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I became a member because my friend wanted me to comment on one of his pictures... then he got angry that I had more friends than he does... and now I'm not sure how he feels because he moved to Florida and is rarely on :o( For awhile, I had a goal of trying to get one MySpace friend in every country... I almost accomplished that, but then I kept getting a lot of messages that would have the ending, "I appreciate your cooperation in this endeavor." I didn't understand what I was supposed to be cooperating with nor did I understand the endeavor... Oh well... The first time I updated this was in August 2005 at 4:10am when there was nothing else to do... the second time was at 10:30pm on the last Tuesday in November because I screwed up something with where I had the pictures saved and the background was coming up white... and now I'm updating it on August 25, 2006 at 6:25pm...
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You Should Write a Book
...a phrase that I'm often told... but I don't think anyone will buy it! However, here are some of my stories from when I was younger:
Atlantic City
Atlantic City Basketball Tournament Weekend Story... This is long, but hilarious... you'll want to read to the end: During our first game... these two girls took down our point guard when she was going up for a lay-up and she was literally screaming hysterically and they had to rush her to the hospital... they still don't know what's wrong with her because it's too swollen to tell what it is, you can't check it out unless the swelling is down, then during this same game, Dray fell when she was about to pass it in the middle of the court with two girls on both sides of her... I guess she twisted it then fell on it and she started yelling out the f-word... lolol… and so they pulled her off the court, but she said she was better and wanted to play the next game (they were going to let her play with the 16s 'cause she's 16,--the team she normally plays for is 17 with me) and she said she felt better and she was insisting on playing, and her father said she could, but she went out, fell again and they had to bring her to the hospital. Then during this same game I passed out, from my asthma, and the trainer comes out and is like "and what is wrong with this one??" lol and my coach is like "she always does this... no, actually... my players just really like you" LOL Then during our third game... I was down under the basket and I tripped this girl (literally like my foot tripped her) and they called a foul... and so... I tried to help her up 'cause I didn't mean to trip her and she pushed away my hand and got up and kicked me as hard as she could in the knee, the ref didn't see 'cause he was going back to the table to call the foul on me… so I was like "oh my gosh ouch" and I went to the other side of the court where we somehow got into another scuffle and ended up on the ground on my knee again... lol… and... there's this HUGE bruise, and you can like see the stuff through the skin LOLOL I took a picture of it... everyone on my team was like "that's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen" LOL… and... I had to wear my soft cartilage knee brace 'cause I thought my kneecap was just going to fall out LOL… but yea it's all good my coach is like "now you have something to remember the tournament from" Then Sara Criscuolo... got poked in the eye with someone's fingernail and you can see the fingernail mark in her eye, it's like this red thing and it still hasn't gone away… every single game there had someone on the ground… LOL…Well, after this lovely day of… whatever… We headed back to the hotel, at which point we were all just sitting outside in or around one of our cars while the coaches figured out our rooms, etc. The head coach’s son was with us and most of my teammates were proceeding to tell him to keep going back and testing the temperature of the water in the pool behind the lobby (The lobby wasn’t attached to the hotel… this will be important to the later part of this story). I guess they kept sending him because he was getting on their nerves… For example, every time he came back and said it was warm, Sara C. would tell him, “No, no, test it with the top of your index finger, it should be really cold†until the point in which one of them told him to check it with his entire arm and he came back soaking wet. Yea, he fell in… We got the room cards and everything and went back into the cars because the actual part of the hotel that people stayed in was down the parking lot a bit (No, this isn’t where the lobby not being attached to the hotel comes in to play, but it kind of has to do with it… however, that part of the story is much, much later). See, this part was a little funny though because all of the kids drove to over to there, but some of the parents ended up walking, including our assistant coach who has a bad knee (lol) and was also conveniently like carrying all the luggage… LOL… So anyway… we get into the hotel rooms (By the way, we usually always have four to a room, which means two double beds-so we have two to a bed) and Dava and I are laying on one bed watching TV for two reasons: One, the TV was right in front of it, and Two, we figured that the other two people that would be in the room (Melissa, who I now call Mellie and Katelynn would want to be in the other bed because they’re good friends and knew each other before they started playing for the Blaze). LOL so we’re lying there watching TV, but we don’t know where Mellie or Katelynn are and one of our teammates who was staying across the hall, Jen, walks in our room and just looks at us like “uumm…†so I was like “We figured Melissa and Katelynn wanted the other bed†and Dava was like “and the TV is right here†but when I said “the other bed†I gestured over to the other bed, which was where the bathroom was next to… and she thought we meant that they were in there together (lol) and just gave us the ODDEST look and was like “What??