Quick Update

I ended up getting Sunday night off in exchange for working Sunday morning. It was godawful and boring, and I made a mere $45 for eight hours of work. Whoopety-doo. Sunday evening was a giant bad thing. I am not going to go into it but to say that I am sorry that Drew and Jason had to see it, and that it has worked out, for the most part. Anywho, I put in my notice at Best Buy, and my last day there is the 19th, a Saturday not far from now, and I may even be leaving early to help Barb and Bart (Christina's aunt and uncle) move to Fenton. This sucks since they won't be only four miles away... Well, time to go to Olive Garden for lunch and then to work at 4, then work two doubles in a row. My life is so packed with fun, I don't know what to do.

Fourth of July

And I am sitting here alone. Christina is off to her family gathering where she will have a lot of fun going to the belly-flop contest they have every year at Fenton Lake, and forget about me. She is pissed because I didn't get today off, even though I tried to get it off. Too many people had requested it off before me. Why I didn't try to work a day shift instead of evening? No clue. I wasn't sure if I was working Friday at Best Buy, so I couldn't request it in advance, and I just didn't think about it since Famous Dave's is my night job. I am still going to try to get the night off for tonight and Sunday (woo, then I won't make ANY money this week!) because Christina wanted me to. Why can't she tell me what days I should take off in advance? I mean, 4th of July was a no brainer, adn I tried, I really did! She says I am not trying hard enough, and I will be very lonely working my two jobs all of the time. I don't need this, it is not designed to make me happy or try to feel better about myself and make me a better person. It is just threatening and hurtful. Hurtful, the word of the week.

Don't Know How Much Longer

I can take this. Christina is getting extremely pissed off at me for every little thing. I honestly believe now that she is trying to find a reason to break it off with me once and for all. I have to change, I have to become the ideal that is in her head, even though she won't tell me what it is, I have to try harder. Yes, she is a god and very helpful woman, but she is not the be all end all to the world. I am hindered by her, for example: I don't play nerd games any more, I don't talk to Bud, Casey, or some other people because of her. Because she is dissatisfied with the fact that Jess and Dan didn't thank her profusely for the party she threw, she doesn't talk to them. She hates my mother, which nobody can understand. She thinks that our kids (if we ever have any) will never see my mom's family. But I still love her, love being with her, and want to be with her. Am I crazy? Can I make it alone? Do I want to? I don't want to be alone, I don't want to lose her for the good times we share. I don't want to lose her for the lazy mornings, the peaceful evenings, or the trips to Dairy Dan for Cherry Amaretto ice cream. Please, somebody, help me do what I need to do to make her and myself happy.

I Like Pie

I think everyone should love pie. Today was a fantabulous day. I got out of work early, got to see Jason for lunch (we went and had a Happy Meal at Malarky's, consisting of a burger, fries, and a Killians), play lots of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, go out to dinner at Akasaka with Christina, Drew, and Nissa, as well as have pie and then watch the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin: Trust (for the second time today, the first was with Jason). A full day, indeed. Alas, all good things must come to an end, and my belly is very full and needing sleepy time to digest it all. I work a double tomorrow, followed by two nights, a double.... lovely. Must loosen pants, too much pie. I only had 2 slices, Drew had 2 plus the remnants of pie from the ladies. Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeee......

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.

Lack of Sleep, Lack of Company

This has been the week from hell, in a few ways. Now, don't get me wrong, I am enjoying the new job. I get fairly good tips so far, and we will see how we do in the long run here at Famous Dave's. I worked a tough schedule, too. I worked 6-230 at Best Buy most days and then 4-12 at Famous Dave's. I think I saw Christina awake for about 45 minutes the whole time. Also, Thursday night I really started to feel bad. I was thinking that Christina was going to bed early to avoid me, because she hadn't gotten to see me, or because I was holding on to my money from the tips. So, just as I am falling asleep, she gets up and goes to the "couch" in the living room and sleeps there for the night. I felt bad, but still didn't chase her; she must have had a good reason, but I was in no state to think coherently. That was just one of the capping moments. Everything has just been tense since I started at the restaurant. I think we are getting better about it, but pulling 80 hour weeks is going to kill me, especially since I have an online class starting Monday. C'est la vie.

