Prom and all that good stuff.
So, I guess I should talk about prom eh?
Let's start with Friday. Friday I woke up around 7 or so. Did some work, and then at 3 I went and picked up my tuxedo. Saw brady and jake there too. Put in some job applications.
Saturday... I woke up at around 7:15... I went early to wash the Car. I needed to get a post prom form so I tried multiple times to stop at the highschool and pick one up... first time.. around 9 o'clock.. no one was there. So I go and wash the car. That took roughly 2 hours. On my way back home, I stop by the highschool again... still no one there. So I go home and do some yard work. 2 o'clock rolls around and I head off to pick up Rachel's corsage(coursage?). After the corsage I head off to pick up Rachel and her mum some flowers. I do that.
After that I head back to the highschool.. and YES someone is there. I get a form, fill it out. I go home and take a shower and get into my tux. After manipulating the button thingys for the wrists.. My father took many pictures. I escaped from his grasp and headed off towards Rachel's. I had no trouble finding her house that time and actually picked the right drive way too! When I pulled in Rachel and her parents were outside taking pictures. Rachel had on an absolutely gorgeous dress, and she looked just stunning.
Her parents take some pictures, her mom fixes my shirt/pants and they take some more. Rachel nor myself much like pictures. Or rather as we described it... we dont mind them... just do not prefer them. I did give the flowers to Rachel and her mum first (hoped they liked them) and after the pictures, Rachel's parents took even more pictures of Rachel, and did some 'hair shots' for an aunt? We head off to my house so my dad can take some pictures. Eventually we get off to bradys around 4:30. we show up at bradys close to 20 minutes early and his mom says " I never thought I'd live to see the day"... She takes pictures of me and Rachel.She offers us some lemonade and we jsut wait for everyone else to show up. Brady and Tracey(tracy?) show up and bradys mom takes pictures. Jake and Hannah show up, more pictures. Cody and carie show up... more pictures... then we take the group pictures. boy girl boy girl... boy boy boy.... girl girl girl... they opt for some outside photos but we decline and boycot. We eventually make our way outside with minimal pictures taken and we head off.
We get to Bravo and we order and eat... Rachel was rather upset about her dress... I still say you can't see it. After dinner we headed off to schulers, and Rachel wanted this big soft stuffed ducky... but it was 50 bucks... and I couldn't afford that =(, so I got her the smaller one. Brady reminded me to take the receipt so she couldn't return it... Good thinking brady. We head off to Prom and get there with only a little bit of trouble, nothing much. Rachel and I danced for some songs and not for others. We all went outside for a walk and just goofed around... Follow the leader!! Near the end there was one last dance, and then we left about 15 minutes early. We headed back to bradys house and we all changed. I went back to my house for a pair of pants (which I had forgotten) and we get to the Post Prom around midnight. There was lazer tag, bungee thing, twister and coffee things. I played 4 games of lazer tag, 4-0. didnt lose (woohoo!!) I think the greatest victory was Rachel and I ( believe there was another kid... didnt really ever see him though) against phil and 2 other people. 28-13 win. We rock Rachel. Near 3:30 I started to think some things... thats why I wasnt smiling like I normally am. and I decided that it wasn't worth thinking about and started to have fun again. We all ended up laying on the floor. Jake and Hannah ended up falling asleep I believe. Rachel kinda dozed near the last 15 minutes... though brady wouldnt let her sleep. Phil did attempt to wake her up during that time... but I shooed him away.. I dropped Hannah off after passing her house, head off to jakes and drop him off. Finally drop Rachel off. And that was prom.. I actually had LOADS of fun, and thank you Rachel for inviting me.
Oh my god I'm bored.
The Keys to Your Heart
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You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. |
In love, you feel the most alive when your partner is patient and never willing to give up on you. |
You'd like to your lover to think you are optimistic and happy. |
You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. |
Your ideal relationship is comforting. You crave a relationship where you always feel warmth and love. |
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. |
You think of marriage something you've always wanted... though you haven't really thought about it. |
In this moment, you think of love as something you don't need. You just feel like flirting around and playing right now. |
Religion?
Lets talk about Religion today.
What is religion? is it peoples way of being secure? Is it so they can blame someone or something else for everything? Is it so they have something to believe in? Or is it so people can have a way on explaining what they cannot explain?
I believe it depends on the person. Many say that in the begining, God created the heaven, and the earth. you learn that god is timeless, and God is everything, but nothing. So, if god is the timeless being, then I wonder... who created God? If he was not created by someone or something else, how did he come to be? My mian problem with the Bible is that it leaves to many questions un answered, and too much room for skepticism. Alot of people... like me... Need proof of things to believe them... Most of the time. It is hard for me to take something "on faith". Then again, I also find the theory of how the earth was created to be a bit far fetched. No no.. there must be another answer that we have not discovered.
