start running, you won't stop

2007-07-25T23:35:00.000-07:00

man this has been such a sick trip.

you know, i really thought when i first got here that hanging out with certain people was gonna be stupid. and it kinda was the first night. but since then stuff has gotten hella better. we've done some of the typical stuff.. you know, the mall, the outlets. i've bought some pretty sweet hollister shirts, and a pair of board shorts. and i bought some SWEET slip on vans. haha.. "they're the best thing that's ever happened to me." of course we've done a little swimming, a little hot tubbing. and it's HELLA hot out here, no joke.

last week we went to the beach, just me and zack. it was hella cool. we brought one of their dogs, butterbean. it was so cool because we just got some chill time up at stinson. and we got to skimboard a lot. pretty much the whole time actually. we went again yesterday (tuesday), and this time we went with like 14 people or something like that. let's see.. we had me, zack, lily, anthony, jen, cory, aaron, jason, vona, vona's boyfriend, bry, and sophia. it was hella cool. again, went skimboarding like the whole time with zack. yeah pretty much, me and zack were the best at the beach, no lie. lily got some really cool pictures. and this time i hit some huge waves. it was awesome. i swear, i think hitting a wave has to be one of the best feelings on earth. the only sad part of the trip was the beginning of the ride home. we were riding towards the overlook on Highway 1 and we started listening to "California" by Phantom Planet. then we went to the overlook and there was beach and then ocean as far as the eye could see. i'm not gonna lie, it made me a little teary-eyed. because i knew that that would be the last time i'd be seeing a real beach for a long time. it's just.. sad. you know?

now i'm kinda coming to the end of my trip. and i'm not gonna lie, i'm getting kinda sad. but i won't let the affect the way i act on this trip, or the way i act when i get back home. i haven't forgotten that i've got an amazing life. i know there was a reason for moving to alaska. but that doesn't mean that i won't miss the warm, and the sun, and the ocean. and zack. and i'm not gonna lie.. i kinda miss vanden high too. way more than i'll ever miss eagle river high when i leave.

oh haha before i go.. i got sunburnt at the beach yesterday. but not enough to where i'm gonna lose my tan. SWEET.

chris.

2006-01-08T12:00:00.000-08:00

yeah, basically. friggin alaska. it actually warmed up today. you know what it warmed up to? 30 effin degrees! how . it's that i have to say it WARMED up to 30 degrees. whatever. it's actually really beautiful up here. and there's a lotta stuff to do. i'm not gonna go into detail because i can't be on this computer for too long. it's not mine, so i'm kinda borrowing time here. i'll go into a long post later on once i get my own computer but for now i'll just let y'all know that i'm safe, and doing ok. ok being the key term. i still really really miss everyone down there and can't wait to come visit again.

everything's gonna be ok again. eventually.

chris.

2005-12-26T17:36:00.000-08:00

ahh, Christmastime. a time of love, laughter, get togethers, and hot tubbing. oh yeah. hot tubbing baby. that's what i'm talkin' bout.

i think the reality of moving hit me on friday. of course it did. i mean, it was the last day of school. cleaning out my locker, saying goodbye to a lot of people i won't be seeing over break, that kind of thing. it's amazing how little things like that can help you realize so much. so of course when i got home i was in like the worst mood in the world. whatever. it was ok though.. my family and i went out to eat and then went to see The Chronicles of Narnia. and to my surprise, it was extremely good. so now i'm reading the book like the loser i am.

then saturday was Christmas Eve. yeah.

Christmas Dayyyyyy. that was pretty friggin' sweet. got my iPod, a bunch of cologne, 100 bucks from my grandpa, and a bunch of gift cards. so i racked up this year. not too bad if i do say so myself. anyway, later on zack came and picked me up to go out to the ranch. that place is AWESOME. no joke. (this is where the hot tubbing comes into play). haha no but seriously, it was so fun. me and zack rocked out on the guitar and drum, we had a big dinner, played air hockey, and chilled in the hot tub. it was probably one of the best Christmases (how the heck are you supposed to spell that?) that i've had. and it really didn't even feel like Christmas. like i wasn't all crazy psyched up like i normally am. maybe that's what happens with Christmas as you get older. or maybe it's just the circumstances.

well after putting songs on iPods till like 3 AM, i wasn't too happy about getting up at 11. but it's all good because ms. susie *the coolest ever* made us a fantastic breakfast. then later on sarah and joanna came over and we went to murillo's. that was cool i guess. nothin' too special.

i love my iPod.

and the boycott is still on. anyone want to join?

chris.

2005-12-20T16:59:00.000-08:00

this is such a weird week. like i know i'm moving, and i know this is my last week at vanden, but it doesn't even feel like it. it doesn't feel like Christmas is almost here, it doesn't feel like my mom's coming home, and it certainly doesn't feel like i'll be in alaska in about 2 1/2 weeks. ew, i don't even wanna think about that.

i have to say though, i've been making my time here worthwhile. i can't go too in-depth with all that's been going on, but i'm glad i'm making the most of my time while i'm here. hanging out with sarah, zack, the usual. well, not the usual. ahh i need to talk about this somewhere else.

all i have to say is that school is gay because they are giving us the most homework we've gotten all year, and it's my last week. also, i think the reality of moving is slowly settling into my system and i'm panicking, realizing there's only so little time left.

i'm still boycotting.

chris.

2005-12-11T20:43:00.000-08:00

"chris, are you drunk..?"

ummm.. no i'm not actually. i just like to get hyphy like no tomorrow. cuh.

this week was pretty interesting i have to say. what with getting all my stuff for winter ball, hanging out with sarah, joanna, and zack, and other stuff. i'm glad time is passing like it is though.. at least i'm creating memories. gosh i don't wanna move.

anyway, i won't go into detail about the week. but last night was awesome. winter ball, sucka. shoot, i didn't think it would be nearly that fun. i wasn't expecting much, maybe because it only cost 10 dollars. i dunno, but it was a blast. i was dancing like crazy and just having fun. the pre-dance thing at anthony's was fun too. even though zack got LUCKY with those two pool games. that's the only reason he beat me, because otherwise i would've scraped him. yeah so after taking pictures and feeling like i was a celebrity running from the paparazzi or something, we all headed over to the dance. when emma and i got back from taking pictures, we started dancing. at first i was just like ummm.. yeah. but then after i realized that hardly anyone will remember how i dance (except maybe all my friends i was there with) on monday, i was like shoot. i was giggin' out here like crazy. and me, zack, brandon, and lily rocked the avi's. i dunno how to explain it, but last night was one of the funnest times i've had in a long time. and i'm really glad that i got to do this and didn't miss out like last year.hope everyone else had a blast. there is one extra thing, though, that would've made the night perfect. i'll leave you to your imagination on that one.

then today me and sarah hung out a little while. haha too bad we've been hanging out like all week. shoot.. anyway. after we hung out, i went to round table for the cross country banquet. the last vanden cross country get together i'll ever have. that's pretty saddening. it was fun though. we laughed it up just like old times. old times, ha. i'm acting like the season was 5 years ago. it feels like it. anyway, i won the coach's award because i guess i'm the epitome of the type of runner that he'd like to have..? something like that. oh and i had to give a speech since i'm leaving. umm.. yeah.

i'm boycotting moving.

chris.

2005-12-06T21:11:00.000-08:00

what an awesome weekend. i won't go into too much detail though.

friday me and sarah hung out. we went to see a movie, and got something to eat. then we just hung out a little more after that.

saturday was pretty boring up until the evening, when sarah came and picked me up and we went to joanna's. after a little while, we went into town and met zack. we were gonna go and get a movie from hollywood video but someone has like 57 thousand movies rented out and they're not allowed to rent more. i mean, seriously, who rents that many movies at one time?! anyway, after we watched the end of 'happy gilmore' and the beginning of 'Christmas with the kranks,' it was time to head home. well.. to zack's. we got to zack's and me and him put up his tree, because they had just gotten it that day. my hands got all sapped up. yummmmmyyyyyyyy.

sunday morning, damon picked me up from zack's to go to church. that was probably the highlight of the weekend because it straightened me up a lot. haha. anyway after that, sarah and i hung out till about 3:30.. just went around vacaville a little bit. that was pretty sweet.

umm.. today and yesterday have just been normal school days. nothing too out of the ordinary really. i've been in a better mood than normal though, so that's cool.

there's 13 days left for me at Vanden. i can't decide whether i'm happy or sad.

chris.

2005-12-01T21:21:00.000-08:00

slow down, please.

or rewind. either one is fine with me.

2005-11-29T20:12:00.000-08:00

so i was reading one of my way old surveys that i did, and here was one of the questions, and my answers:

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:

1. run at least 3 marathons

2. find the love of my life

3. be a rock star

i haven't thought about those in a while. since summer i think. there was more stuff on the survey, but my feelings have changed toward most of those. i love looking back on memories.. it's so cool. just to remember everything. this past summer was so awesome. anyway.. i think that these are still my goals in life. seriously. i really do wanna run at least 3 marathons before i die (hopefully one or two of those being the boston marathon). i really do wanna meet the love of my life, but that'll come when it will. and i really do wanna be a rock star. maybe not like your typical rock star, but some type of musician that puts music out. that'd be so great.. i just gotta get some songs out. that'll come too.. i'm counting on it. i don't even know why i blogged about this. i think i still have homework. oh well.

chris.

2005-11-27T21:13:00.000-08:00

sunday again. i could've sworn i posted earlier this week. i did in my myspace, but that doesn't count because that wasn't even a real post. haha.

so, this thanksgiving break was probably the best one i've ever had. wednesday i headed over to zack's and then we went over to the airport to pick up B-RAD! oh man, it's been sweet having him over. and it was like nothing changed at all. like he never even moved or anything. of course, that came back to bite us all tonight, because it felt like he was moving all over again. i love you though brad (no homo). you're one of the greatest friends anyone could ask for.

thanksgiving was pretty friggin awesome. i spent it at zack's of course. but ealier in the day we got a little bored i guess. so we headed over to starbucks for like two hours or something, and just sat around and talked. it was cool because i walked up to the counter, right? i got the peppermint mocha, and handed the lady a 20. she was like, "oh crap, i don't have any smaller bills.. do you have any?" i was like, "nope, all i have is two 1's." she was like, "ok, just take it, and don't worry about it. happy thanksgiving." man that was so awesome. that totally brightened my day. then we had the traditional meal, and that was good. thanks ms. susie for cooking! i know you're reading this. haha too bad i told her thank you like fifty million times while i was at her house. she did a lot for us, and i just wanted to let her know everything was appreciated.

friday came and that was cool too. me, nathan, and brad hung out at starbucks and stuff, and then went back to zack's. zack didn't get home a little later because he had to work though. he had to work like friggin all break. except thursday. oh well. no worries i guess. anyway, we had that huge get-together, and everyone came. it was so fun. we had the fire going and everything. i don't even know how to explain it.. it was probably the best time i've had in a long time. i'm really really glad i'm making memories before i leave.

yesterday i didn't really do much. just chilled at zack's till my stepdad came and picked me up. nothing else really happened.

today i went to the early service at church. i really needed it, yet again. haha. i guess you never really don't need church. i cam home, got some hw done, then headed over to amanda's to chill with brad one last time. we had a good time, with our pizza and half-finished game of cranium. then we all went over to lindsey's and had like a fooseball / air hockey tournament. it was awesome. then we had our good-byes, and it was all over but the cryin' i guess. haha.

so it was a good break. hope everyone else had as good a time as i did.

chris.

2005-11-20T21:02:00.000-08:00

back in a good mood, mostly. nothing really to complain about, but i'm just kind of in that post-bad mood blah. it'll continue to get better i'm sure, till around Christmastime. then after Christmas it'll be like.. "the good times awe ovew!" hahaha.

thursday was 1221.. that was pretty cool. it was a very different service, but it was good nonetheless. nothing happened at school, except me and emma decided that we'd probably be going to winter ball together. i'm pretty friggin' excited about that.

the much needed friday seemed like it dragged on for about 5 years. i swear, it was the longest friday ever. this week has been super long. i dunno why. anyway, nothing really happened again at school. school's gay. then my stepdad rented batman begins and we watched most of that, but didn't finish because he had to go to bed or whatever. then zack came over till pretty late. we took a myspace picture or two, and then he headed home.

yesterday i had the turkey trot on base. HUWOW good thing me and heather scraped everybody. no body worth running against came really. oh well, it was nice to get recognized for once. usually i've got 4 runners ahead of me, and they get all the attention. but that's not what i run for, so i'm not complaining. anyway, i didn't do anything else like all day after that.

today.. was just a normal sunday. i went to anja's for a little bit and hung out. that's about it.

yeah.

chris.

2005-11-16T20:36:00.000-08:00

ok so. november is making me really mad. i mean, what kind of effing weather is this?! 74 degrees, really? how gay. that's not how it works, november. this is the month where it gets all chilly and whatnot. just to ease us into the cold. but now since it's all hot and crap, the cold's gonna come and like kill us. because we won't be ready for it. stupid november. i'd love you, but i hate you for being stupid.

uhhhhhh. another thing about november. friggin.. alaska is coming so quick. i really have a feeling it's gonna hit me hard before i realize it's here. i'm really not ready for it.. not ready to leave here. hopefully i will be before i move, but i don't know. i'm not saying that a part of me isn't excited, because i am. it's just that it's something that's outside of my understanding and knowledge, so it's really scary. i wish i could say i wasn't moving. but.. that's life.

i've run only once this week. i was supposed to run yesterday and today, but i didn't. i'm already slacking off and it's my first week. why do i do this to myself? i don't understand. hopefully i run tomorrow, i need it for the turkey trot on saturday. we'll see how that goes.

just like i said in my end of the year post: school tends to make us a little bitter. i need a holiday or something. a long one. that won't involve moving.

i hate having regrets.

chris.

2005-11-12T19:58:00.000-08:00

i'm getting back into the habit of posting like once a week. which means long posts. no one likes long posts, except maybe me. oh well.

so this was the last week of cross country. we had practice like normal up until like wednesday. actually, what am i saying? it wasn't normal practice. monday we had intervals, tuesday we had an easy three mile day, and wednesday we went to rush ranch to run pursuit drills. that was pretty fun i guess. anyway, our race was yesterday in folsom, and i ran an ok race. my time wasn't all that great, but i came in third on our team instead of fifth like i normally would've. that was pretty cool, but i think the guys that normally beat me weren't exactly happy with me. haha whatever, that's their problem.

friggin a'.. lundy gave us the freaking assignment for the essay for "Julius Caesar." GAYNESS. i hate writing papers on books or anything that has to do with academics. i just like my blog. that's it.

so yeah, my mom came over on thursday night. it's been pretty sweet, seeing her again. she has to leave again though on sunday. then for thanksgiving we have to stay here because plane tickets are so FREAKING expensive. oh well i guess, nothing i can do about it. at least i get to see brad when he comes in.. that should be pretty sweet.

i would just like to say that last night was the weirdest most crazy night ever. but i won't talk about it.. too personal.

man.. today at AE i got this player fleece pullover thing. it's pretty clean i have to say. i think that's all i have to say.

"you were right zack.. it is the WEIRDEST FEELING EVER." lol.

chris.

2005-11-06T16:32:00.000-08:00

it's finally cold. i love cold weather. it's so good to run in. except too bad cross country is almost over. i dunno what to say about that. i guess i'm happy that the season's over, but i can't say i'm totally enjoying the fact that it's almost gone. i'm happy that i won't be as busy and whatnot, but those guys are like my family or something. plus knowing that this is my last season here.. it's really saddening. i dunno.. this cross country season's end only means that alaska is drawing ever closer. i don't know what to think about that either. i mean.. i'm excited about moving. i don't like saying that but i really am. it's gonna be something new, totally different, out of the ordinary. maybe that's just what i need. but man, leaving these people here.. God, i don't want to leave them. i don't think the realization will hit me until after i've left though. i guess we'll see. or i'll see.

anyway, back to what i was originally gonna talk about. not much happened during the week really. i got my report card on thursday. all A's, whatchu know?! i haven't done that since.. 6th grade. i barely pulled it off though. friggin' science. oh well, i did it. that's all that counts. friday was homecoming, but i didn't go because me and zack and sarah decided to go to the mall and the movies. zack bought a sweatshirt and a track jacket. cuh-lean. then we went to jamba juice and the movies. 'Legend of Zorro' was actually pretty good. after that i went back to zack's house and spent the night there.

MRS. SUSIE (zack's mom) IS THE COOLEST EVER!

zack and i got up yesterday morning at like 8 so i could head down to vanden because we had sub-sections at angels camp. the car ride there was so funny. we were listening to dane cook and cracking up like the whole way. the race wasn't all that great though. since osa wasn't there we got 8th place, which barely got us to sections. none of us ran extremely well, and mike didn't run well at all. i dunno what happened. hopefully we do better at the section meet on friday.

which reminds me, my mom's coming home for a few days next weekend! she'll be here for the section meet, so that'll be pretty sweet. then in a couple of weeks (if we don't make it to the state meet. which is highly doubtful right about now), we'll go to houston for thanksgiving and spend it with family and my mom. that should be pretty sweet.. and if i go down, i'll be able to do the downtown turkey trot in houston on thanksgiving morning. should be sweet, but i'm 'bout to get scraped out there. crazy fast runners in texas, you don't even know.

i hope when it rains, it rains hard. none of that drizzle crap. how random.

chris.

2005-10-30T18:58:00.000-08:00

hmm.. i can't remember much from the week. bullet time!

CVC league final: ran 18:44 for 3 miles, and got eighth place. top 7 is all league. second year in a row tha'ts happened. i was in a bad mood again afterwards, too.
took some SWEET myspace pictures with my stunnas on. "go dumb.. dawg i'm hyphy.."
went over to anja's last night to watch a few episodes of supernatural and hang out. pretty cool i guess. except the movie "uptown girls" is gay. HOMOSEXUAL.
i think i might actually have made all A's on my report card. how sweet is that?!
i went to arby's today after church and had a really good sandwich. then after that, i got some guitar strings. finally changed 'em out. hate new strings though. too squeaky. yuuuuck.

i can't think of anything else to say. what can i say? weak week = weak blog.

chris.

2005-10-24T20:33:00.000-07:00

hahahahahaha... WOO! lol mike cracks me up.

yeah, so saturday was freakin sweet. no lie. know what i did all day? absolutely nothing. i think it's the first saturday i've had off in like 2 months. i'm not even kidding.. cross country ruins every saturday i was ever meant to enjoy. that's ok though.. i guess i love running. it's what i do. it was really nice to have a day like that though. pretty sweet, pretty sweet.

sunday i had the Marti Nelson Stride for Life. it was a 5k race in support of some breast cancer association. i had fun there. yeah.. me, big dub, brittanie, and keanen all ran the 5k. you don't even know about that vanden xc team! oh there's pictures on my myspace from that race too. i ran really well there.. got 5th overall, and 2nd in my division because keanen was there. and i ran an 18:35, so i'm proud of myself i guess. it's the fastest 5k i've ever run. anyway, later on that day i went to AE and bought a new jacket and a pair of jeans. i must say, they're both pretty friggin awesome. yeahhh.

today was the slowest school day ever known to man. i'm looking forward to friday though.. minimum day, whatchu know?! i dunno about next week though.. it's gonna be a little lonely. you know how i'm talking about. haha..

hollaaaaaa.

chris.

