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Tonight sucks. But I’ll rant about that later. Been a while
since I last updated, mainly because I was just very busy with
moving into the new place. It’s pretty nice, I’m diggin’ it so
far. I’ll put up some pics of it when me and brad are settled
into it all the way. Of course I might have to throw a party at
that point as well, that should be fun.

The moving process was a bit stressful, but it’s pretty much
all taken care of now, all that’s left is some unpacking and
figuring out where things go. It’s been fun so far though,
and it’s nice to be out on my own, and has it’s advantages,
everything from having covered parking to having my own
bathroom that actually stays clean all the time because
I’m the only one that uses it. It’s definitly a fun bachelor
pad of sorts.

This last weekend was the musical at the high school in tooele,
and, as is tradition, I just had to go back and check it out.
I went and saw it friday night, saturday night, and monday night,
it was very good all 3 nights and I enjoyed it. To my surprise,
what I didnt enjoy was tooele. It was weird being back there,
and it just seemed so lame and boring.(no offense to anyone
still there.) It sure made me glad I’m out of there though.
Seems ive been there too much lately, andit irritates me, I was
there 3 nights for the musical, and will be there to spend
thanksgiving with my family, and maybe there sunday for lorin’s
farewell, havent decided on that one yet, guess It’ll all depend
on how sick i am of tooele at that point.

Everything else has been pretty uneventful and slow lately,
havent done anything too exciting recently. Hell, it’s been
almost the opposite of ‘exciting’ today. Things have just
been….crappy. And the past few hours havent been much
better either. Just been a little irritated, confused,
slightly upset, disappointed, frustrated (not with anyone in
particular, mainly just at myself), among other things. So, I did
what I always do when I need to blow off steam or cool down,
and went out for a drive. It was weird, because it’s the first
‘drive’ I’ve taken since I’ve lived here, In tooele I knew where
things were, and would randomly drive up canyons, on long roads in
middle of nowhere, etc, just places that werent distracting and
were peaceful and made it easy to clear my head. tonight was weird
though, because I was pretty much driving blind, getting to know
this city a bit more, having no clue where I was going, just driving
around and letting instinct or intuition guide me. but it was
successful, and helped me clear my thoughts a little bit.

I’ve decided I really need to concentrate on not making myself such a
vulnerable person. I mean, I rarely do it, there’s only been a few
times in my life I’ve done it, but every time I do, I get hurt or
frustrated in some way. I think I just need to lock myself in some
shell for a while while figuring some things out. Life’s a funny
thing, that’s definitly for sure. It’s interesting to see what kind
kind of shit life will throw in your face at times. but I just take
it with a grain of salt, and look forward instead of back, and try
to make the best of what I have. I dont even know what else to say
at this point, It’s probably better I stop this post right here
instead of continuing and making an ass of myself because my big
mouth will get me in trouble. So I’m just gonna go cool down a bit
more, then maybe head to bed. I’ll update when I can.

Yeah yeah yeah. Been a bit busy lately, have’nt had too much
time to update. Things have been really fast paced lately,
I’ve been running on very little sleep on top of that, and
little food, mainly because I forget to eat. Got the apartment
stuff straightened out, signed our lease and got our keys
tonight, gonna try to get as much as I can moved over tomorrow
and sunday, so I can start sleepin there sunday night. It’ll be
fun, I’m gonna try to get some before/during/after pics going
of the whole process, and then once we’re settled in I think
we’re gonna throw a little housewarming soiree’ of sorts, so
I bet that’ll be a lot of fun. If any of you are Vanessa Carlton
fans, or like piano infused, soulful, rock/pop/indie-ish music,
I suggest you go out and check out her new album “Harmonium”,
it’s an awesome album, It hit shelves about 3 days ago, although
I’ve been listening to it for about a month and a half now,
because I got it for free because I was asked to write a review
of it for a certain popular online music retailer, whose name
I can’t disclose for NDA reasons. But I’ve been loving it, some
of you might recall my praise and reviews of the new single
“white houses” off of it about a month or so ago, it’s a great
song, but there’s a lot of other great material on the album
that definitly makes it worth going out and picking up. I’ve seen
her in concert twice, once in SLC and once in Vegas, and there’s
3 songs of her’s I loved that were not on her “be Not nobody”
album, that she performed, “C’est la vie”, “Papa”, & “Swindler”,
and I was pleased to see “C’est la vie” and “Papa” made it onto
the new album, “Papa” sounds the same, but “Cest la vie” was
redone a little with some new percussion, it was weird to hear,
but it’s growing on me again, if anyone likes the song and wants
to hear the original, a live concert version I have, drop me a
line, and I’ll hook ya up, same with a live version of “papa”
and “swindler”. I’ve also gotta mention a semi-indie band
known as “Something Corporate”, they’ve been getting a bit of
play time in my cd player lately, I’m liking them, and I’d
recommend them. So, go check em out. Only other thing I’ve
done lately that’s worth mentioning is Thursday I went up to
weber state university to co-host the radio show on 88.1 fm,
That’s about all I’ve got for now, might be a little while
before my next update, but I’ll try to update if I get a chance.
For now, I’m out.

Hope Everyone went out and voted in the election this year,
whether the candidate they wanted won or not, the voting is
what’s most important. I’m smart enough not to discuss politics
or my feelings towards any of the candidates on my own blog,
but im sure most everyone knows me enough to have somewhat an
idea who I did or didnt vote for, most people know how liberal
I can be at times as well. Speaking of the election stuff, I
came across an interesting statistic today, it can be found here:
http://www.homle.com/aer/2004election_by_iq.png
I found it quite interesting. Moving on, the whole moving thing
has taken a step back, I wont be beginning to move things tomorrow
like I had wanted, because the apartment I needed/wanted wasnt
ready yet, so that’s being taken care of and hopefully I’ll
be able to move in sometime next week. Im a bit pissed, and quite
ansy to get out of here, asap, but, enh, que sera sera. I’ll
live until then, and it’s more time that I dont have to pay
rent. hehe. Work week has kinda sucked, but my days off have
switched to fridays, which im a bit happier about, I’d prefer
to have saturdays off but it wont happen anytime soon, so I’ll
take what I can get for now. So, being that I have tomorrow night
off, I’d usually go out and have some fun on a night like this,
heck I even had a few pretty fun ideas.. heh. But I’ve been
getting a lot better at disciplining myself from having too much
fun lately, so as tempting as few ideas or plans were,
I decided to come home and chill out and do some writing and
such tonight, There’s been a little something I’ve been writing
for the past week or so, that I need to finish so I dont put it
off, so I’ll finish that, prepare for some things tomorrow,
and then head to nate’s birthday party tomorrow night, which
should be an awesome time. I’ll try to take moblog pics if I
remember.