April has been brought to you by the lucky number 7!
4. Pick a hair color and stick with it for a while
--Dyed it blonde...again...it is looking a lot more natural!
26. See Naked Boys Singing
--I ordered my tickets!!
32. Go to at least 1 art show
--Yay for Gabriel!!!
37. Watch 3 80s movies I have never seen before
--The Gate - crucial 80s moment: playing record backwards unleashes the devil
--Girls Just Want to Have Fun - crucial 80s moment: dance off!
--Can't Buy Me Love - crucial 80s moment: entire school breaks into choreographed dance moves at school dance
39. Watch every Hellraiser movie
--Hellrasier - Jesus Wept
--Hellbound: Hellrasier II - He's ba-ack
--Hellrasier III: Hell on Earth - I remember watching this when I was 12.
--Hellraiser: Bloodline - every horror series has an obligatory movie that explains the origins and an obligatory movie that takes place well in the future. This one was both.
--Hellraiser: Inferno - detective crime movie. I think Pinhead was in it for 30 seconds.
--Hellrasier: Hellseeker - I remember seeing this before, but can't place where or when for the life of me.
--Hellraiser: Deader - my favorite part was when the reporter from LONDON bribes a landlord from ROMANIA with an AMERICAN $20
--Hellraiser: Hellworld - the one where Pinhead learns to use the internet.
51. Read ten Pulitzer Prize winning books
--Read "A Thousand Acres" (1991) - four down! I first read this in one day my senior year in high school. Not in one day because it was a can't-put-it-down book, but becasue I was a lazy student who put everything off 'till the last minute. I took a day off from school and sat in bed to read it all day for the test the next day. :) That said, it is an excellent book.
53. Read A Million Little Pieces
--Finished it today! Yeah, it sucks that he felt he had to make shit up. Yeah, it sucks that I really didn't feel his addiction. Yeah, it sucks that he for some reason capitalized a bunch of random words. So...other than that it was a decent book and I actually enjoyed reading it and actually cried. I read and skimmed over the smoking gun page that first accused him of lying (by the way, when did tmz.com replace thesmokinggun.com in the leak all the celebrity gossip before anyone else category? I mean, when is the last time smoking gun leaked anything??). The thing I found funny was how they kept saying it was so surprising that Oprah picked this book because it was so gruesome. Maybe I am immune to things from all the horror films I watch, 'cause I didn't think it was that graphic at all. :)
72. Learn to use my ipod and get all my music on it
--I got about 40 cds on it. but the cd player on my poor pinkie is broken and I haven't gotten around to taking it to get fixed yet. Also, MK still has a bunch of CDs that I left at his place over a year ago now. :(
73. Go golfing
--Nope, 'cause a certain someone never invites me :(
82. See Takeru Kobayashi
--Nope, but if I become a Bunnette I bet I will!
83. Knock off some fun Illinois attractions
--Planning an awesometacular roadtrip that may include some of these awesometacular sites!
85. Bake once a month
--Blueberry muffins!
88. Go to Adobo for guac and margs
--mmmm, guac and margs!
95. Orange for brunch
--mmmm, frushi!
97. Enter a recipe contest
--Entered my yummy Pineapple Chicken Pockets in the Pillsbury Bakeoff!!!
