Bummed

I am so bummed! I got all the way to the airport tonight before finding out that my tickets were screwed up (even though I'm sure I had it set for the 14th when purchasing them) and my flight is set for tomorrow night at 9:50pm. Delta wouldn't put me on one tonight because I didn't buy the tickets from them directly, and would have charged me $700 to do so... Expedia wanted to switch me to United for early tomorrow but it would have been another $800 plus a $150 cancellation fee for Delta. The whole thing is screwed up.  If I'd have bought the tickets from Delta and not Expedia they would have helped me-and now I have a sour taste for them both.  :(

So here I am drinking wine to make myself feel better about losing a whole day with Mr. Bingo.  I'm so very sad.


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I Confess to Spending 3/4ths of My Savings...

I confess that I was told my iPhone would be here in 21-28 days by the Sales Representative at AT&T, their confirmation email said it would be 14-21 days, and I received it in 7.

I confess that after I picked up the iPhone Wednesday night, I went to Apple to buy AppleCare and was told that I needed to have Lion or Mountain Lion installed on my MacBook in order to use the phone with it.  Seeing as I still have the old black Macbook from 2006 that is running Snow Leopard (and probably can't handle updating to the latest OS) this was frustrating.

I confess that I then spent over an hour contemplating whether or not to buy a new MacBook Pro. Which is something I've been contemplating for MONTHS and always talking myself out of because I like seeing that nice and large savings account....  I was also talked off the ledge by Kristina, Julie, and the roommate about it...

I confess that a different Apple sales rep may have told me that it was possible to work with my old computer with some extensive updating and work arounds.

I confess that by that time I'd already talked myself into the laptop.  So I just bought it.  Goodbye 3/4ths of my savings...  Which was stressful, but also a little exciting.

I confess that when I look at my new MacBook Pro, then look at my old black MacBook, I feel a little sad.  That little black one is running so well still after all these years-it has so much spunk!

Other confessions about this whole MacBook situation:

• I haven't hardly even played with it because it took so long to set up and I've been so crazy busy running around all week!
• My new iPhone 5 is not much different than my 4... Though I will use the hell out of the new and better camera, and I'm glad it's faster.
• I'm super excited to finally play that Sims 3 I purchased over 6 months ago...

I confess that I am SO ready for the CFPU Howl-O-Ween benefit to be over.  It's going to be AMAZING, and we have created something spectacular-but it has been SO much work.  I'm sure I'll do it again next year though-I hope more people come!

I confess that I set an alarm for myself in the mornings so that I don't take too long of a shower... You know you are stressed when that alarm goes off and you realize you've been standing there for 10 minutes not washing, but thinking over your To Do list...

My To Do List:

• Pick up gift bag stuff from Big Cartel
• Pick up gift bag stuff from Paw Paw's Dog Wash & Boutique
• Call Mandate Press again to see if they still want to put something in
• Pick up The Park Cafe's & the Utah Opera programs from Catherine
• Pick up Cottonwood Animal Hospital's stuff from Ashlee
• Pick up the CFPU stuff and the printed bags from Mikhale & CJ
• Stuff all 150+ bags once I have all of the stuff (my Friday night will be so thrilling!)
• Swing by the mall to get a screen protector and case for the new iPhone
• At the mall grab a little top hat for my costume
• Go to the theatrical makeup store for red stage makeup
• Put my read dye in my hair
• Go to the Farmers Market (EARLY tomorrow) to pass out event flyers
• Pick up remaining donations from Ashlee's house (3pm tomorrow)
• Set up the event (3:30pm-6:30pm tomorrow) 
• Have the event (7pm-11:30pm tomorrow)
• Clean up the event (11:30pm-2:00am tomorrow)
• Die.  The end.  Ha! 

I confess that I'm still contemplating whether I can fit in October Fest tonight with my friends for dinner, but right now I'm leaning towards no... haha.

What do you have to confess?

It Was Rough-But I'm Lucky

So far, this week has been awful for me.

Monday:

I woke up to find out that my nose piercing has become irritated and I now have this awful little bump on it.  Went to work and forgot to eat so by the time I got off work I was not only sick from no food, but also sick from researching what could be wrong with my nose.  I was also an hour late getting off work due to two difficult customers keeping me over, then I there were two traffic jams on the freeway.  I managed to make my way off the freeway just before I ran out of gas, then took State Street home just stopping to buy some Witch Hazel and Saline because that is what the internet recommended for the piercing "infection".

