Rewind - The week has been crazy filled with sleepless nights and sleepfull days. One thing I miss already is my boy, Erick. I am the B & P champ of 2 K 4 and we'll always have Triple H in Blade 3. Another thing I am not looking forward to as well is Jo leaving in less than a week now!

So with the year ending as I'll be partyin at Steve & Cat's place, I'm gonna look back on 2K4. I'm gonna do this without looking back at any old posts so the beginning months will be a complete blank.

Jan. - Student teachin @ Edmonson, still miss the kids and was the best experience for me.
April - G-Pa's 80th B-Day bash, man saw lots of peeps that night, even cooler went to NYC after the party.
May - Back to NYC with my parents, gotta love a road trip!
June, July, August - Lots of memories of the summer, I-Robot was a night to remember. Then there was the family vacation to Seattle/Vancouver which I still love and miss. Going to Toronto 4 times in that 3 month span as well. Runnin ACA in the D, while ACA in the C was fallin apart. I'm thankful for my crew Reylan and Stef D for helping me making our camp tight. At the same time, I'm glad I have constructed a bridge with some of the C-Ton peeps. Playin grass v-ball, and letting things ride out how they are today.
Sept. - CCUC Tournament in Chicago baby! Wierdest moment, comin back home and sleepin in the same rest area as Alan and Naomi but not knowing it. Best was leavin at midnight in my own terms of peace out. Also seeing Joyce's Kraft pad as well, and greatful she was there as usual helping me with the logistics.
Oct. - Harvest Night was fun, playing in the moonwalk with BooBoo.
Nov. - Hmmm, uh b-day? Well Thanksgiving, but that wasn't even the same.
Dec. - Spending time with Jo before she goes. My sis's graduation and makin fun of Sparty peeps. Time with Emoy, was again great as well!

Well, my mind has drawn a blank now, phew too much thinking involved! Oh well, see y'all in 2K5.

Don't Tell Me

Ahchoooey - Wow, I think yesterday was the worst I ever felt in a long time. Tuesday night, I started noticing that I was about to get sick. I just had that feeling when I was playing v-ball at West Bloom. but never did I imagine it would down like this. I think it started off with just how the temperature kept flucuating in the gym. The heat was turned on to 70, but every now and then it would do an auto shut down. It was hard to maintain a consistent body temp. when you have 9 teams waiting for 3 courts. I don't know what is it with my hair or is it because I am just shorter than everyone else? But everyone loves to rub my hair/head because I'm like the little kid on the court. Anyways, I got what I wanted that night respect to play against the best and mentioned as one of the elite. Going at S.S. 3 matching some of those guys and afterwards talking to me about W.L. "the best of the best" league was much coolios. However, again the gym effect at times it felt like it was 100 with the body temp and the heat, then auto shut down it felt like it was 20.

So Tuesday night, coming home from the airport I started noticing my health was getting worst. I blasted the heat in the car, and my sis was literally sweating bullets. While I still felt cold, and my body was becomin numb. I evaluated myself at home, to see that I got the flu, fever, chills, migraine, dizzy spells, and body numbness. So what did I do on Wednesday? Well out of a possible 24 hours, I slept for an actual 23 hours! The most I ever slept in a day, I mean that was like wasting a whole day to me. The only time I got up was either to pee, or I actually tried watching the Pistons game but then I fell back asleep. I have yet to had time to put away all the cool Denver Nuggets gear my sis bought me yet. Man my stomach, hurts too because I only ate a couple slices of small beef yesterday and taking all those meds, blah. Although today is a new day, and for the most part I am almost healed thanks to the Lord. Now I just want to go out, but do I even dare too, but it does look fun to drive out right now with all that snow!

Senzu Beans

Walleye Slayer - I wasn't gonna post but since it's like past 3 a.m., I was catching up on other peep's site. Now as most peeps know I am an aggressive driver, but what you don't know it is usually out of reaction. Today, was no different as I was driving on M-59 leaving Lakeside. I'm cruising down the middle lane, as both the left and right lanes were backed up. Then this red truck, swerves from the left lane and cuts me off in the middle lane. I slammed my brakes to gather myself, oh and you can sure bet that it was on now. I zipped through traffic just to catch him, neck and neck at a red light. I demanded him to roll his window down, so we can have a little chat. He kept apologizing to me and since it's Christmas I forgave him. I just told him not to do it again, because next time he could kill someone, and that I'll be watching him. I don't like punks who think they own the road by cutting off the innocent ones.

I played some v-ball at KUMC, and I had a funny convo with DenDen. It went something like this:

D: Man I keep forgetting I am not 20 years old anymore.
K: But you're 27, so you're still in your 20's.
D: It sure doesn't feel like it.

As I was reading others, I see that CGC will be entering the CCUC tournament in 2K5. And they are gonna be ballin over break together to gear up for it. With break approaching, it will be a balancing act for me to heal physically (ankle, knee, and shoulder) while preparing myself to get ready for the 2nd half of the season.

I kept thinking of the ladies of the G-House today too. I wish I had a video tape to record everything because it's just such a good reminder for myself.

Pink & Black Attack

Rewind - Deja vu, it seemed like today as I got an unexpected call at CBC today. I looked at my phone, and it read "Mommy" and all I could think about was something happening to my G-Ma. I hesistated to answer at first, fearing what I did not want to hear but thank goodness it wasn't as bad as last time. However, this time it was both my grandparents being sick in bed and just way too ill to eat. I bought the meds, and then my aunt came over as well to cook while I explained the meds to both of my G-Parents. One thing that has been positive about this, is the fact that I am starting to regain some of my toy-san abilities back. Man looking at my G-Pa, his nose was like Niagara Falls. My G-Ma ate a lil rice, while my G-Pa had a cookie and they both went to bed while my aunt left. I decided to stay, to wrap gifts for the kids, and had my own QT. 3 straight hours I stayed there for, the longest in a while. Felt so wierd being alone, knowing this was once where I could of called home minus my sis, Alan, and Wendy. I even went for a quick run, outside in my b-ball gear when it was 4 degress out to bring back some old memories. I do pray that they will get better, and that salvation is in His plan.

G-House - Then I left for the Genesis House, meeting up with everyone else from CBC. This I will be flat out honest about all my emotions throughout this time. I was discouraged as we were about to leave from CBC seeing nobody from either of the adult fellowships, mainly Ambassadors and 5:14. Although I was encouraged by the fact that we had more peeps from the Youth Ministry than both of the other fellowships combined. As soon as I walked into the G-House, I embraced everyone as they did the same with me and things started clicking for me. As D-2 said tonight, "God is good, and Randy was the man tonight." We sang carols, and we opened it up for sharing time. When the ladies shared their testimonies, it just put me to shame. I mean, every single lady was just fighting (in a good way) with each other just to share their testimony. Their testimonies were so genuine, and real compared to like mine, that talks about work or school every time. I mean tears were shed, and my heart could feel it and I felt so ashamed of my own faith. I can't think of the last time, I heard from any CBC fellowship that was just so open to share all at once. These ladies did as much sharing about how God has blessed them as much as we all do staring at each other hoping someone could share so the other does not.

I'm glad my Chou Boyz came, and again I love Chris and the relationship we have. We were talking outside of the G-House, and I was talking bout my childhood raised in these areas, while he said he had it rough in Novi. Man he cracks me up, and he goes on to explain bout how Novi weather is colder. Randy also changed the structure up, as we had prayer time together. I was thankful that all the kids circled around me and we had "K Dawg's Story Time." Gracie D, Nene, Booboo, Peewee, I-Ching, Claire and Miles all made a new friend, Joshua. Man this kid reminds me so much of Christopher, but African-American. Booboo did a great job without the Tan sisters playin the violin. Gracie D, Claire, and I also had funny conversations about a lot of things as well. I also got a chance to talk to Cory, and I was happy to see him come out as well. I love Booboo and her new glasses too, she's so cute and helpful too. Dave was tickling the ivory as usual, boy got some serious skillz on that. We stayed longer than expected, but nobody cared because tonight's experience was unexplainable that this was a glimpse of heaven, His Spirit was felt tonight and was what warmed the hearts of everyone.

Finally, I'll be rocking a new pink and black bracelet thanks to Jo. I love this Christmas present and it means a lot to me. Can't wait for the unveiling as well ;) I also praise God too, for blessing me with a great friend in Linz and the offering.

Primetime

Rockin The Boat - Today was an eventful one, well first no more Survivor for the rest of this year! Man, it sucks because none of my final 4 picks made it as the winner. I believe it is still one of my goals in life is to play in Survivor. I took my sis to the airport today, so she can fly out to Denver. I hope she gets me my Kenyon Martin jersey that I asked for :) K-Mart!!!!! Afterwards, I went back to the past, to settle some unfinished business. It was in the air, and I could smell it too S.Fox had returned. Oh well, I'm sorry to Annie I'm not an offski, nor a dutchmen. I'm CBC and I ain't ever comin back. I thought that would set the tone for the night but He continues to put peeps in my life. I went to FCS, and I ran into Dave from KUMC and we chatted about how things have been going. I'm bummed though that they haven't been playing v-ball because I was really hoping they would be a lot stronger too. As I continued my shopping at FCS, then I ran into Tari from the Ambassadors Crew so we chatted for a little. Come home to see the Pistons win, and nothing beats a night when all my original YTF girls are online. Hope Jubilee ;) has a safe and fun trip throughout break. Man, still can't get over my big twitch with what I learned today though. I'll give a woot woot too because Electra is coming to the Eastside this Saturday ;0

ATM Tricks

Nerves of Steel - Today was all about pressure to perform, and execute. For the most part, I am not the type of person to stress out about anything. Peeps say that I am cool, and calm about a lot of things which I believe is how I've trained myself to be mentally strong. This morning I took my last final of '04 and I needed at least a 51 or better out of 60 to get my 3.0 in the class. Now I don't have my final grade yet, but I am confident that I scored 52 or better because I was pretty confident about my answers. I stayed up all night trying to prepare myself to get that 3.0

I rewarded myself coming home with a 4 hour power nap then off to v-ball. Everyone's been wanting me to come out to Tuesday night v-ball out in the Hills. I finally checked it out with SpongeBob, and wow peeps were right there is some great competition out here. The pressure was on to play because there were a lot of players who I have not played against. So I wanted to prove to them that I am among the elite in that gym. Jessie wanted me to run with her and that brought instant credibility because a lot of peeps associate her with playing with some of the best peeps in the area. It's also fun for me because I get to play for free a lot of times since I know the peeps :) However, I felt bad for SpongeBob because she did not get to play at all because the competition was a lil out of her league.

