Topic: Re: Whatever, Let's Have A Goddamn Blog Thread, But Try And Keep It Reasonable, pt B (Read 73543 times)

MrBlu · « **Reply #900 on:** 31 Dec 2008, 21:17 »

Quote from: Spluff on 31 Dec 2008, 16:39

200GRIND,

Jaja.

KvP · « **Reply #901 on:** 31 Dec 2008, 23:30 »

Goddamnit blog thread,

Tonight I got repeatedly drunk texted by a friend of mine, who is in San Francisco out and about somewhere. I don't know why she's texting me, I live a thousand miles away. But she drove to wherever it is she's at. I was trying to talk her into getting a cab or something, but she ran into an ex of hers and his new girlfriend and was hanging with them, so I thought hey, maybe she'll be okay tonight. From what I can tell from the incoherent texts thus far, things got awkward and dramatic and she left, and the last text I got was "Im driving home". She has not responded to repeated texts after that. So I'm freaking out.

Fuck.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #902 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 00:06 »

I was watching Jizz in My Pants right as it turned midnight... which I hope is an indicator of what the new year will be like for me. Though it's not as good as the time I woke up with the Bare Egil Band's Umbrella in my head which actually did inform my whole day.

Christophe · « **Reply #903 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 00:21 »

Dear Thlog Bread,

Happy New Year. I want to go to sleep so badly.

I turn 21 on the 7th, I expect to get pretty buzzed if not drunk out of my mind.

mooface · « **Reply #904 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 03:16 »

hey 2009, you can go fuck yourself. i am going to be SO OLD this year :(

Barmymoo · « **Reply #905 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 05:21 »

I had a pretty fun New Year! Even if I did pay ridiculous amounts of money to listen to a shitty band in a very loud room. But nevertheless!

And I've got the year off to a good start by doing an hour's work on my german coursework. Of course now I'm going "HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWFUL" and wanting to scrap the 600 words I've managed to write in three months. I am so badly behind and I just do not want to continue to write about the political system in Germany and England and the relative merits of each. Why did I choose this topic? Why?

Anyway it's time to go to work now and spend four hours waiting for customers who will not come. It's very cold outside. It's the first day of the new year. It's a Bank Holiday. No one will be shopping. Just no one.

Happy 2009!

Liz · « **Reply #906 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 07:40 »

Quote from: Christophe on 01 Jan 2009, 00:21

I turn 21 on the 7th, I expect to get pretty buzzed if not drunk out of my mind.

I turn 21 on the 8th! We are practically birthday buddies!

Lines · « **Reply #907 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 08:51 »

My New Years was lame. The place we went for dinner kind of forgot about us, so my friend's stake wasn't cooked right (it was somewhere a little above rare and she ordered medium) and the burgers that her boyfriend and I ordered were lukewarm. It also took them 45 minutes to bring us mediocre food, so my friend just took her steak home, because she didn't want to wait and possibly be forgotten again. After this, I went over to a different friend's house. There were four of us there and when I got there, my friend's boyfriend was already kind of drunk and the other two were buzzed. Her boyfriend continues to drink as we're all having fun, but he starts doing little things that piss my friend off. Somewhere right after midnight, she disappears upstairs and he follows. They were up there for a while, so friend #2 goes up to see what's wrong and he comes down saying it looked like she was crying. She does have problems with depression, so basically her boyfriend triggered it without intending to. So me and the other guy decide to leave when she finally comes down and says her and her bf are going to bed.

Tl;dr: Mediocrity and drunk friends don't go well together.

Liz · « **Reply #908 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 08:52 »

I spent my New Year's Eve on meebo and watching "I Am Legend."

I think I win the lame contest.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #909 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 09:03 »

I went to a party with like 30 people. Half of who I'd never met before. Drank a bunch of beer. Lost a bag of pot, got a free one from a friend, lost THAT one, then found both. Watched Spaced for a while, cuz the clubbing episode is totally awesome. Drove home drunk (I wish I hadn't), dropped some friends off at their places, got home in one piece. Apparently I was driving sober, but I had a dream last night that I hit two animals and a pink convertible, which made Anton Chigurh laugh. Today my hangover was mild, and my resolution is to make it the only one I get this year. All in all I had an awesome time.

Ladybug · « **Reply #910 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 09:06 »

I spent mine watching a documentary on Shirley MacLaine with my parents and grandmother, and then on Meebo after going outside for 10 minutes, almost freezing my ass off to watch some lame fireworks.

Also fairly lame.

Christophe · « **Reply #911 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 09:06 »

I spent my New Year's Eve at my cousin's house, sleeping after having dinner and a cold.

