Home Sweet Home

Sooo...Ian and I are trying to stay in our house here as long as we can in order to save up and get ready to move to a nicer house in the future. This is the perfect place for Bruiser to grow up (minus the neighbor) because of the big yard, the landlord basically let's us do whatever we want (in return, he doesn't do anything we want), band practice is usually allowable (unless the neighbor comes out of her cave and says otherwise).
So in order for me not to go insane, I am completely re-arranging the house to utilize the space. So far it's done wonders. :) It's almost like moving into a new house!

Spooky is becoming a much better indoor cat. She rarely tries to escape anymore, and I bought her a great new toy for Christmas that has occupied most of her time since. She is really really good at adjusting. When I first got her, she was ferrel, then she became a domesticated indoor cat, then an outdoor cat, then a jailed cat...and now back to inside (for now). She is such a good cat.

The UPS woman asked Ian yesterday if it ever bothered us living next to the graveyard...and he said obviously not because this is the happiest he has been in his life. This place is falling apart at the seams (and railings...) and it's dirt cheap ($685 a month for a HOUSE with a HUGE fenced in yard, basement, garage and laundry machines don't think you could EVER beat that), but it is our first home together and that is really really special. And that's exactly what it is...not a house, but a home.



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this is embarassing you guys come on

Am I so out of touch with the current world?

Lately I've been hearing a lot of things about our modern society and I'm so disillusioned and disgusted I need a rant:

First thing- The Internet is not serious.
What is all this stuff I hear about people loosing their jobs over something on facebook? Is that fucking real? Your personal life has nothing, I repeat, NOTHING to do w/ your job performance. It is ILLEGAL to fire someone under grounds like this, right? Another thing that falls under this is internet drama. If you seriously start anything about someone moving you on their "top 8" or because of anything said on the Internet you are a fucking nerd, come outside and talk to me in the real world about serious stuff, the Internet is for fun. Facebook and Myspace are for fun. You all are being ridiculous and I don't take you seriously, sorry!

Second thing- Hugs in school.

Okay, now get this! Apparently a lot of High Schools are banning hugs. Okay, let me repeat that so it really sinks in....High Schools are banning hugs. In a world devoid of human compassion this is so far past unacceptable I have no words to describe it. There should be MORE hugs. MORE love for your fellow human beings. In fact I think it should be a rule that you should hug ten+ people a day. Who doesn't need a good hug once in a while? This is seriously the most fucked up, despicable thing I've ever heard. In a world where rape, harassment, murder and shooting off-duty cops is becoming more and more profoundly evident, the school system feels that the most prudent thing that needs to be taught to our children is that they need to stop hugging each other so damn much!

Third thing- "Drank"
Just the name alone made me feel embarrassed to hear, but get this...it is now cool (& apparently has been for a while?) for rappers to drink a concoction that is referred to as "drank." Ingredients: Cough-syrup, Sprite and pieces of Jolly Rancher candy.
Seriously. It is now considered cool to drink cough syrup, with candy in it. This is what is "cool" in our current popular culture. Are you 12 years old? What the fuck? "Yo dawg I got this really good cherry cough syrup, you know it's good cuz you gotta be 18 to buy it, now hand me my candy and soda." For real? Do you know what's hardcore? A fucking 40oz of Old English. Would you be more threatened by someone holding a 40oz of malt liquor or someone holding a Cough-Syrup-Sprite-Pussy cocktail. LOL!!! I just can't even take this seriously.

Listen up guys, and I mean seriously listen up. Our rights are being violated. This is our world, are you really going to let this fly? We are the next generation who will be running this society. We don't have to accept any of this. You perpetuate it by accepting it. Do you want your children to grow up in a world where drinking cough syrup is cool, hugs are outlawed and social networking sites are serious?

"Be the CHANGE you want to see in the world."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Welcome to my own personal little block of hell

About a month and a half ago I was walking from my bedroom into the living room and looked down to see water pouring in from under the door.
I freaked out and called the landlord, but our landlord goes through a company called 'Hometown Property Management,' so when we call them, it takes a little while for them to pass the message on to him. The most frusterating thing about this is that he also owns the business next door to us (yes the cemetery), so half of me wants to jump the fence, go over there and find his phone number somewhere in the building.

Ian and I continued to call the place until they gave us the cell number of the maintenance guy (fuck duh!). Guess what he says...."I'll be there in about an hour, I'm on my way to church"

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? MY HOUSE IS FLOODING!!!!!!


Wellll...these fucking assholes show up an hour later (and many towels of mine later) and put a huge ugly tarp over our house.
This ugly tarp has remained a permanent fixture since. We have received no calls from them, received any mail from there, or been given any sign that they have any plan of helping us. Last I heard, they said they were gonna wait for a nice day to come by and work on the roof. There have been plenty of nice days in the last month and a half!

Well guess what, it is pouring cats and dogs outside and once again, and once again, there is water coming in under my door. My porch looks (and acts) like a waterfall, I can't open my door without having an umbrella in hand.

Picture to the right is of the water damage on the ceiling and wall by the door already.


Renter's Rights book, here we come...

we bombed the moon...srsly

I've been meaning to write about this for a while....


This was Nasa's thought process:

"Hmm, we have $79 million dollars laying around. Most of the world lacks food, birth control and other essential resources but let's bomb the moon."

