Archives for the month of: June, 2007

I get the feeling that my family is very worried about me since Rachel is in Italy. Well family, I’m doing fine. I’m (involuntarily) taking the New Special K Challenge™ – the one where you kick start your day with a bowl of Special K and replace another meal with a second bowl of Special K. I usually eat my second bowl at dinner because I am too lazy to cook the microwave dinners I bought for myself. To be fair though, we don’t have a microwave, so to be expected to wait 30+ minutes while my 300 calorie meal slow cooks in the oven just isn’t that appealing.

On a serious note though, I picked up the new Ryan Adams album tonight. And get this, in addition to only paying $10.99, I got a free Easy Tiger poster AND a free live performance DVD. I’m keeping my poster in pristine condition until I can figure out what to do with it. If I take it into the office and hang it in my corner it will probably be faded by the sun by the end of summer. If I hang it somewhere in the house, I will only be able to keep it up until Rachel gets home. Either way, I’ve only got about a month of good use out of it (and yes, that was a cheap shot at the length of Oregon summers). The album is good, I like when he plays electric, but his acoustic songs – especially if he adds a little banjo – are always my favorite. Easy Tiger leans pretty heavily towards acoustic, which I think is going to mean good things.

Now that I’ve worried everyone about my eating habits, I’m going to get some dessert (probably a third bowl of Special K) and try to stay up with my goal of watching a movie a night. Tonight’s “movie” will probably be 4-5 episodes of The Office Season 2. Sometime soon I’ll post the movies I am trying to watch during my month alone.

Rachel just called From Italy. Unfortunately the cell reception there is awful, so we only got to talk for like 15 seconds, but she made it.

A lot has happened since the last time I posted to this blog:

Rachel graduated last weekend and our families came to town for the event. Rachel has a great recap of the weekend.

Last Monday we went to O.A.R when they came to Eugene. The first time I saw them it was in Chicago at the UIC Pavilion and there was probably 5,000+ people there. This show was much different. The McDonald Theater seemed empty, which luckily didn’t seem to bother the band. They played a lot of my favorites and took requests from the audience. For their encore they played Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2. The song below is them performing the same song at a different venue.

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Finally, I took Rachel to the airport today and watched her fly off to Italy. She’ll be there for a month. My plan is to go to work, go to the gym and then come home and watch at least one movie every single day. We’ll see how successful I am.

I’m going to the O.A.R concert tomorrow night in Eugene with Rachel, my sister and her husband. Anyone else going to be there too?