what i remember from st. patrick's day (the editied version)*

so thursday night went a little differently than expected.  and from what i remember, it was a pretty damn good night.  we started the night out at mc carthy's.  i got mad props form the ladies in the bathroom line for being able to pee fast.  i was introduced to the "adios motherfucker"** which is now one of my new favorite drinks. tessa made brian kiss me.  everyone on the patio cheered whenever the police helicopter would fly over and shine a spotlight on us.  brian was telling me about a guitar with frets that aren't straight.  and some redhead who i think was named erika told me that i had a pair of glorious breasts and asked if she could feel them.***  i not entirely sure, but i think had about four or five drinks there.  i didn't buy them all, so i sorta of lost count.  all i know is that every time my cup was close to empty, there was a new one in front of me.  which is the way it should be.  and thank you to jason for dealing with the crowds at the bar so i didn't have to.

after mc carthy's we moved onto creekside.  which is a downstairs bar.  i had never been there and did not know that, so yeah, i was a little surprised to have to maneuver stairs while drunk, but i managed.  it's pretty small on the bar side, but they have a separate room where there was live music.  i have no idea if the person(s) playing were any good because it was too loud to hear them clearly from the bar and we never made it into the other room.  i remember talking to some blond girl about the drink she had because it looked good.  i ordered one for myself and it really was as good as it looked.  and keeping in tradition of drinks i like having the word "dirty" in them, (dirty girl scout anyone?) this one was called a dirty shirley.  i sorta kinda remember talking to a guy at the bar also, but i don't remember if he was part of our group or not.  it may or may not have been brian.  but i do remember tessa taking my cherry.  after that our group broke off into smaller groups and some people went home.  i decided i wanted food.

so if you have ever gone out drinking down town with me before, you will know that i get cravings for wild bread when i'm smashed.  that night was no exception, so jason and i made over to woodstocks.  i now know it's a good thing we took palm and not marsh to get there because i found out later that there was a sober check point set up on marsh and there is no way in hell i would have passed that.  but apparently i was sober enough to see the cops sitting on the bench, and jason tells me that they were snickering about that fact that i not so quietly pointed it out to him.  but they didn't stop us, so we made it to woodstocks so i could get my fix of the cheesy, ranch covered goodness.  if you have never had wild bread while drunk at 1:00 a.m., then you my friend are missing out.  hit me up if you're ever around and we will fix that.

* i thought it best if i took out all self incriminating evidence.  not that there was any or anything like that.  because you know, i'm a prefect angel and such and don't do anything bad. (lol ok i was laughing when i wrote that.  even i dont believe it)

** i find it really funny that my spell check recognizes motherfucker as a correctly spelled word

*** between her and the girl from new year's, i'm starting to think that for some reason, the ladies really like me

so it's about that time again

so today is that one glorious day out of the whole year where people look at you weird if you don't start drinking at 6:00 a.m.  i was not one of these people because 1) as i have said before, only one thing can get me out of bed that early, and 2) i had to work.  so i am now about thirteen and a half hours behind in drinking.  in about thirty minutes i will be trying to make up for that.  i have $50 to spend tonight, and if last year is any indication, i will do that.  only problem is that i work tomorrow at 8:00 a.m.  which is going to suck.  but not enough to keep me in tonight.  that is why God invented coffee and tylenol.

fun with colors

so i've recently started working with color editing some of my pictures.  it's tedious, time consuming, and amazingly awesome.  my favorite things to do would be a color splash or an aged effect (like the picture above).  and just a simple change to black and white can dramatically change the mood of the picture.    so i figured i would share some of the pictures i did tonight, since all my creativeness went towards that instead of coming up with a witty blog post.  i will try to be my usual smart ass self next time.  until then, enjoy the pretty pictures.  oh, and a special thanks to jason for keeping my company while i took the pictures and for putting up with the random way my mind works while i'm feeling artsy. 

color splash can be tedious enough to drive you crazy.  this one took about  thirty minutes.  but overall, it usually ends up being worth it

drunk uno!

