getting too old for this

I am a pathetically slow reader. I have known this for quite some time now, and I am ok with it. It still would be nice if I could read faster though. And as far as the days of staying up late reading a good book go...not so much anymore. I was going to try to read for an hour last night before I went to sleep. Just read from eleven to twelve. Sounds simple. Easy. Nope. Made it to about 11:35 I think. Pathetic. Oh well.

Painted the rest of my room today. Paint is expensive. Glad I have a small room.

While I was at Home Depot picking up my paint late this afternoon I ran into a guy I know from church who works for (is fairly high up, i think) a contruction company. He asked me who I was working for and if I was happy. Had to think about that question for all of half a second. Not especially. So he gave me his card and told me to call him tomorrow. They just lost a couple of guys. Sounds like it could be a really good opportunity! Definitely going to give him a call. I am thinking, if it does work out, that I may have to take a little bit of a hit in the pay department, but it also sounds like I would be getting more hours than I am now, so it would probably be about the same. Definitely excited about this! Pretty cool how God leads our every step throughout the day.

The sister is coming tomorrow!

I love hot, fresh cookies. And when there is a big jug of milk handy to chug out of...even better! I know, I know. I'm not supposed to drink out of the jug. It's gross or something. But when you can drink a quart or more at a time, it is just easier. And I'm all about working smarter, not harder.


mood: suprisingly good (although it would be nice if i could remember how to spell "suprising". i've always had problems with that squirly little devil)
music: "Reason Why" - Rachael Yamagata

surfing with the alien

So, what has been going on with me lately? Good question. Glad you asked.

Started moving some of my stuff over to the new place last week. Then decided that I should paint my room before moving more stuff over there. And, as I was going to need to stay at the parents house this weekend anyway (they were out of town and wanted someone here), waiting to move more stuff was not too much of a problem. So, today, right after work, I loaded up my queen-size box spring onto my truck and went over there. Tried to see if I could get said box spring down the mini stairs to my room. Nope. Not too much of a problem as the landlord said he has some split ones that I can use while I am here. Cool. Painted base and trim around doors in my room. Looking better already.

Friday night I spent most of the early evening relaxing and laughing my butt off while watching season two of The Office on dvd. Then got a call and went and met some friends and had a nice time just hanging out and talking for a few hours. Good night.

Saturday...finally read the character packet for the murder mystery thing that I was going to on Saturday night. I had only had it for a month before hand... Then I went out and did some awesome thrift store shopping for my outfit for the thingy. Seventies. Great clothes they had back then.

Sunday, after church, I spent the rest of the day with some friends just chillin like a villin, watchin tv, a movie, some football, and getting more music. Fun times!

Ooh! One of my friends brought me more books to read too. (thanks Jess) This is a good thing and I am really excited about them, but after I got them home last night I decided that I want/need to finish reading the book that I am currently reading before I start on these. This may not be bad in itself, but that means that I still have about 587 pages or so left to go. And I want to try to finish that book this week. Which for some people would be no problem at all. But for me that is a LOT of reading for a week. And my sister is coming on Wednesday. And I am painting/moving also. And then...NO MORE AND THEN's!

Well, I better get going. Doesn't sound like I have any time to waste this week. But goals are good. Right? And sleep. Ah. Who needs sleep?


mood: ready to tackle the world. i think.
music: "New York State Of Mind" - Billy Joel

colorado rednecks

This is one of my favorite pictures ever! Hope ya'll enjoy it.

While I was driving home from work this afternoon I heard a song on the radio by Madeleine Peyroux. It's a great song, but one of the lines just stuck with me. It was, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but tears don't leave any scars."

Don't really know what else to say about that. Don't really want to say anything else about it. Probably will mean something different to everyone anyway.

And if you have never heard of Peyroux before, let me just say that she is worth listening to. If you like the Norah Jones/Billie Holliday type of singers.

