my new job / house / town / life.

I found a really cool house!!!!!
It's a brick house with a fireplace in the living room, hardwood in EVERY room, a big basement for my projects, a big garage, a beautiful view, and it's less than five miles from my new job in downtown Portland. I AM SOOOO HAPPY. I can barely afford the rent, but that's called life. my only complaint is that oregon won't let you pump your own gas, and I hate that. maybe it's a mechanic thing, but I don't want some guy doing that, it's a sacred ceremony and a bonding time between me and my car. Am I the only one who feels that way? or what? OH yeah, I almost forgot, DON'T WHIZZ ON THE ELECTRIC FENCE ! ! ! ! !
  • greeneyedlady
    Life is treating us pretty good...Saundra is getting married on Fri..so I get to see the Absters...very very excited...Porland...woot-woot...that won't be too bad of a place to live in..I tried to call you back the other day...but you didn't answer..sadness:( I hope all is well with you and I hope we can connect on the telephono soon!
    by greeneyedlady at 03/08/06 11:40AM
  • greeneyedlady
    Sounds like an amazing house..the fireplace would be my favorite part..curling up with a book..next to it...with hot cocoa.....heaven on earth
    by greeneyedlady at 03/08/06 11:41AM
  • mustardgirl
    Oh, sure. As soon as I move from Portland, you move there. That is so typical.
    by mustardgirl at 03/09/06 12:46AM
  • shopgirl
    i'm happy for you, mark! congratulations with everything!
    by shopgirl at 03/10/06 7:53PM
  • llamalluv
    Congrats on the great job and house. What is the address so that we can all show up uninvited and throw you a party? LOL! And, um, yeah, I think that you are the only one that obsessed with gas pumping. Silly boy! :-)
    by llamalluv at 03/11/06 3:50PM
  • thatonegirl
    Mark Mark Mark... how i miss you and your quirkiness... (ya fit right in with Kristen and i!)
    by thatonegirl at 03/16/06 11:29AM
  • carbuff1000
    okay, hey all, it's been a while since i said anything, the net has been on the fritz here, and busy as usual with work anyway. (also i'm lazy) so i bought a 1971 baja bug and now the gas pump guys can't figure out where to put the gas, so that's funny to watch. also it's a pretty ugly car that i'm not attached to yet, so i don't mind so much about the mandatory fuel pumping.
    by carbuff1000 at 03/26/06 10:52PM
  • fordprefect
    the nastisizer isn't mine, it's nate's. i just link to it.
    by fordprefect at 03/29/06 4:02PM
  • fordprefect
    haha you cant pump your own gas
    by fordprefect at 03/29/06 4:02PM
  • shopgirl
    baja bug...that has some potential, yeah?
    by shopgirl at 03/30/06 1:14AM
  • mustardgirl
    I thought you might be amused by watching this...
    by mustardgirl at 03/31/06 2:18PM
  • nancypadgett
    Man, I can't wait to come down and see your new place. Did you get the TV in yet?
    by nancypadgett at 04/12/06 12:34PM
  • oudegekkemens
    So where is your new job. Will you be able to work on my wife's new Acura?
    by oudegekkemens at 04/17/06 4:14AM
  • carbuff1000
    my new job's in portland, and i totally don't know how acura's work, sorry. also i can't get the tv this weekend cause I need a couple of guys to load it into the truck and everybody is busy this weekend, but maybe next weekend we can get it here. i need the truck and like 3 or 4 guys to lift it. oh well, it'll be worth it when i can watch it.
    by carbuff1000 at 04/21/06 8:19PM
  • heartsintexas
    me, my mom, and kevin are gonna be driving through portland in about a week! hope you're still loving it!
    by heartsintexas at 06/06/06 11:58PM
  • shouldabeenatexan
    hey man this is aaron..from ontario
    by shouldabeenatexan at 09/03/06 12:00AM
  • mustardgirl
    Have you talked to my sister lately?
    by mustardgirl at 03/13/07 10:21PM
  • mrs_dante
    4/14/07 -- Mark got fired from his hated job in Portland, and found another the same week that lasted for a few months. After that (recently), he packed up everything and moved back to WA with NO plans in mind, just a desire to be back with the Kirkland church. On the way there, an old friend called him and offered him the job of, in his own words, a "glorified janitor." He is working in downtown Seattle fixing plumbing, air conditioning, and general maintaince. Once his training is complete, he will be a building engineer making 60-80K/year. Cool, no?
    by mrs_dante at 04/14/07 10:12PM

