8 posts tagged “dennis evans”
Every year, around this time of the month, the end of October through the first week of November seems to be a busy week no matter what's happening. Look at last year ...
Halloween, we were busy Chipotle hopping throughout the Springs. When I say "we," I'm talking about me and my Harrison Crew. Then we celebrated Joy's birthday and then later in the week, the first ever Powder Puff Game at Harrison before finishing that weekend off with our "Hotel Gathering" at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.
Again, that was last year.
This year, things are a little different. We're no longer in high school, and most of us don't really keep in touch with each other anymore, well at least for me. I did the whole Chipotle hopping as well, except I did it on my own in Downtown Denver. It seemed like that whole weekend, and the week following it, I've been keeping myself real busy with things. Saturday I worked a mid-day shift before getting picked up to head to the Nuggets-Lakers game. This game was special in particular because it was Allen Iverson's last game as a Denver Nugget. Not only that, we got to see Montell Jordan perform, LIVE !! Things didn't end just there though, I got to do my usual window shopping at Cherry Creek before heading home to settle down Sunday. Monday seemed like to be the only normal day of my whole week. Nothing special really went on. I just went to class, then hung out with the crew in the student lounge chillin' and playing cards before heading out to pick some stuff up at the library. Those first two day of the school week that week I was really looking forward to because it was when I had to meet up with my scholarship advisor and my regular advisor about some major problems I had to get fixed ASAP.
After Monday, that's when things began to start happening. My Sociology class was cancelled in advance because of elections. After I dropped off my mail-in ballot, I thought I was going to be late for class, so I rushed to get to my Core Comp class on time. Little did I know, that class, too, was cancelled. So pretty much, Tuesday was a day of relaxation for the most part. The day went by fast too, because I had to work that night. Wednesday, was a day I had been looking forward to for the past couple of weeks because it was the day I planned to come to the Springs for the weekend. I went to class, as usual, then went out to downtown to eat some lunch with some friends before heading back to the lounge on campus to chill. I ended up heading out of Denver around four that afternoon to get to the Springs. I ate for a little while before deciding to hang with Dennis that night.
Thursday, the plans were to go to Harrison to watch the second annual Power Puff Game before going to Brunswick for College Bowling Night. It seemed like every day for this past week, something was going on ya know ?? It was great. On my birthday, I went out with my dad to eat out before going to Anthony and Amanda's house to celebrate Talia's .... or Lia-ta's first birthday. The night of my birthday was finished off with some late night grubbin' at Denny's with Giane and my sister. My birthday seemed to be celebrated again when me and a group of my friends went to Red Robin to go out to eat. We then finished the night watching Madagascar 2.
This whole week turned out great !! You don't even know. Not only did I come out of the Springs with like 50+ movies downloaded to my external hard drive, I got to spend memorable times with my friends back home.
Thursday
Well, I woke up and my dad told me that he wanted to go eat out, which we ended up doing. Before eating out, I ate a Lunchables while making my video blog for the first half of my DNC break. When my dad got home, we went to La Casita to eat out. Instead of getting the usual cheese enchilada combination plate I usually get, I got the carnitas and steak combination plate. After I got home, I relaxed till about 7:30 later that night. I fell asleep while I was watching TV. When I woke up, it was already time for me to get ready to go to Papa Teddy's and hang out with everyone. I left and picked up Jon before heading down to Fountain, where Papa Teddy's was located. It was the first time I've ever went there, so it was of course an experience. When we first arrived to the place, the exterior reminded me of like a Chuck E. Cheese's or a Peter Piper Pizza's. When Jon and I walked in, we met up with Briana and Gabe. Amanda and Anthony came out during work to greet us and everything as well. Dennis eventually showed up, as well as Keanan, Matt, and Steven. Before we even got our food, me and Jon went up and sang the first song of the night. That wasn't the worst yet haha. After we got our two pepperoni pizzas, which I'd to say that they were the cheesiest I've tasted in a long while, me and Dennis eventually went up there and sang Beyonce's Irreplaceble. WOW. That's all I have to say. This was probably one of the most HARDEST songs I've sang lol. Karaoke at a pizza joint was a pretty neat idea. I had fun and I'm everyone else did as well. Towards closing time, the group of us minus Bri and Gabe (who'd already left) and Amanda, made an acapella of Ben E. King's Stand By Me. It was fun, though not the greatest harmonized performance in the world. Shoot, even one of the workers at Papa Teddy's told us that seeing us sing was the most entertaining thing he seen all day. I don't know if that's supposed to be a good thing though haha. After all that though, when we finally called it a night after sitting around in the parking lot, I dropped off Darlene and Jon and went home for the night.
