Compass bank..Brilliant!

Compass is my bank and has always been my bank. They have this brilliant plan where all ATM fees are free. You just have to send in your receipt and they will refund you. Smart move? I think its brilliant. Now, they don't have to put up an ATM anywhere. Have you ever seen a compass ATM besides at the bank? Nope. They don't exist, because there would be no profit from it besides other bank users using it. Of course I could just keep my receipts and mail them off but I don't use an ATM that often so I end up throwing them out or if I do hold onto them they have been in my wallet for so long you cant read them anymore. Its only a few dollars every so often but it adds up!

A little help please

I have a few questions maybe someone reading can help me out with. How do you post a movie from say google video or Utube?

Also how do you post a link that you just click on the words?

Yaa! for getting a house Booo for having to move my stuff into it

As you can tell from the title we finally got approved for a house. We have yet to sign the contract but that will come later this week. It has been a very frustrating process and I thank God that we have finally found a great house. Like always it worked out for the better that we waited. The house is in a perfect place for all three of us living there and we are just houses away from jenkins mom who I plan to steal many a meal from. I have no clue when we actually get to move into the house or anything regarding that but I am sure I will post once we are moving stuff in.

Things that put a smile on my face this week-

- Tonight is the first night of bowling...go Shenanigans
- Ya for losing 20 pounds..half of my goal
- I ran 3.5 miles last night in 30 mins
- finally getting approved for a house
- finding a book I thought I had lost, Jacks Life
- Reading half of it last night.
- BEERFEST!!!!
- Dinner with my parents
- My aim conversations during the day with pugh and geeky
- The random blogs I read everyday that keep me entertained

Salsa on a hot day

I never do anything Austiny..i know thats not a word but today it is...There are festivals that i always skip and six street bores me. Today was differnt though, they had the salsa festival and what do i love more then salsa? Me, kevin, and jenkins grabbed our bag of canned food, which was our ticket in and headed to austin in my car.

We parked 2 blocks away and the sun beat down on us in the 124 degree texas summer afternoon. It was hot and i like a retard wore jeans. by the time we got there i was sweating. We walked around for awhile and stood in line listening to the local country performers, who were really good, and took in the scenery. It took about 15 mins to actually get to the first salsa booth where we tasted HEB salsa, it was ok. Throghout the day we tasted over 50 salsa and i would have to say the best was Bigdawg salsa. They had tons of differnt salsa to choose from and all of them were tasty and the ones that were hot actually had flavor. I would have to say though Stephs salsa beat all of them.

I ended up buying salt. I know, there are thousands of salsa to buy and i leave with salt but this salt is SOOOOOO good. I got a garlic, lime and chile, and chipotle. I prefer my salsa home made so and i wasnt impressed enough to purchase anything there. The salt however was excellent. Its good on anything but mainly on cucumbers and other veggies which is where i will use it the most. That and when we make homemade frys in jenkins frydaddy.

One the way home I almost killed us in the car and saw jenkins and gibbs scream like little girls. That was fun.

Alright I have to go. We are off to see BEERFEST!!!!!

You have to scream when you say that.

Whats up with blogger?

I am tired of having to clear my cache everytime i open up firefox. Here is whats happening. I look at a blogger page (It only happens with blogger). Now if i close this page and open it back up without clearing my cache i will always see the same page. Whether its my own blog or someone elses. So now i have to clear my cache to see if anyone left me a comment or if anyone has updated there page. Its very annoying, does anyone else have this problem?

This weekend 4 good movies came out. Little Miss Sunshine, just opened in the theater closest to me, Idlewild, just looks like a good fun movie, Beerfest, thats just a given..it looks soo good, and Invincible, yes this movie is sooo transparent but i still want to see it. So who is up for a movie day? Julie?

Heres to not getting last!

Tonight is our works NFL fantasy draft. Last year I missed the draft and got stuck with a horrible team. This year I plan to show up and get a couple good picks. Last year it wasn't even like my team was that bad. I had some very good weeks but everyone else kept having their best week against me. I would get 134 points and they would get 140. It was very unfortunate for me. Needless to say I lost every game and got last. This year we have a new rule..the loser has to pay the winner 25 bucks. I feel that my brothers installed this rule just to spite me. *shakes fist at the sky*

I am not a huge NFL football fan, I like college ball. I don't get all exited for the Sunday games. I really wont watch even watch anyone but Dallas. This year I don't see anything different happening except Dallas might win a few games. We will see.

