Today is a big day! Because it marks the first month of my summer mission! I am horribly behind schedule but I am catching up (kinda) with my whole quarts of tea sort of thing. I think I just need to prepare them all at the same time and have them sitting around so I'll just drink them when I see them. I started the day by making 2 quarts of green tea. I learned yesterday that it's dragon well. Because my aunt read it and said it was "leung jiang" (please excuse my romanization) and well, it literally means dragon well. So yay now I know what I'm drinking haha.
Today my baby cousin had a doctor's appointment in the morning. I'm told he behaved well. Good kid.
My cousin kept asking me to play Gamecube with her, but I told her I wanted to skate with her instead. She said she didn't want to skate. Eventually we agreed to skate. Since her trucks suck, I've been researching better trucks for her. I asked her if I should buy it because I said I wanted her to put them to good use and commit to the sport. She said not to buy them because she wouldn't. I got upset and told her to just play her games. She said it was because she wouldn't have anybody to skate with. Her mom eventually convinced her and said she would go out with the baby while my cousin skated. My cousin seemed more amenable to skating.
We went to the park and did 2 laps together. I gave her a couple "skate challenges" along the way (skate down the slope and then avoid the manhole, get some good starting pushes and then go up the sidewalk hump, get some good starting pushes and then roll over the cracks but bend your knees so you don't get caught, etc). I told her I wanted her to get one good lap without jumping off her board for some reason (she doesn't stay inside the bolts so the board flips a lot), and I let her take half a lap with my board, and she did it perfectly. She said it felt a lot better and she seems a lot more interested now. I explained a lot of longboarding stuff to her to get her more stoked and she seems to be really stoked.
As we were leaving, an older woman with an older man sitting at a picnic table yelled, "you can't skateboard here".
I looked stunned. I asked "where are the signs?", since I didn't see any. If you can't skate a place there's usually a good sized sign somewhere. I thought I missed it.
She says, "they aren't up yet. they'll be here next week"
"When was this decision made?" It obviously had to be recent.
"A long time ago, they just haven't put up the signs"
"..." Well this made me skeptical. I'm not a local here, so I'm not aware of this ordinance, and my cousin lives here (though she's not a skater) and doesn't know about it either. I'm not calling their bluff or anything, but I just think it's fuckin fishy.
"There's a skate park at Bass River but the kids don't use it. She looks at my board "That one's okay" she looks over at my cousin's board "but that one can jump".
"Right, but these are different. Even though they're still skateboards, these are longboards, and they're mainly used for crui----"
"Yeah we know a guy and his family with boards even longer than yours" She cut me off, that bitch. I hate it when people do that, but when you try to interject, they just keep going. So I just changed the subject. She obviously doesn't want to hear what I have to say.
"There's a skate park? Where?"
"Yeah, over at Bass River...."
"Sports", the guy says.
"Bass River Sports. They don't use it because they don't want to pay $10 and wear all the pads." I think it's weird for the town to charge $10 (per year? or per person per time??). I think free, maybe a waiver and a helmet should be all they need. I wonder what this "skate park" looks like if they're charging people.
"Okay, thanks" I start to walk towards her "What's your name?"
"Debbie"
I shake her hand and smile "Em." My cousin does the same.
"Yeah it's just other kids that skate and tear up the benches" she motions around her
"Right, the grinding."
"Yeah the grinding", The man says.
"What's your name?"
"Jim." I shake his hand too.
"You can skate at the golf course, and on the path, it's really nice" she motions behind her. I think I've been there on a bike before, not too sure.
"Well, thanks for letting me know. It was nice to meet you." I wave and we get going.
The guy calls after us "You can still skate now, but just remember, for next time." We were planning on skating every day for the rest of the week, maybe we should.
I wonder who they were. They were thoroughly surprised that I was courteous. I'm sure she thought I would flip her off and bring the rest of my skate friends to tear the place up. I hope I changed her attitude about skateboarding, even if just a little. I thought it was really rude she didn't let me finish my sentence. That's just something I really HATE about people. Their body language seemed to show that they really thought they were powerful, but I wonder if they were just bluffing. The curbs and benches looked fine, and if the town decided the park wasn't for skating then they should have put signs up a LOOOOONG time ago.