Chinese Food and more

Today was a busy day for me. For starters, my computer tried to die yesterday and subsequently ate my 5 minute speech I had written in Japanese for my final. I also had my final written exam in my other Japanese class and was supposed to take my oral for the same before, since I am unable to be there at the appointed time on Monday. Add to all this that I had a "Study Session" for Famous Dave's in the middle of it. I was frazzled. I rushed (kinda late since I was stopped by the stupid train) to get Christina from work, who took her sweet time to get out of there. Love ya, hun! I got there too late for the oral, so I am doing that tomorrow. My exam went fairly well, and I had time to figure out how to improvise the rest of my presentation, since I had time to rewrite only half of it. I did all right, I guess. Oh, and Christina sat in on the class, and was thoroughly confused. We were all speaking in Japanese, and we didn't have subtitles. Afterwards, Kristy (one of the girls I knew from Japanese and Christina knew otherwise) asked us if we wanted to go out to dinner with her and her boy, Dion. We eventually said yes, and the two Chinese girls, Jiang and Ching-Chang (I think I spelled those right...) and Mary came out, too. We all went to Emerald City at Christina's suggestion, and had an awesome time. We ordered 5 dishes and split them between the seven of us. There was Chicken Mushu, Emerald City Chow Mein (with beef, scallops, and shrimp), General Tsao's Chicken, some Tofu with Mushroom dish, and a Sizzling Beef and Broccoli Skillet. Add to this an appetizer of Korean Style Dumplings (deep fried and crispy instead of steamed and pan fried. All in al, it came to only $11 a person, including tip. And this is not a cheap place! We made out well, with great food, good friends, and an enjoyable evening was had by all. A wonderful end to a frustrating day. And I get to snuggle up to Christina later on, too.

More adventures in the Life of David

At Best Buy on Saturday, we had a huge truck come it. Of course, this is the day we are supposed to have our smallest. Just my luck, eh? We are asked if we can come in at 5 in the morning instead of 6. Okay, I have bills to pay, I would have to leave at 9 anyway to go to my new job's orientation. I woke up at 4 to go to work at 5 and put up televisions for four hours. Yay me. Even with about 25 minutes snuggling up with Christina at home and changing before going to Famous Dave's for orientation, I was still kinda sleepy. I did get a great parking spot, though, right next to what I thought was a manager's car. It was a silver, brand new Mercedes-Benz 4-door. Very spiffy. Going inside, we all got mug shots taken for the corporate trainers (when they come on the 21st) and helped ourselves to some pop or coffee (ahhhhh, caffeine!). I was actually surprised to see that one of the waiters was a Best Buy Survivor named Bill who used to work in Home Theater. We ended up at the same table, and got to catch up. After many introductions and made up words (Ribalicious, Snoutstanding, Stick-to-it-ivity, and more, I am sure) we were broken up into three groups and we had to make up a cheer with choreography to promote the restaurant. Ours was the worst, we were barely in time with one another, and we stood stock-still. No biggie to me, I was never one for cheering. Since I knew the menu, they had me try to name off all of the items during a pause in the "cheer" but nobody stopped at the same time for me to spout stuff off. Ah well. The restaurant actually looks pretty nice to me. The smoking section is cramped and the bar is about 5 or 6 seals long, but the non-smoking section is roomy and well laid out. The kitchens are huge, with only a little bit of tightness around the initial prep area. My favorite feature, however, is the fact that the towel dispensers in the bathrooms (well, the Men's Room at least) is motion sensitive! You wash your hands as normal, then simply put your hand in front of the dispenser and, voila! towel in your hands. Simply tear, use, and discard. Three hours of the orientation and about four hundred speeches later, we are released into the wild once more. The owner of the Benz is none other than one of my fellow trainees. Another server. Not a manager, not an owner, but a server. Damn, why do they need tips? Anyway, at work on Saturday, Art (remember, the Almighty Slapnut?) told us -- not asking this time -- that we were coming in at 5 once more on Sunday to set up the ad due to a meeting we were having. We grumbled, and groaned, but did it regardless. It really wasn't that bad. I mean, hell, we got free donuts (I actually had a bagel) and since we were here early, we set aside some office chairs to sit in instead of having to sit on the floor. I just have a little more Japanese class for the next week, then I am done with Japanese till the fall. Ganbaru ZO!

