The Year In Review
Its been over a year since I updated this thing. Last time I hadn't even graduated yet and I was just looking forward to summer. Since then......
Graduation was nice and all but it was certainly nice to be done with the whole high school era. I don't remember too much about it, it was cool going up there to get my diploma and shake hands and all that but coming back there was a certain sadness because I knew exactly who I would and would not ever see again. Which actually was both good and bad. I remember I got out of the church pretty fast and just left after taking a picture or two with erik and my fam i think? We went to a nice dinner at Antonios I think. Oh and just to clarify for anyone who did not previously know Marx, Murray, and myself had Freddy the Falcon all summer. We also took the senior class's banner and hung it across the Church front door with "We've got 05 on it" on the back. Yes so lets see what I remember about summer. Some of it was spent with Marx and Murray going around doing stupid shit on video in the Freddy the Falcon costume like stealing stuff from convenience stores, playing the drinking game quarters, stealing a plant from Farmer Jack, running across shopping carts, and probably a little more. Then taking pictures like of Freddy with some alcohol passed out on a table or tied up in a chair. That brought a lot of fun. I didn't see much of Erik and Justin in the summer and the ladywood girls except for a pistons game.
Went to a lot of graduation parties naturally like Mary Macs, Petts, both Sams, Dans, Eriks, Nancys, Justins, Shannons, Bills, Seans, Rachels i missed, Jennifer Nasals, Chazs, Lori B's, Andrew Goodes, Bridgets, and naturally mine. And I actually have a story for most of them.
Mary Macs I distinctly remember the "Pistons Candle of Hope" Max created that led the Pistons one game short of a back to back NBA championship. We played a game of basketball and I drove with Marx.
Petts was kinda weird I was only kinda friends with her but I went just cuz, it was a shitty ass rainy day but she had food that I enjoyed eating and looking through her albums was cool.
Sam M's party was fun for me a lot of friends there to hang out with and it was one of the first parties of the year i think. I remember we told people there that we took Freddy and it was funny cuz Mrs. Knuth showed up with no idea that it was us.
Sam D's party was actually sorta cool talked to Kujawa and Klotzer a lot and some other people I just remember having fun playing some badminton with Marx.
Dans party was cool because he had good food and an ice cream thing! Props and kudos.
Eriks party was sort of funny because it was like my DC friends and the ladywood group were complete separate and it was awkward. Saw some cool old school pics of me and E Liv. Came over right after a family party.
Nancys has the distinction of being probably the shortest time I was at a party. I felt uncomfortable most of the time.
Justins party ended up being one of my favorite grad parties that I attended because it had a lot of people that I enjoyed, solid food, they had one of the jumpy inflatable moonwalks where we recorded me in the Freddy Falcon costume throwing his little brother around. Then I think we had a bonfire and I remember it was great talking to Sarah, Jessy, and Maureen and Nancy, Woj, and Erik. Just a good party overall, can't remember if we went swimming or not?
Shannon K's was the last time I saw her. She really took offense when I questioned her about the rape thing although I didn't mean it that she was lying. Oh well the party itself was alright, decent food but myself and Chaz didn't enjoy seeing some of the people who showed up.
Bills party sucked ass!! Not because of the actual party because that was alright I remember good drinks I remember. I think we kept throwing little things at each other or something. The worst is my car died right on the first surface street and had to get it towed and all that. Dan Boyle was awesome for sticking with me til my dad came.
Sean Elys party was cool just because of the fact that I saw him for the first time in forever. Always one of the guys I talked to since St. Roberts I went to his party to show I was still friends with him, and although I haven't seen him since, still hes a pal. Its one of those "always a friend" things. Pistons were playing during the game, sorta awkward just because all his friends were there and I didn't really kno em. Nice tho.
Rachel Deans party I slept through half on purpose and half by accident. I was pissed at her for being so weird just because I thought she was cool and I liked her. I decided I was going to attend her party for a very very short amount of time. But I ended up sleeping through all of it.
Jennifer Nasals probably was the most unexpected good party for me since I wasn't that good friends with her. She had free drinks and that day I fell in love with Smirnoff Twised. She had a moonwalk but filled it with water and soap suds so it was awesome to go in! I didn't have a suit but didn't let that stop me in the least. I was glad Chad was there cuz besides him I wouldn't have had people to talk to. The dirty ass pool was actually cool as well because we could clean off the suds from the moonwalk.
Chazs party was a lot of fun as well happening right after Jennifers. There was some cool typical Chaz people there and we had some good fun talking to people. He had a bonfire that we stayed out at for a long time. The best part however was when me Bill and Klotzer spent the night. Chaz was away and we wanted to set up a tent so we decided we would go on the roof and do it because that was a kick ass idea! We take all the shit up to Chazs room and all of a sudden Klotz and Bill leading the way stop after they turn on the light....then I'm like whats going on and then I see this random old guy I've never seen squinting at us in Chazs bed. We said sorry closed the door and started busting out laughing. Oh it was so funny and Chaz (who was in a bad mood) got mad at us afterwards although it was just one of those nights with the giggles.
Loris party was pretty good. She had very solid food and drinks with some hired relative bartenders (child labor getting pop). Got to talk to some awesome people there I think even some people that I hadn't seen much of.
Goodes party was sorta lame just because it lacked other people. He had some hilarious pictures tho and it got certainly better when Marx and Murray and I think Kahtryn Yaros arrived.
Bridgets party I wasn't at incredibly long and it was very crowded with her family and stuff. Most of the time there was spent just talking to her and looking at her very large and lengthy photo albums.
My party was on June 12th and I had a decent turnout for the people I invited. Very disappointing turnout from my Brighton relatives kidswise which was a bitch because I went to all of theirs as a kid, screw that if they think I'm coming to any of those that haven't had a grad party yet. Lots of friends came and it ended a little early, me and Marx went that night to Chads house to watch the Pistons game.
Well thats it for the grad parties at least the most memorable ones...
Some other random moments of summer that I remember. I think we went to a party at Lori H's house with Sara M and her friend and Marx and that was a great time. Didn't have much to drink but it was cool talking to people and a couple crazy things happened. Dude jumps off the roof into a tiny kiddie pool. That night I happened to fulfill a dream I'm sure many men have. I slept in the same bed with Nancy Parks. Hahaha. Well ya kno it wasn't quite the same since me and Nano were like best of friends, sorta takes away some of the magic of the idea. But oh well. We had a great mickey d's breakfast in the morning and I got home and suckily had to go straight to church.
