Independance day +

Sorry I haven't updated the blog as much as I would like to, I will try to write new blog posts more often.
As the title indicates this one has some pictures I took on the 4th.

We were playing around with sparklers, and trying to take interesting pictures of them.  Unfortunately my camera isn't as good for that, but my sister took some interesting ones, because she has a fireworks setting on her camera so she can start taking the picture then shake the sparkler around and it's create a cool looking motion blur type shot.

Kinda like this one, but a lot more so... lol if that makes sense.
Anyways, so far at work all I've been doing is working in the trade in area. You know how the store I work at is a buy, sell, trade video game store, which means we let people bring in used games, and old consoles and we give them either cash or credit for them.  So basically in the two days I worked this week, I just would see how much cash or credit they would get, and would then take what was traded in and if it was games, I would file them and if we needed to, put a case out on display so customers could know we had it, and if it was a console, I had to make sure it worked and then clean it up and package it and put it in the back room so we could sell that too.  Sometimes I have to go out and talk to customers and try to suggest games for them, and try to sell things to people, and it's taught me that I really don't know that many games like I thought I did... I have some knowledge of games on the xbox 360,  because that's what I own and that's what I play, but I don't know many games on other consoles, especially the older ones, and I don't even know all the games on my own console, so now I kinda need to look stuff up online and research and watch video reviews of games new and old, just so I can know what to tell people at work... And many of the other employees seem to already know all about every game or every piece of equipment that goes with every game console out there, and I honestly don't know that much about them... it's possible i'm not as geeky and nerdy as I thought I was... oh well, I'll have to learn.

In other news on the job front... I emailed the guy from Metro Studios, cause I'm still hoping to get hired with them so that I can work somewhere where I'll actually be able to work in video in some capacity, but the guy replied that he had been out of the office and hadn't looked at my resume and DVD of my work yet, so hopefully he'll see something he likes and find some work for me, cause even if it's just part time, i could work part time at both metro and video games etc, and then i'd be able to work in a video production job, which is what I want, and have another part time job to get a bit more money too.

Anyways back to the 4th of July. We went to a park to try to grill out for lunch and play some games and stuff... but we only got to be there for like 15-20 minutes before it started raining.

We started playing some game called "Jarts" I had never heard of it before, but my dad got it and thought it would be fun so we tried it out.

You have two rings and you set them like 20 feet apart, and then you have these "jarts" that look like big foamy arrows and stand by one of the circles and try to toss them as close to the other circle as you can, and you get extra points for getting it in the circle.  It was fun for a while, but the rain ended the game early.

Then once it started raining we left and started driving around, and it stopped raining so my dad decided to drive out to some other park since we were already on the road and away from the park we were just at.  We thought maybe we could get to a park that had a grill and picnic table under a roof somewhere, but when we got to another park there weren't any grills and tables covered by roofs, and it started raining again so we decided to go to this little restaurant that is down town called "The Flying Weenie."  The name is funny and it's this little dirty looking place sorta in the downtown area, but the food is pretty good... obviously their specialty is hot-dogs and other similar foods like bratwurst, but i don't like bratwurst that much, so I just had a chilli dog, and it was pretty good.

This is a picture of my sister at that restaurant, she was making some weird face, so I took her picture... honestly I don't remember what she was doing, but it looks pretty funny.

Then we went home and started watching Back to the Future and playing card games (something my family does a lot, especially around holidays. It's sort of a tradition around any holiday to get together and play card games if we can. Games like Phase Ten, or Uno, or Uno hearts)

But then we started hearing fireworks going off all over the neighborhood, and the rain stopped so we went out side and watched some from the yard, and started playing with the sparklers.  I wish you could have been here for that, it would have been fun, you would have enjoyed it.  All around Cedar Rapids, especially around our neighborhood every year people shoot bottle rockets and other fireworks off, even though it's supposed to be illegal everyone does it, and no one really stops it, so it's fun to watch.

Anyways, I got on skype and it showed you as online for a few minutes, and I tried to type some messages to you, but they didn't go through, and then I tried to call, and then you went offline, and I haven't seen you get back on yet.... It is our usual talking time, but I guess you either can't connect for some reason, or else you got busy with something else...  Anyway I love you, I wish you could be here, and then we wouldn't have to use the internet or even phones, and I could just look at you and tell you how much I love you, and I wouldn't even have to tell you how much I want to hold you, because I could just do it... I can't wait to be with you girlfriend!

I love you!

They Invented Skype Video Chat for Us...

So I got the job at video games etc. Probably just something to hold me over while I try to get something more permanent with a video place of some sort, but work is work, and it's hard enough as it is, so I'm taking what I can get.  Unfortunately this means less chat time.

I'm so grateful for the time I did have when I didn't have a job, because it meant that I had more time for talking to you and thinking about you, and video calling you on Skype.  That came in so very handy, and i'm pretty sure i only got Skype because of you and that was even before we became a couple.  But we've have had a lot of great conversations with it.  And since we don't have that calling card to use anymore it is making it so we can still be in contact, and better yet see each other!

