One last visit

Well, its over now. I will never set foot in my old house again. Kinda sad, but there is nothing I can do about it. If you want to see pictures that I took, go to my flickr site. There is a link for it on the right.

Thanksgiving was good. I talked to my parents, and then we made our way to Amanda's mothers house to decorate her xmas tree. After which we went back to our apartment and got ready to go to Amanda's fathers house for dinner.

When we got to the house I got to actually talk to Heather (Amanda's sister) because we had said all of 2 sentences to each other before. Dinner was excellent. Everyone ate until they were about to burst, and then we went to the living room and watched some TV before we ate some pie and played 31. It was a card game, so of course I sucked at it, but oh well. It was fun.

The next day we went to the plaza to shop. It was surprisingly devoid of after thanksgiving shoppers. Also, that night Amanda's entire immediate family got together for dinner. That hasn't happened in many years.

Saturday morning I went to the bank first thing in the morning and closed my old bank account and opened a new one. Then we proceeded to make the long drive to St. Louis. Lucky threw up of course. Faster than he usually does. Anyway, we made good time and got in about 1. We had a nice dinner with Julia, and old neighbor of ours, and caught up on what's been going on. Of course, that night we stayed up drinking and watching movies. We watched "Shaun of the Dead," and by the time I crawled into bed it was about 5 in the morning.

The next day we moved some of the junk out of the 3rd floor, the basement, and some bedrooms. Saving some of our old possessions along the way. Gave Cate and old rug of ours for her new apartment, then went to Best Buy and got her a microwave. After which we went to back to my house, ordered pizza from Imo's and sat around and talked liked we did when we were in high school. Eventually Virginia and Glenn joined our midst and we got a drink at the "Chocolate Bar" which is a few doors down the street from Ricardo's. The rest of the night we spent at our house talking, eating, and drinking while watching the WORST MOVIE I have seen in a while. "The Devils Rejects" is terrible in so many ways its hard to describe. Things don't make sense, the cinematography is terrible, as is the writing, acting, and dialog. Don't see it- EVER! Anyway, by the time all was said and done, it was 2 am.

The next morning we got up and gathered our things from the house. After which we went to lunch with my dad at the St. Louis Bread Company. After which we went to Union Station to get some Cardinals memorabilia with my brother. After which we said our goodbye and left for "home." It was very windy, and snowed part of the way, but we didn't have any problems.

When we got home we did what we always do; order Bo Ling's, and watch Mythbusters.

All in all it was a great weekend. I got so see some people I don't get to see very often, and I got to spend time in the house I grew up in for the last time.

500 dollars

That is how much money that has been stolen from my bank account. I will get it all back, but I am pretty mad that I had to close my old account, create a new one, and worry about all sorts of other stuff. Dana Sunkimat is "supposedly" the one who is the bane of my existance. Anyway, other than that it has been a good week which I will elaborate further on later. But for now, I am in St. Louis with my family and I am GOING to enjoy myself.

Peace out, bitches...

E Tu Paypal?

Rmemeber all those problems I was having with my credit card? Well now paypal has turned on me as well. Someone got into my account, changed my primary e-mail and password, etc. When I called them I had nothing but problems, and I was TOLD that they would call me back in 24 hours. Its been 26. So when they do call I am probably just going to cancel my account there. I am sick all of these problems, and I guess paypal isn't as sucure as I thought it was. If you remember, they are the reason this happend. A least they froze my account so no one can buy anything on it.

Anyway, otherwise I am fine, just a little angry about my current situation, but I will get over it. Anyway, that about all for now...

F the 360

Usually I don't post after a monday or a wednesday because I work all day, but this was noteworthy. As you might have heard Xbox 360 came out today. Well last night I watched the line outside the Best Buy swell from 10 or so at six pm to about 100 at 10pm. Of course every other person in the door asked why the people were lining up and most had the same reaction, "thats crazy."

I felt bad for them because it was so cold, and that we didn't have nearly enough Xbox 360 to go around. Microsoft didn't make as many as they said they would. Also, about once an hour someone from the line would come in and tell us how bad the attitude of people in line was. There was almost a fight. However, at the Wal-mart across the way there was a fist-fight. This is because people were holding places for people in line. We were asked many different times by many different people to give out tickets, but that wouldn't help because once everyone is gone at about 11 or so, they are on their own until about 5 am when employee's show back up.

Anyway, this whole thing is a mess. I applaude all the people who are waiting out in that weather for so long to get their Xbox (to each his own), but its not worth it.

Awesome

That is how my weekend was. Friday night we say Harry Potter on the IMAX and it was visually stunning. We all agreed that it was the best of the series. However, we had to wait an hour and a half to watch it because there was a problem with the projector. So we were given tickets for a free movie, popcorn and soda because we had to wait so long. At one point Tim, in full Dumbledore costume, stood up faced the projector (we were in the 3rd row) and said "technico repario." Of course everyone laughed, but in a good way. It was most unexpected.

The movie was long, and because of the delay we got out that much later. We got home about 2ish, and I didn't get to sleep until about 3. Then I had to wake up at 6:30 for a meeting at Best Buy. But it was ok because we were having our "early thanksgiving." Of course I slept through much of the cooking, but I wouldn't have been doing much anyway. Though, when I did wake up I did a lot of cleaning and helped as much as I could with the cooking.

