New Years

im getting pumped about the new years bash (and then some)! so i have a cousin in town and was wondering about the timeline we're lookin at. kal, are u guys still planning on driving up on wednesday? kata and joe, did u guys find anything cool to do?

Anyone up for a Chicago visit next summer? This will be on the itinerary.

Best part of moving to Chicago so far.

Asteroids made by Neave Games

Vegas, Anyone?

Who is planning on going to Vegas? I'd like to, but havent bought a ticket yet. I did see, however, flights from indy that connect thru minneapolis...if that can convince joe and kata.

if we all go, we can get a room thats not at the strat?


slothy...

Party

Hey Dudes,
Who's going to the cocktail party?

We're still alive

Hey everyone. Just letting you know we are on the face of the earth still. After 31 hours of traveling we made it from Liberia to Sevilla, Spain. We each had the equivalent of 1 light beer and are feeling the effects on our bodies as we walked back to the hostal...Kali will be in great drinking shape by New Years...ie she'll be waster-faced. I on the other hand am sorry to report that I will be spending the new year celebrating in Chicago with Kami. Keep on keeping on and always remember that we are all brothers and sister's in Christ.

Love,
Marge and Kali

a little epiphany...

hey folks, so last night i was talking with a friend when he said, "that group of people is just dull" in discussing some of the people i hang out with here. after further analysis, i realized how right he was. if all people give off a certain energy in a group of people, a room filled with this specific group of "friends" from home would have the kinetic energy of a shoe on the floor.

therefore, THANK YOU!! for being exciting, intelligent friends who bring something to the table everytime. cause if i didn't have friends like you guys, i wouldn't know how lame these people are. haha put that in your pocket.

p.s. i hope that everyone will know their blood type for our new years extravaganza...

Great Idea

After a long night of boozing with some ultimate people from chicago, among them Peter Crotty, and listening to some cover band play too many fallout boy covers (thus the text message Joe) I passed out hard. Then at around 6 AM I woke up instantly with one of those light bulb moments. We should open a bar called Wifflers. It would be just like a regular english or irish pub, except in the middle there would be a wiffle ball stadium. We could have leagues every night of the week and serve traditional pub food with cute names like the Home Run Burger, which you could get with "wiffle fries"...


And that's why you keep a notebook and a pen next to your bed

new years

hi yall,

kata and i were hoping you guys would all come up for new years. is that in the cards?

We Made it!

Just Letting you guys know that we're safely in Monrovia. Kevin: We shared a toothbrush the first night, out of convenience, but this morning we dug out the second one. You can put your worries aside.

Love you guys,
Marge and Kali

Who can take a punch better?

Kata or David Blaine?

It's about 1min into the footage.

Thinking about Minnesota....

Last weekend in September?? What do you guys think?

I can't believe these ads play on tv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q

skydive video

after multiple requests from my brother, I've posted the skydive video online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZkZd5hR3w

Silly British babies

I was behind a British couple at the produce mart yesterday and their kid was talking with a tiny British accent. It reminded me of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Oh baby.

House warming Party:

As you all may know the ultimate team is moving into a new house with 7 members, we need to think about a weekend to break the partying hyme of the house.

I'm not giving up on camping

Anyone who reads this still want to go camping before or after cooler in Wisconsin?

Oh Hey Guys

Whats new with everyone? Where are people moving? How's everyone's summers? Give me details, friends, details.

I miss you all!

Love,
Zilla (or you may hear me be referred to as the "Croatian Sensation" from time to time....)

Dear Eric and Margaret...

Click Me!

You're grossing us out.

Love,
Everyone

Summer visit?

So, last I heard, the summer camping trip is a no-go. Is anyone free any weekend? Maybe Six Flags near Milwaukee or a tubing trip somewhere closer to everyone? A couple days? Can anyone do that?

Go to this link...

and listen to the story called Grizzley Bear Attack. It's kind of long, but it almost made me puke in the car on the way home on Thursday. Are there bears in Minnesota?

http://thestory.org/archive/

Anyone find a flashlight?

I think my flashlight fell out of my bag, possibly into Margaret's living room, Eric's car, or Muncie. Anyone find it?

