The first in a long chain

HAPPY BIRTHDAY T.J.!!!!!!!

(or "Tyler Jr.", as he would prefer to be called)

He's getting to be one of those OLD people ;P

A whole 21 years old!!

He's coming over tomorrow

to have his special dinner, presents, and cake and all.

"Cheesecake" mind you.

A big one...

Happy Birthday T.,

Josiah wants me to say he "loves you"

Birthdays, dancing, and food

Ahh, (sigh) life is good(for the most part).
Uncle Scott went skiing last Monday, so he and Uncle Charlie(who isn‘t even related to Uncle Scott, so it’s kind of funny that we call him “Uncle Charlie”) met at our house and he left his car here.
He came back today to pick it up. So I got to show him Felicity (who is getting big, btw).
I’ve been playing my guitar everyday for the past week or so(which doesn‘t have anything to do with anything). It would be a lot better if I knew more songs because everything that I play, I can play really well. Problem is, I don’t know just a ton of songs.
We had chicken noodle soup for lunch today. MAN it was goood!! Luke wrote a post on food once, I might have to do that sometime…
Lily-pie’s b-day is in a few weeks. I need to get a present for her, and then I need to get a present for T.J., and then one for dad, and another one for Lana, and one last one for Josiah. It great having five birthdays in in less than 1 ½ months time. ;P

I want to start working soon, but my future boss hasn’t said anything about when I’m going to start. *If* I do end up working for him, I think I’ll be a cross between a cowboy and a farmhand. I guess you could call it a farm boy, but I’m already one of those so it’s probably better to call it a cowhand, or maybe just not give me a title. If I *don‘t* work for him, I might work at Goodson’s or someplace like that.
What I really need to do is figure out what I want to do for a living after college so that I can figure out what I should major in. I just re-realized the other day that, I’m going to graduate in a few years and I’ll be an adult in 2 ½ years. Whoa, when did everybody get so old? (no offense mom and dad ;P)

I talked to Tim about Fan the Flame this morning. He asked me (again) what day it’s going to be. And then he said, “you know what? Maybe you should just e-mail me about it, them I can save it and look at it later”. So, I told him that I would send him a e-mail sometime this week. And then, he got the idea to just put *me* in charge of getting all of the information and telling everyone about it and all that stuff, then he wouldn’t be able to forget about it.
I probably need to talk to him some more and find out exactly what he wants me to do… I think that it will be good for the youth group if they go. I know it’s been good for me the last couple of years. ;P

Just 2 ½ months until the wedding. There’s still a TON of stuff to get done, most of it has to be done closer to the time of the wedding.

T.J. used to work at I.F.C auto shop, and he went bowling with Barry(his old boss) the other day. He said that when it wasn’t Barry’s turn, he was in the back dancing like I would do. And then T.J. started saying that he had some sweet moves, at which point I interrupted saying, “Hey! You said Barry dances like me and that he has sweet moves. Does that mean I have sweet moves too?” Apparently T.J. thinks that I do. ;P
After talking with T.J. for awhile, he said that Barry used to teach dance at some studio in town, and he would be willing to teach us some stuff for free.
I think that would be pretty sweet. To dance alongside a guy that dances like I do. That doesn’t happen everyday. ;P

Why do I even bother using titles? They never have anything to do with what I write

It’s been awhile since I posted a “normal, this is how life is” post. So here goes nothing.
Sunday was… um.. church and that’s pretty much it.
Monday was chemistry, and I understood all of the lesson! Whoohoo!! snaps for Tony .
Tuesday, I don’t think we did much of anything other than school and whatnot.
Wednesday, I can’t remember what we did, I don’t think it was anything unusual.
Thursday was Riverwalk church which went pretty well except for when the kids got a little… distracted during the lesson. But other than that it went pretty well.
Sometime during the week, my parents decided to do a bread making demonstration at our church on Friday night.
Well, Friday morning, I find out that my dad wants me to bring my unicycle to church because somebody’s sons were coming and he thought they’d think it was pretty cool.
Ha ha, that’s funny dad, I haven’t really ridden my unicycle in over two years. But no harm was done, I didn’t hurt myself or even embarrass myself at all. It was kind of frustrating not being able to ride as well as I used to but it was fun anyways.
Today, we just cleaned the house and put plastic on the windows ’cause, IT’S FREEZING OUTSIDE!!! I don’t think that the people that built our house had ever heard of a special thing called, “insulation”.
Jeremiah, Lana, and Lily-pie are all sick and it looks like Brandon is getting sick too.
I *really* hope I don’t get sick because I don’t have time to be an “invalid” again.
Right now we’re in the middle of watching “National Treasure” for the thousandth time.
T.J.’s coming over after church tomorrow. It’ll be nice to see him again. I haven’t seen him in almost a week. He’s gone longer without seeing us but it’s kind of different when he ”goes home” after coming over.
I guess I’ll get used to it after a while but I’ll still miss him.

