paaartaay!

last night was jon's welcome home/going away again/look its gabbie's birthday too party. we held it at his dads new house in marysville. ive got to say, that old dude has done pretty well for himself this time, its a pretty nice house. so anyways on to the party...

it started around 7ish and when i got there people were already well on their way to getting drunk. there was a DJ and catered food, and most important...A KEG! this was shaping up to be a great party! jon gave rowan and i the tour and true to form, he had bought some guinness, my favorite beer in all the land, just for my drinking pleasures! what a friend..after several drinks and a few falls, jon started chanting KEGSTAND!KEGSTAND!KEGSTAND! jon was up first and his lasted a whopping 7 seconds...up next was tory. he went for about 10. i questioned the wisdom of tory's keg stand as he is a small guy and had already had a lot to drink. whatever. after that we convinced jons dad to do one. talk about hilarious! picture a 5'5'' 50ish ecaudorian dude doing a keg stand like a frat guy. the funny part was he set the record at 15 seconds. i was kinda pissed that i had to drive home that night, especially since i know i couldve beaten all of them. ah well such is the nature of responsibility. anyways, steve rowan and i were the only sober ones at the party, and that was starting to wear thin. all the drunks were getting on our nerves. especially tory, who started hitting on rowan and insulting her at the same time. he was really pissing me off. i was keeping my cool, but i still wanted to take him apart. tory got lucky, he was pulled away by one of his friends who realized what was happening. good thing too, i wont tolerate shit like that, even if the dude is drunk. the whole time steve was sitting there with a grin on his face. he wanted to see me fight that guy. god that is just like steve...

all in all it wasnt a bad night. i had fun and it was really good to see jon loosen up, especially after being kinda jumpy and on edge for a few days. he goes back to iraq in a week. god im gunna miss that goofy bastard...

discouraged and confused...

so today i found out i wont be able to join the army for another 3 years, yea i was pretty pissed to say the least. throw in some anguish and rage and you fall into the neighborhood of my swirlling hurricane of emotions. it was like a kick in the nuts. all ive ever wanted to do was to serve my country, and then after all the bullshit ive been through just to find out im still disqualified...really serves to break down my spirits. seriously what the fuck am i going to do for 3 more years? i dont know if i could do more school right now. jesus.....life really can throw you a helluva curve ball somethimes. my last option is to try the national guard. since they are a state run agency they tend to be more lienient in cases such as mine. sure as hell would be better than waiting another 3 years. guess ill have to be heading on down to meet with the national guard recruiter here pretty soon...fuck

on a much lighter note, i had another amazing night with rowan tonight. we had dinner together and watched Troy and half of Braveheart. we both fell asleep about halfway through. her mom woke us up when she came home, good thing too, we probably wouldve slept all the way through to morning lol she really helped make me feel better. she is so amazing, i honestly couldnt be any luckier.

best day ever!!! part 2

on to reason two:

so ive been friends with rowan for quite some time. a few months back i really started to like her. we started hanging out and we ended up growing pretty close. things were great except for one glarring fact : girls can be just friends with guys, but guys cannot be just friends with girls. i was falling for a friend. i had heard from a friend that she didnt like me like that, but i was getting mixed messages. i was ready to put her on the spot and just plead her to tell me there was no chance so i could move on. yeah looking back that wouldve been pretty stupid. thankfully my other best friend, steve, had a better idea. he pulled the old "so whats going on with you and my best friend?" she told him she liked me and was giving all kinds of signs she could think of and that she thought i didnt like her. so we've already established that im blind and it is here that we establish my mental retardation. so fast forward to last night...i invite her to come and hang out with jon and i and a few other friends. as the night progresses things go great. we snuggle up next to each other in a movie, and in the car on the way back. when the time comes for her to head home i walk her out to her car. i take her into my arms and ask her if she would be mine. she replies with a yes and a kiss. rowan is pretty much the most amazing girl ive ever laid eyes upon. not only is she stunningly beautiful but she is very inteligent and she has a great sense of humor. i couldnt ask for a better girlfriend!

