(6/21/00) Entry #Big 3-0 Wow, I've come quite a long way with this journal since February. Even though I haven't kept up with it daily, I'm just happy that I kept up with it at ALL. I'm a lazy ass, if you haven't gathered that already. I was checking the stats of this journal to see how many hits I get per day, per week, per month, etc. and I was noticing that quite a few of you come back to read my journal, and I thank you for that. I guess you all come back to read it cuz it's like a little window into my life. Cuz I just don't jot down notes about what happened throughout the day, I actually talk to you, the reader. And I also vent things. I guess it kinda has that Real World/Survivor kinda thing going on. I dunno. People just like voyeur stuff. (Hey who doesn't?) I'm going to Dorney Park tomorrow. I'll try and get some pictures from it but I don't know. I'm super super low on cash. And I need a lot for when I got to St. Louis. Hey, if you wanna send me some money, feel free. I need all I can get. If you want your lawn mowed, I'll do it. I've got a big resume (well, not really, but I'm good at it). Also, if you or your family is in the Market for a house, feel free to buy mine. 188K bucks. It's nice. Ok, later.
(6/25/00) Entry #31 Hmmm....what to say. It's a boring sunday morning. Went to church early today (what a drag). I'm really bummed cuz I'm grounded from going to my girlfriend's house. I'm grounded because I didn't call my mom when she wanted me to. I DID call her, but the line was busy. But I just didn't bother to try calling again 5 minutes later. Oh well. And sneaking over is not an option either cuz I'm staying at Patrick Thompson's house while parents are out of town; and my mom told Patrick's mom that I wasn't allowed over there either. I found that out the (almost) hard way. I'm not going to say anything for fear of people reading this who shouldn't. I'm getting a better password protector on this site very soon, so it should be good. I found there was a very obvious loophole as to how to get into this site. I have had a very boring weekend so far. On Thursday, I went to Dorney Park with my Youth Group. I took Heather along. We had a great day. We were there from 10:30 until 9. It was fun. And it wasn't too hot. Mmm...cold pizza is good.
(6/26/00) Entry #32 First of all, I'd like to say: Happy belated two month anniversary to you, Heather. I forgot to say that yesterday. Today is my last day here at Patrick's house. This is such a crazy week. I come home from Patrick's tonight, sleep at home and then I go to Kyle's house on Tuesday night but we aren't going to sleep because we have to leave his house at 3:30 in the morning to go to church. We have to leave the church and drive to Baltimore Int'l. Our flight leaves at 6:20 am. What a drag. So, it's totally pointless to sleep before we leave. We'll just sleep on the way there and on the flight. Umm...yeah...I hope to have a bunch of pictures from this trip to St. Louis. I'll be there until July 2nd. So I doubt that the journal will be updated unless there is like a computer cafe there or something. That'd be cool. Ok, well I'm done I think. 8 is my favorite number.
(6/29/00) Entry #33 Hey hey everyone. Right now, I am in St. Louis at a youth gathering. There are about 21,750 youth here. It's really cool. They have a station with about 30 or so laptops for people to do whatever they want. So, I emailed a couple people and now I am doing this. Last night, when I finally went to bed, I had been awake for about 39 hours. It was insane. I will be here until sunday (7/2). I don't know if this will be updated again before then. I hope it will, but I can't guarantee anything. Hmm...what to say. I don't know. I had a lot to say in my emails, but I don't remember any of it. Oh yeah, on the flight, there was this flight attendant named Bryan. We called him "Bryan with a Y" and would make a limp wristed guesture (not to his face, obviously). He was quite a flamer. When JR Reis wanted his coffee black, Bryan said: "you can have your coffee however you want, honey." HONEY?! That is definitely flamer material. At the mall, we went to Hooters for dinner. It was good food, but it wasn't very good service. Today at the mall, I bought a necklace and a ton of sour stuff. Ranging from Too Tart pump sour liquid to War Heads hard candy. I can't get enough sour stuff. I love it. Well, I am going to go. Oh yeah, I'm going to ask a favor of you guys. If you know Devin Kipple's email address and/or Screen Name, that'd be a big help...well, I'm outta here. OH yeah, i almost forgot, when I get back. Look for big updates in at The list page. There will be lots of pictures and stuff. Until then...I'm outt here.
