Good Lunch, what's next?

I am not rich. I live with Christina in a relatively small apartment. I do have a higher income than I did before, but it does not afford me to spend hundreds of dollars on furniture. Each purchase, to me, is weighed on a few factors. First, do we have furniture/accessories that perform the same function? Second, how much money have I spent this week? Third, do we need it? That's where I am usually convinced as to whether or not I am going to purchase this at this time. Did that make sense? I say this because we were at Cost Plus and I like some of the chairs and tables there, but I can't afford them, don't have room for them, and have stuff that does the same job, but I still want them. Cursed logic and money-saving (at least attempting) ways. Not sure what to do tonight. I had La Shish tonight. La Shish is kinda pricey, but it seems odd that it is in an old Taco Bell. We went in there, and a waiter with white dress shirt greeted us and sat us in a small ex-Taco-Bell-now-La-Shish booth and let us look at the menus. There was seating for 48 at 16 tables. Kind of surreal, really. Great food, though. Carly, Christina and I had lunch and it was good. We started with Tabbouli, then I had a Lamb Schwarma (pita-like sandwich with savory lamb, tomatoes, onions, and a sauce similar to that which is on gyros. Oh, and pickles were on it, too. Carly had a Chicken Schwarma and a Hummus and Tabbouli Schwarma. Christina had Hummus with Lamb over it. The lamb was mixed with pine nuts. Christina had a Papaya smoothie. I will go there again. Yes, I shalll.

My Apartment Changed...

I mentioned Christina's design compulsion. I must admit that the newly styled living space looks very nice and open compared to the other way, what with the book cases lying on their sides and not towering up and covering the white walls, no bedposts on our "couch," et cetera. All that is left is for me to hang up my LeRoux Irish Cream mirror and to clean up my desk area. Of couse, mine is last to be taken care of. Of course. Worked lots so far, but I have the evening off, yay! Later. Maybe I'll play more Vice City, then again, I'll more than likely just visit with Christina.

Updates for a Sunday

So, the Spree thing was a success. We were the only place to not run out of food, we were the ones who generously gave out seconds and thirds, and we were voted People's Choice Award of the Spree. And we're not even in Livonia. I bought tickets for the Jethro Tull show for Soaring Eagle Casino, which means I will be relaxin at a table close to the stage. Woo! Christina wasn't expecting me to put $150 on the debit, though. Then again, it is for three tickets front and center. I don't think it's so bad, but I guess it was kind of a surprise to her. Christina's been restless. She watches the Style channel, HGTV, all the design shows, et cetera. First off, she thinks we are rich and should buy a $3000 plasma screen TV. Riiiiight. I'll just pull that out of my wallet, oh! Nothing there. Second, she rearranged the living room and dining area. It now looks more open and inviting. More like a home and less like a dorm. In order to set up Christina's desk area, we had to, uhm, buy her a desk and comfy comfy chair. It's actually the one I had wanted. Now I think I will go find the drivers for the XBox/USB converted gamepad. Wish me luck!

Another Steamy Day

Yeesh, it is muggy out! It got up to 90 and it doesn't help that the air was out at Famous Dave's last night. I was a closer, which means I have to make sure that everyone else does their job before I leave. Every one left before me, and decided to not help me at all. I started my cleanup at 12:00 when we closed at 10:00. Nice fucking teamwork. Today, I am going to go to Adventures in Homebrewing so that I can sign up as a judge for the Michigan State Fair Homebrew Competition. Woo! Drink beer and choose the best! Christina made our living room much bigger-seeming. She decided that she was done with my complaining about the bedposts and removed them from the couch and changed up the mattress covering, and it looks great. Well, time to put laundry in the drier. I work at the Spree tonight doing the Taste of Livonia at Eddie Edgar for $6 a person starting at 6pm. But, I think they are sold out, so why give out all that ingo? I was typing, and just couldn't stop. Try to keep cool...

Shooting People for Pleasure and Profit.

