double trouble

wow two posts in the same day. this kind of all just went down. before i did that first blog i thought i was doing a great thing. i was trying to get rid of some old engine block that have been sitting around here FOREVER(at work by the way). so i got the forklift, lifted the old dirty small blocks up and into the metal bin which was right there beside where they were. how perfect! shortly after i notice a small drip of oil coming out of the bottom of the metal bin. well that certainly can't be because of me! or can it. so i just forgot about it but it kept leaking and leaking. eventually there was a huge oil slick in the road way leaking towards some new 300's and someone noticed...the manager of the entire dealership noticed...oops. so the shop foreman comes and says, hey Todd..did u put two engine blocks in the metal bin...and with a sheepish face i say..uhhh yeah. when i get outside somebody's hosing down the mess i've created so no one gets in an accident. so we have to haul these freakin things out of the metal bin...and not only did they get oil everywhere, i put them in the wrong bin haha...apparently there's an aluminum and a steel container...so basically i'm an idiot. trying to do a good thing, i should just stick to my guns of doing nothing..

dull dullings of a dullard

well it's been a few days and i haven't posted anything. mostly because i know everyone who reads my blog is away...except for scott, hi scott..and by everyone i guess i mean 2 people haha. i guess i'm "supposed" to write for my own good or whatever, but really, i think i just write blogs to get comments haha.
so i watched the ring 2 the other night in jordan's barn. scaaarryy right? well not really. it wasn't that scary but it wasnt even enjoyable, i just wanted it to be over. the only thing that got me was it reminded me of a couple things from the first one that scared me. but i'm not sleeping with the light on or anything, i promise. if you're reading this and you don't know me that well..the first ring messed me up big time. i don't know what it was..had to be something spiritual screwing with my mind. it sucked. and then i watched it again and that sucked too. i was sleeping in an old cottage in maryland with little doors and old school vents in weird places on the floor and squeaky old wooden stairs. anyways i'm doing fine now thanks.
this week is kind of dull. i haven't really seen anyone or done anything. i guess that's not a big deal. i've been cleaning and keeping our place clean. it's not easy man, i don't notice how many dishes we go through until they're all piled up. but i'm keeping it under control now. and it's not just the kitchen that's clean, the living room, our bedroom, the bathroom. everything's looking it's best, i rule all. i'm trying to think of a good suprise for kirst when she gets home..luckily she doesnt read this, i hope. so if u read this and see her...dont tell her..um ok bye

sugar we're goin down swingin

well i'm finally happy to report i'm now privelaged,with proper supervision, to operate a class 3 vehicle with air brakes..so as soon as i work up the guts i'll call up valley driving school and enrrrroooll. should be good times, driving flippin huge trucks and running things over, i mean learning how not to run things over. anyways this is a long time in the making. kind of feels like the first REAL step towards getting a new/better job. almost bitter sweet because now i have LOTS more to do before i can drive trucks on my own. but i'm still happy that's over with and now i know that stupid book inside and out...almost haha.
other than that there's not a lot going on. Kirstin will be at camp all next week, including and interview for program director(fingers crossed),so we all know what that means...a whole bed to myself!!! haha the best is sleeping in the same bed with someone, and then sleeping by yourself because you appreciate it more. seriously singles, cherish these days of sleeping solo. i can-not stress that enough. haha so many wise words from this old, tortured, mature soul (notice:every one of those adjectives does NOT adequately describe me).
i want to love playing music. i want to have many songs i love to play. hopefully that will happen soon. playing now will never be like playing with sound curfew. i think i need to realize that, it's just different. so hopefully it will eventually be better than ever. i'm pretty sure it will be. just something about last night was off. oh well...
that's all the stuff i've been thinking about lately. hopefully it wasn't too boring.

