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Friday, 25 July 2008
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Oh.my.xanga. It has been far far faaaaar too long.
So much to write. So little motivation. Just thought i'd say 'HI'
HI :)
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I'm bringing Xanga back - drop a comment if you're with me!
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
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Summer has come and passed
Is it just me, or did this summer fly by?! I really think this has been the quickest passing of a season. EVER!
Luckily, I had my camera handy to capture the fleeting *WOOHOO* moments :)
Since this weekend was one big *WOOHOO* moment, I went gung-ho on the *snap*snap*ing.
I'm beat from a 12 hour work day, so there will be more pictures than story telling for the time being.The weekend started VERY early with the arrival of my onion, Jesse, at 5:45am.
I think I was nervous to see him for the first time after 3 years; but once we were with each other, it was as if we'd never been apart. YAH for sweet comfort!
From the airport, we headed down to the ILWU union hall in Tacoma where he picked up some "hey, this is from Tacoma,WA" memoribilia. Then we were off to Duke's to stuff our belly's with some awesome Dungeness crab chowder. Seeing as we started our day a few hours before the rest of the world, we were a little early for Duke's 11am lunch; Luckily, the location of the Chowder House is perfect for a time-killing-walk.
It's almost like we're right back in Hawai'i. almost.
I've never seen star fish outside of an aquarium. Don't lie, you haven't either.
Reunions + a waterfront brunch = sweet embracesWith fully tummies, we headed out to visit Troy at PLU; home of this massive Organ
Troy gets to play that thing. Sweet.From PLU, we headed out to : *sings like the commercial advertisement* Do the Puyallup!
The fair wasn't as happening as I remember it being. Maybe we were still running a few hours ahead of the rest of the world. The infamous scones, however, WERE everything I remember them being.
The four of us (Troy, his girlfriend Jackie, Jesse, me) had fun losing at games, filling up on junk, walking around until our ankles ached, and making random but free buttons...
"TROY / JACKIE" for Senate.............................."I'm the Onion / I'm with the Onion"Four hours and a swollen ankle later, we left Troy / Jackie and started the hour long drive to Seattle where we would spend the next few days.
Jesse had only "seen" the hotel he booked online, so we were anticipating how the internet display would match the real thing. I would've been happy with anything that had a bed and some ac, but it was nice to see the five diamond hotel where we'd be staying for three nights...
The SorrentoEarly night in. zzzZZzZz
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Saturday was our "be-as-touristy-as-possible" day.
It started with breakfast at a cute, hole-in-the-wall bistro on Capital hill
Thinking about the yumminess that is coffee
How you feel without coffeeNext up was the Seattle Asian Art Museum which was just a few blocks down the road. So we walked off our 3 egg omelettes along the streets of rural Seattle.
Saturday, 13 May 2006
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Morning View
By Incubus
see relatedHere's to the night we felt alive...Here's to the tears we later cried
Here's to the night we felt alive
Category: LifeI didn't know Luke or Larry before that night.
Now i'll never know Luke any more than I did in those last hours before the accident. But those few moments, tho small in comparison to the lifetime of memories that his friends and family shared with him, will permanently be stuck in my mind and in my heart.
Right next to my memories of Luke lay my prayers and hopes for Larry. Prayers for strength and comfort and hope for another chance at life
It's WEIRD how one random and tragic event can bring complete strangers together
*note* Amanda and I went to see the truck yesterday. I don't know why they let people see these things...there's no closure to be found by doing so. But I did find my phone and Amanda found her camera. We knew we had taken some pictures that night, but we didn't know exactly of what.
There was one picture of Larry, Amanda and me sitting in Luke's truck, just a few minutes before the accident.
We looked so alive and naive
It's weird finding these things...
