kate: come home!
jkrewdotcom: I want to!
gay dave and I went to camelot for lunch
kate: without me!?
I went to moby dick's with your mom. we got kabobs
jkrewdotcom: haha good =)
kate: haha brian is harrassing me about meeting aeryn
jkrewdotcom: I'm actually kind of surprised at your reaction to me going to a strip joint in the middle of the work day with a gay co-worker
but vis a vis I always say
kate: well I didn't remember it was a strip joint first off
jkrewdotcom: crap
kate: and secondly who the hell am I to say what you can and can not do?
jkrewdotcom: maybe I should have just let that one slip by eh?
kate: did you fuck anyone while there?
jkrewdotcom: well, we're practically married and thats what husbands and wives do right?
kate: did you give any woman money for a sexual favor?
jkrewdotcom: actually, as soon as we got in and he saw a boob, he freaked out and ran out the front door
kate: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
jkrewdotcom: so we ended up eating mini burgers on a street corner
kate: I would be kind of concerned as to why you're going to a strip club, am I not attractive to you? do you wish I would dance around on a pole for you? should I put out more? let alone during the day (;
jkrewdotcom: well, we were all wondering what to eat and I shout out "camelot!" as I always do and this one time gay dave actually said yes because he's never been to a strip joint so he and I went
kate: that's fine
haha
jkrewdotcom: and then we ran out because we were scared
plus all of the strippers had bullet wounds and knife scars
kate: OMG AWESOME! hahaha
jkrewdotcom: yeah good times.

If I had the money, I would buy this and fill it with tears from a taiwanese virgin princess every single day.

How should I feel when I find out the dame I went to prom or some kind of highschool dance (homecoming?) is married with child in the same hometown from 10 years ago?

Is that good? Bad? Is it sad that I'm struggling and floundering with my own future only a state away?

If you asked me this the same time two years ago I would say yes, it's sad. In my mind, I had nothing back then. You've read the story balh blah blah.

Now, at this present time, it's not that bad. I have a wonderful GF, a great job (that sucks sometimes but what job doesn't), I have a great hobby that I have the pleasure of sharing with said GF (which means the fucking world to me bytheway), great roommate, great dog (with allergies up the arse) and I have this great habit of using parenthesis (I know, crazy).

I have no idea where I'm going with this. I guess you can't ever go home again, leave the past in the past and when you want to see if there are any fellow highschoolers on MS, you should just surf for something else.

Like hardcore fisting dutch scat porn.

jkrewdotcom: sloppy. Case closed.
herobynight: perfect. case reopened and then closed once more.
jkrewdotcom: haha
low and sagging, just like Bush's approval ratings. Case closed part deux.
herobynight: lusty, rich, and ready to grab. like the clinton administration.
jkrewdotcom: haha touché
herobynight: haha
jkrewdotcom: I say we get our girlfriends to wrestle in nighties and let them prove who is right
TEAM SAGGY WILL OWN YOU
herobynight: I can't imagine any other realistic way to end this debate
jkrewdotcom: I concur
herobynight: team perky is already one notch above sagging
we've got the upper hand
I can't think of too many other play on words
jkrewdotcom: we must take it to the wrestle pit and we'll see who comes out the victor
herobynight: I think exploiting our girlfriends at the pits is the natural progression
but then both of us are the victors
jkrewdotcom: I think everyone wins in this contest. We get to see a show and the girls get to do what their basic primal need tells them to do: wrestle in an oil pit in their nighties as nature intended.
herobynight: my only concern: erin's subtle yet ubiquitous homosexual tendencies
jkrewdotcom: hey, I'm not going to interfere with the beauty of nature

Ok so I have this friend in Detroit who I met over the int0rwebs many moons ago and over the past year or so, we have gotten to be pretty close e-friends. He gives me advice about marriage and babies and stuff and I give him advice and stories about girls and stuff he will never be able to do because he is married and has babies.

Anyhoo, he often sends me pics and crap to my phone and today was no different. On my way to take my afternoon constitutional, I received a photo of a scantilly clad woman...

Well, needless to say, it was time for some payback. In mid urine stream, I decided to take a pic of said stream and send it back to him but instead of hitting "reply" on my phone, I looked up his cell number in my phonebook and happily hit send and waited for the fireworks.

Nothing.

So I go to get some coffee and while I was walking back, I get a call from his cell. I cheekily answer "sup playah!" (because he is a total hip-hop head and grew up in detroit next to eminem or something) and I was replied back with a very angry black woman screaming, "WHO THE FUCK IS THIS?! AND WHY ARE YOU SENDING ME PHOTOS LIKE THAT!!!"

I panic and logically, instead of hanging up, I kept talking thinking he had given the phone to a friend to goof me once more.

