It's been good.
I've had an enjoyable couple of weeks. While my sports picks for the bowl games were horrendous and I hated to see Florida win the national championship, Oklahoma and Big Game Bob Stoops gave it away.
Thursday watched the NC game at a bar. There is this Texas Music Fest thing in town that brings 1,000's of our friends from the South to Steamboat for concerts, skiing and partying. While the ratio of guys to girls is never good here, Thursday night pushed it to a new level. Literally it was 12-1 with 10 of those being horn ball, liquored up Texas college students. Of course I was with three of the dozen or so girls in the place. This made things relatively awkward and uncomfortable. Needless to say I left relatively early.
The weekend was good as well. Me and the Geenis went up to Rabbit Ears with two girls on Saturday night to go snow shoeing under the full moon. Pulled in at around 9:30 and set out. Because of cloud cover, the moon wasn't out but it still lit up the clouds enough to where you didn't have to have a light. Despite getting lost half a dozen times it was a blast. It's almost surreal up there at that time of night. It's real quiet and peaceful and you can see forever. We got back to the car around 1:30 a.m.
Sunday, Gee made some historic beer-brats that were delicious. Enjoyed football all day, then went to the hot springs and to Gran Turino.
On Gran Turino — It's certainly a good flick. A little predictable, but overall it's one of the better flicks I've seen in awhile. Which brings up the big question. Is Clint Eastwood the greatest male film figure of the last 25, 50, 75 or 100 years. I think he has a great argument. Unlike DeNiro or Pacino, he hasn't just mailed it in. His work just seems to keep getting better and better. I can probably count the Eastwood flicks I don't like on one hand.
Monday I went skiing all day with Spenny. Starting to get my legs under me a little. The first time out this year I was like a baby doe. Now I'm getting back into the swing of things. The good — Was tearing up the first run down under the Gondola. Just flying and hit a lip, flew 30 feet, landed and continued to look like a badass. The bad — Probably like fifth run of the day, was getting wild in the trees when I got out of control, crashed and landed in a tree. It took me roughly 25 minutes to get out, I was covered in snow, my goggles were fucked and that was that.
But fun times all around.
Went to happy hour and dinner with a girl I hadn't talked to in a real long time Monday night. It was fun and always good to catch up with people you haven't in a while. This girls and I have had an interesting relationship. At times we've disliked each other and others liked each other. Either way, we had a lot more in common than I thought.
What else.
Been reading a bunch still. The problem with reading is I've got like four books going on at once. People keep giving me books that I want to read so I start them and get like halfway through. THen feel guilty I didn't finish the other book. Yeah, so right now I'm reading three books. They're all good though.
Here at the paper we also own a T.V. station that has a morning show. My buddy and one of the hosts left a couple of weeks ago for New York. So I've been hosting on Tuesday's. It's a blast. I do the weather and the green screen gives me trouble, but there's some comedy in saying Florida is experiencing some nasty weather while pointing to Oklahoma. Plus on the green screen you can see yourself and I'm always reminded of the scene in Tommy Boy, when Tommy's college buddies are watching him on T.V. and the one guy goes "Is it me or does Tommy look severely bloated." To which his other friend replies "No, T.V. just adds a couple hundred pounds."
Five places to visit in '09
1. Montreal
2. Idaho
3. Old buddy Kev in Utah (thinking March)
4. Montana
5. ????
I've decided I'm going on more adventures in '09. This is just the short list. I'm sure I could add or take off destinations.
The old man is coming into town to ski in a couple weeks. That should be good as he'll bust my balls endlessly for a while. Nothing like pops putting you in your place and bringing you down a notch.
My grandma just moved into a new place in the same complex. She's stressed out so I might try to make a trip down to Denver here in the future.
What else. I'm not sure what it is but it seems like everyone I know, or at least a majority of people I know, that are in relationships here are miserable in them. Maybe it's just the people I know, but I've got a couple married friends who are really unhappy, a couple in serious relationships who aren't happy and ones who are just getting out of relationships who can figure things out and are unhappy.
It must be something in the water. Maybe it's the air. Maybe cupid cursed the Valley in the last year. Either way, it always makes for interesting conversation.
This weekend, we're thinking of snow shoeing up on Rabbit Ear's before building a snow cave and camping out for the night. Sunday I'll probably ski and watch football. Monday I'm thinking about skiing and I have tickets to the Charlie Daniels Band. Hey you can't beat $25 for some good ole Charlie.
HEF of the WEEK
Was at the high school waiting for basketball practice to end. I was in the hallway by myself. i found a girls basketball and was playing with it while I waited. I started to bounce it against the wall across from me. I was thinking to myself "Damn Graham, you still got those soft hands," when the ball deflected off my palm and directly into my balls. I hit the ground and was coughing when practice ended. I had about 25 girls walk past me looking at me funny.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Vegas baby and confusion ensues
Some things are exciting, some things aren't and some are just plain confusing.
Exciting.
Booked tickets to Vegas in February for my buddy Matt's bachelor party. It's with a bunch of guys I really don't know, but it is going to be a blast. Vegas is always fun. With this group it should be really, really fun. The goal as it usually is in Vegas is to stay out of jail and not lose too much money.
Things that aren't.
