New Job for Fall

I know! I dont update anymore... However just some quick news. I finally have obtained a new job. I won't start for a few weeks, but I am looking forward to moving on with my life...
I will be working as an assistant to the Director of Sales for Nintendo USA. They are flying me to Seattle for training, which should be interesting.
It is a better job at a better company.
I am hoping I dont fail at it!


P.S. Yes I have heard that I do get a discount. I dont know what it is.

Updates

Just a quick positing to let everyone know what is up…
I'm still looking for a job. I interviewed for the one I would love… but the only info I have received back is that they are still interviewing. This makes me sad. However, they are a very SLOW moving company. So I am trying to remind myself of that. BUT, I am sending out more resumes… as I do not think I can depend on them as a future employer. BLAH. Back to the drawing board!
For those of you who read Shaun's blog, the big news in our life is that Shaun's mother is engaged. Shocking, I know. It is overall a good thing. It takes A LOT of pressure off of us. The man who she is engaged to is her roommate… He is over 20 years older than her, and like her, has a lot of medical problems. However, he seems genuine and honest. He is very much a caretaker. Neither of them have much money, so there is no real issue there. However I personally am having a lot of issues with an impending wedding. They won’t just be married in front of the justice of the peace, but she wants a real wedding. With our help and our input. Flowers, dress, shoes, photographer… the whole shebang. Maybe I am still bitter over her not attending our wedding and putting us through hell the 6 weeks prior to, but my heart is just not in a good place. Shaun and I have discussed, and I plan on attending, but will have nothing to do with planning. It is just too hard, and I am pretty sure she wants my help so as to make up for her not attending ours. Like a bonding session. She has never really apologized to us… she has tried, but it has been lackluster, and she always pins it back on us… saying it was out fault that she didn’t attend. I should probably be more forgiving, but I am a person who needs time to heal, and like I said, anything that I would have to do would probably be done with resentment. Unfortunately we still need to break the news to her, that I am taking a step back… and right now I am personally avoiding her… making Shaun do all the dirty work. Really though, am I a horrible person for not helping out?
Other than that, we will be in Detroit for a few days next month, visiting Shaun’s grandma. It should be a nice break for us, as both of us are very very burnt out. I wish it could be a longer vacation. But we just don’t have the time.

End of March already?

As always it has taken me a very long time to update. The last month has been pretty busy. People have been visiting and work has been crazy. I am very much looking forward to a weekend of pure relaxation… which unfortunately won’t be this weekend. Tons of chores to do, and errands to run.

Updates on life… hmmm…. Having all the girls visit was great! I especially liked our meal at the cliff house and our trip to the Vivienne Westwood exhibit at the De Young. Hillary definitely does seem like she is a year older though… just kidding. She still looks young enough to get carded. I wish we all could get together more often than once every two years!

I am in the process of applying for a new job. I had an interview this week with Cathay Pacific, a major Hong Kong airline. I don’t think the interview went all that well. Or at least I don’t think I am a good match for the job. We’ll see
However, I have a very very exciting interview this Wednesday. I am not going to name the company, but it would be a great job… and I actually would get to use my degree as well as my job experience. I think I would really really love working for this company and that I would be a great match… I would get to do some research about contemporary film audiences’ as well doing all the usual coordinating and assisting that has kept me clothed and fed for the last 8 years or so. But of course I know I won’t get the job. I have kinda given up about actually working and making a living doing something that is enjoyable or at least not mind numbing. I think it may be my lot in life. However, it is crosses your mind, maybe think about me when saying a pray or two… I def need out of my current job situation. I am not happy at all. (But I don’t want to be let go without a back up job either)

Other than that… things are a little difficult at the moment with Shaun’s mom. She is currently in lock down at Stanford. Which is good, she needs to be there. But she doesn’t seem motivated to find ongoing treatment once she will be released. Which means, she will probably just bounce back and forth between living in her apartment and checking into the hospital. Which kinda drives her roommate up the wall, as he is the one who has been taking care of her when she is crashing. Shaun and I are thankful he is there though, otherwise it would all fall on us.

Not to end on a bad note… but that is really all that is going on… maybe... hopefully I’ll get to update more often…

