How big of a whore am I?

I know I don't have that many readers of this blog. I'm ok with that. I got an offer from google today to place "content related" ads on the blog and I would receive payment based on how many people click through the ads. I'm not sure if they offer this to everybody or if I needed to reach a certain number of hits to the site. The thing is, I created this blog as a way to express myself and chronicle my failures so that in the future, when zombies roam the earth, somewhere there will be some sort of record of my existence, not to make money. Would I be forced to play to these advertisers? I know I'm clownshoes and this wouldn't really apply at all, but the choice is still there. I'll put up a poll and leave it to you, the faithful reader.

I was thinking about it, everybody loves a good car crash. I think that is what my site should be like. Nobody likes to be in a car crash, but everybody has to look at one when they drive by. My life could easily equate to a horrific accident so while you may not enjoy reading this, you can't turn away? I appreciate your rubber necking.

A Picture from Friday

And Now My Bitter Hands, Cradle Broken Glass

Let me tell you about my weekend. I met Sara's friends this weekend. They're both married. The one was pretty funny and loves Pearl Jam, the other is a little crazy, though Sara says she was just like that because she was drunk. The kinda crazy one's boyfriend knocked a bunch of drinks on the table and drive home. That kind of sullied the night.

The next morning we woke up, bought some flowers at Lowe's and then met her brother back at her house to dig out a bush. It was a nightmare. We broke a shovel, he brought a reciprocating saw to cut the roots (insane, I know) this thing didn't want to come out of the ground. To make matters worse the bush was right up against her house. Nightmare. I did decide that I am going to buy a whiskey barrel planter and fill it with water and a pump, some plants and a few Koi.

PF Chang's was good. Went on Saturday instead of Friday. Got the lettuce chicken wraps on the Boss's suggestion, very tasty. I was rather disappointed by the hot and sour soup and by the size of my entrée. I got the Chang's Spicy Chicken which I felt was a poor substitute for General Tso's. Sara had the pepper steak. After dinner we went back to my place and watched Iron Man, I fell asleep half way through.

On the plus side, Sara is now officially my girlfriend. The race to see how long I can keep her away from my parents begins.

Been listening to a lot of Ten this week. I bought the remixed reissue this week. Came with a copy of PJ unplugged and if you can find a better live acoustic version of Porch you're a better man than I. State of Love and trust is also pretty awesome. I do have to rip apart iTunes for not knowing the difference between this version of the CD and the one that I bought in 1991.

Just another day living in the hood

Can't say I have much to write. I've pretty much been in a good mood for the past three days. Another big weekend planned. Date night #2 on Friday and going to Finnegan's on Saturday for Kim and Joe's birthday. Sara's coming over to watch Lost tomorrow night. The Grandparents and regular parents are coming over at some point this weekend to check out the new floors and check out the pad. They might be staying for lunch. I know I'm going to be getting a lot of family time in for Easter. Nice thing about having my own place is that I can always just go home. Might bring the baby brother to Finnegan's, try to get him to socialize with real human beings for a change, as opposed to the morons he hangs out with in college. Might be a mistake.

Can I just say the Phillies' offense has been absolute drech for the past two games? I know it's April and I shouldn't expect much but come on fellas. Moyer only giving up 4 runs is a good thing.

Started reading Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead and I've been enjoying it. Its a grey scale book which I normally wouldn't go for but I think that it emphasizes the bleakness of the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse.

New Yeah Yeah Yeah's album, It's Blitz! has been pretty enjoyable. Leave a post and I promise to make you a copy.

I'm still in love with the host of the HGTV show, the Unsellables. 100% confirmed its because of her accent. She seems like she would be a real bitch, also a highly attractive quality.

That's all for now, I'll try to make a more meaningful post later.

Date Night

New New XBox Experience

So I got my new xbox today. New unit is much more quiet, not as flashy, the power supply is much lighter and is hooked up via HDMI. Not really all that interesting. Sorry to disappoint. Still talking to Sara on a regular basis, by that I mean at least one text an hour. She's calling me sweetie and babe, which surprisingly isn't putting me off, quite the opposite actually. I could be falling for this woman. She actually laughs at my stupid jokes, when no one does. We'll see if when I show up at 3am, she's still up watching vacation and I see her pretty face and it takes me away to that special place. On a completely related note, I do find myself feeling a little bit more confident in my day-to-day activities. If I didn't feel like I wasted the previous 3 years of my life before, I definitly do now. I can't wait to see how I screw this one up. Stay tuned.

On a completely unrelated note, I'm watching this show on HGTV (I'm not gay and I regret making fun of my dad for watching it so much when I lived at home) called the Unsellables. I'm strangely attracted to the host. She's really hot. I know in my mind that she's maybe a 6 at best, but she has a british accent which I find strangely attractive, might move her up a full point and a half.

Big day tomorrow, Flash Rebirth issue #1 hits the stands, as does Scalped #27. For those of you not in the know (which I assume is anyone reading this) Flash is being written by Geoff Johns, my comic book hero, and heralds the return of Barry Allen as the Flash. I've never been a big Crimson Speedster fan but this is a Geoff Johns book.

