It's definitely been a while. With this blog, I plan to wrap up the Ryan trip and also give you a music countdown. This week, I plan to jump into Room Wars with hopefully four episodes and also check every blog that comes up in the recent blog box. Here goes nothing:
It was still Wednesday and Ryan and I decided to do one of our usual Madden tournaments, this time with 8 teams. The bracket was:
New England (My first pick)
Indianapolis (Ryan's fourth pick)
Dallas (My third pick)
Jacksonville (Ryan's first pick)
Seattle (My second pick)
New York Giants (Ryan's second pick)
Minnesota (My fourth pick)
San Diego (Ryan's third pick)
We played the whole first round that Wednesday with all my teams winning: NE 51- Ind 35, Dal 56 - Jac 21, Sea 48 - NYG 15, and Min 27 -SD 24. We don't play defense very well so our games our usually very high scoring.
Thursday, my mom had a hair appointment at the Pittsburgh Mills so my stepdad, little sister, Ryan, Eric, and I went also but we went out to dinner. We went to Denny's and I got the ranch chicken sandwich thing. It was really good. Only Ryan and I joined "the Clean Plate Club". We then went back to the Mills to pick up my mom, but she wasn't done yet. My stepdad and mom (after she was done) then took my little sister back to school shopping so Ryan, Eric, and I strolled the mall. I got the the Amazing Race DVD game (which we played and it can be somewhat addictive). We then met up with my parents and sister and went to Dairy Queen (as I stated in one of Ivy's blogs as a comment ;)) I got a grape slushy thing. It wasn't anything too great. Ryan, Marissa, and I tried to get Eric to ride one of those little quarter ride things for little kids b/c he can still fit in them. It was an effing ROCKET SHIP!!!! I wanted to ride it but I couldn't. We tried everything, bribing, threats, and everything else we could think of. Side story: Ryan and I at a different mall last Xmas rode on a quarter ride Dino thing (from the flintstones). People were looking at us b/c we were two teenage boys ride this crappy little thing. We told Eric that story and he still wouldn't, we were disappointed in him.
We then went home and played the TAR DVD game. In effort to make it a little more fun, we assigned TAR teams to our teams (me/Ryan vs Eric/Marissa) In the first game Ryan and I were Kynt and Vyksin and Eric and Marissa were Azaria and Hendekea. We were both in the final destination city and they barely beat us. After that, Ryan and I did round 2 of our football tourney. I had to give him the two teams I didn't want so he could play also. I gave him Dallas and Minnesota. The results were NE 63 -Dal 45 and Sea 84 - Min 21. This set up the Super Bowl between New England and Seattle. I gave him New England. We decided to do our Super Bowl with fifteen minute quarters. For the first round, we did 4 minute quarters and for the second we did 9 minute quarters.
On Friday, we did three more TAR DVD games. My dog though stepped on the one flag piece marker thing so whoever was the red team was automatically Charla and Mirna since the flag was a little smaller than the others. Eric and Marissa were them twice. For the first game it was Eric and Jeremy (me and Ryan) vs Charla and Mirna. It's so much more fun to pretend you are them b/c you get to be in character. Ryan and I got really far ahead so Eric and Marissa said that Charla's Heelys broke. Ryan and I won all three games as Eric and Jeremy, Tyler and James, and the last as Nate and Jenn. Eric and Jeremy and Tyler and James beat Charla and Mirna while Nate and Jenn beat Freddy and Kendra. The only gripe I had with the game is that some of the tasks and questions repeat, but overall it was really fun IMO.
Friday night at like 11 Ryan and I started the Super Bowl with 15 minute quarters. It was awesome. We were scoring on each other like crazy. As Seattle, my linebackers were awesome b/c they are really fast. Midway through the second though, Matt Hasselbeck was injured so I had to have Seneca Wallace come in. Seneca came through though. He finished with 8 TDs and no interceptions. The game ended a little prematurely though b/c my PS2 froze with around 3:21 left in the 4th. I was winning 231-177 so we declared me the winner. I even had the ball so I was sort of angry. I wanted 250 at least. They left the next day but it was fun. My aunt came and picked them up, but she even said that she hopes Marissa and I can go to their house during Xmas break, so I'm crossing fingers.
Now for the music countdown: I have begun downloading songs off of Amazon, but not really new ones but I do have a base for the countdown, let's go:
Youtube has like decided to hate me, so only the first two have links. I'll try to edit it later with links.
10. "Let It Rock" by Kevin Rudolf feat Lil Wayne ) - I like this song.
9. "After Tonight" by Justin Nozuka - Still hanging on, but barely.
8. "Handlebars" by the Flobots - The end of this song still pumps me up, it's sweet.
7. "The World Should Revolve Around Me" by Little Jackie - They have talent.
6. "Angels on the Moon" by Thriving Ivory - This song has the Colby O' Donis effect. I like it one time then hate it the next.
5. "Criminal" by Justin Nozuka - I may be mistaken, but Nozuka is the first artist to have two songs on my countdown since the original when two Paramore songs were on.
4. "Sugarbaby" by Morningwood - This video is hilarious and the song is pretty good.
3. "Devour" by Shinedown - This song is awesome.
2. "Not an Angel" by City Sleeps - They return with their second song on my countdown. This one isn't as intense as "Prototype" but it's started to wear on me, watch out for it.
1. "The Resolution" by Jack's Mannequin - I first heard this song on the night that we went to the mall with Ryan and Eric (see above) and I loved it. It's my most played song I downloaded.
B'bye now!