I missed the Spree fireworks! Tis a shame but no one was home.
Me and Marx tried to have a waterfight but foolishly scheduled it on a holiday weekend where most of the people were gone. It was much smaller than we imagined but it was still sorta fun. Bought a gun specifically for the occasion!
One very sweet day came around July 4th in Taylor when Bill had people over for fireworks. It was rocking (when I finally found the place) because they were all on the roof. This was also the first day that Chaz had come back from meeting his family in Korea and that whole life changing experience. After the fireworks we had a mediocre bonfire where chilling inside the house ended up being more fun.
There was some definitely fun Ann Arbor trips but I also remember at least one really bad one where Diane and Rachel bitched and bitched about being home at 11. It was certainly very disappointing to leave after being there for only about an hour considering in me and Chaz's plan they weren't invited in the first place. We said that we would never go to Ann Arbor again with them, but we'll see if thats really gonna happen.
Aimee Surma had this really cool party that was like a St. Roberts reunion during summer. I had talked to Ely about it a lot and he was supposed to show up and never did. But there was lots of other friends to talk to like Matt and Tommy, I saw Todd briefly, spent lots of time talking to Jeff Bowling and Schrock and Ben. Remember we went swimming and Aimee got upset that people were drinking. Fun night, nice to see old familiar faces.
One night Rachel had this bonfire that ended up being one of the better nights of the summer. We had a great bonfire where Chaz kept rifling off some interesting questions that were either funny or serious. My favorite was if you could have sex with any Disney character who would it be? Another was the typical if you could be a superhero what power would you have and so on. Rachels parents heard most of this which was kinda funny. After some of us went to Rams Horn for some food a nice way to end the night.
Camp Dearborn with the Skoras was quite the trip. Went and spent a day at their little camp out tent which came right after me Deegan and Billy pulled an all nighter listening to Dirty Little Secret over and over before it became popular. We went to breakfast and to Target in the morning where I bought a frisbee. I got like 10 minutes of sleep at the camp when we were all jsut chilling in the tent. There was swimming and beaching it up where we played keep away football in the water. Me and Bill ambushed the group with water guns on the beach. We used those cool feet powered boats and made a whole chain after first doing like an attack then get away strategy of chase while we were messing around. Chazs hot friend Nicole came up to meet us all but she only stayed for 15 minutes. Fun but tiring trip.
That was summer, then as August loomed closer and closer I got more sad with the thought of being left alone with only Bill, Sara, Nancy, and Klotz to hang out with all the time at home. Not that those people were bad, just the fact that all my other good friends would be gone away at school and I would only see them on the rare holiday. Actually me and Nancy had a pretty depressing phone conversation about this.
One thing that was cool was I was just getting into the flow of myspace and facebook and talking to some people that I hadn't in ages. One person I reconnected with was Renee. I actually ended up hanging out with Renee, Sheryl, and Missy all at once! Amazing after not seeing any of them for 3 years. Fun too. Another day had me and Renee going out to Ann Arbor....took us 2 hours because Renee missed the exit.....twice and then ended up in a part of the city that I had no idea. Good times tho.
One of the first couple friends of mine on facebook was Kellie Burgess of all people. From St. Roberts, hadn't talked to her...ever! But hadn't seen her since graduating eighth grade. Being myself I sent her a nice message cuz I did think it was cool of her to search for me and add me. Then like next day she IMs me and surprise surprise she is very cool to talk to. She actually made my day. So next couple days I spent talking to her and we're actually becoming like real friends and she says I can call her if she wants. So being very unlike me I actually did it...and wow! I've never felt more comfortable on the phone with a person. Usually theres silence but no I had just as much fun talking to her on the phone as I did online.
So basically I'm not doing much every day, I'm going to school coming home, perhaps doing homework and then doing my own thing which involves a lot of onlining. I'm also calling Kellie kinda often and enjoying every minute of it. Then a sort of trend starts happening. Every day I talk to her shes upset about her boyfriend of about 2 years. I'm pretty good at comforting people when I try and so I tried to talk it out with her and stuff. She was very indecisive about doing something about it when shes getting unjust treatment just for going away for school. Somewhere between all this I'm kinda starting to have feelings more than just friendship for her. It changed from wanting her to end things with her boyfriend because he made her sad all the time to a situation where I wanted to be the one making her happy. What was awesome was that she liked me too and after one memorable conversation I knew that something between me and her was more than fantasy.
Another thing that was cool was that people were coming home like after 2 or 3 weeks of school to hang out for the weekend. Chaz one time brought his new g/f home and his other friend from Albion but the cool thing was it wasn't like they were at school every weekend. Me and Sara became friends again because we basically decided that fighting was pointless. So me and her hung out sometimes now! Watched some movies togehter and just chilled. And also Billy and I were doing stuff, and I was still as I have been since like 3rd grade been hanging out with Klotz on the occasion. A memorable moment was Bill and myself going to buy Halloween stuff although we knew we were probably doing nothing on the date, I bought a fake cleaver and he bought a sword, an axe, shield, and armor he could totally kick my ass with his weapons too i'll admit.
Me and Kellie finally hung out when she was home for the Divine Child homecoming game. I was nervous as hell and it made things worse that I was late coming back from helping my uncle move in to his new house. So I get all ready and go to her house which was thankfully easy to find and when she comes out shes looking better than she did in the pictures on the computer. My worry was that we had one of those things that like it was so easy talking online and on the phone but that it would be very awkward in person. Wrong again. Things got comfortable very quickly! We were talking the whole way there. We had to pick up the Asian first and then at the game it was exciting to see everyone I knew, though i felt bad for Kellie because she only knew Jenny Doher.
We had a good time through the game and even saw Michael O Connor haha but he didn't recognize Kellie. On the way to the car Kellies boyfriend calls her and is talking to him for a bit which was kind of annoying. I was getting quite sick of this guy hurting the girl I was starting to care a lot about, and the fact that she hadn't dropped him yet. We both had plans after the game so I had to get her home quick. When we got to her house ya kno I had a fleeting thought of kissing her (and she thought I was going to) but decided it wasn't the right timing especially with the call she had just gotten off. So I gave her a hug and off she went.
