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[11 Jul 2004|10:37am] |
I am currently at work and it is pretty slow. I have things to do, but I am being semi lazy. Sunday seems to do this to me.
I was reading live journal and finally decided to remove someone from my list of friends. Nothing personal, I not even sure I could say I know the person. He is more of a friend of a friend and I always have had him on my list. He usually posts about 20 times a day, and usually has quite a bit of pictures. Today popped up some nude picture of some female. I am not one to be easily offended, but since I do like to read live journal at work, this is quite inappropriate for work viewing, so thus I removed him from my list.
My three days off each week seem to always go faster and faster. This weekend I did not get everything accomplised that I set to do. I had Brian go with me to get the oil changed in the P5 and Miata, after calling them and checking to make sure they were open and not busy. I get there at 5:03 and they said sorry we do not take customers after 5:00pm. Their bays were still open, there were no cars being worked on, and I specifically called to make sure I could bring the vehicles in. I was slightly annoyed. Saturday I helped Justin, Bill and Chris W. move. There were quite a bit of people helping which was nice, though there was allot of stuff. It is always nice moving a few blocks away. Understanding this as I moved myself from 23rd Ave E to 14th Ave.
I am quite happy to be moved myself. I thought I would miss the house more than I do. The house though nice, was more than I could handle. The new apartment which is 1000 sq ft is quite easy to keep clean and semi organized. The Kitchen is tiny which is only thing I would have to say I dislike, but then how often do I cook? The amount of dishes we have does not indicate how often this actually occurs. Not that I do not like to cook, just never seems to happen.
Tonight I need to remember to burn a couple CD's for my parents that they want and send them a cable that I forgot to include when I took them my old computer when I went to Kansas City this past month. I also need to return the movies that Matt and I rented on Friday night.
Well time for me to answer some e-mails and try to be productive.
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| Slow down!! |
[30 Jun 2004|12:30pm] |
Okay so things are starting to slow down which is nice. At least I hope they do. the last couple months I feel like I have not relaxed at all. With trying to find a new place to live, visiting my parents, moving, cleaning the old place, building a new computer, and work it has been go go go. Tonight Brian and I give up the house for good. I am a bit sad, but glad to be done. Tonight I need to run there and give them tenants the keys and read the gas, water and electric meters. I will write more abount Kansas, moving etc.
Tonight I am going to hang pictures and try to arrange things at the new apartment. I am 90% unpacked and set up.
Later,
Chris
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| Moving/Vacation/Computers |
[14 Jun 2004|01:00pm] |
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Well life has been hectic here as of late, but I see the silver cloud on the horizon. We signed the lease on the new apartment and received the keys last week. This has been a very big stress relief. Finding the apartment that would work for both Brian and I was very difficult. Brian is pretty easy going, so it is mostly my issues that make finding the apartment difficult. Like the fact that I have so much furniture, and I need parking. So parking and size of the apartment is a big factor for me. Both of which we found in the apartment that we signed the lease on.
Packing is going quite well. Yesterday Brian and I took two full car loads of boxes and furniture to the new apartment. We are not moving the big stuff till Thursday the 24th, but I wanted to get some of the little stuff moved over. My room is completely packed except for the computers and clothes. The Kitchen is completely packed except for what we need as well as the rest of the house. Today my project it to bring all the stuff I have stored in the basement up and go through it and trash what is not needed and then rebox and take it over. There is not allot down in the basement, but considering I will have a small storage locker at the apartment, I need to consolidate and get rid of stuff that is never seen or used.
Wednesday I leave for Kansas City, MO at 1am. I will be there for 6 days. I get back Monday at 11pm. I am very excited to see my parents. We have a family reunion on that Saturday, so I will get to see the whole family, at least my mother's side. I am taking my oldest computer to my parents as well. I just reformatted it and re-installed everything on it for them. My best friend sold me his old machine for dirt cheap. I am giving my parents the machine I built right after I broke up with Edward of 3 years. It is a P3 733 MHz with 512 sdram, 64 meg video card 40 gig hard drive, basic sound card. This has been my secondary machine. The P4 1.8 with 1gig of rdram, 128 meg video card, sound blaster live, 40 gig hard drive will become the secondary machine and the new one will be a P4 3.0 gig with 1 gig of sdram, 128 meg video card, 80 gig hard drive, Audixy Sound Card. The case is the coolest, it is tiny. It is about 1/3 of the size of normal tower. Okay enough computer talk.
