The Drifter's Escape

2003-08-05T22:07:00.000-07:00

This is Jess! Just wanted to update this for Joel, #1 becuz it's bugging me that he hasn't updated it in FORVER, and #2 to tell all of you how awesome Joel is! He has really helped me out through a tough time I'm going through, and I am proud to call him my friend. Love You!

2002-12-29T20:03:00.000-08:00

Ha ha! So last night we went to "The Queen's" house (Jennifer) and we went ice skating in old town conyers..it was quite fun!! it was an outside rink and the ice was quite bumpy ;) heheh..it was fun..then we went to the grocery store (i almost wrote (my mind was adrift & my fingers were just rambling) i almost wrote "then we went to the ice cream store) and got some marshmallows and BROWNIES!! yay! then we went back to the house, rosted marshmallows over the gas eye on the outside grill (hehe) and then we made brownies and joked about how they should have a show called something like "The cooking network of Mordor"! hahaha we were joking around and saying a bunch of stuffs..oh boy it was funny..we were tramping around the kitchen re-enacting scenes from the first and second LOTR movies..all crawling on the kitchen floor make believing that i was Isildur w/ the "one cheerio" hehe..and it abandon me..and i got shot in the back w/ a cinnimon stick arrow..and then jon was bilbo and Jennifers sister was Gollum..ehhe oh my dear..fun was had by all..we laughed and laughed..

Jennifer made journals for me and jon and gave them to us for christmas! they are soo cool..i can't wait to use it...i don't just wanna use it, i wanna make sure that i use it for something useful..hehe..Jennifer is so cool...i wish she didn't live so far away..ho hum.. :(

Been using the 4-track recorder and been having fun..life is good..Jon and I (proper grammer) made up a new handshake..it envolves a FLIP!! We shake right hands, then i step over the clasped hands w/ my left foot, throw my left hand through (under) my legs to grasp his left hand, then i jump and he pulls my arms, and wah lah! I flip..hehe..haven't gotten it all worked out yet...Meaning we can't execute it perfectly yet..we just tried it today..hehe..only like 2 or 3 times..but we WILL get it right one day..anyway..

2002-12-27T20:52:00.000-08:00

Ah! my comment thingies are gone! aaarrrghh..oh well, i'll get new ones i guess...Speaking of LOTR; my oldest brother got me and jon a LOTR board game!! it's totally cool, cause like, it's cool..hehe..we played it till 2am last night but we didn't get to finish it, unfortunately..it's a pretty cool..did i say that already?

Oh anyway..hmm..the year in review, that might be interesting..

The first thing i guess was in Feb, on the 9th. I got to see Bob Dylan live in concert for the first time ever! it was totally awesome.i loved it soo much, it was a great concert :)! Bobby rocks it..

Second would be..hmm..I guess prom. That was fun (nothing much happened from feb to may that was very exciting (i turned 18..oh yeah got a job too.hehe) .... except for preperations for prom..cause see i never dress up really so it was fun..anyway). and like i went w/ this really cool girl and it was fun and my friends were there and we just had good clean fun :)

Third would be graduation! It finally came! that was exciting..got alot of money ;) but graduation was neat, i'm glad that i went to a school for my last 2 highschool years so that i could have a ceremony (sp) but i didn't know the ppl in my senior class that well, i usually hung out w/ the "underclassmen", but they were really cool..hehe..
Fourth would be Atlanta fest when i finally met Jess!! That was really fun :) she's one heck of a cool gal..oh yeah then there was when stephen got a six and a half foot stuffed banana at Atl. fest too! there were alot of things at Atl. fest that were cool and fun..hmm..then lemme see the next thing..hmm

Fifth.(late august)..i started hangin out w/ friends..ALOT and it was really fun, cause we (me and jon) have never really had friends that lived near us, so that was really fun and we still hang out w/ them..just not as much anymore which is kind of a bummer..but alas..

Sixth..from August to like now is what this last part is about..well we got alot of friends like i said before and then there was when Jodi came down for the weekend and frenchie came too..that was loads of fun..the same time we were hangin out w/ Rachel Green like every day/night till like 2am! it was crazy fun and we hung out w/ her like that for like almost 2 months!!

Seventh..Got my first ever girlfriend..and lost my first ever girlfriend..hmm..thought it was really gunna work out..things happened and it didn't...don't know if it's really over yet..but it was an experience that i'm glad i had..even though breaking up hurt and crap..i kinda realized that b4 i had a g/f, i thought that that is where it was at y'know, and i thought that when i had one too. i thought it can't get much better..but after all that happened i found out that that's not what i need right now..and not really what i want..it's wierd that way i guess..Relationships..different than the way you think they are..i still say she is one of the best girls i've ever met..we'er still friends...i think i still like her...whatever..

Eighth..hmmm...Got a 4 track recorder and a LOTR board game..hehe Saw the two towers 4 times so far..grew my hair out this year...Really and truly learned about forgiveness and forgetting about the past no matter how much it hurts...(most of my hurt was self induced)...and it's like..well, i dont' know what the hurt can be compared to..got angry alot this year..and was really really happy alot this year...it has been a good year in all..i wouldn't trade it for anything i don't think..oh yeah, and today, i found out that my favorite word is....*drum roll*.....turtle..

anyway, there are like a million other things (like one of them is that we got the LOTR: fellowship..DVD when it came out, and then went out and got the extended DVD when it came out) that i am just remembering now that i could write, but i won't cause it's almost midnight and i have to get up at 6am to go sling chicken at Chick-fil-a..they really need to give me a raise..anyway, goodnight..

ps..if this is posted twice it's cause i think it screeewwdd up..oh well..

2002-12-27T20:44:00.000-08:00

Ah! my comment thingies are gone! aaarrrghh..oh well, i'll get new ones i guess...Speaking of LOTR; my oldest brother got me and jon a LOTR board game!! it's totally cool, cause like, it's cool..hehe..we played it till 2am last night but we didn't get to finish it, unfortunately..it's a pretty cool..did i say that already?

Oh anyway..hmm..the year in review, that might be interesting..

The first thing i guess was in Feb, on the 9th. I got to see Bob Dylan live in concert for the first time ever! it was totally awesome.i loved it soo much, it was a great concert :)! Bobby rocks it..

Second would be..hmm..I guess prom. That was fun (nothing much happened from feb to may that was very exciting (i turned 18..oh yeah got a job too.hehe) .... except for preperations for prom..cause see i never dress up really so it was fun..anyway). and like i went w/ this really cool girl and it was fun and my friends were there and we just had good clean fun :)

Third would be graduation! It finally came! that was exciting..got alot of money ;) but graduation was neat, i'm glad that i went to a school for my last 2 highschool years so that i could have a ceremony (sp) but i didn't know the ppl in my senior class that well, i usually hung out w/ the "underclassmen", but they were really cool..hehe..
Fourth would be Atlanta fest when i finally met Jess!! That was really fun :) she's one heck of a cool gal..oh yeah then there was when stephen got a six and a half foot stuffed banana at Atl. fest too! there were alot of things at Atl. fest that were cool and fun..hmm..then lemme see the next thing..hmm

Fifth.(late august)..i started hangin out w/ friends..ALOT and it was really fun, cause we (me and jon) have never really had friends that lived near us, so that was really fun and we still hang out w/ them..just not as much anymore which is kind of a bummer..but alas..

Sixth..from August to like now is what this last part is about..well we got alot of friends like i said before and then there was when Jodi came down for the weekend and frenchie came too..that was loads of fun..the same time we were hangin out w/ Rachel Green like every day/night till like 2am! it was crazy fun and we hung out w/ her like that for like almost 2 months!!

Seventh..Got my first ever girlfriend..and lost my first ever girlfriend..hmm..thought it was really gunna work out..things happened and it didn't...don't know if it's really over yet..but it was an experience that i'm glad i had..even though breaking up hurt and crap..i kinda realized that b4 i had a g/f, i thought that that is where it was at y'know, and i thought that when i had one too. i thought it can't get much better..but after all that happened i found out that that's not what i need right now..and not really what i want..it's wierd that way i guess..Relationships..different than the way you think they are..i still say she is one of the best girls i've ever met..we'er still friends...i think i still like her...whatever..

