Fairhope Fireworks Finale

Busy week, busy weekend.

A few things.

First of all, DON'T go see The Last Airbender. It was horrible horrible horrible. Horrible. If you want to know why, go read some of the reviews on it- It has something like a 5% on RT. Now, I'm not normally one to recommend Movie Reviews, but in this case, they can explain why it's bad much better than I can. As I watched the movie, I was kind of caught up in it, thinking stuff like "Oh, this isn't too bad..." but then once it ended and we were leaving the theatre, it hit me. And I died a little on the inside.

I've been a bit busy the past few days. I've had a lot of yard work and house work keeping me occupied. Mowed the lawn, moved and set a ton (literally) of bricks, cleaned my room, cooked dinner for the family, helped set up for Sarah's birthday party, organise people for Game Night and Game Day (Too bad Game Night was cancelled. All my work for nothing! D:) and then probably a few more things I'm forgetting. But I got paid for a lot of that (Mostly the bricks), so it's fine.

Sarah's birthday party is tonight. She's turning 14. Her actual birthday isn't until Monday, the 5th, but this is more convenient, I guess. I'm being kicked out of the house during the party. :(
I got her the Glee soundtrack as a present. I hope she likes it! :)

I'm headed over to Emily's house in just over an hour to go kayaking with some people. It's gonna be fun! :D

Tonight was going to be a Game Night at Macey's, but she texted me this morning and essentially cancelled it. But we're all still coming over to her house tomorrow for the soccer games! Argentina vs Germany at 9:00 CST, Spain vs Paraguay at 1:30! She ordered us some vuvuzelas, hopefully they'll come in by then. :3


I think that's everything? I'll be posting more in the near future, I swear.


-David

All hail Ken!

Hello, all.

I'm sure you've missed me in the past few months, but fear not! All is well with me. I didn't forget about my blag! I swear!


...I was just too lazy to update it. OH WELL!

Anyway, to herald my return to the Blogosphere (I hate myself for saying that un-ironically), I will tell you about today. Because today was a good day. :)


I woke up at exactly 8:23. I recall this because I was annoyed that I woke up seven minutes before my alarm was set to go off. Why does that happen? I know I'm not the only person that experiences (And is subsequently annoyed by) that. But anyway, I woke up at 8:23 and proceeded to lay in bed until my alarm DID go off at 8:30. Wouldn't want to actually get up before my alarm. It just seems a bit rude, I don't want to hurt my alarm's feelings. You know how it is. So I got up and got dressed, checked my email and my webcomics, read Cracked, etc. My normal morning routine. Then, at 9:00, I went downstairs to start my day.
It was dark out, because of clouds and such. I needed to mow the lawn (Mum had been on my ass about it the past few days, and I needed to be at least somewhat productive today), so I went out and got started. Unfortunately, not even fifteen minutes later, I was met with a thunderstorm. And you all know the age-old saying "You can't mow the lawn in a thunderstorm," so I put the mower up and went back inside. I'll finish the job later, I'm sure, but the TV man says that it'll be really wet the next few days.
After my failed mowing escapade, I talked to my dad about running some errands. You see, some things you need to know:
1) My driver's license expired on May 12th, and I'd been driving illegally for over a month. OOPS. Need to get that renewed!
2) My cell phone's battery DIED so I need to go buy a new one.

The plan? Stop by some stores to see if they carried phone batteries (Spoiler alert! They didn't) and then to the courthouse to get my license renewed. After getting a new license (But no new battery), we came back home and I decided to be EVEN MORE PRODUCTIVE. I promptly searched online and found the battery I needed. It's on its way here as we speak, and I should be getting it sometime tomorrow. On top of that, I arranged for a meeting with my piano teacher in Hattiesburg on the 27th. :D
My mother would be proud of my productivity!

After all of my BORING, MENIAL CHORES, I headed over to Emily's house (Yes, we're still dating. Fear not, worried followers!) to prepare to see Toy Story 3. You see, we were all dressing up to go see it. Maring and Kristen were Woody and Jesse, Chelsea was Buzz, and then Emily and I were Barbie and Ken.

