A Visit From Mom (and She Gets Work Done!)

Sorry for the absence over the last week, I have been busier than usual because my mom came in to visit on Thursday, and just left this morning. Needless to say the trip was full of many freebies for myself and some lucky friends and my mom was cool enough to buy me plenty of stuff to get started for the school year, as she does every summer.

Thursday night we took it easy but made sure to get a few errands done for random supplies, but Friday was the day that will be remembered by all who took part in her trip out here to lovely Tempe Arizona.

We started Friday morning with 18 holes of golf at Silverado Golf Club in Scottsdale, and brought Mannix along for the fun since he is the genius that was able to find us a sweet deal for our tee time. I don't want to say much about the game because to be frank, I suck, not always, but since I hadn't played in awhile my favorite parts of the game were being able to off road my golf cart while hunting for the many balls I managed to lose. I will however give Mannix credit because he kicked ass, as usual whether it be real golf or Tiger Woods PGA on PS3, someone has to find a way to distract that MoFo. But onwards to later that day...

This was planned far in advance and coordinated just the same, and what I am speaking of is my mother's triumphant night out of bar hopping with us on Mill Ave.

Us younguns started out the night at Brittany and Frans by pregaming over there with some friendly games of boxing (a beer drinking card game, thanks to Mannix again for that one) that made all of us start to feel at least a little buzz. Then the 11 of us who were there headed off to Mill to meet with my mom, so we had a perfect dozen, not a bad crowd either if I do say so myself.

We met my mom on a corner of Mill that she was able to walk to from her hotel and quickly moved to our first establishment, which was Zuma Bar.

We all mostly bought our own drinks to start off but when everyone was situated at a booth that we commandeered my mom was lovely enough to by us all a round of shots, yes all 12 of us, isn't she the best! We went college style with them and decided on Soco and Limes and they did not disappoint. Frankly how could they? They were free! I'd drink just about any alcoholic drink if it was given to me for free I'm a college student for crying out loud.

After another drink or so at Zuma we had the brilliant idea of going to Ra Sushi for some Saki Bombs...BAD idea. Again my mom treated the 12 of us to the bombs and we got going on those really quick, although a few of us got a little too excited with the whole table pound to get the sake mixed with the beer because we managed to break a good 5 or so glasses when we pounded the table. I don't know how this happened, I would have though the glasses would be made stronger for this particular Sake purpose, I guess I'll write the manager...not.

The best part of this Sake extravaganza though had to be after half the glasses broke, we all just decided to drink the sake and beer normally, and my mom pulled one out of left field and chugged the sake and beer before any of us college kids could even get ourselves to do it! Needless to say jaws were dropped and my spirits soared, this was my mom after all, who prior to this night I had considered to be a huge lightweight. Kudos to her for shoving that one down my throat.

Sake completed and eyes in wonder we made our way to the final preplanned destination of the evening, where else of course but the Big Bang. Clearly by now if you have read this blog and listened at all, you would know that if you ever were to hit up Mill Ave you should definitely stop in at Big Bang, you will not be disappointed and if you are, you are stupid, simple as that.

Anyways we got there and then the night gets blurry. All I do know is that the girls managed to get my mom on stage and they of course accompanied her. The next morning my mom asked what the stickers all said that people kept sticking to her while she was on the stage because she couldn't read them at the time, I informed her that these stickers mostly said things along the line of "Bang This!", a popular saying at the Big Bang and I will assume you can figure out the relevance. Needless to say I have a good 3 minute video of that escapade, and with her permission I will get it up here at some point.

The girls finished my mom off by getting her to drink some mind erasers, a fact I didn't learn of until the next day, and of course this was enough to get my mom over the edge. Mom got drunk, my mission was accomplished, and the night was great because every one had a blast, how could we not?

Saturday was a day of rest and more shopping which I took full advantage of with my mom, we even took time out to go see "The Ugly Truth," which I was actually quite surprised at because it wasn't that bad, but that's all I'll say about that haha.

