Friday, July 23, 2004

   The gym: Day......What? No gym?
Yeah, no gym. I'll explain it later.

I went to bed late last night, after playing Yu-Gi-Oh with my younger sister for a while, and singing happy birthday to my older one. Jess turned 18 yesterday, and couldn't wait to go out and buy some lottery tickets. :p

Tonight she's going out for more gambling with some family and friends, since she is old enough. They're going to play Bingo at Foxwoods, I think. Either there, or Mohegan Sun. I don't remember.

So, Eric IMs me early on in the day and says that we're going to laser tag at 6:30. ("We" being me, him, and the regular group) So at 6:30, my dad dropped me off at the Mystic Carousel and Fun Center, wherein the laser tag place is located. None of the guys were there yet, so I sort of wandered around and watched some kids play games. I gave them a half hour to show up; they were usually late anyways.

After the half hour, though, their benefit of the doubt was retracted, and I called home for a ride. While I waited for my dad to show up, I bought four tokens and used them to play a shooter game. In this game (I can't remember what it is called) the object is to shoot the targets in each of four levels.

Level 1: Single Stationary Target

Level 2: Dual Stationary Targets

Level 3: Single Moving Target

Level 4: Dual Moving Targets, and then a cup appears that you mst shoot and shatter.

I may have Levels 2 and 3 messed up, but that's pretty much how it works. Your gun has to be in the holster in front of you in order to start a level. It's a quick draw sort of thing, which I find fun. ^_^

With my four tokens, I placed 13th, 7th, 4th, and 2nd out of a hundred scores. Placing in the top five let's you put in your initials, so I've got mine in there twice. :D

My dad drove up, less than pleased that I got stood up. I knew there had to be a reason for it, but he still didn't like it. It was about 7:30 when we left; I'd been there for an hour. We headed over to Quizno's, because my dad had won a gift certificate there on the radio yesterday morning.

We each got a roast beef salad, which turned out to be absolutely delicious. Not much after that, other than crushing PT in a Group Sounds challenge. >:D

Now, on to today, which has only been a few hours, for me. (I have so much more time when I get up earlier. :p)

When my alarm went off at 5:40, I really was not ready to get up and go to the gym. Having gone to bed at 1:00, it just was not going to happen. I staggered across my room to shut off the alarm, and then slumped back into bed.

About an hour later, I woke up again. I was determined to go to the gym, even if I was a bit late. The extra hour had really helped, though, and I was actually ready to go. I woke my dad up and got changed. When he was ready to go, and I went to grab my CD player, he told me I wouldn't need it. We weren't going to the gym.

Slightly nonplused, I went out to the car with him, and we drove in the opposite direction than we would take to get to the gym. We eventually pulled to a stop in the parking lot of Groton Tire and Auto, a car repair shop. My dad filled out a little form, and slipped the keys into an envelope.

As soon as we had pulled into GT&A, I knew what was going on. We weren't going to the gym, because we were going to walk home. A good mile or so out of doors. I said to my dad: "So, we're going on a short walk?"

"Short?" he replied, raising his eyebrows.

Heh, from there to home was maybe a little more than half of my regular walk. A lot of it was on the same streets, even. My dad had a rougher time of it than I did. His face was pouring sweat, and he sipped often from his water bottle.

Me? Heh, I hadn't broken a sweat halfway to our house. XD It's cool outside, and I'd walked this way a bunch of times before. Ah, 'tis good to be young. :P

We eventually made it home, after numerous jibes from me at my dad. (^_^) I took a shower and decided to try my hand at making an omelette.

It didn't turn out too well. =/

I couldn't flip it over to cook on both sides, so I just sort of folded it. Then I maneuvered the thing around a little bit until it was, again, folded. I broke up the folds, and then just decided to toss some cheese on the mess; an omelette was not happening.

The end result was something between an omelette and scrambled eggs. It was as if someone had taken an empty omelette, folded it several times, and then cut it into haphazard chunks. Cheese gobs here and there. Meh, it tasted okay. I just need to figure out how to cook both sides. v.v

And that's been my morning so far. I think I might head down to the beach and say hello to Victoria, and maybe even go down to Sacred Heart to play with the kids at Rainbow Connection, the school's summer daycare program.

Some of them play Yu-Gi-Oh. >:)

And to finish things off, Comment Commentary!

Mimmi: I didn't stretch at all, come to think of it. =/ That may have been the reason. Good thinking. ^_^

Solo: You're so knowledgeable. :p

ParnoidPerson: I don't often stretch, either, except for when I'm trying to get to sleep.

anatema: I don't know, those mini-escalators looked fun. ^_^ Yay me!

Baron: I was doing situps and pushups every night for a while, but I couldn't get many done and I slacked off after a while. :p

And yes, we shall have to pose together at some point. Us and our sexah bodies. =P
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