(6/30/00) Entry #34 This is day number 3 of my stay in St. Louis. I haven't done anything yet today. Me and my friend Kyle and Nick are skipping out on some Breakfast club thing downstairs where they are singing and stuff. They have nice comps upstairs, so that's what we are doing. If I get a chance this afternoon, I might put more into this journal to tell you about my day. The weather has been really really nice. I thought it'd be really hot and humid since we are further south and west. But I don't know. We went to the Arch yesterday (did I tell you that already in yesterdays journal?...I don't know). Hmmm...None of my buddies are online. I wish I had someone to talk to. It is 9:40 central time that means it is 10:40 at home...where is everyone?! People are usually online by now. Oh yeah, I got my nails painted metallic blue yesterday. "Why?" you might ask. The answer to that is: "Because I can". There is this thing at the dome called "The beat" where there is a ton of stuff to do. They have some tables with nail polish so my friend Jen did it for me. It looks kinda fruity, but I don't give a crap. Well gotta go, i'll update soon.
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It is now 5:10 central time and it is showering outside. Today was kinda boring. We ate lunch at Arby's cuz we are getting cheap. We got the 5 for 5.95 deal. It was pretty good. Then we walked around the mall. I got a Phish CD, Kyle got a Van Halen CD, and Jen got new shoes. Then, we went to the other mall to see if there was anything to do. It got to be 4:00 and I was like "Holy Crap!!!" We had to go to at least one workshop today, and we all totally forgot about it. So we rushed to the metro and got there with a half an hour left to go in the workshop/seminar. We went to this thing where people would talk about pottery and their faith. Something dumb that we could just say we went to a seminar. That was pretty much our day, except for sneaking away this morning and going to morning worship. Not a very eventful day. My battery in my camera died today. I was really mad. I had just put in a new roll of film and it dies on me. Now, I gotta waste my money on a disposable. I hate disposables. They suck. Ok, now I'm talking about things that you don't care about, and neither do I. I'm done for today. email me.
(7/1/00) Entry #35 Well, today was a pretty cool day...cuz Jen Hilliar was not with us today. It was me, Kyle, Brad, JR, and Zack. We went to the Old Spaghetti House. It was really good. Me and JR went to the arcade. When we were in the arcade, Kyle spit in JR's drink, slobbered on his sausage, and chewed up his salad and put it back. You couldn't have noticed though. It was very stealthy. After lunch, we went to the mall. I bought a shirt for heather and we were at the arcade for a while. While at the arcade, the same thing happened that happened yesterday. We wanted to leave at 3:30 so we had time to get to a workshop. Well, I looked at my watch at 4:05 and I was like: Crap! We got to our workshop at about 25 after 4...there were guys playing guitars. And then they stopped playing about 5 minutes later. We were like...yo, isn't this supposed to go till 5? Then it was explained to us that no one showed up, so they just played music instead of talked which was cool. So we had an easy day. And every bit of free time we have, we are always on the computers here. All of us guys, excluding a few, are computer junkies. It's so cool...all of these comps fly. I'm outta here.
(7/2/00)Entry #36 I got home at 7:30 eastern time. I look like crap. I haven't shaved since tuesday night. My voice is going. I have a sore throat. I had a good time. I'm tired. The end.
(7/6/00) Entry #37 Well, I am certainly in a better mood than the last entry. But I'm still tired. I just got home from a long 8 1/2 hour day at my new job. I now work at Bugle Boy Outlet at Rockvale Square. I'm making much better money than I would be at Coleman's or Ledo. They're paying me 6.75 to start. Nice. I really dont have a whole lot to say...sorry folks. "Folks"...I'm sounding like Mr. O and Corl. Jeez. I'm so glad I don't have to put up with O any more. Pictures of St. Louis will be up soon. If they are any good. I'm also making some animations about the things that there weren't pictures of.
