| I'm updating today in honor of my dog. Last night Maggie passed away after eleven years of life. I was trying to sleep when my brother woke me up and told me he thought she was dying. I went upstairs and saw her lying by the living-room table (where she goes when she's scared) and I began to pet her. I called her name and with what little strength she had she raised her head, and you know how dogs sometime look like they are smiling, she did that.. then laid her head back down. My Mom and Dad were going to take her to the vet hospital but we were all afraid to try and move her. Everyone came into the living room and began to pet her. She would breathe deep then sound like she stopped then would hyper ventilate and finally breath normal again. My mom started to cry. I went downstairs to get a blanket to put her on so I could carry her out to the car like she was in a hammock. Our neighbor came over and told us that Maggie didn't look good (she knows a lot about dogs) and that she probably was going to die. My mom was hugging Maggie and told her she was a good girl then Maggie looked at my mom and just faded away moments later. Everyone was crying. I kissed her on the side of her face and said goodbye. It was so painful to watch her die; in fact it was the first time I had ever seen anything living die naturally. But I was glad that we were all with her when it happened rather than her being scared and alone. My brother and I then wrapped her in the blanket, a 101 Dalmatians blanket that we have had as long as her, and put her in the back of my Dad's truck. My parents and brother buried her at a friend’s house in Burbank. I didn't end up sleeping more than an hour tops then got up for work at 2 am. I am doing fine now but I'm worried about my other dog buddy who is only 2 years old. He learned everything from Maggie and he is one of the happiest dogs I've ever seen, but now you can see in his eyes he is lost. This morning he spent a good fifteen minutes trying to find Maggie. I feel so bad for him and it makes me sad. I just hope he gets better.
On the up side of things Nicole and I are doing better than ever and we both want to get married in the next few years. She has made me so happy and I love the thought of spending the rest of my life with her. I just hope all of you reading my journal can experence the same feeling someday if you haven't already; it's the best feeling in the world. I hope all are doing well and I'll update more on this situation as things fall into place.
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Like anybody wanted to know this......lol
I've been away from Live Journal for a long time now and I thought it would be a good idea to update. So here goes nothing.
Yesterday I had my stomach scoped to see just what the hell is wrong with it. I had to be at the hospital at 6:00 am to get checked in. I had kitty and my mom go with me. We just sat around for a while then they started to prep me. I had to have an IV put in and for some reason I was all worried about it because it had been a long time since I have had to have one. I don't mind shots but when a needle STAYS in you it bothers me a bit. The nurse started to put it in me and I told her I felt like I was gonna faint. Almost did. The other nurses rushed over to me, I'm such a wuss. They were all like wow you got our hearts pumping, which I responded, "I'm better than coffe huh?"
Anyway once that was over I just waited for about 15 minutes then they walked me over to the operating room. They but demerol in my IV and I was out a few seconds later. I woke up next to kitty and my mom and we left. I got to spend the rest of the day with Kitty which was awesome.
We had a lot of fun and got a chance to really talk about things. It made me think about just how much I love her and how she loves me the same. That is the greatest feeling in the world, to know that the person you love feels the same way and you can honestly say you want to be with them forever. The two of us have come a long way since the day we met, it is just amazing to me. She was a very good nurse too.. lol. Anyway that is the jest of what happened. I am not going into extreme detail because it will take too long.
I was very excited to see that people are starting to be happy again like blaine and erica. It makes me happy to know that things are going right for them. I just want to say that I am happy too and I'm glad that that is the case for everyone else too.
Take care everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
thing about me: needles suck... at least I think so!
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| Well my Seattle trip with Kitty was a blast. You can read about it in her journal if you wanna. I will give you a shorter description. We arrived around 10:30 and we ate at a French bakery that kicked ass. We visited Pikes market and bought my mom some awesome flowers. While walking around Kitty and I got our names written in Chinese that we plan to frame. We spent the rest of the time in China town where we bought things for Kitty's room.
