I Am Back, Finally

Yes, it is true, I have come back to WordPress to blog about absolutely nothing. Did any of you miss me? No? I didn’t think so. How long has it been? I believe about nine months since I last blogged. Well, I am back and quite a bit has changed. A school year has passed, I now right poetry, and I fell in love. I’m just as surprised as you on that last one. Quite a shocker, that one.

My junior year is officially over, so that makes me a senior at Uniontown high school. Hooray for me! Although, this happening is a bit scary at the same time as it is joyous. One reason it is scary is that I’m fucking growing up. I have to start taking on responsibilities and thinking for myself. Dear God, help me. The other reason I will get to later. The most exciting event during the school year, for me, was the basketball season. However, I don’t want to put up a false sense of excitement because it wasn’t that exciting. The last important note about the school year is that I passed pre-calculus. That shit is the most confusing mass of numbers and letters that I have ever experienced. The fact the teacher and I did not get along didn’t help me much either. I’m just relieved the class is over and I passed. I must say that I impressed myself. I nearly failed a class, literally passed with a sixty percent, and maintained a three point five gpa. That makes me the smartest dumb ass ever.

If you read my last post, and if you remember it, then you know that I wrote poetry now. I like to think I’m average. Everyone that has read them at least pretends to like them so that is good. I even showed some of my work to my English teacher, who is an extremely good teacher, and she said I had talent. Most of the poems I write are romantic poems about nature, God, and life. The other poems are about love, lost love, and death.

Now moving on to the most interesting change. I have fallen in love. My girlfriend, which is the same one that is talked about in previous posts, is awesome. We had quite a rocky start considering that she did not want to date me in the first place. Her mother encouraged her; however, and she dated me. Are relationship was hardly a relationship for the first few months. We were more friends than we were boyfriend and girlfriend. She did not really like me as a boyfriend and I knew it. We almost broke up a few times, but we did not tell each other that until recently. After a while though, we grew on each other and somewhere in there fell in love. Completely unplanned and wonderful. She even told me, “I am surprised I fell in love with you. I was set on not falling in love with you.” Apparently I have mad charm. You only have to wait seven months for it to kick in. I truly am lucky and grateful she waited that long. Most would not have waited close to that long. Maybe it was just meant to be.

Well, there you have it. My first post in after a nine month absence. It was a very quick nine months in my opinion. Hopefully, I’ll be back sooner next time. With that said, I am out of here.

Poetic Fantasy

So while I was away not updating this blog I found that I may have a gift. I started writing poetry for some unknown reason. I had always thought up poems or just rhymes in my head but never written them down because I figured they weren’t that good and typical highschool guys don’t write poetry. Well I finally decided to write them down, again, for reasons unknown. Anyways here is my favorite so far. It is called Poetic Fantasy.

I strut so cool and quiet

Always thinking silent

Never quite in touch with reality

No one understands me

In this world I don’t seem to fit

To them I don’t make sense

They can’t understand my wonderful fantasy

Filled with love and history

Filled with rhymes that constantly shift

And only to me do they make sense

You see I don’t need reality

Not when I’m in a poetic fantasy

So How’s Everyone Doin’?

So it has been awhile huh? Well I do have excuses and, frankly, I don’t care too much if you think they are good ones or not. I had to work all summer and there was some other family issues that I had to tend to, so this little blog here just got kinda shoved to the side. Anyways I am here now so that is all that matters.

I bought Rock Band this summer and have been playing the holy hell out of it. I am now proud to say that I can play the drums on expert. I only play the drums though. Everyonce in awhile I sing but am quickly informed that I suck so I don’t do it very often. I can’t play the guitar anymore. I used to be decent because of Guitar Hero but now I can’t do it at all. I don’t like the guitar any damn way. Well that pretty much sums that up.

I have watched a few movies but the most recent was The Doors. Now I am a HUGE Doors fan and an extremely HUGE Jim Morrison fan. Now the movie I thought was good but the directing was a bit iffy. I thought there was way too much infasis on how much Indians effected him. They just kept showing Indians everywhere. I also learned that there were a good chunk of parts in that movie that the director just added that never happened. That annoys me a little bit. I think if you are going to make a documentary film about a person then the actions he does in the movie should be very close to accurate to what he did in real life. These things annoyed me but I like The Doors so much that I still liked the movie a lot.

The Problem and The Solution

Well, as you have surely already figured out, I was recently bothered by a problem. It is a fairly poplular one I’d like to think. My problem was I was single and didn’t want to be anymore. Well the problem wasn’t finding a girl anymore but finding a time to ask her out. Now I am a naturally awkward and extremely insecure fellow so, in other words, I clam up around girls that I like. Although that is becoming a good look more and more. I mean look at all the movies starring teenage characters. Lately there has a been a lot that have starred a sensitive, unsure character who ends up getting the girl even though he can’t complete a decent conversation. Anyways enough of that.