Many people cannot explain things that happen... like how the sun was created, or how the spacious vaccum of Space was created. So they look to a religion to tell them how. Then they are happy with "god made it that way" As a child, we're told "god made it that way" and it was all explained, no need to question further. Many people also look to religion for meaning, and security... For if there is no life after death, what becomes of us? Our natural instinct for self preservation makes us panic... what if I wont exsist anymore? what is the point? why should I be alive now? I must have a greater purpose. Many people look at these things that way.Speaking of God's. Why is it that Christians worship Jesus more than God? In church you hear songs of praise to jesus. In my life, I've heard maybe 2 or 3 songs dedicated to GOD. When we pray, we pray to jesus, when we end our prayer, we say it to jesus. Jesus was not the Christian creator, it was God. God controls everything.
Then there is believing. The need to know that someone or something is always there. Something to put out faith into. If we have nothing to put our faith into... then what are we faithful to? what do you believe? what do we look for when things go wrong? Now don't get me wrong.. you may think I dont believe in a God. Or I'm a sinner. No... this is not true. I simply do not believe the same way you do.
I believe there may be a God. What I refuse to believe is that this god spoke to men, and said "write this down". I believe the Bible was made by man. I believe that a God wants me to do what is right in my heart, and what is right in my mind, only when these 2 objects can agree, is when something is truely right. I do not follow the 10 commandments... I do not follow the bible. I follow my heart. I use my mind to determine what is the right, and the logic.
This has been my weekly(biweekly?) Matt Wisdom.
I THINK this is what I was supposed to do....
1. You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?
I never read the book..
2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Only the hot ones? Not really... Though when they kill off a a character I really like it makes me sad. poor flint!!!
3. The last book you bought was...?
...I buy alot of books.... I think it was one of the
Twin series from DragonLance.
4. The last book you read was...?
Bo
unre Supremacy. I did a book report on it.
5. What are you currently reading?
Dandelion Wine. We're reading it for english. I really dont mind the book. I can read it for a while. I'd even go as far to say that I like it. But it kinda makes me depressed. Because it makes me think of how old we've gotten and how we DO let things pass us by and we don't take the time to be who we are, we're too worried about who we want to/will be.
6. Five books you would take to a desert
island...
Five? The DragonLance Twin series (3 books), The Davinchi code (thanks for that one rachel), and.......
HARRY POTTER!!! just kidding.
Talen of the Silver Hawk7. Who are you passing this stick on to and why?
uhhh.... I dunno who reads this alot... I know Rachel does... but I wont pass it back to her.... I'll pass it to Katie and Becca R. because they do read it... or glance at it.... I hope this is what I was supposed to do, Rachel... if not... Beat me untill I fix it.
Band Trip
Just got back from band trip yesterday.
Bad News:It was a national Competition
Good News: We placed 1st
Better News: I recieved an award that says, out of every person that was there, that played my same instrument ( even in the other bands) I was the best. So there for. I r the bestest ContraBass Clarinet Player in the nation. (ok I doubt it was the WHOLE nation, but its nice to think so)
Wednesday night we left and it was a 8-10 hour bus ride. It was horribly long. I didnt sleep. Everyone else around me slept, and it was nice every couple of hours Emmaleigh would wake up and we'd talk for about 2 hours and then she'd go back to sleep. There are some of the most BEAUTIFUL mountain scenes I have ever seen. I'm not even kidding. It was gorgeous. So we finally get back to civilization around 8 am. we stop at a gas station to change clothes. We get back on the bus for another hour to drive for breakfast. We eat at a place called Shoneys. I ate a bowl of cereal. 6 bucks? wtf mate? we got back on the bus for about another half hour. We eventaully get to our hotel. My and my 2 room mates were on the 4th floor, cliff and his roomates in the room next to us, and Amber and her roomates right below us on the 3rd floor (remember those facts for later) We take a shower, and stuffs. We head back out and we go into a town. very small town, but many cool things. Not much detail there. We get back on the bus around 3 o clock. We head back to the hotel to hang out for another hour and get ready for dinner (we had to dress nice) so I wore khaki dress pants and a blue button up shirt. and my hat with all the pins (yeah try and take that away from me punks) so we go to dinner, lo' and behold we had to jump through hoops for dinner. we had to wait an hour before we could even be seated. so we listened to some horrible people sing. It was called "the Dixie Stampede" well we finally get seated in this huge arena area. and we watch this civil war thingy. They do a bunch of competitions to see who wins and blah blah blah ( keep in mind we were in the south ( tennessee)) we were on the north side, so we cheered for the north. We had to eat out dinner with our hands. they gave us a whole chicken,potatos, bread, soup, pork, corn on the cob. and then some thingy for desert. it was pretty cool. We go back to the hotel, and play around for an hour or two. Me and cliff get bored and we start talking. Amber comes into the room and starts to hang out with us. Well.. she had left her pictures in my room. So me and cliff go and play mission impossible, running down the hallways, and going down the elevator, we snuck past the security gaurd and returned her pictures. Once we are forced back into our own rooms and lights are out. I make a clever plan to send amber an note. except I cant leave my room. so I go out on the balcony of our room, and I put a message in a bottle, and tie duct tape around it... to swing it into her balcony. I get it in there *YES!