In China town there is this kick ass anime shop that we found that sold wall scrolls. Unfortunately they were out of Tirgun scrolls until next week (they were too popular the guy said) so Kitty got a chobo (however it's spelled) one that is cute and I got hellsing one (which is what I wanted). I got the last hellsing scroll too hahahahahaha! They also sold gundum models and some cool t-shirts and a big terminator head....that was cool but weird.
While in that part of town we went into a shop that had collectors transformers that Mitch would nut his pants over. I saw one from I think Japan or Korea (had foreign writing on the box) of optimums prime and others priced at about $130 to $250. That was cool. Take that fucker (a.k.a. Mitch) bet ya wish you were there hahaha. Sorry, had to gloat, you're not really a fucker, you’re just umm.. Mitch:)
On the way home we got stuck in a huge two hour traffic jam that sucked. Kitty's mom didn't want to waste gas because we were low so she turned off the air conditioning. I tried to sleep and apparently I was sweating in my sleep so Kitty was blowing on my face to keep me cool. She's so sweet!!! However, I ended up getting heat stroke and my stomach was hurting because I was out of protonixs for my acid reflux. Kitty's dad ended up letting me stay the night at the house (which is unheard of) because they didn't want me driving when I was that out of it. Kitty's brother took us to Fred Meyer so she and I could buy some liquid to rehydrate me and get something for her to drink too. We also bought the movie seven. When we got back Kitty's mom was trying to save the flowers that I got my mom. They were a little droopy because of the heat and are trying to hold on for dear life, but they were still looking good.
When I woke up this morning I still felt sick and still do now. I had to call work and take the day off so I could recuperate. So here I am giving you the journal entry I said I would give. Hope you liked it!!
I have pictures that we took online if you want to view them. Just click the link. There is a lot but I didn't post all of them. http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/liquid_8_solid_9/detail?.dir=/3463&.dnm=be96.jpg&.src=ph
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Thing about me: I take lots of pics during road trips!!!
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| I'm so in Seattle today with Nicole!!! Oh man, perhaps I'll update when I get back and with some luck pics included :)
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| I'm not making much of a post just wanted to say it is my birthday. Man it is so weird to think I'm twenty years old now. That's it for now, wish me a happy birthday as a post!!! (even if it's not my birthday anymore lol)
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| if there is one person you can't stop thinking about, post this same exact sentence in your journal.
So Nicole says I'm a beast in bed....I guess she is entitled to her opinion....and she is so a tigress!
me stuff: I'm a beast in bed hehe
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| So I realized that I really needed to update so here I am. I see Paul has started the new fad of surveys, mabey I'll just have to be a follower... no wait I must be a leader! So what am I going to bring to the table? I think I'll start what Brandon and I started a few days ago. Dan W(....) Take my name and put in an action word. For example Dan wraps. Lets see how many we can come up with!!!!
Yay new fad!!!!
Me stuff: Ez2 dancer...ROCKS!
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Oh i so rock!
I'm going to post another result as god
dan finally as dan......
Hey I don't need a pill! I swear!!!!!
Me info: I love lunch breaks, and I really don't need a pill, I just hand them out for people that need enlargment......promise!
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| So yea I got off work at 12:18 am and to say the least I'm a bit tired. Nicole just got me a ring last night and I thought I lost it tonight. I was really pissed but out of the blue I found it. Wow, my posts have been really simplistic lately sorry about that. Gaa I need to try and sleep. Goodnight to all!
Dan stuff: My shoe size is twelve
p.s. I miss you Kitty and I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| The title is just the song I'm listening to. Well I've been busy today. It's my Mom's birthday and I'm thinking about getting her something from e-bay. Not sure exactly what just yet. I also I went over to my neighbor's house and he helped me pull out the dent in my car a bit. Grrr I hate work so much lol. I just felt like a bit of a post. I'll update with something interesting some other time for now I sleep!!!!!!!!!! Love to all in the universe!
Me stuff: My car is the doomsmobile hehehehe!!!!
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Look Erica I kill clowns for a living now with my superhero like power!
You must totally love that....evil clowns. Yea I have not updated for ages and it's once again becasue of work and school. Next week is another 38 hour work period for me so I'll continue being dead for a while. But hey, mabey I'll update from time to time!