Oh yeah. We got pics.
But there aren't any right now because Emily is a lazy, lazy girl. As soon as they're online, I'll post them here. Don't worry. :)

And we also got in for free! :D
It was surprisingly a VERY good movie. It was a brilliant sequel and I will definitely watch it again sometime. I cried so hard at the end! D:
And of course, dressing like Ken was the source of MANY lulz. ;D

As per our usual movie-going routine, we went to Waffle House to dine in style afterwards. Still in costume, of course. Well... mostly. Chels quickly discarded her Buzz get-up and we picked up Sara and Mason, but still! I had some hash browns (All the way, baby) and Emily had a chocolate chip waffle. All was right with the world.

On the way back to Emily's house, I mortified her by waving an American flag out of the window of the van and yelling "'MERICA" as loud as possible at helpless passer-bys. Sara, Maring, and I got many lulz out of this. Emily, being a freedom hating terrorist, tried to suppress our fun. >:|

We arrived at Emily's house to eat ice cream and watch Flight of the Conchords for a bit. Great stuff. Now, I'm back at home. Exhausted. Updating my blag so my poor readers can get their fix of David. :)

Anyway, that was my day! Now stop complaining that I don't update my blag anymore. >:|


-David

How to summarise your weekend.

First and foremost, happy Zombie Jesus day, everyone. I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter of stapling rabbits to crosses and throwing eggs at it (That is what people do, isn't it?)

Well, it has been a spectacular weekend. I've been driving around in a 2009 Toyota Corolla (OH GOD THE ACCELERATION AHHHH I'M GONNA DIE) because as you all know, my car is in the shop. Hurray for rental cars, I guess? I'm actually surprised they rented it to me, I thought you had to be at least 25 to do that. Maybe I'm just special.

But yeah, so I came home this weekend for ZJ Day, and I brought some other musicians from Southern Miss with me to play at my church. Their names are Nathan and Stephanie and they are pretty okay people! Stephanie plays the Horn and Nathan is a Tenor Trombone kinda guy. They stayed at my house and had to put up with my crazy family for a weekend, I am SO SORRY for them.
I do love my family, though. It's pretty obvious where I acquired my sense of humour from. I mean, we talked about how my aunt almost got into a fight with a hooker in New York. Everyone in my family has my sense of humour and it is wonderful.
There is never a dull moment at the dinner table.

So, the reason I came back was to play at my church for Zombie Jesus day (Or I guess "Easter" for all of you more conservative people). We played at the 8:00 service AND the 10:30 service today, with me and Nathan on trombone, Stephanie on horn, and some kid from Daphne on trumpet. He was actually pretty good! I was relatively impressed.
And we each got a nice $200 check after the service was over, which is a very pleasant paycheck. And Emily even came to listen to the 8:00 service. :3


Speaking of Emily, we got to spend a little bit of time together this weekend. Not as much as I'd like, but still enough to make me happy (Although, ANY amount of time with her does that).
After I finished dinner on Saturday night, she and I went up to the Premier Theatre in Malbis to go see "How to Train Your Dragon" with Nathan and Stephanie. Emily had already seen it, but she was more than happy to go and see it again, and I can see why.

It was an adorable movie! Easily one of the best movies that Dreamworks has done. I laughed, I cried (Don't judge me), and I got to see it with the most wonderful girl I know. It was a great night. :3
I'll be seeing her again tonight, right before I leave. Not for long (She has a paper to write), but I don't need long to say goodbye. Like I said, any amount of time is better than no time.

Well, I'm sitting at the Coffee Loft right now, drinkin' a Pooh Bear and blaggin' on my computer. Macey was here when I started, but she left and now I'm here with Kathy. I guess I just have interchangeable friends. :P

But that's all I really have to say! I hope your weekend was as good as mine has been. :)



-David

You must be an illusion.

So, Prom was simply amazing.

I spent most of Saturday morning filling out insurance forms and running errands. Blah, that's never any fun. I picked up Emily's corsage up in Daphne, burned a CD, and vacuumed my mum's car (because my car was too trashy to take to the dance after the accident).