Other than that it was just another piece of the awesome cake that this summer has been. Tonight I don't know what's happening yet, but the girls are all going to Vegas tomorrow for Lindsey's 21st Birthday so I will pre-wish them all a spectacular and safe trip! I start some catering work tomorrow-thursday but only 1130-4 every day so I will still keep the party going, at least now I will have some income to go with it. That's all for now folks, and I almost forgot but I wanna give my buddy Marc a shout out, not for anything special other than the fact that he reads this and asked me too, which is enough reason for me! Be safe people I'll be back soon.

-Geoffrey

New Summer TV Obsession and Harry Potter

So how about "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"?? I haven't seen it yet (hopefully tomorrow night) but I am not afraid to admit that I read the book, and all of the books in the series for that matter. If that upsets you, I'm not really sorry, and frankly if you are upset you are in a minority I mean look how much fricken money the movie has already made, it clearly is equivalent to the fanbase of "The Dark Knight" which I will openly admit I probably will like more than any HP movie.

Anyways the reason I mentioned that is that I have actually over the last few days decided to watch the 4th and 5th Harry movie with Christina and Lindsey at their place so we can feel fresh when we actually decide to see the new flick. I must say I enjoyed the 5th movie much more than the pick because the book wasn't one of my favorites but oh well. That's enough Harry Potter talk for now, on to the newest obsession...

Every summer, or at least this summer and last summer, I have picked up a new show to obsess over that always makes me get that feeling inside of me that makes me wonder how I ever went through life without watching it before this. Maybe I'm the only one that gets that?? Either way I started LOST freshman year, so that wasn't a summer one, but now it's my favorite show and I can't imagine what it would be like had I never started watching it.

My first summer obsession (from last summer) was Nip/Tuck. What a sweet show, I don't even know how to describe it but it is definitely an entertaining hour every time I get the chance to watch it. Shout out to Louis for actually wanting me to watch it up until I started it and another shout out to Leaders for being the guy who actually got me to start it when Louis couldn't. I'd recommend it to any dude, and even some ladies.

The current summer obsession of my housemates and myself though is the show "How I Met Your Mother." Another great show that reminds me of what could be a love child between the glory days of "Seinfeld" and "Friends." Yea I mean that, because I know every reader has probably loved watching at least one of those shows within their life. Well HIMYM is always fresh and incredibly funny and is always good for a laugh. The characters are all relatable to anyone in a group of friends and the story is genuine, all in all it's another show I'd recommend to anyone with some spare time and a good sense of humor. I have blasted through the first three seasons since I started it last Saturday, and I am only delaying finishing season 3 because season 4 won't be on DVD until September, and I HATE the feeling that I get when I start bingeing on a show and all of a sudden I have run out of new episodes to watch. It's like someone is giving you free money all of the time, then they stop abruptly. Maybe that's a bad analogy but I figured it was one that everyone could relate to equally because who wouldn't love just getting money for free and how pissed would you be if all of a sudden you actually had to work for it again?!?

I digress, one of my other roommates, Mannix, just got back home today from Chicago (his and my true home) and we plan on celebrating tonight by drinking heavily on Mill with some friends, a very happy Tuesday I know! I am in the process of getting some videos up online and I promise I'll have one soon, maybe even a general stupid one just to prove that I am not lying about this sweet Flip Cam. Tonight should be a blast though and I will share the details of it with you guys manana. Hasta.

-Geoffrey

Barney's, Big Bang, and River Time! (Trip 1)

Barney's Boathouse is an amazing place to start out Thursday night drinking...Why is this do you ask? I will give you one reason, 50 cent beers. Yes true story. Needless to say when myself, Christina, Gary, and Brittney decided to head out on Thursday, we started at Barney's. There are a few videos I took of this night, I am partial to all of them, and will get them here, but besides talking about many different and colorful topics, I was able to get an immediately before and immediately after (unfortunately not an in the moment) shot of one of the more spontaneous moments of the evening, that being Gary randomly puking all over our table. I don't think any of the four of us will ever know why, because he definitely wasn't drunk, but it happened, and hopefully the videos will do it justice.

