I think the thing I miss most about having a brand new/ the early part of a relationship, is the "no you hang up" wars. They're always so fun, and they almost always start a new conversation that lasts for another hour or so.
When you've been in a relationship for a while, and are really used to each other, the phone conversations seem to get shorter, and the NYHU wars end. It's a little sad. Granted, you know that you're going to spend prolonged hours with that person later, but it still makes phone calls feel a little emptier.
You know what I'm talking about.
On another note, I'd like to announce to the 3 or 4 people who read my blog and aren't family, that my Uncle Tom and Aunt Jen had their first baby, a boy wieghing 7lbs 6oz at 11:30 May 29, 2008. His name is Benjamen Thomas, and he is a beautiful baby. Congrats you guys! Love you.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Keegan's Fort
Keegan wanted a fort this summer. So we're making one. Cody's helping. Okay so he's really doing most of the work.
Work boys work!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Rainy day
It's a big downer when you go to check your email, and there's no "you have won a million dollars!" sitting in your inbox.
Not even an illegit. one.
It rained today, but I've decided not to blame the crap-ness on the rain. I like rain, it smells good. They need to make a scent catching device so that you can take a scent sample and post it so people can smell it. Think of how amazing that would be.
Gosh, now I don't feel so bad :P
Not even an illegit. one.
It rained today, but I've decided not to blame the crap-ness on the rain. I like rain, it smells good. They need to make a scent catching device so that you can take a scent sample and post it so people can smell it. Think of how amazing that would be.
Gosh, now I don't feel so bad :P
Friday, May 23, 2008
ca-rap
I'm not doing very well with this whole "im gonna blahg everyday" thing that I said I would do. I also fail at uploading pictures. Hell, I haven't even downloaded them yet.
I also still have no job.
The world is not the awesomest at the moment.
With the exception of my possible trip to Ireland next summer with my Granpa Pat and my sister. That's right, Ireland. You're jealous, it's 'kay. The one stipulation is that I must have a 3.0 GPA, which I can do since I will be living in an apartment and not a glorified cardboard box.
UAF you suck.
Seriously though, I need a job. Not only so I can buy Cody his birthday present (he turns 21 next Wednesday), and get myself a laptop sticker (my 'top is lame, fugly, and scratched), but also because just hanging around my house is driving me insane.
I promise that I'll download my pictures tomorrow and upload them so that I have actual stuff to put up, not just random dino-porko-whino stories.
I also still have no job.
The world is not the awesomest at the moment.
With the exception of my possible trip to Ireland next summer with my Granpa Pat and my sister. That's right, Ireland. You're jealous, it's 'kay. The one stipulation is that I must have a 3.0 GPA, which I can do since I will be living in an apartment and not a glorified cardboard box.
UAF you suck.
Seriously though, I need a job. Not only so I can buy Cody his birthday present (he turns 21 next Wednesday), and get myself a laptop sticker (my 'top is lame, fugly, and scratched), but also because just hanging around my house is driving me insane.
I promise that I'll download my pictures tomorrow and upload them so that I have actual stuff to put up, not just random dino-porko-whino stories.
Monday, May 19, 2008
... and the world shall end in a Flurry of Quills
Goddamn Porcupine.
Cat and I were on our way home from dropping Cody off (and other adventures, but that's not the focus here), and we were half fighting because of old fueds, because my driving isn't the greatest, and because of something else, which I don't remember. So we were being sullen, and not talking, and I daydreamed about wedding dresses and whatnot, when all of a sudden, Cat yelled "Oh my God!" and swerve/hit the breaks.
I looked up from my martial meditation to see something that looked like a very large, very angry, grey cat sitting in the road by our front tire.
Okay, so it wasn't actually there for very long, because we were moving at about 60 mph, but at that moment in time, it was sitting by out tire.
Cat freaked, she thought she had hit it. I thought the rear tire had hit it. What's more, I was damn sure she had hit a cat, and my sister being who she is, doesn't deal well with animal death.
"GODDAMN PORK-U-PINE!"
