So Things keep getting funnier and funnier. The team isn’t falling apart just yet but there’s enough tension to hold up a roof. There are definitely a lot of people talking behind other people’s backs. Of course I choose to stay out of that, but whadya know, people talk about me behind my back too. A friend from the program will call me every week or so and ask me what’s going on with specific team mates. The friends go on to tell me that people on my team have been talking about me behind my back. Being the happy-go-lucky, brown, round smiley face that I am, I laugh. Even if I wasn’t so carefree and nonchalant with my feelings toward how people view me, I think I would still think the people and their mouths are childish. I remember being back in elementary school and hearing through the grape-vine about how much Big Timmy didn’t like me. He would always talk about putting sour milk rags in my desk, or honey on my headphones, or bees in my briefs, or other random unkind things. But he never really did it, I don’t think. I did have some bees in my socks a few times so maybe he just got the wrong undergarment. But any who, I guess Big Timmy lives on through the tongues of some of my teammates. Guess the difference is that Timmy actually grew up. Still just funny to know that people talk about me behind my back and I still haven’t heard it from the horse’s mouth. I’m sure that statement will be misinterpreted by someone. At the end of the day, I will forever be me and not care what the people say. Let them talk. They have mouths, and if they choose to waste their time and energy on little old me, than that’s their decision. I’ll continue to stay purposefully and intentionally unaware and uncaring. How much money do you want to bet that someone will think I care because I wrote such a large section in my blog. Teehee, think what you want. I don’t care about that though either.
On to bigger and better things though. I had lots of fun in Chicago with my girlfriend these past few weekends. It was great to just get away from the tiny house I’m living in and just hang out with nothing urgent to do. I definitely missed my bus home once, but everybody makes mistakes, yes even me. Now I know you guys think I’m perfect, but, well never mind. I won’t tell you I’m not haha. I kidding. I’ll definitely miss it when I head out to Minnesota in the next few weeks (If I didn’t tell you that, than yeah I’m going there next). Guess it’s cool to see the growth in my relationship, but none of you can see that so I won’t really talk about it. Bah we’re team amazing haha.
I”ve tried lots of new food these past few weeks and it feels good to say I’ve eaten some exotic things. Guess I’m on my way to making my Palate the best that it can be. Doubt it’ll matter in the long run, but it’s another goal to try and achieve. I’m just going to attribute my awesome eating choices to how in-shape I’ve been recently. Not to toot my own horn, but hey there just so happens to be a horn hanging out the side of my mouth so tooty toot toot. But yeah I can run like eight million miles now and barely be tired. Woot woot call me an owl cause that’s a hoot. If you know anything about my previous exercise habits, cardio wasn’t my thing. I was more into weight lifting. Sadly I’ve also lost a lot of weight. Sob sob what shall I do now that my chest doesn’t bounce as high and my arms don’t bulge as far. I mean I don’t even need a bra anymore. Or a bro. Whatever invention it is that is used for large breasted men. Sadness all around. I'll be aight though.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Iowanna Do That - Milwaukee Talkee
Things haven’t really gotten any better with the living situation, but I guess I’m getting used to it all. It’s definitely been a good stress reliever to get away on the weekends and spend time with my girlfriend. Work is still relatively boring, but the potential for some spice happened this week. We’ve moved on to the “Grow and Play” lot, so we’ll see how things go with that. We might actually get to build some stuff so I’m excited to see what I can learn. It’s located in a rather hood location and it’s funny to hear all the uppity people on the team say it’s the worst neighborhood they’ve ever been in. Pretty sure a lot of them are scared too. They found a shotgun shell on the sidewalk and started flipping out. Hahaha I kept it to myself that I have a shotgun shell on my dresser in my mom’s house, and about three other bullet casings. But my vast assortment of useless artillery is a discussion meant for another time and place.
So far the project isn’t too shabby, though it’s getting hot. I think it’s funny that all the other members (minus the other black guy) are getting sun burnt. Ha, realized that one of the few benefits to being black is prolonged exposure to the sun without getting burnt. SMH at that…lol but oh well. Completely unrelated, but things are getting really interesting with tension on the team. Funnier every day. Guess we’ll see what happens with that.
