Before I forget this is in my head, I would like to say Contact was one of THE WORST movies that I have seen in my life. I had high hopes for this movie as it had to do with extraterrestrial life, but as the movie continued, it just sucked. I pushed through to see the scenes where the she goes to vega, but even that sucked. I would rank it #2 worst movie in my list, next to Deep Blue Sea. Hell, at least Deep Blue Sea had good special effects. A total disappointment. I should burn the movie. On a better note, Chris and I had a looooong night of driving last night/this morning. He came over at around 11pm and said he was bored, and so was I, as I was watching the movie Contact (see above review). We proceded to drive around town and cruise and after a bit, Chris suggested we go wherever half a tank of gas would take us up North. So we proceded to drive 2 hours North on 287 and we got to a little town called Medicine Bow, a population of about 390, I believe. We were about 1/4 up Wyoming. We talked about a myriad of things on the way up and back. A good time so to speak. We bought chips, drinks, and cookies to supply our hunger for the trip. Tell you what, it killed 4 hours, so I think it was a good way to kill time. The scary church (a small church about 40-60 miles from here on the side of the road) was damn scary at 2 in the morning. I dared Chris and some money for him to go to the church and come back. He wouldn't budge. We discovered that 136.1 miles North of here in Wyoming, in the absence of city lights and house lights at that, the stars shine quite bright, as Chris insists we saw "the milky way". All things aside, looking at the stars from where we were was amazing. It kind of reminds us what we're missing sometimes living in the city. I probably saw more stars last night than I saw ever, combined (with me living in LA and Longmont, where stars are seldom seen) in my life. I advise anyone who has the time, gas money, and company, to venture out into nothing (I suggest Wyoming, Montana, and pretty much any plains states), and look up for just a minute and let the serenity of silence and peace absorb into you. Laura will be here in a couple of hours, which I'm excited about. I may take a trip into town. Maybe coffee or something. I may just be "out of the house" when she gets here to tease her. Hehe. Funny me.

I'm currently doing my laundry at Chris' house. I'm going to go turn in my timesheet at CSU around 4:30 and then drop by and pick up my laudry. I didn't get paid as much this time, though I worked the same amount of hours. This worries me. I wrote an e-mail about it. Well, while I was waiting for the washer to finish in the laundry room, I walked about the basement and stuff, like my room and my bathroom. I got a rush of memories. Like, I remember all the good times I had there. That was around Fall of 2001. I doubt it'll be like that again. It was just fun, you know? I do miss the old house, though I don't regret moving out. I ate, watched some TV (first time since early June), and I'm writing in here now. Gosh, that paycheck that's lower than usual is really worrying me. I can't check my e-mail until Monday, so I'll have to wait until then if I am to get an answer. I should have sent the e-mail through Hotmail. Damn. I have a few bids on the stuff I have on eBay, but nothing on my digital camera. Dammit. I found a great thing to do earlier today. Since students like me get huge discounts for software and stuff, I think I may buy software and sell it on eBay for near full price. I don't know if it'll work, but it's worth a try. Well, I'm gonna get going. Tomorrow Ashley, Laura, and 7 other people are coming here. Yes, I thought the same thing. I'll be cleaning up on the Sunday, that's for sure. Bye.