vanessa punched me in the *xanga*

Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yourself", and people who get tagged need to write a Xanga* entry about their 5 weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their Xanga* and tell them to read yours. (*in this case, of course, Pleonast)

1. Sometimes I stop talking in mid sentence to think about something completely different, and when people ask me to finish the sentence, I can't remember what I was talking about.

2. I have never put my right shoe on before my left one, accept for one time, and it felt so weird that I had to take it off until the left one was on.

3. Speaking of communion plates, the middle feels special to me too, but I have NEVER touched it. I don't take anything accept the far outer ring unless it's empty. I don't know why, but that's what i always do. I think that's what a lot of people do if the middle one sometimes makes it to the back of the room though.

4. I talk in my sleep a lot, and people have told me that I often ask questions, and then answer my own questions. According to my roommate, sometimes i have conversations with myself.

5. I have an IQ of 171, but I can't remember what shoes i'm wearing without checking, I have NO IDEA what I had for breakfast, and if I haven't been to any given place within the last few hours, I might not remember what it looks like without thinking really hard. (that includes my house) i'm starting to doubt the accuracy of these IQ tests and what they are good for anyway.

I only have like six people in this thing and vanessa & allison already did it anyway, so . . .

mustardgirl
fordprefect
thatonegirl
greeneyedlady
that's all i got.
  • carbuff1000
    okay okay, you know i don't HAVE any self esteem anyway. lets talk, like old times, but i don't have your number, E-mail it to me, my address is at the top left ya know?
    by carbuff1000 at 02/04/06 11:44AM
  • carbuff1000
    hey guys, i'm here at mom and pop's house in WA, and the pasco interview was NOT GOOD. but that's okay, cause the portland one was great. more later. gotta go play in the SNOW.
    by carbuff1000 at 02/16/06 12:26PM
  • heartsintexas
    so did you get the job in portland or not? and have you gone on any other interviews since?? update!! Ü ~ellen
    by heartsintexas at 02/19/06 6:01PM
  • heartsintexas
    Hey! i need the website with all of the motivational posters on it...Ü thanks!
    by heartsintexas at 02/20/06 1:51AM
  • carbuff1000
    No inverviews yet, it's a long weekend, so i have to wait till tuesday to hear back. I'm gonna get the third interview though, i know it. the posters are at www.despair.com, and don't forget to look at every years collection, or the entire list, but there are always more than people think. There is also a preview for a claymation or cartoon (can't remember) movie that looks really funny. try to find that. see ya.
    by carbuff1000 at 02/20/06 11:38AM
  • carbuff1000
    I GOT THE THIRD INTERVIEW. finally. for monday.
    by carbuff1000 at 02/22/06 8:20PM
  • heartsintexas
    let us know how it goes!! Mrs. Senkle says hi
    by heartsintexas at 02/24/06 6:01PM
  • fordprefect
    can i get a w00t w00t
    by fordprefect at 02/26/06 12:24PM
  • carbuff1000
    I got the portland job for more $$$ than i expected. happy-happy-joy-joy-happy-happy-joy-joy that takes the pressure off a little. I really love portland too, it's exactly like seattle but smaller. so i'm going to find a lot of mark-things to do. i already found a nine-thousand dollar couch and the most beautiful red-head on the planet. neither of which i plan on having any luck ending up with. oh well.
    by carbuff1000 at 02/28/06 1:01PM
  • shopgirl
    nice ren & stimpy reference! haha...congrats!!!
    by shopgirl at 02/28/06 9:34PM
  • carbuff1000
    man, i miss you, any girl that can recognize a Stimpson j. Cat quote WRITTEN DOWN, is allright. I miss those days. SPACE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!
    by carbuff1000 at 03/01/06 10:35PM
  • carbuff1000
    P.S. . . . SPACE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!
    by carbuff1000 at 03/01/06 10:36PM
  • llamalluv
    how can anyone NOT know "happy happy joy joy"!?!!!
    by llamalluv at 03/03/06 12:02AM
  • heartsintexas
    congratulations!
    by heartsintexas at 03/03/06 8:56PM
  • llamalluv
    the true test of whether or not someone is a R&S fan: "Once a year, children decorate the hallways with diapers, stuff their dad's boots with coleslaw, and leave out a pot of shaving foam" Why?
    by llamalluv at 03/05/06 11:52PM
  • llamalluv
    why would you want a $9,000 couch?! I'd be afraid to sit on it!
    by llamalluv at 03/05/06 11:53PM
  • mrs_dante
    I'm glad you got the job. You should have made a new post though!
    by mrs_dante at 03/06/06 3:14PM
  • shopgirl
    simple...Yak Shaving Day! :)
    by shopgirl at 03/06/06 6:23PM
  • carbuff1000
    r you're right, this post is really old. i'm going to start a new one right now.
    by carbuff1000 at 03/07/06 8:56PM

