this is why i have no real life

1. Slept until 11:00

2. Considered what becoming famous would do to my personal life

3. Ate the heads of an entire bag of gummie bears, but left the torsos for Alicia, we share them often

4. Told my grandma that NASA called me for an interview

5. Realized I forgot to eat the toast I put in the toaster yesterday...ate it

8. Gained 4 pounds due to a burrito from Mi Cocina (mexican restaraunt)

9. Lost 5 pounds about two hours later in the bathroom

10. Went to the pool to play pool basketball

11. Felt fairly confident that i could smoke the 10 year olds at the pool in a game of marco polo.

12. Felt more confident that everyone else at the pool would have thought i was retarded.

13. Regretted telling my sister she was ugly times infinity when I was 9

14. realized i need a real job

oh yeah by the way cayce is home, but has to leave on thursday. Then back to baghdad for 4 months then he is out of active duty for the rest of his life, unless he re-ups. Glad to have him back, he hasnt changed hardly at all, i thought he would be all weird and hard to be around, but no he is good.

this is my problem about the director of the camp that i work at, he shows up around 7:45 just as all of us are waking up and all the campers are rolling out of their beds. He goes to the local donut place and orders 2 dozen or so glazed donuts, now if you were the local donut jockey you would think "man what a good boss he buys donuts for his whole staff" but you would be wrong. He only gets one coffee, shows up to camp, goes to his nice little air conditioned room, and walks out about 30 minutes later wearing his glazed moustache and looking like he is about to enter into a diabetic coma.this could account for the fact that he is pushing 325 pounds. then just before lunch he goes to the bathroom and leaves the fart version of 24 doughnuts in the air. yeah well thats my problem, i guess it could be worse, we could share a bathroom.

well im off to another week of tiny little kids running around and lying about peeing in their beds. but its worth the money, oh wait no its not, so it must be that i just love almost every minute of it! Wednesday is the halfway point for the 2005 camping season so its almost over. tear* even though i have nothing going for me, life is good!!!

Be calm. Be brave. It will be ok.

Something to write home about!

Weeks one and two of camp meribah 2005 are now in the books. With just three week of camp to go we will review some of the highlights of the first two weeks. Real good news, no real drama, no people on staff that i cannot stand, i havent thrown any water coolers across the camp, i killed a five and a half foot cotton mouth snake on thursday i the creek (when i say i killed it i mean i stood behind the guy who did kill it swinging a huge stick at anything that moved), and i have yet to be hit in the balls by a large retarded women (a little insinde, i know), i can also now hold a baby with absolutely no fear. There is a little "precious lamb" of a baby there that for some reason loves me. If i ever am allowed to have children, i hope my daughter comes out just like this one, except the pooping and the occasional vomit. this little thing see's me in the morning before flag raising and reaches her arms out for me every day, i actually love playing around with her and her older brother, he is about 3, she is little; i dont know how old though. I would also like to thank megan for the "daily updates" on her life, it sometimes seems like i am stuck in time, when it comes to everyone elses lives, when i am at camp. So i appreciate everyones messages. also got to give a shoutout to whoever the three people were who left us some delicious snacks for the program cabin. they were sensational.

I came to the realization today that time is really going faster than it used to. this is my reasoning on that, can anyone believe that over 5 years ago we were worried about the millenium bug that was supposed to end human kind as we know it, or that almost 4 years ago we watched the twin towers fall down, or 2 years ago i was walking across a graduation stage. time is going by so quick and i dont really know what i have to show for any of the time i have wasted. i think in my life it is time for some changes so that if i actually do have a purpose in life, i will find it and maybe change someones world for the better.

My whole body hurts, for some reason i thought it would be a good idea to jump out of this tree at camp into the water, well apparently where i was jumping and where i landed, were two completely different spots. I jumped off a tree at about 25 feet off the ground into about three feet of water. Do the math, 25 ft in the air+ my 6ft+my big butt-3 ft of water=one sore body.

"today is the first day of the rest of my life, i'm going to stop looking back and start moving on, learn how to face my fears. love with all of my heart and make my mark, i want to leave something here. Go out on a limb, without any net, thats what im gonna be about. I'm gonna be running when the sand runs out."

