And the worst part is...

It isn't even my fault.

I would be ok with all of this crazy stuff happening if it was my fault.

1. It is never going to work between Erin and I. This was decided last night. We are far to considerate of other peoples feelings to just do whatever.

2. I lost my car. Apparently I had unpaid parking tickets in whitewater. I let a lot of people borrow my truck, it sure would have been nice of them if they got a ticket to say so. Heck, i may have even paid it. Now i am looking at the fact that i can't sell or trade in my truck, i can't buy a new car, it is even technically illegal for me to drive my truck. So i geuss that screws over teh car idea now doesn't it?

3. I might lose my job. Apparently, the weekend of the 12th, 100 bucks went missing. I was not working for the two days prior or the two days after as i was getting ready for our big promotion with JJO, but as it is my store, and nobody else is coming forward, guess who gets to take the fall. Guess that kinda ruins my plans to be a district manager huh?

4. I have officially decided it is not my lot in life to be happy. I am ok with that, i guess i can try to be really good at making other people happy. That can be my purpose in the world. Maybe if this job falls through i move back home and be one of those losers who lives with their parents into their 30's. That sounds like fun.

What all this boils down to is, I have quite possibly had the worst two days on record. I have tried desperately to maintain composure, as a result i am awefully bitter and resentful today. I apologize if i snapped on anyone that didn't deserve it. Nobody needs to ever see me that angry again. I guess what this all boils down to is, i give up.

Whichever kid is sitting high above me with the magifing glass seeing how many of my limbs will burn off before i stop moving. You have effectively made me submit. I don't even care anymore.

Dennis

Interesting subject line here...

Yeah i know i am really really creative with my subject lines. So what. I am tired.

So i had to drive to milwaukee today, twice.

Here is exactly how it went down, i woke up today to go to milwaukee and return 3 t.v.'s and a large tent to the game crazy @ cudahy. I was also supposed to bring flyers and coupons with me. Guess what i forgot. So anyways, i get to cudahy drop of my shit to realise i had forgotten the flyers. I felt like a dumbass but i figured i would come by on friday before i went to whitewater. That isn't good enough news, i have to drive back to madison now and pick them up and bring them back to madison. Sucks my balls. But I also had to pick up my new car today :) My moms 2002 chrysler sebring convertable, with all the luxury options minus leather seats. That is fine by me. So i know have to drive from milwaukee to janesville to madison to milwaukee then back to madison. Not including the trip i had already made from madison to milwaukee. I effectively laid my tread on the entirety of south eastern wisconsin. almost 3oo miles logged today, all for a job, and i didn't get gas money for it. So i'm broke again. Great.

Then i get back to madison today, me and my friend erin drive to milwaukee, and on the way home get a call from our friend sean being very upset with erin for being with me. Not even yelling at me, just at her!! (Back story, my roomate just broke up with her about a month ago) so apparently it is wrong for us to even hang out. Great again.

Well i figure what business is it of his, he isn't me or erin or mark so i don't rightly care what he has to say about us whether he is my friend or not. I decided to talk to mark tonight but before i could bring up the conversation he does it for me. Saying that he is uncomfortable with us hanging out, if we want to spend time together we should do it in a group sense. I ask why it is that big a deal, i mean he broke up with her right? Apparently now he is harboring feelings for her, nothing that he thinks will mean anything but apparently enough to halt mine and erins friendship. If she wasn't a girl this wouldn't be a big deal. Ugh, drama has found a way to me, even in drama free madison.

So normally i would be really happy that i got a new car today, a really really nice new car. But i am upset now, becuase i can't seem to escape drama whether i am in or out of the drama wasteland we call whitewater!! THIS IS HORSE CRAP!!

oh well nothing i can do about that i guess. Guess i better just keep breathing, i have gotten pretty good at that.

Take care

Dennis

And then...

NO AND THEN!!!

Anyways, so today I was in orfordville watching t.v. ... ALL DAY!!

it was pretty fantastic actually.

I am hopefully getting my mom's new sebring, and for all of you who have had to hear over and over again "I'm getting a new car!!" hopefully that will be the end of that and you will have to hear "I have a new car!!"

I did see fantastic four tonight, what a fantastic movie!! OK i seriously didn't think about that fantastic pun as i wrote it... that last one either.

So I am still working like crazy, Band Camp is finally over. This of course means that the next big thing is coming, so pay attention to my blog for further updates on what may be "taste of madison" or some kind of campus event. I know you probably don't care, but i do! This is my blog i do what i want.