One random occasion I'm talking to one of Kellies friends Denise and she wants to meet me and I said how about now? And she surprisingly said ok. So I wait in my driveway and she comes up and we had a good conversation about people we knew and cars and Kellie, but man that girl could talk I remember thinking hahah.
I'm getting increasingly mad at Kellies refusal to make a decision between me and her now ex boyfriend sometime in October. I had a lot of trouble understanding why she still cared for this asshole that continues to make her feel bad about the same damn thing. I'm getting mad at her some days and being frustrated others but we're still having fun talking to one another. Denise, who I semi regularly talk to and hang out with at this point, keeps trying to helpfully explain the situation to me.
So Kellies home Halloween weekend and we're supposed to hang out one day but something came up for me where I couldn't hang out long, but honestly I was scared so I didn't want to hang out for three hours anyways. I worked on Saturday and I sent her text messages, which we had been doing a lot of. Ahh she sent me a couple amazing ones that just made me feel so good. But we're talking about possibly hanging out Sunday, yet I had my brothers bday dinner at my house to go to. My family and I, as we had done a lot of at this time got into fights about jobs and I remember it just being an awful day. Then its like 10 oclock and Kell says I should come over and I get scared again plus I was just pissed off from earlier. I figured that I would just ruin things going over there mad. Then I'm figuring I won't even be allowed out of the house, and then everyones in bed! So its like 1 something in the morning I think and I finally decide ya kno screw it I can sneak out the side door of my house. This is Devils Night mind you so cops are all over the place, i'm freaking out because of them, because I'm sneaking out, and because of what might happen with Kellie. So I get to her house and shes out in front with the dog. A lot less talking than normal this time with a lot of the convo focused on dogs haha. I'm really just wondering like oh god should I kiss her what should I do for most of the time. We then go in the backyard and are throwing Trixie a tennis ball. Now its like 3 in the morning and we finally decide its time to go. Resisting the urge to just walk away to my car and chicken out I stay and am like kinda close to her against the side wall. I was shaking. I said something like wow I can't believe how nervous I am after wanting this for so long. Then I kissed her. It wasn't the greatest quality kiss (my bad) but it was an amazing first kiss. Couldn't believe the lasting effect it had on me on the ride home and after. Kellie sent me another great text message "Was I dreaming or did that just happen?" Glad no one pinched me for that one. Wow.
Thing is still no decision on the guy situation in November, and I'm not even sure if shes trying to break it off with "him" to get with me or to fix things with him. She can't answer the question when I ask which made me very sad at times. Next time we hang out is Thanksgiving break and I hang out with her for almost the whole thing! Great time playing monopoly, watching movies, just hanging out and talking. Had a good Thanksgiving with tons of food, and hilariously Mat Marx kept fucking up the directions to pick me up from my aunt and uncles house. He was doing me a huge favor by taking me to see Kellie tho, theres reasons why someones a best friend.
Unfortunately after Thanksgiving I find out that Kellies still with her boyfriend, in fact they got back together pretty quickly after breaking up. I was very hurt and disappointed that she lied to me about this and cheated on him with me. I don't even remember how we figured out that one that things were ok. But we did.
So now its December and schools coming to a very mediocre end. I was having a kinda shitty semester where I just didn't put in the effort to get good grades in certain classes. I was working with Lori Bologna kinda a lot on this term project for MIS that was very frustrating since it was like a here ya go, apply your knowledge and solve it situation. We met with our Professor twice to figure things out and I'm actually glad we finished the project successfully getting a good grade. The one thing that didn't happen much was making friends. I hadn't seen Nick Podges who I had kinda become friends with after meeting at a couple random events. The only person I'd really call a friend was this girl Lauren in my Anthro class that I talked to on myspace some. Doubt that woulda happened if I went away to school....meet one damn person. Oh well, I liked the friends I had. Ended the semester with a very mediocre 3.1 something, not my best.
I can't remember exactly when this was but there were two fun days where me and Marx went sledding with Denise and Sheryl, and then Denise and Nicole. Both times we went to Ford Field and had a heck of a time! The time with Denise and Nicole I remember we tried different stuff like throwing a football to each other on sleds, and afterwards we went back to my house and watched Road Trip. When we were with Sheryl, her and Denise were together on one sled and went off this huuuge bump, and the snow was only half there, but yea so the girls bonked heads getting air off this bump and said me and mat had to both go down. And I'm like....ehh cuz I had hurt myself the last time. Mat goes off it gets some sweet air and goes banging down and hurts himself. I go from a hill a little bit aways and then i turn the sled and go right into the bump with huuuuge air and come crashing down it hurt so bad i was 3 feet up tho which was crazy fun.
So the day I finished my finals on a thursday I think I am talking to Denise and Kellie between times while this huge snowstorms going on, cancelling all the night finals. I schedule a snowball fight that I keep getting calls back that no ones going. Then Denise wants to come over and talk about something about her boyfriend. I'm kinda like ugh! I have things to do! And when I get home I have to shovel the driveway thats very snowy already. So I'm doing that and planning on shoveling while talking to Denise then leaving to go to Chazs for a snowball fight! So I see a car driving slowly down the street and I'm like alright thats her, and continue shoveling, thinking shes driving some other car cuz its not her very recognizable blue car. Then she gets out and starts walking up and I look up for a second when shes at the end of my driveway for a quick glance....I turn my head back down then jerk my head back up...and its Kellie! Home one day early! I'm shocked honestly like I was beyond reaction I was just so surprised. She could tell too, I was certainly not ready to see the girl I like, I'm in crap clothes, working, and about to eat. So she explains the whole thing to me how she always knew she was coming home early and like almost had to spill the beans when I told Denise I didn't think I was gonna hang out with her. After a great night of it being me and her (I kinda ditched the snowball plans since no one was coming anyways) I asked her out, though she only realized that I was actually asking it when I said it again! I couldn't help myself I had been waiting over a month for a chance and I took it on December 15th, one day before her bday and 3 before mine. Ahh! We're a couple! Sweet!