Val:: what horror films have taught me is that the way to find a man to fall in love with is to go to a party with a bunch of friends, and then have all of them die but me and that guy and then we fall in love over the process of trying to survive together Val:: you're never going to invite me to a party again, are you? :-( JoeJoe:: well ... the deal seems to be that everyone would die but me JoeJoe:: depending on who i invite, this could go ok Val:: so then alina dies, the two of us are fine and we fall in love? JoeJoe:: fat chance i'd invite her Val:: :-(
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Val:: i am applying to be a bunette Sid:: better get good letters of recommendation Val:: you can attest for me Val:: basically a bunettes are the girls who hold up the signs saying how much was eaten at eating contests :-) Sid:: ooooh, bunette Sid:: i read brunette Sid:: and thought you were talking about dyeing your hair Val:: haha, nono Val:: i do not need to apply for that Val:: and i am sticking with blonde Sid:: fair enough Val:: i can't believe i am actually applying for this Val:: i have to send in my photo Sid:: better ho it up for the photo Val:: haha, i tried Val:: but then i cut out my chest from the photo Sid:: why? Sid:: that's like taking a vow of silence before a job interview Val:: hahaha Val:: i figure a pic of my chest could only hrt me Sid:: now they'll know you're up to something though
Last night Cynthia and I went to see her friend Gabe's art show at the Merchandise Mart. It was pretty cool. The show itself was in a kitchen-design store. Awesome, eh? And his art was pretty good. When I met him he said that his mother named him Gabriel, so he always introduces himself as Gabriel and lets people gradually call him Gabe once he knows them...sound like someone you know??? His art was really nice. Mixed media put together with strips of magazines and newspaper clippings to make a scene (I do not know anything about art so I am merely using terms I think are correct). Very cool. He said he just uses things he finds around the house.
After walking through, drinking some wine, and eating some fruit (kumquats maybe?) and yummy cheese we decided to check out the rest of what was going on there. Now, Gabe's show lasted until 9, so we assumed that the other shows going on there did too, so we bought a ticket and went up to check out the other art show...but then about 15 minutes later they kicked us out :( Apparently they were definitely two different things and that thing ended at 7. Ooops.
So we went out to find some food and stopped at Lalo's where we got yummy food, free soup, and planned our weddings. :)
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Today so far I watched some Hellraiser and did some shopping. I went to Victoria's Secret and when I walked in there was a girl in there, maybe 13. She was seriously standing there in the PINK section with her mouth wide open and her hands in jazz hands at her sides and she's saying "I'M...IN...HEAVEN!!!!" and running around touching everything. She wasn't even one of those 13 year olds I normally see in there who are decked out in all designer wear and wearing more makeup then I've ever worn in my life. ope, she was kind of normal looking. Anyway, I guess VS has found a good way to create brand loyalty young.
Then I came home and baked some blueberry muffins:
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I am now addicted to the Dulce de Leche Latte at Starbucks. It tastes just like how I took my coffee when I was a kid (yes, I've been drinking coffee for as long as I can remember) where it was about a third coffee, a third milk, and a third sugar. YUM!
I guess I have to do my weekly tv update for you...
1. The Apprentice
I'm happy that Stefani won. I liked her the best, if only because I still think she looked the most like someone who should work for Trump (well, before she died her hair). Besides, it wasn't her fault that the dumb new rules of the show prevented her from ever being PM. Well, if nothing else this show reminded me of why I gave up watching it 2 seasons ago.
2. 24
Ummm, quite honestly I don't even remember much that happened this week. All I know is that if some hot guy was brave enough to battle terrorists to save me I would bother to remember who he was. Any takers?
3. Americas Next Top Model
:( I forgot to tape it tonight. Luckily they always repeat it on Sunday.
4. American Idol
What the fuck American Idol? WHAT. THE. FUCK? After how many years of pulling off show upon show every year, don't you think they could do a little better job at throwing together a charity shindig? If you don't know (and I am assuming that 99.9% of my readership doesn't) tonight American Idol put on a 2-hour charity event to raise money for Africa. And it was quite possibly the choppiest most boring show ever. Yes, the footage of poverty is heartbreaking and yes they raised money and that should be the point (never mind the fact that the money they raised is only a tiny portion of what the show actually brings in each week...) But Seacrest couldn't put together a coherent sentence to save his life (at one point he just looked at Paula and said "you're short.") And then you put together a performance between Celine Dion and ELVIS. And then you still spend the whole night making fun of Sanjaya. And then you for some reason bump off all of the acts you've been promising for weeks! Umm, where were Mr. Bean, Harry Potter, Pink, Borat, Gwen Stefani??? You cut a hell of a lot of people that we were promised.
And then you go through the whole show promising the most socking elimination, make us think Jordan is going home, and then say that you are not voting anyone off on charity night. Yes, that would be the good, compassionate thing to do...if you had said that in the beginning and not made the poor contestant cry! Seriously, it was the worst show ever! Jack Black and the Simpsons were the only highlights.
