Let's Play Ball!

With the coming of spring each year I look forward to renewed spirits, blossoming flowers, and baseball. You probably wouldn't think of me as your typical die-hard fan, but I have a long enduring love for the game ever since the days when I'd sit in the bleachers at Gene Robertson park just a couple of blocks away from the house where I grew up in East Salinas.

TMI

If I could ever offer one piece of advice, it would be this.... when upon meeting a total stranger, try to keep your bowel movements to yourself.

Last weekend I was about twenty minutes into a conversation with someone who I had just met for the very first time, and somehow we got onto the subject about what I currently do for a living. For my family and probably some of my friends that would be an impossibly difficult question to answer. Many people mostly know me from my days when I used to be on the radio. Yes I was on the radio. Like talking on the air and everything... That's my standard response for when someone goes "You were on the radio? Really? Like on the air?"

really getting old...

I find it a bit ironic that Microsoft Office categorizes anything on your hard drive from over two years ago as "a long time ago".... http://tinyurl.com/yevmapk

Especially considering the last operating system that actually worked was Windows XP.

Can you believe it?

I finally have a blog layout I am actually happy with. I feel like I just got my kindergarten diploma in HTML.

Well actually I didn't write any of the template code, I stole it off the internet and massaged it a little more to my liking. Hopefully you'll enjoy the end result. My blog doesn't look as girly as it used to... THANKFULLY! There is nothing worse than looking like a total wuss on the internet. Trust me I know!

on the brain

Why does Starbucks coffee always make you want to poop?

on the brain

another genius thought from the makers of Awesome!....

How cool would it be if you could use Skype for your work out program? Just picture it... you wake up every morning and your trainer can guide you through your fitness routine from the comfort of your own home. It's Skypercise!

Who invented the toilet paper roll?

I'm not going to make sense here for half a second because this is still just a bit of an unfinished thought....

I was in the bathroom, because you know that is where I do my most brilliant thinking and it occurred to me that in life it's not about that ONE unobtainable thing. It's really about the million ideas in your mind since childhood that you want to still do but never have the courage to actually accomplish. Your adult mind has told you to stop thinking like a child and give up on your dreams. To do what is "right", the things that adults are "supposed" to do. Supposed to do? What is that?

on the brain

329 Facebook friends, but only 29 monthly unique visitors to my blog... what is wrong with that equation?

don't play with your food!

FINALLY we get to the fun stuff in school! (Spoiler alert: for my vegetarian & vegan friends an animal is hurt in the making of this story). So last night in culinary school I finally had the opportunity to do some serious butchering. As I was going to town and removing the entire lower extremities of a suckling pig, it reminded me of the one time I had a pet lamb. Totally true story! I’m being serious; when I was a kid for about one day I had a pet lamb. Well at least I thought it was intended to be my pet. I used to sing to it and everything… “Lily had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb…”

My parents didn’t really tell me the reason why we were harboring a small wooly creature in our backyard, but if you’re familiar with the Mexican culture you know it’s quite common to allow your livestock to live in the backyard. And if you’re wondering whether or not I grew up on a farm, the answer is NO. I grew up in a regular residential neighborhood on the east side of Salinas, where most people kept large quantities of questionable objects in the backyard. To give you an idea, most of our neighbors either kept chickens, roosters, broken down cars, undocumented family members, large dogs, or grew massive amounts of corn.