2005-10-21T22:37:00.000-07:00

this was the longest short week ever. went by so quick, but like.. so much has happened. holy cow. i'd talk about all of it, but a lot of it's pretty personal. nothing TOO bad i guess. it all fixed itself anyway. i need to quit rambling about stuff no one even knows about.

saturday we had a meet in.. folsom? yeah.. i ran like a 19:0-something. not too shabby i guess. whatever, i've run better. i'm just hoping the race on wednesday goes really well. maybe i won't be half a second behind all-league. that'd be nice.

umm.. i think tuesday me and kalie hung out. that was cool i guess. i played guitar for her.. she's lucky. i don't do that for anyone. ever.

thursday i didn't go to 1221 because there was some concert there or something. i didn't feel like being in some big crowded place so i said heck no techno. after some stuff happened, i got a little angry with myself and ran 5 miles. running should be a person, so i could marry it. i think i said that before about something else, but i'm a little tired, so i can't remember right now.

today i had plans, but they got canceled. i did end up going to bry and zack's party and kt's house. that was ok i guess. just kinda.. sat around and talked about stuff. nothing too interesting. except me and brandon were cracking ourselves up with dane cook and "surprise." good times, good times. i guess.

i finally get to sleep in tomorrow. you know how great that is? that's like.. man, i don't even know how to explain that. it's just plain friggin' awesome. i don't think i have anything planned tomorrow. sunday, however, i have a race in vacaville. not with vanden, just a fun-run to support a cancer association or something. i dunno. should be pretty sweet.

surprise.

chris.

2005-10-14T21:25:00.000-07:00

wow.. haha, i dunno what to say about this week.

started out pretty normal i guess.. and it went by really fast. wednesday was great, but i'm not gonna say why. i'll just wait till everyone finds out this one on their own. haha, yall will see.. hopefully. eventually.

today was kt's birthday. had a "surprise party" at school for her. pretty weak, but no worries because i got a cupcake. yeah.. just wanna say (even though this is a little early and she probably won't read this)..

HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY KARESSA TAM MENDOZA!!

you are the coolest ever.

anyway, after school.. i stayed with zack and anna while they practiced their swing dance thing. i woulda done it, but i didn't really have enough time to get the routine down with janelle. ahh well.. sorry zack. hope it went well. yeah.. i'd say it was an eventless week, but i guess not huh?

chris.

2005-10-09T16:22:00.000-07:00

you know, i never ever get on the computer with an intention to blog. ever. i'm always just sitting there doing whatever, then all of a sudden, it's like i'm at blogger. no explanation. so i just figure i might as well post.

umm yeah. last week was the first week of october. too bad it started to warm up again by the end of the week. not drastically, just enough to remind me that this is california and we have the gayest weather ever. umm.. quick overview:

didn't go to practice till like thursday, because of the whole hospital / stomach virus thing.
went to 1221 for the first time in like three weeks i think. maybe two. i dunno, but it was great, i needed it really bad
i had hardly any homework at all, but it all caught up to me on friday. dumb homework, you don't even know.
i finally figured out how to do the little flick thing with bottle caps. hahaha.. i'm addicted now.

yesterday was SWEET. i'd post about it in the athlete's blog, but of course (once again) i've given up on it. and i'm too lazy to go back to the dashboard and click "post" for the Athlete's Foot. hahaha. anyway, we had the Crystal Springs Invitational yesterday. pretty sweet, pretty sweet. we all ran really well too. boys got first for the sophomore boys race, and i PRed with an 18:30 time. too bad i was still recovering. i think it was these electrolyte jelly beans that i ate before the race. i'm bout to go stock up. haha. oh! so i had been lookin at this girl from Los Gatos High, because she was super good looking, right? well, mrs. lewis (my biology teacher) was there, and i had been complaining about the crapload of science homework she had given us. so anyway, crap happens, and she goes, "if you go ask her for her name, you don't have to do the homework." so i was like, "psh, heck yeah!" hahaha here's how the conversation went:

me: hi, umm.. i was wondering what your name was?

her: ummm.... callie..

me: haha, ok thanks.

(walks away)

hahaha.. whatchu know bout these pimpin skills?! haha jp. too bad i wasn't even like being really serious about it because if i was, i would've actually introduced myself and stuff. yeah, you know how i do. i just wanted to get that homework pass. haha that was so awesome. she was EXTREMELY good looking. holy cow. that's all i have to say about that.

hopefully this week is a little cooler. as in temperature wise.

chris.

2005-10-03T22:10:00.000-07:00

know what i just realized? well, i didn't just realize it, but i forgot to talk about it. it's october. you know how awesome that is? i mean, did y'all feel the weather? it felt so cool and dry. gosh, it was such a great feeling. gosh, it would've been a great day to run today. our team ran out at rush ranch. i'm bet it felt so good at the top of that hill. wish i could been there. that's ok though, i'll be able to run it again at the last league meet.

i love you, october.

i should write a song about that.

2005-10-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

freakin busy. freakin too much going on. freakin.. i don't even know.

i'd have to say that this past weekend was probably the worst weekend ever. many thanks to NIA for getting me sick. nah, like i told her, it wasn't her fault.. it was mine. anyway, i got up around midnite on friday night (saturday morning?) and my stomach was killing me. man, i knew it was coming because SO many people have had that stupid stomach virus. so basically i was up all night getting out of bed and going to the bathroom, and back again. so by the time morning came, i trie eating something. yeah, didn't work. threw it up within like 2 minutes. so long story short, had to go to the hospital, and got kept there for eight hours. keep in mind that i also was supposed to have a meet that day too. and it's like the best meet of the friggin season. i dunno, for some reason i'm not really bummed. i mean, i was today for a while. but then i realized that it coulda been worse.. yeah.

so i'm gonna be out for while, with cross country. probably until thursday, which sucks because we have a league meet on wednesday that i won't be able to make. ahh well.. i'll be ok. and i've got a really great team and coaches too. love those guys. especially my big sister. haha, she's the best.

i'm not really sure what else to say. i've been playing a lotta dashboard on my guitar. maybe that's not the best thing to do. i dunno, i guess we'll see.

oh and i've been a little confused lately. i mean, i really want my mom to come home.. but i know that once that time comes, i'm gonna have to move. mixed feelings. you know, i have those WAY too often. i think i should just pray that time goes by fast in the places where it counts and slow in the places where it counts. i just wanna get the best out of life while i'm here. i know there some reason i'm here. and i dunno where this is leading. gotta do more thinking in bed tonight. of coruse, while listening to that good ol' dashboard. g'night.

chris.

2005-09-25T18:38:00.000-07:00

so, i should be finishing up a paper right now. friggin' lundy. thanks a lot. too bad i walked to the library and could only write a paragraph, then i got to the bx and wrote like one and a half more paragraphs. i'm such a slow writer. i better get an A on this paper with all the time i'm spending on it. NOT. hahaha.

yeah, i'm really only posting because i don't feel like sitting down and writing more. funny how i can write here all day long about nothing, but when given a specific topic to write about in a class, it takes forever. i like my blog, shutup.

so yeah, anyway. haha.. i was looking on the internet last night at the state cross country and track meets in alaska. too bad i'm about to go there and scrape everybody. they're all gonna get slept. slept. yeah, i'm a loser like that.

i don't have anything else to talk about... don't do drugs.

chris.

2005-09-24T20:13:00.000-07:00

scottie!!! take it down a notch!

it was an ok week. i dunno, not much to say about it i guess. we had that meet on wednesday, that was pretty friggin' sweet. same place we ran on monday.. like i said, the biggest hill in the universe. but it's ok.. i ran much better on wednesday than i did on monday, too. my time was 20:02 (which ain't too bad for a three miler in the heat with mount everest), i came in 6th, and i was our fifth man. yeahhhhh. too bad vanden scraped everybody. yeah, we're awesome.

thursday i couldn't go to 1221 because of schoolwork. gay schoolwork. thanks lundy, thanks a lot. oh and martinez and weikel didn't show up to practice, but we still ran anyway. we're dumb. we're all just plain stupid. or dedicated. either one works for me.

friday we had a football game. so.. i guess it was vanden's turn to get slept. too bad our football team sucks. i'm just glad it wasn't the cross country team. like i said, we're awesome.

then we had that meet today in angels camp. umm.. got up at like 7 and cooked me some eggs. i had such an awesome time in the van on the way there and back though. just like old times, you don't even know. anyway, i guess someone convinced martinez to let all the sophomores and t-bag (hahaha yes, we call the new kid named tommy t-bag. got a problem with it? i don't care) to run the sophomore race so we'd have a better chance at getting medals, and because mike wasn't there. we got third overall. not too shabby i guess. yeah, had a good time with the cross country team.. acting retarded. we're too cool. too cool.

i like how i don't even post about what happens at school. just goes to show that school really does suck.

chris.

oh yeah, my mom left on wednesday for san antonio. she doesn't come back till Christmas Eve though. no worries though, right? we've done it before, we can do it again. 13 weeks from today and counting.

2005-09-20T19:30:00.000-07:00

hrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. yesterday and today, yeah? yeah. nothing really happened sunday.

yesterday.. umm.. nothing real special i guess. went and talked to martinez and weikel at lunch, and found out we had practice at rush ranch (where our league meet will be tomorrow). anyway, after school we all went out to the freakin boonies of suisun. no joke, man. it's like out in the middle of no where. so we looked at a little map which really didn't help at all, and we were on our way. too bad this course has like the biggest hill in the universe. i think it reaches past the atmosphere. i could see mars, i swear i could. no but seriously, it was litereally 212 feet high. from sea level up. we've never had to run a hill that high or that steep. luckily, it's at the beginning of the course, so we can get it out of the way and then there's just a few tiny rolling hills closer to the end of the course. no big deal i guess. none of us did that well, but i attribute it to the fact that it was 94 degrees, and none of us knew the course. tomorrow's gonna be better because it'll only be 87. hopefully. i really like this course though.. it was real cross country as opposed to paved roads and dirt trails. had it not been so hot outside, it would've been freaking awesome.

today i wasn't in that great of a mood, but those reasons aren't for me to discuss here. we didn't have practice, but i ran anyway. 3 miles against 100 bajillion mile an hour winds. that's ok, it'll make me stronger. whatever. too bad.. after practice i needed to use someone's phone so i went to the cheerleading practice with my shirt off. buncha starers. yeah, i'm hott. don't even try and deny it. hahahaha.. i'm just kidding. ok, not really.

yeah, league meet tomorrow. i'll be decked out in vanden high stuff. sweeeet. and i get to run in my new race flats. even sweeeeeter.

chris.

2005-09-17T22:00:00.000-07:00

let's see, let's see, let's see..

tuesday i came back to school still semi-sick, but whatever. i didn't practice. other than that, i have no idea. i don't think, anyway.

wednesday we were supposed to have a league meet, but that didn't happen because some schools couldn't get buses to the new place we're supposed to have the meet. yeah, apparently this new course has like the fattest hill ever at the very beginning of the race. and it was rescheduled to happen this wednesday. yeah, lucky us. we'll kill everyone, we always do.

thursday = worst day ever. friggin.. my track jacket was stolen out of my locker, zack wasn't at school because he was at some air show in reno for ROTC, and martinez made us run some crazy intervals. crazy mexican. i will say that 1221 was pretty thweet though.

friday was a little better. actually, yeah.. a lot better. umm, nothing new about the actual school day i don't think. but me and nia got to talk for a little while. that was cool. then chris langbehn had a surprise party and that was just crazy. cake was everywhere. guh-ross. and we played hide and seek. it's like we all forgot we're in high school. yeah, we're cool. you don't even know.

today i had my meet, but i'll post about that elsewhere when i get the chance. i'll just say it wasn't good. then i went into vacaville to get some race flats. man homes, they're sweeeet. then since i was in vacaville, i decided to go to lily's. too bad i wasn't even gonna go. i can't say it was really anything special. no big deal. maybe it was better than staying as home the rest of the day and doing nothing. i totally coulda done that though because of that meet this morning. my legs are killing me. cwapface.

chris.

2005-09-12T17:12:00.000-07:00

i wonder how many times i've said that i was a procrastinator at the beginning of posts. it'd probably be a pretty scary number. yeah, shutup.

so last week wasn't too special i guess. umm.. yeah. i'm sick right now, so my mind is kind of wandering off. i can't seem to think of anything that happened before friday. if i think of anything i'll talk about it later. so, friday was the game. too bad it was like the windiest day on earth. although, i'd rather play football in that wind than run. gross, we had three miles with bleachers, and everytime you came around a certain corner it's like you hit a brick wall or something. naaaaaaaasty. so anyway, after going home and getting cleaned up and whatnot, i went to the game. that was pretty thweet. too bad we lost though. whatever, we didn't have a chance. Cal High is like division 1. and we're in gay division 3. which basically means our school is semi-small sports are mediocre. you shoulda seen the guys from Cal High. they look like.. NFL players or something. anyway, after the temperature dropped to seemingly below freezing and a few more touchdowns made by the opposing team, it was time to head home. didn't do much after that.

this weekend.. hmm, can't say it was too fun in particular. damon came home on saturday, and mom made these brownies that i just about killed myself on. way too good. then sunday i got pretty sick, and last night i got like negative sleep. or it felt like it. anyway, i got through about 3 1/2 periods before i decided enough was enough, and i went to the nurse. now i'm home, with a bunch of nasty tissues by my side because i'm too lazy to go throw them away. gross.

being sick sucks, and so does schoolwork. oh, and to make matters worse.. our first meet is on wednesday. i hope i'm not sick by then. it's a league meet. meaning.. important.

chris.

2005-09-05T16:02:00.000-07:00

this is the boringest Labor Day like.. ever. EVER.

the rest of the week of school was ok. but there was a lot more work than i anticipated. i kept up though, no worries. i've got the final draft done for the autobiographical thing in lundy and all my other homework was just time-consuming.. not hard. well, somewhat hard.

friday was pretty thweet. went over to kt's where we had Asian BBQ. yeahhhh. that was friggin awesome. we jumped on her trampoline and star-gazed the rest of the night. yeah, too bad me, nia, lily, and zack hecka got in a tickle fight. we won, no contest. man, i love hanging out with them though. what a party. then zack found out his parents were stuck somewhere..? so he spent the night at my house. too bad he fell asleep on the couch like an hour after he got here.

saturday was cool too. after zack left, my mom and i went to the mall so she could pick up a cake for my stepdad's birthday and i went to AE to see if they had any clothes. i found this t-shirt there, then all of a sudden ben pops up outta no where. i had no idea he worked there. anyway, i picked up a sweatshirt too, and ben gave me 40% off. heck yessssssssss. man, i got the shirt and the sweatshirt for like less than 30 bucks. ben's awesome. the best part of the whole thing was that it was legal. hahaha. anyway, we came home and had some crab and shrimp gumbo, and some cake. i've been full ever since. hahah.

sunday was pretty normal, with church and all. of course, big dave gave a message on the hurricane and whatnot. we came home, then i had to go and type lundy's paper at the library. that didn't take long though. i came home, and i didn't really do anyting the rest of the night. zack asked me to spend the night, but i never called him back. haha, oh well.

i had to get up early this morning because we had practice at lagoon valley. we needed it, i'll tell you that. those hills are killer. and that's where our first invitational is. it's really awesome though, because i ran faster this morning than i was running at the end of last season. 19:08 for three miles sucka. beat it, i dare you. the rest of the day has been pretty boring. i don't think i've really done anything at all. hmm.. yeah, nothing.

oh and one more thing:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA PETALIO!!
and please remember.. you're 15, not 16. ahahahaha.

oh yeah, i've been on another dashboard confessional craze for about a week. weird, it's like a drug or something.

chris.

2005-08-30T20:07:00.000-07:00

school.. GROSS.

yeah, first period's not too bad. i actually kinda like mr. lundy, and i've got lily, nia, and zack in that class. zack was cracking me up this morning though. i'm freakin' trying to listen to lundy, and all of a sudden i hear this really faint voice "c.......n.......n......."

second period = coolest P.E. period in the entire history of the world. like, everyone's in that class. it's sooo cool. haha. of course there's zack, lily, nia.. and then there's so many other people. it's sweet. i'd have to say those are my two favorite periods of the day. especially today, because was big pimpin' with all the girls sitting all around me. just ask zack. hahaha. and freakin' we don't have lockers, so we're gonna be like walking the gay track. and it's gonna be hot. i get enough of that track with stupid intervals during cross country.

third period isn't as bad as i thought it'd be. although world history doesn't exactly exciting, the teacher is actually nicer than i thought she'd be. man, she was cracking me up today. along with giovanna, jesse perotti, and osa. hahaha, cracking me up.

fourth period is so weak. friggin' french. like, i seriously doubt i'm gonna learn anything while i'm in this class. maybe a little bit, but not that much. because i have so many friends in that class, and mrs. k is so easy. and she gives out so much extra credit. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaasssssssssyyyyyyyy class.

lunch.. whatever, nothing special.

fifth period.. science honors. oh boy. i'm not too psyched about this class because:

it's honors, which means a lot of work.
the only friends i have in that class are brittanie and and katie. not too exciting there.

last period is geometry. i'm not sure what to make of it yet. the teacher's not too bad i guess. but i don't really have friends in that one too. i am making friends with this girl named samantha though. she's a junior..? i dunno.

seventh period is somewhat of a drag because everyone else has seven periods except me. but i'm not complaining because i pretty much like my schedule. but i've been so tired coming home from school. i think i'm gonna start going to bed a lot ealier. like 9. yeah, i'm a loser.

chris.

2005-08-28T21:22:00.000-07:00

fun summer, yeah?

a few parties, a few creekwalks, a trip to louisiana, a huge concert, a trip to marine world, and 1221. wow.

the parties were ok.. this last pool party wasn't all that exciting, but i can't say i was expecting much anyway. i'm just glad to have seen everyone right before school started, and that everyone saw the new do. yeah, i'd have to say that sitting and talking with nia and zack was the best part. i miss talking to nia though.. haven't really done it in a while. like.. really talked.

umm.. marine world was the shiz. me, bry, michelle, and michelle's white-filipino cousin. weird. anyway, i'm glad i got to go once. they made me ride V2 and that was like the sweetest ride there. i would've ridden it anyway, but i can't say i wasn't a tad bit nervous about riding a new ride.

the creekwalks kinda sucked this year. friggin'.. ended at 9. but the last one was cool, hanging out with sarah, zack, and joanna. all the other ones weren't too bad i guess. but not as good as last year i don't think.

spirit west coast!! man, that was pretty thweet. what with David Burris, and 'you wish!'. yeah, good times.. good times. newsboys rocked, and so did david crowder.. yeaaaaaah. and then the beach too. that'll be the second to last skim trip of the year, and one of the last ones for a looooooong time unless i go to florida next summer. effing alaska.

oh, can't forget B-rad's partay. yeah, scandia was awesome. too bad the go-karts were like.. gay. but that's ok, the food and arcade games made up for it. and seein' bradley for one last time. well, hopefully i'll see him again when he comes down.. i'm sure i will.

