Dang. The three month mark. Wow. 1/4 of the way there.
I slept in this morning, not going to school. Needed the extra rest to ensure this cold would end in due time. Upon waking up I made myself eggs and finished eating my pomegranate fruit from the previous night. I called eBay customer support while I ate my breakfast, trying to find out if the blue-oxford-seller died or died. I use eBay so much, and this is the first real issue I've had with them. I found my prick in the needle in the haystack.
Went to work at 2:00, where I spent some time cleaning, updating papers, and calling previous clients. I made a huge bowl of orange tomato soup, and not even 5 minutes after starting to eat it, I opened the cash register drawer, forgetting about the location of the soup bowl. What followed was a similar picture of projectile orange vomit that spilled all over my leather chair, my pants, the floor, and made a huge mess in front of three clients. I just laughed, got a mop, and started cleaning.... again.
In the eve, myself, Noah and his date Cassy, and my friend Mitch from work all went to For the Kidz, which is a giant indoor gymnastics and trampoline place. We spent 2 and a half hours there, bouncing, diving into foam pits, and heck, I even finally mastered a flip and was able to jump over a 5 foot padded wall and into the foam, complete with flip. The entire place had a safe and soft bounce to it. One kid there tried to land on this ceiling platform but missed, and he seriously was injured. They had to get ice and fill out a incident report, etc. Afterward we went to Meijer to replenish our bruised and soar joints with more juice and protein shakes. I was so soar upon arriving home. My body ached. I was in immense pain.... so badly that I sat in my shower for about 30 minutes, trying to relieve my aching joints and tendons. Gravity's a booger.
-Security Camera footage from Just for Kidz -
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Day 89
Not even getting up slightly early for a hot shower and vitamins could prevent me from having an even colder day at work. Angry customers, ill-forgotten paper-work..... I sigh out loud and help the clients where I can. My throat is full of mucus, but I'm still alive.
After class I went home and spent time on eBay, still trying to find a blue oxford since the loser I bought my from almost a week ago apparently must have died because I've yet to receive a response, and he isn't even linked with paypal anymore. The week of my birthday I'm going to Michigan City and I'm buying one at the outlet mall. That's that. So I spend 28 bucks, which isn't even that bad. The hunt for the blue oxford shirt continues. Rediculous.
School was great, more speeches about Republican candidates, and the occasional Obama speech. Politics I just don't get. There's days I hate Obama and am convinced he's the worse president the U.S. has had, and then there are other days where, like today, I look at his ads and am like "Yah, he's a pretty cool cat. I dig this democrat." Politics. Can't live with them, cant live without them.
Spanish came and went, made some new friends, and spent my 2nd to last night in the Spanish lab. Only 40 more minutes are needed in the lab, then I'm done with the lab portion. This semester has gone so fast, I won't even be in school in 4 weeks. Craziness.
Stopped at my Aunt Colleen's house where I retrieved my Burt's Bees, as well as received a bag of Costco truffles, which are like chocolate ecstasy in a golden bag. Stopped at Meijer and bought my favorite fruit... pomegranate. It was on sale, $1.50 each, which is way cheaper than the last one I bought ($2.50). I'll stop at Horrocks tomorrow and pick up more exotic fruits there.
- Meijer's pomegranates. Drooling -
After class I went home and spent time on eBay, still trying to find a blue oxford since the loser I bought my from almost a week ago apparently must have died because I've yet to receive a response, and he isn't even linked with paypal anymore. The week of my birthday I'm going to Michigan City and I'm buying one at the outlet mall. That's that. So I spend 28 bucks, which isn't even that bad. The hunt for the blue oxford shirt continues. Rediculous.
School was great, more speeches about Republican candidates, and the occasional Obama speech. Politics I just don't get. There's days I hate Obama and am convinced he's the worse president the U.S. has had, and then there are other days where, like today, I look at his ads and am like "Yah, he's a pretty cool cat. I dig this democrat." Politics. Can't live with them, cant live without them.
Spanish came and went, made some new friends, and spent my 2nd to last night in the Spanish lab. Only 40 more minutes are needed in the lab, then I'm done with the lab portion. This semester has gone so fast, I won't even be in school in 4 weeks. Craziness.