The dinner was great and so was the company. It was nice to have everyone together again. There was much wine and other various alcoholic beverages so even the food channel was mildly fun. We talked a lot and of quoted many movies that no one else cares about but us. We played some "Scene It" and Trival Pursuit. The underdogs (Andrew, J, and I) beat the all knowing Geoff. All I have to say is "Mel Gibson." Then of course, the girls kicked our ass in Trival Pursuit until we were able to pull even with them. However they did win in the end. Speaking of which:

Q: How many chickens would you need to trade to get a AK-47 on the black market of Uganda in 2000?
A: One

Everyone was gone about 12:30 because the turkey tired most people out. Then I had to work from 6am to 11 the next morning. The early morning were the only thing that sucked about this weekend. Needless to say I slept for a while on sunday afternoon.

Amanda is not coming back to meat, but she is going to eat some now and again. Tuesday I will properly introduce her to some again.

That's my girl!

As you can see, this is Amanda... and this is the cover for a card that is going up. So in a few months don't be surprized if you see this on the shelves of Target. She at least has a good sense of humor about it.

As for tonight, Amanda and I are meeting the rest of apartment 9 to see Harry Potter at the IMAX tonight. I am looking forward to it. Even though I have not, and probably never will read the books I have been excited to see this for a long time.

Then on saturday friends are going to come over to our apartment and have a "little" thanksgiving. We will have the normal spread and all, so it should be great. Two thanksgivings in one year could be the greatest invention man has ever concieved...

Anyway, not much more going on that that. Hope you enjoy your weekend. I will.

Paris

Yesterday was busy as most wednesdays are. However, there was one surprize in the sense that I tried to use my credit card, and it didn't work. I didn't think it was a big deal at the time, but about 10 minutes later I got a call from Commerce Bank, and they told me someone in Paris tried to use my credit card at an ATM. They blocked this and put my card on a temporary freeze.

They think that paypal e-mails could be the culprit. I filled one out, saying that my membership would expire if I didn't. It took me to the official site and such. It probably was real, but apparently some people have been getting "dummy" e-mails. Anyway, just be careful if you get such an e-mail.

Since my card info has been compromised I am going to get a new one in about a week or so. I hope it gets here before I go to St. Louis next weekend. Yes, the weekend-- Amanda and I are leaving KS on saturday the 26th and coming back on monday the 28th.

As you can see, I have been updating my blog so that it looks a little nicer. I really didn't like the way it was before. But now I have a nice banner (until I make a new one) and some links to thinks that I like.

ARG!

I don't know whats wrong with me, but I was short tempered yesterday. I din't explode or yell at anything or anyone, but I was just "mad" and I didn't know why. One reason may be that I accidentally washed my cell phone last night. I am not going to tell you the story of how it ended up in the washing machine because you DON'T want to know. But at least I had my old one which still works fine.

At least Amanda was around and made me feel better by proxy.

Crazy Weather

Sunday afternoon I spent the day in a tshirt and was was just fine. IT wasn't really cold outside and I was comfortable. That night Amanda and I took Lucky for a walk. We wore pants and a hooded sweatshirt and were quite comfortable. Near the end of the walk we were talking about how it was still pretty warm and that it was weird that all the leaves were just now falling off the trees. Now today, 2 days later, we were awoken by loud continuous thunder early in the morning. It even shook the apartment a little bit. It rained for a little bit, then little snow flakes accompanied the rain. Now its just coming down, but its not sticking.

Everyone says they have crazy weather, but I do think the midwest is a little wackier than other places...

Lost

No, not the TV show, a dog. On saturday afternoon after running some errands Amanda and I found a dog just wandering around outside with a collar but no tags. He would always come when we called, and was very well behaved so we took him in and fed him. This dog drank about 6 full bowls of water in less than 20 minutes... then he would get about half that water on the carpet because his tounge fell out so much.

Amanda didn't want to take him to Animal Haven because she thought that they euthanized. So she called around and eventually we called Animal Control. The dogs played with each other for almost the entire time until they just sat and rested. Now when Animal Control got there, guess where they took them? Animal Haven. Turns out thats ok becuase they don't put animal down, so everyones happy.

The night before (friday) we met Michelle and ran some errands here in OP before we met Mel and Doug for dinner. We ate at the China Star buffet because Amanda was craving crab rangoon. After dinner Mel and Doug went home and the rest of us watched movies/tv and such at our place until Michelle went home.

Now last night we cleaned up our 2nd bedroom alot and did other little things around the appartment. The place is cleaner and looks more specaious in the bedroom.

Not much more goin' on than that...

on the bus

on the bus
Originally uploaded by dark_hylian.

The picture I was talking about earlier.

The picture I based it off of is here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/subwall_800.jpg

lots of stuff... n'stuff

I have been busy, so forgive my late post. Anyway, this weekend we didn't do all that much, but we did go to a really nice party at one of Amanda's co-workers houses. We drank and ate a nice well rounded dinner. Carlene drank her first Martini and LOVED them. Though, I heard that she won't drink another because she woke up with an upset stomach. We got home about 12ish, and then I had to work at 6am at Best Buy. I was tired until this morning when I woke up.

Just been working on some cards here, though we finally finshed our "Smart Mom" calendar last week. That should be out in about 6 months or so. I did over half of the pictures on that thing.

Oh, surprizingly Amanda and I watched the "Boondocks" on adult swim. It was actually funny. Though Amanda is trying to come to grips with it because she was a little offended at times, but laughed and enjoyed it none the less.

I am currently working on a picture that I hope to post later today. It is based on a Penny Arcade picture that I enjoy. I will probably put it on a t-shirt because I have all of these transfers and I would just like to make a custom shirt for myself. Maybe I will do other ones.

Thats all I can think of right now though...

D to the S

D to the P
Originally uploaded by dark_hylian.

Amanda with a mustache. Also, its now possible to leave comments on my blog without being a member.