In Moderation

my bangs. I really like this poem...

I have worn so many masks in my life 

that quite often i find myself forgetting who I really am

Sometimes I feel life is a game and I play with myself and others.

More than anything, I long to collect all the pieces of my life

and put the puzzle back together again

poem by thedrifterandthegypsy.

darrin and i went to a korean restaurant because it was 2 am and nothing else was open.... we had no idea what to do with the food they gave us.

my new shoes.

my 4th of july... literally. the only colors i saw were traffic and car lights. darrin and i also got a water something or another thrown at us. I also ate at weinerschnitzel. 

corona del mar.. kewl beach , but way too crowded. what a shame.

really cute town though.

every house had an amazing garden. probably cost more money than my house.. if i were homeless I would live in their garden. Maybe I will choose to be homeless now.

sew cute that i had to take darrin. 

guy from north carolina that had two huge beautiful dogs. He loved to talk. He hates california. but he lives in this cute town, so I am jealous of him.

i love u

Big FelLaZ

I'm back with more!!  

So my internship is going good. nothing like being a someones tamagotchi for 3 months. 

but really... I do get to do some stufff...... I help with a lot of photoshoots... which they only have about two models per season, and they are all friends of the employees.                            

I wspend a lot of time in the warehouse... where danny makes some really dope signs like this.........

Sometimes he lets me help...... I helped paint this one, and painted one other one on my own.... kind of like paint by numbers so don't be too impressed. I'm pretty sure you can see them displayed somewhere in Minnesota.

Moving on. So I finally drove up to pick up Darrin in LA because he has no car.  It was a very eventful weekend for both of us.  I had Friday off so I took him around the sights of the true OC.

We hung out at Huntington beach for a while... 

Thank god we met this guy. True inspiration.

Also a seal came ashore, in this particular picture the lifeguards were yelling at everyone to give him some room and then about drove over him/her.. afterwards this man thought he could just walk up and pet him/her..... As if this is the San Diego Zoo.

This guy knows where its at. Playing the love show on the pier. 

Just some pier pictures. sorry I am really not feeling funny right now haha.

On another note.... We went and saw IDA Maria.... She is from Norway and owning her cd does not do her justice. She was hilarious and drew the most lets say "interesting" crowd. My personal favorite was the group of 60 year old women dressed like 20 year olds, bleach blonde hair, boots and all. Also I got a cookie at a mexican bakery... Thank you spanish 101. 

A scene picture. because we are scene now. 

The show........ .... ... The first band was the Makeout party and we really liked them.. I will post a video possibly at the end.

Next day... I had to work so that put a damper on things.... we did go to this cupcake store.... Sprinkles

That night I forced Darrin and Jeffsy to go to "Japanese Night" with me at the Crosby. Basically all of my internship co-workers talk about the crosby every week so I thought I would check it out... Pretty Chillllll place, but not really anything Japanese Nightish about it.. except that there were some asian people there.. but there are asian people everywhere here so I don't think that was part of the theme

Street Picture. dangerous I know. 

Next day was spent in LA because I had to take Darrin home. I really wanted to go to Venice Beach because I always watched the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocket Power.. I was really looking forward to seeing the pier with the amusement park, but there was no amusement park and there was actually nothing on the pier.....

There was this gold man though... Darrin was too cool to take a picture.. because he sawwwww soooo mannnyyy in Florrennnceeeee

Here you can pay to graffiti the walll.... or you can walk down a few blocks and do it for free... at risk of getting killed by a gang member though...

Street Basketball game.. hilarious announcer calling every big guy big fella... Big fella crosses over, big fella shoots, big fella blocks ice man. Followed by a lady yelling that this isn't the NBA and we don't need commentary. another truly genuine experience in california. 

This is for my Maui Folk.

I really enjoy my days off because they only happen once or twice a week. Of course I go to the beach, and I try to go to a different one every time.... This is Laguna beach biyatches.... actually not a stupid as I thought it was going to be. Beach not that cool, a lot of kelp and sea weed... town was cutesy pooo... nice little vintage shop where tshirts were only $7.  Jeffsy got a windowcleaner tshirt....... white with hot pink and green logo.. he thinks its not hot pink, but it is. 