Flipside to this is wow I am getting the 1 hand set down pretty good. Although I prefer not to use it. With all this playing, I am starting to notice how much slower my ankle is healing. Oh well I guess that's what Christmas break is for. What pressure, just brush it off ;) and lift it all up with some love from above.

Turn It On Baby!

Judgement Day - Don't you love how peeps just look at you and they already make that opinion about ya. A lot of things got to me about this topic as of late. This Sunday, I feel as if it is Judgement Day for a lot of reasons. First there is the Q & A session, which I look forward to and hopefully I can stay for the most part of it. I hope we have moved out of the whole talk about music and such. Can we get to more pressing needs in the church? I love how peeps complain but don't offer any solution, and just love getting waiting on.

2nd thing is, I am excited for my kids because they get to sing carols and stuff in front of both congregations. Some of them are just so adorable doing it. At the same time, Auntie B made the comment saying that, oh you have to wear this and that. Then she actually grabs a couple of kids, and says this is what you should wear on the 19th! It made me sick to my stomach, because not all of those kids can afford that type of clothes. Another thing, is ok what if they did not come in ready to style and profile, are they "not good" Christians compared to those who did dress up? That's just a big slap in the face to some of those kids, who possibly could not measure up to those who were selected. I'm glad we teach these kids about how God measures us by clothing now. In a retalitory way, I almost just want to alternate what I have to wear, and let them know it's alright if you dress like this. Grrrr, I am just sick and tired of how some peeps in general look at others just because of there wear at CBC. If someone comes in butt naked then let's talk or has satan's child then let's discuss. If I dressed to impressed, and cut all my hair out are dem older peeps gonna trust me more? I'm still the same person, man I hope this type of stuff changes eventually.

Anyways time to sleep since I stayed up all nite to study for BIO. Yes, I too think it is creepy that Jo and I are a lot alike, but it funny too as she would do :twitch:

Back In The Hotel

Sparty Cash - So Saturday I went to MSU for my sister's graduation and compared to high school, this was boring. I think it was because I don't know anyone to listen for names, and all I cared about was hearing my sis's. The crowd kept shouting "Go Green!" and all you see is me standing up, shouting "Go Blue!"Then again I didn't know what color to represent for OU. Then I started singing the U of M fight song while they were singing the MSU fight song. I wish I would of sported my Braylon Edwards jersey.

There were a lot of great things that I took from that day. I spent the whole car ride up with my baby cuz. We talked about a lot of things, and I learned more about my family history. I am still bummed that she now wants to go to MSU though. Nonetheless, I love my baby cuz and I think it meant most to me this past Saturday. I'm thankful that throughout the day she now realizes how much I care about her. She kept making sure that I will be at her high school graduation in June and sitting in the front. I let a friend take her home, and I was surprised that she actually called me as I asked her to, to make sure she was home ok. For the most part, she knows how much I want to try and protect her from other family members that are not the best influence on her and lil bro. So many times, I like to leave here and take off on my own. However, it's because I care too much about my relationships/responsibilities with others that I stay.

These Dreams

Legends - So I just wanted to recap my last day at Iroquois yesterday. For the most part, a lot of my kids kept telling me to come back the following week. Alyssa said her goodbyes to me and now that I look at her, she really reminds me of 2 of my YTF girls. Her height, and hair remind me of Electra while her favorite colors she likes to sport are pink and black like Jo. I was actually gonna buy the school lunch for the first time ever yesterday too. I went to Janie's class first to thank her for all that she has done for me. But she had a sub in the room, and some of my kids were walking all over her. So I did not go to lunch and my prep hour break just to set order in that room. Sarah and Nicole, my girls I tell ya, they were being so mean to the "nerdy" kids, at times I could not help but laugh in my head. But I'm glad that they listened to me when they had to. As the day went on, Ms. Wojie presented me an Iroquois t-shirt as a gift and I am just so thankful for that. The last class, I spoke with Bruno because I don't want to see him end up as one of those bullies as he grows up. Miss them much!

Ahhh, if there is one game that I really want to buy to continue to waste my life away is X-Men Legends! I've been watching to much X-Men as of late but man this game looks so sweet! Oh well, must use my money wisely, put too much temptation.

Audio

Panther Pride - Today was my last day at Iroquois :( I miss my kids already though it still does not compare to the ones I had at Edmonson. Lots to share about but maybe I'll save it for tomorrow. Why? Because when I was exhausted and down tonight, what kept me going was to remember that I was playing for my kids tonight. 7 V-ball leagues and 3 of them have come to an end now. After tonight, I now have 3 championships and tonight it was nice to win the pot. Our team took the 2 out of 3 series to win it all and be crowned champs. Crowds of peeps were watching our game and for the most part I did not say anything during the game. To me, it was time to play, the talk is done and over with.

Of course, Sam kept trying to talk smack to me throughout the game. I just kept smiling because I trained myself to be mentally strong and that I can't be shaken. 2nd game I finally had it though, as I killed one straight down the line and it tattooed him right in his stomach area. He still kept talking to me entering the 3rd game. So I finally said "hey watch your nutz next time buddy." Everyone was laughing, but yet Sam still kept talking and I'm like hellooo? Nothing left to talk about, let's finish the series and see who is better.

After the series, a bunch of the 420's came up to me to personally talk to me about being the MVP in the league. They all showed their respects to me, and the most important one was Sam. I somewhat respect him as he approached and congratulated me. However, a couple of my own teammates were bickering at each because they kept saying that our team was not the "1 man show." While the rest of the league agreed and a couple of our teammates thought so too. I just ended up leaving to go to Hogan's and have our celebration meal there.

However, I could not even enjoy myself at dinner. I mean, let's see MVP, Championship, $, respect, and love you'd think I'd be happy. But nope, I did not like how my teammates treated the service at Hogan's. I mean yes the food took a lil long to get out there and they goofed on the fries. But to me, no need to call out the manager and asks for discounts and all that crap. After my teammates left, I went back in to speak to the manager and the waitress to apologize for my team's actions. Just because we won doesn't mean we own Hogan's now. I even gave the ladies an extra tip because I told them that they didn't deserve and I was ashamed to be apart of it.

Electra, feel better and congrats to Stephanie for finishing the NT!

Love Song

Bloodlines - Finally felt good to sleep in and not wake up for Bio! I remember what else I was thinking about yesterday now. This is something I've been reflecting on the past week too. You start to realize who your true souljahs are. I guess it's all good hence the name and be thankful for those who will strap it up with you. Anyways, tomorrow is my last day at Iroquois and of course I'll be bummed.

Tomorrow night, is the Championship game 420's vs. Z Team. Everyone's already looking at Sam vs me matchup since the ref had to separate us last time. I wonder if there will be a crowd for this game? This game, I play for is to my Iroquois Panther students.

Welcome Back

Stupid Blogger - Ya know I just had a post ready to be published then bam fricking blogger deletes it all. I've about had it with blogger, but yet does xanga do the same thing? Anyways, what I was saying was how excited I am this past Sunday. Finally The Kid has returned to service through teaching Jr. Church. It was the first time I got a chance to teach my new kids, yet I had to say good bye to my old ones :( Having # 1 in my class is kind of fun because I think, he believes he can get away with anything. Yet, I have dubbed my other Jonathon as J-Z to separate the two. Belicia and BooBoo already shared with me how much fun they had in class already. I just give credit to God for building that atmosphere where the students want to learn and be there. Abby, and Anna also decided to stay in my class after getting permission from their 5th grade teacher. However, I gotta talk to them to make sure that they have to move up despite how much they want to remain in my class. Grrr I can't remember what else I said from that deleted entry. I know one thing is that I need Him to continue to give me strength, energy, and wisdom to teach this class.

Dang it, I can't remember what else I said! Hmmm oh what's funny was that on Thursday night I displayed Stephanie's xanga on the big projector screen. I just wanted to get the Serena Paris song going and to see how good the speakers are in the classroom. Boy was the class shaking! However, it kind of backfired on me too because everyone saw the Sailor Venus, Moon, Neptune, Earth or whatever it is and thought that was my website. Oh well, just another day of entertaining the class.

PR's - Please pray for Mama Moy and Brother's Steve's dad as he will be going through a biopsy on his liver to see if he has cancer. Please pray as hard as y'all did for my G-Ma, plus for the both of their salvation as well.

Here I Am

Normalcy - Yesterday was the first time I did not go see my G-Ma. With all the classes I've been missing and procrastinating everything pretty much was due yesterday. So I never slept Wednesday night, and stayed on campus from 8:00 a.m. all the way to 9:00 p.m. Every class I went to, I just nodded off until something important was said. I was so bummed because I know the nurse came to my G-Ma's house to do a checkup on her to see how she is doing. So I guess I'll have to head there later tonight to see how she is doing.

My evening class last night I had to do yet another presentation. As class ended, D and I exchanged hugs because that was the last time we'll have class together. I hope her mom continues to stay strong while trying to battle cancer. During class was what pissed me off because of the retardness that happens in the ED program. 2 girls left at the beginning of class because they were totally wasted. One of them kept getting all emotional and she actually puked in the bathroom. A couple of our classmates went outside to calm them down, and thankfully they never came back. I mean if y'all gonna get drunk and wasted could it not wait till class was over? The scary part is these people are the future educators of tomorrow.

