Being Friends with Jimmy Neutron

Anyone that knows Jimmy Neutron will find the humor in what I'm about to write. If you don't know Jimmy Neutron..you're about to get to know him.

Let me preface this by letting you know who exactly Jimmy Neutron is. I met him almost a year ago when one of my best friends (lets call her Sidekick) introduced me to him as her boyfriend. My first thought (and question) was..do you know your boyfriend looks like Jimmy Neutron (like the cartoon character...if you dont know what I'm talking about..google it!). Well anyways one of the first times I hung out with him I was thrown into a day long adventure in an attempt to get Sidekick birthday festivities. I was immediately showered with a bunch of questions from Jimmy about Sidekick. Cute...kinda but clearly Jimmy didn't know that kinda stuff makes me wanna puke! Well anyways Sidekick knows me better than I'd like her to at times so she's probably laughing as she reads this. Lets fast forward a year. Sidekick is trying to get back to Wisconsin and Jimmy  also wants to as well. Anyways Jimmy gets a job first and moves before Sidekick. He moves in with our friend Betty because she owns a condo and happens to have an extra bedroom for him. Well anyways Jimmy is frantic about having a second job so obviously the place he deems most appropriate is where I have my second job. Anyone that knows me knows that this is Luau Restaurant in good old O town. He gets a job the second day he moves and viola becomes my coworker. So for the last two weekends (soon to be three) I have spent my time with Jimmy. Usually my weekends consist of working and maybe drinking sometimes (lets be honest..ok yes drinking). So Jimmy is all up for the adventures of my life. Let me tell you what it's like being friends with Jimmy.

We all have that friend that talks to everyone right? That's Jimmy. We went to a bonfire and he introduced himself to everyone..next thing I know he's off doing his own thing and Jimmy's made some friends. Best part though...we were in a small town next to the small town where my dad lives and he asks my friends if there is a Taco Bell on the way from their house to my dads. Jimmy...in the 5 miles from their house to mine...there are churches and cornfields!  We ended up staying there and Jimmy made sure he had his Packer Pajamas and pillow ready so he could get a full nights rest (no waking him up at 8 AM or he will get MAD)  Next, I drag him along to my Uncle's birthday party and he talks so much to everyone he becomes "Cousin Jimmy"...like for real some of my family thinks he is actually a cousin. Oh..not to mention he is probably facebook friends with half of my facebook friends by now.  Now, this friendliness may not always be a good thing. One night we were out at a bar and Jimmy may have been a bit under the influence. We went to see my cousins band play. Well Jimmy went up to a girl and high fived her (aka I think he got to close..I'm not sure Jimmy has a bubble)...and she called stranger danger and he got kicked out of the bar by her boyfriend (the bartender). All the meanwhile, I had no clue Jimmy got kicked out until I heard banging on the windows and door of the bar (Jimmy thought it was a joke...so he was tryin to get back in!).... So we had to bounce out of there.

This brings me to my next point about Jimmy. He loves to eat. Me too...so this works out great for our friendship. Minus the fact that I GAINED FOUR POUNDS IN ONE WEEKEND. Not cool Jimmy...not cool. So I try to limit our food intake by telling him we can't go out to breakfast and we eat my dad's food instead...or if we're running late we don't get to eat. That always backfires though because then we will end up ordering Toppers or Jimmy Johns when we are drunk. Or after work we get a pizza and then decide that we really have  to get custard but Culvers has closed already so we drive to Kiltie and they are closed so then we settle on McDonald's ice cream. Also , don't ask me if I want food when I'm drunk because obviously the answer will be yes. Jimmy gets so hungry that he buys a hot dog at Target snack bar. That has to be the worst place to buy food. He also eats a ridiculous amount of my dad's pancakes and my dad's girlfriend spaghetti that she made for us.

Another thing Jimmy loves whatever is on the radio. He bounces his head along and sings from Carly Rae (our themesong..thanks to SIDEKICK) to Linkin Park. I'm not sure what kinda music he's actually into though.

Jimmy loves to ask the same question 7 different times just to make sure that he receives the same answer I think. Being a social worker, this is something I'm used to but boy when my friends do it I sure get annoyed. So Jimmy here is my formal apology for being a straight up BITCH at times. But since you were inducted as a cousin sometimes you have to get cousin treatment...aka bitch mode.

Jimmy has also spent alot of time at my dad's house which aka means my dad makes him do things. Move the bar, bring things in the house, or whatever else he needs done. He offered for Jimmy to live there...good thing Sidekick wanted to live with Jimmy...or my childhood home would have been Jimmy Neutron run over.

I'm sure there are much more Jimmy stories to come. Sidekick will be moving soon..thank goodness and I'm sure that my next blog will have alot of stories related to the ridiculous adventures Sidekick and I get ourselves in.