Last night the Rocksports Shenanigans went out and bowled our first team practice bowling before the season beggins next week. I hope we get in one more night of team bowling on sunday. We bowled about average, well everyone but Brad did. He needs go get into the swing of things. Its his first time bowling in a league so we will cut him a little slack. I have a good feeling about bowling this year. Last year was our first year and we started off slow but ended up winning everything. I got a gut feeling we will start off much better this time.

I screwed up an order last week and the shirts are very random...if you are one of those people who likes to go to Goodwill and buy old shirts that are just completely random..well then I have a few shirts you might like to buy from me. First one is a family reunion and the front says Its Happening in Jackson on a light blue shirt. Pretty nice but I printed the wrong back on the shirts. I also have some messed up Hendrickson HS Color guard shirts that are weird. Anyways I need to get rid of them for 2$ a shirt. So just let me know.

I wonder if I could start a website with screwed up shirts? Think it would work? People buy mistakes for 2 bucks a shirt plus shipping? You never know.

I plan to start saving for a ski trip in Jan. Let me know if you are interested.

Peace like a River

I just finished this book last night. It was 9 when I started and I had 100 pages to go. I didn't, no couldn't put it down till the story was told. I loved this book. From the first chapter to the end I just connected with the characters. I was a little sad that a 10 year old girl had better vocab and could put anything I write to shame but enjoyed every word of it. As I was reading I tabbed off a couple of my favorite parts and wanted to write them in here but I wasn't sure if that was ok or not? Should I just paraphrase my favorite parts or is quoting them ok?

If you haven't read the book stop reading this now!







At the last chapter I was pissed. Really I was mad. I couldn't figure out where the heck he was taking me..I mean he ever wrote "hang in there with me for a second" while he went off into another world. I wanted to know what happened now! I didn't want to wait any longer to find out what had happened. After I had finished reading the book I closed it and thought about the book. The chapter I couldn't stand to read is the chapter that stood out most in my head. He painted such a pretty picture, I was seeing Robbin Williams running across his field in the movie What Dreams May Come.

Overall I would recommend it to anyone and everyone who loves good fiction.

If I find its ok to put up quotes ill to that later tonight.

A day at the lake and lots of soccer.

The title pretty much sums up my weekend. Friday I don't remember what I did. I think it involved a movie with Julie and Jenkins but they might have been sat night We went and saw Accepted which was a lot better then I though it would be. There were all of the funny parts that were on the commercial and get this....Other funny parts as well. That doesn't happen a lot with comedies these days. I would say its a great renter.

Sat. morning I turned in all of the house stuff, hopefully I hear something latter today regarding the house we should get, and then went off to my last outdoor game of the summer season. We only had 6 players show up for 8 on 8. The other team graciously gave us one of their players to make the game more fair. We ended up killing them 6-3. Thanks other team for the extra player though. I didn't play very well. I was in a funk where every shot I took went straight to the keeper. They were nice shots but nothing hard for the keeper. The only goal I scored was one where the keep couldn't control the ball and it hit off of him and went in.

Gibbs had two goals, one was a header to the lower post that was just awesome, the other a break away. Jenkins had a upper ninety from well outside the box that was pretty impressive. It was also at the end of the game and pretty much kill their momentum.

After the game me and Gibbs watched soccer all day long. Tottenham lost 2-0 and that was pretty disappointing. We only got to see the last 10 mins of the game and they didn't look to be playing very well. Its tough playing in Reebok stadium and going down 2-0 in the first 14 mins of the match. It was an uphill battle the whole game and bolton just stood tight. I didn't watch it but I bet the rest of the game was very boring.

One match that was not boring was Reading. They were down 0-2 and came back and won 3-2. I was very impressed with Sole who played an outside right mid. He controlled the game and created 2 of the goals. Tottenham is my team but I will be watching as much Reading as I can.

