Birthdays and Ballgames and Art Fairs Oh My!
Monday, August 08, 2005Welcome back from the weekend everyone. Hope you all survived. I had a mediocre weekend, but it wasn't all bad. Let just hop right into the update!
Friday -
As I said in my last post, I got the welcome opportunity to attend the Twins - Red Sox game free. Since it was Conservative Girl's birthday I invited her along. We ended up with pretty decent seats. They were a ways up, but the were just left of being behind home plate.
The sucky part was that it was a GORGEOUS day outside and we got to watch a ballgame in a big inflated Hefty bag... oh well.
The game kicked ass, the Twins took complete advantage of the Red Sox inability to throw anywhere near the bases and took home a huge 12-0 victory. For having over twice the payroll, you think having the basics down pat would be a sure thing...
Anyway, as an example of why CG just isn't fun to hang out with, she basically just sat there and did nothing for the whole game. No clapping along to make noise, no cheering, she barely even cheered when the Twins got a run. That girl has so little passion for anything in her that it's sad. At least the game was fun for me and the other guys were there to be excited with.
After the game CG headed out and I left and met up with Big Mike at Gasthof's. There was a chance that Cute Paramedic would be there with her parents, but apparently she headed out early. Big Mike and I went there because it's usually a good place to pick up the ladies, not because CP was possibly going to be there. Unfortunately it wasn't the greatest night for Big Mike, he found out a friend of his had been beaten to death in Vegas because he won on someone else's machine after they left, and they wanted that money. It wasn't as target rich of an environment as it usually is, so he decided we should go to the Cabooze in hopes that he will see the girl he hooked up with before there again. I recommended we just stay there, but he really wanted to so I agreed. We got there and it was some lame ass hip hop band playing. It was a couple of white guys that didn't have any sort of flow and a DJ that seriously couldn't keep a decent beat when he tried to mix things. The whole place was filled with wiggers and wanna-be's and that ended up being the sole entertainment since it was WAY less target rich than Gasthof's was.
Back to Gasthof's.
The night went ok there, like usual, Big Mike just talked to some girls and suddenly had one hanging on him. She wasn't what I would consider hot or even cute in any way, but he was enjoying it. Her friend was a bachelorette I chatted with her and she talked about hooking me up with her single friends. Too bad almost all of them but one could easily be mistaken for guys and the one cute one had a guy with her.
Met a couple ex-servers from my old haunt Stub and Herb's got to chat with them a little and catch up on old times. Headed home after we got kicked out at closing. Ate some nuked chimichangas, went to sleep.
Saturday -
Since I had promised CG a while back we could go to the art fairs, we met up in the morning and went. Like usual I found many things I liked but could afford none of them. Apparently the Uptown Art Fair is ranked like #9 in the nation. There are also two other art festivals the same weekend all within a short distance. Didn't really find anything good at those either.
Later that day was supposed to be a date with The Cute Paramedic. We had talked earlier and decided that we would meet up about 6, go rollerblading and then get some dinner. After the Art Fair with CG, I laid down to take a nap. At 5 my phone rings, but I was too out of it to figure out where it was. After I found it I saw the missed call was from the Cute Paramedic. She didn't leave a message so I called back but there was no answer.
Six rolled around and there was no call. I watched the Twins come back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Red sox 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth on yet ANOTHER base overthrow. Seriously, why do you people pay them millions of dollars to commit errors?
At 9 I officially gave up an hearing from CP and called around to see what else was going on, but it was incredibly dead for a Saturday night. Ended up just hanging out and watching some movies at home.
I finally heard from CP at about 11:00pm. Apparently after she got done teaching her CPR class, her cousin and some other people showed up at her place and told her that she was coming with to go to the Twins game and out for drinks. She told them that she had plans and supposedly they told her to call her plans and invite them along. That's what the call at 5 was, but since she got voicemail, she didn't leave a message. She claims that she was separated from her phone, that she almost always has attached to her hip, when they took her with.
I was willing to forgive the stand-up the last time because we didn't have any actual plans, this time counts. CP, welcome to the bottom of the list. I had been the nice guy until now because that's my nature. From here on out if she wants to hang out it's on her to make it happen. She asked if I wanted to hang out tonight, and so far I've just said maybe. I'm going to see if there's anything else going on first.
Big Mike had a date with a girl that night that he had met at a club the previous weekend. He called me at like 11:30 and said that after he had made a date with the girl, she informed him that she was 19. I said "Well, at least she's legal." They came back to the Condo and had drinks and watched the rest of the movie I had in (Minority Report) and had some drinks. This girl really wasn't all that cute either. Apparently big Mike's Standards are lower than I had thought. After I went to be the night must have gone well because when I got up her earrings and hairpins were still there, and were gone later Sunday...
Sunday -
I didn't have any plans for Sunday, so when OCD/Anxiety Girl called and asked if I wanted to go to the Art Fairs I agreed. Mind you, I only agreed because I found out that she had to be at her aunts house at about 3, so I knew I wouldn't get stuck hanging out with her all day. Took a second look at all the art and actually did find something I liked for my kitchen, it's a print of a painting of a window overlooking Pike's Peak. Matches my kitchen well and will fit perfectly in the space above the sink.
I had talked with KG about possibly doing something later on Sunday, she called to let me know she was seriously hung over and was just going to relax. I ended up going over to CG's place and watching a movie (Super Size Me). Later I headed back to my place and watched another movie before bed.