5. Dinner Impossible
Just wanted to say that this is my new favorite show :)
1. Look up obscure 1969 made for TV movies by Jim Henson (yes, the real Jim Henson) that are similar to the movie Cube (if you've never seen Cube, watch it) and that you've wanted to see for years.
2. This:
3. Watch the Simpsons in Spanish...and not because you mean to...but because you accidentally hit the SAP button and don't realize that its on SAP because its the Simpsons, and you don't put it past them to be speaking SPanish for some reason.
So, my best friend is getting married, and you know what that means. If you're thinking that it means that I should RSVP already since the deadline is in 2 days, you're wrong! Well, you're right, but that's not what I was talking about! What it means is...BACHELORETTE PARTY!
Friday night after work I met up with Nadia at her skanking (I meant to type spanking, and considered correcting it, but I think this is more appropriate) new West Loop condo. We then took off to pick up her sister at the Rainbow store. There are apparently two Rainbows within a few blocks of each other. Crazy. -Nadia: Which entrance do you think we should go in? -Me: Umm, the one right there where your sister is standing.
Nadia bought a shirt because she hated everything she brought and we determined that Rainbow is the perfect store for cheap crap you only plan on wearing once. The saleswoman was overly excited over the shirt Nadia picked out because she was the one who ordered it and no one else at the store thought she had good taste. And that's how klassy the Rainbow is.
After meeting Erika back at the condo, we all booked it over to the Sheritan, where we got all dolled up. I was going to wear this totally 80s top I bought, but then didn't really feel like looking totally 80s all night so I changed to the second outfit I brought because I am a girl and never leave home with just one outfit. This is important. This is what we literary types call "foreshadowing."
Then Nadia opened her presents and got many nice and scandalous things that I'm sure she doesn't want me discussing here. Lets just say that we now know more about "congress of a cow" than anyone should :)
We finally made it to Adobo Grill for dinner where we had THE BEST GUACAMOLE EVER. Seriously, it was perfect. And they make it fresh tableside to your specifications. I also had a delicious daiquiri and Nad had a coconut drink that was pretty darn cute. Dinner was OK, but I'm silly and somehow pictured the cheese casserole I ordered as being more like queso dip, and instead it had way too many peppers and nowhere near enough cheese. At the table we divvied up the cards for the That Guy Game... a card game where each card you are dealt has a different type of guy that you have to find. One of my cards was this one:
"Pager/Phone on Belt Guy" which totally made me laugh because there's a certain someone who will remain nameless that I ALWAYS make fun of for doing this :)
Right away waiting for the bathroom Nad scored finding one for her "Guy...errr....girl...errr...guy?" card. :)
Then it was off to the main event...RADIOSTAR!!!! and then we got there. and it was hip hop night. WHAT IN THE HELL IS AN 80S DANCE CLUB DOING HAVING HIP HOP NIGHT?!?!?! I at least was relieved that I did not wear my 80slicious outfit because then I would have looked sillydilly all night. End foreshadowing now.
So we headed off to Delilah's instead, which was fun...but definitely not an 80s dance club. While there we decided that we need to add a KB card because Nadia insisted that this one guy looked like this guy we went to high school with. We also conversed with "Too old to be there" guy and his friend "Married...but not tonight" guy.
Then it was off to some random bar I don't know the name of. All I know is that they would not let Nadia in by just showing her Target card, everyone assumed it was her birthday, and there was something in the air that made me start hacking up a lung from the moment we stepped in to the moment we stepped out. We also got a guy to give Nadia a buck (one of her dare cards)...although he had to ask around a lot before coming up with a dollar in change. Eh, it works.
Then it was back to the hotel where we ordered a pizza from what we dubbed "the best pizza in Chicago...that's open at 4am...and delivers to this particular hotel." Of course, when we called they said it would be an hour and we were all passed out when it came...then we scarfed it down...then we promptly fell back asleep.
