Friday, October 31, 2008
End of the month
Happy Halloween everyone, blah blah blah. It's been an interesting month with the longest delay in a world series and unfortunately the phillies taking the crown. Who would have thunk it? Not me. They totally reversed the long layover jinx that has plagued the past few world series. I thought the Rays would beat them easily, but of course just like many things, I'm wrong. Ha ha. Malone, I'll put up a post later on the free agents. One problem is is that I think they have like 15 days to file for it so that list will grow longer. Then we'll see what happens in this crazy world. Well, my breaks running low so I'm going to have to cut this one short. I'll try and get a longer, better one tomorrow. Oh yeah, before I forget, how was the poker party? What happened in the tournament and who won the best costumes?
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tuesday Night
Well, so I wanted to hand the World Series over to the Phillies but the rain decided to keep that from them. I don't mind. I don't think they deserve to have their title yet. I don't really have any good reason why just that I don't like the Phillies, ha ha. There's not much on tv so I'm watching the Great Outdoors, one of my favorite John Candy movies behind Spaceballs & Uncle Buck. The most believable part of the movie is that fact that John Candy's oldest son meets a girl one night, she treats him like crap, then he sees her the next day and then they're boyfriend & girlfriend even though he's leaving in 3 days. Nothing better than a 3 day gf. Maybe that would make life easier? The second thing is John Candy eating a 96 ounce steak.
What's so wrong with starting David Price? You're down 3 games to 1 and everyone knows Kazmir can't pitch out of the fifth because he throws too many pitches. Madden had enough confidence in him to pitch in game 7 to close out the series why not start him in game 5? If they had won they could have had Kazmir pitch game 6 at home on full rest & Shields game 7 on full rest with Garza coming out of the pen if Shields gets into trouble. I guess now it's okay because of the rain delay now you have all hands on deck if there's a game 7, besides Shields who will pitch game 6. Of course, this is if the Rays win game 5, which they won't. He he.
Well, onto making fun of myself for a little bit. I started my new shift yesterday. We have a webpage that lists our breaks & lunch. Well, I tried to get to the webpage but alas, it didn't work. So, I talked to my coach and he came over at like 9:30ish to give me my break schedule. So I had something on my lists of breaks that was new so I asked my coach and he didn't know. He checked and apartently I had an interview in about 15 minutes for a QA position. I had submitted a request to interview for this position last week but I didn't know if I would get one so it came as a surprise to me. Well, as you can guess I wasn't at my best in the interview and for a couple questions I didn't really know what to say. I was at a loss for words and it made the interview kinda funny. I can laugh at it now because I don't think I'd take the job if they offered it to me. I'm happy to finally get my weekends off and I don't think I'd get them off if I took the job so I'm not going to complain. So, the job search continues, but not that hard. Maybe someday I'll find a better job, maybe.
What's so wrong with starting David Price? You're down 3 games to 1 and everyone knows Kazmir can't pitch out of the fifth because he throws too many pitches. Madden had enough confidence in him to pitch in game 7 to close out the series why not start him in game 5? If they had won they could have had Kazmir pitch game 6 at home on full rest & Shields game 7 on full rest with Garza coming out of the pen if Shields gets into trouble. I guess now it's okay because of the rain delay now you have all hands on deck if there's a game 7, besides Shields who will pitch game 6. Of course, this is if the Rays win game 5, which they won't. He he.
Well, onto making fun of myself for a little bit. I started my new shift yesterday. We have a webpage that lists our breaks & lunch. Well, I tried to get to the webpage but alas, it didn't work. So, I talked to my coach and he came over at like 9:30ish to give me my break schedule. So I had something on my lists of breaks that was new so I asked my coach and he didn't know. He checked and apartently I had an interview in about 15 minutes for a QA position. I had submitted a request to interview for this position last week but I didn't know if I would get one so it came as a surprise to me. Well, as you can guess I wasn't at my best in the interview and for a couple questions I didn't really know what to say. I was at a loss for words and it made the interview kinda funny. I can laugh at it now because I don't think I'd take the job if they offered it to me. I'm happy to finally get my weekends off and I don't think I'd get them off if I took the job so I'm not going to complain. So, the job search continues, but not that hard. Maybe someday I'll find a better job, maybe.
Monday, October 27, 2008
The cloud has cleared
So after a crazy weekend of sports it looks like the dust is about to settle and this is what we've learned this weekend:
Sorry Mikey but I don't think the Rays will pull it out. Personally I would have started David Price tonight because it would have been interesting to see him in a big game and then you could have Scott Kazmir in game 6 and James Shield in game 7 if it had reached that. It was nice for Carlos Pena & Evan Longoria to go a combined 2 for 109820980982 in the World Series, give or take a couple. I'll have to hand it to the Phillies, they deserved to win it. I never thought I'd say it. I guess it's nice for the NL East to be the World Series champs. Now if only the NFC East can repeat as NFL Champs(the Giants winning it again) and I'll be happy. Actually I don't think I can complain about football for at least 5 years, I believe that's the law.
I was surprised by the Giants game. First how badly they played in the Red Zone, then how good their front 7 are or how bad Pittsburgh's o-line is, then what a rollercoaster game Eli can give you from going from 4th & 1 to 4th & 6 to throwing that crazy pass to Amani and only to get a field goal from it, to then driving the G-men down for the winning td after the safety. It's nice to see the Giants beat another highly ranked team(personally if the offense was insynch that game we should have killed them. I'm not sure if I should give credit to the Steeler's D or get mad at the bad red zone offense.) Personally I think the Giants are the best team in the league. The Browns game was a bad game but the Gmen usually play blahly this time of year. We've got the hardest part of the schedule the rest of the season so we'll see what we're made of.
In college football it looks like Penn State has a clear ride to the national championship game if they can win out against easy teams. Who will they play? I'm not sure, it's hard to say. Personally I don't think it's going to be USC or Alabama. I wouldn't be surprised if the winner of the Georgia - Florida game makes it. Or the Texas - Texas Tech game.
Onto a non-sports topic I've listened to a bunch of new music and I must say that I'm not too satisfied with any of it. Mike, what do you think is the best music album of 2008 so far? Also Rob, can you email a guest post for the video games to look forward to for Fall 2008-Winter2009? That would be a cool post and something I'd look forward to read.
Sorry Mikey but I don't think the Rays will pull it out. Personally I would have started David Price tonight because it would have been interesting to see him in a big game and then you could have Scott Kazmir in game 6 and James Shield in game 7 if it had reached that. It was nice for Carlos Pena & Evan Longoria to go a combined 2 for 109820980982 in the World Series, give or take a couple. I'll have to hand it to the Phillies, they deserved to win it. I never thought I'd say it. I guess it's nice for the NL East to be the World Series champs. Now if only the NFC East can repeat as NFL Champs(the Giants winning it again) and I'll be happy. Actually I don't think I can complain about football for at least 5 years, I believe that's the law.
I was surprised by the Giants game. First how badly they played in the Red Zone, then how good their front 7 are or how bad Pittsburgh's o-line is, then what a rollercoaster game Eli can give you from going from 4th & 1 to 4th & 6 to throwing that crazy pass to Amani and only to get a field goal from it, to then driving the G-men down for the winning td after the safety. It's nice to see the Giants beat another highly ranked team(personally if the offense was insynch that game we should have killed them. I'm not sure if I should give credit to the Steeler's D or get mad at the bad red zone offense.) Personally I think the Giants are the best team in the league. The Browns game was a bad game but the Gmen usually play blahly this time of year. We've got the hardest part of the schedule the rest of the season so we'll see what we're made of.
