Uhh...


So I drove down to Grant's Pass oregon yesterday to meet my mom and grandpa who'd driven up to unload a truck of stuff. Mom's moving there by the way.
Anywho, the whole drive through oregon stank. Litterally. It was rank. That sucked majorly. So I get to GP, meet up with Mom and whatnot (I really didn't want to drive in this dumb place by then) but I drive anyways and right off the bat decide I don't like it there. I know that sucks but my first impression of TURN HERE NO WAIT DON'T TURN THERE ONE WAY STREET!!!!!! wasn't fun.

It was hot and sunny but didn't smell as bad as the rest of oregon had. Stupid state. Oh, and the drivers there are fucking bonkers. They either SUPERSPEEDOMGGOTTAGETTHERENOW! Or they... don't go anywhere at all? I'm still not sure what was going on.

But yeah. Drove around GP for a while, went and had "dinner" (it was 3:00 PM) then drove back to stupid little vancouver. OH! And since it was oregon I couldn't pump my own gas. That pissed me off. I really didn't want anyone touching my Jeep unless they has my permission. That was shitty.
So like, the drive up didn't stink as bad as the drive down but the drivers were 10 times worse. Mom got into arguments with me and stuff because first I wasn't "letting" someone in, then I shouldn't have "let" them in, blah blah blah. If someone is going to end up in my hood I am going to fucking slow down. Same with the trunk, I'll speed up. I hate changing my speed (if its on cruise control) because of other retards trying to "beat" me into my own lane.

Ugh. I'm still qute tired. I kinda wish we'd stayed there overnight so I wouldn't be so exausted. But before I knew I was going to drive down to get Mom and my grandpa so they could fly out of portland I was going to "help" my aunt get some stupid bricks for her yard. She didn't want them all in her car or something retarted like that.
But now that I'm here, even though I'm still really tired and really want to go back to bed (I took Mom and my grandpa to the airport) my aunt is all OH YOU CAN STILL COME OVER AND HELP ME GET MY BRICKS YAY! Seriously, yay is what she said. I really don't want to. At all. That means taking shit out of my Jeep so I can fit her fucking bricks back there.


I really wish I had some money so I could go to Colorado as soon as school ends. I fucking hate it up here.

My bad day was followed by a good day that was followed by a so-far meh day.
On the bad day Fred and I hung out for a while after class. We went mini-golfing in the rain and did some other fun things that helped me cool off a bit.
Yesterday we just hung out in-beteeen (and during) class then went to subway and dairy queen with another guy he knows.


Anywho, my Mom flew up here yesterday. She's down in Grant's Pass right now but she stopped by the welding shop to say hi and to meet Fred. We watched her park the car she'd rented (and laughed at her terrible job) then talked for a bit.

So like, something I haven't mentioned is how Fred and I want to go on a road trip after school ends. We're not sure where to exactally but we know it ends in Colorado.

While my Mom was here yesterday we talked about some stuff and I mentioned how I didn't want to stay in Washington. Like, at all. She asked where I wanted to go then guessed before I could reply. So Mom found out about how I want to go to Colorado and was totally cool about it! She basically gave me permission to go wherever I want as long as I get a job and start paying for stuff myself. How awesome is that?



On a side note, I feel like I'm not breathing all too well. It's been like this for about a week. I was coughing (the kind that hurts and sounds horrid) all day yesterday and screwing up my welds and right now I feel as if I've been standing in a pinecone smoulder all month. Not cool at all.

Not a good day at all. Hmm, now that I think about it, all of last week's mornings from Monday-Thursday were shitty.
But today, I felt like pakcing up at 9:00 and driving off to Canada or something just to see if I could get in.

So here's why my day has been crap so far.


1. I didn't want to get up.
2. When I did get up, I had the stupidest and most strange headache ever.
3. The welding shop was cold.
4. 6010 is pure crap.
5. Only ONE of the welds I did today kinda-maybe looked good.
6. I dropped a chunk of metal right on top of my knee. It still hurts.
7. The electrodes kept sticking to the metal.
8. Undercut is a bitch.
9. 6010 fumes smell disgusting.
10. Another student (a convict no less) kept wanting to use my grinder then would stick around and talk.
11. I couldn't breathe all too well and still feel kinda sick.
12. I caught on fire. FUCKING TWICE!
13. I got so mad I actually punched a brick wall. Thankfully I held back a bit.

Yep. And that's been my day so far.



Oh, and my computer just went fuck-up on me a minute ago. Plus the rain (and this whole state) is getting on my nerves. I think today is going to repeat itself for the rest of the semester. The morning class was cool when I was learning how to use stick but now that I know what I'm doing it's just repedative, obnoxious and infuriating. I really don't think I can do two more semesters of fucking morning classes.

So, life is good. Much better than before actually.

I've got a friend now, I know that sounds super lame but it's true. I hung out all last and before last weekend with him. (And inbetween classes lol.)

