reflections.

this is my 2010 review. best blog of the year. aaaand my last blog on here. now that im switching. i guess if anyone is reading this still and wants the address of the new blog let me know.

so i suppose ill break this up into a few parts. work. relationships. play. i hope i can remember everything. i highly doubt it though.

lets start with work. started off the year movin up to salary. had 3 products ready to launch and they all just kind of... didnt. but. i think since the beginning of the year ive gotten to do alot more. i got a corporate card. a laptop. an i phone. and my hands into more things. aaaaaaaaaaaaand all the traveling. so let me see if i can remember all that.

um. kansas for a week. the tortilla class. that was a neat lil college town. it was freezing and there was snow on the ground all week. kansas state is a very pretty school. much like a castle. i dont remember the food really being that great.

aaand there was texas twice. where we go is right on the oklahoma border an hour above dallas. that place is really different. middle of nowhere. first production plant ive been in that didnt have hispanic people running the lines. so that was odd for me. had a couple decent times at the casino up there. no big wins.

phoenix. i hate arizona. i really do. why anyone would want to live there is beyond me. but. i remember that being a decent time. got to see the kids from school there. had dinner at the top of a building a spinning restaurant. had our table right next to "the other". then went down stairs for drinks and got plastered. haha. had a dinner that was practically three hours or some crazy shit like that. and it was horrible. except for the soup. which i remember being the best ever. it was asparagus and something soup. i think.

chicago. chicago twice. first time sucked cuz i wasnt in the city and i was sick. oh and i got cussed at by the tollbooth guy for not having change. haha. the second time was much better. yet much worse. oi. cubs game. wrigley field. nice. it was sooo fuckin hot and humid. ugh. the l train was horrible. fuck that crammed mess. girl and the goat dinner. awesome. best dinner of my life. lots of fighting. free spending spree at williams and sonoma. navy pier. food poisoning. amazing pizza and yogurt. lots of wandering. white castle. drinks atop the john hancock building. memories. oh. missed our damn flight on the way back. got home 10 hours later or some shit. that sucked. fuck o hare airport. thats all i know.

la a few times for work. watched game 7 of the finals at the hotel bar. la vs boston. that was a long drunk night. over 200 bills at the bar. all u can eat sushi place left me full. foie gras sushi. the coffee bean. downtown pasadena.

cooked sonic and del taco headquarters. neat.

wisconsin. cold cold cold. but private jet on the way down. fancy ass shit. the food there was really good. then of course there was the jenkins drunk incident. beer was good. no fences in yards. odd. but pretty in a different way.

oklahoma city. loved the downtown. nba basketball game. left our bags in the taxi. had a hotel room the size of three rooms. decent food there too.

atlanta. long days there. but free stuff at nacs is fun. the food was ok. didnt get to see much of the city so i wasnt happy about that. but. had one good night at the bar with luis. HURTING the next morning. but survived. i was exhausted by the time we were done.

wow thats alot. i think that was everything.

relationships. oh boy.

well im not gonna say anything bad about anybody. thats not my style. so.

spent most of the year with sara. that was over 2 1/2 years on and off a lot. did many a things together. grew a lot in that time. a lot. but things only could get so far before i put on the parking brake. again and again. everyone from work and my family loved her. but for whatever reason i found it difficult to do things for her that i could do with other people. and that was not okay.

samananana pie. that secret lasted 48 hours. haha. lots of skype. but never a dull moment. long distance is hard. and not having a real place to hang out most of the time was quite tiring. only gf i thought was funnier than me. heh.

amber. i think that surprised everyone. at least the ones still around that can remember us from the first time. funny thing from then that is still true. she is only person that i have never had any grey feelings with. because everything was so intense.

ok. odds n ends.

mudrun. whooo that was fun. up until the fractured ribs part. too bad theyre not doing it again next year.

napa valley trip. amazing food. very pretty. too bad i was hungover the last day.

crashed my car. erm. i mean some bitch ran into me. that sucked.

my brother got married. pressure is on now. aaaaaaaand they're having a baby in a matter of months. but. me and him are so different.

jason and ericas wedding was this year too i think.

changed apartments. i love the new place.

bought an amazing coffee machine. changed my life. heh. i think that was this year.

got a hedgehog. that was a nice lil trip. and shes been a wonderful and amazingly cute pet.

new tattoo of a food chemical.

little road trips.

tried to buy a fucking house. that didnt work out. but. in the near future i shall try again.

did the mid state fair thing. that was swell. circle of death that night too maybe. no that was a different one.

my food got better.

fuck what else.

i guess thats the gist of everything. i dunno if thats a lot for a year or not but that was just the highlights. i guess you can throw lots of drinking and sitting around in there to fill out the rest of the year. i hope to continue to do a lot of the same next year and finish some things that i started. i have quite a few things on my check list left. big things.

and that concludes this blog. thank you for your time.