In college football it looks like Penn State has a clear ride to the national championship game if they can win out against easy teams. Who will they play? I'm not sure, it's hard to say. Personally I don't think it's going to be USC or Alabama. I wouldn't be surprised if the winner of the Georgia - Florida game makes it. Or the Texas - Texas Tech game.
Onto a non-sports topic I've listened to a bunch of new music and I must say that I'm not too satisfied with any of it. Mike, what do you think is the best music album of 2008 so far? Also Rob, can you email a guest post for the video games to look forward to for Fall 2008-Winter2009? That would be a cool post and something I'd look forward to read.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
You can smell it in the air
Right now I feel like it's the calm before the storm. There are soooo many big and good games this weekend it's going to be hard to keep up with all of them. For today we have in college footbal: #8Texas Tech at #23 Kansas, #6Oklahoma State at #1 Texas(on a funny side note Desmond Howard just called Ok State the real OSU while at Ohio State. You've got to love the hatred Michigan players have for Ohio State) , #7 Georgia at #13 LSU, #3 Penn State at #9 Ohio State(this being the 9th night game at OSU), and my favorite game of Saturday being Notre Dame at Washington because once again its Charlie Weis against Ty Willingham and I think we'll crush them, which is awesome because I can easily see ND being like Washington(0-6) if Ty had stayed.
Now on Sunday we have in the NFL TB at Dallas to see how far Dallas will fall(Does anyone think they'll fall to 4-6? And if they do how much fun will it be to watch this team implode?), Giants at Pittsburgh matching espn's #2 & #3 ranked teams, a former superbowl matchup in the resurging Rams at the evil Pats, I really like the Atlanta at Philly game(and I must say I laughed at Michael's Ron Mexicoed comment, I used to refer to Marcus as New Mexico), and I think it'll be a good game on Monday night of Indy at Tennesse to see if the guard has changed in the AFC South.
And then on top of it all is the World Series. It's going to be interesting to see if they can get game 3 in tonight and how interesting it'll be if they don't and then we'll get the last 5 games in a row. I think the edge has to be with Tampa Bay right now seeing how they have better starting pitching the next 3 games than the Phillies and that's the most important thing. Plus they have the David Price X-Factor. It'll be interesting. I'm taking the Rays in 5 now.
Now on Sunday we have in the NFL TB at Dallas to see how far Dallas will fall(Does anyone think they'll fall to 4-6? And if they do how much fun will it be to watch this team implode?), Giants at Pittsburgh matching espn's #2 & #3 ranked teams, a former superbowl matchup in the resurging Rams at the evil Pats, I really like the Atlanta at Philly game(and I must say I laughed at Michael's Ron Mexicoed comment, I used to refer to Marcus as New Mexico), and I think it'll be a good game on Monday night of Indy at Tennesse to see if the guard has changed in the AFC South.
And then on top of it all is the World Series. It's going to be interesting to see if they can get game 3 in tonight and how interesting it'll be if they don't and then we'll get the last 5 games in a row. I think the edge has to be with Tampa Bay right now seeing how they have better starting pitching the next 3 games than the Phillies and that's the most important thing. Plus they have the David Price X-Factor. It'll be interesting. I'm taking the Rays in 5 now.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Guess What?
So, I guess today is my birthday. I don't feel older or wiser, I just feel the same, ha ha. Can anyone guess how old I am now? Well, anyone besides Mike since we were born a couple weeks apart. Now onto other stuff:
So, I just woke up and I'm watching sportscenter now and they have a story about Tom Brady and he's having complications from his surgery on his knee. It looks like he might have to have his surgery done again and it could take months to fix everything. I'm wondering if something like this could end his career or at least keep him out of a lot of next season? Personally I didn't think he would be the same qb when he first got hurt(like Carson Palmer) but this could be much worse. I guess the Pats are going to have to draft a qb or sign someone in the offseason.
Well, I must say that I'm surprised that the Phillies won. Chase Utley came up huge in the first and Cole Hamels was pretty good. But, I don't count the Rays out. This kind of reminds me of the Sixers-Lakers(I think it was the Lakers, it could have been the Spurs) NBA Finals series when the Sixers took game one but then lost the next four. We shall see. Remember, the Rays lost game 1 last series and then beat the Sox in 7. Here's a little trivia for you. The last team to win game 1 and lose the next four? The Phillies in 1983. So hopefully we'll have a good series.
Here are my picks Perrotti, and they'll probably be really really bad.
#4: Ravens over Raiders - The Raiders are just bad and the Ravens d is good enough to shut down the Raiders. Plus the game is at home so that's an extra benefits to the Ravens. This game won't be close.
#3: Bucs over the Cowboys - The Cowboys are bad now. Romo isn't playing. They just lost to the Rams. Their offense isn't as good with Brad Johnson as QB. I think the Bucs will come in and shock the Cowboys.
#2: Bills over Dolphins - I think this game will be closer than people think. It's hard to win on the road, especially at a division rival and that's why I don't have as much faith in this game.
#1: Titans over Colts - There's something that I've learned about Peyton Manning over the years. Don't ever count him out. Just when you think he's down and out for the count he'll come out and pull a big upset. I could be completely wrong about this so Perrotti chose what you want to, but I think this game will be close and if you pick this as your four point game you might be sweating it out.
So, I just woke up and I'm watching sportscenter now and they have a story about Tom Brady and he's having complications from his surgery on his knee. It looks like he might have to have his surgery done again and it could take months to fix everything. I'm wondering if something like this could end his career or at least keep him out of a lot of next season? Personally I didn't think he would be the same qb when he first got hurt(like Carson Palmer) but this could be much worse. I guess the Pats are going to have to draft a qb or sign someone in the offseason.
Well, I must say that I'm surprised that the Phillies won. Chase Utley came up huge in the first and Cole Hamels was pretty good. But, I don't count the Rays out. This kind of reminds me of the Sixers-Lakers(I think it was the Lakers, it could have been the Spurs) NBA Finals series when the Sixers took game one but then lost the next four. We shall see. Remember, the Rays lost game 1 last series and then beat the Sox in 7. Here's a little trivia for you. The last team to win game 1 and lose the next four? The Phillies in 1983. So hopefully we'll have a good series.
Here are my picks Perrotti, and they'll probably be really really bad.
#4: Ravens over Raiders - The Raiders are just bad and the Ravens d is good enough to shut down the Raiders. Plus the game is at home so that's an extra benefits to the Ravens. This game won't be close.
#3: Bucs over the Cowboys - The Cowboys are bad now. Romo isn't playing. They just lost to the Rams. Their offense isn't as good with Brad Johnson as QB. I think the Bucs will come in and shock the Cowboys.
#2: Bills over Dolphins - I think this game will be closer than people think. It's hard to win on the road, especially at a division rival and that's why I don't have as much faith in this game.
#1: Titans over Colts - There's something that I've learned about Peyton Manning over the years. Don't ever count him out. Just when you think he's down and out for the count he'll come out and pull a big upset. I could be completely wrong about this so Perrotti chose what you want to, but I think this game will be close and if you pick this as your four point game you might be sweating it out.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Monday(
Well, I thought I'd put up some links before I write anything else. I'm watching the webgems show on espn and surprisingly David Wright won webgem of the year for 3rdbase and infielder. I missed the play he won it for 3rdbase but they showed a collection of plays for best infielder and he made a ton a great plays last season. Anyways, back onto the links here we go(I got these from deadspin):
#1. http://deadspin.com/5065869/why-we-love-soccer-the-long-impossible-circus+like-goals
This one is of a guy for the NY/NJ Red Bulls who scores an 81 yard goal. Yes, 81 yards. It's pretty cool
#2. http://deadspin.com/5065810/the-angryville-chronicles-stories-about-philadelphias-ferociously-loyal-amusingly-vile-fanbase
This is a bunch of stories about how great philly fans are. These stories are priceless. And this is why I hate all Philly team.
