Seems I’ve got a bug…

I haven’t been sick in over a year, no joke! I had a prediction on that. The last time I remember getting sick was before I had the cat scan a year ago or so. That scan made me probably the most Ive ever been. Though that’s old news. After that Ive never caught anything. I thought I was immune! I guess not I feel sick again.

Every time its the same. You feel super tired all the time, and lose your appetite. Your eyes are heavy, your nose flares up, its just a mess. But I say to you, don’t give in! Don’t sleep all day, have you even seen The Invasion? I’m not saying you’ll lose all your personality to strange aliens, but its probably not good for it. Get up, get out into the fresh air!

Don’t stop eating either. That’s unhealthy on all levels. Eat something healthy, I say corn. And yes, chicken soup is a good choice too. But if you think you can do it, eat anything.

Keep your body moving. Fight that cold. Don’t let it beat you! I’m sure I will win this cold soon, you’ll see. Peace Out!

Stuck in the Dark…

So here I am, ready to write a new recap for this upcomming episode of “House” that aired tonight. We were just about to watch it when BAM! The power just… shuts down. Completely. Then a few seconds later, it comes back on. Okay, that was a close call! So we sit back down and get ready to press play on the DVR when BAM! It went out again! Just like before though, a few seconds later, power came back on. Okay, I admit I am worried, but we go ahead and return to what we were doing before, getting ready to watch House! Again! The power shut off, a third time! This time for good. The power did not return.

Here, and hour and a half later, we are still in the dark. I am posting this on a phone, and I am extremely bored. I was really looking forward to watching the new episode of “House” Now its getting more and more unlikely. Which sucks because, I need to write its recap for The Extraordinary Project. People need their recaps, provided by a fully detailed summary with wit and humor. I can’t provide that! At least for now… I sure hope we get some power soon, so I can at least do the recap tonight, even though it will be a little late.

Power went out at around 10:00 PM. It is now 11:40 PM. Blahhh I’m bored. Peace out

Talk about freaky deaky!

I just saw a ghost! Or something… I was playing guitar in my room, just like I do all the time, nothing new. And I looked up to the living room, and it looked like someone was going to the couch to sit down. That’s what popped into my head when I saw it. I’ve seen my family do it so many times before, it was natural. So me and Andy were the only ones awake, so I thought it was him. But I didn’t hear him at all. Then I remember it was like a white blur that walked to the couch, I went out to the livingroom, and nothing was out there! Ahh scary!

West Virginia, mountain mama.

As several thousands of you are already aware… (as if) … Me and Dave Shroeder traveled out of state into a state I’ve never been before, West Virginia. Why did we go you ask? I am not entirely sure to tell you all the truth. Dave was feeling spontaneous, and wanted to see some mountains. I know how feeling spontaneous goes, so I tagged along. Here is a detailed debriefing of what we did:

5:30 AM:
Holy crap, what? You want to know what wakes me up in the morning? My tv. That’s right, it turns on when I tell it to and it woke me up at 5:30 in the morning. At first you can guess that I wasnt all there at that hour so I was like, “no, no, no!” and turned the tv off, 2 minutes later I was like OH! So I was ready in an hour.

7:00 AM
Dave shows up at my front door, and we were out of there! Woo! Everyone knows that the trip there is always fun, fun fun fun. And it was! Sure enough the trip was 10 hours to the campsite, but we got to see the land as it shifted here and there, and hills became mountains, and the mountains got bigger the further we went. Sure enough they didnt even touch the rocky mountains when it came to size, but they both look fantastic. I might have to say when it comes to the outdoors, the appalations look more amazing.

5:00 PM
We arrive at Grandview National Park, and that’s the first thing we see when we arrive at the visitors center, a pretty nice lookout spot, but not the best, which comes later. We get a butt-load of information packets on nearby camping sites, and we go for a drive to the best site.

The drive to the campsites is something to be talked about. That is some creepy stuff! There goes Dave going 60 mph on a very very curved road. Dave was switching gears left and right to get it right, so we dont accidentally drive off of a cliff. He was actually speeding too, man… Oh and something else to mention, I think Dave said the word “beautiful” on an average of about 20-25 times a day, not sure though.

6:00PM
We get to the campsites. The first one we go see is one called “Army Camp” the name alone got me uninterested, but Dave said the site was not “primitive” enough, so we went to check out Glade Creek. It took us forever, but we finally found it, and we knew then, THIS was our site. There wasnt any other campers, but that’s just because this was simply just a strange time to go camping. Dave told me later that first night that the only reason he chose this place was because of a picture he saw on Google images, and said, “I want to go there!” Nuts!

