Soda

I am shocked by my lack of self control with things sweet as of late. I went a whole bloody year without processed and refined sugary grossness but for some reason I don't have the self control I used to or I have given up? Has this happen to anyone else? Where you know you can easily just ignore the need for shitty awful sugar crap for a long time but then freak the shit out over it?

As a biker I know I have to eat a lot in the summer when I am biking pretty hard every day and I am fine with that but I need to start developing a healthy way of doing said thing before I give myself cancer from eating over processed fake food.

In other news I am in love with the newest season of RuPaul's Drag Race!!! Miss Raja should win I think cause girl has it together better then anyone else! I mean just look at her! It's amazing I wish I could look that good in a dress and yet so manly.

Night y'all

SIck?

Feeling a tad bit sick... Hopefully some sleep and exercise will make me feel better if not maybe RuPaul's drag race will help out too? Who the hell knows?

Long time gone

It's been a while since I've updated this blog thing of mine and I would like to say that well... I really should update this thing more often and not try to make it something it's not.

Like a damn G6!

Anyway I'll update this daily... soon... I swear

End of the summer.

Waldsee is always a very strange place after the summer. I can never get over the lack of villagers and it take me some time to adjust to how quiet and peaceful everything is when I am there during the school year. I am tired. I am not in school. I once over heard kids say "Udo doesn't exist outside of Waldsee he just melts into the walls of the Gasthof when we leave and come back when we show up" there are times when I wish that was a true statement, sadly it's not. I gets so used to having people around me 24/7 that after the summer I am scared of the silence and the peace. I am confused by the lack of god awful weckdienst in the morning and sharing a room with someone else. I am starting to see that all I need in life is a group of people who want to live simply in peace with what they have and are happy with that over again else in life. I will write more after I have had some to think about the past three months.

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I leave you to it.

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Mumford and Sons

Mumford & Sons / Little Lion Man video

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If you can spare the cash I suggest going out and buying the debut album from the British band Mumford and Sons. Check out their website if you have the time to spare http://www.mumfordandsons.com/. Their music is very focused on the loneliness of love and trying to find some sort of high power whilst jamming on a mandolin.

Mumford and Sons - Winter Winds

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"And my head told my heart
"Let love grow"
But my heart told my head
"This time no"
Yes, my heart told my head
"This time no
This time no"

I don't want to get all emo about song lyrics cause that's not me but how god damn profound is that chorus? How many times has any one ever felt that in their lives? 

Alright, bed time.

Past

Why are we, as a species stuck in the past?

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Ah! That is all, only problem I have with being on vacation is I just feel like I am not doing anything but, I am. In other news Hurt Locker beat Avatar so there has to be a higher power out there right? Though the Academy Awards seemed sort of odd and at time just out of place with the rest of the world to me. The tribute to John Hughes was just very out of place I think, he was a very good director but really, ten minutes or so devoted to him? Sort of a waste of time in a show that is notorious for going over time in the last few years, I think the show clocked in at three in a half hours? So it goes...

Vblog

Starting out

Kids by MGMT has been playing in my head over and over again since last night when I listened to it while biking. It's a good song but the real music video is just super messed up... If you have the time go watch it on youtube or at their website.

I am leaving for a vacation on the 28th of this month until March 14th to Tulsa to see my father. It should be fun if not relaxing I am really just looking forward to spending time with my dad before coming back to a crazy busy work and school environment, well it could be crazy, could be really easy, I really shouldn't second guess the future. I am going to drive down which will be cheap then flying but a bit slower time wise though I think it's worth in the long wrong plus if I get bored or start going crazy at my father's place I can just leave for a bit. 

I would like to start a video blog now that I have a new webcam but the software that came with it isn't working all that great and tends to freeze up when I try to record anything. Very annoying but what can you do besides try to trouble shoot the shit out the problem.

No need

I am taking a two week vacation start February 28th to March 14th! Usually I would go to Europe for a while or some where super amazing but I am headed off to wonderful Tulsa... That's where my father lives and I am unsure as to what I'll do for two weeks in Tulsa but I'll spend some time with the old man that I can reflect back on later in life or something like that. I am also going to drive down there now that my car radio is fixed it will make the trip a lot less painful and If I am get sick of my parents or bored I can drive myself some where else for a while. Score.

In other news I received my admission packet from BSU!!! How awesome is that? I am going to fill it all out tomorrow morning and try to get it all sent out before I forget to do it.

