Andy Andrade

I started my blockbuster online “VIP” access. They gave the employees free subscription to it…but I’m not too impressed with it yet. It’s nice to have random movies available to watch, but I don’t know how much I will use it. Netflix has the included “instant access” with streaming movies…don’t have the option yet with Blockbuster Online, but I really hope it’ll be soon. I won’t even lie, I use Netflix streaming all the time. If Blockbuster Online got that, it’d be fantastic. We do, however, sell movies (new and used.) And it’s paired with TiVo, and (soon) Samsung BluRay players and Samsung TV’s with WiFi. Just a few fun-filled facts.

People are running up and down the stairs in my building and it’s scaring my cats. awesome.

I am now officially employed by Blockbuster & T-Mobile. I’m very excited to work for T-Mobile, i feel like it’s a job custom tailored for me. I get to talk about phones and their benefits all day?! Score! The benefits are pretty good, too, i’m excited for contacts again. haha. no more glasses for meeee. I’m having a huge debate on whether i should get a plan and phone now, or just wait til december when all the new awesome phones always come out in time for christmas. ohhh the decisions. I want the MyTouch reaaally bad. really bad. But i also want the new blackberry coming out. We’ll see how strong i stay.

I highly recommend crash. the movie. it’s basically amazing. random cast, but reallyyyy good. It’s basically about a bunch of people have racist issues, and the whole movie shows positive and negative actions. It’s phenomenal, it may be old, but still good. It’s pretty hardcore, and has quite a few big names in it. Blockbuster/Netflix it, enjoy it. =]

It’s 7 pm on a wednesday night and i’m pretty sure I’m about to go to sleep, haha. I’ve worked 32 hours between both jobs in 3 days, so i’m ready to have a good nights worth of sleep. This will be my life until december. can’t wait. but before i forget, to the right is a To Write Love On Her Arms sponsor link. All you have to do is click and submit. It’s helps raise talk time and money for their movement, which I strongly support. Anyway, peace out.

What a great week this has been! Hanging out with family and Meg all week. It’s been awesome. We didn’t home until late when we first flew in, so Sunday barely counts. Wes and I stayed up playing Rainbow SixVegas 2 on the 360, which made Monday tiring, haha. We played until 4 o’clock, waaayy too late. Monday we just hung out and then went to Red Robin with everyone. Nathan and Rachael flew up the day before us, so the house was full. Meg slept in Ashlee’s old room, or the slash/slasher room as we’ve come to call it. Rachael slept in Nathan’s room, and Nathan slept downstairs. I slept on the couch alll week. I think my shoulders are punishing me for it, too, I can barely move them today.

Wes, Nathan, and I went golfing Tuesday. Which was amazing. I loved it. I did awful, but not as bad as I thought. I think I was only 3 over par each hole, which could have been waaay worse. I was pretty proud of myself. Meg and the girls, aka my mom ashlee and rachael, all went out to get their nails done and all that jazz. Pretty cool.

Thursday we went out to Marion, which is where I grew up. I wanted to show Meg where I came from. The house I grew up in isn’t even there any more, someone bought the property from an auction and knocked it down. That house was verrryyy sketchy. It was across the street from some train tracks, and any time a train passed my house would shake…a lot. haha. But that life is over. I got to see my sister and my nieces/nephews, which was awesome. I love them, I wish they all weren’t so far away. Even when I see my mom it’s hard to say if I’ll see her or not, because she still lives 3 hours away from my mom.

I’m sitting in saxby’s, watching diggnation, and surfing the web. It’s great. I love this place. I had a horrible beginning to my day yesterday. My A/C isn’t working the best. It’s like…half-assing everything. It’s about 80 degrees in there, haha. I also found out my dishwasher doesn’t work, it just lets water sit in the bottom…awesome. I’ll have to get those checked out. and afteeerrr all of that, it starts to storm. perfect. As I’m heading to work, all hell broke loose, and it stormed like a mo-fo. So i was drenched, and got to work, and the power went out. just a great hour of my life, haha.