1221 has been really awesome this summer. what with meeting with breanne and lacy and all. haha. no but really, worship was GREAT and so were the sermons. it was probably the one thing i constantly had to look forward to during the week. yeah, that was sweet.

louisiana-- not much to say there. good times, spending it with family, but i can't say i wasn't glad to be back home. although gay hole zack moved to vacaville that same day. uhh.

so i guess i'd have to say this is the best summer i've had. there isn't much to really compare it to though. whatever. i can't complain. it was real, it was fun.. it was real fun.

i gotta get to bed. school. guh-reat.

chris.

2005-08-27T22:19:00.000-07:00

so i've been posting a lot more often. and i dunno why. well, maybe i do. maybe it's because i don't wanna have to post 50 mile long posts. haha.

so, i didn't tell anyone before that i got my haircut on thursday. i didn't really want to because i kinda wanted it to be a surprise. i'm pretty glad i didn't tell anyone though because most people's reactions were crazy. lol. i've decided that i personally like it better though. yeah, it's a lot easier to deal with, and most people like it anyway. i think i'm gonna add pictures right now because i've never done it with blogger and i wanna see if it works. haha.

so yeah, craziness. totally different. and cutting it that short was WAY spur of the moment. haha.

the creekwalk was last night, but we didn't really do much there. i watched joanna and aimee perform at the little stage with sarah and zack. then me, zack, sarah, and joanna went to starbucks. too bad joanna was like high off her stupid vicodin. haha. when we got there anthony, lily, brandon, weldon, and chris were there so i hung out with them for a little bit before i went to sit with zack and them. we talked for while.. that was pretty sweet, just hanging out.

today was the pool party. i'd talk about what we did at zack's house, but really nothing went on. i was by myself for like 5 hours anyway, like chilling with his little sister because zack had to go into work because someone called in sick. anyway, we went to the party and met up with everyone. that was cool i guess. i'm glad i got to see everyone before school started. then me and zack had to go to his church for some meeting and there was this kid that would not shut up. oh my gosh. like, i was about to kick him in the face. haha. anyway, after me and zack talked about how much fun it is torturing cats, we went back to the party for like 30 minutes. i got a ride home with shack, which was a major bonus because his family is wayyy southern. haha, i love hanging out with southern families. they crack me up. "if you think the last four words of the national anthem are 'gentlemen, start your engines'.. you might be a redneck."

hahaha.

chris.

2005-08-25T22:17:00.000-07:00

so, my week hasn't been eventful. like, at all.

all i've been doing since registration is running. and then i go home and sit around. all. day. long. holy cow, it's like the boringest thing ever. well, i guess i won't be saying this for too long. either that, or i'll be saying how bored i am at school instead of at home. hmm.. i think i'd rather be bored at home. but that's just me.

freakin' holy crap. tuesday we had to run at lagoon valley. oh man, that was like the worst run ever. the hills are like, mount everest out here. gross. and then we had to start going to practice yesterday at 3:30 because stupid martinez and wiekel had to start work yesterday. but whatever. we had gay mile intervals yesterday, and today was only three miles. my legs are KILLING me though. holy cow, they haven't hurt this bad since track season.

yeah, other than that.. nothing. nothing at all. although, me and zack did go to 1221 tonight. that was pretty thweet. except lacy and breanne weren't there. oh well, it's not like i'm going there for them anyway. tomorrow is the creekwalk, and saturday is pool party. i hear it's gonna be like 103 outside so we sure picked a perfect day for a pool party. i guess it'll be a pretty ok end to a pretty ok summer.

chris.

2005-08-22T15:40:00.000-07:00

hmm..

registration was today. before i went though, i went to practice and he made us run 5 miles. boy, that was the longest distance i've run in like 9 months. maybe not, but it seems like it. then after my run i walked over to the school and saw all my friends. that was cool i guess. haha, i saw kt but she was mad becuase she couldn't hug me since i was all sweaty. brittanie didn't care though. i guess that's because she gets just as sweaty as i get being that she's a cross country runner too. anyway, i did all my registration stuff, took a gay picture, got an awesome locker, and got a fantastic schedule:

English 2H - Lundy
PE - Butler
World History - Vinet
French 2 - Kuchinski (YEAH!)
Integrated Science 2H - Lewis
Geometry - Centeno

yeah, my schedule's awesome. first two periods with zack and nia. and like, everyone's in my PE period. french is gonna be great because Mrs. Kuchinski is wayyy easy. i'm thinkin it's gonna be a good year. wow, my mood about going back to school has lifted a little.

chris.

2005-08-20T00:24:00.000-07:00

aspdlfhasd;ahsdf. ---know what that is? that's the sound of this week, and how retarded it was.

ok, so to start off.. this weather is the gayest thing i've ever seen in my entire life. i mean.. come on! freaking.. it's like less than 60 degrees in the morning when i wake up to go to cross country practice. oh my gosh, and it's like windy as a beezy outside too. holy crap, we had to run 4 miles on thursday, and there were 30 mph winds. what kind of crap is that?! oh whatever.. apparently it'll be better next week. it better be, because this is august. i can't enjoy my summer to the fullest if it's this cold outside. it's just.. not normal.

other than that, things have been pretty boring. i can't really say i've been too lazy because of waking up at 7:40 in the morning to go to practice. but things haven't been to exciting lately. i dunno, monday'll be a little different. schedule pick-up and whatnot. yeah, whatever.

tonight, however, was very fun. anja and i decided to go see 'The Island' together. that was pretty cool i guess.. i've never really like talked to her before. you know, had like a regular conversation or whatever. it was cool though. i had a good time. she was cracking me up the whole movie though. and i must say, the movie was pretty darn good. yeah, i'd recommend it. well, if you like a lot of action.

yeah, short post. the week was full of cross country and nothing, so what'd you expect?

chris.

2005-08-15T22:00:00.000-07:00

i'm such a blog neglecter.. neglector? neglecter? ahh screw it.. school doesn't start for another two weeks. eww.. school starts in two weeks. MAN HOMES.. THINK I'M GONNA THROW UP!!

so where did we leave off? last saturday?! urggh.. i've got a lotta catching up to do. i need to learn to update this thing more.

sunday was pretty good i guess. went to church, you know, the usual. then a while after coming home, zack and his dad came and picked me up so i could go and spend the night at his house. we didn't have much to do during the day (except for me screwing up his computer by ACCIDENT), so we decided to go to lindsey's because we heard that michelle and jessica were over. besides.. we had nothing else to do. so after spending a few hours there in heated discussion about God and playing air hockey, we headed home. nothing out of the ordinary, especially considering it's lindsey's house. i'd mention other stuff that happened, but i'm sure y'all will find out soon enough.. or you already know. hahaha. anyway, that night we spent moping over stupid things, and posting in Lyrically Correct with sad songs. what a buncha saps. anyway, we stayed up to try and watch the shuttle land, but that didn't end up happening. stupid NASA and their guys in houston asking for food. don't even know how to control a space shuttle landing. buncha losers.

we woke up at like noon the next day (which, by the way, was caused by michael calling us.. loser) and zack made some of them famous waffles. i swear, i don't think he should become a pilot. maybe a chef.. yeah, a waffle chef. that'd be player because then, i'd have an endless supply of Zack's Famous Waffles. man, that would just make my life right there. anyway, after watching a few videos on zack's (much faster than mine) dsl, zack's dad brought us back to my house.. where we were again.. moping. gosh, we are such losers. i'm glad the moping's over at the very least. anyway, even though we were planning on going to waterworld th next day, we stayed up much later than we should have. dumb holes.

ahh.. waterworld.. a place of fun and excitement. but before the excitement, comes puking. yes, puking. apparently zack got this massive headache on the way to sacramento, and it made him nauseated. yeah, i'm thinking this sickness was directly related to his last "nauseated" incidence, where he got kool-aid in his eye. like i said before.. freak. anyway, after the vomiting was over, he was fine for the most part.. and we continued our trip to waterworld. we had a great time there, scamming on chics. yeah, right. there was this one lifeguard though.. she had on these player pink sunglasses... umm.. yeah. anyway, we found vona and casey there. that was cool for a little while. johnny b. goode came on and i sang it at the top of my lungs.. what a singer. i was being retarded all day though. it was great. so after waterworld was over, we brought zack back (haha.. "zack back") to his house and headed home. we had an athletic meeting to go to at 7, which was pretty boring for the most part. i'm such a trouble maker though.. talking while mr. luckey was talking. my mom actually lectured me for it. i probably deserved it though.. i don't know what was with me. even in the cross country meeting, i wouldn't shutup. haha. but it WAS really cool to see the cross country team again. well, most of them.

and then comes wednesday. boy, what an awkward day. physicals.. gross. standing in line was fun. talking and messing around with cameron carr, zack, and shack. but no more will be said about that day, because it's not too fun to remember.

i don't think much happened thursday.. oh! i went to see 'War of the Worlds,' which was actually not that bad of a movie. i'm surprised tom cruise is doing this well though, with all the movies he's made in the past.

let's see.. zack and i went to the creekwalk on friday. well, first we went to McDonald's because homer hadn't eaten and was "starving." pfff.. anyway, after that, we went to the creekwalk and hugn out with emma for a little while. that was cool, catching up with her. then we saw brandon, amanda, nia, and josh.. wo we pretty much hung out with them the rest of the night. we all went down to the coffee house by andrews park and met up with scott, michelle, and some other girl. so all of us basically hung out until, of course, i went home. not too interesting, but it made my day, at least.

saturday, my mom, matt, and i went school clothes shopping. that was pretty cool i guess.. got a few new things. then later on that night, damon and i decided on the spur of the moment to go see Star Wars: Episode III on base. it was pretty sweet. the only drawback of THAT was that the movie didn't end till like 11:30. craziness. and then church on sunday.. whew boy.

church was cool, as usual. then afterwards we ate at Murillo's. that was friggin' awesome. man, i haven't eaten mexican food in a long time. later on that night, the whole family watched Star Wars: A New Hope. too bad my mom was really getting into it. hahaha. anyway, i couldn't stay up too late after that because of..

CROSS COUNTRY PRACTICE. man, i'm lucky i even woke up for that. my mom got me up at 7:50, because i apparently forgot to set my alarm. oh well.. i had a ride there, so it was all good. man, it was pretty cool being there even though i was complaining about it the whole time. then martinez made me and keanen run FOUR miles instead of two, since we've been running all summer. now, how come i don't remember him doing that to other people LAST year..? anyway.. we went shopping again today, i mowed the lawn, and the family watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. i think we're planning on watching the last one tomorrow. bunch of geeks.

i need to start posting more often. i keep forgetting what i do during the week.

chris.

2005-08-06T19:16:00.000-07:00

great.. haven't posted since sunday. good job chris.

umm.. i guess not much has happened since Spirit West Coast. monday wasn't too bad i guess. i got up at like 8:45 because a bunch of us cross country people have been getting together and running like twice a week. that was cool i guess. the duck pond is a killer though. lots of hills.. yesssss.

i don't think anything happened tuesday. i moved.. like.. an inch. yeah.

wednesday was cool too i guess. umm.. nothing much happened till 6, when me, nia, josh, jessica, jen, drew, and some other kids went bowling. i bowled.. and sucked. yeah, whatever. so did everyone else, except for like.. drew. ahaha. then everyone kept making fun of the way i bowl. whatever.. freaks. then, when we went to get food, our server's name was Rachel, right? well, not many people know about the joke, and i'm not really 'in' on it, but i do know about it. it's the whole 'Friends' thing, where six of y'all got together and gave yourselves names from the show. anyway, i knew that nia was Rachel. so, when i looked at the nameplate i was like, "haha.. rachel.." and then she was like, "you gotta problem with that?".. and keep in mind, this isn't exactly the prettiest woman in the world. she was kinda.. err.. weird. so i go into explaining about the stupid joke.. and we get in the most random conversation ever. it was weird. i don't know. rachel is.. weird. that's all i have to say because if i keep going, i'll just get meaner. umm anyway.. i went home and talked to zack on the phone for a little while. i found out something that i really didn't want to find out at the time, but i'm glad i did now. i'm over it, and i'm glad. i had to go on a walk though, to figure some things out. but it's cool now. no worries.

thursday was pretty good too i guess. nia was supposed to come on base to chill, but she didn't. i'm not trippin' over that though. i wasn't really expecting her to come, and to be honest, i wasn't that concerned at that particular moment anyway. i was just looking forward to going to 1221. which was freakin' AWESOME. greg's got that word now. he KNOWS how to preach it. also, i got to see breanne and lacy. me and breanne got in a tickle fight.. haha. yeah.. she lost. what a loser. ahaha.

yesterday was umm.. extremely good. some the cross country team met up again at the duck pond, and me and chris ran 4 miles, while the rest ran 2.5. then we chilled for like.. an hour. we always, always do that. it's like.. tradition. i dunno how to explain it. then we all decided that we were gonna go to the bx and eat because by that time, we were all starving. so we did that, then we tried to sneak erin in the bx, but that didn't work out too well. haha. then langbehn and matt played DDR. crazy kids. i don't know how people get so good at that game. buncha nerds must be playing it like all day or something. haha j/p. but no really. ahahaha. umm anyway, langbehn left for the pool and the rest of us headed on over to my house to check out my skills on that geetar. these skills are unheard of. can't touch this da nuh nuh nuh.. nuh nuh.. nuh nuh! anyway.. i played like.. every single Dashboard song i know. and believe me, that's a lot. that's like.. 1 1/2 hours of playing right there. just Dashboard. cuh-razy. later on that night i asked my mom if i could go to the creekwalk, but she said only if i could get a ride back home. kind of not fair i guess because a situation i have no control over is affecting me. but i guess that's just life right? wow, that's applying to a lot of situations right now actually. umm.. anyway, i'm not complaining about not going now though because i got to talk to breanne a lot on the phone and internet and stuff. that was fantastic. so yeah.. like i said. extremely good.

today has been kind of hectic. i had to wake up at like 9:45 because my mom had some type of family picnic that she wanted me to go to. it wasn't that bad i guess. i got lumpia, so yeah.. we threw the football.. had a good time.. you know, the usual. then we came home and i had to clean because fatt is having his party today. actually, he's having it as we spea--err.. i type. he has two friends spending the night. oh joy. i'm looking forward to this. that's ok though because the Costco cake that we got him makes up for it. hecka good. but they can make you sick REAL quick. no joke. so i've been playing a lot of guitar. and my fingers hurt, even while i type.. so i'm gonna go.

DAVID BURRIS!!

chris.

2005-07-31T22:09:00.000-07:00

yeah, i'm not gonna go over anything that happened between monday and thursday. it wasn't very eventful except for jessica and zack coming to hang out on base. that was pretty sweet.

SPIRIT WEST COAST

this weekend was freakin' sweet. we've been planning on going to Spirit West Coast since like, january. then we found out like thursday that zack was coming. man.. freakin' awesome. without a friend there, i don't think it would've been nearly as fun.

-Friday
hmm.. we left around like, 10ish? nah, maybe later, because we didn't get there till like 3:15. yeah.. i dunno. but we did stop at pizza hut, so yeah. umm.. yeah. anyway, like i said, we got there around 3:15. we wanted to make the David Crowder*Band concert, and we sure as heck did. man, that concert was sweet. he sang 'No One Like You,' 'Sing Like the Saved,' 'Open Skies,' and a bunch of other awesome songs. the cool thing about their band is that they sound EXACTLY like their CDs. so you knew exactly what was gonna happen in every song. man.. it was such a good concert. probably one of the best. then later on in the day, we got to see tobyMac. he puts on a good show, but he never changes anything up. like, evertime i go, i can pretty much predict the lineup of his songs and everything. i dunno.. it was still a good show though. then later on that night was.. dun dun nuh nuh!!.. Newsboys! i haven't listened to them in forever. but they played a lot of their old songs from when i listened to them like all the time. and they put on like, the best show at Spirit West Coast.. so that was pretty good.

-Saturday
i don't think yesterday was as good of a day, but it was still pretty sweet. the really good show wasn't until the end. Third Day, baby. before that though, me and zack walked around a lot. we bought a coupla CDs.. Paul Wright's "Sunrise to Sunset" and Relient K's debut album. they're both really good CDs too. i'd recommend them anyway.. yeah,while we were waiting for Third Day to come on, there were these screens up by the stage that had announcements or whatever, and there was this one announcement that said "David Burris, Report to the information booth." so everytime that announcment would come up, i'd yell out at the top of my lungs, "DAVID BURRIS!! GO TO THE INFO BOOTH! DAVID BURRIS!!!" man, i had everyone around laughing.. it was hilarious. oh.. story!

so we were standing in line to get the O.C. Supertones' signatures and there were these guys that cut in line. after they cut, come officials at the concert went and talked to the guys, but let them stay there. so after the officials left, i was like, "we got some cutters up here.. some line jumpers!! we got some LJ's up here!! someone needs to do something about it!!" and i just kept yelling at stuff like that. again, cracking up everyone. i dunno.. it's a gift. yeah right.

anyway, the Third Day concert came and that was sweet. then we went to the Navy Lodge and spent the night. and the whole time (when we were outside, anyway) i'd yell out, "DAVID BURRIS!!" just being retarded. i dunno.

-Sunday
yeah, today was pretty sweet too. i was definitely looking forward to this day for a while too. we all woke up around 10:45, wished my brother a happy birthday, and headed over to Denny's! heck yeah.. i was so looking forward to eating there. ahaha. anyway, after that, we went to Carmel to go to the beach, but it was kinda packed. so we decided to head more towards Santa Cruz. i didn't mind though, as long as i got to skim. which was pretty freakin' awesome too. actually, i got zack to skim too. that was hilarious, watching him. woo boy.. then damon tried like once too. i was the one that fell the most. thinking i was all bad, then i ended up in straight sand and spraining my wrist. wow.. the things i do just to skim. oh well. i had a great time though. got hecka sandy. hecka.

umm.. i lost my voice. this is the first time i've ever lost it really bad. zack was laughing at me, because i talk a lot.

also, my brother's birthday was today, so i'd like to give him a big shout-out:
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday Fatty Matty,
Happy birthday to you!!

wow, my brother's 10. big 1-0. what an old.

Chris.