After class, I rewarded myself by accepting the invitation to go to Friday's with Anne, Kelly, and Silvana. They all went out for a drink while I stayed chilled with my cool glass of Coke :) They were all impressed that to this day I still have yet to touch an alcoholic beverage. We stayed at Friday's from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. just talking away. It was really cool because a couple of us started sharing about our testimonies. I never realized that they were sis's in Christ, so that was really cool. I was excited to hear that Kelly was gonna get baptized at her church in March. While Anne is going on sabbatical from her service as the Christian Educator at her church so she could spend more time with her hubby at worship. I really hope Silvana finds that home she wants to buy because then she'll be right down the street from me. I hope things will return back to normal for me. However, that leaves me with a term paper, and an exam all on this Monday. Let's see, yup things are normal again as now I go do that ABC thing :(

Suds In The Bucket

War Wounds - After so many visits to Beaumont, my G-Ma has been finally discharged. However, I still wanted the docs to let her stay at least another extra day because she still seems weak. I went to my grandparents in the evening to see how she was doing. My G-Pa was preparing dinner for the both of them while my G-Ma was in bed. I had another conversation with my G-Ma while she was waiting for dinner. She kept talking to me about my past and how she loved raising me because I was the first. I remember those memories too, life in Memph, F-Hills, the Heights and Troy. So many things she talked about, brought tears in my eyes.

Next thing we talked about was my sis's graduation in a couple of weeks. She is so proud that she is graduating wants her to be successful. My G-Ma is bummed though because she cannot go due to her condition and the amount of energy it requires. Finally, my G-Ma showed me the scar of the area of her surgery. On TV, I would think it would be so cool to see it but seeing it in person is a different story. I couldn't stand to see the sight of the stitches and how big they cut her open. We have a lot of scars together, some that I wish I could of changed to prevent it.

I asked her one last thing before I left. The question was did so and so come and visit you in the hospital? She said no, and my G-Ma could sense my frustration about that. She even decided to defend the son of a gun by saying it's ok, I know he is shy about this. I am thinking you gotta be crazy to even say that, now I can understand Victor, Sonny, and Andrew not being able to see you because of their age. But come on, my sis made 1 visit, and my baby cuz even made 1. As Electra would say, such grrrness because of my grandparents love for him that holds me back from knocking out his selfish carcass. That's why those in Canton, keep defending him because he is family to me. I keep telling them that they're crazy just cuz we blood don't make us family. I tell you one thing though, next time I see him which I hope is soon, he better have a good reason for not being there. Otherwise all bets are off on this trader.........

Me

4-Getta Bout It - My sleep schedule is all reversed now as I only attend the mandatory classes. I also took some time off at Iroquois to spend some more time at Beaumont. Come to think of it, you cannot even call it sleep as I just take short naps in the afternoon. Come night time, I do my work and I make my periodic stops to Beaumont. This morning, I went in and I was kind of upset at the nurse. Although in the Critical Care room, visiting hours are 12-8 p.m. I came in at 10:30. The nurse asked me to go to the patient's waiting room. I was upset because it is like ok, if your relative almost died would you be waiting in the "waiting room?" I mean she has no roommate, not too much of an English vocab, and just lies in bed everyday.

I went back to Beaumont after my championship game at OU, which was about 10:30 p.m. I was happy to find out at first that my G-Ma got moved into the Telemetry Unit, whatever that means. But it sounds better than Critical Care, however I walk in and yet I was still bummed because she still has more wires running through the course of her body. Of course, the nurse asked me to leave and as usual I have probs with authority. So I stayed to chat with my G-Ma until 11. It brought back so many memories of when they used to own Evergreen, and my G-Ma would go take a nap. I would be in the room playing or laying on the bed next to her taking a nap. Man that was like so long ago..............

The tough part again was playing v-ball knowing that a loved one is ill. The bleachers were packed with people holding signs, thunderstix, stomping, screaming and clapping away to see 4-Getta Bout It vs. BSF. The first game set the tone, as it was close the whole way and the final score 9-8 BSF. So many sideouts, caused the time to expire. 2nd game again was intense, but I kept telling the team to relax because even on my sore ankle, it was time to take over. 2nd game score 13-12 4-Getta Bout It. Which leads to the 3rd and deciding game, and Kristyn asked if we have to win by 2 in the huddle. I said "who cares, we're gonna get 15 this game, don't worry about anything else." Final score, 15-5, 4-Getta Bout It are now again back to back champs, 9 straight Finals, and 5th Championship.

After the game, peeps came up to me and asked about our performance. Some asked about my pancakes, while some asked about my faith. Joe thought we would lose after losing the first, but I never doubted us losing the series. I was thrilled to just smoke them in that last game to show that they are not equal to us. I felt as if justice was served for those who betrayed the original team Erin, Joel, Alisa, and Mike. Tonight's win was a team effort all the way around, as Mike's team made it clear they wanted Ashley and Kristyn to beat them by taking me out of passing. However, Ashley came through with some timely kills on the weakside, Kristyn's great passing allowed Stan to kill or set me, while Stan and I just dominated the service points. Already we are looking forward to next season because we made major upgrades already. As Sara and Katie will be joining us since they are no longer elgible for the OU Women's team.

Ron Artest? - I stayed to watch Kristyn play in the women's Finals too. Although winning her 2nd championship in tonight, an incident broke out after the final game. The 6 Booty Mama's who lost kept cussing out on the line judges. Especially this 1 big mama, who got up in his face to keep cussing him out. Finally Darnell, line judge started cussing back and was bout to charge at them. I jumped out of the bleachers, to help V, Kerri, and Mandy hold him back while Gary kept trying to send back into the office. Gosh it frustrates me that as a staff member, Darnell had to take it for the most part. However, again going back to Beaumont helps put things in perspective for me and I can only continue to pray that those wires be pulled out of my G-Ma soon.

On Fire

Fill My Cup - Yesterday, my G-ma had her surgery done in the morning, and praise god that it was a successful one. She has a pacemaker in her heart now, and seemed to be feeling better afterwards. I went back to Beaumont after my class to see my mommy in there too. However, things went south all of a sudden. My G-Ma had no strength in her to move any part of her body, could not even use her lips to speak, and could not even open her eyes. She was complaining about chest pains which I thought was normal. However, the doc told me that he is worried about those chest pains because it should not be there. The docs and nurses are worried that she could have a heart attack and are trying to figure out the cause of it.

I'm really thankful right now, that my G-Ma is at Troy Beaumont because for the past couple of days now it has been the center for me. All I do is go there to and from school or at home, 15 minutes each way. I asked for some time off from the v-ball games so I can spend more time at the hospital. I went back last night for my 3rd trip after our OU V-ball 2nd round game. It was a sight I haven't seen in awhile, my grandparents children all in the same room together. My mom, and aunt as sisters trying to tend to my G-Ma, while my 2 uncles as brothers keep trying to talk to the nurses. Then there was me, the 1st grandchild just trying to help out as well.

My uncle was telling me how he was scared when he took her to the ER that Sunday morning. He told me at one point that my G-Ma's heart beat went to 0 so it did flat line and 5 docs came in trying to get it back up. My G-Ma kept throwing up last night, but she kept telling me how much she appreciates me always displaying my love to my parents. I keep waiting and praying for the doc to switch my G-Ma out of Critical Care, so the family can be a little relieved.

Tonight, is the OU V-ball Finals too and as predicted it is Mike's team vs. us. It has been estimated that this Finals will draw the biggest crowd, with at least 3 sororities coming, the OU Women's team, some of the eliminated teams, and parents all coming in to watch. This makes it 9 straight Finals appearance now, and we are going for the repeat championship once again. My ankle, is almost healthy, but I am drained of energy with the constant thought of my G-Ma being in the hospital. I never realized how much it takes out of you when you have a loved one in the hospital. I am hoping tonight when I go back that they decide to switch my G-Ma to the Telemetry unit instead.

Mountains Move

Fill My Cup - Yesterday, my G-ma had her surgery done in the morning, and praise god that it was a successful one. She has a pacemaker in her heart now, and seemed to be feeling better afterwards. I went back to Beaumont after my class to see my mommy in there too. However, things went south all of a sudden. My G-Ma had no strength in her to move any part of her body, could not even use her lips to speak, and could not even open her eyes. She was complaining about chest pains which I thought was normal. However, the doc told me that he is worried about those chest pains because it should not be there. The docs and nurses are worried that she could have a heart attack and are trying to figure out the cause of it.

I'm really thankful right now, that my G-Ma is at Troy Beaumont because for the past couple of days now it has been the center for me. All I do is go there to and from school or at home, 15 minutes each way. I asked for some time off from the v-ball games so I can spend more time at the hospital. I went back last night for my 3rd trip after our OU V-ball 2nd round game. It was a sight I haven't seen in awhile, my grandparents children all in the same room together. My mom, and aunt as sisters trying to tend to my G-Ma, while my 2 uncles as brothers keep trying to talk to the nurses. Then there was me, the 1st grandchild just trying to help out as well.

My uncle was telling me how he was scared when he took her to the ER that Sunday morning. He told me at one point that my G-Ma's heart beat went to 0 so it did flat line and 5 docs came in trying to get it back up. My G-Ma kept throwing up last night, but she kept telling me how much she appreciates me always displaying my love to my parents. I keep waiting and praying for the doc to switch my G-Ma out of Critical Care, so the family can be a little relieved.

