ready for the damn fourth of july!!

so, you know how you make plans to do stuff and then forget about it because you made so many plans to do so many things that you can't possibly accomplish them all? for the last couple of years, i have been saying i wanted to go to ketchum on the 50th
anniversary of ernest hemingway's death.

well, now it's here. and i am approximately 351 miles away. all things considered, i am pretty close. i was really close to ketchum about a month ago when i went to ranchfest, 45 or so miles from ketchum. i coulda stayed, but honestly i kept forgetting about it. but i am not forgetting about willie's 4th of july picnic next year! i have been putting that off for years and years and years. next year is it for sure.

so, i am in here, in la grande celebrating hemingway in my own fourth of july way. glad to be off work, like never before. let me just drop for a sec about how bad work sucked last week.
monday was a fairly draining day and i wasn’t exactly feeling like walking home. it's a constant internal dilemma. do i hate driving to work more than a hate walking home from work? i often try for the best of both worlds, walk to work and then beg for a ride home. graciously, a co worker gave me a ride home monday, fortunate because there was no way i coulda made the walk. or could’ve i? i get to my front door and realize i left my keys at work! check the sky to make sure rapture is not happening... then i start hoofing it to retrieve my keys. got keys, walked back, an hour later passed out hard! when I woke up, i looked in my wallet and saw my spare key. shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!! needless to say, i drove to work the rest of the week.
tuesday, thanks heavens i already forgot everything about tuesday.
wednesday, hmm. got spit on, screamed at and whatever else I have to take all in stride for 8 damn hours and ended the day by (and i'm not kidding here) wading through days old piss with a mop. needless to say, i was really happy to go home on wednesday. got a nice shower, head to the refrigerator and notice it was open a couple of inches. apparently it was that way all night. my beer was warm. bloody hell! kick, ouch! crap! went to bed.
thursday, don’t even get me started! let’s just praise hail that my beer was cold.
friday was not a bad day, until the part where i got mandated for overtime, and then got assaulted and screamed at for a couple extra hours. and then got a reprimand for being late to a shift at the beginning of march! and because i got off work while our timekeeper was out of the office, i don't get my paycheck until next tuesday because like hell i was gonna wait around a second longer.

needless to say, the weekend is well welcomed. started out hiking and going to walla walla with panda. and now, get to la grande for your weekly entertainment. live it up with the fourth of july special! a few patriotic songs, a few not so patriotic songs and a few songs by these american legends, among others!!! let’s rock!!!! and i love playing requests!