#3. http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/3EFBFFFF018DACBE001700A422BA/
I'll leave you with this one. It's pretty funny
Now, onto baseball. Sorry Koho, but the season isn't over so I can still write about it until free agency starts. Which is after the World Series. Ha ha. The Rays-Sox series was amazing. By far the most enjoying series since the Mets-Dodgers series of '06. It really had everything you could imagine in it. The Rays taking a 3-1 lead, up 7-0 game 5, blowing that, losing the next game, trailing early in game 7, coming back to lead it, bases loaded with one of the Sox clutch hitters up, a rookie who only came up in September getting the call to close out the series. Who would have thunk he'd do it? It was just amazing. Now, lets just hope they can finish it off by beating the Phillies. They're #5 on the top teams I hate in baseball. Rob, I disagree that CC goes to the Yankees. I think he'll stay in the NL because he said earlier he likes the NL and he likes to hit(plus one less decent hitter he has to face since he has to pitch against pitchers). But, we'll see what happens.
#1. http://deadspin.com/5065869/why-we-love-soccer-the-long-impossible-circus+like-goals
This one is of a guy for the NY/NJ Red Bulls who scores an 81 yard goal. Yes, 81 yards. It's pretty cool
#2. http://deadspin.com/5065810/the-angryville-chronicles-stories-about-philadelphias-ferociously-loyal-amusingly-vile-fanbase
This is a bunch of stories about how great philly fans are. These stories are priceless. And this is why I hate all Philly team.
#3. http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/3EFBFFFF018DACBE001700A422BA/
I'll leave you with this one. It's pretty funny
Now, onto baseball. Sorry Koho, but the season isn't over so I can still write about it until free agency starts. Which is after the World Series. Ha ha. The Rays-Sox series was amazing. By far the most enjoying series since the Mets-Dodgers series of '06. It really had everything you could imagine in it. The Rays taking a 3-1 lead, up 7-0 game 5, blowing that, losing the next game, trailing early in game 7, coming back to lead it, bases loaded with one of the Sox clutch hitters up, a rookie who only came up in September getting the call to close out the series. Who would have thunk he'd do it? It was just amazing. Now, lets just hope they can finish it off by beating the Phillies. They're #5 on the top teams I hate in baseball. Rob, I disagree that CC goes to the Yankees. I think he'll stay in the NL because he said earlier he likes the NL and he likes to hit(plus one less decent hitter he has to face since he has to pitch against pitchers). But, we'll see what happens.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sunday
Soooo I've finally completed by last weekend that I have to work, until they screw me over on Wednesday and tell me that I have to keep my schedule. fun stuff. Today wasn't that bad until the end of the day when I had two crazy ladies call me and didn't really want to hear what I had to say or explain to them. I live by the theory that for every child a woman has they become 12% crazier. These women easily had 4 kids, that's how crazy they were. Well, I started to feel better today when I got home and saw the Giants were winning & the Cowboys were getting killed. That's a pretty good way to come home. How crazy was the bears-vikes game? When do those teams combine for over 80 points? Is Kyle Orton really this good? I liked Dan Orlowsky's(spelling is bad) game for the lines. He was like 11 for 24 for 260 yards. Didn't this team just trade their best wr? WTF?
Rob, if the Red Sox win tonight I invite you to write a guest blog for me and I will post it. If they don't then I will post something on Monday about how relieved I am that the Rays won and I don't have to watch them sweep the Phillies. Fair? Koho when did you get cool?
Rob, if the Red Sox win tonight I invite you to write a guest blog for me and I will post it. If they don't then I will post something on Monday about how relieved I am that the Rays won and I don't have to watch them sweep the Phillies. Fair? Koho when did you get cool?
Friday, October 17, 2008
Here we go
I wanted to post this on Monday but then I got lazy and then another topic popped into my mind so I was going to post that one but then Malone emailed me and I posted his, so these are the two posts that I was going to do. It might get kinda long so get a cup of coffee and let's go!
The first one:
Have you ever had a day where everything was going your way, you had a great day and were really happy but then something happens and then the day just changes? I had that kind of day on Monday. The day at work was pretty good, nothing to bad with the phone calls and at the end of the I found out that I got the new shift that I wanted, Monday to Friday 8am to 4:30pm so after 7 months I finally have my weekends free! Then I came home and I was able to watch the Rays take a big lead on the sox. And then it happened. I was tired so I took a nap. When I woke up things started to change. Well, at first they were good. By the time I woke up the Rays game was just about over, then I started to watch the Dodgers game and they ended up taking a big lead on the Phillies. I was also watching the Gmen play on Monday Night Football. Then things went bad. The Giants D couldn't do anything and Eli threw his second pick of the night. At halftime, though the Giants pulled in close. Only down 17-14 and getting the ball back to start the second half seemed like the usual Giants. The Dodgers were up 5-1 on the Phillies. How could things go bad? How could they? Well, the dodgers game up 3 two run homers and lost to the Phillies to go down 3-1 in the series and Eli threw a pick on the first drive to kill any hopes of a Giants comeback. Later on as the Giants were driving against down 31-17 into the Red Zone Eli threw another interception that was returned for a td. Just great. Honestly, how does something turn around that quickly. It seems like it just takes one thing, one thought, one action to turn everything around. Usually it doesn't happen to often. Well, this past week it's happened 3 times! There was Monday. It also happened on Saturday. With the Irish up 17-9 on UNC and getting the ball to start the second half I thought that the Irish had the game in hand. This was their first game against a team ranked in the top 25 and their offense couldn't be stopped. Then on the first play of the second half Jimmy Clausen threw a pick 6 and the irish were up 17-16. The game changed there and the Irish lost. Well, the bad luck continued last night. I didn't watch the beginning of the game. I was actually playing the new star wars video game until I beat the game. Then I turned the game on and watched the Rays go up 7-0 in the top of the seventh. Then it happened. I heard the announcers saying that Kazmir is going to be coming out of the game and I thought to myself, wouldn't it suck if the Rays lost this game because they took Kazmir out? So, I turned to watch something else and I got a text from a friend cursing Big Papi's name. 7-4 Rays. So I watched the comeback of all comebacks. ugghhhhhhhh. And now I'm scared that the Sox will come back and win the series. This would be the third time since 2004 that the Sox have come back from either a 3-0 or 3-1 deficit to take a series. We shall see.
The second one:
I got this idea from watching the Iron Man dvd. How did Robert Downey, Jr. turn his career around? Does anyone know how this happened? I remember when he was a big star when I was younger. And then he kind of went nowhere because of his drug and alcohol problems. And then all of a sudden he turned his career around. Now he's an action hero star? Where does this come from? Personally I think it started with the movie Zodiac. I really like this movie and I thought RDJ was really good in this movie. He was really funny and the movie was great overall. It was definitely a bigger movie than he had done in the past few years. From there he was in a little movie called Charlie Bartlett where he played a principal for a high school in Connecticut. He was great in that movie, too. Then out of nowhere he was announced as the guy to play Tony Stark & Iron Man. What? Hold on, what? Who would cast him as this role? I was definitely sure this was a mistake that would make this movie horrible. He'd never been a leading role in an action movie before. I was certain this was a huge mistake. And then I went to the movie. And I was proven wrong. The movie was awesome. It was by far one of my top 3 movies from this summer. He followed that up with a cameo in the Hulk movie(as Tony Stark) and then he made Tropic Thunder which killed in the box office, too. Sadly I have not seen this movie but I heard it was really good. I'm hoping to see it soon, either in the cheap theater or on dvd. Now he has two more big movies soon, one as Sherlock Holmes and the other is Iron Man 2. Talk about turning your career around.
