cantwaitcantwait

haha thats really funny, i thought you had forgotten... nice sounds like a plan... and thats great im excited for the phone even though its not gonna be nice, the one i have now is so annoying though...
this morning i was actually able to get up after only 1 snooze which is a huge accomplishment usually i snooze like 5 or 6 times, probably because im excited to get the day going, its always easiest to wake up on fridays
oh and we forgot to play with the yo yo last weekend so maybe this weekeend...
anyways
see you hopefully in less than 12 hours, ill call you when im leaving work or when i know im going to soon

cantwaitcantwait
xox
Chris

Sweet Lips

Hey sweet lips

I'm gonna start this off my giving my directions, but if you think you'll be fine then you can just get directions, my address is:
280 Center Street
West Hartland, CT 06091
Most of what I say is probably exactly what you would get on mapquest or wherever except for at the end...actually I looked it up and its exactly the same but I'll do it anyways and whichever is easier for you to follow you can use

So you wanna get on 90E, I know you know how to do that so I won't bother.
Follow 90E all the way into Mass.
Get off 90E at the Lee exit (should be exit 2, I may be wrong but you definitely want Lee, its less than 10 mins after you go through the toll to get into mass, make sure you dont miss it because the next exit isnt for like 25 miles I think.
Take a left off the exit ramp onto 20 (going East)
Follow 20 for about 7 miles then you take a right onto Rt 8S.
Follow Rt. 8 South for a little more than 20 miles, it will take you into CT, and the turn you want to make is probably 5 minutes from the CT/MA line but don't count on that its a guess.
Take a left onto Riverton Rd. (its a small road, it comes up on you kind of fast if you dont know its there.... Rt. 8 is pretty wide open and people drive pretty fast on it and you'll see a reservoir on your left for a lot of it but then it becomes a little less wide open soon after you get into CT and the left is about a mile past the point I'm referring to... the road you want though is right across the street from an ANTIQUE store, just incase you have doubts when you see it, theres also a little bridge right at the beginning of that road.)
Follow that road untill a stop sign, where you will go straight.
Go untill the next stop sign (its right after a bridge, only like 500yds since the last stop sign) and then take a LEFT on Rt.20
Follow Rt. 20 untill the next stop sign, where you will also take a left, still on Rt. 20
After about a mile you will see a little church on your left, my driveway is less than a mile from that on the left...
The number is 280, which is on our mailbox,,, but just for a heads up, it is the 5th driveway on your left after the church, or the 3rd on the left after the red barn on the left hand side of the road (my barn)
Its a dirt driveway and you cant see the house from the road, it goes around the yard of the house in front of us, so just keep going

Anyhow, thats gonna be a tiring weekend before you go, I'm not sure where I'll be yet but I'll be sure to let you know, I think it would be more on your way to come to NH than keene and it would be less driving for me to do that so maybe that but I will let you know for sure later... if I was here though I would have to think of something for the three of us to do, but I could come up with something

Poor rusty though, that little duggy, i dont know if i had seen that one before but i definitely have seen skeeter the narcoleptic poodle before
Thats so weird/funny about that guy that falls asleep too though

Hope you have fun at Robins birthday dinner/night, that should be fun

I'm really excited for the weekend, especially saturday... i talked to my mom today and told her we might do that and she said the weather looks good for then so if shes wrong im gonna be mad haha

I miss you like a... i couldnt think of anything good but next time i will... i tried for like 15 minutes :(
bye baby see you so soon
xoChrisxo

oh and i thought that waldo thing was really funny you sent the other day.. i wanna play that game again

oh and i wanted to tell you, i kept thinking yesterday during work of the joke you told about simba and nala in a race and why simba won, or whichever way it was, but i just remembered the way you said 'because he mufasa' and it made me laugh every time because i think its so cute when you say that... 

Darling

Hey darling
I'm excited to see you too, I think it will be a fun/relaxing weekend... and yesterday went by so quickly haha I worked from 7:30 to 6 and then as soon as I got home it was basically over because I was so tired, but even work went by pretty quickly for as long as I was there

I was so frusterated in the morning because the insulation 'blower' got clogged up, which was probably my fault but I couldnt clear it by myself and I kept trying but it wasnt working, and the longer I tried the further behind I got and I'm just working by myself in the 'assembly line' now so I was getting so mad but then I got someone to give me a hand and we got it cleaned out, hopefully today I'll catch up a little bit but it doesnt really matter that much really, I was just tired I guess

Thats crazy that youre program takes so long, thats rediculous.
Well I need to go to work now so I have to go
Cant wait for more "face time"
xoxoxo

And keep your fingers crossed for good weather saturday
Chris

I'm stumped on the potlatch

Thinking of you... :)

I'm so high I could vomit on a comet

hey gumdrop,

the subject consists of Lil Wayne lyrics that make me laugh

I'm so excited that I get to see you again so soon :-) I've been smiling all day today cause of that, and because I finally got to curl up with you last night. It's kind of funny that you ended your email with "maybe we can kiss this weekend" cause it really wasn't until the very end that we got some good "face time".

I can't even imagine how tired you must be today, though. And sorry that work was frustrating, what was it that bugged ya?
 I came in to research this morning, and my program was still running...that's like 4 days. Absolutely ridiculous. I really want to get permission to use the cluster machine, so I can just pound out a bunch of results quickly in parallel. But for now I profiled it a little to see where all the time was being spent and rewrote some of the code. Hopefully that will help a little.

