Life is so unpredictable.....

Donna Ann Thayer 2/14/1967 ~ 7/16/2009

July 16th was like any other morning, where you drag yourself out of bed, clinging to your slumber as long as possible, before you have to run around like a chicken with your head cut off to make it to work on time. Work was your typical day, lots of work to do and it's endless hours until you can go home. All in all, it was just my usual day.... or so I thought.

I got home around 3:00pm, and Thomas had arrived shortly after I did. He sat down to beat some game he had been battling to win. I needed to go take some books back to the library and possibly hit Borders for their huge book sale. He kissed me goodbye and I took off to the library. After I left the library, I called Thomas to see if I really should go check Borders out, since I had barely just checked some more books out. He was like " Well, do whatever you want, I'm still playing this damn game." AKA...YES. ;)

So I went to Borders, spent maybe 20 minutes in there. I have my little handheld basket with a few books in it and I head to the checkout line. My phone starts to ring, I held my basket in the other hand at this point and dug my phone out of my pocket. I saw that it was Thomas, probably telling me how pissed he was at his game.

Well, here was the conversation:

Me: Hey!

Thomas: UH, hey....um....where are you?

Me: At Borders still, I'm leaving shortly...why?

Thomas: You can't come home.

Me: What the hell are you talking about?

Thomas: Listen...UH...some cops just came by our door to ask some questions, so uh yeah it's really crazy right now....they were asking me if I heard gunshots or fighting next door....so...

Me: WHAAAAAAAAAAATT????!!! Why would they ask you that?!!! What's going on??!!!!

Thomas: I have no idea, Somer!! I'm totally freaking out over here. I think it's our neighbor across the hall...something has happened to her...they found her shot dead in her bedroom.

Me: OH MY GOD, Thomas!!! (I burst into tears and drop my basket) Please don't say things like that, HOW??!!!

Thomas: I don't know, but the officer told me that I should probably get out of here. I told him that I would call you and I would take off. Somer, there are cops everywhere....I can even see her sons outside on the sidewalk crying!!!

Me: What are we going to do?!!! Are you sure it's her?!!!! I'm scared!!!

Thomas: I think so, I'm sorry...I'm going to take off right now...let's go meet somewhere....

Me: Was it murder??? Someone came in and murdered her?? Did you hear anything??? Is he still there?? OH MY GOD, THOMAS...I am freaking out!!!

Thomas: Listen, you need to just calm down, there's nothing we can do except just let the police investigate, they don't know what's going on...just piecing things together...OK?

Me: Alright, I need to go...I'll call you in a minute...people are looking at me..Bye.

We decided to meet at a local Target a couple miles away. I didn't end up buying anything because I was shaking too much and I was in a daze. We sat together on a bench and let the breeze dry my tears. I was still hot and sweaty from being in my hot car and crying, so it felt nice to just chill out. We ended up hanging out at Thomas's parents house for a few hours and then we came back home. We walked by her patio and all her lights were on. I didn't see anything else, just no Donna.

She usually sat on her patio, smoking a cigarette, playing with her dog and would say her Hellos and Goodbyes. She occasionally had her boyfriend over that she would laugh and joke around with. He was fairly new, but she seemed to like him a lot. She used to let me play with her dog, Maddie, who was a little pomeranian. She loved to talk to Thomas and I, and she would always stop us on our way out or way in to our apartment. I didn't know her very well, but what I did know about her I liked. =)

We later found out that it wasn't murder, it was suicide.

