Yeah, it's true. This is going to be the most fascinating thing you ever read. I picked up some cheap-o beans from the supermarket the other day -- but wait, aren't all beans cheap? Yes. So nevermind that.
I was curious where they were made because who's heard of the brand Sun Vista before? I'm an avid bean buyer, and I haven't. Turns out, they were manufacuted by Faribault Foods in good 'ole Faribault, Minnesota...the town I happened to be born in and lived in until I was 11. SO COOL.
I only have two days of class left. Tomorrow and Tuesday, May 1st. Then it's finals time. My first one is Saturday the 5th at 5pm. Yes, my school is so ginormiousish that they have to hold finals on Saturday.
I've narrowed apartment choices in OC down to like a dozen or so. Hopefully, I can see my first choices on day one, and won't have to spend another day looking at them when I go out to tour them the end of May.
My sister Krysti is moving to the Vegas May 5th. This makes me happy. She will only be 4.5 hours from my front door. It will be nice to have family close to share the non-major holidays with.
My family is coming here for my graduation TWO WEEKS from tomorrow! This is really happening, apparently. Graduating college.
All you loyal readers are in for a bit of excitement the next several months. That is, if you get excited over my blogs. Graduating, moving, starting a new job, making new friends, adjusting to my new life as a boy in Orange County...I'm sure you can't hardly wait! I know I can't.
There is a downer to all of this, though. I'm leaving behind two of the best friends I've ever had. Although Tony already moved to Waco last January, at least he's been close enough to see if we wanted to (which we have once!). He was my first real friend here in town. I met him via his spouse Lindsay (they were engaged at the time) through our college ministry. We ended up hitting it off somehow and spent many times playing racquetball (I never beat him), smoking cigars, and watching "The O.C." and Spurs games. I'm going to miss him.
The second feller is Chris. I met him very randomly. He and his wife Erica were at our Life Group one night as part of an interview process to work with the college ministry. Well, that didn't work out, but we did. After that chance encounter, I didn't see him for several months. I knew that he worked at the Target by my chiropractor tho, so when I was over there once, I stopped in to pick up some Kraft Mayo®, and I ran into him. We exchanged numbers. Then we didn't talk for another month. Then we met up at Starbucks one night (the night of my being dumped, by the way). Slowly we started hanging our more and more, and now, after a year and a half, it's 2-3 sometimes 4-5 times a week.
In the past, you'd have to pull my teeth to get my to want to go out more than a couple times a week. Well, now I'd almost rather hang out with Chris than by myself, which is kind of weird for me. I'm used to being a homebody. I think it's because we enjoy doing the same things. I don't know why I didn't realize this before, but it helps to find friends that like to do the things that I like to do. Who knew?
Well, he's moving to Chicago on Monday, so I don't feel like I'm leaving him behind. We're both going our separate ways. I've never had a friend like that guy before.
With Tony and Chris both, they are the kind of friends that I'm certain I'll be buddies with as I grow old and my hair turns from white to whiter.
I'll probably reflect on my time here in San Antone in future blogs, but for now, I have to say...Although this wasn't exactly part of my plan to live here, it's worked out better than I could have imagined, and I would only trade it for a date with Rachel Bilson wouldn't trade it for anything.
So Sunday was a day of birthdays. My BFF Chris had his. My Grandpa Hellickson had his. And my nephew Titus had his as well. I wasn't there, but here are pictures from Grandpa and Titus' birthday bash:
I thought my visit to the InkSell.com store would be just another visit to the ink store. The girl working there seemed to want to sell me more than ink. After she looked up my customer profile, she asked where my area code is from...and well that got the ball rolling. She was asking me all sorts of questions. Good thing people aren't busting down the doors at 1pm on a Monday to buy ink.
Too bad I'm moving, I just might have asked her out to coffee. That's right, I just might've.
I sort of feel like the girl at the dry cleaners is smitten with me, too. Everytime I go in there, which has been a lot this semester, she seems to fumble with things and be all smiley.
Or it may just be that I have stuff hanging out of my nose.
My Blockbuster online queue is up to around 195 movies and TV shows. It's daunting. It could be far more. I also have an Excel spreadsheet listing the mass of TV-on-DVD sets I intend on watching someday. When something new comes out, I add it to the Blockbuster queue or the Excel spreadsheet. The problem is, then it's at the bottom. It may take years to get to. That's not fair!
I've decided to use a random number generator to put me at ease. That way, everything has a fair chance of being selected. It's also unpredictable, which I kind of like in this case.
You might think I consume too much media if I have to go to these lengths. I'm not sure. Maybe so, but it's what I like to do with my free time.