I guess it's 800 joints because the cause of death winds up being carbon monoxide.

C andyman (cause you mix it with love and make the world taste good(name that movie)) and Cuddle monkey
L uscious
A ttractive, Addicting, A door bull. Acute boy, not angle.
R akish. Rearry roveable
K issable, knowledgeable
E asygoing

(I think you said you put an e on it...)


I miss you like a pervert misses being able to "right click, save image as" when he meets a girl in real life.
till then penguin, and by then I mean Friday :) :)
Rachel

ps.You probably know what a potluck is, do you know what a potlatch is?

Cuddle Bear

hey cuddle bear
 this is gonna be another short one, sorry, but everything I want to talk to you about I really want to talk about in person because I'm really excited to see you and wanna save it all...
i did want to send you a little something though.
tomorrow im gonna try to get to work again at 6:30, if i do, by 9:30 i will have a 40 hr week so everything after that is $15/hr which is pretty cool but i doubt ill work a full day, who knows though... depends on how many people there are and whether i feel like i am really needed or not, otherwise ill probably bail on the shop early, mow and then leave as soon as im done, ive been doing a little weed wacking and whatnot after work, its been nice because its an easy way to get overtime and its easier to do in parts than all at once, that makes a really long day
anyways, i have no idea what that report says, maybe 17 joints to kill a person??
and no i wasn't aware of that law haha

im with you on wanting to meet bart the bear, that would be pretty awesome... and im happy you liked the movie, wish i could have been there to watch it with you but its ok, did you get scared at all?

oh and my grandparents had to do the same thing with their bird feeder, except it was my dad or me that did it all, mostly my dad for that though.. they had it suspended between the house and a tree and it was hanging down from that wire, and had a saucer type thing hanging right above the feeder (looks like the hats that farmers in asia wear, the wide cone shaped thing, also what raiden from mortal kombat wears), but the squirrels would still figure out a way to do it every once in a while and it was pretty cool to watch

untill tomorrow... maybe this weekend we could like... kiss or something?? O:-)
yay cant wait haha
Chris

Morning Message

I cant respond very well right now just because I need to leave for work in like 10 minutes but I was really happy to get something from you this morning :) and I'm happy you liked the movie or are at least pretending to so I'll be happy.  Thats cute about the little soccer kids, theyre right though ;).

Anyways, what does a rabbit use to keep his fur in place?

also, the wright brothers flew their first plane in kitty hawk, NC... haha but ive been to that aviation museum too and i thought it was awesome
anyways gotta go munchkin
xoxo
Chris

The Edge

his wife's a money-grubbing bitch whore skank. and he's the shit.

I kind of want to meet Bart the Bear.

I feel like Alec Baldwin has never played a not-asshole.

Who cuts themselves that badly in the thigh with a knife? pfft, newbie. You know I was almost jealous of the bear in that scene where he eats Mr. Dreadlocks, cause that was like the peak of my hunger. Also, all I could think about when they finally killed the bear and started to eat the meat, was "You're eating mr. dreadlocks because the bear ate mr. dreadlocks and you're eating the bear."

good movie, talk to ya more about it in person :-)

Izzy finally came home. a few minutes ago. I ate his chili, though, the little shitter.

oh and it was so cute, I felt so complimented by children today....I brought Dubrow his sunglasses around lunch time and he said that after I left all the little soccer camp kids were saying to him, "Is that your girlfriend?" and he said no, and they said, "Well she's pretty!" .....a door bull lil kids makin' my day.

night babe, all I want to do is let it be and be with you and watch the wind blow by.

boyfriend

Hey hey boyfriend,

We used to feed the birds, too, but my dad would get pissed off when the squirrels would eat the food. So he would hang the feeders between two trees, and then cut off the ends of two liter soda bottles and put them on the string so the squirrels couldn't get to the food. It was kind of funny to watch them try.

The chipmunks used to ruin the gardens and make holes in the rock walls, so my dad would put out those have-a-heart traps to catch them, but we always caught squirrels instead. It was funny cause the squirrels were so much bigger and barely fit in the trap. Another time Brandon somehow caught a chipmunk, but it bit him, so they put it in a box in the shed to get it tested for rabies and stuff, just in case. Of course Jessi and I really wanted to see it, so we went out there and opened up the box. It was filled with rags, and we couldn't see the chipmunk, there was zero movement, until it just jumped out. Ha my dad was so mad because he had to go in the shed and relocate the stupid chipmunk.

My brothers also used to always go after the squirrels with their bb-guns from the second floor windows. They could never kill them with those little things, just wound them a bit, so one of them would be waiting downstairs to let my dog out, who would be freaking out excited because she always knows that the sound of a gun means a squirrel for her to finish off. The first time this happened when the Ticinos lived with us, Aunt Shar (Jessi's mom, Mrs. Ticino), was sitting there eating breakfast one morning, didn't hear the gun or anything, just saw that Nellie really wanted to go outside. So she opened the door, and of course watches as Nellie kills this squirrel. She was so upset by it, and of course my dad just goes, "Well, who let the dog out?" just messing with her, but it was a lil mean. She's well adjusted to it now, but my dad thinks that story is so funny.

My grandpa had this one squirrel that lived in their backyard, I forget what he named it, but he used to feed it dogfood. He'd leave a bowl of it by the back door and watch his squirrel buddy eat every day.

haha that's so cool that they put your car on the forklift, that would be so funny to see that.

and come on Chris, it's not the yo-yo that makes the player, it's the player that makes the yo-yo.