I'm off to Mcdonalds to get RICH!

Let me tell you about my stupid week. I was recently informed by the hickman county secretary people that i would not be paid or reimbursed for any of my work with the fire dept. until i have spent a minimum of four hours with a psychologist. So after already taking the one hour drive to nashville once yesterday, i helped my former boss prepare for fanfare- he hooked me up with some serious cash, i was told that i had to go back and talk to the psychologist or there would be no more fire runs for me. But the good news was i had lunch with megan, i got all my mowing done for the week, and thats about it. i wasnt worried about going to this woman, her name is Katie something, because in my mind i was like "i know what youre doing to me, i have taken like 10 hours of psycho. at lipscomb. give it your best shot katie you cant break me!"
Well it turned out to be a not bad experience. its something i have wanted to do, but i dont like to be forced into anything ever. i like to read on some level, but if you give me a book for a class and make me read it, i will not be able to remember any of it, even if it is a great book. So now i have to go back, in a week or two, and i think it might be ok! Because there is this one thing in psychology, i dont really care what it is, its about smart kids and dumb kids, you should think about it though, its kinda important.

Cayce arrives home on Wednesday, he is already out of the combat zone, so he is safe, thanks God for protecting him. He will be home for just two weeks and then he has to return. The 779th A.I.D. has also recently returned home from combat training in mississippi, they are an armored infantry division deployed out of C'ville. lots of great guys that i know from that group, they have a short stay at home and then back to mississippi and then probably on to iraq. i'm praying for all of them.

Camp Meribah is less than 24 hours and 15 minutes away from now. 11 am saturday the 11th day of june i move in to my humble little home away from home away from home (Lipscomb-Centerville-Camp) for the next 5 weeks! i have saturdays off so maybe you will hear from me and maybe not. Until the next time... always remember, when you come to a fork in the road, take it!

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

rain, nor sleet, nor...bullets?

A robbery attempt by a masked man and a gunshot wound to the leg didn't stop a pizza delivery man from making his rounds, pies in hand. Thomas Stefanelli, 37, said dedication to his job at Hungry Howie's Pizza kept him on the job after a struggle with a robber Saturday night left him bleeding from a bullet wound in his left thigh.Stefanelli arrived at a home only to realize it was vacant, police said. The masked man approached him, pointed a gun and demanded money. Stefanelli said he fought with the man, and two shots were fired. One hit Stefanelli, but he did not immediately notice.The shooter eventually fled with a second man."They figured they were going to make an easy mark by robbing a pizza delivery person," said police spokesman Joe Durkin.Stefanelli finally noticed his wound. His cell phone wasn't working, so he drove to his next delivery address, dropped off the pie and called his boss to ask him to call the police then went on to make three more deliveries.'It bled a little bit, not much,' he said. He was treated and released from a hospital.No arrests have been made, but police have identified several suspects, Durkin said.

I got stung by a wasp yesterday while i mowed, forced me into a half hour break. i thought i was tough

Look out world, here comes the clowns

my day was dumb so i wont bother you with all the details. tonite though i was driving down the road, and this crazy drunk redneck fellow was flagging cars down. so of course i kept driving. but i decided that the dude might need some serious help so i turned around. i stopped next to him and shined my flashlight in his eyes and told him to just keep back from my truck. he was in a really empty stretch of road where noone should ever walk at night. so i asked him if he needed help, and he said and i quote,"my sister and brother have their baby at the trailor and they are botch snorting cocaine, so i got out of there and i'm walking to the sherriffs office (which he didnt know was roughly a thirty minute drive from where he was)." so i call the police and they tell me to hold him there for a few minutes until they can get someone down. talk about an awkward conversation.
ME- So where you from
DUDE- Alabama, got any cig's?
ME-Nope dont smoke
(several moments of horrible, scarry silence)
ME- gosh cant be much longer till the police show up
DUDE- nope
(more moments go by, i think the guy might be plotting killing me and feeding my body to his inbreed children)
ME- So you been in tennessee long
DUDE- nope
(oh my gosh, he is going to kill me)
ME- How long you been walking
DUDE- i dont know
ME- Oh well you must be cold
DUDE- nope
(where is the cops when you need them, they are just waiting for me to be slaughtered by the drunk redneck, who also smells like the worst smelling thing you can imagine. think raw sewage wrapped in skunk, dipped in 2 month old mexican food, then you would have an idea.)

well after what seemed like forever the police finally show. i dont know what happened from there. seemed like a good idea to tell you all that though. But noone should ever attempt to do this, i am an untrained individual, but i also had my good knife and a pistol in the belt.

