Hi all,

So yeah, we were just finding a place to stay for the 1st and 2nd for our 5th anniversary vacation and I finally bit and tried Priceline again. After a first few failed attempts about a month ago to get a 4-star in the $60-$70 range, I decided to do it again for $75 and guess what? Yes, we got an accepted offer! The thing is , my bid of $75 was accepted by a crappy 3-star in the ghetto of downtown Denver...WTF!!!!!

...okay, so I was kidding on that last part. The offer was accepted at the Grand Hyatt in downtown Denver and that was actually one of the places that I saw in our choices of places to stay. It was $149 on their website and that's the cheapest I could find, so yeah, it's a great fricken deal. I love Priceline now (but only when you KNOW what hotels are in your bid area). In this case, I knew that the only 4-star hotels in the downtown area were the Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency, and the uber expensive places like Hotel Teatro, Brown Palace, etc.

But yeah, if you ever want to stay a great place and you know the choice of hotels in the area, you should give Priceline a shot.

And yes, soon I'll be revealing a new website of mine that I've been working on...actually it only took like a night, but you know. Stay tuned!

Other than that, this week is going by quite fast, faster than usual at least. I'll be back sometime soon!

T.J. > Write a fricken blog!!!!! The one you sent me will do. Although I've read it already, I'm sure others will like to read it as well. You have less than one month to do this, or else...

So I saw this website a couple of weeks ago, maybe a month ago, whatever. It's where this guy took a picture every day for a year and he kept it up. And so I got to thinking (back then) and then I started to think about it again.

I'm wondering if I could actually do it. I mean, taking a picture a day isn't hard, but to make each picture meaningful is hard. I don't know. I'm thinking about it. Maybe I'll start on the 1st of January and take a picture a day, but maybe I'll start the 1st of December...

I think it would be a really cool experience if I can actually pull it off. No excuses like blogging, that's for sure! Now wouldn't it be cool if I could take one for the rest of my life, lol.

Anyway, I'll keep you guys updated on whether or not I do this and how I would keep it organized if I do, because I'm sure in a year, a lot of things will change so I have to find a place that won't...maybe Google's online picture thing...we'll see.

Yup, officially over a month, dammit! Anyway, what's been up man? A lot, well, not too much, has been happening in the city of Laramie. My job is going ok. Just been busy and lots of things going on. I got hired as an administrative assistant, but I'm doing so much more, it's crazy. They seem to be giving me more stuff to do too, I don't know why. Maybe I'll switch positions soon or something. Oh well.

Finally got this song/instrumental that I wanted for the last week or so. I've been stream-ripping the radio station for like 5 days straight and it finally ripped. I'm charging my iPod so I can listen to it as I go to sleep here in a little bit.

Laura left today for Chicago, so it's a bit lonely/empty in the house. Played a little WoW and surfed a bit, nothing too big. I might go down to Fort Collins this weekend to escape the boredom. We'll see.

So yeah, our 5th year anniversary is coming up in about 2 weeks! We've got a weekend planned actually and I think it's going to be fun. We're going to be staying in Denver on Friday and Saturday. We still need to find a place to stay both nights, but, yeah. I've actually been trying Priceline to get a good deal on some 3 and 4 star hotels, but none so far. We were trying to get the Adam's Mark hotel, but we might be just going with the straight hotel price somewhere cheaper. I'll keep you updated. But yeah, I can't believe it's been 5 years already. That's a fricken long time.

In a few days the Nintendo Wii is going to be launching and with it the new Zelda game. Woot!! Hopefully I'll get it soon. Some of my work friends are also getting excited about it, it's kinda funny to talk about the Wii at work. Comforting to know that there are similar people like me though.

My Cranes organization is on stall right now until I find time to get my employer id number. Once I do that I can open a bank account and get my shit going. There's actually a lot of stuff to do and it's time consuming, but hopefully in the end, it'll feel good to do something like this for a change.

Kip is on our bed right now just chillin', probably waiting for me to get to bed. He's been doing good lately about staying off the bed until we let him on it in the morning. ALTHOUGH, today when I was playing WoW for a little bit, he was all quiet downstairs, so I when down there and I knew he was doing something bad. He was all sad looking because he knew too. He had drank the rest of my aux jous that I had for lunch. I scolded him good. Oh well, I don't think he's sick or anything. We'll see tonight. :P

But yeah, I should get going. I'm tired since I haven't been sleeping so well the last couple of nights. I wonder why. Well, I'll talk to you later! I love you Laura and miss ya already.

