The vacation to Balboa Island was awesome. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to afford one of those houses (average of about 4 million dollars.) but it sure would be nice. I’ll post more later after I’m not working and I’ve gotten enough sleep to function properly.
Expect pictures! Plenty of pictures! 
i’m getting very excited. I’m sitting at work right now and it’s approximately 5:45am. In roughly 2 hours I will be finalizing my plans and getting underway to a trip to Balboa Island. This excites me greatly. I’ve never been to Balboa Island. Quite frankly I’ve only been to southern California twice in my life I think. Should be loads of fun though, and there will be many pictures taken i’m sure, so be prepared for those upon my return.
So far the list of attendee’s include (but are not limited to) Brian (my roommate), Cassie (Brian’s girlfriend), Maggie (Brian’s sister), Danielle (my girlfriend) and myself. I think we’re going to meet Brian’s brother and his girlfriend there, but I’m not 100% sure, so who knows.
I just know we’re going to have a fucking blast. I know we’re only going to be gone from Thursday until Sunday, but still, it’ll be a great time. I’m not sure what there is to see out there, since I’m going into all this pretty much blind. I haven’t researched anything to do, or made any plans or anything. We’ll just have to see what happens. Playing it all by ear right now.
If anything insanely exciting happens out there while we’re on the road, I can post it from my iPhone. God I can’t wait. It’s about 6am now. Only an hour to go until I’m outta here! :) Woohoo!
I was very skeptical when I first started listening to this album. I’m so glad that I did though. The first track definitely makes you think and wonder about what’s going to invade your ears for the next hour or so. I’m so glad that I did listen to the full album though, because I’m now considering The Raveonettes an essential part of my music collection. You know why? Simple, because they don’t make sense.
Allow me to explain…
I never really liked ambient music, maybe because it was way too soft of a sound for me to truly appreciate, or maybe because I just never found a point to it at all other than getting messed up on some kind of hallucinogenic drug and lying in on the floor with it playing in the background watching all the pretty fireflys do a waltz on the ceiling. I don’t know, but I never really cared for it. However I always thought that if someone somehow put in a more grunge feel to ambient, or a harder tone, or even just shitloads of distortion, then I’d really fall in love with it. Well, The Raveonettes did it. This album’s sound is like an ambient raver chick having sex with Trent Reznor (in his pre-heronie days, mind you). It’s fucking fantastic.
Of course this is merely my opinion, but this album just doesn’t get old. I’m testing this theory right now actually, listening to it for the third (3rd) time through. It just hasn’t gotten boring. I could see how this would be a very selective album though, because not everybody can appreciate an artistic movement like this. To be fair, I could also see how someone would call this album very repetitive. It’s hard to tell when there’s a different song playing sometimes, but maybe that’s due to the fact that I got lost in the music and actually just purely enjoyed it. Yes the vocals are very monotone, but they fit. They just fit.
Overall, I highly recommend giving the album a listen. A single track in particular to suggest, though, would be ‘Hallucinations’ or ‘You Want the Candy’. Both great tracks and both are different in speed so you can get a feel for what The Raveonettes are offering you on Lust Lust Lust. I would post tracks or samples on here, but I don’t want to get sued, so go on iTunes or whatever music service you have and just spend the $.99 and buy a track or two. I say it’s completely worth it.
I don’t really have any pertinent topics to talk about, but I wanted to get at least something posted on here, so here it goes:
Lately has been going rather well. I spend my weekends with Dani and during the week I work and sleep. Every now and then I’m able to get in some video games and hang out with the roommates, but I pretty much just try to get enough sleep. I don’t know what’s going on with my sleep schedule lately, but it’s been pretty messed up. Some days I’ll be so tired when I get home from work that I’ll pass out by 8am, then I’ll wake up randomly throughout the day and end up waking up at 6 or 7pm, then other days it will be nearly impossible to stay asleep for more than 2 hours at a time. It’s pretty bad. I’m extremely tired lately, so I have to do something about that.
