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Having money's not everything, not having it is.
29 June 2008 @ 07:30 pm

 

So, this weekend was a lot of fun... let's start from the beginning.

Well, Friday actually wasn't very much fun. It was very uneventful. I worked 12-12, then went home and relaxed. Yeah, that's all that happened Friday.

Yesterday was a very busy and exciting day... I had so many things planned. Jessica and I went to Chris' graduation party for a couple hours and got harrassed by his crazy aunt. She kept asking us ridiculous questions, and I was very glad when she left. So weird she was!

Afterwards, we went to Milford and watched Get Smart. It was a pretty good movie, and there were a lot of funny parts. Steve Carell was really funny, and although it was pretty dumb, it was still enjoyable to watch.  

After the movie, we went to a tattoo place, because I decided I was going to get a tattoo about 3 or 4 days ago. Unfortunately the place was too busy, so I got got an appointment scheduled for Tuesday at 1. I'm going to get a Reds logo tattooed on my upper back. I'm pretty excited about it, even if EVERYONE else in the world thinks it's a terrible idea! So, Tuesday i'm going to be very nervous, but I think I will survive. 

Afterwards, we went to Meijer and got some food. Jessica made some absolutely amazing chicken, so I definitely can't complain about that. She also made some pasta, which was good... but the chicken was better!

The night continued with drinking and testing out the breathalizer. It was not exactly 100% full proof, as Chris went from .08 to .04 within 5 minutes after drinking. I don't think alcohol leaves your system that fast... But, nonetheless it was a lot of fun. We ended up playing quite a bit of beer pong, and I got reasonably drunk, but I remember the whole night so that means that I must not have been too bad. Oh, and just so we all know i'm a man and can admit it... Jessica carried me in beer pong, but I choked so we lost... But, then I carried Jimmy to 2/3 wins vs Chris and Kevin, so I redeemed myself. I guess I just choke in the presence of a beautiful woman! 

Today, nothing very exciting happened... Nascar is ridiculous and I got screwed. That's pretty much all there is to it... Without ridiculous rain shortage, I believe I would've definitely won. But, so I'm upset about that and would not like to elaborate any further or I would only say unkind things.  Afterwards, I was bored and Allison came over to Matt and pretty sure Dustin was hanging out with JZ, so I just came into work to make some money.

That's all... goodnight. I'm very excited about Tuesday.
 
 
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Having money's not everything, not having it is.
26 June 2008 @ 12:43 pm
It's been a while since i've written... I haven't really had much to say. Nothing exciting has been going on at all. Pretty much, all that's happened was I worked, dominated Nascar on Sunday, and we dominated bowling last night. We went 4-0, and our record is up to 19-13... so exciting.

Well, I work 12-10 or 12 tonight, depepending on how late I want to stay and 12-12 tomorrow night. The good news is that I'm off Saturday and Sunday. Saturday is the company picnic, which I am super excited about. I went last year and it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, Jessica won't go with me. She says there's a reason why, but she won't tell me that reason. I'm sure it's really not a big deal, but it's going to drive me crazy. The main reason is because I am very open and I am willing to talk about everything, even if it might be a bad decision i've made in the past or an uncomfortable situation. It really doesn't matter whether it's with a girlfriend or with a friend. But, I mean i'm going to respect her decision not to come to the picnic and not to talk about it. I understand that not everyone is as open and me, and we really don't know each other all that well. I just get comfortable around people extremely fast, and I know I can't always expect the same.  So, I guess this is me venting (although i'm not mad), but it just seemed like a good idea to write it down.

I'm really starting to like Jessica though. I guess we've been talking for a little over a month now, but it seems like a lot longer.  There's just so many little things about her that drive me crazy. Her hair, smile, eyes, laugh, and her kisses.  She's a lot of fun to be around.  Now, granted I am very rusty when it comes to relationships so i'm just going to do my best not to do anything to mess it up and have fun while it lasts. I'm used to not compromising, so that's my biggest problem. I can't remember the last time I had to compromise and do something I normally wouldn't do such as watch a chick flick, go to a play, or anything else I normally wouldn't do on my own. But, I know that Jessica compromises a lot with me and watches sports, so I feel like I owe it to Jessica to put forth the same as effort and compromise she does.

So, I think i'm done rambling on now... I can't wait to go on vacation to Toronto in late July. It'll be nice just to get away and relax. Oh, and I also can't wait to see Jessica on Saturday.
 
 
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Having money's not everything, not having it is.
19 June 2008 @ 01:34 pm

Well, let's think. Where do I begin?

