Well, it's been quite a stir the past few days. I haven't written in here in 10 days, the longest I've gone for quite a bit now. Let's back up a little bit. As I don't remember when the 20th was (the day), I'll just explain starting Thursday, which was the night Laura and I went to Manitou Springs to stay at a B&B. It was a great time! The first experience was a good one for me, fortunately, and I'm probalby going to go back there again sometime. We just, well, relaxed, really. We walked around the town and such. All and all it was a good time. Then, though, afterwards we went to pick up Chris from the airport, and on the way back, in Ashley's car nonetheless, I got a speeding ticket. It was a black guy on a bike. Fucking tards. Anyway, fast fowarding to Monday, I go to Ralph Schomp BMW and Honda to go look at a car...I settle on a red, Honda Civic EX. I have them turn in my credit report to see if I'm good to go with financing...I'm not, of course, after spending hours there. I need a co-signer. I go talk to my Mom afterwards and the next day, aruound 5pm, I'm home free with my new car. It's a damn great machine. A hell of a lot better than mine. It's been a few days now, and been putting a little too many miles on it for my sake. I'm need to start slowing down. I waxed it last night, to find out this morning it rained last night too. I washed the windows today. Soon, I'm going to create a website of my car, though I somehow need a way to get damn pictures on the net. Oh well. It's Friday already and that means that the first week of school is already over. It went by really fast. I am totally caught up except for a couple of classes because of book shortage. That's out of my power anyway. I think this Fall is going to be a lot better than the other semesters. The weather's been tolerable lately, too. Not TOO hot, though it's still hot. Tonight I think I'm going to show up at Chris' house for a little party, but I'm not going to stay long. I wanted strawberry ice cream last night, but didn't get to it. If I still feel like it tonight, I'm going. I might go watch a movie at the $2 theaters. $2...its so cheap. But yeah, things are on the upside recently. I'm enjoying it. My room's a mess, though. Ashley and Laura are pretty much moved in and hopefully they're enjoying it too. Ashley, Grant, Derek, and Susan are taking a trip out to Iowa to see TJ and his 21st b-day. Oh, how fun would that be. I am staring at a puddle of wax that's on my desk because I was careless enough to not put anything under the candle as it lit, so it leaked onto the desk. I am kinda hungry now, so I'm going to try and find something to eat. Probably ramen, but hell, it's better than nothing. See ya!

Well tomorrow Laura comes back. I think I'm gonna leave work early. Hehe. I have some things to take care of beforehand, but yeah, not new. I want to say some more stuff about music and its influences. I was rummaging through my box of unneeded stuff and came across my old cd containing backed up mp3s of all my old japanese songs. I put it in the cd player and started listening to them. Man they bring back a lot of memories from when I was about, oh, 11 or 12, maybe earlier. Yeah, it has to be about 10 for some of the songs. The amazing thing is that I remember each and every one of the songs clearly! These are old, old songs. It just has a quality to get ingrained into your mind. These songs put me in a really good mood, since I remember the times I hung out with my friends when I was in junior high. I spent a great deal of my allowance on these songs. Hundreds of dollars at least. Good thing I preserved them in the trusty old mp3 format. :) Thank you Germans! The sucky thing is that I don't have ANY of the songs of my favorite band. I gave the CDs to a friend and I think he still has them. The originals I sold on eBay for a morale lowering $60. But yeah, I think I might listen to a bit more of these songs and head to bed.G'night

Phew, another day done with. Left a little early, but oh well. I wasn't doing anything anyway. One of my co-workers said that she and a gang of friends went to the city where Laura and I are going for the B&B. She said she had a great time and said we shouldn't have any problems finding stuff to do. I completely forgot about one thing that I wanted to do, so I have to compensate for that and leave a little early from work on Thursday. It should be fun. I'm not saying where, since Laura checks this periodically and I can't have her finding out. Hehe. Sorry. But yeah, nothing new. Chris called. I guess he wants to have coffee or something on Friday when he gets back. I'm gonna have to call Ben and go by our coach's workplace, too. Thursday and Friday are going to be quite busy, actually. I might even say that those two days combined have out done all the other days for this Summer combined. That's how bored I was. I put a lot of miles on my car this Summer too, but good thing I'm getting a new car soon. I'm just waiting for the moment my car to stop, so I HAVE to get a soon. :) I have to think of something cool for my custom license plate number too. Well, I'm gonna...maybe take a nap. I'm kinda tired...sorta...maybe. Laters.