Work is going well, I think I’m making some good contacts here, and hopefully next month or the month after they will hire me on fulltime so I can get a benefits package and tuition reimbursement. I’m really looking forward to that because I’d like to go to college and get my degree. Being stuck where I’m at right now just isn’t going to cut it a couple years down the road. I really want to stay with OneNeck, because I do like working for this company, and I’m genuinely interested in the work that I do. There’s a lot of different avenues I can take at this job, so we’ll just have to see what happens. School will have a lot to do with my decision as well.
Music is still a huge influence for me. Not as much as it used to be, but I still love it. I’d really REALLY want to get back into DJing. That was such a relaxing thing for me. Just me behind two turntables and a mixer with my headphones on. It made me focused, attentive and forced me to pay attention to detail, it was such a great mental exercise. I guess you’d have to try it to understand what I’m talking about. I was considering getting started with some DJ equipment with my tax refund this year, but then again I was thinking of getting a laptop with that money too. Damned decisions. I’ll just think about it when the time comes.
I think the wise decision would be to just spend the majority of my tax refund this year on paying off debts. Ya my credit score has increased quite a bit in the last 2 years, which is great, but it’s still pretty bad in my opinion. So ya, that’s what I’ll do. Those things aren’t going to go away on their own, so I’m going to pay them off when I get my tax refund. That will mean that I can at least get financed for a laptop or something, and since I know I make enough money to pay for one on a monthly basis, that will just help my credit even more! You see? It’s a win-win situation.
Wow, I can’t believe it’s already almost 4am. I’ll be driving down to Tucson to see Danielle for the weekend in about 3 hours. That’ll be fun. We have a great time together. I think this weekend just entails some at home karaoke (more details on that later), some wine (beer for me though, as much as I love wine I would just like to get some beer) and relaxing. We’ve both been so tired lately that I believe we both should catch up on some sleep. I know when I get there at about 9am today I’m going to be sleeping like a baby. That’s going to be great too. It always feels better sleeping next to her as well.
So about the karaoke thing. A lot of people might frown upon or even laugh at karaoke, but you know what? It’s fun. It’s a LOT of fun. Especially when you get a couple of drinks in you and you’re hanging out with your friends, then it’s just crazy fun. I dunno, it’s a good time and I have fun with it. :) Singing is a pretty difficult thing to do, and takes a LOT of practice and knowledge of the song you’re singing. It’s just not as easy as picking up a microphone and singing some words into it. You have to take into account your volume, the instrumental volume, your pitch, your tempo, if you’re on key or not, the style of the song versus your style of singing, your type of voice, etc. A lot of people believe that some people just can’t sing and never will be able to. I say that’s bullshit. Anybody can sing, it just takes determination and willingness to learn and be patient with it. Trust me, I know from experience. A lot of people said I was a pretty shitty singer back when I first started karaoke, and I mean pretty damn shitty, but the past year or so of singing people have been saying that I’ve been getting really good. So it just takes time, and you gotta keep at it just like with anything else.
Anyways, I better actually try to get some work done now, and I have a text message from Dani to respond to, so I’m gonna do that first.
I know that word can be difficult to grasp. I mean, “perfect”, it’s such a powerful word. It can mean so many things. I think at the base of it it just defines everything you want in a single entity. It completes you, it makes you whole. Perfection can be anything to anyone, as long as it makes them complete. For grass, it could be water, or the sun. For children it could be laughing or playing. For parents it could be watching their children excel and do well in their life. It can be anything, really. If it’s in your own nature, perfect can be amassing $1,000,000. If that’s what makes you complete. So you see, perfect is really in the eye of the beholder. I know people that would be the most complete with world peace, and I know people that would be the most complete with a good book and a cup of tea. It’s just a word, but a word that means “complete” by any and all means in that given moment.
The point of all this, is because I had the perfect weekend. Yes, perfect. It made me feel whole, alive and actually not knowing what would happen next while not at all being afraid of it or curious about it. It was…well…perfect!