So I had gone shopping with Denise and Sheryl to get Kellie both a bday and Christmas present. I ended up getting this basket from bed bath and beyond for her with some secret info from her mom thanks to Denise. We looked for this Harry Potter trivia game for a price I could afford but couldn't find it after searching 3 stores. My mom helped me out finding me a set of glvoes and a scarf for her in green, her fav color. Along with that I bought her some of her favorite candy that she mentioned to me before.
On Kells bday, December 16th I didn't get over to her house until late, like 10. I met her cousin Jenni for the first time and the three of us went sledding at Western Golf Course, where I worked for like a day. After her cousin left and we hung out for a bit more we said goodbye and I gave her the present of the scarf/mitten set with the candy. She seemed to genuinely like it and that made me happy. She really was doing a lot of that whole making me happy business.
December 17th.....
On my birthday my whole family came over for pizza and all that and Kellie eventually came over and gave me her present, consisting of two packs of Twisters Sours and the 40 Year Old Virgin, yet she thought I wasn't old enough for the unrated version lol. Yay! Denise had driven her over. It was really nice having her there and getting her to meet my family although she was kinda quiet. Is it bad that I can't really remember what people got me? I think I got a couple video games Star Wars Battlefront 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Hitz 2003? a couple dvds, and I think my parents got me a Playstation 2 one a the lil tiny ones its awesome. But yea my fam rocks at presents. Spent some alone time with Kellie to end the night.
So yea after some more hanging out nights that I can't separate too much from one another, besides the one I remember where I watched the 40 Year Old Virgin with Kell, Mat, and Denise. Kell and I were set on hooking up Mat and Denise and it only kind of worked. Mat didn't end up being into it in the end but oh well we tried.
The next big event was Christmas Eve which unfortunately was spent away from Kellie. I miss the tradition we used to have of exchanging presents between the siblings right before mass. So instead we meet up at the place and the normal far above average crowd is there and the same things as usual happened in the mass. The best part by far always is the paegant about the birth of Jesus performed by the children from the REP. Oh man I'm shocked I don't have that memorized because its been the same script since I was 4 years old. "Hear ye Hear ye" thats all I kno how it starts out. I only have like 100 more lines of dialogue to remember and i'll have it down. Sweet little random fact right here. The golden boxed used as a gift by the three wise men in the Christmas Eve Paegant originally belonged to yours truly that my creative mother made out of an oddly shaped shoe box for one of the music recitals that the school made us do, god I hated those. Except for the one time where we sang Stand By Me around the piano that teacher was so cool! But so after the mass as the siblings joked about the usual mishaps that occur like people delaying lines or Mary looking massively tall compared to Joseph, or the real baby Jesus that has only been there the past 4 years or so crying his eyes out, etc. Its pretty much tradition. We went over to my grandmas house after for the usual festivities of food and watching A Christmas Story...but this was the first year I don't get presents from the aunts and uncles (above 18) and man what a killer. I did get a pity gift from my Aunt Jane tho and some great M&Ms and a Target gift card from my grandma (which I've waited 6 months to buy the Billy Talent CD with). I miss my grandpa though its sad hes not around anymore. Went to bed decently early.
Woke up not incredibly early the next morning...another tradition I miss is opening the gifts before going to my grandma and grandpas house in Brighton but what can you do when we live in separate houses now and don't have the myth of Santa Claus to delight our minds. Everything was pretty typical from my dad being annoyed that we haven't left yet, the breakfast casserole, my dad being hilarious joking around with his brothers mostly about my grandma, and seeing everyone. I always find it awkward a little bit even tho I recognize most of them as family like just that I see them once a year I don't kno its hard to be close with people like that. And when I mean recognize them as family like the married in family some of them i'm awkward with. Went over to my Aunt Carol and Uncle Neils after and I kept trying to get home early to see Kellie. My mom announces I have a girlfriend and I pretended to be watching the Pistons Heat game as tho not to hear. The Pistons won that game btw.
Came home and at like 7 oclock we finally opened presents and I got one of the games I think that I mentioned for my bday, doesn't really matter which one, its the thought that matters! So yea my parents couldn't afford to give us gifts this year which was alright as we're all old enough to not mind and especially with all their super generosity in the past giving us wayyy too many gifts. They got us Super Bowl shirts and hats from the casino where they have a bunch of points to spend so that effort by them was really nice. Had some sort of dinner, perhaps lasagna whatever it was surely delicious as most of my moms food is. Kellie then finally came over, i went to pick her up, and she looked beautiful all dressed up. She gave me a gift of this puzzle thing and I gave her the set from bath and body works I had gotten. She said she felt cheap but I was like whatever I didn't really care I was just embarassed about whether or not she liked my gift. Geometry isn't really my thing but the puzzle was fun when I attempted it with Chaz (while we watched Saw and hung out with Denise!).
So the next major thing was the black and white party, which was this semi formal dinner thing where the only colors you could wear were black and white, naturally. It took place at Saras house on December 29th, 2005. Of course I asked Kellie way in advance and it was pretty exciting because I never got to experience anything like a homecoming or a prom with her. When she got to my house I was stunned I was like ohh my god. She looked so beautiful I couldn't believe it, I hadn't seen her really done up much and man in the dress and everything wow. We took some pictures by the Christmas tree at my house and they are still some of my favorite pictures of us. So we went there with our dish and it was very cold outside. A lot of people were already there when we showed up Bill and Laura, Drake and Gabbie, Diane and Rachel (nothing funny there), Theresa and Jeff, Chaz and Karen, Sean and Lori, Dan, a lot of Saras friends like Joyze I don't even know. At the start me and Kellie were just sorta in a corner since all the seats were taken. We sat around talking for a while and then had a really good dinner of like pork? We sat across from Karen Hain and this was my first meeting with her after all the good stuff I heard about her from Chaz Rach and Diane and she was so funny, had on the same dress as Kellie. Then originally it was supposed to be dinner, a scavenger hunt, then watching the Pistons game but the scavenger hunt ended up not being done in time so it kinda lagged on without any game to play and just was talking in small groups and watching the pistons then old shows on nick gas. Kellie was understandably quiet but Gabbie was good at talking to her, if not too much. Overall it was a fun night and instead of staying the night we went back to Kellies and spent the night there, her beds nice.