2005-07-25T18:50:00.000-07:00

this weekend wasn't too bad. i guess.

friday was ok. zack and i had decided like wednesday that i'd be spending the night at his house that night, so at least i had plans. my mom brought me to his house, i dropped off my stuff, and we headed on over to the creekwalk. it was ok i guess. this year's creekwalk kinda sucks. i just don't get it. i'm thinkin it's probably the new ending time. freaking nine o' clock. that's so retarded. last year, it was ten. that was really cool. now, it's not even like, fun. just a place to stand and talk? i dunno.. anyway, we got there and met up with joanna. talked with her for a while, and then rich came and met us and talked. then all of a sudden like seven or eight of my friends just showed up outta no where. zack ditched us, but it's cool. so we ended up walking at the actual creekwalk. we got to the end, and nia and lily and a buncha other people went somewhere. i really have no clue where. then zack shows up outta no where too. my life's turning into a sitcom. we decided to go eat at McDonald's because i was hungry and didn't really feel like hanging out anymore. got me a disgusting ten-piece nugget value meal. i don't even know why i eat fast food. remember when we were all younger and couldn't wait till the next time we got like Burger King or McDonald's? i've totally lost any drive in my body to want any type of fast food anymore. it's just so gross.. especially compared to home-cooked meals. anyway, zack and i went home a little while after 9:30 or so. after we got home, we listened to the CD anthony made him with holla back girl, baby got back, and jump on it. we were jammin'. then we talked about girls.. what else?.. the rest of the night.

actually no, i lied. we were talking for a while, then we heard Top Gun playing downstairs. but i fell asleep like halfway through. i've been going to bed at like midnight every night. i guess i should be, considering cross country's coming up and i'll be getting up around eight every morning to run. even though i'm kinda already doing that.. whatever. speaking of physical activities. i've been working out. what a shocker. i need it. yeah, shutup, i know everyone else knows that.

zack and i woke up at like eight on saturday because freakin' michael called him.. for like, nothing. there was no point to the call. yet he woke us up that early. nice. anyway, after watching Kung Pow and eating breakfast, we started getting ready to go to the mall. zack had his $50 AE gift card to buy some clothes, so he picked himself out a pretty player outfit. i couldn't really find anything i wanted. after going into Hollister for a second time though, i found this PLAYER pink polo.. for like.. ten bucks. heck. yes. it's player. that's all i'm gonna say about that.

sunday was pretty much a normal sunday. except i wore my PLAYER polo to church. which changed things up a bit. hahaha, not really. i did wear it there though. it was cool. we went home and pretty much chilled till about 3:30, when we went to the gym. workin' legs baby. after we got home, we decided to rent a couple of movies. so my mom and i walked over to the shopette and rented 'Million Dollar Baby' and 'White Chicks.' Million Dollar Baby was really good. i liked it a LOT. but it was kinda sad at the end too. it was good.

i woke up around 9:30 to go run. only three miles today.. cool down day. then later on i rode my bike to vanden, only apparently they were on a break till two? how gay. i wasn't about to wait for an hour, so i went back home and chilled. then later on my stepdad took me there, but it was too late. they had already closed. ggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy. i was mad. so i guess i'll have to try and repeat the process tomorrow, only this time i'll hope that they're actually there. anyway, damon had to get something fixed on his bike at Ray's Cycle. so while he was doing that, i went to Gordon's and played some guitar there. i saw natalie, which was kinda awkward. i dunno.

so i guess my first weekend back was ok. cross country starts in 3 weeks!!!

chris

2005-07-21T22:17:00.000-07:00

so, i guess i'm back home. finally.. actually, it seemed pretty short. especially compared to last summer. i must say though, i had a good time visiting friends and family. i dunno though. i dunno.

it's been pretty ok since i've been back though. even though i haven't really seen that many people. but i did see the most important ones. no joke. let's see, the first night i got back kinda sucked, but i really don't need to go into that because no one needs to know. zack was pretty mad that i didn't call him though, haha.

hrmm.. tuesday was pretty cool. i got up at like 8 in the morning and decided it was the perfect time to start running again. yeah right. i did run though. 4 miles baby. it kinda sucked, but whatever.. i felt good afterwards. then i really didn't do anything until after 7 when i went to the grand re-opening of the Peak. that was ok i guess. i dunno, the first night kinda sucked because it was too crowded. didn't have that same homey, "Peak" feeling. yadamean? nah.. haha jp jp.. i'm stealing zack's crap. i need to stop. anyway, after that zack and i went back to my house and chilled. then decided that i was gonna spend the night at his house. stupid idea. gosh. here's why:

Wednesday = Moving Day
hecka gay.. haha. well, i woke up in the morning and didn't realize that people besides zack's family would be in the house. i walked downstairs in shorts. just.. shorts. i looked around the room at everyone's faces and said just two things. " mornin' ", then after realizing that i was half naked.. "i should probably put some pants on." of course everyone started cracking up. lol, whatever. i wasn't even trying. i was just tired. so after that, we all commenced on the three hour journey of practically packing up zack's entire house. freakin' a. his house is two dusty. my nose gets irritated just thinking about it. i went home after that, and our family had some appointment or something at the hospital since we're going overseas.. ? i dunno. i drove us home, then chilled until my mom brought us to the gym to work legs. oh yeah chris, nice idea. working legs when i'm a runner. psh. and abs too. holy crap. my six pack doesn't do me much good. stupid-- ahh, i forgot what i was gonna write. if nia would shutup and let me finish this thing, this blog would be turning out much better. anyway.. yeah. that was wednesday. yesterday... yeah.

today was cool i guess too. i woke up at like noon and went running. then found that there was like no more milk. GOSH. i went to cook macaroni and cheese and forgot that we didn't have milk. boy, was i mad. haha. then later on, nia called me and asked if i wanted to hang out at the bx with lily. that was alright.. had a burger at BK.. and we talked. i dunno. same old stuff. then i came home (with nia's cell phone. little does she know, i did that on purpose) and went to 1221. that was pretty freakin' sweet too. now i'm here, and nia's badgering me to finish. yeah. shutup.. so what if i'm ugly? you went out with me.

chris

2005-07-15T18:13:00.000-07:00

mixed emotions

yes.. what a surprise. i have mixed emotions. but it's not very important. just about this whole louisiana thing. i mean, i am likin' it here a lot. i enjoy spending time with dad and kera, and all my other family and friends as well. but i really miss home. i guess you could call me homesick. i dunno.

this past week was sorta eventful. we didn't really do anything until tuesday. the family went out to toledo bend to spend some time outdoors, fishing, relaxing, that kind of thing. we had a really good time, and spent two nights there. it was cool, spending some quality time with dad, fishing and swimming. i haven't fished in forever, so that was great. i read a lot there too. it was really quiet out there.. peaceful.

we came back yesterday all tired and whatnot. we were actually planning a canoe trip today, but that was a big N-O when we figured we'd be too tired. we would've had to get up at six this morning. which wouldn't be horrible, but you get the picture. we've been going and going for a little while, and my dad felt like it was time to give it a rest for a day or two. i did, however, get up this morning and run. something i haven't done in like a week. i'm planning on keeping up that trend until cross country starts. oh man.. cross country season's already almost here. y'all have no idea how excited i am for that to start up. last season was so AWESOME, and i know this season's gonna be just as good if not better. anyway, like i was saying.. so we're gonna relax for a few days, probably until sunday. sunday we're planning on going canoeing, but that might end up getting cancelled again because of rain in the forecast. which kinda sucks, but what can you expect from the south? speaking of weather, how bout that freakin' hurricane? that's so gay. now i've gotta wait a whole 'nother year to go to florida. well, all i can say is that i'm looking forward to it.

random thoughts.

my dad says i can't get my permit till alaska, which is understandable because you don't have to pay a ridiculous amount of money there to get it. the only thing that sucks is i'll have to wait an extra six months to get my license.
zack got his license on wednesday. lucky piece of crap.
i really enjoy hot fudge sundaes from sonic, but like 2 seconds after i start eating them they always give me a brain freeze. and i don't even eat them that fast.
i did a lot of thinking in toledo bend, and in the car on the way home. i think that once i get to alaska, i want to start writing letters to people. actual letters because i think they have a lot more meaning.
again, while thinking in the car i realized that lately i've really been aching for someone to be with. someone to hold, a girl who'll like me for me, a girl who i can be myself around and not care, a girl that's not afraid to show affection in the middle of a huge crowd of people (and i don't mean like making out in the middle of no where. just holding hands, hugging, whatever), a girl who i can feel really comfortable around. but i'm scared that if i do that, it'll make moving to alaska that much harder.
i'm starting to miss my fender fat strat. and my acoustic is getting a little old. i still love playing, but i want something new.
i saw Fantastic Four today, and it was freakin' awesome. a lot better than what i expected.
Myspace is retarded, and i don't know why i still use it. but i do.
if i had a super power, it would be super-speed.

chris

2005-07-11T08:51:00.000-07:00

man, this vacation rocks. well, mostly.

i love visiting family and friends. i like it a lot more this year than i did last year, but we all know the reason for that, and i'm not gonna go into that. this weekend was a blast. i got into lake charles on friday around 2 in the afternoon and stopped by my nanny's. then after a while my dad dropped me off at sam's where i met sara, sam, jessica, and kayla. brittany wasn't there, but that's a whole 'nother story too. we had a great time, just sitting around and talking. i mean, it was like i'd never even left and we all picked up right where we left off. we watched 'the forgotten' (of course, i had already seen it but whatever, it was cool). i sat by sara, and she kept asking me what was gonna happen and stuff. heck no, i wasn't about to tell her. but she still kept bugging me. haha. then later on that night i called my nanny to see if i could spend the night and she said yes. score one for chris and sam. not that we did much the next day or anything..

anyway, around 1:30 my aunt came and picked me up while my nanny and my cousins and matt went to the James Family Reunion. i didn't really wanna go because i knew i'd feel out of place there. so me and my aunt brandi went to starbucks and i got a caramel macchiato.. heck yes. i haven't had one of those in forever. anyway, her boyfriend owns this bar/restaurant place and they have a bunch of pool tables and stuff, so we went there while it was closed because she had a key to it and we just messed around and played a few games of pool. i did beat her once, and you gotta give me credit for that because she's a really good pool player. i mean, she plays in a league. and every time she beat me i only had one ball left on the table. so i think i did pretty well. after that was done, we went home and i just got to visit with family and stuff. that was pretty cool i guess. just relaxing.

sunday came and we got to go to our old church. then we ate at Cancun's. HECK YEAH. actually, it wasn't as good as i remember. i think california spoiled me in that area. or maybe it was just Murillo's. haha. anyway, we went swimming later on when we got back, and that was great because i love playing with my two twin cousins. they're so fun. and they're only 5. haha.

last night after my stepmom picked me up and we went back home, my dad cooked his famous chicken nuggets. no one could EVER beat them. ever. they are so freakin' good. then we all sat down and watched 'White Noise.' that was probably the scariest movie i've seen in a LONG time. it was really good, and if you like scary movies i'd definitely recommend it.

so i really can't complain about this trip at all. i'm glad i'm having a good time here. although, i'm pretty upset that i'm not going to florida because of the gay hurricane. freakin' a. that's pretty gay. but whatever, i'm sure we'll figure out something to do. i really miss people up there though. especially nia, lily, and zack. but of course, that was given. i'll be home soon enough i guess. i'm kinda torn though, because i'll miss people from both places a lot. ahh..

chris

2005-07-05T11:22:00.000-07:00

so, i'm finally blogging again. yeah shutup, i have an excuse. visiting family and whatnot. i've had access to a computer, but since i'm such a myspace whore now, i used it for that instead. and for downloading some hilarious SNL video clips off of Ares. that was pretty funny.

so the plane ride was good i guess. except me and my brother got split up, but it wasn't that big a deal because it's not like we haven't ever ridden in a plane before. then i got stuck sitting by some really annoying 9-year-old kid that musta had A.D.D. or something, because man.. he was all over the place. banging around with some stick thing, and he would NOT stop talking. holy crap man. ahh whatever.. i wasn't mean to him or anything. actually i was fairly patient with him. but that's just how i am with kids. but not with my brother..

we went to splashtown on saturday with Daniel, my brother, and Cass. that was pretty sweet. but i didn't get to ride Texas Freefall. but we rode the new ride called Tornado. that was friggin awesome.. except i kept hitting my tailbone, and i was sore for a really long time after that. the whole time we were there, me, Daniel, and Cass would yell "you wish!" if we saw any girls looking at us. that was hilarious. and then these girls were walking right by us and i said it and they looked like devastated. ahahaha. not really, but you shoulda seen there faces. after a while we met these girls named Amy and Erika. but they were a buncha dopeheads, so that didn't last too long. when splashtown was done, we went over to Guitar Center in Humble. that place was friggin' awesome too.

sunday was pretty sweet. went to Big Herm's church (yes, my grandfather) and i played guitar for worship. that was cool i guess. i dunno.. everyone told me i did a good job. i met Krissie too. she was really cool. i guess all the things they said about her were true. then we had church again at night and i played again. that was cool.. whatever i guess.

yesterday, my dad and Kera came and picked me up from texas. it was a long drive, but didn't feel too long.. maybe because we had so many stops. we stopped at an old friend of my dad's for about 2 hours in lake charles. that was cool.. everyone was so amazed at how much i've grown and how much i look like my dad and blah blah blah. then the rest of the night we just chilled i guess. me and dad talked a little while too, so that was cool.

today i got a haircut that i'm not so sure if i'm satisfied with or not. i guess we'll see. we should be going to the mall and going swimming too. gonna be a good day, and a good week for that matter. we'll see.

chris

2005-06-28T17:34:00.000-07:00

summertime.

you know, i realized that every time i post on this thing lately it begins with something about summer. and so does almost everyone else's. summertime is just like whatever. takin' it a day at a time. but it's mostly been cool. just chillin with friends.. i'm lucky enough to at least have one friend on base, but that won't last long. ahh, i don't know. i'm sure it won't be the most horrible thing in the world, but i don't know.

brad's party was friday. that was pretty sweet. even though i still haven't gotten him anything. haha. but anyway, it was cool because we got like 2 free go-kart rides, one free game of mini golf, and 19 tokens for the arcade. had a hecka good time there. then we went to the creekwalk, but we didn't realize that it closes at nine now instead of 10 like it did last year. but whatever. so then me and zack and brad spent the night at zack's house. that was cool too. brad brought medal of honor: rising sun. we played that till like 4 in the morning. then we figured we'd pull an all-nighter because it was close enough to sunrise. my first all-nighter like.. ever. haha. it was cool though, watching the sun rise above the mountains. it was freezing though. so after that we slept till like 3 in the afternoon. that was cool too haha.

fast forward to today. it was cool. there was a little bit of a mix-up yesterday, because i thought we were going to the pool or something. i dunno. anyway, we ended up going to the mall. we were gonna watch a movie, until me and zack found out they wanted us to watch Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. heck no. actually, we caved in at the last minute. but apparently we made them mad throughout the whole process, so they decided no on the movie. later on, we went over to AE, and decided we were gonna dress each other up (guys dress girls, girls dress guys.. pick outfits, i mean). at first me and zack were just like,"we quit, we're not good at this." so then they had picked out outfits for us, and we tried them on. i dunno.. didn't like them as much as last time, but whatever. anyway, they badgered us into finding outfits for them. so apparently we actually did a really good job. lily's pants looked hecka good on her. no joke man. and nia's shirt.. heck yeah. and i picked those out baby. haha, i'm such a nerd. i have to give zack credit though, he did pick out nia's jeans and lily's overshirt, so we both did great. haha. then we went and at taco bell, so petalio (nice teeth), and just sat around for like 30 minutes talking about love. hahaha. we got a ride home from nia's mom, and now i'm thankful i'm even alive after that ride. haha.

so.. good times. louisiana's in three days. i'm excited, but i'll miss everyone. i loathe mixed emotions. and i don't mean that just for louisiana either. friggin' a.

chris

2005-06-21T22:09:00.001-07:00

the first day of summer. (technically)

yep.. the first day of actual summer. too bad it doesn't feel like it on travis with gay 50 bajillion mile an hour winds. and you know when you ESPECIALLY feel those winds? when you're running three miles. not fun at all.

anyway.. summer. hmm. i honestly don't know. it still doesn't feel like summer to me. just a long break. that's what a lot of other people are saying too, but it's true. i have done a few things since summer has started to make it feel a little more like summer. i'm not gonna go into strenuous detail of the days just because i'm lazy like that. i'll just recap on a few things.

Brian's Going-Away Party-
that was pretty fun i guess. i dunno.. i don't really know brian all that well. i felt kinda bad when i was with that group of like 4 or 5 people that were just standing there. no hugs or nothin. but that's ok. for most of the party, me, anthony, zack, lily, and vona all chilled on the side on the little swing. that was cool.. like, the player section baby. can't touch that. also, we ate some of anthony's nasty lumpia that was made from chicken and carrots. gross.

Marine World-
that was hecka fun. gosh, i haven't ridden a roller coaster in SO long. i forgot how much fun they were. ok, not really.. but still. and boy am i a yeller. of course, i got that from my uncles from texas. dem boys cold. anyway, quick story. i'd never ridden vertical velocity before because i'ts always been closed for repair or whatever. it was finally open yesterday when i went. but i was nervous because you know that feeling you get that even though you like roller coasters, you get nervous for a new one? well, that was me all the way. i wasn't about to chicken out. so we got on and rode it. and guess what.. i surely didn't hate it, that's for sure. i knew i wouldn't. but it's gotta be the best ride there besides medusa. so needless to say, we rode that ride three times. hecka fun.

there's my "summer," for you. at least, so far..

chris

2005-06-15T22:28:00.000-07:00

so, i've utterly ignored my blog yet again. i was doing it on purpose again too, but for a different reason. i didn't want the feeling of the end-year post to go away. but i guess i gotta give it up sometime. i don't like this feeling. haha.

anyway, this summer's been good. i can't really complain. i mean, being lazy.. no work, nothin'. i wake up somewhere between 8:30 and 9:30 in the morning so i can go running before it gets scorching hot (although, the weather's bein' really gay lately.. getting kinda cold, and they say it's supposed to rain. i mean, this is california. this isn't what i signed up for in the contract.). and i tend to go to sleep around midnight, so it works out. these past few days have been kinda eventless, except for today. me and zack usually go to the peak around 7-ish and chill there till 9. tonite was hecka fun though because we ended up at the skatepark and rode around on the ramps and crap. that was fun.. it was like a new discovery or something. haha.

today was really really good. i woke up at 7:30 (yeah, i konw what you're thinking.. how can you possibly have a good day that starts with you waking early. shutup). anyway, lily showed up approximately 7 minutes later (what a nice way to start a morning.. lily's smiling face. ha.) she's lucky i didn't show up at the door with boxers on. anyway, after i got dressed we walked to burger to eat breakfast. that was cool i guess. even though the weirdo got a burger. i still don't understand that concept.. eating a burger for breakfast. freak. so we went home.. chilled there for a while. i had to take a shower and crap. after the shower we proceeded towatchraiseyourvoiceandihopenoonenoticesthislinebecauseidontwannaadmitiwatchedthatshow. so after that was done.. i put on some dashboard and cleaned the house a little bit, just to make it to where mom didn't get mad when she walked in the freakin' house. after a few calls to people we decided to go bowling. we walked to wisecarver's house and he answered the door in his boxers (wisercarver is totally my idol. i'm doing that from now on, so be warned). while he was getting ready or whatever, i started playing the drums even though i kinda suck at them. but that's alright.. me and him are gonna jam out tomorrow when i go over to his house. "Chris to the Second Power" baby. you don't even know about that. anyway, long story short, we didn't go bowling. we did eat though. that was nice. anyway, we walked back to my house.. chris and his bro-ham went home and me and zack and lil chilled in the front of the house till lily had to go. bleh.. hate telling long stories because i'm always like "and then.." or "after that..". anyway, me and zack ate some hash and chocolate ship cookies.. rode our bikes to the peak.. then we rode to the bowling alley to chill out. we were hecka crackin' up at the stupidest stuff like ever. then we ended up at the skating park but you already know about that. now i'm going around in circles. i'm done.

chris

2005-06-11T18:37:00.000-07:00

First day of summer

man.. first day of summer. saturday, june 11, 2005. craziness man. i never EVER thought it would come. it's finally here. i'm happy in most ways. i'm glad to be lazy. i'm glad to have no work. i'm glad to sleep in. i'm glad for everything, pretty much. the thing is.. i feel like there's a lotta things missing. i miss everyone ALREADY. i know that longing will just dissipate as time goes on, but there'll always be that faint void because i won't have everyone by my side every second of the day. i won't have the knowledge that my friends are absolutely without a doubt gonna be there for me if i need them. i guess that's what the phone is for? ahh.. i dont know. i'm glad it's summertime.. time for more changes in myself, inside and out. it's gonna be a good one.. summer of '05. i'm excited, happy, sad.. you name it.

so before i go into this extremely long and painful post about the year.. let me talk about the past few days, since i haven't filled in. i've avoided the blog, because i didn't want to post an end-year post too quickly. anyway.. yesterday was of course the last day of school. it was good and bad.. mostly good. i had pe and english, and english was a lot easier than i thought it would be. so yesterday was good. i had a hard time leaving some friends, but of course, i didn't show that. but it saddened me a lot to know that this would be the last embrace i'd have with that person for a while, or maybe even forever.

anyway, i went to graduation to meet lily and nia there. of course, nia being the gay hole that she is, forgot my freakin yearbook. thanks nia.. now i have to wait for lily to bring it to me on base.. hopefully you didn't forget THAT too. anyway.. grad was pretty boring, but it was cool i guess. i rode with zack and brad back to zack's house to spend the nite, and we ate dinner and such. we were gonna go to heather wiswell's grad party, but we found out it was in vacaville, so that was a big N-O. anyway.. we had a good time i guess last nite.. of course, we fell asleep early.. like 11. but that's alright, because we were tired. then today we chilled for a long while. played darts and stayed inside for most of the day. the highlite of the day was definitely that very nice batch of "Zack's Famous Waffles"!! i was so excited to eat those things man.. i haven't had them in a long time. then me and zack went to BK to eat with our free meals that we got from there. we chilled at the bx, and now we're here at The Peak, and i'm telling you my life story. here goes.

