Tag: friends

Hmm…

Ok, first let me say, my house is coming along wonderfully! They finally opened the model homes and I was able to post pictures of that on my site. You should visit it again to check them out. I went and measured all the rooms in that place yesterday, now I can seriously plan on what sort of things I want to buy for it!

My new job at Head Penn Racquet Sports is awesome! I love it, the people there are great. Of course, for me it takes a bit of time to really get to know people but I think it’s going well. Also, there are travel opportunities that I may be able to take advantage of in my position… so we’ll see. (note to you Canadians, our office in Canada (Head Canada) is based in Guelph, so keep your fingers crossed, I could be visiting on my employers dime in the future).

Now, let me just say that I hate it when issues arise with friends. It’s annoying and it just makes things crappy. I’m sure you’ve all experienced this sort of thing before. Let me just say that I hate it when people act childish and when they don’t acknowledge the fact that they were being childish when you bring it up to them. Also, I hate it when guys act like girls (no offense) when it comes to dealing with issues, I mean, that’s one of the joys of being a guy. Some background info on what’s going on my be needed… so if you want it,email me (or call if you have the number) and i will share, I enjoy getting other’s opinions on the matter. Just do me one favor in all your dealings with your friends, if you don’t want to participate in the event that has been planned, just say so, don’t say that you’re interested and just blow the person off when the date arrives.

On another note, I made my final big purchase for my trip to Torino in 2006. I now have airline tickets to/from Italy. Yay! The months will just fly by now, I can feel it. It’ll be February 2006 before I know it. On the Olympic note, I believe next week is the announcement for the 2012 games. I just pray that Paris doesn’t get them. I’d really like for them to come to NYC but I don’t think that’ll happen because of Vancouver 2010. I’ll post the result on my blog when the news breaks, so if you don’t find out about the result on the news, you can come here for the info!

Ok, time to get ready to go to a movie with my sister and her friend. Later people.

The Long Awaited Update!!

Ok everyone, it’s finally here!

Here’s the update of what’s been going on over the past 2 weeks…

Saturday 9/25 – After the night before, I’m surprised we got this guy to come out with us once again. Another broadening of his horizons… introducing the Karaoke bar. I myself am not a fan of the Karaoke bar, but hey, if you’re drunk enough, does it even really matter?? Anyway, it was all great fun. Closing down a place is never a disappointment. One interesting point, this one guy that was in the group that night that I had never met before is a foster dad. How cool is that? Being a 26 year old foster father of 3 boys under the age of 10 can’t be easy. Anyway, I thought it was cool and deserved a mention. BTW, for those of you wondering, when our group goes to the Karaoke bar, we do not sing singly (is that even a word?), it’s always a group effort.

The week sucked then, because I got sick at that damn Karaoke bar… I guess sharing a mic with 30 other people isn’t the healthiest thing to do??

Thursday of this week though was kinda cool. This guy from work decided to throw a meatloaf and debate party. So we had meatloaf and watched the pres debate on tv. Different, but cool. BTW, there were no democrats at our party… go figure?

This weekend, having not yet fully recovered from the previous week of being sick, I stayed home on Friday night. I called in sick to the ballpark and just chilled and caught up on all my tv shows. Saturday was different though. It’s Oktoberfest, you can’t not go out and drink beer!! So that’s what we did. I called in ‘sick’ to work at the ballpark again and went on down. Just a note, riding the Zipper and the Gravitron after 5 beers may sound like a bad idea, but if you can hold your liquor, it’s great fun! And then, it was back to Karaoke… yup, it’s a Saturday night staple. It wasn’t as good as last time though. It was more crowded and we only got to sing 2 songs total, oh well! Of course, all that beer before and all the beer during and the few shots inbetween the beer put me right out of commission… we had a DD that wasn’t so good at the not drinking part, so we had to sober up at this person’s apartment before heading back to Scottsdale where I had left my car at someone else’s apartment. Then there was about another hour i spent at that apartment making sure that I was going to be good to drive. Needless to say, I got home and into bed at about 4am. And I had to get up and ready to go to the ballpark by 11am the next day. Good times! It’s been a crazy last two weeks.

Anyway, upcoming for this week is home searching and all that fun stuff. I have to get on the ball, I’m not really in a rush or anything, but if I find something I like, I may just have to pick it up!

That’s all for this update. I’m going to try to do them more often so these are so monsterous in size and don’t take up so much of my time.

I’m Sick…

*cough* I’m sick! It’s not fun being sick. I have yet to take a day off of work though. See how dedicated I am?!? We’ll see how I am tomorrow.

Anyway I’ll write tons more when I’m better but I had to mention somethings first…

See Garden State at the theatre. Simply awesome movie, and the soundtrack is kick ass as well (I’m listening to it now!).

House hunting sucks.

Congrats to Rachel in Seattle on the birth of her baby boy. Yay! I can’t wait to see him!!

And if I don’t get over my illness by Friday, I’m going to be really angry. Every year the Way Out West Oktoberfest comes around and for some reason or another I am unable to attend. It starts on Friday and that is the only day I can go, damn last weekend of baseball!! Anyway, I’m hoping real hard that I can get better and make it there. It’s gonna be great, or as someone at work would say, “it’s going to be a bonanza!”

