So it never really hits me till like the day of Thanksgiving as lm thinking about the purpose of Thanksgiving. I got a ridiculous amount of things to be thankful for. l think lm also more happy than most people because I'm lucky and that l recognize and appreciate how well l do have it. In the end.... my friends make my life amazing and lm thankful for them for everything. Any situation, any event, any thing in general.... its better w friends and l've always been lucky to have friends for everything lm interested in. Sports, dancing, gaming lol. Outside of having great friends throughout my entire life, l've also just had a really easy life. l guess its why l dont get too upset when bad things happen to me cause, things could be A LOT worse. l just have always felt very fortunate and so... lm being emo but whatever, lm thankful for how great everything has always been.
Besides being thankful, lately there has been A LOT to be excited for. First off.... all the video games that have come out is ridiculous. l bought Bloodbourne and still havent played it cause lm mostly focusing on Starcraft 2 LOTV and Star Wars Battlefront lol. But yes, not only are there a TON of amazing games out right now but there are a fuckloada tournaments as well. It's pretty overwhelming. Going to focus a bit more on Hearthstone as the Hearthstone scene is actually getting bigger. l will have to get back into Magic the Gathering Modern Format too but l think that's going to be more towards Spring when Modern season hits. Oh and Street Fighter V coming out this Feb OS:EIGHTSOIRGHOSIRGHOSIGHOS
Then there is just how packed December is alone w events. W setting up New Years Eve. With Spring being 4 months away and all the business lm going to have. There is a lot to look forward to. l also get ridiculously excited in general.
Lastly.... people are coming out more. Usually its the spring time when you notice people coming out more. Usually November is dead but this past November, seemed like everyone was out often. l think partly why lm thinking this is because Philly nightlife as a whole has been getting A LOT of big name DJs weekend after weekend between Rumor, Coda, Soundgarden Hall and Filmore. People are flipping out about who is playing EVERY weekend. Drinking wise... l dont feel like people drink as often to go crazy, get mad drunk and all that but lately.... it feels like high school lol. Whatever, high school was fun too.
KK so my past 2 weeks.
Nov 18th
Weds got up at 3am. Did a ton of reading on a bunch of various things lm curious about. l love reading about shit late night. Watched Star Wars Ep 1 as lm gonna re-watch all Star War films before the new one. Got groceries and hit home to play Hearthstone for a bit. Later on got some sushi from Shogun and hit up Miel Pasteries in Philly. Also happened to see StephO by chance and caught up w her a lil. Hit a meeting and also saw another friend by chance, Tiff as she was on her way to a photoshoot. Hit home later on and just knocked out early since l was up at 3am.
Thurs woke up at 5am and yayyyy Star Wars Battlefront time!! Played the shit outta it and being a Star Wars fan, its pretty fun. Its a good game. Not world changing but l enjoy it. Getting a Hero card feels like Christmas every single time. Later on hit up The Laboratory in Hatboro and practiced for a bit before the Ultra Street Fighter 4 tournament. It was a double elimination bracket as our numbers are growing which lm really happy for Jimmy and our lil scene there. Ended up taking 3rd place losing in Loser's Finals. Went 4-2 as l got a bye to start. Def fun matches and had fun commentating as well as l got to focus on a ton of the matches. Def some really good close games. Good time chilling as always and hit back home and watched a ton of Ancient Aliens lol. Def a good day.
Friday got up and was trying to figure out plans. Was up mad early and played 5 or 6 games of Hearthstone w Michelle aka StarmieGee. l suggested to start streaming it and she got really into it. Her Secrets Paladin deck would beat my Freeze Mage deck everytime. Gahhh def good to learn match ups tho. Fun times playing w Michelle and then headed out to a listing appointment. Mary met up w me and checked out Joe's property and did some paperwork. Great investment property and l'm sure it'll sell quick once we have it listed.
