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This wendsday Cayla and i are going back up to lake erie on vacation! 11 days n nights at Saras Campground. Gonna camp on the beach, visit some sights, enjoy our neighborly company, enjoy fine dining, lovly sights, and rest and relaxation too. gonna see a movie too! Transformers: Rise of the Fallen!! cant wait for that too yay!  and lord knows i need a vacation. the stress is going to kill me i swear!
Got a nice bundel of cash saved up too. soooo much so that when i come back im going to have enough left over to pay cashy money for the new Beretta CX4 Storm i want!  gonna get the .40 caliber version. it takes the same magazines at the Beretta 96, and my Beretta 9000 pistol that i have also takes that mag, so both my pistol and future rifle will use the same caliber and the same magazine. convieniant! gonna order a 3 pack of the 20 rnd magazine's and get a box of 500 rounds of ammo too so i can shoot when i want.
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Sorry its been awhile. I've been real busy. We have a new schedual at work which has me workin Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday and off the other 3 days. im workin twice as hard physicaly but getting the same hours and pay, sounds familer huh? heh. So 4 days a week its home sleep work home sleep work and on my days off its video games and Cayla time. 
On the subject of video games, I got burnout paradise for my PS3 and its awesomely fun! i got all the DLC (downloadable content) for it including the latest cops & robbers pack. its a car vs car metal on metal battle for gold bars lots of fun with cameras and mics too! well the camera is fun til i realize now i actualy have to put on pants to play video games  damnit.
On the subject of Cayla, the first week of April was officaly our one year anniversary! we've been together for one whole year now wOOt sc00t n b00gie!
And on the subject of work, i also put in one year at Brueggers as well! and got my vacation time. 80 hrs (2 weeks) vacation!!!!! so on June 24th til July 5th (returning on the 5th cuz i gotta work that day) Cayla and i will be camping at lake Erie once more! 11 days and 11 nights on the beach. how awesomly awesome!!  im very excited. im trying to save up for it, i want my bank account to read 2000 or more before we go so i dont have to worry about money at all. im real close now.
On some sadder news, i got my teeth looked at finnaly. doc says 3 of em gotta go :'( right now one is abcessing like a motherfucker (what is it with me and abcesses?!) and thats coming out next week. i want it out and heald by the time i go to Erie cuz i want to have a relaxing vacation not a painful one the other two are gonna wait. one might come out a lil later this year the other i aint fuckin with til its a problem.
other than that its been pretty day in day out kinda stuff. sooooo yeah. until next time! keep on keepin on, keep that shiny side up the greasy side down, good luck & good truckin tonight!
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Well my last post said about my financial milestone. It got put on hold after my new car was inspected, turns out the tires on it were @ 4/32 of an inch on 3 out of 4 tires and 3/32 on the one. i passed inspection but was told id need 4 new tires within 3 months. He quoted me a price of 700 with the tires he had in stock. I thought to myself i paid 98 a tire for my pickup truck why the HELL would car tires be 140 a piece, as he quoted. Turns out with the sport version of any car... they require, you guessed it, sport tires; aka 'high performance'. So i tired shopped several tires, reviews, ratings, etc. The very next day I'm headed to work and an 8ft long piece of road debris, a steel, possibly chrome pipe or tube with fittings or clamps attached is hit by one vehicle, bounced off another, and sent careening at me at nearly 60mph, now with a v shape and flying like a boomerang. luckily for me i was able to use evasive maneuvers and professional instinct to avoid the debris but ended up running it over with the left front tire causing a blister in the sidewall. no cosmetic or structural damage to the vehicle or under-body, i was lucky. 
Lucky too that it happened BEFORE i got new tires. However my tire shopping was over, with that blister in the tire my hand was forced, i NEEDED new tires now. NTB quoted me a price of 800 dollars!!!!!!  w/ mounting alignment and the whole 9 yards. Pep Boys gave me a quote of 682 dollars with mounting, balancing, alignment, road hazard warranty (if the tire is damaged within the 50k mi rating they will repair it free. or replace at a prorated fee depending on tread-life). On top of that pep boys is 'home of the buy 3 get one free' deal. so i have a rebate for 112 dollars within the next 2 months or so. So in the end 4 tires, alignment balancing mounting 121 point inspection, and a bunch of other sweet stuff i end up paying 571 dollars. Which is a fantastic deal.
Now i got the pep boys brand tire 'Definity' VX700 which is actually made by Hankook (a racing tire mfg). So its their name on the tire but the quality and performance i would expect out of the company that produces it. smiler to the OE tires that were on my car, these are low-profile, high performance, UTQG 360 A A, V-Rated tires. For those of you that don't know what the fuck that means Refer to Here.