So we skate over to CVS to pick up photos of my cousins for their passport photos and then skate home. We look at decks while we eat lunch and my cousin really likes the Landyachtz Bamboo Stout. We have to go to the post office so my cousins can get their passport paperwork in, and I go to Boarding House, a store that's into board culture. I go in, I ask this ginger kid, "Hey, do you carry longboards??"
"Yeah."
"Do you guys have Landy Stout?"
He's got a baseball cap on and a lisp, "What's that?"
"It's a longboard"
"Oh. What's it look like?" We start walking towards the back of the store.
"It's got a spoon nose, kicktail, pintail shape..." I'm actually wrong, it's flat and doesn't have any of those qualities haha. Except maybe pintail.
"Oh... What brand is it?"
"Landy.... Landyachtz."
"Oh, we don't carry that."
"So what brands do you carry, Sector 9?"
"Yeah, and some Loaded..."
"Do you guys have Rayne?"
"What?"
"Rayne, they make downhills."
He points to like 3 racks, mostly empty "and Palisades".
"Oh, okay."
"Yeah, so take a look and see what you like, if anything is right."
"Okay."
"We used to carry two Landyachts, but they didn't sell, so now we don't."
Yeah dude, I can see why. What the hell is Palisades? They look like Never Summer knockoffs. Maybe they're one of those "cruisers" street board companies are coming out with. Ugh. There was actually a sign that said DO NOT RIDE LONGBOARDS. I wonder if this is why people buy longboards and hate it. Because they can't even try it in the store, and staff is like, never knowledgeable. I looked at their bushing selection, they only had Lucky and Bones. I asked some other guy at the desk if they had other bushings. He asked what I was looking for, I said lower duros, like 80. He asked if I tried Indy's and I said yeah, I also have Bones softs. Then I just left. What a disappointment.
I walked back to the post office and my family was still there. My uncle rips the paperwork out of the postal worker's hands and just says he's leaving and apologies to the guys behind him for taking so long. We walk out of the post office and he's mad. I ask my aunt what the deal is. She starts explaining to me, but then my uncle starts to get rude and tells her to shut up and says how dumb she is in Chinese. My aunt has never sent in for a passport, so she made a copy of the birth certificates because she was afraid they would get lost. My uncle was all furious because the post office didn't take them and that the documents are mailed back along with the passport blah blah blah. He was saying how he didn't want to play this damn game anymore, he was done, but then he told my cousin to go home and fill out the forms all over again (there was nothing even wrong with the forms) and to just do it and not to ask why. My aunt wanted to ask why since he said he didn't want to do it anymore, but since he was being stupid, she just asked "And then what?" and he didn't say anything.
Came home and threw the order in. My cousin called her friend and immediately went over to her house. Seriously. It was that easy. It took ALL of 3 days worth of prodding before she just CALLED her friend, and her friend, THAT DAY, invites her over. She came home an hour and a half later, said she had fun. That's good. She said she hadn't seen her friends in a YEAR. I made 2 more quarts of green tea while she was out.
I hope she keeps hanging out with her friends and skating. Sorry for the long post, guys! It was a lot of dialogue I know haha.
I drank 2 and a half quarts so far today. I HAVE PEED SO MUCH. But it feels pretty good.
+10
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Day 29
I have started to make tea in those quart containers take out places give you when you order soup. Yum for big containers of tea that are really hot.
Went crabbing today with one of my aunt's friends and Alex, a Russian guy that lives upstairs that works for my aunt for free rent. We took him along because he's never seen a crab. On Sunday, my cousin agreed to come crabbing with us, but she had a last minute "stomachache".
We arrived at the crabbing spot (A new spot, I've never been there before. They call it "the bridge") with all our stuff, chicken legs, traps, string, stakes, beach chairs and a cooler full of drinks and watermelon........ WE FORGOT TO BRING NETS! Sooooo we set up the traps and threw them in, since we didn't need nets for those. We got a lot of little ones. Alex got a big one. My aunt left for about an hour to go to CVS to buy something for my cousin's stomach and also to get the nets. She forgot her house keys, but she peeked in the window to see my cousin on WoW. Predictable. I tied the rest of the chicken onto the strings on the stakes.
