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You can't fight the feeling

You can not fight it. Gretchen made me some toast for breakfast the other day. The habit is back. Maybe I should call this the toast addict annual.

New Post

This post is for Scott. After I posted the mellow creme post, I really thought that I would try not to post until next Halloween. It has become increasingly hard not to post. Sometimes I would open the web browser and just stare at those beautiful sugary pumpkins for a while and cry that I couldn't post anything. So I guess it isn't the end. News since last time you heard from me; Gretch and I bought a house. It is small and needs to be fixed up, but it is ours and I love it and I can walk from the shower to the kitchen, eat breakfast, water the garden, and then get dressed without worrying that my little brother will see me. Gretchen also has a blog, which I am 100% sure that it might possibly be updated 40% more often than my blog half of the time. I got a Wii and I can't wait for David to fix his router because Mario Kart is probably the only thing that I can kick his trash in, which I am not entirely proud of.

Mellow-Creme Pumpkins

I love Mellow-Creme pumpkins. The end.

Math Sub

There was something very disturbing about my sub today. I couldn't put my finger on it for the longest time. And then it came to me. He has the same hairstyle as my wife.

Family Resemblance

I don't know. They must have come from the milkman.

Heich 2 O

My Bio teacher is from India. She's a real nice lady and all, but when I am in class it feels like I am being forced to listen to someone from tech support for Microsoft or something. Biology is already a foreign language, do we have to make it any harder? Don't get me wrong, I love Indian people.

40 hours a week

Working 40 hours a week really stinks when 7 of them are on Saturday. I really can't explain to you how much I miss having 2 days off in a row. I guess the hardest part is that I have days off when Gretchen doesn't and vice versa. My boss, Dr. McAllister builds and flies model airplanes. He is trying to get me into it and I think he is succeeding. The only thing is that a nice radio and engine cost upwards of 500 bones. He says you can reuse them in different planes your whole life, but still, finding $500 right now for a hobby is not realistic.

School is sucking my life away like a Dementor

I only have 3 more class periods of each class before I get a 2 week break between semesters. I am really looking forward to it.
I am in Math 090 right now. I believe the course description says, "If you are an idiot, take this math class." After the mish, I couldn't remember how to multiply and sometimes I needed help to tie my shoes. So I took this class to get me back into the math groove. I am glad I took it, but now, at the end of the semester, I am remembering all of my lost knowledge and I am the freaking smartest person in that room. We are taking the last chapter test, and then we are having a study period for the final, and then we are taking the final. So, you might ask, why the heck is Toasty blogging about this? BECAUSE IF I HAVE TO GO BACK TO MATH 3 MORE TIMES TO HEAR THOSE 18 YEAR OLDS WHINE MY HEAD IS GONNA SPLODE!! I am really going to email him right now to see if he will give me both tests on the same day so I don't have to go back. I owe all of my math success to A-list


What kind of 5 year old talks like that?

Birthday Party

We had a birthday party for me on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. David and Janel and their family spent the night on Friday. The little babies are really cute. For dinner, I picked up 4 Papa Johns pizzas. Henry Whineharts Sodas were flowing. Women were dancing. Men were doing manly things. It was the biggest party since 1994. Sorry if you missed it or weren't invited. Although, I am not really that sorry. If anybody else came, we probably would have had Dale bounce them. A certain amount of hipness and hottness had to be maintained. After the radicool dinner, we ate home made cheesecake with a fresh strawberry topping. DAAAANNNNNG! It was like heaven with a graham cracker crust.
The presents cannot be rivaled. From Mom and Dad I got a card fashioned after the manner of a license plate that said GR8 SON. I expected to see GR8EST SON OUT OF THE 4 WE HAVE. But that was alright. They didn't need to express it vocally since the cold hard cash in the card was SCREAMING IT. Dave and Janel gave me a spring action Gerber pocket knife. The spring action assists in opening the knife so I am pretty much gangster now. I can open my knife faster than you can say "I WILL CUT YOU!" Dad gave me a Parker pen and mechanical pencil set. They are a brushed silver color with gold accents. Now everyone can see my bling at church before I cut them. They are really nice. Dale gave me an awesome back rub. Julia and Kaleb's present is still in the mail... The best present I got was from Amanda and Hailey. A Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds poster. I haven't found a frame worthy of it yet, but it will hopefully be hanging in my room by the end of the month. When I saw what it was I said, "Just what I wanted!" Amanda gave me a funny look and said, "Really? Why?" I think she was worried she had a sissy uncle. Thus ended my party.
This Sunday after church, Gretchen, Michael and I played Monopoly Electronic Banking. It was fun for the first hour when Mikey was convicted of every white collar crime out there, but after I was whopping it up with $40 million skrillas, Gretchen and I got very tired of switching our credit cards every time Michael landed on our properties. Moral of the story: If you have forgotten how much you hate Monopoly, there is no need to remind yourself. Peace.