I decided to stop at the piercing salon to see what they had to say, and they said it was NOT an infection-but an irritation because the piercing had been moved too much and my skin was swelling and reacting.  She said to leave it completely alone, even stop cleaning it, and if it didn't start to go down after a month then we'll take the stud out, let it heal, and re-pierce.  :( A MONTH? I have to live with this thing on my face for a month and there wasn't even anything else I can do to fix it? I think it looks awful... By the time I walked into the house I was in tears.

This is my "I'm seriously angry at this bump" face.
Don't judge me. :P

The roommate quickly assured me it wasn't at all noticeable, and we went to get beer and pizza for dinner.  Our plan was to spend Valentine's Day watching gory horror movies, drinking beer, and eating pizza.  We went to a local place because I wanted to get their garlic knots, but we forgot to order them and so I was disappointed (but dealing) with that-when I got home and found out they completely screwed up my order.  (Have I mentioned yet that it's that time of the month for me-so all of this felt like a complete and utter disaster????) Damn.

Tuesday (today):

I'm assuring myself that today is going to be a better day, and just as I start going through the severe constructions on I-15 my tire completely blows and the entire car is shaking.  Of course this happened where there is no shoulder on the road, so I had to keep driving on the rim until I found an exit.  It just happened to be the exit before the one I needed.  

I wish I'd gotten a picture of mine
This isn't it-but it's closest to what it looked like.

Except my hubcap was also shredded, and my rim was all rusty.

Luckily I made it off the freeway and pulled over on the 5th south AF exit. I choked back my tears, flipped on my hazards and called my grandpa (about 40 minutes away) to explain what had happened.  Then I called my boss who was just pulling in at work and turned around to come pick me up.  

Grandpa gets the car, puts on a new tire and grandma is following him in his truck but he loses her... He gets to my work with the car and it's one new tire, explains that he has a second tire for the other side because it's going to go out soon too, but we can't find grandma and the truck anywhere. We looked for a while, tried calling (but she let her phone at work) and in the long run he decided she must have just gone home so he took my car on home to find her and the other tire. 

Except he calls me to tell me that she's not there.  So we start to worry big time.  See grandma had brain surgery a while back, and while she's a lot better now-she's still not quite her pre-surgery-self and we tend to worry a lot more than before.  So I stressed for about 40 minutes until Grandpa called to say she'd finally just come home.

I am SOOO lucky for such an amazing grandpa and grandma who rushed out to take care of my car while I continued on to work, and I'm also VERY lucky for the worlds best boss who would go out of his way to come pick me up-and offer me a ride home (which would be a bit out of his way) after work. Also,I'm lucky for a great friend like David who is picking me up after work, extra coffee in hand, and driving me to my grandparent's house so I can get my car.

I really am surrounded by the greatest people. 

I HATE QWEST

Oh, BTW, I'm going to start my letters tomorrow guys.  I like the Sept. 1st idea.

I just have to say...

Qwest Qworst, you can rot in hell.

Seriously, I hate them with a fiery burning passion.

After all the crap we had, and found out they were charging us for 7 but we can't even push 3 through our pipe, and then them saying they'd credit us back for the charge, they just changed their mind and said "Oh there's no different in price between 7 and 5 MB.  

EXCEPT WE AREN'T EVEN GETTING 3 MB THROUGH OUR PIPE WITHOUT ERRORS!


Even if we were getting 5 through the pipe now (which we are most assuredly not) then I think a refund is STILL in order for all the months we had the crappiest internet ever cutting in and out because they were tyring to push 7MB in an area that it isn't even supported.


They are lying, cheating, bastards.
Unethical.

I will be reporting them to the BBB.
As well as posting on every forum about the hell they've put us through.


I'm also switching to Comcast, like today.


Also, friends, I highly recommend you do not do business with a company who openly lies and steals from it's customers.  Their OWN EMPLOYEE, the tech that came to our house, admittedly told us to switch to someone else because of what they're doing. 

Qwest Internet: The Biggest Rip-Off.

