Blinded by the light

CRAZY weekend this weeked. C. . . R. . . .A. . . . Z. . . . Y. I got not very much sleep, but i DID make a very new friend. He is from Chicago. Or as he likes to call it "Chi-town". More on him tomorrow. I am SO tired right now i could just pass out. And i don't really think i would mind. . . I am totally going to bed. But remind me to talk about Bill tomorrow- and the club i went to. Cashville, Tennessee, baby! Yeah!

Oh and just a little side-note: in Kentucky The Whisper Song says "Never get enough . . . " instead of "Wait til you see my. . . " But it was still nice. Just some FYI, i had never known that.

This shit is bananas - B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Band camp was a good time.

You might had some but you never had none like this..

....Just wait til you see my...

Good Song! well, all in all Friday was a good day. It started off rocky from yesterday night, then I had a lot of fun, then I went to bed (slept sooo good), then did nothing until work. Work seems like another day in its self. I realized that I am a super huge bitch. WAIT back that up. I realized that now at WORK I'm a super huge bitch.... I always knew I was a bitch in real life, but work life was always different. But now that I have 2.5 weeks left I just don't give a damn anymore. I worked with most of my favorites, and with two of my least favorites. One girl thinks she is going to get me fired... oh I love it! It rocks having your cousin as the manager! anyway I'm going to go get something to eat and drink and go to bed... SeeYa!
-LeeAnn.

Don't cross the river if you can't swim the tide.

I finished Harry Potter 6 last night, and I can honestly say that I don't know what to think. A little shocked I guess. Anyway. I work today hopefully until 6. The inspector is there today, so this makes going into work a little more hard. She'll be there all day! seriously, she would've gotten there at seven she'll stay until probably six or later.

I took my survey test yesturday; it went pretty well, but a lot of the questions were the same just worded differently. It took me about 20 minutes. Anyway, I should get ready for work. You kids have fun!

~ what ever it takes I'll bend the rule book til it breaks

Hmmm...

It is now 7:09 on Friday, July 29, 2005. Everyone in here who is at the gym now, or has been to the gym today, please raise your hand.

...waiting....

...waiting....

*looking around*


Yep, Looks like it's just me today. Amber Cussen seems to be the only member of the ENTIRE Viking Sportsplex roster who feels the need to improve on a Friday.

-Jeff

Half-black family

So i am on Facebook again right now and Mabon (Studt's room mate) whom i met at Copelin's a month ago, sent me a message! So i was all excited thinking it would be really cool, since i got a message from Mabon! And the subject was "Family Tree". . . okay. . . . and the message says, "So I was wondering whether or not your parents would mind if one of their grandchildren was half black." Hahaha! Ha. . . ha. . . he is joking, right? Oh well, he's friends with Studt, what can i expect? But anyway-

I am going to Tennesse tomorrow after work and those guys are going to be waiting at the cabin when we get there around 2 am. Which honestly- i find a little creepy. Can't they wait until the morning AFTER i have slept? I am still awake right now and i have to get up in about 5 hours. . . so. . . that sucks. But i am working with Dawn (lazy, lazy, little human) so i doubt we'll be doing much. Oh well.

I am really excited about Tennessee, but i don't want to spend money, so we'll see how that works out. I am already dropping 75 bucks for the cabin and the gas in Katie's car to get down there. . . But i hope i don't spend much more than $25, but i probably will.

I went to Jeff's softball tourney today. He won, so therefore i did not get to go and see any movies i have been wanting to see for a week now. . . but it was worth it i think.

I also think my computer is going to freeze up. . . wish me luck. Everyone call me, i changed my voicemail message, it is more suited now. . . hehehe

I wanna be free......

Hey everyone!! I hope your day was good. I spent most of the day at the pool, and the rest of the day sleeping. I went to the Grille last night with Angie,Stacie and Lindsay. We had fun, it was real hot and a lot of drunks. But i guess you will get that anywhere you go.Then we went back to Tobys and drank ourselves silly. I came home real early and slept like a baby!! I went and watched Jeff and Ben's game tonight. Congrats on 2nd place!! Hope to see everyone this weekend. Have a good one.

Melanie Ann~

holy Bike Ride

Dad and I went for a ride today
Route name: Around the lake
Route Distance: approx. 10 mi
Time: about 35 min for me and 36 for dad ( I tried to keep pace with him until town then I let loose)
Leg Condition: Unstable, not as bad as I thought but I will not be doing legs at the Gym tomorrow.

All-inAll it was a good ride, temp was good lots of shade and a good chat with my pops

in other news the garage painting is almost done, and I mowed the Lawn today.

Good day.


se ya with your Fly ass boots or your open toes,
opie

Am I taking crazy pills?

It feels like I'm taking crazy pills here!

Tomorrow, I take my survey test. Then I'll be home for a nap! I need to go to the Ionia fair before it ends! I just realized that it goes away Saturday! anyway. Today I went with Sandy to go get our order from Middleville, and we ended up losing a box of breaded chicken between airport rd and Heath rd. We found the box that contained the chicken, but no chicken! Not a tragedy in my book, but they're forty bucks a box! ech!

Wow, I just watched this show on the Discovery channel about "Vanishing Twins" It's about fetus infeto. which, is basically a fetus in a fetus. Like a set of twins that went wrong. It was pretty interesting. They showed a real example of it, and it had hair, and fingers, and toes, but I didn't have a brain and no organs. Once again, I say interesting. I got a cash word tonight... I didn't win anything.

Anyway, my skin smells like Lavender, and my hair smells of fresh picked daisies. That means that it is time for me to retire for the evening. I bid you all good night.

I Go Solo

Which brings to mind a song of the same name by Psycore. A little harder than I think most of you all normally listen too. But I like to rock out every once and a while, maybe that's just me. Throws up rock horns in defiance of the man.

Time for a little recap of yesterday. Alan and I went into the gym and little later in the morning, SDO mean no schedge. We got done pumping iron and invited Opie back to our house for a little breakfast. I use 'little' figuratively and only figuratively. We cooked a full pound of bacon and made scrambled eggs w/ cheese, bacon, and onion, had a lil' bit of toast, muffins, bananas. Good breakfast. Jeff, we missed you buddy.

Then we went to the Grandville Mall. Why not right? We've got shit else to do. Alan was the only one of us that made a purchase, which was 3 pairs of ear rings. We just walked around, being hard, you know how we do. I was seriously pulling for Alan, we walked by this sexually attractive young lady (i.e. fine bitch) and I loudly said to Opie, "I can't believe this kid benched 400 pounds today," and patted him on the chest. But it didn't take, her will was stronger than I anticipated.

We stopped for some arcade games and Coldstone on E. Beltline. I taught Alan how to play airhockey, only cost him 50 cents and a significant portion of his pride. If you picture a large cat batting around a half dead mouse, that's about what it looked like. I also won another bouncy ball from the crane game, I can't lose, it's Winnie the Pooh themed, doesn't get much better. Then we rolled into Coldstone were we spent $18 total on ice cream. SDOs kick ass. Oh snap! And there were MILFs all over, everywhere. I don't know what about summer brings them to the mall and for ice cream, but damn.

We hung out at Opie's until he left for softball, well actually until a little bit after he left for softball. Opie is the first one to donate music to me. Thank you Sir. And we downloaded some new stuff too. Life is good.

Oh... wow. I've never actually considered murder until today. I feel changed, somehow. Perhaps I should elaborate. I went downstairs on my first break to fill my cup with water. On my way through the cafeteria I passed an obese girl (lady, woman, chic, whatever) pulling Arby's roast beast samiches out of a bag. Well long story short I seriously considered killing her, getting a half dozen people to help me hide the body, and eating up all the roast beast samiches. Put I didn't... She didn't even offer me one!!! Like she needed it... selfish bitch.

Fuck the Police... Geoff.

You're a hard habit to break

Name that Artist...thats right, Chicago.

So there we were, in the greater Chicago area, trying to find this car. We were literally 3 miles from our exit when we hit the traffic jam. Like...JAM. We were stopped, people were getting out of their cars...frustration. Anyway, because people in Illinois don't know how to engineer things, there was not ONE SINGLE SIGN for I-394 anywhere on the expressway, until the freeway split and we went north and saw the sign for an exit like 100 yards ahead. At this point we were already in way too deep. That area seriously must be undrr construction all the time. There weren't even signs...just barrels and debris EVERYWHERE. We went from ghetto to high-class in about a 1/2 mile stretch, and we even hit a two-lane road for a while in the middle of the Gary, Indiana residue.

Anyway, it was so annoying that I'm having a hard time describing. Immediately upon getting into the car I knew I didn't want it, but we went ahead and graced the girl with a test-drive just to be nice. (We actually were an hour late....but as it turns out we picked up an hour on the drive, so we were actually on time...and had to wait for HER. We didn't figure this out until about 10 minutes after we arrived...nextels are a beautiful thing). So anyway, we busted out of My projects ASAP and made a run for the Michigan border. Thats right, we were going to tryto make it to softball in Freeport.

Well, we stopped and got some driving fuel, namely ham sandwiches and milks, and set off on our quest. It literally rained from Indiana ALL THE WAY to Freeport. Never stopped, not even once. We aren't talking sprinkles here either, serious rain all the way to M6. Most people would give up the dream, but not Ben Vander Boon. He risked life and ticket to get me to Freeport, and I was 3 minutes later for a 9:10 game on a straight line from Glenwood. That was good.

We won in softball. Opie had a DEEP shot, at least 255, so good work by him. I may have broken my ankle again at basketball, so i was little slow, but all was well. 2 Game win streak.

Today it looks like i'm getting a tux and maybe being "VanderBoon Livestock" at the small animal sale. Yay!. G'day.

Find Peace. Find the Real.
-AlterJeff-

Love a little stronger dig a little deeper.

So, I got the job at the hospital, which I'm real excited about! I'm not going to quit subway just yet. I want to wait and see how many hours I'm going to be pulling in first. Working at subway might be like a twice a week experience. Which, could be sad in a while. Honestly, I really do like all the people that I work with, and the EMT's that come in there are quite..uh friendly. Okay, they flirt, and we like it! I will also miss the friends that come into to see me(or it's because of the discount that they get...hmmm). Anyway! I have to go take this test sometime about work ethic and what not. I hear it's a completely retarded test. Then I get to take my physical. Then I shall start there.

Work today was hetic again. I get to work with Shana tomorrow That will be exciting.

Jeff, I am sorry I did miss the BBQ. The next BBQ you have I solemnly swear to be there. Anyway, I have more Harry Potter to read! ohh that breeze is feeling very nice! Peace Easy.

~C Cat.

P.S. LeeAnn I hope you feel better!

I'm sorry I've had a bad day again...