social interactions and personal distractions

I just came back from IN-N-OUT burger. When i asked for ketchup, the girl gave me 15 packets. (for scientific purposes i counted) How is it everybody knows that means she likes me? And don't say "EGO" cause every one of my room mates agreed, It's a set rule.
where do these things come from?????? Without this unwritten rule, if i saw a girl display such a total lack of common sense as to think that i would ever want 15 packets of ketchup for my one small dish of fries, i would assume either a total lack of work ethic or a mild mental disability. Neither of which came to mind when her completely full fist of ketchup was being followed by the other hand "helping out" with the rest. Obviously it should have, in retrospect, but i was too busy absorbing my "compliment" to notice the pointlessness of the situation. I guess the question is. . . .
why are we all so dumb and why don't we care?
  • carbuff1000
    oh yeah, i promised a monkey, and i can't dissapoint.
    by carbuff1000 at 01/17/06 9:27PM
  • carbuff1000
    by carbuff1000 at 01/17/06 9:27PM
  • thatonegirl
    "Haven't you always wanted a monkEE?!"
    by thatonegirl at 01/17/06 10:31PM
  • shopgirl
    awwww...i love that picture! i love monkeys!
    by shopgirl at 01/18/06 6:55PM
  • carbuff1000
    okay, i'm confused, first of all, i really don't know who sparkle 3802 is, and i must know you or you wouldn't have seen the van last night. then, how could i "come to CA with it" i'm already in CA. easily confused, but VERY confused.
    by carbuff1000 at 01/20/06 12:13AM
  • carbuff1000
    oh wait, sorry allison, i forgot you could just click on the name and it goes to your page. but that still doesn't make sense of the CA thing. well not to me.
    by carbuff1000 at 01/20/06 12:18AM
  • carbuff1000
    by carbuff1000 at 01/20/06 12:24AM
  • llamalluv
    Maybe she was distracted by the ninja monkey?
    by llamalluv at 01/20/06 12:24AM
  • carbuff1000
    how could you not love monkeys??!?!?!??!?!?
    by carbuff1000 at 01/20/06 12:24AM
  • llamalluv
    Mark, are you still gonna paint something dorky on your van?
    by llamalluv at 01/20/06 12:25AM
  • carbuff1000
    maybe
    by carbuff1000 at 01/20/06 12:25AM
  • carbuff1000
    but it's a different kind of van, so it can resell for a lot more if i leave it alone, so i don't know yet. i put my stereo in it today though.
    by carbuff1000 at 01/20/06 12:26AM
  • carbuff1000
    well something dorky, no, but something super sweet and totally awesome, maybe.
    by carbuff1000 at 01/20/06 12:27AM
  • shopgirl
    mark, i tagged you. NEW POST! go to my blog if you don't know what i mean :)
    by shopgirl at 01/20/06 12:17PM
  • llamalluv
    What can you paint on a VAN that would make it awesome?
    by llamalluv at 01/20/06 8:13PM
  • llamalluv
    I love the Monkees, does that count?
    by llamalluv at 01/20/06 11:35PM