Anime List

I know you've been waiting for it, so here it is... My anime list. Commercially Released Anime DVDs: Escaflowne Box Set Escaflowne Movie Lain Box Set Nadesico Box Set Love Hina 1-3 Love Hina Christmas Special Gunsmith Cats Vampire Princess Miyu TV 1 Oh My Goddess! 1&2 Oh My Goddess! Movie Marriage Record of Lodoss War OAVs 1&2 Rurouni Kenshin OAVs 1&2 Tenchi Forever Castle of Cagliostro Princess Mononoke Legend of Crystania Blood: The Last Vampire Saint Tail 1 Downloaded Anime CDs: Berserk 1-26 Love Hina 1-25 Love Hina Specials Love Hina Again 1-3 Love Live Hina Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (His and Her Circumstances) 1-26 To Heart 1-13 Hack\\Sign 1-15 Hack\\Liminality 1-3 Hack\\Dusk 1-11 Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu 1-26 and I am sure there is more. I just thought I would share......

Shigoto wo shinakya....

Workety-work work work. For the past two days, I have been pulling 12 hour shifts at Best Buy because our jobs were threatened. We were told, right when we were leaving on Thursday, that we had to gut and completely organize and rearrange our warehouse to the managers' specific standards by Saturday night at close. Our supervisor, the almighty Slap-Nut Art, decided to not be there Saturday, since he was going up north. I would have done the same, mind you, but he's probably going to get fired because of this. Oh well. So, Michelle (the senior of the dept) took charge and worked two 14 hour days and we, along with some part timer help, rocked out the warehouse cleaning, and a mega-super-ultra truck shipment from hell. It looks damn good back there now, but, man oh man, it was not fun getting there. I finally bought Zelda: The Wind Waker. I have yet to play it since I was so tired last night. Figures, eh? I will get to it soon, though. I guess I am going to go to dinner at Christina's parents' house now, so I guess I should get ready. I'll check back here and post a few thoughts in another two or three days... maybe.

Had an awesome day!

Well, everything's comin' up Milhouse! Er, David.... It was a beautiful day in the small town of Westland: the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the Davids were humming happy little tunes. Allow me to elaborate. I woke up refreshed, having been able to sleep in till 8. Three hours longer than usual. After taking the lovely little lady to work, I came back and prettied myself up for my final interview to be a waiter at Famous Dave's (see prior post). Back at the "office" (the trailer outside the restaurant-in-progress) I met with Dan, the General Manager, and interviewed with him outside in the lovely weather. I wowed him with my product knowledge (why, yes, I do believe the beverages are best served IN GLASSES) and my prior experience (I eat almost every day!), and he went inside to confer with his fellow Daveites. I sat outside for about 15 minutes, during which time, I received a wonderful phone call, telling me my car that I wanted would, in fact, be mine. More details there later. I went in to talk to Mike, the Director of Operations, and then back outside to talk once more to Dan who told me that I had a job. Woo! Car and a job! All in one day! After the interview, I went to do some mundane errands. I jumped through hoops to get rid of my old Talon (now a large paperweight that plays the radio), and went home to get ready for class and take Christina to get my new car. An hour and a thousand signatures later, the car was mine. It is a 2003 Honda Civic LX 4-door sedan, and, for the next three years (and 36000 miles) it is mine. It is Pearl Blue, with a Grey interior, built in dash CD player, air conditioning, brake AND gas pedals, light up displays (blue, also), and a spacious trunk which would comfortably fit two bodies. I got hooked up big time. Dan Hedges is a great guy, of course. He hooked me up with the detail job of a lifetime. It sparkled. Hell yeah. He scotch-garded the interior, and clear coated the exterior. Clean as clean can be. I am pleased with it all. Top it all off with going out to dinner at Don Pablo's getting some fajitas and a giant Killian's, and David had a pretty rockin' day. I'll leave it at that. Maybe I'll inform you of the next few days I will spend cleaning the warehouse at Best Buy. I'll see how horrific it is when I actually do it.

