I've managed to unpack most of my things and I am enjoying living on my own.
I had training for two days at work last week, so that was a nice break from work. Tony, an old, funny Chinese guy and one of my mentors at work wants me to go snowboarding with him and a bunch of my coworkers on my team, but I told him maybe next year. I've gone snowboarding and skiing before, but with my experience it was never fun for me. Sure, I probably didn't like it because I was new and fell a lot... but it's also just too cold and dangerous for me to consider it fun. I want to like it, so maybe next year. Besides, it's pretty expensive to get all of the right gear that i would need.
Friday night I went to a coworker's house to hang out. He had a bunch of us over and we listened to music, played some Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox, and drank a little. After a while my coworker's left execpt for Drew and myself. Then it got a little awkward as other people came over that we didn't know. They all looked 17 or 18 but claimed to be 20. I don't know why but I didn't leave until after 1 am...
Saturday I got up real early to go to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Qualifier. There were about 280 players all competing for the one Pro Tour ticket to San Diego and lots of prizes. Each player recieved 6 booster packs to make a deck out of, and it was Swiss pairing all the way. My card pool was very strong, but I made some mistakes and didn't have the luck needed to go all the way. I finished 5-4 after 9 rounds, which isn't too too bad. Only got 3 boosters as a prize for finishing in 53rd place.
We went to my friend Jamie's house after to hang out. Some of us wanted to go to a Chinese Buffet for dinner, but others wanted to have delivery, so we ordered a ton of Chinese food to simulate a buffet at home. The only thing I had to eat all day was a fun sized Kit-kat bar, so I made sure we ordered a ton of food! It was too much though, we couldn't finish it..
Today I'm watching football games and my fantasy team continue to go undefeated as it goes 11-0. I need to prepare for a presentation type thing that I need to do at work to explain what I learned a training a few weeks ago. My boss is just trying to scare me, so I'm not worried about it. I'll throw something together and prepare some handouts and I will make it a casual conversation as opposed to a formal presentation.
Sorry I've been neglectful and I hope you all have been doing well.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Broken Heart in a New Place
It feels like every time I come here to post, something drastic has happened in my life. Well, hopefully that will change soon as I get settled in my new place. Since the last post, Anthony broke up with me. I thought our relationship was very strong, all the way up until Halloween and after. We shared so much affection for each other, but then last week I noticed he wasn't acting the same. He was almost trying to avoid talking to me online and he made up excuses for when I asked if he'd like to see my new place this weekend. So I asked him if something happened, because I felt like something was different, and he just replies that he wants to break up... I really don't know what to think of it all, I mean we had a good thing going and he just all of a sudden lost interest. I don't get it. I really liked him, and I think I'm slowly getting over it, but I think I'm going to take a good break from trying to date anyone right now. I just can't handle another set back.
So I finally have a place to live, and I'm all moved in now. I just have to unpack and organize everything. I do enjoy living on my own now; I have a greater sense of freedom here.
Friday night my friend Jamie called me up to see if I needed help moving some things with his truck. I said yeah, then he also wanted to know if I'd like to come with him to a Magic: the Gathering friday night draft event. I was still feeling down about Anthony, so I was really glad he called me up. I had a good time and I played two sanctioned drafts and did surprisingly well in them, considering I haven't seen the card set until that night.
All day Saturday I was moving stuff between apartments and buying food and stuff for the new place.
Today, I finished moving stuff over and Jamie calls me again and wants to see if I'm interested in playing a Magic sealed deck tournament. I didn't have time to play the whole thing, so I just went over and watched him play for a little bit. Afterwards, I did some more shopping for apartment stuff and then I went out to meet Bob for dinner at Chuck's steakhouse in MA. I had a really good time with a great friend once again.
Thanks for everything.
So I finally have a place to live, and I'm all moved in now. I just have to unpack and organize everything. I do enjoy living on my own now; I have a greater sense of freedom here.
Friday night my friend Jamie called me up to see if I needed help moving some things with his truck. I said yeah, then he also wanted to know if I'd like to come with him to a Magic: the Gathering friday night draft event. I was still feeling down about Anthony, so I was really glad he called me up. I had a good time and I played two sanctioned drafts and did surprisingly well in them, considering I haven't seen the card set until that night.
All day Saturday I was moving stuff between apartments and buying food and stuff for the new place.
Today, I finished moving stuff over and Jamie calls me again and wants to see if I'm interested in playing a Magic sealed deck tournament. I didn't have time to play the whole thing, so I just went over and watched him play for a little bit. Afterwards, I did some more shopping for apartment stuff and then I went out to meet Bob for dinner at Chuck's steakhouse in MA. I had a really good time with a great friend once again.