Well hello to Sunday. It's almost past. Laura's back, though I haven't talked to her much. Surfed all day mostly, did my laundry though, albeit only about 80%. Cleaned up her room a little too. I think I'm obsessive/compulsive. Maybe. Yesterday I hung out with Ben S. Yes, the same Ben that I haven't talked to all Summer and then some. We went to Starbucks, tried to catch up with our old golf coach, but he was "out sick". Yeah, right. We then went to Chili's and I ate lunch. The service was horrible. I gave the guy a $.50 tip. That's what he gets. Fuckhead, I'm never going to that one again. Then we caught up for a little while and I went over to my Mom's. Got a haircut, brought home the old, small fridge that I have no idea where to put even though at the time it was a good idea to bring it back up. I might put it in my room, but it will get unnecessarily hot in there. I might keep it right outside in the hallway...I don't know yet. Right now I'm pretty much waiting for when Laura can talk, either MSN or the phone. I'm pretty bored. I've been reading about how the moon landing by the U.S. might have been a hoax and setup. I was convinced there for a minute, but I think that the U.S. actually might have gone up there. :) I'm always a skeptic and open for any information that might come my way. 3 more days until the B&B. Can't wait. I hope my stay there is better than my Summer, which blew horsenuts all season long. I think I'm just gonna go listen to some music and chill for a bit. Oh yeah, Rod's a little baby.

Why does this world always try to go against me? My Mom was going to come up tomorrow to look at cars and I thought that I was going to get a car now, but I guess we aren't now. Fuck this, I am just going to have to earn this shit myself. I just need to come up with $1600 or more dollars for the down payment. Here's my plan in detail (this is mostly for my reference and plan to follow). I should be able to whip that out in a month and a half or so. I have about $600 spendable right now. My next paycheck should be around $580, so after $320 going to September's rent, I should have near $850 after bills and such...about half way there. If I can push myself to save my next paycheck, which would hopefully be around $500, all of that can go toward my savings, totalling around $1300. So close huh....That would be September 7th. The 21st would be my next paycheck. I have no idea how much I can get from that one, since I'll go going to school and stuff, so let's say a safe $450. After another $320 to rent, I'm left with $1400...god damn!!!!!!! My NEXT paycheck would be early October. I can put all, say, $450 to my savings, which equals a smile-inducing $1800 or so (I'm taking money here and there out, for social reasons). Bingo. I'm golden. BUT, I am supposed to be a nice little $1700 refund check from my great little community college for overpaid grants. That brings the grand total to over $3500. More than enough to get any used car I want. Problem is two-fold. Can I wait that long...and will my car last that long. Tough decision huh? My Mom said she would help me some for the down payment, which is great, but it would be greater if I can pull this off myself. The monkey on my shoulder would be lifted greatly if that happens. Well...it's back to the drawing board for me to make more money. :)

Ah, the weekend is approaching near. Tomorrow is Friday. Hell yeah!!!!!!!!! I just checked my checking account and magically $200 appeared. It must have been my Mom. Couldn't be anyone else, you know? So remember that lottery ticket I bought on Tuesday? I don't think I wrote it in a blog, but yeah, I bought a lotter ticket for last night and I got one number right. I guess everyone was wrong about how I should buy a lottery ticket because I'm so lucky and I would have one. The funny thing is, though, that three of the numbers were off by just 1. Oh well. I'm done with the lottery buying thing. Not my type of thing. Listening to Everclear right now. I haven't heard them in a long time. I wonder if they're gone or just busy recording. This ones going to be a short blog. I'm fresh out of stuff to talk about. I skipped work again today. Yeah, better them saving money than me going there, doing nothing, and them losing money. The funny thing is that they still lose money, hehe, but that's another story. Robin Hood, I tell you. Steal from the rich and give to the poor....err, me. Well, late.

Well not calling or e-mailing in about my day off wasn't so bad. Anyway, I'm now just shooting away the days to when Laura gets back. Actually, it's not the day she gets back that I'm waiting for, but the day I get to see her, which is Thursday. Another week. She's back on Sunday. That's in like, well shit, a few days. How fun is that huh? I was just thinking (like, JUST now), music is a powerful tool. It makes you wonder, think, daydream, pass time away, and thousands of other things more. It makes you happy, sad, excited, anxious, scared...you name it. I'm sure there's a song out there that'll convey a feeling. I always feel happy and secure when I listen to the music I like. I got to hand it to the artists who make great songs. Something I can't do, that's for sure. Chris called me yesterday. He was getting ready to go to Pearl Harbor then to Maui or something. Oh well. I'm really considering going working abroad next Summer. Ireland would be my first choice, but anywhere out of the U.S. would be cool. Council Exchanges is the service provider that I'm probably going to use. For $350 and $40 a month, you can work up to 4 months in places like Australia, France, Ireland, etc. I have to do the job finding, shelter finding, and stuff like that. It sounds great as it literally puts you in the middle of a city and you have to try and live. That's a little less than a year away, but something for me to ponder this long. It'd be a great experience wouldn't it? Laura wants to study abroad too, so we may try and coordinate our dates and travel, but I don't know how much we can coordinate it. Hey, well, I gotta run for now. Later.