Also if COPS would have been filming for their next show this guy would have fit in b/c he had a mullet, and of course his shirt had gone missing!

i done seen that before

I just sleep for over ten hours and im still exhausted. I woke up early for church on sunday, and i spent the rest of the day in the pool, i am working on a water lifesaving course, but i'm not a lifeguard, for some reason. Then when that was over we decided we would play pool basketball until it was dark, that was tons of fun, my team dropped five games in a row. Then we proceded to pack up some scuba gear and flashlights, and head for a rock quarry and get some time under water. The coolest thing in the world is to crack one of those glowsticks under water, it looks like a million little green stars floating around. You should try it one day. And then i went to bed. What an amazing day.

Camp just five days away now. So...we getting pretty close, i gotta get some stuff together but i cant wait.

Just ten days until Cayce Griggs comes home from his one year stay in an extremely active military zone in Iraq. I cant wait for him to get here. He has been a great friend over the past years, and he was my big brother in the fire dept. when i first joined up. He has been in Baghdad for the last 4 months, Iraq for a year, but the poor guy had to spend a year in California before that, so he has been gone for a long time. So Cayce keep your head down for the next 7 days till you get out of there and come home safe to us. So we all really need to thank God for his safety, and keep praying for all of the other soldiers who are still there or about to be there. And if you know a soldier write them an email or send them a care package, Cayce says there is no better feeling while your there then to know that somebody really does care, and that your missed.

Follow through.... like a swan

Im kinda bitter, but the first step is admitting i have a problem. So i will probably never make it through the class.

So...lets try this once again

Well guys this is my second such post on here. Because i might be a small retarded child and forgot my password. I still like it though, this will probably be the highlight of my week!

So let me get this started on a positive note before we hit the lowlights of the week. I had another relaxing week, couldnt work much on account of the rain, today i helped some people move in and then hung out at my friends pool until just few minutes ago. I love my home friends, but they got nothing on all my lipscomb people (like all 4 of you).

Now to the crappy parts. One of my best friends got royally screwed but the university of tennessee basketball program this week. He has been signed to play basketball there for over six months, he was supposed to go start summer training and classes on tuesday, monday night Bruce Pearl, head coach, calls him and says dont bother showing up because he will not allow him to play. Now little matthew has done nothing to deserve this, he has busted his butt to earn this scholarship and they wait to the last possible minute to call him off. Thats dirty. Bruce Pearl if you should stumble upon my blog, go take a long walk over a short pier. I hope you get ran over by a semi truck. The entire UT basketball program is corrupt, they screwed the former coach, Buzz Peterson, and also three other people who signed in november with matthew. So good luck UT, hope your season sucks ass.

This has just been one of those weeks that you read about in magazines that tell stories about people who have crappy weeks. All the stuff with Matthew happened, i lost my journal that was 250 pages deep and i only had like 20 pages until it was full, i've had no energy all week, and i have just had a plethora of stuff on my mind all week. Have you ever had something that just wont leave your mind, it just chews threw your every thought, and when you findally get relief from it for like five minutes it comes shooting back through and seems to cut you even deeper than the first time? Thats kinda the battle i am going through with my mind, it left me for a while but then came back and shot my night down the drain.

Camp starts in six days from now!!! Cant wait, i am ready for some change already. As soon as camp is over we start the summer road trips, Hotlanta, Cinnci, The Lou, Washington, Philly, and wherever else my little mind decides i should go. Im pumped up for the next few weeks. well since i lost my journal i decided that i would really stretch this out. I love my friends, i love my dog, i love my music, i love my bed and thats where i am heading.

"if i could fly away then i wouldnt come back no more, i'd turn around just to see it for the last time, see now i know that it wont be easy. i've done fought through this battle and i done made it this far, its only three feet but its still the longest yard"