Greg...coloring and dancing (Drum Line was playing in the background). Yes, I know my carpet is nasty (you don't need to point it out)...we'll be steam cleaning it before we move (not that it'll help).

Also note that he already dances like a white person. He has no rhythm and he puts his arms up in the air for no apparent reason. Not sure if he's trying to imitate the drummers on TV or just being a little white boy with no rhythm.

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I'm packing to move...but my lease isn't up until the 9th of August. I want to make sure that we're good and ready to go by then. Since it's mostly just me packing, I want to make sure that I am all packed and ready to go by at least the 1st.

You don't realize how much shit you have until you start packing. I hate the fact that we're (I) am so disorganized. I hate the fact that Greg has to live in a giant disorganized mess. I'm promising Greg (and myself) that I will never let it get this way AGAIN. I can't really speak for Brian because he never does what I ask him, he's not really helping me pack, and he's basically all talk and now show. He says he'll do something...and then it never happens. At this point, I've completely given up. He can do whatever he wants...Greg and I will do our own thing...Brian can have his own, messed up crap space outside (if we get this new place). If he wants to be lazy and trash something, he can trash the utility shed full of his shit. I don't want to see it anymore. I'm so disgusted.

Anyway, back to cleaning...and packing.

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because we haven't seen one of these in a few years (haha).

I thought about coming to update in the morning for quite some time, but have never really gotten around to doing it. It's not that I wouldn't have time to do it, I was just lazy and all.

We're moving out of our apartment in the next month. I've been hoarding boxes from work to pack our stuff up in. Brian's dad said he would not help us in the future if we did not pack...so, I'm making sure we pack this time. Greg stayed over at Brian's parents last night, so we would have plenty of time without Greg to come and pack and clean-up. WELL...Brian conveniently went into work to where he'd get off at 7:30...get home at 8. That's a load of shit. Not only that, he didn't even drive to work...so I would have had to go pick him up! He claims that the Jetta doesn't work...but when I asked him last night if it was drivable, he said moderately. I think he said that because he knew that if he said you could drive it, I'd leave the good car and drive the Jetta. Honestly, if it still drives...I'll drive the damn thing until it breaks down on the side of the road. Anyway, I ended up having a friend of mine from work drive me home. We went and dropped the car off at Brian's work and she drove me home. When I got home, I immediately got to cleaning the living room, packing up all of Greg's toys (honestly, he probably only needs a few of them...but he has about a few hundred of them). I threw those in boxes. I cleaned up Greg's bookshelf and took it down, threw away all the garbage that Brian was too lazy to pick up since he was only not working for almost a month. Cleaned up around Apollo's cage and ran the vacuum. Now Greg will have a nice open area to run around in, clutter free, with 2 big rubber balls and his Little People car garage.

Mind you, about 2 hours has elapsed. I'm working my ass off, took 5 bags of trash out, packed about 5 boxes...it's looking great. Brian comes home, looks in the living room, immediately goes down and sits at his desk and states "Oh, I'll clean the kitchen." It gets to be about 10:30, Brian has still not gotten up to clean the kitchen. I asked him when he was going to take the garbage out, he said he'd do it last night or this morning (I jokingly say...or when I get home from work). I get up this morning, kitchen looks like a gigantic trash heap, hasn't even been touched, all the garbage bags are still there...the dishes are spilling out of the sink. Nothing got touched last night. He did, however, have time to go take a bath last night. He put the bin for Greg's lego's that I had put in the bath tub on my bath mat (I had put the lego bin in the bath tub because it had BBQ sauce on the bottom so I could wash it off)...so now my bath mat has BBQ sauce on it. Heaven forbid Brian lift a finger to clean something that belongs to me...

Game plan tonight...go pick up Greg, start packing up Greg's room with all his clothes, start stock-piling boxes in Greg's room since he doesn't play in there. It just irritates me when I go to work all day, get bitched at at work all day, come home slave all night, and he doesn't even help me. What a fucking slap in the face. I'm not his mommy...and I don't feel that I need to be his mommy. He needs to start taking responsibility for some of his stuff and GROW UP.

Ahh...finally said it.

In lighter news (I know, this is getting long), I'm leaving for Seattle next Wednesday night. I'll be there until the 14th and then I'm coming home. My grandfather's dying and this will probably be the last time I get to see him alive. I would rather go out and see him alive than go out for his funeral where he's already dead. Spend about 5 days out there and then come home and go back to the grind. Brian will have 5 days of me being gone to clean up and pack by himself. If he can't do that while I'm gone, I'm seriously considering why he's even there at all...(ugh, sorry...back on the old topic).

I'll catch you all later!

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happy birthday to me...

happy birthday to meeeee.....................

happy birthday to me!!!

Okay...I'm doing nothing for my 24th birthday. I'm going to go to work, work some overtime (not because I want to, but because I have to)...and then come home and probably go to sleep.

Sounds exciting, doesn't it?

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I have not been as proactive about posting as I have been in the past. I really suck for that :(

I just got done watching "PS: I Love You" and it was a great movie. Chick Flick to the max though...so if you're a guy, you'll probably hate it. I sooooo rooted for what happened in the end, so I'm gonna shut up now or else I'll ruin it. It's a tear-jerker though. I found myself crying, but not enough to make puddles.

I still have "A Very Long Engagement" that I haven't watched, but I've had it forever...I'm going to send it back and get other movies. I really want to watch "The Other Boleyn Girl" and I need to send by my Netflix movie to get it. I put a kids movie up toward the top though so Greg could get something. Who knew the kid would be addicted to Alvin and the Chipmunks. The movie that just came out on DVD, Greg's watched it about 20 times (literally). He loves the singing when they come on and you absolutely cannot pull him away from the screen. He is GLUED. I was trying to get him to come sit down in the chair with me, but he was glued to the TV and he wouldn't walk out of the hallway. It was quite amusing.

