It’s Just Justin

The Pinnacles

Today was a weird, but nice day. I woke up at 6:46 in the morning without an alarm or anything! I chatted online for a bit, made a smoothie (two bananas, 1/2 cup of fat free yogurt and a cup of berries) drank it up, showered and headed out. I got to Starbucks, bought my plane ticket to Washington DC and then headed to the dentist.

The dentist appointment was just to check on the status of my Invisalign, to see if I wanted to do it and see the difference I would receive from it. It looks like it is going to be worth it. There isn’t a whole lot to change, my teeth are in pretty fabulous shape, but there are a few things that culd be improved, so why not?

After that I investigated tanning salons, kinda out of curiosity and kinda out of the fact that I’m looking a bit albino. While I am attracted to pale and dark people alike, I find myself terribly unattractive in my current state of affairs, translucent. I tanned at The Tan Company and then worked out a bit followed by a tuna sandwich with fresh tomatoes. Then back to Starbucks.

I hung out a bit chit chatting with Jessica2, I heart her. We are going to the library together tomorrow, super excited!

After my little time at SBUX, I went with Ryan to The Pinnacles. This is the highest point in Boone County and the views are stunning. I just really loved it. Glad he brought me out there and glad I got to hang out with him. He is a wonderful person.

Then Ryan and I met up with Beau and got some tasty Hibachi at Osaka. We had a great time before heading out to Arch and Columns where I bumped into some wonderful friends. Chadd showed up with some friends of his who became sorta my friends. It was nice to see him… I kinda missed him, ya know?  I didn’t really realize how much I missed him or the idea thereof until then. But what can you do? Right?  Seem like too many questions.  Don’t you think? ;-)

I was most excited to see Jazmine out. She is moving back to California, lucky duck. I’m going to miss her a lot.

I guess it is time for bed. Love you all. I miss so many people right now. Geoff, call me, let’s hang out.

And now I leave you with a song.

Don’t read too much into it. The song came on when I got home on my computer and made me get to thinking. Thought I’d post it.

Tags: Beau, Chadd, Geoff, Jazmine, Just My Music, Love, Ryan, Starbucks

Am I Really That Busy?

It’s weird. I have had so many people comment to me about why we haven’t hung out this summer very much or at all, and almost everyone has claimed that it was I who was too busy that caused the problem.

I don’t believe they are just trying to pass on blame to me, I feel they really do think that I am busy all the time, but honestly, I’m not. I’m only getting 11-15 hours of work a week and that’s pretty much all there is with me. I have been waking up early, 6:46am this morning, and going out to run errands, making up errands just to get my mind off the fact that I have nothing to do.

I had all of these great plans and they all seem to be falling through. New York to do photography never went far, my contact never made contact… Monaco is still on hold waiting for the photographer there and the landlord to figure out if it will work out for me to do it.

My days have been pretty darn productive, dentist appointments, getting two quotes to get my car fixed, set up my new apartment’s phone service, DSL service, electricity and gas… I have taken trips to Booneville a few times, to Jefferson City and to the Lake since school was released… Pretty soon I leave for Austin and Houston. I will be getting Lasik (hopefully) and moving my stuff down here to my new apartment.

I will be officially in my new apartment on the 17th of June and then I will be gone June 22-25 in Indianapolis. Then I get back in town and… back to the airport for my trip to Washington DC where I will be hanging out from June 27 to July 9. I hope to pick up some shifts at Starbucks while I am out there, make some money. Then I’m in Columbia setting up my apartment until late July and until early August visiting California for my birthday.

I am going to be just incredibly busy travelling but my time here in Columbia is pretty mundane and lonely. So if anyone wants to hang out, give me a call cause… life sucks when you are alone.

I have had a few fun times in the past week. Just the other day I went out to Jefferson City and hung out at my friend Scott’s house. We just sat around, talked, had a good time. His friend Amy was over, I love her! She is hilarious. They were doing work around his house before I got there, doing some beautiful landscaping. He showed me the before and after pics of his place, looks just amazing.

We made dinner… well actually, they made dinner and I watched. It was very tasty, chicken wrapped in bacon and around cream cheese with green beans and roasted potatoes. I had a few, strong, vanilla vodka’s and diet, awesome, maybe a new favorite of mine! Then we all cuddled up on the couches and watched National Lampoon’s Family Vacation.

It was a good time. I hope to hang out with Scott a lot more.

In other news, check out my old apartment in San Francisco now apart of Google Maps Street View!

I lived there!!!  Lord how I miss that apartment and Seth.

Tags: Car, Friends, Fun, Memories, San Francisco, Scott, Seth, Ugh, Work

The New Floor Plan

I got terribly bored last night and decided to draw up the floor plan of my new apartment. It isn’t super accurate but it is all from memory.

I wonder how accurate this is… Hmmm

Today I got my internet, telephone, gas and electric setup.  All start on the 15th!  So does my lease, the floors won’t be finished until then, so pushing back my first day until then.  I will be back in town from my trip to Houston on the 17th.  It will be fabulous once it gets all together.  It’s just gonna cost a ton of money to get there, along with all of my other bills.  It’s really starting to freak me out.

