The Engagement Party and the Super Bowl!
From Kurt…
The Super Bowl -
What are we going to do without football for the next 5 months? That just hit me this morning. Is it time for the NFL Draft yet? Let’s go!
Congrats to the Saints…well done. Jennifer wasn’t too happy though…apparently, all Vikings fans hate the Saints…I can understand why…they kept taking the ball away from Favre and Adrian Peterson…how mean of them. Ha ha!
I really don’t have many thoughts on the game…except for the fact almost all my predictions were untrue. Oh well, I still have the Orange Bowl to fall back on.
Pregame -
The pregame…which began on Friday, I believe. Ridiculous.
- Chris Daughtry has hair now? We tuned in just in time to hear him perform during the pre-game festivities…and he has hair now? What? I don’t even think he’s really bald! This is an outrage.
- So…we’re going to predict the winner of the Super Bowl based on which golf ball Phil Mickelson can drive the furthest? I’m sure they wanted Tiger Woods for this…but umm…he’s in sex rehab…or out of sex rehab. Tiger is on the prowl!
- Queen Latifah - Congratulations…you win for biggest hoop earrings…ever…of all-time.
- Carrie Underwood - Sounded great…looked great…the outfit was a little strange though. It was like “Michael Jackson Meets Las Vegas” or something.
Commercials -
Overall, I give them a C-…there were three main trends -
1) Men Don’t Wear Pants - There were like 5 commercials of men without pants.
2) Groundhogs - There were like 4-5 commercials featuring (or based on) a groundhog. Very odd. America, we love Groundhogs…apparently.
3) Men Are Dumb - But we are, right?
Lebron v. Dwight Howard McDonalds Commercial - I really liked this take on the old Jordan v. Bird commercial. Well done…it could have done without Larry Bird at the end….they should have used MJ.
Betty White Snickers Commercial - Hilarious…but it wasn’t even Betty White that I thought was great…it was Abe Vigoda at the end. Anyone under the age of 25 didn’t even know who Abe Vigoda was…fantastic.
Boostmobile Shuffle - AWESOME! Jim McMahon…back…and on a Rascal! Woot Woot! A well-done remake of the Super Bowl Shuffle. This might be in my Top 3 of commercials from yesterday.
Doritos “Hands Off” Commercial - Sharp-tongued kids are always funny.
The Simpsons Coke Commercial - What a disappointment….60 seconds of The Simpsons has to be good right? Nope…it was just Burns walking around. I don’t even remember seeing Homer in the commercial. They missed a great opportunity here. Seriously? The punch line is Milhouse saying “Excuse me Coke?” Boooo.
GoDaddy.Com - Awful…awful…awful. Seriously…who’s going to the website to see the unrated commercial? I can only imagine that it’s the South…it has to be rednecks right? These commercials aren’t even the slightest bit enjoyable. Shame on Danica Patrick…she spends all this time talking about how she doesn’t feel she’s treated the same as men in the world of sports…well, it’s because you do these trashy commercials. Seriously…these are awful. Are GoDaddy.com commercials too hot for TV? That’s what they asked last night…and the answer is no…no they are not. They’re not hot at all.
Auto-Tuned Bud Light - With T-Pain at the end? Hilarious. Everyone will say the word “guacamole” like that from now on.
I don’t know what commercial it was…but did we just see a man help deliver a baby tiger? Wow.
The Google Commercial - Well done. This is in my Top 3 of commercials as well. Google nailed itself…great job.
Leno/Oprah/Letterman - Hilarious…and a great idea for both of them.
Casual Day - No pants. Whatever
Followed By “I Wear No Pants” - Two commercials featuring men without pants. Really, whatever. I will take the free pants though.
Dove For Men - Catchy song. I liked it.
Dodge Charger - Giving my afinity for hating car commercials…I must admit…this might be one of my favorites this year. It helps that “Dexter” is the voiceover guy…but they nailed exactly all the things we guys do for you ladies. Hold the lip balm, etc. I found it very very funny.
