T.G.I.M?

ugh ... monday morning ... my eyes are still half-shut ... my vision is somewhat blurry ... i keep yawning ... my head aches ... i look out my window here at work and i keep seeing prancing ponies drinking day old coffee while smoking exploding cigars ... i'm pretty sure i'm still dreaming.

i hate mondays. i know that is what everyone says, but seriously ... i really, really hate mondays.

the only benefit to today is that, tonight the 'hell's kitchen' finale comes on. yay! i do so love that show. i'm looking forward to see who wins. i hate rock, because he's a total asshole and he thinks he's the shit. on the other hand, the blond chick--i forget her name--is dumb as a brick and i'm really surprised she made it as far as she did. i think chef ramsey likes her tits. who knows? regardless, i can't wait to see how she decides to decorate her side of the restaurant. seeing as she's a nanny, i'm wondering if it'll have clowns with balloons, clouds, teddy bears and giant storks painted on the walls and ceiling. should be a treat to watch.

so, this weekend was fairly uneventful for me, which i am liking more and more as the weeks go by. i'm not going out to the clubs as much because i need to save money. i average between $40-$80 a night at the club when i go. oy. i need to save that.

instead, i went to matt and jessica's for dinner on friday. the food was amazing. steven brought paul, the resident vegetarian, and so matt prepared quite a few vegetable dishes that were to die for: asparagus with pine nuts and white wine, grilled portabella mushrooms, thinly sliced grilled eggplant, mashed potatoes with fried onions and a wonderful mixed green salad with crumbles of bleu cheese. it was all so very tasty. the meat course consisted of apricot glazed pork chops which tasted as good as if jesus christ himself stood at the grill wearing an apron that read, "kiss the cook." we had a glass of wine with dinner which was a nice reisling that would have tasted better chilled (just kidding matt). after our meal we had homemade pistachio cake and ho-made brownies (jamie is the ho that made the brownies.) the highlight of the evening, however, is when matt and jessie's son began to mock steven: laughing like him, saying the same things; slapping the table like him. i think steven was getting offended. lol. it was pretty funny. it was a great night.

saturday morning i drove out to annapolis to have my VEIP test done. i took 450 out and it was a nice relaxing drive through a very wooded area that had me flashing back to the area i lived in when i was in massachusetts. the dappled sunlight through the trees overhead ... the curvy, twisting roads winding through the forest ... trailers with junk and old toys in the front lawn. ahh ... the wonderful sights of trailer trash.

i passed my VEIP test, no problem. i really didn't expect a problem considering i just replaced the entire exhaust system on the jeep only last year. i'm glad i went though, because there was a really hot guy working at the VEIP testing place ... he was rather grungy, but in that hot mechanic sort of way. i felt a tingling.

on the way home i decided to stop by a yard sale. i love yard sales. sometimes you can find great shit for pennies on the dollar but i think i like going to yard sales most of all because people sell the weirdest shit imaginable. case and point: several old pairs of underwear, both in adult and child sizes. are you kidding me? who in their right mind would buy underwear from a yard sale? why would anyone even dare to put them on sale? of course, they caught my eye and i wandered over and began leafing through them like i was interested. i'm sure the other people at the sale were like, "ooh, look at that guy browsing through the used underwear." i didn't buy any, i just did it for shock value and to satisfy my own curiosity. the underwear actually looked pristine in their cleanliness, however, bleach does wonders. i was only about 5 minutes from home at this point and i left the underwear unpaid for on the table amid old ashtrays and a cuckoo clock with a bent minute hand and missing one of those pine cone weights that hang down. i washed my hands thoroughly when i got home--just in case--and took a clorox sani-wipe to my stearing wheel and stick shift. one can never be too careful.

other than that, my weekend was just relaxing. i read most of the 1st harry potter book (i'm rereading them all now that i have all 7 and won't have to wait a year in between them) and played my FFXI game. that's it. i know i missed some calls this weekend and i'm sorry. i'll make it up to everyone!

how was everyone else's weekend? do anything exciting?