Happy 4th of July!!!

Wow, amazing. Even though I had to work today, I still had time to hang out and celebrate with some people. It was all good. Went to my friends apt across the street from the park where they were having the fireworks. It was really nice not having to find parking and sit in the sun for hours on end to see the fireworks this year! Only thing that sucked was that this damn street light was kinda in the way, but it wasn’t too bad. I’d like to know how much the city of Phoenix spends on fireworks for the 4th… I mean, they last for a bit over a half an hour… hmmmmm…

What else to say, not much. Everyone at work seems to be getting engaged… kinda amusing (and a bit frightening as well). And they all seem to be taking 4/5 day vacations to get engaged… very interesting… (when i say everyone, i mean just two people that i work closely with on a daily basis, so that’s everyone.)

Bed Bath and Beyond

Yes, for all you Canadians who are reading this… it is a real store… here’s a pic.

Bed Bath and Beyond!
I felt like a freak taking it, but it was kinda fun! :o)

Hope you enjoyed!

Has It Really Been That Long???

Wow! The Highly Anticipated update to my journal is finally here!!!

Ok, to catch you up on stuff….

This weekend = BUSY! Saturday (ok, Sat wasn’t busy at all, but I have to start somewhere) I got up early to was my car before the heat of the day (yeah right, it was already hot at 8am) and then I took a nap… because I was tried from getting up so early… then I went to see Dodgeball (sucked *more to come below*). Then, I got a call from my friend Jen who is starting Medical School at the U of A in August and has bought a house down in Tucson… so she needed some movers… ugh… Because I’m such a nice friend, I agreed to come over and help her load the truck and unload it down in Tucson. She was packing at the moment and just needed my help for the moving…

Sunday! Today is moving day… and the stuff was supposed to be packed at the apartment… and it wasn’t…. imagine that! Anyway, so I arrived there at 10am, we didn’t leave for Tucson until 3pm… I didn’t get home that night until 9.45pm… almost 12 hours of moving! Ahhh! It was only supposed to be a few hours!! Oh well… it was kinda fun…and it was cool seeing her house. I need one of them… planning on it within the next year… hopefully I’ll have one by this time next year!! Exciting!!

Just an interesting footnote that I thought of real quick… Molson Canadian is cheaper here in The States than in Canada, go figure.

This week… it’s going to be great. Granted, it’s half over, so I kinda know how it’s going to be turning out already, but whatever. So, #1 reason why this week will rock… Spider-Man is out! YEAH!! Totally awesome! Seeing it at the Cine Capri at 6.10 after work… already have my ticket and everything! What sucks is that movies at the Cine Capri cost more than at the other theatres in the same building! Yes, instead of $8 for the movie, it’s $9… I could have gotten it for $7.50 if I had remembered my student ID, damn it!

Other reasons why this week is going to rock… I get to see my friend Kaci from NAU for the first time in almost a year! How is it that two people can live in the same city, yet not make the time to get together more than once a year? How strange… Anyway, that’s going to be great, there is sooo much for us to catch up on and all that stuff. And when I mean we don’t see each other, I mean we don’t even call or email or anything… isn’t that weird? Maybe an IM every once in a while if we’re both on-line at the same time… but that’s rare! Another reason… This weekend is a long weekend! Who doesn’t love holiday weekends? What’s even better is that it’s the 4th of July weekend… probably the second best Holiday in my book. Of course, I know some people don’t feel that way, but that’s ok… I guess (j/k). Let me see.. what else is kick ass about this week… oh yeah, my supervisor is still in Hawaii working (or so we are to believe) and won’t be back until Thursday… that means a bit of slacking off at work is in order… yeah!! So yeah, this week kicks ass and is going to be great!

Another side note… I LOVE MY CAR!!

Now, on to the movies I have recently seen…

My scoring table: (a bit harsh?)

* crap
** ok, but still crap
*** rental worthy, a bit of crap
**** definitely recommend seeing on the big screen, but rental if you just can’t make it – no crap here.
***** if you don’t see this movie in the theatre, God will hate you. – Absolutely no crap here, you should probably even see this one twice.

Love Me If You Dare (Independent) **
Ok, the trailer for this movie made it look like it would actually be good. Oh My God. Ok, first of all, the movie is subtitled (unless you speak French) which means that the movie has to be relatively good to keep your interest. Nope, no interest here… and I actually got lost half way through… the story started out good but then it seemed like the writer lost his way and the story just went to pieces… crazy. I do not recommend seeing this movie at all… unless you can see it for free somehow.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ***
Again, a movie that had an awesome trailer, but all the good parts are in the preview, save a few. So yeah, it was funny… but kind of dumb. Ben Stiller’s character reminded me too much of Zoolander (not a bad thing if you’re watching Zoolander). Also, some jokes were only funny if you are under the age of 12… I gave this movie 3 stars just because I think it’s ok to see in your own home, but I don’t believe that you should pay to see it in the theatre.

