Ok today had to be one of the most annoyingest days of my life. So I just ask all y'all who read this to forgive my language, because I'm just gonna bitch about my day.
So I wake up, this morning, thinking yeah I'm gonna get to work even earlier today because of GM shutdown and people just leaving for vacation so less people on the freeway to work. However, I'm flying down Van Dyke to only find that one lane has been shut down which clogged up traffic from 18 mile to 16 mile. So of course thank goodness it was in the Heights, so I decided to fly down the subdivisions because I know those like the back of my hand. Eventually I flew back on to Van Dyke to get onto 696 thinking yeah get to work early and play Pokemon with my kids. As soon as I got onto 75, I read about some sort of contruction from 7 mile to Davison. I noticed traffic hadn't move for like the longest time, so I decided to take 8 mile and go down Woodward. With this little detour, it took me a little over an hour to get to work today. Oh and I didn't get to work early either, but just on time.
I get to work, to train 2 new peeps, Natalie and Yaya. I gave Yaya the benefit of the doubt, that maybe I was just paranoid the other day of her death stare. So I talked to her and yeah forget the death stare, she just gave me the "your stupid look." So she kept talking crap to me like I'm retarded or something. Which lead me to finally decide to tell my kids to go attack her. So we played my version of Pokemon, and like lightning, the kids jumped on her, and kicked her. Until Cindy got hurt, so I called all of them back, but it was fun to me because Yaya gave me that "steam coming out of her ears look." I apologized to Cindy for her getting hurt but she sucked it up and gave me a hug and continue to be my Ditto.
Then I announced to my Day Camp that this week will be Pokemon week, in which we will watch Pokemon 1-4 starting with 1 today. So Yaya kept showing me how she knows her Pokemon. That is until I stumped her and was just like yeah you don't know your stuff. Man I tell ya that death stare she has is like an Cyclop's optic blast.
I finally decided to leave work today at 5:30 because I was the only one left other than Tracy and Matt. I'm thinking yeah I can go to Best Buy and FCS to purchase some things for the Retreat. Hop on to 75, then hop back off due to the non-moving traffic. So I'm thinking yeah I'll be smart and take 94. Yup, 94 was even worst then 75, so I flew down the shoulder of 94 to quickly exit and ride the service drive. I quickly swung a hard left to decide to take Van Dyke from 5 mile all the way back home. For the first 3 minutes, I was flying thinking man I should take this way home more often. Then bam a train comes on down, and yeah I was stuck in the same spot on Van Dyke for 20 minutes. The only good thing was that I had my Game Boy Color to play Pokemon to kill time.
Now as I am home, which took nearly 2 hours to get home, I have to leave again. Why? Because Best Buy by my house did not have what I was looking for, so I have to go down to the Oakland one to get it in order for me to get reimburst this week, otherwise I'll have to wait a month. Then I get to go out to eat with my folks, so yeah I love how my house is just a sleeping place for me.
The only good thing that happened to me today was finally seeing my Pikachu back in camp. I love Sophia and yes I have to hold my tears in this year. So with all this crazy crap going on today, I have now decided what I will be doing for July 4th. I will be heading out to NYC on my own, I believe I just need to get away from here, from the people, and things in general, while my folks go to Toronto. Gotta represent the D in the NYC under the big lights baby.
Heaven
Monday, June 30, 2003
I just got home not to long ago from seeing baby Josiah. Seeing him in his little crib hooked up to a few machines made me think about some of my own things. I kept wondering how did I come out as a baby? I kept wondering if I was very demanding as a baby? Seeing Josiah, so small and fragile made me think of just life in general.
Today was also finally the last of my CBC Retreat Video. I looked around the whole sanctuary to see just how much CBC has grown in numbers. However, then I thought about it, yeah it's great we have more people at CBC. But, how come it is still the same people serving at CBC? I kept wondering if we are trully growing as a church spiritually. I use this quote that was best describe for us at CBC and maybe it is quite accurate "A lot of people are takers and not givers." I keep wondering if that is really true.
Here's a convo from last year I had with my mommy about. I was watching her video from when my parents went to HK the year before.
K: My mommy, who's that cute girl eating with you for dim sum.
M: That girl is your cousin.
K: Oooooh that's sick man, I think I'm gonna puke now!
Dang it, I need to know my family tree better, next time before I speak. Now it's time to get some rest for worky work and be The Children's Champion. Oh one last thing, wooo did I just get the cold shoulder today or what? Which reminds me of another thing, are people like ignorant of things that go around them, or don't care, or just plain dumb?
No No No
Today was also finally the last of my CBC Retreat Video. I looked around the whole sanctuary to see just how much CBC has grown in numbers. However, then I thought about it, yeah it's great we have more people at CBC. But, how come it is still the same people serving at CBC? I kept wondering if we are trully growing as a church spiritually. I use this quote that was best describe for us at CBC and maybe it is quite accurate "A lot of people are takers and not givers." I keep wondering if that is really true.
Here's a convo from last year I had with my mommy about. I was watching her video from when my parents went to HK the year before.
