I remember when 9/11 happened, everyone said they would never forget where they were and what they were doing.  I was sitting in the middle of Mr. Brooks 7th grade English class at warrensburg middle school.  Mr. Nelson, the head custodian, came in and whispered something to our teacher.  You could instantly tell something was wrong.  As our teacher walked towards the tv, she said nothing and as the whole room sat in silence, we watched as the images of smoke, people running in fear, and an overall sense of disparity shrouded every news channel in broadcast.  its not untill today that i would even dare to think that what i saw was set into motion by our own government, but thats beside the point.

I mention all this because today, all over the news, facebook, virtually anywhere you go you heard people talk about such a historic day in history.  The nations first “black” president.  Now i put black in quotes because some say, including myself, that he is not african american but thats a technicality so don’t even get me started on that subject.  Peoples status read on face book, ” im glad i skipped class to witness history” and so on. But i didn’t even remember that today was inauguration day untill i steped foot on campus and saw people horded around a projector displaying images of the first black president.  As i walked to one class i saw someone with a shirt displaying a horned image of obama with a title below that read “Antichrist 2009″.  So whats a person to believe, that were watching history in the making or that the media has portrayed dark skinned man the savior of our nation?  Im not sure where i stand. I didn’t vote for obama on the grounds of experience.  Clearly McCain had much more, he was a prisoner of war for crying out loud.  maybe im still bitter and some would say that im even racist, but let me asure you i am far from it.  What i am however is educated in the standings of the so called savior of the nation and how they are often overlooked by the overshadowing racial card and the sense of socialism that mr obama displays.  This is all i can say on the matter.

Anyway on to important things.  It seems like im going to have to spend a few hundred dollars more to fix up my worthless car as i won’t be recieving my financial aid check untill february 17th.  but to my supprise the total expense of the work is far less than i had initialy thought.  So hopefully that will be done in the morning.  well see.

I was plesently suprised that my history professor is super chill. I couldn’t ask for more.  he seems to care about every one of his students and he likes baseball so its a win-win situation.   when he called roll, he asked us to tell him what name we prefer to go by and when he came to mine, i said “you can call me Andy”.  I wore a flat billed brightly colored FOX hat today tilted off to the side.  He paused a while after penciling it in as if he was trying to choose his next words very carefully.  He looke at me and said ” you look like your mischevious.”  I was a tad shocked that someone i had known for 15 minutes could read me like a book and pin point my personality to a t.  I said ” yep u got it” and we both laughed.  I know this semister is gonna be awesome.  Design class was a bit boring but we only read over the sylibus and then she let us out.  Im glad my kit for the class was 60 bucks, thats a steal compared to last semesters 115.  so this looks like its shaping up to be a good year.  moving day is comming and im still not packed.  so it looks like my trasportation issue is coming to a quick fix and schools turning out to be exciting.  and that my friends is all she wrote, but in this case all he wrote.

So these next few days are going to prove to be interesting.  I start classes on Tuesday and as of yet my car is still not cooperating, i haven’t received my financial aid and i have no idea how this is going to work. ugh.  thats just an update on where we are as of the transportation situation. 

So today was a good day.  Church was refreshing.  I sat through dans sermon for middle school service.  He’s in the middle of a series entitled Old School. hes going in depth about some of the most common stories and characters in the Bible.  i enjoyed it.  Then during high school service i decided to sneak out and hear pastor George speak with sara, my beautiful girlfriend.  I don’t often get to hear him preach as im usually tied up with our own service but today’s message was kind of a huge plug for the small group curriculum and a new bible study were starting called The Truth Project. Its a Focus on the Family production and it answers alot of questions we as Christians dont really find ourselfs answering.  Things like existence, and how can a God as big as ours choose to dwell in each and every one of us.  Im really excited to dive into this class.  My parents are teaching the same series in their small group and they talk about it all the time. 

Well, thats about all today had in store.  Im happy for Kurt Warner getting another shot at the superbowl, although im not sure they’re gonna be able to pull it off over Pittsburgh but well see.  Cant wait to see the 150 million dollar inauguration that mr obama is throwing, how can he justify spending all that money and then during his campaign talk about how he wants to provide healthcare for every one?? The president can blow 150 mill on party favors but i can’t even get a grant for college. man our government makes absolutely no since.  Welcome to  Socialist america.  Did u know woodrow wilson didn’t even have an inagural party? if i recall our economy was in a similar state when he entered office yet he had the class and political sense to not throw and elabroate un necessary party.  well thats all i have to say on the matter. 