get used to it

well you'll all be disappointed to learn that i FAILED my learner's test yesterday. but not by as much as i thought originally. you see, the lady at first told me there would be 25 questions, and i need 80% to pass, therefore i could only answer 5 wrong. when i was taking the test, i checked my status report to find there was actually 35 questions, however being in the nervous state i was, i couldn't remember if she said 25 or 35, all i remembered was i could only get 5 wrong. after getting my 6th question wrong and letting out a little cuss word under my breath, i just tried to get through the rest of the test quickly so i could get out of there. seeing as i had already been waiting for almost an hour i had no desire to be there any longer.
so this morning when i thought about it, armed with a calculator, i realized that if i had only answered ONE more question correctly, i would now be the proud owner of a class 3 learner's license. so what did we learn here today kids? never give up, always try your hardest right to the end. it's kind of like in baseball when u hit the ball directly to the short stop so you don't even really try to get to first, but then he screws up or something and it turns out you would've actually made it had you tried. that's kind of how i feel. i'm going back today to dominate that friggin test. but today i've been reading that blasted book so much i don't know if i remember anything or if it's all mush. we'll see i spose.

Procrastination Station

so i'm kind of nervous. i'm planning on taking my learner's test for my class 3 driver's license on monday. i guess i just don't know what to expect and that makes me nervous. i don't know if i've studied enough or if i've even retained any of the stuff i have read. the book's so thick too man it took me forever to get through everything, then by the time i did i felt like i forgot the stuff i learned in the first place. so anyways i decided i've been putting it off for far too long and i have to just set a date and go do it. i thought it would be good to go on monday(aug.22), and then hopefully everyone will be going to the beach so that can be my celebration or a chance to cheer me up if i fail.
and i need to do this, i can't stay at my job anymore. the problem is, it's so comfortable. i have to step out of my bubble but this job has made me so lazy that i don't want to. i need to up my work ethic for sure. i get all my work done here but it's pretty easy and i don't try to do anything to impress anyone because no one will notice and i won't get paid more because of it anyways. right now, shipping/recieving, i'm making the same as the girl before me made when she was still driving..how does that work? probably has something to do with my last name and they think i'm just a kid or something. maybe i should toss my wedding pictures at them and give them the dimensions of the space i live in. luckily my parents are amazing. they've been saving the rent we pay every month so they can put me through the driving course to get my full license. i think once i get my learner's that will get the ball rolling and give me more of an idea of what to expect. i haven't been tested or taken a test in like 2 maybe 3 years so yea i'm a little nervous, but i'll get through it...with the support of your comments alone..haha jk. thanks for reading, i'll have funnier posts later.

you're not hot enough

i hate those gossip magazines...get up to date and the latest dirt on all your fave celebs! GOSH! i mostly hate them because if they're around, i actually read them! what do i care who paris hilton's engaged to this week or how lindsey lohan and hilary duff had matching diamond cell phones and got in a cat fight. apparently i do care! but why? it's no wonder girls are anorexic and guys are anorexic and guys ditch their girlfriends cuz they're not hot enough, and people go to the gym every single day for hours and hours so they can be "hot".
i'll never be able to move to rome so i can be closer to where my dog was born, or buy an island, so how is it healthy to look at people who can and DO? why not donate some of that money, and do your own grocery shopping. why not help save some kids in africa and not buy the new $6mil louis viton(or however you spell it) bag. who knows, i'm sure most of these people are doing good things with their money, but why don't we hear about that then? i'd like to think that if i had that much money i'd be a little more generous, but who knows. well there's nothing i can do but try and not read them, so that's what i shall do...try. that's hot.

My Feet Hurt

well ladies and gentlemen do i have a story for you...actually i guess i should say lady and gentleman cause i'm pretty sure only Jon and Lindsey read my blog so far...anyways for anyone else that doesn't know my adventures yesterday let me inform you.

Part 1: morning
i awoke to the sounds of what seemed to be a rock concert in the room next to me, as i listened closer i found out it was a crappy rock concert because it was Scott watching DDL'S last show upstairs...he must have turned the knob to 11..so i went upstairs, with no shirt which i never do but had to cuz it was hot even at 11:30, and watched it with him. then i cleaned, and didn't eat any breakfast.