†LOL and so, ‘cause the bathroom door was closed, we were like “No we have no clue where they are, they never came†and Jen just kind of stood there for a minute completely puzzled and then walked out again. Dava decided to take a shower in her father’s hotel room and I took one in ours… Someone kept banging against the wall, but I figured it was my coach’s son Dayne (Who was staying in the room next to mine) so I just banged back, not realizing it was actually Melissa and Katelynn who eventually did come and were locked out. Then when I got dressed and came out they were like totally freaked out because they thought I was Dava in the shower and that she locked them out-lol. So then one of them took a shower in her parents’ room and the other took a shower in our room because one of our coaches (who was staying across the hall, next to Jen’s room) came in and was like “We’re leaving in 20 minutes†(LOL), but then we could like never find Melissa (who went to her parents’ room) so that was an adventure… LOL and Katelynn thought she never actually went to her parents’ room. So we were going to walk up and down every hallway just knocking on the doors asking if someone was taking a shower in their room, but then she showed up. So we went out for dinner… nothing special there… except for when we were waiting to go back to the hotel room in the parking lot of the restaurant, I was running around with Dayne. We were throwing each other’s sandles away and he threw mine INTO this boat we found-See, I PUT his IN the boat… As in, just put them in… He threw mine INTO it… So I had to crawl head first into this dark creepy thing to get it out. GGRR… Oh and we hit a few random cars with the shoes, but anyway… Then my coach suggested that I tell the people who I was rooming with that in the case of me passing out (You know, the asthma and the seizures) while I was in the room to not freak out and just go and get him. So in the car on the way to (someplace that wasn’t 7 11, Tashie was so upset, it was like some other place, definitely a 7 11 wannabe without the slurpee machine) somewhere, I told them about that and they were a little freaked out… and then I mentioned that I sleep walked too and occasionally walked in my sleep… Katelynn and Mellie were laughing and then I said, “So if you wake up and I’m not there…†LOL and Katelynn was like “OH MY†and covers her face with her hands, you really had to be there, but it was sooo funny… On the way out of this wannabe 7 11 we go out and into the car and we’re sitting there for like 7 minutes and we’re like “OK, why did we leave the store when everyone else is still in there?†lol we seriously did that for no reason, we had no clue why… LOL and there was this guy in the next car over that I was squeaking at and doing things to, so they were a little freaked out about this. Oh! And another weird point… we all also went back to the bad seats we were sitting in, none of us tried to get shotgun or anything. LOL, seriously, so we’re just sitting out there in the car doing nothing, waiting for everyone else. Oh, and everytime we’d get out of the van, I’d shut the door on Tashie… and she’d have so much trouble opening it. Let me rephrase that, she had so much trouble getting out of the seat while laughing let alone re-opening the door. So then we get back to the hotel… and this is where the most fun begins… OK, here’s the part that’s going to have you rolling on the floor:Dava had already been telling me about how she goes to sleep at like 9pm, etc., etc… and I said “yea there will be none of that†so she was considering sleeping in her father’s room, but he had other guys sharing that room (Yea we didn’t know what was up with that) so she had to stay… So I was saying to Mellie and Katelynn that by the time we got back to the room she’d probably already be asleep, but they thought she wouldn’t even be in our room at all (LOL, they didn’t know where she’d be, just not there). So anyway, when we got back she actually was in there and watching some boring movie (which we pointed out, but she wouldn’t let us change it)… so we were all just fooling around (Well not Dava because she was tired and lying on the bed). However, the other three of us were trying to find a place to wash out uniforms… (and our head coach claims that one of the times he heard us during the night was around this time and he said we ran down the hall yelling “he’s going to hear us†and then all three of us ran into our room… but we definitely didn’t do this, like how could I convince them to run around me, and I wouldn’t scream that in front of his room-LOL but either way, he didn’t make it up, so all I can think of is when it happened then, even though we weren’t actually running!) and it resulted in Mellie and Katelynn washing them in the bathtub. Now as they’re doing this, I’m throwing every white towel we have in there too-For what reason, there really was none, but they were like, “What if we need one of these later†but whatever, they were soaking wet now. Unfortunately, we had no way of drying this stuff… (Last year at the War At The Shore tournament we dried them by tying the uniforms to the strings on the curtain and throwing them out the window-lol no lie-but this wouldn’t work because we didn’t think there was anyway to open our window, like we tried-Dava and I were convinced of this and a little freaked out because she said she’d jump out in case of a fire-lol) so… I thought “I’ll just hang your uniforms up in the hallway on the other room’s doorknobs. (this was before I washed mine) I can’t say they appreciated this, but they went out in the hall and proceeded to beat them against the floor. Oh and I brought this weird wood contraption outside the hallway with them and set it up in the middle. We really had no clue what it was, but it was in our room. So, picture this… there are big wet stains on the doors across the hall from where I had also thrown the uniforms against… There’s this weird wood thing from the room set up in the middle, the teammates across the hall from us came out and were like standing there watching, as Mellie and Katelynn proceeded to beat the uniforms against the ground to dry them… as I stood watching with the ironing board open and unfolded (I didn’t know how to undo it)… when our coach strolls out of his room. The only way I can describe the look on his face is with the word, “WHAT?