My previous employer combined my last two paychecks and sent one giant fat one in and I also received my first paycheck from my new job. All at once! It was a glorious weekend despite the bouts of sadness. So, during my lunch break on Friday, I went over to the mall and bought Haunted and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. Ugh, I love him. He’s amazing. He and I have inside jokes. He puts them in his novels for me. Just kidding. Or am I?

After work, I drove to Best Buy and picked up Gears of War 2. Shamefully, I must admit, I’ve never actually played the original Gears of War. Regardless, it’s a fantastic game and it kept me entertained all weekend long and I’m not even done playing! I also got in some Halo 3 game-play (I’m pretty rusty).

Today I went back to the bookstore in the mall (which is conveniently located right across the street) and picked up Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. I really wanted Lullaby and my initial intent on Friday was to purchase that novel but they didn’t have it. They won’t. They are closing the store. Tough times these days. I was poking around the last name “O” and “P” sections after choosing my Chuck Palahniuk novel and my hands grabbed a novel titled Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian. Sound interesting? That’s what I thought too. Read the summary on the back and it sounded like my life a little bit and to me, everything has a reason so I must have picked it up because I needed it. Maybe it will give me some insight. Maybe it will lift my spirits. Maybe I won’t feel like such a fuck-up after reading it. Who knows.

All in all, it was a decent weekend; Full of entertainment and media, which is good in my book. Oh, look, a pun!