Hobo Hunting

So tonight I uploaded Hobo Hunting. Here's the story behind it.....

So last year, a few of my cousins came over for some reason. In the afternoon sometime, they're like, "we're gonna go hobo hunting" and I'm like, "ok whatever, I'll be at home". So they went off... and had no idea what they were doing. They get back a few hours later with video footage. I'm like, "really?" Thinking in my head that they are just crazy people. So I took the camera, and watched the videos they took. I soon realized, they made a documentary! o_O

I told them I would put the videos together to make a movie out of it, and I did. I just finished it the other day and am putting it on facebook as I'm writing this blog. So I guess now it's on facebook, so take a look! =D

Summer!

Now that is it summer, I have no school or volleyball or anything planned.... it's pretty awesome. Unlike last summer, which was packed from the start, I have not a whole lot of plans for this summer. That basically means that I can relax and do whatever. I can't wait until I get my laptop, which will probably be in August because according to my mom, there is a week where there is free tax on school supplies. No one else I know has even heard of such a thing, so I don't know if it's true or not. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Let's go USA in the World Cup!

1.5

So wow, I haven't blogged in a while.... I've just been overloaded busy with things everyday, it's truely been pretty insane. It's really hard to believe now that I only have 1.5 days of high school left. The best part is, my summer is basically WIDE open. Yeah I'll be working a bit, but I only work a few days a week for a couple hours each day I work, so it's not too bad at all. So pretty life for me has slowed down alot, basically from a running sprint now to a jog... It's still pretty fast, but it feels A HECK of a lot better.

Yay summer! =D

hmm, idk what to title this one

So it's hard to believe that it's May already, that means just 1 more month until I'm done with high school =D. It's gonna be bittersweet. I can't wait until school ends.... For some reason Mr. Richardson is making Bio alot harder, I'm doing bad in Sports Lit because I never read, and I'm failing spanish right now because we just got done doing all of our AP practices (I'm not even taking the AP test) and AP practices are impossible and I fail them every time. I also just got done dealing with huge prom drama that I've been dealing with for over a month now. Volleyball is becoming annoying because I'm ALWAYS sick now and I can never practice without coughing up a lung. I'm also getting worse because I can never fully practice, so I'm way behind everyone else. Then there is work... I'm always scheduled for bad hours that I've asked off, so I'm always trying to figure things out with people to switch. For youth group, it seems that since I've become a peer minister, I've barely been able to come to events or drop-in because of all the other things I'm involved with.

Hopefully when summer comes I'll be able to finally relax....

Palatine Invite

When we play our game, we kick serious butt. When we dont, we lose every single time... that's just how our volleyball team is. Going into friday night to start the Palatine Invite, we knew we would have a challenge ahead of us if we were going to win.

Friday Night

Match 1, on the Main Court vs Prospet - for some reason we came out playing with zero sense of urgency. We looked like a team that didn't care and didn't want to be there. I'm not sure what we were thinking about, but it wasn't volleyball. We let a pretty good team beat us like we were a horrible team.... we lost in 2 games

Match 2, on the North Shelf vs Libertyville - We had beaten this team in 2 games this past monday. We came out a little more focused than vs Prospect, we looked like a good volleyball team. We made a lot less errors and made a lot of great plays.... we win in 2 games

Saturday

Match 1, on the main court vs Maine East - To qualify for the winners bracket and have a run for the championship we would need to beat this team, otherwise we would be then going for the Consolation at best. We came out strong with an early lead and looked like we were a lot more focused than our match vs Prospect the night before.... we win in 2 games

Match 2, on the south side of East Gym vs Stevenson (semi-finals) - We knew they'd be a tough opponent. We started off losing 1-5 or something like that, but then kicked back to playing our game and went on some sick runs. Emotions on the court and on the bench have never been greater and it was one of the best feelings to be able to be apart of it.... we rocked them in 2 games to move on to the finals! =D We would vs the winner of the Fremd/Prospect match going on at the same time as us.

