Thoughts on Kammi Kangas Part 1.

Today is my one year anniversary with the lovely Kammi Kangas. I have quite a lot to say on the matter and will be making this into a two part sequence with the conclusion coming tomorrow. Tomorrow is your birthday! Two things we will be celebrating together for the rest of our lives.

Yes there it is for all the world to see! I am completely head over heels in love with you Kammi. I hope you enjoy reading this.

While this is the one year anniversary of us dating it is not the first year of our relationship. You were there when I first entered this world, right across the street in Burnsville, Minnesota. And while my memory of those times is lacking (see non-existent), I have gathered from stories and pictures that we were very close then. I know this is true because of the instant comfort I felt being with you when we reunited. Even as toddlers we were drawn to each other. The only conclusion I draw from that is you are my soul mate. You are the person put on this Earth that I am meant to be with. Besides all of that, you are the person put on this Earth that I want to be with. All of our beautiful history aside you are the one for me. I have thought about what would have happened between us if my family had not left for Montana. I still believe we would be together but I will never know for sure. What I do know is that both of us grew up separate of each other, we had many experiences and trials in life without each other. My experiences before meeting you have shown me just how bad the world can be and frankly they left me in a pretty negative place. Your reentry into my life changed everything. You showed me just how wonderful the world really is, your love and care rid me of all that darkness and anger. I also know that with you supporting me I could face any challenge life could possibly throw at me. I have this feeling that I won at the game of Life. This feeling that no matter what happens, as long as I have you then I am in the right place. In the exact place that I want to be and the place that is best for me. You give me a reason to keep pushing through anything, you are the light at the end of the tunnel! I LOVE YOU! You love the things about me that I dislike the most, you build me up and support me. You could not possibly be a better girlfriend to me.

Distance has a major factor during the start of our relationship but you did everything you could to make it irrelevant. You have clocked thousands of miles driving to come to where I am, to be with me. You have shown time and time again your dedication to our relationship and I love that about you. I can't help but feel bad for the poor Mazda, making all those trips to Madison from Menominee and eventually Minnesota. We have also had our arguments and fights. No relationship is without them. But the way we settle them is another reason I am so in love with you and this relationship. You are always willing to work things out, and you never stop loving no matter what. I know we can get through anything together. I haven't even begun to talk about you and the things I love about you. I could never list all of the small caring things you do for me that are so important to me. The little gestures like getting me a coffee or picking me up when it's rainy really get to me. Makes me know that you are always thinking about me, thinking about ways to make my day better. Better then it already was just from having you in my life. I love that I can come to you for advice about things outside of our relationship. You always help me see through the bullshit and show me the best course of action. Despite what you might think,  I do take your advice, very often in fact. It is always the best advice, and following it has always served me well. I love the notes you leave for me, I love the sweet texts you send me. I love the way you take care of me when I am sick or feeling down for whatever reason. I love spending time with you. It doesn't matter if we are out on some adventure or sitting at home watching Big Love or Entourage. I love every second I spend with you.

I am left with this feeling of complete and utter bliss. I can see my life laid out in front of me and it is a life spent with you. I will always love you, and will always be with you. I will always do as much as I possible can to make everyone of your days special and enjoyable. I will fill your life with love like you have filled mine this past year. I will take care of you no matter what happens. I will go with you where ever you need or want to go. The most important thing in my life is you. My main goal in life is making you as happy as you have made me. Getting you to feel the overwhelming feeling of joy that you make me feel. There is much more to come but I have lots to do before you get home from work. I will end, for now with my favorite words.
I love you Kammi Kangas!

Thoughts on Starting Over

Oh boy, here I am again on the good old blog. I must say the site has changed quite a lot. Google scares me when they make stuff so crisp looking and user friendly. I dunno. Christmas Break has been pretty great, adventures in Utah and Minnesota and moving Kammi to Madison also! I am excited and scared for classes to resume, going to be a busy schedule. I am guessing that I am setting myself of to fail at this blogging thing all over again. It seems like a good idea now, when I have almost no commitments but I guess we shall see. I got a lab job this semester, working on viruses and cancer and all that goodness. I am super excited about the chance to get back into the lab! In a way my lab career is "starting over", and I am super thankful for that. I am super thankful for just about everything in my life. I think the main reason I stopped blogging was that I have nothing to complain about. I am perfectly happy with everything in my life. Kammi has moved to Madison and got a really good job, I have a lab job and school is going well, my back is working perfectly and I am no longer in New Jersey. All and all things are going swimmingly.
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I can always just talk about politics and what not. Since my last blog post I got a smart phone (Droid RAZER MAXX) and often find myself spending way to much time reading the news. I try my best to read CNN, FOX and RT news to get the full spectrum of journalistic bias and media spin. A lot of crazy stuff has been going on in the world lately and I am a bit ashamed to say that I get some enjoyment from watching it all happen. That sounds really weird, but it's hard to explain. It's just nice to know what is going on in the world and a lot of the time (usually with USA politics) the goings-on are so petty and idiotic that they become hilarious. This recent uproar over gun control is a prime example of this. First of all, I am pretty undecided on the whole issue and reading the news as much as I do I am fully aware that gun violence is a huge problem. Events like Sandy Hook or Colorado become very instrumental due to the almost excessive amount of media coverage given to them. And while they were undoubtedly extremely tragic events, I find myself reading about at least one new shooting every week. There is clearly a problem. I really don't have any answers, all I do know is that this back-and-forth between the Deathocrats and the Republican'ts (I need a better name for the GOP) is just silly. I was thinking about it last night and I think both sides should just organize their platforms, itemize them down to like three or 4 things. Then put them on little tokens. For example, there would be a gun control token for the Dems and the GOP would have an entitlement reforms token. They would then trade tokens. Dems would get free-reign over gun-control while the GOP could blindly cut social programs. They trade back and forth like this until everyone has what they want. All the bickering is now done and the country is undoubtedly in ruin. At least it was quick! Only problem is that I couldn't watch them argue any more.. :(

I need to go to McDonald's now
Merica!

