On The Road - Christmas Edition

so ive been on the road a lot since the christmas trip to iowa started this winter break. since my dad decided to move away from relative infested iowa to take up a job in chicago we have been making up that seperation by going there on every major break. its been good.

we started off driving 10 and a half hours to Souix City. thats the longest it has ever taken us. usually its around 8 but one of our freakin car top carries decided to say "screw you, im going to mess things up" by popping open while we are going 80 and throwing around everything that was in it on to the highway. oh yea.

we turned around in those U-turn places for "authorized vehicles only" (yea i know, bad ass) and looked around at all this trash that was sometimes our possessions. turns out we saved a digital camera, so it was worth coming back. but the real dilemma was trying to find some bungie cords to hold the car top carrier down with. took us a few stops and we got the job done.
-side note- the gas station "QT" is the most legit gas station ive ever seen.

christmas was fun. we spent the 24th in souix city with my dads side and had some gift exchanges there. then we had the annual christmas party at my dads brothers wifes parents house talking to people i dont know that i will most definately not see until next year and will try to act like i know them next time the party comes around. but i did talk to a high school algebra teacher of 30 years who likes to read. told me to read "Moby Dick". he said he's started reading it about 10 times and has never finished it. ill probably never read it.

after that went to my aunts house (aunt kim) and unpacked there. its been getting pretty rediculous with this whole pack the car, unpack the car, use some stuff, pack the car, unpack the car, use some stuff thing. living out of a suitcase blows. but i digress.

went to my OTHER aunts house (aunt carol) on my moms side and had christmas with a bunch of relatives. owned in monopoly. ate the best food ever. ate some more food. got my gift stolen about 5 times in the grab bag. ended up with a duck carving kit, a brand of cognac hat, and a retro elk wall decoration for the white elephant. ate some more food. and accidently opened my gift to my godfather, thinking that my mom was giving me a gift. my mom never told me that it was his!
anyways
that was in Sibley, Iowa
and it was snowing the whole time. i couldnt stop complimenting on how sweet it was that it was snowing on christmas day. there are so many xmas's that i have had that there was absolutely no snow. this time, we were getting dumped on. i think it was 5 inches of snow through out the day. it never stopped the whole time i was in Sibley. there were your really small kind. your snowflakes the size of quarters kind. it was just a perk that i really liked, especially for today.

so we woke up late today at my aunt kims house. went to goodwill and aunt kim said that we had to spend 35 cents. it was tough because there wasnt a lot of good stuff even though i looked extensively in the sports jacket section. but i found a nice beerstein to use for next year. i think im going to have too many house cups. i need to whittle it down to one. but after that we headed out of aunt kims. said goodbye and everything. and then headed up here to minneapolis where my cousin lives. shes of an older generation and had kids which one is almost my age. tomorrow we will be snowboarding on this newly fallen, natural, not icey, snow. im excited.

oh yea and i got a new bike for christmas. im excited for it.

Freakin Balls

so you know how people say that people are most afraid of is speaking in public, even more than fearing death. well my number one fear is confession in front of a priest. oh yea. its intimidating. and my mom just loves to go to it every christmas and easter. so my whole family is subjected to going to church. sitting in front of a priest. and spilling our guts out on every sin that we have done since our last confession. and you cant lie to a priest. even though i have. but more of just leaving sins out. but your there. he's not going to say anything. but still. i feel like ive got a new start. getting over an obstacle. do non-denominational do confession?

anyways.

been working out 5 days a week, and liking it. biking 35 min a day. seeing a bunch of friends at lifetime. playing some vball. working out. its good. hopefully i can make up for it at ilstu with not as great equipment.

im a ninja turtle in halo. Donatello, boy. turtles in a half shell.

its good to be home with some friends.

Item-Related-to-Mark-and-Justins-Present picture of the day is!

Indian Prarie hillllll

so here's how my night went. I'm sick and tired of the whole;
"hey what are you doing"
"oh nothing, but if something comes up ill call you"
its boring, its dumb, its home. thats what happens a lot. well i couldn't take it, i wanted some kind of fun.