It's Monday. What a weekend. I must say that was a weekend not to be forgotten. Right now you probably don't know whether or not it was a good one or a bad one. Let me just recap from the start. Saturday morning I wrote a blog right before I left, if I remember correctly. Well, I left, stopped by CSU, turned in my timesheet and left for camp. It took about 2 1/2 hours or so to get there. First I stopped by KFC to eat something, but I fucking hated it. I got to camp and I was greeted by Laura. That was good. Then she asks me to take to her this shirt place to place orders for camp shirts in Winter Park....I fucking just came from there...anyhoot. I take her there and back to camp. No one knows what the fuck is going on because apparently John in the "man in charge". I started to get irritated so I go outside until something happens. Derek asks me to go to his cabin to pick something up so I take the offer, since I'm doing nothing else. Right as we left the main building, everyone is magically ready to go. Fucking tough shit for them. So we leave camp around 2:45 or so for the camp site...oh wait, it's not just any campsite. It's a campsite that no one knows where the fuck it is. So we drive probably 40 minutes total until we backtrack 75% of our first route to find the campsite. Way to go John, way to go. I'm pretty much out of gas (since I didn't know we were going cross country) and we get there around 4 I guess. We stop by a campsite and get everything out...it's not good enough. "Let's go to the other campsite down there". We pack up and drive down 100 feet to the lower campsite. We set up camp there. By then I'm not in a good mood. I ask Laura to go on a walk with me. We went like, through the woods and sat down on a log and talked for a bit. That made me in a much better mood. We were in an area that resembled the likes of fantasy scenery. Anyway, we went back to the campsite and this ranger type fat ass comes up in a car and starts complaining about shit. About how only 5 people per campsite and shit. We had to pay an extraa $11. No one has money or whoever did couldn't act any sooner so I end up provided the needed $8 that we were short of. He then went on to complain about my car being parked in front of the LOCKED gate saying he might have to go to the pump house tonight or something. He never came that night for your information. I move my car. I keep on eating my lunchable. Soon it's about 6-7 and we gather around to talk and chill. I had fun there. Really. I was cuddling with Laura, but all I heard (well 90% anyway) was camp shit. They go camping to get away from the camp atmosphere and all they can talk about is camp. By now, I'm zoning off in my own imagination and looking up at the sky to see the meteor shower and stuff. I never saw any. I might go look tonight to see if I can see any. Well, around 10 or so, Laura and I go in the tent. We're tired and it was getting cold. The others trickle into their tent around 10:30, I guess. I'm like, finally, I can sleep. Oh no. John, the fucking idiot who can't keep his mouth shut, talks for the the good part of 2-3 hours. I can't sleep while he's laughing his ass away as loud as he can. A couple times the other campers told him to shut up. Apparently he's deaf and dumb. After a bit, one of the campers comes out of his tent, opens Johns tent and chews him out hardcore to shut him up. I was relieved about that, though yet somehow, John must be missing a few chromosomes or genes or something, because he just keeps talking. After he's done, I'm ready to sleep...then TJ and Ashley start talking. What the fuck is this. No one sleeps. I am laying there thinking, I should fucking go home now. That ends at about 4, at which time it's fucking cold. I give all the blankets to Laura because she was cold. I didn't want her to be cold. I was sufficed with the sleeping bag until about 5, when I got pretty cold and I couldn't sleep until the morning came. We all packed up and Laura and I left before anyone, because I needed gas and shit. Aside from seeing Laura, I would have rather taken a 2 day-long shit than go camping with some idiots. After I leave camp, as I had a 1pm appointment with Chris at Starbucks, I realized that I left too late. I was late 30 minutes after hitting traffic and missing some exits that I should have taken. We saw Jeff later on that day. Once we came back, we went to Starbucks again and ran into Ben and Emily. Ben and I caught up for the Summer and decided to play golf with coach probably sometime this week. I have an ortho appointment tomorrow. I'm just glad that this is the last week of camp. I will get to see Laura for good in one week. I can't wait for the B&B. This is Summer went by pretty quick and I can probably say it was one of my worst Summers. No one's fault, but it just sucked. I managed to save no money because of rent, bills, etc. I don't know. I just can't wait for the Fall to start and my classes to start. in two weeks, that'll happen. Before that, though, I just want to spent some good "alone" time with Laura. Well, that was a good blog I guess. :) When we were with Jeff, they talked so much about school, our old high school friends and what they might be doing now and stuff. I didn't talk for much of the dinner because frankly I gave no shit about that. Everyone's different and I am certainly the different one in the group. Then I got to thinking...I need to get the fuck out of this place. I might go work abroad all next Summer. Wouldn't that be so awesome. Laura wants to go study abroad too. If we can somehow coordinate this, it might be a great time. Ireland or England would be the destination. That would be such a great experience. That's next Summer, so who knows what will happen in a year. Well, I'm gonna try and find something to do. I skipped work today. Didn't call or e-mail this time. I just wanted another day of weekend. I'll see ya later!

