Two Saturdays!

Ahhh, my fist day of actual vacation from ASQ came this week and I took advantage of the long weekend. On Friday it started with a Brewers game. Babcock hooked up Todd, Steph, Luedke and I with some tickets to one of the luxury boxes at Miller Park. Not only were the seats great but the thing was stacked to the hilt with free booze and food for everyone. The group took full advantage of the amenities and I have to admit I didn’t watch much of the game because I was in deep conversation with those around me. In the end the Crew lost but who goes to watch the games anyway. Once the game was over we all went to Mo’s for a couple pints of Guinness. There was a two person band there that had a drum machine do all the backing music but they did some awesome covers. After that we headed to the Metro and finished up the night with some martinis.

On Saturday Jocelyn and I had our traditional Memorial Day weekend grill out. We invited Todd and Steph over and we relaxed the day away. We had marinated kabobs, German potato salad, chopped salad, and most important of all, fresh fruit daiquiris. The weather was cool and rainy but the men braved the cold and grilled the manly food to perfection. The next couple hours were spent relaxing and sucking on daiquiris. At about nine Tasha and her new/old boyfriend came over and joined the fiesta. After the Chappelle show and Insomniac marathons we headed to the High Hat on Brady to meet Luedke. The way to the High Hat was quite the adventure. Tasha’s male friend’s Mustang got stuck in reverse and we couldn’t parallel park the thing. After some torque on the shifter we cracked the thing out of reverse and into first. After destroying is transmission and driving around in first looking for a parking space (he couldn’t shift out of it) we managed to find a spot. One problem still existed though, we had to parallel park the car. So we pulled up to the spot and I got out and pushed the car backwards into the spot. Once that thing was parked it was no longer my worry and it was time to have some fun. All the craziness caught up with me the second I stepped foot inside the High Hat. As soon as I entered the bar I hit the proverbial wall. I had one beer, talked to some college buddies, and headed home.

Sunday, or Saturday #2 as I like to call it, consisted of a second Brewers game. The weather was absolutely horrible. Torrential rain and thunder were the weather of the day. After confirming with Todd that we were going to go to the Crew game, bad weather or not, we headed off. I thought for sure it would be us and the players at this game but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Upon arriving at the stadium we discovered that there were quite a lot of diehard people already in the parking lot. We were on the east side of the stadium so we took our three beers and headed to Gantner’s Gardens shelters. Every shelter was packed elbow to elbow with crazy people tailgating before the game. Our shelter was no less crazy than the others. One guy accidentally started the rubberized bench on fire with his grill so we got a nice whiff of toxic smoke. Another observation I didn’t understand was seeing all the people taking their umbrellas to go pee in the bushes. Don’t you think you’d get plenty wet from walking through the foot high grass and standing in a bush? Well after I pondered this questions for what seemed like minutes we finished our beers and headed in to the stadium and the safety of the roof. We spent almost the entire game in TGIFs drinking yards and talking to Delahunt’s parents and one of my other buddies that we happened to run into. Another loss for the Brewers but the game was a great was to spend a Sunday. After the game we headed back downtown and got Edwardo’s with Todd and Steph. I then finished the weekend the way all weekends should be finished, with a three hour nap. Monday was spent doing nothing, the way all days off should be spent. A great weekend, I wish they were all three days.

Holy Toledo!, Ohio

The weekend started out calm enough. I had a wedding in Ohio this weekend. One of Jocelyn’s friends was getting married and she was one of the maids of honor. I took Friday off and we spent the day driving to Ohio. We woke up at eight to lovely severe thunderstorms. Not only were we lucky enough to have these thunderstorms but we ended up driving with them for five hours to Ohio. The drive was pretty easy minus the crappy weather parts. We saw three blown over semis on the way. Luckily every single one of these was going west. So while traffic on the other side of the highway was shut down we were zipping right along. We got into Ohio around four with the time change. I relaxed in the whirlpool for a bit and took a load off until the rehearsal dinner. While J was at rehearsal I stayed at the hotel. Once the rehearsal was over it was time for my first of two delicious dinners of the weekend. We ate at some mob looking Italian joint. We got to sit with the one of bride’s brother and the other maids. It was a fun time. The bride’s brother had a funny story that involved a grape HI-C juice box and getting air lifted out of the grand canyon by rangers. The dinner was lobster bisque, salad and then your choice of fish or steak. I being a man went with the steak. After that we called it a night and went to the hotel.

