20 posts tagged “matt mafnas”

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.

As many of you know, I just got a new job.  Thing is, I haven't started yet; I start next week.  I'm not on the schedule till next weekend.  So I decided to come down to the Springs to hang out for the weekend.  I was supposed to come down on Saturday morning.  But with special, special, special thanks to someone, I was able to come here on Friday afternoon.  Joy, Darlene, and I walked around 16th Street Mall after checking out my dorm.  We didn't know what to get to eat, so after meeting up with Ray, we headed south for the Springs.  We caught a little traffic, and we were getting a little hungry too.  What we decided to do is to stop by the Castle Rock outlets to grab something to eat.  When we got back to the Springs, we did a bunch of things before deciding to do a movie night.  We went to Target to window shop and "try" to find some things to buy for my dorm.  That didn't really turn out well.  We met up with Briana and went to Hollywood Video to choose a movie.  Prom Night was the movie we ended up choosing.  Other people came by to watch the movie: Jeff, Jon, and Matt.

The next day, Joy, Darlene, and I went to Matt's house to celebrate his birthday.  We ate, talked, and sang karaoke there.  It was a fun time and the highlight of the weekend.  Matt even shaved for the first time.  What an accomplishment ayy ?!

I originally was supposed to head back to Denver EARLY Sunday morning, but that plan changed to Sunday Afternoon.  Then yet again, the plan changed to early Monday morning.  What can I say; I miss being in the Springs.  Sunday night, Steven and I gathered up everyone to hang out.  BTWITIAILWU !! (inside joke).  Anyways, we met up in Wal-Mart before we headed to Anthony and Amanda's place to hang.

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. 

For those who don't know why I have this 'break' from school.  My school campus is basically being used for the Democratic National Convention.  Thus the reason why my school and Metro State and Denver's Community College started weeks before pretty much every other college in Colorado.  For that reason, I decided to get away from Denver because of two main reasons:

1. I haven't made friends in which I can just call up on the moment to hang out.  I sorta forgot to grab some numbers before the start of the break.

2. Everything's crowded up in Denver; you don't even know.  Places are being blocked off.  The main place being blocked off is my school's campus.  I don't really know Denver's spots to hang so the campus is the only place I know where to hang out at the moment.

Anyways, so the break started for me basically when I headed off to the Springs.

Monday.

I woke up around 9 that day so I could make sure I could ride the earliest FREX bus to the Springs.  9 was a little late because I actually planned to wake up around 8 but I kept snoozing the alarm.  As usual, I was waiting for the last minute to do everything.  My clothes weren't packed yet and my room wasn't cleaned up.  I had dirty dishes scattered throughout my room.  Ray called me to come over for a short while to pick up some movies from me.  He's the one that gave me the idea for just stuffing all my clothes into just one Hollister bag instead of bringing my huge red suitcase with me to the Springs.  I ate a couple of fruits for breakfast and packed some of them planning to eat them for a small lunch before going home.

After Ray left, I started working on my Myspace profile for a little while and finally posted it up on my Myspace.  This was my 2nd ever amateur level layout I made using mainly Adobe Photoshop to make and slice the layout.  I checked up the times in which the FREX is running to the Springs.  I found out that the only choice I had to choose from was the bus scheduled to leave at 12:40 that afternoon.  The bus before that I had already missed.  That bus left at around 9:30.  I had basically no chance to catch that bus lol.  When I checked the times up, it was around 11 o'clock so I still had time to spare.  I was put on pressure though because not only did I start cleaning up and packing around 11:15, if I were to miss that bus at departing at 12:40, I would have to wait for the next bus which leaves around 3:30 later that day.  I was not going to let that happen.

I finally got out of my place cleaned up, packed, and ready to go a quarter past noon.  When I got downstairs to the lobby, I double checked with the front desk to ask where the FREX station was.  She scared me because she said that the FREX might not be running that whole week because of the Democratic National Convention.  Time was ticking because like usual, I was running late yet again.  Apparently from the information I received, the FREX bus stop was at the Market Street Bus Station.  That would mean I would need to hurry my butt up because the station from my place is about five blocks away.  I was planning to ride the 16th Street Mall Shuttle to the Market Street Station, but that ended up not happening.  It was beginning to get crowded as well because of the Democratic National Convention.  The shuttles were running and I was in hope to ride one to the station.  The problem was that all of the shuttles somehow to only be running south bound, which was going the opposite way to the station. SMH.  With only minutes to spare, I power walked to the station to go ask for info about the FREX.  So I found out that the FREX and RTD were run by different companies so the teller couldn't help me out,  Eventually I went to a nearby restaurant and got helpful and specific directions to the FREX bus stop.

