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( So soon you will learn to forget bad times, the rules, and regrets )

I'm very happy today, for several reasons. One is that because the facility overbooked their regular caterer, I got back a portion of the deposit on the wedding venue for their mistake plus they're hiring another, better, caterer at their cost. Awesome.

Second, the landscaping is finished on the pool. Every stone is laid, the partial rock wall is up, and all the plants are in the ground. The new extension is done on the patio too, as well as the pool deck which has a great built in barbecue and bar. This means that everyone should come over for a dip in the pool! We'll have a swim, grill some steaks and have some beers. It's gonna be a blasty blast!

Also just so everyone knows, I love my Lex. Just throwing that out there.

Today I graduated from the walker to the cane. Thursday I go back to work at the store, managing and dictating and such. It'll be nice to get out and go again.

Still in love with Alex.
Playing around with wedding plans/ideas.
Daisy and Cotton are growing like crazy. I've been building a new fence for them out back.
Getting the itch to visit back home. Maybe soon.
We'll see.

Alex. Don't be pissed at me. I bought you something today, and I know you're gonna be mad. I just know it. But I got a fucking awesome deal on it.



Before you freak. It's a 2010 Honda Civic EX-L Sedan. Tons of room, rides smooth, perfect inside. I saw it in Auto Trader and the guy brought it over today, and Carter drove it and I rode shot gun. Thing handles like a dream, doesn't even have 4 thousand miles on it. The guy bought it for his daughter for college, she barely drove it when he first bought it for her, and turns out she can't even have a car on campus. He sold it to me for cheap. I paid with a check, so there's no bill to pay on it. We just gotta get the insurance and everything.

You may yell now.

This is so boring. Does anyone want to come over? I can't really do much, but we can talk. Or watch Sports Center. I just need human face to face interaction while Alex is out of the house.

Save my sanity!

Alex and I are the proud parent's of a baby boy and girl....they're beagles, of course.



I'm extremely excited to have them. I missed Tucker, and they're gonna be great to have around the house.

( Bryan, Patrick, Bill, & Julian, read me. )

Seth and Alex are in....ATHENS!





Tiny Alex is tiny.

So here I am, packing for Greece. It's not going to be the same without Alex, but she has to work, and I understand and respect that. I'm not really in the mood to go, but I invested a lot in this trip, so I shouldn't let it go to waste. I leave Friday evening, and it'll be nice I guess to be on a vacation, even if I am by myself.

For the record, I hate packing. I'm attempting to fit it all into one suitcase. Let's see how this goes.

I miss her.

Without her and Tucker, this place is empty and quiet.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Character Name: Seth Lyle Crawford
Age/Birthday: 30 // July 7th, 1980
Sexuality & Relationship Status: Straight - Married to Alexandrea Chalker-Crawford (alex_chalker)
Job: High school varsity basketball coach.

How did they find Heritage Lake?: Seth moved to Heritage Lake at age 22, after a car accident ruined his basketball career for good. He needed to get away from his crumbling life, so he simply packed up the car and took off across the country. He stopped for a few days in the summer, and decided he liked the town. It was the perfect place to start over, and he's still in town eight years later.

Appearance: Seth is fairly tall at around 6'5", and athletically built. He's very thin and lean but muscular, especially in his arms and torso. Though he hasn't played basketball since he was in his early 20's, he still makes a point to work out every day and runs drills when he can, just to stay in shape. When he walks it's with a visible yet slight limp, something he has lived with since he was 21 years of age. When he's wearing shorts the scar that runs from his knee to ankle is visible, a reminder of the accident he suffered that ended his career.

Most notable about his appearance, however, are his eyes which are a very startling and stunning pale icy blue. He has a very penetrating gaze, and his eyes are extremely expressive. Even if his mouth and body are lying, his eyes will almost always give him away. They stand out against his dark hair (it's black in winter but lightened to a nice brown in summer by the sun), and his olive complected skin. His eyes tell his story, how much he is hurting and how bitter he often feels towards the world as a whole. It's the only true way to find out how he honestly feels about something.

Portrayed By: Ian Somerhalder

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Personality: Seth is, to put it mildly, rather bitter deep down inside. The things that happened to him when he was 21 and 22 years old jaded him, and made him generally angry at the world. He tends to keep things bottled up inside until he can't stand it anymore, expelling them in outbursts of anger. He doesn't like to let people get too close, his relationships not extending far past the occasional one night stand, because he has a history of being hurt and rather deeply at that. He distances himself from emotional situations and moments, preferring to keep everyone around him at arms length. It's very rare that he breaks down the walls he's built up, and while he puts on a smile for people he comes in contact with, it never quite reaches his eyes.


This is not to say that Seth is a mean or ill-willing person, he isn't at all. He's very courteous with good southern manners and a generally good attitude towards other people. He helps out when and where he can, and he tries not to let his personal pitfalls and feelings come into play when he doesn't know a person. He likes to have a good time, even if the feelings don't last for a prolonged period of time.

