[#156] Last Weekend
i. I meant to type this post up yesterday, you know, during work. But it got busier than I expected/I wasn't in the mood to write during the periods of time when it wasn't busy. So obviously, that means this never got written, lol. Even this should've been written earlier but I got caught up in finally being able to (re)play Trauma Team which I've wanted to do all day, but couldn't because I kept getting roped into baby-sitting. which i really should've done without question since SA has to do it every work day (when nobody's off) anyway so it's only fair. And I'm also procrastinating because I'm also updating my scrapbook since I haven't done that in like two weeks or so, lol. And you'd be surprised how much media I have to put into that thing. and by surprised, i mean not at all because hello, i am me. And I am also going through tumblr, so I don't really know when this post will be finished being written. the answer is never. i am abusing strikethrough. can you tell?
Okay, so I procrastinated enough that it is now the next day, lol, aka Wednesday night sooooooooooo.... Yeah. Let's do this.
ii. Anyway, this weekend I went into the city to meet J's new boyfriend!!!! omg, it's been two years since she broke up with her one of 7 years and it's really really nice to see her happy.
- Too lazy to write out in paragraphs so... doing my usual bullet points!
- Went into the city Saturday afternoon, funnily enough the day of a snowstorm, yipes. My family kept asking me, are you sure you want to go out in the snow? And I was determined to go since you know, it was J's new bf! Wouldn't want to miss out.
- He had to drive us to NJ (because you know, that's where he lived, across the GWB) and we made SO MANY CRACKS about how he lived there and how EWWWWW, he lived in Jersey.
- omg, randomly, we had tap water there and uh. I am apparently a New York tap water snob because NJ tap water (or at least his?) was just gross. XD
- So J's new bf is pretty awesome! He matches her pretty well, treats her so well, and gets along pretty well (ahahah three different wells, wow) with R and I. I mean, J was smart having both of us here because R by himself would've probably made it tense.
- ...Is what we thought, but LOL R and J's J (his first name actually does start with a J. Let's go with Jo) actually had a bit of a bromance going on throughout the night. Very fucking funny.
- We planned on eating in since none of us really wanted to go to a restaurant and deal with that shit. But before we went to Jo's place, we hit up a liquor store and bought like six 6-packs of beer. It was pretty hilarious.
- Even more hilarious is that we ended up not eating at all and drinking more than half of those beers, as well as a bottle of rum and a bottle of scotch. XD
- So as you can guess, we all got fucking wasted. J and I alternated THROWING UP in the bathroom because we were so gone.
- Did I mention we started drinking after like 5:30PM? Because we did.
- We played King's Cup! Which I'd never played until that night and it was fun! J expected it to be way worse (I assume because of the "Never Have I Ever" portion) but it really was damn mild.
- I did end up having to chug down the literal King's Cup though, so that was annoying. But I'd thrown up twice by then and was primarily drinking water at that point, so it wasn't as bad as they all seemed to think it was.
- It really was a fun game.
- Afterward, R forced us to watch The Doors.
- Well, kind of. By then it was 11PM, and most of us were exhausted so Jo went to bed and I curled up on the couch. Basically it was really R and J left watching with a little bit of me listening as shit went on.
- At one point J went to bed too.
- Oh! Jo sleeptalks. kind of. It sounded more like he was being haunted or he was haunting the room. Whichever. XD We were in the living room just like....uh..........
- at one point R got under the blanket with me on the couch. nothing happened and it only lasted for a little bit, but it was nice. i like cuddling. we have a mild flirting thing going on.
- After The Doors finished, R watched Pulp Fiction. At which point J arrived again, she didn't get much sleeping that night either. XD
- I woke up at least two or three times throughout the night so that was that....
- It was a little cold. XD
- Um, the next morning was good. We all basically got up around 10-11... Except R who got up at like 9 after sleeping at 5 which is like, wtf man? He ended up "watching cartoons" like a little boy, it was hilarious because he really was watching on Cartoon Network.
- I was still nauseous (as was J) but we were also all starving, so we went out for breakfast! Jo took us to The Original Pancake House which had been amazing. *__________* I took a photo of it but whatever. I got the original skillet which had eggs, cheese, potatoes, tomatoes, bacon, and avocado (the avocado was separate while everything else was mixed and the eggs on top). It was the most delicious thing ever and if I hadn't been so damn nauseous, I would've appreciated it way more.
- Afterwards, J's dad picked the three of us up to go home, dropping R off and then bringing J and I to his mother's house since it was her b-day!
- Stayed for a little bit, sang happy birthday, blew out candles, had a slice of cake, watched a bit of this cheesy roller-coaster thriller thingie that was the MOST RIDICULOUS THING. Hilarious. We were mocking it for the most part. laughing laughing.