Truely, I haven't had this bad of day in so long. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep on account of the T. Storms, My dog was missing, Had to go to work, Passed out at work, Got severly bitched at, couldn't find anybody to drive me home or to the hospical/doctor, and I still feel like shit.

My dog is deathly afraid of thunder storms, and she was missing last night. My parents are gone this week and so I was home alone, with no dog... Yes I am a wuss! and the tunderstorms were soo loud.

So on three hours of sleep I went to work feeling like shit. It felt like I had heart burn but it didn't hurt bad, just a funny sensation. So I'm standing listening to this story and all of a sudden I feel like I'm going to pass out... and I do. only for a short while though. So I sat, ate a doughnut and some Mt. Dew. I clocked out and drove myself home b/c I couldn't find anybody to come get me. But I was fine driving. I called my mom and she said that I probably didnt have to go to the doctor because I am going in two weeks. Good thing though b/c I couldn't find anybody to take me anyway. But now I've eaten even though my tummy hurt, I'm still light headed and woozie at times, and I have a sudden headache. Mom says it's probably b/c I have low Blood Pressure and I haven't been eating good enough. So yeah. Just thought I'd share my shitty day.

But something real weird happened too, I saw two Boy Meet's World episodes today that I've never seen. I was very creeped out. Aight, I hope your guys' day was better than mind... have a good week biotches... SeeYa! -LeeAnn E.

Side note:

Geoff and I took Alan and Opie for $17 EACH Saturday night in euchre. Good times.

Side note side note: Put this in the blogspot view to see a nice photo of Alan and Opie.

Grand Opening of the Jeff Canal

So there I was, Sunday night, writhing in pain. After talking to my mom, I found out that my nerve was actually dying, and it was trying its best to take me with it. Wow. I don't think I've ever been in such intense pain in my whole life. I was literally rollin around in the yard..no joke. I know how those insane people feel now when they bang their head against the walls and scream etc etc.

Anyway, slept a lot and got a root canal. I lifted afterward...may have been a questionable decision. BUT it worked out, because I went to Opie's to get the gym key (note: Jeff is very irrepsonsible) and he decided to make a Sam's Club run with me. I also was reunited with my CD case...and the result of that was beautiful. I got my hands on an Alesheia-made dance CD for Clint, and we rocked out pretty seriously.

I got some dirt on my shoulder, can you brush it off for me?

This morning I felt pretty much dead because of my tooth and the fact that I like storms too much to sleep through them. BUT, again, it worked out, because one person came in from 5:00am to 8:30am. Can anyone guess who? Ding Ding Ding, Robyn! She wants me to help her load some cable or something and drive it to G-rap...yea, probably not gonna do that. I got some good slumber in before The O's and the V came in though, so good times.

Looks like I'm headed to Illinois today, so that shoulder be a good time. I really hope this Bonneville is as cool as it looks, because I would be pumped to drive one again. I'm not sure about the laws regarding driving newly purchased vehicles, so if anyone could enlighten me thatd be just grand.

Softball Tonight! 9:10 @ Freeport, Harvest Community looks to build on its one-game winning streak. I have to remember to wear green, so hopefully I'll re-read this later and remember.

O, G and A are headed to the mall and Coldstone today so Alan can work his game with the coveted ice cream attendant, lol. I do harbor some jealousy of the trip though, I'm not going to front.

Opie is going to be depositing 10 BILLS into my bank account today, after he challenged me to a 7.5 minute run around the triangle, and I clocked in at a sweet 7:24. It was awesome though, he drove the burb next to me and yelled out the window....it was truly awesome. Thank You, Opie, Thank you.

Alan ran sprints at the track today. Good Job Alan.

Cass, I forgot to post earlier, but you definitely should have BBQed. We played much euchre and had many reindeer games in the pool. I definitely thought you were coming (thanks for the game attendance) but I guess if you had fun then you can't ask for much more. Oh, softball update, we lost Friday, 10-4 (Meaning we now BELONG to Doctor's Chiropractic). Thursday night we have the league tournament and we play at 7:15. It's only a four team tournament so if we win we play again in the finals. I feel good about our chances. Friday night is also a late game (9:40). Ada Beef tends to truly perform under the lights, so It'd be a lie to say I'm not optmistic. Tyler has really been playing some good ball lately, Kudos to that kid.

I'm going to go drink some liquid motrin.

I've never seen you looking so lovely as you do tonight...never seen you shine so bright....

-Jeff de Burgh-

She's buzzin' just like neon, neon.

So far as of right now, I've worked roughly 12 hours today. Got to work a little before nine, was supposed to be out by 4 I instead got asked to stay until 5. Didn't actually end up leaving until six. Got a call a little before nine to go back into work, and stayed from nine thirty til now. Tomorrow I work 10 to 4, and I have to leave even before four! my interview is at quarter after four, even though it is Cheeses mom. I still must be punctual; she also said that I could come in my work clothes, as I would just be getting out of work. I say bah to that! I'm dressing to impress here! I have pick out a nice ensamble for tomorrow interview that says "Whoa! this lady means business, but a fun business, but not like a hooker fun business," I think you get my point. I should probably go iron my shirt for tomorrows event. Wish my luck! I hope you've all had a good day! Peace Easy.
~Mama Cass

Good Times and Great Oldies...

Friday brought with it the end of a work week, and the best BBQ this side of the Mississippi. We had fun times, couldn't have asked for a better crowd. We got out of the pool and started playing euchre. It progressed as any normal series of euchre games would, except Opie called hearts 3 times in a row, and was set 3 times in a row, then the next time he dealt (not immediately afterwards, but close enough to make me cry on the inside) he was stuck and called hearts... and guess fucking what?!?! Got set again. It'll happen though, end of the night we were down 7 bucks, but we tied 3 games to 3. Moral victory. Financial loss.

Saturday... I woke up at the Smith's residence at 8:15 A.M. (ante meridiem, ie. real fucking early). I don't know why I wasn't able to sleep, but it just wasn't happening. So I stalked about in the kitchen until I found when I found a 5 pound tin of honey roasted peanuts. Jackpot! And I sat there watching bass fishing for 45 minutes. Why bass fishing, you might ask. They have 2 recievers, just change the channel. Well, I could have if he wasn't recording 2 bass fishing shows on two different channels for the whole fucking morning. No worries, Opie woke up, which I might have been indirectly responsible for, and we decided to have breakfast. Best Saturday morning of all time: eating burgers while floating in a pool all while listening to Jimmy Buffet jam out. Opie and I rocked out like smooth pimps for the better part of an hour.

Fast forward to today. The fantasy is over. As a matter of fact, I'm so pissed off that I here still, I'm going to go get a candy bar from the vending machine.

GMX.

the rest is just history...

heeeeeey! Overall I had a good weekend. I had a lot of fun both friday and saturday. Didn't get to bed too early at all. Friday night I got home at 4am and Saturday night I got home at 5am. Sunday I just chilled around the house. As I am doing today. I am so bored though. My parents left today for a 4 day trip so I haven't had much human contact. I'm kind of looking forward to work tomorrow just because it's almost all over!! 3 weeks!!! but anyway, I might nap a bit and maaaaaybe make some BLTs and then try and find something to do tonight, I feel like doing something nuts, lol. but yeah.... SeeYa!

Band camp in less than 10 hours!!

I'm very excited for this week!! I haven't heard even a tiny bit of my saxophones yet, so that makes me a little nervous, but I have reason to believe it won't be anything I can't handle in the next 5 days. They're very good kids, and musicians.

That said, my week was kinda long this last week. But it went quickly...if that makes sense. Tuesday morning I accompanied Larissa to the Greater Mt. Pleasant Area just to get a change of scenery and a breath of fresh air. Complete with DMB tunes. I worked Downtown that night, and slept at Ben's place.

Wednesday: slept in (yum), and lunched at the Cherry Inn (cute new deli) with Ben and Cortni, and worked Downtown at 5, foodrunning for the Hilary Duff concert/delayed Blues on the Mall. Typically the night of a foodrunner consists of clocking in at 5, helping the servers keep up their running duties (stocking glassware, silverware, etc), *running their food*, running drinks, things of the like. In the Front of House (FOH). THey are then out usually no later than 10, and get tipped out by the servers, based on how much they did and how well they did it. On Wednesday night however, our Dish Dawg was "running late". "He'll be here soon" says kitchen manager Brad. Well, soon turned into a full restaurant on a waiting list, a dish line that you couldn't see under the piles of plates, and cooks screaming for plateware. So there went the foodrunner, to the dish tank. For 3 and a half hours. About an hour and a half into it, Dish Dawg got there, but Brad apparently had decided that he was needed on the food line, so there he went. And at dish I stayed. But MOD Dan still had the servers tip me out a bit, and he changed my hourly from $2.65 to $7.00/hr for the entire night - I clocked out at 11:15. Followed that up with a trip to Meijer (surprise! Our in-house Lebanese was craving a Greek salad), and "Gia" at Meg's apartment. Good flick. Stayed at Karens.

Closed Thursday night. Worked from 1pm-1am Friday. Saturday worked at Kentwood from 11:30-5:45...had coffee with Liv...closed Downtown from 7ish-1:20. The early part of today was spent in Grand Rapids, then in Ionia with Cassidy, and now I'm at Opie's catching up on a week of emails and blog. Being the bad friend that I am, John Soltyziak is in the final days of his time home before being stationed somewhere for the Army, and we were supposed to get together today with Liv, but plans were never made. I'm pretty sure he leaves this week sometime, and he'll have been home for 2. Hopefully I'm wrong and he'll be around after I get back from band camping.

Sorry, no cool catchy title today.

I haven't heard any really cool songs. Anyway, this three days off went rather fast. I finished the 4th HP book ,and delved right into the 6th. I'm half way through it now, so going to work for 7 hours tomorrow is not sounding very cool. As I say, I've got nothing better to do, so why not go to work. Anyway, I should probably head to bed. I hope everyone had a great weekend! and I hope you all (if I don't talk to you or hear from you) have a splendid week!

~Cassidy J. Courtney

P.S. My Phone has been turned back on! so if you know wanna chit chat, or whatever don't be afraid to give me a ring!

Yep

It was hot today. 97 wonderful degrees according to the Union Bank sign in Lake O, or 98 according to the thermometer in my dad's Ford. Either way, WOW, that's steamy. Call me crazy, but I like it. Until I have to work in it tomorrow, that is...

I thought I should probably report that Jeff has some sort of freakish toothache right now and he's about to lose his mind from the pain. Not too long ago he was lying out in the yard groaning from the pain. He took some codine and mi madre put some magic tooth-numbing stuff on his tooth, so he's a little better now, but man I was a little worried there for a while. Thought he might cut off a limb to take his mind off the pain, it looked THAT bad. I'm going to go ahead and predict that the gym doesn't open on time tomorrow.

