Weekend goal...

So Adam is coming to Chicago this weekend. My goal is to produce something blog worthy out of that weekend - I feel like it will involve a lot of alcohol to reach that goal. Nothing I can't handle though.

Smola knows my other goal for the weekend. I'll see if that comes true as well or not.

Yeah for fun!

One Step Closer

I went to a used car dealership last week and spent some time talking with them about what I am looking for in a car. Like exactly what make, model, year range and colors I would like. I also filled out a financing form, so I can get a jump on approval for when the right car does come in.

The guy who owns the place goes to wholesale auctions all the time so I may have the right car in a few days or a week or two. I am hoping sooner. They are pretty cruel if they don't find me one I can afford soon. Two days after I went in, they got the car I want, only newer and with less miles than I can afford. Called me up and said I could come in and take a look at it. I appreciate the test drive, but I would really like one in my price range. Guess the fingers are still crossed.

My apartment has no AC

Okay, so the apartment I live in now has no AC...and will not for the entire summer. I'm thinking of also cutting my cable and internet just to throw back to APT 212. Thoughts? I think overall I will drink a lot more if that is the case. Maybe that is why we drank so much that summer or at least it was a good excuse to do so.

Anyways I'm feeling nostalgic for all that. Next Food Network Star starts June 5th. I need that in my life.

Peace out!

I Hate Car Shopping

Want to hear a funny story? Too bad, I'm going to tell you about whatever I feel like so read on and shut up. I have been looking for a new car. I found one pretty close that seemed quite cheap. I got a carfax and it turns out that the car had a salvaged title. This could mean a bunch of stuff so I called my insurance guy to see what he thought of the situation. He said he could at least find out if the car was totaled out because of comprehensive or collision. He called back a while later with some interesting news. The car is currently at a dealership in Michigan. Less than two months ago, it took a dive off a road in West Virginia ruining just about everything on the exterior of the car. The front end was torn up, the back end was torn up, the underside was ruined, the windshield was trashed. The car was totaled out just from the damage that was immediately obvious without any tear down that could have revealed more damage. The total was over 17 thousand dollars. I think I am going to have to pass on this one. There is no way everything was repaired properly if the people selling it are still going to make money.

Warm weather

Hi. It's finally warm out. I can go outside and not freeze my ass off. It's still chilly sometimes.

I want to drink outside.

I hope I can do that in the next few weeks.

You can't give me heck for not writing when no one has

Geeze Matt, I tried to get you to write posts so that I was not the only one writing regularly. You can't give me heck when no one has written anything in weeks. I was really hoping to have some new material to read. Oh well.

In other news, I am going to Ireland this summer. Too bad I have not been there yet or I might have more to say about it.

I got a new phone a few weeks back. Went with the new iPhone. It is pretty amazing. I often forget that it is a phone when I am using it for other things.

Hope you are happy Matt.

Chicago Green Beer Day

Okay so the last few days have been a bummer thinking about not being in Oxford for GBD, not getting the week off for Spring Break and the weather being really crumby in Chi-town. To make up for it the large gathering of Miamians in Chicago gives birth to Chicago GBD last Saturday. While you did have to buy a ticket, the event and the gathering overall was well worth it and just what I needed. 900 drunken people, open bar and drinking at 10AM was the perfect remedy to everything.

We started the day at 8AM for breakfast at my friend's apartment (and lots of drinking) and then heading to the bar for the open bar. The second we went outside shit got real and the trip to the bar was difficult enough. We then engaged in 4 hours of unlimited drinking. The bar was dark and disorienting and by the end of it I honestly had no idea if it was 2PM or 2AM (hint it was 2PM). The entire group got separated and myself, my roommate and another Miami grad ended up in one of those really nice car dealerships that are all inside and such. Shockingly and we still don't know how none of us got arrested or yelled out, so WIN! Then we all got separated, I got lost and ended up falling asleep on the train. But I made it home somehow.

We had plans to go out later - that didn't happen as everyone spent their entire day on a couch or in a bed somewhere. Oh well, here's to another successful GBD!

Peace out!