well i made my own. i got good ol' BUCKLE UP 1 (my families astro van) and picked up everyone. andy, willes, abby, mark, kyle, justin. we all pack in there. get some stuff to keep up warm. i didn't have any because i decided to take one for the team and be the DD. they pounded it. then we all went to indian prairie hill and caused a ruckus. oh and it was real great when mike and steve decide to spray the fire extingusher in the car... well... we start flying down the hill about 5 times and then we were so tired. especially the people that had a bit of natural anti-freeze in their blood. at one point in time bergan joined us in the fun. met andys lil bro kevin and some of his friends. at one point in time steve tackled me down the hill and then ev-er-y-one decided to join in and we liteally went down the hill in a ball of tackling and dog piling and i didnt know whos shoe was in my face or who was pound driving my head into the ground. my first guess would be mark. after that mike and andy decided to peace out with bergan and then on the way to his car justin sees one of my sleds that i brought being taken away by someone else. it was one of those old wooden sleds that you would see in like "A Christmas Story", its probably from the 1940s, you cant miss it. well the kids decided to call justin a puuuuuussy and he wanted to rumble but walked away. well then when we all decided to leave because mark gave abby a high ankle sprain or something while they were wrestling in the snow. nice job mark. we start to leave and then those kids (they were our age or older) decide to start talking smack-a-lack. justin comes back with a "DOUSH BAAAG" to one of the losers and walks back towards the car. well this girl comes up to the car, puts her had into the car and holds on to the hand loop right in the frame of the door so the sliding door doesnt shut. "um your an asshole and you need to apologize for the doushbag comment". wait wait wait.... justin? apologize? i dont think so. so mark does it for them. and we start shutting the door. "oh no you didnt!" says one of her crew. and they procede to start chucking snowballs at the car. "no one slams the door on my girls fingers!" um ok... well i just ask "can we leave" to them and they let go and then the girl starts kicking snow at the car while we are leaving. well. we get about 20 feet away and then steve goes "fuck this, im getting out" then justin and kyle procedes after that. mark tries to get them into the car. fails. and i pull away because of abbys ankle and i want to get her back to marks. so its steve, kyle, and justin. talking shit. to about 7 guys and a girl. real great. i drop off abby and mark and just decide to head home because then justin, steve and kyle get picked up by bergen. and from what i heard from justin after they got back was this via instant messanger;

greg: how big of a bitch was the girl in the yellow
greg: hahahaha
justin: when wille was yelling at them she walks up to me and says "u fuck with a stripper, you fuck with her bouncers"
justin: i just said "what?"
justin: she repeats
justin: i go "so wait..........your a stripper?"

so apparently we were fighting with a stripper and her bouncers. at indian prarie hill. sledding.
...
what a story

Back Home

so its good to be back home really. i thought it was going to be boring but for the most part its been fun. got all packed up and got my dorm set up for winter break. which was a pain because it seemed 10x more cluttered just because a dumb pipe could break and destroy everything in the room. got a ride home with bini and caught up on some sports talk radio. went through morris on the way back.... i hate morris. caught up on some chit chat with my mom and dad and got more involved in the concept of getting a bike for christmas. very excited for that. hung out over at dales and then got some usual taco bell.... and i was the one that drove. and kyle and dale loved it because the last time i went drive through i swear i heard the taco bell worker say "is this for here or to go?" through the speark. in the drive through. and i responded with a "yes this is to-go.... what?". i dont think they will ever let me live that one down.

off to lifetime to catch up on some excersise. i just love sleeping in.

One-of-The-Top-20-People-Austin-Mark-and-Justin-Want-To-Meet
Bones

Finals Looming

the weekend was a blur. i dont remember much about it other than just hanging out at different peoples apartments and houses, owning kids with vargus, rachels 21st, seeing The Golden Compass, and buying vanilla wafers. other than that nothing much happened. it was a fun way to end out the 2007 year at isu.

i dont have any money on my food plan anymore. actually. i do. about 2 dollars but then again two dollars will probably buy me a couple packets of peanut butter and a bagel. not cool.

been buckling down for finals now. making notecards is awesome for tests.

so for next year dale is going to try and get into cooking. he wants to try and make it a hobby which when you think of it is pretty legit. how many times have you wanted to cook something good and you didnt know how. i gave him a option for next year. i dont know how often... maybe 3-4x a month he could tell me what he wanted to make for dinner and i would go out and buy the stuff for him. but im not talking about oven bake pizza or anything. im talking about like steak, some good pasta, or even like burgers. something that i would be able to look forward to on whatever day we pick to have good dinners. hopefully itll be good.