I was off Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, Matt and I went to Eastgate, because I had to ship off a few items that I sold on EBAY. I also decided to make more jello shots and pick up some extra beer just in case. I also came into work from 4:30-8, just to make some extra money since nothing was going on until that night anyways. I got off work at 8, got back to the trailer about 8:20, and I immediately starting downing jello shots. This was probably an absolutely terrible idea. All I know is that by 9:30, I was already really drunk. It didn't help that we continued to play beer pong throughout the night and I had way too many jello shots. I remember a lot of bits and pieces of that night, but I also don't remember a lot. However, I do remember the cops came and completely ruined the night. Apparently we had some individuals who were louder than others and the neighbors called because they thought a fight was going on. Somehow, I was not a part of this which is very surprising, because when I get drunk I usually get really loud, but somehow that was not the case on Tuesday. Go me.  Anyways, yeah the cops came and they were just total douche bags, I tried to fake like I was sleeping and although I had an academy award winning performance it didn't matter. A couple people there got underages, but they didn't charge any of us with contributing to minors, so that was at least good for me. So, I'm really unhappy about that and whatever neighbor called the cops on us, I hope that they have bad luck for at least a month. I was talking to Chris and Joel about it the next day, and apparently I fell into the trailer several times because I could not stand up. I'm not sure whether that's impressive or depressing. On one hand, it's amazing that I was that drunk and was able to at least try to move around, but it's sad that I continually fell down. My coordination must have been way off.

Overall though, Tuesday night was a really great time (for me at least) and I am glad that Chris came out. We hadn't hung out in a long time, and it ended up being an extremely fun night. We ran through so much beer and alcohol that night though, and we still have a lot of jello shots left. I think that I need to drink either tonight or this weekend just to get rid of the jello shots so that they don't go bad. Dustin's off tonight, so maybe one on one beer pong or something, and loser has to take jello shot?

Let's skip ahead to Wednesday. Wednesday was a much better day. Jessica and I went over to my grandma's, bought her a universal remote, washed windows, and helped her with blinds. I had a pretty bad battle wound on my right hand from the scissors that wouldn't cut. We tried to cut through the blinds, and the scissor handle broke off on my hand, resulting in a lot of pain. That was the only bad part about Wednesday though. For bowling Wednesday night, we went 4-0, and are now 15-13 on the year. We've come a long way since starting 2-10. Afterwards, we went to Bar Louie, which is pretty much a Wednesday tradition. Chris, Joel, Duane and I all went out. It was a lot of fun, but we had absolutely terrible service. They messed up our orders, took forever to get us our food, and the burgers were good, but not great. It was still cool just to get out and have a guys' night, but it could have definitely been better. But, once again Wednesday was a great day. I didn't work, saw the beautiful Jessica B, bowled well, and had good food. Pretty much the perfect day, other than my hand getting amputated by scissors.

 
 
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16 June 2008 @ 12:36 pm
Today... is a dreadfully long day. I have to work from noon - 10 pm. It will be long and painful, but fairly certain I will be able to pull through because of two things: 
            1. Tonight is bowling from 10:30-1:30. I love bowling. I am steadily improving my game, but still have a lot of work to do. I won't ever be good enough to be on the PBA tour or anything, but it is fun to beat friends and prove my supreme dominance in every aspect of life!
            2. Tomorrow is Jello shot madness. Dustin, Carly, and myself will be drinking. I think Duane might drink, but I don't know... he's ridiculous enough sober, would be scary to see him drunk again. He got drunk when we went to Florida, and he was very angry! He kept calling stool pigeons and faggots. I think maybe he has a lot of built up hostility.  I think someone else is coming, but I just can't put my finger on who it is... Oh well, she must not be that important if I can't remember her name. :)

But, yeah... I'm gonna dominate bowling tonight. I can just feel it. If I don't bowl a 200 tonight, I'm taking a shot of everclear. I took a shot last night with Dustin just to see how bad it would be, and it was absolutely horrible. 95% alcohol is not the way to go. Oh well. ______ and I made jello shots last night, and I tried a couple of them. They were pretty strong, but definitely eatable/drinkable. Whatever you want to call it. 

Yeah, that's about all there is to it. Jello shot madness will be a lot of fun. Hopefully, we take pictures so I can get a new facebook photo since according to my mother the most recent ones make me lot fat. Also, we're going to videotape so that we have fun memories.
 
 
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Having money's not everything, not having it is.
15 June 2008 @ 01:10 pm

Okay, so I should start off this entry saying Happy Father's day to all the father's out there. Although I am glad I am not yet a father, it is father's day!  I'm sitting here at work, trying not to go crazy so therefore it is time for a very boring entry.

