home is... lots of little phrases tell us what home is where- the heart is, you lay your head, happy memories grow...
but here are my new ones.
home is where you know where the light switches are. and what they all do.
home is where you can wake up in the middle of the night and go get a drink without having to turn on any lights cause you know where everything is.
home is knowing home many steps there are down the stairs, and that the last one is taller than the rest so you don't trip on it.
last week i burned my arm on a pizza oven, the burn is like 6 inches long. at first it wasn't that bad. bumped the pizza oven "that was hot" i thought to myself. didn't really think to much about it. then it kept hurting more and more and the burn started to slowly show up. still it wasn't that bad, til i tripped walking up the stairs and my arm rubbed against the wall and all the freshly burnt skin got pealed off. then it really started to hurt. now its mostly better. here's hoping it turns into a sweet scar. chicks dig scars.
i've been sick for about 3 weeks now. first a sore throat thing going on. that was about to be better then i started getting a cold. now i have all the symptoms on the bottle of "severe cold" medicine. so sick i went to bed before nine last night. still sick today but ultimate frisbee is tonight so hopefully that will help... isn't the phrase "starve a fever, run the crap out of a cold."
and once i am better i won't get sick for the rest of the year. get sick once a year. thats how i roll. for at least 5 years now.
update:
pedometer count from about 10 this morning when i woke up until 10 this evening when frisbee started. 4064
pedometer count from 10 this evening until 11 when frisbee was over 5944.
over half my steps for the day in one hour.
growing, gaming, groaning
well it was my birthday a little while ago. 22. the first birthday after all the milestones have really passed. i guess maybe you could count my golden birthday, but that doesn't really count. and its still a long way off. its weird. no more big things to count down to. don't have to wait to be able to drive, to be able to vote, to be able to buy handgun ammo.
spent my birthday in wisconsin at visiting my friend who is youth pastoring. they had a lock in. it was quite fun. food. confetti. zombies. diaper wars. what more could someone ask for. a girl there found out it was my birthday and asked how old i was. i made her guess.
"28" she answered after thinking about it for a bit.
"really?" i said in a surprised confused kind of voice, not expecting that as a guess.
"oh... um... ok... how about.... 26"
"sure thats close enough"
last friday was the district tournament for call of duty. won again. wasn't really expecting to. but now i make my way to st cloud on friday for the regional tournament. i guess its both the dakotas, mn and part of wi, at least. hopefully i can win that too. get a trip to san diego.
the district match for me was at the same store as the local. nice. when i got there the manager (who saw me at the last tournament back in november and again when i bought a microphone) told me "i got twenty bucks on you. you had better win." that was a bit of a confidence booster, he would bet against all the other store champions he hasn't seen with me.
the was a guy in the tournament who knew some of the people in the store because he buys lots of games. he told me at the end of the night that during my first round he and the manager we behind me watching and the manager was giving him all kinds of tips from what i did. " see what he did there... when you get to the ambush, grenade, grenade, grenade, shoot, stab, stab, stab"
dear everyone, ever-
hang up your stinking phone. all you have to say is "i'll call you back in five minutes" if the phone call is so important that you can't well maybe you shouldn't be getting coffee during such an important phone call. don't get all upset with me when i have to interrupt to ask if that's all you want, then again when i ask if its to-go, then again when i ask if you want whipped cream. its not my fault your on the phone.
dear (specific) guys that have meetings here-
why do you come here to have a meeting? you all work in the same office. at first i thought you worked at different branchs or something but i heard you say "well see you back at the office" as you were leaving the other day. coming in for coffee once in a while and talking work i don't mind, but today is the first day i ahve worked this year that you have not been in. and thats only because i switched to the morning shift and you normally come in wednesday afternoons. and why do you have to talk so loud? my friend who comes and visits knows you as the loud talkers. i really wish i was interested in the work things you talk about because no matter how many other people are in here you can always be heard. please, use your inside voices.
dear people that come in everyday and still don't know what they want-
really... really... you don't know that you are going to get a white chocolate mocha? cause i know that. its what you always get. i'm not sure why you to wait at the counter for 10 minutes holding everyone up. you're not going to get anything different. you never do. you like the mocha so you stick with it. nothing wrong with that just order it already
spent my birthday in wisconsin at visiting my friend who is youth pastoring. they had a lock in. it was quite fun. food. confetti. zombies. diaper wars. what more could someone ask for. a girl there found out it was my birthday and asked how old i was. i made her guess.
