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January 24th, 2006

Leave your name and answer these questions and I will answer them about you as well.
1. respond with something random about me
2. tell what song/movie reminds you of me
3. say something that only makes sense to you and me
4. tell your first/clearest memory of me
5. ask something that you’ve always wondered about me

Danny
1 Eric Cartman’s voice to perfection
2 South Park
3 When I couldn’t come over because your mom might have been running around with her underwear
4 Now that you’ve reminded me, Nate’s lan party and your frozenembryo
5 When are you going to get a working guitar so i can?

Andy
1 You’re a bank manager
2 Hostel
3 I’m gonna touch you until you like it!
4 In high school sometime, and when i met you and Nate at visions and we played foosball
5 so when’s this party at your house?

Teresa
1 You used to have orange hair
2 Almost doesn’t count – Brandi (you mentioned it first)
3 AEA!! You are really funny when you’ve had too much coffee and Punch her in the face!!
4 Church, LT, and Mr Bright’s Chem class
5 Did you enjoy the Quantum Forrest?

Erin
1 Your coat matches that of some random person that once was standing outside of LaS
2 John Williams
3 I don’t like veggies
4 LaS
5 Are you SURE that wasn’t you outside LaS?

Nate
1 You have the largest flat panel monitor.. ever
2 Battle Royale, Trouble – Coldplay, Mad World – Gary Jules
3 “Very Clever”
4 Our trip up north
5 When are we going camping again?

Jen
1 you can speak russian … i think
2 Across the Night – Silverchair
3 the beautiful mural on my back window
4 i think the first time i met you was at your apartment. but i remember you being really nice right away
5 Emilioooo?

Tara
1 You REALLY like to vacuum
2 For Whom the Bells Toll
3 The name of that one song.. which i actually don’t remember now but i remember when that happened
4 Probably at X-treme and you being in the Pit your senior year.
5 What is something that you have a passion to do but aren’t doing?

E
1 You were the team MVP on your softball team in high school
2 Monsters inc.
3 *click!*
4 This isn’t the earliest one, but when we played catch on the beach in Grand Haven
5 Why don’t you have any of your kittens at your dorm?

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Random Pic

January 17th, 2006

I just thought that this was a fun picture.
Danny, Teresa… You are both welcome.

Nice Poker Face.

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Opening Up

January 14th, 2006

Tonights message at church was on worrying and how it’s not a natural human characteristic but a learned behavior and a majority of our worries are not for any real legitamate reasons at all anyway. But the point is, I got to thinking about what all that I find myself in worry over.
Now I have found myself in the past to have a big problem with worrying. My mother is great at it and passed this wonderful skill on to me. Now i have worked on this and am much better today with worrying than i have been. But I’m still, as all of us, not perfect.
I sort of had an idea of what I was going to blog about before I started. But as usual, i have changed my mind. So instead of what it was going to be. Here is what i decided to do. i’m just going to list the things that i worry about and try to break them down in more specific detail after the list has been made. If it concerns things that require a certain amount of privacy, I will adhere to that but I want to get at least general ideas of those sorts of things out there. Afterwards if you have any ideas or advice for me, or if you’re even going to pray for me, please let me know.
My list of worries. (in no particular order)
- my educational future
- …
You know what.. I’ve changed my mind again. (now I’m not going to go back and reformat this entire blog because I keep changing my mind. One of the best things I find myself enjoying about blogs is when the writers write in a way where it’s like they are talking to me. I just find myself connecting better to the writer as a reader. So that is what I’m trying to do here. It may seem erradic and in general messy.. and well, it is. but I like it.
I’m worried about my education because as of right now i am no longer enrolled at GVSU as some of you already know. What I’ve decided to do is I’m going to audition at Eastern Michigan University and maybe some others such as Alma or some other small school that will be more likely to accept my credits from LCC in the Music department. I’m still going to go to school to be a music teacher. but hopefully this will push my education along a little faster in the long run. At GVSU, they didn’t accept one full years worth of music theory and aural perception. and two years of trumpet lessons. So in transfering to another school, i could be put ahead as much as a year and a half ahead of where i would be at grandvalley. But with any transfer i have to make, i have to reaudition at schools and be accepted into their school of music. now I dont’ think i’ll have too much of a problem with this being a transfer student, a music ed major (rather than performance) and seeing that i’ve already had a few years of lessons from a college/university level. BUT i’m still scared because of the theory and aural skills placement exams, this is what i have to really excell at. it’s been about a full year since i’ve taken fourth semester theory and aural perception. so i’m going to have to work and study quite a bit on my own time. which for me is very hard to do. so support in doing that is needed, and if any of you are into music (not being music on the radio but the study of music in the sense of theory and such) want to help me out PLEASE do not be shy, i would love the help and encouragement.
I would love to be a part of a Bible study and/or a small group. Preferably the Bible study would be with my small group or of people that i’ve known for a long time and and close enough to where i can be more open with them, because I do not open myself up to people I do not know. I just don’t do it, sorry no offense. (is that a bad thing? let me know your thoughts!) And the small group would be with my closest of friends or of those i feel i could very easily become close friends that i am already friends with. I have a few people in mind when it comes to that. I love God and I have for a long time, but I miss Him so much! My life has become routine even in the chaos it’s in! One big reason I am so happy to be back in town is that I can go to Riverview again. I love what they are all about there, they are empassioned for Christ in a real life kind of way, and i want that back in my life. I’ve missed it for too long. and going there helps spark and build that fire in me.
I have a lot more on my mind right now, but I just can’t bring myself to go on. But this is more than i have shared about myself in a long time if ever.
-Thoughts, ideas, questions, advice, or just in general comments are always welcome.

