May 23, 05
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canada = stress
We had a shit time of it this weekend. And despite it all I still had fun. No problems at the border this time. That was a plus.
Our car broke down in Bellingham, Saturday afternoon, and luckily for us, some friends who were planning on coming anyway, had left seattle about an hour after us, and were already on their way towards bham when it happened. We heard this totally weird noise and it smelled like burnt rubber, and then our car over heated, apparently the belt that runs the water fan broke, so there's no way to run the cooling system. pretty fucked for us. We drove it to a gas station, and had to stop once on the way to let the car cool down again, fucking bellingham and those hills. Anyway, so we barely get it there, and ask the people if we can leave it overnight, they say thats alright and they might know someone who can help us get it fixed and to come back tomorrow. Man, saturday just started out GREAT. Thank god they let us leave it there, who knows what we woulda done otherwise. So we call our friend AJ who lives in Bham, and he picks us up from the gas station, and takes us to his house, where we wait for a bit and then Ben and his girl, Rachel come pick us up. So 5 people is really too much for a subaru. It gets cramped sooo quickly. Forget trying to navigate with 4 people giving directions. I don't know how we made it to 3 diff houses of homies in van, and surrey but we did. Thank god we didn't get too lost. That and my friend Ben, has a girlfriend,(Rachel) who's a total "young professional" wannabe, and like super grumpy and agro all the time. Wants to go out to these "trendy" dinner spots, instead of something reasonably priced. PHO. *Ahem* But, NO, she doesn't like pho, so evn tho the four other people, (ben, me, martin, and our neighbor ian...) wanted to have pho, we had to go to the cactus club cafe. It was loud and obnoxious, with these really drunk dudes yelling, there was nowhere to sit, we ate at the bar... and it was freezing inside the whole time. We go back to their TINY hotel room (we got ours for sunday...) and change our clothes, and are sitting there thinking (as per was the plan) that they are going to get ready and we'll go. But no, Rachel says we should take a cab. So whatever, we take a cab, Martin's all hella nervous and has been stressing the whole trip, about his set, about his website etc. etc. and its' getting to me and making me stressed.... Anyway, so we barely get to Fusion by 1am, and kicked it runnin around. Icey was tight. Joshthefunky1 was also sick, and BK fucking owned. Wish I wouldn't have missed JUJU, but I had ta watch ma man KILL it. :) Martin's set went really well. Seemed like people were grooving on it. So that was cool. Had a generally fun time at the show itself, however, canadian massives are ALWAYS just bazaar. When you see family's of people all fucked up and raving together, like 3 generations, its jus weird man. I don't know. We took a cab in the morning, and swear to god the driver kept giving me these weird looks, he definitley thought we were fucked up or something. All getting a cab, 3 kids, at 5 or 6 am... haha. We went and checked out our friends hotel room on Broadway, and dude, it totally pwned ours. Ours was about the size of a double bed. Theirs had a walk in closet, a huge bathroom, 2 BEDS!, (both doubles) and huge windows with awesome views. I almost cried. We smoked mad, thanks to a homie in surrey ;), and chilled until we could check into our hotel. So by the time we finally did we just passed the fuck out. I wanted to get up and see some people and say wuttup, but dude, it was just too intense. I was tired as fuck. We had to go back to Bellingham, leaving van at like 7:15 last night.... to find out what to do about our broke down car... and Rachel almost didn't even wait for us to see if we could leave it at this gas station, (who happened to have a mechanic dude living right nearby...) anyway, well she just wanted to drop us off there or something and be on their way. She was a total bitch the entire trip, and a huge pain in the ass. fuckingeh. I mean I'm sure this sounds like alot of complaining, but dude, I still had fun, I was still positive, not tripping about all this small shit. I am still glad we went. I don't think she is however... It was all very weird. I don't evr wanna kick it with that girl again. People who want to do ONLY the types of things THEY like and aren't open to doing anything out of their ordinary style, are NOT at all good for bringing on trips. Not to MENTION. There was this whole OTHER incident with our neighbor Ian, (who I am ALSO not going to travel with again...) Because he wanted to sleep on the floor in OUR hotel room instead of getting one of his own. I'm like LOOK, i haven't got to see my man in 2 days because we've had to be bringing you with us everywhere, and now i have 5 hours to sleep and you want to be ON THE FLOOR?! are you off your gord? He didn't ask ben and rachel to sleep on their floor, I can't even understand why he would WANT to... to save 50 bucks? Come on. Give me a break. Also, for some reason his card wouldn't work up there so we had to lend him money for everything. This didn't help with MY funds. ugh. I know its not a big deal, he'll pay us back and all, but what if I wanted to buy something? I couldn't because THIS guy didn't have his shit str8... I shouldn't evn be pissed about this, its stupid, he didn't have any control over the situation and i understand that. But then, to ask to sleep on our floor too? It's just sorta out of the question. Well he finally got his own hotel room, and a big sigh of relief came from me. I sat up for a bit while martin slept and smoked a doob and a cig, and went to sleep for about 4 hours or so. Woke up and ben and rachel were already waiting to leave downstairs so we