Eighth..hmmm...Got a 4 track recorder and a LOTR board game..hehe Saw the two towers 4 times so far..grew my hair out this year...Really and truly learned about forgiveness and forgetting about the past no matter how much it hurts..and it's like..well, i dont' know what the hurt can be compared to..got angry alot this year..and was really really happy alot this year...it has been a good year in all..i wouldn't trade it for anything i don't think..oh yeah, and today, i found out that my favorite word is....*drum roll*.....turtle..

anyway, there are like a million other things (like one of them is that we got the LOTR: fellowship..DVD when it came out, and then went out and got the extended DVD when it came out) that i am just remembering now that i could write, but i won't cause it's almost midnight and i have to get up at 6am to go sling chicken at Chick-fil-a..they really need to give me a raise..anyway, goodnight..

ps..if this is posted twice it's cause i think it screeewwdd up..oh well..

2002-12-25T10:33:00.000-08:00

So! i haven't posted since july! whoa! alot has happened since then..dang..ALOT has happened.anyway. I noticed that i was actually getting posts! and no, i'm not ignoring you i just haven't been on my site in a loooong time and whenyou emailed me, i thought it was for my brother cause he keeps his site up (blog of cheese) a good one in deed..anyway, today is christmas day, got a Boss 4-track recorder and it's quite fun, jon is messing w/ it right now as we ( i ) speak (type)..anyway

LOTR: The Two Towers...BEST movie ever..I've seen it 4 times in theaters so far, i will probably end up seeing it more times too..It is the coolest thing in the world i love it i love it i love it..I was very impressed w/ the way the did Gollum (the skin and all and the way he moves) very impressive...but anyway..i took this test to find out what character i would be in the movie..and get this..I was Arwin...so i went back and changed it cause i mean i COULDN"T be a girl...So i ended up being Elrond..hehe so that makes me my own father..hehe..

Got alot of new CD's lately..Don Chaffers new one, Matchbox twenty's new one, and some others..but i guess i'm spent on typing now, nothing much else to tell..i think i'm gunna change a few things on the side bar over there..no, not there...there..yeah, that's it..

2002-07-06T19:22:00.000-07:00

So last night i dreamt that I was at a gas station and Bob dylan was playing a concert there...he was playing one of those "jerry garcia" guitars, it was really cool....He played Idiot Wind and really tore it up during the jamming part of it..He played like Phil Keagey (sp)!!! It was wild!!

So today my boss was being a bossy boss,...ugh, she's usually bossy, but now she's pregnant and that doesn't help a bit..oh dear..but anyway

Then when i came home we got the house ready for my moms bday..Then josh got here and we gave him a paintball mask and me and two other guys took the paintball guns and told him to run for it..heheh he did not have a gun..it was quite interesting..but that was about the most exciting part of my day..anyway..

2002-07-04T22:26:00.000-07:00

*Jess - Hi! I have been added to the "Drifters Escape Blog" blogger people. Hooray! Thanx Joel, you rawk. So Hi! Here's a kewl website to check out...

2002-07-04T21:42:00.000-07:00

Grand Theft Auto 3...the most notorious game i've ever played...very addictive too..quite fun..anyway, not much happened today, just went to work then went to our friend's house and swam a bit and watched parts of TV movies..then we came home and played video games...not very exciting...but my room is done!! yay! and it looks really really good..Thanks to Mom and Dad (and myself and jon)..but mostly mom :)...

2002-07-02T15:06:00.000-07:00

I hate to paint...i'm stuck here in my old dirty clothes...having to paint..i'm not painting right now, but i "can't go anywhere till my room is done"..ugh..i hate painting, it's retarded!!! grr...

Last night i dreamt that Bill Clinton was on TBN and he was talking about all this junk..i don't quite remember what it was he was talking about, but..it was wierd....Go figure..but that is about all that has happened..Jon's about to leave and go somewhere..but not me, i have to finish my room today..ugh...

2002-07-01T20:38:00.001-07:00

Oops that should read "Elijah Willis" not "Willish"

2002-07-01T20:38:00.000-07:00

"Fruit and bananas are good for your body, everybody!!"
-Elijah Willish...AKA The Rock N' Roll King

2002-06-30T20:52:00.000-07:00

"Frodo Baggins.." Well, we just got back from Savanah today..it was quite a fun weekend..We went down to see our friend jennifer who lives down there and we just hung out, went to bed too late, got up too early, ate alot of junk, and stuff..it was quite fun cause we got to walk around downtown (there was an old saxaphone guy in this tunnel that was playing..he was cool) and go to the beach and save Jelly fish! We actually picked them up which was kinda wierd, they feel neat-o! and then we would CHUNK them back into the ocean..hehe...

Then later we went to Blockbuster and rented mission impossible 2..but before we went home, we went to starbucks to grab a drink, and there was this guy playing guitar and singing somthing like, "We're in college now, use a freakin' coaster!"..it was..umm..interesting to say the least..but anyway, when we got back to her place we watched the movie, which was pretty good, and then we started imagining (sp) that WE were the spies w/ all the cool spy equipment! then we started to throw a scrunchie around to test our reflexes (go figure) and then jon picked up a pillow and hit Jennifer (who is the kind of person that really likes violence and swords and all that jazz..oh yeah, and she hates to lose..heheh) and that started it all...it was 12am when the movie ended..and well...we WRESTLED in the middle of her living room till like 2am!!! it was crazy..jon ended up with a busted bird finger and she ended up w/ a bunch of bruises all over...and i ended up w/ a sore hip, that doesn't really hurt now..But fun was had by all....

Oh yeah, there were these gay guys that we kept seeing that really freaked us out..cause they would always stare at us and smile..hmmm....

2002-06-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

So, i got my GED test scores back today and i passed every one of them! yay me! :) They sent my diploma thing along w/ it too..I'm just glad i don't have to waste my time taking any of it again! I mean since i had already got my highschool diploma, it was kind of annoying that they wanted to make me take the GED too..oh well..But i passed..

So my parents left early this morning, and i forgot that that still left me w/ one car..but like a dummy i just sat around all day, because i forgot that i had a car! ugh..i could have done something..i don't know what i would have done, i wouldn't have had to sit around...but it wasn't too bad. I played guitar and watched the Beverly Hillbillies! Jon got 32 episodes of it on DVD for his bday..heheh..so that was fun..anyway, i go to work tonight..how fun..

I missed a call from jess last night/early this morning....but alas, no salsa, i was asleep..darn going to sleep too soon..anyway

2002-06-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

Oh boy! Last night i got to talk to jess for about a million hours..hehe well on the comp. for at least like 2 or 3 then for like 15 or so min. on the phone...and i got to talk to jodi too! what a night, it was a long distance fest..okay, so only 2 ppl from long distance..i guess you couldn't really call it a fest..but it was cool...

Work was boring today, but that's work..what can y'do about it..But, my nephew was over here today (he is really cool). So i had fun w/ him. I had to draw him a picture of Larry Boy for him to color, and he gave him "pink eye"..he colored his eyes pink..it was quite silly..anyway, nothing else much new happened...I was gunna try to go somewhere, but it's 6:30pm now and i just don't have the energy today..oh fah...I spent like all day yesterday, tucked away in jon's room. on the computer working on my blog...shows you how bad i am at these things..i work all day, and it ends up like this..hehehe..oh dear..anyway...

2002-06-24T15:29:00.000-07:00

So today wasn't very eventful..had to get up for work at 6am, get ready and be there at 7..sling chicken all day till 2pm..that's about all..it was pretty busy at lunch..it stunk..i hate chicken. Like i'll be hungary but the only thing to eat there is, well, chicken! and it has alot of MSG in it so i can't eat it too much cause it's bad for me..so, no chicken for me..CHICKEN!!...So now i'm at home..watched some Home improvement, it was pretty funny..Tim allen usually is..uh..like i said one heck of an uneventful day..