That's all I got for now. Other than the fact that I am quite glad that I was able to get new tires on my truck last week. Snowed a decent bit last night/this morning, and I was hardly able to get my truck to slide around when I was trying to get it to do so. But I was able to have some fun with it after a couple more inches fell and I was on some more, very deserted, side streets...


mood: hungry. must go get milk so i can eat a box of mac and cheese.
music: Evanescence (just one of those afternoons)

the whiskey ain't workin' anymore

6,400. SIX THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED. That is how many stickers I put on stuff yesterday. But money is money. And nine bucks an hour ain't too bad to put stickers on stuff.

Signed my lease last night!

Was working/doing "important" stuff until 8 last night. Then I just crashed and was sleeping by 9:45. It was quite nice.

Going to start moving stuff today. As long as the blizzard doesn't come till later tonight...

And today is going to be a nice, relaxing, fun day. So I am just going to try to relax and enjoy it!


mood: awake
music: "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'" - Travis Tritt/Marty Stuart (yes, this is the song that i woke up with in my head this morning. wierd, very wierd)

"more on this later"

"More on this later." That is a direct quote from yesterday's post. But I guess those four little words just happened to slip past everyone, thus causing panic that I haven't told anyone about me moving.

Mostly the reason that hardly anyone has been informed of anything is that most of this has happened in just a few days. Really. I found this place last Thursday night, looked at it Friday, Saturday met with the guys who live there, and tomorrow I am going to sign the lease. So it has been like half a week, in all. And nothing was ever definite, until tomorrow. But I am pretty excited about it. Other than the fact that I am going to be living on peanut butter for a while. But that just builds character. And I like peanut butter. I will be renting a room in a house that currently has three other guys living in it. Rent is very good and includes utilities, cable, and wireless internet. And there is washer/dryer in the house and a dishwasher. And it's a house, not an apartment. And it has a nice big yard in back. And an alley. I love alleys for some strange reason. And did I mention that it has cable? This is a very good thing. Now I just need to rig up some way to tape all the shows I am going to miss because of basketball and all will be good.

And, for those who know/live in the area at all, it is located in Littleton. Just off Broadway and Hampton. And there is a hospital close by. Like less than three blocks away. This is always a good thing for me.

So, that is about all that is going on right now. Going to be a very busy week. And the week after this is going to be crazy busy as well. And the first part of the week after that... And then maybe I will get to sleep a little bit after that. But this is what this time of my life is supposed to be for. Right? Right. Going to be fun!


mood: off to get some sleep while i can
music: "It's Beggining To Get To Me" - Snow Patrol

is it raining

So, I've been a little on the non-communicative side of things the last couple of days. Not for lack of want (i sat here one night for half and hour and couldn't figure out how to say anything and then did the same thing on an e-mail i wanted to send). But I think the 'ol brain may have cleared up a bit over the weekend and I should be good to go for the week ahead.

Exciting news! The sweatshirt is apparently celebrating its eightyth year of existance this fall. Don't want to think what sort of place this world would be without the sweatshirt. What a beautiful giver of comfort and warmth. Which reminds me, I still owe myself a new one...

World Series is tied 1-1. Nice to see a good, close series when you don't really care too much about one team or the other. But I would like to see Detroit win. They just seem to be a little more fun to watch.

Think I may be close to moving out of my parents house again. Hopefully for the last time this time. But, if everything goes through, I should be able to start moving my stuff sometime towards the end of the week. "And there was much rejoicing." More on this later.

College football was a little on the slow side this weekend. Just ask the announcers. Watching/listening on the radio on more than one occasion and in more than one game the announcers were talking about how exciting it was to watch the punters punt the ball. Really. I am not making this up. Wouldn't think up this kind of stuff on my own. Punters are important, but never, ever have I heard anyone consider them exciting. And I didn't really have much time today to watch any NFL games, just a quarter or two really. But it looked like there were some good games going on.