Flo TV - I don’t know what this is really…but it looks AWESOME!!!
Megan Fox - I’m not a huge fan of hers, but that commercial was hilarious.
Homeaway.Com - I will never go to this website, but if you have the Griswalds in the commercial. I will love it…”No sir, the bottled water was complimentary…meaning it complimented the rest of the room.”
Tim Tebow Commercial - This is the one that had all the controversy of pro-life/pro-choice…had I not heard of the controversy, I wouldn’t ever have even known what this commercial was about.
Ken, Colleen, and I Spend Way Too Much Time Together This Weekend -
Friday -
Ken and I were part of the 2nd intermission entertainment at the Bucs game…Colleen was supposed to join us, but due to the bad weather, she had to stay behind and wait for her mom and sister to make it.
All Ken and I worried about Friday morning was falling on the ice and looking like an idiot. However, Ken beat me to the punch…he fell on the ice in the parking lot on the way to the Bucs Arena. I pulled up in the parking lot, and I see Ken dusting himself off…I had no idea that he had just fallen. He banged up his arm pretty good. The irony here is that in the past month or so, I haven’t seen Ken go anywhere outside without his Yak -Trax on…but not tonight…not on the night where he knows for sure he’ll be walking on the ice.
I felt bad…I did laugh at Ken…that wasn’t nice…and even to rub it in….he buys ME a beer at the game. I should have bought him the beer as an apology.
Saturday afternoon -
Colleen’s bridal dress shopping…wow..that’s all I can say. I can’t say anymore…you’ll hear it all on Wedding Wednesdays. We’ll have audio…pictures…and a video too. Ken and I were the only two guys at the Bridal Connection in Ankeny. While Ken and I were there, Coll tried on 10 dresses. It was exhausting…but we had a lot of fun. Ken and I were ruthless in making fun of Colleen…aren’t we such nice guys? Ha ha.
Saturday Evening -
Colleen’s Engagement Party was a BLAST! Here’s a pic of Colleen and Jennfier at Raccoon River Brewery during the festivities.
You might be wondering…what is Jennifer drinking? It’s called a “Safe Sex on the Beach”. She really liked it. Some of these non-alcoholic drinks have hilarious names.
We all had a good time…just the wedding party and b0th families….we all shared some very embarrassing stories of both Colleen and Justin (well, ones that we could tell with parents present, ha ha). I told everyone about how Colleen has tried to learn magic…belly dancing…and tap dancing….and that she ended up on the band “Faster Pussycat”’s tour bus (they were an 80s hair metal band…their most notable song was probably “House of Pain”…which is a terrific song).
This next picture is ridiculous…and a little “R” rated…We were joking about the show, and we are usually very self-deprecating. At this point, Justin tells us that “We piss excellence”. We all belly-laughed, and decided that we need to have a new billboard that says this…well, okay, maybe not a billboard…but we definitely wanted to see what the picture would look like. Behold…Big Ken, Colleen, and Kurt…pissing excellence, ha ha.
Thanks to Colleen’s mom…and Justin’s mom & dad for picking up the bar and dinner tab (unless it was Colleen and Justin that did it…in that case, thank you to you two as well).
Frozen -
This is why I don’t like skiing…well, this and the fact that I’m a HORRIBLE skiier.
The Judas Strain -
I just finished “The Judas Strain” by James Rollins…and it was AWESOME. While I enjoyed his most recent book “Altar of Eden”, it was too complicated for me…I don’t understand how the brain works and all that stuff….”The Judas Strain” was great…and I could understand it. There’s a possible-world-ending virus loose…which is tied in with Marco Polo’s final adventures…codes hidden in the language of angels? It was great…I couldn’t put it down.
I just started another book….Matthew Reilly’s “Area 7″…I’m about 1/3 done, and I’m really, really enjoying it.
