Snow Day

Hey, I just wanted to give a little watsup to my homies... yea, yall are my homies, maybe talk about my weekend, and remove any accusations that I haven't posted in a while. Well, this last week has been great. It's amazing, now that I'm getting home on time, it seems like I have gained another half of the day. I've been doing random stuff in the afternoon like, for instance, cataloging my recorded tapes and setting up our new dvd player, just because I can. I'm so productive now! Well, Friday, the Sober Circle went to laser tag, bowling, then stayed at Alex's house. That's always fun. We were all buzzed most of the time from energy drinks and a 5 hour energy shot, so that added to the fun. I saw a hilarious comedian at Alex's, his name is John Caparulo. If you've never heard of him, stop reading now and look him up. I'll warn you that he does cuss, but most of his content is clean. Then, Friday night/early Saturday morning we watched the movie Boondock Saints. Don't worry, I hadn't heard of it either except when Nathan would mention it, it's his favorite movie. But, now that I've seen it, I have to agree, it's a kick-butt movie. I'm not gonna go ruin it by giving a summary, but once your done watching Caparulo on YouTube, you need to go out and rent this movie. You won't be sorry you did. Then Sunday it snowed, and I played outside with some neighbors, that's also always fun. Monday, we had a snow day, which is great. Cobb county didn't have the day off, which is sad for my cousin Chaz, but it kind of makes me feel good inside that, for once, Gwinnett wasn't the only school to open, it was Cobb. But if you read this Chaz, I was thinking about you. I spent the day mostly at home, and I went to see Fired Up with Celia. I don't recomend the movie, but I definetly couldn't complain about the company. Well, Ima let yall go, just wanted to check up. Take care!

Death to all Tyrants! (Collins Hill :( )

Hey, sorry about how this worked out. I was blogging Friday, but I lost track of time and Mom showed up and I had to leave to go to State and cheer on my teammates. Well, I'm home from State, I'm exhausted, and I'll probably have to finish this post tomorrow morning, but I'm happy. I really wish I had gone to State to match last year, it really has changed my idea of my priorities. I don't know what it was, but seeing the joy in every one's faces when someone won the match to place or something, it made me want that. I can hardly imagine hopping around on that center mat, with everyone watching, looking in the face of my family sitting in the corner of the mat during the finals. It has to be such a satisfying feeling and state of mind. Even just making it to State would be huge. I mean think, you make it to the show, even if you lose two straight matches and get out, your still top 16 in the state. That's really good. And with Brookwood being a AAAAA school, this is the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the botta of the bing (idk, I'm reachin'). This whole varsity wrestling experience is making me rethink next year. I'm kind of kicking around the idea of not playing football next year. I just have to wonder where I could be one year from now if I only concentrate on Wrestling, and I don't think playing, more like watching from really good seats, Brookwood football is worth not testing it out. I want to be sure that, when I'm done next year, I can know that I didn't miss any chances, and I'm afraid playing football will prove itself to have been a waste of time and effort. It is kind of sad to think of not playing that senior year, but I just think my passion for wrestling outweighs any benefits football will bring me.
But anyway, to the tournament. I have to say, this was some of the most exciting, intense wrestling that I have ever seen. The whole stinkin tournament was upsets. It was crazy. Brookwood had two people place, seniors Joe Epps, 5th at 130, and Corbin Neilson, 4th at 215. That was good, and they had some crazy matches, but I have to say, there were others that were great. For instance, there is a heavyweight from Union Grove names Mena who is half minivan. He's huge, and scary huge. He's cut as all get-out, built in a V shape, but has to cut weight to make 285. His shoulders are at least twice as wide as mine. Well, big shock, he was picked by many to win State this year. He had a rough match against some white kid, who's school I can't remember right now, and lost in overtime. Then yesterday, after pinning his first opponent in 8 seconds, met a sophomore from Central. Somehow, Mena was pinned in the 3th period, and we all almost passed out in excitement. But that wasn't the only intense match of the weekend, although I won't bore you with two many stories.
However, I will bore you with one more, in order to express the true feeling of the weekend and thus explain the title of this blog. Ok, Parkview and Grayson lost a special part of my heart the last few days. As of today, Collins Hill holds sole possession of the most disliked school in my mind. Those were the most obnoxious, snobby, good :(, loud, pain-in-the-butt, classless group of people I have ever had to spend considerable time with. Those stupid fans had every noicemaking tool and technique, and wouldn't shut up. They were considerably obnoxious. Seriously, it seems, no matter what team you were from, you cheered for the guy wrestling the Collins Hill kid. I cheered for kids from places even like Parkview and Grayson, just because they were wrestling Collins Hill. Then, they had 6 wrestlers in the finals. Well, they had won 5 and were waiting anxiously, but sadly not quietly for their 6th wrestler. He was a 215 from Valdosta, and was counted out from the beginning. No one figured that anyone could touch the kid from Collins Hill. However, the score was only 1-0 in the 3rd with Valdosta on bottom. Well, with about 40 seconds left in the match, Collins Hill started to stall. For those of you not familiar with the sport of Wrestling, stalling is when you cause yourself to get into a position where, while your not doing anything, the other wrestler can't do anything either. I you do this for over 5 seconds, you get warned. Do it again, it's a point for the other guy. Well, with I believe 37 seconds left, Collins Hill gets hit with a second stalling call. Now it's all tied up. This causes Collins Hill's little cheering section to flip. Their coach calls the Refs over to discuss the call, for a long time I might add, and my favorite part of the match occurred. Most people were pretty chill at this moment because all the other mats were done, so the AAAAA final was the only one going, and there weren't many Valdosta people there. Well, once Collins Hill's fans quited, the Collin's Hill wrestler waved his hands for them to cheer again. This causes them to chant something... I'm sure they practise that by the way. Well, in an attempt to salvage something, the Valdosta gives one wave to his small section of Valdosta fans. However, the entire arena, everyone from every school other than Collins Hill, stood up and started to chant his name. Most people didn't even know the kids name and had to look it up, but never fail, the Collins Hill people were immediately covered up. I loved it. Sure enough, after fighting for a little, Valdosta got an escape with 2 seconds left and won. The place went WILD. It was one of the moments you just had to sit back and observe. It was the ultimate David and Goliath story, only Goliath's obnoxiously loud friends and family were there to see it. It was great, and really put a capitalization point on a great tournament. Well, I could definitely sit here and talk about the tourney all day, but its actually really early Sunday morning now, and I need to go to sleep. But if you want to read more, you can always read the tiny one I wrote Friday, since I'm sure you haven't yet. Well, if you made it this far, thanks for reading all of this, I kinda got long-winded. Well, I'll blog again soon, till then, take care!

