Bubbles

So I'm here today to talk about one of the most helpless feelings you'll ever have. Here's the scenario, you're sound asleep in the middle of the night. It's pitch black in your room and you wake up for a second to shift how you are laying. Then, it happens. Your pillow falls off the head of your bed and you lie there for at least a minute thinking, "great, what the hell am I gonna do now, I don't have a pillow." Granted, you feel much better after you realize where your pillow went, but for those few seconds, you just feel helpless, lost, alone, scared, and you want your mommy. Now, this feeling can be devastatingly worse if you have a lofted bed that is more than 3 feet off the ground. As I found out my freshman year when my bed was lofted about 5 feet off the ground. My room mate was telling me the next day that he saw me straining to reach my fallen pillow from my bed. He found the sight all too funny, especially since I could only reach a...

So I don't know if anyone has looked into the weather lately, but I'm confused. Why did winter take so long to get here, and why does it seem to have skipped Eau Claire? Well, the snow did anyway. We only got about 2 inches, whereas places like Appleton got a ton. As described by Curtis when asked how much snow they got, "not sure...it's all in drifts, no snow here....20 feet over there." But this, though it may seem so, is not the theme of my rant. My rant involves one, weather.com, and their neverending negative crappy news that I don't want to read. They're like the New York Times of weather. Let's just run through the temps for this weekend shall we? Here we go: Let's start with the present and go through the rest of the weekend. Right now: 10F Feels like -3F Friday 6am: 3F Feels like -16F Friday noon: 4F Feels like -17F Friday 6pm: 3F Feels like -12F Friday midnight: -3F Feels like -17F Saturday 6am: ...

Today marks my last day at Copps Food Center, and, assuming the rest of my life goes according to plan, my last day ever working in a grocery store. No more acting like you're happy to see the customer who's about to ask you for something you've never heard of. No more breaking things then trying to blame it on a customer so that the 3' tall 60 year old sanitation lady with grey hair that's dyed black but you can see the grey every other week between dye jobs will clean it up. No more "Where do you work?" - someone, "Copps" - Me (with my head hung low) No more hitting people in the face with large balls of plastic wrap, well I might continue this, but it won't happen as often. No more 6 pack of corn dogs, or fresh deli chicken, or hot dogs spinning all day, or dry chicken tenders on breaks. No more weekly paychecks. No more waiting for them to hire the next cute girl at the bank, only to find out that they hired a guy, why do they do that!?! ...

Cleaning cleaning cleaning, that's what today was all about. I cleaned my room, and I cleaned most of the rest of the apartment. I brought a lot of stuff back with me to the EC from my numerous holiday destinations. From presents to winter clothes I had more than my tiny room can handle. But I went out and bought a new shelf/organizer type thing for the closet. This made me a bit angry, but worked out in the end. Here's the story: So, I went to Target, even though it's just as far away as Wal-Mart I refuse to go to Wal-Mart, as Bobby Boucher's momma would say, it's the devil. Well, once in Target I found this shelf very quickly and being the smart person I am I had measured my closet to make sure that whatever I got for it would fit inside my closet. So, I looked at the shelf, and it was perfect 47 1/2" long, my closet was nearly 48" but over 47 3/4" so I felt quite confident that it would fit. I picked up a new laundry sorter/basket thing and headed ...

Well, it's here, Finals! The end of the semester, time to fling ourselves into the Christmas scene. My first final is in 48 minutes, followed by two on tuesday, and one on Wednesday, at that point I head home to A-town. The extended stay in Appleton, well 5 days, could be quite fun, I haven't been there for more than a weekend in quite some time. I'd really like to get together with some friends that I can never seem to get to see while I'm home. Anyhoo, I wish everybody luck on their finals. Congrats to Timmy and Dan on their graduation! Well, I'm off, I've got to go clip my fingernails, I swear they're like 3/4 of an inch long. They look nice... if I were female and going to paint them. I always like it when they're long and I go to work and open a box and it bends my fingernail back, wonderful feeling. Well, like I said, good luck everyone! We're the renegades of funk! Have a nice summer!

