The universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time.
Written 21 hrs ago

It’s Been Six Hours

What’s on my mind right now?

- It’s been six hours since I’ve tried to fall asleep and I’m still nowhere near sleepy
- I’m stressing because of school. I’m close to being on academic probation. STUPID. IF I ONLY HAD A FUCKING CAR FOR 5 DAMN MINUTES. 5 DAMN MINUTES YOU PIECE OF FUCK. 5 DAMN MINUTES WOULD’VE SAVED ME FROM BEING CLOSE TO ACADEMIC PROBATION.
- One more month until I have a car again. It’s been way too long. Three years. I don’t know how I did it.
- I need to fix this hole in my wall before bugs start infesting my room
- Why must I be allergic to mango? WHY!? I’m allergic to every damn fruit. I’d be happy if I was allergic to every fruit besides mango, but I just have to be allergic to it. FML. I just walked into my kitchen and saw/smelled mango peelings in the sink and it made me upset.
- Twenty-six more days (including today) until I’m twenty-two
- I know I like to type out numbers
- Craving In-N-Out. A #3 with grilled onions and an extra hamburger with grilled onions.
- If I had a car I would’ve bombed three mailboxes in the past hour out of boredom.
- My photography sucks now. I don’t have that touch anymore.
- When I wear my American Apparel tank tops I feel very trendy. I only bought them because it’s so damn hot outside
- I need a tan. I’m gonna start practicing my b-boying at Desert Breeze Park until my body is one solid color.
- You’re right, Lucky. There are breakdancers and there are b-boys.
- I’m kind of leaning towards the Tumblr world. WordPress is getting boring. I’m actually thinking about becoming a Tumblr theme developer hahaha. I love WordPress, but nobody I know has one. I’m lonely on my blog ;[. That’s one reason why I Tumblrized my WordPress.
- ALMOST IN SAN DIEGO! TWO DAYS!
- I’m hoping for sleep paralysis when I sleep today. I’m also hoping for a nightmare. Sometimes these things are exciting hahaha.
- My hair is at its shaggy stage. This is also the stage where I want to cut it all off again. I’m gonna try hard not to this time though.
- iPhone OS4 is amazing. Finally I don’t have to jailbreak my shit for folders and a clean homescreen look & feel.
- Currently listening to Phoenix – Consolation Prizes
- I’m still not sleepy…

(500) Days of Summer

I love this movie.

Mini Vacation/Vacations

I’ve been waiting for tonight lol. I’m fucking OFF for two days! Not saying that I don’t like working. Just saying that I’m happy to have two consecutive days off. Haven’t had two consecutive days off in a while. Fuck split days off. In all honesty, I love working. I love my job. It has its cons, but it has way too many pros. The number one pro being the amount of money I make in the short amount of time I work.

When I start thinking about vacations I’ve taken in the past few years I can only say that I’ve left Las Vegas once since 2006. Back in August 2009 I went to San Francisco, CA to visit Michelle and Mycal. I actually went to Salt Lake City, UT in September 2009 for a couple days, but I can’t consider that a vacation because it was for my military processing (MEPS). Side note: Screw you USAF for that debt bullshit you pulled on me. I got kicked out of the delayed entry program a month before I was supposed to leave for basic training. How shitty is that? Let me tell you. Shitty as hell. I envisioned my future so well with the help of the USAF, but now I have to envision it in a completely different vision. I can’t truly be mad though because a lot of good things have been happening to me since I found out I wasn’t leaving for basic training. [Back to the topic] I don’t even remember the last time I visited my hometown back in Los Osos/San Luis Obispo, CA. I think it’s been six years. Every time my family has gone I always had work and couldn’t get the day off. My family just recently went back home last week and I couldn’t go because I had work. That’s.. so.. gay.. now that I think about it because my family made the trip back home about eight or more times in the past six years and the days they’d be gone just happened to be on the days that I’d have to work. Another thing that comes to mind when I think about vacations is the fact that I’ve been too M.I.A. for friends, events and other fun shit that I’ve been missing out on because I was too focused on getting into the military. So, I’m making a list of shit to do to make up for the life I lived these past few years.