K: My mommy, who's that cute girl eating with you for dim sum.
M: That girl is your cousin.
K: Oooooh that's sick man, I think I'm gonna puke now!
Dang it, I need to know my family tree better, next time before I speak. Now it's time to get some rest for worky work and be The Children's Champion. Oh one last thing, wooo did I just get the cold shoulder today or what? Which reminds me of another thing, are people like ignorant of things that go around them, or don't care, or just plain dumb?
No No No
Saturday, June 28, 2003
You are Romans.
Which book of the Bible are you?
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Today was the first time that I worked, but not at the restaurant, at ACA. It felt wierd because I kept thinking the whole time that it was Thursday today. All in all, work went pretty well today, didn't have that staff meeting as anticipated. I noticed today though Tracy did challenge me even more by leaving me in charge of more things while she stepped out. I laid the law down with my kids and for the most part they did a good job.
For the past 2 summers, I always had the kids play this game that I made up. It's actually pretty affective too, I call it Pokemon. It's where I am the trainer and the kids are my Pokemon and the other counselors are Team Rocket. This year, I told myself that I will not play that game because my kids literally beat down some of the counselors last year. However, today things changed and it was due to Tonda and Stephanie calling themselves the famous "Tickle Monsters", which lead a rebellion by all the kids to attack them. They were looking for a leader and they all came to me looking for orders on how to take down the Tickle Monsters. Well, all the kids literally tackled both of them down, Tonda was pinned down with one kid doing some sort of sumo splash on her, while Stephy was brought down to her butt. Here's the convo's of the day:
S: Go get Kenny!
Emily and Jenny: No, he's our trainer!
S: He's brainwashing you.
E and J: No you are because you're evil.
K: Hahahahah
S: Go attack him!
E: No, he's my owner.
K: Hahahah
Michael: Can I skull bash both of them now?
Boy it's so hard not to play Pokemon now. Today was also a day of stinky, with one kid doing a # 2 but missed the toilet. Shen-Lin made me check David's butt by literally pulling his shorts away from his butt to look for poop stains. Man that was nasty!
I also had to take care of my Ling Ling, gosh she is so adorable, yet her hormones have started a little too early. She was crying to me today because Tracy confiscated her Game Boy. It's been wierd this week already with those who cry, they always come to me to take care of them. It's too bad Ling Ling ain't signed up for next week. She is a lot smarter than I thought when it came down to battling our Pokemon today.
Man, gambling is such a bad way of self-control, well maybe just for me. I kept thinking, well if I lose, I know I will want to play more to win it back. Then again, if I kept winning, which was the case today, I will want to play more. So it's like in a mindset, it's a no win situation, although it was fun to come out $60 richer today. It makes up for my $65 dive I had over Christmas break.
Finally I got to see a Tigers game at Comerica Park! I'm thankful to God for just blessing me with such a wonderful boss who gives me free stuff. Boy, this game had more fans than what I see on TV too. It was nice to watch fireworks too afterwards. All in all, it was a nice experience and had great seats to enjoy the game with wonderful friends as well.
Young Gun
Thursday, June 26, 2003
The last 24 hours have been kind of crappy, their were few things that made the day brighter. However, all in all it was a very humbling experience today. First let's start off with last night, with yet another discussion of the fate of the CBC Pistons. I remember when people all agreed upon that this CCUC tournament was a outreach first ministry. You would think a team with all believers can be a light on the court. Or possibly a team with majority believers does not necessarily mean we are all strong in our faith but yet lift one another up. You think would think that tournament which says on their form as the theme says "promoting an atmosphere of fellowship and friendship among Christian athletes and fans" that our fellowship team would be ok to go into Chi-town. Or even as representatives as CBC, you think it this team would be able to enter the tournament without a shadow of a doubt, because we have majority CBC people.
However, that is not the case unfortunately. People seem to only look at the talent, in terms of "oh that is too strong for a C team." We've had teams in the past that were similar to this, and it's like hmm that saying don't mean a thing without that ring. Well if C is so easy then where oh where are the championships? Because of all this drama and politics, it lead me to one point to do 2 things. First was, I just wanted to hand in all my CCUC letters and just quit, not bothering helping out anymore. Secondly, this also crossed my mind as well, I just don't even want to go anymore. This whole event was suppose to be a fun event for everyone all the way from Friday to Sunday. However, it has lead to some of us to stumble in our faith. I mean do people even realize the end result of their meddling. I keep asking myself just how do some teams pass, while ours fail.
Which pretty much leads to this team's fate. We will play B, not because we WANT to, but because we HAVE to, in order for us to stay together as a body of guys who have a special bond with one another that all of us would do anything to stay together. After a day of cooling off my temper, if this is our fate, then I'm ready to push myself to play hard, and to try and keep the faith.
Which leads to today, I walked into ACA way early for work. I came in early because all my kids who do come early wanted to battle me in a Pokemon battle. I walked in, and Viotta told me to go into the computer room. I thought it was a trick, and Viotta kept questiong my disobedience to her. The whole time I kept wondering what was up, then it turned out to be a surprise. The surprises came walking out, and it was Crystal and Henry! I was so excited to see them back for this field trip and to only find out that they will be going to all our field trips.
