Relaxation

I have to say that my favorite thing to do is to relax. There isn't a greater feeling then to kick back in a chair and prop my feet up on something. When I am able to do this I can handle it for hours do to the fact that I have just hit my favorite spot. Another way I love to relax is out in my hammock at my house next to the pond I built. When I relax with others I find it awesome to go by a river bank kick out some chairs and throw down some brew. I can't stand when I go to kick back and someone calls for me to do something so I have to resume my happiness until later. One of my favorite drinks to have while relaxing is lemonade, there isn't anything else like that drink when you're sitting outside in the summer and just straight up chilling. People may find this weird but when I get extremely pissed off I will go outside (when I am at home), and will just do yard work. Being outside and just working on the yard helps me take my mind off shit that makes my blood flow 5 times more then it should.Relaxation overall really helps me release stress that occurs (recently a lot).

Summertime!!

So I guess it is about time to start talking about the old summer plans. To start off my summer I have received a call from my old boss that I used to paint for during the summers. He called to tell me that this man whose house he painted was needing someone to come and spread mulch around his house so I called up the guy and the next day (during easter weekend) I went by his house and talked to him and decided when I would start mulching. The other day when I called him to confirm when I would be home he told me that his neighbor would like for me to do some yard work also. So besides those two jobs I am still in need of finding more work to do. Also this summer I am taking a class at the local community college back home. Other then these few things I will definitely be doing a lot of fishing with the dudes and chilling out. Another thing I will probably regret later when I start doing this but I can’t wait to start bailing hay. This is one of the hardest, demanding things I have ever done. Due to the fact my dad owns an old school bailer we have to stack the hay twice, once on the wagons and then again in the barn. I have been bailing hay with my dad since I was in 5th grade. I remember all the times I was too small to throw bails around and then one day during the winter my dad had me help him go out to the barn and restack the hay. I was really excited that I could finally help him. Last summer I did something I really regretted I was trying to hook up the hay tetter to get the rows fluffed to dry out faster and the thing was too heavy to lift by myself and the jack on the thing was broken. So I took rope tied it around the tetter and then roped it around the lift bars on the tractor to try and lift it up. When I did this I was swinging the tetter over to hook up and the rope broke and the tetter fell on my foot in which I was wearing flip flops. I was worried at first when I was lifting the tetter up to get my foot out, that I lost a few of my toes. I definitely learned a lesson from this experience.

This Weekend

This past weekend was my birthday, so Thursday afternoon my girlfriend arrived for the weekend. When she got here we hung out and napped until my other friends were ready to do the pk dinner. Later after pks we came back and watched some tv before we went out to my friend’s apartment to hangout for the night. Friday was my birthday so when we woke up we went to IHOP which was a disaster the waitress were running around with their heads cut off and it just over all took forever. It took 2 hours to get the food and 6 minutes for us to chow it down. After we ate we went to the grocery store so that she could get food to make me a birthday dinner. After we dropped off the food we went down to the river to layout and chill for a little bit. After we got back we played Mario party on the N64 for 2 hours. Then finally dinner time arrived she fixed me bbq shrimp and twice baked potatoes. I have never had bbq shrimp before, but it was actually really good. We stayed in Friday night and watched Law Abiding Citizen which was a very good movie I recommend that if you have not seen this movie yet that you should. Then Saturday I woke up and did some Econ homework and that was a thrill made my whole weekend. After the Econ got the best of me, my friends and I set up some lawn pong in which we use 6 5-gallon buckets and then take tennis balls and use them to knock out the buckets. While playing this we grilled some hamburgers that were really good. So I know it doesn’t sound like that much happened but this was all I wanted to just spend time with my girl.

Life as it is

So this past week was a pain in the ass, had some work to do and also take my biology test that was a kicker on all of that. I was ready for the weekend as soon as I woke up Monday morning. On Thursday I went downtown and started out at PK’s, (I suggest this if you all didn’t know about the Tijuana Toss) every Thursday from 5-10pm. You get an x-large 1 topping pizza (or however many you want) and you flip a quarter for each pizza you have and if u get it right you don’t have to pay for it. After that I went to the Cellar and had a few there, this place is neat it’s like an underground bar that has a real chill atmosphere. I then finished up at Hokie House where they have the “death steps” and I was training to do this last year until I had my incident. I finally counted them on my way up and there are only 19 steps, I was told that there was 21 but I guess this is because not many make it up that far. So each step has a different name of a drink and you’re supposed to have that drink of whatever step you’re on.
Okay enough of the downtown information for now, so Friday I didn’t do relay for life but went by for a little bit to visit some friends. While I was there we went and listened to some very heart wrenching stories of how some fellow students were affected by others they knew that had cancer. I listened to two girls the first girl’s sister’s life was taken by cancer and the way she told the life of her sister and the goals she had really made me take a step back and realize I am grateful for what I have. The other girl was talking about a fellow sorority sister who was hit by cancer last year. She said how her friend sent her a text and all it said was “I have cancer,” she never liked to talk about it but she was always interested in how others were instead of everything being focused on her. She said it didn’t go that way until she was getting sicker and was worried about leaving her family behind. These kind of stories make people realize stuff happens within a blink of an eye. I have to say from this don’t hold grudges, live life to the fullest and make the best of the shitty situations!