The first one:
Have you ever had a day where everything was going your way, you had a great day and were really happy but then something happens and then the day just changes? I had that kind of day on Monday. The day at work was pretty good, nothing to bad with the phone calls and at the end of the I found out that I got the new shift that I wanted, Monday to Friday 8am to 4:30pm so after 7 months I finally have my weekends free! Then I came home and I was able to watch the Rays take a big lead on the sox. And then it happened. I was tired so I took a nap. When I woke up things started to change. Well, at first they were good. By the time I woke up the Rays game was just about over, then I started to watch the Dodgers game and they ended up taking a big lead on the Phillies. I was also watching the Gmen play on Monday Night Football. Then things went bad. The Giants D couldn't do anything and Eli threw his second pick of the night. At halftime, though the Giants pulled in close. Only down 17-14 and getting the ball back to start the second half seemed like the usual Giants. The Dodgers were up 5-1 on the Phillies. How could things go bad? How could they? Well, the dodgers game up 3 two run homers and lost to the Phillies to go down 3-1 in the series and Eli threw a pick on the first drive to kill any hopes of a Giants comeback. Later on as the Giants were driving against down 31-17 into the Red Zone Eli threw another interception that was returned for a td. Just great. Honestly, how does something turn around that quickly. It seems like it just takes one thing, one thought, one action to turn everything around. Usually it doesn't happen to often. Well, this past week it's happened 3 times! There was Monday. It also happened on Saturday. With the Irish up 17-9 on UNC and getting the ball to start the second half I thought that the Irish had the game in hand. This was their first game against a team ranked in the top 25 and their offense couldn't be stopped. Then on the first play of the second half Jimmy Clausen threw a pick 6 and the irish were up 17-16. The game changed there and the Irish lost. Well, the bad luck continued last night. I didn't watch the beginning of the game. I was actually playing the new star wars video game until I beat the game. Then I turned the game on and watched the Rays go up 7-0 in the top of the seventh. Then it happened. I heard the announcers saying that Kazmir is going to be coming out of the game and I thought to myself, wouldn't it suck if the Rays lost this game because they took Kazmir out? So, I turned to watch something else and I got a text from a friend cursing Big Papi's name. 7-4 Rays. So I watched the comeback of all comebacks. ugghhhhhhhh. And now I'm scared that the Sox will come back and win the series. This would be the third time since 2004 that the Sox have come back from either a 3-0 or 3-1 deficit to take a series. We shall see.
The second one:
I got this idea from watching the Iron Man dvd. How did Robert Downey, Jr. turn his career around? Does anyone know how this happened? I remember when he was a big star when I was younger. And then he kind of went nowhere because of his drug and alcohol problems. And then all of a sudden he turned his career around. Now he's an action hero star? Where does this come from? Personally I think it started with the movie Zodiac. I really like this movie and I thought RDJ was really good in this movie. He was really funny and the movie was great overall. It was definitely a bigger movie than he had done in the past few years. From there he was in a little movie called Charlie Bartlett where he played a principal for a high school in Connecticut. He was great in that movie, too. Then out of nowhere he was announced as the guy to play Tony Stark & Iron Man. What? Hold on, what? Who would cast him as this role? I was definitely sure this was a mistake that would make this movie horrible. He'd never been a leading role in an action movie before. I was certain this was a huge mistake. And then I went to the movie. And I was proven wrong. The movie was awesome. It was by far one of my top 3 movies from this summer. He followed that up with a cameo in the Hulk movie(as Tony Stark) and then he made Tropic Thunder which killed in the box office, too. Sadly I have not seen this movie but I heard it was really good. I'm hoping to see it soon, either in the cheap theater or on dvd. Now he has two more big movies soon, one as Sherlock Holmes and the other is Iron Man 2. Talk about turning your career around.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Guest Post: Heeeee's Back!
Well I'm back from the honeymoon and I know you all missed me terribly. I think I read all of the posts that were placed while I was gone. Luckily Roger slacked a little and there weren't too many. I enjoyed both Roger's and Perrotti's recaps of the wedding. Here are a couple of things that stuck out in my mind:
- Kohanski was the drunkest I've ever seen him. I don't know if you all were drunk as well and didn't notice it as much as me, but it was hilarious. The best line of the night was right at the end when we were packing up to leave and Koho was trashed. We were talking about dancing and Michelle's mom couldn't remember if she danced with Koho or not. I believe he said "Yeah we danced together twice... and they were the best two dances of my life!" He could have taken her home right there if he wanted.
- The garter toss was pretty funny as well. I'm surprised both Roger and Perrotti failed to comment on it (Perrotti touched on it in a later comment). My first toss of the garter was embarassingly bad, but the second toss was great since Roger snatched it out of the air like it was Star Wars figurine. Then watching him rush to put it on Amy was hilarious. Especially since the DJ made fun of him and made Amy put it on his leg. I believe she grabbed his crotch, but we'll have to go to the video recap for that.
- The dancing by Perrotti and Rob was very disappointing. At least Koho drank enough to not care what he looked like. Trust me, I was probably the worst dancer there and there is probably plenty of proof of it on camera. It was good to see Roger bust a move as well and Ryan Andrew was definitely "That Guy" at the wedding.
- It definitely was hilarious that the priest made fun of Perrotti. I can't get over that.
There are a lot of other good moments, but Perrotti and Roger hit most of them.
As for the honeymoon, I'm sure you all want to hear how it went. We'll lets just start off by saying that I had sex... with a girl. And it was everything I dreamed about. OK, now take a moment to get that image out of your head. The trip was pretty nice, overall I'd give it a B. The reason it didn't get an A is that it rained a lot so we didnt' get much sun, and we got to the resort a day late due to Delta's suckiness (more on that in the next paragraph). The resort was pretty nice, but it didn't handle all of the rain very well. There were puddles everywhere and the pools were gross at the end and needed some cleaning. We were at Sandals though, which is all-inclusive, so that was really nice. I had a ton of white russians. I tried a bunch of girly drinks too since I drink beer all the time at home. The beer they had though actually wasn't bad. They had Heinekin and some other brand called Piton which tasted similar to Amstel Light to me. The food was really good too and there was plenty of it. I'll share the photos with you guys sometime soon.
As for the trip down, it was quite an adventure. Our flight out of Hartford was delayed about half an hour and we only had 40 minutes to make the connection in Atlanta as it was. When we got to Atlanta, we got stuck on the runway for about 5 more minutes and we sprinted from our arrival gate to the next gate. We got there 7 minutes BEFORE the scheduled departure time, with the plane still sitting next to the jetway, but they wouldn't let us on the plane becuase "by law international flights must close the gates 10 minutes prior to departure". The douchebag at the gate told us to go talk to the Delta reps and made it sound like we'd easily get another flight out. Well as you can guess, flying to St. Lucia isn't exactly the same as flying to Chicago. Delta didn't have another flight going there for at least 3 more days, and they couldn't find any other airlines (that they had agreements with) with flights there the same day. So the best possible solution they had was to fly us to Trinidad for the night and then get a flight from there early the next morning. Apparently this isn't even close to the first time Delta has had this problem and the lady at the desk was pissed that it happened again. She was nice enough to help us out though and give us some free drink vouchers for the plane. Luckily for us, we weren't the only couple with this problem. Another couple from Boston had the same issue and they were with us all the way to St. Lucia. They were really nice too so that was cool.
