I'm not gonna lie

Cleveland sucks. Don't get me wrong we are having a great time. But this town has nothing to do at all. We have found a few cool things, but they don't out number the lame things. How about the fact that on a Friday night the mall closes at seven. Sounds stupid right? Well we went through that mall earlier yesterday. There is nothing there. Then we found out that the other mall is closed on the weekends. Doesn't seem like a good strategy. We did however find a nice hot dog cart for lunches.$1.25 dogs with all the fixings. and they are good. Then there is the breakfast buffet here at the hotel. Typical hotel buffet, eggs, bacon, french toast, fruit, bagels. $15. We almost dined and dashed. Except we live here, so no.We headed to the Hall Of Fame and illegally took photos of the Metallica stuff. Cool place. Then the greatest thing happened last night. We were going to a Metallica Club party at Hard Rock Cafe and we had to wait till 9 cause we hadn't RSVP'd in time to get dinner. So we went out into the closed mall. As we hung by the rail I caught a glimpse of Lars with one of his kids. We tentatively tried to intercept him but he made it to the restaurant door before we got there. So we decided to wait. A little while later as we staked out (pun intended) Morton's Steak house. He came back out. I congratulated him on the induction and asked for a picture. He said sure and here are our spoils.......

Then we skipped the MetClub party, It seemed kinda lame. We went to Local Heroes for beer and wings. we had been there for lunch the prior day and met Mary who told us to come back. So we ordered up two dozen wings and started boozing. Needless to say Mary closed down early and took us out for a drink at another bar. We finished getting hammered, and Mary gave us a ride back to the hotel. She was awesome and a great friend to make on our trip!

Ahhh vacation

So I return to the hamburger incident. Not me this time. I am sitting here in the Portland airport, listening to my Ipod and people watching. Evidently my “situation” does not affect everyone. I have been intently watching a young gentlemen eat not one but two greasy sausage egg and cheese bagel sandwiches. He is also drinking only what I can describe as a two-liter mocha-cocoa-colon blow-latte. With whipped cream. In my experience this type of “diet” would result in a 20-30 minute window of “opportunity” before it will be dealt with. Add in the coffee as an accelerant, and I figure the guy has about fifteen minutes till blast off. The dilemma being that his plane begins boarding in 10 minutes. I’m sure that they will want him to take his seat as there is another plane boarding out of the same gate soon after. He is traveling to Philadelphia. I guess that’s probably a couple hours in the air. If he is anything like me and refuses to use an airplane bathroom. That boy is in some serious shit. Yes pun intended.

Too many things

So usually I am worried about finding time for myself during a month. Everyone knows we are a busy clan over at the Paquet house. Well this week seems to be the busiest week ever. Melissa wants to (and we are while I write this) watching Twilight. Yippie! Then we have Heroes that we DVR'd last night. Plus Big Bang and How I Met Your Mother. Then there is TV on tonight. Tomorrow I have to go to work. I need to order Metallica tickets, Then I can book our plane tix for California. I need to pack for Cleveland sometime between now and Thursday. Then I would like to log about 24 more hours on Metallica Guitar Hero in the next 24 hours. I know once Greg and I meet up in Cleveland we will be going non stop for 3 days. Got huge news about the induction ceremony. Jason will be there and he will be playing with Metallica. A dream come true. We knew if it was gonna happen this would be the place. Also have another Metallica related surprise, but it's not official yet!

Well rested

So after taking a few days to recharge my physical and mental batteries, I'm again back on the blogging wagon. Really didn't have anything new to share the last couple O days so I thought I would sit back, take it all in, and let it process. Surprisingly nothing that exciting happened. We have come to realize that we lead a pretty structured and scheduled, spontaneous life. What? Yea we are real good at deciding to do something on a whim, however it is the same things almost every time. We could sit here and stare at the TV for hours and then all of a sudden "lets go out" I could money down on where we are going cause it could only be one of like five places. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy it. It's just that I think we need something new to do. I'm glad the whole paintball thing happened and some others jumped on the wagon too. But if I start doing that every weekend that will join the list too. I think it would be nice to get dressed up with a bunch of friends and go out to dinner. I don't mean dressed up like last yesterday, I mean shirt and tie stuff. Although going out in public with Brett and his mullet would be great too!