We went to see a couple movies, threw a football around with another guy he knows, drove around a bird sanctuary, took a lot of walks, went to some neat-o waterfalls and a fish hatchery (my sunglasses fell into the sturgeon pond, had to stick my arm a foot into the water to get them. 10 foot fish were in there O_O) went to dinner a couple times, had some Carls Jr. burgers (BIG burgers, I finished first XD) watched a recording of the 1998 superbowl, watched Eddie Izzard standup comedy and a couple other movies and neat car TV shows.
Yesterday we put the seats back into his old Bronco II. That was fun. Then we patched up a hole in my Jeep's roof and have further plans for stuff to do to it. (And the Bronco.)

A lot of stuff with one guy you say? Well, one could say he's my boyfriend now. (Yes brother, if you are reading this, I'm not joking.) He's gonna try to teach me how to play bass, how cool is that?
Only not-cool thing is that he's moving to Colorado at the end of the semester. That kinda sucks but we've got plans to have lots of fun before he leaves. WHOOT!

Oooooh and he gave me this Bronco's (football team) jacket to keep for a while. I wore it into the welding shop today and a Raiders fan wanted to set it on fire >_<
Dumbass Raiders fan can't go setting that jacket on fire without SERIOUS consequences. From both me and my friend, heh.


AND he introduced me to this stuff. This awesome stuff called Fajita sauce. You have to get some and put it into mac n' cheese. Sooooo good.

I needs a shower now.

Oooh, I made something cool and forgot to post it.
http://messershmitt.deviantart.com/art/Chainmaille-Necktie-118798861

Stick welding is going along good. I HATE the electrode (6010) we are using right now but it makes sense why we start on it. It forces you to learn good techniques.

Aaaaand, I know what I'm doing for my sculpture class. A fish. But not just ANY fish, a Troutacuda! Half Rainbow Trout and half Baracuda, this fish gets along with everyone in the family! It's colorful and fun with a badass attitude!

I made it up if you couldn't tell.

Anywho, I'm hoping it'll work out. I'm totally psyched about my fish now. And apparently it's amusing to one of the other sculpture students to give me coffee and watch me about 20 minutes later. Hopped up on caffine, talking really fast, dropping stuff and forgetting what maximum means.

Ugh. My aunt "trimmed" my hair and made it look really fricking stupid. I said LESS THAN TWO inches, not THREE WHOLE inches. Before I could not wear a hat and not look stupid but now? God, I'm not going outside without a hat on until it grows out again.
I'm cutting and TRIMMING my hair myself from now on. That way it's my fault if I look like a retard.

Okay, so spring break was good. Played videogames with my bro, slept, hung out with family etc...
The 50'th anneversary party for my grandparents was fun. They loved the sculpture that I conviniently forgot to take pictures of.

So someone who'd like, a good friend of the family asked me when I was going to become a professional artist. I thought that was funny, so I asked why. Because she wants me to make something. OKay, like what? I have that table from the quarter before...
She wants to buy it.


I have no idea how much I'd charge for something like that. I'm gonna bring it down to AZ over the summer and that's when we'll settle on a price.
So lets see here... I spent roughly 40 or so hours on it. Would I do an hourly wage deal and have to figure out how much I'd pay myself (sure) OR just find a good sounding number? Geh, I'm not good at this kind of stuffs.

I thought this was funny for some reason.

The computer here in AZ has a strange relationship with the internet. They get together fine one second, then they break up, then they get back together again, then they break up. It's getting obnoxious.


Oh yeah, Ochosi, could you take some pictures of that Jeep radio and send them to me so I can see if it'll fit mine?

And rmoorcat, what comics do you have? I have no idea what I like to read...

Dude, Watchmen, the comic book, is really good. Waaaaaay better than the movie. I couldn't help but read it in two days, I'm stupid like that sometimes. (The original plan was to read one chapter every day so it would last for 12 days...)
I liked the movie ending a bit better though. It's only slightly different, but still better in a few ways.

Hmm, I think I like comic books. They are nifty. Like a book book but without the boring descriptions. It's all there in picture format XD
Dangit, now I wanna read some more. But I don't know of any good ones. I'm not a fan of superheros too much, but I dunno. Anyone know of any other good ones?


Still looking for a Jeep radio with a tape deck in it... Don't think I'm gonna find one anytime soon.

Saw Watchmen last night. It was different, but I liked it for the most part. It had some pretty intense gore and some... naked blue men... but other than that it was good.
I went with a friend of mine and two other people he knew, one of them turned out to be a chainmaille geek like me so that was awesome.
I also got invited to play D&D and some other "nerdy" games later today.

Anywho... I decided I wanted to read the book after seeing the movie. So last night I checked online at a couple bookstores near me to see if it was in stock then today after dropping my Aunt off at the airport I ran off and got it. The last one they had too. The last in my area of Vancouver I might add XD

Here it is in all it's... comic bookness.