Ok, so a catch up on life stuff plus an awesome session video I had today at the bottom.
The big news is a story. I'm an obnoxiously elongated story-teller, so I'll try to be brief:
I went home last weekend because my mom was getting a new car and they wanted me to have my car there to do a trade-in price (i'll get to it). I was also extremely bored and kind of lonely. I love my parents and I have a great relationship with both, especially my dad, so it's nice that I only live an hour and a half away.
Drove over, went car shopping with them. Long story short, my mom bought a god damn brand new Prius 3. It's freaking gorgeous and virtually silent. So the deal was, my mom was going to give me her old car if I traded mine in and gave her the money that Toyota gave us for it (They offered us 2 grand, because they subtracted $500 for a tony crank on my bumper and another $500 for my fucking bumper stickers. BULLSHIT. We were kind of pissed about it, but we took the deal). When I say that my mom's car is her "old" car, I mean it's basically brand new. It's a 2008 Hyundai Elantra with 50,000 miles on it, bluetooth and automatic start-up and all that jazz. My yellow Hyundai Accent had non of that. So I left my yellow Accent with my mom on Sunday and took her Elantra.
The trade in was supposed to happen on Monday. When my mom was driving home from work on Monday evening (work-home-get dad-drop off my old car at Toyota), she was at a red light and this dumb girl from behind was texting and driving or something, and ran right into my mom, causing her to blast into the jeep in front of her. NO ONE WAS HURT. That was my only real concern. But the girl's car was fine, the jeep was fine. My car was totaled. It had never been in an accident before that. The extremely lucky news is that the girl who hit my mom is getting her insurance company to give us 3 grand for it, which is an extra grand that Toyota refused to give us. Fuck yeah. Karma is a bitch, Toyota. I'll post before and after pics below:
A day before the accident:
I wasn't thrilled about giving this car up. I loved her.
Here she is now. Upsetting looking at this one. Just glad my mom is fine:
Anyway, now that that's finished. Other life junk.
I'm meeting up with my dad to go to a reptile show in a town about 45 minutes away from me. Pretty excited. If all things go well, I should be bringing home a new pet that Dan Boyle might have seen in the wild. I'll post pics if/when I bring him/her home. I'm excited. It's kind of been a dream of mine to get one of these and now that I have my own place, I really have no good reason not to.
Another life thing.. Um.. Nadiah and I are still really committed to each other, and we're trying to make things work out in the long run, but we decided on Monday that we're going to take a break from communication for a little while. Long distance with no time to talk is kinda dumb. I know she still cares though. Last night, I found out I had tornado warnings for my town (hence the title of the last video). It was really fucking bad outside and the scary part was that if a tornado had popped up outside my window, I wouldn't have been surprised. The nice thing about this is that Nadiah texted me when she heard it on the news, just to make sure I was safe. So that was really nice of her.
On a lighter note, I bought tickets for one of my favorite bands, Cloud Cult. My dad is a really big fan of them too, so I'm driving with him to Philly to see them on April 7th. I think the last time I got this excited for a band was when I was seeing the Pixies for the first time in concert. However, I think this show might just be better than the Pixies.
Here's one of their best albums. You can really get lost in their music and the lyrics dig deeper than deep. I can relate to a lot of the stuff they sing about, because several of them got Environmental Science/Biology degrees, so they sing a lot about that sort of thing, plus existentialism. They're just incredible. This is also the soundtrack of my last 4 footbag sessions in the videos I've been posting. A little obsessed.
Footbag stuff! Yeah! <-- Good sport.. The one before "Yeah!"
I hit the dreamiest dream trick I've ever seen. I honestly never ever ever ever ever... ever thought I would hit it when I first saw it years ago.
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Levitating Butterfly (Fairy Symposium Swirling Ripwalk).. So
Add Block, here's the video of my "attempt" at the set
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Hogan called me in the beginning of my session and wanted to talk, but I was already warmed up, so he gave me a challenge of Quantum op Revup. I tried, but it wasn't quite there, so I hit Quantum op Blink instead. So sick.
Here's the video:
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If you can't tell, Jorden has been a huge inspiration to my game, especially in the past few weeks. It's really cool that he came back to footbag, and is helping so many players push past their previous levels.
Bonslaver might come shred at my shred arena this Sunday. Anyone else wanna join us who is close enough? Figured I'd throw it out there... Even though that's just Ivan I think lol
I'm out, good night.