Don't you judge me, 'cause it wasn't until after that brick left my hand that I was thinking "this is probably not a good idea"

Yesterday (meaning 2 days before tomorrow), we went to a going-away party for one of dad's co-workers, and I got to spend some time with my buddy Zach!

I've known Zach for years. I met him when our family was doing a teen-ministry thing, going to a local apartment and bringing the teens back to our church for a lesson, pizza, and free-time (of course food and free-time, that's the only way you can get them to come! ;P), and his mom (another of dad's co-workers) came to help, so he got to come along. That was back when I was around 12, and Zach would've been 3 or 4....

Anyways, we ended that ministry awhile ago, so I haven't seen Zach since then.

So, yesterday, we pull up to his house and I go over to Zach and say, "hey, Zach, you remember me?". He was like, "Of course I remember you, I just didn't recognize you..."
He's 7 now, and he's a HUGE football whiz. If he tells you something about any sport, you can probably believe it's true.
I don't think he really wanted me to leave... He's too sweet, and funny. He even did an impression of his football coach! I almost died!!

So, what else is goin' on...... I figured out how to play something on the guitar, and it sounds so familiar, but I have no idea what it is. It's really bothering me... It's like when you have some stupid song stuck in your head, but you only know half of the words and it drives you crazy. Ugh, it's awful!

Man, you know something? That's good, cause you should know something. What's weird is how something means different things all the time. That sure is something, ain't it?;P

There was a cat-fight outside a minute ago. I hope Timone didn't get hurt, 'cause I saw him over where the noise was coming from...

Anyways (I say that a lot, don't I?), I need to finish up so I can head to bed(I didn't say "Fred". Oh, man, it came out anyways[AHHH!!!!!! I said anyways again!!!!])

I think I'll just stop writing now.... Well, I'll at least put my little endind thingy on here.

-Tony

There, isn't that a nice way to end something, with a name like that? I think all books should end like that instead of with a lame "the end".;P

Even on my worst day, at least I can say that I'm smarter than the average couch

Okay, the other day, I was walking to mom and dad's room, and as I'm passing the bathroom I hear, "Brandon! Oh my gosh! What's the matter with you? You wasted all the toilet paper!" Turns out that it was Josiah, and Brandon didn't "waste" the toilet paper, he just finished a roll. It was absolutely positively the one of the funniest things that I've heard lately. The other funny thing I actually made up, and it's a bit of an inside joke, so I'm not gonna tell you. *nyaa naa*;P

Yesterday, Brandon and I went over to the McC's house and watched the "Fellowship of the Ring: extended edition"! Andrew had never seen it, so I just had to scare him at the part where Bilbo jumps towards Frodo... Man, it was priceless...

Can't think of anything else to post about, but I'm gonna try to post at least once a week from now on. AND, Andrew, I know you read this every so often, so there's no excuse for your non-commentingness. So, remedy that sometime will ya? ;P

