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Fun Weekend w/ Lots of Pics |
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So here was my 4-day weekend a few weekends ago (that I’m only getting around to writing about now): I didn’t have classes on Friday so I hung out with Valerie then Chris came down and the three of us went down to see Kyle in Vancouver! They mostly worked the whole weekend, so Val and I went down to Portland for Chinese New Year!
On Saturday, we just sort of drove…and followed our noses, and luckily came right up on Chinatown! Unfortunately, it’s super small. Anyway, Val brought her digital camera, so here’s as bunch of pics!
Here’s a cool building that Val liked:
And the Convention Centre that looks way cool:
Here’s our parking garage that smelled like piss:
And pictures of the smallest Chinatown ever:
And the trees in Chinatown:
And pretty purple flowers in Chinatown (and one in my hair to go with my shirt):
Ok, so there was a little Chinese shop that had an art gallery upstairs with all the cool stuff they had collected over the years and there was this really scary mannequin:
Cool chandeliers:
Cool art:
A cool musical instrument:
Me:
Cool display in another store:
Me again:
Cool:
The archway into Chinatown:
A helicopter taking off really close to us:
The Chinese Classical Garden:
In the parking garage smelling of piss again:
Lots of cool pictures taken by my camera-happy Valerie:
Pizza-Schmizza and Java Man Coffee that looks strikingly like Starbucks Coffee:
Inside the mall, there was a really cool fountain next to the escalator:
Ok, so we went into a little store and they had a fake cave where they let little kids take pictures and send them in and they also had DINOSAURS! So I automatically thought of Wash and his dinosaurs!:
Chris’ face made out of sushi at Sushiland:
And Chris and Kyle and Val at Sushiland:
Valerie making Kyle into jelly with her amazing massages:
Kyle's awesome shirt, which, in case you can't read it, says, "No I Will Not Make Out With You":
Me. Driving:
Val. While I’m driving:
More crazy pictures by Valerie:
Look! I match the walls!:
Look! Val matches the inside of the elevator (and the guy in there with us had an expression that clearly said, "******** tourists." wink !:
A rainbow. Like, a whole one. Not just part of one, an entire arc:
And birds flying around the rainbow:
More awesome scenery (we vote this is the best pic of them all):
And a little bobbing-head guy in the window of an office that also had a letter posted:
Valerie in the cute little Asian shop, and then both of us:
Chinatown arch again:
Me, on the street:
Val on the street:
Valerie’s feet in the car on the way back up north:
And all the stuff on the floor, which is why Valerie’s feet are on the dashboard, instead of the floor:
And me, driving back up north:
And Chris in the back, working:
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frodo_baggins05 · Sun Mar 11, 2007 @ 01:31am · 0 Comments |
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Ok, I have to write this down before I forget it. Last night, Monday, I got called into work at Jack in the Box. I went in at 8 PM and left at about 3.30 AM.
I don’t know what it was about that night, but so many guys were hitting on me in the drive-thru!
The first one asked if I would go out with him sometime, but I told him I already had a boyfriend. He said, “It’s ok, he won’t know.” I laughed sort of uncomfortably and told him again that I couldn’t. I left and when I brought back his food, he had written his number on his receipt for me. I took it, laughed, and told him to have a good night.
The next guy asked if I had a boyfriend and when I said yes, he acted all pouty and said that I had ruined his night. When I gave him his food and told him to have a great night, he said, “I can’t I’m too depressed!”
The third guy was the best. There was two guys in the car and I had just come back from the restroom so they were already at the window by the time I got there. I went over to collect their money and the driver, who must have been about 35 asked me if I had a boyfriend. I said yes and he said, “Too bad. You got a nice a** though.” What do you say to that?! So, I said thanks (?) and took his money. Then he handed me an extra five dollar bill and was like, “Put that in your pocket.” I was confused… “Are you sure?” I asked him. “Yeah, you showed me your a** you deserve it!” Ok, I didn’t show him my a**, he looked without me even knowing! I was washing my hands for goodness’ sake! The guy in the passenger seat, who was about 19 would have been cute were he not staring at me like I was meat, was sort of nodding in agreement. So I thanked him, gave him his change and got his food. When I asked them if they needed any sauce, like ranch or barbeque, the guy in the passenger seat called out, “If you could put yourself in a bag, that’d be great!” I laughed and told him I didn’t think I’d fit.