Turns out, it wasn't a cat, but a porcupine (which we do have up here, I guess), and she was pretty sure we hadn't hit it. She was also pretty upset. We turned around to see, going like, 30 mph, until we found our skid marks, took the next turn around ("Elsewise that goddamn porcupine will be there and I WILL run him over"), and looked for signs of hittage.
I saw the fat bastard waddle into the woods.
Seriously tho, of all the things we COULD hit in Alaska, a porcupine? At 1am? WTF?
Friday, May 16, 2008
London Bridge is Falling Down
So, we're redoing our kitchen: tearing out the old cabinets, fixing walls, etc. And everything was going fine until we tore out the sink, and found that 1) the wood had been rotting and 2) there were ants eating the wood. It wasn't just the wall, it went to the supports under the house and now we have to jack the house up and replace the rotten/eaten parts. Big bummer for my parents, because they were hoping to have the whole kitchen done within the next two weeks.
I'll post pictures later.
I'll post pictures later.
OMFG A RAPTOR IN YOUR FACE!
Today wasn't the most interesting, so I'm going to tell a story instead. It's half referenced in my non-updated, non-artistic comic "Redundant Dino" which is located at Drunkduck.com. It's only a title page and one comic page, and not worth the time it takes to hunt it down.
World War II games are insanely popular with XBox, PS3, and computer gamers; but most of the games don't actually make you work for victory: if you play as an American or an Ally, you pretty much just have to keep playing until you win all the missions and thence WWII. There's no ... point to it, no "wtf the Germans WON? CRAP!", no reason to spend 3+ hours playing the game.
Note that I'm basing this off the games Cody has, and what I've heard him and Sean talk about. There might be games out there where the Nazis win, but I highly doubt it, because I'm pretty sure the Holocaust survivors would be more than a little peeved that someone released a game where the Nazis win, and the world is turned into a bunch of Aryans. The Aryans, whom, in case you slept thru history class, you tard, hate the Jews, Gypsies, disliked people with dark hair or eyes, blacks, gays, and tele-evangelists ('kay I made that part up, they probably LOVE tele-evangelists just because no one else does).
But a (virtual) realistic threat of Aryan take over isn't the only thing these games lack: they need a reptilian influence, the real reason why America has won all it's wars: VELOCIRAPTORS!
The history books have it all wrong: the dinosaurs didn't all die out, a small colony of raptors managed to survive on a little island in the new world called Rowan Oak, and were discovered by the English colonists who tried to cultivate that place (and went missing, hnmmm). They were discovered once again by Northern forces during the Civil War, who used them as a secret weapon in the calvary, totally smashing any Southern opposition. Which was a big bummer for the Southerners, and partially why many of them believe that they won the Civil War, and bitch a lot.
To progress.
This secret Raptor Calvary was used as a last resort during WWII, since things weren't going as well as the Americans had hoped in Europe, and the French and English weren't able to hold their own. This is also why the Americans managed to totally distroy the Japanese so quickly. Yeah the island hopping thing was annoying, but we had raptors. What can you do against them? Quiver, but that just makes them all the more excited to eviscerate you.
Just image you're in a trench somewhere in France, it's cold, it's rainy, it's dark, there are mortars exploding all around you, shots being fired; you peek over the edge of the trench to get a grasp on the battle and OMFG THERE'S A RAPTOR IN YOUR FACE!!!!
You'd just piss your pants and quit wouldn't you?
Unfortunately, after alien contact and information exchange sometime in the 1950's, the CIA disbanded the Raptor Calvary, had the creatures put down, and their handlers "reassigned". The age of the reliable, terrible Raptor was over, and the age of the lame technological failures began.
So really, the video games need to be more accurate: lets have the gamers sweat a bit because they might lose WWII (not just because they had to sit up a bit to get a new Dew from the mini fridge), and throw the historical accuracies back in: namely the great Raptor Calvary. Is that really too much to ask?
rah!
