2 more weeks

Yeah, thats right, (less than) to more weeks until summer is over. which sucks, seeing as most kids get into september and we go in at we get in during the beginning of august. Been trying to cram everything we (as in, the group) can into these last few weeks, things like going to a lake, another bonfire, and heading to Skateworld (the local skating ring which may or may not be still arround as none of us have been for at least 4 or 5 years), along with the usual movies, uptown, pool, etc etc. All in all I guess I'm not too upset about school starting back up- I've had a really, really good summer (between hanging out with my logan and joseph, the group, or just andrea), and I am kind of excited about freshman year. because, lets face it, the school I was in kind of sucked. It as the same school, same 35-40 people every year, for nine years between kindergarden and 8th grade. you kind of get sick of the same thing year after year, and I'm just ready to see some few faces, do some new things, and altogether get out of that pit.

Still, i've had a great time with the group this summer, and I don't want to "drift away" from them, especially andrea, in high school. Kind of worried about that, but I guess we'll just have to see how things turn out. My only regrets this summer is the lack of things I've done with my family, such as hiking with my dad, running with my mom, or any summer vacations. Hopefully that will change soon.

Now that the group is back in town we can finally get things going again (as opposed to the last two weeks). Last Tuesday there was a gas leak in town- nothing major, but they evacuated uptown, which is where andrea lives. Logan, Andrea and I generally just hanged out at my house all day, which was really fun, but altogether not that eventful. Went with most of the group to a local(ish) entertainment complex called Bo's down the mountain on friday- had a really, really great time :) We were there from 1 to around 10:30- I have no idea how we managed to keep ourselves entertained that long, but I'm sure it had something to do with the four or five games of laser tag, multiple trips to the arcade, two bowling games, a game of put-put (which involved me sprinting down the highway to retrieve a runaway golfball and almost getting hit by 2 or 3 cars), and going across the street to CC's for dinner. best part of the day was seeing Andrea so happy- she was in a smiley, bubbly, giggly mood that was good to see after so many days uptown seeign her shy and quiet. that above anything else made my day :) And yes, when it came to doing another game of laser tag with the guys or playing DDR with Andrea, I stuck with andrea without a second thought. Aren't I a good boyfriend? :P

Last two days involved pool on sunday and uptown yesterday. Nothing too eventful, except one of the aforementioned girls still being a pain in the relationship between andrea and I, but neither of us are taking that crap anymore. Just hanged out today, like usual, with a good book and a glass of orange juice on the back deck wasting the day away. not too bad if I may say so myself :)

Pretty much going to give up on ascension. I just can't write anymore, not with everything going on....ah well, I may pick it back up later. But until then I'm having too much fun otherwise :)

Mudbound

Well, my days have been packed this summer, which is mostly why I haven't been posting much. A few interesting things have been happening in the past weeks outside of the usual (uptown, movies, pool, etc) with friends, but I haven't really been writing much to be honest. figures, but oh well.

Well, good news is that the problems I was having between Andrea and I are pretty much over. I've been talking to her a lot, and we've both agreed to be better in our relationship...and from what I've seen so far, there has definitively been an improvement. I am worried about how we'll be able to see each other in high school though...we may or may not have the classes that we share in the same semester, but I am hoping that we'll at least have lunch hour together. High School Orientation is the 5th of August (New School!), and we get to find out which classes we have, how to get there, etc. i'll probably make a bad first impression off my teacher's from the start, but thats become the norm for me. If we don't have any classes (including lunch) with each other, I'm just going to have to put forward a real effort to see her afterschool and on weekends. Still...there is only around 300 kids in the freshman grade, so its possible that we could have a few classes together.

