Halloween

So I saw Halloween at Grauman's Chinese Theatre last night. It was a sneak preview and my friend and his roommate invited me. It was a blast!

The guy that plays Michael Myers was there with his friends and before the movie, he was signing autographs and taking questions.

Knowing that my darling sister is a big Halloween fan, I got his autograph on a really cool poster that is personalized to her. :)

I won't say much about the movie other than I did like it overall. They went into Michael's back story which I thought was interesting and it wasn't a straight copy. Rob Zombie definitely took it in another direction.

If you like to be scared, go see it!

-E

On and on the beat goes...

So one of my friend's gave me Madonna's new single that leaked from her studio and isn't released yet. It is called "The Beat Goes On". It is really good and I can imagine, it'll be great to dance to once it gets remixed (which it already has and I'll get those versions on the weekend hopefully. Hmm maybe tonight).

I finished my final versions of my Query letters! This week;s assignment is to research various agents and find 5 suitable candidates for each Tarot and Pooka. Then, next week, the plan is to send them out! Yay!

Thanks God for K.D.! I have a much better chance of success in this field because of her advice. She's great!

Tonight I am seeing a sneak preview of Halloween at the Mann's Chinese Theatre, for free!

Bingo was fun as usual last night! I sat with my friend's Gil and Richard and my friend John came up from Orange County! We hung out a bit before and after. It was good to see him again.

xoxo,
Eric

Movin' along...

This weekend was nice. I hung out with Steve and we had a very fun time shopping. I think we laughed the whole day away haha. Anyways, I bought some cool shorts to wear for GayDay at Disneyland and I used a giftcard my brother and his girlfriend got me for my birthday to buy some Clinique skincare products.

I also spent some time working on my query letters and I had the first draft of those done for my meeting with K.D. this week. It feels good to keep on track of goals that I am making for myself. K.D. has been such a huge help, I really *really* appreciate it.

The next step is go over the letters and then write the final draft, then send them out!

I have a new lunch routine. (Thanks Steve for suggesting it!)I go to Jamba Juice and have a 2oz shot of wheatgrass followed by a large carrot/orange juice!

What does Wheatgrass do for you? Go here to find out!:
http://www.jambajuice.com/what/sunshinein.html

Health health health!!! It's yummy too!
-E

Query Letters!

Yesterday, I had lunch with my friend K.D.. We've decided to get together every weeks to each other status updates on our writing endeavors.

Now that Tarot is all finalized and Pooka has been updated and finalized, I am ready to send them out. The trouble was, I didn't know where to go from there.

K.D. was great to point out that the next step was writing "Query letters". That's the letter you send to agents enticing them to want to read your script. K.D. gave me some great pointers and after work, I went home and looked up some samples and completed a first rough drafted of a query letter for Pooka. I have a few edits to do on it, then I'll do one for Tarot. For next weeks meeting, K.D. will tell me whats good and whats bad about it. When the letters are as perfect as they're gonna get, I'll send them out.

I am so excited to finally be doing something with my writing!

My friend John is working on publishing some stuff online and is about to start writing something new.

Getting back into my writing and talking shop with friends really made me realize I really did miss being creative and having that element around me.

The Simpsons and Water workouts!

This past Saturday, I hung out with my friend Steve. We saw The Simpson Movie at the Arclight. It was very funny! I am glad I went to go see it!

Afterwards, we copied some music and scanned in some cover art. It was a fun day/night.

Sunday I spent 3 hours in the pool with my new water arobic weights! Boy Howdy, what a workout! I actually got a good sunburn too hehe

I've worked in my water workout now into my gym, abs dvd routine.

I have a lunch meeting tomorrow on how to jump start my writing career. I am so glad I'm getting into high gear on it.

Opps, gotta go.

Seeyas,
E

An awesome birthday!

Yesterday was my birthday "I-29, yes I am and holding!" and Wednesday night my friends set up a Birthday Party for me at Hamburger Marys!

It was fabulous! It was very sweet and touching to look around and see a bunch of friends there wishing me well for a new year! They even bought me a SpongeBob cake which was very yummy! :)

I even won a game of Bingo and so did my friend Richard!

It was quite a party and I've gotta tell ya, Bridgette really its hard with her Bingo Paddle! Ow! haha

Yesterday was a nice relaxing day. Although I spent literally almost the whole day and night on the phone with friends and family calling to wish me Happy Birthday! My lovely sister even lived up to her yearly singing phone call! haha

Some calls I missed because my cell phone went wacky and none of the buttons would work, so I couldn't check e-mail on it or answer the phone. So, I couldn't respond to some of those until it magically started working later on at night.

My friend Douglas couldn't make Bingo so he is going to take me out today. What a great guy!

So today is my first full day of being 37! I plan on making it a great year! It will be Fabulous! It will be Beautiful! And it will be Amazing!

