Redheads

It is not fair how insanely attractive redheads are to me.

Mostly because I've yet to find one who likes me.
((on that note, I'm still trying to find A girl to put up with me))

But really. If beauty was on a scale, its like redheads instantly get 10 bonus points.

So, long story short....
Calling all Redheads, Calling all Redheads!

Anyway. This was a good weekend.

Got to dress up as Anakin. Which turned out pretty well from what I heard. Unfortunately I don't have any pics of it. So hopefully I'll get some next time I wear it.

I also got screentested for a short film one of my Star Wars buddies is doing. I sucked it up pretty bad. I'm not that great of an actor and I didn't really 'fit' any of the parts but...uh, some of my relatively unique vocal talents managed to impress them, so who knows...I may have some role in it after all.

Still wanting to get Lauren famous. Been trying to feed her anything lyrical I can think of...which isn't much.

But, fingers crossed eh?

Work tomorrow...another 6 am shift....yay...

BUT. I do have mini danishes this time!
Night!


For good measure
Calling all Redheads, Calling all Redheads!

Rooftop Poem

So, this is more me trying to write lyrics to help my good friend Lauren produce her own album. So, as a side note, to the two of you who read this, follow her on twitter and do what you can to help. Please?
Gatewayguitargirl

Anyway, I'll show you the poem, since I know you are dying to read it.


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Close your eyes.

Open yourself to the world around you.

Can you feel it?

Feel the life of the city.

Let the pulse resonate

Listen to your heart and notice

Its matching time.

The beat of the city,

The sound of the world

Of hopes, of dreams,

Of doubts, of fears

Of love, of loathing

The sound of life.

Thousands of souls swarm around you,

Tilt your head back to the sky

And feel their touch.

Their pain, their joy

Their triumphs, their failures

Their laughter, their tears,

It's the miracle of life.

Everyones got a story to share,

Simply take a moment to listen

And join yourself to this human race.

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So, writing lyrics is something I have zero experience with, so this kinda ended up as a half poem half song. I like the idea of it, but not how it turned out. I may play around with it later. 

Well, I'm tired. Crimson Nights turned out to be a disappointment, but I have a troop tomorrow. I get to wear my anakin costume that I ((just about)) finished!! Pictures once I get a camera!

I hate Gen Eds.

Second day of classes.

I only have 2 gen eds left for my bachelor. I'm taking one of them now. It's language of color. Really, a good for nothing fluff class that is purely BS. But, it gets me "diversity" credit.

So I'll suffer through it.

But I hate the people in Gen ed classes. There are so many people who do not deserve to be in college, and it seems like they all congregate either at local pubs, or in gen ed classrooms.

They are just those type of people that either scream "douchebag" or "idiot" or you can TELL they are high.

But I'll stop ranting about them.

Lauren showed me how to play two chords on the guitar. I suck at it, but I like trying....I kinda want to keep at this. Maybe I'll give up a while later but...for now, I wanna try.


Teacher doesnt' like laptops on during class. great.....now how am I going to stay awake. Anyway, I've got to go try to pay attention.

Another post at work

So, here I be, a-sittin' and a-writin'.

I'm pretty bored. And exhausted. Opening the building three times a week...Dunno how I'll manage that. Been up since 5, and I gotta stay til 2 today.

My eyes will NOT stay open and I'm yawning like crazy.

Yay. A sterotypical athlete in crutches. Maybe he'll lose his sports scholarship and realize he has no where to go in life. :D

Yes. I'm bitter.
I know most athletes aren't bad, but enough are.

I have had to use the bathroom WAY more than I should've today too.

I gotta go to the Candlelight Serenade Acoustic festival the other day for ten hours. It was a lot of fun. I mostly just took pictures and helped out, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly. I got to 'meet' neon trees. Though they band was more focused on taking pictures with Darth Vader and the storm troopers I had brought with me to meet them. They got pictures taken together by the Salt Lake Tribune I believe. I haven't seen if they ever got published though.

Only downside to the concert? I still haven't recovered from all the sleep deprivation and I got sunburnt like mad.
But we got our name out there, so who knows! Maybe some good will come of it.

SOOO many freshmen today. Kinda cute....but they all look so YOUNG. Am I getting older? blah.

