One Night in Bankok...

Ok maybe not, I am being forced to talk about about my weekend seeing Kara had a wonderful time bonding with her Mother driving from Pittsburgh to Cumming. Ok not forced... more like "(Explative Deleted) you better talk about what happened up there or else you're back on punishment" So I shall... (Just playing Boo)

Friday - Friday had My old Pal Rolka and I going to the Hawks Game where they were playing the Knicks which with how well "My" Atlanta Hawks are doing (as they say in the commercials) should have been a cake walk. Nope... The Hawks lost the game. It wasn't a complete loss though, my roommate Leslie was running an event for Southern Poly the school she works for (Go Running Hornets!) and got us in along with passes for a free beer (nothing wrong with that).


The seats were good. We had an obnoxious Knicks fan in front of us who was probably the definition of a Douche Bag. Luckily we had drunken Hawks Fans behind us so we knew if nothing else we were going to have a good time. Unfortunately one of the Hawks Stars got ejected in the 2nd Quarter for some BS, I think there was mob ties into it if you asked a former shamed ref. Just sayin...

After the game, I took Rolka around some of the Local Places in SONO. I told him about the "Bum Bot" at this bar O'Terrills but unfortunately the owner wasn't there. I found a video just for you Rolk... Here you go



We also stopped in for some oke at Midtown Tavern. At this point I was in trouble for hanging out at "Kara's Bar" with "Kara's Friends" without... You Guessed it "Kara" Good times were had by all I must say.

Saturday - So after my liver allowed me to get up, I was on my way to meet Neil, his brother Dan, and their cousin Bobby to head to Athens for one last Hurrah because Neil has his son "P Diddy" (as I will call him) on the way. So Preggo (as Neil calls his wife... With her permission of course) allowed us all to go out and have a good time. Which really means you're only allowed 5 minutes of fun, but we knew we were going to get in trouble anyway so away we went to the following places...

Terrapin - To all my friends who went to UGA... Shame on you for not introducing me to this place sooner. Great Beer and lots of Tickets for said great beer makes Lin a Happy Camper. This also begun the night of Random Women attacking Neil. First off some Girl started yelling at Neil and Bobby after they weren't even talking to her, then came the Globe which we will get to in a moment.

Copper Creek - This is where we decided to grab dinner. I forgot how much I love college towns. Good Food, more good beer, and Very Cheap! So Cheap that Dan threw his beer on Bobby. Ok so that was an accident, but it was the moment that we decided that Dan would definately drive back.

The Globe - This is now the trifecta of places I've never been. Now for some reason I always wind up running into people I know in Athens, either from High School, or even better somebody I went to Auburn with. Bobby and I were talking at the bar and Dan was making fun of a Girl in a Tim Tebag jersey. I looked over and said "I know her..." Bobby didn't believe me till she came up and said "War Eagle" to me. Turns out it was this girl I knew Amber who I met through my Friend Jack. Small world huh? Dan and Neil and this point are all "WTF???" So after catching up and we joined her table with her friends where Neil decided to Bless her Jersey, although Florida got Stomped earlier that night. The highlight was when this guy walked in and Neil said "I'd rather wear that guy's sweater than a Tebow jersey" and...


By this point in the night... Prego was posting messages on Facebook along with her sister that we needed to come... We were grounded... etc.

Sure enough the night ended with us heading back to The Natic Residence early Sunday Morning. It was a great time and I know Neil had fun as well. The ladies might disagree with how much fun we had, but it could be worse... We could have spent the night down town.

Damn Really??? (This Weekend as a whole)

So I (Lin) am posting this today just to let everybody know that I wasn't killed or that I didn't kill anybody. Despite the title this has been a pretty good weekend. I'll take you back to Kara's last post though and fill in some blanks.

How did I know that Kara and I would be together for awhile?? She fell in love with my Nissan Altima I bought a month after we started dating. (She fell in love with me eventually too... I think ;-) ) so she always referred to it as "My (Kara's) Car" even though I was making payments. (Fellas, isn't that funny how that works?).

So Thursday night after getting out of work, I was heading by my apartment for my daily stop by. Those of you who have been by the apartment since Brent and I have been living together coming North on 75 know how bad the Roswell Rd exit on 120 can be backed up. Traffic was stopped way back on the hill at the exit ramp. I slammed on my breaks cause the person in front of me did the same thing. Then I heard tires screeching and being rear ended 3 times in the past 7 years said out loud "Damn... Really?" and sure enough BAM!!! "Our" car was pushed forward. Luckily I did not hit the car in front of me like with my first Altima and Elian Gonzales.

