Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2008: The Retrospect

So, I missed out on posting 'Martin Sargent's Tale of the Magic Christmas Quilts' this Christmas, but that won't stop me from trying to do my retrospect. I really wish I wouldn't have let myself limit my blogging as much as I did. This is going to be kinda tricky, considering there's stuff I'm not going to remember.

So, without further ado...2008:

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- The Great Shed Adventure

- Finally realizing that CMU>Greenville

- Roommate leaves without telling us. Takes TV with him. Asshole.

- First night back at Central, stayed the night at a girl's apartment. Signs of a good start to the semester.

- ...Unfortunately, I leave my wallet there, along with my meal card, and I'm unable to retrieve it for a while. Signs that the universe likes to keep itself balanced.

- Hang out at Cat's apartment, get a knock on the door from a REALLY drunk girl named Bridget at 3am. She's out in the cold in a miniskirt. I take her back to her room on campus. Fun random night.

- Having math courses sucks...AND THAT'S COMING FROM A MATH MAJOR!

- More Wesley Movie Night fun.

- My roommate Alan and Sam Hess, a girl he knew from school, and I hang out and discuss religious beliefs and establishing a cult.

- Mike Lindsay comes to Greenville with me to see Districts. He's found to be "like Chris Coston, but better." >_<

- The First Church of Michael Lindsay established

- Becky, Mike Lindsay, and myself at Meijer, buying Free Willy and talking to Nick

- Saw Juno with Alan and Sam. Awesome!

- Pancakes and Porn... gotta love the fact that the novelty shop in Mt. Pleasant is right next to IHOP

- Found the best Date Movie to be The Re-Animator

- [Scene: Mike and my room. We both wake up roughly the same time]
Mike: Ugh...
Me: Hi, Mike Lindsay!
Mike: Oh, hey, Chris...
???: Hi, Mike Lindsay!
Mike: ...wait? SAM?!

[Followed by Mike Lindsay leaving to get food. Comes back to see a sock on the door]
Mike: SON OF A BITCH!
[Nothing happened, but I wanted to hear his reaction... ^_^ ]

- Played a card game called Bang! and spent the next 10+ months trying to find it at different stores I go to.

- Sibs Weekend: Trever comes and spends a couple days at CMU. He exploited his cuteness to get my friend Nichole to see Rambo with us. He enjoyed innocent people blowing up.

- Locked my keys in my car. James had to drive up from Greenville to get me my spare set.

- Shannon comes up to see Mike Lindsay. A lot.

- 19th birthday! How to celebrate? GOING TO TORONTO WITH JAMES! Bars, zombie musicals, Second City, and James throwing up on himself...good times...

- ...But not before having to drive to CMU with Nikki to get my birth certificate. Then, Nikki explains to my roommate, Pat, why I enjoy her company over Sam's...

- Losing at Padiddle...while driving.

- Slowly realizing I'm not going to be a teen in 2009...

- Speeding Ticket. ;_;

- James comes up to hang out. He sleeps on my couch, I sleep in an entirely different building.

- Tried a cigarette. It was Clove (aka DISGUSTING)

- Wesley makes me a belated birthday cake. Not knowing about it, I didn't go. I hear it was good, though...

- Pulp becomes one of my favorite bands, even though they are rather silly.

- TJ and Kayla come up to Central to hang out. Kayla passes out, everybody freaks, TJ and I think, "Oh, not again..."

- "TJ's a bit of a dick, but he's a cool dick. So pretty much he's only a douchebag." - Shubes, drunk

- Grilling hot dogs for people on our floor. Good stuff. Especially when I had to run to McD's and borrow tongs.

- Change in character: Pushover, to...well, I'm still a pushover, just more of a dick, now.

- First time tailgating...not during a REAL football game. Managers from work giving me and my roommates drinks is still one of the coolest things to happen that semester.

- Teacher: "...now, Carter was our president during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. We had 53 hostages at the U.S. Embassy, taken over by a few hundred Iranian students. If you guys were Carter, what would you do first?"

Me: "GROW PEANUTS!"

Alan: *raises hand* I'd have a big, sweet Black Hawk helicopter full of Special Forces agents land it on top of the building and raid the Embassy! It'd be so awesome!

- Different Drunken escapades

- SHEPARD MAPLE SYRUP FESTIVAL!

- Wisdom teeth pulled. Funny, we listened to The Beatles on the way there and back; the way there was all the drug-related songs, and on the way back while I'm still loopy, it's all the innocent songs...

- Car has problems, needs fixin'

- Weekend in Waterford: Best Weekend Ever

- "So, my mom's planning on buying drinks for us if one of us blows into her PBT."

- MCC English class....what a joke...

- What to do when the parents are away? Invite TJ and Nikki over for drinks and strip pool!

- TJ: *picks up paper bag* What's in this bag?

Me: I think Green Tea.

TJ: Ugh. That stuff tastes like grass.

Me: There's other types of teas in there, too, though...

TJ: OOOH! *dumps contents of the bag on the ground*

Me: ...and tacks. *tacks scatter across the floor* ...in fact, I think I threw all the tea away. Sorry.

- Becoming, as my dad put it, a scumbag who takes innocent girls into his basement

- Michigan's Adventure trip with people I don't really associate with. A bit weird.

- Started getting sick MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY

- Ibuprofen + empty stomach = Dad going into work for me for a couple hours while my insides feel like they are tearing apart

- Mt. Pleasant Trip: Introduction of BEAR JAIL

- Trip to Muskegon to go to a drive-in theater.

- Cooking w/ Grandma: NO-BAKES!

- Stepmom is pregnant...again...

- $6000 Scholarship. College becomes slightly easier to afford.

- Sophomore year.

- Shakespeare Abridged: The only way to handle early English literature

- Signing my TRIPLE MAJOR

- Mike Lindsay on chemicals = scary

- Mike Lindsay's Shoe Burial

- Too much homework to go out this semester. ;_;

- The invention of 'Homework Juice'. Just add vodka!

- Three majors, and I still can't complete school without taking ONE random bullshit class

- Shubes drinks himself stupid. I play babysitter

- TJ comes up to Western Weekend, along with Waterford people. Hilarity ensues.

- Six $1000+ hours at McD's for CMU vs. WMU gameday. Ugh...

- Signed our lease for 2009/2010 apartment. Mike Lindsay owes me $100 still.

- Amount of posts on blog drops to about 3 per month.

- Fixed two computers since I've been home

- Let The Right One In: Weird vampire flick

- Coolest Christmas Present: TUPPERWARE w/ SCREW-ON LIDS!!!

And that, my friends, was 2008.

Simon

2 Comments:

Blogger Becky said...

Mike Lindsay isn't a better you...just better looking.
And not one thing about me...douche

December 31, 2008 at 1:10 PM  
Blogger Kaitlin said...

I LOVE tupperware that has twist-on lids! It's amazing, and much more reliable than those dumb, faulty push-on lids. :)

January 13, 2009 at 8:25 PM  

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