Freshman Year - Vanden High

all i can say is.. dang. i can't believe.. it's over. i mean.. finally over. i just.. have such a hard time trying to wrap my mind around that concept. when i look back on some aspects of it.. it seems so LONG ago. but then.. from all other angles, it's like it ended in a week, and we're here now ready for sophomore year to come. of course i'm not, but that's a different story. man.. freshman year. we all walked in thinking we were so bad because man.. we were freshman and we didn't care. we felt older, wiser, and we thought we knew everything. ok, maybe not EVERYTHING. but we sure thought we were way better than we had ever been in our entire lives. which is mostly true. i mean.. we are in high school, and we always hear that these are gonna be the greatest years of our lives. yet high school i think.. has turned a lot of us into worse people in sense. i know it did somewhat to me. maybe it's just the drawl of school.. having to go there EVERY day, seeing the same people every day. it just became so monotonous. i became very bitter towards life in general for a small amount of time. of course, it wasn't just school that did that to me. circumstances had a lot to do with it.

many things happened this year though, that changed me for the better. events that i thought i'd never get over, because they were so horrible, actually in turn made me a better person. my mother leaving was one of those major events. it made me, along with the rest of my family, a much stronger person. i realized that yeah, my mom is the greatest mom in the ENTIRE world and i do take a lot of the things that she does for me for granted. and it's sad.. really sad that it takes something that major to realize how great you actually do have it. but when my mom was gone, i had to figure out how to do things.. to not let the house become the messiest house of the century, to become more independent. but my mom.. she's my hero. she's everything to me, and if ever had to lose her.. i don't know what i would do.

the next major event.. me and nia. my only relationship this year. and a pretty darn good one at that. she helped me learn so many things about myself. helped me to straighten out many things in my life that i was doing wrong. she probably doesn't even realize that, but it's true. yeah, there were a lot of downs, but i wouldn't trade that time i had with her for anything. i just want to thank her for being there for me throughout all the times that i acted retarded.. for putting up with me, basically. i did a lot of stupid things, but she helped. so thanks nia.. i appreciate all the things that you did for me.

track and cross country played amazingly major roles in my life. i started cross country not knowing what to expect. i walked into the classroom with martinez talking about what we'd be doing for the season in cross country, what we'd get up to in practice, and what kinds of goals we have. and holy cow, was i surprised. after finding out we'd get up to 7 miles a day, along with crazy mile-intervals, i wasn't so psyched up about running anymore. of course, i still went to practice, because running is my one chance to show people who i really am and what i'm capable of. but i don't run just for that, of course. i'm not gonna go into detail about the life lessons that running teaches you, and the amazing exhausted bliss you can get from running, but you get the point. i improved so awesomely over this past cross country season, i can't begin to explain. and even though i know tinez won't ever see this.. i'm really grateful to him. he's such a great coach, and right now, i couldn't ask for a better one. cross country wasn't only good for the running. our team bonded so well.. it was crazy. yeah, it's cliche, but it's like we're one big family. and a great family at that. i spent more time with them than i spent with my regular friends. i mean.. it was every single afternoon, then almost every single saturday. crazy.. i love those guys though. track wasn't nearly as fun, however. maybe it's because i don't enjoy running in circles.. or maybe it's because there's a big track team, as compared to a small cross country team. we didn't really bond at all. of course, there was some improvement.. and again, i'm thankful to martinez for that, but other than that the season kind of sucked. so.. as you can see, running is my life. i love it.. if i lost it.. i don't know what i'd do. and running became so major this year.. that i couldn't imagine going to school knowing that there was no running to do. what a freak.

gosh.. friends were so important this year. there were a lot of points where i, along with everyone else was so busy that there was no time to hang out. but no matter what.. i knew that we'd all be there for each other, if it was needed. i grew so close to three people this year, it's not even funny. zack, nia, and lily.. they're such great friends. knowing that i won't see lily and nia every day like i normally do is a hard fact to face. i'm gonna miss knowing i can just walk up to one of them (or all four of them, for that matter) and talk about anything. i'm just looking forward to spending time with them this summer.. it's gonna be great.

one thing that really got me this year was the business of it all. we ALL had things to do. me with running, zack with soccer/aerospace/gw marching, lily with asb, and almost every other one of my friends with marching band. i never realized how busy we actually all were gonna get this year. i got caught up so much into what i was doing, that a lot of times, i didn't just take in the present day.. live in it. i think we all do that sometimes. of course, looking forward to the future is good. but if we all continue to look forward and don't take in what we have during these times now, what life is that? you don't even see anything. everything is just working towards something new. and yeah, that's good sometimes.. but like i said.. we gotta take in our surroundings. i love jack johnson's line.. "slow down everyone, you're moving too fast. frames can't catch you when you're moving like that.."

as for the entire year sum up.. i couldn't do that. but i could name something major that happened every month that helped this year be what it actually was.

August-
i started cross country, and met some amazing new people that i'll probably never forget in my entire life.

September-
school "officially" started.. everything started to become routine. i started finding my "place" in that which we call high school.

October-
football games were definitely a big plus. halloween was hecka fun too, because i got to join in on the tradition that zack and brad have for halloween. dressing up like scarecrows and scaring kids. holy crap man.. good times. but it seems like it was just yesterday. gosh..

November-
thanksgiving, of course. i got to go down to louisiana and visit friends and family. mostly family.. but i had a great time. all this time, zack and brad are having fun snowboarding and going to a GRITS concert. it was fun to hear about them though. this is also when we found out my mom would be leaving for kuwait.. and i surely wasn't ready for that.

December-
Christmas was great this year. i got my beloved fender fat strat. hecka clean. but then, my good mood was pretty much ruined a couple days later with my mom leaving for kuwait for four months.

January-
my 15th birthday. we didnt really do anything, but that's ok. i got some pretty cool clothes, along with a lot of money. on a side note, this is when zack's and nia's dads both left for the middle east as well. not very relevant to my life i guess, but i feel it's worth mentioning because they were very easy to connect to while all three of us had a parent that was gone.

February-
me, zack, nia, and lily started hanging out a lot more. then of course, me and nia started going out.. which in the end.. i'm thankful for. she was a great girlfriend.

March-
i have two words.. SPIRIT WEEK. good times man.. i once again grew close to people i didnt hang out with before. i also met karessa tam mendoza. now, she is the coolest. i'm glad i met her.. her smile brightens up my life. hahaha.

April-
the end of school mood is really starting to settle in. i started getting more and more lazy by the second. spring break kinda sucked, but then it was fun as well. from me wearing girl pants to getting drunk (haha, yeah right).

May-
me and nia broke up.. but we were both cool with it.. at least, after a while i was. also.. my mom came back. that was awesome.. having GOOD cooked food again. after she came back, it was like suddenly the house became clean again. i guess it was all her doing.

June-
not much to talk about, i guess. school finally came to an end. i became a really good procrastinator. also, i'll never forget the romeo and juliet scene that jessica and i had to act out on tape. "Sin from my lips? O, trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again!" (they kiss)

i'd just like to make one more comment before i end this ridiculously long post. near the middle of the year, zack and i (along with a few others) realized just how obnoxious the group started getting. and i'm sorry to anyone who is reading this and is getting offended. but it started getting really bad. this is why me and zack basically stoped hanging out with the group during the day. i mean, i can't say that everyone's retarded, because they're not. but it is true that some people made the group no fun to hang out with anymore. i won't name those people, but the people that know that i enjoy their company know who they are. i'm kinda sorry that the group goit retarded, but maybe it was bound to happen anyway. i don't know.

so there you have it. freshman year. i hope you enjoyed it.

chris

2005-06-09T17:16:00.000-07:00

day 2 of finals = easy as pie

yeah.. not that big a deal. i had the algebra and french finals today. of course.. french was nothin because i was already done with the final anyway, so i just sat around for 2 hours doin' nothin. ahh.. math was a little difficult. i dont know, maybe it's because i switched between four different teachers this year for math. hecka gay. i knew most of it, but i'm guessing i'll make a B on the final, considering the things that i didnt know plus the things that i did, but messed up on. oh well.. i guess if i have a B in the class, i really don't care all that much. yeah, i'm a slacker.. i know.

tomorrow is the LAST day of school.. and the last time i'll ever have to step into ms. zwicker's class and do something realated to academics. thank you God. although, that english final will probably be the hardest of the finals i have to take. oh well.. i think i know romeo and juliet well enough to do well on the final. i sure hope so anyway.

chris

i need some new music to listen to. got any ideas?

2005-06-08T14:01:00.000-07:00

ahh.. i absolutely love half days. i don't even care if they included finals, because we dont have to learn anything anymore. not that we were learning things at vanden anyway. hecka gay.. this whole last quarter seems like we didnt learn anything in classes. just like.. sitting there, doing nothing. maybe not, but maybe i was just SO bored in those classes that that's what it felt like.

anyway.. i had auto theory and science today to take for finals. i dunno.. i guess it was ok. the auto ID questions were retarded.. well, maybe i was. i didnt know like half the ID questions. but i did good on the lab final otherwise. the written was a little less difficult than last semester's, because i knew a lot more stuff. plust i went over the material last nite anyway, haha. then came science. i got like 50 different opinions on that freakin test before i went in and actually took it. some people were like "holy crap, that was freakin hard" (lily) and then some were like "oh, it was hecka easy" (jason). so i walked in expecting this crazy hard test.. and guess who was wrong. lily. thanks lily, for making me nervous for nothing. appreciate it. anyway, needless to say, the test was hecka easy. it was just long. but i aced it, so no worries.

otherwise, this week is going by okay. finals should whiz by tomorrow because i only have to take the math one.. which reminds me, i gotta do the study guide. great. i hate how teachers grade study guides.. if we dont wanna study, we shouldn't have to. ahh, whatever.

chris

by the way, california's weather is the most retarded thing i've ever seen in my entire life.

2005-06-05T19:10:00.000-07:00

got to drive today. my truck. and you know what else? most of it was by myself. heck yes!

that's all i wanted to say.

chris

2005-06-04T22:52:00.000-07:00

so here i am again. at pretty much the same time. except this time, i'm hecka tired. but i had a good day. a really good day actually. it kinda almost felt like summer. gosh.. summer.. i love you. if summer was a person, i would either:

marry it
make it my hero

yeah, you hear that anthony? you wouldn't be my hero if summer was a person. but for now, you are, because i wore your shirt. and i like it. shutup.

so back to today. lily had a Pool Party. man, hecka fun. i've been lookin forward to this party for like, two weeks now. there was food, and a pool, and a guitar, and a lot of PEOPLE. the first time i've swam all year. gosh! then after it got dark, and we had cleaned up the backyard (to an extent anyway), we went inside and watched the freshman Spirt Show! heck yeah. me and zack were crackin up at ourselves at the end where we wore our towels around our necks and had toothbrushes in our mouths. so funny man. ahh.. we crack ourselves up. anyway, just wanted to thank lily for having a party.. hecka fun.

that's probably gonna be the hilight of the rest of the week, with homosexual finals coming up. OH BOY. i surely cant wait for those. whatever, as long as they pass by quickly, i really dont give a care. life is good though. it's hot outside, i'm wearing shorts like everyday, and school's drawing to an end. yesssssss.

chris

2005-06-03T22:49:00.000-07:00

this week went by HECKA slow. no joke man.. school is the most retarded thing ever. i mean like.. they're still giving us homework. holy crap. i mean, at least cut us some slack and not teach us anything new with the gay finals coming up. those are gonna suck so bad. i hate just thinking about them. bleh..

anyway.. today was pretty ok i guess. we had the "all-school awards" ceremony in the gym before lunch. that was hecka stupid because it was mandatory. effin boring man. and then anthony got an award in geometry. what a nerd. ha.. jp. and then jason took like, the rest of the awards that were actually possible for a freshman to get. jeez man.. dont take ALL the glory. gosh.. at least share. hahaha, just kidding. anyway after school me and kyle took some shoe polish and wrote all over scott's car. now that was funny. we wrote some crazy stuff. oh man, we were crackin up. just hope he doesnt find out it was us. lol.

after that i got on bus 27 and rode to kt's house. got there and chilled for a little while.. we watched the end of dirty dancing: havana nights (or at least.. i did.. they musta been already watching it.. freaks). then we just messed around for the rest of the night. we laughed a lot too. i guess it wasnt really as fun as i expected it to be, but that's ok. no offense to kt or anything.. it was still fun, but that's not it. i guess.. i dont know. my mind was off elsewhere. ahh.. anyway, i hope lily's party tomorrow is hecka fun. i'm sure it will be. i hope it will be..

chris

2005-05-31T18:34:00.000-07:00

woooooo!

nothing really to post on i guess. today was pretty ok. i was in a really great mood.. and i was acting pretty stupid all day. but that's just me being me. ahh.. i think this summer mood is oozing into my life slowly. and i'm loving every second of it.

like i said.. summer time's a-comin! i'm dyin man. goin to louisiana/florida for 2 weeks. florida's gonna be hecka fun. but who am i kiddin'? so will louisiana. cant wait to see sam and sara and jessica again. gonna be just like old times for like.. a day or 2. ahh well. what can i do? but it's not just the traveling that i'm looking forward to. california's gonna be crazy fun. spendin time with friends, kickin it. gosh, i'm so excited!

freakin' school. go away. hate you. and eff the finals. i really dont wanna take those. gay french essay. what kinda crap is that?

whatever, i'm still happy.. nothing can ruin this mood right now.

chris

2005-05-30T16:59:00.000-07:00

what's up kids!!

this weekend was really fun. me and my family went down to yosemite. it was hecka fun because we got to go camping and stuff. like, in real tents and everything. we even had a campfire and cooked hot dogs and marshmallows over it. gosh, it's been SO long since i've been camping! me and my mom talked a lot too. about family.. old times. why things are the way they are now. i understand a lot of things. and it was cool hearing about her childhood and when she was younger and stuff. i think it really helped me a lot. anyway, yosemite was nice too. we saw a lotta waterfalls and stuff. we took a few pics too. it's really beautiful up there.

i'm so glad we had a three day weekend. and i'm so glad we have a common planning day this week too. heck yesss. school's almost out and sumertime's a-comin! i've been in such a good mood lately. when i look back on this year.. it was actually really good. i could complain about some stuff, sure. but that's not what i need to look at. there were a lotta good things that happened this year. but let me shutup now and post it in the year recap in a couple weeks. all i have to say is life is good.

chris

2005-05-24T17:05:00.000-07:00

man, this weekend was a blast.

me and zack walked home from school on friday.. that's always fun i guess. as long as it's not FREAKIN hot like it's been lately. jeez man, like all of a sudden.. just BOOM. i dont even know. california is weird. but you know, it's not like i've gotta get used to this weather anyway. haha. ok, not funny. nevermind. anyway, my family packed up their stuff (you know, i packed my skimboard, my guitar, clothes, crap like that) and we headed out to monterey.

saturday was hecka fun. got up around like 8 to eat breakfast and stuff like that. we were outta the hotel by 10 and headed towards carmel. gosh, this is what i've been waiting for since like.. february. anyway, we went down the 17 mile drive, which i recommend if you're gonna go to monterey because it's really nice. sure, it's pretty long, but they have a lot of stuff look at. so that was cool. when we finally got to carmel, we went down to some local beach. and yeah the water felt like it was below freezing, but i still skimboarded. heck. yes. the first skimboard ride of the year baby. so fun. yall dont even know. then after we spent time at the beach (and i got sunburnt really bad), we went towards Big Sur for more sightseeing. that was cool too i guess. then that nite after we got back, we went to downtown monterey. we looked at some shops and ate at bubba gump's. too bad the wait was like an hour long. anyway, that day was fun. had a blast in monterey.

the next morning we woke up at like 9 even though we all went to bed at 10 the nite before because we were all really tired. anyway, we packed all our stuff back up and went to Denny's to eat. now, this is only like the second time i've had Denny's like.. ever. but it was hecka good. jeez man. maybe it's just because i was freakin hungry by the time we got our table. so yeah.. after we ate, we headed back home. long.. long ride home. but that's ok i guess. not too bad. somehow though, we ended up stopping in fremont because my mom had to pee (go figure) and we couldnt find a place, so we stopped at round table in this big shopping center place. i saw this snowboard place, so i went inside and looked around. long story short, we ended up buying hecka stuff because everything was on sale. we spent like an hour in there. my family is.. CRAZY. gosh. ahh well.. i've got thermal gear for running this winter. got back home sunday afternoon. after unpacking my stuff and resting a little bit, aaron came over and we went driving. he tried to get me to go on the freeway.. but no way man. i dont even have my permit still. crazy kid. anyway, we went to jamba juice and chilled there for a little while, then i got back home and uh.. went to bed.

so.. yeah.. had a really fun weekend. i'm just sooo looking forward to the end of the year. school is so.. boring. i just dont see like, any point in going anymore.

but i'll tell you one thing..

summer '05 is going to be the BEST!! because this year, i've made even more good friends. and you know what that means! party time!! heck yes. i cant wait for the pool, the beach, and sleeping in!!!