I put up pictures of Boozapalooza on Facebook. Leave comments, but keep in mind I didn't take any of them.

Been loving the Grill. Past two nights I've made mesquite smoked chicken. My neighbor thought the house was one fire because it was smoking so much. Ooops.

Stay tuned, I think my next big update will either involve how awesome or horrible Flash is, how great playing the xbox is or how my date with Sara went. If I write very little about Sara you know it went really really really well!

I kissed a Girl!

And I liked it.

So Boozapalooza was a great success. So I had an awesome time. Highlight of the party was clearly Joe and his awesome pipes. Great performance. I wished I had gotten to play guitar a little bit more. Not going to lie, I wish Dave would have stayed a little bit longer. After everybody left Sara stayed until close to 3:30. I think I had 4 beers to. Lots and lots of making out on the couch. Then it starts to get a little bit fuzzy. Food highlight was Chrissie's sausage dip and my Mom's Taco Dip. Lows of the night were the skewers, I wish people had eaten more. I still had a whole tray in the oven that I forgot about until this morning. The other low was the epic failure of my one NES controller. Paul, Joe and I fired up Pro Wrestling only to be disappointed. I wish more people had hung out downstairs, especially after the insane time that I had setting it up. I hope everybody had a good time and I didn't disappoint anybody or embaress myself too much. Good feedback so far about Sara, we'll see how people really feel tomorrow. Anyway, its late and I need to sleep, Sara came over and pushed back my time table a little bit. I think we're going to go out to dinner and a movie on Saturday, I don't know how much I'll be able to write about that.

PS Calvin and his use of words for the female anatomy was hilarious. Maybe I'll get over my phobias about that.....

I'm a regular Picasso

So today I spent the better part of 8:30am - 10pm painting the basement. I decided that if Boozapalooza is going to be half the party that it's name implies, there just isn't enough room in for everybody in the living room and dining room. So it seems this party has gotten me motivated to finish the house. I think I'm going to take off on Friday and go get a love seat and a fussball table. Everybody likes fussball right? I do and its my house so fuss it is.

I'll post something later when I have more energy.

Because he asked for it, Joe Lichman. These 15 seconds of blog fame were brought to you by Chrissie Herbert.

Oh What a Night

So I went to Kildare's on the way home to meet up with some people for drinks. Sadly, I think I like hanging out with people way more than I like playing video games at home by myself (sorry Dave). Chrissie brought two friends with her. They were both very nice, but I seemed way more into the one. Sadly, she's the one who has a boyfriend. My luck. I did spread word to the recently named Boozapalooza (working title). I think its shaping up to be a good time, especially if Chrissie brings the same friends! I am worried that nobody will come. I got a chance to text Sara on the way home/ when I got home. We went back and forth a few times, she's coming over tomorrow night! We'll see how it turns out, I'm not holding my breath. She will get to meet Sophie who is spending the weekend with me. This could be a mistake (the dog, not Sara) and I'm worried about her scratching my floors and peeing all over the place (again the Dog, not Sara). Sophie is fun and it might be nice to have somebody to run with for a change. Tomorrow before I pick up the pooch, I'm headed to lunch with the boss, Tamika, Chrissie and Dave, should be interesting considering I'll be nursing a 5 beer hang over. God I sound like a pussy when I say that.

The C-Word

Ok, so I'll admit to sending out a facebook message to the ex of all exes, the ruiner of worlds, the woman who destroyed me for all women. Now, before you read this, beware! I am a lunatic who reads way too much into the simplest of messages, this is going to be a self help session. You have been warned.

I sent her a message that say "Hey, just wanted to say hi and see how you were doing. Hope all is well". I got a response that read"I'm doing great! Congrats on the home!! Glad to see your doing good". Immediately I think what a moron. She can't even use the proper form of your, it should be you're. My second thought was obviously she could care less about me. That was just disappointing to say the least. Now that I'm writing this down, I'm realizing that I shouldn't be so crazy, she was probably just being nice! Way to overthink it A-hole. If you read this, I apologize, but remember you were warned.

Boozeapalooza

Hey guys, sorry about the delay for this but I haven't been busy at all. This weekend went fairly well. I went over to Sara Wilson's on Friday after I got home. On the way home, I bought a case of Magic Hat spring time variety pack and was pleasantly surprised, then I bought a Street Fighter 4 Arcade Stick. I was looking for them online and they were selling for $130. Retail was $70. I got mine for retail at the Warminster GameStop. To clear up any confusion, this is an Arcade Stick that you would find on an arcade machine complete with joystick and arcade buttons and Street Fighter 4 art work. I had a really good time with Sara. 4 beers worth of good time. I wouldn't say that it was particularly romantic or anything like that but I had an enjoyable evening. We talked about our failures with the opposite sex and I was very relieved to hear somebody besides myself having such troubles. We talked about dating stories and other follies. Good times overall. She didn't insult me or ask me what my sign was.