Hit home and got a huge hoagie and did more reading in the evening. l was thinking of hitting Rumor/Coda but being up so early, l was passing out in my chair. By 10pm, l knew l wouldnt be able to drive and actually fell asleep almost immedietly at 1030. Yea... l stayed in on a Friday night to sleep. Now... l am old.
Sat got up early and was working on digital piano's to create a melody l dreamed of. Its weird.... lve came up w really good catchy melodies either in my dreams or right after waking. l try to remember it or memeorize it for later but l always eventually forget it. This time, l got on a digital keyboard and figured out the notes and count and pace and wrote it down. Not looking back on it, it doesnt sound as good lol.
Anyway... played a ton of Star Wars Battlefront and afterwards got my sister, Weili and EmilyL and we hit up TSA's Potluck to stuff food and say hey to some friends. Ate some good food and just caught up a lil w some friends. Def a good time and afterwards, the 4 of us checked out a property that Weili and Emily are interested in. House showing went well and then we got Yan and then hit back to Weili/Emily's place.
Met up w Paola as she was getting food and hit back to pregame and had a good fun pregame drinking and smoking hookah, talking bout nightlife and a ton of other stuff. Had a good long pregame and friends came through and its always just a good social time before the club. Even Jenny and her friend Lauren made it out before they had to go Gogo dance. Paola as always gets along w everyone l introduce her to which is great and lm glad she has some fun before going on stage. Midnight we pced out to Coda and the line was ridiculously long. l dont usually like to do the whole 'lm a promoter, lm cutting line' thing cause l feel its snobby but this line was atleast a 15 min wait and l was too cold to wait so l slipped in and got drinks and found friends. Had an amazing time dancing w friends and actually had a good amount to drink. Shots being passed to me from the DJ booth to the dance floor and friends getting me drinks. Acted like an idiot most of the night and was just in a really good mood. Nice solid squad out and its always a really good time when Paola is the DJ as she plays hype bangers. 3am hits and drop everyone off before hitting home. Me and Yan made some food and watched some Shark Tank before passing out.
Sunday we got up and hit up Bonefish Grill as l never ate there before but heard great things and was curious. So we got drinks, bang bang shrimp, soups and l got a burger while she got brunch food. Stuffed face and holy shitttt the food was really really good there. Afterwards, hit up the movies to see the Hunger Games Mockingjay part 2. Much better than part 1 omg... part 1 was such ass. Good action and a conclusion that l enjoyed. A bit confusing for a bit but a good twist. Afterwards, took her back and just had a really relaxing evening. Didnt do much but play online and watch History Channel lol.
Monday started a bunch of work and lm working w a good amount of clients. Just winter time, everything happens slowly. Watching History Channel as they were playing nonstop Mankind the Story of all of us. l love these documentaries so much. Later on Yan came back over. Just chilled and played some League of Legends. She's really really good but l expected it since its her only game for the past few years.
Tues we hit up the mall and got food and checked out some Black Friday sales.... yea lol Black Friday starts Tues.... Last yr it started on Thurs. Next yr Black Friday will start on a Monday. But still.... l hit Express and got a new dress shirt for a new business card l plan to make. l may make two business cards but l got the purple that my company uses.
https://realty-cards.com/berkshire-hathaway-business-cards.html
Havent decided which one lm def using but lm thinking of one flashy one that everyone will yell at me but l want anyway and another set of cards that are for older clients which is rare but happens. Yan got a new dress and then hit up Richboro's Gamestop to get Bloodbourne since l was gonna buy it anyway but it was only $20 for Tues/weds. l loved Dark Souls 2 so much so buying Bloodbourne was mandatory.
Hit back and worked on setting up Yan's twitch and teaching her a ton of stuff about it. We played a bunch of games on League and yea... Vayne is mad fun but l dont like the whole 'she sucks till late game and then you kill everyone'. Rengar w jumping people is slightly more what l like to do. Hecarim... we'll see. We'll see in general. Either way, l gotta learn a few characters anyway depending on which role l end up w.
