March 22, 2003

Remembrance

What a day today has been. Ive spent the whole entire day bored. Everything Ive done today was done with the intention of eliminating my monotony. Although things have helped the day move along a bit, its been a fairly hopeless battle.

I did do my part yesterday to remember the troops fighting over in Iraq. My brothers had their pellet guns out since it was the first fairly warm weekend this year. I had to take Nate to work, and just as Im starting my car I saw this fat old squirrel in a tree about 50 feet from my car.

So I ran in, grabbed one of the pellet guns quick, ran back out and got one shot just as Nate walked around the corner and asked what I was shooting at. I nailed it right in the jugular and it fell out of the tree (and did make a small mess on the wood pile it landed on).

The army shoots Iraqis, I shoot woodland critters. And thus I thought about them.

We have another woodpile about 20 feet from our family room window in the basement. This morning as I was brushing my teeth, I stuck my head out the bathroom door, looked out the family room window, and saw this big old muskrat standing on top of the wood pile.

Now weve known for a while that at least one muskrat lived under there, and because of it my youngest brother Jared (who is nine) was always afraid of being bitten when he had to go get wood.

Anyways, I saw that thing standing up there and I grabbed a gun again. I tried sliding the window open a bit so I could get a good shot, but I couldnt get it open far enough without spooking it. So I just slid it open and scared it back into the wood pile.

Now those who are cheering for the muskrat may be happy about that, but I dont give up so easily. I climbed out of the window very quietly and walked around to the other side of the pile. I caught just a glimpse of the thing sticking its head out from under the plastic tarp thats over the wood, so I shot.

At first I thought I missed, or maybe hadnt even really seen it, because when I looked after shooting there was nothing there. But when I pulled the tarp back I found that I got it right through the ear.

But anywhose

I was looking through the paper today at houses and it may not be all that hard to find a nice little place for under $100,000. Ill probably have to move a little farther north than I am though because even going 15 minutes up the road the houses are thousands of dollars cheaper.

I know this is kind of short for me, but I really have nothing better to say so Im not gonna try and force something out.

Well I wonder

Do we learn?

Seems were making

The same wrong turns

Call you sacred

Call you obscene

Call you faithless

Call you anything

Call and listen.

Toad The Wet Sprocket

They’re coming back for a short reunion, Toad is. That is such a great CD–I almost wore it out back in the day. 😉

Pre-Ex-Girlfriend

March 23, 2003

Jaime Joel!!! Thats TERRIBLE!!! Why did you even write abou that? you knew it’d make me cry! lol get your booty online..I’m home like alone..well derek’s here watching braveheart, but otherhow I’m home alone and I wanna talk to you and you’re not here and I miss you!!!!! Dude, you should write me a letter since you miss me so much! Or an email..but I got lots of notes so I’m pretyt happy

So anyway, you should’ve been there last night to protect me at the RSJames concert…and I’ll tell you why…

so I go in and I get my lemonade, and I walk up to the counter and the slimy looking mexican guy behind the counter looks at me and goes *hey sexy* I was like *excuse me* and he’s like *hello* I was like *hi*

Then I was like *lets get outta here* to melissa as soon as she paid for her pop, and I told her, and she’s like *you shoulda told one of us we coulda stood with you or something* I was like *we were in three feet of space he couldnt of done anything* She was like *but still he shouldnt say stuff like that* I was like *I know but he did* what would you like to do about it?

Yeah so that was my interesting story..next time you’ll just have to be here to protect me from weirdos like you did when we played mini-golf. Speaking of which I drove past Volcano falls today…and it made me think of you…LoL man I cant go anywhere anymore..it all has *Jaimie Joel was here* written all over it! LoL ;o)

But anywayz, I prolly have left enough notes for today. I really wish you were on!!! :’o( I’ve been missing Jaimie Joel!! LoL anywhose, I’ll talk to you soon, and maybe I’ll send you a surprise sometime soon! *hugs* luv ya much

RYN – It is beginning to seem as if I don’t need to dye it black – the blue is fadeing out. In anouther week or two it should be all gone, then I won’t have to worry. Ah well…the worse is that I spent ten bucks on hair dye I may not need. Hmmmm, looking like a skunk would be a bad thing. ~ David

Hmmmm, in the apartment complex I live in there is a laundry room with a big laundry tub – I wonder if they’d mind if I did it in there. I don’t ever see anyone else ever useing the tubs. It is bigger and would be easier to use I imagine… ~ David

Yea when we dyed my hair blue we used vasoline and it helped, altho in some cases the dye did get on my skin. I had to use a copper sponge thing to get it off, it sucked. I’d have liked to dye my eyebrows to match my hair, but I am beginning to see it can’t be done. That does suck for someone with light eyebrows. ~ David

March 26, 2003

Hey Jaimie Joel! I came here to say I’m REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry!!! I wouldnt have left like that but my dad was there and I had just shut off the computer and stuff…so it woulda taken forever! I’m really sorry that I left you tho. I prolly shoulda warned you about it and stuff! I really really really really really really really really sorry!! Please forgive me!

I love you lots! *hugs* talk to you soon! I sorry :’=o(