Monday
12-13-04
Feeling: Insanely pleased with life
Listening to: Nothing, it's 4 in the morning and Dave's sleeping...
Well what's there to say really other than that I figured it would be fun to restart my website. I haven't messed with this in over a year! Blah, it'll be fun for a while, who knows how long I'll be able to keep it updated. Probably less than a week, but oh well! Attempted journals are always fun, and YAY for HTML and cool pictures! The last couple days have just been too awesome to NOT write about. I've been having so much fun playing games with the guys, hanging out with Kymberlee, getting to know Amanda (who by the way is AWESOME!!!), and overall not doing bad in my classes either. Got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach I haven't felt in a while... It makes me happy. ^_^ Well I think I'm going to head off to bed, if anyone reads this, let me know what you think about my site!
Tuesday
12-14-04
Feeling: Great mood
Listening to:The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
Wow, who thought things could get even better? The other day I had to leave the room on account of Dave's girlfriend coming over. I was gladly taken in though by Amanda, we watched Inuyasha for a few hours/napping. It was really really comfy. :) She's got some really really cool manga. I've never really wanted to learn Japanese MORE than I do now. The fact that I know like NO Japanese just annoys me now. Oh well, soon enough. Well then after we watched Inuyasha/cuddled for 3 hours ^_~... then she had to work. Talk about time messing with your head. The previously mentioned 3 hours FLEW by, then she had to work for 3 and I thought it would just never happen. UGH! Oh well, I went and got a Mountain Dew from the cafeteria where she was working and said hi to tide me over for a while. I don't know what it is, I've never even THOUGHT about liking some one who likes video games and anime and stuff, because they've never really appaeled to me. I don't know why, but I've never really thought about it.... until now. I can't believe it never occured to me! Like some one who likes the same stuff as you! DUH! You both enjoy whatever it is your doing instead of taking turns having fun doing stuff. We play Halo for a few hours and she wants to keep playing longer than me! :P I wish this concept would have came to me sooner! Oh well, I'm glad whatever happened to bring me to this situation happened, because I'm having the time of my life right now. Well anyways, after she got off work we hung out over here playing Halo, a few games of Sorry, and watched a movie and stuff for the rest of the evening until we then got booted from the room again for Dave's private time. haha. Oh well, he's entitled to it, he's very accomodating to me most of the time, I can let him have his moments. It's only fair. Well anyways, then me and Amanda went back to her place and sat around and did nothing for like 2 hours, and it was still great. Knowing to myself that enjoying her company even when there's nothing going on, nothing entertaining, that moment really confirmed it for me that I really like this girl. Well when it came time, I had to depart. So I walked back, let myself in quietly without waking up Dave or Shauna, and crashed on my bed. I would say all in all, that was a really great day, and I hope I'm lucky enough to get more and more of them.
Wednesday
12-15-04
Feeling: Ultra Super!
Listening to:Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch
Man, today was awesome, I had my psych test at 3:30 and I feel like I did awesome on it! I studied for about two hours right before hand and I think it seriously paid off. Dave left for home and messaged me later to confirm that he's home safe. After my test I talked with Mandy online for a while and then realized I had no change for laundry, which I desperately need to do, so I invited her to join me to go the the union for change, and I can't get change without using some of it on DDR, so we did two rounds each. I never realized how much fun DDR can be when you're playing it with a really cute girl who doesn't hesitate to give hugs right after every song! :) During that time or on the walk back, I forget the details, they're not important, but I distinctly received the compliment of cute and then the more interesting compliment of hot... Needless to say the pretty girl in the pink shirt got a good number of hugs which were well earned! ^_~ It feels good to be with some one who compliments me when I'm not even doing anything to try to receive one. I just hope I make her feel just as good, which is a tall order, but I'm trying my best. Then we came back to my room to eat some dinner and I tossed in a movie. She chose the Punisher and I just smiled and pushed play... :) Some time either right before the movie, or right after, I forget exactly because it's not important, but I received the best question in my life. "So how long are you going to wait before you kiss me?" *gulp* Now THERE'S an opening! Now that was all I needed. Girls, whoever's reading this, that is one hell of a move. Nothing will get a guys confidence higher. I mean, I contemplated it, but it was just going to be a peck on the cheek thing as a good night. :) She makes me very VERY happy. After the movie we attempted to play MarioKarts, but I couldn't find my second GameCube controller, so instead we played a little Donkey Konga, which was fun. Then she reminded me that I, Robot came out yesterday and I hadn't gotten it like I had wanted, so we walked over to Target and I picked it up and we returned and watched it. I fell alseep like twice through it b/c the cold/warm/cold/warm all day was draining me. She sure made for a really good pillow though. I was out cold for a while. She said some one knocked on the door or something, but I didn't care, I was busy off in heaven for the time being. Whoever was at the door can come back later. The evening ended then after I, Robot becuase we agreed that it would be wise for her to get a good nights sleep to study for her CORE test tomorrow. I'm done with my tests so I can stay up as long as I want! :P I was told not to stay up late though... We'll see what happens. If I DO stay up later it'll be because I'm doing my laundry. That reminds me! I found my pair of pants I had been missing but never mentioned to anybody out of fear of being called a dumbass... Yeah, they were in a heap in the bathroom... I'm going to wash them multiple times before I wear them of course, but they seem to be ok. Well now here I am with this laundry haunting my thoughts, and not much else to do right now, so here's to being productive! I'm out.
