cathead27 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cathead27) wrote,@ 2009-01-03 22:28:00 |
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back and stuff!
big rundown of trip home shiz!
24th- 4am cab ride to lax, flight to vegas, and then huge layover cause of weather in chicago. but vegas airport is a good place to be delayed - lots of food places, beeping games, and free internets. thought we'd get stuck in vegas, but a good weather window got us to chicago. had family christmas gathering #1 on christmas eve night.
25th- big family christmas gathering at my parents' house. helped move stuff. got a whole bunch of presents from them. one of them was a soldering iron. i'm finally gonna put new pickups in my first guitar.
26th- first day of free workouts. used guest passes and hotel fitness rooms pretty much the whole rest of the break. i'm kind of addicted to hotel fitness rooms since they're always empty and i'm totally antisocial about fitness. checked into hotel. the muslim american society convention was going on and it sometimes made me feel like we were in another country - little customs like women not getting in the elevator when i was the only guy in there and stuff. then met up with ross and had giordano's.
27th- saw slumdog millionaire. tis good. ryan and corbin picked me up. made marble madness (or whatever the kids call it these days) tower. ate about half of a lou malnati's pizza (stuffed pizza #2). ryan made cookies. they were real good. then ryan took forever to beat zelda. he's not very good. but he drove me home which was very nice. made best friends with his dog. his kids are like real people now. bizarre.
28th- starting to forget what happened what day now. um....oh yeah, watched bears suck at my parents' house. then went to deals gone bad show at the metro. dan pothast was excellent as well. pedro gave me huge hugs outside the metro, and some drinking was done at the ginger man. NONE OF MY FRIENDS CAME TO THE SHOW OR TO THE DRINKING. so i only had like 2 beers. in face i think i only had two beers at any event of the whole vacation. zero drunken timmys.
29th- family christmas #3 - went up to see joanie and exchanged gifts with her. her basement is huge. like as big as the apartment i'm hoping to get. then went to the zoo. fed hippos, bongo, giraffes...um...i thought more? maybe not. saw winter quarters (underground overflow/winter homes for animals) which were a little creepy. then ate a pint of kopp's custard. must mail order some kopp's.
30th- family christmas gathering #4 - first had giordano's (stuffed pizza #3) with ross and jovia and some dude they said was her brother. almost ate a whole small stuffed myself, one piece shy. i am impressive. then had dinner and gift exchange with suzi's family. got much needed pizza sauce.
31st- 5:30 amtrak into downtown chicago, freezing walk over to union station, 7am train to st louis. mel got married, then reception started at like 7. wasn't as crazy as you'd think a new year's eve reception would be (again, i had 2 beers), but it was very classy. i loved the place it was in, would be like the coolest loft in downtown st louis. also, the wedding cake was awesome - i normally don't even bother looking at it cause wedding cake is not the kind of thing people actually like eating, but they had some plain super dark devil's food cake. i had 2 pieces.
1st- CITY MUSEUM ST. LOUIS. this was the coolest place. it's...um...kind of a giant sculpture playground made out of old parts of industrial equipment and buildings from the city? and you can climb on pretty much anything. i don't think there's any rules. there's a 7 story slide, a 3 story slide, a bunch more slides outside, 2 ball pits, jungle gyms, caves, a circus, upstairs there's an espresso bar and a very cheap well stocked thrift store...it's pretty much just amazing. then after that we took the train to the airport and flew back to la.
2nd- that was yesterday. i was back here. and did nothing. i'm kind of sick right now, bad sinus thing, don't know who i got it from cause just about everyone in the midwest i saw was sick. hope it gets better fast cause i'm gonna be busy with work and shows for a while. POSSIBLY getting new apartment soon. will keep updated.
to everyone who i saw on the trip home - it was awesome seeing you, thanks for enabling visit times. there were a lot of people i didn't see, which kinda sucks, but it's not the end of the world. i didn't want to do a giant planned stressful get together - which i did 2 of last year, and both cost me a lot of money and both were not that fun, outside of getting to see people. and then i didn't talk to any one person as much as i would have liked either, yaknow? so as long as we're still talking and cool and stuff, i'll see you another time, don't be upset.