Checked out some apartments today with my future roommate Andrew Douglas Michael Hoort. We looked at a lot of decent places, but I think we're going to end up in Easttown. That place has good times written all over it. My only worry is that I might not be cool enough to live there.

WEDDING CRASHERS... Wow, that is freakin hilarious. MAN. I need to see it again and try to remember some lines. I think one of the best things about this flick is that, unlike other comedies, it gets funnier and funnier as it goes along. Some comedies kinda die out towards the end, but not this one. I would also like to report that they couldn't have found two women that are much hotter than the two main characters. Good work on that, whoever made that movie. Might have to see it again next weekend.

I bought a "Wheaties" shirt at PacSun on Saturday, and it's amazing. Easily the coolest shirt I've ever had. It caught my eye as I was walking down the mall aisle, and I went in and bought it within, oh, about 35 seconds. I'm sure you'll all see it soon cuz I'll be wearing it every day. It might even make me cool enough to live in Eastown, I don't know, I'll have to get back to y'all on that.

And I'm done. Good night all.
-Boonjamin

Hell Motherfu...I mean, Yes Sir, Dean Cain, Sir

Wow, I have reached a whole new level of boredom. A level so boring that only a made up word can describe...

-Superbrainfucktacularbored: Adj- A describing word used to describe a level of boredom that is equal to or greater than a grandparent's speech at a family picnic.

No one cool is here. Except me. I rule. But everybody that is normally cool is not here. No Jay, Geoff, and no Jaqueline (known affectionately as J-Money). I have been sitting here in silence, for...going on damn near 6 hours. The only cool thing is that I ordered all my computer parts... here is a rundown of my purchases...

Moniter-19'' LG Flatron Flat Panel
Case- Antec P160
Keyboard and Mouse- Logitech LC428 with Bluetooth
CPU- AMD Athlon64 3500 Socket 939
Motherboard- DFI Lanparty UT NF4Ultra-D Socket 939
Memory- 1 GB PC2-5300
Hard Drive- Western Digital UD4000KD 400 GB 7200 RPM
Power Supply- ATX 1140 F DBS 400w Low Noise
Video Card- ATI Radeon X800 XL 256 MB DDR/PCI-E/TV-Out/VGA/DVI
DVD Burner- Sony DW-D26A 16x

Needless to say, I need to change my shorts because of the gigantic wet stain that was left from when I blew my wad writing that down. Having this and my PSP puts me at GQ's number one spot of Alltime Coolest People of Alltime...yeah. That computer might be able to actually run a couple of humans.

If you all get a chance, you should probably check this out...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5600677236

My Uncle Matt picking this up for me and storing it for me could put him at the top of the family todem. I think I might become a terrorist.

Got up late today. Bummer. I was almost late for work again, but ended up getting here just in time. I left the office for lunch today. When I opened the doors at Foremost, I was hit with the hottest wall of air I have ever felt. All I know, is that the Devil would be jealous of the heat in Michigan. Makes hell look like the fuckin' South Pole.

Yesterday night was ok. I went over to Katie Martz's house for a surprise birthday party for Paul. It was pretty cool, not many people came. We just kind of sat around and shot the shit. I just came because Katie invited me, and Paul is a pretty cool cat. His mom works at Foremost. Katie and I are going out to dinner on Tuesday night, I believe, so that should be fun. Lost about $17 at Euchre last night. That was horseshit though. Played "I've never" and found out some things about Jeff. Perv.

I think I am going to head over to Opie's later tonight to watch Family Guy. I think I might be solo because Geoff is hanging out with his fiance' all day today, so who knows? I think I might head to the mall tomorrow. Might go see Wedding Crashers again because that is damn near the funniest movie I have ever seen. Plus I want to go to Coldstone and see if I can hit on that Danni girl again. She was attractive.

Anyway, I have callouses all over my hand and it is really starting to take the fun out of spankin' it (see: Penis, Cock, Dick, Wang, Dong, Dooder, etc) because the callouses cause some serious damage to the shaft and head junction. It's kind of painful, which sometimes is ok, you know, mix a little pain with pleasure. I like to get a little domanatrix-y with myself sometime, but it is getting uncomfortable to walk around because of the friction. So, I think I need to cut back a little bit. Or get laid more. I don't really see either happening. I am a realist. But if anyone on this has friends that are under 200, well, under 300 (at this point...who cares?) pounds that want to get nasty with me, let me know.

Ah, I want to go see "Bad News Bears". That looks really funny. Anyone want to go see it with me? Billy Bob Thorton really scored all sorts of points with me after Bad Santa. That movie was classic. I think I might rent that tonight. Hilarious.

Aww motherfucker. Compass is down here at Foremost. Now I get to take claims by paper. I fucking hate paper. Goddamn trees.

I am going to go ahead and get the hell out of here. I am going to go whack, wait, no I am not. I am going to catch some ZZZ's.

-The Ghostbuster.

The best of you

So it looks like the blog is slowing WAY down. It makes me sad, i don't really know what happened. So i had a hundred things to do this weekend, but now i am stuck going to family functions. Rachel's baby shower was alright, i'm glad she liked the little NMU sweatsuit i got for Skylar. I hope i get to see Skylar before i leave for NMU, but she is due the 30th of August. . . so that is 1 day after i start. Sweet.

Last night i stayed at the fair with Jordan Rodgers. Rachel King, Steph Hynes, and Jessie Thelen all stayed too. It was fun, but sadly short-lived. We got there late and came home early, but that was alright, i guess. I would have not done anything really in the morning anyway. I always enjoy hanging out with Rachel too, i feel like i am not just wasting my time or something. I am sad i won't get to walk her steer again, she took them to the fair this morning. Maybe next summer i will walk one again.

School is slowly approaching. I have not gotten my roomie info yet- but i am moving in about a month from now, so i am excited. My Great Aunt Rosamary was talking about it today. I think she thinks i am going to die or something. But her grandkids all went to private little schools with 10 people in their class, so. . . it is kind of a joke to us. She always brags about how they were saluatorian and what not. . . wow. 2nd of 10? Is that even good? But anyway- I am excited. I think i get paid this Wednesday, although i cannot cash the scheck until Thursday- LAME. But i need the money to go to Tennessee next weekend, so that is good. I love Tennessee.

I am trying to write all my family thank yous before we leave at 6. . . it is hard to do when i am doing this too. . . oh well.

Well, i should get going i guess, i have a long day/night ahead of me! Enjoy the day everyone!

-Aunt Abby

Love is free love me say hell yes.

Well I hope everyone had good time at the cook out. I was planning on attending. I went and had seen Amanda Rowland, and figured no one at the cook out would miss me. Anyway. I got called into work today, so I was there for about an hour. Sandy and I made a trip to Nashville to get gr. peppers. I've got an interview with Pennock on Tuesday. I'm excited about that. It'll be casual part-time, so I might keep the job at subway, but after six months I can apply for other positions. Anyway. You kiddies have a great night!
~Hop-a-long Cassidy

M-I-C-K-E-Y.... m-o-u-s-e......

So, I am now home after a very long five days at the happiest place on earth. IT WAS SO HOT! uhh, it was awful. I did however get the pleasure to meet Snow White, Mary Poppins, Alice in Wonderland, Tigger, Eyeore, Piglet, Pluto, and Mickey himself. It was a good time. Our hotel was AWESOME! Giraffe's right outside out balcony. They were held in by a little tiny electric shock fence type thing, but it was still hella sweet waking up and having coffee with the giraffe's less than 150 feet away!! I saw the BEST fireworks show ever too. At Magic Kingdom they had a bunch of cool stuff. But there was this one firework that went off and it as in the shape of a star! it was awesome! They shot the fire works to the music, it was definately one of the best displays I've ever seen. We went out Bar hopping one night... I had an allright time, but there weren't many people my age, and if there were they were all girls, or creepy nasty guys. But it wasn't a big deal, I still had fun with the fam. And one the plus side, I didn't spend nearly as much money as I thought I was going to. I was proud of myself. Aight, gotta go. SeeYa!

shortest blog

i am leaving for work in 2 minutes. I wanted to say good morning to everyone. Enjoy yourselves today, because i know i won't. I love you all. I WILL have a good day today, i swear.

Aw, great. You weren't supposed to see that, now you are going think I am a pussy.

Wow, I didn't think I was going to be part of this beautiful blogging community today. I just didn't feel like blogging today. Not a blog day for me. However, now I am due to a gigantic lack of other things to do. Phones aren't that busy today, although I just got off the phone with a retard who I had to repeat (what I started saying) "Sir, you're adjuster will be in contact as soon as she looks at the file" to "Look, your GODDAMN adjuster will call you, motherfucker." damn near a thousand times. After 10 minutes of that, I hung up on him. I was a little apprehensive to just cut the call off, but it felt good. He just kept asking the same questions about why his claim was denied OVER and OVER. I finally told him that it was in the policy book that HE bought three years ago. He was confused by the whole "theory" of literacy. I really hate people from Mississippi. There should be a rule that you can't live in America if you can't spell the state you are from. There is even a jingle to remember the spelling.

Anyway, here's a question to ponder...If you were just walking down the street and all the sudden you passed a person that looked EXACTLY like you, what would you do? I mean, like same size, face, everything, your exact twin. I, personally, would kill him on the spot in public. No conversation, no smile, I would just reign death and destruction. Simply because 1) He could be there to kill me and 2) If I kill him, I might become stronger and faster like in the movie The One with Jet Li.

Yesterday night was schweet. Not sweet. SCHweet. Kicked off the night by returning some shirts to Aeropostale, who's sizing system is a little off-key, I believe. I am not an XL, goddamnit. So, we saw Ryan Possehn with his girlfriend and her hot friend. Talked to Ryan and was introduced to said hot friend (can't remember her name). He said he would put in a good word for me, so that is nice, she had a really nice body. Again, I would have molested her. Went from the mall (which was full hot mothers and other various hot twats) to Celebration. Opie, Geoff and I paid a visit to Coldstone which was schweet for a number of reasons. 1) Ice cream 2) GREAT ice cream 3) A ton of hot chicks working and 4) Two smokin' twins worked there. One of the twins waited on me. Her name was Dani. I shamelessyy flirted with her whilst she made my peanut butter ice cream with twix, snickers, butterfingers, peanut butter cups, and fudge. She giggled because it was the biggest thing of ice cream she had ever made. Rookie. She was sexy though. So, I pounded the ice cream and we saw "Wedding Crashers", which was easily the funniest movie ever made. I about shat myself during a few scenes, it was really, really funny. Jeff was correct, it just might replace the Old School as the DVD of choice. The winds of change are a' blowin'.

