On Tuesday December 9th I did a bunch of car stuff, like get the wrong headlights for my car because I thought it was older than it was, and got my tires rotated. I also finished the book I have been reading, Tell No One, by Harlan Coben. A really good mystery thriller that kept me wanting to read more, highly suggested to mystery fans.
In the morning of Wednesday December 10th I hung up the mirror we got on black friday finally and spent over 90 minutes trying to make it straight without drilling a new hole, I think the floor/wall is crooked, I gave up. But it's not too bad, Rachel didn't notice, or was just being nice, so yay! That evening I hit up Tommy Nevins with Beth for some dinner, I got a tasty burger and she got some Spinach Artichoke Dip. Luckily we got in at around 9:50 and the kitchen was closing at 10. They were also out of all the beers I wanted, but besides that the burger was delicious. I watched some more of American Horror Story Season 3 that night in bed.
On Thursday December 11th I finally got around to changing my headlight bulb and did so with a slight struggle. I was doing really well, I just couldn't get the headlight to go back in, but with the help of my dad and a little bit of a push, I got it popped back in and successfully did something on my car, call me a mechanic. That night Rachel and I watched Mad Men while eating a scrumptious tort and nachos from Angela's Burrito just down the street. After a filling meal we watched even more Mad Men!
Friday December 12th was a standard day with more Mad Men and American Horror Story season 4 in the morning, and then a slumber party for Aly's birthday in the evening. Rachel and I wore our matching Deer Tick sweaters and I wore some Mario pajama pants as we hung out with friends and played some drinking card games. Here is what the night looked like: Pinky's Out
On Saturday December 13th I hung up 4 new photos I printed from our trip to Colorado. Here is my favorite from the set I printed. I hit up the local Best Buy and ran into an old friend/neighbor, Jordan, from the high school lax scene and we chatted for about 10 minutes. After an hour of browsing around Best Buy's non-organized DVD section, I departed with Alfred Hitchcock's essentials which includes 5 of his best films. I highly suggest coming over and watching these classic 1960s films with me. Ladies, Gents.
I did some more things around the apartment, had 3 hot dogs for dinner, and then John and Johnny came over around 8pm. Of course, with our great location, they couldn't find parking, so Rachel and I had to come out and help them try to find a spot, which we luckily did right after we got in the car. Parking in the city is so lucky in most places, just depends if someone is leaving as you are pulling up. It can take less than a minute to find parking, or over 30 minutes.
Once in our apartment, Jmon's first time, welcome Jmon, we started to play some 3 Man. Then the most incredible round of 3 man occurred. It started off with some doubles from Josh, then John and Rachel rolled doubles together, then doubles again, then again, and again. Each time doubles were rolled we cheered louder and louder with more excitement. Finally, after 7 doubles had been rolled in a row, doubles were failed to be rolled by John and Rachel. What an incredible round! We listened to some Deer Tick and The Doors on vinyl as we continued our game full of 3 man the hard way's and a plentiful amount of sloppy jaloppies.
After about an hour or so, we visited around the world with a variety of shot glasses from each person's homeland and headed over to Becca's for a party. We thought we would only be there a short time, so didn't come properly equipped. Brian was also going to meet us there as he was coming from a different party.
Once inside, it came apparent that at least half of the party not only went to our highschool, but who's older brothers were good friends with my brother back in the day. This was a fantastic thing for one reason and one reason only, Go Cats. After commandeering some brews, basically every 5 minutes or so, maybe 2 minutes, I would yell "Go Cats" and the crowd would respond with "Go Cats" or "Rawr" and we would then follow with a drink. We were chatting it up, going down the ice luge, playing some BP, and other games throughout the night. After raiding some chips and dip and being at this party for a few hours, great party Becca!, we headed out to a local bar.
Once at this cash only bar, I heard from others the next day that Rachel ordered us some drinks, but didn't have any cash so had to head to an ATM, after awhile we eventually walked home. The walk home was a dark dark blur to me, but luckily, Brian saved the day by snapping out our entire walk home, which was a pleasant and hilarious scene as I filled the streets with "OBAMA!" and "GO CATS!" and other simple phrases like that. Brian, John, & Rachel got some Wiener Circle and Jmon and I headed back to the apartment. Night Over! Check the pics.
Sunday December 14th was a rough day for me, but I survived it, as I am writing this blog. Rachel drove us out to Naperville to see Meson Sabika for a wedding venue. After seeing the venue and approving, I slept in the car while lunch was had and then we headed home. Oh we put a down payment on the place as well, so we will see you all at Meson Sabika in June of 2016! Once we were home from our trip out that day we watched some Mad Men and finished season 2. I keep thinking the show is going to break out into some incredible action, but never does, which is fine, just kind of disappointing.
That night for dinner Rachel made a succulent crockpot dinner with chicken and cream of mushroom stew.
I was awaken at 6:30AM on Monday December 15th to the alarmingly loud chants of "NO THIS, NO THAT, MIKE BROWN." The protesters had finally reached our parts of town and the sound was actually super loud they must have been right in the alleyway or in our hallway even!? Not really our hallway, but you get the point. After this event I had some crazy dreams about the world ending and being trapped in my apartment, pretty cool.
That night we set up our Christmas Tree at my parents house and then I spent the evening stringing 2 lax sticks while watching the Bears suck at John's house.
Also watched some more American Horror Story season 3.
Thanks to everyone for the wild weekend and I will see you all next week, G Bob is coming to town and we are looking to have another great week!
Josh