Sunday Funday

"Drunk on Miller Lites and Rum n' Cokes is no way to go through life son."  But it's a hell of a way to go through a Sunday.  To be fair, that quote is made up but could have been attributed to anyone who saw me today.  Seeing that Daylight Savings Time just happened last night, I woke up at the ungodly hour of 9:30am.  Normally that would be 10:30 which would give me one and a half hours until football started.  Today I had that extra hour and I didn't know what to do with it.  I had cleaned my apartment the day before.  (Crazy Saturday!!)  Making breakfast for myself takes roughly 18 minutes from start to finish, regardless of what I make.  I contemplated going to Kohl's and trying on a suit for my sister's wedding in March like my mom asked me to do more than two months ago.  Clearly that did not happen.  Instead, I just watched the pregame shows and spent 10 hours watching football games of teams that I do not follow or root for.  Which means that I still have three more hours tomorrow night to root for Da Bears.

I also ended up on Skype with my two sisters and nephew.  My nephew Paddy is 6 months old and a chronic drooler.  I have no idea if many kids are affected with this but Paddy is.  (In a medical context, drooling is called ptyalism.  The more you know!).  He doesn't talk yet, or walk, or stand, or point, or feed himself, or bathe himself, or wipe himself, or change himself, or cook for himself, or drive himself, but I'll be goddamned if he's not entertaining.  I love that motherfucker and can't wait to see him in less than 20 days.  And yes, he supposedly looks like me so it's my job to try and talk him into looking like someone else.  These looks have clearly not worked for me so far.  I'd hate for someone else to be destined with them.
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I've started keeping track of songs that I love but others would probably consider ass.  They are my guilty pleasure songs.  They are as follows:

1) "MakeDamnSure" by Taking Back Sunday- The song resonates with me going back to college.  A few of my roommates would blast the song and call it "extreme talking."  I could not tell you one other song by TBS nor would I ever admit to knowing one.  The lack of spaces in the song title should be enough for me to hate them.  Not to mention their name is godfuckingawful but I can't help but love the song.

2) "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy- This is one of the worst songs ever written.  It also happens to be one of the catchiest.  It also happens to be one of the few songs that pretty much anyone and everyone can agree with.  Who doesn't "want to be a billionaire so fucking bad?"  If I had a billion dollars I would definitely do things differently.  I might even pay someone to wipe my nephew's drool every 20 minutes.  Might.  Anyways, I would like to be a billionaire.  So fucking bad.

3) "Sweet Escape" by Gwen Stefani and Akon- This song became huge over the spring of 2007.  Which was the time five roommates and I decided to drive to Panama City, Florida, for spring break.  This song played on radio stations from Ohio to Florida.  We must have heard this song in every state we went through.  To this day, on the rare occasion I hear this song, I am sent back to spring break '07.  It is both glorious and sad at the same time.  (Cannot believe I've been done with college for 2.5 years.  It seems like just yesterday we were drinking on the roof, or someone was breaking my window, or I was making up excuses to tell my then-girlfriend why I didn't need to show up for work with the ground's department.  Surprisingly, "it was raining" was a good enough excuse for her to not question why I was again staying home.  College was simpler times.)

As this list expands and I realize other guilty pleasure songs, they will be added.
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I've also began creating a list of songs that I can and should perform as karaoke songs.  These are songs that I know most of, if not all, of the lyrics to.  Songs that I could do karaoke to even a cappella.  Again, this is a growing list and will be added to once I realize the thousand other songs I know the lyrics to.

1) "Wonderwall" by Oasis- to be honest, the entire (What's the Story) Morning Glory CD could probably be added here.  It's definitely one of my top ten favorite CDs of all time.  "Don't Look Back in Anger" is probably my favorite song on this CD but "Wonderwall" is the one I am more familiar with..

2) "Take Me Home, Country Road" by "Sunshine on my Goddamn Shoulders" John Denver- This one is recognized due to repetition.  For some reason, which is probably excellent, my dad, his friends and my family have a healthy obsession with John Denver.  I think it is linked to his untimely death in a parasailing hang gliding accident involving the Japanese and the Rocky Mountains.  (Which may or may not be true).  Anyways, JD has achieved cult-like status in the O'D household and we will never forget.  No matter how hard Katie tries.   

3) "Ignition" (Remix) by R. Kelly- forget for a moment (if you can), that R. Kelly (allegedly) peed on an underage girl.  It's hard info to forget, I know.  But if you can look past that (who amongst us hasn't made the same mistake?  Please don't answer that) Robert Sylvester Keller made some excellent music.  And his remix to "Ignition" is the best of the bunch.  Both catchy and easy to follow, I recite the lyrics every time it comes on the radio (very rarely) or on my iTunes (very often). 

4) "Only God Knows Why" by Kid Rock- this song could also be featured as a guilty pleasure, but I love Kid Rock.  His "Devil Without a Cause" CD was one of the first few I bought and also continues to be one of my favorite.  Out of all the songs previously listed, this is definitely my favorite.  (Honestly just rocked out to an a cappella version while writing this.  Still got it.)  Love this song.

Again, as I discover others that can be added, I will do so.  Maybe I'll even sing them for an unsuspecting bar full of strangers.  Fingers are crossed!
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Basketball update: I participated in my second game and the team's fourth game overall.  We are 0-4 and have been outscored by 84 points.  Again, I have missed half of the games so I understand why we have gotten beat so soundly so far.  I have yet to score any points as my stat line for game four was: 0-1-4-2 with no points, 1 rebound, 4-5assists, and 2 fouls.  I only took one shot and my jumper is still very shaky.  I hadn't played competitive basketball in over 11 months and it still shows.  When we shoot around before the game, I routinely air ball EVERY SINGLE SHOT.  I know this is because my legs have atrophied after just sitting around for 10+ months.  Legs are definitely not where they need to be but they felt better than week 1.  And to be fair, I can still touch rim.  If only we played with tennis balls, then I could dunk. 
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Warrior Dash training update: I officially have less than two weeks before the big day, which is November 19th.  I've been running after work to try and get myself into shape.  Running up and down the basketball court helps as well (when I show up).  The trail I run is a few blocks from my office so I've been bringing my running shit to work and going when work is over.  The trail is marked in some locations but not all so I have no idea how much I actually run but my guess is close to a mile for each lap.  Saturday I did THREE laps so that's three miles in my book.  For those wondering, no I do not continuously run for three laps.  I cannot even continuously run for one lap.  The most I've done so far is half of the loop.  Did I mention that after running yesterday, I drank like 12 beers and ate half of a pizza?  That might have something to do with my training failures. 

My training schedule is to run Monday, Tuesday, off on Wednesday, basketball on Thursday, off Fri-Sun.  My training schedule also coincides with my drinking schedule.  I have yet to complete one week of scheduled training, mostly because I've had to miss two basketball games and never made the running up.  Getting down to crunch time though, I will attempt to run pretty much every day.  Key word is attempt. 

I will complete the Dash.. I will complete the Dash.  I will complete the Dash.. This is what I recite to myself over and over.  The Dash is my Everest.
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