What has been going on with me...well,

School is going along. Next week is finals week so I suppose I won't be sleeping much.

Started training at a new ski mountain since living 2 states away from the old one makes it hard to go t work. Although, my little sister just got hired there as a snowboard instructor and my dad is going to visit tomorrow night on his way to pick her up and bring her back to finish training this weekend. It's sort of funny how she always got a season pass from dad while my brother and I worked at the mountain through high school in order to go skiing and snowboarding.

We are getting a room mate this January. Our old room mate from NY is graduating from community college this semester and is going to move out here with her boyfriend. Now that we have a much larger place, we shouldn't get in as many tiffs. And now that we have a dish washer, maybe she wont blow up and clean the entire place then move out again.

Married life is going well. We had thanksgiving here instead of going back home because we couldn't afford to go back to NY and we both had to be to work on the weekend anyway. Cooked up an awesome turkey and had all the fun sides. Love thanksgiving. I should buy a turkey more often and cook it for kicks.

into the tarnished silver key?

I'm sick of looking at the same newspost.

So

Got married a month ago today. Woot.

School has started again. New school. New place to live.

Nice giant condo just a few minutes away from school. Far enough away from slum lords and college students.

My courses are interesting and I changed my major about 3 times between graduating from my last college in May and actually getting here for the fall semester. As of now I'm a Political Science major with a Pre-Law minor.

All of my courses this semester are tying up loose general education ends and pre-law courses to see if I really want to go into law. If I do well, then I'll keep the minor and take the LSATS and apply to law school when I graduate. If not, than I'll take all political science courses and get a great GPA (because these are the courses I do best in) and then try for law school with an obscenely high GPA instead of some stupid courses that they don't really care about.

After a few hiccups with former services and new services, things seem to be running smooth at home. Closed my NY bank account and opened a joint account in a bank which was also in our old hometown area, but they sold to some other bank. The main reason I wanted to keep this bank was because they were in both areas so if we needed money from family or wanted to do some banking while visiting friends or family we could...but not anymore it seems. They are closing all of that areas banks. bummer.

It took some time but I also got my hands on a work-study. I applied for a pretty nice position as a Building Manager of the student union building but they hired somebody else and passed my resume off to the outdoor recreation center office...which wasn't exactly what I wanted to be honest. I have spent all of my working life in the outdoors and was hoping to take a position in an office setting to learn some skills in the office.

That being said I'm not disappointed because I am the coordinator of one whole program and an administrator of another program that the school offers..and I get to go on these cool trips for free. (I guess it beats shoving drunk college students out of the union building at midnight).

Either way I have plenty of discretion and plenty of authority to run things, I even get a sort of staff of volunteers to do my bidding.

Now that I finally have a work-study I can look for a real job.

Oh wait.

It's halfway through September and I start working as a ski/snowboard instructor again in November/December. Who is going to hire with the prospects of maybe a month and a half of actual work?

So things are going good. This school year should be fun. And no annoying upstairs or downstairs neighbors because i have a loft and a basement all to myself in this condo. We are also on one end of the complex so that we only have one neighbor next door and they're like weekenders from Mass. or something. Sweet.

BRB

Gotta get married.

kthnxbai

^_^

Got a call back about the condo we looked at last week. The realty lady called to tell me that the paper work is moving around and there shouldn't be any problems. The owner is going over the lease and our lease application right now and when she's done with it the realtor will fax it to us to sign and we'll have a place to live.

She'll also cash that gigantic check I wrote on Thursday.

Also on Thursday my fiancee's sister gave birth to her first child, a boy. Don't really know much more at the moment since we haven't heard much more beyond a voicemail from my fiancee's father telling us that her sister was going into labor.

My cousin is also due to splode on the day of our wedding.

Speaking of which; it's crunch time for the wedding. Beside my check for the condo, I also have some money flying around the tubes of check cashing internets for the flowers, cake and music.

Work is going OK, just pulled a 12 hour shift today, I was originally scheduled 11-7, but instead showed up at 7:45AM and left at 7:45PM. Nice.

Well, I'm sure another 50 hour week won't hurt what with all this money flying out of my bank account.

Huzzah.

again again.

Well, I'm looking for a place to live once again in my life journey. This time near my new university (assuming I can find $6600 before September).

I have been spending the last few days trolling through penny savers from all over NH to find places nearby the college and have spent most of today calling Realtors, landlords and other generally sketchy real estate folks.

I have had a few break throughs, which I'm excited about. One is a 4 bedroom multi-floor apartment that is going for cheaper than my estimate for something that size (I just hope it's not shit). Another is a number of condos/apartment complex buildings. Both of the people I spoke to were actually receptive to the fact that we were going to be students but didn't want to be near students. I think a lot of landlords like that. And they are cat friendly.

Speaking of cats, my cat is currently spending a few days at the vet because he went and got his pisser clogged so they shoved a tube up it and he's going to pee into a bag for a day or two while my fiancee calls me every hour asking if I talked to the vet, who consequently, went home at 5:00pm.

So is life.

Did I just copy/paste everyone else's idea? I think I just might

THE MODS
Jonas- it was awesome meeting you again. I hope you enjoy my pin I gave you.

Paul (uberbarista) - I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you more. You are a pretty chill guy and you smoke like a fucking chimney. wtf.

Aaron (Negativeone) - It was nice to see you again. I don't think we actually talked. At all.

Adam (CaptainBob) - You laugh quite loudly, my friend. Every time you started laughing I couldn't help but laugh myself.

Steve (the guzz!) - Thanks for taking me up on my offer of candy and jumping in the car! You are awesome! You should camwhore with your shirt off with me.

Karl (Bluehippo) - You lanky little man! Your obsession with cocks and webcams astounds me. Do you LARP?

