Rogue Idea

So I ran across this website where this company is a buyer of structured settlements. This basically means that when you get a form of long term payments from something like a lawsuit or lottery winnings you can sell these payments for the total amount and get the money now instead of in small payments. You can get cash for annuities too and can choose to sell the total amount or just part of it to get cash right faster (probably still takes a few weeks to do all the paperwork though).

I wonder if its better to get the money right away or later though since Frank mentioned that his grandmother had won the lottery before and is still getting payments every week so that’s a good amount of income for her. They said something like shes gotten over eight hundred thousand so far or something. Of course back then when she won the lottery this was an insane amount of money already. I guess the cash for settlement option would be good in case of emergencies or if you want to get the money out to invest in something else immediately, plus they give you quotes so you’ll know how much it will cost you and how much you can get before you do it.

well it’s time to prepare for the mcat again except this time i have nothing that will soak up any extra time (last last year i had physics) .  I have signed up for the september 13th mcat so that means i have exactly 3 months from today to prepare for it.  i’m going to cut down my computer/internet time a lot from now on, so hopefully i can stand it, lol.  i’ll probably still get online of course but only at night when im done with all my stuff i wanna do.  sooo that means today while im at home i’m going to make an outline of what i need to get done everyday , which will be a lot .  i probably wont be doing much else during all this except playing tennis and working out.

my parents just got back from new york last night so unfortunately i didnt have a few more alone days but i guess its okay.  i’m going offline now to get some stuff done and play with arisu =)

Last month I spent 10 days with Frankie in Maryland for my little vacation.  We spent the first day just laying around and doing nothing then the next day we went out to the mall a little and walked around.  We had to spend a few hours at the wedding rehearsal which was basically just to decide who is going to walk down or up the aisle first and what they’re gonna do when they’re up there, etc.  That took a few hours of standing around and what not then after that we just got some pizza and went home to do whatever.  Then the wedding pretty much took up the whole next day.  It was okay but not very formal as I would like.  There were actually people there in jeans and a wrinkled polo shirt.  If someone showed up to my wedding like that I’d probably not let them in.  Actually thats a good idea now that I think about it, I should have a person in the front checking people so they don’t come in and make me look bad.

For the next few days we mostly just stayed home and oh yeah Frank took me to a shooting place and I shot a gun a few times.  i’ll post a picture of my target thing sometime

Then we also went shopping where I made Frank buy a bunch of nice new clothes.  It seemed like he really liked the new clothes so I was happy plus he looked really good

Oh yeah we also went to the aquarium with his cousin and his cousin’s gf together.  That was pretty fun except we ate at cheesecake factory and it was freezing cold outside the entire time.  According to them I even had goosebumps on my neck (wearing a tank top). After the aquarium thing we just spent a few days sitting aruond at home and playing games.

Finally we went on a 3 day thing to ocean city beach and that was really nice but again it was freezing cold and super windy.  we went on the board walk for a while and just walked around.  I got some popcorn from fischers and fries from thrashers.  frank was literally raving about these two places but honestly the popcorn and fries were good but they were nothing insane enough for me to specifically remember from a vacation.  I’m thiking that its just the hype that makes people buy them.  I mean its freakin 5 dollars for a tiny cup of fries thats probably less than 15 fries.  the largest thing is a small bucket and its 9 dollars for fries. I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much money on french fries before.  AND they didnt have any ketchup.  when we went there on memorial day the line was so insanely long i was thinking there must be something about these fries.  but on the other hand im like…how good can you make a stick of fried potato taste??  oh well they were still good, I just don’t think they are worth the price or the hype around them.

Our hotel was really nice and we had a jacuzzi in there which was really cool.  I wish they would put more grip on the bottom though cause I kept slipping since I’m not big enough to put my feet on the other side.  We went to play putt putt too. Theres a ton of mini golf places there that looked really cool and we played inside in this water theme one.  Oh yeah and we went to this Assateague place to the beach too and saw some wild horses which were really cool.

kay well i’m tired so i’ll just cut this short.  i would post more pictures but im too lazy to organize them and stuff so i think ill just leave them all on flickr and facebook.

well not as much as i was yesterday and the day before.  My legs are feeling much better after doing the crazy plyometrics work out.  the other stuff i’ve done is the ab ripper and shoulders and arms.  Today I will get back on schedule and do Kenpo, whatever the hell that is.  I got up today and my legs aren’t hurting as bad going up or down the stairs but they are still a little sore,  but MUCH MUCH better than yesterday.  My arms are not as sore as I’d thought they would be but next time I do shoulders and arms again I’m gonna do all the reps and maybe more to see if that will work.  Some of the exercises are really hard to do though and I have to put it on slo mo just to see how exactly they are doing it.  I’m thinking of getting someone to watch me so they can help me on my form.  I try to slow the dvd down so i can do it correctly but its hard cause im concentrating on doing the exercise and sometimes the rest of me does weird stuff to try to accommodate.    I’m going to stop by walmart today to get one of those measuring tape things that are just a roll so i can measure myself, i’m tired of measuring with a string and then measuring the string afterward.