Stopped at my Aunt Colleen's house where I retrieved my Burt's Bees, as well as received a bag of Costco truffles, which are like chocolate ecstasy in a golden bag. Stopped at Meijer and bought my favorite fruit... pomegranate. It was on sale, $1.50 each, which is way cheaper than the last one I bought ($2.50). I'll stop at Horrocks tomorrow and pick up more exotic fruits there.
- Meijer's pomegranates. Drooling -
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Day 88
This morning was worse in the awakening realm. My voice was 3 octaves lower, but my nose was miraculously empty. I'll take it.
Stopped at Family Fare gas station before school, getting gas and a vitamin water to help rain down health on my ghastly throat. On a side note, I really don't like family fare...... the prices in their stores are only good if you buy two of the items, not one. When Meijer has three on sale, Family Fare has two. Grocery wars aside, I went to school and took more notes for my communication class.
Left school and went home all but to change and spend a brief amount of time on MW3. I left and went back to Big Ray's to have them fill my coolant tank and fix the lights. Not even ten minutes, and no charges later, I left, and all the lights in my car went off. It's a miracle. The only thing wrong with my car at this point is that rattling piece of metal below it, which requires a simple yank. With 207,000 miles, I must say this little Saturn has served me well. It's a shame it lacks electric locks and windows.
Cleaned like a hotel maid at work; I mean the duties, not wearing a dress or uniform. Excited to see the new renovations that we're putting in the club. It's exciting. After work I met up with my good friend Steve at Panera to catch up and talk about his new fiance. The last time I got to see Steve was day 3 or 4, and it's documented on this dandy blogger. I told him about where I was in my life, the possibilities of me moving to a different college and even out of the state, and he shared his hopes and worries too. He asked me to serve as his best man in his wedding, which came as a gracious, boomerang of an honor. After defending the slew of choices, he smiled and just asked if I would. I graciously accepted and bought us drinks.
Went home, updated a few things on the web, skyped with Melissa, which I want to say is a good feeling. It's rare when exes can still talk, and in this case especially, it's the first successful time in history exes can be friends. It's like Seinfeld and Elaine. I am still going the single route for awhile, focusing on making myself a better person and who God wants me to be.
Finally, went to Mike's house, and watched the film "Human Centipede 2", which is a black and white frenzy of people being stapled to other peoples butts and pooping. Yes, it's film-making at it's finest, especially when a woman gives birth to a baby in a car and the baby, still attached by the umbilical cord, falls down on the floor and the woman drives away and crushes the baby's head under the pedal. Yes, Spielberg would be proud.
- Another funny Far Side comic -
Stopped at Family Fare gas station before school, getting gas and a vitamin water to help rain down health on my ghastly throat. On a side note, I really don't like family fare...... the prices in their stores are only good if you buy two of the items, not one. When Meijer has three on sale, Family Fare has two. Grocery wars aside, I went to school and took more notes for my communication class.
Left school and went home all but to change and spend a brief amount of time on MW3. I left and went back to Big Ray's to have them fill my coolant tank and fix the lights. Not even ten minutes, and no charges later, I left, and all the lights in my car went off. It's a miracle. The only thing wrong with my car at this point is that rattling piece of metal below it, which requires a simple yank. With 207,000 miles, I must say this little Saturn has served me well. It's a shame it lacks electric locks and windows.
Cleaned like a hotel maid at work; I mean the duties, not wearing a dress or uniform. Excited to see the new renovations that we're putting in the club. It's exciting. After work I met up with my good friend Steve at Panera to catch up and talk about his new fiance. The last time I got to see Steve was day 3 or 4, and it's documented on this dandy blogger. I told him about where I was in my life, the possibilities of me moving to a different college and even out of the state, and he shared his hopes and worries too. He asked me to serve as his best man in his wedding, which came as a gracious, boomerang of an honor. After defending the slew of choices, he smiled and just asked if I would. I graciously accepted and bought us drinks.
Went home, updated a few things on the web, skyped with Melissa, which I want to say is a good feeling. It's rare when exes can still talk, and in this case especially, it's the first successful time in history exes can be friends. It's like Seinfeld and Elaine. I am still going the single route for awhile, focusing on making myself a better person and who God wants me to be.