Well it seems as though the earlier posts are back to normal. I'll read though probably at the end of the Summer to recap a somewhat boring and stupid Summer. I did a lot of thinking last night (sorta, I kinda fell asleep). I'm a decent person, I came to conclusion. I help out when I can and I say things that I mean. Sometimes that may not be the way to go, but hey, at least I ain't lyin'. Anyway, it's 8am now. I'm going to be leaving Ft. Collins in just about an hour. I think I'm going to go have myself a good weekend. Later!

Welcome back to another edition of my ramblings. By now you've probably understood me as a person who can change minds pretty quickly. Well, yeah, I just wanted to state that. I have been listening to two songs over and over the last week. "Everytime you need me" by Fragma and "Heaven" by DJ Sammy...damn...these two pieces are probably the best trance songs that I have heard so far. The two women singing in each song is just amazing, voice and appearance. :) But, today was Friday, which means that I got paid. This is, I believe, the first paycheck where I don't have to pay for anything. Bills aren't here yet and probably won't until my next paycheck. I think I may just save this wad of cash for the down payment for the car. Did I just say save? The cell phone bill is coming, and I decided that I'm going to check it on Monday, after my weekend, to, well, make the weekend a good one. I had my presentation for the web design workshop and it went well. I was pretty nervous, but it went well. Chris I guess has a date with the girl he has been talking about at work tonight. Right about now, he should be with her. I am curious as to how it goes, but that is going to have to wait until Sunday. This weekend is surprisingly busy considering it's mine. Maybe the most eventful weekend. August 12th is the peak for the Pleseids meteor shower that can be seen if you look, I think West? Well, if you know where Casseopeai is, look there. I know I fucked up that spelling, but sorry. I am planning to look for it tomorrow night/Sunday morning with Laura. It is the perfect time, and since the campsite is most likely going to be away from the city, it should be a great view. Isn't it romantic? The two of us under the stars? :) If only there was one more thing we could add to that. lol. Time is going slow and fast all at the same time. I'll explain another time. I have decided to make something for Laura for her B&B extravaganza on the 22nd. I should be able to put it together by that time if I can find the right components of what I'm trying to make. Aside from everything that I'm talking about, I watched XXX earlier today. I have to say, after all the alleged hype, it sucked. I never wanted to see it, but after being dragged by Rod, I caved in and said to myself it couldn't possibly worse than sitting in front of my computer at 4pm in the afternoon in the heat of my room. Well, it did beat it. The only part of the movie I liked about it is the "coolness" factor of the characters and the quite hot Asia Argento...I think that's her name. Look her up when you get the chance. I will definitely recommend it to people to NOT see it. Go see Signs instead. Much better plot, acting, and more realistic. I'll be leaving my house around 9am tomorrow, stopping by to drop off my timesheet at CSU and continuing on to drive to camp. I'm going to try and go slooooooooooow tomorrow. Slow as in the speed limit. I haven't had a time where I "relaxingly" drove my car in a while. When I lived in Niwot, I liked driving back home from Ben's house at around 1 or 2 in the morning with my windows down and going slow enough (about 10 or 15 mpg) to be able to hear the trees whistling in the wind. I am in such a better mood than I was in earlier. Maybe it's the trance. It's hard not to get into a better mood listening to it. I think I kinda made Laura mad earlier today when I talked to her. She was already having a bad day and I didn't help much. This was the second time that she happened to call when Rod was around...it is probably the most annoying thing in the world, I must say. He keeps talking and talking to me even though he knows I'm on the phone with her. It's like, shut the fuck up for just a minute. When this happens, I can't center my attention on Laura, while she keeps talking, and I'm here trying to listen to both of them and when I say "what" to Rod, Laura says "what" since she doesn't know what's going on and sooner or later Laura starts getting mad since she think I'm not paying attention to her, which is true for the most part while I try to give off the idea that I don't want to be around Rod right now. And it's hard to do all this when he tells me to fucking go with him to get food when I just want to sit and talk to Laura. He insisted on me going "just to go along". Fucking the only thing that was accomplished was pissing the major fuck out of me. Well, with that said, I'm about to crash for the night so tomorrow comes a little quicker. I'll write again possibly on Sunday night. Have a good one.