I cannot even begin to describe how much I would love not to go to prison

Hey everybody! I haven’t posted in weeks, but I’ll soon remedy that.
So, since my last post, we went on vacation to lake Bull Shoals and stayed there for a whole week. It was fun, but we were glad to get back home! My birthday was the 13th (write that on your calendars everyone, it‘s a important date ;P), and I had lots of fun! Lana and Luke came up too! I even got….*dramatic pause*….. A NEW CAR!!!!!!!!! It’s a 2006 Jaguar XK! The only problem with it is that it’s only about two inches long…;P So, yeah, I won’t be driving it. We went trout fishing (in America) on the White River a couple of times, and I caught my first ever trout! It was a 13” long rainbow trout, and it tasted pretty good too!
Sunday the 21st(better write this one down too ;P) was Brandon’s birthday (happy late birthday! Well, the birthday wasn‘t late, just the happy… Wait a minute, that doesn‘t sound right… anyways….). Brandon happens to share a birthday with Andrew McC, who also happens to be one of my best friends, so it’s not uncommon for our families to get together around birthday time. So, the McCs came to our house on Saturday(a LONG overdue visit) and we had burgers and a fire and smores and stuff… Lots O fun! Andrew is gonna get together with me sometime soon and we’re gonna watch LOTR(he hasn‘t seen them yet), which I can’t wait to do!
What else? My guitar case(b-day present from mom & dad) should be delivered tomorrow, and I’m SOOO excited! My guitar will have a HOME!!!! Hopefully it fits better than Andy‘s new doghouse ;P (Andy is from the pearls before swine comic) I ordered it from zzounds.com which has very good prices on most things, were talkin’ like around 40% off the normal price! Pretty sweet when you don’t want to spend more than you have to on something…
I’m gonna say something totally random here. My hair does weird things. Sometimes it will behave itself and get brushed(well, not really “brushed” per se, more “artistically placed“. Yeah, right… ), but sometimes it has a mind of it’s own. Today, I took a bath and didn’t even look in the mirror until about ½ hour later, when my hair was, for the most part, dry. What I saw in the aforementioned mirror was kinda funny, and it was almost an inspiration. My hair was sticking out and curling up all over the place and it actually looks kinda cool. Needless to say, I didn’t have the heart to brush it. So, my hair looks… interesting, to say the least. Ah, here we go, a picture… The picture doesn’t quite do it justice, but I think it’s pretty funny. I might even set it as my profile pic, just cause it’s weird…
I’m weird like that.;P
Oh well, it’s been fun, but I think I’ll call this post done(how‘d ya like that little rhyme? I do stuff like that all the time. ;P)

From Paper to Plastic !

So, I got my restricted license last week! Now, I have photo I.D.! The dumb thing is, to get said license, you have to have a birth-certificate and another form of "secondary identification". What I want to get is, how is a 15 year old supposed to have a plethora of I.D.? AND, the nasty people at the DMV wouldn't take a year-book as I.D., so they sent us to the bank to have some person sign a paper saying that I am, in fact who I am, and that dad is, in fact, my father. Dad and I kinda looked at each other, and were like, "duh, can't you tell? you need somebody from a bank to tell you that?". Man, some things are so dumb and time-consuming. AND, when I took the road test, the guy fussed at me for backing out of the parking space, even though I did it EXACTLY how the book tells you to! Then, he started this whole talk about how they should take that out of the book because "you can't fully control your vehicle if you don't have two hands on the steering-wheel at all times"... And then he got onto me about the way I stopped, and said I didn't come to a "complete" stop, because he didn't get slammed back in his seat. Sigh, if he thinks I did bad, he must not have been the one to give Lana her road test, because there would've been no way she could have passed it.;P

Something kinda cool is, when I was getting the license, I got to say I wanted to be an organ donor. Not that I want to have to donate any organs right now, but it's cool to know that if something were to happen to me, I could maybe give somebody a chance for a better life...

Anyways, mom and dad's anniversary was Friday, so they went up to Tulsa and Lana and Luke came to our house to help out(or was it, "make out"???;P).

On Sunday, Tim didn't end up showing the FtF video, but we still had like, 15 people sign-up to go, and several more were going to think about it. Not too bad, seeing as how they didn't know hardly anything about it...

What else? umm, Brandon and I each started an iPod Touch fund. We figure, by the time we get enough money for them, they'll be cheaper, at least, I hope so... I'm not gonna buy any extra little stuff, and I'll save my b-day and Christmas money, splitting it between savings and my fund, so it shouldn't take more than a 1/2 million years or so to get enough...;P



Now for an outlook on the not so distant future.

We're going to some friend's house on Friday(that's getting more and more rare as our family get bigger, I don't think we'd fit at a lot of tables ;P)! We start school next Monday, and spanish class starts the Tuesday, so that's cool. Microbiology starts the 25th, so that's pretty awesome too.

Oh, duh! FtF is less than two weeks away!! I almost forgot to mention that. I'm really excited that the CCC youth group is finally going!! I'm hoping more people will sign up to go next week.



I'm gettin' hungry, so, I'm gonna go now



-Tony, the most awesomest one by that name

A POST

Hello, welcome to clevertony.blogspot.net. (It's ".com")

Oh, welcome to clevertony.blogspot.net-it's.com.

Hey everybody, this is, A POST!

Are y'all happy? ;P

Seriously, this is a post.

What's goin' on?...

We got "Wii Fit" the other day, and it's AWESOME!!!!!

We'd been trying to find one for like, several weeks.

And they finally had some at Best Buy.

