Ready for the weekend

Same old same old, long work week and ready to relax. Not sure about tonight yet. I'm up for pretty much anything, so we'll see what comes along. Tomorrow night will be fun.

I haven't done much for cooking anything lately... that needs to change. I'll try to cook something up this weekend....

For the first time in about two weeks...

I'm awake. And I'm seeing things I haven't been seeing. I realized today that a STUPID mistake at work cost me two days of data, so I'll be going in early tomorrow...

Another idiot move had me short some cash when I went to pay for my oil change yesterday. I had a lot of bad crap wrong with my car so they fixed up a bunch of stuff, and wow does the bill add up. I got about a $15 discount thanks to my stupidity, I'm lucky they just took off the amount I was short. I suppose they were happy I had all that work done and the discount was worth it, I don't know. But man did I feel stupid.

The goal for the rest of the week is to NOT SCREW UP. No more wondering what the hell I was thinking. Man I do some dumb things when I'm tired.

So far the only plans for the weekend are S's b-day on Saturday, where I'm going to plaster everyone in laser tag. Unless I'm plastered myself. Should be fun either way though.

Some random stuff

Finally got my hair cut yesterday. That feels good.

I dropped off some dry cleaning yesterday and just happened to drop it off right at closing time. I recognized the horror in the cashier's face as she had to deal with me as she was ready to leave. I apologized to her as I know that it sucks when you're waiting around to leave your job then someone walks in at the last second. She gave me a joking snobby reply and a smile, and the three girls working all laughed as I did too, which lightened the mood. Maybe I'm imagining things but I think the other two girls in the back were staring at me... I took a piece of candy as I left and the cashier girl said "Oh I like those too. But she (her friend) doesn't though, she's stupid" (or something like that). We exchanged smiles and as I walked out I got two goodbyes. Am I a retard? Can I ask out my dry cleaner? I stopped myself since I'm already pretty much banned from the Applebee's which is right next door. We'll see what happens at pick-up time on Wednesday.

To do today

1. Schedule a haircut. My top is a damn mop right now.

2. Workout.

3. Watch 24.

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On another note, what weird weather today. When I left my house, it was raining. As I was driving to work, it had turned to snow. When I got to work, it was raining again.

Oh yeah, wtf is with TCF bank? Somehow, some way, they lost track that I had an ATM/debit card with their bank. It says that I have never had one. The teller is telling me this as I'm waving my debit card in her face. So now I can't do anything with a debit card (not necessarily a bad thing) until I get a new one in the mail. Seriously, how does this happen???

Good morning

Wow, it was actually easy to get up this morning after a restful weekend. I accomplished most of the things on my to do list, but a few things remain to be done. Overall I'm happy with my productive weekend.

Wisco had quite the hockey game in the men's NCAA tournament last night against Cornell. They pulled off a win in the third overtime with the only goal of the game. Nice. The Frozen Four is in about a week and a half, so I'll be looking forward to that. If only they had done that while I was still in college...

Relaxed

Wow, I actually took it easy last night. Didn't do a damn thing, didn't go out, just ordered a pizza and stayed in my pjs. Got some good sleep, and feel great today.

Friday night was pretty low key as well, I was at my friend's place on Grand Ave. but we stayed there the whole night.

Feels good. Almost euphoric.

This weekend

I was thinking about staying in tonight as I have a lot of things I would like to take care of, but I decided that it's not worth spending a Friday night doing them all. Some of the things I would like to get done this weekend include hair dying, workout twice, hair cut, dry cleaning, walgreens, oil change, and cleaning my room.

I've had quite a sleep deprived week but a case of Red Bull has helped me stay awake. I think my hourly sleep for the past week or so has been 5, 3, 6, 5, 3, 5, and 4 hours. Is this healthy. Probably not. Am I enjoying doing stuff for 20 hours a day rather than 16? Probably. Why, why must we sleep, damn it?

Tonight I'm going to get home, work out, then go out. The only thing I don't like about this is that like the rest of my work week, it feels routine. Same thing every week, not much to look forward to but the weekends now. I was spoiled when I started working as I had Thanksgiving and Xmas in the first two months of working. Bah.

