I wanna see you movin'... Love your body language... Let me be your paperman... Love to be in your command///

Ugh. Seriously, 'Breaking Dawn' is was the stupidest book I have ever read. But I am glad that I am finally done with it... I am also happy that I didn't waste my money on that crap book. And now I can spend some time reading 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'!

Oh. Baseball game on Sunday with Paul... Giants v. Mariners! I finally get to see Casey after he was traded from Anaheim to Atlanta then Boston... <3<3<3

Go Ducks!!!

My goodness. I found my old crocheting things in the garage! I think I will spend my day watching the Rose Bowl and keep working on my plastic bag creations.

Winner, winner... Chicken dinner!!!

Fuck yeah!!!


The Angels beat the Red Sox and are advancing to the ALCS. They play either the Twins or the Yankees. I am soooo happy!

Rally monkey time!

I am blogging my inter-webs. I write this while sitting on the couch watching the end of the Angels and Red Sox game (which, the Angels won... Yes, thank you very much.) I am very excited about the post season. I mean, I am usually excited when ever the Angels play. I am just more excited because the season is winding down and coming to an end. The bad thing is that, yet again, the Angles have the privilege (and I use that term loosely) of playing the Boston Red Sox in the American League Division Series. I believe they have played them the last 4 times and the Angels have lost to them the last 4 times. They won the first game tonight. I am very happy for them and I hope that they can keep up the momentum and when the next 2 games and move on to the division championship. The next game is set for tomorrow. Me, Paul, a pizza and some drinks while watching the game. The perfect night to me.

I hate it when:

• the Boston Red Sox play. They are the most over rated baseball team in the American League. I think I am more angry that they keep beating the Angels. I hope that this is the year that the Angels show the Sox who is the best team in the league. I am hoping that Ellsbury, Ortiz, Youkils, Bay, Pedrioa all choke... I think they are all over rated anyways. Am I being an elitist? Perhaps. But Boston and their fans are a bunch of a-hole-douche-bags.
  
  
  
  

& then>>>

In case you missed it...

I don't care how much it cost me...





I am taking Paul here next year for the All Star Game. My hometown is only 15 minutes away! It would be a nice 4 year anniversary present (The game is on July 13th 2010 and our anniversary is on July 25th.)

how many dutty wine swing it away how many shots without a chase

Song of the Day: MIA> Boyz


Back from Los Angeles. More on that later. But, a photo or 2 till then:




Adventures on the PCH...



Driving thru the City...


Visiting Angels Stadium...


Paying my respect to Adenhart...

Stupid fans...

Ugh.

Makes me sad to hear about things like this happening in the world especially since the team won its opening day game...

wbc

Watching the finals of the World Baseball Classic on ESPN... I should be writing a paper for my Renaissance art class... My priorities are perfect!

DI Why?!

So, I bet there are a million things I can be going right now instead of bending this white wire hanger straight in order to make a hanger for my English Ivy plant... Yes. My priorities are in check today.


-m

A stairway to heaven...

Texas is awesome... Those Longhorns band members played 2 Led Zepplin songs: one was Stairway To Heaven.



I love the BCS.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner..

So, before the Rose Bowl, Paul and I made a "gentleman's bet" on what the score will be for the game between USC and Penn State... I wrote it down just to be sure. Remember, Paul is a fan of sports and knows stats... Me, I know nothing and my picks in most sports (like the brackets we do for March Madness) is biased on which mascot I think is better then the others (I thought a Trojan warrior would totally wail on a stupid 'Nittany Lion'), or which team has players that I actually know (That Mark Sanchez guy that is the quarterback for USC) or team colors (I actually like Penn States blue and white more then the Trojans red and yellow, but my Godmother/ Aunt is a USC alumni and Los Angeles is my hometown)... Is my 'system' shallow, yes. But it works for me.


2pm:





And here is what the score was at about 5:30pm:



Where is Vegas when I need it! Ugh.

He's just a poor boy from a poor family... Spare him his life from this monstrosity///

So, Paul and I are watching the Rose Bowl on TV (Paul's parents got tickets to see the game and are sitting in near the Penn State end zone, lucky!) and it is currently half time. Between the commercials for the playing college teams schools (those commercials that are pretty much saying "send your kids to USC or Penn State"), the schools marching bands were playing in the field. The USC band played some random songs that I could not figure out what they were BUT Penn State played 2 songs by Queen. One was Bohemian Rhapsody and the other was Bicycle Race. This is great.




[edit:]
They (I don't know which band it was) played a White Stripes song too (7 Nation Army). Interesting.

[edit]
They (again, I am not sure what band) played a song by The Offspring... Snaps, now we hear the theme from Rocky... WTF. That's gotta be from Penn State.

Do Not Disturb...

Alright...

For the next hour...
Nothing but studding...
I mean it this time!

Thank You.
-Management.


PS: Congrats to the Rays!
Way to kick the Red Sox asses!

Smokestack lightning out my window... I want to know what I've lost today///

Song of the day: Beck> Gamma Ray


Tonight is my presentation for my Public Speaking class. I am nervous to be honest. I hate talking in front of people, let alone 30 people who I don't know. I know I will be fine. But the anticipation is killing me. I just want to get this over and done with! Anyways, tonight is also the Chargers game on Monday Night Football... I wish I could see it! : ( And I need to do laundry like a mother fucker!


Ugh. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This degree better be worth it!

06.26.08 - The draft...

