Let's See...

...if my house stays clean while I'm am on vacation over Christmas.  I'm thinking that it won't but I can hope right?

I am going to visit my mom in The U.P. over the holiday and I would like to come home to a clean house.  Is that to much to ask for?  With my roommates it just might be.  Today I cleaned the bathrooms.  While in the process of cleaning the bathrooms both of my roommates came home from work and I got weird looks from both.  And one of them was on the phone and mentioned to who ever she was talking to that I was deep cleaning.  And the bathrooms had gotten pretty nasty so it was kind of a deep clean.  But when I lived with my mom that was how the bathroom got cleaned every week.

Tomorrow and through out the rest of the week I am going to try and get the rest of the house clean, even if I end up doing it by myself, because then when I get back next week the house will at least have been cleaned somewhat recently.  The only room that I see being a problem is the kitchen.  Do you want to know why?  No?  Well I'm gonna tell you anyways.

Neither of them no how to rinse a dish and put it in the dishwasher.  If the dishwasher is full or clean the will just put the dish in the sink and the dishes will just pile up and start to STINK.  You know what else the don't do?  Empty the clean dishwasher or start the full dishwasher.  Or wash a pan they used.  Or wipe up something they spilled on the counter.  Or throw a box that doesn't fit in the trashcan in the dumpster.  Or empty old leftovers out of the fridge.  Or empty the trashcan when it is full.

Do you wanna know some other things that bug me.  Neither of them vacuum.  Ever.  Or do any sort of cleaning at all.  They hoard dishes in their rooms so even if the dish washer isn't full we are still out of dishes.  The roommate that has the dog rarely lets him out.  She will leave in the morning and not let the dog out.  Just leave him in his kennel to whine and wake me up.  This dog is a year old and still not house trained.  He poops in the house at least once a day and often pees in the house too.  And this roommate with the dog will go out drinking on the weekends and not come home.  And not let me know.  So I am not only taking care of my dog I am taking care of her dog too.

Last weekend she got off of work on Friday night came home changed and left.  The next time I saw her was Monday morning.  If I hadn't texted her about something else she probably wouldn't have even told me she wouldn't have let me know she wasn't coming home.  What if I had plans too and wasn't going to be around? Who would have taken care of her dog then?  I doubt our other roommate would have done it.  Maybe he would have.  He does let them out occasionally when neither of us are home.  Mostly though he just hides out in his room.

End of rant.  Let's hope I can make it six more months until the lease is up because I don't want to be paying rent somewhere I am not living if they can't find someone else to live here.  I do have plans for when the lease is up but not everybody in my real life knows so we just aren't going to discuss this right now.

Cancer Followup

I wrote this post about a month and a half ago.  I didn't go into very much detail because I didn't know very much.  Over the long Thanksgiving weekend I had a chance to see him.  He filled us all in a little more on how everything went down.

He found the lump in July or August.  He went to the doctor right away but it took them a month or two (depending on which month he found it) to get him in for a biopsy.  It took a while to get the biopsy results back also (I am not sure on the timing of everything.)  The results said cancer.  I'm not sure of the type of cancer but it is one that spreads fast.  In the time from when he found the lump in his testicle to the time the doctors got everything figured out the cancer had spread to his lungs.  It moved that quickly.  He has one round of chemo left.

At the time that he found the lump he was stationed elsewhere.  He just got reassigned to Offutt AFB a couple of weeks ago so we were lucky to all get to see him again.  He is in as good of spirits as he seemed.  He knows that it is a good thing he went in as soon as he found the lump and that he probably will get some kind of cancer again when he is older.  He is pretty much the same kid I graduated with just more muscular and less hairy (that's what the Air Force and then chemo will do for ya.)  Still one of the funniest people I know.

WTF, YouToube?

It all started out innocently watching the newest CTFxC vlog.  I noticed one of the top comments asking if anyone has figured out how to delete videos from their subscription boxes.  I thought somebody was being stupid and the reason it was a top comment was because people thought the stupidity was funny.

