Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Superstitions
Superstitions, whether for good or bad luck, usually have thier roots deep in some belief of something long ago, and some people believe in them with all their heart. My best friend Timmy swears that rubbing a bald man's head insures good luck, and does so every sunday at church, and claims to always have a good day on monday. The Macbeth curse seems to be a well believed and dangerous superstition. I do not know many superstitions myself other than black cats are bad, 4 leaf clovers and horse shoes are lucky, and "find a penny pick it up." I think that superstitions can be interesting, especially if you hear the story behind them, but don't hold on to them much personally.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Time for New Begennings...
I spent New Years Eve spraying silly string on the kids at Skates Alive while we dropped balloons on them. Good money for doing it, but not how I wanted to bring in the new year. I wish Jessica could have been there and we have a small party in her garage and wait to kiss at midnight. Maybe next year though. Even though I was at work I had to take a moment to think about what was really happening. My last full year living here was coming to an end. I'm a senior, which means I'm entering the last few months of high school, and not long afterwards will be moving, hopefully to Lexington and UK.
2009 was a pretty good year for the most part. I spent it with great friends, played some good music, and got to date an amazing girl. I was layed off of work over summer and lived off of $20 a week from Papa for cutting grass until I was rehired. I ended my Junior year and embarked on my final leg of school here at Apollo.
I spent most of my time away from home, usually at Jessica's house or somewhere else, and stated feeling kinda bad for never being around the house. Its one thing I hope to fix in the new year before graduation hits. I've been trying to fix that with taco mondays and soon will be adding another day for Lost and/or board games at home, and try to have more band practices.
Speaking of which, bands have tossed and turned a bit. I quite one band and quickly formed another. A month or so later we finally got the chance to start practices. We played a gig in Tennessee without our drummer and things did not go so well for that show, but it was still a blast. After that a periode of no practices, and recently and explosion of attempting to learn new songs. Timmy and I have been very successfull, but everyone else works more hours than us and its hard to have full practices. We will have that worked out before long though. Another thing to look at fixing for the new year.
I decided what i'm going to do with my life this year. After some tweeking to the plan, I've decided to go to UK and take part in the Air Force ROTC while studying there. Once I graduate I will join the Air Force, haveing experience at college level ROTC to give me better rank and pay early on, and a better chance at whichever job I decide to aim for in the military.
Its been a big year, and hopefully will build up a strong platform for an even better New Year.
2009 was a pretty good year for the most part. I spent it with great friends, played some good music, and got to date an amazing girl. I was layed off of work over summer and lived off of $20 a week from Papa for cutting grass until I was rehired. I ended my Junior year and embarked on my final leg of school here at Apollo.
I spent most of my time away from home, usually at Jessica's house or somewhere else, and stated feeling kinda bad for never being around the house. Its one thing I hope to fix in the new year before graduation hits. I've been trying to fix that with taco mondays and soon will be adding another day for Lost and/or board games at home, and try to have more band practices.
Speaking of which, bands have tossed and turned a bit. I quite one band and quickly formed another. A month or so later we finally got the chance to start practices. We played a gig in Tennessee without our drummer and things did not go so well for that show, but it was still a blast. After that a periode of no practices, and recently and explosion of attempting to learn new songs. Timmy and I have been very successfull, but everyone else works more hours than us and its hard to have full practices. We will have that worked out before long though. Another thing to look at fixing for the new year.
I decided what i'm going to do with my life this year. After some tweeking to the plan, I've decided to go to UK and take part in the Air Force ROTC while studying there. Once I graduate I will join the Air Force, haveing experience at college level ROTC to give me better rank and pay early on, and a better chance at whichever job I decide to aim for in the military.
Its been a big year, and hopefully will build up a strong platform for an even better New Year.
Back to School
I'm tired, but not as tired as I expected considering only 2 days ago I was staying up till 1:00 AM and waking up at 9-10:00. Over the break Jessica went to Michigan, which meant 2 weeks of not being with someone I've spent almost everyday with for over one year. She didn't really want to go because it was so cold up there and the kids were rowdy, but her dad let me borrow a phone with txting on it so the two of us could more easily keep in touch without running up a huge phone bill.
To pass the time, Timmy and I hung out most of the time, and played a lot of guitar. Together we learned at least 5 more songs for the band, and started preparing to help camille's transition as our new singer more smooth once she can make practices. I also worked more often because Skates Alive had matinee sessions and a late night skate on New Years that lasted till 12:30 in the morning plus cleanup time. At least I can expect a good paycheck this week. And I'll definetly need it. At the end of the month Timmy and I are taking Jessica and Camille to see Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace and Flyleaf in concert. Tickets ended up being close to $50 each, and I'm paying for Jessica's and mine, so I need to pay that off and save up more money for merchandise. I can't wait, it's gonna be awsome. We've been listening to more Breaking Benjamin to get ready, and they are a great band.
