The Mystery Gift

So I checked my mail and there was a big curled up package in there. I took it out and noticed a lot of hong kong stamps and markings. Who do I know in Hong Kong? I thought about it, were my parents there? no, they were in NJ....are any of my friends studying abroad there? no I dont think so. Well maybe the package was just in the wrong mail box. So I checked the address. To my surprise it was in fact correctly addressed to me.

On the way up to my apt I inspected the packaging. lots of Par Avion stickers as well as a customs note, I guess this package had to be declared at customs. So basically now I'm super excited to see what this is.

I open it up and find cool fingerless gloves with the option to convert it to a mitten. Just what I had been looking for! so I put them on and notice wires hanging from them. EVEN BETTER! basically anything with wires you know is going to be awesome. So i look inside the package to see if i missed anything and i find 2 more sets of wires. one for each hand. One end mates with the gloves and the other end is a USB attachment.

I should note at this point that there is not a single piece of paper in this package telling me what it is, how to use it, or who it came from. But does that deter me from using them? no. For all i know they are exploding gloves and I'm about to have stumps for hands....but i plug them in and turn them on anyway. Within seconds my hands warm up.

It turns out they are warming gloves from my Sister Julie since she knows I'm always cold. So right now I'm typing this blog with warm toasty hands :) Thanks Julie!

update...someone walked by and saw the gloves and submitted a help request for me to get the heater in my office fixed! yay!

Thursday Randomness with a great party idea

This week has been awesome, for starters my horrible office mate is gone for at least this week and maybe if I'm lucky part of next week as well. In his place Jim was sitting in here writing his thesis but I'm afraid I distracted him too much and now he wont come back. I tried to get him to do the cosmo quiz with me but it didn't end up being a good quiz this month :( I have my ipod today and promise to be less distracting.

Last night Emily and I went shopping for a little retail therapy (best idea ever) and started off in the couture section of nordstrom. She tried on a $1500 dress! it was stunning. I ended up buying a beautiful dress which I cant wait to wear any chance possible. So if any of you have occasion to dress up feel free to invite me ;)

Best Party Idea Ever
http://www.jellowrestling.com/jello_wrestling_theme_party.htm?gclid=CJbLvbm8pokCFTyaOAodvTX1Qw
If any of you steal my idea that's fine but you better invite me! otherwise I'll be really angry...just warning you in advance.

The Soundtrack of My Life

I stole this game from the other joe's blog, it amazed me how appropriate some of the songs my ipod picked were.

" 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool...just type it in man!"

Opening credits:
Thrice- Phoenix Ignition

Waking up:
Finger Eleven- Panic Attack

First day of school:
Blink 182- Feeling This

Falling in love:
Dashboard Confessional- The Sharp Hint of New Tears

Losing virginity :
Godsmack- Faceless

Fight song:
Fall out boy- Dead on Arrival

Breaking up:
Lost Prophets- Last Train Home

Prom:
Local H- Eddie Vedder

Life:
Greenday - I fought the Law

Mental breakdown:
Evanescence- Farther Away

Driving:
Beach Boys- I get around

Flashback:
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Higher Ground

Getting back together:
Greenday- Good Riddance

Wedding:
Rancid- Avenues and alleyways

Birth of child:
Howie Day- Collide

Final battle:
Social Distortion- Ghost Town Blues

Death scene:
Less than Jake- Escape from the A-Bomb House

Funeral song:
Plain White T's - Hey Delilah

End credits:
The Beatles- Sun King

How Did THAT Happen?

Here is a quick post to say that I somehow won my first season of fantasy football! It was a Christmas miracle really. Anyway, I'm pretty excited and cant decide if I should play again next year or quit while I'm ahead ;) Clearly a case of beginner's luck!

And we'll have Halloween on Christmas

The point of this blog isn't going to be to write about my life, but sometimes you have such silly ridiculous nights that you just have to write about them. Friday night was just one of those nights.

Prologue

Leslie and I started off the night with dinner and mojitos, actually she may have had a martini. We went to tabaq and didn't get kicked out which was a first for me there. We fought our way through the rain to the nearest bar with people in it since it is Christmas weekend after all and everyone seems to be away. This landed us at Bar Pilar. I decided it was going to be a girly drink night so I ordered myself a Malibu sunrise. We made friends with the bar tender conversing over what was on tv in the bar (8 men out), A couple drinks in Leslie's friend Frank Turner showed up. Then this is where the ridiculous started. First off I think frank decided to have girly drink night too b/c after tasting mine he ordered himself one as well (later switched over to the most manly drink he could think of to make up for it). The quiet bar tender took control of the remote and switched to mad max which I had never seen before, but after watching it in silence i need to see it again.

Chapter 1. The Bullet Wound.

Then this random guy came over and tried harder than any guy I've ever seen to get into conversation with us. At one point even trying to use the fact he was Jewish as an in, i guess its no secret about me. After many attempts at ending conversation Leslie eventually tells him that I'm her girlfriend to which i didn't argue in an effort to shoo him away. Eventually he asks Leslie about her bandage on her arm and she tells him her phony story about getting mugged and stabbed. He retorts that he too was a victim of a mugging but instead of stabbing he got shot in the arm and offered to show us the bullet wound. After looking in and down his shirt to see no wound he claimed he had plastic surgery to make it less visible. In a last attempt to talk to us he offered to buy us drinks which we turn down and, finally he Miraculously left us alone now.

Chapter 2. Vampyros Lesbos.

Mad max has ended and quiet bar tender changes the tv to the sundance channel's classic film Vampyros Lesbos. and yes, it was a 70's soft core lesbian porn. This movie was hilarious. Nadine is a vampire who got turned off men when the initial vampire assaulted her and turned her into a vampire. Agra is the helpless new girl getting turned into a vampire by nadie as well as taking part in lots of lesbian activity with nadine. During the key sex scenes they would cut to images of scorpions or kite's flying. I don't know. The bartender we had befriended kept coming over to chat about the porn and after my ordering possibly my 5th or so Malibu sunrise he gave up on giving them to me in the normal lowball glass and started serving them in pint glasses. Then he asks us to wave to his manager to show the manager that the patrons were watching the porn and it was ok to have on in the bar. In return he buys us a round of shots. I don't know what I got but it was good. Chatty bartender took tequila for himself. I guess my red cheeks and the discussions we were having led the bartender to ask me maybe 3 times if i was sure i didn't need a glass of water. oh dear. I was in one of those moods where I was like I'll show him, I don't need any water! A couple drinks later we decided to leave. Remember I've had my fair share of drinks at a pricey bar and Leslie and frank definitely had at least as many. The tab came to 50 bucks. Chatty bartender is awesome.

I didn't even write about half the ridiculousness. Some nights you just need a good night to go out and laugh :) This definitely was that night.

My First Blog

Well I thought I'd give this a shot. Not that I have anything really interesting going on in my life, but my web page, myspace page, and myspace blog seem to get a good number of hits so evidently you people out there are interested in my life.

Maybe I'll add some guest authors if anyone wants since I cant be entertaining ALL the time. Also feel free to comment on my blogs so that I can be entertained back ;)

Maybe it was doppleganger joe that convinced me to do this. not that i've EVER talked to him or even met him, but ever since we discovered this parallel universe i've been reading his blog, maybe its that i was really bored at work today despite my large number of emails (from my awesome friends who no doubt i'll be writting about in future posts) and work to do. who knows. whatever the inspiration, it happened. I now have a blog.