I get to be an assistant coach for the basketball team this year. It's at the school I graduated from out here in Denver. Should be good times. I'm excited about actually getting to be at practice all the time and learning more stuff myself. Cause I only got to play basically one year in high school myself, so I have not been coached a whole lot myself. Think this could really help me. And I get to maybe help some of the kids too, which could be cool. I have thought, at times, that maybe I should have gone into teaching or coaching or something along those lines, but I just couldn't really ever bring myself to think that I would actually like doing that all the time. But this way I still get to do that a little bit. And it is really just more of an assistant to the coach than an assistant coach. So there isn't a whole lot of pressure on me or anything either. But it should make for a nice busy winter. And that is always a good thing. Going to need to get a DVR though so I can keep up on The Office.

People who can't feel their lower lip and chin can provide good entertainment when eating ice cream.

Only one and a half weeks until my sister comes to see me!


mood: need to read
music: "Push" - Matchbox Twenty

good times

It's been a while since I got to put a picture on here, so here's another one for you. And seen as how the pic that I wanted to load on here was being stupid and wouldn't work, here's one that is almost a year old. Took in at Gettysburg when I was there, I think it was last November. It's not too exciting, but kinda cool looking I guess.

i should be excited. i should at least be on the happy side of the scale. and i'm not unhappy. just more of a ... yeah. that's about right.

thinking, that's all

found my keys. idiot!

covert

Lost my keys today. Never happened to me before. At all. It is a very rare occurance if it takes me more than a minute to find them. Just one of those nuerotic people who always leaves my keys in the same place. But I guess they must have fallen out of my pocket or something today. Somewhere. Oh well. At least I took my friends house key,whose house/dog I am watching tonight, off of my key ring before I left my house this morning. That could have been a bad bad thing. Yeesh.

Didn't know Canadians were funny at all. But they are. At least a few of them.

Smiles are good.

That's all for today. Keeping it simple today. Have a good one.


music: sweet sounds of cable tv!

snow fallin down

SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW snow SNOW!!!!!!! There is snow! And there was enough to make snowballs. But I had no one to throw them at; that was sad. But there is snow!

And I don't have to drive tomorrow. This is a very good thing. Why? Beacuse I can tend to be a tiny bit impatient with people who don't know how to drive in the snow. And I get to ride all around the state (really, we are going to Golden and Colorado Springs tomorrow) with the plumber. So that will be fun. I'll probably get to learn some curse words that I have never heard before. He isn't the most patient of people either...

There is snow. Just reminding you, in case you forgot already.

I get to take care of my favorite dog from Wednesday till Friday night. Pretty excited about that too. And I get to watch cable and catch up on Heros and they bought me a whole tub of MooseTracks ice cream (this never even made it into a bowl the last time, just ate it all in, i think, two sittings) and i think I might even sleep in the guest room this time instead of on the couch. So it should be a fun couple of days. Just me and the dog.

snow, i tell you. snow.

i think the lack of supper and not enough sleep are seriously hampering my...my...my...well, everything. Going to go search the kitchen, again, and then actually go to sleep before one o'clock. And that's the one o'clock where it is really dark outside. Except maybe on nights like tonight, cause the moon will shine off the snow and it can actually be quite light out at times. Cause there's snow.

Yeah, going to sleep.


mood: not quite sure what a person would call this
music: "The Night Santa Went Crazy" - Weird Al Yankovic

cavity search

Not a bad Monday, as Mondays go.

Had a nice long brerak between appointments for work today, so called my trusty assistant (my sister) and had her look up some movie times for me and went and watched a movie. Very nice way to kill some down time on a Monday morning/afternoon. Saw Little Miss Sunshine. Definitely had some funny stuff in it. But wow. Little bit of a scary family. (Grandpa died from a heroin overdose) But you know what? In the end, they all realized that they were a family and were happier for it. Or something like that.

Then, on my way home from work i got a call from some friends who live in PA and who I have been trying to talk to for the last month and haven't been able to get ahold of. Always good to talk to friends.