Ok, so I really didn't go to sleep. I really was, until I went into Laura's room to find a book of some sort and I began to put together the frame I got for her for the Dave Matthews poster. It took about 20 minutes, as it was confusing for one, and pretty hard to do by yourself since the glass seemed like it was going to break. Then I was standing there looking at her photos and stuff and I began to wonder. Why don't I have a lot of photos? I guess my family was not a photo family, like Ashley's or Laura's, but sometimes I wish they were. I like not having photos for reasons aplenty, but it's nice to have something to look at when you were younger. I guess my photo album is in my head. Thankfully I was blessed with great long-term memory and I remember thngs really cleary. I still remember when Nmy brother taught me how to ride a bicycle, when I played golf with my brothers, when I went to Disneyland with my Mom and when I used to go to my Dad's work and every trip that I have gone to. Most of the time it's best left in my head, but some of the great times I want to share it with people, but I can't. I can only tell them about it. That's frustrating in the inside. Though I probably will never be into taking pictures everywhere I go, I will take a few shots here and there. No reason. Just to have something. I look around my house and there's pictures and pictures in frames, albums, and just lying around of Ashley and her friends, Laura and her friends and so forth. I like looking at them. I don't know. Lately I've just been thinking because I have so much time on my hands. Nothing else to do. I think about some of the choices I've made and what would have happened if I chose different and I play out an alternate future. Do you do that? I've played out so many different paths, it's ridiculous. And in the end, I'm just fine where I am now. I have great friends, an okay living area (hehe), a good job, and a great girlfriend. It's hard sometimes in life just to think about the important things. If you're rich, then you can think about the luxury aspect. But if you're living paycheck to paycheck, like how I practically am, things are a whole lot different. Days and weeks are passing by so quickly for me, I feel like I'm wasting my life. It seems just yesterday, I moved into the dorms with Chris, setting up our room, computers, and furniture, getting ready for a crazy experience called college. College isn't as different as any other time of my life. I'm just opened up to a whole new group of people that I'll most likely never meet. :) The friends I make in middle school and H.S. don't mean anything they say and the friends you make in college are the special ones. Not that kind of special. You know what I mean. I think that's true to some extent. To me anyway. My life's been affected the most through college I think. I've learned a lot of things to do, not to do, and what I can do. I've learned to accept others the way they are and not try to change them. I've learned not to go without car insurance for 6 months and find out getting insurance afterwards is a humongous dent in your wallet. And I've learned that I can't live by myself. People need to be surrounded by people. I haven't really lived by myself like this ever and it sucks. Sometimes my best companion is sleep. Now's that's wasting my life. So, enough of this depressing blog crap and the other similar blogs that I've been writing recently. I think the Summer has hit bottom for me this year and from now in it's just on the rise, so I'm happy. If in one year I can learn to live with two crazy girls, :), be away from your loved one for 3 months, have absolutely no money to do anything and sleep all day, I think I can handle pretty much anything. Yup, anything. See ya.

I'm just about to log off, I mean, go to bed, for the night. I decided to sell a few more things on eBay to make my bills a little more pleasing to my wallet. I forgot to write this down a few days ago. I had a cup of water in my hand, well, actually I think it was on the desk. Anyhoo, I was doing whatever I was doing and I reached over the keyboard to touch the monitor or something and when I retracted my hand, it caught on the cup, spilling a few ounces of water on the major left side of the keyboard. I hastedly grabbed the keyboard, waving it around like a maniac in panic, trying to get the majority of the water out. At this time, I though the keyboard was shot. Electronics and water don't fair well the last time I checked. I was pissed, but I decided to stand the keyboard up behind the fan in the room and put the fan on full blast. I left for about 15 minutes and when I came back, the keyboard seemed dry and it worked! Thank you very much to the process of evaporation. This Logitech keyboard is one tough mother. I recommend you all get it if you spill stuff constantly, but just water. I don't know how it reacts to the aftermaths of Kool-Aid or Coke and I will rather not try. Thanks to Laura for getting me such a durable keyboard. The mouse right now is out of commission, just due to batteries, which I can't even find or get. The batteries in the mouse have just enough juice to keep the lights of the laser flickering, but not usable. Bummer. I am currently using Laura's mouse, as my other one just ceased to work. Yes, for no reason. Electronics sometimes. I went on eBay and discovered a wondrous section of "travel". There you can find lots of travel packages, cruises and stuff for so cheap!!!!! I'm talking less than $100 for a few nights stay at like, Cozumel, Puerto Vaerta (?), and Las Vegas. Damn, I have got to bid on one of these sometime. Maybe for me and Laura? Well, the room is beginning to heat up, probably because the enormous heat cloud that this monitor and computer produce, so I'm going to turn it off and read some books or something. Laura calls me tomorrow! (Hopefully after 8 to reduce the damn phone bill). Signing off...

