Night Times and Daylight Memories

Last night I didn't drink, Last night I didn't party hard, Last night I was just me and I am left with some of the best daylight memories in the last while. I went to a movie...Last night...with a girl. I then suggested that we go for a drink and she was full game. When I asked her where to go she asked me to pull into 7-11. Doing as I was "told" I did and she proceeded to go in and buy 2 Dr. Peppers and suggested to me that we go for our drink while on a drive. If any of you know me you will realize how amazing this was to me as the Dr. is my all time favorite addiction and driving aimlessly is one of my all tiem favorite past times! We went all over the city when we neared a park and she began to tell me how this was her elementary school and how she used to play on the park there and blah blah blah...so I stopped the car, we got out and went for a swing and a snow angel...and soon back in the car because it was freakin cold! I then dropped girl off, said our goodnights and left driving away on cloud nine...and yet the night was not nearly over as it was a good friends birthday at a local drinking establishment. I mingled with some great friends I had not seen in a long while. Great talks were had and even better hugs held...and yet the night was not done as I moved just down the street to another local drinkin establishment I was greeted by my Dani, my red faced cheery and smiling apple jew! The best hug of the night had occured and then daylight memories had been set!!

In the last week I have felt butterflies, been brusied by tobaggins and backflips, visited by a wonderful person (that looks damn sexy in dark hair...though it really is damn sexy in whatever, different hair color or not), hung with so much missed friends, hugged my dani, had a drink or 2 or more on a sunday night with my best friend and watch napoleon dynamite with my sister...all accompanied with the ever wonder full snow. Life's ups and down are all about finding a balance, sometimes the ups aren't all that great and sometimes teh downs can be the greatest time of your life...so run up that hill, jump on your tobbagin and hold on cause life is passin by!!

Happy last day of 2004 everyone and have a great 2005!!

Truth is...

The truth is like it or not your family will always be there for you in every walk of life, but what most people do not realize that family doesn't neccesarily mean related, it doesn't mean you share any blood or dna or anything of the sort. My family are my friends, they are the ones I turn to in times of need. They are the ones that relate to my problems and offer realistic solutions. They are the ones that would be there for me at the drop of a hat. When I need a ride to the airport its not Uncle so and so that offered to pick me up 5 in the morning. When I had that really important doctor's meeting it wasn't my Auntie blah blah there to take me to it, there to worry about me in the waiting room and they certainly were not there waiting in the living room by the phone for the doc to call with the results, good or bad. Your family is your family because of who gave birth to you and its after this that you develop your tree! Your mom, dad, bro and sis will always be there...and when used with the family of friends you have built you can be unstoppable!

How cool are you quiz??

ok so I do way to many cosmo quizes at work...and have now turned it into my own making of Adam's coolness quiz (to be taken as a joke!)
How Cool Are You...time to find out

1) Do you have a beard?
a. yes it's full and rugged b. no sadly the closest thing I have to a beard is the one time I sneezed onto the cat and the hair stuck c. does a long mutant chin hair count??

2) When your all alone you...
a. dust off the ole anne murray cd's and make yourself an apple cider b. strip down to nothing but your birthday suit, throw on sisqo's the thong song and dance like nobody's mother c. fire up a good online chat and drink by yourself

3) My best friend and I often get into trouble ____ (type activities).
a. saving the princess from her castle afer drinking way to much non cafinated cola b. lets just say it involves throwing, running, drinking, puking and handcuffs. nuff said. c. I don't rember but we woke in our underwear and couldn't find the video camera

4) A friday night for me often consists of?
a. Partying like its 1999 b. curling up with a hot cup of coffee and the newest harlequin romance and usually a good flick c. find the vain, inject...repeat

5) The craziest thing I have ever done in bed was...
a. threw my old catwoman/ superman costume on and tried the latest cosmo move b. ice cubes, a feather, tie downs and a blindfold c. this one time I acctually ate crackers and didn't even clean right afterwards

6) My jokes and witty remarks often recieve a response of...
a. Oh sorry I didn't realize you were still talking b. holy wow thats the funniest thing I have ever heard c. a subtle snicker or 2 but mainly approving groans