Oscars 07

I know everyone has been waiting patiently for my review of the oscars this year. Sorry it has taken me a few days. I just got an ergonomic keyboard and I am still getting use to typing on it. Hopefully I will notice if my hands are still posistioned correctlly on this thing and that I am not just typing jibberish.
SO, I did watch all four miserable hours of this year's oscars. I did find them more entertaining than this year's grammys, which were really boring... but overall they were just ok. I did think Ellen was funny. But then I am not too particular about hosts. No matter who is hosting, the show always seems long.
I do not know why the academy awards, year after year, keep including some sort of interpretive dance sequence. Througout the whole thing I would have to concentrat on these moments of dancers doing something that I didn't really care about. Penguins! a shooting gun! I want stars at the Oscars! Not shillouetted bodies!
Moving on to the films. I have not seen many of the films nominated. That being said, I still have opionions regarding them. Such as I would like to see The Departed, but know that when i do see it, I will be bored out of my mind. I think all of Scorses's films are long and I find very little interesting about them. The departed even has Jack Nicolson, so I sure the film is bloated and overly dramatic. BUT MARKY MARK is in it! So i will see for sure, and may find it to have redeemable moments that earned it's oscars.
Like every reviewer, I was happy that Jennifer Hudson won the best supporting actress category. I am not sure if her her acting skills are even very good.. like will she be good in other types of roles or movies? But her singing "you're gonna love me" in dream girls was mesmorizing and breattaking. She broke through the fourth wall and it was a very viscreal moment of film art. Now as for the rest of the film, Dreamgirls was pretty good. I did think Eddid Murphey should have won the Oscar (even though I find him to be a despicable human being... leaving Scary Spice pregnant and all..)... In the movie he was funny, fresh, and could sing. But besides Hudson's one big scene, I thought most of the other muscial moments in the film were awkward and disjointed. I think whoever directed DreamGirls would have benefited from watching some of the classic muscials.. it may have made his film flow a little bit smoother.
I like Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine. He did a great job of being a likeable drug addict jerk. His interaction with the little girl was great, probably the best part about the movie. The movie as a whole was ok. I wasn't blown away by the cuteness of the thing, or the rehasing of Weekend at Bernies. Not the most remarkable independent comedy I've ever seen.
I don't have much else to say about the Oscars. I didn't like Michael Mann's sequence about the History of Film. He really stood up for his last name -MANN- though. He must only watch movies that have men in them. Cuz that is all I saw. Love that equality at the oscars. So PC.
I'm not really looking forward to watching either Babel or The Queen. I probably will, but I doubt I will like them.
What I do want to know, did anyone see any good movies in 2006? I have thought about it for a couple of nights now, and nothing really sticks out to me as being a great movie... i mean I liked Borat, Jackass 2, The Natvity, and Idiocracy... other than that... I dont remember liking anyting!
Someone help me out here!

updating

It has been awhile since i have really given any life updates on here... well not as long as Hillary... but I have been busy... and I'm sure Hillary has been too... (or, at least she has her reasons...)

Things have been relativly good for the past month or so. The holidays were great, with the exception of having to work the day after Christmas. I will take that day off next year for sure.

We have started to attend a new church. The church we had been going to was fine... it was rather large and the people were friendly... it was just a bit of a drive for us on Sunday mornings. Shaun and I found ourselves not really being motivated to go. We were going to a bible study through that church also, and it just seemed, after our horrific month of October , that we didn't have a whole lot of motivation to attend a study in the city of San Francisco... (driving and parking are awful and would take an extra 30 - 60 min to do so)
Our new church is close and small. It is warm and friendly and we are looking forward to meeting more people there.

We may or may not be moving in April. It is a difficult decision. I really hate moving. It is a lot of work, and we are always moving Shaun's mother, so I am really tired of lifting and carrying boxes. However, I dont think another summer in the fog is healthy for me. I was extremely depressed last year, and know I would benefit from more sun. So I am not sure what to do... We have to move Shaun's mom AGAIN in the next few weeks. She is staying in the same assisted living center, but she is moving to a different room. Recently she has made friends with a man at her center, and they will be moving in together. I have a few mixed feelings about this... it has been great in some regards b/c he has taken a lot of pressure off of us. However, if things sour between them, and she reacts the way she has in the past, she may be leaving a poor older man alone in an apartment he cannot afford. Shaunn and I realize that she is an adult, and it their decesion... but we so often have had to clean up messes for her. It is hard for us to trust her. This also means, that we have to move all of their stuff b/c they are too feeble to do it. (Shaun's mom will be undergoing surgery this week to have a pacemaker put in. Since she will be recovering, we will probably have to do a whole lot of work) Yuck I hate moving.... So, we may not be moving, basically b/c we are sick of it.

Moving on, my sister visited a few weeks ago, and we had a great time showing her and her boyfriend some of the highlights of the bay area.
Shaun and I are very much looking forward to Hillary, Kirsten, Lav and Fawn visiting in March. It will defintly be a time to remember!

Important news item

Well it seems people like Captain Eeo way more than Honey I Shrunk the Audience. No surprise... Captain Eeo stars Michael before he turned white!
The reason Shaun and I had this debate going was b/c the other night he told me that Disneyland was creating a Finding Nemo ride. I misheard him, and thought he said they were creating a Captain Eeo ride. I asked if Michael Jackson was going to be in the ride. This then lead to a discussion of Eeo, and him stating that Honey I Shrunk the Audience was way way better. Baffled and confused.. I coudln't believe he liked it! So I thought I needed other opionions to confirm that Captain Eeo was truly the best 3D attraction Disney had. So that is the story...

In other news... I will quote from www.dlisted.com:

Bryan Abrams (Color Me Badd); Jeff Cronin (LFO); Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees) and Chris Kirkpatrick (N’Sync) will join has-been forces to create a new boy band and document the experience for Vh1. The untitled project will ask the question we all want the answer to (not really) “Can four grown up boy band heartthrobs join forces to capture new fame and fortune?”

The new group will live together for one year, fall in love with each other make new music, perform as a group and try to defy the odds. Every man is in a differet place in his life. Some are comfortable and just want to make good music and some need the dough badly.

Boy band? These hos are hardly boys, more like Pepaw group. Furthermore, where’s Jordan Knight?! No has-been, boy band group is complete without him!



I have heard about a similar show in England, and it is fiallly coming here! How exciting!

Vote now!

At Dismal-Land, I mean Disneyland, which attraction was better...
Captain Eeo or Honey I Shrunk the Kids?????
Please leave me a comment.
(Shaun and I have a very important debate going on!)