this begins a list I started freshmen year of college. Not for any reason really. There are a couple word doc. pages of it and this is the first of them, I will sporadically post them. enjoy:
I am a hopeless romantic
I love nothing more than to spend the night in by candle light and music
I love candle light dinners
I cook
I love long walks on the beach at night
I love the night
I love a good pair of eyes, any color
I love playing with a girl’s hair until its silky smooth
I love to cuddle....that if anything is my favorite thing to do
I hate praise, if that doesn’t sound crazy, in life or work
I like being philosophical with out being pretentious
I never shut up and I am liable to repeat myself
I love long aimless drives
I love the human voice
I love the silence
I love the silence of a cold winter day
I am still as much as man as the next
I build shit with my bare hands
I get dirty
I get sweaty
I love laughter
I love sarcasm
I do not sleep
I like getting dirty
I like taking showers
I like all the seasons in the following order: spring, winter, summer, fall
I like the seasoning: garlic, salt, pepper, allspice (it just sounds so cocky) oregano, basil, bouillon cubes chicken or beef
I like olives
I do not like gossip and movie starts private lives
I cannot dance for the life of me
I wish I could play guitar
I love the smell of a woman
I love the smell of French Vanilla
I think Canadians are funny
I am afraid of townies
I love coffee and coffee houses
I love the water
I absolutely love playing Frisbee
I love playing Frisbee on the beach
I live in the theatre
I love the theatre
I live for theatre
I love the touch
I love the way skin feels
I love the way a girl’s smooth leg feels against mine
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Jeff, THE GOD OF BISCUITS!
last night we watched Eddie Izzard's 'Dressed to Kill'. So to pay homage to The President of Burundi, I will drink my coffee with a spoon.
Day 2 in Chicago.
Our second full day in the windy city was FANTASTIC!
We did part of my tour of the city. We hit a part of downtown known as the Magnificent Mile where all the high end shopping is. We ate at the most amazing restaurant, Grand Lux Cafe. I wanted to eat the entire menu. But I left my extra stomachs at home, so I had to settle for one meal.
Then we traveled to the Navy Pier. Nothing too exciting there but a nice view of Lake Michigan and of the city skyline.
From there we went to Millennium Park. A very nice photo op. which I took full advantage.
from there we were tired. so we took a nap. we just had some fantastic Thia food and are drinking beers. HOORAY BEER! we are killing time waiting to see a late night play "Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Bling" where the actors try to do 30 plays in 60 minutes. The plays are chosen that night, the order that is. We aren't clear which way it is, but if they either do, or don't finish, they buy the audience pizza.
We have plans to meet up with friends tomorrow during the day and a party at a bar tomorrow night.
I have to say. I kinda love Chicago.
Day 2 in Chicago.
Our second full day in the windy city was FANTASTIC!
We did part of my tour of the city. We hit a part of downtown known as the Magnificent Mile where all the high end shopping is. We ate at the most amazing restaurant, Grand Lux Cafe. I wanted to eat the entire menu. But I left my extra stomachs at home, so I had to settle for one meal.
Then we traveled to the Navy Pier. Nothing too exciting there but a nice view of Lake Michigan and of the city skyline.
From there we went to Millennium Park. A very nice photo op. which I took full advantage.
from there we were tired. so we took a nap. we just had some fantastic Thia food and are drinking beers. HOORAY BEER! we are killing time waiting to see a late night play "Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Bling" where the actors try to do 30 plays in 60 minutes. The plays are chosen that night, the order that is. We aren't clear which way it is, but if they either do, or don't finish, they buy the audience pizza.
We have plans to meet up with friends tomorrow during the day and a party at a bar tomorrow night.
I have to say. I kinda love Chicago.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Come On, Feel the Illinoise!
finally here in Chicago. It's raining and there are a few personal things the girl is doing so I am taking a moment to blog.
The two day trip was nice. But that's all. PA, Ohio, (a side trip to Michigan) Indiana and Illinois are all pretty boring. PA had some hills, but the rest was flat and terribly boring.
The side trip to Mich wasn't bad however. We went to meet her best friend for lunch. Had some fantastic Indian food in the middle of nowhere.
The night before we stayed somewhere in Ohio for the night were we met up with Justin and his newly acquired puppy, which is yet to be named. We had a late dinner at a T.G.I. Fridays and by 10:30 or so when we left we had been the only ones there for an hour and they locked the doors as we left. Apparently Ohio didn't get the memo that people function after 8pm.
We went out for dinner and drinks after unpacking the car and vegging out for a bit. A burger and a beer was all either of us really needed. After being Eastern Time and switching to central after two days of driving threw our internal clocks off we were in bed by 10, which really felt like 11 and we managed to stay in bed till 10. The most relaxed I have felt in a while.
We have some plans for dinner and drinks throughout the week with her friends which I am looking forward to. As well as sightseeing and meandering the city aimlessly.
so far so good.