Anyway, my aunt came back with the nets and we started wading into the tall grass (pokemon, much?). Then we stabbed the wet mud with our stakes. We unraveled the string and threw the chicken in. The trick to crabbing is I guess.... "string feel" haha. You need to wait until the string is tugging (its just like fishing). Then you start to reel it in slowly, and if you feel like the chicken feels heavier, then you probably have something on the other end. If you have something that's pulling REALLY hard, you probably got a rock lol. If you have something that randomly pulls REALLY hard on and off, you might have an eel. You need something like an underwater butterfly net for that. We didn't have one of those. If you have something that pulls lightly on and off, then you have a crab, my friend! So you need to pull it in really slow, and eventually it will come into view under the water, as you pull it closer, you will start to see the crab. Try to gauge the depth of the chicken by the color of it, it will ALWAYS look closer than it really is! Wait until the chicken changes from a murky gray/green to a white color, and then you're good to go. Be swift with the net, and dip lower than you think you need to. Water depth is a tricky bitch. With enough luck and patience, you will get some crabs! Usually we separate the big ones and little ones, and we throw the little ones back in at the end of the day, so we don't keep catching the little ones. We also throw the mommies back in. You can tell because they'll have eggs stuck to their underside. You can tell gender from the bottom of the crab. There will be a sort of flap that looks like either a half circle or a triangle. If it's a big half-circle with a little triangle on it, then it's a girl. If it's a triangle, it's a boy. Don't ask me how they have sex, I don't know. YouTube it. Anyway, here's a picture of both, see if you can tell the difference!
The top is the male and the bottom is the female. I hope you got it right.
After we got home, my aunt RIPPED their claws off with pliers and my cousin and I set off to clean them with toothbrushes. Then I took a shower because I was really muddy from wading around in the tall grass looking for pokemon (large crabs). We invited Alex down for some crab. He looked a little uncomfortable eating a traditional meal in a Chinese household but he did well. He used chopsticks and thanked us for the meal.
+4
Went crabbing today with one of my aunt's friends and Alex, a Russian guy that lives upstairs that works for my aunt for free rent. We took him along because he's never seen a crab. On Sunday, my cousin agreed to come crabbing with us, but she had a last minute "stomachache".
We arrived at the crabbing spot (A new spot, I've never been there before. They call it "the bridge") with all our stuff, chicken legs, traps, string, stakes, beach chairs and a cooler full of drinks and watermelon........ WE FORGOT TO BRING NETS! Sooooo we set up the traps and threw them in, since we didn't need nets for those. We got a lot of little ones. Alex got a big one. My aunt left for about an hour to go to CVS to buy something for my cousin's stomach and also to get the nets. She forgot her house keys, but she peeked in the window to see my cousin on WoW. Predictable. I tied the rest of the chicken onto the strings on the stakes.
Anyway, my aunt came back with the nets and we started wading into the tall grass (pokemon, much?). Then we stabbed the wet mud with our stakes. We unraveled the string and threw the chicken in. The trick to crabbing is I guess.... "string feel" haha. You need to wait until the string is tugging (its just like fishing). Then you start to reel it in slowly, and if you feel like the chicken feels heavier, then you probably have something on the other end. If you have something that's pulling REALLY hard, you probably got a rock lol. If you have something that randomly pulls REALLY hard on and off, you might have an eel. You need something like an underwater butterfly net for that. We didn't have one of those. If you have something that pulls lightly on and off, then you have a crab, my friend! So you need to pull it in really slow, and eventually it will come into view under the water, as you pull it closer, you will start to see the crab. Try to gauge the depth of the chicken by the color of it, it will ALWAYS look closer than it really is! Wait until the chicken changes from a murky gray/green to a white color, and then you're good to go. Be swift with the net, and dip lower than you think you need to. Water depth is a tricky bitch. With enough luck and patience, you will get some crabs! Usually we separate the big ones and little ones, and we throw the little ones back in at the end of the day, so we don't keep catching the little ones. We also throw the mommies back in. You can tell because they'll have eggs stuck to their underside. You can tell gender from the bottom of the crab. There will be a sort of flap that looks like either a half circle or a triangle. If it's a big half-circle with a little triangle on it, then it's a girl. If it's a triangle, it's a boy. Don't ask me how they have sex, I don't know. YouTube it. Anyway, here's a picture of both, see if you can tell the difference!