Anna Faris is hot. Check out www.anna-faris.com and you'll see what I'm talking about. If you don't know who she is, she's the girl from Scary Movie 1 and 2. Anyway, I realized that I work differently than most people. Granted, all people are different, to an extent, but I'm extreme. I'm extreme about punctuality, cleanliness (sometimes) and stuff like that. Another thing weird about me is that I learn from trying. That's not such a bad thing, but when it comes to getting a pet, like I did about a month ago, that's the only way to go for me. Of course, there are people, like my Mom and Laura, who say that I should have thought about it more. Yes, true, but thinking only takes you so far. What if I wanted to experience it too? Anyhow, sometimes even I think it's weird for me to have a dog for a month to figure out that it just wasn't going to work and I had to give it back. The dog might have had it coming too. Everytime a thunder goes, it came running upstairs. It put its paws in the water dish and made a mess. Ran around like an idiot sometimes.Yeah, oh well. I learned my lesson. I need time and money. The bike that I was going to get is probably going to work the same way. I can't get enough until I have it and tried for it myself. I don't take stories from others' experience. Just not enough, you know? I will get the damn bike myself if it takes months or years. I will get the bike. Earlier today I thought my fridge was broken again, but luckily it wasn't. Just some condensation from the open water dispenser. It's going away now. It's a really cool night out tonight. Temperature wise. I looked at my phone bill...$19 over. It was $61. God damn! I went over on the anytime minutes. Probably calling and talking to Laura. I'll have to tell her we need to keep it lower this time. I can't pay these outrageous prices. The last month was fucking $48. It's just rising and rising. Well, I'm going to do some research on the 'net on some stuff I wanted to look up.

What am I supposed to do with my life? I don't know. I don't know what I want to do. I don't know where to do what I don't know what to do. I have no answers, but I like to live in the present. I worry only the important things when it comes to the future, like paying bills, rent, etc. Not education, work, what I'll be doing in 5 months. I just don't let it get to me. Now, that could be a downfall in my personality, but hey, that's how I live. Spontaneity is bliss...unless you travel to Japan and have nowhere to stay (it's a long story...it's really for 3-4 people actually). I think I may stay at Front Range and get an Associate of Arts degree...or, wait, maybe I'll go back to CSU...but wait, maybe I'll take online college courses and graduate that way. I have no idea. Let me tell you exactly all that's in my head right now, at this moment: Why can't I get a bike, it's hot in here, I miss Laura, I wonder if she's coming down this weekend, I wonder how much I'll have after I pay my ridiculous credit card bill, should I cut up my credit card bill, yes I think I should cut up my credit card bill, what should I do tomorrow, and I can't wait until I get paid Friday. So, the farthest day away that I'm thinking about is pretty much the end of the week. I was looking at some of the alumni list at my old H.S. and I came across this one kid I knew, pretty damn smart kid, going to Stanford and all. I remember when we used to hang out. We both came very different paths. I'm sure he'll be successful (probably) in the future. But is he a better person than me? Of course, it's very opiniated...I don't know. Whatever. I'll have something in the future and so will he. Let's just hope for my sake that I'm happy and doing something I like. I've been wanting to travel lately too. Mostly to England. I want to be in another continent. Just somewhere out of this state, but yeah, England would be nice. I want to take Laura too. Wouldn't that be even nicer. I've decided on a lot of things earlier today. I am determined to go through with it all this time though. The first thing's first. Pay off the credit card bill. After I put this rent check in the bank tomorrow and I get paid on Friday, I'm going to sit down, balance everything out, pay off all current bills, credit card, etc. and I'm going to save up. Save up like a madman. I don't know what for, but I'm sure maybe in the vicinity of Christmas time, I'll have enough money to do SOMETHING. I'll decide then what I'll do with the money, but yeah, I'm going to save up and up and up.

Seems like the fucking world is against me and getting bikes. Damn, I didn't get one and you know what? I realized something. Too personal to say even on this blog, but yeah, I have a new outlook on life now. Maybe I'll trickle out the details as the weeks and months pass by, but stay tuned. Today was a very stressful day at work. Don't even want to talk about it. Anyway, later.

I just took a shower, I feel refreshed and I'm listening to trance as I'm getting ready to go to bed. How much better can it get? I'll tell you how. Tomorrow is Tuesday. Yesiree. You know what that means. The bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really hope that when my Mom comes up, she will buy the bike. I really do. I want it so bad. I didn't get ANY responses for the job apps that I gave out, but oh well. I'll keep searching. By this time tomorrow, I'll still be drooling over the new machine that I got. Hopefully. Damn, I have doubts, but there shouldn't be any complications. I'll tell her that I'm getting a second job to pay for all this and so forth. IT WILL WORK! Still, it's going to be nearly $6800 total and I hope they deliver it to my garage. Well, I really don't have anything else to say. Laura called this morning on her morning off. I sent her 3 letters (yes, three), and hopefully she got my hallmark card that I got her on the 3rd. That's it. I'll write tomorrow about you know what!