2002-06-23T15:58:00.000-07:00

So, i havn't blogged in like 6 months...my site needs a good bit of work..Oh so this past week was really cool/interesting/fun/scary/sleepless..We went to atlanta fest w/ our friend stephen (Ph Ey) and Jess met us there! It was really weird (well not weird but interesting) meeting her, cause i've "known" her for like 2 years and i finally got to meet her and it wasn't weird at all..it was like we had known each other forever..it was cool..but we got to see dj maj, grits, john rueben, toby mac, third day, Jars of clay, skillet, david crowder, umm..the paul colman trio, relient (potassium) K (they were dumb), and some other ppl too..so I had a freakin blast! and i actually rode some roller coasters, which i have never really done b4..they were pretty cool..

Oh yeah, and we also saw Kenny Carter and Uj (from pepper shaker) just walking around and jon chatted a bit w/ kenny...and we had a bunch of funny inside jokes and ate alot of Wendy's hamburgers and just alot happened..

2002-01-19T20:45:00.000-08:00

whoo whoo! good day! Today i woke up and had a package from jess delivered to me! it had a bob dyaln poster, a clifford the big red "god" keychain, and a pick autographed by Don Chaffer from
Waterdeep! oh, then me and jon went out to media play and i picked up U2's newest album and went to target and got some bionicles (fun fun) then we went to the mall and bought 2 $2 scarfs at the GAP..fun times were had by all :)

2002-01-17T19:43:00.000-08:00

uhh..what happened today..well, me and jon watched 7th heaven..and then we watched "City Guys"..but in-between that, we watched bits and pieces of channels..mostly consisting of spanish soap operas and bit and tads of regular soap operas (cause that's the only thing that comes on between 7th heaven and city guys..) heheh..it's funny to let one person on the tv start a sentence and then flip the channel and let another person on another channel finish the sentence..oh the things we do. still been studyin lately..ugh, it makes me sooo tired..hmm..i've been thinking of something lately..it's new and fresh for me..it should be fun/interesting..hmm..

2002-01-16T14:17:00.000-08:00

oh, i forgot what i was goin to blog today..so, i finally heard a tid bit of matthew perryman jones new cd. I had been wondering where i could find his cds and stuff, but i would always forget to search for him on the internet..then jodi called me last night and we got to talking about him..anyway, he's really really really cool. when i get some money,i'm gunna buy it. :) hmm...that's about all i gotta say today..hmm..

2002-01-15T16:45:00.000-08:00

I dreamed about 7th heaven the other night..oh dear..anyway, i've been studying for mid-terms..yippee..i just scanned my head, but it didnt' turn out. oh well..i think the scanner did something to my head.hmm..oh yeah, my chemistry teacher told us that for our exam that we could put whatever we could fit on ONE 3x5 card (using both sides) from this certain lesson and he said that if we had enough determination, we could put the periodic table on one side. SO, i took the challenge and put a bunch of charts on one side of the card and now i'm tryin to figure out how to get the periodic table on the other side..hehe..this should be good..life is pretty good right now..hope it stays that-a-way.

2002-01-13T16:46:00.000-08:00

oh yeah...i have been playing metal gear solid 2 a much too much lately..it's great..Oh yeah, i also (on new years eve) sang at a little coffee house..that was a new experience for me. anyway..

2002-01-13T16:39:00.000-08:00

Oh, so i havn't posted in a while..my life's been pretty good lately..i guess..Went to see LOTR for the 2nd time friday night w/ my cousin and one of my friends and one of her friends..so it was pretty fun..i drank too much water before the movie though..heheh i was waiting for my cousin to pick me up from truets and i drank water for about an hour.heheh..then on saturday, we played laser tag..anyway..i hate midterms.i'm having to study for them right now..well not this second..but i did earlier today..so i dont' have much to say...HEY JESS ;)

2001-12-13T17:52:00.000-08:00

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2001-12-07T15:10:00.000-08:00

So me and my mom have been getting into "spats" lately (probably mostly my faut...cause i always think she's getting on to me..and then when i don't get upset, she gets upset cause she thinks that she has to yell at me for me to listen to her) so...I think it's because i'm trying to "grow up" and be independent even though i don't have job so that's pretty pointless ya know..so i really feel like a fool. But i am trying to get a job..but sometimes my mom just don't make sense, that's why i get frustrated w/ her..Her logic is illogical sometimes..And sometimes i feel like she just keeps pushing and pushing on certain things, and that only makes me want to do them more, which is kinda wrong, but i don't want her to rule my life for the rest of my life...i just wish she would "back off" somethymes...anyway..

2001-12-06T05:12:00.000-08:00

SO, it's been about 2 months since i've blogged..so here is a new crazy dream for you all..it won't be that crazy to many of you because you don't know who john byrom is..

I had a dream that John Byrom was a big rock star and we went to one of his concerts and he was up on stage in wrestler man underwear (nothing else) long black hair, painted white face with a black strip across his eyes, and a FULL BAND! He was up there like throwing his mic into the crowd and reeling it back in. When he got it back in he would sing...one of the thing that he sang went something like this

"You came to me, you had a sad look on your face, yeah! SO, let's get together, yeah yeah yeah, let's get together yeah yeah yeah!

but he was screamin it..Jon (my brother) said it sounded like a mixture of Iggy Pop, Hank Rollins, Gene Simmons, and John Byrom..it was silly..Oh yeah, he had like all the works too: pyrotechnics, and all that junk..

Anyway, so today i'm goin up to the daily grind to put in an application so i might actually have a job, finally..Yesterday, i came to the realization that i won't be able to go to KS at the end of the month cause i just realized even if i talked my parents into it...I DON"T HAVE NO CASH! or checks or credit cards for that matter..oh well..well get up there sometime..that's all for now..i'll start bloggin more often i think..

2001-10-01T20:12:00.000-07:00

wow, this weekend was fun..and at one point dissapointing..we went to see 3rd day saturday night w/ my brother, his wife, our drummer, and our friend jennifer...my friend miranda was suppose to go..but alas, no salsa. :( but anyway, after the concert we went to jennifers house and ate popcorn and roasted marshmallows over a fire out in her backyard..it was nice. I love her house it's so cozey..anyway, sunday we went back over there in the afternoon and watched some funny things on video that me and jon and josh had made..they liked them..and then we sat out in her backyard on the hammock and spit little marshmallows in the air and tried to catch them back in our mouths..i ended up w/ marshmallow junk on my pants and shirt..and jennifer ended up w/ it in her hair and ear and on her pants..jon just had it on his shirt and and pants..ah, now josh is here and he is talking my ear off and i'm not even listening..oh dear..well goodnight..

2001-09-29T06:38:00.000-07:00

My dream..people you will meet..Chad and lisa from the swim team, Jon my brother, Tim our drummer, Charlie and Frenchie from the swim team, my youth pastor william sinyard, david baty, kansas and jesse, and some people from my class..and so it begins

So it starts out and like i'm talking to my used to be friend DB (david baty) and he told me to meet him in southlake er somthin. So i drove up there, but i had to take a detour because there was a huge wreck. When i got there it was like the slums man..so like he's outside this trashy lookin' place with all these broken excercise bikes, tryin' to get them to work. He looks even skinnier than he use to be, (he was skinnier than me when i knew him) and like he has scragaly facial hair and alot of arm hair.so we talked about our guitar equipment for a while while he tried out broken excercise bikes that did not work..and then someone started setting up folding chairs cause they were going to have like a meeting out there in the slummy area. So i went inside the broken down building, and there sat my brother Jon and our drummer, Tim. and they were watching TV about how to use certain parts of a fetal pig for something. so they found a half-way disected fetal pig like laying on a countertop and were like following what the video said to do.. (by the way there were half-way disected fetal pigs everywhere! it was gross)..So like i was like, "yall are gross..i gotta find a bathroom quick." I had to use the bathroom really bad. When i went searching for a bathroom, i walked through this one door, and much to my suprise, it turned into a beautiful house with spotless white walls, spotless floors, everything was in its own place. Just a wonderful place..then i stood there trying to figure out whose house this was..and then finally i was like, "This is Chad and Lisa's house!! So i continue my search for the bathroom, and as i am going along the house just keeps getting bigger and bigger and more and more beautiful. I was like, wow chad and lisa have one nice house..so finally i found a bathroom..Then after that i found lisa and she said, "Hey, would you like me to read you a book?" so i said, "Sure." and she began to read..all i can remember is that it was something about frogs er somthin like that..then i heard my mom calling me in my dream and i woke up...