had to hurry. By then it was 6:30pm yesterday and we had to mob out or we weren't going to make it to Bellingham before dark to deal with the rig. The hotel we stayed at? It was less than new... We went outside to smoke before leaving.... and there was a crackhead that came up to us outside yesterday... and he's all "GIVE ME A CIGARETTE. give me YOUR CHANGE". (looking like he was about to cry, and causing quite a ruckus in the street, yelling about his troubles) so Ben gives him some change and I threw a cigarette into his hand. We think he's going to leave us alone now.. Apparently not. He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a crack pipe. He's like "THIS IS MY CRACK PIPE!" and THROWS it on the ground right next to us and stomps on it. (It was already broken mind you.) way to go buddy, you proved to us what we already knew, YOU'RE A CRACK MONKEY. *shudders* that guy was creepy. Not as creepy as the guy who steps underneath the covering of the hotel, out of the rain, saying, 'it's not too bad to be stuck so close to such a pretty girl' and he smiles all freaky styl, and gets all in my face. I just about clocked him. Thank goodness for the hotel guy seeing it going down, and coming outside right then. The man left without another word. another wild trip to van. 
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May 23, 05
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Stellar, very stellar. Think of bad experiences as better stories to tell :D Although I probly would have clocked that rachel chick in the face long before the trip was over. I missed fusion.. boo.. what's the next party ur comin up here for?
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May 23, 05
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I know wut you mean about the money too.. I went on a trip to the island not long ago.. and my buddy's card didn't work (probably INSUFF FUNDS.. ) so he had to leech off me the whole trip. I swear he racked like 150.. then at the end was like, i dno.. its about 90.. or 100.. and since I couldn't remember everything we bought I had to just go with it. I mean, if ur gunna leech at least pay attention to all the things you get. Then i met up with him on a campin trip and he gave me like half.. and he's like, sorry I had to buy all this alcohol n shit lol FAWK!
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May 23, 05
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My old car would always have problems if I was trying to go to the states. It's like it knew or something. Once it completely broke down in Marysville... That's quite the story also (but I'll save you). Now I have a new car that takes me to America worry-free. Jetta is betta.
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May 23, 05
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car troubles was the main topic of this week. i smoked a curb fucking up the front right wheel, my friend Jer's mom got smoked in the back of his car. the next day a really close friend of mine got hit by a car while she was on her bike, old lady claimed she didn't see her. driving down to Shout some how (found this out later) that we got a whole about the size of a quarter in our oil pan and dumped oil on the highway and when we pulled over and stopped the radiator cap blew. let it cool down for about 15 mins, try to start it up but the motor won't turn over ................. engine has seized, up making the car worthless. so we ended up getting towed to Nan. had a great time at Shout then got towed back up island.
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May 23, 05
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Tough break! You were missed at TDM!
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May 23, 05
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GoodFlo - Coming up in 2 weeks on june 2nd for the weekend. Raekwon will RULE. lol... i hope. I'm crossing my fingers for better luck than this last trip. And, we are gonna go camping so we won't have to worry about freaky hotels in crack neighborhoods, cuz we'll be in the WOODS! haha. werd. And totally, FUCK that rachel girl... Cactus Club Cafe = MUCHO SUCKO. I am NEVR going back there... You walk in and it's like, WOW... these girls are SUPPOSEDLY from VAN... you wouldn't know it by looking at them. They look like they're from fuckin arizona or some shit. Practically GLOWING ORANGE they are so freakin fake and baked. Robyn - OF COURSE you do. Nev- Yeah i bet jetta is betta.... If i wasn't so poe i'd get one. Our poor toyota corolla has been through alot. It's nevr broken before, and its funny cuz we were JUST talking about that the day it happened. Guess I shoulda knocked on some wood or something. EVER- i HAD to go to surrey because i HAD to get some soulfood, you know, some collard GREENS. TV- dude. you musta been having a great trip too.. lol.. its' funny because we got to forget about the car for a day in between, which gave us more time to think about what to do, so we wouldn't have to get it toed... lol...
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May 23, 05
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May 23, 05
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on tuesdays you can get a bellini there for less than 3 dollars! that makes it kind of worth it. I'd take milestones over cc any day i think, i love their warm artichoke dip (free chip refills) and their brunch is actually delicious (good bennys! amazing french toast)
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May 23, 05
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ps- myra... 3 dollars, i could see it being worth it. but for dinner? on sat night? nahh...
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May 23, 05
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hahaha re: PS.
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