I had gotten off of work on Friday morning at approximately 7:00am. Danielle and I had planned on me driving down to Tucson afterwards to spend the weekend with her. It was our Valentine’s Day weekend afterall, so I was quite excited. So I was heading down there, and I had received a number of calls from her on my way. She would keep saying that she wanted me to call her when I had gotten closer, and eventually she wanted me to call her when I was in the driveway. I didn’t understand this, I truly didn’t. I didn’t know what she was up to, and even moreso I didn’t even know that she was up to anything. I get out of my car and I see this sign attached to the front door telling me to follow my heart (I didn’t get a picture of this one, I’ll post a picture of it later) so I unlock the gate and the front door and I head inside.
Once I’m inside I look down and I see some arrows and hearts on the ground. I’m being directed through the hallway and somewhere else I can’t see right now. I’m intrigued. I’m also very excited because I didn’t think that Danielle had even planned anything at all. Especially nothing this elaborate and wonderful.
So I’m following the arrows and the hearts on the ground (which are absolutely beautiful might I add) and noticing there are candles everywhere, and I turn the corner. Around the corner my eyes are immediately drawn to the doorway to the bedroom.
It’s a beautiful sight. Something quite magical actually. I didn’t know how to react. Normally I can come up with some kind of remark or something, but not this time. I just have a huge smile on my face the entire time. I look up at the door and I see what, at the time, seems like thousands of little hearts in the air.
The wonderful part about this is that at first I didn’t even notice that there were little notes written into every single heart. That’s right, every single heart had a beautiful note (that I kept of course) that was folded into an arrow and placed through the heart. I can’t even imagine how long that must have taken. That was so amazing.
I push my way through the hearts and the door opens slightly on it’s own it seems. Danielle is standing there, wearing a white shirt and shorts. She looks absolutely beautiful. She was positively glowing. My first instinct, and it was quickly acted upon, was to embrace her in a huge hug. I certainly did so, and it was amazing. I kissed her, I hugged her, and I never wanted it to stop. I didn’t even know there was more.
Yup, that’s right. She made me breakfast in bed. I didn’t even know what to say. No one has ever done that for me. She made me chocolate chip pancakes (the chocolate chips were even formed into a heart in the pancakes, so cute!) with syrup, scrambled eggs and bacon. It was awesome. Such a great breakfast. There was a bag next to the tray as well as you can see. I could barely muster the strength to reach for it as I was lying in bed because I felt she had done so much already. I brought it over to me and looked inside with Danielle lying next to me, and I pulled out a 3-CD set of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music. This amazes me, because i LOVE Andrew Lloyd Webber. I’m very happy of course. The bag still feels a little heavy though, so I peek inside and move around the paper to see if there was still anything inside that I might have missed. I pull out a penguin. No I’m not kidding, a penguin. It was easily one of the coolest things EVER. I named him Pengu, because what’s a penguin without a little WIN? Get it? Pengu-WIN? Say it! I’m clever. 
Long story short, we watched Across the Universe (the gift that I had bought her, as well as a card, but definitely nothing in comparison to all she’s done for me thus far) because I remember her saying she’d like to get it, so I got it for her. Dang that movie was hard to find, haha. Anyways, yes we watched the movie then went to sleep. After waking up, we laid in bed for a while and eventually got up and somewhat ready for day (at an hour that people just don’t do that, haha. We blame our schedules for not having lives during the day, but we gotta sleep sometime.)
Apparently she had more gifts for me, and she leads me to the kitchen. She opens the fridge and what do I see?
Oh that’s right, she bought me Blue Moon! My girlfriend bought me beer! To top it all off, she even bought an orange, because you can’t really enjoy Blue Moon without a slice of orange to go with it. I’m so happy with my babydoll. She’s doing such amazing things for me.
I’d love to show you all a picture of the dinner she cooked for me, but I think I ate it too fast to really get any pictures of it. In any event though, she cooked me a New York Strip steak, with a twice-baked potato and steamed broccoli. Pretty much all of my favorite foods, haha. The dinner was excellent too, it was heavenly. She apparently marinated the steak for 24 hours and everything. It was so great eating dinner with her on the floor on a blanket with candles. So romantic.
Afterwards there was another surprise for me. Chocolates and wine!