I also like to have my 15,000 songs(it's taken me 10 years to reach this milestone) in iTunes on party shuffle. So sue me. In the car or walking to class, I usually only listen to albums. I keep it real sometimes.
In figuring out what to keep and throw away for the big move coming up, I am faced with a dilemma. I have 4-5 big Case Logic CD binders all filled up. Thing is, I haven't pulled them out since sometime in the winter of 2006. All of my music is on my hard drive. All of it is backed up on DVDs. What do I need to keep the CDs around for? I don't. But I think it would be a huge waste to chuck 'em. I suppose I will hang on to them to show the kids one day when they ask what a CD is.
I cleaned our microwave a couple of weeks ago and apparently got some 409 on the circuit board. Well, it wouldn't work for about 12 hours until it dried out. Then it was fine. Well, now it's not working again. I took it upon myself to go to Wal-Mart and get the cheapest microwave ever made. I've never bought one before, so I figured they'd be $75 or something. No! It was $43.88!! It could have been less because the cashier didn't bother coming around to my cart to scan it, she instead asked me how much it was. Me, being an ethical accountant (we didn't used to have to qualify that, by the way) told her $43.88. She had to type a description along with her price input. I don't normally like to use one person to make an assumption about the whole, but she typed in "macrowave."
On the way out, I noticed an advertisement for a new line of Diet Coke. I think it was called Diet Coke Life. And folks, soda drinkers now have an excuse to drink soda to their health. You see, this new Diet Coke has vitamins and minerals in it. Just what we need. I gotta hand it to Coca-Cola though, genius. Absolutely genius.
Well thank you! I officially accepted a job offer yesterday. I will be working as an auditor at an accounting firm in Lake Forest, California. For those of you not familiar with the area, Lake Forest is a planned community in south central Orange County, just south of Los Angeles. It was created in 1991. Weird, I am older than a city. And sad, that was the last time the Twins won a World Series. Lake Forest is ranked as one of the safest cities for its size (58,000) in the country. This means I don't have to lock my car or my apartment, right?
I am also officially excited. My dream of living in California has been years in the making, and it's finally going to happen!! I'm going to have grown up job!
I have six weeks until I graduate and nine or so until I start my job. Yessah!
Associated Press
April 03, 2007 2:53 PM EDT
LONDON - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.
In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Yeah, it's true. This is going to be the most fascinating thing you ever read. I picked up some cheap-o beans from the supermarket the other day -- but wait, aren't all beans cheap? Yes. So nevermind that.
I was curious where they were made because who's heard of the brand Sun Vista before? I'm an avid bean buyer, and I haven't. Turns out, they were manufacuted by Faribault Foods in good 'ole Faribault, Minnesota...the town I happened to be born in and lived in until I was 11. SO COOL.
I only have two days of class left. Tomorrow and Tuesday, May 1st. Then it's finals time. My first one is Saturday the 5th at 5pm. Yes, my school is so ginormiousish that they have to hold finals on Saturday.
I've narrowed apartment choices in OC down to like a dozen or so. Hopefully, I can see my first choices on day one, and won't have to spend another day looking at them when I go out to tour them the end of May.
My sister Krysti is moving to the Vegas May 5th. This makes me happy. She will only be 4.5 hours from my front door. It will be nice to have family close to share the non-major holidays with.
My family is coming here for my graduation TWO WEEKS from tomorrow! This is really happening, apparently. Graduating college.
All you loyal readers are in for a bit of excitement the next several months. That is, if you get excited over my blogs. Graduating, moving, starting a new job, making new friends, adjusting to my new life as a boy in Orange County...I'm sure you can't hardly wait! I know I can't.
There is a downer to all of this, though. I'm leaving behind two of the best friends I've ever had. Although Tony already moved to Waco last January, at least he's been close enough to see if we wanted to (which we have once!). He was my first real friend here in town. I met him via his spouse Lindsay (they were engaged at the time) through our college ministry. We ended up hitting it off somehow and spent many times playing racquetball (I never beat him), smoking cigars, and watching "The O.C." and Spurs games. I'm going to miss him.
The second feller is Chris. I met him very randomly. He and his wife Erica were at our Life Group one night as part of an interview process to work with the college ministry. Well, that didn't work out, but we did. After that chance encounter, I didn't see him for several months. I knew that he worked at the Target by my chiropractor tho, so when I was over there once, I stopped in to pick up some Kraft Mayo®, and I ran into him. We exchanged numbers. Then we didn't talk for another month. Then we met up at Starbucks one night (the night of my being dumped, by the way). Slowly we started hanging our more and more, and now, after a year and a half, it's 2-3 sometimes 4-5 times a week.