My lunch is over as well....so time to get some work done.
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| Wednesday... |
[09 Jun 2004|12:27pm] |
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It is lunch time and I am bored. I did not go out to get food as I am trying to me more conscious of what I spend. I have been eating out too often as of late. Now that I have a car payment, I need to be careful on what I spend. Luckily once I move here in a few weeks that will be some extra money.
I am anxious about this new place though. Brian and I submitted our application for the apartment on Monday, and it is now Wednesday and still have not heard from the manager. I just want to have a place secure as I told our current landlords that we would be moving out the end of the month. I also will be gone for 6 days, from the 16th through the 21 visiting my parents in Kansas/Missouri. Which I am totally excited about. I love my family, they are the best.
The new apartment is the second one we found that we liked. The first one we found two days prior and we lost it when the people right after us turned in their application prior to us. I am happy with this place though. It is about 1000 sq ft, and plenty of room for all my furniture. Has some cool built in area's, has a semi few up downtown Seattle, is a great location, will have a parking spot.
I took off a few days to move which also happens to be pride weekend, which will make things interesting. I have Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday to move. 24th through the 27th. I would love to move Thursday, but finding anyone to help could be a challenge. Anyone free on Thursday or Friday to help?? The 24th/25th??
Tonight I need to start packing, I have 15 days to pack, and 6 of those I will be in Kansas.
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| Monday |
[31 May 2004|08:46pm] |
So now we go onto Monday, it was much slower as expected. I went in for about 4 hours, and left at 11am. Brian and I were suppose to go apartment hunting, but plans changed. We ended up going to lunch with Alton. Then we picked up Mike from his work which he just got into town the evening before and had not been home yet. We took Mike home, he changed and we went up to Northgate and did a bit of shopping. Then we dropped him off at home and here I am back at home, close to 8:30pm and we did not do any apartment hunting. Oh well.
Debating what to do now, I bought the “Return of the King” DVD from Bestbuy, so I may put that in. I broke the cord to my sub, and just replaced it so we can test it out with the movie and see if all is working well again. I so love base. :P
My ex called me the other day. He is being extremely nice to me, which leads me to believe that he wants something. I still have not really decided what I think of that whole situation. I have never had a bad break up before, and this one was beyond bad. Even when my ex of 3 years cheated on me and I broke up with him we parted on good terms. Johnny is a good person, just more drama than I want in my life. I try to stay as far from drama as I can. We live and learn though. We did have a good talk about a week ago which was nice. I do not like leaving things bad. Seems like he might be getting his act together. He still has one of my cars, which I have yet to decide what to do about. He hinted at buying it from me, but we will see.
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| Sunday |
[31 May 2004|08:21pm] |
Today (Sunday) at work was a very slow day, I forsee tomorrow just as slow if not more so. Hopefully slow enough to leave early. My roommate is dragging me out with his friend to play some pool here in a bit. I am horrible at pool, but it was fun, same with bowling the other night.
I bought my tickets to go home last week. I am very excited to go home. I miss my parents a great deal. I have lived in Seattle now for over 9 years now, and get to see them only twice a year. Being such a small family we are very close, so it is hard being 1800 miles away. This will be my first family reunion I have ever been to. Being an only child, and living away from both my parents families it was always just the three of us. Kind of ironic.
This will be my mother's side of the family. It is he Bane/Powell family reunion. My grandparents, the Powell's, live in Kansas City, Missouri where I will fly into. My parents live about 3 hours west in Kansas. I leave Seattle at 1am Wednesday and get into Kansas City about 9am. We will most likely get some breakfast and head to Kansas to my parents. A town of around 100 people on a 17 acre farm that they bought about 8 years ago. My parents both work at the college about 20 miles away. As soon as I graduated high school and I had moved out with my first serious boyfriend I was with for 2 years, they high tailed it out of the big Seattle for green pastures. My parents only lived in the city because they wanted me to go to a good school. We moved to St. Louis when I was in 6th grade, when I was to live till I was 19. Seattle is now the longest I have ever lived in one area next to St. Louis. I think I have perfected the art of moving.
