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Holy crap.  It's only 11 o'clock.  Could this day be going any slower?!  It is definitely one of those days that I feel like I have been at work for 10 hours already, but really it is only 3 hours.  Yay.

Probably cause I hate what I am doing at work today.  And I have a rather big project at home waiting for me that I am actually pretty excited to do and definitely want to get started on!

Oh well, as of right now only 5 hours and 22 minutes until I'm out the door for the weekend!

At least Pandora is cranking some good music on the Jimmy Eat World station!  YeeHaw!!

CASTLE!

So yeah.  Kinda in love with this pic right now.  And can't WAIT  until the season of Castle starts!  Seriously, I feel like a 6 year old waiting for Christams morning right now.  It's kinda ridiculous. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And yeah.  I know it has been like, seriously, forEver since I have posted anything.  In either of the blogs.  (not that the other one can barely even be called a blog.  more like a very short and ill-fed offshoot of this here blog.)  But really.  It has been a While!  Guess I have just been keeping it all in, so to speak.  Might be time to let some of it out again?  Not sure how much I'll be posting at this point; but it might be worth checking in frim time to time.  (Although, I'll probably let the 3 of you that ever have followed on a regular basis know whenever I do post...)

 

And if you're wondering about why I chose the 3:49 over the other to post on again...well, I think it just fits me better.

 

Seriously, I want to stay up and watch Castle all night right now.  Actually, now that I think about it, gonna do just that.  Or at least do it for as long as I can stay awake.  The question is, do I start with season 1 or later?!  May as well statt at the very beginning.  (It IS a very good place to start, or at least I've heard that that is true...according to some sources. *cough*soundofmusic*cough*) 

 

And now I think it is definitely time to throw in a dvd and hit the pillows.  Apparently the Top 20 countdown that is on right now is just too hip for me since they are on # 13 and I've only known like 1 of the last 4 songs.  Just not as hip as I thought I was.  Crap.

 

 

 

"if you go straight long enough you’ll end up where you were"

 

 

 

 

CASTLE!!!!!!  YAY!

dreaming of when the morning comes

Coldplay!

If it seems odd to you that I would put an exclamation point after Coldplay, well, perhaps you would be correct. I guess I haven't really ever had an opinion on them before. But I got a listen to their new album last week and immediately went out and picked it up myself. It is really pretty amazing!

Think I decided over the last few days that I am going to be able to go to MN again in August. One of my cousins is getting married, and think I've missed too many important family events over the years to miss more. Sometimes you just have to go. And I think I'll be able to make a road trip out of it with a friend and get to stop and visit another friend on the way too! So it should be a fun trip!

Softball update from Monday... Another loss, but another close game. The score was back and forth the entire game with the time expiring while we were still down 2 runs. So so close. But it was another good hitting and scoring game for our team, which was exciting. Believe we scored about 15 runs again, which compared to last season is a drastic improvement. It's at least more fun if you have to lose to lose close games than it is to get 10-runned every time you go out there... Game's at 8:15 next Monday for all those fans wanting to go! :)

And now time for the crazyness of the day to start. Early. Going to go look this afternoon at a possible place to move to. It's less than 5 miles away from work. Woo Hoo! It's kind of another random roommate situation, so hopefully it looks like a good one. All but one of my current roomies moved out this last weekend and I can already tell that the place is going to go to pot (literally??) with the remaining one... So time to get out of there.


music: "Death And All His Friends" -- Coldplay

my mind is achin

So my body feels as though it should be Saturday already, just by how tired and worn out it is. However...the calander is definitely telling me that it is only Wednesday.

Guess this is what happens when I have a week off of softball and then have the late game the first week back. It was so much fun. But I was so tired by the end of it. But it was fun. Lost by one run in extra innings. Fun times.

Also the fact that we are roughing a house again, which my body isn't exactly used to anymore (yes, i'm getting soft), and the weather has been treating us to some beautiful yet hot days, is kinda sapping the energy from me the last couple of days. But I would much rather be doing this kind of work than sitting around someones house hanging TVs and watching someone else program a remote control. THat is just mind numbing.

Maybe what I'm trying to say is that I'm tired but it is because life isn't too bad right now. Just physical. And that can be gotten used to. As long as I can avoid getting my picture on the "slacker board" at the store of people sleeping on their breaks I should be doing just fine. :)


song of the week: "Life By The Drop" -- Stevie Ray Vaughan

i'm dying to catch my breath

So not really anything has been happening this week. Pretty much just been working and hangin out whenever I can. Need to do some laundry tonight after I get off from the store. I know, I know...pretty exciting. Started checking out adds for a new place to live. I think maybe I just need to try to find some apts in areas where I wouldn't mind living and see what kind of prices I can get for a place by myself. Cause it doesn't really seem like I know anyone that is looking for a place and I'm kinda over the whole living with people I don't know thing. And I'm thinking about applying for a third job. I know, I need to just go do it instead of thinking about it. So maybe I just will.

And there you have it.

Oh. I've been eating a lot of peanut butter too. Chunky, just in case ya'll were wondering.


music: Within Temptaion

long division

Monday. Afternoon. Definitely better than Monday morning. Although, as Monday mornings go, it wasn't one to complain about. Could have been, had I not realized that somehow my clock was an hour behind which would have made me an hour late for work. Always a good way to start out the week. But tragedy was avoided as somehow my sleepy brain realized it was too light outside to still be 5:40 like my clock was trying to tell me. All good.

