It's pretty freaking sweet. I love it! Although it does seems like it's just a long summer camp so far, but that's just because I've only been here for a week. My classes are pretty cool...well most of them. I'm really going to love my chemistry and biology classes because the teachers KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT! At Western it was really hit-or-miss with teachers so it was hard to get into a subject if the person teaching knew about as much as you did. My calculus teacher is really cool too, she is very good at explaining things and has good handwriting which makes things easy to read.
I don't know where people say all this free time in college comes from though. I've had stuff to do every weekday that we've had classes so far. I am so relieved to finally have the weekend (even though I have to read over 40 pages of material for my classes combined and answer a butt-load of questions by Monday). It's all good though, I don't have cable in my dorm room which, I know, sounds bad, but in fact, it's fantastic! With no cable I don't sit around watching TV wasting precious time that I could be doing my work. Also, with no cable, it forces me to go out and meet new people.
The only real free time I have that I've noticed so far is in the mornings before my classes start. My earliest class on everyday other than Wednesday is 10:15. On Wednesday my earliest class is 11:20. So, being a morning person I have loads of time before hand that I can spend doing what ever I want, like writing in this blog. :]
My roommate is really cool. His name is CB and he's really laid back which I like a lot! He stays over at his girlfriend's house on the weekend and some weekdays so I have the room to myself a good bit which is pretty cool because this room is so small. Honestly, I am living in the smallest room on campus, I know this for a fact...I've seen all the others. Well, not really, but I've seen enough to know that this is the smallest of them all.
Jumping between topics here: I think my teachers are even cooler because they don't require anybody to bring books to class. We don't use them because they know what they are talking about so well they can just teach it without having to look for a reference. My Biology book is so big it would put a dictionary to shame, so I'm ecstatic that I don't have to tote that thing around everywhere. My classes might start later in the day, but they are so bunched up!!! On Wednesday I have four classes in four hours and of course they would all be across campus from each other. I have to speedwalk to get to them on time because I only have fifteen minutes in between to make it on time. When I do get to the class though all of the good seats are normally taken too, which is bad-news-bears for me because I like to be close enough to actually see the professor well. If I can't see him/her when they talk there is no way I will remember it, even if I do write it down. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that, but I'll figure it out. I might just end up leaving my previous class about five minutes early so I can make it to the next class without having to speed there.
The weather here has been HOT! Seriously, upper 90's every day and so humid! The bricks just absorb the heat and send it back off so people are literally cooking when they walk to class. I'll enjoy when the temperatures get back down around 80.
The social aspect of college is phenomenal. All of my friends are just walking distance away which allows for easy hangout time. I love it! Not to mention the girls! So many girls everywhere! It's incredible to say the least. Back in high school there were maybe a hand full of attractive ones, but here, there is a ton!
I've been here for a week and I do not really miss home yet. I'm sure, though, that's just because I have kept in contact with my family though. I do miss them, but managing on my own isn't as difficult as I pictured. College is looking like it's going to be everything I thought and better. I'm so excited!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Word Dude.
I got my license the other day and all I have been doing is just driving everywhere, just because I can. It's fantastic! I love this feeling. I can finally have the social life I wanted, but couldn't have.
It is pure bliss.
It is pure bliss.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Cliche Endings With Unpredictable Beginnings
Ok, real talk, real talk right here (inside joke). I had orientation for NC State this past week. Most people think orientation is boring and useless, but I found it fantastic! Sure, the meetings were kind of lame, but the people I met were amazing! I went there expecting to have trouble making new friends because I did not know anybody there, but was soon happy that I didn't know anybody there to begin with because it forced me to talk to new people. I realized quickly that all the kids there were just like me: nervous and excited at the same time. The first thing NCSU did was divide us into small groups of about 15-20 kids called OC groups. OC stands for Orientation Counselor. My OC group was led by a rising sophomore named Alex. She was really excited and it was easy to see she loved her job. We played one of the lame games that are used to learn peoples' names first. It turns out that it was unbelievably easy for me to remember everybody's name in my group because most of them had the same name as people that I already knew. As I went through a few meetings I soon found myself with about three hours of free time. I used this time to make some friends. I was going to go to the bookstore to pick up my summer reading book and I invited some people to go with me. Jarrett, Arthur and Kelly took me up on the offer.
Jarrett was a tall and witty guy from some small town in NC that I've never heard of before. I liked talking to him because he always had something funny to say. Arthur was a short kid with a deep voice who actually lived five minutes from the campus. He went to private school and was very smart. Kelly was a pretty girl from Albemarle, NC and was obsessed with talking about Hooters. She was kind of clumsy which was always cute and funny. The four of us were our clique for the day. We went all over that campus! It was so much walking, but it was all really cool.
After the orientation presentations they let us loose for the night. The school had lounges open and a theatre showing a movie, but the students had a party going with a 20 ft. water slide and louddddd music. The music could be heard across campus and I loved it! At almost mid night I turned in for the night.
My roommate for the night had set an alarm clock for 7:00, which I'm not used to anybody who knows me will tell you. That thing went off and sounded like a fire alarm. I sat straight up in my bed eyes wide open with adrenaline pumping through me while he just crawls over and hits it off. It scared me almost to death. After this incident I took a shower and went down for breakfast and check out. I walked around with my original clique for a bit then went off on my own with my dad for a financial aid meeting.
So, when I first graduated high school I was no where near ready to leave for college or anything of the sort. Somewhere between Lee Hall and the Talley Student Center I realized that I'm so ready! I can do this life changing experience and I can do it with flying colors!
Jarrett was a tall and witty guy from some small town in NC that I've never heard of before. I liked talking to him because he always had something funny to say. Arthur was a short kid with a deep voice who actually lived five minutes from the campus. He went to private school and was very smart. Kelly was a pretty girl from Albemarle, NC and was obsessed with talking about Hooters. She was kind of clumsy which was always cute and funny. The four of us were our clique for the day. We went all over that campus! It was so much walking, but it was all really cool.
After the orientation presentations they let us loose for the night. The school had lounges open and a theatre showing a movie, but the students had a party going with a 20 ft. water slide and louddddd music. The music could be heard across campus and I loved it! At almost mid night I turned in for the night.
My roommate for the night had set an alarm clock for 7:00, which I'm not used to anybody who knows me will tell you. That thing went off and sounded like a fire alarm. I sat straight up in my bed eyes wide open with adrenaline pumping through me while he just crawls over and hits it off. It scared me almost to death. After this incident I took a shower and went down for breakfast and check out. I walked around with my original clique for a bit then went off on my own with my dad for a financial aid meeting.
So, when I first graduated high school I was no where near ready to leave for college or anything of the sort. Somewhere between Lee Hall and the Talley Student Center I realized that I'm so ready! I can do this life changing experience and I can do it with flying colors!
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Birthday Gifts
For my birthday my father gave me a laptop for college. It's amazing and I love it. I'm on it right now while sitting on my couch watching T.V. This is the first time I've had my own computer all to myself and it's awesome. It gives me a peculiar sense of freedom. As long as I can remember if I wanted to use a computer I had to use the family PC in the kitchen. This just marks a baby step towards independence on my behalf. College is right around the corner and I'm just now starting to feel this freedom. I LOVE IT.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
This I Believe
I do not go to church on Sunday mornings. I do not think everything happens for a reason. I do not thank dead people or fictitious beings for my food before I eat. I do not wish for things by my bedside before I slumber. I do not live my life by what is written in a book. I do, however, take every opportunity in life without worry of consequence or regret.
I am an Atheist.
I am an Atheist.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Spring Break '09 LIKE A BOSS!
Let me first begin this post with a thanks to everyone I saw and spent time with during this past week for making it one of the most fun weeks I've ever had. You're all amazing.
Might as well begin this post with the Saturday morning departure which was scheduled for 9:30 at Graham's house. Bryan D, Mike L, Graham D, Austin B, and I were all headed for Myrtle Beach SC for our senior year Spring Break where we had bought a house to stay in for the week. I arrived on time as did Mike and Bryan, but Austin didn't get there until around 10:00. Graham couldn't find anybody to work for him so he would have to come down after his shift at Chik-fil-a ended at 2:00. Once everybody got to Graham's that was leaving in the morning we loaded Austin's car and Mrs. Davis' car up with our luggage. Mrs. Davis was staying about five blocks down from us until Tuesday when she would leave. The car ride down was effortless for two reasons. The first being that Mrs. Davis was leading and she knew where to go, and the second was that Austin's mom let him borrow her TomTom GPS device for us to get around while we were down there. Bryan brought The Lonely Island CD which was the only thing we listened to for the whole week. It is a hilarious album. We put that in and fell in love with it at first sound. We talked about how much fun we were going to have and the things we were going to do. In Bennetsville SC we stopped to eat lunch at Subway which was delicious. After that we all used the restroom and then were on our way for the back stretch of the trip down there.
The excitement started to build exponentially in that vehicle as we got closer and closer to the coast. Once we hit Ocean Blvd. we knew that it was real. We drove to our house on Nixon St. off of 54th in Cherry Grove. Our house was two stories with three bedrooms, two baths, a dining area, kitchen, and a living room. Since there were five of us and three beds we brought an air matress, but someone would just have to double beds or sleep on the floor. I claimed a bottom bed room, Mike got the other, and Austin claimed the master bed on the second floor. Bryan said he would use the air matress. We unloaded the food and put our clothes in drawers and then we grabbed the football Austin brought and the four of us took to the beach! That first feeling of pure ecstasy that overcame me when my toes printed the sand was exactly what I needed to cure myself of the rut my life had been going in. I remember the wind whipping my shirt as we joyfully tossed the ball around. The sound of the waves mixed with the call of seagulls and the banter of people created the perfect noise of bliss. All of this was good and fun, but Bryan decided to have some fun and we drew giant penises and stick figures having sex in the sand since it was low tide. They were real works of art and everyone started to pitch in their own artistic flair. After having some good laughs with that we got a call from Graham saying he was almost there so we went back to the house to let him in.
