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Hurray!! I get a break of sorts! I don't have to be around the children at the Y this week! However, I'll be busy working my ass off at WCU doing Broadway in the Mountains with Terrence Mann, Charlotte and Christopher D'amboise. Should be hell, which is great. I know I'm gonna love it =) Early mornings and late nights. Runs from 7am to 10pm each day. Im gonna be tired...
So, won't have a computer up there I don't think, so, I'll catch all you guys later!
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this is just wierd.
so very very wierd...
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OH, it only that were true...
So, my summer has been a complete disaster, but there are days that I feel like (as Andrew put it) me head is about to Asplode. I don't know how much more of this I can take, especially with Christina gone till mid August (I am very lonely without her)
Now, things aren't really all that bad, but its not been easy, I just really need a break from this kids, which, will thankfully be coming the week of July 29th - August 5th when I will be up at WCU for "Broadway in the Mountains," presented by Terrence Mann and Charlotte D'amboise (I think thats spelled properly) so that should be a refreshing, yet equally exhausting week.
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so my Floyd Collins anthology book arrived yesterday (super happy!!!) and I went to pick it up from Dad's. The thing is massive, close to 300 pages of music and all sorts of wonderful stuff. So I did that and then started driving towards troutman, got a call from Lesia and Robert (of Clater-Kaye fame) and set up times for a private session and with a class time. So now I'll finally be taking classes with them (should have been doing that since last year, oh well...) So I am fairly happy right now.
I really miss Christina, being away from her for another 4 to 5 weeks sucks, but then I think about my good friend, and older adopted sister, Jessica. She married her husband and was with him for 26 days afterwards before having to see him shipped back off to Iraq (I hate that war and the man running it) until November of this year. They were married last March, and she's gotten to see him once since then. What a crock to have served a full tour of duty, get married, sent back and then only granted 2 weeks of leave on your second tour of 15 months (which is longer than its supposed to be. Tours should only last 12 months)
I can hardly imagine how terrifying it must be for Jess. I can sit around and think about something happening between Christina while she is away and us breaking up (a thoroughly horrifying thought) but I can't even begin to fathom what it must be like to only have 2 phone calls a week from the person you're married to, and also going to sleep each night with the thought, "I might get 'that' phone call tomorrow morning." Just imaging myself in her shoes is about more than I'd ever want to handle. Jess really is an amazing person and someone to look up to for strength and encouragement in times of trouble. I just pray the she gets the safe reunion with her husband she so enormously deserves.
I guess thats enough rambling for now. I'll catch everyone later.
Peace. |
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so work is fairly stressful. theses kids nearly wanna make me commit infantcide. Now, as horrible as that sounds, you've never met my kids. I seem to have all but one of the really troubled kids in my group, and just a quick count in my mind there is about 6 of them with some real problems it seems. From limited connection to reality, explosive anger and near juvenile deliquency to a 5 year old mentality (I have the 10 - 12 year olds) Thank goodness one of them is easily distracted and another seems to be making great strides in behavior. Also, Sandy told me that I've been doing a wonderful job of handling the kids, and that made me feel quite a bit better.
So, moving on, yesterday the camp took a trip up to Greensboro to go to Celebration Station. It's a whole Arcade/put-put/go-karts/bumper-boats set up thingie. We were there for roughly two hours, played some DDR and a round of put-put with one of the kids. Overall it was a rather enjoyable day (side note: one of my trouble kids was sent home right as I got into work, probably made my day much easier)
so yeah, here I am sitting at my brothers computer, still waiting on my dead laptop to be fixed and getting ready to hop in the shower before driving out to Troutman, NC for a TEC meeting.
So.... I guess thats all for now, later people. |
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So, I spent the weekend up in Cary hanging out with people I know up there (Kiersten, Alura, Aaron and company) and I must say it was rather refreshing. It was nice to get out and get away from Hickory and a normal boring routine of Work, WoW, Sleep. Literally, for the past 3 weeks thats is all that I had done (save for the last week that I got to spend with Christina). Other than that, I've just been playing waaaaaaay too much World of Warcraft. I should possibly be spending atleast 1/10 of that time cleaning. Should I do that I could probably have the house cleaned in like 2 weeks of just a bit of tidying up everyday. Then from there it would be a simple matter of just cleaning up after myself in real time and not letting all that crap pile up to where it takes a whole day of power cleaning to get shit done.