When I finally got to the bus stop, the FREX bus happened to just arrive at the same time.  It was an experience to ride that bus.  It was amazing actually.  The ride was comfortable because of the shock absorbers for it as well as the nice cool air conditioning being provided.  For $9 for a trip from Downtown Denver to Downtown Colorado Springs, that's not too bad.  At first, I thought I was going to be the only person riding the FREX down south cause I was the only one to board at that bus stop.  But eventually, by the time we got to the Alameda FREX bus stop, we had almost a full bus.  It sucked cause I had to share my seat with some guy all the way until the bus stop at the Castle Rock Outlets.  During that whole ride, I was hoping to get as much reading done as I can.  Defining Memories, the book I was reading actually wasn't getting too bad as I headed near the Springs.  Instead of using the free wifi provided on the bus, I decided to try and read the whole bus ride.  I was sort of successful with that.  I was able to read almost 30 pages.  That may not seem much, but with how fast I was reading that book back in Denver, it was a huge improvement.

When I finally arrived at the bus stop on South Tejon near Downtown, my dad and my mom wasn't picking up.  I didn't want to stand around at the bus stop.  I felt tired and exhausted.  So I rode the free downtown bus shuttle to Kiowa and Tejon.  From there, I walked a block or two to the downtown's public library.  I finished up reading as well as eating a couple of apples.  My dad eventually came and picked me up.  We went to China Doll to pick up a bunch of food from my mom and we then went straight home.  There, I ate till I bloated and started stocking up on movies and everything I can download.  I didn't really do anything else that night.  None of the hanging out happened till the next day.

Tuesday.

The lechon and the sinigang from last night had me stuffed.  I slept good because of it.  I didn't anything much other than sit at home and go on the computer.  Around noon, I went over to Dennis's house to hang out before he had to go to class.  We sat around and socialized for a couple of hours.  He also showed me a HUGE spider that I thought looked like a brown recluse spider, which so happens to be found in Colorado.  Just looking at the spider was scary enough. Woah.  Dennis got hungry.  So as we were watching the movie Arachnophobia, Dennis made a nice looking chicken sandwich with sharp cheddar cheese while I ate a thick slice of that same sharp cheddar cheese.  It was pretty tasty.

Once I headed out, I went back to the house to chill and relax for a little while before heading to $1.25 Scoop that night.  I went there to meet up with Jon first at Target.  There, I went to look around for a little before heading to Baskin Robbins.  I was looking to see if they had rim replacements for my bike.  A day or two before I headed to the Springs, I caught yet another flat while I was biking around the Cherry Creek area.  I eventually found out my fact of the day.  So I had a feeling that I needed the long strip of rubber on the inner most part of the rim to prevent my tire from catching a flat because it helps keep the inner tube in place.  So I figured I probably have to go to a dedicated bike store to pick something like that up which I will have to do within the next couple of days.

On the way to Baskin Robbins, we met up with Keanan and Matt.  I got some cherry jubilee ice cream on a cone and Steven got a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a cup.  We chilled in Baskin Robbins for a short while before we went outside.  It was so weird because we were having the most random and not-so-normal subject during our two hour long conversation.  We talked about things from dreams all the way to things like the different ways to pick out your wedgies without catching any attention.  We finally called it a night around the time Baskin Robbins closed.  I gave Steven a ride home before going home myself.  At home, I did the usual things like download movies and surf the net.  I also did the beginning processes with my third Myspace profile layout on Adobe Photoshop CS3.  I stuck with that as well as watching a movie on TV while chatting online with some friends before finally calling it a night.

Wednesday.

