my moral standing is lying down

So much fun this weekend!

( Pan's Labyrinth. No spoilers; general opinion only. )

Met up with Chris, Victor, Carrie, Sean and Judy on Saturday night. Children of Men was sold out, and Bryant Park was closed (so no ice skating), but we went to the secret bar (an awesome bar on the 13th 14th floor balcony of a building with an awesome close-up view of the Empire State Bldg) for secret drinking instead. And it was perfect weather for the outdoor bar. It was really great to see everyone. <3 Can't wait to see people again soon. thedreamerworld, we have to get together again when you're back from SF.

OH! And I bought a RAINBOW SCARF! IT'S SO CUTE!

Today I had work, but played lots of Guitar Hero II when I got home -- we have finally completed 5 stars for each song on Medium! I love that game. I do not, however, look forward to attempting these songs on Hard. =( Definitely need more practice first, yes.

This past weekend was busy, but I had a great time.

Friday I gave in and bought the House MD DVD at Best Buy because of B-day contributions from Liz and Will (thank you!), and we went back home to watch several episodes I hadn't seen before. =D

Saturday morning I had to go to work (unfortunately) to cover for David who was on vacation. It's only fair, but the timing couldn't have sucked more. Saturday night I went over to Victor's house for his weekend BBQ party thing. The view of the sky and the Manhattan skyline inching away from me as we went East was really amazingly gorgeous. I'm not a nature/scenery type of person, but it was just an awesome sight. And then I made my way to Victor's house and I was so glad that I went. Lots of fun, people I hadn't seen in a while, and some other people I hadn't met before. Unfortunately I was so beat from work (which was busier than I'd expected) and lack of sleep the night before, that I barely made it to 1am before bailing out and going to sleep. =(

Next morning I woke up and missed the 10am ferry so I was late to the AN meeting. But I still showed up! And there were so few people there (because of it being Memorial Day weekend, and not to mention AB as well) that I don't feel so bad.

Monday I did NOTHING. It was wonderful! Actually, I had a sudden urge to watch Wedding Peach. So after a bit of trial and error I was able to figure out what I'd last seen up to (what, 4 years ago?) -- episode 20, and watch up to episode 28! And tonight I watched another 3 episodes. I really love that anime -- although I will fully admit to fast forwarding through the henshin and attack scenes because there's still NOTHING as good as Sailor Moon when it comes to henshin and attack scenes. ^_~

How does hanging out from 5 to 8pm sound? Maybe get something to eat? 'Cause I have to work from 12 to 5pm, and I'll still have stuff to do at home later... ^_~;;

For bondagepenguin:

Depeche Mode with special guest She Wants Revenge will be playing at:

Tommy Hilfiger/Jones Beach Theater on Saturday, May 13th
PNC Bank Arts Center on Sunday, May 14th

Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 9am.

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I had to clear off the car and shovel the driveway a little when I drove Maryann to the train this morning. But I wore my fleece Artemis Neko Hat (made by Carrie), so it completely made up for it. I ♥ my Artemis neko hat!

So it was just me, Juliet and Will who went to see Aeon Flux this Friday. The movie was better than I feared it might be, but not as good as I'd hoped. From Juliet's POV -- someone who has never seen the MTV cartoon -- she enjoyed it, and at least the plot seemed to make sense. I did like the feel of the movie, and I enjoyed it. But mostly, it got me excited to see the cartoon again. I had downloaded all of the episodes from WinMX last year, and never got around to watching all of them... but then after my harddrive crashed, they were lost. =( Now that WinMX is not free (I seem to remember, according to gokumew2), I'm considering buying the DVD of the complete series, with extras, on eBay for... I've seen around $35 including shipping. And I know that Paypal has some holiday 10% off coupon, so it would be closer to $30. I'm thinking about it. If anyone knows of a download or torrent for it, I am totally willing to be persuaded not to waste $30 on the official DVD.

Maryann and I drove over to Victor's house last night for a lil get-together with Chris, Carrie, Sean Kelly, and Crystal. Which was actually quite nice. Haven't seen them since once in mid-October! We've all been so busy with work and school and such. I was so happy to just go and hang out (especially since I had the car)! We played Soul Caliber 3 (which I hadn't seen until then, but I'll have to get for Liz) and kind of watched some of Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which was MUCH better than I thought it would be! I really liked what I saw of it (and I think I'm one of the few who really didn't like Mononoke Hime, although I think that's mostly due to the fact that I thought the dub REALLY REALLY SUCKED, and haven't seen it subbed)! When we were leaving at around 3am, it was snowing ~ so pretty! Drove Chris & Carrie back to Chris's house. Crystal lives in Queens, so I gave her a ride home, then back to my house. The drive in the snow was beautiful and exciting ~ 'cause it was snowing softly, not so much that it blinded. I really do love making the drive over to Staten Island, I guess just 'cause I enjoy driving a lot and it's a long enough drive that I can enjoy it, but not so long that it's tedious. And also, the fact that when we leave there are barely any cars on the road adds to the enjoyment. ^_~

I'm really looking forward to hanging out again for New Year's Eve (if not sooner).

Today.

The contractor started working on the walkway today, and needs the garage cleared out for tomorrow (even though he won't start on the garage until next week!). Maryann is going to come over and help move stuff out of there later tonight.

At 6pm, I have an appointment with Russell (that ebay drop-off store guy).

Maryann wanted to open up her bank account today, so that's more of a delay (but a happy one 'cause I've been bugging her to open a bank account for a year, at least).

