Who Says Boogers Never Strike the Same Place Twice?

The sound of someone flicking their fingers will forever haunt me. Not only is it painful when someone flicks your ear, but I had a fairly disturbing experience while i was in Ukraine that is related to it. I was paired up with another missionary and he was an interesting fellow. One morning I got out of the shower and was getting dressed in the room. Parr was still lounging in his bed and as I turned my back to him to grab something off the dresser I heard a flicking noise like someone was playing that little paper triangle football game. Almost simultaneously I felt a wet sensation on the back of my neck. When i went to wipe the wet from my neck i realized there was a nasty little green blob on me. I turned around to find Parr inspecting his finger to see if he dispersed of the booger he had just flicked. I am pretty sure i have not been so disgusted in my life as I was at that moment...no wait, a couple of weeks later when the exact same thing happened again was the moment when i was the most disgusted!! "Really Dude?!" I exclaimed, "You have assaulted me twice with boogers?! REALLY?!" Turns out he wasn't aiming for me either time but, if he had been aiming for me, someone should award him one thousand disgusting points for being able to hit me on the back of my neck with two boogies. Aw heck! I will give him the points...your in the lead according to my count, Parr! :)

Don't Smoke Kids!

So the other day I thought i had an ear infection but it went away the next day. A friend of mine suggested i go out and buy an ear candle to clean it out just because it does a great job. So i went and bought one for each of my ears. Now they didn't come with instructions but i heard you were supposed to light them on fire and stick the not burning end in your ear. As we lit the fire i thought to myself, "I wonder who was the first person who said, 'hey lets stick this flaming rolled up wax paper in our ears and see if it cleans out the ear wax!'"



As it burned it occurred to my roommate to read online how to do an ear candle. So he looks it up and it says you need to cut the burned out part as it goes down. so my roommate took an oven mitt and a pair of scissors and proceeds to grab the charred paper and cut it off. the first cut went well until he got it outside where it burned a whole in the mitt. Then, a few minutes later he went to take a second cut. I asked him to be careful not to burn me. He looks at me, leans in to cut and then says, "I am not going to Burn you! Fool!" Just as he finishes "Fool" i feel a large piece of flaming paper hit my neck. "Whoops," he says. :) Can you see the red mark where i got burned?


The candles worked very well and i could hear much better. It was kinda gross to look inside...i probably wont do that again though...at least not for 6 months. That is how often the website told me to use them. :)

The Mexican Surprise

I woke up a little late this morning, left my room, rubbed my groggy eyes, and found that my roommate Andrew had felt ambitious enough to get down on his hands and knees in the bathroom to fix the rubber cove base that had come unglued from the tub. His butt was sticking out at me and so i thought it would be hilarious to point at him and say, "Hey sexy man!" Just as the words left my mouth a 40 year old Latino maintenance man craned his head around and asked "Que!?" Only then did it occur to me that Andrew would never be on his hands and knees on the bathroom floor to fix a stupid piece of rubber that had come unglued from the tub. I totally sexually harassed the maintenance guy. That is embarrassing. :)

Last night with Ben

My friends are leaving me here and soon i will be all alone. Josh left last weekend and Ben is leaving this weekend. Andrew leaves next week. what a sad time for me. Ben and i recorded this song tonight. Ben learned it on the banjo (a previously untouched instrument for him earlier today) and this song has been a favorite of mine for a while... Ok i can't get the stupid video function to work on blogger so i am just going to write about how sad I am that my friends are gone. It is hard because i know I wont get to see them for a long time. It is really good though because each of us are moving on to better things. I have been very inspired by my roommates and those around me to do more good things than I would have done on my own. I don't know how I could ever begin to repay them...although if they read this i bet they will ask for money as a start in repayment. :)

Pinchy? Are you in there little buddy?

So today i for lunch we went to Jumbo Buffet. This is primarily a Chinese buffet but they have several other types of food there as well. Every time i go i am surprised at the selection. This time i went in and for some rice and was startled by 100 little eyes staring out at me from the pan next to the rice. I was psyched out by it so badly that i was afraid to take one for fear that it was still alive. My uncle eased my fears and eventually talked me into trying one. I was hesitant still and as i pulled the tail off to get the tiny morsel of meat i decided that i don't mind eating any animal that doesn't look at me as i eat it.

ps...it tasted like crab...

Stolen gifts

Today i was reminiscing about my childhood. I thought about the time when i was 7 and a family friend of ours had scolded me sharply because i was pressing his ear and making his hearing-aid beep loudly. The blood rushed to my head as i got angry with him for not dealing with a curious child more kindly. I was such a sensitive little kid. I remember being so hurt by it. I decided to call my mom and talk about it with her because i thought it was kinda funny and i knew she would get a kick out of remembering this grumpy old man.
After i told her my story and we laughed about it she told me a story that was even better. We had him and his wife over for dinner one night around Christmastime. A few days later they gave my mom a Christmas present. My mom opened it and found that it was a little book that her sister had made for her. He had stolen the booklet and written in it and given it to my mom for Christmas. You would think that if he was going to be cheap he could have at least re-gifted a fruit cake or something... Come to think of it... I am not sure why we even liked those people...

Flight School

Well I have really let this blog get out of date. And what in the world was that last entry all abour anyways? Talk about boring!

I have some big decisions to make about my life in the next few days so i will hopefully get back to writing on my blog soon!