So anyways, we arrive in Trinidad that night and Delta was nice enough to put us up in a hotel room (which they should of). Of course though, they picked the cheapest fucking hotel they could find. We got put in some majorly sketchy hotel about 5 minutes from the airport in basically the ghetto of Trinidad. Our room was something straight out of a horror movie. Dirty sheets on the bed, hot as hell with a 1970's air conditioner, the bathroom was moist, and the remote was sticky. Amazingly they had a TV so we tried to stay up all night watching that because we were afraid to fall asleep. I seriously thought we were going to get raped and murdered in there. I even put the suitcases in front of the doors so that we could hear someone trying to break in and we'd have a little extra time to prepare ourselves for the ass-pounding. Somehow we managed to get about 2 hours of sleep and then we got the hell out of there and back to the airport as early as we could. It was an excellent start to our honeymoon. I'm hoping Judge Dre can get Delta to pay for the day we missed at the resort because it was probably about 15 times more expensive than the hotel room they put us up in that night. Needless to say, we will not be visiting Trinidad again.
They had most major TV stations in St. Lucia, so I was able to keep up with sports for the most part. It sucks that the Red Sox beat the Angels and I lost my bet, but they look like the bad news Bears against the Rays, so that's nice. I hope the Rays crush the Phillies in the World Series, although it is nice to see that the NL East is proving that it actually is a tough division. I was also very happy to see that Perrotti's man-crush Tony "I'm a homo" Romo has been injured and is out for several weeks(on a side note, espn is quoting that RoNo!!! might play this weekend, which sucks for the Giants b/c I was hoping he'd be out for that game. Oh yeah, this is Roger typing). Things like that just make me smile.
Anyways we'll have to hang out together soon (except Roger who left us again). Michelle said I'm allowed to hang out with you guys once a month as long as she is told where we're going and when. Just kidding, I can probably do something Friday and/or Saturday this weekend. Let me know what you're up to.
- Kohanski was the drunkest I've ever seen him. I don't know if you all were drunk as well and didn't notice it as much as me, but it was hilarious. The best line of the night was right at the end when we were packing up to leave and Koho was trashed. We were talking about dancing and Michelle's mom couldn't remember if she danced with Koho or not. I believe he said "Yeah we danced together twice... and they were the best two dances of my life!" He could have taken her home right there if he wanted.
- The garter toss was pretty funny as well. I'm surprised both Roger and Perrotti failed to comment on it (Perrotti touched on it in a later comment). My first toss of the garter was embarassingly bad, but the second toss was great since Roger snatched it out of the air like it was Star Wars figurine. Then watching him rush to put it on Amy was hilarious. Especially since the DJ made fun of him and made Amy put it on his leg. I believe she grabbed his crotch, but we'll have to go to the video recap for that.
- The dancing by Perrotti and Rob was very disappointing. At least Koho drank enough to not care what he looked like. Trust me, I was probably the worst dancer there and there is probably plenty of proof of it on camera. It was good to see Roger bust a move as well and Ryan Andrew was definitely "That Guy" at the wedding.
- It definitely was hilarious that the priest made fun of Perrotti. I can't get over that.
There are a lot of other good moments, but Perrotti and Roger hit most of them.
As for the honeymoon, I'm sure you all want to hear how it went. We'll lets just start off by saying that I had sex... with a girl. And it was everything I dreamed about. OK, now take a moment to get that image out of your head. The trip was pretty nice, overall I'd give it a B. The reason it didn't get an A is that it rained a lot so we didnt' get much sun, and we got to the resort a day late due to Delta's suckiness (more on that in the next paragraph). The resort was pretty nice, but it didn't handle all of the rain very well. There were puddles everywhere and the pools were gross at the end and needed some cleaning. We were at Sandals though, which is all-inclusive, so that was really nice. I had a ton of white russians. I tried a bunch of girly drinks too since I drink beer all the time at home. The beer they had though actually wasn't bad. They had Heinekin and some other brand called Piton which tasted similar to Amstel Light to me. The food was really good too and there was plenty of it. I'll share the photos with you guys sometime soon.
As for the trip down, it was quite an adventure. Our flight out of Hartford was delayed about half an hour and we only had 40 minutes to make the connection in Atlanta as it was. When we got to Atlanta, we got stuck on the runway for about 5 more minutes and we sprinted from our arrival gate to the next gate. We got there 7 minutes BEFORE the scheduled departure time, with the plane still sitting next to the jetway, but they wouldn't let us on the plane becuase "by law international flights must close the gates 10 minutes prior to departure". The douchebag at the gate told us to go talk to the Delta reps and made it sound like we'd easily get another flight out. Well as you can guess, flying to St. Lucia isn't exactly the same as flying to Chicago. Delta didn't have another flight going there for at least 3 more days, and they couldn't find any other airlines (that they had agreements with) with flights there the same day. So the best possible solution they had was to fly us to Trinidad for the night and then get a flight from there early the next morning. Apparently this isn't even close to the first time Delta has had this problem and the lady at the desk was pissed that it happened again. She was nice enough to help us out though and give us some free drink vouchers for the plane. Luckily for us, we weren't the only couple with this problem. Another couple from Boston had the same issue and they were with us all the way to St. Lucia. They were really nice too so that was cool.
So anyways, we arrive in Trinidad that night and Delta was nice enough to put us up in a hotel room (which they should of). Of course though, they picked the cheapest fucking hotel they could find. We got put in some majorly sketchy hotel about 5 minutes from the airport in basically the ghetto of Trinidad. Our room was something straight out of a horror movie. Dirty sheets on the bed, hot as hell with a 1970's air conditioner, the bathroom was moist, and the remote was sticky. Amazingly they had a TV so we tried to stay up all night watching that because we were afraid to fall asleep. I seriously thought we were going to get raped and murdered in there. I even put the suitcases in front of the doors so that we could hear someone trying to break in and we'd have a little extra time to prepare ourselves for the ass-pounding. Somehow we managed to get about 2 hours of sleep and then we got the hell out of there and back to the airport as early as we could. It was an excellent start to our honeymoon. I'm hoping Judge Dre can get Delta to pay for the day we missed at the resort because it was probably about 15 times more expensive than the hotel room they put us up in that night. Needless to say, we will not be visiting Trinidad again.
They had most major TV stations in St. Lucia, so I was able to keep up with sports for the most part. It sucks that the Red Sox beat the Angels and I lost my bet, but they look like the bad news Bears against the Rays, so that's nice. I hope the Rays crush the Phillies in the World Series, although it is nice to see that the NL East is proving that it actually is a tough division. I was also very happy to see that Perrotti's man-crush Tony "I'm a homo" Romo has been injured and is out for several weeks(on a side note, espn is quoting that RoNo!!! might play this weekend, which sucks for the Giants b/c I was hoping he'd be out for that game. Oh yeah, this is Roger typing). Things like that just make me smile.
Anyways we'll have to hang out together soon (except Roger who left us again). Michelle said I'm allowed to hang out with you guys once a month as long as she is told where we're going and when. Just kidding, I can probably do something Friday and/or Saturday this weekend. Let me know what you're up to.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Hey, I'm up to 5 this month!
