R.I.P.

My phone. It WOULD break after I quit my job. Typical.

I haven't even had it for a year

I just broke my stress ball.

That title is an absolute lie; but if I did have a stress ball, it'd probably be broken. These first few days of Spring Break have actually been some of the most stressful of this entire year. Besides for the fact that my mother and father left me with my brother and his girlfriend (two of the laziest people I've ever met in my entire life), I've been picking up all the chores they haven't been doing, been getting yelled at my brother's girlfriend because I'll occasionally forget to do one or two things in my list of about 11 chores I have to do each day, been dealing with friend drama (that they don't know about), been dealing with school drama, and have been busy contemplating my life, and whether or not I'm making the most of it. As if that wasn't enough, as of yesterday, my grandfather (who is older than 90) had to be rushed to the hospital. While my parents are out of town. So now, not only do I have to feed the dogs 3 times a day, collect the dishes throughout the house after the end of each day, do the dishes, do my laundry, let the dogs out to go potty, feed the fish, open the blinds in the morning and close them at night, but now I have to drive up to La Grange Hospital (about a 40 minute drive) each day to spend some time with him (I'm not saying that it's a bad thing but there's so much to do at home that won't get done if I'm not here). My life feels like a big ball about to explode. Oh, yeah, and my cell phone won't make calls, so now I have to carry around two. My dads to call people with, and mine to text with. Fun. 

In the mix of all this I have been contemplating a lot of stuff; friends, my life, the future, and in particular the past. I realized today... tonight actually... that my life has not been as fulfilling to me as it probably has been to others. I see all these other people, some who used to be some of my dearest friends, going out to partys and having fun, usually involving something illegal, and I have always thought Oh, I don't need that, my life is perfectly fine without that. Then I lost friends. I lost one to a move, one to his ass-holeness, one to popularity, and one to his girlfriend. I now have three people in my life that I can rely on, and sometimes I wish I had those four that I've lost back in my life, some more than others, but it'd be nice. Granted, two of them are unmendable relationships, but even when I've tried to mend the other two it just doesn't work. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to say that my two friends I have now are not adequate, but there are times I just miss the other people. Like tonight... when I was sitting in my basement alone, playing X amount of songs in Rock Band for the X Hundredth time. I did at one point get a text from one of those lost friends to come pick her up, and my heart skipped a beat, but then it was a false alarm because she got another ride home. I was literally crushed.

I'm going to steal a line from Juno and say I'm "dealing with things waaay beyond my maturity level." 

Blah, life just feels so condensed into a tupperware container that it is too big for and it is just going to blow up. I mean, so far this break has actually been more stressful than school. Before I know it I'LL be in the hospital. With an Ulcer.

For now though, I'm going to bed. So I can wake up at ten. And then Shower. And then drive to Cingular, and get my phone fixed. And then drive out to La Grange Hospital. And then drive home and eat. And then go to work. And then come home and try to have a social life (it won't happen)

*Sigh* Good night all. I hope your pregnancy is going well Greeninator

Ah, how the mighty have fallen (part 2)

Just when I get to the height of my blogging, I fall off the bandwagon. This is my first update in almost like, a month. Oops! Sorry to all my loyal fans, this is no way to garner more attention from new readers that may or may not come here from VerveEarth. Ahem, anyways, I've been up to nothing much besides stressing. Major stress-age. My psychiatrist brought up an interesting point today. The last few months of Senior Year suck. Especially if you have big projects, because it's like you can see the end but at the same time you still have all this work pulling you back. He also made the point that Junior Year might even be less stressful than Senior Year, because Junior Year, when you get a project assigned, you know you have to do it, but Senior Year you can see the light at the end of the tunnel but you have these obstacles in your way that keep you from spreading your wings and taking flight away from H.S. In short, 8 Page Law Paper + 6 Page Research Paper + 30 Minute presentation = :(

Blah, in other news I quit Portillo's, almost a year after I got hired there (some time in March) and I think lasting a year there is pretty impressive. It is by no means an easy job. So now I'm filling out four applications... to four different GameStop's. I am determined to work there. At least I hope I'll get hired. What an ideal job... standing around all day talking about video games, that'd be fantastic. All I have is until March 31st, then I am out like Disco. Speaking of Disco... I'm listening to the new Panic at the Disco CD (Yes, the one that gets released next week ;)) It's OKAY. I really like their next single but I'm not sure how I feel about the rest of the CD, I mean, all the songs sound sort of the same. We'll see though, this is my second listen-through so maybe my mind will change, my opinion isn't set in stone yet. The guitar in it is really cool, very Beatles-esque (the whole album sort of is, which also bugs me)

Other than Panic, in the way of music, I have been listening to a whole heck of a lot of Danity Kane. Their new album is absolutely amazing and if you have any appreciation for Pop music you need to go buy it.

I've been thinking about going to college a lot. I mean, every adult I talk to makes it sound like you'll lose all your High School friends in college, but I don't want that to happen. I was talking to Matt Hopkins today, and I made a statement which I really mean... I would rather do Senior Year over and over again than go to college. It would just be so much better for me (Mr. Anti-Change himself) because I'm not ready to leave home, meet new people, be challenged in different ways... it's just... nerve-wracking.

That's all I can think of writing for now.

If you're curious about the Panic album (entitled "Pretty. Odd." then you can click here for a track-by-track breakdown (it's very brief)

More stuff I just can't comprehend

Listen to this speech an Oklahoma State Legislator gave. I don't know how these people get elected.

A sad day, for all football fans

Even if you're not a Brett Favre/Green Bay fan, everyone should watch his retirement speech he made thursday, it had me so choked up! Nothing like watching a grown man cry :-(



This man has been an idol of mine, my entire life. One of my goals, before I die, was to see this man play. Now it will never happen, but I wish Brett the best in wherever he goes from here. He was an inspiration to me, and I'm sure many others.

EDIT: Click Here to see a list of the records Favre leads in the NFL/Packers

Kind of cool....

This was probably just a "cut-and-paste" email, but I was still flattered nonetheless, and needless to say, checked it out.

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This is why I love Ellen Page

ANTICIPATE NO MORE!

At last! You can view the videos from the Senior Party!

Our first video...



A Hunter's eye view of ... well.. whatever Hunter is viewing (me thinks he turned the camera on by accident)



Me and Greg's obstacle course race. Watch around 22 seconds when he pulls an ultimate act of Tom-Foolery!



Now it's Mike and Hunter's turn for the obstacle course... a bit one sided, if you ask me :-P



And, at long last.... the boxing match between Hunter and I. Watch as I get embarassed.

That's it for the Senior Party, for the pictures from the party, please, click here