Around four o'clock, I hopped in the shower and started getting ready. Mum and dad were ridiculous about pictures, blah, and I left the house at around 5:15.
Got to Chelsea's house right at 5:30 and met up with everyone else there. MORE PICTURES WOOOOOOO.
Also, Emily was simply gorgeous. I don't know what I did to deserve someone as amazing as she is.











After a shit-ton of pictures at Chelsea's house, we went to the Yacht Club so we could take MORE PICTURES before we ate dinner. I swear, I'm going to punch every camera I see for the next week. I'm SICK OF GETTING MY PICTURE TAKEN.
Anyway, after what seemed like forever, we went inside and were seated.






For some reason, the Yacht Club was overcrowded and understaffed, so the service was slow. But the company and conversation were delightful, and we had a blast. The food was also very good. And not too expensive, either! :D
Anyway, after we ate, Chelsea and Mason left so they could go to the Senior Callouts, while Maring, Thomas, Emily and I went for a nice walk. And then we went to Mr. Gene's Beans downtown.
So many people were complimenting the girls' dresses, it got annoying pretty quick. For me an Thomas, at least, I'm sure they loved the attention, haha.

Anyway, around 9:00, we went to the Civic Centre and DANCED THE NIGHT AWAY AWWWW YEAH.
I'm not going to go into too much detail about the dance itself, mostly out of laziness and somewhat due to my terrible memory.
I will share one anecdote, though:

Mason and I went up to the DJ and requested Bohemian Rhapsody. I mean, that's the best song ever, everyone loves it. Well, the DJ said no, because apparently it's not a "crowd pleaser" (which is bullshit) and that he had to play music that everyone would like. Mason and I grumbled and walked away.
So, the next song comes on and guess what? Everyone leaves the dance floor.
What was that about pleasing the crowd, Mr. DJ?


Anyway, we ended up leaving the dance a bit early, around 11:30. We all went back to Chelsea's house again, and we all cuddled up in their living room and watched That 70's Show. As weird as this sounds, cuddling with Emily and talking with everyone was probably my favourite part of the whole evening. <3
And then we all ate an amazing midnight breakfast (courtesy of Chelsea's parents) consisting of cheese grits, bacon, sausage, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, fruit, and probably even more stuff. It was delicious! And then everyone changed out of their fancy clothes and returned to the living room for an encore of earlier.
Around 1:00, people started leaving, and Emily and I were fairly quick to follow. I took her home and walked her to the door and all that jazz, and then started heading home. But then I realised I still had her camera and purse, so I had to go back and give those to her. :P
I got home at around 1:30 and went to bed a 2:00.


When I woke up today, I was still pretty smiley from the night before. :)
I went to church and caught up with Kathy and Bobby. After church, Kathy and I picked up some Pizza Rolls and went over to Macey's house to have a MIYAZAKI MOVIE MARATHON. We watched Ponyo and Howl's Moving Castle. It was a great way to spend the afternoon. :)

I went home around 5:30, packed, ate dinner, ran some last minute errands, and then ended up leaving about 7:30. I stopped by Emily's house for a bit, to see her before I went back to school, and then got some gas and some coffee for the long drive back to school.
And here I am. :)


There are plenty of things coming up, but that's for another blag post. I'm done for now. Goodnight.


-David

Also, WHAT

I can't decide if this is going to be Totally Awesome or completely Flopsy.

(See what I did there? I just referenced two different Starkid productions? Oh, you didn't catch that? >_____> )

Oh well. I'm excited to see what it will be about.


On a side note, I am done with class, done with my midterm, done with mail, done with my homework, and done copying my music. I have two loads of laundry going right now, too, and I'll go practice when those are finished. Being productive SUCKS.


-David

So give it up, give it back to me.

Hello, all. It's been a lovely weekend. The weather has been absolutely amazing! And of course, Friday and Saturday nights were splendid, too.

I've already told you all about Friday night, so I'm not going to go into any more detail on that. But then last night was fun, too. A little after six o'clock, I went over to Emily's house to hang out with her and eat dinner with her family. We had some delicious gumbo, some bread that wasn't cooked all the way (hahaha) and a ton of hilarious conversations while we ate. It was a great meal! :3

After dinner, we retreated to Emily's room upstairs and watched The Nightmare Before Christmas, 'cause Emily has never seen it before. I know, she's never lived. >:|
But she's seen it now, so things have been made better. :D
She loved it, and we had fun watching it together. My dog was annoying, though, but in the cutest way possible. Sigh, I swear my dogs are insane.

