i should be writing my story and not my journal...
I think Neil Diamond had it going on. He just kind of rocked at life when it comes down to it. I mean 'Cracklin Rosie' for real, the man knew his shit. I think I need to update my life right now. So instead of writing my big story due for the magazine I'm going to update my life because it has been awhile...
I've been busy, but mostly with fun stuff. I work a lot and I'm trying to bank up some $ for the big move. To where you ask???? Hopefully Portland...I really want the job I applied for there, but usually when you want something so bad it doesn't work out. So if I don't get that job I will most likely be in Colorado, which isn't such a bad thing...except I'm afriad Gilbert the Green Humpin Honda might hate me dealing with the pass and such. All I know is that my lease is up in 19 days, and although my job up here is indefinite, I have no place to live in 19 days. I suppose I could camp for the month of August but I just don't know...it would be rad if I had a job somewhere by then. Although I'm planning a big road trip for sometime in August and it would be ideal if I could just turn the road trip into my trip to my new destination. I may just take my free ticket to NM and stay down there for an undetermined amount of time...do some hiking, singing, and thinking. I could just go straight from NM to CO if I really wanted to.
My roommate and I only have like 4 more weeks to be together every second which also makes me sad. Seriously, she has been the single most best thing to happen to me in the last year. We are practically inseperable, we just love being together. It is pretty amazing to have no expectations of eachother and to just have a connection that you wouldn't compromise for anything. I'm definitely going to visit her and her in CO if I'm not living there myself this winter. Here are some highlights of what we've been doing all summer. We've taken on frisbee golf and we go at least twice a week, she's teaching me to be a skater (which totally rocks by the way, just imagine me on a skateboard, dreads flowing in the wind), we are boating and wakeboarding out on Watab all the damn time, camping on the North Shore, partying down in Mankato and the cities...oh and not to mention st joe and st cloud, her and her friends have fine tuned my gaydar, and we took on watching all 4 seasons of queer as folk simeoulaneously as we watch the final season (we average a season a week, we are now on season 3), we sit at the huge TV with oreos and milk and watch queer as folk...how sweet is that?! So in short, we are pretty much inseperable and I love that girl, I really do.
I've been playing some shows up in Duluth lately and that has been going well. I've made quite a few trips up there and for the most part they have been pretty fun, but there is quite a bit of drama associated with each trip. I've been writing a lot of new songs and just recorded a few of them last night, and I'm pretty happy with them. I've been hitting up my electric a lot lately and I like the appraoch. I am getting accused of being too intense though, but I don't know how to be any different...passion is intense.
Hrmmmm...I've also been working out hard core all summer, oh and I have a tan! That never ever happens! I'm thinking about becoming a triathlete or something now that my track career is over. I've done a lot of swimming, running, and biking...I like it! Oh and the occasional softball game, I'm a sub for the LaPlayette intramural team.
But what is really pertinent...oh, I passed piano proficiency on June 30th!!!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY DID IT! I've been practicing my ass off and I'm proud to say that I can actually play the piano now! I feel really accomplished and proud...not to mention I am an official graduate now. But that day also turned really sad. I had to put Curious to sleep :(...she had been really sick all week and I could just tell she was in a lot of pain and I had to do something. No one was around so I had to take her in all by myself and it was super sad...she just cried...I lost both of my favorite pets of over 10 years in the span of one month. Rocky died May 31st and Curious June 30th. Now I'm petless...very very sad. I haven't even been home since Rocky died so going home next week for the first time without him greeting me at the door will be really weird. But to those of you who knew Curious, remember how much she loved to lick your boobs...
I've been busy, but mostly with fun stuff. I work a lot and I'm trying to bank up some $ for the big move. To where you ask???? Hopefully Portland...I really want the job I applied for there, but usually when you want something so bad it doesn't work out. So if I don't get that job I will most likely be in Colorado, which isn't such a bad thing...except I'm afriad Gilbert the Green Humpin Honda might hate me dealing with the pass and such. All I know is that my lease is up in 19 days, and although my job up here is indefinite, I have no place to live in 19 days. I suppose I could camp for the month of August but I just don't know...it would be rad if I had a job somewhere by then. Although I'm planning a big road trip for sometime in August and it would be ideal if I could just turn the road trip into my trip to my new destination. I may just take my free ticket to NM and stay down there for an undetermined amount of time...do some hiking, singing, and thinking. I could just go straight from NM to CO if I really wanted to.
My roommate and I only have like 4 more weeks to be together every second which also makes me sad. Seriously, she has been the single most best thing to happen to me in the last year. We are practically inseperable, we just love being together. It is pretty amazing to have no expectations of eachother and to just have a connection that you wouldn't compromise for anything. I'm definitely going to visit her and her in CO if I'm not living there myself this winter. Here are some highlights of what we've been doing all summer. We've taken on frisbee golf and we go at least twice a week, she's teaching me to be a skater (which totally rocks by the way, just imagine me on a skateboard, dreads flowing in the wind), we are boating and wakeboarding out on Watab all the damn time, camping on the North Shore, partying down in Mankato and the cities...oh and not to mention st joe and st cloud, her and her friends have fine tuned my gaydar, and we took on watching all 4 seasons of queer as folk simeoulaneously as we watch the final season (we average a season a week, we are now on season 3), we sit at the huge TV with oreos and milk and watch queer as folk...how sweet is that?! So in short, we are pretty much inseperable and I love that girl, I really do.
I've been playing some shows up in Duluth lately and that has been going well. I've made quite a few trips up there and for the most part they have been pretty fun, but there is quite a bit of drama associated with each trip. I've been writing a lot of new songs and just recorded a few of them last night, and I'm pretty happy with them. I've been hitting up my electric a lot lately and I like the appraoch. I am getting accused of being too intense though, but I don't know how to be any different...passion is intense.
Hrmmmm...I've also been working out hard core all summer, oh and I have a tan! That never ever happens! I'm thinking about becoming a triathlete or something now that my track career is over. I've done a lot of swimming, running, and biking...I like it! Oh and the occasional softball game, I'm a sub for the LaPlayette intramural team.
But what is really pertinent...oh, I passed piano proficiency on June 30th!!!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY DID IT! I've been practicing my ass off and I'm proud to say that I can actually play the piano now! I feel really accomplished and proud...not to mention I am an official graduate now. But that day also turned really sad. I had to put Curious to sleep :(...she had been really sick all week and I could just tell she was in a lot of pain and I had to do something. No one was around so I had to take her in all by myself and it was super sad...she just cried...I lost both of my favorite pets of over 10 years in the span of one month. Rocky died May 31st and Curious June 30th. Now I'm petless...very very sad. I haven't even been home since Rocky died so going home next week for the first time without him greeting me at the door will be really weird. But to those of you who knew Curious, remember how much she loved to lick your boobs...