In other, but related, news, hanging out with Aaron was probably the most fun I've had in quite a while. It's just nice to be able to hang out with "one of the guys" for once. (Christina, Kiersten, Alura and Kritine I love you guys so very much but man time is very important) Just sitting back and chatting and watching the Boondocks (hilarious) was just absolutely wonderful time. It was like hitting the reset button on a lot of things in my life that had been bugging me, and got me out of my Work-WoW-Sleep mode. (nothing wrong with it, but real people > WoW)
So yeah, I have no idea when I am working this week, so I guess I'll be getting up early and heading in to find out.
And on that note Im off to sleep cause its already too late as it is.
Night everyone. |
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Man, its been forever since I last updated, bunch to tell and no brain to write it down, so we shall do this quickly.
Been working as a counselor at Hickory YMCA. Has its ups and down but usually leaves me wanting to throttle small children. Oh, if only this were 50 years ago and "discipline" was still legal. You would be amazed at the kind of lies some kids tell and how rude and misbehaved they can be. I can't really punish them on my own and the only thing that seems to work is, "would you like us to have a chat with your [insert parental unit here]?" And even then, that only works for an hour at max. I'll live, I've got about 7 weeks left with the little monsters, I can make it... I think... =\
I've been playing a ton of World of Warcraft lately cause thats just about all I've had to do other than go spend time with Christina, but now that she is away til mid August, my time with Warcrack shall probably increase greatly as I have just about nothing to do here in Hickory but go to work and come home and play WoW. The only people that call me and want to hang out live in Asheboro, Cary, and Mississippi which are 2, 3, and 8 hours away respectively. So my prospects of just hanging out with friends are slightly limited at best, but life goes on anyways =) (and that is a good thing)
Random anecdote: While swimming with my kids in the pool they were playing with one of those underwater torpedo things that can glide through water for a good number of feet then sink to the bottom. Well, silly me decided that it would be a good idea to dive after one in the 8 foot end of the pool. Now, I wear contacts so I can't really open up my eyes under water as it stings beyond reasonable limits and dries my contacts out very swiftly. So I set myself up over the little torpedo thingie and swam on down to the bottom. The only problem, is that I forgot to put my hand out to catch the bottom of the pull, and in doing so I managed to make a painful face plant into the bottom. (I strongly advise against doing this)
Busted my nose a little bit and scraped my upper lip up some. Not fun.
So yeah, thats pretty much it.
Later all =) |
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May. 17th, 2007 @ 01:01 am
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Perhaps you might enjoy this.
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Apr. 27th, 2007 @ 02:56 pm
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SO yeah, quick update before I go do other things like wash my face and put my contacts in (hooray for fake eyes!!)
Yesterday was 5 months for Christina and I (huzzah)
I was in Orphans at HCT (Jan - March) it was well received and had a fun (huzzah again)
I am going to be a show about King David (I'm David) through Christ Lutheran and Playmakers for Christ (not so huzzah)
I don't much like CVCC at all except for my Softball class (no huzzah's for this one)
Excluding the following people (Christina, Ben, Brandon, my brother, and the CVCC MTG crew) there is no one in Hickory that seems to give a rats ass anymore or wants to hang out. (huzzah's to the ones that do, no huzzah's to the ones that ignore me) *perhaps more on this one later, perhaps not*
I am anxiously awaiting my re-acceptance letter to WCU (long story, can be paraphrased) to come in the mail (half-huzzah)
I really need to do some laundry and cleaning on this house (sarcastic huzzah)
uuhhh... that seems to be about the only things I can think of for now.
In theory I am going to try and update more often with recent events still being recent on my mind. No promises though as I am such a lazy turd these days.
Anyways, cheers!Current Music: The Secret Garden |
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