I think it was almost a good thing that calling card got taken away because it made us use Skype more which made it so we could utilize the video chat that we didn't use much till now.  I kinda wish we had been using it more even before the calling card got taken away, and maybe if we had, we would still have the calling card...  Oh well guess it's too late, but I'm very glad I got to spend several hours a day in the morning and at night video chatting with the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world!  I suppose now that i'm working it'll be either one time a day, or just shorter two times at different times I don't know yet, but i'll let you know, and i'll probably email you and try to update this blog more... Before I didn't really need to write many emails or on here, because i would always talk to you in the morning and again at night and not much happened in between those times, but now I will probably be using this stuff more.

So that first picture is your sims character I made. You are only kinda neat, but very outgoing, active and extremely playful, lol is this sorta true to life?  I told you that they don't give enough points to put into all the attributes to create a real Wincy lol.  I may have told you already, but a week or so ago when I created us in that game I also built us houses and moved us in separately, and I moved me in first, and then switched over to move you in and play as you for a bit, and sure enough on the very first day, I came around and visited you and we became very good friends right away.... Sorta true to life again except that it's the other way around, that you came over to visit me and then we became good friends lol.  Maybe I should have moved you in first and then played as me to see if you'd come around, just for realism's sake.

And I already told you this (this is an old picture I had taken and put on my computer with a note to put this in the blog, but hadn't done it yet) but this is Gil my sister's Betta fish. It's not a very good picture, but it's hard to take a picture of a fish in a somewhat dirty bowl, especially with a phone that only has auto focus.

Anyways I miss you, I love you, and I love talking to you. I can't wait till we can actually be together all the time, and not have to use Skype or phones cause we'll just be there together.

I want to spend all my time with you, looking at you, and watching movies, playing games, going shopping for whatever it is you go shopping for lol, and just spending time together.  It sounds so amazing doesn't it?  I like to think about it, like what would we do if you were here, or where would we go, and how much better would everything be. I would never be able to stop smiling cause I'd be too happy not to, and then you'd smile and point to your cheeks telling me you like my dimples and that would only make me smile more, even though I'd try not to.

And then I point to your cute mole, and tell you how much I like your lips, and you'd cover your mouth with your hands, but I'd move them anyways so I could kiss you.

We'd talk about all the things we like, like indie movies, and old movies that people have forgotten.  We would play music for each other that just helps keep us mesmerized in the moment being with each other. While I enjoy the music, I'd look into your eyes and hope that you could hear me say I love you with just a look. The music could be anything from oldies like the ink spots to new stuff like sigur ros.

We would laugh and make faces at each other like children, and then tell each other that we are old people, and never stop to think how similar they are, or how similar to children we may be even when we are 90.

And I'll tell you how much I love you and that I want to spend my whole life with you, and that we should run away together and tell everyone later.

We'll be free like the wind, together, always together.  I will always try to tell you and show you that all I need in life to be happy is you.  You make me so happy, I can't imagine life without you, and I never want to have to live that nightmare.

You belong with me, and my heart belongs to you.
We'll tell each other everything that we don't like, like pop music or anything popular, or sweet foods lol, and then wonder how someone could be sooo sweet and not like sweet food too.

We'll drink coffee and stay up late, only to get up early and sit together holding each other while enjoying the sunrise with another cup of coffee. We'll sing that song by Fred Astaire I sent you a while ago that starts out, "I wake up every morning, with a smile on my face, everything in it's place as it should be. I start out every morning as free as the breeze."

We'll go to a restaurant and pretend to be different people meeting for the first time, if only to entertain ourselves by looking at all the strangers who look at us funny.

We'll tell each other everything we love about each other, like your cute mole, your eyes, your nose, your hair, your mouth, your lips, you hands, your arms, your face, your smile, the way you laugh, the things we say, the way we look at each other, and how we ask each other what we are thinking even though we already know... And i'll tell you how beautiful you are in the hopes that maybe one day i'll convince you.

We'll watch Disney movies and you'll finally realize that When You Wish Upon A Star actually IS the so called Disney song lol.

I'll teach you about baseball, and you'll teach me about soccer (or football I suppose).

We'll argue over who is the funniest or the mostest cuterest, or who thinks about who more, or who loves who more, even though we know we'll be arguing over it for the rest of our lives.

Most of all we will love each other, and love every minute of being together, and be soooo incredibly thankful that we went through this time, and were able to be patient and make it through this time of being away from each other, and we'll think about how much stronger it made us, and how much more we appreciate actually being with each other once we finally get to. And best of all we will know that if distance can't separate us, nothing can!

I'm making believe that you're in my arms
Though I know you're so far away.
Making believe, I'm talking to you,
Wish you could hear what I say.

And here in the gloom, of my lonely room,
We're dancing like we used to do.
Making believe, is just another way of dreaming,
So till my dreams come true...

I'll whisper goodnight
Turn out the light and kiss my pillow,
Making believe it's you.