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A Weekend of Tiredness

So what all has Chris been up to lately?

One hell of a lot! I left work early Friday to go help my dad get my mom’s b-day present. I had to leave 4 hours early to go help him. We get home, I take all my shit inside, including my backpack which still had my cell phone in it. And then we leave.

We had to drive to the Airport because my dad rented my mom a mustang for the week. We drive there, a good 80 all the way because I hate driving my dad places. I also have the windows down and the music loud so that I couldn’t talk to him. We get there and I had to park cause he wanted me to come in incase there was something wrong and they didn’t have the car ready or something. So I follow him in, he hands me $3 for parking. I’m like, hello? How about paying me for the gas that I wasted driving all the way from Ames, to our house, and then to the Airport, or how about paying me for the 4 hours that I had to miss from work. He gets the keys and then walks off.

No “Hey, thanks” for driving him there, no thanks for taking time off work. Nothing. You know, I really didn’t have to go and help him. I really didn’t have to, but I was being nice by taking time off work. And one other question I have, why didn’t Andy just drive him. He’s got a car, he could have just followed him home. Why the hell couldn’t Andy have done this. I was so pissed off by that time at that asshole. Thanks alot!

So I get back on Highway 5 bypass cause I wanted to get back to WDW to get some things for Andrew, and a b-day card for his mom. By this time it was 4:15 or so. I start driving, doing a good 80, when about 2 miles from the Fluer exit, traffic suddenly STOPS! I was like, “Great, just what I need.” I figured it was just road work or something, and we’d get through it fairly quickly. So I stick it out, and get up a little closer (Because everyone was turning around in the median, and being complete assholes about it) and I see that it’s actually an accident and the entire road is BLOCKED! So I get up to a spot where my little car can make the median and turn around. Drive back to Fluer, get off and then drive ALL THE WAY through downtown DM, through rush-hour traffic and get onto 235, again more rush hour traffic. I finally made it to WDW and go to B&N to price a book for my mom about 5:15ish. I wanted to have everything done and have made it back to PC to get my phone, which I forgot initially and then back to Waukee to meet Andrew shortly after 5:30. Well, I knew I wouldn’t make it to PC and back in time, and by that time I was so pissed at all the STUPID drivers that I just drove to Andrew’s office and surprised him there. I think he liked the surprise and it was really good to see him, it made me happier.

From there we went to his house and talked and hung out the whole night with his sister. It was his mom’s b-day and we were waiting around for her and John to get back from supper so that we could surprise her. They finally got back around 8:30 or so, we did the surprise thing, ate so cake and then Andrew and I were off. I felt very weird being there bacuse it was all his family and then me. Very odd.

We went over to girls house and watched some movie. I was so tired by then that I don’t remember what it’s called. But I do remember that it was amusing.

After that we went home.

Saturday I got up fairly early and did a whole bunch of stuff. I don’t remember most of it. But I got a lot done.

After that I met up with Andrew after he got off work. We went out driving to do some errands. I had to go to Christian Photo to get some stuff, and after that we were on the way to his peircing place, but got side tracked by some garage sales. That was UBER fun and there were like 10 on every block! great times. After that we went to his peircer to find out what’s wrong with his eyebrow ring. He really doesn’t want to take it out, and I don’t want him to either! It’s so hot!

After that we went downtown to Sal-Val. I got some cute shirts as did Andrew. We’re both on budgets this summer, so we’ll be shopping there! We haven’t been to the mall to actually buy something in forever!

From there to beak’s. We went “swimming” at gray’s lake with her and leper boy. The water was too cold to go swimming because it really wasn’t warm enough to go. But there were tons of white trash there. We didn’t stay long cause beak was the only one swimming, although I think it would have been nice to stay a bit longer. I just wish we had the weather we had today, yesterday and the weather yeasterday today!

We left the lake and went back to Beak’s where we had the grilling fiasco. None of the grills worked, so we cooked inside. It was all still really really good! I need to hang out with Beak some more so that I can get my cooking expertise back again! After the food we hung around and talked for a while. Andrew and I left and went back to my house where we hot tubbed and spent the rest of the night just talking random talk! I drove him home and he was talking random talk and very incoherant. It was crazy!

This morning I slept in because it’s been long nights all week long and I was so tired! I got up showered and then headed over to Andrew’s. I wasn’t even in the door when Sue visiously attacked me and asked for a hug, and said that she didn’t hate me, and just really embarrassed me! It was very weird.