Thanks for everything.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Halloween, Superman, and The Boondock Saints
Sorry I haven't been posting. It feels like there is too much turmoil going on even when there isn't. When I move into my new place and get settled I'll have more time to post. No, I don't officially have a new place yet, but I've looked at quite a number of places and I'm looking at the last tomorrow, which I think has the most potential to be my new place.
Thursday night Anthony took me to see The Boondock Saints double feature at a theater in Rhode Island. I was skeptical about the sequal, but I must say it was definitely good. You must go see it and if you haven't seen the first one, then go out and buy it on DVD. Don't even rent it buy it. Then go see the sequal :D
Tomorrow, Halloween, I'm going to Anthony's friend - Ashley's house to watch horror flicks and drink. Ashley is Anthony's best friend and it's their tradition to watch scary movies and drink together on Halloween, so they both wanted me to come join them. They also dress up >_> and are wearing Legends of the Hidden Temple shirts. I've decided to come dressed as Superman, with a Superman t-shirt under a white button-down shirt and fake dorky-glasses. I also picked out the perfect drink to bring. I got Midori Melon Liquor and Absolut Mango Vodka and Sprite. And to top it off I bought green glow sticks as a garnish! I'm calling it Kryptonite! :D
Thursday night Anthony took me to see The Boondock Saints double feature at a theater in Rhode Island. I was skeptical about the sequal, but I must say it was definitely good. You must go see it and if you haven't seen the first one, then go out and buy it on DVD. Don't even rent it buy it. Then go see the sequal :D
Tomorrow, Halloween, I'm going to Anthony's friend - Ashley's house to watch horror flicks and drink. Ashley is Anthony's best friend and it's their tradition to watch scary movies and drink together on Halloween, so they both wanted me to come join them. They also dress up >_> and are wearing Legends of the Hidden Temple shirts. I've decided to come dressed as Superman, with a Superman t-shirt under a white button-down shirt and fake dorky-glasses. I also picked out the perfect drink to bring. I got Midori Melon Liquor and Absolut Mango Vodka and Sprite. And to top it off I bought green glow sticks as a garnish! I'm calling it Kryptonite! :D
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Boyfriend
Last weekend Anthony came over again, this time he spent the night on Saturday. We drank beer again, more pumpkin ales. This time I got Harvest Moon, Dogfish Head Punkin Ale, and Jack's Pumpkin Spice. We got more drunk this weekend than last because the Dogfish Head was at least 7% alc./volume. It was also a very good pumpkin ale. If we keep this up every weekend, we're going to consider ourselves beer connoisseurs. We ended up watching Coraline, Drag Me to Hell, and bits and pieces of War of the Worlds and Scream and I was singing along to The Nightmare Before Christmas by the end of the night @_@; I say we saw bits and pieces of some movies because we were 'distracting' each other ^_^.
Tuesday night Anthony and I saw Where the Wild Things Are, which was a nicely done movie. I enjoyed it. Wednesday, last night, I drove to meet him at his house in RI, so that I could attend his screening of Drag Me to Hell at his film club. He was presenting it and thought it would be nice if I attended, so I did. I met a few of his friends, all of which are girls, and then we went to Chili's for a nice late night dinner. I told him I had a good time, even though I don't think I was showing it. On my way back he sent me a text saying that I made his day, and thank you :). It made me happy.
Right now I'm still looking at apartment options, desperately trying to find something cheaper than the one I will sign on Saturday. I think I'll try to leave work early and look at studio apartments... I'm really trying to be cheap now while I can, to pay off debt.
Tomorrow I'll be meeting Anthony again in RI to go to a haunted factory. I think it's like a haunted house, but instead it's a factory XD. Afterwards we're going to go to a bar with some of his friends he wants me to meet.
Saturday he plans to come over again to watch more DVDs. I've already got the beer purchased :P. Magic Hat and Post Road Pumpkin Ale. Plus I have a few bottles left over from last weekend, so we've got plenty.
Oh, forgot to mention: Yes we are boyfriends now. He asked me last weekend if it would be ok to introduce me as his boyfriend to his friends. :P I said yeah, and asked if he considered us boyfriends. He said yeah :P. So he popped the question before I did, which was a relief to me.