The next guy asked me if I had a boyfriend and when I told him yes, he asked if I had any single friends. I laughed and said, “A few.” “I if I give you my number, will you give it to them?” he asked. No, I thought, but said, “Maybe.” So he wrote down his number and gave it to me and said, “If your boyfriend ever dumps you, you give me a call!” I told him I would, but I won’t. Obviously.
The last two were nothing special like these other guys; they just ask if I had a boyfriend. This is why I shouldn’t work drive-thru. I guess it was just The Night of the Fast Food Creeps (they weren’t creepy, but it has a ring).
I get one guy asking most nights, and some nights not any, but 6 in one frickin night! It was hilarious. My co-workers thought it was pretty funny too. Yeah, keep laughing, guys. I’m the one with the numbers and the five bucks, not you!
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frodo_baggins05 · Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 08:48am · 0 Comments |
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Ok, so I just found a site that lets me write articles, and depending on how many people rate them as good, they pay me! Seriously, I thought it was a scam at first, but it's not! They use the revenue from their advertising! You should all join! Right after you read my first article and rate it for me!!! Please!
http://www.helium.com/tm/144886/books-always-choosing-favourite
And then you should click on my name and read my other articles. As of now, there's only one other, but there will be more soon!
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frodo_baggins05 · Thu Feb 01, 2007 @ 06:29am · 0 Comments |
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Ok, by a show of hands, how many people have heard of the game Mule? It's old. Yeah, I didn't think so. Anyway, Val, Jordan, Chris and I played some games a couple months ago and we took pictures of the high scores because they're just amazing. According to Chris, it used to be a big deal if you could get a score of 100,000 on the original.
So this was the score after turn 9 out of 12:
Here was the final score:
It didn't exactly turn out, but you can see the important part: the score! 175,231!!!
And it gets better:
188,056!!! We couldn't believe it!
Then, here are some pics from my dad's birthday back in October:
Just to clarify, that's a card shaped like a pickle (from me) and a miniature bottle of Tabasco sauce (also from me, courtesy of Danny).
A while ago, Chris and I ventured a few miles north of his house into Canada to visit a street. This street is actually called 0th Ave. I swear. I have pictures. See? Oh, and if you're a computer geek, you'll also get why he's standing at the corner of 264th and 0th and also 256th and 0th.
Ok, so now here's some pictures from the Christmas party at Val's last month. It was tons of fun.
Jerrad and TJ
Jordan and Abe
Valerie's head, TJ's legs, and Jerrad
The fairy that Val and I got for Jordan and her stupid boyfriend ruining my picture by picking his nose.
The pretty celtic prayer necklace that Valerie gave me.
TJ opening Valerie's duct taped present.
Jerrad's "J" Scrabble mug and TJ. Oh, and Jerrad himself, too.
Valerie's new zombie shirt from Jordan.
The pretty new slippers to Val from me.
Me and Valerie
Jerrad, a lump that might be Val, and TJ.
Grinning Chris.
The rug, the coffee table, and Jerrad's Fluxx deck.
So here are some pictures of Christmas with my family. I know most of you don't care, but bear with me.
My grandma's nativity scene in her living room
Me stuffing Chris's stocking
Chris and his movie tickets and Grandma
My new hair dryer, me, and Chris
My uncle Shawn and "The Da Vinci Code"
Dad, Mom, and Uncle Shawn
Grandma's new sponge!
Daddy's new oil lamp
Shawn and some new knives, I think.
The parents.
I think those are cutting boards. And my uncle.
