#12 and #17

Last Saturday, my best friend Kristen got married! ....To quote the very end of my poorly rehearsed toast: "To Kristen and Jon!"

Jon is awesome...and so is his cake

However the day before, w went to Spa D'sante, where I received a spa treatment AND 1 1/2 hour massage:

"body, sole & mind
Let us relax your mind with a sedating hot oil scalp massage, followed by a warm, gentle rinse. Then, let us take you away with a healing foot rejuvenation treatment followed by a one and a half hour rejuvenating body massage."


It felt really good....I can't remember anything other than that.

#23

I went to the Texas Renaissance Festival on November 28, 2009 with Eric, Aaron, and Nat....this blog is better late than never, right?

We left at 8 am, and drove some 4 hours through country roads and all to get to Plantersville, Tx....

With turkey sticks and corn on the cob, and we enjoyed the parade.

It's Ded Bob!

SHOP til you DROP

Fake jousting rocks....except our jouster fake lost....he just fell off his horse!

Blacksmithing

Awesome replica weapons....these are from Lord of the Rings...Legolas

Awesome wizard....I'll need to dress up next time ;)

#2

I had almost forgot this was on my list.

Today, I organized all my college stuff into 3 boxes, and my medical school stuff into 4. Don't ask me why I need to keep it. Although "pack-rat" may come to mind, at least it's contained in neat stackable boxes!

It may not seem that important, but when STUFF sits around haphazardly this long, it gets annoying.
Now the STUFF will just sit around non-haphazardly.

See George Carlin on "STUFF"

#50

I was Donatello, the teenage mutant ninja turtle, for Halloween!

- Already have: green shirt, yellow tank, bō staff (wrapping paper roll), green flip flops
- Old Navy: green beanie
- Target: yellow boyshorts
- Party City: green tights
- Walmart: Brown shell (dog bed), Brown spray paint
- Hobby Lobby: needle and brown thread, brown fleece material, purple material, elastic, craft wooden letter D
- CVS: green nail polish
Too much stuff to do:
- @ Mom's house :) Cut and sewed the purple mask and brown material for the knee/arm/wrist bands (with a lil' mom and sewing machine help)
- Hand-sewed the elastic to the bands to make them wearable, colored the white elastic with a brown marker
- Cut out holes for the purple mask
- Sewed brown fleece to back of dog bed and stuffed with paper towels
- Pinned strips of brown fleece to dog bed to make it wearable like a back-pack
- Eric spray-painted a wrapping paper roll darker brown, and I wrapped strips of purple material around to make the bō staff
- Used a strip of brown fleece for the belt, but didn't have enough time to super glue the letter D to it :(

...and voilà

Donatello fights the mighty Bebop and Rocksteady!

Awesome Halloween:
- Spurs won against Sacramento Kings, and Ginobili beat down a bat
- The Saint - an awesome gay club complete with costume contest, me downing a Long Island in 5 min, and DANCING!!!

Photo courtesy of Nat....and I lost my belt somewhere on the dance floor

#32

In July, I went to sunny Destin, Florida...sorry for the delay in this post, but I have serious procrastination issues

Monday, June 29

• 4th year orientation = holy frijoles I've got a lot of shit to do + beach thoughts
• Take-offs and landings are the best part of airplane rides
• Expected "turbulence" = Phantom turbulence minus mid-flight drink orders
• Leftover TGIFs = stinky backpack
• Emerald Grande = damn nice hotel

Tuesday, June 30

• "Private" hotel beach = musky green water, seaweed, large rocks = fun
• McGuire's Irish Pub = thousands of dollar bills everywhere + sharpie + stapler + STEAK

Wednesday, July 1

• DEEP SEA FISHING = too much sun + red snapper + sore arms the next day = AWESOME
• Eric + biggest catch = master of deep sea fishing
• Red Snapper restaurant = Place to eat your catches minus slaving over hot stove yourself
• Pat O's Hurricane = not as good as a margarita

Thursday, July 2

• "Back Porch" beach = clear waters + waves + white sand = GOOD BEACH...picture = eric = small dot in the middle
• Thunderstorms in Florida = freakin mini-hurricanes
• Ciao Bella Pizza = decent + filling
• Harry T's Long Island Iced Tea = biggest plastic cup ever
• Club Aqua = Bikini contest = weird

Friday, July 3

• Wave runners = 38 mph = waves minus sore butts minus fall-outs = miracle
• GOOD BEACH again = need those water goggles
• Para-sailing = relaxing 10 minutes
• Dewey Destin Seafood Restaurant = Shrimp and Spinach Alfredo minus filling = need to eat other people's food

Saturday

• Commander's palace restaurant = Replacing your full glass of water + Sorbets in little dishes = Fanciest restaurant ever (25 cent Cosmo = earliest I've ever had alcohol)
• Shopping for souvenirs = headache
• Reading "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" on the plane ride minus Kleenex = Not a good idea

#40

YAY for being a quarter century old! I had an AWESOME birthday weekend!

Friday = Work + Terminator: Salvation + Fox & Hound + Denny's

The Clays

Ian telling me to finish my Long Island

Saturday = sleeping + Half-Price Books + Brindles

The point of this blog...Eric's parents got me a spice rack!

Even before the spice rack, I bought this book....944 pages - gotta start crackin!

Sunday = Work + Mini-golf + Drinking/Joel McHale/Jim Gaffigan/Rock Band + heated marriage debate (Ian vs. The Clays)

top form

Monday = at the 'rents....no picture of it, but I attempted to eat a 2 lb. steak

#49

Last night, we went to "Dollar night" at the Missions game.

Random awesome things:
- High-fiving the Ballapeño
- Sitting in left-field to try and catch all the foul balls
- The wave (multiple times back and forth)
- Dollar drinks
- Sean and Vicki listening to my really bad stories....like how I switched car insurance
- That sweet ass bag of popcorn that Subash bought
- Chanting "Baxter" to our cool left-fielder, Mike Baxter - he was cool
- "It's a moving house!" -Sean
- Nachos and jalapeños
- Singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (now I know to say root root root for "the missions" instead of "home team")
- The Missions winning against the Corpus Christi Hooks!

Next time we'll bring our mitts

Missions over Hooks 2-1