awake and alive

Unfortunately I was sick all weekend.  I went to class today, but it was definitely too early to do so.  I felt miserable.

I don’t like being sick.   In fact, I hate being sick so much that I hate it when people don’t use proper sick etiquette.  Your mom always told you to cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough.  Well, your mom was half right.  Cough or sneeze into your sleeve (I find the elbow pit the best).  Unless you happen to have antibacterial junk that you use immediately after, you are spreading your stupid sicky germs everywhere!!!!  Also, if you don’t have a tissue and you have to snuff it up every two seconds, please try and make it quiet, especially if you’re in smallish class.  I hear you everytime, and it annoys me beyond what you can imagine (besides the fact that it gives me a headache/urge to vomit as a result of my forced imagination of the movement of your fluids).  In general, if your sick and you are out in public, be courteous, for the love of God please be courteous.

Also, while I’m ranting I figured I would get a few other things off my chest…  If you’re about to turn, it does not do anyone any good if you use your turn signal after you are in the turn lane or a split second before you actually turn.  If you just so happen to be kind enough to turn it on altogether, please do it before you brake, that way I can get out of your lane or at least be warned that you may be stopping soon.  Lastly, tailgating is a necessary evil, when used properly.  Tailgating is a means of communicating with the person in front of you that you would like to go faster and they are in your way (either you want to go faster than the speed limit, or the person in front of you does not care enough about driving to know the current speed limit).  If the person in front of you cannot possibly go faster (like they are behind a stupid slowey), back the heck off.  Your intimate automobilic presence does not make me feel all warm and fuzzy, rather it makes me feel hot and angry (to one degree or another).  Please, do everyone a favor and just be patient, almost everyone wants to go faster, so don’t be a jerk.

Rants aside, I have a plethora of pictures I posted earlier that need to be linked in…

• Ignite
• House on fire on my street (no actual flame pictures, sorry)
• Hanging at the Mason’s
• Kristie and Eric go to Chicago

my tummy does not feel very good

So, at the request of Mr. Godin, I decided to google myself.

Luckily this blog made spot #8, unluckily was spot #2. You’ll have to see for yourself.

Well, I suppose this is the door frame, but still.

You can check out the rest of the pics if it meets your fancy.

How about something cheery…

I bought my dog a harness and a toy sled today. I took him to the park while he pulled the sled with a cinder block on it. Good times…

I had to break into my house on New Year’s Eve. Kristie and I went to get a movie and she didn’t bring her keys. We got back and realized that since I gave my house key to my parents while we were at ignite, it was still inside on the coffee table. Luckily I’ve gained plenty of weight since we got married which allowed me to bash my back door in. It did some decent damage to the frame, nothing I couldn’t fix without too much work. Unfortunately it broke the screws out of the door itself, rendering the door handle permanently unusable. (I’ll post some pictures of the damage later)

Classes start again on Monday. This semester should be a piece of cake compared to last semester.

So I’m going to try and do things differently this semester (like actually get all 4.0’s). I’m going to try and spend more time with my smokin’ hot, undeniably beautiful, wife. I’m going to attempt to spend more time with friends (maybe some more food/hangout nights at the Price’s). I’m sure there’s more that I’m not thinking of right now, but we’ll see…

I don’t really talk about politics.  I don’t really know anything about anyone who is trying to be president/governor/senator.  I know that many people would argue me to death with what I’m about to say, but I don’t see any point in voting or putting in any effort into the political system.

All those people can win you over with their speeches and debates, but I bet if you tallied up all the unkept promises for every politician that made it into their office, it would be a nice big list.  We’re capitalists, it all comes down to the almighty dollar.  Most people are going to listen to those that are paying them, it’s how most jobs work.  So, if you have enough money, you get to make the rules.  Sure, I can vote Mr(s) so and so into office, but how likely is it that I know about this person because some company paid top dollar to their campaign?

It sounds pessimistic, yes.  What can anyone do about our state of affairs without dedicating their whole life to it? (and if they do dedicate their life, they better be putting food on the table still….)

Useless, waste of time.

Maybe you will to?

More real updates to come…