Continuing later into the evening with a good buzz going we decided to go to the Big Bang, a frequent bar w all enjoy because of the dualing pianos, I believe I've mentioned it in an older post. As most people who have seen me drunk know, I am thoroughly enthused by certain songs when I get drunk, "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "I'm On A Boat" being two of the biggies. As it turns out the pianists decided to play both of these that particular night, leading Christina to momentarily (hopefully) think I was gay, not true. Oh well though I love the karaoke too much to care, and I belted, and there is video of that as well which I'm sure is very amusing. The other great point of the night was the giant crush Brittney had on the piano player, who only after giving her number and many song requests to, unfortunately informed her of the woman he is with. Oh well, sometimes dreams are crushed haha.

After this eventful Thursday I decided to keep it low key with Christina in Friday and we just watched the 4th Harry Potter movie and are currently working on the 5th so we can see the new one in the theatre and feel up to date haha.

Saturday was river day.

The fact of the matter is that by the time I actually got to the river, along with Leaders and about 18 more of his buddies from work, I was well on my way to phased out of the real world thanks to the two 30 racks we got for ourselves, and one of his work buddies. Needless to say it was more than enough to get the job done.

To make things way easier we all pitched in for a party bus for the ride to/from the river, making the whole driving situation a much better since nobody wants to go to the river and actually float on a tube for four hours and NOT get wasted in the process, or maybe that's just me? No, it's everyone.

Anyways the party bus was highly successful, we were able to drink heavily while on the way to the river and by the time we started floating we were all well on our way to a drunken stupor.

To add to the fun factor Leader's decided to invest in what most would consider a kiddy pool, we considered it our floatation device for the day. I must say it was sketchy at first, being that I think the normal weight limit that the pool would have would be somewhere around 150 pounds total. I alone took care of that, and then we added 3 more full grown men into the mix to take over the other three corner seats of the pool...yes, we party.

The fact that we also had a blow up dolphin only added to the fun, and it was because of this dolphin that we were able to stay tied to the numerous other floats that our river mates had rented/brought to float on. After the four of us were safely situated in our float it actually turned out alright because the combined weight of us actually seemed to make the pool more floatationally sound, and yes I may have just made a new word in "floatationally." All in all we were immediately quite popular because we brought the pool to the river.

The next 4 hours of floating and drinking is history, and I say that again only because I ended up being too drunk to remember most of it, but fun was had, and pics were taken. PS if anyone knows the location of the disposable waterproof camera that I purchased for the occasion please fill me in, I'd love to post pics of the event.

At the end of the day not only was my camera misplaced but my shirt was as well, and I ended up eating at Chik-fil-a wearing an American flag tie up shirt, which I will hopefully post a pic of because words can not describe the ridiculousness of my outfit. And when it was all said and done I decided to take a nice 15 hour nap and am feeling renewed today, now it is time for some lunch, so I am off.

-Geoffrey

Here I Go Again

As I write this I am sitting on my couch watching Burry (1 of 3 of my roommates) play UFC Undisputed 09 on our awesome used big screen TV.

Also as I write this I am preparing to embark on a yearly ritual of mine, one that I have been doing every year since I was a sophomore in High School.  This ritual I speak of is my yearly attempt at trying to play the guitar.

My mom would know best since she got my first one (electric) back when I was still in high school, and for awhile after that things seemed to be looking up.  I played with my best friend Corey for awhile and was even able to learn AC/DC's "Back in Black" (not the full chorus) and even start on Metallica's "Master of Puppets."  For some reason though I stopped, and for some reason every year since I have started and stopped annually and without change, mainly blaming the size of my fingers, which I do not consider to be anything special, but in actuality it is probably because the guitar just loves kicking my ass.  

