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your brother looks like he's hilarious!
you are so lucky!
ok, so i know youre a lost fan......was it a good one tonight? it hasnt come on here yet.....dont tell me anything except if it was a good one....
i was so anxious to watch lost last night and my "lost partner" that i ALWAYS watch with wasnt home! so i recorded it and will watch it hopefully today or tomorrow!
i hear that there is a new girl? thai possibly?
But, seriously, I think LOST is losing steam. I don't know why they are drawing things out so slowly... it's making me nuts.
my roomie who used to watch with me and my other two roomies has lost interest already......
For a minute I did a doubletake. He looks like a blue-eyed version of my friend Eric.
I just had one heck of a workout at water aerobics. I feel bouncy and full of energy. It's great. I've lost 7 lbs in the past three weeks.
That sounds great. I wish I could swim in indoor pools but I am allergic to chlorine in the water. Wah! And I'd swim in lakes but I get anxiety attacks in deep water because of two traumatic incidents in my life: I almost drowned at the age of 13 when I got bitten by a water moccasin snake in Missouri and I once encountered an incredibly large sturgeon in Lake Michigan when I was 16. I didn't know that sturgeon were friendly fish, so I thought the thing was going to bite me. No one believed my "attack sturgeon" story while I was in the water -- until they saw it flip in the air and they dragged my poor weepy self out of the water. It was like an encounter with a sea monster! Then, much later, the next time I swim in Lake Michigan I'm at Beaver Island and flip out when what I thought was a big rock turned out to be a very large snapping turtle swimming into my direction! Once again, no one around believed me when I cried out for help. The snapping turtle was the hugest I ever saw and it bumped into my left thigh...
Ever try to run in chin high water? That's what I tried to do. Drew and Genessa still didn't believe that it was a snapping turtle that I panicked around until one of the professors at the Biological Station told us all that they have an area near the beach where they track snapping turtles in the big lake. I most likely encountered one of the professor's "pet" research turtles. Genessa, to lighten things up, later drew a silly drawing of a very scared Val being stalked by a giant snapping turtle in the lake. I was not amused, however
We have to run in chin high water for water aerobics class while wearing ankle and wrist weights. It doesn't work. Well, once you get momentum it does, kindof, but it is still not fun.
I hate leeches. They suck.
Running in chin high water isn't all that fun. I heard it's supposed to be easier on your muscles or something, but doesn't look that fun...
I had a stupid dream about your brother. I really need to hit you with a pillow whenever I see you.
I hear ya about money. I had to scrounge up a $3.17 to buy some body wash because I ran out of it as soon as I bought TP -- I swear, if it's one thing, it's another! Now it's not just my ass that's happy, it's my skin!
I think most people who meet my brother tend to have dreams about him -- of both the weird and sexual kind. And my brother is usually oblivious when it comes to women. He just doesn't understand what anyone sees in him. Before I moved to Milwaukee in 2001, my bro and I would hit the downtown bar scene and as soon as women found out Mark was my baby brother, they'd buddy up to me to find out more about him so they can seduce him. Even when he's now nearly 300 lbs. he's still attractive. It was the same thing when he was born -- he was a really pretty baby. I think it's his blue green eyes and that he's a triple Pisces.
Lately my brother and I have become best friends I think. It's good to have him around because, like me, he's got similiar mental/emotional disorders, so we support each other a lot. I think it would be a lot worse if we were separate and alone at this time. We used to fight really hardcore. Before my brother had his kids, he was really mean, but he's softened a lot over the years. About the main things we disagree on now are religion and gay rights. Yet Mark does not describe himself as conservative! He's kinda in between a liberal and conservative.
yeah, go on and hit me! I've talked a bit too much about him. I love the big lug, even though he can be a pain in the ass!
A little back story and then why the picture made me laugh until I ran to the bathroom to pee.
My sophomore year I was living with Jonathan but still had a room in the dorms. My folks were sick of paying $500 for a single room so I moved my crap down four doors to another single room that this girl Amy had. I didn't really like her and her hygeine was questionable but I figured for the one hour a day during the week that I needed a place to study between classes, it wouldn't suck.
I quickly found out that she never washed her laundry. She was so scared of the other girls in the bathroom seeing her showering that she wore the previous days clothes into the shower, soaped them up but not her skin, and then stood in the water until the bubbles stopped. no shampoo or anything. She would then run, dripping, to a toilet stall and change into that days clothing, dragging her wet clothes in a bag behind her. These she hung on a tree branch outside our window in good weather, or she would take them down to the basement when she had money and dry them.
Spring semester I got my own apartment across from Parkside. My schedule was in blocks so I never had a longer than a lunchbreak free slot to go to the room. However, one day a class was cancelled and I had to be on campus the next hour so I wandered down to my room. Knocked first and then let myself in. (Knocked because it wasn'tlike it was really my room anyway) Get in and the smell was awful. Amy had gotten two pet mice over the holidays. They got lost in the room as she had stopped picking up when I no longer was stopping by. When she couldn'tfind them, they died from lack of food/water/whatever. When the smell started, she closed up the door, jamming a towel in under and opened the window so that the smell would go out instead of in. I immediately ran down the hall to the RA (who knew I hadn't been in there for several months and verified it on the computer as you have to swipe your id to get into the room).
