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Patricia Heaton


Opie on Monday 6/2/08


Opie, with a new haircut on Thursday 6/5/08

"Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile.
You will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them.
Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along."

I saw this on my friend Kyla's blog and I asked her if she can pick out 7 interests of mine and this what she chose for me:


Conan O'Brien
Ok let's start with Conan. I've been a fan of his for a few years now and his show "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" is in my opinion one of best late night shows out there. I started watching his show about 5 1/2 years ago and I got hooked to it immediately. Conan is one of the few talk show hosts that make me laugh. He's come a long way from being a writer for "Saturday Night Live", then "The Simpsons" to a successful late night talk show host who been picked to replace Jay Leno when he leaves The Tonight Show next year.


Drawing
Drawing was one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid. I used to draw pictures of my favorite cartoon and TV show characters all the time. I was really good at drawing people, especially in the anime form. I don't draw as much as I used to because I'm now into Photoshop but every once in a while I'll draw a pic of something if I'm in the drawing mood.


Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is in my opinion one of best sitcoms of all time. I've been a fan since day 1 and I'm still a fan to this day. I don't watch the show as much as I used to but I do watch an episode every once in a while. With a talented cast and the brave writers who used their real-life situations as part of the storylines is what made this sitcom something that I can relate to. If it wasn't for this show I wouldn't have met other fans who like the show as much as I did.


Opie and Anthony
After Everybody Loves Raymond ended I wanted to look for a new show to get into. It took me a while but on a March afternoon(March of 2006) I decided to listen to XM Satellite Radio on DIRECTV and I found this show and after listening for a few weeks I got hooked to it. Opie and Anthony have been labeled as "shock jocks" due to some things that they did earlier in their career. As a kid I've listened to other shock jocks on the radio like Mancow, The Doghouse and even Howard Stern but O & A are the only ones that I really got into like I did with ELR. One of the things that I like about them is that they like to hang out with their fans; whether its at the XM studios, FH Riley's(the restaurant Opie owns with his brother Brett in Huntington, LI) or some other event like the Opie and Anthony Traveling Virus Tour they always take some time out to talk to the fans. And did I mention that Gregg "Opie" Hughes is a hot piece of ass?(He's the blond guy).


Ray Romano
Before Everybody Loves Raymond aired in 1996 I've never heard of Ray Romano. The first time I saw him on TV was an half hour HBO comedy special that was taped in San Francisco that aired a week before ELR came on the air. Then on September 13th, 1996(a Friday the 13th believe it or not)ELR aired and after watching a few episodes I started to like Ray a little bit. A few years later I started to have a crush on him. The crush grew bigger over the years the show was on CBS but it has since died down a little bit after the show ended(Ray has been knocked down to the #2 slot this year because I have a crush on shock jock Gregg "Opie" Hughes now). I even went to one of his shows in Vegas In May of 2005, which was a week after the show ended and during the Q&A section of the show I raised my hand and he picked me but I was so nervous I was stuttering, which is something I never did before, and he asked me to come up by the stage. So we talked for 5 minutes and he signed a magazine cover that he was on and I shook his hand and that was it. It was one of the greatest moments of my life and I want to thank him for that.


Reno 911!
This show in my opinion is one of the funniest shows on Comedy Central today. For those of you who have not seen the show its a mockumentary of cop shows like COPS but done in the improv style. The cops in this show don't really do a good job in what they're doing. The show is already in syndication and a movie came out a while ago. The movie was OK but I liked the show a lot more.


Video Games
My love of video games started when I was a kid. I was 6 and I was hospitalized with Ulcerative Colitis a few weeks before Christmas in 1990. I was in the old children's hospital at Stanford and from time to time someone rolled in a TV stand with a Nintendo hooked up to it. I remember playing it a few times and I liked it. 2 years later, on Christmas 1992, I got my own Nintendo system and I've been a gamer ever since. Over the years I've collected 14 different systems and at least over 100 games, although I've sold some games for money and to make some space for new games. My favorite game genres are the fighting games like the Dead Or Alive, King Of Fighters, Tekken and WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw series. I used to like the Sims games but I just lost interest in them and my computer made some of the game run kinda slow. But other than that I mostly play on either the PlayStation 2(pictured above) or the Xbox 360, depending on how I feel that day.(BTW I don't have the colitis anymore due to an operation I had 9 years ago next Saturday).

I made these signatures on Monday:

In honor of Gregg "Opie" Hughes' birthday here are some new signatures and icons I made a while ago:

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Today its been exactly one year since I started this blog. Not much has happened to me in the past year but a lot has happened to me in the past week:

Tuesday the 13th: My Xbox 360 died. I got the infamous "red rings of death" when a game was trying to load on the system. I'm looking at a few places that are selling used 360s at a decent price.

Saturday the 17th: Some of my neighbors and I participated in the annual garage sale that my townhouse complex has every year. There was fewer people this year due to the economy being shitty and one of the elementary schools in my neighborhood was having a flea market on the same day. My family made $73; most of it came from us selling my brother's weight bench with the weights included. I did have a problem with one guy who wanted to buy 2 pairs of sandals that I was selling; not only he spoke with a very thick accent that I could barely understand what he was saying but he was hard of hearing too. And he was a haggler too. My mom, who has much more experience in talking to people who have thick accents, tried to sell the sandals at half price. Then he got frustrated, dropped the sandals, got on his bike and left. About an hour after we sold the weight set we took everything down and we donated the clothes to Goodwill and I sold the games at GameCrazy. Then Mom and I went to (Westfield)Valley Fair to do some shopping; she bought a dress and I bought a video game for the PlayStation 2.

Sunday the 18th: I did some cleaning in my room on Sunday afternoon. I actually opened up my computer and grabbed a bottle of compressed air (or as I call it "air in a can") and I dusted the hell out of it. This was the first time in months that the inside of my computer has had a good dusting. I did all of this at the same time my allergies were really acting up. After that was finished my mom, my aunt and I went to Milpitas to do some shopping. Mom was looking for a pair of sunglasses that she tried on at Costco the other day and I was looking at some treadmills. Since we now have more room in the garage with the weight bench getting sold we can fit a small treadmill there. My mom suggested that we get one to help me lose some weight.

It's my 24th birthday today and just for the hell of it here's some new icons I made a while ago:

I made these new icons today:

Here's something I put together last week, as sort of a tribute to the ladies of Everybody Loves Raymond:

Here's some icons I made a while back(and I finally got them down to the right size):

Here's a pic I put together of 2 of my favorite celebrities (and celebrity crushes) Gregg "Opie" Hughes(Opie and Anthony) and Ray Romano(Everybody Loves Raymond):

I made this new avatar yesterday afternoon and I'm planning on making some more later on this week.

This is my first attempt at making an icon. It can be an avatar too since I couldn't get it to the standard icon size of 100x100 but it still came out ok.

Here's my first signature. I think it came out ok.

Here's the same signature from Post 9 but with some new text on it. Enjoy!

Here's the second pic. I got it from the Opie and Anthony 92.3 K-Rock homepage and I added text to it.

The weather has been really bad here the past few days so to kill some time I decided to learn some Photoshop skills. Here's what I've done so far:


I just cropped it and added some text to the picture. I've been reading the books for months but on Saturday morning I woke up, I got on the computer and I did this lovely picture of this handsome "shock jock".

Ok here's some useless trivia for the day:

9/11/72: Bay Area Rapid Transit, or as the locals call it, BART, starts operating 35 years ago today here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

9/11/95: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, better known here in North America as Sailor Moon, premieres in the United States.

(This is what happens when you're up at 4:30 in the morning and you can't think of anything to write in your blog).