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Well I get my license within a month now so hopefully within the next 2 months I can finally start working in a salon!! Me and my friend Kelsey and one of her friends who’s moving down here got a house and we move in Aug 21st..Im so excited. I decided to try another year down here cause I still am not sure what I want but just not quite ready to leave here and move somewhere else. Who knows where I’ll end up. Maybe after another year I’ll try living in another town like Orlando. We’ll see. Not worried about that right now. And Timmy I’m sorry but I will write some “drunk stories” on here for ya. Cant right now cause today is one of my days off and I have ALOT to do. Take care everyone!
~Xena~
A Message from the Rural Midwest:
Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and Californians cross states such as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, those states’ Tourism Councils have adopted a set of information guidelines. In an effort to help outsiders understand the Midwest, the following list will be handed to each driver entering the state:
1. That farm boy standing next to the feed bin did more work before breakfast than you do all week at the gym.
2. It’s called a ‘gravel road.’ No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Navigator. I have a four wheel drive because I need it … not just to keep up with the neighbors.
3. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old. Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.
4. Any references to “corn fed” when talking about our women will get your butt whipped … by our women.
5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don’t cry to us if a flathead catfish breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those little trout you fish for — bait.
6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their final approach, we will shoot it. You might hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time.
8. That’s right. Whiskey is only two bucks. We can buy a fifth for what you pay for one drink at the airport.
9. No, there’s no “Vegetarian Special” on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef’ Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.
10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice!
11. So you have a sixty-thousand dollar car you drive on weekends. We’re real impressed. We have quarter of a million dollar combines that we use two weeks a year.
12. Let’s get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop when it’s red. We may even stop when it’s yellow.
13. Our women hunt, fish, and drive pickups, trucks and tractors because they want to. So, you’re a feminist. Isn’t that cute.
14. Yeah, we eat catfish. Carp, too — and turtle. You really want sushi and caviar? It’s available at the bait shop.
15. They are pigs. That’s what they smell like. Get over it. Don’t like it? Interstates 70, 80, & 90 go East & West; Interstates 29, 35, 55, 65, & 75 go North & South. Pick one and use it accordingly.
16. The “Opener” refers to the first day of deer season. It’s a religious holiday. You can get breakfast at the church.
17. So every person in every pickup waves. It’s called being friendly. Understand the concept?
18. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don’t hit in the water hazard. It spooks the fish.
19. That Highway Patrol Officer who just pulled you over for driving like an idiot …. his name is “Sir”… no matter how old he is.
Now please, enjoy your visit. Just don’t overdo your stay, we have corn to plant.
(18:31:05) UnGifted1: TBONE!
(18:40:29) UnGifted1: hello?
(19:07:40) Rc1005: hello
(19:36:38) UnGifted1: hey
(19:36:57) Rc1005: wusss haappenin hot stuff
(19:37:01) UnGifted1: nada
(19:37:02) UnGifted1: u?
(19:37:08) Rc1005: not much..
(19:37:21) Rc1005: hey.. you want to pay the nextel bill today?
(19:37:21) UnGifted1: workin?
(19:37:31) UnGifted1: cant
(19:37:33) UnGifted1: get paid tomorrow
(19:37:33) Rc1005: nope.. I’m a 9-5er now
(19:37:39) UnGifted1: sweet
(19:37:43) UnGifted1: bout ti9me eh?
(19:38:07) Rc1005: yeah… i hate mornings tho
(19:38:22) UnGifted1: lol
(19:38:30) UnGifted1: I had a rough night tuesday
(19:39:03) UnGifted1: got trashed
(19:39:39) Rc1005: sounds like fun… who’d you get trashed with?
(19:40:00) UnGifted1: well, I went to BW’s just to eat some wings and watch the Tigers… and I ended up meetin some people
(19:40:25) Rc1005: just meetin some strangers?
(19:40:29) UnGifted1: well, I ordered a dozen Blazin wings, and they brought em out with a firemans helmet with a little red light on top, like what’d you see on a State PoPo car in MI
(19:40:52) UnGifted1: they told me to put the hat on and if I ate the wings in 5 minutes or less they were free and I could wear the hat until they had someone else order em
(19:40:53) Rc1005: reakkt
(19:41:24) Rc1005: ‘that’s weird… so you got to wear the hat?
