> recent entries > previous 10 entries > next 10 entries > My Website > RadkePICS > My Movies > My CDs > Strong Bad! > friends > profile > 1st Caption Contest Winner > 2nd Caption Contest Result > 1st Randomness Cartoon!!! > 2nd Randomness Cartoon!!! It's ok if you feel sexually attracted to this child...he is now 20 Friday, March 12th, 2004 09:17 - and then the monkey played with himself!!! GWA HA HA!!! Well people?it?s been a little while, huh? But not a whole month?a whole month would have been if I updated on the day I?m leaving for South Padre. Well, not much has happened since our last discussion?life has been going on, and I?ve been becoming happier as the days pass and the time moves forward. I?ve been going to school?well, not this week because of spring break. I hate the North Harris Montgomery Community College District for scheduling our spring THIS week instead of NEXT week when all the "big universities" have it. Ya see, spring break is a time where you?re suppose to hang out with all your buddies from all around, because they come home or you meet them somewhere. But see, NHMCCD made our spring break a week before everyone else?s resulting in when WE?RE off, no one is in town, and then when they're off and in town, we have school to go to. It's complete bullshit I swear. Well, classes are going ok I guess?Fitness is a breeze, philosophy is good as long as I can raise my test grades, psychology is my nap time, and I could do better in there, sociology is a bitch?easy class, but I don?t really care about it, and then there?s Government 2?OUCH. First three quizzes my grades are as follows: 60, 20, 30?and then there was that thing called the midterm? YEAH?a big fat 52 on that. I need to get my act together, or else I?m gonna end up failing this class. I just hate the way she teaches?pop quizzes, assigned groups, this isn?t fucking high school. We have tardies at Cy-Fair now. 3 tardies equals one absence. I mean what the hell is that? 3 absences, and the teacher COULD drop you with her/his own discretion. People, today is the day that I get my shit together and buckle down with my schoolwork. Ok now that we?re done with the serious part of the update, on with the craziness that IS Jonathan Robert Radke. Haza!!! Well, I?ve made the first of hopefully many Randomness Cartoons, and here it is?just click HERE!!! I know I don?t really keep up with the things I plan to do on this site, but I would like to continue with this one. I mean it IS randomness that which distinguishes this "jajaflatupido" from the next jajaflatupido. Nobody really knows what my screen name means, and that?s the whole point of it. You can make any story you want out of it, but the fact remains that NO ONE will ever know the truth. Mainly because there is none, but also because I won?t ever tell anyone what I think it means. Because I don?t know either. I should like make a up a story and then post it on the website?call it like "Jajaflatupido: We Hardly Know Thee." It?s gonna get a lot of hits I can already tell. I think I might do it today, while I?m sitting on my ass at work, listening to cds. OH! That reminds me?I have updated my cd list, and it is up and running?with a bottled water?Dasani?because that kind is the best?of the best. Right now, I am going to do a pitch for some new games Christina and I made up, all by ourselves. Here they go (keep in mind these are DRINKING games (ONLINE drinking games so you have to play by the honor system)): Slippery Fingers: The rules are simple...if you fuck up, you drink. Choose any letter out of the alphabet, and you can?t type that letter the entire night while talking to each other with your desired instant messenger program. Ex. We pick the letter 'a'?I type "Jonthn Rdke is sexy dibetic" You type "ok" I type "wht, you don?t agree with me?" DAP!!! I typed an 'a'?that means one drink. One drink PER letter you type, so if I typed "Jonathan Radke is a sexy diabetic," I would have had to take five drinks (or gulps). This game is actually fun once you start to really lose. Shortcuts: Once again, a simple game, but also easy to lose at?the entire night, you have to write out complete words without abbreviations. ?Shortcuts? such as 'lol' or 'brb.' Ya see, those would be ?Laugh Out Loud? or ?Be Right Back.' Drink every time you use a shortcut. So you see, these games are easy, AND entertaining. I GUESS you could play them just as regular drinking games, but it would be little harder to take out a letter from the entire night, or not say abbreviations. You don?t usually say ?brb? when you?re hanging out with your friends. Oh?and these games do NOT have to involve alcohol?you can play with sodee pop or a nice tall milkshake. If you?re one of those people that thinks "you can't drink alone?that means you're an alcoholic!!!" then I say to you this statement from the National Bureau of Extreme Radkiness (NBER): Drinking alone according to the bureau is considered as not being social with ANYONE physically OR mentally. When you?re talking to friends online, you?re with them mentally. NOT alone. At least that?s how I look at it. Ya know, I listened to my old high school Midwest Clinic CD today on my way to work, because I wanted to take it easy with some memories. Hearing Rocky Point Holiday hit something in me?I don?t know what it was, but I got really emotional. I guess it?s just hearing what we got through all of our determination gets to me. It brings me back to my high school days also. Those were some cherishable days. I like when a song like that can hit a point in my heart that extreme. It feels nice. I?m trying to think of anything that has been going on with me, but the plain truth is that nothing extraordinary has