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Friday, August 26, 2005
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Ladies and other ladies: Andy is off the market!
Sorry about the long delay folks. Today is really the first chance I've had to get near a computer since last Monday. So what have I been up to? Well I'm glad you asked......
Rachel's parents, sister and aunt and uncle have been visiting from Wisconsin. We took them on a whirlwind tour of Oregon, taking them through the Gorge to Multnomah Falls and Hood River, down to Crater Lake and over to the coast to experience the sand dunes in Florence and a few days of relaxation at my grandparent's beach house in Lincoln City. All told, we racked up 1500 miles on the rental van in 8 days. Pretty impressive if you ask me. It's been a good week, but also a little tiring and I've had little time to recover before starting my new job tomorrow morning. All that's great, but the big news is......
I asked Rachel to marry me, and she said yes!!!
It certainly wasn't the easiest thing for me to do. Asking her dad was tough. I could never really get him alone, and then one time I had to abort my mission when he asked me "so when did your parents get divorced?" I figured that I'd better shelve the marriage talk until a later date. But I finally did ask him, he said yes, and then Rachel did too, at Boiler Bay on the coast. We're planning the wedding for next summer....July 1 unless something unexpected comes up in the next week or two here.
So yay!
Rachel's parents, sister and aunt and uncle have been visiting from Wisconsin. We took them on a whirlwind tour of Oregon, taking them through the Gorge to Multnomah Falls and Hood River, down to Crater Lake and over to the coast to experience the sand dunes in Florence and a few days of relaxation at my grandparent's beach house in Lincoln City. All told, we racked up 1500 miles on the rental van in 8 days. Pretty impressive if you ask me. It's been a good week, but also a little tiring and I've had little time to recover before starting my new job tomorrow morning. All that's great, but the big news is......
I asked Rachel to marry me, and she said yes!!!
It certainly wasn't the easiest thing for me to do. Asking her dad was tough. I could never really get him alone, and then one time I had to abort my mission when he asked me "so when did your parents get divorced?" I figured that I'd better shelve the marriage talk until a later date. But I finally did ask him, he said yes, and then Rachel did too, at Boiler Bay on the coast. We're planning the wedding for next summer....July 1 unless something unexpected comes up in the next week or two here.
So yay!
Monday, August 8, 2005
Week of Hugeness
This week is massive.....let me just tell y'all what I got going on.
* Today is my birthday. That's right. Snuck up on most of you didn't it? I'm 26 now, which is way to old to be writing an online journal, but what the hell.
*Tomorrow I get a new cell phone. My old one is just too fragile, and I got insurance on the thing so I could get a new one, right? I'm kind of sad to be abandoning the slider for a regular ol' phlip phone, but such is life.
*Friday is my last day at my job. I'll be sad to leave the people, but not sad to see my paycheck increase by 25%! Plus I get paid bi-weekly now instead of monthly. Boo-ya!
*Friday is also the day that Rachel's parents come to visit, which means Saturday will be the day our parents meet for the first time. That oughta be a doozy.
I'm sure there's more stuff, but those are the highlights. I'll keep you posted.
* Today is my birthday. That's right. Snuck up on most of you didn't it? I'm 26 now, which is way to old to be writing an online journal, but what the hell.
*Tomorrow I get a new cell phone. My old one is just too fragile, and I got insurance on the thing so I could get a new one, right? I'm kind of sad to be abandoning the slider for a regular ol' phlip phone, but such is life.
*Friday is my last day at my job. I'll be sad to leave the people, but not sad to see my paycheck increase by 25%! Plus I get paid bi-weekly now instead of monthly. Boo-ya!
*Friday is also the day that Rachel's parents come to visit, which means Saturday will be the day our parents meet for the first time. That oughta be a doozy.
I'm sure there's more stuff, but those are the highlights. I'll keep you posted.
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Steriods and a case of the Mondays
Learning that Raffy tested positive really surprised me. Being the optimist that I am, I had to believe that Palmeiro was clean. If he gets in front of congress and flatly denies taking steriods while the rest of his peers refuse to answer questions or pretend they don't speak the language, well that stands for something. Besides, anyone who looks that much like Bernie from the Weekend at Bernie's series has to be legit.
So yesterday was a sad day for me. If one of the supposed good guys is dirty, who's to say that they all aren't dirty. Afterall, until last year, steroids weren't even illegal in baseball. Nobody tested, there was no repercussion for doing it. So why not? Aside from the obvious moral reasons. But you gotta remember that some of these guys have 250 million reasons not to listen to Jimminy Cricket on their shoulder. Would you stick a needle in your ass for a quarter of a billion dollars? You can do a lot of good with that money.
