An improvement on the basic weight glove
An improvement on the basic weight glove - These cover only the parts of your hands that get callusses and therefore breathe better. I am considering getting a pair: great price!
An improvement on the basic weight glove - These cover only the parts of your hands that get callusses and therefore breathe better. I am considering getting a pair: great price!
If I remember correctly (well, if my digging up the files surrounding this event yielded the correct results), it was early fall of 2001 when I did a very small part to help the process of bringing together two people who were meant to be together. Had I been there or not, I am convinced Matt and Shayla would still have come together, but I like to think I helped two good friends in a small way.
The issue was, Matt and Shayla liked one another, but had not yet made the dating step. It’s a frightening jump for anybody in any situation, but the small social community of high school we were in at the time really put the pressure on. I was able to do a little ferrying of information between the two parties, with the hope that some back-channel lines of communication would prod things in the right direction. This culminated in a successful Going Out status between Matt and Shayla. Apologies, Matt, for reproducing one of the 4+ year old chats here …
Matt: i like said “can i say somethin?” then i turned down the raido… then i was like “ok, so like i think we both know the answer to this question, but i think you’re really awesome, so will you go out with me?” so that’s what i said
Alex: hey thats pretty good! was habe sie gesagen?
Matt: she said “yeah” lol, i don’t really remember i was so nervous
Matt: i felt my face like go totally red, (like steve’s) when i was asking, and i was like cold before, but i had said it in my head a lot before i asked her, so i wouldn’t sound too retarded
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Alex: like you coulda practiced asking me out and i could tell you if it was good or not
Matt: lol!!! that would be awkward
Alex: yeah … what if i said yes?
Alex: like
Alex: you were so convincing that i had to say yes
In the midst of the changes that college inevitably bring to one’s life, I find it comforting to think that two people have lasted so long, their lives lashed together to weather the turbulence of these changing seas of life. There is so much more to say, but I intend to save it for any formal, public occasions in the future. Why is that? Because Matt and Shayla, as of very recently, are officially engaged to be married! I was, I admit, a little girly in my intial reaction - my voice went up about two octaves, I pranced about, and I babbled happy statements (but seriously, it really happened that way).
Allow me to raise a preemptive toast to the two of you, two wonderful friends of mine!
Great humor t-shirts - Almost identical (and an imitation of) bustedtees.
Me: I got off the phone with you after leaving the gym and started jogging across Lot H … you know sometimes you just get that feeling where you want to start running suddenly?
Mykala: … No, not really.
Me: Well, I got that feeling, so I started running and immediately almost fell over on recently-frozen ice.
My: laughs
Me: Yeah but it gets better. I continued to run more cautiously and then got owned by another patch of ice just before the edge of the parking lot.
My: So you fell over?
Me: No, if I had been in the NFL, the play would still be going.
My: disappointed Oh.
Me: Ok, so what is the schedule tonight?
My: Well, I leave around 6pm, and the concert starts at 10pm.
Me: Sounds good, ‘cause I really want to watch that Saturday Night Live with Dane Cook that is replaying tonight.
My: Did I say 10pm?
Me: Yes.
My: Ok, ‘cause I meant 8pm.
40 Minute Conan O’Brien Interview - Fresh Air plus Conan equals wonderful radio. On the occasion of Conan O’Brien’s 10th anniversary show.
Turkish Van: a cat breed that loves water - “This brings us to another interesting feature of this breed - they love water and in their native region they have been termed ‘the Swimming Cats.’”
… the secret of great photography is large amounts of bad photography.
— Daniel Rutter
Grills Grills Grills - Inspired by the classic Motley Crue song.
Ryan: Yeah, I guess things are going pretty well between the two of them, he went to visit her down in Iowa last time I went.
Me: Oh, so he went down to Cedar Rapids?
Ryan: Uh, no.
Mykala: You know, all of Iowa is not Cedar Rapids.
Me: That may be true, but all I’ve ever heard of is cheap gas and Cedar Rapids down there. So, I am lead to believe otherwise: whenever my dad goes down to Iowa, he goes to Cedar Rapids, and the last time I was there, it was a lot of corn, and 93 cent-a-gallon-gas in the middle of the corn’ness.
R/Mykala: …
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