So anyways i have like the sappiest showtunes in my head latley. I love it! I have decided to take guitar lessons, at music go 'round. Yeah i know, it's cheesy, but i think it would be freakin awesome if i could play acoustic guitar at least! I have these songs in my head and i just wanna play them. So i am just gonna do it.

Lady update, nothing really new to report... sigh. There is this one thing, um, well... i don't know. DRAMA SUCKS!!!

I think i am just gonna take my pontoon out on the water and just roll with the punches, and any other multitude of metaphors that may come to your head. Cause metaphores rule ;)

"yeah babe you captured me, i surrender happily"

mm showtunes.

Well that is all, i can't really focus my head right now, as usual there are too many things floating through it to make any sense of it right now, so i think for tonight, i am gonna go to a going away party and be done with it. Take care all!!

Dennis

huh

Ok so normally when I check my blog and see if anyone is reading into this nonsense, and I see a comment, I get kinda happy, I wanna know what this commentor is doing commenting on my blog cause mabye it is hilarious. Oh no, not the last comment, I mean it is cool and all, but talk about random. Oh well I guess if anybody buys those stocks now based on what was a comment in my blog their mission will be accomplished.

moving on... if you saw my away message last night you may have noticed that i said "a raise huh? yeah i can take that." I was not intending the world to think i actually got a raise, i would just really really like one. I have heard that apparently becuase of my steller (cough, ahem) performance as of late, that it has been tossed around that i may be getting a pretty hefty promotion. That would be ok.

What else is new you ask? nothing besides work. Are you surprised though? I mean seriously, what else do i do?

Ok well i guess that is all i needed to say right now, considering i have to get ready for work, but take care!

Dennis

mm sleep

So I fell asleep on the couch at about 5:30 p.m. ish, woke up at 6:30 ish, decided to take a nap in my room around 7:00 ish, i slept straight through *almost* till 8:30 this morning!!! Best day ever so far!

More to come later!!

Dennis Lynn

No internet does this to a man...

I have been without cable or internet for the last week now. I miss it, i really do. I am at my parents house for the weekend for a project i am doing in beloit, therefore i have internet. One thing i have realized, however, being without internet or t.v. has forced me to be slightly more social. It has also forced me to work more. My playstation took a crap also, so no new video games for me to play either, at least none till madden on tuesday!!

So anyways, being without internet, i thought i would miss having instant messenger. It has however made me realize that all i ever do on the dang thing is leave an away message up all the time and talk to the same people. If it was important enough for me to talk to them either they would call me or i would call them. huh, i guess i really don't need the thing. I guess you can expect me not to be on that much anymore. Scott tried telling me this a couple years ago, that instant messenger was stupid. I don't think that it is, however i think it is just not as fun for me anymore as it used to be. To be honest, you are probably better off now trying to call me as opposed to seeing me online, although with as busy as my phone and i am, i may not get to it. But try anyways :)

That is a good segway to the fact i have been using my phone WAY TOO MUCH!! I have a HUGE bill now, between all the text messages, and all my work calls, not to mention talking to peanuts and other peoples i dont' see really often, i may actually have to upgrade my minutes... from 1000 anytime, unlimited incoming, and 3000 night and weekend. I think i talk to much...

Don't let that disuade you from talking to me however, i still love to talk :) as anyone who knows me can tell you.

Um so yeah, work is kicking my ass. I get paid very little to do all this work, and yet i stay... oh well good thing i like video games i guess. Good news everyone, my regional director heard my name come up cause of this promotion with jjo, and now he has been watching my store and is apparently really happy with everything i have done with this store. I took a store that was consistently towards the bottom of the company and pushed it up to a consistently middle ranking. I have even broke the top hundred a couple times now. I have a good staff, who are excellent salesmen. I am making good margin. My projected bonus for third quarter is looking to be a couple thousand dollars. Life is pretty good, considering work is my life.

Which brings me to another staggering point, i still have yet to explore the clubs in madison, i mean school is almost gonna start for the fall, i haven't even scoped the scene yet. That's right i said scoped the scene, deal with it.

Um the only thing i have left to say is a girl stole my shorts and took them to kansas. I haven't seen them since however she did call to apologize. If you wanna hear that story (trust me it isn't what you might be thinking) you can call me!

On that note i think i am gonna go to a bar in janesville, cause they have live music tonight!!!

Take care!!

Dennis