3 days and counting. Off to NY soon. Wierd. I still have to pack. I went and picked up some little gifts to bring back. Mary picked me up a few little liquor bottles. You know, the little sample size ones. That way I can be sure to relax on the plane. He he.

The lock was fixed on the Jetta today. I brought it in to get it fixed this morning. Since I didn’t have a car, I decided for some reason, that it would be a good idea to walk to Waikiki. I started on Ward Ave. So that makes it, lets see…… 3 miles. Oh yes and it was raining like crazy. So why did I think this was a good idea? Beats me. But it was a good walk. Ate lunch at “Teddy’s Bigger Burgers”. It was yummy. Then I caught the bus back to Ala Moana Center, and walked another 1 mile back to the auto shop. From there I headed to Waipahu and picked up the license plate and registration for my motorcycle. Sweet. Now I can ride without being paranoid about being pulled over by a cop. I think tomorrow I will ride to work. Hopefully on Sunday, I will be able to take the last day of my motorcycle safety course. Otherwise, I will have to wait until I get back from NY. Oh well. Then I can ride Holly around on the bike. Oh it will be so much fun. Coolness. Anyway. Off to do more work.

I just thought I would post here and mention that my life is not as depressing and pointless as my blog. I went to see “Corpse Bride” with my family on Friday afternoon. Gavin sat through the whole movie and I might even say he enjoyed it. We all sat and ate popcorn, drank diet coke and watched the movie. And what a fine movie it was. Good ole’ Tim Burton. And there was an awesome trailer for “Harry Potter” on it. Also, on Wednesday, I drove Holly to class since Mary was sick. Mary stayed home and watched Gavin. After dropping Holly off at class (which in itself was very nice), I had 2 hours to kill before dance class started so, naturally, I went to Magoos. This is a bar right between UH and dance class and is within walking distance to both. So I parked at dance class and walked there for dinner and a beer. I tried their pizza which was very tasty and over-priced. Real good though. And to go with that pizza I ordered a Killians Irish Red for $4.25. Hmmmmm. Anyway, after finishing the beer, I still had 5 slices of pizza and 1 1/2 hours to kill, so I had another beer. This time I discovered that you can order a Bud Light for $1.00. Awesome. When I finished that beer, I still had 4 slices and an hour left to kill. I knew I couldn’t eat the rest of the pizza, so I got a to-go box and ordered another Bud Light. By the time I walked back to dance class at 6:50pm, I had had 4 beers and 4 slices of pizza. Dance class was very fun. Holly strolled in around 8:00 pm. She was a total hotty. I know what you are thinking, and NO, I didn’t think that because of the beer. When she walked in though, I so fell in love again. It was nice. I do have my motorcycle, though I can’t legally ride it on the street until my license plate comes in the mail. I have been having so much fun with it. I have now completed 3 days of my motorcycle safety course. Two of those were classroom sessions with lots of lecture and 1980’s videos. The 3rd day was 8 hours of riding in a parking lot at 5-15 MPH doing small turns, long turns, sharp turns, breaking, clutch, throttle, balance, weaving, and best of all not having to pee after drinking almost 2 gallons of water because we were sweating so damn much. It was awesome. On Monday night we went to Volcano Joes again for Open-Mic night. One of Holly’s classmates came with his wife. They are really cool and we clicked right away. I brought beer because I knew they were coming and by the end of the night it was decided that next week (tomorrow) he would get up with me and sing “Jack and Diane”. Another of Holly’s classmates is coming tomorrow because she wants to see Matt sing. It is going to be a great night. (At this point I would like to mention that anything that I type past this point is my second time typing it. Blogger timed out my session and I lost half of my post. After “recover post” I only had half of what I typed, so I hope I do not miss anything.) My car has foiled itself. No not soiled, foiled. It has gone so berserk that our keyless entry remote started working again. It has not done this even when we bought the car. So now we don’t have to worry about getting locked out. Although, just for safety measure, I leave the back seat down so we have access to the car from the trunk. Now if only the auto shop would call saying they received the part to fix our door lock. So like I said, Holly and I have been getting to spend more time together. We were getting so caught up with school, work, chores, Gavin, etc that we weren’t getting as much time together as we thought. Last night after getting out of my motorcycle class, I met Holly in town (after her class at UH) and we went to an RSCDS party together. I am sorry that Mary has been under the weather a bit, but it was really nice to hang out and have a beer and chit chat with friends all night. Hmm what else. Oh, “cookie Tuesdays”. Holly has been filling the house with the awesome aroma of melted chocolate and cookie dough cooking. Last week she made the most perfect fudge. Mmmm soooooo good. You should be sooo jealous. On the topic of cookies and fudge, I have been running more. Since I started to keep track of my weight and what I have been shoveling into my mouth, I have lost 10 lbs. That’s not to say that I am on a diet, but I just want to live healthy. I hope that one day I will have the time and $$ to join a gym and have a more routine workout. I have goals for myself and it happens that being healthy is one of them. I feel really good. I am happy. Things seem to be looking up for me/us. Life is good.

