I'm back in California from my Colorado trip.

I took over 900+ photos... all in RAW format.
So much conversion and editing to do... and probably a new hard drive will be needed.
But I never thought that Jeeping would be so much fun and so awesome!
Ghost towns and old mines still are amazing and unbelievable...
I'm still in disbelief that I had seen all that stuff.

Anyway - I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to catch up on a weeks+ worth of LJ entries.
I probably won't be checking until I get back to LA on Sunday... or even later than that.

So if I missed something really important - please tell me.

If not... if anyone is up in Northern California and have nothing to do tomorrow night, I'll be at Dave and Buster's in Milpitas for some drinks and games. So come join me! More info on it can be found on my previous post.

P.S. In the back of my mind I've been worrying... i have no idea what to do for this Crusaders and Haters party coming up. *head desk* was thinking of doing some sort of 'lone ranger' hero outfit except... i have nothing to start with. *double head desk*

I'm rather tired as I'm pretty much pulling an all-nighter here because in about half an hour I'm going to grab my packed bags and walk down to the Downtown Burbank Train Station. I'm heading down to Orange County to meet up with Brian's family and we're going to Colorado for their yearly summer trip out there.

I've never been to Colorado so I'm excited. It also meets my new state requirement this year! I am excited. I'm not exactly sure what we'll be doing out there but we're heading out to Ouray, Colorado. I hear it's a tiny quaint down with a huge 4x4 jeepin problem. So I look to find some retreat while i'm out there... take some neat photos, visit the hot springs... and just get away from this wild california world of mine.

Today has been a rather odd day for me. A girlfriend came to drop by to borrow my sewing machine... a guy friend came by to drop a 16gb compact flash card for my camera. My boss gave me the sad puppy face when I reminded her that I wasn't going to be at work tomorrow. I also saw our office cat catch a lizard and go all wonky watching the flopping tail while the rest of the body got away. Very... strange. I also smelled Chocolate Cosmos for the first time. Yum.

Running off to go catch the train!

And who arn't on my facebook friends list are invited to hang out with me at Dave & Busters because I would love to see people all at one place at one time! Unfortunately I won't have a lot of time over the weekend to see everyone individually so I think that maybe perhaps getting a big get together with everyone would be a lot of fun!

The facebook event invite:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123447835624

The Details:
Night at Dave & Busters
Back in town for the weekend and wanting to see peeps!

Host: Jocelyn Sia
Type: Party - Night of Mayhem
Start Time: Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 8:30pm
End Time: Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 2:00am
Location: Dave & Busters
Street: 940 Great Mall Dr
Phone: 6508887296
Email: lilusako@gmail.com

Description
I'm going to be home in the Bay and want to see everyone! So stock up on some pocket change for some inebriating drinks, snacky foods and lots of games to play. Meet some new people, make some new friends, come see me and prepare for some shenanigans at D&B.

Bring yourself, bring a friend (or two, or three, or more!), and bring a great big smile. :D

Please let me know if you can make it or not - the more people the merrier! It'd be great to see everyone and I think it'd be an interesting way of making new friends. XD

So Micheal Jackson is dead. Right. I had enough people tell me in a span of half an hour compared to the day it took for me to learn about Iran. Thank goodness I actually look at the "news" portion of my yahoo email welcome page and that I check the bbc news pretty often. In any case - I honestly didn't think that Micheal Jackson would die in my life time. I was pretty dead set with the belief that he'd find a way to live forever... I guess I was wrong. Reminds me of the days of watching the taped videos of his concerts that my grandma taped on HBO. Reminds me of how i really liked Moonwalker and the video game at the arcade. It reminds me of how I was really afraid of The Whiz. It reminds me that I miss Captain EO soooo much as a part of my childhood. It reminds me of the countless days sitting in my older cousins room listening to the HIStory and doing art projects....

Anyway, still on the subject of music...

I was over at sekiria's place last night hanging out and making dinner. She had the radio station on 89.9FM while we were cooking. As I listened in and out, zoning between conversation and cooking I heard the sound of brass coming from the speakers.

I stood a few moments and leaned towards the sound of music and I seriously shit a brick. "No way... this can't be Hypnotic Brass? Holy shit... it's Hypnotic Brass on the fucking radio...." is what went on in my head. Which was followed by the DJing announcing that it was Hypnotic Brass.

Who would have thought an indies band I have been listening to for the past year via underground recordings that they posted on their old blog... have actually gotten themselves on the radio. I checked on their website today and apparently I also missed the debut of their album, the revamp of their website and blog. Where the hell have I been? Damn... it's hard keeping up with music now and these days.

