TV on TV

Tuesday December 16th, Rachel makes us a delicious pork dinner and we watch some Mad Men.

On Wednesday December 17th, I watched a bunch of American Horror Story Season 3 and did Laundry. Exciting times.

Thursday December 18th I finished up American Horror Story Season 3. Lots of TV in my life this week.

On Friday December 19th, Rachel visited me at work and then a nice lax dad, Ray, took us out for some dinner at Rancheros where I had a Modelo and some wings, chips, and quesadillas. A nice and pleasant Christmas gift. Grandpa Bob, Beth, & Mom & Dad then visited me at work while we were out. I told them to wait and they did which was nice, so I could show them where I work. After work we went home and watched some Maluta Home Videos. Great times with Grandpa Bob and the fam.

Saturday December 20th was a busy day of shopping for Christmas gifts, realizing the mall is super creepy, and hating department stores since they have kids running the registers who have no abilities to do anything and require "manager" approvals for all these things. Yea we waited in line at Macy's for over 30 minutes with 3 people in front of us. Luckily what we got was FREE! We had some pizza for dinner at my parents which hit the spot then headed over to our friend Michelle's place for her birthday party for a little bit. I started the party off by beating a semi-drunk guy in Super Smash Bros, battle of the pickachu's and then I also "assisted" by watching them "break" into a girls car who was at the party and locked her keys in the car. Luckily these guys were auto-repair guys so they knew what they were doing, but I also realized how easy it is to break into a car. Woah! We then headed home and I started to watch The Walking Dead.

On Sunday December 21st I played a fair amount of Call of Duty MW2, still behind on the times, and then watched Elf with Rachel while we wrapped some presents. After picking up the final ingredients we had a delicious baked mostaccioli dish for dinner. So good and cheesy. That night we watched some more of Mad Men and I watched more of The Walking Dead. Starting to like the show!

Monday December 22nd was a busy day at work with some private lessons, and then picked up gas on the way home for $2.04. The lowest gas has been in over 5 years people are saying. Pretty awesome and an early Christmas present for us adults. I finished up season one of The Walking Dead at night.

A pretty boring week, but Christmas is ahead! Get excited, Santa is on his way! Now enjoy a few funny videos I found this week.

NSFW!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Be sure to watch some Christmas classics:
Elf, A Christmas Story, The Grinch, Die Hard, Home Alone, & The Polar Express

Josh

Mound Town

Tuesday December 2nd, Rachel and I finished season 1 of Mad Men, loving the show so far. I also played some Super Mario 64 on this day. Check out our new sweaters we got! PS: I put this picture here so it would be the main blog pic. Hashtag Blog problems. Now enjoy this Deer Tick Holiday Song while you read about my life.

On Wednesday December 3rd, I had some old expired eggs in the morning and the whole afternoon I had stomach issues. Finding myself in the bathroom every 5 minutes to let what surely was not poop out of my stomach. I blame the eggs. I watched some Always Sunny in Philadelphia that night, as well as the movie Snowpiercer. Snowpiercer is set in a post apocalyptic future and takes place on a train. Basically the train is the only thing left on earth, as everything outside has froze, and there is a society within the train, including a class system, rich in the front, poor in the back. That sentence had a lot of commas and I am unsure if they were used correctly. Anyway, great movie, and if you have Netflix I highly suggest a watch!

Thursday December 4th I had a NV lax meeting and then came home to an empty home, so I loaded up Snow Mounds into my editing system, had some gummies and a couple beers and popped out this instant classic of a Jcubed video. Enjoy our first B&W silent film. Welcome to Mound Town

On Friday December 5th Rachel and I spent the morning and afternoon looking at potential wedding venues, driving all over. I then had work, and that night Rachel picked me up from work and brought me some homemade beef sandwiches my mother had made for me. Delicious as I drove over to Rachel's parents to spend the night.

Saturday December 6th, the full cold moon, was another day of wedding venue exploring with a McDonald's trip in between. Basically weddings are overwhelming and people plan way too far out so there are very few dates left, so we shall join them, aka wedding will now be in 2016 sometime! More info to come at a later date. That night Rachel made us some tasty Jack's pizza and I dominated some Call of Duty MW2 on the computer. Yes I am a PC gamer, lame I know, and yes I am still playing Call of Duty from 2008. Ball so hard.

Sunday December 7th, a day that will live in infamy. Pearl Harbor remembrance while I slum around the apartment. Made a pasta sausage lunch meal that was tasty, played some more COD, and went out and bought a new lamp to add some vibrancy to the main living space. Rachel and I had some Pot Belly flat sandwiches for dinner while watching the Lego Movie. What a great film. After Rachel headed to bed and I couldn't sleep so I watched some Mad Men and American Horror Story Season 4.

On Monday December 8th Christmas came early, as our Deer Tick Sweaters arrived and we couldn't be happier with them! Check em out above.

I started American Horror Story Season 3 as it was just released on Netflix and watched some more Always Sunny as I strung some Christmas lights at my parents house and in my old bedroom! Weird to say it is my old bedroom! Adulthood!