Dave and Fitz came over at 9 in the morning. I had forgotten what a hangover was. We settled down to play some Halo when the screen went blank. Was this the universe's way of telling me that I shouldn't play video games? We isolated the problem to my Xbox's video cable. Congratulations to those who guessed that would be the next horrible thing to happen to me two polls ago. High Five. Thankfully Dave and Fitz both have AV cables that they are dying to part with. After that we played some Rock Band 2. Thank god Fitz likes to sing because Dave can't play the drums (not that I'm any better) and I can't sing. Then we moved onto Street Fighter 4. I love playing the game with the arcade stick. Overall we had a good time.

After Fitz and Dave left I made some lunch and then got ready to paint the basement. Then I started playing Street Fighter. No paiting got done. My parents called and asked if I wanted to go see Slumdog Millionare. I agreed to go because I was still feeling the effects of the previous night's booze (I'm still feeling it I think, I might be getting sick) and wasn't going out or anything and hoped that I would enjoy it better the second time around, I didn't. Sunday was pretty lazy, packed for the week, went for a run and went to the folks house for dinner. I signed up for E-Harmony. Took me a while to fill out their questionarre. I was having my parents and sister help me out for a while and then after I got really frustrated with how much their answers were different from my own. Then I called Tamika and finished a lot of it up. So far I'm up to 16 matches. I have to pay per month to see their pictures or set up a meeting. I'm not sure I want to go that far yet. I might be a 5 out of 7 on the frugal scale.

I can't wait until this weekend, it's been over 5 weeks since I spent a week at home back in Philadelphia and I miss it. Well not necessarily the city but I miss its people for sure.

I'm hosting a party on the 28th. Might ask Sara to be my lovely escort. I hope everybody from work can come. I'm going to buy a ton of food and beer and god knows what else. I can only hope that the Boss comes over and gets hammered. I'm going to put up a poll to see what this event is going to called. I'm shooting for boozeapalooza, with TruckFest coming in a different second. Your votes count! Its going to be a short poll so please vote early and often.

On a completely seperate and last note, everybody should download on itunes or buy on amazon Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. It is hilarious. Normally I don't like anything musical, but this is comedy. Its written by Joss Whedon, who wrote Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (both of which I hated) but he also wrote Astonishing X-Men, probably one of my more favorite comics of all time.

Wow!

Ok, so after 3 years of trying to find her, I found the ex of all exes on facebook. To put it succinctly she was the woman who ruined me for all women. I am in a state of shock. I'm really wondering if she'll accept my friend request. Then I start to wonder if she's single or if she's married (she had a picture of her and a dude as her profile pic so I'm guessing at the very least she's in a relationship). God this sounds horrible. I'll write about the rest of my weekend's exploits tomorrow. Wow is all I can say. Please don't get mad at me for saying this but I'm forcasting some rocky emotional swings with a 50% chance of sobbing, just kidding about that last part, I won't cry, most likely throwing something or at the very least some expletive laden yelling. Like I said before, I'll post about the more positive things tomorrow after work or during lunch.

How Fitting

Normally I don't really listen to lyrics in songs, but these seem to speak to me. They're from The Airborne Toxic Event. I think we've all been this guy at one point in our lives.



And it starts, sometime around midnight.
Or at least that’s when you lose yourselffor a minute or two.
As you stand, under the bar lights.And the band plays some songabout forgetting yourself for a while.
And the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack to her smile.
And that white dress she’s wearingyou haven’t seen her for a while.
But you know, that she’s watching.
She’s laughing, she’s turning.She’s holding her tonic like a cross*.
The room’s suddenly spinning. She walks up and asks how you are.
So you can smell her perfume.You can see her lying naked in your arms.
And so there’s a change, in your emotions.
And all these memories come rushing like feral waves to your mind.
Of the curl of your bodies,like two perfect circles entwined.
And you feel hopeless and homeless and lost in the haze of the wine.
Then she leaves, with someone you don’t know.
But she makes sure you saw her.She looks right at you and bolts.
As she walks out the door,your blood boilingyour stomach in ropes.
Oh and when your friends say,“What is it? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
Then you walk, under the streetlights.
And you’re too drunk to notice,that everyone is staring at you.You just don’t care what you look like,the world is falling around you.
You just have to see her.You just have to see her.You just have to see her.You just have to see her.You just have to see her.You know that she’ll break you in two.


I know I've been in this situation. Most notably in college with my old girlfriend, Jen (who ruined me forever for all women). Except I didn't see her walk out with anybody else, she just told me about her new boyfriend. Then began the my senior year conquest to conquer all women, which ended horribly and tragically with nothing but runny mascara and broken promises in my wake.

Onwards and upwards.

On a happier note, The Watchmen is tonight. I am hoping to leave work by 12:00 to get home by 4. Gotta put the house back together (at least the TV and associated video game systems) before Dave and Fitz come over to rock out to some Street Fighter IV action. Still haven't finished that game. Got to the final boss with Ken and he just kicked my ass repeatedly. Might have tried 30 times. The worst part about it is it is almost impossible to lose the first round so you're playing a minimum of 3 rounds each go-around.