And Studio 60 was on tonight. (Heroes was on as well, but i can't watch it until i see last weeks, and i can't do that until wednesday, but i am excited about that too) This is a show that know how to do things right. It's funny, but not in your face about it like most sit-coms are. And if you remember my little rant that I went off on a couple of weeks ago about the music used in tv shows...well, this show does not fall inside that grouping. Great music. And one of the best parts of it all...Sting (usually not one of my favorites, but he is ok) sang "Fields of Gold" with only a couple of lutes playing as accompaniment (don't be too impressed that i spelled that right, had to look it up). It was quite beautiful. And that's what helps to make Studio 60 such a great show. It throws you curveballs like that. They aren't scared to combine funny with beauty. Good, good stuff.

mood: a little absent-minded right now i guess. oops.
music: "The One" --Everyday Sunday

more nonsense

I know I just e-mailed a bunch of you another version of this, but I liked this one better that I stole from a friend, who stole it from a friend... Anyway, I might put some actual content at the end of the post, but not likely. So if you don't want to read this, don't. Won't hurt my feelings. Too much...

Your Life: The Soundtrack
1. Open your music player.
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question press the next button.

Opening Credits - "She Says" - Howie Day

Well, it appears my life gets off to a nice manly start with a Howie tune. Yeah for me!


Waking Up - "Gira Con Me Questa Notte" - Josh Groban

This is definitely not going to wake me up, but I'll listen to it while I hit the snooze bar a few more times.


Falling in Love - "Gira Con Me Questa Notte" - Josh Groban with the Corrs

Well, I guess at least I'll live throught the pain and tragic strife of everything. I guess this is pretty close to being dead on for this one so far in life. And the Corrs are pretty good lookin, so that has to count for something, doesn't it?


Fight Scene - "Tomorrow" - Avril Lavigne

Looks like the fight isn't going to happen till tomorrow, folks. So lets just all go back home and get some rest for the big day... What a downer of a fight scene!


Breaking Up - "Cold One Comin' On" - Montgomery Gentry

Hit the nail on the head with this one! Great country song for a breakup.


Getting Back Together - "The Prisoner Wishes To Say A Word" - Braveheart soundtrack

One word for ya: "Freedom!" Guess there isn't going to be any getting back together, which suits me just fine, thank you.


Secret Love - "Slow Decay" - Dashboard Confessional

Seems as though I have a very warped secret love. Possibly a killer, "I didn't hate those that I killed, but they're all dead now." Good times for me...


Life's Okay - "Keep On The Sunny Side" - The Whites

One of the songs from "O Brother Where Art Thou". And it is actually about what it is supposed to be for this category. Amazing. iTunes isn't as dumb as I was beginning to think it was.


Mental Breakdown - "Disarm" - Smashing Pumpkins

I used to be a little boy/So old in my shoes/And what I choose is my voice/What's a boy supposed to do?/The killer in me is the killer in you/My love/I send this smile over to you

Yeah, that's pretty fitting for a mental breakdown song.


Driving Flashback - "Remember When" - Alan Jackson

Dude, more like a whole life flashback. iTunes is sure improving it's batting average over the last few songs.


Partying - "Jerk It Out" - Caesars

Great party song! If this won't get you dancing, well then some other song probably will.


Happy Dance - "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage" - Panic! At The Disco

Not exactly happy, but it is fast. So you could make a happy dance out of it if you really wanted to.


Regretting - "A Night To Remember" - SHeDAISY

Dang, don't mess with women! They don't get mad, they get even. Even when it means they take themselves down too. At least in this song they do. Chick puts the car over the cliff with her and her cheatin husband in it. Guess he has a few seconds to regret his choices...


Long Night Alone - "The Saddest Song" - The Ataris

Yeah, this one works. Acoustic recording of a not too electric song in the first place. Just some piano, guitar, and a little violin. And some sad lyrics about a dad who is wishing his kid will forgive him somday for not being around. Not that I have any kids or anything, it's just one of those songs you let play during a long, lonely night.


Final Battle - "Nothing Else Matters" - Metallica

This is going to be one slow battle. This would be a great song to play either leading into or right after the battle. But it would kinda suck to try to fight to. Maybe super slow-mo...


Death Scene - "Smilin'" - Tim McGraw

Perfect. Could be worse ways to go...


End Credits - "With Arms Wide Open" - Creed

Got about the right tempo and everything for the end credits. But the lyrics... Maybe I'm going to have to come back in another life. I wanted to be able to steal the line my friend's friend put on her end credits, "Into the sunset, ride I.", but that just totally doesn't fit here at all. Dang it!


