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Sam’s Strawberry and my odd Dreams

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Yesterday Sam went over to Danei’s house for some felt crafting while Jason and I worked.  They made felt food’s for Harvey to play with.  Naturally Sam was amazing at it (she used to make felt dolls in the past).  Her strawberry, it came out pretty awesome.

Felt Strawberry Awesomeness
Felt Strawberry Awesomeness

After that we got some tacos from Taco Tontos.  Taco Tontos is Sam’s favorite restaurant from college in Kent.  It would basically be like Mighty Taco or Jim’s Steak Out opening a franchise here (please… please open a franchise here).   So we got to relive her college days by going to the newly opened Taco Tonto’s in Lakewood.  It was fantastic.  Sam had a sweet potato burrito and I have a chicken one.  Nice, super filling meal.

Of course I feel like Taco Tonto’s helped with my strange dream.  I had some dream where I was with two other people in some mountain monestary.  The chick in our group (reminded me of Lela from Futurama) was beating up monks.  She beat one up and then found a rope dangling down next to him.

She said “Remember what that other dead monk said, ‘the bells rings nine times for heaven.'”  She pulled on the rope once and a door in the wall opened.  At this point I realized the guy with us was Kevin (from high school and Hawaii wedding fame).  There was a gas generator at the top of the stairs and I light it.

We went down the stairs and came to a huge bomb shelter with super long hallways.  One shelf was filled with just guns.  I knew there would be trouble so I picked up a sawed off rifle.  Unfortunately it was empty and I couldn’t find bullets.  As we walked There massive stockpiles of weapons and food.  All freshly kept up.  We were a long way from the stairs when we heard a group of people behind us.  Whomever they were…. we started running.  I wanted to fire my gun, but remembered there were no bullets, and upon further inspection the barrel had been folded in on itself.  Who ever sawed it off did a pretty crappy job because the barrel was blocked.

And then I woke up…..

Damn you Taco Tonto’s.  Your tasty food causes weird dreams.

Christmas

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I bought Sam’s Christmas present about two weeks ago off of eBay.

It came in last Monday and I went down to the office to pick it up (all of our packages go to the apartment office to be held). Its a pretty big package. Holly, our building manager, had let me know it was there.

I pick it up and Holly asks what it is. I tell her its Sam’s Christmas present.

Holly’s exact words are: “But that’s way too big to be a ring.”

Holly loves us. We’re good tenants, we pay on time, we don’t bitch about small things, and we stop by and chat with her often. She always tells us we’re some of her favorite tenants and from the excitement in her voice when she sees I can tell its true.

“When are you going to do it? I can’t wait because you two are some of my favorite people!”

I tell her eventually to end this part of the conversation.

You see, its not that I don’t love Sam. I do. And its not like I’m going any where. I’m not. However I’m not sure marriage is important to me. Well I know its not. Its such a religious thing in my mind. And I’m not religious. Sam feels the same way. If marriage were a governmental thing without any religious twinge, I may feel differently. And I know you can get married without a church, or any religious institution, but living in the era of constant politics has made marriage a religious institution.

When religion is used as a basis to deny two people the opportunity to get married, I don’t care to get married. Period. That’s it. That’s how I feel about marriage. If the government changed the laws so that marriage wasn’t the word they used, instead it was civil union for everyone. Then yeah, lets get a civil union. Let religions have the word marriage, under the books and law it will be called civil union. Sam and I have joked about that. Civil Union. But regardless of what is said a Civil Union is not the same as a Marriage, and having two words to mean one thing during governmental law automatically makes them not equal. It has that feel. Only we, the right folk, can have this word. All you people we don’t like what you are doing, you get to have this word over here. Don’t worry, it’s exactly the same thing as our word when it comes to laws and rights, but its not our word. You can’t have that word.

I need a good happy relationship. Marriage, that’s like an end game, or a turning point in a relationship. I don’t need a relationship with turning points. I just want a good relationship that keeps growing. And ours does.