Saturday we were up early. I took J and another bridesmaid to the beauty parlor to get there hair done. While they did that I cruised to TJ Maxx of Toledo to pick up a better outfit to wear. After TJ, Kmart, Taco Bell and Kroeger, I headed back to the hotel. I was going to sit in my room and have a couple solo beers and iron my new clothes but I had a message from some of Jocelyn’s other friends to come to their room for some cocktails. So instead of being a boozed up Martha Stewart in my room I cruised down to their room and had a couple beers and shot the breeze. From there we went to the wedding. It was a very nice wedding. The church was nice, the priest was nice and service was nice. It was a full service which made the ceremony a little long and hot. But once that was over it was time to GET IT ON! I loaded up J’s friends into the Montero and we went to the reception which was being held at her parent’s home. This was no regular home though (I guess the bride’s dad is a real estate mogul), the back yard was huge. The yard was about as big as football field and a half, there was a huge pool/fountain in it (picture a small Billie Madison pool), and on one end was a huge river, maybe the Ohio. This huge expanse of area had a monstrous tent set up where the reception was held. The dinner itself was nice. Everyone got two small fillets and four shrimp, not a gut buster meal, but nice. When dinner was over that’s when things started to get a little out of had. Our first bright idea was to high jack the golf cart and cruise around in it. We were beat to the punch by the bride’s brothers who took the golf cart and raced it against a new Thunderbird. The race was no contest but I thought the T-bird was going to run over the golf cart when he cut him off. My “incident” took place right after dinner when walked down to the river. There was a tree swing in this huge tree and we were all taking turns trying to make the other puke. Well I grabbed the swing and started running with it and when I tried to stop after my twenty yard run I slipped on some gravel and did a face plant in the gravel/grass, it hurt. But I acted tough until I could get to a corner and cry and assess the damage. I tore my hand up pretty good, got dirt all over my pants, had a grass stain on the elbow of my new shirt, and the kicker, broke the LCD screen of our camera. When I landed I guess my phone pushed my camera into my leg pretty good and as we speak I have a Frisbee size bruise on my leg where the camera dug in. After that took place I got lost for a while so my pants could dry after I poured water on them to get them clean. I wasn’t about to walk around the fancy party looking like a hillbillie with dirty pants. Once I got back I think everyone was twice as drunk as when I left. I took it easy the rest of the night but did my share of dancing to the swing band they had. Toward the end of the reception all the bridesmaids and some of the drunk relatives all hopped into the fountain to dance in it. I had a ton of fun with J and all her college swimming friends. At eleven the bride and groom took off for their honeymoon so things wound down at the reception. I was the sober Sally to I had to pile all the drunks into the Montero and we headed to some hippy bar in Perrysburg with a $3 cover charge, huh? Cover charge. No one really needed to go there but we did. I had one beer and played pool against some ex-con. One of the groomsmen almost got into a fight with the entire bar because he thought someone was hitting on his wife. So the fun didn’t last long at this place and I rounded up the drunks and took the back to the hotel. The wedding was a lot of fun. Jocelyn looked hot, the weather was nice, and it was one of the nicest I’ve been to.

Wedding Season

This weekend wasn’t too crazy. Friday night we stayed in because we had a wedding in Sheboygan to go to. It was couple beers and a movie night.