REALITY
so i got up to use the bathroom (in real life) and was like, whoa that was a weird dream..and when back to sleep...back off into dream land...

DREAMLAND
so i continued on with my dream..i was supposedly going on a trip to florida maybe with like my chemistry class and some of the swim team and there was this one girl there who was in my class that was mad at me cause i didn't remember her..i was like, tough...but anyway, we stopped off at this place that seemed something like a Toys-R-Us and we all got out..and i met Jon and Tim there..and we were like looking for a bathroom..again..i don't know what it was with bathrooms in this dream..but anyway when we found it, it was like one of those where only 1 person can go in at a time and my youth pastor was standing outside the door..so finally we just walked in, and there was this little kid writing "NO" on a piece of paper and taping it to the toilet! and my youth pastor (william) said, "Hey, why is that kid writing 'Orlando' on the toilet?" and we were like, "I dunno." even though the kid was writing "NO" and not "Orlando". so we like turn around and there is this kids mom sitting at a table with a was of money, and she was talking on a phone chewing somebody out because this was not PEPPER SHAKER'S bathroom and her son loved PEPPER SHAKER and wanted to see them/ meet them er somthin..so then like i think we left there and went to the beach er somthing where we met alot of people and played with some friends..i met this really funny/cool black guy, but he cussed alot, but he was fun

(right here is where it got a little muddled, i don't remember what happened)

then somehow i was sleepin gon the beach..When i woke up, i decided that I was sleeping in a place where a goddess slept..so i woke up and was headed for home..i was really hungary and couldn't wait to get something to eat..so as i walked down the beach i saw one of my friends that i had been hangin out with on the trip, and i told them i was going home, so i told them goodbye. Then i came upon the cool black guy i met and he was playing with his little boy. And so i went to say goodbye to him and i turned into a PLASTIC RAKE and he gave me a hug and through me in the air and i did a back flip and landed on the ground. When i landed, i turned back into myself and walked over to this counter top/stove thing on the middle of the beach and grabbed a biscute..then the cool black guy turned into CHARLIE from the swim team..and he was like , "hey why don't you eat breakfast with us?" and his wife walked out (or suppose to be his wife, i know it wasn't his wife because....) it was FRENCHIE from the swim team..she was carrying a huge pan of biscutes. I said somehting like ,"well i'd love to, but i gotta get to Chad and lisa's house". so off i went running down the beach..finally i made it to there house. I was greeted by Kansas and Jesse ( i love those kids) and they were chasing frogs around the house..(they had caught them outside) and they were like, "do you wanna play with our frogs joel?" i said no, and proceeded to go upstairs where i found a nice bed and TV..next to the TV there was a biscute..but first i caught this frog that was in the room and i think it bit me cause my hand began to hurt..so after that, I laid down on the bed and lisa and my mom came walking in the room and lisa said, "Joel, is that they way you are going to tell Don that you are studying for the PSAT?" Then, i woke up and thought..i gotta write this one down..

2001-09-28T20:51:00.000-07:00

I am blogging now..My mom asked me today, "So, where do you want to go for your senior trip?" (because i am homeschooled and i am just basically gunna take a trip somewhere)..So, i turned to her and said, "I wanna go to Kansas in december to see waterdeep for the end of the year shows!" So, like she can't really say no, cause it's my senior trip..hehe..so i hope i get to go..oh what fun..We (my family) played mad libs over the internet with my friend stephen, oh boy was it fun..we had a fun night tonight..

2001-09-27T10:15:00.000-07:00

i came into a weird meeting w/ don the other night..i went to get the keys from jon, and him and don were talking, and so lik i walked up to jon to ask for the keys, and i wasn't really goin gto talk to don, but it was kinda one of those wierd situation meetings, and don was just standing there looking at me, like i was goin to say somthin to him and like so he stuck out his hand and said, "hi"..i felt compelled to say something, so i said something dumb like, "y'all are really cool" er somthing dumb like that..hehe oh well..then i walked off..i should have told him that like i wasn't really coming to talk to him..but i didn't..heheh that would have been funny though..

2001-09-27T10:08:00.000-07:00

Oh wow, an old "7th Heaven"..everyone looks so young..so energetic and happy..These past few days have been really nice. The weather has been perfect "air conditioned weather"..today it's alittle warmer tahn it was the other day. so i made some boots today..Don't you hate it when you are eating a p-nut butter and honey sandwich and the top part of the crust crust is like really hard..me too..I always rip of the crust anyway..

2001-09-25T17:46:00.000-07:00

oh well, today was alright. I went to the music store to try to decide which guitar a wanted to save up for and buy, and i figured out which one i want..i think they don't like me too much there though, i always go in and play their guitars for an hour and don't buy anything..oh well..hehe...so like i got home from the store and went to practice voice in my room and like my ear stopped up and i couldn't really hear myself too good and like I couldn't carry a tune..it was soooo annoying!! then after getting frustrated with that, i went to change strings on my guitar and popped the high e string..ugh, it was soo annoying..i think i just said that..hehe but anyway, jon stopped on his way home and picked me up a new one.he's so cool..and then i commenced to playin' guitar and made up some pretty cool stuff..so now i'm happy..

Ah, yes, i got a letter from jess today! that was fun, she just told me about all the people she's sharing a room with (she's in a room w/ 6 or 7 other girls). sounded like she was having fun, so that's good. anyway..I have yet to get her a bday present..i was gunna get her a WD hat, but when i went to get one at the concert the other night...they were all gone!! so if anybody could get their hands on one, it would be much appreciated if you would let me know.. :)

2001-09-24T17:28:00.000-07:00

oh yes, to our dissapointment, we didn't get to play drums and didge after the show..it was too late and we had to get home.. :(

2001-09-24T17:26:00.000-07:00

Saturday was truely wonderful..ah, so much fun..any day one gets to see Waterdeep is pure fun. Don (the lead singer for waterdeep, for those who don't know who he is) did some things that were "Pure silly-ness" that night as usual..but one thing that was really crazy that he did was this..Josh had his mullet wig w/ him, and well to make a long story short, Don ended up with it on his head! It was great, when we get the pic developed, i'll post it here..and after the concert, lori grabbed her acoustic and sat in the hall way and played "Hush" for a group of the people in the hall..ahh..

Tonight some insurance ppl that my parents know came by to do something w/ my parents, and jon was eating grits and eggs. So like my mom's being all weird and says, "Eating is an art with jon..Show Betty your grits and eggs." We were like, "Whaat?" and so like she takes jon's plate away from him and like takes it into the living room and shows the people his grits and eggs..oh dear..it was "Pure silly-ness"..oh yeah, to add to the Waterdeep night,..we tried to get don to sing the Mullet verse for everyone's beautiful..but alas, he kinda let us down, gently of course, just like "c" said he would..heheheh...needless to say, he wouldn't sing it for us..oh well.. it was crazy/fun anyway..

2001-09-22T13:27:00.000-07:00

Two dumbeks and a phat djembe..ah, i love the sound of it..jon just bought a new dumbek today, it's pretty cool..I can't wait for the waterdeep concert tonight, it's gunna be sooooo fun!! today had been an exceptionally wonderful day!! it's just been soo fun, like i got to play a banjo and some really nice guitars and some cool hand drums, and my cousin bought a really cool sword today too..wow, i wonder if don would wear the mullet wig on stage..that would be cool..we are going to give don this little verse to everyone's beautiful..hehe (no jon is playing his didgeridoo!! it's awesome!!) anyway the verse goes like thsi

"I saw a mullet he was wearing a orange dacron headband
Long dark and frothy, I went all the way to his back end
"Journey" was blastin' from his ghetto box
"I love mullets" embroidered on his socks
But a do, is a do, is a do

And it was beautiful
Mullets are beautiful
Cut short on top and flying free in the back

we are taking all the hand drums and the didge to the concert tonight to play afterwards, what fun..that's all for now!!

