I have been putting off updating this for way to long and now I've forgotten most of the stuff that has happened since the last time I wrote! So bear with me on this one, I'll try my best to remember everything.
So back in October my parents came down with my bro to celebrate my birthday. They bought tickets for the family and Lennea to go see David Copperfield downtown, but before they got here Lennea decided to give me the presents she got me. She got me some pretty rad stuff, I got Little Big Planet for ps3 which is tons of fun and I would suggest everyone to get it so we can play online together, and she got me some super pricey looking Armani cologne so now I always smell super good. Thanks Lennea :) A couple days after she gave me her presents was the day that my family was coming to stay, but before I could see them I had to write a Chem midterm. I was super sketched out about this test because out of all my classes at school Chem is wrecking me the hardest. I studied my ass off for the test and still pretty much knew nothing when I was writing it. Shit was haaaaaaaaaaaaard. After the test I was psyched though cause I had a sweet weekend ahead of me. I got home and shortly after my parents arrived. We greeted each other, unloaded all their gear and then I was given some birthday presents from Connor and a couple from my Grandparents. My bro got me the new Fucked Up album, a box of Capt'n Crunch and a $25 dollar gas card, all good stuff. Thanks Old Bendy. I also ratted Connor out for getting a new tattoo which Sid and Karen were non to pleased with.
After I opened the gifts we headed out to get some dinner and then went to the magic show. The show was awesome and David Cop did some mindfreak shit. I'm not gonna write about all the tricks he did cause most of them were super long and without seeing them I'm sure they would sound hella boring. Just go see the show for yourself...or get Old Bendy to fill you in.
The next day was pretty chill. We just went downtown and did some shopping. After that we came back home and my mom cooked up a big turkey dinner for us. Clayton came over and enjoyed the meal with us and helped cook and clean since Connor was way to lazy to do anything and just sat on the floor the whole time.
The next day my family left and it was back to just being me and Lennea. Things got pretty busy after that cause I had more Midterms and quizzes coming up and Jessica and Ramsay were coming to stay with us for awhile. So I was again stuck into the vicious cycle of going to school and studying while having no time to hang out, ugh.
Jessica and Ramsay got here a weekend or two after my parents left. It was good having them here. I'm always hyped to have company. We got up to the usual over the weekend, shopped it up, saw a movie, went out for dinner. It was good fun. I also ruined Ramsay at MLB and made him look like a wuss in front of his girlfriend. Burn.
On Monday Ramsay, Sean, Hunter and I all made a trip down to Tacoma to see Have Heart, Ceremony, Blacklisted and Letdown. There was a bit of mis-communication on who was going to drive but I was under the influence that Sean was going to take his car but apparently he didn't know and was a bit miffed at us for just assuming he was going to drive. To make it up for him I bought him 20 Hersey chocolate bars. I thought that would be enough but apparently (according to my bro) he is still complaining about the situation, so if you are reading this, sorry Sean and thanks for driving, the world is not going to end over it. Anyways, the show was crazy and kids were going nuts to Have Heart and Ceremony. I was singing along to HH the entire time and got headbutted in the face by some stupid green shirted kid like 3 times, so I "accidentally" elbowed him in the chops during one of the sing alongs. Yea, it was some serious pit beef. Ramsay was gettin slimey to Ceremony the entire set. I wasn't really that hyped to see Blacklisted so we headed to 7-11 in between Ceremony and their set. We ended up staying in 7-11 for about 45 mins looking at all the wild chocolate bars that the USA has. Once we got back we only saw about 1 and a half Blacklisted songs. Didn't look like we missed much though as it looked like the band didn't even care they were playing a show, all of them just stood on stage and put in little to no effort. Boooooooooooring, that band's old stuff is cool but I dunno how people are into the new jams, ugh. I forgot to mention this but on the way to Tacoma we stopped at Taco Bell and me and Hunter both got a Big Box meal. The thing was massive and you got all sorts of food. I couldn't even finish mine. So on the way home, Sean and Ramsay were feeling left out and we decided to stop there again. They both got the Big Box and me and Hunter also got some more food, I got a chulupa and Hunter got a couple burritos. Good stuff. The rest of the trip home was pretty chill and we got to Hunter's place around 2am. Hunter then gave us the worst directions ever on how to get back to the Highway and we ended up getting lost for another hour and didn't end up getting to my place until 3:30 in the morning. Damn you Hunter. Hunter also has the sweetest diet ever, we picked the kid up around 4pm and dropped him off at around 2am and in that period he ate, 2 chocolate bars, an ice cream bar, 3 burritos, a taco, a crunchwrap supreme, a few Arizona ice tea's, and the other stuff that the big box meal came with. Mmm Mmm! The next day I missed my morning class since I was hella tired but managed to man up and make my other 2 classes that day. I stayed late after school too cause I had a math midterm the next morning and couldn't really study with Ramsay and Jess there. I did as much as I could and just went for the test in the morning. Probably wasn't the best choice as I only got 65% on the test, weak. The rest of the week I had 2 more tests I had to write, one in Chem and one Bio one. I got them all back now and did pretty dece on them. The only one I really fucked up on was that Chem midterm I talked about back in the beginning of this blog. I got about 55% on that one. OUCH. My marks have been on the steady decline since the midterms were written. I'll have to step it up once finals start.