Whenever Laura leaves out of town, I get really bored, hence staying up until 1:30am like right now. I don't know why. I just can't sleep or something. Most of today I played World of Warcraft. Kip is pretty bored I'm sure, but I did play with him a little. He's a lot better today than the last couple of days since he got into the trash bag and ate food in there. He was sick, man. You could tell. And then at like 2:30 yestesday, he started walking around in the room, so I was like, wtf?? I told him to get on the bed and go to sleep. He still was walking around and up and after a couple of minutes, he got off the bed and pooped ont he floor. He stopped when I said no and took him outside, but most of the damage had been done. Haha. He must have really had to go, but thank god he hopped off. Lately he would just stand there when we feed him his food, not sure why. I think it's because Laura's been giving him yogurt in the mornings (bad idea!) and now he won't eat it until it's there, although he still does anyway. I wonder what that sounds like? Oh, Laura's parents dogs who won't eat without cheese...wtf?!?! However, I know they eat without cheese, because they have before. Spoiled. I hope Kip doesn't get like that. He's spoiled too.

Anyway, that's all. My eyes are pretty tired, so I'm going to hop to bed. Laura will be back tomorrow night, hopefully.

Laters.

TJ, if you go 1 year without writing in your blog, I will personally fly out to Chicago and break your computer.

Wow, this cold/cough thing has been haunting me for almost a week now. WTF?

The Wii is coming out November 19th...

http://www.ebgames.com/gs/wii/wii_signup.asp

Can't preorder it yet. Hopefully soon.

Among other news, World of Warcraft's expansion is coming out as well:

http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=646436

Not sure if I'll be playing it when that comes out (probably), but we'll see. I haven't played it in a month, so that's damn good from being hooked on it. Chris is hooked on it still, probably because he's still jobless.

This was just a short one. Lates!

Gay-ass mofos playing the drums again...

Well, despite not liking to paint, our room looks quite good. I like it this deep, red color. I still have to touch up a few places, but the big job is done.

Not much news lately. Been watching Takeshi's Castle (MXC in the US) pretty much every night for the last week or two. That show is damn funny. Laura and I have some laughs at the eliminations.

Kip seems to be doing well in listening the last couple of weeks, but we've been having trouble with things like digging, whining/barking in the morning and mischievious things like that.

TJ seems to be doing well with his new job. We've been sort of talkin on Gmail since we both have it up sometimes during work.

Ashley e-mailed me a couple of days ago. She seems to be doing well. I'm supposed to take some pictures, make a video, etc. and send it to her. I'll get to that soon I hope.

Otherwise, work has been good, actually, the last couple of days, since moving to the new office. I've been busy through the day and the work day is passing by quick.

Laura seems to be doing good with school as well.

Chris? Well, I haven't talked to him in like a week and a half. I'm sure he's just lounging around not finding a job like always. He's set on the FBI thing. Just hope he doesn't wait until he gets it.

The neighbors haven't been too bad the last couple days. Last Friday, however, they got ridiculously loud and it was like midnight. I got so fucking pissed. I called the non-emergency number and reported a noise complaint. The cops came about 40 minutes later, but that didn't matter since they were still playing music. The cop finally stopped them at around 1am. Motherfuckers. I will kick them out of their house if I have to.

We arranged our study after we painted it and I like it. I like change, so anything probably would have looked good for me. I think there's a lot more room since the desks are worked around the dog bed. Speaking of which, we need to buy a port-a-crate soon. I am tired of lugging the heavy cage around, plus we need it when we stay at Chris'.

Anyway, things are well. Life is progressing, yada, yada.

Until next time.

I am tired of painting!!!

Okie dokie.

I'm do for a blog here and I'm going to update about what's been going on.

First things first, Laura is gone for this coming week and then some. She's coming back next Monday, which is quite a long time. She's out in OK to help her sister move. I already miss her! Kip misses her too I'm sure. He's actually in our bedroom right now just hanging out. A few times today he just went into the room and stared out the window for some reason.

