Just to show that we can actually get a ratio to our party:  (Note: I’m talking numbers only, and seeing as I’m not attracted to any of these girls, it really didn’t matter if they were there or not)

So anyway, it’s fun seeing everyone (read: Matt and Adam) playing the part of Chris and dwelling in the past… Meanwhile, Chris is satisfied with life for once in a long long time…   Is that technically ironic?  Matt, I defer to you…

In other news, I went to Barnes and Noble with Kristin last night and we were sitting there in the cafe thingamajig, and she was talking about how she had ate a lot (”including dessert” was the quote), but then made a passing mention to the cheesecake here… Well some creepy Asian guy heard us and bought her a cheesecake slice thing and told me “You gotta be faster than that” and I was like “Wtf?”  It was about 3 minutes of awkwardness, and then eventually I was mad (mad isn’t the word, I was just like “who does he think he is” mad…  yes?) because the asian was trying to show me up or something….  It was really pointless and made the whole situation really awkward…..

Okay, well I have a bunch of the pictures (but not all) from the party last weekend but I need to resize them so here’s a little preview.  This first picture is of Ryan N and his girl, and like I tried to do in as many pictures as I could (from the background), I threw up the West Siiiiiiiiide


Here’s me talking to Claire with randoms in the background

And then me with four randoms.

And we found out today that we had a noise complaint and we were fined $100 by our apartment, so me and Darren are going to bitch and tell them we weren’t in town so it couldn’t possibly have been us, because nobody knocked on our door or anything, they just sent us a letter.  Those fags.

Lots of stuff gone on lately, hung out with Kristin last night (edit: and tonight for a bit).  Listened to Australian football on the webradio (w00t)… and that’s pretty much it.  Yup.  Oh, I got my multi-engine rating, so I now have all the licenses required to be a co-pilot on a regional airline.  Now I spend forever and a day building up time so they’ll actually hire me

A lot of people ask me why I’m so picky.  This is the checklist I go through when I meet a girl, I finally put it in writing earlier today.  Sorry it’s so big, but it’s the only way it’s legible.  Click on the comment thing to see it better… The left side got cut off, but the word on the left at the bottom is “Jackpot”

Enjoy.

Okay so last night Mr. Ryan Waters and I held our joint birthday party… I was only expecting about 20 people or so, something very chill and kickback box social style, yao’ming?  Well at about 8:30 I got 5 separate instant messages from people I hadn’t really anticipated on coming… This meant last second puchasing of extra beer, on a hunch.  It was a good thing I did…  at the peak we had about 45-50 people crammed into our apartment, and it was about 10-15 minutes after Kristin left, which was completely laughable because she thought the party was going to be weak.  It’s all about being patient, people, when Chris says the party will be good, it will be good, just give it 10-15 minutes for christ’s sake.  Pictures will ensue, once I get them from the two people who had taken pictures…

Anyway, I ended up receiving two vodkas, so my beer purchase ended up essentially being cancelled out, and I’m going to get the chance to run my science experiment of “If you run cheap vodka through a Brita filter a few more times, will it taste better?”  So stay tuned for that…

So just in case you’re keeping score, the two best parties of the year (without police intervention) have both been hosted by yours truly (and Darren, I guess, since he lives with me).  And the top 3 parties of the year overall have been either me and Darren or Dave and Mike…

In the mean time, here’s some pictures of me jumping…

So in a few short hours I’ll be 20 years old.

Highlights of the year:
   Janelle came to visit
   A whole bunch of pilot ratings.. instrument, commercial, flight instructor, two ground instructor certificates..

Lowlights of the year:
   Single all year (que lastima)

However it was probably an 8 on a scale from 1-10.  Nobody died (thank God), and I made good progress academically/career-wise…  So that was good. 

Goals for the 21st year:
  Real relationship
  Good job over the summer
 

This is when people comment and say happy birthday.  Yup

I don’t know what it is, but lately I have laid down to go to sleep and been completely unable to fall asleep.  And I wake up tired as fuck.  This sucks.  I just toss and turn and think.  The thinking is what does me in, but nobody wants to hear anything and I can’t think of a new way to phrase my unhappiness.  I don’t feel well either, and it’s not a sick thing, it’s just that lately I have just felt like shit, physically, psychologically, etc.  Two more days until my birthday, and three more until the party.  Hopefully this will turn things around?   Doubtful.  Sucks being a perfectionist, demanding high high standards, huh Chris?  Yup.

