| make money to eat money... |
[07 Dec 2009|07:48pm] |
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woke up at 1 something.
Ant's dad showed up cause the Giants game.
first thing he said was "i'm hungry, let's get food"
bought us pizza and heros.
i ate a chicken parm and a slice of pizza.
left for work.
we were pretty steady the whole time.
so glad that i switched shifts with James.
got my round top sat twice, both with $40 grats. mmmm.
ended up making 150.
drank way too much soda throughout the day.
ate some tazzie buffalo strips.
ate a salad.
left work and went with lindsay to 7/11.
got donuts and candy.
went to her house with nicole and james.
we watched 'death at a funeral' i love that movie.
it wasn't too late, but we all left.
james and i went to Luis' place.
had never been, pretty damn cool, whole basement to himself.
played MW2 for hours.
don/derek/james/luis
at 6am we all got hungry so we headed to the North Shore Diner.
i ate a tuna melt with chedder and bacon, curly fries with mutz cheese on them.
drank more soda...ugh, so bad.
back to derek/james place.
slept in james' bed, he went and shared the bed with derek.
really glad i didn't sleep on the couch.
woke up by 2.
crawled around the apartment for a bit.
dirty food hangover.
left there and had to back off the curb cause there was city workers blocking us in.
it was pretty funny...
dropped derek off at the train by the mall and i drove myself back here.
derek went to the city to drop off his PS3 at the place again...yellowlightofdeath
hung with Ant.
talked online.
showered.
derek showed up.
been at the computer.
not sure what the rest of the night has in for me...not much i hope though.
can't really move...don't really want to anyway.
prolly just gonna watch tv and play videogames.
a good recovery day.
only drinking water and eating a bananna today.
need to let my body digest everything.
ughhhhhhh.
i enjoy my life.
dirty food hangovers and all.
BriR09 (6:05:16 PM): i ate a chicken parm hero, and two slices of pizza for breakfast
BriR09 (6:05:19 PM): then went to work
BriR09 (6:05:25 PM): drank too much soda all throughout the day
BriR09 (6:05:37 PM): tazzie buffalo strips at work
BriR09 (6:05:40 PM): a salad
BriR09 (6:05:58 PM): then went to lindsays and ate stuffed shells
BriR09 (6:06:03 PM): donuts
loveadds (6:06:09 PM): good gravy
BriR09 (6:06:12 PM): a milkyway bar
BriR09 (6:06:25 PM): then to Luis' house....ate more donuts
BriR09 (6:06:30 PM): a york peppermint patty
BriR09 (6:06:39 PM): 4 glasses of apple juice
BriR09 (6:06:44 PM): at 6am we went to the diner
BriR09 (6:06:49 PM): i had soda, again
BriR09 (6:06:58 PM): a tuna melt with chedder and bacon
loveadds (6:06:59 PM): ohhhhhhhk
loveadds (6:07:01 PM): i got it
loveadds (6:07:06 PM): seriously
loveadds (6:07:07 PM): stop
BriR09 (6:07:10 PM): curly fries with cheese on them
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| sleep, work, kick it....rewind, repeat... |
[06 Dec 2009|07:48am] |
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the drifters - this magic moment (everything i want, i have when i hold you) |
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slept so late.
ugh.
so what.
it was a raining and cold out and i had my window open - mini coma.
got up and left for work.
crazy cold out.
shoulda worn my parka. oops.
got to work at 5.
soaked.
we were busy.
made 140.
went to Uno's with people after work.
didn't stay long cause they wanted to go to hooka.
Luis dropped Eve and i off at Janine's.
watched 'Sunshine Cleaning' with janine.eve.lindsay.
left after 4.
got home at came in to Ant sleeping on the couch.
had a good talk.
happy to have him back.
heard about his gf and "living" in LA for the last month, heh.
Tony came home.
all hung out.
happy to have them here.
watched epi 1 and 2 of The League.
Tony went to sleep.
watched The Office a bit and then came in here.
gotta get to sleep before 9......
switched it so that i didn't have to work my shitty section.
closing up again.
going in at 4. should only be a 6 hour shift tomorrow.
hopefully make some money.
as long as i keep breaking 100 every weekend shift, i'm good.
prolly gonna go back to the fri-100, sat-150, sun-100 goals.
speaking of goals....no on called me about the winter indoor league...that kiiiinda really sucks.
really was some awesome i looked forward to each week.
oh well, i'll live i guess.
Giants vs Cowboys.
NY needs this.
Jets have 2 in a row now...Giants really gotta bring it later today, fuck Dallas.
fuck Texas.
fuck my computer for not running WoW.
hot chocolate on the way to work.
a great idea.
my hair is getting longer, and i don't think i'm gonna cut it.
rocked it at work today with no gel and puffed out.
got the full on Wolverine thing going for me.
not sure it's working for me, but it's going, tell ya that much.
might tell my tables my name is Logan tomorrow.
my bed is too empty.
it's missing someone.
distance is terrible.
