camping tripper.

so i had both a really awesome and a really awful weekend. it was really awesome because i went camping. but it was really aweful because samone died.
i dont really want to talk about monkey because i am really really sad about it.
um ya anyway. here are my camping pictures.
this is zac doing his job as navigator.

this is from the first hike we went on. i was a little in love with that little nook in the rock.

and then there were bunches of waterfalls...



this is me taking pictures of myself while we were waiting for the group to all get caught up.

dana kinda led us astray and we had to walk a couple miles up the road to get back to our car...
i kinda liked it because it was all foggy and awesome.
you can see a buncha the people we were with up ahead...

this is me taking pictures of myself in the fog.

the next day we went to foamhenge.
it was pretty rad.


there was even a wizard.

then we went to this place that had a couple of bridges...
apparently it was part of the appalachian trail.

i liked it there a lot.



there was a train too...

this is the boys getting ready to jump off the bridge.

this is jon jumping.

this is zac hanging out looking all manly.

this is zac jumping.

this is them coming out of the water.
i think its a kind of funny picture... im not really sure why.

this is my geek shot.

aaannnnndddd.... i got steve colored in today i will post a picture of him real soon.
promise.

loves.

hungry hungry hippo.

hello.
im bored... i dont really have anything to say.
it is raining today. i had to string trim in the rain. my legs were covered in wet grass. it sucked. but i got out of work early so that was nice. i have been hanging out with alison at 702 for the last couple of hours. it is always so fucking cold in here. stupid air conditioning.
i am getting really excited about camping. i want to go right now.
um ya so like i said i dont really have anything to say.
im going to go home and take a shower and find some food to put in my mouth.

loves.

capitalize them there letters.

so the free internet at the house is refusing to work tonight.
Stupid free internet.
I decided that maybe I could just make a word document and then upload it tomorrow. Its annoying though because word keeps capitalizing all my shit and I don’t like typing with capital letters…
actually I just realized that that is kinda weird because when I write I write in all capitols. Since typing in all capitols is YELLING maybe that’s why I like to type in all lower case…. Do you know that lower and upper case comes from when they had to use individual letters in printing presses… the letters were in two cases.
Um ya so I worked eleven hours today. That was pretty fun. Remember annoying hippy? Ya well he was even more annoying today. He was making fun of me for everything he could think of and kept giving me shit all day because the work I was doing was easier than the work that he was doing… apparently he doesn’t get that that’s kind of the point… he is a two hundred pound twenty one year old he was hired to do the hard manual labor. I have four years of landscaping experience and was hired to run the crew when we are pruning, planting or doing any gardening. I was hired because I actually know a lot about what we are doing. Its funny too I have heard the guys talking about how much money they make and I make more than everyone except mike who was hired as a foreman… I cant wait until im in charge of that stupid fake hippy. I am going to make him do all kinds of crappy work. He made fun of my salt deodorant and dr bronners. And told me that I was stupid for bringing a pillow with me camping.
Apparently you don’t need one…
all you do is drink tequila until you are so drunk that when you go to bed you just pass out and don’t care where you are sleeping. Fucking idiot. Its supposed to rain tomorrow. And zac said it is going to rain on Saturday… what kind of crap is that? It can rain all it wants tomorrow as long as it means that I will get out of work early. We worked until it was getting dark today to make up for the fact that it is supposed to rain and we probably wont be able to get in a full day. But we have to work in the rain until it is raining hard. There better not be any sprinkling crap or I will be pissed. At least I have a raincoat and rainboots. I hope it doesn’t really rain this weekend. I am excited to go camping and I don’t want to be wet and miserable. That wont be very fun.
I should go to bed.

loves.
ames.

picturepaluza

so as promised i have a whole buncha pictures to share...
this is from the other day when alison and i were mold hunting...
i am getting ready to climb up into the crawl space in the ceiling.

i have my mold finding knife...

my ass is so fat i almost didnt fit...

it was really gross and hot up there.

then we were taking pictures of how close the electrical wires are to the deck...

i think this picture is funny because of my curved back. and the queer look on my face.


i brought home this cool magnolia seed pod and it started opening up on my shelf...

last weekend this awesome mushroom started growing in one of the house plants in the kitchen. i had noticed it when it was a lot smaller but i didnt start taking pictures until later in the day... it was bigger every time i looked at it and then it was dead the next day.

alison bought a mold testing kit and it had these petri dishes in it...
we grew all kinds of amazing stuff but my camera is craptastic and i couldnt get a good shot.



i have been having fun taking pictures with my broken camera. sometimes i end up with really cool shots and it is a surprise when i upload them...
these are some of my favorite ones...

today was pretty lame. we were installing irrigation at work so i spent most of the day gluing pvc together. there is a new dude at work. hes a hippy. at least thats what he told me.
he has a grateful dead tattoo so it must be true.
hes a bigot.
im getting really annoyed with how much bigotry and racism there is in this state. i knew that it would be different down here but i didnt realize how much racism there would be... where are all the people that accept everyone?
i want to meet some people more like me...
im going to go home now. im hungry and its cold in the tattoo shop.