Thursday
12-16-04
Feeling: Very content
Listening to:The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
Today Amanda had her CORE final and studied all day for that, and then after that started on studying for her Comp Pol final. So I've spent the day making random trips to Lank buying mountian dew and spending money on my meal card. So I've been playing video games, drinking mountain dew, and watching a movie on and off in the background all day. I really don't mind, now and again it's really nice to just be on my own and really get into a game or movie/nap. This last week has got to be the most comfortable I've been with life in general in a very long time, and I owe it all to my friends and Amanda. Dave left yesterday for home and so I've been all on my own since then, but I'm not at all lonely because there are friends everywhere. I've nearly beaten Pikmin 2 completely now, and I played some of Dr. Robotic's Mean Bean Machine. Around 6ish Kymberlee, Megan, and my Amanda and I went to Dynasty Buffet and had a real good meal. It was a bit spicier than usual and that was to my distaste, but overall it was still a very good dinner. Amanda's MUCH better at using chop sticks than I am. I didn't even bother attempting tonight, I was a little too worried about looking like a goof, so I didn't bother. She got me to try these round fruit thingies that I always avoided because I didn't know what they were, and I really liked them! ^_^ It was great. After we ate I took her back to her room so she could continue to study for her Comp Pol test. Being as how I used to be in the class I'm glad she's studying so hard for it, I know she's going to do great. She's really smart and she doesn't let things distract her from her work. She should do fine, but in the mean time, these video games sitting here starring at me aren't going to play themselves, so I'm out for now, might make another entry later depends if there's anything more worth writing about today... ~_^
Well after she studied more Amanda came back over and brought Naruto with and we watched the first four episodes, which I loved. I'm definatly going to download some of that for myself, the characters are hilarious. I liked the outfits that they wore and the ninja headbands they used, they were cool. I told Amanda that I needed her phone number, address, and a picture of her before she leaves, and I stated it rather bluntly, nearly demandingly b/c I thought it would be funny to see how she reacted, instead of what I expected like almost a "woah woah woah..." kind of response I just got kind of a "you first." She's so cool. Whenever I do something to either kind of surprise her or catch her off gaurd she always has one up on me. I love it. So tomorrow she takes her last test. I promised to help her pack and get ready to leave for home. I hope there will be some way I can visit her over break. It's not THAT far of a drive. I think I could do it as long as my parents let me. I'd have to convince them to let me have the car for the trip and what not, but I think they wouldn't mind. I just hope it won't be misconstrued as a rude gesture to come over during the holiday season without having previously met any of them. Her sister sounds interesting. I'd definately like to meet her, after seeing the picture of the whole dress/sunglasses/video game make over. That just defines a person's character right there. Gotta like some one who'll do that. Reminded me of when my room mate Dave walked in on me in my nintendo pj pants, no shirt, my spidey necklace was on as usual, sunglasses, blaring vanilla ice and reading my comics. He mercifully didn't take a picture though. Looks like I'm going to have to watch my lounging habbits around Amanda unless I want them to be known to the world. :P Being as how she's probably reading this I'd just like to say that I don't do that too often...