I'm doin' great, so I figured I'd brag about it :)

Hey guys, what's up? I'm sure hopin that we're all doing good. (By "we're", I meant ya'll, I'm just trying to make it more personal, like we're all together. I sure am clever, aren't I?) Well, today's Thursday, meaning my Wrestling season's officially over. I'm now entering the strange, blissful 3 month time period during which I'm not doing any high school sports. It's crazy, I start the year in football, then the school day after we lose some game we should've never lost due to crappy coaching, I start Wrestling. That wonderful sport lasts to, well, yesterday, unless I end up making it to State, which I definetly plan to make next year. Now, I get to chill out like a "normal" high schooler, only playing the extraordinarily chill sport of Baseball. Well, I'm done with bragging and it's actually Saturday night now, I'll explain, and I want to post a totally different blog on another subject, so I'm gonna rap this one up. I'll talk to ya'll again in like two seconds in my next post. See ya'll!

Just Checking In... I'm Bored :( Kinda...

Hey guys, what up? I just be chillin here at my crib and I figured I'd let my homies know what's crackin... Wow, I'm really white. Well, if you didn't quite catch what all that junk was, I'm just kinda relaxin at the house... the normal sunday... and I figured, it's been a while since I've blogged, why not do it know? I tell you, I love just chilling out here after wrestling yesterday, but I feel slightly stir crazy. Well, at least I can eat. My wresling season ended yesterday with a slightly dissapointing Area Championships on my part. It kind of stinks, but I'm ok. The parents aren't home, so me and Sam have been hangin' with Grandma for the weekend. They got a free cruise from my mom's work, so those lucky pains are relaxing in the Bahamas, but I'm not jealous (of those little jerks). But I don't care, I'm happy. I absolutly love life at the moment, everything's pretty good. I think... I've got chocolate milk, that's good. I love chocolate, and chocolate milk is most defenitly the best possible chocolate option for consuming in beverage form. And I finished that sentence in words that were unneccesarily lengthly.
No, but I really am good. Even dissapointments and short-comings aren't overly effecting. I seem to be able to allow things to roll of my back, which is normally my goal in life, but it doesn't normally just happen this well. But, I can't complain, cause that would be dumb. So, what to say now... well, if any of ya'll care, me and Celia's doing good. We're hittin 4 months together on Thursday, the 12th. It really is amazing, I didn't figure I could be with one girl for over a month. And next week is Valentines day (I probably misspelled valentines, but what ever) and that should be good. I had the SC over the other day (for those of you not 'in the know,' the SC is the Sober Circle, read the last blog) and, as normally happens, I picked up some new music. The biggest of which is a band called Framing Hanely, who does a rock version of Lil' Wayne's "Lollipop" and, since that song's so good, I listened to the rest of the album. It really is good, I'm real happy that I listened to Nate. Well, I'm afraid that I gotta go look for a new power cord for my cell online. It seems to have broken, so I have been keeping my phone off to save the battery. That is probably adding to the stir-craziness, I can't talk to nobody. Well, Ima run and I'll hit ya'll later.

