tales of an over medicated friend

mind you, thats tales of, not tales from, my friend remembers next to nothing of what happened, fo all all of us know daniel could have made everything up. but it was hilarious, and ariel was cool about it too, not upset that we were laughing at her involuntary acting like a special ed student. apparently her doctor didnt believe her that she had tried that medication when she was 12 and had an allergic reaction to it.

church was good, colonel sanders spoke (apparently he went on his mission to kentucky and his facial hair and bowtie did kinda make him look like the late great chicken chef. saw the brotha who got back from korea the lucky son of a gun, and he got me a tie like i requested, hopefully i can get a hold of it one of these days, and i still need to give that tv of mine to emily.

and sunday dinner tonight was great, we had hawaiian haystacks, but i didnt cuase i dont like pineapple with that kind of stuff so i had rice with chicken and cheese, and daniel told everyone the story of his sister (twas my second hearing, and it was still good) the bishop stopped by to give ariel a blessin and beths ankle is still sprained but she'll live... i hope.

egging me on

so in case you havent already heard or surmised from my status updates on the webernets, i cut my thumb open pretty bad while opening boxes of eggs at work, and you always take them things for granted, today tying my tie was far more difficult than it should have been and on top of that i needed my roomates help to buttun my top button on my shirt and the cuffs. i hope it heals quicklysadly its pretty deep, far deeper than any of my philosophies, about a half centimeter.

check please

so anyways today was day two of cashiering, and so far i enjoy it everyone has been pretty nice, and nothing major has gone wrong, yesterday greg beth and i went blues dancing, it was pretty good too, so i was checking again today and i have way more energy than is needed for checking as i was dancing at my checkstand. im thinking of going dancing tonight, but only if i can ensure a ride home from the beaverton bus station, dont want to get stuck walking after that... so i forgot to ask for next wednesday off, so i may not be going with for delivering cookies to SAR and beth has planed for everyone to go to wednesday WCS at the paradise, hopefully im not closing or whatever, unless its already super late though i can bus/bike in to it late.

Lot Puck

so it was group a's turn again, and again we had it at beths place, i should clean my place up to have it here sometime, but at first we were in a frantic rush to get more food, because we thought there might have been 30 people there, so i took over some extra pasta and sauce, but we wound up not needing it after all, there were only about 15 or so there, i didnt actually count. buton top of that some of the people who came had already started cooking their own roast well before church had started so he brought it along and there was plenty of food in the end. karista tried to start a food fight though and hit me with some spagetti. but it was coo she didnt get it on my pants, just my shirt, and the shirt was bought on clearance. dunno what the deal is going to be for next time, what with work and all i may not get to go too often.

emphatical piratical

so yesterday i was at the pirate festival all day long, we arrived at around noonish and i didnt leave until 10pm saw tons of awesome things and stuff, and hung out with a bunch of friends from church too, poor noel though, had some interesting comments made in her direction and didnt get it, everyone kept trying to help her understand but maybe it was better she didnt understand, but eventually she got it and was a little embarrassed, i put all of my photos up on facebook, and ill get them on myspace one of these days, personally i think facebook is way better. and ive finally drawn a mental image of what my final pirate costume is going to look like, all these other years ive just been having at it with what i had on hand and the occasional accessory that ive bought. maybe someday i'll convert the mental image into an actuall image and yall can take a look eh?

assailed by boredom

as much as i love having days off, it seems that i rarely enjoy them as much as i think i would, today has been nothing but boring thus far, i plan on hearing my dad play music but that doesnt start until 9pm, and i was invited to go to a game night activity at a friends house at 8pm but i would have no way to get from there to aloha to hear my dad short of a taxicab, but maybe i'll think of something. the pirate festival is tomorrow so that will give me something to do.

singing piratey things

i am eager with anticipation for the pirate festival here in portland, i have everything ready for my costume. today my mother sister and i went to some pirate store in the mall, it was ok, but for the most part i was disappointed, but the place does have a party room you can rent, so thats pretty cool, i suggested that they add a pirate movie rack (not a pirated movie rack mind you) because all week ive been wanting to watch 'cutthroat island' with gena davis, the best pirate movie ever made, now i like 'pirates of the carribean' but 'cutthroat' is just way better, trust me. so captain bogg and salty have a new album that will be availible at the festival and the cool bodice lady will be there from damsel in this dress, i cant even wear her clothing (well i guess i can but... no) but sometimes i wish i was married so i could buy some stuff for my wife hehe. i will be dressed to the nines at the fair, and will be taking a load of photographs. maybe ill order a new hat too.

meh..

so i opted out of dancing for tonight, mainly because getting home at late late hours is rough, as of writing this sentence i am in an invigorating political debate with a good friend of mine. in fact i started this blog a half hour ago and am just now getting to this sentence, but as i said earlier, im gonna be a checker and in grocery now, so maybe look out for me when you checkout at the store.

last day

so after today if you see me at winco it might actually be at a checkstand, gravy huh! working in gorcery will be easier for me to go to church on sundays and thats whats important to me in my life right now, the singles ward, cause im tired of being single. anyhow, im getting ready to go dancing tonight, maybe ill see persons that i know.

