Cody's New Year's Rockin' Eve

2005 Sucked. Glad it's over. If anyone reads this, get really drunk for me tonight. Chia-Scooby update:

Chia-Dooby Doooo!

Well I made it through Christmas. The Christamas music show wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, the wosrt part was having to pick all the music out myself. At our party we did the secret santa thing and I got the new Office Space DVD and Ben Folds "Songs for Silverman." I was also right about who my secret santa was, of course it really wasn't a guess because someone told me by accident. Laurell and I also did the gift exchange thing. She got me a Chia Scooby-Doo. It's growing on my desk right now. I guess I'll bring my camera to work now and start doing updates or something. Overall, I guess this was a less depressing Christmas than it has been the last couple of years. It actually didn't even feel like chrismas, just Sunday.

I Should Did Change the Name of My Blog

I decided that I was tired of ripping off Dream Theater with the title of my blog. While I love their album Scenes from a Memory, I'm just tired of it. So, I pulled the inspiration for the new title from one of the worst writers of our generation, Henderson State University's sports information director Troy Mitchell. Never have I seen someone mangle the English language like this man. I mean, when you open a program at the football game and you have huge mistakes like putting "should" and "did" right next to each other. Here is the only example of his poor writing skills I could find on the HSU sports website: "More impressively is the fact that the Lady Reddies have yet to play a home game." Anyway, tomorrow is going to be a very painful day here at AFN Iraq. We are going to be playing Christmas Music all freakin' day. I'm going to make sure I bring a big bottle of pills to get me through my show.

The "Jesse James" Effect

I took a trip to one of the other bases on Tuesday, because Jesse James from Monster Garage was there taping the series finale of Monster Garage. They got some of the motor pool soldiers and used them for the build team. They gutted a hummer and put a huge engine in it. I didn't get to see the finished project, but did get to hear them start it up. It was very loud. I also got my picture taken with Jesse, however, there is a strange thing that happens when you get you picture taken witha celebrity; you subconciously try to be like the celebrity, even though it's not who you are. Jesse is sort of a biker-badass so if you try to look like a badass too, you just end up looking like a loser. Case in point. Overall, it was cool to get to meet him, and it was really cool that he came over to hang out with those guys. It probably made this whole deployment worth it for them. In other news, some ladies my mom knows sent me a couple of care packages, and one of them had the weirdest homemade trail mix ever. It started with Lucky Charms, then Goldfish, nuts and rasins. So far pretty standard, except for the Lucky Charms. The weird part were the Skittles. That's right they put Skittles in trail mix. I didn't try any, but I'm pretty sure it would have been terrible.

Case of the Mondays

I guess things are better now between me an Laurell. She's was being pretty short with me the last few days, but today she seemed better. I didn't spend much time in her office today, just a few minutes. I'm going on a trip tomorrow. More details after I get back. Sorry for the short post.

I'm a total jerk

I messed up again. The other day I was talking to Laurell, and I got my iPod out to show her some pictures. While I was looking through the photos I found one of a snake I had taken in Budapest a few years ago. Well, she is very scared of snakes, like jump back and scream scared. Even seeing a picture will freak her out. Well, I thought it would be funny, and I showed her one picture. "Here's a monkey," I said. I then flipped to the snake picture. "And here is this." It took her a second to process what it was, then she screamed and jumped out of her chair. Anyway, I'm pretty much on her shit list now. I appologized and she said she's better now, but I still feel the hate rays burning. I'm just going to avoid her for the next week or so.

Dissapointment, again.

So Laurell and her boyfriend got back together. And he's bought a ring. Even though I knew I didn't really have a chance with her, the fact that she was sorta single kept me from feeling guilty for flirting with her. I don't know what my deal is. I always fall for these girls I can't have. It started in high school with Barri, then a few girls during college, then Meagan, now Laurell. It's not like I'm in love with her, though, it was just nice to have someone I could talk to. I'm just really sick of getting my hopes up, only to have them smashed to bits.

