a 2-way highway of ants in my kitchen that Brandin Rush Hochstrasser can get rid of painlessly

...
Admirals game tonight
[Round 2 of the calder cup playoffs]
Brewers/Dbacks game tomorrow night
Earth Crisis on Tuesday night
P.O.S. on Thursday night
Brewers/Cubbies game Friday night
SO STOKED ON THE NEXT WEEK
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shit yeah

reflection

In grade school
I vividly remember the first day
When the teacher would go through the class roll
And ask every student if they had a nickname they'd rather go by

And Matthew Steffen was always "Matt"
And Samantha Rumney was always "Sammy"
Rebecca Hagen was always "Becca"
And Aaron Becht was always "AJ"
Christopher Adams was always "Chris A"
And Christopher Barbano was "Chris B"

But I always had to say NO when asked that question
Because my name was not only unique
But it was CRIS when shortened
And I didn't want a name that 2 other people in my class already had
So I never got a shortened name or nickname

This brings me to how I even got my name
...

It's the year 1988
My mom has 2 daughters and a son already
All above the age of 7 at the time
She's pregnant with her 4th child
And at a doctor visit
Is told that she should prepare herself
Mentally and emotionally
In case her baby daughter is born with downs syndrome
...
Fast forward to November of 1988
...
I was born
SANS DOWNS SYNDROME
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And my mom saw me
Thought I was just perfect n' shit
And named me CRYSTAL
Like the glass---without imperfection
My unique ass name
Was because I was born not retarded
Basically

I'm the one with the biggest smile
An angel of sorts
With the most unique name in my family
And I love it more now that I know why I got that name
It wasn't just something my parents thought was cute
It meant something to my mother
Back during a time when things were good with my family
When my parents loved each other
I got my name out of love for a child

I'd also like to point out that
during this point in my life
When I was around 4 or 5 years old
I started introducing myself to people
and saying "I was supposed to be retarded"
...
Cause I had and still have a sense of humor about the situation
It's better than when my mom was pregnant with my little brother
and the doctor told her he was going to be a fucking MIDGET
[which I'm kinda mad he isn't one...]
But my mom LAUGHED at the doctor when that happened
:D :D

How normal I am
Is completely debatable to date
But I know that I'm very happy with the way things are
And I love every aspect of my life on any given day
No matter how hard shit gets
I am content
And positively positive

And I finally feel fucking gorgeous
About time

FUCK YOU MISS DAISY

Today some of the most farfetched things occurred

And I happened to have my camera on me all day
So I got a lot of interesting shit to show

...

Brace yourself

...



I once thought that this place was called Wingin' It
Kinda like how I thought that Andy worked at a place with the same name
When he worked at WING IT
Jennell thought this place was called Wing-O's
Now I'll always remember what that place is called
Even though I will never eat there

Right after we made this turn
We saw a man laying on a cement ledge
And Jennell asked if he was dead
And I told her he was just napping
And about 20 minutes later
We decided to drive past again
And before we turned that corner again
I said "wouldn't it be funny if any ambulance were there?"
And we turned
...
And a fucking ambulance was there
Probably packing up this dead dude
FUCK.



These guys grabbed pizza at Classic Slice and went outside to eat
Because that dog was waiting outside for them
And it had just gotten fixed
I pet the dog
And let him lick my fingers
He was really cute
And I really love this photo

These people are my friends
They both are currently not in college
For different reasons that don't really matter
But they went into fucking Wal-Mart with those tinfoil masks on
And, oddly enough, were nothing new in the store



Goodnight, Milwaukee
I love you.
And your small skyline
<33

LOAF BOY

Welcome to my hopelessly out of touch life.

Today my friend Dustin posted on his blog and he scanned in a sheet of paper from when he was younger and trying to think of possible screen names... among his list were:

resident zombie
final flesh
metal snake
SOLID metal snake
(not to be confused with regular metal snake)
heavymetalrocker
punk of funk
broly the unholy
soul snatcher
hell beast
son of bitch

with a short list of (as he referred to them) "stupid" names:

eskimo man
loaf man
bread boy

and I started thinking about my first encounters with the internet
I remember my first AOL account was JellyBeanKid143
because that's what my mom called me when I was little
and sometimes still does
and I would go onto beanie baby chat groups
and I would tell everyone their beanie babies could not compare with mine
even if we had the same ones
and I would tell people that my beanie babies got shipped from far off places
as if beanie babies were unattainable in southeastern wisconsin or something
I also remember talking to a young boy on there named CHAZ
and we would fight about whose beanie babies were cooler
and if our beanie babies were to battle, which would win

I never put my beanie babies in a real battle, though
my mom would've killed me
we kept them all in a china cabinet in our front living room
and never even got to play with them

I later saw that beanie babies were becoming less popular
and suggested my mom sell them and put the money toward something cool
and she didn't
so we sit on hundreds...if not thousands...of dollars
in beans
fucking BEANS.




on the flip side, my brother's going home from the hospital on friday fa sho
I love him.