cookies and stuff

so after about halfway through baking a new batch of cookies for search and rescue, i remembered to call sgt oleson and get the address for their meetings, since it wasnt in the multnomah county admin building on hawthorne, but it turns out its at an office on glisan streat, but she also told me the next two meetings are recruitment meetings and there are already going to be a crap ton of cookies there to bribe potential recruits... so i have several dozen cookies if anyone wants any.

psilver bug psycho

so while riding my bike home some guy driving a silver bug (vanity plates too GERI-ME) decided to honk at me in frustration because he couldnt pass me while in an intersection and while turning, which even if he could have would have been illegal for him to do so, and dangerous to boot (hence why i dont give people enough room while i make a left turn) but thats ok, because i have tomorrow off, i bought a bunch of fennel stalks and im going to enjoy eating them, and i also got some anise seeds to mix with my mint to make a delightful tea, i also want to try using it as a mulling spice for cider one of these days (both anise and fennel taste like licorice which makes me happy) i missed fhe today which makes me sad, sad, sad, i love fhe and i love seeing all my friends there, i open on wednesday but that marks the end of an era, my last day in produce, after that i will be at a checkstand for a couple of weeks, and then grocery floor clerk, primarily due to the fact that they have a crap ton of employees it will be easier for terry to if he schedules me on sundays for me to still go to church and then work afterwards, so i can go to church more often, i will likely miss out on our dinner parties which i love, but church is more important and ill see all the same peeps there anyhow. the other good thing, if i wind up staying at winco forever which i doubt, you have to be grocery to climb the corporate ladder higher. which is theoretically lucrative, if i can handle it.

soda or powder

so i went shopping for the cookie ingredients and i couldnt remember if my recipe wanted baking soda or baking powder, so i bought both, and then i got home and noticed that i already had baking powder, and then found out it was baking soda all along. sheesh. so anyways, i will be making some chocolate mint chip cookies this time, but since you cant get the actual green mint chips at winco until christmas time i had to compromise and went with the pastel mints from bulk foods, which is cool because the minst are green pink and yello so they will be my 'chocolate mint confetti cookies' today was the last day im closing in produce this week, tomorrow im off by 830 which is still pretty lame because i wont be able to go to fhe then i have tuesday off and open on munday and then i have the rest of the week off... maybe. we lost another new employee in produce so my hopes and dreams may be dashed, this was set to be my last week in produce too.

pirate festival coming up, which reminds me of a really lame joke...

why didnt the pirate buy any corn?






because it was a buchaneer.

helping hands

so yesterday was alrite, before work i got to help the roommate of my home teachee desha move some stuff into her new place, she was pretty nice and pretty cool and such, and i like to help people with stuff, after that though i had another closer at work and i get to do another one today and miss church... yay... yesterday though i got yelled at for doing laundry and washing some of teh rags, i even asked first if there was time to do it, but apparently the time ran out before i had a chance to put the rags in teh dryer. dont have a day off til tuesday and i need to be getting ready to bake more cookies again, bacause last time it fell through with me getting lost... ironic eh?

work yay

so today was another usuall closer at work, i get to do it again tomorrow and on sunday, i bought a box of splenda to try it, and sugar just in case i dont like it. i meant to write down the prices of stuff for the facebook group and for the bulletin at church, jen decided or maybe it was someone else but jen was the one who told me that they want to post the deals and steals prices on the board in the building. i just gotta remember to do it. its so far turned out to be not as hard as remembering to brush my teeth in the morning. made some splenda mint iced tea, sugar is better but its not too terrible, i really need to cut down on my sugars, but splenda is like 10 times more money. and im sad cause im gonna miss dinner on sunday.

Always designate a driver

so i went and karaoked with a coworker and her cuzin, and we didnt finish until late, and the two of them were pretty drunk let me tell you... actually i wont tell you, but suffice it to say that they were drunk, they also made a new friend who was also drunk. anyhow i guess their plan was to walk home and get their car later, but even though i dont have an actual license i offered to drive them home and then walk back to the bar from their place, since i came on my bike in the first place, and it took them a while to agree, partly because they new i didnt have a license and because they were so wasted. anyways to make a long story short, i felt really good for having helped someone in need, even if their need was brought on by drinking too much. i didnt make it home until like 4am but its coo. im baller like that.

Scene 1- act 1- take 1

It was a dark and stormy night...
in a time of way overused cliches, the horrid blog bubbled as the cadavers of things long forgotten rot away in the filthy depths, but then a different movement catches your eye, a hand reaching up from the blog, and it reaches for...
YOU!

And so the horrible creature from the blog emerges... what is it you ask... well, I haven't thought that far ahead in the story actually.

so to start the blog off i'll start by talking a bit about the boring stuff i did all day

i had lunch, and then sat around horribly bored on my day off until 620 when i rode my bike to the ballroomdance company to go to Jimmy's 1 day workshop for west coast swing connection, so i didnt learn any new patterns, just how to be a better lead. and my mom wanted to borrow one of my swords so my sister could borrow it for the ren fair in corvallis, to get me to agree to it she bribed me with a ride home. so all in all i guess its ok.

looking forward to my dad playing music on the 19th and the pirate festival on the 20th and i feed the missionaries on the 22nd the first day of fall