Wii Are Epic

my day began with my wife waking me up looking for peroxide and bandages, because our landlord [who is also her boss] cut his finger open with a hand-saw while trimming trees in our neighbor's front yard, which he owns. strangely enough, this was not the most interesting part of the day. i got up and headed out to deposit our $40 worth of 'win' from a class action lawsuit against our former gym, then to go to the store. it was a seemingly routine trip that probably shouldn't have been as eventful as it was.

when i was turning left into the bank parking lot, i noticed my friend justin was ahead of us. so of course i waved, etc. and we lined up for the drive-up atm. usually when it's crowded, i just hop out and use the walk-up, but this time i thought i'd just stick with it. it's a good thing i did though, because he left his card in the machine, which he later informed me was the third time in two months. after regaling me with the fantastical story of his fiancée elyce's grandmother getting her cane stolen from church [she's 90 years old, mind you], we went our separate ways as they set off to deliver her two replacements.

the trip to the store was expensive, but unmemorable.

so after i got back from the store and unpacked all of the groceries [read: let my wife unpack all of the groceries while i hop online and check youtube/twitter], christin informed me that becky wants to 'find food,' so we set off on an adventure. we ended up at the mall with the three of us plus her 2-year-old, brody, despite the frantic calls, text messages, and general douchebaggery of becky's 'baby daddy.' one thing led to another, christin and i ate at big easy [mmm, bourbon chicken] and the guy actually ends up showing up.

now i had never met this guy, and i've heard nothing but bad things about him. i knew a bit about what he was into, and they've been on-and-off for almost 5 years now. i'd never even seen a pic on facebook or anything. for some strange reason, i pictured him as an average-sized, average height, half-latino gangster/bro hybrid. so you could probably imagine the shock and awe on my face when i finally saw the hulking, white bread, pro-wrestler-esque monstrosity approach the table and begin cheerily making kissy-faces at brody.

yeah. that was weird.

so after the mall episode, we end up at becky's house playing rock band on the wii. i hate rock band, not because i'm not good at it, but because in order to be good at playing drums for rock band on expert mode, you have to play like a retard. see, there's this delay between hitting the pads and the notes actually registering that makes it nearly impossible to keep up with songs, especially when they're all by the beatles [of whom i am not a fan] and at least half of them are more obscure b-sides. not fun.

then the girls and becky's mom played wii bowling and talked about setting up a wii bowling team because they're pretty good at it. becky gets way too into it, to the extent that she does a little spin move that looks something like a cross between an excited little kid cheering about getting to go to disneyland and ryu from street fighter executing a dragon punch. quite amusing. now i wish i got some video to show its truly epic qualities. but alas, i lack... and i digress.

after the bowling, things calmed down. while christin played sonic the hedgehog and complained about the fact that non-emulators don't have save states, becky and i decided it was a taco bell night. $19 and two trips down the street later [they forgot my quesadilla, the replacement for which contained unmelted cheese and looked as though it had been sliced by a blind caveman], we enjoyed our heartburn-filled late night cuisine and chatted a bit before calling it a night. and what a night it was.

p.s. i made this today. watch it.