Friday
The next day, we proposed to hang out at 3 that afternoon. That was the plan. No one really talked with each other till Steven finally texted me to hang out. I called up Matt and he joined us. We decided to go to my place for a short while because our original plan was to do "an acapella" and then later that night, watch Mirrors at Tinseltown with Jeff. That ended up not happening. Instead, me, Matt, and Steven went to Entertainmart for the PS3 drawings they were doing. We signed up for a raffle ticket and chilled out for a little while before going to the mall for about an hour. We walked around, got a double cheeseburger from McDonald's, then headed back to Entertainmart to get ready for the drawing. Psh. The winning number were not even close to any of ours. Man, the PS3 winner looked like he didn't even care. Anyways, we headed out right after that. As we headed out, it started to rain .. HARD. We ran to the car. On the way, my keys fell apart. I ended up losing my purple keychain along with my purple key bottle opener. I was pissed. We called it a day at Entertainmart right after trying to search for my keys. When we got back to my place, we chilled for a little while. Steven surfed the net while me and Matt made an acapella of BBMak's Back Here. Finally, we called it a night after that.
Saturday
It took us a while for us to finally figure out what we wanted to do. I didn't really eat much except some watermelon. I met up with Matt and Steven and Keanan. We chilled at my house for a little while before we couldn't take it anymore. After a couple hours of internet surfing, we decided to go to Wendy's on Nevada to meet up with Jon. Originally, we wanted to go to McDonald's. What happened was that pretty much everything on the Dollar Menu raised almost a quarter. So that's why we chose to go to Wendy's. There, we ate and after sitting around talking in the car, we left to go to Jon's house. At the parking lot, there was a pretty weird moment in which we were talking about funny lines in Harold and Kumar II. It seemed as though this homeless guy heard us lol. Anyways, at Jon's, we ate and chilled for a long while. We socialized and played N64 as well. At the end of the night, pretty much around 1 in the morning, I dropped off Keanan and Steven. Right after, I drove to Denny's near the Crown Plaza Hotel to meet up with Julie, Mav, RJ, and his friend. I didn't eat anything, but I ate other people's food. I ate some juicy bloody steak with some potatoes. Cheaa.
Sunday
Sunday was pretty much my last day to hang out with people. The Sunday started out very slow. I went to Dennis's to hang out with him one last time this break. But it ended up not being the last time because I eventually hung out with him the morning before I left lol. At Dennis's, we just talked about different things before he had to head out to work. Right after he left, I went home to grabbed something to eat. After eating, I drove to Ft. Carson to go to the gym to play racquetball with the Pugh's. As I drove, I kinda got myself lost and Jon had to redirect me to get to the right place. We played a lot of games that day. That day too, we played at interesting version of one on one with Tim serving for me and Jon lol. Anyways, after the gym, I went home for a little while undecided on what to do. I eventually made up my mind and decided to go to the movies to finally watch Mirrors at 10:10 that night at Tinseltown. I still had a couple of hours before the movie started, so I decided to watch some YouTube videos. I watched a couple of tutorial videos on how to do a back flip. The one that got me inspired to finally attempt a back flip on my own was a video giving me very original tips. The video told me to pretty much, "Man the 'eff up". Pretty good advice if you asked me. I went outside and tried it. The first 5 or so tries, I was extremely afraid and in result, my flips were crooked and I wasn't landing them. After I realized that I haven't broke my neck yet, I attempted it again with decent progress. When I finally got one and landed it, it was too dark to see on video. I can finally say though, that I officially landed a back flip.