The first thing we did was set up the campsite, the tent took a few minutes, than after that we ate dinner. Dave had to bust out a cover to keep the food dry. It rained the first night, so we actually retired early, at around 8-8:30 at night, we had a big day ahead of us.

Saturday, 7:30 AM
Me and Dave woke up. It was a new day, and we had lots of things in store, but first, time for breakfast. Friday night I slept remarkably well for pouring rain overhead, and trains coming by every once in a while. In the morning we found a lot of our stuff wet, because the tent leaked, which wasnt too good.

8:30 AM
Me and Dave started off the ultimate hike of all time! Not really, but it came close if ever I saw one. Dave wanted to take an 11 mile hike, he’s insane. We started off on that trail, but I kid you not, by the time we hit the third mile, it already felt like 6. The altitude and going up and down mountains makes hikes harder than here in flat Indiana. So we stopped there, ate lunch, and headed back. Though I have to admit, some of the best views were seen on that hike, the only problem was, one trip, and down you tumble, down to your death.

3:00 PM
We got in the car and drove to the top of the New River Gorge in Grandview. This was the ultimate lookout spot, but not for Dave as he hopped off the safety platform onto the rock, just for a photo opportunity! Was he done there you ask? Heck no, he did it again, and again! In different spots! Everytime, I always said, “man, if you fall,” cause even he said it was pretty scary at parts. I’m just glad I never do that much stuff without thinking.

5:00 PM
We got back to the campsite and had dinner. We set up a fire, and cooked some beef stick, they were suprisingly delicious! We even got some marshmellows, but couldn’t cook them, cause Mother Nature decided to come back to show her ugly face again, and rain, this time earlier than before. So we had to pack up and go to bed.

9:30 PM
I had to go to the bathroom, and if you have ever been to the woods at night, you know what I am talking about, it is nothing but black out there! Shut your eyes, there is no difference, you are simply blind, so I took Daves flashlight, and went for a jog in the pouring rain, in the night. It was freaky! The bathroom was probably a quarter mile away, so a half mile round trip. I dont really enjoy going to the bathroom in the woods, let alone pitch black, so I had to go to the public bathroom. Man, I was half expecting Freddy or Jason to jump in front of me and show their ugly faces! *shudders* there was also this guy, who was no joke, fishing in the pouring rain until 10:30 at night, kind of creeped us out.

Sunday, 6:50 AM
We wake up, time to put everything away. Which sucked so bad! I was cold, tired, and muddy, put those together, what do you get, a big lump of CRAP, that’s what. I hated putting everything away, the sand rubbed against the mud and coldness of my hands. It was rough! Dont forget painful. Once everything was finally put away, we set out for the road. As I said earlier, the trip there is fun! The way back is just ughugughugh are we there yet???? Can’t wait to get home type of deal. Then all the mountains vanished, and we got stuck with crappy flat land. Oh well, home sweet home, I guess.

Peace Out!

Just Call Me Mr. Veoh.

February 13, 2008, I started a new project, every year I seem to get new ideas for projects. Last year it was The Extraordinary Project, a podcast the Gilleand brothers hosted about their favorite television shows. The second idea of the year 2007, was Daves life, a video journal about a day in the life of my own life. Now both of those ideas have been scrapped and are now blogs, Daves Life being a blog about my life, and The Extraordinary Project is a blog about television shows, and recaps.

The new project I started this year is The Veoh Review, which is not only a blog, but a video as well accompany almost each blog. The reviews are on movies, good and bad. The title of the project is based off of a popular video website much like youtube, or other like-websites. For a little less than two months, it has just been me having fun, doing what I love to do, well now, almost 2 months later, The Veoh Review has been found.

Views on Veoh.com began to increasingly get higher and higher, then I found my answer. One of the head honchos at Veoh, Brad Seraphin, contacted me about my videos. At first I was afraid that he might sue me due to copyright issues, since I did use their logo afterall, but quite the contrary, he loved that I did that. He went on to say that he wished to feature me weekly on the Veoh blog. The Veoh blog would show my video, which might, (I’m not sure) also feature me on their featured video section on their homepage. He will be sending me a contract with Veoh, and after I sign it, I am in.

Heres the thing, I love movies, and with this amazing opportunity, I’ll basically have to see at least one movie every week, which I dont have a problem with, Im just going to need some dough. But this is going to fun, I will be working directly with the staff of Veoh in CA. Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s start our engines.