Here is the song, almost forgot I was supposed to do that...



-KGM

Thoughts on Break

College students rejoice, it is Christmas break. Go home see your family and all your friends. I have officially made it through my first semester of college. Looking at my grades it seems like a pretty successful semester; but don't judge a book by it's cover! I managed to destroy my beautiful flat screen, short circuit my girlfriend of three years (Macbook) with Emergen-C and let's not forget the whole broken back thing. Luckily my back is healing perfectly, I won't need surgery, and I should get my brace off upon my return to wonderful Madison, Wisconsin. The next month of video games and minimal social interaction should really fly by...

On a positive note it is freaking Christmas, and I freaking love freaking Christmas. I love Christmas decorations and I love Christmas music. I love everything about Christmas. I wish that I could give people their presents right now. It drives me crazy waiting to see them get all excited for their gifts.

Another good thing is Dunkin Doughnuts. Since my mom has been in Wisconsin, and my grandma doesn't eat a whole lot; there was not a whole lot of food at the house when we got back. This meant Dunkin two mornings in a row. I think that Culvers and Dunkin Doughnuts should form some kind of alliance. Dunkin opens up stores inside of Madison Culvers and then Culvers comes to New Jersey. That would mean bout 5 Culvers every block. New Jersey really runs on Dunkin.

Shit I thought I was going to more to say here....
I was gonna bitch about not having friends in New Jersey and stuff but I ain't even mad bro. I get to be a lazy ass for a month, I probably gonna enjoy it quite a lot. So have a Happy Holidays Everyone.

My neck hurts so you get no song....
Deal

-KGM

Thoughts on That New Computer

I am going to keep this short.
Sorry.
So I have a new computer. I built it myself (myself of course being my friend Alex). He happens to be a genius, and I happen to suck at craning my neck and using a tiny screw driver. Either way, my computer is fucking badass. That is all you can really say about it. Might post some pics later.

Otherwise doing the finals grind. Finals being my last CS program. I am an Othello pro. In other news, my History of Science final is a 5 page essay. A student can earn extra credit on the essay if they write the whole thing in latin. I read that and was like "Wtf Mate?"

Seriously,
who can write a 5 page essay on the influence of institutions over scientific thought in latin? Thinking about writing it and then dropping it into Google translator. As a joke of course.
That is just ridiculous.

Cheers,
-KGM

Thoughts on Gunther (To lazy for umlaou... however it is spelled)

So I had completely forgotten about the true hilariousness that is Gunther and the Sunshine Girls. For those that do not know what I am talking about, cease reading immediately and look up "The Ding Dong Song" on Youtube. It is a little bit inappropriate, but considering the title it could be a lot worse.
So now I am just going to wait for you to watch it.
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Now you know what I am talking about. I found myself watching a bunch of Gunther videos and frankly; I was laughing my little butt off. In my laughter I was reminded of the past. A past that was among many things had a lot more laughter. Now it seems like I am going to go off on some whiny tangent about how much life sucks. Actually I am pretty much going to talk about squirrels. I hope you are at least a tad bit confused at this point. So anyways, back in the day (the day being 6th grade/7th Grade) my friends and I had some interesting tastes in music. Now you are saying "Yah, So who didn't at that age?" I would agree, between the AC/DC and Linkin Park arose something else. We basically had a collection of what I could only call "humor" songs. While they varied in subject matter, the large majority of them were recreations of songs to the tune of squirrels. The best example I can offer was the song "Girls" by the Beastie Boys. We had never heard of the Beastie Boys, and our version was called "Squirrels". It was sung at a very high pitch. To this day I do not know how we maintained our sanity listening to those stupid songs over and over again, but damn-it were they funny at the time.

At this age people do not do stuff like that. I think it is kind of a bummer. Some people find themselves too mature for such things. In fact I have had someone call me out for making a low brow and less than unique joke. They made sure to flex the point that they were far to mature for such a brand of humor. Do people like that know they are full of shit? or are they just in denial? These are truely the things I spend my days pondering. Back to the point of all of this. Rewatching the Gunther videos brought back a bit of my childhood. In no means do I want to be a child again; however I think someone who is truly mature will never go about asserting it to other people. So I guess I will ask you:

Who is more mature
A person who makes a "that's what she said joke"?
or
A person who chastises the other person about said joke, asserts their maturity, and then later on rudely interrupts a professor and a lecture hall full of people. Gossiping with their neighbor and slamming their desk up?


Look I made it an angry rant there at the end.
Throughout the course of this I had three different songs picked out: Gunther, then "Squirrels" and then Intergalactic Planetary. But, I now I am going to chose a different one.
"Oh what's that?"
"Yah I did choose another Coheed and Cambria song"
"Yes I know this is the third one"
"No I don't care."



-KGM