Archive for July, 2004
Test Drive
Today, I hung out with Renee. We went to look at cars. I’ve been considering getting a new car for a while now (I don’t have the money for one yet, but my car isn’t exactly running like a charm). I took the Honda Civic EX (nice version), 4 door automatic for a test drive. Mine (if I purchase one) would look something like this, except the blue is a little darker in real life.
I liked it, but it didn’t particularly impress me. Although, I can’t say that I expected it to. I still have yet to test drive the Toyota Camry, which until today was leading in my car debate. Actually driving the Camry may change my mind. Why the Civic vs. the Camry (and not the Civic/Corolla or Accord/Camry)? Well, I like the Camry much more than the Corolla, and I dislike the Accord. So, because I’m comparing cars of unequal classes and prices, it makes the decision more interesting than normal.
2 comments July 14, 2004
Better, Hung Out with Nicole, Lexi
Saturday’s youth group reunion was more fun than I expected it to be. I talked to Michelle and Amanda a lot. We played volleyball for a while, which was nice since I haven’t played in probably a year or two. Amanda, her boyfriend Tom and I went to Dairy Queen. The three of us and Michelle were supposed to go to some karaoke bar in Bartlett, but Michelle never called.
That night, Nicole and I went to Cue Can Do, which is a bar (apparently with a cover charge, I had no idea) that has pool. Nicole and I got a table and we played some 8 Ball (and she beat me once even though she’d hardly ever played before). Then some guy bought us drinks. We thought that was cool and kept playing. Then he comes by and talks to us, which was okay, and he wanted us to go to some football game. We said, “Sure,” but I can’t say I ever intended on going. So anyway, we go back to our drinks and they’ve risen in amount left by a significant amount. Nicole’s, for one, was almost gone before we talked to the guy, but then when we came back it was at least 3/4 full. Needless to say we were quite weirded out. We didn’t drink any more of our free drinks and left shortly after. We went back to my house and watched The Fast and the Furious. It was definitely an entertaining night.
Yesterday, I hung out with Lexi, Scott (Lexi’s husband), Rich (their friend) and Bill (Scott’s brother). We went to Portillo’s, then bowling. After that, Lexi and I went to the mall (which was sadly mostly closed), and back to Scott’s parents’ place for a game of UFO. After that, we went to T.G.I. Friday’s on Army Trail for NTN (that trivia game thing). So we’re doing that for a while, and Dan, the karaoke guy from the other T.G.I. Friday’s (on Saturday nights, I usually go with Renee and Michelle), shows up to do karaoke there. I had no idea they did karaoke there (and neither did anyone else we went with), and we ended up sticking around to sing some songs. I did And All That Jazz, because none of the people there (aside from Dan) had heard me sing it. Lexi was really shocked. She kept saying, “I had no idea,” and “That was so hot.” I’m glad I was amusing. A while after that, we went home.
Last night was one of the first times in the past week or two that I felt completely not depressed. I think it helps to be social and hang out with people. It’s hard for me to feel good about myself when I’m sitting at home playing Gunbound all day, I suppose.
July 12, 2004
Still Feeling like Crap
In spite of my efforts, nothing has gotten particularly better. I’ve been playing a lot of GunBound lately, and I’m almost a double sided metal axe plus now. I still don’t know for sure if my computer is stable.
Right now, I’m very behind on everything. I feel like I did sometimes during the semester, when I felt like I couldn’t catch up with everything I was supposed to do, no matter how hard I tried. So, I don’t really know what to do. Tonight, I’m going to do something with Nicole, but given that we’re both a couple of homebodies/workbodies lately, I don’t know what we’re gonna do yet. I still shouldn’t drink, so that narrows it down a bit. And now to check off to do list item number two.
July 10, 2004
Job Offer Call Back, Car Problems
Yesterday I did finish everything on my to do list, but I felt no better than mediocre all day. I must be worse off than I thought. Finishing a rather large to do list usually makes me feel good. I applied to four jobs.
Today was very similar to yesterday in how I felt. I did, however, get a phone call from Serena Sturm Architects, one of the jobs I applied for yesterday. The job is for a Marketing Coordinator that has many management-esque tasks as well. The company is only about 13-15 people, and the marketing department would consist of this job and the Marketing Director. It sounds very interesting, and more like what I want to be doing than what TravelCLICK was. They’re doing phone interviews for this position next week. We’ll see if I get one.
On the down side, my car started doing that “not accelerating” thing again. It’s only slight now, but I know it will progress to a “Check Engine” light soon. After that, it will be back to the dealer for some more (free, since it’d be the third time replacing them in the past month) faulty spark plugs and wires. Let’s hope that this time they’re not as faulty as the last two sets.
