I woke up today at like 8:30am. Why do I have to wake up so damn early on my vacation? I wish I could sleep for half the day like all the other people I know.
So I lounged in bed for a while before getting up and taking a shower. After I got out of the shower I remembered that I was just going to go to the gym soon anyway and would need another shower when I got back. BLAH!
So I went to the gym and had an excellent workout. I ran my ass off on the elliptical machine and pushed myself hard while lifting weights. I am really surprised by how many people there are at the gym during the day. I would have thought it would be deserted.
After the gym I came home and showered. I cooked up some taquitos and smothered them in shredded cheese and sour cream. It was damn good but I was still hungry. I didn't eat anything else though.
Instead I headed to Frye's, this electronics store out here in the States. I was looking for iPod accessories. Specifically I wanted a nice case to carry it around in and protect it from scratches. I also wanted to look for DVD burners but didn't find any. I browsed around the computer speaker area and there were a bunch that were cheap but i'll probably go back tomorrow or later this week to get some. They will be for my office at work so I can listen to my iPod without headphones. They didn't have a great selection of cases for the iPod at Frye's but they also didn't have a great selection at the Apple Store so I went with this rubbery one that is like a skin that you slip over the iPod. I had to settle for a light blue one because they didn't have any clear ones. I'll probably be ordering a carbon fiber iPod cover soon online.
While driving back I got a call from IslandGrl. From what she had told me before she left she was due to be back in Hawaii on Tuesday and then fly back here late Wednesday so I figured that she was calling from Hawaii. I was very surprised to learn that she was actually calling from the bay area. It turns out her sister got really sick in the Philippines and her parents sent them both home way early, like after only being there a couple of days.
She started off by telling me about all she had done since she had come back home on SATURDAY. It was a lot of, "Oh, i went to dinner with so and so...I had lunch with so and so...I called so and so as soon as I got home...I spend all day yesterday with so and so, we had such a good time..." I know I shouldn't feel bad because she didn't call me when she got home and has made zero effort to see me even though she has plenty of time to see a whole lot of other people, but I can't help it. It hurts.
I asked her about her trip and she said it was overall ok. It turns out her Parents and one of her sisters ended up going with her and her grandmother. I'm glad they did because I honestly don't think she would have done very well in the Philippines by herself. She said that her parents put them up at a resort. Yeah, she definitely did not get the real Philippines experience. Even with them staying at a resort she saw a lot of real poverty. It was very shocking for her to see children walking around wearing clothing that wasn't much more than tattered rags.
The second day they were there her sister ate some fresh fruit at their relatives house and by that night she was extremely sick. They went to a doctor who basically said it was just some bug and she would be ok. She toughed it out for one more day and then their father sent them both back home to Hawaii in case her sister made a turn for the worse. He didn't have that much faith in the doctors over there.
So they flew back to Hawaii and IslandGrl stayed with her sister for one day, until her husband came home from a business trip, and then IslandGrl took a red eye back to the bay area. On the one hand I am so happy that she is back, but on the other it's kind of sad. While talking to her on the phone it hit me that it really doesn't matter if she is 10 minutes away from me or halfway around the world. Either way I don't get a chance to see her, ever.
3:47 p.m. - 2004-09-29
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