Looking up...
first two days of "vacation" were a real drag... bored nearly to tears... actually, i should say the first day and a half....
Thursday evening began to look up after I posted, actually. Went to the guys' playoff game against Bow. It seemed like the entire town showed up and piled into the bleachers... it was like an L-Town sellout. Had some great moments... we came out victorious though... the next game is in Plymouth tomorrow against... Campbell, i think... quarter final action.. w00t!
So after the game, went up to Cassie's house with Bopha and Ryan B. to chill out, if you will. Had some cake... (mmmm.. cake) ... and went upstairs to partake in some DDR that she completely stole from Ben (you heard me :-P) ... I sat back and watched for most of the time until peer pressure got the best of me (and the fact i wouldn't have looked as foolish as Ryan did ^_^) ... but after like 3 beats, I realized it wasn't exactly as.... simple... as it seemed. So I dropped on my knees and proceeded to just slap the mat with my hands... i was The Man on my hands.... ddr-hand version champion all the way!... Only a music freak like myself would notice, but the songs were just horrid and sounded the same, might i add... ... it also didn't help that Cassie and Bopha kept doing "Dream a Dream" like 384894 times... I had that song stuck in my head the entire rest of the night. The only song I was digging though (besides "Get Down Tonight" because KC and the Sunshine Band fucking RAWK!) was "Busy Child"... because like KC, Crystal Method friggin rocks my socks off... I would've died if Born Too Slow was one of them.. cuz i would've been like "move.. my turn!" ... But "Busy Child" was good enough... I talked about making a Rock DDR... you know, rock music instead of crap techno crap.... Try shuffling your feet on a pad to SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT! Booyah!
Friday was simply amazing... we had a plan to hit the slopes at Burke Mountain. So, packed up my skis, got a couple bucks worth of fuel.. just enough to get to Burke and back..., picked up Cassie and Bopha and drove over to St. J.... .... where we met up with Ben... jammed three snowboards, boots, and equipment into my trunk... now, i had to fold my seat down, so we're already pretty tight knitted.. (well, they were.. i was driving)... But we still had to go get Kevin .. so we jam another board and another body into the car.. now, my Escort is a compact car..... and 5 people, 4 bags of clothes, 5 sets of boots, 4 boards, and a set of skis in an american made compact car is pushing the limit..... But we made it to Burke Mt. which was like 20 minutes from St. Johnsbury. We make it there, get our tickets.. then it's time to hit the slopes.... First run of the day, we took what Ben called "The Chair!"... which was nothing, it was just he chairlift up to the split green dot beginner pansy trails... But Bopha had never been snowboarding before and I guess Kevin was a beginner as well... Ben spent most of his time trying to get Bopha to shred, so it seemed liike Cassie and I were the only experienced ones there. It was fun... after one run, I guess we all decided to head into the lodge because.. I dunno why, but it seemed like one and done for the time being.. We ended up getting $30 worth of food in the lodge... but we all needed it.... soooo hungry. But anyway, afterward... couple more runs on the mountain then .. it was time to go? Burke closed at 4:00, how suck-tacular is that.... WTF...
Anyway, so it's closed.. we get everyone together and jam everything and everyone back into my car. Driving back was a much bigger bitch than driving to. I had lost my right contact on the mountain during my 3rd run which was not cool... So, I was visually impaired but no one else was qualified to drive so I couldn't help it. Driving back was right into the sun so I had that to deal with AND with a dirty windshield that windshield wiper fluid couldn't help, the sun glared off the dirt and grime and blinded me so I couldn't see much of the road... So it was pretty dangerous and rather crappy driving... But we get to Kevin's house and drop him off... I snag some snow and wipe the damn grime patch that was blinding me on the way there... Then I had a good idea... I used Bopha's glasses to drive home... it wasn't like EXACTLY better cuz she doesn't have a strong perscripiton, but it was better than driving one eye blind. We get to Ben's house and chill there for about an hour before heading back to good ole L-Town.
Today was nothing exciting, I have to admit. I sat back and blotted time away on the computer for most of the day, but after yesterday I didn't care if I did anything. Ryan B. was an awesome person and bought me Subway for lunch. It was funny cuz we were talking about some teachers that we liked and disliked... and he said "Mr. Van Nostrand" (our former Algebra teacher)... and I'm like "Yeah, he was a pretty cool teacher, but he was such a cynical bastard...." .. and Ryan was like "No, it's Mr. Van Nostrand...." and pointed behind me.... .... I did not want to look at all, but I couldn't ... yep there he was... whether he heard me or not is debatable, but if he did I dunno if he'd complimented or insulted... but knowing him, it's a compliment because... he really was a cynical bastard....
