2 posts tagged “eric”
It's crazy times right now. Lots happening. After the surprise birthday party last week, we were somehow more manic this week.
On Thursday, Jess and I got out of work early, went to see WALL-E and had dinner together. Afterwards, we met co-workers at a bar as it was the day of Laura's birthday. They had been there since they got out of work, so we were by far the most sober people there. Until Lindsay's Doug showed up. Poor guy. We ducked out of there early.
I... can't actually remember what we did during the day on Friday. I do know we got lunch and did a bunch of shopping at Target, but other than that, I think we bummed around. At 7pm, we met up with Laura with a mini-picnic then went to the harbour. Lindsay and Doug met us there and we all sat on the waterfront to have our picnic. Eric and Mitchell showed up shortly after, just in time to watch all the fireworks going off along the lake.
We dumped shit off at home, then went to a nearby bar for a couple of drinks.
On Saturday, we had a ton of errands to run. We paid our economic stimulus cheque into our bank account, went through the pre-approval process at AT&T (ahead of the iPhone 3G release on Friday!), then Jess went to the dentist while I took a faulty item back to Target. We were going to go to a barbeque, but after having a long nap, we just went to our favourite Mexican place and chilled out.
Today, we went for lunch and did more shopping. We needed more sporty clothing as we've been asked to fill in on my office softball team. Yes, me, playing sport. I know, right? Anyway, we got all of that stuff, got it home then got ready for our first softball practice. There were only a handful of people there, but we got a good go of it. Neither of us was as bad as we expected - I connected with the ball a lot, and wasn't a total washout at catching. Bowling (sorry, pitching), however, was another matter.
This week is going to continue the activity. We're taking tomorrow off as we have a lot of chores to do. We have Wolf Parade on... Tuesday? I can't remember. I need to listen to their new CD more. Hopefully this means we get to see The Josie after what seems like forever. Thursday is the Big Kahuna - my green card interview. After aeons, it's finally a reality. Jess is currently wading through a file of paperwork the size of Alaska so we're ready. Then Friday is possibly iPhone day, if they have enough in stock.
Busy busy busy.
On an unrelated note, one of my favourite albums of last year - Heresy & The Hotel Choir by Maritime - came with a bonus 7" featuring two songs. One of those songs was called 'Boy From School', and was pretty awesome...
It turns out, it was a cover of a Hot Chip song...
Which was also covered by Portastatic...
Today was the second morning I woke up without Jess. It doesn't feel right, but it's only going to be a brief and temporary sensation so I can handle it. At least she's having a good time in Hawaii - yesterday, she tried surfing, which makes her far braver than me.
So far, I haven't been very rock n' roll. On Thursday night, I went out drinking with some folks from work - Leslie, Bryan, Kristian, Eric and Jason Y. The most outlandish it got was me drinking a $9 beer called Delirium Tremens (as in "the DTs" - latin for trembling delirium). I got home at a reasonable time, and made myself veggie chicken burgers without burning the place down.
Last night, I ordered in pizza and spent the night watching stand-up comedy on Comedy Central and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace on [adult swim]. It's nice seeing weird British TV make the leap over the ocean almost completely intact (apart from minor bleeping - this country is so puritanical about rude words on TV). I also cleaned the cat box, tidied up a little and tried to get my Ozone working with Leopard, but it doesn't like it till new drivers are released. Boo. So much for recording this weekend.
Tonight, I'm meeting people from work for some alcohol and a midnight showing of cult classic Donnie Darko. Of course, I own it on DVD and can watch it whenever I want, but it'll be good to have a night out. I think it'll be myself, Jason S (I blogged about him before - he writes for Chicago paper Redeye) and his boyfriend, Leslie, Eric, Erin, Brandon B, Brandon H and his fiancée, Laura and Guy, a freelancer who worked for us recently. Of course, you don't know any of these people, but it's a good little crew.
In the time it's taken me to write this, I've listened to an awful lot of The Cure. Time for something a little perkier methinks.