Let me start with two days ago. David went to work at Best Buy where he noticed that a certain nifty computer (a Medion) happened to have two displays. Now, knowing that there should only be one, and he was indeed not seeing double, he went about asking whether or not he could purchase said computer. As it turned out, he could, without the keyboard and mouse, which was not a problem; David already owned a mouse and keyboard both. The following day, David went and placed $500 in cash in front of the computer salesman and said 'put the rest on my debit' which was a much smaller amount. David enjoys his new computer, and hopes that it will be friends with his old one. The end. So, as you may have gotten, I bought a cool computer. Here are the specs: Pentium 4 processor, 2.4GHz 512MB DDR RAM 80GB Hard Drive 5 USB 2.0 Ports, 2 Firewire Ports Media slots (Compact Flash, Multimedia, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, and Smart Media) 16X DVD-Rom Floppy Drive Integrated video and sound cards capable of 5.1 surround sound and the piece de resistance... 4X DVD-R/2X DVD-RW/16X CR-R/4X CD-RW drive I have a DVD BURNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, tonight, I went and played Laser Tag with the trainers and managers at Famous Dave's, and we all had a blast. I got bopped in the face with a gun, but the first game I got in 4th out of 23, then 12th of 21, then 7th of 20. Not bad, I must say. I did worst when we were on teams. We should do this again, and the managers were really fun to hang out with! Well, bed calls, and so does the new Harry Potter book. I am now over 400 pages into it! Night!

Books and Games

Just a note, I get to read the new Harry Potter book in less than a week, and I just beat the Game Boy Advance game Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and I am still not done with The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I am a slacker. On the anime front, however, I have made mucho progress. I am going to upload the new Anime CD spreadsheet I have which details how much of which anime I have. I now have all of Fruits Basket on disc, we got Vandread: Second Stage and Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances) on DVD from Singapore (gotta love eBay). I am sure Christina has said something about eBay in her journal [link to journal removed] recently. Gotta go cook steak. Later!

Back from the Dead

Welly well well well... I do still breathe and blood still pumps in my veins yet, though I have not updated my poorly neglected web journal for quite some time now. You see, as my last post stated, I have been working 80+ hour weeks and have had time to sleep in between. This past week, however, I had off so that I could use up my Personal Holiday hours at Best Buy before I quit. Yes, I will quit BB. Eventually, after I milk them for all that they are worth. I have to wait for my tuition reimbursement from them, and for July 7, which is the 1 year anniversary of my being full time there. I get 40 hours of Vacation time that they cannot take away, even if I quit. Enough of that though. I have been pulling down fat cash from Famous Dave's which allows me to pay off more and more of our debts more easily and save up for future expenses like school and a shiny new computer for me. Well, must prioritize. Christina and I got a neat little digital camera, a 3.2 megapixel Canon Elph. It's cute. Here is a link to where Christina is uploading some of the pictures: Christina's Pics on Yahoo! We've been having Drew and Nissa over a lot, as well as Jason. It's cool to get to hang out with other people sometimes, it brings a bit more variety, and allows me to watch movies that Christina usually wouldn't want to watch. Sometimes. Nissa seems to agree with Christina's thought processes sometimes, which makes it Men vs. Women more often than not. Speaking of Men vs Women, I went out to the bar with my coworkers after we closed up at Famous Dave's for the first time last night. I called Christina and she encouraged me to go, but was hinting at the fact that maybe I should come home. Being uncharacteristically decisive, I actually decided to have a drink with them at Chatters, a bar quite close to Christina's parent's house actually. Here is the problem. I told Christina I would be out for "probably only a half an hour." When I got in there however, it turned into around two and a half hours. Christina was extremely pissed, and she has reason. I didn't do what I said I was going to do, and disappointed her. She had gotten sunburnt out golfing and had wanted me to help her put aloe on her back where she couldn't reach. I didn't know this, however. So, I slept on the couch. Today, I did some laundry, after the neighbor downstairs relinquished the washer and drier at noon, cleaned up around the apartment and generally tidied up while listening to some music or the TV. Saw a good couple eps of Ground Force (surprise! we redid your yard) and Changing Rooms (I'll change your house, you change mine!) on BBC. Christina neither noticed nor mentioned anything about cleaning at all. I don't think she really cares about it.