Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Hey...so yeah. Let's see, where to begin. When Shane was here last night we talked a lot about school and I got to thinking about it. There are people out there, like Shane and another friend of ours, Jeff, who study their ass off in school to do good. I guess I'm not that kind of person, but I want to be. I guess Jeff had 20 credits and he pulled a 4.0, which is pretty amazin in itself plus the fact that he's in a hard school. I guess he didn't have time at all to have fun, or if he did, it was a meager amount of time. I can't get motivated to do that. Shane said that the last couple weeks he said he'd study for about 8 hours on the weekends just to be ready. I CAN'T do that. I know that sometimes studying can be actually fun. I've had that experience before. It's when the studying is boring and goes over my head when I starts to lose concentration and listen to music or surf or whatever there is to do to get away from the studying. I hopefully can change next semester. I decided to up my credits from 9 to 15, though 4/5 classes are online. It's a start for me right? I guess we just have to get through these times. Once we get through this, it should be a pretty nice life after the education that you get from college. I guess that hasn't hit me yet, since I believe that a degree isn't everything, but everything in the real business world thinks that a person with a degree is always better than one without. With that out of my head, I'm raising my glass to a better next semester. Most likely next Friday or Saturday will be the day that I get a new dog. Hopefully there'll be and I'll be able to get it. I'm looking for a cattle dog, like the dog that Laura has. I like those kinds of dogs. Sucks that huskies and dogs like that are out of the question. I may go to Elitch's on Sunday, but probably not if I get a dog, since that's over $200 down the tubes right there just with the adoption of the dog and the pet deposit. Plus I have to buy food and accesories. Then I have to RUN with the dog most every morning. All plans put aside, I probably won't be able to do that, because it means me getting up around 6, running for maybe what, 30 minutes or so???...taking a shower, and then eating and going to work by 7:30...I will either love it or hate it. I do need to get in shape, so that may be what I'll do. No one will be here this summer with the exception of Chris and Rod. Rod with be working right when I get off work and he gets off at 10:30, so I'll most likely not see him unless it's the weekend or something. Even then I want to drive up to Winter Park to see Laura a few times this summer and the rest of the time I'll want to sleep or something. It's gonna be a weird summer. If I don't get a grant or something for my tuition, that means I'll have to pay that too, which will suck and probably half my money made this summer will be gone. and with bills, rent, and insurance...oh yeah, and phone, it's gonna be a tight summer budget wise. At least I'm getting to know the real world huh? Chris is doing who knows what. I will probably see him maybe a couple times this year. I will also be working on making the garage area look nice before the girls come back for the summer. Man, I thought summer was the time you have fun?? I guess some people have fun, some don't. Nothing else has happened lately. Been working, wasting time, watching the food network and sleeping for the most part. I have nothing to do at work (yes, still). I am trying, but my both actually comes back next Tuesday, so, I'm SURE she'll have something for me to do. I listened to a few hundred songs (trance) the last couple of nights and compiled a CD of the songs that I liked...of those few hundred, I managed to pick out a scant 15. I guess I have picky taste for trance. I only like one or two "kinds" of them...high, high, HIGH treble! Then I listened to them in my car and found out most of the tracks have huge amounts of bass...damn. But yeah, I think I may talk to Laura now...so I'll be heading off. G'night.
A very good friend of me and Chris came up today. I haven't seen Shane since, oh, probably sometime after graduation. Man. It was good to see him though. Work was boring. Laura stayed the night and I ended up going to work at like, 10. Oops. So Saturday, Laura and I are going to go to dinner with my family. She's really nervous about that. I keep telling her that there's nothing to worry. I am contemplating to see if I can go to Elitch's on Sunday. Maybe, maybe not. We'll have to see. We are finally moving in next Wednesday! I can't wait. I got the job of decorating the garage. Yes, the garage, we're using it as a "room", so to speak. The party room really. We'll have 3 couches and a chair in their, so. It should be the coziest of all the rooms. I am beginning to wonder if the general public is reading my blogs. I think they aren't, but yeah. Doesn't really matter. Tomorrow is just another day at work. Actually I have an orthodontist's appointment at 8 in the morning. God damn. I have to wake up in just over 6 hours. *sigh* I need these braces off soon. Well, with that said, I'm going to get going and get a good night's rest. Bye.
