Feb 7, 2017

I started the day with single meetings at Bacon and Wood School followed by a long break for lunch. The afternoon was longer meetings at Holly Heights that seemed even longer. It was extremely nice outside so the kids went out to play and I sat there watching them. 

Ryan and I went to the park for a round of disc golf and a walk after work. It was nice to be out and comfortable in shorts and t-shirts. I came home and had an argument with Joyce turning into a bad night. I went to Becca's later which made things much better. Ryan from Flo-Foto texted me about working this summer so her and I discussed going to SLC and decided we would do it! So it's official: moving to Utah in a couple months!

Feb 6, 2017

I worked at Memorial for CST and had a pretty easy day of meetings. Good amount of downtime and the meeting before lunch ended really quickly so I got a long lunch with Becca to have our sloppy joe leftovers. After work I had my dentist appointment for my cleaning. I never have to wait to go in there. I was in, cleaned, and out really fast. Everyone there is nice too.

We headed to Blackbird later for an amazingly delicious slice of pizza and some wings. It was somehow the best slice of the spicy bbq that we've had yet. I could eat that pizza everyday to quote Becca.

We had some time before the show so we went to Prohibition and got a couple drinks. I had a pretty decent sour IPA and then we shared a Hoppy Lil' Hudson because we couldn't fit that much beer in after our heavy dinner.

We got over to Union Transfer to catch the last couple of songs of Nothing. They were very loud noise and I didn't care for it. We stood in the hallway to protect our ears. AFI came out to the crowd chanting and then went right into Girl's Not Grey.

They were awesome and Davey was as energetic and dramatic as usual. The set was a great mix of songs I knew well and ones I didn't but still could enjoy. The crowd wasn't even as crazy as I expected so I left without too many bruises.

Feb 5, 2017

When we got up Becca made us some delicious blueberry pancakes and we watched an episode of Flaked. We tried to go to the mall, but it became a challenge when we found out nothing opens before 11. We went to Target, where I got the 4TB external drive I wanted and then we bounced around, going to my house to get the other one to return to Best Buy. We made a couple of other stops then came home to get some stuff done. One of those things was finally labeling all my discs and putting them in the drawers for my car.

We got down to business after that... I poked Becca's new nose stud into her face with tweezers after she almost gave up on it. THEN we got down to business. Becca did some studying and I did some editing. It wasn't long before we were hungry again and eating our leftover scramble watching another episode of Flaked.

It had been nice out all day so we went to Parvin for a run. The plan was to run 5 miles so we took the Black Oak Trail and I added in part of the paved loop for distance. When we got back close to the car Becca kept going so I stuck with her and we ended up doing the full green loop the other direction. In all we ran 8 miles and it felt great aside from my feet hurting. I don't know if it was my shoes or what, but besides that I felt like I could have kept going.

We stopped at the store on the way home to look for a couple of things and then headed home to start cooking dinner. We got ingredients earlier to make lentil sloppy joes so we began the fairly easy process. It took a little time, but we made a lot and it was really good! 

We watched the last episode of Flaked which left us on a cliffhanger. 8 episodes isn't enough! Becca gave me a miniature pedicure while we watched. I put my feet in a warm bath then she gave me a nice massage. I needed it after those miles today. I spent the rest of the night at home setting up my new hard drive and transferring some things while I caught up on some shows.

Feb 4, 2017

We began the day right-- with pancakes. Halfway into making them we realized we didn't have any almond milk, but I remembered that I had a free coffee coupon for Wawa so I ran down the street, filled up a 24oz cup with soy milk, presented my free coupon, and returned moments later to save the day.

We enjoyed our pancakes while being entertained both by an episode of Flaked and watching the cats act very much like cats. Loki chased his tail quite a bit and kept sitting in the sunlight.

Around noon we headed back to Glasstown for their bottle release. There was a line at the door as people were excited to get a lot of beer, but we waited until they opened up to get out of the car and into the cold. We saw Lance, who was quite far ahead of us in line as well. We waited in line for a little while and I bought a bottle of the 3rd Anniversary Murder, Inc. for Chuck before we grabbed a flight and found a corner of a table to sit at. The Double Bourbon Brown was great, the Murder was much better than I expected, and the Danky Jr. tasted better today than last night. All around good beer as usual. And some lady got really passive aggressive about me sitting in the stool she thought was hers but that she wasn't sitting in for ten minutes.