Our bachelorette extravaganza ended today with brunch at Orange. YUMMY (and I won't say YUM-O, Nad was quite pissed at Rachael Ray for visiting her fav brunch spot). In fact, she refused to order the French Toast skewers because that's what Rachael had...but luckily for all of us...they decided to bring us an order out of the blue for free! Must have been Nadia's "brunch tiara" that did it. I got the most delicious cinnamon roll pancake that was filled with pecanny goodness and topped with frostingy goodness.
And we shared some yummy frushi (sushish things made entirely of rice and fruit). Oh, and we did bachelorette mad libs. Did you know that "penis" makes a good noun and penisy makes a good adjective? Thought so.
Pictures are here, most are password protected though (the orange ones are a freebie, because its mostly pics of food, yummy food). You can email me at val@valbromann.com (or at whichever email address you know, or through aim...) if you'd like the password...but no guarantees I'd give it to you. :)
I haven't been able to bring myself to read my horoscope for the last few days. I normally read both Capricorn and Aquarius for Georgia Nichols and Holiday Mathis (as printed in the Sun Times) every morning. In fact, I'd hate going through the day without reading them. And now, for some reason I am terrified of seeing them.
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Sanjaya is gone. :( I really wanted him to win.
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I probably shouldn't post this. You probably shouldn't watch this at work. But it's funny.
:)
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Still trying to be blonde...but I went well over a month without dying it! That's gotta be some kinda record!
I was scared that it would turn out too light, but then it turned out pretty dark. We'll see how it fades.
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I rented and watched "Can't Buy Me Love" That makes 3 80s movies and another cross off my list!!! Of course, there are still so many to see. The last time I hung out with MattyK, which was like 2 months ago, he had mentioned something about Indiana Jones and I said I'd never seen it. They thought that was blasphemous or something. He should make me watch that. :)
So Scotty McHotty got word yesterday that he's shipping off to phddom in Seattle. I was really happy for him until I realized I will be losing one Scotty. :( I guess I can go visit him though because he will be in valrydreamland of rain, coffee, and grungyboys...mmmm...maybe i should move with him!!!
Anyhoo, tonight we celebrated at the FroggyBar. I had two fuzzy navels (so much for giving up drinking) and some yummy bookbinders soup. Scott wouldn't buy me the $110 surf and turf...I told Andy that I'd sleep with him if he got it for me...he said then I'd "win" twice...I said yup, 'cause first I'd have the surf and then I'd have the turf...and I didn't quite realize how wrong that sounded :(
Rob and Cynthia and I decided to start a jazz band. I think that would rock.
I got to meet Jess for the first time, which meant lots more doggy pics!
Also, at the suggestion of Chris...it's time for another installment of Val rants about TV...
The Apprentice
This was quite possibly the worst final task ever on the show. It reminded me why I stopped watching this show three seasons ago. I thought the change of location, etc. might bring life back into it, but quite the opposite was true. Normally, Donald brings us down to 2 candidates and then has them each run a separate event. This time we had 2 teams of 4 and they had to make a horrible commercial. Usually when they make commercials the teams act them out themselves, and you could always blame the fact that they aren't (in theory) actors so therefore that was why they weren't any good. This time they got all the professionals they needed, and still sucked. So we didn't have that fierce one against one competition, we didn't get any special celebrity guests, we didn't get a good challenge, and then we didn't even get a firing. He;s going to choose between the four next week. I think he's trying to keep his options as wide open as possible because he doesn't want a repeat of that one season where he had to choose between an incompetent realtor and a woman whose claim to fame was that she could use a bedazzler.
American Idol
A statement of condolences towards Virginia Tech does not count if it is followed by "This is American Idol" and a theme song. A statement of condolences towards Virginia Tech does not count if it is used as an excuse for your singing being sucky. Just saying.
Country week is always bad. Sanjaya is being treated like the star. I hope he wins because it will show those damned producers! Simon finally told Melinda to stop acting like it's a big shock that she can sing well.
