Sunday, January 01, 2006
First entry of 2006, and I can't think of a more enjoyable way to start the year.

Great fun night tonight. Shaun and Jay, who came back to town for new year's, had absolutely nothing to do tonight, and after dismissing Shaun and I's first brainstorm of going to Denny's and ordering an entire pie, we decided to go with our second idea and go to Ruckers. Jenn called and joined us shortly after we got there, and we spent a few hours playing silly games and buying trinkets with our tickets.

Immediately upon arriving, Jenn showed us ALL up by winning this "stop the counter on 1000 to win 100 tickets" game. AND THEN SHE DID IT AGAIN. She had more tickets at the end of the night than me, Shaun and Jay combined.

There was some funky drumming game and a guitar game, both of which involved actually "playing" the instrument in time with the music. They were both fun and Shaun kicked ass on the guitar one. Then we played the dreaded DDR. Shaun and Jenn went first, and Jay told them to pick an Aqua song. Aqua! The sad thing was there actually was an Aqua song on the list, which was the first choice when me and Jay took our turns.

Jay also scrolled to the very last songs on the song list the next time, the ones whose names weren't soft blue or gentle green but BLOOD RED, and chose that song. I should also mention that the songs all have a "speed" rating, with the blue ones like 140, the green ones like 150. The red ones? Yeah, they rolled and rolled and continued to go up until they were like 300. Needless to say that match was insane and brutally hard.

When it came time to get our prizes, Shaun and I decided to actually buy two prizes (for $3 and $2.50 apiece) - two huge, ornamental chains with huge metallic looking things on the end. In other words, BLING. Shaun got this massive silver crocodile and I got a slightly-lighter golden dragon. Definitely awesome picks.

I also got one of those little trendy rubber wrist bands, but not one that says HOPE or LOVE or AMNESTY or UNICEF or whatever. Mine says "TOP DAWG." Yeah, that's right. It's so awfully bad it's terrific. And of course, I am wearing both the bracelet and the bling to work on Tuesday. To finish off with the new phrase I've picked up this trip, it's going to be epic.

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Almost forgot a great and horribly catchy link. Seriously, I listen to this like every day now.

"Lazy Sunday" Narnia Rap (CHRONIC-WHAT!-CLES OF NARNIA)
Starring Chris Parnell of EVIL ALIEN CONQUERORS FAME!!


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