Speaking of moving. I am sad to say that I will be leaving this big beautiful house that I have lived in for the past year. I will miss this house. We have been looking for apartments on and about the hill. So far we have some possibilities, but nothing secure yet. It is now just a month before we will need to be out of the house. I am not looking forward to moving all my crap, but it will be good to be in a new place. We tried to find a third roommate to move into the house, but nothing came about. Which is all good. Brian and I have been roommates for 3-4 years now and we seem to work well together. Adding Angela to that was not the easiest past year.
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[11 Apr 2004|02:30pm] |
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Okay, so I am coming back into the world anew. Much is going on in the world of Chris. As many of you may or may not know. Johnny and I have parted ways. I seem to have this 6 month curse going on. I do not seem to be able to go beyond this. I went through three long term relationships and now it is all short term. *shrugs* With Johnny though, it was a bit of risk as he had recently come out of a 7 year relationship. I do not regret it at all though, he is a great guy!! Just has allot of living yet to do before something serious falls his way again and I am wanting something more serious.
In other news, the new job is going very well, and I am quite happy. It is a 15-20 minute commute vs. the 45 min to hour I had prior. It is also a smaller company, that actually seems to care about it's employees, which is nice. I have been here a little over 2 months.
I have been going out allot more here recently. It seems to be birthday mania. Last night was Richie and Jonathan's birthday party. It was good times and quite allot of eye candy.
I currently work 10 hour shift Sunday - Wednesday. Thus today is my Monday. The last three days have been beautiful. Yesterday, Paul and I went to Alki, had some lunch and strolled along the beach looking for cute boys. Then we headed to Volunteer Park where we spanked the Camel in front of the Asian Art Museum then heading back to the house to pick up my roomie and head to the party.
I also bought some new computer speakers. I am a little bummed out. The prior ones were Dolby Digital 5.1 speakers which connected digitally to my sound card. I have had them problaby close to 5 years though, and the receiver box was having some problems. It kept going in and out, deciding when it wanted to work. The new ones though nice, are not digital, though are 5.1 surround. I just could not see spending the amount of money I did on the original speakers this time around. Joe, one of my closest friends has hooked me into this game called city of hero's, it is currently in beta and he has gotten me in, so thus the want to get the new speakers so I could take in the full gratification of the game with the surround sound. Very cool game.
Well for now this all I have to say...... 2 more hours and I can go play in the sun, away from work.
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| December |
[02 Dec 2003|07:01pm] |
So here we are now already in December. 23 days till Christmas. This year seems to have gone quite fast. I have also now worked at AT&T Wireless for over a year and am loathing it more and more every day. This past system upgrade has been such a joke. Being down for over 3 weeks, and still at this point have a capacity issue. I love getting the e-mail "Can we have all customer care log out of Siebel because we need all the retail stores to be able to log in" So, now that I have worked there over a year it is time to move on. I have applied at couple places, but at this point if it is not a call center job I am so there!!!
In other news.....
Thanksgiving went quite well. We had a group of 16 people over at the house. The 24lb turkey came out well. I was not very happy with the stuffing though. The sweet potato dish was pretty good as well. I think all in all though good times were had by all. Friday Johnny went and got his Christmas tree and lights out of storage and brought them over. I had to work, so he came over after and we set up the tree and put some more lights up. I am really starting to get into the x-mas spirit. Sunday I woke up with a sore throat, but otherwise felt good. I should have known better and took medicine right then and there so as to avoid where I am right now. I went to work and about noon started going down hill. It seems like everyone is sick. All but one person on my team is sick including their kids and my supervisor, everyone and Johnny's work is sick as well. Angela is also sick as well as Johnny's niece whom he lives with so who knows which one I picked it up from. Brian really took care of me though. It is so nice to have someone like him around to look after me. He went and brought me medicine, and then brought me water, and tea, and juice and what not. Made sure that I had everything that I needed. Sunday when I got home I had a 101 temp, then monday I went up to 102 temp, so at this point it was time for a doctor visit. Johnny came and picked me up today at about 11am, he made some coffee and made me a bagel. Then he played with Uno for a bit and we listened to Christmas music since my appointment was not till 3pm. He had to be at his Chiropractic appointment at 2pm, so he dropped me off at Edwards. I had 102.5 temperature when getting to Edwards. Edwards boyfriend made some great pasta and then Edward took me to the Doctor. He did a strep test, and started me on antibiotics. Right now I am just sitting here in one of Edwards guest bedrooms planning on one of his laptops connected to the wireless network. The joys of no cords, oh would love to know such a thing. ;) The doctor told me not to go to work tomorrow so I may just stay here, I have not decided yet. Since I have no car here I am at the mercy of Johnny or Edward.