The Camera

I didn't do it on purpose, but I dropped and broke the camera. The guilt I feel has sucked the will to blog out of me.
I am back in Colorado Springs. That's right, I am in Colorado Springs. Gretchen is still in Oregon. Today is her last day of work and she will be coming this weekend. The first day or two that we weren't together it wasn't so bad. But I really miss her. Like a lot. A lot a lot. I am looking forward to having her home.
School is going fine, I actually am really enjoying my classes. I'll try to write more once I have a job.

Hawaii

Hawaii is beautiful. I don't want to write a lot right now, so here are some pictures and stuff n' stuff.

We spent our last night at the Hyatt.

This is where we stayed most of the time. This is the Marriott Waiohai Beach Club.





I am the only one that Kiley has told that she is "special".
This is when Gretchen told me to move because I was ruining her "game".

Asian Style

Gretchen is buying some Oakley sunglasses. I didn't think they fit quite right. She looked online for more glasses and found that Oakley makes frames in an "Asian style". Long story short, Gretchen has an Asian face.

Elden and the Chipmunks

On Friday Gretchen and I invited Christy, whom I work with, and her husband, Mel, and their daughter Lexi to eat pizza and go see Alvin and the Chipmunks with us and the Sheldons. We all ate pizza downstairs and had a really good time. Lexi kept on talking about how excited she was to see Elden and the Chipmunks. Then we went to see the movie. Todd and Mel were talking so long about getting drawn for elk in New Mexico or something so we got to the theater just in time. The movie was funny. The best thing about it was that Mel has a laugh like Randy Mudge and he thought the movie was hilarious. Since he was covering his face with his hat and laughing hysterically we were in turn laughing hysterically. About 20 minutes before the movie ended I heard one of the Sheldons spill a drink to the right of us, so I looked over to see who. But it was Carson throwing up all over Todd and the floor. The theater smelled nasty. I mean, it made the whole thing stank. They all went home and we finished the movie with the Davis'. All in all, a memorable night. I wish we would have started doing things with the Davis's before we decided to move back to The Springs. We had a lot of fun.

Once again...

Carson is watching one of his train movies in our room.

C: "Can I have some ginger ale? I'm thirsty."
TH: "You can have some water if you are thirsty!"
C: "My foot is really thirsty, but for ginger ale."
TH: "Your foot can have some water, too."
C: "Oh."

Fiction or Non-fiction?

It was the dead of night. I knew the trail between the frontier and the city was dangerous. you don't pass too many travelers during that time of night, but that was my plan. To get out of there before anyone even knew I was there. Then I heard it. Right behind me. There is a split second where a man doesn't know what he should do, and the sinking feeling he gets in his stomach when he realizes what he needs to do. So I pulled over and took my first ticket like a man.

Carson

Gretchen went down stairs to borrow her sisters boots while she was getting ready for church. As she passed through the kitchen with her curlers in her hair, 4 year old Carson stared at her and said, "I hate your hair."

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving Gretchen and I went to L.A. to spend the holiday with her Sister Mary and her husband Corban and their son Baby Carson. (This distinguishes between the two Carson nephews.) It was a lot of fun. Mary is a mix between Gretchen and her father, meaning she is very kind and a lot of fun. Corban and I went to play in his Turkey Bowl on Thanksgiving morning. We played hard and paid for it for the next few days. I had to lift my legs up with my arms in order to put them on the ottoman I was so sore. Gretchen's family are Black Friday shoppers, something we never grew up with. I decided to go with Gretchen and Mary. We started at an outlet mall that was open at midnight. Traffic was horrible. We were stuck on the offramp for about an hour. We would have waited another hour to get into the parking lot but we ended up parking a 1/4 mile away and walking. As we were walking we heard someone yell, "Stop! Police!" We turned around and saw a man in basketball shorts and no shoes running from an undercover police officer. We stood aside as they ran past us and watched them cross the street and two other officers take the guy down. Lots of excitement. There were lines to get into the stores an hour after they opened, and lines around most of the stores to check out. We got out of there after 4 and they dropped me off at home and continued to shop until 9:00 AM!!!! That is one of those things that you only have to do once.
After L.A. we stopped in Gilroy picked up Ann Grover, went to see the Mellanders who were in town, and then went to Santa Cruz and Natural Bridges. It was a lot of fun.

The things boys like

Mary (Gretchen's sister) is visiting with her baby Carson. "Baby Carson" is a very cute kid who is one of those babies who lets anyone hold him and will smile at anyone. He was a little cranky while Gretchen and I were watching him before church and Gretchen said that Mary says that whenever he gets in front of a camera he smiles. We found out that it is true.



Sometimes the kids say pretty funny stuff. While we were eating breakfast on Saturday, Blake asked if he could see my armpit. I looked at him for a bit, wondering what I wanted to do, and then lifted my arms up. He said something like, "cool", but I don't remember exactly. When Mary and Gretchen started laughing at the singular occasion, Blake thought it necessary to explain himself. "What? Guys like things like bugs, blood, sports, armpits. They are cool!" So, I guess if you were wondering what gender you are, if you have a strange attraction to the axilla, you must be a boy.

Carson is a friend of mine

This is while we babysat the kids while Penny and Todd were in Greece.