Sat night I drove Jenkins and Kyle up to Kats lakehouse. Relaxing is the best way to describe it. We talked, watched TV, Steph made some of her famous hot sauce (its sooo good), we made up rules to drinking while you are playing UNO. Which by the way is my new favorite drinking game. I love UNO!! We def did not accomplish any of the goals though that you set in a drinking game. We drank all of the beer and no one was drunk.lol..it was good times.

After that we just chilled and I crashed on the couch which is oh so soft and comfy. We I woke at 11 the next morning I was well rested and feeling good. We had a breakfast that awsome salsa I mentioned earlier made by steph and then I had some cinnamon and sugar on my waffles and that was good too :). We did a lot of reading as well while we were there which I thought was pretty cool. 7 of us just sat in different corners with our books and went to town. I read a good 100 pages through out the day and I am almost finished with Peace Like a River. Kat drove us out on the lake and we swam with the fishs. It was at least 10000000 degrees and the 8 spf really helped let me tell ya. 8 spf <---- are you kidding me? Next time ill just bring out the butter and get cooked nice and good.

Overall it was an awesome weekend and i had a great time.

100 things about me

1. I started this post yesterday got to 52 and somehow cleared my browser.
2. I couldn't remember half of the things I had just written.
3. My birthday is Oct. 24
4. The most expensive thing I own is a computer monitor.
5. I don't own a computer.
6. I sold my last one so I would get off of my lazy but and get in shape.
7. Since then I have lost over 15 pounds.
8. I have played soccer since I was 4.
9. I quit for 3 years after college to play on the computer.
10. I love to sing frank Sinatra songs.
11. When I get nervous I sing.
12. I have no depth perception.
13. My friends like to take advantage of that and give me a hard time.
14. I was born blind in my left eye.
15. Its not that I couldn't see out of it my body just wasn't using it.
16. I wore a patch over my right eye for 3 years to get my left eye stronger.
17. My doctor made me play Nintendo for hours every day to strengthen my eye.
18. I am serious he told me that would help the most ...little did he know how addicted I would become.
19. I love making friends over the internet
20. I love meeting people who have the same interests as me, play the same game, read the same books.
21. I am lucky in that I have a bunch of close friends who love me and forgive me for all the crap we give each other.
22. I have 3 brothers, 2 older, 1 younger and 1 sister
23. I am very close to my family, I do work with them :)
24. I love my job...need t-shirts? Im your man.
25. I feel like I am at a changing point in my life.
26. I am not a fan of TV.
27. I am a huge fan of TV shows on DVD though.
28. I love to read.
29. Mainly Fantasy novels but I really love any good story.
30. My main passion in life is food.
31. Doesn't matter what it is there is a good chance I like it.
32. I love to cook but don't have a kitchen at the moment.
33. I put hot sauce on everything.
34. I put cumin in my eggs for breakfast tacos..its so good.
35. Three Amigos is my favorite comedy.
36. What dreams May Come is my favorite drama.
37. I don't believe in love a first site.
38. I slacked all through high school.
39. I hated going to DBU..where everyday is church camp.
40. I loved church camp but didnt want to go to school at one.
41. Right now is the first time I have ever had a hair cut other then wake up and leave.
42. I am a jeans and t-shirt guy.
43. I own 20 Rocksports shirt, that's all I really like to wear.
44. I have only had 1 girlfriend.
45. We dated for 3 years.
46. It took me a year to tell her I loved her.
47. I don't say it unless I mean it.
49. I have worn a size 8.5 shoe since the 6th grade.
50. I was supposed to have a growth spurt in college but I dropped out so I guess it decided not to happen.
51. I have an associates in Network Security.
52. I hate working on computers.
53. After I got my degree everyone expects you to just fix their computer for free.
54. I don't ask other people to do their jobs for me for free.
55. I have 2 certs. Net+ and A+
56. I feel that God is calling me to do mission work but I don't go to church.
57. I sing in the Round Rock Community Choir and really enjoy it.
58. I want to marry a woman who sings like Zooey Deschanel.
59. My favorite food is whatever I am craving.
60. Barnes and Nobles is my favorite store even though Half Price books is less expensive.
61. Gellato is the only ice cream I will eat.
62. I love board games.
63. I could play monopoly all day long.
64. I collected Pokemon cards in high school and beat little kids at the mall on a regular basis.
65. Some of those kids whooped me though.
66. I don't enjoy running just to run.
67. I want to bike but don't have money for one.
68. I will eventually get one though.
69. Mario Party is the greatest game ever made.
70. I can count all of the times I have been drunk on two hands.
71. I am not a "Party" person. I enjoy people when they are sober as opposed to drunk.
72. I am the heaviest sleeper you will ever meet or blogs you read.
73. Eye color is brown with a green ring around that.
74. I live in Round Rock, Texas
75. My favorite color is Navy
76. I bowl on a bowling team and my average is 154.
77. We won first place in our last league where I was not the star.
78. My dad holds a 200 average and is an amazing bowler.
79. I like to golf but I am horrible.
80. I hate the sport of baseball.
81. If you can chew tobacco while you playing your sport and be good..then you aren't running hard enough or your sport is very boring.
82. I drink tea..every day...all day.
83. The only soft drink I like is Dr.Pepper.
84. Since I have been working out it doesn't taste as good anymore.
85. I love gin and tonics.
86. I love to smoke a good cigar or pipe.
87. I haven't smoked in over 6 months.
88. I prefer the company of my friends playing board games then going out on the town.
89. My favorite book is whatever I am reading at the time.
90. I love reading C.S. Lewis but most of the time I am reading I have dictionary.com up because I no clue on some of his words.
91. My favorite place to eat is a place I rarely eat at called the canyon Cafe in San Antonio.
92. I have made trips to San Antonio just to eat there.
93. Im 5'6" closer to 5'7" or so I like to believe.
94. The Company I work for is the only Company I have ever worked for.
95. I have done every job you can do in the building except run the emboidery machines.
96. My dad owns the company - Rocksports.
97. I have no tattoos or piercing of any kind and don't plan on getting any.
98. I was born in Houston lived there for 5 years.
99. I moved to California for 3 years before moving to Round Rock.
100. I plan to live in Austin for a long while but I would like to travel.