FIRST SET:

JUL 3-4: San Diego, CA (Quest to buy sandals & light up fireworks)
JUL 26: B-day hotel party?
JUL 27 – AUG 3: Clovis, NM (Visit Perry)?
AUG 7: Los Angeles, CA (Hard Summer 2010)
SEPT 22: Phoenix @ The Pearl @ The Palms

I’m gonna make an event calendar on my sidebar to keep track of all of this. Also, so you can see what I’ll be up to :].

Home

- Using iPhone to blog and it feels wierd
- I think I’m starting to wake up early again despite what time I sleep
- Watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night
- Thinking about my last relationship
- It’s eighteen hours and thirty-one minutes into my day off
- Thinking about subspace and how sweet it is
- Craving a mango slushie
- Wanting to try a mango/peach slushie
- Just ate ribs. “Ribs. I had ribs for lunch that’s why I’m doing this.”
- Chillin with Vince in an hour
- Practice tonight
- Jealous of everyone going to EDC this weekend. Wish I had known about it sooner.
- Missing my family in the Philippines
- Desert Breeze park isn’t so calm to me after all
- BBOY OR DIE. True that. I will be a bboy for life.
- Blankminded for a minute
- Can’t wait to get my car next month. Saving has been too easy.
- Cleaned my room
- Need to get my work uniform ready so I don’t have to do it tomorrow
- Listening to Phoenix
- I’ve had the same desktop wallpaper for five years
- Feel like going to Griffin on Friday/Saturday night

A June Day In The Life Of Eric Crooks

cut from the finest japanese denim

Today, I went to work at 1030a (I hate morning shifts when I have to close the night before) and got off at 2p. Pretty easy 3hr shift since I didn’t have many tables. NO TIPS FOR ME THOUGH! Oh well at least I’ll be getting that hourly pay for an easy day.

Hit up Easy Life Boba Tea real quick right before my practice with a few of the new cats from Full Force and a few friends. Short story: A few of the girls at Easy Life know that I’m going to get a medium mango slushie with boba before I even ask for it because I’ve gotten it so many times. One of the girls told me that it was boring to always get that drink though. I could’ve clarified why I always get that drink (because I’m allergic to almost every fruit and mango is my favorite fruit but I get the worst allergic reaction to it so I have to get artificially flavored mango shit), but it was easier to ask what was better than a mango slushie. She told me a peach and mango slushie. Holy shit that sounded AMAZING to me and typing that made me smile lol. I mean I would’ve ordered something like that sooner, but I didn’t know I could order a mixed drink. Thank you, Cathy!

Practice was pretty good considering the fact that I rested my body and accomplished a lot. Like I’ve said before.. I love dancing. I practice my footwork in my room almost every night. And on top of that I’ll practice with Lucky for hours before or after so I’m pretty much practicing with a sore body all the time. Saw a few cats at practice that I haven’t seen in days. It was good to see that they were still practicing and made a lot of progress :]. The racquetball court we practiced in was so fucking hot though. Holy shit non-stop sweating for 2 hours. Good practice. Bad court. Better than nothing though lol.

Went to Fashion Show Mall after practice just to pick up a new pair of jeans. Found a pair of Levi’s (pic above) that fit ALMOST EXACTLY like my old Capital E’s a couple weeks ago. Didn’t buy them then because they were $98 and I wasn’t ready to drop a bill on jeans just yet. So as I was buying them the cashier told me they were %50 off. WHAT?! Looks like it was my lucky day to buy these jeans :]. So glad I didn’t buy them for $98. My outfits feel complete now that I have a good pair of Levi’s again :].

Went home, took a shower, wore my jeans to break them in and headed over to It’s A Grind with Pam. I used to work with Pam back at Bath & Body Works. She was telling me stories of bullshit things that have happened over the time that I haven’t worked there. Things that would make me want to quit if I was still working there. I actually quit that job because I was getting bullshit 3hrs a week. I told my manager that if she gave me another 3hr shift I’m gonna quit. She posted the new week’s schedule and I saw my 3hr shift. Didn’t show up the next morning to open and didn’t answer my manager’s phone call. Bitch. So glad I’m not working there anymore.

