Random Drivel

I haven't written down a dream in a while, probably because I have forgotten most of them by the time I woke up. I remember this one, so I better get it copied down before I forget it, too.

Where was I? I don't think I knew what this place was, but it was inside, and there was a party. There were several people I knew, and several I didn't, but I got the impression that at least everyone there knew someone… And that there were these girls that I didn't know but they knew who I was. They started talking to me, and I figured out how they knew me. I thought it was kind of weird. It gets kinda hazy after that…

Thats the thing about waking up every day at 7. You're usually in the middle of a dream when the alarm goes off, so you don't quite get to finish it.

Its Friday, and another week of work done. I didn't actually do much
work, but I am going to get paid for 40 hours of being there.

Tomorrow I don't know if I'm going to go to the 4th of july party or
not, I'll figure it out when I wake up. I am freakin tired right now,
and 12 hours of sleep is about what I need.

Treated my mom out to dinner tonight since she's leaving Sunday for
Cali. We went to Roadhouse. It was good. I decided (again) what I want
to do this summer. The list of things that need to get done (and
probably wont):

• Learn to ride a motorcycle, pass the MSF, and get a bike
• Order the parts and build a computer(or two), for the following reasons
• Build a Home Theater PC (HTPC) for recording live TV and watching movies
• Build a webserver and email server, because it would be an
  interesting project, plus www.monhaut.com would be awesome, and
  eric@monhaut.com would be equally cool (although completely useless,
  who would even go to the site?) and host them both myself
• Take classes and learn to mix drinks and get a bartender's
  liscense (maybe I want to bartend next year at school, I hear you get a
  lot of money for that)
• subwoofer in the car

Yeah, so thats a short list of things that I want to get done this
summer. Maybe I'll have time to do them, maybe not. I work an awful
lot, and I don't sleep very much. I'm a busy sunuvabitch.

anyone that wants a gmail invite, IM me. We'll see what I can do. I got a few of them left.

Another long workweek comes to an end. Phew, very tiring. Today, my manager treated me and two other guys to Applebees for lunchbreak. That was nice of him, it was really cool. I was so tired at work, I was falling asleep at the computer almost. I'll just sleep in tomorrow, til like 11… (haha, I say 11, thats not even afternoon. I bet I wake up at 7 out of habit…)

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

You're my boy blue! You're my boy!

Oh yeah, speaking of. I'm gonna bid on a Speaker City polo on ebay. I think that'd be so cool to have. If I can't get a polo, i'll get the hat. The hat looks great, too. Probably cheaper than getting em from bustedtees. Speaking of, bustedtees has some funny tshirts, like “got this at a thrift store” and “prose before hoes” (with a picture of Shakespeare). Anyhoo. Speaker City, where we're slashing prices on everything from TVs to beepers.

I got a gmail account! Wow. That's kinda cool. Yeah, so I'm a dork, or something.

Went to work today, long day. Very long day. I came home, talked to a few people then took a nap.

Watched Mystic River tonight. That is a powerful movie. And, say what you want about the movie. But for me… the movie meant something to me. Its themes resonated within my heart, it made me identify with so many of its characters in ways I didn't want to. I contrast it with “The Notebook,” which, on its own merits, was a very emotional and moving film. But like I said on Saturday, it wasn't what I needed to see. Mystic River, though. This is the movie I needed to see.

I could see myself thinking and doing and feeling the same things the characters did. The man who wanted to do the right thing (and did), but was misunderstood and paid the consequences. The man who was angry, and wanted revenge, and even though he lost something very close to him, and no matter what he did he couldn't get it back, he took his revenge anyway… The boy who wanted to run away with his girlfriend to Las Vegas… I… If you haven't seen it, you should. Its good. I might have to buy it now. Kinda sucks I missed it in the theaters (I told you, I just wasn't all that into movies this year for some reason).

I wasn't expecting to get this deep, and I ended up deleting some stuff up there. But the point is the same; this was a great movie. Some people might not have liked it, but I know I did.

Most of all, though, I got something else out of this movie. What one character horribly did to the other one… No matter how much someone thinks you are wrong, no matter how much they convince themselves, even lie to themeselves, and convince everyone else to hate you… when it comes down to it, only you and God knows the truth, and that is all that is important in the world. And the world goes on, keeps spinning. You can't hate them, too; that doesn't do any good. Just love them. More hate doesn't solve any problems. It doesn't matter what someone else thinks of you; what's important is what you think of yourself, and that God loves you.

Went to the auto auction, it was cool. Lots of awesome cars, saw some mustangs, some camaros, an awesome Mack truck (that sold for 10,500!) and some other cool stuff.

Went out to the movies tonight… man, why do I let myself get dragged to chick flicks? Ok, its not that bad. Anyway… we saw “The Notebook”, which is supposed to be on par with A Walk To Remember for tear-jerker. The movie was good, but the message just wasn't something that I needed to see at this point in my life, one of those happy ending stories for youth's first love. I kept telling myself that they should have shot the movie from the other dude's point of view, see how he'd feel. But that wouldn't be a good story… actually, that story would probably suck. But other than that, it was a good movie.

Went out after the movie, did some crazy shit, and got back here about 15 minutes ago, around 1am. Quotes of the night:

“He's got honor!” (you gotta say it with a Boston accent)
“Leave it to the future burger-flippers of America to provide us with quality entertainment!”
“His mohak could probably pick up radio waves”

Finished my first week of work, and I'm exhausted. Getting up at 7am everyday and working till 5 kinda sucks. Especially if I dont' get to bed until late…

So… lets see. Oh yea, Allison works at TMA with me, she's a receptionist. We started the same day. She was getting walked around and introduced to all the people, and was like “hey I know you!” I haven't seen her since I think graduation. Pretty cool, gives me someone to talk to during lunch breaks or when I walk by the front desk.

John walked around and handed out these tickets to the auto auction, so I think I'll go tomorrow. Ryan's in town this weekend, so that'll be cool. There are some cool cars in the brochure, old cars, nice ones.

I just got back from hanging out, we all went to Sonic and ordered 9 jr burgers, and the lady goes “are you serious?” These other girls from BK pulled up next to us, wasn't sure who they were though.

Went to Creek, made 5 bucks. Not too shabby.

Prolly go see a movie tomorrow, not sure. Haven't been in forever, the theater just doesn't feel the same anymore. I'm just not the same kinda guy who likes goin to the movies all the time like I used to.

Oh yeah, and I talked to Danielle last night! She's gonna be flyin up in a few weeks, and stay for a week. Its gonna be great, I haven't seen her in forever! I'm excited. We're prolly gonna go up to Fayetteville when she gets here, its gonna be great.

Aiight I'm gonna get some sleep, its the weekend and I earned it.

This week has been pretty good so far, its half over. The job is great, even though its 8-5 with an hour lunch break. I'm really tired, cause I stay up late at night talkin on the phone or out doing somethin, and then I end up not getting enough sleep. Last night I went to bed at like 1 am or something… tonight, I'll prolly go to bed early– maybe.

We went to Harry Potter tonight, at like 6:30. It was good. I think I've seen like two movies this whole year at the theater. I used to love going to the movies… It was over at 9, so I came home. Man, my eyes are heavy.

Looking forward to this weekened, definitely.

This LJ is pretty sweet, its definitely got more (and better) features than my old crappy one. Ok, bedtime soon, hopefully…

One minute, I'm sitting here watching TV, lyin on my bed, and talkin to someone on AIM… the next minute is two hours later and I wake up cause my TV is loud.

what the hell was that?

Note to self: Don't go out and stay up til 2am the night before you gotta go to work the next day at 8 am.