Tomorrow is the dreaded presentation that I have to give. I am not ready to give it at all. I have to practice tonight to make sure I don't fuck up. The good news is that there won't be many people there...hardly any, actually. Maybe 4? I don't know. I'll know tomorrow. I have been trying to fix this blog thing and trying to republish all my previous posts, but it ain't working. Hopefully it's something technical in the blogger system. I want to read my old blogs. Anyway. I tried to check my cell phone bill today and it's in the final stages of processing, so I'll know about tomorrow I guess. It's going to be...horrible to say the least.Over $100 for sure. I don't even want to see it. Anyway, this weekend is going to be either really fun or absolutely crappy. Going camping with camp people at camp isn't exactly my way to celebrate doing my presentation, but I get to see Laura and I guess Derek is excited to hang out with me, so. I'll give it a go. Then on Sunday, Chris and I are going to meet up with a couple good friends from H.S. to hang out and have dinner. That should be fun. Then Chris is leaving on Monday for Hawaii for a couple weeks. I am pretty much going to be by myself for about 1 1/2 weeks. Then on the 22nd, Laura and I will hang out ALONE for the first time in god knows when at the B&B. I can't wait for that. Well, I just gave you my itinerary for the new few weeks. School is about to start and I can't wait for that either though I don't want to take speech. I am really considering dropping it. Ah....the suckiness of life sometimes. Well, I'm going to try one more time to publish all my other blogs. See ya.

Hey all. It's been a boring yet busy weekend and the time I was not writing. I decided to give Laura an out of the blue gift. A bed and breakfast. Actually it's a two for one kinda thing, as I haven't gone to one myself, but she has. Anyway, I found a nice little place about 2 hours from here. I would have found something closer, but I only searched the places with websites. This place seems great and the service I have gotten so far has been great too. I'll report back on how that went when we get back. It's reserved for the 22nd, so it's still a ways away. Among other news, I saw Austin Powers and Signs this past weekend. They are both great movies, though Signs takes my vote, since I'm a alien freak. I rearranged my room, livened it up a bit and put up posters. Looks more cozy and clean than before. I am fucking nervous for this presentation that I have to do for work. It's on Friday. This weekend I told (well, not yet, the message hasn't gotten to her yet) her that I will go up to camp one last time, since it's near the end anyway, to hike with her and her friends. I'm only doing it to see her. I don't like camp or camp people at all. I am glad that camp's over, but at the same time I know I'm going to be annoyed by all the new camps stories that are going to be talked to each other about REGARDLESS of the fact that I don't give a damn and both parties were AT CAMP, so each person knows everything about it already. Anyway, I've already put aside the money for the bed and breakfast. It was quite a dent in my wallet, but hey, it's worth it. I can't wait for Laura to be back. I think this Fall is going to be just fine despite what everyone thinks about me living with my girlfriend "already". I don't care what they say. Just because they say it's not good or wasn't good for them doesn't mean you have to make me worry. Anyway, Chris and I worked on his car today. We put some tint and some decals. Looks much better, but he still has a ways to go. I am currently looking for something to sell in my arsenal of collections, but to no avail, looks like I might have actually sold everything that I can sell. I have nothing left but this old computer, car stereo stuff, my car, and Laura. :) I bet I can get a lot of money for her...hehe, but yeah, it's not for sale. I don't want to take speech class this Fall either. I know I should get it over with, but I don't like talking in front of huge amounts of people. Yes, a classroom is "huge amounts of people". I don't know what I'm doing tonight. It's so boring. Everynight I do the same thing. Forget to eat. Drink lots of water. Surf. Surf...oh wait, surf again, and then put on a trance song and go to sleep. Go to work in the morning...repeat. Boring eh? I gots to find something to do. Oh, and more bad news. My cell phone bill this month is going to be astronomical. Yes, I bet it will be over $100. I can't believe that shit. *sigh* I'll be back soon. I just got depressed. Laters.