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.
Friday, November 28, 2008
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.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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.
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.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Bloomsburg Fair = Chicken Pretzels and Huge Cows
So Sara and I went up to Bloomsburg for the annual fair they do up there. Its a pretty amazing event, with amazing people, livestock, food, I mean pretty regular state fair stuff but in coal country, the raddest place on earth.
Some highlights include:
Livestock: Holy crap I saw the largest cow I have ever seen in my entire life. I can't wait for Sara to get the picture over to me. I can't describe it anymore. You'll have to see it. Also there were giant cocks and cute bunnies. I'm pretty down with the livestock thing, except the size of the utters kind of upset me, since you know that was all kinds of hormone induced. I was definitely afraid of being shat on in the cow pen. And the horse show, for crying out loud young girls, stop putting glitter on your horse, its fuckin trashy. Also, it smelled, so bad. SO BAD.
People: I love you guys from the coal region. You did not disappoint.
Food: I still did not try the chicken pretzels, but I was tempted to this time. Last time not so much. I got some great chee fries, dollar ice cream, and a 2 for a dollar hot dog that was definitely only worth a dollar. It basically tasted like bologna. But man, you can't beat fair food. It actually seemed this time like there was more food than actual stuff to buy.
We saw a sideshow, which could have been cooler if it didn't seem like it was run by a bunch of kids. if they had really tried to sell it I think it could have been a lot better. They had the oldest working munchkin from the wizard of oz there, and man that guy was really creepy looking. They had a spider lady, a snake lady, a headless woman, but it was more of corniness than actual entertainment. You can get away with doing really corny shit if you just put a little OOMPH into it, and this really didn't have it. It kind of ran like a bad talent show. Now they said that they are trying to keep alive the traditions of the day back before we had YouTube and could watch all of it online, but honestly, they could have spiced it up, and with all the money they make, I think they could also have gotten better spider lady costumes.
Long story short we got exhausted even though we tried not to, ended up at the Silver Spur in Mt. Carmel, where we thought there would be karaoke, but no luck. We ended up talking to a really great older man at the bar for a few hours. Alex, I think his name was. He chatted it up with us about everything from the bail out to comic book movies. There is nothing better for the soul than some good wisdom and conversation with a stranger from Mt. Carmel. We thank him for a great time at the bar.
Our room at the Pine Burr Inn (classic 1970s decor Inn) was pretty awesome. It had plastic couches. They overcharged me. I have to call them about that tomorrow.
The next morning we went to get blastin blueberry pancakes at our favorite spot to eat up there, Yanni's. The horrifying thing about being there was the lack of customers due to the smoking ban and financial crisis. Honestly, I won't talk politics here, but fuck it was scary.
The drive home was the most horrifying drive I had ever been on, ever (with a sober person). The highway looked like a lake. And to top it all off, when we got back to Sara's, her street was blocked off because of a block party, that had been rescheduled from another time due to rain, but failed to tell anyone else about when it had been rescheduled to.
It was an exhausting, fun, disappointing, happy, long weekend. Cheers.
You can see pictures by clicking anywhere on this long sentence.
Ok, here is the cow.
Some highlights include:
Livestock: Holy crap I saw the largest cow I have ever seen in my entire life. I can't wait for Sara to get the picture over to me. I can't describe it anymore. You'll have to see it. Also there were giant cocks and cute bunnies. I'm pretty down with the livestock thing, except the size of the utters kind of upset me, since you know that was all kinds of hormone induced. I was definitely afraid of being shat on in the cow pen. And the horse show, for crying out loud young girls, stop putting glitter on your horse, its fuckin trashy. Also, it smelled, so bad. SO BAD.
People: I love you guys from the coal region. You did not disappoint.
Food: I still did not try the chicken pretzels, but I was tempted to this time. Last time not so much. I got some great chee fries, dollar ice cream, and a 2 for a dollar hot dog that was definitely only worth a dollar. It basically tasted like bologna. But man, you can't beat fair food. It actually seemed this time like there was more food than actual stuff to buy.
We saw a sideshow, which could have been cooler if it didn't seem like it was run by a bunch of kids. if they had really tried to sell it I think it could have been a lot better. They had the oldest working munchkin from the wizard of oz there, and man that guy was really creepy looking. They had a spider lady, a snake lady, a headless woman, but it was more of corniness than actual entertainment. You can get away with doing really corny shit if you just put a little OOMPH into it, and this really didn't have it. It kind of ran like a bad talent show. Now they said that they are trying to keep alive the traditions of the day back before we had YouTube and could watch all of it online, but honestly, they could have spiced it up, and with all the money they make, I think they could also have gotten better spider lady costumes.