Really need to get my act together for running. Cross County starts about a week before school, but my mother won't go running with me at night at all and my friend Logan isn't running with me either. and its not like I can drive myself to any good running trails, and the hill that I live on is horrible for running anyways. *sigh*

On another note, one of my friends in going to be dating a girl who's...not the best girl in the world. As in, she seems really nice on the outside, but I've found out the hard way that she's not the best person in the world. Its not like I can tell my friend that though when he likes her so much...I guess he'll just have to figure out the hard way. *sigh number 2*

Two books I have to read for 105 english: Beloved and Mudbound. Mudbound it really good, but beloved it a lot harder...just sticking with mudbound for the moment. kind of worried about our english teacher though....both books are pretty racist, and seeing as I live in the south (the northern south at that, but the south) with plenty of rednecks, there is a probability that our teacher is racist. known a few teachers who have been like that, mostly because we're a mainly white county. still, it should be interesting to see what happens.

Thursday I went to this lake with two of my best friends, logan and joseph. Was a really fun day, I'll give you a rundown that you can skip over if you want.

***********************************************************************************
Well, once we got to the lake, logan and joseph immediately went for the zipline. I didn't want to go, so I ended up sitting around for an hour. when they got back, we went into the lake, did a LOT of swimming. we did this thing called The Blob. where on person is on one end of this inflatable thing, around 20 feet long, and the other person jumps on it from like 6 feet above from a diving bored kind of thing to try to knock them off. After that we went to the deep end, played King of the Hill on top of some floating pyramid thing with a bunch of other kids our age, then took turns trying to touch the bottom of the 14 feet deep end (none of us managed it). by that time we tried to catch the train, it was full, so we went around 2 to check out the paintball field.

by the time we got to the paintball field (it was a looong hike) it was like 2:30... we got all of our stuff on (masks, paintball guns) and joined the 3:00 game. the 5 of us were paired with the two best players "green shirt" and "red shirt" because we were "inexperienced." We ended up doing covering fire, flanking, dodge an roll...all that military stuff. the 5 of us took 3/4 or the people out (it was one hit elimination)...but we only had 500 "bullets", about enough for 3 rounds for all of us. most of us were out of bullets by the first round.
the second time, we were placed all by ourselves against the 7 other people...and ended up tying only because we couldn't take our red shirt and green shirt within 15 minutes...I was hiding behind a tree for most of it as two of them kept shooting nonstop at me, before logan and joseph came and literally pulled me out of there.
the third time was the last round, and it didn't matter how many times you got hit, you kept playing until you ran out of bullets. that was FUN, but brutal...I was locked in a fire match with both red shirt and green shirt the entire time, and I got clipped a couple of times because of it...pretty proud about holding out against both of them at once though. Logan and Joseph eventually got to where I was taking cover in a ditch, and the three of us managed to fight them all back.
***********************************************************************************

So, overall, the lake was a fantastic time. The past week has been more uneventful...everyone has been gone for the usual July vacations, and I only managed to get two things done this week with other people: watching The Lord of the Ring (the third one) at my house with Kim, Logan, and Andrea, and hanging out uptown with andrea from 12 to 5 on thursday, mostly just talking, but it went really well. one of the funnier moments (out of many, andrea is a really funny girl) took place where I was sitting on a bench with andrea in one of the more secluded parks in the town, and some random guy that neither of us knew just comes up and says "you should be glad you have such a great guy, he must be really sensitive to bring you down here" and then just left. it was realllllly weird, but really funny.

Well, 3 more weeks of summer left- gah! its going by so fast! Hopefully the next few weeks will bring along some good memories :) thinking about seeing either Despicale Me or Inseption at the movies with andrea tomorrow...which one do you guys suggest?

until next time

Comittment and Confusion

Okay...quick question: what is it with girls and being constantly confusing? especially when your in a relationship with one of them. Just think on that question for a bit as I explain my last few days starting...a week ago from this post.

Wednesday my girlfriend, Andrea, came back from the beach. Texted her for...5 hours? while she was driving back....I hate texting, but you know how it goes, and besides its always good talking to her. Went to see Knight and Day with her that night...good movie, its pretty funny and has some good action scenes, so its worth watching, made me laugh a few times here and there. Andrea was pretty quiet...she has always been kind of shy though, and I guess that she was tired from the ride back from the beach. Still, I was kind of worried about her anyways.