(7/8/00) Entry #38 Today was a loooonnggg day. I'm a little not right in the head right now...I'm chillin'...and i'm feelin' fine..heh heh. Please Leave a message after the beep...haha you can't leave a message yet...there was no beep. hehe. Okay...nufa dat. I had to work at Bugle Boy this morning, and then at Ledo this evening. It was crazy. Don't like ledo...I wash dishes..but i'm done there. I will miss Kenny. I almost lost my bike today. Greg Zittle took it... I let him...I found it back at the pool...I'm outta here...Don't feel like talking.
(7/9/00) Entry #39 I am a stupid person. I am a fuck up. I hurt people. I am bad. I learned a very powerful lesson today. Guilt is a powerful tool. It helps you realize how stupid you can be. Especially if you are able to look back on what you did. I, for one, am not going to be stupid anymore. If you have no idea what I am talking about, read the previous journal entry (#38)...and if you have no idea why I feel so bad, then just forget reading the rest of this. Stupid me, I email my girlfriend and tell her what I did. Well, at first, I thought it was stupid...but now, looking back on it, I'm glad that I told her. It allowed her to come out with her feelings on "the matter" and her anger allowed me to look inside myself and see what I was doing to myself and other people. Doing drugs is the worst thing you can do. I think it hurts the people around you 10 times more than it hurts yourself because your friends watch you screw yourself over with pointless substances. And that's a bad thing. I would like to apologize to everyone again. If you didn't catch my first apology, catch it here. Anyway, I am sorry for what I have done to my friends, even though most of you don't know what happened. So basically this is an apology for Heather. Heather, I am sorry for lying to you. I told you that I was clean and then I go out and fuck myself up. I wasn't thinking. I know you didn't want to make me feel miserable, but I'm glad you did. It helped me see how dumb I was. I am very sorry. I know you've heard me say it a hundred times, but those hundred and one times will never make it perfect. I'm sorry (102 times!)...oh and don't worry, I'm outta my mood. Let's just drop it.
(7/11/00) Entry #40 Wow, I'm really doing a good job at keeping up with my journal! Today pretty much just sucked. Nothing more, nothing less. My mom had to drop me off at work an hour and a half early because she had a lunch to go to. So I had to hang around the outlets before I could go to work. Then I worked. I got to work with Kenny. It was fun. I have to go now, I wanna eat my dinner...even though it is almost 10pm. G'Night.
(7/13/00> Entry #41 Today was a good day. I went to Heather's today. I am happy. I can't tell you why because I'd have to kill you. I'd guess about three people know what I'm talking about, one of those people being me. I didn't do much more besides going to Heather's house except mow the lawn and take a shower. I don't really have much to say. Cheers to your health I guess.
(7/14/00) Entry #42 Oh god, oh jeez, oh crap, oh no. (Quote from American Pie). This is the worst friday night of my LIFE!!!! As many of you did or didn't know, Heather was on birth control pills. Well guess what? Today, her mom found them. And she has threatened to call my mom too. This is bad. This is very bad. But the pills haven't been "put to use" so I really don't have much to worry about (I hope). They were more of a "just-in-case" kinda thing. The subject had come up and we decided to be safe just in case. But I think heather's mom is taking it in the direction that her little girl has been knocked up by a mean man (me). Her mom used to adore me...and now I am looked down upon like a pile of shit. I want to apologize to her mom, but I don't know what to apologize about. I need your guys' input, even though very few of you read this anymore. I think the only thing that I could apologize to her about is lying. We lied and said that we were going to the movies when we were really going to Planned Parenthood to get the pills. I don't know what else to apologize about. I don't even know what all she knows or doesn't know. This is bad. Very bad. I know some of you have "told me so", but I don't listen to people.
(7/15/00) Entry #43 If you really wanna know, just email me at [email protected] or [email protected] or talk to me on my IM at cookeezzncreem. I don't feel like writing...just ask me.