Finally, went to Mike's house, and watched the film "Human Centipede 2", which is a black and white frenzy of people being stapled to other peoples butts and pooping. Yes, it's film-making at it's finest, especially when a woman gives birth to a baby in a car and the baby, still attached by the umbilical cord, falls down on the floor and the woman drives away and crushes the baby's head under the pedal. Yes, Spielberg would be proud.
- Another funny Far Side comic -
Monday, November 14, 2011
Day 87
............
So many people wonder why God allows terrible things to happen. Why he lets tsunamis and earthquakes demolish cities and families. We wonder why.... and yet, he is God... sometimes we never know why..... but he doesn't like doing it. I felt a similar feeling today. Carrying around a storm cloud...
Waking up with stuffed noses are never fun.... it was one of those really hard blows out the nose. One of the blows where you do it really hard and you just hear the high pitched air escaping through a newly created crevasse inside the mucus. I got ready and went to work, and spent about 70% of my shift, just cleaning, trying to just clean. I didn't feel like human interaction, just wanted to clean.
In honor of the main idea behind this blog, yet, for personal reasons, I ended the boyfriend/girlfriend status with my girlfriend today. That was my storm cloud I was carrying around.... I can't say anything else. It was a very hard day. I cant talk about it right now.
Gave my speech today, which went good. I guess I was up at the podium for ten minutes, but it felt like 4. It comes natural to me, I tend to thrive on communication. Spanish was fast as well.... in fact, my whole night flew unnaturally fast. Spent some time in the Spanish lab, which I'm done with next week, right before Thanksgiving. Thank goodness.
Went home, picked up some hot and sour soup, browsed eBay for some Sperry's, and just thought. I don't know a lot about life, right now so much doesn't make sense. I was thinking about things I get... what makes sense to me.... I realized that film, vitamins, & Spanish language are the only things I'm getting right now...kind of depressing, but its true... I just get it. I can connect, relate, and see the benefit and future in those things. Time will hopefully bring more relations, connections, and meanings to a life that is currently being moved by God in the chessboard of life. I skyped with Ty last night for a solid hour and a half, and we both realized how blessed we are that we are currently being moved and watched by God at this very minute. Right now, God is shaping us into the men he wants us to be, and it's a bittersweet feeling.
Time to watch last night's Dexter I missed. One other character that makes sense to me.
- This best represents my speech style for speeches -
So many people wonder why God allows terrible things to happen. Why he lets tsunamis and earthquakes demolish cities and families. We wonder why.... and yet, he is God... sometimes we never know why..... but he doesn't like doing it. I felt a similar feeling today. Carrying around a storm cloud...
Waking up with stuffed noses are never fun.... it was one of those really hard blows out the nose. One of the blows where you do it really hard and you just hear the high pitched air escaping through a newly created crevasse inside the mucus. I got ready and went to work, and spent about 70% of my shift, just cleaning, trying to just clean. I didn't feel like human interaction, just wanted to clean.
In honor of the main idea behind this blog, yet, for personal reasons, I ended the boyfriend/girlfriend status with my girlfriend today. That was my storm cloud I was carrying around.... I can't say anything else. It was a very hard day. I cant talk about it right now.
Gave my speech today, which went good. I guess I was up at the podium for ten minutes, but it felt like 4. It comes natural to me, I tend to thrive on communication. Spanish was fast as well.... in fact, my whole night flew unnaturally fast. Spent some time in the Spanish lab, which I'm done with next week, right before Thanksgiving. Thank goodness.
Went home, picked up some hot and sour soup, browsed eBay for some Sperry's, and just thought. I don't know a lot about life, right now so much doesn't make sense. I was thinking about things I get... what makes sense to me.... I realized that film, vitamins, & Spanish language are the only things I'm getting right now...kind of depressing, but its true... I just get it. I can connect, relate, and see the benefit and future in those things. Time will hopefully bring more relations, connections, and meanings to a life that is currently being moved by God in the chessboard of life. I skyped with Ty last night for a solid hour and a half, and we both realized how blessed we are that we are currently being moved and watched by God at this very minute. Right now, God is shaping us into the men he wants us to be, and it's a bittersweet feeling.
