So apparently the thing to do is to post your Christmas Lists.
OK.

A King Sized Bed.
King Sized Bed Sheet Sets.
THE Kitchen Island from IKEA. HERE
Three Room Humidifier.
Old Navy/Ikea/Home Depot/Highspots Gift Cards.
Cooking and Bakeware.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2).
Katamari Damacy (PS2).
Hold 'Em Poker/General Casino Game (GBA).
Decent sized Tabletop Toolbox .

Well that was a long time without having to work.

Tuesday was Sara and I's third anniversary. Went to the Mundeline Gale Street Inn and it sucked. Apparently it has nothing to do with the real Gale Street Inn downtown. I hope not since, I've heard that place rocked, and this place stunk. Ran to Jewel to get some decent dessert, and headed home to partake in some yummy desert, some wine/cider, and Shrek2.
Wednesday watched more of the TPI (a running theme since it takes a while to get through 6 DVDs) and had a pretty lazy day, while the snow fell outside. Cleaned house here and there, Got Sara's network card in her computer and got her hooked onto the net. Finished out the night watching parts of Duplex, Coffee & Cigarettes, and falling asleep during Brother Bear.
Thursday, I decided to do Thanksgiving at her parents house. So most of the day was spent there. It was nice and it was good. I like yummy food.
Friday we putzed around for a bit and finally got TPI finished, before heading off to Indiana to visit my family. Before leaving we checked on Sara's Jeep which was in the shop. She found out it's going to be $850 if she wants to repair the back hatch door of her Jeep. She's still not sure if she will. Then we head to Indiana. Apparently my Aunt and Uncle are there too, but they're soon to go off to visit old friends, so I just hang out with Mom, Dad, Lynda and the kids. Steven is even bigger, the kid is huge, and Rachel just chats up a storm. I stupidly never took pictures of the kids, even though I brought the camera. Then that night I help grade papers while we watch Breakfast Club with my Dad.
Saturday, had some breakfast before my aunt & uncle left, then showered up and headed to my sisters to play with the kids a bit before heading back home. The drive sucked as it was raining pretty good, and traffic wasn't the best. We then go out to do some shopping, as I try to grab things that were on after-Thanksgiving Friday & Saturday sale late at the end of Saturday. Needless to say those attempts all came up empty handed, and things that were needed from Target were all that I came home with. Good thing I had most of my Christmas shopping done already, because I tried to buy 5 separate things and every one came up a goose egg. Luckily Live Band Karaoke with Larry and Phil wasn't a goose egg. Fun times had once again on the Live Band Karaoke tip.
Sunday, a trip to get wrapping paper and a couple things from the store, turned into a big Grocery store extravaganza, then I wrapped presents while watching the July ROH Chicago show. Made some dinner, read some sale papers. Then Sara finds out that she gets her sister's old computer since she got a new one. So I'll be taking the network card out of hers and putting it in this one (if it needs it). But I still sent copies of all of her files over to my computer, so it can be put on the new computer once hooked up.
Now today is Monday, and it was difficult to get up, and I'm still tired, but I'm sitting here writing this and not working, so YAY!

Another weekend report

Rock Rock On.
Friday Sara and I met Dina and Heather out at Rainbow's in Highwood for drinks. Twas fun. Dina gave us placemats, they are delightful. Easy, fun night.
Saturday clean up the house. We finally got the spare bedroom all cleaned up, and got the sewing table Up In There (up in there, Y'all gonna make me lose my mind). Started going through my tapes to get ready for my massive Ken Clearing House Sale. I went through just my unwatched tapes, and I'm keeping probably about 30, and gonna sell about 140. So with that just being the unwatched, and the Keep:Sell ratio being even more on the sell side on the already watched stuff, I think I'm looking at selling probably around 400 tapes. Then I got ready to head out to wrestling. Went and grabbed lunch with Sara at BoBos, and off to Larry's house. Then he drove on out to Indiana for some pre-IWA Round the Clock action. I got the Tour of Italy, with Lemon Rice as my soup, and Orange Sherbet as my Dessert (notice only one R in Sherbet! :) ) . Then it was off to the show. Usual good fare of IWA, not on par with the exceptional shows of late, but definitely the usual high quality IWA show. As always enjoyable times hanging with the boys before during and after the show. Then Larry took me to a house party. Real good time had. Met many a current local wrestling personality, all were enjoyable. A fun time, and my old man self hadn't been out that late in a while. Was kind of refreshing. Got home a touch shy of 6am.
Sunday, woke up relatively early, considering the previous night, to head up to Kenosha to the outlet malls. Firstly we wanted to get to the Old Navy in Gurnee, since we were going through Old Navy withdrawl. Got some work pants, and a T-Shirt with some Rock-on horns, and then went the rest of the way up to Kenosha. Picked up a couple things for people, got rechargable batteries for the digital camera, got new headphones for the PIMP, got a pizza stone. Stopped at Gino's East on the way home, and was nearly sleeping in the booth. Once I got home, I couldn't sleep though, so watched Natalie Portman's Inside the Actor's Studio (HOTT!) and some Food Network Thanksgiving stuff. Then finally went to sleep.
I'm awesome and took Wednesday and Friday off, so today is the last workday of the week. Today's also Sara and I's third anniversary, so YAY. Going to Gale Street Inn tonight for dinner to celebrate.