New Year, Same David

At the behest of Drew, also known as Kouzou_Fuyutsuki, who just happens to have a blog himself ( http://www.msu.edu/~reichenb/blog/JSoC.html ), I am FINALLY updating my pathetic excuse for a blog. Not much has been happening lately, that I should note. I am back in school, retaking Japanese for International Trade (JPNE 361) and Advanced Japanese Conversation (JPNE 444) at Eastern, I still work at Best Buy (going on 10 months), I am still living with Christina (she keeps me sane while driving me nuts. hehehe), and I need a new car. Yes, my car decided to have the engine seize on the way to work this past Sunday. It makes it difficult, since I have no money to buy a new one. I will probably end up leasing or financing a cheap-o. I also applied for a second job today at a restaurant called Famous Dave's where I hope to be a server and bring home some fat cash. They open on the 28th of April. I love my Gamecube, and my game library includes: Animal Crossing, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Master Quest, Mario Sunshine, SSX Tricky, and Starfox Adventures. Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker forthcoming, not purchased yet due to my car dying and creating a money-vacuum. Next issue: My Anime List. I know you're all hanging on the edges of your seats!!

After Turkey Day

So, Thanksgiving came, and it proved to be a busy day for me. I drove Christina to work, then made a pie. It was good to do it, but I had fallen asleep and started making it too soon. Oops... I had to pull the pie out of the oven after I picked Christina up from work. I had two dinners back to back and they were both yummy. Christina's family had two ducks in addition to the turkey, and Papa had the standard fare, with his turkey being so very juicy and tender. Afterwards, I just wanted to relax and go to sleep early. I had to get up at three am to go to work. Christina invited her sister and cousin to spend the night. Okay, I was a little ticked off, but she rarely gets to see them. We head home and they hang out. I go to bed at ten, and they know it. I can't sleep due to the music from Christina's laptop and Carly's very loud voice on her cell phone. She has no indoor voice. I got up in time to get to work and got there before four am, when I was scheduled. More on this later. It's after 11 and I have to get up at three. Yikes.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Oh yeah, before I forget, Addam's play last night was hilarious. It was Arsenic and Old Lace. I always thought that the old movie was some drama or something, but it was really entertaining. Addam played the pseudo-doctor who had a funny German accent. He played his part really well, and had some great pratfalls. Bravo, Addam.

Drinks with the Guys

Last night I went out to the bar with Justin and Jason. Granted, Christina was there at the beginning, since she was dropping me off (like Hell I was going to drive after being at the bar!) and she wanted to see them. How messed up is this: Christina was drinking beer, and the three of us were drinking 'fru-fru drinks' as Jason put it. She had a Miller Lite because with it you got a free Red Wings pint glass (not a mug). I don't go for Miller Lite, so I asked her (the waitress) to make up a mixed drink. She came back with a red drink, called a Tropical Red Wing which has Malibu, pineapple juice and a touch of cranberry. I think it was grenadine and not cranberry, myself. Those weren't too expensive at 3.50 for a pint. Christina left, leaving the guys to chat, and we had a good time. The next round she brought us Long Beach Iced Teas, which are the same as Long Islands but with cranberry instead of Coke. They were 6.00 a pop, so we went back to the Red Wings, which tasted better anyway. After two hours, and 5 and a half drinks for me, we decided to call it a night. Jason and Justin both had to work in the morning. Lucky for me that I didn't. :) I am kind of disappointed, I had that much to drink and I only had a light buzz for a few minutes. I mean, how much money would it cost to get me drunk? More than I am willing to spend at one time. I guess that's a good thing, since I really don't like being drunk. Christina came and picked me up, and I got to wake up with her in my arms, not to the alarm clock. It was wonderful. I want to work later in the morning than 4, 5, or 6, so I can be with her more. Oh well, eh?

Food Goodness

I quite often write about food. This is no different. Jess and Dan asked if we were busy, and if they could come over and make us dinner. Hell yeah we were all for it. It was Pork with Black Bean Sauce. It consisted of deep-frying the pork which was chopped into small pieces and coated in honey, sake, soy, and cornstarch. After that, veggies were stir fried and the pork was added and it all braised. It turned out to be a delicious dish with slight tanginess of the honey and soy, but mainly the black bean sauce overpowering. Next time we will find a real Oriental black bean sauce and not use the black bean paste refried bean sauce thing. Also, we got to see Lilo and Stitch to watch, and it was really funny after the whole sad part. I enjoyed it, even though it was completely different than I thought. All right, tonight we are going to go and see Addam's play, and then perhaps go to the bar with the boys. Woo!