2001-09-22T08:12:00.000-07:00

"For the life of me, i cannot remember what ever made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe that we would ever die of these sins, we were merely freshmen." hehe..that song has been running through my head all day..well this morning at least..oh yeah..my cousin josh came over this morning and he has....DUHN DUHN!! A MULLET WIG!!It's crazy because the person on the front of the package looks just like him..like identically!! oh dear..

2001-09-21T13:39:00.000-07:00

This is what my niece had to say about the situation with usama bin ladin and the president..She had this to say, "I think the president should shoot the bad guy (bin ladin) in the eyes with a paint ball gun, and then while he can't see, arrest him."

2001-09-21T05:40:00.000-07:00

So my dream starts out and we are at creflo dollars church, but it's more
of a theater than a church. And there is this guy there on the stage that
was singing and dancing, like he was suppose to be a modern day Gene
Kelly, and they had like this Big Band there playing and everything, it
was pretty cool. But like then after we left there, we met like Buffy (the vampire slayer),
and Ray charles at this kinda abandon house out in the middle of the
woods..it was very creepy too, cause it was at night, and like the only
light was a little porch light. So we like tried to figure out a way that
we could find out if buffy's friend was a murderer or not. So we set out
a fake manquine of buffy (which looked nothing really like her, it just
had blonde hair basically. But when it was stabbed in the chest, it would
bleed ketchup. So for it to work, it had to be stabbed in the front of
the upper chest) and sure nuf, her friend tried to kill the manakin of
her. So we knew it was her friend..Then after that, me and jeff and jon
went driving around in like Jeff's new car, and we were driving around
these really really nice neighborhoods, but in these neighborhoods lived
like all of Jeff's ex-girlfriends..but they all lived in these huge
houses. Oh it was crazy. Then like I went home at one point and my mom
had found something that had recorded like all of my late night phone
conversations with my friends. That's where I started getting nervous.
Cause I started hearing myself talking to my friends, but fortunately it
cut didn't record like all my conversation..who knows what I might have
said in my dream on the phone late night.. So like then I go to the mall
with Josh, Miranda, and Jenny.. And we go into gadzooks and I was looking
at skateboards. There were these really, really tiny ones, they were like
less than 1ft long, but they were the regular width, and this guy came up
and was like, "Hey those are only a dollar and a half. Why don't you
skate around the mall and see how you like it." so I did. And when I came
back he was like, "Do you like guitars? I'm giving this one away. Here."
And it was like this guitar that had a really small neck but it fanned
out way HUGE at the top and the bottom and it had like 30 strings on
it..It had places for more but a lot of them were already broken..Oh
yeah, the reason we went to gadzooks was to find some kind of pink donut
thing for somebody, I don't remember..anyway, so like I go out of
gadzooks to sit with josh and jenny and Miranda, and all of the sudden
they are all embarrassed of me.. I guess cause of my really hapnin'
guitar..heheh but then like (and I can't remember why) I owed Miranda
like $50.. But I gave it to jenny to give to her..and so we like left the
mall er somthin..next thing I know, we are on the beach and jenny's
telling me she never gave the money to Miranda. She asked me if I was
mad, I don't recall saying anything, but I was mad_ The last thing I
remember was running down a lot of stairs in a really nice house..but the
funny thing was that at one point, you had to run up a flight of stairs
to get down..but that was only at one point.. But for some reason we kept
on running up and down the stairs_it was kinda weird..I'm sure there is
something I'm leaving out (like when we were in gadzooks, we played
hacky-sac with a "grinch" hacky-sac, and the lady asked us to not do that
in the store) but I can't remember..so that was last nights dream..I
always have kinda crazy dreams when I listen to bob Dylan as I
sleep..like the one I had with don playing keyboards with 2 other
keyboard players on a huge stage in front of millions of people, yet when
you looked at the crowed from behind don, he was playing in front of the
ocean..but I was in the crowed, so I know there was a crowed..hehhe
oh dear..that's kinda crazy :)

2001-09-20T12:07:00.000-07:00

I've got a new look in mind...a re-construction....a total overthrow!! okay so maybe not, but i do have a new look in mind (for my site)....hmm...she said..

2001-09-20T10:59:00.000-07:00

so, i'm debating braces...

2001-09-19T09:45:00.000-07:00

another day, another dime, another time to remember...So, the kids in my chemistry class are pretty cool..anyway, i thought of alot of things to post last night as i was laying on my bed..but of course i totally just forgot them..I did remember to add a few links and some other things though..anyway,..crad! i just forgot what the heck i was going to say..Oh yeah, I used a Bob Dylan quote in school today, any day you can use a Dylan quote in school, i say is a good day..hehe.."I looked at my watch and I looked at my wrist and I puched myself in the face with my fist". I get to see Waterdeep in like 3 days!! i guess that's all for now..

2001-09-18T13:56:00.000-07:00

man, i wish my blog was as cool as jon's blog...he has so many neat-o little links..

2001-09-18T13:46:00.000-07:00

Hacky-sack is fun! I went outside and played by myself today..hehe..it was rather hard, I think the most times i hit it was like 12 at the most..it's really tough..it was hot out there so, i decided to come in..It's more fun playing w/ more than yourself too. :) anyway..ohyeah! I took a picture of a rose and 2 pics of a butterfly today..hehe..I think they might turn out pretty good. on the butterfly ones, i got down ground level/leavel (i can't decide how to spell it) and got really close to it..like where you could even see it's tongue stickin' out. it's pretty cool. but it took forever, cause the stupid camera kept messing up and then when it wasn't messed up, the butterfly would fly away..heheh..anyway, it was a rath fun experiance.

2001-09-16T17:50:00.000-07:00

mmmmmmmm.......cookies..

2001-09-16T17:44:00.000-07:00

oh wow,..these past few days have really been relaxing..the weekend atleast. just been hangin' out w/ my brother, and today my friend stephen came over, he's extremely funny!! anyway, we have started playing hacky-sack, we are trying to get good at it, beacuase it fun, so we played for an hour or so today, twas fun. anyway, Jon picked up POD's new album it is INCREDIBLE!...I think it may be their best yet...anyway, I had a dream that i lived in wal-mart..hmm..strange..and i also stole some asian guy's motorocycle to get home becauese my invisible car, it wouldn't go up the 2 foot incline because of the little puddles..so i tried to pull the puddles away so my car could go up..but that didn't work, so i took the motorcylce..then i was looking at tobogins (sp) at wal-mart and there was this "Falcons" one, but it had tweety-bird on it..it was annoying..oh yeah, the other night i had a dream that everyone at my church wanted me to play the "King" in the christmas cantata..i was like NOOOOO!! but anyway, here i go again... Check out the new POD album! go buy it..go buy 3 of them..hehe

He's so cool...

2001-09-13T11:50:00.000-07:00

Ah, today seems perfect..the weather that is..so i just decided to sit on the front porch and rock in a rocking chair for a bit and pet my dog, p-nut. It was very relaxing, very peacefull. the wind chimes chiming and the breeze blowing..it like took all thoughts away, thoughts of maybe fear, even thoughts of..well..everything basically..and it was just kinda like realizing that God is beautiful..His creation's, they are beautiful...."Everyone's beautiful" :)..well, i got a math class today, even that doesn't seem as bad now..hehe..Got invited to go to a lock in friday night, but i doubt i'll be able to go..i might try to go for a bit though..anyway, off to get ready for math.

2001-09-12T13:40:00.000-07:00

So, i talked to jess today! on the phone. it was perty cool..well, i am watching the cosby show now, cause i'm tired of hearing about what happened yesterday..It's just depressing, and i don't wanna watch that ALL day, ya know. SO anyway..we went to a prayer meeting last night that was pretty cool, it was encouraging after what had happened. It made ya realize that no matter what happens, God is still bigger than all of it. anyway..

In chemistry my teacher bought these really funny safety glasses, they are FUNNY!! They'er like all these different colors and they look really silly..oh dear..it's great...anyway..

2001-09-11T11:27:00.000-07:00

"America has been changed today"
-Peter Jennings

"Freedom has been attacked, and freedom will be defended"
-President Bush

This is crazy. it's been called bigger than pearl harbor. All I can say is pray. I don't know what else to say..just pray..

