Well, this afternoon and evening was very low key. We had plans to go to Santa Barbara, but that didn't go through. I think we were going to go with my cousin Mandy, but that didn't work out. I'm not really sure what happened. In the afternoon, I went out to the sun room and listened to a podcast novel while I got my uncle's laptop up-to-date. Lots of windows updates. Okay, no computer talk tonight. Although everyone reading this is online... hmmm. OKay, so we had dinner in San Luis at a place called Splash. It was like a fish and cips kid of place with a bakery inside as well. I had a vegetarian pizza with no cheese, and it was damn good! I was really surprised, so I might be trying that out again in the future. Had a diet Pepsi and talked to Paul and Julie (my uncle/aunt) while 50's music played from their XM radio. Julie knew all the songs, along with paul, cause it was music from when they were in high school. And I thought turning 20 sounded old to me. Imagine growing up with music with only 4 chords (:-P musicians joke, and here's all the chords I heard tonight -> I - vii - IV - V). You can actually make a pretty little song with those chords. Hell, the 50's worked right?!? Anyway, after dinner, we parked downtown and walked to a coffee shop. Thats something I've noticed with Julie and Paul, they like there coffee shops. Everyday we stop at one. I enjoy Chai while they either get a Cappichino (sp?) or Mocha. He spend some time walking around before and after our coffee, checking out downtown San Luis Obispo. I think I'll head down there on Thursday to do some shopping. Oh yeah, we saw a brand new red Ferrari parked. I got a nice picture of that. Speaking of pictures, my camera died so, I couldn't upload anything tonight. Got to charge it and try again in the morning. So we talked around, stopped at an awesome video store on the way home. This wasn't your average Blockbuster or Holleywood video. This was this one guys like home collection. Imagine a small record shop feel, but in a video store. This guy had all the movies organized by year and type of movie, and were it was made. It was a funky little shop, but really cool. I wish I had more time to spend down there. And the best thing was that the movie rental was ONLY $2!!! I'm moving to SLO asap lol. We'll good thing I have a free movie pass when I get home. So that puts me to sitting here tonight. We're about to start Antwon Fisher, so we'll see how that goes. Untill tomorrow, I'll see you guys later!
-Skyler
*Update: the movie was great. Man, it really made me feel good. I would recomend it to anyone. Its a little emotion, but well worth it.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Crappy Morning (Day 3)
Wow, what a crappy morning. I've been having nightmares the last few nights, and it gets to me when I wake up in the morning. After getting up and checking my email, I was all depressed. I'm not getting much sleep either. Well, good thing bad moods go away cause my morning haven't been to hot lately. Sorry to anyone who had to deal with it. Okay, so after a walk and eating breakfast, I started to come out of it. By noon, I was feeling better and went to the beach. Taking out the Miata, I got some great shots. I'll be putting them online later when I get them all online. Might be a slideshow. Anyway, after I came back, I uploaded all my pics, and showed them to my aunt and uncle. I edited a movie, and sent that out to some people. Then it was lunch time. We had salad along with BBW chicken, and some corn. Man it was good. After lunch and some talking, I came up and worked on some photos to make them look all shinny. That brings me to sitting here now, once again watching family guy and posting on the blog. I hear my cousin might be coming up to see us, so tonight I'll be adding that. Hope everyone is having a great day and I'll talk to you all later tonight!
-Skyler
-Skyler
Fresh Pepper? (Day 2)
Hey everyone, today was a big day, so I plan to write it all out. Kind of a vacation journal for myslef and anyone who reads. I'm going to call this day 2. Day 1 was driving down. So here we go...!
Today was waking up at 8:30 after a weird dream. I dreamed I was meeting podcasters I listen to. Hmm, maybe I listen to too many podcasts. Lol, as I listen to a podcast while I type. For those that don't know, I'm down in Arroyo Grande. Its a town about 20 miles south of San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). So, I was sleeping in the guest bedroom downstairs. This house is just amazing that I'm staying in, but I'll get to that on another blog post. I'll also include photo's. Anyway, woke up this morning and had breakfast out front of the house. I was treated to photos, toast, eggs (which I didn't have), and a fruit salad. Yum, good food. So, after breakfast and a shower, I started to work on the two Windows XP computers here. God, I see why I switched to Apple. Okay, so here's what happened. I helped my uncle switch to DSL. Durning the switch, the router had trouble switching over. So, we had to call Linksys and I talked so some nice lady in Asia. After a long talk with her, I found that she enjoys singing in the shower. 'Nuff said. SO this morning , I secured there network, and got there laptop up and working as well. Fun times. Not!! Windows computers drive me crazy. You start up the computer and things start failing right away. ARGG anyway.. I finished that up around noon and went to a mexican place to grab a burrito. Came home to eat that out in the backyard. Then we got going to Hearsts Castle.