Anyone who is my friend on Facebook, or who follows me on Twitter may have noticed a lot of posts complaining about my internet being down.  Over and over again, it was the same old story.  It would work for a few minutes, or an hour, and then go down for a few minutes, an hour, or even a day.  It constantly cut in and out, and I was constantly frustrated with it.  I used Comcast a few years back, and NEVER had this problem with them. 

I rebooted the modem on several occasions, tried different wireless routers, and have even power cycled everything over and over to no avail.  The Roommate called them, and after several times being disconnected from their service (whether it was being hung up on, disconnected, or both) the tech finally said they would reset it on their end.  It worked for about a week before it started failing again.

When I worked at the bowling alley in Roy our internet was always down, and I remember good old Bob (the owners dad and our in-house IT) saying "Qwest's slogan should be "We're down more than we're up!" as well as when I lived with Ken and Kristi in Layton our internet (only like 1MB there) constantly crashed or would move slower than cold tar.  Kristi and Ken have since gone with Comcast in their new house, and haven't had hardly any problems with them.

I kind of knew we shouldn't have gone with Qwest, but it was slightly cheaper and we figured since we were in a more populated area this time that it would probably work better. WRONG.

What I didn't expect is to be paying for something I wasn't receiving, let alone something that ISN'T EVEN OFFERED IN MY AREA. 

I'll get back to that in just a moment.

Now this time when we called in to Qwest's technical support to fix the issue the tech ran us through the same old song and dance, and then told us a technician would be coming out to our house Sunday to check the lines.  They also said that if he had to come in the house to check the lines they would assess us a fee of $85.  At that point we decided that if they asked to come in and charge us that, we would cancel and use that $85 to switch to someone else-because we had a good feeling this wasn't an issue that was in any way our fault.  Boy were we RIGHT!

The technician came out and checked all the lines, and then came in and spoke with the roommate about it.  Apparently, while they've been charging us for 7MB, IT ISN'T EVEN OFFERED IN THIS AREA.  That's why it was crashing so often, because the lines couldn't handle them trying to push it to us and it was failing.  The tech called in and got them to switch us down to 5MB, and then 3MB, but both still provided errors on the line when pushed out.  When The Roommate said "Maybe we'll just go with someone else..." The technician replied "I would."

So for about eight and a half months, we've been paying for a service we weren't being provided.  This was not just because of technical difficulties, or user error-IT WAS BECAUSE THEY CAN'T EVEN OFFER WHAT WE WERE PAYING FOR IN OUR AREA.  Of course they knew that before, seeing as they know where they offer stuff and where they don't. 

So tell me, how is this not stealing from us?  They couldn't even push 3MB through our lines over here, they KNOW they don't offer 7MB in our area, so why when we called in to sign up would they let us sign up for 7MB and then proceed to try and send it through the line crashing our internet repeatedly?  Are they completely incompitent and don't know what they're doing?  If so they shouldn't be in the internet business, and if not, THEY'RE CROOKS.  Quite literally.

So we will be calling and canceling our Qwest internet and taking our business elsewhere.  We will also be asking for a refund, not only for the amount they've been overcharging us; but for all the time it's been down and we couldn't use it, and maybe even our modem that they charged us $100 for.  We would never have even gone with their service had we known we would only be getting 1MB.  If they don't refund it, well I think I'll be calling "Get Gephardt" our local TV guy who exposes scams.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Lost Blogs, and Backups!

I have heard of SO many people losing their blogs lately, and it made me nervous. 

So, I backed up my blog, and I'm going to share how with you!

You know, because I love your face, and I don't want you to lose one single post!

If you have Blogger; you can back up your blog by going into your "Settings" under the "Basic" tab, and clicking on "Export Blog."

Then, just click through the steps as prompted and save it to somewhere on your hard drive.  I recommend someplace safe that you'll be able to find just in case Blogger (or something else) loses your data.  That way you can just import your information and have it all back! 

Wordpress Backup How-To

LiveJournal Backup How-To

Also, since we all know that hard drives can fail (my 1TB external is now clicking-ARGH!) I recommend backing it up to an online backup solution or saving it somewhere else as well.  Personally, I backed mine up to Mozy, which is awesome.  You can get Unlimited backup for only $4.95 a month (This post is outdated, the pricing plans have changed), or you can get 2GB free. 

I've used it for years, and I love it.