Tuesday night Anthony and I saw Where the Wild Things Are, which was a nicely done movie. I enjoyed it. Wednesday, last night, I drove to meet him at his house in RI, so that I could attend his screening of Drag Me to Hell at his film club. He was presenting it and thought it would be nice if I attended, so I did. I met a few of his friends, all of which are girls, and then we went to Chili's for a nice late night dinner. I told him I had a good time, even though I don't think I was showing it. On my way back he sent me a text saying that I made his day, and thank you :). It made me happy.
Right now I'm still looking at apartment options, desperately trying to find something cheaper than the one I will sign on Saturday. I think I'll try to leave work early and look at studio apartments... I'm really trying to be cheap now while I can, to pay off debt.
Tomorrow I'll be meeting Anthony again in RI to go to a haunted factory. I think it's like a haunted house, but instead it's a factory XD. Afterwards we're going to go to a bar with some of his friends he wants me to meet.
Saturday he plans to come over again to watch more DVDs. I've already got the beer purchased :P. Magic Hat and Post Road Pumpkin Ale. Plus I have a few bottles left over from last weekend, so we've got plenty.
Oh, forgot to mention: Yes we are boyfriends now. He asked me last weekend if it would be ok to introduce me as his boyfriend to his friends. :P I said yeah, and asked if he considered us boyfriends. He said yeah :P. So he popped the question before I did, which was a relief to me.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Chinese dinner date
Just got back from our date tonight. Pandorum wasn't playing anymore, so we decided to get some Chinese for dinner instead. We were planning on going to a place called "Uncle Chong's Chinese Restaurant", but apparently it doesn't exist anymore. Luckily my GPS knows of any local places to eat, so I had it find me the nearest Chinese place and we ate there. Wasn't bad food, it was actually one of the nicer Chinese restaurants I've been to. We talked in the parking lot for a little while aftwards. It was freeeezing out there though. He told me to wear more layers next time :P We finished with a hug and a kiss. He's going to be coming over again this Saturday, hopefully he'll be able to spend the night. If it doesn't come up before then, I'm definetly going to ask him if he'd be my boyfriend. My first boyfriend :]
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday movie marathon
Sunday was the big day with Anthony. First, I got up and went to the owner of the shared home I had signed up for to get my check back. Thankfully he had it ready and it was over pretty quickly. Then I got back and really cleaned up my room since it needed...
Anthony came over a little after 2PM and we started our movie marathon. We saw A Nightmare on Elm Street first. It was alright I guess, a little slow, but ok. Then we watched Kill Bill, which is always amazing. Next came Halloween. This is when we started with the beer. At this point we are mostly just talking and not paying attention to the movie though, but he's filling me in as it goes along. I had a bunch of questions, mainly since I don't think the movie Halloween makes much sense to me. But we put the next movie in, Kill Bill vol. 2, and he definitely missed a lot of it while we talked. He was gradually shifting his body to face me as we sat on my bed. He was getting touchy and kind of just leaned in and we started to kiss. It was a long first kiss between us, or at least it felt that way. We then kind of just talked about how we both wanted to on previous dates but neither of us had the guts in front of other people. So we keep drinking, talking, and making out off and on throughout that movie and through the next one, which was Hellraiser. I couldn't tell you anything about the plot of that movie, I was completely distracted ;P Our kissing kept getting more and more intense, and he even took my shirt off at one point and was just feeling my chest.
After Hellraiser he wanted me to show him how to play Call of Duty 4, so we both took turns playing between deaths for a little bit, then he realized it was really late, so he had to go. He had Monday off from school, but I didn't have the day off of work, so I still had to get up the next morning. Man, did I have a headache this morning. Thankfully it wore off mid-day though, but my lip was sore all day :P
We are going to see Pandorum in theaters tomorrow night, should be fun!
Anthony came over a little after 2PM and we started our movie marathon. We saw A Nightmare on Elm Street first. It was alright I guess, a little slow, but ok. Then we watched Kill Bill, which is always amazing. Next came Halloween. This is when we started with the beer. At this point we are mostly just talking and not paying attention to the movie though, but he's filling me in as it goes along. I had a bunch of questions, mainly since I don't think the movie Halloween makes much sense to me. But we put the next movie in, Kill Bill vol. 2, and he definitely missed a lot of it while we talked. He was gradually shifting his body to face me as we sat on my bed. He was getting touchy and kind of just leaned in and we started to kiss. It was a long first kiss between us, or at least it felt that way. We then kind of just talked about how we both wanted to on previous dates but neither of us had the guts in front of other people. So we keep drinking, talking, and making out off and on throughout that movie and through the next one, which was Hellraiser. I couldn't tell you anything about the plot of that movie, I was completely distracted ;P Our kissing kept getting more and more intense, and he even took my shirt off at one point and was just feeling my chest.