(7/16/00) Entry #44 Today was pretty cool. Ryan Reese had a "pool party" at his aunts house. It was me, Reese, Jason Corrado, and Mike Sharir. It felt good to go out with the guys. I haven't seen any of them since the school year ended. Working really sucks up a big chunk of your life. Yeah, so we were in the pool for a while, then we played Killer Instinct and Mario Brothers on Super Nintendo. I haven't played super nintendo in like four or five years. It was good to go back. I used to play it at Kyle Cochrans house all the time. I really shouldn't write my journals before the day is over because other things can happen. Heather might come over tonight, I don't know. I have to get money and run down to blockbuster to get a movie. Well, I'm gonna go now. I guess. Later. Hey, I want you people to start emailing me. I need people to talk to besides the usual few. (you know who you are). I'm out.
(7/17/00) Entry #45 Today my mom spontaneously decided that we were taking a day trip to Philly. It was kinda cool. Meghan, my sister, brought a friend, and I brought Heather. The downstairs sucked, it was a bunch of boring fossils. But the upstairs was pretty cool. There were stuffed animals (not like the ones you slept with when you were a kid) and stuff. There was a mummy there and Heather thought it was pretty cool. Then I told her that it was real (which it was, it said on the plaque of info) and she started getting grossed out. She kept bringing it up on the way home. She wouldn't let it go. She even emailed me about something, and in the middle of the email she said a sentence about how creppy it was and then went back to what she was talking about. I think she liked the mummy...on the inside she did. Ok, I'm just being dumb now. That was pretty much all my day. And I went to Marrone's. That was all.
(7/20/00) Entry #46 Well, it's official. The moving date is set for August 6th. It's going to be very hard for me. Before, I just kept thinking, "oh, I have time...august is far away." But now, that the date has been set, August is fast approaching. When the school year starts, I will still update my webpage. I'm not sure quite yet if I will have two totally different pages (one to keep the CV folks updated and one for the Perrysburg people) or if I will integrate the two. I'm thinking of going with the latter for two reasons: 1.)This page looks good and has stuff on it that I need 2.) The Perrysburg (The High School that I'll be going to) people can see what my "life" was like before I came to Ohio. Or at least my life according to February and after. It'll also be a lot less work for me to just keep on managing this page. I talked to a memeber CVFreak clan, and he said that they'd probably be able to keep my page posted on student sites. If not, I'll talk to them again. I have to go now. Bye.
(7/21/00) Entry #47 Today was probably the most boring day of my life. And I am going to share it with you. I was online for some of the day. Then my mom made me get off. My friend Patrick was not home, I have no idea where he was...so we couldn't hang out. And my girlfriend, Heather, was at her friend Joanna's house, so I couldn't hang out with her either. I didn't feel like watching TV, and I already listened to my music. I was so bored, that I went outside and layed down on the grass. Right out in the front yard. That's how bored I was. I layed there for about 20 minutes. Then I sat in the chair that we have outside our front door for about half an hour. Just collecting my thoughts. I found that sitting outside helped me relieve some of my stress. I've had some stress about moving that I didn't know that I had. I don't get stressed often, so when I am stressed, I don't even know it. Enough about stress, the word is losing it's meaning every time I type it now. Stress. Then, I went to work. I found food lying around so that was good. It was able to hold me over till I got home. I have to go eat soon. I usually eat my breakfast at 10:00 or later at night. I'm weird. That was pretty much my entire day. Today was Becca's 6th birthday, so there was wrapping paper, cardboard, and toys lying all over the house. It's a mess. Later!
(7/24/00) Entry #48 Well, it has been a couple day since I've updated all of you on the events of my life. Haha. What events? Really, all I've done is worked. And worked some more. I hardly get to see Heather anymore. Before I worked this much, I used to go to her house and the pool almost every day. Now, I have don't have time for anyone anymore. And that's bad because my existence here in Lancaster county is rapidly winding down. I move August 5th. Luckilly I will be getting off work 2 days early, so one of those days I will probably go to Heathers. You all are probably complaining about how boring this journal has been lately. Well sorry, I can't help having a boring life. Maybe it'll liven up (yeah right) when I get to ohio. It probably won't get interesting until the school year starts. But I don't care. Well, I am going to go join my boring life again. Bye.