We trashed almost everything (for industrial sized garbage bags of clothes/bedding. When we turned over the mattress on my bed we found two dead mice- one with a missing leg, the other curled up in a ball, both leaving a stain on the mattress. I didn't know whether to puke, cry, or laugh. I settled on laughing and crying. We called the cleaning lady who took care of the bathroom and hallway cleaning. She removed the mice bodies, brought in some bug bombs, and said to meet her there tomorrow with Amy and to tell Amy to dress grubby for cleaning.
It took hours to track Amy down three dorms down at a friend's room. She spent the next two weeks scrubbing the room top to bottom. They ended up tossing all the mattresses and rugs. I was out $200 for a rug my folks had gotten me the previous year for the dorm. I had this black, purple, animal print theme for my dorm room.
So um my point. yeah... sorry- ramble minded today... The bear skin on the cardboard looks like my dormbed mattress post Amy...
I went and got groceries today. Our jewel osco store is going out of business and a new Sentry is going in there in April so everything was marked off by atleast 50% I bought a box of Bear Creek instant soups for $7 and have like 30 meals in the box. I also bought Rowan some stickers (for potty training) some sparkly bathpowder (okay so that's more for me than her) and I picked up some post its
So I guess the D.C. brother is the gay brother then? Is he cute?!?! ::sprays throat with breath freshener::
lmao, jk =) -- sounds like he has a great job though! Why is Mark teased by gay men? Lots hitting on him?
I think Mark gets teased a lot by gay men because he makes such a big deal out of it, that it's funny, and the more worked up he gets, he gets cuter. Or so I've been told! Actually, the story is my brother and I while growing up had a "Big Brother" who was gay (he was part of the big brothers/big sisters program and since my mother raised us as a single parent, she needed the help). Our "Big Brother" was Paul Doolan (nicknamed Doolittle because he loved animals and kids) and he was a lot of fun. He's the guy who took us out to Zoos and state fairs and stuff. When we first knew him, we lived in a very, very conservative area in Springfield, Missouri. Paul was trying his best to be "straight" -- he went to Central Bible College to become a pastor, got married, and had a daughter, but he was never happy adhering to the lifestyle Penecostal Christianity forced him into. He came out of the closet (as they say) ten years later when Mark and I graduated from high school.
I wasn't surprised when Paul came out to us, but I knew it was very difficult for him, especially for my mother who was taught to hate gays and lesbians. Mark and I forever accepted Paul, which was a big surprise and blessing for him. For a few years Mark traveled out west and lived for awhile with Paul in a big house Paul owned where he took in a lot of "strays" (as he called it) helping out young gay men who were rejected by their families after they came out. Mark used to be homophobic, but was soon put under "straight guy de-programming" being surrounded by a loving bunch of gay men who adopted him and straightened him out after Mark went through a bout of drunkeness and disorderly conduct (long story). Paul told me that they "hit him over the head with the pink wand" so to speak! In any case, since his gay "be-knighting" Mark has been lovingly cursed by the affection of gay men everywhere, or so he thinks!
I remember one story Mark told me where he told the other guys in the house that he loved Paul. This shocked those who were used to being hated by most heterosexuals they knew, some even thought Mark meant to say that he was "in love with" Paul. They were then brought to tears when Mark explained that just because he's straight doesn't mean he can't love someone who is gay. I really do believe it's because of Paul that my brother became more compassionate as a man towards people who are different than him, yet every now and then we get into arguments over gay marriage, but I am slowly breaking Mark down to accept gay marriage. Unlike me, Mark still remains true to the stifling religious views we were brought up with. Mark believes that tolerance isn't enough, we have to learn to love each other, gay or straight, yet he's not quite with us when it comes to marriage. I guess that's still too out of his experience to understand the need gay couples have to be legally married.
But, yeah, Mark is a cutey and is often hit on by gay men, and women of course. I remember when he used to work as a bartender, all the gay men in the bar and straight women would be my friend once they found out I was his sister just so they can find out for sure if they had a chance with him. My baby brother has lovely long wavy black hair and blue green eyes, so you can imagine! He still kicks himself in the butt for turning down a part given to him by Forrest Whitaker -- basically he just didn't believe that someone thought he was attractive enough to give him a walk-on part in a movie. He ended up instead just settling to be an extra back in '93 for "Waiting to Exhale" (he lived in Arizona at the time).
Okay, that was a long story about my brother!
Wow though, I really did like this story =) I wonder what it is like to be thrown out of my family for such a reason, but then, I am glad that that never happened. My family is so accepting. I am a very lucky guy =) And so is Mark!!