Met up with Girl #1 and Girl #2. Off to Adventurland we went. I had a REALLY great time there. I went on far more rides then I usually do, thanks to Drew Bear. Though I still wouldn’t go on the rollercoasters. They’re just too scary for me yet. Though I’d like to try one again some day. I did get quite annoyed a few times there with all the peer-pressure and shit to go on rides that I didn’t want too. Other then that it was a GREAT day. The Amazing Race that we did was TONS of fun and I ran around all of Adventure land barefoot because I was wearing sandles that you can’t run in. Now I have two really BIG blisters on the bottom of my feet and it hurts imensily to walk/do anything with my feet. But had a GREAt time.

After Adventure land I really wanted to go back to my house and swim, but Andrew and I decided to just stay at his and hand out, which we did. More good times, and Sue was uber nice to me! lol

Well, I’m really tired of typing so I’m done with this. I know there’s a lot that I forgot about, but I’ll put that in the private update which I’ll write laters!

Laters!

An Update??

Well, I really want to update about A LOT of stuff, so if this starts and then doesn’t get finished, I’ll do that tomorrow. It’s really late as it is and my back is hurting and I’m sick.

So the last couple days I’ve been feeling really nastalgic (sp?, use?). Anyways, with Andrew’s graduation coming up, and the summer, I’ve been thinking about alot. The biggest thing on my mind is scouting, and how much I would LOVE to go and work at camp this summer, or to even spend a week camping somewhere with a troop. I just REALLY want to be able to be back into the scouts. So sad really. I miss that time so much, it’s one of the few things that’ll bring me to tears just thinking about all the great times that I’ve spent camping at Mitigwa, Jester, Ledges, The Canyon, Philmont, Pine Ridge, and everyone else that I’ve been to. It makes me sad to not hear those songs all summer long, even though I usually complained about having to sing them, I still really enjoyed them. The Mitigwa Hymn, Fight song, Philmont Hymn, On My Honor, and the hundreds more that were sung each summer. I miss the Sun/Wed/Fri night skits and the ceremonies. I miss Smokies inspiring words at the end of every Friday night, even though they were the same ones every Friday, I still miss them. He delivered them with such emotion. I being on staff and staying there on the stage, singing songs and having a great time until all the scouts were out of the ampitheather. I miss the late nights and the scout parties. The ambushing of the Extreme Team, the water fights between Family Circle and Tent City. I miss all that time spent in ScoutCraft teaching all those young faces that look up to you, and hang on every word you say. I wish that I could go back, but I can’t.

Anyways, also I’ve been thinkinga a lot about my graduation, and I’m just going to try and be there for Andrew, because I know it’s an emotional time.

Today has been really good though even though I have been sick. I met up with Andrew about 10:45ish and we hung around his house for a while. We went through a bunch of his photos for a b-day present for Dustin, he’s got so many of them, and his life is so well documented, it makes me want to take more photos. But at the same time, I don’t want to. Anyways, at some point I want to go through a bunch of his photos from like the last year or so and get copies of alot of the ones with my “friends” in them.

After that we went to Hy-Vee to get copies made and the woman was a total bitch. From there off to Cheddars to meet up with a ton of people from Andrew’s HS. I’m sure I wasn’t much fun there, but I was sick, and when I’m sick I A) Get airheaded, B) Don’t like to be out, and C) Don’t talk much when I am out. But it was amusing non-the-less we had yet another HORRIBLE waitress. Although she did bring me a pitcher of Ice Tea, it didn’t taste very good though, so I didn’t drink as much as normal. Food was good, and we each paid for our own, although I meant to pay for Andrew’s. Oh well I guess it’s alright for us to each pay sometimes.

After food we went to the Mall and did the normal mall thing. It’s getting very boring there, I can’t wait tell the new mall. Even though I’ll probably be gone by the time it’s finished. And also once Andrew leaves I’ll probably not venture to the mall unless I need something for myself, cause we all know that I won’t have anyone to hang out with then.