SO BLOWN I CAN”T GET MY COMP GAME TO WORK!! Call me a dork. Call me a big dork. Even call me a telephone, but please don’t push my buttons. So blown because I bought a game for my comp, hoping to be able to escape to a fictional world, but instead the fruity thing kept hanging up. So after a few weeks I finally get to take it back and exchange it. My hopes were high, my fingers crossed, and the corners of my lips reached for the sky. Instead of being able to play, I go to install it and the stupid thing said the verification code I had to use (basically something that ensures people don’t buy one copy of a game and then give/sell it to their friends) was already in use. How does that happen with a brand new game! I’ll tell you. It’s cause the people on earth called me a telephone one too many times and now the powers that be are pushing my buttons. Super stupid blown. I need a kitkat.
So far the project isn’t too shabby, though it’s getting hot. I think it’s funny that all the other members (minus the other black guy) are getting sun burnt. Ha, realized that one of the few benefits to being black is prolonged exposure to the sun without getting burnt. SMH at that…lol but oh well. Completely unrelated, but things are getting really interesting with tension on the team. Funnier every day. Guess we’ll see what happens with that.
SO BLOWN I CAN”T GET MY COMP GAME TO WORK!! Call me a dork. Call me a big dork. Even call me a telephone, but please don’t push my buttons. So blown because I bought a game for my comp, hoping to be able to escape to a fictional world, but instead the fruity thing kept hanging up. So after a few weeks I finally get to take it back and exchange it. My hopes were high, my fingers crossed, and the corners of my lips reached for the sky. Instead of being able to play, I go to install it and the stupid thing said the verification code I had to use (basically something that ensures people don’t buy one copy of a game and then give/sell it to their friends) was already in use. How does that happen with a brand new game! I’ll tell you. It’s cause the people on earth called me a telephone one too many times and now the powers that be are pushing my buttons. Super stupid blown. I need a kitkat.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Iowanna do that - Milwaukee talkee
Definately been a slacker for this blog...but oh well. Suck it up! If you can't, then go to Starbucks and get a straw because I'm not helping you.
If I haven't talked to you then you know I'm a teeny bit peeved with the living arrangement. I guess It's a blessing that I have a house with running water, but I'm living in a one person bedroom with six guys. Sounds like a bad idea for a t.v. show...piff I've been saying people should record my life.
Overall though it's just been annoying. I've only gotten upset a couple of times when people put their things with mine, but nothing major...yet. Though the group tried to tell me that I thought I was better than everyone else. Bahhahaha...if you don't know why I'm laughing than you don't know me. It's kinda funny though if you do know me. This is the same group that thinks I'm a gangster and such, so I guess I can't expect them to know much about me. But I set em straight and all is well, and in short they all need to just stop being so sensitive and stop making assumptions. You know where that gets right? Knee deep in overflowed-toilet water. No fun for anyone.
But enough about the team, the project itself is not to shabby. Though it's a bit cold in Milwaukee, the work we're doing warms me up (though other people won't stop complaining...baby bottles should have been a part of our equipment). We're removing Buck thorn and Honey Suckle so far. Buck Thorn is a bit more fun, especially when they let me chop that bad boy down with an ax. Ooohhh boy do I feel great swinging an ax...don't know what that's saying about me...but oh well. We've also been doing a bit of trail building and thats kind of fun (basically picking up logs and tossing them along a trail to mark it...and the occasional downed log to chop down...yay). We also gotta pick up trash and I feel like a convict, but hey it's better for the environment.
We head to a new park tomorrow so hopefully it's still some fun stuff brewing in the Ameripot. Though I don't have internet in the house, Starbucks and McDonald's are close so it's not too bad. Oh and if you saw that facebook video of me in my room, thats back in Iowa...imagine my corner times two, and thats the size space I've got to live in with six guys...but I didn't join Americorps to live in giant rooms and be comfortable. Gotta keep helping people, even if it pops my bubble and makes me a bit uncomfortable. Flash Taco and Moon Burritos
If I haven't talked to you then you know I'm a teeny bit peeved with the living arrangement. I guess It's a blessing that I have a house with running water, but I'm living in a one person bedroom with six guys. Sounds like a bad idea for a t.v. show...piff I've been saying people should record my life.
Overall though it's just been annoying. I've only gotten upset a couple of times when people put their things with mine, but nothing major...yet. Though the group tried to tell me that I thought I was better than everyone else. Bahhahaha...if you don't know why I'm laughing than you don't know me. It's kinda funny though if you do know me. This is the same group that thinks I'm a gangster and such, so I guess I can't expect them to know much about me. But I set em straight and all is well, and in short they all need to just stop being so sensitive and stop making assumptions. You know where that gets right? Knee deep in overflowed-toilet water. No fun for anyone.
