If it doesn't have your name on it, it's not yours.

A little while back I had a coke in the fridge here at work and I put my name on the bottle cap. What do you know.... someone takes it. So now I gotta write my name all over my drinks to help prevent them from being taken. So I offer you some words of advice: If it has someone else's name on it, chances are, it's not yours.

So on another note, I got a chance to really play some "action" Wii over at a friend's house and wow, did my arm hurt. I mean, it felt like I pitched a 9 inning game. Even now it's still a little sore, but it's coming around. Still playing Assassin's Creed 2. I thought I had reached the end of the game, but I guess I hadn't. :)

No Sleep For The Assassin

Been having a bit of trouble getting some good sleep recently. I don't know if it's the time change or what, but for some reason, I'm not getting sleepy till really late, and even then when I go to bed I still can't fall asleep. Really weird, but it's wearing on me now during the day and in the mornings of course.

Spring Break is here and the halls at work let you know that people are on vacation, but the work pile does not. My tickets literally double in one day. Crazy. Of course, it doesn't help that Easter is around the corner and also we're starting a new series soon too. Cause that's not already including my usual week work that I have to manage as well. Trying not to stress out here.





So recently I traded some of my recently finished games on swaptree.com and one of the games I got back was Assassin's Creed. After a long debate of which my newly acquired games I would play next, this is the one I chose. Now I only have a few hours into it, but I can tell already that it's a much improvement from the previous release. It's not as repetitive. I did not finish the first one because I got so bored doing the same thing over and over again. However, I can't say the same for this one. It's got me hooked so far, so hopefully, I'll be able to finish this one out.

Bad Gum

Ever have that piece of gum that you just can't get into? I mean, I'm trying to blow some bubbles here! Come on! :) Another note, is it weird that I like drinking cold water when I'm chewing gum so it gets hard and and I have to chew it down again. I think it's sort of funny. My wife thinks it's gross. She just doesn't even know. I was actually talking to her about gum last night. How it's one of those weird things like Jello that I will understand. Like how can Jello go from a liquid to a solid or semi-solid, like that? It's Jello. It's not quite solid. Lol. And gum, like our saliva and chewing can break down a lot of stuff, but not gum. So rubbery and chewy, yet it won't break down. I'm wondering how long can we chew gum until it becomes a powder or something just really yucky. Hmmm....

I HATE Computers Today.

Right now..... just right now..... I REALLY HATE computers. So late yesterday I upgrade my work iMac to the new Snow Leopard (MAC OSx 10.6). Nice huh? Well, I thought it was, until I tried to print something this morning. Apparently the new upgrade is not liking any of my copiers or printers here. So I've spent all day trying to find solutions for these things, with Techs and online searching. It's been a hectic day, especially since today I've been printing worship guides. To say the least, it has not been a fun day today. Now I'll be here a bit late, trying to install the printers/copiers on another machine to be just my printing iMac. And I'm still playing catchup with work as well. Hopefully it won't be too late of a night, but only time will tell. I'm so ready to go home right now. Tired. Frustrated. Ready to be home.

3 Miles

That's what we're working up to. Erin wants to run a fun run in April and it's about 3 miles long. So now we're trying to jog that much. Last night was our first night. It was going great until the cold air got to me. My throat and nostrils were burning so much, and it started getting to my chest. I finally had to stop. We made about 1.7 miles. Not too bad for our first time out and not having jogged for a while. I feel pretty good about myself. I'm thinking if the cold air hadn't got to me, I would have gone a bit further. Probably not the whole 3 miles, but further than what I did. I'm not excited about the fun run, cause I really don't know what to expect from it, but I am excited about having a goal. I think that's basically Erin's idea from it anyway. So hopefully this can get me to focus on a final goal and help me exercise and get in shape as well.