Now I was just going to ask her in person while I was on a triple date with two of my buddies and there women. Well I still claim that Cody screwed that up even though he won’t admit it. We were at Jacey’s house (my friend Ben’s girlfriend) and she went out with Ben to ”walk him to his car”. So that left me, Ashley (my girlfriend now, we’ll get to that later), and Cody. I thought Cody would catch my hints saying “hey why don’t you make up a lame excuse and leave the room so we will be alone” but Cody being himself did not catch on.  I just thought it would be awkward to ask her with Cody just looking at us. Maybe I should have just sucked it up and asked her but I didn’t so fuck off. 

Alright moving right along to ”The Solution”. Well I procrastinated calling her because I would rather be called than call. Not to mention the fact that I absolutely hate phone conversations. I don’t like not seeing what there reaction is. I learned from a friend that she was in Nebraska so that just gave me another reason to procrastinate. I was telling myself “you don’t want to interrupt her family’s vacation time, just wait it out”. After about 3-4 days of some extremely tiring arguements with Cody over whether I did indeed carry a pair of testicles or not I decided to call her. At this point I thought I had completely fucked myself over from all my insecure procrastinations. I was just kinda moving through the conversation thinking I was being romantic. I said something like “I figured I would call you since I like you and I think you like me”. She says “I do like you” and I, thinking I was being smooth, said “Well since you like me if I asked you to date me would you say yes?”. Right after I said it I immediatly thought ”what the fuck was that. That was dumbest line I have ever heard anyone say and I was the one that said the shit”. I was so enveloped in my thoughts of how stupid I was I almost didn’t hear her say she would say yes. Then I asked her out for real instead of that bad line and again she said yes. Once again the sensitive kid wins.   

Ocean’s Eleven

Good movie. I had been wanting to watch this movie for a long time but kept forgetting about it. Finally, Saturday I watched it with my cousin. I liked it a lot. Usually George Clooney annoys me but this time I actually liked him. Brad Pitt was awesome as usual. I think they should have had more scenes with him though. At the beginning of the movie he was always around and then towards the middle he just kinda dissappeared, would come back for a short piece of dialogue, then dissappear again. I could just not be remembering a couple of scenes because it has been two days since then but it seemed like he could have been used more. The ending was clever. I hear Ocean’s Twelve sucks and that kinda dissapoints me but, then again, I heard that Thirteen was good. Maybe I should just pretend that Twelve was never made and try out Thirteen.

Hit It!

My friend and I were asked to DJ a dance that was on Friday. I’m not sure how or why we were chosen because we both absolutely hate hip-hop today and that is the majority of the music at our dances. In fact, I don’t like much new music at all. I think that we got good songs though. We tried to mix some new stuff with some old stuff.

I think the dance went well though. There were a couple of times were I wanted to tell some people to just shut the fuck up and listen to the damn music. We had one person that just wanted to “get crunk” and another person who wanted slow songs the whole damn dance. Well I was trying to deal with all kinds of shit at once. I was sick, trying to make people happy, and trying to solve my girlfriend problem or the lack there of that is. Well it was going average until the last hour of the dance. Out of no where I started feeling extremely sick again. So I spent that last hour feeling miserable. Then the most annoying thing happened. The last song came on, a slow song of course, and a girl asked me to dance. Well I would consider this girl out of my league. I don’t even try to flirt with her because I’m sure there is no way I could date her anyway. Well, I start walking toward her and then my brother, oh yes my brother, looks at her with this dissapointed face, waves me off, and totally cock blocks me! My brother has had a crush on her for some time and everyone knows that he doesn’t have a chance. Not to say that I do, I just wrote that I don’t. I just wanted to punch him. That was like the lowest thing any brother could do to another brother. Then to top it all off Cody (my friend) got a girlfriend. Why is this a bad thing? We made a wager where if I got a girlfriend first then he would have to not talk for a full day of school and if he won then I couldn’t talk for a full day of school. It could be worse but it is going to be hard not to talk. It wasn’t a very good night at all.

So It’s Been Awhile/Ironman

Yes, it has been a very long time since my last post. I am deeply sorry but, for some reason, I just was not in the mood to type. I haven’t been up to too terribly much during my dissapearance. I’ve been pretty lazy lately. I spend my time doing school, playing NBA 2K8, watching some good television, some not so good television, and an occasional movie.  The most recent movie I watched was Iron Man. I will be screaming out my love for it in the next paragraph.