Saved! (Just saw it today!) ****
Ok, totally not what I expected this movie to be but it’s really good. There are funny parts, some hidden sexual references, etc… all well and good.. some nice poking fun of crazy Christian extremists… stereotyped people you would know if you attended a Christian school (i did, so it was even more funny and I can attest to the fact that it’s scarily accurate at times). But, this movie stuck to it’s title, not in a spiritual sense, but in just a general life sense… the life of a teenage girl, even a bit of what all teenagers go through during those awkward high school years. Anyway, I recommend seeing this movie in the theatre… it’s not as popular as it could have been so it’s exiting the theatres fast… so see it ASAP. Yeah, a great movie… all the elements of a good film… comedy (jokes, pranks, midgets, etc) and drama packaged together perfectly. I won’t lie, I have nothing to hide, some parts of this movie made me a bit watery eyed.. yup, exactly, how crazy is that?? (not so crazy when you can apply some situations to things that have happened to you or ppl you know in your life). Ok, enough of this, just go see it, you won’t be disappointed!

Spider-Man 2 – A REVIEW TO COME TOMORROW (I’m anticipating 5 star rating)

A Side Note – Again – DBacks Lose 11th Straight! Yeah! We Rock! On a happy note, Randy Johnson reached 4000 career strikeouts tonight! Amazing!!!

Oooo! Another side note – Britney Spears. WTF? Why would you marry someone who is having a child with another woman in the next few weeks?? What? What? What? I have no other words… What????

Ok, that’s all for this update, I believe. I can’t think of anything else….

Funny…

Some funny things;

The word funny (doesn’t it just look kind of strange spelled out??)
Canadians
Southpark
Canadians
Many things at HomeStarRunner.com
The word chipper… well, it’s not really funny, but it made me laugh tonight when I picked it…

and of course, Canadians

I’m a slacker, or am I just busy??

*-*-* Warning: The text below contains the American spelling of the English language. Please cease reading if you become confused or disoriented while reading. I understand that some people just can’t handle our superior, more sensible way of spelling words. *-*-*

Ok, so I’ve been really bad at keeping up on my posts here… but this next week will be much less hectic than the past week was.

Normally I only work the weekend baseball games at the BOB (which, btw, will have a new name come December, how sad). But this last week was Yankees week so they needed all the help the could get. So guess who stepped up? That’s right, me. So I went to my real job at 7.30am, left there by 4.15 to arrive at the game by 5pm and worked until after 9.30pm and got to bed by 11pm so I could rise at 5.30am to do it all over again… not much fun. But the D-Backs are on the road for 10 days, whew! Of course, they only won one game this home stand, out of 6 games played… boooo!! oh well!! (we took 2 of 3 from the Jays last week, so it’s all good).

This upcoming week will be filled by movies… I have too many to see and not enough time to see them in. Top three on my list are Love Me If You Dare, Dodge Ball, and Saved! (the last one is going to be great!)

Ok, time for bed, I have work tomorrow… yuck!

It’s Saturday Night… 9 PM…

So why am I at home and posting to my journal?? Oh yeah, that’s right… still a bit under the weather… Oh wait, would I still be at home even if I wasn’t sick… yeah, probably. It’s very sad. I have too many friends that are still at University (a year behind me) or have just plain moved out of this place called Phoenix. Hmmmm… how lonely it is here… and I never realized how hard it was to meet people once you get out of school… wow, this post is bumming me out. I need to find some more friends, but how exactly do you go about doing that? hmmmm…

Ok, that’s about all for this post. Here’s my running tally (starting today) of Saturday night’s that I’m at home… (1)

Oh and it’ll definitely get worse before it gets better… remember how i mentioned that my best friend is moving to Seattle? Six days and counting… :(

Friends and things…

Ok, so don’t you hate it when you’re mad at someone but before you can tell them so they tell you something that would make you look like a jerk if you were mad at them at that moment???

So, I went to Troy today after work with my best friend. She’s the kind of person who hates it when you’re late but it’s ok if she shows up late… that sort of thing, so it’s sort of expected that she will not show up when she says if we’re not driving someplace together. Anyway, the movie started at 5.30 and she was a no show until 5.50… really pissed me off since i drove from extreme north scottsdale all the way to downtown phoenix in about 40 mins and was at the theater at 5pm as it was agreed. Anyway, so i was mad about that and I figured I would say something about it… but before I could do so, she throws out the information that Microsoft has finally got all their shit together and she’ll be moving to Seattle a week from Friday! Holy crap! I swear, i knew it was going to happen, but I figured it’d be the middle of June or something, at least. Never expected it so soon! So yeah, couldn’t so much mention the whole late issue (mostly because I forgot about it!). Oh well, I guess there is no amount of preparation you can have for a friend moving away… makes me very sad… oh well… just means i’ll have to plan many vacations to the Seattle area.

A few more closing notes… Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game tonight (SWEET!) Maybe this will get the team fired up?? Who knows, because we were just swept by the damn Expos! And it’s FREAKING HOT here, way to early in the summer for 101+ temps! AHHH! Ok, that’s all for now… still fighting this cold, so staying up is not conducive to getting better.