Ooooh! I almost forgot, my mom started a blog this week. Go check it out sometime, I have a link to it on my sidebar. Actually, I'll put a link right here http://pursuingjoy.blogspot.com/

BTW It’s like four months and four days till Luke’s going to be my brother-in-law.
That’s gonna be… different.

For whatever reason I can’t wait till “Fan the Flame” 2008. I’m going to try to get my youth pastor to take our youth group to it this year…. I think I’m done now.

I Invented Aluminum Foil!!

This blog is titled “The Adventures of Sir Tony the Clever”. Well, yesterday in chemistry class, I didn’t feel so clever. We were learning (or attempting to learn) about the different orbitals that atoms have, and learning how to tell what protons went where and all that jazz. Quite frankly, I didn’t get it. Neither did Caleb M., when that happens, you know your group is sunk. Caleb came up to me at the game last night and asked “did you understand what we learned in class today?”; nope, not the orbital stuff.
*but*, that wasn’t all we did in class. For weeks Mr. Herb has talked about this murder mystery that we were going to have to solve. Well, this week we got the Mystery! 18 pages with clues hidden inside. I’ve figured out *how* the man (“Butch Harnik”) was murdered; just don’t know why. Oh well, I’ll figure out sometime.

Anyways, after class and coming home and doing school and all that, Luke came by our house to have dinner and take to us the Patriot b-ball game! I haven’t been to a Patriot game since the game after I finished playing over a year ago. It was a good game; Patriots won both games that I saw (I think they won the first game too, but I wasn‘t there). It was lots of fun.

Earlier today I was listening to “Third Day” or “Skillet” while I was doing my math; and my mom didn’t understand how I could stand that when I was doing school. She suggested I listen to something “lightly classical, with just instruments”, so I turned on a “Cross Movement” song (Cross Movement is a Christian rap group) . HA HA, very funny. Mom that she could feel stress deep inside her chest. That’s when I decided to use headphones ; )

Not much else has happened lately ‘cept T.J. moved out Sunday. And I found out that if you put a plastic case on your cell phone and keep it in your pocket all day it’ll overheat and freeze up, that’s kind of ironic.

While I'm Driving You Crazy, Should I Stop At The Mall?

Well, this week has been kind of interesting.

We had the Hilds over for new years. They came early Monday and left after dinner on Tuesday, not near long enough for friends that you see twice a year. But while they were here we had time to do plenty of stuff.

After they had been at our house for a while, I realized that Uncle Scott hadn’t seen my drivers permit, so I showed it to him, and he said I needed to go show it to my cousin Brittany (we’re not really related, but our parents have been friends since before we were born, so we might as well be related), ‘cause she didn’t have hers yet.
So I go show her and somehow my Aunt Jackie finds out and says that since I could drive, I could take her to the store (in her Pontiac grand prix:).
Well, it takes us a while to get ready and when we start to head out, we realize that there are six people going (one of which happened to be my “wonderful” future brother in law), her car only seats five.
So, instead of driving her sports car, I got to drive our minivan, *fun*.
Well, let’s just say that Luke has some issues as a passenger….
I *did* get to drive Aunt Jackie’s car on a trip to the store eventually. Let’s just say, Aunt Jackie, your car is pretty zippy.
Us older kids (T.J., Lana, Brittany, Brandon and I) went to A-Z to shop for... something; I really have no idea why we went. After that we had dinner and then they (the Hilds) left.

Later that night some of us went to NBC When we came back, I got some of the worst news possible at the time.
T.J. IS MOVING OUT :( I knew it was gonna happen eventually, just didn’t think it was gonna be this soon. So on top of Lana getting married and leaving, T.J. is moving out. He went over to look at a place last night and went back this morning to pay his first months rent. I think he’s moving in today and tomorrow. Tonight will probably be his last night in our house. :(

I realized the other day, that in a few months, I will be the oldest of the kids at home.
It’s gonna be pretty tough with all the changes about to take place. But at least I have Jesus to lean on when it gets tough. That’s more than some people have.