-tim.
big rundown of trip home shiz!
24th- 4am cab ride to lax, flight to vegas, and then huge layover cause of weather in chicago. but vegas airport is a good place to be delayed - lots of food places, beeping games, and free internets. thought we'd get stuck in vegas, but a good weather window got us to chicago. had family christmas gathering #1 on christmas eve night.
25th- big family christmas gathering at my parents' house. helped move stuff. got a whole bunch of presents from them. one of them was a soldering iron. i'm finally gonna put new pickups in my first guitar.
26th- first day of free workouts. used guest passes and hotel fitness rooms pretty much the whole rest of the break. i'm kind of addicted to hotel fitness rooms since they're always empty and i'm totally antisocial about fitness. checked into hotel. the muslim american society convention was going on and it sometimes made me feel like we were in another country - little customs like women not getting in the elevator when i was the only guy in there and stuff. then met up with ross and had giordano's.
27th- saw slumdog millionaire. tis good. ryan and corbin picked me up. made marble madness (or whatever the kids call it these days) tower. ate about half of a lou malnati's pizza (stuffed pizza #2). ryan made cookies. they were real good. then ryan took forever to beat zelda. he's not very good. but he drove me home which was very nice. made best friends with his dog. his kids are like real people now. bizarre.
28th- starting to forget what happened what day now. um....oh yeah, watched bears suck at my parents' house. then went to deals gone bad show at the metro. dan pothast was excellent as well. pedro gave me huge hugs outside the metro, and some drinking was done at the ginger man. NONE OF MY FRIENDS CAME TO THE SHOW OR TO THE DRINKING. so i only had like 2 beers. in face i think i only had two beers at any event of the whole vacation. zero drunken timmys.
29th- family christmas #3 - went up to see joanie and exchanged gifts with her. her basement is huge. like as big as the apartment i'm hoping to get. then went to the zoo. fed hippos, bongo, giraffes...um...i thought more? maybe not. saw winter quarters (underground overflow/winter homes for animals) which were a little creepy. then ate a pint of kopp's custard. must mail order some kopp's.
30th- family christmas gathering #4 - first had giordano's (stuffed pizza #3) with ross and jovia and some dude they said was her brother. almost ate a whole small stuffed myself, one piece shy. i am impressive. then had dinner and gift exchange with suzi's family. got much needed pizza sauce.
31st- 5:30 amtrak into downtown chicago, freezing walk over to union station, 7am train to st louis. mel got married, then reception started at like 7. wasn't as crazy as you'd think a new year's eve reception would be (again, i had 2 beers), but it was very classy. i loved the place it was in, would be like the coolest loft in downtown st louis. also, the wedding cake was awesome - i normally don't even bother looking at it cause wedding cake is not the kind of thing people actually like eating, but they had some plain super dark devil's food cake. i had 2 pieces.
1st- CITY MUSEUM ST. LOUIS. this was the coolest place. it's...um...kind of a giant sculpture playground made out of old parts of industrial equipment and buildings from the city? and you can climb on pretty much anything. i don't think there's any rules. there's a 7 story slide, a 3 story slide, a bunch more slides outside, 2 ball pits, jungle gyms, caves, a circus, upstairs there's an espresso bar and a very cheap well stocked thrift store...it's pretty much just amazing. then after that we took the train to the airport and flew back to la.
2nd- that was yesterday. i was back here. and did nothing. i'm kind of sick right now, bad sinus thing, don't know who i got it from cause just about everyone in the midwest i saw was sick. hope it gets better fast cause i'm gonna be busy with work and shows for a while. POSSIBLY getting new apartment soon. will keep updated.
to everyone who i saw on the trip home - it was awesome seeing you, thanks for enabling visit times. there were a lot of people i didn't see, which kinda sucks, but it's not the end of the world. i didn't want to do a giant planned stressful get together - which i did 2 of last year, and both cost me a lot of money and both were not that fun, outside of getting to see people. and then i didn't talk to any one person as much as i would have liked either, yaknow? so as long as we're still talking and cool and stuff, i'll see you another time, don't be upset.
-tim.