Random-Thought of the day is
if i could be anywhere right now it would be boarding down a hill at Keystone, CO.

kid nation

i love this show.
go jared.
and i havent lost it in a long time like i did when i saw this quote
misk21587: Jrbrown307 (7:55:33 PM): anjays a loser hahahahaha

Battle Royale!

so sarah and i just watched a movie. it was Battle Royale. its a JAPANESE JAPANESE JAPANESE movie about 40 random kids picked from a lottary to be stuck on an island with an original weapon and fight to the death until there is one survivor. pretty intense but the emotions and pretty much everything else having to do with plot was "lost in translation". austin, im sorry. i didnt like the movie. but there were some pretty good last words. like a girls dying words were "you look so cool" to this guy that she really liked.


just found out that i have three finals on next thursday. how horrible would that be? thank the good Lord above that you can change your final scedual around if you have 3 on one day.


i just got news from my dad that i will be getting a bike from santa. now santa is really cool and lets me pick out the bike i want. so ill be on the lookout for a nice road bike. santa owns.


trying to start training for RAGBRAI right now. i hate biking on a machine indoors.

Best-Pic-of-My-Friend-Sarah-and-Kelsey of the day is!
(kelsey left, sarah right)

Roadtrip

so i went for a roadtrip to miami-ohio and purdue this weekend. it was refreshing. kinda switching up things for my social setting was fun. hopefully ill be able to do that more in the future. there are a lot of friends out there i gotta visit.

i hate it when i find out that i am over my head in something. right now its homework. i should be working on two 5 page papers right now but im just putting some thoughts online. and listening to "best of simon and garfunkel", one of the best 13 dolla buys ive ever had. i want to get a blazer. i think im getting a bike for christmas, shhhhawiiiiing.

saw american gangster last night. that shit is iiiiintense. for a movie its not really that intense because blow a guys head off yadda yadda yadda sell some coke yadda yadda yadda. but i tried to put myself into that situation (since its a true story) and it blew my mind. its a really good movie and is bound to get some oscars.

ive been trucking on War And Peace. its getting more interesting every page.

Mark and Joes-Next-Possible-Catch pic of the day is!

Ahhh hell lets have two pics

Amazing pic of the day!

Story Time

so once apon a time there was a few kids on a tour. what kind of tour you ask? a Tour de Elgin. my friend justin, brandon, bill, and i think ... joiner? went on a bike ride to Elgin. from crystal lake (also known as CL) its about 15 miles via bikeride. we all got our bikes and went on the Prarie Trail bike route. i was not a very smart lad and forgot to eat breakfast. so we pasted I-90, which is just around where we turn around, and took a break before heading back. i was feeling fine. up until brandon looked at his watch and said "oh shit, i gotta get back ive got a blahblahblah to go to soon". and starts picking up the pace. on that notion i decide to go with him because i had a little competitive side to me and i love going fast on bikes. well half way back it hit me. i was hungry. but i couldnt slow down! i had to keep up with brandon. and this is not just normal hunger. this is the kind of hunger that makes you feel like your stomach is a black hole or its eating away at itself. i was losing it. but keeping up with brandon. we get back to CL. we are swerving through the back streets getting towards justins house. we throw down our bikes in the back yard. justins little bro phil and his gf were in the pool. its hot. i walk up the pool latter. dont even say hello back to phil who is a friend also. tuck my head and do a lazy flip in the pool. i dont want to move. but then the black hole comes back. i slug out of the lukewarm water. climb down the stairs. procede to the kitchen. "you guys hungry?" says Mrs. Brown, one of the nicest ladies ever. im in a trance. i go for some bread. i see a full package of ham and procede to take nearly it all and make one sandwich. i devoir that thing like theres nothing more important in my life. and i think with my mindset there wasnt anything. but anyways, so the rest of the guys get back and we have a fiest. pasta, yogurt, sandwiches, juiceboxs. you name it! we had it. but during the process of gorging my face i was still in the worst of moods. just the little things set me off. for example; i love Mrs. Brown. she was serving pasta and then asks

"does anyone want any red sauce?"

"its marinara!"

or when she was kindly giving us pretzels...

"anyone want any pretzels?"

"THEIR GARDETTOS!"

it was not the best point of my life. i love Mrs. Brown but i was not in the greatest of moods. also i asked her to get me a capri sun from the basement. overall it was a good trip and i hope it turns into a tradition. even though i just about died the first time.

