Trouble Visits

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There is a Wednesday extravaganza that most of us who are above the legal drinking age at Penn State love called "Margarita Madness" at "Chiles". On one specific Wednesday during my undergrad, it was the 22nd birthday of my buddy Minka who everyone thought was gay because he liked hugging more than a man in our society is allowed. I twisted this fetish into an opportunity. The challenge for his friends was to acquire him 22 hugs from single women, hoping one would work out and get him over his recently break up with my friend, Neesha.

On that Hump Day we ran into friends with a few people I hadn't ever met, including this beautiful blue-eyed girl with a strawberry margarita in hand. I introduced myself and pimped out my mate Minka by requiring her to give him a hug. I then told her "My friend's call me pChewy" which I worked into a conversation asking if she had a nickname. She pleaded the case that Jess was short for Jessica, but if I left it at that the conversation would have died so I stubbornly did not accept. Eventually, I made her describe herself. She turned up to me with those beautiful blue eyes and said, "My friends say I'm Trouble."

Thusly, Trouble was born and a lesson was learned by all, be careful how you met me. Trouble and I became the closest of friends and our group of friends intertwined. My biggest acquisition was another one of her love interests, Petey. After college I even made some money of off Trouble referring her to the company I work for but she only stayed for a short while due to a layoff. Since she didn't want anything to do with her accounting degree, Trouble (Jessica McGuire) went back to Penn State to get two additional degrees, one in psychology and the other in women's study. Three degrees isn't enough for her though. Currently she's in ASU for five years going to grad school, unless she decides she misses me too much, and then she'll be living in my closet. This weekend marked Trouble's first return to Happy Valley for New Years fun.

We went to one of her favorite restaurants, Mad Mex, for some tasty margaritas and later we went to Panera for some morning after partying eats. At my place we got an awesome food package from Aussie Mike, so I gave Trouble some tasty Australian snacks. Next, I introduced her to my devil puppet, Melof, and then showed off my Xmas present from him, Shocking Tanks.

Trouble quickly decided Shocking Tanks were not her cup of tea after one shock on low, but at least, I got a hilarious videos of her reaction--muhahahhaah. Finally I got her addicted to an old classic game that preceded Tetris, called Klax. When I managed to peel her away, we took to the town to go shopping for a PSU hat.

Though we failed to find a hat she liked, Trouble seemed happy with a coffee cup from Irvings she bought. Along the way, we got to see many of the 100 ice sculptures erected around my picturesque town for New Years. We didn't go on a horse ride or down the ice slide, but in the theme of New Years in a small town, we wrote our New Year's resolutions and hung them up for the town to see.

Nicole was lame and wouldn't follow my tradition to make a resolution, so I wrote one for her "I will not be lame!" which she quickly ripped up. I was going to write "I will not be a bore", and then point to the ice sculpture of the bore, but I knew she could turn around and say "Don't be a cock" and point to the cock ice sculpture that was diagonal from the bore on Allen. Punny, huh? Instead I just turned to Trouble and took a picture of her hanging up hers (See Picture above).

You can read the other blogs to learn about the parties I took Trouble too. I miss you Trouble and can't wait tell I can see you again.

PS: YOU'RE SUCH A NERD, getting a 4.0 in grad school. WOW!

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