Do others feel like there's something extra special planned for them in this thing we call life...
How others see me...
How things can seem so tough at times even while I feel that I'm meant to do some special stuff in my lifetime...
Why I worry so much about others feelings...why I feel like I need to be the one to be there for them and help them with whatever they're going through, even if I don't really know them very well...(maybe I'll blame this one on being related to my mom)...
Why some jackass (or jackass-ett) had to steal my front bike tire (road bike) from atop my car...maybe its a blessing in disguise, it means more time playing basketball and less time riding until I can scrounge up some more money...
How I can not care so much about money. I mean, money is essential to survival. I don't seem to care though. I usually know when I have some but couldn't tell you how much (and its not unusual for me to be overdrawn even though I make a good amount of money for a college student). I use a program on my computer to help keep track, but its almost never up to date. Damn these bills I'm supposed to have paid...
More to come in the next days....until then...stay classy (insert your city name here)
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Friday, November 26, 2004
Happy Turkey Day...a bit late
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope yours was half as great as mine.
Here's what went down in the Reynolds household in Odessa, MO. Lots o' food....I'm sure there was more and much tastier food than you had. Sorry, that's just the way it is at our house.
So grandma, grandma and grandpa, Sarah, Scott, Tracy, Booger, mom, dad and myself had a wonderful meal. The kind of meal you dream about when you're at mcdonalds taking a short break from work during the week.
Scott brought over "Elf" starring my man, Will Ferrell. Watched some of it and slept through part of it on the couch. Then booger and I went to see the Plaza Lights get turned on. Good stuff! If you've never seen the plaza lights you must go see them. Yes...that was an order...GO SEE THEM! You can even pay me and I'll be your escort :)
Then I took boog to see Scotts new house, and mom, dad, grandma and sarah had just gotten there (which I kinda thought might happen). So she got to see her big brothers new house and we chatted for a few minutes. Then boog and I went to see The Incredibles. Awesome movie...as I've said before...Pixar is going places...watch out Continental United States.
Its now 1:26AM and i'm not tired....way too much caffeine today. Kinda funny, booger made a comment on the way to the Plaza when I stopped at a gas station and got a cappucino and 2 candy bars. She says a little somethin like, "you're lucky to be able to eat like that and still look that way". My reply of course was..."you tell me that when i'm on the bike making my legs hate me". Well..that was after something like, "I look this way because I ride around 150 miles a week".
When we were leaving home we got in the car and she said, "this reminds me of how we used to go to the movies and you'd be smelling all good".
The moral of the story....Andrew smells good and eats too much chocolate. :) (And drinks too much caffeine which is why he's still writing and not in bed yet)
What I ate at the movie theatre: 3/4 bag of medium popcorn, 1 hotdog, 1 order of nachos and cheese, 3/4 cup of medium Mr. Pibb, 1 large Mr. Pibb (yes...2 seperate drinks..boog stold some of my first drink so I got another :)
How I was this hungry after all that we had earlier I will never know...and I was gonna have 2 more hotdogs when they went on sale for $1...but I got there too late..they were already out.
Enough for now...not gonna go to bed now but I'll catch up on some internet reading...its rough not having DSL here at the house....always makes going back to my place that much nicer.
Here's what went down in the Reynolds household in Odessa, MO. Lots o' food....I'm sure there was more and much tastier food than you had. Sorry, that's just the way it is at our house.
So grandma, grandma and grandpa, Sarah, Scott, Tracy, Booger, mom, dad and myself had a wonderful meal. The kind of meal you dream about when you're at mcdonalds taking a short break from work during the week.
Scott brought over "Elf" starring my man, Will Ferrell. Watched some of it and slept through part of it on the couch. Then booger and I went to see the Plaza Lights get turned on. Good stuff! If you've never seen the plaza lights you must go see them. Yes...that was an order...GO SEE THEM! You can even pay me and I'll be your escort :)
Then I took boog to see Scotts new house, and mom, dad, grandma and sarah had just gotten there (which I kinda thought might happen). So she got to see her big brothers new house and we chatted for a few minutes. Then boog and I went to see The Incredibles. Awesome movie...as I've said before...Pixar is going places...watch out Continental United States.