The lovely woman of african american descent and I exchanged colorful commentary for about 30 seconds until I realised that I, had indeed, sent the photo to his old phone number which was now being used by someone else in Detroit.

So, needless to say I am a complete and utter moron and will never take a photo of my urine stream and send it to anyone ever ever again.

LOL@me indeed.

As you all know, I can shop like a motherfucker. I once wanted a boser (angry looking) hood for my car but they were going for 800$ bucks. Well, I found a dude who had an OEM replacement carbon fiber hood for 200 bucks. I bought it, then traded it for a metal jetta hood, kept it in my closet for two months and then when someone was looking for a jetta hood and would trade for his boser hood, I snatched it up. I rocked the hood for a summer and then sold it for 400 bucks.

Easy 200 bucks profit.

My wheels? I bought them for 1200 and sold them almost two years later for 1400. I rule. Jesus loves me.

Anyhoo, yesterday I came across one of my daily checked deal sites and it had the following:


Amazon.com has KitchenAid Gourmet Essentials Hard-Base Aluminum 12-Piece Cookware Set for $22.99. Find a $2.01 filler to get free shipping. This will not last long.

Now, that's $511.26 dollars worth of cookware. For $23 bucks.

I guess it was either a mistake or someone on amazon got pissed, made the sale and quit. Anyways, I got three sets. About 5 minutes after I made my purchase, the sale was gone.

$1500 bucks worth of goodies for $68 bucks. And shipping to my door is free!

When I get the goodies, I will then sell each set for $300 bucks on craigslist. $832 dollar profit for a few minutes of my time.

I'll keep you updated =)

if this job gets any more boring I am going to start killing for entertainment purposes.

Jesus christ. This blows.

and producing such hard to find items as pop-out windows =)

Thx kate for the "agent" service!

KEFoster: hey
are you done w/ the sfl medicare brochure?
jkrewdotcom: um, I dunno, he just sort of left
KEFoster: what?
no, i mean the stuff you were doing
for richard
jkrewdotcom: well we started talking and then he left and never came back. He may be lost or something
KEFoster: creating a new quark doc?
he said that you were going to fix the colorectal cancer image and then resave the quark doc
jkrewdotcom: yeah, I made one of the changes he wanted and then he said he was going to find out if he needed to change the order and said he would get back to me and has never gotten back to me. I'm assuming he has either been eaten by wolves, abducted by pygmies or went AWOL and is now crawling in the air ducts
KEFoster: oh we are not changing the order
jkrewdotcom: well fuck me kristin! That shit could have been brought to my attention 30 god damn minutes ago. WTF
I quit.
KEFoster: Fine, you're a hack anyways. See if I care.
jkrewdotcom: I should have never slept with you for that raise.
KEFoster: Whatever jason, worst 23 seconds of my life anyways.
jkrewdotcom: damn, burn.

workis4jerks:Why does design have to suck so much ass? I'm sick of it.
I need to get into writing commercial jingles. Yeah, that's it.
jkrewdotcom: hahaha whats wrong honeybear?
workis4jerks:Uhm... design sucks so much ass?
jkrewdotcom: well christian, we are young
No promises, no demands
workis4jerks:Yes, you and Kate are.
jkrewdotcom: Searchin’ our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield
workis4jerks:Bahahaha

I used to ask myself when I was dating my ex, "What the fuck is love, what does it feel like and when I finally fall into it, will I know it as well as how long will it last?"

And it's weird to me because at the time, I knew I wasn't "in" it, wasn't close to having it and I knew that what I thought I once had was now long gone and lost.

I was very unsure of myself and my feelings towards kate when I first started dating her. I was a wreck. I was just coming off a 4-5 month bender and I really wasn't anyone I knew at the time. Take it this way, I was beat to shit from dating for the past 8+ years (not all of those years were bad mind you), spent a summer of damaging actions to my mind, my body and my self esteem. And there I was, at the edge of the deepend, just about to jump in. And as anyone knows, I don't build walls for myself. Shit, half the int0rnet knows about my personal life (which I am fine and dandy with) and once again, I had this massive wall built up just so I wouldn't get hurt.

Kate was a n00b too. We had NO idea what the fuck we were doing. She thought one thing, I thought another and when we were together, we looked like two monkeys fucking a football. It was just a plain ole clusterfuck. She was attached to my hip due to never being in love-love before and there I was pushing her back a bit because I didn't want to be vulnerable and give her myself 100%.

This went on for a good 6 months. It was hard. It really was. I wasn't sure if she was right, I wasn't sure if I was right. I had incredible baggage and I just couldn't give my all at the time. Kate was living for me, not for her and that was tough. I wanted a girlfriend (well, actually, I didn't know what I wanted) and she was more of a student making me the teacher.