 They also look lost and confused. Like Bambi.
Ive directed SO many people around campus today, and shuttle routes, and this and that...its nice, cus I feel smart, even though I'm really not.

I wish some of them would flirt with me....that'd be a nice ego booster.

My thanks go out to my lovely friends who brought me food today. They all got moved into the same apartment! Yay! Now I only have to go to one place to bother people!

Wow. As I watch the people who walk by, I keep thinking..."who likes short shorts...."

Working

Sittin at work.

Bored. There's been a lull in the HC.

Looks like for the rest of the year I'm working mondays wedsnesdays and fridays from 6 am to 10Am. 2 PM on Mondays....so, what is that...14 hours a week?

NOT looking forward to the opening shifts, but....maybe It'll make me sleep earlier. Probably not though.

Lauren left on vacation. I miss her. :( Heheheh. but I do feel better knowing she is suffering.

My Family

I'm sitting in the airport awaiting my departure back to Salt Lake.


Mixed feelings right Now. It'll be nice to get home to all my stuff and friends. But I also start work tomorrow, and have school next week, etc.....Long story short, I'm about to get very busy very fast.

But all that doesn't really matter.

What makes this tough is leaving my family.

It felt so natural to be with them in the new house. Same furniture, same rooms, same feel....Just being around them is so harmonious to who I AM...to how I grew up. Living with my family is like the...baseline of my quintessence.

At first I felt like I may have taken for granted this time I had for them but....I got to spend time doing what I always did with them, and I felt like I was in a HOME for a week. It was...nice.

((I'm tearing up writing this. Gah. ))

But, yeah. It was a nice break to be home with my family. I wish they still lived in Utah so I could enjoy that luxury more, but...I'll survive.

I really miss Dean though. There's all this cool stuff I want to do with him, but can't, because we live so far away.
He really is awesome though, and I wish I could do half the stuff he can. We tried doing handstands together. Hahah....I kept hurting myself but it was a lot of fun. I wish We could work together to do parkour and stuff.

When mom took me to the airport, I gave all my brothers hugs first. At least I thought I had. I guess I forgot Dean. ((sorry!!))

So as Mom pulls the car out onto the 40 mph road, I hear a shout "hey", look back, and Dean is running full speed to catch the car. I got mom to pull over, cus we thought maybe something bad had happened or I forgot something,etc....He ran up to me and just gave me a hug and said he loved me.  Made it really hard to let him go or say goodbye. Gah.....I love you Dean.

I'm crying too much to keep writing...heh...and hopefully my plane boards soon. Ummm...Yeah. So I love my family, and I'll be back in Utah soon.

Surprised Komodo Dragon

I'm writing this blog post in the morning.

Whaaaaa?

 Anyway. 


I got a new phone yesterday. T-mobile family plan and all that, so apparently I was due for an upgrade, or my mom's phone was, or however it works. 


Point being. I got a "Samsung Gravity T' or something like that. I think it was a T. 
Its pretty awesome. Got a touch screen....which is kinda tricky to use but.....yeah. I'll get used to it. 


Next step, to shrink my fingers so I don't have such a hard time hitting the buttons. 


So, I have this music program. Virtual instruments and all that. For some reason, it's stopped working...kinda. Hard to explain if you haven't' seen it, but...It'll SHOW the notes...but not play them, and...yeah, its weird and annoying, and driving me nuts. I really want to use it, but restarting the program, my computer, searching the 'help', searching google....no luck. So I'm giving up for now. 


Still hating everyone who went to CV. They started posting pictures. There was a full sized Tie Fighter, snowspeeder....probably more than that...Ugh, I'd give my kidney to be there....


Well, I would, if I hadn't already broken both of my kidneys in that radio antennae accident. 


Both Dean and I have a virus I believe....our throats have been hurting. His seems a bit worse off than mine....I just assumed that mine hurt cus of the altitude/climate change. 


This new phones vibrate setting is really weedy...I can't feel it when its full blast, IN my pocket....so that's going to prove interesting haha. 


I really need to get going on my chewbacca costume..But it is so tedious...Blah. But I'd like to get it done by October maybe....So if anyone wants to help me latchhook...I'll love them. 


California is HOT

I have trouble sleeping at night from the heat. Oy. And I torqued my neck. 

