This 4th of July was probably my favorite. I went over to Tyler's house to hang out and play video games. About 30 minutes of playing games, my other friend, Mike, shows up and I challenge him to Soul Calibur 3. I beat both of them at it for awhile.

When it got darker, we decided to go use some fire worker that Tyler had. We also decided to try and destroy a crash test dummy toy with the lame fire works we had.

After grabbing the toy, fire works, and some matches, the fun really started. First we placed the toy on one of the fire works that just shoots abunch of sparks out. This pretty much melted its legs off. This was not enough for us though. We laid the toy on the ground and aimed three at it and set them all off. While they were shooting off, Mike decided to jump over them. After watching this, Tyler went to do it too, but during his jump they started going off like fire crackers and scared him alot.

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In our travels out west, my grandpa and I had planned on driving from Yellowstone out the south entrance and then go through Boise to visit my cousin Jeff and his wife sweet mom100 and their kids. I was so excited to see them and it was great to pull in there in our car that had driven all the way from Michigan out there. sweet mom100 had told me that Jeff wanted to know if I would want to go tubing down a river and I said sure.



So later in the evening before dinner (after Jeff bought some new inner Tubes), we all packed them in teh van and drove about a mile through his neighborhood to the local elementary school and we got to the river. Now we didnt think anything of the river, it being in a neighborhood. We didnt even really contemplate and about 5 adults didnt even suggest to take life preservers. This turned out to be a costly and scary decision.



So we get into the river and this river is ice cold, but eventually after many . . . Read More..

My friend Dania convinced me and her boyfriend and her sister to go see Michael Flattleys Lord of the Dance. I love the riverdance song and I really wanted to hear it live or whatever and the tickets were cheap so I decided to go. I wasnt impressed at all with the show. Mostly Dave (her boyfriend and I) made fun of it and tried to see just how bad the flutists were panamiming.

The funny part of the night was when everyone was trying to exit the parking lot. Not having anything to drink (I am just a weirdo like this). I ran up in front of numerous cars and stopped them dead in their tracks doing the type of Irish Jigging that was going on in the dance show. All of my friends couldnt believe their eyes at how freaking funny this was. The people in the cars rooted me on. I mean I wouldnt have done this had the parking lot not been jam packed. I love being random and doing weird things.

Before we left for a standard Taylor family party (including Mike,Patsy,
Sheila and Barb who havent signed up for memorycrawler yet), my mom reminded me that we should give Mike his old 1968 jacket back. This jacket was given to us probably because he moved a lot over the years. The thing is fantastic. It is super skinny, brown leather and even has a spot to hide your marijuana (remember its a hippie jacket). Since we were giving it back I decided to go all out and dress up like a total desuche bag hippie.

Just look at the photos. The funny thing about that day was the fact that newsie682 randomly wore a cowgirl type outfit.

I think I resemble Scott Wylat from Stone temple Pilots in these photos. It was pretty funny. I totally had an alter ego when I was dressed up like that.

On the day I had planned to ask Susan to marry me, I took her up from our friend Cynthia's cabin up to Mackinac island because it was only a few hours away from there and we wouldnt have to do any crazy driving to get there. We arrived at the island and she was super excited because this was her one vacation of the summer and it was just for a short amount of time.

We got to the island and the first thing we did was rent some bikes. She probably had wished that I had gotten the two seater so I could do all of the work. We began our bike ride going northwest on the island and about 10 minutes into it we saw my friend Eugene from work ride passed us. His girlfriend Allyssa yelled at me and they then biked toward us. I was very surprised that he took his girlfriend up there too. I was also worried that he was going to say something about us getting engaged because a few days earlier word had gotten out that I had purchased some bling bling.

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