District 9 Gave Me An Upset Stomach

Well, not really. This weekend was pretty nice. Got our new living room set. Now our living actually looks like... well... a living room. Also watched District 9. Must say it was quite disappointing. I guess it's because I was expecting something like "Independence Day" and I more like "E.T.". Whatever. Then I also watched "12 Rounds". Good action, corny lines. I guess you could expect that from a WWE association. Saturday night I had some sort of stomach virus hit me. I was up till about 4AM with it and finally was able to get some sleep. I missed church the next day, unfortunately. I was feeling better about mid day or so, and thankfully it's all gone now. I pretty much played video games for the most part of Sunday along with watching the Colts vs Jets game. Interested in seeing what the Super Bowl will be like this year. Both teams would be okay in my book for winning. I guess I just hope it's an exciting game.

Bout to head home. Erin and I will be starting our training for a fun run she wants to do that's about 3 miles long. I am just looking for something to focus on and get me closer to my goal.

Tired

I can literally barely keep my eyes open. I was walking around at Katy Mills mall earlier and my knees would weaken and I would lose my balance for a quick second. This week has really wore me down. I wanted to come home and work out, but by the time I got back from the mall with Erin, I was too tired. I hate missing days like that, it's only going to me that much longer to reach my goal.

Watching "Julia & Juliet" right now. Well, it's on, and I'm halfway paying attention to it. Erin's watching it. Just sitting here thinking about all the stuff that I want to do, and I'm not doing anything. Working on my website, organizing and backing up all my photos, doing my 3D tutorials...... anything but this. In all honesty, I can't seem to just get up off this couch to do anything. I was supposed to go tomorrow to get my FREE oil change, but I just want to sleep in. I think I'll be making that trip next Saturday.

What will your last tweet be?

Yesterday morning we received some news that a local pastor from a sister church had died. I won't go into any details about who or what, but first my heart goes out to the family and of course to all the friends and church. You know you think that someone like a pastor would be far from anything close to taking their own lives. But that just shows you how easy Satan can get to any of us an our weakest times. It was a bit weird, cause I was looking at some of his last tweets that I found online, and the last one was on the 24th and still then, he was glorifying God. Makes you wonder what your last tweet or facebook comment, or blog post will be about when your time comes. It could be today, or tomorrow, or 60 years from now. God only knows. But it does make me think. What have I wasted my life on?

My new home...

So today was the first "REAL" day to use our new home. We started moving in since Thursday, and that was pretty much the whole weekend, and even Sunday cause it was finishing installing a new garage door opener. That was REAL task! A pain, literally and figuratively speaking. Today we woke up for work and went through a day there and came back home. It was weird after work, not driving home to the apartment. I had almost forgot not to go the other way. But it was nice knowing that I was actually going to come "home". Our home.

Got home and changed and then I started to remove some dead limbs from the two small trees we have outside that came with the house. They were really getting on my nerves cause they were making my trees look half dead. After that, I began fertilizing the front lawn and shortly after that began watering it with several sprinklers and hoses. Came in helped Erin with some address changes, watched some tv, ate a little bit then went out to put away everything. Put away some towels and played a little bit of Rock Band then took a shower and here I am now. Good first day, except for the traffic coming home. Not cool. Hope it's not like that tomorrow. I guess we will see.

Wednesday, and already tired.

I'm so tired, and it's only Wednesday. I don't know exactly why. I haven't been able to get the best of rest in about a week, except for the past two days. I'm not sure why that's happening. It almost seems like when I try to go to bed early, I'll fall asleep eventually, but I'll be tossing and turning and waking up all night long. When I stay up late, I'll sleep through, but sometimes, not enough time. What can you do.

Rockets and Lakers are in the 2nd round of the playoffs right now. Lakers have the series 3-2, but I'm not sure of the Rockets will win the next one. Yao is out, but they didn't have Yao on game 4, and they still won, so I guess we will see. Can't really say that I'm a fan of the Rockets, or the NBA for the most part. Haven't been in a while. The game has changed quite a bit for me.