Checked in on the Twins score and found out they lost 11-7. Apparently Wakefield pulled an abnormally high amount of strikes out of his ass, and Joy Mays sucked like usual. Ever since his elbow surgery that guy has not been worth the money. I still have to wonder how it feels too lose two out of three and give up 23 runs in three games to a team with less than half your team's payroll? They might not be doing that hot this season, but after being in the playoffs the last four years with a payroll in the bottom third of the league, you have to respect them. Hopefully they can scramble back into playoff contention.
So that's my weekend, nothing super exceptional. At least the question of where I stand and how things are going to go with CP has been answered. It went the way most of my relationship do so that's nothing new. One of these day thing will work out for the nice guy in me, but oh well. Have a good Monday all!
posted by Chief Slacker @ 10:21 AM,
12 Comments:
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At Mon Aug 08, 01:18:00 PM,
Marie said...
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Chief - Yeah, that was lame on CP's part. To not have at least left a message? Talk about rude and inconsiderate. I'm with Captain Bee's advice from the previous post.
And wow, I can't believe the story about Mike's friend who got beaten to death. Ugh! That's terrible. -
At Mon Aug 08, 01:19:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Yeah, I'm nto sure what's up with that girl. Oh well, so much for nice guy with her. yeah, and he's 28. I'm not sure what to think of that. And like I said in the part about the ballgame, she has ZERO passion for anything. It's just no fun. And the Twins rule, they play baseball like it SHOULD be played. I used to be a huge braves fan until they started being like the yankees and buying a third of their team each year. I still have a bunch of posters up with the old crew of David Justice (pre jerkhood) Smoltz and Glavine and a few others and my parents house. Hopefully I can find some new ones.
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At Mon Aug 08, 01:34:00 PM,
Leesa said...
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That really sucks. I hate people like that. I used to have a friend that would put our plans aside all the time if something (or someone) better came along. We're not friends anymore.
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At Mon Aug 08, 01:39:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Marie - Yeah that's what I thought, and the whole story about not having her phone seems like BS to me. yeah that thing with Mike was Crazy, I didn't really get to talk to him about anything since Friday so I'm still waiting to get news from him.
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At Mon Aug 08, 01:50:00 PM,
jlybn123 said...
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Glad you are putting her at the bottom, that is certainly where she belongs. You deserve much better! =) Make her persue you...ha ha, that's always fun!!
I also went to a game this weekend! Had a suite to see the Tigers...they lost, of course! I wouldn't expect anything else. LOL
Glad you had a semi-relaxing weekend!!! -
At Mon Aug 08, 03:11:00 PM,
Amber said...
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I agree with putting CP at the bottom of the list and also putting it on her to make (and follow through with) plans.
Glad you and Conservative Girl have a companionable time together -- I would say "fun" but it seems more companionable than fun.
And HUGE bummer about Big Mike's friend. That's AWFUL. -
At Mon Aug 08, 03:46:00 PM,
Kira said...
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Ok, I'm not a horridly tolerant woman anymore when it comes to treatment of dates/potential dates, so screw CP. Unacceptable. Which is too bad, since she held such promise.
As far as what you said about Conservative Girl, guess what? I was relieved. HAHA! Seriously. I love basketball, and when I go to games I'm hardly in my seat and hoarse after the evening is done. I believe in LIVING life. If she can't get up and scream for a sports team, she won't be screaming when she climaxes and probably will just lie there like a fish for whatever foreplay happens.
Ok, so that's a crude way to put it, but uhhhh...it's the way I think. LOL! -
At Mon Aug 08, 04:37:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Leesa - Yeah, I'll hang out with her fi she wants to, but that was the last time I try and make a date with her. She's going to have to show some pretty good interest from here on out.
JlyBn - You Tigers fans' have to cut the balls off whichever player that was in the beginning of the season taht said soemthing about it being the Tigers and the Indians that would be duking it out for the division ;O) And yeah, she'll stay at the bottom till she proves better.
Anon / Lila - Assuming that's not spam, thanks for stopping by! Stop back often and don't be scared to comment.
Amber - Yeah, definitely companionable. There's really no inetrest with her. Yeah, I've been trying to find news about Big Mike's friend but haven't found anything :O(
Kira - She did have promise, still does if she can show some interest again. You have no idea how right you are with CG... She's a total dead fish. TOTAL. qwhen I said she shows no passion in life I meant it. The only thing ive seen her be remotely passionate about is buying a motorcycle, which I think is totally silly for her...
Lil Country - Yeah I have a hard time beleiving she left it at home as well. I called her back no more than two minutes after she called at 5 and she didn't answer. Right now she's only a dispatcher so she might not be as worried about having it, but still, she never takes that thing off since I've seen her. Who knows. -
At Mon Aug 08, 06:19:00 PM,
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Good work on realizing CP is worthy of absolutely nothing.
She's not even at the bottom of the list - make a special point to turn her down when she wants to do something next time because you have other plans. Even if your night is completely open - turn her down. Hell, don't even answer her calls for a few days. -
At Mon Aug 08, 06:27:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Diana - Thanks beautiful!
Cap B - yeah, we talked about doing soemthing tonight previously as well, so once I leave work I'll see if she called me, if so I'll probably hang out with her, but otherwise nope. -
At Tue Aug 09, 10:29:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Amy - I can still use a few more friends at the least, she doesn't stand much chance of dating unless she suddenly turns around a lot.
Lil Country - She's also on vacation right now, so I don't know if that makes any difference, but non the less, the way she handled it was completely wrong. -
At Tue Aug 09, 11:44:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Amy - True, but like I said, it all requires her turning around a bit.