I forgot to mention the only good thing that happened today. Last night I went over to Jayson’s and we hit the Bed Bath & Beyond by his house. Sounds exciting right? Well actually it was. I got 2 sets of chocolate filled alcohol. If you haven’t had any I suggest you get some. It is bite sized chocolate in the shape of bottles with different alcohol’s in them. Very tasty. You can only find them during the holiday’s. Jay, Cari, AJ, & Danny ate a box today after work. I have another one at home to savor. Danny is getting another box so we can have more later in the week.
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Hanukah But Late
Went to my sisters today for a Hanukah brunch. If you are Jewish, or if you keep track of holiday’s you may be saying "wasn’t that last week"? Yes, yes it was. My sister was in Jamaica (the island, not queens) for vacation so we had a get together when they got back. Morgan had tons of presents, and wanted to play with all of them. That kid is too cute for her own good.
I got a bottle of Gentleman Jack (Daniel’s) out of their trip. It is my favorite, but I am not a shot drinker like I used to be. Whenever anyone in my family goes somewhere I always end up with a bottle of alcohol. I may have done too much spin on my drinking habits with them, because I have a full liquor cabinet of stuff from vacations. I am not complaining. I actually just finished off my last bottle of Gentleman Jack, so this new one is now in my freezer.
After my sisters I went over to Gretchen and Jay’s to hang out for a bit. It was a nice weekend day…
I Am A Bad Parent
I don’t have kids, but I am a bad fish parent. I have a confession to make. Last week when Jayson was away in Baton Rouge selling his condo I was really neglectful of our fish. I totally forgot to feed him for an entire day. The crab too, but I feel worse about the fish. He never does anything wrong and I was a bad parent:( I think I made the situation worse when I realized what I did and over feed him. I wanted to compensate for my lack of feeding. In reality I did feed him on both thursday and friday, but forgot to feed him on Friday morning. So he went a full day (thursday night to friday night) without food. Poor little guy. He just swims around and when we walk over to the tank and open the lid he is all ready for feeding time. I let him down.
I got laughed at by someone at work (i think it was brad) for talking to him the other day. Crusty (the fish) needs attention too. So if you have a problem with me talking to fish, get over it.
Jayson and I are both bad fish parents because we said we were going to get Crusty a friend for weeks and we still haven’t. We need to soon. The only problem is that Crusty had 2 fish friends before and they both died. Not sure if he had anything to do with it, or if it was the water temperature. Either way we have our eye on our killer fish, but we still love him anyway.
Do You Want A House?
Do you want to buy a house? Jayson is selling a house in Baton Rouge. It is nice. Lots of space! If you buy it and mention finding out about it via this blog I will get $1,000! I doubt that anyone will follow up on this, but for a grand I will make a post!
I just hope he can sell it so he can have spending money again.
Elevator Etiquette
For some reason Jenn seems to think I pressed all the buttons on Dan’s elevator last Sunday so she would have to wait for the elevator. The story is that when we were leaving Dan’s Sunday she was taking a long time for some reason or another. Since we all (Cari, Jayson, Gretchen, Jenn, & I) were not really traveling together it was ok for us to leave. She didn’t ask us to wait for her, so we left. We heard her as the elevator left Dan’s floor and knew she just missed her. Someone joked that it would be funny if someone hit all the elevator buttons. We all laughed and we think she may have heard us.
We got to the lobby and left normally. I took off Monday, but on Tuesday I hear Jenn claiming that I hit all the buttons. I was surprised since no one hit the buttons. I don’t remember anyone doing it. So either she is making the whole thing up since we were joking about it, or someone must have done it at the last second after we got out. I am thinking she may have just made up the situation. I don’t think we will ever know the truth…
I just want to say if I do play a joke on someone, I will be man enough to say “ha ha, I did that” and then prepare myself for the retaliation that may or may not ensue.
Hung Out, Watched Elf Saturday
Saturday I slept in. I wasn’t out too late on Friday, but I was tired from the week of work. I cleaned up my place and Rich came over to hang out. We haven’t hung out in a few months. Both of us have been busy, and he has been trying to conserve cash. We rented Elf on DVD. Neither of us had seen it, and everyone at work said it was great. I thought it was funny, but not outrageously so.
We walked down to Sassy Sliders for a quick dinner. It was a cool long walk, but we were on a budget. That place is like a wannabe White Castle, but the food is really good for fast food.
The plus side of having company over was that it forced me to clean up the crap in my apartment. It now looks halfway decent. I had a good day. I need to hang with Rich and Amanda more. I miss them:(
Home Reorg
I took the day off today (Monday). Unlike normal people I didn’t relax or do anything special. I slept in. Then I proceded to attempt to fix my Tivo. After hours of agrivating over it, and messing up my apartment in the processes I gave up.
I was able to move my desktop computer from one half of my computer table to the other. Now it is closer to the TV wall unit so I can run cable to it. Most of the day was busy working on my Tivo. See post on Tivo & PVR Trouble.
The Jets Game
Today I met up with Jay and Gretchen and headed over to Dan’s to watch the game. Well I didn’t really watch the game, but that was the reason why everyone was over. He had a good appetizer spread. Jay and I took off and went to J&R Computer World. I was looking for a laptop. The Sony Vaio I wanted to see did not impress me that much, so I am back to square one on my laptop search.
We headed back to Dan’s and played a round of trivial pursuit. I learned that Jayson gets bored at games quick. Cari has tons of useless knowledge (and I want her on my team next time). Gretchen also has good trivia skills, and would be someone I want on my team. I should have listened to her when she asked for me to be on her team in the first place. Dam guys vs. girls game. Jennifer should not be playing trivia, let alone be on my team every… Dan was hot and cold. I think near the end he was just tired. We had a good time. We ordered food and hung out for a while.
Thursday Night Out, Man I Drank Allot
Thursday night a bunch of us went out after work to drink with Gus for one last time (at least as an employee of our company). We went to our typical bar No Idea? We drank. Some more than others. I may have drank more than others, or at least felt that I did. Yes, I got a bit drunk. I am happy to say I made it to work on Friday relatively on time (only an hour late). I didn’t even have hang over. That of course is because I couldn’t sleep and I drank about a gallon of water over the course of the night.
All in all we had a good time. Glenn picked up the tab for allot of the night. We drank, played pool, etc. I threw a drink at Jim. The usual stuff. Glenn said I was drunk and that I should probably not drink more. Then of course we held a conversation related to a big purchase we are in the middle of, so either I was not really drunk or I am just confused…
A good time had by all. I think Jim is dry now so that is good too…
Friday Night Team Dinner
Friday night my team and I went out for the holidays. Kai and Brian came down for the dinner. We went to a Angelo & Maxie’s. We like that place. Cari tagged along since Bob could not make it. All in all we had a good time. Because of what we do, we never all get together. Kai and Brian left the call center early and came down. Thankfully nothing broke after they left.
We didn’t drink that much since most of us drank the night before at the Gus goodbye "party". I had a filet, and the cheese cake for desert. It was good as always. Jayson was not happy with his food, but he was getting sick. Danny had 2 potato’s and that was it. I can’t see going to a nice steakhouse and ordering two plain baked potatoes, but he was happy so I guess it is ok.
I am so blacklogged on writting that I am going to cut this post short. More happened, bla, bla, bla. Fun had by all, etc. You get the picture.