Tonight, is the OU V-ball Finals too and as predicted it is Mike's team vs. us. It has been estimated that this Finals will draw the biggest crowd, with at least 3 sororities coming, the OU Women's team, some of the eliminated teams, and parents all coming in to watch. This makes it 9 straight Finals appearance now, and we are going for the repeat championship once again. My ankle, is almost healthy, but I am drained of energy with the constant thought of my G-Ma being in the hospital. I never realized how much it takes out of you when you have a loved one in the hospital. I am hoping tonight when I go back that they decide to switch my G-Ma to the Telemetry unit instead.

Mountains Move

Whirlwind - Hmmmm I wonder if this is my earliest entry ever? This Thanksgiving weekend or as they call it a break, was for sure not no break for me. It seemed like everything I had expected to happen didn't happen. Then again, it is God's control and not mine but now I am just left with a bunch of emotions of peaks and valleys. This weekend also reminded me of why I should be more DTA too.

Turkey Day was smaller this year, as it was just my cousins, and sis eating. Actually kind a liked it smaller this year too. Friday was Turkey Bowl, I guess or just football. Oh well, I have a lot of scrapes and scars from the ice cutting my knees up. But I'd take that over the sprained ankle I have now from Saturday b-ball. It sucks I kept playing on it, then after sharing I stopped. The low point was when Mike asked me if I could give it a go because the team needed me and I had to sit it out.

Then came Sunday morning worship, I was somewhat drained already from Guys Night. My mommy called me right after worship was over with. She informed me that my Grandma has just entered the ER at Troy Beaumont and wanted me to go right away to see what was going on. I just wanted to freeze time right there, because I did not know what to do. It was like I wanted to spend more time talking to everyone that came back home. Then I had to see what was going on with Stephanie and Carmen for today. Auntie Betty needed me to help her find the tri-pod for Jr. Church. Lil' Abby wanted me to talk to Miles because he got her all upset. It was like everything came at me like an avalanche.

I chose to go to Beaumont first, and as I was driving I could not help but think what if this was it my last chance to see my Grandma? I kept reflecting about the times we had, and praying that I can make it in time and that everything is ok. I thank you to those who had are keeping this in their prayers as well. I was escorted to the Critical Care area, and thought brought back memories of last year as my Grandma was here. The nurse pretty much told me, that my Grandma was suffering from an irregular heartbeat and showed me how her heart was beating. Her heart kept having these pauses and the time intervals kept increasing and it hit up to 7 seconds a beat. That was when they gave her some pill to speed her heart rate back up because they believed that if they didn't then she would of flatlined.

My Grandma was given other pills to take but she was unsure about it. So I was translating what each pill does and the tough part was trying to bring back all my toy-san vocab. As the day went on, I called Kristyn to give her a heads up about everything and that I will have to skip the first round for OU Playoffs with my bum ankle and that I wanted to be with my mom when she came to visit my Grandma. However, it turned out that I had to play because half the team was still gone for the weekend. Some peeps around the league had heard about my G-ma and could see I was injured and gave me props for playing.

So now what? I continue to sit by my phone waiting for Beaumont to call me what time the surgery is. It is tough because I have a presentation to give this afternoon, I wanted to hang out with Emoy before he goes back, and the 2nd round of playoffs start today. The other team already made it clear to me that they will be gunning for me since I am injured. I am tired, and drained but cannot give up.

Move

Frost! - Was that cool today or what? First day of snow before Thanksgiving! Anyways, I was ath the Lowery Center today @ OU. Prior to then, I thought it was a big babysitting joint for the parents ot drop their lil' ones off while they go to class. Dude, I was dead wrong! The Lowery Center is a pre-school/nursery place for kids from 9-4 everyday. That is just so cool, so I volunteered today since I have to write a paper about my experience down there. I was in the playroom for a good portion of the time, I just kind of stuck out since it was my first day. None of the kids wanted to play with me :( all of which were 4-5 year olds. So I went off shooting baskets on my own :) Until a lil girl, named Bionca came up to me and held my hand. Then she pulled towards the other kids, and then we all played. It was because of her initiative that I was able to play tag, races, and etc. with them

M-Beth works down there too, which helped out so that I could chill with someone. Bionca though really made my day by always holding my hand and showing me around. I'm thankful for her openness, and it is an experience I'll never forget down there.

Thank goodness I don't have to wake up early for Bio, Thursday morning. I was reading, well listening to Chinchie's xanga, and sweeeeeet she has one of my all time favorite songs on her site now! I love Look at Us by Serena Paris!

Out To Get Me

Let It Go - Well just got word, that the OU V-ball playoffs start this weekend. I was hoping that I could get that extra day to kick back with Ben, Liu's, and The Legend Killer at the very least. Eh, can't eat too much this week, cuz it will be time to go to work. Going for the 9th straight Finals appearance.

If there is another thing that I am thankful for, is the ability to recharge my energy each day or the thing where I do not need too much sleep. So it felt good tonight to know that I stayed up for the past 3 hours rotting my mind away on Smackdown vs. Raw. I wonder how long Papa Wong and I can keep playing this game? I wonder if we'll see the debut of Cowman this weekend created by The Legend Killer himself? Possible Royal Rumble this Saturday for the CBC Belt?

Anyways, time to sleep in which means me for moi probably getting up at 9 a.m. One thing I do not have is the ability to sleep-in uncontrollably.

You Can't See Me

Gnivigsknaht - Hmmmm I kept staring at my planner today during SE 355. I am really looking forward to this week, well of course peeps could make the case for Thanksgiving week. Which for some strange reason much like a Valentine's Day, yeah Thanksgiving should be everyday. Anyways, so what to look forward to well what stinks is that I'll either be late or not there at the CBC Service on Wednesday night. I have yet to be at the start of a Thanksgiving Service, why I tell you? Cuz of work, you would be surprised that so many people find it satisfying to sink their teeth into some ABC is equavilent to turkey. Anyways, let's move past that Thursday mmmm turkey with the family. But with Turkey Bowl on Friday now, and OU V-ball playoffs starting this weekend, well can't eat much. Finally Saturday is the Guys Reunion I guess you can call it that, and it is in the Twp. Hmmm I wonder if my Abby is coming over on Thanksgiving Day?

But the biggest thing I look forward to this week, is getting most or if not all my homework done! Yup it sounds dorky but I am trying to get 2 weeks ahead of my classes. Today I had a brain fart many times too, because in SE 355 we have to write down a question relating to Special Education or teaching. We have to do this at the beginning of each class and our prof would answer them. So what does my card read:

"When do you think the NHL lockout will end, and will the Pistons repeat this year as champs?"

Everyone else got a crack out of it :) I am glad I can put a smile on peep's faces. I also had a meeting with Prof. Pipan because he wants us to give him of what we think our grade should be. So of course I said "5.0" but it sucks because the OU system only goes up to 4.0 So now I do not know what I should give myself? I wanna say 4.0, but honestly I do not deserve it. So AHHHHHHH what should I give myself? A 3.99999?

Held On To You ;)

Royal Rumble - So the talk of the weekend was the Pistons vs. Pacers brawl. Since Friday night, and even until I heard the suspensions today, the actions of each player has been on my mind. First off, I want to say is that Ben Wallace is wrong for shoving Artest like that, while many want to blame Artest. It was not that hard of a foul, and I believe if the positions were switched, I bet Ben would of tried swatting that shot too, with only 45 seconds left. Ben realizes is hence he wants to apologize to Artest.

2nd thing is, I honestly believe I would of done the same thing if I was Artest. Had I got hit with a beer bottle, I would of flew into the stands too. Yeah as professional athletes they are suppose to have a higher standard, but at that does not give anyone the right to push that point. Example would be, if I had my class and someone hurled something into my classroom hitting one of my students, I would fly in there too. I believe Jackson should of been suspended with the most games for his actions.

However, with all that said maybe my agreement with Artest's actions are wrong. Yesterday at CBC b-ball, I lost my patience and threw a couple of chairs across the room. It is one thing to know that I am open on offense, it is another then when your teammates tell you, but what pushed it is when the opposition says the same thing. Once Stockton was traded, things went smoothly, I loved my team because it was a team where we complimented each other so well with or without the ball. Majority of the offense went through me, and the credit goes to great teammates in Big Nasty, Cougie Boozer, Jerry aka G.Hill, and Ol' Mike. But what I said earlier, whether it be Artest or myself, came during sharing. Big Nasty was sharing, and as we were reading Gal. 5:22-23, main words self-control really stuck out at me. Like peeps saying bout Artest right now, I gave those who believe a bad name yesterday for my actions with the chairs. Just that competitive spirit and fire in me, but it must be fruitful too.

Man almost 2 a.m. and I have about 8 hours left to start and finish my paper on my girl Jessica B.

Let's Get It Started ;)

Lions, Panthers, and Mustangs "Oh My" - I'm thankful that I finally got my interview over with at Magahay Elementary School. Although it did not go according to what I was expecting, in the end it is God's Will for me to be there for the whole year of 2005. Starting January I will be officially a Magahay Mustangs. Which only means, at the end of this year I will no longer be an Iroquois Panthers :( I am still upset that I am no longer an Edmonson Lions either :( I still miss my Edmonson kids, there has been not a night where I don't go through my pictures of them and think about them as I go to bed. I can only hope Jackie, Carlee, Chris, Brendon, Kayla, Monica, Rob, etc are having a good year.

Which led me to today just taking pics of my Iroquois kids. Because of their age I can't even call them kids, more like young adults to me already. Although I was sadden that I found out that Kylie, Jessica B, Nicole, and Cidney all got into a fight yesterday. Plus Sarah got involved too and she ain't even in my class, aiyah my girls! 2 of them got sent down to the counseling office too. I'm glad that I got a chance to at least talk to Jessica B. and Nicole in private to see what went down because I don't want none of that going on in my room especially those that I love. I got a good shot of Alyssa too today, I believe that she can succeed back in the mainstream! I plan on doing a surprise visit next week on my break between classes because I don't think I could go a whole week plus without seeing them. Carl believes that it is impossible for me to still be there and at Magahay starting in January, well I guess I'll have to prove him wrong.