Mall back to his house. We laid in his bed talking, and making out. Then all of a sudden, he whipped his dick out and jacked it right there! I was like, OMG, I can’t beleive you are doing this. You’re mother is upstairs and the door is OPEN! Crazy. He eventually came, and it was funny because his mom yelled at him just after he was done. So very weird. I swear that woman has eyes all over that house. Anyways, he got a letter from the magistrate, all he would tell me is something about a court date and perhaps loosing his license again. I held him, about all I could really do. Hopefully it made him feel better. He eventually found out that it was just about the last court date and them claiming they never got the checks. Fucking Government for you!

After that was over we were just laying on his bed when his mom came down and talked to him about something, so we went upstairs and she complained at him. Something about he’s not supposed to have boys alone in his room. Even though the door was OPEN! Fucking crazy Sue. I don’t think she understands that once a person turns 18, you’re supposed to give them more leaway, not less. Perhaps she’s having withdrawl or something. Who knows.

So after that shit went down and since we weren’t allowed into his room we watched the simpsons and then king of the hill. Funny shit there, and we made out on the couch upstairs, instead of in his bed room! lol. About 6ish he went and changed and then we were upstairs talking. I asked him if he wanted me to go to his baccalaureate, and he said that I only had to go if I wanted too. Well I did want to go, but I didn’t want to feel out of place, and I only wanted to go if he wanted me to go. You know one of those situations. Well somewhere in there he got emotional and started crying, and I asked him what was wrong. He wouldn’t say, so again I just held him. I still have no idea this time why he was crying. But like I said, if I ask, and they don’t want to tell, I don’t pester about that type of thing, it’s up to them if they want to tell why they were crying or not. Anyways, we were leaving to go, and in the car he said that he felt like he had guilted me into going and I told him that he hadn’t and that I wanted to go. I wanted to be there for him, in some way try and hopefully be there to show my support. I dunno.

Anyways we went and it was good. I really hated the speaker, god god god. That’s all he said, and the movie was in spanish. But the song they played made me cry, like not just a few tears but really cry. It was so sad. And then the sax player made me really want to dig out my sax and play again. We all know that won’t happen. Perhaps I’ll just dig out Kenny and listen to him some. The awards part was good, and it was really amusing to hear the reactions from everyone when they announced Andrew’s $60,000 scholarship. I think it’d be really funny if HS students got the kind of awards that Krell gives out, they’d be announcing $400,000-500,000 scholarships. lol.

After that we went back to his house and layed on his bed… Amazing that Sue let us back into his room. I left there about 9:30, well tried to leave, it’s always so hard to actually LEAVE! I dunno what we’re going to do this summer when it’s not too cold to stand there and kiss all night long! And the moon was so pretty too! Too bad it’s not tonight though, there’s going to be a full eclispe of the moon. Starting about 9 and going tell midnight. Anyhow I finally left…

I was driving along and checking to see if I had any messages. Well I did and it was just a text message. I didn’t even know my phone could GET text messages! It was very odd, and it just simply said “I love you.” I had NO idea who it was from, so I drove a while trying to figure out where it came from. However, my phone doesn’t tell me WHO, WHEN or anything about text messages. I was so pissed. I was 90% sure it wasn’t Andrew, because I had been with him all day, when would he have had a chance to do that. And plus I would hope that if/when that time were to come that he’s feels that way to say it, he would do it in a much more romantic way. But curiosity killed the cat, or in this case just made the cat look like I fool.

Anyways, after that I just drove home contemplating who could have sent that too me.

Friday his dad/family comes into town and he wants me to go to dinner with them if it’s alright with his dad. I’m very nervous about that, but I think it’ll be nice. I’m really excited for his graduation, but really sad at the same time, it just means that him leaving is coming so much quicker. I mean ever since I’ve met him he’s been talking about going to Cali for school, and how he’s going to be leaving. Now, that time is almost here, and we have to make the most of it all. I really wish that I could say screw it and take the whole summer off and just spend it with him, but alas we both have to work, and we’ll get the weekends together.

I miss him already, and he’s only 45 minutes away. I don’t know what I’ll do when he’s 20 hours away.

Flowers!

So, yet another GREAT GREAT Wed night with Andrew. Ohhhh, what a great night!

