So What Good Advice Have I Got For You To Insure Against Your Likely Metamorphosis Into This Reprobate?

OK. So I thought Friday night would be nice and relaxing, pick up Josh, drink some espresso, go sit in line. Not too bad. But no. Instead I had to drive Josh's mom off at home, which is an hour away. So I grabbed her from downtown and we went to get Josh. We got there a little early so we sat around for a while bullshitting. Once he got off we headed north to Wyoming (the city, not the state). A pretty boring ride considering Nicole (Josh's mom) was rather drunk and repeating the same story over and over again. We got to her house around 3 AM and went inside to hang out for a while. Basically Josh and Nic wanted to smoke some weed so we all sat around in her room and talked. Finally around quarter to four I convinced Josh we should head home. Got to my place about 5 AM and loaded up on coffee and warm clothes. Remember how I was worried about rain? Well it didn't rain, IT SNOWED! In fucking MAY! Sometimes I hate Minnesota, but mostly I love it. So after making sure we were going to be warm enough, we left to go get in line.

When we got there I was expecting there to already be a line, but there wasn't. So instead of sitting outside in the cold, we stayed in the truck waiting for more people to show up. About 2 hours later someone else finally showed up but he stayed in his car so we did too. The store opened at 9 AM, but tickets didn't go on sale til 10. About quarter to 9 a whole bunch of cars started to show up in the lot, but we soon realized it was people there to shop. The store was having some big sale so everyone wanted to get the good deals. When the store opened, me and Josh made a mad dash to the door and beat the one other guy there. We got a number (#1) and then had an hour to kill. We were both pretty tired from being up all night and sitting in a car for four hours so we just randomly wandered around the store. Once 10 rolled around we got in line and easily got the floor tickets we wanted. After dropping $290 we were on our way. I dropped Josh off at his house and went home to sleep the rest of the day away.

I ended up waking up at about 9 PM rather disoriented. It's pretty weird going to bed when the sun is up and waking up when it's down. I watched Saturday Night Live with my parents before they went to bed. It was too late to find something to do and I was still kinda tired so I just goofed around online for a while before going back to bed.

On Sunday we went to my grandparents house for Mother's Day. It was me, my parents, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle with their three kids. It was a beautiful day so the kids and I went across the street to the park and played basketball until dinner. I'm not a big basketball fan, but it was just for fun and we all had a good time. Dinner rolled around (pheasant) and we had a huge meal full of wonderful conversation. The only thing better would have been if Erik was there, and Kodi. Oh well. After dinner we lazed around their house for a bit letting the food digest and then we all headed home. My cousins had school the next day and my parents had work. Was a pretty boring night at home after that.

Monday, had a chiro appointment, and then the whole crew (Garrett, Kaija, Ian, Josh, Nicole) came over for another bbq. This time in the rain. We decided to brats and beans again like last time because we were all on a tight budget. It wasn't raining that hard so grilling outside wasn't too bad, but we did eat inside. After dinner we played a bunch of card games and talked. It was a nice relaxing night and it was nice to have everyone together again.

Today the only eventful thing I did was go to the chiro. It was raining again today so I didn't get to go play frisbee golf like I had planned. It was Paul's birthday and I wanted to go throw with him, but between the rain and his physical therapy (for his bad back) he didn't want to. So I hung out all night with my mom watching movies instead. Now I'm here, bored as usual. I was disappointed to see JJ's blog has been deleted, but I understand it was for the best. He is still around, but the blog is gone. Hopefully it will come back someday.

Not much planned for tomorrow, all depends on the weather. If it rains, I'll probably drum for a while. If it doesn't, I'll go disc and then drum for a while. Either way I see drumming in my future. I've been changing my kit around lately and am still trying to get used to it.

But who knows, the days that start boring usually end up being my most hectic days. Maybe something big will happen tomorrow and I just don't know it yet. If it does I hope it's something good. Well that's it for now.

-Kevin

I've been on a big Bad Religion kick lately.

Am I Dead Yet?

Fuck. That pretty much sums up my week. Monday didn't go nearly as well as I had planned. Woke up for class with a huge migraine, so couldn't go to class. Spent the entire day in bed sleeping and hating life. Woke up Tuesday without a headache which was nice. Went to the chiropractor and then went frisbee golfing with my friend Paul. I just started at the end of last year, so I'm not very good. But Paul has been playing for almost 15 years so he has a lot of pointers to give which is nice. After that had dinner with the parents and hung out outside on the deck enjoying the beautiful weather.

Ever have one of those days where you just feel off? That was Wednesday. It started off pretty good. Went to the chiro, went discing with Paul again and ran into three of my friends at the course that I haven't seen in a long time so we joined them and had a good time. Then it went downhill. Went home for dinner, grilled pork chops and potatoes :-). One of my parents' friends came over for dinner which was cool. But my mom and him started socializing and drinking wine more than cooking, so the chops and potatoes got rather burned. It wasn't a huge deal, but kind of annoying. I love pork chops and had been looking forward to them all day, so I didn't get what I was expecting. After dinner, all my friends were busy so I had nothing to do so I decided to go for a drive and clear my head. With school coming to an end, I've been stressing really hard about exams and such, so it was nice to get out and spend some quiet time with myself (If you can count listening to loud music quiet time :-P). However, spending time with my thoughts wasn't as relaxing as I had hoped. I started thinking about everything that I have to do in the next week or so, and I started to get really overwhelmed and rather depressed. Not what I had in mind. Decided to go up to the BP and hang out with Aaron which was good because he's always in a good mood and helped to cheer me up. He's really goofy and always cracking jokes from movies or something. Once they closed and I went home, I was feeling realativily better, but still called it an early night and went to bed.

