hey.

not a lot is going on here, but i'll post some pictures so that should be cool. i'm on day 20 of not shaving now. it's pretty sweet. here's a picture of what i look like.

also, it was my birtday on friday! i got some awesome gifts from family in the mail. my sister jenny sent me campitelli cookies. those are my favorite, after my mom's cookies of course. i used to get campitelli cookies every morning in the summer with my neighbor, forest anthony. when we were really young, we'd ride bikes there, like our little red schwinn with the banana seat and the huge yellow bike from jc penny's that our million year old neightbor, Dez, gave to us.

when we got a little older, we'd ride our skateboards there. we'd always ride behind "the good guys" store by the loading dock and it was always a rush to go down the hill there and try to dodge all the pebbles and stuff that would make you come to a dead stop on your board and make you fly off. so eating those cookies tasted good, and also brought back a lot of good memories. i remember jenny went with me once on her longboard and she ran over a garden hose and flew off her board! haha. good times.

i also got some sweet bowling shoes! mom and jody sent these to me.

they are way awesome huh? i'm going to go use them in like 15 minutes.

on my birthday my good friend matt keller bought me some korean food and then we went to someone's house and played a card game called pounce. i had a birthday cake and everything. i even spelled my name on the cake using tons of tootsie rolls. it was so delicious. we finished off the night by watching my big fat greek wedding with the group.

friday was not only my birthday, but it was graduation from training at my work. tuesday i start as a real employee out of training. crud. it should be fun. i need to learn how to speak korean better.

i'm going to go bowling, maybe i'll add more stuff to this post later.

bye