The life and times of Jake

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

So long no post= sorry.

The las couple of weeks have been so hectic, I'm having a hard time keeping my head on straight. I went to my slightly-younger cousins funera... I mean, wedding last week and that went well. I played a song for her (my cousins) cousin to sing on guitar. It was more of a classical style that waht I usally play so it was a nice change. That also went well. The wedding was at a place called Spiegel Farms in South Carolina. It is an old horse farm which has been turned into an event place, but mostly for weddings. It was outdoors adn very classy and elegant.
So after that I got to enjoy another nice work week down here in Georgia, where I'm now painting outside in the blistering heat. yay. cant you feel the enthusiasm in the words that im typing? So then this past week my uncle from Canada was here along with a bunch of relatives from SC for my Grandaddy's 80th birthday. And so a bunch of the cousins got together and shot guns at each other. Just kiding...but no really. we did. LoL. But anyway, we all had a good old time on saturday doing yard work. My Grandaddy lives out in the country in Harris county adn has about6 acres of land to mow and weed-eat. not to mention all the other things we did for an 80 year old man that he cant do for himself. So that was a very nice present for him I think.
This morning I had to get up at 4 am to take my brother Josh to the airport in ATL. So I got to drive three hours almost straight before I was even awake! Cool huh? And so the rest of the day I have been so out of it. I dont remember ever being this tired before. (accept that time I stayed up for two nights straight in Ohio with a friend of mine and then slept 15 hours) But thats another story.

Life's a garden. Dig it.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Today...sheesh.

Today started out good, sleeping in late, etc... Well I went out to my Grandaddys house to mow his lawn (5 acers) And I spent twoo hours getting the stupid thing in running order and I started to mow the front yard and halfway through the blade belt broke. So great, I came out here and did everthing to this mower and then this? Well, it just so happens that my "significant other" works on river road which just-so-happens to be on my way back from harris county. So I droped by to say hey to everybody and so it turned out better than I had expected.
Oh yeah, and last week I almost had my finger ripped off bye a sliding railroad tie. long story short, I was helping move it into a truck and it rotated, and caught my index finger between two ties. I felt it binding just in time to get my fingers out before they got squooshed off. But it did get my right index enough to disjoint it at the middle knuckle. So I pushed it back in and finished loading ties.(A little more carefully.) And I still dont have full use of it. It'll come back though. Well I gotta go. I really dont know why I'm writing this because no one reads them obviously. So note to self; Don't be a loser.