Surprise Me

so last night was my birthday party. it was a good day in general. lets get the bad things out first though. the start was horrible, enough said. and i lost around $1.30 on centsports! oh lordy it was a horrible day of betting for me. i won a good 4 game parlay in for soccer and then lost nearly it all in basketball and baseball. i hate betting on baseball, its the hardest sport to bet on. thank goodness i dont do it with actual money. just centsport money. its fun.
but for the good part of my day.
went with adam to go pick up a helium tank and some packets of balloons. got a good idea that it would be fun to have a bunch of balloons floating around everywhere. i had a good time setting them up. even though justin has a new found distaste towards balloons. poor guy. then after that the bambini family came down for the spring football game and invited mark, justin, and i out to dinner at this really good mexican restaurant. the portions were huge and the prices were cheap. i know that stuff is going to wreck me in the future. oh yea, and "air africa" is a reallll button pusher, kinda like me. but i still would love to watch beanbo rock him one of these days. after that i got my first purchase of an alcoholic beverage. a keg of natty. it was pretty boss. and nick had a pretty hard time helping me up the stairs. those NCC kids are so strong... haha anyways. after some showering, watching sports, and pretty much broing out we decided to get a second k-e-g and i got some pink drank for nat-dog. a good amount of people showed up last night but it was a waste to move the shitty couch into marks room. im so sorry mark, even though it fits perfectly. i was really happy at the people that showed up. austin, corrine, and nick i knew were coming and i was really happy that they had a good time. i really think corrine bonded well with some friends of mine and shes a good dancer. but the real thing that surprised me was kait and danielle bursting through the door at around 10:30! i was sideswiped. kait had been lying all week that she couldn't make it because of a volleyball tourney she was going to and a team dinner afterwards. then danielle made the long trip from western and i was really happy she came also. i still cant believe that they came, utterly surprised. austin got me this collectible derrek lee bobble head that he got from a cubs game that he attended with corrine. it was awesome, apparently a lot of people at the game asked him if they could buy it off him and he just said "its for a good friend." ohhh shit. kait got me this card that she put together last minute but it was still something that i read at least 4 times over last night. she should really think about partnering up her Kaits Kards company with Danielles Designs. they would make a pretty good tag team duo. then some friends of mine that i havent really hung out with for a while came and the night dwindled down until everyone started to head home. it was just a really good night. thanks

Never Again

so its my birthday. big 2-1. last night was pretty crazy. started kicking back a few around 7:30 and went over to justins at 8:00 to watch the sox game and get things started. as soon as i get there justin gives adam and i a shot of jager. that stuff is better than i thought. we got some coors. it was good. i was drinking. a lot. my sister came at around 10:30 and brought a cake. but she didnt have any candles. so justin got a scented candle. didnt work. so he just used the lighter. it was very easy to blow out. im stumbling. a good amount of people came for the small celebration. we finally go to the bars at midnight and im wearing that stupid tiarra that justin has. about 3 seconds of being in the bar justin gets me a landshark. i drank it way too fast. after that i remember four things; taking a sip from marks rum and coke, going to the bathroom, pointing to my tiarra and saying to some completely random guys "this isnt too gay is it?", and taking the four horseman. half way through the four i nearly upchucked and mark says that he cringed when he saw me do that. after that i blacked out. apparently i puked all over pub 2's parking lot and needed to be taken home by brittany and mark or justin, i have no idea. that night will never be recreated. im happy its over with. drink responsibly. carpe diem.

Bruised Thumb

so i went to this dodgeball club on monday at the mccormick center. it was a good time. i was the silent new guy. might of had a better time if i didnt try to dodge from a ball coming at my right arm, swing it out of the way, jam my thumb into my thigh, and get a bruised thumb that looks like i have a black french tip manicure... never bruise your thumb. our speech and our thumbs are what makes us human. you wouldnt believe what you cant do with a bruised thumb. turning a key? brushing my teeth? playing halo? writing with a pen? nope, not going to happen. the only thing that is fun is showing people and looking at their reactions. but its not cool to pinch my thumb. you know who you are.

Sweet fones.

so i went to the AGD formal dance this weekend. we got searched beforehand so that we didn't bring in alcohol. but they served alcohol at the facility. it was kind of weird. it was one of the few dances were i got so tired that i didnt want to dance anymore. i was exhausted. i think it was the screaming and jumping at the same time during "jump around." that song always gets me. care was a fun date. i ate the dinner that they served us in probably 8 minutes. i was so hungry. after that we (meg, care, kyle, and i ) went to miskells who was having people over. land mines is a bad bad game.

my dad, mom and sister alison came down yesturday for mass, lunch, and catching up on things. it was a good sunday afternoon. my family has a real problem talking about people that we see in church.
"what are those things in that girls hair" said alison
"um, paperclips?" said dad
it was refreshing to go to mass. then we went to medici's. which was good. walmart for some things. which was good. and then my dad and i tried to get this U-lock off my bike down here because i lost the keys to it. we had this huuuge bolt cutters and my dad sets the bar of the lock way back into the cutters, puts one handle on his thigh, and then pulled down as hard as he could on the other handle. it left a dent about the lenght of the bottom line of this "L". it was crazy. and then we used hack saws. two of them. both blunted before they even scratched the lock. lord have mercy. that hardened steal is awesome.... too awesome.

after our failure i got some bday presents. a $100 bill from my parents which is in my wallet right now. i feel like theives are looking at my wallet right now. risky? yes. i like to live on the edge. and then i got an awesome wireless headset for my phone. i can even recieve calls and talk to people on it.

technology owns.