So I decided that I wasn’t going to go to work at all. So I sat around here paitently waiting for him to arrive. He finally got here about 12:30ish, I was looking out my peep-hole (Why’s that sound so bad and wrong?), and I saw him carrying flowers. I was like, “OMG, ::tears:: how nice.” I had to wait a second to hold them back before opening the door. He came in and handed me the flowers. I was so in shock, and a warm fuzzy feeling that I just didn’t know what to do or act. It was such a special thing for me! No one’s EVER got me flowers before. Sooooo nice. I’m almost in tears just sitting here looking at them, and reading his card…”Topher – Thanks for being you! You mean the world to me! -Drew” They’re so pretty, I wish that I had my digital camera so that I could take some pics of them! Although now he’s kinda ruined a surprise that I’ve been planning, oh well….. Maybe I’ll just do it anyways!

After that excitment was done we came into my room where we sat and talked about how our day was, etc. Made him a CD which was really amusing. Although my CD burning software wasn’t working quite right, so I had to do alot of manual labor to get it done right. Bah! But it was tons of fun. After that we made plans to go out to Reiman gardens.

Went out there and there were a bunch of old crazies working there. First the lady taking money was like “How old is your friend there” and I was like 18. And she was like, “He could pass for 17.” and then she talked some more, and I handed her the $5 that I had, she took it and we went off. We were looking at the hatching area, and Andrew bitched about her saying that he could pass for 17, and then taking the $5 cause we figured she would only make us pay the $2. Well, a couple minutes after he bitched the lady was like… “Here I only rung you up at $2.” I was like, “Ohhh, thanks” I bet she heard Drew Bear bitching.

So Reiman was TONS of fun! We walked around inside, and then went outside…. Yet another place that I wish we had our own little photographer walking around with us! So many cute little thing happened there. First we walked over to this big bell like thing, I dunno what it is, but we stood under it and kissed. SOOO cute! And so much fun! After that we walked around some more. Stopped at this covered bridge type thing and kissed and hugged. God, we’re so CUTE! I just can’t get over it! Weeeeee, so great. You really have no IDEA how great it is to have someone that I care about, and I’m not ashamed of. Someone that I can go out in public and kiss, and hug, and hold hangs, and not be embarrased. Drew and I have had more PDA’s TODAY then Adam and I did in the whole 16 months of our relationship. So great!

After the bridge, we went up to this little hill thing and sat there on a bench and held each other, and kissed some more! We sure do alot of kissing! There were breeders and I think we scared them some… Eh, who cares!

From Reiman it was off to the mall because I heard that AE and Gap got new shit in. It didn’t look as if Gap did, but AE did. So that was fun. After that we went and ate at Village Inn. Good food there, I paid! From there it was off to Best Buy, where Andrew purchased FF1&2, the originals! I’m sure he was excited. Saw Andy Beatty there too!

After that back to my place where we sat around and talked, and kissed some more. Again such great times. What I really love about kissing him is after wards leaning back, and in that second before he openes his eyes, he’s so CUTE! So Adorably cute, and then he opens his eyes, and you see those big, sweet, caring brown eyes looking back and you, and you just feel so great and this warm tingly feeling flows throughout your body, oh so great! I wish I could take a picutre from my eyes so that I could see that all the time!

One thing that we talked about at Village Inn was all the gifts that we had given Ex’s. And it really pissed me off cause I realized how much money I had spent on Adam. I mean, we’re talking TONS of fucking money. And what did I really get in return, he never did anything sweet like I did (Ie, cards on car, etc), he never got me flowers, he never bought me tickets to some show that I wanted to see, he never did SHIT! Pretty much everytime we went out for food, I paid. Arg, it pisses me off to much. I wish I could block that 16 months from memory!

Anyways, back to much happier things. At 7:30ish we had to go to campus for a group meeting. That was amusing and only lasted like 20 minutes. Good time though, Andrew looked as though he was bored as hell! lol.

After that we came back to my house and laid in my bed with Enya playing in the back ground. They should make a movie about us cause we’re so CUTE!! Damnit. so fucking cute! We kissed and talked and kissed and talked some more. It’s getting so hard to leave him! I dunno what we’re going to do if we ever can’t have a Wed together.

And speaking of, he’s not going out Friday night, which is sad. But also understandable. I was reading XY today, the relationship section of the new guide thing, and it’s like…Ok, so I can’t think of exactly what it said right now, but basically is said that in a good relationship everyone has to have a night or two out with freinds that are just thier friends. And that there should be some non-shared friends. Anyways, I’m glad that he’s going out with girl. Even though I find her funny cause she almost acts like she’s his GF or something. So crazy! But I’m sure he’ll have fun, and I’ll find something fun to do too!

