November! A ridiculous Month of Birthday and Thanksgiving... mmm
NOVEMBER (the best darn month of the Year)
I went home the first weekend in November to renew my license and to take Melissa and Matt out to dinner to celebrate them getting married, since I wasn’t able to go to the ceremony. They had it the previous Thursday at the courthouse. I told Melissa it was just going to be the 3 of us for dinner, but I had invited Becca, Amanda, and B too… as a surprise. Well, lets just say that they are very punctual people and I am perpetually late. So they got to the restaurant before I did, as did Manda and B. Well, Matt put his name in on the list for 3 people so I had to be sneaky and go change it to 6. I had told Manda to go hid so they don’t see her till were getting ready to sit down, but when you have a 4 year old in a toy store, its near impossible to stay in 1 place for long and everyone ended up bumping into each other… oh well, it was the surprise that mattered.
I went to the DMV sat morning to renew my license, well let me just tell you what a disaster that was. I waited there for almost 3 hours only to be told that my license wasn’t expired yet and I was not allowed to renew until it did. OMG, couldn’t they have told me that when I first went in, instead of making me wait there all fucking morning? I ended up going to the bridal shop near by for a little bit, to try on the bridesmaid dress that Kimmie wanted us to get. Its super duper cute J I was just on a roll and ended up ordering it that day, though later I thought about it and realized that it wasn’t the best idea because I don’t live here anymore and I would have to come back for fittings and such. Too much of a pain in the ass, so I called later that day to cancel the order. Well, let me just say that I’m very angry at the shop because it’s a month later and I still have yet to receive my refund check. I’ve been calling the shop every day and the owner is not there so I leave a message and he hasn’t called me back yet. Granted its only been 2 days, but still this is ridiculous and I’m thinking of what actions I can take. I can’t order a new dress until I get the deposit back because I’m not made of money and don’t have extra to just throw around like that, most of my funds are already tied up in other things I have to pay for this month and next.
My birthday was on the 8th (a Thursday) and I wanted to go out to dinner with some close people that I hang out and talk to regularly around here. So I invited Irene, Jen, Andy, and TJ. I wanted to go someplace nice but not overly expensive and different. I found the cutest little BYOB in the art museum area called Figs. It’s a mediterranian/Moroccan restaurant. It really was one of the smallest restaurants I’ve ever been in but it was so delicious. We had dinner then sat around afterwards for an hour talking and hanging out with a bottle of wine. It was all very chill, and I had fun. THHHHHHHHHEN, Kimmie, Damian, and Frankie came down Friday night for the weekend!!!! YAY!
Kim and Damian have been trying to visit me all year but someone has always come up but they finally made it! It was such a good weekend too J We went out to Bobby Burgers (a block from my house) and had some beers. I was already drunk and for some reason I wanted to go to 7th Heaven. I promised them they could get cheesesteaks there and that I wanted a lap dance. Yea, I dunno… well we get there and it’s the smallest, dinkiest strip club I’ve ever been in. There wasn’t even a real stage, just 2 poles behind the bar and 2 girls dancing on it. Damian was like “time for your lap dance” and apparently I replied with “eww, I don’t like girls. I don’t want these bitches on me” Again, I don’t know… We did not stay long. Went back to the house and I guess we all passed out. We had to get up early the next morning because we had to catch the train to the stadium for the PSU-Temple game.
Got up and had Beers n Eggs for breakfast, it was a good time. We literally just drank from morning till night. We drank beers on the walk to the train station, we drank beers from the train station to the football stadium, we drank beers while walkin around the football stadium looking for the bar, we drank at the bar, we drank on the way back to the stadium from the bar and we drank at the stadium. By the time we got back to my house, after the game, we were pooped and all took a nap in the living room. Then we ordered food and started drinking again!
Lets just say, finding Chickie & Pete’s was quite an undertaking and I wouldn’t let Damian pee. We were ridiculous on the train and I’m sure everyone around us hated us because we were having too much of a good time just being goofy together.
People started coming down to my house and we were just chillin, drinking, and having fun at the house till we decided it was time to go to the bar. So we walked up to the Pub. We literally just took over the one half of the upstairs bar. The pub is usually a very chill and laid back bar, but we turned it into a dancing club! It was so much fun, everyone was just having a good time, which was the most important part for me. I just want people to have fun.
The next weekend I went to Thanksgiving dinner at Irene’s house. It was fun, I saw a whole bunch of cousins but not really my cousins, whom I haven’t seen in like 10 years. It was interesting, I haven’t been around so many Asian people in a long time. I felt somewhat out of place, but it was ok… I got over it fast. All the food was so good… mmmmm Deep fried turkey is the best! So moist, so tender, so good.
I went home Wednesday, after work, for Thanksgiving break. Seriously, all I did Thanksgiving break was go out. Weds marked our (mine, shane, and mimi’s) annual Night Before Thanksgiving Bartour. This year Ryan couldn’t make it so AA took his place. Shane and AA came to pick Mimi and Me up and off we went. We went to Zach’s to meet up with some of his friends then we went to the Knickerbocker to meet up with some of my friends then we all went to the Pipe Room and then Shan Nicoles. It was a lot of fun. Can’t wait till next year!
Thanksgiving night I ended up going over to Shane’s house for a little bit, just hung out and watched some tv, nothing too exciting.
Friday night I went out with Melissa, Matt, Manda, and some other people to the 4Ds. Vs the Earth was playing and they’re one of my favorite cover bands, probably because they’re local. Brian and Adam were at the Ds. I can say that I’m very proud of myself for not falling into the Brian Trap J It’s a small step but an important one. Though, it really did help that I this group of guys were totally hitting on me. I go up to the bar to get a drink and this one guy starts talking to me, then all his buddies start talking to me and next thing I know, they’re buying me shots like every 10 minutes. We’re drinking and dancing and just having fun. Then 2 of the guys got into a fight over me, it was interesting, they almost got thrown out of the bar. EEeeek. Amanda got ridiculously drunk, like she couldn’t walk upright on her own and kept wanting to go home with this guy Church. Her friend Casey carried her to my car, put her into it and as I was about to drive away, she jumps out of the car! Gah, I tried to grab her coat but ended up breaking 2 of my nails, 1 of them started bleeding and it hurt! So yea, now that she’s out of the car, she refused to get back into the car. I’m standing there yelling at her and she’s refusing, then I call Becca to come help me put her back in the car. It was all so funny. Then I had to help her upstairs and changed her. It was seriously all too funny, at least she’s not an angry drunk, like a certain Adam Cincar that I know.
Saturday it was just Manda and Me out. We tried to go to Pellie’s but it looked dead so we went to the Bell Mar. It was ok, I’ve never been there before, so I wanted to check it out. The layout of the place isn’t very good for mingling. It was a bust so we went to Zach’s. Brian had txtd me a said he was at the 4Ds again and for me to come down. Yay ME for resisting and didn’t go. Manda and I hung out at Zach’s for a while then we were hungry so went to Denny’s. MMMMM, I love Denny’s! They have this late night sandwich that had hashbrowns and an egg on it. Mmmmm, so good.