I have nothing good to say

Really, I don't, today was just a day, but I'm suprisingly upbeat, waiting on the weekend and waiting on Graduation, ever have one of those days where you're happy, but you really don't know why?

Its Tuesday...

So yeah, its tuesday and I'm bored. I dunno what to type and I'm waiting for Amanda to get out of school to talk. Damn the boredom, and damn the fact that my NR2003 disk is scratched beyond reading for my new pc, no NR2003 for me :( Anyone want to help me out with a copy?

Home again, and glad

It was a weekend. One heck of a weekend, from the constant ribbing from my family about Amanda, to the nearly constant harping on how I need to have a job lined up for when I come back after a nice 18 day vacation coming up in two weeks. I don't know which was worse, the lack of support about my relationship or the pressuring to get work right away.

Thursday was fun, being with Family again, having a great dinner, but Friday and work, and even though I went out to see friends later it just didn't end up as a fun night. I don't know, I know my parents mean well, but it seems they sometimes try to live vicariously through me, and they need to let me work at my speed, how I feel, when I want to go full steam into something, and not push and pull and prod my way into something. That being said, they made good points, and well you still have to listen to em even if they piss you off.

Oh well, I was glad I was back home, and with family and today I got some good news about my future after school, it'll be nice knowing I have somewhere to work after a 18 day vacation, I just hope they understand down the road.

Thanksgiving.

I have tons of things to be thankful for this year. From my parents and their gracefulness in helping me out with my finances while I'm in school, to my wonderful girlfriend, I have a lot to be thankful for.

Mom and Dad, you guys have helped me out in more ways then I thought you could, you've helped me find contacts to help me find names to send resume's to. Thank you for all the money you've given me to help me while I'm here chasing a dream here in North Carolina. Thanks for the kind words of encouragement and all the help when I was struggling with school, and seeing me through and finish school.

Amanda, you've given me something I never thought I'd get, the love and affection of a wonderful woman. Thank you for putting up with me when I've said stupid and out of place things, and making me feel like such a great person all the time. I love the way you have the ability to make me smile and laugh so easily.

To all my other friends online and offline, you've all been great to me this year. Even when I was being the biggest butthead the world has known, you have managed to stand by my side, even when I didn't think you were there at all. Thanks for everything.

I know this is early, but I won't have a chance to post it thursday, so you all get to see what I'm thankful for, and remember that we all have things to be thankful for this year.

Monday down, only 2 more days to go

Today is done with, and I only have 2 more days until I get to go home for my longest trip home in a year. I'm really looking forward to spending thanksgiving with family and being at home with friends again.

School was good, I think I'm really going to enjoy this class, it seems like it will be a really good class. I hope it works out like I think it can, because I'm pretty sure I could do pretty good in it. Learning a cool skill like making fenders on an english wheel is gonna be so much fun. Plus the fact that this is the graduation phase makes things so much better.

Only 12 more days of school! hehehehe

Congrats Tony

Tony Stewart, two time Nextel Cup Champion. Has a nice ring to it doesn't it? Tony Stewart dominated the last half of the NASCAR season, holding off challenges by Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, and Greg Biffle to take home the title. A wonderful race, a great finish, between Biffle and Martin and Stewart holding on and surviving to take home his second title. Now its on to see if he can defend again in 2006.

Homestead Miami Speedway has become an incredible track for a weekend finale. Progressive banking, and the ability to run multiple grooves on a 1.5 mile racetrack is incredible and I think it needs to be looked at and instituted at many racetracks across the country. Homestead and Irwindale are two of the best paved tracks to watch a race at in the country and their advanced progressive banking philosophy has made for incredible racing.

Boredom....

I'm bored and lonely. I can't believe its already been a week since I was in Canada, and I can't believe still how incredibly I feel for Amanda. The feelings are something I never thought I'd feel, never knew I could feel. Its so horribly painful to have to spend so much time apart, so much time away from eachother.