I started the morning chilling on the computer and staying in the house.  Brian came over a little later to hang out for an hour or two.  We socialized for a little while before he headed out and I left to the Citadel Mall to meet up with Joy.  Prior to leaving, I took a shower and got ready as well as ate a delightful lunch.  I ate a bowl of rice with some corned beef.  I ended up running a little late to the mall because of that.  When I got there, I met up with Joy at near Aeropostale.  She apparently walked and browsed through five different stores while she was waiting for me.  I need to seriously get better with my time management because all week, during my stay in the Springs so far, I've been running late most of the time.  Anyways, for about an hour or so, I helped her out with some shoe shopping.  It took us a while for her to finally choose something at Lady's Foot Locker and Journey's.

After the mall, Joy wanted to drop by the Wal Mart down the street because she was looking for a planner.  I guess what happened, what that UCCS, the school Joy goes to, didn't give her a planner at all.  I was assuming that they were going to give her one during her freshman orientation, but I guess they didn't.  Again, it took us a short while for Joy to choose what to buy.  She debated between numerous planner until she finally chose one lol.  During that time, we also picked up snacks and food for her to bring during class.  I tried helping her out by choosing to buy in bulk so she could save money.  She was choosing to buy the individual lemonade packets instead of buying a huge pack of lemonade powder for almost the same price.  Joy argued about convenience over price.  SMH.  Anyways, after Wal Mart and the mall, we parted ways and said our goodbyes.

I then drove to Steven's place to pick him up so we could hang out.  We decided to go to my house to plan what to do that night.  There, couldn't figure out what to do for hours and hours.  We sat there watching TV and staying on the computer before Jon finally called me with plans to go to the Ft. Carson gym to go play some racquetball.  I thought I was going to drive.  But what ended up happening was that Jon, along with his mother and his brother, Tim, came to my house to pick us up.  We first went to go to Steven's to go pick up his ID because he forgot it.  Right after, we went to Darlene's place to go pick her up before finally being able to get on post to the gym.  We got there around 9.  The gym was to close in about an hour, so we had to be quick about playing.  I went and changed into my gym clothes and went straight to the racquetball courts.

We played three games in total.  Everyone that came except Steven and Mrs. Pugh played that night.  The first game was me and Jon vs. Tim and Darlene.  The two of us came out as victors.  The second game I play with Darlene as my partner.  Darlene and I came out as victors for that game.   The last game we played, I had Tim as my partner.  Jon and Darlene came out of this game as the winners.  During that whole time, I ended up getting hit by the ball a lot.  I got hit on the back of the head and on the arm.  Darlene got hit or almost hit by the ball many times that night, somewhat because of me lol.  Jon had it the worst though.  During the second game, I think, he tried going for the ball running towards the front wall.  He ended up slipping as he jumped on the wall and he banged up his knee pretty bad.  This night of racquetball was filled with injuries.  It was pretty bad, but was also extra fun and exciting.

The night didn't end there though.  After we dropped off our borrowed equipment, me and Steven got dropped off at my house to pick up my car while the Jon and his family went to go drop off Darlene and go home.  I got a couple of downloads ready and had a short conversation with Dennis before heading out to Jon's house to hang out for a little while.  When we got there, we ate a piece of pizza and chilled for a while.  That night too, we had more weird topics during our conversation.  Tic Tac and Tator, Jon's dogs were also wild as usual.  Jon was showing us how Tator smarter than Tic Tac.  He showed us how Tator responds to "ball", while Tic Tac pretty much just followed Tator and did whatever he did lol.  It was a fun night.  Before we headed out of Jon's place, we also played three games of Super Smash Bros. on the N64.  After dropping off Steven and going home, I relaxed and stayed up till around 4 before passing out to sleep.

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.

At the Bear Creek that morning, there was a breakfast promotion for $0.95 breakfast for their country fried steak breakfast plate.  I had to wake up about an hour and a half earlier than pretty much everyone else because I had to bike.  I pretty much woke up around 4:30 that morning.  Before I left to bike to Anthony's place up on North Jetwing, I had a bowl of Wheaties to ensure that I won't get hungry on the bike ride there.  I arrived at his place right on time so we could head out carpooling.  We got there with already many people there eating.  I was with Anthony, Amanda, Talia, Amanda's brother Gabe, and her mother.  We didn't really have to make the waitress wait for us order, cause we already knew what we had in mind.  Before we got our food, Amanda forgot Talia's diaper bag so she had to run back to the house to grab it.  Our food came to us before Amanda got back so we started eating.  About halfway through my plate, Amanda arrived back.  Soon after, Briana and Matt came in as well.  For only $0.95, I don't think I've ever had as humongous of a breakfast as that.  The country fried steak took up nearly all of the plate and the biscuit looked like a Mondo Burger (Good Burger anyone ??) sized dinner roll.  As usual, I cleaned out my plate, it was great.  After that, we didn't really do anything else.  We stuck around the parking lot talking (and gossiping *cough* lol ..) for almost a hour it felt like.  We ended up splitting up after that.