Time to watch last night's Dexter I missed. One other character that makes sense to me.
- This best represents my speech style for speeches -
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Day 86
Terrible night. Waking up at 4 and 5 AM to go try to swallow water in the bathroom. My tonsils inflamed, my throat tight with an infection.... it was not pretty. It hurt to sleep at one point.
The morning came, and I had my mom make me hot tea while I sat in my shower and sweat in burning water for a good 15 minutes. Some Raisin Bran and tea later, I was feeling much better, but still had the virus lurking around my body. I got dressed and headed out towards Jenison to my aunt and uncle's house. We were going to Birch Run today, a giant outlet mall somewhere northwest of Detroit and or Flint.
We made good time getting there, and when we arrived, I was amazed at how busy it was. Stores in multiple lots, across the street, it was crazy. I hit a lot of the stores in the first hour I was there, and realized I should have taken my time. Until they closed (which was 7:00PM), I was following my aunt and Kelsey around in too many stores. I have to give her credit..... my Aunt Colleen can shop forever. My joints and body began to give out around 6:00PM, and this was mainly due to a lack of food too. I bought a great sweater at J. Crew, as well as khaki skinny jeans and some amazing vitamin C blend of
acerola cherries. I spent the last 10 minutes that I was there in the vitamin store, all while I was sampling vitamins and looking at just how powerful some of these little chewable and swallowable pills where. I made good conversation with the lady, and even donated some money to their foundation for kids to get vitamins. I was able to provide 4 children with daily vitamins for an entire year. I may never meet them, but I hope they stay healthy.
I feel distant....... the last 7 minutes in the film "Trainspotting" describe how I feel down to a tee. Ewan McGregor is a doppelganger to my life and the situation I'm in....
Getting online now to wind down my tired night by talking to my good friend Ty via Skype. Wonder what we'll talk about....
- The loot after the shopping trip -
The morning came, and I had my mom make me hot tea while I sat in my shower and sweat in burning water for a good 15 minutes. Some Raisin Bran and tea later, I was feeling much better, but still had the virus lurking around my body. I got dressed and headed out towards Jenison to my aunt and uncle's house. We were going to Birch Run today, a giant outlet mall somewhere northwest of Detroit and or Flint.
We made good time getting there, and when we arrived, I was amazed at how busy it was. Stores in multiple lots, across the street, it was crazy. I hit a lot of the stores in the first hour I was there, and realized I should have taken my time. Until they closed (which was 7:00PM), I was following my aunt and Kelsey around in too many stores. I have to give her credit..... my Aunt Colleen can shop forever. My joints and body began to give out around 6:00PM, and this was mainly due to a lack of food too. I bought a great sweater at J. Crew, as well as khaki skinny jeans and some amazing vitamin C blend of
acerola cherries. I spent the last 10 minutes that I was there in the vitamin store, all while I was sampling vitamins and looking at just how powerful some of these little chewable and swallowable pills where. I made good conversation with the lady, and even donated some money to their foundation for kids to get vitamins. I was able to provide 4 children with daily vitamins for an entire year. I may never meet them, but I hope they stay healthy.
I feel distant....... the last 7 minutes in the film "Trainspotting" describe how I feel down to a tee. Ewan McGregor is a doppelganger to my life and the situation I'm in....
Getting online now to wind down my tired night by talking to my good friend Ty via Skype. Wonder what we'll talk about....
- The loot after the shopping trip -
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Day 85
After following all of this cold weather, the Saturday's, particularly this one has been warm.
I had to be at work at 2:00 today, and didn't make it in time to ship the last of the movies I sold on eBay, but I did have time to meet with my Aunt Colleen for lunch at Q'doba.
We were in the Mexican eatery for a good hour and a half, just talking about life, me, the future, and the bundle of choices and desires I have in my head and heart. It was a good day. The lunch finished, I went to work, put in my six hours, and then left work at night, heading home for a few games of COD
Around 10:00, my friend Caleb came over. We started to watch Dexter, but realized that the right episode wasn't taped.... conceding, we left and went to Monelli's, where we just hung out and shared a pizza. It feels good to break out of my root of circles I've felt so trapped in lately. New faces, people, places, and opportunities are carefully being sought out, courtesy of myself.