A couple of days ago, I was in the kitchen cooking dinner, when it hit me that I had left my ipod out in my car. I scrambled around to hurry out to my car to get it. I opened the door to find Donna's boyfriend standing at her door with a note that he had left stuck on her door. My eyes bugged out of my head, because right then, I realized that he didn't know. I said, " Oh, hi..how are you?" He's like, " I'm good...how are you?" I said, " I'm doing well, thanks..." I turned around slightly to lock my door. I said that I had to hurry and run a couple of errands. The only thing was that I had neglected to throw any shoes on, obviously because I was only planning on running out to my car. I didn't want him to know that though, or else he probably would've wanted to stick around an chat. It wasn't my place to tell him what had happened, but later on I was questioning on whether I should have or not. I just felt so bad that he thought he was being ignored, but that wasn't the case at all. I ended up calling the police to tell them he had been by and for someone to notify him. I felt even worse when I read the note going back to my apartment. It said, " Bonjour Donna, I very much care for you. Love, D." I haven't seen him since.

It's weird because I can't help but look at her car when I pull up to my parking stall or look up at her patio expecting her to still be there. I have no idea what would prompt her to do that, but I don't think any life is worth not living.

Eat your heart out Twilight!!!

I'm an avid reader and my latest find is called the House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and her daughter, Kristin Cast. Posted above is the latest book in the series that I picked up today, which I have been highly anticipating. This series has been compared to Twilight, but I have no idea why.... Yes, it's about vampires. Um, what else...I guess hot guys are in it too. (The only guy I found attractive in the Twilight movie was Rosalie's boyfriend, I can't remember his name...)

I really don't see any other similarities. It's not all sappy and goofy like Twilight is, where you have the main chick swooning over one guy obsessively, so much that it makes you put the book down for a few days and make a few trips to the toilet to throw up. It has sex in it, and , oh my god...they're not married. It also has some F-words, S-words, W-words, B-words...etc. You get the point. Not that I need sex and vulgarity to make a book, but it definitely keeps the book in my interest a little longer. To me, Twilight was an over-hyped, boring, drawn out, predictable (especially the last book ) being weird as all hell book. So, it just wasn't my thing.

This series rocks. I started the first book called " Marked" about 2 months ago. I was just walking around Borders (like I do) and as weird as it sounds, the cover drew me to it. It was nonetheless in the Teen section, so after my disappointment with the Twilight shenanigans, I was very hesitant on putting myself through that again. I bought it anyway, giving it a fair chance. It was only 9.00, so it wasn't a total loss if I hated it. ;) The first couple of chapters of it, I had to admit were a little goofy, but soon after I was enthralled in the story. The dialogue was real and so were the people they interacted with. I started the second book called "Betrayed" a week or so later. It was awesome. I found myself getting more and more excited to go to the next page. I went back to Borders and picked up the last two books just a couple of weeks ago, so I could space them out in time for the book that came out today =) So, the moral of this story is ..."If you can read a book and it plays in your head as your reading it, keep going. But, if you're reading a book and all you see are words, you should stop because you are wasting your time."

Or if you're making gagging sounds and rolling your eyes frequently .... The Twilight Series.

Rockband vs Guitar Hero

Yes, ladies and gentleman...the question I am asking is, "Which is better?" Guitar Hero was the first type of game of its kind with a guitar controller, at which you press button along with the game just like you are playing an actual guitar. But wait, what is this Rockband thing that decided to come in on the action? It's Guitar Hero but easier, so retards like me can play on Medium (when I should be playing on Easy.) Wowzas!!! Thank you Rockband for my instant boost of self-esteem, I'll take it! But why in the world would I think it's easier? I'll show you.....

Figure A)

The chords are larger, so you're not able to see very many in advance to when they are coming at you to play.

Now, take a look at Rockband (woot!)

Figure B)

The chords are smaller and you can see like 10 chords in advance, so you are ready!!!


I came to this conclusion the other night when Thomas and I were over at Tim and Lilian's. I was all proud of myself that I could play on Medium and not die. So, as soon as I got home that night we plugged the Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar game in. Let's just say a lot of not so nice words started to stream out of my mouth. My new talent was brought back to reality and stomped the hell out of. =( We have both games, but Rockband 2 is the only one that is worth playing. Because I'm awesome and I want it to stay that way, dammit!!