Long time no talk

It’s been quite a while since I’ve written here. A lot has happened since March! I’ll try to summarize it in quick order below

- Started dating a girl named Linda in April. We’ve been together for 7 months. Things are going great.

- Had a cookout with Linda, Justin, Marygrace, Cesar, Nick, Tracy, Jake, Pete, Kayla and Jessica. It was fun, but some events that transpired afterwards have put my friendship with Jake and Pete out to pasture.

- D-Daddy and Nene finally bought a house in Oxford, at Wellsgate.

- In May I traded my G35 in on a 2009 Pontiac G8 GT. It’s a fantastically fun car and actually has a lot of room, which is always great.

- Mom, Linda and I went to Foley from July 4-11 for vacation. Mom had a trip voucher as a work bonus so we used that and stayed at Nene and D-Daddy’s condo. We had a great time, even though the GPS took us off course on the way there and we got caught in a horrible storm (and nearly met up with a tornado) in D’iberville, MS on the way there. We shopped, ate, went to the beach, went to the movies, played minigolf at the Track, and were generally lazy for the entire week.

- Had friends over for our joint birthday party – got to meet some of Linda’s friends and we all had a good time.

- Justin’s mom passed away suddenly on August 9th.

- Linda and I went to Nashville for John Charles’ wedding in mid August. We stayed down town at a nice Hampton Inn & Suites owned by my friend Mike Modi. He comped us a room and we saw mom while we were there. It was really nice. (Despite the bull rider staying in the next room that banged around at 4AM).

- Justin bought a pit bike and on my first attempt riding it I popped a wheelie, shot the bike out from under me and narrowly avoided hitting my neighbor’s Ford Focus

- David Simpson and I went to the ///Relaxed Atmosphere All-Star Event show in Millington. I didn’t get to take the Laid GP because I found that the subframe was about to fall apart from too much dragging, and Sean backed out on me at the last minute as far as trailering the car. I ended up showing the G8 instead. We had a good time though, it was really miserable hot and humid. Bryce came down for a while. Saw all my old buddies from DO and Eksessiv, and others like Keef and Sudds. Picked up some goodies while I was there and it really renewed my interest in the scene.

- Football season is upon us, well actually it’s almost over now. There’s only 2 more home games left to go! Things are going pretty well at work though.

- I’ve been recently having some issues with anxiety again, which I plan to blog about more in the future. Storms seem to set it off more than anything.

- Justin, MaryGrace, Linda and I carved pumpkins the week before Halloween. It was terrible and I hate pumpkins and all other members of the gourd family.

I finally finished college and received my diploma back in September. It is a great feeling to be done!!!

Those are the really major things that I can think of right off the top of my head. I’ve got lots of pics from all of these things in my MobileMe gallery at www.laidgp.com.

I’m going to try really hard to write more here, but if I don’t and you are just dying to know what I’m up to, follow me on Twitter at @Laidgp.