Birthday/Christmas/Gift-of-My-Life Idea

A Spoon Full of Cinnamon Will Not Make the Medicine Go Down

so i like how people are saying turkey break instead of thanksgiving break because really i dont think we are thankful anymore for the same reasons we should have been thankful for in the first place. but damn that turkey is awesome hence the liking of turkey break. but yea my break was good and bad. it started off with an amazing bet that my cousin mollie actually took.

i bet her $50 to eat a tablespoon full of cinnamon. she apparently really needed some xmas gift money and i didnt know that so my bet was very persuasive. and yes, thats mostly me laughing in the background.

turkey break gets boring really fast because after the initial day of eating and what not all of the women go out for a long long shopping spree and im stuck at the cousins house trying to find something to do. last year my cousins and i that were back at the house started making puzzles. so i thought of extending that tradtition. mollie and i started off with a easy 100 piece one. but then i went to look for another one and boom there it was. a 1500 piece puzzle of a god damn castle in france with a lot of grass and a lot of blue sky. i thought i was up for the challenge. i had three days ahead of me. lets go.

nope. didnt happen. for 3 days i slaved over that puzzle until the wee hours of the night with a bunch of my cousins and relatives and by golly i didnt get it done. the sky (the skys of insanity) was just impossible and the grass underneath the castle was just a bit easier. for those two parts it would have been easier if we had done the puzzle flipped over. anyways.

saturday mi familia went to lunch with my moms sisters family. we also do this every year and its always nice to pick up on news from everyone. my cousin sam and i played about 10 games of darts and ive noticed that im not that bad with darts. maybe it could be a game that i could pick up. speaking of darts, if anyone likes betting, darts, and the irish mob then i could highly recommend Balling the Jack by Frank Baldwin. "it was the best book ive ever read" said by Tim Dolan, a well respected book reviewer for the Crystal Lake Cronical.

Best-Picture-Incorporating-A-Chair-And-Joiner of the day is!

I Dont Follow NCAAFB

so my friends a long time ago asked me "whats your college football team" and i said i didnt know so i picked notre dame and michigan. "are you retarded!?! those are arch rivals! you cant like them both". so then i just declared that i dont really follow football. apparently to be a "true" fan according to some friends of mine you needed to have picked your favorite team coming out of the womb. i would rather read a book.

got back home yesturday and it was refreshing walking inside and smelling that unique smell of detergent/cooking/i-dont-know all mixed together that smells like the Agnes home. plus it was nice making myself enough food from the refrigerator to fill me up. mmmm turkey sandwich. nice to not wear flip flops in the shower. nice to sleep in a queen bed. and nice to drive a car. actually i take that one back. cars suck. they are just a piece of work.

so i was sitting around playing video games last night waiting for people to call me and then my friend mal IMs me saying " gregory! please come visit me with natalie!". in which my first response was hell no, your at Northpark and thats in Chicago and its 9:30 and natalie would have to pick me up, so thats 30 mins on top of that and ive done enough driving today and we cant sleep over because they are a christian college so they dont allow visitors to sleep over and ahhhhh shit im coming. this dumb adventurous side of me just says "s my d" to everything that gets in the way of a adventure. so my friend natalie and i went to see my friend mal at Northpark. it was awesome. we met her roommates and they were sweet. then mals roommate and her friend jason came with us to get some food by belmont st. (i think thats how you spell it). the food was good but i couldnt finish it all. and there were a lot of "original" people around. i didnt have a problem with any but im just a sheltered boy to that. growing up in the suburbs and then going to isu. nothing wrong with being original but it was a sight to see how other people live.

this is going to be a very interesting thanksgiving.

Merriam-Webster Word of the Day is!

ashram

1 : a secluded dwelling of a Hindu sage; also : the group of disciples instructed there
*2 : a religious retreat
Example Sentence:Susan took a semester off from school in order to practice meditation and yoga at an ashram.

New Scedual

so i signed up for classes. i dont know how i feel about my scedual. im indifferent about it. i dont have a class before 10 but then again i have at least 2 classes everyday. ive been spoiled this semester with having no friday classes. if you can ever manage to do like wise i would highly recommend it.

started working out again. i miss the feeling of actually working out for a goal (example football or track) instead of just trying to keep in shape. i feel bad for people that havent been involved in sports. any sport that is. because then they most likely will not have the motivation to work out or get started in sports right now. being physically active helps out, not just physically, but sometimes emotionally as well.

been reading a lot. got two books on my plate right now. Life of Pie and War And Peace. have been putting War And Peace on the back burner for the moment because i need more time to read Life of Pie which is for a class. im happy that we are reading it because a long time ago my friend Amit recommended it to me and i never got around to it. it sucks though that class is on monday wednesday and the teacher always assigns 90 pages and its a bitch to read 90 pages in two days. but im still trudging along with WAP. its got some really unique parts that you dont see in most novels.

i miss the Kasstle. every year my moms side of the family. which includes my family, and all of my aunts families. go up to Cable, WI and stay at the Garmish Inn which has a cabin that looks like a castle. my moms maiden name is Kass so we just incorporated the two and thats how the name Kasstle came around. we've been going there for i think 17 years and i dont think we plan on stopping anytime soon. i dont know how many times i fell off tubing or how many big waves ive smacked into. i just learned how to soloum ski last year. heres a pic of the place.





my friends dale and dino were on jerry springer. the episode was on at two today. i was absent minded and was playing halo 3 and forgot about it. good thing that dale recorded it. apparently they gave a very good reaction when some black girl showed her fun bags. ha!