None the less it wasn't a bad break. I missed Jessica a lot, but had a good time with Timmy and a good haul on Christmas (new Line 6 pedal, 16GB mp3 player, and $50 in malco gift cards. Sherlock Holmes was a good movie. Saw it yesterday).
To pass the time, Timmy and I hung out most of the time, and played a lot of guitar. Together we learned at least 5 more songs for the band, and started preparing to help camille's transition as our new singer more smooth once she can make practices. I also worked more often because Skates Alive had matinee sessions and a late night skate on New Years that lasted till 12:30 in the morning plus cleanup time. At least I can expect a good paycheck this week. And I'll definetly need it. At the end of the month Timmy and I are taking Jessica and Camille to see Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace and Flyleaf in concert. Tickets ended up being close to $50 each, and I'm paying for Jessica's and mine, so I need to pay that off and save up more money for merchandise. I can't wait, it's gonna be awsome. We've been listening to more Breaking Benjamin to get ready, and they are a great band.
None the less it wasn't a bad break. I missed Jessica a lot, but had a good time with Timmy and a good haul on Christmas (new Line 6 pedal, 16GB mp3 player, and $50 in malco gift cards. Sherlock Holmes was a good movie. Saw it yesterday).
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
P.S.I. songs
P.S.I. is the current unofficial name for my band, and here is a list of songs we know, or hope to learn very soon.
Unholy Confessions - Avenged Sevenfold
Monster - Skillet
Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
What I've Done - Linkin Park
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Twist and Shout - The Beetles
The Last Night - Skillet
Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
We also have a few bands that we will pick a song to cover.
Anberlin - Paperthin Hymn or Feel Good Drag
Paramore - That's What You Get or Born for This or Decode
Flyleaf - Beautiful Bride or I'm So Sick or a number of other possibilities
All-American Rejects - Move Along or Dirty Little Secret or Another Heart Calls
Green Day - American Idiot or Holiday or Boulevard of Broken Dreams or (most probable) 21 Guns.
We also have 4 original songs nearing completion. Ideas 1-3 (3 needs a new ending) and one with a working title called The Hey Song that needs tweaking.
I'd also personally would like to learn The Rock Show by Blink 182, and a Sum 41 song as well as a song for Jessica, probably a Blue October song or some other favorite of hers like Hey Soul Sister that would be simple enough to learn. On another side note I had a chance to hear our new singer singing Nine in the Afternoon by PANIC! at the Disco on Rock Band the other day and was impressed, so I may look into it as a possibility. Heck, if she can do the sreams in Unholy Confessions well, and we feel like getting some more metal, Michael and I might bring up What's Your HTML Dude? (HTML Rulz D00d and Hey, John, What's Your Name Again? by The Devil Wears Prada) for a cover. Not my kind of music, but soooo much fun to play when you know it.
We hope to get practices going again very soon since Christmas break is comming up. We may practice this friday afternoon, and likley as often as possible over the break. Hopefully Camielle will be able to come and we can decide which songs to focus on and help her to learn the songs we already know. If possible, I might teach Jessica a piano part in The Last Night by Skillet. It could be exciting if she could play with us. To bad I don't have a keytar for her though. :)
Unholy Confessions - Avenged Sevenfold
Monster - Skillet
Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
What I've Done - Linkin Park
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Twist and Shout - The Beetles
The Last Night - Skillet
Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
We also have a few bands that we will pick a song to cover.
Anberlin - Paperthin Hymn or Feel Good Drag
Paramore - That's What You Get or Born for This or Decode
Flyleaf - Beautiful Bride or I'm So Sick or a number of other possibilities
All-American Rejects - Move Along or Dirty Little Secret or Another Heart Calls
Green Day - American Idiot or Holiday or Boulevard of Broken Dreams or (most probable) 21 Guns.
We also have 4 original songs nearing completion. Ideas 1-3 (3 needs a new ending) and one with a working title called The Hey Song that needs tweaking.
I'd also personally would like to learn The Rock Show by Blink 182, and a Sum 41 song as well as a song for Jessica, probably a Blue October song or some other favorite of hers like Hey Soul Sister that would be simple enough to learn. On another side note I had a chance to hear our new singer singing Nine in the Afternoon by PANIC! at the Disco on Rock Band the other day and was impressed, so I may look into it as a possibility. Heck, if she can do the sreams in Unholy Confessions well, and we feel like getting some more metal, Michael and I might bring up What's Your HTML Dude? (HTML Rulz D00d and Hey, John, What's Your Name Again? by The Devil Wears Prada) for a cover. Not my kind of music, but soooo much fun to play when you know it.
We hope to get practices going again very soon since Christmas break is comming up. We may practice this friday afternoon, and likley as often as possible over the break. Hopefully Camielle will be able to come and we can decide which songs to focus on and help her to learn the songs we already know. If possible, I might teach Jessica a piano part in The Last Night by Skillet. It could be exciting if she could play with us. To bad I don't have a keytar for her though. :)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Still Behind
I was starting to get caught up with everything, and looking to finish a few homework assignments before I started working on Christmas stuff and college applications, but then I got sick. It was only 2-3 days last week, but it was enough to set me back to feel behind again. I have to get my make up homework done along with the homework that I just got, and Christmas is literally around the corner. After next week I'm on break.