I’m also feeling freakin hungry all the time ever since I started, so I’m guessing I’m not eating enough or something.  I haven’t been following the diet exactly though, just sort of ‘loosely’ because I haven’t had time to sit down and count everything out.  So I’m thinking of buying the little grocery list and making the meals they suggest that way I don’t have to count at all I can just eat whenever I’m supposed to and what I’m supposed to.

Yesterday I met this girl to play tennis and thankfully she did not turn out to be a weirdo so we are gonna play again this coming saturday.  Thankfully by then my finals will be over and I’ll be much more relaxed and in the mood to play.  I got my ass kicked though, which I guess makes sense cause I haven’t played in like 2 weeks.  I kind of miss practicing with tommy cause he always showed me what to do and helped me a lot, but i would feel weird calling him up now out of the blue.  Well i have my chemistry final tomorrow so i better go study all day today.  I’m also going to that job interview with that lady later today too so hopefully that goes well and they are not freakos.  I passed by the street that they live on the other day though and they are really big houses so they must be rich.  okay thats all for now

first few days have been kicking my ass. literally. physically. my ass hurts really bad when im walking or even just doing anything. and my legs are all sore and crazy too but my ass hurts the most even though it was a lower leg work out except for a few parts that ar supposed to work your butt muscles. anyways i am too tired to blog about it too much but these are some pictures for my ‘before’ pics that they told me to take. youre supposed to have 6 , two facing front with hands on hip and arms up, two facing back and hands on hip and arms up, then one of your side, and one of a ‘twist’ type of pose which i couldnt really get right. agh anyways im too lazy to type about it, i will later

well i am trying to find a job that is really flexible for me because i have to work it around my classes and my sister’s schedule because one of us has to be home in the day to watch over the youngest one.  its a pain in the ass but yeah i have to deal with it.  in the surge of getting all pumped up about working out i applied at this fitness place (hoping to access to closer gym equipment since UH is 45 minutes away) but unfortunately I applied one day late and they had someone already.  I will apply at another fitness place this coming week to see if i can get a job there.

starting in may i will be on the p90x exercise program.  its going to lst until august and me frankie and gordon are having a little friendly competition on who will get better results.  me and frank are gonna do the p90x thing and gordon is gonna make up his own routine which he thinks will be better than the one p90x made up.  once i get my ripped abs i will beat him up with it! lol just kidding.  but im not in this to lose weight i just wanna tone up all around and especially my thighs and stomach so hopefully it works.  tomorrow im going to take all my measurements and maybe print out a log sheet to write all my little stuff on it while doing the exercises.  im also supposed to take 6 pictures in these poses so i can compare myself at the end.

i have finals the next two weeks so i will probably not be online much since i will be studying hardcore for a while and plus thursday i start my p90x thing and if its as intense as people say it is , its possible i will just be in too much pain to sit here and type but i hope that is not the case.  i have al ot of things to do this week and i hope that i can do good on my finals so i dont lower my gpa anymore than i already have.  alright i am going to go out with my gordon and linda today (and chau, but she said she cant go now) so hopefully i will have a breezy day.  wtf.  i just lost connection and then got it back again.  wellat least it wasnt saving this post or else iw ould be all pissed off.  oh yeah and spekaing of pissed off my windshield cracked again cause a rock hit it on the freeway.  ugh this is already my 2nd windshield so now i will have to move on to my third !

Well yesterday morning I finally went to get my hair cut, I hadn’t cut it since like September so it had been way too long (time and hair).  I got about 5-6 inches cut off and it’s just right on my shoulders right now and I like it cause my head feels lighter without all that hair.  It is a little bit weird though since now in the shower I’m washing my hair and I keep thinking theres more but it just ends so fast. I went to this place and I had an appointment at 10:30, I didn’t even get my hair cut until 11:15.  What the fuck is that about.  I’m guessing that the people before me came on stupid “asian time” (which means 15-30 minutes LATE) and that put everything backed up.  So I was pretty annoyed that I had to wait 45 minutes for a haircut after making an appointment.  Then by the time I was done it was almost noon so I met gordon at tan tan to eat a little before i went home.

After getting home I took a nap then my mom said she wanted to go to this crawfish festival thing.  So we all went with her and we stayed there for about like 2 hours.  The crawfish was a pretty good size and it was okay tasting, i had to dip it into some sauce though to help the taste, the downside is that the sauce was insanely spicy.  After that it was like past 10 already, we went home then back out and watched the Forbidden Kingdom at the AMC.