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| Brooklyn and back, Outback and back... |
[05 Dec 2009|06:27am] |
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elvis - don't be cruel (to a heart that's true...) |
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woke up and sat around the house on thursday.
tony was out the door already to work.
i watched tv till about 8.
talked to Noah on the phone till 9..and then got up and got ready.
left for Brooklyn.
got the Knitting Factory just in time.
walked right in (free show, woo)
Good Old War played a fuckin awesome set.
sounded so good.
and damn, i forgot how damn funny keith is up there. haha.
closed the set out with Coney Island.
got more than half the show on audio.
gotta buy a small voice recorder thing and just bring that to small shows from now on.
it'd be mighty helpful for Dashboard/New Found next week.
my god, that's next week....less than a week away and i'll be enjoying one of the coolest fuckin things ever.
yes, i'm putting it up there in the EVER category.
i mean shit...really? like, really?
kjadfllsf
so anyway.
left Knitting.
grabbed a sandwich across the street.
waited for the G.
heard some kids talking on the platform...bad mouthing all these different bands.(bayside, yellowcard, good charlotte, brand new)
got kinda fed up and said something...
fuckers didn't even know who Midtown was...i made a comment and they were like..."who?"
idiots.
got home and decided to go spend money at Walgreens.
picked up christmas lights.
the front window of the appartment has up colored lights...and i put some up in the kitchen, just cause.
restrung lights all the way down the hall too. 1 stran, all the way. sweet.
tony came home and we hung out for a bit.
he went to bed.
i finally crashed at around 8am.
woke up today and watched the FIFA World Cup 2010 draw.
awesome.
Group C:
England
USA
Algeria
Sloveina
quite happy about it.
England is our first game.
gonna be fuckin great.
coooooooome on USA, round of 16, let's go!!!
shaved, chops are back. gonna stay for a week or so maybe.
got dressed and left for work.
opened.
we were kinda slow for a while.
it ended up picking up though....got "busy"
didn't get cut till 10pm. kinda lame, considering i really didn't get loaded up on tables, it was just that we got the popo and jennie didn't want to let anyone leave...hate how she does that shit.
made 105.
not horrible...but i was there for 8 hours though. blah.
Lindsay came by and picked up Janine and i.
came back here and hung out.
Lauren was here. good to see her and hang for a bit.
had serious talk (aka, girl talk) with Janine in the kitchen for a while. Lindsay then joined in.
Lauren left, Tony went to bed.
Step Brothers went on because Lindsay had never see it.
i hand't either, but didn't really want to see it.
it really wasn't good.
not nearly as good as Role Models...how derek and james think that it's better.....WTF guys.
anyway...the girls hung out a bit longer and then left at around 4:30.
i showered.
now been sitting at my computer.
my hair is quite soft at the moment.
i'm also quite tired.
still might beat the sun to bed...i see it getting blue out there...but i just got hit hard by the sleep bug.
alright, gonna just go for it.
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| meanwhile, down on the lower east side... |
[03 Dec 2009|07:34am] |
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vinnie carauna - ashes in the clouds (at least that's what i'm calling it) |
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went into Manhattan and met up with Rick and Chris from Melee'
walked up to their hotel on 25th from Union Square.
watched their "holiday" videos. fuckin hilarious.
left there and split up.
i headed down to the lower east side to Mason Dixon.
really cool place. set up like some old school western bar.
the doors are barn doors to come in. heh.
real chill crowd.
Vinnie was behind the bar. as was Mike.
pretty cool.
i walked in and Vinnie saw me and said hey.
i stood around for a few minutes and then saw 3 guys hanging out in a stand-up booth, so i went over to see the menu's they had in their hands.
ended up hanging out and talking to them.
pretty cool guys. one of them used to TM for HTL. quite funny.
got some amazing mac and cheese.
played buck hunter.
then walked 2 blocks up and gave Derek my camera.
he was at Mercury Lounge seeing Jaguar Love.
got soaked on the walk there/back.
went and sat down with the guys i was hanging with.
and two girls, that i swear i've met before...i know for a fact that i've seen one of them, like, more than once...at shows...just can't remember with who.
so weird.
saw alot of faces there tonight that looked familiar.
guess that happens.
vinnie went on.
only played a few songs. it was pretty cool.
wish he had played more...but i guess that's not really what the night was all about.
still got to hear 'green eyes' and the new song i love. got a video clip of it....wish i knew the name of it...wish i knew if it was going to be on the new album...also wish i had a nice version of it, too many people talking in the background and whatnot.
i want a clean MP3 version that i can just play up and down.
hitting repeat on the video on my phone...is getting annoying.
tony/rick/chris showed up and hung out.
then derek and steph came by.
all hung there for a while and then headed out.
pooooooooouring.
waited for the F train to show up.
the A came on that track??? fuckin weird.
some random older lady asked us how old we were....weird.
she looked like a slut, huge boobs just barely covered by her tanktop.
rick got fresh with her...it was pretty fuckin funny.
said goodbye to them as we came up on their stop...might see them tomorrow night, not sure though.
cool to meet them, considering how much time tony spent with them touring and whatnot.
long ride back to Queens.
went all the way to 75th ave. walked around and found derek's car.
drove back here, stopped at 7/11 for snacks.
came inside and just sat around for a bit.
played MW2 against derek for a while.
felt like i was getting better...but just not GREAT yet.
then went and played online and got my ass handed to me. right back down to shitty. woo!
been in here alone since like 6.
can't get WoW to play...kinda really annoyed by that. had a few days where i didn't have work...and figured that even though i was busy doing other things, it wouldn't be so bad to get some playing time in.
really wanna check out the new cool shit.
gotta find a way to fix it.
tired now. gonna go pass out.
not really in a rush to get up in the morning.
nothing to do till later later. going to see Good Old War at Knitting.
gonna be a good time.
but until then...sleep.
dreams.
and whenever i get up, i really have to fold these fuckin clothes.....fuck.
so burn my body in the sky, and put my ashes on a flight, back to her
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| cards, walking, skates, guitars, dancing, eating, sleeping... |
[02 Dec 2009|06:25pm] |
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santo and johnny - sleep walk (slow dance anyone?) |
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so i slept all day monday.
went to sleep after the sun came up, and didn't wake up till almost 4.
heh.