I'm the type of person who likes to be able to do things and be at least mediocrely good at them after only a few tries (with the exception of beerpong, which for most of my freshman year in college was quite the source of laughter for my friends).  Guitar has always been one that has taken me awhile though, and still does.  I figured I'd actually blog about it this time in the hopes that it makes me that much more determined to learn this enigma in front of me that is my guitar, which is acoustic this time by the way, which my mom also bought during what I would call my more "emo" days haha.

Anyways I think I like the acoustic more at this point and even if I didn't it wouldn't matter because it is the only one I have here at my place in Arizona.  All in all I'd love to have the added skill of guitar playing under my belt.  I'd love to be able to chill somewhere with a beer and just start playing things like any Jack Johnson song or the uncontested summer hit of '08 and maybe even '09 for some, Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours," Which coincidentally I CAN play on Ukelele, so I've got a start.  I'm pretty much a fan of all the songs you love to hear when you're hanging with friends, be it drunk or sober, whichever you prefer.

If I can keep the flame going I will keep you all updated on my progress.  As of right now Burry is trying to get me to learn "Fishin' In the Dark" so we can play it at the same time, we'll see how it turns out, cross your fingers maybe I'll even get a video of that on here at some point for all of you to have a nice chuckle at.

-Geoffrey

The One Where I Wrecked Myself

I'd like to assume that most college kids tend to sometimes do stupid things when they are drunk, and I am not an exception.  That said, let me tell you a little story.

A few of us decided to drink some sweet tea vodka's (it's like the next great thing around here) and mind erasers (new to me and I was impressed) and go swimming at Christina and Lindsey's pool.  I feel like the rest of this story can pretty much get figured out by anyone who has ever combined the two, because more often than not somebody ends up getting hurt, and of course this occurrence is again no exception, in fact it was practically foretold moments before it happened.  Let me give you the run down.

I just finished my first vodka drink (therefore I guess this isn't a full DRUNK story, but there was still alcohol involved) and decided to jump in the pool.  Right before I got in Lindsey decided to ask me if I would be upset if she decided to throw up on me, obviously I said yes.  I also decided to follow it up with something like "You better be able to lift me out of the water after I jump in to wash off the vomit and end up hitting my head because I did it so fast." Now that wasn't the exact statement, but you get the idea.

Luckily no vomit was emitted and I made a safe first entry into the pool.  I climbed out and felt the need to do some kind of weird twirl flip into the pool the second time, this would end up being the last time that I got into the pool for the night.

The jump maneuver seemed to go well and I entered the water mid spin.  I'm not a fan of chlorine in my eyes, along with whatever else they put in community pools, so I kept my eyes closed as I swam for the edge of the pool.  This turned out to be a bad decision.  The flip disoriented my sense of direction under the water more than I thought and as I swam for what I thought was the far edge of the pool I was suddenly and abruptly stopped by a MUCH nearer edge of the pool.  With my eyes closed and my hands not in front of me for some reason I went full force face first into the wall.  

It's funny though it didn't really hurt it was just more of a shock.  I came up to the surface and with a laugh quickly exclaimed that I had just mashed my face against the wall and when the girls looked over at me after I said it there faces quickly turned worried and the looks were followed by the exclamation that I had blood pouring out of the top of my nose. Awesome!  

Anyways the ice that was keeping our drinks cold turned out to be even more useful in stopping the bleeding and lessening the swelling of my nose impact point as well as the two points on my head that were also damaged in the idiocy.  The girls helped a lot I gotta give them credit and Christina even put a band aid on me that could have swallowed my face whole, but it worked for a quick and temporary fix.  Of course I also decided to follow it up by chugging a few more mind erasers, it's a college student's morphine and it worked out well.

All in all I still got drunk but now I just have to deal with the nasty looking wounds on my face as they scab and hopefully they disappear in a quick and timely fashion.  I'll get a pic up here soon because lord knows there were plenty taken.  

