Bringing the Drama

i’m doing the list david tagged me with almost two months ago…what up! tomorrow’s going to be a good entry…if i get around to typing it!

Seven Things to Do Before I Die (Lord willing) (not necessarily in this order):
1) get married (i think i’d feel selfish if this was not on the list)
2) hike to the bottom of the grand canyon and when i come out, eat raisin bran
3) go to europe
4) get paid to write something
5) see clemson win the national title in one of the major sports
6) learn to play the violin
7) learn to salsa

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1) sing
2) do things on time if i know they are not due the next day
3) resist a good deal on an album/dvd of some kind
4) get rid of stuff i don’t need
5) finish a rubik’s cube
6) understand why people get more attached to pro sports teams than college
7) wait till march when i get to see some really awesome shows

Seven Things I Say (or write!) Most Often:
1) dude.
2) cool
3) aight.
4) yeah.
5) ya’ll.
6) haha.
7) what up

Seven Books (or series) I Love:
1) through painted deserts
2) lord of the rings
3) mere christianity
4) the man comes around
5) christian culture survival guide
6) chronicles of narnia
7) blue like jazz

Seven Movies (or series) I Love:
1) elizabethtown
2) lord of the rings
3) swingers
4) how to lose a guy in 10 days
5) garden state
6) almost famous
7) signs

i’m not one for survey things, and actually david had asked for me to fill one out a while back and then i never got around to it. (sorry man, i’ll go back and do your’s in the next few days or so) now alisa has asked me to do one so i figure i’ll do it because i want to try to write more than just 4 entires per month. i’ve been slacking. anyway, here goes…

Four jobs I’ve had:
seafood clerk at winndixie
research assistant
telemarketing phone answer person
engineer

Four movies I could watch over and over: (and I have…)
elizabethtown
lord of the rings
swingers
almost famous

Four books I could read over and over:
through painted deserts
lord of the rings
mere christianity
the man comes around

Four places I have lived:
pearl river, la
clemson, sc
greenwood, sc
slidell, la

Four TV shows I watch:
24
pardon the interruption
arrested development
friends (reruns)

Four places I have been on vacation
hermoso beach, ca
nashville, tn
harrisburg, pa
memphis, tn

Four websites I visit daily other than email
rumor forum
slickdeals
woot
cnnmoney

Four favorite foods:
mac and cheese
pudding
turkey sandwiches
cinnamon biscuits

Four places I’d like to be right now:
nashville, tn
clemson, sc
the grand canyon
pre-katrina slidell

a couple of weeks ago, one of the houses on my street went up for sale, and not 3 days later, a little sign that said ‘too late!’ was put on the for sale sign. its quite amazing the housing market in my neighborhood, especially after katrina. yesterday they had a big moving truck come and sit outside their house while they loaded it up. it wasn’t completely loaded until maybe midnight last night. i’ve been jealous ever since i saw the ‘too late!’ sign go up. they are moving! but to where? it seems exciting to move. i want to move, but i’m weighed down with getting my house fixed. i’m in day #2 of getting the roof fixed correctly, and then i hope to quickly move back to the sheetrock. not sure when the floor will be in, but i figure by the end of february, it’ll be done.

oh, and about nashville and the girl….she’s cool, but i know i’ll have to move there to go further. so we’ll see. like i said, things are kind of on hold with the moving for now, so i’m trying to concentrate on the house, THEN everything else. i had a blast in nashville though, so i was really glad i went on the trip. hope to travel again soon.

ever since i read that book, ‘if you want to walk on water, you’ve to get out of the boat‘, i have this thing where i can’t not do something. if something seems worth doing, i’d rather find out and have it disappoint me than for me never to go do it. in this vein, i have asked out a hot triathlete, gone on a blind date, etc because i’d rather find out and fail than sit around going “man, i wonder if i would have actually asked her out…”

all this to say i’m going to nashville this weekend to see about a girl. its definitely the blindest of blind dates i’ve been on. but i trust my match maker, and i figured ‘why not?’ wish me luck. if you’re sitting around this weekend, raise a cold one for me.

so this past weekend, i was supposed to get the sheetrock put up and then the final piece of the puzzle would be the new floor. well, now i’m looking at having to get the roof fixed again because it was not done right the first time. the whole house repair thing is so ridiculous. its not that you have to only wait a long time for things to get moving, its once they get moving, there’s all kinds of delays, etc. very frustrating. i made a pledge to jacob today that after our houses get fully repaired, we’re going to have a party, and celebrate our months and months of frustration being over by getting plastered.

at the end of february, i’m finally going to see coldplay. after being denied TWICE last fall, i’m going to see them in houston. the following week is mardi gras, so i’m thinking i could take a road trip somewhere. its about two days to arizona, but only one day to kansas. anybody want to go? the problem is i don’t know anyone in kansas or oklahoma, but i’m pretty sure i know someone in dallas, st louis, louisville, nashville, etc. basically, i’m looking at a route in a circle, completely around arkansas. i need to meet more people from the internet apparently, i don’t know enough in enough places.

so i went to circuit city yesterday in hopes of picking up ‘about a boy‘ since mike had talked about it and i found it for a really good price. i had to search around but finally found the rack where it was stored. they luckily had two copies, but as i peered closer, i noticed, ‘fullscreen’. i thought they only sold fullscreen dvds at walmart for people who say things like “I can’t stand the black bars on the tv!” so i came home and ordered off a website and saved $4. i showed those corporate bastards to understock their store!

in other news, i had my furnace repaired today. thankfully a warm front came through last week, which made the week and a half without heat somewhat bearable. i’m thankful the repair did not cost over $100 too. i’m spending enough on house repairs. speaking of house repairs, i should have them all done, including the floor, by the end of the month. happy january indeed.

oh, and i posted a top 10 over on EH. i included some album cover pictures. had to again follow mike’s lead.