- Date: July 1st, 1848
- Weather: Hot
- Health: Good
- Next landmark: 31 miles
- Miles traveled: 616
- Paw has dysentery
- I shot a bear and two dear
- A wagon wheel broke
- I fixed it
- One of the horses died
- We ate it but I didn't because I am vegetarian
- Sissy died from Asiatic cholera, known as the "unseen destroyer."
- I, paw, and maw ate her as vegetables were scarce.
- Penned a song "On the trail again"
[ posted by anthony at 07/01/2008 05:26:23 PM ] [ link ] [ 7 responses ]
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Bucking the Trend
Last night, after eating dinner, I pulled up the website for Sallie Mae and proceeded to make the final payment on my student loans. I cannot express how stoked I am to have finally reached this point. If I had to do it all over again, I would have sunk more into my monthly payments instead of saving up and doing huge payments, with the exclusion of dumping entire tax returns into it.
This made me start thinking about how to appropriate my income in terms of paying off my only remaining debt of a car loan, but on a larger scale, what my net worth was at this point in life. I've thought about it before in context of renters insurance but never put more than a thought towards it.
Moreover, I struggle with the thought of dumping almost everything, including my job, and wandering the world, scraping by until I am forced to straggle home defeated and forced to find a new job. I doubt I'm alone in this fantasy.
[ posted by anthony at 06/11/2008 12:23:42 PM ] [ link ] [ 17 responses ]
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I miss you girl
Tonight my Mom called shortly before 7pm frantic. I was still at work. She was crying and told me to call the vet because Ginger all of a sudden just laid down once she got home.
She called me a short while later crying and held the phone up to Ginger and I got to tell her how much I loved her and how much I will miss her. My Mom says her ears perked up and that a few minutes later her heart finally stopped.
She was going to be 13 on Valentine's Day. My parents brought her home on Valentine's day in 8th grade. It was a rough year because I had just moved to South Carolina and they figured I needed a friend since I hadn't made any yet. That was the beginning of one of the greatest friendships I've ever had. She was there for me through some of the most down and out times in my life. I originally wanted to name her Zucchini. I was out voted.
In the past few years when I've been gone, and my sister's been gone, and my Dad's been working away from home, she was my Mom's best friend, keeping her company when no one else was around. I think the hardest part of this has been hearing my Mom describe the picture in her head of my grandfather in a field, wearing his coveralls, holding the hand of my aunt who died young, with Ginger by their side.
It will be eerily quiet the next time I go home and the jangle of her collar and tags doesn't greet me at the door. No one's going to paw at me while I sit trying to get me to pet her. No one will go for walks with me in the middle of the night or just be glad I'm sitting next to them for the sake of sitting. I sat in an a dark and empty conference room for an hour before leaving work.
I love you and I miss you and I miss you and I miss you
Ginger (1995-2008)
[ posted by anthony at 01/09/2008 03:19:26 AM ] [ link ] [ 14 responses ]
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Over Christmas, I walked the beaches of Lake Michigan. The winds cut across the water at over 80 miles an hour, and this was the result
I can't imagine not being able to escape the east coast from time to time.
[ posted by anthony at 12/29/2007 03:39:58 AM ] [ link ] [ 10 responses ]
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Every day I wake up, humming a song
It's Thursday morning, 4am.
A strong wind knocked my coffee over this past Sunday.
It was one of the most perfect days in recollection.
"The South is the only place in the world where nothing has to be explained to me."
--W. Wilson
[ posted by anthony at 12/20/2007 04:19:22 AM ] [ link ] [ 0 responses ]