I guess then I won't have to worry about school, and maybe I can see about college and christmas. I have major shopping to do for everyone, and still need to finish developing my list. My Mom has been constantly bugging me for weeks to look up a guitar pedal I want so she knows what to get, and I'm hopping for a great mp3 player or Zune.
But everytime I start to think about these kindso f things they seem so trivial and unimportant when my grades are slipping so much and I need to apply to UK NOW.
I guess then I won't have to worry about school, and maybe I can see about college and christmas. I have major shopping to do for everyone, and still need to finish developing my list. My Mom has been constantly bugging me for weeks to look up a guitar pedal I want so she knows what to get, and I'm hopping for a great mp3 player or Zune.
But everytime I start to think about these kindso f things they seem so trivial and unimportant when my grades are slipping so much and I need to apply to UK NOW.
Monday, December 7, 2009
We Were First.
Timmy decided that to celebrate Black Friday this year, he wanted to grab a few friends and go camp out somewhere and be the first one in the store....at Target. He recruited his brother Nathan, Jessica and Me to go with him, and we all headed over to Target at 9:30 on Thanksgiving night without even having any ideas about what we wanted to buy once we got in. We talked abut buying a candy bar, and maybe seeing if they had any nice t-shirts, and I had been meaning to go buy a slinky for a while.
It wasn't until 11:00 until anyone else showed up in line, and even longer before you could really call it a line. It was cold. I was colder than I ever ended up during the ice storm last year. We had a small tent we all squeezed into with a few blankets and coats, and played some music off of Timmy's PSP.
About an hour before open, I was feeling sick I was so cold, but that was when the paper showed up and interviewed us. That was the inspiration to make the last leg of the night, and then
We
Were
First.
In the end we got the candy, I got a shirt and slinky, and picked up Jessica some stickers. By then the line to check out had lapped around the store literally to the electronics department. I didn't get home till almost 8:00 in the morning, and then slept before I had to go to work. It was a few days before I started to feel well again. I guess I don't do well with all nighters, but we were first.
It wasn't until 11:00 until anyone else showed up in line, and even longer before you could really call it a line. It was cold. I was colder than I ever ended up during the ice storm last year. We had a small tent we all squeezed into with a few blankets and coats, and played some music off of Timmy's PSP.
About an hour before open, I was feeling sick I was so cold, but that was when the paper showed up and interviewed us. That was the inspiration to make the last leg of the night, and then
We
Were
First.
In the end we got the candy, I got a shirt and slinky, and picked up Jessica some stickers. By then the line to check out had lapped around the store literally to the electronics department. I didn't get home till almost 8:00 in the morning, and then slept before I had to go to work. It was a few days before I started to feel well again. I guess I don't do well with all nighters, but we were first.
Rug Burn
It's been a while since I've blogged, and I'm falling behind, but I've done plenty to make up with it. I'll start off with something simple and light harted.
Last night was my church's youth Christmas party. It was actually mexican themed (with a pinata and tacos) because of the shoeboxes. They asked anyone willing to take an old shoebox and fill it with small presents for a child in Juareze Mexico as a Christmas present. I had to work so I gave Timmy and Camielle some money to go off before the party and fill up one of Timmy's size 15 boxes.
An unfortunate high point of the party was the pinata. I didn't get a chance to hit it, but when it busted, I was one of the ones to jump in for candy. I wanted a Reese's and a Kit-Kat. However, Logan thought it would be funny to grab my legs and drag me out from the mad scramble. Let me inform you that the carpet in the room has a lot of rough little fibers in it. The fibers held on to my shirt while my body was dragged, leaving what looked like sun burn all over my stomach that still stings if I touch it wrong. I later also found carpet burn on my wrist and right elbow. It was kinda painfull.
The party was still fun though. I didn't get a chance to hang out with the guys afterwards, but I needed to get home for some homework anyways.
Last night was my church's youth Christmas party. It was actually mexican themed (with a pinata and tacos) because of the shoeboxes. They asked anyone willing to take an old shoebox and fill it with small presents for a child in Juareze Mexico as a Christmas present. I had to work so I gave Timmy and Camielle some money to go off before the party and fill up one of Timmy's size 15 boxes.
An unfortunate high point of the party was the pinata. I didn't get a chance to hit it, but when it busted, I was one of the ones to jump in for candy. I wanted a Reese's and a Kit-Kat. However, Logan thought it would be funny to grab my legs and drag me out from the mad scramble. Let me inform you that the carpet in the room has a lot of rough little fibers in it. The fibers held on to my shirt while my body was dragged, leaving what looked like sun burn all over my stomach that still stings if I touch it wrong. I later also found carpet burn on my wrist and right elbow. It was kinda painfull.
The party was still fun though. I didn't get a chance to hang out with the guys afterwards, but I needed to get home for some homework anyways.
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