Oh well, just another day in the life! New motto "No Bitchassness!" (Thanks Christina, you always keep me on my toes :).)  I hope to keep that going forever!  Anyways I'm off to another day of wonder and excitement.  I shall return.

UPDATED: I posted a self portrait of last nights ridonculousness on the top of the page, and don't fear that white substance on one of the wounds is just neosporin, not scar tissue.

-Geoffrey

Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Ba-a-ack!

Well this here is my first blog post LA and I have to say I am really happy to be back here in AZ.  I love the sun and although the weather makes me feel like my skin is melting off, I know that a pool and/or some nice AC is always a few steps away wherever I'm at.  

I got back late last night and went to see the midnight showing of Bruno with a bunch of friends, very funny but definitely not for anyone who takes satire ridiculously seriously...you have to watch it knowing that it is all just a movie and if anything will hopefully have positive effects for the groups that it "exploits."

Today I've spent most of my time just getting situated back in my house out here, only one of my roommates is here right now but that's not a problem as long as someone else is here.

Our mini fridge in our house is stocked with 4 cases of assorted beers which we will begin dipping into tonight for a little pregame action before heading out to the local bars on Mill Ave!!  Very excited for tonight as other than the 4th, I haven't really been out and about in awhile and I always have a blasty with the ASU friends.

Hopefully some funny stuff will happen tonight as always seems to happen to at least some one in our group of friends every time we go out, I'll probably bring the flip cam and see if anything comes of it, fingers crossed!

Other than that I am just enjoying being back, and will continue to post as often as I can!

-Geoffrey

I Got My Lunch Packed Up and My Boots Tied Tight!

Both of those aren't really true, although the next line would be semi-true. I am heading back to school as in back to Tempe, AZ Where ASU is!! I am very excited for tomorrow, not only will I finally be back in the land of sun but before that I will be checking out some condos in Downtown LA as possible (hopeful) living places next year!!  Cross your fingers that I find something on this trek out with the realtor because last viewings were a miss.

Anyways that means that very soon the stories will be getting intense, in a most likely hysterical way, and I can't wait to share them with everyone who reads this!  For now that is all though.  I leave you excited and optimistic about tomorrow, lets hope I can get some fricken shut-eye tonight because tomorrow won't come soon enough!  Updates coming...

-Geoffrey 

Couch Tater or Journeys in the Land of Television

So I don't have much new news to talk about today, but still thought I'd at least do a mini-update, and hey I'm a pretty talkative person so this may just turn into a full on post!

Talked to the realtor today about going around and checking out places for next year and it looks like I'm going to go explore a bunch of places in Downtown LA on Thursday morning so I'm psyched about that! Hopefully some video will come of it that I'll post on here, as long as I can figure out how to do it.  More on that later.

Since I spent 90% of today inside watching TV, 3-4 hours of which consisted of the Michael Jackson Memorial on CNN and also MTV because I had to rep my part time employer!!  I must say I was more impressed by the ceremony than I thought I'd be, there were some moving speakers and the performances were also really good.

I was also able to catch up on all the Deadliest Catch that I have missed.  I must say I love that show, even though it really is more or less the same people doing the same thing over and over.  It must be the many characters on those boats because those guys never get old to watch because they are always poking fun at each other, I recommend it if you enjoy any other Discovery Channel show.

Last bit of news is that I may be getting back to Tempe, AZ as early as Thursday night!! Which could not come sooner as I am quite ready to get back to a social life.  If not  Thursday night though it's looking like it will be early friday so whatever way it goes I'll be back by the weekend and I can not wait!  Tomorrow I'm planning on going on a few hour hike with my cousin Jesse as long as he and I are able to wake up and head out by 9, so banking on the fact that we are successful hopefully I will have a more eventful post tomorrow.  See you then.

-Geoffrey

The Flip Cam Cometh!!

So I normally wait until closer to midnight to post new blogs, but considering today has been back to normal solitude I have decided to update earlier as the most exciting thing of my day has more than likely already taken place. Although if something extraordinary comes up I will definitely update again tonight.  Anyways onto the news...