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Some of you have mentioned I had fallen off the Radar as of late. Well tonight I plan on going to Tea for a bit before I go and pick up Brian from the Airport. Before then I need to run and find a copy of Finding Nemo for Johnny. Right now I am waiting for the dryer to finish so I can get out of here. The last couple of days have been quite busy. After leaving Johnny's place I came home and decided to rearrange my room. I picked up some stuff from my ex's that was our when we were together and he just sold the house we bought when we moved to Seattle. I still have more to pick up. He pretty much got everything new for the new house. I guess it sucks being a multi millionaire. LOL so I put some curtains up in Brian's room, hung a picture and put a new bed spread for him. I did the same to my room as well and ,moved the furniture all around and put a armed chair in the dormer I have in my room. I also did a major cleaning on the house, took out the trash for trash day and did laundry. I also put a twin bed in the cat room for people to crash on if they need. There is a Queen in the guest room but I had it so figured why not. Well now time for me to check my laundry and get it put away and run off to get the movie so Johnny and I can watch it tonight after he is done with work. Hugz to all.............
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| back to work |
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Well back to work I go. My Vacation is over, my parents have left. I start a new shift at work after today, so it will be interesting. I will work today from 10am - 7pm. Then I am off Saturday. Work Sunday on the new shift from 7am - 6pm. Then I am off Monday and Tuesday.
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[25 Sep 2003|01:56pm] |
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Well the past few days have been very emotional. I seem to have about ten types of emotions running through me right now. My parents arrived in Seattle on Saturday the 20th about 5:30 pm. I happen to be passing them on my way home from work. I flagged them down and got them parked in my driveway. My parents started out on Wednesday after work with there drive to Seattle. They live in Manhattan, Kansas. This is about 1800 miles of a drive. I have lived in Seattle 8 years and this is the 4th time they have visited Seattle. I tend to go there vs. them coming here as they do not like to fly so usually with drive. It is easier for me me to fly there, less time and less money. I went there right after my birthday earlier this year. My parents and I are very close. We have a very small family and I am an only child. My parents have known I was gay since I was 15/16. They have always been very accepting and encouraged me to do whatever I needed that made me happy. They are the best parents anyone could ask for and more.
The visit with the parents:
Saturday I showed them the house and took them to the basement apartment where they would be staying. I so love having a guest area for people to stay in. There is a separate bathroom, along with a bedroom, Living room and full kitchen in the basement that open to the back yard. After getting them settled I took them to dinner at the Broadway Grill. Sunday we got up fairly early and headed to Vancouver for the day. We had a good day looking at sights and spending time in Canada. Monday and Tuesday we did shopping and touring Seattle a bit. Tuesday evening I took my parents to see Phantom of the Opera. It was great. Diving into this a bit more. Brian my roommate and I went and purchased tickets about a month before my parents came. We got awesome seats on the floor center 12 rows back from the stage. They were perfect seats. I bought 4 tickets. Two for my parents and then one for myself and one for someone I was planning on inviting. A guy I was interested in and I thought was interested in me but have come to conclude this not to be the case. Which is fine as there are some conflicting issues here anyways and though I thought not to judge it is easier this way. So thus, I needed to find someone who would be interested in going. Now this usually would not be a hard task, but most of my friends happen to already be going, or like my roommates are going along this evening. I happened to be online when Travis was on and we started talking and he was wanting to hang out I told him I would love to hang out and asked him to be my date for the evening. I have known Travis for several years, though he seems to have a habit of disappearing on me. Which is fine because he had things he needed to deal with and getting his life in order. I am hoping this will not continue to be the case as we have allot in common and seem to have a connection. He mentioned that he thought we should date and that we should be boyfriends. This is something I am very much looking forward to exploring. So at 5pm I went and picked Travis up and brought him back to the house were we had ordered Pizza and we all sat down and ate pizza and then got ready to go. Now mind you I am very close to my parents and they are very accepting of me I am still a bit reserved when it comes to showing affection for someone else in public let alone my parents. Something I need to work on as Travis is very much a touchy feely affectionate person. Which I like allot, just not something I am use to. We held hands throughout the show which was nice. Then we came back to the house and ate some more pizza and then I took Travis back to his house to grab his computer and a change of clothes and brought him back and we played computer games for awhile and then went to sleep. I work up to my roommate knocking on my door and finding out someone had tried to break into her car during the night. Though it seems that they were interupted as there was a tool box sitting by the side of her car. she has a Toyota Rav that has a plastic