Besides that though, its really pretty and nice here. But also a bit too crowded. I like cities, don't get me wrong, but...even a smaller town like Clovis is too much hustle and bustle for me. 

  So, I drew that yesterday. Took way longer than it should've. And I'm still not really happy with how it turned out. The colors are really hard to get right because they have the guy a kind of whitish grey, but in ALL the scenes he's in they use a tungsten filter so it gives this bluish hue...I didn't know what color to do him, and...Yeah. That's the best I could do, but I still don't like it. But, I may put it on a shirt. Depends on the feedback I get. 



Lauren is annoyingly good at singing I've decided. And she is all seductive when she sings. I am still determined to get her a record deal. If she'd just stop being so stubborn and let me. 

It's odd being done with Summer Conferencing. It kinda just fused itself into my life. I feel like i should be doing something for it. 

Speaking of work though, I have to start training ASAP when I get home from my lovely vacation. Should be....fun and tedious. It'll be nice to have a job I guess. Money wise that is. 
I do feel bad because I got scheduled for this weekend and all this time when I had already gotten it off for my trip...so people had to cover my shifts....So, even though they won't read this...Thank you   to everyone who did. 

So, when I get back, gotta handle my job, gotta go visit my shrink, gotta meet up with Doug and get some measurements taken for a jumpsuit, gotta meet with Dr. Drews about starting my human factors certificate project, gotta finalize my schedule and buy my books....and probably some other stuff.  Hoo boy. Gonna be a busy time. 

I wish I had a sparring partner. I think it'd be a fun way to exercise if I had someone to 'duel' with. And I miss choreographing fights.  

Seriously, my phone is sitting on the table, loudest vibrate. I SAW it light up, but it didn't make any noise or move or anything. It's like its vibrate is non-existant. 

So, I wants to lose weight. But I lack any sense of motivation. I need someone to start yelling at me when I eat too much or don't exercise. Any takers? 


I want to get a desktop computer....for gaming mostly. I know its kinda frivolous, but...Well, it'd obviously have other more practical uses as well...


You know....writing this would be a lot more enjoyable if I knew more than four people read it.

Yosemite

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So, made it to california safe and sound. It's nice to be with my family.

Wasn't so nice having to wake up at 7 Am the next morning to drive 4-5 hours to Yosemite. But, here I am.

I'm just writing this as a word document and going to transfer it online. Unfortunately, there's no wi-fi in national parks. Yet.

It's been good to be with the family. Singing songs on the car ride down, making obscure references with Dean((who is still taller than me…and skinnier.))

Yosemite is pretty. Tall trees and the half dome, El Capitan…but…I dunno. It hasn't quite 'wowed' me like  the Uintas. I've only been once, and it was with Ryan, but it was a lot of fun. We ran off on our own and found hidden lakes and whatnot. The air was so clean and crisp…

Don't get me wrong. It's not bad here.  But it is overcrowded. And most of the people here don't speak english.

And its swarming with jailbait.

TONS of squirrels that are only a few generations away from domestication I swear. They would run around our feet as we sat at a table outside, going for crumbs. The fatter the squirrel, the 'braver' it was, and would hardly run. The skinnier ones were a bit skittish.

We are currently all in bed. But its only 9:30 here….10:30 my time. I'm not going to be able to sleep for another four hours.

This 'tent' is cool. Its more of three actual walls and a canvas door with a metal bunkbed and twin bed. So carter's on the floor, Dean and I each have a bunk, and Cam's in the bed with mom, cus, as she said "it would be weird to  sleep with the other brothers. They are too old".

Stupid gnats…They keep swarming my screen.

Being around Dean really makes me want to get into better shape….Stupid dean…being more attractive than me.

Just killed one gnat. Ha. Take that Gnatdom. Your end is at hand, and your kingdom is mine.

Dean is actually starting to get all my dirty jokes. Dunno if I'm happy about that or not. I like being able to make them and make him laugh….but he's the GOOD kid in our family…he needs to be innocent and a good example for carter and cam, cus I sure as Hell ain't.

That's right. Ain't.

If I mysteriously die, the left side of my cranium has been really tender and sore the past two days, inexplicably.

Gnat 2 is down.

Oy. I wish I slept easier. I've been exhausted all day, so haven't really been able to enjoy 'hiking'. Not that we've done any real hiking considering we have too young ones.  But all I've wanted to do is lie down. Of course, now that I can….I can't sleep.