Friday
12-17-04
Feeling: A little sad, but glad to have a reason for said feeling
Listening to:The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
So this morning, early early early this morning, before I even went to bed for the night, I went to Wal-Mart and got Amanda some flowers. There was no way this girl who has been so awesome in the last week was going to get away from me without getting flowers. So she went to take her test around 8, and she said she thinks she did great, so I'm glad we kind of rationed our hanging out so that she could study as much as she needed to. She's really responsible. Oh and she wore this red shirt today that just looked wonderful. I mean, seriously stunning on her. Anyways, before she got back from her test I went to the book store with Kymberlee to sell my books. I sold everything I wanted and got like 21 bucks. I was kind of dismeyed but then remembered that I forgot my calc book. So I planned to sell that one later. Well after I gave her the flowers and heard about her test and stuff, we hung around her room for a while. She was packing, while I puttered around. I started to read one of her manga's, but I fell asleep and supposedly got my picture taken while I was out... grrrr... Oh well, there are worse things, I just hope I didn't drool or anything. I was woken up in the most pleasant of manners with a warm comforting hug, and we decided it was time for lunch. So her room mate, and across the hall neighbor accompanied the two of us to lunch. After lunch we went to my room to hang out, but decided to go to sell my calc book together before we got into a movie or game or anything. So I sold my calc book which was worth 28 bucks giving me 49 total which I'm happy to receive. Well then we walked back and played some Burn Out 2 and she proceeded to kick my ass. (what else is new) ^_^ Then we watched as much Naruto as we could before her sister called. We headed back over to her room to carry stuff out to her car. Since it wasn't my stuff and I wasn't carrying everything, I was trying to think about it really hard, and for the life of me, I don't remember whether or not she remembered to take the flowers I got her... -_- Oh well, I'll make sure to ask when I talk to her next just to double check. Well we said our goodbyes, had ourselves a real nice goodbye kiss, (saw fireworks during this one) and that was that. I then headed over to my brother's place where he, my mom, dad, sister, Gavin and Erin (house buddies), and I had a spectacular spaghetti dinner and egg nog milk shakes for dessert. It was really fun just sitting around and talking with them about school and stuff. I told them as much as I could about Amanda, and just wished she could've stayed to be there with me. After dinner I went back to my room with my parents, packed, and now I'm home. I set up a nice anti-dog zone in the corner for my computer and everything. I had fun making my little fort. I think it should hold up quite nicely until I leave again for the dorms. All I can really think about right now is how awesome it would be to go visit Amanda and meet all her friends and just spend time with her without having any homework or studying hanging over her or my head. This C-Girl she talks about all the time seems like a character, I'd like to meet her. Aparently I've been told Amanda has been demanded by her to inroduce me to her. ^_^ I wonder what she tells them about me... All I know is that it doesn't seem bad, so I'm happy. Well I'm getting tired, so I'm off to go dream about...
Saturday
12-18-04
Feeling: Tired
Listening to:Sonic the Hedgehog - Mystic Cave Remix
Well today I worked from 8-3 but work is always super fun for me, so I was really glad to have the hours. I haven't been doing so good on selling my subscriptions lately, the Christmas season usually doesn't help me. The customers that usually are interested in that whole deal mostly buy used games, and used games aren't as popular during Christmas. My reservation numbers have been kinda crumby too lately b/c there aren't any really cool games coming out any time soon that I'm particularly excited for. I can't get hyped up over a game I don't care about. That makes it hard to get reserves. but after work I went to my cousin Brian's house, picked him up and came back here where we played Halo 2 for a while until he got all pissy b/c I beat him so badly. Then we just puttered around on some new games I got. Alien Hominid, Smash Bros Melee, WarioWare, and Animal Crossing. Made for a fun evening. After he left I got on the computer when I hear Amanda's aim jingle I set up. Talking with her made the rest of the day seem like nothing... ^_^ I got to talk with C-Girl too. She seems much more spastic than Amanda, but tons of fun. I'm really really really really looking forward to Tuesday. I asked my parents if I could visit and they said yes. I even get to stay the night so I can hang out with her even longer! Well we talked online for a while then I went to bed. It was a pretty good day.
Sunday
12-19-04
Feeling: Comfortable
Listening to:Supertramp - The Logical Song
Well today was simple. I woke up, I sat around, I went to work, I came back from work. I may have played a game or two or something, nothing I got really into, I just had a real comfy, slow, lazy day. I enjoyed work, it was Sunday so we were slow. Easy day, not much to really discuss. Oh yeah... I'M GOING TO AMANDA'S ON TUESDAY!!!! I can't wait!
Wednesday
12-22-04
Feeling: NEVER BETTER!
Listening to: My sister frying bananas at midnight... what a weirdo...