Yesterday's Migraine..... Tomorrow's Home

So yesterday, I had a horrible migraine when I woke up. I thought it was just a bad headache until I walked into the bathroom and into the light. Ouch! I hate it when I got those. For pretty much most of the day, I had to stay away from any bright lights or loud sounds. Not fun. An apartment full of video games and movies and I couldn't even enjoy them. :(

We're getting close to the closing of our house. It's getting there. They're pretty much done with everything, I think they're finishing it all up this week, including the carpet. We have our walk through on May 20th. Should be interesting. I find myself thinking about it more and more. It's just so hard to believe that I'm going to be a home owner. A bit surreal still. I guess it won't totally hit me, till we're moved in. Not looking forward to moving everything, but I'm gonna like it once we're moved.

Dragging Along

I'm so tired today. This week has been REALLY rough. I feel like I've been beat up. Cuts, bruises, burns you name it, I got it. Machines going down, not wanting to work properly. It's just REALLY been a mess. It is Friday, but the day is not over. Still have some things to finish, mostly just design, but I still have one more thing to finish up before I can stay away from these machines. They're driving me nuts. Even the folder now has gone bad. Apparently they need to do a thorough cleaning of the machine, and he'll be back on Monday.

And my truck is now making a squeaking noise. I tried putting some WD40 on the rotating parts near the belt. That didn't work. Then I tried some belt dressing, that seemed to help a little bit, but not all the way. So during my lunch break (yay!) I gotta go to Autozone and buy me a new belt. When I get home I'm going to replace it and see if that does it. If not, I will have to take it in the shop to see what's wrong with it.

I'm ready to go home now.

Is it Friday yet?

Man, this week just feels off. So many things just going on. Tuesday we almost get flooded in over here. The water was covering the streets so we couldn't get out of our apartment complex. It even covered a lot of the parking lot. Crazy stuff. Didn't get in to work till around noon. That threw my whole day off and my week too.

So many people at work seem to be getting sick. Bronchitis, flu.... you name it. Crazy. I had a headache earlier, and still sort of due, but I was even feeling a bit weak and shaky as well when I was here at home. I don't know what all that was about.

Looking forward for this weekend. I know it'll fly by fast too, but still, just want to wake up late!!! Tomorrow and Friday I know will be busy printing days at work. What can you do.

Working @ home

How fun is that? Lol. Coming home from a day of design, and working on design. What can you do, sometimes you got to suck it up and just do it. I was working on our E&P Designs website. I was adding new MetaTags and Keywords and a description to help when people search for us, or even visit our site. I also change the horrific splash page that I had for montoyainc.com. I have to finish our portfolio and also need to start working on my personal site now. Hopefully, I'll get motiviated like I did today to do this more often. Guess we'll see!

This is a test...

So this is a test to see if I'm able to post from an e-mail. Let's see if it works!

The drama continued.....

So just before I was getting ready to go to bed, they started drinking across the way and the girl that was getting into an argument was getting more and more wasted. Soon, they were out on the balcony and talking so loud again. Then she starting screaming across the way toward her apartment from the balcony, "I LOVE YOU!!!!". Man, seriously. Just a little while ago, they looked like there were going to scalp one another, and now she's madly in love with him again. It's amazing the things alcohol can do. :) So that went on, and I went to bed. What a beautiful sound to fall asleep to. Drunk, slurry girl telling her boyfriend that just cussed her out a million times how much she loves him. I don't even know if he was even awake anymore, cause there was no response. What can you do. I tell you what I'm gonna do, wait impatiently for our house to get done so we can get out of here.

Headache's gone and ready to get this day kicked off. Although my head does feel a bit full, like slight pressure. Nothing too bad, but just feels weird. Well, I'm sure it's nothing. Good day!

Headache....... and neighbors.

I got this headache that won't go away. I just hope it doesn't turn into a migraine. I hate those, cause I can't even look at a screen or light or anything. Hopefully, once I go to bed, it will be gone in the morning.