On a happy note, my internet will be 10mbps!

Tags: Hmm, Just My Nerdiness, Money, Moving

Ghetto 911 Calls = Hilarious

I was listening to Keith and the Girl (www.katg.com) and they had this 911 call that they played on the show. It is absolutely hilarious.

Listen to it, NOW! haha

Tags: Hilarious, KATG, LoL

The New Apartment

I have figured out why I feel so lazy, slothy and such.  Typically I would wake up everyday between 6:30 and 8:00 in the morning and get ready for class which started at 8:00 or 9:30 in the morning.  Then I would drive to campus and park my car which was followed by a brisk walk to class.  Everyday.  And then walking from class to class and then back to the parking garage.  All that walking burned a lot of calories and kept me from feeling icky.

Since summer started I haven’t really been walking all that much.  I workout but not enough, especially considering my goals for the summer…  So I guess starting tomorrow I will take some long walks, actually ride my bike somewhere and have an adventure.  I work Friday through Sunday, so that will get me some real movement.  Maybe I will start swimming or something.

I feel really alone right now, and doing any of these things alone just isn’t much fun.

My new apartment will be ready in just a week and a day.  This is very exciting.  I won’t actually be able to move in for a few days or weeks after that.  I’m getting my floors refinished before I move in.  Right now they have the potential to be beautiful but thanks to years of wear and tear, the wood floors don’t look so hot.

When I get to Houston I’m going to make a trip to IKEA to figure out a way to make my kitchen work for me.  As it is right now there is zero counter top space, as in, there are zero counters.  Just a 5 foot wide sink “thing”.  It seems the sinks from the 20’s required drying racks on either side, what?  No dishwasher? haha  And the wall opposite the sink is totally bare, not a damned thing on it.  And really, there isn’t room for anything, I believe there is only a few feet between the wall and the sink.  Yikes.  Only one cook in there at a time.

I have already found some really cool kitchen systems at Lowes and Target that should help remedy this situation.  I plan to turn the breakfast nook into a kitchen prep nook instead… and turn the living room’s dinning area into the primary dinning room.  It’s placed in front of these beautiful windows, what better place to eat one of my delicious dinners? haha

Even though I won’t be able to actually move anything into the apartment, I am excited about spending time, cleaning it up.  Doing a deep clean of the kitchen and the bathroom… and just about every other part of the place.  The guy who has been living there is a really wonderful fella and did some great things to the walls of the apartment, love the colors, but as with most guys in college, not the cleanest guy around.  Super considerate though, I wouldn’t be surprised if I walked in there June 1 and found it shining from floor to ceiling.  (well maybe not floor…)

Tags: Cleaning, DIY, IKEA, Workout

Now Time to Bitch

Ok, I gave you a somewhat muted post, now I just wanna get some shit out.

• Don’t tell me we are going to hang out and not call me back, much less hang out with me.
• Don’t tell me you don’t like something about me that was month, years ago and not present.  Why would I care now?  What does it matter?
• Don’t tell me you really like me and then blow me off, you obviously don’t really like me.
• Don’t tell me we should hang out and you miss being around me and then hang out with my roommate instead.
• Don’t act like I’m not in the same room as you.
• Don’t blame everything on your period.  A menstrual cycle is rough, sure, I’ll give you that, but it isn’t a month long and you can take a god-damned Mydol you know.
• Don’t tell me you find me attractive if you don’t.
• Don’t tell me to call you if you know you aren’t going to answer your phone.
• Don’t act like you want to date me and then go out with another guy.
• Don’t schedule me for only 15 hours a week and then complain about availability when there are people wanting hours and you just won’t give them to them.
• Don’t fucking wait for the light to turn yellow before driving through the intersection, you really slow down my day.
• Don’t ignore me.
• Don’t send me anymore credit card applications.  I have too many cards already.
• Don’t push me to drink alcohol.  It won’t make you more attractive.
• Don’t dance if you can’t.
• Don’t sing if you can’t, it isn’t even funny at this point.
• Don’t keep dating the same guy and then crying when he breaks up with you, again and again.
• Don’t judge me for the music I listen to.  If I cared what you thought, I’d ask.
• Don’t leave me annoying, long-winded voice messages.
• Don’t forget that we used to be best friends.
• Don’t forget that we used to be in love.
• Don’t think that this is referring to you.
• Don’t think this is about someone else, it isn’t.
• Don’t get drunk all the time.
• Don’t judge people so much, and no, you aren’t fat so stop acting like you are.
• Don’t be so dramatic, you aren’t that special and if you were, we’d have you admitted.
• Don’t fear love so fucking much, just let it happen.
• Don’t think you are better than me because you got a promotion.  That just means they sucked you in and you won’t ever make a solid living.
• Don’t forget that in five years I will be making triple what you make.
• Don’t let your thoughts invade mine, it gets me in a fit.
• Don’t throw basketballs at my car, it costs me a-fucking-lot of money to get that shit fixed.
• Don’t be such a whore, spreading your seed isn’t safe or wholesome.
• Don’t have such low self-esteem.
• Don’t think so highly of yourself, your ego is way outta control.
• Don’t act like you’re right when you aren’t, arguing isn’t fun, especially with you.
• Don’t punch through bathroom doors.
• Don’t drop out of my sublease, you bastard.
• Don’t stress me out so much, I get all weird and make posts like this.
• Don’t tell me you love me and then take it back the next day, that’s just trashy.
• Don’t be such a bitch to me
• Don’t manage a store if you can’t handle it.
• Don’t forget all the times I did something for you.
• Don’t forget my sacrifices.
• Don’t forget my mistakes, being here is one of them.