Iowa City

so ben johnson is 21. congradulations. apparently a good way to have a fun time for a birthday in iowa city is to have a bar crawl. so thats what we did. it was a last minute decision for me to go but im glad i jumped on into lucys honda civic for my first night in iowa city. ive heard it was a good time but i didnt know it was going to be somethiing like this. we were walking 96 deep. apparently jacqueline did a really good job in sorting that out and sold 96 of the planned 97. jhoff was all nostalgic ("hick.... lets do this right"), hick had some good quotes ("if i saw someone just jack agnes i would just go 'CLLLLL' and start throwing"), bini couldnt stop quoting the video i will post at the end ("NOW you fucked up"), nicole was just as bad as me in flippy cup, this kid named goose was an awesome BP partner, lugo had some good song selection skills, jano couldnt stop hustling to the song "everyday im hustlin", and this was all before the bar crawl!!





at the first bar andy and i tipped back a few and then went on the dance floor. all of the sudden some girl comes up to me and says "my friend wants to challenge you to a dance off." i could not put this down. im batting 1000 for dance offs. with my only win being tim joos on decade day, junior year, in the pit. well i start off with some crazy arm motions, do a little whirl wind action, just being an idiot. and then this very flamboyant guy starts going jui jitsu on my ass with some arm motions. spicing it up with some wierd moon walk thing. just working it. i cross my arms and take it. so i gotta do something big. i do the wierd arm motions and then i do a somersault and smack my head on the dance floor. i stop it there, im now batting 500.

the next bar was pretty cool, nothing really exciting happened there but it was kinda annoying to have all these waitresses that they had there walk around in packs interrupting your conversations.

the final bar that we went to was called The Union Bar. apparently it is the biggest bar out of all the Big Ten schools. i got lost in it. there are multiple floors and VIP rooms and what not. i was freaking out. how do 96 people go to a bar, wearing the same bar crawl shirts, and im not able to find A person. forgotten by me, we had actually rented out a VIP room and everyone else was there. it was a good time. i got to the point were i was just fine and were just having tipsy conversations with people everywhere.

we get back to johnsons apartment after union closed and was just having fun with a couple of people. at union lugo got some Patron with him and started acting pretty crazy. he poured 10 shots of vodka at 3 in the morning telling people to take them. then he went into johnsons room were lucy and justin were sleeping on the bed and vargas was sleeping on the ground. lugo then proceeded to break johnsons fan and start trying to kill vargas ("IM GOING TO TAKE YOUR LIFE!!") by pressing the grated fan against his face and trying to "hide" behind blankets draped infront of the window in use of blinds.

through and through it was a blast. 96 people didnt get into any fights, didnt have nearly any drama, and all had a good time.

america owns.

just some random thoughts

i love seeing images like this that make you want to do something like that. i like to think that this wasnt staged.

i still think that winning the lottery is the most interesting conversation possible.

i want to do some small boat sailing.

whats something that you have lost and always wanted to find?

my bike is so pretty.

poetry is so confusing!!! i just get lost in all the words and meanings. tell me it straight.

you know a girls pretty when you notice something that looks good with her that is not noticable in anybody else.

honeycrisp apples own.

im in a band. im the lead guitarist. we are called The Elks.

i dont know if ill ever drop the habit of nail biting.

i want to go to Charlie Trotter's. it's a restaurant. it's in the book "1000 Places to See Before You Die." its supposed to be amazing. the grand tasting menu is $125. any takers? experience.

Heyyyy

so back in action. school action that is. didn't go out for st. Patty's day on the count that i was reading and reading and reading, for a school book. not fun. oh well.

started working out again. 40 min on the bike is freakin working my ass. i just want to be riding outside. anybody got a metal saw? i need to cut my bike lock off. i lost the key.

Easter is a comin. going home for the weekend. seems like a long time that Ive actually spent all of a weekend at isu. the year has gone by so fast. its almost over again. Ive only got less than 6 weeks left. 6 weeks!!! then ill be taking summer classes. German here i come. wish me luck.

the new novel Heat is good. makes me want to become a chef. maybe thatll be a good thing to pick up for next year...

money sucks. i need it. but i dont want to make it. i spend it. but i feel like i should save it. one of the most fasinating conversations is what would you do if you won the lottery. i think i spent 3 hours on the car ride home from bama just fantasizing about it.