- When we got back to J's place where I was going to sleep over, we ate some Chinese food. Was still nauseous so took some alka seltzer which DID NOT GO WELL FOR ME. I threw up first thing, but afterward felt so much better. lol
- We caught up on Elementary and The Mindy Project (or rather J caught up and I just rewatched the eps). And that was that! The end of a busy weekend, I went to work the next day and J had class for the first time this semester.
- All in all, loads of fun! J's introducing her parents to Jo next weekend so that'll be interesting! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :)
(Wow, this whole thing is tl;dr. lol And I even did it in bulletpoints!)
iii. J ended up lending me John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" when I left her and I read it all in one go on Monday after I got out of work. I read it on the train home, while I waited for my mom, and then after dinner once we got home. All in all, took me a handful of hours, and I enjoyed every single one of them. I don't do terminal illness anything usually, which some exceptions. Like 1 Litre of Tears and my random adoration as a teen for Lurlene MacDaniel stories, which I bet if I went back to read now, I'd still think were "fun." And I was dreading the point in TFiOS where I would sob like a bitch, because I knew it would happen. (Except it didn't, which I'm thankful for, unless it means I have a ice-cold heart. Which is likely, lol) But anyway, it was a good read. I liked seeing Gus/Hazel together and I loved how everything happened, but oh god, the twist. My stomach was turning for a bit before Gus finally revealed that he'd relapsed. When I noticed that he was a bit weaker as he went about during their day, I kept thinking, oh god, he's sick again isn't he? And then, there it was. He was sick. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I was really surprised though that the second half was on Gus' illness, and subsequent death, because idk, I had always thought it'd be on Hazel and on how she would deal with her life with her somewhat worsening state (which didn't really worsen after Gus got sick), and possibly her death. IT MADE ME SO MISERABLE THAT IT WAS GUS INSTEAD. D: And then, the last pages with his eulogy and I couldn't handle myself. I just stared and wondered and went, seriously, that's it? UGHHHHHH. So sad.
I'm sure I have more thoughts, but I can't think of them. I saw the trailer for the movie today and was like, I like how they made sure to portray just the relationship of Gus/Hazel and no impending of his illness. I'm curious to see the movie, pretty sure though that unlike the book, the movie will make me sob like a baby, so I'm looking forward to that.
p.s. oh man, I've been playing Trauma Team for the past few days and ;alsdkjfaslkdjfalksdjf I cannot stop playing. All I want to do is finish it all. But I have real life, and my sister is playing too, and when I play during the day, I ended up having to take care of my niece too so that's annoying. XD (not that i dislike taking care of baby!naomi or anything, lol. I JUST WANT TO PLAY SO BADLY.)
p.p.s. this is technically a re-play since I've finished Trauma Team before. still entertaining. Still hate the endoscopy operations. LEAST FAVORITE PART EVER.
Okay, so I procrastinated enough that it is now the next day, lol, aka Wednesday night sooooooooooo.... Yeah. Let's do this.
ii. Anyway, this weekend I went into the city to meet J's new boyfriend!!!! omg, it's been two years since she broke up with her one of 7 years and it's really really nice to see her happy.
- Too lazy to write out in paragraphs so... doing my usual bullet points!
- Went into the city Saturday afternoon, funnily enough the day of a snowstorm, yipes. My family kept asking me, are you sure you want to go out in the snow? And I was determined to go since you know, it was J's new bf! Wouldn't want to miss out.
- He had to drive us to NJ (because you know, that's where he lived, across the GWB) and we made SO MANY CRACKS about how he lived there and how EWWWWW, he lived in Jersey.
- omg, randomly, we had tap water there and uh. I am apparently a New York tap water snob because NJ tap water (or at least his?) was just gross. XD
- So J's new bf is pretty awesome! He matches her pretty well, treats her so well, and gets along pretty well (ahahah three different wells, wow) with R and I. I mean, J was smart having both of us here because R by himself would've probably made it tense.
- ...Is what we thought, but LOL R and J's J (his first name actually does start with a J. Let's go with Jo) actually had a bit of a bromance going on throughout the night. Very fucking funny.
- We planned on eating in since none of us really wanted to go to a restaurant and deal with that shit. But before we went to Jo's place, we hit up a liquor store and bought like six 6-packs of beer. It was pretty hilarious.
- Even more hilarious is that we ended up not eating at all and drinking more than half of those beers, as well as a bottle of rum and a bottle of scotch. XD
- So as you can guess, we all got fucking wasted. J and I alternated THROWING UP in the bathroom because we were so gone.
- Did I mention we started drinking after like 5:30PM? Because we did.
- We played King's Cup! Which I'd never played until that night and it was fun! J expected it to be way worse (I assume because of the "Never Have I Ever" portion) but it really was damn mild.