On the way there, we stopped in a little town Cambridge. We stopped for coffee and to look at a garden shop. I got a chai thing. Also on the way, I finished the first Harry Potter book. It was okay, maybe like a 7/10. It was entertaining, but since I had seen the movies already, it wasn't too exciting. Might be more exciting if I hadn't seen the movie before hand. Okay, so we arrived at Hearsts Castle.
I had never known about Hearts Castle before I showed up. I had heard the name and was interested when we showed up. It was a state to my park to my surprise, so once again I was dumb founded. Going inside the visitors center, I started to find out who the guy was and what the "castle" was. If you looked up the mountain, you could see the towers coming through the trees. Come to find out, this rich guy build this castle up on a hill in central California. We (my aunt, uncle and I) watched a iMax movie about the guy and I started to figure out who he was. The son of a rich minor, William Hearst became wealthy himself though owning the major newspapers in the US. At age 50, around 1920, he started construction of the castle. Hearst was a collector of antifacts and just soo much stuff. He build his castle in 15 years. This place is just AMAZING. It is so jaw dropping. Its really hard to tell you everything about it. Its this huge place on the top of a huge hill that is really like a castle. There is so much architecture and stuff. Check out the picture of one of his pools! Here is one of his inside pools that has the diving board on the right. This room is ceramic, every inch done with 1 inch square color glass things. Some of them are gold. Its like, wow. Every room is huge and big. Its like walking into Europe. There are scultures every foot. All from Europe as well. I saw three sculptures from Egypt from 1200 BC. Its really amazing to see how wealthy some people are. Anyway, it was one of the coolest things I have every seen! Truely amazing. I can go on and on. It was like a 2 hour tour. Huge tapestries in all the rooms. Just amazing. So check out Hearst Castle if you can! Okay, enough of that, but your welcome to ask me questions. I didn't take a camera, so I just linked to other photos I found.
After the amazing tour, we drove down highway 1 and saw some Sea Lions on the beach. It was fun to watch them resting in the sand. We headed back to CAmbridge to eat dinner. We ate at this really nice place. It was English kind of place, so it was like a cabin lodge and very dark inside. All the plates were pricy too. But the best part was, when the waiter brought us our salads, he really said, "Fresh pepper". I dunno if you've seen the best of Dana Carvey, but his fresh peppers skit with Adam Sandler is so funny. Anyway, the waiter did the exact same thing, and became I was so excited to hear something like that, I asked for pepper on my salad. He even said, "Tell me when". Haha, I was about to die. I didn't get a recording of it cause it happened to fast, but man was it great. It was like a day with so many highlights.
On the drive home, we talked about computers, which was quite interesting. We talked about how people don't really understand how to use computers. Especially older generations. We talked about lots, and it was quite interesting to hear it from my uncle and aunts perspective.
Okay, so I'm sitting here watching the Family guy on DVD on talking to you people. So that was today. I'll get back to you all tomorrow when more exciting things happen.... Thanks for reading :-D!
Today was waking up at 8:30 after a weird dream. I dreamed I was meeting podcasters I listen to. Hmm, maybe I listen to too many podcasts. Lol, as I listen to a podcast while I type. For those that don't know, I'm down in Arroyo Grande. Its a town about 20 miles south of San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). So, I was sleeping in the guest bedroom downstairs. This house is just amazing that I'm staying in, but I'll get to that on another blog post. I'll also include photo's. Anyway, woke up this morning and had breakfast out front of the house. I was treated to photos, toast, eggs (which I didn't have), and a fruit salad. Yum, good food. So, after breakfast and a shower, I started to work on the two Windows XP computers here. God, I see why I switched to Apple. Okay, so here's what happened. I helped my uncle switch to DSL. Durning the switch, the router had trouble switching over. So, we had to call Linksys and I talked so some nice lady in Asia. After a long talk with her, I found that she enjoys singing in the shower. 'Nuff said. SO this morning , I secured there network, and got there laptop up and working as well. Fun times. Not!! Windows computers drive me crazy. You start up the computer and things start failing right away. ARGG anyway.. I finished that up around noon and went to a mexican place to grab a burrito. Came home to eat that out in the backyard. Then we got going to Hearsts Castle.