We actually got three of them.

One for us, and the other two for people at dad's work

(they couldn't find any either).

I had to go to church on Friday to practice the skits.

I was about ready to pass out for the first hour or so,

because I felt awful and my part requires lots of yelling...

Oh well, the pains of acting.

I get my seat reserved at church on Sunday (it makes me feel special),

'cause we don't want us drama people to cause a scene just getting out of our seats.;P

Brandon and I watched the Platinum Edition Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,

which was awesome!!!

What else?????

I went up to Luke's grand-parents house Tuesday evening/Wednesday to film Hunted,

and I think we finished almost all of my scenes,

including the much anticipated paintball scene(I was excited about that).

When we were having breakfast Wednesday,

Daniel looked over and saw some armidillos,

so we ran over there (barefoot), grabbed some rocks and had a war with 'em.

I hit one, but it ran into the woods.

When I got back over with Daniel,

he said one of them had fallen off of a small cliff thingy (around 15 feet high).

So, we climbed down (still barefoot),

but the dumb thing had crawled back were we couldn't get to it.

So Daniel went back up, and I stayed down there.

After a minute, it came out again, and Daniel threw a rock on it's head (from the top of the aforementioned small cliff-like thingy).

Then the thing started going bonkers and went into convulsions and stuff,

so I ran over to where it was and threw a rock at it and it ceased breathing.

So, I should get credit for killing it, but Daniel, will beg to differ.;P

What else?

Mom and dad's anniversary is next Friday,

whcih also means my permit expires next Friday

(not sure what we're doin' about that yet..)...

This is turning into an incredibly long and therefore probably boring post.

So, good-morning.

And in case I don't see you, "good-afternoon", "good-evening", and "good-night".

Except that it's already afternoon, so, that ruins that whole plan...

-Tony

I think a title is supposed to go here...

Brandon has been getting on to me for not posting a real post(of course, he hadn't updated in forever until this morning ;P), so, I might as well go ahead and post...

ummm, what's been going on???
Brandon and I have been roofing the barn, and we finished it this morning.
Mom hasn't been feeling well, so I have to help with cooking and such. Cooking isn't bad, it's the cleaning up after it(which, I don't always do...).
Brandon and I invented a new sport called, umm, "underwater kung fu", or something like that. It's pretty fun, because we can punch each other as hard as we want and it doesn't hurt! At least, not too bad...
I need to call Lana at some point today to ask her if she's gotten a copy of the FtF video to CCC yet, 'cause we need to start showing it in church this Sunday.
Speaking of Sunday, I kinda volunteered/got volunteered to do some short drama stuff to go along with a sermon. So I have to miss Sunday school next week to work on it.
It kinda stinks because "Elder selection Sunday" was last week, and in Sunday school we had a mock nomination thingy. But we were gonna see how our "votes" lined up with the actual votes. So I don't get to be in there for that.
We also nominated people from the youth group to be our leaders. I should've voted for myself, but I don't know how that would've worked.;P I know I got at least one vote though, because I heard someone say "How do you spell 'Lou....'?". It was kinda funny, especially since it turned out to be Joel M. that said it. Of course, then he asked me if I would vote for him... no way! ;P
Anyways, I'm doing a skit thing, and I get to be a wild preacher guy and hit people with a big bible. It's gotta be cool if I can do that! I really have no idea what I'm doing other than the vague description I just gave y'all.
There are four other skits too, but we haven't picked people for those yet. I probably won't be in those(at least not *all* of them) because I'm not sure if we'll be in town or not...

Oh, also, the Hildes are moving again. FAR away this time though:( I mean, really far...

Well, I'm being beckoned away from the compy, so, bye

-Tony

Long post ahead

I had all these great things to post about last night, now I can only remember a few.