When we arrived back at Anthony and Amanda's place, I called it a day with them and went off biking back toward my place.  On the way there, I stopped by the shop through the strip of Southern Academy.  I checked out Hancock Plaza and even browsed around window shopping at the Dollar Tree there.  When I got back home, I passed out for hour till about noon I think.  That night, Jeff and I made plans to go watch the new Mummy movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor at Tinseltown.  But before that, that was when I had nothing to do .... at all.  I thought about what to do and finally came up with a solution to use up some time.  I decided to start making a whole new Myspace profile.  After checking out this one dude's profile, it inspired me to make my own because I realized that I was capable to make one as good as the one I saw.  I started with just the left side of the page.  I ran out of time eventually because I had to go to the movies, so I put the project aside for night. 

When I arrived at Tinseltown to meet up Jeff, Keanan, and Nick, I easily found a parking spot.  That wasn't the most surprising part of that night.  What surprised me was the amount of Harrison High Schoolers were there.  After the movie, we saw people like Jeanette there.  Anyways, on the way up to the front, I saw Keanan.  As I was walking, out of nowhere, these people started to talk to me like they knew me.  They knew who I was, but I really didn't know who they were.  After all that, I met up with Keanan to wait for the other two and then something else happened.  So this thirteen year old came up to me and started talking to me like she knew me as well.  She kept trying to think of a name for me I guess.  She called me Allen and Alex repeatedly until I finally just said that that was my name.  Nick was the next one to arrive.  I told the two to go ahead of me and go into the theaters because I had to wait for Jeff.  He had my ticket, so yah.  When he arrived, we went to the theater just in time for some movie previews.

After the movie, I was disappointed somewhat.  Compared to the first two Mummy's, this was one the corniest of the three.  Also, the actress who played Evelyn, the wife in the first two Mummy's, didn't return for the sequel.  That made me almost as mad as I was when Katie Holmes didn't return to reprise her role as Rachel Gawes in The Dark Knight and instead put an uglier person in for the role.  The movie wasn't too bad though, if they were to take out the corny jokes and put Rachel Weisz in to play Evelyn, then the movie would be pretty decent in my opinion.  Anyways, after the movie, we were stuck figuring out what to do.

So what we did was that we went to the McDonald's near Harrison High School.  Coincidently, all of us drove .. except Matt.  So to save gas, we decided to carpool with Nick's Escort to go the McDonald's.  There we didn't even get anything to eat.  We just hung out and a couple of them got themselves just a drink.  After Jeff left to go home, the rest of us went to Nick's place to chill for a little while.  Nick and Matt went onto the computer while me and Keanan played a game of NBA 2K8 on the PS3.  After that game, we called it a night.  All of us went our separate ways.  I left and went straight to Ihop in Southgate to meet up Julie and Giane for a midnight snack.

I had to wait slightly longer than usual for them because they were running on Filipino time, for sure.  After about 25 or so minutes, they finally arrived.  Marie Fe, Victor, and Steve with his friend, showed up as well.  There were a lot of people there that night.  Maybe it was because we went in during the drunk rush.  Basically when everyone was getting out of the clubs to cop something to eat.  I ordered a simple sampler which I finished amazing fast.  That wasn't the highlight for the stay there.  The highlight was this drunk guy confronting us and talking to us out of nowhere.  He was just hilarious.  He kept talking about dance battles and American's Best Dance blah blah.  It was insane.  Another funny situation there was when Marie Fe ordered out of the freakin' dieters menu lol.  Her chicken was dry as the Sand Dunes.  As we were heading out, that same drunk guy made an insult towards Steve.  It was crazy because once Steve turned around, the guy quickly said he was kidding.  Funny stuff.