Graham was just as happy as us when he walked in the house for the first time gazing upon what we knew was ours, even if it was just for a week. He put his stuff in the room I had mine in and we went upstairs and hooked up Guitar Hero: World Tour and moved some furniture to better suit ourselves. We played that for a few minutes then we decided to go walking. We found out that our friends Will, George, Chris, Matt, and many more were a block down from us in their condo. We also found that Chelsea, Katie, Kim, and others were a few blocks down in the other direction and that Maggie, Morgan, Jackson, and others were right beside Chelsea's building. Everybody was within walking distance! This was fantastic since we only brought two cars! After seeing and greeting everybody we went back home and went out to Bi-Lo to buy perishable foods like produce to eat for the week. I got apples and carrots to have for breakfast and snacks. Graham got a bunch of stuff like hotdogs and chicken tenders. After getting the food we went to Chelsea's again and saw Georgeanna. She wanted to walk with us back to her place, (Will and Chris') but ended up coming to our place and hung out with us. She was really drunk and it was really funny to be around her. Everyone at Maggie's came over to the house and chilled with us which ended up just being everbody sitting around watching Georgeanna do funny stuff. It got kind of late and Bryan, Austin, Jackson, and I were going to walk Georgeanna back to her place but Bryan got sick on the sidewalk so him and Jackson went back to the house and Austin and I guided Ganna back to her condo. After conquering the stairs up to the second floor and making sure she got in the door safe we started walking back when I found a No Parking sign on the road and took it back to the house. When we got back, however, everybody from Mikhyla's place had left so everyone just decided to call it a night because we were all tired from the trip down. I let Graham have the downstairs bed and I shared with Austin the first night because he was going to wake up early and go to church, and everyone knows I wake up early anyway. I woke up at about 7:00 and went downstairs and just started shuffling the deck of cards we brought. I heard Austin get in the shower around 8:00 and Mike got up around 8:10 and came out there and talked to me while I ate Fruit Loops and he had his oatmeal. Bryan woke up around 8:30 and we played poker with the change that we had from eating Subway and decided that we were going to keep our change in a community cup and play with it ever morning. Not for keeps, just for fun.
Graham got up around 9:00 and Austin left for church. Everbody then started getting ready to head to the beach. We were meeting Maggie and them on the beach in front of their hotel, which we would do everytime we went to the beach. The day was so nice, but the ocean was still ice cold from the winter. We played Ultimate Frisbee with the frisbee Alex let me borrow for the trip. While playing Chelsea came over and talked to me and showed me where they were laying on the beach (about 150 yards from us) and I went over to lay down and chat with them for a few minutes. After returning to the group we just relaxed until about 5:00 and we went home to shower and get ready for the night. That night Maggie's place was partying. It was rediculously fun. I walked like a dinosaur, told everybody what I liked about them, and walked around without a shirt on the whole night. Around 2:00am Graham drove all the guys home and then went back out to DD for some people. I was able to sleep in the downstairs bedroom that night and I texted Graham to just pick a bed to sleep in and put his pillow on the stairs. He chose my bed, so he and I shared a bed for the rest of the week, because neither of us wanted to sleep on the floor.
Monday morning I woke up at 7:00 again and ate my fruitloops and muffins and was joined by Bryan around 7:50. Mike woke up and got in the shower around 8:00. Bryan and I played Speed with the cards for awhile along with eating. Everyone was up by 9:00. It was supposed to rain late Monday and most of Tuesday so we got ready to go to the beach for a few hours. After that Bryan and I went and got in Chelsea's hot tub with her and Carmen. After that we went back to the house and went out to eat at this amazing place called Empire Fire: Mongollian Grill. It was an all you can eat buffet that they cook in front of you. The food was phenominal at the least. We got back and then we all went to get icecream with Chelsea and Carmen. That night we had Maggie and them over for a bit, but then we just went back over there. A few of us stopped by Chelsea's to see what was going on. We only stayed for a short bit though and then went back to Jessie and Laura's. Bryan and I went with Georgeanna to get her stuff from Will's to take to Jackson's because she was going to stay there for a night. On our walk back someone shouted from Chelsea's condo, "PARTY IN ROOM 601!" and we just laughed. I woke up around 8:00 the next day and played poker with Bryan and Mike when they woke up. After everyone was ready Bryan, Mike, and I went to the beach to throw the football some early in the morning still.
We saw Mrs. Davis and Ganna. We did a few sprints with Ganna but then I felt really sick because I ate too much. Austin's girlfriend Noel and her friend Sam were supposed to come by today. They had stopped by and watched 24 with Austin on Monday night. I took a nap because I wasn't feeling well, but when I woke up everybody was gone except Noel and Austin, who were in his room with the door shut, and Sam who was sitting on the couch watching TV eating some ravioli that was mine that she just got out of the cabinet. I didn't say anything though. I just sat next to her and started talking to her because I figured she felt left out. I find out the guys went to chill with Taylor, Olivia, and Rachel. I call them and they come pick me up to go to their place and chill by the pool and hot tub. It was so windy because it was supposed to rain. Bryan and I were attempting to throw a frisbee in the wind. It was kind of working sometimes, but overall it wasn't going so well. Towards the end of hanging out I took off my trunks to reveal my electric blue speedo and took some pictures with the girls. I then put my trunks back on and we went home. Austin made his chicken casserole and we sat at the table and ate it. It was scruptious and everybody loved it. We then got ready for the night. Bryan and I went to Will's to see who was there and then went over to Maggie's. That night Bryan and Georgeanna hooked up and Austin was leaving for Carolina Beach for one night with Noel and Sam. They were trying to get someone to go with him but nobody wanted to go so far. I also heard, because Austin had his phone on speaker, that Sam thought I was mad creepy for talking to her after waking up from my nap with no shirt on. She can go suck penis. She was in MY house, on MY couch, eating MY food and I didn't say anything. Sorry if I'm just trying to be nice while your friend is in the other room with the door closed and you're up there alone. After Austin got ready to leave he dropped me off at Maggie's again because I went home with him so he wouldn't have to walk alone. I then head up the elevator and enter and Bryan is ready to leave because he doesn't feel well, so we get Mike out of Maggie's room and apparently they got into some argument so he was ready to book it out of there with Bryan. I stayed behind because I was planning on going to Chelsea's that night anyway. I stayed and talked to Maggie some and let her vent to me to cool off some and then I bounced to Chelsea's at about midnight. Chelsea's hotel locks its doors after 7:00pm, but the stairwell doors don't have locks on them so I just went in those every time I went over there. I walked into her condo and sat down before anyone even realized I was there, but when they did it was like I was the most popular person there. I took a few to catch up to everyone and then just hung out. We played Bullshit and pretty much just joked around. I stayed there until about 2:30 when I walked home by myself. When I got there everyone else was asleep and Graham had put my pillow on the stairs because I was sleeping in Austin's bed that night since he was not there.
I did not wake up until 9:00 that Wednesday morning, but I was still first up. By 10:00 Mike and I were ready and walking to Maggie's so they could solve their problems. We only had time for a few hands of poker that morning. I was pretty much just going with Mike for moral support. When we arrive everyone is in a panic trying to get dressed because they are supposed to go shopping that day. Mike and Maggie start talking in the kitchen and don't stop for about two hours. In that time I just watched TV. The sun came out and everyone changed their minds from shopping to beach. They all left for the beach so it was just Mike, Maggie, and I left in the condo while they finished up their conversation. I just sat on the couch trying to give them their alone time. After awhile I realized that they were no longer arguing and I told Mike that we should get out of there so we can go to the beach too. We went out to the beach and Austin got his finger caught on Tyler's shirt and had to go to the emergency room. They Xrayed it and he chipped a bone off and tore the tendon off completely so he couldn't move his pinky at all. They gave him a splint and well probably have to do surgery to fix it. While on the beach, however, Bryan, Tyler, and I enacted Operation SEAGULL which is where we put Cheese-Itz all over Laura's towel because she is afraid of birds. There were about twenty seagulls that came and she totally freaked out. It was very funny. After the beach we went back home and got ready to go to Outback Steakhouse. Austin, Maggie, Bryan, Mike, and I all went. It was awesome. The food was so delectable. We stole nine of the drink coasters to use as frisbees in our house which made me feel like a badass. After eating we went to play Put Put. We didn't really play as much as try to get hole-in-ones and then just kick the ball in the hole. I stole my pink ball and mike stole his black one. Bryan stole a pencil that they use to write on the cards with. We then went back to our house and Bryan and I went over to Morgan and Mikhyla's after seeing everyone at Will's that we wanted to while Mike, Maggie, and Austin stayed home. Austin went to sleep though as soon as we got in. We played Beer Pong at Jackson's and then just chilled. Bryan and I walked home around 1:25 and Graham came home around 1:30. Mike and Maggie finally came out of the room around 1:40 and then walked to her place and then drove Mike back to the house where he immediately fell asleep. Graham, Bryan, and I stayed up later and cooked Bryan's chicken pie which was sooo good! It was delicious. Graham went to sleep around 2:45, but Bryan and I stayed up to finish the pie and built card houses. I got mine up to three stories high. Bryan and I called it a night around 3:15.
Thursday Noel and Sam were going to eat dinner with us and then shopping at Barefoot Landing. After waking up and playing our morning poker we went to the beach like always. Graham made the Laura and the girls grilled cheese for lunch. I saw Daniel S on the beach with Chelsea from the banlcony and he signalled me to come down, so I did. Once on the beach everyone was on the balcony and Bryan shouted, "Whip it out!" So I whipped off my trunks revealing my electric blue speedo and everyone got a huge kick out of it as i sprinted out and gave Mike a hug as he was walking in. I then posed for a photo for Laura and then sprinted over to Chelsea and those girls and then rolled on top of them in my speedo. Chelsea stood up and I started doing the Party Boy and she just kept running which was hilarious. Chelsea and Carmen then came up to the condo with me and talked for a bit, but then went back down to tan. After everyone had their food Graham made a grilled cheese for these two girls from Western Alamance that he thought were hot and went and gave them beach side service. It was quite the show. I then took pictures with everyone with my speedo on. We had another round of Operation SEAGULL and then just relaxed. That night we went to some restaurant that sucked. Our waitress was god-aweful. She looked like she smoked meth and she stole our money! She didn't give us all of our change. I was missing 40 cents, Bryan was missing 60 cents, and Mike was missing a whole dollar. We figured that if that's what she wanted to do for a tip then she can just have it and we left. If she wanted a 40 cent tip for a $12 meal, have at it lame ass. Also, mind you, I asked Mike and Bryan to not even look at Sam, which they did effectively. We then walked around the shops and got Bryan a belt for $5. Bryan and I were just about to walk into Lids to get hats but they closed to doors in our face three minutes before they were supposed to. We all went home then and Austin was going to Carolina Beach with Noel again so I would get to sleep in his bed. Bryan and I went over to Maggie's to get Mike before we went to sleep though. We got to bed about 2:00.
