Day One As Mommy Dearest

[Brief: First day with my mom off to the Philippines. Holding down the office all by my lonesome.]

Good evening world.

Happy Belated New Years Ladies and Gentlemen. Already less than 365 days to a new decade.

Anyway, welcome to my new "writer's block." I figure I'd step away from Xanga and build a pretty nifty chronicle collection right here.

Make a Subtle Statement - Source: Noticed it when watching a video of Adam Rapoport, Jim Moore, and Dao-Yi Chow explain ways to amp up your tux. GQ Rules is an amazing project. I digress; saw a flash of this quote, rewound, paused, print screened, and "Voila!" Some quote I fell in love with. Sneak under all the flashing lights, but be noticeable.

Daily Deliberations:
Fashion: I can never feel ready to build my wardrobe until I'm satisfied with my physique. I hope this P90X mission will work. You can say that I'm sorta excited to get this workout thing going. 90 days from Saturday will be April 9, 2009. Whoa, shit! #1 That's my dad's birthday. #2 That's a long time from now. #3 I hope I can pull this off. (I want to be like Dao-Yi Chow... dude is soooooooooooooo dope.)

Fitness: P90X?! April 9?! I better be pretty damn sexy. Yup, I said it. That's a threat.
Sports: I'm getting really excited about the San Francisco Giants. With a rotation of Lincecum, Cain, Zito, Unit, and Sanchez or Lowry. We look pretty damn good. That's three Cy Young winners. I know Zito is nowhere near Cy Young caliber, but having him as a 3 or 4 spotter... we could be impressive. Definitely in the NL West. If we get Manny Ramirez on top of that, then we have to be the favorite for our division. I heard Bob and Rod talking about that the other day. Also, let's see if Tim Tebow can actually play QB in the NFL. He proves it tomorrow. I'm rooting for Florida to beat OK.

Career: I have a lot of work to do to improve my job. Most of it has to do with my habits. I seriously need to clean this up.

Friends: ...or lack there of. Can never really put time with friends or cousins. Work.R.E.A.M.

Random: Interesting how lucky I've been to meet most of these ABDC contestants before ABDC even existed. I appreciate it. More importantly, I amped for January 15th. Show me what you got BAM.

Routine Rundown:

Woke up to my dad's phone call this morning. With my mom gone, he's definitely going to be making sure all is well with his abode and his boys. Arrived at the office later than usual. (Damn you Bloons Tower Defense 2!) Took care of business at work though. Tried to be as productive as possible. Felt like I took care of all the servicing, but I gotta start creating work of my own.

Dropped off Stacey's birthday gift. Not much of a gift, if I had to use her own Warriors gift card to help get the tickets. Thank you Mike for making it work. Got lucky with this gift though. Pretty much fell on my lap.

Arrived back at work. Worried about the fantasy baseball season approaching. Pretty cool that last year's managers are all game for this year, but we have one dilemma. An odd number of players. Pearl wants to join, but FLB is having trouble finding player number 12 to even out the league. Who doesn't like baseball?! C'mon! Don't you all understand that fantasy sports started out with baseball?! I just need one of you.

Then I got back to work, and then I actually got back to work. Haha. Focus and consistency has to stick. My phone calls didn't really start until 7:00pm. Man, I seriously need to be doing a lot more than that! Lucky for me I was able to get a good amount of appointments out of it, but I really need to get the ball rolling / car moving from nine to nine. Absolutely need to pay off these school loans and better my life.

By the way, I got to play Dave Chappelle's Block Party as background noise for the office after Ate Richie left. Man, I miss music. Heard some pretty good songs today. N.E.R.D. - Sooner or Later; Fall Out Boy - W.A.M.S.; Charles Hamilton - Brooklyn Girls --> Check 'em out.

Once phone calls were finished, got home to a grumpy daddy-o. Washed the dishes, checked Brad's homework, then murdered his king in a competively close war of Battlegrounds: Crossbows and Catapults. Opened my lappytoppy, read some old blogs of Michelle's Bloggers. (Interesting read.) Finishing off this entry. I get to see Michelle tomorrow. Ecstatic.

Mental Merriment/Make YOUR Subtle Statement