To talk about....
new years eve, new years day, valentines day, bad habit of kellies, new classes w/ scholarship, valentines day present, my bad habit when kells home.....etc from there
Graduation was nice and all but it was certainly nice to be done with the whole high school era. I don't remember too much about it, it was cool going up there to get my diploma and shake hands and all that but coming back there was a certain sadness because I knew exactly who I would and would not ever see again. Which actually was both good and bad. I remember I got out of the church pretty fast and just left after taking a picture or two with erik and my fam i think? We went to a nice dinner at Antonios I think. Oh and just to clarify for anyone who did not previously know Marx, Murray, and myself had Freddy the Falcon all summer. We also took the senior class's banner and hung it across the Church front door with "We've got 05 on it" on the back. Yes so lets see what I remember about summer. Some of it was spent with Marx and Murray going around doing stupid shit on video in the Freddy the Falcon costume like stealing stuff from convenience stores, playing the drinking game quarters, stealing a plant from Farmer Jack, running across shopping carts, and probably a little more. Then taking pictures like of Freddy with some alcohol passed out on a table or tied up in a chair. That brought a lot of fun. I didn't see much of Erik and Justin in the summer and the ladywood girls except for a pistons game.
Went to a lot of graduation parties naturally like Mary Macs, Petts, both Sams, Dans, Eriks, Nancys, Justins, Shannons, Bills, Seans, Rachels i missed, Jennifer Nasals, Chazs, Lori B's, Andrew Goodes, Bridgets, and naturally mine. And I actually have a story for most of them.
Mary Macs I distinctly remember the "Pistons Candle of Hope" Max created that led the Pistons one game short of a back to back NBA championship. We played a game of basketball and I drove with Marx.
Petts was kinda weird I was only kinda friends with her but I went just cuz, it was a shitty ass rainy day but she had food that I enjoyed eating and looking through her albums was cool.
Sam M's party was fun for me a lot of friends there to hang out with and it was one of the first parties of the year i think. I remember we told people there that we took Freddy and it was funny cuz Mrs. Knuth showed up with no idea that it was us.
Sam D's party was actually sorta cool talked to Kujawa and Klotzer a lot and some other people I just remember having fun playing some badminton with Marx.
Dans party was cool because he had good food and an ice cream thing! Props and kudos.
Eriks party was sort of funny because it was like my DC friends and the ladywood group were complete separate and it was awkward. Saw some cool old school pics of me and E Liv. Came over right after a family party.
Nancys has the distinction of being probably the shortest time I was at a party. I felt uncomfortable most of the time.
Justins party ended up being one of my favorite grad parties that I attended because it had a lot of people that I enjoyed, solid food, they had one of the jumpy inflatable moonwalks where we recorded me in the Freddy Falcon costume throwing his little brother around. Then I think we had a bonfire and I remember it was great talking to Sarah, Jessy, and Maureen and Nancy, Woj, and Erik. Just a good party overall, can't remember if we went swimming or not?
Shannon K's was the last time I saw her. She really took offense when I questioned her about the rape thing although I didn't mean it that she was lying. Oh well the party itself was alright, decent food but myself and Chaz didn't enjoy seeing some of the people who showed up.
Bills party sucked ass!! Not because of the actual party because that was alright I remember good drinks I remember. I think we kept throwing little things at each other or something. The worst is my car died right on the first surface street and had to get it towed and all that. Dan Boyle was awesome for sticking with me til my dad came.
Sean Elys party was cool just because of the fact that I saw him for the first time in forever. Always one of the guys I talked to since St. Roberts I went to his party to show I was still friends with him, and although I haven't seen him since, still hes a pal. Its one of those "always a friend" things. Pistons were playing during the game, sorta awkward just because all his friends were there and I didn't really kno em. Nice tho.
Rachel Deans party I slept through half on purpose and half by accident. I was pissed at her for being so weird just because I thought she was cool and I liked her. I decided I was going to attend her party for a very very short amount of time. But I ended up sleeping through all of it.
Jennifer Nasals probably was the most unexpected good party for me since I wasn't that good friends with her. She had free drinks and that day I fell in love with Smirnoff Twised. She had a moonwalk but filled it with water and soap suds so it was awesome to go in! I didn't have a suit but didn't let that stop me in the least. I was glad Chad was there cuz besides him I wouldn't have had people to talk to. The dirty ass pool was actually cool as well because we could clean off the suds from the moonwalk.
Chazs party was a lot of fun as well happening right after Jennifers. There was some cool typical Chaz people there and we had some good fun talking to people. He had a bonfire that we stayed out at for a long time. The best part however was when me Bill and Klotzer spent the night. Chaz was away and we wanted to set up a tent so we decided we would go on the roof and do it because that was a kick ass idea! We take all the shit up to Chazs room and all of a sudden Klotz and Bill leading the way stop after they turn on the light....then I'm like whats going on and then I see this random old guy I've never seen squinting at us in Chazs bed. We said sorry closed the door and started busting out laughing. Oh it was so funny and Chaz (who was in a bad mood) got mad at us afterwards although it was just one of those nights with the giggles.
Loris party was pretty good. She had very solid food and drinks with some hired relative bartenders (child labor getting pop). Got to talk to some awesome people there I think even some people that I hadn't seen much of.
Goodes party was sorta lame just because it lacked other people. He had some hilarious pictures tho and it got certainly better when Marx and Murray and I think Kahtryn Yaros arrived.
Bridgets party I wasn't at incredibly long and it was very crowded with her family and stuff. Most of the time there was spent just talking to her and looking at her very large and lengthy photo albums.
My party was on June 12th and I had a decent turnout for the people I invited. Very disappointing turnout from my Brighton relatives kidswise which was a bitch because I went to all of theirs as a kid, screw that if they think I'm coming to any of those that haven't had a grad party yet. Lots of friends came and it ended a little early, me and Marx went that night to Chads house to watch the Pistons game.
Well thats it for the grad parties at least the most memorable ones...
Some other random moments of summer that I remember. I think we went to a party at Lori H's house with Sara M and her friend and Marx and that was a great time. Didn't have much to drink but it was cool talking to people and a couple crazy things happened. Dude jumps off the roof into a tiny kiddie pool. That night I happened to fulfill a dream I'm sure many men have. I slept in the same bed with Nancy Parks. Hahaha. Well ya kno it wasn't quite the same since me and Nano were like best of friends, sorta takes away some of the magic of the idea. But oh well. We had a great mickey d's breakfast in the morning and I got home and suckily had to go straight to church.