In the past, you'd have to pull my teeth to get my to want to go out more than a couple times a week. Well, now I'd almost rather hang out with Chris than by myself, which is kind of weird for me. I'm used to being a homebody. I think it's because we enjoy doing the same things. I don't know why I didn't realize this before, but it helps to find friends that like to do the things that I like to do. Who knew?
Well, he's moving to Chicago on Monday, so I don't feel like I'm leaving him behind. We're both going our separate ways. I've never had a friend like that guy before.
With Tony and Chris both, they are the kind of friends that I'm certain I'll be buddies with as I grow old and my hair turns from white to whiter.
I'll probably reflect on my time here in San Antone in future blogs, but for now, I have to say...Although this wasn't exactly part of my plan to live here, it's worked out better than I could have imagined, and I would only trade it for a date with Rachel Bilson wouldn't trade it for anything.
So Sunday was a day of birthdays. My BFF Chris had his. My Grandpa Hellickson had his. And my nephew Titus had his as well. I wasn't there, but here are pictures from Grandpa and Titus' birthday bash:
I thought my visit to the InkSell.com store would be just another visit to the ink store. The girl working there seemed to want to sell me more than ink. After she looked up my customer profile, she asked where my area code is from...and well that got the ball rolling. She was asking me all sorts of questions. Good thing people aren't busting down the doors at 1pm on a Monday to buy ink.
Too bad I'm moving, I just might have asked her out to coffee. That's right, I just might've.
I sort of feel like the girl at the dry cleaners is smitten with me, too. Everytime I go in there, which has been a lot this semester, she seems to fumble with things and be all smiley.
Or it may just be that I have stuff hanging out of my nose.
My Blockbuster online queue is up to around 195 movies and TV shows. It's daunting. It could be far more. I also have an Excel spreadsheet listing the mass of TV-on-DVD sets I intend on watching someday. When something new comes out, I add it to the Blockbuster queue or the Excel spreadsheet. The problem is, then it's at the bottom. It may take years to get to. That's not fair!
I've decided to use a random number generator to put me at ease. That way, everything has a fair chance of being selected. It's also unpredictable, which I kind of like in this case.
You might think I consume too much media if I have to go to these lengths. I'm not sure. Maybe so, but it's what I like to do with my free time.
I also like to have my 15,000 songs(it's taken me 10 years to reach this milestone) in iTunes on party shuffle. So sue me. In the car or walking to class, I usually only listen to albums. I keep it real sometimes.
In figuring out what to keep and throw away for the big move coming up, I am faced with a dilemma. I have 4-5 big Case Logic CD binders all filled up. Thing is, I haven't pulled them out since sometime in the winter of 2006. All of my music is on my hard drive. All of it is backed up on DVDs. What do I need to keep the CDs around for? I don't. But I think it would be a huge waste to chuck 'em. I suppose I will hang on to them to show the kids one day when they ask what a CD is.
I cleaned our microwave a couple of weeks ago and apparently got some 409 on the circuit board. Well, it wouldn't work for about 12 hours until it dried out. Then it was fine. Well, now it's not working again. I took it upon myself to go to Wal-Mart and get the cheapest microwave ever made. I've never bought one before, so I figured they'd be $75 or something. No! It was $43.88!! It could have been less because the cashier didn't bother coming around to my cart to scan it, she instead asked me how much it was. Me, being an ethical accountant (we didn't used to have to qualify that, by the way) told her $43.88. She had to type a description along with her price input. I don't normally like to use one person to make an assumption about the whole, but she typed in "macrowave."
On the way out, I noticed an advertisement for a new line of Diet Coke. I think it was called Diet Coke Life. And folks, soda drinkers now have an excuse to drink soda to their health. You see, this new Diet Coke has vitamins and minerals in it. Just what we need. I gotta hand it to Coca-Cola though, genius. Absolutely genius.
Well thank you! I officially accepted a job offer yesterday. I will be working as an auditor at an accounting firm in Lake Forest, California. For those of you not familiar with the area, Lake Forest is a planned community in south central Orange County, just south of Los Angeles. It was created in 1991. Weird, I am older than a city. And sad, that was the last time the Twins won a World Series. Lake Forest is ranked as one of the safest cities for its size (58,000) in the country. This means I don't have to lock my car or my apartment, right?
I am also officially excited. My dream of living in California has been years in the making, and it's finally going to happen!! I'm going to have grown up job!
I have six weeks until I graduate and nine or so until I start my job. Yessah!
Associated Press
April 03, 2007 2:53 PM EDT
LONDON - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.
In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