In other news, um…. nobody has called me like 2 weeks.  That’s pretty demoralizing.  Darren called me a few times but it was stuff like “Hey where is XXX” or “Hey I’m working at YYY”  Que lastima.

So today was a free shirt day at Hangar 6 and they had this shirt from like 1988 back when they used to give out shirts.  I grabbed one.  It’s a size too small.  I’ll be rocking it tomorrow.

Valentines Day sucks.

“You’re just saying that because you’re single/bitter/an asshole”

Yes, I am.

Hope you all have a miserable one.

So life is tres weird lately.  First of all, I’m working out rather frequently nowadays, and I don’t mind it that much.  I was always the lazy one and the thought of working out would sicken me, but I’ll be gosh-darned, I like it.  WTF is up with that.  I need to stop being so stubborn.

In other news, I’m busy like 7AM-8PM every day of the week nowadays with miscellaneous obligations, mostly related to flight instructing, which takes up a lot of time, but it’s nice getting flight time for free.  The new drama of the pilot/instructor clan is the much coveted Lafayette Aviation job, which has been pitting friends against friends and causing abso-fucking retarded drama. 

In other-other news, Dave randomly went to Tennessee so the plan of drinking from 5:30 PM onwards kinda went to shit…  So I’m sitting here hoping furiously that Amber will call me and we can hang out.  She claims she’ll call at midnight, but she’s a girl, and rule one of girls is: 1) Girls do not call Chris Ford.   Rule number 2 involves being dirty whores, but we’ll get to that one later. 

In other-other-other news, my birthday is next week!11111111111111  AND, my huge birthday bash (with Ryan Waters, w00t for same birthdays) will be next Saturday.  Give me a call for directions.  And bring t3h b00b135.

Continuing on, (5 paragraph essay!111111111111111111) I totally am being all junior-high over this girl…  It’s really kinda creepy.  For the time I’ve been in Lafayette, I’ve been like, “I’m just waiting for some girl to just knock me over, and then I’ll know that she’s the one worth pursuing”.   That isn’t to say I haven’t pursued anyone, it’s just that it’s been rather half-assed.  Anyway, this girl is definitely the one I was telling myself about.  So let’s see how I can fuck this one out, I’m taking bets starting now.

Valentine’s Day is coming, and for year 2 in a row I will be sans pamplemousse.  And sans girlfriend.  I’ll leave it at that.

Okay so I’ve observed quite a lot over the last few days that I’d like to bring to you all…

My main point is regarding relationships.  If you have ever seen both sides of a relationship/been friends with both people who are in a relationship together, you might see what I mean…

I have absolutely no idea how people manage to make things work out between the two of them.  I’ve seen so many examples of people cheating on their “lovers” or just being unsatisfactory boyfriend/girlfriends.  I know usually that I blame the girls from this, but that’s only because I mainly only see the girls cheating on their boyfriend (mainly…. me?) But tonight, after seeing the girl being the unadmirable one, I went and saw a guy doing the same exact thing.  It’s ridiculous.  How can anyone lie to someone they “love” someone, then in the presence of other girls/guys, try their best to get laid?  That absolutely amazes me.  Maybe it’s human nature… but I certainly don’t recall ever having feelings like that whenever I was in a relationship.  Yeah I was dissatisfied, but I wouldn’t do half of the shit that I have seen people…<i>my friends even</i> do to their girlfriend or boyfriend. 

It’s despicable.  Maybe that’s why I’m not so sure about relationships unless we’re highly compatible?  I guess I do it all myself, prevent anyone from “Trying out for A-ball” unless I think they’re worth the work, or eventual heartbreak? 

So yeah.  That’s it and Darren is reading over my shoulder.

In other news…  yesterday I got drunk.  Wow, I’m cool.  Went out with Waters and Darren and went to a flight party, but I was already drunk, which makes those parties 10x cooler.  Met up with Danielle and everyone went to the hookah bar.  Fuck that shit.  After that, came home, slept 12 hours and then worked.  Tonight was “Sausage fest and be a complete failure of a boyfriend/girlfriend” night.  People disgust me at times.

And if you get pissed off at me for that, then it means that you’re doing something wrong.   Don’t be mad at me because I brought it up, be mad at yourself because you did it yourself.