Don’t worry, this’ll all be interesting when I’m dead.

know some of you are anxiously awaiting pictures of my newly installed carpet. I’m pretty satisfied with it, all in all. There are a few spots that the guy slacked off on, without reason, but other than that… it’s all good.
In these pictures, you’ll also get to see my chocolate milk room, which is 90% complete, and an antique blue couch which was given to us (Dan and I) by Jamal. Enjoy!
Now Entering Emerald City!

I suppose I cannot accurately define “us” as Dan and I anymore (he is due to move in within a month) without mentioning another roommate I’ve adopted recently. I met Candice a couple weeks ago at Denny’s and we immediately hit it off. We ended up hanging out for 3 straight days and then 2 days later she shows up here because she needed a place to stay. In fact, she was kicked out of the house she was living in (with a married couple of which the wife grew insanely jealous of the attention her husband gave to Candice, rather than herself) Her parents are insane and don’t want to take her in. She had nowhere else to go and I can’t just send her out on the streets. She’d just spent the previous night at a crumby motel.

I gotta say… this is a huge adjustment I was not prepared for. But I’m trying and some of the wrinkles are beginning to straighten out a bit. My daily routine is messed up and you may notice my AIM away message up more often than not. It’s really because I don’t have much time to anymore.

My faith in absolute love has been ripped out of me. I am still standing, but I’m damaged. It really comes down to it being my own fault — for putting all my faith and shoving it all on the idea that the girl that went and got married would turn around and love me forever. Don’t ask me about this, just let me have it and forget about it. I’ve been set back, though. I’m in need of a lot of time for these wounds to heal.

I’m done school now. If you know of anyone looking for a web or graphic designer, please keep me in mind. I am redesigning The Carpeted Wall and hope to have that done soon. I’ll let y’all know when it’s done.

probably should have seen it coming. That band, System of A Down, has been producing some songs over the past couple years that I enjoy but I always feared getting an album because the style is not one I traditionally like. Similarly, I feared purchasing any TOOL albums even though I enjoyed what I heard. I regret not buying TOOL earlier, but it didn’t hurt me. It only didn’t help me as soon as it could have. System, however, I do not regret. Here’s why:

Liz burned me a copy of their new album “Mezmerize” which is actually only 1/2 of the desired album. The 2nd half “Hyptotize” is due out this fall. She liked it and I suppose thought I would like it, too. I wasn’t against it. After listening to the album almost non-stop for the past week, I can say I’m now a fan. I’ve done my research, though, and I wouldn’t be able to say that before today… hence, I do not regret this “late” discovery. They’ve slowly matured/developed/evolved into a band that I can wholly appreciate. It’s good stuff. I envy them and their abilities. Their lyrics may not be deep, I-need-a-thesaurus-to-know-what-they-are-talking-about, ingenious lyrics like Maynard might write, but they are cleverly adapted to the music, or vice versa, as if the guitar was already saying those exact words even if the vocal track was taken out. Their newfound harmonies and majestic melodies have captured my attention and I’m looking forward to this fall when I can hear some more System. Plus, Tally Hall will be releasing their first full-length studio album in September as well.

Quick notes about the house:
The plumbers think the water was backing up in the shower so much that it started to seep through into areas where “the pan” underneath was not protecting. They don’t think the pipes are bursting. After soaking in acid and maliciously prodded with a plumber’s snake, the damned clog just won’t budge! So they’re gonna have to keep working on it and possibly replace the pipes anyway if they can’t get rid of whatever is in there. — The carpet was supposed to be going in today but they had to postpone it briefly as they finish up the job before me. — The apartment complex next door has began to take on a 3-month long (maybe more) renovation project. I am waking up at 9am by pounding, drilling, sawing, grinding, oh yeah and LOUD CRASHES as they toss wood, furniture, and trash from 2 stories up into the large trash container below. Oh well. It just means I now have a 4th alarm clock — for free!

It’s been a hell of a weekend. Filled with denny’s and candy, I say, without offering further explanation out of fear of ball-lightning coming through my window. Regardless of the pain that would inflict upon my pale skin, I’d have to buy and install all new mini-blinds and I just don’t want to do it again for at least a few more months. (lazy)

Have I told you about the living chair? Haha. No… but one day, perhaps.

“You and me will all go down in history with a sad statue of liberty and a generation that didn’t agree.” – s.o.a.d.

p.s. – To see some video clips of the Tally Hall show that I went to with Liz, [here] are some clips that Liz took. I might have to move them to another server because so many Tally Hall fans have viewed these that I’m almost over my monthly limit of “information served” over this one — and it’s only the 11th! I know most of you have no idea what that means. It’s ok.

t figures. I finally have that middle room pretty much done, preparing for the carpet to be installed in a week, and something goes horribly wrong. Coming through the middle of the ceiling, seeping down from the light fixture, was a bucket full of water… ALL OVER MY BRAND NEW COFFEETABLE. Soaking wet, I was able to dry it off but I think it’s been damaged a bit. I’m hoping to not find the ceiling fall down in pieces when I come home today.

The shower, which has been draining slower and slower over the past few months finally hit its slowest point and the old pipes just couldn’t hold on to the water long enough. So the new paint job on the ceiling was in vain. I haven’t spoken with the plumber yet but I’m assuming he’s gonna have to tear up the newly repaired ceiling to repair the leaky pipes — not to mention get whatever clog is up there out of there. A whole bottle of Drain-o didn’t phase it. A plunger didn’t phase it. I’m just so glad it was before the new carpet went down. I really am disappointed and scared of spending the money on it because my unemployment funds have run out and aside from the “new carpet” silver lining, this couldn’t have happened at a worse time.