So eventually it came to the point where he had to leave, and it’s so hard. Of course it always takes like 20 minutes to get him out the door, and I feel kinda bad for pushing him… Cause I feel like I am. But he has to go at some point!

Tonight shall be filled with sweet sweet dreams, and I’ll be smiling all day tomorrow!

A Memory In Time.

Ok, so updates about the weekend will happen later. First we much update about the ABSOLUTE best part of the weekend.

Tonight there was supposed to have been a drag show. Andrew, Skinny and I were all going to go. (Skinny as our chaperone because apparently we’re 5 and need someone to watch us). We got there and it was deserted. Crazy.

We went to Java’s and hung out for a while, then got bored. Skinny left so Andrew and I were like… “What now?”

I suggested going to the lake, so we did.

Got there and drove around a while, talking. Looking for a good place to watch the sunset. We eventually found one, about half way across the damn, down by the water. Such a great spot. We both sat there on this little rock, cuddled, held hands and talked about random stuff for a while.

We also kissed alot, just randomly, we’d be talking, and then suddenly kissing. It’s so nice to kiss him. Because as we talked about, they’re meaningfull kisses, not “lets get it on” kisses. So very very touching.

It was so nice to just hold him in my arms, and to caress his legs, and his arms. To rub his back, to kiss his face, his neck, his ear.

After a while of sitting there side by side, we moved so that he was infront of me, so that I could wrap my arms around him and hold him close. Again, so so wonderfull. And it was so nice to just sit there with him and take some time out of or hectic lives, and go to somewhere peacefull with someone that you really care for, and just hold them and kiss them, and watch the sun set. We talked about the Canyon and the great sunsets there, and Frankel Field at camp, the best place to watch the stars. Hopefully this summer we can spend lots of time there, going to all the places that I love going to there at camp and watching the sunset, or gazing up at the stars.

I’m such a romantic sometimes. It’s crazy! lol.

Eventually the sun had set, and we were there embracing each other, kissing, talking, hugging. So nice, I didn’t want to leave at all. It was getting cold and we stood up, hugged, kissed. Standing there on the rock, the sky purple, the “waves” breaking on the rocks behind us, it was like a movie. A nice romantic movie. Times like those I wish there were a photographer around.

Eventually we did leave, and we walked hand in hand back to the car.

Drove back to MH Hy-Vee where my car was. As we pulled in I saw Skinny’s car. We pulled up next to him, and he’s like “Where you two been for the last 3 hours!” So funny. We decided that the story was that we’ve been at Java’s all night with Skinny if Adam asks.

Skinny left, Andrew parked and we hugged again, Kissed again. I didn’t want to leave, I just couldn’t stop kissing him and hugging him. It was so sad to go.

But it’s been a wonderfull memory in time, and time takes all but memories.

I can feel so boring for someone so interesting

So this morning while I was waiting for the bus I came up with this great little blurb about how I’m feeling and it included the word “Agnostic.” However before putting it up here I wanted to double check the definition of the word “Agnostic.” So today at 3:30 when I first had a chance to go look it up, I did. I walked into the library, knowing the word. And up to the fourth floor. Found a dictionary, sat down with it and opened it to the A’s. Then I couldn’t remember what the hell the word was. So I sat there for about 20 minutes thinking of A words that would fit in the spot of the word I had forgotten, but none of them were right. So then I sat down the dictionary, and started studying. Finally about 45 minutes after first getting to the library I remembered the word… “AGNOSTIC!” I thought.

So I looked it up and it was the word I wanted… Now that I’m here updating, only 20 minutes later, I can’t remember the blurb… DAMNIT!

Anyways, today’s been VERY VERY long. I got to campus about 10:30, cause I was running late. Studied and went to class, then had my first test at 2. Totaly bombed it. It was mostly over Bond Valuation, and I hadn’t studied that very much because it was the smallest part of the section. Guess I shouldn’t do that again. Now I’m in the library trying to study for my next test at 8. But it’s hard because I’m way excited, plus I haven’t had anything to eat since about this time yesterday, and I keep falling asleep.

So yesterday this is what it looked like…

(Photo Credits go to Ramsey Tesdell)

It’s insane. Considering that just one week ago we had a record breaking high (more like record shatering high) of 87. And yesterday it was barely 32.

Not much else going on, so I shall be off to study some more!