This is my 3am brainchild that I had last night when talking to Kyle. He called me at the horrendously late/early hour of 1am and we talked for almost two hours. We never get to talk anymore, so sometimes it has to resort to early AM phone calls to catch up -_- but I didn't mind, it was nice to talk to him.
So why is this my brainchild? Well for three reasons:
1. All of us are three hours apart. Kyle is three hours behind me. Dad and Karen are three hours ahead. It gets confusing and annoying because I'm always having to remind myself that I can't just pick up the phone and call at any time, I have to account for the time difference.
2. We use to be all in the same house (except for Karen, but still kinda the same idea) and are use to always being together. Being on opposite ends of the country (literally) is difficult when you're separated from the people you love. Plane tickets aren't cheap, so instead of seeing each other on a daily basis it's now become a once or twice a year event. That's a hard change, no matter how you look at it.
3. Talking to Kyle it became clear that he has no idea what's going on in my life and vice versa. As he was trying to explain different helicopter parts to me, I made the comment that I needed to see pictures and that's when this brainchild developed in my head. Kind of like Athena emerging from Zeus' head - which we talked about yesterday in class. What if we all had blogs and were able to talk about our days and post daily pictures about what's going on, what we're doing and how our lives are changing? Now, you guys don't have to have a blog, but I think it would be good for me to have a place to talk about what's happening in my life since it's obviously getting very hectic and I don't always have the time to call and fill everyone in. And I just happen to be self-focused enough to want to talk about myself all the time :D Yay for ego. Can I get yip?
So here goes.
So now that I have THAT out of the way, what am I doing today?
Well I've just happened to have continuously ran into a girl at SPU from Arizona named......Rachel. She's a freshman, brand-spanking new to Seattle/The North and isolated on campus without a car. So I offered to take her out and show her some different parts of Seattle. I'm very excited to move out of the tourist role to the tour guide.
It's over cast right now, but we've decided that we should go to Alki and grab a cup of Clam Chowder from Dukes. Dukes is the oldest restaurant on Alki, it's been around for almost 70 years. They have amazing Clam Chowder, made from locally caught Clams and comes at the wonderfully cheap rate of $2.50 a cup, it's a crazy deal and a crazy delicious meal. So we're going to do that, and since I still have some points on my ORCA card (it's a Seattle card that is used for transportation, i.e buses and the ferries, I got it when I first got here with the idea that I would tour Seattle on the buses...but uh, the buses are creepy, so it just sits in my wallet) so we may take a ferry over to Bainbridge Island and bum around there. It'll be fun, Rachel has never seen so much water before much less been on a boat - so I can't wait :) Maybe we'll see whales....ah...the elusive whales...
Oh yeah, about my blog name....
It was one of my favorite meals growing up and to this day still reminds me of the house in Round Top and brings to mind fond memories of all of us, particularly Kyle as he and I would sometimes fix this and then watch a movie together. So when I was thinking about what would be an appropriate name at 3am, this was the first thing that came to mind.
This is Mosby, a Boston Terrier that I'm currently puppy-sitting while his folks, my good friends Selena and Mac, are out of town. He's the only small dog I like. He's not a morning dog. He may go with us to see the beach :)
And this is the only other picture in my phone that was interesting today. I'll start taking pictures while I'm out and about for this blog. What is this you ask? Well this would be my new "bullseye"....that makes me a cadet. I still have my specialist rank, but I can only wear it at Drill.
Alright peeps, it's time for me to get out of my pajama's and clean myself up. Have a good day, I love you all.
Yip. I just woke up...
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