Another Friday

dave

i woke up at 3pm est and my mom told me that dave had called early this morning. i called him back and we chatted for a good amount of time. some of it small talk, some of it more. mainly just caught him up w/ what's been going on. it was difficult, trying to keep his mind of the terribleness of everything that's going on in his life. but it was good to spend some time w/ him. unfortunately, i won't be around during the day anymore once i start working.


gift shopping

dave had said that he might have some eats from his mom's restaurant before yg, so i picked m up and we went shopping for something to bring. originally, i wanted to pick up a key lime pie, but pathmark didn't have one. we looked at the different cakes and pastries and weren't satisfied w/ any of the non-chocolate ones.

m jokingly suggested that we get him meat. i thought this was a great idea, so i headed for the beef. we looked at the different cuts and found something that was good and w/in my price range. i picked a sirloin w/ bone, figuring that it would be a pretty good steak.

we needed to find something else that would be nice. we saw a pile of limes and i knew that dave loved limes, so i figured we could pick him up some. neither m or i were sure how to pick limes, so we asked the produce guy. he was very helpful. basically, you look for the limes the same way you look for lemons. make sure there isn't any scarring or brown spots. then check the firmness of the fruit. the firmer, the better.

as m was waiting in line to checkout, i thought about my nails. i ran over to the nail care aisle and picked up a buffer, cuticle sticks, cuticle scissors, and a file.

we dropped off some stuph at home before going to dave's. we waited in front of his house for about 30 min before heading off to yg. i usually don't like waiting for people, but i don't mind when it comes to people i care about.

m was hungry, so we called ahead to hunan for some chicken rice cakes.


yg

yg was weird, knowing what was going on w/ dave and rene. i tried to act as natural as i could, but it was just too difficult.

rene was giving out the rest of the thank you cards from the wedding.

we were suppoed to do a study on john 1:19 today, but we ended kind of late. and since we hadn't met as a small group for awhile, i decided to just do some sharing instead. it was a good time, nothing really deep, but just enough.


applebee's

since i didn't have much of a dinner, a bit at home earlier, and a bit of m's chicken rice cake, i wanted to grab some food from applebee's. the place was insanely crowded. just as some of us were about to just leave for dave's, we got a table. first, it was a table for 6, but there was space, so we made it a table of 8. then it became a table of 10. and eventually it hit 12. one of the people made a comment that we can't just increase size like that. jeff tried to placate her, but nothing was really wrong. i didn't understand what was the big deal. they only have a certain number of seats anyway. who cares who is sitting in them. as it is, they were getting a huge party.

we sat down and tried to order as soon as we could. the whole night, they were making different mistakes and pretty much giving us the worst service that we had for awhile. first, they gave us two extra wings that we didn't order. second, brian had ordered chicken quesadillas, but they didn't come. when he made a comment about it, they just put in another order. so when the bill came, we had to get one of them striked.

after we had all finished, we all dropped our cash. unusully, we were short. usually, when this happens, its the same culperates each time. people order things and don't know how much it really costs, thinking that it should cost a certain amount when it really costs more. this is usually true w/ drinks. people think they cost only a dollar, when a drink is actually two. they also think that when they tip on the appetizers, they tip on the half price, when you tip on the full price.


dave's

a bunch of us went to dave's afterwards to play some gamecube. while they were all playing, we had guys, as secretly as they could, sign a card that m had made for him. it was beautiful, this little oragami samurai. around 2am est, most of the guys filed out. jdc, todd, me, dave, and myself were left. we popped in mario party 5, which jdc was "undefeated" at. i shared a character w/ m. i was in contention for either second or even tying for first. but mario party 5 is based more on luck, and there were just a few unlucky rolls against me.

at first, i was ahead in coins, which would have resulted in the coin star. i won one mini-game star, which would have put me in second. if i had the coins, i could have picked up a star during the game and been at three, tying dave.

after the game, we sat around and talked. we got into the subject about dave and rene and i just couldn't handle it and broke down and wept for them. i wept for what seemed to be forever, saying something every once inawhile.

thinking about the whole matter just throws me into tears.