I missed the Spree fireworks! Tis a shame but no one was home.
Me and Marx tried to have a waterfight but foolishly scheduled it on a holiday weekend where most of the people were gone. It was much smaller than we imagined but it was still sorta fun. Bought a gun specifically for the occasion!
One very sweet day came around July 4th in Taylor when Bill had people over for fireworks. It was rocking (when I finally found the place) because they were all on the roof. This was also the first day that Chaz had come back from meeting his family in Korea and that whole life changing experience. After the fireworks we had a mediocre bonfire where chilling inside the house ended up being more fun.
There was some definitely fun Ann Arbor trips but I also remember at least one really bad one where Diane and Rachel bitched and bitched about being home at 11. It was certainly very disappointing to leave after being there for only about an hour considering in me and Chaz's plan they weren't invited in the first place. We said that we would never go to Ann Arbor again with them, but we'll see if thats really gonna happen.
Aimee Surma had this really cool party that was like a St. Roberts reunion during summer. I had talked to Ely about it a lot and he was supposed to show up and never did. But there was lots of other friends to talk to like Matt and Tommy, I saw Todd briefly, spent lots of time talking to Jeff Bowling and Schrock and Ben. Remember we went swimming and Aimee got upset that people were drinking. Fun night, nice to see old familiar faces.
One night Rachel had this bonfire that ended up being one of the better nights of the summer. We had a great bonfire where Chaz kept rifling off some interesting questions that were either funny or serious. My favorite was if you could have sex with any Disney character who would it be? Another was the typical if you could be a superhero what power would you have and so on. Rachels parents heard most of this which was kinda funny. After some of us went to Rams Horn for some food a nice way to end the night.
Camp Dearborn with the Skoras was quite the trip. Went and spent a day at their little camp out tent which came right after me Deegan and Billy pulled an all nighter listening to Dirty Little Secret over and over before it became popular. We went to breakfast and to Target in the morning where I bought a frisbee. I got like 10 minutes of sleep at the camp when we were all jsut chilling in the tent. There was swimming and beaching it up where we played keep away football in the water. Me and Bill ambushed the group with water guns on the beach. We used those cool feet powered boats and made a whole chain after first doing like an attack then get away strategy of chase while we were messing around. Chazs hot friend Nicole came up to meet us all but she only stayed for 15 minutes. Fun but tiring trip.
That was summer, then as August loomed closer and closer I got more sad with the thought of being left alone with only Bill, Sara, Nancy, and Klotz to hang out with all the time at home. Not that those people were bad, just the fact that all my other good friends would be gone away at school and I would only see them on the rare holiday. Actually me and Nancy had a pretty depressing phone conversation about this.
One thing that was cool was I was just getting into the flow of myspace and facebook and talking to some people that I hadn't in ages. One person I reconnected with was Renee. I actually ended up hanging out with Renee, Sheryl, and Missy all at once! Amazing after not seeing any of them for 3 years. Fun too. Another day had me and Renee going out to Ann Arbor....took us 2 hours because Renee missed the exit.....twice and then ended up in a part of the city that I had no idea. Good times tho.
One of the first couple friends of mine on facebook was Kellie Burgess of all people. From St. Roberts, hadn't talked to her...ever! But hadn't seen her since graduating eighth grade. Being myself I sent her a nice message cuz I did think it was cool of her to search for me and add me. Then like next day she IMs me and surprise surprise she is very cool to talk to. She actually made my day. So next couple days I spent talking to her and we're actually becoming like real friends and she says I can call her if she wants. So being very unlike me I actually did it...and wow! I've never felt more comfortable on the phone with a person. Usually theres silence but no I had just as much fun talking to her on the phone as I did online.
So basically I'm not doing much every day, I'm going to school coming home, perhaps doing homework and then doing my own thing which involves a lot of onlining. I'm also calling Kellie kinda often and enjoying every minute of it. Then a sort of trend starts happening. Every day I talk to her shes upset about her boyfriend of about 2 years. I'm pretty good at comforting people when I try and so I tried to talk it out with her and stuff. She was very indecisive about doing something about it when shes getting unjust treatment just for going away for school. Somewhere between all this I'm kinda starting to have feelings more than just friendship for her. It changed from wanting her to end things with her boyfriend because he made her sad all the time to a situation where I wanted to be the one making her happy. What was awesome was that she liked me too and after one memorable conversation I knew that something between me and her was more than fantasy.
Another thing that was cool was that people were coming home like after 2 or 3 weeks of school to hang out for the weekend. Chaz one time brought his new g/f home and his other friend from Albion but the cool thing was it wasn't like they were at school every weekend. Me and Sara became friends again because we basically decided that fighting was pointless. So me and her hung out sometimes now! Watched some movies togehter and just chilled. And also Billy and I were doing stuff, and I was still as I have been since like 3rd grade been hanging out with Klotz on the occasion. A memorable moment was Bill and myself going to buy Halloween stuff although we knew we were probably doing nothing on the date, I bought a fake cleaver and he bought a sword, an axe, shield, and armor he could totally kick my ass with his weapons too i'll admit.
Me and Kellie finally hung out when she was home for the Divine Child homecoming game. I was nervous as hell and it made things worse that I was late coming back from helping my uncle move in to his new house. So I get all ready and go to her house which was thankfully easy to find and when she comes out shes looking better than she did in the pictures on the computer. My worry was that we had one of those things that like it was so easy talking online and on the phone but that it would be very awkward in person. Wrong again. Things got comfortable very quickly! We were talking the whole way there. We had to pick up the Asian first and then at the game it was exciting to see everyone I knew, though i felt bad for Kellie because she only knew Jenny Doher.
We had a good time through the game and even saw Michael O Connor haha but he didn't recognize Kellie. On the way to the car Kellies boyfriend calls her and is talking to him for a bit which was kind of annoying. I was getting quite sick of this guy hurting the girl I was starting to care a lot about, and the fact that she hadn't dropped him yet. We both had plans after the game so I had to get her home quick. When we got to her house ya kno I had a fleeting thought of kissing her (and she thought I was going to) but decided it wasn't the right timing especially with the call she had just gotten off. So I gave her a hug and off she went.