After all that, I fell asleep and woke up just in time to get ready and leave for the movies. I picked up and met Steven. All in all, the movie wasn't too bad. I thought, in my opinion, the movie had a handful of scary parts. But that wasn't the highlight of that night at the movies. The highlight was that freakin' girl that was at the ticket booth. She was so hot haha. Not only that, the wife, the milf in the movie was also hot. Hence the description I've given her, "milf". After the movies, I felt a little hungry, so we went to the Burger King on South Gate. I got a Whopper Jr. and a six piece cheesy tot while Steven got two Whopper Jr's. What made the food amazing was, of course, the unbelievable Zesty sauce provided by Burger King. We called it a night finally after that.
Monday
Finally, my DNC was coming to a true end. It was Labor Day and I was ready to head back to Denver. That morning, Dennis picked me and Matt up to go to Burger King for breakfast. We ate and talked for a little while. Our time was limited because we had to leave to Denver before noon. Dennis dropped me off after about an hour of hanging out. We headed out soon after that. We went to Sam's Club first to get something to eat as well as my new laptop backpack. I eventually realized that I forgot something at home. I forgot some dress clothes for the REACH Scholarship Meeting that Friday. After we went back home and got my stuff, we finally headed up to Denver. We went to my apartment to unpack before doing anything else. My mom cleaned up my kitchen without being asked to and vaccumed some of the apartment. After I took a shower, we headed out and went to the China town area to eat and pick up some more stuff. After that, I drove us to Park Meadows Mall to look around. My mom dropped me off at the County Line RTD Station and I took that to get home. When I got home, I watched a movie or two and chatted the night away.
Computer time's the only thing I've been doing till I went to 24 Hour Fitness with Anthony, Matt, and Steven. I met up with them around 5:30 instead of the original time that was planned, 5:00. I got there a little early. So what I did before the others got there, I benched a couple of sets to kill some time. We played a lot longer than we thought. We didn't finish until almost 9. My shirt was dripped with sweat. Everything except my bottom of my shirt was sweated up. When I got home, I basically stayed on the computer for a little while before I passed out.
That next morning, I woke just fine. I woke up around 8 that morning to get ready to hang out with everyone. I ate a bowl of Wheaties and grabbed a banana before heading to Dennis's. I arrived at Dennis's on time, 8:45. I waited for the dude to get out of the shower. We then left to go pick up Jon, Jeff, then Steven. The first place we went to was the Chapel Hills Mall. We got there just on time. It was 10:05 when we walked in. We checked out the mall for a little while. We walked around most of the mall. The last place we checked out there was the store, It's Your Move. There was a shocking game they had going on. Compared to the gorilla shaking game at Chuck E. Cheese's, that was nothing compared to what we experienced at that store. For about twenty minutes, the game got addicting. Me and the rest of the others were hooked. There was this other game we also found interesting from the looks of the box. The game was called Dirty Minds. Dennis ended up choosing to cop that instead of the shocking game. The game was alright, but it was a disappointment. Though there were many riddles that were hilarious.
We were extra hungry by the time we left the mall. During that same time, that was when the soreness really kicked in for me and Steven. It was pretty bad lol. My butt cheeks were hurting and everything. It really sucked. Anyways, we left the mall to go to Cici's Pizza for lunch just around the corner. It was a pretty good deal if you asked me. A full buffet for under $6. We stuck around there for a couple of hours before chillin' in my car. After that, Dennis had to part ways as well as Jeff. The rest of us went to my house to relax and chill. I also gave Jon a tour of my house since it was his first time coming to my house. Soon, Jon had to leave too. He got picked up. Steven and I chilled for a good hour or two before Matt arrived. We soon left to the mall to walk around and then to Entertainmart to play some games. At Entertainmart, I ran into Victor and Kevin D. They were as bored as we were. While Steven and Matt played Guitar Hero and Super Smash Bros. Melee, I got hooked on this first-person shooter game, Frontline for X-Box 360. It was uber fun. After Entertainmart, I pretty much called it a night and said my goodbyes.
