Three Weeks Ago...

I went to visit the Happy Grandma with Erica to make pie. Today, I finally got around to writing a post about it because I've been super slow about getting it done. We went on Friday, but I am going to start with Thursday.

That Thursday, I decided to head back to Akron to watch the Cavs game rather than go to a bar in Solon and go back to Akron afterward. Well, turns out my roommates dad, who pays for the cable, decided that he didn't want to pay for the last two days that anyone would possibly be there so he turned off the cable. That's all well and good, I can understand why, but now here I am in an apartment all alone with nothing to do, no DVDs or video games to play -- because I brought them all home in lieu of moving out Saturday -- no cable, no internet, nothing whatsoever for me to do to occupy my time except play solitaire on my laptop for several hours. Luckily, my friends Carmen and Atlie gave me a call and asked what I was doing, upon telling them the story they decided to come by my apartment and go to Applebee's with me so I could watch the game and not feel totally alone. Yay friends! Yay Cavs, too -- they won! After the game I went back to my apartment and spent another few hours playing solitaire before finally heading to bed.

Friday, all the fun began. Erica picked me up and after fixing a blown fuse in her car, we finally got going. When we got to grandma's she didn't waste any time getting us started. Immediately we were chopping up strawberries and rhubarb for the pie, measuring everything for dough for a pie crust and working our tails off on pie. After everything was chopped, sliced, rolled and put together, we placed the pies in the oven and went across the street to look at some swans at their amish neighbor's house. Papa swan was fun to watch, he seemed awefully protective of his youngin's, but I don't blame him. After a little swan watching we went back to the house and I got a tour of the backyard as well as a showing of some quilts that grandma made. The quilts all looked amazing. After the pies were done Erica and I got on our way so she could make it home by dinner time. I put my pie away and waited until I moved home to share my pie with everyone else. The all loved it, in fact, my grandma was wondering if she could get the recipe we used :).

Saturday was move out day. Since I had spent the previous two weeks driving home anything I didn't need myself I had relatively little to move out. I had a few pieces of furniture and some dishes and that was about it. Matt's stuff, on the other hand, took a little more time to move out. Now I'm back home and looking for a job. I'm trying to avoid working in restaurants, but I may not have a choice in the matter at this point.

Because I Can:

"They say people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. OK. How about nobody should throw stones? It's crappy behavior. My policy is - No stone throwing regardless of housing situation. Don't do it. There is one exception though. If you are trapped in a glass house and you have a stone. Throw it. You an idiot? So really, it's only people IN glass houses who should throw stones! Provided they are trapped. In the house. With stones. It's a little longer, but yeah."

Oops

Over the past month-ish I had a few things I've been meaning to post but never really got to it.

I'll be moving from my apartment in Akron back home to Solon on Saturday. This means I won't have anywhere to watch games 6 and 7 in the Cavs-Magic Series so I'll have to go to a bar or something. While I am a little disappointed that they lost game 4 I am still 100% confident that they can win the series. Sure, they're down 3-1, but I don't see them losing 2 out of 3 games at home when they really only lost 1 game at home all season. Likewise, I don't see them losing 2 out of 3 games on the road. It will be tough. Only 8 teams have ever come back from being down 3 games to 1, but the Cavs will make it 9.

Besides moving out I'm not sure what else I'll be doing over the summer. I'm having trouble finding a job and may end up just doing house/yardwork for my parents for minimum wage. If that doesn't work out then I'll see what happens. This Friday I'm very excited and totally looking forward to going to visit the Happy Grandma to make some pie! Yay pie!

Because I Can:

"I hope that after I die, people will say of me: ‘That guy sure owed me a lot of money.’" -Jack Handey

Long Overdue.

So it has been a considerable while since my last update.

Since last time, I have written three papers, taken four tests and two finals. Two of the papers were assignments due by the end of the semester which I put off until an hour before they were due (Yay me!) and the last one was a take-home final which I waited until the day it was due to write and turn in. As for the four tests, two of them were finals, but I did well on the other two as well. Hopefully if all goes well I'll finish the semester with A, A, A, B; though it may also end up A, A, B, B which is also pretty good I suppose. I'll let you all know how it turned out.

My last final was yesterday afternoon so I am all done now, officially. I should start to schedule classes for next year, like real ones. So far I have scheduled Billiards and Bowling but still need the real classes. Any suggestions for someone planning on being a mid level education major (grades 4-8)?

Well, as I said, I am all done now and I have my apartment until the end of May so I'm just relaxing for the next 20 some odd days I have left before I have to move out. This is going to be both a fun and boring stretch, I feel.

Because I Can:

"My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set."