College

Sorry I don't update all that often its just something I don't think about until I am about to go to bed. So instead of updating I go to sleep, makes sense right? Anyway, I got into Bemidji State University!! How awesome is that? I looking forward to signing up for classes and getting all that stuff worked out and then there is paying all sort of money for books!! I am so ready for school right now it's going to be a challenge that I am sure of but it's nothing I can't do as long as I have everyones support and I ask for help when it's needed.

Precinct caucuses were on Tuesday night and R.T. Rybak received the most votes which is great but at the same time it was only by 1% which isn't overwhelming at all. Sadly there were only six people at my ward caucus which isn't all that great of a number but we were all made delegates to the country caucus which is on the 28th of February at BSU. Hopefully from there I can go to the state convention and help support Rybak in getting the DFL nod for governor. Though Mark Dayton is going right to the primary in September which is a bit annoying to me but it's in the future and I can't predict the future now can I?

Avatar, what?

Right, not done blogging...

Sexy Back

iTablet will cure cancer and people will like your more!

While I wait for the newest episode of Shameless to download and for Apple to release the glory that will be their new iTablet, iPad, iBook or whatever you want to call it. Why not update the blog?

I had a meeting with the head of the nursing department to discuss what I would have to do to become a nursing student. It was a very informative meeting and she told me a something I totally didn't even pay attention to at the time I applied to BSU. I would have to take a CNA course at the Tech school in town before I can apply for the nursing major my sophomore year at BSU. At first this news scared the shit out of me since there is a class this spring that I could take and get it out of the way but man, school so soon... Boo.
But after buying some food at the Co-op and buying some new kick ass Haus Schuhe I had calmed down enough to just process what a CNA is and what doors it could open up.

With a CNA I could get a job at a nursing home that would allow me to work hopefully around forty hours a week and still be a full time student. This is something I feel I wouldn't be able to do at CLV and it would just cause me more stress trying to get enough hours to pay my cost of living but also have time to go to school. Mind you this is all in the future so I am not really going to worry about it but it might be a good plan if it all comes together, it comes together and if not it's still a great cert to have. If I hate just getting my CNA I will know that being a nurse is going to be way to hard for me and can figure out what to do in the fall and get my general eds out of the way. Either way I am pretty sure I am signed up for the class and I am looking forward to going back to school for something after years off. If I can juggle my CNA class and work I should be golden for the next four years... right?

I bought Mass Effect 2 on opening night and so far it a pretty solid game  and feels more developed then the last Mass Effect plus you don't have to drive the fraking Mako around anymore which is more then enough to get me to do more while playing the game. You know longer have to run around looking for minerals on planets, now you scan for them and shoot off probes to stake your claim in minerals that you need to upgrade items. The combat system is now more like Halo then Mass Effect which has made it a bit harder for me since I am used to that sort of game play but I am getting used to it even if I have to replay the same events over and over again. Anyway enough blogging for now.

Quick Note

Sorry, I will update soonish!  I have been somewhat busy though it's mostly been Mass Effect and Mass Effect two so yeah it's nothing like work or school busy just lazy busy.

Busy!

Applied to BSU, hopefully I will hear back soon then I can plan out how I am going to balance work, school, social life, and so forth or the summer. I chose to major in nursing for now but I am pretty sure I will enjoy it and the classes look pretty interesting just hope I can get it done in four years. Made a new batch of soup to hold me over and while and then cleaned up the mess that I made making the soup which is always rather epic but I usually just ignore it for days and then clean it up when it's all crusty...

In other news when you have 41 senators to 59 senators you're are able to over ride the 18 other of the other party and take control of the senate. It's a new rule that I heard about from fox news, oh Scott Brown cures cancer, just like Obama did... I'll start listening to the news again soon but for now I prefer to ignore the pundits and play Mass Effect in my underwear.

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Scott Brown for the win... Boo!

Leave it to the Democratic party to lose a senate seat in fucking Massachusetts, it doesn't even makes sense until you realize that over the last six week Coakley  only had 16 events compared to Browns 66. If you are going to run for office you have to campaign otherwise no one will vote for you it's that simple! Obama didn't win because he was black he won because he worked himself to the bone and made sure everyone around him worked just as hard! That's how you win an election you can't just assume the D next to your name is going to get you elected that's just beyond stupid and makes your a worthless candidate.