Good luck everyone, I hope your data is safe! :)

Other Drivers Can Really Suck

Is it totally horrible that driving gives me semi-homicidal tendencies? Not only because someone is going SUPER slow in the fast lane (which happened today) but also for trivial things like stupid flowery licence plate covers (the same car that was going too slow in the fast lane). Is it bad that I feel bad for cars because they have completely lame owners?

Sometimes I see this white and pepto-pink bug. The other day, as I was turning out of Maverick (with my buddy Josh) I saw it, and I turned to him and said "Is it terrible that I want to hit that car just to put it out of it's misery?" To which he replied "Not at all. It's so ugly."

Also, I the other day with Matt we saw a black bug with red trim. That wasn't so bad, until you saw what was written in red across the entire black window. It said "Rich Bitch." Some stupid girl who probably bought the car with her daddy's money, actually put "Rich Bitch" on her car. It really screamed "Just key me."

I think personalized license plates are kind of silly too.

To be completely clear here, I would never do such things for real. However, that doesn't stop the urge because it's completely ridiculous.

Also, if anyone who reads this has any of these things... These are my personal opinions, and I love you all, even if I don't like your choices... Hehe.

But really, what do you all think?

P.S. Here's an ugly car for you to laugh at.

Writers Workshop: My Crush

It's time for the writers workshop again! Yay! I'm excited to be participating again and getting my creative writing juices flowing, hopefully soon I'll sit down and write my novel. Did I mention I started one? Yeah, I'm only a few pages in, but at least it's progress!

The prompt I chose was "Tell us about your crush,"

Can I start by saying that I do indeed have a crush? It's a marvelous thing, and it's also quite the angst, feeling this way. To feel this envy because someone has it and you don't... When it's so beautiful and does so many wonderful things for you? I will get what I desire soon!

*Sniffle* Isn't it pretty? Who needs romance when you can have an iPhone? You're very own perfect little electronic that goes everywhere with you and always loves you no matter what? Josh finally got his, and since I've been playing with it I want one even more than I did before!

I'm so getting one as soon as it is financially responsible. Well, that is if I can get over my crush guilt. That's the guilt I get when I look at my perfectly good phone I already have and it says to me "Why are you abandoning me for the new-more-shiny model?" Then I feel bad and think that maybe I shouldn't get one until this phone dies... Decisions decisions!

Life & Randomosity

Recently, I've posted a few deep-thought blogs, so I thought it was time for a life update. It seems like change is all around me right now, or more-so the stir in the air that comes right before change, almost as if I'm waiting for it. Today I moved some stuff into the new apartment. This is the temporary arrangement with Matthew, just until Josh is ready to move come August. It'll be kind of nice, I'll have my own room, but it will take A LOT to get used to being alone so often because Matt will hardly be there.

It'll be okay though, if I get to freaked out or lonely I'll just make the quick jaunt over to either Kristina's or Josh's, as I'll be about half way in-between both of them and they've been good enough to offer that should the occasion occur. My friends really do keep me sane; or maybe I should say they are as insane as I am so we enjoy every crazy minute of it together. Ca Marche.


Still no job, nothing has really presented itself so I'm surviving and getting used to finding things to fill my time with. Hey, I've even lost weight because I've been more active! There is an upside to every down, and the optimist in me is strong.

As for the glorious problem with my lappy, I ended up using superglue and a toothpick to pull out the stuck piece. I was still having the problem with the sensor at that point, however it magically started working a few days later. Go figure. I'm just glad I don't have to pay $700 to fix it, and I'm going to avoid plugging anything in there so it doesn't happen again!

I seem to be the anti-electronics person lately. After all the crap with the computer, my fan crapped out on me and various other electronic equipment has been fussy. Maybe it's all of my pent-up energy that's setting them all on the fritz... Maybe the "crazy" is spreading to the inanimate objects around me... Scary!

You don't even want to know about my love life right now, so it's probably best not to ask. (Shut-up Max. For reals.) Besides, I couldn't give you a straight answer on it anyway, I probably know less than anyone! Haha! All I can say is I'm getting used to Celibacy, but that doesn't mean I like it; it really doesn't. I thought about becoming a nun, for like a minute, but the whole "married to god" thing really scared me off. Can you become a commitment-aphobe when it comes to deities? Wait a minute... First, I'd have to believe in that religion to believe in that god... Well there goes that idea.