His birthday isn't till sunday so I could even spend friday AND saturday night with you if ya like :-)

57 hours, heheh,
see ya soon shnookums,
Rachers

Also, I'm not sure about the Wright brothers, but probably in CT. They were in one of my first favorite country songs when I was little: "Well Orville Wright, set his sights high up in the air. Him and WIlbur worked day and night; he didn't seem to care. Well the town folks said if you were meant to fly, God would have given you wings. What makes you want to spend all of your time building that flying machine? And Orville said, "It's just what I do when I can't get no lovin', just what I do when I can't get no lovin'. I'm the first fly boy you ever saw, 'cause lately I ain't gettin' no lovin' at all" Great theme. Jesse James and Picasso star in that song, too.

One time in 8th grade, we complained because all of the 6th and 7th graders got to go on these really cool field trips. So they planned some for us. We got to go to the zoo (in 8th grade! hahah), then to this butterfly factory, which was so cool, then to an aviation museum, which is what made me think of this. It was near Bradley, which is near where you live, so I bet they flew their first plane near you if they did it in CT.

and that's funny that those guys were gonna smoke; that inspired my trivia: according to one report, how many joints do you think it would take to kill a person?

Also, did you know that the first law passed about it in 1916 in the American colonies required farmers to grow it? 

Girlfriend

Hey girlfriend

I'm watching the newest episode of deadliest catch.  its really sad because one of the captains died at the end of last episode and now everyone is finding out but its really good, kinda like the notebook
that picture and story about the little girls with the baby skunks is so funny i cant imagine seeing that, they look pretty cute though so i cant blame the little girls

Thats interesting about the squirrels, I'm pretty sure I've seen every kind, black grey and red... there are a lot of squirrels where my grandma and they feed the birds so the squirrels are always around getting the food
And the cat thing I think i've seen on americas funniest home videos but thats crazy that you know someone that had that happen to them.

So yesterday after work one of the guys there (one of my bosses, the cool one) helped me out by picking my car up with the forklift.  I was telling him about the exhaust and about how its so loud and he was like, "you wanna throw it up on the forklift and take a look at it" so we did it and it isn't just a hole, the exhaust came apart at  ajunction where two bolts rusted out and broke off completely so its just a straight pipe from the engine basically, but tomorrow i might go get some things that we could use to fix it and maybe do it on thursday for pretty cheap. i thought it was pretty funny though i took a picture of it with my phone my car was like 8 feet up in the air

one of the kids I'm working with now bought beer today andd we relaxed after work and each had a beer, but it was funny because as I was leaving im pretty sure the two guys that were still there im pretty sure had some weed and were gonna smoke it there

oh and ill definitely show you my yo yo tricks some day if i get a new yo yo haha, its gotta be a pretty good one though

and its nice that those guys have your back, but even nicer if they give you free food

and the weekend of the 31st.  my family is leaving for tim pond (maine) early saturday morning. for that weekend i was thinking go home or to union and i was waiting to see what your plans were, so this makes my decision a lot easier
im gonna go home so if you find out sometime soon what exactly your schedule is gonna be that weekend let me know because you can keep me company in my lonely house that weekend, maybe even spend a night but if not, no biggy... let me know though because if you want to come see me while youre in ct then i definitely will plan accordingly

alright well im gonna go sweet-ums
see you in 69 hours... what??
haha bye
chris

p.s. where did the wright brothers fly their first plane?

acrostic

hope you have a good day at work, I'm sorry that Izzy's mad at you.
Here's an acrostic for ya.
Oh and you don't have to ever feel hurried to respond to these emails, I just like writing them.

C harismatic
H unky dory
R umpy, which I decided can be the noun form of Gooshey
I mpressive arms
S hexy, smart (and every bit as funny as he is smart, Smile that'll hold you together)
T icklish sometimes. Tempting, Tantalizing, Tortuous to be without ya in my bed right now
O ....not an octogenarian, that's for sure. Unless you're a vampire or something. I'm going to go with Omnivorous, because you're definitely not a vegetarian or a fruitarian or anything like that.
P ...well you make me prurient :-) but I'm going to go with Perspicacious
H -o-t hot for real.
E ndearing, enticing, entertaining...I always have fun with you.
R achel's boy

(It would be kind of funny if your name was actually Christian and I messed this up.)

aminals

ok so this is what we just talked about in the 11 oclock work meeting I have everyday:

lots about animals, such as skunks, which made me think of the attached picture my dad sent me.

The picture is of family friends, and the dad said:  "So there  I was ... just relaxing in  front of the T.V. when the kids  yelled,  'Hey Dad, come see the kittens.'"

Mike Lucey said that as animals are domesticated, their ears get floppy, their tails curl, and their fur gets greyer. Which kind of makes sense, but that's so weird. Also, apparently there are red squirrels and black squirrels. My advisor for this project is from Germany, and she says that they don't have grey squirrels over there, and that the red squirrels are all very nice and shy, not pests at all. But apparently some grey squirrels escaped from a zoo or something, and they carry more diseases, and are killing out the red squirrel population, so they're hiring people to hunt out and kill the grey squirrels there. hahaa. 