It's Liz's birthday today -- she and her friends went to Coney Island/Astroland! (I'm *so* jealous!) So she won't be back until a bit later also -- I think she might be meeting me/us to go home. (I can't wait to give her birthday punches~!) Angelica and I got her a paid LJ account for 18 months. (When it expires, she'll be in college -- she'll just have to renew on her own!) ^^

I just found out that Victor will be moving to Florida, possibly very soon. =( And then Maryann told me that Eric might (almost definitely?) be moving to Arizona, not sure when though.

What the hell is going on here?!

And to top it off, for the past two weeks Angelica, Maryann and I have been calling each other at the same time, every single time we call. Obviously, we should pool money and play a lotto ticket or something, because the universe is trying to tell us something. ^_~;

I'm *so* tired. And that wouldn't be so bad, but I'm sleepy too. >_< On Friday, as I reported, I went out with friends to see Howl's Moving Castle. I did neglect to mention some things about the night because I was literally falling asleep at the computer while I was typing that up. (I even left some of the coding unfinished when it was posted, LOL, but I've fixed it now.)

( A little more about Friday night. )

( On Saturday... )

On Sunday, after only 4 hours of sleep, I went to work at the store for 7 hours. I was so dead that I was being very indifferent toward pretty much anything and everything that day. Not grouchy or snappy, just indifferent. I didn't have the energy to form much of an opinion on anything. Except for the fact that I wasnted sweetened Passion Iced Tea from Starbucks, and had two Venti cups of it. =D

Sunday wasn't all that exciting or anything, but since I wasn't able to watch any episodes of Whistle since around Wednesday, I was feeling really desperate to watch more! So I started watching (somewhere between 25 and 28) at midnight, and didn't stop until the end of episode 36 at 4am! So I had almost 3 hours of sleep, but I am *so* paying for it now -- I'm finding it even more difficult to stay awake at my desk. Even writing this post isn't helping all that much.

New Year's Eve was a Friday, so I worked at the store until around 2, I think. Something like that. Maryann and I had plans to go with Chris, Carrie & Sean to a party in New Jersey. We assumed that Victor & Co. were going to be going as well. But when Maryann found out they weren't, we really didn't want to go to NJ and spend New Year's with a bunch of people we didn't know at a stranger's house. (But mostly, we'd really rather spend it at Victor's.)

(Okay, I'm going to just interrupt myself for a second to point out that I'm totally switching tenses in my sentences, but I can't seem to figure out the correct way to speak. Blame it on my hunger headache.)

Anyway. Maryann called Chris and bought some time by saying that I was stuck working at the store until 7:30, so we wouldn't make the 7:37 train at Penn Station. Chris said they were taking the 8:30 train. (Damn.) Then she tried to tell him how we weren't going to know anyone there. He said we'd know him, Carrie and Sean. (True...) He said "Don't be a pussy! You promised!" (Apparently true, but I hadn't known.)

And so the soap opera began. Maryann called Victor to get him to call Chris and convince him to go to Vic's house instead, but Victor couldn't get through. Maryann called Carrie and explained everything. But she didn't call Chris back and so we practically ran over to Penn Station and were there by 8:10. We called Chris several times, but couldn't get through. Finally, he called us back and we told him we were at Penn Station - where were they? But Chris said that Carrie told them we weren't coming! Oh, the irony.

So we told them to just go ahead without us and we went to Vic's instead. We really enjoyed it there, so it was totally worth the running around. And, at least from my point of view, it was really amusing watching Maryann be so indecisive. Teehee.

Just to sum up. We went to Vic's house -- probably arrived around 9:30? Started in on the beers -- I discovered that Heineken is not as bitter as others I've tried, and so is much easier to drink (except for those last few sips at the bottom). It wasn't a big party or anything, but it was definitely a good time. Ohhh, I was so happy to have gone!

Around midnight, we were all sitting on the floor in the hallway, talking, when I looked at my watch which said about two minutes to 12. When I mentioned this, someone went into the other room and turned on the TV to watch the ball drop. But it had already dropped. Then someone blamed it on me, that we missed the ball dropping. But I said that if I hadn't said anything, we wouldn't even have noticed that it was midnight. So there. LOL.

Well, long story short -- we (me, Maryann & Justin) ended up sleeping on the hallway floor at around 3am. I think I got about an hour's sleep, but woke up because it was freezing in the room. Victor had left the window open, and we had no blankets. I know I got up once to find my bookbag to use as a pillow, and put my coat on as a blanket. Which helped for a while, but I wasn't really able to fall asleep again. I know I sat up for a while; just sitting there with my coat on 'cause I was so cold. Around 6 I moved to a different spot and laid down... I must have fallen asleep for five or ten minutes, but I woke up when Justin went to the bathroom. So we pretended that we were still trying to sleep, and around 6:45, we just decided to leave. Justin gave us a ride to the bus stop and we got to wait in the not-so-cold car until the bus came. Then we got to take the R train from the second-to-last stop in Brooklyn, allll the way to the third-to-last stop in Queens. Long ride. Nice nap.

Went to my house, got there around 9, slept until 1pm. Ahhh, nice, warm, comfortable bed (because at least I have a heater)!

Despite trying to freeze us out of his house, we had such fun. It was especially amusing to see Victor drunk 'cause he really didn't seem drunk except that he kept rambling. But it was that type of rambling that could be sober rambling, too.

You know, I think I'm just rambling right now. So. Goodnight.