Cat puke…

Why. Why do cats feel the need to clean themselves 24/7? I’m sure they know what they’re doing. I’m sure they know they are inhaling their own fur little at a time, eventually combusting later on. No one, that includes cats can eat too much hair. He must know he’ll eventually destroy our personal belongings with his disgusting feline fluids. So why does he do it? Why does he clean himself so much!

Is it because he is just OCD? A germaphobe? Maybe he would like to pull a Howie Mandell, and shave off all his fur. Heck I wouldn’t mind, that would mean less surprises…

Or maybe it is because he WANTS to destroy our crap! He walks around plotting his next move. We already know he likes attention, maybe he sees when were not paying attention to him, because lets face it, he’s not the center of the universe! Anyways maybe he sees this, and says when they aren’t looking, I’ll spill my entire stomach fluid onto their prized possesion, maybe then they’ll pay attention to me. My cat thinks he’s frickin’ God.

Why can’t he just puke in in his litter box? That would make everything oh so easier. That’s where he poops. Not pees. He also goes around our house finding special things of ours that he can urinate on, like ALL of our coats, and bags. Once he’s done with that, he wipes his butt on our carpet, like our carpet is his personal toilet paper. What a brat. We can’t punish him, and he knows it, so he continues to act all high and mighty. I’d rather have a bird. Maybe we should just get a dog. That way the cat will get punished. Don’t worry though, I wouldn’t let it get too out of hand.

Anyways, that was my OTHER rant of the day, Peace out.

What the heck

So tonights dinner started off just like any other Gilleand family dinner. Mom would turn on old Snore Station, a television channel playing nothing but old crap 24/7. It didnt take her long to find it today. You know what she would always do? She would flip through every channel, EVERY channel until something black & white showed up. Not even paying attention to anything else. Which just means she’s byist, nothing wrong with that, right? This particular day she tuned into some old documentary on what looked like different things that had nothing in common.

First off was that ancient footage of that one bridge wobbling back and forth. EVERYBODY has seen this footage, its a classic. Probably happened in the 30’s. Of course my mom hasn’t seen it she just laughs and says “Oh, look at that” and just laughs and laughs. I can’t believe it, you’re almost 50 years old, and you’ve never seen that? That’s just ridiculous. Next up was something on horse-racing. Now I don’t know why, so please don’t ask me, but I never found horse-racing interesting. Seabiscut movie? Thought it was a total bore. Anyways on this little documentary they were showing people using several cameras to try to get that special picture where the horse has all fours off the ground.

My mom saw the lineup of cameras and said, “Oh, look at all the cameras!” I just sat there, and stared.

On a separate note, she claims to want to watch the two episodes of Monk we have recorded still. Now not to say anything bad, but no offense, one of the episodes on there is a season finale from not last season, but the season before. Now the only reason we still have it on there is because that’s one I personally want her to see, because its really good. Originally we had like idk 18 episodes of monk on there, as well as Psych. She was supposed to watch them with us, but always was like, no, maybe tomorrow. Yeah, right! So we couldn’t take it any longer and watched all the missed episodes in a little under a week.

So yeah, anyways, in a few hours , American Idol will be on, I hope that’s not too “modern” for her. Afterall, its in color. Ew.

That’s my rant for the day, Peace out.

My rant

Still looking for a job. Actually, ive been getting pretty desperate in that area. Right about now, I’d take just about any job, except my first job as a meat clerk. That was just horrible. The people were nice, but the conditions were scarring. Anyways, a while back I tried to get my job back at Showplace, but they wouldn’t gave me. And you wanna know why? Cause of a stupid mistake that I made a while back in a video I made. Which was the only reason I can’t work there again, I felt bad, so I deleted the video.

Anyways ive been going through my choices for potential jobs, and one place I might be working is McDonalds, and a while ago I would have shouted NO to that. I love McDs and would never want to work there long enough to hate it, but come on! I need a job pretty badly. Plus they pay maybe a dollar more than Showplace.

I also really need to move out. I am 20 years old and still living with my mom. That needs to come to an end, soon. Though Andy is 21, (old enough to drink alchohol) and he still lives here too. I don’t think he even cares how that looks, I think he only cares about one thing, free stuff. Well I am worried about my image, but I am also worried about something else. If I don’t move out soon, I may never learn how to cope with the outside world. I need to adjust, and live my life, I need to spread my wings and fly, (excuse the metaphor.)

Well hopefully the wait to get a job will end soon. I need doe. Well that’s my rant for the moment, peace out.