yesterday was by far the best day ive had in a loooong time. i cant wait to see her again tonight, and not to mention share a beer or two with my best friend!

best day ever!!!

this is going to be in two parts cuz its long as heck.

part one

yesterday was by far the best day ive had all year! why was it the best you ask? well, two reasons. 1) my best friend jon came home on leave from iraq and 2) the girl of my dreams said yes. not the big "yes", im much too young for that, but rather a much smaller yes that still...christ im getting ahead of my self. ill start at the begining.

so im sitting in first period PE watching a video about golf techniques (its a lesiure games PE class...) and out of nowhere i get a text message from Jon of all people. before i even read it i realized one of two things. the first one being that this was from Jon's personal cell phone so that meant that he was no longer in iraq, and the second realization that he must be coming home a day earlier than i had known. in a classical jon style, the text message said "BACK IN THE USA BITCHES!!!" my hopes were confirmed! soon after he called me with his flight number and all that necessesary info. i was to meet up with his sister and mom and we were to make our way down to pick him up. well this is where the problems started...first i couldnt get ahold of jons mom, turns out i had the wrong number. eFF. second, gabbie, jons sister, wasnt answering her phone. by the time i got ahold of her it was dangerously close to the time we needed to leave. so i was to meet her out front of the high school, and things would progress form there. i sat out front for about an hour waiting...double eFF. either im blind as a bat or...well shit i just didnt see her somehow. so anyway she ends up calling me to tell me that she has gone back home and now there isnt enough time to come back and get me. triple eFF. as im walking back to class, i run into my friend sean, talking to the security guard, who also happenes to be his grandma. IDEA! ''HEY SEAN!!! you dont really feel like going back to your sixth period do ya?'' ''WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK!?!?!? seans grandma, ''USE ANYMORE LANGUAGE LIKE THAT YOUNG MAN AND ILL WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT!!!'' so it turns out sean had been sent by his substitute teacher to take the attendance down to the office. lucky me. we go back to his class and grab his stuff and we just walk out. we haul ass to gabbies house and i made it in time to ride with them to the airport. i always seem to get lucky like this. stuff always seems to work out for me in the best possible ways. the funny part was seans grandma called to tell him that she had covered for him when another security guard was sent to look for him. family connections rock!

so anyways we get to the airport and meet jon, my best friend. suprisingly no one cried. that'll probably happen once his leave starts to run out and when he has to leave. having someone close to you be involved in the war makes it more real. its not just some story on the news to me. its so much more personal than that. jon and i are like brothers. the though of him being in harms way every day is a lot to deal with. thank god there are men like him though.

random happenings

more random happenings from the crazy world of ben-
so the other day im at work gettin my dish washin groove on. the day was running smoothly and there wasnt even an evening rush hitting us. about 45 minutes into my shift, my boss, jerri, tells me she wants me to clean the bathroom. no biggie, i grab a few rags and head on back to do the deed...i walk in and go to turn on the hot water when out of no where i somehow ripped the water handle right off the sink. in that very instant water comes jetting out of the newly made opening and hits me square in the face...right about that time someone walks in behind me. dunno if it was a customer or an employee but who ever it was asked "whats going on in here?" to which i so eloquently replied, "NOTHING, I JUST BROKE THE FUCKING SINK!!! HENCE ALL THE WATER EVERY WHERE!!!" so picture this, water is jetting out every where, im scrambling around on the floor trying to find the handle cuz i dropped the damn thing somewhere, and ive got some punk hassling me...so anyways, i find the handle, jam it back in the geyser that the sink had become, and attempt to hold it in place while i feel around the underside of the sink for the water cuz off valve. i finally find the damn cut off, kill the water,.and flop into a small lake and breath a sigh of relief. i consider letting the bathroom air dry (im just that lazy people) but there is so much water that that would literally take forever. mop time...fun. i take the slacker route by rationalizing that all the water shooting everywhere did a better job of cleaning than i was willing to do so i called it a day and just dried everything off.
seriously the most random stuff always happens to me...wtf 0_o
more random happenings are almost sure to come...