Days 3 and 4: badlands, corn palace, and cousin's house

The Badlands were geology 101. It was beautiful in that way. No netter which spire you looked, which plateau, whatever, the stripes of rock lined up. It is a beautiful synchronicity that shows what nature can do, and I can appreciate that.

The Corn Palace was pretty cool, but not really worth reporting.

I made it to my final destination, and will be doing some more things.

Tomorrow: ???

Day 2: Mount Rushmore

Today, we visted Mt. Rushmore and Wall's Drug.

Mt. Rushmore was breathtaking. Being a liberal such as myself, (and my dad being staunchly Conservative) it was kind of nice to show him that our great country could not have made it without Liberalism. Kinda pissed him off when I pointed out that out. Made my fuckin day. OH. And the sculpture was cool, too.

The most memorable part of Wall's Drug was the animatronic T-Rex that "attempted to feed" on myself and mi familia and various other bystanders. It roared, my mom jumped back ten feet, I stepped back (because I thought it was going to lean over the fence, and, in the event they calibrated how low it would lean for a NORMAL size person, would have either knocked me unconcious or ACTUALLY bit down on my head), but, in an outstanding show of courage, (or stupidity, I'm not sure) a small child who cannot have been more then 9 or 10 walked up to it from the back of the group of people, roared BACK at it, and said, "I'm louder then you, MEANIE!" I wanted to give this little kid a hug.

Next Stop: Corn Palace, Badlands, possibly something else.

Day 1: Yellowstone National Park

I am writing this post from my hotel room in Cody, Wyoming, after going through Yellowstone National Park.

We saw Old Faithful (which wasn't so faithful today XD) and the Upper and Lower Falls.

Old Faithful was AMAZING. I mean, there must have been 10000000000 gallons of water out of that thing. But, they said it was supposed to start at 1, give or take 10 minutes, and it took almost a half hour to GO OFF, not just blurble. So, not quite so faithful, but still AMAZING.

The Lower Falls were also AMAZING, although it took 380 steps steeply downhill, and then those same steps UPHILL to get back. I also found out my sister is extremely heightphobic.

Stay Nerdy All!

NEXT STOP: Mount Rushmore.

ROAD TRIP!

Ok, so for those who don't know, I will be on the road for the next little while here. This blog will now be a sort of travelog to document cool things that happened on our trip. I will still provide my trademark wit and sarcasm, I promise. Well that's all I have to say for now.

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Stream-of-Conciousness Rant

I needed to get these emotions out on paper, but when I tried to cement it into a poem, it seemed to... cheapen? Lessen? anyway, It didn't show enough of how I feel to make it worth it, so again, I'm going for pure, raw, unadulterated emotion, so... bear with me.

Water and heroin im water hes heroin water would mean im needed which is a great feeling i love you she really opens herself to me shows me inside her head which is what i wanted all along does that mean i get what i wish for sometimes i love you too patently obvious i have for a while but i didnt know she did too and i dont know for how long but does it matter really water and heroin her loving me is an amazing thing everything was right with the world for one small instant then things went bad she looked so distraught over loving me its causing her pain to love me because of HIM and i dont want that for her but i do want her to love me who wouldn't her love is a valuable thing and love is something i've never really felt from another person but she does love me she said so and i believe her water and heroin even though ive been burned in the past by i love yous i trust her to not destroy me she says shes hurting me but she isnt trying so it doesn't count i want to hold her and tell her shes not a bad person and i love her but she is so far away for far too long i keep dreaming shell be with me and never let me go ill stop breathing if i don't see her anymore she is slowly becoming my everything and im powerless to stop it but do i really want to i want her to be she deserves to be somebodys everything even if its a somebody like me

Song Lines to Falling Asleep with Rowan

I'd do anything
just to hold you in my arms.
I love you more then you could know...
Oh, Florida, please be still tonight, don't disturb this love of mine
look how she's so serene...
Hold on to me and never let me go
stop breathing if I don't see you anymore...
Because I love you
and I have loved you all along...
With the warmth of your arms you saved me, I'm killing loneliness with you...
It's heartache every moment, my darling with you...
I love you more then you could know

DITL 7/15/11

Commentary on my day: Ok, this is getting FUCKING ridiculous. Yesterday, I was at my job from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. TODAY, 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM. Ok, I get it. You have fruit coming in, it's gotta be packed and stored and/or shipped when it gets in. ROTATE OUT! Jesus, you got every kid and their cousin signing up EVERY DAY. I can't complain much, as today and tomorrow I'm making 13.12 an hour. But still. FUCK.

On a happier note, since my iPhone has recently gained sentience, she needs a name. I'm really leaning towards it being a she, because it sometimes gets sentimental (like last night) and plays H.I.M., Mayday Parade, Emery, and We the Kings, but sometimes I set to shuffle when I'm angry, and it plays Cradle of Filth, Children of Bodom, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, etc., being sensitive and knowing what I need to hear. Any name ideas? She'll probably give me it at some point, but it's still fun to think of names for a phone XD.

Featured Friends: Rowan, because obviously even my IPHONE knows how I feel about her.

On my playlist: None worth making special mention of.

Stay Nerdy All.

...

Ever wonder if your iPod had sentience? A mind of it's own? Could read minds? Me either.

Until tonight. I put my iPod on shuffle, and just let it play. This is what happened. (The brackets are where I changed the words to have it make a little more sense, and the {...} are where I skipped ahead.)

Memories
sharp as daggers
pierce into the flesh of today
Suicide of love took away all that matters
and buried the remains in an unmarked grave in [my] heart

With the venomous kiss you gave me, I'm killing loneliness
With the warmth of your arms you saved me, oh I'm killing loneliness with you
The killing loneliness that turned my heart into a tomb
I'm killing loneliness

...