I've been into World of Warcraft again. Good or bad? I think more on the bad side of things because I'm on the computer way too much. I did cancel my CC subscription this month, which means I have until the 19th to play. I'm not sure if I want to stop playing for a little bit or what.

Work has been good. Did some cool video ingesting the last couple of days of this week since the main dude was gone. Time really goes by faster when I don't have anything to do. Hopefully they'll get me doing more stuff soon.

TJ and Ashley's visit here and where they went (camp, FoCo, etc.) was good. We camped the second night they were here and we had a good time. We climbed to the peak (Laura and I) the next morning and took some nice pictures. I should start an online album or something. But yeah, we just hung out, had some fun, we even went to The Melting Pot the first night and splurged on the Big Night Out. Wow, expensive but there was so much food that we couldn't finish it. Otherwise, it was nice to see them again and catch up. They're, if I'm not mistaken, in Chicago now, probably settling in to their new place. It seems everyone (well, except Chris) is moving on with their lives and stuff. Incredible stuff if you ask me. We're what, 23-25 and starting our lives. It's just weird to think of it like that.

I'll sneak this one in here, but the biggest news for this week was probably my present to me and Laura...a 32" LCD TV!!

Check out the details here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824022006

I think it's a great price for the unit and I've heard some good recommendations about it. It'll be here next Wednesday and I actually ordered a cheapo (but good reviews) new DVD player to go along with it to make full use of it since our current DVD is old as fuck! It's my first (and only) DVD player purchase from, crap, 1997? '98? I don't even remember. Anyway, we're excited as we're going to put it in our bedroom so we can watch movies on it on our bed as we sleep. The best thing about it is that we can finally start making use of the widescreen format. Good thing I've been purchasing WS editions of the DVDs since we started. I knew it'll come in handy some day.

We're what, already halfway through Summer? It's going by so fast. But yeah, I'll leave this one ending here. I'll be back soon. I promise!

TJ will be visiting this week! Woot.

Yeah, I'm too lazy to update still.

Holy shit, it's finallly happened...it's been over a month since my last report! I need to get going on this puppy.

Which reminds me, I don't think I've ever written about our good ol' Kip that we got!

I'm tired, so I'll have to push this blog again to next time...I really will write most things up to now.

TJ, you need to put something up on your blog, even if it's just one word...

Not going to make it almost a month without writing! Well, this one's going to be really short. We're off to go camping within the next couple of hours...and it's raining...great.

Well it's a Saturday night and I'm sitting here on my bed listening to some music. Some things to talk about.

Earlier this week Laura and I sent a flower delivery via FTD to Ashley and she said that she liked it. They were blue tulips.

Last night was my last day as full-time at CHC. It was a struggle as always since one kid wanted to act up. Still, at the end of the night, I talked with a couple of kids since I was leaving to become ER. Had a good talk with them. We'll see if I come back. :)

A couple of hours ago we finished watching The Da Vinci Code with Laura and Laura's parents (they came up to help work on the house and hang out). It was good. I didn't really compare it to the book since that's something I don't do, but it did seem to follow it right. Still debating whether Silas is pronounced "See-las" or "Sigh-less", but oh well. They said it both ways in the movie.

Monday I start my new job as the administrative assistant at Thought Equity. Hopefully that pans out well and I get hired on as salary at the end of 30 days.

But that's about it to report for now since Laura is laying here pretending not to read it while I write this.

Hope all's well with everyone.

Just writing a quick little update from our new office! We got our desks on Friday, but we finally put it together today because the desks were so damn heavy and I couldn't carry upstairs by myself.

TJ, I'll take pictures and stuff from our new place soon and send them to you via CD or something because on your dial-up it'll take forever!

Hope all is well for those that read this.

Finally done with my work week. Damn I'm glad. I have no more 9-9 Saturday shifts...I can't wait for that. Hopefully I can get started on that computer business soon because I'll need the income!

Otherwise, all is well, but I'm tired as fuck, so I'm heading to bed.