July 8, 2004
Gunbound, stuff
In spite of what I thought I’d do yesterday, I played Gunbound almost all day and installed most of my games on my new hard drive. I was very unproductive. I think it affected my mood, since I was very blah yesterday. I didn’t feel like doing anything, and I was just pouty. So, last night I wrote up a to do list for today (a la Franklin Covey), and thought today would be better if I was able to check some of those things off.
So far, today is better than yesterday. I worked out for the first time since I can’t remember when. I watched two episodes of Futurama while on the elliptical. I was hoping that would boost my mood (since working out usually releases something that gives you energy and such). I must have been feeling pretty crappy since I’m just okay now. Well, there’s more left to do on my to do list, so we’ll see how the rest of the day goes.
July 7, 2004
Back to Normal
Saturday was a lot of fun. I’m glad that almost everyone was able to go. The fireworks didn’t happen, but I ended up watching them on Sunday anyway. The karaoke and minigolf were as good as could be expected. I’m glad it wasn’t raining for the minigolf and that we finally got a booth by the karaoke thing in Friday’s that the younguns could sit at. It’s the stupid new manager at Friday’s, I know it. Yep.
On Sunday, Katy left and we took Alex home. Then Alan, my dad and I went to my grandma’s for the 4th of July party. We watched “The Missing” and “Master and Commander” on her new gigantic HDTV (something like 74″). Alan and I (with my parents) saw the fireworks, and that was very nice. Spending that time with him felt special, similar to how it felt last year when we saw the fireworks in his town.
On Monday, Alan and I went to El Faro’s. It is truly fantastic Mexican food, although Alan isn’t particularly fond of Mexican food or lettuce, so I’m not sure he enjoyed it. For dinner we went to Omega, which is one of the only decent restaurants (non-chain, anyway) in my area. It was, well, decent, and not particularly great, but what can you do. After that I took Alan to Will, who drove him home.
So now it’s Tuesday, and I got my replacement BenQ FP731 LCD in the mail. Finally. It seems to be working fine (no blue screens yet, knock on wood) with my new video card and motherboard. That’s a good sign. I can’t tell if it has any dead pixels, so I think there are none. Every time I think I see one, I just push on the screen a little with my finger and it goes away. It’s very strange, but I won’t complain. Maybe I will get a second one of these.
TravelCLICK is pretty much done with. I rejected their offer, primarily because it would be just doing ROIs (return on investment analyses), which is what I was doing most of last summer, and nothing else – in the job description. In all likeliness, I would be assigned to many VBA projects (also like last summer) which are worth much more than what I would be getting paid (not to mention, what I would be getting paid was low for an analyst anyway). In short, I would be doing something I dislike along with something that’s remotely interesting, but only being paid for doing what I dislike. I guess it’s back to the drawing board.
July 6, 2004
Bleech
Alan’s here, and we have been watching Futurama most of the time. We went to see Spiderman 2 last night, and I was overwhelmingly not impressed with it. Predictable and uninteresting. Of course, I’ll post about it on my forum sometime soon.
My car is fixed. I can hardly believe it. It rides like a whole new car, instead of like a car that should look 10 years older. Stupid dealers put in a bad spark plug wire that ended up scarring my tubey thing because it wasn’t putting the electricity where it should go. Bleech.
Anyway, tonight is the outing, and these are the plans:
5:30 – Meet at Karen’s house
6:00 – Dinner at Giordano’s
8:00 – Minigolf at Congo River
9:45 – Fireworks in Schaumburg (they’re displayed after the Flyers baseball game)
10:30 (or whenever the fireworks are over) – Karaoke at TGI Fridays
July 3, 2004
Alan & Other Activities This Weekend
Well, after a slight bus problem, Alan is getting a ride to the suburbs from Will tonight really late. He’s getting driven back (also by Will) on Monday. I’m so glad all that is finally nailed down – and that I don’t have to drive 10 hours this weekend.
Saturday is going to be a big day. I’m working on getting everybody from floor 8 HH last year together (and others are welcome of course) to go to fireworks and karaoke. If you’re interested (and you haven’t received an email about it by the end of the day today), give me a call or email me. You could leave a comment too, since I get those emailed to me, if that’s easier. I still have a lot of planning to do for that though.
I’ve got a lot to do (clean my room, shower, pick up El Faro’s – awesome Mexican food – and schedule this thing for Saturday), so I’m gonna go.
July 1, 2004
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