Mom and Dad again
Dad and his new Larry the Cable Guy CD
frodo_baggins05 · Tue Jan 09, 2007 @ 10:38pm · 0 Comments |
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Well, here’s a summary of the two months or so. Um, well, Thanksgiving was awesome. Chris and I went down to Oregon again and saw my biological family. It was at my aunt Terri’s house and it was a lot of fun. Everyone was so happy to see me! It felt like I was coming home, even though I didn’t know a few of the people. Oh, and we even went to go see Kyle on the way down. More on him later.
Finals were in December. They went ok. My voice jury went really well and my piano jury was pretty good too. I don’t think I did spectacularly on any of my finals, but I didn’t fail either.
I stayed with Valerie while the dorms were closed. I still drove down here for work and all though. Anyway, Christmas was also really great; got lots of gift cards and spent quality time with my family and Chris’s family.
Ok, so here’s the real reason for this. Valerie and I went down to see our good friend Kyle Ward about two weeks ago.. He lives in Vancouver; the Washington one, not the Canadian one. Ok, so keep in mind as I tell this story, that Chris is INSANELY jealous of Kyle. I can’t figure out why. It’s only Kyle. Well, and my other friend named Kyle, go figure. But he’s not generally a jealous guy. Oh, and for those of you who don’t know who Kyle is, he wrote music and steps for ITG with Chris. That’s how I know him: through Chris, which makes it even funnier that he’s so jealous. Anyway, his music is awesome and independent from the game, so if you’ve never heard it, check it out: www.myspace.com/kwmusic
Ok, before we talk about anything, I just have to tell you that Kyle’s Christmas tree is really wimpy. It’s like 4 feet tall and it changes colours, but it’s so small! It looks like it should be a table decoration, not the main dish. We laughed at him. A lot.
So we got there around 3 or so on Tuesday and had a hell time deciding what we were going to do with ourselves. Finally, Kyle sucked it up and decided that we would visit his “home-away-from-home” aka the arcade down the street. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have an ITG machine, so we were stuck playing DDR “Stupid-Nova”. I hate that game. I just hate it. Don’t get me started. Anyway, everyone at that arcade knows Kyle cuz he goes there all the time to play and show off and stuff. And the little kids are just in awe of him. When him and Val were playing a set, a little kid looks at me with wide eyes and goes, “That guy’s a robot! He never misses any!” It was really cute.
So we played that for a while, got all nice and sweaty and headed back to Kyle’s. He took a quick shower and then we all sat around for a while trying to decide where to go to dinner. Valerie finally put her foot down and said we were going to Izzy’s, a little pizza place that Kyle used to love, but hadn’t been in a long time.
It was pretty good. He said that it wasn’t as good as he remembered, but I liked it. They had yummy cheese bread. Oh, and Kyle’s a big fat liar. He only lies in good fun, but he’s still a big fat liar. Don’t believe anything he says; it’s probably a lie. So, we were eating dessert, and I swear, I was just eating an ice cream cone. But no. Kyle didn’t see eye to eye with me. But you can ask Valerie: I was just eating an ice cream cone.
As we were leaving the restaurant, we had a discussion about the huge windstorm the past week. We decided that if there happened to be another huge windstorm that night in Vancouver, we would have to huddle together for warmth. It would be tough, but we’d have to make that sacrifice for the greater good.
Once we were back at his place, we ran into the oh-so-familiar dilemma of what to do next. I wanted to call Chris before he went to bed so the three of us laid on Kyle’s bed and had a group conversation. While we were talking, Kyle called Valerie a prostitute. He said that was all their time together meant to him. See the liar thing? Anyway, I don’t think Chris was too keen on the thought of the three of us in bed together. Well, shortly after we hung up, Kyle forced himself on top of Valerie, not realizing how close to the edge she was. That was a fun avalanche. Kyle cracked his whole left side on his dresser and Valerie smashed her left side onto the bed frame.