oh well. days off are for such things.
sat around on the computer.
got dressed and headed out the door for Cesar's place.
nice walk over, it was like 41 degrees out and kinda windy.
grabbed some chips and a drink and got settled.
there was something burning in the oven when i got there. heh.
got really really smoking and so we opened the windows and it cleaned out, and cooled the place off.
watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
got the game started, only 5 of us played.
played pretty well i felt.
i don't at all consider myself a great poker player...but i did pretty darn well.
knocked out 3 people, and then had to go up against Nelson.
hahaha, i fuckin hate Nelson.
i gave up after 2 hands. he just has the best fuckin luck and is really hard to read.
james dropped me home.
hung with tony a bit.
then just watched tv.
came and sat on the computer.
passed out real late.
onto Tuesday now...
woke up at 1pm...passed back out till 3.
finally got out of bed and then got dressed.
left here and got on the 7.
got to Bryant Park and met up with Abbey Tattoo and her friend, Bianca?
walked around for a bit and then i got talked into going skating.
had a realy good time.
busted my ass...caught my left skate and went down face first..but i saved myself from hitting too hard...and spun around and got right back up though. hahaha. felt like such a fuckin idiot...so many people watching.
it was a good time overall though.
not as much fun as last year though. :-) but that's for obvious reasons.
hopped the subway and went down to St. Marks.
got $1 pizza.
walked out and run into Lili...that was funny.
had a good talk with her and then headed down to Chinatown.
got bubble tea. not the biggest fan of it.
the tea itself is good though...i think i'll just get it without the bubbles next time.
tapeoka balls...ick.
walked around a bit more and then headed our separate ways after that.
stopped up at Gramercy to see Tony.
watched the whole show just about. missed the first 15 minutes only.
Dr. Acula
Motionless in White
In Fear and Faith
In This Moment
In This Moment sounded so fuckin good.
goddamn the singer is so fuckin hot.
and good.
there sound guy laughed when me and tony told him that Ant had a gf...haha.
left there and walked only 4 blocks to Stone Creek.
there were a few people there already.
said hello and chatted a bit.
more people showed up. we all moved to the back room.
pretty cool set up. nice little lounge with benches along the walls, mirrors made it feel bigger in there.
little bar in the corner. it's a cool place.
little finger food got served and then the music got louder and everyone started to dance.
then drink.
then dance more.
quite fuckin hilarious at some points.
jacky pulled me out there and "taught" me to dance. interesting to say the very least.
hahaha.
what a party though.
chanting of people's names....
lapdances....
carlos got employee of the year for FOH, and boyboy got it for BOH(4th year in a row, awesome)
it got realy crazy, and there are a bunch of pictures up on facebook showing it.
haha.
glad i went.
afterwards luis, derek, don, danny and i all headed to the Georgia diner.
derek gave his number to a stripper that was sitting in the booth next to us.
ate a nice big sloppy burger.
got dropped off and came in to lay on my bed.
passed out around 7:30.
woke up at 10:30...got out of bed and sat on the computer and then was going to head upstate.
but i was way too tired still.
so i went back to sleep.
woke up at 2.
tony and i went for bagels.
came back here and watched the Office.
then played some MW2...could not beat this one level. fuckin hell!
i stopped and came in here to post.
took me longer than i wanted it to. got distracted talking to people.
blah.
gonna shower and then head to the city with tony to meet up with some guys from Melee'
then do the tree lightening...or at least, see the tree.
then going to the lower east side to see Vinnie play solo at a bar.
awesome.
so awesome.
been quite a good week.
only getting better.
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| Song(s) of the Month... |
[30 Nov 2009|09:37pm] |
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the gaslight anthem - blue jeans and white t-shirts (if i ever love at all) |
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- Song of the Month - November -
The Gaslight Anthem - Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts
-say anything - do better
-dashboard - disaster
-movielife - walking on glass
-say anything - hate everyone
-dashboard - motions
another good month.
not as good as last month. nothing big happened i guess is why.
cool stuff.
rocky live in a living room was prolly the best.
hit the lights, just surrender, punchline
work was slow, and when i wasn't working i was just relaxing.
not much money to spend on anything else.
December might take the cake on coolest show of the year with NFG/DC acoustic show.
-Album of the Month-
Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending
-say anything - self titled
where's the snow?
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| and it's sunday!! sunday!! sunday!!... |
[30 Nov 2009|06:00am] |
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city - body in a box (on the highway) |
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woke up at 11:30 today.
tony woke me up.
couch again. really gotta stop that shit.
got about 2 and a half hours.
got dressed and walked to IHOP with tony and derek.
i felt like a fuckin zombie walking there.
it was really nice out, so bright.
you know i hate light.
got to IHOP and the line was out the fuckin door...so we walked across the street.
got sat at the diner in like 5 minutes.
our waitress didn't know what the fuck was going on, at all.
that sucked.
but the food was alright.
got the job done....it's no IHOP breakfast.
never trying a sunday morning IHOP visit again.
left at 1 and walked to the train.
no local service, awesome.
had to take the E and then switch at Forrest Hills.
got to work at 1:40.
sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow....glad i switched my shift with Eve.
we started to pick up and we got "busy" for a bit.
ended up making 155.
i don't really enjoy how it's been...starting off dead, and then getting busy for a little while.
i want busy all the time. just bang out some fuckin tough days, and get some money in the bank.
stupid bitch never getting back to me about that other job.
granted...i could have called her back, and i never did.
ah well.
sandwich after work...really been doing that alot lately.
