wow... it's like i lost a few days or something...

not really... but almost...

so, here's the deal. i haven't really been home for the last 3 days or so... i've been out almost every night, and it's been quite a 'weekend'. it all started thursday night when i went with some friends to bostons (again). i met up with josé and matt and some of thier friends. melissa also came with josé. justin also showed up for a little while. i work with all of the people whose proper names were just mentioned. we had a few drinks, and some good times, and upset the wait staff and a management when we got a little 'rowdy'.

some events of note about thursday... i met matt's girlfriend for the first time, although i've heard about her constantly since they started dating a couple months ago... matt, you see, is a younger guy, and never really had a relationship like this, and i think it's really cute, actually. ashley is a lovely girl, and i think he rightly thinks himself damn lucky to have her. this whole thing would make a lot more sense if you'd met matt, but you'll just have to take my word on it. ;)

at one point i spilled beer all over my shirt and therefore made josé give me his shirt, just because. melissa treated us to a faux strip tease, which was quite entertaining. i didn't get home until around 2:30 in the a.m.

this brings us to friday night, the day, was quite uneventful, but, that night was quite different, you see, josé graduated from the art institute (a 4 year in arts... lol :P), and therefore, much merrymaking was to be had. we started at boston's (again, again) around 7:30, where i had myself jack and coke and a pitcher and a half of guiness. many wonderful people were there to celebrate with josé, some of them i knew, some them i work with, and some i'd never met before. around 9:30 everyone was off to the new dave and busters, i, however, went to meet melissa at kelly's where i had a couple of sam adam's and played texas hold 'em with her and her friend veronica. she, however, was tired and not a lot of fun (she warned me, but i didn't listen). all too soon she was going home, so i met back up with josé and party at d&b's.

i just want to go ahead and say that dave and busters is a fantastic idea that i wish i'd had! it's like a chuck e cheese's for grown ups! it's fantastic.

anyway, once i got there i did a shot with brandon (another guy i work with) after losing to him in a game of drunken air hockey. i then tried to meet some of josé's other friends. i really don't remember them though. at this point i had some new castle, and spent a lot of time playing air hockey, and some video game that involved firing a fake gun at bad guys that jumped out from every which way, which was a ton of fun. most people were leaving by around 12:30 am, but we'd convinced one of josé's friends from highschool to drive down from st. michael (about this far away), so he, pruse (maybe that's how you spell it, he's an interesting cat anyway), and i hung out drinking some more and playing more games until katy (maybe... you know how many ways you can spell katie) showed up, we did some shots and then tried to get her to play some games too... she was reluctant at first, but eventually gave into the pressure... more drinking, more fun, then they closed the place down at 2 and we had to leave.

saturday i went to work, closed the store down, it then turned out one of josé's friends was having a birthday. this time, we went across the parking lot to houlihans... we had more drinks, i met more new people, matt, melissa, josé, yang (another guy i work with)... again, there was a lot of drinking, and a lot of fun. the first couple that left accidently locked their keys in their car... luckily i was there to save the day with my cell phone and the knowledge that the maple grove police handle lock-outs. the birthday boy, tony, had a lot of booze, and we were all amazed that they didn't stop serving him. we closed that place, at 1 am, and everyone at that point either went home, or back to another guy's place to play video games, or some shit. josé, katy and i went back over to boston's (again, again, again) and had a couple more pitchers and invented a rousing game of 'sex-tac-toe', which was hard, because it's merely just 3 people playing tic-tac-toe, with the letters s-e-x. that's not easy to win at, even when you're trashed. sex-tac-toe escalated to the new sexual hangman, which was simply hangman with words that revolve around sex. we closed bostons talked in the parking lot for a while, where i did something stupid that resulted in twisting my ankle again (an old injury...), i got home around 3 am... less than 5 hours later i was up getting ready for work...

here it is sunday... i'm invited to go drinking again tonight... but there's no chance. i can't possibly go for round 4. call me a wuss... but i gotta draw the line somewhere. i want to mention, at 25, over the last 4 nights, i have been the oldest person attending any of these little 'get togethers', i guess maybe i'm just getting too old for this shit.