Saturday was the best woman on the face of the earth’s birthday, Jocelyn! There is no better way to spend a birthday than to spend it in Sheboredom at a relatives wedding. We went to my cousin Dirk’s wedding and it was actually a nice, small wedding. We left Milwaukee early and headed to Sheboygan around 8. We had some errands to do and that took us until around noon. The wedding was at one so we went to that and then headed to Dave’s Who’s Inn for a couple good Sheboygan hamburgers and some beers. The reception started at seven and was a fun time. We had some cocktails with my relatives and listened to their fish stories, you gotta love my uncle Tommy the man who things he Frank Sinatra. The wedding got so crazy EVEN MY MOM was taking shots, a definite rarity. When the wedding wound down we headed to Falls to finish the night in style. We started at the “O” and spent a good amount of our night there. Then in one of those “split second sounds good at the moment” ideas we got wrangled into going to Plymouth and seeing a band.  With no birthday being complete without going to Big Jimmy’s and getting a root beer shot we went down the block and pounded two root beer shots with Jimmy himself. He was disappointed to see us go but we were off to Plymouth. Cruising in style in the ’88 Towncar we made it to P-town with about an hour until bar time. The band was a jam band and they were pretty good. We hung out with my buddies Popper and Richie and grooved the night away. Nothing is ever dull in Plymouth and bar closing is no exception. On our way out we got to see a huge fight and some chick sprawled out in the middle of the road with her dress over her head after getting pushed down. Don’t know what that was all about but I chalk it up to Plymouth. That’s enough Plymouth for at least two years. Happy birthday to J. Sorry for the boring week, I’ll make up for it.

The End Of An Era

This weekend was pretty eventful. Friday started off with the end of an era. Luedke and Bone closed shop at the Wells street bachelor pad. The party was a great time and I was successful in lightening their load by polishing off at least one whole bottle of liquor. I actually polished off three or four but none were full, so I figure adding all of them together equaled somewhere around a bottle. After the party we headed to the Metro and continued our boozing rampage with the classic $5 martini night. Oh the humanity, and the hangover.

Saturday we headed up to SheVegas to fix J’s car. We rolled into town around 12 with our BACs somewhere around .10. My brother wanted to go to a brat fry so we swerved our way there for an hour to get some of that Sheboygan charm. I didn’t see any rich bachelors but I did see plenty of mullets and NASCAR gear. The rest of the afternoon we worked on the car and got some of the oil leaks patched up. Around 7 we headed to Firehouse and then bar hopped around the greater Sheboygan area. Once again I saw a lot of homely looking dudes but no rich bachelors. The kicker of the whole night had to be running into my old roommate Courtney at Water Street, talk about bizarre.

Sunday was spent working on my computer. I got a new rig and she’s a beaut. I got it up and running finally but I’m still tweaking it. A special thanks to J’s dad for financing part of the computer via the Potawatomi Indians. Now I have to get a bag of VHS cassettes converted to DVD for him. More adventures to come, especially in two weeks when I head to the Great Northwoods for a guys weekend.

Super Sunday, And Monday!

What a weekend. Friday and Saturday I had a good time chilling out here at the pad. Wians, The Bone, Chappy, and I played some darts and drank some brews here. It was all a warm-up to the Super Bowl party that I was throwing on Sunday. The party was a success and a ton of fun. Thanks to those who came and screw you to those who didn’t 🙂 Luedke, Adam, Stacey, Chappy, Todd, Stephanie, Jocelyn and I had a great time. The chicken wings were the popular food for the day and my hats off to Todd for eating close to a bag himself. The sarcasm and jokes made the two utterly boring quarters a hoot, thanks for coming guys, hope to see you next year. Another special thanks for the $25 bucks I won for the first half pool.

My super day was on Monday though. I GOT A JOB!!! I am once again a member of society and no longer a shut in. I will be working for a non-profit organization. Their full name is The American Society for Quality. They’re responsible for certifying people that take care of quality control in numerous fields. My job will be updating the content on www.asq.org. Their office is located right in downtown Milwaukee so I’ll be able to walk to work. I really can’t explain how happy I am. This job is pretty much everything I was hoping for. Right now the job is a temporary 90 day position but there is a possibility of more if I do a good job. I don’t care if it was only 5 days – I GOT A JOB!!! The frustration is over! Super Monday!