I think I'm going to buy a dartboard. Why? Because I like darts. And I like boards. And when I get the two together, yessssss. My roommate said he'd go half on it with me, which is cool. But that presents a problem for the future, who gets it when we move out? Hmm. I say we play for it when the time comes. All this dart talk has me itchin' for some cricket. Cut-throat, of course.

Bored

so bored

Learnin' the neighborhood

So after work today I drove around to get to know the area a bit better. I found another Applebee's close by so I don't have to go to the one like a mile away... I also found a new back way home, which is good to know for, well just good to know. I also found a Punch pizza, which is cool. Slowly I am moving away from being lost in my own neighborhood. So am I moving towards being found? Sure.

Tomorrow: high pressure demo, worth going to bed now for
Friday: 99.9999999% chance of being downtown
Saturday: I am going to mess up M's clean house so LOOK OUT
Sunday: ???

Costco

So I popped my Costco cherry today. I'd say it's the exact same as Sam's Club, but wow, do they have samples! I'm serious, I could eat there for lunch for free. I had Ahi tuna, tilapia, spinach parmesan ravioli, and barbecue pulled pork. There were many more samples that I passed on too. I've been to Sam's numerous times, and here is a list of the free samples I've had there:






Here's that same list in Japanese:






For those Germans out there, here's one in Deutsch:






So yeah, I'd pick Costco over Sam's Club any day because of this. Samples rule!

Something to think about

Yesterday someone at work told me that they thought I probably wouldn't meet my future partner in a bar. I have thought about this before, and I agree. So what the hell am I doing every weekend going to bars? Well I suppose I'm just out to have a good time for now. But that's something to think about.

Whoa

What an f'ed up dream I had last night. I won't get into specific details as I don't want to scare the crap out of people, but basically I somehow ended up with AIDS. WTF??!!?!?!?!??!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??! I woke up pretty happy that it was just a dream...

Yesterday I finally picked up some decent dumbbells, which is a nice upgrade from my circular weights on a broomstick.

I've got a list of stuff to do this week, and I'm going to try to get a lot of it done during my lunch hours. Pants hemming, dry cleaning, oil change, haircut. I'm starting to feel like I'm wearing a winter hat my hair is so thick right now.

Oh yeah, my friend that's going into the army showed me a music video he saw a lot in Europe all the time, its "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz. He watched the video at least 3 times while I was at his place on Saturday. I know because I was standing behind him all three times. Let's just say the video is HOT. I recommend downloading it ^_^

Tired and more tired

So we sent off our friend last night as he's headed to the army. I only had two cups early in the night as I had to drive home later. I finally said my last goodbye at around 3 am and didn't get to bed until 6:30.

Up again at 9:30 as I had a breakfast with two mat sci buddies from Madison. It was good to see them too, and we all agreed we should have gone out more as a department, but oh well. I got to briefly show them my house which surprised them, which wasn't surprising to me. The rest of the day today was me in a chair watching NCAA basketball eating macadamia nuts. I think I'm rambling, so I'll cut this off and cut off my being awake too. 'nite!

A good and green night

Another fun night out with "sneaky" who I haven't seen in months. She was her usual talkative self and probably outdrank me. Somehow she agreed to work at 9 in the morning today, and she actually made it. The people out were decked out in green and weren't holding anything back. We went to O'Gara's, which was completely packed. No huge events, just another fun night out.

I need to make myself sleep on the weekends, as I was up until 11 am and slept until 4 pm. Craziness.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I'm an eighth Irish, if you didn't know. Actually, that's a lie.

Tonight I have a friend I'm going out with that I haven't seen in awhile. She actually is part Irish, and she's ready to go. Not sure where we're headed yet, just know it should be a fun time.

It's been quite a week, with a day and a half off and I think the best week financially in poker in my life. Hopefully the good week continues on into the weekend.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Weekend

Tomorrow: St Patty's Day... out somewhere
Saturday: Friend's going away (to army) party

Lots of snow again today, nice and not nice. Nice because it's fun to play in, not nice because I don't have time to play in it and driving sucks.

I think this stomach flu thing is gone, thank goodness. That was not cool for awhile.

Tonight: pay bills, clean house, grocery shop, run. I hope I have time to do all of this.

Thanks to the other blog, I'm financially stable again. Best Lent decision change ever. It was pretty irrational to try to give up the only thing that could help my climb out of my debt to the roommates faster than a snail's pace.