-that one runner kid

2005-05-18T15:22:00.000-07:00

i need to keep up with this thing better. i'm gonna have to keep doin these freakin long posts otherwise. haha. this one wont be as long as the other one, so no worries.

sunday i didnt go to church because my family decided to go check out the AMA superbike races at infineon raceway. besides, we went to church saturday nite, so it's cool. the races were awesome. makes me wanna have my license so badly. i got to sit on a few bikes to get the feel of 'em or whatever. so that was pretty cool. after the races, we got stuck in traffic for like a freakin hour and a half. JEEZ. anyway, after sitting in traffic for that long (yes, there actually was a point to that), we got to eat at olive garden in vallejo. hecka good man. i havent had olive garden since like.. november i think. had that young chicken parmigiana with fettucini alfredo. but there's no way i coulda eaten all of it, so we brought some home and i had it for dinner on monday. still hecka good.

let's see.. on monday.. umm....monday was when i lost the cell phone. too bad i went back and found the SIM card, so whoever picked up the phone is a dumb hole, because they wont even be able to call anybody. gay holes. then, i decided to not go to track because i really dont see a point in it now that my season's over. so i'm takin my week off now, then i'm gonna start running sometime in the near future.

tuesday as sub-section trials. too bad i didnt got to that, because i didnt make it. ha! tuesday was definitely a crazy day though. after detention (thanks a lot ms. zwicker) i went to zack's to chill for a little while because i didnt feel like fessing up to my mom that i'd lost the cell phone. anyway, after i got home i talked to my mom. i told her about the phone. but i got probably the most opposite reaction from her that i was thinking she'd give me. she goes, "well, i hope that was the worst part of your day, because i've got some pretty bad news." i told her "that was the worst part of my day." (too bad it wasnt.. because i was hecka missing someone that day) anyway she asked me if i was ready for my next base. oh boy.. at this point, i knew that this wasnt gonna end up very pretty. she told me we were moving to alaska. dang.. very hard hit. and it hurt. it still hurts. i dont wanna leave here. i love yall way too much. ahh.. i dont wanna think about it right now.

i think wednesday was a little rough for me. mostly because of alaska.. i noticed things a lot more. i guess i'm just really really gonna miss everything and everyone in california. yesterday was vanden idol though. but it was gay. i dont like the way they judged. and too bad kt was like, the BEST singer out there.

today was.. ok. i dunno. normal day i guess. alaska is still overwhelming. i'm warming up to the idea a little bit.. but gosh. i dunno..

tomorrow's gonna be hecka fun. goin to monterey sucka. yall dont even know about taht. but i'll post on that once it actually HAPPENS.

chris

2005-05-14T23:04:00.000-07:00

ugly.. ugly.. ugly week. glad it's over. just 20 more days of school left.

monday
i don't remember much about monday. except that english and track were both really really gay. i think monday was when ms. zwicker gave us the reflection assignment and the seminar assignments for iSearch, and i hate reflections. so freakin retarded. who cares what i learned? as long as i did the research. i mean, it's not like i'm gonna remember any of that crap in like 2 weeks. so whatever. and then i had to run like 3 miles in track, which to me, is kinda pointless. because it wasn't gonna help me in that meet on tuesday anyway. oh yeah, and i went to get a haircut. which no one liked on tuesday. but i needed it, so whatever.

tuesday
hmm. tuesday? ummm.. i dunno. i remember the track meet. that was cool i guess. my mom, stepdad, and brother showed up.. and that was the first track meet my mom got to go to since she just got back. all i ran was the 800 though, because it was just a qualifying meet for the final meet on thursday, and they don't run the mile and 2 mile because they're too long or whatever. i did p.r. in my half mile race though. 2:15 sucka.

wednesday
i dont even know. i'm just gonna say right now that school was a hecka big blur this week. i really hardly remember what happened like all week. i remember all the after school stuff. but first let me tell a story. i was in ms. zwicker's class and i needed some lotion. so i asked Christian Bradley to give me some. he threw me some across the room, and i used it and then i threw it back across the room. of course, dumb hole me. i freakin overthrew it and it landed in the teacher's lap. nice job chris. so she gave me detention, which i was actually kinda proud of. haha.. too bad i havent done anything bad all year. oh well. anyway, zack showed up at my house after i got home from track. then while my mom was cooking, we went to his house, then to the peak. that's always fun. i played him in speed and beat him like 20 times, and he beat me ONCE. dork. haha.. too bad it was only his second time playing so whatever.

thursday
thursday.. i went to school with my track uniform on, since we had the league finals that day. not really a fun bus ride. except for when HOLLA BACK GIRL came on. i was hecka dancing and singing, and everyone was laughing at me. i love being stupid. then my mom showed up later, but forgot to charge the video camera, so she didnt video tape my mile and 2 mile run. because i'm SURE you all wanna watch a big fat long race around a quarter mile track. now that would be boring. haha. it was even boring for me. anyway, i p.r.ed in my mile with a 5:20 time. and i came in 6th for the 2 mile.. not bad i guess. but you have to get 4th in any one race to qualify for subs, which i didnt do. kinda sucks, but i'm a freshman in varsity.. so i cant expect too much. and i wont talk about my 800, because i was that last qualifier for that race, so guess who ended up in last with a 2:20 time? yeah. me. ahh well..

friday
friday was cool i guess. at least after school was. i bought some jamba juice because it was only like 3 bucks, and i havent had jamba juica in like 2 months. then i didnt feel like going to track, because of the meet on thursday. it's not like i needed it anyway. me and zack walked home, and then ate a whole buncha junk. we got bored, so we went over to his house and played some basketball. but didnt stay too long, because he went to the gay movies without me. so i was bored the rest of the nite. kinda sucked.

today
today was actually a really good day. even though like everyone was gone. i woke up at like 10, and me and my mom went runnin. ran from my house to the duck pond, ran the duck pond twice, and ran back. a hill workout was a great way to start out a day. seriously. then krystal called to make plans for the day. we went to go see aladdin at 3 because we had nothing else to do and it was free, so yeah. but it was hecka good. because i havent seen that show in like 3 years. then we didnt have anything to do again, so we walked over to the bx. messed around and crap. had a really good time though. krystal is definitely a fun person to hang out with, because she's a dork and she's herself. so it's hecka fun. haha. then we went to church tonite, because tomorrow we're going to the AMA superbike races at infineon. should be fun.

kinda sucky week i guess. detention, and being tired from those gay meets. gay week. i really wish summertime was here now.

chris

2005-05-05T17:11:00.000-07:00

well.. this is cuh-RAZY. today is my ONE YEAR anniversary. with what you ask? my blog, of course! gosh. it seems like so...not long ago. so much has happened. i've changed so much.. i think i changed for the better though. do you guys think so? i'd hope so..

anyway...today was ok i guess. i woke up in a pretty good mood actually. went to regular classes.. hung out with zack and a buncha other people during lunch. but now that i look back on this week.. gosh. it's been one crazy week. of course, yall know my part of the craziness, but other stuff happened too. jeez, what's the deal? oh well. then after school i went and ran 3 miles by myself. now that's what i call dedication. haha. but i needed to, because i wanna be hecka faster for the meets next week so my MOM can see me run. haha yesssssssssss. she's coming home TOMORROW!!! gosh, i'm so excited. can't wait to see her again. it's been a very quick four months. i must say...i think nia really helped me through the time that we were goin out. and i think she helped me change for the better. woohoo. change is good, right? well, sometimes..

anyway, this time last year...i was posting about.. something...hmm. maybe i'll just repost the very first post...let's see:

Hey everybody, well this is the first time i'm postin on my blog since, well, i just got it like yesterday (big shoutout to my bro zack, without whom this would not be possible....holla!).anyway.....you know life does go by fast like the top of the page says.8th grade is whizzin by like that and i dont want it to.i made awesome new friends and don't really want this time to go away, but i guess it has to sometime.oh well....we all have to deal with it.well i'm pretty much done here, so i'll be postin later.holla!

Chris

dang. i said 'holla!' too much i think. haha. and my perspective at school...has once again changed. haha, go figure. i really just dont like high school. not even fun like everyone said it would be. everybody's too busy all the effin time. jeez. that's why i cant wait till summer, because then i can just be lazy and go swimming. yessssss.

chris

2005-05-03T18:07:00.000-07:00

long.. long.. long day.

i'm sure you all know by now. me and nia broke up. but that's what everyone wanted right? whatever.

i think there are two things i learned this year.

change is inevitable.
nothing good lasts forever.

chris

2005-04-30T23:31:00.000-07:00

been a crazy week. my mood's been kinda bleh this week. i think it had to do with the fact that i'm sick..err..was sick. freakin allergies though man. buggin the crap out of me.

school...
school's been...okay i guess. i dont know. my feelings toward school right now...just whatever i guess. nothing good, nothing bad. but teachers are really cracking down on us. english now sucks, because of the gay iSearch thing. i'm bout halfway done with the rough draft. gonna write the rest tomorrow and turn it in monday. i know i'm such a procrastinator, but hey..that's just who i am. and algebra's pretty retarted. i'm never gonna factor trinomials in my career, so why do i need to in school? what the heck is the point of that? and finals. man, i dont wanna think about those at all. those are gonna be SO gay. the only things good about finals are that we have no homework and a buncha minimum days. otherwise, school is just...school. what else is there to say?

track...
track's a big no. ever since i got sick last weekend, i havent even tried to run. i missed our last league meet of the season, and i missed a big meet in vallejo last saturday. which kinda sucks i guess...but i'll have 3 more years of track ahead of me, so i aint worried.

today was pretty cool. well...'cept for the first part. gay iSearch paper took up most of my day. but it was made up for. zack came over after i was done writing and damon brought us to the mall. i needed some board shorts and cologne. plus me and zack got something that's definitely gonna be a...surprise. haha. you'll see on tuesday. or most of you will anyway. then me, aaron, and zack chilled at the peak for a little while. had some cake and a mocha...mmm...that was good. then we chilled at zack's house..and i'm here. dreading tomorrow afternoon, because it means another afternoon of long hard thinking to finish that gay paper.

summertime's almost here. thank God. but see, this year has been a weird one indeed. i wont recap just yet...i'll save that for the end of the school year. as everyone else probably will too. but i dont care. and my mom comes back in like 9 days or something like that. i dont know, but it's close. and i'm gettin pretty excited. also zack's dad just left from iraq like...today. haha. so he'll be back sometime this week. that's awesome. i'm sure nia's dad'll be home sometime soon too. it's like...reunion of the deployed people and their families month. seriously though. i guess that's about it. i could complain about a few things, but i wont. i think they'll straighten themselves out. i have faith that they will anyway.

alright, i know it's a long post. but i'm compensating for the last few posts that haven been too long. outta here.

chris

2005-04-27T20:21:00.000-07:00

yes, i know it'll be short.

but all i'm gonna do is announce the grand opening of "Lyrically Correct." the link is down in the "links" section. haha. but here it is just in case all you lazy people dont feel like goin down there.

http://lyrically-correct.blogspot.com

chris

2005-04-26T21:06:00.000-07:00

dang, feelin much better.

yesterday was crap. i got up feeling freakin' horrible. thanks a lot NIA. haha. nah...anyway, my nose was all...allergied up. and my throat was hurting HECKA bad. not even lying. so i got to chill out at home all day and sleep in. that was nice. i guess...but it didnt really matter, because i still felt horrible. i started feeling better after i actually took something to get rid of the symptoms, but that's a given. anyway, i went to vanden to pick up some homework, then i went to the dentist to finally get rid of that crappy permanent retainer that i've had in my mouth for 2 1/2 freakin years. that was fun, but it hurt. haha. that was just about all of my day yesterday, except that i went to the peak with zack for a little while. we saw aaron there, and i got to drive that standard (and no stalls this time zack!). yeah, that was my good ol' monday. yeah right.

today was a little better i guess. but that's because i didnt have to go to school till like, 10 because sophomores and juniors had history testing and freshmen dont take history. so score one for chris. anyway, day was pretty normal i guess. except i found out that someone musta stolen my pumas and my pe clothes. so that sucks. i'll continue the search, but there's little hope now. after school was a little different. me and nia and lily were like chillin there, then all of a sudden tony and dj come up. boy, i knew that was gonna be different. so they messed with us for a little while. and that wasnt exactly fun for me...and i found out i was a killjoy. haha...oh well i guess. then the three of us and jessica started walking towards the jv game. but i decided not to go. i met up with zack at GW and just got a ride home with him. then, after i got home....me and my bro did a MASSIVE cleaning job on the house. it's so CLEAN (literally that is). now we just gotta keep that cleanliness up till mom comes home, which should be a problem since she'll be here in like less than two weeks. yessssssss. haha.

we're supposed to have a meet tomorrow, but i'm not going because i've gotta get over this sickness before i start running again. because i dont wanna get even sicker. that would suck. star testing's tomorrow too. oh boy. NOT. freakin math. and i've got a gay classroom. this should be a really boring week. oh well...better than bad i suppose. hope yall have a good week. dont get sick.

chris

2005-04-22T16:26:00.000-07:00

man, i feel horrible. bleh. but i really only have one thing to talk about.

lily, i dont know if you'll read this or not. but i hope today was the most fantastic, extravagent, awesome birthday you've ever had. because you really do deserve it. and even though you acted like a nerd all day, that's ok. because we all still love you.

but there was one thing that hit me today. and since no one really ever reads this anyway, i'll talk about it here. because i didnt feel like i could talk about it with anyone. i probably wont be here for my 16th birthday. i probably wont be here for lily's or anthony's or anyone else's. i couldnt imagine having to spend my next birthday in some place that i barely know. i dont want to. and gosh...i'm gonna miss everyone. so much. but whatever i guess. had to get it out somewhere. wish i had someone else to talk about it with though... whatever.

chris

2005-04-18T21:12:00.000-07:00

one day, i'm gonna hunt down the people that wrote the constitution for vanden high and punch them all in the face.

2005-04-17T21:54:00.001-07:00

dang man. i forgot we also have freakin star testing next week. HOW BOUT NO YA CRAZY DUTCH BEEZY?! freakin' a man. too many things goin on in one effin week.

today was ok i guess. got up at like 10:20 on accident. and damon and matt "weren't feeling good," so we didnt go to church this morning. there's no way i coulda gotten ready in ten minutes anyway. so i took a shower and got some money from damon to go eat at the bx. i got there and got some taco bell to eat and sat down and did some hw. gay freakin math though...i dont like factoring polynomials. the name itself is just ugly. then i went to the bx for a little while, but that gets boring, so yeah. then i went to the library to print out the gay study guide for student council. freakin crazy long test man.

that was pretty much my day, except that i got to see the pics from the military ball. those were awesome. all i have to say about that is that zack is a very lucky man. haha.

chris

2005-04-15T21:31:00.000-07:00

i'm freakin tired. bleh. had two meets this week. i cant remember if i posted on this or not. i'm that tired. yeah anyway, we had our first league meet on wednesday. that was fun i guess. i ran the mile, the 800, and the 2 mile. freakin crazy kid or something. i ran the mile in 5:26 and got 10th place. in the 800 i ran a 2:20 and came in 7th. in the 2 mile, i ran a 12:23 and got 3rd. i think that pretty much proves i'm a distance kid. we came in second at that meet and got beat only by center. freakin a-holes.

then the meet today was a relay meet in rio vista (more like, the boonies). and i ran the 400 leg of the distance medley and the second leg of the 4x800. just like in vallejo. i dont know...i guess i did ok. i ran a 61 second quarter, and a 2:30 half mile. i coulda done better. but whatever, i still got medals. our relay team for the distance medley got 2nd...we were SO close. and then we came in first in the 4x8. silver and gold sucka. what you know bout that? so yeah...good meets, but i'm really really tired from them now... AND we had to run on thursday too. martinez is a leg murderer.

today was a busy week though. i missed french 4 times. freakin dentist. next week'll be busy too. i've gotta go and take the constitution test for student counsel,i'm singin for exit on monday, i'm gettin a new bottom retainer on thursday, and we've got our second league meet on wednesday. oh and campaigning on wednesday and thursday. cant forget that. jeez. i dont know how i do it sometimes... i'm pressin on though. cant wait till summer...

chris

pressin' on, pressin' on. and i wont sit back and take this anymore 'cause i'm done with that, i've got one foot out the door. and to go back to where i was would just be wrong. i'm pressin' on...

2005-04-09T22:38:00.000-07:00

dannnnng. i haven't posted in forever. or at least it feels like it. i mean, last time was like the middle of spring break. i'm slackin off. soon i'll be like everyone else in the group and abandon my blog completely. haha.

hmm. not much has gone on this week, with the exception of zack coming back. haha you shoulda seen me on tuesday. see, i was sittin at our table in the morning thinking zack wouldn't be back at school till wednesday. then jason comes over and he's like, "so, zack's back today huh?" and i said, "yeah, but he wont be at school till like tomorrow." and he goes, "but i just saw him at his locker.." and i was like "really?! YESS!" and i jumped from my seat and walked over to see him. i know, what a homo. whatever. i dont even care. i have a girlfriend, so shutup. lol, jp jp jp.

wednesday was common planning. so we had two cool double v kids come on base for breakfast. that was fun. haven't had all four of us together for a while. even though they were doin the gay "walk 50 feet behind them" thing. whatever. homos. haha, just kidding. i'm REALLY glad they came on base though. i think we needed it...

then we were supposed to have a meet yesterday, but it got canceled because of the rain. the ONE day it effin rains man. i mean, it was beautiful thursday and it was beautiful today. the one day it rains, we were supposed to have our meet.

today was kinda boring up until about 7:30. i was at zack's and then we ate lunch right? well, i dont know what he put in HIS hamburger helper, but mine was fine. anyway, somehow he got koolaid in his EYE and it gave him a headache. a headache? jeez, so if he stubbed his toe, would it give him back problems? weirdo. anyway, after that he laid down for a little bit because it hurt so bad or something. he ended up throwing up in his bathroom for like 5 minutes. i'm sittin downstairs and all i hear is this big "SPLOOSH!" i'm like...oh that's not good. i ran upstairs and i was like, "hey bro, you ok?" and he was like "yeah, i'm fine...just dont tell my mom." lol. so anyway, after he puked his heart out, and he rested a bit more he felt ok. so we left for the peak. that was fun. played some guitar and met up with dat boy mahshie. almost got some locals (flip flops), but they were too small....oh well. then we went to the bowling alley to eat, but guess who effin forgot their money. me. i swear i thought i had it. haha. so we went to the shoppette instead and bought some stuff to eat. then we talked about funny stuff all the way home. good times, good times. i love nights like this. i think this should be our saturday night routine. heck yes.

chris

2005-03-30T19:27:00.000-08:00

hey kids...man, i'm in a good mood now. i wasn't before, but now i am. it's a wonder what a mocha in a christian internet cafe can do for you. haha. anyway, my day was pretty boring yet again. but i'm sure you don't wanna hear that for the 50 million fafillion jajillion shamitydooooobillionth time. haha. let's see....