So, that's it. For the most part iTunes was a big let down. But it did nail a few of them.

Sure wish that I could sleep for eight hours at a stretch. I could actually go to bed now if I could...

mood: got the Sunday night tired and full thing goin on
music: little bit of everything

goodbye tonight

So, it's Saturday. Did a whole lot of nothing today. It was pretty sweet. But I sure had a fun night last night!

Detriot is now the most fun team to watch in the baseball playoffs, thus I am cheering for them. And they won the AL tonight on a monster 3-run, walk-off blast in the bottom of the ninth inning. It was pretty cool. I love baseball. Makes me wish it was still softball season so I could go play something close to baseball.

Well, I thought I had a lot more to say but I'm not remembering anything anymore. Must have had too much fun last night...

music: Crossfade

we been spending most our lives...

All my insides feel like they are in the process of imploding.

Laughed so much today. Got to roll with the plumber again today. Many hilarious stories about learning how to drive humvees and even one about a bar in Tel-Aviv run by the Russian mafia. Seriously, if I wasn't actually learning some of the basics of plumbing stuff, it could hardly be considered work. And I get to do it all again tomorrow!

The Office was absolutely brilliant tonight! Jim is my hero.

I need a garage.

Maybe I just need sleep. Yeah. Definitely sleep. Have to get up at five, so sleep would be good now. If I can.

mood: wishing for...
music: Evanescence

p.s. bonus points to the first person to tell me where i got tonight's subject line from. hint: one of the greatest songs EVER. ;)

i need a phone call

Naps are a gift from God. There is little on earth as blissfully sweet as a good, reading induced nap.

Playoff baseball is the best. Love it.

Already excited about Thanksgiving, and not for the food as much as for our second annual Thanksgiving football game. So much fun, yet so much hurting after...

Went to Wal-Mart last night. Traumatic. Not on my list of fun things to do on a Tuesday night. And I'll do most anything on a Tuesday night for fun. At least I didn't end up buying anything so I didn't have to try to wade thru the checkout lines. And, I could be wrong about this, but aren't the "greeters" specifically there to greet people? Because I'm pretty sure the ones that I walked past didn't even acknowledge that I was there. Just seems a little pointless...

Got to read a lot today, very enjoyable. And I even had time to work on another little project that I have given myself. Baseball games are great to multi-task during when they are on tv. Also watched 30 Rock and 20 Good Years. 30 Rock struck me as being a little on the lame side. Sorry Tina, you're great on Saturdaynight Live, but this just wasn't working for me. And 20 Good Years seems like it could be a good show. At the very least it seems like a good show to not have to watch every week to keep up with. You're not going to miss any story line if you miss an episode or two. But good to catch for a few laughs whenever you are just bored and flippin channles.

mood: relaxed
music: "Lithium" -Evanescence

all you need...

"Good day to you, too, ma'am. Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock you bonnet off, and tread upon it!"

Don't you just love it when those little things happen that can take a day and make it good, no matter what else has happened? Got two of those things today! I am calling it a good day.

And I got to read too!

And I'm going to leave it at that and go to bed. Cause I think I actually can for once. And it's not even eleven yet. This really is a good day!

mood: happy and wishing that morning wouldn't come, bringing with it the reminders that everything i thought i had figured out yesterday pretty much was undone today and i need to try to figure everything out again. but it is a good day right now, so i'm just going with that for now!
music: "Three Marlenas" -The Wallflowers

so long, so long

Finally watched Monday Night Football for the first time this season. Decent game. Would have been a fun one to be at, sitting in the cold rain the whole night. Really. I tried to win tickets on the radio this morning, but I couldn't get through. But I did get to go to a friends apt and watch the game. But I didn't get the coookies I was promised until after the game was over... But I did get to watch as the first touchdown was scored at Mile-High this season. Took long enough for someone to do it. That is just weird.