Koho, stop your complaining. I like you a lot better when you're drunk and not being annoying. I'll have another update tomorrow night on if I get the new shift or not. Today I had a fun phone call where this crazy lady wouldn't let me talk at all. She was upset because her remote wouldn't work her tv(it's really only suppose to work her dish receiver). I tried to talk and she would just yell and cut me off. That was a lot of fun. Besides that it wasn't that bad of a day. Maureen's parents came up for the weekend and it wasn't really that bad. For some reason her dad hasn't really warmed up to me, I think it's more because Maureen is daddy's little girl. He also hates the fact that I have tattooes, which is fine by me. But this weekend we actually got along really well. I bought a big tv a while ago and Maureen thought her parents would freak out over it but her dad really liked it so that's a good sign. Overall I think things went really well. Another good thing is that the Cowboys lost in ot on a blocked punt(ha ha) and the Pats are losing right now, really really bad. Also, the Phillies are getting killed. Check that, it's 7-2 and the Phillies have two guys on with Howard up, I think. It's fun to jinx that. Now for the bad part of the weekend. Notre Dame lost, which sucked. It was a bad loss because they should have won the game, but they gave the game away and then almost had a chance to win it. I forget the degrees of losing that game was. I'll have to look at the Sports Guy references for it, but it was bad. But what's nice, compared to last year, is that in the games that they've lost I really felt like they should have won.
Okay, here's a topic for everyone. What is your favorite new tv show of the year? Mine so far has to be Sons of Anarchy. It has a great cast and the story is pretty good. It's a modern version of Hamlet. What do you guys think?
Okay, here's a topic for everyone. What is your favorite new tv show of the year? Mine so far has to be Sons of Anarchy. It has a great cast and the story is pretty good. It's a modern version of Hamlet. What do you guys think?
Saturday, October 11, 2008
A Few Quick Things
Sorry, I'd like to say I have a good reason why I haven't put up any updates, but I don't. Maybe I'll blame it on Malone, seems easy enough. Malone, how was the honeymoon? Are you back now? Did you take any pictures? So there were a few shifts that opened here at work. I applied to move to one shift that has Saturday & sunday off, which would be sweet. I miss having a normal weekend. I'll find out on Monday if I got it or not. I'm thinking probably no, but I should have a decent shot. I'm just pessimistic like that. They also have two other positions available at work, one is for QA so I think I can get that one. I just want to know what the schedule will be. It'll probably suck and so I probably won't take it, ha ha. I've also been playing a lot of the new Star Wars game for the ps3. It's pretty fun. You play as Darth Vader's apprentice and you just go around and kill everyone. I just pretend everyone is Koho. Rob, congrats on the Red Sox game 1 win in Tampa. That game could have gone either way but once again the sox prevailed. It's looking like the Phillies will choke in the world series. Good stuff. I'm not going to watch any more of this mess. It's like watching two trains close in on themselves before they crash and kill everyone. Oh well.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
OK, now this is the last award
.... and the award for worst way to end a season: Well folks, this one was a close one. It was down to two teams, the Cubs and the Angels. And the winner is.... The Angels and this is why. Listen, the Angels were on their way back into this series, into having all of the advantage over the Red Sox going into Game 5. If anyone could pull it out against the Sox it would have been the Angels. They had just dramatically come back in the game to tie it up in the 8th. They had landed a nice left-right-left combo and had Boston against the Ropes. Then, in the top of the ninth they got a lead off double, a sac bunt to put the runner on third and only 1 out! And what do they do? They blow it. Can't you get the bunt down? Really??? Is it that hard. It wasn't the most amazing pitch ever, it was buntable. Then I think it was Willits who messed up going after Bay's ball. If he had just played it off the bounce and kept it in front of him there's no way Bay is getting to second. You'd have a runner on first, 1 out and you'd have your infielders at double play depth. They could have easily gotten 1 out on the next batter and then who knows? Thanks Anaheim, you had a chance to knock out the champs and you blew it. Nothing against the Cubs, it was a nice way to end the season getting swept by the Dodgers, and believe me, not only did I call it but I knew it would help people forget about the Mets. And then the Angels helped somemore. Well, at least I can sleep a little bit better knowing this. Lets go Rays! Or whoever wins the NL(please be the Dodgers).
Sunday, October 5, 2008
I'm back
Sooooo, I'm home now after a good weekend back in CT so I thought I'd a recap of the weekend and at the end I will give out awards. Yes, that's right, awards. You know you want to stay around and read it.
So, I guess I'll start the recap on Thursday, the day I flew in. The flights weren't too bad. I had a stop in Baltimore b/c Southwest doesn't fly direct to Hartford. Not that big of a deal. I had the OSU women's hockey team on my flight to Baltimore. They were on their way to play Providence. So, I arrived in CT around 4:45ish. My cousin, his wife, and their two kids picked me up and then we headed over to my parents' place in Vernon for dinner to celebrate my b-day. It was a fun night. Afterwards my little sister and I went and saw Ghosttown, which I was really surprised by. I kinda wanted to see it but I wasn't sure how good it would be. It was the only movie playing that my sis would watch so we went. As I told a bunch of people while at the movie theater waiting to buy my ticket, the debate was on and out of nowhere I hear someone yell, "You idiot!" I totally thought he was talking to me but he apologized and said he was talking about Palin. Fun stuff. I would recommend the movie to anyone who's a fan of the office. Same type of awkward humor, sort of like Perrotti trying to talk to a girl, since Ricky Gervais was the star of the movie.
Then came Friday. I was woken up early, 7am, to drive my mom to work so I could use her car. After that I went home & back to sleep. That was nice. After I woke up and ate I headed over to the mall to get my tux. Fun time seeing as I had no idea there were two Men's Warehouses in the buckland mall area. So, I went to the first store, paid for my tux and found out it was at the other one! Went to the other one, tried on the tux, it was a little short so one of the ladies loosened the pants so they were longer. Problem was they were too loose. Of course I didn't say anything b/c I thought I could wear a belt. Later on that for Saturday. Soooo, went back home, then picked up my mom, drove her back home, almost saw two people get in a fight at a traffic light b/c one of them was a jerk while driving, dropped off my mom, took a shower and headed to the rehearsal. This is where the fun begins. Actually it doesn't. The rehearsal was fine, but unfortunately there was a mass going on during it so we spent most of the time whispering or in the main lobby. After we figured everything out we then headed out to the dinner. This is where things got interesting. First off, you couldn't even see where the restaurant was. I was following Koho & Perrotti and they drove past it, turned around and got to it. Then we got inside and that's when the alcohol started coming. And here's when it started getting awkward, like really really awkward. Michelle's(see two LL's) sister invited a friend of the family to be her wedding guest. His name is Justin. He's dating a girl named Amy. Michelle's sister's name is Amy. After the wine started to be drunk Amy decided it was time to tell Justin to dump his gf & marry her. Yup, not awkward at all. Especially not when the rest of the ladies joined in and started to tell him this. I will say he took it like a man, though. Also, I was happy to tell my Star Wars jokes around this time b/c Amy had never seen Star Wars & Justin was a big fan. Lets just say she'll never order only one canoli again! Ha ha. Well, after dinner I headed out to Buffalo Wild Wings all the up near the Airport. A nice little 45 minute drive to hang out with one of my friends from high school and some of his friends. We watched a little bit of the Red Sox game and then my friend and I went to one of the guys' house while the other people went home. I watched until JD f'n Drew hit a 2 run bomb to end the game and any chance of the Angels not sucking and Malone being able to win money with his bet with Rob.
