Well, haven't blogged for awhile. i'm sure it has something to do with July. Just wasn't feelin' it ya know? i guess July was pretty boring or i have become to lazy to think of stuff to blog about. Its really hard to think of stuff when you live a boring life...i guess i could have blogged about a jelly donut again.
My dad and uncle are planning a motorcycle trip to California and back. You know, the whole route 66 thing. i kind of wanted to go but the bike i have now is only 800cc and the tank is fairly small. Plus my butt hurts after 40 minutes of riding which is pathetic. i would have to get a bigger bike to make that trip more enjoyable.
My parents have been on a cruise for the past 2 weeks. Some Mediterranean thing visiting a million countries and buying who knows what. i wish i could go on a cruise. Not with my parents though. Trips are never crazy awesome with your parents...and i want crazy awesome.
The day after my parents left marie, her family, and cheri arrived from Saudi. So it'll be nice hanging out with them whenever they decide to chill at the house. At least anna still remembers me.
What is up with all these animals? i seriously feel like i live on a farm. Rabbits, geese, retarded pigeon looking birds, heron, egret, wasp nests, mice, ducks, and deer. In Saudi all i had were lizards, fish, turtles, frogs, and Daisy...great, now i'm thinking about my dog daisy. :' (
The new animals in town are the robins. The eggs have finally hatched and i see the mother come back to the nest with food all the time. i believe there are 3 baby birds right now. There were four but one of them offed himself by jumping out of the nest, lemon.
Seemed like trying to float the bird out was our best shot. To help stop the leak problem my dad caulked the bottom of the post and wrapped towels around it and screwed the base over the towels to hold them in place.
i then stuck the hose back down the post and turned on the water to full blast. Seemed like it was working. The post was leaking a little bit but not nearly as much as our first attempt with the water. i'm not sure how the bird was still alive at this point but it was and it was slowly floating up to the top.
Everything was looking good until the water level reached about 3/4 of the way. The post then split open letting most of the water rush out. i could see the wing of the bird though, it was sticking out of the opening. Luckily for the bird the hose came out as well keep the siding of the post coming back together and breaking the birds wing. All my dad had to say was,"did not expect that..".
i then pried open the post while my dad pulled the bird out and dropped it on the floor. Not sure what the next step was but at least we got the bird out! Since it was soaking wet i picked it up and put it in the sun to give it some warmth and my dad gave got some bird seed for it.
After about 5 minutes of laying in the sun, the bird got up and tried to fly. It could only get about a foot off the ground but it looked like it just need some more drying/rest before it could fly away. Should have video taped this and sent it in to "Animal Rescue" on Animal Planet.
The next idea my dad had was to flood the bird out. Not sure why i did not think of that, i must be retarded. So we grabbed a hose and ran it down the post and cranked up the water.
Turns out that the post is not water sealed by the slightest so we got some towels and tried to keep the water from leaking out. In the end it failed because the rate of which the water was leaking out was faster than the water going in...
Not sure how long the bird has been deprived of food...but at least it got some water to it?
Apparently every summer, a number amount of bars participate in something called Center City Sips. Its this crazy happy hour on Wednesdays that goes down 5pm to 7pm consisting of 3 bone glasses of wine, 2 bone domestic beers, and half off appetizers. Some ads even say free appetizers, but i have yet to see a bar that actually does that. i rarely drink during the week because usually my friends are busy, but not manthan.
i believe this outing was Lily's idea and she was nice enough to invite manthan and myself. Since we only had two hours of drinking time i wanted to make sure that we arrived at the bar before or at least at 5pm. Of course that did not happen. i was on time as usual but manthan got caught up in traffic and parked near the art museum so he had a ways to walk to meet me at the train station on 30th and Market.
Once we met up we gave Lily a call, and she was running late as well. manthan and i waited outside the bar for them. We decided to go to Vango. i've never been there before but they say they have a crazy roof top party lounge which would be pretty cool if we could get up there. Lily didn't show up with her girlfriends until 5:45pm...ugh, so much drinking time lost.