Anyway, time to go price stuff! Come see my apartment. and I’ll put pictures up soon, i swear.

In my 14 years of traveling, I have NEVER forgotten my duffel bag. Until today. Matt, Meg, and I all get to the airport, and we’re piling out of my car, and I reach into the back to get my bag…which wasn’t there. Thank GOD I always leave for the airport 2 hours ahead of time (when I’m in charge.) Theme of our traveling day “You are so forgetful and un-prepared”-Megan. She seriously asked me as we were getting into the car if I had my bag…and I said yes. But I thought she meant my back pack. Wow. How stupid can I be. hahaha. At least I remembered to print our ticket information, right?

We’re in the Chicago O’Hare Airport right now. With a 2 hour lay over. It’s a perfect time to blog. No doubt. I moved into my apartment! I’m so excited for it too. I’ll post the pictures soon. I have a very nice living area, I think it’s close to 700 square feet. It’s at least 650. My living room looks really empty right now, having one piece of furniture doesn’t fill the space too well. But my dad is reupholstering a recliner we’ve had for forever now, and I’m also getting some barstools for my bar area.

My bar area is probably my favorite area, because it has a built in cutting board (which is kind of unsanitary but clorox wipes and all that jazz will help fix that) and it’s very open to the kitchen. The top of it can has plenty of room to put some sort of decorations or something up there. The kitchen is kind of small space, but I’ve bought kitchen towels for it. Meg’s mom is awesome and bought me a 4 piece set: 4 cups, 4 bowls, 4 normal sized plates, and 4 bread plates. She also gave me a cooking book that I hope to use a lot, because of my interest in cooking and all that jazz. It definitely makes me happy. =] My dining area is small, just kind of a connection between the kitchen and living room. I have one small card table from Trev’s mom, but it’s better than nothing. and 2 chairs from meg’s mom, so i have more than just my futon as seating until the stools and recliner are done.

My bed room is probably the same size as what i had at my dad’s house, maybe a tad bit bigger. I have my bed, my dresser, and my mini-fridge in there. I attempted to watch dvd’s on my surround sound last night, but it didn’t work out, there’s something wrong with it. Plus the tv i got from Trev’s isn’t working out too well either, it’s a little too old to connect to the dvd player. Oh well, I’ll find another one eventually, I’m sure. I love how I’m in an airport right now, with my amazing girlfriend, and not even caring what else is going on around us. So far we’ve knocked out 3o minutes…come on 9:04. Some younger kids just got in trouble for taking a break hahaha, sucks. Continuing on to the bathroom. Bathroom is okay, bigger than the one i was using at my parents house, I have a huge tub and plenty of space for all of my stuff…like…shampoo and a razor…so much stuff. haha. It’s really nice though. i have a rug in there, and some Ohio state themed colors for the hand towels. My walk-in closet is in there, and I love it. It’s a decent size, and already has racks and such in it, so i don’t really need to use my dresser. It’s just there a stand really. The bar and the closet are my favorite parts of my apartment, haha, oh man.

I’m excited to put up a few of my posters. I want to put more up but a lot of people are telling me it’s a bad idea, haha. So what if it’s Halo 3? But I’ll have my black and white bridge, my black and white jack daniels poster, and my fight club picture. I want to get a boondock saints poster, the black and white one with the prayer and guns on it. It’s pretty tizight, but I dunno when I’ll get it.

I’m getting hungry, and just wanted to do a quick post. If you wanna know more about my apartment, just let me know!

I’m working a lot. It’s nice. Life is crazy good. Going to Ohio in a couple weeks with Meg, Rachael, and Nathan. That will be good times. I’ll update this more when I get a chance, I’ve just been waaayy too lazy, haha. I’m looking for an apartment, so if any one knows a place to get a nice one real cheap, hook it up. ooor if any one needs a roommate.

I’ll do a full update soon, promise!