Who doesn’t wanna work!!!!!
I’m feeling much better now, I’m cool.

Starting time: 2:40 pm.
Full Name: Kenneth Andrew Dreiling.
Sex: Male.
Birthday: 05-18-76.

Name four animals you like:
01) Elephants.
02) Monkeys (the kind in a Barrel).
03) Bears (only if they’re Care Bears).
04) Badgers, Wisconsin.

Name four television shows you love:
01) I’m digging the shit out of Motormouth.
02) Raw.
03) Inside the Actor’s Studio.
04) Celebrity Poker Showdown.

Name four bands/groups you like that most people don't know you like:
01) I have absolutely no problem at all with N*Sync.
02) Most People reading this don’t know I own 36 Beastie Boys CDs.
03) I don’t really know why noone wouldn’t know why I would like most people I like.
04) I dig old & middle school Hip-Hop, 3^rd Wave Ska, Early Pop Punk, and Irish Punk.

Name four drinks you regularly drink:
01) Diet Coke.
02) Strongbow English Dry Cider.
03) Hardcore Cider.
04) Caffeine Free Diet Coke (on school nights).

Name four random facts about yourself:
01) 95% of the time I wear Khakis and a Polo to work.
02) I grew up far-sighted, I’m now near-sighted.
03) Diabetic.
04) I once caught Planter’s Warts from a Rented Roller Skate.

Name four random facts about your family:
01) I have a new nephew.
02) Mom and Dad are divorced but still do everything as if they’re married.
03) My sister and I have the exact same face, minus our own individual scars.
04) Of the 4 immediate family, it ends up where 3 of us all have the same day of the week as our birthday every year.

Have you ever...
01) fallen for your best friend? Nope .
02) made out with just a friend? Yep.
03) been rejected? Yep.
04) been in lust? Yep.
05) used someone? Nope.
06) ever been used? Yep.
07) cheated? Nope.
08) been cheated on? Nope.
09) done something you regret? Nope.
10) can you list a few of them? Not if I answered no, I can’t.

The last person you...
01) you touched? Sharon, in the hallway, I almost ran over her.
02) you talked to? Sue, from the office asked me a question.
03) you kissed? Sara.
04) you instant messaged? I don’t really IM as much as I chat.
05) you yelled at? Playingly Sara.
06) you laughed with? Probably the lunchroom.
07) you had a crush on? I guess that’d be Sara.
08) you played a game with? Wow, um I have no clue, probably by myself on the computer.
09) you emailed? CW guys.

Do you...
01) color your hair? Not since college.
02) have tattoos? Barrel of Monkeys and Trunk-to-Tail Elephants.
03) have piercings? 7 Earholes.
04) wear boxers or briefs/panties or thongs? Boxer Briefs, yo.
05) like to groove to the music? But of course.
06) think you are cultured? Like Yogurt, ewwww.
07) have a boyfriend or girlfriend? Yes I do.
08) like to drive fast? Yes I do.
09) believe in god or devil? In the Possibility, yes; Probably, no.
10) believe in the closet monster? Yes I do.

