"There's a girl in the garden!"

Ed: There's a girl in the garden.
Shaun: What?
Ed: In the garden, there is a girl

- Shaun of the Dead

Early in the morning on Monday, September 14th it started to downpour and the noise woke up Thomas so he opened our bedroom windows (which face the back yard) and listened to it for a while. Then he saw what he thought was a bunny (turns out it was just our cat Paisley). "There's a bunny in the backyard" i hear him say, but it's like 4am so i ignore him and go back to sleep. All of a sudden he's yelling "Get out of my backyard, you're trespassing." All i could think of is poor bunny, it just wants to hang out, it's not trespassing. Then someone replies from the back yard.

"Are you James? I'm looking for my boyfriend James"

Thomas just keeps repeating "Get out of my backyard, you're trespassing."

"What street is this? Where am I? Are you James? Please just tell me what street this is... I need to find James..."

Finally I'm awake enough to figure out what's going on so I call the police because she was trying to break into the shed. And Thomas goes out front to check on my car because a car alarm had started going off. The police didn't take very long to get to our house only like 5 minutes. I can hear the girl talking loudly with Thomas while I'm on the phone with the dispatcher waiting for the police to arrive.

The girl was standing next to Thomas as the cops roll up but then she bolts. They chase after her, but loose her. We hear later that she stole a neighbors bike and rode off. The cops saw her but thought they were looking for someone on foot so didn't pursue the person on the bike they saw.

They cops searched the surrounding yards for about 20 minutes then give up and tell us a bit about the girl. They've run into her before. Her name is Cassie and she's in her mid-twenties. She and some friends drove down her from Washington, but she was drunk and crashed her car and got a DUI for it. So now she has no way to get home and is stuck with some crappy friends.

She told Thomas that Sunday was her birthday and she has gone drinking and her friends and James left her and told her to meet them in some shed... for some reason she thought it was ours.

Poor girl. I hope she gets help and gets to go home.

Ode to CAW (as previously posted on myspace)

There for You - Flyleaf

Sometimes I'm a selfish fake
You're always a true friend
I don't deserve you
'Cause I'm not there for you
Please forgive me again

I wanna be there for you
Someone you can come to
Runs deeper than my bones
I wanna be there for you
I wanna be there for you

Swirling shades of blue
Slow dancing in your eyes
Sun kisses the earth
And I hush my urge to cry

I wanna be there for you
Someone you can come to
Runs deeper than my bones
I wanna be there for you
I wanna be there for you

'Cause I hear the whispered words
In your masterpiece beautiful
You speak the unspeakable through
I love you too

I wanna be there for you
Someone you can come to

I wanna be there for you
And be someone you can come to
The love runs deeper than my bones
I wanna be there for you

Ode to NMH

I wish it were as easy as a song...

Sticking With You - Addison Road

Come on, it's me you're talking to
There's something going on inside of you
Don't have to say it, but I wish you would
Cause it would be much easier

You always hide behind yourself
You walk a lonely road with no one's help
I hate to break the news
You're headed for a fall

And if I have to jump
Then I'll jump
And I won't look down
You can cry, you can fight, we can scream and shout

I'll push and pull
Until your walls come down
And you understand I'm gonna be around
I'm sticking with you
(I'm stinking with you)

Even if you try and shut me out
I'm staying here cause that's what love's about
I might let you down, but I won't let you go

So lean into me, I want to know
Everything about the fear you hold inside
Cause you and I are better than just one,

So if I have to jump
Then I'll jump
And I won't look down
You can cry, you can fight, we can scream and shout

I'll push and pull
Until your walls come down
And you understand I'm gonna be around
I'm sticking with

If that's what it means to love you
If that's what it means to have your back
If that's what it takes to show you
Then I'm in, I'm in

If I have to jump
Then I'll jump
And I won't look down
You can cry, you can fight, we can scream and shout

I'll push and pull
Until your walls come down
And you understand I'm gonna be around

And if I have to jumpThen I'll jump
And I won't look down
You can cry, you can fight, we can scream and shout

I'll push and pull
Until your walls come down
And you understand I'm gonna be around
Cuz I'm sticking with you.
(I'm sticking with you)

Hughson Coffee Co. (for Carrie)

St. Patties Day

Thomas and I joined Mitch Koch, Jordon Merrill, Katrina Eck and Zach Sawer for a night at P. Wexford's.

Pictures

So i'm taking a digital photography class and here are some intersting one of my friends Zach and Mikaela Koppers at Hughson Coffee Co.

Trying

I realize at times i can be a very trying person :) but right now is a very trying time in life for me. I feel like i can do nothing right at work. Why am i a manager? I want to do well and be a good manager, but i have no help in doing so... it's the blind leading the blind. Why can't others see this? Why did i have to get the 15 min lecture yesterday?

sigh. and most of it over a sigh.

i want to be myself and i want to be good at it. i don't want to be in conflict. i want to not have to play games to figure out what someone is really trying to say. i want to be able to say what i mean well.

i want this semester to be better, best.

i'll make myself feel better by looking up plan tickets to visit my friend Carrie in April :)