In my defense Massachusetts is a really hard state for a little kid!

Heck, its hard for a big kid too. My parents just found this while cleaning the basement and sent it to me.

Dilbert is so lucky with his cubicle

Well I had two GLORIOUS weeks without my terrible office mate. But after one planned week, and one week getting "stuck" in morocco, he is back. I dont know the story about why he got stuck, i guess he claims there was an ice storm...that kept him there for a week...but basically I try and not ask questions. Anyway because I get cold I turn the heater on at work, which overheats him so I got the service people to fix it so there was a medium setting....so today is the first day where its not deathly hot but not cold. I guess for some reason he has more of a problem with this than with it blasting hot air so he asked me to turn it off because now he's too hot (um hello it was hotter before). Then he left the office for me to freeze. I really dislike this guy.

on a positive note, after MONTHS of saving coke reward points at 3 points for every 20fl oz bottle, 3 points for every 2 L bottle, and 10 points for every fridge pack of cans I have finally saved up 144 points to redeem it for a full year's subscription to cosmo magazine! Thanks to Joe, Karlyn, and Karlyn's mom!!!!

I Said -Its Great- To Be- (friends with) A Florida Gator

Katie and Sarah went to Florida so all season I've been invited to parties to watch the games as well as catching it at random bars we were at so that they wouldn't miss anything. I've learned a few of their cheers (ooooorange! bluuuuuue!) so I don't feel too left out at the bars and I will even dress color appropriate...although my only shirt with any orange on it is my hooters shirt, so needless to say I usually stick with blue. Even when we went to watch Katie run the marathon in NYC we tried to include gator colors in the shirts we made to cheer her on! Ours were Blue and Hers was Orange.

Well Last night Lindsay, Becca and I along with a whole group of Katie's friends went to Bailey's grille and pub in VA to watch the game. Evidently that's the rebel Florida alumni bar (the official bar is where the old fans go, and the younger fans adopted this bar instead). My expectations weren't very high, but I figured it would be a good game anyway, but to my surprise the Gators kicked OU's butt! At first it was kinda close, and then the gators got a questionable touchdown. Sarah felt pretty strongly that they couldn't win by one touchdown at that rate because that wasn't how she wanted them to win....well she got her way when the Gators won 41-14.

As a side note have you ever played checkers and gotten to a point where literally no one could move? (I'll try and post the board pic later) Well Lindsay, Nate, and Katie played a game where a few moves into it the board was locked up! crazy! (checkers were built into the tables) Also I'm way excited b/c Katie's friends Nate and Paul live down the street from me so they were nice enough to give me a ride home last night as well as this weekend. So after a pit stop at Taco Bell ( I didn't get anything) they took me home. I am exhausted at work today but surprisingly not hungover!

Congrats to all the Gator Fans out there! What a great way to celebrate 100 years of football!

Note 2 Self

Saturday night I was outside in the unseasonably warm weather waiting for Will, Tristan and Mike...as usual I was early. Since outside is now the happening place where all the smokers are forced to go I had to think quick and find something to make it look like I was busy and not just standing on the sidewalk like a loser, so I pulled out my phone and began to press buttons.

I came across the section of my texts that are notes and drafts and I realized there was a new one that I didn't remember putting in. Judging by the notes and drafts surrounding it I had typed this up sometime within the past 3 weeks. I have no recollection of typing this and do not know what prompted it. Anyway the text read Note 2 self dont die. Always good advice I guess, but definitely a little disconcerting. So if anyone remembers the story around this please let me know.

...And thats why I'm Awesome

Recently a friend told me that he waits at the end of most of my stories for me to add "and that's why I'm awesome". I'm sorry he feels this way and generally that's not true...today's story is different.

So as most of you know I recently got a GPS system in my car. Usually when its not rush hour driving directly through DC it works pretty well and I think GPS and I have gotten use to each other and decided on some pretty good routes places, both of us adjusting our original idea at one point or another. But that's how good teams work right?

This morning this partnership went horribly wrong. I was on my way to work as usual taking 395 to Pennsylvania ave to 295 when i noticed that it was taking me FOREVER to get through the light cycle. I looked ahead and 295 was stopped at a dead standstill. That's alright, I'll just continue down Penn ave and let GPS help me find a new way. I passed the turn I was supposed to take and right on cue GPS chimes in with "recalculating route". Great, 15 more min and I'll be at work, just a slight detour.

"turn Left, then make another Left" GPS instructs me. I thought about this and over rode it so I didn't end up back at 295..."recalculating route"....I drove a little while longer on Penn ave and i hear "turn right, turn right, turn right, turn left" WTF that just brings me back to 295 AGAIN. Don't you get it GPS, I'm trying to avoid that! So once again I just kept driving. After maybe three more recalculating routes that would have brought me back to 295 I saw a sign for 495 straight ahead so I decided to just continue on and ignore the GPS all together. A few more minutes down Penn ave and I see the sign I've been waiting for...Welcome to Prince George County. I've never been so excited to be in PG county. Another 10 minutes down I reach 495 which I get on and GPS finally gets on board with my route. Who knew that you could get to work that way! But I found the route on my own. And that's why I'm awesome!

Worst Thing Ever

The worst thing imaginable happened to me.

OK so when I go to bars i tend to take my ATM card and put it in my pocket so its taken a lot of wear and tear. Its all sorts of bent, broken in a few spots, and almost all of the images and strips have been worn off. So i did what any one else would do, I went to the bank and asked for a new one. Well this new one arrived today....AND ITS ORANGE. So now I have to deal with an orange ATM card forever :(

ok clearly this isnt my real card, but it might as well be !

And New Year's Eve was [NOT] as boring as heaven, I [Did not] watch flies fuck on Channel 11

OK i guess I took a little break with the blog, been a crazy couple of days but its now 2007 so happy new year everyone! Sadly two thousand oh sex is now over (not so inside joke from us kids on the party bus last NYE) but i can already tell that 2007 is going to be a great year! I wont post all of my new years resolutions but here is my main one:

**to not get annoyed by people as easily. and to always remember that everyone is fun when I'm drunk.**

What are your resolutions?