(19:41:29) UnGifted1: so I ate em in 4.5 mins. and then they let me wear the hat, well, one of the girls I met musta been rich cuz she kept buyin me beers, and shots and mixed drinks and shit
(19:41:35) UnGifted1: it gets better
(19:42:10) UnGifted1: they all decided to go to a different bar and shoot some pool, so I finished my beer and went to meet up with em, except when I was goin down the main drag I kept seein flashing lights and thought I was gettin pulled over
(19:42:33) Rc1005: lol
(19:42:38) UnGifted1: well, I still had that damn Firemans helmet on while I was driving and it was flashing the entire time
(19:42:39) Rc1005: you forgot the hat on
(19:42:44) Rc1005: LOLOL
(19:43:06) Rc1005: LMFAO
(19:43:14) UnGifted1: so I drove back over to BWs to give em back the hat and the manager grabbed it from me and told me to book out of there because he called the cops and he didnt want me to get arrested
(19:43:40) Rc1005: why’d he call the cops?
(19:43:50) UnGifted1: because I guess the hat was expensive
(19:43:55) Rc1005: lol
(19:44:14) UnGifted1: so I ended up at the other bar and the same girl kept workin on gettin me trashed…. well, it worked
(19:44:46) UnGifted1: I think I have a date with her this weekend because she left me a message on my machine saying “I had fun last night and I’m lookin forward toi this weekend, call me back”
(19:45:19) Rc1005: wow.. james with a normal phone line.
(19:45:32) UnGifted1: the worst of that is I dont have her # and I usually dont even remember my # to give to anyone, so I musta been trashed… well, the next morning I was hung over all to hell and when I was leaving for work, I couldnt find my Blazer
(19:46:19) Rc1005: this story is just getting started
(19:46:37) UnGifted1: well, after 15 minutes of searching around, I was abpout to call the cops and report it stolen, then I faintly remembered walkin down the street last night for some reason…. well, I went 2 blocks over and there was my….. parked in the MIDDLE of a totally different apartment complex
(19:46:44) UnGifted1: not in a parking space, in the aisle
(19:47:01) Rc1005: omg!!! LOL
(19:48:07) UnGifted1: yeah, then to top it off, at work the next morning I fell asleep in a meeting right next to my boss…. guess he didnt even notice it
(19:48:11) UnGifted1: until I started snoring
(19:48:55) Rc1005: So when ya comin home?
(19:49:18) UnGifted1: dunno, just found out that Haworth is hiring, and my uncle is a big-wig there, told me to apply
(19:49:38) UnGifted1: so hopefully real soon man, just to be back home
(19:50:10) Rc1005: coo…. I gotta go wake wermer up so he can buy me dinner.. i’ll talk at ya later.
(19:50:17) UnGifted1: lol
(19:50:20) UnGifted1: aight man, cya
I just wanted to update everyone on how my life is going lately. First, I love my job. In fact just last week they offered me a full time position starting after graduation, and I have decided to take it! The people here are great, and I love the location, so you are now in the presence of the newest employee at Crowe Chizek.
It’s been a good summer so far. As many of you know Pete and I went to Daytona, and it was tons of fun. If you ever get a chance to go to see a race there… GO!
Tonight I’m headed out with some friends to the horse races in Muskegon. I have never been, so it should be interesting. Tomorrow night, if anyone is interested, I’m heading out to Montes for a night of drinking.
Other than that, I am happy to say that I have only one more semester of school before I’m free! December is going to be a good month, I can feel it.
Well, that’s all I have for updates right now, but feel free to call me on the weekends, most of the time I’m around.
-Skank
Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got, taking a break from all your worries sure would help alot, wouldn’t you like to get away…… Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came, you wanna be where you can see the troubles are all the same, you wanna be where everybody knows your name…. You wanna go where people know, p-eople are all the same, you wanna go where everybody knows your name….
Happy belated Forth of July! I spent the extended weekend in Daytona Beach, Florida. The sun was shinin’, the beer a flowin, and the eye candy getting sweeter by the minute. We spent the weekend basking in the sun and enjoying the scenery. For those of you that are not in the know, the Pepsi 400 NASCAR race was going on in Daytona.
I don’t know what the weather was like in Michigan (or Arizona), but it was hotter than shit in Florida. It did however rain a liitle bit, but that didn’t put a dent in our good times. The third degree sun burns on my back and chest weren’t very pleasant either.
I have four tickets available for next years Pepsi 400 if anyone is interested. They are going fast, so speak up or forever hold yor peace. I’m not going to take an IOU for this race though. I don’t need anyone to back out at the last minute again.
If anyone watched the SPEED Channel’s Trackside show on Friday at 7:00 you may have seen Lindsay and me. We watched it live. I caught a few can coozie’s from the hottie’s on the stage that were throwing them. They have quite the talent working on their crew.
I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.
Get out and enjoy life ’cause there’s more to life than your right hand!