06.26.08
Originally uploaded by Amanda.

NBA Draft... Believe it or not, I actually watched the whole thing. I did that once a few years ago. I think it was the year that Kevin Martin was picked by the Kings. It was probably the one last good pick that the Kings have made in the last 5 years. I was happy to see 3 UCLA players (Russell Westbrook as the 4th to Seattle, Kevin Love as the 5th to Memphis & Luc Richard Mbah a Moute as the 37th pick to Milwaukee) get drafted. Michael Beasley (Paul's cat has the same name) was picked 2nd... It was fun. Spending time with Paul, talking about which team is going to be good this year... My bet is on Portland Trailblazers. They got a ton of trades and deals with other teams this year. I'll take them FTW.

Have your people call my people...

Lets see...

This weekend (in a nut shell):

Went out with Paul after work to see Kung Fu Panda. I love the Asian culture, action movies (Jackie Chan is one of my favorites) and animations, so I knew I was up for some good times. I should have left work at 5pm and headed into traffic but it didn't help that I waited till work was done to get an adjustment by Dr. I sat in the room for about 20 minutes waiting to get adjusted so I could leave (the reason why I got adjusted was because my left side has been hurting since last Tuesday and he saw me earlier that morning and it helped a lot, so I thought that getting one before I left would be good for the weekend, which, I was wrong). I think I was very close to just walking out, but I waited, got adjusted and then left. When I was stuck in traffic, I tried to get Paul to get me some regular clothes (which he couldn't cause my closet is huge) so when I got in the apartment, I took 2 minutes to get changed and back out the door. We managed to have enough money in change (yes, including quarters) to see the last matinee showing at the theater by the house. We love the movie. The animation was really done well. There were some scenes that I forgot that it was a cartoon. I had fun.

After the movie, we continued the 'panda' theme and went to Panda Express for dinner. We had fun talking about the movie over dinner, remembering our favorite scenes and quotes. When we were done, we went to the mall so that I could get a new t-shirt for the Angels/ A's game the following day. I ended up getting 2 shirts (they were on sale 2 for $30) one was a red Angels shirt and the other was a dark blue San Diego Chargers shirt that looks like Shawne Merriman's jersey. We then drove to Borders to kill some time (since it was only 9pm). We hung out some, I was looking for books to read and Paul was looking for a book that I wanted to read but he and I forgot what it was called. While there, we saw some crotchety old douche bag yell at a father who's infant baby (must have been a month old at least) was crying. Poor dad was watching his infant and young toddler and was attempting to watch his kids while the mom was shopping. I ended up getting a book called 'The Black Dahlia' by James Ellroy and an audio book of David Sedaris' 'Naked'.

The game on Saturday was a blast. We got lost on the way to the Oakland Coliseum somehow by taking the wrong freeway. How many freeways with the number 80 do we need?. I got to see Casey Kotchman during batting practice along with Vlad, Torii, Weaver and others. I even ended up staying up till about 2am making a double sided sign to hold up during the game too (I watched 'Clueless' too while crafting my sign)...


Casey didn't end up playing till the top of the 9th inning. But the boys won. There was fireworks after the game which made their victory much more sweet for me. The seats were awesome too. We were in the 10th row right off the 1st base line. I only wish that Casey was there for me to swoon over. I did take a bunch of pictures and I just need to edit them.

Sunday, we just lounged around. Watching the last game of their series. They ended up loosing in the 12th inning, but Casey did play. I want to take Paul to see a game at Angels Stadium in Anaheim someday. *sigh* One day. I know I will have a blast there.


Any who, we might go to Paul's aunt/uncle's cabin this weekend and come back on Father's Day to see my Papa.

I have much more to write... But I'll save it till sometime tomorrow. I start school tomorrow too. *joy*

I<3Casey...

So, I am currently uploading and editing all the photos I had taken yesterday during the Angels A's game last night. Here is one of my favorites tho... My 'boyfriend' from the Angels, 1st baseman Casey Kotchman. What a dreamboat.


More later. :)

Oh yea...

Angels won!
I guess that is why they are #1 in the AL West, eh?

(haha)


Me: Waiting for the fireworks after the game... Total 'wonky' eye.


More + photos later in the morning... Time for sleepy time.

Go Angels!

Off to the Angels game...

When I am king you will be first against the wall///

So,

Tomorrow is the stupid Mayoral election. I am going to vote (I always do on any election, especially the presidential one coming up later this year) but I think I am going to vote for this one guy who is a Bail Bonds man (and I even think that he may have even spent some time in prison, hard core, huh?). I am just sick of seeing all these yard signs for Mayor Heather Fargo (for who my boss' boyfriend, Dale, is the campaign manager for) and the stupid bumper stickers (with the tacky juvenile font and design) and fundraisers (like one that my boss helped throw together for Heather at some gay club called Badlands called "Feathers for Heather" which had a theme of feather boas from what I understand). Anyways, I am just ready for this to be over with. Am I bitter? No, just tired of all these attack ads and stupid mailers and phone calls at all hours of the day. Tomorrow, it will be all quiet on the Western front. Finally.

I am not done with my painting yet. Soon tho. Promise. Here is yet another photo of whats been accomplished on it. I still think that Mom and Dad would will be proud to see this.

I just need to add some more color on the top panel and do one last touch up on the whole thing. Not bad for someone who can't paint for shit.


And, Paul and I are going to see the Angels vs the A's this weekend... He surprised me today with 2 tickets for us to see them in Oakland. 3 weeks ago, we saw the Giants and the White Sox (which was a ton of fun). They are tickets for the 10th row in section 108 near the 1st base line (so I can see Casey Kotchman and all his hotness). All I need now is to make a big ass sign out of poster board and with magic markers and glitter saying something stupid about how I hear the team or something like that.


I have tons of camera phone pictures I should post one day... Maybe tomorrow after I go vote. Maybe. Time to read and sleep. Stupid period. Be gone.