Best Weekend Ever: a photo recap with light commentary

Memorial Day Weekend first memorable one ever.

Gordon and I have been soccer sick... It's kinda like home sick but for your soccer team. Some of the best days of last summer were spent tailgating and watching the Chicago Fire with my sister and her boyfriend. This past weekend the Fire were playing against the New York Red Bulls. Gordon and I made plans to go to the game and stay with my aunt.

Plans fell through with my aunt... she was supposed to take us out in the city but opted to stay home leaving the city for us to discover on our own.

Enter the bright lights of Times Square.
There were way too many people so we ventured to the side streets.

Outside Radio City where in a few weeks you can go see Bill Clinton.

NBC Studios. I was hoping to run into Kenneth the Page. No luck.

Rockefeller Center. It was hard to get a good picture with all the people eating dinner on the ice rink getting in the way.

Then we met up with Anna, one of Gordon's college friends. She took us to this awesome New York Bar. Its called Chevy's Tex Mex... great margaritas!

Then we caught the last train back to my aunt's house. She actually called to remind me when the last train was.

The next morning we drove to the Meadowlands for the game.

Drank a whole bunch of beers with the Section 8 guys.

We were escorted from our private section of the parking lot to our private section of the stadium by security. We were secluded from everyone and everything....beer guy included. Suck!

Gordon was having a blast!

After the game we were escorted back to the parking lot singing and cheering and badmouthing the losing team the whole way. After a few more beers provided by some very nice Mexican guys we heard that the team was staying at a hotel near by and everyone was heading over. So we went too.

We were greeted by Chris Armas, retired captain and now assistant coach.

I thought he was taller.

The lovely Chad Barrett one of the top scorers on the team.
Mr. Chris Rolff.
Zach Thorton, ex goal keeper.

This one is a little blurry cuz Chris Armas took it with my phone.

Shortly after the above photo we headed back to Philly. Both of us had way too much to drink and only had a not so good breakfast at my aunt's house. I wasn't feeling so good and passed out in the car. We did meet some really cool people and had a great time. I learned that my Fire jersey is a very desired jersey. I've always felt out of place wearing a baby blue Chicago flag jersey that was only worn by the team for one or two games while everyone else was wearing red. From what I was told they are very hard to come by and people pay a lot of money to get them... Thank you Gordon, it was a surprise when I got it and I love it even more now.

When we got home I crashed and Gordon tried to order pizza. Apparently all of the good pizza places in Philly close before 10pm on a Sunday. He settled for Domino's and came to bed later. I woke up the next morning sunburned and realizing that pretzels and dip is not enough to eat when you're doing heavy drinking. The weekend was over because Gordon had to work later that day. But it was fine anything else would have ruined the fun.

Oh, Dr. Jones!

I love Indiana Jones. I have loved those movies ever since I was a kid. It was a family thing at my house. We all loved to watch Indi fight Nazi, save a village in India, and search the world for treasures. When I was a kid I use to torture my brother by pretending to pull his heart out of his chest like the guy in Temple of Doom. He use to cry and scream for my mom because he actually thought I was going to pull his heart out. Ahhh, sibling love.

So, since all the talk started up about a new Indiana Jones movie started I have been excited to go see it. All the teasers Shai LeBouf was giving on SNL were driving me crazy and making me a little scared. When I went to see Iron Man there was a preview for Indiana. WOW!!! This just fueled the fire to go see the movie the moment it came out. I mentioned this to Gordon and he told me that there was going to be a press screening the Sunday before the movie comes out. I was so excited. I told him we HAVE to go!

I woke up Sunday morning like it was Christmas. I couldn't wait to go. We have been to screenings before, but none like this. When we got there was a whole catered breakfast buffet; coffee, juice, bagels, pastries, fruit, and mini muffins. It was 10:30am and they had run out of regular coffee. All Gordon wanted was a cup of coffee, poor guy. We also got free popcorn and a soda. They showed the movie on two screens. The titles started to run and they weren't in traditional Indi graphics, it was strange. I won't give anything away, I hate when people do that. I will say that I wasn't ecstatic about the touches George Lucas put on the Indi story line. BUT, it was action packed and I did like Shai's character.

Hope you enjoy the film.

Movie Maddness

In the past few weeks I have been watching a good deal of movies. Gordon and I have been watching a movie on Sunday nights after I make dinner. Kinda like an indoor date night.

Recent movies:

Road to Perdition: A lot bloodier than I thought it was going to be. It was really good.

LA Confidential: Again, really good. I love Kevin Spacey.

Wassup Rockers: I knew nothing about this movie except that Gordon said we HAVE to move it to the top of the list. It was done by the same guy that did KIDS, all the characters were played by the actual kids the movie was about.

Hollywoodland: This was actually a movie I already owned, thank you prize closet. But I had not opened it until the other day. It was a little slow moving, but it got good and left some unanswered questions... I hate that.

Dead Man: This movie stars one of my favorite actors, Johnny Depp. It was so slow... the story dragged, the plot was not good. I fell asleep and did not care to go back and watch it again.

Lone Star: 30 year old Police murder mystery set in rural Texas. It was so so. Again, I fell asleep just before the end so I don't know who killed who. I didn't get to watch it a second time either because I had to send it back.

Crash: Not the NC17 one... the more recent Oscar winning one. TOTALLY NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS! I honestly knew nothing about the movie except that it had won an Oscar. I really thought it was about drugs or something else. I thought it was a little over the top but really good.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Laughed my ass off. So good. I would see it again.

Iron Man: I'll be honest, I'm not a comic book into a movie fan(excluding BATMAN). I liked it. It had action, a love story, and a hook at the end to reel you into the sequel.

Baby Mama: I love Tina Fey and Amy Poller. They are great together. It was funny, it was touching, it was funny some more. The movie takes place in Philly. I would not recognize anything in that movie if I didn't live here. It was fun to know where they were and think, hey I've been there. Steve Martin was also in this movie. I wasn't expecting that at all because they never showed him in the previews. He's great.

I watched all these movies in the last 2 weeks. I have one more for this weekend; Wristcutters: A Love Story. I'm looking forward to it.

Do you ever....

... think about your life and wonder where it's all going? Job, relationship, friends, the whole thing... what the hell are you doing and why?

I've got a lot of free time on my hands now that I'm in Philly and I think about these kinds of things all the time.

I thank God for Gordon. I love him more now than I have in years past. But is that because he's all I have now or has our love really grown to a height that you only see in movies and read in books? I think it has grown. He really has been the only constant in my life for the last 8 years, though all the ups and downs of all those years. Moving all over the country and having jobs/losing jobs. Seeing the world and what it has to offer me. He's the one I want to be with, forever.

Friends come and go. The good ones are there even after months of silence. I am thankful for my friends that have been there for over a decade and those that haven't, but even though they are still thousands of miles away always call or answer at just the right time. I am realizing that I really need friends here. I'm starting to lose it.

My job couldn't be better. I can honestly say I love going to work. But, its all I have right now and I can only be there the time I'm scheduled to be there. I find myself wanting more.

I feel sad inside and I don't know how to shake it.

Suggestions?