Down the River

And Up the Creek
by Mil'vardea

We decided to go down to the river, and take a whole bunch of random pictures. This is what we came up with:

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A Witness to History in the Making

Though, Most People Won't Get It
by Mil'vardea

I witnessed history in the making on Sunday, May 24th, 2009. My favorite AIHL team, the Winchester Generals, finally won their first game! Like ever, in the history of the team, ever.

My brother came down for the weekend from Winchester, to visit us, and the team came down too, to play against the Raleigh Dragons, the Richmond Rollin' Robins, and one of the teams from Maryland.

My brother and I decided to go to a couple of games on Sunday, and say hi to the guys. My brother plays hockey with some of the guys on a Sunday Night league. I got to see some of the guys, and it was awesome.

After the game, you would have thought they'd won the Cup. One of the defenseman's fathers was sitting on the bleachers with us, and I remember him saying so. "It's a bit more like the Styrofoam Cup," he said, laughing.

We congratulated some of the team members afterward, and my brother mentioned that he thought the team was playing much better. "Yeah, we did. We just stopped passing the puck to the other team."

Congrats, Winchester Generals. We love you.

I still want one of your jerseys. And not the highlighter ones.

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Something I'd Forgotten to Post

It's been awhile, but I'll try to set the scene for you.
by Mil'vardea

You know those crazy kids who spend hours or days without bathing, standing in wait for a huge, geeky movie to come out, like all those nerds who slept outside and forsaked bathing and normal socializing to catch a bit of "George Lucas' table scraps" when the Star Wars movies came out?

Yeah, I kind of felt like that.

I was passing a conversation between goth kids at the mall, and I heard the words "Twilight," "Movie," "Theaters," "Soon," and "Vampires" all in the same sentence, which made my ears perk up. I had no clue what Twilight was, but I was going to see that damn movie, because I freakin' love a good vampire movie. I was thinking, from the teaser trailer I went home and looked up that the movie would be along the same storyline as an Underworld movie or some such.

Sounded good. In passing, I mentioned, months before the movie even thought of hitting theaters, that if Smoo went to go see Twilight with me, I would see Quantum of Solace with him. In all fairness, it was a good exchange; I hate Bond movies, and he hates... everything else, so we would get to see the movies we wanted to see, but wouldn't have to go by ourselves, like the huge friggin' nerd kids that we are.

I managed to talk myself out of getting dressed up like Dracula for the movie, but I was excited; I had not seen anymore trailers or anything to ruin my preconceived notions about the nature of the movie. I was as pure as snow stepping into the theater, and came out a changed person.

I think I am the only human being on the planet that is not a tweenaged or teenaged, love-sick, overly-romantic fangirl that actually enjoyed the movie.

Our totals for seeing this movie in theaters are as follows:
Canada: 7 times
Smoo: 6 times
Irish Cream: twice
Buzz: once
Sister: once
Mil'vardea: 8 times
Black Beard: zero, and damn proud of the fact

Our love for Twilight was, not for the romance (which was about as deep and mysterious as a puddle), nor the supposed "hotness" of Robert Pattison (which I, frankly, don't get; his looks do not appeal to me), but from the hilarity that ensued.

I don't think I've ever laughed through a whole movie that was not a comedy before.

The only thing I've ever seen that was funnier, were all the Twilight haters making fun of the movie on Youtube, such as Evil Iguana, Angry Aliens, and this little gem which you have to watch all the way through, to get how funny it really is.

Irish Cream, Buzz, Canada, and I decided to read the books. We mostly got through them, but Canada's finals have interrupted her reading, so she is not done. But we decided, like the nerdy fans that we are, to go to Walmart at midnight and buy the DVD, where we happily ate cake with Kristen Stewart's face on it, bought the DVD, and made fun of the girls with "Team Edward" written across their boobs.

All in all, this little obsession made us disproportionately happy, and I wanted to share our supidity with you.

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Cars! Cars!!!1

Racing is Usually Dangerous, but Not This Time
by Mil'vardea

Tonight, in a display of true brilliance, Black Beard said we should go to PuttPutt and race the go-karts. Six dollars later, Black Beard, Smoo, and I were strapped in and ready to ride.

I was nervous as hell. The kids working there didn't help much either; as he revved up my lawn-mower-engined kart, he caught a ride on the back bumper of my car, going out to check on someone's car that had faltered, crashing into a wall at awesome speeds (about 16 miles per hour, tops). I think rule number one before they let us have at it was "these aren't bumper cars," a ruled which was steadfastly ignored as we imitated Mike Wallace's cousin in those auto insurance commercials and "put 'em into the wall."



So funny! However, they only allow you to ride for, like, seven minutes, so we just had to go twice, just to make a night of it. After a few rounds, and everyone getting sick of my maniacal laughing, we retired to the arcade, where we battled on the DDR pads and laughed about Lonely Island and that stupid song that always gets stuck in my head, the one with T-Pain about the boat. Then we went home and watched the South Park episode about the gay fish. Hilarious.

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Lalalalalaa Bumba!

Island Themed!
by Mil'vardea

What a party!

In an attempt to once again bring the crew together for a grandiose night of good, clean fun, Smoo and I gathered some silly decorations from such fine retailers as Goodwill, Walmart, the Dollar Store, and Big Lots. The Island theme kind of exploded all over Smoo's living room, and we hula'd until the cows came home.

Not really, but there were quite a few decorations. We sent out some very cool invites via e-mail (we're so technologically advanced). Then Smoo and I decorated the hell out of his living room, with everything from grass skirts, to ugly Mexican fertility statues carved out of coconuts, to netting with fishes caught in it, to leis and glowy little lantern lights. We started cooking and decorating around 3:30PM, and had everything up and ready by 6:30PM, giving us a little time to rest before people began showing up at 7PM. As for food, we made some yummy sugar cookies with colored sugar sprinkled on them, then they were doubled up with icing in the middle (sugar rush!). We also ordered a few pizzas, and had some yummy punch, made with a can of pineapples (and the juice), a bottle of fruit punch, and a bottle of sprite. We also had cheesy flavored Munchies, chips and salsa, and fun!

While we waited around for everyone to get there, we ordered pizzas and watched the Pirate Song on YouTube (cause pirates go along with the island theme). Then we tried to make an Admiral Akbar Mii on Smoo's Wii, (Dean finally succeeded), then we played a game of Quelf, played some MadLibs, which was hilarious, and just hung out together.

The party, overall, was a success!

Smoo here, I'm throwing up some videos I took on my cell phone of the Quelf game we played. This is the most awesome party game ever (that doesn't involve alcohol or twister).

His thumbs are dragons and are fighting to the death!! Sound effects and epic music required.

There is a tornado coming, everyone gtfo!! She got to move an extra space for everyone who listened (which we all did, and hid in my room).




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