easter sunday-
woke up at like, 9:30 ish? anyway, i got my chocolate and sour skittles. honestly, that was and probably will be the highlite of my spring break. chocolate and sour skittles. heck yes. my mom called though, that was cool to talk to her on easter. then we went to church and all that good stuff. worship was exceptionally good on sunday, probably because this is the one day we realize most what Jesus actually did for us. he died. but that's not all. he rose. oh man. he saved our lives. what a loving friend, that He would go through such a horrible death and not only that, but rise again. he loves me that much. he loves you that much... anyway, the sermon on sunday was good too. he'd talk for a little bit, and then show a clip from 'The Passion.' which was again, quite hard to watch...after church, me and damon dropped matt off for an easter egg hunt at his friend's house, and me and damon ate taco bell at the bx. what an easter dinner huh? haha.

monday-
woke up at like 9 because i had to go to track practice. that was fun and easy, because we ran with the sprinters. buncha wusses if you ask me, lol. then i went home and took a shower. i waited for about an hour, then damon came and brought me and matt to vacaville because i had to get a new guitar string and matt had a dentist appointment. what fun. then i just chilled the rest of the day. oh yeah, i also cooked them famous Baca Burgers! heck yes. and they were awesome, because we cooked 'em on the grill this time instead of that george foreman thing.

tuesday-
track practice again. but then afterwards, i walked to jessica's. i took a shower at her house and got a ride with her to Grace's. that was fun i guess. played a LOT of speed. and we watched the incredibles. lol. that was alright i guess. i got home at like 8:30 or 9. that was fun...i guess. not as fun as before at KT's house though. lol. never again will i wear girl pants though...

today-
didnt go to track because i was tired. lol. i know, i'm a bad kid. i'll go running tomorrow, dont worry. did the same thing as normal (played guitar, video games, basketball, etc.). so just a normal day i guess. kinda boring, but whatever. hopefully i can go to marine world on friday. now that would bring this spring break up to about a 9 on the Chris's Spring Break 1-10 scale. haha, just kiddin. anyway, now i'm here at the peak sippin on my cafe mocha. hope yall are havin a good spring break.

chris

2005-03-26T19:07:00.000-08:00

dang....today was....DUMB boring. jeez man. base sucks without a friend. maybe if zack was here i'd be having some fun. hope he's having fun all the way in florida.

today...
let's see. i woke up at 9:30 this morning and saw my guitar sitting there, so i figured 'what the heck?' so i re-tuned my guitar and played some 'turpentine chaser' by dashboard. that was cool for like, a half hour i guess. then i got on the computer since no one was home. i got to talk to kt and anthony about last nite. dont you just love reminiscing? then kt showed me the pictures from the party last nite. i'm NEVER wearing girl pants ever again in my entire life. dang, i looked hecka gay lol. maybe if someone paid me (bry, lol). anyway, after that i got up and made some cinnamon rolls and watched spiderman (yeah, the cartoon...shutup lol). then when the rolls were ready, i ate like 3 just because i could. then i went and took a shower. after THAT, i went and played video games for a little while. and then i started to play my guitar again, but i had to retune it. but while i was doing that, my bottom e string broke and popped my hand. dang, made me so mad. i think my guitar was supposed to be the only thing that was keeping me sane since zack's gone...now i dont even have that. then i got my lazy butt out of the house to go to the bx by myself...yeah, loner i know. maybe if some of dem cool double v kids came on base, i wouldnt be such a big loser. so i went to burger king to eat, then afterwards i went to the food court to do some homework (told you, i was REALLY really bored today). then i went to the bx for a little bit and walked around. i bought my mom a birthday card and some chapstick because "my lips hurt real BAD!" lol. then i walked home and damon arrived shortly after. now i'm here chillin at the peak sippin on that vanilla/strawberry italian soda. hecka good.

so as you can see...i'm in dire need of friendship on base. lol. i hope you got as bored reading this post as i was all day today. tomorrow's easter though. CANDY time. heck yes. and i'm gettin a shirt from dashboard confessional's website and a jack johnson cd from dat old kid in louisiana. haha.

chris

someone...please save me. haha.

2005-03-25T21:44:00.000-08:00

dang. feels like i havent posted in hecka long. maybe it's because i havent. oh well. just to let all dem cool kids out there know...everything's cool. no worries.

otherwise...today was the first day of spring break. it kinda wasnt fun till about 5ish. i woke up at like, 9 and i was really mad because it's effin spring break and i wake up early...haha, oh well i guess. i was never much of a really late sleeper anyway. well, i chilled inside like all day because my best friend chose effin florida over me...haha. it's cool though. hope HE has a good time. because my spring break will consist of chris playing guitar, chris sleeping, chris eating, and possibly chris running. that's it. maybe we could go to marine world? i dont know, just a thought. i've got some of those things from burger king that take off like 20 bucks for a general admission. so we gotta go. anyway, i mowed the lawn at like 12:40 and got in at like 1. 20 minutes to mow the lawn. haha, my yard's hecka small, ask nia or zack or lily. then i took a shower and played guitar for like...3 1/2 hours. oh well. i guess i didnt really have a choice. haha. that's when the fun began...

kt's "party" (more like, get together) was really fun. let's see...it was me, lily, nia, jon, grace, kt, kt's sister, anthony, bry, chris hoeft, and danielle. we are crazy together man. i dont know what it is, but we were all like, crackin up at the stupidest stuff. but it was really fun. we ate, and then while that was going on nia hecka took a noodle and held the end and swallowed it, then took it back out. really weird. and kinda gross. haha. then we were gonna watch gothika, but nobody was watching so we played spoons (forks, lol) instead. except we played it differently. whoever was the last person to grab a fork had to chug half a cup of pepsi (or water, but a full glass of that) and had to switch your shirt with the person who won that hand. and if both of you already had switched shirts, then you switch pants. effin crazy...i dont know who came up with that rule, but guess who got stuck wearing GIRL pants. yeah. me. and i fit in size 0. i didnt realize how small my legs really were...but dont worry, no one saw anyone else with no pants on...haha. then we all just like, chilled and talked. pretty fun if you ask me...

heck yes. if the rest of spring break is like this...i'm gonna love it. haha. whew, i'm done for the nite. but i'll probly get on sometime later...

chris

"sooner or later this cold, it's gonna break and our words'll be heard again. and all i want are vows of silence now..."
-dashboard

2005-03-19T21:15:00.000-08:00

so...i know most people dont like mad or bitter or sad posts.

but all i'm gonna say is...i dont get what in the world i did wrong...and what am i supposed to do if i dont...?

-chris

2005-03-15T20:03:00.000-08:00

ahhh. the joy of being finished with something. but then again, the sadness of seeing something you worked hard on coming to an end. i don't know. first, i would like to say that everyone did such an awesome job today at the spirit show! we definitely killed them sophomores for sure. and we pulled it off pretty flawlessly (with a few minor exceptions...*cough* tim and chelsea). and even though i pretty much hated going to practice for it, i'm kind of sad to see it end. because for a little while (until marching starts again for all the band geeks...lol, jp) i'll be alone with nothing to do before track starts. oh well...i guess all things come to an end at SOME point. i just hope that's not true for a few things....

anyway, spirit show practice last nite and today was crazy man. last nite, we went through the show like, 5 times. but that's ok. and then a few of us were sitting outside, and time and casey come running out and they were like "FOLLOW US!" and so me and nia and natalie followed them. me, casey, and time jumped the fence to the backside of the gym. then we climbed up on top of the coke machines to the top of the roof. it was fun for like, 5 seconds until we saw a car drive into the parking lot and got scared. so we jumped off the roof and ran to the front quad. wow. good times man. then i traced a few stars. i dont know. then i got to school this morning to a bunch of TIRED faces. crazy kids, going on like, 45 minutes of sleep all day. i dont know how yall did it. i would've just stayed home and slept. lol. oh well.

one last thing. i know a lot of us complained about lily being really bossy this whole time...and kinda irritating. but all that aside, i'd REALLY like to thank her for everything she did. i mean if you really look at it, if we didnt have you, lily, that show wouldn't have been half as good as it was. i dont know about everyone else, but i'm very grateful for everything you did for us. and that everyone else did for us too. so....thanks.

chris

2005-03-12T20:22:00.000-08:00

i'm dead tired. freakin done for man. today was my meet in vallejo. it was pretty fun man. i dont know, i didnt think it would be that fun...but hanging around people, and running REALLY well is actually quite fun. i had two runs, a 400 (1 lap) and an 800 (2 laps). the run was a distance medley where we had four runners and they ran 3 laps, 1 lap, 2 laps, and 4 laps in that order. of course i ran the 1 lap in that race. brandon d'sousza handed me that baton and i was GONE. i ran it in like, 59 seconds...that's like, dumb fast for a freshman. and i've only run the 400 that fast one other time, in XC. crazy man. and then me, mike schraer, brandon d'sousza, and jeff engle ran the 4x800. we actually did pretty good considering we were all in the most horrible mood for running it. lol. we were like "it's cold, and i dont feel like running.." but the 800 is like, one of the gayest races, because it's not long enough or short enough. smack dab in the freakin middle. but i ran it in 2:25. not too bad. and i passed the guy ahead of me, so it was pretty cool. then we ate at jack in the box. i dont know, that stuff musta had some poison in it or something because...
nevermind. so anyway, i'm really proud of myself. i did really well for a freshman.

man, besides that, i cant wait till this spirit show stuff is over. but it will kinda suck, because no one will be stayin after school anymore...so i wont have anyone to hang out with...that'll suck. but whatever.

hmm...nothing much else is going on. i guess i'm pretty content right now though. and i was digging the bus ride to vallejo, because i got to listen to a little ocean avenue...

-chris

2005-03-10T21:15:00.000-08:00

my week was actually pretty ok. which i'm glad for. before i know it, it'll be spring break, and then my mom'll be back. yessssssssssss. haha. well, i'm gonna post on my meet, but in a different way, since i'm lazy. i'll just post the email that i sent to my mom about the meet:

just got back from my meet today. it was pretty crazy. and hard. my legs are like, dead tired. but that's ok, because i'm pretty proud of myself for once. the meet was in rio vista (but i have no idea where it is..). and it was on a dirt track, but that was ok, because i had spikes. so anyway, my first race was a mile and it was pretty hard.there were 5 vanden guys and one rio vista. for most of the race, i was in last place (but i figured as much, seeing as how i'm a freshman runnin varsity), but then the guy ahead of me (rio vista) wasn't that far...so on the last lap, i kicked it up like i always do. and we were tied for about 150-250 meters. then when we were coming around the last curve, i kicked it up a lot, probly to about 100%. and ended up beating him. my time was 5:25! that's my fastest i've ever run a mile, too. i'm pretty proud of that. my second race (two mile) was one of the last ones. it was VERY hard. there were 3 vanden runners and two rio vistas. i stayed in the very middle the entire time. but my time was pretty good, although i wish i could keep a faster pace than that. it was 12:08. i know it's something most people would be proud of...but it just gives me reason to work that much harder.

so there you have it. i wish people could actually come to some of my meets this year...but i know it probly won't happen seeing as how they're all away. that sucks. but it would be nice to have a cheering section for once....

anyway, hope everyone else is having a good week. come to the freshman spirit show on tuesday during lunch just because we worked so hard on it. haha. no but seriously, come. it's gonna be pretty funny actually. well, besides, that, there's really nothing. so i guess i'll talk to yall later.

-chris

2005-03-06T20:51:00.000-08:00

so this weekend was pretty good.

friday
zack spent the nite, and we watched kung pow because he had just bought it. it was kinda funny i guess. really retarted. but sorta funny nonetheless. we didnt fall asleep till like...2. lol. oh well.

saturday
me and zack were like, lazy all day pretty much. we played with the idea of going to vanden to play basketball, just to make everyone mad. lol. nah, we just threw the football for a little bit. then his mom came and brought us to the mall. it was pretty fun i guess. zack was all like, "once i get a job, i think i'm gonna change my style." haha...oh well. that should be cool, once he actually gets one. then he drove us home. that player can actually drive pretty well. surprisingly. haha, just kidding man.

sunday
well, i woke up at like 9:15 and ate some biscuits. dat boy matt cooked them. very good. then i went over to damon, and he was like, "i dont feel good." so me and matt went to church by ourselves. it was still good though. then i got to drive by myself to follow damon to his work. that was cool. didnt have a parent breathing down my neck the entire time. lol. that was pretty much it. there wasn't much more. except i mowed the lawn.

yeah, so...i had a good weekend. gotta go. talk to yall later.

chris

2005-03-04T22:58:00.000-08:00

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

tonight was like....crazy good. oh yeah.

-chris

2005-03-01T20:18:00.000-08:00

sup kids. ha...i've been calling everyone "kid" like all today and yesterday. anyway, life's pretty good now. realized mistakes...fixed them..."it's all gravy." lol.

yeah, school and track have been like..consuming my life. but that's what school's about right? i just cant wait till summer. get to be lazy. hang out with friends...NO SCHOOL! oh man. can't wait. i've been talkin to dat girl in kuwait too. she's doing great. and she's in like better shape than i am. lol. runnin 5k's like all over the place.

track...
i'm not diggin track that much. i dont enjoy running around in circles. i dont know. i guess the only reason i do it is to stay in shape for XC. for most people it's the other way around. oh well. today we ran 6 400's. actually it was twelve. lemme explain. we sprinted a lap, then jogged a lap. that counted as one. except here's the thing...there was no stopping in between. craziness man. i dont know how i do it sometimes. my times were 72, 75, 80, 80, 80, 70. i kicked it up like CRAZY on that last one. nia and lily saw me too. i'm sure they were like "what a nerd." lol. i was like yelling at myself. what a dork. guess you gotta do what you gotta do to get what you want. and i did. oh well.

school...
school isn't that fun either. but i'm not gonna complain. i have good grades, ok teachers, and i get to spend time with friends. that's good too. spirit show stuff coming up. i know lily's stressin a lot about it. but i dont blame her. it'll be really good, i know it will. nothing much else going on in this area. just boring old school. nothing new, but they still find someway to keep us occupied. i haven't quite figured it out yet...

besides that...nothing. track and school. how fun. woohoo. ha.

-chris

i'm beggin you, i'm beggin you, i'm beggin you to be my escape...

2005-02-27T00:00:00.000-08:00

i miss summer.

-chris

there's a place off ocean avenue...

2005-02-24T21:39:00.000-08:00

so today kinda sucked, but that's ok. nia's a great person to go to when i need to talk about stuff like what i realized today. my mom's gonna be finding out soon if and when we're moving. i dont wanna leave here so bad. and it's different this time. i know it is, because i can feel it. i can't explain it, but i just know that it's different. having to leave these people that i've come to know and really love is gonna totally kill me. i know God probably has a plan for me, but moving will suck so badly. i cant even begin to explain. i just wanna stay here.

on a different note....

school's ok i guess. i'm not really likin it that much, but high school hasnt exactly been the greatest experience anyway. pretty sucky compared to 8th grade. i mean, the only reason that i have some sort of enjoyment at school is that i have these great friends to hang out with. but work sucks. and it's freakin boring. it feels like we're doing the same thing over and over and over again. i really dont think i'm learning that much either. and my new math teacher is horrible. i cant stand that class. urrgh...i have no idea how she is even a teacher man. she cant teach. and i'm having a really hard time in that class. hopefully the rest of the class'll go with me to the office and tell them about it, because this is getting ridiculous. it's not like i have bad grades though. all A's and a B still, so it's all good. maybe two B's...i'm not sure. but my grades are stayin up, even though it's a little hard with this new teacher. whatever, it'll fix itself. so i know this wasn't exactly the happiest post i've done in a while. sorry if i brought you down, but i had to vent somewhere. it'll be ok. i know it will. eventually.

-chris

2005-02-20T18:57:00.000-08:00

i hate haircuts. absolutely HATE THEM. i mean, cory in boy meets world really hit the nail on the head with the "haircut cycle of life." you get a haircut. it looks horrible for like, six weeks. then it looks good...for like, a day. then it's time for another haircut. lol. i guess it's not THAT bad. i just miss my old hair now. but this happens everytime it gets cut. it'll grow back. i aint worried.

so yeah. vona's party was last nite. that was cool i guess. we started to watch the grudge, but then we stopped for some reason once nia and lily walked in. dont ask why, because i have no idea. so then we ate some of vona's mom's cooking. filipino food. heck yeah. then we had karaoke...which i wasnt too into...until the BACKSTREET BOYS came on. haha. if you wanna see a picture, go to my myspace, and the first picture you'll see is of me singing to "i want it that way." heck yes. what a player. lol. but we sang karaoke for like, EVER. it's all good though. then they had the notebook on in the other room, and i saw the ending of it...man...pretty sad....yeah....

so anyway, that's my weekend so far....hope everyone else's is great. president's day should be fun too. talk to yall later.

chris

dont you love the new tunes? relient k rocks.

2005-02-19T10:51:00.000-08:00

it's ALL good now. heck. yes.

2005-02-17T16:18:00.000-08:00

and even though I'm angry I can still say
I know my heart break the day
when you peel out and drive away
I can't believe this happened

And all this time I never thought
that all we had would be all for none

No, I don't hate you
don't want to fight you
You know I'll always love you
but right now I just don't like you
No I don't hate you
don't want to fight you
you know I'll always love you
but right now I just don't like you
cause you took this too far

Make your decision and don't you dare think twice
go with your instincts along with some bad advice
this didn't turn out the way I thought it would at all
you blame me but some of this is still your fault

and wisdom always chooses
these black eyes and these bruises
over the heartache that they say
never completely goes away

and know that I don't hate you
and know that I don't want to fight you

Relient K

i just wish everything was over. i wish had an answer, that's all....i mean, i really like you. and no, i'm not mad at you. i just have to get these feelings out somewhere, and this is the best place to do it. this time you're using is killing me. but i'll wait...i'll wait...

just please dont be mad at me for anything i say or do...

chris

2005-02-14T20:37:00.000-08:00

valentine's day

ahh...valentine's day. i guess it's cool. "love is in the air." yeah, ok, sure. nah, i had an ok time today i guess. not the same as if i would've had someone to share it with, but still ok. got to hug some people...some i liked more than others, if you know what i mean....just a regular day i guess. i dunno.

so yeah, yall should go to the EXIT table at the club fair on wednesday. i'll be playin the guitar and singing. it should be cool. yeah. i guess that's all i have to say. well, not really, but i'm NOT willing to talk about other stuff online. talk to yall later.

chris

2005-02-13T20:19:00.000-08:00

If you read this, even if I don't speak to you often, you must post a memory of me. It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad, just so long as it happened. Then post this to your blog/journal to see what people remember about you.

