Saturday, November 7, 2009

what a week! (nine)

Sunday I made the trek down to San Diego. I had not been home since early September and the escape down the coast was well deserved. My first stop was home to visit moms. Unfortunately the family dog Daisy has seen better days and is being tended to day and night.

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Leaving Pas

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On the way down

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Daisy in her younger days

While I was at home my mom busted out some baby pics. I thought I would share them.

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Moms, my lil sis Alyssa and me

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Mike and I

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My grandma and me outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Church after my baptism.

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Magic Mountain...lots of magic in this blog post today

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This pic was kind of weird. I pretty much hate reading but according to my mom. I used to love reading. I wonder what went wrong? Oh and this pic was during spring break in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico

After a short stop home I was off to pick up my lovely company for the next couple of hours, Veronica. I had not seen her since my last trip home and it was awesome that she was able to make the journey up from her new stomping grounds of Ensenada down in Mexico. Our first stop was beautiful Mt. Soledad. It was a typical beautiful day in San Diego. The weather couldn't have been better. Mid 70's, breezy with just enough sun. The views from Mt. Soledad were as beautiful as my company. After that we grabbed a late lunch before we said our goodbyes.

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Looking out over La Jolla

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Veronica and I cozying up for the camera

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Then it was off to Scripps Ranch for Jason's birthday get together. It was good to see most everyone together. Jason's dad treated us to some magic. He truly is a renaissance man. Around 11 after almost 12 hours in SD it was time to make the trip back to Pasadena. My trip was short but very, very sweet!

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Blurry shot of Jason blowing out candles

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Birthday hat courtesy of more MAGIC!

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RJ in disbelief

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Still messing with RJ

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Vic doing magic on Geovanna

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Caiden and G


If you click on the video it will take you to Flickr where you can download the whole video by clicking the emded link and scrolling down. Flickr doesn't show the whole video.

Monday I started feeling sick. I noticed a sore throat was coming on and decided to act quickly. A lil too quickly. I thought it would be a good idea to get some zinc for my sore throat. Unfortunately I bought zinc tablets instead of lozenges. I took too many and had an acute overdose. I self diagnosed this thank to the internet. Sufficed to say my symptoms were stomach cramps and nausea within 15 minutes of taking the zinc. I had taken the equivalent of 1500% of a daily value and suffered the consequences. Two days later I was back in form with just a cold. However my early attack helped somewhat and my cold was not as severe as it could have been.

Luckily for me I had done most of my work for type already so when I explained to the teacher what had happened and why I didn't have all my work. He couldn't tell that I had not done all that I had planned on.

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Folds I am using for a brochure/poster

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After a nice long nap, I got started on screen printing my Archetype project. Wednesday I got the first pass on the press with my prints. Here is a peak.

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Print drying madness

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Cleaning up

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Sexy ass black on black print

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Varnish with some brown layer

Thursday I decided that going to the HS would have to wait until next week that I still needed rest. I was treated to some homemade chicken soup by Joanne. No pics of that as I crushed that soup with the quickness. By Friday I was feeling a lot better but still somewhat sick. I am still taking meds trying to kick this cold out.

Random Photos of the Week

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Clean ass black on black AMG Benz to go with my black on black prints

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