We end the the night up by hitting Rita's for her birthday. Small get together for her birthday and me and Yan got icecream cake and Rob brought a huge bottle of Goose lol. Smoked hookah, had drinks and had a really good night celebrating Rita's birthday. Monica Scott Brown and Jenny also came through to chill. Played some shuffleboard aand gahhh that game... its such a soft game, l just wanna slam these pieces down the lane like bowling but its not like that lol. Def a really good time and hung out till late night.
Me and Yan ended the night playing more League of Legends lol.
Weds we got up and got stuff to make BoneFish Grill's Bang Bang Shrimp. So ooops had the oil on high and started a fire which l brought outside and lit my hair on fire. Got my eyebrows and even my eyelash too. Got my left hand pretty bad tho and had to soak it in cool water for a WHILE. We still made the shrimp tho and it was banging. Watched a ton of American Horror Story and headed out to get burn gel for my hand. Yan pced out later at night and l was still considering going out because it waas the night before Thanksgiving and its a party night but my hand was still hurting too bad without water so l decided to stay in. l did hear the night was pretty crazy in Philly. Ended up watching a ton of Southpark as Comedy Central was playing tons of their Thanksgiving/Black Friday related episodes.
Thurs more History Channel all day. The Universe is soooo good. History Channel is broken into 2 kinda shows....
Documentaries that are interesting like The Universe, Men who Built America, The World Wars, Mankind the story of all us ect.
Crazy stuff that is good or bad like Ancient Aliens, Monster Quest, Pawn Stars ect.
The documentaries are always good. The crazy stuff can be good. l do love my Ancient Aliens. Played some Starcraft 2 Legacy of the Void campaign for a while and yooooo they did such a good job putting you in really interesting situations level after level. No level is a basic, beat the enemy. Its always something new. Hold out for a certain amount of time. Destroy these things before the lazers get to them. Get the Hero to the end point.
Later on, hit Domkey's and we hit up KOP to check out the Black Friday sales and ran around and scouted some places. Also hit up Oxford Valley Mall on our way back as well. After that, hit up Rita's cousin's first to say hi Diana and Yan's family whose kids l teach Pokemon. The kids are really fun and as much as lm not ready yet.... seeing their family makes me want to have a family like that. It seems simple anyway. Some kids, a nice home, a chill puppy, a big living room and tv and a dope kitchen. Thats all you need. Seems very very peaceful and just nice to have. We'll see. The thing about going to the lifestyle that we're taught to have when we grow up is.... if it doesnt work out like you want, well... now you got kid's, an ex-wife, mortgage issues and child support and aoiserhtgoiahrgoiahrgoa... yea... lol. l feel like l SHOULD be figuring this out really soon but lm not sure what l want out of life in the long run as of now.
Hit Rita's afterwards and Rob came through and we just smoked hookah and bummed it for a while. Really good time as always.
Friday got up and started promoting the events for that weekend. Jumped on Star Wars Battlefront with ScottD and Will for literally 6 hours. Had an amazing time playing both the big battles and the Hero mode which yes, does get you much better at using Heroes for when you do find a Hero card. Afterwards, stuffed face and headed out to pregame.
Pregame was at Tim's and MikeM made it out too. Their whole group was going to Filmore while me and Mike were hitting Rumor. Met a lot of new people, won 9 games of beer pong in a row, smoked hookah and drank and had a really fun pregame. So they convinced me to check out Filmore. l was getting in free, l had a group to go with and either way... l had to check out the venue regardless so l went to Filmore. Ran into a lot of friends there. Duron was there on the dance floor and we caught up. Yan came out as well and found me right when l got in. Zach now manages there and Alec also promotes there. Also ran into Kevon and Simon and caught up as well.
