Friday, November 28, 2008

This is the last time I ever do this ever.

Lauren and I went out on the porch to smoke, which is weird because I've been trying to quit and didn't really expect to smoke, and there happened to be two small white dogs walking through the street. One of them is shaggy, one of them is a chihuahua. The shaggy one they named Dusty, the little one Peaches. Peaches is a boy. He snaps at everyone, he sucks. Dusty pissed on my floor.

I'll post pictures tomorrow. I'm also going to call animal control. It sucks to have to keep them here in the cage, but I couldn't just let them roam. We put money on the idea that some family had mad people over for dinner and the dogs escaped. If I see a flier up I will call, but I can't keep them here. Wilma would flip.

In other news, we got an X-Box!! Heck yes. We don't really have any games that I'm super excited about right now, but the library will build. We have Bioshock, so good for that but its too scary for me to play home alone.

Happy Thanksgiving

//~DOG UPDATE, FRIDAY~//
This morning a guy was looking for a dog, so I asked him if the small dogs were his, but they weren't. I walked around the neighborhood and asked around to see if anyone had lost dogs, with no luck. Animal control is closed. Fuck. I let the dogs outside, and the chihuahua found a way to escape my yard and wander into Rocky's (the neighbor's dog). Well the neighbor pulls up, and I tell him about it, and we end up talking for about an hour cause some serious shit just went down in his life. Rocky tries to have sex with the small dog (who has attacked my neighbor and I a few times for no reason at this point), and neighbor guy goes, why are you putting yourself through this, and we kick the dogs out.

So that's that. I don't feel bad about it, because those dogs were assholes, especially the small one. Mike was right, again. We should have put them in the oven.

Monday, November 24, 2008

We painted the living room!

Check out the living room!

We painted and cleaned for about 6 and a half hours on Saturday. This is how it came out.

The kitchen is half stripped of wallpaper, so I should have that done by the end of the holiday weekend. So cool! Home decorating is rad.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

pho pho pho nom nom nom (plus aquabats = superrad)

Mike bought us tickets to the Aquabats.

We left early (about 6:45) because I thought it would be a good idea to get some pho at anywhere in Chinatown before the show (at the Troc). We got to about Girard Ave exit (40 mins to get there, the exit right before the right one to get where we were heading), when Mike asks me if I have the tickets. I didn't. We turned around and drove back home, got the tickets, and headed back down to Philly. At this point I'm starving, so I ask Mike to call the Troc to find out what time the bats are playing. 9:45. Perfect. Its only 8:30, and we're right outside the city.

We roll up into Chinatown, and drive to the Troc. I think to myself, great, we're going to spend a half hour finding parking, and I'm still going to be starving.

Not so. There was a parking spot right in front of the Troc.

I'm not talking about down the street, I'm talking about RIGHT IN FRONT. HA! Fuck all you guys, its cold. We don't have to walk NO blocks to our car. Double luck hits us as well, because there is a pho place right across the street. We both get the same thing, pork with spring roll and verm noodooz, scarf that shit down in 15 minutes, and go to the show.

We missed Tragedy, the metal tribute to the Beegees, but whatever. We did see the end of Suburban Legends, who we thought were a boy band before the dancers picked up their horns and started playing, that was pretty cute. The Aquabats were hilarious - I had never seen them before, and now I am superglad I did! I did get a belly ache and missed a portion of their set while I watched a cockroach come alarmingly close to climbing up the toilet I was pooing on, but overall a great time.

There were lots of kids there which I'm sure you already knew, but they were really cute. Its good to see that there are plenty of kids out there still going to shows and having fun. We also saw a MIKEPASUNDOPPLEGANGER - this kid was just like Mike 5 years ago RIGHT DOWN to the flannel shirt. He didn't have the sleeves cut off, but it was cold, so I'm going to stick with the idea that he probably wears cut-offs in the warmer weathers. The thing I noticed the most about him though was how he was singing in the crowd and rocking out - so incredibly like Mike's mannerisms.. people, it was eerie. I should have gotten his number.