My neighbors that are wall to wall with us, were arguing a while. First I heard them screaming at each other outside. The neighbors across the walkway were out there with them, probably trying to be the wall in between them. Then the guy's cussing up a storm and walks away into his apartment and slams the door. The girl walks the other way towards the pool, and I later see that she is in a swimsuit and her hair is all wet. But it's like past 11 PM already, so I don't know what's up with that, since the pool is already closed. So anyway, I can hear him slamming doors and whatever else he could probably get his hands on. Then it gets a bit quiet. Then they're outside again, and I'm hearing him say, "Don't start that! Don't start that!". Then the go back in there apartment and are arguing. I go in the bedroom and lean against the wall to listen. I know, I'm nosey, but whatever! I can't really hear anything, all I hear is the sliding door open and close, and him saying something like, "Don't go out the window..... don't go out the window!". Lol. I don't know what that was all about. I think if I'm correct, they live on the second floor. So then they're arguing again and I hear him saying something about the pool. But then he's like, "I just wanna talk! That's it..... I just wanna talk!". So then they calm down a bit and right now, it seems that they're cool now. Who knows. I can't wait till we get our home, so we don't have to worry about wall to wall neighbors. :)

1 Day Weekend

Well, at least that's what my 3 day weekend felt like. I can't believe how quick the weekend flew by. Now it's back to work.

Got a chance to play some Resident Evil on Saturday. I think I started playing around 8 or so, and didn't got to bed until 3 AM. Nice. Lol. I was really trying to beat the game, but I couldn't finish the very last boss. I had to fight him like 3 different times. It started to get annoying, cause it was like, "Why won't you just DIE!!!!". Lol. I was expecting him to pop up again for some reason even when the credits were rolling. No joke. That's exactly what it felt like. Like a bit too overdone with that. Whatever. So I went to bed a bit frustrated, cause I couldn't beat him. A big part of the problem was because of my partner who is controlled by the AI. It would have been so much easier had she stayed on one side of him and I the other, but no, she wants to follow right behind me the whole time. I can tell you this much, this game would have been so much easier had I played it with another person. Anyway, so I wake up the next morning and we're getting all ready to leave to go spend some time with Erin's family for Easter and I'm like, "Let me try one more time, before we leave". So I did and I'm almost dead when I get the final shot off on thim and it starts to go in to cinematics, which you pretty much you killed him. I was like, "Thank you, Jesus!" and Erin responded from the kitchen, "Did you just thank Jesus for beating a game?". What can I say. :) Even on the closing cinematic he pops up again and I have to quickly push buttons to shoot him. I was like "Seriously!?!?! Just DIE!!!". Geez. That game took a lot out of me. But it was a good game. Excellent graphics and I'm it would have been so much more fun with a "real" partner.

I'm starting to see previews for NCAA Football and Madden 2010. Sweet. Can't wait. Getting cravings to play already!

Easter Madness!!

So tomorrow is Good Friday and we will have the day off. Thanks Sugar Creek! But of course, with a day off, comes a day less to work. Which means, 5 days of work have to be crammed into 4 days. So you can imagine the madness. I stayed until 9:30 PM last night trying to get a lot done, and thankfully my beautiful wife came in to keep me company. Thanks, love! It's about 4:20 PM now, and it's finally got a bit calm. Of course, that's no guarantee that people won't come in here in between now and 5:30 PM and ask for last minute jobs. Hopefully not, but if they do, at least it's calm and quiet now.

Still playing SOCOM. We finished our season VII last week and I'm already looking forward to our next one. Still haven't beat Resident Evil 5. That game takes a lot out of me, so I just play it a little at a time. I have been getting back into FIFA 09 game. That's been a lot of fun. I guess I'm a seasonal person. Soccer season is getting underway here in the MLS so it gets me in the mood to play. I'm already starting to see things about NCAA Footbal 2010 and MADDEN 2010. Man, I'm ready for football season to start already!

Busy..

SUPER busy week. And to top it off, it's a short week. I pray that things run smoothly.