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Man, if i didn’t have bills to pay i would be one happy camper. But wouldn’t we all… I managed to somehow make $100 bucks tonight at the good ole RH&B.  I have no idea how i did but im sure glad i did.  Now i can pay off my phone bill and other various expenses.  So it looks like God had a little pot of gold at the end of the missery rainbow i took a ride down yesterday.

Last night however was a blast.  Sara and i went to dan and stephanies for steaks.  Tyler and Jen were there as well.  It was cool, two married couples and a serious college couple chattin it up.  I think the coolest part was watching some of the videos i did back in the burg for the Stand.  I like to look at progress and not to brag on myself but i sure have progressed a tad.  We all sat at the dinner table and shared stories, tossing jokes around and just laughin it up.  Its good to do that every once in a while, no business just relax and chill with each other.  We also watched the latest eppisode of the Office, a show thats been disapointing over the last few months, what with taking a huge vacation over break and then last thursdays eppisode not containing any side stiching humor that usually occurs at least once in an eppisode.  Maybe the producers should get a clue and stick to the funny factor and not the serious story line thats been dragged out for way too long.  Focus on Pam and Jim, who gives a rip about the Dwight, Angela, Andy love triangle, its pointless.  Maybe thats why 30 Rock has swept the golden globes for the past two years.  anyway ill get off my Office high horse.  So to sum things up, it was a pleasent evening enjoyed by all.

Only 2 more weeks till i get to start moving into my new place, im pretty excited about that.  Im ready for something new and i think this apartment should do the trick.  Im not sure how living on the 3rd floor is gonna be but im thinking at least no ones gonna try and rob us…  School starts on tuesday, im kinda nervous about that.  im watching Oceans 11 the first one, i forgot how awesome this movie is.  Well thats enough of boring details of my life, if you wanna check out my latest videos head over to youtube and type in TheFSMShow.  its the channel for our youth ministry.  well ima finish this move up, im kinda waiting to see how im gonna get to church in the morning so yea ima rely on the man upstairs to take care of business like he usually does.

So it seems i have no clever ideas for titles than names of muscians i’ve come to appreciate.  The latest on my ever growing list has become miss Taylor Swift.  Im sure most people are aware of who she is and how famous she’s become over the last few years.  With her songs ” Our Song” and more recent “Love Song”, her music is the closet thing to country i can listen to without wanting to bash my radio with an ice pic.  For some reason when i here her voice i wanna move to nashville and stalk her.  Unhealthy i know,  but some people are car crazy im just celebrity crazy i suppose.  Maybe one day ill make a movie she sees and then our agents will send us to the same celebrity event and well fall deeply in love and be married.  Sorry sara lol. Kidding, im kidding people. i saw her on SNL last weekend. and the rest they say, is history.

But enough with wishfull thinking. Lets bring the ship back to earth and dock at reality base.  It seems my 1984 has ceased to live.  I went to my mechanic today and his diagnosis was that the clutch was out and that my friends is not a cheap thing to fix.  so im not sure what im going to do for the next few weeks.  with college starting on tuesday im running low on options.  im so helplessly screwed its not funny.  ugh, i suppose its out of my hands so well just see what Gods plan is this time.  Hopefully he can find some amount of grace to spare me with, not that i deserve it.  but i’ve been blessed with alot since i’ve been here so i can’t expect much more.  So the next few days should be very interesting.

I’ve gotta work in the morning so im signing off.  hopefully the next post will contain a story more pleasnt than this one.

so im currently watching one of guy ritches worst films, Revolver.  I like the movie for its action, but other than that its deffinitly not one of his strongest. Any movie with Andre 3000 as a main character is a flub in my books.  Anyway, so i finally had a good night at work.  Started out kinda sketchy.  My first two tables looked like they just escaped the Olive Branch Retirement home.  Come to find out one of them were celebrating their 67th wedding anniversary.  Kinda crazy right, come to find out they tipped pretty nicely.  The other people were okay too. After that the tips just kept comming in.  It was nice to have a full section for once in a while.

I really need to start packing things and getting ready for this move,  I keep telling myself its only 100 feet away but i haven’t even started, Oh well im sure it’ll be another last minute thing.