Went home and crashed, before starting to feel a familiar itch in my throat.... uh oh.
- Aunt Collen & I -
I had to be at work at 2:00 today, and didn't make it in time to ship the last of the movies I sold on eBay, but I did have time to meet with my Aunt Colleen for lunch at Q'doba.
We were in the Mexican eatery for a good hour and a half, just talking about life, me, the future, and the bundle of choices and desires I have in my head and heart. It was a good day. The lunch finished, I went to work, put in my six hours, and then left work at night, heading home for a few games of COD
Around 10:00, my friend Caleb came over. We started to watch Dexter, but realized that the right episode wasn't taped.... conceding, we left and went to Monelli's, where we just hung out and shared a pizza. It feels good to break out of my root of circles I've felt so trapped in lately. New faces, people, places, and opportunities are carefully being sought out, courtesy of myself.
Went home and crashed, before starting to feel a familiar itch in my throat.... uh oh.
- Aunt Collen & I -
Friday, November 11, 2011
Day 84
I forgot to mention, yesterday was the first snowfall. And a snowfall it was. Heavy amounts, particularly in Byron Center, covering my entire yard, coating any grass that may lie beneath under the white blanket. It's almost winter. The death. The end. It's the time where time itself comes to the end of the ticker, waiting for a new year to be rung in, resetting the clock, again, and again. Also, today was 11.11.11. Facebook statuses went mad, though my favorite goes to my cousin...
Cameron - "Hey! Guess what! 11.12.2011. is the only time this century that will happen."
I woke up at Mike's, and luckily Kentwood had much of its snow already melted. I met Melissa for breakfast at Panera, and we stayed there for about an hour. I was in an odd mood. I wanted to help everyone around me. I could feel pain and worrying and sadness in others around me. I wanted to be that stranger that walks up to them and says, "its okay..... it will be fine" and hug them... performing a little act, that would add huge emotion, and last a lifetime in their memory.
Went home to get my precious time in with the new MW3 game. Oh how I thoroughly love this. Shot some faces in and then went to work for 4 hours where I spent a good portion of the night cleaning the pool area, specifically mopping green mold off the deck. Gotta love negligent work habits.
Went home and ate a Subway footlong, compliments of my mother. Ate the sub, watched even play Batman, and then went over to Noah's for a very cold and warm bonfire. The bulk of the night I did some thinking, just sat, watched the snow melt under the intense flames. I met this cool guy named Jazz, who was wearing a digital belt that he could program, making it say anything. Kind of cool, in the party sense, and that's what this was. The stars.
Oh gosh, the stars. They are a sight. A connect-the-dots game to a different future.
- Jazz and his cool belt -
Cameron - "Hey! Guess what! 11.12.2011. is the only time this century that will happen."
I woke up at Mike's, and luckily Kentwood had much of its snow already melted. I met Melissa for breakfast at Panera, and we stayed there for about an hour. I was in an odd mood. I wanted to help everyone around me. I could feel pain and worrying and sadness in others around me. I wanted to be that stranger that walks up to them and says, "its okay..... it will be fine" and hug them... performing a little act, that would add huge emotion, and last a lifetime in their memory.
Went home to get my precious time in with the new MW3 game. Oh how I thoroughly love this. Shot some faces in and then went to work for 4 hours where I spent a good portion of the night cleaning the pool area, specifically mopping green mold off the deck. Gotta love negligent work habits.
Went home and ate a Subway footlong, compliments of my mother. Ate the sub, watched even play Batman, and then went over to Noah's for a very cold and warm bonfire. The bulk of the night I did some thinking, just sat, watched the snow melt under the intense flames. I met this cool guy named Jazz, who was wearing a digital belt that he could program, making it say anything. Kind of cool, in the party sense, and that's what this was. The stars.
Oh gosh, the stars. They are a sight. A connect-the-dots game to a different future.
- Jazz and his cool belt -
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