not sure if i've talked about it already, i feel ilke i have. brain is a little fried right now, so i'm really not sure...but if i didn't.....ummm, yeah, been going to the deli by work alot. it feels good to eat a sandwich after work. i'm eating less at work. but just more sandwiches after leaving.
heh.
for better, or for worse? who knows.
came back here with lindsay, evette, and nicole.
james, janine, and derek were already here.
tony didn't hang out with us (kinda weird, he left the room as soon as i got home)
watched the last of the Bal vs Pit game. overtime. good game.
then we took fuckin forever to pick a movie to watch.
finally settled on True Romance, haven't watched it in so long. just as good as i remember.
movie ended. everyone shuffled out.
showered and been sitting in front of this screen since.
really tired.
barely keeping my eyes open.
but i wanted to get this post done.
off all week now. again.
sucks.
i wanted to pick up a Wed...but that doesn't look like it's gonna happen.
i should really be trying to work every single day that i can...but alas...i'm fuckin lazy.
maybe poker tomorrow night.
tuesday is hangs with abby tattoo.
tuesday night is OB X-Mas party.
wednesday i was thinking about heading upstate for a bit, just cause.
thursday is Good Old War at Knitting
friday is work, most likely...schedule isn't up yet.
i really wanna do the schedule at work.
just to see if i'm any good at it. i think i would be. i think i'd have fun doing it too. it'd keep me busy at the very least.
yeah.
alright. post...you are done.
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| posting needs to happen on time and in order... |
[29 Nov 2009|08:05am] |
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...derek shooting people... |
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so last sunday...shit, been a fuckin week already.
i really suck at this.
made okay money.
broke 100.
everyone came back here after work.
watched tv and just hung out. family night, ya know.
did nothing monday.
watsted the day by watching tv and laying around.
tuesday i woke up and cleaned up the apartment a little, but not much.
went shopping for food.
couldnt find a turkey at Compare Foods and was worried that i wasnt going to find one in time. fresh turkey that is.
ended up finding one right around the corner at MetFood. quite happy about that.
started to cook the food.
people started to show up and make food too.
final sit down in the living room was great.
everyone was full, everything was delicious.
did nooooooooooothing on wednesday.
just layed in bed, kinda watched tv...was even too lazy for that.
took naps.
woke up for an hour or so, napped more.
tony left for upstate.
finally felt like such a lazy piece of poop and stayed awake after i woke up at midnight.
cleaned up from tuesday night.
did the dishes.
left the apartment before 7am.
headed north.
got to Pawling.
did some laundry.
sat down and played Wii bowling with my mom and dad. lost, all 3 times.
headed over to laura and brian's just after 1pm.
erin didn't come with us cause she fuckin suuuucks..................
drove my parents over.
heh.
chatted with family.
had a good time.
talked to heather on skype with everyone watching.
ate lots of food.
ate moose.
...mmm, moose...gonna have some now actually....leftovers.
uhhhh, back to Pawling.
noah came and picked me up.
went to tony's for Giants football.
horrible game.
left at midnight.
couldn't sleep right away and so i walked around a bit outside. nice cold clear night.
back inside to be asleep by 1am.
up by 8am.
out the door by 9am.
stopped in to the Deli and made myself breakfast....man i miss being able to do that. bad.
ha.
then got on the road with my dad.
dropped me at my place, and he had stuff to do at my gramma's.
i just grabbed my stuff for work and then i headed out.
work was fuckin dead.
fuckin deaaaaaad.
got there at noon and was done by 9pm. only made 90. so bad. just did not have enough tables, and the tables i did have...just didn't tip. well, most of tables were good, just small checks.
came back here to hang with Derek. played MW2 all night.
woke up on the couch.
fuckin back.
got ready for work and left. had to be in by 2.
it was slow again...but it picked up toward the evening and i was able to make some money.
made 135.
stuck around after work and helped close. made sure everything was looking good and then went and woke up Jennie, who was sleeping at tables 6 because she was so tired.
heh, checked everyone out and gave them their readings.
Jennie got into a car accident and broke her arm 3 weeks ago...it's been bad. friday was her first full day back.
couldn't really hack it.
so i tried to help her out a bit.
left there and went to the deli for a sammich.
ended up walking home cause i didn't want to go into PostTime and wait around.
it's loud, it smells, and it's a fuckin bar. not really a bar kinda guy, ya know.
got home and was able to sit down on the couch just before there was a knock on the door.
eve and lindsay walked in.
hung out and watched movies. watched Leon.
derek called me at 3am and told me that he was really drunk and coming over.
lindsay and eve left here about 5 almost.
derek put on MW2, and i went and showered.
he's still playing right now...... it's 8am...
-ended up playing him one on one for about an hour, pretty close games actually, i'm getting better-
(so my computer died before i got to post this last night. i was sitting on the couch watching derek play MW2 and just relaxing. i didn't have time to post it in the morning, and i'm just sitting down at the computer now. so yeah, gonna just post it as it...not really sure what else i was going to start talking about, but i guess maybe i'll never know)
*posted it to the original time it was supposed to have been.