Its now 1:26AM and i'm not tired....way too much caffeine today. Kinda funny, booger made a comment on the way to the Plaza when I stopped at a gas station and got a cappucino and 2 candy bars. She says a little somethin like, "you're lucky to be able to eat like that and still look that way". My reply of course was..."you tell me that when i'm on the bike making my legs hate me". Well..that was after something like, "I look this way because I ride around 150 miles a week".
When we were leaving home we got in the car and she said, "this reminds me of how we used to go to the movies and you'd be smelling all good".
The moral of the story....Andrew smells good and eats too much chocolate. :) (And drinks too much caffeine which is why he's still writing and not in bed yet)
What I ate at the movie theatre: 3/4 bag of medium popcorn, 1 hotdog, 1 order of nachos and cheese, 3/4 cup of medium Mr. Pibb, 1 large Mr. Pibb (yes...2 seperate drinks..boog stold some of my first drink so I got another :)
How I was this hungry after all that we had earlier I will never know...and I was gonna have 2 more hotdogs when they went on sale for $1...but I got there too late..they were already out.
Enough for now...not gonna go to bed now but I'll catch up on some internet reading...its rough not having DSL here at the house....always makes going back to my place that much nicer.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Moving
So yesterday I helped my brother move into his new house. That's right....the boy bought a house. One of his very own. HIS HOUSE!
I can't imagine what it would feel like to go into a house now and be able to think that I own (well...not paid for totally..but you get the point) this place. I can rip down whatever walls and paint anything else. Needless to say..I'm really proud of him.
(A little background info: he's a couple years older than me, so he's 24,...graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with something like a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Business..and I think he had another major also..something to do with computers....maybe multimedia stuff. He works at Cerner's World Headquarters (http://www.cerner.com/aboutcerner/default.asp) in KC helping hospitals troubleshoot their systems. At the campus, yes..Cerner is big and rich enough to have a campus, they've got a pretty sweet rec center and when I come home Scott is prone to allowing me in the place to beat him down in some basketball. He makes lots of money, or at least much more than I will make in my first 10 years of teaching.)
Congrats Scott....you da man
Well I'm gonna get to working on this paper of mine now....my way of enjoying a break from school :)
I can't imagine what it would feel like to go into a house now and be able to think that I own (well...not paid for totally..but you get the point) this place. I can rip down whatever walls and paint anything else. Needless to say..I'm really proud of him.
(A little background info: he's a couple years older than me, so he's 24,...graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with something like a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Business..and I think he had another major also..something to do with computers....maybe multimedia stuff. He works at Cerner's World Headquarters (http://www.cerner.com/aboutcerner/default.asp) in KC helping hospitals troubleshoot their systems. At the campus, yes..Cerner is big and rich enough to have a campus, they've got a pretty sweet rec center and when I come home Scott is prone to allowing me in the place to beat him down in some basketball. He makes lots of money, or at least much more than I will make in my first 10 years of teaching.)
Congrats Scott....you da man
Well I'm gonna get to working on this paper of mine now....my way of enjoying a break from school :)
Late update - Sunday
Check your Guiness Book of World Records...I believe I should hold the new record for number of snot rockets blown out a nose. Sunday I let one go about every minute....who knew that I could have so much snot in my body while pedaling myself down a road?
That's it...just wanted to let you know I had lots of snot that I projected out of my nose on my bike ride Sunday.
That's it...just wanted to let you know I had lots of snot that I projected out of my nose on my bike ride Sunday.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Hump Day
Last night I went to see Josh's (one of my roommates) 7th grade girls basketball team play in a tournament in Ashland. They got stomped....but it was a good time. Never though I would almost enjoy watching girls play basketball. It was fun watching Josh coach though...guess it almost makes me realize that I could be up there pretty soon coaching some boys.
Of course..had to play some ball at the rec center after watching the game.
Got to work at 9:20am...supposed to be here at 8am....NOT GOOD...I suck....
Of course..had to play some ball at the rec center after watching the game.
Got to work at 9:20am...supposed to be here at 8am....NOT GOOD...I suck....