- I did end up having to chug down the literal King's Cup though, so that was annoying. But I'd thrown up twice by then and was primarily drinking water at that point, so it wasn't as bad as they all seemed to think it was.
- It really was a fun game.
- Afterward, R forced us to watch The Doors.
- Well, kind of. By then it was 11PM, and most of us were exhausted so Jo went to bed and I curled up on the couch. Basically it was really R and J left watching with a little bit of me listening as shit went on.
- At one point J went to bed too.
- Oh! Jo sleeptalks. kind of. It sounded more like he was being haunted or he was haunting the room. Whichever. XD We were in the living room just like....uh..........
- at one point R got under the blanket with me on the couch. nothing happened and it only lasted for a little bit, but it was nice. i like cuddling. we have a mild flirting thing going on.
- After The Doors finished, R watched Pulp Fiction. At which point J arrived again, she didn't get much sleeping that night either. XD
- I woke up at least two or three times throughout the night so that was that....
- It was a little cold. XD
- Um, the next morning was good. We all basically got up around 10-11... Except R who got up at like 9 after sleeping at 5 which is like, wtf man? He ended up "watching cartoons" like a little boy, it was hilarious because he really was watching on Cartoon Network.
- I was still nauseous (as was J) but we were also all starving, so we went out for breakfast! Jo took us to The Original Pancake House which had been amazing. *__________* I took a photo of it but whatever. I got the original skillet which had eggs, cheese, potatoes, tomatoes, bacon, and avocado (the avocado was separate while everything else was mixed and the eggs on top). It was the most delicious thing ever and if I hadn't been so damn nauseous, I would've appreciated it way more.
- Afterwards, J's dad picked the three of us up to go home, dropping R off and then bringing J and I to his mother's house since it was her b-day!
- Stayed for a little bit, sang happy birthday, blew out candles, had a slice of cake, watched a bit of this cheesy roller-coaster thriller thingie that was the MOST RIDICULOUS THING. Hilarious. We were mocking it for the most part. laughing laughing.
- When we got back to J's place where I was going to sleep over, we ate some Chinese food. Was still nauseous so took some alka seltzer which DID NOT GO WELL FOR ME. I threw up first thing, but afterward felt so much better. lol
- We caught up on Elementary and The Mindy Project (or rather J caught up and I just rewatched the eps). And that was that! The end of a busy weekend, I went to work the next day and J had class for the first time this semester.
- All in all, loads of fun! J's introducing her parents to Jo next weekend so that'll be interesting! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :)
(Wow, this whole thing is tl;dr. lol And I even did it in bulletpoints!)
iii. J ended up lending me John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" when I left her and I read it all in one go on Monday after I got out of work. I read it on the train home, while I waited for my mom, and then after dinner once we got home. All in all, took me a handful of hours, and I enjoyed every single one of them. I don't do terminal illness anything usually, which some exceptions. Like 1 Litre of Tears and my random adoration as a teen for Lurlene MacDaniel stories, which I bet if I went back to read now, I'd still think were "fun." And I was dreading the point in TFiOS where I would sob like a bitch, because I knew it would happen. (Except it didn't, which I'm thankful for, unless it means I have a ice-cold heart. Which is likely, lol) But anyway, it was a good read. I liked seeing Gus/Hazel together and I loved how everything happened, but oh god, the twist. My stomach was turning for a bit before Gus finally revealed that he'd relapsed. When I noticed that he was a bit weaker as he went about during their day, I kept thinking, oh god, he's sick again isn't he? And then, there it was. He was sick. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I was really surprised though that the second half was on Gus' illness, and subsequent death, because idk, I had always thought it'd be on Hazel and on how she would deal with her life with her somewhat worsening state (which didn't really worsen after Gus got sick), and possibly her death. IT MADE ME SO MISERABLE THAT IT WAS GUS INSTEAD. D: And then, the last pages with his eulogy and I couldn't handle myself. I just stared and wondered and went, seriously, that's it? UGHHHHHH. So sad.
I'm sure I have more thoughts, but I can't think of them. I saw the trailer for the movie today and was like, I like how they made sure to portray just the relationship of Gus/Hazel and no impending of his illness. I'm curious to see the movie, pretty sure though that unlike the book, the movie will make me sob like a baby, so I'm looking forward to that.
p.s. oh man, I've been playing Trauma Team for the past few days and ;alsdkjfaslkdjfalksdjf I cannot stop playing. All I want to do is finish it all. But I have real life, and my sister is playing too, and when I play during the day, I ended up having to take care of my niece too so that's annoying. XD (not that i dislike taking care of baby!naomi or anything, lol. I JUST WANT TO PLAY SO BADLY.)
p.p.s. this is technically a re-play since I've finished Trauma Team before. still entertaining. Still hate the endoscopy operations. LEAST FAVORITE PART EVER.