Thursday, December 25, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008

READ THIS NOW!

I've got something great to tell you all, or at least those of yout that might actually read this! One of my videos on youtube is the 94th most viewed video in the category of Non-profits/activism in South Korea. This is a first! I've never been on one of the most viewed video lists before, so it's rather exciting!
I'm sitting down in the commons at Delta right now. I just spent about two hours commenting on project for awesome videos, and about half an hour before that studying. But, that's not the point of this blog...there's this lady next to me...well not directly next to me that is asleep and snoring! arg! Hearing her snoring will eventually get on my nerves but hasn't yet.

Project for Awesome

GO PROJECT FOR AWESOME! Project for Awesome is a yearly movement away from normal youtube videos to videos about charity to decrease world suck. So lets decrease world suck even more this year! GO TO YOUTUBE AND RATE, FAVORITE AND COMMENT ON ALL PROJECT FOR AWESOME VIDEOS!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Recent conversation

So I found a conversation that my bell choir had about a year ago. Well, it wasn't completley a conversation, but more of a joke that someone pulled.

We start playing a peice that uses both bells and chimes. Someone picks up their chimes instead of their bells, and plays those. Dave (our director at the time) cuts us off.

BILL: Next chimes a charm!

Family Reunion picture


I just got this picture via e-mail thanks to my moms older sister. It was taken in early August 2008 during our family reunion after my moms moms 80th birthday party. We were on the deck where we were listening to music, dancing and drinking. My aunt Julie literally laid down on the deck in the middle of the little circle of us that were dancing, and snapped this picture. I think she took several others of us during the dancing, but this is the one I've seen. I thought I'd share it with everyone.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

2008 in review

I was just thinking about the past year, and all the chaos that has happened since the beggining of the year. First off, I had a terrible winter 2008 semester, and realized that nursing is what I really want to do right now. I also had a job interview in January with the Great Lakes Loons (www.loons.com) for a food service position during the home games, and got a job there scooping ice cream, and making sundaes, bannana splits and ice cream cones. So I spent April through September at Dow Diamond scooping ice cream during home stands.

I spent time at church playing in the bell choir and working in the nursery where I chased kids around for hours on end.

Around July 4th, my parents and brother went on a trip to Wisconsin leaving me home because of my job. So I spent about a week home along, where I slept on the couch every night, watched the crappy Midland Fireworks, sent off a few fireworks of my own, watched way to many movies and too much TV, saw Wall-E in theaters twice, and worked Loons games. I also worked the Single A Midwest leauge all star game, and enjoyed it SOOO much. Then August rolled around, and it was time for the family reunion. My parents and brother left early to get there to spend time with my dad's parents since I had a couple games to work before my break began. I ended up driving the two and a half hours from Midland to Ludington where I took the four hour trip on the ferry across lake Michigan. Once in Wisconsin, my dad and his parents picked me up, and we went out to lunch. After lunch we dropped my dad's parents off, and drove the hour and a half to my mom's parents house. It was there that the reunion officially began with some tubing, and relaxing with books around the house. On the second day of the reunion was my mom's mom's 80th birthday party. That party was fun with all the drinking, food, music, family, and friends. During the party, seven of the cousins including my brother and I recited an ode we wrote for our grandma from memory.

In early september the fall semester began, and I began on the long road to becoming a certified Pharmacy technician. Since then i've also been working on writing a second screenplay, a novel, and worked at my school work, played in my chruch's bell choir and worked in the church nursery. I'm definatley looking forward to a new year, and new great memories that I'll be able to remember with a smile on my face.

In other quick, right now news, I'm sitting at Delta College, watching the school closings hoping that Delta Closes before my class is supposed to start so I dont have to go and can go home.