I said over the weekend you stupid bitch!

Weekends suck here. There's nothing to do but go to the PX and spend money. And since they put a new coffee shop in the palace, I've been buying frappes like crazy. Please don't be offended by the title of this post, just quoting some Chris Farley.

A Conversation

Here is a conversation I had with an Iraqi busdriver the other day. Driver: "Sir?" Me: "Yeah?" Driver: "You have wife, kids?" Me: "Nope." Driver: "Sir?" Me: "Yeah." Driver: "I need wife. I need fifteen year old girl." Me: "What?" Driver: "I need fifteen year old girl." Me: "No dude, that's too young. Fifteen is too young." Driver: "What you mean?" Me: "Fifteen is too young, she a kid." Driver: "What?" Me: "That's a kid, a child, too young." Driver: "You mean too young here (cups breasts) or here (points to temple)." Me: "Too young here (points to temple). Driver: "Ah, well then I need two wife." Me: "No, man." Driver: "Why not? Me: "It's illegel." Driver: "What?" Me: "Illegel. Against the law." Driver: "Well, maybe in America, but in Iraq, you have one wife, two wife, three wife, four wife, but five wife, that too many." Me: "Well, two is too many for me." Driver: "Yeah, too much of this (makes that "hands talking to each other" gesture). Me: "Exactly."

Dime

I'm a total whore

I was looking at Wil Wheaton's site and thought, "Hey, I want pictures of music I listen to on my site." So, I clicked on one of his and found out he was on the Amazon.com associate's program. That made me think, "Hey, this is how I can get pictures of music I listen to on my site." And I signed up. I filled out some forms, and now I'm a total whore for Amazon.com. The bad part is that Amazon blocks external links to their pictures so it did no good to get the pictures on my site. But it's still good music/books/movies/TV shows so go ahead and click away, and buy some of that stuff.

I've Left You With Nothing

I'm really on edge right now. They oppened a new coffee shop and I had a triple frappe, then at dinner I grabbed some kind of energy drink and a Dr. Pepper. So that is probably the reason. And being a DJ doesn't involve too much energy so it's just bursting to get out. I let it slip that I got Laurell a present. I just can't keep a secret. But she keeps talking about wanting white chocolate, so I know I did a good job with the Godiva. She said she got me something, too, but only after I told her I got her a present, which makes me feel like she only got me something because I told her I got her one. Am I just overthinking that? Or would she have gotten me something anyway even if I hadn't told her?

I am Become Nerd

So, I changed the links over on the right. A small acomplishment, but it looks way better than "Edit-Me." Now I just need to learn some actual HTML. EDIT: So I went a little further and I seperated my links into "Cool Blogs" and "Links." I even added a Firefox button at the bottom. Nerd diggity doo, out.

Longish Day

So, once again it's my turn to pull the bullshit overnight duty. I'm also pulling my shift at the station right now. My boss let me wait until 5 to come in, but waiting that long was nothing but trouble. Having that free time made me bored, and when I'm bored I take trips to the PX, and when I go there I impulse buy crap I don't need. Like a Playstation. The thing is there was only one left, and if you don't grab one when you can, you'll be waiting a long, long time for another one. I was going to get a little DVD player back in September since the P'book's soundcard is dying and my netflix were starting to show up. And with the late shift I couldn't use the TV because the roommate is asleep. anyway, it takes forever for them to get cool stuff like that. you hesitate, and you lose out. Well, so now I have a new toy to waste money on. And of course as soon as Halo 3 comes out I'm getting the Xbox 360. All for now, I'm sure I'll write something later tonight telling you how bored I am doing the bullshit duty.

Just a Quickie

So, people finally started going on leave. That means it's only four months till I get to go home. Grrr. I've got that shakira song on right now. It's an ok song until she starts talking. I hate it when singers talk on songs. Just sing about what you wnat to say, otherwise write a book and read the audiobook. Ok, shifts over gotta run.