We then listened to some music a bit, and we talked while she finished sewing. Meanwhile downstairs, her parents were watching this crazy Swedish film called Slim Susie. When we came downstairs, they were probably about halfway through it. Emily and I ate some coffee ice cream and watched the rest of the movie with them. There were some... interesting scenes, and the movie was very confusing and unintentionally hilarious (I think I'm going to start saying "schmort" now), and it was pretty fun. By that time, it was pretty much 11, so I headed home and killed time on the computer for a bit. It was lovely. :3


Today was Colin's Eagle Scout ceremony. It was a pretty okay ceremony, very tongue-in-cheek (which I like). I left pretty early after the ceremony, though, and now I'm at home wishing I could take a nap. Oh well, maybe I can convince one of my friends to buy me coffee? :D

Anyway, midterms are this week. Wish me luck. :|


-David

I'm afraid you have, you've gone totally bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: all the best people are.

Tonight was spectacular.

I finished classes and then headed to Fairhope for the weekend. You see, I was going to the movies to see Alice in Wonderland with Emily, Jen, Sara, and Chelsea. And we were all dressing up.

So I got to town, and picked up my costume from Aunt Pagan. Yes, I was Alice, and yes, I borrowed the costume that the Creative Outlet uses for Alice. Oh well. ^_~

I chilled at the Coffee Loft until around four thirty and then headed over to Emily's house. We all got costumed up and ready to go, and left for the movies just before six.







We got there, people were amazed that I was a guy, we watched the movie. It was spectacular, and we all enjoyed it immensely. But the -real- fun didn't start until after the movie!

Afterwards, when everyone was leaving the theatre, I was surrounded by girls who wanted pictures with me. It was scary! D:
And everyone abandoned me, too. >:(

But I mostly avoided taking pictures with strangers because I saw Tony and Mason and Savanna and Logan and I kind of used them as a human shield.
The bathroom was an interesting ordeal, too. Using a urinal is hard (And awkward) when you're wearing tights and a skirt. I'm just glad no strangers walked in. >_____>;;


Anyways, we all met back up, had some more pictures taken, and then went to the Fairhope Waffle House. I don't really know how to describe what happened there... I don't think I'll discuss it, if not solely because I know I can't do it justice.
But we did meet Ted and have an all around good time.

Overall, it was a great night. I'm looking forward to tomorrow. And I'm sorry about how terrible my typing is tonight, I'm exhausted. -___-
Goodnight!


-David

L'amour est dans l'air...

Today is VALENTINES DAY which means that everyone who is in a relationship should DO NOTHING EXCEPT TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHER and everyone who is single can't do anything except BITCH ABOUT HOW MUCH VALENTINE'S DAY SUCKS. Those are the rules.

But I actually like Valentine's Day. I don't know why, really. I mean, honestly, it's no different than any other day except with more chocolate. Maybe that's why I like it, the chocolate. But regardless, I don't mind it. And I don't see the point in bitching about "how much it sucks" or how "it's nothing but a gimmick to try to market love" and such. It's just a day and if it sucks it's YOUR FAULT, not the holiday's. People need to learn to enjoy themselves.

Which is what I've been doing these past few days. Because it is Mardi Gras! So I've been partying and parading. I walked alongside a float in the MOJ parade on Friday, and I played my trombone in the KOMM parade. Luckily, I don't think I'll be conned into participating in any more parades, so I can just relax and watch the ones coming up. It'll be fun.


Speaking of relaxing and having fun, I'm going to Ben's tomorrow. With the gang. It'll be awesome. I mean, -technically- they have school, but the school board is dumb (for more reasons than just this) so pretty much everybody is skipping anyway. So, yeah, tomorrow is Ben's and then another game night at Macey's. Hurray!