The two day trip was nice. But that's all. PA, Ohio, (a side trip to Michigan) Indiana and Illinois are all pretty boring. PA had some hills, but the rest was flat and terribly boring.
The side trip to Mich wasn't bad however. We went to meet her best friend for lunch. Had some fantastic Indian food in the middle of nowhere.
The night before we stayed somewhere in Ohio for the night were we met up with Justin and his newly acquired puppy, which is yet to be named. We had a late dinner at a T.G.I. Fridays and by 10:30 or so when we left we had been the only ones there for an hour and they locked the doors as we left. Apparently Ohio didn't get the memo that people function after 8pm.
We went out for dinner and drinks after unpacking the car and vegging out for a bit. A burger and a beer was all either of us really needed. After being Eastern Time and switching to central after two days of driving threw our internal clocks off we were in bed by 10, which really felt like 11 and we managed to stay in bed till 10. The most relaxed I have felt in a while.
We have some plans for dinner and drinks throughout the week with her friends which I am looking forward to. As well as sightseeing and meandering the city aimlessly.
so far so good.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
showers and coffee make the world go round
okay, I'm rested (almost) showered and caffeinated. Feeling a little bit better now that the trip is over.
on to what I have been looking forward to for WEEKS now. My trip to Chicago with Denise.
-le sigh-
I have never been to Chicago so I am looking forward to getting out to see a new place. Somewhere I may eventually move to, who knows? I'm at a place in my life where I can pretty much do as I please as long as I have a job and place to stay. If it means being close to the people I care about, all the better.
Speaking of the girl we hit our one month after 'unofficially' dating for about a month before that, and a year long courtship of sorts. Things are going well, apart from the distance factor. But As one of my good friends said, "it speaks a lot to your character that you don't go for what's convenient (an ex that lives close) and you go for what your heart really wants"
on to what I have been looking forward to for WEEKS now. My trip to Chicago with Denise.
-le sigh-
I have never been to Chicago so I am looking forward to getting out to see a new place. Somewhere I may eventually move to, who knows? I'm at a place in my life where I can pretty much do as I please as long as I have a job and place to stay. If it means being close to the people I care about, all the better.
Speaking of the girl we hit our one month after 'unofficially' dating for about a month before that, and a year long courtship of sorts. Things are going well, apart from the distance factor. But As one of my good friends said, "it speaks a lot to your character that you don't go for what's convenient (an ex that lives close) and you go for what your heart really wants"
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Too many miles
welcome to the blog. the first entry will probably a little long.
For a while there, I didn't think we'd ever get home.
1,245.6 miles later the family has returned from out yearly journey to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
BACKSTORY
This has become the family vacation spot since I was born. I have only missed out on 2 years where work prevented me from traveling. My parents discovered the OBX two years prior to what was then my sister and I. We started the trip down. As children the trip took 12 hours. That was with lots of stops, a ferry ride, and occasionally stopping over night at a hotel half way.
4 people, 1 station wagon, 1 ton of shit. Life wasn't so bad. We spent two weeks at the beach and as kids, couldn't be happier.
Then the little brother came along, same scenario +1 person. Life still good.
Then we grew up. Three grown children no longer fit in the back seat of a station wagon. Nor did the amount of crap we took along with into one car, or roof rack.
So started the need to take two cars. My parents in one with the stuff, most of it anyway. The other carried my sister, brother and I plus what was left of the stuff. I would follow my father (more to come on that) and my sister would follow my mother. When we started this my brother could not yet drive. By this point even in one car the trip was reduced to 10 hours.
there is a little more back story, but enough of that for now...
TO PRESENT DAY
This trip, and when I say trip I mean the part where we get in a car and go from point A to point B was by far the WORST trip we have ever taken apart in.
Lets start with the trip down:
8-16-08
wake up call: 4:00am. But apparently only for me because my parents decided to sleep till 5.
on the road by: 5:30am with my father behind the wheel of one car and myself the other
first pit stop: somewhere between 9 and 9:30am at the Pilot gas station at the very bottom of the NJ Tpke.
first driver switch: 11:30am Some gas station in Sailsbury, MD total drive time thus far=6 hours
TRAFFIC: 1:30pm on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
TRAFFIC TIME: 1 hour....
second driver switch: just after the traffic...just after 2:30pm (from here its only another 1.5 hours to the OBX)
Arrive in the....TRAFFIC: just outside the OBX sometime after 4pm, there was a little congestion in between.
Get to the Reality to pick up keys to condo 5:50pm.....drive time 9 something hours.....
THEN ITS TIME TO HIT THE BEACH!!!!!!
and that was great, warm weather, nice waves. good times all around. but this is not a feel good post.
the trip home......
8-23-08
Revere: 6:15am
get to and leave the D&D: 7:10am
almost clean drivin to the Bay Bridge: 9:30 (first driver change, mom and sis take over)
moving along.....and lunch time: 11:45am (all this means is we get subway and eat in on the road, driver change back to dad and myself)
we don't change drivers again. we are in Sailsbury, Md at the very least it is 6 hours.