And Sam, and myself, are happy with our relationship.

Cause its a great one.

Sam… Remember

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This was Saturday…

AJ – “Sam, remember that song that totally reminds me of you.”

Sam – “Uhhmm, no.”

AJ – “It goes like this:
‘I don’t know much, but I know that gauze doesn’t belong in coffee mug basket.‘
Remember that one?”

Laughter ensues.
———-

We were cleaning and Sam had accidentally left a box of gauze in our coffee mug basket.

It was a good day. 🙂

Random Events of Life

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In no particular order:

– Charity. I went to a charity event at my school yesterday. It was to raise money for students on the Martial Arts team. It wasn’t planned very well, which was not our sensei’s fault, as the middle/high school had joined us (or rather they put it together but wanted to hold it in our building). I mean it was nice, bake sale, DJ, raffle, live auction, and martial arts demo team. However they apparently didn’t advertise, as only 40 – 50 adults where there. Which was a little underwhelming. But I’m glad I showed up. Understandable it was on a Saturday, but I expected at least some staff to show up in support, instead I was the only staff from my building other than the sensei to show up. However I did win a new tv antenna in the raffle, as well as some notebooks, and a dog basket for Jason’s dog Apollo. And in the Auction I won a tray of cupcakes (Sam was adamant about winning cupcakes to bring home), a basketball signed by a harlem globetrotter (the student who donated it really wants it back, I spent $37 to get it back, and I’ll come up with some sort of deal where he can earn it back. Sure it sounds like bribery, but the student was pretty sad that he was donating it. It was basically the main reason I showed up, getting it back for him.)

– Pumpkin. I’ve started feeding my cats some pumpkin with their canned cat food. They’ve had particularly stinky poops lately. And Angelo has just been a mess. All over. Apparently pumpkin is a magic kind of cat food that treats both diarrhea and constipation, and also helps with the stench. Here’s hopping. They both like it though.

– Ginger and Paprika. Ginger and Paprika have started getting along. We are working towards moving them into one cage. They spent about 12 hours together yesterday but are having trouble figuring out who is the dominate guinea pig. I told Sam not to worry, our brains are a gazillion times bigger than their guinea pig brains so we can trick them into being friends without much problem.

– Sam. She’s cute.

– Jason. Doing well after Danei had Harvey. Damn cute kid, who I’m sure will grow up awesome.

– However, his friend Walt died recently afterwards. I know, its that weird life/death thing, but it is crazy, and he died in what can only be called ‘suspicious’ circumstances. I hope things get sorted out soon. Jason is an amazing guy and friend and has had way too many ups and downs in his life recently. The last thing anyone needs is a good friend dying, and beyond that dying in a way that leaves a lot of questions.

– Antenna. I am going to use that new antenna from the auction to watch the Super Bowl today. I don’t really care about it, but I do despise the New England Patriots. And because Tom Brady endorses watching sports on illegal streaming sites, I will never feel bad about watching the Bills games that way again.

– Shopping. We spend more on vegetables for the Guinea Pigs than we do on vegetables for ourselves. They even get better vegetables than we do. We buy the bag of chopped up lettuce and they get the fresh heads of lettuce. We buy tomatoes in a plastic basket. They get freshly cut parsley.

– Stability. I was thinking about the relative stability in my life now as opposed just a year ago, or hell, how unstable my life was 2 years ago. Its nice.

– Work. I sort of feel like I’m stepping it up at work lately. It feels nice. Although I need some more work pants and I need to buy button down shirts from somewhere other than Target, it seems all of the males at work shop there, I recognize my same shirts on others and thank god we wore them on opposing days.

– Diet. Its February. I decided to use this month to keep track of everything I eat. What I realize is that I don’t eat a lot, but it heavily lies in me eating in the afternoon and night (I don’t eat at all until about 11:15 on most days, and then don’t snack/eat until I’m home from work). I need to spread it out a little more. I suppose I’ll need to start eating breakfast.