I came to a realization last night. Myself. Geoff. Opie. Jeff. All guilty of my realization. My realization is that we are all pussies. I had a bit of an epiphany. We all suck something fierce. All we do is talk about getting laid and how hot these bitches (I mean that in a good way) are, but the only thing keeping us from getting laid is ourselves. If we just grew some cajones (Mexican for balls), and talked to the girls, we would get a tad bit more vag. Whew, that felt good to get out.

Tonight is looking pretty good. Geoff and I, and possibly Opie if he calls me, are heading into Hastings to eat at a Gook Buffet and then head over to the Barry County Fair. I am going to see Jordan Rodgers because I promised her I would, and I am pumped to see all the hot vag I keep hearing about. I am really just excited about the chink-ense buffet.

Just got back from lunch. It was good. Two BBQ chicken hooters and Geoff and I went to the new vending machine and I got myself a lil' steak sandwhich. It was soooo good.

Called Rebecca. She wants to come tomorrow, but might have to work. Who knows how this will pan out. Updates at 11 pm

-Alan Van Damme

...I'm easy, easy like sunday morning.

I've been hearing that song on the radio lately. ohh I hear another thunderstorm a comin'. Well I've supposidly got Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off again, but we'll see how far that goes. I thought today was going to be the worst day in history of subway ever. Shana called in today, and I didn't know who was scheduled. Thankfully, everything worked out.

Jeff, and Opie definitely came in. at one point I got confused about what Jeff was talking about. At first, I thought he was saying 'Fax' like a fax machine, and I was thinking "Yea we've got a fax what's it to you?" Come to find out he was talking about nutrional FACTS. Silly me. It was a long morning. It'll happen.

So Tuesday I was quite proud of myself. I was on my way to work at 5:45 in the AM, and I was listening to Free Beer and Hot Wings (Those two make me giggle). They were doing a flash back of the last Dumber than Zane trivia (they all went on vaction since one of them got married). This guy and Zane were just getting the questions without pausing, and then they asked the question "What's the most common hispanic surname?" and I said Rodriquez (??). Zane said some name, and the other guy said Gonzalas. and Rodriquez was the right answer. THEN, the next question was "Who was the first rapper to appear on american banstand?" I thought for a minute, and I just thought run D.M.C, and IT was! I was excited. ohh geez it's raining kinda hard, maybe I should go check on the basement! eek! anyway. You kids have fun!

~Butch Cassidy

What good is first place?

When you're in the rat race. Money ain't everything.

So I'm closing tonight, which is kinda different. I very much took a little lunge-safari around the gym and have been paying for it dearly ever since. OW. My gluteus medius hurts, and I know that for sure because of the wonderful, beautiful anantomy book. Oh Joy.

It's looking like it could be wedding crashers Round 2 tonight, but thats alright, I do enjoy the hanging out. I'm pretty serious about the grill-out Friday night (post game of course-7:20 start time against "Doctor's Chiropractic," who beat us 8-5 last time, FYI.) I have some big plans for an igloo cooler that only the most intimate members of planning know about...stay tuned for more info on that. PLEASE don't make this a big thing though. Everyone on here is definitely invited, but I get nervous when people I don't know very well start coming around...the house definitely does not belong to me. OH, I guess I could describe the situation:

Grill Out at Smith's (neighbor on the northeast corner of jackson and clinton trail...about .2 miles down) after the softball game friday. They have a nice pool with a slide etc. so it has fun potential. Come if you want, hopefully the weather cooperates.

Softball 8:15/9:15 tomorrow night, and it's the last scheduled regular season game(s). There might be a tournament...but I think it costs $$$, so stay tuned for that.

Opie and I went and saw Cass today...she makes a mean meatball sub. She cut RIGHT THROUGH this enormous meatball, and as far as I can tell didn't even notice. That could qualify you for gym exemption...be sure to contact your nearest Viking Sportsplex dealer.

Some things I learned today:

Root Beer Barrels contain (approximately) 50 calories.

A footlong meatball marinara sub @ subway with Monterey Cheddar bread runs about 1100 calories.

Never try to carry an air compressor over your head.

Have a good night guys

I don't mind doing a little heavy liftin'

-Blake VanderShelton-

Jay-Z Motherfucker, from the, the, the block...

...went solo on that ass, but it's still the same.

So, I haven't blogged it up in quite some time. Not because of the "incident", you may affectionately know it as. I have been at MSU AOP for the past couple o' days. It was good, a ton of pussy. COPIOUS amounts of vag. I'll get to that later...

So, the girl of my dreams cancelled our date tonight on account of philosophy homework. Oh well, that shit'll happen. I am kind of bummed, but at the same time, am glad I don't have to drive out to EL for like the tenth time in a week. I guess she is kind of seeing this other guy, so that'll happen to. Anyway, I am still a big loser and am thinking about giving Rebecca a call to see if she wants to come to the BBQ on Friday. I am also pumped because now I can go buy running shoes, which I now know I need because of what I read at MSU in the IM West building. I saw on the wrestling locker room, well, a little announcement. The paper said that at 6:20 am on Tuesday, all wrestlers had a little run. By little run, I mean, a 12-mile run. Yeah. That's a long ass way. I don't like driving that far, it's outrageous. So, starting tomorrow, I am going to be hitting the track for distance running and sprints every day during the week. I need to get in shape pretty goddamn fast.

Anyway, AOP was actually pretty cool. I was really social, however I didn't really talk to anybody there more than once. Like, I met a lot of people, but didn't talk to the same people twice. Highlights of the AOP were that:
-A SMOKIN' gymnast named Jenna sat next to me and talked to me. She is short, blond, and real hot...oh yeah, and on the gymnastics squad at MSU. Score. She is also living in S. Wonders, which is where I will be residing, so she is scoring points left and right.
-I got hit on by some AOP directors, like the girls who run the place. It was neat-o. I went for a walk with one of them. She is really cute. I would have molested her.
-I got asked if I played football about a million times, kind of annoying to keep telling people that you wrestle, but I was flattered that they thought I was big enough to play Div. I. I was also wearing football athletic shorts and a cutoff. I looked like a dirtbag, but I'll be damned if I wasn't the most comfortable cat there.
- Roomed with a guy that is going to be on the wrestling team wrestling 197. He wrestled 215 in Ohio and also placed 3rd. Seemed like a cool cat, thought I weighed 230, and about shit his pants when I told him that I was about 250.
-The girls...the girls around there were on another level. And they all like athletes. I was pumped. I made pretty fast friends with the girls I chatted with. I love girls. Girls, girls, girls.

On the flip side, there was a few crappy things.
- The heat. Jesus Christ. The heat.
-Douchebag city. One kid told every single person in the auditorium that he drinks piss. Another kid, named George, on the first day had TEXTBOOK douchebag gear on. Two Polos. Both collars popped. Plaid shorts on. Pink. Gigantic hemp bracelet. Pink. Hat. Cocked backwards and sideways. I almost went up to him and jammed my pencil up his urethra strictly for being a fuckin' retard.
-Walking. In the heat. Sweatiness. A lot.
-Food was terrible.

Anyway, all in all, AOP wasn't as bad as everybody thinks, sure it was lame, but I could totally overlook that because of the all hot twat waddling around campus. It's almost too much for me to handle. I hope that being an athlete makes it so I get laid a whole bunch. That would rock.

Anyway, looks like my plans for tonight are up in the air. Probably go see "Wedding Crashers" with Geoff and maybe Opie. I'll holla at him in a few.

I am reading a book. You heard it here first. Me. A book. It's called "Bringing Down the House". It is about these 6 MIT students who started card counting at blackjack tables and won millions of dollars. It is really interesting. It's sweet. I recommend it thus far.

All right, I'm done, I'm outtie, tell them something they don't already know about me...

-EminAlan

I LOVE MEAT

Went to the beef show with Jeff this morn. it was cool. I learned a lot. Jeff know some very attrative young ladies that also love meat, in fact, they love meat so much the show steer and then sell them to be killed, processed and eaten. very cool.

Secondly, I would like to publically apoligize to a young lady, you know who you are, I know I made an ass out of myself and I know ignorance is no excuse but I really didn't think it would bother you that much. sorry.

Geoff does not lie when he say Wedding Crashers is good and everyone should see it. It may be up for the funniest movie of all time award. Thats just me talkin', it's really up to you.

Stop actin like a Bitch and git yo hands up.
Opie

Happy Hump Day

Long time, no blog, huh?

Everyone must see "Wedding Crashers," it's the funniest new movie I've seen in a long time. Vince Vaughn might be the funniest man of all time after this flick, his performance is spectacular. Anyway, it was more than worth the $6 for the ticket.

I'm excited to have the entire weekend off. It's really starting to take shape now. We're going to have a grill out/pool party at Jeff's neighbors house, I like food, and hate feeling hot, so that should work at. What should we grill? I was thinking brats, I love brats! Maybe some H-Dogs too? A couple of burgers? Oh yeah, taking shape! And with all the trim that hangs around Jeff, it should be reminicent of a 70's porno. Score!

Tenative plan for Sunday is to get together with Stephanie. That'll be cool unless she talks about a relationship again. Then we might have problems. I don't think she will, I have to believe she'll be cool about the whole thing. She doesn't seem like the typical girl, but I can't read chicks for shit, so who knows. I guess I'll find out, huh?

Nothing planned for Saturday, the weather is supposed to be nice, a beach trip might be in order. 'Till next time folks, peace.

In my projects... Geoff.

Back in Black........

Well tis been a while, sorry about that. Anywho my weekend was filled with fun!! Friday night i babysat a five week old, a ten week old and a two year old. Thank God the two year old was sleeping the whole time. Babies are the easiest to baby sit......they just eat and sleep.

I house/dog sat this weekend in Potterville for my cousin Kate. We had a family reunion in Portland for lunch....my little cousin Ashton and i swam in the famous three foot Lookinglass River. That was intersesting. Saturday night is where the real fun started...well for me. I went to Sean Williams open house( where he eventually was kicked out of his house and lost his car that night due to a family brawl) He is currently residing where ever he can find a bed...Poor guy. Then i meet up with Candace to do a manicure and pedicure before the big night. I had been trying to find a big party to go to b/c Candace and i were ready to go.....but i found myself at the kings with a 1/5 of Parriot Bay and El Torro. Played a little euchre and lost $1 to Jeff......i had no dollar bills so he was paid with quarters,dimes and nickels. Watched Ryan King pass out.As Candace and i were leaving we were stopped by Harrison, he was wondering who was driving, i ,who was just fine was going to b/c Candace was not able. He turned around and walked back into the Coop. As we reached the Jeep, he campe BACK out and said he would drive, this upset me a bit, i know he was just watching out for me but i was ALRIGHT!! I know i could of stayed if i wasn't but i was!!So he took my to my cousin Nicks house were Candace and i chilled for a while, then we got a call about another big party in Sunfield. So we left Nicks and went there. That party was carzy. Then i took Candace home and was on my way to Potterville. Sunday Rachel dyed my hair..."rich copper", personally i think it is extremelly blonde!!!!. I spent all day yesterday at Michigan Adventures!! That was so fun!! Well the pool is waiting....Jeff I will see you at 5am tomorrow!!