After they recovered, we were still stuck with what to do next. So we decided to watch a movie, which in itself, created another problem: which movie? After about 45 minutes of debating, Kyle finally decided that we should watch The Thomas Crown Affair since I had never seen it before. About half an hour into the movie, you’ll never guess what happened. Yeah, the gorram power went out! It was really eerie. So, as per our agreement, there was a lot of huddling. And a whole lot of pillow fighting. Oh, and we listened to Dane Cook on my laptop. What a great combination: no power, pillow fights, and Dane Cook. Yes.
The power was only out for about half an hour so we did get to finish the movie. And, I don’t know where he got the notion, but somehow Kyle became convinced that I was sleeping through the movie. Thus ensued much throwing of pillows at heads. I don’t know what it is about this boy, but he just can’t let anything go! Sleeping, muffins (ask Valerie), I just can’t figure it out! So about every 10 minutes, Kyle would chuck a pillow at my head, convinced that I needed waking up so I wouldn’t miss the movie. Don’t worry, I let him know that it wasn’t necessary by throwing the pillow back at his head. After while, just to check you know, I would just throw the pillow at him to make sure that he wasn’t the one sleeping. Insert lots of pillow fighting and lovely rug burns.
So the movie finished, and since it was only about midnight, we decided to watch another movie. But which one? We picked Groundhog Day since Val hadn’t seen that one. Once again, there was the usual, “Tina, stop sleeping!” from Kyle, followed by a pillow to my head and about three more pillows to his.
So when the movie was done, at about 2 AM, Kyle got the uncontrollable urge to vacuum his living room. “It was dirty,” he said. This is the point where we pray that he’s just delirious from exhaustion and that he doesn’t make that his usual habit. Val and I just stood back and watched the master at work.
After the room was clean to his satisfaction, we decided that it was time to go to bed. Since Kyle was holding all the couch pillows hostage, I decided that to go to bed, I would need one of his pillows. So I ran into his room and grabbed his really big body pillow, which turned out to spark a huge confrontation. I took it and ran into the guest bedroom where I got tackled into the bed by Kyle. Apparently, that pillow is his favourite and he’s named it Bertha (j/k, guys, he was just kidding, I hope). He tried to make me give it back by telling us horror stories of what that pillow has been through. I don’t even want to know. Really. Despite what this pillow had “been through”, we weren’t about to give it back that easily. We decided that if we didn’t know what he had done to the pillow, it wouldn’t bother us. Ignorance is bliss, eh?
So, as I was struggling to keep Bertha, I remembered a funny little thing about the bed in Kyle’s guest bedroom from when Chris and I were down there. It’s very comfortable and all, but it rolls in toward the middle. If you’re sleeping alone, that’s just peachy, since you sleep in the middle. But with two people, you end up on top of each other. Now, I love Valerie, but I don’t want to sleep on top of her. That would be a bit weird. Solution? Camp out in the living room! Kyle’s big pillow was definitely big enough for three of us to sleep on. So Val and I grabbed some blankets and headed back to the living room and laid down.
But these arrangements apparently weren’t good enough for Kyle. We laid in peace for a minute or two and then Kyle kindly informed us that he would be “disturbing the peace in two minutes.” True to his word, he even counted down for us, he tried to get up and throw some more pillows at me. He was mildly hampered by Valerie hanging on his arm.
When we finally got him settled down again, he gave us another 30 second warning before he ruined things again. This time he was mostly trying to get the pillow back. But he failed miserably. Another hour-long pillow fight commenced before Kyle tried to get us into bed again. This time for real. He was trying to convince us both to sleep in the guest bed, so first he coaxed Valerie into the bed, then carried me over. Too bad we both just got right back up. He gave on the idea of us sleeping together, so instead he took Valerie to bed and let me sleep on the couch.
We were all up by about 10.30. At one point, I made a heart with my hands at Valerie and she made one back and Kyle broke it! She makes hers upside down, but regardless, it was still her heart and he broke it! More than once! She was very upset. In fact, she was heart-broken.