Saturday, 06 May 2006
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Sheesh, it seems like everytime I send you guys an update, it's bad news. Well, let's be optimistic for my sake and say that there's good and bad news.The good news is........I'm no longer in a dysfunctional relationship. Tho things ended completely opposite from the way I had wanted them to, they still ended and that's the main thing.The bad new is.........I was in another car accident. So i know you're thinking "WHAT?!?!" so i'll tell you what happened.......On friday night, my girlfriend Amanda met me work and after i got off we headed out to the grand re-opening of The Yellow Beak(bar in town). Zach came by and met up with us and we started having a good time. As the night wore on, Zach found some old friends he knew and we got separated. Amanda and I were standing out on the lawn(this is an indoors/outdoors bar) and two guys came up to us and started making conversation. One started talking to Amanda and his name was Tony, the other started talking to me and his name was Larry. I told larry that I was there with my boyfriend, and I pointed to where Zach was and waved at him and blew a kiss. So Larry backed off but Amanda and Tony realized that they went to the same highschool and they got more into conversation. So we moved over to where Zach was because I didn't want him to be concerned.....and while Amanda and Tony were talking, Larry mentioned that he had gone to Enumclaw High so he didn't know anyone they were talking about. I saw that as an opportunity to get Zach into conversation so he didn't feel left out...so i said "oh babe you went to enumclaw right?...." And before i could go on, Zach cuts me off and sarcastically repeats my question. So i'm standing there like "what did i do?" you know? And zach turns to his friend and says "FUck, my girlfriend doesn't even know what high school i went to". And kind of just attempted to make me look stupid. So I looked at him and said "i think you're done drinking and i think we shouldn't be around each other right now..." So he stands up and storms off and leaves.....and I'm baffled by his immaturity (but why waste your time trying to rationalize a drunk person's actions) so I sort of decided in my head "FUCK IT!" but mostly i thought "FUCK HIM" and I set my frame of mind to that of "I'm done being miserable with him, i want to enjoy life". And tho it would be the right idea to have made this decision pre-cocktails and to have let him know about it......i didn't and that's where i messed up.
so when it came time to leave the beak, amanda was sloshed and couldn't drive so we were just kinda waiting it out in the parking lot. Along come Tony and Larry with this great idea that we should head to a friend's house and they could drop us off at home. Their friend Luke was going to be the driver, they said; and he was cool to drive. So amanda looked at me and i told her "FUCK IT, let's go".So there were five of us in Luke's truck which was like a brand new chevy or something with a crew cab (luke driving, Tony in the passenger seat, Me behind the passenger seat, Larry in the middle, and Amanda behind the driver's seat.The house was on some back roads that i was totally unfamiliar with. There were no street lights and it was farmland so no house lights for miles. Luke apparantly didn't know where he was either because he started heading down a straight stretch and didn't see that the road ended ahead. Tony knew where we were and he started telling Luke "dude, slow down, the road ends..." I don't know if Luke didn't hear him or if he thought he'd stop in time; either way, we didn't stop in time....The tire marks that the police marked off showed that Luke did try to stop and they said that the wheel of the truck was locked to the right. So it's like he thought he could slow a little bit and take the turn really fast.We didn't make the turn and the truck's driver side crashed into the end of the guardrail. The impact of that launched the truck upward into the side of a tree trunk. We hit the tree so hard that it made the bed of the truck fly up and over to the right (like slamming your breaks on a bike and having it fly you forward). There was a set of 5 or 6 mailboxes immediatly to the right of the tree that we went completely over. The truck landed to the right of the mailboxes, on the passenger side.Tony, Amanda and I climbed out of the truck. Tony went for help and Amanda boosted me back into the driver's window to help Luke and Larry out. I was able to grab onto Luke because his seat belt kept him from falling down to the passenger's side. But he wasn't responding to me and just hung there.So amanda helped me back out of the truck and got help from a nearby neighbor who heard our screaming and came out to see what was going on. They brought us blankets and jackets and tried to calm us down.The police arrived within 10-15 minutes. They rushed Amanda and me onto stretchers and into an ambulance even tho we weren't noticably hurt. That seemed weird to us at the time but we later found out that they wanted to hurry and get us out of there because they didn't want us to see them lifting Larry out of the truck and onto the helicopter or to hear anything about Luke.The three of us who climbed out of the truck came away with cuts/bruises/minor sprains. Larry had to undergo two brain surgeries and is in a medically induced coma, breathing through a respirator. Luke was pronounced dead at the scene.Zach came to the hospital and saw that I wasn't physically hurt so he says "Why'd you lie to me and say you were coming home?".*skip the whole long fight that insued*Basically he tells me that i'm a piece of shit liar and that I'm so stupid for getting in that truck.All these things, I was thinking about myself. I didn't need him to say it. I needed him to tell me that he was glad i was alive. I needed him to hold me and understand that I was freaked out about having held a dead body. But that was too much to need, and I needed to pay for what i did to HIM.so I packed my stuff and left. I hadn't talked with him since saturday but he just called as i was typing this to you. I'm staying at amanda's house for the week. Her parents are GREAT. They're being reallly nice to me but i want to get out on my own ASAP! you know? I need to stop depending on others and start supporting myself!
Amanda, Tony and I are so blessed. I'm so grateful to God for sparing my life. I'm also really angry at myself for taking advantage of all that i'm blessed with. I wish I didn't have to go through this to see the changes I need to make in my life. But I did and now I see. And i'm optimistic.LA VITA E BELLA! :)
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