loves.
ames.

balk? bahk? bawk? how do you spell that shit?

ta da.
here are my chickens.
i am pretty much in love with them. i am going to put kitty on the other side. and i have been brainstorming other barnyard ideas.

the mama chicken is my mama. and the the chic on the left is kasey. eatting.
im the chic on the right because i am always right and my mouth is always running.
um ya.
so im going camping this weekend... i am super excited. i am going with people that i dont really know but i think it is going to be really fun anyway. it sounds like it is going to be a pretty good group of people.
i ♥ camping very very much.
i went with zac and his girlfriend dana and their friend megan to the river after work today. i dont know why i didnt bring my camera. im a little dumb sometimes. it was really fun there. i want to go back and take a million pictures and play in the water more.
i have a bunch of pictures that i want to share but the internet at the house only half works and i already had a super hard time getting my chicken picture to upload. i will share them as soon as i get a chance to go to either the coffee shop or tattoo shop...
oh ya and i almost forgot to mention i did end up going to babes on saturday. it was fun. i danced a whole bunch. i met a girl. she wants me. i saw a huge drag queen. huge. like 7 feet or something. i danced some more. there were some cute girls there but its hopeless to makeout with any of them because lesbians are always in pairs. trisha is right. there arent any cute single lesbians. some scary older woman tried to dance with me too... whats that about?
ok. i am going to sleep now.

loves.

hens and chics.

soooo i got a new tattoo today. its really cute. its a mama chicken and two chics. i will post a picture in a day or two.
i love it.
so my first week of work is over. yay. it felt like the longest week ever. i kinda hated my job the first half of the week but now i feel like i have settled into it a little bit and its not really that bad. i think i am going to try to stick it out for a while. the guys that i work with are pretty nice so that makes it tolerable. the worst day i had was the day that i had to work alone all day.
i hate working alone.
alot.
we went to empire last night to celebrate alisons birthday and then we went to a party. the party was pretty fun, they had a fire going in the back yard. i really love bonfires. they smell so good. and it was nice because it was actually a little cool last night. im not sure what we are doing tonight but we were talking about maybe going to babes. i hope we actually make it there this time. i want to hang out with the lesbos.
i want to kiss the hot lesbos.
um ya so thats all really.

loves.
ames.

today is two weeks. woo.

ever have one of those days that you are unhappy with everything?

that day is today.

im not really sure what my deal is today but i feel like crap about a lot of things.

maybe its hormones.

im going to go eat myself into oblivion. that should help.

loves.

amy.

how many days has it been now?

day two of my job wasnt any better.

i got to use a chain saw that was pretty cool.

but i had to work alone all day.

and i got rained on. 

a lot.

and it stopped raining as soon as my boss showed up with my raincoat and lunch bag that i had left in the driveway at the shop.

and i got shocked by the pole shear.

and i got lost.

repeatedly.

and i had to stand on two fences to reach things that i needed to prune.

and i filled the entire back of my truck and have to unloaded it all by hand tomorrow.

im really excited.

and i am really tired.

and i think i am going to read and go to bed early tonight.

loves.

ames.

first day of work snack attack.

so i had my first day of work in virginia today. i didnt like it. is anyone surprised?

im not. i like working but i dont like working for crap companies that do a crappy job. i like to leave my stuff looking nice and too many other people dont care. 

i like to protect the environment. and try to make it nicer. some people like to make me spray chemicals all over the fucking place. 

alot. like gallons and gallons all in one day.

and gallons.

and it dripped on my butt and made my bandana all poison saturated. 

then i had to rinse it off with the hose and just use it anyway.

we only get paid every other week. and its this week so i wont get paid for three weeks.

im really excited about that.

any my work shirts are florescent orange.

the only good thing about my job is that i have one. and there is a mexican guy that can help me with my spanish.

i think i saw my first black widow spider today. if i did i saw two of them. i was scared.

im really tired. and i still have a towel on my head.

basically i am just going to have to have an i dont give a shit attitude about my job right now or i am going to hate it everyday and be miserable.

i had pb and j for lunch today and the j was raspberry jam that my mom made from berries she grew...

do you know how big my smile was when i ate my sammie today?

big.

i am going to go rest now. and rummage for snacks.

loves.

ames.

ps. none of my friends hate me after all.

pss. im not going to be moving to canada. yet.

holy hell i want a cigarette today.

so needless to say i was a little ridiculous last night. i did a good job of making my friends mad at me. maybe i shouldnt drink anymore... i dont really drink that much anyway.

if i crossed paths with you and was annoying last night im sorry. 

and thank god for zac. he was really super awesome last night. he rode his bike to where we were and then drove my car home and then walked back to his own house. and it was like 2 in the morning. he is really sweet to have done that for us. alison has some really good friends.

i saw some weird animal last night when i was out drunk walking. it looked like a skinny raccoon or something. there were 2 of them they climbed down out of a tree and went scampering into someones yard. they were too far away for me to really be able to see them good. but i want to know what they were... 