Last Wednesday: we went up to Bentonville so dad could help Uncle Mitch with funeral preparations. So, we got to hang out with Jordan and Jacob. We played super smash bros. quite a bit. We also went swimming and rode scooters and ripsticks ect. I also figured out that you can send text messages via bluetooth, so we had some fun with that. ;P Then we played lazer tag, listened to music, played wii, and watched youtube videos until we went to bed.

ummm, Thursday(because Thursday usually comes after Wednesday):
Aunt Shanna(dad's sister), Uncle Len(her husband), Austin & Josh(their kids, our cousins),
Aunt Laurie(dad's *oldest* sister ;P), Sam(one of her kids, another cousin),
Uncle Kyle(dad's oldest bro) & Aunt Sunnie(his wife), and then their kids (who are all adults), J.R., & and his fiance Courtney, Kimmy & her daughter Nabia(she's 2 1/2 yrs. old and she's sooo cute)
and Miss Madeline(one of my granny's friends)
All of those people gathered at Granny's house and came over to Uncle Mitch's house for lunch and swimming and stuff.
After that, we all(everybody from both houses) went to Granny's house for dinner(T.J. came up at some point too, but he was there when I got there), provided by people from Uncle Mitch's church(I think, but I'm not sure about that). Then we went to the funeral home for the first visitation, or whatever you call it.
Then, everybody that was staying at Uncle Mitch's house went back there, except for me, because I was trading places with Josh for the night.
Thursday night, Austin, Sam, T.J., and I, stayed up really late playing Halo 3!!
Friday morning, we all met at Uncle Mitch's house, again(do you notice a theme here? ;P), and then headed up to Kansas.
Later on Friday, we had another visitation for people up there. Then we(all of the people mentioned before, and then some) went to a place kinda like Golden Corral(except not as good) for dinner. When we got back, me and a bunch of cousins played poker in the hotel lobby, with sugar and creamer from the hotel's breakfast stuff.
Saturday: I got up at 6:45 to go running with Uncle Chet, cousin Joe, Uncle Len, Uncle Mitch, and cousin Jacob. I forgot to mention that Joe is on a track team, and everybody else has been running daily for quite a while(and I haven't hardly at all), so I wasn't sure if I could keep up with them. I think we ran 3.4 miles. Not too far, but a pretty good run. I actually did pretty well. I didn't get tired till the last half mile.
Around noon, Aunt Laurie took Brandon, Austin, and me to get some lunch at the "Kreem Kup". Eventually everybody ended up there too.
Also, I forgot to mention, us older boy cousins were the pallbearers, which paved the way for all sorts of dumb jokes.
Then we had the Funeral service at an Episcopalian church(it was very strange). And then went out to the cemetery(which was out in the middle of nowhere).
Then we went back to the church for dinner. Then took family pictures and went back to the hotel.
Saturday night: we had a Halo tournament, in which I got creamed...

We left the hotel at 3:00 in the morning, so I slept most of the way home.

And that concludes my wonderful post about our trip.


P.S., as I am typing this, mom is playing a game on the Wii. And when I asked if I could try it, she said "finish your post, boy", and then got back to her game.

Now she's tickled because she beat Brandon's high score, on her second try

EDIT: I beat her high score awhile ago, so I ROCK!!!!! What else is new? ;P

It's not just the end, or where we begin. It is in the in-beetweens

Whooohooooo!!!!!!! It’s all over!!! I got to sleep in today!!!! We have a fridge full of leftovers!!! I can hardly believe that Lana is married. I’ve known all my life that she was going to get married eventually, but it seems so weird that she’s not gonna be around much.
For those of you that are wondering(and I know there are some, because I‘ve been asked). No, I didn’t “cry”, but my eyes did get watery twice. I couldn’t really help it though, seeing my sister walk down the aisle is kind of a once in a lifetime thing.
The ceremony was really good(but I was probably biased). I think Luke’s favorite part was the kissing. ;P
The reception was fun, but I had to wait for forever before I could go in because we had to get pictures taken first. Daniel, T.J., and I got some sweet bow-ties, I think a lot of people liked them.
I got to meet some of my great grandparents too. I had no idea who they were, but they acted like I was supposed to(I‘d only met them once before that, but I was really little).
I think we’re going to try to take it really easy today and not do much of anything.
We’ve got friends coming over on Sunday, and then I think grandparents are coming on Monday or Tuesday.
I think this is getting kinda boring, so I’ll stop now.
-Tony