Long story short we got exhausted even though we tried not to, ended up at the Silver Spur in Mt. Carmel, where we thought there would be karaoke, but no luck. We ended up talking to a really great older man at the bar for a few hours. Alex, I think his name was. He chatted it up with us about everything from the bail out to comic book movies. There is nothing better for the soul than some good wisdom and conversation with a stranger from Mt. Carmel. We thank him for a great time at the bar.
Our room at the Pine Burr Inn (classic 1970s decor Inn) was pretty awesome. It had plastic couches. They overcharged me. I have to call them about that tomorrow.
The next morning we went to get blastin blueberry pancakes at our favorite spot to eat up there, Yanni's. The horrifying thing about being there was the lack of customers due to the smoking ban and financial crisis. Honestly, I won't talk politics here, but fuck it was scary.
The drive home was the most horrifying drive I had ever been on, ever (with a sober person). The highway looked like a lake. And to top it all off, when we got back to Sara's, her street was blocked off because of a block party, that had been rescheduled from another time due to rain, but failed to tell anyone else about when it had been rescheduled to.
It was an exhausting, fun, disappointing, happy, long weekend. Cheers.
You can see pictures by clicking anywhere on this long sentence.
Ok, here is the cow.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Nerding Out in NYC
Another adventure occurred last weekend. Mike, my partner in adventuring, and I camped out in NYC with Kathy and a few of her friends to get into the Nintendo Power 20th anniversary party. The magazine told us that the first 400 people in line with an issue of Nintendo Power would get in for free, but they lied about that. I think they basically let in as many people as that place could handle at once. I went mostly because I saw it as a perfect opportunity to battle some kids inside Nintendo World in Pokemon Battle Revolution, and Mike wanted to just get some free stuff. You know, nerds.
The camping out overnight was completely unnecessary, but super fun. I got to finally trade some Pokemon with people (I am now the proud owner of a Munchlax), battled some people (got the shit kicked out of my team), drank a bit, saw the sunrise, met some people from Florida, and saw some cute kids in costumes. I honestly had a good time, and embarrassingly enough it made me feel a little younger than I actually am for once. Once we finally got inside in the morning we got a shopping bag of free stuff (a wiimote keychain that I owned at one point, some gay trading cards for three games, plain stylus's, just, nothing good) and walked around a bit looking at the games they had to play. I headed straight for Pokemon central, only to find that THE WII THAT HAD POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION ON IT HAD BEEN REMOVED AND NO POKEMON GAMES WERE BEING PLAYED. My heart was broken. I turned on my DS a few times to see if anyone was battling or something just to see if there were some rouge trainers, but no luck. At that point I completely gave up on the event, and decided to stand with the goods and wait for Mike to finish having a good time.
There was some free food there which was kinda rad, rice krispy treats and cheese sammiches and french toast sticks and stuff, and at one point when I was getting very irritated Mike brought me a bag of sour patch kids, and man, just sometimes a guy can do a thing that doesn't seem to be that big of a deal but really is.. so there you have your "i love mike" moment of this adventure. Eventually he realized there was nothing much to do around the place, so we headed out the door. THAT is when I saw Mr. Zack Morris himself, the kids from the Wizards of Waverly Place (sans Selena Gomez, but fuck her, she sucks), COREY IN THE HOUSE (meant to be read loudly) and the kids from Run's House. and the mom. You can see them in the pictures. I really wanted to try to stay to get my picture taken with them or something, but they were taking pictures with "special" children and what not so I figured they would not be even trying to think about taking a picture with a 28 year old woman-child so.. we left.
The funniest part of this whole adventure was the walk back to the train station. We looked homeless. I'm not kidding. We were smelly, wet, ugly, fuck, you ever see those couples in train stations with backpacks and they look like they haven't showered in weeks and they're tired and you just don't even want to look at them because you know they need money? Yeah, that was us. We got so many looks. As tired and miserable as I was, that really entertained me. Oh, and there was a street fair there which was cool cause Mike bought me a parasol on the way back which I got to use the next day at the Septemberfest (uneventful).
The train ride home was half cute because there were brown toddlers in front of me and an annoying cunt behind me talking on the phone, not in a polite tone of voice way but in a FUCK EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS TRAIN IM TALKING TO MY BEST FRIEND CINDI (i dont really know what the girls name she was talking to was) voice. It was horrible. Mike and I talked a lot of shit out loud, maybe she heard us, maybe she didn't, but if I wasn't so tired I probably would have done something else. Actually, I probably wouldn't have. I don't really know. Maybe.