Also, I went to the movies today with Emily, Jen, and Sara. Saw Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, which is apparently based off of a book that I've never heard of. My thoughts on the movie:
Enjoyable and entertaining, but it suffers in terms of characters, I think. Well, the main character. The biggest flaw of the movie was that Percy, who JUST FOUND OUT TWO DAYS AGO that he's a Demi-God (Spoilers?) is kicking the ass of people who have been training ALL OF THEIR LIVES. The second he's introduced to people, he's put up on a pedestal when that shouldn't be happening. It really took away from the immersion, I thought, because instead of getting into it and really enjoying the film, I was caught up in the scepticism. Overall, I'd give it a 7/10.

And that's about it, really. Have a good Valentine's Day, I suppose.



-David

A few things.

Just a few things, really. Should be a fairly short post.

So, last night I realised how much I hate fire alarms. It was about 10:00, and I was planning on going to bed early. I'd had a rough afternoon and was tired. So I shower, get in bed... and the alarm goes off.
I have to get dressed again and go outside (and I forgot to bring my phone. D: ) and wait around for a bit. I don't even think there was an actual fire, but it wasn't a drill, because they had people go in and we weren't allowed to enter again for about forty minutes. Blech.


Also, today, I realised something about coffee shops that aren't named "Coffee Loft."
I learned that their baristas are idiots.

One of my favourite drinks for a hot day is an iced coffee (with milk) with a shot of Hazelnut in it. It's not a hard concept: You get a cup, put a shot of Hazelnut flavouring in the cup, then add some ice, pour some iced coffee in there, then add a little bit of milk. It's extremely simple. Yet, EVERY TIME I try to order it (except for at Coffee Loft) they manage to screw it up. Whether they forget the milk (which isn't too bad) to confusing it with an Iced Caramel Macciato (I don't even know how they came to that) to forgetting the flavour shot, NO PLACE I'VE BEEN TOO CAN DO SOMETHING AS EASY AS MIXING THREE LIQUIDS IN A CUP. I honestly don't get it.
Pisses me off.

Also, look what I taught myself how to play this afternoon:



Wooooooo.


So yeah, that's about it.



-David

After all, there's only one more sleep 'till Christmas...

Oh, right. I have a blag. I'm sorry.

Well, I will do a quick recap of the past week:

Friday: Spent the day with Rin, went to a party, met people, had fun. I ended up shirtless at the party, like I always do. It was fun.

Weekend: Went to New Orleans with the band. What happens in New Orleans STAYS in New Orleans.

Week: I wrapped presents and hung out with people. Saw Avatar, too.

Actually, I'll take this time to put my thoughts about Avatar on paper. Er... in text.

It was a beautiful movie. The CGI was stunning, and the effects were amazing. It also had one of the best action scenes I've EVER seen in a movie.
But...
It was slow. Very slow. It didn't feel like a movie, it felt like a documentary. I know that was the direction they were going for, but all it did was make the movie drag more than it needed to. Also, the plot was pretty weak and extremely predictable. Predictable to the point where EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENED AT THE END, I called a hour earlier. That bad.
Avatar also villainised the wrong person. Instead of making the head-of-operations there the bad guy, the made the leader of the military the bad guy. Sure, he loved killing and mercilessly attacking the natives, but what do you expect? HE'S A MILITARY LEADER! And I must note here that he was also only acting on the orders OF THE GUY IN CHARGE. Blech. Little things like that bug me.

Overall rating: 8/10
I'd certainly watch it again when it comes out on DVD, but there's no way in hell I'm going back into the theatre to see it.



And then two nights ago was OPERATION: DRAGON ROLL. Macey, Hannah, Chis, Erin, and I all stayed the night at Macey's house and played Dragon Age: Orgins the whole time. I was the last person to fall asleep, at around 6:00 AM. It was a good night.


And now, today is Christmas Eve. Woo. Tonight, I'm going to the Davis household for food, and then to my grandparent's house for holiday stuff, and then to church to play music. And then, it will be Christmas and I will post again tomorrow.

So... Yeah. I'm sorry for letting you all down by not delving into the mundane details of my life more often over the past few days. This problem will be alleviated in the coming weeks. Thank you for your patience.


-David