Europe and all that it Implies

Okay, I have been in Europe for awhile now and what have I accomplished thus far? Well for starters, I have been drunk several days in a row and I seemed to have burst a blood vessel in right eyes. I either did this while vomiting or taking a rather strenuous dump. Though my money is on the vomiting since I have done that more than I have gone to the bathroom. Now I look like I am the victim of domestic violence. I have also said and done several rather inappropriate things while intoxicated. Nothing I haven't done before, but I am trying to behave myself this time round. Though some of the pictures I have taken with my new digital camera do nothing to belie this fact. Actually I managed to upload a bunch of my photos to my Kodak Galleries, so I will have to send all my friends the link. But they are all jumbled right now and I have not had the patience to go through each of them and arrange them in the proper order or by days. I will do this at a later date as the computer lab here is filled with visiting American college students and they annoy me for some reason. I also don't seem to have an attention span long enough to do anything useful on the computer. I tend to just check my emails and take off, which kind of makes sense. I mean why would I fly all the way to Europe just to spend hours at a time on the computer. And with that my friends, I am outta here!

Birthday in the Bay Area

Those of you who know me, know that I haven't lived in the Bay Area where I'm originally from since I moved to the Los Angeles area in 1992 to attend CSUN. Once in college I use to come home for every summer and winter break as well as for Thanksgiving, Christmas and my Birthday. Though After a few months at college and living on my own, I stopped coming home altogether except for the later three events/holidays. It just became more and more of a hassle to be home and see my family, mainly because my Mother would drive me crazy by talking to me like I still lived at home ( I really didn't like or get along with my Step Father either). Typical Mom shit I guess, but a little goes a long way and I divorced myself from all that nonsense a long time ago. Regardless it is almost May 6th and I am once again home for my Birthday. Unfortunately it is rather a different experience year since I moved back to the States after living in Europe for so long (3 years) and after the passing of my Father. Plus this year my extended family ( i.e. my Step family whom we usually celebrate with ) have season tickets to the San Jose Sharks and the day we were supposed to have our collective Birthday celebration ( my Step Brother and me are several years apart but only 3 days in terms of the actual date so we celebrate them together) was for the same day as a major game...I guess they made it into the playoffs or something. So now it is just a mellow weekend with my brother and cousin Cahna whom I haven't seen in awhile. I am also hoping to reconnect with some old friends I have not seen in a really long time. Either way it is not a typical Birthday celebration for me, but the older one gets, the less significance Birthdays have. At least for me.