50 inches of awesome

So yesterday Chris Emily and I rented a Zip Car (element) and got me a 50 inch plasma tv.

Basically its awesome.

Its funny because in the store we kept looking at it saying wow, who knew 50 inches was so small. So of course it didnt seem overwhelming at all and not at all too big for my little apartment. As you can imagine it looks ginormous in my place. It doesnt even fit into my entertainment unit. It doesnt look bad though. I'll get a new unit, and fios so I can get hdtv.

Anyone want to come over and watch tv with me? or play 50 inches of wii bowling ;)

I guess I'm getting into the Olympics

Leading up to the olympics I could care less about it. Its the summer olympics after all, and as far as olympic sports go I like Hockey and Figure skating, both winter sports. Oh and I guess I like gymnastics too.

Well friday night at Lindsay and Chris's awesome house warming party they had the games on in the background and the opening ceremonies were awesome!!! I didnt expect it at all. Maybe it was the sangria speaking, but I was impressed.

Then throughout the weekend any low key moment peter would turn on the olympics. I was getting fed up with how they were always showing qualifying swimming and none of the gymnastics.

Well sunday night I was all annoyed to be watching swimming, and it w as men's relay. I kinda wanted michael phelps to get another gold so i put up with it, when all of a sudden it got super interesting! That was the most exciting ending to any swimming race ever. I was pumped.

Football Season Begins Soon

A recent conversation with Leslie:

Leslie: college football season starts in 24 days!!!
share in my joy!!!
go colonials!
me: haha undefeated for life baby!

Well now its 22 days away. And the NFL preseason (for me) started last night. Now, we lost, and the whole game lacked a lot of energy, but it was still fun to order pizza and watch football. I look forward to a season of pizza, nachos, and 7 layer dip.

Check me out getting all excited for football. Disclaimer: I will only get excited for patriots games and occasionally redskins games and dont particularly want to watch just whoever is playing.

Pineapple Express

We went to see it last night, and I know most of you wont have seen it yet, so I wont include any spoilers. All I can say about this movie is that its hilarious! Also its very very violent, but not in a scary or gross way really for the most part. I think the best character was James Franco's Saul. He did a great job once I got past not seeing him as the Green Gobblin Jr. Did anyone else see it?

The Godfather

Last night Peter "made" me watch the Godfather since I have never seen it. There wasnt much forcing to do since i've always intended on seeing this movie, just never had a chance.

In my defense my tv in my living room is abnormally dark making it harder to watch movies, but here's how the movie went:

about 1.5 hours into the movie.....
Peter: How are you liking the movie so far?
Me: Pretty good, but i'm having a hard time following because all the guys look the same and I cant tell them apart.
Peter: You at least know who Al Pacino is though.
Me: What?! Al Pacino is in this movie?!?

To clarify I was able to follow the michael character without mixing him up, but it wasnt untill this point that i knew he was Al. besides ocean's 13 i've never seen a movie with him in it so its not totally strange i didnt recognize him.

Also I think James Caan was better in Elf. Fewer bullet holes.


Overall I liked it. We went to bed before finishing it and have like the last hour to watch tonight.

historic toilets and such

Saturday Peter and i went with Shields and Annie to fredricksburg VA. Once we hit the blue and grey highway we knew we were there. As you may recall we enjoy touring old battlefields so this cute little town was right up our alley.

We walked around town a little and then wandered over to the Chatham Mannor to see where the civil war hospital was. Clara Barton had played a big part at this hospital, which i enjoyed because i've always liked clara since i read a book about her in second grade.

In this house peter pointed out to me what I had thought was an ordinary leather chair. This chair had a mirror under it revealing its true identity (and the sign said so as well). It was a toilet. Then the sign then went on to said that George Washington, James Madison, Robert E Lee etc all "used this chair". hehehe i'm sooo mature

Chair:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59587601@N00/2725917987/
Sign:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59587601@N00/2725917211/

Garage Band

So with the new phone comes new ring tones. You may recall that once upon a time I had zeppelin's kashmir. Then I had the office theme song for most people, and europe's final count down, or pink floyd's wish you were here for a select few.

Well att doesnt seem to let you buy any of their ringtones for the iphone. It turns out that using Garage Band I can record my own song, either by my own musical talent or by importing a pre-existing song. Meaning any non encrypted real song.

So what did I do first? Clearly the most romantic song for one particular contact....Queen's Crazy little thing called love. I chose the 40 seconds

"it shakes all over like a jellyfish, i kinda like it, a crazy litle thing called love"

If you have any suggestions about what YOUR ringtone should be when you call me let me know.