One random occasion I'm talking to one of Kellies friends Denise and she wants to meet me and I said how about now? And she surprisingly said ok. So I wait in my driveway and she comes up and we had a good conversation about people we knew and cars and Kellie, but man that girl could talk I remember thinking hahah.
I'm getting increasingly mad at Kellies refusal to make a decision between me and her now ex boyfriend sometime in October. I had a lot of trouble understanding why she still cared for this asshole that continues to make her feel bad about the same damn thing. I'm getting mad at her some days and being frustrated others but we're still having fun talking to one another. Denise, who I semi regularly talk to and hang out with at this point, keeps trying to helpfully explain the situation to me.
So Kellies home Halloween weekend and we're supposed to hang out one day but something came up for me where I couldn't hang out long, but honestly I was scared so I didn't want to hang out for three hours anyways. I worked on Saturday and I sent her text messages, which we had been doing a lot of. Ahh she sent me a couple amazing ones that just made me feel so good. But we're talking about possibly hanging out Sunday, yet I had my brothers bday dinner at my house to go to. My family and I, as we had done a lot of at this time got into fights about jobs and I remember it just being an awful day. Then its like 10 oclock and Kell says I should come over and I get scared again plus I was just pissed off from earlier. I figured that I would just ruin things going over there mad. Then I'm figuring I won't even be allowed out of the house, and then everyones in bed! So its like 1 something in the morning I think and I finally decide ya kno screw it I can sneak out the side door of my house. This is Devils Night mind you so cops are all over the place, i'm freaking out because of them, because I'm sneaking out, and because of what might happen with Kellie. So I get to her house and shes out in front with the dog. A lot less talking than normal this time with a lot of the convo focused on dogs haha. I'm really just wondering like oh god should I kiss her what should I do for most of the time. We then go in the backyard and are throwing Trixie a tennis ball. Now its like 3 in the morning and we finally decide its time to go. Resisting the urge to just walk away to my car and chicken out I stay and am like kinda close to her against the side wall. I was shaking. I said something like wow I can't believe how nervous I am after wanting this for so long. Then I kissed her. It wasn't the greatest quality kiss (my bad) but it was an amazing first kiss. Couldn't believe the lasting effect it had on me on the ride home and after. Kellie sent me another great text message "Was I dreaming or did that just happen?" Glad no one pinched me for that one. Wow.
Thing is still no decision on the guy situation in November, and I'm not even sure if shes trying to break it off with "him" to get with me or to fix things with him. She can't answer the question when I ask which made me very sad at times. Next time we hang out is Thanksgiving break and I hang out with her for almost the whole thing! Great time playing monopoly, watching movies, just hanging out and talking. Had a good Thanksgiving with tons of food, and hilariously Mat Marx kept fucking up the directions to pick me up from my aunt and uncles house. He was doing me a huge favor by taking me to see Kellie tho, theres reasons why someones a best friend.
Unfortunately after Thanksgiving I find out that Kellies still with her boyfriend, in fact they got back together pretty quickly after breaking up. I was very hurt and disappointed that she lied to me about this and cheated on him with me. I don't even remember how we figured out that one that things were ok. But we did.
So now its December and schools coming to a very mediocre end. I was having a kinda shitty semester where I just didn't put in the effort to get good grades in certain classes. I was working with Lori Bologna kinda a lot on this term project for MIS that was very frustrating since it was like a here ya go, apply your knowledge and solve it situation. We met with our Professor twice to figure things out and I'm actually glad we finished the project successfully getting a good grade. The one thing that didn't happen much was making friends. I hadn't seen Nick Podges who I had kinda become friends with after meeting at a couple random events. The only person I'd really call a friend was this girl Lauren in my Anthro class that I talked to on myspace some. Doubt that woulda happened if I went away to school....meet one damn person. Oh well, I liked the friends I had. Ended the semester with a very mediocre 3.1 something, not my best.
I can't remember exactly when this was but there were two fun days where me and Marx went sledding with Denise and Sheryl, and then Denise and Nicole. Both times we went to Ford Field and had a heck of a time! The time with Denise and Nicole I remember we tried different stuff like throwing a football to each other on sleds, and afterwards we went back to my house and watched Road Trip. When we were with Sheryl, her and Denise were together on one sled and went off this huuuge bump, and the snow was only half there, but yea so the girls bonked heads getting air off this bump and said me and mat had to both go down. And I'm like....ehh cuz I had hurt myself the last time. Mat goes off it gets some sweet air and goes banging down and hurts himself. I go from a hill a little bit aways and then i turn the sled and go right into the bump with huuuuge air and come crashing down it hurt so bad i was 3 feet up tho which was crazy fun.
So the day I finished my finals on a thursday I think I am talking to Denise and Kellie between times while this huge snowstorms going on, cancelling all the night finals. I schedule a snowball fight that I keep getting calls back that no ones going. Then Denise wants to come over and talk about something about her boyfriend. I'm kinda like ugh! I have things to do! And when I get home I have to shovel the driveway thats very snowy already. So I'm doing that and planning on shoveling while talking to Denise then leaving to go to Chazs for a snowball fight! So I see a car driving slowly down the street and I'm like alright thats her, and continue shoveling, thinking shes driving some other car cuz its not her very recognizable blue car. Then she gets out and starts walking up and I look up for a second when shes at the end of my driveway for a quick glance....I turn my head back down then jerk my head back up...and its Kellie! Home one day early! I'm shocked honestly like I was beyond reaction I was just so surprised. She could tell too, I was certainly not ready to see the girl I like, I'm in crap clothes, working, and about to eat. So she explains the whole thing to me how she always knew she was coming home early and like almost had to spill the beans when I told Denise I didn't think I was gonna hang out with her. After a great night of it being me and her (I kinda ditched the snowball plans since no one was coming anyways) I asked her out, though she only realized that I was actually asking it when I said it again! I couldn't help myself I had been waiting over a month for a chance and I took it on December 15th, one day before her bday and 3 before mine. Ahh! We're a couple! Sweet!