Saturday, May 18, 2002
Another color change...and another blog. So as this end of my living at this house nears the end of its existence, I am starting to think about the fun times I've had here near the beginning of the year, all the way through when the troubles began...around November. I remember the first party, the second party, having Ashley and Laura over all the time, and that's about it. Those were the most fun times for me. Then the big shit hit the fan when Ashley and Derek hated each other, Derek and Mat moved out, and I didn't hang out with Derek nor Rod much for about two months...which brought another group of friends over that I didn't like much. All in all, I think I learned a lot of lessons this year. I'm not going to list them here because they're my lessons and mine only, :), but maybe someday. Going to Denver last night was fun. We went to the mall, which wasn't fun for me, and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. I can't believe it's only like 2 weeks until everyone goes to camp...I'm gonna miss Laura quite a lot. But yeah...I don't know. Seems like I have been writing in here a lot! I was reading the earlier blogs a couple days ago and brought back some fun memories. I stopped reading around February, though. I got tired of reading it. Today is another plan-less day. Ashley is going to Boulder and then coming back. I am going to eat some 7-layer bean dip when she gets back. Rod is working. Laura is shopping for wedding stuff with her family. Chris is working, I think. So yeah, a little R&R time for me watching the food network. Good eats is on today! I am going to watch that this time...laters.
Thursday, May 16, 2002
I'm really sorry for those who were wondeirng where all my earlier blogs went. I know only a couple people check this blog (you know who you are), but I didn't even notice that the earliest blog I had was from April. I took the liberty of republishing all my blogs...I may even read those right now...I had no idea that I started this blog thing way the hell back in November...my how time flies...
As the Summer gets off to a rocky start, I'm starting to think what everyone is thinking. Everyone's just been, weird, to say the least. Ash seems to like Chris and vice versa though they tell me no. (bull, I think) Rod is liking everyone all of a sudden (again) except Ashley. I guess Mat isn't being talked to by Grant and Derek...I could go on and on, actually, not really, that's about it, but anyway, that's not the point. Work was quite boring today, though I came back with some goodies courtesy of Uncle Sam. I am finalizing my tax shit and hopefully I'll get some help. Tomorrow Rod and I are going to Denver to visit Laura and going to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. I haven't seen her in a week, so it will be a GREAT thing to see her. I don't know...I haven't been doing much else. I never like the whole idea of Summer. It's like a void of nothing, for most people that is. Don't get me wrong, a select few percentage of people actually have fun...yes, those spoiled fucks who don't work and have their mommy and daddy give them money to lay back on the beach in the bahamas...WHILE, the other thousands of teenagers out there are working their asses off for things like NEXT year's tuition...aren't we supposed to be able to forget about school during the summer? Apparently not. We pay insurance, bills, and other expenses. Damn the spoiled rats. But, I just hope that something good will come out of what I'm doing later on in life. I calculated the next 30 days' worth of expenses and my income from my job is around 90% gone, which leaves me with enough money to eat a couple times a day and fill up my car a couple times. I've been perusing the web during work the last 4 days since I have jack shit to do, but I have found an interesting place. If it's not wrong, the address is web.archive.org and on the front page there's a thing called "The Wayback Machine". This little program will find pretty much any website that has been up since 1996. I myself have checked my own site and I found a really old page of mine. Brought back memories of last summer, actually. Anyway, check that out and check out how the web has changed over the last decade. 