Which leads me to my first impressions of Magahay. Well it helps that my teacher loves sports, it is just too bad he is like 60 something. I can't wait till I get to decorate my own desk with OU and Michigan stuff because Lambert's desk is full of Sparty love. It will be a challenge for me at this joint with 31 kids. The school is much like Messmore meaning open classrooms. Some of the kids do not like the current student teacher, I am assuming because he is 40 something. They got more excited for me it seemed like because they know my age, I seem more hip-hop, and well love Eminem. I even met a girl today in my class, Jacklyn who reminds me of Jackie from Edmonson. Miss my kids still, my dream would be if they could all be at CBC so that I can at least see them once a week.

My Class

Ghosts of the Past - Mike, Joey, and I all sat in the corner of the Rec Center complaining about all the bad teams in this year's league. The tough part was learning that Joey has decided to pull his team out of the league this year, mainly due to scheduling conflicts. No 4-Play this year, and we sat there reminising our battles the past 4 years, each winning the title 4 times. This is Joey's last semester which probably means the end of his team. This only reminds me again how much I love being at OU and my time is coming to an end too. Yet to not have one last Finals matchup against each other is just not the same. It is wierd to know now that this year, odds are we are going to our 9th straight Finals and facing a new opponent.

What is one last battle with each other though? Joey and I along with Mike and Jeff a new v-ball stud at the Rec decided to go at it in 2's. Our game of 2's for fun, drew more attendance than all the other IM v-ball games going on today. Of course the game ended 15-13, but we all didn't care who won/lost because we knew that it was gonna be the best v-ball game of this semester. We had other people coming up to us afterwards, wanting us to show them the fundamentals. We believe we set the bar at OU and it just upsets us to see this semester's teams look so bad.

At least the Men's League ended today, making our team the champs. With Joey's team done, since I've already collected 1 shirt, if our team wins the Co-ed I've already decided to give my championship shirt to Joey. Kind of a graduation gift, but we also respect each other and I want him to go out of IM as a champ because he does not take a single play off.

Which leads me to the last thing, where I struggle at. So far, every team sees our's and Mike's team as arrogant and cocky. Reason is, if our team has a big lead I usually tell our team to help sideout for them but in a subtle way. Every team views us as insulting the other's team's intelligence. While Mike and Joel making it obvious by either purposely serving to the wall or passing 1 handed. My way at least, I learned from CBC and Howard, ya know just serve it out. So it is tough that Mike and our team has this perception of being arrogant, but is that fair? I mean we play the game the way it is meant to be played. We'll see if our play makes others play at our level, but Finals prediction Mike's BSF (which stands for Bump, Set, Fuck, their motto) vs. 4-Getta Bout it.

Ahahahahahah

Daddy's Here - Today, I was blessed to witness more peeps entering His family. I like today's format better too because of the testimony sharing before getting dunked. Part of the baptism is, public testimony which is better than baptismal dinner. Either way it is still all good, but just for once I would like to try how Highland Park does there baptisms. In the summer, they go out to a beach or some big body of water and have their baptisms there. Sounds pretty cool eh?

Seeing those in YTF/D-Ship wanting to mature in Christ is just so encouraging. One of my boyz came up to me after worship and asked me what it was like when I got baptised. I was sharing with him and he told me that he is really excited bout the next chance to get baptised. I also believe that he knows the purpose as well, and I just ask God to prepare his heart for the next opportunity.

Which leads me to my last thing for tonight, I am excited to see one of my boyz continue his growth at CBC. However, I also got a chance to stick around for Jo, and B-12's family's going away party. I am still bummed that Jo is leaving for Shanghai soon and I am sure her girls feel the same way. I did my best, but His Will will be done, just wish I could see her continue with her faith at CBC. Even cruised around tonight, thinkin back those days when we first met and how we treated each other.

Rookie

Conference Call - Today was my first day of being on the flipside of parent-teacher conferences. Back then, my parents never went to my conferences because I was a good boy :) well it helps working at the restaurant so they never knew some of the things that I did. Anyways, I got a chance to meet a lot of my kids parents, and it was great joy for me too because a lot of my students came. So I got to spend time with them while Ms. Wojie would talk to the parents. However, I do wonder if Kevin's parents are gonna come in. Yesterday I learned that he was suspended for telling another one of my students, Mercedes to "go down there." When Ms. Wojie told me that at first I had no clue what she was talking bout. Then she said that Kevin pointed and told Mercedes that, and he is lucky that this isn't my classroom because boy I would of smacked him around first for saying that.

I looked through J.B.'s portfolio that she prepared for conferences. It is funny because the kids are told that they are suppose to put only bout 5 of their best work in there. She has everything since the beginning of the school year, so it is the fattest one there. But she takes pride in her work and she just wants to do well in Special Ed. I spent time with her at her Bake Sale since she asked me to go to that as well, and I purchased some yummy goodies. I got a chance to talk to Nicole and Sarah, 2 of the 3 now as I call them the Mall Girls, all they were missing was Cidney. Although I always wonder why Sarah always giggles when I walk in, but I had a good chat with Nicole bout scary movies. Then I gotta chance to meet another one of my cuties, Alyssa's mom. Alyssa really catches my attention because she is dealing with domestic probs at home. So sometimes she talks to me bout it, but then she doesn't because of the length. I just really want to help her in and out of the classroom. She is always the first one done with her work and does what she is asked of.

Lastly, I should of asked for permission to go to Bruno's IEP meeting today. He reminds me of me in terms of how he talks back to teachers and sometimes so care-free bout doing his homework. He is also 14 next week and is in the 7th grade, so he is of course older than all the 8th graders too. I feel we really connect, just because he views me as the coolest teacher in the school because of my age, and that I can relate to them. Just last week he got kicked out of Art class, so instead of him going to the office, I had him come to my room so we can chat. I really don't want to leave this school, almost the same feeling I got when I was at Edmonson earlier this year. I really miss my kids at Edmonson and I wonder how they are doing in the 5 grade now. This job is so rewarding and I love all my kids, although some of them are good friends to me too because we have our own handshake and stuff.

Show Me Your Soul

Respect Mah Authoritay! - So the thought of the day was, do I challenge our prof in his thinking bout being born gay? After last week's incident, who had the guts to challenge the prof the way Michelle did? I shared about the incident to C.Lip and he wouldn't even go up against a prof. So I figured what they hey, might as well make it exciting because of my lil prob with authority figures. However, I had to talk to Michelle first because she felt so discouraged as she described as "being slammed" by the prof. I brought the subject up today in class, and I believe our prof, had a sense where I was going with it. So rather than battling it out like he did with Michelle, he asked if I could save it for another time with him. He sensed that I was more prepared in the argument bout homo's because he kept giving me the look of "which point am I going at." Defending the faith, bout P-2 too, whether it is a prof or not, I ain't scared. Grades is one thing, faith, hope, and love is another. Don't try this with your higher ups either ;)

Model

Discouraged - Man I just got done watching the Pistons double OT victory over the Clippers. I was having these thoughts during worship this past Sunday as Pastor B was challenging the question. I will have to expand on it eventually but more or less, how much love can you give to others? And how do you keep it up when they just spit back and throw it in your face?

Is it me, or does confrontations just surround me? Today @ the Rec Center as I was watching the games before our's, I was holding onto the other game ball. I was entrusted with it since I am tight with most of the staff there. Then this Marko Jaric look alike comes up to me, trying to start something because he wanted the ball for his team to practice. He kept trying to rip it from my hand, until we were in each other's faces. I finally gave it to him, because my mind was hey I'll give you that ball all you want when I see you in the playoffs ;)

Speakin of playoffs, you had the scene Mike, Joey, and I all talking on the court. We were all discouraged by the schedule this year. Joey's team is in but his team cannot make it to most of their games. Mike & Joel do not like the new schedule either, and they took it out on Krystin which I took offense to. But keep it cool with her, because we'll see them in the playoffs too. However, it was cool for our games now because now we have our own crowd, the OU V-ball Girls Team. They also like our team name too, 4-Getta Bout it, guess who came up with that one. I figure I wanna send a message to the rest of the teams out there, bout there chances of winning.

Lastly, I was discourage @ Troy's v-ball game because I helped the refs call a lot of stuff against our own team. Then when there were some calls that were iffy, I suggested replay for a couple of them to be fair. MJ Chisholm's team fires back at me and tells me "to go screw yourself" and they used some inappropriate language to some of my other teammates. It is one thing they direct things at me, but it is another when they try to imtimdate our team. There big, round fella kept doing most of the talkin, so I stated reasons why it should be replay, then I ended it with "are you following me Tiny Tim?" Of course, the rest of there team takes offense to me calling there teammate a name, and I am wondering did y'all just not to the same to my team? A big surprise that some of us had to get separated, but man being honest to help them with calls, I thought it would be respectful, a sense of goodsportsmanship. It didn't go that way, which again raises my early question from above.

I guess, I need a refill on His love.

Realest

DarkSide - So this weekend was quite an eventful one, I guess. I kept thinking back bout what JW shared about, in terms of thanksgiving. Well on that day at least, I am still thankful for being alive. With the injury bug going around now, I'm glad the cut over my eye and my bone bruise from the People's Elbow is healing up. I'm thankful for JW's kind gift of trying to lure be back to the DarkSide :) MTG, new series! I'm also thankful for today's message as it was a challenging one for each of us. Thankful for God giving offering us the gift of salvation as I was reminded today, with my bread and juice! What else is there? Thankful for the amazing things that happened at the Youth Retreat. I'm thankful for the time I fellowshipped with B-12 and Carmen (gotta give her a nickname now) today. Thankful also for Krystin playing with us this year for OU V-ball, her attitude has been like a breath of fresh air for me. I'm thankful for the 3 on 3 I got to play against the OU Women's V-ball team :) and I look forward for the next time, because we swapped digits. Finally, I'm thankful for being able to get the classes that I wanted for next semester. 2 of the 4 I'm in there with Monica! Plus I am thankful for having at least 1 class with Erin, and I cannot wait till tommorrow to see everyone else's schedule. Thankful for the chance to go to sleep now!