I think I will be specifically trying to avoid that theater from now on.  It’s mostly mexicans in there and they make all this noise and act retarded (well….i don’t know for sure if its really ‘acting’ retarded or not…).  It was pretty annoying at some parts of the movie.  Then also for the first ten minutes some bastard in the front kept looking as their cell phone and so there was a little white square of light in the view cause it was all dark except for the screen and the damn cell phone.  Also the movie theater had no more butter.  NO BUTTER FOR THE POPCORN.  So I tried to finish the popcorn anyways since my dad already bought it for me, but i ate a good more than half of it before it was pretty sickening.

The movie was ‘okay’.  It wasn’t great and it wasn’t like totally horrible.  I think the thing that didn’t make it good for me was the story line.  It was just not a really good story line and the explanation was really shallow.  The main character is also this guy that i recognize off a disney movie that i’ve seen before.  I’m pretty sure its the same guy, hes this white teenager and he looks..well he looks like a loser.  It sort of fits in with him playing as a guy being bullied at the beginning, but I didn’t believe that he would accomplish what he did in the rest of the movie, he was too scrawny looking.

I think jackie chan and jet li should’ve had more hardcore fight scenes.  It would’ve been better too if the bad guys were much more powerful than they already were.  I also think they tried not to establish one person was better than the other, but I think it would’ve been cooler if one of them ‘won’ the fight they had together.

They tried to fit in a small small small slightly romantic line between the ‘sparrow’ girl and the white guy, but i don’t think it worked at all.  it all seemed to be coming from the guy’s side.  It was also supposed to be an ‘action comedy’.  But because of the story line the humor wasn’t really all that good and was pretty slapstick.

After the movie we finally got home past 1 am.  I am starving now because I only had a little bit of crawfish and popcorn last night.

Lately we’ve been getting those little address stickers for free through the mail for various different promotions and organizations. My dad always uses them but I don’t. I was thinking about getting him one of those address stamps to use so that he never runs out of those stickers. I don’t know who he mails but he sends out a lot of mail for some reason. So I was looking online and found a place that does customized date stamps. I don’t think my dad would need a date stamp but the place also does address ones so that is probably what I will be looking at. The prices aren’t all that bad and you don’t have to in bulk (but you can if you want more). I might want to order some fun ones too to use on the stuff I send to Frank, just for fun. The site is called Rubber Stamp Champ and they make personalized stamps or all different types from the ones that self ink to the ones that need the ink pad. They also have some replacement ink pads and ink refill items that you can buy, plus some seal presses and different embossers.

First I updated my wordpress thing (again) and the control panel and stuff is really…ewwww now. the colors are too light i cant hardly tell what is what. and they not onlyt hat but they MOVED the way things were in the page where you write posts? now i have to scroll down to pick my categories but i dont have to scroll down to manage my comments if i decide to randomly do so while writing a post. STUPID.

So thursday I think i tore my toe up a little and it hurt all thursday and yesterday pretty badly. I was in pain for almost the entire time. Thursday it was hurting REALLY bad, it would hurt even if I wasn’t moving it. Yesterday it hurt less if i wasn’t moving it and wasn’t as black as it was on Thursday. So I really have no idea what exactly caused this. I was playing tennis in class when I felt it hurt really badly , like a sharp pain but then it went away. I kept playing anyways and thought it would go away. I didn’t really feel it much for the rest of the game but started feeling it really bad after starting to walk to my next class. When I got to my music class I took off my shoe and sock and everythign looked normal, there was just a lot of sharp pain and I couldn’t press on that side of my foot at all anymore without it hurting. Then me and gordon went to eat lunch and the entire time it hurt pretty badly. By the time I got home i took off my shoes and socks again and by then my entire toe was BLACK. It was completely swollen and bruised looking. It hurt pretty badly all Thursday and yesterday it was almost at the same level of pain but much less overall since I wasn’t moving around all day like on Thursday. Last night I got some sort of bio coolant on it and it started to hurt realy bad but it felt much much better by the time i went to sleep. This morning it is feeling a lot better. I can at least walk on it without leaning on only one side of my foot. I am just glad this happened before the weekend and I hope I will feel better to play on Tuesday

picture of my toe – it was much darker in real life than in the picture:

here is little arisu hiding for some reason:

and baby arisu laying on me while im asleep:

Well after getting my new HP laptop I have been looking for spare parts for my old zombie laptop. At first I was thinking of getting out the little hard drive and using it by itself but now I think I might go get a new one and put it in. The next thing I need is the power connector that is messed up so that the laptop can get some power. Then I’m also going to look for some laptop ac adapters, hopefully I will get a better one this time and also a smaller one too since the old HP ones are really big.  Last time I bought a new adapter but the end is already rusting because of the power issue I think.  But I pretty much just need those three extra laptop parts to set it up again.  I’m sort of looking for a place that will put the power connector in too for me since I can’t and don’t know how to do that myself.

After I fix it, it’ll most likely become the family laptop that anyone can take around and use with the wireless internet connection.  I would like to have it back but it would be better for my parents to use it around the house and plus Frank is going to send me his old computer soon anyways that I can use as a desktop.