Then we talked about Clever Hans, the horse who could count, which I had never heard of before. http://hubpages.com/hub/Horse-Who-Could-Count

And then Sara told us that her friend had cats who would jump from the counter onto the door handle, which was like a lever, so they just needed to pull down to open it. So the family replaced all the door handles with round handles, but one of the cats still somehow figured out how to open the doors. 

anyhow, just some random fun stories I thought I would share. I hope that my real job someday is as entertaining as this :-)

Hope the roofing stuff is pretty fun!

in a while crocodile,

Rachers

hot stuff

hey hott stuff,

That was nice of your father to get ya. Yea I gotta meet your sister and re-meet your broskis someday. I like the popcorn girl title. 

hahaha the yo-yo thing made me laugh, I really want to see your tricks now. I just remember one called "walk the dog", but I could never do any of them. I can't believe the school banned them...that's like kids and silly bracelets these days. I hear schools are banning those now. 

That's so nice that you'll have an air conditioner! nice and cool. The Baby song is pretty sad but it's one of the only ones I could think of by Blake Shelton. Ohman and I love Mr. Mom! hahah in 8th grade for some reason my friend Amanda and I always sang that song. 

I hope you had a blast riding. Oh so if you ever want any food from Sicilian, I've got an in, hahah. I went last night to make a deposit at bank of america, and two guys were around a car with the hood up, so I asked if they needed a jump or anything, and they said no they were just letting some heat out of the engine? haha which I thought was kind of a funny thing to do, but one was like, "You know, that was really nice of you, most people don't go out of their way like that, you're a good person." so I laughed and pointed at my car and said, "Yea, well, I know how it is sometimes with an old car." So I guess they work at Sicilian, and when I went to deposit my tips tonight, the same one was outside taking a break, and he was like, "Hey, you again!" so he introduced himself and was like, "Yea, next time you come around, I'll get you some food. And you don't ever have to be scared around here or anything, I've got your back." which is nice but kind of a weird thing to say.

Also, we can talk about this more later, but the weekend after the 24th Stevie wants me to go to ct and go to blake's brother's birthday, so I dunno if you had plans for that weekend, but if you go home to ct I could visit ya there. :-)

I mish you. I hope you have a good drive back. 

toodles poodles, 114 hours

Rach

Lovely

hey lovely

sorry it took me so long to respond, I'm sitting at my house waiting untill I go down to caseys house and do a couple things to my dirtbike and then go riding
charitys party last night was a lot of fun, you would have enjoyed it if you were around, haha but i felt kinda bad this morning, my dad ended up coming to get me but he didnt really care so it was good
thats funny that you did that when you were little, i remember doing the pass people out thing in the hallway of my elementary school when i was in like 4th grade, we thought it was so cool but then some adults caught on and got mad and we stopped doing, another thing they made us stop doing which is kinda funny at school was playing with yo-yo's.  there was a phase when i was in like 2nd or 3rd grade when everyone started playing with yo-yo's and would always have them and eventually the school banned them haha... im acttually pretty good i know some decent tricks but i dont have my old yo-yo anymore haha :( maybe someday ill get a new one and show you my tricks

and thats funny about the christmas decorations, idk if it was you that told me about that before or not but i had heard of the reindeer on reindeer kinda thing before which is pretty funny, my friends and i never really messed around with that stuff.. probably a good thing though becuase we did a lot of other things mostly in the fall around halloween but we got in enough trouble with just that
thats funny though that you took the decorations and then returned them later on in the neighbors yard i wonder what the exchange was like between the neighbors when they got returned

im gonna bring back an air conditioner to my house in keene this time which will be pretty nice

i know we did make a bet at the concert about the baby song but i dont remember any other ones, there probably was though.  and you win the baby song one, that song is kinda sad though

a pretty funny song that i heard on the radio a little while ago and am listening to now actually is mr. mom by lonestar haha

well im going soon down to caseys house soon and then going riding i cant wait
hope youre having a nice relaxing sunday... see you in 127 hours xoxo
yours truly
chris

honeybunch

Hey honeybunch,

I love the Swiss Family Robinson movie, I think it's at my cottage right now.

Yea building/getting a house of your own will be fun. I didn't know your dad built your house, maybe you said that before, but I don't think I ever really processed it. That's so cool. My defense partner in high school, Rachel (Rocky), her dad built their house, too, and it had the log cabin/wood theme sort of like what you're doing. It was pretty cool, and he also built an ice rink on their property every year, which was pretty big, right next to their horse barn. Their house is where we had a team sleepover every year, where we would pass each other out (I actually was always the one who got designated to pass people out, never got passed out myself) and tell ghost stories that really scared the shit out of me. They also dared me to stick my face in a cake at the sleepover one year, and I've never been so happy to accept a dare.

The other really funny thing our team used to do, (not sure if I told you this or not) is around Christmas, we would all drive around after practice and look for reign deer decorations in people's front lawns. When we found them, we would put them on top of each other so it looked like the deer were humping. One time I was with three other girls, and the family came out and started yelling at us, so we sprinted away (we always had the driver waiting really close by) but we were in the police log for that. It just said "Four women in a car attempted to steal a family's Christmas tree decorations."

Another time we actually did steal all these decorations from one of those houses that goes all out and has all the really ugly cheap statues and figures and lights covering their front yard, and we kept all of it in our locker room. Our coach never said a word about it, and then in the spring, when the snow was all gone, we put it all back on their neighbor's yard one night.

I actually hope you don't get shot or mauled by a bear. That would be a cool story, but it would also suck a lot.