Our guinea pig isn't doing so well. We noticed tonight that he's somewhat lethargic and he doesn't squeak like he usually does when you hold him. He didn't really care that I picked him up and he hadn't eaten any of his food all day. I put a ton of hay in there for him to munch on and we gave him some oranges...we'll see if anything improves by the morning. If not, he may have to go to the vet :( I feel bad because he's usually not like this and I'd hate to think he has some disease that I could have prevented or something (like scurvy...maybe I didn't feed him enough greens and vitamin C)...agh...

Our real estate conference starts tomorrow. We have to wear our snazzy work shirts tomorrow and slave away in the building. I'll probably go to a few of the sessions Saturday. I want to see how some things work...and who knows what else I'll do. They're having a big meet-and-greet tomorrow after work and I don't think I'll go. I hardly know the people coming and yeah, open bar and free food...but it's just not the same when you're supposed to be mingling with people that hate your guts on the phone. Not my idea of a fun time. Big party Saturday night though...usually have some sort of big fake casino, so if you're playing games and having a few drinks with the people there, it can actually turn out to be a fun time :)

Anyway...I'm going to bed. I'm tired as hell.

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but seriously, who isn't at night? Brian's out watching a movie with his friend Paul. They're watching The Hulk. Me and the Greg got to spend some quality mommy/son time. He loves playing in the couch cushions. He likes to run the length of the couch and leap into my arms. He doesn't do that to Brian, but he does it to me. Makes me feel special!

Um...I'm almost done reading The Host. The more I read it, the more it grows on me. I had a hard time getting into it, but I'm just wanting to finish it now!

I'm working about 5 hours tomorrow and then I'm not working the rest of the weekend. My friend Monique and I are going to play tennis Sunday morning. I've never played tennis, but it can't be too hard. To amateurs playing can't be too embarrassing. It's a great way to try and get in shape. Speaking of getting in shape, I totally bombed on my diet. The next session starts on Thursday, so my friend from work and I are starting over again. I feel so ashamed that I messed up :(

I've been playing WoW more frequently these past few weeks. I think I needed a break...and now I'm playing a few nights a week. Slowly, I'm leveling my hunter. She's almost to level 50 right now...so close...so close...

But yeah...I'm about done with my blah blah post...catch ya later.

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Glenwood Springs was exactly what I needed.

We took off Saturday morning (Brian, Greg, and my friend Melissa) and we took the 2 and a half hour drive up there. Beautiful drive, never rained...nothing. We reserved a room at the hotel (will explain this later) and decided to go to the Glenwood Springs Adventure Park (right next to the hotel) while we waited to check into the hotel. We got there at about 10:30 and we couldn't check in until 4ish.

To get up to the adventure park, you had to take a gondola up to the top of the mountain:



There were a bunch of things to do up there at the top (go horseback riding, pan for gold (this was fake, of course), dig for fossils in the sand pit, climb the rock wall, etc...but we bought tickets to go into the cave for the cave tour. If you've never been in a cave before, I suggest going at least once. It was pretty cool. See how much Greg had fun!



He also had lots of fun looking in the wonky mirrors and playing in the sand:





We went back down the gondola and went to eat at the Village Inn (it's like Denny's). Then we went and checked into the hotel.

This hotel had a sweet indoor pool with a little kid water area (with a fountain and a lion's mouth slide) as well as a big kid water slide that you could go down. Greg had fun.



I know, the picture...you can't tell, but he did have fun. He went down the water slide twice before freaking out and not wanting to go on the slide anymore.

At this point in time, I realized that I had burned my arms pretty bad up on the hill and it hurts so bad! Had to go get some aloe and cool off. I always bring the sunblock...and never use it. I'm so bad.

This morning, we woke up and went to the Hot Springs Pool.



OMG...the water was so fantastic! The big pool was 93 to 98 degrees and it was fabulous! No awkward adjustments to get into the water...you could get right in and just swim. Greg loved it...not teeth chattering, no freezing his little butt off...it was perfect! They had a hot side of the pool as well. That side was 104 degrees (and Greg couldn't go in it). Imagine swimming in a hot tub...that's how this pool felt. It was great! The only bad part...it smelled like rotten eggs, but what hot spring/mineral pool does not smell something like that. The way the water felt...it was something you could ignore because you were having so much fun in the warm waters.

We left after the pool and drove until we hit Vail and drove around trying to find something to eat. Now, if I were made of money...we may have been able to eat in Vail Village, but we settled on Taco Bell (the strange thing...it was in a strip mall) and drove back to Denver.

All in all, a great vacation and I can't wait to get away again! Since Brian's going to be working 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday, if Melissa is up to it...we can go away Saturday/Sunday more often because no one will be home! I missed getting out with Melissa and doing things, but now we can since Brian's shifts changed.

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We're waking up early tomorrow to go Glenwood Springs. In relation to where that is to Denver...it's just about 2.5 hours away in the middle of the mountains. Everyone has heard of Vail and Aspen...and it's right near those towns.

My main reason for going...the world's large hot spring pool! Here, take a look...



I've been looking forward to this for two whole weeks! We're going to spend the day up there doing things...and relaxing in the pool!

Spending the night...

Then having more fun in the mountains...and then back home. I'm sooooo looking forward to this :)

Anyway...I'm sure most of you are used to me not being around for a few days...so see you in a few!

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