If you’re listening, sing it back…

Today was fun. I’m very tired though, stupid mono. :[ This morning, I went to lunch & shopping at Southpark with Jer. Let me reiterate that I don’t like Panera. The first time I ate there, I got a chicken sandwich. Who serves grilled chicken cold? I specifically asked the cashier if the chicken was hot on the sandwich she suggested and she said yes. I get it, and after taking off the bacon and tomato, take a bite and realize that the chicken is cold. It’s spicy hot, not temperature hot. I can’t win.

Then we go to H&M where I buy one shirt (which later turns out to be too small, his fault) and a pair of $6 sunglasses that I don’t think I like anymore. He bought like three shirts and three pairs of pants. $17 vs $112. I didn’t buy anything in any other stores, and I don’t think he did either. We went home and watched Shawn of the Dead until he had to leave for work.

I went online to Lynda.com and started watching PHP Object-Oriented Programming videos again. I think I finally understand its usefulness. I hope. There’s a ton of videos and I’m still on the basics, though. T_T

I went to see Transformers 2 (again) with Angela. I love that movie! Unfortunately I got tired and sorta wanted to leave, so the ending wasn’t as good. I also realized that it looked a bit too animated at parts. I guess you can’t make the entire thing perfect. After the movie was more fun. I got a hot chocolate and we went out to sit in her truck. She said that her dad had been using her radio (she doesn’t; she always has CDs) so we programmed the radio stations to static. FM1 & FM2 are exactly the same, also. Once my hot chocolate was gone, I set my trucks alarm off so we could find it and drop me off. I jokingly said ‘race ya home?’ so she jumped in her truck and took off ahead of me. I figured that I’d go up granger hill and take 480 home, the freeway always seems faster. Before I even got off of Canal Rd, I realized that I had left my phone in her truck. I don’t know why but I felt like I needed it badly, and having just seen Transformers, I wanted to drive like I was on a mission. Maybe its a guy thing. In either case, 4 minutes and several risky driving maneuvers later, I caught up to her. There was a car in front and behind her, and we’re on a 2 lane double yellow line road. I moved into the oncoming traffic lane and flashed my lights like five times. I guess she saw, because she pulled over at the next side street. She told me that she called my mom (thanks Angela ) and also called me, not being her most intelligent move. At any rate, I have my phone back.

She got out of town, on a railway New York bound. Took all except my name – another alien on Broadway.

I forgot to update! Well, not as much forgot as was too tired to. Thursday night Angela came over and we made a video for my *new* and soon-to-be-updated website.  I don’t think I’m keeping that copy, but we’ll be making more soon.  So I got 4 hours of sleep that night.  Friday was okay, work was bad.  I’m not supposed to rough house or get bounced around or anything cause of the mono.  The half wit driving the cushman (with two of us in the back) puts the throttle all the way up (we’re not supposed to touch it – it’s usually at a little less than halfway) and floors it all over the park.  Not slowing down for the enormous bumps, dips, and through the grass.  I eventually (of course, all the way at the front of the park) said I’d walk back because I saw some things to weed whip as we drove.  Yes, I was weed whipping again.  Oh, I almost forgot: I got stung by a bee that morning, too while weed whipping.  Not fun.  It’s itchy and is a big bump now.  So I went to bed early Friday night cause I was tired.

Today was fun at Jenn’s grad party, I got closer to a few people and met a few cool people also.  The most memorable, probably, was the devil child/spawn of satan/satan himself.  We made many names for him as the night progressed.  Before I arrived, he had gotten Jenn, Nicole, and Sam with water balloons.  Now, some people wanted to play an egg toss.  All four of us backed off and said that we didn’t want to play.  As this kid and some adults insisted, he somehow gets an egg and whips it at Jenn’s back.  Although he was maybe 10, he threw it hard, she had a red spot.  Not to mention, it splashed onto my pants (crotch, of course) and camera.  I was ready to kick that kid’s head in but I instead went inside to wash off.  He said, “Sorry about the egg” while I was washing my Nikon off and I replied, “Yeah.”  I wasn’t going to say that it was okay or anything; I was furious.  Then later (10 ish) I went to Jon’s party.  Not many people left there, but some of my closer friends, we had a circle chat (usually a few different discussions at once).  It was a good day overall.
I’m very tired right now.  I found out that you can win a 2010 Camaro with the Dr. Pepper codes in the caps, so I’m playing like crazy!  Oh, and my laptop is in Cleveland! It’s in the sorting center or whathaveyou.  Apparently I won’t have it until Tuesday, but that doesn’t make any sense.  And to top it off, I’m not working on monday!  It’d be so nice to have it then.

I should probably get some sleep.

Things Learned:
4. Leaf blowers are no exception to the starting rule (See TL #1)
5. Don’t wait to take a picture, you’ll miss it.  He who hesitates is lost.

Why won’t you go away?

I woke up and felt like death this morning. Did I mention that I’ve been sick for over a month? There’s good and bad days. This morning was bad, but today as a whole was okay. I weed whipped the inside and outside of four baseball diamonds’ fences. It took an hour each. Two and a half tanks of gas, two sets of blades, several dead bees, one gash on my arm, and four hours total. I was tired. And mildly insane by the end. Lunch never tasted so good.

I felt pretty good once I got home and Jer had invited me out to eat, so I met him at Outback. We had a fun evening, despite my random and sudden sleepiness.

I have butterscotch candies, I’m very happy.

Also, I’ve decided to start another part on my blog. I was considering making it an entirely new blog, but i can just attach it to this one. It’s sort of a humorous thing, hopefully I’m not just losing it. I call it ‘things learned,’ basically just a listing of things that one should know yet I manage to learn throughout the day. Here’s today’s:

Things Learned:
1. Weed whips will not start no matter how hard you pull the starter string if the switch is in the ‘off’ position.
2. Bees get mad if you kill another bee close by.
3. Rocks + Weed Whip = Pain.

You said you’d help me disappear

I (once again) cleared out my blog and am starting fresh. This time, I just marked them private and didn’t delete them all! So, I have mono and a co-infection (sinus infection, as far as I know) and I feel like death. My throat hurts to do anything, I’m tired, have random body aches, and don’t want to do anything. I’m supposed to rest and take it easy, so I go to work.

Today at work, I was on a riding mower which eventually broke. I started the blades and it was really loud – sounded like a metro ‘copter and was just about as loud as one; earphones didn’t help much. I went back to the garage to ask if it was okay, and after listening to it, the full-timers decided it was good to go. Despite the noise, it cut okay. I was out cutting a giant field with two other kids when all of a sudden it got sort of quiet. I figured it was either really good or really bad. Looking behind me, I saw that not much was cut. I looked inside and a metal spring had snapped. Once I took it back, a guy asked me if I knew how to drive with a trailer so I could take it to get fixed. My dad had taught me on Sunday, but I never went out in traffic, which I told him. He said, ‘maybe we’ll let you get some more experience first.’ I later texted my dad about how funny my luck was, to which he replied with, ‘You only live once. Take a chance and be careful.’ FML! I would have done it if I knew he would have said that. It was about 3 hours after I almost drove it, so the chance was long gone. Maybe I’ll ask if I can tomorrow.

I ordered an Apple MacBook Pro 17.” I’m excited! Although not a fan of Apple, it’s going to be nice to have a laptop again.

I’ve been watching the history channel like crazy lately; I’ve seen almost every show twice this week.

It’s good to be back!