Also had to work tonight... nothing special. I clocked out at 9:30 instead of 10:00 since tonight was probably the only chance I would be able to see 50 First Dates... Bopha and Pete came so I chilled with them for the night. It was a good movie, definitely not the best Sandler movie.... but of course, nothing will ever touch Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore.... compared to Adam's last movie, I'd say that Anger Management had more laughs but I still think that Anger Management's ending sucked! I mean, it was all planned? pffft... Certainly not Sandler's worst movie either... ::cough::Punch Drunk Love::cough:: But that wasn't a Sandler produced movie either, so I guess it's not fair to judge that one, but whatever...
I'm thinking about leaving my position at the movie theater. It's come to my attention that all my friends love to do things on Saturday night... which is always the time I work... And I've gotten used to missing out on those events, but by now it's just I wish I could have at least a couple weekends off so I wouldn't have to miss out so much. I mean, I have to campaign highly just to get some days off sometimes... It's like I'm running for democratic presidential candidate or something >_>. And while I've had the feeling before, today had to be the strongest "God, I don't want to be here" feeling ever. But I know that I'd regret resigning my position about 3 or 4 weeks after I did. I mean, it's an easy job at 8.25 an hour... it'd be a good second job to have (even though I don't even have a primary job :-P) .. I might change my attitude if Bopha gets hired there since she handed in an application this evening. But I dunno... I'll have to give up this job anyway when I go to college.... But that might not be for another year.... but that's another topic that I'll get into later, no doubt...... The notion to stop working there came because while I'm on the schedule to work tomorrow, I tried to get out of it so I could go to Plymouth to see the guys play in the quarter finals... see if we can pull the upset (we're the #6 seed playing #3)... but no go... I still owe Barbara a favor for working for me last week when I went to the Winter Carnival Dance so I can't ask her, and Ed has plans with his wife so he's out... I'm going to accept my responsibility and work despite missing the game...... murrrr.... I love this job, but I just wish I didn't have to work every weekend. Maybe I'll talk it over with my boss...
Anyway....
Thursday evening began to look up after I posted, actually. Went to the guys' playoff game against Bow. It seemed like the entire town showed up and piled into the bleachers... it was like an L-Town sellout. Had some great moments... we came out victorious though... the next game is in Plymouth tomorrow against... Campbell, i think... quarter final action.. w00t!
So after the game, went up to Cassie's house with Bopha and Ryan B. to chill out, if you will. Had some cake... (mmmm.. cake) ... and went upstairs to partake in some DDR that she completely stole from Ben (you heard me :-P) ... I sat back and watched for most of the time until peer pressure got the best of me (and the fact i wouldn't have looked as foolish as Ryan did ^_^) ... but after like 3 beats, I realized it wasn't exactly as.... simple... as it seemed. So I dropped on my knees and proceeded to just slap the mat with my hands... i was The Man on my hands.... ddr-hand version champion all the way!... Only a music freak like myself would notice, but the songs were just horrid and sounded the same, might i add... ... it also didn't help that Cassie and Bopha kept doing "Dream a Dream" like 384894 times... I had that song stuck in my head the entire rest of the night. The only song I was digging though (besides "Get Down Tonight" because KC and the Sunshine Band fucking RAWK!) was "Busy Child"... because like KC, Crystal Method friggin rocks my socks off... I would've died if Born Too Slow was one of them.. cuz i would've been like "move.. my turn!" ... But "Busy Child" was good enough... I talked about making a Rock DDR... you know, rock music instead of crap techno crap.... Try shuffling your feet on a pad to SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT! Booyah!
