Month: April 2009

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Saturday Morning Shenanigans

These are actually my ‘Friday Night Shenanigans’, but since I didn’t even get back home until about 12:40 AM this morning it’s all good. I actually slept in this morning until nearly 8:30 AM – about 4 hours later than normal. Patricia, Venus, and Carol kept me up and out and about until past MIDNIGHT !

I’m looking at my Shops At Sunset Place parking receipt that shows me arriving there at 4:17 PM on Friday afternoon and departing at 12:14 AM on Saturday morning (3 minutes shy of 8 hours). I only paid $6, but that included a MASSIVE discount courtesy of the AMC-24 Theatres. I saw “Adventureland” last night. Good flick about the life and times of various employees of a rundown low budget amusement park in the Pittsburgh suburbs of the Summer of 1987. It was light on comedy, as it played out more like a classic episode of “Dawson’s Creek“. I got what I expected out of it – a high-quality 4.0 star movie that was well worth my time watching it.

After the flick (and a bit of shopping) at my former playground (which is definitely showing its age after a decade) I met up with the fun girls of Patricia, Venus, and Carol at Splitsville. In a nutshell we ate ENORMOUS quantities of food and cracked each other up severely. Maybe Venus will post some of those pictures up on her long-neglected blog. If not then I may grab a few of them myself and post them up on here for all of you cats to see. After that we actually bowled 10 rounds. After Venus reminded me on the proper way to hold a bowling ball and then release it down the lane I proceeded to stage a come-from-behind victory over all three of the girls. My final score was a ’90’, and that was well enough for the victory. This just in – I’ve only bowled perhaps 5 times in my entire life. It’s just one of those things that comes naturally to me once I get going with it. I’m also pretty good at Wii Bowling. My brother showed me how to play that one day last year, and that same day I was suddenly better at it than him and his wife !

Well those are my ‘Shenanigans’ from last night. I had a fun Friday night out on the town at one of my all-time favourite shopping complexes here in America’s Riviera with a few of my favourite people on this journey. Here’s hoping that we can do it all over again real soon !

Later tonight I’ve got a totally rippin’ jam that absolutely defined the Miami urban music scene of 1988. It got everyone of all colors and creeds out together dancing in the streets in unison. Be sure to check it out on a hot new ‘Saturday Night Retro’. You won’t regret it dudes.

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Blogging People

Friday Night Blogroll Review

It’s my favourite blog entries of the past 7 days:

– Travis reports on Easter Sunday at Life Pointe Church.

– Kelly J. uses rice for a completely different use than eating.

– Phil – Sick.

– Jesse – Inked.

– Mark reports on Easter Sunday at Life Pointe Church.

– Ritz is too busy to blog, but he did stop by briefly with this update.

– Tammy wants to go on vacation to a place that she’s never been.

– Venus rediscovered her own blog after nearly 6 months. Be sure to check out her next blog entry this October !

– Kevin – Not a fan of the President Obama loving left-wing media.

Anne J. & Ritz Crackah - Major Bloggie Award Winner
Anne J. & Ritz Crackah - Major Bloggie Award Winner
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Food

Homestead Pavilion

I’m still trying to find out through all of my various resources the official (or even unofficial) grand opening dates for both Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse. It’s been fun watching these two restaurants be built from the ground up since the latter part of last year. It’s as if the’re racing against each other. I’m so looking forward to eating at both of these fine dining establishments in just a few short months. Look for me there on most Sunday afternoons after Life Pointe Church.

FINALLY – I can now confirm that Red Lobster is indeed coming to the Homestead Pavilion, and it will be physically located right at the southwest corner of the property (closest to the traffic light and intersection with Campbell Drive and SE 23RD Ave. / SW 157TH Ave). Look for groundbreaking to occur on the 7,137 square foot joint later this year.

Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Red Lobster are all owned and operated by the same parent corporation – Darden Restaurants.

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Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

– I’m glad to be back at home again tonight.
– This was clearly the busiest week at work for me in modern history.
– It was also the most productive week in modern history.
– As far as my career is concerned modern history = since the end of July 2007.
– My career renaissance continues.
– I am visibly exhausted from this week at work.
– I had planned all week to attend a party tonight up at Dave & Busters.
– I’m not gonna make it.
– I put myself on the injured exhausted reserve list.
– Hopefully I’ll still get invited to future shindigs.
– Up until the very end I thought that I would have to cancel my day off.
– Nope. I didn’t have to cancel it.
– My 3-day weekend has already begun.
– I’ll be back at work for another busy week come Monday morning.
– What will I do on my day off tomorrow ?
– Maybe I’ll eat an ENORMOUS breakfast at Denny’s.
– Maybe I’ll go and get a haircut at Woody’s.
– Maybe I’ll go and do some grocery shopping at Publix.
– Maybe I’ll do some laundry aqui a mi casa.
– Maybe I’ll go to The Shops At Sunset Place (my former playground).
– Maybe I’ll see a movie there.
– Maybe I’ll hang out with Patricia and Venus at this place.
– It should be a fun Friday off for me tomorrow with whatever I actually do.
– Don’t forget the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ tomorrow.
– I’m identifying my favourite blog entries of this past week.
– One of them will win the coveted ‘Major Bloggie Award’.
– Will it be yours ?
– Peace be with you.
– And also with you.
– I’m chillin’.