(7/25/00) Entry #49 Today was the same old same old. Went to work. Blah. The only thing that was different about tonight was that I went to Taco Bell after work. It was good. Seriously... NOTHING happened today! My days have been crappy. Tomorrow will be a little better...I'm going to Hershey Park. So hopefully I'll have something to talk about. I got a hair cut today. That's the only other event. Man, my life is getting suckier and suckier as moving time moves closer. I'm gonna go. I have to get up early tomorrow. Night all.
(7/27/00) Entry #50!!! Yes, I have reached my 50th entry. That's crazy! It's a golden Oldie!! OK guys, I'm going to tell you about yesterday because I didn't have time to write about it last night. Yesterday I went to Hershey Park with my friend Nicole. You might be thinking "Man, was a crackhead! It was RAINING yesterday!" Well, my friends, it was raining here in Lancaster, and on 30 on the way to Hershey. But it didn't rain while we were there. It was awesome. It was showering a little bit as we got to the ticket booth, but the rest of the day, it was just cloudy with an occaisional sprinkle, but not enough to keep people away. So it was cool. And pretty crowded for a rainy day too. Around 8:30 or so, I was on that sky ride thing that goes no where with Nicole. On our way back, I saw all the lights in the park go dim for a second, and the park became quiet. That's because all the roller coasters had come to a halt. I don't know where they stopped though. I only know that the superdooperlooper stopped just before going down a hill. All the rest of the rides were fine, but the coasters had to wait about 15 mintues or so before they were up and running again. It was kinda funny. Well, I'd write some more if I had some more time and if my arm didn't hurt. I don't know why my arm is hurting me just from typing. I dunno. Okay, maybe I'll write tonight if anything exciting happens. (yeah right, exciting day at work...yeah...)
(7/29/00) Entry # 51 Today was a long day. I worked from 9-5. There were these two new girls, Brenda and Glenda. They are twins. I got to know Brenda most of today because she wanted to help me with register. She's really cool. Then from work, I went directly to Heather's 16th birthday party. Well, she's 16 tomorrow, but close enough. Yeah, it was pretty fun. Heather has this round picnic table in her backyard. We had like 9 people on it. Then Gerry came. About a minute later you hear CCCCRRAAAAACCKKK!!!! The entire seat on the picnic table snapped and fell backwards about 30 degrees. It was funny. Everyone got up off the table. But I didn't care. The table was still sturdy enough. So I just continued to sit there. It was funny. Alright. I'm done for the night. 'Night all.
(7/30/00) Entry #52 Okay guys. Today ummm...sucked. It was just not a fun day for me at all whatsoever. Well, it was a little bit. But it coulda been a hell of a lot better. Today, I went to church...normal stuff. I get home, and my mom makes me weed wack. So I did. But not good enough for my mom. So I had to got back over some parts and do some parts that I didn't do before. I was exhausted. So I laid on my bed. My mom comes in my room and she was like "My car could use a good washing...or you can straighten up your dresser to start packing. So I was like...yeah...and fell asleep for 3 hours. I wake up to the phone and it is patrick, asking me if I wanted to go to the pool. I said that I was waiting for Heather to call me cuz we were gonna go. Truth be told...I had been waiting for her to call while I was asleep. So, I called Heather, and she had just gotten home about 10 minutes ago, and her mom was asleep so she'd meet me at the pool. So i go with patrick and my dad said that I had to go home at 6:30...that didn't give me a whole helluva lotta time. So Heather got there and I told her that I had to leave at that time. So she left like 15 minutes later. It totally sucked. I hate when I only get to see her for a little bit. It's like a waste of a day. Then I was hanging out with patrick after dinner. That was ok. I'm gonna go.
(7/31/00) Entry #53 The second part of the day was much better than the first. The first part of the day was not fun. I had to fix all the broken window panes. And I had to do something else. And I had to mulch the garden. That was the crappy part of the day. The good part of the day came in the afternoon. I went to the mall with Alison Gordon and Laura McCloud. We went to a whole bunch of stores. After the mall, we went to Toys R Us. We played around with a lot of the toys. There is this awesome scooter they have there. Instead of the standard one thing you stand on on the scooter, there are two of them...one for each foot. It's awesome! I was riding that around the store for like 10 minutes. It was fun. People were giving me funny looks, but I didn't care. After that, we went to Laura's house and I ate dinner. After Laura's house, we went to Dutch Wonderland and got "I Love Intercourse" keychains. They didn't have any good Intercourse shirts. I was bummed. That was my day. Then I came home and started typing to you all.