We stayed up that night until the wee hours of the morning playing Karaoke Revolution and drinking that wine. I had finished my Blue Moon early in the night, and whenever drinking is involved, most likely we’ll be playing some Karaoke Revolution on the PS2. I really gotta look into just purchasing a CDG player for her house and getting some karaoke discs. That would be the easy thing to do at least, since karaoke revolution doesn’t have a huge variety of songs. :P One day.
All in all, I really love my girlfriend. Danielle is such an amazing girl, and she is my Perfection. She completes me and makes me feel like a million bucks every single day. I love her, I’m in love with her, and I’m crazy about her all at the same time.
Danielle, if you’re reading this, I love you. I love you so much. <3
I can’t even recall most of the weekend. I think this is due to the fact that I didn’t see Danielle for the majority of it like I normally do. If I ever say something was missing from this weekend, it’s because something was missing from it. Danielle was. It feels different when she’s not around. Just because I prefer when she is. That’s not to say I didn’t have a decent weekend, though. Saturday night consisted of Brian and I going to The Horse & Hound to play in a free poker tournament. Neither of us won, but it was a good time. We just weren’t catching any cards, oh well.
Extremely early Sunday morning was me driving down to Tucson to be there when Danielle got home. It was worth it. Even if I only stayed for a day and that entire day was spent sleeping, it was worth it because I was sleeping with her.
I learned some things that I’m not happy about. Hopefully these things go away, because I don’t like them. I’m going to support Danielle though in whatever she thinks. I think it’s just because I didn’t know and I would hope that she would talk to me about things like that. I’m here for her though, and that’s what matters. I love her and I’m here for her.
I didn’t really want to write anything at all, but I figured I should, because I think it helps.
I’ve spent my entire weekend with Danielle, which I love doing, so I haven’t been able to update. It was such an awesome weekend though! On Friday we went to a venue called The Clubhouse where we saw The Bravery, Switches and Your Vegas. It was such a killer show. Brian, Danielle and I went and it was just a great show. We had a couple drinks, listened to some great music, and just overall had a great time. Afterwards we all went home and then Cassie came home shortly afterwards. Well she was hungry so the four of us decided to go to Applebee’s and get something to eat. Off we went.
That was only Friday. On Saturday Danielle and I slept in for a little bit, but not for too long since I was having some massive heart pains. It was pretty bad. We talked for a while just lying in bed (which I love doing) and I think I got up while Danielle slept in a little more and I played some Xbox. Of course, I couldn’t stay away from her. I wanted to go back in there and just lie next to her, but I didn’t want to wake her, so I stayed outside and just played more Xbox. I think that’s what happened at least. Damn I need to take more ginko biloba. Anyways, after waking up we realized we needed to get showered and dressed and everything so we could go to the mall. We headed to Arizona Mills and had some Panda Express which was ok, but it kinda upset our stomachs a little bit. We stopped in a couple stores for Danielle but didn’t buy anything. I had to stop in EB Games to pick up Call of Duty 4 since I kept hearing how amazing it is. More on that later.
Anyways, so it’s Saturday, and Danielle and I went to see the Counting Crows at Tempe Town Lake. That was such a great concert. We didn’t get the greatest view, but the sound was awesome, the place was awesome, and the fireworks at the end were amazing. I think it was a great time. Although once again I got a tad bit lost on the way there. I don’t know why I can never find my way to Tempe Town Lake properly, it’s like right up the fucking road. Oh well, more experience in navigating downtown Tempe I guess. We just went home after that as far as I can remember and went to bed. It was a great night.
On Sunday, SUPER BOWL SUNDAY that is, we woke up, played some poker with the roommates and Tom (all involved were Danielle, me, Brian, Cassie and Tom). I knocked out Cassie and Danielle and I think Brian, then Tom and I were going heads-up for a while. He eventually got me though. I never play tight enough in heads-up. I know I should, but I just don’t. Oh well, I’ll learn eventually, haha. I think I got knocked out with pocket 3’s. I can’t remember all too well. The Super Bowl was starting so we all gathered around to watch that. It was a great game. The Patriots didn’t play for shit, and Tom Brady kept getting smashed, but oh well. I thought the Patriots had the game, but the Giants came back with some monster passes and such to win the game. Good for them. I would have preferred to see The Patriots get a perfect season, but the Giants just played better I suppose. Eli Manning deserves it. Here’s a video of the pass. It’s pretty fucking sweet:
So ya.. It was a great weekend. Of course I had to go to work on Sunday night which sucked, but it worked out because I played some Literati online with Danielle while she was at my house, and we talked for a long while, and she even stayed up with waiting for me to come home so we could go to sleep together. I love that woman so much.