rear, so they had opened up the car through the plastic windows and then rummaged through her stuff, but not taking anything. CD's, Stereo, Money was sitting on the seat and not taken. They also left a cell phone in the passenger side seat. Very strange. I ended up going back to sleep with Travis for a bit, and then we went downstairs and my mother made us breakfast. We chatted for a bit, and then I took Travis home and went to get my sunglasses from the eye place. On the way there I got into a car accident. We were stopped at a light and turning left on a one way street. The truck in front of me waited for the pedestrian to completely cross the crosswalk and the crosswalk started flashing red and he started to go forward when another pedestrian ran right in front of him. The sun was beating right towards us and I ended up rear ending him. There was no damage to the truck in front on me and the guy was super nice. The pedestrian who ran out in front came over to us and apologized. The lucky thing no one was hurt and the insurance will not be notified. I will get a new bumper and have it installed. After getting my glasses we headed home and I stopped at a coffee place to get some caffeine and calm my nerves then we headed home and once Brian was home we then headed South to IKEA. I found a entertainment stand that I want to get and I purchased a wine rack. We then headed to my ex's house where were to have dinner. Edwards parents and his boyfriend Justin made us dinner. I was with Edward for three years and am still very close to him and my parents are friends with Edwards parents. It was good times. Now we are to Thursday. My parents left at 9am this morning returning to Kansas. I always hate saying goodbye, and my mother started crying, so it was quite emotional.
Now I have been doing laundry that has been long over do. Cleaning my bed sheets and my parents. Picking up the house has been todays job. I am going to call Travis here in a few as he is now off work and taking a nap. I know this is long winded and one of these days I will learn how to do the LJ cut.
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| answers and how you get them..... |
[02 Sep 2003|02:49am] |
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I sit here at 2am in the morning and write this as many things are going through my head. More for myself than anything else, but maybe the answers are found in the most unlikely of places. I rarely write here, but read a great deal. It is nice to sometimes hear what is going on with other people, and even better to hear about real lives of other people. Most of you are my friends and some are acquaintances of others of whom I am friends with. Here is how the story goes..............
I am pondering my life at this moment and some conversations I had with a friend as I walked up to the top of Mount Si this past afternoon. It was absolutely beautiful at the top. Looking down into the sound and seeing Seattle so small, the place I call home. I do not really know what the future brings or what will even happen tomorrow. I am not sure I would even wish to know this. One thing I know is I regret nothing that life has passed me. Sure I could have done things differently, and there may have been better way of handling certain circumstances. This I do not doubt. I have baggage just as anyone else may. This was mentioned in the walk to the top of Mt. Si. I have the baggage and honestly some of it I have not dealt with, it is in the back some where covered with dust and waiting for the time I am ready to deal with it. Did I mention I tend to bottle things up. And yes I know this is not the best way to handle things, but no matter how I try it none the less is the way I have my file system regulated. I rarely ever get pissed or angry with anyone. I can be quite emotional though and just about anything can get to me. My baggage though is my baggage and I set it for myself and a few people I feel I can give me advise and allow me to vent or cry or wander sentence after sentence.
I look at my life at this moment and I am happy. I have what I need and do most things I want. There are things I need to do like go back to school and find another job that I am happy with. These are things on my list that I need to work at. Then there is want. For everything that any one person can want, I am happy with what I have. I have a great house I live in, and I have 2 cars that are in decent shape. I have two wonderful roommates that are the rock behind my back. So what is missing? Well the one want, a boyfriend. Do not get me wrong, I want a boyfriend this is true, but I am far from settling for just a boyfriend, but I still want none the less. Sometimes I do wonder if this want gets too great will I settle for something less than I deserve. Mind you I am not trying to say anyone is less than deserving or anything associated with this thought other than it needs to be right. I absolutely hate dating. I hate the unknown, I hate the fact that I am so shy and introverted sometimes. Why am I this way. I am certainly not this way in a relationship. Mind you I have three the shortest being a year and a half. It is this whole get to you know you phase and trying to read the other person to what they are thinking and feeling. Why all the bull crap, Why can it not be easier, and why do I not have the guts to say hey what do you think of me, what do you want and where is this going? Why does everything have to change just because I like some guy and then my tongue gets twisted and my balls shrivel up to the point of wondering am I a man or what? This has happened with more than one person, and currently now when I come home at 2am.
to Quote someone " Especially at the end of the night, when I wasn't sure if I should drive home or stay there, sometimes it is hard to know what another person is thinking, I wish more people lead their lives and emotions a little more openly like I do, lol.