Melanie

Streetball, baby. Streetball.

Something crazy happened last night in the world of Monday Night Basketball. First, a little history: Monday Night Basketball is a phenomenon that has taken place for years in the greater Lake Odessa area. It starts in the fall every year, and takes place pretty much every Monday throughout the winter, spring, and part of the summer. It brings together ballers of all ages, from the mostly older crowd in the winter to the youthful crowds of spring and early summer. It brings together ballers of all skill levels, from the Jake Schrocks, Randy Blairs and Tyler Beglins of the world all the way down to, well, me. Monday BBall tends to fizzle out around July every year, thanks to many obstacles that stand in the way, such as securely locked school buildings, gyms without lights on, new coats of wax on gym floors, volleyball camps, wrestling camps, lazy people that don't want to play in the summer, etc.

But instead of focusing on the tragic death of Monday Night BBall that happens every summer, I choose to focus on the positive. Monday Night Basketball lasts nearly all year, in spite of the fact that it never seems to take place in the same spot two weeks in a row (Middle School or High School?) and it's never the same group of guys every week. It's almost as if Monday Night BBall has a life of its own.

Monday Night BBall has obviously had many twists and turns, but last night may have been a first even for the wacky world of Monday BBall. Where Monday BBall may have died in years past, it flourished. Where lesser ballers would have taken their balls and gone home, a few young men went the extra mile to play the game they love. That's right, kids, we played OUTSIDE. On the asphalt. It was like being on the streets of Harlem, with a few corn fields and some white guys thrown in. The middle school and high school were both locked. But 14 guys showed up to play basketball and DANG IT, they weren't going to be denied. It took a while to adjust to the extra heavy duty, double-rimmed outdoor hoops, but once we did, it was like we were born to be street ballers. Jeff, I'm sorry you had to miss this. The ball even landed in a big mud puddle a couple of times, and Nathan Shoup just took one for the team and wiped it off with his shirt.

Now don't get me wrong - I don't think everyone wants to play outside every week. But Monday BBall took a big step last night in my book - a step toward invincibility. Go ahead, lock us out of the gym. You still can't stop us. OK, this blog getting a little out of control. Adios everybody.

Hold on loosely

This applies to people, not dumbells, which I found out his morning after nearly decapitating my foot with a 25LBer.

Went to MI Adventure Sunday, highlights:

Alan emerging from the mine shaft pummeling Geoff into Submission

Successfully flipping over on my tube mid-snake-pit

Lazy River fights A-F

Opie and Alan winning prizes for obesity.

All-in-all it was a pretty good time. I feel like we may have overeaten at Pizza Hut...but wow, I was famished.

Yesterday was pretty much your basic day, except for a I totaled my car. I'm sure you've all heard the story so I'll leave out the details. When I was leaving the insurance company it started raining and the heat came off of the blacktop...I think I almoast died. I early passed out before reaching my car. I was pretty disappointed in the storm though, I hear some places got demolished...and we had like 7 minutes of hard rain. Boo.

SO I cleaned out that steer pen yesterday...amazing. I was trucking clay/manure out of that pen for nearly an hour. That stuff was AMAZINGLY heavy. I had to actually support the pick near the end because it was starting to crack. I sweated a lot.

Had a 4H meeting, and that was enjoyable. I managed to get out of there on time and head over to basketball...Buttttt then I detoured. I was going to be late anyway, and apparently the games were outside (info chauncey?), so I opted for wedding crashers with opie, alesheia, and geoff.

Gotta tell ya, funny movie. It had the inappropriate air of old shcool, but I think that DVD may become a staple around these parts. We brought in 5 boxes of candy and there were no survivors. RIP Charleston and its Chews.

Thought about going to EL today to hang out with Alan, but then I remembered that my car sustainted $3900 worth of damage, so I'll probably be hanging out around home. I thnk I'm playing SB with opie tonight in freeport, although I still don't have a time on that. I Do love the church league.

I guess get out early today, and I'll definitely be boiling me some eggs. It's going to be beautiful. A new book "Strength Training Anatomy" came to the gym this week, and it's amazing.

Apes don't have long arms, Humans just have short legs. BEAUTIFUL.

Alright, I'm out, have a good day eveyrone.

Where I come from it's corn bread and chicken.

... Which is what I had tonight for dinner, well not so much cornbread, but a poppyseed muffin was involved. The weekend was pretty uneventful sad I know, but what can ya do? Would you like a play by play? (well it doesn't matter anyway because you're going to get one.)

Friday: Read most of the day, Watched The kids mercy the old guys. well uh. If I did anything I don't remember, so let's move on.

Saturday: Got up, and immediatly started reading. Dustin, Cheese, and Joey all came over, and went tubing. I cleaned the house, and started on some laundry (mmmm). Then LeeAnn and I went and saw "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Then I went to Denny's, and then I came home read until 2:30 and went to bed.

Sunday: One again, I awoke and immediatly started reading. Went for a walk, finished laundry. Mom came home, and we got something to eat. Then capped off the day with the Fantastic Four.

Today, I got up went to work, almost punched Patti right in the face (don't worry I refrained, it took a lot of effort though). Patti is very deep into her faith. Everyday she comes in, and automatically asks if we can turn the music off (The MUSAK! thing is turned off so the customers can't hear it out in the lobby, which is a BIG corporate No no, so we have this little portable radio so atleast we can listen to music while we do our thing). Anyway, we decided to play some country today. Ya know Shana and I decided to get our country groove on. Patti comes in and automatically asks for the music to be turned off, and says that "Rich doesn't want the radio on." I said to her "Well, we like to listen to music while we're back here.". HAHA I thought I had her, well not so much then she was like "well Rich DOESN'T want the radio on." and turned it off!!!! OMG I was all sorts of P.Od. Which I don't know if Rich doesn't want the music to be on, or if it's just an excuse for Patti, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of this. Justice must be served. It's not like Country Music offends her; if it did that would be different story she just doesn't want to listen to it if it's not what she listens to. Before I left today, Shana and I took the radio in the back, and luckily for us there was an Old Aerosmith song on "Back in the Saddle". So we, being the deticated Aerosmith fans that we are let our "freak flags fly" and got our groove thang on! It was good times. Anyway I feel that this is getting a little long. Keep Rockin' Hard.

Love and Kisses,
Ms. Courtney

Major changes...

Well, I officially decided today that I'm not going to teach. About two minutes ago, actually, thanks to Grand Valley's official website. I changed my major from English with a focus in Education to English with NO FOCUS. Which is pretty appropriate, I think, considering the way I approach school. I also changed my minor from Geography, which is interesting but pretty useless, to business. I was only two classes into my minor anyway, so I won't be losing a whole lot of ground.

A quick rundown of some events that occured at the end of last week that didn't make the blog:

I had my wallet stolen by a fifteen-year-old girl during our second softball game last Thursday. It took about 3 hours of questioning, and finally a visit from the PoPo, before she admitted to taking it. The wallet mysteriously turned up in Jeff's car on Friday. We have yet to figure out who in the world put the wallet in Jeff's car. If anyone has any idea, I would love to hear it.

More exciting news from Friday - our Ada Beef softball team beat Team Zeigler 21-0. Team Zeigler is a very hard-working yet talentless bunch of guys, and we are proud to have mercied them.

On Saturday I tried to sell my $5800 mistake (it's sitting next to Jackson Road if you don't know what I'm talking about) for $5000 and got turned down. That truck has the potential to ruin my summer. Oh, wait, too late. I'm an idiot.

On Sunday I didn't go to the beach, which is big news because I had a two week-streak going. Hopefully my skin won't fall off as quickly now.

And, finally, big news from the right now: Jeff is introducing me to a little diddy called "my projects." I like.

Till we meet again,
-Benjamin

Sometimes you need a few drinks to fall in love...

Perhaps that is how I feel about Dan, haha.

Liv and I missed a lot of you at Kingers on Saturday night...including Kinger, as it happens. He was passed out on the bed (when did that get there, p.s.?) in the Coop when we arrived around 2, so we played The Big Book Of If with Lance, Ben, Abby, Pat, and Scotty until 5am. Oh yeah, Pat and Simcox went streaking into the pond. Liv and I hid all clothing that would go on the lower half of their bodies, and Pat gave us hugs. Eep.


"Fantastic 4" is a sweet movie, for those who haven't seen it. I never really read much of the comics as a kid, so I'm not sure how well it followed (Woobie said it was pretty close), but overall I thought that they crammed a good amount of stuff into the 1 hour and 56 minutes of film that made the final cut. Jessica Alba is smokin'. And so was pretty much every male in that flick...crazy. None of them were absolutely look-twice gorgeous, but they were all good looking.

It's Cortni's 23rd birthday today, for those who know (or don't know) her. That's my Dear Brother Ben's lady friend. Call me if you want her phone number to send her birthday wishes!!

Frost Flak.

Softball. Work. No sleep. Am i am still up right now. I cannot believe that no one blogged this bitch up today. How sad is that? But anyway, Pat is trying to reminise with me right now and telling me stories about high school and stuff, and i am trying to type. DAMNIT PAT.

Speaking of damn it, i was telling innocent little Rachle King she should start to practice saying cuss words, so she can fit in with the rest of the world this fall. We are starting with damn it. Good story, huh?

Well, i am definately going to bed. I WILL have a good day tomorrow, it is going to happen, i swear. Someone call me and leave me an uplifting voicemail, please. . . . do it for me. I love you all.

- Abby (hotdog) Weeks

Rain Drops keep falling on my head...

WELL, Its been a while since I've blogged. I'm not even sure when the last one was, but I guess I'll just give a rundown of the last few days.

Thursday night ended with two, count em TWO softball losses. I did find a remedy for my constant pop-ups though, so all was not lost. Melanie for sure has us winning, but Bunglin's team has been known to be kinda shaky on what the REAL score is. I'm not saying anyone did anything...I have no opinion.