†and he says (and you can tell he’s not too happy, but not exactly bad at this point-not yet anyway), “Girls… the uniforms are nylon… they will dry… hang them up†(OK just a little skipping ahead in the story-THEY DIDN’T DRY), but anyway… so we all go back into the rooms or whatever, after the ironing board was folded back up (lol) and so we’re in the rooms and I was taking nose dives from the door, across the other bed, and onto the third bed where Dava was trying to lay and watch the movie… She’s like “I swear, if you jump on this bed one more time†(Oh and during this I had taken Tashie’s cell phone and wouldn’t give it back to her… at one point it was hidden in the garbage in the bathroom-see there was this tiny garbage and it had a really tight bag on it, so I took it off the garbage can and wrapped it in a face cloth and put it under the tight bag… and the last time she came in I told her where it was but she refused to go there because she doesn’t like dirty things, so that totally freaked her out-even though at that point, it was no longer there… it was actually right near my hand, but she didn’t see it, so anyway) then I was like sliding across one bed and trying to hop to the other and all the blankets were coming off with me… and Melissa and Katelynn were freaking out because they don’t like when the bed is undone. So, anyway, then I was taking the pillows and putting them under the blankets were Dava was going and she’s like “What the heck is all this stuff?†LOL after all of this commotion, we all decide to shut off the lights and lay down, but then we get a knock on the door. It’s both Katelynn’s and Mellie’s parents and LOL Melissa’s mother is like, “Can I have some money?†and they’re asking us what we did, etc. that night it was just all really funny and weird… (See, we think this was the other time that our head coach said he heard us-we couldn’t go inside our room and talk to them because Dava was trying to sleep and we didn’t want to wake her up any more than we already were so we were in the hallway and were pretty loud) and so we were talking to them and I was trying to tell them about how I want Katelynn, when she’s down in the post, to hold the shorts of one of the bigger players so that when she jumps up the shorts come down. See, that bigger player won’t be jumping any more… So after they left and everything, we shut off the lights and layed down. By this time it is NO LATER than 11:45pm I am NOT KIDDING. And the reason I know this is because Katelynn said there was no way she was going to be awake later than 12… Plus Dava was still making us watch that boring movie, she needs something on quietly while she’s asleep… And, so I had my head phones on, but was watching this boring movie as well and it didn’t end for like 20 minutes and I looked at my watch and it was midnight. OK… Now for the HYSTERICAL part of this… Get ready…(Oh and before this, when they didn’t know the pillows were missing, when they were in Dava’s blankets, Mellie went out into the hallway ‘cause I said they were across the hall and our head coach was standing out there and I hear her say “I’m just looking for my pillow, no, I don’t know where it is, but I’m just†LOL and he’s not saying anything, I guess he was just giving her a look, so I just went out, pulled her back into the room and shut the door… lol) (Just to let you know-I had two pillows I was sleeping with because Mellie brought her own pillow, so I had hers and mine… Dava had one) Basically, all I remember is falling asleep and then being awoken by someone embracing me in like a bear hug and then my one pillow being taken out from under me and going over my head… and my head was being rubbed. I am NOT kidding, so I’m waking up and someone is totally all over me so I’m thinking like “What the fuzzy?!†and I jump up and like scream… and I’m like “no no no no no no noooooo!!!! I can’t sleep in these conditions!!!†and I’m totally freaking out and pointing at Dava, who is still asleep, but is stretched across the bed… I was like “What the mother…?†LOL… so… the other two are like “What’s wrong?†and they’re already sitting up in bed so I started explaining… that’s when they told me that I just walked across the room in my sleep and went back into bed and that Katelynn sat up fast and was like, “What are you doing?!†but I didn’t answer and went back to sleep… That’s when she started hitting Melissa telling her to wake up and look… and then I was groped by Dava (AAHH LOL) and woke up. So… I’m like ok NOOOO I’m not getting back in that bed… when I realize… that I went to sleep with a t-shirt on, black mesh shorts, and socks… but now I was wearing just the t-shirt and boxers… so like, where were the shorts??? Oh and they also said they kept hearing the TV turn on and off and they didn’t know who it was (we later found the remote under Dava the next morning), but like… Where were my clothes?? We looked over the entire room and couldn’t find them and I was like “Oh my gosh if Dava wakes up with those I am going to totally freak outâ€â€¦ but so I turn on the light ‘cause I was going to sleep on the floor so that I could make a little bed on the floor… when we see that… ALL of the furniture that was on one side of the room was set up on the OTHER side of the room. This heavy table, chairs, were all set up and there were cups on the chairs and like the ice bucket on the table… and then beyond that in front of the door was this big towel and over it were all the little soaking wet towels with a big yellow sign (usually the ones you see in malls or whatever) that says wet floor over it… LOL so, I must have set all of this up in my sleep and we were like laughing hysterically and Katelynn’s like, “No I definitely can’t sleep with everything weird like this it is going right backâ€, but then she goes into the bathroom and Melissa has her eyes shut and are lying in bed, when I heard a knock on the door. Now, I wanted to pretend I didn’t hear it because I knew it was our coach and I knew he was probably mad and that he would bring this up every chance he got, for us waking him… But then the knocking continued, and the others didn’t even know someone was at the door, so… ggrr I had to answer it… LOL and he was so mad… picture someone that just woke up, eyes red, hair all disheveled and he’s like “If I have to come here again you’re not going to play tomorrow, if you need a reason to be tired this room is going to run killers in the parking lot until you are tired†and I was like “No, no, I swear we were asleep!!