* so, then ryan wants to send one to his girlfriend. Yeah... OK... we were out of tape.. so we were trying to get becca ( who was in ambers room) to throw the bottle and tape back up, there were 3 of us in our room trying to catch the bottle, and cliff and his roommates watching us on their balcony eating cookies. well becca is trying to toss it up, and then the security gaurd walks outside, all me and my roomates see him first, ryan runs into our room, laughing his ass off. I drop to the ground, and army crawl into the room, our other room mates toe got stuck in a crack, so he just plainly fell... cliff and his roomates all run for the door at once, and end up running into each other and spilling cookies everywhere. becca being oblivious didnt notice the gaurd untill he flashed his flashlight at her. Busted.
Well she only got a warning, and someone stole the guards report from the door or the conductor.
The next day we woke up early and went to breakfast, at a pancake house. It was really good. Except ryan freaking out. I started talking in a southern accent on accident when i was approached by a southern lady. We then proceeded to eat lunch and walk around somemore... oh my god... I found this huge ball beAring that was on top of some water. I swear I sat there for 15 minutes spinning it. we then had our band competition. We roxord! we went back to the hotel, and prepared to go on a hike. We drove about an hour with a tour guide, up a mountain. my ears popped. I talked to amber pretty much the whole way. I cant remember all the conversations but they were funny. We got to about 6644 ft. then we got off the bus and hiked up to the top of the mountain. it was hard... but awesome. Emmaleigh was my walking buddy. We got to the top, and took pictures and all that good stuff... it was awesome. and very pretty. on the way down, emmaleigh fell.. poor emmaleigh. We got back on the bus, talked to amber somemore, ears popped some more. so We finally get back to the hotel.. and have to get ready for dinner! *whew this is long* have to dress nicely again. Amber insisted that I wear my pink dress up shirt so we can match. So I did. We went to this Black Bear Jamburee thingy. where I sat at a table with emmaleigh, amber, chrstian, new kid number 2, and vincent. They played alot of comedy stuff, but they sang some songs too. they sang songs from broadway shows, and dances. They pulled Katie up on stage and danced the Twist with her. She had a short skirt on though, so I felt bad at that. well when she got off stage, I stole her cowboy hat, and gave her my hat with the pins. I wore that cowboy hat for the rest of the trip (thats right I was wearing a girls cowboy hat). We eventually left there and we went on a Wally World run (wal-mart). Me and ryan picked up these big blue buckets for our baskets, and RAN around the store, picking up survival supplies (pop, cheezits, kool-aid....etc) I had just grabbed the cheetos when this girl turned the corner right in my way as I was running so I stopped. and didnt say anything. she looks at me with such a disgusted look, and says "uh, excuse YOU" so I stood there, and gave her the absolutely funniest look ever. then I ran. We get back to the hotel, and Stephanie ( a senior) was told by a chaperone to make sure everyone picks up their trash, well Thomas(new kid number two) was back talking and giving her shit. As we were getting off one of the chaperones stops me and yells at me "you were being very rude to stephanie so you better have cleaned up" so I flatly told her "It wasn't me(at this point I showed her the trash I picked up) so dont blame me for something I didnt do" she proceeded "I dont care, you were very rude--" that set me off "look lady I told you it wasnt me so get off my back" and I got off the bus, and told my Band conductor the nature of th events. The chaperone didnt bug me the rest of the trip. Once we got into the hotel room (cliff was in my room for some reason) ryan was putting away pop, and thomas was standing there with a bag. I opened up on him. (just an hour before this emmaleigh had told me how I was her favorite because I had kept such a happy attitude during the whole trip) but I opened up on him. I started bitching about he must be trying to fuck things up and etc etc. I FORCED him to go apologize to stephanie for being a dick, i even escorted him. We got back, ryan looked at me "oh my god, I so saw that comming, I have been waiting this whole trip for you to snap". Well lights out came and I snuck onto the porch and the security gaurd was standing right outside, looking at our 3 balconies. I didnt get to send another note, because once he went inside, another gaurd showed up.