We woke up on our last full day with a strong sense of sadness and nostalgia of the past week. We played our morning poker with much more change than what we started with on Sunday. We had plans for today though. We were cooking a lot of food to get rid of it and having Taylor, Olivia, and Rachel over to help eat it. We got ready to head out to the beach for one last time and began our walk. We went to the girls condo first though because we were going to sling-shot water balloons at them from their own balcony. They left the door unlocked every day so we knew we could get in. Once inside Graham pulled out the sling shot and we filled three balloons. Bryan and I held the ends, Graham was the shooter, and Mike the reloader. The first shot was terrible, so bad that they didn't even look up at us. The second was much closer but not on target. The third shot they were looking at us so Bryan and I stood up and stretched our full length and Mike helped Graham pull it as far back as they could and then released it. The orange balloon soared through the air as smiles scamper across our faces until the wind blew it hard right. It zoomed right over our target and hit the Western Alamance girls Graham had the hots for. He was trying to spit game the day before and hit them with a water balloon today, talk about irony. We then make our way onto the beach and just relax until about 3:00 when we left to head to the rooftop pool which was awesome. I'm afraid of heights but it was still incredible to say the least. At 4:30 the guys split home to begin cooking and start packing. While waiting for food to cook Bryan and I stood all of the change we collected throughout the week on its side and I made another three story tall cardhouse. For dinner when the girls arrived we had Spaghetti, Mac & Cheese, Chicken Pie, and Chicken Tenders. It was actually all extremely good. After dinner the three girls left with Graham and then the group picked Mike and I up and we went to Barefoot Landing so Bryan and I could get our hats. Bryan got a Notre Dame one and I got a DC hat. After that we just went back to the house and chilled until they got tired and we went back to get my jacket and then came home. We stayed up for a bit and talked about the week but then we went to sleep as I crawled in with Graham for the last time (haha).
Saturday morning I woke up and got Bryan up and we took showers first. Mike and Austin followed, and last was Graham. We cleaned everything really well and loaded the cars up. We split up the change and each person got $1.50 exactly. It was all really depressing to be honest. We used the last sheet of toilet paper we brought, the last sheet of paper towels we had, and I used the last Listerine strip of the pack I brought all this morning. It's as if everything was telling us it was time to leave. As we drove off of Nixon St. it was Mike and I in Austin's car and Bryan in Graham's. We stopped at Wendy's in Rockingham for lunch and then stopped on the side of the road to help Jessie's overheated car. After that we went to Graham's. I hugged all the guys before we all went our separate ways and that's exactly what we did: went our separate ways.
Bromance right there if I ever saw one.
Might as well begin this post with the Saturday morning departure which was scheduled for 9:30 at Graham's house. Bryan D, Mike L, Graham D, Austin B, and I were all headed for Myrtle Beach SC for our senior year Spring Break where we had bought a house to stay in for the week. I arrived on time as did Mike and Bryan, but Austin didn't get there until around 10:00. Graham couldn't find anybody to work for him so he would have to come down after his shift at Chik-fil-a ended at 2:00. Once everybody got to Graham's that was leaving in the morning we loaded Austin's car and Mrs. Davis' car up with our luggage. Mrs. Davis was staying about five blocks down from us until Tuesday when she would leave. The car ride down was effortless for two reasons. The first being that Mrs. Davis was leading and she knew where to go, and the second was that Austin's mom let him borrow her TomTom GPS device for us to get around while we were down there. Bryan brought The Lonely Island CD which was the only thing we listened to for the whole week. It is a hilarious album. We put that in and fell in love with it at first sound. We talked about how much fun we were going to have and the things we were going to do. In Bennetsville SC we stopped to eat lunch at Subway which was delicious. After that we all used the restroom and then were on our way for the back stretch of the trip down there.
The excitement started to build exponentially in that vehicle as we got closer and closer to the coast. Once we hit Ocean Blvd. we knew that it was real. We drove to our house on Nixon St. off of 54th in Cherry Grove. Our house was two stories with three bedrooms, two baths, a dining area, kitchen, and a living room. Since there were five of us and three beds we brought an air matress, but someone would just have to double beds or sleep on the floor. I claimed a bottom bed room, Mike got the other, and Austin claimed the master bed on the second floor. Bryan said he would use the air matress. We unloaded the food and put our clothes in drawers and then we grabbed the football Austin brought and the four of us took to the beach! That first feeling of pure ecstasy that overcame me when my toes printed the sand was exactly what I needed to cure myself of the rut my life had been going in. I remember the wind whipping my shirt as we joyfully tossed the ball around. The sound of the waves mixed with the call of seagulls and the banter of people created the perfect noise of bliss. All of this was good and fun, but Bryan decided to have some fun and we drew giant penises and stick figures having sex in the sand since it was low tide. They were real works of art and everyone started to pitch in their own artistic flair. After having some good laughs with that we got a call from Graham saying he was almost there so we went back to the house to let him in.
Graham was just as happy as us when he walked in the house for the first time gazing upon what we knew was ours, even if it was just for a week. He put his stuff in the room I had mine in and we went upstairs and hooked up Guitar Hero: World Tour and moved some furniture to better suit ourselves. We played that for a few minutes then we decided to go walking. We found out that our friends Will, George, Chris, Matt, and many more were a block down from us in their condo. We also found that Chelsea, Katie, Kim, and others were a few blocks down in the other direction and that Maggie, Morgan, Jackson, and others were right beside Chelsea's building. Everybody was within walking distance! This was fantastic since we only brought two cars! After seeing and greeting everybody we went back home and went out to Bi-Lo to buy perishable foods like produce to eat for the week. I got apples and carrots to have for breakfast and snacks. Graham got a bunch of stuff like hotdogs and chicken tenders. After getting the food we went to Chelsea's again and saw Georgeanna. She wanted to walk with us back to her place, (Will and Chris') but ended up coming to our place and hung out with us. She was really drunk and it was really funny to be around her. Everyone at Maggie's came over to the house and chilled with us which ended up just being everbody sitting around watching Georgeanna do funny stuff. It got kind of late and Bryan, Austin, Jackson, and I were going to walk Georgeanna back to her place but Bryan got sick on the sidewalk so him and Jackson went back to the house and Austin and I guided Ganna back to her condo. After conquering the stairs up to the second floor and making sure she got in the door safe we started walking back when I found a No Parking sign on the road and took it back to the house. When we got back, however, everybody from Mikhyla's place had left so everyone just decided to call it a night because we were all tired from the trip down. I let Graham have the downstairs bed and I shared with Austin the first night because he was going to wake up early and go to church, and everyone knows I wake up early anyway. I woke up at about 7:00 and went downstairs and just started shuffling the deck of cards we brought. I heard Austin get in the shower around 8:00 and Mike got up around 8:10 and came out there and talked to me while I ate Fruit Loops and he had his oatmeal. Bryan woke up around 8:30 and we played poker with the change that we had from eating Subway and decided that we were going to keep our change in a community cup and play with it ever morning. Not for keeps, just for fun.
Graham got up around 9:00 and Austin left for church. Everbody then started getting ready to head to the beach. We were meeting Maggie and them on the beach in front of their hotel, which we would do everytime we went to the beach. The day was so nice, but the ocean was still ice cold from the winter. We played Ultimate Frisbee with the frisbee Alex let me borrow for the trip. While playing Chelsea came over and talked to me and showed me where they were laying on the beach (about 150 yards from us) and I went over to lay down and chat with them for a few minutes. After returning to the group we just relaxed until about 5:00 and we went home to shower and get ready for the night. That night Maggie's place was partying. It was rediculously fun. I walked like a dinosaur, told everybody what I liked about them, and walked around without a shirt on the whole night. Around 2:00am Graham drove all the guys home and then went back out to DD for some people. I was able to sleep in the downstairs bedroom that night and I texted Graham to just pick a bed to sleep in and put his pillow on the stairs. He chose my bed, so he and I shared a bed for the rest of the week, because neither of us wanted to sleep on the floor.
Monday morning I woke up at 7:00 again and ate my fruitloops and muffins and was joined by Bryan around 7:50. Mike woke up and got in the shower around 8:00. Bryan and I played Speed with the cards for awhile along with eating. Everyone was up by 9:00. It was supposed to rain late Monday and most of Tuesday so we got ready to go to the beach for a few hours. After that Bryan and I went and got in Chelsea's hot tub with her and Carmen. After that we went back to the house and went out to eat at this amazing place called Empire Fire: Mongollian Grill. It was an all you can eat buffet that they cook in front of you. The food was phenominal at the least. We got back and then we all went to get icecream with Chelsea and Carmen. That night we had Maggie and them over for a bit, but then we just went back over there. A few of us stopped by Chelsea's to see what was going on. We only stayed for a short bit though and then went back to Jessie and Laura's. Bryan and I went with Georgeanna to get her stuff from Will's to take to Jackson's because she was going to stay there for a night. On our walk back someone shouted from Chelsea's condo, "PARTY IN ROOM 601!" and we just laughed. I woke up around 8:00 the next day and played poker with Bryan and Mike when they woke up. After everyone was ready Bryan, Mike, and I went to the beach to throw the football some early in the morning still.