The end of fall semester, the worst time of the year. It's so cold out, it's almost Christmas, and I have too much shit to do. MIS will be the death of me. If you happen to see me tomorrow and I'm smashing in your windshield with a baseball bat, don't take offense. It's just that you probably had a monkey of some sort in or on your car and it reminded me of Bruce Lo my MIS 310 professor. Which, at this point would cause me to go completely insane and do irrational things. Ironically, or not so ironically, when stress couples with other feelings and that compiles with anger it isn't a pleasant thing. Work blows right now, I so desperately need to be off work tomorrow. I'd just call in sick but A) They'd know I wasn't sick because I was asking people to work for me and B) If I get one more "occurance" as they call them at Copp's I'll be off for more than just tomorrow. Not fired, just suspended for at least one day. I need more time.....

It's official!!! I need to put my scraper back in my car. Also to note, breaking out the winter coat wouldn't be a bad move either. I just hope some of this snow starts to stick. It's all melting so far, except for the stuff on the cars, which is reassuring. I've rediscovered this blog thing, crazy stuff. I might even start updating it. hahahaha.... no really, I might. Andyway, my nose won't stop running, I keep coughing, and sneezing and it's driving me crrrrrrrrrrazy. But I digress, winter is here it's time to cheer! Have a nice summer!

I pity Bears Fans: First off, this guy was talking crap on a Green Bay Packers message board. Secondly, he was talking up the Bears huge win over the 2-7 49ers. I felt the need to intervene. Here's what was said, first by the Bears Fan, then my Response: "we have a big reason to it was windy and they had 8 guys in the box and we rushed for 170 yards and just about 70 passing. and there rushing def is not bad.they had the line stacked for the run and we killed them and they could not score 2 times at the 1 yard line and we had a 108 yard return an nfl first in that game and we took 1st in def yards we have 1st in td givin up rank in the top 10 for take away 1st in def redzone % r off has the best o-line in the nfl to make holes for r running game that big in a game where we could not throw do to winds of 40mph we rank 5th in rushing we rank low in passing but what can i say it sucks but is getting alot better.are rookie qb is making some mistakes but not as many as your qb h...

Don't panic, it's ok, I'm still alive. There, now we got that out of the way. I've had an epiphany, and it's somewhat blog related. The more bored I am, and the less I have going on in my life the more I post. And inversely the more I have going on the less I post. So I'll give you a guess as to how much I've had going on. If it were able to be quantified it'd be higher than recent powerball jackpots. I had intentions of going to Madison for Halloween, but now all I read are articles from people telling me not to go. Now, I've already made other plans and I'm not going, but these articles make me want to go even more. It's like saying, "don't drink and drive." It's like a challenge. One of the hardest things ever to do that ends up being incredibly easy after you do it. You'd never guess it. Snaps, the little white things that you throw at the ground that make a snapping noise. Well, anyway try snapping one ...

I don't think WROX are the right letters, but meh, I don't really care. If you know what it's from you'll say it in your head, or out loud, and if you don't, don't worry about it. I read this in an article on nfl.com this morning, found it rather humorous. Media note: Injury-riddled secondaries must be referred to as "banged up" while injury-riddled offensive lines become "patchwork." It's just like in baseball, in which right-handed pitchers are "veteran" and left-handers are "crafty." Here endeth the lesson. So, anyhoo, hope everyone is doing well with themselves. I've given up on trying to update this regularly. First of all there isn't enough terribly interesting stuff going on, and that gets boring for me and you. The only thing I have is this. Tara's coming this weekend! :) And she might get a job here. We'll see how that goes. I'll try to keep ya posted. She comes Thursday, I work Fri...

Tick Tick Tick... *Looks at watch* "There goes another one..." If that wasn't you then, Have a nice summer!

Anybody else feel like they're too busy to even write down their thoughts. Yeah, I wasn't quite to that point so I think I'm going to add another class to my schedule, I'd like to graduate early and this is one way to do it. Anyhoo, not much has been happening lately. College Republicans meeting tonight, gonna miss The OC. That's sad. But I'm sure I'll be able to download it and watch it tomorrow morning before work while I'm working on homework I'm not going to have time to do this weekend. Aw crap. I have to meet with my group tomorrow at 10. Bah. Anyway, I gotta get going, thought I'd stop by for a few seconds and say hello. Have a nice summer!

"Tiny Dancer, two words. That strike a chord in the heart of every sensitive 32 year old man. A song actually I don't think I'd ever heard until I saw Almost Famous. So every night before going to bed, I thank Cameron Crowe for opening up a part of me that I don't think I never knew until now." -Dave Grohl It's been such an eventful time this month that I just haven't had time to post anything for a while. Typically when I haven't posted for a while I go all out and make a new layout and a huge new post, but I really like what I've done with the place, so why fix it up?? Anyhoo, it's been a wonderful wonderful month. I think I've seen Tara more this month than I did in the last year, it's been fantabulous. My new picture is the Avatar from my Yahoo profile, it includes a picture of a brown chihuahua. Now I know it's not the right color and it's not long hair, but it's my version of Zoe, Tara's puppy. That picture ...