So, I am beat. I'm so tired. But this weekend (Saturday) was one of the more fun Saturdays that I've had in a long time. Ashley, Derek, Grant, Susan, and Becka came down to Ft. Collins. Although I only hung out with the latter 4 people, we had fun. I hung out with Ashley and it was really fun. The most fun part of the night, I think, was when we were moving the mattresses of hers from the old house to the new house. It was sooooo heavy, and I couldn't have done it by myself, but Ashley did give a much needed hand. It was funny though overall. Everything seems to have settled down around here though. The rent check of $316 was apparently sent to Ashley's PO Box (don't ask) so her Dad sent another check to my new address. The one in the PO Box is for next month's rent. But yeah, it was nice to see everyone again. Back to the bike story. TUESDAY IS THE DAY!!!!!! That's right. You read it right. Tuesday I'm going to have my own bike! I talked to my Mom and although she was hesitant, she is coming up on Tuesday to get the bike that I was looking at yesterday and HOPEFULLY going to buy it then. I am going to register for the motorcycle training class for this weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to pay it. I can't wait! The colors are white and blue, though mostly blue. I am getting a white and blue helmet also. I'm skipping right now on all the other accesories because I'm flat broke, but we'll see what happens. I've been getting weird charges on my credit card too. I e-mailed the appropriate places to get refunds. It's like $40. Today I woke up at 6:30, because Ashley had to leave for camp quite early. She's not too fond with Derek OR Rod right now. I'm glad I'm not either of them. Went to Starbucks and I called Chris at like 10:55 because I just had the feeling he wasn't up and I was right. He ended up showing at around 11:05. Strike one for him. He's still trying to find a car. I, on the other hand, am in perfect position. I got a quote for insurance from Progressive at $147/year. Sounds good to me. By this time next week, I should be set for riding my bike regularly. :) Well, I'm going to go eat my leftovers from last night, so I'll be back here maybe today, probably tomorrow. Depends whether or not I'm bored, which, most likely, I will be. Bye.

People are too unpredictable. I just woke up at 5:30 to go meet a friend at a jacuzzi at 6...to find out that he didn't show up. God damn. Why make me go through the trouble of waking up butt ass early in the morning, driving to the place, and make me come back here. Sometimes I tell you...last night was also one of the most frustrating, and tiring, nights of my life courtesy of Laura's huge, oversized, heavy, stupid desk. Rod and I had moved the lower half sometime ago before the girls went to camp and yesterday we got around to moving the upper half. We stopped it at the top of the stairs and Rod went home and decided to do it in the morning, ahem, after the jacuzzi. Anyway, I'm not the one to leave stuff unfinished, so I decided to try and figure out a way to put it into the room, the first reason that we stopped and left it at the hallway. The things too damn big to go in the room, great huh? I spent 30 minutes or so trial and erroring trying to take off the fucking cabinet doors, which had phillip's head screws, with my can opener on my knife. That didn't work and I ended up breaking one of the screws, so I went to Chris' house and got an actual phillip's head. By the way, if you know that I'm spelling it wrong tell me. Is it phillips or phillip's? Ok, back to the hardship. I got both doors off and I proceeded to slide the desk into Laura's room, which barely fit. And then I POSSIBLY couldn't leave it there unfinished, as I wouldn't be able to sleep well. I devised a setup to lift the huge desk (way more than I can carry or let alone lift up with just my strength) and mangaged to get it up some 3 feet onto the lower half of the desk. I screwed in the doors and the task was done. This whole process, which took nearly 1 1/2 hours, yielded two important lessons for me and hopefully to everyone out there. Never say you'll help move a desk that takes more than 2 people to even lift and NEVER GET A DESK THAT BIG. *sigh* And now here I am, half awake, tired, and aching from getting up early for no reason. I would call him, but that'd be too nice of me. I'm sure he's sleeping his time away. At 11 though, I'll be going to the motorcycle shop with Chris to check out the awesome sportbikes that I can't get and hopefully I can see the bike I want. Afterwards, I'm going to Longmont to pick up the frame for the posters that I got Laura. Oh yeah, I haven't written that down yet. I got Laura a signed Dave Matthews poster for Christmas. Yes Christmas. I ended up getting two, because I thought she'd like the other one better, but I showed it to her and she likes them both...equally. My luck. So I gave her however much time she wants to decide. I bought a glossy black frame for one of them, so I'm going to get that today and I'm going to see which one looks better in the frame. AFTER that (gosh, it's a busy day), Ashley, Derek, and Grant should be arriving, or maybe even just leaving, from camp to come out to Fort Collins to visit. That should be around 4pm or so. I have no idea what we're going to do when they get here, but I want to move Ash's bed matress tonight. I think I spelled that wrong. Mattress. That looks better. Anyhoo, I'm thinking we're just going to have to put it on top of Ash's car and take it to the house. Should be a VERY FUN EXPERIENCE once again. My life is very weird. I'm hungry now, though I have nothing to eat and I don't want to go buy anything as my credit card bill is up to around $310 or so. I NEED that rent check! I thought to myself why hasn't it come yet. I'm afraid that Ash's Dad my have sent the rent check to her P.O. Box, which I couldn't get to anyway. I hope that's what happened and I can put the money in the bank on Monday. If not, I have no idea what's going to happen. I better not be out $316.66. I'm not that rich. Well, I'm going to leave you for now. I'm gonna maybe fall asleep for a couple hours before I have to get ready. See ya.