Dick Knows

Paul and Lucy's Wedding Photos

Did anyone happen to grab one of those cards at Paul and Lucy's wedding with the link to where the photos will be posted? If so, could you post it somewhere on the click?

Love,
Joey

Continuation of last post

After a small amount of research, I think it is actually attributed to climate change. It sounds like we are coming out of a la nina year and about to enter into an el nino year (which would cause midwest flooding). Since we aren't yet into the el nino phase, I vote climate change...which is kind of scary. Does this article make any more sense to Darcy or Kali than it does to me?

Link that failed in comment.

I tried to make this a comment with a link but I failed. Does anyone know how to do it? I looked up html tags and I'm pretty sure I coded it right, but the link ended up dead when it shouldn't have.

Save Your Bread

You guys remember the road we drove on to get to the super windy outlook thingy and the flood lines on the wooden post?? Well there will be another line on that post for this year's flood and here are pictures of what it looks like when the road disappears...

The ducks definitely won't be coming back any time soon.

P.S. Comment on the 10K Lakes Festival cause it will be awesome!!

Thanks:

I just wanted to thank everybody for inviting me to this awesome blog. I will try my best to keep myself up to date on events, and try my best to speel corretly, but no promises. Had one of the funnest weekend last week and hope to do it again shortly. Have fun at poultry Days.

Boo Blames Crutch.

think craze verbs, gwen.

achy scarred day
see tiger's mama?

kilts for a
jot career

a nicer lorde
a rat bark "hi".

10K Lakes

Music festival in Minnesota, July 23-26. Camping, Drinking, Fun. I think the line-up looks decent enough. medeski, flaming lips, phil lesh, a band called bonerama, and also, kata and joe. what more can you ask for??? If not, maybe something else over a long weekend.
Discuss.

love,
kali

Greeting Cards

So I was at Jewel today getting some cards for my brother's birthday, father's day, and two graduation cards for my cousins. Here's what I discovered: Hallmark doesn't make any father's day cards that don't reference one of the following things...
1) Beer
2) Farts
3) Fixing things
4) Pooping
or that aren't so incredibly sensitive that I started to lactate a little. I had to settle for a card that says "For Father's day I bought you this card" [open card], "This is the inside of it"- disappointment number one. Then I went to look for graduation cards and stumbled upon a whole section of "Happy Preschool Graduation" cards. Some of them had clowns, balloons and cheery encouraging messages inside them. The whole time I kept picturing the card I would give my preschooler upon the momentous occasion of his preschool graduation: "Happy Preschool Graduation Son!" [open card], "Too bad you can't read this"

Just think of this guy as a drunk midget

This is how one should pass out

Gus Gus

Happy Birthday

This Weekend

What is everyone thinking for this weekend? Were people considering going to Kevin's Friday night and then driving up to the wedding together? Joe and I would drive down to Chicago Friday night if everyone else was going to be there. Kevin, do you live north of the city?

Thoughts?

Next Weekend

Kevin and I were thinking about driving next weekend and this is what we propose for you guys to do so that we don't have to drive to Indy.

Darcy, can you pick Kevin up at work (he works right off of 80) on your way down to pick me up in Lafayette on Friday?

Kali, can you drive me back to Lafayette (I'm not asking as much as telling you that's how it's going to be.)

Petey, can you drop Kevin back off at his place of work on Sunday? This would require you to take 51/39 up to 90 but looking at a google map this time difference is merely 30 minutes and he offers to pay for your dinner.

Thanks guys, we appreciate it.

Minnesota vacation. Leave July 31st. What do people think about that? Anything that we want to make sure we do again?

I invited Heim to join clickyou. Just so everyone knows.

wtf mates?

no trinco photos?

i mean .... come on.

The Big He-bowski

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G9W4cQ_wTuI

Baby Names

Hi, my name is Messiah Smith.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/10/baby.names.ap.ap/index.html

I sold my X-box today....

to some guy who responded to my craigslist ad. I met him in the Jewel parking lot. At first I felt kind of bummed that I wasn't getting as much money for it as I had hoped. Then I met the guy. He was the comic book store owner from the Simpsons. To a tee. At least 40. Ponytail with a mostly bald head, check. Front seat of his car stacked to the window with comic books in plastic protector sheets, check. Nerdy, elitist attitude, check. Sixty extra pounds around the waist, check. He paid me $60 in sweaty, crumpled fives and singles. Suddenly I was glad I had gotten rid of the x box...