For your enjoyment.... IDA maria... she is way better live, not that she isn't aweeesommeeee here....

love love love you! love! love love!  MCKE   mouse

Its Comical

Just Hilarious. 

I Dream of Pocky sticks.

Lookkk at me and my blog and how coool i am!

Let me tell you about my sunday afternoon . . . I have been coming to terms that I may have to spend some quality alone time until I figure out this friend making process. Anyway. So I went to the pool. couldn't figure out how to work the gate, so I said screw it and went to Newport beach. There were some pretty dope dudesz out there, but don't worry I brought my book "7 habits of a effective person" so I was very approachable. 

Then I went home, road my bike and checked out the tennis courts. to find that none of my keys worked there either. too bad because because they were the nicest courts I've ever seen. Probably only let Serena and Venus play on them and require a finger print key entry. 

I ended my day by going to my first movie alone. I saw Little Ashes, which is about the artist Salvador Dahli. It wwas surprisingly not as good as I thought it would be, but maybe its because I had a different plot in mind. Go see it. Then we can have a book club meeting.

So I have a new roommate. HIS name is Jeff, and he is from Cleveland. It is nice because now that he lives in the same room with me not only is he obligated, but forced to befriend me. So we went to the farmers market, surf city night, in Huntington beach. There were these guys, 90% of their act was getting money from people the other 10% was this guy flipping over 5 people. I caught the shot a little too early as you can see. 

I like this flower. 

I'm working on finding the designer of the two pieces above. But I guess spring has sprung in my little iowan mind because it is full of spring worthy colors. I don't necessarily want these items, I am just very appreciative of their colorful beauty.

Assorted Chocolates are my weakness,

MK

Weddings and Graduations

Just posting a few pictures that I forgot to post before....

graduation graduation..... who would remember graduation?

walking to the ceremony. Brent was probably annoyed that I was having him hold my camera, and that I kept asking for it every other second. Oh the woes of being a guy who has pockets.

Of course my graduation post party would not be complete with a out a swing at a Piñata...   (I had to insert that from the internet so that it would have correct spanish punctuation.)

Below is my mom

A picture of my whole family, minus all of the cousins of course.

My College family.... including clyde and juno, but thats a given, BUT excluding Vivi. I actually have no idea where she is...  so insert here: vivian adams

At Eric's graduation party. It was an hour and a half drive, but by far worth it because there was a surprise kindergarden concert.. I know i know, don't worry there will probably be another one...

my new roommate susie just graduated and she let me take some pictures of her.... 

Her family is awesome/sick/narly (just a mad lib choice for you).. they took me to sushi the night before

Also my sister got married the weekend before I moved out here and I forgot to post pictures of it. Of course I took a million pictures but here are a few to highlight the evening.. even if they aren't very good

I really do like this one though for some reason

The set up

Keep it real New York

eiznekcm

San Di Leggo my Eggo

Internship adventure blog #2: Sunday, June 7th...

Dear Diary,

Today I made a rash decision to go to San Diego and visit my dear Oklahoman friend Rendon. To start of the visit, I got beat in one hole minature golf twice ... afterwards we headed to the beach area, and wandered around.. here is the result

Entrance to the pier that only hotel guests were allowed to go on because the hotel was on the pier. We'll see whos laughing when the pier is washed away in the middle of the night.

Thanks to Rendons magical finger measuring rule we caught the sun right before it went down.. ha ha ha only he gets that... lets just say I won the bet and the sun took more than the 15 minutes he though it would to set. 

More sunset pictures

Probably in deep thought about the shells that were lost at the last beach.

Probably in deep thought about the new california tourist towel he bought. ha ha ha

I'll post pictures of the postcards we bought later. Nice. Also I forgot my driver's license and credit card so Rendon had to overnight them to me. 

GOod Trip. 

talk to you soon diary, and please send me some friends so that I can live a long sociable heart friendly life