Also check out this hilarious list of Acronyms Yahoo claims Parents need to know about their kids and texting. There was a more appropriate list above this that reminded me of the AOL days like (PIR) Parent In Room and stuff like that. This NSFW list is absolutely hilarious and I highly doubt anyone texts this stuff.

With that being said GYPO and TDTM, we will see you next week.

YaBoy Josh

Friendsgiving

On Tuesday November 18th I stopped by my Grandma's on the way home from work and had a delicious dinner of rolladen while spending time with family. Kirsten was in town from Germany so it was good catching up with her. I dropped her off at her hotel on my way home and called it an early night, still recovering from a cough.

Wednesday November 19th was a simple day and I watched some Video Game High School. Done with season 2! Now watch this hilarious Tosh.0 skit making fun of Sports Center for ripping off his segment.

Thursday November 20th Rachel and I got an edible arrangement from a mystery person who turned out to be her 2 friends Michele and Ashely. So nice of them to send such a treat! We enjoyed the fruit with our Dinty Moore Stew dinner over rice. Stewtastic reminding us of fresh stew under the blanket of stars in Colorado when we were camping. That night we started the show Mad Men and watched the first 2 episodes about advertising writers in New York in the late 1950s / early 1960s. I watched some Always Sunny right before bed as well. Funny show.

Friday November 21st I started the morning by loading up some Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and prestiged for the 2nd time. I had been sitting at rank 70 and figured I would start over. Why not? The game is like 8 years old anyway and I haven't played since 2011. That night I got home from work and Brian came over around 11 pm to play some N64. We decided to load up Diddy Kong Racing and ended up playing ever single level / trophy race / battle zone possible. After all probably 50 races or so, Brian was doing well, except in hover levels, I still had not come in first, and it was nearing 1:30AM. So Brian said, you will win this last race. We picked the first level and I was in the lead for most of the race. Brian was just sitting near the finish line with rockets loaded up, taking out the computer players to secure my win. Then on the last lap I lost the lead and with the finish line in sight, I sat in second place. Brian, thinking the race was over, began to spray rockets toward us. One of the rockets hit the computer player in first place and I zoomed past him and across the finish line at the last second, FIRST PLACE! We both erupted in cheers and high fived. An incredible ending to a night of sucking.

On Saturday November 22nd, Rachel and I hit up the Jewel and did some grocery shopping. While we were in there we got some free tastes of vodka and given 2 free blue moon glasses. What a start to the shopping trip! Afterwards we prepared a salad, and my Aunt Elaine's peanut butter bars for dessert to bring over to Torie's for Friendsgiving!

Around 3:30 we hopped on the L and headed over to Torie's. We got there around 4pm, enjoyed drinks and appetizers with friends as we waited for the monster 20 lb turkey to finish cooking. Around 5:30pm the turkey was carved and the people began to fill their plates with turkey, mac & cheese, cheesy potatoes, grandmas gravy, salad, asparagus, a few other things I don't remember now, & of my peanut butter bars of course. After dinner, we had some apple pie shots topped with whipped cream as well as some apple crisp. Warm and filling!

After some card games and spoons at Torie's we headed over to Cody's for Chris's birthday around 10pm. We finished off the night by buying Schlitz beers for $2.75 and actually buying them out of it. No Deer Tick on the juke box, but some other decent bands and tunes. We got a cab home and called it a night.

Sunday November 23rd started off with a Jack's pizza for breakfast, followed up by 2 McDoubles delivered by Squid for lunch. Squid hopped over to hang out and help us clean and plan after hanging out with her friends the night before. Around 3 I drove us back to Naperville and I worked for a few hours. When I arrived back home I cooked up some meatballs and we had toasted meatball subs with tasty crinkle fries for dinner whiling watching another 2 episodes of Mad Men.

Monday November 24th was a big day as I finally got us renters insurance, so now if the place burns down we are covered. Solid! I also spent the morning watching an episode of American Horror Story season 4, and afternoon working on and finishing my fourth Luta Lax video. Some beach lax from earlier this summer with Cam, Nolan, Rach, & Beth. Check it out!

Since I had the day off, I was able to get a lot done around the apartment and am feeling relatively organized. Rachel and I cooked up some tacos for dinner. Succulent as they were topped with onions, peppers, lettuce, cheese, & rice. A few more episodes of Mad Men and the night was over.

A big night in America as the police officer from the Michael Brown Ferguson Case was not indicted and the town has continued to riot and burn down the city. Here is a clipping from the trial from Darren Wilson's POV. It reads like a movie script and will be interesting to get to the whole case. It also bothers me how the media portrays Mr. Brown as a poor innocent little kid, this is him an hour before robbing a convenient store. He doesn't look so little, 6'4 300lbs. But at the same time some of the facts from the officers side of the story seem a little too real to be true and his face only showed minor damage. Crazy stuff and a very interesting case that has a sad ending regardless of how much the media twists both sides stories and how much both sides lie.

Thanksgiving next week, family and friend time! Also looking to finish the highly anticipated Snow Mounds!

Enjoy the holiday!

Josh