The top is the male and the bottom is the female. I hope you got it right.
After we got home, my aunt RIPPED their claws off with pliers and my cousin and I set off to clean them with toothbrushes. Then I took a shower because I was really muddy from wading around in the tall grass looking for pokemon (large crabs). We invited Alex down for some crab. He looked a little uncomfortable eating a traditional meal in a Chinese household but he did well. He used chopsticks and thanked us for the meal.
+4
Monday, June 28, 2010
Day 28
I started crocheting the bottoms of the cupcakes last night and I finished the first bottom this morning.
We went to the beach today. My cousin and I went over to the boat trailer parking lot (less cars) to skate. It's my cousin's second time skating and yesterday we built her a longboard out of a crappy mountain board Ocean Spray sent me. The trucks are crap because the bushing seats are just.... WRONG. They're these horribly casted indy knockoffs that just really fail. But she did well. She got some wheel bite after breaking in orange and white khiros, so I threw in some Bones softs and cranked them down tight. Looks ok. For now.
We went back to the beach area and the wind was crazy. It was kicking up sand everywhere. It hurt. It was like being in a really sunny sandstorm! We had a little lunch and swam briefly. Then we left.
I sneaked into my cousin's phone when she was helping wash her brother (I know, I'm a horrible cousin /: ) and read her text messages. She deletes her sent, because she only had 3 in there. She had a ton of txts from some kid named "blahbie bloobie blah blah blah" something like that. That's gotta be a WoW guy. He sent texts like "*comes up from behind and puts my arms around you, kissing you softly*" uh, HELLO?! THIS IS A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL, NOT A FANFICTION. Anyway, just lovey dovey crap like "I couldn't sleep last night because I was so worried about you" and "I'm so happy to be able to call you my gf". Bleh. She also sent him a txt saying something along the lines of "my mom made me carry 100lbs of stuff at the beach and my cousin just watched even though she does crew and is stronger and has more muscles than me" LOL KID I'M A COXSWAIN. I ONLY HAVE MORE MUSCLES THAN YOU BECAUSE I GO OUTDOORS. I think he replied "what a bitch move" or something like that hahaha. He should have been all gentlemanly and said "aww i wish i wuz dere 2 help u wit mah big@$$ musclez lol ily" but no. Oh well.
I ended up having 2 cups of tea later in the night, today was okay.
+2
We went to the beach today. My cousin and I went over to the boat trailer parking lot (less cars) to skate. It's my cousin's second time skating and yesterday we built her a longboard out of a crappy mountain board Ocean Spray sent me. The trucks are crap because the bushing seats are just.... WRONG. They're these horribly casted indy knockoffs that just really fail. But she did well. She got some wheel bite after breaking in orange and white khiros, so I threw in some Bones softs and cranked them down tight. Looks ok. For now.
We went back to the beach area and the wind was crazy. It was kicking up sand everywhere. It hurt. It was like being in a really sunny sandstorm! We had a little lunch and swam briefly. Then we left.
I sneaked into my cousin's phone when she was helping wash her brother (I know, I'm a horrible cousin /: ) and read her text messages. She deletes her sent, because she only had 3 in there. She had a ton of txts from some kid named "blahbie bloobie blah blah blah" something like that. That's gotta be a WoW guy. He sent texts like "*comes up from behind and puts my arms around you, kissing you softly*" uh, HELLO?! THIS IS A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL, NOT A FANFICTION. Anyway, just lovey dovey crap like "I couldn't sleep last night because I was so worried about you" and "I'm so happy to be able to call you my gf". Bleh. She also sent him a txt saying something along the lines of "my mom made me carry 100lbs of stuff at the beach and my cousin just watched even though she does crew and is stronger and has more muscles than me" LOL KID I'M A COXSWAIN. I ONLY HAVE MORE MUSCLES THAN YOU BECAUSE I GO OUTDOORS. I think he replied "what a bitch move" or something like that hahaha. He should have been all gentlemanly and said "aww i wish i wuz dere 2 help u wit mah big@$$ musclez lol ily" but no. Oh well.