Our youth ministry is putting on a flag football tournament just before the super bowl. Its an immatation of the FBC bowl we used to do in missouri.  Anyway Stephanie Gould asked me to design a shirt for her team the artificial limbs.  I did two mock ups and i’ll let you be the judge of the better one.  I kinda like doing it. its easy and fast and i think im goin to start charging for the next team thats wanting me to do it.  well thats all i got.  classes start next week and the Presidential inaguration is next week as well, should be interesting to see if this guy can fix our failing government. a government i’ve had no hope in since 2004.  Time will tell. 

Man its taking forever to get confirmation for my stupid student loan ugh, i don’t know wat the deal is.  Im so ready to get new weels though.  I wish i could afford a motorcycle, thats my dream. But sadly im gonna have to forgo said dream and try to survive the painstaking process of finding a good car.  Its impossible to find one.

Can’t wait to get moved into the new place either, our land lord seems to be taking forever to get back to us.

I actually made halfway decent money tonight. 45 bucks on 8 tables.  could be better but im not complaining that much.

nothin else comes to mind that may be of value to my reading audience.  so guess thats all for today.

It seems that im hooked on this song by jason mraz entitled Dynamo of Volition.  Its super catchy, just thought id let you know, not that you care or anything.  check it out.  So its been a great day in dallas.  Sunny skies, 70 and a strong wind.  its one of those days where you feel like you can do anything and go anywhere.  You can smell summer in the air. Then you realize its only january.  wah wah.

Took co co to the dog park today. Shes loves that place.  Its kinda a fun thing to do.  You get to see some really cool dogs, i saw a st. bernard today that easily could have swallowed my dog whole.  Co Co’s slowly catching on to the art of Fetch.  Sometimes she just runs right by you instead of returning the ball. Its a work in progress.  The whole thing is like a scene out of a hollywood romatic comedy.  Great place to meet people, i havent myself but if your single and lookn id head to the dog park, forget e-harmony, they got nothin on a cute dog.

Car shopping is goin good, i’ve decided to pursue a ford focus, hatchback preferably, but a four door wouldn’t be bad either.  I gotta find someone to give my current car away to but i’ve got plenty of time.

followed tony around free runnin abit last night. kinda weird.  i thought i’d given up pk but he told me only loser quit so naturally i said game on and im slowly gettin back into it.  I felt like a smoker caving in and taking a drag after quitting for 6 months, but excersicse is totally different than smoking so its actually benifical.  Can’t think of anything else to update all you readers so i’ll stop boring you and sign off.

Another day in the life of the procrastination hero.  Thats my self proclamed super hero name.  “Saving the world at the last possible second!!”  the other day sara calls me and shes like

“uh you know tuitions due tomorrow right?”

“WHAT!!!?!”

needless to say i had no idea such a thing was due.  I’ve known for a while i would qualify for some sort of governmental aid, but when i found out it was a loan and not a grant i was a tad more than outraged.  I mean seriously GOP, you’ll push to bail out billions for degenerate motor companies but when a starving college student needs a couple bucks for edcation all you can say is “i’ll let ya owe me”.  man i hate our government.  Thanks uncle sam.  Thanks for nothings more like it.

Nedless to say i am now in considerable debt but some good may come of this.  I read the fine print and i can use the money for transportation, room and board and tuition so that means I GET A NEWER, YET PREVIOUSLY USED CAR!!! finally i can send that hunk of usless metal to the junker and get myself something that doesn’t belong in the Museum of transportation.

New roomies provin to be a little weird already, first he tells me hes never heard of facebook. What the?! then he gets lost in his own town. What the?! then he tried to pay a deposit for our place with cash.  ugh hopefully this isn’t signs of things to come.  oh well.  he does claim to have won 500 bones in a no limit texas holdem tourney so that could be a perk.

I’ve just produced another video, i’ll post it on youtube as soon as i can get a chance for those of you in the blogging community who really stalk me and want to know everything about me.  well thats all to report.  gonna go watch eagle eye now.  Saras cell phone got shut off for some reason? so i have no one to talk to now……. one is the loneliest number that you’ll ever know…….

well im not sure if this is exactly healthy or not but i have a new addiction to Family Guy. Since The Office is being lame and not airing new episodes, i have resorted to crude cartoon humor.  I’ve always heard people talking about the show so i decided to check it out and sumthing about a talking baby with a british accent and a talking dog that runs the house is utterly funny to me.  I love the celebrity impressions and the total craziness of the humor.