After the week ended I was hyped cause I got to fly home for the weekend to visit my family for my dad's 50th birthday party. I got there on Saturday and was expecting the party to be a little family get together but when I got in the house it was all decked out with balloons, banners, pictues and all sorts of other stuff. My mom also spent the entire day making loads of food for the evening. Later in the night people started showing up and everyone brought even more food. There was probably about 30-40 people there and it was alot of fun. Talking and catching up with family was a good time and hanging with friends (some of Connor and I's friends came to the party) was a fun time as well. We pretty much just hung out around the food all night and munched. The highlight of night was def when me and my Uncle Rick jammed out in the spare bedroom for awhile. He played drums while I was on the bass. Rick is the sweetest dude ever and has a rad beard. He was also gettin the munchies during the party if you know what I mean...(smokin weeed). The next night we went to a super metal show at MoeJoes. The bands that were playing were Toxic Holocaust, Kingdom of Sorrow and 3 Inches of Blood. It was actually pretty fun cause there was some gnar metal mosh going on and it was funny to watch all the drunk people losing their minds. The Vernon ski team was LOVING it, but even they couldn't step up to the undeniable stomp of King Cobra. Dude is haaard. On the last day in Vernon we went on a family hike up to Cougar Canyon which was kinda weird, but ended up being quite a bit of fun. Connor took a couple of funny spills and got out-hiked hard cause he doesn't have enough NP. That night I flew back to Van and Lennea was nice to pick me up from the Airport.
So back in October my parents came down with my bro to celebrate my birthday. They bought tickets for the family and Lennea to go see David Copperfield downtown, but before they got here Lennea decided to give me the presents she got me. She got me some pretty rad stuff, I got Little Big Planet for ps3 which is tons of fun and I would suggest everyone to get it so we can play online together, and she got me some super pricey looking Armani cologne so now I always smell super good. Thanks Lennea :) A couple days after she gave me her presents was the day that my family was coming to stay, but before I could see them I had to write a Chem midterm. I was super sketched out about this test because out of all my classes at school Chem is wrecking me the hardest. I studied my ass off for the test and still pretty much knew nothing when I was writing it. Shit was haaaaaaaaaaaaard. After the test I was psyched though cause I had a sweet weekend ahead of me. I got home and shortly after my parents arrived. We greeted each other, unloaded all their gear and then I was given some birthday presents from Connor and a couple from my Grandparents. My bro got me the new Fucked Up album, a box of Capt'n Crunch and a $25 dollar gas card, all good stuff. Thanks Old Bendy. I also ratted Connor out for getting a new tattoo which Sid and Karen were non to pleased with.
After I opened the gifts we headed out to get some dinner and then went to the magic show. The show was awesome and David Cop did some mindfreak shit. I'm not gonna write about all the tricks he did cause most of them were super long and without seeing them I'm sure they would sound hella boring. Just go see the show for yourself...or get Old Bendy to fill you in.
The next day was pretty chill. We just went downtown and did some shopping. After that we came back home and my mom cooked up a big turkey dinner for us. Clayton came over and enjoyed the meal with us and helped cook and clean since Connor was way to lazy to do anything and just sat on the floor the whole time.
The next day my family left and it was back to just being me and Lennea. Things got pretty busy after that cause I had more Midterms and quizzes coming up and Jessica and Ramsay were coming to stay with us for awhile. So I was again stuck into the vicious cycle of going to school and studying while having no time to hang out, ugh.
Jessica and Ramsay got here a weekend or two after my parents left. It was good having them here. I'm always hyped to have company. We got up to the usual over the weekend, shopped it up, saw a movie, went out for dinner. It was good fun. I also ruined Ramsay at MLB and made him look like a wuss in front of his girlfriend. Burn.