Alright so Iron Man was the best superhero movie made so far. Robert Downey Jr. is the bomb diggity yo. He played the part so damn well. Now I have to pause my rejoicing for a second to complain. Not about the movie but about some of it’s viewers. I have heard from a couple of people, not so smart highschoolers, that it didn’t have enough action. I wanted to slap every single one of them. They did the story extremely well, and the movie was how the first Ironman movie should have been done. Now back to my rejoicing; I just had to get that out of the way while I was thinking of it. They were giving hints in the movie about some of the stuff that would be in the movies to come. Like apparently War Machine is going to be in the second one and S.H.I.E.L.D will have some major significance. Also, they hinted a little at Ironman’s alcohol problems. I can’t wait for the second one to come out. I only have one complaint about the movie. Why did Tony Stark openly admit that he was Ironman? That kind of annoyed me. The fact that it was at the end of the movie bugged me even more. They buttered me up all movie with how well they did the Ironman story. I’m not an expert on Ironman, in fact, I have never read one of the comics, but I do know the story decent enough (Wikipedia is awesome). What I do know is that he denied being Ironman and had to cover it up like 3-4 times. Well after all of the buttering up, they just drop that bomb on me. It stung a little but not too much. Also the scene after the credits was interesting. Not sure what the next movie is going to be like.

While we were waiting for Ironman to start, they showed the trailer for the next Batman. Well, it looks freakin cool as hell. I can’t wait, it has potential to be even better than Ironman was. Also saw the trailers for Prince Caspian and the new Indiana Jones. I am pumped for Prince Caspian because I am a huge Narnia nerd. I have only seen one Indiana Jones movie, I know crazy huh? If it is an consolation, I really liked the one I saw. Well that should catch me up I’d say.

The Office is Back

The second episode since it has been back was tonight. It was good. When I heard that Kevin and Andy were fighting over a parking spot, I thought they were fighting with each other. I was just a little dissapointed when I figured out they weren’t fighting each other but helping each other get back there spaces. I just think it would have been funnier if they were fighting each other. Anyways they were still funny and Michael was awesome as usual. I was laughing my ass off when Michael calls Wendy’s (the fast-food resturaunt) thinking that it’s some “juicy red head”. The end, when Michael and Dwight are singing “The Day Music Died”, was also hilarious.

The first episode was funny, awkward, and almost creepy. Michael and Jan’s relationship was so fucked up. Some of the parts were hard to laugh at, because it was so so sad. For example, the part where he lays on his tiny bed in front of Jan’s huge bed. The most awkward and creepy part was probably when Michael leans over to Pam and says “I don’t want to eat the food”. Pam says “Why?” and Michael replies “I think Jan might be trying to poison me”. I also really liked it when she brakes his $200 plasma television with his Dundee Award. The episode was actually funnier when I was thinking about it than when I was watching it.

Video Pick: Super Mario Chalmers

Oh yes, it feels awesome. Like I said in my previous post, I turned 16 on Sunday and got a car. Well, the car and my Jayhawks getting a championship has to be the greatest birthday presents ever. Ok, the only thing that could possibly top that would be if I had tickets to the game. I am still completely satisfied. Thank you Kansas University!

Now about the game itself. This was the greatest game I have ever watched. It was so fast-paced and intense. I thought I was going to cry when they were up nine with two minutes left in the game. All these dreadful memories of a certain team, named Syracuse, came washing into my brain and giving me a horrible headache. I don’t think I could have taken another championship loss. All I have ever wanted was KU winning it all during my childhood. Well, thanks to some bad free throw shooting and Super Mario Chalmers, my worries and my head ache were all in vain. When Mario Chalmers hit the shot to put it into overtime I freaked the hell out. I could watch that shot an infinite amount of times and never get bored. That shot put so much confidence in me that I believed that there was no way possible we could lose. The fact that it was the 20th anniversary of Danny Manning and the Miracles just made it all the more great. It couldn’t have been any better. I was so pumped that I couldn’t fall asleep. 

Random Happenings

Well the 6th of April would be my 16th bithday so that is something to look forward to, I guess. I’ve never been big on birthdays. I usually just treat my birthday as a normal day. I plan on just going to my grandparent’s and eating a fuck-load of ribs and potato salad…ahhh yeah! My birthday present is the traditional car. I got lucky to tell the truth. About a week before my older brother’s 16th my parents were looking for a new car for my dad. Well my dad, being the coolest father he is, decided to just go ahead and give it to my brother; This, of course, guaranteed me one. The cool part is that I actually got to pick my car. I chose a white 04′ Chrystler Sebring.

In other news, KU rocks my fuckin socks off. I have to be honest, I wasn’t sure they would be able to win against NC. Although, this just brings back some horrible memories of that national championship of 2002-03. Damn you Syracuse, damn you to hell! I think we match up well with Memphis. I think it will come down to whoever is in better shape. I can’t wait to watch that game. It will be so up-tempo and exciting.