Here was this old guy who had gone through an 8-year stint with Satan herself and I was damaged goods. I was out of shape, aged and tired. And there she was... this wonderfully naive young woman for whom I had no business dealing with. She was young and fresh and innocent (not that innocent mind you... god bless catholicism and it's harsh effects on wayward girls). She taught me to be young again (and seriously, I wasn't old-old, I just felt old-old), she taught me to enjoy the finer things in life due to her gourmet upbringing and I taught her to enjoy Papaya King, dive restaurants and the beauty of a V6 engine.

And here we are, almost 1.5 years later. We are COMPLETELY different people in terms of where we started. She acts like a pro with this whole relationship thing for the most part and I have learned to love again, to trust and feel again. And yeah, we both have issues to deal with but we will get through it God willing. If it doesn't work out, at least we will know that we tried but I don't see that happening any time soon.

Kate, to me, is what I want to settle down with for the rest of my life. I always wondered if "normal" time with someone would be boring but it is fantastic each and every day I spend with her. Menial tasks such as working out, cooking or cleaning the house are just so much better when she is there. I don't have to doubt her or second guess her. I don't have to wonder if she is cheating on me (this is quite possibly the best gift she has given me to date) and I don't have to worry about her giving herself to anyone else. She actually looks better to me first thing in the morning when she has dragon breath and JBF hair and sleep lines on her face than when she does dolled up (don't get me wrong, I looove when she gets dolled up.)

I hurt when she hurts. I am happy when she is happy. And I'm ok with that.

I'm gonna marry this girl someday. And yes, that whole "love" thing. It's true what they say and as cheesy as it sounds, you just know.

He went into a coma yesterday and finally left this world this morning. He had two kids, my mom and Uncle Jack. He was a horrible husband and a pretty horrible father, he was a millionare and then lost it all after being defamed on 60 minutes. He had a stroke, lost half the use of his body and lived the rest of his days in a home.

He was also one of the most successful business men in DC and had the strongest will of any person I have ever known. I should have gotten to know him better. I had plans of writing a book about his life and what he went through but never did it due to fear of actually talking to him.

God speed grandpa.

But on a lighter note, my new dubber buddy jrowny came over and helped me install a new 20th AE steering wheel!

HUZZAH!

Here's a pic of us taking off the wheel and trying not to die from an exploding airbag


Looks like this (without all of the other red-stitched garrish shite)

I really need to get my shit together. I hate this area/house/job/life/money issue/lethargic mood/rut I'm stuck in place.

For fucks sake, I can be so much more than this.

She missed me on Easter because she was all the way in Hawaii =(

*sigh

Welcome home Dara =)

Dear Mr. Halstead,

You can have your pastor, I'm sticking with this dude.

Sincerely,
JKREW

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

My personal top 10: (feel free to contribute)

10. I am a Slave 4 U - Britney Spears
9. Dirrty - Christina Aguilera
8. Lapdance - n.e.r.d.
7. Pink - Aerosmith
6. Candy Girl - New Edition
5. She's Got Legs - ZZ Top
4. Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
3. Nasty Girl - Vanity
2. Girls Girls Girls - Motley Crue



and the number one spot, without a doubt...

1. Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

You can always look at this to make you feel better.

I,

• went to the junkyard with kate and found parts for Betty
• Did this: http://www.vwfixx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55732
• And this: http://www.vwfixx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55733
• Saw how rediculous kate's parents are being even more
• Had one of the best naps of my life after eating a delicious club sandwich with my roommate. (He napped in his room.)
• Ate dinner with my mom and pops and talked about kate's family, did an easter egg hunt and yelled at old people in front of her building
• Got fairly tipsy and fell asleep at 10pm after listening to kate cry because of her parents

Yay!

Oh and p.s.,

[edit]nevermind[/edit]

please come home. we really miss you.