Did anybody read twighlight? I bought it after I heard a good recommendation from a certain diesel midget who is good with a brush and a bat. Didn't realize how big it is. Good Lord its got to be 700 pages long.

T Minus 3 Days

Only 3 days till The Watchmen. Can't say how excited I am. I know I must temper this excitement so that I am not grossly disappointed. Can't wait til I get home on Friday! Still not sure about the theater location. If we go over to the theater by my house I should probably have everybody over to play Halo or something like that. The only problem might be that I don't think I'll have the place back together in time. They start the floors tomorrow. I'm going to try to start my basement this weekend. Which means time to find a sofa for down there. After that I guess I should finish up the living room, stairwell and the upstairs hallway. I realized today that I do love my house.

Not only is The Watchmen on Friday, when I get home I should have the new U2 CD No Line Along the Horizon and Halo Wars. I also found a new song, well band that I'm gay for. Joining the ranks of Cascada's "Every Time We Touch" is the band Paramore. Quite frankly it is embaressing that I have to ask my 17 year-old sister to borrow a CD. I simply have to swallow my pride at that point.

This weekend I got in touch with Sara Wilson. For those of you keeping score at home, she's a girl that I swam with in High School and then worked with at Maplewood Swim Club. She's very sweet. We're supposed to go out for drinks. Figured this would be a harmless way catch up and shoot the breeze. Who knows, should be interesting to say the least.

On a down note, last night I called as many of my Fraternity Brothers as I could get a hold of to let them know about Roche. It was odd at some of their reactions, especially Mark "Mangina" Mandetta. We didn't call him all of that, mostly Giner or Mangina, never Mark or Mandetta or any combination of the two. Mark was very upset with Roche because he cut himself off from the rest of us. I felt like saying to him that I did the same thing for the past two years. I don't think he understands that some times its best for people to start over, to hit the reset button, to blow in your cartridge until you can get Contra to work. I wanted to tell him to stop speaking ill of the dead but then I remembered that this is probably his way of justifying how he felt and thinking of how he could possibly not have known that one of his best friends from college died. I think if you read my last post, you'll notice that I just have regrets. Like I said, I got lots of mixed reactions. I think the general consensus was holy shit and then "Why the fuck am I only hearing about this now?". I don't think I've ever been the one to give the news of some body else's death. I wasn't very comfortable with it, as I imagine every sane person who has ever had to give that type of news has felt. I am making strides towards getting a chapter eternal page set up for the pledges. If you would have told me that the guy was going to die 6 years ago I might have been very indifferent, I did lead the charge to get him blackballed from the Fraternity, but like I said before, death seems to over ride all of the nonsense. Finality and morbidity I suppose.

Have I mentioned that The Watchmen is in 3 days and that I'm excited? Calm down Chris, baseball, baseball, Margret Thatcher naked in the shower....

The Fallen

Just found out that one of my Fraternity Brothers, Patrick Roche passed away in April of last year. He was my big. We didn't part amicably after he decided not to pay $1,000 in rent and then moved to Florida. I felt very bad that I never got to say good bye or at least say I forgive you. If there is an afterlife, I know that I don't think that there is, I hope that some day I get to tell him that despite all of our differences I forgive him and always hoped the best for him. I think that most people feel like this when somebody they know dies, obviously due to the finality of it all. Where ever you are Roche, godspeed.

Most Bittersweet Weekend Ever

So I got a lot accomplished this weekend. Friday when I got home I painted up the new baseboard. All 120 ft of it. Saturday morning I got up early and bought a new ironing board and some felt pads for the furniture. Then I started tearing up the carpet. No easy task. Finished up around 8:30. Drew was home from school on Spring Break. Went to Maggio's with him and had a few beers. By a few I mean 3. Funny story from the bar: Some ladies there were eyeing us up (trust me I am not bragging) and he thought they were buying us drinks. Turns out they were just asking the bartender something. Turns out that story is much funnier when I'm not writing it. All in all a great night. I had a lot of fun.

Then Sunday started. I had to tear up the linoleum, which was laminated on to 1/8" sheets of plywood. So I had to tear it all up with crow bar. Had to disconnect the dishwasher, remove the toilet, move the fridge and take out the oven. I haven't been this sore since the marathon. Good news is the floors are on schedule to be put in on Thursday.

In other news, Sunday night was highlighted with some Street Fighter IV action. What a great game. I can't say enough about it. Dave, if you're reading this now, don't walk, run to buy this game. I did pre-order Halo Wars after playing the demo a few times.

In other other news, I would like to take the time to say thank you. Thank you to all of you who are helping New Old Chris evolve into a human being. I am in deep need of of some self confidence and some times need to be reminded my life isn't all doom and gloom. I can't say how much I appreciate your help. Thanks!

A New Leaf

I am determined to write something positive today.

Got a crew together to go see the Watchmen. Might be going to the iMax theater in King of Prussia. All are welcome, especially women, who enjoy a 27 balding year old comic nerd. Damn it, gotta stay positive.

I got a little extra comp time here at work, stayed until 8:30 last night, 13.5 hour day. I'm starting to wonder why I bought a house, I could probably just stay here at the office. I am definitely coming down here next week.

