Perpetual state of D

It seems as though our alphabet dating has come to a standstill. There are so many "D" things we wanted to do that we've decided to get them all out of our system before we move on to "E". I am sure this breaks the alphabet dating rules somehow but we're doing it anyway.

On Friday night, Jesse and I went to Studio Grill for dinner and a movie. My brother had told me about how neat the place was and we knew we needed to upgrade the Alamo Drafthouse for a classier dining/theater experience. "D" became dinner & a movie, a classic dating choice. We decided on Bruno, expecting to laugh harder than we did for Borat but left feeling violated and offended. It takes a lot to offend Jesse and let me tell you, he was VERY offended after watching the movie. "D" then took the form of "disturbing dinner & a movie". After wards, we met up with John and Ashley at Howl At The Moon, a bar in the Midtown area. Initially, I felt uncomfortable being in a place full of people in their 30's and watching them go crazy on the piano bar and playing thumper in the corner. I still need to adjust to the city life and being around people of all ages; not expecting the same pastel filled scene at the local college hangout.

I sure do miss you, Scruffy's.

People watching there was our entertainment for the night and we ended up having a great time. We still, however, felt the D date was a bust and felt we could have done so much more with it...which takes us to this weekend, D date part II. We have quite a few options for this weekend:

Free Salsa Dancing Lessons at the Aquarium during "Latin Beats". This will REALLY be Jesse and I doing something different!

Or Mixer & Elixirs at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Friday night. It's $15 to get in and you can enjoy live entertainment and food amongst the dinosaurs. There's a cash bar and for $8 more you can watch a movie in the planetarium.

Check out how much fun everyone is having around the well lit dinosaur!

I've been wanting to go to both all summer long...we might just do both Friday night! In other news, I saw that my first law school assignment is online and waiting for me to get started on. I'm so excited to finally be able to learn ONLY about subjects that I'm interested in. I am a little nervous though, the assignment stated that if your last name begins with the letters A-C then you should be fully prepared to lead the discussion in class. Uh-oh...that means ME! Yikes! I have exactly 5 weeks to prepare myself to get called on and I want to make sure I impress my Criminal Law professor...maybe I should start now? No way, it's SUMMER! I'll start after my trips to El Salvador and Thailand (keeping my fingers crossed on that one).

Stay classy, bloggers.

Julio Happenings

Not a lot has happened since my last post. I got a MacBook Pro, and as I was setting it up I remember being really excited about blogging on it. I've had it for a few weeks now and haven't even thought about blogging until today. I have been tweeting more than usual, though. Aside from finding out that I have a number of holes in each retina and may have to get lasers shot in my eye to prevent me from going blind, the most eventful day so far has been July 3rd. I'm lame and didn't do anything extraordinary on the 4th...my bad. Last Friday I kept busy with two things: Warped Tour and cheering DaNae to victory in the Miss Texas pageant.

Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of most of the bands at Warped...I only went to see Innerpartysystem. There were a few other bands that I wanted to check out but they weren't good live at all. Anti-Flag and Thrice were alright. As for the oh-so-popular 3Oh!3, I suggest you put your "303's" down and just listen to them on the radio. Def not worth seeing live. This was my second time to see IPS and they did not disappoint. They're so freakin' good. If you haven't heard their music, go to their Myspace page. I got to talk to the guys and really wanted to go see them again at Warped in Dallas but I ended up not making it out there.

Download IPS right now! So hot!

Speaking of Dallas (Arlington to be exact)...my good friend DaNae Couch recently competed in the Miss Texas Pageant and was 1st runner-up. I'm so proud of her and wish I could have been there to cheer her on in person. Jesse and I watched the competition via webcast instead of going on our D date; which was supposed to be dancing lessons but I guess I can be lazy and bend the rules a bit and make D stand for DaNae. Ha! I bet she'd love that. Like Luis said in his saweeet blog Saturdays, I usually think pageants are really boring. It would have been if it wasn't for DaNae's stunning gown and amazing twirling act! Or maybe it just flat out would have been boring if I had no one to cheer for on there. So maybe she wasn't exactly victorious because she didn't win the whole thing, but she went the farthest than any other newbie has in a very long time. "If you're not first, you're last" - she was FIRST runner-up...so there. DaNae wins in my book!

I want to do something. Like actually DO something not just go to shows and go to work with my dad. I feel like I've just been killing time instead of valuing the time off I have before law school starts. Here's a mini list I have compiled of things I am interested in doing (keyword interested because I am lazy and probably won't get around to doing them):

• Visit Audrey and Steven in Thailand. Now, I'm not too lazy to do this..the flights are just so expensive!
• Visit Mary in St.Louis. Flights are cheap, I have no excuse not to go!
• Go to Rockport with Lindsey and Kristen.
• Do something to my hair....

So this list is more like places I want to go to rather than things I want to do. Oh well. **I'll edit this post later this afternoon and ad pics from Warped and Miss Texas.

C is for CRAWFISH

I love our alphabet dates! This past weekend we ate POUNDSSSSS of crawfish at our new eatery Off The Hook Seafood. It's off of Westheimer a few blocks after Addicks Clodine going towards 1464. My dad's friend's sons own it and said his sons boil the best crawfish in town. He wasn't kidding! The rest of their menu seems limited but it is enough for a new restaraunt (they've only been open for a month). Try their crawfish queso and pad thai (sp?)...you WILL NOT be disappointed. It's family owned/run and they seriously are some of the nicest people I have ever met. Check them out at Off The Hook Seafood.

Seeing as my blog has now become a dating blog I can either:

(A) Make this blog into a strictly dating blog. Mary says this will give me more followers. Honestly, who doesn't want to be popular? Kidding...

or...

(B) Create a new blog about fun dating ideas!

Please comment, I need as much insight at possible!