On Monday Ramsay, Sean, Hunter and I all made a trip down to Tacoma to see Have Heart, Ceremony, Blacklisted and Letdown. There was a bit of mis-communication on who was going to drive but I was under the influence that Sean was going to take his car but apparently he didn't know and was a bit miffed at us for just assuming he was going to drive. To make it up for him I bought him 20 Hersey chocolate bars. I thought that would be enough but apparently (according to my bro) he is still complaining about the situation, so if you are reading this, sorry Sean and thanks for driving, the world is not going to end over it. Anyways, the show was crazy and kids were going nuts to Have Heart and Ceremony. I was singing along to HH the entire time and got headbutted in the face by some stupid green shirted kid like 3 times, so I "accidentally" elbowed him in the chops during one of the sing alongs. Yea, it was some serious pit beef. Ramsay was gettin slimey to Ceremony the entire set. I wasn't really that hyped to see Blacklisted so we headed to 7-11 in between Ceremony and their set. We ended up staying in 7-11 for about 45 mins looking at all the wild chocolate bars that the USA has. Once we got back we only saw about 1 and a half Blacklisted songs. Didn't look like we missed much though as it looked like the band didn't even care they were playing a show, all of them just stood on stage and put in little to no effort. Boooooooooooring, that band's old stuff is cool but I dunno how people are into the new jams, ugh. I forgot to mention this but on the way to Tacoma we stopped at Taco Bell and me and Hunter both got a Big Box meal. The thing was massive and you got all sorts of food. I couldn't even finish mine. So on the way home, Sean and Ramsay were feeling left out and we decided to stop there again. They both got the Big Box and me and Hunter also got some more food, I got a chulupa and Hunter got a couple burritos. Good stuff. The rest of the trip home was pretty chill and we got to Hunter's place around 2am. Hunter then gave us the worst directions ever on how to get back to the Highway and we ended up getting lost for another hour and didn't end up getting to my place until 3:30 in the morning. Damn you Hunter. Hunter also has the sweetest diet ever, we picked the kid up around 4pm and dropped him off at around 2am and in that period he ate, 2 chocolate bars, an ice cream bar, 3 burritos, a taco, a crunchwrap supreme, a few Arizona ice tea's, and the other stuff that the big box meal came with. Mmm Mmm! The next day I missed my morning class since I was hella tired but managed to man up and make my other 2 classes that day. I stayed late after school too cause I had a math midterm the next morning and couldn't really study with Ramsay and Jess there. I did as much as I could and just went for the test in the morning. Probably wasn't the best choice as I only got 65% on the test, weak. The rest of the week I had 2 more tests I had to write, one in Chem and one Bio one. I got them all back now and did pretty dece on them. The only one I really fucked up on was that Chem midterm I talked about back in the beginning of this blog. I got about 55% on that one. OUCH. My marks have been on the steady decline since the midterms were written. I'll have to step it up once finals start.
After the week ended I was hyped cause I got to fly home for the weekend to visit my family for my dad's 50th birthday party. I got there on Saturday and was expecting the party to be a little family get together but when I got in the house it was all decked out with balloons, banners, pictues and all sorts of other stuff. My mom also spent the entire day making loads of food for the evening. Later in the night people started showing up and everyone brought even more food. There was probably about 30-40 people there and it was alot of fun. Talking and catching up with family was a good time and hanging with friends (some of Connor and I's friends came to the party) was a fun time as well. We pretty much just hung out around the food all night and munched. The highlight of night was def when me and my Uncle Rick jammed out in the spare bedroom for awhile. He played drums while I was on the bass. Rick is the sweetest dude ever and has a rad beard. He was also gettin the munchies during the party if you know what I mean...(smokin weeed). The next night we went to a super metal show at MoeJoes. The bands that were playing were Toxic Holocaust, Kingdom of Sorrow and 3 Inches of Blood. It was actually pretty fun cause there was some gnar metal mosh going on and it was funny to watch all the drunk people losing their minds. The Vernon ski team was LOVING it, but even they couldn't step up to the undeniable stomp of King Cobra. Dude is haaard. On the last day in Vernon we went on a family hike up to Cougar Canyon which was kinda weird, but ended up being quite a bit of fun. Connor took a couple of funny spills and got out-hiked hard cause he doesn't have enough NP. That night I flew back to Van and Lennea was nice to pick me up from the Airport.
So yea...I'm pretty sure that is all that happened over the past few weeks...I can't really remember anything else right now, maybe I'll remember later. I'm back at school now but I'm kinda having trouble with it because I just don't feel motivated. I'm really burnt out on school right now. I been at it for a bunch of years now and since I didn't really have a plan when I started I still have a ways to go before I get my degree. I am also kinda bummed on my switch from Arts to Sciences. The Science stuff definetly has a brighter light at the end of the tunnel but I really hate all the classes I am in. I also don't see myself wanting to do something in the Science field once I'm done school. I would switch back into the Arts but I have already done that and didn't like it which is why I switched in the first place! Ugh I'm in a bad spot school wise right now. I have been looking into a 2-d animation program at Vanarts so maybe I will do that next year, art has always been more fun for me than writing and I dont know why I didn't pursue a career in art earlier. It's only a 1 year program and I get a diploma at the end of it, so I figure it's worth a shot to take it. Still have alot to figure out before I jump into a whole different school though. Hopefully things will work out!
Anyways, thanks for reading. I hope I didn't but you to sleep!
Anyways, thanks for reading. I hope I didn't but you to sleep!
-Dan
