You ever procrastinate so much that you convince yourself that you didn’t really need to do whatever it was you were putting off, and then a month later remember that you were supposed to do that thing but by that time it’s too late?
Yeah, me too. Especially blogging.
I suppose the one thing I should touch on is the fact that I turned 32. Happy birthday to me! … like two weeks ago! Wooo! I didn’t go crazy this year for my birthday. Meghan was nice enough to get me some gifts (beer kits, Tiger Woods golf for the Wii, and some underwear), and I got to go to River Falls and hang out with Reuben and golf and then eat at Luigi’s, which was a pretty damn good birthday. I enjoyed myself and got Reuben in trouble, so that’s always good.
Oh, also, I went and saw Clutch again at First Ave on August 5th. It was a good show, although I don’t know if I was really in the right mindset to see Clutch. I’ve been deep into Phish most of the summer, for obvious reasons, and they had just started the second leg of their tour that week. Obviously, I still enjoyed Clutch, but it didn’t quite feel like the sort of epic experience the last couple shows did. Hopefully they’ll come back around this winter or something when my metal/jamband pendulum has swung a back farther the metal way again.
Somewhere in there recently I also finally got my car fixed. It had been doing some goofy shit the past few months, overheating, not shifting, engine stops at drive-thrus… it feels good to have it back to to normal and know I can trust it not to die. I’ve owned this car for around 5 (6?) years now, and it only have about 120,000 miles on it. Given that I don’t have any commute whatsoever anymore and a lot of my work with client’s can be done remotely, I figure it’s possible I could have this car for at least another three years. And I LOVE not having a car payment. So, even thought I had to pay $1900 to get it fixed, it’s totally worth it.
I’ve also had a couple of miscues in socialization the past couple weeks. Meghan & I were supposed to go tubing one Saturday, but it ended up being too cold. We were going to go to Irish Fest a couple Fridays ago, but the weather put the kibosh on that one, too. We did end up going bowling with Naomi & Troy that night, though, so that was fun.
Other big news includes the fact that Meghan finally got her tattoo that she’s been talking about for a year or so. She struggled for months about what to get, just knowing that she wanted something. She wanted to get something in memory of her grandma, but couldn’t figure out what. Finally she settled on angel wings. After looking through a bunch of pictures on the internet, she found a pair of wings she liked and decided she’d like the wings, maybe with a halo, her grandma’s initials and the date she passed away. After some more thought, she decided to not get the halo, just the wings, and in between the time she had the consultation and the time she got the tattoo, she decided to lose the date too and just go with the initials. I say all this to point out the amount of thought that went into this tattoo, so you can better appreciate the result, which I think is pretty awesome.
Mary Jane Bonekat
The whole thing was custom-drawn by the tattoo artist (Damion, at Electric Dragonland) after one consultation and it turned out awesome. It’s on her left shoulder, if you were wondering.
That basically catches you up to this past weekend, which I feel deserves its own post, so I’ll probably bury this one in about an hour. Hope you didn’t miss it! ;^)