We came home and made some tofu scramble for lunch and watched some more Flaked. It's really good. We also took out the frozen bananas we put in the freezer this morning and blended them to make some banana ice cream with peanut butter. It was a nice healthyish dessert. Johanna asked me to go get coffee so I meet her at the Starbucks Cafe. We had a great chat about traveling, tinnitus, and social media. I also was happy to have a cold brew again.

When I got back it was late, but we got ourselves right out onto the trails at Silver Run for three miles of running up and down hills and watching our footing as it got progressively darker. I felt great the whole time and I wished we could have kept going. It was nice to get out and be active a little bit for day anyway.

When we got home I had to put my fingers in Becca's eye to help her remove her newly-acquired contact lenses. It was weird. But once that was done we went to Tomo Sushi in Glassboro for Dan's birthday dinner with him and several of his other friends. Becca got him a Cider from the liquor store next door, and we got a six-pack of Tarte Nouveau to have with dinner. It was a nice time replete with a heavy-handed waitress who slammed down our glasses and knocked over my beer, spilling it on the table, and almost taking out people with the food tray more than once. Other than that it was a lovely night of good food and conversation. We didn't go on to the house party portion of the night, opting to relax back at home and get a few things done in the quiet. Like write this blog. Productivity, people.

Feb 3, 2017

After not a lot of sleep and debating canceling my job I went into Memorial for an English class. It turned out to be basically the perfect day. I had good classes, got lots of editing done, and was able to come home for a long lunch to eat our leftover curry and watch an episode of Flaked with Becca. After work I gladly crawled into bed and took a nice nap before heading to Glasstown with Becca to meet Alycia and her friend Jackie. We did a flight and I got a Bourbon Brown and a Danky Kong. Jake even gave me a little taste of the Danky Jr. that they wouldn't be tapping until tomorrow. We had a good time chatting and talking about other breweries and how to properly flirt using hair flips and taking off your belt. Becca and I turned in pretty early when we got home as we were both really tired after a long day.

Feb 2, 2017

When I got to Vineland Memorial in the morning I was greeted with Alex telling me "We're not having CST meetings because a teacher is out.. maybe call someone?" So I called Insight and got them to give me another job at that school for the day for the same pay rate. I was a one-on-one with a kid named Oliver. So I went to his classes with him and more or less just sat there in case he needed me. He almost never did. The day started slow, but once I got lunch and took a break in the afternoon it wasn't so bad, just boring. I went right to PT for my thumb after work and got the same treatment from last week while I played Words with Friends and talked to another guy getting shoulder treatments.

When Becca was done work we headed up to Mount Laurel and stopped at Wegman's on the way to pick up some beer. We were greeted by a friendly guy offering us tastes of wine. Since we were within the safe confines of a grocery liquor store we accepted. They were actually really good wines, but this Chablis was my favorite overall. The chardonnay wasn't bad and there was a good pinot noir. Pretty good trip to the liquor store.

When we got to Alex's she and Chuck were watching Groundhog Day, so we dished out the Massaman curry that Alex picked up for us from Bhan Thai and started watching. It was nice since I haven't seen that movie in quite a while. After dinner we tried out the VR console for Chuck's PS4. We played an escape room game that was pretty fun. The whole thing was kind of crazy and awesome. After trying it out we got into playing Fibbage so we could all play together.

We opened the Allagash Curieux and the Dogfish Red & White that I've had since Christmas; both were very good. After some fun and hilarious games of Fibbage Becca and Alex took a break so Chuck and I got into another VR game about defusing bombs called "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes." It was amazingly fun. I didn't know what to expect from VR in general, but I am excited for it.

Feb 1, 2017

I woke up early after a good night of sleep and finished the last two episodes of Insecure before heading to work at Silver Run. The first meeting I covered a gym class for about a half hour watching the kids play volleyball. After that I had a two hour break so I went to Becca's, ate lunch, and chilled out for a while. When I went back I covered a Spanish class for 40 minutes watching Dora the Explorer. After that I was done for the day. No complaints this time.

I did some editing before heading to Parvin to meet Becca on her way home for a run. I felt slow and weak but my pace was 8:25 for 3 miles so it wasn't bad. It's funny how often I feel that way and the result is the opposite. But not running for a week and eating poorly surely had something to do with it. Since it was still a little earlier than usual we decided to go play disc golf before it got dark. We had a game of really good shots and terrible shots. We picked up takeout from Viet Bistro in the mall and watched an episode of Flaked and then finally Deadpool. The food was great-- I missed the spring roll vermicelli-- and the movie was good but not as amazing as it was made out to be. After all that we spent a little too long arguing with Comcast people on the phone about Becca's bill.