We saw Mrs. Davis and Ganna. We did a few sprints with Ganna but then I felt really sick because I ate too much. Austin's girlfriend Noel and her friend Sam were supposed to come by today. They had stopped by and watched 24 with Austin on Monday night. I took a nap because I wasn't feeling well, but when I woke up everybody was gone except Noel and Austin, who were in his room with the door shut, and Sam who was sitting on the couch watching TV eating some ravioli that was mine that she just got out of the cabinet. I didn't say anything though. I just sat next to her and started talking to her because I figured she felt left out. I find out the guys went to chill with Taylor, Olivia, and Rachel. I call them and they come pick me up to go to their place and chill by the pool and hot tub. It was so windy because it was supposed to rain. Bryan and I were attempting to throw a frisbee in the wind. It was kind of working sometimes, but overall it wasn't going so well. Towards the end of hanging out I took off my trunks to reveal my electric blue speedo and took some pictures with the girls. I then put my trunks back on and we went home. Austin made his chicken casserole and we sat at the table and ate it. It was scruptious and everybody loved it. We then got ready for the night. Bryan and I went to Will's to see who was there and then went over to Maggie's. That night Bryan and Georgeanna hooked up and Austin was leaving for Carolina Beach for one night with Noel and Sam. They were trying to get someone to go with him but nobody wanted to go so far. I also heard, because Austin had his phone on speaker, that Sam thought I was mad creepy for talking to her after waking up from my nap with no shirt on. She can go suck penis. She was in MY house, on MY couch, eating MY food and I didn't say anything. Sorry if I'm just trying to be nice while your friend is in the other room with the door closed and you're up there alone. After Austin got ready to leave he dropped me off at Maggie's again because I went home with him so he wouldn't have to walk alone. I then head up the elevator and enter and Bryan is ready to leave because he doesn't feel well, so we get Mike out of Maggie's room and apparently they got into some argument so he was ready to book it out of there with Bryan. I stayed behind because I was planning on going to Chelsea's that night anyway. I stayed and talked to Maggie some and let her vent to me to cool off some and then I bounced to Chelsea's at about midnight. Chelsea's hotel locks its doors after 7:00pm, but the stairwell doors don't have locks on them so I just went in those every time I went over there. I walked into her condo and sat down before anyone even realized I was there, but when they did it was like I was the most popular person there. I took a few to catch up to everyone and then just hung out. We played Bullshit and pretty much just joked around. I stayed there until about 2:30 when I walked home by myself. When I got there everyone else was asleep and Graham had put my pillow on the stairs because I was sleeping in Austin's bed that night since he was not there.
I did not wake up until 9:00 that Wednesday morning, but I was still first up. By 10:00 Mike and I were ready and walking to Maggie's so they could solve their problems. We only had time for a few hands of poker that morning. I was pretty much just going with Mike for moral support. When we arrive everyone is in a panic trying to get dressed because they are supposed to go shopping that day. Mike and Maggie start talking in the kitchen and don't stop for about two hours. In that time I just watched TV. The sun came out and everyone changed their minds from shopping to beach. They all left for the beach so it was just Mike, Maggie, and I left in the condo while they finished up their conversation. I just sat on the couch trying to give them their alone time. After awhile I realized that they were no longer arguing and I told Mike that we should get out of there so we can go to the beach too. We went out to the beach and Austin got his finger caught on Tyler's shirt and had to go to the emergency room. They Xrayed it and he chipped a bone off and tore the tendon off completely so he couldn't move his pinky at all. They gave him a splint and well probably have to do surgery to fix it. While on the beach, however, Bryan, Tyler, and I enacted Operation SEAGULL which is where we put Cheese-Itz all over Laura's towel because she is afraid of birds. There were about twenty seagulls that came and she totally freaked out. It was very funny. After the beach we went back home and got ready to go to Outback Steakhouse. Austin, Maggie, Bryan, Mike, and I all went. It was awesome. The food was so delectable. We stole nine of the drink coasters to use as frisbees in our house which made me feel like a badass. After eating we went to play Put Put. We didn't really play as much as try to get hole-in-ones and then just kick the ball in the hole. I stole my pink ball and mike stole his black one. Bryan stole a pencil that they use to write on the cards with. We then went back to our house and Bryan and I went over to Morgan and Mikhyla's after seeing everyone at Will's that we wanted to while Mike, Maggie, and Austin stayed home. Austin went to sleep though as soon as we got in. We played Beer Pong at Jackson's and then just chilled. Bryan and I walked home around 1:25 and Graham came home around 1:30. Mike and Maggie finally came out of the room around 1:40 and then walked to her place and then drove Mike back to the house where he immediately fell asleep. Graham, Bryan, and I stayed up later and cooked Bryan's chicken pie which was sooo good! It was delicious. Graham went to sleep around 2:45, but Bryan and I stayed up to finish the pie and built card houses. I got mine up to three stories high. Bryan and I called it a night around 3:15.
Thursday Noel and Sam were going to eat dinner with us and then shopping at Barefoot Landing. After waking up and playing our morning poker we went to the beach like always. Graham made the Laura and the girls grilled cheese for lunch. I saw Daniel S on the beach with Chelsea from the banlcony and he signalled me to come down, so I did. Once on the beach everyone was on the balcony and Bryan shouted, "Whip it out!" So I whipped off my trunks revealing my electric blue speedo and everyone got a huge kick out of it as i sprinted out and gave Mike a hug as he was walking in. I then posed for a photo for Laura and then sprinted over to Chelsea and those girls and then rolled on top of them in my speedo. Chelsea stood up and I started doing the Party Boy and she just kept running which was hilarious. Chelsea and Carmen then came up to the condo with me and talked for a bit, but then went back down to tan. After everyone had their food Graham made a grilled cheese for these two girls from Western Alamance that he thought were hot and went and gave them beach side service. It was quite the show. I then took pictures with everyone with my speedo on. We had another round of Operation SEAGULL and then just relaxed. That night we went to some restaurant that sucked. Our waitress was god-aweful. She looked like she smoked meth and she stole our money! She didn't give us all of our change. I was missing 40 cents, Bryan was missing 60 cents, and Mike was missing a whole dollar. We figured that if that's what she wanted to do for a tip then she can just have it and we left. If she wanted a 40 cent tip for a $12 meal, have at it lame ass. Also, mind you, I asked Mike and Bryan to not even look at Sam, which they did effectively. We then walked around the shops and got Bryan a belt for $5. Bryan and I were just about to walk into Lids to get hats but they closed to doors in our face three minutes before they were supposed to. We all went home then and Austin was going to Carolina Beach with Noel again so I would get to sleep in his bed. Bryan and I went over to Maggie's to get Mike before we went to sleep though. We got to bed about 2:00.
We woke up on our last full day with a strong sense of sadness and nostalgia of the past week. We played our morning poker with much more change than what we started with on Sunday. We had plans for today though. We were cooking a lot of food to get rid of it and having Taylor, Olivia, and Rachel over to help eat it. We got ready to head out to the beach for one last time and began our walk. We went to the girls condo first though because we were going to sling-shot water balloons at them from their own balcony. They left the door unlocked every day so we knew we could get in. Once inside Graham pulled out the sling shot and we filled three balloons. Bryan and I held the ends, Graham was the shooter, and Mike the reloader. The first shot was terrible, so bad that they didn't even look up at us. The second was much closer but not on target. The third shot they were looking at us so Bryan and I stood up and stretched our full length and Mike helped Graham pull it as far back as they could and then released it. The orange balloon soared through the air as smiles scamper across our faces until the wind blew it hard right. It zoomed right over our target and hit the Western Alamance girls Graham had the hots for. He was trying to spit game the day before and hit them with a water balloon today, talk about irony. We then make our way onto the beach and just relax until about 3:00 when we left to head to the rooftop pool which was awesome. I'm afraid of heights but it was still incredible to say the least. At 4:30 the guys split home to begin cooking and start packing. While waiting for food to cook Bryan and I stood all of the change we collected throughout the week on its side and I made another three story tall cardhouse. For dinner when the girls arrived we had Spaghetti, Mac & Cheese, Chicken Pie, and Chicken Tenders. It was actually all extremely good. After dinner the three girls left with Graham and then the group picked Mike and I up and we went to Barefoot Landing so Bryan and I could get our hats. Bryan got a Notre Dame one and I got a DC hat. After that we just went back to the house and chilled until they got tired and we went back to get my jacket and then came home. We stayed up for a bit and talked about the week but then we went to sleep as I crawled in with Graham for the last time (haha).
Saturday morning I woke up and got Bryan up and we took showers first. Mike and Austin followed, and last was Graham. We cleaned everything really well and loaded the cars up. We split up the change and each person got $1.50 exactly. It was all really depressing to be honest. We used the last sheet of toilet paper we brought, the last sheet of paper towels we had, and I used the last Listerine strip of the pack I brought all this morning. It's as if everything was telling us it was time to leave. As we drove off of Nixon St. it was Mike and I in Austin's car and Bryan in Graham's. We stopped at Wendy's in Rockingham for lunch and then stopped on the side of the road to help Jessie's overheated car. After that we went to Graham's. I hugged all the guys before we all went our separate ways and that's exactly what we did: went our separate ways.
Bromance right there if I ever saw one.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Is There a Doctor in the House? He's having a Nostalgic Reaction!
With Spring Break and prom approaching at light speeds it has not left much time to just sit down and think. Well today JP, Randall, and myself were chatting about Guilford Middle! Who would have thought that GMS would be missed so much? I certainly did not, but as we got to chatting I remembered just how much fun I had there. At the time I thought it was pretty lame, I'll admit, but now in retrospect it was fantastic! That got me to thinking about my previous years here at Western. At the time I remember thinking, "Man, I wish I was a senior. They are so cool." I was only half right. Seniors are SUPER cool; but, every other year was just as cool. I was so busy being ready to grow up that I forgot to enjoy the process to the fullest. I know everybody has their things they would change if they could go back. Well I would do that homework assignment. I would go out with those friends. I would tell that girl. I would be that kid, that kid that everyone looks at and knows that they do not let any opportunity go to waste.
After strolling down memory lane the thing that sticks out most in my mind of all are the people. The people that grew up with me. The people that I could depend on and the people that always had the right thing to say. The people that accepted me for me. The people that will be successes in life. The people that will drift away. The people that I will tell my grandkids about. I've already experienced losing a few of my friends to different schools and I still talk about them all the time. I can not imagine what it is going to be like when everyone goes there own way! I do not want to be in the real world. Call me greedy and selfish but, I want MY world!
After strolling down memory lane the thing that sticks out most in my mind of all are the people. The people that grew up with me. The people that I could depend on and the people that always had the right thing to say. The people that accepted me for me. The people that will be successes in life. The people that will drift away. The people that I will tell my grandkids about. I've already experienced losing a few of my friends to different schools and I still talk about them all the time. I can not imagine what it is going to be like when everyone goes there own way! I do not want to be in the real world. Call me greedy and selfish but, I want MY world!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Hey Stranger Im Spencer
So I haven't posted anything in a good long while. It's not that I haven't had anything to say or even time to say it. It's that, for some reason or another I have yet to understand, I have felt like what I have to say doesn't matter as much, or is not as interesting as other people's posts. Many people that I know post about something truly meaningful to them, such as a pivotal moment in their life where they come to realize something and write about their life altering decision, or they post about their beliefs which show their true passion. I realized that all I ever write about is my life events which, I believe, is no where near worthy enough to stand along these other works. Why should I waste my time writing about my boring days when everyone else is writing about how they realized they can achieve their dreams? Or, how they have to choose between two lifestyles and are confused as to what to do?
