Christmas tunes so often played
I hum songs about a jolly-fat
lie in a bright red suit
while I’m shopping
to stuff the wallets and purses of business
ties who celebrate greed year-round
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Speaking of shopping, off I go. With any luck, I’ll be able to finish my purchases this morning. Hark, the herald cashier ring, glory to a purchased thing.
And now, I will spare you from disappointing, inwardly-peering, bitter cynicism and doubt. Good day.
These two pictures are of my friend Benjamin. We hang out a lot, and Tuesday night is poker night at the bar we go to. So anyway, showed me these pictures last night. He likes to take pictures and somehow by taking fifty timed pictures he comes up with gems like these two. In the comments, submit the best caption you can come up with for each of the pictures. The winner will get a prize.*
*The prize will be words of congratulations and if I ever make millions of dollars, remind me and I’ll get you a nice Christmas present.
My brain hurts, but at least it’s not subdural hematoma. I’m either watching too many medical TV shows or just reading too much medical information in general. And no, that’s not why my brain hurts, it’s just why I know the term.
Moving in has gone well. I should probably finish unpacking today, but I got burnt out last weekend and don’t want to do anything with any more boxes. But I will get to it. I also plan on posting a few pictures. I will get to it.
I saw “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe” yesterday with mis padres. If you like Narnia at all, you’ll probably love the movie. Plotwise, all the main parts stay; however, in typical book-to-movie fashion they change a few parts to make it fit the time constraints. The cinematography was beautiful, the music fit, the talking animals were awesome. It made me feel like a kid again back when I first read it.
I had a hard time realizing how much older I am than any of the four main characters – Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. When I first read the book or saw the older movie adaptations, I would’ve been the age of Lucy or Edmund. Now I’m gonna be twenty-four in about two months and starting to feel somewhat old. Sure, from the perspective of a fifty-year-old, twenty-four seems like nothing. From my perspective, twenty-four seems significant.
Fortunately or not, I’m still just a young, single guy able to go out, have fun, and do whatever. As much as I enjoy the freedom of still being single, I think I’d like some of the things a relationship and marriage brings to life. My closest friends in Colorado are now either married or engaged. In another year, I’ll be one of the few single guys left.
I feel like Ted from “How I Met Your Mother.” I love the show — he’s a 27-year-old single guy looking for a wife. That and it’s just damn funny. Granted, I probably wouldn’t do half the stuff that happens on that show, but anyway. I do overthink and booze does help cut back on the thinking… but who wants to be any kind of drunk?
Quite a few transients seem to be okay with being drunks. Can’t cope with the world? Drink Listerine! Yay! 40% alcohol by volume and minty fresh breath, the hobo’s dream concoction!
It’d be more funny if it wasn’t true.
Musically, I haven’t bought any CDs for a couple months ’cause of newly-acquired budget constraints (a.k.a. apartment), but the bands I’d recommend checking out right now would be the female-singer hard-rocking styles of Fireflight, the punk/emo stylings of Matchbook Romance, and there’s always the AbsolutePunk.net Featured Downloads to kill some time.
In other music news, Motion City Soundtrack‘s headlining tour will be in Denver on February 21, 2006. If anyone wants to go, I definitely hope to be there.
Motion City Soundtrack – My Favorite Accident:
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You said we were an accident
With accidents you’ll never know what could have been
So we were an accident
You’ll always be my favorite one
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I put a new address on the same old loneliness, but I’m alright with that. I’m not expecting to grow old and die here, but it’s not a bad place to pass the time.
Obviously, the biggest improvement to the apartment scenery today is the appearance of cable TV and internet. The weather also worked to our benefit. The cable guy set it up to be regular cable instead of basic and because it’s about negative two degrees (Fahrenheit) he didn’t want to go back outside to switch it. So we get about forty channels extra for free. Score.
I ended up getting all of my stuff moved in here by Saturday morning with the help of my parents. It’s taken several days, but now I’ve got almost everything unpacked and in its new-proper position. All that’s left to put in place is everything on the bookshelf and a few miscellaneous things I need to find a place for. I may utilize our porch storage space to hide away a few unsightly boxes.
I’m living on the floor again though. I haven’t gone out and bought a bed yet for purely financial reasons, and I talked my parents into loaning me one of their twin beds from the Dungeon. Nothing holding it up though. I did this in college for a while, and I stopped when it got too cold. Fortunately, it’s not as drafty here as it was in my dorm room. And I’m only on the second floor.
I wrote some more on my story yesterday. It’s starting to be a bit more difficult deciding where to take it next and I wonder what it will develop into, but I’m enjoying it. Thanks for the feedback I got from those of you who sent some (aka Tyler).
Anyway, I should probably go… uh… surf the net some more. I need to convince my body to sleep before work tonight, too. And Luebbe is getting here at 5PM, so…. later.
I won’t be posting much for the next few days (not that you’ll notice) because I’m in the process of moving and we don’t have internet set up at the apartment yet. The computer will be disassembled right about… now.