12-31-09

Woke up around 7am, decided he'd let me sleep another hour while he left at 7:30 to the store for some groceries. It began snowing before I woke up. When he woke me, I looked out the window into the alley behind me and it looked really neat. I decided to fall asleep and wake up later and take a shower. He arrived while I was in the shower and I got dressed. Tried on a few clothes. Layered up in my sweat pants, jeans, thick socks, Jimmy's shoe-boots, v-neck, long sleeve hard rock cafe shirt, abercrombie jacket, Trinity's wind resistant jacket, gloves, and beanie. Went to the basement to get the discs and headed out the front. Headed out for the walk around 8:30am. Went for a walk along the sidewalk (left) and took a lot of pictures as we walked. Messed around with the shutter speed and settled on 100, great for walking and taking pictures. We went straight to the hill. I wish I took more pictures, everything looked so amazing! The first time we went down we sort of ran and plopped down, hurt my butt. Went down a second time and then moved to the other side of the hill. First was was fun, went pretty fast. Went a second time on my stomach, it was so much fun! Then we walked to the art museum to see the Rocky Steps and take a picture with the Rocky statue. From there, was basically walked around and he showed me a few buildings and told me what they were and I took a few more pictures. Headed home and I stepped out front to get a few more pictures after we dropped off the discs and I saw his other snowboard/Trinity's old bike. We arrived around 11:09am. After coming inside, I went back out real quick to take a few pictures with my phone to send to Ben/Ashley/Mom. Jimmy told me about meeting the cast of The Happening and the story about the clubs and party at 11:25am. We had coffee and pancakes for breakfast just before 11:56am, then went outside to shovel. I either shoveled first or ate first, whichever.

Afterward, we left to go get Trinity's bearded dragon at 12:13pm. First we stopped off at the equivalent of a Walgreens. Trinity had to get toothpaste. Then, we went to Jimmy's old apartment to get some mail that was sent there. After that came the bearded dragon at the pet store, and then a bar place to get champagne, then another place to get apple cider. We arrived home at 2:35pm.

Between 32-35 degrees.

Left for China Town to get Soba noodles and sauce at 2:53pm. It was a pretty decent sight to see. The market we stopped at was fairly interesting, it felt like being in another country. I got to see how they killed fish :S. It took us a while to find the Soba Sauce. Headed home and arrived here at 3:49pm.

When I come home is when I try to post what I've done while I was out. I've obtained a lot of interesting, new information, such as rates for apartments and history. This place seems run down, but historical would be a more precise word. It's expensive, but very nice, very attractive. I totally want to live in the city, up north sometime, at least for a year.

Jimmy's "winter roast" or whatever coffee blend is very tasty, might I add. Camera is dying as I have taken a couple hundred pictures by now! Plenty more to come!

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I pretty much chilled on my laptop and ate the leftover pizza until we were ready to leave at 5:20ish pm. We headed down the street to catch the bus. What a mishap :/ :/ :/

There was a holdup down the road because of a big hotel at a party, our bus driver honked the crap out of some of the people blocking the road. Thanks cop that sped past us and didn't help at all! Anywho, we got dropped off around 5:56ish pm and walked over the the plaza place and the fireworks began. We walked a bit closer and settled to take pictures/record a video. After about 10-15 minutes, we walked home. We hit city hall, I believe, and the subway was closed because the surrounding area was being blocked by police due to the parade tomorrow. Some band was outside rehearsing. We continued to walk, took some pictures of the Vans park, aka the LOVE statue. Decided to finish the walk home and arrived here at 7:14 pm. What a workout! I'm hot and sweaty, and Jimmy ran a few blocks to Rite Aid (a seemingly popular pharmacy store) to get Trinity a battery for her camera. Trinity and I watched the end of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Stay tuned! [Weather was foggy tonight, seems to be a little misty and been stuck between 32-33 degrees)

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Chilled on the laptop for a bit and started watching Into The Wild, Jimmy's favorite movie. It's great! He started cooking our Soba noodles for New Years. Near the end, we paused the movie to eat our dinner. Apparently, you must slurp all the noodles into your mouth before you begin to chew them or it's considered "breaking your luck" for the New Year. It was very tasty, yet spicy!
So then we finished the movie, it was pretty good. We started to watch TV and surf all the channels for the New Years Live shows. Some decent songs/concerts in NYC and the firework show here in Philly. We were at the 6pm show, but the 12pm show was a bit different. In one part of NYC, it was blowing snow all over the place, but in the other, I believe Times Square, it was raining. (Whatever the part with the big Y/fork in the road).