last night was interesting, i woke up at like 3 am and was crazy hot so i went to shut off the heater and  this fever and nausea hit me like a grand piano droped off the 12th story of a New York apartment building.  So i sat down in the bathroom and prepared for the inevitable, but to my suprise it never came.  so i went into my closet to snag my sleeping so i could sleep in the bathroom, its weird i know, but on the way back, i started to loose my vision and this tingiling sensation came over my entire body, i think it was like a black out.  needles to say i woke up at 7 on the bathroom floor and crawled back into bed.  crazy.

it seems that tuition is due for spring semister and i’ve only signed up for one class as of now so yea, kinda sux i hope i can take care of loan applications in one day ugh, im such a procrastinator. well im gonna take care of that now so ive gotta go, wish me luck.

man it has been so long since i’ve blogged. i gotta admit, i started to think it was pointless and thats probably why ive stopped.  but enough with that, in the great words of rafiki the baboon, its in the past it doesn’t matter.

Well its the start of a new year, and unles your Rip Van Winkle you probably already knew that but i had to say it.  During this mornings service dan mentioned bloggin, Shocker, and i figured in the spirit of resolutions id try to make an effort to do so.  Lets bore you with the happenings of my life over the past few weeks.  I’ve managed to stay broke so that hasn’t changed.  Im still workin red hot and blue, great place, managed to make a few friends outta the mix so thats a plus as well. lemme just say Tarkio Bedlam is legit.  On the down side, the economy’s slapin the Restaurant industry in the face with a sock full of nickles.  You can totally tell that people don’t have money left over, after the failing US economy sucks them dry, to spend on food.  I can’t imagine how people that depened on that as a soul source of income are getting by.  Im just glad i’ve got two great paying jobs.

Just recently i traveled home for Christmas/ New Years oh but before that i got an Iphone, greatest invention since the atomic bomb.  Anyway bak to the trip home.  As i left sunny dallas’s upper 60’s and sunny rays, I couldnt wait to see my family.  The clouds parted and as the plane decended into missouri air, the ground became white and the temperature plummeted to the lower 30’s.  My jaw droped a little when my little sister greated me at the terminal and she had grown just shy of my mothers hight.  She’s only 9 years old. crazy i know.  I imediatly drove to my grandparents, a 3 hour drive. we got there and i was greated by my grandparents and my uncle.  I enjoyed my first home cooked meal in three months.  it was great.  On the way home i couldn’t wait to see old friends and enjoy the 2 things there are to do in that town.  My first visit was with doug, clasic.  loved it.  it wasnt untill a few days later that i realized who the friends are that change and the ones that don’t.  I was slightly disapointed but what can u expect when your gone for a year.  But then you see someone move back,  and its almost like they havent ever been gone. i mean, its rediculous i didn’t realize this friendship being tossed by the way side but after consideration i realized it wasnt even a real friendship. Oh well, i always figured the later of the three were closer than i and my supsions were confirmed.  My revelation continued when  i showed up at a new years party being thrown by said “friend” and the same people we hung out with in high school had the same jobs and were the same level of immature as they were 2 years ago.  Whatever, cant wait to see those people at my 10 year highschool reunion.

” hey man hows it goin?”

“Great. “

“U still workin at Heroes ha ha?”

“yea”

“oh sorry, i didn’t mean to laugh”

waste of my time.  but i do apreciate the people that didn’t change. Andrea Robinson still has an amazing voice. loved hearing her sing Revelation Song.  Im so glad FBC is back on its feet.  I love that church.  I think i’ll be returning there the rest of my life.  Im glad to see my brothers new youth pastor is an awesome guy.  I’m sure they’re gonna love the rest of their highschool youth group career with him at the helm.  man so much i wanna write but im runnin outta energy.  so lets sum this up. Miss my family, aunt, grandma, and grandparents, friends, well sum of them, mainly doug, andrea and a few other.  The trip was good but im in no hurry to return for anything un family related.

well im back in dallas, my home for now.  other than my auntique of a car, things are lookin up. Im so sick of that dinosaur, if anyone reads this and wants an 84 toyota celica gts that needs some fixin up, let me know.  ill give it to you!! but im hopefully going to be purching a used truck somewhere in the near future just gotta find one first ha ha.  Also im super excited to get a roomate.  I cant wait.  classes are starting, my relationship is in excelent condition and im loving life all around.

So thats my life in a nut shell over the past few months.  thanks for reading if u do.  ill try to keep this thing updated, just bear with me ima busy guy ha ha.