greetings

hello my friends!
this is it. i knew it was inevitably inevitable, so i decided to embrace my destiny now while i'm still in my house bored off my rocker. that's right, i'm blogging -- not because i need to, not because i really want to, but mostly because "blog" is one of the coolest words in the english language. i really wish that blog was actually either some kind of exotic ice cream topping or a gelatinous monster maybe residing in the bowels lake byron, but i'll have to settle for this. it's quite probable that i'll get tired of it after a few days/weeks, but for now i'll do what i can. so here's the exciting happenings in my life of late.
so yesterday i visited some stellar friends from the town of madison, south dakota -- miss alishia salmen, miss jennifer anderson, and the infamous mr. john bergan. oh yes, it was a riot. much to my disappointment, we did NOT go on any crazy escapades like we did in the old times -- naked manning, ghost hunting, etc. -- but we DID eat horrendous amounts of food, watch a splendid johnny depp movie (benny and joon), and experience the fury of mario kart and the buttwhipping by john bergan thereof.
in other news, i picked up my horn yesterday for the first time since training. it was quite the unsettling experience. yes, when you take three weeks off, even after playing for six hours a day for five weeks, you're not as good as you were three weeks ago. dagnabbit.
anyway. i currently feel the need to go for a run or seven to make up for the pizza, ice cream, cookies, twizzlers, m&ms, potato chips, etc that i ate yesterday. aherm. so all you puddins have a splendid afternoon, and until next time, chao.