So Humiliated

My grandpa got a hold of my story and proceeded to humiliate me by showing it to everyone in the office! Ugh I don’t know why these things always happen to me. It was something I was trying to keep low key probably because my father, god rest his soul, never really liked that I was into writing. He always saw his only son as being some kind of macho athlete and well I think I disappointed him a lot when I chose not to pursue sports after my Freshman year of high school. Now they’re all trying to print copies afraid I’m going to take it down out of sheer embarrassment, but I like my story so much I’m not willing to part with it. Everything I wrote in that story is how I’ve felt at one point in my life or another and honestly it has consumed my life like anyone with a passion for writing. My gramps said he showed it to them because he’s proud of me and while I am a little annoyed by it, it makes me happy that finally someone accepts the fact that I am not an athlete. Sure I swam on the swim team, but nothing makes me feel more at home than to sit down in front of my computer and spill all my emotions into my characters. One girl even cried, but she cries at tv commercials too so its definitely not an ego booster, but its nice that my story made some sort of impact. O.k. Yeah I sound like a nut job I’m out!

I Fought The Toaster Oven

…and the toaster oven won I was cooking chicken just kind of reheating it and just as I was putting it in the top of my hand hit the roof of the toaster. Ouch. At first I looked at it FYI this may gross some people out so if you have a weak stomach don’t read this partand I swear it looked like nothing I had seen. It was like brown and yellow looking so me being the idiot I am thought it was just stuck on food ripped off the top of the oven when I hit my hand. I even asked for a second opinion from my grandpa and he said the same thing. Of course with reassurance from my g-paw I started to peel it off and to my shock and amazement…it was skin! Now its just really red and it looks absolutely awful! I would much prefer it looking like caked on food than the nice red fleshy wound it looks like now. So it’s official…Toaster Oven: 1 Victor: 0

Happy Halloween

Gum, M&M’s, and American History X, originally uploaded by The Epileptic.

Also happy birthday to my grandpa who turns 61 today! I know he’s young than again I was one of those “out of wedlock” kids. Thanks mom and dad! I didn’t do much today my grandma took me out to Wal-Mart to get my grandpa a cake and I ended up picking up some things for myself. I got all my necessary survival items such as doublemint gum (the only gum I will allow in my mouth), Pink M&M’s to show that I support Breast Cancer Awareness Month (my mom died from cancer, but we’ll get into that later) and one of my favorite movies American History X so I was all set. I was having a nice day watching my rated R movie cause I’m 17 and I can do all that stuff until my little sister Baylie came home and than I had to turn the movie off. Bummer. My grandma actually watched it with me (she’s a holy roller so that was unusual) and when it came to the part where Edward Norton was banging some chick I kept looking at her to see her reaction, but she just sat there.

When I was in my Freshman year of high school my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and had her right breast removed. We thought that would be the end of it and she actually went into remission until my Junior year and by that time the cancer was back and it had metastasized and ended up going to her brain. I don’t talk about it a lot for obvious reasons and I miss my mom very very much. Hopefully in my lifetime I’ll be able to actually see someone find the cure for cancer it would be bittersweet for me. Until then all I can do is just remember my mother and all the amazing times we had together.

WordPress You’re Addicting

I totally was not going to blog today. I had it set in my mind that tomorrow would be more interesting to blog about, but alas wordpress just sucked me in.  I just wanted to check my stats and while I was doing that I said “To hell with it.” and now here I am typing this completely pointless entry. Nothing much interesting happened today except that my grandpa knows this guy who breeds boa constrictor’s and he said he’d sell one to us. SWEET! Now the question is…what kind do we get. I never realized how many options I had until the guy started naming the different types he had. He actually does have one type I am very interested in called a Snow Boa which it’s basically a white boa constrictor. It’s actually albino, but I’m guessing it is just a lot lighter than some of the banana yellow albino boa’s you see around I saw some pictures he had, but they’re very very pricey. My grandpa said he’d sleep on it, but I am definitely getting one just maybe not that one. We will have to see. He suggested maybe an albino one, but their bright red / orangey eyes kind of freak me out a little. Nothing like waking up from a nap and seeing these two little eyes glaring you down. Ha ha. No thank you.