monkey nonsense

i forgot to mention…. this weekend, i re-discovered my awesome skills at games. so in college, i alllllways won! like every game we ever played! ok ok, maybe not all of them… but a very high percentage!

example: freshmen year, i wanted to play cards longer but chubacca wanted to go to bed so we made a deal where we played poker until she won a hand and then we would call it a night. i assumed we’d get maybe 2-3 hands out of it. after like half a hour or so of poker, even i was getting tired… so we decided to change it to blackjack/21 so that she could hurry up and win… man!! she still kept losing!! it was like 3am before we finally went to bed.

so yeah, in college… i was awesome at games. absolutely awesome. i think i still remember a christmas card chubacca gave me one year… where it had a drawing of rudolph playing poker with other reindeers and a bubble saying “Yes!! I WIN! I win again!!” and then inside, it said “why rudolph wasn’t allowed to play any reindeer games” (or something like that). that was me! i was, in case you didn’t pick up on the post up to this point, awesome.

so… after college, i started playing games with my roommates and friends. and very oddly, i sucked at them. my awesomeness was gone. i played like 197834918749183953791 games of settlers before i won my first game. (though i was robbbbbbbed of a victory early on when may… or was it julie… stole the ONE CARD i needed to win) even when i played spades, i don’t think i won! i told them i was awesome at games, but they didn’t believe me because i only lost games around them. (THOUGH, to be fair to myself, they never liked to play games that i was good at… like the drum game, etc.)

so this weekend was a great weekend for me! on saturday night, we were all hanging out in the motel room switching off on guitar hero. so while frankie and geoffrey were playing, chubacca, ren-yi, sunya, and i played uno. uno is a tricky game… really a game of luck because u can never really anticipate when the colors will change or whatnot. but i won ALL THREE games. BOOYEAH! that’s right. my awesome uno strategery at work! and all three games were relatively short ones (because uno games can last quite awhile if no one wins)… one time, i even jumped in late on a game because they were taking too long to win…. and within a few rounds of playing, i had won again!

then, chubacca brought out a new game of hers, flux. she and geoffrey played one time, just the two of them, while i was playing guitar hero. then, i switched off with ren-yi and decided to join the game. i hate instructions… i’m a very impatient person so i like to just go straight into playing. so we started the game and i started to randomly put stuff down. the game is a card-based game so you just need to read each card in your hand and decide how you want to win. basically, after like 2 hands, i thought i could win! but then chubacca foiled my original plan when she changed one of the rules of the game (with a card of hers)… that really only prevented me from winning earlier. after like 2 more rounds, i won. BOOYEAH!

i miss hanging out with people i COMPLETELY DOMINATE in games!

this weekend, i….

Downtown DC to Dulles Airport – ~30 miles
Dulles Airport to Tysons Corner – ~15 miles
Tysons Corner to Baltimore – ~60 miles
Baltimore to Rockville – ~45 miles
Rockville to Baltimore – ~45 miles
Baltimore to Rockville – ~45 miles
Rockville to Dulles Airport – ~30 miles
Dulles Airport to Rockville – ~30 miles
Rockville to Tysons Corner – ~15 miles

A fresh tank of gas…. nearly gone.

But a great weekend!

me: how come no comments on mr. dangles bojangles??
Victoria: ooh
me: a bunch of people commented on the controversial one about heath ledger
me: u commented on juno
Victoria: aha
me: but mr. dangles bojangles gets no love [frown]
Victoria: i wanted to be different?
Victoria: aww
Victoria: well he needs a friend
me: he does! and he’s looking
Victoria: nice
me: actively looking
Victoria: http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBS_enUS231US231&resnum=0&q=dangles+ty+beanie&um=1&ie=UTF-8 has he considered the pink dangles?
me: he’s a little weirded out by that
Victoria: haha
me: he’s more of a traditional monkey
me: believes monkeys should be brown or whatnot
me: more natural colors than pink
Victoria: ahh
me: mr. dangles bojangles is kind of weird too… like he’s shy?
me: but he’s also outgoing
me: like… when i first got him, he couldn’t stop kissing everything!
Victoria: he drinks…i know that much
Victoria: as i’ve seen it
me: hahah yeah
Victoria: oh i remember!
me: he kissed george one time
me: and george… he’s not that open minded
me: to be honest, he’s a little homophobic
me: which is actually kind of ironic…
me: because he likes hanging out with my guy friends
Victoria: oh that must’ve not gone over well with george then haha
me: and, in his words, “doing guy stuff”
me: which makes me feel like he’s trying to compensate for something
Victoria: haha
me: i mean, his voice is kind of high so maybe he’s just a little extra sensitive about his manliness
Victoria: i bought myself a webkinz this weekend. its a duck
me: ok, i’ve analyzed my monkeys too much
Victoria: i call her coconut
me: nice
Victoria: http://www.amazon.com/Webkinz-Duck-Brand-New-Sealed/dp/B0012J2376/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1201190121&sr=8-1
Victoria: she’s shy
Victoria: haha but yes, george might be overcompensating for his voice
me: yeah
me: and maybe that’s why he’s slightly homophobic
me: because he’s afraid people are questioning his manliness
me: sigh
Victoria: oh george…
me: awww coconut is so cute!!
Victoria: at least he hasnt decided he’s gonna like pump iron or anything
me: well, he’s pretty buff to begin with
me: he’s got an washboard stomach
Victoria: does he have iron quads?
Victoria: because you know, quads are VERY important
me: his quads… not so much
me: really, it’s his abs
Victoria: hmm
Victoria: dont tell him about the quads thing
me: mr. dangles bojangles is a little pudgy
me: some times he tries to suck in his gut
Victoria: but he’s cute that way
me: to impress the ladies
me: and by ladies… i mean like my friends
me: i guess not too many lady monkeys come by our apartment
Victoria: that needs to change
Victoria: or you’re gonna go home one day and find yourself in the midst of a raging monkey party
me: hahha
me: i’m not sure i’d be opposed to that… i do like monkeys
Victoria: haha