2 more weeks plus a day until the day we move in to our new house. I can't wait. I guess the only people living at this house is going to be Chris and Ben. Lucky them. I will be living at the new place all by myself this summer, which is a well deserved break for me, apart from not being able to see Laura. I am planning on going up a couple times a month hopefully, but the 6-hour round trip is a killer. But yeah, it's for good reason. I can't stand to be away from her more than a week or a couple weeks if I'm lucky. Yeah, sad? No. Good? Yes. You figure it out. I have been sleeping great lately though. I think I've finally gotten in to the routine of waking up at 6:30, leaving for work around 7:15, getting off at around 3 (though it should really be 3:30), and coming home and pretty much doing nothing until the cycle is started over again around the early time of 10:30 pm or so. I'm listening to Greenday right now. Contemplating whether or not I should go to sleep. I hope tomorrow is a good day. I mean, I know it will be, but I just hope nothing pisses me off. It always does for a couple hours and goes away. This is no relevant news, but I got enough stamps to go get a free grinder at Mancino's thanks to the help of Susan. She has given me a total of 12 punches on my card for the 3 grinders that I have actually paid for. Friends in good places is definitely a good thing. Soon though, everyone will be gone for camp. The only people left from our group will be me, Rod, and Chris...about it. I don't know what I'm gonna do. Probably what I'm doing here, but oh well. This has probably been one of my longer of my blogs. I just felt like writing today. I feel better now. I saw Ashley's Mom and her sister today. They are pretty funny. Okay, so I've gone through like 5-6 songs while writing this blog, which means I've spent plenty of time now...probably more than a few day's worth of blogs so don't be surprised if I don't write again until next week or something. Hope you have yourself a quiet, relaxing evening like I will...adios.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Well, I brushed my teeth for the night. Ashley is upstairs right now...and I'm beginning to think they both like each other despite what anyone says. :) It's my opinion. This is will get interesting further I'm sure. Laura is coming home tomorrow. I'm working in the morning. That's about it from Colorado. G'night."
Monday, May 13, 2002
Man am I tired. I have to get to sleep as I have to wake up quite early tomorrow...as a matter of fact, this is going to have to become my routine...up at 6:30, sleep at 11...up at 6:30...sleep at 11...and you get the picture. I'm gonna lay low for the next few days. Maybe I'm all in a pissy mood because I haven't seen Laura in a long time. It's been only like 4 days or something, but yeah, I don't know what the deal is. Maybe it's just the people here. Heck if I know. I have been having fun with Ashley though the last couple days...making necklaces, going to eat, and shit like that. I think things are going to be just fine next year with the three of us. I just hope that Front Range goes well...I can't believe I'm going there...*shakes head* G'night.
Sunday, May 12, 2002
I was reading up on some oooooooooold shit earlier today. My old, old site from when I did it in the dorms. That's about a year from now. I was reading some of my own journals and stuff that I did back then. It brought some good memories. I may even decide to like, put it all back online again. Who knows. I also found templates of a site that Chris and I were going to start...wallpaper site. But yeah, I just thought that that would be interesting information. Primarily for me that is. I had a good time last night actually. Ben is officially back home in Longmont for the Summer. I'm sure he'll come up and stuff periodically to hang out and party. I will definitely have to go down there and play some golf with him or something. Chris is at work now. I think Ashley and I are going to go check out Rod at work...sorry, let me rephrase that... GO SEE Rod at work because he wanted us to. Then tomorrow and on will be full-time for me and make some money. I can't wait to move into the new place. I guess I'm supposed to decorate the kitchen area and the girls are going to decorate pretty much everything else. What else...oh yeah, I'm going to buy a DC/AC power inverter for my car...an easier way to understand that is I'm going to get a cigarette lighter that turns into a coupld electrical outlets for appliances. Then I'm going to put in my DVD player and I'm going to buy a small 7" TV or something and I'll be able to watch DVDs on long trips. :) Hell yeah. The adapter is going to be around $50 and that's all I need. I'm sure I can find a small TV somewhere. Anyway, I'll write later.