"28" she answered after thinking about it for a bit.
"really?" i said in a surprised confused kind of voice, not expecting that as a guess.
"oh... um... ok... how about.... 26"
"sure thats close enough"
last friday was the district tournament for call of duty. won again. wasn't really expecting to. but now i make my way to st cloud on friday for the regional tournament. i guess its both the dakotas, mn and part of wi, at least. hopefully i can win that too. get a trip to san diego.
the district match for me was at the same store as the local. nice. when i got there the manager (who saw me at the last tournament back in november and again when i bought a microphone) told me "i got twenty bucks on you. you had better win." that was a bit of a confidence booster, he would bet against all the other store champions he hasn't seen with me.
the was a guy in the tournament who knew some of the people in the store because he buys lots of games. he told me at the end of the night that during my first round he and the manager we behind me watching and the manager was giving him all kinds of tips from what i did. " see what he did there... when you get to the ambush, grenade, grenade, grenade, shoot, stab, stab, stab"
dear everyone, ever-
hang up your stinking phone. all you have to say is "i'll call you back in five minutes" if the phone call is so important that you can't well maybe you shouldn't be getting coffee during such an important phone call. don't get all upset with me when i have to interrupt to ask if that's all you want, then again when i ask if its to-go, then again when i ask if you want whipped cream. its not my fault your on the phone.
dear (specific) guys that have meetings here-
why do you come here to have a meeting? you all work in the same office. at first i thought you worked at different branchs or something but i heard you say "well see you back at the office" as you were leaving the other day. coming in for coffee once in a while and talking work i don't mind, but today is the first day i ahve worked this year that you have not been in. and thats only because i switched to the morning shift and you normally come in wednesday afternoons. and why do you have to talk so loud? my friend who comes and visits knows you as the loud talkers. i really wish i was interested in the work things you talk about because no matter how many other people are in here you can always be heard. please, use your inside voices.
dear people that come in everyday and still don't know what they want-
really... really... you don't know that you are going to get a white chocolate mocha? cause i know that. its what you always get. i'm not sure why you to wait at the counter for 10 minutes holding everyone up. you're not going to get anything different. you never do. you like the mocha so you stick with it. nothing wrong with that just order it already
Frosty, freezing, fast
Well its christmas time. and i have been listening to christmas music on the radio while driving places the past few weeks. i read a blog titled "To Every Man a Manswer" written by Dr. Awesome. men write in with questions about manliness to Dr. Awesome and he answers them. someone recently asked him what the manliest christmas carol is. here is his respose you should read it. you'll like it. even if you aren't a man.
Last week i was in my first blizzard in a while. i miss them. i can say for sure that i wasn't in any blizzards last year. i know because everytime it snowed last year i was out shoveling it (sometimes as it was still coming down) and i didn't even own a jacket. if you can survive outside without a jacket then there is no way its a blizzard. I'm hoping for some more blizzards this year. they are fun. can't beat blizzarding
my roommates got rock band 2 this week. i am no where near the greatest at it. i just switched from hard from medium the other day. (which is a much bigger diffuculty jump than eay to medium) but sometimes the strangest thing happens when we get the the toughest part of the song, the part where everyone is in a perrty good frenzy because of how quickly the notes are coming at them. well a few times in this spot i have had to focus so much on the strumming, keeping the tempo super quick, takes the rests right, counting how many notes are wizzing past, etc that i have completely forgot about hitting the buttons with my left hand. but somehow my left had would keep pushing the right buttons at the right time.
not sure how it did it. i swear someone else must have been controlling.
maybe i am just better at rock band subconsciously than i am consciously?
