Ramble On

This just happened to me at work. To set the stage, I had to call a phone company to inquire about the telephone numbers at Wedmore Place and how to switch our toll-free line over to the other building. Phone recording : Hello, you have reached Cavalier Telephone company. Please state the telephone number of your account. Me: 7-5-7-2-5-8-0-8-9-9 Phone recording : 7-9-7-3-5-2-0-5-9-9 (Pause) Is that correct? Me : Not even close. Phone recording : You can speak to me like you would a normal phone operator . Me : I don't think you want me to do that . Phone Recording: Please state the telephone number of your account. Me : 7-5-7-2-5-8-0-8-9-9 Phone Recording : 7-3-6-3-2-9-0-5-8-8 (Pause ) Is that correct? Me: Are you SERIOUS?? Phone Recording : You can speak to me like you would a normal phone operator. Me: Can I also punch you in the face? Phone Recording: Please state the telephone number of your account. Me: Heaven help us . 7-5-7-2-5-8-0-8-9-9 ...

Only because I work in an air-conditioned office and my apartment has an ambient temperature of about 50 degrees can I say that for about the first minute after I go outside does that blast of summer heat feel good. It embodies everything that I love about summer. The slight laziness that everyone feels entitled to because there's no school, it's too hot to do a lot outside that doesn't involve a water park. The feeling of the hot sun shining on you. The sensation that the beach is right around the corner. It's really the beach that I think of when I feel that summer heat. And when I say "the beach" I am thinking of only one place which embodies all that those words mean to me: Sunset Beach, North Carolina. I don't feel like a year has actually happened until I get to Sunset with my family. This year will be the first year in a very long time that I won't be in attendance for the whole thing, or possibly even any of it. And I'm starting to realize ...

I'll tell you what's awesome. It's a Tuesday night and I don't have to go to work tomorrow. Collin (my 9 yr. old new best friend for the sole reason that I have a bike and he has one too) and I are going on a bike ride to the duck pond at 10am. I have a new life goal: to compete in the world series of pop culture and to get respectably far, (at least past the first round), and I have people willing to help me accomplish this RIDICULOUS life goal. I laughed a lot today, and I like to laugh, especially when things are stressful and crazy like they are at work. I love barbeques and I get to go to one tomorrow. I broke one hundred when I went bowling last night. (Then proceeded to bowl a 46 in the next game... but that's not the point). I own Animaniacs on DVD... I'm sorry, but that is awesome. I have a pool in my backyard. this has been an unrealized dream of mine ever since I knew that you could have pools in your backyard and that I probably wouldn't ever....