However, again that seemed to be the best news of the day. We went to go strawberry picking in A2 Jr. Today I noticed again, just how relax some of us were as counselors almost to the point that I would say, that we all got kind of lazy today. I even got yelled at by Tracy, but she saw the cause and not the effect part. As Day Camp came to a close, and all the kids were leaving. Tracy and I had a long talk about the responsibilities of us as counselors. Let me tell you, it was a very humbling talk, because maybe I haven't been as good as a counselor as I thought this year. A lot of my weaknesses were pointed out as well along with other counselors that she pointed out. Tracy gave me the heads up, that tomorrow their will be a staff meeting, so that every counselor can be re-evaluated.
Tracy kept talking about how last year went so well. The credit was given to Elaine, which she did do a great job, as well as that we both worked/discussed things outside of ACA. I told Tracy how hard it is this year, due to the fact that we have a lot of people who come in and just clock out as soon as 3 or 4 shows up on the clock. After some time of just reflecting and evaluating my ownself, it's easy to say, but I need to step it up a notch then. Last year, I could coast through things because I had Elaine to cover me, vice versa. This year, I'm left alone to really do majority of the work and I can't rely on anyone. I need to work on my weaknesses because I don't like to even think of the thought that I failed as a counselor to these kids. It sucks that I'll have to sit in that staff meeting just to listen again, at what I feel is what a crappy job I've done. However, may I use it to also challenge me to do my best.
When Love and Hate Collide
However, that is not the case unfortunately. People seem to only look at the talent, in terms of "oh that is too strong for a C team." We've had teams in the past that were similar to this, and it's like hmm that saying don't mean a thing without that ring. Well if C is so easy then where oh where are the championships? Because of all this drama and politics, it lead me to one point to do 2 things. First was, I just wanted to hand in all my CCUC letters and just quit, not bothering helping out anymore. Secondly, this also crossed my mind as well, I just don't even want to go anymore. This whole event was suppose to be a fun event for everyone all the way from Friday to Sunday. However, it has lead to some of us to stumble in our faith. I mean do people even realize the end result of their meddling. I keep asking myself just how do some teams pass, while ours fail.
Which pretty much leads to this team's fate. We will play B, not because we WANT to, but because we HAVE to, in order for us to stay together as a body of guys who have a special bond with one another that all of us would do anything to stay together. After a day of cooling off my temper, if this is our fate, then I'm ready to push myself to play hard, and to try and keep the faith.
Which leads to today, I walked into ACA way early for work. I came in early because all my kids who do come early wanted to battle me in a Pokemon battle. I walked in, and Viotta told me to go into the computer room. I thought it was a trick, and Viotta kept questiong my disobedience to her. The whole time I kept wondering what was up, then it turned out to be a surprise. The surprises came walking out, and it was Crystal and Henry! I was so excited to see them back for this field trip and to only find out that they will be going to all our field trips.
However, again that seemed to be the best news of the day. We went to go strawberry picking in A2 Jr. Today I noticed again, just how relax some of us were as counselors almost to the point that I would say, that we all got kind of lazy today. I even got yelled at by Tracy, but she saw the cause and not the effect part. As Day Camp came to a close, and all the kids were leaving. Tracy and I had a long talk about the responsibilities of us as counselors. Let me tell you, it was a very humbling talk, because maybe I haven't been as good as a counselor as I thought this year. A lot of my weaknesses were pointed out as well along with other counselors that she pointed out. Tracy gave me the heads up, that tomorrow their will be a staff meeting, so that every counselor can be re-evaluated.
Tracy kept talking about how last year went so well. The credit was given to Elaine, which she did do a great job, as well as that we both worked/discussed things outside of ACA. I told Tracy how hard it is this year, due to the fact that we have a lot of people who come in and just clock out as soon as 3 or 4 shows up on the clock. After some time of just reflecting and evaluating my ownself, it's easy to say, but I need to step it up a notch then. Last year, I could coast through things because I had Elaine to cover me, vice versa. This year, I'm left alone to really do majority of the work and I can't rely on anyone. I need to work on my weaknesses because I don't like to even think of the thought that I failed as a counselor to these kids. It sucks that I'll have to sit in that staff meeting just to listen again, at what I feel is what a crappy job I've done. However, may I use it to also challenge me to do my best.
When Love and Hate Collide
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Tonight I went grocery shopping and I took a stroll down the toy isle just to check out what's been out lately. I came across something that is soooo old school and boy these things rocked. Does anyone remember M.U.S.C.L.E. at least that is what I think they were called? Does anyone remember these little guys that you can wrestle with a little ring and go one on one? Gosh I used to love playing these things back in the day when I spent my dayz in Roseville. I'd play with my cousin Damon, and his friends the Chan brotha's Jimmy, and Ray Ray. Those were the days, but do I stand correct with the name?