I can't believe your house leaks! And that all you did was use a towel. Was it effective? Oh man your roomies move out today. :(

We didn't go to the bar last night because Derek just kept handing us beers to drink. I really have never had a dumber conversation in my life. I just remember Derek going, "Izzy, seriously, though. Do I intimidate you?" and Izzy sounding a little uncomfortable, "No, man, you don't" and Derek kept insisting, "Are you sure? Like maybe just a little do I intimidate you?" And Izzy just being like "No REALLY, you don't intimidate me!"
That conversation went on for a while. And then Derek claims that I was arguing with him about something then immediately switched in the middle of explaining my argument and started arguing just as adamantly for the other side. Like without any transition whatsoever.


I'll be so happy if you come winter break :-) Miss you lots!
Happy Thursday,
afectuosamente,
Rach

ps. Also, what were the bets we made at the concert? I think one was about Blake Shelton's baby song, but there was another that I can't remember.

Cuppy Cake

Hey cuppy cake,

I saw that video somewhere before I dont know where though, it might have been on americas funniest home videos or something... maybe

Yeah I think the dad knew, it was pretty obvious to me so I would have to figure that it was for him too, I was surprised though because she looked pretty young and he had to be my age at least.  I guess shes a really good singer though and performs at the theater in downtown keene and there were soome jokes about that too but im sure you can imagine

I didn't know about the movie swiss family robinson, the house looks a little familiar but pretty awesome, haha that would be really cool... just gotta find a nice tree

I can't wait to build my own house, regardless of whether I do a lot of it myself or not, but its gonna be really fun deciding how to make it and furnishing it the way you want... but there are a bunch of things that I do know how to do which is kinda cool, and I know a good electrician and some good contractors haha and my dad would be a good resource because he was in construction for so long and built my house

And yes now because you told me that I'm very curious, and you telling me that is either a jinx or an incentive... guess we'll just have to wait and see, Im gonna be a little disappointed though if I never hear these things... and thats really funny but mean what she did to you.. cute on your part though I was imagining walking up to see you like that now and feeling pretty bad for you

thats a pretty cool thing to put on your resume... having gotten bit by a rattlesnake, ive always wanted to get shot in a good spot and live through it so i could tell people that... or get attacked by like a bear or something and live through it with no major injuries but some cool scars

So last night, it was kinda funny but I was really confused for a second at the time... I'm not sure exactly when it was but I want to say around 2am, but I woke up because I was getting water dripped on me and I was really confused for a while so I sat there and kept getting dripped on and was like wtf haha... then i realized that it was raining really hard outsidde and that apparently this house isnt exactly water tight, so i grabbed a towel, through it on my bed where the water was falling and rolled back over and went to sleep

I miss you too and cant wait to do all those things as well :) And its ok about the bike, it would have been fun and pretty cheap but i like the newer bikes a lot more anyways and I wouldnt have to work on a newer one as much but i dont really wanna break the piggy bank for it right now so $$$ is a problem with anything decent,  I saved up a lot of money in like 2 1/2 yrs specifically so that I could buy a bike, but the past 2 years have been kinda shitty because I haven't been making as much as i used to working for neil doing construction, but I'm still working on it, there are some good ones that are in my range online around home though so maybe if I work hard enough, but I also want to have money so I can come and see you winter break 0-: haha

and about the concert... let me know what you all decide and I can buy a 4 pack if that works for people or if someone else does thats fine too, or if you decide yoou'd rather do something else that weekend let me know, but i've been thinking about our schedules and i would be happy if we did something that weekend....

Mwah,
Ankles

p.s. a group of mice is called a mischief
p.p.s did i ask you yet what the animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is?   i think i already did
p.s.p.s. humans are the only species that have face-to-face sex

gumdrop

Hey gumdrop,

Have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysqh1uzqGrc It makes me laugh, even though the kid apparently has a disease that makes him so chubby. po' lil fella. But he put that disease to good use.

Yea, the old people were very cute. I'm weirdly excited for you that you pulled off the rest of that toenail, haha. That's kind of satisfying.
That's so funny that the intern was getting with a coworkers daughter! Is the dad aware of it?
That would be a cool book to get. Maybe someday you'll build your own house with all this knowledge you're gaining. I always thought it would be so cool to live in a house like the tree-fort house in swiss family robinson. Did you ever watch that movie?

Stevie will definitely tell you weird things about my childhood. I made her promise to wait a year for some things, so who knows whether or not you'll ever know them, but I bet now your curious.... :-) mwahaha.
She used to be a meanie when we were little, actually. Example:
My house was through the woods from the school we went to up through 8th grade, so we made a path and would walk to school every day.
The school had a big tag sale every year to raise money. One year, first or second grade, I was one of the last ones to leave the tagsale to walk home. Before she left, Stevie told me she had seen a giant green snake with yellow eyes on the path, and usually I'm not scared of snakes, but she really freaked me out about this one. So everyone left, and her dad checked to see if I wanted a ride home, but I told him I was fine, I could walk. I got to the head of the trail, and had like a freak out. I just got way too terrified to even take a step onto the path. I sat down there and just started sobbing. I would get up, take a step into the woods, get scared, and step back. It was pretty heavily covered and dark in that first little bit of the path, and it was getting dark, so that didn't help. Finally, after probably half an hour, two older neighborhood boys came by on their bikes, because there was an area in the woods with a bunch of jumps where they would always ride, and found me crying there and walked me home. I remember being so embarrassed and angry at Stevie. ha, the next day she told me she made the whole thing up. What a little son of a biscuit she was.

Speaking of snakes, though, my dad actually got bit by a rattlesnake when he was in grad school in Arizona.