So you can see pictures from the night here, they're not very interesting save for the pics of the kids in mario costumes (I thought the really small kids sitting in NYC playing DS were really adorable), the buizel costume (eerily I found this kind of sexy) and the celebrities. The first picture is of me and mike on the train, because we waited a good hour and a half for one. They almost made us take the train to Trenton and then back up to NYC. They didn't though. Some ladies were really angry about that. Eh, public transit.
People in Japan don't have to deal with that kind of shit, unless someone kills themselves on the train tracks.
So, in other news, Japanese classes have started again for me and I'm having a good time.
In sadder news, we are currently mourning the passing of one of our furry family members, Jordan the hamster. She had some kind of skin infection that was obviously putting her in a lot of misery and pain, so the decision was made to put her down. Send Mike your love, because he was a great hammy daddy, and he loved her so much.
J-Money, you were the cutest hamster we had ever seen. love.
The camping out overnight was completely unnecessary, but super fun. I got to finally trade some Pokemon with people (I am now the proud owner of a Munchlax), battled some people (got the shit kicked out of my team), drank a bit, saw the sunrise, met some people from Florida, and saw some cute kids in costumes. I honestly had a good time, and embarrassingly enough it made me feel a little younger than I actually am for once. Once we finally got inside in the morning we got a shopping bag of free stuff (a wiimote keychain that I owned at one point, some gay trading cards for three games, plain stylus's, just, nothing good) and walked around a bit looking at the games they had to play. I headed straight for Pokemon central, only to find that THE WII THAT HAD POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION ON IT HAD BEEN REMOVED AND NO POKEMON GAMES WERE BEING PLAYED. My heart was broken. I turned on my DS a few times to see if anyone was battling or something just to see if there were some rouge trainers, but no luck. At that point I completely gave up on the event, and decided to stand with the goods and wait for Mike to finish having a good time.
There was some free food there which was kinda rad, rice krispy treats and cheese sammiches and french toast sticks and stuff, and at one point when I was getting very irritated Mike brought me a bag of sour patch kids, and man, just sometimes a guy can do a thing that doesn't seem to be that big of a deal but really is.. so there you have your "i love mike" moment of this adventure. Eventually he realized there was nothing much to do around the place, so we headed out the door. THAT is when I saw Mr. Zack Morris himself, the kids from the Wizards of Waverly Place (sans Selena Gomez, but fuck her, she sucks), COREY IN THE HOUSE (meant to be read loudly) and the kids from Run's House. and the mom. You can see them in the pictures. I really wanted to try to stay to get my picture taken with them or something, but they were taking pictures with "special" children and what not so I figured they would not be even trying to think about taking a picture with a 28 year old woman-child so.. we left.
The funniest part of this whole adventure was the walk back to the train station. We looked homeless. I'm not kidding. We were smelly, wet, ugly, fuck, you ever see those couples in train stations with backpacks and they look like they haven't showered in weeks and they're tired and you just don't even want to look at them because you know they need money? Yeah, that was us. We got so many looks. As tired and miserable as I was, that really entertained me. Oh, and there was a street fair there which was cool cause Mike bought me a parasol on the way back which I got to use the next day at the Septemberfest (uneventful).
The train ride home was half cute because there were brown toddlers in front of me and an annoying cunt behind me talking on the phone, not in a polite tone of voice way but in a FUCK EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS TRAIN IM TALKING TO MY BEST FRIEND CINDI (i dont really know what the girls name she was talking to was) voice. It was horrible. Mike and I talked a lot of shit out loud, maybe she heard us, maybe she didn't, but if I wasn't so tired I probably would have done something else. Actually, I probably wouldn't have. I don't really know. Maybe.
So you can see pictures from the night here, they're not very interesting save for the pics of the kids in mario costumes (I thought the really small kids sitting in NYC playing DS were really adorable), the buizel costume (eerily I found this kind of sexy) and the celebrities. The first picture is of me and mike on the train, because we waited a good hour and a half for one. They almost made us take the train to Trenton and then back up to NYC. They didn't though. Some ladies were really angry about that. Eh, public transit.
People in Japan don't have to deal with that kind of shit, unless someone kills themselves on the train tracks.
So, in other news, Japanese classes have started again for me and I'm having a good time.
In sadder news, we are currently mourning the passing of one of our furry family members, Jordan the hamster. She had some kind of skin infection that was obviously putting her in a lot of misery and pain, so the decision was made to put her down. Send Mike your love, because he was a great hammy daddy, and he loved her so much.J-Money, you were the cutest hamster we had ever seen. love.
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