Ben is over at Brittany's now, I think I've sat here for the past hour and twenty three minutes (1:23am) on the laptop and spoke with Ben a few moments ago about the blog. Jimmy is taking a quick nap apparently while Trinity gets ready to leave for the bus/airport. It's been lightly raining for a while now, and it's been ~33 degrees for a few hours. Florida has been ~60-64 degrees. Hmmm. :p

12-30-09

5:02am, 37 degrees - Leaving for Philadelphia, talk to Jimmy most of the way, then fall asleep
6:00am Hello Georgia!
7:27am, 40 degrees - French Toast at good old Cracker Barrel! Just woke up
8:08am - Gas station, learned about Trinity's logbook
8:13am; Back on the road with Trinity driving (stalls a few times, car behind us honks twice :p)
8:32am Good morning South Carolina! Fell asleep shortly after we got onto the interstate.
10:23am, 39 degrees - Rest stop (Just south of Florence) Didn't get out. Some black thugs pulled up and one of them walked out with a huge blanket, lots of bling! I think the white thugd00d was the driver.
10:37am - Leave rest stop, I think I fell asleep at this point
11:23am,41 degrees - North Carolina!
12:44, 38 degrees - JR Rest Stop, went to the bathroom, saw some ugly purple/red fake X-mas trees and looked around for cigars. I remembered being here a while back, then pointed Jimmy to the right direction (the cigar store was on the other side of the building than the cigarrettes. I looked at some books, thought about buying a 1001 spinwheel fact book) I believe I swapped and sat up front at this time.
1:01pm Mobil Gas Station
1:08pm Back on the road
2:16pm, 38 degrees - Virginia
2:35pm, 38 degrees - Long John Silvers. Got a #8, chicken and fries. It was inside a gas station with a Blimpie. The food was okay, but I wasn't very hungry anymore after I ate the chicken. My stomach began to hurt pretty bad. It was so weird sitting inside a gas station right next to the merchandise. Jimmy: "I wonder if they would arrest you if you took the toilet paper off the shelf and walked into the bathroom."
3:10pm - On the road again, I fell asleep, they woke me up to see the snow in the ditch. Sat awake and saw more snow to the right inside the forest. It looked fantastic with all the dead trees!
6:00pm, 34 degrees Maryland/D.C., tons of traffic! Got to see the capital building in the distance while on the bridge. Should have worn my contacts.
7:10pm - Baltimore Harbor Tunnel/toll $2, bright tunnel!
7:35-7:51, 31 degrees - BP/toll $5
8:24pm, 30 degrees - Delaware/toll $4, almost home!
8:55pm, 31 degrees - Pennsylvania
9:30pm Home! So cold outside! I couldn't feel my fingers or face, then my fingers began to hurt! Took 3 trips to bring the stuff inside. The city looks amazing! The apartment building is just as I imagined it, just like the movies! Didn't see any snow, only a very small patch that was pretty icey. Brrrr!

Ordered a HUGE cheese pizza, settled in, watched The Truman Show, talked to Ben on Skype/Meebo, took a shower and registered for this. Headed to bed around 1am I believe.



*Notes from cell phone text msgs
- Told Ashley I was halfway through N.C. @ 1:14pm
- @Google - Searched for Long John Silvers @ 2:23pm (23847)
- Told Ben I was in Long John Silvers, Virginia @ 2:33pm
- Told Ashley I saw snow @ 4:31pm/4:33pm (only a little bit in the ditches)
- Told Ashley I was about ~4-5 hours @ 4:35
- Told Mom I was ~2 hours away @ 7:18pm
- Told Mom/Ashley/Ben I played with a small pile of snow while we stopped at a gas station @ 7:34pm

- Told Ashley 1 hour away @ 8:08pm
- Told Ben I was here at 9:19pm
- Told Ben I was numb @ 9:31pm
- Told Ashley it was like the movies @ 9:38pm

On Facebook:
- Said goodnight to Ben @ 12:46am. G'nite!