Procrastination Rocks

So I'm coming to the realization that I'm a lazy student. I have been awake for the past 20+ hours writing a 6 page paper on why lying is good. It was assigned over a week ago and is due today (Friday) in a few hours. Before I can turn it in though I have to finish writing a 5 minute speech on how to stop emotional/mental and physical abuse for a group speech project that is due, yup, today. I missed the last two classes, Monday I wasn't feeling well and Wednesday my car was blocked in, and so I was unaware when I would be going or what the speech was supposed to be on as my group hadn't told me yet. When I texted a kid in my group to ask him what the deal was he simply responded with, "We go tomorrow. You're the conclusion. Maria said she e-mailed you the topic. You have to say how to stop abuse. It has to be 5 minutes long." Sweet... thanks for the advanced warning people.

Today is my dad's birthday and I was planning on going home but now I'm not. A few things factored into this decision. 1) I am not going to drive the 35 minutes home after 30ish hours of being awake. 2) He's coming down here Saturday. 3) He's coming down here Sunday. 4) I have a portfolio due Monday that needs to include 2 papers, a letter and a revision statement. 5) I have 2 papers due by Friday online. 6) I think I have a take-home test due by Friday as well but since I missed the last 2 classes I don't know if it's been handed out yet.

Yea, I hate the last week of classes. On the brighter side, yay last week of classes! After this week I have 2 finals and then I'm done! Then comes the joy of a continued search for a job. Anyone hiring? :D

Because I Can:

"I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential."

Go Cavs!

So it's the weekend and with the weekend comes the start to the NBA Playoffs. The Cavs open the first round today at 3:00 against the Detroit Pistons and are in good shape to make it to the NBA Finals this year. I will be watching the game and rooting for my Cavs all the way. Go Cavs! As long as I'm on sports, the Indians are starting to look a bit better of late. Sure they're only 3-8 on the season so far, but that's only 11 games in. The Indians have 151 games left in the season and are only 3.5 games behind the Kansas City Royals. They had a rocky start but I'm looking for them to bounce back in the coming weeks and start to play strong the rest of the year. Still too early to talk about the Browns, but I will say that I think at this point it would be beneficial for the Browns to trade Edwards for some other lower tier wide receiver and some draft picks. I'm also convinced that Mangini is going to stick with Anderson as quarterback and so the browns should trade Quinn for some more draft picks. It doesn't make sense for them to hold onto him and Anderson and Anderson has mroe upside than Quinn. Also, his name starts with a "Q"... that's kind of strange.

This weekend I wasn't planning on going home, but now I am. I was going to stay here in Akron and work on a paper (procrastinate until Sunday night and then rush to get it done in time for my Monday meeting with my prof.) and just generally relax, but my buddy Zach gave me a call and told me his car broke down and he viewed it as fate that he shouldn't go back down to the University of Miami (Ohio) to celebrate his birthday but that he should stay up here and spend time with Matt, Jimmy and myself. So now I pack up and get ready to head on home for the night and to spend some time with my oompapa (dad) as well. He's an accountant and so he finally hs some free time so I think it's a good time to spend some time with him.

Because I Can:

"I went to a doctor, all he did was suck blood from my neck. Don't go see Dr. Acula."

School? School!

Today was a good day!

I had to give a persuasive speech in my effective oral communication class and, for lack of another topic, I gave it on why marijuana should be legalized. Now I don't smoke marijuana or do any drugs and initially went into this speech not even agreeing with it myself, but as I did research I managed to persuade myself. It really kind of makes sense to legalize marijuana because it would remove the black market demand which would remove large quantities of money from the drug cartels. If it was no longer sold illegally then crime rates on drug related charges would also drop, clearing prisons of non violent offenders and making room for more violent offenders. In addition, the government could tax it and help boost the economy by giving government contracts to farmers. I guess I did pretty well on the speech because I got an A, so yay to that!

After that class I had ethics where I got a test back that I took last Friday. Before class the prof was talking about how nobody failed, but there were only a few A's, some B's and mostly C's. I didn't get to finish the test, it was essay format, and so I was pretty nervous that I got a C or something. The prof started to hand back the tests and I was the last of my little group of friends to get the test back. First Kim got hers back and she had a C+, then Sara got hers back and she had a C+, next Teddy got his back and he also had a C+. At this point I was getting nervous that I got a C+ or worse, then I got mine back. A-..... Sara, Kim and Teddy were a little upset. I was a little happy :). Ok, I was a lot happy :D!

Now I'm waiting for my grandparents to stop by in about 45 minutes to pick me up and take me home. We're all going to my sister's house for dinner and I'm a bit tired so they asked if I would like a ride. Grandparents are awesome!

Because I Can:

"I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming."

Yay Demo CDs

I was talking with a friend yesterday and for some reason she put her friend on the phone. Having never talked to this person before she was a little surprised to hear my voice. As some of you know, my voice is fairly low. Anyway, she really liked my voice and wanted to keep talking to me, but I had some work to do so I had to hang up and get going. While I was doing my work I came across my demo CD I had made for my high school senior project three years ago. I figured I would post it on here to be listened to. Unfortunately, audio files cannot be posted on here so I turned it into a video by adding some titles and some pictures to go along with it. It's not great but it works. Now back to work.




Because I Can:

"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!"