well, i reckon it's time to check back in with you all. so as such i'm posting and making my rounds most thoroughly tonight.
just got home from work a bit ago. good times. i can't wait to move out to where i can really get to know what i'm selling to folks. that's always the best feeling: knowing what they want and knowing exactly what to give them. by now micah is half-way or thereabouts through boot camp. can't wait to hear from him. it's been an odd void not being able to just go up the street and see him. i suppose that's what happens when you know someone for most of your life. i really do hope he makes it out of the marines without permanent harm done to him- body or mind. my family will be out here for a week and a half but i won't really get to see them that much. i was going to request some time off but the schedule was made before i got in so i'm working the days they'll be in Edmonds. they're out on the ocean for a week before that. maybe i can switch shifts around so that i can see them. i really hope so. i've been back on the exercising routine more lately. and i just got a shirt to help me in my exploits. it's going to be great. it's coolmax. it cost me $16; it's a $32 shirt. i love my discount! that's two shirts that i've gotten for the price of that one. it's amazing. it's great. i'm going to buy a raft.
seriously about the raft, though. that's the next purchase because i really want to go paddling out on the Sound. this is mostly because i've never been so near to so much water in my life.
remember that i come from a state that is classified as desert or nearly for every area within its borders. a huge lake is a resevoir that's over a mile long. we don't have water like the Sound or ocean. so it's a shock. and it's a nice shock. and i want to go our rowing on it.

so yeah. life in a nutshell.
never does live up to what's floating around in your head, does it?
and it just feels like a boring list of things i need to get from the store or something.
oh! and i need some cheese.
that is all.