Saturday, May 11, 2002
Hey guys. Finals and school is finally over. Thank god. Starting work full-time next Monday. I have been figuring out how much I have and shit in terms of money and it looks grim. The next month, I might have enough money to buy a lunch at McDonald's or something...yes, even with working. Rent is coming up and utilities from my old house and...yeah, it makes me depressed just thinking about it. Hopefully my insurance will lower after my 6-months is up. Anywhoo. I miss Laura. She's been gone for like, a couple days now, but anyway. My room's a mess. I haven't hung out with anyone, though the reason is because I've been tired as shit, for a couple days now. Chris and Rod and Ashley seem to be best friends the last few days. Man...I think I think too much about what's gonna happen. I tell people not to worry about the future and I worry myself. I should take my own advice more. Turns out that my family in Niwot want to have dinner with me and Laura...so I told them probably next Saturday. Hopefully Laura will want to too. I can't get a husky, like I always wanted at the new apartment...but I can still get a smaller dog, like a miniature snouzer...(dunno if I spelled that right)...or a jack russel terrier...or maybe even something a little bigger. Going to the Denver Dumb Friends League is the next course of action, however. I have to fill out the big ass property damage sheet for everyone for the new place when we move in. They better thank me for that. It's like 50 pages.I'm drinking a can of Sprite right now...it's 4:15 or something. What am I doing up? I fell asleep around 10:30 and woke up about 30 minutes ago. I took a bath. My eyes itch like a mother fucker. It seemed like it almost healed like a week ago, but it's back. God dammit. I think I'm gonna go surf for a little bit now and then pass out again probably around 7 o' clock. I'll wake up again around evening and I don't know. I feel as though I don't want to do anything anymore...
Sunday, May 05, 2002
I swear...I'm not going to disclose what I'm talking about, but something needs to get straightened out...Maybe I'll discuss it in further detail later, but I am not in the mood to do this shit, so I thought I might write this down for my own personal reasons. I'm going to play ping pong now. Go have a night.
Okay...so maybe this world isn't fucked up...but it sure is weird. Things are never a constant that's for sure. Things have been hectic lately. We finally secured a townhome about 1 minute from where I live here now. It's a nice place. I can finally get a dog! I am looking around and I found an awesome at the local humane society. A siberian husky, but I doubt it'll still be there around June 1st...so. I'm just going to starting looking for one around that time. Among other news...seems like everyone here in this little city is back to being friends again. We went to Cold Stone ice cream last night and there was a long ass line. It's not really worth it in my opionion to wait almost 20 minutes to an hour for some ice cream, but apparently hundreds of people a week think otherwise. I watched a little Food TV today in a long time. Great channel. I will start working full-time next week...which means lots of money coming in!...and most likely going out. I will have to save up though. So that's fine. Finals is this week, but I'm not too concerned about that. I applied to Front Range Community College last week and I register this coming Wednesday. I'll take some regular classes and hopefully I'll really, really try this semester. I have to or I'm gonna start paying the price soon. I am not able to go to California this Summer, but maybe I might be able to squeeze in some time for a little vacation somewhere. Just listening to music now, but I'm gonna go eat soon. If you have time, take a gander at Ray of Light. He updated his site just yesterday and I must say it's pretty nice. I like his experimental site also, which you can find on his main site. He's really talented. I have been yearning to make a new site for myself in the last couple months, and I may finally start on it. I just need an idea. I didn't have Photoshop just until a couple days ago thanks to the great services of Grokster :). Work is going great and well, there's nothing bad going on right now. I have to do an oil change soon or my Mom is going to start geting mad. I fricken got two photo radar tickets in the last month. Sucked. $80 down the drain at $40 a piece. I'm sure them fuckers will use that money for donuts for the next couple weeks for the station...