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| day 2 and 3 of 4... |
[22 Nov 2009|06:37am] |
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jerk magnet - checkmate (tomorrow, i will follow through) |
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welp...got through friday and saturday.
never ended up going to sleep thursday night.
tony got up and we left here at 6am.
drove him to JFK.
fuckin traffic. raining.
took me like 45 minutes to get home.
parked, and stopped off at Mama's for dinner.
ate and then passed out on the couch.
so dumb, really gotta stop doing that.
my back can't take it anymore.
i'm a fuckin old man.
woke up at 2pm.
got ready and headed out to work.
headwait.
we were kinda busy in the beginning.
then it died down.
then we got a nice pop.
ended up making 175 on 17 tables. meh.
better than nothing.
did rock a nice 40 dollar tip from these 4 middle aged ladies.
smile and laugh brian, smile and laugh....golden.
james waited for me.
finished up in the office and then headed to Lindsays.
watched Californication.
all new season stuff. i'd watched them all online already.
now everyone is caught up though.
watched a Family Guy - inside the actors studio thing....fuckin amazing.
all of us left at 4am.
said fuck it, and went over to James/Derek's place.
checked out Assassin's Creed 2....fuckin amazing.
really dropped the ball on that one...should have bought that and said 'FU' to Modern Warfare 2.
damn.
should have enough money in a few weeks to get AC2...prolly for the best anyway. heh.
from the looks of it, that game will suck the life out of me.
passed out at like 7am i think....
woke up at 1...layed around till 2.
james was playing MLB and i just watched.
put my shoes on and headed out.
got dropped back here.
was going to shower, but couldn't work up the energy to.
watched the end of 'beautiful girls' instead. never got to finish it the other night cause i left for the airport.
left for work at 4:30.
got in and it looked kinda busy.
we were steady. not as busy as i would have really liked.
though i guess when i first got there i was a little let down cause i thought i was going to have a different section...but the schedule was made wrong or something, and so i ended up with the roundtop.
blah.
ended up working out for me i guess.
heard prolly the funniest thing i've ever heard at one of my tables today....
so as i'm putting down their food i hear the guy say to the girl:
"nooo, you aren't supposed to pull on his testicles"
and the girl just looks up at me and laughs and say "i'm soooooooo sorry"
i laughed and walked away "oh it's fine, don't worry about it"
we got a little busy. nothing like it should be for a Saturday night though.
last table hung around far too long.
didn't leave till 12:07.
we "close" at 11.
so fuckin annoying.
made 150 though, for 6 hours of work. who cares. right?
right.
came back here with Lindsay and Janine.
stopped at the deli and got sammiches first.
mmmm, so good.
nothing like my 14 oz medium rare NY Strip steak i had on friday night.........my god.
ummmm, sorry, lost track there for a minute day dreaming.....
right.
watched the Waterboy.
still so fuckin funny.
i wanted to watch Giant Oct vs Mega Shark...but they didn't want to.
haha.
they left at 4am.
been just fuckin around on the computer since.
just chatted a bit with Ross. i miss that guy.
not sure when i'm getting to sleep.
if at all.
gotta be at work at 2.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
maybe a bit of a nap.
i need to clean up the apartment though, this place is a wreck.
and smells funny....
i think something died in tony's room...
or he just left his shitstained underwear out on the floor...again.
oh yeah....Thanksgiving at my place on Tuesday night.
should be really fun.
work peoples.
and if anyone that actually reads this wants to come join.
but doubt anyone does/will.
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| annnnnd how it is November 20th already?.... |
[20 Nov 2009|02:04am] |
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work was good tonight.
closed.
made 81.
9 tables. not bad.
had a little fun and greeted my last table while eating a pretzel wrapped hotdog.
they found it funny.
i found it delicious.
james gave me a ride home, but i we had to wait till 12.
hung with him and Eve waiting to leave.
home to watch Always Sunny and The League with Tony.
he leaves for San Fran in the morning.
gotta wake up and drive him to the airport, fuck.
he'll be gone till Sunday.
day 1 of my 4 day work week...done.
hopes are high for money this weekend.
then i'm off till black friday.
wasn't that busy last year though, people are too busy at Best Buy.
mmmmm, Thanksgiving. can't wait.
might pig out big time, like, really big time.
got some small ideas in the back of my mind to go all out for December and really get in shape.
kinda like how Sept went...just...actually finishing the full month.
i wonder if i shave "OUTBACK" into the back of my head, would they let me work....
is it just guts and black stuff...i'll find out soon
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| too lazy to talk about how lazy i am and how much fun it is... |
[19 Nov 2009|03:33pm] |
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hello live journal. it's been a while.
it's always been a while though these days when it comes to you.
sorry about that. i guess i just find myself busy most of the time.
at the end of the day at least. and then when i have time, during the day, doing nothing...i just don't want to post.
i guess when things are going good, i just don't have the time. which is kinda how it's always been i guess. when things were consistantly going well, i tend to not post.
it always sucks cauase i miss the good moments...i mean, they're up there in my head, yes..but the whole point of live journal is to keep track of stuff so that when i'm old and can't remember shit anymore..i can just look back and see how stupid i was.
or still am.
my apartment is really warm right now.
it's been like this all day actually. the heat came on like every hour. far too much.
my eyes are dried out because of it.
i think i started this post with the hopes of getting alot down...and now that i've started...it's faded.
damn.
tv tends to steal my attention.
uuuuuuuuuugh soooo what the hell was i going to talk about. ...
my life. oh yeah.
so things have been good. and that's prolly why i haven't been posting.
2009 has been far been the best year of my life. 2008 was awesome, it really was...but 09 seems like it's beating it. there's always ways that days could be better, but i really can't complain.
cause even though there are people that i have wanted to see more of, and maybe a few things that i really wish i had gone and done....09 has still not let me down.
i wonder if 2010 is gonna beat it.
hmm, nice segway...
so tonight was Hit The Lights at Highline Ballroom.
i got there just as the second band was loading off.
Vinnie came out and played an acoustic set. so awesome. played 'sailor tattoos' 'walking on glass' 'hey' and then some IATA songs 'green eyes' 'beating' 'drinking song' 'brooklyn dodgers' and then he played a new song that i really liked alot. i love Vinnie. i really wish i had songs to sing on stage and have people sing along.
there for tomorrow played, not a fan really, they sounded pretty solid...just didn't like em all around.