We decided to go to breakfast at IHOP for some pancakes. Near the end of breakfast, he fondled my pancake again and again and then poured salt on it. I felt violated.
We spent our last few hours together getting revenge for all the pillow face-shots that he had dished out the night before. There was a lot of tickling of the Kyle going on. When Valerie finally had him pinned down, his phone rang. It was his mother. We had to let him talk to her. He was saved by his mother calling. How cute. Anyway, the rest of the trip was pretty much uneventful, except for the part where Kyle groped Valerie. Actually, a more appropriate word would be “fondle,” I think. And then, to try to make light of it, he compared her boob to his Christmas tree. Very flattering.
So that was about it. Oh, and I got Valerie these awesome slippers for Christmas:
And Kyle just had to try to shove his big feet in them. According to Valerie: “Kyle put on my slippers and was proud of how they looked. Maybe not on him…but in general.” So that was our fun time.
frodo_baggins05 · Tue Jan 09, 2007 @ 08:32pm · 0 Comments |
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So I was thinking. I’ve grown used to my solitary existence here at PLU. And that’s what it is, really. It’s not a life. At Chapman, I had friends, my room was my room, and I could look around the campus and feel like that was where I belonged. That was my school, my music building. Here at PLU, I look around and think, “Yeah, I take classes here. I have a room on campus. But I don’t belong.” I go to my classes and sit alone, sometimes talking to the people next to me, but not making friends. I eat every meal alone, I walk to classes alone, I sit in my room alone every night. I don’t even have a roommate who will pretend to be my friend.
And I’ve gotten used to it. Sometimes, like now, it just makes me sad. Most of the time now, I don’t notice. I go about my business like I’m supposed to and I exist, but nothing more.
And now Chris and Marcella want me to transfer to Western. I would get to live with Chris, which would be great, but is it worth it? Can I do this all over again? I don’t think I can.
Anyway, enough of the depressing stuff. So life is stressful. No money, lots of expenses. At least I like work better than before. People are actually starting to talk to me, which is a nice change. Registration for spring is next week. Family weekend is this weekend so I’ll be hanging with my parents all day tomorrow.
That’s about it.
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frodo_baggins05 · Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 12:19am · 1 Comments |
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Burgers, Airplanes, and Tigers |
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Ok, so, for a change, I can say that some exciting things have happened. First off, I got a job at Jack-in-the-Box. Not my first choice, and I’m keeping my eyes peeled for better opportunities, but I’m just glad I have an income. My first day was today and it was really boring. Just doing training things on the compy.
Hung out with Katie and Val and Jordan and TJ last week. And Katie again yesterday and today. Good times. Then I went up to see Chris last Friday and on Saturday, his dad and 5 of his friends flew up to see us. They’re all part of the Blackjack Squadron so they flew in their own, homemade airplanes and in formation and showed off a bit before they landed. So we all went out to lunch and then four of them left and his dad and his friend, Wes, took Chris and me up. Chris’ mom, who flew in with his dad, stayed on the ground and took pictures. I flew with Wes and after we did some rolls and loops, he let me steer. It was scary and made me really nervous, so I gave him back the controls really quickly. We found the place where Chris is staying from the air too! We recognised it because of my car in the driveway!
So the next day, John and Weegie, the couple Chris is staying with, gave us a present. They have friends that have 3 rescued tigers and a lioness and they help feed and take care of them. So they took up to go see the kitties and we even got to feed them! I wish I could remember the stories behind all four of them, but I can only remember Calvin’s. Some guy down in Texas got him as a baby and raised him, but when he got to big for the house, he built him a big cage outside. When he went to open some sort of business, the insurance guy told him that he had to get rid of the tiger within 60 days or they wouldn’t cover him and he couldn’t open his business. So…somehow, these people ended up with him. They’re gorgeous animals and really soft, but kind of scary. Here are some pics.