The internet and modern technology is such a wonderful invention and advancement in the modern world and its such a great medium for meeting and talking to people, yet there is something so wonderful about human interaction and when you find a wonderful person its so magical.

1 More class to go

I start my final class next monday, I'm so excited to be finished with school finally. To be in the last class now is so refreshing and knowing I'm three weeks away from completion of what has been my best time at school by far is really nice. That along with the fact that I have a 3.95 GPA makes me feel so good about school.

Found out when I'm going home for christmas, which is really nice, plus my return to Canada to see my sweetheart. I'm so ready for the next 6 weeks, its gonna be so much fun, so busy, so exciting.

Thursday Thursday

Thursday is a good day, usually the day that finishes up the week, Fridays are all down hill, so Thursdays are my days to get through. I'm glad this week is over, from the happiness of the weekend to the crap for having a "Canadian" as a girlfriend, its been a heck of a week. I'm just glad it'll soon be the weekend.

On a side note, only 13 more days I have to be at school. I'm soo looking forward to graduation, and then returning back home for a while. Thats gonna be loads of fun :)

Ouch...

So I was busy working along, building a box for my fabrication class, and I;m drilling out a hole to rivet it all together, when my right index finger decides it wants to know what a drill bit feels like when it goes between your fingernail and your finger. Yeah, its not the best feeling, it feels weird to type with it right now. I think I hit a nerve or something, cause it just feels wrong. So yeah I feel like a dumbass for not paying more attention to where my hand was in relation to the drill, but this is what I get.

Oh well I'll manage this, its just kinda not something I want, well nobody wants to be in pain, and now I'm rambling, so I should just end this here.

A Super Tuesday

Today was great, I'm still on the high from the weekend, and I know that everything in my life seems to be going so great. School was good, Work was just fine, but today just feels like a great day. This is the kind of feeling I could get used to for a long time. Hopefully everything will work out and I can have the woman of my dreams with me someday soon :)

In the meantime, here's a couple photos of me and Amanda at Niagara Falls

A Wonderful Weekend

Words can't begin to describe the range of emotions I had this weekend. From nervous anticipation, to utter jubilation, to the sadness of having to let it all go away. The past 4 days have been awesome for me, and Friday and Saturday are going to be days I will remember for a very long time.

Amanda, thank you for the wonderful smiles, and the great laughs, I had such a great time. My only wish was that I could stayed a little longer or been able to take you here with me. You're such a wonderful woman, I'm so lucky that I have found you. Thank you for making all the effort worth every second. You're such a special person, and I never plan on letting you go. Thank you for opening my eyes on a new world, a new country, and hopefully a new future for myself.

Last Update before the Weekend....

As well anyone who regularly sees this weblog knows I'm going on a little roadtrip this weekend, It should be lots of fun, seein Niagara Falls again and actually going into Canada, I'm going to enjoy it. So you guys get a reprieve from me for a couple days, and I get a relief and some relaxation.

Onto real news, or news thats slighly less important than that. Yesterday my net decided to crap out, so thats why I didn't update, kinda pisses me off when I don't have this thing.... oh well, Basically down to 4 weeks left in school, which is really nice, and I'm starting to look forward to graduation and finally being out of school, it'll be a welcome change. Busy busy times the next 2 months, hopefully I'll be able to keep a good handle on it all.

Wish me luck on this trip, and hopefully I'll get back in time to update this thing late Sunday night, if not then well I'll force you all to wait until Monday :p

Mondays....

God today took forever, its still taking a while. I have a feeling this whole week will be like this. Hopefully this weekend I can savor my time, and savor the experiences. I'm kinda bored today, the dragging allowed for lots of thought, all of which led to this weekend. As you can tell I'm really excited and I still have 3 full days to go before I can be on this trip. The next few days are gonna be lots of fun, getting ready and being prepared for a long roadtrip, it should be fun :D

Carl keeps on winning

Damn this kid is good. He's won 4 races before he's reached start 50 in his career, and if he was a rookie he would have broken Tony Stewart and Davey Allison's record for wins in a season by a rookie. The kid has talent, and I'm incredibly impressed by him.

