lyss

should i come looking for you???

twinkle

there have been rumors of me and merle making a hitchhiking venture from portland down to los angeles. well some might call them rumors, others might call them proud boasts by myself and merle neglecting the reactions and warnings of nearly every female that heard of our plans. the other night i was driving with merlin and i told him how both my grandma and my mom had offered to buy our plane tickets if we would ditch our hitchhiking plans. in a witty vaunting tone i carried on, "it's not even about not wanting to buy tickets, i mean seriously, i have 2 free one way tickets with southwest if we wanted to fly." about 5 hours later, after a few rounds and a tree climb it had been decided that we should fly. i know, it's weak, and i feel defeated every time i mention it. but i know about a dozen people that are absolutely thrilled to hear the new plans.

last night i walked for the multnomah graduation. i actually finished last summer, and then officially graduated in december, but i wanted to walk in the ceremony with all of those i started my educational pursuits with and so many people i love dearly.

what now??? damned fine question! im glad you asked...that's a lie, don't ask me that.

im pretty sure that i want to be a teacher. i know it's broad. what subject? what age? where at? luckily a few of those questions were conveniently answered in a mad libs given to me by alyssa for some graduation ceremony entertainment. apparently i will be a science teacher in des moines ten years from now. i know i know, it's borderline absurd (much like some other things found within the mad libs, like the supposedly performed activities i did while at multnomah: sleeping on the couch in the library and sniffing [HA!]). but seriously im trying to figure this whole thing out, and i know i will before long.

okay, let's wrap this puppy up. i need a job! i have an official lady friend (for those who are just dying to know aka rachell), yes i called her my lady friend (girlfriend is way overused and hardly carries significance anymore). ethel, thanks for your comment and encouragement, and both my sister and i are now wondering how to connect with you (she got a message a while back , but didn't have a number to call back on), and to end, why not another funny quote from earlier today. either my dad or darla said something about a relationship needing the couple to make one another "twinkle." justin (jp that is) in pure cynical fashion, then produced a brilliantly hilarious scenario about him finding a girl that will make him "twinkle."
-justin to a girl upon his first "twinkle" experience: "you make me twinkle"
-the girl's likely response: "okay...you go clean yourself up, and im gonna leave"
-me: "HAHAHAHAHA!"

i just managed

to spend a solid 4+ hours playing super mario bros. 3 with lefty. we pretty much had beaten the entire game, but a few levels from mthe end we just gave up. really i bring this up because of a few verily hilarious quotes:

"it's better with luigi because it matches his hat."
-lefty in reference to using the goomba boot (it's green)

"you have a sweatiness problem in general."
-lefty in response to me complaining about having a sweaty hands problem

that's all really, i think maybe i should just start emailing rachel these blogs, because i'm pretty sure she is the only person that is reading this still :)

i suck...

with keeping up. bottom line, i always have. it's unfortunate especially when people take it entirely personally as though i don't like them. this really has nothing to do with, well anything, i just said that i was going to try and keep writing on here once a week (yeah i know that was two weeks ago when i wrote that) so i just signed on and started typing. honestly, i would be suprised if anyone even reads this, but nonetheless i am here, i am writing.

last week i pretty much settled back in to portland. i got to see a number of people i love dearly: justin, cara, sahara, little eduardo, joey, erika, chloe, eli, gwynie (she cried the instant i said hi to her), merlin, st. petersburg (i love this man), clouser, lyss, ted, lefty, blake, scoobs, well you get the point. i went to last thursday a few weeks ago, and first thursday last week, and saturday i went to a cinco de mayo party and pretty much had the homemade salsa title stolen from my grasp. the greatest thing about the cinco de mayo party was...that i went with alyssa, but the second most amazing thing was this guy reid elliott harrison. he was an instant riot. quote of the night, "those clever mexicans." i think i'll leave it at that. i also went rock climbing with lefty and merle for the first time in ages, good times. by the way, when i say lefty, it means caleb hargrove (some of you may not know that his real name is lefty) and when i say merle, it means "merle."

sunday i came to redmond, where i currently am typing from. i'm not entirely excited to be here (don't ask why, i'm just not), but it is really great to see more family and some of the old crew. hopefully i will have enough time to make the necessary rounds.

i'm going to stop wasting your time and mine. the end.