Thursday I had band practice. It started off incredibly good and we were really productive again. We nailed all our parts on the songs we've been having trouble with and there was a lot of positive energy. After a couple hours we took a break and had some KFC. Like always, once we went back to play, we were getting tired and losing motivation fast so we called it quits shortly there after and just hung out outside, again enjoying the weather. I went home not expecting to do anything for the rest of the night when my friend Kaija called my saying she and her husband Ian were back in town for a few weeks and they wanted to hang out. We decided to have an impromptu bbq and bonfire at my house. They and our friend Garrett came over and we grilled up some brats and beans and caught up on what's going on in everyone's lives. After dinner, we headed out to the fire pit and built a big fire. A little while after we got it going, my brother and his friends Yogi and BooBoo (Yes that's what we call them)came over and joined us at the fire. We spent the next few hours out there burning shit and having a good time. Around 1 AM it started to rain so we went inside. Ian, Kaija, and Garrett had to leave but the rest of us decided to watch a movie. They settled on 'A Scanner Darkly' which I've seen a few times so about halfway through I decided to go to bed.

Woke up today and went to the chiro, and now I'm here. Later today I have to go up to my aunt and uncle's house again and drop off my brother's dog for the weekend. My parents are having a dinner party tomorrow and with my brother moving in at the same time, we thought it would be too much hassle to have Kodi around. If he wasn't a 110 pound Rotweiller I don't think it would be a problem, but he is so it is. After that I'm helping my brother move more of his stuff here. Tomorrow is his last day to get out of his place so it's becoming a mad dash to get it all out. On Wednesday he came over and stole my truck and gave me his car so he could start moving stuff over after work which he's been doing at 1 am. As long as he gets it done, who cares.

So that's my week. Maybe not as bad as I thought now that I look back, but at the time it sucked, especially Wednesday. I probably won't get a post in until Sunday, but we'll see. I'm going to be running around like a chicken with its head cut off all weekend.

I'd also like to say thank you to my third follower, Octavius. If you haven't checked out his blog or his story, they're in my blog list and I recommend you head over there.

-Kevin

The Weekend

Well A Night On The Street was a huge success! I got there about 6:30 Friday night to start building boxes. We had a little over 400 to build and scheduled three hours to do it all, but we had like 10 people and were really efficient so it only took us about an hour and a half. I had originally planned on going home and taking a nap after, but I spent the next hour talking to the cop that was there, just shooting the shit. It was rather weird having a conversation with an officer and being treated like an equal. Even when I talk with cops and I'm NOT in trouble, they always act like they are superior to me. Probably because I'm a punk teenager that up until a year ago had a 10 inch mohawk. Might have something to do with it. Anyways, I left there about 10 o'clock and went to a gas station where a buddy of mine works, here by referred to as the BP. They close at midnight so I went up there and hung out with him until they closed. Not a whole lot going on up there, but it was a nice way for both of us to kill time. After that I went home and grabbed a shower and some play time, before going and getting something to eat. Headed over to my friend Anthony's house, because he was going to do security with me that night. I got there kinda early so we just hung out watching tv until it was time to go back to the church.

We got to the church a little before 3 am, and went and met with the previous shift to figure out the plan. Basically we were supposed to walk around the parking lot and make sure people don't walk through the parking lot or try and mess with any of the boxes. Occasionally we would walk around the entire church to make sure there weren't any people causing trouble there either. It was a pretty quiet night, and the three hours went by incredibly slowly. Me and Anthony spent the night telling jokes and smoking cigarettes basically. I thought it was rather funny that the cop that was on duty spent most of his night sleeping in his nice warm car while me and the rest of the kids were out in the wind and cold. Oh well. Finally 6 am rolled around and I dropped Anthony off at his house and hightailed it back home to get some well deserved sleep. Slept away the next 8 hours, and spent the rest of the night hanging out at home recovering.

Sunday rolled around and I got up relatively early, at least for me. My brother was over working on some friends' cars, he's a mechanic by the way. My buddy Aaron, who was working at the BP on Friday, needed new brakes put on his car so my brother was going to do that also. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal for me. Go pick up his car at work, bring it to my house, and bring it back to him. But the awesome thing about Aaron's car, is it is a right hand drive Interga that was imported over from Japan. Since it's from Japan, it's not an Acura Integra either, it's a Honda Integra because Acura is an American brand. So I'm in love with this car, it's incredibly fun to drive and you really have to pay attention to what you're doing because you're on the wrong side of the car. Shifting is also interesting at first because you use the other hand. So I got to drive that a couple of times which was really fun, and then spent the rest of the day hanging out at home and had a bbq with the family. It was nice to just relax for the rest of the weekend after such a hectic Friday/Saturday morning.

Now I'm just killing time until class at 5:30 tonight. Should be fun, but at the same time, it is school. Not much planned for the rest of the week, other than a doctor's appointment and band practice.

Hope you all are well.

-Kevin