But enough about the team, the project itself is not to shabby. Though it's a bit cold in Milwaukee, the work we're doing warms me up (though other people won't stop complaining...baby bottles should have been a part of our equipment). We're removing Buck thorn and Honey Suckle so far. Buck Thorn is a bit more fun, especially when they let me chop that bad boy down with an ax. Ooohhh boy do I feel great swinging an ax...don't know what that's saying about me...but oh well. We've also been doing a bit of trail building and thats kind of fun (basically picking up logs and tossing them along a trail to mark it...and the occasional downed log to chop down...yay). We also gotta pick up trash and I feel like a convict, but hey it's better for the environment.
We head to a new park tomorrow so hopefully it's still some fun stuff brewing in the Ameripot. Though I don't have internet in the house, Starbucks and McDonald's are close so it's not too bad. Oh and if you saw that facebook video of me in my room, thats back in Iowa...imagine my corner times two, and thats the size space I've got to live in with six guys...but I didn't join Americorps to live in giant rooms and be comfortable. Gotta keep helping people, even if it pops my bubble and makes me a bit uncomfortable. Flash Taco and Moon Burritos
Monday, March 14, 2011
Iowanna do that - Start with Heart
So the knee issue is a little better but it hurts now. My stomach died but it came back to life and now I'm good. I lost a bunch of stuff, but I ended up getting a bunch for free. Overall it was a crappy week.
Despite the fecal-matter quality of the previous week, the weekend was spectacular. SuperSpectucular and such. Found a ride out to Chicago and spending time with my girlfriend really just brightened my life and made me smile. It was an awesome weekend despite us not going anywhere. It was just nice to hang out and relax.
As if th life-things of the universe just switched it up and loved my relationship all of a sudden, my first project is going to be in Wisconsin. Milwaukee to be exact. The inquisitive readers might ask why it's so splendiferous (yes that's a word so shut up)? Well, inquisitive reader, this is so splendiferous because I'll actually be in a city. The last project was a bit isolated, but oh no, not this one. I'll be in Milwaukee! So Suck on that bad-vibe monsters! And, to add sugar to my pie, my girlfriend will only be like 45 minutes away. Yay for visitation purposes!
Okay, I'm done being a sappy flash taco, but overall I'm excited about this upcoming week. If I didn't tell you already, I'm going to be in Milwaukee for two months, just working on various things. So if your feeling spunky than come visit me. If your feeling like a loser than stay at home and suck your big toe. I'm sure that's all losers do anyway. Until we meet again, stay however you are.
Despite the fecal-matter quality of the previous week, the weekend was spectacular. SuperSpectucular and such. Found a ride out to Chicago and spending time with my girlfriend really just brightened my life and made me smile. It was an awesome weekend despite us not going anywhere. It was just nice to hang out and relax.
As if th life-things of the universe just switched it up and loved my relationship all of a sudden, my first project is going to be in Wisconsin. Milwaukee to be exact. The inquisitive readers might ask why it's so splendiferous (yes that's a word so shut up)? Well, inquisitive reader, this is so splendiferous because I'll actually be in a city. The last project was a bit isolated, but oh no, not this one. I'll be in Milwaukee! So Suck on that bad-vibe monsters! And, to add sugar to my pie, my girlfriend will only be like 45 minutes away. Yay for visitation purposes!
Okay, I'm done being a sappy flash taco, but overall I'm excited about this upcoming week. If I didn't tell you already, I'm going to be in Milwaukee for two months, just working on various things. So if your feeling spunky than come visit me. If your feeling like a loser than stay at home and suck your big toe. I'm sure that's all losers do anyway. Until we meet again, stay however you are.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Iowanna do that - Back for the first time
Finally back!! No I'm not back in MD, but I'm back to my home away from home. As I'm sure none of you knew, I went on my first project (mini project really) and got back today. It was busy, it was hard, but in the end it was rewarding.
We left on Tuesday morning and I didn't bring anything but too many clothes. Found out that my cell didn't get any service on most of the project site, and they had wi-fi but of course I left my laptop behind. To make things better, I was feeling some emotional stuff that made me want to talk to my girlfriend, and not being able to do that just made them fester. Had an emotional pimple in my emotional zone and I almost popped it the wrong way, but I stayed strong and held fast. Now that I've completely confused you, I'll move on.