Those are my stories. I miss you lots, I can't wait to snuggle up next to you again soon. And watch kiddie movies and do puzzles and such. Maybe even a scary movie.

I'm really sorry about the bike :-/ very sad.

I told Derk about the ticket situation but now that I think of it we never came to a conclusion. He hasn't bought his yet.

besos y abrazos,
raquel

ps. The science of kissing is called philematology.
pss. Although many men and women consider it childish, more than 95% of them occasionally like to rub noses while kissing. Often called an “Eskimo kiss” in Western culture, this form of kissing is based loosely on a traditional Inuit greeting called a “kunik.”

Middle Finger Mom

hahaha I was going through some fun pictures from last summer, and I found one of my mom, me, my brother, and his ex girlfriend. We were at big sky for one of bran's downhill mountain bike races. I zoomed in on my mom in the picture and was surprised at what I saw, haha. i attached the far out and the zoomed in picture, maybe you'll think it's funny too. I think she was pissed off at my dad as he took the picture for some reason.

Bike

Hiii

It doesn't look good mostly because the fairings arent there, with those on it would look a lot better, the ones I wanna get are a kit and look like the ones that are on this bike...

http://www.paradisecycles.com/Images/Image87.jpg

but mine would look better than that one if I did all the things I'd like to do, in my opinion at least... I might give him (Jared Smith) a call now and see what he says

and i dont know why but I thought I'd show you my dirt bike too

not the newest or nicest, but its a good one

theres one when everything was off while we were changing the piston and one with everything on it afterwards

Babe

Hey babe

Sorry I didnt respond earlier but I was busy getting ready for the big countryfest/your birthday weekend and it was more than worth it.

Thats really nice about the old man and his wife who passed away. I love seeing older people who still love each other like that, or if they cant show it, at least talk about the other like that, I think its great and hope someday I can have something like that.

Anyhow, today after my nap I looked down at my toe nail, the messed up one and remembered how you said you would have torn it off by now and then I got curious and actually ended up taking it all off which is kind of exciting, I was getting really tired of looking at it.

Today I heard a funny thing too, so it turns out that the old engineering intern was getting with one of the guy in the company's daughters, and I saw at that party and kinda figured that was the case but didnt ask any questions. But today the guy who is kinda my boss in the shop was talking to someone about that. And as a going away present, the company gave that kid a copy of the book that the owner wrote about timber frame construction which is actually a pretty cool book, I hope I get one,,, but anyways they passed it around and people signed it as a way for him to remember the experience (for him it was different, he was from france and spent 9 months working for them... thats what theyve always done they told me).... but the guy who i was referring to wrote this in his book "If there is rust on the roof, then theres water in the basement" (either that or if theres rust on the roof, then the basement is wet" which i thought was pretty funny, i had never heard it before, so i thought i would share it with you

Im still waiting for nina to accept my friend request i really wanna see those pictures again :( but I just accepted Stevies friend request so thats pretty cool i suppose. Maybe she'll tell me more weird things that you used to do when you were little or something.

Alright well I'm sad that I won't be sharing a bed with you tonight but soon enough I'm sure we'll find a reason to do so again, and I look forward to that day... I really liked just playing with you laying around in your room too

Hugs and Kisses

Chris

P.S. if you get bored and want to do the puzzle or watch the edge or the incredibles you dont have to feel bad, id like to do those with you but i wouldn't be mad, the puzzle could keep you busy for a while on a rainy day which could be nice

oh and eye rilly lie cue

cowboy

hey cowboy

I was thinking about the huge hike you want to do this year, and I started procrastinating going through old hiking pictures from when my family did like vegas, hoover dam, grand canyon, bryce canyon, and zion. I think my favorite hike ever was Angel's Landing, which is at Zion.

This is a pretty good picture of it: http://www.alpinedave.com/zion/prodigalson/angels_landing.jpg.  I've never had such an adrenaline pumping hike, cause the last part of the trail is really narrow with vertical drop offs on either side. They had chains to hold on to for parts of it. I guess a lot of people rock climb up the side, too, and it takes 2 days so they have to sleep hanging in tents. That would be so freaky. Once you're at the top though it kind of looks like you're in Jurassic park or something, http://www.americanhikingadventures.com/images/Zion_Valley_view.jpg

mehh okie Imma get back to work. I hope your day wasn't too awful in the shop,
Rachers.

Sugar Daddy

Hey sugar daddy,

I actually always traded away the sugar daddys when I got them in my halloween candy, cause they were so hard to chew.

I just had a morning filled with cute old people. I went to visit the woman I do work study for, in the art department. She had come in to Perrecas and was raving to the owner, Maria, about what a great worker/person I am, which was very nice. So I told her I would stop by and say hey to her. I did that today, and she had a gift for me for working for her for the year. Very cute.

Then I went out to eat with that fellow who gave me the scholarship and Sally Webster, who works in the alumni relations building. Nice free lunch. He had a pretty thick Italian accent...he's 96 and still going strong. It was so cute, he was talking about his wife Alma the whole time, who was a the daughter of a coal miner from Billings, MT, and I guess she passed away 6 years ago. He met her when he was in the army, and I guess she was the hot shot, and he never thought he could even get a date with her, but he not only got a date, he eventually even got her for life.

So, cute old people. And now, Perrecas. woop woop. Know what sucks? Izzy is already working Sunday, he forgot, so he can't cover me. Really really really sucks. So I'm going to call more people today.

I hope you're having a fantastic day at the office.