So, this has been a very weird day... I have spent a lot of time talking to my ex-girlfriend about pretty much everything. It was really cool to talk again though, because she has always been a really cool girl and we're finally past the point of awkwardness. I mean, it was weird when the current girl I'm interested in came up (won't say any names), but i'm glad that we can talk about things, because after all she was my LIFE for almost two years. I'm just glad that she is not crazy and I don't have to file a restraining order against her or anything, like someone!

But, on a side note. She told me that Strangers was a terrible movie, and therefore I have not even heard close to one medicore or better review about the movie. All I have heard was BAD, BAD, BAD. But, somehow i'm going to end up seeing this movie, just so I can prove that I am right and Jessica is wrong. Go me.

So, I am getting off here soon, then I am going to go over to my grandma's to mess with her dvd player, and then we're having a big dinner at my mom's about 4:30. We are bringing Mongo (Matt's coming with me) so that will make things ever so exciting. I don't know if I'm going to see my dad at all later, it depends how late he works until. But, yeah that's my very busy and exciting day.  I can't wait until Tuesday and Wednesday. Off both days! Yeah, that'll be fun. 

So, that's about all there is to say... I am really hoping that I tear up our fantasy nascar league. If not, I might slash Dustin's tires. That's all there is to it.

 
 
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Having money's not everything, not having it is.
14 June 2008 @ 03:41 pm

Okay, so last night ended up being a lot of fun...

I got off work at 7, and then watched most of the Reds game. Jessica came over about 9:30, and we were going to go out to BW3's and get some food and then see the Strangers. We had a slight change of plans. We ended up going and eating at Quaker Steak and Lube (which I had never had before) and it was really good. I was most definitely impressed. We decided to not end up seeing the movie and just ended up drinking instead because Jessica is obviously only using me for my alcohol-buying abilities.  

So, let's talk about how terrible I am at Beer Pong... We went 1-6 on the night if I can recall correctly. We might have played more games and lost, I don't remember. I ended up getting pretty drunk, because before we even started drinking I was ready to sleep. Dustin definitely outmatched me last night, due to the fact that last time we played Jessica and I dominated and they must have really wanted revenge. But, oh well. It was still a fun night. I made a scene midway through the series, because we were down 3-0, and I thought we should switch sides. Dustin wouldn't switch sides and so I warned him that if he didn't switch sides I was going to knock all their cups off the table. (They were all empty.)  He must have thought I was bluffing! So, he didn't move them and I took his cups slowly pushed all of them off the table and then poured the water cups in his cups just because I felt like being a jerk!

Anyways, It was a great night even though I was a douche bag at times. Jessica's a really great girl, and even though all she does is use me for alcohol, I'm okay with that! I'm so exhausted today, all I want to do when I go home from work is sleep. I can't wait to go to bed! I have to be back into work tomorrow at 8 am, but it was worth it after my awesome Friday night.

 
 
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Having money's not everything, not having it is.
13 June 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Wow, I have a feeling today is going to be a great day.

I went to bed entirely way too late last night, and had to wake up at 10 am to go get my laundry from my mom's. But, the good news is that I get off at 7 pm tonight, instead of the usual 10 o'clock. 

Jessica and I are going to see the Strangers and eat BW3's after work tonight. I'm not sure exactly how excited I am about the movie, since I'm not a big fan of the "horror/scary movies" genre. To make matters worse, I was talking to Dustin this morning and he told me that everyone he has talked to has told him how horrible The Strangers was. Even little kids who don't even talk yet come into Hollywood Video (where he works)  and remove their passifires and their first words ever spoken are "Please God, don't let anyone see that horrible movie." And, guess what I'm doing tonight!? No, just kidding. I don't think it will be all that bad.

I haven't been to see an actual movie at Milford in what seems like forever. I don't think i've seen a movie since Blades of Glory came out. Wow, that was a long time ago. I guess the reason I don't really go to see movies as much now is because you can download and/or stream them online and it just seems like such a waste of money. But, if you're going on a date then I think it's definitely worth it. But, not first dates. You should never go on a first date to a movie theater. If so, you can't talk, and then you really don't find out anything about your date. But, this isn't our first date, so it'll be okay. I just hope that the movie is better than expected, and the food is as good as expected!

The only bad part about this weekend is that I have to work tomorrow noon - 10, and I have to come in Sunday for a couple hours. I don't know if anything is going on for father's day, need to talk to my dad about it. By the time this week is over, I'm going to be working roughly 60 hours, and therefore I am slightly exhausted. I just can't wait to relax and 'wind down' tonight, since according to someone that is CLEARLY what I need to do.

