Cedar Rapids

Nice weather makes me incredibly happy. And it also makes me want to drink. I want to grill out and drink beer. I want to go to happy hours and sit on patios. I want to drink sangria by a fire pit. Unfortunately most of these activities require friends. And as much as I beg Chris he won't leave work early to join me for a drink in the afternoon even if it's 75 degrees out and the sun is shining. He really needs to get his priorities in check if you ask me. I mean this nice weather isn't going to last forever, we need to take advantage of it while we can. It's starting to remind me of the good ol days outside. Like last May when I went on a 23 day drinking binge right at the beginning of summer. But then Jade had to go and ruin all of the fun because she found out she was "pregnant" and didn't want to drink with me anymore. But hey, guess what else is just around the corner I thought of? Spring game 2011! I missed it last year but I'm pretty sure the patio at the Bar is already calling my name for this year. Mmmmm I can already taste a nice cool Bloody with a little Party in the USA on the side. If there's one thing I love just as much as Nebraska Football games it's fake Nebraska football games in the spring time. Everybodys a winner.

So over the weekend Chris and I decided to take a break from the 86 straight hours of basketball we had been watching to go to the movie Cedar Rapids. I loved it. I don't know why but I always seem to love those off the wall flicks that take place in real life small towns with relatively ugly main characters who get involved in normal situations that always seem to end up with someone smoking pot or someone swimming naked in an indoor pool. Cedar Rapids did not let me down. Give me John C Reilly in a film any day and I'll probably be entertained. Make him an arrogant insurance sales man who has the mouth of a perverted 16 year old boy and he's even better.

And if you've ever had to travel for work convetions you're probably going to be just as entertained. From the after hours get-togethers at the hotel bar, to the slutty business women who view work meetings as their time to cut loose away from the kids to the cheesey sales guys who hit on them, but especially the bull shit award ceremony at the end of it all. Cedar Rapids covered it all. This movie took me back to last summer when I was trapped in Chicago with my fellow coworkers for a three day work extravaganza. Although let me remind you I'm that quiet loner worker who doesn't really talk to anyone but instead chooses to drink alone in my room at night. But if my work convention was with people like Dean Ziegler and Tim Lippe I would probably come out a little more. Could you have better names for these guys in the movie? Probably not. I'm still not sure what the moral of the story was, if there even was one. Then again, I suppose it did teach me not to go to a country party in Iowa with a prositute you don't know while smoking something out of a glass pipe.

All in all, it was a good weird comedy. But if you're one of those people who watches it and thinks it's a dull movie with no plot don't blame me. I can't help it if you don't have a sense of humor, I'd suggest you stick to films with Seann William Scott.