.....
TRAFFIC, and lots of it....
so we hit traffic upon more traffic upon more traffic
but a quick side note:
i am the only one who drives when my dad drives. following him, on any road, forget 95 or any major highway, is like following the Tazmanian Devil. He lane changes swerves and speeds at will. You have to be psyco to want to follow his ass. but i seem to get the wonderful task of doing so,
now apply this to traffic. you loose him. there is no keeping up.
so we get lost in traffic.
we change lanes more time than Micheal Jackson changes ethnicities/molested little kids (you pick), OJ Simpson was filmed driving his white truck, and Micheal Bolton wrote a terrible song, combined.
we find out that 95 is jammed with traffic, so we get off on rural route 13, to hit slow moving volume. We change back to 295, to the Garden State. Only to go back to 95 for a time. Then we hop over to 87....but MORE TRAFFIC so we change to Route 6, which only goes through ALL OF BUMBLEFUCK,....but after hours of slow driving we manage to get home at sometime after 7:30....drive time=10ish hours...with the longest being a 7 hour stint....
was it worth it?
ask me after i sleep it off...
thats it for now.
For a while there, I didn't think we'd ever get home.
1,245.6 miles later the family has returned from out yearly journey to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
BACKSTORY
This has become the family vacation spot since I was born. I have only missed out on 2 years where work prevented me from traveling. My parents discovered the OBX two years prior to what was then my sister and I. We started the trip down. As children the trip took 12 hours. That was with lots of stops, a ferry ride, and occasionally stopping over night at a hotel half way.
4 people, 1 station wagon, 1 ton of shit. Life wasn't so bad. We spent two weeks at the beach and as kids, couldn't be happier.
Then the little brother came along, same scenario +1 person. Life still good.
Then we grew up. Three grown children no longer fit in the back seat of a station wagon. Nor did the amount of crap we took along with into one car, or roof rack.
So started the need to take two cars. My parents in one with the stuff, most of it anyway. The other carried my sister, brother and I plus what was left of the stuff. I would follow my father (more to come on that) and my sister would follow my mother. When we started this my brother could not yet drive. By this point even in one car the trip was reduced to 10 hours.
there is a little more back story, but enough of that for now...
TO PRESENT DAY
This trip, and when I say trip I mean the part where we get in a car and go from point A to point B was by far the WORST trip we have ever taken apart in.
Lets start with the trip down:
8-16-08
wake up call: 4:00am. But apparently only for me because my parents decided to sleep till 5.
on the road by: 5:30am with my father behind the wheel of one car and myself the other
first pit stop: somewhere between 9 and 9:30am at the Pilot gas station at the very bottom of the NJ Tpke.
first driver switch: 11:30am Some gas station in Sailsbury, MD total drive time thus far=6 hours
TRAFFIC: 1:30pm on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
TRAFFIC TIME: 1 hour....
second driver switch: just after the traffic...just after 2:30pm (from here its only another 1.5 hours to the OBX)
Arrive in the....TRAFFIC: just outside the OBX sometime after 4pm, there was a little congestion in between.
Get to the Reality to pick up keys to condo 5:50pm.....drive time 9 something hours.....
THEN ITS TIME TO HIT THE BEACH!!!!!!
and that was great, warm weather, nice waves. good times all around. but this is not a feel good post.
the trip home......
8-23-08
Revere: 6:15am
get to and leave the D&D: 7:10am
almost clean drivin to the Bay Bridge: 9:30 (first driver change, mom and sis take over)
moving along.....and lunch time: 11:45am (all this means is we get subway and eat in on the road, driver change back to dad and myself)
we don't change drivers again. we are in Sailsbury, Md at the very least it is 6 hours.
.....
TRAFFIC, and lots of it....
so we hit traffic upon more traffic upon more traffic
but a quick side note:
i am the only one who drives when my dad drives. following him, on any road, forget 95 or any major highway, is like following the Tazmanian Devil. He lane changes swerves and speeds at will. You have to be psyco to want to follow his ass. but i seem to get the wonderful task of doing so,
now apply this to traffic. you loose him. there is no keeping up.
so we get lost in traffic.
we change lanes more time than Micheal Jackson changes ethnicities/molested little kids (you pick), OJ Simpson was filmed driving his white truck, and Micheal Bolton wrote a terrible song, combined.
we find out that 95 is jammed with traffic, so we get off on rural route 13, to hit slow moving volume. We change back to 295, to the Garden State. Only to go back to 95 for a time. Then we hop over to 87....but MORE TRAFFIC so we change to Route 6, which only goes through ALL OF BUMBLEFUCK,....but after hours of slow driving we manage to get home at sometime after 7:30....drive time=10ish hours...with the longest being a 7 hour stint....
was it worth it?
ask me after i sleep it off...
thats it for now.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)