Just a quick little update. Although it's almost been a full two weeks. A lot has been happening. Firstly, we've completely moved into our townhome. We're almost done with settling in. The last thing is the study, which we can be done by early next week because the desks that we ordered are finally getting here tomorrow. To e honest, it does seem like Laura and I have been fighting a lot about the home, just because of things like what to buy, where to put things, etc. It'll pass though. It always happens when we move...I hate moving! Second, my last day as full-time staff at work is going to be next Friday. After that, I had better find another job!!! But yeah, those are the two biggest updates so far.

I've been having the itch to start the computer building business. I e-mailed my brother to see if we could do it as a subdivision of Motogolf but he said he'll get back to me. If he doesn't seem to want to try it, I think I might give it a shot myself. I think I can do it. I have most of the logistics down. I just need to try one out to see how well it works.

What else...oh yeah, our new dog...that we don't have yet. We've moved a little forward in the application process. The volunteers came and saw our place. Now we're just waiting whether or not the lady who runs the rescue thinks that we can handle a border collie. The weird thing is, I have been waiting for this dog a long time, but the other day Laura mentioned that she wanted to go to Manitou Springs again to head to that bed and breakfast we went to a few years ago and ever since then, I've been wanting to go. But she thinks that if we reserve the room now, we'll be having to get the dog the same week or the week before we'll be going on the couple-day trip...I don't know. It seems that we haven't done anything like this in a long time, so I want to hang out with here. I think it'd be fun and I really liked that bed and breakfast we went to, so.

But yeah, it's getting sort of late and I have a long next two days, so. See ya later.

Hope everyone who reads this is doing well.

Very quick update...about 75% moved in...got a bunch of misc junk and food back at the old place. Hopefully we'll be done mid week.

Yippee!

And no word from the BC rescue yet. I want a dog so bad.

Phew, finally a chance to sit here and write a bit. I'm listening to some tunes from Sky.fm right now, going to work in about 20 minutes. So, back to the vague statement from last time. I finally decided to give this job a rest, at least for the summer, possibly (probably) longer. My last day full-time is going to be May 19th, but might be shorter depending on some other plans.

Today I had an interview with the recreation department for the city...I'm thinking that this is just a volunteer position, but that's ok. I have an interview tomorrow at the UPS Store, so hopefully that goes well and I get hired because if not, I'm going to be searching for a job quick! The thing is, I told my boss that I already had a job lined up and that I'll be working at this business in FoCo. I just don't want to have to get a job in town where I might have a chance of running into my staff. Oh well. I'll still be an ER, so I'll probably work here and there to cover shifts and stuff, but yeah, if all goes well, I'll be able to get the UPS Store job and start part-time or something if they let me and then move into full-time after May 19th.

The CRAPPY thing is that we start our new schedule this coming weekend I guess. Which means that I work Thurs-Sunday...wtf. Ha, oh well. If the hours weren't so crappy, I wouldn't mind, but it's 5-10 Thurs, 3-12 Fri, 9-9 Sat and 12-10 Sun. How much worse can it get? The thing that's going to keep me going is that I'm stopping on the 19th...but hopefully that Monday the 15th. I'll see if I can get out of it.

I would apply this this desk clerk job for the Best Western but it's like being built still and I'm not sure where to apply. It just says apply in person, but I don't know. I'll try to get an app or something tomorrow maybe.

But yeah, I'm in like that transition phase so it'll be a little weird for a few weeks.

On to the good news. We're officially going to have keys for the townhome on Friday! Sucks that I'll probably be working Sat and Sun pretty much all day, but fuck, such is life.

No word from the dog people yet. Hopefully soon. I think Laura was going to e-mail to make sure that our application was received or something. Other than that, the new house thing is going well. We're starting to pack everything (well, Laura has done much of it) and we've got utilities ready and stuff.

Last weekend we were in Fort Collins and I spent quite a bit of money getting stuff for the house. Namely tools like a circular saw, jigsaw, drill, etc. I spent about $160 for that set. I'm all pumped up to build stuff for the new house now. I also bought some new clothes and, holy hell, new shoes too. I haven't worn it yet, but I'm going to be breaking them in here pretty soon. I hate starting to wear new shoes. They are just so bright.

But anyway, I have 15 or so minutes left to get ready for work and stuff, so I'll catch you later!

P.S. I guess the other bigs news is that I'm finally debt free...from loans, from credit card debt, etc. It's a nice feeling. I'm going to try pretty hard to keep my credit card from being used. It's evil for sure.