The People at the gym are pretty

I can see why people are timid when it comes to joining a gym, besides the crazy amounts of money it costs to join a majority of the people there don't look like they need to be there. I mean, at what point do you say enough is enough? I guess everyone has there goals, mine is not to get so huge that I cant scratch my own butt. I easily understand how they go to the extreme and get hooked though.

I love the feeling after you work out and you are completely exhausted. Just worn out so much that driving home hurts almost. Your arms shake and it hurts to get up from a chair and then you lay down to go to sleep and have the greatest night of sleep in your life. Last night you could not have woken me up, I mean I normally sleep heavy but last night was bliss. Never mind today it still hurts every time I get out of my office chair ..and I didn't even work my abbs!!

The women at the gym are gorgeous. Unfortunately they are almost always accompanied by a big boyfriend who is spotting them so I will never talk to one of them but just seeing them is a good form of motivation. Maybe I will get lucky and someone will come up to me :).


On another note, I need to find a church. I don't want to drive to Austin to do so though. Maybe I do I don't know I just need to start up again. If anyone wants to start with me or is going and wants to invite me along I would be happy to go.


Very important as well....tomorrow night Snakes on a Plane is showing at 12am. Who's with me?!?!

Yay for not being bored!!

Ok, so this weekends finally over. It might have been the longest weekend ever. I don't know what it was but I just wanted to get my week started and see how the whole...no TV or computer for fun thing was going to go. One day in and I am loving it :). LOL one day! I signed up yesterday at 24 hour fitness (btw julie..it is open 24 hours) and as I was doing so let me just say that people who sign up for the gym and don't do so under a special deal are crazy! Just to sign up it would have cost me 200 bucks! Good thing Rocksports has a deal with them where we don't pay any of those fees. It only cost me 30 bucks and off I went, well after the guy tried to sell me classes and all that jazz. No thank you I don't need to pay someone a bunch of money to yell at me and keep me motivated but thanks.