Open The Eyes Of My Heart

Bush Ramifications - Today in FE 210, we were discussing bout a book we are suppose to be reading and how it relates to the world. As discussions continued, it started getting political hot & heavy too. After the first 5 minutes, you can tell who voted for who a battle line was drawn out between Bush vs. Kerry. The discussion turned into bickering amongst each other and the 4 silents ones (Monica, Sarah, Nicole, and myself). I only kept my mouth shut because I haven't been to class in a week now. Anyways, we started talking bout homesexuality and are people born gay or is it by choice. Prof. Pipan said that it is fact that people are born gay, and to me that was a bold statement to make. Granted that I do not have all the facts either, while the motherlover Michelle was arguing that it is by choice. Many people slammed Michelle hard because she was trying to bring in her beliefs and at the same time she is recognized as ignorant too. In the end, my prof shut her up so bad that Michelle got up and just stormed out of class. Michelle is a sister in Christ, and I know as the crew knows it is up to me to figure out how to restore peace in the classroom. If only I had more facts to back up Michelle at that time.

In other news, Howard may be done for the year :( We won 4 out of 5 games tonight in the Warren league, man I'm glad that I finally get to run a quicker offense. All I got to do was hit shooters the whole night. This league is great because of some of the Open v-ball players playing here. It sucks though to possibly think that Howie is done for the year, I feel as if through this league together he can still teach me so much more. I put the pressure on myself to pick it up with our top passer/setter gone.

Hmmm time to watch Survivor!

Tic Toc

Good morning, so I figured to do a morning entry since I don't feel like going to Bio that early in the morning. At Iroquois Middle School yesterday, I learned that next week I'll have half days, yay for that. However, it would only be a yay if I was a student :( It's a boo because I have to stay for parent-teacher conferences all the way till the evening. I do look forward to meeting some of my students' parents though. I had another interesting convo with Cidney again, as she was telling me how she's gonna get braces. However, she'll never smile because it will ruin her rep. Gotta love this girl because of the fact that she thinks she is so much older than everyone else.

Finally, I can say I went to GG's (Ajishin) to eat with my small group. It's a blessing to have this small group and share a meal together. But man, I must of had food poisoning or something because my stomach was not feeling right that whole night. Going to Larry's, man I felt really queasy or something like that. Then off to my game, as each game passed my stomach was like in knots. I was just thankful to get through the night and now the Z Team is in first place. 420's continue to scout me to prepare for next week's game. Hmmm I guess it is time to go to class now. I do look forward to going to the Rec with Ashley after class. We're gonna put ourselves in what I call the chamber at OU. We're gonna see who the real deal is, boy I hope she is as good as she advertises herself.

My Prog's

Hopeful One -Man, my parents are coming back from NYC right now. So bummed that I could not go, but I did attend my first IEP meeting today! It looks like my girl J.B. will still be in Special Ed for another year and I got a chance to learn more about her weaknesses. I still believe that she will get out of Special Ed eventually. Harvest Night was a great blessing because it was a nice change of pace. It was encouraging to see some of my YTF girls serving in different capacities. Whoa, the moonwalk was cool too, BooBoo (Christine) and I definetely had fun in there together. Tex and Mex, was quite interesting as well but in the end for the glory of God. Finally, something else has been on my mind. The idea and thought as some would say quite insane, but I must try to do something. As each day passes now, I learn a lot more in terms of which avenue to go and how to deal with it. As someone close to me once said, "you can't save the world." My reply "you're right but at the same time I rather die trying then not do anything at all."

I got back from the OU V-ball Capt Meeting tonight, a lil disappointed because I did not see Joey's team. Has our battle for OU V-ball supremacy finally ended? If it has, then a new chapter was written tonight as peeps peg Mike's team to challenge us in the Finals. V was talking to me about how she's gonna be calling sportsmanlike conduct this year too. See you have T.O.'s touchdown dances, then in v-ball I have my Kill Celebrations. My poses/dances after a kill is to entertain the game, some are still annoyed by it. But as T.O. from Shannon Sharpe said "if you don't like it, then stop me." If 6 v-ball leagues aren't enough, T-Yee has asked me to run with him in the new all men's league at OU. Let's tally that one up for 7 leagues now during this semester, yup I'm thankful that I am still The Kid and haven't hit that Senior mode yet. It is all bout training and making my body a slave in this area. Mental, physical, and spiritual as 1 on the court ;)

Voting Prediction: Bush Repeats as Prez, like father like son.

Speak N Spell

Head of State - So this morning I went straight to Bio after pulling the all niter studying for this stupid exam. As I'm driving down Walton, I see:

1) All these Oakland County Sheriffs, my first thought, dang it must be a lot of speedy drivers here.
2) I see turing into OU campus, OU police officers so now my thought process is dang it, can't speed through campus.
3) Then moving along the OU apartments, I see Auburn Hills police at each entrance.
4) I look to the IM Football Fields and see massive helicopters all over the place. Then I notice all the cool guys all dressed up, yup Secret Service dudes.

To think I was about 30 feet away from President Bush this morning. He was staying in downtown Rochester for the night, to do some more campaigning. However, it bothered me a lil as I could hear swarms of helicopters circling campus while I am tryin to take the Bio exam. I walk out to see everybody staring at the helicopters in the sky. My thought now was dang it why can't P. Diddy come here and Bush go down to Wayne State. Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Oh yeah, I finished The DaVinci Code last week! It is by far the biggest book I've read to date yet, surpassing White Fang. I must say that this is an excellent book to read because I literally did not want to stop reading. However, I do not recommend it to the younger believers, gotta love that blasphemy.

Anything Goes

Reputation -What can I say, I love most of my Special Ed kids. Today I was chit chatting with my Vanilla Twin Girls, Cidney and Nicole. They kept telling me that they do not want to be in Special Ed by the time they hit high school. The reason being it was due to embarrassment of being in Special Ed. I kept telling myself that it is my goal to get them out. However, they still have some glitches with how to do the fundamentals in the subject areas.

But then in a way I know how they feel, in terms of ashamed of being in a Special Ed class. So I asked them how do their friends feel about them being in Special Ed. They told them that they just lie to them about where they are at. I started cracking up and here is how the convo went:

K: So what do you tell your friends when you go to Math?
C: Oh, we tell them that we are going to Advance Math?
K: Don't they ever look at your homework, and see that you are still doing simple Math?
N: No, we just try to change the subject.
K: So what do you say when they ask you who is your Advance Math teacher?
C: Oh, we say that we do not how to pronounce their name because it is very long.
N: Then they will say a name.....
C: Then we go oh yeah that's it.
K: (laughing) So what do you tell them when you go to Support (Study Hall) class?
C: Oh we tell them that we are going to Tech Ed?
K: What the heck is Tech Ed?
N: Eh, we tell them that we build cars and stuff.
K: (Scratching my head) And they believe you?
C: Of course!
K: So why are you ashamed of letting your friends know that you are in Special Ed?
C: Cuz I have a reputation, (with a shoulder shake)
K: What rep is that?
C: Cuz I'm popular!
K: Understandable

Gotta love'em, because they crack me up. Oh well, time to continue on this all niter studying for dumb Bio.

20-Head

People wonder why I am very DTA and today just proves it again. It's been about a month now that I learned Mike and Joel wanted to go their own way this year for OU v-ball. It was cool with me because we won the championship last year and I can see how they want to see if they can lead their own team. For the past few weeks, they were feeding me on who they were recruiting. Today, I learned that they got desperate and took half of our team away. Pissed? You bet I am, because Alisa (signed earlier this year) and Erin were gonna play bigger roles this year. Losing Jane (graduated) and Lisa (no schoolie) was something we could deal with, but now possibly losing Mae for this semester is by far the biggest blow. She was probably the top defensive specialist amongst the females.

I'm upset that those 2 took a part the dynasty that has been established. I'm thankful though that Mae will do her best to play and I still have my SpongeBob for one more semester. I'm thankful that they are still loyal to the team. Luckily I picked up Kristyn as a weak side hitter to help offset the loss of Erin. Tim told me today that Mike's team were practicing and were running the same offense as our team. How do I know? Because we're the only ones that run the type of offense I designed for our team.

I am excited though because Mike was the leader who took out Joey's team so they cannot say they have been to the Finals 8 straight times. So it adds more competition in this year's league with the split of us 3. However, someone said it best yesterday about the teams for v-ball "It looks like Stan and K are gonna run the tables again this year." Things happen for a reason, and this just shows who your real pals are. It's time to get down, and tattoo some people ;)

Love Song

It's funny when poor officiating really do cost you a game though. The same ref again screwed us, the same ref who denied my game winning TD in the first week. Last possesion, we got called for 3 flag guarding and of course 2 of dem were on me. First one I can understand, because I caught the ball at my hip level, so some could think it. However, the 2nd one frustrates me as I was running with the ball, the CB grabbed my arm and held on to it to slow me down so he could grab my arm. I used my strength to pull my arm back, and then the pretty yellow flag comes out and the crowd boos for the poor call.

The Ref's mistakes on the eventually game winning drive:
1) Stood on the field, as Phil was running to pick a rainbow pass off. But Phil stopped because the ref did not move.
2) I-Unit's offensive pass interfernce from their WR which leads too....
3) The game winning TD, but the WR had both feet out of bounds, The Ref still said it was good.
4) The crowd throws more boos!