Monday, November 15, 2004
Why not
At work from 11am-10pm again. If I can sneak home sometime I'm gonna grab my ball playin stuff and go straight from work later to the rec center to beat down some youngins.....after working this many hours I'm gonna need to raise my dopamine levels (hmm..if I was doing better in Drugs and Behavior I'd know for sure if this was the right thing to say...but I'm not so I don't...)
Otherwise:
Paper- not done....
Andrew - wondering what would happen if he fails the class....guess it wouldn't be so bad if I had to take one class next semester as an undergrad..definately less stress than right now....and I could add a cooking class so I can learn more about herbs and crap that I never use right now...
TA - gonna be bitchy to andrew when she hears that he has exactly ZERO words written of the 7 pages that were due almost 2 weeks ago
Weekend was decent, went on a great slowish ride (about 50 miles) with about 20 other Columbia peoples (3 other mizzou cyclists and the rest from columbia or close bye) on Saturday. Woke up too late for church on Sunday..felt bad. Decided not to go on the Sunday noon ride or the Mizzou 1pm ride because I needed to work on my paper. Obviously I didn't get far with that...I did put my cooking skills to work though.
Breakfast - biscuits and gravy
Lunch - well...the biscuits and gravy was around 1pm
Dinner - grilled BBQ pork steaks, 3 cheese hamburger helper, corn, scalloped potatoes, leftover biscuits from brunch (no...I didn't eat all of it....gots to have something to eat the rest of the week...don't have the funds to eat as much fast food as I have been)
Congrats to Amy and Shannon...both will have rugrats running around this coming year
Otherwise:
Paper- not done....
Andrew - wondering what would happen if he fails the class....guess it wouldn't be so bad if I had to take one class next semester as an undergrad..definately less stress than right now....and I could add a cooking class so I can learn more about herbs and crap that I never use right now...
TA - gonna be bitchy to andrew when she hears that he has exactly ZERO words written of the 7 pages that were due almost 2 weeks ago
Weekend was decent, went on a great slowish ride (about 50 miles) with about 20 other Columbia peoples (3 other mizzou cyclists and the rest from columbia or close bye) on Saturday. Woke up too late for church on Sunday..felt bad. Decided not to go on the Sunday noon ride or the Mizzou 1pm ride because I needed to work on my paper. Obviously I didn't get far with that...I did put my cooking skills to work though.
Breakfast - biscuits and gravy
Lunch - well...the biscuits and gravy was around 1pm
Dinner - grilled BBQ pork steaks, 3 cheese hamburger helper, corn, scalloped potatoes, leftover biscuits from brunch (no...I didn't eat all of it....gots to have something to eat the rest of the week...don't have the funds to eat as much fast food as I have been)
Congrats to Amy and Shannon...both will have rugrats running around this coming year
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Me
Came home from running a couple errands and started crying. Just not feeling good about stuff right now I guess.
I've been through a lot of stuff in the past 3-4 months. Its not stuff I write about on here for basically one reason. Even with how terrible I've felt at times the past few months I ultimately know that I have things so much better than many many other people in this world. I've got the best family possible, a few good friends, charming good looks (yeah...even when I'm being serious and have tears leaking from my eyes I still feel the need to try and make a joke...made you smile though didn't I??), and many of the things one really needs in life. No, I don't have much money, a fancy car, and other stuff like that....but thats stuff that only gets you so far in some peoples eyes...and I suppose those peoples eyes shouldn't matter anyway.
Guess thats about it.....if you need anything I will be here for you. I know a lot of people say that and some probably mean it and some probably don't. I mean it
New song: "Let Me Love You" by Mario....check it out...legally of course. :)
I've been through a lot of stuff in the past 3-4 months. Its not stuff I write about on here for basically one reason. Even with how terrible I've felt at times the past few months I ultimately know that I have things so much better than many many other people in this world. I've got the best family possible, a few good friends, charming good looks (yeah...even when I'm being serious and have tears leaking from my eyes I still feel the need to try and make a joke...made you smile though didn't I??), and many of the things one really needs in life. No, I don't have much money, a fancy car, and other stuff like that....but thats stuff that only gets you so far in some peoples eyes...and I suppose those peoples eyes shouldn't matter anyway.
