Thursday, August 12, 2004
Changes are abound
The first and most obvious change is that I'm actually updating... and it HASN'T been a month.
Seriously though, many things have changed about my life very recently and more is still to come. Yesterday was my last day of work for this summer (which means I should be picking up a nice paycheck on Friday that will go directly into savings, sadly). I also hung out with my friend Amber from high school. We went and saw Collateral (its a sweet movie!) and just caught up on life and such. It was great to spend some time with her again.
Today was spent packing up things from my room in preparation for Saturday's big move back to Pullman (more change!). I am terribly excited to go back though. Get to hang out with everyone again, hopefully meet new friends, go country swing dancing (no change there), live in our HOUSE... all that good stuff. I also met my mom at Costco, where we proceeded to buy MORE stuff to take over there, including: easy mac, top ramen, laundry soap, socks, and Famous Amos cookies! My mom also bought me my birthday present... a Microsoft wireless desktop (which is SOOOO TIGHT, I might add... see it here). I also purchased my first ever track jacket, of which I'm sure there will be more in the future, and Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" CD. My friend Jackie, who I met online this summer and will also be going to WSU this fall, got me interested in her music. As Jackie says: it's the type of music that's incredibly relaxing and great for listening to while lounging on a dock.
For more change, I bought 6 more DVDs on Monday after work... bringing the total to 96 (if you're confused because I told you I previously had 95, I somehow counted 5 too many a while ago). I got Master & Commander, XXX, Zoolander, Training Day, Tomb Raider, and Cheaper By The Dozen for a total of $54 and change, including tax. As I've told some of you already, I'm really going to miss Best Buy and Target while I'm at school... ;^(
In other news, last weekend was definitely memorable for entirely different reasons. On Saturday, Peter and Jessica came and picked me up and we all headed down to Centralia to see Laura. It was great to have the gang back together again. I miss all those 11 pm trips to Flix that we made last year (and the grilled cheese sandwiches I ate in 4 bites... good times). That night was spent "fighting" over who would eat the last piece of lasagna (which was oh so good), driving out to the river and watching Peter and Greg (Laura's boyfriend) jump off a rope swing, watching most of Fight Club at a friend's house, and catching up on everyone's summer lovelife (or lack thereof in my case) before heading to bed. Sunday morning, we went to Laura's lovely church (my first time going to church in probably 10 years... that's going to change) and helped out at a carwash before having to head home.
Sunday night, I went to a party with my friend Adam and his family. It was no ordinary party, however. Adam and I were the greeters, basically. Our job was to open the doors to the limos that pulled up out front of the stone house that we were at, which happened to have quite a bit of Gravelly Lake waterfront (its in Lakewood). The guest list was pretty much 200+ old & rich people (the party was for friends of Adam's dad), the outdoors meal was 3 course and catered (with two bars around the pool), and the cheesecake for dessert was delicious. We got home at around 10:30, and foolish me thought my weekend was over... but it wasn't.
At around 10:50, I heard shouting coming from across the street and assumed it was my neighbors fighting... It turned out to be my neighbor fighting with a police officer that was trying to arrest him. In the 15 minutes or so following this, I gathered that his wife had called the cops because they were having a domestic dispute (which means someone's getting arrested, yet she was standing there yelling at the cop to let him go...) and when the cop got there, my neighbor put up a fight and I believe was pepper sprayed. Anywho, the cop finally got him handcuffed and with the assistance of a female officer that showed up a couple minutes later, they dragged him to the back of the police cruiser. There are a couple funny stories about what I saw/heard with the lady cop, but those you'll have to hear in person. A third cop showed up, but didn't really do much, and they all left a short time later. At around 11:30, I hear my neighbor's son, who is 16 or 17, taking a baseball bat to his garage door. So yeah... quite an eventful Sunday night out in Graham.
A little more change for you before I sign off for now... my mom also bought Sheriff David Reichert's book "Chasing the Devil" today. For those of you that don't know, he was the lead investigator in the Green River serial killer case and that's exactly what his book is about. I started reading it while we were eating the new Twisted Crust pizza at Pizza Hut for dinner, and even though I'm not the biggest casual reader on the planet, I'm enthralled by it. The fact that I want to become a criminal investigator might have something to do with that as well.