The Media
Seriously, this who Virginia Tech thing just makes me hate the news even more. I love it when the police are trying to be respectful and not release the names of victims until the families are notified so a reporter goes out to find any random student to report that a friend of a friend of their cousins was one of the guys who got shot. I also hate all the slack the school is getting for not "warning students." Did they expect a personalized singing telegram??? The first shooting was left 2 dead. Yes, it's tragic, but no, it isn't a reason to expect that anything worse is going to happen. If someone in my town was shot, I don't expect to be notified right away and locked down. I hear about it later in the news like everyone else.
So, I wanted to start knocking some things off my list. I am hoping that in the next two weeks to knock off five more. So might as well start easy by watching some movies...
I bought Hellraiser 2 earlier in the week (since I knew that none of the rental stores had that) and watched that. And tonight I wanted to watch Hellraiser 3...So I went to Blockbuster and nope, and Hollywood and nope, so I ended up going to Best Buy and just bought it.
While at Blockbuster I picked up Girls Just Want to Have Fun, 80s flick starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt which culminated in the quintesential dance off. Because my goal is to watch at least 3 80s movies I've never seen and this one had the same title as I named my year. So it was an obvious choice.
So I watched that and now am watching Hellraiser 3, and my boring old year continues. Who's betting that this one doesn't end in a dance off? My money's on Pinhead!
Speaking of movies...The Tripper sounds awesome! How can you go wrong with a serial killer who is obsessive over Ronald Reagan and goes around killing hippies!!! Anyone want to go?!?!?! Pleasepleaseplease?!?!?!?!
Speaking of the 80s...I can't wait for RadioStar on Friday night!!!!
1. Why bother showing the "previously on 24" thing at the beginning if you did a 180 and are now onto a completely different plotline?
2. This new plot would probably make a lot more sense if I knew who this Audrey person was.
3. This show would be a lot better if it was a romantic comedy focusing on Milo and Nadia. Or even if they brought back that storyline for a split second.
4. Does anyone else think they are prepping to kill off Jack and replace him with Silver Spoons??
5. I like how everyone thinks everything is all better now that the bombs were found...and no one seems to remember that one of them did go off only a couple of hours ago and probably is still in the process of killing a lot of people.
6. 24 would be a lot better if I had people to watch it with :(
Hood told me that all of these things happen every season. That the plot always switches and that they always make it look like Jack will die and be replaced. He also told me that my opinion doesn't count because I "buy pink electronics." :(
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And now onto more pressing matters concerning the presidential campaign.
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton got to tackle the matters of the election that REALLY count...
''That's the best question I've been asked in a long time,'' Clinton said. ''Well, you know, people can vote for whomever they want. That's true in my election, and it's true on American Idol."
Reason #4,386 I shouldn't be allowed to shop alone at Target...
Garbage Pail Kids! I loved these when I was a kid. (I am Valerie Vomit). Who knew they still had them!?!?!
Funniest thing about it: On the back of the package there is a contest thing where you can send in your name in hopes of winning a magnet or something. At the end of the directions, it says "Potential Canadian winners will be required to first correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question: 20 + 4 X 2 - 10 = ?"
I've officially set a record for myself: 227 photos...in less than an hour...of one subject!
I went to my sisters place today. I've heard she's upset that I didn't really care about seeing her place...but who cares about a house when there's a puppy to be seen!
Meet Sir Samson Snorts a Lot...His name was supposed to be just Samson...but then Jen trusted her fiancee to go register his name...
After playing with the puppy we all headed off to dinner at Cooper's Hawk Winery for dinner with Jen's fiancee's parents. The meal was delicious and I am still stuffed. We had an appetizer of potato skins stuffed with lobster, cheese, and bacon. I had a hamburger with fried onions and bernaise sauce and a Malbec. And then I wasn't going to have dessert, but they had a special carrot cake, and carrot cake is one of my favorite things in the world...and this was one damn good carrot cake: no raisins or nuts plus three layers of frosting!!! I also had a strawberry wine and it really tasted like strawberries. yumyumyum. On the way out I bought myself a bottle of strawberry wine and a bottle of blueberry wine. Who wants to try some??? It was a yummy meal...and I am still quite stuffed.