†and he’s like “BULL****†and I was like “No, we really were!†and he’s like “BULL****â€â€¦ and I wanted to open the door and tell him to come in and look at why we were awake, meaning Dava-who was stretched out across the bed, BUT because of all the wet towels and the table up against the door… I couldn’t really open the door more than a tiny bit… So, I guess that doesn’t look good, your player opens the door, the light is on, won’t open the door any more and is claiming she was asleep… LOL, so, OK… I go back in and I was telling them what happened and they’re like, “Someone was at the door?†LOL, it was sooo bad… We really were sleeping though, I mean I re-arranged the entire room in my sleep, but I don’t remember any of it and we were so rested after all of this that, we thought it was time to get ready for the game and it was only 1am… and so anyway we go back to sleep… Now, the rest of the night is pretty much OK, but…we wake up in the morning, well Dava and the other two wake me up (Oh and we never found my shorts or my socks by the way, they weren’t in the room, which meant they had to be in some hallway somewhere)… Dava leaned over in the bed and looked at the ground and saw me, started cracking up and woke up the other two. Picture someone sitting in a chair, but laying down with it, in a blanket, fully dressed for the game, with an ice bucket on my head… (Yea, I sleep walk a lot lol)… and that’s how I was… so they wake me up, I’m like “What the heck IS this STUFF?†and… the radio is going off and on, we don’t know what we’re doing or how to turn it off, we’re getting the wake-up call… and… remember how the lobby wasn’t attached to the hotel? OK, well we were supposed to go down there and eat breakfast and be ready to leave from the lobby at 7:45am… so… I’m already ready, after all I did wake up in my uniform (one sneaker on too) and everything… and as I said before, the uniforms were NOT dry… So yea, I was in a wet uniform… lovely… so we tried to dry them or whatever (another important part in this) and the rest are still getting ready, when the other room passes us, kicks open our door and is like “we’re going down, hurry up†and Jen is like “What’s with the sign?†‘cause now the sign was outside of our room, lol when the phone starts ringing again. I knew it was our coach, they knew it was our coach, but they wouldn’t answer (lol and I thought I shouldn’t be answering, especially because he wasn’t happy with me after I answered the door that night) but I did… and he was like “Are you awake?†so I said “yea†and he’s like “I want you down here NOW†LOL so I was like oh my gosh… so I was like y’all have to get ready!!! And last night I tried to convinced them to pack their bags and have them waiting to leave in the hallway (ok so the waiting to leave in the hallway was a stretch, but… lol…) so we go out and Sarah C. , who was in a different room was like “Wait 5 minutes for me!†and we’re like “ no way†and she’s like “ok 2!†so we were waiting and she wasn’t coming, so I just went into her room, dragged her out and brought her with us… and she’s like “but my uniform is in there!†LOL oh well, I said hopefully Jamie would be smart enough to bring it (then again… lol Sarah also said Jamie was in like a star position with her head in the pillow that morning when they woke her up, so they weren’t sure what was up with her)… so we get outside, we have to walk to the lobby… Now, remember, it’s not attached to the building-and another important thing to remember is that it has been POURING rain the entire time we’re there on and off so much that the roads were like flooding, etc… now of course when the other rooms go, it’s not raining… but as soon as we get there, it starts coming down again… So Mellie’s mother said she’d bring the car around, when Sarah just starts running to the lobby and everyone is following her so I do too… and we get there (No point in trying to dry the uniform, it’s now completely soaked) and our coaches are just looking at us so we go over and are like, “no we were sleeping†and we tried to convince him this FOREVER and he wouldn’t believe us… and then during all the time-outs during the first game he kept bringing up the fact that we had him awake at 1am (Just like I told them he would) until finally between the games (had 4 hours to kill) we were finally able to convince him what happened… LOL… and then they were telling the other people on our team and their parents what went on during the night while we were asleep when we were up on the bleachers… then I went down after that fun and was just talking to my coach, who also stayed at the gym between the games… so I talked to him for like an hour and a half, he was no longer mad because we actually didn’t lie to him, lol although he said he still didn’t want to believe us… LOL oh well… Don’t get my wrong by this story, I love him to pieces, he’s not a mean guy, he’s the best. So yea, this is my story from my tournament… oh brother, I can only imagine what’s going to happen when we go to 3 day one… LOL he told my parents he was giving my the four wheel room, also known as-he’ll be locking me in the car… LOL yea I’m definitely not going to stay with the team during that tournament though, I don’t want to deal with whatever goes on during the night. Baths
I'm a big Seinfeld fan... That's not surprising is it? I especially like the episode where Kramer makes a discovery about baths when the shower heads are changes in the showers to low flow. I completely agree with his statement, so, for a few weeks the message on my answering machine, that would pick up whenever anyone called, was: "Taking a bath is like sitting in a tepid pool of your own filth with microscopic organisms and parasites having sex all around you. Don't take baths." So many people had insights on this, but I liked my friend Roe's the best, who let me a message saying: " oh........... my......... God...... Reggie.... you are one disturbed child... what the hell was that about... oh my... my brother agrees with you... oh my.... that's going to keep me up until late at night thinking about... oh my... be at my house tomorrow at 8am... I'm going to sleep now... I... woah... I can't believe... oh my... ew "