Good evening. Well, the fourth is slowly coming to an end. I ended up, upon request from Chris, to watch the fireworks from the roof of his house, but we didn't get to see the fireworks...yeah, and then after we get down (it was a pain getting up and down in the first place), the fireworks near the house starts. Great, we say. We stood there for about 10 minutes watching the fireworks end in its finale. I came home, watered the lawn and now I'm about to go to sleep. We also went to Applebee's beforehand and there was a damn hot hostess there and I COULD not make Chris do something about it. I guess he is convinced that he's never going to get laid in his life or what not. The funny story too was that he went to the mall to the chocolate store and actually bought $5-$6 worth of chocolate to talk to this girl only to find out that she had a boyfriend. Moral of the story? Only get chocolate if you like chocolate and THEN think about the benefits that might come out of buying the chocolate at this place. Anyway, that's pretty much the night. It's cool out tonight also, so that's great for me to sleep in. I hate it when it's blistering hot even at midnight. And another thing, I may have made a decision on a certain thing that I was thinking about for the past week. I think I'm going to go through with it. It'll be the better for both parties. I won't put it on here, as some people may read it before I get a chance to explain, but yeah, I should be posting it here by Monday to tell you the overview and result. I'm going to see bikes on Saturday. Yippee. Until tomorrow, g'night.

Good afternoon. So, I watered the lawn for a good 30 minutes just now. It was quite calming. I thought about a lot of stuff, actually. Just little things. Rod and I went to Boulder today, after we concluded that going to Denver, our original idea, would be a waste as there was nothing to do there. We looked at a pipe shop and Rod couldn't get money from the ATM, so we ended up leaving and got back a few hours ago. Derek is driving himself and Ashley down to Fort Collins this weekend. Rod found that out and he was in a bad mood, talked about running away and what not. Although, I admit, I may be a little irritated if I didn't get hardly any letters or calls. I am a lucky fellow, as Laura calls me every chance she could and I get letters. On a side note, it seems as though Ashley's Dad sent the money a while ago, but I don't understand why it's not at my house. I need that money. My credit card billed is racked up to $273 the last time I checked. But keep in mind that $218 of that was for fixing my brakes, so $50 ain't that bad for me. I used to spend hundreds of dollars more than that and that was when I didn't even have a job. So yeah, I need to pay that off and start from $0 again. I don't it to get out of hand and the interest to kick in and never be able to pay it back. I may take off early from work tomorrow. It's going to be a sloooooooow day. I could just skip, but, I have nothing better to do. Today is hot too, outside, but it's not so bad in my room. It's nice and cool. I was in the mood to take a nap, but now I'm not tired at all. A couple hours ago I was drifting away into my own world for a minute. I was also hoping I could plan to sabotage the stupid ass fireworks display that's going to be near my house tonight. I was hoping it would rain, but that's not going to happen. Damn shit. I tried to go look at bikes today, but the stupid ass holiday (again, spoiling my fun) made the store get closed. The mail doesn't come either. What the fuck is up with this holiday crap. Work during the holidays would ya? The next big holiday from what I can gather from my head would be Labor Day in September. Finally, a couple months of no holidays. I want to go to the hot tub with Laura. Rod and I went a couple days ago, yesterday actually (??) and it was raining. It was so cool. I should just get a fricken spa/jacuzzi for our place. They aren't that expensive, if you consider $500 cheap. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I have NOTHING to do. God damn. I need more things to do. This sucks. This Summer sucks in general. Well, I'm going to look for more jobs online. See ya.

