I Want to Win/More Reflections

So I'm really late to the party, but I've had a hectic week. You can relate right?

But there is a giveaway going on that ends TOMORROW and you need to do your damndest to get over there and enter. Where you ask? Right here. Get this.... THREE winners and a bunch of random shit, along with some surprises. Head on over to see Smart Ass Sara and tell her Mr O sent you.

Random thoughts before I get into this post:

*We are four episodes away from finishing Heroes but my sister and her husband want to stretch it out. I don't know if I can do one episode a week...

*Speaking of TV, I watched the first episode of the new show Spartacus. If you are my facebook friend you already saw this but my mini review is that it seems some people were like "Let's put Troy, Gladiator, 300 and softcore porn into a pot, stir it up, get some cheesy actors and cheap graphics." You would think I didn't like it, and while I wasn't wowed, I am going to watch the next episode at least.

*Speaking of reviews, I have been slacking on my movie blog. What's crazy is I have at least ten movies to talk about (after this weekend, you can add Alice in Wonderland to the list). But I vow to get it going, so if you haven't started following, you should do that.

*Lastly, after a conversation with jeanette around new year's, I realized I needed to read more. So I looked at my autobiography of Red Hot Chili Pepper's frontman Anthony Keidis, "Scar Tissue," that I had bought but never read. I've read a little bit everyday and I am halfway through. It's amazing.

Let's get to the story.

It was my freshman year in college and I had just wrapped up my third final out of the four I had in the semester. This was on a Saturday (yea, we had a final on Saturday morning) and my next final wasn't until Monday. So I wanted to get out. I asked Hedman if he felt like driving so we came up with a plan to surprise our friends, Myke and Ace Baisa (who we just call "The Baisas" haha). They go to our rival school, the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa. It's a little over a two hour drive from Auburn so we sneakily got confirmation that they were there and then we were off.

I lay out the details in the video, but I mumble. Basically my mom put some money in my account as a birthday present so I used that for gas money and we videotaped the walk to the door because they didn't know we were coming. There is some hesitation because we aren't sure what house it is, so bare with that, because their reaction to us randomly showing up was great.





After hanging out for a little while, we decided to go to the mall. And that's when this great picture was taken:


Good times.

Random lyric of the day:

Take me out tonight
take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
and in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
but then a strange fear gripped me
and I just couldn't ask

Remembering the Times

So before we get started on this little post, I must put out there that you only have till Wednesday to get in the running for a FREE poster print at my friend's blog over here.

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Now, let's get down to business.

It's starting to hit me that I am mere months away from graduation. While I am ecstatic to close this chapter in my life and begin a new one, the time has come that a person like is me starts to reflect on all the details of these last 5 years. So every now and again I will post a blog telling a story about what happened during my time as a "college kid." I hope you enjoy reflecting with me.

This one goes back to my freshman year, as a lot of these things do. I had just gotten my camera before I graduated high school and used it a lot my first two years, then it gave out on me and I just got a new one a few months ago. But here is as much of a back story as I can remember.

Don't ask me why, but for some reason when we moved in we put a loaf of bread in a drawer of an extra dresser we had in the living room. After a couple months in, Hedman and I discovered it and realized what happened if you leave bread sitting there for that long. So of course we couldn't eat it, so what did we do? Naturally, get out brooms and play a modified version of hockey using the bread as the puck.

We set up chairs as the "goals" and I'm not kidding, for about 15 minutes we tried to score on each other but to no avail. We got pretty loud at one point to where our fourth roommate, who lasted all from August to November, actually came out and said something to us. But it was more curiousity so when he went back in, we continued. But this time, we got Frisco involved.

We explained the situation and asked him to be the cameraman. We even came up with a mini story -- Hedman would be sitting at the table eating his dinner when I would "challenge" him to a match. He would accept and our match would be under way. However, after that we freestyled it because as I said, we were playing for like 15 minutes with no one making a shot. That's why the following video is so magical.







Hope you enjoyed that and don't forget to enter the contest!