3 years and counting

Yesterday was mine and Ashleighs 3 year anniversary and I really cant believe its been this long it seems like only 2 years and 11 months but Im farely certain that it has been 3 whole years. For our special day I had Ashleigh call to make sure I was awake after my paper route around 2:15pm, then we talked for a while, then I went to work at my part time job. Seriously though Tuesday evening will be dedicated to our special day, and I am unaware of the events to come, but hopefully I will figure it out by the time we get to wherever we go.

Backtracking a little further the day before was a friends of ours last minute change from wedding reception to just a anniversary party. I dont really know the why or How but the party was less akward than anticipated. We went to the diamond club at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Then had a fancy meal followed by what was probably too much dessert. The after meal part was dancing and karoke which im farely bad at both but with little effort was able to make ashleigh shake her head in what I hope wasn't shame.

Lastly I paid for our what will be our second cruise to mexico recently and am greatly anticipating being a veteran cruiser which basically means I get to go to a party that you (you being a first time cruiser or a stay at home while i cruiser) dont get to go to I am also taking applications* on souvineer so make sure you apply

* applying does not mean you will get a gift it simply means that I will try and furthermore it means that you posted on my blog which in itself is a eternal gift that will be published in my book (see post on 10%)

Goals and new challenges

(Pulls out pedestal and steps on)

So March 31 is fast approaching and this is post 23 I can still hit my Bronze goal of 25 posts from February 7 through march 31, and truth be told I could of hit my 1st goal of 35 posts in this time frame. What happened was no one really gets on here that often. There were many times over the last few days I told myself that ; Hey I should post about that then chalked it off by deciding that no one will notice if I do or don't post and it would be a rarity if someone comments. we have all gotten to the point (Self Included) that we just read then go about our days, but the problem with that is I cant tell if you are following up on me. I personally read everyone's blog but rarely comment, So I issue myself and anyone else interested out there My new challenge will be to comment on each and every post out there in My (our) blog world out there for the next month, then secondly I vow that my blog will not ever say updated 1 week ago, and I don't accept the answer I've been meaning to get to that for a while now....I've just been busy. It is my firm belief that you can post without being a FOST with little to no effort.

(Steps off pedestal)

In other news continuing with wedding reminiscing The second wedding we went to was Justin and Courtney's who I know through my fraternity and Ashleigh knows through her sorority. It was a great wedding that we actually made it to on time which is kinda of a knack that we have. There at the reception the grooms cake had a BYX crest on it which was awesome BYX being the fraternity I'm in if you did not know. I got to hang out with some of the other guys that i haven't seen lately more of in the 3+ semesters after my first. We danced a bit but mainly only the songs that instruct you what to do.

Also bought my bowling ball last night against Lizzy's wishes (see bowling post for my thoughts on frivolous bowling). We also finalized our final cruise payment so Officially on June 1 we will be heading to Mexico and I intend to shed little or no blood this time and if someone offers a scooter at little or no cost i will show them my kneecap where i have my permanent Mexico tattoo of a scar (Kinda like Harry potter) but my he who must not be named is a curb)

reminiscing part 1

Post 22
over the last few days Ive been reintroduced to my former life as far as my fraternity goes. The set up was two weddings between two of my close friends Cass to Lauren and Justin to Courtney. It started with a trip to Denton to Cass' wedding a very small wedding with a all of a sudden theme. ranging from a 100 or less crowd in a small wedding chapel and dinner a a small Italian restaurant complete with a cookie wedding cake. Many of my former friends were there including Josh Jason and Joel all of which I haven't seen in 1 or maybe more years. We all had dinner together and it was nice to hang out with the group again. Hopefully this will give me the charge to hang out with them in the near future. Ive kinda had a stuck up attitude towards them lately saying that well they haven't called me so why should i call them. More to come later today including the other wedding.

Yay Tennis

We had our semi annual tennis gathering today with Matt, Lizzy, Ash, Richie, David, Emily, and myself, and as usual had a great time and decided we should do this more often maybe this year we can get a weekly thing going. I let David borrow my secondary tennis racket that hasn't been used in like 8 year and now he has black hands (guess I need new grip)In other news I'm heading to Denton tomorrow for a March Madness basketball bachelor party for one of my fraternity brothers Cass. Its an all day thing and I cant wait to hang with all my brothers that I haven seen in a while

sorry

haven't had much to talk about lately this week has been pretty mellow still no new news on my job situation but Ive come to realize that i receive little or no respect at Saginaw (my first Rodney Dangerfield moment)In other news i broke and have now fixed my passenger side window it got stuck down and thanks to some handy work be myself and David it is at least an up position more to come tomorrow but felt like i needed to post today

Imminent Doom

I cant believe I forgot to mention this but I recently saved the Pizza hut I.......