After Hellraiser he wanted me to show him how to play Call of Duty 4, so we both took turns playing between deaths for a little bit, then he realized it was really late, so he had to go. He had Monday off from school, but I didn't have the day off of work, so I still had to get up the next morning. Man, did I have a headache this morning. Thankfully it wore off mid-day though, but my lip was sore all day :P
We are going to see Pandorum in theaters tomorrow night, should be fun!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Url and housing changes
Hey followers, I just want to let you know that I changed the url of my blog. It was previously skipintothenight.blogspot.com and now it is unwaveringtruth.blogspot.com. I'd rather have a cooler name, but I already changed it and it was hard to find something available :P
Anyway, I'm sorry that I did that, but I chose to do that instead of making my blog private. I had foolishly given my blog link to Josh in hopes that he would see how much I was hurting and so that he could remember the good times we had, but I was wrong. I had a fight with him last night. It turns out that the root of the reason he is leaving me is because his GF hates me for what I did. Apparently he'd ditch his friend just to please his GF. So I can't even attempt to be friends with him if she won't let him. He's blind, insecure, and homophobic. I never saw this coming, but now I think it was for the best.
Today I responded to an ad for a shared home on craigslist. It was only 600/month with all utilies included and I got my own bedroom, bathroom, and living area. The kitchen was also very nice. Only thing is, I'm sharing a home with a 60 year old stranger. At first I was really excited that I found a good deal, I even gave him a check for next months rent already. But came back home and called my mom to tell her the good news and she wasn't very happy, she was worried in fact. I felt I had made a rash decision and I felt I truly couldn't be comfortable in a shared home, so I called him and told him I was withdrawing and asked him if I could come pick up my check. He said yeah, that I can, so I will be picking it up tomorrow at noon. I really felt bad for doing that, but i just need to stick it out and find a single apartment somewhere.
Tomorrow Anthony is coming over at 2 to start our movie marathon. He asked me what kind of beer I liked so that he could bring it over, lol. I really think he just wants to loosen me up, but it's cool I probably could use it and I know we aren't going to home base, it wouldn't happen this suddenly, but maybe second or third ;) I went out and bought 2 six packs, one of Jacks Pumpkin Spice and the other is Hooker Oktoberfest. Hooker is a Connecticut only beer that is pretty much amazing. I went to their distillery once, they were having an all you can drink "taste test" night, so I got to taste a wide variety of their flavors, and they were all awesome.
So tonight I am cleaning up my room and doing laundry to get ready for tomorrow. I hope you all are having a great weekend, and sorry again for changing my url.
-Shane
Anyway, I'm sorry that I did that, but I chose to do that instead of making my blog private. I had foolishly given my blog link to Josh in hopes that he would see how much I was hurting and so that he could remember the good times we had, but I was wrong. I had a fight with him last night. It turns out that the root of the reason he is leaving me is because his GF hates me for what I did. Apparently he'd ditch his friend just to please his GF. So I can't even attempt to be friends with him if she won't let him. He's blind, insecure, and homophobic. I never saw this coming, but now I think it was for the best.
Today I responded to an ad for a shared home on craigslist. It was only 600/month with all utilies included and I got my own bedroom, bathroom, and living area. The kitchen was also very nice. Only thing is, I'm sharing a home with a 60 year old stranger. At first I was really excited that I found a good deal, I even gave him a check for next months rent already. But came back home and called my mom to tell her the good news and she wasn't very happy, she was worried in fact. I felt I had made a rash decision and I felt I truly couldn't be comfortable in a shared home, so I called him and told him I was withdrawing and asked him if I could come pick up my check. He said yeah, that I can, so I will be picking it up tomorrow at noon. I really felt bad for doing that, but i just need to stick it out and find a single apartment somewhere.
Tomorrow Anthony is coming over at 2 to start our movie marathon. He asked me what kind of beer I liked so that he could bring it over, lol. I really think he just wants to loosen me up, but it's cool I probably could use it and I know we aren't going to home base, it wouldn't happen this suddenly, but maybe second or third ;) I went out and bought 2 six packs, one of Jacks Pumpkin Spice and the other is Hooker Oktoberfest. Hooker is a Connecticut only beer that is pretty much amazing. I went to their distillery once, they were having an all you can drink "taste test" night, so I got to taste a wide variety of their flavors, and they were all awesome.
So tonight I am cleaning up my room and doing laundry to get ready for tomorrow. I hope you all are having a great weekend, and sorry again for changing my url.
-Shane
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