Thank you all for your wishes, cards and calls :)

Love,
Eric

Spa Night!

Last night saw the return of Spa Night (which I typically hold on Sunday nights).

After the gym, I came home and did my 8 Min Abs DVD. Then I took a shower and walked across the street for a much needed manicure. (My cuticles were gross).

When I came home, I soaked my feet in my hot water massager bath thing for about a half hour and then used the pumas stone on my feet to remove the dead, rough skin. I threw in a hand, feet paraffin wax too! After that, I did a bit of manscaping, followed by a facial exfoliant, cleansing and clay mask. Finally, a cold eye treatment. I got another shower and then used my Clinique body moisture on my hands, feet and elbows.

Fabulous! Overall it took me from about 5:30 (When I started my Abs DVD) until about 10pm!

Murder on the Mystery Train!

Just a quick weekend wrap-up...

Saturday, I got a spiffy new haircut and did a "Murder Mystery Train" with some friends. It was a lot of fun!
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It was a circus theme, so before I even got there, I knew the clown was the murderer.

When I saw the clown, I was giving her a lot of crap about being the killer because all clowns are evil. She made me a balloon animal, smiled and went on her way, denying everything. When she got to the table next to ours on the train, she began to make another animal but she couldn't get it right. She picked up a passengers pencil and began to stab the balloon repeatedly.

When I stood up and pointed dramatically at her yelling "Ah-HA!", she threw the pencil down and starting repeating "Happy, happy!" and then she broke out in a little dance "I'm a happy clown.".

Well, when all was said and done...she did indeed confess to the murder earlier.

Never trust a clown!

Sunday, I woke up too late and missed brunch, so I spent most of the day trying to file out a way to recover some lost files. Still haven't figured it out...

iLife '08

The new iLife just came out for the Mac! Yay!

It supports the new file extension that my new digital HD camcorder uses!

I spent all last night importing the footage over to my Mac from when my family came out to visit! There was a lot of footage so it took some time. After that I started going through it. I'll begin the editing process tonight, once I'm done listing out what I want to appear in the final cut. Then burn a DVD complete with fancy menus and ta-dah! All done.

What a great program and very very simple to use. Macs just rule. Fabulous!

Also part of the suite is iweb (make webpages VERY easily), iphoto, garageband. All for just 80 bucks!

I can't wait until the DVD is done so I can ship a few copies back home to my Mom, Sister and niece!

-Eric

I haven't been getting mail from my Website!!!!

Hi All,

This message goes out to anyone that may have sent me e-mail through my website.

It's no secret that I'm just a tad bit senile. When My website was set-up, I created a seperate email account for my website only to seperate personal from the site.

The only thing is, wel I forgot to set-up the seperate account. This was back in 2005 so any mail that was sent though my website, I never got and the email server only keeps them a month apparently. Sigh. This sucks.

The only reason why I found it was because Paul had been sending me mails from it and finally he was able to find me through other means. So, thank you very much Paul for bringing this to my attention and I am sorry for anyone that may have sent me an e-mail and did not receive a response. :(

It is fixed now though.

Sigh. I know. I'm a retard.

Now where is that 'lil yellow bus...

Nice weekend

This weekend was a nice mix of everything.

Friday night after the gym, I came home, watched my Dr. Who and then did some reading. Nothing major but it was nice to relax.

Saturday, I hung out with my friend Steve. We had a fun time. I installed Office on his computer and was teachign him how to use it. We hung out at Starbucks for some time, watched a bunch of stuff on Youtube, then we got a pizza and watched a movie. He was also kind enough to give me a few cool cds (imported to itunes for my ipod).

Sunday, I had to catch up on some cleaning and then hung out with some neighbors in the pool. That is always fun! Seems like I started a trend because now, everyone has a floaty chair :)

It was one of those weekends that make you say "Man, I wish everyday was like this". hehe

-Eric

Imagination overflow!

To bring ya'll up-to-date, I'm still at the gym for 1.5 hours 4 nights a week. I hung out with my friend John on both Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It was good to hang out with him, we had a good time.

I have been writing my book at home (going to try to crank out a chapter a week) I am going on 369 pages now! And during my lunches, I have been working on the pilot script for my comedy TV series.

Needless to say, I have had no time to play World of Warcraft. I actually haven't played it much in a long time. I miss my online friends and stop in once in a while to say hi and catch up but that's about it.

Busy busy busy :)

A Nightmare returns!

And it's a good thing!

My old friend (from about 16 years ago tracked me down on the net. I'm glad he did, we had some fun times back in the old days. Ah the old crowd. I'm glad he is doing well now. I look forward to hanging out when I visit back home again.

Why nightmare? Oh, well, that was his old handle on Ddial haha.

Thanks for getting back in touch Paul. You were missed!

-Eric