I got a Flip Cam today!! For those of you who don't know its pretty much a video camera the size of a small cell phone that you can literally take an hour or two of video on (depending on the size you choose to buy) and immediately upload it to your computer, youtube, facebook, etc. Pretty much the coolest thing since an Ipod in my opinion.  For more info on it check out www.theflip.com it really is a sweet piece of technology, I will post some videos on here to show what it looks like when I have some.  I'm keeping it short today but will be back with the latest next time!

-Geoffrey

Fourth of July Weekend Festivities (with Girlfriend), or, The Sun Burn Chronicles

Let me first apologize for my absence over the past few days, I was happily busy with my visiting girlfriend (read: blog title) and lets face it, if more than three people are reading this as of now I'm surprised and the three that DO read it were probably just as busy with me this weekend, as it should be over the 4th of July weekend.  All in all thanks for coming back, whoever you may be.

After relaxing and going to some of the local haunts for the first day and a half of my girlfriend's visit and showing her what my life has been like while not working out here, (feeding 2 horses, 2 dogs, and 3 cats, and cleaning up the poop left by all of the above) we decided to meet up with our friends who also happened to be staying near my aunt's place for the weekend.  Better yet they were staying right at Manhattan Beach, so logically we decided to join them, and thus begins the epic roasting of 2009.  After deciding what alcoholic beverage we were going to drink (Sweet Tea flavored Vodka + Tea, quite delicious) and also figuring out how to hide it from beach patrol, which lucky enough for us was by just putting it in a cooler since it looked like tea and also smelled like it, unless you snorted it. (and no I didn't try that, but I did try the waft and smell and liquor was not detected) 

We then met up with our friends and some family and began the drinking festivities.  I have decided to cliffnotes the next two days' events as I figure it will easier keep your attention if you've made it this far (golf clap to those who have) and also because I am starting to feel the minor arthritis percolating in my fingers, and at the ripe old age of 21 it is not a force I want to fight with, so here it goes:

July 4th

12:52 Arrive at beach

1:00 Arrive at lounging site with drinks and towels in hand, after amazingly being able to find a parking spot near the beach. (to anyone who has ever been to Manhattan Beach on a weekend, let alone 4th of July weekend, you know what I mean)

1:00 and 30sec.  First drink underway 

1:01-6:00 Various excursions into the ocean to those who dared, drinks continually flowing on a consistent basis, and many conversions that I can not remember but hope come back to me soon so I can share them.  I also broke the seal WAY too early and had to take many extra trips to the ocean as a consequence of this.  Sun was also taken in heavily by all, as proven by the now nearly immobile joints of some of our beach party because of too much sun exposure...reason 927 why mom knows best, even though we don't always listen, we do always hear.  

7:30 Massive dinner and semi-return to sobriety, this must be reversed

9:00 Fireworks

9:15 The group heads to a local bar

9:16 First round ordered...andddd we're back

10:00 Jammin to the rockin guitar players at the bar who seem to be playing every great guitar hit that you'd want to hear when you're hammered, and playing quarters to occupy ourselves at our table.

12 midnight and fully inebriated we decide to retire, a successful 4th of July.

To add to the fun we decided to return to the beach today (the 5th) to complete the ever present cycle of sunburn, needless to say we succeeded, and I will now be aiming for the shade for the next week so as not to have my skin melt off.

All in all a great holiday weekend, back to the yard and books for me tomorrow, for now thats it...and the fact that I can't remember a damn thing from when I was drunk other than the music and games just makes me want a Flipcam that much more so I can have video the next morning to spread the tale, hopefully this dream will be a reality by the end of summer.  Night folks.

-Geoffrey

Public Enemy Number One...and the Little Spider That Could

Well if you couldn't tell from the title, (and the fact that I said I was going to see it in my last post) I went and saw "Public Enemies" last night at midnight.