Hmmm. Well, I had my first day of my motorcycle safety course. It was pretty good. Time went by fast and the teacher was good. On Saturday, we get to ride at Aloha Stadium (rain or shine). Unfortunately, there was a communication problem and as it turns out, they screwed up and told me the wrong dates. Now I have to squeeze into two other teachers classes to try to finish the course before I leave for NY. Otherwise, I will have to take the last day of classes after I get back from NY. The Jetta is still reaking havock. Grrr. It was pooring out today and in order to get into my car, I must open the trunk (to turn off the alarm), open the rear passanger side door, reach in and around to open the driver side door from the inside, then close the passanger door and the trunk and get in the car. Not a fun event when you are trying to do it in a flooding downpoor. I still haven’t heard back about when that door lock part will arrive. I hope it is quickly. And I haven’t heard about when my real license plate will be here. Grrr. I want to ride my motorcycle more. And my theatre is falling apart. It looks like hell and I don’t know where to begin fixing it. *Sigh*

I don’t know how I managed it, but I don’t have to work a full shift again until Saturday. Not bad. I have to go in for a meeting on Tuesday and for inventory on Thursday night. Pretty cool. Although I could use the money. Oh well. Thursday is my first day of my motorcycle course. It is from 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM. Crazy I tell you. I have a feeling that Thursday will be all lecture and videos. Then on Saturday is the second class from like 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. I think that day we will be doing a lot of riding. Awesome. My car is still locked up so I have illegally been riding my motorcycle to work. Illegal because I am not supposed to ride after dark until I get my license. Also illegal, because my temporary license plate fell off and my real one has not come in the mail. We’ll see how that goes. Tomorrow, I have a lot to do. I need to get work done for Karatedepot. I need to call Honolulu Disposal company about our dumpster at the theatre. I need to call a locksmith and pay him $45 to open our car again (I was going to do that today, but because it is Sunday will cost $80-$90). If there is time, I need to drive down to the VW dealership in Honolulu and buy a new electronic key for our car. I need to go with Mary and Holly to class and take Gavin to the park or something until 7 when we will go to Volcano Joes for Open Mic night. It will be a long, productive, and costly day. But I am uber excited about my motorcycle. It is so fun. And I’m really getting the hang of it.

As an update, my car is still locked up in the theatre parking lot. Mary has had a go at it and she admits defeat. Which means that tomorrow I call the locksmith. On Monday I think I will drive down to the dealership and get a new keyless-entry key. At least then if the doors lock themselves I should be able to unlock them. Still no word on when the part for the lock will come in.

Next up: sex

Well, actually I changed my mind. Too complicated and too detailed. Maybe another time. If you really want to know (and I mean genuinely really want to know), then maybe I’ll post in my comments; or email or IM if I know you.

Anyway, life is otherwise ok. “Corpse Bride” comes out on Friday the 23rd and I want to see it. My vacation time for NY has finally been approved by the theatre. I will get paid. My motorcycle course starts on Thursday the 22nd. I can’t wait. Although, my license plate still hasn’t come in yet. I hope I don’t get pulled over. With my car being out of commission, I have been riding it more. Well, back to work.