Home Sweet Home

I am officially done with my first semester of college, and I am finally home for longer than only four days. Praise God.

I was up VERY late last night since I slept so much yesterday; I originally wasn’t gonna say, but here it is: 5:30. I just wasn’t tired, and, when I DID lay down to sleep, it still didn’t happen immediately. I woke up first at 9:30 and saw Andrew out the door for his chemistry final, then proceeded to sleep another hour and a half before waking up (fully awake and refreshed, I might add; not tired at all). At that point, I finished packing up all of my stuff for the trip home, since I had already packed my band stuff and all of my video game stuff last night before I went to bed. I used my big suitcases this time instead of my duffel bag since I’m staying for much longer this time. After packing, Andrew showed up and started working on a couple of papers he had due today and I continued with making sure my side of the room was clean and that the dishes were done.

Then, at 1:20, I left for Holden Hall where my history final exam was being given at 1:30 and beasted that. It wasn’t too difficult at all; just a LOT of writing. All of our assignments in that class this semester were writing assignments, whether they were book analyses or essay exams. Today’s exam ended up taking four pages (front only) of handwriting. FOUR PAGES IN AN HOUR. But, other than that, it wasn’t bad at all.

After history, I went back up to the room and then left to go get my car at the parking garage, stopping by the music building first to get my concert horn so I can practice audition music for next semester just a bit over the break. Then I stopped by our residence hall and started carrying our stuff down and loading it up. Once we had all of our stuff loaded, we first went to Varsity bookstore nearby so that Andrew could return a textbook he had rented this semester and so that I could take care of some other business. Afterward, we made our way out, stopping only for gas and snacks/drinks (I’ve had sour gummy worms, a Vanilla Starbucks Doubleshot, and a bottle of green tea every trip so far; gotta keep it a tradition!). We finally hit the road at around 5:30.

The ride went very smoothly. The highway was a lot less crowded than I initially expected it to be, probably because people left yesterday or earlier today than we had. Who knows? We made good time to Abilene, where we always stop for dinner, and we got Subway for dinner…again. Ha, I LOVE Subway. Got the usual, of course. It didn’t take us too long to finish eating, so we got back on the road pretty soon (I don’t remember what time specifically). On the ride home, Andrew slept during most of the first stretch to Abilene, with me chilling to my Christmas music, but after we ate we listened to the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows audiobook by Jim Dale (I highly recommend it), since Andrew hasn’t read the whole thing before. We listened to four chapters.

We didn’t stop anymore until we got to Andrew’s house back home, and, after unloading his stuff, I headed to my house. My mom was already in bed, but she woke up long enough for me to talk to her a bit and hug/kiss her goodnight. I brought all my stuff inside, put the Tech ornament I had bought on the tree, and we all got ready for bed…of course, I had to type my daily blog first! May I mention that our house looks great? I love our Christmas lights every year, and just WAIT until you see our living room…here’s a couple of outside pictures, but I’ll wait until tomorrow’s post to show you the living room:

I started typing this post whilst watching some Family Guy (typical), but I turned the channel to Phineas and Ferb once that ended; have you ever watched Phineas and Ferb?! If you haven’t, you are most definitely missing out. I’m not even kidding. Turn to Disney Channel whenever it’s on and check it out. It’s SO creative and super funny. I don’t wanna give too much away for those who haven’t seen it, but trust me, please…watch it, for your own good.

Tomorrow, I plan on going to visit my old high school; well, at least the choir class since the head band director isn’t there this week. I also may go to see the play that the theatre department is doing, A Christmas Story. I didn’t get to see Arsenic and Old Lace when they put it on, so I really want to go tomorrow. There’s some friends who I haven’t seen in a long while who I’m looking forward to seeing again.

Has anyone seen the Disney Christmas Carol movie with Jim Carrey? I haven’t seen it yet, but it was directed by my favorite movie director, Robert Zemeckis, who also directed Back to the Future (my favorite movie), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cast Away, Polar Express, etc. He’s also remaking the old Beatles movie Yellow Submarine in CGI: I hope that turns out well.

Going back to Back to the Future, Telltale Games announced the official launch date of the new Back to the Future video game today: December 22. I’m SO excited. It looks like they’ve done a really good job with it; at least, I HOPE it’s good, since previous attempts at Back to the Future games failed miserably…

I’m pretty much out of things to say. I tried to keep going, but I’m done. Ha, goodnight, everyone. Safe travels if you haven’t made it home yet, and everyone have a great Christmas!

Chad

P.S. – My cat is awesome and I missed him a lot.  I got him when I was only nine nears old and when he was nine weeks old: Now, he’s nine years old and I’m nearly nineteen. My, how time flies! I love this cat so much. Meet Noel (named in light of the holiday for which I received him: Christmas, of course!)! I first got him on December 26, 2001.

KITTY

Sleeping. 🙂

Bloggity bloggity blog.