I have not had anything like that come by me.
If it has, I obviously have not seen its significance and probably overlooked it without seeing its importance.
As I sit here on this Sunday night I look back at my high school years and I can't pick out any one specific moment that I can say, "That. That right there changed me forever..."
I'm a 2nd semester senior and I'm finally having one of the realizations that I've wanted for so long, but I understand now that it's not the kind I wanted.
I realize my insignificance.
I want my shining moment that I can say, "That was it. Right there. That made me Spencer."
I have not had anything like that come by me.
If it has, I obviously have not seen its significance and probably overlooked it without seeing its importance.
As I sit here on this Sunday night I look back at my high school years and I can't pick out any one specific moment that I can say, "That. That right there changed me forever..."
I'm a 2nd semester senior and I'm finally having one of the realizations that I've wanted for so long, but I understand now that it's not the kind I wanted.
I realize my insignificance.
I want my shining moment that I can say, "That was it. Right there. That made me Spencer."
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Habitat for Humanity
Wow, what a weekend it has been. Friday Andrew S came back from smart school and hung out with Matt L, Chris H, Alex B, Saadi A, and Dariah S, and I. We went bowling, which I started out terrible at, but picked up my game in a hurry. After bowling all of us went to the hookah bar and just chilled. Andrew, Matt, and Saadi left around 11:00, but Alex, Chris, Dariah, and I stayed until around midnight. After getting home I had a lot of trouble trying to get some sleep. I kept waking up every few minutes which sucked because I had to be at the Habitat for Humanity job site at 8:00 the next morning ready for some manual labor.
Andrew G and I decided to do community service for our senior projects and we both decided on working with Habitat for it. H.F.H. is an organization that builds and restores affordable homes for the needy. Andrew was at my house at 7:20 on Saturday to pick me up to head out to the site. The site was on Byers Rd. near Piscah Church. We got there right at 8:00 and it was cold! We were painting that day (although we were told we were flooring during the week, so I didn't wear painting clothes). It was so cold that the paint was starting to freeze in the buckets. I got paint on my clothes, sadly. We were painting white walls an off-white color, which made it extremely difficult to see what was already painted, especially for Andrew since he is partially color blind. There were two site leaders there, a big man named Mike and a corky, upbeat girl named Kat, short for Katrina. During the day while painting downstairs I hear Kat scream out, "No!!!!" and look over and see that she had dropped her phone in a bucket of paint. Everyone started rolling in laughter as she snatched it out and feverishly began wiping it off. Needless to say it did not work anymore. I then went upstairs to chat with Andrew and help him paint in the master bathroom. The people there were pretty cool. Most of them were Habitat homeowners trying to get their hours in. In order to move into a Habitat house you have to have atleast 300 hours with the organization. Many of those people were foreign and spoke different languages. Some of the people I met were these two girls, one who was an alchohol rep, and the other a bar tender; and then a guy named Randall who was in A.A. Everyone there were good people though. Lucnh was provided by a church somewhere and it was awesome. After painting we had to sand some spots on the wall and repaint over, just to be perfectionists. At 3:30 it was time to leave and I came home and took a nap from about 4:30 until 7:00 when my mom called intoxicated because I was supposed to go to Madison that night, but I was way too tired and she was upset.
Today (Sunday) was so relaxed. I just layed around all day waiting for the Superbowl, which was a great game by the way. I really thought Arizona was going to be able to pull it out at the end there until that Holmes guy got the big gain at the end. I didn't really care who won, but everyone likes an underdog. That was one of the best Superbowls I've ever seen.
Now that it's over, though, I'm going to bed. Good night!
Andrew G and I decided to do community service for our senior projects and we both decided on working with Habitat for it. H.F.H. is an organization that builds and restores affordable homes for the needy. Andrew was at my house at 7:20 on Saturday to pick me up to head out to the site. The site was on Byers Rd. near Piscah Church. We got there right at 8:00 and it was cold! We were painting that day (although we were told we were flooring during the week, so I didn't wear painting clothes). It was so cold that the paint was starting to freeze in the buckets. I got paint on my clothes, sadly. We were painting white walls an off-white color, which made it extremely difficult to see what was already painted, especially for Andrew since he is partially color blind. There were two site leaders there, a big man named Mike and a corky, upbeat girl named Kat, short for Katrina. During the day while painting downstairs I hear Kat scream out, "No!!!!" and look over and see that she had dropped her phone in a bucket of paint. Everyone started rolling in laughter as she snatched it out and feverishly began wiping it off. Needless to say it did not work anymore. I then went upstairs to chat with Andrew and help him paint in the master bathroom. The people there were pretty cool. Most of them were Habitat homeowners trying to get their hours in. In order to move into a Habitat house you have to have atleast 300 hours with the organization. Many of those people were foreign and spoke different languages. Some of the people I met were these two girls, one who was an alchohol rep, and the other a bar tender; and then a guy named Randall who was in A.A. Everyone there were good people though. Lucnh was provided by a church somewhere and it was awesome. After painting we had to sand some spots on the wall and repaint over, just to be perfectionists. At 3:30 it was time to leave and I came home and took a nap from about 4:30 until 7:00 when my mom called intoxicated because I was supposed to go to Madison that night, but I was way too tired and she was upset.
Today (Sunday) was so relaxed. I just layed around all day waiting for the Superbowl, which was a great game by the way. I really thought Arizona was going to be able to pull it out at the end there until that Holmes guy got the big gain at the end. I didn't really care who won, but everyone likes an underdog. That was one of the best Superbowls I've ever seen.
Now that it's over, though, I'm going to bed. Good night!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
SPERM whales
So this week has been so relaxed so far. Monday was a holiday and Tuesday was a snow day. First snow of 2009 in Greensboro! Yesterday (Wednesday) was a review day at school so everybody didn't really do much. Today was day one of a three day exam schedule. I had Marine Science exam today with Amweg which was just a project that I did on Sperm Whales. I thought that it would be boring, but I got lucky and actually had an extremely interesting animal. I learned that Sperm Whales can live to be over seventy years old and can dive up to two miles under the water. That's older and deeper than any other whale or dolphin. I also learned why they are named Sperm Whales, and it's not because of what you're thinking. They have a white, milky substance in their head which was mistaken for semen when they were discovered centuries ago, but in fact, it is spermaceti which helps them dive very deep and float very effortlessly. I have to give Amweg credit for creating an interesting way to get a midterm grade. I actually enjoyed my project, even though it wasn't the most fancy, I think I probably learned more than 99% of the class about our animals.
I also had my Honors English 12 midterm with Ms. Reece which was so incredibly easy. I was the first done but instead of turning it in and looking like a total nerd I held on to it until Ms. Reece saw I was finished and took it from me. We watched Family Guy until it was time to leave when I saw a familiar face in the parking lot. Beth had come to see Taylor and I stopped to chat with her. She's still very nice and I still enjoy talking to her. I do wish her the best.
Well tomorrow I have Spanish and Engineering exams so those will be easy. I'll post how I did later.
I also had my Honors English 12 midterm with Ms. Reece which was so incredibly easy. I was the first done but instead of turning it in and looking like a total nerd I held on to it until Ms. Reece saw I was finished and took it from me. We watched Family Guy until it was time to leave when I saw a familiar face in the parking lot. Beth had come to see Taylor and I stopped to chat with her. She's still very nice and I still enjoy talking to her. I do wish her the best.
Well tomorrow I have Spanish and Engineering exams so those will be easy. I'll post how I did later.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Lean Forward!
This weekend was the best I've had in a long while. I went to Jessie's lakehouse and snowboarding with Jessie L, Maggie C, Bryan D, and Graham D, with Jessie's parents. It started on Friday, where I was completely distracted from school because we were leaving at 6:00p.m. that night. The school day went by so quickly that I couldn't even describe it if I tried. After school, however, I rushed home and quickly finished packing by dumping my bookbag of all of the books and binders that I despise and filling it with clothes for the next three days and snowboarding clothes. I grabbed the snowboard and boots that my best friend Alex B let me borrow for the weekend and place it with my bag in the den, all set to go. I called some of my friends to tell them goodbye and then just waited for time to tick by. I arrived at Jessie's a few minutes late because I wanted to eat dinner with my dad to have that last little bit of bonding time. If you know me then you know I'm big on bonding time. Once I showed up at Jessie's my luggage was immediately put in the back of the limo-van that we rode in which was one of the coolest vehicles I've ever rode in. It had lights that we could control that looked just like limo lights, and it had T.V.s added with immense room to sit in. After my dad exchanged emergency numbers with Jessie's parents we were off for winter paradise! The seating arrangements were Jessie and Maggie in the middle two seats and Graham, Bryan, and I on the back seat. I sat in the middle which I actually enjoyed because I could see everybody and talk to them all easily. The seats were very comfortable which was nice for the semi-long ride. We passed the time talking of nothing particular and eating Gorp (Trail Mix) which Jessie mistook for onions because she was talking about them which gave everybody a good laugh for awhile. We continued to nag her about that for the duration of the trip. It was a non-stop trip until we got into Boone where we stopped at Appalachian State so that Maggie could borrow her brother's board and some of his gear, which Graham used so he wouldn't have to wear his bibs. After that short stop we drove the rest of the way, also non-stop, into Tennessee and the lakehouse.
The much talked about lakehouse lived up to every expectation I had and more. It was nothing short of miraculously breathtaking. That house was the most gorgeous piece of architecture I've ever stayed in. We went into the garage first and then walked down some stairs into the laundry room. The laundry room was connected to the kitchen which had an island bar in it all with marble counter tops. The kitchen was openly connected with the dining room, which had a table big enough for ten people, and the living room. The living room was gigantique! There was a fire place, two leather chairs, a couch, and a loveseat all surrounding a table with a oil lit candle. The living room had six windows in it that were massive at the smallest point, all which overlooked their dock and the lake. A door could be taken to lead out onto the upper level of the deck which wrapped around the house. Back in the living room, though, the master bed room connected to it along with a half-bath. Stairs leading up to the loft also led to some bed rooms and a full bath. Next to the stairs leading up was a door with stairs leading down to the lower level. The lower level had a living room with a widescreen T.V., a foosball table, and a billiards table which some complete with bar-room style lighting over the top of the table. The play room had a hallway which broke off that lead to a full bath and two bedrooms with three beds a piece in them. You could also take another door from the play room out onto the lower level of the deck. My shoddy verbal tour really doesn't do this beauty justice. It really has to be seen to get the full effect of it.