What a day and a half off

The poker blog is back. That's what I did during the time I was at home sick with the stomach flu the past two days. My stomach is still a little weird but there's no nausea. But I still have this nagging headache that hasn't gone away all day, I started having it when the stomach ache started on Monday. I opted not to go to see the doctor yet as I still think I can tough this out, but if it gets as bad as it did on Monday again, I'm making myself go. Damn sickness.

Now I'm stuck with a decision to either get about 4 hours of sleep or to just stay up. I'm not tired at all, as I woke up at 2 PM. Hmm... I'll think about it for the next few hours...

I hate being sick

So I upchucked a little at work yesterday... I had just finished eating some cheetos (yeah yeah I know they're horrible) and my stomach started killing. It got so bad I couldn't concentrate on what I was doing so I went to the restroom and did the deed. I went home and the bad feeling stuck around but gradually went away. This was the same feeling I had last week from what I thought was food poisoning but this was worse. I don't know if the two are connected but if these symptoms keep up I'll have to go to the doc, which I'd rather not do. I'm at home today resting which will hopefully help my body.

I really should change this blog name to something else as I always seem to be sneaking in tidbits about work and poker even though I'd rather not talk about them. I'll think about that for a bit... any suggestions to new blog names?

Snow!

Holy crap, I woke up today to a buttload of snow. It took me 45 minutes to work, but seeing the number of cars in the parking lot, I'm guessing it will be a lot longer for some people.

What's on tap for the week...

Monday: catfish for dinner, 24, run/lift, poker

Tuesday: beef roast for dinner, The Shield, run/lift, poker

Wednesday: dye hair

Thursday: haircut, run/lift, poker

Friday: seriously, it's Friday, what do you think I'm doing

Saturday: see Friday

It's nice to have decent food for the week, mmm

S&M, was your karate thing really at the Mpls Convention Center? I saw people walking around with huge trophies...

M - Try talking with a southern drawl and see if you fool anyone, come on it'll be fun :)

S - Are you planning on coming in anytime this week? No seriously are you, ha. But really, are you coming...

Another weekend

Friday was another "Grand" night starting at my friend's apartment on Grand Ave. Somehow I discovered the most dangerous drink I've ever made. I thought it would be just another vodka lemonade, but you could not taste anything but lemonade in a half vodka-half lemonade mix. I made them for two others and they didn't believe me until they made their second themselves. This is how you make it: buy a big bottle of lemon juice from concentrate, I used a 32 oz. bottle of ReaLemon. Mix 1/2 cup of lemon juice with 1/2 cup of sugar in 3.5-4 cups of water, depending on your preference. That's all for the lemonade, very simple. I used Ketel One vodka, I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. A half and half mix of Ketel One and this lemonade over ice was pure danger. Continuing on with the night, we ended up at Drink, again. Pretty much a same old story kind of night there, and we got back to the Grand apartment where I made a 4 AM breakfast consisting of ham & cheese omelettes, hash browns, and bacon. We also bought two fat red hot burritos from the gas station. Pure horror for your body, but hey, it tasted good at the time. Last time I saw the clock was oh, 5 or so...

Saturday night was another fun one. A last minute rollerskating cancellation left me with my roommate who just got back from AZ. He was at a spring training game in the outfield behind a fence and ended up being in the background for a top 10 play on Sportscenter, pretty cool. I'll have to look for that. Anyways, he got home from work around 6:30 and pretty much dragged me out, as I had planned on a low-key night, but I'm glad I went with him to St. Cloud. We ended up at the Red Carpet as usual but couldn't find our regular bartender right away. We ended up finding her in a part of this huge bar that I've never been, the martini bar. So we were sitting at the martini bar among a much older and calmer crowd, but it didn't stop us from being our usual selves. We had some good laughs and at the end of the night we gave the bar staff a round of applause, which was pretty funny in itself, as they were taken aback and eventually gave a bow. I fell asleep pretty fast when we got back to my friends' place and slept a good nine hours, which feels great today.

