The move was completed
In nearly record time.
We started at 9:30ish (yes, ish is a time) and were done by 12:15 or so. My uncle had a trailer attached to his truck, I had my exploder and my Nebraska uncle had their van. Fortunately, we had gotten rid of a lot of her belongings during the sale in September, so Grandma didn't have a ton of stuff, or a ton of big stuff for that matter. The aunts and my mom packed and we loaded. It took us two trips to be called good, with most minor stuff lingering around. As we were eating lunch, my Nebraska Uncle said "I think we should be concentrating on the 9th hole." I agreed, and then Grandma said "Go golf, we'll handle it!"
So my dad, my NE uncle, myself and my dad's only friend and my dad's only friend's soon-to-be-son-in-law traipsed up the road to play Turkey Creek. I was a little concerned as I hadn't played golf since..oh...November. The course was in good shape, save for the greens. They were freaking horrible. They had arreated and hadn't been mowed yet. It was like playing on kitchen carpet with little pebbles thrown in. I shot 83, where I'm counting that I left 4 or 5 strokes out there because of the green. It lightninged on hole 17 and started raining on 18. We were the last car in the parking lot because we're idiots. And it got chilly. Bone numbing chilly.
Played golf yesterday too, and that went about as well as expected, because it was COLD and I was SORE.
All in all, it was a good weekend.
Tis the weekend of the move
We're moving my grandma this weekend to her new smaller place.
I'm bearing the brunt of my mother's stress as in she's barking at me. Literally barking. RUHHHSTTEEEE! RUHHSTEEE! I mean really, we haven't even started and she's up to four barks.
In other news....I have a wiggly voice.
It's been twenty years
And I can let the grudge go! ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK! Yes, I've held a bit of a grudge for 20 years as it was 1988 when KU won their last championship. I was an 11 year old 5th grader.
At the time, KU was a heavy underdog to mighty Oklahoma, having been trounced twice by the Sooners during the regular season. Experts were predicting it to be a blowout of epic proportions. Kansas couldn't hold up with the run and gun style of OU.
Wrong.
The first half of the game was a shootout. KU and OU matched basket for basket in a breakneck pace and it was tied 50-50 at the break. Then the unthinkable happened.
I was sent to bed.
Yes. Really. My dad was watching the game with some of his friends and wasn't there to defend me and therefore I was cast aside to the darkness of my room. I was so mad that I could have chewed rocks and spit sand. I spent the next hour laying in my bed, with my radio blaring the game, just daring my mom to ask me to turn it down. With about a minute left, I took the chance and went upstairs to find my father home with a friend watching the end of the game as KU prevailed 83-79.
Last night was vindication for the ghosts in my past as KU once again claimed the national title. When Mario Chalmers' three dropped in with 2.1 seconds to go tying the score, I knew. I knew the Jayhawks were the national champions as Memphis's only low post threat was on the bench having fouled out. It was an incredible game and I laid my grudge to rest.
Testing
A couple of years ago, I took a very involved MBTI and came up with ENFP. I took a very short one just recently and I came up with...ENFP again. Interesting.
You Are An ENFP
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The Inspirer
You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends.
You are also unconventional, irreverent, and unimpressed by authority and rules.
Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives.
You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're quite the storyteller!
In love, you are quite the charmer. And you are definitely willing to risk your heart.
You often don't follow through with your flirting or professed feelings. And you do break a lot of hearts.
At work, you are driven but not a workaholic. You just always seem to enjoy what you do.
You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist.
How you see yourself: compassionate, unselfish, and understanding
When other people don't get you, they see you as: gushy, emotional, and unfocused
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Some letters
It's that time again. Time for some letters.
Dear WSU,
I still hate you. You bastards.
RJ
Dear Dr. Rhetoric Nazi,
The rest of the students and I in Comm. 535 have decided we would like to boil you in oil. We can no longer stand that we have no opinion on anything in class or even out of class. Quit trying to get us to conform to your regime. In fact, why even try when you're going to grade us on stuff that's Pass if you do it/Fail if you don't.
Sincerely
All of 535
Dear Mama Nature,
Can we make up our mind already? I mean really. This hot, cold, warm, chilly shit has to quit. This isn't spring, it's a fever that won't go away. Let's go, green it up.
Wishing I could fish,
Rusty
Dear Gas Price Makers,
I hope you burn. I hope your expensive SUV's blow up but only burn you to the point where you live. Better yet, I hope you invest in Enron and have to pay for gas like the rest of us. I had to sell a kidney on ebay to fill up the other day. I'm almost out of kidneys!
Dialysising,
Rusty
Dear Rhetoric Nazi pt. 2
Why don't you organize stuff like a normal person? Just because you wrote the freaking textbook doesn't give you the right to jump around like a monkey on meth. Seriously, you're killing us with your Chap 4, Chap 8, first part of Chapter 3, second part of Chapter 11. Not only that, but enough already with the extra readings that aren't in the book. You wrote the damn book, PUT THEM IN THE BOOK!!!
Watching the EPA take my printer because I'm killing trees,
RJ
Dear Ford,
Is it really that hard to get a freaking door hinge? I'm not Krypto the Wonder Dog who can jump through hoops. All I wanted was a door hinge for my explorer. I've never needed a PhD in car mechanics to surf a website, but thanks to you assholes, I do.
Not Mr. GoodScrewdriver,
Me
Dear Josh,
Thanks you fucker. Without you, we lost to a team we should have beaten, but they kept hitting to gaps because you weren't there. I hope Tim drops your ass in the order. I wanted to watch KU too, but I'm loyal.
Rock Chalk Chickenhawk
RJ
Dear Crazy people
It's time for all of you to get your heads examined. Really. Go to some people who specialize in head doctoring and park your asses on their couches until they fix you. And if they can't fix you, then fix yourselves. This is for all crazies!
Basking in my own personal insanity which I don't force on anyone,
Rus
Dear WSU,
Yep still hate you.
Hate,
Rusty
