New Years 2003

Here's my old roommate, Ken Shum. Swac and I lived with him my Junior year. (It was the 711 House: Ken, Swac, Adam, Sven, Me, and Timbus). Anyway, Ken was up for New Years, and he crashed at our place. Ken is very tall.

Here's Dusty. He's Josh Tubergen's cousin. He and Josh came over, and joined Mindy and I at Max & Ermas, then we headed back and played Euchre.

I was told to take a picture of this, becuase after Mindy and I blanked Josh and Dusty 10 to 0 the first game, they ran off to an astounding 1-0 lead, and wanted to document it.

Here's Josh. In the off chance you didn't know, Josh is a superstar. (aka: "Local Basketball Star")

Here's Mindy. This game started to go downhill pretty fast, and we ended up losing 2 in a row.

Well here we are in game 3, and I had to get a shot of us jumping to an early lead. The only thing sadder than me taking this picture is you wasting your pathetic life reading about it. Sucker.

See this score here? It would seem like it's almost impossible for us to lose, right? Well, Mindy and I pulled it off anyway.

Josh has lost interest in the whole camera thing, but I got this shot off before he attacked me. Josh has anger management issues.

Josh has now stolen my camera.

Dusty appears less than pleased with the situation.

Kristin, Jamie, and Jamie showed up, and we attempted to play Trivial Pursuit... it didn't happen.

This shot was better. Bet they're pissed I kept the first one, eh? Suckers.

The problem with purposely looking like a retard in a picture is that the picture is still around long after people remembered you were just "acting". This is my roommate Swac (Matt). He looks like this most of the time. He and Ken showed up, and joined us in Trivial Pursuit, which quickly changed to Cranium.

Some alcohol was involved...

Yeah, this is a familiar look from the sis.

Here's Kristin doing a Humdinger... that's where you hum or whistle a tune, and the teammates are supposed to guess it. It is not going well for them. Kristin is trying to do "I Got You, Babe". Sadly, that's the only part she knows. Well, sad for them, very funny for us.

Yeah, things are seriously not going well for their team now.

Here they are, working on a word puzzle. It's funny to watch them try to concentrate, cause they have no clue.

Here's Me and Mindy... and yeah.. that's Swac. I live with Swac. Aren't I the lucky one?

Here's Kristin trying to act out "Kramer" from Seinfeld... then she realized it was a club cranium, so Swac hopped up, did the little sliding through the door thing, and we got it right away.

Here's Kristin doing a Sense-o-Sketch. That's where you draw something with your eyes closed. Kristin is pretty much scribbling here... hard to believe they didn't get it.

Teams, this is the look you're going for when you're doing pictionary.

Yeah.. she still has no clue what Jamie is drawing. I think this was probably more funny after a beer, 2 large Bicardi Silvers and a few Smirnof Ices..

Here's Ken again, warning me not to take any more pictures.

At this point I was just taking shots to try to blind people. Nevertheless, you can't deny that I'm amazingly attractive.

Here's Swac again.

We went back to playing Euchre after Kristin, Jamie, and Jamie left. Swac has reverted back to a previous stage of evolution by this point. Ever read "Flowers for Algernon" ? Yeah, it's a little like that.

Another me shot, cause you just can't get enough.

It's kinda like deer in the headlights, isn't it?

Okay, so this is New Years Day. I went and got me an exercize bike. It's a snazzy one, that does the whole uphill/downhill stuff and everything. So here it is before assembly.

I am almost finished with another project: A Map of the USA on corkboard, so I can mark all the places I've been, and trips that I've made. Only I couldn't find corkboard big enough (and I was too impatient to wait until Thursday morning to go out to Home Depot or something) so I got 12 1 square foot squares, and did som gluing. Now it's under my bed cushion to flatten it out, then I'll add some pins and string. So I have some time on my hands, what are you doing that's so great? That's what I thought. Shut up.

And here's the bike all put together. It was a bit more complicated than expected. The bar the seat went on was jammed, so Robb and I had to take the entire assembly apart and pound on it for a while. Then a screw magically disappeared then reappeared a short time later. Note the bed in the background. Doesn't it look lousy without a bedskirt around the bottom? I think so too.. more on that later.

Here we go. A new bedskirt purchased, and added, and the bed looks so much better. I endured much mockery for desiring, then actively searching for said bedskirt. Some suggested that this quest indicated a repressed (or simply held hidden) desire to pursue romantically members of the same sex. Swac: I hate you. Anyway, I finally found one (after failures at Meijer, Kohls, JCPenny, and Sears) at Bed Bath and Beyond... and Ken will attest to the fact that the trip was very much worth it. (read: Hotties work there.) We made another trip around the store to find his ficticious "girl in the gray sweater". She magically appeared just as we were ready to checkout, but I was busy making smalltalk with the cashier. I'm convinced she dropped that receipt on purpose.

I had run out of room on my board for all my ticket stubs from recent movies, etc. so I added a little board below for them. Now I'm out of thumb tacks.

This is actually a picture of Robb from the day I got this camera, but I felt bad not having a picture of him in this group. He was off at another party most of the night. But who could see this picture and not want to post it, honestly?