love,

mom and dad

AboutJon: yea.. so here's the unfortunate thing about republicans, religious zealots, or extremists of any kind. They are stubborn as fuck and you'll never win or educate them.
jkrewdotcom: yeah and here I am thinking I can haha
AboutJon: nope
not gonna happen
especially not you
jkrewdotcom: I'm at least going to tell them off if it doesn't work
AboutJon: but nothing you can say is going to make them go "Ya know what Jason. You're right. Take my daughter right now."
jkrewdotcom: hahaha
think I have a chance to tell them that they need to start talking about issues rather than sweep them under the rug? Thats my only goal.
AboutJon: No.
jkrewdotcom: nice!
AboutJon: I mean, you can try. But you have to understand that when you're talking to someone like that they don't hear sentences
or points, not even bullet points
if you made a power point and a graph
they'd still only hear this "i'm fucking your daughter, nah nah nee boo boO!"
jkrewdotcom: hahaha
yeah
AboutJon: so what's Kate's attachment to them? She lives there... she goes to school?
what's to stop her from moving out?
jkrewdotcom: thats about it
father is pulling the "golden rule" rule
AboutJon: you've gatta get her out of that house. That's the only solution I see.
she should apply to be an RA... her parents would respect that and she'd have to live on campus
and she could walk around and be like "Gatta hide those beer bottles people"
jkrewdotcom: well here's my issue... the entire family walks on egg shells because they don't talk. They just sort of SUCK at communicating
so maybe I can sort of get the ball rolling to make some healthy changes
I dunno. Maybe I'm walking into certain death but our relationship is never going to improve if we don't talk
AboutJon: you can try. But I don't think it will successfully come from you.
jkrewdotcom: yeah I totally agree.

Soon, I will face hell and hopefully I will come out the victor. Going back and reading this kind of makes me upset that I looked like the bad guy after writing this.

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

HAPPICH Fahrzeug- und Industrieteile GmbH made some rear windows for the MK2 Golf platform in the mid 80's and sold them for around 200$ a set. They only made 500 sets and only sold them in Germany.

Then they stopped production.

Now, are these windows made of gold? Nah. Do they make the car go faster? Nope. Well, what's the big fuss then? Well, they "pop out".
(see figure 1)

(figure 1)


In the MK2 VW world, these windows are the holy grail of dubbers among a few other mods you can do to the car to not only increase it's show value, it increases it's resale value to another enthusiast. And anyone who doubts the resale value of a modded volkswagen can simply check out my bank account and the almost 200% profit I made in reselling all of my equipment from Dara. Only a handful of Vw's have these windows in the States and I know two of the owners personally. The only other owner that I know of lives in California.

So, after searching for 2 months for these windows, dodging scammers and flakes along the way, I found them. In Belgium. A Mr. Rosiers was selling a mint set, still in the box I might add. I quickly contacted him within hours of him posting them on ebay.de (yes, I've been checking ebay in every european country, daily, for the past two months...) and he agreed to ship them to the states.

Today I went to an international currency exchange bank to do the transfer and was blown away at the service I received. I was greeted at the door, asked what my business was and after telling them I was requesting an international wire transfer, I was escorted to a private room along with "an assistant" for my transaction. I was given tea! I honestly felt like James Bond while I was there.

"Sending money to a business partner in Belgium" I said. (Oh my, I am so upper crust today.)

So with all of the information typed into the computer, I was told my wire was successfully sent and I was on my way. I thanked "my assistant" for the tea and floated out the door. Not only was I the hottest thing since sliced bread for the past 25 minutes, I was now awaiting my beautiful package to be dropped off at my door.

And they say modding cars is a sickness. I totally, without a doubt, agree.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/04/12/rabbit/index.html

Man I love this place. It's making me poor though.
http://www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com

More good deals...
http://www.salehug.com

Expensive goodies from Belgium.
http://designsponge.blogspot.com

Cheap modern treats!
http://www.grassrootsmodern.com

Got some new plates today. Yes the plates look dope (first year for the MK2 chassis), but kates booty still is quite impressive over everything else.

Dayum guuurl...

The wipers were showing some age as well as pesky rust so I took em off, cleaned em and shot em with some engine paint. Just like brand new and one more thing to clean up the front a little.

(before)


(paint)


(after)

are fucking annoying. It took me and my mom 17+ years to fix our relationship to the point it is at now. Now I have a whole new family to fix? Fuck that. It's almost not worth it.

Sometimes I am tired of baggage. Sometimes I am tired of being the whipping boy. Sometimes I am tired of seeing something that is so fucked up it is beyond explanation to those who see it with blind and naive eyes.

But when have I ever given up on something that matters?

Other than rollerblading, reading, designing a poster every night, model building, my ex girlfriend, exercising, not drinking...

I present to you, Casa de JKREW...

The kitchen


The Workout/Computer/Movie/Car Parts/Plant room


More plants


Living room


Living room part II


In-wall 5.1 surround system (still coughing up attic insulation)


My deck and some babies soaking up some sun


My main man waking up from a nap

Kate and I cleaned her up a bit by razor blading the windows to get some weird paint off of it. Super clean now!

I also modded the rear wiper this morning as I felt it didn't flow too well with the car. It just sort of hung out up and to the left for no reason so I took apart the rear hatch and reversed the gearing by 180º and now it sits flush to the window stripping! Totally anal but it cleans up the rear so much better than before =)

(before)


(after)