Soooo, Saturday finally arrived. It was time to get ready for the wedding. I woke up, took a shower, started putting on my clothes, put the pants on, realized that if I walked 3 steps my pants came off, took my belt, tried to put it on and realized there were no belt loops on my pants. Big Problem. Luckily for me MW hadn't delivered Malone or Koho's suits yet because they measured wrong. So, I got ready, realized I delted the email with Malone's address(as I was suppose to meet there first), got in the car and drove over. I called Malone and found out the tuxes hadn't been delivered yet, told him my problems, got directions and told him to have the guy wait for me. I got to Malone's place just after the guy from MW got there, had him adjust my pants and I was good to go. Well, we waited around Malone's place for a while and then when Malone's mom came we took some pictures and then left for the wedding. The wedding went pretty well except for when Koho and I tried to walk the roller down and kept on getting stuck in it and then the one time when Koho's phone fell out of his suit. Good Job. But, we made it, everything else went smooth. After the wedding Koho took one for the team, road with me instead of the limo to Michelle's parents' place for some food, time to relax, and oh yeah, Notre Dame football! I mean, more pictures. Finally, after Notre Dame took a 21-7 lead we headed over to the reception for some more pictures! After the pictures were done I found out that ND held onto the game for a 28-21 win, and we were in the reception for the fun to start. The wedding party got to go in a side room for our grand entrance. One bad thing was the girls kept on singing that stupid New Kids song and it got stuck in my head. Ugghhhh. Finally the time came. The wedding party got to come out to Bad to the Bone, while Jim & Michelle were lucky enough to come out to the Brass Bonanza. Probably my favorite wedding song since my roommate Jeremy and his wife came out to Darth Vader's theme! You're lucky Jim(on a side note my friend Seth comes in third with coming out to Hulk Hogan's theme music). Well, then we had to do the first dance. I was lucky enough to dance with Jim's mom with this one. While dancing with her we realized that Perrotti and Malone's siter(also named Michele, but with one L) were basically standing in place so we changed it up and I got to dance with Perrotti. J/k, I got Michele. Then we got to eat. And drink. And drink some more. And some more. Then I stopped while other continued. And they drank some more while I had water so I could drive home safely. After the food was consumed then came the dancing. Well, we were able to dance the night away. I go into more details but I think my awards will cover it.
Then came Sunday. I woke up, ate, showered, waited a bit, then packed, left, dropped off my suit, road on some plains and made it home safely. It's good to be back, but I will say this. I do miss you guys back in CT. The only thing I will ever miss from CT. So, onto the awards:
The award for most awkward moment: This goes to Amy from Friday night. At one point, her and Michelle were telling Justin that he should marry Amy. Well, then Amy put her arm around Justin, then Around Michelle and proceeded to push Justin's head onto her boobs. I swear if Justin was single that weekend wouldn't have been a wide open net, Amy would have scored an own goal for him. How Perrotti wasn't able to kick that in is beyond me.
Best song of the weekend: This is going to Journey's Don't Stop Believing. Perrotti & Rob wouldn't come anywhere near the dance floor whatsoever. Well, a request for this song was put in and by this time of night everyone was feeling pretty well. So, the guys went to the dance floor and we all sang our hearts out to this song. My favorite part was when Rob & I were doing the guitar solos.
Worst song of the weekend: New Kids - The Right Stuff. I blame this on the girls. Or whoever wrote the f'n song.
Best idea that never happened: There was this 17-18 year old girl that came to the wedding and had gigantic who-has and wasn't afraid to show them off. Honestly, who okayed that dress? Couldn't someone had told her to cover those up at all? Anyways she was wearing a red dress. While we were eating and they were playing music I told Koho to go request lady in red, go over to her, tell her he requested this song for her, and then ask her to dance. Yes, it might be a bit cheesy but whatever. I'm just trying to help a brother out.
Best dancer at the wedding: I have to give that up to Ryan Andrew. He was constantly on the dance floor through good song and bad. He's the type of guy you want at your wedding if you want it to be fun.
Worst dancers at the wedding: Rob & Perrotti - First off, it's okay if you don't know how to dance. We're at a wedding, most of the people are drunk, no one really cares if you have two left feet. At least you have two feet. Second off, couldn't one of you guys ask one of the 2-5 single girls there to dance during a slow song? We're not in junior high anymore. They will say yes. Well, unless you're perrotti and the other girl is at least 5'6.
MVP of the weekend: There's actually two. I thought he had it closed up on Saturday but the first one goes to Jimmy Clausen. Second straight week in a row that you set a personal record for most yards in a game. He threw for over 340 yards, 3 td's, no pics. He's putting up a really great season. I can't wait for next year when he wins the Heisman. The second one goes to Eli Manning. When I finally got the airport and got to my terminal I had an hour to kill. By that time the Giants were up 17-3. By the time I left to go on my flight the giants were up 34-6. Eli had an amazing game. He tore apart the Seahawks. I really can't think of another QB who's playing with more confidence than Eli. I'm loving it.
LVP of the weekend: Jim's stepmom. I probably shouldn't write this but when has it ever stopped me? We all know there's a little bit of a grudge going on but did you have to a look on your face like a dentist was pulling your teeth? Really? That's all I'll say about it.
Favorite moment of the weekend: I would have to just say the reception on Saturday night. It was just a lot of fun hanging out with the guys, acting like idiots, having fun dancing whenever anyone would go out there and dance. I'll say it again, I don't miss CT at all, but I do miss my friends from CT.
So, I'll end this very long post by saying this, Jim and Michelle, thanks for the invite to be in the wedding. It was the first time I'd been part of a wedding and it was a lot of fun. There were a couple times it could have gone bad(thank you men's wearhouse) but it didn't. It was a load of fun and I'm glad I was there. I hope you guys have fun on the honeymoon. Now, you guys better visit me or.................I'll come back and paint that state with flames like Sherman through the South!
So, I guess I'll start the recap on Thursday, the day I flew in. The flights weren't too bad. I had a stop in Baltimore b/c Southwest doesn't fly direct to Hartford. Not that big of a deal. I had the OSU women's hockey team on my flight to Baltimore. They were on their way to play Providence. So, I arrived in CT around 4:45ish. My cousin, his wife, and their two kids picked me up and then we headed over to my parents' place in Vernon for dinner to celebrate my b-day. It was a fun night. Afterwards my little sister and I went and saw Ghosttown, which I was really surprised by. I kinda wanted to see it but I wasn't sure how good it would be. It was the only movie playing that my sis would watch so we went. As I told a bunch of people while at the movie theater waiting to buy my ticket, the debate was on and out of nowhere I hear someone yell, "You idiot!" I totally thought he was talking to me but he apologized and said he was talking about Palin. Fun stuff. I would recommend the movie to anyone who's a fan of the office. Same type of awkward humor, sort of like Perrotti trying to talk to a girl, since Ricky Gervais was the star of the movie.
Then came Friday. I was woken up early, 7am, to drive my mom to work so I could use her car. After that I went home & back to sleep. That was nice. After I woke up and ate I headed over to the mall to get my tux. Fun time seeing as I had no idea there were two Men's Warehouses in the buckland mall area. So, I went to the first store, paid for my tux and found out it was at the other one! Went to the other one, tried on the tux, it was a little short so one of the ladies loosened the pants so they were longer. Problem was they were too loose. Of course I didn't say anything b/c I thought I could wear a belt. Later on that for Saturday. Soooo, went back home, then picked up my mom, drove her back home, almost saw two people get in a fight at a traffic light b/c one of them was a jerk while driving, dropped off my mom, took a shower and headed to the rehearsal. This is where the fun begins. Actually it doesn't. The rehearsal was fine, but unfortunately there was a mass going on during it so we spent most of the time whispering or in the main lobby. After we figured everything out we then headed out to the dinner. This is where things got interesting. First off, you couldn't even see where the restaurant was. I was following Koho & Perrotti and they drove past it, turned around and got to it. Then we got inside and that's when the alcohol started coming. And here's when it started getting awkward, like really really awkward. Michelle's(see two LL's) sister invited a friend of the family to be her wedding guest. His name is Justin. He's dating a girl named Amy. Michelle's sister's name is Amy. After the wine started to be drunk Amy decided it was time to tell Justin to dump his gf & marry her. Yup, not awkward at all. Especially not when the rest of the ladies joined in and started to tell him this. I will say he took it like a man, though. Also, I was happy to tell my Star Wars jokes around this time b/c Amy had never seen Star Wars & Justin was a big fan. Lets just say she'll never order only one canoli again! Ha ha. Well, after dinner I headed out to Buffalo Wild Wings all the up near the Airport. A nice little 45 minute drive to hang out with one of my friends from high school and some of his friends. We watched a little bit of the Red Sox game and then my friend and I went to one of the guys' house while the other people went home. I watched until JD f'n Drew hit a 2 run bomb to end the game and any chance of the Angels not sucking and Malone being able to win money with his bet with Rob.
