Weather, Blazers, Energy Drinks, & Haircuts

Today is December Twentieth Two Thousand Oh Nine. It snowed overnight leaving about ten inches and its still snowing pretty well. The weather is a hot topic of discussion in New England and people complain about it all the time. Whether its raining, snowing, humid, cold, or just chilly. Due to this weather is big news on all the stations and most of them will dedicate their entire broadcast to whats going on outside. I guess a section of the nation that has maps on fall foliage takes their weather pretty seriously. Its the first thing my dad talks about when I call him even though he is only a few hours away. The mayor of Boston always tells people to take the mbta when the weather is crappy but the service always is delayed when there is poor weather. Personally I like weather. Its one of the reasons I live around here and it makes me fee alive and in touch with nature. Its the little things.

I was instructed by my mother to make sure to wear some kind of blazer for Christmas dinner this year. Since my one navy blazer is up in Topsfield I needed to go buy one. I had my eyes on a traveller blazer at JosABank but it was upwards of $180.00 and the guy I spoke to on the phone was a total dick. Maybe I am just sensitive to customer service because I am generally polite and have worked retail before but it doesn't take much effort to be a nice person. Here I am calling your store to inquire about a product which costs a fair amount of money and you can't be at least pleasant to me? Well fuck you bub, your store is now the last place on my list. I wanted something I could wear everyday ala the hipster model so I went to Filene's Basement and scored a sweet camel hair jacket for $120.00. Don't know why they call it Camel Hair, its not like its made from the hair of camels. Its a very dark navy wool and I look damn spiffy in it.

I like energy drinks. Alot. I used to drink two or three of the large size red bulls a day till I figured out that I was spending more on energy drinks every day that I was on cigarettes. Then I started drinking one or two of Rockstar or NOS energy drinks which are two dollars cheaper than the Red Bull which doesn't even have bulls blood in it. When I started working out and watching what I eat I saw that energy drinks have a shit ton of sugar in them. Something like 18 teaspoons of sugar and of course the nutritional info is split in two so it looks like less than it really is. Who drinks one half of a drink in a can ? Thats like drinking half a beer or something. Anyway, I went diet and while diet Rockstar is drinkable, the diet NOS kicks some serious ass. I am drinking one now in fact.

So I got all my hair chopped off last August after growing it out for three years and donated the proceeds to Locks For Love. I had not hair my locks chopped since then because well I loathe getting my hair cut. I don't really know why but I just don't. I told the horrified lady and supercuts what I wanted and she said, "Oh so you want a traditional boys cut." Great. Here I am forty years old and the supercuts lady wants to cut my hair as if I am ten. Well fine, just cut my hair and wake me up when its over. It looks like well, a hair cut. I don't know about the little boy end of things but my hair is def cut. One more thing off the pre xmas checklist.