I watched the democratic debate tonight on CNN, and I am officially in camp Hillary!

I truly belive she has the dedication, will, intelligence and experience to lead this country. I also believe that she has the charisma and drive to win the Democratic ticket as well as the election.

Hillary '08!

Thank you!

I would like to Thank Peter for the wonderful icon to the right, and Adam for helping me change the Template last night.

Let's get this party started!

D & D

So I have a crush on the guy who works at Dunkin Donuts. He's always sweet, always talks fast, and always remembers my order.

Today he asked us if we were going to see "The Spicey Girls" tonight.

No, sadly, I'm not.

Goodbye Gramp

Today I lost my last grandfather. Franklyn L. Hamilton, 89, of Gloucester MA passed away due to lung cancer. I'm going to miss him a lot.

Growing up, my father's family all basically lived in the same house. It was a two family, with my Great Grandparents living upstairs, and my grandparents living downstairs. While everyone would congregate downstairs to talk, eat, smoke, etc, my Great Grandfather always stayed upstairs. Same chair by the window, always playing video games. For a 10 year old who didn't like smoke, and loved video games, it was great. It was like an escape. I would climb the stairs, knock on the door, and wait for the "Come!" Always the same greeting. Always Gramp.

Always quiet, never noisey or smokey, I would visit with Gramp for hours. He had Super Nintendo before me, Game Cube, N64...etc. And he had a love of the RPG games. Final Fantasy, etc. So he would do all the levels, find all the quests, etc, and help me when I was stuck.

Once I went to college, I stopped playing video games, and didn't visit Gloucester that often. But I would still go upstairs and sit with Gramp. We had less to talk about, but it was still my quiet time with him.

He was an artist, and a lover of books. He had an affinity towards mysteries, especially Sherlock Holmes. He loved the Maltese Falcoln, The Shawdow and other hard boiled detective stories.

Goodbye Gramp. I miss you and love you, and will always think of you the next time I play a video game.

A New Beginning

I'm going to try this blogging thing again. Much like my interests in spin class, or South Beach, or Britney Spears, I have a tendency to get a renewed interest every few months, and then walk away. I really enjoyed having a live journal for so long, and I found it easier to just tell the story of my life than just pick interesting topics to explore. So I'm back to a more live journal'ish blog. Hey, 2004! LOL

So, this past weekend was fun. Although, without Peter and Bryan to make me coffee in the morning. Friday, I went to dinner with Adam at Bennigans, and then went to see Juno at Boston Common. Mazer came along. I loved the movie. Just a round about good dark comedy. I came home around 10:30, with the hopes and dreams of getting up early for a 9am spin class. But the Gods of Drunken Roommates had other plans for me, and I was up until 4:30am.

Saturday, I crankily got up around 8am, and then met up with Jermey and Marco to our weekend brunch/lunch to a franchised family eatery. We really went wild and went to Pub 99 in Charlestown. Although, I got yelled at for calling it Pub 99, I guess it's just called "The 99" now, but I digress. After lunch, we jaunted over to the Cambridge Side Galleria. I refound my love of Express Men (curse whoever moved them out of Prudential), but didn't love what shirt size I am now. eh. After shopping, we went to Target, and then I went home to collapse in a ball of post-shopping-tiredness which I always seem to get when I'm out shopping for more than 3 hours.

Saturday night, I went to Fajitas and Ritas with Jeremy, Marco, and Mazer. The service was great, the frozen margaritas even better, and we made friends with the two girls at the next table. (of course you did!) We then went to Jackson's 27th birthday party. I had a few drinks, was asked to make a few Bobtini's and then played a game of pin the dick on the homo. A game, not a euphamism. I was helped home by my roommates, and appearantly yelled out to some woman in the street, "Amy Winehouse,....heeey!" which if funny, because I guess she looked nothing like Amy Winehouse, and wasn't amused at my comparison. Nor was her boyfriend.

Sunday, I had lunch with Pallavi, Lauren, and Lisa and Buddha's Delight. It's this really sketchy looking place in Chinatown, with good food. Everything is vegan. So I had the "pork" platter. Mmm, pork platter. I convinced Pallavi and Lauren to go see 27 dresses with me, even though they've already seen it. I loved it. I was one of 5 guys in the theatre, but that just means that James Marsden had an easier time to pick me out of the crowd, and take me to some far away exotic location where he can...oh, I'm sorry.