On a final note, I went through some of my old live journal entries yesterday from my freshman year in college. I was such a douche bag. I was closed minded, and it seemed like I was always trying to prove something. I remember in high school, if I really liked a band and all of a sudden I heard them on the radio I would either stop liking them or not like them as much. I'm just glad that I'm not as young and dumb as I used to be. I'm still young and dumb, but i've matured a lot and feel as if I am a much better person than I was back then. I still make many mistakes, but i'm very happy with who I am.
 
 
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12 June 2008 @ 01:22 pm

Yesterday was a very exciting day...

First off, I took our awesome dog Mongo over to my Mom's (since I had to take my laundry over to get washed anyways) and she had a field day. My mom has a very big yard, so Mongo was completely out of control. She played with all of my family, and the other dogs. It was a lot of fun!

Afterwards, Jessica and I met up. We were supposed to go to Gameworks, but plans ended up changing. First off, my grandma called me and asked me to come over and fix her computer speakers. Before I could leave, she asked me to water her new tree, and yeah... I love my grandma, but sometimes she's just too much. 

Just when we were about to leave to go to Gameworks, Jessica's parents called and said that they had four seats to the Reds game and asked if Jessica and I wanted to come. Because of the fact that I have bowling on Wednesday nights, I decided that I could just pre-bowl, and then I could go to the Reds game. I'm a genius, that's pretty much all there is to it.

So, before I went to bowl Jessica and I went to Applebees and ate entirely way too much. It was so incredibly amazing. I've decided that half price appetizers are one of the best inventions ever. Not only do you get ridiculously full, but they are fairly easy on the wallet.

After Applebees, I went to pre-bowl for the league (since you have to bowl before Wednesday night.)  I bowled solid the first two games, bowling 144 both games. The last game, I was on fire until the last few games, I should have easily bowled a 200. I missed a spare in the 8th frame though, and then bowled a split in the 10th. So, I bowled a 191. Still a very solid game, but should've been better.

So, afterwards we went to Gabriel Brother's, bought some towels and socks, Very uneventful stuff.

So, let's talk about the Reds game... The trip there was interesting. Jessica's parents have a dvd player in the car, so we watched part of a movie called "A new wave." It has Jim from the office (John Krasinski) (spelling?) in it, but it's so weird... because his character is not even close to what you expect. I mean, I saw License To Wed, and his character was at least somewhat on the same level as the office, but in A new wave, he's crazy because he's trying to plan a heist and it's so weird to hear him cuss. Everytime he'd cuss, Jessica and I would just look at each other and laugh. Very interesting.

So, we got to the Reds game and we had first row seats in Left field. They were very good seats, but for the first couple innings the sun was so bright that I couldn't see anything. The reds immediately went down 5-0 in the first inning, and never recovered. It was depressing watching the Cardinals dominate them, because there were a bunch of faggot middle school Cardinals fan around us that knew nothing about baseball. They kept saying comments like "I can't believe they finally got an out". What made matters worse was that all of them that were wearing Cardinals t-shirts had Pujols on the back. I bet they couldn't even tell me who Ray Lankford or Brian Jordan were. Bandwaggon faggots. If you're going to live in Cincinnati, root for a Cincinnati team, not one of their biggest rivals. It's the same thing with the Bengals - Steelers. If you've never lived in Pittsburgh, then why like that team?

Alright, so after the Reds game we came back and watched random videos of Bethel students of the 2007 senior class. Wow, it made me miss high school. I went to Grant half-day my senior year for Teacher Academy, so I didn't get to experience as many awesome senior moments. But, I still enjoyed my senior year I just miss a lot about high school. I wish I didn't have to work 40 hours a week and grow up, but it happens. 

Overall, it was a very exciting night and I am exciting for game 4 of the NBA finals tonight (if I get off work early enough)Tomorrow, Jessica and I are going to see Strangers and get some food after work. It'll be a fun time, and I can't wait to eat good food again. That's all I have to say, this has been way too long and I need to stop babbling on.

 
 
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09 June 2008 @ 01:48 pm

First off, we need to start this live journal entry with why sports are dumb. Every week, my friends Dustin, Joel, and I do a fantasy nascar challenge on ESPN.com. It was a 200 lap race and with about 40 laps to go, I was absolutely dominating. Anyways, when the drivers made pit stops, two out of my 5 drivers got penalties from driving down pit road too fast. Yeah, this is extremely nerdy that I watch nascar, I know this. But, it was very very frustrating.