happened in the past weeks. I?ve started jogging in the morning. Oh yeah!!! I?m making a brand new RadkeVIDEO?Green Jelly ? Three Little Pigs. This video is all pictures and that?s it. It?s a bunch of pictures from when I was a little kid, more like a memento to what IS Jonathan Robert Radke. Oh?I got something to talk about?Inactive Ignorance is starting in hard on their own material. No more covers. FUCK covers. For all of you that saw us at my last get together, we would like to thank you for your support and for listening to us. When we?re big, you can be like, "I SAW THEIR FIRST PERFORMANCE..AT A RADKEPARTY!!!" Don?t worry all yous fans?we won?t forget our friends when we make it. Well, important dates to look forward to in my life: March 19th: leave for Padre with Juan, Alan, and others March 20th: get SHITFACED in Padre with Juan, Alan, and others March 21st: come home with a big ass hangover March 22nd: go back for school @ 08:30 May something or other: last day school July 1st: FINALLY!!! I have been on this planet for 21 years. YEAH!!! That?s all from me, and you?ve heard it here?all Radke, all the time, here at RadkeJournal. Thanks for reading. Website: There are 2 today:RANDOMNESS - First of many?I HOPE (must have Microsoft Powerpoint) Michael Kleinickie when he was smaller - a MUST SEE (must have quicktime) ShoUt out: Emily Lenore Martin ? For being such a badass friend through thick and thin. Thanks Bitch ala mode!!! (i.j. between j and e) current mood: Energetic?this running stuff really pays off later in the day current music: Story of the Year ? Anthem of Our Dying Day Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "This is my LUNCH!!!" ~Jonathan Radke back in high school Comments Thursday, February 19th, 2004 01:46 - I'm NOT SO Happy Well people, it's only been 13 days, and already, I'm single again. Less than two weeks. I must be the king of short relationships. Even though I know it's for the best, I can't help but be dissappointed and discouraged from this. Don't get me wrong, Emily Goebel is still a sweet girl, and the only reason why we broke up is that she wasn't ready yet. I knew that it was too son, but I asked her out anyway. This seems rather familiar...could it be because it's what happened last time with Yanin and my friend Pratho? YES! I'm a good guy, but I just pick VERY crappy times to enter other people's lives. I end up getting hurt, and I blame myself for acting on the feelings too quickly. I know it's not completely my fault...like the old saying goes, "it takes two to tango," but I shouldn't have acted on my personal feelings when I know her feelings weren't definite. Right now I'm probably just rambling on and on, but ya know what? I need to. My journal is where I go to to vex on my personal issues. Usually it's a smile and laugh circus with the Radkemeister, but there also has to be the times of sadness and crying. I'm not afraid to say it: I was crying earlier tonight, not just because of my relationship, but because of all the things in my life that I think about when one of those things is crashing down on me. I think about my diabetes, TTP, hypothyroidism, asthma, school, friends, and all that other shit. When my heart gets a little smashed, all of the painful memories come back to worsen the pain. I'm hypocritical when I tell all the people that it's what they go through that makes them who they are, and drama in their life is good for them, because I don't live by these principles myself. Talking to Emily tonight made me realize this. I brighten a lot of people's days when they're down, and I give out advice and help that they could be paying for (at a psychiatrist), but I don't abide by the advice I hand out to my friends. It's like I'm promoting something that I don't even use. I know to most of my friends, Emily will be the one looking like a bitch, but I want all my friends to realize that I'm glad she did this early rather than waiting for a time in the future when it will hurt even more. To fully understand why we broke up would take a long time in which I am not willing to devote to, and I'm not gonna go into all of that shit that's in her life. Of course, I'm mad, but i'm also sad, and also glad. I'm all the "...ads." If getting through a break up is so easy, then that means it wasn't that important. But when you dread the moment that you both hang up the phone because it'll mean the official ending, that's something to really sit back and think about. It's because of all those good times, that we're able to have these sad times. [There's a little South Park for ya fans out there (Episode 714 - Raisins).] I know I talked a lot of you girls and guys about how great Emily is and how I see our relationship going a long way, but things just don't go the way you plan sometimes. Don't change your opinion about her though. She's still a great person, and I just got caught up with her at the wrong time. I would be lying if I said I didn't have anymore feelings for her, because she the was first girl I've actually been attracted to, and saw a future with since well, Yanin. I put this relationship on a pedastal that was too high. I liked the idea of having a girlfriend so much that I began to think about the future. My attraction to her blinded the logic in my brain. I'm gonna miss holding her hand, kissin' her before I left, and just plain spending time with her. Actually, I'm gonna miss it a lot. I just care for her so much that it hurts me to think about what just happened. What makes it worse is that I'm gonna see her everyday at work, and even though I'll act like I'm fine, I won't REALLY be on the inside. Everytime I see her I'll think about what coul dhave happened if we stayed