Oh well, we're all going to be Zombie's in a few years anyway, right? First fire ants, then animals, and then humans! I've decided that I'm okay with this outcome, I mean, what a way to die! "Hey Ben Franklin, how did you die? Oh YEAH? I got killed by ZOMBIES! Top that!"


I'm really contemplating going back to school and majoring in Psychology. I totally will when I can afford it again. Right now I'm so stressed about some of the debt collectors from my previous experience from school, and not being able to pay them, that I'm thinking of changing my name to Julio and jumping the border. Think I could survive in Mexico? Probably not. Damn, there goes idea numéro deux.

Oh! Got to meet a good blogging buddy the other day. I always enjoy reading his blogs, and he was friends with Josh before that, so it was nice to have dinner and meet. Check out his blog here: http://travelindav.blogspot.com He's a flight attendant so he sees a lot of interesting things and is a fun follow.

I think I'll go make a fun header for my blog now... Check it out, in a few days I might have something unique up there. Leave me some comments if you read, even if it's just to say "Hi! Stopping by!" or something, because it's always nice to know someone is reading! Loves!

Update!

Ok, so the doctors appointment with the Mac Genius did not end well. I walked out of the store feeling like I was going to be bursting into tears! It was so awful! They can't pop out the little metal piece because it's in an enclosed box with no back access. Therefor, I have to replace the entire soundboard. This is going to cost me either $700 in store, or $3oo if I mail it to Apple and wait for them to fix it and mail it back.

They told me to try calling Macdocs or another third party Apple repair shop, because they can make use of used parts instead of putting in new ones, so it should be cheaper. I called Macdocs, and they can't even give me a quote on how much it will be because it's $75 just for the diagnosis and the first hour of service. That bites. So for now, I'm soundless, as I cannot afford to get it fixed. I'm going to let Matt try getting it out with superglue and a toothpick. If it fails, I'm still in the same boat I was in before.

On another note, after all of that bad-day-stuff, Josh and I made our way to SLC for dinner and to try and catch the Star Trek movie since I had a pass for the early showing. However we weren't nearly early enough, so their was a very slim chance we'd get a seat, so we decided just to go wander around.

I took him by this house in SLC that belongs to Kristina's aunt and uncle, we're hoping that their attic apartment is a two bedroom, because they're going to be renting it soon, and it's almost perfect for us! Keep your fingers crossed!

After that we went to the gateway and did some people watching. We went into the planetarium and looked around the gift shop and stumbled across this little guy. (Look at the picture to the left) Isn't he cute? Guess what his name is! Gonorrhea. They're Giant Microbes and they're awesome! Josh got Herpes for himself, and Chlamydia for Angel! How funny is that? It totally made my day better, and even ended with us getting Slurpees on our way home!

Anywho, I'm determined to stop feeling blue about the damn computer and get out of the house today. I really want to go hiking, but haven't heard back from my friend that I invited to go. So for now, I'm going to go look at apartments with Matt, because he wants to move out next week.

Have a brilliant day friends!

Productivity & Optimism

Everyone knows how great it feels to accomplish something, and for the past two days I've been feeling nothing but productive. This is a good thing, because I have to make up for last week when I was both depressed and suffering from the flu, and thus didn't do hardly anything.

Yesterday I managed to take almost a full load of my stuff down to my grandmother's house. I'm going to store it there until I have a new place for it. The plan is to either stay with her for a couple of months, or with my current roommates a bit longer until I get a place with Josh. That's the move I'm super excited for, but we can't do it until he gets back from Europe, so until then my stuff (and myself) has to have a place to stay. We also managed to stop at IKEA and look around. That store has awesome furniture and appliances for pretty cheap! It's really nice!

Today Krisina and I managed to pack several more boxes, organize the entire garage, and fill the van with a multitude of toys and various objects for goodwill. I've been packing up a lot of Matthew's things for him as he's going to be moving out as soon as his VA money comes through and he can afford a new apartment.

Now I'm working through the mountain of laundry in my room and cleaning the kitchen, as my momentum is still going and I don't care to stop it!