Ok, I swear this is my last time for today, but I just wanted to get this down so I can remember it later when I'm scouring through my blogs. Friends are weird. They are the weirdest things in the world. You can never figure them out, ya know? I think every human is the same deep within. They just care about themselves. Seriously, I'm sure there are really nice people out there that are caring only for others, but in the end, it's you who you want to protect. The past year I learned a lot about me, my friends, and my life. I can't take things for granted anymore. People change. I have to accept that. People act the way they want to, when they want to. I have to accept that too. The only thing that I can do is the cope with it, maybe manage to try and influence them a bit, but that's about it. In the end, everyone is going to have to adapt and change along with everyone to get along. I have changed a lot in the past couple years and I can tell that. No one has to tell me that. I know how I've changed. A lot of my views have also changed. I think about stuff differently now. What I used to think and know doesn't comply anymore. Like I said in the earlier blogs some 3-4 months ago. Nothing is a constant in this world. Wake up next morning the you might now see the sun come up, or the sun go down. Fuck, you might not even wake up the next morning. You just can't tell the future. You can only create it. But yeah, I just wanted to let that rant out before I lost it. I'm getting ready to leave now. Have yourself a great night.

I'm sitting here munching on chocolate chips despite the fact that I hate chocolate. For some reason it's good and there's nothing else to eat in the house. Anyway, update for this weekend: Ashley is coming down to Ft. Collins since she has the weekend off, so I'm going to hand out with her. Maybe I'll get her that b-day present while she's here. I guess the package that Rod and I sent with a lot of stuff from the $1 store got there today and Laura was a bitch about it and Ashley got nothing. *shakes head* I'm going to have to have to a talk with her about this. Tomorrow being a stupid ass holiday, I can't go to work. I hate holidays, especially this one. Why the fuck would you want to shoot fireworks into the air for a few short-lived seconds and celebrate what happend hundreds of years ago...people dwell on the past too much, I swear. Anyway, I am going to work on Friday, after careful consideration. I was going to take it off, but I thought, heck, I don't do anything anyway. Might as well get paid for it. So, I'm still looking for that second job and I just finished watering the backyard. Woohoo. Well, that's it for now. I'm going to the hot tub later and hanging out with Rod, who I'm sure is just going to smoke...fricken pothead. Lates.

I'm furious. I got a letter from the financial aid office and I went over there promptly to give them what they requested. Next? Here this. They want this one form that I gave to them about 3-4 weeks ago and yes they did go check to see if they had it, but of course not. Fucking assholes. I hate the people who can't fucking do their job. I sent in the forms, so put them away in a secure place so it can be found later. I called my Mom and asked her to fax the form again to the financial aid office and if they lose it this fucking time, I'm going to take some action. I'm tired of people who can't do their jobs. The lady that helped me wasn't doing shit when I got up to the counter and it took at least a minute for her to respond and say "Hi, can I help you?" Yes you can fucking help me. No, wait sorry, I was just coming here to lean up again the fucking counter you piece of shit. I'm sorry to bother you and waste you "work" time about my problems, but the due date for tuition is about a month away, so I'd appreciate it if you can take about 2 minutes of your time and help me out. Go have a break afterwards or later in the night, but not when I get to the counter. You hear me? I almost chose to forget about this financial aid thing and pay for the tuition my god damn self. Hell, it'd be easier and less irritating for me AND it won't bother them with more work. Fucking shitheads. If they give me anymore trouble, they're going to get a letter so nasty that once it gets through to the big boss having fun and relaxing somewhere in the Bahamas, they'll be giving me scholarships left and right.

Just a note, I changed my layout. I didn't know that you could change the layout this easily. I was really getting annoyed with the one I chose when I first started...my knowledge about blogs are increasing slowly. :)