Sunday we .. well spent all day in bed, but we also went to SKA IS DEAD at the Starland, which I hate. Having slept until about 4:30, only getting out of bed around 530 and stopping at a bar to eat on the way there, we got into the venue right as the Toasters were finishing their set, which sucks, because they were the real reason I wanted to go in the first place. If we had waited to get bar food until after the show we would have seen it, but I was convinced that the Toasters were more important than the Pietasters and Mustard Plug. Turns out I am incredibly wrong. The show had started at 3, but the Toasters basically opened up the show for the other three big names (about 7 bands played, i think). THE TOASTERS PEOPLE! TWO TONE ARMY! I guess I am one of the few people in the world who think that they are one of the most important bands ever, or people just don't care. Who knows.

We left about 20 minutes after getting there.

At the bar, there was a bug hanging out on a chair. The bar's motto was, "A good place to hang out". I guess the bug thought so too.

So that's my ska weekend, in a nutshell.

(we also painted the kitchen and got verizon fios, but we no longer get MSNBC. KEITH OLBERMANN! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Oh, hi internet

Things that have happened that are cool:

Pumpkin carving party at Sara and Steves, we carved about 30 pumpkins in 3 hours
My brother moved out
I went to Salt Lake City for work, more on that later, because there are a few pictures I'd like to share
Works been ok
World of Goo is a great game
Saw a girls volleyball game at Princeton, was rad
I'm officially a Supervillian, arching Princeton, more on that later
Totally obsessed with the Venture Brothers
Keith Olbermann, what a douche, but so funny
Barack Obama is our next president!

Things that have happened that are not cool:

My brother took his Xbox and his computer (but my new computer is on its way)
I got serious depression (working on it)
Wilma got fleas
I have to give my brother 200 bucks (for the tv)
Mike's been working too much
When we get verizon, all of the DVR items are going to be lost.

So that's about it. I haven't seen any movies.
The games I have been playing are: Pokemon Pearl, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, World of Goo, Megaman 2 and 9 (fuck 9), Dr. Mario.

Japanese classes have started and they're half awesome and half shitty. We're covering things I've already learned, but it has made me feel so much more confidant in my skills. I'm pretty sure that I could have a serious conversation with a Japanese person at this point, so long as they talked a little slow. There are two reasons that the class sucks, one its kind of slow, and two its at 9am in the morning on Sundays. I really dislike having to get up early on Sunday.

Salt Lake was interesting, I didn't get to see the stupid lake again, but we had a good time. We hit a martini bar, I played shuffleboard for the first time with my boss (and got beat), we met some cool people, learned some stuff. I was really bored a lot though, and totally bummed that no one would go swimming with me. We ate SO MUCH food though, which was great, even though I'm starving now.

Money and I aren't getting along really well. But I wonder if that is really just me, or if things are really that stupid expensive now? My brother and I are also not getting along, mostly because I think he is a putz and lazy.

Works been good, I've been proud of a lot of the design work I've been doing lately, but I'm still interested in a different position.

My first arch in Princeton didn't really start as one. I gave Dr. Boyfriend some money to play tunes in a bar there, and there were stuffy jerks all over the place, I mean CRAWLING with them. So he put on six dollars worth of metal. They got so annoyed after awhile that they actually TURNED THE MACHINE OFF. HA.

I've realized, in this new endeavor that I am on, that it is very hard to come up with ways to arch without risking yourself being labeled a terrorist or being brought up on some kind of homeland security issue. I mean people are so scared these days, that even what I might think is the smallest prank ever may be taken so seriously. Its been harder than I imagined to really get a system down on how I am going to pull this off. In time, I suppose, I mean, I really just started this whole thing two weeks ago.

I'd like to take this final moment to recommend The Bent Spoon in Princeton. See, I have three soft spots for that town. One, the girls volleyball team, two, the store "Morning Glory" run by Koreans with tons of awesome import items in it, but also, The Bent Spoon. The people who run The Bent Spoon are my heros. Its an ice cream place, with THE BEST ice cream ever, and all kinds of home made stuff like marshmellows, whipped cream, root beer, hell, they even have HOT hot chocolate. Like jalepenio hot. No shit, right?

I promise, more to myself than whoever reads this site, to write more.