Urges

I have no idea what is up with me, but the topic of The Last Samurai came up during brunch with Amber. I have seen the movie a couple times before, and it is not exactly a great movie or anything of that sort, but I have this urge to watch it! So after lunch, I went and got it at my somewhat far away neighborhood Blockbuster store. Of course, like many times before, I probably will end up not watching it, and then forget to return it by a certain date, and be charged a "nominal" fee for the late return. Ugh. I always do that! I remember this one time where I had a coupon for Hollywood Videos where you can rent up to five movies for 99 cents each, and I actually rented five movies. And how many did I end up watching? Just one. And this was when I was flying "home" to Kansas City about a year ago. Sigh...

And speaking of urges, I have an overwhelming sudden urge late last night to get really drunk. Of course the good John {if there ever is one} in me talked me out of it, so I just drove on home and caught up on the three episodes of CSI that I have missed. I guess I have not been watching much television lately, since I have a lot of other shows from multiple weeks that is still on my living room computer waiting to be watched and purged. And silly me, I got The Last Samurai on top of all that. Sheesh.

You know, sometimes I just wish I don't have a conscience. Or that I should be more like a normal guy, in the sense of being just like everybody else. You know, be a stereotypical guy; the kind that is ostracized by many book authors {i.e. Greg and Liz} and newspaper columnists. Apparently my being different from the rest is not easy for everybody. And should I feel guilty about being different from the rest? I don't know. But all I can say is that I feel like a big ass hole though. Which is why I was somewhat driven with the urge to drink last night. Sigh...

Well, the weather today looked nice, but then it got real cloudy and cold fast. I am glad I decided not to go to the South Side Irish Parade today. I still cannot bear the thought of drinking so early in the morning. Obviously I didn't read the evite details closely, because I thought we were all getting together some time in the afternoon for the parade. Nope; 9 AM. I have never woken up that early besides being coerced into it by some crazy race organizers. LOL In any case, it would have been fun to go watch this Chicago tradition though. Oh well...

Okay, tonight is going to be a fun night. I'll just kick back and relax, as another episode of Grey's Anatomy comes on. How did I become this silly TV junkie? They should produce less interesting and lower quality programming. Maybe that will be a good motivation for me. But then again, in this world of global economy, such a ridiculous idea is a flawed one for the network television industry. Ha ha ha.

Holy smokes! My bedroom just lit up real brightly. That was a lightning! I didn't know it was supposed to rain today! Weird. Well, I'm really glad that I don't have to travel this coming week. Nice!

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