Being on the project with my team was great. We learned how to paint, so now I can paint houses and other assorted objects if you give me paint. We messed up a bunch, but hey paint is one of those things that's easy to fix. While on this project I also noticed that some people are dirty!! My team is great, but the other team had some pretty nasty habits. There was someone that wiped their behind on another members towel, dishes went unwashed, and crumbs invaded the carpet. Luckily everything was sorted out, and seeing these issues led me to appreciate my team that much more. We're awesome!! C3! Got nothing on G-Unit but we still awesome =).
Hopefully this weekend turns out great! I'm going to visit my girlfriend for our one month anniversary. Doesn't seem like it's been that long, and at the same time it feels like we've been together forever!! Glad to have her in my life.
If you didn't hear, I've got some knee issues that are bugging me. I'm on medication for it...and of course the side effect would be stomach bleeding. So now my whole digestive track is going to bleed. I can hardly wait. Keep me in your prayers!!
We left on Tuesday morning and I didn't bring anything but too many clothes. Found out that my cell didn't get any service on most of the project site, and they had wi-fi but of course I left my laptop behind. To make things better, I was feeling some emotional stuff that made me want to talk to my girlfriend, and not being able to do that just made them fester. Had an emotional pimple in my emotional zone and I almost popped it the wrong way, but I stayed strong and held fast. Now that I've completely confused you, I'll move on.
Being on the project with my team was great. We learned how to paint, so now I can paint houses and other assorted objects if you give me paint. We messed up a bunch, but hey paint is one of those things that's easy to fix. While on this project I also noticed that some people are dirty!! My team is great, but the other team had some pretty nasty habits. There was someone that wiped their behind on another members towel, dishes went unwashed, and crumbs invaded the carpet. Luckily everything was sorted out, and seeing these issues led me to appreciate my team that much more. We're awesome!! C3! Got nothing on G-Unit but we still awesome =).
Hopefully this weekend turns out great! I'm going to visit my girlfriend for our one month anniversary. Doesn't seem like it's been that long, and at the same time it feels like we've been together forever!! Glad to have her in my life.
If you didn't hear, I've got some knee issues that are bugging me. I'm on medication for it...and of course the side effect would be stomach bleeding. So now my whole digestive track is going to bleed. I can hardly wait. Keep me in your prayers!!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Iowanna Do that...The Color Wheel Never Stops
Figured I'd take a different approach today and not just talk about how my day went. I'm sure that's exciting and such, but it doesn't hurt to hear some of my thoughts (well it probably would cause I have a crazy insane thing inside my skull).
So coming to Americorps has definately been a bit of a cultural mouth dropper. It's just amazing to see how different people are around the country. Just hearing the different words people use to describe the same thing is always fun (like subs in MD, Grinders in Conneticut, Hoagies in other places). The music choice of some of the people is a bit weird to me, but I'm sure thats more of an individual thing and not so much a geography thing...right?
Well today I was taken back to the awkward race differences. Don't worry, no one's called me the N word here, at least not to me face. Wait, yes they have, just not the white people. Which is funny because the black people that use it here don't seem to mind using it in front of white people, which I guess was the same back in MD, it's just that I hung with mainly blacks and so the whites present didn't seem to mind. Oddly enough, I didn't really feel bad or odd when confronted with the word (someone challenge that please!!) but I'm starting to think I should have been offended.
In the car, one of the white girls on my team said something that I also feel like I should have been offended by, even though I wasn't. Yesterday was my birthday, and one of the white girls took pictures of me while I was blowing out the candles. She was showing it to another white girl in the group and then said, "Yeah you can't really see Jeremie because it's dark and he's black." Not really an offensive sentence to me, but I feel like I should have been offended.
I'm not really sure when it comes to being offended because I never get offended unless you talk about my family. I know that neither case was meant to offend, but just becuase someone's intentions aren't meant to offend doesn't mean you shouldn't be offended. Or does it? Food for thought I suppose, because when I chew on it a bit more I realized that my prior sentence shouldn't really exist.
I guess the point of this blog is to tell the sensitive people out there to go to the moon because most things that are offensive aren't meant to be that way. If someone accidentally steps on your shoe do you punch them in the face? Probably not, and if you do than kudos to you for wanting to go to jail and make something of yourself. Normal people would only get offended if someone intentionally stomped on their shoes. Overly sensitive people throw a hissy fit and hope whoever is there to catch it isn't more aggressive than they are (because then they look dumb when they back down, but that's neither here nor there or anywhere except my head).
The hard-to-find-confusing-nonsensible moral of today's story? Don't take offense unless the offender is obviously attempting to offend and/or if you want to go to the moon. Of course exceptions apply, so challenge me.