Hit The Lights came out and rocked it.
there really were not alot of people there. i thought there was going to be a bigger crowd...but i guess cause it was a weeknight...or something like that. i don't know, but i was a little let down by the lack of a crowd for a band that i thought was only getting a larger following. i mean their crowds at Warped were awesome.
ah well.
played a good set. good mix of old and new stuff.
they were saying how this is their last tour till late spring, cause they are going to be home writing a record.
yes please.
left the show and grabbed some pizza across the street, and then headed for the E train.
it's nice and easy to get there, i like that.
wish there were more shows there.
tony is asleep. so tonight i'm on my own.
last night Derek was here and i had Sebass here too. they were watching me play Modern Warfare 2.
really sick game. i was trying my best not to just daterape it. so i'll take a break for a few days and then get back to it.
played some co-op stuff and mulitplayer stuff.
really wish i had the money to buy FIFA10 or AC2...buuuuut i can't, not yet. not till other bills are paid.
i only was able to get MW2 cause i had giftcards in my wallet still.
bills suck.
well, not working for 3 weeks is really what sucks. put me so far behind. when i'm second guessing going to bu ice cream cause i don't want to spend more money than i already did today on food......it's bad.
(that may have just been a fat joke on myself)
it's not looking like that other job is going to happen. that sucks. i really could have used that money.
really would have liked that money.
alot.
fuckin lame.
i'll get through this though, and have money to spend on random shit once again.
holy shit. never posted this last night because my computer battery died and i never plugged it back in. i finished this post at about 1am.
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| a good and lazy weekend... |
[09 Nov 2009|02:25pm] |
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i had quite the awesome weekend.
seeing Rocky on Friday night was really a nice way to start it off.
well actually, i guess that Thursday was the start of my weekend...went upstate for a soccer game, semi-finals...lost 5-3. really fuckkin shitty ref screwed us when we could have gone 3-1 up...after that, it was just downhill and even more shitty calls.
oh well.
win some, lose some. or whatever that is that's supposed to make it sound okay to lose.
ha.
but yeah, Rocky...fuckin was fuckin awesome. sat there with Tony in a emptied out art gallery in midtown.
about 40 people there. nice little seating set-up.
played only 3 new songs...which was cool cause i was a bit worried that i wasn't going to get to hear anything i really wanted...but holy shit did i.
he played 'alabaster' 'portland' 'white daisy' 'medicine' 'makers' 'silver trees' 'goldfield'....and a bunch more..but those were the main things that stood out.
i took a video of the whole show...my card filled up though before the last 2 songs, but i got those on my phone.
and the video i took was only audio actually cause i didn't want to hold the camera the whole damn time.
saturday i layed around all day being lazy.
got Aaron to cover my shift so that i could go see a show at the Loft.
it was Straylight and Dangerous Summer.
pretty sweet to see Straylight again, they played alot of older stuff which i didn't think they were going to. kinda tough to rework some of those songs into a 3 piece.
talked to Shawn after the show for a bit, kinda fuckin awesome. heh.
talked to him about how the Loft looks now, and about how i've been seeing them for years now, talked about their first show at the Downtown...and about the TBS show at Culture. he was like "oh yeah, we played with Matchbook, i mean, the Getaway, that show was great" (prolly one of my favorite shows ever)
got back home last night after 11.
fuckin MTA sucks balls, train stopped for almost a half an hour and they didn't say why.
then the fuckin 7 train skipped my stop, and when i went to switch, had a train pull in and then pull away without picking anyone up.
took forever to get home.
hung out with peoples here till about 3am.
they left, i passed out by 3:30.
woke up at 9...did not want to stay awake, so i went to the bathroom and then came back in and passed out till 11.
been up since then. on facebook and whatnot.
went food shopping, with the money i don't really have.
gotta really save up from what i make over the next few weeks..getting a little behind on bills...sucks.
that's what i get for taking so much time off though.
might have the chance for another job....let's hope that works out...cause then i won't have any worries about money.
work today at 6.
then Netflix on the couch all night.
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[03 Nov 2009|07:56am] |
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- Song of the Month - October -
The Gaslight Anthem - Great Expectations
-owl city - tip of the iceburg
-avett brothers- i & love & you
-gaslight - casanova baby
-avett brothers - kick drum heart
-polar bear club - living saints
-gaslight - blue jeans and white t-shirts
twas a very good month.
got to see Gaslight play almost all the songs i could have wanted to hear. (no 'contender' or '1930')
took a great trip to Denmark and got to hang out with Heather, plus got to stroll around Europe.
not as relaxing as the last time that i went there...but i guess that's what bringing my parents along gets me.
a bit stressed.
glad to be back to not being stressed, but just enjoying my life.
it's quite a good one i'm finally settled in with.
music makes it all that much better.
-Album of the Month-
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
-avett brothers - i and love and you
-polar bear club - chasing hamburg
lots of new stuff to listen to.
never really gave the new Paramore a chance.
and now there's the new SayAnything, which is awwwwseome.
but so is Avett. i gotta make time for Sondre too, never gave 'heartbeat radio' a good chance to have staying power.
should be a good month. i wanna bring 2009 out on a strong last 6 months. although the first 6 were pretty strong as well.
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| goodbye København... |
[31 Oct 2009|03:12am] |
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yeah so i let posting from Denmark slip past me.
damn.
oops.
at the hotel right now, awake and getting ready to leave.
nice 8 and a half hour flight home.
it's been a good trip.
it was really good seeing heather and frederik.
i'm gonna be happy to get back to NY.
i'll sit down one day soon and do a big recap.
it's 8:12 in the morning. yawn.
my beard is out of control.