Ok, so on Thursday night, for a little while, I pretty much had Friday off. Then Abby called me, and I became an Eric Chase golf volunteer, which was going to be kind of cool, because I was gonna cruise around on a beverage cart and sell 50/50. WELL, I ended up opening Friday morning because I had to be in Hastings by 7:30. I didn't lift because Robyn was in there, but that actually worked out ok for me. (She, by the way, was dressed very skankily. I honestly hate being there when she comes in. I can't even describe how bad I want to disapper. AGHHHH it gives me chills. Anyway.) I ended up Hauling golf bags around for 1.5 hours, and right when I was going to get on my cart I got a call. I had to do hay. Boo.

Turns out my 4H leader really needed help, and he only had some youngins (HS freshman) available. SO, I ended throwing approximately 1,000,000 bales over my head. Shocked the delts though. It's a deep burn, it's so deeeeep. I happened to be doing hay 1.5 miles on either side of Abby's house (field and barn) so I kept driving by pretty much all day. Luckily it started to sprinkle a little bit around 5, so I was home by 6. My plan actually was to go jump in the flat river before the softball game...luckily it didnt come to that..

The room is spinning.

We won 21-0 in softball, which may never happen again, so thanks to everyone who saw it (cass). Speaking of Cass, went and saw her at work, good times. They hook me up with a discount in there, and that, rules. Thanks for coming though, Ada beef is nothing without it's fans. Side note: They had a RIDICULOUSLY slow LC fielder, so I had an ITP home run, good stuff.

Wow I really can't write effectively tonight, this is really boring. Saturday I golfed all day in the 500 degree heat, but it wasn't bad. I found like 15 golf balls. It was a 4 man scramble and I played with my dad, Nick, and Al. Nick and my dad competed for most shots-used, and Nick sank a putt at the end to win 25-24, it was a rela barn burner (note: they used 13 of my shots and 18 of Al's). I have this penchant toward hitting trees that is truly amazing. I hit like 9 tree TRUNKS last time I golfed, and this time was no different. I managed to hit a tree, SQUARE in the trunk, which was no more than 3 inches in diameter. So square that it bounded from the tree like 30 yards in the other direction onto the fairway. It ruled. That was 1/13.

Then I lifted and Opie/Simcox played racquetball. Opie owes Simcox beer now.

I ran in the rain and beat my best time in the triangle by 1 sec.

I'm really getting wicked tired right now.

Might go to Kings tonight, could be fun. Oh, by the way, I went to Meijer last night, and I swear i FORGOT WHERE I PARKED MY CAR. I had absolutely no idea, at all, where I left it. I walked around the parking lot for like 10 min. until I almost walked into it. As strange as it sounds, I can't wait til MSU starts so I can sleep once in a while :)

Jeff

wow

this is ridiculous

I got a big weed stash, a pocket full a' cash, just seen a big ole' ass?

It's Saturday. Sticky icky icky icky. Today it OT, so that'll be nice, nothing like being paid over $16/hour to post on the blog. I am going to do irresponsible things with that paycheck.

So, yesterday, we didn't go the the Vu. People kept cancelling on us, so we decided to push the Vu excursion back. Ben did score some points in my book being the only person that didn't cancel on us. So, props out to Ben, you're my boy.

Speaking of jumping up in the polls, Alan gave me half of a Nutreagous. It was delicious, so props for Alan as well.

Bought a some new rides at the mall yesterday, Nike Free 5.0's. Went to Foot Locker first, but no dice, ended up picking them up at Finish Line. Foot Locker lost priority in my book, and I was really unimpressed when she said, "Nope, only in ladies." Did I fucking walk into Ladies Footlocker? No. Why do you have any ladies shoes here? You have an entire fucking store devoted to selling shoes to females elsewhere in the mall!!! But I digress...

Went to Musgrove Lake yesterday, I'm starting to get the hang of the seatless rope. My first dive was the best, any one after that didn't measure up. I attribute the steady decline in quality to my wet hands and subsequently wet rope. And on the last dive I smashed my balls on the water. Ouch.

I think I might be going to King's house to consume alcohol and be a jackass. Tomorrow is my first day off in 10 days, and we're going to Michigan Adventure, I can't wait!

I'm out, have a good weekend. Geoff.

Ahhh, I'mmm sooo in love with you...

...Whatever you want to do, is all right with meeeee. Al Green is a smooth p.i.m.p.

All right. I suppose it is time to explain myself.

Hypocrite
n : a person who professes beliefs and opinions that She does not hold [syn: dissembler, phony, phoney, pretender]

LeeAnn. I don't feel bad at all. As a matter of fact, I am happy. Elated, even. The fact that you are so pissed about this makes me smile on the inside. I know, I may be kind of being a dick, or "the biggest fucking asshole in the world" as you so eloquently put it, but I don't care. I hate to take this back to the playground, but this is a taste of your own medicine. You and everyone else spend the vast majority of your time making fun of me for fooling around with randoms and calling me a "tool".

tool
n: A person used to carry out the designs of another; a dupe.

By my good friends at Merriam and Webster, they have provided the definition of a tool. Now, you call me a tool because I would fool around and get my rocks off with other girls, but by definition, the girls would be the tools. This is because I used them to carry out my designs, my design being of course to get my rocks off. This would make me the fuckin' carpenter. What's funny to me, and everyone else, whether they admit it or not, is that you are the biggest tool of all. Let me back up this statement with facts.

Fact: You had sex with Opie. Took him out to dinner. Paid. Took him out to mini-golf. Paid. Road head. You had sex with Opie...again.
-Now, by definition you are carrying out three designs there. Opie's love for food. Opie's love for mini-golf. And finally, Opie's love for getting his rocks off.

Fact 2: Cut back to this past school year. About 2:00 am. You may remember yourself driving from SUNFIELD TO BIG FUCKIN' RAPIDS. To have sex with Opie because he asked. Oh yeah, then you made him breakfast.
-Again, by definition, you are carrying out the unintentional designs of Opie.

The facts are irrefutable. Whether you realize it or not, you are the most gigantic tool in the whole entire world. And you know what? It's finally not me being made fun of for sexual exploits. Nothing you can say will make me feel bad about this.

You totally brought this upon yourself. Think about all the times you had hay days with me making fun of me. Now deal with this. Calling you out on this and calling you a tool is like calling the sky blue and the sun firey. You can sit there and feel sorry for yourself, or you can quit being a bitch and take a joke. Don't get mad at anybody but me. Don't get pissed at Opie. It's not his fault that I am writing this. This has been a long time coming and I am loving every second of it.

And about the voicemail you left me. I may be the "biggest fucking asshole in the world", but I am happy with myself, and that keeps me moving on with my life. You should just come to terms with this. Also, to answer your other questions. I did have fun making fun of you and yes, it does make me feel better about myself.

It's like that.

-Al Borlan

ps. Have a good vacation! :)
pps. I dare you to make fun of me again for being a "tool".

There's 3 ways out of every box...

...fall out the bottom, or you crawl out the top. There's 3 ways out of every, every box. And if you can't find your way out, then you just burn it to the ground. And then you disappear, like smoke, into the clouds... This post will closely resemble something Alan-esque.

Good week over this way. Worked a double on Wednesday; I've been spoiled for about a year and had forgotten what kind of white ghetto inbred f-ing trash comes out of the woodwork on Wednesday's Downtown. F-ing "Blues on the Mall" just attracts all manner of maggot and vermin - on their cheap-ass motorcycles, mind you - straight into the bar of T.G.I.Friday's. The solace of the evening? Finally starting to think Lindsey (another Friday's Downtown lady) is pretty cool; after all. We've never been pleasant before, but it's now as if we're old friends.

Thursday found me back Downtown for an open-close double. Woobie has Wednesday and Thursday off for some reason, and Dan is on vacation, so Brad greets us with this news at 10:30am - He and Dan are being transferred out of our store at the end of the month, and he's not really sure where they're going. Now, when we're busy, Brad is worthless because he just kinda hangs out and smokes at table 39. But when we're dead, he's fantastic because we can pretty much do anything we want (see "Friday"). Dan is the most glorious person you could ever have as a manager, so we were pretty upset about that. I worked with Allison during the day, and it was her first day there, not in training. She was nice enough, but I think she'll be cooler when she's more comfortable there. Anyway, she was the stay, so at 2pm I took off and had coffee with Liv for 3 hours between shifts. When I got back at 5, I walked into chaos. Earlier in the day, Allison had seen me get my chapstick out of my purse, and had asked if we were allowed to have our purses up there with us. I said of course, so she went back and brought hers to the front. Unlike anything that has ever happened to me however, she had gotten hers stolen, complete with cash, 1 (of 2) cell phones, and the sole set of keys for her car. Calls to a friend (for a ride), the parking police (so her car wouldn't get towed), and the real GRPD (to report the theft) ensued, and she left about 6. James, the 137% worthless-piece-of-shit GM, proceeded to not only not cut Christa (nightside with me) as soon as he was in charge, but kept her there until 11pm. I was crossing my fingers for a horrible accident on his way home, but no dice (he was there on Friday...ugh). A slew of minor-league baseball players from Dayton came in after their game with the Whitecaps, and one of them left their cell phone. So after my midnight:15 clockout, Meg and I sat at booth 40 and used his phone to try and find someone he was with so that he could come get his phone. After several confused male Texans answered the phone with expressions such as "What up, dirty?" and "You sexy man, I can't believe I haven't heard from you until now, how the hell have you been, and why aren't you with a girl right now?", we hit jackpot and he called us back from Brad's phone. Good story. There was then post-work wine and Turkey Bacon Bravo at Ben's house, and I met Kyle (see: wasted, cute younger brother of Shanna, Ben/Cortni's housemate).

Friday. Slept 'til noon. Went to Liv/La's for a bit, had coffee. Got Downtown...saw that Brad was the nightside MOD (Manager On Duty)...clocked in at 5...talked to people 'til 5:20ish on the ol' cellular...talked with co-workers 'til 5:35...made a coffee run, got back at 6...then hung out with Lindsey while The New Guy (see: really f-ing ambitious due to the cute naivity associated with one who believes they are actually going to make money there by working hard) ran his ass off trying to do everything perfectly. His name is Tony, and he is a personal trainer for a health club downtown someplace. We got rid of him as soon as we could. Nice guy, though. LeeAnn came out at around...10:30 or so? She now has 2 of her works of art on the BOH (Back Of House) fridge, and pretty much every important person Downtown met her. We found the perfect fake for her with my friend Jen. Identical. It was crazy. Just to prove how perfect, we sent her up to the bar, undercover-style, and had her order a Long Island. Nan would have given it to her, but happened to notice that she knew who Jennifer DeWent was, and the girl who just handed her the ID (Identification. Like, card...driver's license, in the case) was not, in fact, aforementioned girl. Oh, we all had a good laugh. Unfortunatly my Twin wanted to get on home, otherwise all the Kids wanted her to come to Z's with us post-work for some beers, using Jen's ID. Another time, for sure.