Matt (mightypotatoe) - Didn't talk to you at all either. But hit ^_^

Keith (aviewaskewed) - Thanks for riding with me and not making fun of me for having such a shitty GPS...or at least being too annoyed at it. Your knowledge of comics is frankly disturbing

Lindsay (mamatequila) - Really chill to hang out with despite being in the middle of a gigantic sausage fest.

Steven (Sardonicsamurai) - You are fucking hilarious! Despite being loud and hyper, I enjoyed your company.

Viktor (Rucklo) - I was somewhat disappoined to learn you weren't the same kid from those leopard furry pics...and were instead a ripped swede. You are a great guy and I hope you enjoy the states.

Anna - You are a real trooper for going with Viktor to the meet. I hope we didn't weird you out too much.

Chris (JoS) - I didn't know canada needed defense departments and such, but good luck with riding those horses and saving Canada from those terrorist attacks.

Shawn (Afroninja) - I wish I actually paid attention to your flash lessons because I have this CS3 version which gets no use :-/

Louis (Poxpower) - I spent so much time with you it's not funny. Mmm, watching the sun rise together on our trip to Montreal. Never. Again.

Luis - What a cam whore. If it wasn't Karl on them, it was you! Great seeing you again!

THE STAFF
Mike - You were chill to hang out with. Thanks for being kind enough to tolerate us.

Tim - Rule of thumb...Never over pump a keg near Tim! Awesome Jeep! Grill Master level 70. you rolled like a 20 on that!

Bob - The planning and shit you did was crazy. What a stress free trip this was and we have you and the rest of the staff to thank! The house was awesome and the free snack food totally filled my grocery needs for the month ^_^

Wade - It was cool to meet you after talking to you online. It's too bad you never have time to hang out as much as you want. And throwing spiders into candles is just plain mean.

Tom - Never would I have expected you to stay the whole weekend with us in the house!! You were a champ despite having a penis drawn on you that first night. Thank you so much for NG and this awesome community!!!!!

and just for some fun, some more exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cock Joke.

I'm off on my road trip.

The past month has been pretty crazy.

Went to my new college for orientation. Hit a deer on the way home.

Our wedding rings were finished and sent to us. Thank god that wasn't some scam. Turning 21 on Monday. Mod meet next weekend.

Shit is going down.

Now if only my paycheck were bigger...

Last night my fiancee and I were trying to B-line from our home in that ADK mountains through Vermont, to Concord, NH. It was about 4 hours of driving, most of which was on crazy back roads in Vermont just trying to get to I89 (seriously, google maps was smoking crack!).

And it was late at night. We didn't leave until 10:00pm and I had made a reservation at a hotel earlier in the day, and was like "yeah, I'm not going to be there until 3am"

So driving through Vermont a few things happened in short order, at 1am on small county roads:

I spotted a giant moose walking away from the road. I said "Moose!" and my fiancee, who was sleeping, bolted upright, apparently thinking that there was one in the road.

A couple of turns later I see 2 giant adult moose standing next to the guard rail and my fiancee, too wired to fall back to sleep, gets excited because she had never seen a moose before.

While still sort of paranoid about moose running across the road, I'm driving down a straight away and all of a sudden in the middle of the lane is this black and white beagle. (my fiancee had fallen back to sleep by now), so I slam on the breaks, and swerve to the right. The car is making crazy noises and when you are trying to make a car stop as quick as possible you don't realize quite how long it takes. My swerve made the car go a little out of control, so it was rocking and fighting me a bit until it finally came to a stop. We were freaked out. My fiancee was scared shitless by the sudden noise and jolting, probably fearing that I was about to hit a 2000 pound animal and it was going to totally destroy her $30,000 car. The breaking and skidding kicked up a lot of dust and smoke from the breaks and wheels and this took a minute to clear.

Well, while my heart slowed down I turned the car around so that the headlights were facing where the dog had been. I didn't feel any thumps but I wanted to be dead sure that I didn't hurt the dog. I walked to where I saw where the skid marks began and made sure to get a good look at the shoulder and road to be sure there was no blood or injured dog. flashed my flashlight into the fields on either side.. Little guy must have ran as far away as possible from the road and is probably cowering in his dog house all day today. I was very relieved to find that I didn't injure the dog and that my maneuvers weren't in vain.

And so I turned the car around, while my fiancee calmed her nerves down. A few minutes later we come around a bend and I'm going 35mph or so and my girl says "can we slow down just a bit? I'm still really nervous" and in the middle of the next turn is a baby fucking moose in the middle of the road!

I stop pretty quickly (no locking up of breaks this time) and we watch it for a few seconds (and it watched us) and finally i very slowly, and giving it a very wide berth went around the baby moose telling my girlfriend that "i don't want Mama moose to decide that we're spending too much time too close to her baby and want to go after us"

Seriously. What is with Vermont wildlife?! It was fucking insane how many deer were hanging around the sides of the roads.

Needless to say when there was a sign stating "Bear crossing" on I89 I promptly slowed the car from 70 to 60mph until I was sure the crossing was over with.

Anywho,

NH was OK. My fiancee had to go to do a practical exam for a NH massage license. So we had to bring her mobile massage table, and me, so she could massage me infront of a gym full of other massage therapists and examiners who observed everyone.

Don't know if she passed or not, but fuck it was a good massage. She did a mixture of deep tissue and Swedish to treat a condition that was outlined to her in a sheet they gave her when she showed up...Which was nice because it was a neck problem and I had had a tension headache since sometime around 12am the night before while driving, and so her deep work and extra attention to the base of my skull and neck was awesome.

(pic basically what that young moose was doing, except of course it was at night and on a turn, not during the day on a straight away)