January 2006

New Year’s Eve - It was the best New Year’s Eve in my life. I had so much fun. We went to Ben’s neighbor David and shot some shotgun (real one!!) for the first time. We shot some cans and bottles. It was awesome. Then we took some gasoline, diesel gas, oil and some wood to make a bigass fire. What we would do is fill two buckets with gas and just pour it into the fire. It was great. One time we almost burned some of the garden chairs that were around the fire place. Then we made some gas-bombs (bottles filled with gas). We would throw it into fire and wait for it to explode. Of course we were drinking alcohol all that time. Most of us got pretty drunk by then (11 pm). Boogie, Vanessa and some two dudes were wasted. The rest, including me, could still walk pretty straight. We went to another neighbor and filled some tires with gas, put them on fire and roll ‘em down the road. Then we shot from a real cannon couple times. That was sweat. They actually have a real cannon, not very big but working damn well. So then I got drunk and my time-travel began. Shaun, Boogie and Alex drugged my ass to Shaun's car and we drove to some other party couple miles away. There were a lot of people there, some that I’ve known from high school. We had a blast there too. I blacked out so I don’t remember everything but I know I kept drinking and danced at someone’s house and got to know some people. It was really cool. We spent at least two hours there and got home around 3 o’clock. Best New Year's Eve EVER!!!
1 - I walk up in my bed with a terrible head ache, horrible sore throat, shit-faced and thirsty as fuck. I got up and realized that I'm still wearing all the clothes, although pants for some reason were dirty and muddy (?). Must've fallen down someplace, sometime last night. I still felt drunk so I took a piss and got back to bed. I was hammered and head ache was killing me, so I had to take some pills from Geri. I didn't feel well for a long time and got sober late evening. But it was worth it!!!!!!! It was the best New Year's Eve.

2-4 - Not much is going on. I went out with Elizabath again. We had breakfast together and went to the hot tub. I helped Ron clean his office and that's pretty much it. I get better with driving the car and get a better grip of English everyday, although it's still away from being fluent. Oh, oh.. and we had swung by the school the other day with Liz and we saw Mr Neuman and other people there, that I used to see at school when I was here the first time. It was really awesome to see some of my teachers and friends from old times. I'm surprised that they still remember me. Anyway, it was really nice to see 'em.

5-10 - I cannot say that I'm bored, but since I don't have a job yet, there isn't much fun in my life lately. I stay at home most of the time. Go out jogging every other day. Somtimes I drive to a store or to a restaurant with my parents. Yesterday we went to a really nice but snobish restaurant. And that's pretty much it. Ohh.. and we have a black priest in our house now. He is really nice and should leave tomorrow or a day after (on the pic- Lee, Geri, Nelson, Saly?, Ron and I). I send some more CVs but I still hope to get that job as a translator. The cats ( Prieto and Nibby) sleep with me every night now, which is really nice. I love cats :)

11-12 - mostly with Ron in a car or in town. Cooter got sick. So.. didn't have time to go online, cause I was out most of the day.

13-15 - I watched "Crash" again and I must say that I trully love this movie. Don't know why but I really like it here in the States and the more I'm here the more I realize that my trip here may last longer than I initially had thought to be. On Sunday we went to the Monster Truck in Tacoma Dome. The pic is not from that place, but it's just to give you an idea of how it looks like. I wish I could say "we", but at least "I" had a lot of fun. It was another cool and memorable experience. Thank you Ben and Scott :) Too bad you didn't pay me back for the tickets, assholes :[ Ben's $50k BMW was really cool and I hope I have anough money one day to buy one of these Nazi cars.

16-19 - I saw Kathy, my high school advisor, and talked with her for some time. I saw Mr Matlack (he says hallo to you Zuzie and I will get his pic for you, son't worry). I called this one lawyer in Everett and will have a luch with her on Friday. She was really kind and sincere and since she is polish she may help me. Hay, she may even hire me if I sell myself good anough. I saw Max Jensen yesterday- we went to Red Robin by Everett Mall.

20-29 – Well, as I can see I haven’t written for over a week now. I’m sorry you guys, but it’s just I was busy. So a quick summary:

I met this one polish lawyer and NO, I did not get a job. However she said she may employ me, cause she needs some help in the office, but she would not pay me (at least at the beginning) because I have no experience (and therefore she would have to waste her time teaching me how to do things). So I told her that right now I just don' t have money to spend on gas (her office is 15miles away from the house) but as soon as I get a job I'll call her back and we'll talk about it again. And I mean, I will not work eight hours a day, but like couple hours a week just so I have an idea how the work in the office looks like.

I went to the movies with Boogie and saw Underworld. I got lost on a freeway again. Sometimes all those "exits" are too complicated for me. But we found our way to the movie theatre eventually.

I go running every other day and lately Geri and I are going for long walks with the dogs (3miles). I also do some push-ups and sit-ups and I feel I'm getting in a better shape :)

Couple days ago Geri, Cotter and I went to a hockey game in Everett. That was a lot of fun. The Silvertips played Thunderbirds and lost :( It was really fun though to be there and watch the game. In fact I think I'll be going to the hockey games more often.

It will not tell you anything, but Skeeter was in Seattle so I could see him. He's Ron's friend but I like him a lot.

For the last three days we had two monsters at home. Amber is 3 years old and Austin is six. My God kids are annoying and obnoxious. I mean, I could stand Amber and she was really nice. I have to admit that I was kinda cool to walk with this llittle creature in the mall and have her on my shaulders. But Austin, damn it, just like his dad Scott (the police guy who thinks he is the strongest and the smartest guy on the world, were in fact he's just a jerk).

As for the job, people from Excell called me about the job as a interpreter. The sent me an e-mail with 5 questions regarding polish grammar that I had to answer correctly in order to be given the interview at all. It took me two days to refresh my middle school knowledge of grammar. Who remembers what a fu*king "przyimek" is? The most difficult question was however "in which ways do verbs agree with their subjects in polish? give examples". I think I answered them right and in detail and now I just have my fingers crossed. Hopefully they call me. As to the other jobs that I applied (mostly clerical), no response at all.

At the end I would like to invite you guys to Tomaszu's :) web site.