Once in the bar we were told the roof top was closed for a private party. Awesome, we then did a 180 back outside and headed to Noche instead. It was a little packed at first but we managed to get a table and manthan and i pounded some beers. The first beer was Victory. With a name like that you think it would be good...but everytime i have it its just awful. We wanted Magic Hat but they were tapping another keg and we didn't want to wait and Victory was the only domestic beer that was not light. Manthan and i managed to get 7 beers in before we left the bar a little after 7pm. Our last beer was not included in the happy hour so that was the full 4 bones for a beer, lemon.
Most of the time at Noche it was just manthan, myself, lily, and like five other girls. Pretty good ratio if you ask me...the only problem was that manthan sat next to me so we looked gay. Thanks manthan.
Did not catch the name of the next bar, but the bouncer for it was huge with some crazy haircut...like a reverse mohawk or something like it. manthan and i didn't say at this bar long, one of lily's friends was pretty ridiculous and the bouncer said she had to leave. She wasn't being loud or anything, she actually wouldn't talk at all but she clearly did not need to have anymore drinks. i'm pretty sure she just need a half hour of walking and sipping water and she would be fine but i'm not dirnking expert...or am i?
Lily got a cab for the flagged girl along with some other girls so our party got pretty much cut in half. manthan and i then bounced and decided to go to dave's place to say hello. i haven't seen him since Erin Express. After catching up with dave, manthan and i both had the beer munchies and we then went to his favorite mexican (at least one of them) restaurant, El Vez.
manthan keeps talking about this place so i had some pretty high expectations. For some reason he took this photo of the bike hanging above the bar.
Okay, i'm never letting manthan have my camera again. He just takes random pictures. Such as this one of the girls at the bar all on their cell phones.
manthan was pretty thirsty and loves the margaritas here so we got a pitcher on the rocks. He failed to mention that the pitcher was 30 bones which was a nice surprise when the bill came. The margaritas were pretty good though. i tend to perfer them frozen mostly because it reminds me of snow cones or a slushy.
For starters we got the El Vez Guacamole. This was probably one of the best guacamoles i have ever had. It was extremely tasty. The menu said there were jalapenos but i didn't taste any...probably because i was obliterated by this point.
The chips were pretty good, kind of hard to mess those up and the salsa was just average.
manthan with his lame mohawk.
i never know what to order. i knew i wanted an enchilada but could not decided between the black bean, chicken with red peppers, and crab. Luckily they had an entree with all three! woot! For 18 bones...lemon. But i still got it.
Looks like manthan still has an asian fetish.
i forget what manthan ordered. i'm guessing the black bean enchilada.
The bathrooms were pretty crazy with the sinks outside of the bathroom for both men and women. Not sure what that is all about but at least i don't have to worry about touching a dirty door after washing my hands.
Pretty sure our waitress hated us. Since manthan was driving i downed his two last margaritas, no way am i going to let a 30 bone pitcher go to waste. Our waitress was trying to rush us out. Should have tipped her less..stupid 80 dollar bill...ridiculous.
manthan and i then started walking back to his car...trying to save money...but soone gave up and grabbed a taxi. i then crashed at rich and john's. Rich has an a/c in his room so i stole the couch cushions and set up a bed in his room. i then got cold at 5 am and couldn't find a blanket and moved back to the couch. Luckily it was pretty cool that night. Overall i'd say center city sips was a success.
Silly wrabbit. My mom's garden has a bunch of stuff growing in it. This rabbit must be eating its weight worth in greens everyday. 
He's so tiny i just want to squeeze him until his head pops off...is that weird? i hear rabbit is delicious and you can skin it pretty much like taking a sock off. That would be so awesome, having little rabbit socks. i'm sure all my friends would be jealous.
My dad has failed to catch him. It seems that he leaves the flowers alone and that's all my mom really cares about and there is too much veggies for him to make a dent in so looks like he'll be roaming free for now.
