THE Wedding and a Hurricane in the mix...

First and foremost, let me put this out there. I found a new drink but it is probably one more suited for females. As you probably all know, my new drink of choice is vodka/lemonade. At the wedding a week ago, they had no lemonade, but the bartender told me of a drink with vodka/cranberry/sour that tastes like lemonade, and did it ever! Needless to say, 25 of those later and Lil' Beef was drunk, I was not sober, but not bombed either, but having a good time. It was a tasty yum yum drink, but one that I'll probably never order out at a bar as long as they have normal lemonade.

The wedding was a ton of fun. Never have I seen Smoke more happy and smiling. He's usually smug, pissed off at ShitShow and crass. Ok, he's not that bad at all, but I've never seen him happier, and it rubbed off on the rest of us. Earp was beautiful as was expected. We don't hang out with ugly people, or if you're ugly, you have a beautiful inside. I don't know what that means, but it sounded good. Who am I kidding, it didn't sound good at all, I'll just move on. We did all sorts of fun stuff on the weekend. I broke 100 for the first time ever on the golf course. I shot a 94! Went out in 48, came home in 46. I was rather happy with myself. Rock had a terrible day for him and shot 95, and so I officially beat someone for the first time in my life. Cookie shot the best on the day with an 89. Not bad for a couple of hacks! Then it was off to the rehearsal dinner. Good food, great laughs, etc. I slept in late the next day and then it was off to get ready with the boys at Smoke's parent's house. Food was served and we were stone-cold munchin'. Oops, that reminds me. At the reception, I was to break out a new song for performance, "Bust A Move" by Young MC. Well the DJ apparently forgot that part and played the song without anyone realizing that that was the performance song. The beautiful bride got on the dude's case that he had to play the norm, and so I decided then and there that I had to make this performance extra special because it was supposed to be different, but it wasn't to be. I've been involving the audience as of late, but this time was extra audience participation and talking into the mic. I don't like to be the center of attention, I like to make people laugh and smile and dance as dumb as I do. Success! All of those came into play. I hope they all come into play on all of my performances, but this time just seemed a little different. I guess they all are different, as I try to personalize them for the bride and groom. I wasn't my normal shitfaced self during this one too. Even with the 194 "pink lemonades" I felt amazingly sober for the performance. Probably something I've never been for one of them. Whatever, enough talk about me. It was a blast. Looking forward to Beef and Ms. Beef in October.

Had a blast with Vision and the crew in the bar and the room after the bar. Just a lot of laughs and making fun of each other, which seems to be the staple in our close-knit group of friends. Good to see everyone, it's sad when it's time to leave.

Ernesto is ruining my life. First, Vision is coming here on Friday and the original track of the hurricane had it coming landfall directly over my apartment, so I was in the talking stages of making plans to get the heck out of dodge. First thought was that the airports would be shutdown for days if it hit here as a category 2 as first thought. So I was thinking about heading to Savannah. But wait, the path had Savannah in its sights too. So then I thought Clemson and it just so happens that there's a football game this weekend. But what to do about Vision?!?! Well all that thought seemed to dissipate today when it seems that Ernesto is going to come through the heart of the state and we're probably just going to have to deal with wind and rain in the middle of the week and should be clear by the weekend. Phew. You know me and plans. So there is no worry. I'll be here in Tampa this weekend with Vision and the D.I. Rockstars!

Hope everyone has a great week. Looking forward to "blogging" again this week or after the weekend, depending what the Tigers do on Saturday!

The Weekend of All Weekends Is Upon Me

So here it is! My flight leaves beautiful, sunny Florida this evening and if all goes as expected, I should be in Pittsburgh by 11pm. Not really, I should be in beautifully smelling Newark, NJ at about 9 pm! With my track record, I will be delayed. But I am heading to the airport 2:45 early to see what the security will be all about. Should be interesting. My mom said to me the other day that they're having everybody take off their shoes now and she was worried that I wouldn't have "odor eaters" in my shoes. But my shoes don't smell anymore, I decided at the ripe young age of 25 that I would change my socks everyday and wash them once a week. It's a miracle that my feet don't stink anymore. What a novel idea.

So here it is, two days away from one of the most anticipated weddings in the crew. You're welcome Smoke-dawwwwww for the reference to the world reknowned Mons Venus and your wedding in the same blog. Consider it done twice!

But before I endulge the goings ons this weekend, let me bring up something that I heard this weekend and it hurt me. My friend, from here in Tampa had a younger girlfriend...er...girl he hugged a lot, and he was always with her, whether it was a movie, dinner, out at the bar, at her place for a sleepover party, what have you. Well one day they just stopped hanging out. This made me curious because the girl lives in the same complex as another and so we're over there often and I wasn't sure what the status was. She always called me "her favorite," but doesn't everybody? haha. So the other night, me and Can'tMiss were out at the Island bars and saw this young one. I had one too many maybe and decided to ask her what was going on with her and my buddy. She said something that sort of bothered me. Not about her or her reasonings for not "being with him" anymore. She said that she cannot handle people that are clingy and over-the-top lovey-dovey. There was a time that they were at a sporting event and he put his head on her shoulder like trying to be cute, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back as they say. I think my shyness comes out in those types of situations. I don't think I do that when I'm with a girl, especially at a ballgame. Is this kid a good friend, absolutely, a great friend and one that I will go to the grave for, but is his manhood to be questioned in this situation? Again, Absolutely!!! Another situation I once heard was from a girl that said that the guy she had recently broken up with, "was way too into {her}." I can see being all about a girl, but smothering is not good, especially with the overwhelming independence of women nowadays. (Was that sexist? I hope not, not meant to be)