Was running ahead of schedule today for work and happened to be going by my mom's school around lunch time so I stopped in for a chat. Funny how I can stop and talk to her at the school like that, but I usually try to avoid talking to her at home, except on select occasions.

I must be working more now. At least my hands look like it. I like being able to tell that I am working just by looking at my hands. Not that I think it is any "manlier" than anything else really, cause most of what I do isn't necessarily really "manly" by nature. But I have always been a fan of the old guys whose hands you shake and you can tell they know what work is. They might be 90 years old, but they can still give you a firm hand shake and you can still feel the toughness in their hands of years and years of work. And I would like to think that at some point in my life I might be able to do that myself.

My eye felt fine today. No problems at all. And I even put contacts in this morning. Very thankful that all that cleared up in a day. Cause as one of the schedulers at work said today, bloodfilled and eye are not words that are ever good to be using together, or something like that. And I would have to agree with her. Not a pleasant experience, glad it is over.

I think I am on the verge of making a slight job change. Now I just need to buckle down in the next couple of days and figure everything out for sure. And who knows...if everything works out for the best (but lets be realistic here folks) it may be a very good situation I find myself in.

I think I have turned a corner in life. I think I might actually enjoy meeting new people now. Granted, it still depends a lot on setting and what not, and how many new people at a time that there are... But I have met several new people lately, and instead of being afraid and not enjoying myself at all like I would have used to have done, I actually kinda enjoyed it. And it turns out there are some nice people out there. Imagine that.

mood: hoping i can fall alseep before 2 in the a.m. this time around
music: Big & Rich ( forgot how much i like listening to those guys )

ocular explosions

This morning I woke up in some serious pain. Could not open my left eye at all. Pried it open long enough to yank my contact out and ended up back in bed ten minutes later hoping that just laying there with my eyes closed would help the hurt to go away. Fell asleep. Woke up an hour or so later, still in pain. Could not keep my eye open for more than a couple seconds at a time. Went and layed down on the couch. Fell asleep. Woke up around noon thirty. Still in pain. Decided to take shower. Fun times when you can't see anything. Pried my eye open long enough to look at it in the mirror. Yuck. Looks all red and bloody. Ate a little food. Very fun to try to eat fried rice with your eyes closed! Went back to the bed. Mom made me put a hot wash cloth on eye. Fell alseep again. Woke up several hours later. Put hot wash cloth on eye again. Tried to lay in bed listening to the tv with my eyes closed, in the dark. Around 7:15ish decide its time to see how long I can keep my eyes open. Make it all around the house before it starts to hurt at all again. Yay, its getting better. Still takes till about 8 or so until I could sit and watch tv with both eyes open. And I still had to have the lights mostly off. But now it is after 10 and the eye is doing fairly well.

Now I just get to see if I can sleep at all tonight, seen as how I have been sleeping for about 19 out of the last 25 hours (yes, i did go to sleep very very early last night too).

Not the most fun I've ever had on a Sunday.

But last night I got to go to an all you can eat Italian buffet. For free! Just had to sit and listen to a guy from the college I graduated from talk for a little bit about what all was going on down there and what they were wanting to start doing with their alumni and stuff, and then eat all the food I could. It was great times! And that was some good food. Usually buffet food is ok, but not the best. This stuff was as good as anything I have ever ordered at an Italian resturant, but it was in buffet form and you could just keep eating. And the desserts!!!! Oh. My. Word!! Yeah, they were that good!

Football update: Penn State beat the Gophers. So that is both good and bad. Auburn, the #2 team in the nation, lost to Arkansas, an unranked team. And they were playing at Auburn. The tigers just don't lose there. But on Saturday they just looked like they didn't know what on earth they were doing on a football field. It was kinda sad. I heard the Vikings won today, but they were playing Detroit, so they had better have won. The Eagles won today, and I actually pried my eyes open enough to see the last couple of plays of that game. The Steelers lost tonight, and again, they also didn't quite look like they knew they were actually supposed to be playing a game tonight.

