Last night me and all the high school buddies went to the Poison concert down at Riverbend. Of course we drank a bunch before and during the concert, that is what we always do. So most of us got pretty drunk. :-) The show was sweet from what I can remember. They didn’t play much new stuff, and they just stuck with the old and good stuff. I was kind of worried about that before the show, but they love Cincy (sorry Kate). Oh yeah speaking of Kate, she is still on vacation, and she didn’t call me once yesterday. :-\ Kind of weird, cause we have talked at least once a day since I can remember. I hope everything is ok, and I guess I’ll just hope she calls today. Well that’s about it, we are off to the VACO show tonight in Columbus…

Most of last week I spend working and hanging out with Kate. It was a good week, except for the working all the time part. :)

On Friday, I drove up to Liam’s parents house in Poland. He drove from there over to Pittsburgh for the Howie Day, OAR, and Clarks show. Pat aka peccer rode with us over to the show as well. We got there fairly early and just hung around the place since the line was too long for us to stand in. Eventually the doors were open and we ended up just jumping in the middle of the line and being probably in the first 100 or so people to get in the place. Liam quickly grabbed a spot close to the stage and I went for something to drink because it was too hot. I chose beer of course and headed back to where Liam was. Soon enough Howie came out and played a cool show. He was in one of those moods, like saying the songs were titled different than they were (“Think Pink” and “WDVE Rocks”) It was a fun show, I just wish I could see him headline sometime. :) OAR put on a good show as well. Pretty typical setlist for the time they were given but “Someone In The Road” was played. Always good to hear that one. The Clarks went on last and I really had a hard time getting into them. They are a decent band, but nothing special I guess. The day was hot and we kept drinking to stay cool. Liam ended up getting pretty buzzed, so we opted to just stay in Pittsburgh with Jenn and Heidi. Thanks to them for helping us out!

The next day we drove back to Liam’s parents. Got ready to go back to Pitt and then we left once again. We got there even earlier this day, so we did some touristy type of things, like riding the incline up the side of the city’s hill and looking out over everything. It was pretty cool. We then got some beers and went back to the car for some tailgating. Eventually we made it to the show, Joe was pretty drunk already. Liam went to the front again, and I tried to get a SBD patch for Howie. No luck with that though. Howie’s setlist was better than the day before, but not as funny. OAR’s set was typical again, but they had very few repeats and the played “King Of The Thing” another one that is always fun. Once again I didn’t pay much attention to the Clarks, and concentrated on my drinking. :) After the show we hit up Perkins then went back to Liam’s to crash for the night.

Sunday, we all woke up and remembered we needed to get to Columbus for the Balloon festival. I drove with Liam (along with all of his shit) and Pat. Balloon fest was hot but pretty cool, minus the mullets of course. We got to see Blues Traveler and that was pretty sweet. I realized I didn’t know many songs, but they still played really well. After that was the battle of the bands. Fate Hates Us played, and they played very well. It sounded sweet there, and I have a recording of it so we’ll see how that comes out. I think that they honestly should have one, but the judges were old and like the Jazz/Funk band 30 East better. I knew it was going to happen, but at least John Popper loved the way FHU sounded. He was actually on stage and talked to the guys afterwards. Very cool.

That sums up my weekend. This week is back to work, and Kate is on vacation as well. This could be fairly boring, but I think I have some setup stuff for Pig-Fest that should keep me busy. I am very excited for this party, it should be the best yet!

Go out to your local Best Buy store and buy Howie Day’s “Australia.” It is only $5.99 (at least this week) and is a great disc. I haven’t been able to find it in stores around here, so let me know if you have any success…

Vacation was a blast. It basically consisted of sitting on the beach during the day building sand castles, sunning myself, swimming, drinking, etc. and then the nights were dinner followed by more drinking, but this time heavily. The regulars were me and my two cousins Adam and Gina. I never really hung out with Gina much before, but Adam and I both got to know her really well and vice versa. I had a ton of fun with those two and whoever else came out with us. The favorite places of the weekend were Crocodile Rocks, a very cool piano bar where we ended up making friends with the owner who is one of the performers, and a place we affectionately called the “Shitty Bar”, but we had some great times there. I think we all had a great time, and it went by quicker than we thought.