Well, July has started and in a good way, I guess. Not really, though. I sent some packages out today to the girls up at camp. I hope they like it. :) I got a request to do a Flash intro for a person at work for her webpage. I get paid $25 at least. Hehe. I dropped the price down from $50 to $25, was that stupid of me? Nah. I don't think so. Another thing can go into my "portfolio", plus, I like doing these things. The week is halfway there. I know it's only 4 on Tuesday, but for me, the work day is already passed. I need TV. I want to watch the Food Network and the Discovery/TLC more than anything. Dammit. I might just break down and subscribe to cable. My bills are expanding rapidly. Rent was due yesterday, and though I wrote a check and turned it in, I haven't gotten Ashley's part. It better hurry, as the check may bounce. Also, I haven't gotten ANY mail in the last two days. I know that it can happen, but it's just weird. I usually get SOMETHING plus letters from Laura. She sent one on Saturday and that should have been here way before today, like Monday, but to no avail. God damn. I suspect someone is stealing my mail. If that's the case and I find out who is doing that, I'm going to impale him. Laura called last night on her night off. It was a good time, but I made her feel guilty about leaving for camp and leaving me here all alone. :) It's true though, they're up there with their friends, having fun, and I'm left here with a scattering of people who I call friends, my hot ass room (it really gets into the 90s in this fricken room), and I do nothing all day. But we say to each other that it'll be better in the long run, when she's moved in here and we'll see each other everyday. I don't know, do you think fights are healthy??? To an extent I think so. I am about to go to (in about 3 hours) Barnes and Noble for some reading to exercise my noggin. Plus I want to look more at bikes. Pretty much it for news from the midwest. I think I might go prance around the blogger website and find some neat stuff. I also need to check out my daily dose of www.ilovebacon.com. Just an awesome place. Although, I can't believe the guy does the website for a living.

Welcome to another edition of me babbling aimlessly. Today, well, let's first start off with yesterday. Laura came down from camp, which was great. We hung out, ate some lunch and dinner, and watched Ocean's Eleven (part of it, she was tired), and spent the night cuddling for our 7th month together (tomorrow). She's just great. The best thing that's happened to me. Yeah, but I won't be able to see her for a couple weeks from now since she has to work on the weekend next week. Sucks I know! Not much done today. Did some laundry, surfed around, and talked on MSN. Today was damn hot though, again. But here's the update on the bike thing. It's getting closer than I thought. I applied to for a couple P/T jobs so I can make some payments easier on me. As for the bike, next pay check I'm going to take the rider safety training, which upon completion, will waive my motorcycle riding part of the license test and all I have to do is the written part, which shouldn't be hard at all. Then, my quest for finding the bike I want starts and the whole getting a loan, thing. I'm looking to spend around $6000 for a 2001+ Yamaha YZF600R for my first bike. I can't wait! But yeah, I was at Chris' house today (doing laundry) and I was reminiscing some of the times we had in that house while I lived there. All and all, I had a good time there, I'd say. Don't get me wrong, I'm not regretting moving out, but yeah, things are better now. I think I'm going to have to get a new windshield though. I noticed just today the crack across the windshield and partly up the windshield has almost gone all the way to the top. Dammit. I'm probably going to Elite Auto Glass or something to replace it. Damn, another couple hundred gone. Shit like this just sucks. I have no space to spend money for myself, but I guess I can't complain. So anyway, that's about all I have for tonight. I keep wondering how long this blogger.com is going to last. If they go down the shoot, are they going to send me my blogs via e-mail or something? I don't want to lose them. I spent time on these fuckers. But, I'll be seeing you guys later.

Well, we're nearing the end of June. Lots of stuff happen at that time. Rent is due, bills are coming, and most importantly, it's only 6 more weeks until the gang at camp come back to good, fun Fort Collins. I miss them, especially Laura. Now that the kids are coming every week, I hardly have a chance to talk to her. On the weekends I see her though, which is good. The past week I saw The Bourne Identity...I don't know if I said that already, but yeah, it was good. What was even better was Minority Report. Awesome. Tom Cruise was good as ever. I was at their site last night and was at the precrime site doing games/puzzles and stuff. Anyway, I'm hoping to switch my ridiculously expensive insurance from the one I have now at $938 for 6 months, to Geico (yes, the fricken lizard) at $650 or so for 6 months. That's almost a $300 savings. That's always good. Having a credit card is a bad idea. lol. I swore to use it for emergencies, but yeah, it's already piling up. Thank god I have a job and am getting paid in 2 days. I'll just pay that off quickly. I bought some stamps yesterday. I can't believe they're raising the price to $.37. Why are they doing that? It's stupid. But I guess they need the money huh? 1 million people buying a book of stamps at $.34 would yield $340K. With a $.3 increase that becomes $370K. I don't know the annual stamp buying statistics (though I should), but 3 cents would come to a lot more money in the whole scheme of things I guess. Fricken government. That was a useless rant. I took the day off today. Also, I sent Laura a bouquet of flowers to camp yesterday! It got there supposedly at 2:21pm, which was too late for her to get it yesterday, so she'll get it today while she's having lunch and HOPEFULLY, she'll be embarassed when she gets it today. Just a dozen pink roses, which she loves, but yeah, I thought it would be nice. Plus, there was a good deal. Hehe. Looks like it's going to be damn hot again today too. I don't know. I just hate Summer. Summer vacation may be the worst thing in the world. There's never nothing to do even though earlier in the year you and your friends talk amongst each other about going to road trips and stuff. Usually never happens, but hey, it's good to chat. My motorcycle project is coming along smoothly. I recruited the help of a fellow co-worker that has a bike and I'm getting advice from him. So far the only things I'm sure about are the following: the bike will be 600cc or lower, insurance won't be over $150/year, and it's either going to be a Yamaha or Kawasaki. I can't wait. I found a nice looking bike here in Fort Collins, but I can't get it dammit. I have no money. I don't want to go get a loan now. That would be stupid. I'll just have to wait. I have, in the meantime, downloaded some mpegs of bikes. Damn. They're awesome. Well, before I babble on to my death, I'll be going now. I have to get ready ya know?...to do nothing that is. I'll be back soon...er or later.

