The ScooterBlog

This is when you know you’re depressed: when your lack of luck in dating and relationships becomes a number, a statistic. When the real emotion isn’t there and the logic of it creeps into play. Cause love isn’t logical, and when it will happen, hit you like a ton of bricks, when you will meet that person isn’t precidtable … it can be helped along with effort (which has not been my strong point), but it can’t be predicted. When it happens, you just know, and there isn’t a thing you can do about it (which is good!)

My lack of “mojo” as Danielle reminded me of this morning (best 8 AM call I’ve gotten in a long time!) for so long was nothing more then a number, a source of decimals that can only lead to depression. Sixty-two, then Forty-Two more. You won’t know what those numbers mean, except that my own lack of confidence and pursuit of relationships for so long has made these two numbers (at different times) something that hurt and made me very lonely.

But now there is a new number … as of right now, it’s forty-one. The number of hours until it’s 5 PM on Saturday when I’ll be in Columbus and going out with Danielle. And unlike those past numbers, which only add, and never can incrementally go away, this number will drift to nothing. And when the number is gone, silly things like logic and numbers won’t matter. All that will matter is the moment, and the time that moves too quick, and getting to know Danielle more and more.

I haven’t hoped so hard for that ton of bricks to hit as I do right now!

The other thing that surprises me so much and yet makes me feel unblievably good: I’m not nervous. Seems like that I am meeting Danielle for the first time in person on Saturday, I should be worried, nervous, anxious, and I’m just not. Maybe it’s just that I believe we’re very compatible, or that, as the previous blog post said, that “it’s not just me”, but those jitters and nerves are just not there. I’m excited, I can’t wait, and it will be me and Danielle becoming closer, and I have no reason to believe it won’t go well.

I don’t say that either as the normal “guy” mentality of thinking, that one could say some event, or the single aspect of physicality, is the judge. This will be something true, something complete, in all aspects, and the growth, emotionally, physically, spiritually, will happen all in the right time and speed as it’s meant to … this is something I believe will be a true and genuine relationship, for sure not fleeting.

And just think … in the time I wrote this, that last number is now forty and a half!

So here comes part 2 of “The story of Christmas as explained by a Toyota Camry”

I was running around to get all of the last minute gifts for my parents, cause like any good 24-year old guy, Christmas shopping season is from 3 PM to 6 PM Christmas Eve! I mean, that is the official start time, right?

So anyways, I’m on the last leg, with my mom calling me asking where I am (which of course I don’t want to tell her that I’m buying her gifts, figured she wouldn’t take too nicely to that), pulling out of the TGI Friday’s lot near their house, which is a very narrow parking lot, and as I am, the minivan on the other side doesn’t see me and plows right into my bumper. I watched it happen, sucks when you know it’s coming and can’t do anything about it.

So here’s the other side of the story … he was an off duty police officer! So, getting a cop out to file a report was no big deal and as there were no issues as it was his fault. The only negative was that as of the 30th (when I wrote this), my insurance company had not gotten the report of it so I had to report it to them (maybe protocol, but not as the reporting officer had said).

So in the end, an annoyance, not the end of the world. Let me assure any reader of this .. two months ago, this is the thing that puts me over the edge. I’m still on such a high looking forward to meeting Danielle, my only thought is that no minor fender bender will keep me from meeting her on the 1st, so why be bothered by it?

That’s how you know life ain’t too bad!

Well, it’s New Year’s Eve, and it’s Friday, so the math seems good for us to bring in 2005 with New Year’s Eve Night Live tonight!

The hours are a little bit different tonight, 10 PM to 2 AM, the cover is still the same, $10, and you get your choice of any of our great energy drinks (as well as non-carbonated choices like iced tea and Gatorade), but the fun and partying will be just as big as it always is! Plus, this is the best place in town to welcome in 2005 if you’re 16 and up (14 and 15 is cool with parents’ permission) and looking for a place to chill out and have a great time with peers instead of parents.

We’ll have a Bawls toast at Midnight, so that you won’t run out of energy once 2005 is here, as well as the normal pizza and tournaments, and the promise of ONLY showing Regis Philbin when we direly have to as the ball comes down on 2004.

Tell friends, heck, tell your enemies too so you can whoop up on them in Halo 2, but we’re hoping for a great crowd. It’s been a great 2004 for our Friday Night Live events, averaging over 35 people per week. It’s that kind of passionate following that keeps me for one going and enjoying everything that we do on a daily basis, and I hope that we can do even more to make you love Game Junkie in 2005. THANK YOU ALL!