What a Feeling

I busted a #3 to Georgia from Hot Topic. I bought some Jack3d from Yohannes at Great Earth. Then went to Paul and Martha's place to upload video of their band's performance last Friday. Watched What Happens in Vegas while there. Then came home to catch the end of WWE RAW. It's also already February 1 in the Philippines due to the different time zones, which means it's cousin Phillip's Birthday.

Roundhouse into the sidekick

I went to the annual LA Fitness Expo by myself because no one else could make it and I'm hardcore like that. I love getting more free samples than I know what to do with.

UFC referee Herb Dean was there.

RYAN: That was a bad call-- (his face falls) I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But how many times have fans tried to tell you that before?
HERB: Never! I take that seriously! I'm going home! [Storms off]

And then he came back to reveal he was joking. He got me there. He made out a free autographed pic of himself to me. He's starting his own referee school because apparently the athletic state commissions are now requiring referees to be certified.

UFC fighter Bar Nam Phan was walking around as a fan.

RYAN: I like your fighting style. I like that roundhouse into the sidekick (in his match against Leonard Garcia).
BAR NAM PHAN: ...
RYAN: You know what I'm talking about?
BAR NAM PHAN: Yeah ... It was an accident.

Well, El-Oh-El.

RYAN: I'll be looking for another roundhouse into a sidekick.
BAR NAM PHAN: Roundhouse, side kick, [does a spin kick] ...

And then I made a startling discovery. I introduced myself to this dude that rockstar David and I met last year. SInce then, I've seen him frequent GNC. All this time he was actually indy pro-wrestler The Awesome Plague without his mask, or "Shannon" as he insists.

It seems like I see former gym assistant manager Candace working at the Expo every year. She's back in my database.

Later at the mall, annoying chick (a.k.a. my stalker) at Hot Topic spotted me when I was on my way to meet up with mommy to have dinner at Granville. But Leah was working. She's renewed in my database.

Pour Some Sugar On Me

Matt and I went to PWG's show at Wrestlereunion. We met up with old friends/fellow fans Peter, the "Grey Mustache," and Mustache's son in Chad's hotel room. Pro-wrestling stars present that I cared about seeing were "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, Terry Funk, Jimmy Hart, and Jake "The Snake" Roberts (in his retirement match). I was standing next to former pro-wrestler Funky Billy Kim while waiting in line.

RYAN: I never thought I'd be standing next to you in line.
BILLY KIM: Yeah, I haven't wrestled for them in forever, so I couldn't go up to them and be like, "Hey, guys ..." -- "I'll take two [tickets] please."

Smoke on the Water

I'm getting better at this Carlos Santana song that I've been rocking lately at guitar practice.

I recorded Paul and Martha's band's performance at Paladino's.

Someone must've messed up at the TV station. Smallville was supposed to come back tonight with a new episode, but some show called The Vampire Diaries was aired instead. I guess I didn't miss anything.

I came home to watch of replay of tonight's Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and fired up the porn. By total fluke, albeit while doing reconnaissance on Facebook, I stumbled onto the page of this former Hot Topic employee (last mentioned in entry 12/5/10). Our interactions had revolved around Harry Potter merchandise. I had once said I needed beer goggles for her, but she looks a lot better on Facebook. I busted a #3 to her for the first time ... and she was good.

Natural Steroids?

I went to the gym to do some compound exercises and the same ab workout that I've been doing for many months now. The funny thing is I noticeably had more energy than usual. I had the same good cereal with two added spoons of wheat germ, a banana, green tea, and the energy bar that mommy recommends for workouts. Could the key lie in that combination?

My first day of Ballet!

I was fashionably late to Eugene and Stef's meeting. Jun was present. They have a new board member named Paul. And I met Kyle, who claims to have met me before, but I don't remember. Mmm ... Red Velvet Cupcakes plus black tea. And I took home a Vanilla Vanilla cupcake.

I was originally supposed to take Ballet last year (see entry 2/10/10), but had to leave the country for Auntie Zelda's funeral. But finally I started today! Wow - aside from biceps and maybe triceps - it's a full body endurance workout. If only I didn't have such a good annual renewal rate at the gym, I might've actually considered canceling my gym membership in lieu of Ballet, swimming, and working out at the park.

No one in the database was working at the mall except for Leah at Hot Topic.

Beginner Class WTF?

I was able to get a nap in before Breakin' class. I wandered around like silly at first because rooms got switched. I have to admit the chick at the front desk is jackoffable.

Class was: B-Girl Shorty, her brother Zack, some dude they called Jeff, and a 13-year-old whose voice is going through puberty. 1) From lying on back, kick up and twist to the right, slipping right hand under and into a left-sided air chair. What the fuck? I wasn't able to accomplish this. 2) Baby freeze and kick up to hit an air chair. Again, what the fuck? 3) Coin-drop, into backspins, into kip up. THAT I could do. Mental note: Hydraulic backspins are bomb.

Then Shorty ordered us to drill flair, into backspin, into air chair. Ahem, where was I supposed to learn a flair beforehand?

I saw Rez from high school outside again as I was leaving and he was arriving. Supposed to be my fellow Spartacus: Blood and Sand fan, Rez is skipping out on the Gods of the Arena prequel mini-series as he's bummed about Spartacus (Andy Whitfield) having to be recast due to Whitfield's cancer relapse.