Dan news: I work a whole lotta hours. But I work hard for the money lol!
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| Well I have not updated in a while and it has been because I've been VERY busy with school and work. Actually, this post will be short because I'm supposed to be writting an essay right now. Hehe *looks naughty*. I have just been a little burnt out on essay writting lately; it seems like I've been writting one every couple of days. Next week I have two papers to write and a 38 hour work week. Ah whatever! At least I'll be kinda rich lol. Well I hope everyone else is having a better week and I'll be back in contact with everyone soon!!!
P.S.
No I didn't die :)
OH THE BEST PART...
THING ABOUT ME: Boo has got me straight trippin!
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I saw this test in Paul's online journal and I decided to try it. I scored a 69 percent. Isn't that the perfect sex drive percent??? 69?????? GO DAN! more later...
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| I was just wondering how many people read this. Leave a post if you do!!!
Info about me: My job sucks.
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| That song rocks by korn. Anyway the subject will fit my post a bit, in that I went to visit Nicole yesterday and found out that she has been a bit upset lately, and it seems to me like she has little to no one to turn to to talk to about things. That makes me sad because it seems like she has a lot of people in her life and very few can relate or understand her on the correct level. Most of the time everything she says is misconstrued by who she talks to. It's frustrating to see someone feel so cut off from everyone else. Anyway enough about that for now.
Yesterday I went to Jen and Erica's house and downloaded step mania from Brandon. It has all of the ddr mixes and a lot of the easy 2 songs as well as pump it up. Each has different buttons, like easy 2 has hand sensors while ddr does not for example. The coolest thing is for like $45 I'll be able to hook up a pad for it and have all the ddr madness at my finger tips... er or feet rather! Yay!
As far as today goes, I have had a good one. Paul Brandon and I were all actually at the fitness center at the same time today! OMFG it's impossible! We've been trying to meet up there for a while now, so it was awesome when we all finally did. We really didn't do much of a workout, more like a competition type thing. I won the benching thing. I maxed out at 205lbs! That's a new for me. Brandon won at leg press at 790lbs; I got in one rep he got like five in. And Paul, well I think he won at the tread wall, go Paul lol! It actually wasn't a competition at the time, but we just started ranking each other by the time we were all done. To say the least it was fun. More later...
Thingy about me: I gotsa cell phone!
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| Usually Mondays suck but today was half and half. Well first off Paul was actually at the fitness center the same time as me so that was awesome (going there by yourself sucks). After that I found out that my English class got canceled so I ended up driving back to Kennewick and got a Mcflurry from Mikky D's and visited Bill who was just waking up :) Then I went home for a few and relaxed. So that part of the day was nice.
Here's the gay part. I went back to CBC and I had a test that I didn't know about. I hate it when that happens. So I most likely failed that test and then I just went to work.
Yay indeed for Monday.
dan knowledge: I like pizza
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| If you have seed Eddie Izzard you'll understand my subject title. So it's Sunday already and I have to start thinking about re-writing an essay. I'm going to post it because it seems to be somewhat interesting according to some people who read it in my English class, (they had to, peer critique). Anyway, if you have any opinions on it please let me know, it's still a first draft.
Here is a bit of news for today. So I went to Wall Mart because... well frankly the savings never stop. Actually, I went to exchange some shirts that my Mom got me because they were too big. I went there only to find that even their small shirts are fricken huge, so I just got a refund. That works out because now I can either get new shoes, or a shirt that I was contemplating on getting for the past few weeks. It's bright pink and it says pink is the new black. Why do I want it? I have no idea, just the fact that not many guys would wear it. So that makes me happy.
I also called Nicole today, and it seems that she is stuck at home today. I feel sorry for her because she is going through what I have been dealing with for a while, but a little worse. Anyway, I just hope that she'll feel better soon. I don't like to see people that are important to me upset.
Switching topics, last night I had Bill, Brandon and Erica come over and watch Eddie Izzard. That guy is funny as hell, I recommend to anyone to rent the DVD dress to kill. Eh, I'm running out of news (or maybe just getting lazy) so I'm just gonna post my essay.