I have been watching a lot of entourage. Love it. I might have to get HBO when it starts back up. I think I'm taking the rest of today off. Going to go get a good meal when I get home, I'm not really sure what that means. I might get a hoagie, haven't had one of them in a while, or maybe I might go to Wegman's and get some shrimp, or if I'm really feeling like a pig I might go to the ol' Chinese Buffet and get some take out.

For all of you keeping score out there, Street Fighter 4 is awesome! Can't say enough good about it. Saw a trailer for Mass Effect 2, got me really excited. Played the Halo Wars Demo, might be getting that because Dave convinced me that I am a Halo fanboy at heart.

Really scattershot today. Feeling a little better, out of the funk that I've been in. One downer, definitly not going to be hanging out with Christina again. I'm ok with it. I do feel bad because I feel like I put Dave and Krystle in the middle of all these shenanigans ("I am going to pistol whip the next person who says that" "Hey Farva, what's the name of that place you like to eat at with all the crazy shit on the walls?" "You mean Shenanigans?").

The Pooch is officially SCREWED!

Well, after yet another long long long night here at work, found out I am probably going to have to come down to DC next week. I was planning on staying home while they put in my floors. This might be better actually because I'll come home and the floors will be done. I'll just have to figure out how to reinstall my toilet. This leaves me only two days to paint the board and rip up the floors.

I got a facebook message yesterday, it was pretty harsh. I'm not going to lie though, it felt as if a tiny little weight was lifted off my chest.

Can't complain though, today Captain America, Green Lantern and Superman all come out. How lucky am I? This is embaressing.

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What A Zilch!

I feel like poop today. Stayed here at work until after 8pm. Long day, left the house at 6:30am drove down to DC. I had to sit through a few meetings where I thought to myself "I sure do wish this building was a little bit taller and that window was a little bit more breakable". I can't wait to get home this weekend. Gotta paint some baseboard and then tear up my carpet. I just wish the floors were in already. Otherwise, still a little sad about this whole social life (or lack thereof) thing. I think I might have totally fallen for her. It totally sucks because of the whole boyfriend thing. Gotta keep on keepin on I suppose. I've been listening to a lot of the Kings of Leon, Only by the Night. I absolutely positively didn't illegally download their whole CD. I ordered a legit copy on Amazon, which should be arriving shortly. I really dig the first, third, fourth, tenth and eleventh songs are awesome. The first song, Closer, is really fitting to my mood. It might take my number one seed as my most favorite depressing song, taking the mantle from High and Dry by Radiohead. Take a listen, its worth your time.

Please please please leave a comment. Tell me if this sucks or if you enjoy hearing about my trials and tribulations or as I like to call them, utter failures. Guess I should try to be more posititve, New Old Chris is making a comeback.

Painting the Room Red

Major home improvement day. Morning started at 8:30. Dad picked me up. Went to Lewis' paint store. Picked up three gallons of Rasberry Truffle and two gallons of beige, brush, new roller and a edging tool. Then it was off to Lowe's. Got a new ladder, some sand paper, wood putty and Ten 14 foot sections of 4 1/4" baseboard. Lisa came over at 1:00, went to grab some lunch at Moe's and then off to paint. Two coats and three hours later, room looks great. Found out Lisa is pumped up for the Watchmen, easily my most anticipated movie of 2009. She left at 5, kept painting until about 8, got the room back together and then sat down for some dinner. Watched some Entourage, played some of the ol X-Box and started writing. Sorry this post isn't all that great.

Kinda bummed out. I found out that I could have hurt somebody's feelings. New Old Chris is remembering what it feels like to be a huge jerk. I think I have been treating this blog as a personal journal and made a mistake by connecting it to my facebook page. I know this is probably too little too late, but I'm sorry. I found a surefire way to make sure I die a lonely lonely man. I found a new worst fear today, dying with nobody at my funeral. No kids, no wife, nothing. Just me in an empty room with some priest saying I lived a good life. Only I could make a man of the cloth lie. Shame.

Crappy ending to a pretty crappy day. At the very least my house looks nice. Gotta look on the bright side, floors are getting installed in two weeks. Lots of more work ahead of me thouugh, gotta paint the baseboard and tear up the floors. Lord help me.

Office Speak

Most over-used office word: Currently. How miserable do you have to be to use this word every five seconds.

Some Good Songs for the Lonely

I was feeling a little lonely the other day started listening to some sad songs, then I got bored. I listened to Josie by Blink 182. I captures what I am looking for in a girl in a nutshell.

