My list of favorite places in San Francisco

1.) The San Francisco Municipal Pier.

2.) The San Francisco Kenneth Cole Store. I have fond shopping memories of this place... one of them being this store is where I bought my 'wedding dress.'

3.) North Beach. If ya'll ever get to San Francisco, North Beach is a great place to hang out. The Stinking Rose, Beach Blanket Babylon, Washington Square and some great shopping are all in North Beach. Skip Pier 49 and walk a little bit inland to North Beach. You'll be glad you did.


4.) The Castro. If you want a great place to shop and eat, catch the 'F' line and head on down to the Castro.


5. The Cliff House. If you want something a bit outside of the crazyness of the city, but a really good meal while you are at it... head northwest to the other side of the peninsula and find The Cliff House. Really great place to eat, with a killer view of the Pacific.

If you can't tell... I'm missing my city.

My list of ewwww-th things that happened at the gym/studio.

1.) Smelling the worst B.O. that I have ever smelled (up to that point) ever in my life, in the locker room yesterday. I get it. Its a gym and you will get sweaty. I am well aware. But, if I am a'workin' out and I even get a hint, the merest whisper of an odor, it may not even be mine... you can bet you ass I am down in the locker rooms slathering on s'more Old Spice. Apparently, the individual in the locker next to me didn't care that he smelled that bad. But, it wasn't just B.O. mix with it, the worst sweaty food stank and that is what I had to deal with yesterday morning. And he left his sweaty, stanky clothes right on the floor of the locker room, right next to me. Seriously, you rented a locker for a reason sir. Use it to put your @#$^$@&%$#&% clothes in.

2.) Smelling B.O. worst then what I smelled in the morning, yesterday evening at my second work out. Yep, thats right. I done smelled something worse ya'll. Except this time the perpetrator was Pakistani. So, starting right there, let us all stipulate that when dealing with a Pakistani we know there is going to be some kind of odor. I know I am being racist, but I am sure that to the Pakistani, the Americans have some kind of odor. Now, take said Pakistani odor and mix it with the very worst (yes, worse then what I smelled in the morning). Do you see where I am going here. Then, dump in a lot of sweaty foot stank and there you have what I had to attempt to breath through while changing my clothes. Are you kidding? Plus this guy, was completely hairy, back, arms, stomach, saggy man tits, everything. The odd thing was, he shaved it... so there was this weird, black stubble covering his whole body. This fellow also left his funked out clothes and shoes and socks on the ground (not in the locker) for all to smell. REALLY. Ya'll need to put your clothes in the locker and take your sweaty bodies over to that shower.

3.) A martial arts session being taught to a mother and son. Now, you may not be thinking this is odd... but stick with me. Allow me to illustrate through a narration of a scene I witnessed this morning:

Trainer:

"Mom, lay on the ground. On your back."

"Son, pin your mom to the ground by sitting on her chest pin her shoulders to the ground with your knees."


Hmmm... thinks Josh... this seems a bit on the weird... and then this happened.


Trainer:

"Mom, break out of this pin by sliding your arm between your son's legs, so your elbow is tucked around his crotch and...." I stopped listening at this point because i was horrified.

The scary thing is... after Mom broke out of the pin... it was the sons turn to be pinned to the ground... by his mom.

1000% Ewwww-eth!

My list of good things

1.) Paying off the rest of my cruise. Now I just have to save money to spend whilst in a drunken stupor walking around the Eastern Caribbean.

2.) Finishing Pillars of the Earth. Don't get me wrong... it was a good book... but for some reason it just kind of bugged me. I would recommend it to anyone... but I don't know if I liked it that much. P.S. For my MACU readers, Marmee must never find out how I felt about that book.

3.) Having the Invisalign buttons drilled off. Thats right, I be done with my Invisalign treatments ya'll. Now, on to teeth bleaching.

4.) My new Jessica pin which sums me up so well. It says "Full Bodied, All natural, premium choice." Thanks Jen!

5.) Swollen pecs. It was pec day this morning at the gym and they done swoll' up nicely after that work out. Too bad they don't stay that way.

M.y list of favorite things

1.) Buffy day at the comic book store. LOVE this day!!!

2.) Back and bicept day at the gym. Gotta get the girls lookin' nice and big for measurement day on Friday. EEEEKKKK.... Ima kind of scared.

3.) Jillian. I just love me some Jillian. Seriously, if you aren't watching America's Fattest People... you should really start. You will be motivated by Jillian!!!

4.) Holding Dr. Carlisle Cullen hostage. Not nearly as fun as holding sorceror Mickey hostage... but still fun

My list of things I hate I hate today, January 6th, 2009

1.) Training without a full cup of coffee in me.

2.) Seeing a rather obese man "taking care of business" in the Suana at the gym today.

3. Bad snowy roads.

4.) Sending the list out late.

My favorite things for today

1.) Having my house back. I done cleaned up Christmas and it is soooooo nice to have a front room again.

2.) Cutting off the branches of the Christmas tree and burning them in the fire. This has to be my favorite Christmas tradition.

3.) Super cute vests... like the one I am wearing today.

4.) Hot coffee.

My list of things I want in 2009

1.) To have size small T-shirts fit me like my size extra small T-shirts fit me right now. This would mean getting bigger folks... and I don't want none o' you telling me I look fine now. Nope... Joshie wants to be big. "I am big. Its the [clothes] that got smaller". A prize for whomever can tell me where that edited quote came from.


2.) To lose the rest of my belly. I want to tone up the belly a bit. Flatten it and get some definition down there. Working toward that. Damn you crunches... Damn you!

3.) To firgure out wheter I like or hate my current job and make the appropriate changes. This one is gonna be hard as the pay and benefits are quite nice. Number two, I sometimes get paid buckets of cash to sit around. I am working on changing that.

4.) To fill out a dress shirt. I guess y'all know this is an ongoing goal... but it is something I want in 2009. Soooo... deal with the repeated goal... bitches.

5.) Monthly (atleast) dinners with Delia. Maybe we alternate, somewheres cheap one month and somewheres spendy the next month. Maybe, even, we go somewhere and I order something strange off the menu and then refuse to eat it and make Delia eat it... Hoki Gai and one???

6.) A trip to Disneyland. This one might be kind of hard seeing as how the big trip this year is the cruise. But, a quick Disney trip might be in order.

7.) A trip to San Francisco. I am really thinking this one is out of the question seeing as how the cruise is the big trip. And I really feel bad that I wont go see my favorite city in all the world this year. Think about it, Jen, Imagine if you had to go a whole year with out stepping foot in DisneyLand. Terrible. F. I'm dealing with it though.

8.) To see her get fired.

9.) To hang out with Katie and Kristine more often.

10.) To wear a swimsuit like this and look like this in it on the cruise ship.