Do tell....I find myself in this same situation with this same person.....
Confuses does, confusion thus I am.
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[19 Aug 2003|05:24pm] |
! You are most like An Emerald !
Caring, giving, - and very emotional. You're the
person
people turn to with a problem. You worry about
everybody,
and genuinely want to help - a little too much
sometimes.
As an emerald, you tend to take a more backseat to
the other
gems, but your inner beauty soon captivates those
who take
the time to get to know you.
Congratulations ... You're the selfless gem
everybody needs as a friend.
?? Which Precious Gem Are You ??
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[01 Aug 2003|08:17pm] |
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Okay so I have a dilemma.... I have more things to do this weekend that I have time for. So not it comes to deciding what I want to do, what I should do and what will be done.
1. Date with Travis on Sunday
2. Hang out with Paul on Saturday
3. Go to LongBeach with Nick and Joel
4. Go to Vancouver with my roommate after work Saturday
1. Travis I do not seem to be able to connect with. I was suppose to hang out with him on Wednesday but something came up and he could not. I spoke to him a little that night. Thursday and Today I have not been able to reach him by phone, e-mail or chat. So ponders if he is going to be around or not Sunday. I thought about inviting him to go to Vancouver, but I can not do that if I can not get ahold of him. *frustrated*
2. Paul well, I really do not know Paul, I hung out with him once before with Nick and then he messaged me online. The question is since he dated a friend and they broke up what does that mean?
3. Well the Nick and Joel situation may just prove to be too much for me not to mention they have not set place they are going. Cell phones will doubtfully work out there. So this would be interesting to find them. Brian suggested we go up on Monday, so we will see. I just pondering my comfort level here.
4. Vancouver, well it is Pride weekend up there, it would so rock, which would be another reason to invite Travis there, because he is under 21 and being Pride. Plus Brian Davis, Seth, and some others will be up there. This would be leave after work Saturday and come back Sunday evening.
What do Ya'll think?
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[30 Jul 2003|11:27pm] |
You should be dating a Libra.
23 September - 22 October
This mate is artistic, refined, loving and
romantic. Though the balance of Libra can
display manipulative, overbearing and indolent
traits, this mate is sure to be a passionate
addition to your bed.
What Zodiac Sign Are You Attracted To?
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| FIRE!! |
[30 Jul 2003|03:06pm] |
So today has been interesting. I was working on something this morning when someone came up to me and said hey don't you have a Miata, I was like yes I do and why. They were like well if yours is in the back the car next to you is on fire. I was pretty much like ya right, whatever then my supervisor tells me to end the call that I am on and go out and take care of it. At this point I realize it was pretty serious. So, I go out back and There is a big Fire Truck blocking my way so I could not even move my car if I wanted and my car is covered with this white crap. This is of course freaking me out the top of my car is down. I tried to go up but they would let us go up in case the care exploded or something. Finally an hour later I get to go up to the car and the security team tells me I need to go wash my car so that it does not ruin the paint. Luckily hardly anything got inside. So I took the car to a car wash and washed it down then went to Freddy's and got some wipes to clean the inside. So it is all happy now other than needing to be vacuumed. So next issue, I go to put the wipes in the trunk when I return to work and guess what yes my keys are with them and they are locked in my car. This is so not a car day for me. :( So, my roomie is taking the bus up here with the extra key. So life is good in this sense.
On other notes I am suppose to hang out with Travis tonight. :)
Well I am going to rummage for food now.
HASTA
Chris
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| update.. |
[29 Jul 2003|03:13pm] |
So, I have not updated this in awhile so I figured I would write a quick note here on my lunch. The new house rocks. A few things are still left to complete but for the most part everything is awesome. I still need to get the hottub up and running and do some Yard work. I just have been to busy to anything as of late with this.