*shakes head*. See ya later.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Well, nice to see that I'm writing in here again. Been working and not much schooling. It's okay though. There's only 2 weeks + finals week left. I'm psyched to work full-time this Summer. Hopefully I'll be able to do some cool projects. Lately I've been printing out hundreds of pages of manual shit. Boring I tell you. Anyway, here's a link to my autobiography that I completed this weekend. I'll add more stuff as I find things that I've missed and what not. Maybe I'll update it every month...yeah right. It was long to type it out as it is. Anywho, here it is: BAM!. Among other news...I bought some neon lights for my car today. I want to try them out at night...it's 5:30...and there's like 2-3 more hours of light...damn..the time is going by slow. I bought some stickers to put on my car also. We went shopping with Rod's sister last night. Well, I just walked around with Rod and his sister split up with us. But yeah...nothing new to report. The antenna for my phone that I ordered a while back was supposed to come yesterday, but haven't seen a sight of it yet. Strange...but it did say 5-7 days...which means tomorrow will be the 7th day...and that's the time when I start to get angry. I also cleaned my car, which made me feel better and took out unnecessary shit. I have no ideas for this weekend. It's an open weekend I guess. I should start studying for finals, considering I haven't gone to class in such a long time and I really don't know what's going on. My laundry is still on the floor since yesterday. I really do not want to put it away. I finally got my new registration stickers for my car so I don't have to worry about getting pulled over. Today was actually a busy day. Tomorrow is golf day! Man, Chris and I are on a team playing best ball against Ben Bath and our Ben. I don't know how it's gonna turn out. We have a good chance though, so. I'll write about it tomorrow. Time to wrap it up. Go have a night.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Howdy fellas. Long day...long day. Everything and everyone is ok though. Last night Rod decided to not live with us and he's going to live with his parents. Fun day at work. I was designing this new site that my boss asked me to make. I should be done by tomorrow though. I was going to change the design anyway, from vertical layout to horizontal. But yeah, tonight is a chill night. I am going to watch the rest of Training Day and most likely go to bed. I might sign on later to see if Laura is on and talk for a bit. I am tired though. Today especially. Nothing really new to report. Kicked Chris' ass in ping pong earlier. I am waiting for this Summer to start. Man. Only a month to go, a little less even. I can't wait to make some serious money this Summer. I have to pee so bad right now. I'll go after I finish this. Man, my eyes have been itchy so bad lately. I don't know if it's pink eye or what. It's this time of year again. Fricken rashes, allergies, stuffy noses. I should really get a prescription for this, but I am not going to. :) I think we are going to the zoo this weekend, weather and time permitting. Just checking my checking now right now, I have (finally) financial freedom. Actually I really don't because the insurance is up $66 to 166.50...I should have kept my insurance. Dammit. $66 per month is such a lot of money. Hopefully after this 6 months, I'll be able to lower it a bit. Then, I have my cell phone bill that I never fricken use. That's $40 a month. Then there's one more month of rent at $315, and I think, if I'm not mistaken, 2 more months worth of utility bills, which will probably equal around $150 or so. Then I'm home free. I'll be living at Ashley's house for a couple months and then it'll be time to move into our new place August 1st. I can't wait. Front Range is also on the horizon, which I have to apply to soon. I didn't think I'd be where I am right now. I should really get my act up to snuff. I need to stop playing around. At least I have a job now right? :) Cheers to everyone for now.