History: Seth Crawford was born in Beaufort, South Carolina in the summer of 1980, after his mother returned to the south from a summer at Heritage Lake. She was a young woman, only 22 years of age, and pregnant as the result of a fling with a very much married man by the name of Hank Gatlin. He had tried persuade her to abort the child, fearing a scandal could ruin his marriage and career, but rather than live with the guilt of killing the child (as she saw it), Elena Rice simply left town without a word. She quietly married Eddie Crawford, widowed father of two, after returning home and settled down to a nice life. Seth never knew the truth of his conception, under the impression his mother had simply gotten pregnant and so she'd married his 'father', and no one ever told him differently.

His parent's were hardworking middle class southern folk who owned a farm and made the majority of their money from the cotton and sugar cane fields. Growing up on a large farm (which had once been a very prosperous plantation, the land having been in his family since before the Civil War) he spent most of his free time running barefoot, helping out here and there, and playing basketball with his friends.

Growing up, Seth had to share his parent's love and affection with six brothers and sisters, and was the very middle child out of the seven of them. It was hard, not being oldest or youngest but right slab in the middle, and he would always strive to find ways to set himself apart. He did fair in school, but good enough, and he was okay at football, but not as good as his older brothers. The one thing he was good at, however, that he was best at was hoops. He joined the team his sixth grade year, and immediately was set apart from the other boys. He was on the high school varsity team by eight grade, and showed great promise to go on to bigger and better things.

By the time he entered high school, Seth was receiving gifts to try and sway him to sign on to this college or that college. Signing a promissory note was a big deal, and offers were on the table from all over the country, and they just kept pouring in year after year. He was torn between the University of South Carolina, Duke University, and the University of Kentucky when he met a girl named Amanda Oakley who was on vacation with her family during the summer between his junior and senior years of high school. Amanda was from Paris, Kentucky, just down the road from Lexington which the University of Kentucky called home, and his whirlwind summer romance, and the promise of a real relationship after graduation, swayed him.

Seth would be playing in Rupp Arena for the Wildcats.

After graduation, Seth left his family behind in Bennettsville and moved to Lexington on his own. Classes were tough, and practices were grueling, but he fell into the promised relationship with Amanda and life was good, if but tiring. He excelled at his sport and did great in his classes, even working part-time in the summers to be able to rent an apartment and stay close to his girlfriend. By his sophomore year he was so in love he proposed, and Amanda accepted. The wedding was quick, she didn't want to wait, and they married over Christmas break before moving into a house paid for by her family. Seth continued to play basketball, and things felt absolutely and totally perfect.

Until the fall of his junior year when the accident happened. Then absolutely everything in his world changed.

Seth was leaving classes for the day, when he came to a four way stop on Harrodsburg Road. The light changed and he went only to be t-boned by another driver who decided not to stop at their own red light. The police said later that he was lucky to have even survived, a fact that was not at all comforting given the fact that both of his legs were broken, one of them shattered almost to the point of disrepair. Surgery was required, and Seth was put on the injured list for the basketball season. He had to officially withdraw from classes for the semester, and spent most of his time either at home or in physical therapy.

Things began to change with Amanda, and not for the better. They were almost constantly together now, with Seth home instead of off at games and practices, and the two fought nearly nonstop. By that spring, just after Seth was finally able to start walking on his own again, she moved out of their place and back in with her parents. She filed for divorce in May, and Seth had the very horrible feeling suspicion that she should only been with him at all because of his fame on the college ball court, and the possibility that he would be recruited by the NBA. Once he was ruined and broken, she had no more use for him, and the realization made him sick.

By June he was able to walk and get around quite well, though he had a limp that doctors speculated would never quite go away. Faced with the harsh reality of his career in athletics being over, and no desire to stay in Lexington now that he was an about to turn 22 year old divorcee, Seth did the only thing he could thing of to do that would make him feel at least marginally better. He packed up his car, bought an Atlas, and left town. He traveled across the country, visiting cities and small towns, camping in his car and just being free. He began to see things more clearly the more he moved on, wondering what the hell he'd been doing wasting his life on a girl he'd really honestly barely even known, and putting all his faith in a career path that was shaky at best.

He was trying to get a life plan together when he stopped in a place called Heritage Lake, a place his mother had talked about rather fondly when he was growing up. She had spent several summers there with her family, and she had seemed to have a special connection with the place, a connection that Seth always seemed to feel. Camping out for a few days to try and get his act together turned into staying a week and then two. The longer he stayed that summer the more in love with the place he fell. A sign in the window of Outdoor World prompted him to take a job, and he rented a small apartment. He got promoted to assistant manager, and saved enough money to move into a town house.

Going on eight years later he is still in Heritage Lake, the manager of Outdoor World and the owner of a new house on the outskirts of town. He's kept mostly to himself over the years, too afraid to let people in after what happened with Amanda. He still thinks fondly about his 'glory' days, and often wonders how things might be different if one man hadn't run a red light. He still walks with a limp, worse on colder days, and he spends time at the local Y, shooting hoops by himself. Someday he hopes to meet someone he feels he can let in, someone he can be unguarded around, but until that day comes he's just the quiet manager at the sporting goods store, watching people with his piercing blue eyes and wondering about how mistakes made in his past might have changed his entire future.

Fears: Deep water, bridges, too much traffic.
Desires: To meet someone he feels comfortable with, to be able to let his guard down, to stop being bitter about things he can not change.

One Secret: Just before he proposed, Amanda was pregnant with their child. The University, not willing to risk a media frenzy, paid for her abortion.