World War II games are insanely popular with XBox, PS3, and computer gamers; but most of the games don't actually make you work for victory: if you play as an American or an Ally, you pretty much just have to keep playing until you win all the missions and thence WWII. There's no ... point to it, no "wtf the Germans WON? CRAP!", no reason to spend 3+ hours playing the game.
Note that I'm basing this off the games Cody has, and what I've heard him and Sean talk about. There might be games out there where the Nazis win, but I highly doubt it, because I'm pretty sure the Holocaust survivors would be more than a little peeved that someone released a game where the Nazis win, and the world is turned into a bunch of Aryans. The Aryans, whom, in case you slept thru history class, you tard, hate the Jews, Gypsies, disliked people with dark hair or eyes, blacks, gays, and tele-evangelists ('kay I made that part up, they probably LOVE tele-evangelists just because no one else does).
But a (virtual) realistic threat of Aryan take over isn't the only thing these games lack: they need a reptilian influence, the real reason why America has won all it's wars: VELOCIRAPTORS!
The history books have it all wrong: the dinosaurs didn't all die out, a small colony of raptors managed to survive on a little island in the new world called Rowan Oak, and were discovered by the English colonists who tried to cultivate that place (and went missing, hnmmm). They were discovered once again by Northern forces during the Civil War, who used them as a secret weapon in the calvary, totally smashing any Southern opposition. Which was a big bummer for the Southerners, and partially why many of them believe that they won the Civil War, and bitch a lot.
To progress.
This secret Raptor Calvary was used as a last resort during WWII, since things weren't going as well as the Americans had hoped in Europe, and the French and English weren't able to hold their own. This is also why the Americans managed to totally distroy the Japanese so quickly. Yeah the island hopping thing was annoying, but we had raptors. What can you do against them? Quiver, but that just makes them all the more excited to eviscerate you.
Just image you're in a trench somewhere in France, it's cold, it's rainy, it's dark, there are mortars exploding all around you, shots being fired; you peek over the edge of the trench to get a grasp on the battle and OMFG THERE'S A RAPTOR IN YOUR FACE!!!!
You'd just piss your pants and quit wouldn't you?
Unfortunately, after alien contact and information exchange sometime in the 1950's, the CIA disbanded the Raptor Calvary, had the creatures put down, and their handlers "reassigned". The age of the reliable, terrible Raptor was over, and the age of the lame technological failures began.
So really, the video games need to be more accurate: lets have the gamers sweat a bit because they might lose WWII (not just because they had to sit up a bit to get a new Dew from the mini fridge), and throw the historical accuracies back in: namely the great Raptor Calvary. Is that really too much to ask?
rah!Thursday, May 15, 2008
I can end the world in a holocaust
Aren't you glad I won't?
Today was a bit of a crap. I woke up at 9ish, took a shower, and then went back to sleep. Got up, ran errands, went golfing, came home, did chores, went to see Cody, and ended up going to hang out with him and his friends. Which turned out to be hella fun: we went to Taco Bell, and the Amoosement Park, and then back to Zac's. However, I sort of had my heart set on snuggling on the couch and watching a movie, just the two of us. Can't have everything you want, I guess.
My brain is imploding.
I just applied for a job with WalMart in the Garden center. I know I swore I would never work there again, but I'm getting desperate, and it does pay better than it did before ($9.70 instead of just $8.50... thats $1.20 yeah?). Plus, it's a good "seasonal" job, and I get to go outside, which I love. I won't need much training either. Woot.
I wanna run away to Mexico, and have a little cantina, and never ever come back. Watch me, I'll do it.
Today was a bit of a crap. I woke up at 9ish, took a shower, and then went back to sleep. Got up, ran errands, went golfing, came home, did chores, went to see Cody, and ended up going to hang out with him and his friends. Which turned out to be hella fun: we went to Taco Bell, and the Amoosement Park, and then back to Zac's. However, I sort of had my heart set on snuggling on the couch and watching a movie, just the two of us. Can't have everything you want, I guess.
My brain is imploding.
