and i want to thank you for giving me (one of) the best day(s) of my life

8:35am incoming call: Natalie 0m 55s.:

N: ''Were you sleeping?''
me: ''umm...no? :-)'' *totally got up and jogged in place for 5 seconds before answering the phone to try to cover all traces of recent slumber in his voice*
N: ''you were! :-p okay, so, how 'bout i come over there at 9?''
me: ''okay that'll work :-)''
N: ''alright, i'll leave in a little bit''

me: ''okay, i'll be awake'' *still not fully awake, as evidenced by his 'wtf brand of humour' *

1st Stop: Original House of Pancakes. sOoOo delicious. Good day, sir!

then, we went here: (''here'' = the dana harbour marine institute ;-) )

and walked over to the jetty, which was closed, but we saw this:

and then we walked over a ways onto the really rocky part of the beach:

got back home at about 11:51. looked around online a bit, found someone who wanted to know about the eye exercises, so i told them about it.

then Mike, from AZ, now in Cali (in the marines at Camp Pendleton), imed me. he was granted liberty for the day, so he invited me to go see him :D had hella fun, chilled, ate some taco bell, played ghost recon on xbox 360, listened to hella stories about boot camp, walked around a bit, and pretty much just chilled. this dude is my brother from another mother.

Mike: ''hey mike, take a picture of me doin' the splits so i can send it to someone on myspace!''

me: ''okay, well, lemme use my camera.''
Mike: ''okay, well, come over here cuz i gotta do it over where there's room!''
me: ''okay, now hold it. *goes to different camera angle* *snaps a pic* aww you moved!''
Mike: ''well hurry up! :-p''
me: ''okay, just lemme get a few more angles....*awnriness has taken over at this point; snaps another pic* ''

oi, today was so much fun. i should have made every day here like this. i guess i just didn't see how precious everything was until i realised i wasn't gonna be around it much longer. it's chill, though. i plan to be out here again, not making the same mistake twice ;-)