So coming to Americorps has definately been a bit of a cultural mouth dropper. It's just amazing to see how different people are around the country. Just hearing the different words people use to describe the same thing is always fun (like subs in MD, Grinders in Conneticut, Hoagies in other places). The music choice of some of the people is a bit weird to me, but I'm sure thats more of an individual thing and not so much a geography thing...right?
Well today I was taken back to the awkward race differences. Don't worry, no one's called me the N word here, at least not to me face. Wait, yes they have, just not the white people. Which is funny because the black people that use it here don't seem to mind using it in front of white people, which I guess was the same back in MD, it's just that I hung with mainly blacks and so the whites present didn't seem to mind. Oddly enough, I didn't really feel bad or odd when confronted with the word (someone challenge that please!!) but I'm starting to think I should have been offended.
In the car, one of the white girls on my team said something that I also feel like I should have been offended by, even though I wasn't. Yesterday was my birthday, and one of the white girls took pictures of me while I was blowing out the candles. She was showing it to another white girl in the group and then said, "Yeah you can't really see Jeremie because it's dark and he's black." Not really an offensive sentence to me, but I feel like I should have been offended.
I'm not really sure when it comes to being offended because I never get offended unless you talk about my family. I know that neither case was meant to offend, but just becuase someone's intentions aren't meant to offend doesn't mean you shouldn't be offended. Or does it? Food for thought I suppose, because when I chew on it a bit more I realized that my prior sentence shouldn't really exist.
I guess the point of this blog is to tell the sensitive people out there to go to the moon because most things that are offensive aren't meant to be that way. If someone accidentally steps on your shoe do you punch them in the face? Probably not, and if you do than kudos to you for wanting to go to jail and make something of yourself. Normal people would only get offended if someone intentionally stomped on their shoes. Overly sensitive people throw a hissy fit and hope whoever is there to catch it isn't more aggressive than they are (because then they look dumb when they back down, but that's neither here nor there or anywhere except my head).
The hard-to-find-confusing-nonsensible moral of today's story? Don't take offense unless the offender is obviously attempting to offend and/or if you want to go to the moon. Of course exceptions apply, so challenge me.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Iowanna do that...Day of Birth Edition
HAPPPPPPPPYYYY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Yup. I done did it again. Moved from one year of life into the next and it's feeling better than ever. I've never felt so loved or cared about in my life. My girlfriend sent me a birthday box with goodies in it, my mom sent me a card and some money, my team gave me some candy and a card, and my team surprised me with a cake and candles and sang to me! Haven't had anything near that in...well ever. Haven't had a birthday party thrown for me from non-family members in like 23 years so now I can say I've done that.
The shadow of today's magically delisciousness is the day itself. Not the "my birthday portion" but the actual day. Went to sleep around 1130 or 1145 and got up at 4 am. And this is after I've been excercising a lot more than normal pretty much every day for the past four days. My knees have water in it and have been bothering me and I'm definately not helping. All the meetings are tiring and the excercise is exhausting (though a bit refreshing). I'm happy to say that I haven't really been sore, so I'm not out of shape as much as I thought, but my knees are not playing very nicely. Plus we lost the ultimate frisbee (take that becca) game, but we gave the best team a run for their money. Most people lose by 15 plus points, and we lost by three. Not to shabby.
Overall it was a pretty good birthday. Wish I could have talked to my girlfriend a bit more, but I understand she's celebrating her birthday this weekend as well so I'll let it slide lol. Tomorrow should be fun. Might do a bit of celebrating and I'm def hitting the movies and seeing a free movie! Woot woot. Hopefully it's all fun and such.
The shadow of today's magically delisciousness is the day itself. Not the "my birthday portion" but the actual day. Went to sleep around 1130 or 1145 and got up at 4 am. And this is after I've been excercising a lot more than normal pretty much every day for the past four days. My knees have water in it and have been bothering me and I'm definately not helping. All the meetings are tiring and the excercise is exhausting (though a bit refreshing). I'm happy to say that I haven't really been sore, so I'm not out of shape as much as I thought, but my knees are not playing very nicely. Plus we lost the ultimate frisbee (take that becca) game, but we gave the best team a run for their money. Most people lose by 15 plus points, and we lost by three. Not to shabby.
Overall it was a pretty good birthday. Wish I could have talked to my girlfriend a bit more, but I understand she's celebrating her birthday this weekend as well so I'll let it slide lol. Tomorrow should be fun. Might do a bit of celebrating and I'm def hitting the movies and seeing a free movie! Woot woot. Hopefully it's all fun and such.
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