Easter Weekend!

Easter weekend was just what I needed! I went home on Friday after class and went to a local whole sale nursery to try and get a summer job. The owner was impressed with my resume and said that when I would be coming in to work he would be looking to cut back on employees. He said that I was worth consideration due to my qualifying information, so I hope I can get at least part time there. Once I got done there I went home to hang out with the family until dinner. After dinner I went over to my girlfriends place and hung out with her for the night. Saturday morning I went and met with a guy who was interested in me spreading mulch for him when I get back from this semester. I am happy I at least have one thing to do when I get back for the summer. Once I was finished talking to him I went to my grandmothers and mowed her yard. I was in my zone, I was so happy to be back and doing some yard work. After I was done at her house I went home and cleaned up around my parents flower beds. Saturday evening we celebrated my dads 50th birthday. Since we live on a small farm, my sisters thought it would be fun to have a farm theme party so everything was about cows and tractors. Then after the celebration everyone just sat around and talked for a good bit. After everyone left, my girlfriend and I watched some of the Sherlock Holmes movie. I have to say this weekend flew by but it was something I was in need of since school has been rough lately.

Crazy Weekend

So last weekend I was driving through foxridge and my jeep steering wheel started to stiffen up making it hard to turn. I some how made it into a parking spot and sat and moved the wheel around a little bit to get it to move better. Then once I got it to work again I took it back to my apartment lot and left it there until I could figure out what to do with it. So later that night I called up the campus exxon to see if they could look at it. The guy told me they would and to bring it over whenever and they would look at it on Monday. So I take the car over sunday and hoped that it would be done in time for me to leave on thursday after my test. So around 9 am on Monday when I was walking to class I got a call from the exxon place saying that they couldnt find anything wrong with the pump and fluid so they would take apart the steering colum and lube up the parts in there. Well I had that done for $116, and needless to say I still didn't feel comfortable when I got in my jeep to drive away. It still made this clicking noise when I would turn it to certain points. I knew I had to go home thursday so I didn't bother to question if they did anything so I just went on my way. I trusted that they looked it over and made sure that it didnt have severe damage. Anyways needless to say on my drive home thursday my steering wheel stiffened up real bad when I was driving on 81, I was going around turns hoping it wouldnt keep going straight. Somehow maricle pending I made it to my sisters house and that was good enough for me since my friend who is a mechanic could get to it. That night he took it to his shop to allow for him to look at it the next morning. Finally when he took a look at it he thought it might have been something in the wheel axels, but it wasn't it turned out to be my steering wheel bearings they were completely shot. I was so pissed that the campus exxon didn't see that and they should have if they really did get into my steering colum. They have completely lost my trust and will not be getting a good message about them from me. I am also going to go and talk to them about this when I get the old bearing back and show them that this could have caused a severe accident.

Another Story

I thought the time that the in class writing assignment that we did a few weeks ago was fun, so I decided to do it again.
Audience: Young people
Detail: An ipod that has been stolen
Setting: A classroom
Character: A young girl who is a goody goody
On Monday Marsha was on her way to school when she stopped to tie her shoes. She finally got up and started to walk towards her school when she stumbled over a stick on the sidewalk. She couldn’t catch her balance and fell forward and scrapped up her knee. Once she got to her school she went to her homeroom and asked her teacher for a band aid, her teacher asked her what it was needed for and saw that she had a deep cut on her knee. The teacher took the girl to the nurse’s office and while at the office some kids entered into the classroom. Drew the class clown noticed Marsha’s book bag at the front of the room and scurried up to snag her ipod that she always stores in the front pocket. When Marsha came back she noticed that her book bag had been moved and started to whine to the teacher. Marsha started to go through the bag and noticed that her ipod was missing. The teacher got red as a beet and told the class to fess up to who took the ipod or they would all lose 20 pts on their final grades. Finally after 10 minutes of frustration Drew finally fessed up.