In other news my hair is bright red and orange again. And tomorrow is friday! Huzzah.

So I'm sure people are going to be busy and all on Saturday. I don't seem to understand why everything is happening this weekend. But Brian is coming up to visit me and we've decided that we're going to Six Flags Magic Mountain. They've got the buy one get one free with a coke can which comes out to $30 a person (after tax and all). Which honestly isn't all that bad and I don't mind. It's hell of a lot cheaper than Disneyland with rides I know i'm going to be all over.

Anyway I'm just writing on LJ that anyone who is interested in hanging out with us and riding thrill rides are more than welcome! The park opens at 10:30 and well we're aiming to get there around that time. We plan on bringing extra coke cans so if anyone is coming along - bring a friend and we plan on bringing some extra coke cans with us.

After Six Flags I plan on driving down to Melrose for the Japan LA anniversary party. Hopefully I'll be able to dress Brian up in some snazzy clothing... maybe. haha. After that I don't know what we'll do.. Mao's if they're open... or maybe I can take him to scoops ice cream! Trying to think of the happier things to get me going through the week.

and for some reason at 12:33 am i'm all giddy, excited (yet physically tired), have been a glutton all day and listening to m-flo right now. I had a hot pocket for breakfast, organic hot chocolate, chocolate candy, a salad for lunch, a big heap of home made mac & cheese for dinner, 3/4 of a bottle of Fetzer's Gewürztraminer and a mini carrot cake with frosting from trader joes... total glutton and loving it. i'm not like this every day... just today!

I'm always so physically sore after double spin on mondays. Spinning for 2 hours non stop is brutal... my muscles are a bit sore but i feel like i'm bulking up. I have spin today too... hopefully I can keep up.

Yesterday was an interesting day. Tommy Farmer came by in the morning and dropped off a ton of floral arrangements from a wedding he did. He said, "Do you want flowers? If so come out front... because if not I'm going to throw them away" So I took a bunch home and theres a few left here in the house. I made a bunch of arrangements around my house and it feels refreshing to have fresh flowers in my room. I have a bunch in the bathroom and some in my room including my desk. I also finally moved my computer to the actual desk that I got from jessz. It feels good to have moved it and actually make more of a coffee table/console table clearing for my bed. I hope to clean things out over the next few days and make it a bit more decorative.

I still have boxes to unpack from moving... i wonder if I can slowly get that done over time.

I forgot why I originally wanted to write here. Minus the fact that I think i'm going to try and make my own version of macaroni and cheese... i think I might want to make attempts to make my own macaroons as well. I probably should write up a shopping list so I don't over buy things which is something I tend to do.

but determination - tonight besides making dinner I plan on translating new lyrics by Harshrealm. the lyrics he sent to me are actually really difficult to rewrite into song format. I really should pull out my songwriting books and start thinking of new lyrics to help them be a better singing band. I find it really funny how things end up this way. Though I almost want to ask Finn if they've already written music for it... I'm not really sure if they have or not.

I also should probably spend some time tonight and get my quilt pieces ready for sewing so that when I do sew the pieces it will be much easier. which reminds me in need some grey thread. I'm already thinking about the weekend and it's only tuesday. With all of this crazy stuff going on this weekend I don't know what I want to do. I'm tempted to say, "Fuck it all" and go to Six Flags since they've got their buy one get one free campaign with a coke can... I haven't been to six flags since last year with my brother and i've got an itching to go again. There is also the Japan LA party, and the Pirate Festival... then sekiria just told me about CA Boom and Dwell. WTF. That's not even half of the things i've been told... Brian plans on taking a weekend off from work to see me... just so we can hang out and now... i don't even know what to do with him. *head desk*

I also realized how quiet himitsunoniwa has become... i wish i had more photos of me in lolita to remedy that. hmm... just a pondering thought that I might have to try and remedy sometime soon.

One final thing before I run away... I've been wanting to post these lyrics here to remind me that I just need to keep trucking along in life. Time's too short to be so hung up on things. It's been my theme song to give me courage this past week or two or three...
( Tak Matsumoto Group - Everything Passes Away )

I always find it easier to update my journal after the weekend. Well... as of more recently really with my tight busy schedule. Nothing all that exciting happened over the weekend. I got my car washed after 6 months of not washing (poor thing). I was able to do 3 loads of laundry because I still don't have quarters (well rather I'm saving quarters up) over at the boyfriends house. I also started on my black, red, and yellow/gold quilt over at Brian's house with aid from his Mom.