Last week i was in my first blizzard in a while. i miss them. i can say for sure that i wasn't in any blizzards last year. i know because everytime it snowed last year i was out shoveling it (sometimes as it was still coming down) and i didn't even own a jacket. if you can survive outside without a jacket then there is no way its a blizzard. I'm hoping for some more blizzards this year. they are fun. can't beat blizzarding
my roommates got rock band 2 this week. i am no where near the greatest at it. i just switched from hard from medium the other day. (which is a much bigger diffuculty jump than eay to medium) but sometimes the strangest thing happens when we get the the toughest part of the song, the part where everyone is in a perrty good frenzy because of how quickly the notes are coming at them. well a few times in this spot i have had to focus so much on the strumming, keeping the tempo super quick, takes the rests right, counting how many notes are wizzing past, etc that i have completely forgot about hitting the buttons with my left hand. but somehow my left had would keep pushing the right buttons at the right time.
not sure how it did it. i swear someone else must have been controlling.
maybe i am just better at rock band subconsciously than i am consciously?
e-vites, endings, and every stinkin year
a while ago was the two hour special 24 event. kind of a build up to the season. a story that happens between seasons 6 and 7. i made a facebook event about it and invited some people. it wasn't really a party, just watching tv. i invited all the guys in my house (they are always invited to watch tv with me) and a few other people that had watched 24 with us in the past. nothing serious just a "hey wanna watch 24?" kinda thing. well on facebook the event had 5 confirmed guests. me, three of my roommates, and some guy named "Lucho Espitia Useche"
he is not my friend,
in real life or facebook.
he is from columbia.
he isn't even friends with any of my friends.
from what i could tell all his friends are from columbia too.
number of friends i have in columbia: 0*
i was kind of hoping he would show up for the party but he didn't. it would have made a better story i think if he did. maybe next time i have a 24 party i will invite him. see what happens.
i drove home from my parents house on thanksgiving night, i had to work the next morning. it was that night that i realized that going to bed is one of the best things to do when you finish driving. its so nice. park the car. grab your stuff. lay down and go to bed. it ties with playing ultimate frisbee for my favorite thing to do at the end of a drive. twice this summer i came back to the cities (once from north dakota, once from south daktoa) and within 30 seconds of parking my car was playing ultimate.
not quite sure what this means. does that mean sleeping and ultimate are really similar? cause that doesn't make sense... or does it?
... nah, it doesn't
what is it with people this time of year. its like the 3 months we have without snow people completely forget what it is and how to drive on it. there are two types. type 1 must not even realize that there is such a thing as snow and keeps driving half a billion miles an hour even though you can see him sliding and slipping all over the place. type 2 sees the snow and realizes it is slippery and apparently believes there is nothing in the world more dangerous than going over one mile per hour on the snow. the other day i was on lexington (45 mph zone) pulled up behind someone at a stoplight. when it turned green the person in front of me started going (barely) and so i let my foot off the brake. i saw they were giong slow so i didn't put my foot on the gas. just let my car go the 5 mph or what ever it goes all on its own. but no... thats too fast. had to use the break again.... really. really... you have to go that slow... ugh
this time of year it seems everyone else on the road is a horrible driver. but come spring time once we have been driving on snow for about 10 months they won't be.
ok yeah most of them will still be horrible drivers. just better at snow.
*i have nothing against people in/from columbia. i just don't have any friends from there. if you are from there and want to be my friend thats fine with me.
he is not my friend,
in real life or facebook.
he is from columbia.
he isn't even friends with any of my friends.
from what i could tell all his friends are from columbia too.
number of friends i have in columbia: 0*
i was kind of hoping he would show up for the party but he didn't. it would have made a better story i think if he did. maybe next time i have a 24 party i will invite him. see what happens.
i drove home from my parents house on thanksgiving night, i had to work the next morning. it was that night that i realized that going to bed is one of the best things to do when you finish driving. its so nice. park the car. grab your stuff. lay down and go to bed. it ties with playing ultimate frisbee for my favorite thing to do at the end of a drive. twice this summer i came back to the cities (once from north dakota, once from south daktoa) and within 30 seconds of parking my car was playing ultimate.
not quite sure what this means. does that mean sleeping and ultimate are really similar? cause that doesn't make sense... or does it?
... nah, it doesn't
what is it with people this time of year. its like the 3 months we have without snow people completely forget what it is and how to drive on it. there are two types. type 1 must not even realize that there is such a thing as snow and keeps driving half a billion miles an hour even though you can see him sliding and slipping all over the place. type 2 sees the snow and realizes it is slippery and apparently believes there is nothing in the world more dangerous than going over one mile per hour on the snow. the other day i was on lexington (45 mph zone) pulled up behind someone at a stoplight. when it turned green the person in front of me started going (barely) and so i let my foot off the brake. i saw they were giong slow so i didn't put my foot on the gas. just let my car go the 5 mph or what ever it goes all on its own. but no... thats too fast. had to use the break again.... really. really... you have to go that slow... ugh
this time of year it seems everyone else on the road is a horrible driver. but come spring time once we have been driving on snow for about 10 months they won't be.
ok yeah most of them will still be horrible drivers. just better at snow.