The quick explanation is that if i were to run my car at a high rate of velocity, which i generally do not do, nor advise, the tire would hold up. V is an alphabetical rating used by tire companies to dictate the speed rating of a tire. mine is rated at 149mph  , so basically i could cruise at 149mph without loosing handling, traction, or overheat my tires . anything above that would be dangerous and unrecommended. however i do not plan on running at that high rate of speed  , high performance tires come in H V and W ratings. i don't have much other choice. but its nice to know they can handle it if i had to run from some unknown danger. 
So what does this all mean  ? well i got 4 brand new high performance low profile tires on my car, and am out nearly 700 bucks. I'm down to 430 right now  . i got a paycheck of roughly that same number expected today so ill be back up to 800 by Tuesday afternoon, so perhaps by the end of march ill be back over 1000 again
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Well the holidays are over, i got some nice gifts. i got the zombie survival guide from cayla, an inside joke based on red vs blue; forbidden lego, a fun book about building guns and stuff with legos. a Con-Way racing hat from her mom, some gift cards. My mom gave cayla and i a nice coleman grill for camping this summer.
i got myself a 1TB harddrive from walmart to back up my computer on. its nice knowing all my important files are backed up in case of failure.
While others are recovering from money woes im making headway. i hit a financial milestone yesterday on payday when my checking account and checkbook both say i have 4 digits !! never in my life did i think id hold that much to my name but i finnnaly did it. and still growing =)
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Well on the 17th of december cayla and i enjoyed the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Concert live at mellon arena in pittsburgh pa. fantastic show, if you dont beleive me check out the pics on myspace, and the videos on my youtube page that i shot there,. deffenitly worth going to see. makes christmas time fun again!
currently im spending the week over her house for the holidays. unfortunitly i am working christmas eve, which sucks. wonder if the bakerys will leave me milk n cookies probably not anyways...
i got a beautiful stainless steel ring from cayla with the words 'love my gear jammer' engraved inside  a very special gift if i ever got one hehehe.
in other news alot of drama going on wher ei work so tomorrow im going ot give conway a call and see about working there. this 0 a week crap aint cutting it. i need better pay, benifits, and such. so im gonna see about applying there asap.
and besides that not much else to report, hope everyone has a nice holiday and is safe, no eggnog then driving. be safe out there.
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Sorry for the lack of updates. I've Been moving from Pittsburgh to Mars. Between the move, getting things sorted, organized, and the like i've not had time to post. sorry! I'm all moved in now, go to myspace to see pictures of the new house and my custom Ford/Ford Racing themed bedroom as i post a ford 'weather station' clock w/ temp and humidity is on its way to compelte my room !! one more item remains. a ford blanekt for the bed. thats next =)
Also you will find me on the PS3 playing Socom: Confrontation ALOT. and when i am not doing that im spending time with my beautiful fiance.
holy crap! i just realized in the lack of updates i forgot to mention we got engaged . I took her up to the same place where we met on mt washington, used a crafty diversion to make her look away, and when she turned back i was down on one knee, in front of everyone that drove/walked passed, and proposed. needless to say she said yes =) (picture of the ring is on myspace). so yeah im engaged now, and the wedding is currently set for 2010. hopfuly i can afford it by then. if you dont get an invite to the wedding, dont be offended, i aint got much money, im payin for the wedding, and cant afford a big one, sorry.
I got my desktop set up in my room at the new place, bought a new keyboard cuz due to the setup it was near impossible to see the keys so i got a saitek cyborg keyboard. its real neat it lights up in several differnt ways. look it up to see what im talking about. i got the keys set to green right now and a lil bit of red on other keys. im using my saitek eclipse II keyboard for my ps3.
nothing too exciting has been going on since i last posted other than the move. so yeah not much ecitment here! haha  anyways. thanksgiving is coming up, which will be nice. spending at her house with her family in pittsburgh (30mi south) for a few days. then back up to mars for 2 weeks, then shes going back to pittsburgh for 2 weeks for christmas, and then new years day she will officaly move up here with me for good which is great cuz living with her is so amazing. she cooks me dinner, does the dishs, and when im at work she sleeps on my side of the bed to keep it warm so when i come home i have a nice warm bed to crawl into. i love her so much
the other day i came home and she wrote me a sweet love poem and put a red rose with it to surprise me =) she used one of the roses from the bouqet that i bought for her the other day. worked a 14 hour shift and then decided to buy her roses to surprise her when i came home right now shes giving me a back massage cuz my back has been bothering me alot latly.
oh and speaking of Cayla, we finnaly decided on a song for us. I want to know what love is by foreigner. it really speaks to/of both of us. it fits so well
well thats all i have for now. ill keep posting intermitenly and when interesting things happen. peace out!
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