The chase for the cup seems like its a three horse race with 3 to go, Tony Stewart has been consistant and tough to wrestle points away from the whole chase, but it seems as if he's lost a step, and the points could be really interesting going into Homestead. I'm looking for Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards to both be within 50 points of Tony going into that race, should make for some more drama and excitement in the last race of the season.

Buschwackers aren't helping...

Sure TV ratings for Busch races might be up, sure crowds might be rising slighly. However, there is an identity crisis in NASCAR, the stars of Sunday are polluting the future star market on Saturday, making it increasingly more difficult to determine what drivers really have the potential and reasoning to become contenders on the Nextel Cup level. Saturday stars are having to share way too much time with the Nextel Cup regulars on Sunday, and I used to be for the action, but looking at Today's race, and I'm not sure that any Busch regular led laps, or heck ran up in the top 5 for the whole day.

The Busch series needs an identity all its own, racing on different tracks, and bringing new people to the sport, whether NASCAR can realize that and work on solving the problem remains to be seen. Hopefully in the Future NASCAR can start to work on this. Maybe the NASCAR Rule limiting teams would be more for Cup teams having Busch teams and Truck Series teams, because thats where the resources and work is really being shown in the Cup cars.

Maybe I'm just ranting because I'd like to see different people winning races and running up front, but there needs to be new talent, and its just not there right now. Hopefully someday soon it will.

5 more to go

Counting down the weeks to my graduation, we're down to the final 5, it seems so long ago I was just starting the NASCAR classes and being happy to just be out of the regular automotive classes, and here I am, rapidly closing in on being done with this school. I'm down to the final week in the countdown to seeing Amanda, I can't wait to be back with her again, and this final week is gonna be so nice to get behind me, I wish today was the 11th rather then the 4th and I could be with her. 7 more days and I'll be a happy man, being in a new country, and being back with the woman who drives me crazy. I can't wait. :D

Its Thursday already?

Where did my week go? Here I was thinking this week would drag in anticipation and yet here it is and I can't believe tomorrow is Friday, and we're coming up on the weekend. Next thing I'll know I will be graduating. I'd like a trip back to tuesday and remeber where I left the rest of my week, cause I feel shorted. On the other hand, I'm only 8 days from my trip to Canada, so lets keep reeling them off, and before I know it, I'll be on the road to adventure.

Writers block...

I was gonna really write about something today. Honest. I swear I was. And then I forgot, and then I started thinking about other stuff, like money, and people and food. So I decided that this wasn't top priority, and this update would be short and sweet.

I'm stuck, what do you write about when you feel like there isn't anything new and exciting happening to write about. Its a pain in the butt feeling, but you work through it, because there are 5 people who religiously visit this blog, and they are my best friends and family I have. I'm glad they do, cause otherwise I'd be out here a lonely person. So thanks a lot guys, you listen to me ramble and bitch about my days, and always leave cool comments, or atleast Amanda does. Thanks for all your support.

Wow this turned out all nice and sappy, and I had no idea what I was writing about 4 minutes ago, whoohoo for ADD and randomness!

Blah Tuesdays...

Work was good, school was good, but it was just one of those days where it was just blah. Nothing seemed to really be exciting to me, and even I'm struggling to make this post tonight. Maybe I should blog on the strange phenomenon of bloggers and having their own forums, or the blogger who decides to leave a comment about his new forum, but doesn't ever have anything else to add to this place. I dunno, but it just seems kinda weird to me. I'd think I'd need a pretty good following to even think about keeping a forum open, and then all my comments would be there and not out in the open here for everyone to read. I'm rambling at this point, which shows that I'm trying to stretch this out into a worthwhile post, probably with little success. Sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet or in typing does it. Maybe I should work on that.... Oh well, Just like this post, the whole day its just been blah.