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| not tonight, not tonight, honey i am on fire... |
[20 Oct 2009|01:05pm] |
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good last few days at work.
made pretty good money.
had sunday off and sat around with tony watching sports.
didn't go so well. giants got killed, and the jets fuckin blew it.
i left after 6 and headed up to CT.
nice drive to New Haven, parked, walked in.
Title Fight was pretty good, looked like young kids that were getting a great chance to tour and have a good time. straight forward punk rock, pretty awesome to see that there's still kids out there doing that.
NFG came out. played a nice long set, broke 20 songs.
rare old shit like 'glory' and 'black/blue' and '2s/3s'
i stood in the back for most of the show, then just on the edge of the pit, then in the pit for the third to last song, and then right up for '2s and 3s', closing out with 'hit or miss'
slammin.
been listening to them for so long now, crazy to think about.
so i won't.....i'm old now. heh.
back to Queens.
nice drive back, no one on the road really.
parked in a monday morning spot..slept like 2 hours, got up, moved the car, came back in and passed out for a few more hours.
up at noon and got ready.
stood around waiting for james/janine/derek to get here.
took way too fuckin long, we went and met up with them at janine's.
got gas and D&D, then headed north.
nice drive up, big bright blue sky, colorful leaves.
got up there and hung at tony's house.
watched the yanks/angels game.
yanks lost in 11 innings.
left the house and went to the EverReady diner.
good eats, very good eats.
mom and dad joined us cause they were just over at Kohls.
our waiter was kinda dull and we kept making fun of him for it.
came back to tony's, crazy full.
got in the hot tub.
MAN SOUP!!
twas awesome. relaxed and enjoyed the view of the stars.
got out and dried off. stopped by my house again to grab my laundry and then we were on our way.
it was about 2:45am by this point.
got home and found parking not too far away.
everyone just came back here cause it was easier.
didn't end up getting to sleep till like 7.
woke up at noon and showered.
packing now.
family on the way here.
getting picked up and then heading to Newark. plane leaves at 5:30.
gonna be a fun and interesting trip i'd say.
really excited to see Europe.
really excited to see my sister.
next post from Denmark.
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| pizza for breakfest... |
[16 Oct 2009|05:30am] |
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and i learned about the blues from this kitten i knew....
woke up before noon, got less than 6 hours.
went to the bank and transfered money to Ant's account.
sat around and did nothing much of anything. felt nice.
worked only one day this week, Wed. made 95 bucks, open to close. would have liked to make like 115 or something. but whatever.
i need to relax before my vacation.
;-)
get it??
watched The Golden Compass.
took a nap.
got up and got dressed.
rain and wind = awesome weather.
Murder By Death and The Gaslight Anthem tonight at T5 was fuckin awesome.
i'm really getting over being in the pit....i mean, not completely over it.
but standing toward the back of the pit and actually being able to hear the music and still feel the energy from the crowd is way better than getting covered in other people's sweat and getting a crowd surfer dropped on your head.
so maybe i've grown up a enough to not want to be in the pit at every show.
but i know for a fact that there are still a few shows that will get me in there.
shit...after 4 songs tonight i was in the middle of everything. heh.
so much grown up.
tonight was fuckin great.
they didn't play 'contender' or '1930'...but it's alright. played everything else basically. ha.
still sounded awesome and still got me pumped up.
had a good time hanging with tony, andi, kat, joe. rsvp-ing to hanging out with all them right now. heh.
IHOP victory dinner was awesome.
watched Sunny when me and t-bones got home.
he went to sleep like 2 hours ago now almost.
now it's my turn.
work at 4.
gonna try and be up before 1pm. (if it doesn't rain i wont sleep in)
come and take my hand, i'll do the very best i can, i still wanna be your man
ps - if you don't listen to Gaslight, go right now and listen. you'd be stupid not to.
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| tight pockets, sleep overs and junk food... |
[13 Oct 2009|04:25am] |
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i'd sing them blues to you.
nice long day of doing nothing.
work yesterday went alright.
it was an okay weekend at work i guess. did what i had to do.
need to have a big weekend coming up. fingers friggin crossed.
but i took a look at what i *should make, and what i *should spend in Denmark...and it all looks like i'll have enough money for my November plans.
phew.
again though, fingers friggin crossed.
"family night" last night.
james/janine/nicole/lindsay/evette/derek
watched Californication. ate lots of junk food.
me, nicole, lindsay all passed out on the pull-out while watching Hook at like 5am.
woke up and couldn't move cause the bar was digging into my back and so i had to move to the couch, heh.
tony was still up in Pawling last night and came inside this morning, well, noon.
we all went to the store and grabbed stuff for omelettes.
made everyone food and then we watched some tv.
shortly after, everyone left.
layed around on the pull-out for the rest of the day watching No Reservations.
suited up in a thermal and went out for pizza.
i love the city when it's cold. it's not as cold as i want it yet..but 50 and windy, is a very very nice start.
came back in and layed down again, more tv.
passed out at 8pm..woke up at midnight. freaked out a bit cause i thought it was noon....then like 10 seconds later Tony walked in from work.
talked to him for a bit.
ate some ice cream and put on Rock-N-Rolla...Tony didn't stay and watch, he went to bed since he's gotta be up by 6???? fuck me sideways.
cleaned up the living room a bit. wanna clean more, but i don't wanna really make too much noise....same goes for doing the dishes, that'll just wake t-boner up...so i think i'll wait till he leaves.
not really sure when i'm gonna get tired. i slept basically a good night's sleep already....i mean, i know that i could fall back asleep if i really tried, been pretty good at getting sleep as of late. which is quite nice, cause the last 2 months before this i wasn't really sleeping ALOT, not that i ever really need to...it's just a nice little change.
sleeping. heh.
who knows what next month will bring. i could always just snap back to 3-4 hours a night.
i'm enjoying my 6-7 a night these days. this is how them normal people do it i guess. (though my hours are still 6am-1pm, odd by "normal" standards)
i should play more guitar.