Ab Tronic
For any of you who have ever seen the info-merical or any commercial for "AB-TRONIC"... you may have seen several other of the same products, but with different names... one of which is the "Fast Abs". Well, guess who got that for Christmas... yours truly. For those of you that do not know what that is, it is this black belt and pounchy-thing you put around your waist and it uses "gentle" electric pulses to stimulate nerves that produce muscle contractions. The point of it is, it has your muscles doing the same things they would be doing as if you were exercising (as the commercial says, "600 sit-ups in just 10 minutes!")... I guess I'll be the test dummy in real-life to see if this product actually works... However, I must relay that I'm beginning to feel some side affects... To begin with, you can put this belt on ANYWHERE on yourself--your stomach, legs, arms-wherever you want stronger and toner muscles (supposedly, we'll see). The reason I put gentle in quotations up there is because there's a setting of 10 different levels... You can barely feel the first few, so you do need it on a high one... So picture me, in the morning, sitting here trying to type... and I have the stomach one on-that's ok... When I had it on my right arm, you could see my right arm switching and slightly moving with each pulse... I think the fun began when I put it on my left arm. I could NOT control my left arm. My left pointer finger was moving in a direction that I don't think was physically possible-I called my sister into the room to witness this... You know the first joint on your finger? Well.. it was moving that way, but in the wrong direction (No, I am not double jointed)... then the thumb joined in... and I couldn't really do much 'cause they were both jolting with this system... Now that I'm sitting here, over 12 hours later... occasionally my muscle still goes into some sort of spasm as if the Ab Tronic is still on it... my hand spasms out or my finger starts twitching... Basically, my extremedies feel as if they are independant from my body... Ah, what a feeling... and occasionally, I feel a weird thumbing in my stomach, as if some creature is trying to climb right out... it's really strange... I've been getting darling looks from people all day long too... whenever my arm just jolts out on it's own in a twitching frenzy... it's great... and the main reason I'm typing this... and not going to sleep... is for fear of what the morning will bring me... 'Cause, if you think about it, if you had this major of a workout-wouldn't you be really sore the next day? So... I have a feeling I'm going to be really sore and twitching... more so than I already am... Ah well, I wonder what will happen when I put the belt on again tomorrow.
Blockbuster
At the Blockbuster, in front of my in line were these two guys, one looked really familiar. So anyway, this lady, who's not really all that old, but isn't by any means young either, walks in with some plastic bags from the grocery store and she goes up to these guys and I THINK she asked, "Do you work here?" They said no, and so, she randomly just proceeds to start talking to them, by describing some weird kind of condition she has with certain lights. Apparently certain lighting bothers her to the extent that it almost kills her. I can't remember her exact wording, but something about how certain lighting in places get into her eyes or SOMETHING like that and that it's like laser, or I don't even know. She started making these waving motions with her hand from her forehead while saying that the halogen type of light attacks her eyes. She continues about this and I'm trying so hard not to laugh, and she says, "not light like in here, but... " and she's naming a specific kind and saying like the kind in the Pathmark, where I guess she just came from. Then she began saying she felt she was having a heart attack from it and that now the people in the Pathmark really don't like her, haha, I can only imagine the scene she caused in there. Then she began making a comparison between the lights and those Japanese shows which cause seizures or aneurisms. The friend of the kid who looks familiar says, "Are you ok?" as she's saying she's having a heart attack and she responds very casually, "oh yea I'm fine." Hahah, it was so strange, and just with that, she just leaves!! She came into the Blockbuster, spoke to them, and just left like that!! So, the guy who looks familiar says to his friend, "Did I start talking to her??" Hahaha, and his friend says no and he's laughing, as well as the woman using the cash register. Then, suddenly the kid turns to me and says, "Do I know you?" and I was like, "I don't know... you look familiar." He says, "Is your name Regina?" and I said, "yea". Haha, then he said, "I'm Linzie's friend Ashley, I was at your New Years' Eve party a year ago that was in the middle of March" (Yes, I had a New Years' Eve party that wasn't on New Years' Eve.) Small world... and it's so funny, that situation to happen to anyone, it was classic that it happened to him, haha.
The Barn
Boy, where do I begin... On Saturday night after mass, Me and my friend BT were going to go back to his house because it's his younger brother's birthday. So anyway, after Mass we went to Boulder Run, which is a small little place with different stores-he went into Sam Goody (CD store, etc.) to get this movie he wanted that I refused to watch (MONTY PYTHON, don't even get me started) and I went in to the A&P to get some totally random things for his brother's birthday gift (I'm really strange like that)... and so anyway then we went back to his house and he, his brother, and I played basketball at this playground that is in the school (which is basically his backyard). Then we went in and celebrated his brother's birthday with his sister and some neighbors. Then we went out to dinner... UGH... OK, last weekend we went to this same place, it's called THE BARN and it's right down the street from him. It took us literally an hour to get the food and another hour to get the check... I was actually waving the money in the air and yelling "CHECK" and still no luck... And then we left a nice tip, for some reason, but I also left 7 receipts, mostly to POPEYES... (for no reason) So this weekend we were prepared