note: well i’ve updated the title of my post because the westboro baptist church seems to just be a family of crazy psychos. but i guess my point still is that it sucks that people as crazy as this phelps family will claim to be christians. because most people will think they are a real church. a lot of people won’t know that they’re a cult… so they still ruin it for regular christians. because they’re the ones that grab the headlines with their crazy protests and outspoken ways. it really sucks.

i don’t like christians when i hear news such as:

Church Group Vows To Protest Ledger’s Funeral Because of gay film role…
“Yes, WBC will picket this pervert’s funeral, in religious protest and warning: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked.” Gal. 6:7.
”Heath Ledger is now in hell” it continues. “[He] has begun serving his eternal sentence there – beside which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is relevant or consequential.”
“God hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers!”
along with a link to a website godhatesfags for more information.

the man just died. funeral plans haven’t even been announced (and ha! like they’re going to announce it now after you’ve threatened to picket it). i know i haven’t read the bible cover to cover, but i think i missed the part where God uses the word “fag”… and to ignore ALL of Heath Ledger’s contributions to society and say that everything about him was inconsequential is just disgusting. stop using a tragedy to push your own social agenda. that church disgusts me.

it’s churches like that westboro baptist church that turn people against religion. when such outspoken people claim to be christian, they ruin it for everyone… why would i ever want to be associated with christianity when they are acting like such buttheads? i’m ashamed to be christian if they’re christian.

i’m concerned…

mr. dangles bojangles has discovered the internet. the past few times, i’ve come home and found him staring at my compter screen. granted, half the time it’s just my gmail inbox… i guess he likes to watch the MetroAlerts spam come in. but today, i came in and saw this:

looks like he’s been shopping for a mrs. bojangles…

i finally got to see the movie! it was great! very funny, i laughed outloud every few minutes. i liked the music. the story was also very good. i felt like i could relate to juno (and bleeker even!). for example,

sunny d – my mom got all into sunny d when i was in middle (? maybe early high school) school so i had 2 little bottles of sunny d every day for lunch!
blue slurpees – clearly juno has great taste in slurpee flavors… and a knowledge of just how great those slurpees are. they’re a magical, magical elixir… capable of making any stomach ache or stressful problem go away.
tic tacs – i also like to inhale tic tacs like they’re air… tho i prefer the light green ones over the orange ones.

wow… in one movie, 3 of my high school addictions were hit. pretty accurate movie if you ask me! all that was missing was shocktarts…

that’s when i abruptly quit my first job.

not that i’m going to quit my current job… it’s just been a very frustrating few months. projects that never end, but only get bigger and bigger. having to fix bad programming practices that have already found it’s way into like 185791 different places. having one person confirm a bug, wasting 1 week chasing down the problem, only to be told by another person that that’s the way it should be working. finding out problems have been masked for the past 2-3 months by incorrect reporting.

i think i want to just become a professional guitar hero… like stan and kyle on southpark. ‘cept i can’t score one million points… or play acoustically

i always knew that President Harry S. Truman did not have a name for a middle name, but only an initial. but i just found out the reason why… His parents chose “S” as his middle name, in attempt to please both of Harry’s grandfathers, Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young, but it didn’t stand for anything, as was a common practice among Scots-Irish.[1]

my middle name is H. not my middle initial… just my middle name. if you look on my license, it does not have a period following the H. same with my social security card. i need to go home and check to see if my diplomas have a period at the end of it.

it’s good to know that my parents followed this Scot-Irish tradition of picking a middle name that didn’t stand for anything.