Hopefully-Someone-From-NCC-Knows-This-Girl pic of the day is!

Urban Dictionary

ive been looking up a lot of things on urban dictionary lately. like for example the word "greg". apparently my name means a lot more than just "watchman on the hill". considering thats what gregory actually means. but anyways, ive been on a search for a certain word. and finding a word is very hard to do. ok. what is the term to describe the act when two people are walking towards each other (on a sidewalk, hallway, etc) and when they get close to each other they both try to get out of the way. they both veer the same way, then they veer the opposite way, and then it becomes awkward because they cant get out of each others way. there is a term for that action but i dont know what it is. there are a ton of gross terms to look up at urban dictionary. they come in handy in conversation.
i still want to do some glass blowing.
i wonder what it would be like to be stranded on an island. and how one person would change that if they were there.
i think the iPhone is cool.
if real russian names are like those in War and Peace. then russian names are way too long.

Chinese-Fortune of the day!

Find release from your cares, have a good time
Lucky # 46, 84, 6, 45, 22, 11
Learn Chinese: Bo- Cai, Spinach

Go Green, Go White!

Today mark and i went to the Purdue vs. Michigan State game. he asked me yesturday if i wanted to go and i whole heartedly agreed. i love going on adventures to places ive never gone to see things ive never seen. hopefully thats something i become or am known for. we both woke up at freakin 7 in the morning. well mark woke up at 7 but then had a personal struggle with himself to get out of bed that he didnt win until 7:50 but he won that battle... against himself. and we got on the road at around 8:15.

i had mcdonalds breakfast. i hate mcdonalds breakfast. everything about mcdonalds disgusts me. people say its so good and of course its so good. becaus it was designed to be so good. but it always makes me feel like a bumass and i rarely have it. this time it was dont eat or have mcdonalds. the latter of the two won.

we got to west lafayette in a good amount of time. actually it was perfect time because when we got into the stadium it wasnt two minutes before the team headed on to the field. and it was nice actually caring for something. at isu i dont really care about the football team. probably the most sports i care about is my dodgeball team, how kait is doing, and my fantasy team with me buds. the purdue and michigan state fans really cared. this one guy in front of us was cussing out a bunch of teenagers. whoa. so i did my best to be as good of a michigan state fan as possible for the day. rattling my keys before kickoff. going a bit crazy for touchdowns. screaming out the "go white, go green" cheer. and it helped that michigan state won 48-31. but thats beside the point. it was fun changing things up for the weekend and putting a few memories in the head.

Coolest-Mascot pic of the day!

tourney

so i like playing guitar hero. its fun. makes me want to actually play guitar. well kinda. but anyways. there was a tournament at my university. there was a couple of people there. like around 20 and i didnt start off so good. lost my first match but i lost it to the guy that came in 2nd place so i wasnt that bad. but then i battled my way through the losers bracket (double elimination) and ended up playing for 3rd place with this guy that was really good and then lost to him. so it was a good run and i got a sweet Mother Murphys shirt which is a store in downtown Normal that sells music and products for "tobacco use only". but its a sweet shirt. going to wear it out tonight and i also got a buy one get one free coupon for Noodles and Comp. so. if anyone... wants to go. get some noodles. i would be glad to take them. and now i have to head to a play shadowing assignment for my theatre class. so long. farewell. auf wierdersehen. goodbye.

what movie is this?

so my friends make fun of me because i have more "favorite books" than "favorite movies" on my facebook. "fucking bookworm" says dale. well i just think that reading a book opens the mind more. makes you think. changes you a little no matter if you liked the book or not. with movies i think its just a lot easier to put special effects or have the typical storyline thats been done over and over. thats might thoughts on that.

dodgeball is tonight. im pumped.

ive always wanted to watch all the "americas funniest home videos" episodes and then take out the clips that are the most funny (funniest?) and then put them into an amazing All-Star episode. that would be crazy.

ive been swamped for the past week with studies. mounds of reading (120 pages for just one class), 2 big tests, and a five page paper. when it rains, it pours.

ive always wanted take a glass blowing class. or make it into a hobby, some of the things that people make are amazing.

