Me and Dave celebrated our birthday’s with the gang – Hoang, Howie, Rachelle, Wincy, Bill, Kelly and this other woman (I didn’t get her name). We went to a nice dinner at Le Charm on 5th near Folsom in San Francisco. It was some very good food. 3 courses. I had Smoked Salmon with something for appetizer, Hanger Steak with Pomme Frit (sp?) and a salad as the main course, and a baked Apple something or another for dessert. I can’t quite remember the names of the dishes, but they were delicious and just right. Not too much and just enough.

It was nice to hang out with the gang again. I haven’t done that in a while – kinda miss it. Plus it was nice to have Hoang over too and spend more time with everyone. It was cool, he discovered that I think 3 of my friends were from UC Santa Cruz, just like him. I didn’t even know that.

Afterwards, we were gonna go disco bowling, but the place screwed things up and we eventually decided not to do it. We we’re trying to figure out what else we can do, but I don’t think we were too energetic to go dancing and we were too full to go to coffee or dessert. I suggested a male strip show as a joke, and I think Rachelle really liked that idea :) but I really didn’t want that. I was actually sore from started to work out again and I told them I would love to just take a hot shower, jump into bed and watch some TV.

And that’s basically what we did.

We’ll do something together soon. It was nice spending some time with friends to celebrate mine (and Dave’s) birthdays :)

Gosh! I feel so dorky… I was in my walk in closet, bent over to picking up some clothes and swung around, hitting my forehead on the door frame. Ouch! It hurt so much and I broke skin. Now I have this bump on my forehead.

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I’m very sleepy… very sleepy… want… to… go… home…

Was just walking to work from the BART and saw an ambulance and fire truck on the corner of Embarcadero 1. After passing the ambulance, I saw all the medical equipment on the sidewalk. As I walked more, I saw a body bag. What a weird feeling. I started getting goosebumps. I don’t think I’ve ever saw a dead person in public before – in funerals and television and movie, yeah – but I’ve never seen it in real life in public.

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I decided I must start working out again. Especially with the new year. Since we were slow at work, I went to the gym for lunch. I forgot my deodorant, so I had to stop by a nearby Walgreens to get some. Once I got to the gym and started to suit up. I forgot my shorts, and they no longer sold clothing at the gym, so I had to pack my stuff again… I was gonna just forget my workout, but I was determined. I went next door to Gap. Nothing. I finally got some shorts at Speedos. A little pricey, but hey… what do you do. By this time it started to pour rain. Man! But I didn’t care. I went back to the gym and suited up for my first workout in over 3 months.

I gained weight. When I was regularly working out about 2 years ago, I was down to 147 lbs. Normally I’m at 150 or so… Now I weight in at 158. Which I truly can feel. (My love handles ar just a bit bigger than I want).

Workout was tiring, but energizing… I only could run for a little while… only about 20 minutes and I couldn’t handle more… I’ll slowly build up to maybe 35 minute or so… Hopefully I’ll lose some weight…

Slept late after New Years (around 5:30)… and for some reason got up relatively early for a non-work day (around 10:30). I guess I’ve been sleeping so much the past few days, it’s giving me a headache.

Got my Diet Coke, a cig and my digital camera and started to take pictures of my fishes. My cats are on my online photo album under pets… why shouldn’t I have my fishes too.

I then started to photograph my plants too. I got several baby cacti and succulents for the holidays and thought it would be good to see how they grown over the years. My inspiration was a photo on my cat that I was looking at over the weekend. I noticed my plants in the background and some were babies in the pictures have grown considerably. I just thought it was neat.

Later in the day I hopped on the AC Transit, then BART, then Muni to join some friends for brunch at this place near the Castro called Grub… Brunch was good and it was so nic to see friends who I haven’t hung out with in a while. My only complaint was some hair and lint I found in my drink. It was so gross, but we got all our drink comped.

We decided to see Beauty and the Beast on the IMAX screen in Metreon, but damn, there were so many people. The lines were so long and we ended up watching Kate and Leopold… which was a cute romantic comedy.

Got home and took a jog… It’s been several months since I worked out. We the new year, I should try to get back into shape, so this is my beginning. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been, and I so wanna get rid on my big tummy which I got even before the holidays. Hopefully I can wake up early tomorrow and see if I get to the gym before work. We’ll see if that happens.