Well how about that!

I have a Parrotlet on my shoulder. For the uninitiated that is a miniature parrot. I believe that makes me a miniature pirate. Yes. My brother and sister-in-law are out of town with the rest of my family so I'm now hanging out with Pina (the n should have a little ~ over it but I don't know how to do that so just know that it should have that, like Pina Colada.) As far as I can tell she is eating my shirt.

Why are they out of town and I'm not with them all? Well I have a job I just started. I'm an exterminator (pest control application technician, or P-Cat, bug murdere\\r, whichever you like). And they are out of town, to drop my baby brother (6'4" baby I know but whatever) at the MTC. He is going to Montreal Canada to turn french-speaking Canadians into testimony-speaking Mormons.

Neat huh?

Yeah that's pretty neat. So anyhow, in order to give a summation of my life over the past month (We'll go from the time I was dumped to about next week.) I'm gonna separate the rest of this post into two separate lists. One of complaints, which are a bad habit/talent that I can't seem to shake, and the other list is of Antonym of Complaint-s. So here we go. We'll actually make it one list just of alternating. Complaints are in Bold, Antonym of Complaint-s are in Italics. Seriously though, Google antonym of complaint. There aren't any. There are no direct antonyms to complaint. Find me one and I'll give you an unspecified gift that totally ups the ante on your search for an antonym of complaint. Here goes.

Gage's Current Life List:

I got dumped
I got dumped! Okay so it was an interesting experience. I went through all five stages of grief except for Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and Depression. In the end I learned a lot, had a lot of fun, and . I now have an ex. That's kinda cool, I've never had an ex before.

I got to go to McCall Idaho with my family. My family has a tradition. It's cooler than your family's tradition. We go jetskiing every year we can on Payette Lake

That's Payette Lake.

That's a jetski.

Anyhow, Jetskiing is the only thing I know of where getting thrown from the Vehicle at 50 m.p.h. is the highlight of your day. That combined with gorgeous Idaho mountains and golfing and the awesome cabin we rented and all 8 of us in the Family hanging out was just incredible.

I'm stuck in Boise with no friends. This actually isn't true. My main man Cody Nesbitt is in town temporarily before he moves in and starts his business career in Denver. Currently we Jam on his electric guitars and golf. A lot. I've never gotten better at something as fast as I've gotten better at golf. That's partially because I've never been as bad at anything as I was at Golf. Okay that's PRIMARILY why.

I'm back in Boise and it's awesome.
My Little brother is gone for two years
My Little brother is the 5th son out of five in my family to serve a full-time mission for the Lord, spreading the gospel. I don't know how to fully explain what this means to us. It's really a paradigm shift for our family. Our whole lives have been spent preparing for missions, now we've all gone. The last one to be a kid at home is now a missionary. He's not going to come back the same because no one does. I can't wait to see what the Lord makes out of him during the next two years, but heaven knows I'll have to. I'll miss Chase but hey, I'm glad he's gone.

Institute Choir Starts Tomorrow! Seriously this was the one thing that got me through the lameness of being stuck at home last year. And it starts tomorrow. Well technically Auditions are tomorrow but c'mon, its me. Not to be self centered but I'm the best singer in the Universe. I'll hang with mah boy Bro. Spjute and it's on like donkey kong.

Speaking of mah boys! With institute choir comes institute class and I'll be New Testamenting with the man, himself, Timothy Dopp. You don't know brother dopp but he's better than your institute teacher.

I need more to complain about.