Thursday...was interesting. I went uptown with a couple of friends, the same group as usual: Logan, Joseph, Stephen, Amelia, Kimmy, Sydney, Andrea, and Daniel, making a grand total of 9 of us (sometimes there is a bit more of us there, sometimes less.) You know, people ask me why I keep going uptown day after day, but in reality actually doing something with friends on an almost daily basis has really improved my summer over what it was last year. Anyways, my main problem is that there are two girls in particular that are, well, blocking me from interacting with Andrea. Normally its not a big deal, but they are constantly clinging to her and making it so that I can't get close to her at all. I mean, it shouldn't be a problem, but it bothers me a lot.

Nothing happened really Friday, but Saturday was fantastic. Went uptown to see the 4th of July parade (which, indecently, is on the 3rd) and town festival with Logan and Andrea, and had a blast doing so. Generally just hung out, enjoyed the festival to the fullest- and the parade was fantastic by the way. Went to Andrea's house afterwords, had a ton of fun there (and yes, I am still the champion of Guitar Hero, but both my girlfirend and her younger brother gave me a run for my money.) Andrea's family brought me to see the fireworks at the Country Club afterwords, and I met back up with Logan there too. The Firewoks were spectacular...what really made me happy though was that Andrea was in her rare moods where she's giggly, happy, and pretty silly...its good to see her like that, having fun that is. All around one of the best days of my summer, which is already the best summer of my life.

Sunday was the 4th, independence day...went to a party with most of my aforementioned friends, and I had fun for around half of the party. I did notice though that those two girls were constantly getting between Andrea and me again, and as much as I tried to get close to her they would constantly push me away from her...the few times I did manage to be with her she seemed rather distant. Things really started to go downhill when the person who was setting off the fireworks tipped over the mortar, and all the fireworks went off around 20 feet from the porch that we were on. A couple of my friends managed to get down there and pull the guy out but...well, I freaked out. completely froze. I feel really, really, really bad now, mostly because Andrea was right beside me and I didn't move to help her or protect her or anything, and she could have gotten really hurt. I don't know...I was just so scared, and I couldn't think straight. I don't think andrea minded at first... she was really scared too and she's the understanding type. but then one of those two girls pulled her aside once the fireworks stopped, and andrea didn't talk to me the rest of the night...i don't know what they said, but I think they made it so that andrea was hurt by something I did, probably freezing by the fireworks. I just felt really bad for the rest of the day, really alone, and I left with Logan early. I just couldn't handle it.

From Monday to Wednesday (today) my family had to leave for a family emergency and I lived with Logan (who lives only around a 10 minute walk away) for the week so that I could stay behind to take care of the pets and everything. Andrea said that she felt really, really bad for the previous night, but it still really, really hurt for her to ignore me like that...but I'm more mad at that one girl who is trying to get between us and who pretty much caused andrea to ignore me. It happened again yesterday...one of the two girls was being really stubborn uptown, and logan, kim and I just got fed up with it and left, we didn't want to deal with it anymore. The thing is...I fully expected andrea to follow, seeing as she was being annoyed by it to, but she didn't follow us at all. I don't know...I guess those two "friends" of hers are more important than me (even though she keeps saying that I'm the best thing thats ever happened to her) and well...It hurts, a lot. I mean, I know that she really, really likes me and wants to be around me, but those two girls are keeping us apart...I've tried to stop it, but I only succeeded in getting one of them really, really mad at me and probably will try harder to keep us apart. Andrea is just really, really shy around other people (not around me, she is really outgoing when its just the two of us) and I think that its less of her fault than the fault of the two girls that are getting between us. It just makes me so mad and I feel helpless with the number of ways I'm trying to get close to her that keep failing...really, I don't know what to do. Andrea is one of the most important people in my life, and both of us Like each other a ton...but if I don't do something about these two girls, than...i don't know what will happen. I don't want to loose Andrea, but I can't see a way for us to be together with those two girls getting in the way...I need help is what I'm trying to say.

Hopefully the next week will be better.