So all in all, I'm feeling pretty productive. Well, or was feeling pretty productive until I sat down and broke off the end of the headphone adapter in the headphone jack of my computer! On top of that, the headphone sensor in the jack was already broken so that you can only get sound out of the computer if you have headphones or speakers plugged in. So, as for sound right now, I'm basically hosed! I am extremely frustrated with it, but being the level-head that I can be (on occasion) I made an appointment with the Apple store tomorrow to have them take a look at it and hopefully pop the little piece out and diagnose the previous sensor problem. This means, it may have all been for the better anyway, as I'm still being productive and getting something done! So tomorrow, Lappy will go to the doctors and hopefully be right as rain, and then I am seeing an early showing of Star Trek with one of my best friends! It should be a pretty fulfilling day I hope!

Hey! Did you see that? My optimism is back! It feels so good to be out of the drums and back to functioning, even better than functioning, order! I think my stars are changing, my friends, and it seems like not much can tear me down.

Writers Workshop: Tales of the Playground

It's Thursday again, and you know what that means! Yes, time for Mama Kat's Writers Workshop! Huzzah! The prompts this week are:

1. If I sent you four hundred dollars today what is ONE thing you would spend it on and why. ps I want my change.
2. What are your kids talking about?
3. Tell us about a local news story that's all the buzz right now in your neck of the woods.
4. Share some blogging advice.
5. Tell us about that time at the playground when that thing happened.

I'm going to write on all of them this week, just to have the challenge.

If I were to send you a hundred dollars today, what is ONE thing you'd spend it on? An iPod. I want one so bad that I almost can't stand it, I'd even settle for a used/refurbished one, and that's probably what I'll end up getting. They're giving away a few of them at work this week, and I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that I might actually win one.

All I know, is that if I have to spend much more time using this stupid RCA piece of junk, I might have a mental breakdown and end up throwing it through a window or something. It said it was a 4GB when I bought it, now it says it holds 1.98GB, but when I put music on it, it only gets to 900MB before it tells me it's full. I've formatted the thing several times, with absolutely no luck. I hate the stupid thing!

What are your kids talking about? How great of a Mom I will totally be one day if I ever get around to having them? How they can't wait to be here? Technically, that's called beyond the grave, because they don't physically exist yet. Trust me. I can most definitely wait.

Tell us about a local news story that's all the buzz right now in your neck of the woods. How about the 5th graders in American Fork (UT) who are being charged for sharing pornography with other 5th graders? There were two 11 year olds who pulled up pornography on the school computer, where it was supposedly "blocked." They're discussing charges of dealing "harmful material to minors" for both children. 3

Honestly though, they're minors themselves! Sure they should probably be reprimanded, but where is holding the school responsible for not monitoring the computer lab or properly blocking those sites? They're 11 years old, how can you charge them with something like that?

Share some blogging advice. Be yourself. Don't hide who you are because you're afraid of people reading it and thinking poorly of you, because if they do then they can bugger off. Be you and write about what you want to write about, because that is the only way you'll be interesting to anyone who should be reading it.

Tell us about that time at the playground when that thing happened. There are a few experiences here that I will share... When I was very young and in Kindergarten, I was hanging upside down from the monkey-bars when a bee landed on me and stung me on my lip! The prick from the sting startled me so bad, that I slid off of my perch and landed on my head in the damp cedar chips below. Bawling, I ran to my teacher who made me wear a band aid on my face for the rest of the day.

When I was in second grade my two best friends were Rebecca and Daniel. You see, Daniel and Rebecca were an item, but I had a big crush on Daniel. Though I'm not sure what chain of events took place exactly, I do know at some point little Danny ended up my boyfriend too. My visual mind still remembers holding hands on the swing set with him, and Rebecca sitting on my other side-not at all mad about anything. We just shared and never had any hitch in our little childhood friendships. Why can't it be like this when you're adults? It seems as adults we always have something to be jealous about, or something to be angry, upset, or to hold a grudge over. Children don't have these feelings until we teach them to feel this way. This seems extremely sad to me, how we corrupt their innocence with our own negativity.

In 5th grade there was this boy, his name was Chase. Chase was a bit of a bully, and used to pick on me quite a bit. By this time I was quite a chunky kid, and he could be pretty cruel. One day we were having a particularly nasty little bicker in class, so he waited for me on the playground after school to continue his teasing. What the dear little 11 year old failed to realize, was that I had been raised on a farm with a bunch of male older cousins that I had learned to emulate; I wasn't having it. That is the day, my tiny childhood fist met his tiny childhood nose. Suffice it to say, we were pretty good friends the rest of my time at that school.