Random.
01) What should you be doing right now? Working, Entering paychecks, specifically.
02) what are you listening to? Not a thing except the tappy tappy of keyboard keys.
03) can you do anything freakish with your body? I make lots of crackly noises when I walk.
04) chicken or fish? Chicken.
05) favorite season? Autumn.
06) is ice cream the greatest thing? No, Ice Cream Cake is.
07) what would your dream date be? Nice Dinner, and then really lounging in happiness.
08) single flower or a dozen? Three, then Dozen, then Single.
09) silver, gold or platinum? Silver.
10) candle lit dinner in a restaurant or at home? Home, I’m a homebody that hates going out.
11) roses or wild flowers? Roses.
12) silly or serious romance? Silly.
13) marvin gaye or barry white? Marvin, definitely.
14) do you consider yourself a romantic? Not particularly.
15) watched a sunrise/sunset? Sunset.
16) what cd is in your cd player right now? Ken’s Summer of ’04 Mix Disc #7.
17) favorite disney character? Winnie the Pooh.
18) favorite fast food? Taco Supreme from Taco Bell with Fire and Mild Sauce.
19) favorite book? Tao of Pooh.
20) favorite sports team? Purdue Boilermakers College Football.
21) favorite song? That I heard today on the way to work, “If I Only Had a Brain” – MC 900 Ft. Jesus.
22) what room is your computer in? The Shamrock Shake Room. This work computer is in my office.
23) what is your shoe size? 10.
24) happy or scary movies? Happy.
25) what will you be when you grow up? I don’t wanna, but I’ll probably ole fuddy duddy accounting boy.

Time finished: 3:07 pm

It's a Great Day

I was hit by an SUV, while walking to work this morning.

A Hello to our new friends...

Hello dear friends, all of you that independently of each other got here by searching
"Lindsey Lohan feet pics"
"lindsey lohan concert"
"lindsey logan boobie"
"how to style hair like lindsey lohan"
"Lindsey Lohan Speak"
"Lindsey Lohan Tattoo"
"lindsey lohan dating"
"lindsey lohan wall paper"
"lindsey lohan oops"
"lindsey lohan set tape"
"lindsey lohan cd speak"

Then the one that got here by searching
"nott sex swinger's party"

There's the usual people getting here by searching for a "Canadian Destroyer video", and "wrestling torrents", and "Flogging Molly bit torrents"

Someone got here by searching for
""Kankakee Valley High School" Prom"

And the one who really wanted
"Wrestler's pictures Hillbilly Jim"

I have no clue how the person that wanted this got here
"games for toch screen organizers" hell, I don't even know what a toch is :)

Apparently someone thinks that during a match once that
""abdullah the butcher" bladed", I can't possibly believe that to be true.

Some people want to know about "egotisto fantastico" and also about "shag haircut" or even "picture of taylor stubblefield" or "cu" or "li"

"Large Sofa/Foyer Table from Homestar Furniture" might be one of the more odd ones to get people here, and I was the first of only two entries that came up in that yahoo search.

Someone foreign really wants to know about "pissporno"

"Outkast pitbulls" always gets someone to my blog every couple of weeks, as does "pitbulls for sale in Chicago".

But "Chappelle's Show Lita" I have no clue how that works.

The journey, and then the survey.

Hey, how about you come on the trip through the Blogs with me c'mon (Start time 4:01)

First one: http://health-insurance-advice6.blogspot.com/
It's a health insurance advice blog, no surveys here.

http://stravinskyss.blogspot.com/
Stravinsky's Sizzlin' Shack, yo. Word. He's from Bahrain, skimming through I think he's at a US university though.

http://viaportobarcelona.blogspot.com/
This one's from Portugal, I can't read it. Apparently he recently got drunk, some of his friends are pretty cute though.

http://pongtoplaystation.blogspot.com/
Apparently this started as a guy's blog for his class, but it's basically an I play video games blog, it's no Another Castle. Than again nothing is.

http://mob_usn_wife.blogspot.com/
This blog is from a lady whose husband was deployed by the Navy

http://traseru.blogspot.com/
This is from some freshman college chick, sorry no pics.

http://pagesofmydailystuff.blogspot.com/
This is a one-post blog from a girl that likes to eat ribs.

http://mastersoftheobvious.blogspot.com/
This is one of those four people blogs, but they haven't really said anything yet in five posts.

http://instantefragmentado.blogspot.com/
A Brazilian one. I can't read it either.

http://snow-portal.blogspot.com/
This has random things about snow plows and the such, odd.

http://chaotrope.blogspot.com/
Here's their blip: The authors are hippie pinko grad students in science who live in Chicago. This blog is designed to document the most bizarre period in American history. Their most recent entry included Red Sox and Elections, what a suprise!

http://indigenousnut.blogspot.com/
One-post blog, but it started today.