Let me have a digressing paragraph really quick for a quick and unrelated side story.  One that I must share because it affected my psyche to a terrible extent last night. As a quick background I will tell you this...I HATE SPIDERS!!!...and I mean that, we're talking how much Indiana Jones hates snakes, how much everyone in LA hates LA traffic type of hate here.  More or less it is because they just creep me out in general in every way, I don't even like interacting with them in any way, and that includes killing them, unless there are at least two means of separation between myself and the victim, ie. I am wearing latex gloves and killing them with a shoe.  Anyways, as I was walking out of my aunt's house to head to the movie last night, let's say around 11:35, I went to the back door, which I use very frequently during the daytime hours to go in and out onto the patio, and noticed a MASSIVE (we're talking about a half dollar coin sized) spider decided to spread his web and plant his fortress at literally my height right outside of the back door.  Needless to say I didn't even try opening it and I even tried to take a cell phone pic but that just didn't give the thing justice.  I was disgusted and very impressed by the fact that this spider was able to make such an astounding web in such a human oriented place in such a short period of time, I mean there was not even a start of it the last time I used the door prior to that which must have been around 7pm.  Either way I let it be because it was too big for me to even want to try and kill, lord knows what would have happened if I tried to get my spider killing hands into his web, I'm sure that it had a backup plan for that.  I am happy to report however that this morning, when I went to check on the site, the spider AND web had completely vanished, I have NO idea how but it was gone as quickly as it had come, and for my sake I hope that it has gone VERY far away because rest assured if I found that spider roaming the deck webless, the showdown would be quick and for him (or her) it would be fatal. (My sock and shoe combo counts as my two degrees of killer separation).  Anyways I had to share that, now back to more important (maybe) things...

As far as 'Public Enemies" goes I must say I was really impressed, and that isn't an objectified statement I really was.  There are so many ways that a gangster movie can be butchered, but Michael Mann succeeded in telling a story about one of the most famous mobsters of the early 20th century and the cast did a great job of bringing these characters to life.  Had I not read the script I think I would've needed to see it twice just to get most of the characters' names down (I still may have to see it again) but I knew for the most part what was going on and especially enjoyed the scenes that I was present for the filming of, it was cool seeing how it was made on the set and then how it turned out in the film, since obviously the scenes weren't filmed in order.

I also enjoyed seeing it because it got me out of the house and up late, which I haven't done much off while out here yet, don't really know why but it probably has something if not everything to do with the fact that 99% of my friends are not in this state so I don't have many people to chill with...oh well all that will change when I am back in Arizona in a week and a half!!  And even tomorrow it'll be different until the 5th of July because my girlfriend (Christina incase you weren't aware of who she is) is coming in to visit for the 4th!! No idea what we are going to do but I am just ecstatic to see her since I haven't in over a month!

Nothing too nuts went down today other than the fact that I finished "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" which kept me invigorated and enthused until the very end.  Again I can't believe it took me that long to read it but I am happy that I finally got to it.  

After I finished I went back to the bookstore (which I seem to be frequenting as much as Mrs. Fields here, although I'm sure the book store is much healthier) and went around again browsing the selection and decided to go with the title I put down yesterday in place of IHTSBIH, Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five."  I'm excited to read this as it is my first Vonnegut book and I have heard nothing but good things from friends telling me to start reading his books (originally my first choice was of course "Cat's Cradle" but the store was out so that made my decision quite easy) so I am excited to start that, although it probably won't be until the 6th, which is alright by me.

Now I sit here watching the "Pitchmen" marathon which just finished airing the season finale with a special Billy Mays tribute at the end, truly sad that he passed he seemed like a great guy and Youtube has definitely given my friends and myself some great laughs involving dubbed versions of his commercials, he will definitely not be forgotten.

Tomorrow is gonna be a busy one and I can't wait to get out of the house and finally do some stuff as its been awhile!  I'll do my best to write as the weekend goes by but there's no telling what'll happen so for now I bid you adieu...

-Geoffrey