Well, I guess I have nothing left to say tonight. My brain has not exactly been over-active this weekend dreaming up anything to talk about.

mood: bring on monday
music: "Swing Brother Swing" -Billie Holiday

fly

Forgot about Heroes. How could I forget one of the best new shows? Probably cause it's new I guess. But it is a great one. So watch it. Oh, and Six Degrees. That one's good too. But this means that I have way too many shows that I am trying to keep up with. And some are getting dropped by me already. And I am sure that one or two more will drop off after a while. I'm really not too concerned about them.

I missed The Office today. Hopefully I have it covered though. And it was for a very worthy reason and I am not sad at all that I didn't get to watch it tonight. It's only tv.

I actually had quite a pleasant day. Had a rather leisurly day at work. Had a massive inspection to do this afternoon that took me about 4 hours, which means it was HUGE, but the home owners are out of the country so I got to use the hide-a-key to let myself in and I brought my radio in and had a nice time of it. Then I got home a little early and had my SI read by like four or five o'clock. Went to the grocery store and got some milk and cereal and then made some mac and cheese for supper, which I have been craving for the past two months. And as I was finishing the last few bites of that, my phone rang and I spent the next hour and a half talking outside. Great day! Can I have another?

Richard the Plum (he's actually the plumber but my phone only has enough room for "plum" in it so that is how I like to refer to him in my own strange head) is picking me up tomorrow between 6 and 6:30 in the a.m. and I get to spend the day riding around with him so he can teach me how to do some plumbing stuff. Should be a fun day. The guy is nuts, love working with him!

mood: purdy durn good
music: "Good Enough" -Evanescence

p.s. oh and shannon, not cool sneaking in pot-shot comments, days and days after the post, about my leaky eye. not cool at all. besides, i may watch chick flicks (i may even like some of them, but shhh) but i usually only get leaky eyes for the war type movies. usually...

the noise of thunder

Well, the Twins lost again. And can I just say... Hunter, you are way way up there on my list of favorite players ever, but what were you thinking man!! This is the playoffs. Yes, outs are needed, but we need to keep the ball in front of us! In the park home runs are very very bad; in the playoffs, late in a tie game, they are just horrible!

Ok, got that out of my system. But it was sad.

Got to drive pretty far off the beaten track today, at least off of any path that I have ever beaten before. It was a pretty nice drive. And I got to see some nice colors on the trees.

TV update: I have grown bored of Smith. Actually was bored with it its second week, but I tried watching it agian this week and was still not interested at all. But it might be a decent show. Friday Night Lights started tonight. Seems like it could be good. Kinda a rip off of every high school football movie so far. NCIS and The Unit are good, as always. Grey's Anatomy is off to another great season. The Office, need I say more than outstanding entertainment! And Earl is always good for laughs too.

I think those are pretty much all the shows that I try to keep up with. There are a few more from time to time, and right now I am still trying to figure out when everything is on again so I end up watching a lot more. But I'll have it all figured out again soon so I can actually start reading more again. I did do some reading tonight after work and quite enjoyed myself. Oh, there's Studio 60 too, and that is a show that I think I am really going to like. But that's all of them. I think...

Tomorrow is SI day! And I have actually remembered more than once today. Usually I don't remember SI day until I have SI in my hands. Which means now that I am all excited about it ahead of time it will probably be a crappy issue with nothing good to read in it. But that would be ok too, cause then I could work some more on the other stuff that I am working on reading again. And that was fun tonight so it should be fun again tomorrow. Right?

Oh, and I can't really play percussion either. Still too much of the doing different things with the hands. Maybe bass drum or really slow tympanies (sp?). But definitely not the drum set or anything cool like that. And not that brass is bad...ahh, I can't figure out how to say what I am thinking right now. Let's just say that I would rather be able to play the guitar or piano. And maybe even sing, or something. If I was in a cave somewhere far far from people. Cause really, as Willie Nelson would say, "I sing, but I'm not a signer."