Well, well...look what we have here. Little ol' me writing again. Seems like from the last time I wrote..well, it's bee 13 days. I just came back from the theater watching The Bourne Identity. It was a good movie. I like Matt Damon...but above all, I've been waiting for tomorrow's premier of Minority Report. Damn, that looks good. I have been working, but pretty much 3/4 days because I have nothing to do, but apparently we are getting another big project here within the next week, so I'm psyched for that. I'm also excited to go up to Estes Park on Saturday with Laura. We're going there because she can get free rooms at a hotel through her work at camp. Nice huh? It's going to be a long day though...about 4-5 hours of driving I'd say. Can't wait to see her though, that's for sure. I can't go a week. But yeah, I have some things to say here, but I can't because it has to be kept confidential, even to my close friends. Sorry to whoever reads this! I don't think many people read this though. But yeah. I have been wanting to get a motorcycle for the longest time and I should be able to pull it off maybe by next Spring. I didn't realize how cheap the insurance is for a bike. It's like $140 a year...damn good if you ask me. Next month my insurance for the car will HOPEFULLY go down lower than fricken $166 a month. That's killin' me. If it would go down to about $105 like it used to be, it would help me out so much. It's been hot here lately. around 96 and shit. I can't do that. It's too hot in my room and I can't cool it down because, well, it's hot outside and we have no A/C. Oh well, it's not so bad. Living here is going good, by the way. The dog's doing great too. He's bored though, I can tell. He stays in the house all day because there's no one home, (me primarily) and I am never in the mood to take him out on a walk. My next project, though, like I mentioned would be the bike. I need to take motorcyles classes, as I have no idea how to run one, and that'll make the insurance even cheaper. I'm looking at a mid-class ~600cc bike...pretty much anything for me to start out. I just want to go fast, that's all. 180+ is my goal before I die. It's getting dark outside, which has usually been my que to go to sleep. Yeah, 10:30's my bedtime. I wake up at 6:30. I'm used to it now. I have to take a shower though. It feels so good right before you go to bed. It's the third to best feeling. I'm not disclosing what the top two are. Hehe. It's not what you think. I'm selling a couple more things on eBay...actually it's over now, I'm just waiting for the payments to arrive. The combined total should be around $120...hehe, extra money baby. I also got a fricken credit card again, but this time I've learned my lesson...not to use it when I have no money to pay them back. Seriously, a credit card can be either the best thing in the world when used correctly, or pretty much hell. Never get into debt people...it sucks. Lucky for me, I have fairly good credit, as I haven't ever been late for a payment courtesy of my Mom, which I promise will pay back soon. Maybe even the next pay check depending on how much I have left ya know? Bills suck, vacuums suck, and whores suck. Well, I'll try and not to forget about my blog...because I really did forget up until about 20 minutes ago when I'm like...wait a minute. I have a blog!...and thus I'm here writing again. Among the hundreds (hehe) of hours of surfing I've done in the past couple months, I have seen a slew of new sites that're cool. I'm not going to write them down because it's a pain and I can't really rememember them all, but yeah, just wanted to mention it. The next edition of the blog will be a lengthy, well, kinda, of my opinion on 'geniuses' of our century (past century). We'll see how that goes. Talk to you later and have a good night!