Friday was simply amazing... we had a plan to hit the slopes at Burke Mountain. So, packed up my skis, got a couple bucks worth of fuel.. just enough to get to Burke and back..., picked up Cassie and Bopha and drove over to St. J.... .... where we met up with Ben... jammed three snowboards, boots, and equipment into my trunk... now, i had to fold my seat down, so we're already pretty tight knitted.. (well, they were.. i was driving)... But we still had to go get Kevin .. so we jam another board and another body into the car.. now, my Escort is a compact car..... and 5 people, 4 bags of clothes, 5 sets of boots, 4 boards, and a set of skis in an american made compact car is pushing the limit..... But we made it to Burke Mt. which was like 20 minutes from St. Johnsbury. We make it there, get our tickets.. then it's time to hit the slopes.... First run of the day, we took what Ben called "The Chair!"... which was nothing, it was just he chairlift up to the split green dot beginner pansy trails... But Bopha had never been snowboarding before and I guess Kevin was a beginner as well... Ben spent most of his time trying to get Bopha to shred, so it seemed liike Cassie and I were the only experienced ones there. It was fun... after one run, I guess we all decided to head into the lodge because.. I dunno why, but it seemed like one and done for the time being.. We ended up getting $30 worth of food in the lodge... but we all needed it.... soooo hungry. But anyway, afterward... couple more runs on the mountain then .. it was time to go? Burke closed at 4:00, how suck-tacular is that.... WTF...
Anyway, so it's closed.. we get everyone together and jam everything and everyone back into my car. Driving back was a much bigger bitch than driving to. I had lost my right contact on the mountain during my 3rd run which was not cool... So, I was visually impaired but no one else was qualified to drive so I couldn't help it. Driving back was right into the sun so I had that to deal with AND with a dirty windshield that windshield wiper fluid couldn't help, the sun glared off the dirt and grime and blinded me so I couldn't see much of the road... So it was pretty dangerous and rather crappy driving... But we get to Kevin's house and drop him off... I snag some snow and wipe the damn grime patch that was blinding me on the way there... Then I had a good idea... I used Bopha's glasses to drive home... it wasn't like EXACTLY better cuz she doesn't have a strong perscripiton, but it was better than driving one eye blind. We get to Ben's house and chill there for about an hour before heading back to good ole L-Town.
Today was nothing exciting, I have to admit. I sat back and blotted time away on the computer for most of the day, but after yesterday I didn't care if I did anything. Ryan B. was an awesome person and bought me Subway for lunch. It was funny cuz we were talking about some teachers that we liked and disliked... and he said "Mr. Van Nostrand" (our former Algebra teacher)... and I'm like "Yeah, he was a pretty cool teacher, but he was such a cynical bastard...." .. and Ryan was like "No, it's Mr. Van Nostrand...." and pointed behind me.... .... I did not want to look at all, but I couldn't ... yep there he was... whether he heard me or not is debatable, but if he did I dunno if he'd complimented or insulted... but knowing him, it's a compliment because... he really was a cynical bastard....
Also had to work tonight... nothing special. I clocked out at 9:30 instead of 10:00 since tonight was probably the only chance I would be able to see 50 First Dates... Bopha and Pete came so I chilled with them for the night. It was a good movie, definitely not the best Sandler movie.... but of course, nothing will ever touch Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore.... compared to Adam's last movie, I'd say that Anger Management had more laughs but I still think that Anger Management's ending sucked! I mean, it was all planned? pffft... Certainly not Sandler's worst movie either... ::cough::Punch Drunk Love::cough:: But that wasn't a Sandler produced movie either, so I guess it's not fair to judge that one, but whatever...
I'm thinking about leaving my position at the movie theater. It's come to my attention that all my friends love to do things on Saturday night... which is always the time I work... And I've gotten used to missing out on those events, but by now it's just I wish I could have at least a couple weekends off so I wouldn't have to miss out so much. I mean, I have to campaign highly just to get some days off sometimes... It's like I'm running for democratic presidential candidate or something >_>. And while I've had the feeling before, today had to be the strongest "God, I don't want to be here" feeling ever. But I know that I'd regret resigning my position about 3 or 4 weeks after I did. I mean, it's an easy job at 8.25 an hour... it'd be a good second job to have (even though I don't even have a primary job :-P) .. I might change my attitude if Bopha gets hired there since she handed in an application this evening. But I dunno... I'll have to give up this job anyway when I go to college.... But that might not be for another year.... but that's another topic that I'll get into later, no doubt...... The notion to stop working there came because while I'm on the schedule to work tomorrow, I tried to get out of it so I could go to Plymouth to see the guys play in the quarter finals... see if we can pull the upset (we're the #6 seed playing #3)... but no go... I still owe Barbara a favor for working for me last week when I went to the Winter Carnival Dance so I can't ask her, and Ed has plans with his wife so he's out... I'm going to accept my responsibility and work despite missing the game...... murrrr.... I love this job, but I just wish I didn't have to work every weekend. Maybe I'll talk it over with my boss...
Anyway....