How I Spent My X-Mas Vacation Part I...
Hello, LJ... Miss me much? Yeah, I didn't think so. Anyhow, I've been meaning to update this thing for about a week now, but haven't found the motivation to do it until today... and I'm not sure that I can pull this off.
Well, after pawning the few belongings of mine that the pawn shop would take and ebaying those which the pawn shop wouldn't, I gathered enough cash to begin my journey to South Florida... I think that was somewhere around 2 weeks ago... I drove the van (that has no brakes when it rains) to Gainesville in the rain on that Saturday... I am rather shocked that I made it alive... Yeah, so I stayed at Nora's overnight and she drove me all the way to South FL on Sunday... Thanks Nora, you're the best! During the car ride, we compared the fucked-up-ness of our families, which really made me dread my arrival at my parents... Nora's folks had been calling her all day to find out what she wanted them to make for her arrival dinner, while my parents called to let me know that after all these years, I am still a latchkey kid... They had a fancy party to attend so they left a key under the doormat... My mom also bitched at me about where to take my shoes off so that I don't mess up their floors...
As the conditions of my stay at my parents dictacted, I found myself here at the office on Monday morning... I left my life of: 2-day weeks/5-day weekends, never having to wake up before noon, doing what I want/when I want, never having to work a real jobbie, for my "vacation" of: waking up at 7am, working in an office every weekday, not being allowed to "go out" during the week, having no car, having to listen to my mom bitch at me 22 hours a day, having to make my bed, do chores, yada yada yada... I'm sure you catch my drift... I guess the whole work thing isn't that bad though, as I need money (and they are paying me $10 an hour to do _______________) and I wouldn't have anything else to do during weekdays (except for sleep, which I get plenty of in Tallahassee). So yeah, I've spent most of last week here in the office.
Last Wednesday night, I went to Ft. Lauderdale and watched Die Stinkin' play a Xmas show... That was pretty good... Matt hooked it up with free drinks all night, which completely rocked!
Thursday morning I had some kind of scan for that whole Hyperparathyroidism thing... Apparently, they couldn't find the problem (again), which kind of complicates things... At least I didn't have to work that day...
Friday, I had dinner with Matt, Lil Tony, Diana, Big Tony and Bobby, once again on Matt's dime... After that, we went to the white trash Major's and drank too many beers and threw darts around... People came and went... By the time the bar was closing, it was just me, Matt and Big Tony... and someone came up with the wonderful idea to go to the other Major's... To make a long story short, we didn't leave the other Major's until after 5am, when they closed... Matt made some new friends there...
For some reason, I cannot recall what I did on Saturday... Maybe I didn't do anything, but who fuckin knows?
Sunday was Christmas... Marcel came up (for the first Christmas in years), which was pretty cool... I got some checks from my folks, which was great, being that I was completely broke and relying on my rich and very generous friend Matty for money... Marcel got me a silly hat... (Helen: if you're reading this, he got me a hat that you always wear [not that I think you look silly in it]) It's the thought that counts though, as I didn't get him shit... We ate lunch together as a family, which really doesn't happen too often...
Later that evening, we went to the Moretti's, the nextdoor neighbors of my childhood house... I ate lots of food, listened to super idiotic conversations, and tried to be invisible in order to avoid having to answer the "So Eric, what are you doing these days..." questions. Fortunately, Matty came to rescue me as soon as I finished dessert...
So I sat in Matt's room watching him build website and waiting for Zack's arrival... After about an hour of waiting, Zack arrived... We all went to O'Shea's where we met up with Lil Tony and Diana for some drink action... Again, Matt paid my way. We drank there for a couple hours and then pretty much called it a night.
Monday, I woke up to Matt's noon wake-up call... Zack and I met Matt, big and lil Tonys and Diani at the Olive Garden for lunch... Isn't this fucking boring already? After lunch, we went to the mall, for reasons that are still unclear to me... After the mall, everyone split up... Zack and I went with Lil Tony and Diana to their apt for what turned into naptime...
At around 7:30PM, we all went to the "art party," a party that I was invited to go to by some people I used to go to arts school with... The party really sucked... It reminded me of how cliquey that school was... Nobody talked to me then, and nothing had changed... I sat outside the party, drinking with the friends that I had dragged to the party... All of my art school classmates talked about their careers and how art they were... Fuckin lame... After like an hour of that, we left and went to Deven's house... We drank a couple more beers and then Zack and I headed home.
Yesterday, I ran some errands... got some money from cashing some Xmas checks... We went to the mall to return the silly hat... did some other shit... Didn't go to the office... and Zack left last night...