I ended up having 2 cups of tea later in the night, today was okay.
+2
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Day 27
Had the rest of Kristin's Eggos for breakfast (last 3) and a cup of greeeeeen tea!
Kristin, Devon and I went out to DW and skated half of it. Last time we went, Elise got maaaad speed wobbles coming down the hill at the end so I was so ready to take it without worrying about a grom skater. We took it, and.... IT WASN'T EVEN THAT FAST! Hahaha I swear it was like 15 or something! Oh well it was cool. Kristin started behind me and ended up overtaking me. It's probably because she's bigger and weighs less than me hahaha. Devon air braked the entire time down so she was lagging. We all made it back in one piece.
Got back to Kristin's house and then ordered her some blue venom barrels. She's been running blue cone top, blue elim on bottom. We're going to see how it goes with the barrels. She's running some Paris 180s on wedges, topmounted. Her setup should be super sick (pumping MONSTER!) when she breaks in those barrels. Also helped Devon order pads from XSportsProtective and Sabre bushings (to pay me back), hardware, speed rings, spacers and a skate tool from LongboardSkater. She also filled out her Ian Tillman sheet for a free helmet. She'll be super ready come Fall '10! Devon looks like she's turning better so the Sabres must have broken in.
My aunt then came to pick me up to take me to Cape Cod. We got talking about my cousin. My cousin earlier that week said that her dad suspended her World of Warcraft account because she got a D and a C on some quizzes so I was like "Oh okay but schools is out its not like you can get a better quiz grade". But my aunt told me something else. Apparently my cousin's been meeting boys online on WoW. She talks to them in the middle of the night on her cell and texts them all the time, running up the bill. Or something like that, her dad figured something was fishy when he saw the bill and saw that there were hundreds of minutes being used in the wee hours. My aunt said that he lived in some place where it must be morning where it's night here. I asked if it was long distance and she said no, so it must be some guy from the west coast or something. Anyway, my aunt said that my cousin speaks to these boys like they've known eachother forever and were dating. She was also talking to two boys at a time. My aunt and uncle always read those stupid news articles about how some kids meet over MySpace and elope and run away and stuff, so my uncle told my cousin that he'd pay airfare for her "boyfriend" to come so they could meet him in person. Then she said that they wouldn't like him because he's Mexican and has tattoos. Um, HELLO?! TATTOOS? My cousin is 14. Idk the laws in other states, but if you have a tattoo--no, TATTOOS at the age of 14, you can't be bad news. So then my cousin called her guy and broke it off, saying that she only wanted to play WoW with him, not be his boyfriend. Then a couple days later they found out she called him back because she missed him or something. And 2 weeks before she was cut off from WoW, she apparently met some other guy. Her parents found her phone in the baby's crib... all this weirdo stuff. Anyway, it sounds like my cousin isn't living a very healthy lifestyle because she doesn't go out. She didn't even want to leave the house to go to the car and enter in Kristin's address into the car's (built in) GPS earlier in the week.
I ended up drinking half a bottle of this NAAASTY tea. Hansen's unsweetened black tea with lemon... DON'T DO IT. I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. IT IS SO AILCJAD;LKSJAIWE DON'T DO IT!!!!
+2
Kristin, Devon and I went out to DW and skated half of it. Last time we went, Elise got maaaad speed wobbles coming down the hill at the end so I was so ready to take it without worrying about a grom skater. We took it, and.... IT WASN'T EVEN THAT FAST! Hahaha I swear it was like 15 or something! Oh well it was cool. Kristin started behind me and ended up overtaking me. It's probably because she's bigger and weighs less than me hahaha. Devon air braked the entire time down so she was lagging. We all made it back in one piece.
Got back to Kristin's house and then ordered her some blue venom barrels. She's been running blue cone top, blue elim on bottom. We're going to see how it goes with the barrels. She's running some Paris 180s on wedges, topmounted. Her setup should be super sick (pumping MONSTER!) when she breaks in those barrels. Also helped Devon order pads from XSportsProtective and Sabre bushings (to pay me back), hardware, speed rings, spacers and a skate tool from LongboardSkater. She also filled out her Ian Tillman sheet for a free helmet. She'll be super ready come Fall '10! Devon looks like she's turning better so the Sabres must have broken in.