The place is nice but I did feel a little out of place running without an Ipod. Everyone had one, it was like I walked into a IPOD commercial. I just entertained myself by trying to read the subtitles on the TV in front of me while I ran and tried to stay on the treadmill all at the same time. I know one of these days I am going to stop running or fall off the side. At least it will give me something to blog about.

Update on my reading:

Watership down, I am a little under half way through the book and have no clue where the book is going to go next. It weird the book is 450 pages about a group of rabbits adventures. That's a lot of story to tell and so far the goal the group set out to accomplish has just been met so I have no clue what the next 200 pages could be about, something big is going to happen in the next chapter or else its going to be a very long ending to a book. So far I would recommend it. It is very easy reading.

Peace like a River, I always like to read a few books at a time and this was highly recommended so I picked it up the other night and haven't been able to put it down. Its got me hooked as only a good book can. I am marking off the parts I like best and will write more about it when I am finished.

Praise: I finally got a call from the credit place and cleared up the whole money issue. Thank you Lord for taking care of that for me. :)

The Fray!!! AAAHHHHHH!!!

About 6 months ago i went and saw Ben Folds my absolute favorite person in the world to see perform live. The opening band was a group i had never heard before. The Fray, i liked them from the get go. The guy had a great voice and played the piano what more could you want? The song i originaly like that they did live still has yet to be released as a single and i didnt even remember them playing Over my head. Now, i cant go 5 mins. without hearing one of their songs. I used to like their music and i guess i still do but really you dont have to play the songs once every 30 mins. If i dont hear Over my head for the next 4 months i just wouldnt mind. So far today i have heard it at least 6 times.

Now most of you are just going to say something like, "Don't listen to the radio then, duh!" And you would be right but we play it in the back of the shop and i work back there. Also both vans only have radios which makes road trips rough and also the quick deliveries around town.

The only song i could listen to every 5 mins is Since you've be gone...i love that song and i am not afraid to admit it.


What up with blogger not updating? I will write a post and update everything and then it will not publish the post but it will appear when i log in.

Sleeping in.

Its been awhile since I last slept in and let me say that I am not one of those people that considers waking up at 9am sleeping in. That's called waking up. Today I got out of bed at 1pm ...yes that's after most people had already accomplished half of there days work but seeing as I have no work on the weekend it ok. I don't have the words to describe how much I enjoyed it. When I woke up at 9am because that's when my internal alarm clock wakes me up now and I realized that I could go back to sleep I was exited and tired and thankful. I put good use to the extra time too.

I want to thank kevin for taking my spot in working the concession stand and allowing me to not have to wake up at 7:30. That would have ruined everything.

While I was browsing the web today I found a blog where a woman who posted all the books she had read and was currently readying with a short word about each book and also the writers comments. I thought this was a great idea and I plan to list the books that I am currently reading as well but what I didn't get about her blog is that she didn't really write any information on the books. After ready through a few entries on the books that she had read I had no clue whether she like the books or not. I thought that it was silly to leave such vague comments about each book. It ended up being just a list of books this person read. Maybe you have to know her to be able to tell from her writing if she like the book but I personally would have liked some sort of rating.

Websites that kill time

Its been awhile since I posted one of these and today I had a lot of time to kill so I found a few more cool sites.

http://www.thecoolhunter.net

The cool hunter, its got all kinds of weird things on it. From new fashion, art, gadgets, books, and lots more. Its where I found the sleeping bag suit that I want so bad. Its a great way to kill an hour.

http://okaydave.com/

This site is the portfollio of a 25 year old grad student. You will not find a better created website. It visually stunning and the music is prefect. Watch all of the projects I promise its amazing.

http://www.stadiumguide.com/index.htm

This is for Brandon and Gibbs. Its a site that lists all of the football stadiums of the world. I though you guys would enjoy it. On each stadium it goes into great detail.

http://www.kookisushi.com/index.htm

This is chocolate sushi. I love sushi and I love chocolate so I bet I would love this, but I dought I will ever try it because it is ridiculously over priced. But its still fun to look at.

http://www.io.com/~sjohn/plots.htm

There is not other plots in a movie besides these. If you can think of one..well you spent to much time thinking about it..