Gary, the head person of OU IM Rec this year knows that The Ref sucks. The rule at OU IM Staff is that no one can talk down on another member. However, even Gary said in a nice way to me " that he is not the best ref there." Everybody complains about The Ref! So as V-ball and B-ball seasons start for OU, a new proposition was made today. Valene wants Gary to hire me to be a part of OU IM Staff since she will be heading v-ball this year. V, Kristen, and Joe want me to train some of the other officials, and get paid for being the head official. So we'll see if Gary wants to hire me, although I told him I'd do it for free. I just hate seeing OU IM games go down because of dumb and poor officiating. What's even funnier is that Gary even cut down The Ref's work schedule.

My Goodies

So I finally got word that yes, I do have a mild concussion from the Docta. So if this thing persists, then I should get a CAT scan, which I am kind of excited for because I've never gotten one of those before. Well at least OU football season is coming to an end today with one last game. It sucks that we will not be going to the playoffs this year. Although, I can't complain much because we don't serve to go anyways.

My parents are also going to NYC next week! Dang it, I mean they are going for the usual 1 day thingy again. Man, I am so bummed that I cannot go because I could use a nice drive to relax. But let's see on that Monday I have class which I could careless for. However the more important things, is that I have my first I.E.P. meeting with one of my students. I really want to make sure those who are testing my girl Jessica B or J.B. as I like to call her now, don't shaft her so she needs to stay in Special Ed. Then later on Monday night there is the important Fantasy NBA Draft! Oh well, I think I'm gonna take a road trip soon enough once I recieve those who owe me, so I can pay back those that I owe.

Move Your Body

So I finally got word that yes, I do have a mild concussion from the Docta. So if this thing persists, then I should get a CAT scan, which I am kind of excited for because I've never gotten one of those before. Well at least OU football season is coming to an end today with one last game. It sucks that we will not be going to the playoffs this year. Although, I can't complain much because we don't serve to go anyways.

My parents are also going to NYC next week! Dang it, I mean they are going for the usual 1 day thingy again. Man, I am so bummed that I cannot go because I could use a nice drive to relax. But let's see on that Monday I have class which I could careless for. However the more important things, is that I have my first I.E.P. meeting with one of my students. I really want to make sure those who are testing my girl Jessica B or J.B. as I like to call her now, don't shaft her so she needs to stay in Special Ed. Then later on Monday night there is the important Fantasy NBA Draft! Oh well, I think I'm gonna take a road trip soon enough once I recieve those who owe me, so I can pay back those that I owe.

Move Your Body

So I went to FE 215 tonight, and my prof said that my row is the loudest row in the class. Everyone notices because Nicole and I from now on are not allowed to sit next to each other class, as we are just loud but funny. However, my prof also congratulated me after class for being quiet and not "wiggly" during class. I explained to her my constant headache situation and she believes that I have a slight concussion. Even right now, my headache persists and I had a couple of dizzy spells too. Man it just feels like my brain or something wants to explode out of my head. My neck is so stiff too that it hurts to look to either side.

Some good medicine tonight, was watching the Card's win! Man, it's gonna be an awesome series, the Red Sox vs. the Red Birds, don't know who to root for? I just hope it goes the distance with 7 games. Also on a Survivor front, I'm glad they did not vote for Eliza, so I still have 3 of my 4 still in. Although, I am beginning to like Ami now because I like how she plays the game. She speaks only when it is time to speak and she's very good at observing the game.

Broken

Wow, was tonight's game exciting! Man I do not know who I want to win, the Yanks or the Red Sox? I love an underdog but at the same time, I am probably one of the few who actually like the Yankees too. At least in the NL, I'm still rooting for the Lou! I miss my childhood memories back in the S-T-L.

Speaking of memories, it's been a lil over 3 years now since I've lived in the Twp. I'll never forget that first night I moved my stuff in. I was cruising down 26 mile Rd and it was pitch dark and all it had was a Mammoth Video, McDonald's, and an Amoco. Today, I cruised down 26 Mile and the growth is exciting yet frustrating too. Here are the new things that they've put up over the past 3 years that I love:

Meijer - Grocery Shopping, what don't they have?
Home Depot - Gotta get my handy man supplies from somewhere.
BlockBuster - Games and DVD's galore!
BW's - Chicken Wings!
Chili's - Need some place for a sophosticated meal for once.
Comerica - So easy to take care of my account now.
Target - Eh, it's always nice to have this around.
SpeedWay - Cheaper gas prices!

Now the things that I wish we could get rid that is built already:

Kohl's - Too many bad memories here.
Payless Shoes - No quality b-ball shoes here.
StarBucks - Yucky coffee!
Rio Wraps - Man, need to replace this with Taco Bell.

So with all this commercialism, of course traffic is now starting to build up some more. More homes are being built in the Twp. Kind of frustrating because everything seemed to be going at a steady, and peaceful pace. However, the cool part is that I believe we are getting a movie theater in this area too! Although, I miss the Heights too.

It's So Easy

Man, sleep schedule is totally out of whack then again did I really ever have one? With so many things going on in my life, I'm actually thankful that some things are coming to an end. The football season is nearing an end so now I can attend to get ahead of all my homework. It sucks though, I mean talk bout respect, today's game was amazing. The other team actually kept track of my stats throughout the game. Although I feel like Keyshawn, get all the yards but no TD's, and it's frustrating. Everyone else in the league, has figured out what the # 1 on my jersey stands for now. I'm also thankful that the WB V-Ball league is short because I don't like the fact of leaving 5:14. I miss my bro's and sisters in fellowship.

This past Sunday, I was coaching v-ball and football to some of my CBC kids. The parents loved the idea of this, so hopefully I can spend more time with them too. Talk about passion and desire to learn more bout the game of v-ball. I mean my girls, Jessica, Abby, Anna, and Emily kept wanting to stay outside in 40 degree weather to work on passing and serving. My goal for them is that I want them to be able to be the next S.S. of v-ball as they get older. I also worked with my boyz, Chris, Joseph, Phillip, Daniel, and Andrew on football. Man, if only half of them had more committment as the girls do with football and stopped focusin on feeding their tummys. However, it was funny how the boys kept making fun of the sport of v-ball. So the girls have issued a challenge that in a month, it will be a battle of the sexes girls vs. boyz. Man I can't wait to watch that. I love my girl Jessica, because she even participated in my football drills with the guys.

On The Way Down

Wow, what a weekend with a car theme to it. I'm kind of bummed that I didn't go to Mommy Moy's yummy hot pot especially with my favorite noodles. In addition, that the Hong's were there. Anyhoot, I returned to Basketball City today to run it up in Roachville, ghetto but it's like the Faygo of b-ball in this area.

After a good day of ballin, my cuz's and I were walking out. Then that's when we realized that my cuz's car got jacked up. They did a pretty good number on the door I must admit. It sucks because they took my cuz's cellie and wallet. So for the next 4 hours, we stayed at B-Ball City trying to take care of the situation because it just seemed like things kept getting worse. I tried not to be insensitive, while trying to deal with the cops, and AAA but it was entertaining for me. Because I just believed that there is something good that will come out of it. I sent my cuz's home with a friend while I hitched a ride with the tow truck dude. Man, riding with tow truck people for so many times, I gotta admit they are fun people to talk to.

While I got this to help take care, then there is my lil sis. Who had a flat on Friday, and for some odd reason goes out and buys 1 new tire. What happened to the spare, or at least 1 more tire? Anyways, to cut both of them short it's another situation that I have to help my sis in.

Anyways, it's a cool 4:46 now and I guess I should take a nap because it's gonna be a long day with the fam.

Not So Cool

I don't like it when I lose patience with people. I hate it even more when I let it show. It sucks even more when it feels like it has stabbed you right in heart. Sigh, sinners aren't we all?

For the longest time, I kept wondering what it would be like to have at least 1 CBC kid in where I was student teaching at. Well yesterday @ Iroquois it finally happened, well ex-CBC but close enough. As I was outside during 6-7 th hour patrolling the hallways, a familiar looking kid kept staring at me, and I did the same. It was Brandon Wong, boy has he grown now so now I got one kid calling me by my first name at Iroquois. It feels wierd too.

Today, I got the email that everyone else in the ED program has been waiting for. It's the email telling you which school you have to go to for your yearlong interview of student teaching. Meaning it's the end of the road of our college career. Just the other day I was chilling in the ERL with Mandi, Randy, Jen, Erica, and Suga Mama. They were all excited to be leaving OU finally and this semester would be their last together. The email says that if my interview goes well then I'll be student teaching at Magahay Elementary School working with the 6th grade class. I was kind of bummed because yes this is what we're all looking for, but yet I wasn't too happy.

I'm bummed because for the most part I won't see all my peeps at OU anymore.
I'm bummed because I love school and the goofing around that comes with it.
I'm bummed because I got 6th grade because I put down 4th grade as my first choice. I like doing 4th grade because then I can see the fruits of what I've been doing for 2 years. Teachin 6th grade, I won't get to see them because they'll be outtie.
The positive to possibly being there is that it is really close to my house and it's still in the Utica district. As a matter of fact, I believe it will only take me 20 minutes to get there.

Concetta and I were talking bout it today in class before I knew I was going to be here. She knows how much I love teaching @ Iroquois with my special ed because I want to get at least one student out of there and back into general ed. Since we're both Twppers, and live bout 5 minutes away from each other, we were hoping on another thing. We think it would be cool if we both got to student teach in the same building. So I wonder where she, Monica, Sarah, Josh, Kari, Erin, Nicole, M-Beth, and Julie are going?

Hmmm kind of a bummy day with my patience with certain peeps and the reality now of leaving OU.