2001-09-10T17:26:00.000-07:00

oh yeah..i fixed reblogger...

2001-09-10T17:23:00.000-07:00

yipee! Tomorrow Bob Dylans NEW CD comes out. If you wanna check it out, go here, Love and Theft You can hear some songs off of it..oh man this is too great.

Well, school was okay today..don't have as much homework this time...anyway, i am just really excited about bob's new CD. it's been like 4 er 6 years since he has come out w/ a new one..well, i don't guess i really have much to say today..btw, here is a pic of the new CD

anyway, that's all for now...

2001-09-09T18:11:00.000-07:00

Alright, so i'm like in Best Buy yesterday and i walked up to my cousin to tell him somthing, and there is like this kinda mentally retarded asian girl standing near by (she wasn't like really bad mentally ill..just a little). So like before i start talking to josh she like reaches out her hand like she wants to shake hands..so, as to not be mean or anything, i shook her hand, said hello nicely, and then continued what I was going to say to my cousin..so, all of the sudden i hear, "hey." and i was like "Hey." and resumed talking to josh...ok, then she taps me on the shoulder and like tells me to lean over so she could whisper something to me..so i did. and all i could make out is that she had said something about "sister"..and i was like "huh?" and she said, "you have to pick up sister. It's almost 2 o'clock." and at that present time it was 3 o'clock..so i was like, "okay, sure, I will..i won't forget to pick her up." then i like started walking off and she shouted, "Tell her I said bye!" and i was like "Okay! I will!" and then we left..it was weird..oh dear

last night my stomach hurt..really bad..

Today, after church, we went to the mall to hang out w/ one of our friends that we havn't seen in a while. she moved to savannah a while back. She is SOO fun! She's got the same humor as me and josh and my brother jon..oh dear..it was really fun..i wish, kinda, that she would have stayed up here,..but she is going to college down in savannah to like learn chinese (language) er somthing..i think she wants to be an english teacher in like china er somthin..anyway..that's all for now...

2001-09-07T23:10:00.000-07:00

i ment to put Blog of Dreams maybe that worked...

2001-09-07T23:09:00.000-07:00

So, it's 2am here and i am pretty tired.. and i hope that jsut worked..i need to go to bed, but i'm chatting away like a chatter box fool. i didnt' plan to be up this late, ..jon is asleep and dreaming..maybe another dream to go ont ..i hope that worked too..anyway, farewell for the night..

2001-09-07T16:43:00.000-07:00

Alright, it's decided, i HATE advanced math..it took me 4 hours to do homework last night..on 15 questions..maybe i'm just not that great at math, anyway...I had another 3 hrs of it today..er somthin like that. anyway..I was readin' in TItus today and readin about what like a Elder or deacon should be like and stufff, and i was thinking to myself, we don't have many people like (what titus 1 describes) in the christian society today much less society in general, that's sad..

oh yeah, my math made me very upset.

2001-09-06T09:03:00.000-07:00

So I'm taking a few classes this year (not at home)..which are like Advanced math and Chemestry and I'm kinda nervous. I've got my first class today (advanced math)..the reason i'm nervous in cause i don't think i'm that good at math and there aren't going to be alot of peopl in the class and i don't want to have to go to the board er somthin to like work a problem and then like not be able to figure it out..ugh, i hate math..cause like when I can't figure out something that seems to be really easy to other people i feel really dumb, so i just hope that i learn really quick really good..anyway..that's all for now

2001-09-04T17:58:00.000-07:00

Behold, my new and improved blog!!!

2001-09-04T11:56:00.000-07:00

There, now there is not so much boldness..

2001-09-03T16:28:00.000-07:00

My blog is so boring, no links, no neat pics...you can't even make comments on it..oh well, i'll fix that later...I just found out that i have to get a deploma and a GED for the hope to pay for my college, so that really stinks..anyway..There is this "new" music fella that jon just discovered, Nick Drake, he's really cool. he played in the 70's and stuff..sounds really cool, like real mellow and the stuff on the CD jon got is all acoustic. go check him out.

2001-08-30T11:50:00.000-07:00

oops...i guess i forgot to end my boldness...

2001-08-30T11:49:00.000-07:00

Another weird drem...kinda nightmareish..I had a dream that one of the churches down here were killing some of their members..and it was like people that i knew..they fried them in ovens..not like kitchen ovens, like the ones they put the jews in during holocaust..it was really weird, and like nobody was opposing them for fear that they might die i guess..BTW the church was stockbridge assembly of God..(jon will understand) but the funny thing is, that one of the leaders of the church was the little Wal-mart smiley face..but he had arms and legs and he was EVIL!!! don't let that little smile fool you, don't let appearance fool you.....anyway, after that me and my dad and someone else were out in the wilderness on a snowy ledge and we were being attacked by a huge wolf..and we got killed..then we came back and were at the same place, this time i told my dad to start a little avalanche and to slide down w/ it and then the wolf would not be able to get us then..and it worked. then at the bottom of the hill we found these HUGE binoculars in a gun case....then there were some jibbled up parts that i don't remember where they go..

2001-08-28T09:40:00.000-07:00

"Long time ago a crazy dream came to me..."
THe following is a crazy dream. the people you will meet are Danielle (my sister in law), Josh(my cousin) Joseph (a kid at my church) Michelle (danielle's friend) Joanna (mine and josh's friend), and Jennifer Lopez...This dream is a Dream in a dream in a dream...
Last night i dreamed that I was at a camp with my family and my youth groupl. WHile I was there I had a dream that jennifer lopez was the person that cleaned all the campers rooms, and then i woke up from the dream..in my dream.. Well, that afternon in my dream everybody went to lunch except for me, and when the cleaning lady came by, it was Jennifer lopez, and I was like, "Hey, you're Jennifer Lopez!" and we talked for a little bit, then Ieft..After that, I left the camp and came home. At one point I thought my car had broken down, but i guess i was wrong. (oh yeah, at camp me and jon made guitar string necklaces for some people) After a while I drove to the grocery store because there was no food in the house because my mom was not there. When i got to the grocery store I realized that I was broke, But i saw an add that said, "Childrens Cheerios, 2 for $1" So as i was walking out the cashier stopped my, she thought i had stolen something. She let me go and I went outside to my car and there were these ladies from Scotland parked next to my car and we got to talking . They asked me how I got my hair to stikc up like that and I told them that I didn't wash wit, and that i just put water in it and made it spikey...Then this guy drove up in a new comaro and got out. He was totally 80's..and the ladies started laughing at him. He had big feathery blonde hair and a dumb 80's leather jacket and stupid 80's jeans. WEll he got out of his car but she left it running so we could hear his music which was Aerosmith. So he came over and started hitting on the Scottish ladies. (Actually they told me that they were Scot-Irish ladies from England) So as the guy was hitting on them I started singin really loud to his music and he got pretty mad. THen Josh showed up and I borrowed some money from him for food. Si I left to go back in the grocery store and the 80's guy got into josh's car and took of w/ josh still in it! But when I got to the door of the grocery store, josh was sleepingin front of it..and he was weearing my clothes. When I walked in the store, it was no longer a grocery store, but an old bar that Danielle was working at, and like her whole family was there, but they weren't her real family, they were better. Well, Danielle was on the phone with her friend Michelle who worked at another bar but didn't go to work that day because her knee was hurting. Then we started talking about Michelle and somebody said, "Yeah it like taht time she went off with Iggy!" or somthin like that and i like busted out laughing! I came to find out that she had been going out with Iggy Pop for a while and that he went to church just down the road....The I woke up..In my dream of course..I think i got up to puke er somthin like that...but then i fell back to sleep in my dream and dreamed in my dream some more..I dreamed that Joseph and his brothers and my family were sitting around a table and Joseph said, " Man, I wish we were white, ya know for like when we go to city hall and stuff." Then I said that he could pretend to be Cuban and he started Singing like Ricky Ricardo and I grabbed his fro adn put my face in it and asked if i could sleep in his fro. Then i woke up again in y dream and my mom walked in spraying lysol and i had a funny taste in my mouth. I asked her what happened and she said, "You just better start riding to our church and not that Joanna's church. Now get up." (I don't remember what she said there) So I got up and felt sick and walked out my door and then I really woke up in real life and thought, "Whoa this is too good not to write down"..so there you have it.. anyway,

The other day me and my cousin were talkin about some things, about some of our friends that we are prayin for and he and I too were kinda worried about them but we came to the conclusion that they have to get right..as long as we are praying and believing, they have to end up someday getting their lives totally right w/ God, because if we pray and believe, God has to answer our prayers, and God will do whatever nescisarry (SP) to get to that one or two people. The only way that they can keep living their lives the same, going down the same wrong path, is if their faith and will to live that way is stronger than our faith that they will come out of what they are living in..We also conversed about how really easy it is to live as a Christian..I mean you have God, the one that made you and everything and everybody else, you have Him on your side, inside of you, and with you all the time. If you need to talk to Him, he's there, He is always there and he WILL always answer you when you talk...God will always answer our prayers as long as they are in accordance to His will..LIke if you just pray for someone to die er somthin, that's not in His will so, ya know..you know what I mean...