Hello blog readers of the world. I hope you had a great day.

Mine was decent. I woke up a little before ten, got dressed, and headed off to FBC Wolfforth. It was a good service, but the normal pastor wasn’t there today. The fill-in was decent, though. After the service, I started to leave, but as I got to the door some woman stopped me asked “Have you filled out a visitor form with us?” Keep in mind that this was at least my fifth or sixth time to visit this church and I hadn’t been stopped yet. So, she pulled me back inside, took me to the front desk, and had me fill out a visitor information card. Then I got a little goodie bag that had a mug, a note pad, a bag of popcorn (“Thanks for POPPING in!”), and what I think might be a Jesus music mix CD. Cool stuff.
After leaving the church, I hopped in my car, started up the Christmas music, and made my way to Home Depot with the intention of buying a new broom for Quidditch. Unfortunately, I had to go to the second Home Depot in Lubbock because the first one didn’t have what I was looking for, but no luck there either. Now that it was ten minutes until one (which is when Quidditch starts on Sundays), I was slightly frustrated and in a hurry. I got back to the school, walked to my room, changed clothes (sleeveless shirt and athletic shorts in 40 degree weather for the win), and headed to Quidditch. I was only 20 minutes late, and I showed up right as they were about to start the first game (“Chad’s here! You’re on the black team. We’re about to start.”).

After a long, full (with two seekers and the Snitch) match, we played a shorter match without the Snitch. Conner (the president and native beast) and Alex (the other beast) sat out, and the other team also got a new keeper who had never played before. Needless to say, we had 90 points when they only had 20. But then BOTH Alex AND Conner joined in…on their team. They caught up. Fast. Soon, it was tie game: 90 to 90 (we were only playing to 100!). I turned to the rest of my team and said, “Listen. We have one chance. If they get the ball from us again, they’re gonna score and win. We need to take the ball and sprint down as fast as we possibly can and score. I’ll cover whoever has the quaffle.” So we split, and, on the count of 3, set off in a sprint, me covering the chaser holding the quaffle (I play beater; well, I might add). One pass and a toss through the hoop later, we had won. It was awesome. What a great game.

The only problem with playing Quidditch in 40 degree weather is that it’s difficult to breathe. After playing out for two and a half hours, I was completely unable to take big breaths or to laugh without breaking out into a coughing fit for about an hour and a half afterward. We had a short meeting regarding the tournament Tech Quidditch is hosting in April (April 9th, to be exact, so you should come out and watch!), and then we went our different ways.

I went back to my room and tried to fix my computer. You see, there’s nothing really, truly wrong with it like a virus or a Trojan, but I’ve been having trouble with my laptop’s screen. Every once in a while the screen will black out completely when it’s plugged in to charge, making the only way I can do anything on it through my TV (they’re hooked up via HDMI cable; that’s what I’m using now). After spending an hour or two working on it alone and another hour or two spent with customer service, I had it arranged for a Dell technician to come out and replace my screen…for FREE (covered by warranty). It shouldn’t take long at all. Hopefully this’ll stop this problem from happening because it’s happened sporadically for quite a while now. It’s frustrating.

Other than all that mess, I went to Wal-Mart to get more milk (and ended up getting a 21 pack of Lofthouse cookies as well), to Dairy Queen to get a vanilla milkshake, and to Little Caesar’s to get two Hot-N-Ready pizzas (I had a coupon!) and Crazy Bread. Good stuff. Andrew got back a while later, after I had finished eating (I saved some for him too, so no worries) and had started on my music theory homework; nothing too difficult. It didn’t take me long.

And here I am. Nothing much else to see. Maybe I can manage to squeeze out another two hundred words or so though to reach 1000.

Oh! Go to translate.google.com. Paste this into the text box:

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Translate from “German”  to “German”. Then, on the right, click the “Listen” button. Make sure your volume is turned up and prepare to be amused.

Speaking of being amused, watch this!

Clicky (Do Right Click>Open in New Window so you don’t leave here)
Isn’t that incredible? I was definitely impressed. This guy is a winner. Even though he played a Lady Gaga. You know, it’s not that I don’t like her music; her music is FANTASTIC. She’s one heck of a songwriter, to rival Lennon/McCartney and Freddie Mercury (Freddie’s song for Queen, “Radio Ga Ga”, is where Lady Gaga gets her name from), but I don’t care for most of her lyrics or for her very much. I always say, “man, I wish that Lady Gaga used her songwriting powers for good instead of evil.” Amirite or amirite?

Anyway, that’s pretty much it for tonight. By the time I finish this paragraph, I’ll be past 1000 words and it’ll be time for bed. Plus, it’s the last Monday of the semester tomorrow (not counting the next Monday since it’s only finals)! I’m excited to go home. So, goodnight everyone. I hope you all sleep well. I’ll be back for more bloggity-blogging tomorrow.

Chad