Now I’m home.. writing this blog.. and concluding it.. LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Pretty Successful Saturday

- Easy Life Boba Tea
- Work
- Hit 30hrs for the week 8]
- Hit $350 in tips for the week 8]]]
- Daniel
- It’s A Grind
- Vons
- Bryce
- Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody/Killer Queen
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Me and Mia
- Phoenix – Lisztomania
- Justice – Phantom, Pt. 2
- Justice – DVNO
- Griffin
- Hello, Lacee, it’s nice to meet you too hahaha…
- LCD Soundsystem – I Can Change
- Phoenix – 1901
- The Von Bondies – C’mon C’mon
- Beauty Bar
- Kris
- Fight inside Beauty Bar
- “THANKS FOR RUINING MY DANCE PARTY YOU ASSHOLES”
- “EVERYONE GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY BAR”
- Whore throws beer at female bartender
- Griffin
- Ashley & Nina
- El Cortez (no gambling this time)
- Drive to Aloha Kitchen
- Daniel vomits in and out of car. So much for keeping a good buzz lmao.
- Aloha Kitchen
- Cashier is NOT a cunt lol
- Apparently I look Chinese still… and Vietnamese if not Chinese. Then Thai if not Vietnamese. I’M FILIPINO!
- Nick
- Home

Successful Saturday lol…

What’s On My Mind Right Now

This is the second attempt to write this post. I failed at the first attempt. I have the tendency to post/write a blog, re-read it and delete it because I realize how stupid I sound. It’s fkn 6am btw why am I doing this. BECAUSE I MUST.

In the first attempt to write this blog I listed a shit ton of shit that was on my mind. In all honesty I only wanted to write this blog just so I could say this one line within the list of things I was writing.

That line is: I loved April 2009 and I loved April 2010. Fuck. These are very significant dates for me.

I’m about to go to sleep and this is what I look like. Two Newcastles, one Corona and one Bud Light Golden Wheat. I’m way too alergic to alcohol. If only my webcam was a little bit more vivid then my face would be red like a tomato in that picture.

Insomnia And A Rubik’s Cube

Got a little bored so I decided to post my first video blog. Usually people do introductions with their first video blog, but I’ve had my blog for like 4 years so I don’t need one. Plus, I think showing you guys that I know how to solve a Rubik’s cube (I know I didn’t solve it in one minute like I said) is more entertaining than rambling about myself.

If you’re looking to get that song it’s from the Ocean’s Twelve soundtrack and it’s called “Lappuntamento” by Ornella Vanoni.

I fkn love my webcam lol.

WHY!??!

Do I tend to have insomnia ONLY in the fucking summer time?! This seriously blows. I’d like to wake up early and enjoy the goddamn morning/afternoon instead of sleeping in ’til about two hours before I have to fkn work. SHIT. AND it looks like I’m going to have a hell show of work this week [expression]. This is good though. Only because I’ll be making a lot of money to put towards my car’s down payment :]. 2003 MAZDA MIATA YOU WILL BE MINE!!! I can’t fucking wait!

My schedule:

YESTERDAY: 530p-930p
TODAY: 1030a-2p, 515p-1030p (6 hours from now)
TOMORROW: 6p-1130p
SUN: 5p-9p
MON: 1030p-2p
TUE: 6p-10p
WED: 530p-930p
THU: OFF
FRI: 515p-930p
SAT: OFF

I put yesterday’s schedule just to show you that I will have worked one week straight without having a day off. It might not sound like a lot of work but if you haven’t worked in a restaurant then you have no say. Having to work doubles and/or so many days straight without a day off really blows when working in a restaurant. I feel like my home is at work when I have schedules like these. There was a time where I didn’t see any other walls besides the ones in my home and the ones inside my work for a week straight. That was ridiculous and it made me go a little insane. To conclude this post, at least I have that Saturday off ;P.

Dreaming With A Broken Heart

by John Mayer

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When you’re dreaming with a broken heart
Then waking up is the hardest part
You roll outta bed and down on your knees
And for a moment you can hardly breathe
Wondering was she really here?
Is she standing in my room?
No she’s not, ’cause she’s gone, gone, gone, gone, gone….

When you’re dreaming with a broken heart
The giving up is the hardest part
She takes you in with her crying eyes
Then all at once you have to say goodbye
Wondering could you stay my love?
Will you wake up by my side?
No she can’t, ’cause she’s gone, gone, gone, gone, gone….

Now do I have to fall asleep with roses in my hands
Do I have to fall asleep with roses in my hands?
Do I have to fall asleep with roses in my hands?
Do I have to fall asleep with roses in my , roses in my hands?

Would you get them if I did?
No you won’t, ’cause you’re gone, gone, gone, gone, gone….

When you’re dreaming with a broken heart
The waking up is the hardest part