My aunt then came to pick me up to take me to Cape Cod. We got talking about my cousin. My cousin earlier that week said that her dad suspended her World of Warcraft account because she got a D and a C on some quizzes so I was like "Oh okay but schools is out its not like you can get a better quiz grade". But my aunt told me something else. Apparently my cousin's been meeting boys online on WoW. She talks to them in the middle of the night on her cell and texts them all the time, running up the bill. Or something like that, her dad figured something was fishy when he saw the bill and saw that there were hundreds of minutes being used in the wee hours. My aunt said that he lived in some place where it must be morning where it's night here. I asked if it was long distance and she said no, so it must be some guy from the west coast or something. Anyway, my aunt said that my cousin speaks to these boys like they've known eachother forever and were dating. She was also talking to two boys at a time. My aunt and uncle always read those stupid news articles about how some kids meet over MySpace and elope and run away and stuff, so my uncle told my cousin that he'd pay airfare for her "boyfriend" to come so they could meet him in person. Then she said that they wouldn't like him because he's Mexican and has tattoos. Um, HELLO?! TATTOOS? My cousin is 14. Idk the laws in other states, but if you have a tattoo--no, TATTOOS at the age of 14, you can't be bad news. So then my cousin called her guy and broke it off, saying that she only wanted to play WoW with him, not be his boyfriend. Then a couple days later they found out she called him back because she missed him or something. And 2 weeks before she was cut off from WoW, she apparently met some other guy. Her parents found her phone in the baby's crib... all this weirdo stuff. Anyway, it sounds like my cousin isn't living a very healthy lifestyle because she doesn't go out. She didn't even want to leave the house to go to the car and enter in Kristin's address into the car's (built in) GPS earlier in the week.
I ended up drinking half a bottle of this NAAASTY tea. Hansen's unsweetened black tea with lemon... DON'T DO IT. I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. IT IS SO AILCJAD;LKSJAIWE DON'T DO IT!!!!
+2
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Day 26
I woke up and had 3 eggos and a cup of green tea. Blueberry is my favorite flavor, so I chomped them up.
We waited for Fallon to come pick us up for her and Kristin's pole dancing "fitness" class. I was supposed to film them. Fallon came like half an hour later than she said she would, but they gave themselves a lot of time to get lost, because apparently Fallon doesn't drive a lot. Or doesn't drive in cities a lot. Idk. People that don't live in cities really hate driving in cities. I don't really understand. Boston traffic really isn't that bad. Boston's traffic jams are definitely not New York traffic jams. New York jams don't move. Boston's jams are just slow.
I bought a large green tea(20 oz) at the cafe across the dance studio because we were a couple minutes early. The dance class was ok, I made a tripod out of a cup I found and played Blocked on my iPod for most of it. I watched the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes. The class was an hour long, so watching half was pretty okay. The class wasn't very synchronized. It was a go-at-your-own-pace sort of thing. I didn't get it, oh well.
Then we went to Ciara's birthday party. It was okay. The DJ could have been better (i.e. responded to requests). There was a grill fire due to a combination of negligence and cheap hamburgers. I met Kristin's friend Roosevelt. I must have had at least half of the pitcher of iced tea. Let's assume the pitcher was a liter.
After the party I went with Alex, Kassie and Roosevelt to Walmart. I bought 2 crochet hooks and a couple skeins. A white one, a goldenrod one, one with different shades of blue and one with different shades of peach.
+6
We waited for Fallon to come pick us up for her and Kristin's pole dancing "fitness" class. I was supposed to film them. Fallon came like half an hour later than she said she would, but they gave themselves a lot of time to get lost, because apparently Fallon doesn't drive a lot. Or doesn't drive in cities a lot. Idk. People that don't live in cities really hate driving in cities. I don't really understand. Boston traffic really isn't that bad. Boston's traffic jams are definitely not New York traffic jams. New York jams don't move. Boston's jams are just slow.