Then, last night the Lakers played the Celtics in game 2 of the NBA finals. I was fairly certain the Lakers were going to win game two, but they played absolutely terrible. They tried to come back too little, too late but they just couldn't pull it out. It's just frustrating, because I predicted the Lakers to win in 7 games and I hate when my predictions are incorrect. 

Other things to note are: Matt, Dustin, and I went up to the trailer park pool and well... I mean, it wasn't bad but I guess it's what you would expect from a trailer park. The pool itself is fine, but it's the people that go out there. Everyone was so loud and/or trashy and there was this ghetto guy that talked with a fake ghetto accent. Wow, he was like a mix between a wanna-be Eminem and a southern country singer. I mean, I really don't try to judge people because I don't think i'm better than anyone else. But the people that hang out there definitely live a different lifestyle than the one I wish to lead.

Lastly, I guess that there is still hope for me with Jessica. I was fairly certain we were done Friday night, but now it does not seem as if that is true. Mainly, what happened was that she said something to me and I guess I took it as more serious than it was. Alcohol definitely factored into my exaggeration. Anyways, we got in a fight/argument whatever you want to call it Friday night, but it seems as if we are past that. I won't lie though, I thought we were more done than Hansen trying to make a comeback. But, we'll see where that evolves. I won't lie, i'm excited about the possibility because if nothing else, she's an awesome girl and this could definitely be a fun summer. I just need to stop trying to plan everything out and just focus on now, not the future.

Anyways, that's all I've got. This has taken up time at work, so that's definitely a plus.  Tonight is bowling, and I'm gonna dominate as always.

 
 
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Having money's not everything, not having it is.
08 June 2008 @ 03:53 am
So, I am at work tonight from 8 pm - 8 am. I usually work 4 ten hours shifts a week from noon to 10 pm. We were short staffed though, and my boss convinced me to come in and work.

Other than that, I've just been doing a lot of insightful thinking lately. I have recently graduated college, and now I'm started to think about the future. One of my best friends Matt and I bought a trailer a couple months ago, because I didn't want to live at home anymore, and felt it was wasteful to rent an apartment because there's nothing to show for it once you move out.

I was dating, I guess you could call it dating at least, this pretty awesome girl named Jessica for a couple weeks but that is no longer happening. It didn't work out for probably more reason that one, but you live and learn. The main problem is that we wanted completely seperate things, as I am at the point in my life where I want to meet someone and be semi-serious. I'm only 22, but I just feel like I am at the point in my life where it's time to start settling down a little bit and slowly drift from the party phase to a more mature/grown up phase. The way I look at it though, is based off average life expectancy I still have 53 years to live, so that's still 70% of my life. I do however try to focus on planning things out too much and worry about the future more than the present. I should most definitely work on that. The only thing that's bugging me right now is I don't understand what exactly happened with my girl situation. I guess we weren't on the same page, but I don't know. It's an old case of the "I liked her more than she liked me" situation, and even though we both agreed that neither of us really wanted a relationship, she claimed that she thought I would get too attached and didn't want to lead me on. I'm fairly certain that when you tell someone exactly what you want at least once a day and they get lead on to believe something else it's their own fault. So, I'm not sure whether this was just a copout from her because she lost interest, or whether it's genuine concern but I don't agree with the rationale. But, then again i'm biased and my opinion doesn't really matter because if someone has already made up their mind there's no reason to try to change it. I don't have anything bad or ill-willed to say about her, because she's a great girl but she's very indicisive and not ready for the commitment that I am. I was the same way when I was 19, so I understand where she's coming from, just wish we were on the same page. But, that's enough rambling on about that for one night... I genuinely hope that whatever she ends up doing makes her happy, because she's a great girl and deserves to be treated as such.

What else is there to talk about? Other than the usual everyday life consisting of work and hanging out with friends, there's not much excitement going on. I am definitely going to try to go see Kanye this Friday, but I need to find a way to get off work, find cheap tickets and find someone to go with. I'm not a big rap fan, but Kanye's got a lot of talent and I definitely would love to see him live.  By the way, I'm stuck at work for another four hours and my eyes are getting very heavy. I've drank 2 amped energy drinks tonight, (they're absolutely terrible for my body) and they're really not even keeping me up.  I think once I finish the beer in my fridge, I am going to go on a drinking hiatus. I have recently started running again lately, but I am so out of shape and I definitely need to drop some weight because the beer belly is definitely not helping my cause with the ladies.  

I have a feeling this should conclude my first ever so exciting Livejournal entry. 

Oh... and also, I really need to shave. My face itches.


 
 
 
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