sometimes absence is a good thing

i'm not usually one to go on about how sorry i am that i haven't written in a week, because, frankly, i'm not sorry even if i should be. i tried it once before, not saying sorry for a while because someone else did it, and if they could do it, why couldn't i? needless to say it didn't work quite the way i expected it to, which shouldn't surprise me in the least because what usually works for one person doesn't for another.

but it has been a week off, and though i'm not one who writes in it every four hours, i do recognize that a week is a substantial amount of time to not update people you don't know about your goings on. and following in line with a shirt my parents gave me for christmas when they found out i might've failed out of school a semester before i was scheduled to finish that said "The truly educated never graduate", i've been absorbing a greater than average amount of stuff going on around me, and here in semi-bulleted fashion is a list of said absorbed stuff:

-- when replacing the rear shoe brakes on your car, make sure the emergency brake is off i worked on my car this weekend and i never work on my car and i found out it's a lot of fun and you get dirty and that's fun and you save money and that's fun too. all the banging in the world of the sledgehammer against the drum couldn't make the cover pop off, but a push on the e-brake made all the difference.

-- Donald Trump's book, How to Get Rich, is an advertisement for Donald Trump and everything he owns you'd think that'd be an obvious one, but until i spent saturday morning reading the book cover to cover, i realized he's very full of himself and is constantly stating that (insert property he owns here) is the best and most luxurious (type of property) in the world.

-- rollerblading 6 miles on a beach path at sunset is very relaxing i only got them a week ago, but i've been on them everyday since and i figured since it's within skating distance, the beach path is an excellent place to skate and think and you don't have to worry about cracks in the sidewalk.

-- it feels good to be happy for other people i am genuinely happy jaymi found a job that she is excited about. too many people take jobs just because they need a job and when i say job i mean money and not because it's something they want to do.

-- hyundai is doing some pretty decent work lately with the new job and the prerequisite necessity of obtaining some reliable transportation of her own, jaymi had to get a car. she told me she was looking into a hyundai elantra 5dr so i looked into it. things are going pretty well for them when some reports say their new fleet is higher quality than nissan or toyota.

-- old women feel embarassed when they fall down i forgot to mention it when i wrote about the wedding, mainly because it happened the next day, but after lunch as we were leaving olive garden in asheville, north carolina a stiletto heel-wearing old lady smoking the P-funk stumbled sideways much the way a vaudevillian act leaves the stage and fell down in the grass. thinking about it, i probably could have caught her before she hit the ground, but, to my dismay, my first instinct was to laugh. at least it wasn't out loud. but i rushed over and helped her up while the other people i was with kinda stood there frozen in time. and the lady didn't even drop her cigarette; that just shows how classy she is. and i didn't really think about it til we got to the car, but i couldn't help but say out loud "dude, i just helped up and old lady who fell down." and it's funny because who actually says that?

-- sometimes all you have to do is ask the best surprise is when someone takes you up on an offer you sarcastically suggest but it's totally cool because when you think about it it's gonna be an awesome weekend you wouldn't have had otherwise and so you'll spend the majority of the summer looking forward to it.

-- the best ideas come when you should be thinking about something else i work for a toy company with action figures and assorted toys decorating the walls and cubicles and pretty much everywhere the eye can see, so it'd make sense that when i'm supposed to be doing real work i can't help but want to take a Rasputin action figure, throw away all parts from the waist down, burrow through a box full of barbie doll parts until i find the perfect set of legs, dress, and shoes, glue the body together, dress it in a glorious red dress, add the Rasputin cape, pose it, mount onto an acetate plate, and add the proper accessories to make a most amazing looking transsexual Rasputin tennis player. maybe one day i'll be able to post a picture, but trust me when i say it looks amazing. additionally, i've been cutting apart my little ponies and random WWE wrestlers. who knows what i'll end up with. i feel kinda like Sid Phillips from Toy Story and i love the fact that i get paid for it.

-- Grease 2 is a good movie i woke up early sunday morning and it wasn't really the only thing on, it's just where i stopped changing the channel because michelle pfeiffer is hot.

-- "It Always Rains on a Picnic" by Modest Mouse is a good song i heard it a while ago, but never really listened to it, and as it is playing right now and i'm not really paying attention to the words but the ups and downs of the melody, it sounds good. whatever that means.

-- when your boss doesn't talk to you for three days, it isn't necessarily bad three days is a long time to not talk to someone, especially when they sit fifteen feet away and are supposed to supervise your work. turns out my work's ok and they don't have any problems with it so they don't feel the need to interrupt me by checking in and asking for status updates on different projects or for me to double check certain numbers. when you do it right the first time, things work out pretty well all the way around.

-- it's hard to go back to the gym after a week and a half off cuz you'd rather be skating on the beach i'm really not looking forward to goin back in the gym, but i need to. well, i don't need to, but i'd like to or i think it's best or i decided that's what i'm gonna do today whether i like it or not which really doesn't make sense because i don't think other people should do things that make them unhappy, but it's just the going there part that i'm not looking forward to because i know that once i'm there and get going i'll feel a lot better.
- posted by yeah...about that... @ 5:32 PM