XMAS LIST: What I want...

1. NO DRAMA:  Drama sucks, stresses me out. Not good!!

2. GO TO STATE:  Senior year, we've all worked hard. It's time!!

3. AP CALC TO MAGICALLY BECOME EASY:  That class makes me feel challenged. I don't like feeling insignificant.

4. REAL NICE BASKETBALL SCHOLARSHIP:  I've worked my butt off my whole life, really want this to pay off.  It would make college so much easier.

5. NEW IPOD:  Mine disappeared mysteriously.  Lack out music makes me cranky!

6. MY BUTT TO HEAL:  I can't go full throttle and I feel like I'm letting my team down.

7.  WEEK LONG VACATION:  After basketball ends a road trip or vacation with friends would be real nice, and well needed.

8. BASKETBALL TEAM TO STATE HEALTHY:  This would help us have an amazing season; go to state!

9. MY MOM TO BECOME LESS MOODY:  She's been real cranky lately.  I don't like being in the same house with her.

10. BRONCOS TO MAKE IT TO THE SUPER BOWL:  So I can tell people to suck it, mainly Cory.

To be, or not to be....(modern)

To live, or to die, which is better:
Do others believe it's more honorable to suffer
The obstacles and struggles this life offers
Or to change one's path in today's troubles,
By taking their own life.  To die--to sleep--
Never more; and by this is to kill
The pain, and life's misery
That everyone is bound to endure.  Death is but a wish
Only to be dreamt of.  To die--to sleep.
To sleep--in hope of dreaming: but, there's the catch!
When dead there will be no dreams
But also more mortal troubles,
Must give us time.  There's the respect
That makes the struggles of life so long lived.
Why would anyone want to endure the pain and heartache of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's humiliation,
The pains of hated love, the natural pause,
The rudeness of officials, and the rejects
That calm merit of the unworthy takes,
That he himself might his release make
With a razor blade?  Who would bare these burdens,
To work and struggle under a dreaded life,
But that is the dread of something after death--
The unknown terrain, from which
No traveller returns--confuses the mind,
In return makes us want to endure the pains we have
Then go places we are unsure of?
But over thinking makes cowards of us all,
And thus the actuality of acting
Is covered by the shadows of thought,
And components of the moments
with this concern their thoughts turn awry
And forget about action.--Oh!  There you are!
Beautiful Ophelia!--Goddess, in my prayers
Forgive me.

Damage Review of Thanksgiving Break

After examining the "break" I came to the conclusion that it was an overall wholesome, lazy, yet almost sleepless weekend.  Late Wednesday afternoon kick started the holiday, the night included almost no sleep, followed by an early morning which officially started fit of exhaustion, which I am still suffering from.  Turkey-day was full of over stuffing oneself, a lot of laying around, football watching, and a start of ruining the somewhat good shape I was in.  Black Friday would have been the death of me, to my benefit I skipped out on the shopping extravaganza and went running, visited the gym for two hours, and spent a quiet night at home with my mother.  Yet Saturday, my mother and I ventured into "Chaotic Billings," where hoards of committed shop-a-holics still lingered in hope of more holiday savings.  The frightening, overcrowded, disgusting bathrooms at the mall, which I reluctantly HAD to use before I peed my pants (I usually never use public restrooms, not even the high schools), may be the cause of the illness I seem to be encountering.  Sunday was an adventure all by itself.  It was spent "tree hunting" with a good proportion of the senior class.  The day overly consisted of unorganization, crappy lunch, and some violent cross winds, that tried to destroy our day's work of cutting, loading, and strapping the Christmas trees down to a flat bed trailer.  The night encompassed watching scary movies at a friend's and not accomplishing much homework.  Damages the weekend entailed:  scratches and bruises from attempting to be a lumberjack, headaches from annoying peers, high blood pressure from horror flicks, spending way to much money, and sleep deprivation.

I think I'll live!!