Gorgeous!

Ok.. So these are officially some of the pretties pictures of Seattle that I've seen. Amazing Seattle, how do I miss thee!

Craziness

Friday night my family and I went to this Italian restaraunt in KC for my Uncle's birthday. Lucky for us we parked and made it inside the restaraunt before the HUGE storm started (about 5 minutes later). Leaving my Uncle had to take off his shoes and socks to get to the car because the street was about 6 inches deep in rain. After finally sprinting to the pulled-up car 8 yards away we took off to see a car turned over on the freeway, and Brush Creek (by the Plaza) turned into a river. We pulled over to the side of the road closest to the 'river' and rolled down the windows so that we could see and hear it better, but when we pulled into the middle lane because the water was getting a little too deep underneath us, a car zoomed by us and sprayed us, soaking the interior of my Uncle's Lexus. That was by far the funniest thing that happened all week.

Hayley's friends came over and we all went outside and played in the rain for about 20 minutes. I hadn't played tunnell tag for about 10 years before then, so that was a lot of fun... not to mention that we had a sliding contest to see how far we could slide head first on her front yard. I must tell you- I felt quite young playing tunnel tag in the rain with a bunch of 16 year olds.

Since I've been here I have seen a tornado, been in a lot of thunder and lightning storms, and been in a flood. I guess this will do if I can't have my washington lakes and oceans.

Delusional

Alex came and visited me last night along with her friend Becky. Amazingly enough they made it from seattle to KC in one and a half days. I don't quite know how they did that, but as much as I insisted they sleep a while before they leave again, they some how mustered up enough crazyness to drive through the night. I am however glad that they decided to take showers and clean themselves-- even though I still found green pen in the wrinkles of Alex's feet. I find that whenever I hang out with Alex and we're both tired, delusion invades my mind. I no longer speak in complete sentences, but rather in an incoherent jumble of words.

Today I am starting the word of the day. I had never heard this word until I came to KC. Here its actually used quite often.. so I am informing all of you non-midwesterners of its meaning so you won't be deprived of this oddly-spelled word.

Word of the Day:
Ornery- (awnry) Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.

Good Morning, Gunter!

So today has been extremely long and boring. I work in the office of an exterminating company, and since the weather has been so spontanious and crazy, there hasn't been a whole lot of business lately. That means that all I do is say, "Good morning" and "Good afternoon Gunter" about 25 times/day, and ramble on with my day-before speech the other half. In case you were wondering how that sounds, here you go:

"Hi this is Gunter Pest Management. I'm just giving you a call to remind you of your pest control appointment/termite contract renewal tomarrow between _ and _. If you have any questions, give us a call at _____."

I bet that that was just the most intriguing and interesting thing you have ever heard in your life. I probably kept you on the edge of your seat. Well you can thank me later for the entertainment.

I'm considering coming home to Bellevue about 3 or 4 days early so that I will be able to hang out with friend before they leave for school (all those Western kids). Plus it will give me a little bit more time to relax and do nothing before school starts. I have a tendency to go straight from one thing to the next... like when school ended. I finished my english portfolio the day before I left for KC. That was for sure stressful.

I might get to hang out with Alex tonight- if she makes it in tonight. Shes driving through town to see me on her way to Virginia (where she goes to school) so I am really excited about that. She will most likely be drained from the day's drive, but thats ok... getting to see her will be awesome enough.

Holy Ears

So last night I decided to finally finish my orbital piercing on the outer rim of my left ear, so I went to the piercing place to find out how large the hoop would be that would go through both holes-- It is definitely NOT small. I think it will grow on me soon enough, but if not, I'll just paifully take it out and put two in its place again. Shortly after returning home from this trip I decided to see if I could get earings through my ear lobes, so like usual, I shoved the post through my ear to clear the hole. In a moment of bright ideas, I decided that I should finally just get a couple of small posts to leave in for a few months until my ears heal with holes in them... as they have been trying to do since I was 8.

While searching the second Kansas City piercing place of the night for possible victims to my ears, I suddenly got another bright idea- 'I should just get the other piercing I've been wanting now so that I don't have to go through two seperate healing processes.' Great idea, right? So I wait 40 minutes for the earing I want to be sterilized and then go on to receive the second most painful piercing I have.

These are a couple of pictures I found on the internet to give you a slight idea as to what my left ear looks like. When I get my USB coord back from my mom for my camera (saturday) I'll put some pictures of my ear up... holla.

Summary

It's really quite amazing how I've had this blog site for about 9 months now and havn't put any posts on at all until today... carazay. I was inspired once reading Brad's blog and being absolutely fascinated by his image-sparking story. I figured that I might as well try to start this considering that I have been posting my daily events on my AIM profile for the past few days.

This morning was the start of yet another horribly ugly day here in Kansas City. Again, I woke up to the sound of pouring rain. As of right now (2:44) its 77 and supposed to get hotter- the sun even broke out.

Last night I went to the KC Chiefs game and had a great time watching them kill the St. Louis Rams. While we were at the stadium there were tornado warning so that was kinda exciting. The whole way back from the game I stuck my head out the window in awe of the amazing lightning storm- I must have watched it for about 2 hours. This weather is awesome!