I just had the best two days I can remember! I had no idea Mandy was this awesome! I went to visit her and stayed overnight. She has three cats. Splash, Misty, and Tiger. I met her a bunch of her friends. Lets see if I can remember their names... There was C-Girl, Pyro, Darcy, Chelsey, Katie, Chase, Jess, and I think one more that seems to be escaping my memory, but they were all really fun, and makes me feel a lot better about introducing her to my friends since we both have the crazy type. Only worry I have is about any of my friends unintentionally hitting on her. I don't have many experiences with my friends and my girlfriends intermingling b/c of such things, so I hope it'll work out alright. I'm pretty sure it will. We've all grown up since I last had to deal with that and I doubt any problems would occur. Besides, Amanda's a big girl now, she can handle herself without any problems I'm sure. Before I left I went to the mall and got her an ID bracelet with an engraving "My Amanda." I thought it was really cute and I thought she'd like it. So I got her that for our weekish anniversary thing, but I couldn't wait til Wednesday and I gave it to her on Tuesday. I don't think she took it off the entire time I was there. XDDDDDDD The flowers I got her were there. The story goes that she DID forget them at first, but went back to get them... So I wasn't entirely inaccurate in how I remembered it, but I should've known better. She doesn't miss much. Well I also got her Karamari Damacy for the PS2 and she liked that way more than I expected. I didn't know she had already heard of it and seemed interested in it right off. So I'm glad my gifts seemed to hit right on target. XD She got me the first two volumes of Hellsing!!! Only catch is they're in all Japanese... grrrrr... She really knows how to motivate some one to learn. ^_^ I think we're both going to join Japanese club next semester. I usually don't join those things because a lot of the people that are in them tend to annoy me, but lately I've just been real easy going with stuff like that, and enjoying myself. I figure, if Amanda's in it, and I'm in it, and we both enjoy the subject matter, it'd take one hell of an annoying person to really bother me enough to not want to participate. Well anyways, she also got me the first volume of GTO which I'm about a fourth of the way through already, and loving it. God, we were hanging all over each other from beginning til end of my visit. It was so great. I already miss her. I mean, when school starts again it's going to be hard to PRY us apart most likely. Well yesterday and earlier today was mostly meeting her friends and some time together, which of course was super fun, (especially the time together part) then later today we went to Mitsuwa where she showed me SO many cool things. I got a bunch of Ramune soda, which is REALLY REALLY fun to open! I got some Koala Yummies, Pocky, something called Look which seemed good, and something else without an english or engerish name on it. :P They're mostly strawberry so can't really go wrong I figured, and only a dollar each. The Koala Yummies are currently going fast too... ^_^ She showed me all SORTS of awesome stuff there. She is just SO much fun to hang out with. I really hit the jackpot with her! She doesn't at all get annoyed with me playing video games, reading comics, or sitting at the computer for ungodly long times on end. Basically everything I have been known to do a lot. I can't believe how lucky I've been the last few weeks. She has no idea how happy she makes me. There's just no way to express it. Amanda, I hope you're reading this. You make me so happy every second of the time I spend with you. Being with you is unlike anything I've ever experienced. I hope we stay together a real long time.
Thursday
12-23-04
Feeling: ...like I have a million things around me to do, but still bored
Listening to: The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
Well today I woke up around 11 and felt like a million bucks when I woke up. I slept really well. Everyone was on their way out to go do some Christmas shopping together so I woke up just in time to see them all off and have my mom tell me to move the car which I parked along the side of our road last night b/c Laura's boyfriend was over and there wasn't any room in the drive way. Well as I try to pull the car onto the road it instead falls misserably and hopelessly into the ditch which I can not get it out of. So I call my dad, he doesn't seem too mad, and he tells me he'll come over some time during his lunch break to pull it out with his pickup truck. At times I almost think he enjoys doing that b/c it's his biggest toy at the moment. Well when he got here he was all smiling and chipper. Must've been having a pretty good day at the office with all the snow and stuff. He's an insurance agent by the way, so normally he gets busier with worse weather. He probably saw a lot of old friends/clients/family/friends of family long ago and whatever. He knows EVERYONE. So the more people he sees in a day the happier the guy is. Well anyways, he comes to pull me out of the snow and when I come outside again to help I find him in a rather grumpy mood. I ask "What's wrong?" He just replies "I can't find my favorite tow strap!" and continues puttering around the garage muttering to himself. He's a crazy guy. The fact that I put our own car nose first into our own ditch without any hope of getting it out aside from just yanking it out with his truck, doesn't get him mad at all, simply the loss of a "favorite tow strap." Mind you, I share these genes... There might NOT be any hope for me after all... haha, oh well, I don't mind. ^_^ Well after that was all sorted out, I was given snow blower duty as a reasonable balance to putting the car in the ditch. So I got that done and froze my ass off. Half way threw the whole anti-snow process my cousin Marcus came over who I used to hang out with ALL THE TIME, but since he went to college last year, and now I'm in college this year, we just don't see each other nearly as much as we used to. So I invited him to lunch, told him I'd pay if he drove being as how I hadn't had much luck with that so far that day. He