I was drunk… Really, really unimaginably drunk

I have awesome friends; awesome friends who like to have their weddings in unconventional places. Like my good friends Mike and Courtney who got married on a Plantation in Louisiana that happened to be haunted. While there I was scared to use the bathroom alone or lock the door. What can I say I am scared of ghosts. But the latest friend to get married must have missed spring break, his friends sleeping on hotel room floors, great bars and people ending the night swimming in little more than their underwear. That can be the only logical reason for having all of your college friends fly or drive down to Key West, FL for as many as three nights of crazy partying. For partly selfish reasons I got to Key West on Thursday night and was at the bar and drunk within minutes. For the next three days I proceeded to drink way too much, sing a long to way too many songs, have ridiculous conversations and somehow managed to be presentable and just barely on time to a Saturday afternoon wedding.

 

Thanks for letting me get out of the cold, see old friends and drink more than I have in a long time. I had such a good time, I am going back to my warm southern home state in ten days.

I’m gonna miss ya

For two years I scoffed, I made fun; I knocked what my friends were watching. I was wrong. I am a TV addict after all and I know a good thing when I see it, so when one of my best friends suggested I watch this show that he loved I told him that it doesn’t work that way. Actually, I told him I was the one who did the recommending of shows and that I would not watch his recommendations. But, he was not the only one recommending I watch this show on a channel that I honestly had little faith in. Finally, after years of mockery, I was broken down and I gave in. It was winter in Virginia, all the other shows I was watching were on hiatus and I had just gotten an assignment that had me working from home. After one particularly long day, well it might have been two, a lot of those days blurred together, I marched right into my friends room and requested copies of the DVDs he had of the OC. Why that was hard for me to do when I already watch such crappy shows like One Tree Hill is a mystery, but it is true none the less. Over that winter it took me approximately 5 days to watch two full seasons of the OC. I was hooked and could not wait for the third season to start. Even though that season was kind of disappointing the OC has become must see TV for me.

 

So, why exactly am I writing about this today? Two days from now will be the final episode ever. And while shows often come and go, I still get a little upset when they are over. It is not the same as watching the conclusion of a great movie, because you know you can go back to that at any time. The end of a television show is like saying goodbye to a good friend and knowing you are not going to get to know more about them. A friend you just are not ready to give up on, I think that is the worst part, you want more but you are not going to get any more. I lose interest in different shows all the time and new ones pop up to take their place but I like it to be my choice. In the end though, it isn’t up to me when a show gets cancelled, so I guess I just have to enjoy the final episode, say goodbye and thank my friends for annoying me until I had no choice to watch this show and love it.

Why must my friends get married

After looking back I realized that I only left the blogging thing behind for a little over two weeks. I guess I really like doing this. So, my official retirement will only be three times longer than my vacation this week when I head to Key West for one of my best friends weddings. But, it really is good to be back and hopefully I will have a lot to say and pictures to add and all that. And back to the nonsense.

 

Lately I have noticed a trend that I am not sure I can say I really love. I guess it would be different if I were part of the trend, but given that I am not, I do not like it. Except for a few outliers, my friends are all in serious relationships, some are married, some are engaged, and some live with their significant others. Now, I am very happy for these people, they are my friends and them being happy is important to me. But it definitely changes the dynamic of our friendships. They aren’t necessarily bad changes, they are just different. In most of the cases I actually really like the people they have chosen to be with, which means in ways they have added to the dynamic. Where they haven’t is the fact that none of them have hot friends to set me up with. Huge drawback, ladies, work on it. Anyway, I am going down to the Keys in two days for the wedding of one of my college roommates. As the ego maniac that I am, I still to this day claim to be the reason they are together. So, when I am wearing sandals at their wedding and mourning celebrating another friend’s marriage I will definitely be enjoying myself. Enjoying the weather, the atmosphere, seeing good friends that I have not seen in a while and taking bets on who is gonna be next. The safest bet of the night will be that I am not even in the top 5.

Second first post

My first post ever I wrote in December 05. It was winter and all of my roommates were out of town for the holidays. At the time I was working from home and with everyone I knew basically out of town I was bored out of my mind. For about three weeks if I was not working out or going to the grocery store I was not leaving the house. It was my first real winter since I was 4 after all and I really did not like the cold. Still, it was rather pathetic to sit in my basement for days at a time watching TV and not changing my clothes. I’ve gotten better with the winter since then but I still don’t like the cold. Anyway, in all that boredom and lack of interaction with the outside world I decided to start writing a blog if only to give me something to do. From Dec. 05 until Jan 07 I wrote on and off, sometimes once or twice a week, and for a while I was writing everyday thanks to a very boring assignment at work. About three weeks ago now I shut down my old blog because someone found something I wrote, attributed it to them and took offense. It was not about them but all things being the same it signaled to me that I needed a fresh start and to cut some ties from the previous blog. So, here I am, writing again and refreshed. The truth is whether or not someone would have had a problem with what I wrote or not at that time I was not inspired to write anything. I feel like right now I may have things to offer and things to say. I may not, but here it is whether I am ready or not. My second first post.