7) If you were to relate yourself to any animal which would you be?
a. Lion - I am proud of my looks and will let you know who's king b. Ostrich - at the first sign of trouble the head is either burried in the sand or your seen running as fast as you can in the other direction c. Tiger - will lead if needed but not oppopsed to follow. Like the attention but could careless if its all on you or not

8) When in a bad mood you...
a. run a hot bath and light some scented candles to let the world just melt away b. rip into the first person to say anything to you, and if noone's around you bitch at the tv c. put some music in the ole discman, jump on the treadmill and sweat it out

1) A2 B0 C1
2) A .5 B2 C .5
3) A0 B2 C1
4) A2 B1 C0
5) A2 B1 C0
6) A0 B2 C1
7) A2 B0 C1
8) A0 B1 C2

Couch potato video vixen(5.5 or lower): time to get your ass off the couch, turn off the video games and chat rooms and live a little. You haven't met a new person in months unless you count the new employee at VHQ

Happenin hottie (6-11): You know how to have a good time and are generally liked by all whether it be for your jokes or the way you deal with life's imperfections. You strive for mediocracy and exceed your expectations...kudos

Your all that and a bag of potato chips (12 or higher): Your straight outta the freezer and yet hot to the touch. People yearn to be you and have the same self confidence you exert. In thier eyes everything you do is the way things should be done whether it be a fashion statement to the vocab you use. Becareful to use your powers wisely or your head might explode

Happy Holidays Y'all

Have a good christmas, hanuaka, festivus, new year and all that jazz. remember rum and egg nog are tasty. good nights are often followed by bad mornings...
keep it real!
p.s. I am gonna throw a shout out to the man of the season, you all know him and all the sacrafices he gave for us...Graham you rule, keep your fly up and chin straight my boy!!

Tis the season??

The hope was lost
The end was not in sight
And I was not one to sport the pink hair
Though I embraced and supported its symbolic meaning
The rebellion and the change
Brought with every new generation
Smells of fast food and indecision
Filling the air with commercialism and hype
Each person making their own personal charge
Whether it be by what they discover or visa
Forgetting this is to be a time of cheer
A time for laughter and of family
Replaced with bickering and 1000's of last minutes
Listening to what others tell us they want
Turning a blind eye and a deaf ear
Merry commercialism everyone
and to everyone a good fight...

The Answers

Ready for family good times everyone?
well if your family times are anything like mine here are your answers to the only questions you will hear!
1) hows school/ job going?
- Well acctually i stopped trying and decided I was going to quit and try to make it as a tatoo artist
- Well I have been studying alot about communism and I have decided to give up everything and become a commie
- Good, hopefully it continues to roll
2) So where is or why don't you have a significant other?
- Oh right forgot to pick them up, I will be right back (this gives you a little while to hide in the bedroom and play solitare)
- Acctually I am a homosexual, and just haven't found just the right guy/ girl yet
- not here or I don't have one at the moment but I am happy and thats what counts
3) What's the life plan?
- I have decided I have no real desire for anything and have decided to give up on life
- I am selling drugs and making a pretty good living at it. I think I have really found my place in the world, I was born to push drugs onto elementary school children
- No real plan, just trying to live each day at a time

hope these help because I am sure you are going to be asked each one of these atleast 10 to 15 times per christmas celebration!

Trust

A child has complete and utter trust in humanity, until one day their unwaivering belief is broken. I remember this sad day all to well. It was December 29th, about -30 outside with a howling wind. I had just made the 10 minute trek thru the church parking lot and scary unlit cat walk to fairhaven school for a fun practice of soccer at the age of 9 (2 days away from 10). As we were all waitng for the team before us in the gym to finish we began to remove our winter clothes, and then excitedly ran into the gym to begin. Practice went well, fun was had by all. By the end there was only 3 of us left because the rest had left early. Finally the coach told us it was time to go as he had to run and as he walked us out of the gym and locked up the remaining 3 of us began to put on our winter clothing as the coach left. The other 2 were ready quickly and headed off to get rides from thier parents. A young Adam searched for his brand new dallas cowboys jacket as it was his only missing article of winter gear. It was noit where he had thought he left it, he checked the gym, he checked the bathroom, under the chairs, in the garbage, the gym again. The tears began to well up in his eyes as his christmas gift, his most loved gift, was stolen. He ran home...what he left behind was trust, it was replaced with skepticism and he began questioning everything. His faith in humanity had been lost.
It was this day when turst was no longer given to everyone and was no longer felt in everything. Trust had to be earned...and for the longest time trust was built slowly but lost easily. As the years have past the trust is now easier to gain, but can be lost for some of the same reasons.