|Shmatty|

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Dream

January 12th, 2006

I had a weird dream last night. Well, at least the part i remember. And here is the tale of me, in the dream I only partly remember. Ok, all I remember is that i was shot through the leg, right above the knee a few inches sideways straight through (how it didn’t hit my other leg going sideways, I don’t know) but anyway, i was shot there. And one guy was like, we need to know if the bullet passed all the way through or is still in your leg. So he takes this metal rod about a foot long and maybe an inch or two in diameter and pushes it through the bullet hole in my leg!! at that point in the dream i was pretty much freaking out but all the while trying to keep my leg still cause he has a freaking rod sticking through my leg, and it seemed like i could FEEL the rod going through my leg. WEIRD. and after it came out the other side of my leg, he was like yep, it passed all the way through so that’s good, and he pulls it out and yes i could still feel it.. (shivers) and then i kinda wake up, but i can still feel my leg with the hole in it, so i’m trying not to move it and i slowly reach down to feel it cause i’m not sure if it was real or not. and sure enough, i was NOT shot in the leg and don’t have a large whole from where i was shot.
The End

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Job Interview

January 9th, 2006

Ok, I have a job interview at Lowe’s. It’s on Wednesday at 2:30, please pray for me! thanks again.

UPDATE: Ok, i have another job interview with Amerihost Inn and Suites on wednesday at 11 AM
YES!!

UPDATE: The interviews both went really well, i am confident about each of them, i’ll find out about Amerihost job on monday, and i have a second interview with Lowe’s coming up soon!

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Jobs and Poker

January 5th, 2006

Well, I’m on the hunt. a hunt for a job. That’s right, i’m back in town for a while now, and i need a job. I anyone who reads this has a job and can suggest or offer a job, that would be superb. Or if anyone wants trumpet lessons, i can be hired to do that as well! so yeah, that’s that

So i went to Dan’s last night to play poker and watch the football game, first of all that was an amazing game USC LOST HAHAHHAA!! ahh yes, good stuff. but i actually played really well most of the night! for a while i started to get back into playing like i used to but then i stopped myself. i was up pretty much almost the whole night, the only time i was down was near the very beginning. but hten i got up and stayed up. i had trips at least 4 times, pocket aces twice. i had a HUGE bluff on Chaz that i one a few bucks on. good stuff, hten the very next time he bluffed me out of a couple bucks too, but it was a good hand. that was the one bluff i played the whole night. and i won. great stuff. Thanks JR i owe ya!

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