Blown-Glass pic of the day

Thedra

so my friend justin and me were looking up what deamon we were. and i have to warn you that this was really gay of us but we did. in the book The Golden Compass the people have souls that are on the outside of their bodies. their souls are shaped into animals that personify who the person is. so example if your really lazy you would have a deamon that would be a sloth.... mark.

you go on their website goldencompassmovie.com and then fill out a 20 question survey and then you see what deamon you have. so justin did his deamon and got a snow leopard. and if anyone knows me they know that i hate when justin wins or gets something cool. because he is a powerhouse. and then i did my deamon and got a whippet which is a type of dog. and they name them for you and mine was Thedra. at first i thought a whippet would be a pretty dumb deamon but then i found this picture and thought otherwise. THEDRAAAAAA!

Tell Me Something

So yesturday i figured out my favorite movie quote.

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

whats yours? i might post it.

Working the Double

i know ive already posted today but i dont care. Dodgeball Update: we won. we lost the first game but then came back to win the next three. it was awesome. adam was faced up against this other guy at the end of the 3rd game and his arm was dead. he was dead tired. one on one. adam is throwing submarine because his arms so dead. and he gets him with the slider. it was awesome. i showed some moves with a sweet jump throw and got a girl out. ballin! and felt like a predator just walking around and dodging like neo in the matrix. natalie showed her stuff and whipped them balls with her sweet shirt. oh yeah, we got shirts too. mine glows in the dark. "DO WORK" on the front and then our nicknames and numbers on the back. kelsey was awesome in practice and didnt whine a bit when i nailed her in the ear. not. mike has the hardest throw on the team. andys awesome at dodging. kyles just tricky. todays game was 10x better than last weeks.

Across The Universe

So i went to go see Across The Universe tonight. Apparently i need to be on acid to enjoy it more because some parts were very psychodelic. Across The Universe is a romance musical with all the songs coming from The Beatles. I like The Beatles but i dont like how at one point they could have made shit music and everyone would like it (my example being "i am the walrus").
So apparently this blog of mine is starting to spread throughout my friends. Here are some comments ive got about them that i remember.

"You have a blog, Greg? Its that the same as a diary?" - Sean Hicky

"What the hell were you talking about with that almond comment?" - Lindsey Warner

"Yea, whats up with those almonds?" - Annette Vacval

"You have inspired me to start up my blog again." -Nick Bambini
etc etc

Well basically i just want to keep my thoughts into one place. thats the purpose of this blog. maybe ill look back on it and laugh at how stupid i was or something. plus its nice to think that some friends of mine that i dont see much are informed of my well being and maybe just decide to check it because they are bored.

oh yea, and im taking the plunge. im reading War and Peace.

Quote of the day

Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once? "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration … that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."
-Bill Hicks

Guitarist Wanna-be

so i got guitar hero 3 today. i not going to lie, i couldnt stop laughing when i actually got ahold of it. thats what ive been doing all day though. playing guitar hero. sarah and i started out a co-op campaign and dude, its so cool. and the tips of my fingers on my left hand hurt (so be grateful for this blog). and my right thumb is about to fall off. but im still trucking.

halloween was eventful. things to do. people to see. it was eventful for me but not enough to write about. just to say that i didnt get to bed until 4 last night. but it was fun. im happy for it to be over. sometimes you just want to go back to school. no worries about trying to go out.

i want to use this awesome sticker that i bought from Key West over spring break that is rectangular.... oh hell its just easier to describe with pictures.

well i want to use it. i bought two of them and put one on the bumper of my car. but i have no idea how to use the second one. i want to put it on something that ill have a long time. but there isnt really very much around. my nalgene has a plethora of stickers. but this one is better than the rest.

Best-Facebook-Profile-Pic-Of-Dales pic of the day is!