Insignificance. Sitting in a 757 staring down on the thousands of lights that make up Minneapolis, that word comes to mind. Yearning. The days I long for can't come soon enough, but once here will never last long enough. Excitement. Though subtle and small it's exciting, the return home is overdue and needed. Exuberance. The feeling can only come from the familiarity of home and one's own bed. Deliriously Happy. Love. Have a nice summer!

Here's the official word on Wedding Crashers as determined by myself, Hilarious! Well, today David and I leave for Washington, we're leaving Eau Claire in about 2 hours and heading for Minneapolis then it's off to the West Coast. I couldn't sleep at all last night, I don't know if it was about the trip or what but I'm gonna be tired tonight. I didn't fall asleep until sometime around 2:30am and I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep at 7am. For a grand total of 4.5 hours of sleep. I was really tired last night, probably from driving, that usually makes me tired. Anyhoo, I'll update when we return from the trip. Until then, I expect you to hold down the fort, don't let anything get out of hand, and no parties, I mean it. Have a nice summer!

So here's a fun story from the other day... I was reading this magazine, it may have been National Geographic, I don't remember. I wasn't reading it, I was paging through it. But I saw this picture and it made me giggle. It was a turtle sitting on a kangaroo's head eating a giraffe. I'll let that sink in for a second..... annnnd good.... Ok so after that it inspired me to turn on the Travel Channel. They had that one woman that goes to all of those exotic locations to show you some cool place that you'll never be able to afford to go. I love that show. Well I turned that on and you'd never believe it, they showed a turtle on a kangaroo's head eating a giraffe. Well, then I went golfing and I hit a ball in the water. I was so mad about hitting the ball in the water that I jumped in after it. Well, I did find it, along with a couple others. When I was getting out of the water I got attacked by geese. Yeese, geese. Then I almost passed out so ...

So, after driving 4.5 hours yesterday to Detroit Lakes, MN I'm here in the hotel until this afternoon when the wedding starts. After the wedding and probably some drinking tonight, traveling will commence as follows... Sunday Aug. 14: Drive to Minneapolis, pick up Zoe, Drive to Tara's parents. 5 hours. Monday Aug. 15: Drive to Des Moines. 2.5 hours. Tuesday Aug. 16: In Des Moines, no traveling. Wednesday Aug. 17: Drive to Eau Claire. 4.5 hours. Thursday Aug. 18: Drive to Minneapolis Airport. 1.5 hours. Thursday Aug. 18: Get through security at Airport. 2 hours. Thursday Aug. 18: Fly to Seattle, WA. 3.5 hours. Thursday Aug. 18: Wait for my friend's parents flight to arrive. 2 hours. Thursday Aug. 18: Meet Sean's parents, drive to Wenatchee, WA. Approx. 2.5 hours. Friday Aug. 19: Wedding rehearsal. Saturday Aug. 20: Sean's Wedding. Sunday Aug. 21 - Tuesday Aug. 23: No idea. Something in WA. Wednesday Aug. 24: Leave Wenatchee for Seattle 7am. 2.5 hours. Wednesday ...

Ask and ye shall receive. Apparently that's true. My previous post asked for someone to work for me so that I could go to Des Moines, and sure enough I just got back from Des Moines this afternoon. I didn't even lose any hours in the deal, it worked out fantabulously. Today at work is what I'm going to call, "The Craziest Night at Copp's Food Center EVER!" Here goes... First off, I got to work and it was really really dark out. Like, we're all going to die due to the ominous clouds, kinda dark out. So we kept randomly going outside to see what the weather was like, mostly because we didn't want to be there and were hoping that the power would go out. Well, the last time we went out there as the storm was going away, Brian, the Manager on Duty tonight, came out behind us to see what we were doing. There was a fire somewhere nearby, most likely from the lightening, and we could hear sirens. Brian made the comment, "I wonder if one of those ...

So here's an interesting fact: Zach Braff is the voice of the Cottonelle Puppy. In other news, will somebody work for me so I can go to Des Moines?? Anybody?? Come on.... Have a nice summer!