Sam's Blog

With the long weekend over, I am starting to think about this coming weekend and am hoping that it comes sooner. Work has turned me into one of those types of people that look forward to the weekend. It's not that I do exciting things during the weekend, I usually sleep in and do laundry and go out for a movie or coffee or brunch or something like that, very low key. But I think that I have become someone who is indifferent to their job, even though it's not that bad (but there are days, like today, that go horribly wrong and makes you want the week to end sooner) and it feels like I'm floating by with no real direction. I thought that I was going back to school to pursue something in history, but I don't want to go to school anymore, not for a while anyway. And as for a career, I've juggled around a few ideas, but nothing that I'm enthusiastic about or even realistic. So what now? This is the question of my generation...the dreadful mid-twenties that people write about and make movies about (i.e. Reality Bites and Garden State). But really though, I have nothing to complain about. Everything in my life is great. Friends, family, new apartment, same boyfriend, and a somewhat reliable car. But I know that I am destined for a change in the near future, hopefully for the better.

So here is my "Weekend Update." Josh and I spent a majority of the week unpacking, etc. We watched Hero and then played poker with Shahab, Emily, Kurt, Rob, and Rachel. I surprisingly won and threw all of the poker chips in the air. Nobody noticed because it was really late at night, but I did enjoy that small victory. Saturday was our trek to IKEA with Angela and Randy. Apparently, Josh lost all hope for humanity there. He hates shopping. But we did end up with some cool knives and bathmats and curtains and other miscellaneous things that I am sure we didn't need. I had fun though. And I still have hope for humanity.

Sunday was a day full of sunshine and laughter. Woke up late, and we picked up Lisa and went to Michelle Chung's parent's house in Arcadia. I love her house. But it was really far and I had no air conditioning in my car, argghh. It was so hot!! I heard that it went to the 100's and it felt like it. Luckily, she had a pool and we had Korean BBQ and went swimming. I was able to hang with Lindsay and finally caught up with Lisa's life, now that she is done with Orientation. Michelle is doing great and changed her hair color to bluish-turquoise streaks and I met her new boyfriend. I played with her dogs and hung out for a few hours and then we went to Nate's house in Hollywood for another BBQ. We had hot dogs and burgers, a typical "American BBQ." Nate made his special salsa con queso and Mama Saifer was there in spirit with her lovely brownies that Nate defrosted from the freezer. Yum! It was nice to hang with Nate and his coworkers and also to see Jon and Erica again. Conversation was interesting and involved Nair and scrotums...that's all I am going to say. I was just an observer though.

Monday was more unpacking and going to the grocery store. We now have food! The apartment is finally coming together beautifully and all we need is our coffee table and then we are set. It's starting to feel a lot more cozy, kinda like "home." I am getting use to it more and more each day, it's nice.

Today was okay, mediocre at best. Work was extremely busy...it always is the day after a holiday. But I survived and was able to go to Costco after work and loaded up on all of the "bulk" things that we needed. The crowds were a lot nicer today and made my shopping experience so much more pleasant. M came over and we had tacos and caught up, since she was Michigan all weekend visiting her sister and her nephews. She is by far the hardest working woman that I know and I have to give her kudos for fitting me into her schedule every week. We had lots of fun!! After she left, Josh and I watched Scrubs and have been cleaning the apartment ever since. Glamorous life, huh?!