Saw Finding Nemo tonight. Good little movie and quite funny.

We found a bar that has REAL darts here. It’s called the Flea Market, and it actually has a small flea market inside of it. Pretty interesting place, but it was good to play darts!

Things are still going well, and the apartment is looking really nice. My pets are all fine, and I even picked up some guppies. Hopefully I can have some babies sometime, and if I get too many, I guess they will become turtle food. :)

I found a place to play hockey, but that won’t start until September, so I may need to find something else to do. Which reminds me, I have gone running with Kim twice now. The last time we ran 2 1/4 miles. It was too much for me.

I also have a severe ear infection, but I went to an urgent care place and it is getting better.

Well this week I’m really gonna start trying to find a job. Once I run out of things to do around here, I’ll be getting very bored…

Last week was nice cause I only had 3 days of work. Those went by pretty quickly, and I hung out with Kate a bunch! For the 4th Liam, Kate, Steph and I went up to Buckeye Lake for the Fate Hates Us show and some fireworks. The night was really cool, except for I got something in my eye that would not come out. My eye swelled up real bad, because I couldn’t leave it alone. At least that eventually went away but now my eyes are constantly watering, my allergies must have finally caught up to me. The show was sweet, something like 3 or 4 hours long. Friday we went drinking at Liam’s house for the first time in awhile and had fun as usual. Nothing really all too exciting, but fun regardless. Saturday Liam, Fighty, Callsen and I went to Cleveland for the Feeling Better Than Everfine festival show featuring OAR. The show was sweet. OAR played two incredible sets to start and finish off the day/night. Red Wanting Blue was fun to see again, and I really can’t wait to see another one of their shows. I was introduced to a band called Carbon Leaf that was really cool. Pretty jammy, and they had a mandolin player along with the occasional upright bass. I look forward to seeing them again in the future. We of course got drunk cause Weeba and Kraut were there. :) What a great time it was. Last night I relaxed with Kate at Lilo and Stitich, that new Disney movie. It was a fun one, and I tried to catch up on sleep last night. Oh well, a little tired now but I seem to always be anymore…

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…

So friday night, Liam and I drove up to Cleveland for the VACO show. We met a bunch of people up there, including Kraut, b man, adam c, lupson, sam see, tangus, etc. EZ from Woodside Quinn was also at the show, and he told us about the show they were playing in cleveland the next night. The one opening band that we saw, Mojo, was not really that good. The singer they had was very attractive but almost on the dirty side. oooops…. The VACO show was great as usual. I got a recording of it, but gave the discs to tangus so he could run a matrix or something. The girls in Cleveland were a nice treat too, well at least to look at. :) After the show we hung out at Peabody’s for a bit, and then went to Krauts house for some drinking and movie watching.

The next day we decided to stay in town to watch the Woodside Quinn show. For most of the day we sat around Kraut’s and watched movies and basketball. ‘Almost Famous’ is a great movie by the way. I can’t believe I had never seen it before this weekend. So eventually, Liam and I headed to the show. Kraut stayed home to do some ‘work’ since we were distracting him all day. The show was a marathon show of 3.5 hours. I couldn’t believe how many songs they played, something like 28! It is always good to see these guys, even in such a small place with a minimal crowd there to see them.

We finally drove back to cincy today, and I’m just sitting around relaxing right now…

Last night, I went to an advance screening of All About The Banjamins down on campus. It was an another free PAC movie, so Lam was there and fighty came along with me. The movie was alright, but it got tons of laughter from the audience. I’m not complaining, I’m just glad I saw it for free. After that we picked up some beers and went over to Liam’s place to check out the new bar they built in the basement. It was really cool, and I was quite impressed by their carpenter skills. :) I’m not sure what is going on tonight, but I know that tomorrow I’ll be going to Cleveland for another VACO show…

SPRING BREAK IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! I hope my aunt has some luck in getting me and some cousins a beach house on South Beach. No matter what I’ll be in Florida though. :D

I have a new favorite place in town, not that I really had a favorite place in town before, but anyway it is called Newport On The Levee. Technically it is in Northern Kentucky, but it is right across the river from downtown. That is where I went to see We Were Soldiers with Lutz, Halp and Jon. The girls decided not to go, but it’s not really surprising anyway. :) The movie was good and entertaining, not one of the best war movies, but it is worth seeing. The theater down there is amazing, it only cost 6 dollars for us to get in with student id’s, while out here by my house we pay something over 8. The theater was stadium style seating, and the chairs were great, you could move the arm rests out of the way and just kick back. This blows the theaters on this side of the river out of the water.

The area over there is just incredible. It is right by the aquarium and restaurants are popping up all around. It sits right on the river, and is a perfect candidate for a date spot. Now I just need to find the girl, hehe. Well I just had to talk about this place that I hope to visit soon. Oh yeah the pizza place there is where Sara works so I’ll have to get there sometime soon as well…

So last night I wasn’t really in that great of a mood. I guess it was the fact that this Valentines day was the first one in years that I hadn’t been with anyone. Something I did figure out was that it was much cheaper this way. :) So instead of just sitting around being pissy, I decided to venture down to campus to hang out with Fighty and Lam. We went Krogering, well really just to get a good selection of beer, then went to fightys. We listened to the Valentines Day mix cd that Liam brought over, jammed out to a little duckfood, and watched Office Space. That movie will always cheer you up no matter what. It wasn’t anything to terribly exciting, but it worked. We talked about possibly going to Bogart’s, but chose not too since neither of them have much money. It all worked out, and now it’s Friday. Tonight I’m going to the Bearcats Basketball game and do some partying as well. Nothing really big planned but I’m sure it will be fun!

Well thanksgiving was great over at my grandma’s house. She made a ton of food, and of course me and my cousins vowed to eat it all. We ate everything but the sweet potatoes and cranberry stuff. Who wants that crap anyways? So after that, we all passed out on the couches for a while, trying to watch Shrek. That movie was pretty funny from what I saw of it, so maybe I’ll have to try to watch it again sometime. After sleeping for a long time, I woke up and headed to Clifton for an uneventful night down there. Friday night I went to my Aunt Annie’s house for another gathering, since everyone was not able to make it over to grandma’s. I sat around and drank with my cousin Jim all night, until my other cousin Adam came and picked us up. We just bought a bunch of beer and went to his house to drink it all. It was fun, nothing too special, but we did have a late night trip to Perkins, which is always fun. Then last night I went out with all the high school buddies again. Apparently I missed a good party at Bryan’s house the night before. I wish I could have made it there, but I didn’t have my car and I was drunk. So I got to hear all about that, while we drank and played some pool. It was like a high school reunion up there with people from all different classes. Pretty cool to see some of them again, especially Bryan Shova, a kid I played hockey with years ago. Nothing much else went on, except Kelly showing up with all the Clifton guys and somehow convincing me to stay later. I got them to drive me to my car though, so it all worked out. Now I’m at home trying to finish a paper and all the rest of the crap that will be due soon. I just can’t help but procrastinate a little bit more. Have a nice night!