ok so it's been a really long time since i had a good game of drunk uno.  and i'm feeling that needs to change.  if you have never had the pleasure/misfortune of playing drunk uno, you really are missing out.  drunk uno is a creation that me, jefe, and some other friends came up with one weekend in college, further proving that anything can be turned into a drinking game if enough alcohol is involved.  we were all pretty tipsy when the games started, and all ended up shit faced drunk by the time it was over.  i won/lost depending on how you look at it.  it came down to me and jefe (the two most borderline alcholic members of our group), and while i technically lost the game of uno, i had consumed the most alcohol in doing so.  so overall, win for me.  the rules are pretty simple.  basically anything other than a number card has a swig attached to it.  if you get skipped, you drink.  if it gets reversed back to you, you drink.  if you play a draw two, the next person drinks two.  and we play where you can stack draw two cards, so you can get fucked if you're the only person without one.  i think i had to drink eight at one point.  if you play a wild card, the next person drinks.  if it's a wild card with a draw four, they drink four.  if you have an uno and forget to call it, you drink seven.  if you can't make a play, you drink however many cards you have to draw.  over all, pretty simple and way more fun than most other drinking games.

i do have two pieces of advice if you ever want to play this game.  the first would be to have some way of keeping track of who's turn it is.  this game gets you fucked up fast, even if you're drinking less hard core stuff than jefe and i do.  and believe me, you will forget which direction you are playing.  the second piece of advice comes from experience.  do not make the same mistake jefe and i did.  buy waterproof cards.  they are worth the extra $3.00.

alex made me do it!

why do so many of my stories start like that?  so this time is was starting an account at okcupid and it's all because of alex.  he wanted me to make one to see how well the compatibly match ups really were.  basically, my account was to be his control sample.  so since it's free and i had nothing better to do last night that answer a shit ton of random questions about myself, i figured what the hell.  so i do the whole thing, check and see how it matches us up,* blah, blah, blah.  anyway, about twenty minutes after i start this thing i get a message in my inbox.  so since i'm talking to alex on facebook while all this is going on, i let him know. if i remember right he said something along the lines of "that's bs!  i've only had one girl message me unprovoked, and you get a guy in less than an hour?"  yeah, yeah i did.  because i'm just that awesome.  and in less that twenty four hours, i have had a total of five guys contact me.  granted one was a pot head, and one is a crazy desperate guy that posts on craigslist every other fucking day, but still.  they picked me to creep on.  so take that alex.  i'm cooler than you are on this one.  and you can't bitch about it anyway since you made me sign up for it in the first place.  and no, listing the things i think about most as "sex and video games" is not cheating because it's true.  i can't help if the things i like are guy kryptonite. 

*66% match, 81% friends, 18% enemies.  his response? "why isn't the enemy score higher?"

the nude photo shoot

ok not really.  jason wanted me to call it that.  mostly because he tagged along on my photo spree today, and one of his friends texted him to see what he was up to.  he gave her a smart ass answer and said he was being a nude model for an art project for me.  and she believed him.  so for the rest of the afternoon, it was referred to as the nude photo shoot.  but in reality, it was the converse project.  i ended up going to the mini oak forest for it, and i'm pretty happy with how most of the shots turned out.  and because i had this little vision in my mind, all the photos that i am keeping from today have been color edited.  i was feeling extra artys and/or creative tonight, so i figured i would give it a shot.  overall, i think it worked well.  some were simple aged effects, some were color splashes, a few are filtered to have a painted effect, just things to spice it up a bit.  i almost never edit my pictures, so it was something new for me to try.  it was kinda fun, so i might start doing it every now and then.  here's a little example of my handy work from tonight.  the rest of the pictures are on the facebook page.  let me know what you think.  and rest assured, there are no naked pictures of jason.  so you won't need any eye bleach (hopefully) after looking at them.  

 

  

 

the converse project

so i went to hookah last night and a painting i saw there has inspired my next photo project.  it was simple, but i really liked it.  it was what i think was oil on canvas, and it was just a pair of converse high tops hung over a telephone line.  but seeing how i have a great love of converse shoes, i decided i want to do my own converse project.  pretty much i'm going to be traveling around with my high tops and taking pictures of them in places where you wouldn't expect to find shoes.  it sounds a little weird when i put it that way, but i have some really cool ideas for it floating around in my head.  and i might do some black and white shots with the pink chuck taylors as well and just have the shoes colored in.  hell, i'll probably do some black and white shots of the high tops.  i took black and white pictures of my black and white cat, so why not my black and white shoes?  i'm still trying to figure out where i want to go for this.  i have a few ideas; maybe back to the pier, maybe some back ally ways down town, maybe the mini oak tree park.  i'm actually really digging on that last one.  if anyone has any other places to suggest, let me know.  a lot of it will probably depend on how i feel that day, but i'm open to various options and going to more than one place.  weather really won't be too much of an issue, since i think a little rain might add to the effect i'm going for.  and for some reason i'm really looking forward to the spread.  probably because it's a little more on the artistic interpretation side than any of my other weekend projects have been.  yay for being artsy!