Got to play a tiny bit of disc golf Sunday afternoon. Think we only played maybe seven holes. Didn't do wonderfly, but not horribly either. Guess that makes it bout average, huh. Was nice to be outside though. Gorgeous day. Then I went home and finally finished reading The Kite Runner. Pretty good book. I would say it was one of the better ones that I have read recently, but as it seems to be the only one I've read recently that really goes without saying. And the books I've read before it have been recommended by an excellant source (thanks Jess! i might be hitting you up for more suggestions soon. or now...) so basically all the books I've read in the last year or two have been well above average.

I guess I really didn't do a whole lot on Saturday. Except work at the store. And that really was actually kinda fun. Got to listen to a lot of music while I was there in the back and I had stuff to do that kept me busy but it wasn't crazy amounts of busy which was nice. And there were fun people there to work with and that always helps the time go by and makes it seem less like you are actually working on Saturday.

And, since it has been almost a week since I've posted I suppose I should throw in something about the rest of last week... Not really a whole lot happened on Wednesday or Thursday. At my regular job we actually started roughing a new house for once. This is what I did almost every day for the first seven or eight or nine months that I worked here. And I like it. But we haven't hardly done any of this for the last four or five or six months. So it was nice to actually be out there doing one and feeling like I actually put in a real days worth of work. Pretty much was exhausted by Friday afternoon, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Gave me a good excuse to take a nap before Friday night.
And I think that that's bout all I have to say about anything for now. Have a great Monday...night. Bye.


music: "You Can Do Better Than Me" -- DCFC

stars go blue

Finally won a softball game! We actually ten-runned them right at the end...18-8! It was a pretty fun game. We almost let it get away from us at the beginning, but hung in there and then finally started to pull away.

And then I went home and turned the tv on and the Twins were on! playing the Yankees. It was tied in the bottom of the eighth and the Twins actually scored and then ended up winning!

And then I actually read a little at home. I know, that doesn't sound all that exciting...but it's been probably a month since I've done that. It was great!

There was some saddness though. I finished my Easy Cheese. And my milk. Always sad when the milk is gone.

I did get the official rules from my Mom on how to make hard boiled eggs though. Bring on the high life!

I think "they" (as in "the man") should start a National 7 year old Day where everyone has a day off work and does all their favorite things from when they were 7. Just go out and play on the swings and in the sandbox, build with Legos, eat grilled cheese sandwhiches three times a day, ride your bike as fast as you can down the block and see how long of a skid mark you can leave at the end... I'm going to write my congressman. Or woman. Don't even know which it is that I have.

Speaking of bikes. I bought a cheap used bike yesterday and am intending on starting to ride in to work at least two, maybe three or even four, days a week. So look for updates on that. Could be interesting. I haven't really been on a bike probably for about four years or so.

And now I actually have to go pick some stuff up so I will catch ya'll later!


music: alt country web radio

vast open sky

So last night was incredibly good!

Work was good.

Break time was even better.

Got one of the best text messages of my life at the end of my shift.

Had an excellent talk with a friend out in the parking lot of Chilis for an hour and a half. (whydo they lock their doors at 10? we just wanted some stinking queso!)

Went home and couldn't sleep and ended up reading Exodus chapter 14. Go read it. It is most amazing.

Finally fell asleep around either one-ish or two-ish. Can't really remember so much. I hope it was the earlier time. Cause I woke up early for some reason this morning. Love it when I do that. Know it's going to be a wonderful day. (and i really mean that. don't read that with my normal sarcastic tone inserted. it's supposed to sound sincere...)

Today is FRIDAY! Sadly, it brings to a close my run of three straight four-day work weeks. Tear. Ah but it was fun while it lasted. May has been one great month!


music: "Talking Bird" -- DCFC

talking bird

Death Cab concert last night! Not my first time at Red Rocks, but definitely the first concert for me there! Pretty flipping awesome! We pretty much missed the entire set of the opening band, which sounded like they might be decent, but I wasn't too hurt about missing them. DCFC definitely made the night. They ended up playing like a five or six song encore (why doesn't every band do this?!), all old stuff that I didn't know. But I what I heard I for sure liked and am going to have to go invest in some of their old albums.

I love finding that I like bands that I thought that I didn't before. Just shows what the stupid radio stations can do to good music. So THANK YOU, Karen, for inviting me to the show! Had a great time!

And that's about all that's worth writing about right now. Have a good one.


music: "The Ice Is Getting Thinner" -- Death Cab For Cutie

tailspin

I get to go to a concert up at Red Rocks tonight which should be pretty fun! And I feel as though I am this close to not being sick anymore and that is definitely a wonderful thing! And I had possibly one of the best 3-5 day stretch this last weekend that I've had in a long long time! So much fun and I didn't even have to think of working at all. The hardest thing I had to do was lose to my dad at horse shoes five games in a row. What can I say, it was his birthday and the guy can just straight throw some iron.

Well, I guess it's pretty much that time of day where I might need to try to pretend to start working so that when we actually start working in another hour it won't take too long to get out of here...


music: alternative counrty radio on the internet! this stuff is fun!