Match 3, on the Main Court vs Prospect (the championship!) - I don't know what it was, but we didn't come out firing in the first game vs Prospect. We made things difficult for ourselves. After having high energy and emotions during the Stevenson match, idk... maybe we just used it all up, because we we're the same. We made the most errors our team has ever made in one game for the entire season. They ended up winning the first game 30-28 (extra points because you have to win by 2) 13 of their 30 points were because of our stupid errors, just imagine if we made like 2 less errors.... So game 2, we played a little better. We didn't make as many errors and started playing how we do when we win. Still those high emotions weren't there, but they were better. We went back and forth with them for awhile, but then pulled away when we started playing alot better winning the second game 25-18. Game 3, we came into the game telling the bench and the players on the court to just go buck-nasty. Why hold anything back, right? It was game 3 of the championship game. We started off really strong and playing REALLY well. Our bench was going insane and the players on the court were doing the same. We started with a lead and just kept on charging, I don't think we held anything back. We won the third game 25-12, give or take a few points for them. But point is, we killed them and won the Palatine Invite! =D
It's amazing how we can put teams away when we actually play how we're supposed to. It was the first time Palatine had won their invite in a LONG time...

crazy person

So yesterday at work there was this guy who's always been coming in to play basketball recently. He's a newer guy in town, his drivers licence says he's 18 years old and he moved in from Arizona last fall. He came in and asked for a basketball, so we gave him one in place of his PPD ID, which is what we do to give out balls at the park district. He then went on the shelf by himself so he can run back and forth on the full court. He seemed to have a bad temper because alot of times when he's miss, he slam the ball against the ground or the wall. Eventually he came down and said, "Can you guys just hang onto my ball? I'm not done, I'm just going out for a quick smoke." I gave him the "wow, really?" look then let him be on his way. He came back like 5 minutes later, we gave him his ball and he went back up. When it was time to close (this is like 10 minutes later) He came down, gave back his ball and we said "alright thanks, have a good night." and he's like, "Oh I will, I'm getting drunk!" Me and my co-worker were like, wow....

So yea, there are some crazy people who come in for open gym at the park district

PAFA? are you there?

So today I had work at 7

After volleyball practice I hurried home, grabbed some food, grabbed my work clothes, went off to the community center to get the key to the senior center where I worked today, then off to the senior center. Phewsh... what a rush I was in. So I got there around 6:45, hoping I would have enough time to set up the room before the PAFA people came for their meeting. So by the time I get the room set-up, it's like 7:10ish or whatever, and I'm wondering where the people are. I then go back and sit at my desk near the door, wait for the people, fill out the time sheet, and start my homework. At around 7:30, I'm like hmmm..... no one is here. I'm the only one in the builiding, and I have the only car parked in the parking lot. I then go down to a phone and call my boss, Mr. Vito Manola (the guy at the park district who runs for mayor but will never win), and tell him that no one, is here. So he tells me to just wait like 15 more minutes and then call him back if no one shows up. At 8 I call him back, no one is here for the meeting and I'm still being a loner in the building all by myself. He tells me to just put the room back how it was (ugh, that means re-do the set-up that takes 15 minutes) and then I can leave. I fixed the room super fast like the 10-second-tidy from The Big Comfy Couch! =D (don't pretend you don't know, you all remember that show) After that, I packed up my stuff, recorded 2 hours on my time sheet like he told me to do, then went home. Of course when I left it started pouring rain. I had to also bring the key back to the community center.

So that's it, just another story to fit in a blog =)

who invented sick?

Ugh, so thursday I starting feeling crappy. My head was spinning, I was tired, and idk, I just didn't feel good all day. I'm glad I didn't get to play in my volleyball match, because I probably would have passed out on the court.