Soooo, Saturday finally arrived. It was time to get ready for the wedding. I woke up, took a shower, started putting on my clothes, put the pants on, realized that if I walked 3 steps my pants came off, took my belt, tried to put it on and realized there were no belt loops on my pants. Big Problem. Luckily for me MW hadn't delivered Malone or Koho's suits yet because they measured wrong. So, I got ready, realized I delted the email with Malone's address(as I was suppose to meet there first), got in the car and drove over. I called Malone and found out the tuxes hadn't been delivered yet, told him my problems, got directions and told him to have the guy wait for me. I got to Malone's place just after the guy from MW got there, had him adjust my pants and I was good to go. Well, we waited around Malone's place for a while and then when Malone's mom came we took some pictures and then left for the wedding. The wedding went pretty well except for when Koho and I tried to walk the roller down and kept on getting stuck in it and then the one time when Koho's phone fell out of his suit. Good Job. But, we made it, everything else went smooth. After the wedding Koho took one for the team, road with me instead of the limo to Michelle's parents' place for some food, time to relax, and oh yeah, Notre Dame football! I mean, more pictures. Finally, after Notre Dame took a 21-7 lead we headed over to the reception for some more pictures! After the pictures were done I found out that ND held onto the game for a 28-21 win, and we were in the reception for the fun to start. The wedding party got to go in a side room for our grand entrance. One bad thing was the girls kept on singing that stupid New Kids song and it got stuck in my head. Ugghhhh. Finally the time came. The wedding party got to come out to Bad to the Bone, while Jim & Michelle were lucky enough to come out to the Brass Bonanza. Probably my favorite wedding song since my roommate Jeremy and his wife came out to Darth Vader's theme! You're lucky Jim(on a side note my friend Seth comes in third with coming out to Hulk Hogan's theme music). Well, then we had to do the first dance. I was lucky enough to dance with Jim's mom with this one. While dancing with her we realized that Perrotti and Malone's siter(also named Michele, but with one L) were basically standing in place so we changed it up and I got to dance with Perrotti. J/k, I got Michele. Then we got to eat. And drink. And drink some more. And some more. Then I stopped while other continued. And they drank some more while I had water so I could drive home safely. After the food was consumed then came the dancing. Well, we were able to dance the night away. I go into more details but I think my awards will cover it.
Then came Sunday. I woke up, ate, showered, waited a bit, then packed, left, dropped off my suit, road on some plains and made it home safely. It's good to be back, but I will say this. I do miss you guys back in CT. The only thing I will ever miss from CT. So, onto the awards:
The award for most awkward moment: This goes to Amy from Friday night. At one point, her and Michelle were telling Justin that he should marry Amy. Well, then Amy put her arm around Justin, then Around Michelle and proceeded to push Justin's head onto her boobs. I swear if Justin was single that weekend wouldn't have been a wide open net, Amy would have scored an own goal for him. How Perrotti wasn't able to kick that in is beyond me.
Best song of the weekend: This is going to Journey's Don't Stop Believing. Perrotti & Rob wouldn't come anywhere near the dance floor whatsoever. Well, a request for this song was put in and by this time of night everyone was feeling pretty well. So, the guys went to the dance floor and we all sang our hearts out to this song. My favorite part was when Rob & I were doing the guitar solos.
Worst song of the weekend: New Kids - The Right Stuff. I blame this on the girls. Or whoever wrote the f'n song.
Best idea that never happened: There was this 17-18 year old girl that came to the wedding and had gigantic who-has and wasn't afraid to show them off. Honestly, who okayed that dress? Couldn't someone had told her to cover those up at all? Anyways she was wearing a red dress. While we were eating and they were playing music I told Koho to go request lady in red, go over to her, tell her he requested this song for her, and then ask her to dance. Yes, it might be a bit cheesy but whatever. I'm just trying to help a brother out.
Best dancer at the wedding: I have to give that up to Ryan Andrew. He was constantly on the dance floor through good song and bad. He's the type of guy you want at your wedding if you want it to be fun.
Worst dancers at the wedding: Rob & Perrotti - First off, it's okay if you don't know how to dance. We're at a wedding, most of the people are drunk, no one really cares if you have two left feet. At least you have two feet. Second off, couldn't one of you guys ask one of the 2-5 single girls there to dance during a slow song? We're not in junior high anymore. They will say yes. Well, unless you're perrotti and the other girl is at least 5'6.
MVP of the weekend: There's actually two. I thought he had it closed up on Saturday but the first one goes to Jimmy Clausen. Second straight week in a row that you set a personal record for most yards in a game. He threw for over 340 yards, 3 td's, no pics. He's putting up a really great season. I can't wait for next year when he wins the Heisman. The second one goes to Eli Manning. When I finally got the airport and got to my terminal I had an hour to kill. By that time the Giants were up 17-3. By the time I left to go on my flight the giants were up 34-6. Eli had an amazing game. He tore apart the Seahawks. I really can't think of another QB who's playing with more confidence than Eli. I'm loving it.
LVP of the weekend: Jim's stepmom. I probably shouldn't write this but when has it ever stopped me? We all know there's a little bit of a grudge going on but did you have to a look on your face like a dentist was pulling your teeth? Really? That's all I'll say about it.
Favorite moment of the weekend: I would have to just say the reception on Saturday night. It was just a lot of fun hanging out with the guys, acting like idiots, having fun dancing whenever anyone would go out there and dance. I'll say it again, I don't miss CT at all, but I do miss my friends from CT.
So, I'll end this very long post by saying this, Jim and Michelle, thanks for the invite to be in the wedding. It was the first time I'd been part of a wedding and it was a lot of fun. There were a couple times it could have gone bad(thank you men's wearhouse) but it didn't. It was a load of fun and I'm glad I was there. I hope you guys have fun on the honeymoon. Now, you guys better visit me or.................I'll come back and paint that state with flames like Sherman through the South!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Well, I'm back
Sooooo, I'll keep this real short. I'm back in Ct now. I got back last night, it was a nice trip. Two quick flights, one to baltimore & one to hartford. On my way to B-more I had the women's OSU Hockey team on my flight. I got to have dinner with my family to celebrate my b-day. That was fun. Malone, you're under 23 hours til the big day. Too bad we don't have a clock you could wear around your head like that guy had in the espn commercial for the live sportscenter. I actually laughed at a couple of those, especially the one where he was playing whirleyball(I'm still upset I didn't get to go @ ticketnetwork). One of my favorite random games to play. Rob, is there anyway that you could keep a running commentary of the wedding on your iphone? I think that would be great. On a side note, I came up with a great line to use in a book. I don't know what kind of book it would be but here it is(I actually sent this to a friend of mine from high school to describe my job of coming back to hartford)"I want to paint this town with flames like Sherman through the South." For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, in the Civil War the North had a general named William T. Sherman and he lead one of the Federal Armies through the South to capture the Southern Army. While going through Georgia, he was known for burning down the towns that he went through. See, you guys learn something new every day!
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