Hope you enjoyed them.

I laugh at all you bed buyers!!! HA!

I just found the greatest sleeping idea ever!! EVER!! I want one sooo bad. here it is! http://www.tranism.com/weblog/archives/2006/05/selkbags_are_he.html

I need a new hobby

I have so much free time on my hands now that I live at the house and I have nothing to do with it. Its nice because I get to read more but I don't want to read every night. I tried to watch TV but I can only stand about 30 mins of it and then I turn it off and go to sleep. It doesn't matter what time it is I just turn it off and go to bed. Which is good because I have been getting at least 8 hours every night this week.

Things I don't want to do. I have always wanted to play the guitar but every time I pick up my guitar I play the same 4 chords over and over. Its so boring. I just don't have that creative jean to make up a song. I once wrote a song when I was younger and I thought it was the greatest song ever! In all reality it was horrible..It was horrible for a kid. I sang it at church and all the adults said it was good. Then I sang it for my friends and they thought it was a joke. They laughed and laughed. Now that I am older I can look back and I realize it was the worst song ever..I just wish old people would be brutally nice and would tell the truth. There a lesson to learn from this...Be a mean old person, it will help kids out in the long run. They wont go around sharing crappy songs to their friends. Anyways I still want to learn the guitar I am just going to wait till we move into the house and Kevin can teach me...

Another thing I have been mulling over is to go workout everyday. I have been wanting to do this as well but have been putting it off due to it being to expensive to play computer games and pay for a gym membership but now that I have canceled all of my computer game subscriptions I might as well join one.

Writing, you only get better with practice and I need lots of it, but I don't have a computer anymore so I would have to come up to work and I spend enough time as it is up here I don't want to spend all of my time here.

COOKING!!!! Once we get a house I plan to pick up where I left off. Cooking anything and everything that sounds good.

that's it.. That encompasses everything I love to do. Both of my indoor soccer seasons have ended and all I have left is outdoor and that's on the weekends.

I need something new. Any ideas?

Still looking

Yesterday me and Jenkins went to look at houses again. It wasn't looking good. The best house we looked at seemed too small and I just didn't get the "This is the one" vibe. One house we looked at was NASTY! We found old underwear in the grass in the back yard! You know there is a story behind that but I don't want to know about it and I defiantly don't want to live there. I was gross and it was old so that means very crappy AC and a high electricity bill if we keep the AC where I like it...Just above freezing.

After we went and looked at houses though and was feeling a bit down we went to lift our spirits with the greatest dirty burger in all the world, The Little Red Wagon. Its so greasy and sooooooo good. Jenkins ordered nothing on his like usual and I ordered everything because I am an everything type of guy. I was instantly in a better mood.

Jenkins has been playing tiger wood a lot lately and had been bugging me to go golfing or to the range with him for the last week so we went to his house and picked up two sets of clubs. Let me just start off by saying it was a very humbling experience. I am horrible at golf. I understand this..I am awesome at tiger woods though. I don't think I need to say more on the subject.

I am feeling a little better about the house situation today though because 5 new houses went on the market today and all of them look great. I wont get a chance to look at them till tomorrow but I have a good feeling that one of them will be a match.

Tax free weekend!!

This weekend everyone was out and about. The soccer fields had people all over them there was some sort of baseball tourney going on, the tennis courts were pact and I even saw a group of people playing cricket on the cricket field I didn't know existed. Overall, this weekend just felt like summer.

The new indoor/outdoor mall opened up this weekend but I didn't care to rough the masses so I headed to Academy for shoes and Khols for my shorts. The shoes I got are awesome! I spent the big bucks this time, 70 bucks normally I spend 30 at most on a pair I will keep for a least a year. This time went for something really comfortable and breaths. The climate cool addidas running shoes..They are practically made of mesh. Very nice.

After that I ran to khols to check out the sales they were having. Everything I looked at was at least 50% off. Thats my kind of shopping. I looked around for almost 10 mins before picking up 3 pairs of shorts and were out the door. I am not a good shopper. I don't really care what I wear as long as its comfortable. I get all the shirts and polos from work so I only go out to by short and pants. The biggest problem I have is that I am so short and I have such a big waist that all the shorts I wear look like capree pants and the when I said I don't mind what I look like earlier I didn't count capree pants in that statement. I don't like them on guys...They just look nerdy. So I cut my shorts and have my mom sew them to the right length. I got the best deal on shorts and now I am set for the next two years!!!