I just applied for a job with WalMart in the Garden center. I know I swore I would never work there again, but I'm getting desperate, and it does pay better than it did before ($9.70 instead of just $8.50... thats $1.20 yeah?). Plus, it's a good "seasonal" job, and I get to go outside, which I love. I won't need much training either. Woot.
I wanna run away to Mexico, and have a little cantina, and never ever come back. Watch me, I'll do it.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Oh. Right.
I totally forgot that I was going to start blogging everyday.
Terrible I am in the ways of the blogger, mmmm.
I'm home. And I actually have a room which is nice because it's windy as hell outside. I'm almost all unpacked, which is weird, and I'm trying to purge as much as possible. Because I have too much stuff and I don't really want to have it all. It's just too much.
I've applied for jobs with Princess Tours at their Mt. McKinley Lodge, and on the railway, still waiting to hear from the Kenai Lodge; I applied to four jobs at the two local Fred Myer's, and I'm planning to apply for a job with GCI, and I finished an application for a job at NAPA. Now all I can do is wait. I hate waiting.
I'm having a bit of a hard time adjusting to living at home again. There are rules here (no drugs, no alcohol, no smoking - not hard. No boys - hard because I have Cody. And no being out uber late because it wakes up the house when I get home - hard, because I'm now nocturnal.), and I have no real time to myself, because it seems like every time I sit down to have time to myself, someone calls me, which is kind of annoying. I also don't like not being able to do what I want when I want, etc. Not being in charge of myself is really really annoying since I'm used to being my own Lady and Mistress and not bother with following orders. WTF mate.
Hopefully, when I get a job, things will get easier, not harder. And then when I go to UAA, everything will fall back into place, and next summer I'll have enough money to get my own apartment. Which would be amazing. 'Spensive tho.
Which reminds me, I got a $500 scholarship from the teachers at PHS last year, and I'm getting it towards helping pay my UAA tuition next year, which will help towards books (Textbooks are ridiculously expensive!), and I am so grateful to those teachers who donated to the scholarship fund. You guys are really amazing.
And now, a cow.
Terrible I am in the ways of the blogger, mmmm.
I'm home. And I actually have a room which is nice because it's windy as hell outside. I'm almost all unpacked, which is weird, and I'm trying to purge as much as possible. Because I have too much stuff and I don't really want to have it all. It's just too much.
I've applied for jobs with Princess Tours at their Mt. McKinley Lodge, and on the railway, still waiting to hear from the Kenai Lodge; I applied to four jobs at the two local Fred Myer's, and I'm planning to apply for a job with GCI, and I finished an application for a job at NAPA. Now all I can do is wait. I hate waiting.
I'm having a bit of a hard time adjusting to living at home again. There are rules here (no drugs, no alcohol, no smoking - not hard. No boys - hard because I have Cody. And no being out uber late because it wakes up the house when I get home - hard, because I'm now nocturnal.), and I have no real time to myself, because it seems like every time I sit down to have time to myself, someone calls me, which is kind of annoying. I also don't like not being able to do what I want when I want, etc. Not being in charge of myself is really really annoying since I'm used to being my own Lady and Mistress and not bother with following orders. WTF mate.
Hopefully, when I get a job, things will get easier, not harder. And then when I go to UAA, everything will fall back into place, and next summer I'll have enough money to get my own apartment. Which would be amazing. 'Spensive tho.
Which reminds me, I got a $500 scholarship from the teachers at PHS last year, and I'm getting it towards helping pay my UAA tuition next year, which will help towards books (Textbooks are ridiculously expensive!), and I am so grateful to those teachers who donated to the scholarship fund. You guys are really amazing.
And now, a cow.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
OMFG I just stayed up all night and packed and cleaned. I have almost everything boxed except for a few things including my stereo, laptop (durh not gonna be packed), fish, catus, and some other random things I need to sustain me for a day.
I had Cherry Coke and Doritos for breakfast. At 4 am.
Cody leaves today after his final - his goal is to be on the road by 2, and home by 7 (?). Mom and Dad are coming for me tomorrow (THANK GOD!): I am so ready to be home.