In terms of quarters... i spent the last of my quarters ordering take out (forgetting that I didn't have enough extra money). So i've been trying to save up on it and probably should get around to finding a way of getting more quarters. I should find an arcade that has a change machine...

I spent most of Sunday being lazy over at Brian's house. Sleeping in, doing laundry... and his mom helped me with instructions on how to cut all of my strips for this quilt I plan on making. I hope it comes out all right. I'm at the 2nd step which will be having to sew all the strips together, ironing all the strips down, sewing them down to make a tube and then cutting new strips to prepare for piecing the quilt together.

It seems like Brian's Dad is really excited that I'm going to Colorado - they plan on showing me a ton of things about Ouray and they also told me about things we plan on doing during the day. Hopefully it will be a lot of relaxed catch up time in the evening... and that I shouldn't pack too much stuff as they won't have a lot of space in the car. I'm thinking of ordering a pair of noise cancellation headphones in order to deal with snoring and maybe some new DS games for the trip. Which also makes me think that I should get around to ordering things for Brian's b'day and our anniversary coming up. I can't believe 1 year will be rolling around. Actually, looking back around this time last year this was right about time when I first met Brian. It doesn't really feel like a year at all.

After coming home from visiting Brian, I opted not to go to Mal. I wasn't feeling all that emotionally great and thought that going to Mal wouldn't really help me out. Sorry fiouri!!! I also wanted Brian to come along but he was way too tired from work and lack of sleep that made me decide to just go home.

I got home last night, tried cleaning my room last night and put my laundry away. By the time, I just felt horrible and depressed. Lately I've been feeling this way and I'm beginning to wonder if its me and where I am. I know what's wrong with me, and I have an idea of why i get this depressed. I know i'm bit sensitive, that I take things too personally, that I lack confidence and self esteem, and well that i really don't think any better of life. I think things are changing again in my life and that my outlook is much different. I'm not exactly sure how to express myself any better but I thought i'd mention it here so i can reflect on it and how to improve my life...

This week has been a blur. Wednesday is almost past and i'm already ready for the weekend. It's been rather crazy and hectic at work and i've been more or less exhausted. I've been having a lot of difficulty with getting enough sleep. I've been having more unpleasant dreams and nightmares that kind of makes me not want to go to sleep. Either that or I've been waking up in between my sleep due to loud noises around the apartment, or just having a sudden startle, or coughing still from my now past cold. I'm not exactly sure what to do... but to hope that I get decent slumber but that never seems to work for me.

Anyway I wanted to take some quick and dirty photos to show off my haircolor that yume_ninja did for me. I asked her to do orange for the most part with streaks of red in it. I love the way it turned out! The yellow from my orange has slowly been washing out... but i think it's still a bit vibrant. I'll need to go pick up some hair supplies sometime soon to do some major up keep. Soon soon... I'll do that soon.

( Raw, Quick and Dirty Photos... )

So there you have it. My hair in crazy colors again. Yay.

In other more important news... I bought a box fan.

I am loving this weather... though personally I'd rather be chillin at the hot springs like I used to in Japan.

Oh so I remembered what random thing had happened recently. So about a week ago my co-worker and I went to Philly's Best for lunch. I had such bad service that I yelpedabout it. I think with a review like that... must have made them look real bad and I got this message from them (via yelp) a few days ago that read:

Hi Jocelyn,

We apologize for the confusion the other week. There were some difficulties with the employees that we are attempting to resolve. I would like to offer you a free cheesesteak to make up for this if this is ok with you. If you are interested, let me know and I'll arrange a meal there for you when you want it. My name is TD and I am one of the owners there. Again, our sincerest apologies!

TD

So... i'm going to respond and see if this actually gets set up. Though I'm not sure how... valid this really is. Ah well. Anyway, it's friday so... here's your smile for today:



Brought to you by an Intel Imac, photo booth, the Fish Eye effect, and a squinty eyed me.

( and... the bleached hair if you're curious because I have nothing else to write about... )

Back to work.

So yume_ninja dyed my hair today! we did two rounds of bleaching and we've got one more round to go most likely. My hair is super tough (as it should be since it's so... virginal after 6 years of not tampering with it) and certain bleached parts are darker than others. None the less I am really excited with future hair colors!

Big big big thank yoooous to yume_ninja for doing my hair and Big Big Big thank yous to iamchubbybunny for teh awesome bunny shoes. I can't wait to wear them out!

( Deer in headlight quick shots of hair.. )

For the life of me... another random thing happened to me except I can't remember it. Oh well... Maybe it was the mist/rain that drizzled onto me while I was buying hair supplies during my lunch break. XD wandering off...