No more shopping! Yah!

There is a new IKEA store though in the mall and I guess I should go check out what everyone is talking about. I have yet to walk into one but apparently its a great store.

Please call me and ruin my day.

What do I wake up to this morning at 8:30 before my alarm goes off? First off, let me take a quick detour and make a comment on the fact that I woke up before my alarm went off. I never do this. Never! Recently though its becoming more of a habit. I am starting to sleep lighter and waking up at more respectable hours of the day. Its very sad, I guess that's what growing up does to you, it kills all the little things in life that you loved..And a change in sleeping habit isn't small that's huge..I want to go back to where you couldn't wake me up with a air gun or at all till at at least 10am.

Ok, so I get a call at 8:30 and I don't recignize the number but I think I remember it being important from somewhere, I don't know its 8:30 who calls unless its important? So I answer it and its the people who say I still owe the college I went to money. They apparently haven't been able to get ahold of the school either. Well now I am hosed.

Thanks for calling me first thing Monday morning I appreciate it..

3v3

Growing up all i looked forward to in a week was soccer. I had practices 3 nights a week and games on saturday. It is the only thing in my life that i have ever looked forward to waking up at 8am to do. Expecially now that is 100 by 10am.

At some point in high school I stopped getting this feeling. I didnt really care about soccer anymore. It was right around junior year. It was a pretty sad feeling. I just didnt and couldnt get exited. I felt i was all played out. None of my good friends played anymore and everytime i went everyone was always so serious. So i moved on to other things. I picked up things that make you get fat :), computers and reading. Reading mainly at this point. I would kill 700 page books in 3 days. As soon as i put one book down i would start another.

Anyways, about 3 months ago i decided to get exited about soccer again. I joined 2 indoor teams and 1 outdoor team. I made an agreement with myself, which i normally break, expecially when it comes to getting in shape. So far so good. I wanted to lose 25 lbs but that hasnt happend. I am gaining weight, lol. I look and feel better so i guess thats what matters. Ok..now i am just way off topic..ill get to it.

This weekend i got all exited about playing. I couldnt wait for the 3v3. I got up, which is saying alot. The first game we just destoyed the team. It was ugly, you could tell they had never played 3v3 before because they were playing man to man and no one was guarding the goal. I scored 3 goals and i never went close to their goal. I would just walk across the half line and put it into the net. It was a good feeling.

The second game was a different story. At this point in time its 105 out at the fields and there are no clouds..We have 3 subs, this team had none. All we had to do was run around and we win. They get tired and we get easy goals. I guess this was asking to much because our team was dead.. it wasnt really horrible but we didnt play the game we needed to. This team played alot better and knew how to play defence. We ended up losing only 3-2 to a very crappy goal. But this loss killed me. They had a guy on there team who would just fall down if you went near him and the ref called it every time. EVERY TIME. i didnt even come close to him and he falls down holding his chest, like i took him out. the ref calls the foul on me and tells me to settle down. I have never wanted to punch a guy in the face more in all of my life. Granted i never would but i really really wanted to. This kid was talking soo much trash. It was sad really on my part to let him take me out of my game. I never lose control or am affected by people like that but for some reason i lost it. I blame the heat. At the end of the game he came over to shake our hands and gloat and i refused like a dumbass and yelled at him..i told you i lost it..

The third game was when we just fell apart. It was nice of the people to give us back to back games 1 and 2pm. Thanks, i didnt want to have any energy the rest of the day. We were playing great the first half. We were up 3-2. Something happend at half time and we decided not to play anymore. We lost but it was not pretty. I think the end score was 9-4. My legs stopped working at this point that is the only way to describe it what happend to me.

Tomorrow we have a game at 9:30 against the best team. I watched them play a game today and they were good. It should be a good game.