Only a 2 Day Gap

I've been away from the journal for the past two days only, but lots has happened. First and foremost, we haven't seen the new Harry Potter. Instead, Justin and Wendy along with Christina and me decided to hit Malarky's, an Irish pub. We could have gone during the day, but Christina's mom got a new puppy. Seeing puppies makes Christina into a little kid, and she instantly goes to play with it. This little guy, a cocker spaniel who is mainly white with some blond/yellow (called "buff") splotches and freckles, was just a little ball of wiggly energy. He is so very cute and playful, and he didn't make a single noise while we were there! We played with him a while, bought him a toy, and just pretty much had a good time. We also visited Barb and Bart (who fed us, yay!) , then it was off to the bar. Malarky's is an inviting, warm place with waitresses that serve you two drinks then ignore you. They also have a 166 oz beer. Yes, one hundred sixty six ounces. It is in a big glass tube and has a tap on it, and it looked awesome, but I was the only one drinking beer, so that wouldn't be good at all.Having a good time there, we headed back to the apartment, and Jason Bomgren showed up.We hung out, talked, watched a bit of Atlantis, and then they headed off. Sunday morning brought the day of setting the ad at Best Buy. I managed to survive a full day there with out having to push any product from the warehouse. I had so many other tasks, I was kept busy. The day went by quickly, and I was soon out of there. I was surprised to find that Jason showed up at Best Buy while I was working, so we went out to lunch at Arby's. Then, as I was leaving work, there were free meatball subs in the break room. So, I had one. Yay! Later on during the day, I went out grocery shopping with Jason who decided to hang out. I am seeing more of him since I am living in this apartment. Around 7:30, I got ready and went back to Best Buy for holiday training, which is Top Secret. No more on this. Today, so far, we played with the wigglepup, who is named Charley, or Charlie, depending on how you want to spell it. I don't think that matters one way or the other to him. He just wants people around him. Poor pup. We also (Christina and me) went to Sam's Club and stocked up on juice. I love me some juice. I think I will play more Gameboy Advance and relax today. I love days off.

Sleepy Time

Yesterday was another great day. I went to work at 5 instead of 4 in the morning, which served to keep me awake and therefore alive in the drive to work. After working at Best Buy, I got to come home for a couple hours to spend with lovely Christina. Back home, I snuggled up with her as she played with her laptop, and we just watched some tv. Around three thirty, I was almost falling asleep, and if it weren't for her, I would have passed out, and, therefore, missed working at Wine Castle. At Wine Castle, we have been having a contest selling six types of wine. The number of bottles sold weighted against the number of days worked will give the 'rating' and so far, I may just be in the lead, since I work so few days. If I win, I will get a $55 bottle of red wine as my prize. Yay! When work at Wine Castle ended, I came back to the apartment and watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off on Starz (or Encore, something like that). I fell asleep half way through it and woke up as Cameron was destroying the beautiful Ferrari. It was bed time. Most of my day was work, but it wasn't so bad. The time spent at home with Christina and the kitties more than made up for it. Today, I get to see the new Harry Potter. More on this later.

Ahh, it's so good to be able to write a very positive journal entry. I had a wonderful day, after I got out of work. Work was okay, just really busy. I told them that I wasn't coming in at 4am anymore since nobody else comes in till 5 who works on the day crew (as opposed to the midnight shift). They said okay, so there is no issue there. Today I got home from work and read a bit and cleaned up the place a little. There wasn't much to do. When Christina got home, we relaxed and just played on our computers. She stole the internet connection and set up the budgeting software from Microsoft Money. I tried to do what I could on my computer, and mainly just ended up playing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance on my Gameboy Advance emulator. More on that in a future post. We were hungry and had no food, so I went to the Senate coney island and got Christina a Gyro and chili fries (rice pudding too, of course) while I had a mega breakfast. They didn't give me syrup with my french toast, but that may very well be the most negative part of the whole day! Not too bad... Jess and Dan came over and spent time with us, too. They had rough days, so we had a drink and watched some more Love Hina. I have gotten them hooked... MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Now, I am sleepy and it is time for rest. I get to go to bed now, and I don't have to wake up till after 4am. WOO! Oh~ Christina, Dan, and Jess together broke the "couch." There were three metal bars holding the box spring and mattress off of the floor, and all of them were sitting on one, and Christina lunged for something, and then something twisted and down they went. It's all for the best, because now we sit at a good height with the box spring and mattress right on the floor with the bed frame around it. I like it, actually. I still think I want a couch frame instead of the bed frame, though. I want Animal Crossing and I will have it eventually. Eventually...