and decided to just deal with it. So anyway, we have the same waitress and I was wondering if she remembered us and then BT reminded me about the receipts... lol oh weird that must have been... but, we actually get the food pretty quickly-within like 20 minutes. And my appetizer was buffalo wings and they were sooooooo hot!!! So I needed some more water, but I was also talking on the pay phone with someone... so BT said he'd tell the waitress when she comes... so she asks for more water and another coke for himself. So... she brings back the pitcher of water and pours it and as he's holding his soda glass she takes that and says she'll get more and walks away with it... HAHA, so anyway I'm cracking up on the phone 'cause I was watching this... and so I go back to the table and he's now on the phone and the water was literally like luke warm... not even room temperature it was WARM, how nasty... so now I'm just disgusted and I go into the girls' room which is tiny and right next to the pay phone and the door is always open, lol... so BT is cracking up because I'm like washing out my mouth with a paper towel and water just to get the hot taste off of it. And then he's still trying to eat but he has nothing to drink. So like an hour goes by now and while I was back on the pay phone again talking to another friend they bring some more water and fill it out-this time it's cold, but still no soda for him... lol but the waitress is bringing other tables soda... so we're like cracking up about this. Then all of a sudden we see her just get her coat and leave... LOL!!! And she's definately not coming back... so now we're just sitting there for like a half an hour with nothing to do and no check and NO ONE is aknowleding us... and no one is even in our section... lol but like other people that work there occasionally look over and do nothing. So I finally went up to someone behind the bar and was like "um... our waitress is missing... and... can we have our check" and they were even more surprised than we were that she left... and they're asking each other "One of the waitresses is gone??" lol and then we go back to the table and we see them like laughing about it and pointing... but still no one is bringing a check... so then like 10 minutes later they're calling her on the phone about it laughing and asking her where it is or whatever... and eventually we finally get the check... LOL... man it sucked... BT in Tube
Every day of the summer I baby-sit two boys for 10 hours, which of course leaves me plenty of time to use my imagination and keep them entertained. One of our favorite pastimes is to find a new park each time to go and play in, and trust me, we know almost all of them! One day we decided to go to this park that's behind my friend BT's house. It's actually the playground of a school, but it's nice. There's this one slide the park has that's completely shut in and twisty, so basically it's a tube. Every time BT would go down this slide with the boys, you could here him yelling, "Whheeee!!!" Naturally, you'd expect the sound to start from the top of the slide and go to the bottom, then out of the slide... but no... You'd hear him yelling, "Whee!!!" from the top, but then just stop in the middle... Followed by his screams of, "OH MY!!" Hahaha, because picture this: He goes down the slide sitting, but as he gets towards the middle, his feet and legs curl up, over the top of his head and he gets stuck... EACH TIME... with the boys trying to come down after him or climb up and push him out of the way. It was so funny! All these mothers and their children are just standing there listening!
Cape Walking
On Saturday night BT,
Tashie, and I went to church with Maggie. Afterwards we went to the Macaroni
Grill to stalk Amanda and then we all went to Hannah's house. We had to start
dropping off everyone at 10pm though because Tashie would have to go to 5
completely different towns for everyone and I have her on a before midnight
curfew, so... after dropping off Maggie, I had to start directly Tashie where to
go. Once we were about to get onto the main street, I told her to pull to the
side because I had to think (Even though I knew exactly where we were and where
to go), so she decided to take that opportunity to check in with her parents on
the cell phone. The real reason I told her to pull to the side was because I
found a bottle of water in the trunk (which I was rummaging through and putting
on all of her clothes on top of the clothes I was already wearing) and I wanted
BT to pour it over her, but I didn't want to cause an accident. He however,
wouldn't do it, and instead tried to hand it back to me... He claims he thought
I had it in my hand, when it was no where near my hand and it spilled all over
me and the back seat. So I jumped out freaking out and went outside to the trunk
and began looking for a towel. Tashie had no idea at all about what happened and
was trying to talk to her parents on the cell phone. She also didn't even see
that after it had dumped all over me, I threw it all over him as well. So then
BT and I were behind the back of the car toweling off and we found another water
bottle, which he walked up to her (still on the cell phone) and threw all over
her pants. Now, I had it all over my legs, arms, some on my shirt. He had it a
combination of all over his shirt and pants, she just had it on her pants so it
looked like she wet herself. I refused to get back in though because it was all
wet in the back. So I decided I'd walk home (It's at least a 25 minute drive by
highway to get to her house, so it would take hours to get home) and I tied the
towel around my neck like a cape and proceeded to march down the main road.
Tashie was driving slowly next to me yelling, "GET BACK IN THIS
CAR"... BT was giving me tips on what else I could do, "Put your arm out and run," so I did. You know, so I would look like a superhero.
Basically, the conclusion to this story is... later we went into the 7 11. Still
all wet, nothing had dried... except for BT, who had practically completely
dried... which was really strange considering the fact that both Tashie and I
were still soaking wet, she still looked like she wet herself. So I looked at
BT's pants and said to Tashie, "I guess it absorbs"... Think about
that.