Watership down...its just a story

I am back to the office till October when the shows start up agian. Everyone is happy with me and next week i have nothing on the schedule so it will be a non stressful week unless i get a bunch of people in on monday who "have" to have stuff done by friday. But even then it wont be a big deal.

Sty in the sky update:

I have been told that it is bigger today then it was yesterday, but it doesnt hurt so i dont give a crap what it looks like. Yesterday was just annoying. I think it will be gone by the weekend.

I just finished the second book in shanara series and it is pretty good but i am taking a break to read Watership Down. I have alot of good memories of this book. My third grade teacher read it to us throughout the year and that is the only memory i have of the third grade. It is a story about rabbits that the author made up on a car ride to keep his two young daughters entertained. I love the fact that its a classic and he puts in the forward that this book is just a story and it is not to be disected in english classes in any way. There is no deeper meaning or moral to this story.

So far it is a very easy read and is everything i remembered.

I need a new book to read after this one or i am going to go back to the Micheal Crichons new book, which i have started and is very good but i put it down for some reason. Anyways i need a new one as well.

I have a 3v3 tourny this weekend and i am exited because this will give me a chance to work on my 1v1 skills a little bit more. The last 3v3 tourney i played in I was too out of shape to be worth anything, but this time is a different story. I should hold my own and footskills is something i need to work on. I am exited.

This sty is killing me!!

So I have been a little more then stressed out latley. Why? Well because i am stupid and am letting things get to me that i normaly shrug off. Here is a list of things that have been weighing me down that i no longer care about and will not let them kill me any longer.

- We cant get approved for a house. After dealing with a woman who acted sincere and then stood us up at a house and then proceded to act as if we were going to turn the house into a scene from animal house. It sucks being profiled and there is nothing you can do. I am the most boring 23 year old there ever was!

Finally being fed up with the woman running me around for 2 months i called up a friend and she found someone who would help us. The first place we put an application to we were "not a match" and were turned down. There went 80 bucks in application fees out the window. Tomorrow i am turning in 4 more applications for a new place (cross your fingers for us). It has a Hot Tub!!! you know you want us to get it :).

- I got a letter about 2 weeks ago informing me that i still owed Virginia College money! After a year of being gone from the school! WHAT?!? not just a small sum either. They think i owe them alot of money. I have no way of proving that i dont owe this money and they sent it to a collection agent and now i screwed. But ehh its just my entire savings..only money. I went to virginia college to see what i could do about finding out why i owe them this random money because they would not return my phone calls. I got nothing from them just a "you owe us" and "we deal with you now you have to go to the agent". So i call the agent to pay and now and he cant finish my payment because virginia college wont call him back either...yay that just comedy right there.

- Work, which should never be stressful for me has been because of the demand. I have alot of responsibility and i am gone to shows. I was gone for 8 straight days and when i came back i had 55 emails and 30 voicemails. All of them had to be replied to and taken care of. Most of the people had been helped but a few were pissed off. Not much i can do but say sorry and think to myself, " why not call back and talk to someone else if you needed everything done so bad?" Apparently its a compliment to me. they like me so much they dont want to deal with anyone else, at least thats the way i look at it. The back of the shop being 108 doesnt help. I feel sorry for the guys its just sooo hot back there.

- I had to move out of my apt. Now i am living at home with my rents. Not really a bad thing because they dont care what i do and i get to save money on rent for this month but something is wrong with there house. Its old and has dust in it or somthign but i havent had a good nights sleep yet. I wake up with a soar throat and my head hurts. I dont know what it is but it needs to stop.

- To add to my crazyness i got a sty. I have never had one before but it is quite possibly to most annoying and irritating bump you can have on your body. Its a pimple in your eye and its stings and is very very ugly. I went to the doctor today and he gave me some drops that i am conviced are just water drops. They dont do anything.

Now, all of these things really arent that bad. I mean work isnt really that crazy, i got all the e-mails and voice mails handled today. Not having a house to live in sucks but if i am going to get a house with my friends it will happen, hopefully it happens with this next house because a 1 bedroom apt is looking really nice right about now. Living at home isnt bad, at least they have cable. Loosing my savings isnt going to kill me i will just save up more. All of that i can live with but i swear if i get another sty i am going to go nuts.