Yahh, I didn't do much that day.  All I really did was finish organizing some pictures and tagging them using Adobe Photoshop Elements.  I got a text from Anthony later on that day about going to the gym and playing some basketball at eight that night.  I got there just on time.  The thing was, that I was the first one there.  Matt eventually showed up, but that was after I'd already benched, dumb bell benched, and shoulder pressed.  Eventually, about twenty minutes later, Anthony, Geoff, Amanda, and Briana showed up.  In the basketball court, the usual Wednesday night pick up games were going on.  Matt decided to join in early while the three of us: me, Geoff, and Anthony just shot some hoops while we waited for Matt.  After two pickup games, all of us decided to play as a team along with another person.  We lost both games pretty badly actually.  It's ok though, I was looking to get a good workout out of it.  I did.  I didn't get home from the gym till almost midnight.  Amanda and Anthony invited me to go to some $0.95 breakfast some place was promoting.  Since I got home from the gym so late, I basically slept in and didn't wake up.

That next day, I woke up around 11.  I didn't do much, yet again, except stay on the computer finishing up some stuff.  During that time, I finished the WaterWorld compilation video from the other day.  Later on that day, Brian picked me up to try and play some basketball at the gym.  We ran into a huge problem though.  Brian ended up not being able to get in because they found out that he had already had a trial membership.  Shoot, if we would've known that, Brian would've never said anything about that.  So what ended up happening instead was that we dropped by Keva Juice to pick up a drink for Brian.  After that, we just dropped by Border's and Target to check out on some stuff.  Nothing much really happened after that.  We ended up just chilling at my house for a short while just sitting there before we basically called it a night.  Yep, these past couple of day really sucked.  Really really sucked.

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.

Well the day started out with me finishing up the text part of the blogs from Elitches and the Pike's Peak Incline and Bowling that next day.  I was sorta worried that I was going to get behind because I had a lot on my mind for those blogs.  Luckily, just before I left to go meet up with the others to hang out and play basketball at Sinton Park, I finished the Elitches video and at the same time finishing the last couple of sentences for my latest blog that day.  Around four that afternoon, I headed with my bike to Sinton Park.  I thought I was going to be late or something.  To my surprise, I was the first and only one there for about 15-20 minutes.  Good thing though, people eventually started to show up.  Originally, we had plans to go swimming right after the park.  But that didn't happen.  We stuck around the park, not necessarily just playing basketball the whole time, but pretty much just hanging out and attempting back flips.  I myself didn't attempt any back flips, but Jeff did.  The results weren't pretty when he tried doing one a second, guided lol.  Matt and Keanan also attempted to try and do front flips.  Keanan eventually successfully completed one ... and on video.  After we got thirsty, we all went to 7-11 to cop ourselves some Slurpees.

While we were there, I gave Keanan and Matt the idea to start taking a collection of picture in front of places doing back flips.  While they were doing their back flips, they seemed to be getting some attention.  These two guys started walking out and they confronted Keanan and Matt.  They convinced them to do yet another back flip for them on video.  Now that's what you call Keanan and Matt, monkey flipping celebs.  I called it a day for myself with them and split ways to go to Giane's place to meet up with the rest of the Flips.  When I got there, Julie took me home to drop my bike off while I got washed up and ready to go to downtown for dinner.  When we got back to Giane's we left straight to downtown to meet up with Julius and Romano at Old Chicago.

Download: Pictures from Sinton Park

When we parked and tried to get a seat at Old Chicago, there was a thirty to forty-five minute wait for the table.  So what we ended up doing to kill time for dinner, we just walked around and talked.  While we were walking, that's when we met up with Julius and Romano.  Time seemed to go by fast because before we knew it, we were called to get seated.  When we got seated, it took us a short while to figure out what we wanted to get.  I ended up being the last one at the table to be undecided.  When the time came up, I decided to get a mushroom swiss burger.  In the end, I ate a lot.  I ate my food, some of Marie Fe's chicken sandwich, some of Julie's nachos, some of Giane's fish, and some of RJ's quesadilla.  I was stuffed.  After staying there for about two and half hours, most of us went back to Giane's to chill.  RJ left when we got back, same with Marie Fe.  Julie and Hannah stayed behind to go to the Ritz for a couple of hours.  So we just chilled and talked and me, Steve, and Mav watched Giane and Julius practice for the dance before we eventually left for home when Hannah and Julie arrived back.