I'm currently at Cassidy's house, and I have to be at the high school in 4.5 hours to meet with the other Boosters about...well...I don't actually know. Nothing can possibly be important enough to meet on a Saturday at 8am, so we'll see what happens. There is a band kid carwash from 10am-3pm, so feel free to come support! At the high school...okay, well. There is a Quadruple Birthday Party at some Member's-Only club for 4 girls Downtown on July 29, and "80's clothes are like totally required", so I'm pretty excited for that. Shannon Rodriguez (aka...Also Known As...Miss Miller) might come if she doesn't have to go to a rehearsal dinner that night. This post is really f-in' long. Good talk. See you out there.

It's a taxi ride kinda night in the city.

Hey LeeAnn! there is a 9:30 showing in Lowell. Then another one at 12. I'm up for whatever.
Hope you kids have fun at the VU.
So to finish the post. I went and got some groceries today, and the guy carried them out for me. It was wierd; I mean it was only two bag I can carry out two bags, but I didn't want to say anything, anyway. It was just wierd to have someone carry out my groceries for me. It was like having a servent. I felt like I should have tipped him. I got my hair cut today as well, out of impulse mind you. The girl ended up cutting my hair way too short. I don't know what to do with myself. I'm slowly getting used to it, but I just hope it grows out fast! Anyway, I don't know if people are coming over tomorrow night, but you're all welcome! we could have a bon fire maybe some s'mores. I don't know what we'll have time for. Anyway. You kids have a good night!
~Cassi

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It's been a long time, a long time, I shouldn'ta left you, left you...

... without a dope beat to step to.

Being the sexual deviants that we are, Alan, Ben, Scott, and I, along with possibly Abby are making to trip to the Vu tonight. Should be good, you know, some burgers, fries, pop, titties, maybe a little bush.

I've come to a realization today, I fear commitment. There it is. It came to me this morning. I want to get a Speedpass from Speedway, right? I go there all the time, there's one less than a mile from my apartment in East Lansing, and the gas is usually the cheapest. Plus, with the Speedpass you save 2 cents a gallon, oh, and it's free. Makes perfect sense. But I won't get one. I'm sure I'll have to fill out a form, and I just don't want to. I'll feel like I have to go to Speedway all the time. And that is the start of a relationship, which is unacceptable. This applies to everything, including girls. Kind of makes things difficult, but the alternative is so frightning that change is impossible.

I'd like to welcome our newest member, Ms. Olivia Vining, to the blog. Hopefully Tatoo lets her post every once and a while, but I won't hold my breath.

We all lifted this morning, which is nothing unusual. What is unusual is Robyn Rhoades. Most of you know her as Jeff Vanderboon's girlfriend, significant other, fuck-buddy, ect... I think she was going out of her way to get Jeff's attention today. She was sporting a tiny pair of shorts and a sports bra and she was lifting, not running. She exaggerated every little movement, especially when she bent over. Jesus Christ. Some of the time she'd just sit there with her eyes closed... I wonder if she has powers, like mind powers. Could she make my head explode just by willing it to happen? I don't want to find out, so I always keep my distance and try not to piss her off. I fear for Jeff, any more rejection and she might explode his head. The moral is: she's scarrier than the love child of Freddy Kruger and Jason Vorhees. If I never see her again I will die happy.

Also, Blogger doesn't release URL's, even if it isn't updated for an extremely long time. Appearently I can email him (they gave me permission to write an email, nice eh?) but there's no contact information on his blog, and they don't give it out, so their response to my query boiled down to, "we're not giving it to you, he can if you ask, but we're not going to let you ask either."

Geoffrey O'Donnell

A penny for your thoughts?

No. I don't want your thoughts, Abby. I am real sure you get on here because you are in some kind of pissed off funk and tear on me about what is going on with the girls. You are wrong for two reasons. I don't know if you read my post correctly or not, but I said that I was not going to hook up with Amber, so learn to comprehend what you read. And with Rebecca, I am not trying to get back together with her, so don't worry about what I do. We have had this conversation close to a million times. I wouldn't take her back if she wanted to get back together. We are just getting together for dinner. And don't you dare get on here and call me pathetic. You know what is pathetic? Living with a douchebag fuckhead that treats you like shit and cheats on you. That's all I'm saying. Don't come at me like that, and I don't give a fuck what kind of mood you are in.

ANYway, at work. Waiting to get out so Geoff, Ben, and I can go see some ass and some titties at the VU. I had a great night last night, speaking of girls. Here's a rundown of my night...

I get out of work at 6:30 pm, and I drive like Jeff Gordon (except a little less gay) all the way home. I get home at about 6:55 pm, and have to pass on some delicious looking teraki salmon that my moms grilled. I jump in the shower and am out the door with no shirt on at 7:20 pm. I time trial it to EL. So, through construction and geting stuck behind semi's, I made it to the Meijer on Lake Lansing at almost the second that I was supposed to be there. I made it there at exactly 8:00 pm and put my shirt on and met Laura in the milk department in Meijer. Kind of an obscure place to meet, but I thought it was funny. So, we talked for a little bit and then jumped in my ride and drive to campus. She was a little surprised by my driving, what with me squealing the tires around turns, running red lights, and driving like a general assbowl. It was fun, we parked in Bessey Hall and got out and walked around campus for about an hour and fourty five minutes. We just walked around and shot the shit. She is a really cool girl. Real nice. A bunch of caddies walked by not five seconds after she was talking about how caddies harass her and ask her for her number all the time and started gawkin' and crip walkin' and shit at her. It was funny because I turned around and they all flipped out and turned around. I am a bad motherfucker. Anyway, we were going to go to dinner at the Hawaiian BBQ, but it was getting late and she had to go home and do and turn in her online philosphy homework by 11:00 pm. Kind of lame, but I think I am in for a second date, she said she wanted to get together again soon. She rocks though, she like video games and told me she drinks BBQ sauce. That is what I like to call the jackpot. We drove around campus for a bit after our walk because we were both getting sweaty. She was just starting to get sweaty, but I was way past sweating. I was really pretty disgusting. I showed her around where Geoff lives, the Jenison Fieldhouse, and around that area because that is all I know. I had a lot of fun.

Abby disclaimer: Don't read this.
Rebecca called me again last night to set some plans in stone. Not a lot of set up. We are meeting in Holland and then we are going to carpool and just drive around and find some place to eat. I am sort of excited, but not really. I would be if I had feelings for her anymore. The more I get involved with her, the more I realize that 1) I put too much time and energy in to it while she doesn't and 2) Well, number one about covers it. Anyway, I don't know how Saturday is going to go. I might kiss her. That would be kind of nice. I haven't had a kiss in quite some time.

ANYhooters, I can't wait to go get laid by some strippers tonight. Finally, high class ho's. I can't wait! Ben, while I am disappointed with your decision, I repect...pfffft, ha ha ha, I almost got through it without laughing! You should still come and be big dirty men with us.

Sunday is going to be a big day. First day off in 10 days. Which will be lovely. After Jeff gets out of Church or whatever the hell he does Sunday morning, we are all going to Michigan's Adventure. Two parks + One low price = A whole day of fun and making douchebag's of ourselves in front of the ho's. Ohhh, speaking of Opie, ps. LeeAnn left out a HUGE part of the story she told. She must have accidentley forgot to include the part where she has sexual intercourse with Opie before and after dinner. HA HA HA! That is funny. To me, anyway.

Well, that's all for me. Ass, titties, ass, titties, ass ass, titties titties.

-Assman

You know I love you but I just can't take this

...You know I love you but I'm playing for keeps, although I need you I'm not gonna make this. You know I want to but I'm in too deep.

I just found who sang that song! I've heard it on the radio a couple of time. Luckily, I had a pen and a piece of paper in my hand this time. I kept looking under Phil Collins lyrics, but it's definitely Genesis. Tomorrow night I'm going to watch Jeff play softball again. I REALLY want to go like watch the tigers play. I think that would be way cool.

A sad thing at work happened today. There is this elderly man that comes in, and he always has his wife with him. Okay, I think for you to get the full effect of this story I'll tell you what they normally do: They pull up, he opens her door for her, and helps her out of the car. He then ushers her inside were he helps her sit down in her seat. Then, He comes up and gets a chicken sandwhich for himself, and a cup of soup for her. Well, they hadn't been in for like a week. He came in today, and just got the sandwich so I asked him if he needed a cup of soup for his wife. These are his exact words "No, my wife died, so I don't need to get soup anymore." My jaw hit the floor. I was about to cry. I thought it was very sad. I wanted to run out there and just give him a hug, but I though some people might think that would be unprofessional of me. Then Jeff came in and things were okay again.

anyway, I think LeeAnn and I are seeing "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" after the softball game, so if anyone would like to accompany us. That could be fun! Oh p.s. If you need to call me for some unknown reason. Call my house my phone has been temporarily disconnected. Anyway. I hope you kids have fun.

~Genecass

this shit is bananas...

...B-A-N-A-N-A-S!!!

So work was just tantalizing... NOT. I agree Abby, it has been the slowest week ever. I did, however, go out lastnight which was fun. Went Mini-golfing at Craigs Cruisers in GR, I've never been there. It was fun. I "lost" (which I technically didn't, I'm just nice) by like 4 strokes. I did have a hole-in-one too! But I did retaliate in Air hockey. I won... oh yeah! Then we went to Grand Rapids Brewing Co. It was a nice place, kind of mellow... but good. I had Shrimp Premavera, it wasn't great, it kind of made me feel icky. Then we ventured our way to Meijer and Wal-mart for shoelaces. Then back home. It was fun! I leave for vacation in less than three days! I hope it's not rainy from those blasted hurricanes. Anyway, I'm going to eat a bit, and I might head to Jeff's softball game. SeeYa!

LeeAnn E.

What's wrong?

Hahaha, that's right. So work was ridiculous again today, but being with Lynn makes it better some how. It's like she understands that we are actually supposed to be working- something Dawn will never grasp. I've avoided Dawn for 3 days now- it makes the days go by faster. This week has crawled. C. . . R. . . A. . . . W. . . . . L. . . . .E. . . . .D. Ugh. I AM getting something really cool from work tomorrow though. We got nicknames givn to us all and i am Johnny J. It says so on my hard hat. We spelled Dawn's name as Loosy and she was pissed. Oh well i guess.

I really wanted to be napping right now, but instead i am waiting for Katie Taylor to come over and make stupid flyers to mail to campers. But that was supposed to be 45 minutes ago. I just want to sleep. I am actually on the verge of crying for no reason because i am so tired. I hate the pathetic feeling. Ugh.

