minutes later it’d be in my mouth again. Oh well, builds the immune system I suppose. =)

There’s this touchscreen stylus I have here at work (I have plenty, actually) that I found myself sticking into my mouth recently and I probably shouldn’t… except today I accidentally broke it in half with my thumb. Doh…

I’m looking around my cube and maybe I should clean it up some, I look like some crazy hacker with electronics all over the place… and I’m guessing I’m probably violating a bajillion “POPI” rules (guidelines for protecting intellectual property or something). Oh well, it looks like I’m busy at least. =) Hey Andrew, are you going to drop by sometime before… tomorrow? Haha… or if you somehow smuggle out your badge, you should drop by after your exit interview. =)

Oh yeah, and this entire post is really just so I can post these…

“So when you feel like hope is gone.
Look inside you and be strong.
And you’ll finally see the truth,
That a hero lies in you.” - Mariah Carey

I’m not sure if I’m just fooling myself or what, but it seems like I wake up easier in the morning having gone to bed at 2AM and waking up around 8AM than if I went to sleep at around midnight and woke up around 8AM… maybe in that 2 hour span, I fall into a deeper sleep that’s harder to come out of?

The only bad thing about that is I get a lot more tired later in the day, especially a few days down the line of having only 6 hours of sleep. Hmmmm…

Ideas have been churning in my head for the next OWeb layout, especially after seeing Karen’s new Vox Veniae website design (which I will refrain from posting cause I’m guessing we want it to be somewhat of a surprise, haha). I’ve got a few things planned that I’ll definitely do, one of which is to move to WordPress and another is to make a two or three column layout with nothing to the right of the “main content” so I don’t have to worry about picture width. I’m thinking a “dirty” kinda feel (like splattered… stuff… on the page) but with a high-tech spin… I’m not sure if I can do that or not, but we’ll see. =)

Speaking of which, does anyone use the RSS feeds I show of non-personal blogs? I’m talking about the BBSpot, Gizmodo, etc. etc. things I’ve got below the friend blogs… cause I’m considering dropping those since I don’t use them. I think it is possible that Mark does though… so we’ll see.

“Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight
It must have been something you said
I just died in your arms tonight.” - Cutting Crew

So Andrew says the “no jeans” thing is my trademark, and I guess it kinda is, but it is time to move on I suppose, haha. I realized that I never once wore a pair of jeans while I was at UT, and I wore them almost exclusively in high school until I switched entirely to khakis. And… I never really had a solid reason why I decided to do so. So I guess now I’ll wear both…

This is my public announcement that I am now wearing jeans and will accept pairs gifted to me that fit. Haha. =) Kathy got me pair for my birthday (early) and the girls apparently are happy…

Oriana: GAUGAU
Oriana: IN JEANS
Oriana: YAY

Ran again today! Keeping up the streak… I’ll work my way up to 5k eventually… any other lifestyle changes I should be making while I’m at it? Haha…

Well darn, my right Sony headphones just died on me and are muted… stinky… I wonder if I can still get them replaced under warranty if I don’t have the box nor the receipt anymore…

“Woke up this morning kinda blue,
Thinking through that age-old question:
How to exit a whale’s digestion?” - Newsboys

So an intern here at work showed me this Snakes on a Plane site where you can customize a message from Samuel L. Jackson to send to people via phone or email. It’s pretty entertaining. I tried sending some messages to a few people, but I’m not sure if they got through. Oh well. =)

Have fun and a stupppeennddous day! Lol…

“Beautiful day,
wonderful feeling,
this reason to sing,
psalms meaning songs singing praises all day long.” - FIF

There’s one thing to note about that picture above (which was taken in February)… other than me looking all goofy kinda bent over (like someone kicked me between the legs)… and that is that I’m wearing jeans. I think the last time I wore jeans (before that) was in high school sometime, and after that, I’ve never had/worn a pair. The only reason why I wore jeans that day was that our volunteering “theme” was “construction” and construction workers apparently don’t wear khakis. =)

I’m not quite sure why I started not wearing jeans… but I’ve kinda made it a point not to just because. Is it time to change?

Edit: Oh! Almost forgot lyrics!…

“Baby, baby, I’m taken with the notion
to love you with the sweetest of devotion…” - Amy Grant

Figured I should keep up the blogging streak even though I don’t really say all that much, but if it wastes a few seconds of your time, my job is complete. =) I’m just sitting here at work twiddling my thumbs waiting for IT to come setup my new laptop, which is a very frustrating process. Ugh ugh ugh.

Actually, the main reason why I wanted to make this blog post is so I could throw up the lyrics at the end of it. But you’ll have to wait for the end to see that… did you just cheat? Cheater. I think I’m going to start throwing short lyric excerpts at the end of my posts cause they’re fun (and make people call me a fruit bag, which is fun too - being called a fruit bag, that is… not actually being one… uhhh…).

There are a lot of things I want to buy, but I need to stop my spending in hopes of actually saving money for a house or something like that. A few things… iPod nano (gotta wait for the next upgrade though)… then if I got the iPod nano, I’ll probably get sucked into getting a Nike+ eventually. I want a Dell 24” too… and have been slightly itching to upgrade my Mac mini, if only for the gigabit ethernet… haha. Anyways, I’m holding off pretty well on all of that right now, cause there’s no way I’m getting all of it. One thing I will definitely be getting though is Adobe Photoshop CS3 when it’s out and a universal binary. Mmmmm…

“Round, round, get around, I get around… yeah… wa ooooo…” - Beach Boys