Upon first arriving all five of us sit at the bar and relax after the long car ride and just chat it up for a few minutes. We then start to play some music through the surround sound speakers in the living room and start having fun and taking pictures. We had a dance party/slide party/tic-tac-toe party all in one. I was actually allowed to pick Ex's and Oh's by Atreyu as the last song to be played which made me happy because nobody really likes that kind of music that were there other than me. After our small party we travelled downstairs and just relaxed for a bit until we went to sleep. Graham had the full size bed, Bryan had the lower twin size, and I had the top bunk. We were supposed to get up at 6:30 and leave around 8:00. Good thing that I was on this trip or else nobody would have woken up in time! The power had gone out in the middle of the night so all of the alarm clocks got reset and were flashing. I woke up at 6:00 like always and just walked around the house for a bit. I ate breakfast and played three games of Solitare until it was 6:30 and then woke up the guys and the went upstairs to wake up the girls. The girls asked to sleep a little later so I went back up there to get them up at 7:00. Everyone got their snow clothes on and we were out the door at 8:30. We first went to a ski rental store so Jessie, Graham, and Bryan could rent boards and everyone could buy lift tickets. After everyone was fit for boots and bindings we went to the slopes.
We scrambled out of the limo-van with our gear half on and finished putting it all on near some trash can then we tracked to the bunny hill. Bryan picked it up very quickly he was quite the natural. Maggie already knew what she was doing and Jessie knew what she was doing but wasn't as good as Maggie or I. Graham, however, had a hard time getting it. He ended up paying for a lesson for an hour which helped him incredibly. During Graham's lesson the other four of us went up the lift to the slopes and started to make our way down. Jessie's binding was constantly having problems which required all of us to help her get it in. It must have been a funny scene to watch us trying to shove her boot in. After everyone was set we started down the mountain. Bryan was good at everything except slowing down or stopping, so he just fell to the ground after zooming past a lot of people. Jessie fell every once in awhile, but Maggie and I didn't fall hardly at all. I did have one huge wipeout though which hurt, but other than that I kept in control very well. After going down the mountain once we decided to go again before Graham's lesson was over. This time Bryan and I went at our own pace. He made it down the fasted and I followed shortly after. Maggie stayed with Jessie and they made it down shortly after me. Graham found me and then we found the girls. We were looking for Bryan for a long time, and in this time some guy came flying down the slope and took me out at the ankles. I fell and hit my butt on the edge of his board hard. I'll admit that it was funny, but extremely painful. I just don't understand how if he knows he's going to go flying into the crowd he doesn't just fall and stop. After that we found Bryan and ate some lunch. The food there was ridiculously expensive. We also had to eat outside due to the fact that there was no room inside in the warmth. Graham was itching to get on the mountain for his first trip on the ski lift so we quickly ate and left again. Since there were five of us, Jessie had to ride the lift with a stranger. She said the girl she rode with was nice, but wierd. Graham rode with me and I could tell he was so excited and nervous at the same time. When it came time to get off the lift I just told him to try not to fall and if he does to move out of the way quickly. We get off of the lift and he falls and then gets back up and falls again into the trees which was hilarious. We are all up at the top trying to get Jessie's boot in her binding again and then we take off. Graham fell about every six feet or so but he was having a blast. We all went down together this time and took more pictures. Once we got down to the bottom the lift line was much too long to wait in so we decided to walk back up the slopes to the top. We were marching and realized how bad of an idea this was. The boots made it hard to walk since ankle movement was out of the question and the boards seemed so much heavier after carrying them for about ten minutes. Graham stopped about half way up and the rest of us kept on. We finally made it to the top and strapped in and started going down. Maggie and I decided to cut onto the yellow slope (more difficult than the green we were on) at an opening half way down and that was a lot of fun because there was much more space and it was easier to pick up speed. At the bottom we just sat there and talked for a long time because neither of us wanted to move since we had just walked all that distance. Everyone meeted back in the lodge and we just waited for Jessie's parents to come pick us up then.
That night we ate at a convenience store/restaurant that was owned and operated by some nice old people. The food was delicious and it was fun to just goof off with everyone. After we got back to the house everyone was just tuckered out and we went to sleep after watching the first half of the UNC vs. Miami (FL) game which UNC went on to win convincingly.
The next morning I woke up around 6:30 and ate breakfast and Maggie actually got up around 7:00 and came and talked to me and Mrs. Lowe in the kitchen. The others didn't wake for awhile and we had to get Bryan up for breakfast. I had two breakfasts that morning: Captain Krunch and pancakes. Everyone packed up and loaded our stuff in the limo-van and then we started the journey back home. This time Graham and Jessie sat in the middle two seats and Bryan, Maggie, and I sat on the back seat. I still sat in the middle. We watched Spiderman (the best superhero) on the way back home. It was snowing outside of the car during our trip back which was a nice ending I thought. We reached Jessie's house in a timely fashion and then our parents came and picked us up one by one, with the exception of Maggie who walked home. Everyone had the most amazing and dandy time and I think I speak for us all when I say that we want to go back again. It really was marvelously wonderful.
The much talked about lakehouse lived up to every expectation I had and more. It was nothing short of miraculously breathtaking. That house was the most gorgeous piece of architecture I've ever stayed in. We went into the garage first and then walked down some stairs into the laundry room. The laundry room was connected to the kitchen which had an island bar in it all with marble counter tops. The kitchen was openly connected with the dining room, which had a table big enough for ten people, and the living room. The living room was gigantique! There was a fire place, two leather chairs, a couch, and a loveseat all surrounding a table with a oil lit candle. The living room had six windows in it that were massive at the smallest point, all which overlooked their dock and the lake. A door could be taken to lead out onto the upper level of the deck which wrapped around the house. Back in the living room, though, the master bed room connected to it along with a half-bath. Stairs leading up to the loft also led to some bed rooms and a full bath. Next to the stairs leading up was a door with stairs leading down to the lower level. The lower level had a living room with a widescreen T.V., a foosball table, and a billiards table which some complete with bar-room style lighting over the top of the table. The play room had a hallway which broke off that lead to a full bath and two bedrooms with three beds a piece in them. You could also take another door from the play room out onto the lower level of the deck. My shoddy verbal tour really doesn't do this beauty justice. It really has to be seen to get the full effect of it.
Upon first arriving all five of us sit at the bar and relax after the long car ride and just chat it up for a few minutes. We then start to play some music through the surround sound speakers in the living room and start having fun and taking pictures. We had a dance party/slide party/tic-tac-toe party all in one. I was actually allowed to pick Ex's and Oh's by Atreyu as the last song to be played which made me happy because nobody really likes that kind of music that were there other than me. After our small party we travelled downstairs and just relaxed for a bit until we went to sleep. Graham had the full size bed, Bryan had the lower twin size, and I had the top bunk. We were supposed to get up at 6:30 and leave around 8:00. Good thing that I was on this trip or else nobody would have woken up in time! The power had gone out in the middle of the night so all of the alarm clocks got reset and were flashing. I woke up at 6:00 like always and just walked around the house for a bit. I ate breakfast and played three games of Solitare until it was 6:30 and then woke up the guys and the went upstairs to wake up the girls. The girls asked to sleep a little later so I went back up there to get them up at 7:00. Everyone got their snow clothes on and we were out the door at 8:30. We first went to a ski rental store so Jessie, Graham, and Bryan could rent boards and everyone could buy lift tickets. After everyone was fit for boots and bindings we went to the slopes.
We scrambled out of the limo-van with our gear half on and finished putting it all on near some trash can then we tracked to the bunny hill. Bryan picked it up very quickly he was quite the natural. Maggie already knew what she was doing and Jessie knew what she was doing but wasn't as good as Maggie or I. Graham, however, had a hard time getting it. He ended up paying for a lesson for an hour which helped him incredibly. During Graham's lesson the other four of us went up the lift to the slopes and started to make our way down. Jessie's binding was constantly having problems which required all of us to help her get it in. It must have been a funny scene to watch us trying to shove her boot in. After everyone was set we started down the mountain. Bryan was good at everything except slowing down or stopping, so he just fell to the ground after zooming past a lot of people. Jessie fell every once in awhile, but Maggie and I didn't fall hardly at all. I did have one huge wipeout though which hurt, but other than that I kept in control very well. After going down the mountain once we decided to go again before Graham's lesson was over. This time Bryan and I went at our own pace. He made it down the fasted and I followed shortly after. Maggie stayed with Jessie and they made it down shortly after me. Graham found me and then we found the girls. We were looking for Bryan for a long time, and in this time some guy came flying down the slope and took me out at the ankles. I fell and hit my butt on the edge of his board hard. I'll admit that it was funny, but extremely painful. I just don't understand how if he knows he's going to go flying into the crowd he doesn't just fall and stop. After that we found Bryan and ate some lunch. The food there was ridiculously expensive. We also had to eat outside due to the fact that there was no room inside in the warmth. Graham was itching to get on the mountain for his first trip on the ski lift so we quickly ate and left again. Since there were five of us, Jessie had to ride the lift with a stranger. She said the girl she rode with was nice, but wierd. Graham rode with me and I could tell he was so excited and nervous at the same time. When it came time to get off the lift I just told him to try not to fall and if he does to move out of the way quickly. We get off of the lift and he falls and then gets back up and falls again into the trees which was hilarious. We are all up at the top trying to get Jessie's boot in her binding again and then we take off. Graham fell about every six feet or so but he was having a blast. We all went down together this time and took more pictures. Once we got down to the bottom the lift line was much too long to wait in so we decided to walk back up the slopes to the top. We were marching and realized how bad of an idea this was. The boots made it hard to walk since ankle movement was out of the question and the boards seemed so much heavier after carrying them for about ten minutes. Graham stopped about half way up and the rest of us kept on. We finally made it to the top and strapped in and started going down. Maggie and I decided to cut onto the yellow slope (more difficult than the green we were on) at an opening half way down and that was a lot of fun because there was much more space and it was easier to pick up speed. At the bottom we just sat there and talked for a long time because neither of us wanted to move since we had just walked all that distance. Everyone meeted back in the lodge and we just waited for Jessie's parents to come pick us up then.