Yeah, my girlfriend takes me home when I'm too drunk to drive
And she doesn't get all jealous when I hang out with the guys
She laughs at my dumb jokes when no one does
She brings me mexican food from Sombrero's just because(Yeah, just because)
And my girlfriend likes U.L. and D.H.C.And she's so smart and independent, I don't think she needs meQuite half as much as I know I need her
I wonder why there's not another guy that she'd prefer
And when I feel like giving upLike my world is falling down
I show up at 3amShe's still up watching Vacation, and I See her pretty faceIt takes me away to a better place and I know that everything
Everything's gonna be fine Everything's gonna be fine
Yeah, my girlfriend takes collect calls from the road
And it doesn't seem to matter that I'm lacking in the bulge
She laughs at my dumb jokes when no one does
She brings me mexican food from Sombrero's just because
And when I feel like giving upLike my world is falling downI show up at 3am
She's still up watching Vacation, and I See her pretty face
It takes me away to a better place and I know that everything Everything's gonna be fine

BTW, Lisa is helping me paint this weekend. Stay tuned. Floors getting put in March 2nd.

I know this is sort of a cop out post, but I'm a busy man.

Falling Down on the Job

So I haven't blogged in a while, I've been busy, get off my back!

Since last I've written I had a few major leaps ahead in my recovery as a human being. On Friday February 6th, I went to New York ComicCon. The day started off with me meeting an old friend Stephanie Kline for lunch. I don't think this lunch went as well as I would have hoped because I haven't heard from her since. Depressing I know. I didn't concern myself with such trivial nonsense I had a show to go to. The highlight of my show was easily getting to meet Geoff Johns and Brian Michael Bendis. These are two of my favorite writers working in the comics biz today. I got a sketch of Snake Eyes from Paul Atkins. That Saturday was the big blind date. I cooked Pasta Fra Diavolo for Dave and his girlfriend Krystle and my date for the evening, Christina Wilson. I had a great time, Dave said I worked way too hard and Krystle said I seemed stressed. I had a glass of wine with dinner, first time I drank for a long long time. I didn't really eat anything except for dinner so I think that combined with cleaning the house and preparing for dinner left me a little bit tipsy, I couldn't remember where to put my serving dishes. After dinner we played Guitar Hero, Dave claims that Christina was as good as me on the drums. I beg to differ, she was good but come on. After Dave and Krystle left around 11:30, Christina and I stayed up until 1:30 talking and watching TV. Sounds like things are going good right?

I woke up on Sunday and felt horrible. Went over to the folks house for dinner, I'm starting to think I go just to see Sophie. I love that Dog; she loves me so much that she pees all over the floor every time she sees me. Monday went by without event, Tuesday was my interview which went well as far as I could tell, I was sick as a dog. Stayed home on Wednesday and Thursday. Signed up for Netflix, watched Ground Hog Day on the ol' Xbox 360. Played Left 4 Dead with Dave and Fitz one of the nights, I think Wednesday. Easily one of the more fun multi-player experiences out there. Went out to lunch on Friday with The Boss and Tamika 1.0.

During this time period, I forget exactly when, I found out that my friend Lisa has a boyfriend. That was a little disappointing. She's still texting with me and writing to me on facebook. Its almost like she's flirting with me but not quite. I feel like she almost didn't want me to know about this dude. I don't know what the hell that was all about but she wanted to go to New York and go see some museums with her. I'm getting some mixed signals.

Friday night I felt like poop so I stayed in and played Left 4 Dead with Dave and Tim. Saturday I woke up early and played some Halo 3 with Dave and Fitz. Played that until 2ish. Went for a run and then went to the Gym. On the way home I stopped by Target and bought a stupid painting and a pink Dyson.

Christina came over on Saturday to watch a movie. We got a Cheese Steak Pizza from Peace-a-Pizza. Not the best, but it was the first Pizza that I had in well over a year. I couldn't get a good vibe from this girl. It was like I slipped in the friend zone. We couldn't have sat farther apart on my couch. She asked me when my birthday was and the response was "oh, a Scorpio, that explains why you're so opionated". Who says that? As I texted to my new buddy Lisa, this girl is on strike two and I'm feeling like Cole Hammels (how lame am I?).

Sunday I went for a run and then took down my ceiling fan and the flush mount light in my foyer. Monday I woke up early and returned my speaker wire, bought a new ceiling fan and new foyer light. After the Lowe's and Bob & Ron visit I went to the mall to buy some new jeans. Walked out with a new Lacoste polo, some new undershirts from Armani and a new dress shirt, oh and new Jeans from the Gap. Then I went home ran and went to the gym and the grocery store. Christina came over around 4:30 to drop off a knife I left in the box that she took home with her. It was a really quick stop and I was knee deep into wiring up my fan. After she left I got a surprise call fron my friend Brian Stricker. I hadn't seen Brian for the past 2 years. He stopped by and I gave him the tour of the house. I think we're going to try to hang out soon. That's exciting, he seems to have grown up a lot. That brings you up to speed. I wish things with Christina would be going better, but after two dates and we haven't even kissed, doesn't bode well for things in my mind. I'm going to ask her if she wants to go to Old City to go see some art exhibits and grab a bite to eat, not this weekend because I have to paint in order to get ready for the new floors! I'm so excited.