Family

you dont really appreciate family or really anything until you dont have it. today i realized that but not in such a harse way. i still have my family but i havent seen them in a long time, and they came today. well not the WHOLE family but two out of my three sisters (alison and brittany) and my mother (claudia). they decided to come down, bring some winter gear for this upcoming weather, take a walk around the quad. get some necessities from walmart, and then hit up some adventurous sushi.

my mom doesnt really like sushi. but i persuaded her to give it another try. we got there and the first thing i notice on the menu is how many things i actually havent had. there was things on the menu that i couldnt pronounce and i loved it. my littliest sister alison and i were feeling bold and tried the Tako, which is sashimi with octapus. yes people, i ate octapus. sashimi is kinda like sushi but instead of being wrapped up in a roll it is literally a ball of rice with raw fish or whatever on top. well from my experiences thats what it is. and thats the great thing about foriegn foods. you dont know what the hell your getting really and well... you might like some of it. you can always go to your everyday place for some burgers or tacos but that isnt new or interesting. i like experiences.

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Knights of Cydonia

so tonight is the first night (i think) to actually dress up for halloween. what am i for halloween you ask? well im being something that i thought i would never be again. an eagle scout. yep, there will be pictures. no worries. but there have been some requests from my pool of friends. and i caved like a gold mine in south africa. that was mean, i take it back. but anyways. i cant get that song "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse out of my head. "No ones gonna take me aliiiiiive" has been going through my head. and guess what.... right.... now.... im .... listening to it. via youtube. but anyways.

ive done nothing today.

i love to sleep in. ive been doing it a lot on my days off. but then again when i do that i dont do anything for the rest of the day. just been chillin out and laying in bed. i think the most productive thing ive done today is put on my uniform/costume.

lets type about something interesting.

ill tell you guys about a bike race im going to be in over the summer. its called RAGBRAI. look it up http://www.ragbrai.org/ . its a week long bike ride that covers on average 475...? miles or something. i dont actually remember that part. but i remember figuring out that the average milage a day was around 75 miles. intense? yea. but if your cruising on a bike at lets say an easy 13 mph speed, you would only be on your bike for a little over 5 and a half hours a day. oh thats easy. but im really looking forward to it. i love riding my bike. and last year in the spring i was taking a bike ride around random bloomington and then decided to stop and call my dad and say that i wanted to be in it with him. he had always said that he wanted to be in it and never got around to it. so i thought "hell, lets MAKE some time to do it." and gave him the call. so ill have to be taking some serious bike rides when it has shitty weather. because i dont prefer to bike inside.

i would sell my car for a really nice road bike.

today im not going to have a "pic of the day" but more of a picture of my friend who is having a birthday, happy birthday austin.

"Get some juice, brah"

Dodgeball

so some friends and i are in a dodgeball league. not a good start to the season but there is always next time. ok.

but just watched The Office, which owns. the last one was awesome and i laughed a lot. Kid Nation is amazing and if you watch it then, Jared > anyone else on the show. Beauty and The Geek is awesome and the guy on there has some freaky eyes. Guitar Hero 3 comes out on sunday and i am so excited and cant get the song "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse. I want to live somewhere were i can ride my bike everyday of the year. i have this awesome mug that i bought at a garage sale that says "U.S. Drinkng Team - World Champions" on one side (that typo was legit, whoever made it spelled it "drinkng") and then on the other side it says "Whistle For Your Beer" on the other side and then by the handle it has an actual whistle. how legit of a house cup is that? well it would be awesome... if i have a house. your time will come Ultimate Housecup.... someday. anyways. im thinking about starting up a new book. i love reading. and im really considering reading "War and Peace". but dude, thats so intimidating. its like 1200 pages or something. thats an investment. i love my glasses that i got after my old ones broke and apparently a lot of people like them too. they are a bit sophisticated looking but oh well. its one small step into growing up in the personal fashion scene. my favorite smell is almonds. whats your?

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Stories

so i was just thinking about my friends the other day and then i thought "well heyyyyyy that would be a good blog post" so here it goes. some friends of mine followed by a unique story that we shared together.

mark- we almost slid into a cop car with his car when my friend kyle asked him to drive us to bradley and it was in the middle of an ice storm

justin- we drove to NIU and NCC in one weekend and invented a drink called "The Danger" which consisted of every kind of hard liquor put into one big shot, i had seconds.

kait- we experienced her roommate getting a legit strip tease by the next door neighbor. in which, yes, he did get buck naked and we bolted out the door.

bini- him, justin, mark, and i went to Key West for the spring break to hang out at his uncles house. which he was the golf pro at the local golf club. so you get the picture, he was pretty well off. and he had a boat. we went fishing. there was choppy water. he tried to "take" the waves and stand without support on the boat with justin. well he doesnt have the greatest balance. heres proof.

austin- he was in need of a "love seat" for his dorm room. i decided to help him out and experience the day in the life of "austin, the college years". we looked around to i believe 8 thrift stores. nothing even resembling a love seat. then at the last one of the day. goodwill. we find a perfect love seat. $25. he still has it to this day.

sarah s- i dropped my shorts infront of her in the stairwell the other day on purpose and she could stop laughing for 7 minutes.

adam- he threw a swedish fish across the room. at my mouth. last night. that was the size of my thumb. and i caught it, on the first try. the action should have been molded into a "cherished moment" doll.

and thats about it for the moment. i didnt say all of my friends but just a few because i have to study for a latino studies test. ahhh yi yiiiii!