Mario Kart flashback

So I'm driving on I-80 today behind a red mini van and I go to pass it on the left, and the driver throws a banana peel out the window at me. How do you respond to that?

Summer Schedule

What's the plan for this summer? Here's what we've come up with so far, but let's get going so it can be as good as last summer!

May 17 - Minneapolis
May 24 - Rock Island/Memorial Day
May 31 - Mo Wedding
June 7 - Lucy Wedding
June 14 - Camping Trip?
June 21 - Weekend Off?
June 28 - Funcie Muncie

Schwartz on Bones

doesn't have that same ring to it does it? Bones and I were just sitting here last night lamenting the lack of new posts. What's new world?

Earth Day

You guys, we need to learn that the earth should be our bitch and not the other way around.

Memorial Day

Do we have something planned for memorial day weekend? We should...

Spider Fact

While learning about pheremones that spiders give off we learned about this awesome spider. It emits an ant pheremone and it holds it's 2 front legs up to look like ant antenna and it walks along with ants just so they think it belongs. And then it eats one every day! How stupid do ants have to be to think that a spider is one of their own?! idiots.

earthquakes are cool

Well, if they are small. Did you guys feel that last night? I thought I dreamt it until everybody was talking about it at work. I'm pretty sure the center of it wasn't that far from Bloomington.

swing

I just happened to be stopped outside of 512 just now for a few minutes and noticed someone chilling on that porch swing drinking a beer. I miss that place so much.

Embarrassed

Who: 7 people over 55
What: Trivia Night
Where: Bluegrass, IA
When: last Saturday night-no i'm not embarrassed to be out on a saturday night with my parents and their friends

The question: Fill in the missing link...Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slitherin

i kept thinking, this was one of the freakin longest posts on clickyou!!!!!! c'mon brain!!!!

minus 10 points.

Shoes

I was walking home yesterday and passed two older ladies (I'd say in their 60s). One posed an age old question to the other and I thought to myself...."I wonder how clickyou would respond?" So, dear friends, I pose the same question to you:

"Now that I can't wear high heels, how am I supposed show my identity?"

New Notebooks

Finally!!

This is why everyone is so afraid of HIV it comes in like an alien from another planet and attacks!

Who would you die for?

Would you die for your friends?

Life changing decision?

So I was in the city this weekend hanging out with my friend Bryan who just moved to Lincoln Park a while back and it was a total blast. The whole time he and his friends were bugging me to move to the city, but was mostly just rambling belligerent nonsense. Then this afternoon before I got on the train to come back to the burbs, he said that his lease is up in July (same as mine) and he has nobody to live with and would consider moving to the South Loop if I was interested. So now I have a dilemma. There are a couple people at work who live in the South Loop, but the commute is ~60 miles each way. They say it can be done in under an hour. So that's option 1: Move to the city, live with Bryan and possibly one other person thereby at least tripling the weekday fun factor, drive forever to get to work. Compare this with what I've been thinking about for the past month: Find a random roommate in the burbs, possibly move closer to work (I already commute 40 miles each way), embrace full fledged suburbanism, drive 1/2 way to forever to get to work. I can definitely afford the place I'm living in now, but it's too much room and it seems wasteful and too far from work for someplace I arbitrarily decided to live. If I move in with Bryan, I'll spend more on gas but I'll still end up saving $200-300/month over what I'm paying now. If I find a random roomie here, I'll save twice that plus not have to deal with the headache of driving so far. What do I do? The idea of a 120 mile round trip commute makes me shudder, but the thought of another year alone in the burbs may be even worse.

Hey Jude

wow: check out this little guy!!

Mandy Story Solved

Red and Mandy have been hanging out a bunch lately so today when I was "studying" with Red I asked her if she really thought that Mandy's entire family had cancer. The answer is?!

Mandy's mom has rheumatoid arthritis but takes a cancer medication for it (which is pretty standard) so Mandy thinks it's easier to just say she has cancer.