That night we ate at a convenience store/restaurant that was owned and operated by some nice old people. The food was delicious and it was fun to just goof off with everyone. After we got back to the house everyone was just tuckered out and we went to sleep after watching the first half of the UNC vs. Miami (FL) game which UNC went on to win convincingly.
The next morning I woke up around 6:30 and ate breakfast and Maggie actually got up around 7:00 and came and talked to me and Mrs. Lowe in the kitchen. The others didn't wake for awhile and we had to get Bryan up for breakfast. I had two breakfasts that morning: Captain Krunch and pancakes. Everyone packed up and loaded our stuff in the limo-van and then we started the journey back home. This time Graham and Jessie sat in the middle two seats and Bryan, Maggie, and I sat on the back seat. I still sat in the middle. We watched Spiderman (the best superhero) on the way back home. It was snowing outside of the car during our trip back which was a nice ending I thought. We reached Jessie's house in a timely fashion and then our parents came and picked us up one by one, with the exception of Maggie who walked home. Everyone had the most amazing and dandy time and I think I speak for us all when I say that we want to go back again. It really was marvelously wonderful.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Call It a Fight Club!
It has been awhile since I last posted so bare with me as I have a lot to say. This past weekend was atrocious in every sports aspect imaginable. The Carolina Panthers lost their first home game of the season in the playoffs against the Arizona Cardinals. Jake Delhomme sucked a lot of penis that game with one fumble and five interceptions, which tied the all-time playoff record for most interceptions thrown in a game. The Panthers have people to catch the ball, people to run the ball, and a very good defense. All they are missing is someone to throw the ball! Critics say Jake is an excellent fit because he "fits into the system." I guess they think fitting in is just throwing the ball really high in the air and let the probowl receiver go get it while being protected by a probowl offensive line. They need a decision maker! The cliche, "Better luck next year," fits in this statement as well as Jake does to the Panther's team. Now that they are out of the playoffs I just get to pick a random team to cheer for and I think I'm going with the Baltimore Ravens on the only grounds that Ray Lewis is a beast.
The most depressing thing of the weekend, however, was the UNC loss to Wake Forest in college basketball 89-92. UNC shot their worst percentage (36%) from the field all season. Everyone says that UNC can't hold their own against decent teams, but I say they just have poor decision making skills at the moment. Deon Thompson likes to take jump shots for some reason even though he is terrible at them. He needs to just sit on the block and lay the ball in the basket. Hansbrough is not being as aggressive as he usually is for what ever reason. We just need to get our heads on straight and play basketball. I still strongly believe we are the best team in the nation by far. I believe if you put us in any game against any team, with both teams playing their best, we will come out on top hands down. It is just a matter if Coach Roy Williams can get the team focused on winning as a team and not what ever they are thinking. Danny Green has the most sense on the team at the current state. He knows what he can do and how well he can do it. Shooting 55% for the season as three point shooter is not by coincidence on his part. Our next game is against Virginia, which is expected to be a blowout, but then again, so what Boston College. I am expecting a blowout still, due to the fact that Roy is pissed! He knows what this team is capable of and excepts nothing less. After this game I was way to upset to even think of sleep so I called and talked to Diana and pretty much just told her exactly how the game made me feel. I went to lay down around 11:30 at night, but did not actually fall asleep for about an hour after that because my heart was beating so fast because of the intense rage filled in me. I was fortunate that people did not mention it at school too much because of NFL playoffs.
I am still without hot water! It has been exactly a week now. Showers last all of one minute for me now. I'm a short-shower professional. Our water bill has to be about three dollars at most this month! Cold water is really starting to irritate me, because the people that are supposed to fix it are complete morons. I have to shave tomorrow morning with cold water. It is going to be terrible, because my face is going to feel like ice!
This post wasn't as long as I expected, but that's ok. Nothing really exciting as been happening, but that should change with the weekend! I'll write again soon.
The most depressing thing of the weekend, however, was the UNC loss to Wake Forest in college basketball 89-92. UNC shot their worst percentage (36%) from the field all season. Everyone says that UNC can't hold their own against decent teams, but I say they just have poor decision making skills at the moment. Deon Thompson likes to take jump shots for some reason even though he is terrible at them. He needs to just sit on the block and lay the ball in the basket. Hansbrough is not being as aggressive as he usually is for what ever reason. We just need to get our heads on straight and play basketball. I still strongly believe we are the best team in the nation by far. I believe if you put us in any game against any team, with both teams playing their best, we will come out on top hands down. It is just a matter if Coach Roy Williams can get the team focused on winning as a team and not what ever they are thinking. Danny Green has the most sense on the team at the current state. He knows what he can do and how well he can do it. Shooting 55% for the season as three point shooter is not by coincidence on his part. Our next game is against Virginia, which is expected to be a blowout, but then again, so what Boston College. I am expecting a blowout still, due to the fact that Roy is pissed! He knows what this team is capable of and excepts nothing less. After this game I was way to upset to even think of sleep so I called and talked to Diana and pretty much just told her exactly how the game made me feel. I went to lay down around 11:30 at night, but did not actually fall asleep for about an hour after that because my heart was beating so fast because of the intense rage filled in me. I was fortunate that people did not mention it at school too much because of NFL playoffs.
I am still without hot water! It has been exactly a week now. Showers last all of one minute for me now. I'm a short-shower professional. Our water bill has to be about three dollars at most this month! Cold water is really starting to irritate me, because the people that are supposed to fix it are complete morons. I have to shave tomorrow morning with cold water. It is going to be terrible, because my face is going to feel like ice!
This post wasn't as long as I expected, but that's ok. Nothing really exciting as been happening, but that should change with the weekend! I'll write again soon.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Awkward? Hello Turtle
School has started back up again from the Winter Break. I enjoy seeing all of my friends everyday again, but I'm rather against the work load. The night before the return day of school UNC lost their conference opener to Boston College in a huge upset. Even though people say, "It's just a basketball game," it was much, much more to me. I began to fill with an awkward mix of rage, pity, disbelief, and sadness. This new found emotion was further agitated by the fact that everybody who doesn't even care was texting and calling me just to make fun of my team. I was seriously about to snap my phone into two pieces and burn them in their own two respects. The part that made me the most mad is that many of these people don't even follow college basketball. They talk about the score, sure, but they never know anything more in depth than that. What is even worse than those people are the band-wagon UNC fans that come to school and cheer for UNC when they win like they care, but when they lose they say things like, "I don't really care about basketball," or something along those lines. People like that are people I can not stand. I don't see how someone can falsely stand for something like that. I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine.
In other news: my water heater was broken when I woke up this morning, so I had to take an ice cold shower. The water was so cold that it was making the air around it cold; almost in an air-conditioning effect, but less efficient. Due to that unfortunate event I took a less than three minute shower. I am normally the one who takes super hot showers. Showers so hot that it is almost skin melting.
I'm not sure what is up with teachers this first week back from Christmas Holiday, but somehow they have decided to actually attempt to give work out. I say, "No way Jose!" to that shenanigans. We got new seats in Coach Wilson's class and Ms. Amweg's class as well today. My seat in Wilson's class isn't as good as it was, but I sit next to Mary W now and Allie L is right next to her, so that gives me two awesome people to chat with during that class. Nobody sits behind me and I can't even remember who sits in front of me to be honest. In Amweg's class, however, my seat makes me want to bang my head against the wall repeatedly. My old seat was the best, because I sat with three of my friends, but not I sit with none. I barely know the people I sit around. I can solely blame Ms. Amweg as well because she put us in alphabetical order. Are we six? Assigned seats is terrible enough, but you can't even spice it up a little? The first day of getting new seats is actually very exciting for me because of the anticipation. It's like playing the lottery: you could win big, but you will most likely lose. Sitting alphabetically just ruins all of the surprise. Another thing about school before I leave this topic for the night. . .What is up with getting Interim Reports signed counting for a grade? That's the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever heard. I was under the extremely false impression that school was supposed to be about intelligence. Foolish of me really, because school has never been about raw intellect, but merely work ethic. I have not turned in any Interims to Amweg and have missed two vocabulary assignments and that takes ten points off of my grade. Dropping me from a 92 to an 82. All I have to say is, "Please come swiftly college," where there will be a meaning to all assignments, no busy work, and no dumb interims.
So I talked to my father about going on a ski trip with the gang over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and he seems like he could possibly go for it. I hope so because it would be so much fun! I need some snow in my winter. I have never been skiing before, but I have been snowboarding and that was incredibly fun and enjoyable. I am sure skiing will be the same. I will also get to see the legendary Lakehouse that everyone seems to only come away with good memories from. Just thinking about it makes me even more excited.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'm going to Kevin P's youth group for his church with him. It is publically known that I am an Atheist, but he has invited me to go anyway which is nice of him I thought. I'm excited to go and meet new people. Even though I do not agree with religion I am very tolerable normally so I don't forsee any problems. I don't think I'll tell them I'm an Atheist, however, due to the simple fact that, for some reason, it is nearly impossible for people to stomach that I have made such a socially unexceptable decision so early in my life. Many people also think that it is impossible for someone, like myself, to have a good moral foundation and do what's right just because it's the good thing to do without a religious background. My outlook on life is simple: I do what I want and trust myself to make the right decisions, without holding myself to a set rule book. It's been working good so far.
Well that's all for this critic tonight.
In other news: my water heater was broken when I woke up this morning, so I had to take an ice cold shower. The water was so cold that it was making the air around it cold; almost in an air-conditioning effect, but less efficient. Due to that unfortunate event I took a less than three minute shower. I am normally the one who takes super hot showers. Showers so hot that it is almost skin melting.
I'm not sure what is up with teachers this first week back from Christmas Holiday, but somehow they have decided to actually attempt to give work out. I say, "No way Jose!" to that shenanigans. We got new seats in Coach Wilson's class and Ms. Amweg's class as well today. My seat in Wilson's class isn't as good as it was, but I sit next to Mary W now and Allie L is right next to her, so that gives me two awesome people to chat with during that class. Nobody sits behind me and I can't even remember who sits in front of me to be honest. In Amweg's class, however, my seat makes me want to bang my head against the wall repeatedly. My old seat was the best, because I sat with three of my friends, but not I sit with none. I barely know the people I sit around. I can solely blame Ms. Amweg as well because she put us in alphabetical order. Are we six? Assigned seats is terrible enough, but you can't even spice it up a little? The first day of getting new seats is actually very exciting for me because of the anticipation. It's like playing the lottery: you could win big, but you will most likely lose. Sitting alphabetically just ruins all of the surprise. Another thing about school before I leave this topic for the night. . .What is up with getting Interim Reports signed counting for a grade? That's the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever heard. I was under the extremely false impression that school was supposed to be about intelligence. Foolish of me really, because school has never been about raw intellect, but merely work ethic. I have not turned in any Interims to Amweg and have missed two vocabulary assignments and that takes ten points off of my grade. Dropping me from a 92 to an 82. All I have to say is, "Please come swiftly college," where there will be a meaning to all assignments, no busy work, and no dumb interims.