The Blackjack Squadon (part of them, at least)
Chris and Calvin
Me and Typhoon
Typhoon
Me and Mae Ling
Chris and Lily the lioness
Lily munching
frodo_baggins05 · Wed Oct 25, 2006 @ 09:24am · 1 Comments |
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I just wanted to share with everyone the notes I took in my English class yesterday. They’re very educational.
This class is so boring. I just want to go read my book or go to sleep or play Oblivion or do just about anything else. SO BORING. I am so bored! Ah! I don’t really care! Why can’t we talk about something relevant to the READING?!!!? Does anything about this actually pertain to what we read? Does anyone even CARE? How does Aristotle relate to Marie de France, as cool as he is? s**t!!! Yes, she’s writing a narrative, but did we need to review the whole of Aristotle’s works just to say that?
Someone actually asked why the English translations of Marie dde France’s lays don’t rhyme. THEY’RE TRANSLATIONS! You can’t make every language rhyme the same as every other one, it just doesn’t work that way! Holy crap!
Only 25 more minutes. Yes, let’s spend 5 minutes talking about how the stories would have been read aloud. Because it takes that long to say it. Blah, blah, blah. Yes, it takes amazing power of deduct5ion to figure out that since she’s addressing the stories to “lords,” that means nobles. I know, so difficult.
This class is such a waste. The texts are great and it could be such an incredible class!...if we had a good prof. So random, boring, slow-moving. It just kills me. It’s taken us about an hour and a half to actually get to the text. *le sigh* Kill me now.
15 minutes. Such a shame. Such a waste of our superfluous amounts of tuition money.
Men. Now we’re talking about medieval, homosexual military men. WHO CARES?! Is Guigemar gay? I dunno, let’s talk about things only loosely related to that for 10 minutes. No people, a “hind” is not a “rear-end,” it’s a female deer! It has a fawn for goodness’ sake!
5 MINTUES! I wish I was a wizard. I’d make the clock turn ahead 5 minutes. Whoever had this book before me drew all over it in green pen. Very distracting.
Oh and the hind talks. So two muffins were in an oven and one muffin says to the other, “Man, it’s hot in here.” The second muffin replies, “O my God, a talking muffin!” And the deer shoots the guys balls with the same arrow Guigemar shot at it. This is an awesome story.
Ok, I know, not very educational, but I just can’t stand that class!
frodo_baggins05 · Thu Oct 12, 2006 @ 04:25am · 0 Comments |
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"Rules of Writing" and Chris |
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JokeFiles.com's "Rules of Writing"
- Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects. - Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. - And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. - It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. - Avoid cliches like the plague. - Also, always avoid annoying alliteration. - Be more or less specific. - Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary. - Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies. - No sentence fragments. - Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used. - Foreign words and phrases are not apropos. - Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous. - One should NEVER generalize. - Comparisons are as bad as cliches. - Don't use no double negatives. - Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. - One-word sentences? Eliminate. - Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. - The passive voice is to be ignored. - Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas. - Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice. - Kill all exclamation points!!! - Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them. - Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth shaking ideas. - Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed. - Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly. - Puns are for children, not groan readers. - Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms. - Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. - Who needs rhetorical questions? - Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
And finally... - Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. OMG, I love these. They're amazing and whoever wrote them should be given an award. Anyway, I just had to share with the world. So on Friday I went up to see Chris and he bought me a red rose! He set it out so I would see it when I came in even though he was already asleep. So I went and woke him up and after we talked for a minute, he was like, "Hold on," and went into the bathroom and came out with another rose! This one was white. After talking for another minute, he was said, "Ok, ok hold on a second," and went back into the bathroom and brought out two more roses! "I couldn't decide which colour to get so I had to get a pink and an orange one too." !!! So then, after I had been almost crying over those for a second, he went back into the bathroom again and brought out 3 more! And then three more! He waited another couple minutes and then said, "Hold on, I have to go to the bathroom," and brought out another 3! And it's not even our anniversary or anything! I love my Chris so much.
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frodo_baggins05 · Tue Oct 10, 2006 @ 07:07am · 1 Comments |
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