Moral Perception
“You knew what I was when you picked me up”. This phrase has been one that has imprinted itself in my mind, existing forever in the confines of my memory. It’s a constant reminder that I need to live with the decisions I make. Everyone has his or her own way of seeing the world. They all have decisions to make, and once they are made that person has to live with the consequences, good or bad. When I was younger my grandpa told me a story that taught me that lesson. It helped me realize that a decision which could be potentially bad, will always have a negative outcome no matter what I do to try and change it.
When I was twelve years old I was visiting my grandpa. He has always been one to give advice, and usually at the time I would forget seventy percent of what he told me. However, one day he told me a story about an Indian who needed to cross a river. He was about to swim across, but before he had a chance to a snake stopped him. The snake asked if it could ride on the boy’s back when he swam across the river since snakes can’t swim. The boy was hesitant and replied, “I can’t let you on my back, you’ll bite me!” The snake assured him that he wouldn’t, promising that he would not harm him if he agreed to let him ride on his back. After this “reassurance” the boy decided that he would be safe and gave the snake a ride across the river. Once they arrived on the other side, the snake bit the boy. The venom quickly spread throughout the boy’s body and he became paralyzed. He asked the snake why he bit him after he had helped him cross the river. The snake simply replied, “You knew what I was when you picked me up”.
The story has stayed in my mind for seven years. Looking back on it now I am surprised how relevant the moral of the story is when it is applied in everyday life. I have had to make many choices since I first heard this story and every time I have decided to do something that doesn’t look like it will turn out good, it never does. For example, if a friend of mine needed money and he or she was known for not paying people back, and I gave this person money anyway, I never got it back either. I would try to make the deal absolutely full proof, reassuring myself that I would get my money back. I would take something of theirs as collateral, or make him or her swear to pay me back, but no matter what I did to keep them from running off with my money he or she would never reimburse me. I just had to accept that this kind of person isn’t going to change the way they are just for me. I knew that he or she was not an honest person, so I shouldn’t have believed that he or she would be truthful with me. This story that my grandpa told has that very lesson in it. Know people for who they are, and don’t make excuses for them in order to make it seem that they are something they are not. It really is all a matter of perception.
I believe that everyone has the power to see people for who they really are. I think the only thing that differentiates a good decision from a bad one is a persons own feelings toward the decision. An individual may know something or someone doesn’t deserve to be treated in a certain way, but believes that maybe the situation or the person will change if the situation or person is given a different circumstance. However, this is mostly untrue. The only way a bad thing turns good is if it lets itself change. What I mean by that is, for example, a person will not change because of someone else; they change because they choose too. The other person can only hope to influence change. That is what normally gets confused in these situations, and it is the reason why some people decide to make a decision that is bad. They forget that just because they are doing what the other wants that it doesn’t mean they will suddenly change. I have learned that through many different levels of severity, from the simple example I used of lending money to someone to an extreme example of trying to change a person’s entire lifestyle. This story is absolutely right. People should not involve themselves in harmful activities, or associate themselves with people that could hurt them. It just isn’t worth it.
“You knew what I was when you picked me up”. Through this story my Grandpa was able to teach me a life skill that isn’t taught in any kind of school, the ability to use moral perception. I reference this story almost every time I am faced with a decision that is similar to it. It has given me the power to embrace moral perception, and because of that I now have the confidence to do what benefits me rather than someone who would just abuse my generosity.
Thing about me: My hair is orange not red!!!!!
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| So I had an interesting day today. I actually got a chance to see Nikki and we had some fun. Unfortunately she wasn't having a very good day, but at least she had fun with me and later Paul. We went to best buy and bought DVDs and stopped at the mall. Then we went to my house and Nikki bought a dress on eBay. After that we sat and watched snatch while waiting for Paul to show up. I could go into more detail but I just got off work and I need to get going. More later!
More about me,
Dan's three favorite movies: Matrix, Fight Club, and Blow (Blow is not a porn)
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