Later I went to get some coffee with Nad. I can't believe she's getting married in less than a month!!! Hmm, I should RSVP to her wedding at some point :)
There's a man who sits on the Madison Street Bridge every day. He plays his drums with his palms, pounding out the same rhythm with every clap. It's a jazzy run, a rush hour march, the perfect tempo for workers trying to make it from point A to point B, trying to make their trains or their buses or their cabs, trying to get home as soon as they possibly can. Each day it's the same tune, never changing, though sometimes interjected with shouted phrases like "Santa Clause is coming to your house" like "Everyone thanks God it's Friday." I have no clue how long this man's been playing his drums or been playing that bridge, but he adds life to that walk, he sets the pace of traffic. Today though, there was something different in his tune. The sound was off, weird, odd. I just thought maybe he'd changed his changed his tune, was mixing it up and trying something different. I glanced over at him and noticed what had changed. He was trying something new, not in rhythm but in instrument. Perched on top of his normal upturned buckets was a real drum and a real cymbal.
1. On Stalking
faeriewingtips: i have taken my stalking to a new crazy level
faeriewingtips: i met a realy cute guy today...and tracked him down on myspace
faeriewingtips: but he is "in a relationship" :-(
WetWilli106: if you hadn't stalked your way there you could still have your hopes up
faeriewingtips: i know
faeriewingtips: but i will never see him again anyways
faeriewingtips: the internet makes it too easy to stalk
faeriewingtips: and i needed to find out his name
WetWilli106: ha
3. On Dreams
The other night I had two different dreams. I normally don't post dreams, but I also don't normally have two I remember so clearly in one night and I also normally can't so clearly and obviously interpret my dreams either. So deal...
In dream one I decided to park my car near one of those srip malls near Oak Brook and skate to work. I was skating to my old job even though I knew I should be going the other way to Lyric. But I figured that I would turn around once I got there. As I was skating I ran into another guy who was skating as well. He was kind of cute and we started holding hands while we skated. Then we got to this building and I decided to hide, hoping he'd try to find me. But then he just kept on skating and dissapeared. And I felt so stupid that I had hidden. I chased after him though and found him with a bunch of other people. And he was with a friend of mine and i got mad that he never introduced us before because this guy was just my type. And then he told me why and it kind of made sense.
In dream number two I was in my room and my dad came in to ask me if I had fed my birds. I didn't have my own bird but some "training birds" that he'd found in a box in the basement. I hadn't fed the birds, in fact I hadn't fed them, or taken the cover off their cag in a week. I took the cover off and a couple of them were dead and the rest were savage for food and dying. I was afraid to open the cage so I started pouring some food into the cage and poured some water over them.
I woke up at 7 for work and decided I needed to go back to bed. My throat hurts, I've been coughing up a lung, My head is cloudy. I took my temperature and it was 98.3. No one ever believes me when I say I have a fever, but my temperature when I am not sick is consistently 97.2, so I determined that I had a fever. So I called in sick and slept until 11. Then I spent the day in bed.
I read some of a thousand acres and uploaded some songs to my IPod. Going through my CDs I realized that I have horrible taste in music. I went trough over 20 CDs and uploaded about 45 songs.
I never get that sick and now three times in the last year I've been sick.
1. Everyone in my class complained over the readings for this week saying that they made technical writing look like a rather crappy. So our professor had us go around saying what we wantd to be when we were younger. Everyone laughed when I said that I had wanted to be a ballerina, not realizing that it wasn't a baby's dream but something I truly wanted until I was a sophomore in high school. I grapple every day trying to figure out what I really want to do. Is there ever going to be a day when I am not contemplating my career and trying to figure out what it is I am good at or would want to do?
2. ummm...24...WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?! You can't go 18 hours convincing us that the season is following one plot and then completely fuck with our heads and switch it completely! Unless, of course, you're focusing on the Milo/Nadia romance :) Why don't you show more of that?
