From Frogtown to Radtown

rain rain rain.

That’s all it has really done in the past week or so and I love it.  Yesterday, Radford received what I assume to be officially a shit-ton of rain.  I don’t really know how much it was but Kristine and I went out and drove around at 4 a. m. and there were puddles I haven’t seen in a year or two and the windshield wipers weren’t really helping much.

I’m hoping the old saying when it rains it pours doesn’t only apply to negative instances; things have been going really well and I want that to skyrocket.

Bryan and I are trying to get better jobs which requires a little preparation.  In a few months, we’ll be good to go and then hopefully life will get a little easier.

Isn’t that a dreamy view?  That will never happen.  I guess we’ll see.

<i>Spring brings change for Whim, Papa Johns,

So Whim is the magazine I have been working for and it is getting all changed up … “for the better”.  They always say that.  I’m sure this really is but I just can’t wait to see.

Whim is moving to wordpress.  Leaving cantaloupe.  That’s okay, weird name anyway.  We are also going to start having staggard content to get up to date on the internet age.  He said it will be more of a blog type style.

I’m hoping they will let me blog on events around campus or the city.  I am going to try to have more events covered and written in here so I can show him that I have been doing good at it.

Donald’s birthday is coming up so I wrote him a letter but I haven’t mailed it yet.   I’m too lazy for all that.  I also wrote to CJ but have yet to mail that as well.

My poor buddy Matt got demoted from GM of Papa John’s and is now getting paid less and working with people he doesn’t even like.  I hope he leaves there because he doesn’t deserve that.

I mean he wasn’t great at his job but they definitely should have given him the tools to be great before telling him sorry you’re demoted.

Bryan might be  quitting Highlander!!!  WOOHOO.  We are trying to get our lives together so we can create another one.  Isn’t that ridiculous.

Kristine wants my child to be the reincarnation of my grandfather.  That would be pretty cool.  I wonder if I would ever know.

Either way things are constantly changing except ..1-the consistency of change 2- the fact that i have to work 3- the continual fuck ups up Radford University administrative offices on my paperwork!

I promise I will give you loyal readers more of what you ultimately crave … soon?  I hope so.

-Kristine, Erika-hospital

-Withdrew from a class

-thinking of another job

-Hillary Clinton is now my new candidate (pretending I had money to have one)

I’m in class now so I have to go but what’s funny is there are only 3 of us here and even though Staniunas is pissed he’s just goofing around.

so peace.  I shall return.–soon!

Well with all this work(36 hrs/week) and all these classes(only 12 credits) I’m not getting lots of sleep.  Well not only that but the same things keep happening over and over again.  It’s pretty boring.

Get money. Get bills. Lose Money.

Class.Work.Sleep.

Walk dog. Do homework. Laundry.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Other than that I can say I’ve had the same general set of dreams my entire life. Hopefully I will find time one day to explain that craziness, but now let me tell you how my computers are always breaking and I’m getting more and more convinced that I am ADD.  If I turn in another thing late this semester I’m just going to give up right now while I’m still way behind.

Alright.  Hopefull more later but I must go get this computer fixed and find a better one to finish my assignment on—it was due almost 12 hours ago.-great.

Lately,

Well first let me say that lately I have been going to work a lot, still.

Second, Bryan programmed the TV for HD and now somehow we can get nice HD channels, the Playboy Channel , a bunch of music channels and a few porn channels. Yeah you read that correctly FREE HD PORN b/c we hit a few buttons on our TV.

Steve’s the one that told us about it as he had just bought a new tv and was programming his when it started moaning on channel 180-1, i believe. -Bryan won’t tell me because he doesn’t want me to put it in here.

Tomorrow we are going to go shoot my model 1894 Winchester!! It’s going to be great, the shells for this baby are rather large and I’m pretty sure it’s actually going to be too much for me.

Third-Site-to-Store ordering for walmart.com/Wal-Mart because the people at wal-mart are pretty incompetent. First, I go into the store and I give this guy credit, (excuse my un-politicalness as I will call him), Wheelchair Guy greeted me and told me exactly where I need to go to get what I need.

So I go to the back(Bryan wondered off to find something for Ben and bullets for tomorrow) of the store and walk around the giant insurance company booth- set-up. Once there I read the credit/debit card machine and it says:

“Press screen for assistance” or something along those lines. So I pressed it and heard the intercom lady call for assistance to the back for site-to-store.

It was kind of like Sonic because it then read, someone is on their way or something to that effect. So I waited. Then I got mad and pressed it again but only once the screen had cleared as if someone was there helping me. They WERE NOT!

So I hit again, hear the intercom lady again and waited again. By this time Bryan had already purchased the thing for Ben and separately purchased the bullets. So you can imagined I am pretty pissed as I have still not seen a Wal-Mart person.

So I broke out the cell phone and called them. Ironically the woman that answered the phone was also the intercom lady and was also pissed that noone was helping. So she got me a manager. And I thought my life was saved. HA!

This “manager” came to the back. The first thing out of my mouth was:

(while pointing at the screen on credit/debit machine) “This thing’s not very efficient” He didn’t say anything. Then he pushed a bunch of keys on the computer and it made noises we all knew it shouldn’t be making.

Five minutes of beep, beep, beep I almost left. Then he called for Duane on his walkie-talkie and I shot a look to Bryan and went to get a cart for my box. When I returned Duane was leaving and Bryan and my box were right behind them.

Thanks Duane and next Wal-Mart in Radford, Virginia, get Duane first!

After all that I forgot to tell you that on Saturday I am going to be volunteering at the animal shelter to start off my new year and I am also eating a lot more healthy and exercises a little more frequently. Okay enough for today.

I have been at work forever and I feel like I should just move in.  Well that’s a little exaggerated but I was there a lot this week.  Work is going well for me other than one driver who’s a pill popper.  Yea I know pills and driving are not good together.   That’s all I’m going to say about that because if I go one much further with this I will be explaining to you the details of a driver strike and how much they all laughed when she passed out and ran into a guard rail.

Anywho. Life’s been good.  Granddad just had his 76th birthday on Saturday.  He said he was going to “hold on” until his birthday but I with he could stay forever.  I know people have to die sometime but damn I don’t want him to.  I’m prepared but geez!

Bryan’s sister and boss just found out that they are each pregnant, kind of weird it was both within the same week.  I’m jealous.

That’s about all for now thanks for reading.  oh yea classes start next week!!!