Sorry for that. Enough seriousness for one day. Babble babble, that's what I do best. Could this blog have been written in one or two lines? Probably, but most, if not all of my readers know me better than that! It's almost that time to head to the airport, and I'm alright with the long delays, if that happens. I've been trained in airport waiting. Like I said before, there was a time that I was diverted from Charlotte, NC to Pittsburgh and spent 9 hours in the Pittsburgh airport, so it's still an ongoing joke that I'll end up in Pittsburgh. USAir did give us a $9 voucher for food. I guess that equals a dollar for every hour we had to wait. Makes sense when you pay $300+ for a plane ticket. Anyway, the end result will be a great one. I'm sure we'll have an amazing Friday wedding for Earp and Smoke! Good times will be had in the hotel with Beef and his fiance, Hunter and FineCheese!!! Really that's all I need. Anyone added into that mix would just make it that much better, but it'll be cool to be the "out-of-towners" at a hotel. It's an honor to stand-up at this wedding for Smoke! Although I feel that if Smoke didn't ask me to be in his wedding Earp may have. At least I hope she would have. I would look amazing in that dress. We will miss Robber, but I'll be at his house probably tonight, so it'll be good to see him. I'm going to see Vision, as she is my "date." And of course there will be a performance, which I am nervous about because I'm switching up the song for the first time and I'm not extremely confident about it, but I'm getting there and will probably be there after 126 drinks. Hope you all have a tremendous weekend whatever you may be doing and I will see most of you this weekend with a big goofy smile on my face. And that'll be before the 126 vodka/cranberrys. No double-fisting!!!

Mons Venus and Upcoming Travel

So I was watching tv last night at the house, when I came upon the local news. Now Tampa is the 12th largest television market in the nation, which is pretty big when you truly think about it. Needless to say, we have some Local Access stations that are the worst. Well the owner and operator of the "world reknowned" Mons Venus (an adult establishment where females where only a smile) has his own show where he talks politics. It just so happens that he's running for county commissioner, which in my world means nothing because I don't know politics or what county whatever means. But he had a "polar opposite" from all of his stances on his show for a debate. Well on the news they showed how this gentleman, Joe Redner call his political opposite "fat." The next thing you see is the moderator, the executive producer or Redner's weekly show, and Redner laughing as the opposite gets up and leaves the set. Then a chair flies into the screen and hits Redner in the side. That's all that is seen, because the show, for obvious reasons, went into commercial...or public service announcements, as is customary for these types of shows. Now, Redner has challenged his opposite to a boxing match for charity. Six two-minute rounds for $50/ticket. This is one reason I don't like politics. Was it funny? Yes. Would a boxing match because of politics be funny to see? Yes! But are you kidding me? It's just two people that have opposite views. One guy, Redner, who is like 55, has a grey ponytail and looks sort of frail, while his opposite is a stocky gentleman of early 40s fighting on the screen really just because they disagree. I liken this debate and all of the footage that I've seen to that of running for student council president. One guy gets up on stage and promises that the cafeteria will be overtaken by McDonalds, and there will be stripper Thursdays, or any other outlandish claims that never happen. For example, Redner wants to have a mass transit system put in place, which isn't going to happen here. It's just not. I've heard that they want to put in a train that links the major cities in Florida, which has never gotten approved and that's from a political avenue that counts, the state government, which by the way, is run by Jeb Bush, Dubya's brother. Sorry for the politics because I really have no care, but it's funny to me that Joe Redner is running for public office because he just wants to shake it up. It would be like a shock jock running for office. Maybe a publicity stunt, who knows.

How boring was that last long winded story? I'd say very, and I'm sorry to put all of my loyals through that mess. I thought it was funny, shoot me.

I heard that there is a BBQ at Robber's place this weekend. Thanks for the invite, or lack thereof. Just because the BBQ is in NJ and I'm in FL doesn't mean that I shouldn't get an invite. That's horsecockamemmypoo. I just made that word up. How great was that word? I personally love it. Word on the street is that there have been plans made for the next victim...er...I mean visitor to Casa de Creegs for Labor Day weekend. Very exciting, and looking forward to that.

I had to post something today, and it's really not some of my finer work, but something is better than nothing. Like I've said in the past, nothing worse than going to a blog and it not be updated, so I figured I'd waste more of your time with useless banter. I think I may change the title of the blog to "Useless Banter" that's even more appropriate than "Blah blah blah..."

Have a great week. Heading to NJ for a long weekend next weekend, then back to Tampa for a few weeks, then Vision comes to Tampa, then up to Beantown to see family and watch the Tigers play BC. Then two weeks later head up to Clemson to watch yet another football game and to catch up with old college friends. Should be a great couple of weeks. I can't believe Smoke/Earp wedding is almost upon us. I've been writing about it for months, and it's a week and a half away. WOW!!! Never did I think that that New Year's night at "our HS/College party house in Roseland" would turn into marriage. Or that that phone call that Cookie made me make when I moved back to Madison House would turn into marriage, but I'm glad it did, and really looking forward to getting there, as I always say. GOOD TIMES!!!