I miss the internet. Just cus….I miss talking to friends. I know its only one night, but it still feels…off.

Bah. Suppose I'll try to sleep now. Wish me luck. 

I hate Flying.

Really.

I absolutely hate it.

I used to hate it cus it terrified me.

Well, it still does terrify me, but that's not why I hate it now.

I hate it because my flight got delayed over an hour. Why? I'm not sure. All the sudden we got moved to a different terminal. When we got there, our departure time was an hour later.

Their reason? "staff was late".

So, I had a connecting flight in Vegas ((from where I'm currently writing this)) that was timed with my first flight.

The staff being late caused me to miss my flight and get stuck in Vegas.


Or....It would have, if my Vegas flight wasn't a half hour late.

Why are airlines allowed to do this? I can understand weather causing delays...but because STAFF is late, you are going to make X amount of people late, for who knows what? Marriages, buisness meetings, vacation, family.....
And the passengers can't do a thing about it.



So, now this connecting flight just happened to be over an hour late as well. Was supposed to leave at 9:50, its 10:40 now, and the passengers JUST started filing off past me.

Im just really upset and frustrated.

I was supposed to have my choice of beverage on the first flight. PROMISED that when I purchased my ticket. And you know what? No choice. They literally handed out dixie cups they poured water into from a bottle.

When I got to the Vegas airport, I asked for directions...the guy who gave me directions....told me to go the opposite way I needed to go.

Really, it feels like all the cards were against me....except that my connecting flight was late.

So i was saved from one airlines tardiness by another airlines lateness. I don't know if that's irony or karma or good luck or bad....I guess I'm glad I don't have to camp out in Vegas overnight, as at some point I would've ended up trying one of the numerous flashing machines that litters the corridors....but I still feel wronged by this.

Not to mention I barely have eaten today, my bloodsugars low, and I'm a bit dizzy.

I shouldn't complain so much, but it's been a rough day.

And all my friends are at CV...

I met a couple GOING to CV though. Once again, my star wars shirt was a conversation starter. The girl was very pretty ((and pregnant, so a bit...'glowy')), but most important, loved star wars. Her dad dresses up as Dash Rendar!

I want a girl like that.

But it was nice to have someone to talk to while we waited for the plane to leave. The people seemed friendlier in the Salt Lake airport. Here everything is dark and dingy, and the people seem closed off and hostile.

Sigh. Boarding time just got pushed back another ten minutes.

I'm going to go find a water fountain, cus I am NOT buying 4 dollar bottled water from the ONLY open store in this airport.

New home

So, once again writing this as I watch Craig.

I moved yesterday...It was quite the endeavor. Took a long time and my back hurts now. But I had friends who helped, so that was good.

I got a fair amount unpacked, but the room is much smaller, so It'll be...fun to live in.

Haven't really done much today besides that...went shopping with Lauren and kept trying to slip things into the cart. She didn't care though so it kinda wasn't that much fun.

Fatheads. Those giant wall decalls, usually sports people, run about 100 bucks a pop? Yeah, don't buy them. Ever.
Waste of money.

I bought a Darth Vader one, because it was on sale for 20, which I found to be a good price.

Yeah. It sucked. It came in a cardboard tube with no instructions. So I unrolled it. I figured I just had to peel it and stick it on the wall.

But it didn't like that idea. Long story short, in the process of peeling it...it folded on itself, effectively ruining itself. I tried to pull it apart, but it keeps ripping, and even if I DO manage to get it all unfurled, its bent and torn...and I can probably never reposition it.

So, yeah, waste of money and I will NOT recommend fatheads to anyone.

I leave for California tomorrow. I suppose it'll be nice to see my family but...I don't want to travel really and for some reason I get the feeling this will just make me sad. But who knows. Maybe it'll be fun.

I plan to make Lauren a star. Even if she fights me to the death about it. I am determined to get her name and music out there. Because I have no skill personally, so I'm going to live through her. Just like a controlling parent.

I have drank far too much Mountain Dew today. I shall probably not sleep tonight.

I really want to play Star Wars RPG. Its nerdy and lame and whatever. But it really excites me. And I want to. And I have no one too play with. I am terribly depressed about this.