agreed and I enjoyed some chicken noodle soup, chicken fingers, and fries for lunch and some great catching up with a good friend. :) I love being so close to family. It's like always ALWAYS being able to find a really good friend whenever you like. Well after lunch I came back here where I talked with my friend Mike on the computer for a little while before he invited me over. It was around 3. I had been planning to hang out with my friend Greg, but around that time that day remembered about my sister inviting me to a basketball game she got free tickets for for today. Greg didn't get off work til 4:30 and we had to leave for the game around 5, so I figured I'd hang out with Mike until I had to go to the game and give Greg a rain check. Wouldn't have been able to really hang out with Greg anyways. The game was a rare occasion that I wanted to take advantage of. So I hung out with Mike, we played a little Twisted Metal Black and some Smash Bros. where natually in both I evenly got my ass handed to me, but Mike has a way of making you like it, so I had fun. I then took my leave and picked up Laura to go to the game. The game was in Gary and the trip there and back were quite frightening. I went down 80-94 and then onto Broadway where it looked just like a warzone out of a movie. It was seriously one of the more frightening things I've ever done. We made it there and back without a problem, but not knowing exactly where I was I stopped to get gas right off of Broadway in the middle of Gary... I took a much bigger risk than I realized. I'm very glad nothing bad happened. Well the game was fun, the trip was interesting, and me and my sister had a good time. I wouldn't do it again though. I also would not recommend anyone else to go to a Gary Steelheads basketball game... I can, however, cross that off my list of things to do. (meaning never to do again ^_~) Well I came back here and relaxed the rest of the evening after having my parents talk my ear off about how dangerous Gary is and how good it USED to be and bad it is now and everything else I already know. While they were busy talking AT me I missed a message from Amanda. So I called her once I noticed it and we talked for a while. ^_^ Next time I definately think I'll just call her house phone from my house phone. The only reason I didn't was because I don't know how my dad would like the long distance call and me not knowing how long I was going to be on the phone. I get some special deal with it for my cell phone I think b/c he hasn't complained about it yet, and I use long distance on it all the time. Well my cell phone's reception makes me mad at times, it cut out on me in the middle of our conversation. grrrrr... Well after talking to her for a little while I sat down here, and here I sit. Probably going to go to bed soon, but not after playing some WarioWare. In either case I'm done typing for the evening...
Friday
12-24-04
Feeling: I don't like wrapping paper...
Listening to: Maroon 5 - This Love
Well I did the classic wake up at 11 thing today. It usually works well. Today was no exception. Woke up, oriented myself with a vehicle at least in time for work, and then went off for the day. Went to work and participated in the war against the STUPID people!!! Are people so dense they think they can actually get exactly what they want for Christmas while shopping places 10 minutes before they close on Christmas Eve?!?!? Why don't people plan ahead when it comes to things that you obviously NEED to do ahead of time?!?! Oh well, I can't controll people's shopping habits. On a lighter note I did much better at work than I have recently. I got three subscriptions which is really good. I didn't snag a single reserve though. That would've made one hell of a day at work. I would've been proud of myself. Then after work I went to my grandma's house like I do every year for dinner. She makes such AWESOME food! I ate my fill and watched tv with my cousins while discussing Valpo stuff with my one cousin Brad who works in Admissions there. The I went to church for candle light service, came home and talked with My Amanda for a little while. ^_^ She told me she'd call tomorrow b/c she can't NOT talk to her boyfriend on Christmas. XD She always seems to say just the right thing to make me feel my absolute best. Well after that would be now... And NOW I'm going to bed. Good night all and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!!!
Saturday
12-25-04
Feeling: Not in the best of moods
Listening to: AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
The day started off as all Christmases go. I woke up, things are happy, everythings fine. It was over all a great day really. I got two awesome sweaters that I'm sure I'll use a lot during the cold weather, a kickass iPod that I JUST got working now that it's like MIDNIGHT and I've been fiddling with it frusteratingly all day on and off, an oreo cookie jar complete with oreos ^_^ the movie Collateral which I enjoyed, and a Spy vs. Spy bobble head. I'm absolutely extatic with what I got for Christmas having not expected receiving HALF of what I got since my dad let me buy some games not that long ago on his credit card I figured there went half of my Christmas gifts, I guess the games were for the work in the room he said. I'm not complaining. Well after that my cousin Brian came over and we chilled for a little while before heading over to my aunt's house. She lives like not even 2 minutes away in the same subdivision. Well we get there and hang out with my other cousin Marcus, we're all within 3 years of each other. Marcus and Brian were always at odds for some reason though, they never really saw eye to eye. Just different people I guess. Well I get along famously with both of them, so we all played pool, and a little Smash Bros. After that we went upstairs to eat and about that time Brian left to go see his mom. I was planning on going over later, but I ended up falling asleep on the couch and then it just got to where it was too late to bother. I was also then RUDELY awakened by my little cousins all jumping on me at once b/c my sister thought it would be funny to tell them to. She's such a jerk sometimes and for no apparent reason. I