     

See you tomorrow!!! yayay

Rachel

Honey Bunches of Oats

hey honey bunches of oats,

ohman I just took a nap before I have to go work at perrecas, and I am so sticky now. But it was hard to wake up. holy moly I pressed snooze a lot of times.

Did you fix the old chain to your bike so you could put it on? Cause didn't you say it actually broke?

Today for lunch, it's a seminar day, and usually dining services provides food, but today they forgot, so we all got to get upper takeout. It was nice and filling.

Why is it a good thing you're not from winchester?

haha that's really funny about the L barn.

okie shoot I have to go bike to perrecas, but maybe I'll write you a longer email later.

Hope work's going well,
Rachel

Hiya There

Hiya there

I like working in the shop better only because its fun to see what you do come together and I am always a little nervous of not knowing what to do in the office but its expected. But I like learning how to do stuff that might be useful later.

Yeah I was really hot last night, I woke up a bunch of times, but slept pretty well for the most part I guess. I kept waking up really thirsty but didn't wanna get up.

Thats cool you got a bike, anything is nice to have at school, it makes getting around so much nicer. I ended up putting the old chain back on my bike yesterday and maybe today I'll even go out for a ride, I wanted to yesterday but it was kinda late and ssoooo hot but I might do it today just to do it.

Ralph Nader didn't actually go to my highschool, he just grew up in the town I went to highschool in, still kinda cool I guess. I don't even live in that town though, its actually a good thing that I don't.

And thats kinda funny about the gas tank thing. Some cars do have little arrows down by the gage though. That would be really funny though if that was what they did and people rarely ever knew about it

I have a pretty funny story that I heard at work last week that I wanted to tell you.

There was this big barn in CT near where I live that they built a couple years ago. I think it costed about $10 million, so it was pretty rediculous. They said that once it was finished it looked too nice to put horses in blah blah... The barn was built in kind of an L shape. One of the wings was for the male horses, one for the females. Where the two wings met there was this circular 'rotunda' where they would meet a male and a female and breed them there. So I guess at one point the engineers and the architects and all those people were talking about how tall they needed to make the rotunda. One engineer got asked how tall and he wasnt really sure and he replied "I dont know, how tall are a couple of fucking horses?" I guess he didnt really mean it like horses while they are fucking but thats kind of what they needed to know so it was true... just kinda funny

Anyways

2 more nights, cant wait

Always

Chris

Boy

Hey Boy

hehe I'm on the computer all day, too. Except for from 10 to 4 today...during that time I'll be at Perrecas. Thus, I got into work at like 7 today to get my hours. Do you like the shop better than the office? Probably, because you're not sitting behind your boss. Ha that's funny that you're near nate, too.

Man it was so hot last night, I was sleeping almost full nakies. Sheesh, I kept waking up just so sticky and uncomfortable. Maybe I'll have to find an ac on craigs list or something.

Speaking of bikes and such, I robbed my Granny of her bike this weekend. She said she never uses it and that I could borrow it for an indefinite period of time. It's not good at all, but it's free and it's nice having one to get around.

That's cool about Nader; I don't think anyone famous went to my high school. I actually haven't even heard of anyone from the wikipedia list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Connecticut.

I like your new picture with the dizzy bat, maybe we'll get some more of that action this coming weekend. Talking to my cousin Erik this weekend, he told me about some concert he went to, maybe it was Kenny Chesney. They were tailgating, and some kids pulled up right next to them in a huge truck, threw a tarp in the bed, and filled it up with water. Then just chilled in their home-made pool as they pre-gamed.

This is a cool fact that Derek told me: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/what_side_is_the_gas_tank_on_7763.asp
but that is not true, because my dad's silverado pickup doesn't hold to the rule.

Happy day, can't wait for Friday!
Rach

Girl

Hey Girl

I'm back in the office this week, now I sit right behind my boss though which kinda sucks but hes pretty cool most of the time.

I don't know what nate was tripping on he didnt say but now I'm sitting near him too.

I don't think I'm gonna go for the bike now that I've had some time to think about it, I'm just gonna fix up mine a bit and it should be more than enough for me, about the motorcycle, I dont know... that would definitely give me something to do, I would need some time to work on it though right when I got it and I don't have anything to work on it with up here so I might wait on that too :( haha that might be a good thing though because my parents are really strongly opposed to me getting one while I'm still in college.. we'll see though

Ralph Nader's hometown is Winsted/Winchester, CT.. which is where I went to highschool

I had a really good weekend, it was nice to go to the pond and relax with everyone and it sounds like you had a really good one too so I'm happy for you

If I think of any good trivia or anything later I'll send it to you since I'm on the computer all day

See you so soon

Chris

Good Lookin'

Hey good lookin,

haha oh man that is an expensive tip.  Wait what was this nate fellow tripping on? haha acid? holy moly that is crazy. That would be so hard.

You think you're really going to go for this bike? What about the motorcycle you're thinkin about, too?

hahaha I really hope I know who ralph nader is, but I don't know his hometown. He's gotta be from connecticut somewhere?

I wish I had a good story but I can't really think of anything. I'm excited for the fourth! Have a wonderful weekend at home, I can't wait to see ya!

I see the moon and the moon sees me,
The moon sees somebody I can't see.
Shine on the one who waits for me,
Shine on the cuter from above. :-)
(a slightly edited version of the song my granny taught me when I was a lil kid)
Rachers.

