Today is April 1. Mom's back in Rochester and it seems like things are
getting worse, not better. They just keep finding more things that are
wrong. Like now she might need a liver transplant. It's really scary.
On a lighter note, I joined a Yahoo
club, KittyWhiskas
They are a good bunch all about love for cats! I highly encourage
anyone who enjoys talking about cats to join up.
Also I have made some changes to the site. I dropped the links to my
sponsors from the main page (they are still on the site though:
Kitties, Cheese,
and of course Pawn
Shops)
Also I removed the links to my friends' sites in favor of a new feature
called "Friend Link of the Week." I felt bad for not having a link to
all my friends with homepages so I decided to do one at a time.
The other new thing is in my title I will put some of my favorite Rush
lyrics...and other quotes. These will change from time to time as I see
fit.
Other news: I have decided to declare
Computer Engineering. The
downside of this is that I waited too long and now it's all backed up and
I can't register yet. So that's not too cool. I'm really going to miss
my awesome Advisor from when I was
Undeclared. But
it's a time for striking out in a direction, a time to stop being
afraid.
And what the heck, if I stink as a CprE, I'm going to try my hand at
Advertising
Not as a cop-out, by any means, I know it will be challenging as well.
Last thing...I found this site called
Losers dot org, which is a big ol'
listing of loser web sites, divided into categories. Not as good as
Jimski's weird links
because their descriptions aren't as complete, but fun nonetheless.
Until, that is, I realized that I have pages that could fit into
sooo many of their categories. Like I have this journal, for starters.
Also, there are many things that would qualify me as "obsessed" like my
collection of pineapple
recipes, and a page about my computer is
definitely nerdy.
Simpsons Icons
Today is April 3. Is it possible to OD on Mike
and Ikes? I don't know because
they don't even have a website for M&I yet! Although apparently
M&I are "the choice of NASCAR." That's good to know. JustBorn used to
have a lot more flavors of their candy, like Jolly Joes, Cherri and Bubb,
Lem and Mel. Plus Hot
Tamales which I don't really like. "They're too hot!" (say in voice of
Ross from "Friends"...he thinks ice cream is too cold)
It was so nice out today! Spring soon =)
Who wants to come to Minneapolis with me to see
Journey? July 22nd at the
Target Center. It will be fun fun!
Did you know you are under surveilance by The Government and also
Micro$oft? Yes! Go to
The Terraserver and type in your town. Then you can do a little
zooming and find your house, just like I found
mine. Pretty freaky.
Today is April 7. So much has happened in the past few days that I don't
even know where to start. Everything certainly does suck though!
Let's start at the beginning, Wednesday the 4th. It was a pretty normal
day, I went to history and math, then over to the capitol. When I got
home from work, there was a phone message saying that I needed to call
home or call Chaplain Dave. I had left my cell phone out in the car, so
I had no way of calling long distance, and I didn't call him right away.
I was getting changed to go to my night class when I got another hone
call. It was someone from the capitol, also saying that I needed to call
home
Well, this meant it was serious. I called my home collect, and Chaplain
Dave answered. He said that Mom was "a pretty sick lady" and that I
needed to go to rochester to be with her and Dad. I quickly packed up
some stuff and bought some C-Store snacks for the ride.
When I got home, Amy, Dave , and Jonno were there. Dave took me aside
and told me what was up...then he said the magic words, "not much time
left" and I basically lost it. Jonno and i drove up to Rochester, and he
told me that Dave had told him "two months." So the whole car ride we
were thinking the time fram was like two months.
When we got there, Mom was sleeping or otherwise out of it. her breating
was very labored even though she had an oxygen tube in her nose. Dad
told us then that she had only about two days left. This was quite a
shock needless to say. Two months had been a shock but it's different
when you actually see the person. Maybe an hour later uncle Rod (mom's
bro) Aunt Rose, and Grandma Hazel got there and we all stayed up most of
the night with Mom.
She passed away quietly at about 7:15 on Thursday morning. Then Dad
and Jonno and I slept for awhile so we wold be okay to drive the 3
hours home. People have been very kind about visiting. I don't know
if it's really sunk in yet though. Just don't bring any more food or
I'm going to end up like
Gavin! (KITH fans will know what I mean.)
Wait a minute, maybe that means Dave Foley will come to my house
wearing a suit....yeah! The only really sucky thing is that Daisy
Pitter died this afternoon too. So we miss her, but now she gets to
be with Mom. That is all for now.
Today is April 16. I'm back in fabulous Des Moines. Things are getting
better, a little bit everyday. I'm trying to catch up on my schoolwork
and whatnot, also trying to find a job for the summer. The
Ames Tribune site is a good place
to start your job search in central Iowa.
Fun stuff: Saturday night I went to
Trainspotting and a whole
bunch o' my friends were there....Scott, Peter, Jason, Lorigb, and
Nicky. After the film we went to
Towers and roasted
Peeps! We roasted them over a grill, with a real live fire, for the
purpose of
eating them (they were yummy). Others try to burn Peeps for the purposes
of Science.
Today is April 20.
Really good Simpson
quote page
Here is a pineapple looking very presidential
Today is April 25.
The fun and madness of
Drake Relays have descended
upon us. Sure it's exciting, but there's no where to park =)
Things are moving right along with Fort Dodge
Workforce 2010. *finally!* Well actually I'm glad they got the
kinks ironed out at the beginning before they got too far into the
process.
Do you love that song Popcorn
by Hot Butter? I know *I* do!
In other news, I'm going to visit my friend Laura Joy this weekend at the University of Iowa. Should be a good
road trip and nice time to hang out w/my buddy!
Today is April 29. I had a really good weekend.
Friday: went to
Iowa City as promised. Trip east was uneventful other than morons at
the gas station. When I got to Laura's dorm, my first item of business
was to see how my Blues did.
She took me to a cool computer lab which featured, among other things,
all five flavors of
iMac DV's. (You
can
tell the difference from the
original
flavored iMacs because the colored
casings aren't as shiny. Once I was confident of a Blues victory, we
went
out to eat. Then we walked around downtown Iowa City, then
retured and watched an hilarious movie
musical called Thoroughly
Modern Millie. It's so incredibly silly, you must see it. I even
found some Millie links, a page for Carol
Channing, and one for Julie
Andrews. Seriously, you will laugh your ass off at this movie. It
takes place in the "roaring 20's" and the songs are
the cheesiest!
Saturday: Well, I woke up, won
really cool pineapple lights from eBay. Then I had the lovely drive back to
DSM, followed by a much-needed nap! That evening, I went to Ames and
visited my friend
Joe. We watched Ghostbusters on DVD and ate chocolate
pudding. He told me of his romantic woes, which basically boil down to
the fact that girls are always attracted to him (I can personally vouch
for this...hehe) but there's only one he truly cares about....and she
doesn't
really even know he's alive. Sounds like the same old song and dance, I
know, but for Joe it doesn't seem like a cliché. I hope things
work out for him & the girl in question, he's a great friend and such a
sweetie!
Sunday: Went to my cousin Emily's Confirmation at
Bethesda Lutheran.
It was a nice service but a little weird, I guess I am just used to
good ol' traditional
Immanuel. And I found out Em is into Sailor Moon and other Anime,
so that made me happy =) After that, I dropped by the wonderful world
of Rowe and visited cool girls like Regan and Carol. It will be weird
not to live on Rowe anymore but I think Westgate will be cool. Only 2
more
weeks of school,
I can't believe how fast this semester went!!!
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