Then my mozilla started saying I couldn't redirect, so I started over again from Wacy's Blog.

http://avclub.blogspot.com/
So there really are AV club geeks, oh well they have their favorite Firefox Extensions linked.

http://thomaspayne22.blogspot.com/
This guy liked Foley's new book, and the new Mortal Combat game. Not much else though, except he thinks Kerry will win next year's election???

http://steadyblogging.blogspot.com/
Apparenly this was set up last night?

http://kurtlarkonseyi.blogspot.com/
This one has umlautes (sp) and c's with tails. I can't read it.

http://skiresortinfo.blogspot.com/
Need any info on a ski resort?

http://writingmyheartout.blogspot.com/
Some chick in Seattle, pissed that Bush won...

http://thelifeilead.blogspot.com/
His starts out: I'm a gay liberal, in case you haven't noticed already, living in the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro area.

http://utterlyjunk.blogspot.com/
Some High School kid whose title for the blog is "What's So Bad About Nazis?"

http://scra.blogspot.com/
This is where some guy that's happy Bush won puts his rough drafts, what he's drafting for, I don't know.

I start to wonder if I'll find a survey.

http://cuandosetienetodoynada.blogspot.com/
I can't even read the name, let alone anything in the blog.

http://garmor.blogspot.com/
More non-English, except I could read Four More Years.

http://genevievesplace.blogspot.com/
Some Canadian Chick named Jen with an Eyeore icon, I thought for sure she'd have a survey. (If she does, it's not on the first page, which is all I'm checking)

http://thenamelessfaceless.blogspot.com/
This starts with her finding an old letter written to herself in a business class, she's Pakistani.

http://houseofwarwick.blogspot.com/
Apparently this guy is an IT guy or something???

Almost 4:30 and still haven't found one.
Our server sucks so I reset it.
Then I had to cut two quick checks, neither made out to me :(

http://leugimnet.blogspot.com/
A Peruvian blog with a Halloween pentagram pic.

http://lawnorder.blogspot.com/
Some guy that's very liberal and proud of it.

http://asminhaspalavras.blogspot.com/
Portugese, and unreadable by me.

http://alentejomagazine.blogspot.com/
Portugal and unreadable, suprise. Everything is either non-english or political. Doesn't anyone blog for fun anymore.

http://fumblingforward.blogspot.com/
Apparently there is, some guy from Cali.

http://leianne.blogspot.com/
Phillipino and unreadable by me.

I FOUND ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://heavymetalmachine.blogspot.com/
The first post talks about the radio stations on the new GTA game that I'll eventually get.
The second post is some sort of survey here we go:
Damn it it's one of those for people to put up, and get responses, so that's a no go, I want to answer some.
But he had one later that I can change up words to make my own.

1. My favorite person is Sara
2. I have no tolerance for stupidity.
3. My favorite potato chips are None, I don't like potato chips, I like chips of the corn kind.
4. My favorite video game genre is puzzle.
5. My favorite country is unknown, since I've only made short visits to any other than my own.
6. My favorite non-alchoholic drink is Diet Coke.
7. When dancing, I prefer to party to Fatboy Slim
8. I own a lot of wrestling videos.
9. I one day wish to own Nissan Altima.
10. My favorite video game series is the GTA games.
11. ...but I despised the target shooting in Vice City that kept me from 100%
12. My favoritve band is still Flogging Molly.
13. I like to eat at Flattop Grill.
14. The Killers should get known by me before I have any judgement on them
15. I like Thai foods.
16. My favorite appetizer will always Cheese Sticks
17. My favorite soup is Lemon Rice.
18. I think Jennifer Love Hewitt is one of the most beautiful women alive.
19. I despise plants.
20. I collect
21. My Senior trip didn't exist.
22. My favorite online comic is Dr. Katz.
23. My favorite website is ITVR.
24. I love Garlic anything.
25. I like my coffee nonexist.
26. Crispix is my cerial of choice.
27. My favorite shoe brand is Adidas.
28. My favorite clothing brand is Old Navy.
29. I own a set of cheap bongos
30. I own a shoe signed by Natalie Merchant
31. I cannot stand Friends.
32. My favorite Television show is Curb Your Enthusiasm.
33. My favorite Anime is I guess Dr. Katz
34. My favorite film is Swingers.
35. I like the color Purple (not The Color Purple).
36. I wish to be a Wrestler.
37. I draw Comma-man.
38. I hate cats.
39. I live in Chicago's far north Suburbs.
40. On ocasion, flip-flops.
41. I have a (rather impressive) amount of wrestling videos. (well over 500)
42. I collect any Wrestling memorabelia I can get my hands on.
43. I still fiddle around with my Barrel of Monkeys every now and then.
44. My favorite game period is Nintendo start. (PSone)
45. I have a Sentra.
46. I have a diabetes.
47. I have a tattoo or two.
48. My parents have confiscated nothing, I'm old.
49. I one worked at Renfrow's for a short period of time.
50. I was originally going to write 100 facts...but...meh, instead I copied 50 :).

