Live Daily

I realized my older blog posts were more like daily summaries... nowadays I just pick at random thoughts. So I thought I'd start documenting my day again, since they're so eventful. Here goes...

Dear Diary,
Today I woke up a little later than I originally planned. I had a phone interview at 10:30a and I wanted to wake up at 9a to do a little research and prepare a bit. I woke up at 10:25a. Oh well. I had a lunch date with my girlfriend at 11am whom I hadn't seen in at least a couple of months so I was changing and getting ready while I was on the phone. Things worked out okay and I'm going in for round 2 (an in-person interview) next week. I didn't realize interviews these days were so calculated. You start with e-mailing the HR person back and forth. They conduct a phone interview with you to see if you're worth the time of the actual decisionmaker. If they see that you are, then you meet the hiring manager, in otherwords your future supervisor. If they like you, they pass you on to the VP of the department so they can drill you even more. If you're unlucky they make you sit down with a couple of co-workers too to get a feel for how well you adapt to different personalities. Then if everybody likes you, you get to do a one-on-one with a chief officer or founder to make you sweat even more. By the way, I am positive in my last few interviews they turned the thermostat in the conference room up on purpose. I don't sweat that much in boxing class!

Anyhoo, I digress. Back to my day. After my interview I met up with my girlfriend at Barney's Greengrass restaurant for brunch. We chitchatted and caught up with each other's lives... I swear sometimes I feel like we live parallel lives, only hers is 10x more interesting. We have gone through a lot of the same major life events this year, but she went through them 6 months before me so sometimes I feel like I am talking to my future-self.

So after brunch we did some shopping. I won't go into too much detail here, it pains my wallet to rethink this portion of the day. So fast forward >>> stopped by EB Games @ Century City with a different friend to sell off his PS2 & Xbox... and they had the PS3 in stock! He got about $150 credit for his consoles + a gazillion games (so not worth it to resell your old stuff) and went home with a 60GB PS3. We stopped by breadbar where I had the hardest bread in the world and veggie soup. (Tried to nurse my cold a little bit)

After that I went home to rest. My headache from yesterday came back. I watched a little TV then decided to head over to the gym to sweat it out. It worked! Headache gone. Stopped by Best Buy on the way home to pick up the UK version of The Office and Grey's Anatomy... it's about time I get started on that show since everyone and their moms seems to like it. Then I stopped by pinkberry on my way home (Aai was the one who asked for it, not me) and I realized... my pinkberry is getting less and less healthy it seems like. It has evolved to a medium plain with granola and double cocoa pebbles. Well, you see last time I had cocoa pebbles and double granola (cheaper to get 3 toppings than 2, I know, doesn't make sense) and it was too crunchy so this time I decided to go double cocoa pebbles and it was perfect. Perfect.

A Little Princess

Just because she's so cute she thinks she can climb anywhere to sleep. (Sorry Vina, she claimed your bed as her resting place)

This is the pink Minnie Mouse jacket Yona got for Lulu from Japan. It's a zip-up track jacket too, so I left the last couple of inches unzipped in the front and she looks all cool. :) I think all of the clothes Yona has gotten for Moley & Lulu from Japan have been from Disney. My mom mentioned that it was -very- hard to find 'large' doggie clothes to fit Moley & Lulu, they only had tiny clothes. Then Yona mentioned that when they went shopping, all girls' clothes in size 'large' were on sale because they were leftover. (Which by the way a large in japan is like a small in Banana Republic) She said they sell jeans in size -22-. Okay so how small are the people and things in Japan? How is it that people and places and doggies are all so tiny over there. I know it ain't the food because Joanna gained weight from eating ramen over there.

Gosh

I was reading through my old posts and it's weird to kind of go back in time and read about how my day went or just to read my thoughts. Have I changed much in the last 3 years? I'm not sure. Definitely not in terms of what I do with my day. Goodness! My life as a student and being self-employed were pretty awesome. I did what I want when I wanted. I guess that's why it's so hard to get out of this habit of wasting my day away and getting mentally prepared for a 9-to-5 job. Maybe that's why I've been half-arsing it at interviews, not really finding what I want to do. I'm still hanging on to my old lifestyle.

Executive Boxing

I've replaced my Nike+ running with a new boxing regime. Any takers?

It's a little too cold for my taste to be running outdoors. I'll still do the occasional 3.5 mile run around the club after my training session but no more running around the block. Instead I'm trying to take Lloyd's Executive Boxing class at Bodies in Motion at least twice a week. And when I can wake up early enough I'm going to mix it up with the Savate Kickboxing class on MWF @ 9:30am. So if anyone wants to try it out, just let me know! I have free 1-day passes and an extra set of gloves. ~.~

Lying via text...

I was reading an article in Laptop Magazine the other day about how its much easier to fib nowadays in a mobile world. Cell phones facilitate our white lies about where we are, who we're with, what we're doing, etc. I reflected on this for a minute, and I realized I do it quite a lot. I'll admit it. :)

Sometimes when I'm in Cerritos and I feel guilty for not visiting my parents and they call me, I'll tell them I'm somewhere else... like, say, Burbank. :D

Sometimes when I'm not in the mood to chat on the phone I'll pick it up and hang it up and blame it on the "bad signal" at my house. :P I mean come on, we've all done the "Hello? Hello? Can't hear you- " and hung up on a person we'd rather not talk to, right? I've done that once or twice from home~ what can I say, my cell coverage sucks. ;) Or sometimes my battery just runs out. Or hey... dropped calls are pretty common these days.

Sometimes when a Sales Associate calls me about a trunk show or new item that came in and I'm not interested I'll tell them I'm out of town til the end of the week. A little avoidant but it works.

Sometimes when I'm still snoring in bed at 11am I'd return my missed calls with a convenient text stating that I'm "at the gym". Like the article states, "Be suspicious if a contact responds to your voicemails and missed calls with text messages. Some people feel more comfortable lying via text."

Yes, I'm a compulsive mobile liar. Now you all know my secret. :)