Oh, and I cut my hair too.
Seriously though, many things have changed about my life very recently and more is still to come. Yesterday was my last day of work for this summer (which means I should be picking up a nice paycheck on Friday that will go directly into savings, sadly). I also hung out with my friend Amber from high school. We went and saw Collateral (its a sweet movie!) and just caught up on life and such. It was great to spend some time with her again.
Today was spent packing up things from my room in preparation for Saturday's big move back to Pullman (more change!). I am terribly excited to go back though. Get to hang out with everyone again, hopefully meet new friends, go country swing dancing (no change there), live in our HOUSE... all that good stuff. I also met my mom at Costco, where we proceeded to buy MORE stuff to take over there, including: easy mac, top ramen, laundry soap, socks, and Famous Amos cookies! My mom also bought me my birthday present... a Microsoft wireless desktop (which is SOOOO TIGHT, I might add... see it here). I also purchased my first ever track jacket, of which I'm sure there will be more in the future, and Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" CD. My friend Jackie, who I met online this summer and will also be going to WSU this fall, got me interested in her music. As Jackie says: it's the type of music that's incredibly relaxing and great for listening to while lounging on a dock.
For more change, I bought 6 more DVDs on Monday after work... bringing the total to 96 (if you're confused because I told you I previously had 95, I somehow counted 5 too many a while ago). I got Master & Commander, XXX, Zoolander, Training Day, Tomb Raider, and Cheaper By The Dozen for a total of $54 and change, including tax. As I've told some of you already, I'm really going to miss Best Buy and Target while I'm at school... ;^(
In other news, last weekend was definitely memorable for entirely different reasons. On Saturday, Peter and Jessica came and picked me up and we all headed down to Centralia to see Laura. It was great to have the gang back together again. I miss all those 11 pm trips to Flix that we made last year (and the grilled cheese sandwiches I ate in 4 bites... good times). That night was spent "fighting" over who would eat the last piece of lasagna (which was oh so good), driving out to the river and watching Peter and Greg (Laura's boyfriend) jump off a rope swing, watching most of Fight Club at a friend's house, and catching up on everyone's summer lovelife (or lack thereof in my case) before heading to bed. Sunday morning, we went to Laura's lovely church (my first time going to church in probably 10 years... that's going to change) and helped out at a carwash before having to head home.
Sunday night, I went to a party with my friend Adam and his family. It was no ordinary party, however. Adam and I were the greeters, basically. Our job was to open the doors to the limos that pulled up out front of the stone house that we were at, which happened to have quite a bit of Gravelly Lake waterfront (its in Lakewood). The guest list was pretty much 200+ old & rich people (the party was for friends of Adam's dad), the outdoors meal was 3 course and catered (with two bars around the pool), and the cheesecake for dessert was delicious. We got home at around 10:30, and foolish me thought my weekend was over... but it wasn't.
At around 10:50, I heard shouting coming from across the street and assumed it was my neighbors fighting... It turned out to be my neighbor fighting with a police officer that was trying to arrest him. In the 15 minutes or so following this, I gathered that his wife had called the cops because they were having a domestic dispute (which means someone's getting arrested, yet she was standing there yelling at the cop to let him go...) and when the cop got there, my neighbor put up a fight and I believe was pepper sprayed. Anywho, the cop finally got him handcuffed and with the assistance of a female officer that showed up a couple minutes later, they dragged him to the back of the police cruiser. There are a couple funny stories about what I saw/heard with the lady cop, but those you'll have to hear in person. A third cop showed up, but didn't really do much, and they all left a short time later. At around 11:30, I hear my neighbor's son, who is 16 or 17, taking a baseball bat to his garage door. So yeah... quite an eventful Sunday night out in Graham.
A little more change for you before I sign off for now... my mom also bought Sheriff David Reichert's book "Chasing the Devil" today. For those of you that don't know, he was the lead investigator in the Green River serial killer case and that's exactly what his book is about. I started reading it while we were eating the new Twisted Crust pizza at Pizza Hut for dinner, and even though I'm not the biggest casual reader on the planet, I'm enthralled by it. The fact that I want to become a criminal investigator might have something to do with that as well.
Oh, and I cut my hair too.
