Boredom soon to end...

Don't get me wrong, I love summer vacation and no school, but I get tired of whole days of doing absolutely NOTHING! You can only sit at the computer decomposing for so long before you get some serious cabin fevah. BUT, it looks like that should be drawing to a close for the most part here soon, probably starting Monday. On Monday, me and the fam are going to Aunt Awesome's place to do some work (and earn some money!) Also, my mom might be getting a job, in which case I would team up with brother Michael and watch the little chilluns, and also I might be getting a job. Either way, I get paid :-) And then school (e.g. COLLEGE) will be starting in not a whole lot longer. Hopefully summers of boredom are over. At this point in life, I need to start having work and stuff. I guess the end of boredom also sort of means the end of carefree-ness. Good grief, it's a bittersweet life.

I've just had Rice-A-Roni for the first time ever, and I must say, it was quite delicious! More specifically, I had ^that kind of Rice-A-Roni: Creamy Four Cheese! Not only is it soggy rice, but it's CHEESY! OH so cheesy. Anyways, not too exciting, but it's a first and worthy of note. I highly recommend it for lunch on a slow Friday afternoon :-)

Home At Last...

I'm finally back home on Awesome Island after nearly a week! It was nice getting to see family and such, but it's nice to come back to my own abode. All the driving does get pretty old. And I had my cds that I've been waiting for for several weeks waiting for ME when I got home: "Amnesiac" and "I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings" both by Radiohead. That was sweet. Anyways, not much to blog about, but I'm home! :-)

Freaking and Geeking in E-burg

I left Spokane today and am now in Ellensburg, land o' my birth. It's always nice coming here, just because I know it's home. It's like something that I know is mine, I've just not been allowed to have it for all these years, only little tastes here and there. Today my uncle-might-as-well-be-brother took me for a bike ride around town. It's so frustrating that even though I was born here, I've never really just been let loose to run around and explore the place. After running around and working up a bit of a sweat, Sean took me to the FRIGID river and we went floating. That was fun. Just the kind of rednecky sort of thing life has deprived me of thus far. One of these days, I'm going to move back here, no kidding. I'm so sick of moving! But I digress...
After a nice brisk drift down the river, we went for another one of our "geeking and freaking" rides in Sean's truck: this is where we grab some cds (usually Radiohead) and crank it up, talking about our favorite parts of the songs, how amazing the band is, etc, etc. That's the "geeking" part. The "freaking" part is where Sean and I freak my brother Michael out (because he came too, he had no choice really. It was either freak at our geeking or sit home alone for awhile) with our rocking out in our seats and singing along with Thom Yorke's odd voice :-P So that was fun. I'm really loving hanging out with Sean and I'm having just a really good time :-) That's all for now! Post ya later! -McCletus

Some Travels...

Well, while my Emily may be gone back to Florida, it would be a lie to say that I don't have anything to do now...that's not to say that it's not boring. SITTING IN A CAR FOR MOST OF A DAY IS NOT FUN.
Today, my mom, grandma Sylvia, cousin/aunt Christine, Michael, James, Emily (my sister) and I all drove to Spokane. What really makes a car ride not-very-fun is when you are sleepy and keep waking up all the time from random naps. Especially when you burned your mouth on some food the day before. Mix that with that waking-up taste in your mouth plus a dash of forgetting your deodorant and a handful of being sweaty and lethargic from sitting in a humid car with 6 other people and you have discomfort. It seems a lot worse now that I think about it :-P
I'll be here in Spokane until this weekend, at which time I will go to Ellensburg and stay a couple of nights at Grandpa Jack's house, so that'll be nice seeing him...
Good news! I may be able to go and see Emily in August. Her parents offered to go halfsies with my folks to buy a plane ticket. Mom and I just have to talk to Dad about it and see about scraping together money for that. That would fill both Emily and I with joy if we could visit again this summer, as there is really no other opportunity to get together this year. Keep your fingers crossed!
Just thought I'd give all you fans out there a small update. Keep clam!

My Girlfriend Emily

Well, Emily went home yesterday. That was not a happy thing. BUT, a couple days before she left, we made a wonderful change in our relationship...

I've liked her for quite a while, despite not getting to see her for 7 months :-( But absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder. I was unsure, but had my strong suspicions, whether Emily reciprocated my feelings for her. While we were coming back from the beach one evening, I was walking, she was cuddled up riding piggy back. We had just had a conversation that involved me beating around the bush needling her to find out where her head was at...and sounding like a goof :-P On the way back, because I had made myself completely obvious, Emily said, "I like you, boy-o." My heart quicked, and I don't think it was just because I was carrying her :-) So after clarifying what sort of "like" she was referring too, 'cause I'm cautious, we both knew without a shadow of a doubt that we really like each other. And that's how Emily beacame my girlfriend.

Up top is a picture of me and my Amazon. She calls me her Roman Gladiator :-P

Having a Great Time :-)

Well, Emily's been here for a few days now, and we've been having a great time. We walked about a bazillion miles yesterday in Seattle and went to Pike Place Market. It was a pretty neat experience, but I'd rather not go there again. The sea of humanity was insane and the shops were all rather dingy. There was also this annoying Hispanic guy sitting on a crate singing badly in Spanish and strumming irregularly on his guitar. We also hung out on Mercer Island, where my dad grew up, and looked at all the old houses while he named off who lived where and who was STILL there after 40 years.
After we were done traipsing around Seattle, Emily and I were taken to Aunt Awesome's office, where we spent the next 12 hours. I'm typing this after only having had maybe 5-6 hours sleep in about 41 hours (good grief! I JUST added that up, I had no idea...that's unholy!) But we had a good ol' time at the office. We watched one of the bloodiest movies either of us had ever seen ("Interview with a Vampire", excellent movie. We got to see Tom Cruise get poisoned with laudenum-tainted blood, his throat slashed followed by his very profuse bleeding, dumped in a swamp and probably chewed on by alligators, and SET ON FIRE. THAT'S a good movie!) We also played with these fun twirly sticks while listening to Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief", attempted to make a video on Aunt Awesome's MacBook but failed due to lack of sound, ate pizza, ran that way>, watched more movies, dozed in the car and missed Coldplay's "Viva La Vida", and near about starved to death. Fun times... :-) I'll put up a couple of pictures when I get ahold of some. Peace!

It's tomorrow!

Well, it's finally happenin'! After waiting since January 10th, my best friend Emily is coming to visit TOMORROW! I can't wait, I almost want to get in the car right now and 10:17 pm and go to the airport to wait for her plane to arrive :-P But yeah, this week is gonna be CRAZY GO NUTS! I'll tell ye how the week goes later on, I'll probably post again from Aunt Awesome's office. Cheers!