Later, I spent the last ten minutes of 2008 in my mom's car on the phone with my girlfriend as she counted down the seconds, because the radio show that was on was running on an automated playlist. That should get me the Oscar for Auxiliary Lame, right?

Quote from: Misconception on 01 Jan 2009, 07:40

Quote from: Christophe on 01 Jan 2009, 00:21
I turn 21 on the 7th, I expect to get pretty buzzed if not drunk out of my mind.

I turn 21 on the 8th! We are practically birthday buddies!

Liz, you do realize we have to knock back some e-Bud Light Limes on meebo, right?

Liz · « **Reply #912 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 09:28 »

As long as they are the e-variety. I am not really big on drinking.

negative creep · « **Reply #913 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 09:40 »

Dear black bloc,

I spent the last two hours of 2008 and the first eight hours of 2009 working. At the pub. Where a massively wild party was going on. Best new year's I've ever had, although I realized that I probably won't ever get laid. today I slept until 5:30 PM and woke up to find out that the firend who was going to visit me today isn't. Seems like a pretty bad start to me.

Johnny C · « **Reply #914 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 10:57 »

FUCK 2009

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #915 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 10:59 »

I spent new years carrying a passed out kid down four flights of stairs, outside into the cold, into an ambulance, with him to the hospital, sitting next to him for the three hours, being interrogated by the police (the kid was not of age) and then talking to his parents. Because someone had dialed 911, the police had also been informed, which means that my friend who's party it was could be in a shit load of trouble (I haven't heard from her yet).

Happy 2009 everyone!

On the other hand, everything up to that point was great, seeing people I haven't seen since I've left for Uni, etc.

evernew · « **Reply #916 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 11:20 »

I started 2009 by watching the fireworks on one of the central bridges in a big city. Fireworks and spiffy explodey thingies are generally fun but the kicker for me were all the sky lanterns. They are illegal to start within city limits but I'm glad so many people pissed all over that regulation and the sky was illuminated by hundreds of little flickering dots.

The girl I was having an in-between-friends-and-not-friends-thing with got a new guy. She said she was so happy to find somebody because that would keep her from going insane over me. (This was while I was still thousands of kilometers away and nobody knew I'd be back early.)
A certain member of my anatomy is sort of sad but I'm happy for her because he sounds like a good dude and will probably make her happier than I currently could.

In other news, my shoulder is still busted and I'm developing a tolerance for painkillers. Also, the absence of my car as well as my inability to drive prevent me from procuring natural painkillers in the form of bud.
MY family is still on vacation so I'm in a big house all by myself with no means to kill the pain and nothing to do.

Now this may or may not be the long-term effects of my acid realizations but I'm still not feeling bad about any of this. Save for the pain I'm feeling pretty good because I can't stop thinking about all the awesome stuff I'll get up to once I'm in control over my left arm again. Like snowboarding in Canada.

Until then, I'll need pet projects to keep myself distracted. Projects I can do with one hand (get your mind outta the gutter).
So far I have

* design and make a new longboard
* finish my short stories
* give my computer a do-over
* find a new place to live
* do interior design
* write a long and elaborate letter to all the friends and relatives whom I ignored during my time at university

And if you want some gross-out details, my left upper arm and chest are now colored in shades of blue and yellow you'd never want to see on a human body.
That is all.

tania · « **Reply #917 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 12:31 »

my new year's eve was fun. i said i wouldn't drink but i did anyway. this morning i had a massive breakdown when it suddenly occurred to me that i was just as miserable and pathetic as i was 12 months ago and would probably still be just as miserable and pathetic in another 12 months, and i cried and freaked out and sort of clung feebly to my friend for a really long time and i think she was okay with it but that was hours ago and i still feel like complete shit and as though that didn't actually accomplish anything so now i don't know what to do with myself. i'm also kind of hungover so i feel like shit from that too.
sorry that this is such a stupid post. 2009 feels like it sucks already.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #918 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 12:35 »

For what it's worth, I think you're awesome and we've never even met. Although I guess the fact that we've never met probably is a good reason to discount anything I say ever.

Blog thread, I got sent home from work early today! Well not really, we just shut at six and by quarter past there was no point kicking our heels any more so we all just went home fifteen minutes early. And now I am on holiday until January 23rd! I feel like I should go completely mad and go out every weekend and jet around the country on trains visiting people but I actually have college and exams, two things I've been overlooking until now. Oh dear.

Johnny C · « **Reply #919 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 12:57 »

Quote from: tania on 01 Jan 2009, 12:31

my new year's eve was fun. i said i wouldn't drink but i did anyway. this morning i had a massive breakdown when it suddenly occurred to me that i was just as miserable and pathetic as i was 12 months ago and would probably still be just as miserable and pathetic in another 12 months, and i cried and freaked out and sort of clung feebly to my friend for a really long time and i think she was okay with it but that was hours ago and i still feel like complete shit and as though that didn't actually accomplish anything so now i don't know what to do with myself. i'm also kind of hungover so i feel like shit from that too.
sorry that this is such a stupid post. 2009 feels like it sucks already.