had just eaten and felt like a nice comfortable digestion nap. Then my mom called me rude for sleeping! I've taken so many naps in that house...! It most definately was NOT taken by ANYONE as rude. If it was than I am sorry, but I must have missed that memo. Maybe some one just screwed up the cover sheet or something... All I know is I was woken up from a comfortable nap rather violently and with malicious intent behind it. I was NOT a happy camper for the remainder of the evening, and I knew I was cranky. So I asked if I could leave early to go home and go to sleep. All I get from my mom is "you won't sleep, you stay up until god only knows when and sleep so late in the day..." She's just saying all this crap in front of her sisters basically to tell a story and make her look like the good ol' nagging mother. She'll do that, she'll verbally punish me in front of them when she wouldn't normally give it a second thought. Normally she'd have found me thougtful to leave since I was being a little crabby. I thought it was the mature thing to do rather than leave a not so good impression of myself on my relatives. So much for that. I found my little cousin's new transformer toy, a corner, and sat down and played with it for about an hour. Those things are so cool. I don't remember the name of that one, but it was the semi truck with the trailer and stuff. It was really hard to figure out, but the thing turned into like 5 different things. I got 3 of them mastered, but couldn't figure out the other two. I let myself down. :( I used to be able to work those things like no body's business. I'm getting rusty. Oh well, after we left I came home and was about to fall asleep when Amanda calls. ^_^ That always makes me feel like a million bucks. My cell phone was acting up though so I couldn't even get to say my "good night cutie" to her. :( I hate cell phones (when they don't work right.) I can't wait to see her again! My cousin Marcus wants to meet her, he's going to a different New Years party than the one I had planned on going to, but I think I'll swing by there real quick just to say hi to everyone, and introduce (show off :P) My Amanda to him and all my friends. I don't think I'm going to stay there though, he hinted at some drinking, so I doubt I'll stick around. I don't want to degrade my vision of those people. If I ever see them drunk I'll never be able to see them the same way again, and I don't want to do that to myself. I also would NOT feel like a good boyfriend taking my new girlfriend to a party with alcohol. That's most definately NOT cool. My other cousin Brian is going to the party we ARE going to though. I'll be glad to show her off to him. I feel stupid, but everyone's heard so much about her b/c it's nearly all I talk about lately. ^_^ Zack will like to meet her too. He's who's having the party. It's going to be fun! I bet there's going to be plenty of Halo and lots of friends there. I can hardly wait. My only concern is his older sister. I think they might plan on drinking later as well. Besides, I think it would be more romantic to spend at least SOME of New Years with just me and her. *sigh* Well it's not for a week yet so I just have to wait. I work tomorrow some time. I'm not sure when. I forgot to look at the schedule. I'm kind of worried about it. If I work in the morning I'm going to be late. I'm planning on calling at 8. I don't even know for sure when they open. On Sunday's we usually open at 11, but for Christmas we've had really weird hours lately. Last Sunday was 8 - 9. Who knows... I'll just call at 8, and if no one answers I'll just call back every half hour. Sure it's a hastle, but it's my responsibility to know when I work and I didn't, so I'm going to have to. Baka... Thanks for teaching me Amanda!!! Good night.
Sunday
12-26-04
Feeling: Tired
Listening to: Nothing b/c I'm not having good luck with my music tonight
Woke up, went to work. People are stupid. People at work that say they've beaten games that were made without endings are stupid. People that more specifically tell me they've beaten every PS2 game I have in the draw are stupid. People that say they've beaten/mastered EverQuest II a week after it came out are stupid. Oh well, I prooved the jerk wrong to his face and made his friend laugh at him for being a stupid liar. My job is done. I don't like people that say they've beaten everything and are great at all games when they obviously aren't. I know I'm bad at some games. I get beaten in Smash Bros. on a regular basis with Amanda and her sister. Both take turns kicking my ass. That's half the fun! (unlocked Marth btw) Beating online games without endings is stupid. I knew the stupidhead was just saying he'd beaten anything I asked, so I asked about the Sims, an unending game, and EverQuest II an brand new mmorpg, which don't have ends. He said he beat them both, then explained how that's impossible and let his friends take over from there. What a goon. Well after work I went for pie with my cousin Brian. That's always a good way to end a day of work. Not that work is hard, but being the real world equivilant of the comic book guy from the Simpsons with video games gets hard at times. Need to keep the clever quips and cunning verbal wit on a constant high. Meh, well after pie we went to his house for a while and chilled watching funny short video clips from the internet. Just wasting time doing nothing. My buddy Zack got my Soul Calibur II and Metal Arms for the XBox. I have to check them out. They both looked real good. As far as fighting games though, I'm just a button masher. Smash Bros is the only fighting game I actually learned the moves for. I used to know Killer Instinct really well, but that's long out dated now. Well if I like it enough I might learn the moves to Soul Calibur. I haven't owned a fighting game since Killer Instinct on Super Nintendo, so who knows how I'll take to it. I might get into it. I might not. In either case Metal Arms will definately be fun. I always like simple platform/adventure games. Esspecially with quick witted robots. (Thanks Ratchet & Clank) Well after I came back home Amanda got on and we talked for a while. ^_^ <----- High point of my day. Then I went to bed.