The newest fruit in the world

i have discovered a fruit. i found it at the store. i might not have discovered it first, but it's good. it's called the peppadew. it's some sort of pepper. i don't know what to think. at first when you bite one, it's sweet and pleasant. for about 1/24th of a second, then it kickes you in the teeth with a spicy pickeled pepper taste that makes you want to cry a little. but only for like 20 seconds, then you feel fine, and you want another one. they smell like a vinigery bell pepper. they were discovered in south africa and are the newest fruit since the kiwi of 26 years ago. they are also called Sweet Piquante Peppers.
i think i am going out right now and get a one dollar pizza so i can put these 26-dollar-a-jar peppers all over the sucker.
now that's saturday night dinner.
  • shopgirl
    Hi Mark!! It's Vanessa...I'm still workin' on those pictures! Hope you're havin' a good day!
    by shopgirl at 11/03/05 12:36PM
  • carbuff1000
    hey vanessa, how's it going? today was awesome. I got up at seven and spent three hours driving that curvy road that goes around mount baldy. have you ever been there? it's something you should see. and i want to go back right now 'cause my camera had dead batteries and i didn't even get one picture. we don't have roads like that in washington. i guess i'll see ya tomorrow, and if i forgot to tell you, I definately do have veteran's day off of school. so were on for L.A.
    by carbuff1000 at 11/05/05 3:13PM
  • llamalluv
    mark, you REALLY have got to take everything I say SOOO literally. Harrumph!
    by llamalluv at 11/06/05 9:42PM
  • llamalluv
    PS - I know the reference.
    by llamalluv at 11/06/05 9:42PM
  • llamalluv
    Also - So...you aren't dead yet, then?
    by llamalluv at 11/06/05 9:43PM
  • carbuff1000
    yeah, and also HARRUMPH, i guess
    by carbuff1000 at 11/07/05 10:45PM
  • carbuff1000
    i don't know if i'm supposed to be pronouncing that like it's spelled, but that's funny
    by carbuff1000 at 11/07/05 10:46PM
  • mustardgirl
    Oh, Mark Haverstock. If I feel old because I knew you when you were my age now, and I'm just 18, how old you must feel.
    by mustardgirl at 11/15/05 12:32AM
  • thatonegirl
    Kimber?! You know Mark?!
    by thatonegirl at 11/16/05 8:06AM
  • carbuff1000
    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
    by carbuff1000 at 11/16/05 6:26PM
  • carbuff1000
    funniest thing i've heard all day, but i'm just listening, so please.... you two finish that.
    by carbuff1000 at 11/16/05 6:27PM
  • carbuff1000
    oh yeah, a lot of people have been wanting to see my kilt and this place needs some color anyway.
    by carbuff1000 at 11/16/05 7:30PM
  • carbuff1000
    by carbuff1000 at 11/16/05 7:36PM
  • llamalluv
    That's great. When was that taken?
    by llamalluv at 11/16/05 7:53PM
  • llamalluv
    Yes, harrumph is pronounced as it's spelled. It's one of them there onomatopoeias
    by llamalluv at 11/16/05 8:00PM
  • carbuff1000
    oh, you mean onowmatowpeeeas
    by carbuff1000 at 11/17/05 3:17PM
  • carbuff1000
    i had a very stressfull day. but i also got lots of stuff done
    by carbuff1000 at 11/17/05 3:19PM
  • carbuff1000
    there is a car in the corner of the shop that has been through a flood. kids have been working on it for weeks trying to fix things, and in two days with the help of one other kid from my class, we already got it running again and found some problems with other sensors and relays and such.
    by carbuff1000 at 11/17/05 3:21PM
  • carbuff1000
    so i was very excited about seing my skill in practice really for the first time on a new car with all the computers and all. i feel happy
    by carbuff1000 at 11/17/05 3:22PM
  • llamalluv
    I had a stressful day today, too, and I got NOTHING done....
    by llamalluv at 11/18/05 9:41PM