There, I feel a little better.

Tags: Bitch, David, Geoffrey, Jim, Kevin, Kristin, Landon, Matt, Patrick, Pissed, Starbucks, Vandalism, WTF?

Yeah, I’ll Update

As Carrie so kindly noted, I have been pretty bad about updating the blog this week.  I would like to say that I have been really busy with wonderful, fun things but honestly, I’ve just been in one of my funks.

The Megaplex people loved the site design and now want postcard fliers, business cards and posters.  I’m excited for the work and the people there are really fantastic.  Thanks for all of the help choosing the new design, critiquing and just being there for me.  It was the first design like that I had done, ever.  And with the reaction I got and the fact that even I like it (I’m my toughest critic… trust me) makes me even more anxious about getting out into the world, graduate and get a great job doing something like this.

I really want to explore design, photography and just overall creativity more than I currently do.  But this requires time and money, both of which seem to work against each other.  The more time you have, the less money, the more money, the less time.  I guess that’s what comes from an hourly job.  I’m not making enough money at Starbucks these days and am investigating more work like Megaplex and maybe doing landscaping.

The past few weeks have been weird for me, physically and emotionally.

Physically, I have gone down a size.  I now wear 30″ waist pants (used to be 32 or 33) and small shirts (used to be medium) but the past few days I have been feeling really fat, really just funky.  I’ve been eating my diet of egg beaters, fruit and chicken but a few days I splurged on the kids menu at Moe’s.  I’m eating there with Carrie on Thursday, but I am promising myself right now, only a salad, none of their fucking amazing queso.

Emotionally?  Well, first off it is weird not to be able to really talk about the Megaplex job to my family.  I typically talk to them several times a day and they know everything going on in my life that isn’t gay.  I just don’t like to talk about my boy troubles and stuff to them, puts them in an uncomfortable place, though it might not really be fair to me…   Talking about doing a website for a gay bathhouse would definitely not be a comfortable talk with them.  They love that I have gotten the job and done such a good job.  They want to see the fliers and the posters I have designed but I just cannot let them see them.  How it would make things awkward…

I know they can get to this blog, anyone can, and I know they have been here before.  They claim they have never been here, that they don’t even know about it.  But I have checked IP’s, histories, etc.  It has been visited from Tulsa and from Horseshoe Bay and several other random places my family just happens to be at any given moment.  It doesn’t bother me at all that they read this, I like that actually.  I just wish they would, you would, be honest with me about it.  Know that me doing a job for a gay bathhouse does not make me a trashy person, work is work and when you need money, who cares how you get it as long as it doesn’t hurt you or anyone else.

Some people have looked down on me doing the site for Megaplex, meanwhile they are buying porn and adult items from time to time or doing whatever others might consider weird/different/wrong.  Don’t judge me please and don’t form opinions about a place without knowing the full story (it’s actually a really nice place run by fantastic people).

Tags: Blogroll, Carrie, Gay, Hmph, Megaplex, Ugh, Work, Workout

MegaplexGym

I have a new job, sorta.  I’m building a website for MegaplexSpa, now called MegaplexGym.  I’m going to be doing their web design and ad design, if they like what I have created.

Check it out and PLEASE leave me a comment or five about it.

Tags: Design, Just My Art, Megaplex, Work

Rufus and Apple

It an email from Apple Computer about my student discount. Apparently I save $200 off the Airport Extreme, which of course is only $179. Are they going to pay me to buy one?

But even more exciting, Rufus’s new album is on pre-sale with a ticketmaster ticket option.  I never really understand these Ticketmaster things but I guess you get the pre-sale ticket but no discount or anything.

Who wants to go see Rufus with me? :-)

Tags: Apple, Awesome, iTunes, Just My Music, Just My Nerdiness, Oops, Rufus Wainwright

Instant Pleasure

Here you go Geoff.

Geoff and I went shopping at the lake today and boy, did we go crazy or what?!  $641 each, oh wait, I missed a decimal, $6.41 dollars later… We each bought the same cake riser and bowtie plate.  Haha.  But we had a fabulous time.

It was awesome to talk about just everything on our minds, which, to those of you snickering, is actually quite a bit.  Fun fun fun, so much that I crashed for like three hours afterwards.  I’m still working on being fully awake again.

Here’s to tomorrow!

Tags: Fun, Geoffrey, Just My Music, Shopping, Yay