Just a quick post

Hey, I just wanted to post something quick, I'm trying to do this more often, for some reason. So, how yall doin'? Well, you can't answer, but I'll assume the best. Well, I've been good, life's good, can't complain. We didn't wrestle last week, not something I really should be happy about, but it was ok. And, for some reason, we got Monday off. It was the best MLK day I've ever had!!! I took full advantage of my 3 day weekend (in January!!!). Saturday me and the family met Memaw and Granddaddy at the World of Wheels car show. It was cool, there were some cars there that I would die for. After that, we all went to Monterrey, which is always nice. Then, Dad dropped Memaw and Granddaddy off, and Me and Mom stopped and got Celia so we could hang out a while. I love seeing her and that was a great way to end the day. Only, it didn't end the day (didn't see that coming, did you?), after dropping Celia back off at home, I ran up to my friend Alex's to spend the night. We had another "Sober Circle" meeting, don't worry about the name, it's a long story, and I haven't seen Nathan, the third member of the SC, in a while, so that was cool. Interesting talking to Nathan, I tell you, but I love that kid, no matter how much stupid stuff he does. Sunday, after about 5 hours of sleep and getting home at 2, I basically just chilled out and watched football. Sadly, I felt pretty bad and feel asleep on the couch, so I couldn't go with Celia to church this week (sorry 'bout that God). Monday, which I had off (in January! I normally have to wait till the off season in March to have those), we had our first SC field trip. We hit the mall first, just Me, Nathan, his girl friend Emily, whom I had only briefly met once, Celia :), who had never met those other two, and Alex, who also was meeting Emily for the first time. Girl Alex, Alex's girl couldn't come to that part because she was riding horses. That was fun, kinda pointless, but fun. Everyone who was meeting people got along great, so we'll probably do that again. Then, we went to Chinese, minus Nathan and Emily, with girl Alex to eat, then we killed some time at Target. After that, we went to see Yes Man with Nathan, who rejoined the group. That was a great movie by the way. Well, I just wanted to just post something short and Mom's finishing dinner, so I'll hit yall later. Hope yall are great till then!

I just need to write

Hey, I don't know why, but I've been in a goofy mood lately, so I'm tryin maybe to just talk to no one for a while and maybe it'll break me out of this. This post will probably take a few days to write, it may never be posted, idk, but it should help me vent, and that seems to work with others. Well, um, to start off, me week so far's been good. It's thursday right now, and i wrestled yesturday. That was a little dissapointing, we didn't wrestle till 9 after showing up at 5, and we only got one match, not 2 as we were promised. I won my match by I think 6. My kid was stubborn and the ref stunk, I got punched and he didn't call it, but I guess I can't complain. Plus, I got Monday off so I plan on spending it with my girl, my best friend, and the girl that got me and Celia together. I'm pretty stinkin pumped. My guitar hero drums came in!!! I had to send them off before the first of the year because one of the cymbals didn't work. I had to write a paper tonight, but I definetly plan on gettin' those babies out tomorrow! Um, I've been listening to my Christmas music lately. The Flyleaf CD is awesome, I defenitly recomend it. The new Shinedown's great, he's got a great voice, and the Three Days Grace is good to. I wasn't totally sure what to expect with that one, but it is cool. I bought the Kevin Rudolf CD, and it is awesome. He is an alternative, punkish rock guy on Lil' Wayne's Cash Money Records and the mix of his amazing guitar skills and the rap beats makes a great mix. Seriously, look it up, its great.