(Well the best way to say it is if I was facebook friends with Pizza hut Saginaw I would be in a its complicated relationship with it)

saved it from imminent doom. Here is the story:

I had just finished my classes for Monday night when I decided to go to The Hut and get my paycheck stub which would later lead to Post 17 over pay rate. I was about to leave after successfully completing my mission when I decided to go to the back and check my schedule (lucky I did because I was scheduled to work Tuesday night) when all of a sudden I see a burst of flame coming from the fryer so I bolt for the door to escape but upon seeing a fire extinguisher next to the escape door I quickly change my plans. i would like to say I changed heart because its the right thing to do, but seriously I've never used a fire extinguisher before. So I grabbed it and turned back to what only looked like the fire coming from a small dragon in the bowels of the fryer. Without haste I squeezed the handle to the extinguisher to no avail. I had forgotten the pin. I quickly pulled it from the top and again pulled on the handle. Wow what a rush. The dragon was defeated and I was King of all the Land.

In retrospect I should of taken the fire extinguisher home and played with it later thus ending both my problems. well that's it for now i told the person next to me that I need to study for a PSYC test at 7 and they say I'm procrastinating whatever that means.


Note no real dragons were harmed in the extinguishing of this fire

irritation

not much to talk about but today at the hut I had a guy try and scam me Don't really want to go into detail but I called him out and what was my reward he chewed me out for 15 min. In the end I won because he took his business to blue mound And i was able to alert them and now he is not welcome to any pizza hut in the region so i guess my 15 min fight with guy paid off in some way

I got called indirectly a bunch of names I resent and didn't deserve but in the end feel like I won. It just irritates me that my conversation with him ended with I want your superiors number.

anyway goodnight

work issues continued

Post 17
Today I got my first check from pizza hut with my demotion in full swing. it was .75 per hour lower that I would of accepted with my consent and .25 lower that expected based on what I was told I would be making. In most scenarios this sounds like it will be my last days here. Ironically the man I need to talk to is on vacation and I wont make any rash decisions until I speak to him. Based on how this was handled I wont expect much. I started looking for other jobs extensively today. Namely a hotel management and upper management Grocery both of which sound intriguing to me and pay well within the amounts I'm looking for, but only time will tell

DST

Daylight savings time was today this was probably the first DST that didn't really effect me I changed the time around 8pm last night to try and get a jump (pun intended) on the time. I figured doing so would ultimately help me on my route Sunday. In other news finished my first week of 50 per week work and it felt good I have so much more energy overall and attend all my classes without first thinking do i REALLY need to go today. In other news I in the nest few weeks i should be losing my sunday shift and can resume normal church activity cant wait for that.

The bowling fund matures

post 14
Tonight is Ashleigh's Sorority New member party its a hangout (usually bowling) that is in celebration of their pledges becoming new members. Its been a while but hopefully i can break a 100. I tend to do OK at bowling but on bad days chalk it up to the size of the ball. You see I have big fingers and cannot use the size ball that i would prefer (size 12 preferred) Instead i have to use the size 16 just so my fingers will fit fine. I can do this for 1 game fine but then it begins to hurt. However this is the last time that I will have this problem because My bowling fund has hit 200 dollars and I can now but a custom made ball that is the size finger hole I prefer and the weight I like. I know some would say Matt i thought you were getting out of debt why are you purchasing something so frivolous and I agree but, over the last 11 months Ive saved 15 to 20 dollars per month and when I hit 200 plan to buy so in a way I earned it. Or at least justified to me a way I can make a "unnecessary" purchase without feeling bad. I also get shoes with the ball as well as a bag for the ball.

Just sad really

So as I vented days ago about my lack of attendance and yet high grade on the first test with no studing. I have come to realize a few statistics about said test brace yourself:

Average grade of entire class 69.4
range of test scores 28 ---- 92
Curve applied 8 points
median score 78

So my 92 became a 100 and I am officially the smartest person in the class that ive attended now 4 times. 2 death threats to the annomyous person who killed the curve luckily no one would even assume it was me. The instructor apparently read the test about 80% of it that is for the review for the test and still average grade 69.4 and these are the students that are supposed to understand computers

Unnecessary Class

Post 12
I really dont understand why easy classes cannot be tested out of. Today was my first test for a simplistic computer class. Based on my horrible work schedule the last few weeks ive not attended to the effect of present 3 absent 8. Just took my first test and got a 92. The instructor told me that i need attend to pass the class regardless of my scores come May (not a problem with new work schedule). I understand the reason for this but truthfully I'd much rather pay 50 to 100 dollars to take some test that shows that I dont need the class. This is one of my first venting posts and I must say it makes me feel better

PS this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated

PPS test took me 12 min 44 seconds and I reviewd it before submitting

PPPS If you see something in my Blog that you dont understand (possibly a random assortment of letters) pay no attention its just an inside joke that your either:
A) on the outside of or 2) forgot what it means DTS

she did it

post 11
So my whole plan to take Ashleigh to the murder mystery dinner theater went well in my opinion. that is until I found out that Ashleigh was actually the one who did it. See it turns out that she took out a loan from the loan shark that she couldn't repay back ($24 dollars for a book on the Jonas brothers) so she poisoned his drink and then framed some of the people we met at the show. Overall it was a fairly cool thing with not so good food and a great performance that was fairly difficult to solve.