um ya i dont really have much else to talk about... its hot today. like a hundred. i talked to the neighbor and he works for a landscape company that is looking for help. that might end up being a good lead... 

we ate breakfast at joes this morning. it was good. the guy sitting next to me had done some hiking in maine. he asked me if i missed saying wicked.

um no i dont miss it. i still say it.

then we went to bring justin some food and the woman who was with the woman he was tattooing was going to visit maine this coming week.

everyone likes maine.

i kinda miss maine.

and my maine friends.

who like me.

i dont think the people here really like me yet. they will...

i hope.

loves.

ames.

ps. if anyone knows how i can stop being mean to people that i love can you please fill me in?

thanks.

dont even read this...im drunk.

so it is approximately 330 in the morning and i never want to drink again. apparently i am a big fucking jerk. i think i am funny and it has become clear that im not. i am starting to wonder if there is anyone out there who really gets me... anyone except alison. i cant date her so she doesnt really count. i made 2 friends mad at me tonight. one might not even want to talk to me ever again because i am such an insensitive jerk... i just want to talk and laugh and have a good time... apparently the middle of the night is not the time for that... two of my friends hung up on me... i am literally crying right now... what the fuck am i crying about? i guess i just want to make everyone happy and i have done nothing but piss people off tonight. even random dudes that i dont even know were rude to me... they thought i was on coke so they were trying to get some from me and then when they realized i wasnt they were big fat assholes. the only person that was nice to me besides zac (who is officially the nicest guy in the world) was some jerk ass dude that was hitting on me with his wife across the table from us. ok so seriously some scumbag dude told me that if i shaved my armpits he would get divorced so that he could fuck me... who says that? not only did it make me hate him for being such a fuckhead to his wife i hated him for being so vain that my armpits were that big of a deal. who gives a fuck about my armpits? hairy legs are ok. but for some reason hair in your armpits is repulsive... this seems extra ridiculous to me coming from someone with hair in his armpit... what kind of stupid double standard is that? people are so fucking retarded. i think i am going to move into a cave in canada. and eat worms.

how does that song go?

nobody likes me..

everybody hates me.

i guess i will just go eat worms.

fuck.

drinking is stupid.

and so it this stupid state.

im going to try to sleep now but i dont think i will be very sucessful.

ames.

i dont believe in coincidences.

so i got my tattoo steve yesterday right? well on my walk home i was checking out the plant that i posted about a couple days ago. i think it is called devils trumpet or something. anyway so i was noticing these cool prickly seed things. i stopped and took a couple pictures.

and then what do i see? right under my nose?
STEVE IS THAT YOU?!

needless to say i was really really excited. i called my mama and was telling her all about it. he had these white rice looking things on him back and i was telling her about them and how i thought they were eggs or something and my mama told me they are eggs but not nice ones. apparently they belong to some kind of parasite that eats them from the inside out. i was really upset about it and took him off the plant so i could pick the bugs off him... they came off really easy but all the ends of the egg things were open and they were empty so i guess i was too late. i am pretty sad about it but i still think it is really cool that i found steve on the same day i got his tattoo...
while looking for pictures online to use as reference for my tattoo and she found this cool black one... i didnt even know they could be black. it must be a different species or something.

i have an interview this afternoon. i am hoping that it leads to me working. i really need to start working. my bank account is looking sad. really sad. but my security deposit check should be coming soon and that will help.
i hate having a car payment. i hate cars. i dont even drive mine really. its just a big expensive pain in the ass. the only thing that makes me feel better about it is that i get good gas mileage.
um ya anyway. so i guess we are going to babes tonight which is the local lesbian bar. i am pretty excited to go. pretty much all my friends in maine are gay so i think that i will feel a little more at home there... i dont know. maybe not since i still wont know anyone...
i am starting to sweat through my shirt. it is hot in my car.

loves.
ames.

steve is that you?

so i got a tattoo today. we just did the outline and we are going to color it in in a week or so...
in classic amy style i documented the process with my craptastic broken camera.
this is my hairy leg before alison shaved it and made me take off my anklets...

this is the stencil.
exciting picture huh?

this is me lounging trying to act like it doesnt hurt.

alison is action.

ta da! this is steve all finished up.

and this is it with its fancy bandage.
we re-outlined my alien too.
his legs were all faded and sad so we decided to fix him up while we were right there...

so ya. i still havent found a job and the honest truth is that i really havent been trying. i need to stop being such a slacker but i kinda like it. i dont have to set an alarm. i can stay up as late as i want. i have mostly just been wandering around richmond screwing around. i would like to find some good dumpsters to rumage in too. i dont know where to find them though. i need more friends around here.
richmond is full of cuteness too. i have never seen so many cute people all in the same area. its awesome.
in other news i was finally able to poop today. a little. too much cheese and not enough tobacco put my poops on strike. we are working on the negotiating now. i have offered them more water but they want a safer working environment and i just dont know if i can give that to them.
um ya.
im lame.

loves.
ames.