I bought a large green tea(20 oz) at the cafe across the dance studio because we were a couple minutes early. The dance class was ok, I made a tripod out of a cup I found and played Blocked on my iPod for most of it. I watched the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes. The class was an hour long, so watching half was pretty okay. The class wasn't very synchronized. It was a go-at-your-own-pace sort of thing. I didn't get it, oh well.
Then we went to Ciara's birthday party. It was okay. The DJ could have been better (i.e. responded to requests). There was a grill fire due to a combination of negligence and cheap hamburgers. I met Kristin's friend Roosevelt. I must have had at least half of the pitcher of iced tea. Let's assume the pitcher was a liter.
After the party I went with Alex, Kassie and Roosevelt to Walmart. I bought 2 crochet hooks and a couple skeins. A white one, a goldenrod one, one with different shades of blue and one with different shades of peach.
+6
Friday, June 25, 2010
Day 25
Phew! Went to Kristin's house today. Woke up early-ish to pack. Got on the 11am Lucky Star, more like 11:14am, but oh well. We made a stop at Burger King in Connecticut, when we were about to pull off, the next Lucky Star pulled up. What is that, they caught up to us! After we got on the road, a Fung Wah passed us! But we passed them. But then they passed us again. But we passed them again. Then a car merged in front of the Fung Wah so we were home free.
Arrived in Boston about the same time Kristin did. We met at the train part. I was super thirsty and the first drink ad I saw was for this lemonade twister thing at Auntie Anne's. Sooooo Kristin orders one in mango and one in pomegranate, but the really Russian cashier thought Kristin ordered two mangoes. We got it straightened out eventually. Anyway, long story short, don't order it, it's not great.
Then we went down into the subway and had to fill up Kristin's Charlie card. She only had a roll of quarters (minus 2 so I had to pitch in) so we had to fill it twice, $5 each, because apparently there's a 20 coin cap on how much you can deposit. The nice station worker informed us of this and thought it was really stupid.
We managed to get to the red line platform during rush hour, so it smelled like sweaty boys down there. Then we took some other train to get to Symphony Hall and.... RED MANGO! We ordered a large to share... The usual: Pomegranate with mangoes, mochi and blackberries. The Boston Red Mango is really weird looking to me. It's just too clean, but like bathroom tile clean... not very eclectic New York City Red Mango. Just different vibes. Service was much slower too. But not as slow as the one on St. Marks Pl. D:
Then we went back to South Station, took the commuter rail to Brockton. On the train we started to make a sim version of me. Kristin's mom picked us up. Kristin bought some Stop&Shop (Nature's Promise) veggie potstickers and I made them in a non-non-stick pan. It was a little challenging. They weren't the usual ones we bought from Trader Joe's; these had cabbage and vermicelli noodles in them. I didn't think they were all that great but we still ate them. We had some green tea (the leaves I sent Kristin from a little while back). I had 2 cups. We continued making me and then started to make a sim-Kristin. Alex and Kassie, Kristin's friends came and took us to Burger King. I got a "super large" sweet tea. It was 32 ounces! It was huuuuuuuge.
+8
Arrived in Boston about the same time Kristin did. We met at the train part. I was super thirsty and the first drink ad I saw was for this lemonade twister thing at Auntie Anne's. Sooooo Kristin orders one in mango and one in pomegranate, but the really Russian cashier thought Kristin ordered two mangoes. We got it straightened out eventually. Anyway, long story short, don't order it, it's not great.
Then we went down into the subway and had to fill up Kristin's Charlie card. She only had a roll of quarters (minus 2 so I had to pitch in) so we had to fill it twice, $5 each, because apparently there's a 20 coin cap on how much you can deposit. The nice station worker informed us of this and thought it was really stupid.
We managed to get to the red line platform during rush hour, so it smelled like sweaty boys down there. Then we took some other train to get to Symphony Hall and.... RED MANGO! We ordered a large to share... The usual: Pomegranate with mangoes, mochi and blackberries. The Boston Red Mango is really weird looking to me. It's just too clean, but like bathroom tile clean... not very eclectic New York City Red Mango. Just different vibes. Service was much slower too. But not as slow as the one on St. Marks Pl. D:
Then we went back to South Station, took the commuter rail to Brockton. On the train we started to make a sim version of me. Kristin's mom picked us up. Kristin bought some Stop&Shop (Nature's Promise) veggie potstickers and I made them in a non-non-stick pan. It was a little challenging. They weren't the usual ones we bought from Trader Joe's; these had cabbage and vermicelli noodles in them. I didn't think they were all that great but we still ate them. We had some green tea (the leaves I sent Kristin from a little while back). I had 2 cups. We continued making me and then started to make a sim-Kristin. Alex and Kassie, Kristin's friends came and took us to Burger King. I got a "super large" sweet tea. It was 32 ounces! It was huuuuuuuge.