So I had gone shopping with Denise and Sheryl to get Kellie both a bday and Christmas present. I ended up getting this basket from bed bath and beyond for her with some secret info from her mom thanks to Denise. We looked for this Harry Potter trivia game for a price I could afford but couldn't find it after searching 3 stores. My mom helped me out finding me a set of glvoes and a scarf for her in green, her fav color. Along with that I bought her some of her favorite candy that she mentioned to me before.
On Kells bday, December 16th I didn't get over to her house until late, like 10. I met her cousin Jenni for the first time and the three of us went sledding at Western Golf Course, where I worked for like a day. After her cousin left and we hung out for a bit more we said goodbye and I gave her the present of the scarf/mitten set with the candy. She seemed to genuinely like it and that made me happy. She really was doing a lot of that whole making me happy business.
December 17th.....
On my birthday my whole family came over for pizza and all that and Kellie eventually came over and gave me her present, consisting of two packs of Twisters Sours and the 40 Year Old Virgin, yet she thought I wasn't old enough for the unrated version lol. Yay! Denise had driven her over. It was really nice having her there and getting her to meet my family although she was kinda quiet. Is it bad that I can't really remember what people got me? I think I got a couple video games Star Wars Battlefront 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Hitz 2003? a couple dvds, and I think my parents got me a Playstation 2 one a the lil tiny ones its awesome. But yea my fam rocks at presents. Spent some alone time with Kellie to end the night.
So yea after some more hanging out nights that I can't separate too much from one another, besides the one I remember where I watched the 40 Year Old Virgin with Kell, Mat, and Denise. Kell and I were set on hooking up Mat and Denise and it only kind of worked. Mat didn't end up being into it in the end but oh well we tried.
The next big event was Christmas Eve which unfortunately was spent away from Kellie. I miss the tradition we used to have of exchanging presents between the siblings right before mass. So instead we meet up at the place and the normal far above average crowd is there and the same things as usual happened in the mass. The best part by far always is the paegant about the birth of Jesus performed by the children from the REP. Oh man I'm shocked I don't have that memorized because its been the same script since I was 4 years old. "Hear ye Hear ye" thats all I kno how it starts out. I only have like 100 more lines of dialogue to remember and i'll have it down. Sweet little random fact right here. The golden boxed used as a gift by the three wise men in the Christmas Eve Paegant originally belonged to yours truly that my creative mother made out of an oddly shaped shoe box for one of the music recitals that the school made us do, god I hated those. Except for the one time where we sang Stand By Me around the piano that teacher was so cool! But so after the mass as the siblings joked about the usual mishaps that occur like people delaying lines or Mary looking massively tall compared to Joseph, or the real baby Jesus that has only been there the past 4 years or so crying his eyes out, etc. Its pretty much tradition. We went over to my grandmas house after for the usual festivities of food and watching A Christmas Story...but this was the first year I don't get presents from the aunts and uncles (above 18) and man what a killer. I did get a pity gift from my Aunt Jane tho and some great M&Ms and a Target gift card from my grandma (which I've waited 6 months to buy the Billy Talent CD with). I miss my grandpa though its sad hes not around anymore. Went to bed decently early.
Woke up not incredibly early the next morning...another tradition I miss is opening the gifts before going to my grandma and grandpas house in Brighton but what can you do when we live in separate houses now and don't have the myth of Santa Claus to delight our minds. Everything was pretty typical from my dad being annoyed that we haven't left yet, the breakfast casserole, my dad being hilarious joking around with his brothers mostly about my grandma, and seeing everyone. I always find it awkward a little bit even tho I recognize most of them as family like just that I see them once a year I don't kno its hard to be close with people like that. And when I mean recognize them as family like the married in family some of them i'm awkward with. Went over to my Aunt Carol and Uncle Neils after and I kept trying to get home early to see Kellie. My mom announces I have a girlfriend and I pretended to be watching the Pistons Heat game as tho not to hear. The Pistons won that game btw.
Came home and at like 7 oclock we finally opened presents and I got one of the games I think that I mentioned for my bday, doesn't really matter which one, its the thought that matters! So yea my parents couldn't afford to give us gifts this year which was alright as we're all old enough to not mind and especially with all their super generosity in the past giving us wayyy too many gifts. They got us Super Bowl shirts and hats from the casino where they have a bunch of points to spend so that effort by them was really nice. Had some sort of dinner, perhaps lasagna whatever it was surely delicious as most of my moms food is. Kellie then finally came over, i went to pick her up, and she looked beautiful all dressed up. She gave me a gift of this puzzle thing and I gave her the set from bath and body works I had gotten. She said she felt cheap but I was like whatever I didn't really care I was just embarassed about whether or not she liked my gift. Geometry isn't really my thing but the puzzle was fun when I attempted it with Chaz (while we watched Saw and hung out with Denise!).
So the next major thing was the black and white party, which was this semi formal dinner thing where the only colors you could wear were black and white, naturally. It took place at Saras house on December 29th, 2005. Of course I asked Kellie way in advance and it was pretty exciting because I never got to experience anything like a homecoming or a prom with her. When she got to my house I was stunned I was like ohh my god. She looked so beautiful I couldn't believe it, I hadn't seen her really done up much and man in the dress and everything wow. We took some pictures by the Christmas tree at my house and they are still some of my favorite pictures of us. So we went there with our dish and it was very cold outside. A lot of people were already there when we showed up Bill and Laura, Drake and Gabbie, Diane and Rachel (nothing funny there), Theresa and Jeff, Chaz and Karen, Sean and Lori, Dan, a lot of Saras friends like Joyze I don't even know. At the start me and Kellie were just sorta in a corner since all the seats were taken. We sat around talking for a while and then had a really good dinner of like pork? We sat across from Karen Hain and this was my first meeting with her after all the good stuff I heard about her from Chaz Rach and Diane and she was so funny, had on the same dress as Kellie. Then originally it was supposed to be dinner, a scavenger hunt, then watching the Pistons game but the scavenger hunt ended up not being done in time so it kinda lagged on without any game to play and just was talking in small groups and watching the pistons then old shows on nick gas. Kellie was understandably quiet but Gabbie was good at talking to her, if not too much. Overall it was a fun night and instead of staying the night we went back to Kellies and spent the night there, her beds nice.
To talk about....
new years eve, new years day, valentines day, bad habit of kellies, new classes w/ scholarship, valentines day present, my bad habit when kells home.....etc from there