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Bling Bling Bling

so i like to spend money. ive been called many times in my like a "impulse buyer". but then again it runs in the family. like the other day, my dad put $30 in my checking account and said to go take a girl on a date. yea... i spent it on a new video game today. its called "Beautiful Katamari". not the most manly of names but you push a f-ing ball around and try to pick up stuff. so simple but so deathly addicting. anyone want to play? i thought you would say yes. and this weekend im going to buy guitar hero 3. but that been a planned investment for awhile.

why are there so many divorces?

ive been thinking about that question a lot. i probably couldnt even think about all the reasons that people get divorces but im just saying, marriage is a bigger deal than people make it out to be. your married. i know i cant predict my future and what it holds but i just hope that i will be steadfast, through thick and thin, when i get married. because your freaking "two become one" stuff and all that jazz. i just think that i will never (hopefully) become divorced. but then again itll probably take a lot for me to become married also. raise your hand if anyone ever said "who is going to marry you?" to you? ---raised---

hahahah

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Horrible Time Management

so dont you have it when someone asks if you hate a situation that they describe that can nearly only happen to them. example; dont you hate it when you cant remember you aunt lynns name and call her carol, over christmas, with pajamas on that have a neon skeleton print on them, when you were nine? yea i hate that too. happened to me all the time.



"i digress" is a new term for me. i believe it means that you get off topic. but the starting topic was dumb but ill just say it anyway for the fact that i want to have a better topic that was never here in the first place.



facebook is addicting.



if it was a drug i would be living on the streets by now. which brings me to the fact that i just want to share that i gave that and all personal use of the internet up for lent last year. yes, i did nearly go insane and yes, i will never do it again. but it was something that was hard. i like to test myself every year to see how far i can go. like for example, i gave up "creaming the mastadon"one year, biting my nails (horrible habit of mine) and i think one year i actually drank two nalgeen bottles a day. but that last one didnt last long. actually that might not even be true.


put this man as your background. itll make you smile.

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I Had A Dream

so i have dreams. like everyone else. but i remember a lot of them and they sometimes turn out really wierd. strange, i know. like for instance the one i had last night.

i was being asked in a coffee shop if i would work for this paper supply company (yes, just like Dunder Mifflin) instead of taking my old job as a camp counslor. the guy looked like a taller Steve Colbert but without glasses. he said he would start paying me $10 an hour. i responded with "your going to have to pay me more than that". in which he said "pick your price". so i went boom town and pulled out the big 20 clams an hour. in which he was hesitant but agreed. actually putting me into a bind of accepting, because i loved being a camp counslor. owning 4th graders in dodgeball was amazing.

and thinking of that random dream and reading the book Nickle and Dimed right now got me to thinking. what are we willing to do for a higher paying job? isnt that a big reason why most of us are going to college? would you rather be a camp counslor and do something fun or be working in a paper distributing company and make bank.

and for my random thing of the day...

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Chicka Chicka Yeaaa

so heres how this all started.

ever since my good friend austin made a blog (http://www.austinmorganisms.blogspot.com/ ... i believe) i have been always looking for him to update his. also he has (at the moment) a pretty sweet youtube video group going on (http://www.youtube.com/group/foreignobjects) about the challenges of asia and how his friends and him over come those challenges to find themselves and each other.

but enough of their advertising. i digress.

i had been checking up on those two things on a healthy basis. austin says that i should start one. stating that i have a unique view on life. plus he would like an update once in a while. and the unigue view did not get to me but the second statement actually got me to thinking. i dont update enough on my life and some people are bored out there and would like to know. then i thought "its nice to look back at memories and laugh at them". so. this is the start of those.

and also from looking at other blogs, there seems to be a need for a "blank of the day" thing. so for the "Quote-I-Will-Use-If-I-Become-A-English-Teacher of the day" is...

An English Prof. wrote the words;
"A women without her man is nothing"
on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the men in the class wrote;
"A women, without her man, is nothing."
All of the women in the class wrote;
"A women: without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation is powerful.