Guess thats about it.....if you need anything I will be here for you. I know a lot of people say that and some probably mean it and some probably don't. I mean it
New song: "Let Me Love You" by Mario....check it out...legally of course. :)
Happy Wednesday World
"You're so wise. You're like a miniature Buddha, covered with hair. "
[Ron Burgundy and Champ Kind making prank phone calls to Veronica Corningstone] "This is your doctor... you're knocked up."
[to Veronica Corningstone as the news has just gone off the air] "You're a real hooker. I'm gonna slap you in public."
"Now it's time for the Channel 4 news team, with 5 time Emmy-winning anchorman Ron Burgundy and Tits McGee!
Veronica Corningstone : Good evening, I'm Veronica Corningstone; Tits McGee is on vacation.
Ron Burgundy : And I'm Tits... I'm Ron Burgundy."
"Oop... I almost forgot. I won't be able to make it fellas. Veronica and I trying this new fad called uh, "jogging". I believe it's "jogging" or "yogging". it might be a soft "j". I'm not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. It'"s supposed to be wild."
Couldn't find the quote I wanted the most...have to wait 'till its out on video to write it down.
Also..decided I don't want to allow comments anymore...or maybe just for a little while. For now this is just gonna be a place I can say whatever I want without thinking about what others will say about it.
If you do want to comment send me an e-mail.
[Ron Burgundy and Champ Kind making prank phone calls to Veronica Corningstone] "This is your doctor... you're knocked up."
[to Veronica Corningstone as the news has just gone off the air] "You're a real hooker. I'm gonna slap you in public."
"Now it's time for the Channel 4 news team, with 5 time Emmy-winning anchorman Ron Burgundy and Tits McGee!
Veronica Corningstone : Good evening, I'm Veronica Corningstone; Tits McGee is on vacation.
Ron Burgundy : And I'm Tits... I'm Ron Burgundy."
"Oop... I almost forgot. I won't be able to make it fellas. Veronica and I trying this new fad called uh, "jogging". I believe it's "jogging" or "yogging". it might be a soft "j". I'm not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. It'"s supposed to be wild."
Couldn't find the quote I wanted the most...have to wait 'till its out on video to write it down.
Also..decided I don't want to allow comments anymore...or maybe just for a little while. For now this is just gonna be a place I can say whatever I want without thinking about what others will say about it.
If you do want to comment send me an e-mail.
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Ummm...yeah
So last night I was supposed to be writing a paper...didn't work out so well....
Was really hungry after playing ball at the rec center so I tried to convince Ronnell that we should get some Wing Zone (which I'm pretty sure now doesn't even exist in Columbia any more). After about 15 minutes of unsuccessful negotiating I mention (it was 15 past midnight at this point) something about Halo 2 being out now (it was released at the bookstore at midnight). So we go to campus to get it....actually I go to watch him get it. Of course, when I'm there I decide that I need to get it too. So we drive around trying to find WingZone and end up going to Gerbes and using a phonebook to look up the address of WingZone. While I'm looking in the phonebook he grabs some quarters and gets this huge ass bubble gum (we're talking like racquetball size) and sticks it in his pocket....later as I give him shit about paying 50 cents for it and not even eating it he puts the thing in his mouth.
Anyway...the address for Wingzone is where I thought it used to be..which we drove by and it was changed to something else. So we decide that Dominos chicken kickers would work.
So we order some of those and head home to try out Halo 2. Played it for a little while, the whole time saying I was going to study after. However, I decided I was tired and sleep was the way to go..so thats what I did.
And now I'm gonna try to ignore people asking me questions here at work and get some of this paper done. I'll be here from now (about noon) until 10pm. Got a conference the next few days so I had to trade some hours with others.....of course the only hours I'm not already working or in class are right behind the current hours I work...so I get the extreme pleasure of working all day.
Was really hungry after playing ball at the rec center so I tried to convince Ronnell that we should get some Wing Zone (which I'm pretty sure now doesn't even exist in Columbia any more). After about 15 minutes of unsuccessful negotiating I mention (it was 15 past midnight at this point) something about Halo 2 being out now (it was released at the bookstore at midnight). So we go to campus to get it....actually I go to watch him get it. Of course, when I'm there I decide that I need to get it too. So we drive around trying to find WingZone and end up going to Gerbes and using a phonebook to look up the address of WingZone. While I'm looking in the phonebook he grabs some quarters and gets this huge ass bubble gum (we're talking like racquetball size) and sticks it in his pocket....later as I give him shit about paying 50 cents for it and not even eating it he puts the thing in his mouth.