*i have nothing against people in/from columbia. i just don't have any friends from there. if you are from there and want to be my friend thats fine with me.
decaf, decluttering, duty
when i am sitting at the coffee shop i wonder what would happen if i gave people who wanted decaf regular coffee and people that wanted regular decaf. sometimes i am really tempted to do it. i picture the person who wanted regular falling asleep at work wondering "how can i be this tired? i've had so much coffee" and i picture the person who normally has decaf but gets regular buzzing on a caffeine high. i picture it being something like the time i gave hannah a vault.
then i remember that decaf actually can have up to 40% of the caffeine that normal coffee has. that makes the switch seem like less fun.
earlier this year when i was helping my parents move i got two big rubbermaid tubs of my clothes that were at home. i figured there was no reason for me to move them from the parents old house to the new house. i might as well take them. after i got them i didn't have to do laundry for so long because i had so many clean clothes. then i just had a whole bunch of laundry to do at once later... oops.
this week i finally went through the rest of the clothes that were still in the rubbermaids. and a bunch of my other clothes and gave a bunch to goodwill, ones that didn't fit or things that i had multiples of.
i am wondering how many t-shirts i need. i don't want to get rid of to many. t-shirts are memories, old camp shirts, shirts from high school, youth group shirts, etc. but at the same time i think it would be fun to do this
someone did a huge survey of what color you associate with each day of the week and made a shirt of that color for that day.
would i need more than a shirt a day?
last tuesday call of duty 5:world at war came out. i think it is the first game i have ever bought on the day it came out. when i was buying it on tuesday i saw a poster at the store saying there was a tournament on friday night. i entered not really thinking i would do that well but that it would be fun to try. friday night came and it was actually kind of intense. every round i started out behind and coming back to take the lead. the story doesn't sound as intense even telling it in person so i won't even try to relate how fast it made my heart race towards the end but i ended up winning the store tournament. i won a shirt (i actually got three shirts) and i advance to the next round. if i win the next round, and the next round then round 4 is in san diego onboard the USS Midway and the winner gets $2500. i don't really think that would be me but it sure would be sweet if it were.
thomas banley- you should get COD5 so we can play online. so should anyone else with a 360
then i remember that decaf actually can have up to 40% of the caffeine that normal coffee has. that makes the switch seem like less fun.
earlier this year when i was helping my parents move i got two big rubbermaid tubs of my clothes that were at home. i figured there was no reason for me to move them from the parents old house to the new house. i might as well take them. after i got them i didn't have to do laundry for so long because i had so many clean clothes. then i just had a whole bunch of laundry to do at once later... oops.
this week i finally went through the rest of the clothes that were still in the rubbermaids. and a bunch of my other clothes and gave a bunch to goodwill, ones that didn't fit or things that i had multiples of.
i am wondering how many t-shirts i need. i don't want to get rid of to many. t-shirts are memories, old camp shirts, shirts from high school, youth group shirts, etc. but at the same time i think it would be fun to do this
someone did a huge survey of what color you associate with each day of the week and made a shirt of that color for that day.
would i need more than a shirt a day?
last tuesday call of duty 5:world at war came out. i think it is the first game i have ever bought on the day it came out. when i was buying it on tuesday i saw a poster at the store saying there was a tournament on friday night. i entered not really thinking i would do that well but that it would be fun to try. friday night came and it was actually kind of intense. every round i started out behind and coming back to take the lead. the story doesn't sound as intense even telling it in person so i won't even try to relate how fast it made my heart race towards the end but i ended up winning the store tournament. i won a shirt (i actually got three shirts) and i advance to the next round. if i win the next round, and the next round then round 4 is in san diego onboard the USS Midway and the winner gets $2500. i don't really think that would be me but it sure would be sweet if it were.
thomas banley- you should get COD5 so we can play online. so should anyone else with a 360
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