weekend fun

so this weekend was really fun.
friday
we stayed home and watched "sum of all fears" and just hung out. which is always nice after a long week. the movie was alright, never have been a big ben afleck fan.


saturday
we cleaned the apartment, i mean cleaned it. miriam took the bathroom and the living room, and took the bedroom and the kitchen. and just so you know we choose those i didnt make her do the bathroom. then that afternoon i got a haircut and went to bestbuy then went to the driving range and went through a large basket of balls. i have the blisters to prove it. that night our neighbors came over and we played mario party 8. that was fun to have them over, and to play the wii.

sunday
we went to church and then i went golfing with three other guys from our small group. i havent been golfing since the night before my sisters wedding, which was 6 years ago...i think. so we went 18 holes and played a doubles scramble. i didnt do to bad actually. we tied 83-83. do the math around 4.5 strokes per hole its impressive for me. :) oh yea and i also hit my ankle with a club by accident. not when i was driving! im not THAT bad. i was just walking back to the cart and BAM. felt like someone hit me with a hammer. it still hurts today, quite a bit actually.

so how was everyone else's weekend?

wow its been awhile

so we went up to Belvidere, IL this past weekend to see miriams sister and her family. it was nice to see them. we played lots of card games and bocce ball. on the way home we stopped in shaumburg, IL and i got to hang out with my good friend adam, even though it was only for like an hour. i wish i couldve hung out more.

this week at work has been eh... well work nothing too exciting. the lead designer is moving to Colorado. i dont know when yet neither does he but within the next two months. so hopefully i might bee moving up the ladder? i dont know ill keep you posted.

in other exciting news we bought a Wii.

*cue the heavenly music * this is the coolest video game system ever! miriam and i love playing it. i have pretty much become a wii fanatic. i bought it used off of craigslist. i got a great deal on it. we got 4 remotes (that thing on the left in the pic), 1 nunchuck, 4 games, a 1 gig sd card, and some gamecube stuff.

lemme tell you i went crazy on the boxing last thursday, i mean i was sweating and tired by the end. well the next day my arms hurt like CRAZY, and didnt quit until oh...monday i think. so yes you litterally get a workout playing wii sports.

as you can see i HIGHLY recommend this system to anyone especially if while playing video game you actually want to MOVE and not just sit there.

what is project cloverfield?

im not sure if you have heard the rumor or seen the crazy trailer yet but go here. im so excited about this fil and there really isnt that much info to be found. its by the creator of lost, and they are using by far the greatest marketing strategies for a movie i have ever seen. they are keeping it super secretive. i mean the movie doesnt even have a title yet. not one knows the plot, if its been filmed, nothing except what is provided in the single trailer. the date of 1-18-08 and the fact that there is some kind of giant monster ripping new york a new one.

thats right i said "GIANT MONSTER"

i mean think how long its been since an original giant monster movie came out? i dont even know. the last two that i can think of have both been godzilla and both flops.

but come on with the director of lost you know its going to be interesting to say the least.

order of the phoenix?

hmmm id have to say that i wasnt too terribly disappointed with the movie i didnt really have high expectations going it to the newest harry potter movie. im not saying that i dont like the harry potter movies, but this is the first that i have seen in the theater. i really went because i was taking miriam because she really wanted to go. i would have to say that unlike the mythical bird, this movie did not rise from its ashes. i would give it a solid 3 out of 5 and thats being generous.

its really hard to follow up transformers. which probably made me dislike the movie more, because instead of the movie experience going down hill it took a nose dive off a cliff.

saying that just remembering the last harry potter movie "goblet of fire" the newest seemed to loose the "fire". i remember really liking that one. and the one with the werewolf.

i dont read the books and maybe fans will still love it.

24/7 ?

why would a company say they have 24/7 tech support when all you get at 10:30pm is put on hold? i dont understand it. my belkin router is acting up like itll work fine then sometimes then others the internet is really slow and get disconnected easily. frustrating, but hopefully easily fixed. thats if i ever get through to the tech support. i guess ill try them tomorrow, but they will get a complaint about tonight.

its been a gloomy week for me. im not sure why. ive been moody and down on myself. this week its just been hard to find the silver lining i guess.

things that have been good this week:

it has been cooler here which is nice.

we got new phones and they have speaker phone which is cool. ive never had that before.

miriam fixed pancakes for dinner. they were yummy.

the good yogurt was on sale this week at schnucks.

i got to talk to adam, about movies, games, comics, his classes, and other cool stuff.

i got invited to go play golf tomorrow even though i cant go because i have to work.

no disasters at work, so far lol.

ok well im going to go to bed.

yes i know that i havent posted in a couple days. just havent taken the time but i do have some spinning in my head. maybe ill post them tonight. i guess ill leave you in suspense.

Robots in disguise!

we saw transformers on july forth, and i loved it. the action the story i thought it was a great modern day translation that carried the coolness of the original cartoon. i would highly recommend it to anyone that grew up in the 80's and likes action. and if your going into the movie and your going to get all hung up on how they dont look exactly like they did in the 80's i dont even want to hear it. if they had made them look just like the cartoon it would have been a joke. they would have looked so unrealistic that no one wouldve been able to watch it without a lobotomy. im not going to give any hints or spoilers about the story, because i hate when people do that. i just think they did a bang up job, and i hope they make more.

other than that this week since tues has been sort of a catch up week. we got back into town late tuesday night, and went straight to bed. we had fun on the 4th besides seeing a really cool movie we went to church and had free hot dogs and popcorn, hung out and watched fireworks. the only bad thing was having to sit in traffic for 30+ min to get out of a strip mall parking lot
because they closed 2 of the 4 entrances. why i havent the foggiest.

i had a guy get mad at me because i wouldnt let him in front of me after nearly hitting my car. so to "get me back" he got behind me and turned on his brights. keep in mind we are in gridlock in a parking lot. so this didnt bother me at all but it did bother the people going the other way, so he got yelled at by several people. he showed me....right.

we went to a get together last night. i wasnt all that excited but it turned out to be really fun. it was people from miriams work so i dont know them all that well, but it was nice because while all the women talked the husbands did too. and im one of those now. so thats cool, we talked about guy things and grunted a lot. kidding. but it was still really fun.