I click back to my home page and the joke is on me.  Its different.  Not just a little.  It doesn't look like it did right before I started watching the video.  And you can't remove a video from your subscription box.  And there are bunches of videos I have already watched now in my subscription box again.  Sad face.  Those videos I have already watched reappearing in my subscription box?  The only way I remember that I watched them is because I did so in the last day or two.  Otherwise I would have no clue because the little box that says watched next to a video in you subscription box after you have watched the video is gone.

Most of these changes that the internet take on don't bother me.  Facebook changes so often now its hard to keep up.  But YouTube I would have liked some explanations.  The link that is supposed to show you how to use the new YouTube was utterly useless.  Does anybody know how to work the new YouTube?

Thankful...

for my mom.  Even though she moved away and I miss her so much she is still there for me.  She is seriously one of my best friends.

for my dad because he helped me pay my rent for a couple months while I was looking for a job.  And he is currently paying my cell phone and car insurance because I barley make enough money to pay rent and utilities.

for my grandparents because they would let me live with them if I needed to.

for the rest of my family.  I love them even though they sure can be crazy sometimes.

for my roommates because they are like a second family.

for my job.  I love spending time with the kids no matter how crazy they can be.  Hearing 4 year olds you have only known for 3 months tell you they love you melts your heart every time.  And the random hugs they give you.

Boo, Cancer

Cancer sucks.  This has been on my mind for a few days now.  A couple weeks ago one of my classmates announced on Facebook that he has cancer.  We graduated in 2008.  We are only 21.  Its just too young.  My mom was asking me about his prognosis and it got me thinking.

In our high school the last three graduating classes (09, 10 and 11) have all lost somebody.  Our high school is only just over 500 students.  It just shouldn't be like that.

Back to my classmate.  I'm not sure what his prognosis is.  He may have mentioned it and he may not have.  He started chemo yesterday.  From everything he is posting on Facebook he seems in really good spirits.  He has always been such a joker though so its hard to tell if maybe he is just putting on a good face for all of us.  I sure hope he really is in good spirits.

We need to pray for him.  He is just a happy person it sucks to think about what could happen.

Undefeated!

All of "my teams" won this weekend!  Last night was Husker football and volleyball.  They were playing at the same time. :(  But it was ok because of picture in picture.  It seemed like every time I looked at the volleyball game Lauren Cook was serving.  After we lost the second set the girls must have gotten a good talking to because they dominated the third and fourth sets to win the game! the volleyball record is 9-1, 2-0.  Their one loss was to Colorado State.

It was fun to watch the football game.  Since Wyoming is right next door a lot of people from western Nebraska, and probably eastern too, were at the game.  I looked it up on Google Maps the other day and all you had to do to get to Laramie was hop on I-80.    On the new a couple days before the game they said they expected the crowd to be about half Husker fans.  I think they were right!  I saw an awful lot of red in the crowd.  The football team won and are now 4-0!!  Next week we start conference play and travel to Madison.  I am worried.  Wisconsin is ranked higher than we are (they are #7 and we are #8) and its the first game I have been worried about.  We need to start play in the Big 10 with a win.

Today the Packers pulled out a win extending their record to 3-0!! I have to be honest and say even though we had the game on I didn't do a very good job of paying attention.  As much as I hate to cheer for the Lions I am excited for them too.  The only reason I cheer for them is because of my man Suh.  When was the last time the Lions were even undefeated?? I think the commentators said it has been 31 years since the started their season 3-0.  Hopefully next weekend is just as good.

Why???

Why can't I keep up with this blog?

I wish I could figure it out.

I really would like to.

Maybe what needs to be done

is to write about my day everyday

no matter how boring

or uninteresting I think it is.

I have stories

that I think are funny.

Would other people think

they are funny too?

Like a day at work

last week

FIVE kids

had accidents at nap.

Or a couple weeks ago

When a drink

or two

were spilled

EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I love my job

I really do.

That's where I think

I will start

just writing about my day

or maybe my week.

Sometimes the story

sounds better that way.