Another thing is I get annoyed when Christians argue about things that they don't know about or things that they think they know about because they have read about them and studied about them..say for instance Heaven and Hell...Some folks were arguing about that one day when I was around and like getting into all these theories and oppinions and saying what all these theological authors had to say about the subject. I was just sitting back waiting for them to shut up cause i wanted to shop (we were at the mall). I was just sitting there thinking, "Heaven is real, Hell is real. If you are saved and live like the Bible and try to be as much like Jesus as you can and do what he says and live like that sincerly, you go to heave. If you are not saved or maybe think you are but really aren't and you don't live like the Bible says, you go to hell." (One of the argument points that they were discussing was what parts of Hell do some people go to, and one girl didn't believe in Hell..Hmm...) I was just thinking Hell is Hell no matter what "part" or "section" you go to, it's still Hell..Anyway.. we finally got around to shopping.. :)

2001-08-20T11:05:00.000-07:00

So, i'm feelin pretty worthless today...havn't done anything...I feel that way when I am not pleased with my guitar playing and other things..I also feel like I have "bothered" some ppl too much...Today just feels like a waste of a day...I'm in a cranky mood and I hate that because i tend to snap at my mom when she's being nice to me..Then i feel stupid..I guess i shouldn't go by what I feel, there is nothing to be upset about..i guess i'm just upset w/ myself because i'm not all that I want to be......and that's nobody's fault but mine..today it just seems like I'm stuck, stuck in a muddy hole... but alas, this too shall pass, tomorrow will come, the sun will rise again and i can start a-new.

2001-06-06T12:21:00.000-07:00

So i'm watching tv last night (which i don't do much, and now i know why) and a commercial came on and said that "That 70's show" was coming on..i was like, well this could be funny, i had heard of it, but i had never seen it..ok so like it comes on and the first lines go something like "what are you guys doing?" other party (guy and girl) "we are looking at hotels for the weekend" other guy says somthing like "what, car sex isn't good enough for you?" i was like what? this is retarded! so like that is what the whole freakin show was about...i would channel surf past it and sure enough they were still talkin about sex..Then the next show came on..something called like "titus" er somthin, and of course that is about all it was about too..then i surfed passed "darmah and greg" and that's what their whole show was about ..they were like goin to a bar to pick up guys for one of their friends because she hadn't had sex in a long time er somthin gay like that ..then there was "Dark angel" that i crossed by and it was lame acting and had a lot of perverted stuff in it..i was like, "How stupid can you get" they are all about the same thing...They don't do anything funny on tv anymore, it's all about sex..that's it..ever since they have been able to freely talk about it...that's all they think that they can make shows about now, it disgusted (SP) me..so i watched GTPV...there was a guy on there that made blown glass and hung it up in various odd places..it was awesome....I hate tv, it's like they want to see who can be the MOST perverted and still have ppl put up w/ it and watch it.

2001-06-04T10:12:00.000-07:00

Hmm...don't know what to write today...i don't even know why i have a blog...i never have anything to say, nothing profound atleast...Being a teenager is harder than i ever thought it was gunna be..it's not as fun as i thought it was either..oh well.

2001-05-30T13:46:00.000-07:00

oh..refresh is not a good button...oh dear..

2001-05-30T13:43:00.000-07:00

After one of our concerts on sunday some woman came up to me and said, "I can tell that that music is in you" I thought that that was cool.

2001-05-30T13:42:00.000-07:00

After one of our concerts on sunday some woman came up to me and said, "I can tell that that music is in you" I thought that that was cool.

2001-05-29T12:03:00.000-07:00

"There's a jukebox in every one"...Always remember that race car driver are cheaters, they should use feet. Arch builders that build arches accidentaly are "Stupid Arch builders". My head is Bob Marley and my eyes are Whisky-Wisker-Wisker-Doe. Anyway, all things from the above stated sprouted from 3 days w/ my friend stephen aka ph ey...his head is Barry White, his eyes are Hazel..Anyway, i got "Miracles" by cs lewis yesterday..i'm eager to read it. I've only read the scope of the book so far..I think it's gunna be awesome..

2001-05-25T14:32:00.000-07:00

Last night was AWESOME! we went to chick-fil-a w/ my cousin and one of our friends...we had a blast, lots, tons, millions of inside jokes, got told to stop playing guitar in the resturaunt, saw some people we hadn't seen in ages..it was great..(the ppl we were sitting next to enjoyed my guitar playing, but apparently the manager didn't..) oh dear..woke up w/ glitter all over me..it came from a bear that my friend gave me for my birthday..i didn't know it had that much glitter on it..and i slept w/ the bear, and so when i woke up, i'm covered in glitter as well as my bed..I couldn't help but laugh..it was great.

2001-05-24T10:31:00.000-07:00

I have not yet participated in the day. hopefully i won't.

2001-05-21T15:03:00.000-07:00

i hate the SAT..i hate studying for it..i hate getting wrongs answers...i hate feeling dumb...i hate my brains feeling like mush...i hate it i hate it i hate it...

2001-05-20T20:23:00.000-07:00

hmmm...i think my cousin is upset w/ me..He called at 9:30pm and i was watching a movie (Road to Moroco starring Bob Hope and Bing crosby) and i told him i would call him back later..he was like, "fine, go watch a movie dont' talk to me" i was like..uh, okay..i mean i was just watching a movie w/ my family, what am i suppose to do, just drop my family and talk to him..i talk to him all the time...ugh..so then i call him back and he just tells me to go away and why don't I go watch another movie...he was on the phone w/ somebody else....oh dear...I was like "whatever" and just hung up and played my guitar..uhg..it was like he was saying that we never talk, but he spent the night last night...anyway, in other news....well there is nothing in other news...i have eaten much junk food lately.. ie cookie cake, brownies, ect,...tired, can't wait for school to be done, hopefully gunna get a pick-up for my good ol guitar tomorrow (yay!)..aaaaaannnnnnnndddddd................

2001-05-18T21:30:00.000-07:00

well, i was going to say it's my bday today..but technically it ended 17 minutes ago..so...yesterday was my birthday. 'twas a beautiful day to turn 17 i suppose. I guess i had a rather good day. I enjoy writing really short sentences like a 3rd grader would write when trying to write a long drawn out paragraph for their english teacher who demands perfection out of a 3rd grader, so she ties them to their desks until they get their work right, and if they don't, then she doesn't let them go. i dont' know what that was all about. if you have any idea what it was about, please tell me, i would like to know. Anyway, we had band practice tonight and i think it went pretty well...but it was too hot in this dern house..we were all sweating.....really bad...I was going to say "sweating to the oldies" but we weren't playing oldies..so ya know..I've been 17 for 1 day and 18 minutes now..hmm...this is just turning into kind of pointless gibberish now..i suppose i will say my thanks and stop..Thank you to---Jess "horrie", jon, mom, dad, jer, lisa, bet, madi, jonathan jakes, hetty white, josh farquar (sp), nathan sanders, ryan greeman, a-young no, josh "hank", jennifer-my "sister of brakage", jeff, danielle, stephanie "skeeter"...why i'm thanking people, i dont' know...THANKS TO C...i just felt like typing alot, so there is really no sense at all in reading this, so i advise you to take 2 steps right, paint your teeth and stand on your head. Then, after you are done w/ that, go find a chicken and hypnotize it and lead it in a rebellion against something...