Yes that's right, last Friday morning Nasa set off a nuclear bomb on the moon. This was supposed to blow open a huge canyon on the moon 6 miles in diameter, then another craft was to be sent in after it with a camera to search for water under the surface.



And it was a dud basically.

Money well spent, aye?

Get pissed.

R.I.P. Halloween

Between worried mothers keeping their children home, and those of us that actually remember how to trick or treat are growing out of it, I haven't been feeling very fulfilled the last couple of Halloweens. Hardcore kids in Olympia used to get super amped on the holiday, and practice for months before hand to have a cover-band show with costumes, singing, dancing, moshing and all sorts of good times had. Everyone I've asked this year about it has straight up said it isn't worth doing because no one would come and no one has the money to put it on.
I spent all the money I had on getting together 'Fright Nights' to get some sort of fun tradition going and maybe try to re-wake the child in any one of our friends to smile and dress up and act goofy with me and eat candy till we puke.
Seems no one is really up to the task of having a good time and being fun this year because our Fright Night attendance has been dwindling. Not only that but I have twice been the only person who dresses up, bought pumpkins, made food, picked out movie after movie...only to be unappreciated and overlooked.
LAST Halloween was my first one living in the city so I got our apartment (Apt. #138 w/ Corey) all dressed up, I even put the international sign for 'knock on my fucking door and get some goddamn candy' out (any Halloween decoration will do, just stick one out there on the door and you should have youngsters lining up the block....)

....but low and behold I did not get ONE trick or treater the entire night. I even had told the little girl that lived below us to come trick or treat my house and that I had bought lots of candy. Even bribing them doesn't work! Parents either take their kids to some school function where they walk around a safe, closed in, trick or treating environment with all their teachers and friends or they just go trick or treat at their relatives houses.
When I was a kid, I would team up with a group of my friends and walk around Carolyn Beach and Steamboat Island till we had blisters, and try to hit every house with a light on. That's part of the fun of it! Yeah we usually had an adult escort who would wait on the street or by the car if it was too cold, but it was so awesome seeing everyones house decorations, costumes, getting mad when old people gave you apples or toothbrushes.

Halloween is dead, or has at last had all the spirit sucked out of it..

The only thing I've seen lately that gave me a small chance of hope was the movie 'Trick R Treat.' I'd like to thank writer/director Michael Dougherty for that one. Great movie that is basically just like someone puked up Halloween all over it. Soooooo good. I am a total dork I know, and that is why next Thursday I'll be the only one dressed up as a werewolf carving a pumpkin.

Here we go

I forgot I had made this a while back, but I figure I'll start it back up.

Since I last posted, Ian and I have gotten a house and a puppy, and I got a new job.

Our humble abode is indeed humble, but it ours, and I'm proud of it. We have one bedroom, a small bathroom, a living room and a small kitchen. The backyard is huge, and I started my first vegetable garden out back and my first flower garden out front! I've felt a lot more grown up (obviously) since we moved in here. I guess both of us aren't kids anymore...our concerns now lean more towards how to pay rent, mow the lawn, feed the animals or wash the dishes rather than how to get a ride to a show, how to get beer, who's dating who and what shirt I should wear today.

Onto the new puppy....
Bruiser Ruckus Bracken was adopted week 12 of her life from a sweet couple up in Marysville. Apparently the girlfriend had a female pitbull terrier (shown on the right, ready to explode with 10 pups inside her!), and the boyfriend had a pug/bull terrier mix (shown below...hahahaha), needless to say the humans weren't the only ones gettin some action, and that is how Bruiser and her 9 brothers and sisters came about. 3/4 pitbull 1/4 pug...what a mix!!!! She's the smartest, sweetest puppy I could have ever hoped for. I taught her to sit, lay down, shake, roll over and stay all within about a month. She can be a handful sometimes (what pup isn't) but she is one of my new best friends.





Onto my new job....after four years of driving all the way out to Shelton to work I finally quit and got a job in Olympia! I work at Perfect Cup which is a walk down the road from our house. It is constantly busy so the tips are great, and I am working five days a week so hopefully I can start saving some real money for school.

I guess that is all of the updates in my life, so now that we're all up to date......

now I've seen it all.

No fucking way.



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Perfect Christmas gift for my Mother...

Repulsion

Repulsion (1965)
Written and Directed by Roman Polanski

This movie is incredible. Beautifully shot, extremely shocking for it's time and in my opinion is the best cinematic portrayal of the progression of insanity that I have ever seen. I give this movie 5 stars (out of 5). I recommend everyone watch it.

Life

Not having school has helped my stress level go down a lot. My shoulder/back is still hurting all the time though so I think I may need to go to the doctor. I am also still grinding my teeth at night (apparently from stress) so I think I may need to go to the dentist and get a retainer to wear while I sleep.

Spooky got stuck under the couch all night last night. I guess she must have crawled under there when someone had the recliner up. Poor thing, she is really grumpy.

*yawn*

Sleepy babies!!!
I'm pretty sure our rats are the most spoiled rats in the entire world. They get snuggles and pasta constantly. Rats are supposed to live in the sewers!

Well it's official. I have dropped out of school. I plan on working as much as possible now and saving up so that I can transfer over to Evergreen in a couple of years and not have to work while I'm going to school (it's too stressful right now!).

Ian and I finally officially live together (even though my stuff has basically been moved in here for 3 months already). Today is the last day of my lease at the Tumwater apartment, so now I am officially back in Olympia (fucking finally).
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