Lately, the summer laziness has hit me hard. It tough to concentrate at work. I don't feel like practicing guitar. Haven't been working diligently on the memoirs. Haven't been packing for Ohio. Just kinda going through my days relaxing before the wild storm that will be next month. In part this was because I was sick early last week. In part this is because I don't have a student staff that brings out the energy and drive that I have during the school year. And partly because we've managed to keep the house relatively clean (we are going on almost three weeks here!). I think more than anything I'm just a bit burnt out and know I'm not going to get a break if I don't take one now. Unlike Tenshi, who has this inhuman and brilliant ability to focus on work and emails and everything in between every day, I can only get things done in bursts and right now I don't even have the motivation to do that.
That said, it was a great week! Friday saw the planned cooking party with myself, Tenshi, Pokeboss, Red Button, Captain Peanut and Shyly Sue Hoo-his gf, King Wrangler, Terrific Craniac, and Noble Dancer. The goal of the cooking party was to make something that we hadn't made before and experiment with our cooking prowess. I successfully made my grandma's potato salad and semi-successfully pan fried some salmon with a semi successful pineapple salsa garnish. Pokeboss created an interesting quiche with giant slices of tomato on top. Tenshi graced us with Burek, an Armenian cheese crisp. Noble Dancer brought us various Indian cuisines including a very delicious Naan. Captain Peanut and Shyly Sue Hoo created a tasty casserole that reminded me of enchiladas. Terrific Craniac kept us healthy with an apple tinged salad. King Wrangler brought back his specialty, guacamole. And Red Button brought us dessert in fresh strawberry shortcake with vanilla ice cream. In all we had a feast and nobody was burned, poisoned or in any other way harmed by our food experimentations. I call that a wonderful success!
This was followed by epic rounds of Super Mario Bros Wii, which was fun both to play and watch my staff play as they struggled through teamwork and backstabbing. I think I should use this as a team training and develop game with my future staffs. Too bad it's only four players. We then turned to "Presidents" our go to card game. That lasted for a good three hours well past the 2am mark. At one point there were 14 of us playing. The 9 of us from the cooking part plus Alejandro, Clark, and three of Clarks friends who were passing time before they went to see Hedwig and the Angry Inch sing-a-long version at a local theater. THAT was epic. It was a great night though I felt bad that our shouting kept Brock and probably our upstairs neighbors up a little late. Still... good times.
Saturday saw the bachelor-bachelorette party for Jordan and Penny. They are the first couple in our group of friends to be getting married and they are definitely paving the way for the rest of us to take notes on what works and what doesn't. At first, the concept of the co-bachelor party seemed strange. I mean its the time when the guys all do their thing and the girls all do theirs, with the supposed message of do whatever you want before you're tied down in marriage. While none of us take that "do whatever" approach, in looking at our group a co-party seemed to make the most sense, since we are all so tied together anyway. And while there's definitely been drama about who's invited to what and who gets cut for financial reasons or "political" reasons or simply gets overlooked for stupid reasons, from what I understand, that's how weddings are. And that's why we are all taking notes, so the next one and the one after that can keep going smoother and smoother. And at the end of the day, it is Penny and Jordan's party, so if they are happy so should everyone else be. And they had a blast last night. We went out to the eastern version of a bar by my apartment. Brock Alejandro and I showed up at 9:30, about an hour and a half after it had started. Or was supposed to have started anyway. Turns out, everyone else including Nemesis, Kareem, Mama G, Bridges, Settler Type, AVP, Green Suited Pastaman, and Diet Lemonade all went out to dinner. I thought they were just finishing at 9:30, so in my confusion we decided not to join them. However, they were just sitting down and didn't show up until 10:30... so yea we had to kill time. Which while inconvenient again was not really a problem when you think about how this party was about Jordan and Penny. When we finally got going it was a good time. I got to talk a lot with Nemesis which doesn't happen to much as well as Kareem and even Jordan and Penny, who now live in Georgia. In one of the more rare occurrences, everyone including myself went out on the dance floor and just had fun (AVP was able to escape this by hanging with Clark, who in accordance with one of the three rules of the universe, doesn't dance). As the night went on and AMFs started getting people too drunk, we trickled out at the bar's close. Jordan and Penny had a great time, though they sadly lost Brock's present to them, a support bar for shower sex. During the drive over, Alejandro and I heard all about how he went to a sex shop to get the perfect fun, useful gift for newlyweds and old people: A metal bar for the shower. Everyone was sad but also kinda amused at the shortlived adventure of the sex bar. We had a pit stop while Brock found a nice stone box in the middle of the sidewalk to relieve himself in. It looked like a pillbox, but I suppose that makes it a pissbox. Just another drunken Brock moment.
I think that's all I'm going to chat about today. Another eventful weekend but I have to really buckle down on this moving thing. I did remember a few other things I did this week. It was actually really busy. Besides going a baseball game (at last!) that we won I had something almost every day last week. Check out some of the recaps below.
-JTY
Listening to: "Last Friday Night" Katy Perry, Brock just came back from her concert. This song is really catchy. I think Katy Perry consistently entertains me but doesn't drive me crazy more than any of the other big female pop stars right now.
Reading: Clash of Kings- the sequel to Game of Thrones. I bought it Wednesday on my way to the beach with a bunch of my staff members. I wasn't sure if we were just chillin' there and so I love to read on the beach... we played Volleyball instead and they made fun of me for buying a book. I love reading and I'm getting a lot done this month!
Playing: Fallout: New Vegas- This actually owned my life this weekend. I spent all day today playing it. It's been my first truly video game day in a long time. Yes, I played smash and Mario Bros wii with Dungeon Daddy, Heavy Spy, and Math Magician last Thursday, but this was the first time I really plugged through a previously unplayed game. New Vegas is like Borderlands without friends. I'm really really enjoying it though.
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