While we were gone, our pool in the backyard collapsed. We spent a good chunk of yesterday evening tearing down parts of the deck so that we could take all of the liner and walls of the pool out. It’s pretty shitty because we won’t have a pool for Pig-Fest. But on the other hand, we are turning the main part of the pool deck into a stage for the party. I guess that is about the only good thing to come out of this.

Kate and I have just been chilling the past couple nights. We did go to a little party of hers the other night, but nothing too crazy. We still love to kill time and stay up late at night. It makes working kind of hard, but it is worth every minute of it. :) She is leaving soon for vacation, so we’ll be apart again. Oh well, I guess we’ll just have to live up the time we have together…

Yes! It is vacation time. Well very soon it will be. We are leaving at midnight tonight for Myrtle Beach. Lots of people from my mom’s side of the family are going down there. It should be a good time. The weird thing is that I will be away from Kate for a long time. I have been spending tons of time with her lately and having a great time! Everything will be fine, it is just weird. :) I hope everyone has a nice summer. Oh yeah, school is over for me. It felt good to do pretty much nothing the last few days, and I have a whole week full of nothing coming up. Yeah! Well take care everyone, I guess I should pack something…

The last week of class is over! I only have 4 finals and then I am done for the summer, and that would be wrapping up my 4th year. Wow time flies by. Anyway, I’ve been having tons of fun again this week and this weekend thus far. A few drunk nights recently, but Kate puts up with me somehow. :) I went to my first red’s game of the year last night, and of course they sucked. The rain delay for over an hour wasn’t fun either. Oh well after the game was over and I spent all my money on beer, I got to drink for free out of kegs for the rest of the night. Tonight I think I am going with Kate and probably Steph and Liam down to Newport to watch a band. After that I think we will probably just party over at Liam’s house. Kate doesn’t have to work tomorrow morning, yeah!!!! If you are still in school I hope finals go well for you…

Could I seriously have any more fun than I am at this time in my life? I don’t know if it’s possible. I’ll just say that this weekend was another great one, and that Kate is the best! More to come later, it’s late and I have a presentation in the morning…

I shouldn’t skip class anymore. I totally forgot that I had to turn in homework in Operating Systems today and I skipped it. Damn I feel dumb now. The good news is that we only have this week and next week left of class. Always a nice feeling, but I just wish I could figure my damn scheduling out. I’ve been looking at it and trying to figure out what the hell I need to take for my last year of college. Enough about school, I don’t have class tomorrow. :)

These past few days I have been spending as much time as possible with Kate, and I’m still not tired of her yet. :) I have just been having so much fun with her. Monday night we watched a movie over at Jessica’s house for the second week in a row. Then Liam and I both stayed over in her and Steph’s room. Tuesday I went out with all the high school boys for a bit. It was good to see some of them that I hadn’t seen in a long time. We always have a good time. Then I went over to Kate’s again and crashed with her again. Always a great time!!! I really can’t get enough of her…

Tonight we are going to grab a bite to eat and then possibly head to a show with Liam and Steph. I’m sure it will be fun whatever we end up doing. It’s a good thing when time flies by when you are with someone, isn’t it? We are officially the masters of killing time with good times…

Yeah so as of Friday I am taken. Sorry ladies. :) Seriously though, I couldn’t be happier right now!!! Kate is an amazing person and such a sweetheart…

Let’s see, the past few days…

Thursday night, we did not get a quarter barrel like originally planned, I just bought $60 in alcohol instead. I did get paid back though. We just did some partying over at Liam’s. It was a good time!

