September 2010
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January 2010
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My proposal to Leah
I can’t believe I’m getting to this now. 7 months later. Ok, I’ve been engaged for 7 months, but I never actually shared with you all how I did it. First off, it was her birthday. I picked her up and took her to Tampa, she had no clue what was going on. When we get to the harbor, to her suprise, we boarded a dinner cruise. Oh yeah. We had a fantastic evening. Danced, Did the...
"Life moves pretty fast...."
“….You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”. These words always spoke true to me. From Matthew Brodericks mouth, to my mind. Ok, I know I said, I’m back. I’m back. That was 4 months ago. I lied. I could give you a B.S. excuse and say it was cause I was too conflicted with personal reason, but that’s not the truth. The truth is, I forgot about what calms me down....
September 2009
22 posts
“Disciples are hand-crafted, not mass-produced.” - John Ortberg #thenines
Don’t leave: When Winter comes knockin’
If you’ve ever wondered, Hey, I wonder if I have any paper cuts and don’t know about them, I suggest you peel an orange. Holy crap! I wasn’t wondering if I had any, but I found out pretty fast.
“Ceremony”- New Order
Housecleaning tips: Don’t
Britney, as we knew her
I am neither impressed nor revolted by Britney Spears. The early, kiddie-burlesque stages of her career shocked most people into turgid reverence or seething annoyance, but I’ve always remained indifferent. Back then, haters liked arguing that she wasn’t pretty or that she couldn’t sing (vocal prowess has never been a prequisite to being photographed in bustiers.) Teen Britney...
The Christmas Blog
It was my father a.k.a. the Monarch’s belief that nothing built character like responsibility. He himself had peddled newspapers and delivered groceries by bobsled, and look at him now! I decided that if hard work had forged his lovingly ferocious character, I wanted nothing to do with it. “Thanks but no thanks,” I said. So, we continued throughout the fall season,...
The Beginning of Writing - Through my Eyes- And...
Years of writing in journals. Age 6-through the rest of elementary school. When I was in elementary school I was forced to keep journals and every month, we’d turn them into the teacher. One day when I was around 6 or 7, I was eating at a Monterey’s restaurant with my family, and my best friend Kevin and his family on a Sunday afternoon. For some reason, I felt the need to sketch down...
The Charlie Rose Show
I was up the other night watching a re-run of Charlie Rose, and he completely made me loose me REM sleep. He’s always got some guy on pushing a book on how everything going to the burning place, or how they’re going to pass a law, how everyone with a lip ring is going to get shipped to China. Suddenly, you’re depressed, thinking, we’re all going to die and don’t drink...
The Real Badly Drawn Boy -article-
This is a story with a happy ending. But first, the unhappy beginning. Picture the scene. Although not too clearly ‘cause it might make you cry. A bloke is slumped at a piano on the top floor of an old toffee factory in Stockport. He’s been in this space, now a recording studio, for five ‘intensive’ weeks. He’s barely seen his missus and kids. Spring has turned to...
Brookes, the cat from the flaming abyss
It was when I stepped through the door of the flat 17 on Velvet Rd. As soon as I walked through the door, I felt a presence, lurking at every corner. I said hi to Aunt Kathy and Uncle Lloyd. Then I saw the big moosey… Brookes. He didn’t seem all evil then. Boy did he fool me. His kitten eyes and orange fur would make you go a big rubbery one. I tugged on his tail, expecting a nice...
Violence in Schools
This was just on my mind today while I was flying above Minneapolis. A few years back, when I was just beginning High School, I believe it was around late August .My 2nd semester class schedule arrived along with the news that I would not be bused. There had been violence in other towns and counties, trouble as far away as Georgia; but in Lakeland, the transition is peaceful. Suprisingly, many of...
Guster
The Time. Friday, Feb. 16, 07. The Place. House of Blues, Or. The Reason. Guster. Rhiannon and I went to see Guster tonight at House of Blues. We were both incredibly phsyched, cause we’ve been die hard fans of them for years. Them and Badly Drawn Boy are my two favorite. Anyways, we arrive at House of Blues at around 6:45ish, and it was absolutely freezing, which is extremely odd, because...
