November 26, 2005

• Wow, it seems like forever since my last post, so I have got a lot to
  update. Wednesday night we met at Geno’s East for dinner. Much to my
  surprise and unlike every other year we have done this (we go every year
  the night before Thanksgiving) I was not the first one there. In fact,
  Randy, Scooty and Heather were all already there. Shortly thereafter,
  John, Dave and Kelli and Keith arrived. The pizza, of course, was very
  good, but I have to say, I was a tad disappointed. It seemed like it
  was not as good as it was the last time we ate there. We had the
  cheeseburger pizza and the meat lovers pizza, both deep dish of course.
  After Geno’s, the plan was to head to Clem’s. Dave was up in the air
  about going, but eventually decided to go. We go out to the car (I was
  going to give him a ride) and he walked up to my car and said “hang on,
  I’ll be right back” and went back to Kelli’s car. The next thing I
  knew, he was in her car and they were pulling away. Crazy Dave thing, I
  guess.

  Clem’s was fun. First, we played darts, and I actually kicked some
  fucking ass. One of the games was really exciting, it was the last
  round and I was the last to throw. Randy was winning and I needed a big
  final round to beat him. I was down to my last throw and I hit a
  bullseye to beat him by one point.  We played quite a few games
  while waiting for the pool table to open up. As it turned out, I was
  not nearly as good at pool as I was at darts.

  I was so pissed Thanksgiving morning. Of course, I went to bed late the
  night before. I woke up at 8AM to the sound of hammering outside. Turns
  out, the people across the street and a couple of houses down were
  putting up new siding and shingles. What is it about people in my ‘hood
  doing shit early in the morning on holidays? Last Christmas, the
  jackass next door was building something outside at 6:45AM! It just
  seems like every time I have a day off there is some sort of loudness
  going on outside. I only had a few days off over the summer which I
  spent at home and 2 of those days, they were doing construction right
  the fuck in front of my house. And, of course, they weren’t done with
  the shingles and siding this morning and it kept me up again. I’m off
  ’til Tuesday and my fear is that they will be doing this each damn
  fucking day!

  Thanksgiving was cool too. We were having Mark and Amy and Amy’s
  parents over. John was cooking all the normal stuff, turkey, sweet
  potatoes, mashed potatoes and I think that was it actually. Funny story
  about the mashed potatoes, John put sour cream in it and it turned out
  to be sour cream that expired on Nov 6! Amy’s mom said that as long as
  the container wasn’t opened, it should be fine, which was the case. The
  turkey actually turned out really good, as did everything else. After
  dinner, we played a game called Outwageous, which is a trivia game and
  people bet on if you are going to get the question right or wrong. We
  don’t play with real money (although, i would like to sometime), but
  its still fun. We separated into 3 teams of 2. I was on Amy’s mom’s
  team. We didn’t do as good as I thought we would. In fact, we finished
  in last! Mark and John won, in spite of the fact that they only answered
  3 questions right. They were very good at betting, though. After that
  game, we played another game called Horse Racing (its hard to explain)
  which we DID play for money. Nothing crazy, just nickels, dimes, and
  quarters. I did ok, but since it was all spare change, I can’t say if I
  won or not.

  Today we put up Christmas shit. I’m starting to like this less and less
  each year. This year, I had little to no interest in putting anything
  up. I remember when I was a kid (and shit, even just 4 or 5 years ago)
  I really liked doing it and looked forward to it. A lot of people might
  think it has something to do with watching my mom die this time of year
  back in 1999, but really its not even that. Its the fact that putting
  all this up is a lot of work and with me becoming more and more anti
  religious each year, I like Christmas a little less each year. Although,
  I still want to write a book some day called “the Atheist’s Guide to
  Christmas.”

  Tonight, I went to Mark and Amy’s house just to hang out. We played
  pool, darts and air hockey. Nothing too exciting, so just use your
  imagination.

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