december in the craft store surely brings out the bitterness in me ( Read more... )

me and brandon bought a house and are moving into it in january when the current guy who lives in it moves out. we may have to move earlier, this guy hasn't had a job and to rent it was 700+utl so the chances we move sooner are pretty good. its the cutest house i ever knew. the location is perfect, except for the longer drive to work. for yins in ( Read more... )

i would've thought the next time i ran into one of my old "friends" i'd hear about the most recent overdose, but chris got jail time and hung himself in his cell. i thought brandon might take it a little harder after just losing aaron and vic, but he's o.k ( Read more... )

to sum up the big news, me and brandon have a guru friend that offered us an opportunity to run a bio-dynamic farm for him. our apprenticeship would start next september, i think we're both leaning toward doing it if it's possible. by what victor has told us about it so far, it seems to be a pretty stable plan. there's really nothing holding us ( Read more... )

last sunday we were at the land clearing our driveway area and i got stung in the eyelid by a yellowjacket. son of a bitch hurt bad, but before it happened we had cleared about 200 feet right to where the house is going to be. my eye was puffy and sad for a few days, not fun. to make up for the bad pain i got a good pain yesterday. i finally got my ( Read more... )

the funeral was hard but we're doing a lot better now. i have the weekends off at work now so that we can start building our house. lots of cutting and raking to be done, ten years from now all the hard work will be worth it ( Read more... )

yesterday morning at seven-thirty brandon's work phone rang. it was one of those phone calls you dread, i'll never forget the look on my baby's face. he was in disbelief after he hung up the phone and looked at me with big confused eyes. "aaron and vic were in a car accident last night" all i could say was "o.k.", before i could ask if they were ( Read more... )

we actually went out last night. i hadn't been to Dee's since sept, it was fun. then we met up with timm delo pat brennie and gastmeyer at the little bar in finleyville they always hang out at. i like that place. it's cute and the people there are nice. i think i'll try to go there more often. you'd be surprised how sociable i could be when i'm ( Read more... )

jeff ( Read more... )

my face is burnt. it hurts and i look like a tomato. it's creepy to see myself like that because i'm usually really pale ( Read more... )