That morning, I worked on finishing up my new profile for hour before I finally got out of the house around six. Dennis and I, well mainly Dennis, came up with the plan with hanging out at the Citadel Mall with everyone. I drove for the second day in a row and picked up Dennis and Kyle to meet up with the rest of the peoples. When we arrived, we first went to this jersey shop and looked around for a bit. The three of us was just the three of us for a short while. I decided to call my mom up while I was there so I could get some food money when I get hungry. Not surprisingly, my mom was at the mall too. The three of us walked to American Eagle, where she was at. Right when I arrived, I made a deal with her without even saying anything to her. I had to suck up to her and do whatever she told me to so I can get my food money. For about twenty minutes, I had to try on some clothes. It was worth it though. I needed to modify my outdated wardrobe. That day, my mom got me a new pair of K-Swiss skater shoes, a pair slippers, a pair of shorts and 7 shirts. Sweet. Thank you Mom.
After saying bye-bye to the mother, Matt, Keanan, and Nick had just arrived. I didn't only walked out of that store with five dollars for food money, but also my sister's lunch from Panda Express. When I walked out of the store, Nick and Keanan were talking to Megan Stimol and Ashley Hendricks. Right after that, we went to the food court to sit and talk. Eventually, we all got up and about half of us got some Chick-Fil-A to eat. I got the usual, as usual. From there, we went to the arcade and all these other places. As you can evaluate from the pictures posted, the boys were caught unexpectedly in a suspect position with Barney. SMH haha. After hanging out at the mall just having a good time, we headed out and left to go to the Carls Jr. near Harrison. There we witnessed Nick and Dennis deepthroating their Six Dollar Burgers while Kyle manfully ate his jalapeno cheese burger. We stayed there for a little while, but we had to cut the Carls Jr. hang out short because the workers there were hinting us to leave so they could start closing. From there, Kyle and Dennis had to go home. The rest of us chilled for a short while at my place. That too was cut short because they needed to head home.
I didn't want to just stay home, so I asked my mom to drop me off at Giane's, where Julie and Giane and Ginger were chillin' at. When I got there, we sat there for a little while just talking. RJ, Russell, and their cousin arrived shortly after. Socializing, gossiping, me working on my cool new Myspace page was all that was happening there. We ultimately decided to go to Denny's to grab yet another midnight snack a second night in a row. Again, we arrived during a drunk rush, so it was kinda packed when we arrived. It felt a little awkward because I was the only one just sitting there with a laptop right in front of him. Yahh, I was confident to finish up my first Myspace DIV profile, which I ended up doing when we got home later. Surprisingly, I didn't order anything. But I still somewhat ate, I freeloaded from everyone's plate except Russell's. We stayed there for a good hour and a half before we finally called it a night.
The night stayed young for me though. I didn't get to sleep till like 8 that next morning. I actually finished my page and had it up and running in just about 20 minutes after we arrived home from Denny's. But knowing me, I had to keep experimenting and modifying my page. I eventually came to a finish hours and hours later. I felt proud. I felt inspired now to use this as a new hobby since I'm actually not too bad with Photoshop as a beginner.
I woke way too late that day. I think it was just my second time waking up at one in the afternoon. After eating and of course, getting on the computer, I went to bike to Jeff's house. There, I helped him and the rest of his family out by teaching them how to use their network to its full potential. Jeff, I believe, was super happy when I got everything set up for them. When Matt, Nick, and Keanan arrived, we hung out, player some video games, and played a game of horse and knockout in his backyard. Jeff had some small rims there. One of them was about a seven footer and the other was about a nine and a half footer. The game with horse was pretty interesting. We included both dunks and shots in the game of horse we played. Once that was all done, Jeff had to go to church while I went to 7-11 to fix up my bike. The others went somewhere to go eat. My bike seemed to be losing air, but I couldn't figure out where the hole in my tire was. Good thing nothing bad happened on the ride back home. I went straight home to finish some more stuff on the computer. The tire didn't seem to lose any air on the way, luckily. While I was at home, I ate a huge piece of lemon roast chicken from Sam's Club with some rice. Almost right after I finished eating, I quickly washed up and went straight to Dennis's .... DRIVING !!
