One step closer to my studio... Two steps closer to creating...

Hmmmmm where to start... Oh its been a great two days off. The greatness actually started before my weekend even began. Working my 9-5 shift on Sunday (which is actually my Friday) is always nice because I get to work with a great crew of people. Starting with Myrna... she is from the Philippines

and runs our wok bar at work. You do not touch her back up veggies or things that deal with the wok bar without consulting her first. I remember first meeting her I thought “wow she is very stern lady and crazy protective of her wok bar”. But during the first 6 months I worked at “The Market” we got to work together. I got to know her and worked hard to gain her respect. She has grown to love me and I have grown to love her. I am like the translator and last line of defense for her and vice-versa for the deli or the cooks in the kitchen who dare mess with her. I am the mediator between Myrna and the Deli department.... Lol Oh the joy. =)You might be thinking right now that she is a crazy lady,but really she is far from that and you just have to understand her(both verbally because her accent from the Philippines is still very thick and how she thinks lol). Well the point of me saying all this is. Sunday is her Monday and my Friday. Its always a fun day for us. We work on prep and I tease her and she teases me. We laugh and joke around with each other and the rest of our coworkers. I tease her about how she says things in English with her accent and she calls me a sucker. Which only sounds funny if you hear her say it. Trust me its too funny. Then at 11:30am our mid for the day showed up and it was the lovely Michelle. So with her arrival it was now official the party was in full effect. Dancing and singing to music playing over the intercom, teasing Myrna, and sharing so much laughter. As the afternoon progressed. All our favorite employees kept adding to the party. We even got to celebrate Kim's birthday when she showed up at 2 for her closing shift. Thanks to daylight savings and the great group of people my day when by very fast.

After work I went and had dinner at the Rice Family's house. Thanks to Shelia (a.k.a. Momma Rice)there was plenty of great gluten free foods for me to enjoy. She even got me tofu sour cream for my bake potato. She is such a sweetheart. Watched the blazers kick some heine with the guys. Then back to my house. Great day, wonderful people... I am truly blessed.

Monday morning... was a busy day. Woke up early to head to Dr. B's office(a.k.a. Dr. Samantha Brody) to have our monthly chat about my progress and then some acupuncture. My sister was there doing the same thing before I got there. So she stayed after she was done to wait for me. We then headed off to do some errands. Bank, our work for grocery shopping, and then to the Nike employee store. I had to stock the fridge for my cousin Jason's visit later that day. So after grocery shopping we took my groceries back to my place. I changed my clothes. Because apparently I can't wear anything that's not NIKE into the Nike employee store... Lol. Then after more money was spent we then headed off to Bamboo Grove to meet two of our Heine cousins Jason and Kyle for some Hawaiian food.

 Yum!It was D-licious as usual. Although I didn't make the best choices for what I should have chose. It's my weakness. I really need to work on it in the future. So after lunch my sister left me with both Kyle and Jason.

So we headed back to my place. This is wear it gets really fun. See there aren't many people in this world that really get me on the level that both Kyle and Jason get me. Jason and I have laughed so hard on so many occasions. I was lucky to catch Jason while he was in town. He came for many reasons. He flew in from Arizona where he lives to help his girlfriend with moving down to Arizona from here. He also came in town to help me get started on my studio that I am putting together for myself. My cousin Jason is a wealth of knowledge for lots of things especially when talking about technology and music. So I had ordered some parts for my PC for him to install and reformat my computer. All the while Kyle and me put my office chair together that I bought months ago. That was pretty funny situation as well...wish I had a video camera for that. You will see that new chair in some of the pictures I show you in this blog. I am sitting on it right now. *bounces up and down on it* It's still in one piece...lol. So as Jason was working away we all just catching up with each other. Talking about this and that. We all are getting older and entering that second level of the Heine family. We all have come so far. I was a bit sad I didn't get to see Kyle's son Lil Carter. He is fucking rad and so cute. See him up above to the right in the only pic I have of him Kyle took a few weeks ago.  Yum!

So then Kyle decided to head out. So then it was just Jason and I with my computer. I got some new additions for it. For those that know a lot about computers know that reformatting your computer NEVER goes exactly how you plan it too(well that goes for PCs anyways). There are always little things that come up. So we had to do a bit of trouble shooting. Which is Jason's favorite thing to do...lol. “Bills in the mail!”

Bought an external hard drive to use for both my PC and the Mac I plan to buy soon. The funny part is when we plugged the external hard drive into the PC is was doing all this weird shit and limited how we partitioned the drive out. Plugged it into my cousins mac and it worked just fine... go figure...lol. Oh PC ... how you keep losing serious brownie points. So we started the whole process probably around 4pm and finished around 3am. We didn't just reformat though we were doing lots of other things. like in between waiting for my PC to reformat which takes FOREVER. Then when we were trouble shooting (mainly for the my printer... have you ever see that part in office space...with the fax machine...can't say I didn't wish I had a bat at the time. I do however have a ninja sword now that I think about it. Lol ) It was a bit frustrating. =)

He talk to me about the basics of recording and things of that nature. I won't go into detail I don't want to bore you. For us we love that kinda stuff. I played around with his macbook and mostly played around in garage band program making a little jingle that was pretty cool. Then he finally gave me a copy of his rock band Rex Sole's album named “Elasticity” that he has been working on since 2008.

We listened to it a bit and talked about it as well. See my cousin and I think about music different that most. Mostly because we both have been involved with it. Especially him with all his schooling he has done for music. He  also respects my opinion about his music a lot. He knows I appreciate the little things and that I tell him straight. I don't blow smoke up anyone's heine.

So as you can see from these pics we were hard at work...lol. So Jason finally left around 3am in the morning.

But that was only part one. He would return midday the next day. This second day would be a day more just kicking back and hanging out. We did still talk about more studio stuff.

Tuesdays early afternoon... Jason makes his way back out to the westside of Portland. Still being the great host that I am I put together our favorite meal. First starting out with our favorite drink. We both got hooked on these when we were on our trip in 2004 in Hawaii. I was drinking them like water in Hawaii. So many in fact we switched to virgin ones because otherwise we would have gone broke. Lol So here is a picture of what they look like. Lava flows are what they are called. The ones I made for us were fucking tasty! A wonderful surprise for Jason. Then I was was munching on some brussels sprouts as our nuggets and tots were in the oven cooking. It was a wonderful meal. Seen here:

Played more some bowling and golf on the Wii... Jason whooped my heine in both... as usual.

Then we started talking about the mac I am going to buy...

But alas all good things must come to an end. BUT just as he was packing his stuff up he really started getting me laughing again about all sorts of shit that probably wouldn't make sense unless you were there with us..... Except maybe this last photo....

I not sure it will be as funny to everyone one else, but I had a hard time even taking the picture I was laughing so hard. I was laughing so hard I was crying and thought I might lose my breathe and possibly die. Oh how I love my cousin. We have a special bond that has been through a lot of politics of the family. He truly is one the most talented people I am blessed to know. He has always inspired me and helped me push myself to new heights. Just another wonderful person in my truly blessed life. Check out his video games on youtube they are fucking halarious! Just type Jason Heine into youtube and they will come up. Serious do it! They are awesome and funny!

Your questions for this blog is... “What do you think of that last photo? Did you laugh at it?”

With love and pure D-Lite. =)