I talked to Keegan earlier this week, and apparently he's so excited that I'm coming home for the summer that he "just doesn't know what to do!". I love that kid! He's an instant high with all that energy.
Jill's mom Sue, whom I've known since I was 5, is up helping Jill bring her stuff down (there's a lot, plus she's driving Sean down when she leaves Saturday and she'll have HIS stuff too....), and she bought us dinner and ice cream last night. She is one of the world's biggest sweethearts; just one of those people that always wants to help and do things for you. She's been like that forever, she's like another mom to me. :D We're going to hang out with her some more before she leaves sometime today.
My final is tomorrow, it's gonna be a breeze: give a 5 minute shpeal about why you are amazing and deserve your dream job. I get to tell everyone why I am going to be a guide at the Center for Alaska Coastal Studies asap. The only glich in my plan is that to actually have the job, I need a BA/BS in Biology - however, I do have nearly 20 years of experience in Alaska and even on the coasts so... I have amazingness that others with a 4 year degree cannot compare with. EAT IT! HAHAHAHA.
Yes I'm feeling much happier than I was, it's summer. It's amazing. I'm going home. What's not to love?
Pictures of packing to follow later... they're nothing remarkable... YET. OH!
ha. I so crazy.
I had Cherry Coke and Doritos for breakfast. At 4 am.
Cody leaves today after his final - his goal is to be on the road by 2, and home by 7 (?). Mom and Dad are coming for me tomorrow (THANK GOD!): I am so ready to be home.
I talked to Keegan earlier this week, and apparently he's so excited that I'm coming home for the summer that he "just doesn't know what to do!". I love that kid! He's an instant high with all that energy.
Jill's mom Sue, whom I've known since I was 5, is up helping Jill bring her stuff down (there's a lot, plus she's driving Sean down when she leaves Saturday and she'll have HIS stuff too....), and she bought us dinner and ice cream last night. She is one of the world's biggest sweethearts; just one of those people that always wants to help and do things for you. She's been like that forever, she's like another mom to me. :D We're going to hang out with her some more before she leaves sometime today.
My final is tomorrow, it's gonna be a breeze: give a 5 minute shpeal about why you are amazing and deserve your dream job. I get to tell everyone why I am going to be a guide at the Center for Alaska Coastal Studies asap. The only glich in my plan is that to actually have the job, I need a BA/BS in Biology - however, I do have nearly 20 years of experience in Alaska and even on the coasts so... I have amazingness that others with a 4 year degree cannot compare with. EAT IT! HAHAHAHA.
Yes I'm feeling much happier than I was, it's summer. It's amazing. I'm going home. What's not to love?
Pictures of packing to follow later... they're nothing remarkable... YET. OH!
ha. I so crazy.
Monday, May 5, 2008
I'll fly away oh Lordy
Goodness, this has NOT been my best time.
On the bright side, it's been sooo warm, and it rained today - actual rain! no snow! And I saw a mosquito (that's only good because now it's summer), and grass! And I have no classes until Friday, and I get to go home Friday! WEEE!!! And I found most of my batteries which also made me happy.
I need to take some pictures. Put them up.
- I got sick and couldn't talk, so I couldn't do my speech on the scheduled day. When I did get to give my speech, my slideshow that I had made to go with it wouldn't work, which made my speech less awesome.
- I didn't do so well in my classes. Hopefully it won't hurt me too bad.
- My retainer broke. For the third time. I'm getting it fixed at home next Monday. I think I'll be getting one of the clear removables to replace the permanent retainer that I have right now. But until then, my wire is bugging the hell out of me.
- Wal*Mart wants me to get up at 7 AM to get boxes so I can pack. Whatever.
On the bright side, it's been sooo warm, and it rained today - actual rain! no snow! And I saw a mosquito (that's only good because now it's summer), and grass! And I have no classes until Friday, and I get to go home Friday! WEEE!!! And I found most of my batteries which also made me happy.
I need to take some pictures. Put them up.
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