When I woke up today I heard one of the most disgusting stories I've ever heard. The guys in St. Cloud have a friend they call "Snake", and they start talking about this video they call "Snake eats poop." At first I didn't think this could possible be what I thought it was. It was. For a mere $50, this guy got drunk and chewed and ate his own poo in front of about 20 people I guess, and four of them instantly puked. I almost gagged just from hearing the story. He had his poo in tinfoil from the night before because he was gonna use it for some prank, and then people starting egging him on. Great. To make things grosser than gross, some people asked him if he'd drink his own pee for $20, and he said "well how much do I have to drink." Wow. What's amazing about this is that it was caught on video... but some people in the video were wearing their frat logos or something so the frat ended up hunting down and destroying every copy. Well, almost. My roommate still has a copy from when he went to St. Cloud on his computer which hasn't worked for months, so a plan was devised to get that off of his computer somehow. If this thing ever got on the internet, I'm 100% positive it would spread like wildfire. Sick.

To end my weekend I went to the Auto Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center with my roommates. I don't know much about cars, but all of the new cars I saw were sick. I can't even imagine owning some of those as I would be freaking out over preventing damage/scratching/dents/stains etc. Someday, someday... that would require money or getting lucky in some drawing.

So yeah, that was my weekend, pretty low key, ha ^_^

Spring fever, etc.

CRAP. This day was going to come, and it finally has. It's soo nice out today, which unfortunately makes me want to be somewhere... well other than work.

I might be a bad Christian and break my Lent sacrifice tomorrow. I know I wouldn't be breaking it because I just can't go without it, but what I can get from it is something I could use pretty badly right now. I'd say there's a 90% chance this is happening. This week off has been plenty to re-realize the value of a dollar, as today I used a very old lottery ticket and quarters to buy $4.25 worth of gas to make it until payday. Blah, one of these days this won't be a problem.

Enough negativity. Moving onto the weekend... nothing set in stone as of yet, one night might be old-school rollerskating with MD, I'd like to see her try a kick on skates, ha! Well she'll probably learn fast and be flying and kicking on wires and skates by the time it's over, knowing her relentless ability to focus...

Oh yeah, S you suck, because you're in hot weather and golfing. I hope you shank one next to a rattlesnake and he attacks your "god-given watering hose." Whoa, just kidding, that's a bit harsh! About the shank thing, I mean. Hehehe...

I'm so sneaky

...except the opposite. I swear I get caught doing EVERYTHING. Those who know me know what I'm talking about. ____ing, ____ing, ____ing, ____ing, ____ing, you get the idea. It's a good thing that most of it was when I was young(er) and reckless. So yeah, I've matured. But what am I going to be looking back on in another five years or so? There will be things. Is it destiny? I don't think so. I like to think that I have control over what happens to me, and if I want something to happen, I can make it happen. Even if it takes... two-hundred years. I'll make it happen. What? Serious just met goofy. g'night ^_^

Sometimes I question my common sense

Food poisoned for over a day now, not cool. It's from leaving out my spaghetti pizza with italian sausage for a few hours before I put it in the fridge. I had some for lunch yesterday and ever since there have been abdominal cramps, sweating, itching, and just feeling like crap. This is not the first time I've had food poisoning... there is one instance that really sticks out...

It was sophomore year in college, it was a Thursday, and I got McDonald's breakfast, along with two apple pies for a buck. Each apple pie comes in its own little box, so I put one in my backpack for later that day. I didn't eat it Thursday. Or Friday. Saturday passed, then Sunday. Then Monday night I'm going through my backpack and I find the pie. It looked good, so I smelled it and examined it. It looked okay. So I ate it. STUPID. 20 minutes later I was in the bathroom and inhaling antacid. That has to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever done. Seriously, who eats a four and a half-day old apple pie from McDonald's that's been sitting in a backpack? Well morons do, making me a moron.

Stupid food poisoning.

The best way to enjoy an oatmeal creme pie

You know, those Little Debbie treats?

1. Buy Oatmeal Creme Pies
2. Open box, take out one individually wrapped treat but don't open it
3. Smoosh and mash treat around thoroughly until creme and cookies are indistinguishable; should be a brown blob of uniform color and consistency
4. Shape blob into coarse rod shape, not too smooth
5. Take blob out of wrapper and put into open public place where it can be easily seen but won't get smushed, like in front of a pop machine or in a drinking fountain
6. Watch people freak out!

If you haven't guessed, Oatmeal Creme Pies make good fake poo :P

This post was created in response to MD's crazy post.

A special request?