I don't wanna work right now.

OK it's 4pm. I'm going to see the Beastie Boys tonight. And I'm to antsy to want to work. So I've decided I want to do one of the survey memes, why I don't know, but it'll kill time. So I've decided from my blog, I'm going to use Blogger's little button that sends you to the next random blog, and I'm going to keep hitting that until I get to somebody's site that has a survey meme, and then I'm going to do it. I have no clue what'll happen here, and that's half the point, be back at ya in a bit.

Huh? I have a blog?

Yes dear sweet Blog readers, I've left you hanging for too long. Let's just forget about the times I've left you hanging and go right back into Weekend Updates!!!!

Friday, got home from work and ran to Home Depot to buy the parts for the closet unit I'm putting in the next day. Then cooked some dinner and carved some pumpkins with Sara and her sister. Then went out to the Cubby Bear North and hung out with Larry watching some live band karaoke. Found out Larry's sister is Sara's sister's best friend. Crazy small world and such.

Saturday, put the closet rods and shelves up and it was easy and fun. I went to go return some unused parts and pick up a couple extra bits just to make things extra secure, and Northwestern ended up scoring late and beating Purdue. I swear if I actually watch a full game again they'll win it. Had Chipotle for the first time, it was delightful, I think it's the super fluffy rice that makes it so good, plus the meat is well flavored. Then I tried to install the ceiling fan, sadly this wasn't as fun and smooth as the closet. It took a few frustrating hours figuring out how to get the old one down. I also spilled about a cup of oil from the motor onto myself and the floor in that process. Then I notice there is one more wire than I understand there is supposed to be coming out of the ceiling. I hooked up the fan, assuming that the the two odd colored wires if together would be a single black wire. Sadly that isn't the case as the fan does not work. I don't go with Sara and Nifer to their friend's Halloween party, and continue to work on it. Finally I just give up on the fan, and get in the shower, to go out for a few drinks with Sara and Nifer after they left the party because they weren't really digging it. We went to Champp's and a few and then called it a night.

Sunday we go to Leona's for I'm looking to enjoy their big Sunday brunch as a bit of a celebration for selling my condo. Unfortunatly the Leona's out by us doesn't do the brunch. So we go with our favorite breakfast place out that way Max & Benny's. It was good as always, and I ran into ex-co-worker David Himel there and exchange some pleasantries. Then it's off to Sara's parents house, because we're going to borrow their van to go buy the dressers we like at Dania (I gave links to dressers we're getting a few posts back) In another shortcoming of the day, they don't have any in stock, so we're going to be getting them next Friday. So we return the van, and head out to Jamba Juice to use the free smoothie coupon that Larry gave me the other day, and putz around a bit at the stores nearby. Then back home for me to give candy to the trick or treaters, and for Sara to head to Nifer's parent's house. For Jason's birthday thing. I get 6 rings of the doorbell and a total of 11 trick or treaters (I had four bags of candy, since I had no clue how busy the neighborhood gets.) Of the eleven trick or treaters I got only one saying "Trick or Treat" and I recieved only one "Thank you". Kids these days. I tells ya. Fuck 'em. But I did get to watch a bunch of things off of our OnDemand, I watched a few episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and episode of O'Grady, an old Bill Hicks HBO One Night Stand. I also watched a bit of the IWA 2003 KOTDM Q&A. Then Sara came home from the gathering with some Italian Beef sandwiches for us, so I made some corn and potatoes to go with it, and we ate dinner and watched Honey on OnDemand.

Yesterday I actually watched some Raw and it wasn't that bad. Today on the train I watched some of CZW Trifecta 2, now that sucked big time, I'm two thirds the way through it and I've only watched all of one match (Nate Webb vs. Jigsaw vs. Excalibur) , I pretty much only downloaded it because I heard the Chris Hero vs. B-Boy Ironman Title match was good. So I have that to look forward to on the train. Speaking of trains I'm an idiot. I was going to drive into work today, because I didn't have time to change my voter registration to Vernon Hills, so I could vote in Rogers Park. I remembered that halfway to Chicago on the train. We were told we could get to work late because of voting, but we're not allowed to leave early. So I won't be able to vote and get back up to Vernon Hills, nor will I have time to get to my car, and drive back down to Roger's Park either. Not to mention my Mom is coming to the house this evening means I don't get to vote.