+8
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Day 24
So today was my (second) official first day at work! We set up post in St. Marks.
It was alright. I didn't make quota today. It was really rough, but I learned a lot. There's not really much you can do except execute what's given to you by the organization. I will have to leave after my 3rd day if I do not make quota within the next 2 days. Stick to the script. Stick in one place. Greet all traffic in one direction. Stick. To. The. Script. Also, you need to pay for transportation and I didn't bring my own lunch. I ended up having a tropical parfait and lemon green tea from Red Mango. I wonder if we get reimbursed. Probably not. Hellooooo unlimited metrocard. Translation: 4x swipes every workday. Let's say there's 22 weekdays in a month. $2.25 a trip. $198 a month for paid metrocard. $90 for a month's unlimited metrocard. I guess it's worth it. It's KIND OF like being reimbursed...
Anyway, I called my mom after work while hobbling over to Starbucks next to her office building. The line was long but I really needed an iced venti passion tea lemonade. If you've been reading the blog, you'll notice that I usually order a grande. Well today it was a vent situation. I was thirsty. I was hungry. I was tired. Mom actually already left the office so I met her a store called Step. We went to Pax next door and got some vodka sauce penne. It was pretty tasty. It had bacon in it! A little pricey though, but it's on the corner of Bryant Park, what can ya do?
Came home and took a shower. I was disgusting from the 92 degree weather today. When I was shaving my legs, the water that dripped off my razor was literally gray from dirt I picked up.
Mom and I then went to the gym to use the hot tub. It was pretty cool. Mom got a headache from the chlorine though. Poor mom.
We went to Chipotle for dinner. We shared a burrito bowl with rice, black beans, peppers&onions, chicken, tomatoes, corn, sour cream, cheese and lettuce. Yummm. I also got a cup for fountain drink and got some iced tea with a lot of lemon and a little sugar.
Mann I'm SO dehydrated.
+7
It was alright. I didn't make quota today. It was really rough, but I learned a lot. There's not really much you can do except execute what's given to you by the organization. I will have to leave after my 3rd day if I do not make quota within the next 2 days. Stick to the script. Stick in one place. Greet all traffic in one direction. Stick. To. The. Script. Also, you need to pay for transportation and I didn't bring my own lunch. I ended up having a tropical parfait and lemon green tea from Red Mango. I wonder if we get reimbursed. Probably not. Hellooooo unlimited metrocard. Translation: 4x swipes every workday. Let's say there's 22 weekdays in a month. $2.25 a trip. $198 a month for paid metrocard. $90 for a month's unlimited metrocard. I guess it's worth it. It's KIND OF like being reimbursed...
Anyway, I called my mom after work while hobbling over to Starbucks next to her office building. The line was long but I really needed an iced venti passion tea lemonade. If you've been reading the blog, you'll notice that I usually order a grande. Well today it was a vent situation. I was thirsty. I was hungry. I was tired. Mom actually already left the office so I met her a store called Step. We went to Pax next door and got some vodka sauce penne. It was pretty tasty. It had bacon in it! A little pricey though, but it's on the corner of Bryant Park, what can ya do?
Came home and took a shower. I was disgusting from the 92 degree weather today. When I was shaving my legs, the water that dripped off my razor was literally gray from dirt I picked up.
Mom and I then went to the gym to use the hot tub. It was pretty cool. Mom got a headache from the chlorine though. Poor mom.
We went to Chipotle for dinner. We shared a burrito bowl with rice, black beans, peppers&onions, chicken, tomatoes, corn, sour cream, cheese and lettuce. Yummm. I also got a cup for fountain drink and got some iced tea with a lot of lemon and a little sugar.
Mann I'm SO dehydrated.
+7
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