Quote from: Johnny C on 01 Jan 2009, 10:57

FUCK 2009

evernew · « **Reply #920 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 13:28 »

Quote from: Inlander on 31 Dec 2008, 16:37

I went to my local bar, where they make good pizza and serve good beer and are friendly to me. I got there about 8 P.M., and I was thinking of heading out to see Martin Martini play a free gig in Fitzroy at around 10, but the people who run the bar kept asking me what I was going to drink next, so I never made it. Eventually I walked home from the bar (which takes all of two minutes) at about 3 A.M.

Yeah, I spent New Year's Eve as a barfly.

I was in Fitzroy and Carlton for a few weeks until recently!
You live in an awesome place.

pen · « **Reply #921 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 13:42 »

It's fucking cold outside. I spent the last hour shoveling my car out and banging the ice off my tires so I could go to work tomorrow while the kid made snow angels. That was at least cute to watch.

Hot cocoa is good.

Aimless · « **Reply #922 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 13:46 »

My sis dumped a pile of my old stuff in my room, and I started going through them... normally this woulda given me a lot of warm fuzzies and stuff, but this stuff (I realised too late, too late) was stuff I really didn't want to see or remember.

I remember drawing every single one of those pics, and I guess they aren't too charged... just bad... :p

But I found an old diary (my only diary!) from sixth grade, and man oh man did it suck to read the entries I read at random.

It's so strange. My life has changed SO MUCH since then, and I have changed so much... so much that I'd forgotten much of how I felt during that time.

It's really nice to be able to make a direct comparison and SEE how much has changed, but it's not nice to remember how much things sucked once upon a time.

On the bright side, I have always thought that I never did the teen thing until all my peers were out of their teens, and now I have proof that I was a bit of a teenager myself

I actually have a reunion of sorts with some old friends and classmates from grade-school, on Saturday... I wonder if I should just screw it after all

Also on the bright side, the pile contained some old comics--including Spider-Man, Donald Duck, and a Bengali edition of The Phantom

tania · « **Reply #923 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 13:51 »

Quote from: wikipedia

Throughout the coastal South, eating Hoppin' John on New Year's Day is thought to bring a year filled with luck, and it's eaten by everyone.

whoa

Jace · « **Reply #924 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 15:13 »

Lame New Years Eve stories:
I was at work, alone.

Aimless · « **Reply #925 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 15:19 »

Johnny C · « **Reply #926 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 15:25 »

Quote from: tania on 01 Jan 2009, 13:51

Quote from: wikipedia
Throughout the coastal South, eating Hoppin' John on New Year's Day is thought to bring a year filled with luck, and it's eaten by everyone.

whoa

toss a "citation needed" onto the end of that and, for extra fun, click that link

tania · « **Reply #927 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 15:49 »

allrecipes.com is a perfectly legitimate venue for knowledge on american culture

KvP · « **Reply #928 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 15:54 »

I'm with you on the new year, tania. I think "under a rock" is my preferred place to be at the present time.

Emaline · « **Reply #929 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 16:10 »

Guys, I've posted about my special needs sister before, right?

She was three. Her name was Eleanore. While in the womb, she and my sister Clara, her twin, suffered from Twin To Twin Transfusion Syndrome. Its a disease suffer by indentical twins. One twin is the donor twin, and one is the recipiant twin. The donor twin, in this case Eleanore, gives all its nutrients to the recipiant twin, Clara. In most cases, the donor twin does not survive.

Eleanore had a lot of problems. At three, she was basically still in the state of being an infant. When I saw her on Christmas, she seemed to be really aware and awake. She was looking around, she was making a lot of noise. She actually looked like she was doing a lot better.

Yesterday morning, I got a call from my mom. It was 4:30am. She said she had woke up and Eleanore wasn't breathing. The ambulance had just left, and had taken Eleanore and my father to the hospital. At 5:13, they annouced her dead.

Its been really hard. If I don't keep myself moving and thinking and doing other things, I think about her, and I just break down. My roommate and I have continued to fix up the house, and its really keeping my mind off of things, but as more and more people find out and everybody wants me to talk about it, I jsut can't handle it. My best friend wanted to pick up some games, so we stopped by my work, and as soon as I got there, everybody gave me hugs, and wanted me to talk about it. I just can't. I hadn't cried about it since first hearing, but as soon as everybody started saying things, I just broke down, and started crying. I can't handle it. She was three, you know? it so fucking unfair.

supersheep · « **Reply #930 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 16:14 »

I'm so sorry for you Emaline. I'm pretty sure we're all thinking of you right now.