Ok, well, what chould I talk about now? Um, I've been thinking lately and noticed something, I'm facinated by human behavior. I mean think about it, is there anything we as people are so connected with yet have such little understanding about? We can't even explain our own actions. I talked with my friend Derek the other day, Derek is one of Los Patos for those of you 'in the know,' about his Psycology class, and I'm so pumped to take it next year. I've also started to make a small list of people I would love to talk with, and they all have specific reasons to catch my attention. Ok, this is gonna take a strange turn because it is now Friday night, and I'm stuck at home while all my friends are at the basketball game. I also want to take a second to describe the mood I'm in right now. Today, friday, the lunch had asian bites. For those of you not familiar with asian bites, they're the best things the school can possibly serve. And they used to be served on Tuesdays (sorry for the random capitalization of week days, I'm not sure if they're supposed to be capitalized, so I figure if I capitilize half of them, I'm garenteed to get half of 'em right). Well, being tuesday, I could always be safe in the knowledge that I could work them off before making wieght, and I could splurge on them a little. Well, at fridays, I can't always take that chance. However, I don't have to make wieght till next friday, so I enjoyed my lunch today. Then, I recieved the news that I don't have practise MLK day, so I'm going to Discover Mills and a movie (I might have mentioned that earlier, but I can't remember and I'm too lazy to check). Third, we just had pizza and cinnamon sticks from Papa Johns. So, for the first time, I had asian bites today, have a three day weekend staring at me, and am completely full of pizza and sweet, beutifully dellious breadsticks, and it's JANURARY! I normally have to wait untill March to be like that. Ok, sorry, well I've kind of lost interest in what ever it was I was talking about.
I'm so happy. Woah, the font changed, what the heck?!? All I did was press enter. Oh well, it's a nice change. Well, I just wanted all of yall to know that I'm living a pretty good life lately. I don't know why, and I can't say I'm always happy, my emotions are all jacked, but I have to say, life is treatin' me well. Things just seem to work out for me. It just seems like, although I'm busy and stuff can be pretty much a pain in the butt, wait, the font just changed. I'm serious, I'm not changing any thing, the font is just randomly changing. But anyway, I'm really digging my life and everything about it. Those who are close to me may know this, but I wouldn't trade anything if I had the chance. I always see others sturggling through life or dreading every morning, living only with the idea of getting through the day, not enjoying the day when it is here. Ok, well I've rambled enough, I feel pretty straight now, thanks for listening, even if you didn't. I'm glad to know yall care, take care.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Hey, how yall doin'? I know I ended my last blog, which i wrote ages ago, with "I'll talk to yall later." And it's a lot later. But i can explain. You see, after my last blog, I had the whole Christmas thing, and I didn't want to go on my computer much. And by the way, Christmas was great. It never fails to be the best time of the year. I love it. It's also funny that, although I loved everything I got, one of my favorite, most surprising gifts was a text book from the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) in my stocking. I literally teared up when I got it. Ok, to get back on track, after Christmas, my power cord to my laptop broke and I just got a new one today, so I'm just now able to blog again. Ok, well life is still as it was, I'm just trying to live with what I got. Celia's doing good. We hit three months tomorrow (Jan. 12) and I'm loving every minute of it. Wrestling still drags on. It's fun, just tiring. Its slightly depressing to think that, of all year, I've only gone home at the bell twice, once to get my license, and once to study for my LA exam, which I owned. Otherwise, I've had a sports-related obligation every day this year. That's an entire semester of staying after. I'm really starting to look forward to March, when I enter my 3 month vacation with only 2 days of loose football workouts a week. Most of the time, the bell's gonna ring, and, having learned to do most of my homework in school, I'm gonna have an entire afternoon free to do what ever it is I want to do. I'm so pumped. But, at the same time, I'm gonna miss the sports. It really is a terribly wonderful paradox. I always have something to look forward to.
However, all of this thinking to the future has me stuck in yet another attempt to define the world. I've been thinking, does it make me greedy or irresponsible to live, at least for now, to enjoy myself. Does it make me a lesser, irresponsible person to live for fun and enjoyment. Even as one ages and must take on the responsibility of others dependent on you for their very survival, aren't you living to enjoy yourself? No, of course not, you say. How could that be figured with all the sacrifices that must be made to provide a wonderful life for others? Well, I'm definitely not in a position to speak from any experience on this subject, but from what I see out of my parents and their actions, I have to figure that, although it is hard and you personally might not be doing what you want to do, don't you enjoy seeing the enjoyment that is brought forth from your sacrifice. I don't want to sound like a freak, but you show me someone who doesn't become happy watching a small child smile, and I'll show you someone who knows no happiness. You need other examples, I got 'em.
If any one of you out there has every practised a sport, you know that practises normally stink. It's no fun to have to go out there and work and review trivial things constantly. But, it has been discovered on many occasions, the feeling and enjoyment in winning that game knowing you've worked hard to get there far outweigh those with no effort tied into it. To be frank, I have decided to live the life I wish to live, I will live my life to the fullest and work to enjoy every minute of it. I feel that that's honestly a common goal among people, just it isn't commonly referred to. Greed and the idea of being characterised as greedy or selfish is a deep fear among people. But really, the idea of living for your own enjoyment isn't greed. As long as you keep the priorities in mind, it can be just the opposite. One just has to keep in mind, at least in my opinion, that helping others better enjoy life brings pleasure to yourself. Helping others always seem to help yourself, and that's probably a driving force behind some of the happiest, most successful people alive. Well, I'm gonna go eat Mexican food, sorry for making this a little long. Thanks to those who read this whole thing and can try to take it as it is. I'm not trying to be an all knowing person, I'm just trying to figure out my life when the world still has a little innocence. Many wise man have noted that the most honest and true observations have come from those the youngest. I'm just trying to help myself in the road ahead and, if i happen to hit on anything worth while, help those reading this. Ok, well now I'm really going, Ill try to post again soon. Until then, just try to enjoy yourself, I feel it'll help out in the end.