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My roommate asked me to make him something that I sort of invented earlier, spaghetti pizza. Wow, I made something worth requesting again? Cool.

On another note, it's great having a pristine house again, I keep thinking there's something I need to clean up, but there isn't! Happy.

Spontaneous combustion

9:49 make plans
9:56 leave
10:15 arrive at friend's
10:16 bud light
10:30 maker's mark, neat
10:35 maker's mark, neat
10:45 maker's mark, neat
10:55 bud light shotgun
11:00 cab to bars
11:15 arrive at bar, vodka tonic x 3/irish car bomb
2:00 leave bar
2:30 cab to girl's house who friend met
2:5? arrive at girl's house
3:00 a-bar/chatter
4:00 friend goes to room with girl, i fall asleep
5:15 get woken up by friend, another friend got mad and left
5:30 walk towards ??? to find friend / get cab, freezing ass off
5:45 get cab
6:00 couchzzzz

A day of cleaning

Didn't go out last night, despite my wanting to very badly... oh well that's at least $50 saved... and no hangover, priceless!

I finally got some housework done. My room, laundry, bathroom, hall, kitchen, dining room, den. Pretty much every room. That took a good five or six hours, and I'm looking around quite satisfied right now. Now what to do with myself? One roommate is in AZ, and the other's off doing his own thing already... bah, I'll have to drive won't I. Or will I? Who to call, who to call... I have a few in mind, but it's workout time now...

What do do?

Tonight, no plans. Tomorrow night, no plans. Hmm...

Got to the bottom of that friend's problem, so it's good to know where they're at now, for my own sanity. Hope everything goes okay there.

I'm totally blanking, so I'll just fill the rest of this post in with another song stuck in my head.

Carl Thomas - I Wish

It was love at first sight
I know from the way she looked at me
Her eyes said it all
Long days and nights, we spent
Until she dropped the bomb on me
When she said that she
Was unhappily married with children

And I wish I never met her at all
Even though I love her so
She got love from me
But she still belongs to someone else

It hurts so bad, for sure
Because she wants to be with me
But she cannot be with me
She chose to stay, at home
So they could be a family
For the children
But what about me?

And I wish I never met her at all
Even though I love her so
She got love from me
But she still belongs to someone else

Maybe in another life
Things could be the way we both desired
It's a catch-22
Either way it hurts
Someone that you lose

And I wish I never met her at all
Even though I love her so
She got love from me
But she still belongs to someone else

And I wish I never met her at all
Even though I love her so
She got love from me
But she still belongs to someone else

I wish I wish I never met her at all
I wouldn't hurt so much inside
Oh I wouldn't feel this pain
If I never met her at all, at all, at all
Wish I never, wish I never

This is relief

I came home and instantly went to my basement for a workout, as I knew I had nothing else to do. It was great. I'm gonna get so much done thanks to my Lent decision...

Thanks to S, my mind is has been on golf lately. When I start thinking about golf, I start phantom swinging randomly, so if I happen to hit anyone, sorry! I'm setting a goal to break 80 this year. That would be cool.

While almost everything is great right now, there's one thing bothering me. I think someone I'm close to has something bothering them greatly, and that bothers me. I'm going to work to get to the bottom of this and do what I can to help out. It hurts to see someone I care about hurt.

Hmm, that's all for now. Bye!

Glad

...that I gave up what I gave up for Lent. I have a huge list of stuff I want to do before 40 days are up, stuff that would not normally get done. Stuff like cleaning my entire house, organizing stuff on my computer, planning out my meals more efficiently, cleaning my car, getting back into a more routine workout schedule, and keeping up with friends from different groups.

This weekend I might not go out at all. I didn't relax at all this past weekend, which I need to do once in a while. I haven't had a good night's sleep in a long time, either. We'll see what happens.

Lent

Unable to sleep from 11-12 or so, I got up, cooked lunch, cleaned up the kitchen, and pondered about something that has been on my mind for awhile. After a lot of thought, I found something to give up for lent. This is something that is a big part of my life but has had a negative effect as of late. So, I gave it up. When the 40 days have passed, I will be very refreshed and everything else in my life should be well caught up.

I was going to go out for Fat Tuesday tonight, but I got home and was so tired that I knew it wasn't going to happen. Then I tried to fall asleep but I was so tired that I just couldn't. I hate that, gosh!