When I got there, I went down to their basement to watch 300 with Kyle and Dennis. Soon after, I was greeted by his mom with some grilled cheese sandwiches. I ate a total of three, which was absolutely tasty and amazing great. We chilled and played some games of pool when more people arrived there. We did that, look at some pictures on my laptop, and some people were also playing some NBA Live on X-Box 360. Towards the end of the night, we tried to rap battle on camera. It ended up just being me rapping with myself because no one wanted any of this lyrical gangbang I was throwing at them haha. But anyways, Kyle eventually gave in and starting freestyling, as with me ... well, we were trying. The thing that put us in even more pressure was that Dennis's mom took a front seat to watch me vs. Kyle. Now that's was fun. Before we knew it, it was about four hours since we arrived to his house. We basically called it a night because it was getting late. What a fun night.
I had to wake up around five that morning because I lived 64 miles away from the city of Denver. After a nice tasty pancake made by the madre for breakfast, we met up with Victor to go to the University of Colorado Denver for my freshman orientation. We sorta got lost, I don't really know how that was possible considering that college could be seen driving through I-25. But we ended up going there and arriving on time. I didn't really know what to expect when I got there. Right when I walked in, I was greeted with souvenirs and an informational packet with stuff I needed to get taken care of. The first event of the day, we were greeted by a full rack of muffin and other tasty pastries. That was pretty sweet. Before we got something to eat for lunch, we went to the Campus Village to check out the housing. I must say, this is what surprised me the most the whole visit. The dorms there were basically apartments. Everything you would ever need to keep yourself entertained was there pretty much. Wifi internet, pool tables, a mini gym, basketball courts, a laundromat, big screen TV's, video games and movies for check out, X-Box 360 and Wii's for use. It was just amazing. It didn't surprise me though how expensive that place was. I almost back myself out of the college until I found out a risky, but beneficial solution. And for that, I am now officially registered and ready to go to University of Colorado Denver.
Once I got back to the Springs, I had a little over 30 minutes to get myself ready for The Dark Knight premiere. I can't really describe how excited I was for this movie. I went about an hour and a half early to Tinseltown to drop off my car. I then left to go to Target to meet some of the peeps up. The first one that was there with me was Dennis. We got some snacks and then met up with the others: Mav and his siblings, Mitch and Monica, Joy, Jon, Christine, Amanda, Bri, and Anthony. About an hour before the showing, we quickly went to the theaters to get in line. Not to my surprise, there was a line building up at the auditorium we were going to watch the movie at. It was about ten minutes before they actually let us in to get seated. Luckily, we sat at some decent seats. Bri and Amanda sat closer to the bottom. Mav, Monica, Mitch, Joy, and Christine sat all the way in the back of the theater. The rest of us, including Steven, who surprised me by meeting us at the theater, sat in between the two crowds. Though we had to wait like 45 minutes before even just the previews to start, the wait was worth it. I mean granted, I fell asleep through one or two of the movie trailers in the previews. From the get go, even just the first five minutes of the movie did not disappoint. I'm not going to spoil anything about the movie, but let me just say that all the hype about this movie lived up to it. Heath Ledger's performance was simply amazing. For those who haven't even seen the movie and assumed that Ledger's performance couldn't possibly top Jack Nicholson's performance in Tim Burton's Batman couldn't be any more wrong. Throughout the film, the movie kept me up and wanting more and more. I got to admit though, the movie was a bit long ... too long maybe. But regardless, this is the film to see for this year so far, PERIOD.
Anyways after the film, the bunch of us stood outside waiting for everyone else that went to the bathroom. Amanda, Anthony, and Bri ended up leaving right after that. Once the rest of us met up, we found ourselves stuck in a problem. We didn't know what to do after that. We stood there, I guess, for a good 30 minutes maybe deciding if we were going to do anything else. After a good time just standing in the parking lot, we all ended up eventually just calling it a night. What a surprise haha.
Nothing special really happened Wednesday. That morning after eating and organizing more pictures, I actually drove the first time in like two weeks to Garcia Gym in Fort Carson to play racquetball with Jon and his mom. We started playing around 2:30 for about an hour. The games we played with all three of us were actually pretty intense. The last game with Jon especially was one of the hardest games I've played since I started playing racquetball. I went one on one for a last game for the day with Jon. After learning and playing racquetball so many time with him, I've learned to become a not so bad player. Still though, the game was intensely close. People had the courts reserved, so we had to keep our game short. We tried to have the game to a race to 11 instead of the usual race to 15. Towards the end of the game, we stayed in a draw because no points were being awarded because of change of possession. In result, with the score being like 13 all, we decided to call the game a draw because there were people waiting to play in the court.