I don’t know why I think the way I do. I truly don’t. Am I really that co-dependent on people that I drive them away by being myself. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not driving anyone away right now as far as I know, but I’m just curious. What are the consequences of my actions? What does my mind end up causing that I don’t know about? I tried to find the answer to that question, but I didn’t really come up with anything.
I know I love her, I know it. So then why the fuck am I so insecure about it? I know I’ll be miserable without her, so what am I doing being so insecure about everything? Am I scared? Am I worried? I think it’s that I finally feel complete in my life having her, and I’m afraid of becoming incomplete again. Everyone else in the past has left me, nothing or no one has ever stayed. Maybe it’s the past that’s decided how I’m acting now. Ok, I’ve come to terms with that, but now what do I do with it? How do I fix it? That’s what I hope she’ll help me with.
I’m prepared and ready to make the appropriate changes to my life. I’m willing to do what needs to be done to grow up out of this. I hope she sticks around to see the greatest I can be. I have a feeling she will. Only now to prove it.
In other news, I said some things against some friends of mine that I shouldn’t have said. It wasn’t to them, but it was about them, and still I feel bad about it. I apologize. A choice of lifestyle that I don’t agree with does not give me the right to say it’s wrong. Well, some aspects at least. Still, though, it’s a choice. I respect that.
Oh yes, my sweet little iPhone, I have plans for you. Plans indeed.
You see, I’ve been noticing some distinct advantages to jailbreaking the iPhone. I have not used one personally myself, but I’m going by what I hear and what I’m told by immensely more intelligent people (read: Seretogis) than I. So I think I’m going to attempt to jailbreak it myself either tonight or tomorrow. I’ve yet to really decide, but I’m excited to see what happens.
I’ve been very happy with Apple thus far, and I have no current issues with the phone or their current applications on the phone, but if there’s more to be gotten on it, such as NES emulators, guitar applications and other such fun things, then why wouldn’t I want to have those available to me? It will mean a LOT less boredom at work, that’s for certain. Especially if I have that NES emulator on it, haha.
We’ll see how it goes, and I’ll of course be posting my progress/thoughts on the 1.1.3 jailbreak. Maybe I’ll find Seretogis online sometime while I’m in the process of it and get his expertise. I’m sure it can’t be that hard to accomplish with some well-polished instructions, right?
We shall see.
*dun dun dunnnnn*
One can only hope at least. I’ve gone through so many different damn revisions of the site it’s not even funny. The only reason for that is just because I could never decide what I wanted to do. Did I want to stay with Wordpress? Did I want to venture over to the world of Drupal? Well, I decided on going over the Drupal, but what the hell would I do with Drupal? It was a brand new interface to me, and while it was nice, it just wasn’t practical for what I wante to do with this site. You see, djwunder.com is here for a couple of reasons:
So you see, there’s a number of reasons I have this site. Eventually, of course, it will be mainly devoted to my passion, DJing. After all, I am DJ Wunder. I’m by no means a professional or anything, but I do have talents, and a good ear for beats and music. All in due time though, I still have to fiddle with this site and make my own theme first. I can’t wait to get started on that project. That will be too much fun. Although if anyone wants to help me out and create a theme for me, or go in on helping me create one, then by all means contact me and let me know.
So anyways. If you do stick around, then awesome, I’m sure you’ll see some crazy things eventually and read some entertaining stuff. The site is somewhat still under construction, but it’s operational and ready to be explored, so have some fun, make some comments, and read what I have to say.
Thank you, and enjoy your stay.