SATURDAY MORNING... jesus this is long. We woke up and had breakfast at the hotel. we them loaded all of our stuff and got on the bus, we went to DollyWood. a theme park. We rode a couple of rides, and then Right when I was at the very peak of the ferris wheel. the stop it. I'm just like "wtf?" and it starts downpouring. So Im up there and its raining, and then they start going backwards.. they were letting people off. they let the people behind me off... then start going forward again.... letting the people infront of me off. so basically I got twice as wet as everyone. So I was soaked, and it didnt really matter, So I just stood in the rain, rather than under a roof. We rode a couple more rides, and I eventually split off and hooked up with Becca R. Katie ( the one that got on stage... she as wearing my hat, and I was wearing the cowboy hat) we went and rode a roller coaster. I did everything but sleep through the first one. the second one. was freaky as hell. I sat next to katie. There was a drop that you couldnt see the bottom, and you couldnt see the tracks. It was hilarious. I saw us comming up on the drop, and I was just like "oh shit oh shit *holds out my hand* katie grabbed my hand, and we rode the rest of the ride. Luckily, i didnt squeeze her hand to hard ( i asked if I did). Yeah I'm a big softy.... I was scared I'll admit that. I know... leave me alone.. lol... so we eventually leave the park.. after being there for... oh.... 7 HOURS. We go to a nascar speedway. and we race go karts. this little kid cut me off on the track. I was so pissed. He ran to the same track as me and cliff after wards and guess who won?! MATT DID. BOOYA. It was raining so I was skidding all around the track, it was hilarious. but because it started to rain, they gave us 30 tokens to do with what we will. me and cliff shot a couple of deer of Dee Hunter, but then we found this game... by the end of it. we . we combined ours with another kid to have nearly 3000 tickets, and we just loaded it all. We bought so much small crap. I asked the lady "you spazzing out yet?" she told me "just a little" it was fun. We then found a simulator. they had manual shifters. oh my god. it was awesome. I took emmaleigh as my passenger and we raced other people. I got 3rd place, because I forgot to press the clutch once when I shifted and I stalled out. We then started on our way home after that.
We stopped on the way to get food. that took roughly an hour or two. so it was 9-10 pm before we got started driving. at 1 am we stopped at a rest stop. at 2 am we stopped to re-fuel, where.. because I'm such a gentleman I lent Donna my jacket because she had forgotten hers and was wearing a tantop. The same deal on the bus ride... I stayed awake... every couple of hours emmaleigh would wake up, sit next to me and we'd talk. We got home, unloaded all that jazz. FINALLY the trip was over. holy crap.
Monday (today) Katie never gave me my hat back untill band hour. She gave it back, and oh my god. it smelled. wonderful. I loved it. she said some of her perfume spilled on it. GGAAAHH thats enough to drive a guy insane. I refused to put it on, and smelled it the rest of the day.
YUP THATS IT... oh my god that was long.
Bought rachel this crystal horse thingy. Cassie a carebear ( they didnt have any nascar stuff at the nascar place) and then bekah a shot glass) We also spammed rachel with zillions of calls. We spammed bekah too... but with not nearly as much as rachel.
Stole this thingy from Rachel..
Your Birthdate: June 4 |
Being born on the 4th day of the month should help make you a better manager and organizer.
You may be more responsible and self-disciplined than you realize.
Sincere and honest, you are a serious and hard working individual.
Your feelings are likely to seem somewhat repressed at times.
The number 4 has something of an inhibiting effect on your ability to show and express affections, as feeling are very closely regulated and controlled.
You are apt to be much more practical, rational, and conscious of details.
There is a good deal of rigidity and stubbornness associated with the number 4. |
They have that whole emotion thing pegged. I can be stubborn but I'm actually pretty giving. They didnt say anything about sense of humor! I love to laugh/make people laugh. I also love to see people smile.
I've also come to decision. I'm never really depressed. maybe once or twice. but I'm usually either happy, or thinking. You may say... thinking isnt a mood. well for me it is. because my mood/temperment generally reflects whatever I'm thinking about. so If I'm thinking about something that isnt very happy.. then I might not be happy. but It's usually things I dont want to share with others (back to that emotion thing) or dont know how to share. but I'm always happy! Come on think about it. If i'm not laughing, or complaining (which I can usually go about doing in a funny way) I'm quiet and serene. anyone know what I mean? or am I wrong?