Mandy's sister might actually have cysts on her ovaries that are not cancerous. Since ovarian cysts can be cancerous, cancer it is.

Mandy's uncle died of cancer.

So duh, everyone in Mandy's family has cancer

Darcy, We're Sorry

We love you, we'll make it up to you, I swear.

Poop

In microbiology lab yesterday we were informed that the average adult leaves one half of a gram of poop in their butt after every bowel movement.

Wipe up!!

It's 3 PM...

time to eat some nuts

Crazier David

So I get home from SB '08 and all I want to do is sleep in my own bed instead of an air mattress. Now, I'm pretty much counting on the fact that I never lock the basement door cause I didn't have my keys with me - also my phone was completely dead. Of course, someone has locked the door while I was away for the week and I'm screwed because it's 3 in the morning. Thinking quick I realize that Eric and Kali were behind me by a few miles perhaps so if I could get to Eric's house before them then I might be able to secure a futon spot which isn't as good as my bed, but better than my car. Of course, they're already home and I assume that the door is locked. Next I try Heim and Jess's with no luck since they've been home for hours. I come back to my own place try all the doors again or to look for an outdoor electrical outlet in order to charge my phone and maybe call Eric... Again, no such luck on either account. I go to get my sleeping bag and am about to call it a night in the car when I think...no, I'll just go to McDonalds and sit there and charge my phone...at least it will be warm. As I pass by my house I see a light flick on...Someone must be home! David comes to the door confused as to why I'm pounding on it instead of just using the key that I should have been carrying.

At this point, I owe David at least some common courtesy points - he did just let me in at 3:30 in the morning and save me from a night in my car. He apparently has just gotten home from the bars and has loads of stories to tell me. All I could think about was the fact that it's 3:30, I've spent the last 16 hours in a car. I tried my best to pay attention and at this point all I could tell you was that he met a guy in the bar who was an asshole and he got shitty back and then felt bad about it because "if someone's an asshole, they can't help it. They are always going to be an asshole, so why should I be mean to him about it."

The point of all of this nonsense is that he thinks he is really good at understanding people, even the assholes in life. And he wants to be able to contribute to society by sharing his thoughts and ideas with the world. So if anyone is ever looking for a good read you can go ahead and point your browser to

www.davidwindmiller.com

Speaking of babies

We talked about this in class the other day and I thought it was pretty incredible...

Why did handgun fatality rates in the US drop so drastically around the 1980s?

If any of you have read the book Freakonomics then you know...

My New/Temporary Job

I applied to an onlide ad for teacher's assistants at a private school in the Quad Cities. I thought, well that's a good way to find out if i want to teach while makin moolah. at the interview i found out it was for two classrooms-the infant (-1 year) and the 3-5 yr olds. i thought it'd be fun to work with babies (i know, i know...it doesnt have much to do with teaching, but they're damn cute and i had to take the opportunity). the interviewer assured me i can still try the older room at any time to see which i like best. so my first day was today (wednesday) working in the baby classroom and here's what i learned:

-babies are freakin cute-minus the constant stream of mucus
-multiple babies can cause a large amount of stress over an 8 hour period
-one baby can cry the entire day, and people around him will say, "oh, he always does that"
-teacher's aid is a glorified way of saying babysitter of 12 kids under 1(in this "classroom" at least)
-either blue eyes are becoming more dominant or high-income parents tend to have kids with blue eyes
-a baby can produce so much poop at one time that it goes up the back of its shirt while he's standing up
-although the babies are adorable, i realized i should be in the 3-5 yr old classroom when a 3 yr old told me that swiper swiped dora's backpack, and he yelled "swiper, no swiping!!"

Stupid David

A. I can't stand to see my picture there when I load this site and
B. David is an idiot.

Today when I went into David's room to say hello, he told me he was reading Tucker Max. I was like, okay, Tucker Max can be pretty funny. Then David told me that it's a great website to go to for relationship advice. I didn't hear anything he said after that...blah blah blah he's my idol. Is he kidding me?! Tucker Max should be the last place anyone goes for advice on women...no wonder he went to speed dating and just asked girls if they were "Naughty or Nice".