Anyway...the address for Wingzone is where I thought it used to be..which we drove by and it was changed to something else. So we decide that Dominos chicken kickers would work.
So we order some of those and head home to try out Halo 2. Played it for a little while, the whole time saying I was going to study after. However, I decided I was tired and sleep was the way to go..so thats what I did.
And now I'm gonna try to ignore people asking me questions here at work and get some of this paper done. I'll be here from now (about noon) until 10pm. Got a conference the next few days so I had to trade some hours with others.....of course the only hours I'm not already working or in class are right behind the current hours I work...so I get the extreme pleasure of working all day.
Monday, November 08, 2004
Simple
Earlier in my workday today I came up with this big idea of how I was gonna write nothing on here. Yep..was gonna write something and say something about how it was nothing and yadda yadda yadda. Basically the point was going to be that all I feel like writing about is bad stuff so I was gonna write nothing. Sounded like a cool idea in my head....but I didn't do it.
Instead I'm gonna write this.
During my ride yesterday I saw a cat playing in a yard....it made me happy.
Go watch/do something that makes you happy...the world will be a better place.
Peace,
Andrew
Instead I'm gonna write this.
During my ride yesterday I saw a cat playing in a yard....it made me happy.
Go watch/do something that makes you happy...the world will be a better place.
Peace,
Andrew
Sunday, November 07, 2004
Damn damn damn
#&@*
When I'm teaching I will never make my students write research papers. In fact, if someone else does I will give them time in my class to work on them. Who ever invented research papers should be shot...twice...in the eye...with a really big gun.
K...I feel better now..back to trying to write this paper.
Update:
on a brighter note..did go on a ride today with 6 other mizzou riders...good stuff. Did around 35 miles i think (damn computer magnet gets knocked outta place when I sprint to the sprint points)
When I'm teaching I will never make my students write research papers. In fact, if someone else does I will give them time in my class to work on them. Who ever invented research papers should be shot...twice...in the eye...with a really big gun.
K...I feel better now..back to trying to write this paper.
Update:
on a brighter note..did go on a ride today with 6 other mizzou riders...good stuff. Did around 35 miles i think (damn computer magnet gets knocked outta place when I sprint to the sprint points)
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
mmmm..good
Lunch today:
4 pieces of toast with pb&j
1 glass of orange juice
1 bowl of chocolate ice cream
What's this mean? Andrew has no groceries and is teaching himself how to not eat fast food so much.
Paper - not done
Andrew - working on it
4 pieces of toast with pb&j
1 glass of orange juice
1 bowl of chocolate ice cream
What's this mean? Andrew has no groceries and is teaching himself how to not eat fast food so much.
Paper - not done
Andrew - working on it
Monday, November 01, 2004
A little more than a month away
Feeling sucky...paper is giving me trouble, have no idea what will happen with next semester, and I feel like I've never got the time to deal with any of it.
What I feel like having right now: a huge boost of energy, a Red Bull, a large French Vanilla cappucinno from a gas station, a large cherry coke/dr. pepper from Sonic, a cake with chocolate icing, a big steak, some BBQ, just about anything made by mom, a week at home, a sense that this semester could actually be beneficial to me in life.
Maybe that's my problem. When I was taking education classes I loved what I was doing. I don't really love the stuff I'm doing now..I like some of my Rural Sociology class but other than that i almost hate the other stuff.
Ehh..thats enough pessimism for one day....
What I feel like having right now: a huge boost of energy, a Red Bull, a large French Vanilla cappucinno from a gas station, a large cherry coke/dr. pepper from Sonic, a cake with chocolate icing, a big steak, some BBQ, just about anything made by mom, a week at home, a sense that this semester could actually be beneficial to me in life.
Maybe that's my problem. When I was taking education classes I loved what I was doing. I don't really love the stuff I'm doing now..I like some of my Rural Sociology class but other than that i almost hate the other stuff.
Ehh..thats enough pessimism for one day....
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