WINNER: Sony. Stinkin' amazing. Forget about their new e-book reader due out soon, this is the good stuff. Follow the link: Handheld PC
LOSER: Mother Nature. Poor girl has been losing a lot lately. This time, she lost a species. Follow the link: Lost Species
So yesterday I went out to buy some shorts. I'm poor, so I wanted to go to a Walmart. Yes, Walmart. Even Target is too expensive for me these days. There is no Walmart in Irivne. I'm supposing that most people in Irvine can afford the extra $5 or so for Target. We found a Walmart in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana is a scary place. Graffiti covered every piece of open wall we could see. When we got out of the car in the parking lot, it was like being at a baby convention right before nap time. Walmart, I knew, would be simply lovely inside. Yeah. Lovely.
Have you noticed that the better something looks, the more expensive it is? I was looking for two pairs of $10 shorts. I found the $10 shorts alright, but I decided to spring for the $15 ones. I decided that I would rather like to have some semblance of durability to them. The line to check out was incredibly long, but we made it. In the parking lot, a guy asked us (in Spanish, of course) if we would like to buy tamales. Now, I love tamales just as much as the next guy, but this person didn't have any tamales actually out. I believe they were in the trunk of his car. Maybe they were "hot" tamales, if by "hot" I mean "stolen" and by "tamales" I mean "drugs" or something...
I'm tired. Can you tell?
So, B. D. Wong spoke to my race and racism class today. He seems like a genuinely nice guy. I would suggest seeing him if you get the chance. He speaks about his being a gay Chinese man in the entertainment industry. Interesting.
Terezita is very sick today. I made her soup twice in one day.
Another note: we watched Mean Girls yesterday. I would definitely recommend it. It was very funny, in a "smart funny" sort of way. It was good. Why can't girls just get along, eh?
Good night!
Alright, so it's been a couple days since I posted last. Well, Friday I was a bit sick, but Terezita made me an excellent dinner of four-cheese ravioli with a meat sauce. It was delicious. Here's a politically incorrect joke for you:
Q: Why did God make women's feet so small?
A; So that they can stand closer to the stove.
But in all seriousness, Terezita is a wonderful cook. She makes good food. Of course this week I think that we are only making one meal on account of how much leftovers we got from her mom.
Speaking of which, today was Mother's Day. Terezita and I split for the day to visit our particular mothers and grandmothers. Today it occurred to me that my grandmother really is getting old. She loses her train of thought really easily, as if it take a lot of concentration for her just to think in a straight line. This is very sad for me. I'm very close to my grandmother and for so long she stayed away from her age, being very active and positive. Lately, though, she has been acting older - I'd say for the last year really. She is old, but still - it's hard. Last time I saw her, we talked about how she was starting a new chapter in her life, where she would be moving into a retirement community and selling her house of 40-some years at the same time that Terezita and I are moving into a new chapter of our lives too.
Sigh...
So it goes.
Tonight was fun. Terezita and I went to Balboa Island and walked around the little town they have there. We sat and watched some seals have a party of some guy's yacht. That was fun. I think that seals are sort of the dogs of the sea. They bark, they seem to have a lot of fun, they seem pretty happy as far as animals go.
When we came home, we made tostadas. They turned out very well. The salsa I bought from Albertson's the other day turned out to be pretty good. It made the tostadas pretty spicy.
My best friend Kasey is coming over next Wednesday. I can't wait.
Saturday I get sized for a suit for my friend Scott's wedding. Should be interesting.
Now to bed.
It is stinkin' hot today. I'm here in San Bernardino waiting for my Race & Racism class to start and I can literally not believe how hot it is. Mein gott! My class is in an underground lecture hall and no air get in here. I fear it will be this hot the whole class - and probably even more when everyone gets in here.
On a completely different note, flautas (sp?) are really good. Really really good. Man, they're good. And that's that.
On another note, I'm testing a new program to write my blog today. It's called gnome-blog and so far it seems that it's working really well. A big thing that I like about it is that it docks right on my taskbar so all I have to do is click is and it appears. Que bueno. Let's see if it works, though.
Hasta luego.