I understand why Brown was elected and it makes sense to me since the party that control all three branches of government can't even seem to get their act together and pass health care reform bill without a super majority in the senate... How crazy is that? Why oh why do we have to have sixty votes to get anything done in the senate? Just let people filibuster until they fall over and then vote. I would like Obama to grab the Dem leadership by the neck and shake them out a bit! It's really bad for moral when you lose Edward Kennedy seat to a former Cosmo pin up...

In other news I have appointment with the admission office at BSU on Thursday at ten o'clock so I can see what I need to do to enroll next fall and find out what I can majour in. Right now I am thinking either Hospice Nurse or Nutritionist something along those lines, maybe even early childhood development I just want something that will help people in need the most. I am over my anxiety about going back to school and I am looking forward to it so much so it has put be in a very good mood for the last few days.

Well I am off to bed, I have to work at seven in the morning and I already know we will be listening to MPR all day and the coverage is going to be non-stop about Brown winning. Man I know what the GOP felt like after the Dem wave in 2006.

Night

Special Election

So as many of you know there is a special election in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy's seat next Tuesday now I of course support Martha Coakley against Scott Brown but since I don't live in Massachusetts I really haven't be paying any real attention to race cause I just assumed that Coakley was going to win over Brown.



As I am sure this wonderful chart has shown Coakley isn't polling very well right now and there is only a few more days until the vote and Obama is going to be in Mass tomorrow at an event for Coakley. Of course if Coakley loses the senate seat it will be all Obama's fault anyway cause it always is his fault not the fault of the Democrats on a national level who have failed to come together and support the will of the people they are supposed to work for but continue to just whine and bitch about everything. Look I am all for Health Care Reform and most things the Democratic party want to push through but I can't stand the lack of foresight  of the party in general. Stop worrying about re-election and get something done for the people who are just trying to get by with what little they have.

If Scott Browns wins on Tuesday night will the Democrats come together and realize that if they don't get their collective acts together this November isn't going to be all that pretty for them. The super majority in the Senate hasn't really seemed to do anything for the Democratic Senators beside make each one king maker of any bill that is trying to get passed in the Senate. So maybe losing it will shake things up? I really think the focus should be getting things done and focusing the media's monkey mind attention on the fact that the GOP does nothing but say "No"  to everything the President wants and then whines when he tries to work with them on anything just anything even the fraking wars started by the last President.

Good luck and good night

Sometimes...

I should just keep my mouth shut or sit on my hands cause most people don't have my sense of humour or understand it. In other news today wasn't as amazingly random as yesterday but I guess I am ok with that for now at least.

Went back to work today officially i.e. I wasn't called in to cover someone else's shift and it was a a nice eight hours shift at the Skogfjorden which is always nice espeically when it's for a Norsk programmer and I get to eat Jarlsberg and Gjetost cheese both of which I haven't had in month. I really love family programme at work there is nothing like hearing the language of the village being spoken by young and old over good food and stories, it's really a great way to learn any language I think. Now if Tove was there that would just make my weekend but I get to see her enough in the summer.

 I am on second two of Doogie Howser M.D. and I have around ten hours left of Mass Effect and then I'll be ready for Mass Effect 2... Ah yes I love my nerdyness at times, cause really the trailers for Mass Effect 2 just look ridiculous and I need something to escape to every now and again even though I really should but whatever that's just old hat by now in my life.

Oh I am trying to fund raise for R.T. Rybak
http://www.rtrybak.com/page/outreach/view/sample/Udo

It's kind of hard to fund raise when there are so many great people running that and 7% unemployment in the state make it hard for people who are hard core political addicts like myself to care at this point. I also think there is a bit of fatigue in most Americans in politics right now since nothing seems to be getting done on anything and no one is really coming together on any thing. It's able about the now and never about the future it seems and though that might work for living ones life I am not so sure about governing a people. That said I am still ever hopefully that some day everyone will realize that when there is a common goal for everyone to work for real change can happen. I voted for Obama and I am very proud of that vote! So far he's been a pretty great president compared to Bush and I wish him the best of luck on his next three years in office.

One last thought, if no one mocked Rush Limbaugh for saying obvious stupid and phoney bull shit would he go away? At times I wonder if he just saying things to get the press to listen to him for a while. It's like a child that wants the attention of it's parents and therefore does something it shouldn't just to get a seconds of attention.

Nighto