And that's all for tonight. Nothing terribly interesting, but that's pretty much par for the course. And I never promised anything more than confused and wandering thoughts on nothing and anything.

mood: think i might go to sleep now tha my head isn't hurting. yay
music: "Battlescars" -Punchline

confusion runs rampant

My job is frustrating. And I really want to find a new place to work. Only thing is, every time that I really really want to find a new job, something happens at work to make me think that maybe I should stay there. And this swing can all take place in just one day. Usually does happen all in the same day. Which just makes it more confusing. So annoying. Why can't it everything just be horrible there and then I would have a really easy decision to make. Wait. Who am I kidding. I need to find something else. I can't keep going on like this.

The Twins lost today. And I was actually working, so I didn't get to see any of it at all. Which I guess is a good thing. And the Yankees won tonight, and that is another bad thing. Hopefully Wednesday the baseball gods will decide to smile upon me. Please.

Got to work with Richard the Plumber today. Always good times!

I can't do the "live long and prosper" thing with my hands. That bothers me so much.

I aslo can't play instruments that require using both hands at the same time to do different things. This bothers me more than anything else, I think. I would so love to be able to play the piano, or guitar. Even the sax. But no, my brain just won't let me. My hands just want to start doing the same things all the time, and that just doesn't really turn out too well. But I sure do enjoy listening to other people play. One of my most favoritist things to do.

Lesson for the day: when there is a sign that says "dead end" it means that the street doesn't go thru. Even if the sign is really tiny and covered by a tree branch, the street still ends.

mood:
music: "Good Enough" -Evanescence

just the basics

My left eye has been leaking for the past two days. I think maybe I need to get a pair of glasses to give my eyes a break from the contacts every so often. But for now, my eye continues to leak.

The new Evanescence album is released tomorrow.

Zoolander is on sale this week at Best Buy.

I am going to Best Buy in the morning.

My body will not hold any food in it. Should this be something that worries me? Or is it because I am worried about it holding food that it will not hold any food?

Heroes is a good show. Pperhaps a great show. Only time will tell.

"Sing us a song, you're the piano man."

The front, left tire on my truck is worn completely through in places.

Why do I not want to sleep? This does not seem like a normal thing to me. I get tired. I am tired right now. Yet I have no desire to sleep. I have nothing to gain by staying awake. But I don't want to sleep. This has been happening to me quite a lot lately. I don't understand.

My eye is stil leaking.

Baseball playoffs start tomorrow. Tune in to cheer the Twins on at 1:00 in the p.m. eastern time. So that makes it 11 a.m. for those of us in mountain time. Yep, right when I have to go to work tomorrow. Maybe I'll still be able to catch the end of the game. And be sure to tune into the Yankees/Detroit game tomorrow night to watch the Yankees lose. I hope.

mood: still haven't figured that out
music: "The Dance" -Garth Brooks

i'd give you my last shirt

It's official! The Twins are the champions of the AL Central Division! Of course they had to draw it out to the very last game of the season, but they did it! Way to go guys, thanks for the great season, now lets keep it going through the playoffs!

This was quite a strange weekend for me. I think I slept more than I did anything else. I was sleeping before mindnight on Friday, Saturday I was sleeping by like 9:30, and this afternoon I fell asleep for like four hours. Not normal.

On Friday I went to a corn maze with some friends. And had a funnle cake. Oh, so good! Love those things. Saturday was the golf tournament. Had a great time, but was reminded that I am a pretty horribly bad golfer. And today, even after all the sleep I had already, I just felt really tired, so after getting home from church I just really didn't do anything at all, except sleep some more.

Why is it that when I am in a mood where I don't really want to talk at all that my parents think it is great fun to try to get me to talk? I wasn't in a bad mood. I didn't want to get mad at anyone, I wasn't mad at anyone. I wasn't really depressed or anything. I just was in one of the funky moods that I get every so often, and I didn't really feel like saying anything. And I didn't really have anything that I felt was worth saying, so I would have been quite happy going through the day with minimal communication with anyone else. Maybe I just need to make a sign for them or something....

Why is asking for help so difficult? I am more than happy to help anyone that I possibly can. but if I ever need help...I'll practically kill myself before I'll let anyone help me.

Think I need some more sleep.

mood: ??
music: "Here Comes A Regular" -The Replacements