Friday I went to all my classes but one. What a surprise huh? Later on that night we just partied it up at Liam’s house again. Wait I think it was this night that I bought a ton of alcohol. Oh well, not really important. Fighty and I had some practicing to do so we played, and played, and played. 3 hours and 54 songs or partial songs later we decided to quit. :) Peter and Mark were jamming with us, and our version of Delicate Few was SIC! Eventually it was time for some sleep, so Kate, Liam, Steph and I went up to their dorm room. Always fun times there…

Saturday we were off to Columbus for the OAR show. What a drunk time that was. I don’t remember much past 2 AM, and apparently I was still drinking then. All I know is that it was fun, and I would do it again. I’m not gonna say much more about it right now, maybe later. But it is always good to see everyone again, especially Weeba who I haven’t seen in quite some time. We are guaranteed some drunk times together.

Tonight I went out to dinner and a movie with Kate. I finally ate at that Dewey’s pizza place. It is very good. Then we went and saw STAR WARS! I was really impressed with this one. I recommend everyone should see it, and do it soon. I guess it was really me and Kate’s first date. That is pretty funny if you think about it, but we are often in a group of people. It was a very good time, the best ‘first date’ I have had. :) She seriously makes me so happy, and I really hope it stays that way.

Alright it’s late and I’m worn out. Off to bed, take care…

Wow, I have been busy. Let’s see Sunday I just played a hockey game and rested up the rest of the night for the new week.

Monday I had another hockey game, then I headed to Clifton for what I thought would be an early night. It definitely was not, and it was the start of a very awesome week. Liam and I met up with Kate and Steph and headed over to Jessica’s house to watch a movie with her and Nick. We started with Cool Runnings, which I hadn’t seen in quite some time but always love to see. Kate was trying to study the whole time, but we were really distracting her. The test looked easy enough anyways, and I think she did good on it. After that movie was done, we put in Almost Famous. I really like this movie and was glad everyone decided on this one. I made it pretty far into the movie but eventually feel asleep for parts of it We walked the girls back home and by this time it was like 4 AM. I decided to just stay at Liam’s house and go to his early class with him since I would actually get more sleep then if I drove home.

So I went to his history of jazz and pop music class and learned about Rastafarians and Reggae. Pretty cool class. I went to a few of my classes, and then went with Kate to her Human Sexuality class. Here I got learn all about signals that girls give to guys and I realized how bad I am at picking them up, especially when Kate was telling me about the signals she had used the first night we met. I must have just been too busy playing Moose to realize. About signals though, is a lap dance one of them? :) It was a very interesting class, and the prof. is always very funny. I think I have been to that class 4 or 5 times and I have never been registered for it. After class, I decided to run some errands with Kate. We went out to her Dad’s house in West Chester where I got to meet him and Kate’s younger sister as well, oh yeah all the pets too! We ran around to do some errands, I got some tickets for this weekends OAR concert in Columbus for Fighty, Lenny and myself. It should be a hell of a time, especially since Weeba is coming up for this one. I have some of my drunkest moments with that kid. :) We also had to take her car into the shop to get fixed, and after all that was done we headed to Max & Erma’s for some dinner. I have really only been there a few times, but it is really good. She works there so we got a very cheap bill, and she even paid for it. What a girl! From there I had to some studying so we went back down to campus and I went up with her to her dorm room. I tried to study for many many hours but it just wasn’t working very well. I left there about 1 and headed home, the whole time thinking how great of a day it was.

The next day, my test sucked badly, but I tried my best. After all that Liam and I tried to find a house again. Yes, we are still looking for a place to live next year, but I have a feelings we’ll figure it all out soon. I had yet another hockey game, but this one was the best one yet. Kate came and saw our first victory. My mom also came, and my brother officially joined our team for the summer. We headed to the bar at the rink for a few drinks and the older guys were all buying pitchers to celebrate the victory. It was cool, but we had to head to the Saloon because it was a Wed. night! I even got my mom and brother to come out for a bit. It was a great time, and I did a little singing for my mommy and for Kate of course.

These last couple days have been amazing, it’s hard when they end. There is just something about this girl, but I am so happy when I’m around her, and I know you are reading this now Kate. I have to watch what I say, just kidding. :)

Tonight we are having a huge group dinner at Don Pablo’s followed up with some drinking and practicing for this weekends show over at Liam’s. It should be another fantastic day…