Right after that, I drove back home to drop off my car to pick up my bicycle to bike to Sinton Park for our planned hang out. Before I left, I packed a ham and pepper jack cheese sandwich just in case I didn't go straight home. When I arrived at the park, I thought I was going to be late. Surprisingly, I was only the second person there. The only other person there was Steven. It was crazy for this guy cause he had to walk all the way from his house. Yahh, that's pretty far. More people started to show up, but unfortunately, no one brought a basketball. Keanan showed up, Then Robert and his cousin showed up. Still no ball though. Finally, Anthony and Amanda and Matt showed up. Both of 'em brought balls so because of that, we were able to start playing a game and shoot around. We play all the way till around seven. I had to wait for a while before I was able to bike home because it started to rain really, really hard. Once the rain slowed down, I biked home and that basically concluded my Wednesday. I stayed at home and finished the night looking through old picture albums and scanning a lot of those pictures.
That next morning, I had to wake up around 9 because I was gonna join Dennis, his two cousins, Sydni and Joe, and Megan to the Valley High Swimming Pool. I really didn't know where this place was at, but when we arrived there, I quickly recognized the pool from my childhood. When we got there, we came like 40 minutes too early. So what we ended up doing is we went to a local Walgreens to pick up some stuff. When we got back, that's when we started to swim. To my surprise, compared to the weather from the other night, that day turned out to be a pretty nice and hot day. It stayed really sunny for about a couple of hours before it started to get cloudy. We left the pool after it started to get really cold and it started to rain. I kinda passed out in Dennis's car on our way to his aunts house for dinner along with Joe and Megan. When we got to his aunt's house, we stayed and chilled there for a little while before eating dinner, which was nachos with a bunch of different stuff on it. They also had two really big dogs. One of the dogs specifically didn't like Dennis. He was like bipolar or something though. It was funny because after he would bark at Dennis, all of sudden he come up to him and start licking his hand lol. Once we finished that, we ate some cherry chocolate ice cream. That tasted really, really good ayy. After dinner and dessert, we all started to play this karaoke game on PS2 consisting of 80's songs and many recent pop songs. The highlight of the night for me was when both me and Dennis hit the high note in the song Take on Me by A-ha. We stayed playing that game for hours before we actually headed out. After we left and dropped off Megan, we went to Tinseltown to pick up our tickets for The Dark Knight showing. That's basically the started of my weekend right there.
Fourth of July's usually mean that you're gonna have BBQ's with the fam. That's what we did before I left to go do anything. Around 3:30, I left to go bike to Quail Lake Park to meet the peoples up for some basketball and hanging out. This was the first time I experimented with a sweater on a hot sunny day to prevent getting any darker. Surprisingly, I didn't sweat as much as I thought from wearing a sweater. When I arrived to the park, the first person I noticed was Dennis. I thought he wasn't going to come because no one was answering his house phone. We waited there for a little while till Jeff, Jon, and Matt showed up. After we chilled there for close to an hour, Anthony, Amanda, and Steven showed up. We started to play a game of 21 for a bit. We finally got the games going when Ray, Rudy, Ed, Robert, and Michael showed up. We played basketball all the way till around 7:30. After I biked home, I hopped in the shower and got picked up by my sister to go to Mav's place.
We ate when we got there. Oh my gosh dude, the BBQ beef that they had was simply amazing. After we stuffed ourselves with food, we went outside to have our little photo shoot with fireworks. It was Giane, Julie, Mav, Alex, Kevin, and I that were in this little shoot. Out of all of the fireworks that neighborhood used, the best one I thought was used was the windmill one where the thing was spinning. It was pretty sweet. After the photo shoot, I ate a little more and we just chilled out for about an hour before we headed out to Kevin's to chill yet again and watch a movie. That's where we basically concluded the night. For some reason though, I was feeling REALLY sleepy, REALLY early. I was like passing out on them at Kevin's while we just sitting there. I thought I really didn't do much that day, but I guess today really exhausted me out.