Man, I thought we'd never get here... I think that brings us to today... and I'm here at the office again... I think i'll stop now cus this is really fucking boring... Ok, yeah... I'll update again when I actually have something more interesting to say... oh.. fuck.
Well, after pawning the few belongings of mine that the pawn shop would take and ebaying those which the pawn shop wouldn't, I gathered enough cash to begin my journey to South Florida... I think that was somewhere around 2 weeks ago... I drove the van (that has no brakes when it rains) to Gainesville in the rain on that Saturday... I am rather shocked that I made it alive... Yeah, so I stayed at Nora's overnight and she drove me all the way to South FL on Sunday... Thanks Nora, you're the best! During the car ride, we compared the fucked-up-ness of our families, which really made me dread my arrival at my parents... Nora's folks had been calling her all day to find out what she wanted them to make for her arrival dinner, while my parents called to let me know that after all these years, I am still a latchkey kid... They had a fancy party to attend so they left a key under the doormat... My mom also bitched at me about where to take my shoes off so that I don't mess up their floors...
As the conditions of my stay at my parents dictacted, I found myself here at the office on Monday morning... I left my life of: 2-day weeks/5-day weekends, never having to wake up before noon, doing what I want/when I want, never having to work a real jobbie, for my "vacation" of: waking up at 7am, working in an office every weekday, not being allowed to "go out" during the week, having no car, having to listen to my mom bitch at me 22 hours a day, having to make my bed, do chores, yada yada yada... I'm sure you catch my drift... I guess the whole work thing isn't that bad though, as I need money (and they are paying me $10 an hour to do _______________) and I wouldn't have anything else to do during weekdays (except for sleep, which I get plenty of in Tallahassee). So yeah, I've spent most of last week here in the office.
Last Wednesday night, I went to Ft. Lauderdale and watched Die Stinkin' play a Xmas show... That was pretty good... Matt hooked it up with free drinks all night, which completely rocked!
Thursday morning I had some kind of scan for that whole Hyperparathyroidism thing... Apparently, they couldn't find the problem (again), which kind of complicates things... At least I didn't have to work that day...
Friday, I had dinner with Matt, Lil Tony, Diana, Big Tony and Bobby, once again on Matt's dime... After that, we went to the white trash Major's and drank too many beers and threw darts around... People came and went... By the time the bar was closing, it was just me, Matt and Big Tony... and someone came up with the wonderful idea to go to the other Major's... To make a long story short, we didn't leave the other Major's until after 5am, when they closed... Matt made some new friends there...
For some reason, I cannot recall what I did on Saturday... Maybe I didn't do anything, but who fuckin knows?
Sunday was Christmas... Marcel came up (for the first Christmas in years), which was pretty cool... I got some checks from my folks, which was great, being that I was completely broke and relying on my rich and very generous friend Matty for money... Marcel got me a silly hat... (Helen: if you're reading this, he got me a hat that you always wear [not that I think you look silly in it]) It's the thought that counts though, as I didn't get him shit... We ate lunch together as a family, which really doesn't happen too often...
Later that evening, we went to the Moretti's, the nextdoor neighbors of my childhood house... I ate lots of food, listened to super idiotic conversations, and tried to be invisible in order to avoid having to answer the "So Eric, what are you doing these days..." questions. Fortunately, Matty came to rescue me as soon as I finished dessert...
So I sat in Matt's room watching him build website and waiting for Zack's arrival... After about an hour of waiting, Zack arrived... We all went to O'Shea's where we met up with Lil Tony and Diana for some drink action... Again, Matt paid my way. We drank there for a couple hours and then pretty much called it a night.
Monday, I woke up to Matt's noon wake-up call... Zack and I met Matt, big and lil Tonys and Diani at the Olive Garden for lunch... Isn't this fucking boring already? After lunch, we went to the mall, for reasons that are still unclear to me... After the mall, everyone split up... Zack and I went with Lil Tony and Diana to their apt for what turned into naptime...
At around 7:30PM, we all went to the "art party," a party that I was invited to go to by some people I used to go to arts school with... The party really sucked... It reminded me of how cliquey that school was... Nobody talked to me then, and nothing had changed... I sat outside the party, drinking with the friends that I had dragged to the party... All of my art school classmates talked about their careers and how art they were... Fuckin lame... After like an hour of that, we left and went to Deven's house... We drank a couple more beers and then Zack and I headed home.
Yesterday, I ran some errands... got some money from cashing some Xmas checks... We went to the mall to return the silly hat... did some other shit... Didn't go to the office... and Zack left last night...
Man, I thought we'd never get here... I think that brings us to today... and I'm here at the office again... I think i'll stop now cus this is really fucking boring... Ok, yeah... I'll update again when I actually have something more interesting to say... oh.. fuck.