2001-05-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

went to the square today to take pics w/ the girl i was suppose to go to the prom w/...it was kinda funny, i was in my t-shirt and jeans and she was all in her prom dress..kinda made me sad..cause i REALLY wanted to go..My cousin/best friend went...so now i'm sitting here wishing i was there..should have been there...lookin' all cool havin fun..but nooooo...i'm at my house being bored....My cousin josh looked AWESOME!!....and the girl i was suppose to go w/ doesn't even like her date....that's why i went to take pics w/ her..heheh...oh dear...this is no fun at all...i hate it actually... :( ...oh well, i guess i'll stop complaining....I did get a new bob dylan/the band CD...but i would have rather gone to prom....maybe one day i'll get a life...or have some fun or something..

2001-05-08T16:26:00.000-07:00

ugh...I left her this starry night...feel like i'm stuck in between 2 trees, just hanging there..like i have 1 arm tied to each tree..one rope is almost all the way cut through..but i don't want it to be..not really.....not at all...i want it to be restored like it use to be..fresh and new....but i don't want both ropes...and the one that is fresh now, i still want, but not in the same way..I just said i don't want both ropes, but I do, just not in the same way, i don't want to just cut one off and have the other...rather confusing...anyway...

2001-05-03T11:01:00.000-07:00

Well, havn't blogged in quite a while...the other day i was thinking about nirvana..I don't really know why..and i was also thinking about Kurt Cobain (SP) and his death/suicide and wondering why he would do that..It seemed that even though he was famous and all, he thought that maybe life had been too cruel him, though millions would have loved to be in his place and have all the attention and money that he had. It seems like no matter how rich, famous, talented, pretty, charming, handsom, cool, one may be, they are nothing w/o God..The gifts are given by God and are intended to be used to praise Him and bring people into praise and when not used in the correct way they seem fruitless. I guess it's kinda like the wicked prosper for a while but in the end the rightous prevail, because it seems as though all the wicked people are the ones w/ big names and all the money and power, in the end all of their works will come to nothing..To think that everything that one might do w/o God, all the work they put into something w/o God, all the time and effort w/o God comes to nothing is kind of depressing to me because here are all these people basically wasting their lives doing nothing..they may have fun doing it, but it comes to nothing...i dunno..these are just some ramblings that have been going on in my head...anyway..I don't know if any of that made sense..may be kinda jumbled..hope it makes sense..

anyway, on a lighter note, i can't wait till efest!! that's gunna be fun..and today i tried to sneek up on some deer in my back yard, i got pretty close, but then they started stomping and snorting at me and then they ran off :(..i wanted to pet them..hehe anyway

2001-04-18T12:26:00.000-07:00

ever had one of those days where the sun went up and the sun went down, and the sun went back up again, then the moon spun around 3 times and stopped on your foot...me neither...but i had to ask. nothin much today..looking forward to church tonight..oh yeah! On rising gas prices, one atlanta cab driver said, "I'm drivin' a cab and shakin' a cup too!" i thought that was pretty funny...mmm...life is an amazing thing..a very amazing thing..

2001-04-17T12:52:00.000-07:00

Living w/o the internet use to be possible...for some reason it seems to be hard to live w/o it now..even though when we didn't have it, we still seemed to get along just fine..but now, if your server is down er somthing, it's like it's just terrible. Wonder why..

2001-04-14T10:34:00.000-07:00

Ahh..good days..went to a braves game w/ my youth group and friends last night..it was fun, but we left really early and got lost in atlanta.hehe..it was funny. We drove around for like an hour. After we finally got out of atlanta, we went to waffle house and ate...yum..Then i went over to the jukebox and pushed #126..which is "She thinks my tractor's sexxy" It was great..oh dear..anyway......"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!"..

2001-04-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

Beautiful day today. I feel like I am in the middle of a battle over my emotions right now..but it's not me that is fighting..On one side there is one who is pulling at me trying to get my emotions to try to "like" someone (ie. g/f), and on the other side there is one who is pulling me away from all that sort of thing..And here, I am stuck in the middle..Not sad, not happy, but content. My emotions are in kind of a neutral state...but i feel content..content to look around and observe the beauty of the world which my God has created..Content to marvel at His wonderous power, content to sit back and watch Him at work...Contentment.

2001-04-10T16:49:00.000-07:00

Had to prick my finger for biology today..we were seeing what kind of blood type each of us had..but i had to be pricked twice (in the same place..that didn't feel too good because i could feel the needle being put back into the same wound...mmm..didn't feel good at all..) because i would not bleed..still then i didn't bleed to good..hhehe..but i did find out that I am B+ blood..anyway, still hemping my life away..hehe

2001-04-09T12:10:00.000-07:00

HEMP HEMP HEMP. Jus got a hemp-your-lights-out kit...well that's not really what it's called.. But that's what I like to call it. : ) Went out this weekend..had fun, jon got some useless items at Targat (i.e. Miniture shopping cart..It's really metal and everything..it's pretty cool) Another thing that he got was a "worst case scenario" book..tells you how to do things like wrestle an alligator, jump from a moving car, how to take a punch, how to jump from a moving motorcycle to a moving car, how to manuver on top of a moving train and get inside, how to float in quicksand...it's great! I would reccomend it for all you that like to mountain climb and hike and stuff..It tells things about how to scare bob cats and run away from bears too..hehe..anyway..I have been hemping the past weekend..it's fun..

2001-04-06T14:08:00.000-07:00

* make that FACE..not fac..

2001-04-06T14:07:00.000-07:00

right now i am fighting my neice..hahah..she's trying to get in my lap and i'm fighting her with my fac!! arg~!!!hehehe

2001-04-06T14:06:00.000-07:00

just picked up bob dylans first album! woo woo!! he has so much ATITUDE on this one! hehe..he screams alot..it's been a good day..ate some jello, played some guitar...and CLEANED HOUSE!! I like a clean house.. :0) oh dear..

2001-04-05T06:23:00.000-07:00

Ahh..the days are much better now..I can finally smile w/o forcing myself to as I had to the past two weeks. I could smile around a crowd, but as soon as i walked through the door to my house, for some reason it was hard to even force myself to smile...I was depressed, but didn't know exactly why...But since tuesday evening, it's been great. I decided to play my guitar...to God..Ever since then, i have felt great.. I can smile now, genuinely..

2001-04-03T10:19:00.000-07:00

The day is rainy today..last night talked to a friend till 3:30 am..towards the end, felt as though a train wreck had happened inside of me..I tried to explain, but words didn't work, if i could have just showed her in an action, then she would have known how I felt. The words that I try to say race through my head and just seem to dissapear...Or else they just are never there, something like that...today i feel like it looks outside, rainy, washe up, and gray...sometimes i hate life..not in the "i want to die" sense...just in the "i feel like i'm trapped and can't move" kinda thing..oh well..

2001-04-02T14:20:00.000-07:00

Just making sure it worked..Anyway..today's just another day...just like yesterday but warmer..still stuck in the house..juiced carrots..oh boy..nothing much to say for today...here's a poem (this is kinda stale so far).

In The Woodland

The wind whips around the trees
And tears through the sky
It passes through my lips and gives me life
This wind of refreshment is as
Thousands of people dancing in unison
To the sound of a drum I’ve never heard
And It reminds me of all the places that I’ve never been
The places of sorrow, pity, and mourning
And yet in the distance I hear the sound of a victory morning
I hear the sound of the The River trickle
I feel the waters flow over me feet
And this gives me strength
I bend to drink
And it refreshes my soul
I relax and The River carries me
To The Woodlands
Where all The Trees drop their leaves
In sorrow, for mourning never seems
To cease in The Woodland
All the trees cry the tears of blood
The Blood that redeems
And here is where I stay
In The Woodland.

2001-04-02T14:08:00.000-07:00

hello

2001-04-02T14:07:00.000-07:00

Hello...