Birthday -
Happy birthday to my sister Jamie, she’s 28 today!
AWESOME is as AWESOME does!
February 8th, 2010 at 10:06 am
I’m looking forward to Wednesday. I can only imagine the things you two said to her! All I can say is she asked for it by inviting you!
Superbowl…. We were eating and watching a DVD and forgot to switch it to see Carrie perform, then we just kept watching movies, missed the half-time show, next thing we know is it is 9:15, and we decide we are old and go to bed. I will catch up on the commercials at some point on YouTube. I ate my super bowl appetizer food; we were just missing the spin-art dip. Which is my fave.
We are old… So I end up at a college party Saturday night. This is not our typical scene, but one of Jake’s employees (he is 21) was having a house party so we went. We got there just as they were setting up beer pong, and a girl was on the floor with the beer bong still in her mouth… WOW! I have never played beer pong, quarters, done a beer bong or drank everclear before. Four things I can now check off the list. Our condition on Sunday morning was the determining factor in us realizing that we are old and no longer 21. I was ok, just dehydrated with a headache; Jake was fairly immobile until we went to bed. If we left the party and went home we would have been ok, but we started with a drink at home at 5:30, then the party at 7:00, then went to a club at 11:30, and then went to an after-hours until 5:00… That is 12-hours… bad idea. Upon returning home we cooked tacos and hot dogs by the looks of the messy kitchen Sunday AM. Jake is going to be the cool boss this week with all the younger employees, and I nicknamed one of his employees: Snookie. I have a feeling she won’t like it once she realizes who Snookie is.
Oh and I texted my boss: “Weere u at woman? we ARe drunky-facced, come joiiin ius!” She found it hilarious, I’m her son’s age and she is fun to party with so she understood.
(The ‘–faced’ thing is normal for my friends and I to say, I tell people they are all angry-faced, stupid-faced, etc all the time, it came out one night as a joke and just stuck.)
Here is to a week of recovery and homework.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
hummmmmm, where is everyone today? Amature night now kick into overdrive on your little heads and tummys.
did you wake up and room smell like it was infested wtih 25 of producer kurts cats dropping a** and the zipper to the tent was stuck so no ventaliation?
nathan, nice work on the 12 hr bender, you are about 2/3 to the normalicy of what we normally knock out on a weekend together wtih the crew.
so…….i was at a superbowl party which nornally i refues to go to but i did swing by inbetween bar hopps. was a friend of a friends party so no clue what i was walking into. pull up and decent house but tons of cars parked everywhere. i proceed to finish my heater in the yard and hear this sound like someones dumping a bukcet of water on the cement (mind you its about 7:30 and party started at noon). i look around and see nothing, continue to finish my lung dart and walkign up to the house and hear the sound again and this time look to my left and as sure as im sure the library nachos are the BOMB why there is a grown a** man squatting down inbetween a early 2000 Chevy Trailblaizer and a old school Jeep Cherokee and was holding onto the grill guard of the Trailblaizer and was just destroying it.
I look over and immediatly burst out WTF and about chocke on my puff of my smoke stick. dude looks at me like he saw a ghost and we make eye contact and i look down and again shout WTF and dude just lets loose and sounded like a moose was up his butt then not 5 seconds after and im still staring in astonishment and getting ready to ask - (so is the bathroom broke inside and also, do you need to go to the dr!?!) dude forgoes whiping stands up with his pants still around his knees and litterly takes off running down the street. He does not get into a car or anything, in astonishment i stand there and watch (again this is a grown a** man easily 35+) and light up another Camel Joe and try to figure out what just happened then simply turned around, jumped in my whip and took off. Texted my friend there that when you roll up to a party and a man is having that issue in the driveway-thats a party i’m not lookin to get invovled with.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Kurt, missed you at the party on Sunday. I won the betting pool and $45 by getting 7 out of 13 bets right (pretty much opposite of your predictions). Was a good time, just wish I could have taken your money too.