I wake up friday morning.... well, afternoon.... I got up at like 12:30ish. (you're probably thinking, wtf?) I got up so late because I felt so horrible. When I'd pick up my head, I felt SO dizzy, so just layed back down. So at 12:30ish when I got up (ugh, it was a struggle even walking around when I was up) I took a shower, it slightly helped. I then went downstairs to try and eat breakfast. I first drank some orange juice, then was about to make a bowl of cereal but I felt like throwing up so I went back up to my room and layed down. When I got back to my bed to lie down I didn't feel like throwing up anymore, so I went back to sleep. I slept until around 3:30 and got up, still feeling like crap, but I went downstairs to try to eat something. I ate a bowl of cereal and drank some more orange juice, and I guess I felt a little better. I was worried that I would have to miss Stations of the Cross later that night (I have to be there at 6), so I was really hoping I would feel a bit better so I could go. I tried to stay up and walking around so I'd have enough energy to go, so I just layed down and watched TV until 5ish. I then ate dinner with my family, kinda feeling better, after that I took another shower and got ready to go. So I eventually decided I was well enough to go, so I went. I got to STV and I didn't feel that great still. I told people that I would be leaving around 9:30-10 and not staying for the lock-in because I'm sick and I have practice at 8am the next morning. Stations went well (I know, I'm really anti-climatic at times) but I felt so cramped up and I actually started to feel worse as the night went on. After the performance I stayed around for like a half hour, then went home. I went right to bed feeling exhausted....

Ugh, such bad detail again, I'm not feeling that great still anyway... but it's getting late so I have to cut it short, I can't be up too late because tomorrow's Easter! =D

This is such bull-shift...

So me and my cooworkers in for quite a predicament. It was originally scheduled as this.... Kristin works thursday 7-10, Terri works monday 7-10, I work friday 7-10.

I have stations of the cross friday night, so I need to find someone to switch with. The next day, Kristin gives me a fb message asking if I can switch for her thursday shift for my friday. I'm like "oh my gosh, yes please! lol, I needed my friday shift switched anyways =]". So we switch shifts. I later realize that I cannot work thursady, I have a volleyball match (I even told my boss I couldn't work that day, wow I'm stupid), So I find another cooworker, Terri, if I can change for her monday for, now, my thrusday. She says yes. She calls me yestderday and tells me that when she got home after I told her she found out that she can no longer work that shift, she's called everyone and NO ONE can work that shift. I tell her that I could come and work after my vb match, but we have our match at 6 at Wheeling so I'd be late getting there. She tells me she'd take of it.... We need to have someone besides the shift leader there tomorrow at that time becasue thursday at 7 there's open gym volleyball and it gets REALLY hectic, so we pretty much need to have 2 people there at that time when people come to pay (everyone pays the $5 fee for volleyball, and there's always like 40 people coming in AT 7.

Even though she'll take care of it, I feel horrible becasue I didn't give alot of notice to change shifts. I'm always changing shifts every week for something and it sometimes messes things up like how it did this week. My boss tells me it's fine, but that I need to be more organized with my schedule. I'm always thinking about a thousand things each day and I often forget things.... ugh, I gotta get better at that

Permit: part 2/Pizza

Today I feel very boring. I don't feel like writing alot. Today I will talk very anti-climatic.

So I went to school to get my parking pass, but they had no stadium lot passes left. They told me that they would let me know if one comes in, or I could buy some of the main lot passes for a reduced price. 3rd period I got a pass to go down to the attendance office to get the pass they had for me. I went during lunch to get the paperwork out of my car. I came back and got the pass.

Later I had to deliver 20 orders of volleyball pizza fundraiser that came in. I was able to put them all in my car thankfully. My coach said to come back to practice if you can, but don't worry if you can't. I was able to deliver all the orders to the people in an hour. I came back to practice around 5:15.

I don't know, today I had lots to do, even more than I said but right now I just don't feel like writing in detail; I'm kinda tired.