So I talked to my father about going on a ski trip with the gang over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and he seems like he could possibly go for it. I hope so because it would be so much fun! I need some snow in my winter. I have never been skiing before, but I have been snowboarding and that was incredibly fun and enjoyable. I am sure skiing will be the same. I will also get to see the legendary Lakehouse that everyone seems to only come away with good memories from. Just thinking about it makes me even more excited.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'm going to Kevin P's youth group for his church with him. It is publically known that I am an Atheist, but he has invited me to go anyway which is nice of him I thought. I'm excited to go and meet new people. Even though I do not agree with religion I am very tolerable normally so I don't forsee any problems. I don't think I'll tell them I'm an Atheist, however, due to the simple fact that, for some reason, it is nearly impossible for people to stomach that I have made such a socially unexceptable decision so early in my life. Many people also think that it is impossible for someone, like myself, to have a good moral foundation and do what's right just because it's the good thing to do without a religious background. My outlook on life is simple: I do what I want and trust myself to make the right decisions, without holding myself to a set rule book. It's been working good so far.
Well that's all for this critic tonight.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Holiday Happenings
This Christmas break has been incredibly awesome. I've had something to do just about every day. My friends are amazing and I love just hanging out with them. The day before New Years Eve I went to see The Spirit with Andrew G and it was really good I thought. It was over the top in its comedy, but since it was obviously put together that way it was a great movie. All of the actors and actresses in it played their role superbly. The funniest moment of the night, however, was when we were walking into the theatre. There was a very young boy, I'd say about five years old, walking with his mother who looked to be about late twenties. They were arguing as they came into ear-shot and I heard the boy say, "No mommy! Don't hit me again!" as the mother retorted, "Hush up or I'll beat you right here!" The child then stops walking and breaks into some serious crying action saying, "No, No, No! Put me in Timeout!" The mom replies, "Timeout doesn't work for you anyone, which is why I have to spank you." The child screams as he begs, "PLEASE! It will work this time I promise! It will! It will!" The mother then grabs his arm and throws him into the car and they drive off. (Sorry for the pitiful grammar with the quotes, but I'm trying to save space.) Now I'm not that child's parent, but if I was I would probably put him in Timeout if he was asking for it, because if he got in trouble again I would have all the reason I need to spank him. Either way, Andrew G and I were rolling in laughter all the way to the door. That's the kind of stuff that people always make fun of, but never get to see in real life. After the movie Andrew and I hung out at my house until about midnight until he went home.
On New Years Eve my day was jam-packed full of things to do. I talked to Saadi and asked him if I should wear a tie for the day. He said yes, so I did and it was actually pretty fun. First, I went to play poker with the regular crew of Matt L, Chris H, Alex B, Andrew G, Andrew S, and Saadi A. I ended up losing badly, but I should not have lost the last hand I went all in in to Chris. He got so lucky. So, after losing I went to practice my Ping Pong skills on Matt's table with Alex B. After a few games of that Alex and I left a little early because he had things to do. We then go to his house and he shows me his remodelled basement which is spectacular! He has a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, and an entertainment room in his basement now! When I walked in the first thought in my head was, "Hello Man-Cave." After hanging out we picked up Andrew G and called Kabutos to try to make reservations but they were booked up until 9:30 at night. Why do that many people want to eat there on New Years Eve? Anyhow, we then drove to Outback Steakhouse on Battleground Ave. We were seated instantly there. This Outback, compared to the other one, is full of DUFFs. (D.U.F.F. : Designated Ugly Fat Friend) The other Outback has all attractive waitresses. Our waitress, although not very attractive, had cool hair. Her name was Kelly and she had a band-aid on her thumb from a cardboard cut. For some reason I like to talk to my waitresses some. Andrew and I ordered a seven ounce fillet, while Alex ordered some ribs. All of the food was extremely delicious as always. We tipped our $14 tip in all ones. So it looked like we tipped her a lot more. After eating we went to my house just to stop by for less than a minute for me to brush my teeth before leaving for Graham D's house.
Graham's was where I celebrated the New Year. I was accompanied by Mike, Maggie, Paul, Laura, Mikhyla, Jessie, Jarrett, Graham, Brian, Kenny, Austin, Noel, and Jake, who I met for the first time, but is really cool. When I first arrived Graham was playing Call of Duty, although a fun game by yourself, was not fun for everyone else there. Not to mention, no offense Graham, he wasn't very good. He was pulling about a 1:5 kill:death ratio. When I play I normally pull 3:1 or 4:1 consistently. Although, I give him the benefit of the doubt since it was his brother's game and not his. So after that, we switched to Rock Band and that was more fun since other people could play. After Rock Band they played the Wii. Everyone was just sitting around chatting and having a good time. As 2009 rolled in we went outside and lit some fireworks. After the fireworks everyone started to slowly leave. It was a very fun night. 2009 is the most important year of my life. High school graduation and college admission. It's going to be exciting I can tell.
On New Years Day I bummed it the whole day in my pajamas until about 7:30 when I had to get ready to go hang out at Jessie's house. I was especially eager to show off my new-found ping pong skills. Almost everyone from the previous night was there, with the exceptions of Austin, Noel, Jake, and Jarrett. Everyone started playing Ping Pong first and I sucked in the beginning. As the night went on I did improve winning more games than losing. One win was against Maggie 20-22, the closest of the night. At Jessie's we just relaxed on her astounding couch and watched the Orange Bowl. We played Twister, which I enjoyed because Twister is one of my all-time favorite games. At some points is was more of trying to see who could body the other person off of the mat. Some of us went to Cook Out to get some late night food. We played Sex in the car on the way there and back and just about everyone lost, or was one piece away from losing. After returning everyone just chilled and talked until Graham was nice enough to give me a ride home around 12:30.
This winter break has been my favorite of any I've ever had in my life. I can say it's definitly the people that make the break and not what you do during the break. Some people I wish I could have seen more of would have to be Alexis, Tyler, and Morgan. Morgan is in Miami though so good for her. I'm not too sure about Tyler and Alexis though, but I hope they had as much fun as the rest of us. The people that surround you are what makes life worth living, not what you do, or hwo you do it. I'm happy to be surrounded by the best friends I could ask for.
On New Years Eve my day was jam-packed full of things to do. I talked to Saadi and asked him if I should wear a tie for the day. He said yes, so I did and it was actually pretty fun. First, I went to play poker with the regular crew of Matt L, Chris H, Alex B, Andrew G, Andrew S, and Saadi A. I ended up losing badly, but I should not have lost the last hand I went all in in to Chris. He got so lucky. So, after losing I went to practice my Ping Pong skills on Matt's table with Alex B. After a few games of that Alex and I left a little early because he had things to do. We then go to his house and he shows me his remodelled basement which is spectacular! He has a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, and an entertainment room in his basement now! When I walked in the first thought in my head was, "Hello Man-Cave." After hanging out we picked up Andrew G and called Kabutos to try to make reservations but they were booked up until 9:30 at night. Why do that many people want to eat there on New Years Eve? Anyhow, we then drove to Outback Steakhouse on Battleground Ave. We were seated instantly there. This Outback, compared to the other one, is full of DUFFs. (D.U.F.F. : Designated Ugly Fat Friend) The other Outback has all attractive waitresses. Our waitress, although not very attractive, had cool hair. Her name was Kelly and she had a band-aid on her thumb from a cardboard cut. For some reason I like to talk to my waitresses some. Andrew and I ordered a seven ounce fillet, while Alex ordered some ribs. All of the food was extremely delicious as always. We tipped our $14 tip in all ones. So it looked like we tipped her a lot more. After eating we went to my house just to stop by for less than a minute for me to brush my teeth before leaving for Graham D's house.
Graham's was where I celebrated the New Year. I was accompanied by Mike, Maggie, Paul, Laura, Mikhyla, Jessie, Jarrett, Graham, Brian, Kenny, Austin, Noel, and Jake, who I met for the first time, but is really cool. When I first arrived Graham was playing Call of Duty, although a fun game by yourself, was not fun for everyone else there. Not to mention, no offense Graham, he wasn't very good. He was pulling about a 1:5 kill:death ratio. When I play I normally pull 3:1 or 4:1 consistently. Although, I give him the benefit of the doubt since it was his brother's game and not his. So after that, we switched to Rock Band and that was more fun since other people could play. After Rock Band they played the Wii. Everyone was just sitting around chatting and having a good time. As 2009 rolled in we went outside and lit some fireworks. After the fireworks everyone started to slowly leave. It was a very fun night. 2009 is the most important year of my life. High school graduation and college admission. It's going to be exciting I can tell.
On New Years Day I bummed it the whole day in my pajamas until about 7:30 when I had to get ready to go hang out at Jessie's house. I was especially eager to show off my new-found ping pong skills. Almost everyone from the previous night was there, with the exceptions of Austin, Noel, Jake, and Jarrett. Everyone started playing Ping Pong first and I sucked in the beginning. As the night went on I did improve winning more games than losing. One win was against Maggie 20-22, the closest of the night. At Jessie's we just relaxed on her astounding couch and watched the Orange Bowl. We played Twister, which I enjoyed because Twister is one of my all-time favorite games. At some points is was more of trying to see who could body the other person off of the mat. Some of us went to Cook Out to get some late night food. We played Sex in the car on the way there and back and just about everyone lost, or was one piece away from losing. After returning everyone just chilled and talked until Graham was nice enough to give me a ride home around 12:30.
This winter break has been my favorite of any I've ever had in my life. I can say it's definitly the people that make the break and not what you do during the break. Some people I wish I could have seen more of would have to be Alexis, Tyler, and Morgan. Morgan is in Miami though so good for her. I'm not too sure about Tyler and Alexis though, but I hope they had as much fun as the rest of us. The people that surround you are what makes life worth living, not what you do, or hwo you do it. I'm happy to be surrounded by the best friends I could ask for.
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