Tomorrow

Big day tomorrow, but I have a meeting in a few minutes so this has to be brief. I'm going to NY for the big con. Meeting Steph for lunch, still have to confirm where we're going though. I was contemplating whether or not I should pay for lunch, sorry its part of my psychosis. I'm really looking forward to the con, I want two things, a Sinestro Corps T-shirt and a piece of original art. Saturday is pretty big, getting another estimate for the floors and cleaning the house for the big dinner-fest. Got in touch with Tom Collins yesterday, found out the guy ran a marathon. If you would have asked me in the Spring of 2004 who the two ATO bro's that would be least likely to run a marathon, we would have easily rounded out the top 5. Congrats Tom, you do me proud.

Sat Dinner

So having a dinner party/blind date on Saturday. I am fairly nervous about the whole ordeal. This is really my first date since Jen Moyer ruined me for all other women. I think I am fealing my anxiety start to reform. I'm trying to fill my time with work and planning for my trip to NY on Friday, which should be awesome by the way. I'm looking forward to my NY trip, I'm meeting Steph Kline, another former flame, for lunch. After that is NY Comic Con, looking forward to trying to get some original sketches done or just getting a bunch of crap signed. I'm also looking forward to getting a sweet Sintestro Corps T-shirt. Meeting up with Steph combined with throwing this dinner party/blind date is leading me to think about having some other college friends over. I found one of my really close college friends Lynda on Facebook. Great title for said College get together: BUnion. Get it? Instead of reunion, BUnion. Come on, that's gold!

I'm making Pasta Fra Diavolo or Pasta Brother Devil for those of you who can't fumble your way through Italian. I have to make seperate sauce for Dave because he doesn't like Shrimp, which is fine because we all know about my food issues and I would expect a friend to treat me the same.

If you're reading this, please leave a comment. If you've read this blog at all you know about my fragile emotional state ;) and any comments at all would tell me if I'm doing good or bad.

PS As you can tell I'm still pretty neurotic.

First Time in a While

Dear Blog,

I know its been a long time since I've posted to you, and I apologize. It has been a pretty busy past two weeks.

My first week back home went by pretty uncerimoniously. Saturday was Winter-Een Mas at one Dave Drayton's. I played horribly but had a great time. It was 6 hours of unadulterated gaming with some pretty good dudes. I met a lot of Dave's friends and met his lovely girlfriend, Crystal. Awesome weekend all around, I might have even gotten a date out of the whole thing. I'm pretty sure Dave and Crystal are coming over for a dinner party on Saturday, with Crystal's friend Kristen. I laughed with Dave when I said that if we got together we would be Chris and Kristen, the most obnoxiously named couple around. This may come as a surprise to some but I am feeling more and more lonely and aching for female companionship. This could be a bi-product of seeing lots of friends getting married on Facebook or just a result of my return to "the old Chris" to quote the boss.

On Wednesday of last week I met an old friend at Nifty Fifty's. We had good food, a few laughs, it was almost like we had seen each other every day since college. She looked phenominal! Gorgeous! I was relatively smitten, which reminded me of why I was attracted to her in the first place. The whole lunch I thought to myself "Don't talk about comics, video games or running". She brought up playing Guitar Hero, I think I had to bite my lip so hard I might have been bleeding. Then she asked me about my running, which admittedly I talked about way too much. We have a lot in common, we're both single young professionals (a term I use very loosely for myself), seem to both enjoy a lot of the same things. I am very excited to see what the future holds, but very scared for her to see me naked. It made me really think about the things that I had done in my life and how ashamed at a lot of my recent past I am and even how crappy I treated people when I was in college, so really I am proud of 2006 and half-way through 2007. I payed for lunch, which I know shocked the boss, and she responded with I'll get the next one then. Hmmm..... the next one? I got a hug before we parted ways and have since played facebook tag on more than one occassion. Who knows.

On Friday I went to my sister's swim meet. She didn't swim so hot but I didn't tell her that. I was very supportive. I got to see some other folks that I hadn't seen in a while, which was nice. Took half a day, got the ol' subey checked out, played guitar hero for hours upon hours to unlock the songs for Chrissie's on Saturday.

Saturday was awesome. I got up early and cleaned before the floor guy came over. Then I went out to Circuit City to pick up a vacuum cleaner but bought a drum stool and guitar stand instead. Playaed a little Halo 3 with Dave and Fitz, I did a little bit better than I did at Winter Een Mas, finished ahead of Dave once. After getting dumped for some women, YUK!, Dave and Fitz went on their ways. After that I went for a run and then went to the Gym. Went to my folk's for dinner and then to Chrissie's apartment for the festivities. Chrissie's was awesome. One Ryan Hines dominated the Guitar Hero Guitar and quite frankly schooled me in the drums too. I think that the shock of the night was one Kimberly Myers being fairly proficient on the Guitar. Not as shocking was Chrissie failing on the bass, I kid, but I'm serious.

Sunday ended with the Super Bowl and getting ready to make my trip back into the land of Obama, Washington DC.

If you're reading this and you have something to share about the preceding, please leave a comment. Let me know if this blog blows or if it is awesome. I think it blows but I'm soldiering on.

K.I.D.S. Incorporated

Does anybody remember this show? I can only remember the theme song, which means that it is repeating over and over again.