Operation-Monopoly

Memories - I don't know how many weeks it's been into this semester now. For the most part, I'm living it up in all my classes. For the most part, Monica and I have been partners on everything in class. It's funny how, she is a Titan in the class of '01 so we always have that in common. The cool part about OU Football is that a couple of freshmen are Titans too. We were discussing how things have changed and how it was when I was on the team. With all this reflecting, I started looking back at all my school's websites to see who is still there. Plumbrook Elementary School was where it all started after transferring from Willow Woods. I started here halfway through my 2nd grade. I looked at the staff list, and there they were Mrs. Didur my 2nd grade teacher! I'll never forget her because she was my teacher my first year there. I saw Mrs. Raneiri, my sis's 1st grade teacher, she would always help me pick my sis up from school. Finally, Mrs. Harris and Dr. Gitlin well more so Mrs. Harris was one of the teachers who inspired me to be what I want to be today. She was one of the coolest teachers because she was my 3rd grade teacher. However, she loved our class so much she promised she would be with us in the 5th grade. She kept her word, and I noticed that she is still teachin 5th grade. Every Friday we would have a 5th grade battle of an hour of Dodge Ball, Mrs. Harris vs. Dr. Gitlin.

However, I was disappointed that the server to Davis Middle School was not working :( Which leads me to Stevenson High School so many memories there. I noticed that Mrs. Appleton is gone as she was the "hottest" teacher at school. I remember a lot of us guys tried to get into her class, to uh learn trig uh yeah that's it. Coach Bye, Price, and Emanuelle are all still there teaching and coaching. Mrs. Chase is now teaching at SHS though, whoa! She was my History teacher at Davis, and she was da bomb because all we did was talk bout hockey in her class. I noticed Mrs. Lusk is gone, no one spent as much time as I did with her in detention. Detention, man now there's a place where I got a lot of my homework done :) I always kept track of how many minutes I spend in detention by having tick marks in my locker. Lockers, another thing I miss about school! I was the only person who owned 4 lockers at SHS, 2 regular lockers, 1 football locker, and 1 b-ball locker. The 2 regular lockers helped me with the time I spend chillin at my locker plus closer to some other classes so I can cut down on unnessary detention. Actually, come to think of it I had 5 lockers :) I always used my sister's locker too if I got lazy to go back to any of my lockers. Finally, I saw Madame White no matter how many times I got in trouble with her, she always knew the real me. I mean I had her for French class for all 3 years! She was always able to tolerate my behavior, and trust me to help run the class. I'm glad she is still there too no matter how many times I had detention with her too.

With that, hopefully Monica and I can find some time to go back and visit SHS. Have you looked back at your school to see any of those teachers that stuck out to you in the past is still there?

So Far Away

Ya know after our football game today, I was just gonna be flat out complaining and pissed about today's entry. It frustrates me that I sit out for one play and it goes for an INT then returned for a TD. It irritates me how I decide to play on the bad hammy and chicky, to have more catches and yards then the rest of the team.

However, tonight He reminds me again that there are more things that are more important. I went to the Cantonese Gospel Night Outreach because some asked me to help out with the children's program. So as I walk in the door, who is the first person I see? I see my Grandpa and so I went to greet him right away. It baffled me because he is a man who's heart is so harden about the church concept. Then I found out that Uncle J had drove him out here with other peeps to share the gospel. I talked to Stephen to see if there will be follow up on the peeps who were here. Uncle J drove my Grandpa home while I stayed after to help clean. I was the last to leave with Joycie's mom to make sure everything was back in order and cleaned. I praise Him for using others to help reach out to my Grandpa. It's humbling to see how Uncle J has such a huge heart for my grandparents.

With that, I think I have some sort of ear infection to now :) Oh well, enough bout me although errr I left my Bible at CBC yesterday! PTL again just for using different people so the past 48 hours I could see Chris Q, Yuwei, and my Grandpa hear His Word.

Yeah

Redskins vs. Ravens, wow was that a fun game to watch! Man, all those hard hits were just so exciting to watch. I love Ray Lewis and Ed Reed because they talk so much, to psyche each other up, make the game entertaining, and they can back it up. Which leads me to say this, man my groin hurts along with my hammy after playing some more football today. I'm glad that I'm starting to get underneath my cuz's teammates. Our West Coast offense was clicking today, with our timing routes which hopefully turns into a W this Monday. My cuz, kept trying to talk smack to me because we both each had an INT already. At the height of this jawwing, I got my 2nd INT and returned it for a TD. I looked at him, flexed my bicep and kissed it with a wink. Smah mouth football only pumps me up even more. Then after my 1st recieving TD, I kept insisting his team cover me closer. My cuz, made referrences that even Moss is allowed his token TD, so of course I had to go get another. And another I shall get, however just for fun I threw it back so Stan could run it in, just to save anymore running on my hammy. I stared down one of them because I don't appreciate them picking on Aric just because he smaller. I mean I'm smaller than their Big Red guy, why don't he come pushing me around when I look at him? As the game, wore on of course the game started getting chippy because Eric got tripped. So I guess that made our pretty blue flags that we were wearing irrelevant. Because on one of my grabs, I just darted through their team, then I got tackled because he just wrapped me up. Ooooh that only got me more excited as I just wanted to toss my flags down and say I'm ready to hit too.

I got hit some more, but it just feels so good in a way. Some wear n tear, with some war wounds, man just gotta love that feelin of an intense battle. If only my chicken and hammy didn't hurt so much. Oh well, it's all mental, 4th quarter baby is the test of who wants it more.

In My Own Mind

Well I pulled an all niter last night and still ain't sleepy yet. I guess that's because I've had a lot on my mind today. One thing is that I am really learning a lot in terms of being a student teacher for the Special Ed at Iroquois Middle School. Although I'm bummed that the students aren't as responsive as my elementary kids were, but I'm still learning. I've become close to some of my students already, one is my 6th grade girl, Jessica. I've been doing a lot of 1 on 1 help with her math needs. She's such a cutie and it pains me to see her in here because I know she is a really bright girl. During my prep hour, I got a chance to look at her files in terms of IQ scores, etc. She barely qualified as a special ed student, so I know that she is smarter than she thinks she is to be in there. I also read some of her strengths from the school psychologist, saying that she is a hard worker and always wants to please others. I see all that in her when I spend time with her for math because she always wants to show Miss Wojie how well she is doing. In 4 weeks, she has her IEP meeting/testing to see if she shall remain in special ed or not. I want to get her out of special ed, but at the same time she isn't strong enough to do some of the subject matters on her own. I really want to get all those special ed kids out of there because some of them don't need it. But I gotta start one at a time, so I will put a lot of effort in helping Jessica get out of there and be ready to take that test. I also get a chance to meet her parents as well, so I hope I can help everyone else to continue to progress.

I saw and read things that just kept bring back the history. It's wierd how Dan mentioned it something along the line with it prior to what I saw/read today. Sometimes, I just wish I can bury it but it creeps back in some sort of way. One part, I thought I had something encouraging to say, but seeing what I saw today just kind of makes me feel as if there is no point to it. Then reappears those "what if's" things that you wonder if you did things differently. Seeing/reading it really opened my eyes of how some have really changed. The more I think about it, the more frustrated I get because I feel as if I failed. Wow, even thinking about it even more, it serves as 2 fold. The trip to Lapeer is maybe what I need to heal because I know I must keep that hope. Although, maybe Dan and the crew were right about me 5 years ago, and it is what it is today.

Most Wanted

Woohoo my Did You Know fact for the day! Today, I learned from everyone laughing at me in class that using too much hand sanitizer is bad for you :( Everyone started laughing at me because I kept talking about how good it feels on my hands and stuff. Everyone got a kick out of it even more when I told them that I used it 5 times within an hour during Bio just because I got bored. I believe it is true because I've noticed now that my skin on my hands are cracking and developing some serious dry skin. So to all y'all use soap and water! I just gotta cut down on this stuff, and here I thought it was the greatest invention because I have it in all my bags and car.

What else, I've really started getting back into watching boxing lately. It brings back of my childhood memories of my daddy and I just watching boxing on HBO all the time. I remember I would never be able to stay up long enough for the main event then my dad would wake me up for the final round. It also helps that I bought the game Fight Night 2004 too.

Finally, just as I thought my body couldn't take anymore. Howie's friend, asked me to play with them on Thursday night now in the Warren league. The tough part will be balancing all this with everything else in my life. Plus, Wendy wants me to play with her team on Sunday's for pick up too at SchoolioCraft. 6 is now that magic number, with that must sleep earlier and continue to maintain energy and prodution during the day.

Move Your Body

Suffering in Christ, man it's just hard to go through suffering alone now in Christ. Whoooo what a concept. So it's finally kicked off, the week where all leagues start and already it kind of sucks. I know that I will need to sleep a little longer in order for my body to feel the way it is right now. Today, was the kickoff for the OU season for football. My mindset, forget everything that we accomplished last year because this is a new year. After 1 game now, I've developed the reputation once again because of all the chatter on the field. I just play the game and people recognize it for them to make comments as these:

"Man, we can just start calling you Champ (as in Champ Bailey)"
" Watch # 1, he's their go-to guy"
" Nice interception, # 1"
" # 1 is their Terrell Owens, somebody cover him"

It just sucks that we lost by a touchdown. We got beat by a better team today, I can say that for sure. Although, we had 2 shady calls. The first was my interception and where the ball was spotted. I picked it off in the endzone right at the goalline, but the ref said I was down at our 1. Then I had a touchdown reversed, as the line ref said I was out of bounds. Although other peeps said that as I dove, both of my feet dragged at the back of the endzone. We need a # 2 reciever behind me because now the rest of the league has taken notice. In addition, same thing as last year, we need another good cornerback on the otherside of me. Our CB and S got burned on the same play twice. Without Ray, our team isn't as strong defensively because he was our Freak. He was the only other respectable defensive player that peeps took notice of last year. Unless something happens, as Peter said today I just gotta lock down on every team's top reciever now instead of just defending half the field. Man, gotta find the joy through this suffering.

# 1, the new jersey number of the season since they don't have # 13 :(