This past weekend was a pretty good weekend. I had a semi date which was interesting and that went well. I met him around 2pm and we hung out for awhile and then I tried to get a haircut but did not feel like waiting 45 min, so went home. Then I picked Travis up and had a real date. We went out to dinner and then went back to my place and watched a movie. When I went to take him home as he had to be up early for work I found I left the Miata lights on in the garage. What fun that was, but that was quickly resolved with a jump.
Well lunch is over and I must get back to work.....
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[27 Jun 2003|02:29pm] |
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So today my roommate took my Jeep to the mechanic to get some stuff fixed on it. I got a clal about 10:05 telling me the bad news. $1100 in bad news to be exact. Apparently the right side break pad exploded and I have been driving with just the rear breaks and the left side. So thus the rotor has been eatten into which means the front needs awhole new overhaul. New rotors, calipers, and break pads. The battery was also bad and needs to be replaced and new connection pieces. This was known and I was expecting this. So the Battery and breaks are costing me a fortune. Now the even better news. My Jeep is of course 4X4, well apparently the front boots for the assembly for the 4x4 are busted open and need to replaced, which consists of new boots and axils. This will run me another $800. Apparently there are some other little stuff, but I will have to go into that once I have th ability to have them show me. So thus this has been a very spendy day. :(
I swear though if it is not one thing it is another. Yesterday being an awesome day. I went to court for speeding ticket and it was dispissed which saved me $233, now I have the breaks to deal with 5 fold.
The Dinner part went quite well. I was very happy with it. Jason cooked, and did a great job. Thanks goes out to Jason for all his hard work on this. Most people stayed till almost 1am. It was good times.
Well back to work I go.
Chris
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| Moved |
[19 Jun 2003|05:33pm] |
So we are all moved now. Though we still need to go back to the other place and clean it up and do the walk through by the end of the month, but I am not stressing over that. The house is really coming along well. I am quite happy with it. I have some pictures of it prior to moving in, will take some other here as well once it is set up. I also ordered a new sofa and it is in and they will be delivering it this Saturday, so this is quite exciting. I did some finishing touches on a few things and hung the last of the pictures last night. The Jeep also fits in the garage so I was excited about that as I thought it would be too big for the Garage.
I really appreciate everyone who helped with the move, it went very smooth and we were done earlier than expected. Thanks Justin and Jason as I believe they are the only ones who read this that helped.
The kitchen is a dream kitchen, I am so happy with it, not to mention having a real dining room table.
For those interested in seeing the before move in pictures here it is:
http://www.mspin.net/~cyoungm/Youngman.htm and as soon as I take more they will be there as well.
Coming home has been much faster as well as going to work. I am saving about 15 min each way which is making Christopher a happy camper. Yesterday as I was going home, Pete was next to me though I did not notice till I was almost ready topull in the driveway to the house. *waves to Pete*
Okay back to work for another hour and then home bound I be.
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[10 Jun 2003|11:16pm] |
So tonight after work I drove to the new house, I was in the mood for some gardening. The house mind you for the previous year has been rented by three grad students from the University of Washington and three people who were not much into gardening, so thus the backyard as gone a bit astray. This is all fine and dandy to me as I like to garden and can sculpt into what I want. The landlords mentioned they would love to have someone take care of it as they can only do so much living in Yakima and getting over here ever so often. They provided me with everything I would need as well. Shovel's, rakes, weed eater, lawnmower, plant food, clippers and much much more. The living room has a huge picture window and there is a bush in the front that needed some trimming so I started on this first. I wanted to be able to see out of it but not let everyone see my who life story from the living room. Then I went to the back yard and looked at it was like oye ve!! (how ever you may spell that) The back yard has much potential, but has a lot of everything. Has a couple Japanese Maples, has a apple tree, has a rose bush, azaleas, grapes and much much more. Started on the back yard before it got dark then raked up what I had done and put all the tool away. YAY for gardening. I also called the landlord and was like so anything you do not want me to do, and she was like well make sure the main stuff stays otherwise she did not card. I was like well I want to get all the underbrush out of there open up the Japanese maples and get rid of allot of the crap so there is more yard. She was like oh I am so glad your doing this and I wish I was there to help. She is so sweet. My roommate watched me as I did all this and then went and got us food which we ate in the dining room on the dining room table that is the landlords that is staying. So nice to have a big table that sits six.
Okay off to bed I go....
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