Pics of Tristin's Visit! Part 2

Ok here's the rest of the pictures. Enjoy:

Here's Karl pretending Brit is 7 ft tall. You'll be happy to know that we went out on a Friday and Karl didn't have dungeons and dragons so he was able to join us!










Here's Brit with Tristin's fiance. We got invited to their wedding in August and we're thinking about making the trek. It's on the east coast, so we're thinking of going and having lobster for every meal? Sounds like a plan eh?










Here's the final group pic outside of the Apartment, a cool bar in Lincoln park that has beds and couches and video games inside. It's above an irish pub. The crowd there is always really good and I'm always surprised at how many single people are there.








So this concludes the pics from Tristin's visit. I hope you enjoyed them. There's a couple other random ones, but I think these were the most telling.

Tonight, I'm going to this really cool event as part of Gen Art. It's a national nfp that hosts some really cool parties. I think we're going with Mongo from the '85 Bears, which is awesome because I'm a diehard Bears fan. Mongo and his wife are really sweet people. Should be a blast tonight. Hopefully there's some pics from tonight too! Have a good weekend all!

Pics of Tristin's Visit! Part 1

In my effort to make my blog a little less boring and hubristic, I finally got the pictures back from Tristin visit last weekend. So here they are:

Here's the batg2 group at my house before we went out. Aren't we a bunch of cuties? It's funny, cause the whole night brit was like I wish I was wearing danielle's top. I'm wearing one of the shirts I picked up at the Ben Sherman store in LA. Karl is rockin some fine threads too and Tristin has those hot white pants on. Every girl should own at least one pair of them!






Here's Brit with Danielle at the map room before getting hit on by some old guy from the OC. No, not the TV show... I highly recommend the map room for the widest selection of import beers in chicago. There's also the beer bistro (especially good for monday night pizza night!!).








A beauty sandwich. This is still at the map room. I had some exotic wheat beer, of which I'm an avid fan. Danielle and the girls had kettle tonics, her drink of choice if you ever run into her!











Ok so right before taking this, Tristin was like make a funny face. Apparently the other two missed the memo and I just look like a goof... per usual. Look how tan Brit is compared to Karl and I. And how long my tongue is ;)








I'll post the rest of the pics a little later. Thanks for reading.

Back to Sunny Cali

So I recently returned to Los Angelos to visit some friends among other things. It was crazy how much I remembered my way around still from being in the mansion almost a year ago. For those interested, season two filmed for most of october last year. Btw, season 3 just finished taping. the finale was last friday i understand. Rumor has it this season will be a lot crazier, but I honestly have no idea. Our season, in hindsight, was particularly tame, since we all got along so well. And only one hookup with Wes and Cher, who I understand are still happily dating and living in LA. I unfortunately wasn't able to meet up with them, though I did meet up with Chris. I bought a couple of shirts from him that aren't even available to the public yet! I'm probably not supposed to talk about it, but check www.geekfitters.com for the latest. Also, he's been working on some cool projects as well that are really exciting.

Cool story time! While in LA, we decided to go to a taping of Jimmy Kimmel, cause we drove by the theater and saw a sign with the number to call for tix. I asked for 4 tickets and got them for that night! So while waiting in line, they handed out blue sheets of paper where we could write the best joke about Rush Limbaugh getting caught with viagara illegally. The top three made it on air to tell their joke during the monologue. And guess what? MINE GOT PICKED! The joke goes as follows:

When authorities arrested Rush Limbaugh at the airport, they told him to 'stick em up', but were apparently 4 hours too late!

I couldn't think of any good jokes in line, but when my buddy laughed at that one, I knew it was good enough. Anyhow, so I was on TV again and it felt good. They said it takes 160 people to run his show each weekday. That's nuts. But then again, I think batg took a lot too. Probably 50+. I still talk to some of the people from the 'crew' side of the show. In fact, I met up with some for lunch and we traded stories about the show and cast. It was fun. I also had dinner with Kevin, who is the host of G4's Attack of the Show. He was exceptionally nice. I guess I met him at a charity event the Sunday before as well, but we didn't have long to chat. I was surprised at how knowledgable he was on tech things since I thought he was just a well spoken host. His gf is a really cool chick too; models in LA and is now featured in Target commercials.

My buddy who I went to LA swears he saw Ron Jeremy pull out of the condo building next to where we were staying. I have no reason to believe otherwise, so that was kind of cool.

We did way too much shopping in LA. I found a Ben Sherman store, which is like designer clothes heaven for me. It's all Brit's fault. She got me a Ben Sherman shirt during our makeovers and now I love their clothes. It's an expensive affinity, but I really appreciate the originality in their designs.

There was a place on Santa Monica beach called the lobster that had an amazing tuna dish, with cavier on top and a side salad with scallops and shrimp. so good. Also played some chess there a couple times. I hadn't lost until this Master came over and then got my butt beat Still won a couple.

Dear Anonymous

Hey all. Hope you're having a wonderful 4th of July weekend. Just got back from the Sox game. I'm going again tomorrow. While I do root for both Chicago teams, I find it much easier to be a Sox fan. In the batg2 mansion, I begged them for a radio so I could listen to the games. Karl and I were glued to it.

I appreciate all the comments to my previous post and for reading this boring ass blog. I'll try to clarify some points, as I have no problem initiating a dialogue. As for grammar, it's quite funny because I pride myself on using proper grammar, although i was getting lazy with the journal. I'll try to work on it for next time.

As for all the stuff with Brittany, she and I are still very good friends. We hang out regularly and talk about all sorts of things. I also see Karl, Amanda and Danielle often as well. Last friday, a couple of us went out for some drinks in Chicago. I met up with Chris the other day as well, which was awesome. He's a funny dude, cracks me up. In short, for as bad as I might seem in my journal, on tv and in this blog, the people who were actually there in the mansion would probably strongly disagree with you.

I don't really have time to respond to all the remarks, unless of course anonymous would like to join me for a drink or a sox game or even a brief phone chat. I think you'll find that if you get to know me, I'm not nearly the egomaniac that has been described. The premise of the blog is to give people insight into some thoughts during the show via my journal and to fill in what the episodes didn't cover, while also letting people know about life post batg2. I was always curious to understand how real reality tv is and hoped the journal would help clarify some of that. Unfortunately, some of you have taken my remarks much more seriously than they were intended. That's all I really have to say. But I thank you for reading and having an opinion. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have posted anything, but if just one person benefitted from reading the blog, then I'm happy.