Simply Marge

Scary clown.

The handhold.

Kali Cowering

etched in my brain forever...

HP6!!!!!!o

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince comes to theaters Nov. 21st!! GET PUMPPPED!

"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=204160399840666729

Happy Valentine's Day

because I love you all

Where are all the pictures?

From last weekend?? I need to live vicariously through Click You.

Remember whem prom princess fires guns...indiana is a crazy state.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/11/film.americanteen.ap/index.html

What kind of person can't frown? I think I belong in a circus.

Click you in Rock Island?

Let's find a weekend that we can all go to Rock Island and hang with dark-side. I'm voting for March 22 right now.

Favorite Vegas Memories...

i loved when u guys did this for pdays so...

-meeting up with nate, katie, kata, kevin (who's bag didn't exist according to the computers), and dustin (with nate holding his limo sign) at the vegas airport with the feeling of party in the air
-kali's crazy happy greeting in the hotel room:)
-marge's perfect cheek kiss search
-bscott's cream shots
-"just get eggs benedict, i swear";waitress- "you want eggs benedict? they're good", "yea, no. i'll have the croissanwich"
-finding my light up glass in the garbage can after 7am breakfast
-our waitress hitting on haywood during her show at Roxy's
-thinking the weekend couldn't get any better, then 20 more friends show up
-marge on the bangos with kali and nate dancing at the Art Bar
-kali-"are we giant feet kicking a giant soccer ball over the mountains?!"
-dan benjamin "according to the google document, this is the key to room 3 for which i have been designated to"
-finding maurice hangin out in a chinese garden
-kata-"how's my butt?"
-light as a feather, stiff as a board
-sharing rum and cokes in hotel cups
-pouring melted ice back into the ice bucket and getting harrassed as if it were the worst thing in the world--then uncontrollable laughter
-girth showing up at the bellagio fountain

-leonard's awkward handshake and stin's grandma handshake in reply
-going to the top of the world and planet hollywood
-playing electronic multiple-hand 21 for a loooooong time->and winning $5.50!!
-girth winning $350 on black 33 on his last $10
-being in vegas with 40 of your friends from all over the country!!!!!
-Mr. Freakshow Freakshow at Mr. Circus Circus' circus in Circus Circus

wow, there's so much to add that i left out...please add on. can't wait to do it again!!

Passes it to the man and.....

boom goes the dynamite!

Ehffing winter

For the past few days the high temperature has been in the single digits. Yesterday it was 1. There's a wind chill but so far no problem-its cold but I can deal with it. Today however it is -11 degrees not including the wind chill. My long undies aren't cutting it and I'm pissed.

F it, I'm going to Vegas.

See you guys in a few hours!!! Whoop whoop

Click YOU! in vegas

Do you guys want to get a room for vegas since me and eric are currently in katie's room for a total of 8 people...unless there are other rooms already organized.

marge, kata, schwartz, darcy, eric, what say you? if you already have rooms don't feel bad we will figure it all out and have a glorious time nonetheless.

also, obviously, joe you should still come, we can loan you the money....seriously.

cats are funny

in case you havent yet, you should check out the site i just saw from kata's facebook profile...

www. stuffonmycat.com

my stomach hurts. i hope yours will too. silly cats.

Super Pooper

I found a company that makes the odor free composting toilets that Darcy was talking about. The secret to the sweet aroma? It's a negative pressure tank. A fan blows air from your bathroom down the hatch and the composting chamber vents to the outside. Plus it's aerobic decomposition so you don't make as much H2S. Fancy! There's even a mechanism that closes a hatch over the poop chute when you're not sitting on the seat so you don't have to look at your dirty little secrets. Pretty interesting stuff. It looks like they sell them mostly to people who would otherwise have septic tanks though. At 370 Watts for the thermostatic heater and draft fan, I'm not sure the water it saves would be worth it. They also make one that has no heater and runs with a small exhaust fan on a car battery, but fewer BTU's means more P.U.'s

http://www.sun-mar.com/tech_our.html

vegas baby!

i just booked my flight to vegas! kata, joeybear, whats the story? you need to come if its possible...i promise youll win alot of money playing craps...i promise