(8/4/00) Entry #54 (coyote ugly comes out today....August 4th...the hottest day of the year...yeah right, it's nice out today for a change). Sorry I haven't written for a couple days guys...things have been a little hecktic around here...you know, moving and all. Right now I am trapped in my little sister Becca's room because there are boxes in front of the door. But that's ok, cuz I have the laptop and there's no way I can do any jobs around the house cuz I have no way of getting out of the room. So, I'm in quite a "predicament." haha. Tomorrow we ship out at about 8 or 8:30am. I am probably going to have to jog to heather's house because the movers are taking the bikes today. So that's gonna be loads of fun. And patrick broke his bike, so I can't take his. Jeez. I start band camp in Ohio this monday. So I don't know how much I will be writing. I think I'll still be writing because band camp ends at 3pm. But the bad things is that it starts at 7:30am. That blows so bad. That's like a whole freakin school day. Actually, I think band camp was like that back here too...just at different times. Hmmm...I don't know. You all don't wanna hear about it any way. I'm outta here.
(8/6/00) Entry #55 Well everyone, I am now an official resident of Ohio. We got here about 8:30pm last night. I drove for about 7 hours. Not straight, but 3 hours and then 4 hours. I was starting to lose it in the last 45 minutes of the trip. My back hurt and stuff, and my neck hurt. Haha...speaking of my neck, while I was driving, I put my head down just for a split second. My mom gasped cuz she thought I nodded off at the wheel. It looked like I did...it was funny. I made some "traffic allies" while out on the road. And there were some people that i just wanted to tear up. I think those of you who drive know what I'm talking about and can relate. If not, maybe I'm just a crazy ass. Yeah. I don't have much to talk about cuz I haven't done much around here. Umm...hopefully I'll make some friends at Band camp. If not tomorrow, then sometime this week. I'll talk about them in later entries. Hopefully, I'll be able to get their pics up if they give them to me.
(8/7/00) Entry #56 Today was a simple day. I woke up at 6 (ugh) and got ready to go to band camp. Then I was at band camp from 7:30-3. Acutally, we finished up early so he let us go. I don't remember what time. Maybe like half an hour early. It was cool. Band is so much easier than it was at CV. At CV they have drill charts, and you move all over the field making pictures and stuff. Here at Perrysburg, we move across the field as a unit and we don't do pictures. It's insanely easy and I know all you band geeks out there at CV envy me. You would envy me even more if you saw the simple show. Umm...band was pretty much my day. Band, and then coming home and hooking up the comp. The guys who are here, the moving guys, are pretty funny. There is one who is really funny and he jokes around and talks to us. They're a lot cooler than the movers that took us out of our houses. They spoke spanish and not very good english. So, they were no fun. I made some friends today at Band camp too. I don't know a whole lot about them yet. That's about it.
(8/8/00) Entry # 57 Today was just like yesterday for the most part. I made a few more friends today at Band. Mandy and Rachel. Oh, I just realized I didn't tell you the names of my other friends. I only told Heather. Well, I don't feel like telling you. But I'll tell you about the friends that I make from here on. When I got home, my sister introduced me to her friends' brothers. They are all pretty cool. No geeks or anything. They are kinda like me. Well, maybe not as wild, I'm not sure yet. They are all going to be Juniors. This one kid, CD, likes to snowboard too. Maybe I'll get to go snowboarding with him this winter. That'll kick ass. The other kid, I don't remember his name, lives in Canada except in the summer. And the other kid, I don't know his name either lives two houses down from me. I didn't get to know him that well because he had to go to work like 15 mintues after I got there. At night, I went to play basket ball with the guys. I sucked. I only made 3 shots. I have footwork, but that's it.
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