Archive for November, 2002

I went to the Tivoli with Kristin tonite and saw Signs. The Tivoli is such a great theatre. It was opened in 1928 in downtown Downers Grove. It is huge and has this really cool big dome in the ceiling that is lit up red. Before the shows on the weekends, they have an organ player playing for the crowd. They show 2nd run movies and it is $2 to get it. They have the best popcorn on earth, serve coca-cola and not that shit pepsi, and you get FREE refils on all sizes of drink and popcorn! There aren’t many places like the Tivoli. My dad used to take me there when I was a little kid and I still love going there now even though I don’t get to go as much as I like. I’ll tell you, those snobs who live in the city and think they are too cool for the suburbs aren’t going to find a place like this downtown.

It was really nice to see Kristin again, I really miss her. She lives in the poison town so I hardly get to see her anymore. I’ve liked her since the day I met her 11 years ago, too bad she doesn’t feel the same about me as we would have made a pretty cool couple.

After Kristin left, I played some pinball with Koz. I sucked. I didnt’ have one good ball the entire day. I think I need glasses or something. I realized I haven’t been to the eye doctor in 20 years so I wouldn’t be suprised if that is true. I really need to go. I can’t imagine what I would look like with glasses, let alone be able to pick out what ones would look good on me. My work insurance covers some eye stuff so I will have to make an appointment after the holidays.

Hopefully tomorrow will fare better for my playing. I have a full day of pinball and potbellys planned with Koz and the Brothers Sharpe.

Happy thanksgiving everyone. I am sure no one is reading this today as they are all out stuffing their faces with the best meal of the year, as I will be doing in a little bit.

A few things I am thankful for:
My job, and how nice they were about my leave for surgery
The back surgery, I am feeling like a new man
Ashley Scott’s parents for having her, for she is the HOTTEST woman on EARTH

A few things I am not thankful for:
Those ass sniffers at the WB for cancelling Birds of Prey - I hope yr thanksgiving bird gives you food poisoning and you die
Traffic
The snow and cold

Have a good day everyone.

This makes it official. Those fucking bastards, they should all die! And tonite’s episode was one of the best ones too! And in case you were wondering, Ashley Scott is still the best looking woman in the universe!

Yesterday I worked until just before 4am! It was rough and I was so tired that I was worried I’d pass out driving. I ended up giving a co-worker a ride home as it turned out he lives right on my way home so it was no problem and it was cool to have someone in the car with me to make sure I stayed awake.

I slept in today and got to work close to 1pm. It was a much easier day today and I left at 5pm to get a much needed haircut. I hadn’t had one since a month before the surgery. I let her cut it different this time and she was so happy that she finally got to do something different to me. I filled her in on what happened to me with the surgery and everything. She is really a nice person and easy to talk to and I love going to get my haircut. The “ex-wife” also gets her hair cut by this woman, which is how I ended up going there actually, she brought me there once. Anyway, Kimberly (haircut woman) told me her and the “ex wife” were talking about me recently. They were talking about my resistance to change, how I have been getting the same haircut for a long time, how I still go record shopping and eat at potbellys all the time, still live in the suburbs, eat the same food and work the same sort of job. It was weird to hear this, not weird that one would say this about me, cuz for the most part it is true. I am reisistant to change. The weird thing is that after so many years, the “ex wife” still seems to talk about me on a somewhat regular basis. She brings me up in her ongoing fight with her sister, and she talks about me to Kimberly. She and I have not spoken in about 6 years now, while I do remain friends with her sister and speak to her regularly, I have not spoken to the “ex wife” in that long and yet the topic of me still comes up. She is married now with 2 kids. The part that puzzled me the most was the thing about the job. Why is that weird?! I have found a profession that I really enjoy and am seemingly have a talent for, why would I leave and go do something else when this is the only line of work that I have ever enjoyed?! Weird. I mentioned the fact that during fights with her sister, the “ex wife” has badmouthed me and I found it odd that she would be talking about me. Kimberly put a spin on it saying the bad mouthing was during fights with the sister and she is probably a little weirded out that she and I are still friends, and that the other talk about the not changing was that “when you love someone, you want to see that they are ok and they are happy” Well, I don’t know if I really buy it, but it was some food for thought. I don’t really think that you love someone if you plan to marry them, then leave them for another guy when that person doesn’t fit into the plan you had for THEIR LIFE in your mind, so you replace them with someone else you could control better. I don’t think you care about someone so much if, after you do said thing to the person, you insist on being friends with them (when they really wanted nothing to do with that), only to decide one day a year or two later for no apparent reason that you don’t want to be friends with them anymore, but not have the decency to tell that person yourself, but make your sister tell them instead. I think the “ex wife” should spend less time talking about me and more time picking up a damn phone and calling her sister who lives in PA and is really upset about the falling out they have had recently and who’s countless attempts at reaching out to fix the problem have fallen on deaf ears.

I had no idea that a long overdue haircut would give me so much to think about on the ride home in some really bad traffic. I don’t know if I should be flattered that in a way I have not been forgotten or pissed off that this woman who I spent so much time with and was going to marry, is talking shit about me. I guess in the end it means very little, It is not like I am going to ever see this woman again in my life or talk to her again. Our paths will likely never cross again despite the friendship with her sister. I guess since my life isn’t very exciting at the moment and hasn’t been in awhile, that my mind wanders off more than usual.

I am resistant to change in many ways. I really only like certain foods and I am fearful of getting a different kind of haircut so it takes a long time for me to build up the courage. I still collect records and for the last 8 years I have worked in the videogame industry. But these things are the things I like, why would anyone change something they like just for the sake of change?

Today was my first day back at work and it was a LONG one. I was there 13 hours! It was rough. I did better than I thought I would but I am pretty sore now. I stood up a lot and was careful to not sit in the chair too long, but my body isn’t used to so much movement and being up and about in one day, I am used to laying down most of the day so I have to get used to it. I just got home about a half hour ago and I just popped a muscle relaxer to help me out. I at least get to go in late tomorrow a little so I should in theory get to rest back up and hopefully tomorrow won’t be as long. It was nice to be back though and be working on the game again even though it was a hectic day. I missed my co-workers too and was glad to see them all again. Oh, and I had my first palace burger in 6 weeks and it was awesome!

My leave from work is officially over. As of 8:42 am tomorrow morning, the alarm will be yelling at me to get my ass out of bed and get ready for work. It will be the earliest I will have had to wake up in 6 weeks, I am not sure how I’ll do it. It turns out tomorrow we have a deadline so it could very well be a very late nite working for me, it will be a true test of my well being. I will have to take breaks and lay on the floor if I am there a long time. I am counting the minutes until my first palace burger in nearly 2 months! I do look forward to returning to normalcy, I just wish I was able to do it and still sleep half the day away.