You learn all of your life's lessons as a child and spend the rest of your life just refining the details.

Disease of Mouth

Think.
Think before you speak.
An easy concept.
A hard follow through.
A disaster averted by laughter.
A witty remark.
Another witty remark.
A smart ass remark.
A chorus of groans.
Another disasterous remark.
Again taken the right way.
A touch of the hand.
A stolen glance caught.
A lip bitten.
A bad joke.
A genuine laugh.
A stomach full of butterflies.
A start...

Thinking before you speak is overrated. Those who accept you for your words, thoughtful or not are those that become your friends. And those who laugh at it and you seem to cause you to stumble on words, stutter around and generally make you become afflicted with foot in mouth disease are the ones you have to watch out for...cause the fall can be wonderful

Christmas fun when your bored

1) Make a ginger bread house
2) send someone an email...one word at a time!! like make it a three sentence email, that consists of like 35 emails!
3) go christmas carroling...but after singing the first line to a song break into random 80's songs (ex. rick springfield - jessie's girl or whitesnake - here I go again..."here come santa claus, here comes santa claus right down caluse lane. here come jessies girl da da da da da da I wish that I had jessie's girl ooooo why can't I find a woman like that like jessie's girl)
4) bake like you've never baked before!!..and by that I mean good haha burn...burn just like you do to cookies...haha double burn woot!!...its awesome cause its so general of a burn it can be used on anyone...even you...yeah thst right YOU!!
5) write random people christmas cards, just go into the phone book and pick 10 people and thier addresses and send them a card. you just might make someones day and you can also mess with thier heads! like "dear Mr. doe. happy holidays and thanks for helping me every step of the way to get to the talk. love, your little puddleduck"
6) go to the mall with an umbrella open it and just walk around saying "tut tut looks like rain, tut tut looks like rain"
7) put on your best clothes and go to open houses and talk like a snooty business person looking to aquire land for her peasent folk...Keep saying "hmmpf I exclaim that this place bores me, gather my stead young vassal and we shall proceed to the next destination. ho!"
8) set up a little makeshift hot choclate stand out front of your house (like kids do with the lemonade stand)
9) spice up your offer with an offer of a shot of bailey's
10) put up a bunch of random decorations that have nothing to do with christmas, such as halloween, st. patrick's day, valentines day etc.
11) dress up like santa claus and take a chair to the mall and just sit there and see how many kids come and tell you what they want
12) answer the phone with a different x-mas song lyric everytime (ex. "I'm dreaming of a white christmas", "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" or "jesus loves you yes he does")
13) go to mc donalds order one single cheeseburger, take out a birthday candle and stick it in the middle and light it. then start singing happy birthday to yourself (or jesus haha)...do it in a sad crying type voice. do it every day at the same time at the same mc donalds
14) dress up like jesus and start walking around saying "hey everyone its ok I didn't die, but man you should have seen your faces!" or "you know thanks for all the hype and what not but fuck me my birthday is febuary12 you idiots"...or things of this nature unless you are extremely religous because then you might not agree with this whole suggestion!

that's probably enough for now...if you are still bored think of your own damn it!! jj

suited up

Detailed...

