What's going on!!!!

Okay, okay, I haven’t been keeping up with these blogs, I know this.

But in my defense I have been non-stop moving since I started moving into my place. So let’s look at what’s happened lately (WARNING: This blog is going to be unusually long for me, but not as long as if I were Shane!!!!).

So as you know, I got the place I REALLY wanted (I live in Quincy, MA) with two girls in a fantastical house, pics will be available soon. I moved what I had into the house the night before going back to Indy. I got into Indy and surprised some people by showing up early and had a party. Then Letha’s mom took us out on her boat because it was my best friend’s (Lee) wife’s (Laura) birthday. So we spent the day tubing around a lake and getting thrown off at 35 M.P.H. Thank you again Dawn and Richard. We had a picnic and then hung out in the hot tub when we got back.

The next big thing was a party on Thursday night. We played Ultimate Frisbee and had lots of drinks. Good times hanging out with lots of people. Then Friday came and we had 12 people show up at Lee’s for a fun night of poker, while Letha was doing Maid-of-honor type stuff in Muncie. I busted out after making the final table because of a boneheaded bet on my part, oh well…

On Saturday I got the U-Haul and packed a lot of stuff up and then picked up Letha from a baby shower. We then drove up to Muncie for Deb and Jason’s wedding (friends of Letha’s from college). Nice wedding, it was at Ball State, and then we went to the reception which was a lot of fun. I got to meet more of Letha’s friends, and then we crashed in the Jacuzzi suite.

Then Sunday came. I don’t recommend to anyone to do the following! We woke up around 10, left at 11, got back to Indy, finished packing the U-Haul at 4 p.m., then got on the road (Letha had to be at work at 8:15 a.m. in New York). While driving thru Ohio got nabbed for doing 89 M.P.H. on the highway, nice cop gave me just a warning. Also, he only wrote down the information of the truck. Nothing from my license, which rocks cause it won’t effect my driving record. So Letha and I originally intended to switch off driving shifts, that didn’t work, not that it was her fault. But the truck I got was kind of big and a bitch to drive in the daylight. It got a whole lot worse at night, and she hadn’t driven it all, so I decided that I would drive the whole twelve hours myself. BIG MISTAKE!!!! I didn’t get tired until 2 a.m., so I bought a couple energy drinks. Well to give some history…I stopped drinking soda 4 years ago, I mainly stick to water. So when I started driving near New York City, tired as hell, with tons of caffeine and sugar, and the adrenaline pumping (because of the idiot drivers there) I start shaking and all of a sudden felt like I did a Century Club. I unpacked Letha and left her at 6 a.m., after she asked me to wait until I could stand without almost falling over, to which I had to refuse. If I had stopped, I would have passed out and been blocking 144th St. with the U-Haul, until most likely around 2 p.m., so I drove out of the city before traffic got really bad and made it to Connecticut before passing out in the cab. But everything worked out fine, I slept for 4 hours then drove the rest of the way. My roommate Erin helped me unload the truck for the most part. Then I passed out for a while.

Then I went back to Indy two weeks later for another wedding, Zach and Jenny’s. I rode the Chinatown bus (Lucky Star rocks, $15 got me to NYC in 4 hours). Then Letha and I flew out of NYC together. We got in and after some crap at the airport partied over at Justin and Fallon’s for a while. Then we spent some time with Letha’s family (Ever seen 4 year-olds playing soccer? It is quite the site) before getting ready for the wedding. Zach and Jenny got married outside in Franklin really close to Franklin College, it was a nice set up. Then we partied again after the reception at Justin and Fallon’s. We said our goodbyes and then we turn in our car and guess what…our flight was cancelled. After finding out a rental car for 12 hours costs $91 dollars we called Shane. He was nice enough to come and pick us up. We went bowling then crashed at my parents house again. Then Letha’s dad had to pick us up at 5:30 in the morning!!!!! Thank you again sir. Flew back to NYC and I crashed at Letha’s, while she went to work, then I got on the 10 p.m. Chinatown bus back to Boston. Then my lovely roommate Jesica picked me up, so I didn’t have to spend $40 on a cab. Thanks roomie!!!

Then three days later Shane picked up Letha on his way to my place. Shane showed up and has been spending a bunch of time with my brothers (Mike got here the day after Shane and left this past Saturday), Letha and me. We celebrated my niece’s birthday on the 3rd. I got to watch BEERFEST with both brothers, Letha, and Shane, it was great! Since then, I’ve jut been trying to entertain Shane and keep him busy.

Football season started this past week and I have to say I’m quite excited, but then I’m always excited about football season. My Patriots won, not by much, but it’s still a W. Our defense looked better than our offense, but I was watching Monday Night Football and one of the commentators made the comment, “The defense is more prepared than the offense in week one.” We also traded away our #1 receiver the other day to the Seattle Seahawks for a 1st round draft pick, not something I was hoping for, but it seems everyone’s happier for it. Hey this is how the game is played now, oh well.

On another sports note, my Red Sox are not where I’d hope they’d be in the middle of September. But I do have one high note, the game on September 9th. This was my first time being in Fenway Park since I was 13. My Uncle Dutch had some extra seats and I was lucky enough to occupy those seats with my friend Shane. So we start out in the Crown Royal Club, which is just fancy talk for not allowed in unless you spent a whole lot of money on your seats. It’s a nice little place that looks and feels like a country club to me. Then we went in a private entrance to the park and took an elevator up to the EMC club. Another country club kind of atmosphere with really good food, and a great view of the park, I would have taken pictures but I didn’t want to seem TO out of place. Then we went to our seats, front row of the most expensive seats in the park, right behind home plate. Watch the game played in front of us then reenacted on the 5in. TVs in front of us. Now I don’t want to give out the idea that I didn’t enjoy myself, but it wasn’t like the experiences I’ve ever had before or will ever have again most likely. I was telling Shane afterwards that it was cool and nice and very high-end, but that wasn’t watching a baseball game at Fenway. I’ve been to the Bronx 3 times (thanks baby) this year and every time there felt like a baseball game, I’m there talking to the people next to us and getting the real atmosphere of the game. I felt like I had to be on my BEST behavior every time I was doing something. I was worried about making my aunt and uncle look bad. I know I was out of my element that night, as could be told by my apparel (I was wearing a Papelbon T-shirt, jeans, and my new Red Sox jacket). Again, I would like to thank Dutch and Addie for allowing me the opportunity to watch the game from those seats.

That was the last exciting thing I’ve done recently. I’ve been working a lot, trying to get things ready for our busiest season of the year. I won’t promise that I’ll blog more, I’ll just say I’m gonna try to do it more often.

Till next time….