3. I killed a bunny. I hit it with my car. That makes me sad :(
i appologize in advance...i did a really crappy job of taking incriminating pics at Jen's bday. sorry! Here is the ONE pic I took all night:
I'll post a pic of me and Jen if she ever sends it to me :)
So, Friday was Jen's Birthday Extravaganza in which we did a bar crawl through Lincoln Park.
Mickey's: The first bar was A-OK. They usually have free alcohol for the hour we were there...but they weren't doing it that night. Whatever, I kind of gave up drinking anyways, but not really. But I didn't drink at all anyways. Anyways... It was OK but mostly because it was still early and so it wasn't crowded. Jen starts getting drunk.
Goodbar: Then on to bar two in which we crashed someones private party. But apparently they didn't care. It was hothothot (in the temperature sense) in there though. Jen starts getting drunker.
Delilahs: Bar three was my cup of tea. There was good music and Sin City playing and all the bartenders were covered in tattoos. My cup of tea. I had JoeJoe get me a Sprite. I went to give him money but he didn't take any because his mixed drink plus my Sprite cost $3 so he had no idea how much mine would possibly have cost. MattyK and ScottyMcHotty disappeared at one point and no one knew where. They were gone for at least an hour. Yeah...MK left his credit card at the last bar. :) We texted Glen to ask him his stance on lesbians. Unfortunatly he does not know. At one point a woman asked me where the men's bathroom was. I was a weebit confusaled. Rory tried to piss me off. Jen got drunker.
Next we stopped at Hoagie Hut so some people could eat because it was now around 1-2 and Joe still hadn't eaten. We watched a guy take about 30 tries at getting mony from an ATM.
Maxbar: Our last stop was one of those pretentious dancey places I don't really like where they make you stand in a line outside even though they are going to let you right in anyways and there are a bunch of scammy annoying guys and women in too little clothing. Jen got drunkest.
:) It was a funfun night.
Saturday:
Some of us (me, MK, Jen, and Isla) slept over at Joes. Jen had work early but the rest of us slept till 1 and then went for some pasta bowl (mmmspinachgnocchi). Then it was off home for like 10 minutes to take a shower before heading off to Bourbonnaise for dinner.
Rob was in town for Easter and he brought Christine!!! So JoeJoe, Sid, Sarah, Walter, and I met them at the Steak n Shake for dinner. mmmmilkshakes and steakburgers. :) We managed to convince Christine to go for it and get a Steak n Shake dinner. Good choice.
Afterwards we went to Rob's place and hung out for a bit...I did a better job of taking incriminating pics there :)
first let me present "val has fun with rapid fire on her camera and imageready: :)
I hate having this thing and feeling like I can never really write the truth about everything.
I had a crappy day.
I know it was nothing big but it still made me feel bad.
I know I take things way too hard and can't get over it.
But whatever.
Feel free to IM me or email me or call me to ask what happened.
It's a stupid story. And you'll probably think I'm stupid for letting it get to me.
But whatever.
They call it a spoof, but it's more reminiscent of Tori Amos does "Smells Like Teen Spirit" than Weird Al does "Ridin." Anyways, I actually kinda like it:
Speaking of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," in class tonight we watched a kind of awesome documentary on Seattle and the rise of grunge and it showed the first performance of that song.
Speaking of class tonight, I think I am dropping the class I took tonight and am only going to take one class. I guess I can stay home and watch reality TV instead.
Speaking of reality tv, if you watched the Apprentice the other night you would have seen that the winners of the task got a surprise visit from family. Nicole's mom was on the show. Her mom was one of the realtors I used to work with.
I'd trust a bunch of bar thugs to catch my terrorists over the ctu any day!
2. Wendy's now has a Frosty Float. Go get one!
3. You know you're in for an interesting class when your professor says that the best way to contact him is through AIM and that he will respond to your papers by sending you an mp3s of him telling you his comments.
4. Speaking of school, since I never have anything to do anyways, I think I am taking 2 classes this quarter and will probably be done with school in June. Maybe.
5. I just discovered that my computer came with chess. i love playing chess against the computer because it tells me when I am in check and i would never know if it didn't tell me. By love playing chess i mean i like to move the pony around and when he dies i cry and start over because i miss the ponies.