2005-02-13T17:48:00.000-08:00

yes! finally, i get to go on the internet again. freakin ghetto computer (err...moniter).

so yeah anyway, this week was fun. let's see....

friday i went to the mall with nia and lily...we went to best buy and i bought a dashboard confessional cd with the gift card that my mom gave for like...8 bucks. lol. and then nia and lily were like "we're gonna pick out stuff for our apartment" and so they found the most expensive stuff you could actually buy in the freakin store. naturally. then we went to eat. nia and lily wanted a pretzel dog, but they only had one, so they split it. i went to chik-fil-a to eat (of course) and we ate there and like made fun of people and stuff. that was fun. then we went to ae cuz damon gave me his 50 gift card since he wasnt gonna use it anyway. so i bought some flip flops and a shirt. but that's not all. nia and lily decided they wanted to pick out some outfits from ae for me to try on. kinda gay, but whatever. they did an alright job i guess. actually, i bought the shirt from the first outfit they picked out. haha. so everyone will get to see it on tuesday.

then on saturday i went to jessica's house for poster making for spirit week. it was like me, chris w, lily, nia, jess, elise, and some other people i can't seem to remember right now. it was fun. yeah, my posters looked kinda retarted, but it's all good lol. i dont think anyone'll really pay attention to them that much anyway. and then later on the got paint all over me. i won't go into detail, because it's way too much, lol. but yeah, they got it like all in my hair and on my clothes and stuff. i dont even know why they wanted to get me. because i didnt even do anything (*cough* lily). yeah, but i would like to thank lily for handwashing my shorts and shirt, because it really helped. and thanks nia and lily for washing my hair too lol. that was great.

so that was my weekend. i'd post on the week, but it wasn't that eventful, so it's not that big a deal. talk to yall later.

chris

2005-02-07T21:52:00.000-08:00

hey yall
yeah, i'm bored. just sittin here talkin to nia and listenin to dashboard. good stuff man. so yeah, today wasn't that great of a day. woke up like CRAZY late, and then my left contact wouldn't go in for some odd reason. and it was making me REALLY mad. lol. i'm over it now though. one good thing about my day though was worship at EXIT, although someone *cough* didn't go. but it was still good i guess. sang God of wonders (caedmon's call), in your presence (jeremy camp), for the moments i feel faint (relient k), open the eyes of my heart, and Jesus lover of my soul. and then in math someone spilled my freakin lunch man. but i put it back in the little cup, cuz it just went on the desk, so it's not that big a deal. and then in that same period though, my contact (same one that was givin me trouble this morning) somehow got under my eyelid. dont ask how. so i went to the bathroom and took it out and put it back in. that was kinda gay.

then during 7th period i pulled out the guitar, and played a whole buncha dashboard confessional, and that was good, cuz all the people came over and were singin it with me and stuff. then track practice came before i knew it. that was fun too, but pretty hard, cuz i ran like 3 1/4 miles. and then at the end alisha tried to outsprint me......I DONT THINK SO. lol. just kidding. but seriously, i dont know why she tried to beat me so bad when she knows that i'm faster. lol. she ran a pretty good race though. maybe next time....or not. lol. ok, i'm being mean, maybe i should stop. yeah.

oh i totally forgot about my weekend. friday nite i spent the nite at zack's and yet again had some of "zack's world famous waffles." haha. then nia and lily came over and we went to the bx to eat cuz i was hungry cuz i ate breakfast at like 11 and my stomach schedule was all messed up (nia lol). and then we went to see meet the fockers, which was really funny. then sunday went to church and then went to zack's for the super bowl but we didnt even watch the game. we like, played soccer and basketball and got on the internet. lol. i dont even like football that much. i dont know why i pretend i do. oh well. and then one of zack's sisters little friend has some sort of crush on me apparently. kinda weird. yeah, kinda REALLY weird. yeah so that's it. really long post. sorry guys. talk to yall later.

chris

"it's hard to believe that i am getting by on so little from you
it's hard to believe that i would let myself get so wrapped into you
it's gotta be somethin that would be worthwhile for me to give to you
we need a connection but you seem to push me far away from you.....
the harder i push, the farther i fall...."------dashboard

2005-02-02T18:06:00.000-08:00

hey yall....i'm in the posting mood...so...i'll post.

man, i have been on the BIGGEST dashboard confessional craze for like, 3 weeks man. i love playing his music on my acoustic and just listening to it. such awesome lyrics....chris carrabba really knows what he's doing (at least on the swiss army romance). that's what i wish i could sound like. but his voice is a little high for me....but it's all good.

i'm SURE you've heard about the whole jennifer thing by now. so...yeah...but i dont know...we'll just see i guess...i dont think i have a chance with her anyway, so it doesnt matter. things are kinda weird. i dont know....like nothing good or bad (with the exception of a few things), but i dont know. although, i am VERY excited that track has started. finally...i'll quit bein fat and start running again. lol. running in circles for the next 4 months! YES!...cant wait till the first meet. i signed up for the 2 mile, 1 mile, and high jump. sweet. cant wait. so for the people that actually DO come to other people's blogs, you can start checking out the athletes foot blog again in march, cuz that's when my track meets start. oh and yall should come check 'em out too. there just a little more exciting than XC meets, since you know, you'll ACTUALLY see us the entire time instead of seeing us for about 15-30 seconds of the race, and the rest of the time we're out in the woods somewhere. haha. well, that's about it. talk to yall later. holler.

chris

"we're not 21, but the sooner we are, the sooner the fun will begin.
get out your fake eyelashes and fake I.D.'s and real disasters.
it's cool to take these chances. it's cool to fake romances.
and grow up fast...."

2005-01-31T20:39:00.000-08:00

yeah, changed the template again....this one defines me just a little bit better. haha. and thanks to jen for showing it to me....pretty sweet. plus there were some crybabies (brad) who were complainin about the font......

anyway, these past few days were ok....went to church with zack on sunday...it was pretty good i guess. and me and zack have been jammin out on my guitar and the lil tyke drumset that my brother got like, 2 or 3 years ago. haha. but it's awesome. like, jammin out to yellowcard and dashboard confessional and stuff. it's great.

school's going good too. although, i need to start doing my homework...which..i'm actually...avoi..ding...right......now........ BUT ANYWAY. umm...yeah.anyway, that's about it....

i'll be changing the song on this blog though...i just dont know what to yet. oh yeah, come to EXIT on monday. i'm singing. and playing guitar. yeah. come. talk to yall later. holler.

chris

2005-01-29T21:25:00.000-08:00

man i have the GREATEST friends in the entire history of the world. and i couldnt ask for anything better....nothing beats 'em.

i had like the greatest day i've had in a LONG time. zack, lily, nia, and me all walked to burger king, and stayed there for like 2 hours talking. then we walked to the park, and chilled there for a long time too. man, we had SO much fun. i dont know what i would do if i had to move again. seriously.

and that's really all i have to say. and thanks to everyone who gave me stuff for my birthday. it was great. i loved it. oh by the way....if you need a band to listen to; yellowcard, relient k, and dashboard confessional are all musical GENIUSES!

chris

2005-01-25T16:57:00.000-08:00

tomorrow's my birthday..woohoo.get to get my birthday punches.woohoo.

lol, nah just kidding...tomorrow should be fun. and you know me, since i'm fast and all that, i wont be getting hit.HAHA (brian).lol.

so the second day of ENCOUNTER was flipping more awesome than the first. dat boy judah is COLD. he can preach man. like i said...definitely has a word for this generation. and of course worship was awesome with the 1221 band.haha. man, i love the members...they're all so cool...just laid back...and of course our youth pastor is the drummer too. lol...so that's cool.

and then sunday i woke up with a fever of like 102...that was freakin crazy man. i think it was like that since like...thursday, but i chose to ignore it cuz i didnt want to miss encounter....i still think it was worth it.lol. but then sunday, i was just like...MAAHH. no way was i going anyway. freaking burnin up man.

and then yesterday, i woke up feeling fine, but 4th period i got REALLY cold, and then while i was playing guitar for EXIT (the only reason i was really AT school, by the way) i started burning up like crazy. and then i went to math and still felt bad, went to french, still felt bad...so finally my friends badgered me into going to the nurse to call damon. so i ended up going home early...eating some soup, taking medicine, you know how it is.

but i'm good to go today. aint nothin wrong with me. lol. i had to re-wish giovanna happy birthday cuz i didnt get to do it properly yesterday...lol. so i hugged her and said happy birthday and blah blah blah. today was just a regular day. not really that boring. and then tomorrow the french club is having a potluck and bringing stuff and celebrating MY BIRTHDAY. haha...so that should be fun.....oh and jessica p is supposedly getting me something "big" for my birthday. whatever that's supposed to mean. anyway, this was kinda a long post...so i guess it makes up for the coupla days i havent posted. gotta go...talk to yall later.holler.

baca

oh and by the way, if you're looking for a template...go to http://congbaca.vectorstar.net ......it's me and my friend sam's site (he lives in louisiana) and we're making templates that are MUCH better than the faggoty ones you find at blogskins, cuz almost all of those sucks. make sure if you have like suggestions for templates and stuff like that you tell me or there should be a section of the site that you can do that sometime in the near future. so go there. and i know we dont have that many yet, but we will, dont worry. k, i'm done babbling...peace.

2005-01-22T08:05:00.000-08:00

ENCOUNTER--DAY 1

wow, last nite was FREAKIN awesome....i think it was even better than last year's encounter.judah smith rocks man.and definitely has an anointing to preach to this generation.looks like a lotta friends of mine got saved...so i'm pretty much on cloud nine rite now.

but on the other hand...this week was REALLY boring.and it went by really slow. becuz less than a week ago, it was martin luther king jr's b-day.yet that feels like a month ago.i dont get how time works sometimes...

then again...maybe it went by so slow for me becuz....MY BIRTHDAY IS ON WEDNESDAY. big 1-5. what an old person. man, i was thinking about it...and i'm already halfway to being thirty. GREAT.then i'll be really old.haha...just kidding.

well, that's all for now folks...i'll probly post again tomorrow on how the rest of encounter went. talk to yall later. HOLLER.

chris

2005-01-17T19:29:00.000-08:00

hey yall. how's everyone's weekend been? glad finals are over? i know i am. anyway, i'm just here for a short post.

me and my friend sam from back home are starting this new site* for blog templates (*note that the url for this site is subject to change*). and these templates are gonna be awesome. not like the gay ones you see at blogskins or anything. it's like crazy hard to find stuff there. but this place will have a suggestions place where you can suggest what kinda templates you want and probably a submission place to put templates that you've made. so, once it's ready, it'll be cool. hope yall like it. and by the way, make sure you tell everyone who has blogs about this. *also note that the templates made are ONLY blogger compatible*

so, i guess this is longer than i thought it would be.haha.talk to yall later.

-chris

2005-01-13T17:32:00.000-08:00

wishin it were summer......

yeah...i want summer to be here man.i wanna go skimming SO freakin bad.

anyway, the paul wright concert was yesterday. that was so freakin awesome. mahshie showed up and we were like beat boxin and stuff. it was cool. and finals have been goin good. they werent as hard as i thought they'd be...and hopefully after these i'm gonna have all A's in my classes. which'll be a miracle considering i haven't gotten all A's since like, 6th grade...haha. and i'm gonna leave soon for youth group..which is gonna be really cool cuz the guy that plays electric guitar (shane) is gonna show me some stuff on my guitar tonite, cuz i'm bringin it. i cant wait.yep, besides that, it's goin good.talk to yall later. piso.

chris

by the way...go to ENCOUNTER if you live in the vacavillish area.

2005-01-11T17:29:00.000-08:00

ahh...the runner's high.gotta love it....i know i do.

anyway, life has been going pretty good lately (besides the fact that my mom's gone anyway).yep, i figured out this weekend that i'll probly have all A's in all my classes, which is a freakin miracle, becuz i havent done that since like sixth grade.haha.and i've been running lately (of course, i really dont have a choice seeing as how track's coming up and i need to start getting in shape after the month of running like once or twice a week).tomorrow, i'm going to a paul wright concert!!!i cant wait!and then encounter is coming up next week...i also cant wait for that!

in other news, my mom's doing great.she actually just ran a 5k race over there.man, i dont think anything could stop her from running.anyway, just wanted to ask if all you people reading this could be prayin for her while she's over there.i'm sure she'll be back before we know it.

also, finals are coming up.the only thing i'm looking forward to with that is that we get minimum days for the rest of the week.i know i'll do good in them.and those are what i'm counting on to bring the B's that i have up to A's....oh yeah!i finished my engine today in auto and got an A cuz it ran!heck yes.so, wow, life's going really good lately.looks like i'm "sunny with a high of 75".haha.talk to yall later.

chris

p.s.-happy birthday michelle!...those cupcakes were good!and i'm sure nia knows that firsthand.haha.

2005-01-02T15:13:00.000-08:00

HAPPY 2005!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hope everyone had a great Christmas, New Year's, and break.mine was pretty good.especially considering all the things that happened.but it's cool.let's recap shall we?

Christmas-me and my brother woke my parents up at around 7 in the morning. my stepdad was pretty upset....but that's ok, he got over it.well, we opened all our presents and had a blast all day messin with all our new stuff. *cough guitar cough*.....although, zack got a pretty player gift too.a TRUCK.lucky piece of...but it's cool...i'm just looking forward to having a ride to school every morning next year.lol.but Christmas was very good this year...and i'm SO grateful to my parents and the other family that pitched in for the guitar and all the others who didnt, but still got me gifts.

New Year's-well, new year's eve was fun.sorta.i guess.first, i went to church (not mine, one of my friend's) and the preacher gave a sermon on resolutions.but i made mine already.it was alright i guess.i dunno...it was kinda boring...but that's ok.anyway, after that we went to the hospitality house off base.it's a home where a lotta people go that's owned by this Christian family.basically another church.anyway, they had a talent show going on that was pretty funny.then i played some guitar.and got some encouraging words from people.that was good.i also had communion TWICE that nite.lol....guess it cant hurt though.then when i went to church today we had communion again.lol.oh well.it was cool.

My New Year's Resolutions:

Don't drink so much Coke.
RUN MORE.
Seek a more passionate relationship with God (including reading my Bible, etc.)

i think there's another one, but i cant remember.hope yall had some good new year's resolutions too.post them in the tagboard for us to see if you feel like it. and i think that's it.talk to yall later.holler.

chris

I Corinthians 10:12-13

12So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

2004-12-30T02:44:00.000-08:00

Civitus Dei

so, me and zack were thinkin bout it, and i've come up with a name for my band (well, really it's just me...but it's kinda like a dashboard confessional thing).anyway, my "band" if you can call it that, is called Civitus Dei (meaning City of God).and my strings and frets website is now http://civitusdei.blogspot.com. so yeup, that's it.talk to yall later./

baca

2004-12-26T16:53:00.000-08:00

man, my Christmas was FREAKIN awesome.i had a great day yesterday.here's everything i got: Fender Strat, Spiderman 2, a longhorns belt buckle, some ring from my aunt (but it's pretty player), a corkboard thing (for XC stuff), money, some cologne, an mp3 player, and i think that's it....but i'm not sure......dang, i got a lotta stuff now that i look at it.....but not all that's from my mom and dad....most of it's from my family back home and such.and i still think there's some in the mail that we havent gotten.so yeah.hope everyone one else had as good of a Christmas as i did.

did yall hear about zack?....if you didnt know already, he got a TRUCK.lucky piece of trash.lol....but it's all good...i'm not jealous or anything, cuz i've got my guitar.lol.

oh yeah, and i think i'm gonna revive the guitar blog.....the link is http://stringsandfrets.blogspot.com. so yeah.....well, to anyone who i didnt say it to: merry belated Christmas.and i guess i'll talk to yall later.holler.

baca

2004-12-24T21:51:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL YOU PLAYERS IN CALI AND LOUISIANA.

may the peace of the Lord Jesus be with you all.

-chris-

2004-12-17T18:50:00.000-08:00

the gayest of gay fridays before Christmas break ever...literally...

well, i'm not gonna go into detail, but yeah.it's true.yuck.anyway, on a lighter note...i got like a crapload of presents today at school.people really care for each other in our group man.let's see....i got 5 cd's (all burnt of course..lol), lincoln logs (from lily, who else?), a superman (just the shield) poster, a superman necklace thing, and a spiderman wallet from anthony that is CLEAN.and i didnt get anyone ANYTHING.i'm broke, what can i say?besides, i told everyone not to get me anything for Christmas cuz i knew i wasnt gettin anyone anything.whatever.they must've not heard me or something, cuz JEEZ.

anyway, besides that, everything's goin pretty well.i still cant wait to get my guitar.but i only have like a week to wait on that, so it shouldn't be too bad.i DID get my amp though, which is really player.and i've been workin out and runnin too.so i'm stayin in shape till track comes which is february, so i dont have TOO long to stay in shape.and that's about it.just a peek into the life of baca.well, to end this gayest of gay fridays before Christmas break ever...literally...HOLLER.

baca

2004-12-06T18:13:00.000-08:00

hopefully this works....

anyway, this is the guitar that i just ordered last nite!!!i cant wait till it comes in, although i have to wait till Christmas to actually play it...that sucks!oh well...as long as i get it...i'm fine.

well, what else is new?i guess everyone knows by now...yes i asked katie to the dance, and no we're not going.and yes i like her.yes.yes.yes.jeez ppl.not that big a deal.it's not like we're gonna go out or anything seeing as she doesnt like me like that anymore.

onto other business....i guess other than that, things are just normal.at least, they're back to normal.family's all good and everything.and i'm just a normal kid waitin for Christmas.oh and EXIT was today.i got to play worship.that was good i guess....and that's about it.talk to yall later....HOLLER.

baca

2004-11-30T19:30:00.000-08:00

on this last day of november....

lol, just kidding.anyway...got back from louisiana yesterday.the flight was good....little bit of turbulence, but i didnt get sick like on the way there.jeez, that was crazy...had the barf bag up and everything.lol.anyway, it was ok after a while.so, back to the trip home.we got to watch the terminal.that was a good movie.you should see it some time.anyway, when me and my mom and brother got off the plane, it was like cold outside.and it wasnt the wet cold like in LA...it was the dry cold.and it felt SO good.you dont even know.and the skies were beautiful...it was a beautiful day.....nothin like houston.lol.so anyway, when i got back home i gave zack a call.he was at jeedub workin with the band major tryouts.so, i rode my bike there and acted stupid for about an hour or so.i was makin all the 8th graders laugh.that was fun.so then i went home and we did our homework and then we went to his house and i went and got my new GRITS Dichotomy B cd!heck yeah.and it's great.and it's SIGNED by them too.oh yeah.

and then we had school today.just regular old school.i'm tired of it already.lol.wish it was summertime man.i cant wait to be lazy again.plus, i get my permit this summer!heck yes!and then i get my license next january!i'm so freakin excited!!!!!

on a less lighter note...my mom's gettin deployed two days after Christmas.so, i need any of you who do so happen to pray to pray for her safety and my family...and that we would have comfort during this time.cuz it's sure aint gonna be easy.well, i guess that's about it.talk to yall later.

baca

Psalms 23:4-Even though I walk through the shadow of the valley of death, I will fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff comfort me.

2004-11-26T10:18:00.000-08:00

so, i got a new myspace thing the other day...then a whole buncha ppl (jess m, michelle, and anthony) all sent me friend invites to be their "friends" on myspace.i didnt realize people in cali had them.oh well.anyway, the link to my profile is on the bottom of my links list.besides that...nothing's really going on.i'm in LA...just chillin i guess.it's cool.but i dont think a week is enough to see everyone.and it definitely ate up my holiday.lol...oh well...that's what this vacation was for.hopefully zack is having a good time.snowboarding and GRITS concert.lucky piece o' trash.lol.oh yeah, i know it's late, but for anyone i didnt tell it to: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!.....good stuff.hope yall all ate good and had a good time.i know i did.

1 Corinthians 9:24-Do you not know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you will obtain it.

-baca

2004-11-20T21:52:00.000-08:00

1 John 3:1-How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not knoww us is that it did not know Him