The "Poang, Ektorp and Lack " EntryDate: 23 July 2006 Climate: Bearable. Eating: French Fries and Onion Rings at Johnny Rockets 20 minutes ago Drinking: Fanta Orange Soda Feeling: Lethargic. Listening to: Putamayo Presents: Paris Watching: Turner and Hooch. Reading: The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Stern, summer reading list. Eduardo and I have developed what could end up being a pretty bad habit of sleeping very late on Sundays, staying awake for 3-4 hours, and then sleeping for another 2 or 3, which is precisely what occurred this afternoon. In truth, its understandable why we were so tired as yesterday was a crazy Ikea orientated day, punctuated with Julie's presence - always welcomed - and of course, an obligatory stop at Stir Crazy as we were in Schaumberg...yesterday it really was all Schaumberg, all the time. After visit #1 to Ikea, Julie had bought
POANG:
And I was going back with appropriate automobile to get
EKTORP and LACK:
After a delicious lunch, we went to Eduardo's home and traded the shuttle for his mother's massive Lexus SUV,a/k/a Jay - Z. Most of the ride was spent trying to figure out how to use the various bells and whistles, and as i said to Eduardo, I felt like Jay-Z. We loaded up this truck like vessel with a new chair and coffee table and headed downtown to my abode - dropped off the new furniture and then sat in traffic for 50 minutes to drop Jay-Z off and pick up the shuttle but after spending about 3 hours on suburban back up and traffic downtown, getting back in the car wasn't so appetizing. So we rested (of course) for about an hour, then went to Trader Joe's to get dinner supplies (his mother hasn't been home in about two weeks and much to my dismay, with only his brother, father, and Eduardo at home, it's become the epitome of a guy's only residence). No food and that there is is fully of fungus and mold. After the trip out, resulting also in an ice cream sandwich show down between the garden variety - can purchase at Blockbuster - kind v. Dairy Queen sandwich (resulting in the triumphant loss of the DQ brand), we made our dinner and cleaned out his fridge and watched Turner and Hooch. Eduardo is now obsessed with getting a French Mastiff, formal name: Dogue de Bordeaux, which resulted in many scenarios of "Dogue de Bordeaux v. Pitbull...Dogue de Bordeaux v. Bulldog" and on and on. We finally arrive home at around 12:30 AM and then proceeded to set up the Ikea furniture which concluded, after obligatory re arranging, at 2am.
Today we slept until noon, spent three hours awake, slept until 530, and then walked to Johnny Rockets for diner fare...now we're back and I must say my apartment is much more conducive to just...being there than it was, which is good, be/c once I start law school, I imagine i'll be here quite a bit.
The best part of the weekend is Eduardo and i have decided, if our family's don't give us too much flack, to spend Christmas/New Years in Spain! I am so excited, I just had to use that annoying ! point but really, I have wanted to go to Spain for quite some time, and seeing as I'll be on an academic year schedule again, I'll be able to spend some time abroad over the holidays/January period...my hope, of course, is to catch a REAL MADRID game...yes, please.