Pumpkin

hey pumpkin

haha those are funny you definitely did tell me about a couple of them before but not all of them for sure... the one about the tip is funny because jeff told me a story when we were up at hampton beach about going to a bar and buying one round of drinks for everyone which cost him like $15... he got the bill and meant to leave a $3 tip but where he thought it said total it actually said tip, so he wrote in $18 and ended up leaving that for a tip.. hahah 120% tip, not quite as big as yours but not bad

im sorry this isnt long im really tired though, im excited for this weekend and i bet you are too though

its gonna be awesome to see all of your family again and then next weekend is countryfest!!!

haha cant wait

but for now im going to go, ill send you a better one tomorrow or this weekend :)

hope to see you in my dreams,

chris

p.s. one guy i met today at the picnic knew the guy that i might buy the bike from and we talked for a while about that and he invited me to go biking with him sometime which would be really cool, he seems like a fun guy and he knows a lot of trails so it would be fun

oh and how could i forget i was talking to this other guy whos name is nate i think, hes an engineer and i had met him but never really talked to him much before, so we were talking about fishing and random stuff and then got to talking about hiking and i told him about hiking all the mountains i hiked in maine last summer and told him i hiked saddleback mountain and he told me a story about when he did it with his friends and he was like "yeah me and a bunch of friends hiked that one weekend and made it up to top tripping balls and it was pretty crazy" haha it was really funny he totally doesnt seem like that kind of guy but it was a pretty funny story, better than i made it seem haha

anyways, heeres a little trivia.... hopefully you know who he is because this otherwise wont be interesting at all... do you know where ralph nader's hometown is???

miss you miss you really wanna kiss you

Stories

hehe going through and deleting old files, I found a list of things that I wanted to remember to tell Stevie about last winter break, and I think you'll think some of them are funny:

1. So I visited Kayla in SB, and she was completely broke after Brazil, so we were scavenging around her car for change to get more gas. She went in the station to pay with what we had found, and while she was in there, I found another quarter and dime. So I ran in after her to give them to her, and she goes, "No no! It's ok, I already paid, and it came out to exactly $6.66! That's lucky, right?!"

2. Christmas Eve 2009. Of course I have to work, at my Montana job, a little shitty restaurant. Some really nice guy gave me a $20 tip on his like $5 meal, so that was a fantastic start to the night. However, it only went downhill from there. I spilled a huge thing of hot sauce all over myself. Then, I broke a tea glass. Finally, once the restaurant had closed and we had cleaned up and everything, I was the last one to leave. Of course everyone is at home on Christmas Eve, so the parking lot is completely empty except for my lil car. I go to turn it on, and whoooops, I had left the lights on, and the battery was dead. I go searching through my bag to find my phone to call home. Of course, perfect day to forget it at home. I'm stuck in this parking lot, at negative something degrees, had only brought a sweatshirt to work cause it gets really hot inside, and I'm sitting there thinking, "Holy shit, what the hell am I supposed to do?!" Literally nothing is open. Finally, fifteen minutes in, when I'm really starting to freak out, I spot two girls walking across the other end of the parking  lot. I sprinted over, and they were like two trailer park girls, but they were nice and let me borrow their phone in exchange for sitting in my car for fifteen minutes waiting for some person to come pick them up.

3. I was talking to Kayla, and I said "You know, when I first met you, I really had no idea you were even half Japanese." She goes, "Oh, what did you think I was?" My response, "Oh, you know, just-- normal."

4. Kayla's little Japanese grandma is so funny. We stayed with her in LA, and when we were watching the lakers' game, she was like on the edge of her seat the whole time, yelling things like, "Git 'im! Git 'im! Block 'im!", just so into the game. Then she looks at me and goes, "You got a boyfriend, Rachel?" So I told her I didn't, and she goes, "Ohhh, that's smart. The boys probably like you, huh, so you can have LOTS of boyfriends! Kayla, why don't you do that? Why do you have a boyfriend?"
Then she goes, "Rachel, would you ever date a black boy?" So I said sure. And she goes, "And your parents would be ok with that?" I laughed and said yea, so she goes, "ooooo, my parents, no no. They would never let me do that!"

5. So Brandon, my mom and I are driving in the car somewhere over break, and I'm copilot/music controller. So I forget what song it was, but my mom goes, "Ughhh change this shit." I wouldn't, and so she always pulls this reasoning out, because apparently I was her worst pregnancy, and she says: "Change it! I suffered through nine months of hell with you. You ruined my trip to Hawaii." Then Brandon goes, "Mom why the hell did you go to Hawaii when you were pregnant?" which I never even thought about. My mom's response: "Well, I didn't PLAN on being pregnant!"
haha so apparently I wasn't planned.

Boo Boo

heeyyyy boo boo,

Yup you get ten points :-) Maybe the first reward will be at 100...I have a pretty good one in mind. But it may be too specific.
And I definitely want to see your.... hammer. You'll have to show me what it can do sometime. ;)
And I don't mind long.... emails. meheh ok that was the last stupid joke of this email.

Yea wishbone was cool but all jack russell terriers I've met in real life are such lil shits. They bark and bite so much.  My dog tore one up one time because it went after my parents. The owner wound up having to put it down a few months later anyhow(after it received extensive, costly surgery from the wounds my dog inflicted) because it attacked the mailman.
My brother was all about bill nye. I think I remember him trying a bunch of the experiments and stuff.

Who in the world comes up with these animal group names? ha they are so bizarre. That would be a fun job.

Oh baby that's exciting about the bike! You'll have to let me know what you decide.

haha I'm off to try to sleep,
gnight shexy,
rach