My Friends are Funny

2 Friends.
2 Funny conversations.
1 Night.

-> Dead cell phone battery
-> 2 more lines on my cell phone bill (same 2 numbers on the rest of the bill...)
-> Little closer to hearing loss (thanks NK for the article)
-> 1 blog post

I'll briefly bitch about the first one and I'll write about the fourth item in a bit. Please be patient, or skip the next paragraph if you don't want to hear me whine (again).

My cell phone only gives me like a 5 second (no joke) warning before the battery dies. I was lazily lying around on my futon when I heard the beep (really quietly too) and by the time I ran (without bruising myself along the way) to the charger in the bedroom, the call had dropped and the stupid phone was dead. I live in an 800 sqft apartment. The distance is pretty short. But as I whine about this minor incident, I'm thinking to myself, DUDE, maybe I should look to see if there is a setting for this? Hmm. I should look. But my phone is in the bedroom and I'm in the living room. I'll forget by the time I get there. Oooh. I just got a text. It'll have to wait.

OK, so this is what I wanted to write about! Because I think they're funny.

Quote from friend 1:
As he was trying to remember what experiment he was going to conduct (on himself):

"Man, it was going to be such a cool experiment too! I was even going to test something."

I've always thought words "experiment" and "test" are synonyms and they kindda mean the same thing in this context... Like don't you test something in any experiment? Why did he think it was so cool that this "experiment" came with a test? Or am I the stupid one here? Anyone? Something = hypothesis???

And my friend 2 told me that he sometimes cries when he watches cheesy STOOPID romantic comedy movies but he wouldn't cry if I died of cancer. But maybe if I was murdered. I was going to ask what if it was suicide but I figured he would just tell me that he'd be pissed so I didn't ask. So what if it was an accident? Like if I get hit by a car or something?

Note to self: Next time, hit "PUBLISH POST" when you're done writing...

Shopping to Mend my Heart

When I decided to start this blog, I promised myself NO SERIOUS POSTS. Especially sad or depressing ones. Because seriously, who wants to read that???

But I break promises to myself all the time. Maybe it's a proof of weakness? Who knows.

All I know is that I'm sad. My best friend moved to New Jersey 2 days ago. He was here for me when AM left for Washington D.C. in October. He was here for me when JP left for San Francisco in August. He helped me through quite possibly the hardest period of my life.

I tried a few things to deal with this. I watched comedy. I immersed myself in work. And yes, I went shopping.

I dragged VN to BestBuy (where he works part time). I bought a bunch of accessories for my most recent splurge item - the Nintendo Wii. I bought Wii Play and also Super Monkey Ball 2 for my Game Cube because it was $9.99. My shopping spree did not end there. I also bought an organizer for the Wii, which came with controller gloves and a Wii hat... I also got a 2GB SD Card. Oh yeah, and a Psyclone Component Video Source Selector... I still wasn't done. I decided that I needed to consolidate my remotes. So I am now a proud owner of Logitech Harmony 550. My next item to purchase (soon!) is the Philips home theater system.

So how am I doing? Maybe a little less sad and a lot more broke.

To all my friends who are no longer in Ann Arbor: I MISS YOU!!!