There are different ways to learn everything and anything about another person. Like a skilled poker player you can learn alot about someone through not only thier words but thier actions. Pay attention to the details...as I have said many times before "its the little things that count". Pay attention to her mood in a certain situation and what she's doing. Watch the way she uses the remote, how she is pushing the buttons, the way she is changing the channels...is she surfing, is she stopping on a certain type of show (i.e. romance), or maybe shes not paying attention to what is on. Go shopping with her...acctually take a somewhat interest in it (just try it once). Watch the way she tries on clothes, which stores she goes into, what she is tryin on...take note of some of the subtle "oh thats nice" and "I wish I had one of those" comments, these can make geat amazing gifts and show that you acctually pay attention. Take notice in the way she orders off a menu, in what her drink of choice is for the night, how loud her music is playing, how fast she is driving, what kind of books she is reading, the way her hair is done, the way she writes certain things down, the way she cooks and the way she eats, pay attention to the details. You may find out that when she seems ancy (surfing channels, in a hurry while shopping, etc etc) she may want you to desperately make a move or wants you to alteast tell her you appreciate her. When her mood seems more casual you just have to go 90 percent and she will jump all over the remaining 10 percent. Other moods and small details may give away that she is just waiting for a chance to jump you...and at the same time paying attention to detail can help you steer clear of a disaster because you will know where not to go.
All I am saying is that the little things are different for every person and its when you can pick up on anothers quirks that you will truly be at peace.

p.s. thanks to a friend I have also realized that you can't win a hand if you don't play the game. Why give up when the queen of hearts is all you really need!!

"you gotta know when to hold em and you gotta know when to fold em" - good ole kenny

Looking Up!

A doe, a deer...
High marks
Kids that listen
Enjoyable job
A bag of fuzzy peaches
My chemical romance, the used, saosin etc.
Almost a month ahead in rehab
A full beard
Finals done the 14th
Christmas time
That butterfly feeling
A new house
Maybe a house of my own
Late night story sessions
...these are a few of my "have me in a great mood" things...and they just keep comming

Life lessons I shouldn't know but do

-The covering on a loaf of garlic bread is made of tin foil thus should not go into a microwave
-A wet dish towel is the best way to put out a burning microwave
-You cannot run from the elevator to the exit door and back to the elevator before the door has closed..trying this may result in pain and stiches
-A safeway grocery bag is not as good as a parachute to jump off of your roof with
-Neither is 2 safeway grocery bags
-Emergency use only means "emergency use only"
-Having a cape does not mean you can fly..but it does mean you can get ice cream to stop your crying
-Ab stimulators are meant for abs not the other extremities of the body
-Never call someone a pussy for not going on a ride and then get off of said ride and puke
-You are never to old to laugh about farts or shots in the nuts
-Streaking in -10 weather is freaking cold
- in -20 its even colder
-Never leave your clothes in plain sight for your friends to see when you are skinny dipping
-Hair dye pills may look like M&M's but they definitely do not taste the same
-Waxing hurts...kudos ladies
-They aren't lying when they tell you poison ivy has 3 leaves
-Once the nose breaks more than 4 times it is pretty weak and the chances of it happening again increase
-"wet paint" signs are often lying
-But then again sometimes they aren't so make sure you check first
-Green day and O Canada do not sound the same for drums...especially during concert
-Forgetting lines in a variety night doesn't matter when you make up clever remarks
-Passing out first at parties results in, writing on your face, water poured in special areas, being duct taped to stuff, having special areas put close to your face..etc. etc.
-Fish do not like alcohol, no matter the amount
-Knees are not designed to bend that way
-Break dancing in a different school is not a good idea when there is a funeral going on
-Mc Chicken sauce is very very hard to get off of a windshield
-A camera or 10 dollars can cause you to do strange things you would never do without these 2 variable being involved
-It is not appropriate to cop a feel on a first date even if you follow it with the sound "whomp"
-When your friend in the passenger seat says "don't hit any more bumps" he means it
-Febreeze gets the smell of puke out of a car best
-Mullets and mustaches are not making a come back no matter how much you want them too!
That's all for know...save some for later
keep it real y'all!!
"wondering how I could get so deep and you could still get sleep" -She paints me blue (Something Corporate)

New Fangled Diet

Diet of the century for y'all

mix 9 shots of yagermister, with 4 shots of tequila, a mickey of whiskey and about a litre of cola and one pilsner. Add dancing at 4 different clubs. also add 1 graceful fall off the speaker onto the beer tub (resulting in a goose egg on the back of the head).

this mix will cause you to not eat anything but 1 bowl of soup for the next 2 days. Thus the pounds you put on in booze you will take off in not eating and dancing your buns off!

so take my advice on this new fangled diet...I have already lost 3 pounds...means its gotta work right!!