Titles are what you use when you don't have anything better to say

Happy Mother’s day!! Since everybody in the world has a mother, I guess they must be pretty special. ;P
I was gonna write a nice post for mom, but I couldn’t think of the right words to say. So, I guess I’ll just say this ”Happy Mother‘s day, I love you mom”.
Now, where to begin? I don’t remember when I posted last, so I don’t remember what all has happened since then… I guess I’ll just write about Saturday.
Saturday morning, dad, mom Brandon, and Jeremiah got up early and went to a yard sale some church was having. After they got back, Lana, mom, Josiah, and Lily went to the last wedding shower while the rest of us stayed home and cleaned the house and yard and everything. The plan for the rest of the day was that after the shower, mom and them would bring something home for lunch, and aunt Shana and granny would come over for awhile. Around half past noon, dad got a call on his phone, but I didn’t hear it until it was pretty much done ringing. So, I gave him his phone and a few minutes later, I heard something about….Tony….work….farm. Then, being the curious guy I am, go in to see what’s going on. It turned out that it was the guy that was gonna have me work on his farm, and he and his son were going out there for the day and wondered if I could go with them. So, I got to do my first day of work!! I was pretty excited! Once we got there, they gave me the tour of half of the farm(there are 200 acres in all, butyou have to cross a creek to get to the other side, so I saw that later). It was fun. I got to ride in one of these,

and then I ate weeds (with a weed eater) for over two hours until we got rained out(or in, I guess). My arms are sooo sore today. After that, we took a break and then I got the tour of the rest of the farm. There aren’t any cows on the second part, just some barns and a LOT of grass. They showed me where they might build a pond, and where they’ll put a fence. They have around 100 cows right now, and after those improvements, they’ll get another 150 or 200 more. They just had a bull born Friday night and his momma wouldn’t nurse him, so they have to bottle feed him. He’s soo cute. I don’t think I’d ever seen a cow that little before…
After all of that, it was still raining, so we decided to call it quits for the day. It wasn’t bad for my first day of farming. ;)

I'm so cool, you don't even know I'm cool. That type of cool

Oh, let’s see(unless you‘re blind, then you don‘t need to see. Of course, if you were blind, you wouldn‘t be reading this anyways…).
I’m not gonna mention everything that’s happened recently, ‘cause that would take too long and it would be too boring. I’ll just talk, or write, as it were, about… Not everything!! I’m just kidding(sort of. I mean, I‘m not going to talk about “everything”, but I will talk about something. Once I get to it). ;P
I guess I better get to telling something interesting. Ummm… Oh, duh! I went a little brain dead for a second. Where was I? Oh yes, I was remembering something.(btw, I‘m not really this forgetful. I‘m just having some fun).

On Sunday, T.J. B. loaned me his electric bass, so I could learn to play it for when we start a band(if we start a band). It’s cool and pink and awesome. I didn’t really have much time at all to play it that day, and then we had a chemistry field trip on Monday(which was fun, btw), so I only messed with it a tiny bit.

After our field trip, Caleb, Daniel, and I got together to work on our presentation. Daniel had told us that he had a song we could perform, but he wouldn’t tell us what it was. So, he finally shows it to us and it turned out to be an incredibly dumb, yet extremely funny song. Daniel got his guitar out, and we worked on it for awhile. After we went through it once or twice, We decided that Daniel would play guitar, Caleb would play mandolin, and I(yes, me), would get to play the cowbell. I wasn’t too happy with that plan, so I decided I would just learn how to play the song on the bass. It couldn’t be *too* hard, could it? Nope, not too hard. It’s pretty easy, for a beginning bassist. The only trouble I had was that I wasn’t quite sure which “G” or which “F” to play. But I called Daniel this morning, and he said it really didn’t matter. It’s gonna be really sweet once we practice some more. I’ve already got my part mostly memorized.

What else is going on… We got the riding mower fixed, so now we can mow again. The pool is still too cold, but it’s warming up. Hopefully it will be warm enough next week. Wedding stuff is coming along nicely(I think). Everybody in my family that gets to wear a tux has been measured. I need to take Lola and Donor to the vet for their annual shots soon(they‘re gonna *love* that). Which reminds me. I need to get some covexin8 for the goats too…(*I‘m* gonna love that)
I think that’s all,
Yippee-cay-oh, get along little doggie(short dogs are cool too)

Btw, here's a pic of me when I was around Josiah's age. We could pass for twins. Except for the huge age difference.

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.