no more 3x5s

i'm worn out. i came home from the beach to find the apartment i'm moving out of full of water. the laundry room, half the kitchen, and a whole lot of ceiling and drywall were waterlogged and starting to grow mold. thankfully i only had a few things left there and none of my stuff was wet or growing mold like the walls. the emergency maintenance man who was on duty said that when people move out they tend to leave their washer connections still turned on... how does that work? i thought when you unhooked the hoses it had to be off or you'd get sprayed. i don't understand. this same smart maintenance man dumped the water from his shop-vac down my garbage disposal drain. not sure what was in it from the last time he used it, but when i ran the disposal it made an awful racket and quit working all together. either he's dumb or lazy, either way, i just don't understand.

i pulled my camera out a whopping one time at camp -- to take group photos of the cabins during traditional week. didn't touch it for a church group, and didn't touch it at the beach. it wasn't that there weren't things to take pictures of, i just didn't feel it. i was stressed and busy, and by the time i got to the beach, all i felt like doing were crossword puzzles and reading about the new gm trucks. megan's making me bring it to iowa for the cultural experience i'm going to gain. i'm pretty well practiced up on the lingo -

pop = coke
regular tea = unsweet
farmers market = the place to go on saturday morning
corn = everywhere (but they don't eat grits, weirdos)

so since i didn't take pictures here's the highlights of the past week:
-montgomery, al looking as i would have imagined it to look during the 1960s, except with every kind of car you could imagine on 22s. megan had never seen anything like it. i welcomed her to the dirty south.

-buddy (lesley's horse of a yellow lab) stretching out across 2 boogie boards because he was too tired from swimming

-blue deciding he'd rather run along the beach and meet people than listen to me

-duke (justin's mess of a dog) choosing to dig the sand out from under our chairs rather than go anywhere near the water

-duke staying away from justin because he didn't want to carried back into the water

-sting rays, jellyfish, and dolphins

- our little motorcycle gang on adly fox scooters. i'm not sure which was funnier - eric riding off the road or lesley (trying to drive with justin on the back) riding off the road

-us 3 boys spending hours looking for a wal-mart and finding the perfect hawaiian shirts to wear for about... 10 whole minutes

-looking at the stars/fireworks from the roof of the house we rented

-sweating through a date with megan with a waitress who didn't seem to understand that we needed drink refills in order to be able to swallow the food

-spending a week with my family without having to plan what everyone was going to do or needed to do in order for the week to run smoothly