On the way there, we stopped in a little town Cambridge. We stopped for coffee and to look at a garden shop. I got a chai thing. Also on the way, I finished the first Harry Potter book. It was okay, maybe like a 7/10. It was entertaining, but since I had seen the movies already, it wasn't too exciting. Might be more exciting if I hadn't seen the movie before hand. Okay, so we arrived at Hearsts Castle.
I had never known about Hearts Castle before I showed up. I had heard the name and was interested when we showed up. It was a state to my park to my surprise, so once again I was dumb founded. Going inside the visitors center, I started to find out who the guy was and what the "castle" was. If you looked up the mountain, you could see the towers coming through the trees. Come to find out, this rich guy build this castle up on a hill in central California. We (my aunt, uncle and I) watched a iMax movie about the guy and I started to figure out who he was. The son of a rich minor, William Hearst became wealthy himself though owning the major newspapers in the US. At age 50, around 1920, he started construction of the castle. Hearst was a collector of antifacts and just soo much stuff. He build his castle in 15 years. This place is just AMAZING. It is so jaw dropping. Its really hard to tell you everything about it. Its this huge place on the top of a huge hill that is really like a castle. There is so much architecture and stuff. Check out the picture of one of his pools! Here is one of his inside pools that has the diving board on the right. This room is ceramic, every inch done with 1 inch square color glass things. Some of them are gold. Its like, wow. Every room is huge and big. Its like walking into Europe. There are scultures every foot. All from Europe as well. I saw three sculptures from Egypt from 1200 BC. Its really amazing to see how wealthy some people are. Anyway, it was one of the coolest things I have every seen! Truely amazing. I can go on and on. It was like a 2 hour tour. Huge tapestries in all the rooms. Just amazing. So check out Hearst Castle if you can! Okay, enough of that, but your welcome to ask me questions. I didn't take a camera, so I just linked to other photos I found.
After the amazing tour, we drove down highway 1 and saw some Sea Lions on the beach. It was fun to watch them resting in the sand. We headed back to CAmbridge to eat dinner. We ate at this really nice place. It was English kind of place, so it was like a cabin lodge and very dark inside. All the plates were pricy too. But the best part was, when the waiter brought us our salads, he really said, "Fresh pepper". I dunno if you've seen the best of Dana Carvey, but his fresh peppers skit with Adam Sandler is so funny. Anyway, the waiter did the exact same thing, and became I was so excited to hear something like that, I asked for pepper on my salad. He even said, "Tell me when". Haha, I was about to die. I didn't get a recording of it cause it happened to fast, but man was it great. It was like a day with so many highlights.
On the drive home, we talked about computers, which was quite interesting. We talked about how people don't really understand how to use computers. Especially older generations. We talked about lots, and it was quite interesting to hear it from my uncle and aunts perspective.
Okay, so I'm sitting here watching the Family guy on DVD on talking to you people. So that was today. I'll get back to you all tomorrow when more exciting things happen.... Thanks for reading :-D!
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Yay for me!
Okay, this isn't a log post, or really think worthy, but it is something that I am really proud of. So I decided to show it off a little bit here.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Friday Night Blues
It's really crazy how bad you miss something when you know you can't have it. Seems to be happening to me like crazy now. Maybe I'm just too, well, no maybe about it, I am too focused on what I don't have. I guess this will just be one of those nights when I won't feel so good going to sleep tonight...
*note: I recoreded this song after I wrote the first part of this post. I only let myself do 2 guitar takes, and i recorded the vocals once so, I know its not great. But just a little something I felt, and recorded. The vocals are quite cause I recorded them in my room around midnight, trying not to wake anyone up...
*note: I recoreded this song after I wrote the first part of this post. I only let myself do 2 guitar takes, and i recorded the vocals once so, I know its not great. But just a little something I felt, and recorded. The vocals are quite cause I recorded them in my room around midnight, trying not to wake anyone up...
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Monday, August 01, 2005
12 more days!
LoL...well, finally all the interesting people showed up. Lots of people from California are coming next week and our friends from Canada got here last week. Thank God because it was seriously getting boring. This past weekend was the festa Cais Agosto. It was actually pretty fun. My (stupid) lucky brother got to camp there but I wasn't allowed because I'm a girl and I don't know how to conduct myself (according to my father, psh). Anyway, I went two nights for a couple hours with Nathan, Adam, Lucas, Davide, Nicole, and Brianna. We had a relatively good time I guess. The beer is cheap and the music is bad, so you get the picture. haha. Anyway, hope everyone is having a positively super time in California. I haven't been online for days cause I've actually been busy, haha. But oh well, I'll be back there soon enough! Miss you, boyfriend!
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