The tournament in Edison was not a sleep away, but that just added to this... We had the 16 year old team and the 17 year old team registered in this and the 16 year old team needed extra players, so I (as well as some others from the 17 team) played with them. On Friday night our last game was scheduled to be last and for Saturday our game was first, which really sucks... especially because we don't live near this place. Our game was supposed to start at 7:45pm, but it didn't start until 9pm, which meant we weren't even over and leaving until 10:30pm. By the time we got home it was well after 11pm, and my friend called me sometime after midnight and we spoke until 2am. By the time I fell asleep, it was only 3 hours until I had to wake up to leave for my game, which I had to be get to at 7:30am. Much to my surprise, there were only 4 other people there and no coach. Towards the middle of the game, 2 more people showed up, as well as the 16 year old coach. After this exciting little game (let's not go there), we had a game at 11:45am. Now this is where the funny part comes in. You probably already know this, but for those of you that do not-I have asthma and I occasionally just pass out from it. I am able to get back up and continue doing whatever I was doing though. So, I passed out during this game, but someone from another team freaked out and called 911-even though we said we didn't need it. So the ambulance came, and they MADE me go with them because I was a minor at the time. I tried to convince them that I was fine and that I didn't need to go, but they weren't even listening to me. They made me get into the ambulance and they weren't even consulting me, they were speaking to a girl that was sent out to the ambulance with me who is not even on my team! She was just helping us out for this game, she's friends with one of my teammates. So of course she didn't know any of the answers, and I'm sitting there thinking, "You know I am right HERE," and yet they're still talking about me as if I'm in the third person, not present. Then the one guy is taking my blood pressure and is like, "Oh my gosh, it's 160!!" and then he's taking my pulse with his hand, rather than the little machine and is like, "Hahaha, never mind that thing is broken." So now I'm getting really annoyed because I'm missing my game, so they go rushing me to the hospital with the sirens on and swerving back and forth across the road... and I'm like, "This isn't an emergency, I'm fine"... so as I sit there preparing to die on our ride to the hospital, I'm still so angry that they made me come... I asked them if my coach could just sign off so that I wouldn't have to go and they said no because he didn't have a waiver sheet... and yet none of my other coaches have ever had to have that before. So we arrive at the hospital, and the ER is closed, so we go to the registering desk. Nice hospital right, I was like, "What kind of hospital IS this??" They're asking me a ton of questions, etc... none of which I know the answers to... "What's your social security number? What's your medical insurance? What's the zip code of the hospital your father works in?" I was like "I don't know... I don't know" and I was still in a really ticked off mood. So they ask how old I am, and I say, "Haven't we been through this, only 17, I'm a minor!!!" They wanted to see the medicine that I take, and I was like "No, see, that's back in my bag... the one that's in the gym... the one you made me leave behind..." So now they're trying to figure out what the medical insurance is through the computer by putting in information about my father, they're like, "When's his birthday?" and I'm responding, "June... something?" and so I said, "See, my coach, the one you made me leave, back at the gym, he's got the same birthday... so if we were still there, you could have just asked him what his was." SO then they say that they can't do anything to me without parental consent, and I said, "YEA, REALLY?? Hence the reason I wanted to stay back at the gym, I don't need any help." So then they put a piece of paper and a pen down in front of me and bring me over to a phone and tell me to keep calling someone until I can get parental consent... So I reply, "We're not from here, we're over an hour away... my father is working in the city, a good 3 hours away... My mother left me with my team and she went out with my sister and is somewhere here. Now neither of them know where I am, because you took me here." So they're like, "Keep trying to call," and now I'm getting even more mad... "Who would you like me to call? I don't know the father's number, or the mother's... Why? Because that's in my bag, the one you made me leave... BACK AT THE GYM." And yet they still respond with, "Keep trying to call," and I'm saying "WHO?? Are you even listening to what I'm saying??" So they make me try to call my coach's house line, my teammates cell phones, and I'm like "The coach is NOT home, he's at the game, THE GAME YOU MADE ME LEAVE! The ones my teammates are PLAYING in!!" This was just not working, so now... FINALLY, the father actually came home early from work and I reached him at home and he gave them parental consent, but they wrote down his name as "Eric Malldeh" and I'm saying... "Wait, that's not my last name" and they're saying, "Yea we know, who's name is this?" and I'm like "I have NO idea, he actually said that as his last name?!?!" It was so messed up, but after I convinced them that he must have slurred all of his words or SOMETHING, they took my to a room or whatever. They said I had to wait awhile for them to find a pediatrician to come and look at me and I said, "No seriously, what kind of hospital IS this?? Look, I don't need any treatment, I'm fine." So this nurse responds with, "So you're refusing treatment?" and I said "No, I'm fine, you can do whatever you want to me, but I am just fine" and she's like "You're refusing treatment" and she goes and tells someone else. Then they come back and ask where the mother is and I'm like, "I don't know!!!" So now the nurse is like, "We need your bag from the gym, where is this coach of yours?" and I'm saying, "OK, look, they are at the game... the game you made me leave!" See, no matter how many times I told them the exact SAME things, they still wouldn't listen, so they're like, "We're going to call the police department and tell them to bring your coach and the bag here, they help us out all the time with minors." and I'm just like, "uumm..." So then I hear her on the phone saying, "No, no, you don't have to arrest him, just bring him here" So now I have this VERY vivid picture in my mind of my head coach getting arrested during the middle of a game and being dragged here... and I'm like "Wait, no, you can't..." but she was hanging up the phone and saying, "Oh they'll get him now." At this point, the mother walks into this wing of the hospital, because the father (Who wouldn't give us the cell phone number of where to reach her, but said he'd try himself... lovely.) had finally reached her and told her to go to the hospital... So now I just stand up and say, "We're leaving" and they're like, "Uumm..." so to make an already long story a little bit shorter, we go back to the gym right as our team is walking out... They thought this was like the funniest thing. Then, we're talking to my coach for the longest time and then eventually, a good half hour after the police were called, the cop shows up and says, "I'm here for so-and-so", but he doesn't even know why or what he's supposed to bring to the hospital... So, that's basically the conclusion of my story, I don't find this funny at all, I was actually very annoyed, but others found it funny, so I figured I'd share.