I found an amazing website. Well, Ally 'stumbled' drunkenly upon it.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1CQt0z/www.instantsfun.es/

Check it out, and enjoy the plethora of sound bytes.

Jealousy is running rampant. A few of my friends are at CV right now. For those of you who don't know what that is ((which will probably be everyone who is NOT there)) its the 30 year anniversary of the release of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Big convention. Very nerdy, but I really wish I could've gone. Ah, but such is life.

Well I just had an ice cube thrown at me, so I think that's my cue to go.

Zombie!!!

So, Lauren, Ally And I, Along with our new friends Matt and Travis, went to the SLC annual zombie walk tonight.

Pretty much what it sounds like. A few hundred people gathered along city hall then we proceded to shuffle around town. It was quite a lovely horde we had going, all a-moanin' and a-groanin'.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

We had already bought some old clothes to rip up from DI the night before ((I had an orange shirt and light blue pants, 70's FTW)), and Travis and Matt were our blood experts. So, we applied some makeup to make ourselves look dead ((Mine was a mix of black and brown that I thought made me look quite rotten and decrepit...everyone else's was pale. And Travis looked like the joker.

Blood, right.

So, after our lovely blood was concocted ((water, food dye, corn starch, and cocoa powder. Make sure to mix in some green to make the red dry more brown, it looks more realistic)) we went up to the roof. It's concrete. So we figured that'd be best so we didn't stain anything. So we proceded to throw blood at each other until we were all blood splattered and grisly, then left.

What we didn't realize is we left a pool of what looked like blood on the roof. We also left a trail of bloody footprints that led back to ally and lauren's apartment.

So, we get home from the walk, and there's a knock on the door. Who could it be but the police and RA of the building?

Apparently they thought someone had died ((or we killed someone)) so while we were gone they had come in and searched the apartment....guess they didn't notice the bowl of fake blood. Or ever CHECK it...cus it smells like chocolate.

Then again...props to us for having such realistic homemade blood!

We had to go clean the blood stains we left, which wasn't hard but...we were all pretty scared when we first opened the door.... all in varying stages of zombification as we had been cleaning up when the knock came.


So, chances are its one of those 'no harm no foul' things, as the cop and RA were laughing pretty hard by the time they left...but I think we've been labeled as 'trouble makers' now.

And I know I say "we" like its my apartment...I don't live there, but I'm always over there anyway. So. Yeah. It's basically mine....

Summer is ending

So, I had to meander down to lower campus today. I haven't been down that way more than once or twice this summer.

It was very nice. Hot, but nice. Walking around, I noticed all the new plants they've planted, everything looks all spic and span and fresh and new. Outdoors and in. I walked through the union and I just felt at home. It made me really excited to start class.

Although I'm pretty sure I'll end up complaining about it once I start doing homework.

I managed to pull out of the fall semester with an A. Hoorah! So I'm still holding at a 3.9. Just gotta keep that up for another 3 years and I'll be good.

So long as tuition doesn't go up anymore...

Found a new star wars game to play online today. Star Wars:Epic Duels. It was a board game. Guess it still is, but it's been outta print for almost a decade I believe.

So....For those of you who don't know ((spoiler alert)) I have these weird black hairs that grow on my left shoulder....no idea why but there's like twenty of them and they are really long and black and weird. So I shaved them off the other day. They still haven't grown back. I'll keep you posted.

So here we are.

So...I've been told I'm a good writer and whatnot and that I'm funny and I should write more.

I'm going to stoke my ego and write. Also its 1 am. Any trace of common sense has long ago left me.

Especially since I haven't drank any awake juice tonight.


And by awake juice I mean Mountain Dew.


So...I'm kinda...reeling still from something I found tonight.

Sith Stalker

If you don't know what it is...then you probably don't care. but...It's just an AWESOME costume. I mean...that's a prosthetic arm!

But, I have Swampy and Chewie I'm working on...Spent another 4 hours latchhooking today and got maybe...3 inches done on one leg. It's going to take me 50 hours at this rate to get the pants done.


And I wish I had a digital camera so I could post progress pictures.

Ah, and Spongebob makes me happy. Sitting on Ally and Lauren's couch watching it with them. They baked a cake....and I've been the only one to eat any.

I need to lose weight. But unfortunately...food tastes better than excessive feels.

Speaking of pains...My back aches. Hm.