Patriots, Tea and the Bitter Cold

I was reminded of twice in the past 24 hours of the American Revolution. The first instance was a sign that I saw on Ft. Belvoir. It was a sign on a soldier's house that read: "Only Patriots Welcome". Now I can understand the general meaning behind this sign but I found it very hypocritical. If you asked this guy if he was a George Washington fan I'm sure he'd tell you that he was. Do you see where I'm going with this? George Washington wouldn't have been considered a patriot by a great deal of the colonists but today he is considered as one of the greatest. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a greater example of revisionist history. This also lead me to think that the idiom of one man's rebel is another's freedom fighter couldn't be truer.

The other way that the past 24 hours lead me to think of the American Revolution is that it is 11 fucking degrees. How the hell did those "Patriots" survive at Valley Forge. I can't be bothered to be outside for more than an hour or two to run. I mean it is cold as fuck. Sorry to be so vulgar but I don't think anything else could stress how fucking cold it is.

ATM Machines!

I'm definitely feeling crabby today, don't know why either. I went to bed early and woke up at 6:20. I overheard somebody talking about the ATM Machine. It is the most redundant part of the english lexicon. Then when I was in the bathroom I heard some dude talking about his CAC card. Same thing as the GOD DAMNED ATM Machine! Now I know that I'm not innocent of uttering both of these phrases, I think that is why I am annoyed, because I do it too, but because they're so buried in our lexicon that I don't even notice when I say it.

Sorry

So I was talking to "The Boss" today and I remembered that I didn't make a post yesterday. So Sorry! Surprising to most I was working very hard. I would like to comment on this new found, strike that, refound, aspect of my personality. I am finding myself working much harder on this project than I have for quite some time. I'm not sure that this isn't becuase I feel the need to prove myself. When I was working on team COCE and John was my supervisor I had the need to prove myself to the world. Then the floodgates opened: John(-1), Liz(-1) , Evan(-1), Tamika(-1) and Linda (-0.5). Then they dropped the big one, Flo-Ro (-10000000) for those of you keeping track that puts me at a -10000004.5 (arbitrary numbernig system used at random for my enjoyment). After I found out that she had been sending my team leader e-mails asking if I was coming into work or not, I have been having nightmare about going back to work for her, quite literally.

On a seperate note, I found a radio show down here that I really enjoy: Big O and Dukes. They remind me a lot of Kidd Chris with out the stupid bits and without being so vulgar. They don't chase their guests off of show either. Funny without being hurtful.

Luck

Well after my last post a few things have happened to me. Some good and some bad. On the way home from work, driving down I-95 a stone about the size of a golfball hit my windshield and put a nice crack in it. Seeing as I had 3 hours to think about this crack, it hit me that I hadn't had a car that I had to replace the windshield, VW Rabbit, Jeep and now the Subaru. What an annoyance.

I finally bought my dining room table. I think I might have some people over for the Super Bowl or something like that, maybe a Guitar Hero party.

I was thinking about the past month or two of my life and how much better they have been that the previous year. I've been through a lot of shit and I know that I have put a lot of people through a lot more shit. I was fairly self-destructive and extremely tunnel visioned. It took some doing but I think I repaired most of my relationships with my family and friends. I don't think that I could go back to the bar scene that my high school buddies seem to love so much and I don't think that my old fraternity brothers have changed all that much. I have been reaching out to some of my old non-fraternity school friends. Let you know how it goes along.

I've been thinking more about getting into some sort of relationship, how I need to have some sort of emotional outlet. 7 months ago, I didn't think about it at all, now I can't forget about it. Oh well, until tommorrow.

Yeah Yeah Yeah

I was thinking about music today.

I think that I might have completely fallen for the Yeah Yeah Y eahs. This is a band that must have released the CD that I have, Fever to Tell, over 5 years ago. I've had the CD loaded into the ol' iPod for a while but never really sat down to listen to. This is what happens when you have 6,000 songs in that thing. I've always liked the song Maps and thats why I got the CD but now I'm thinking that the best song on the CD is Y Control. You can really tell that this is a band from New York and is very artsy in the vain of The Strokes and The White Stripes. After seeing some pictures of the lead singer I am clearly smitten. Time to head home to Warrington for an awesome weekend of relaxation. There shouldn't be too much traffic, it is Friday at noon after all.

Titles are hard

In this new year, barely 8 days old, I've decided to excercise my brain. Turns out thats hard work. Who can can come up with a title for everypost that is somewhat interesting and catches a reader's eye? Some observations for the day: Drivers in Virginia never under any circumstance use their turn signals, Star Wars needs to be on Blu-Ray already (same goes for the Lord of the Rings), Milk is an awesome movie if you skip some of the gross parts, the Eagles better win on Sunday, I really am upset that 1up fired all of its staff. Sorry that this blows, I'm going to try to write every day, I'm sure they can't all be bad, that would take effort.

Just the Beginning

Hello who ever may be reading this. I plan on using this space as an outlet for some creative writing, or just getting my thoughts down on the 'sphere for the day. I'm not really sure why you would read this other than because I asked you, but thanks for the visit, hopefully I won't disappoint. Keep an eye out for future posts.