Tuesday
12-28-04
Feeling: I miss My Amanda
Listening to: Anything I want to because I got my iPod working perfectly now! HAHA!
I totally got my iPod up and running without any problems now. The thing works great and I have my dad to thank for that. He convinced me that their website/links off of the site would have more information than any of the paper work that came with it. So I finally checked it out and low and behold everything I needed to know was there. It was complicated, but I got it working well. Too detailed to bother typing it all out, but ask me about it some time and I might be in a generous mood and share the story with you.^^ On Monday that was basically all I did. Today I woke up pleasantly to the sound of My Amanda getting online. Ahh, that happy little chime.^^ I hate waking up in the morning, but if it's done by the person you want waking you up, then it's not at all bad. I mean, even if I were just napping comfortably in my room and she were to sneak in and wake me up violently with a swift poke to the ribs I don't think I could do anything other than laugh and smile and maybe exclaim a "HEY!" But if some one ELSE did that, I would probably have their head. Well we talked for a little bit before she had to go. Then I got hungry for lunch and called my buddy Zack. He said he was broke. I said I would pay. So me and Zack went for lunch together. He owes me 6 bucks. No big deal. He's good for the money. Zack's my boy. I would lend him money til I didn't have any left. On the way out I called Brian again, who I couldn't get a hold of before leaving and he was already at this place Goody's for lunch with a neutral party/aquantace/friend type person Jeremy. He's pretty cool, and works at the other GameStop in the mall, but he goes to high school with Brian and we don't really know him. No sweat, the guys cool. We had lunch together and talked and shot the breeze for a while, then Brian and Jeremy took off. Zack and I finished our meal and came here for a while. We played City of Heroes for a while until he decided to go home and get online himself to play WITH me. It was fun for a while, but Zack dies a lot and then get's all whiny. So he quit after a while. He's much further in the game too, which is simply due to the fact that he plays it a LOT more than I do. I personally think I'm better at it. I die less often. He definately has more experience at the game though. Well after that I tooled around on my computer for a bit, watched a little of the news with my mom, and then got back on aim to see what my friends were up to. I talked with my buddies Tiffany and Alice for a while and we decided to go see a movie or something. We met up with Adam and his girlfriend Megan and saw the Aviator. I personally thought the movie sucked really really bad. It was like a documentary with no plot. It was not in the least bit entertaining unless you like watching occasion shots of planes, people slowly going crazy, or people repeating the same things over and over and over. Cause that's what it was. It had a cool LOOK to it. They captured the time period really well and I can appreciate that, but it wasn't entertaining to watch. It was like something you'd watch as an educational film at school. The ones you would complain about. Well after the movie we went to Steak and Shake since it was so late. The movie's 3 friggin' hours long too. So don't bother if you have a time limit. Well at Steak and Shake I have never seen worse service at ANY hour of the day either. It was like 12ish when we got there. So it wasn't in the unGODLY hours of the wee night yet. No excuse for how sucky it was though. The food wasn't bad. Just how long we had to wait to get served/receive the bill. It was rediculous. But I enjoyed listening to Adam complain about things and to hear the stories of his hospital stays gone bad. He's a funny guy. So then I took home Alice and Tiffany since I drove them, and went home, where I am now. The end. Fun day for me, but bottom line is this... I miss My Amanda. I haven't seen her at all in like a week. I really really miss her. Talking on the phone/computer might tide me over for about a SECOND. But I just need to see her soon so I can give her like the biggest hug I have to offer. *le sigh* The lonsome heart. See you soon Mandy...