KvP · « **Reply #931 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 16:16 »

I'm sorry Emaline. I hope you get the time alone that it sounds like you need.

Dazed · « **Reply #932 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 16:19 »

I'm sorry to hear that... That's horrible, best wishes to you and your family.

RedLion · « **Reply #933 on:** 01 Jan 2009, 17:08 »

Wow Emaline..I'm so sorry for your loss. This must be an incredibly hard day for you. I can't imagine what you're going through, but try to remember that this, too, will pass.

valley_parade · « **Reply #934 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 07:09 »

I got stood up.

I also drank Jager until I turned green and a deer appeared on my chest.

evernew · « **Reply #935 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 07:14 »

You didn't get stood up.
Dumbass Girl (R) got stood up. By Life. Because life ain't happening where she at. Word.

pen · « **Reply #936 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 09:48 »

I'm at work and there is absolutely nothing to do. Having to spend the next 3 hours and 10 minutes twiddling my thumbs is not going to be a great time. I'm crossing my fingers that my boss decides to let us go home early, but I can't see that happening.

valley_parade · « **Reply #937 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 09:52 »

Sneak out, Rachel. Build a replica of yourself, and leave it in your chair.

pen · « **Reply #938 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 09:53 »

Sadly, I don't have the materials necessary to create pure awesome and leave it behind.

valley_parade · « **Reply #939 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 09:55 »

It doesn't even have to be detailed, or even awesome! In a pinch, cardboard, tape, and that picture of you eating ribs would suffice.

(actually that picture was pretty awesome)

Vendetagainst · « **Reply #940 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 13:19 »

Hoot, I am excited!

I was at my coffee shop today, reading The Graveyard Book (just started it, it's really, really good), and after I pay my tab one of the dudes who works there invited me to my first LARP! It starts at seven, and I'm really looking forward to it.
The only problem is that he told me to think of a character biography (we are going to be werewolves), and I'm wondering what I should go as.

Please, blag, I can has ideas?

Tom · « **Reply #941 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 13:20 »

Man, the people on SOMB are so pretentious.

Jace · « **Reply #942 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 15:35 »

Quote from: pen on 02 Jan 2009, 09:48

I'm at work and there is absolutely nothing to do. Having to spend the next 3 hours and 10 minutes twiddling my thumbs is not going to be a great time.

Welcome to every single night I work.

Seriously, I go into work at 11pm. I HAVE to wait until 2am to start working. I'm done by 3am. I get off of work at 7am.

SonofZ3 · « **Reply #943 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 18:38 »

sounds like night shift at a college health clinic to me.

Jace · « **Reply #944 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 22:47 »

Its actually night audit at a hotel. Close though. Close.

jimbunny · « **Reply #945 on:** 02 Jan 2009, 23:07 »

You know when you break out the boursin and a role of crackers, and then half an hour later there aren't any crackers there anymore? You look around, but there's no one else in the room. Then you remember just how gooood it tasted.

Caleb · « **Reply #946 on:** 03 Jan 2009, 11:26 »

I tend to do that will any type of food.

When I edited video in college I would trick myself by bringing vegetables instead of crackers.

One time while editing my college TV show I even mindlessly ate an entire head of lettuce. (This was in 2003 so it was way before the SNL skit about lettuce).

ahh...8 hour editing sessions. Shit I miss that. I gotta get a Mac and a new media project.

Johnny C · « **Reply #947 on:** 03 Jan 2009, 12:38 »

My Xbox's disc drive is broken and needs a $100 repair!

Quote from: Johnny C on 01 Jan 2009, 10:57

FUCK 2009

Quote from: Emaline on 01 Jan 2009, 16:10

Yesterday morning, I got a call from my mom. It was 4:30am. She said she had woke up and Eleanore wasn't breathing. The ambulance had just left, and had taken Eleanore and my father to the hospital. At 5:13, they annouced her dead.

Quote from: Johnny C on 01 Jan 2009, 10:57

FUCK 2009

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #948 on:** 03 Jan 2009, 15:21 »

I bought new rad clothes!
yaaaaaay

RedLion · « **Reply #949 on:** 03 Jan 2009, 15:52 »

I have a ridiculously early spring break (march 2-6), so it won't be very springy up in this region of the country at that time. If I stick around here, or even go 1 1/2 hours to Chicago, it will still be wintery and cold and a lame spring break. So! I have decided to drive down to my aunt's place in Tampa Bay for the week, perhaps with friends. Roadtrips are awesome, Tampa is an awesome city, and it will be warm. I am pumped for this!

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