So ran around the venue and the place is huge. Its nice and it fits the surrounding area. Its hipster. The bottle service area is similar to Echostage in DC, another EDM hotspot. Its interesting how they broke up the ground floor vertically for the 18+ and 21+ so both groups can be up in front. Def interesting in general. There is potential for using the venue space but lm thinking it may be too big. Outside of Halloween, l dunno. Soundgarden has worked well for us for our big events. Its just the right size. We'll see tho. Had fun drinking w new and old friends and def enjoyed the show. l was running around half the night there just socializing tho lol. Glad l got to check out a new Philly hot spot.
Sat 1pm SteveC and Breslin came over to play Magic the Gathering, cleaned dishes, took out trash and was setting up for our Friendsgiving. Turned on the PS4 for Guilty Gear and friends slowly started coming through. We lit the hookah, had drinks out back and bummed it and ate a lot of chips and artichoke dip Brown brought over. Later on, almost everyone was there and we were within an hour of dinner. Started just flipping a coin, loser does shots. First it was just me vs Hack for 2 shots. Then it just became a thing. Winner got to call the coin flip, loser drinks a shot and becomes the new coin flipper for the next game. If the coin flipper flips the coin and it bounces off the table or is a shitty flip, the coin flipper does a shot. We played for a while and l ended up doing 7 shots..... wtffffff. So usually l dont drink that much anymore. 1-4 drinks is my average for any night lm drinking. But yea.... 7 shots. l was crying. Def felt it tho as l was getting out of hand lol.
Dinner was great and highly inappropriate. We were laughing about so much stuff and lm sure everyone doing 2-6 shots had influence over that. Def fun having a big dinner w everyone and glad so many good friends were able to make it out. Afterwards, relit the hookah and we just chilled and smoked and talked bout tons of stuff for a few hours. Def want to do another big group dinner for the sake of doing it again sometime soon.
Afterwards, me and Domkey hit up DC to party for his birthday along w Ghost and Stelf's birthday. We got MichelleW on the way since we havent caught up in forever and also Ghost just finally opened up Cloak n Dagger Lounge. We hit that up and caught up w a ton of friends. There were a few things that happened that gave me flashbacks. Just the people there, how we were acting... it all felt very 2011. l know that sounds weird but Dom got it too. Got drinks, partied and caught up w tons of different friends. Hit the dance floor and had a good time dancing w Michelle and then back downstairs to drink w everyone for their birthdays. Very fun night and partied till 3am. Dropped off Michelle and me and Domkey crashed at Goofball's.
Sunday woke up and we hit up Bounme's. Just played some Ultra Street Fighter 4 and helped Bounme set up. Friends came through and we stuffed face and omggg pork belly in this sauce Bounme made was ridiculously good. Dipping bread in the sauce and eating it was amazing. l wanted to find a container and bring some home lol. So we started playing more Ultra Street Fighter 4 and to make things fair and fun we started doing random characters.
Later on added on random buttons too so it was more of a crazy button mashable game so it would be somewhat fair for the people who never played before. Goofball's girl even did Akuma's Ultra 1 by accident where the input for that move is pretty specific and l heard everyone in the living room flipping a shit. l guess visually, if you never watched Ultra Street Fighter before, the Ultra animations are pretty epic. That was another good thing about having Mortal Kombat X on at parties was it was hype to watch people play who didnt know what they were doing for shots and it was very easy to use your Xray(your big damaging animation move) by simply pulling both triggers. Was def fun tho and glad Fighting games always brings that kind of fun to get togethers or parties. Played some beer pong for a while too and smoked hookah and stayed till 9ish or so. Thanks Bounme for having us as always. Glad l got to catch up w everyone again. Hit back home and bullshitted before passing out.
Monday got up and did work as some of my clients are becoming more active again. Watching The Men Who Built America on History Channel as it was on all day and even tho l watched all of it, its still fun to watch again.
BAE TOOK ME PHONE BUT DIDNT LEAVE ME ANY NUDES
WTFFFFFFFFF
Late.
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