That was just the start of my crummy day. I was an absolute idiot at work yesterday, forgetting things I normally don't, and just basically operating at about a 75% efficiency level. The highlight was probably when the pager I have to wear went off, and I had no clue what it was. This lady is like "what is that noise?" I replied "I have no clue, but it sure is loud." She looks at me extremely confused and says, I think it's coming from you." I look down this little black box on my waist which is blinking. "Yup," I say, "it's me." THAT'S not embarrasing or anything. After lunch, I totally spaced out and drove my truck back to the loading dock. All these people are looking at me like "who is this guy?" Yeah, not cool. Then I had to deal with all sorts of traffic craziness on the courier run, highlighted by A CRATE OF LIGHTBULBS falling out the back of a truck and exploding all over the road. That caused a pretty hefty delay.
And now I will list 10 things that will always make me smile, no matter what.
* The Jack in the Box commercial where Jack says "do you know who I am?" and the girl working the counter says "Yeah....you're the hungry guy with no Jack Cash Card!"
* Mo Money Mo Problems....what a good song.
* A really good cheeseburger
* Super Troopers
* Seeing someone try and push a door that needs to be pulled.
* Someone burning their tires at a stoplight - is that really necessary?
* Making a nice move to score in a basketball game and hearing someone say "how can you not guard a guy that big and slow?" It happens more often than you'd think.
* At the beginning of the video for Usher's "Yeah" when there is a scene of a club and all of a sudden a crazed Lil' Jon jumps into the screen wearing camoflauge and holding a goblet and screams "yeah!"
* Actually, Lil' Jon deserves his own entry.
* Getting sent home from work early.
That's all I got today.
By the way, Mariah Carey making a comeback? She's still crazy, but these last two songs she's put out are great. She hasn't been this good since she was making songs with Ol' Dirty Bastard. "Me and Mariah, go back to when we had pacifiers......" Sure Bastard, sure ya do.
So yesterday was a sad day for me. If one of the supposed good guys is dirty, who's to say that they all aren't dirty. Afterall, until last year, steroids weren't even illegal in baseball. Nobody tested, there was no repercussion for doing it. So why not? Aside from the obvious moral reasons. But you gotta remember that some of these guys have 250 million reasons not to listen to Jimminy Cricket on their shoulder. Would you stick a needle in your ass for a quarter of a billion dollars? You can do a lot of good with that money.
That was just the start of my crummy day. I was an absolute idiot at work yesterday, forgetting things I normally don't, and just basically operating at about a 75% efficiency level. The highlight was probably when the pager I have to wear went off, and I had no clue what it was. This lady is like "what is that noise?" I replied "I have no clue, but it sure is loud." She looks at me extremely confused and says, I think it's coming from you." I look down this little black box on my waist which is blinking. "Yup," I say, "it's me." THAT'S not embarrasing or anything. After lunch, I totally spaced out and drove my truck back to the loading dock. All these people are looking at me like "who is this guy?" Yeah, not cool. Then I had to deal with all sorts of traffic craziness on the courier run, highlighted by A CRATE OF LIGHTBULBS falling out the back of a truck and exploding all over the road. That caused a pretty hefty delay.
And now I will list 10 things that will always make me smile, no matter what.
* The Jack in the Box commercial where Jack says "do you know who I am?" and the girl working the counter says "Yeah....you're the hungry guy with no Jack Cash Card!"
* Mo Money Mo Problems....what a good song.
* A really good cheeseburger
* Super Troopers
* Seeing someone try and push a door that needs to be pulled.
* Someone burning their tires at a stoplight - is that really necessary?
* Making a nice move to score in a basketball game and hearing someone say "how can you not guard a guy that big and slow?" It happens more often than you'd think.
* At the beginning of the video for Usher's "Yeah" when there is a scene of a club and all of a sudden a crazed Lil' Jon jumps into the screen wearing camoflauge and holding a goblet and screams "yeah!"
* Actually, Lil' Jon deserves his own entry.
* Getting sent home from work early.
That's all I got today.
By the way, Mariah Carey making a comeback? She's still crazy, but these last two songs she's put out are great. She hasn't been this good since she was making songs with Ol' Dirty Bastard. "Me and Mariah, go back to when we had pacifiers......" Sure Bastard, sure ya do.
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