Marietta PD showed up and also informed me that I don't have the proper registration sticker on my Car (Thanks Cobb County)

This weekend was spent mostly with Kara's Family in North GA. Yesterday had us going to watch Paul's Soccer Game in the morning after doing a few errands. The afternoon was full of Fun and Football for the guys while the girls did their Anti Football thing. Apparently Neil and I aren't allowed to hang out anymore according to Kara and Alisha.

Today we find ourselves getting ready to head back to the Metro Atlanta area to spend time with my Mom who just had a back procedure done. Turns out she's going to have to go back again in December. All is well with her right now which is a blessing, but I know she's loopy which is always interesting.

I hope you all have have a great weekend.

Weegle Weegle War Damn Eagle Vol. 1 (AKA: The Massacre at Auburn)

Now that I (Lin) got thrown under the bus by Kara who got called out by Neil (What a great Brother inlaw) I guess it's time to update on the events of the past weekend. So on Saturday Eric and Maranda met up with us earlier in the morning (much earlier than Kara would have preferred to get up) so we could take a trip down to the Lovliest Village on the Plains... You know it as Auburn University.

Now a few things to know before going any further...

1) Lin and Eric are Proud Alumni and Fraternity Brothers
2) Lin and Eric are also Alumni of the Auburn University Marching Band
3) Eric's wife Maranda is a Georgia Tech fan

and...

4) Kara hates football... Keep that in your back pocket (Even though she spent time at Penn State... Do you see why this breaks my heart???)

The drive down was uneventful which is always good cause the wanna be big city cops always have a problem with my lead foot and I. I already decided that if I was pulled over I would say..

"Sorry Officer I was just bringing these kind folks back to Alabama" which quickly turned into a fun game of "Things that Lin can say that the other white folks couldn't get away with"

The trip had us visiting a friend of Lin and Eric's who recently injured himself trying to catch a bus. Keith is great spirits considering the lack of phone calls from his doctor.

From here we went to Campus to Jordan-Hare. I told Kara when we got the tickets that when we went over, she was to wear comfortable shoes that she could walk in. She quickly learned why as we walked a little over a mile to the stadium. We walked through campus and pointed out places where some of Eric and Lin's Shenanigans took place. Unfortunately we missed the Eagle flying, however we had great seats.

Well... Let me say this. Our seats were 2nd row on the 40 yard line on the visitors side. It was Auburn vs. Furman. Had it been Auburn vs. LSU/UGA/Alabama/Anybody SEC... We would have been standing and the game would have been awesome. However those crazy fighting Paladins of Furman who broght a grand total of 133 people (53 of them were the football team) we were sitting down, which means we were staring right at the backs of the Furman players. So to see we had to watch the game on the jumbotron. I would have had great pictures, but the batteries died on my camera that I was allowed to bring in. (I've been playing with my Dad's Nikon D50 lately and forgot all about my Cannon one. SLR cameras aren't allowed in the stadium as the University doesn't want people to have better pictures than them.)

How exciting was the game? By halftime Auburn was up 42-3 and Kara was asleep on my shoulder. Before anybody gives her grief, let me repeat... AUBURN WAS UP 42-3 AT HALFTIME. By 45 seconds into the 2nd half Auburn's JV squad was on the field and we decided to beat traffic and head out. This means another mile walk back to the car.

Other than a traffic jam outside of LaGrange we had smooth sailing back to Atlanta while listening to the Ga Tech Game. Of course after an exciting regulation, the game went into overtime.

By this point we were at home and watching the game on TV. Kara was such a trooper to endure a game of football, Football on the radio and more on TV when we got home, I decided to take my baby to Marietta Fish Market for dinner.

Something else I've learned... When trying something new, we now do it at home first. Poor Kara decided to get the Lobster Boil which included a whole Lobster... Shell and all. Seeing she talks about being from Florida I never thought of this as a big deal till I saw the look of panic when it was placed down in front of her. She is a trooper and finished it, but if you ever want a good laugh, have somebody try to eat a whole lobster for the first time. This gave us more laughs than the movie Next Day Air (I fell asleep during that, and I think Kara is mad that its about 100 some odd minutes she's not getting back in her life)

Sunday really was a lazy day as it started with a "suggestion" that I make breakfast while she burns us a few CDs, me getting us some Ritas (Kara's newest addiction), and us bringing down Kara's new TV stand from Lin's apartment (Thanks Brent!)

So that was our wonderful weekend... I know you are jealous. This week is looking to be pretty tame, but come the weekend, who knows.