Thursday, April 11, 2002
I'm back and on the same day even. Anyway, I cracked the glass on my scanner earlier today because I put my knee on it thinking it was the ground and it just snapped. Now I'm going to find something fun to do with this rubble. I want to throw it as hard as I can on the ground, but maybe I'll throw it off the interstate or something. I don't know. I went to the DMV and fucking there was this shit-ass-fuck long line of high schoolers trying to get their driver's licenses or what not. I was like, uh...no, and left. I'll just send in the stuff to get new stickers for my plates. Speaking of which I have to decide what I want on my custom license plates because I want to get that soon. $35 for the first year and $25/year after that isn't too bad for showing off that you have different plates than most everyone else. I was going to put "DA JAP" but I think that won't get accepted, as it is pretty vulgar. In any rate, today hasn't been that good of a day. Coupled together with that fact that its only Thursday makes it worse. I went to the mountains (hills, really) to chill and get some quiet. I looked at Fort Collins "up close" with my binoculars and had some fun with that. There's this road that goes up to a higher point, but there's no road that I can see that connects to it, so I'll have to venture out and find out what the deal is. I'm going to play some ping pong with Chris now, so I'll let you get back to what you guys were doing before you decided to read this stupid blog. Lataz.
So I'm sitting here at work. This is the first blog that I've done from work. I really like my work I just realized. I don't do much and when I do get swamped with work, it's not like it's hard or anything. I can do it within an hour or two and the rest of the day is a breeze. Man, this is the life. Too bad there's school to worry about. Anyway, I'm still waiting for my two movie tickets to United Artists that my Mom was going to give Chris but Chris is a dumbass and he left without getting them. Actually, that's all I have to say right now. Um...I'll get going. See ya.
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
Howdy. I finally got my emissions test. Now I have to go to the DMV to get a sticker. Then I should be good for a while. Problem wise, that is. I got a photo radar ticket a couple days ago. That sucked. i was driving along and *flash* goes the, well, flash. Anyway, Rod is going to live with us next year, so we're going to look at 4 bedroom houses now. Hopefully we can fetch one by the end of this week. Ashely got a white parakeet. Sorry, but I don't like birds. Speaking of pets, since this new house can have a dog, I'm going to get a husky!!!!!!! Fuck yes. I've always wanted one. Work is going good. Today was kinda hard since I actually worked all day on Flash stuff. Time consuming, but easy. I think I caught a cold or something. My nose has been, well, sinus really, really bad and it makes my eyes water like every 30 minutes. It sucks. I hope it goes away soon. Just as an update, there's been a handful of good songs that came out lately. Goo Goo Dolls' "Here is Gone" is a good one. Alien Ant Farm's "Movies" is also a great one. I've been into Dave Matthews lately too. I like "Lie in Our Graves". Today was kind of a mellow day. I didn't really do anything. I actually took a nap from 4-7. It was nice. I haven't gotten much sleep lately. I don't know why. But yeah, I think finally everything in my life is going smooth now. Well, as smooth as it can get. I have been trying to think of an original idea for a website. Any ideas? I wanted to do something cool, but oh well. I'll think of something sometime and get to it. Well, I'm out of stuff to say...I'm really trying hard, but I'm out, so I'll be leaving now. Go have a good night, if you want. See ya.
Sunday, March 31, 2002
Ok, so I didn't like that last font either. I'll try out arial instead this time. I filed my tax returns finally and should be getting that money back within the next month. Rent is due tomorrow. Ugh. I get paid for the first time this Friday. I don't get a paycheck, just into my checking account, but it's been so long since I've last gotten paid I don't think I know what to do. Just listening to "Lightning Crashes" by Live right now. I played a little ping pong last night with Chris and Ben for who knows how long. I beat Chris, but Ben beat me, so I have to work on that. Just a note, my room is still clean. :) I have to do laundry today too, I guess. Well, I really don't need to do it, so I probably won't. It's a nice day out I think. I went over to Rod's place last night because people were there, but when I went they were all at IHOP I guess, and I didn't feel like waiting, so I left. I watched TV while going to sleep. I haven't done that in a long time. I watched some Food TV this morning. I love that show. I don't know what I'm doing today. Oh yeah, Happy Easter to those who actually celebrate it. I don't. I don't celebrate many holidays. Well, come to think of it, none. Pretty simple huh? I am truly out of things to do. I don't want to surf anymore (which is a big deal for me), but I'll probably end up doing that. I'll write in here soon. See ya!.