December 22, 2008
This weekend CTS and his gf Larissa came into town to hang out in Fort Worth. Haley had all of these aspirations of super cool stuff we were planning on doing, like some ice bar in Dallas that is made completely of ice, with ice slides, cool ice shot glasses, and ice everything. This sounded like a pretty cool idea, though kinda cold. Anyways, we didn’t do any of that.
They missed their flight getting in on Friday night so were only able to stay Saturday night and leave Sunday afternoon, since one of the group is an official working person (gg). When they got in we didn’t really have a plan, so went to the mall for some xmas shopping. I hadn’t done ANY xmas shopping up to this point, so I figured I would get some of it out of the way. I never really know what anyone wants, so I end up doing a lot of gift cards, which I think are generally appreciated more than an unwanted item. I got my sister a hair color cut thing which is actually pretty damn expensive. Apparently for women they need more than some electric clippers and 5 minutes.
My family does a gift exchange with each other every xmas in florida, where my grandmother, aunt uncle and cousins live. I drew my cousin Marla, who just had her second kid a few weeks ago (congrats). She likes ann taylor loft so I picked her up a gift card there. For those of you guys who don’t know what the ATL is, it’s a girl store. Now you know. I got my parents a new computer, though not at the mall. Their computer is like 4 years old, and takes about 6 minutes to turn on, then another 5 to make the little sand timer thing go away next to the mouse so u can click stuff, then once you do, another 3 minutes per application, including webpages. I think they will be pretty happy with it.
The girls went into Victoria Secret and me and Cole walked around aimlessly trying to find jackets since it was all of a sudden 28 degrees in TX. We walked by one of those roasted nut places, and I couldn’t resist. Haley’s parents love chocolate stuff, so I picked up a big tin of chocolate covered pecans and almonds, which I made sure to sample and they were amazing. I also got some cinnamon toasted almonds for walking around, and they were also fantasmical.
We had dinner at Simply Fondue that night, which is easily one of my favorite places to eat. You never think eating fondue will fill you up, but after a salad, 2 enormous bowls of cheese, lots of meats cooked in peanut oil, and 2 giant bowls of chocolate with brownies, angel food, bananas, rice crispies, and marshmallows to dip, hunger isn’t really the first thought.
After dinner one of my buddies from frat days was having a little shin dig, so we headed over there to hang out and have a drink. We weren’t planning on staying long, but ended up having a lot of fun. Cole and I headed out to the garage for some icy beer pong, and lost our first game to some mystical beerpong masters. It was unreal. We stood outside sweating the first game for like 30 minutes as no1 could make the last cup, and then we show up and get beat within 7 minutes. It was awful. We declared insta-rematch and got our revenges. We also won the next 2 games to finish 3-1 before my hands started to rot off from the cold. I was happy with the result.
We went back I guess around 4 or so and went our separate ways. The next morning I woke up at like 1130, and tried calling Haley to see if she wanted lunch. No answer. I called her again at 2, to make sure she was awake to grab food with cole and larissa, no answer. I called her again at 330 and she finally picked up all groggy like and I was like hahaha u were sleeping whole time. What a bum.
Anyways, we went to del friscos pretty early at 445 as they had a flight at 8 or so, and airport is about 30 mins away. We ate in fast mode, but had some great food, crabcakes were amazing as always. We passed on the wine since we were in quick mode, and didn’t have enough room for dessert. I told cole the night before that the del friscos crabcakes were the best ive ever had, and he was like ‘WHOAH WHOAH high praise im from Maryland area we are better at that’ etc etc. Seems like he enjoyed them though.
We took em back to the airport with plenty of time to make the flight. All in all a great trip. They also gifted us some ridiculously cool advent calendars, conveniently only like 3 days before xmas, so there is lots of chocolate to eat (how awful [I love fat mode]). After dropping them off I met up with Mario, his little bro, and Mike Graves for some bowling at a place near the airport. I hadn’t seen any of them in a while and it was a lot of fun. We were pretty tired from the weekend experiences, but it was good to see everyone.
OK so I may have blogged about it earlier I don’t remember, but I reinjured my shoulder a little bit a couple weeks ago drilling takedowns at jiu jitsu. I fell kinda awkward with all the pressure on my elbow and my shoulder did a slip out pretty bad, and damaged a lot of muscles and nerves and stuff around it. I thought it had healed up pretty well until last night. I even managed to play some volleyball and basketball the other day with minimal pain, only extreme soreness when I woke up the next morning. But yea I hurt it initially in high school during baseball season, and doc said it would heal up 75%, be a little loose, etc if I didn’t have surgery, but if I had it, I would be probably 100% after a 12-18 months. I was like whoahhh 12-18 screw that, so never had surgery, quit baseball, and insert poker.
Anyways, the other night I had a dream I was at jiu jitsu and this guy was talking mess, and then he hit me, so I hit him and he like did some kinda flying shoulder lock and it ripped my shoulder out of socket. It was extremely painful, and I woke up and the pain didn’t go away.. I was like ok wtf is going on, and I was sort of in tears and I couldn’t really move my arm. I was like ahhhhhh and realized it must have dislocated or something during sleep. I jerked it back to where it needed to be and got out of bed. This was all extremely painful and very odd to me, as I had never experienced something like this.
I am pretty much anti doctor and medicine and stuff unless it’s for extreme cases, so I try to avoid going whenever possible. I think it might be time for me to go get this checked out again. Likely, the doc will tell me exactly what he told me 4.5 years ago, that I could have surgery that will put me out for 12-18 months, or I can just let it heal and itll be loose and not 100% but feel fine for the most part. Meh.
I am pretty much done with my college app stuff, I just have to send everything in. I wrote some really cool essays, and think I should have a good shot at getting into all the schools I applied to. If I don’t, well, I will likely do something drastic like take a 4 month romp around new Zealand or something on a bicycle. That does sound pretty sweet though, so all will not be lost.
-David Benefield
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