The One with Not Enough Driving

What it do? Fuck, I drove a lot today, especially considering it was the first day I ever had the car, any car, to myself for the day. Pretty good day though; managed to fight boredom well and find something to do just when things looked bleak.

Started out with something that hasn't happened in eons: me needing to wake up early, and thanks to my beloved sleeping patterns, being able to fall asleep TOO EASILY. Not enough getting four hours of sleep! Oddly enough, I was really alert by the time the father woke me up so I could drop him off at Doonside. It was one of those weird situations when I felt my eyes getting tired and start to close, but I just couldn't fall asleep (actually, not unlike now). Luckily, it didn't affect my driving; for the first time ever, I got to drive on my own. It was weird as at first, but I think I settled into it quickly. Even though it was only for about 5 minutes or so, it was still fun to just drive without a voice or three in my ear telling me what I was doing wrong.

Tried in vain to get more sleep after dropping the father off, but damnit, it just wouldn't happen. So I just got out of bed and watched Foxtel in the lounge. Ahh, good old Foxtel morning TV, haven't seen you in a while. TJ was supposed to get dropped off at around 9:30AM, but he ended up needing to get picked up from his house. I waited for Pat to get to my house before driving to pick up TJ; got cutties 'cause the CD player wouldn't play burnt CDs. Anyways, drove awesomely: too much checking my blind spot properly before changing lanes! Either I turned my body too much, or I didn't bother checking at all. Also, further signs of awesome: left the car on drive AND with the handbrake up when we got back to my house. Very nice, how much? At least I didn't forget to set the alarm.

Anyways, chilled at mines for a bit. They played Guitar Hero II and skated around at the front (damn, I didn't get to see Pat stacking it and leaving a dent in the empty house next door ). The original plan was to watch Ghost Rider at 1:45PM, but seeing as Pat had already seen it, we decided to watch Hannibal Rising instead. While I was showering, Pat decided to 'homoeroticise' my wallpaper without me knowing (as has been the new trend lately). Sigh.

Had even better driving moments after picking up Juls. First, even more fun with changing lanes: almost hit someone who was changing into the same lane as me. Oh, and I also got beeped at for the first time, what with me blocking an exit lane and all. Awesome!

Got to Westpoint fairly early, seeing as I forgot that part of the plan was to go Big Chief with Juls. Ahh wells, had more chicken and OJ (expect anything else? ) at Macca's, then randomly saw Ryan. Watched Hannibal Rising after lunch; pretty sick movie. Enjoyed the cannibalistic violence and disturbing psychopathic behaviour very VERY much.

Drove back to mines after the movie. Pat eventually had to go home and drop the car off for Ian (too bad we couldn't watch the fun of watching the two of them argue about it). Juls, TJ and I just chilled out for a while; got MAD cutties after watching my beloved Lakers drop another game, this time to the Cavs at home. Sigh. Five straight, damnit! We were so bored around this time that we resorted to watching ANOTHER movie at night; this time, we finally got to watch Ghost Rider. And my God, that movie was...too much being watchable! Not enough thinking "THIS MOVIE SUCKS" during the whole thing! Oh well, lucky Juls shouted us tickets, seeing as he was in a mad generous mood.

Caught up with Karl after the movie. He had just come home from work, and we decided to show up at his house for fun. Bummed around watching Juls play WoW, and eventually got the munchies seeing as Juls was the only one who'd had dinner. Drove all the way down to the 24-hour Mickey Ds in Blacktown at midnight. Drove back to Karl's and Juls played more WoW, before eventually having to drive everyone home. Karl got me with a couple of mad "WTF?!" moments when he decided to put my car into neutral without me knowing. Great success! Not enough screaming "What the fuck?!" when my car suddenly wouldn't accelerate after a speed bump, or wouldn't pull out of the kerb. Thanks, Karl!

I took full advantage of having the car for the first time: I didn't get home until about 2AM. All up today, I drove to: Doonside station and back; to TJ's house in Blacktown and back; to Julzman's house in Rooty Hill, then to Westpoint, then to my house; back to Westpoint, then to Karl's house; then down to Mickey Ds, back to Karl's house; then to drop off TJ, then Julzman, then Karl; then finally, drive back home from Karl's. All of that on my first real day of driving by myself. Driving = great success! High five! I better sleep now, I'm tired as HELL! It's 4:14AM, and I'm gonna try and get some rest before the All-Star Weekend begins tomorrow. Hells yes! Anyways, later days!

- marty..

P.S. My black and grey blog is only black and grey because YOU complained about it! If red didn't make your oh so sensitive eyes water, maybe my blog would own your blog that little bit more than it already does.

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