Just for the record: I've done some pretty wreckless and fucking stupid things in my past relationships; of this i am aware. But Alan just fell approx. 5 knotches down my respect scale. 2 for Amber, 3 for Reba. But oh well. Pathetic. And don't even get mad at me. I am not in the mood. But at least i can admit it.

I just now realized that i have not had a happy post in like. . . a week? Two? Damnit. When is Katie coming? . . . She wants me to go to Tennessee with her to see some guy in the army and i am going. Don't have a certain date yet, but i think i will if she ever gets here. I love Tennessee.

I am going to watch Jeff play tonight whether i like it or not, i need to get out. I think my mom is sad because i'm never home. And i never write my Thank-you's. Damnit. I guess Evan is having his open house this weekend? Who knows.

I had really good ice cream at work today. (happy portion of blog).

Everyone is going to bail on me for the camping trip. Damnit. I wanted it to be fun, but now it will be 3 of us in a tent probably. Sweet. What a waste of a day off.

Warm summer nights

Being a truck driver might be a crappy job if you had to do it everyday, but I must say I had a pretty sweet time masquerading as a truck driver last night. Dad needed some sleep and asked me to help him out, so I did. I was sent on a mission to lovely Battle Creek, Michigan to pick up some decrepid old cows at the sale barn. It was amazing. I left at 11:00 PM and it was 75 degrees. Nothing beats driving with the windows down on a 75 degree night. I cranked up a little live Pat Green, circa 1998, and I was flying high. The cows and I rolled out of Battle Creek around 12:30 AM. We were on our way to Hudsonville, which meant an hour and a half more of warm wind and good driving music. I'm not sure, but I think the cows were getting in the spirit too (I didn't let them in on our little secret about what their fate would be about 5 hours later...). I dropped the moo cows off in Hudsonville around 2 AM and gave them their last supper, which consisted of hay and hay-flavored water. Now it was time to feed the driver.

Since only the drive-thru is open at Mickey D's at 2:00 am, I had two choices: walk through the drive-thru, which I understand is frowned upon by the good folks at McDonalds, or drive through with a 32-foot trailer. Like a lot of white males, my self-confidence is quite a bit higher when I'm behind the wheel, so I decided to drive through. It took some maneuvering, but I got er done. The girl in the drive-thru found this somewhat amusing. This led the way to my first and likely only flirting experience in the Mickey D's drive thru. Maybe it was just because I was a trucker yesterday and everything female looks attractive, but she was kinda cute. (OK, all kidding aside, she really was cute). Anyway, I think I killed the conversation when I reminded her that the cuddly old cows I hauled were going to be mutilated in a matter of hours. Apparently she doesn't know where Big Macs come from.

The drive home from Hudsonville wasn't quite as fun as the rest of the trip, mostly because I was out of good tunes, but it was still a nice night to be out. I went to bed around 3:00 with no thoughts of even attempting to go to the gym today. Hopefully I'll be able to hit the ball a little better in the big games tonight. We'll call it an experiment. Until next time....

If you wanna step up...

Step Up. You're gonna get knocked down.

So last night I tried but really didn't accomplish too much.

I kinda spent the day inside doing laundry, dishes etc., and about 5 I started getting around to go to East Lansing. I went outside to feed the steers and spent about 15 minutes trying to find this myserious kitten. All I could hear was crying. I even resorted to making cat noises myself to get the kitten to respond. Sadly I never did discover the missing critter, even though I'm pretty sure I had the sound down to about 1 square foot of possible barn. Then the hose got a kink in it and I got my white shorts dirty trying to unkink it. Anger. I went in the house, changed, and headed for Harms' where i was already kind of late.

I figured I'd beep Tony on the way there, a novel move since I hadn't talked to him since Sunday. I'm two miles from Tyler's and Tony says not to come becuase he's busy and has to practice tonight. WELL THEN. So i still went to Tyler's, because the FFA can't bring me down. I hung out there for a while, talked about seeing some movies, but he's seen them all so I went ahead and went back home...for about 5 seconds. I delivered a package that came for Alan, and we eventually went to Meijer soley to purchase NCAA Football 2006. No Dice. Apparently Lowell Meijer is a bit behind the times.

We rolled back for two delcious grilled burgers, and I went home and took a bit of a 2-mile scamper. I'm not positive, but I think last night Ben told me he was going trucking for my dad at like 10:00pm....hmm, I guess he'll probably post about it.

Softball 8:15/9:15 tonight and 8:30 on Friday. I feel good about tonight, hopefully it doesn't get stormed out.

I had an apple and it was delectable.

It's time to push this ship into the shore, and throw away the oars forever.

-J.E.F.F. Speedwagon-

I want something else to get my though this semi charmed kind of life baby.

This being awake thing is really starting to kick my right in the ribs. I worked until two. I swam from 2:30 until 4:30. I didn't feel tired until I went and started reading. I had lain down on my parents bed, and slept soundly until 7:30. Now I can't make any part of my body do anything. ech. (well I can MAKE it do things, but it feels like it take a lot of energy.) It has been feeling much better since I've been up. Anyway, work today was pretty cool. After tomorrow I've got the next three days off! Dad and mom are both leaving Friday for the weekend, so that'll be exciting. Well I guess I've got nothing to report, so you kids have fun!

~Cassi Nicks

Workin Nine to Five, workin hard to make a livin...

That's right kids, I put in a whole day's work today. It felt good. Of course, it was only a temporary thing and I'll go back to reality tomorrow, but I'm feelin good today at least. My brain is happier when it's occupied for most of the day.

At this point I kinda feel the need to explain something: There is a difference between getting surprise afternoons off and knowing that you can't work all day even if you want to. Back in the day when I worked all day every day, I had a lot of cravings for afternoons off. Things change when you start doing it everyday though. You start thinking, "man, I'm really not doing jack this summer." Oh, and another good one: "I'm not making jack this summer." Lovely GVSU just raised tution rates by about 7,000 percent, so you can probably see the wheels turning in my mind here.

Alan, sorry bud, but I'm 22 years old, and I've already turned down some invitations to hit up the VU in the past. No point in starting up now. Luckily your blogs about the strippage clubs are pretty detailed, so I'll just read about it.

Well, it's nice and sunny and warm and beautiful outside, so I'm going to hop off this computer. Adios.

Oh, She's Gone, oh I, oh I'd...

...better learn how to face it, yes, she's gone, oh I, oh I'd... Hall and Oates kick all sorts of ass. They are older, but I'll be damned if they don't know how to rock the mic, like I can't resist, everybody, I said it goes like this. Sorry, that was reminiscent of Sugar Hill Gang. I'm done here.

Big night last night. Work was real boring, I was excited to come in on my day off to not take that many calls. Speaking of work, the woman who's desk I have been sitting in this month and a half is coming back on Monday. That means no more permanent desk for me. Geoff and I will no longer be sitting next to each other. Bummer, but now I will be desk-whoring it up for the remainder of the summer. One of my supervisors sent me an e-mail that boiled down to "Pack your shit, bitch, you'll be desk-hoppin' everyday". Nice.

Ok, so on with the antics of the night. Geoff and I get out of work. Drive home. Cut to house. We get home and I am getting ready to head over to Opie's, and my mom and dad tell us to come outside and load up hay. So, we then commenced in one of my personal favorite hobbies. The hobby of course is throwing hay 8 feet in the air into a barn, then stack in in 1,000,000 degree weather with 300% humidity. We picked it up from the field in the Danger Ranger, so we could load about 15 bales per load, thus maximizing the length and fun of the work. It was really sweaty and disgusting. I don't mind doing hay, when it is a reasonable temperature. So, we shower and head over to Opie's. That's when the interesting stuff happend (for me, anyway). So, we get thurr and Geoff makes me buy him Subway because he is a slut. I buy him Subway from a super bitchy attendant, she sucked the dick. Anyway, we get back to Opie's, watch Family Guy, then I go on the internet to DL some songs. So, I DL (see:download) some songs, I get on aim and get bombarded by messages from Jamie and Laura. I am going on a date with Laura tomorrow. I am really, really excited. She seems like she is very cool, and very liberal, so it all works out. We are just walking around campus in EL (see: East Lansing, MI), so it should be fun. I hope it is not hot. That's all I have about those two, right now (read next paragraph to follow on with story).

So, Rebecca sends me a text message. "Why are you mad at me?". I have not been in contact with her for almost two weeks, nor anyone who talks to her in two weeks. I guess me not returning her phone calls means I am mad at her. Well, fuckin' bingo. She was right, I was pissed. So, I text her back to get online so we can chat. She gets online. She is all like "why are you pissed?" So, at first, I just tell her I was disappointed. She was all "Do you think I wasn't?" So, after a bit, I finally just tell her straight up that I was furious that she cancelled. I had cancelled other plans, made reservations, and packed other clothes. As it turns out, her car actually did die, her parents thus had a monopoly on automobiles at the time. So, I felt a little bit better about it. She spent the better part of an hour apologizing and saying how awful she felt about it, and how she has done nothing but worry that I was mad at her. This also pleased me. So, she says that she wants to go out on Saturday night. I pulled a power move and told her yes, but I told her to call me when she figures out a time and place to meet. If she doesn't call, I'll just move on.

Speaking of girls. Pretty sure Amber made a pass at me yesterday morning. This would be flattering if she didn't fuck every dick she comes with 10 feet of. She got out of her car as Geoff and I were pulling out of the gym and rushed up and started babbling about her trip to India. She went to India for 3 fuckin' weeks and did not gain any pigment at all. I don't understand, she was still totally white. Doesn't it get to be about 900 degrees in India? Like, all sun, all the time? Oh well, she asked me if she could call when she got her pictures back. I think that was code for "I have been around crazy little Indian peckers and cows for 3 weeks, and I need some sausage", but whatever. Indian food is so good though, I love it. Anyway, I'm getting to the point where I just need to have sex. I haven't had any sexual activity (unless you include beating off in the shower, in that case, I get laid everyday, sometimes twice a day) in a very, very, painfully long time. I need it, but I really feel like Amber is not the direction I want to head (pun very much intended).

Yeah, I am going home today after work and doing nothing. I might get my hair cut, but I think I want to stay in tonight and go to bed early. Big day tomorrow. We are going to the VU on Friday night, I am jacked about that. Hopefully there will be a little less skankiness and a little more gentleman club-like. I love hooters. Opie pussed out...like a bitch. Jeff won't go because he has little to no desire in women. Looks like it is me, Geoff, Ben, Melanie, and Abby. Anyone else down? Ben Vanderboon? Tits? Want to see 'em? Holla.

Fuck what you heard baby, I'm DJ Alan, whether on tv, or on these streets, I'm still the shit.

-Emcee Alan