Part 2: the beach (this is where it gets interesting)
so we( scott and i) went to buntzen lake to meet up with jon, juice and johnny and then joined by sarah,ashley,slava,danielle and tracy,and our new good friend oleg. i think that's it. we played a couple wicked volleyball games and went swimming a couple times, it was awesome to be outside, enjoying the day, and my day off. by the end of it i was so tire di could barely move. i just wanted to sit and sleep to end being so uncomfortable because i was so tired. luckily everyone who actually brought lunches were very generous and i got a decent amount of lunch in me so i wasn't totally lacking on eneergy. anyways by the end i was done..plum tuckered. so i drove home and slept and ate and then went over to jon's to play the same two songs over and over a couple times haha...still very tired tho

Part 3: the car ride (get's really interesting here)
so we're in the middle of practicing and kirstin calls scott's cell phone..alas, she needs a key becaus ei stole the only key we have for the neon right now. so i say, "yes dear of course i shall quickly and efficiently run this key home to you, i'm on my way. i won't even bother putting on my flip flops, i'm gonna bare foot this one". on my way back the car starts acting kind of funny. and when i say kind of funny i mean, stops running. sorry everyone, no more gas in this beast. so i park by rolling backwards as best i can, and seek help. in hopes of this not being the longest blog of all time..the rest of the story includes, me sweating on some guy's(who probably thought i was a bum)cell phone, with no response, running behind a lady who i followed the whole way to jon's house(who probably thought i was a bum stalker), and using every ounce of strength/energy left in my body to jog, walk and run up the hill the jon's so i could go get 10$ of gas, spill most of it on my hands and the ground and ultimately put the gauge just above "the red zone".

then i had a shower and went and watched dodgeball...probably the most tiring day of my whole life. and now today i'm going to the gym..take that body...try and not lose weight now!! ha HA!

The light goes from dim to full blast

ok so apparently there's this thing when i'm logged in. it's called REPUBLISH...and suddenly, all the changes i made and everything i wanted to see but didn't(therefore thinking blogger.blogspot.ca.org.y sucked)APPEARED! wow now that time i spent choosing all the crap i want(mostly dvd's) on froogle, is available for everyone to see. so if anyone wants to buy Todd a random present...that would be the best place to go. especially seeing as i don't think i've gotten anything new ina while...well actually we got the jimmy fallon snl dvd, which is awesome, and it sparked a love and a want for all snl dvds.
i wanted to call a blog,"well i'd love to stay and chat but, you're a total bitch". but then i couldn't think of any content i could do to justify using that as a title. if anyone's wondering stewie says it in one of the best family guy episodes. so yeah i thought i would write it about girls and how i hate them, but i don't really have a hate on for any girls at the momnent...which is nice..i like not hating anyone haha...i made it sound like a have a HATE THIS PERSON phase. but i don't really...usually if i hate someone it stays pretty linear.
well anyways there's something else for all two fo you to gnaw on...until tomorrow when i get bore and do another one...or maybe even today. like i care..i'm Todd

every day a new day to die

i don't like those poetic blogs people write..whether they're poetic or actual poems. i never read them. maybe because i'm looking forward to read something in the person's own words because i see they have a new blog. but instead i find carefully chosen pretty words put together to say how they're depressed, emotional, and even sometimes(but not usually)happy. i don't know what made me think of that. i think when i wrote the title that's what i thought.
so right now with Todd, it's just kind of the usual i suppose. i'm trying to get out of the job i have...slowly because i'm not very motivated and i'm comfortable even though i'm not happy with how i'm treated. i could go on longer but anyone who actually reads this probably knows all about it anyways.
I don't really play in a band anymore. nothing offciail anyways. but i'm still playing drums once or twice a week with scott and jon,. which is awesome to be playing with them again.
i don't have any more weddings to go for the summer, the only thing i have to look forward to now is whenever the next stat holiday is and going to see Thrice and Undeorath in Seattle in october...on canadina thanksgiving...those americans don't even have a clue what i'm sacrificing...maybe i'll make a sign, or a t-shirt. yeah. ok that's all for now

not sure what's goin down

so here's the typical, 'i don't know how this works' blog. um i guess all i really have to say is, i don't know how this works. um i plan to use this once i master all of it's wonders. for now you could also check out my myspace site...the address is....www.myspace.com/toddcore