I've reached a level of confusion I'm not totally sure about. A lot of things that I know I shouldn't do, but continue to do. It's part of the process I suppose. Part of life. I'm not discontent at the moment, but I'm certainly not content. I'm in a weird place where I feel like I should stay and at the same time I feel like I should go.
Things that are confusing.
The main one is women. I'm not the first, but I have no idea what in god's name they want, what they don't want and why they do what they do. I have an inkling I may never know. But it's been a relatively confusing period on multiple fronts. This girl, that girl, new girl, old girl etc. I just have no idea about women. The minute I think I know something about them, everything changes.
What else.
I've been writing and reading a lot. This has broadened my horizons quite a bit. It's made me think about a lot of things differently. Read some good stuff and some really bad stuff.
Big Gee's friends were in town for most of the holiday's. It was fun. They're all good dudes and we did some righteous rocking. One day in particular where I consumed one too many Milwaukee Selects. It is in fact the worst beer I've ever had. But I continued to drink it. In fact if you do a google search, this beer doesn't even have a home page. Neither does the brewery. That's how bottom barrel bad it is.
New Year's Eve was fun. I didn't rock as hard as I could have and didn't drink as much as humanly possible. All in all, it was sort of what I expected. New Year's has traditionally been a letdown. The last one where I had a tremendously fun time was when it turned to 2000. Of course then I was 16 and got into a bunch of bars in Vail. That was a fun time.
What else. I continue to run into the old bear trap. When I think I'm out, I'm not. When I think I should do one thing, I do the other. This involved a conversation with an old friend. It was a good conversation, certainly. One of the better ones I've had in a while in fact. I expected that. But it feels like it drew me back into a situation I don't want to be in. One where I want one thing, but know I can't have it, but still want parts of it. Confusing? Absolutely. Plus I think Ole' Kev is going to punch me right in the pills the next time he sees me. But I don't know what to do. The minute I think I'm on my way to being fine, then I'm not. I really have no idea what to do. It just keeps getting more and more confusing.
But, what in the hell can you do, besides keep on keeping on. Things eventually work out. They always do. It's just not this easy being confused. I just wish things would all make sense, but I'm not the only one that feels that way.
Other than that I've been trying to think of new things to do in 2009.
I want to pick up a new hobby. I haven't decided on this yet, but I'm starting to look at things. I want to find somewhere totally sweet to visit that I haven't been to yet. Ideas include Montreal so far. I certainly want to be less confused about things. Also I think I'm going to start volunteering more. I used to do this all the time, but haven't done it a lot recently. Count it.
Hope everyone had a good New Year.
Exciting.
Booked tickets to Vegas in February for my buddy Matt's bachelor party. It's with a bunch of guys I really don't know, but it is going to be a blast. Vegas is always fun. With this group it should be really, really fun. The goal as it usually is in Vegas is to stay out of jail and not lose too much money.
Things that aren't.
I've reached a level of confusion I'm not totally sure about. A lot of things that I know I shouldn't do, but continue to do. It's part of the process I suppose. Part of life. I'm not discontent at the moment, but I'm certainly not content. I'm in a weird place where I feel like I should stay and at the same time I feel like I should go.
Things that are confusing.
The main one is women. I'm not the first, but I have no idea what in god's name they want, what they don't want and why they do what they do. I have an inkling I may never know. But it's been a relatively confusing period on multiple fronts. This girl, that girl, new girl, old girl etc. I just have no idea about women. The minute I think I know something about them, everything changes.
What else.
I've been writing and reading a lot. This has broadened my horizons quite a bit. It's made me think about a lot of things differently. Read some good stuff and some really bad stuff.
Big Gee's friends were in town for most of the holiday's. It was fun. They're all good dudes and we did some righteous rocking. One day in particular where I consumed one too many Milwaukee Selects. It is in fact the worst beer I've ever had. But I continued to drink it. In fact if you do a google search, this beer doesn't even have a home page. Neither does the brewery. That's how bottom barrel bad it is.
New Year's Eve was fun. I didn't rock as hard as I could have and didn't drink as much as humanly possible. All in all, it was sort of what I expected. New Year's has traditionally been a letdown. The last one where I had a tremendously fun time was when it turned to 2000. Of course then I was 16 and got into a bunch of bars in Vail. That was a fun time.
What else. I continue to run into the old bear trap. When I think I'm out, I'm not. When I think I should do one thing, I do the other. This involved a conversation with an old friend. It was a good conversation, certainly. One of the better ones I've had in a while in fact. I expected that. But it feels like it drew me back into a situation I don't want to be in. One where I want one thing, but know I can't have it, but still want parts of it. Confusing? Absolutely. Plus I think Ole' Kev is going to punch me right in the pills the next time he sees me. But I don't know what to do. The minute I think I'm on my way to being fine, then I'm not. I really have no idea what to do. It just keeps getting more and more confusing.
But, what in the hell can you do, besides keep on keeping on. Things eventually work out. They always do. It's just not this easy being confused. I just wish things would all make sense, but I'm not the only one that feels that way.
Other than that I've been trying to think of new things to do in 2009.
I want to pick up a new hobby. I haven't decided on this yet, but I'm starting to look at things. I want to find somewhere totally sweet to visit that I haven't been to yet. Ideas include Montreal so far. I certainly want to be less confused about things. Also I think I'm going to start volunteering more. I used to do this all the time, but haven't done it a lot recently. Count it.
Hope everyone had a good New Year.
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