Wednesday
12-29-04
Feeling: Sleepy
Listening to: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Midnight Special
Today was fun. I went shopping with Willer to Best Buy, GameStop, Barnes and Noble, and then to the mall. It was fun, we enjoyed ourselves. We brought along Brittany Wheet. She's cool from time to time, but she doesn't ever talk. It's almost as if she's not even there half the time. She'd be more fun if she were actually part of what was going on around her. Oh well. Well she tagged along. Didn't really change a thing. Well at Best Buy I found Anchorman and Shaun of the Dead, which were really funny. Shaun of the Dead was hilarious for anyone who likes Zombie movies, but probably wouldn't be much liked by too many others. I also got the newest volume of Ultimate Spiderman finally. I haven't read it yet, but I probably will tomorrow. I've been looking forward to it for almost half a year. It's got Carnage. The whole Carnage and Venom thing is my favorite villian scenario. I'm so psyched they did it in the Ultimate series. Well after we were done shopping and what not, we went our seperate ways for the evening. I retired to my family room nook where I watched all three of my movies. Half way through Boondock Saints I started up my City of Heroes game. I wasn't on for more than 15 minutes before My Amanda called me.^^ I was hoping she'd call. I didn't want to call her b/c I didn't know if it was too late by that point. I'm glad I got to talk to her today. I don't think I've missed a day talking to her since I visited.^^ At least I don't think so. What I do know is I'm pretty sure that today it'd be our two week anniversary. Well it really depends on when we technically actually started going out. We hung out for a while before we were actually going out. So a specific date is kind of hard to find. So I think it's safe to go by the day of our first kiss. Since that's what I'm going to do it would be two weeks today, b/c I remember that kiss, the day of that kiss, and exactly how it happened. My god that was a good day... December 15th... I think that'll be the day I go by. I'm like remembering dates. I find it fun to make special occasions. I'm pretty sure it goes you keep track of the first week anniversary of course, then the first month, third month, 6th month, then go by years after that. Meh, whatever, that's how I go about it at least. It's simple. Hopefully I'll have a chance to deal with each of those. ^_^ Well after she left I finished my movie and went to bed. It was a good day.
Thursday
12-30-04
Feeling: Tired from actually doing stuff all day and really excited that tomorrow I get to see My Amanda
Listening to: Nothing, I'm about to go to bed
So today I wake up and take the car to get the oil changed. We know there's some problems with it and the oil change people are going to identify them for us. Well after they do that, I took a trip to AutoZone to try to find the stuff needed to correct the problems. I couldn't. The problems are just going to have to wait. Nothing seemed to work out to my advantage with the car today. So I went to my dad's office to report the updates on the car's condition. He wasn't there and I was told he had gone to the hospital b/c of some blood pressure related problems and it sounded like he was in fairly bad shape today. I came home right away and saw he was sleeping. He slept for a while. I was really worried about him. He seems ok now, but who knows when it'll act up again. Our family has a history of serious blood pressure related problems. My grandpa on my dad's side died from it. All three of my uncles on that side have problems with it. My dad has problems with it. I most likely will have the same problems. Knowing that most people have genetic things that they're prone to like I am to high blood pressure, and people still drink and smoke?!? I just don't see why. There are enough problems I'm going to have to deal with naturally without totally screwing myself up in the process. These are the reasons why I don't plan on drinking or smoking ever. I don't see how people can through whatever health they have away so easily. Oh well. My dad seems fine now. He's probably going to be put on some medication to keep things in check. All in all he'll be fine. Just made him realize he's not in his 30's anymore. ... or his 40's for that matter. haha. Well after coming home and collecting myself, I started to clean things up. I picked up my entire nook in the family room and put most stuff away. I put it all in my room which I also cleaned up. It's currently being redone, so the floor was covered in wallpaper glue pieces and whatever tools were being used including a whole freaking ladder. So I picked up all the pieces of my room and made it some what presentable. The family room isn't my own personal pig stye anymore. It was fun while it lasted. I am definately not going to be surprised at any comments my mom or dad make about "how frantically I've been cleaning up for this girl," or how "god forbid 'this girl' would see how I really live. Meh. They'll meet her, and realize that it doesn't matter. She knows how I live. She's seen my room. I'm not trying to impress her. I'm not doing this to make myself look better or anything. I'm doing it because she deserves to be in a clean house. I'm doing it so she can be comfortable. I'm concerned about her alergies in our house with our dogs. I just want her to enjoy herself while she's here. I want her to be comfortable so that she can give good impressions on my parents, which I'm sure she'll do. I know it'd be a lot harder to be friendly and charismatic and what not if she's sneezing her head off because of my dogs. I'm doing the best I can to see that that doesn't happen. I really hope everything goes ok. She means the world to me and I don't want anything bad to happen. I vaccumed this house like a mad man today and I still see dog hair on the carpet downstairs... There's no hope for that room. It's the dog zone. Well I've done the best I can do. It's time for me to go to bed. I'll see her around 11ish tomorrow and we'll go from there. I'm so excited. I'm going to run up to her, give her the biggest hug, and just hold her for a while. Of course she's going to get a nice "I've missed you" kiss. That's a given. Then we're going to have pizza.^^ We'll have plenty of time to hang out together before going to any new years parties which is good. I'm not sure what all we'll do though.^^' I'm just so happy to get to be with her again. When the school year starts we're going to be so inseperable. ^_^ I can't wait. She's going to have her PS2 and her own DDR in her room and everything. Life is good.