Denmark is really going to be a good time.
i'm excited to see Heather. excited to see Frederik. excited to see a completely different world.
this month really has been good. and it's going to get even better.
gaslight, nfg, denmark, guk/halloween.
November has got alot of bright spots as well....rocky, "plans", thanksgiving. and of course, cold weather.
i'll try and do better to put it all down in writing. i feel like i'm not nearly capturing as much as i should.
there's too many things that get in the way...stupid facebook status' and twitter updates...they give me the false complete feeling of posting here.
"oh, i tweeted today, that's good enough"
it's not.
via la live journal.
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| not how i would have liked it to go... |
[09 Oct 2009|11:55pm] |
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i've never had on own goal in my life. all these years i've been playing, very even one. countless games....
i had 2 last night.
excellent.
it was just that kind of a game. we couldn't buy a fuckin goal.
ended up being 0-5. we hit the post 10 times...10 fuckin times. that's an insane amount for anyone that doesn't play soccer that is reading this. 10 !!!
ughhhhh.
but whatever.
as much as i didn't want that to be my last game for the next 4 weeks. it's how it's gotta stay.
next week i'm gonna be at Gaslight, totally worth missing a game for.
and then the next 2 weeks following, i'll be in Denmark.
so crazy to think. it's been so long since i've been there. but i think how quickly it came up on me is even crazier.
i remember when i was looking at the calender and it was 70 days till i leave....it's now down to 11. well, tonight is almost over...
time flies these days.
not saying it's a bad thing.
but man oh man, it's just flies.
why does joe purdy need to sing like he's in the middle of a big room.
i want clear vocals like he had on 'paris'...his latest cd is like his old stuff, too far away-sounding-ish.
so after the game i went and met up with lisa cause she was down from school.
went to the EveryReady Diner...never had been in there. pretty good bbq burger.
like the old 50's diner feel. i really love that stuff.
ate and then hung and chatted a bit more before i headed back to the house.
got my dad and hopped in the car, i drove down and he took a nap.
hit traffic at the drawbridge..sat for like 15 minutes, but other than that it was smooth sailing.
got in, sat on the computer, then showered..felt so damn nice afterwards that all i wanted to do was lay down.
and so i did. actually passed out before 4:30.
woke up at 10. was waiting for a package to show up...didn't hear the guy knock...fuckin lame. welp, monday i guess.
i want them ropelights already!!
uhhhh just watched season 4 of HIMYM till it was time to get up and get ready for work.
tony came home from Clv. he was out there for a 2 days doing something for Josh Kelley. playing games, not working. bitch, yeah, i said it.
work was dead.
4-9:30, 9 tables.
85 bucks. bleh.
watched the Yanks come from behind and game 2.
cleaned up my tables and got out of there.
walked out with james and evette. put some money in the bank, made two little friends while waiting for an open ATM, showed me their new yoyo and play-doh. so cute.
james gave me a ride home.
came in, pants off, posting.
tony just got in from norrby's bachelor party outing thing.
prolly gonna play him in a few games of fifa before i put back on HIMYM.
but first, a shower.
i enjoyed being upstate yesterday. i had gone up really early, hadn't slept, and just watched the trees as i rode the train.
ended up kinda taking a little nap out on the deck. nice 55 degree air, clear skies. felt reaaly good.
i miss the trees alot.
i miss upstate alot.
back roads and no stoplights.
there's alot down here for me. alot of friends. all my things. and a job that i'm good at and has alot of promise.
but i ache for quite nights and stars.
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| and it's the wonderful time of year already... |
[06 Oct 2009|10:40pm] |
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it's October 6th.
shit balls.
when did this happen?
life has been pretty good for me.
moving along.
nothing special happening.
working, trying to save up so that i have some spending money for Denmark. not sure how much i'm really gonna have..but whatever, i'll get by.
just need to make sure i get all my bills paid here first.
i've been kinda silly with spending..but not as bad as i've been in the past..sooooo, yeah.
it was pretty good this weekend at work.
on sunday, it being my 5th day in a row, i wasn't in the mood to talk to people really..so when Eddie needed to go home cause he wasn't feeling good, i jumped at the chance to go in the expo window.
did like 6 and a half hours in there.
pretty fun.
didn't really have any problems, just the long wait on mash at some points. coulda stayed on top of that better...oops.
so overall, made what i would have even if i had been out on the floor. bam.
came back here and watched Californication with james/janine/nicole/tony. started at the beginning cause they'd never seen it.
spent the last friday hangin with Derek at this house playing zombie apocolipse all night.
then spent Thursday night here playing soul caliber all night.
speaking of zombies....went and saw Zombieland on friday night after work with everyone. fuckin awesome.
i wanna go see it again(but trying to save money).
there are a few other movies out that i want to get out and see too...maybe next month. they'll still be out.
wallet has to stay closed.
wallet has to stay closed.
wallet has to stay closed.
tony made popcorn, the whole place smells like melted butter.
awesome.
though i already ate pizza for dinner like 30 minutes ago.
ugh. fullness.
alright, tony is pressing play on season 2 of Cali, we're half way done with it. gonna finish it up tonight most likely.
come on autumn, get colder.
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