The Saturday Morning Catcher-Upper

What up ev'rybody?!?! It's a Saturday morning post! This is the first of its kind. I can hardly believe it's true! So, I spose that I'll make like the SAVED BY THE BELL kids and get crackin. . .

First off, I'll completely negate Thursday from my posting, if that's ok. I went to school, (skipped ASTRONOMY) got my ears lowered, and went to work, where I TT and stayed til 2300. Busy day. But not that exciting. . .

So Wednesday. I spent most of the morning/afternoon passing time and just kinda waiting for the events that would transpire that night. It is now that I can reveal my GIGANTIC secret, as the contents are now also on this world wide web. My good buddy, (I do, in fact, call him my "best guy friend" - Heather is my best friend) CYRIL SERRANO surprised us all by arriving home six weeks early from the Philippines. So here's out it went down: Monday night, Heather and I were kicking it, watching TIVO'd AMERICAN IDOL stuff when Mrs. Serrano calls me. She says she is home (his parents were due back in town on Sunday night) and that she has something for me from Cy. Well I say that it's totally cool and to come right on over. She knocks on the door (not right then, but a good 5 minutes or so later. .) and my mom answered it. After they hug and laugh for a second, I head over to greet her. I was eating some dinner (It was a little after 2200 - I had worked that night) and set the plate down on our organ bench. As I was doing so, I heard my mom scream! I look up and I see my buddy round the corner and walk into my house! It was pretty cool how they planned that out. So we gabbed for almost a half hour and then they left, but not before Cy and I began plotting how we would get Justin. And boy, did we get him good too!

Back to Wednesday. Justin came over here for our usual movie-fest around 1730 (he had worked the morning shift at IN-N-OUT) and I suggested that we get some dinner. We headed to PRIMO CAFE (a shout out to a former hostess of PRIMO: Hey Beckybelle!) and sat down and ordered and just caught up on stuff. Our food came and we began to eat. Not too much later, in walks Cy, and he sits down at a big, round table next to the booth that we inhabited. So far, so good. A couple of minutes go by and then he finally leans over, saying, "Do you guys know what's good here?" and I swear that I could have fit a ruler in Justin's mouth (and I mean longways!). I think he was just plain shocked! We laughed, and it was a really great moment. He was almost more surprised that I wasn't going crazy, so I told him my Monday story and why we had to surprise him too. Well we finished our dinners, and then headed to CINEMARK 22 to see, yep you guessed it, FINAL DESTINATION 3. This is the movie that Cy and I have been planning in our own heads since the first sequel came out three years ago. Well we headed in and truly enjoyed ourselves, if that's possible during a teen-killing movie. If you don't know, the story is pretty simple. Basically, some terrible event happens in which a whole bunch of teenagers die (the first movie was an airplane explosion, the second a freeway pileup) in really awful ways. Then you see that it was just a premonition of one central character but that the early events leading up to the disaster happen as they did in the premonition. The character then freaks out, leading others to join them away from the place where the tragedy would occur. Then it happens anyway, but without the few people that removed themselves. Well, as in the movies, Death gets pissed off, and goes after those who "cheated" him (is Death a him? This is stuff I need to know). Chaos and death ensues. So we watched the film and decided that it wasn't the best of the series (that would be FD1) but it would certainly pass. The overall grade is biased a bit, because I'm such a fan of the series, but either way. . Grade: B

After the movie, we went back to Cy's and hung out til midnight or so. Just like old times. Good stuff. . . I had a very similar day yesterday. The only difference was that I was waiting for work, not fun. I went into work at 1600 and was again the only TT until 1700. For a Friday night, we weren't busy. Thus, at 1900, Charlie asked for a volunteer from the TTs to go home. There were three of us, so it seemed rather hasty. But, I decided if someone was going home, it might as well be me. I went to BEST BUY and bought THE WEATHER MAN (Great Nic Cage film) and the debut album from PANIC! AT THE DISCO, a band very similar to one of my favorites, THE ACADEMY IS. . . From there, I headed home, changed, and then headed back to Palmdale to Justin's house. Cy and Kevin joined us a little later and then, by my suggestion, we went to JOHNNY CARINO'S, yes that JOHNNY CARINO'S, for dessert. We each got our own (Justin - Canoli, Cy - Tiramisu, Me - Spamoni, Kevin - Spamoni; reluctantly) and we all enjoyed our dessert and conversation. We left there at 2300 (didn't wanna stay after closing ha ha) and headed back to Justin's til about midnight and then rolled out.

Right now, I figured that I hadn't done this lately and decided I'd do a little pre-WEEKEND GRAB-BAG thingymajig. Well I'm done. And that's that.

Gotta work at 1700 tonight. Gotta make the mula (moolah?). Take care. See ya Sunday. . . Maybe - - -

- - - "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
- - - Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson, of course) in THE SHINING

Later gators,

JUSTIN