Our Fish
At PETCO, they sell fish in tiny tanks-you can get one fish in the tank and the tank has colored rocks in there-very small. Anyway, the water in the tanks are blue because they use Methane Blue--what that is, is a chemical you put into water for fish, which makes the water cleaner because it helps to get rid of bacteria, etc (isn't good for all fish). So, anyway... One day, when I was in 7th grade, the sister and I (Yes, I usually refer to my sister as "the sister", haha) both got our own little fish like that from PETCO...and so the adventure begins...The ending of both the fish lives is not a happy one, but it is kind of funny...I had mine in my room and she had hers in her room. She was in the 4th grade at the time and I guess not capable yet of taking care of the fish on her own... To clean the tank, you need to take the fish out and put it in a cup or something. When she tried to do this, she put the fish back into SCALDING HOT WATER... the fish just stopped moving all together and began floating... so she was screaming about it, I came in and then reached in and put it back in the room temperature water-suddenly the fish was OK and swimming around. So, that was Near Death Experience #1 for her fish. Then another day, she remembered what happened with the hot water, so instead, she put it in FREEZING COLD WATER and again the fish just began floating... Again, we took it out and put it back in the room temperature water and it was miraculously OK again. That was Near Death Experience #2 for the fish. Then, one day, the mother (my mother, notice a pattern?) came upstairs and saw one of our cats sleeping on her bed---with a blue paw. So my mother was trying to think of how one of our cats could have gotten into any kind of ink or paint--Uh-Oh, then she remembered---the Methane Blue in the fish tanks, so she ran to our rooms-my fish was OK, and she ran to my sister's... and the fish tank was empty--The cat had gotten into it! Then she saw something that looked like a feather on her dresser and she touched it--it was the fish and it jumped!!! She put it back in the tank and it was OK. Near Death Experience #3 for her fish. Lastly, there was this girl that I really didn't get along with too well because, well, I'll be truthful-she'd try to get people in trouble for things that she did-Anyway, I felt bad though because no one in my class liked her, so I decided to be her partner for something in school. We had to work on it at my house and she went into the bathroom (where my sister's fish had been moved, on the counter), was in there for only a minute... and when she came out... THE FISH WAS DEAD!! We still have NO CLUE what she could have done to this fish--this fish who survived EVERYTHING!! GGRR... OK, now for my fish--I woke up one morning and there was a cat in my room hopping around on the carpet. I sit up and look at the cat--she had gotten my fish out of the tank and was holding it against the carpet!!!! My fish dried up and got stuck to the carpet!!! So... yea... that's how those two fish died...
Fort Lee HS
This weekend... uumm... Friday, Steven and I went to Fort Lee high school to see Tashie's basketball game... Brother, that was interesting to try and find... Never trust any kind of on-line directional system, which I've been saying since they came out, but he tried to use it anyway. Naturally half of those roads on the directions were no where to be seen, but somehow we managed to find the road with the school on it. Have you ever seen that school? Wow... it seriously looked like a huge government building, like in Washington DC... You know, the big pillars and huge doors and all-if I hadn't seen the Tenafly bus parked on the road I would have NEVER EVER thought that to be a school-at all. Then we had to find a place to park-which resulted parking WAY down the road (of course there were no parking signs all over it). Then for the way home, since he didn't get those directions and the ones on the way were completely wrong... we ran to the car and tried to speed up to follow the Tenafly bus... Let's just say: Steven, "Get behind the bus, in front of that car" Reg, "You mean, cut off that car?" Steven "Yea" Reg, "Oohh I think those people were following the bus too... or... they're following us..." LOL... and the bus literally took about two turns to get back to Tenafly, so basically there was a much easier way to get there than what we did... ggrr...
Frog in OaklandCheck out what happened to me when we lived in Oakland: My family (mother, father, sister) went to Woodbury Commons (shopping center, not close by) for the day and I was at home. I was supposed to clean out all of the frog tanks (at the time we had 2 or 3) and to do that, I'd need to take the frogs out of the tanks, completely clean the tanks, then put the frogs back in. Well... to make a very long story short, let's just say that when I tried to get the biggest frog out of the tank and into a small tank of water, she jumped out... She began jumping across the floor and went BEHIND A BOOKSHELF. Now, this bookshelf was huge--it had books on every shelf and it had games inside the cabinets. In order to move it, to get to the frog, I had to take EVERYTHING off of it. Meanwhile, I'm consistently throwing water on top of the frog (because it's a water frog and will die if without water for long periods of time)... and as soon as I get everything off the shelf to move it... Guess what happens. As I'm moving it, the frog jumps INTO the radiator that we had along the walls. So now, I'm completely taking apart the radiator to get the frog out... There was a hole leading somewhere and a space to go under the carpet... The frog then proceeded to go under the carpet--still, I'm throwing water on her, but as I'm doing this, the glue from underneath the carpet is getting all over her. Plus, I have to peal up the carpet, off the floor, just to reach her. This lasted about an HOUR. FINALLY, I get the frog and put her back in the tank... but now I still had to put the carpet back, fix the radiator, AND move the shelf back and put everything back on the shelves... ugh.
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