From lashes to ashes and from lust to dust
In your sweetest torment
I'm lost
and no heaven can help us
Ready, willing, and able
to lose it all
for a kiss so fatal and so warm

Oh it's heartache every moment
from the start to the end
it's heartache every moment with you
deeper into our heavenly suffering
our fragile souls are fallin'
Oh it's heartache every moment, baby, with you
Oh my darling with you

...

I've seen you breathe life into the weakest of hearts
And heard you scream out loud the sweetest poems
Echo across the [mountains] reminding me why I still try
To hold on to whatever [there is for] you and I

...

Oh [Washington], be still tonight
Don't disturb this love of mine
Look how she's so serene
You've gotta help me out
And count the stars to form the lines
and find the words we'll sing inside.
I wanna keep her dreaming
It's my one wish
I won't forget this
I'm outdated, overrated
Morning seems so far away

So I'll sing a melody
And hope to God she's listening
sleeping softly while I sing
and I'll be in memories
Your lullaby for all of time
Hoping that my voice can get it right

If luck is on my side tonight
My clumsy tongue will get it right
and risk the touch
it isn't much
but it's enough
to form imaginary lines
Forget your scars
We'll forget mine
The hours change so fast
Oh God
Please make this last...

...

(And then, as if it didn't think I got the point, it played a instrumental techno track called "Witchcraft" and then the following...)

Pass me the 151 and coke cat, then later

We'll find where the dope at,
but hold that,
I seen somethin' so phat that I wish I could've drove back
to get my kodak

Strip teaser lovin'
Who got the visa?
Got it?
Then she will please ya.
Nada?
Then she don't need ya.
Prada, Gucci for leisure
It's her duty to feed ya
Amnesia
Caribou and tequiza

Off the turn buckle baby bubba had the booty and boobies
It was a nudy
so cudie was a cutie
I gotta get near her
I got a mucho deniro
Look at her look at herself in the mirror
Moving like shakira

Made my way to the front of the stage,
Hundreds for days
The body I wanted to praise
Will she get with a nigga?
Maybe
She bent over and said thanks and I whispered
In her ear

I love the way you make it slither baby, every night
When I come through
that looks like somethin' that I
Wanna run through,
you want some ooo
you know I want you
Baby we can have fun too.

If THAT isn't what an iPod would pull out of my head, I will eat my shorts. Without salt. My technology is trying to mess with my head... O_O God help us all. The Matrix is near.

Stay nerdy all.

Hey, Call The Angels, We'll Mutilate Insanity

Post unrelated. I just took a line from the song I'm addicted to right now (I've moved on from The Going Price For Home.) called "We Sleep Forever" by Aiden, which is a band from Seattle, and this song is so freaking mellow. I chill to this song XD.

IN OTHER NEWS, I calculated a REALLY pretty figure for my new job. here's the parameters of the equation: I will be working 10 hours a day, for 14 straight days, at 8.75 an hour. After 40 hours a week, anything over is paid time-and-a-half, which 13.12 an hour. So here's the math:

 8.75 (my normal wage) x 80 (Hours of two normal work weeks) =$700.

Since 10 hours a day means 40 will be reached in 4 days, that leaves 3 days a week paid 13.12 an hour. Here's that math:

13.12 x 60 (6 days worth of work) =$787.20.

So my income (before taxes) will be

$700+$787.20= 1,487.20.

THAT is the most money I have ever had at one time by more then a thousand dollars. THAT is serious bank. Bellingham/Vancover, here I come, and I'm riding in STYLE, biznatchs.

New song and mini-RANT

I wrote this today, and it's called Russian Roulette Romeo.

I have had a few flings

but all of them were bust
Baby, I don't need love
All I need is lust
Take a chance on me, baby
See how hard you fall
And when you finally trust me
You'll probably lose it all

And love doesn't burn like a fire
It glows like dying embers
I'll be your Russian Roulette Romeo
Load another chamber

Don't say I didn't warn you
when you end up all alone
Don't expect me to answer
when you dial up my phone
Because I told you it's over
There's nothing left to say
I'll leave you, bleeding, on the floor
and I'll go my seperate way

And now I'm in your head
And I'll get comfortable, I figure
Your Russian Roulette Romeo
Just up and pulled his trigger

Say I'm cold, say I'm heartless
Matters not to me
They told you I was trouble
but still you couldn't see
Love is never worth the pain
but it's worse to be alone
So you take the best you can get
and hope they don't leave you on your own

Doesn't take a lot at all
To make a person fall

And love doesn't burn like a fire
It glows like dying embers
I'm your Russian Roulette Romeo
You loaded all my chambers
You let me inside your head
You let my part get bigger
You put your Russian Roulette Romeo
In your heart
And pulled the trigger.


And now for my mini-rant. The Church is really just a massive marketing campaign that uses the 4 basic tenets of merketing to extraordinary lengths. Those four things are

1.Create a need
2.Offer a product to fill that need
3. Create a sense of reward and consequence
4. Create a sense of urgency.

1. Create a need. They tell you that you, by your very nature, are sinful. "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." so you need salvation to be happy so they give you

2. the product to fill the need, Jesus.

3. Reward and consequence. "I am the way and the light, no one gets to the Father, except through me." So other religions that claim to do the same thing are totally wrong. If you believe OUR religion, you will get to Heaven, but if you don't you will go to HELL.

4. Urgency. You never know when you are going to die.

So really, the Church is successful, NOT because it shows any new truth, or explains anything about our world, they are just masters of marketing.

Stay Nerdy All!