Parking Permit

Part 1:
So today was the first day in which I was able to drive to school. It was also the first time that I had the ability to drive the new 3rd car that my family recently obtained. Driving to school for the first time felt really relaxing, feeling the wind in my hair (not really), taking my dandy ole' time not having to be rushed, and having to park in the stadium lot. If you're one of those luck suckers who's had to park in the stadium lot, you realize that it's quite a hike to the school. Now it doesn't look too far, it looks like it's just down the road, which is true; try walking it carring a backpack over your shoulder and an athletic bag on your hand in the brisk morning cold. It feels like you're walking a mile. Dodging cars as you stroll through the main lot where all the.... (how do I say this nicely) "underclassmen" have their fancy schmancy cars and cute little main lot parking passes that their mothers most likely paid for. So yea, walking to the school from the stadium lot is quite an adventure for me.

Part 2:
During lunch, I was talking to one of my friends about how today was the first time where I was able to drive to school. Knowing that it's free to park in the stadium lot, I was just like "mu ha ha, I park in the stadium lot for free" and she's like "oh, so you have the parking pass, right?" I'm like, "say-ya whaaa?". She's like, "uh, yea... you need a parking pass even to park in the stadium lot, otherwise you could get a ticket and it's a $20 fee." Alright so now I'm freaking out.... This would happen to me. I drive to school for the first time, and now I'm about to get a fricken' ticket.... wow, fml. So I ask her where to get the pass, and she tells me to go in the Attendance Office. So I make my way out to the Attendance Office where all the mean ladies work and yell at you for asking them a question. So I go into the office, and ask one of the ladies where you get the sheet to fill out to get a pass. She tells me (probably thinking I'm a dumbshit for wanting a parking pass 2 months before school gets out) that they're in the bin right in front of me. I grab one and go back to lunch. I'm kinda worried for the rest of the day thinking what's gonna happen if I get a stupid ticket.

Part 3:
After volleyball practice, I was really thinking to myself "crap..." because I knew I would get back to my car, and there'd be my first ticket sitting peacefully on the windshield. I'm walking ever so slowly, thinking about how this is such an epic fail. Once again I'm dodging cars racing out of the main lot. I get to where the tennis courts are, and a car honks and waves as they pass by. I'm alone, walking by myself to my car. Oh crap, I have work at 7, almost forgot (I'm thinking about random things during my walk). I get to the stadium lot. For some reason, that car that honked is following me around now. He drives around and pulls back and asks if I need a ride home (yea, there's no way Brian Theis drives a car, he must be walking home). I'm like, "nope I drove here, but thanks though!". He drives off. I can see my car now, it's all the way at the end. I creep closer thinking about that stupid ticket I'm about to get. Ugh, this is such a fail... this would happen. I then get to my car.... DUN DUN DUN!!!!!! I can't find the ticket. I'm like, hmmm, it's probably hidden somewhere. So I look everywhere for the ticket. Yes, I am looking for the ticket, just in case. I can't find it anywhere. Hmm, maybe I didn't get a ticket after all =). I felt so awesome! I would have been so mad if had gotten a ticket. So I get into my car and drive home. I head home, grab something to eat and head off to work.

THE END

Holy wow it's a been quite a long time....

So yes, I haven't had a post on my blog in.... uh.... I don't know.... mucho months? Thanks to one of my dear friends, I was able to obtain the thought to come back to blogging.

So what happened with me today? uh, let's see....

1) I had work at 6:45 am... ugh, it was so boring
2) I went home to take a solid hour and a half nap
3) I drove people around like crazy to their friends house, or where ever else they needed to be
4) I did some homework.... yes, I said homework.... ugh, so much for spring break
5) I sat around and did like nothing for the rest of the day, learned a new song for guitar but that's like it
6) OH! well, this could probably be like #5, but oh well... but I saw Duke win over, idk whoever they played (just goes to show how much I actually pay attention)
7) I wrote this note.... mu ha ha ha!

so I guess that's pretty much it... ugh, school tomorrow. Oh well, I might actually get to drive for the first time ever! =D