monkeys

I hope monkeys fly out of my butt soon, so that guy will give me that million dollars that he owes me!
  • mustardgirl
    WHAT?! MARK HAVERSTOCK IS ON PLEONAST AND I NEVER EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT?!?!?! Whoa. I am sooo behind on the times. It's been a long time Mark, where you hiding yourself! I'm living in OR now. I'm going to visit Kaylie in about 4 days now. Oh yeah, I guess it would help if I told you who I am, eh? B? This is Kimber. I don't think I've seen you since KAYLIE was 16, and now I'm 17 1/2, so that makes it about 5 years. Whoa. Long time no see tall and hairless ewock. (: Drop a
    by mustardgirl at 03/09/05 11:29PM
  • mustardgirl
    Oh... And I just saw the post date you have up there. Guess you haven't been on in a while then. Don't be a Tim that never posts. Stay alive.
    by mustardgirl at 03/09/05 11:30PM
  • mustardgirl
    So, is a package of a handy snackness A handy snack, or is it that one stick inside the package is a handy snack, since its one?
    by mustardgirl at 05/27/05 12:44PM
  • mustardgirl
    by mustardgirl at 06/01/05 8:00PM
  • carbuff1000
    yeah, i didn't know i had a thing on here till justin told me today.
    by carbuff1000 at 06/05/05 1:21AM
  • carbuff1000
    i'm in arizona at "college" not real college, but car college. i got accepted to mercedes benz. so after my training i am going to work for them. i'm pretty excited.
    by carbuff1000 at 06/05/05 1:24AM
  • carbuff1000
    by carbuff1000 at 06/11/05 9:11PM
  • carbuff1000
    i finished this last week. coolest thing ever. i can't wait to do the project that i've been thinking about for the last couple of years.
    by carbuff1000 at 06/11/05 9:16PM
  • mustardgirl
    Where are you going to work at? In WA? I just graduated from HS yesterday... I feel so old and yet so young at the same time. And that is a SWEET car. Do you still have your old one?
    by mustardgirl at 06/11/05 9:17PM
  • carbuff1000
    no, i sold my other cars to afford college. also, it sounds like that one is mine. it's not. i built it but i can't keep it.
    by carbuff1000 at 06/15/05 11:55PM
  • carbuff1000
    i don't know where i am going to work yet, mercedes is sending me somewhere for an apprenticeship and i won't know where i am going to live for about two years. it will be somewhere between the west coast and west germany.
    by carbuff1000 at 06/15/05 11:59PM
  • carbuff1000
    my little spot needs more car pictures. i am in love with this one. it's a VW fastback from about 1968
    by carbuff1000 at 06/16/05 12:05AM
  • fordprefect
    sweet dude.
    by fordprefect at 06/22/05 9:45PM
  • oudegekkemens
    Also know as a type 3 I believe.
    by oudegekkemens at 06/25/05 9:18PM
  • oudegekkemens
    Just get yourself a boxter engine and make her scream.
    by oudegekkemens at 06/25/05 9:19PM
  • mustardgirl
    Well, let me/us know where you're going to live when you find out!
    by mustardgirl at 06/30/05 10:47AM
  • carbuff1000
    the ever loved beetle was the type 1 and the bus was the type 2
    by carbuff1000 at 07/02/05 9:54PM
  • carbuff1000
    this and two others are all the type 3.
    by carbuff1000 at 07/02/05 9:57PM
  • carbuff1000
    i don't think the boxter engine would go in too easy, but an old 911 would find a nice home in the back of this one.
    by carbuff1000 at 07/02/05 10:03PM
  • carbuff1000
    Speaking of old porsche engines, i found one in the corner of the college yesterday. just sitting around. i'm gonna try to get them to let me "get rid of it" for them. i could really use that.
    by carbuff1000 at 11/01/05 7:37PM