NUMB3R5

I’ve been sleepy allll day. Don’t know why though, I got enough sleep last night. This weekend has been pretty low-key. I’ve mostly been resting, seeing as I hadn’t really gotten to rest since I’d gotten back from Missouri a few weeks ago. Going home was really nice. Still not used to having to leave and be alone again, but it’s getting easier (I think?).

It might’ve been easier this time around bc my sisters came back to LA with me. We hung out for a week and I showed them some stuff ‘round here. Nothing too craycray; they’ve been here before on numerous trips with school and fam. We did go to the Grammy Museum and it was really, really cool. I had never been there either; they have some pretty interesting exhibits.

Things with me are going well! Work has been busy, especially since summer’s starting and there are a lot of exhibits, music and film festivals. Days are going by pretty quickly, it seems. Not quick enough in some aspects. Today I did laundry and cleaned up a bit. My parents are coming to California (tomorrow, I think?) and LA later this week. They’re visiting my uncle in Sacramento and driving down to LA. The Gatdulas are going too, so I’ll get to see Fran! (& H and Jan Rey). I think they’re going to Disneyland and Legoland later this week, but my ‘rents are just gonna hang back and chill with me. I still have to go to work so I guess we’ll just eat lunch together and then hang out after I get off. On Friday after they’re done with amusement parks and stuff, we’ll drive to San Diego. Another reason they’re all coming to California is because there is a reunion in San Diego. The reunion is for my mom’s old neighborhood in which she grew up in the Philippines. Pretty crazy that enough of them made it to the U.S. to have a reunion. So I’m going with them to San Diego for the weekend and then taking a train back up to Los Angeles, hopefully (!) in time for work on Monday morning. I’m sure it’ll all work out.

I worked out today and I’ve been to the gym 4 out of the past 5 days, so I guess I’m getting back on track. Though, I feel hungrier after working out so I hope I’m not digressing. Like I mentioned before, I got a plane ticket (with a little (read: lot of) assistance from K) for Missouri next month for a wedding in where Kenny’s a groomsmen. He’s gonna look sooo cute in a tux. This afternoon, I scrapbook’d a few pages and realized that since K and I have been friends, we’ve been doing the long-distance thing! Numbers become an obsessive thing for me (must be a reason I liked LOST so much) and so I counted how many days we’ve been apart since we’ve been friends. I started counting in May of 2008, after we became friends after a group project.

We’ve roughly been friends for 765 days. Out of those 765 days, we’ve been apart (not counting winter breaks or anything like that, just extended times (30+ days) apart) for 344 of them. That’s almost 45%. We’ve spent almost half of our friendship/relationship away. Since we’ve made it “official,” we’ve been together for 236 days and out of those days, we’ve been in different states for: 211 of them. We’ve spent 25 days since October physically being in each others’ presence.

In conclusion: LDRs suck, man. But I know it (& Kenny) is def worth it.

You can barf now, sorry this got kinda corny.

- J.