together. I'll think about how she was such a good influence on me the way she got on my case about not checking my blood sugar and waking me up in order for me to make my first class at 08:30. Oh man, I'm really gonna miss that feeling that there's actually a reason to get up in the morning. There's actually someone out there that makes you feel six hundred percent better about yourself. It's only been 45 minutes since we hung up and I already miss her more than my favorite stuffed animal when I was a kid (I was heart broken when my mom made me give "Dog" to my sister becasue I couldn't stop chewing on his tail. By the way, my sister turned Dog into a girl, and named her "Sam.") I was looking forward to going places with her, doing things with her, spending time with her. It's not just the things we would have been doing, but it was just BEING with her that I got excited about. It didn't matter where we would have gone, it wouldn't have mattered WHERE we went...all that would have mattered to me, was that she was right there, by my side. I know it's just the funk that I'm in right now, but I'm really reALLY REALLY depressed. Oh man I can't think about this anymore. I have to go. Monday, February 9th, 2004 16:42 - I'm Happy Well hey again peoples of the Radke fandom!!! It has been a long time since my last update, that in fact, it was the month prior to this one (January). Well, some things have happened to me since last time I saw this webpage (the one where I update RadkeJournal). I started school!!! You wanna know my schedule?!? HERE IT GOES!!! Kinesiology (Fitness for Life) MW - 08:30-09:50 Philosophy MW - 10:15-11:35 Sociology MW - 14:00-15:20 Psychology TTh - 08:30-9:50 Government 2 TTh - 10:00-11:20 That's 13 hours!!! FIVE CLASSES!!! I know I could be tryin a little harder to attend class and stuff like that. Kinesiology is doing good for me...I might even have a better body at the end of the semester!!! Wouldn't that be AWESOME?!!? Yeah it would, yeah i know, do you? Well on second thought, it would be GOOD!!! YEAH!!! Since James Bagabagon was in the Phillipines, Inactive Ignorance couldn't practice (he's our new guitarist). People, we sound BADASS. I mean, I would tell you all if we sucked, but the truth is, that we REALLY don't. Well, it was fine him not being in this country and all, because our room wasn't done yet in Juan's garage. That is what me, him, and Alan did on a few weekends. Well, actually I didn't get to help them much because I was working for James Bagabagon, and I had no time to chill with them. I did, however have time to hang out with Emily Goebel...but i'll get into that a little later. I worked so many hours while James was out...the first week he was gone, I worked Wednesday through Saturday totaling roughly 34-35 hours, the SECOND week, I worked Monday through Saturday, and THAT was about 46 hours!!! It said that I worked 7 overtime hours, so that was pretty badass. Overtime for me means about 13-14 bucks an hour. Now, I'm no expert, but that sounds pretty good to me. The third week he was gone, I worked Monday through Friday with the sum of 36 hours. Let's count 'em up...that's 118-119 hours in three wweks!!! YEAH!!! Man oh man...my paycheck on the 29th was SIX HUNDRED IN EIGHTY DOLLARS!!! AHHHH!!!!! I was happy. In fact, I was SO happy, that I went out and bought a brand new crash cymbal!!! 155 bucks that was!!! Cymbals are expensive!!! I desperately needed it, because my old crash sounded like a trash can lid...no...worse than that...a CRAPPY trash can lid. I'm selling it for 125 dollars...there's not much wrong with it. Ah damn...I just said that it sounds like a CRAPPY trash can lid. Can i take it back before they read it? I don't think I can. I know i know...I'm gonna send out a hypno thing making you forget about what i just said...HERE IT IS!!! BAHAHA!!! Well, I've taken one wuiz in Sociology, one in psychology, TWO in Government, and from all those, it looks like i'm gonna be gettin' another 3.0 for the semester. Ah well...as long as I get TRANSFERABLE grades. My philosophy teacher is badass. His name is professor Moulenbelt, and he is just so badass. He actually connects with his students, and GETS to them. Ok then...back to the Emily Goebel part. Ya see, Emily Goebel (purnounced Ga-bel) is a co-worker of mine that I have noticed ever since the first time I saw her. You see, she is a beautiful young woman that has given me the honor of hanging out with her. Ya see, James kept on trying to "woo" her before he left for the Phillipines. While he was gone, her and I started hanging out A LOT. I really enjoyed the time we were spending together...even though it was at work, it was fun. Our friendship evolved into a relationship without either of us expecting it to. So now, we are officially going out, and I couldn't be luckier. She has like the complete package. She's funny, extremely fun to hang out with, smart, and really quite breathtaking. THIS is the Emily Goebel of whom I speak so fondly of. She's my inspiration for the title of this entry. I see this relationship going in the upward direction a lot. I mean, I'm no Don Juan Demarco, but I think I know how to treat a lady. She likes me for being me, and I just think that is SO COOL. So, we've been going out since Friday, February 6th at about 22:13 or something like that. Right before we saw The Butterfly Effect. That movie was actually good. I give it um, like 8.5 out of 10 computer kilobytes up. It was Ashton Kutcher's first movie where I didn't want to jump into the movie and rip off his genitals. I liked it. The moral of the movie is: "you should be happy with what you have got," or something like that. Well, on Saturday I went to a play with Emily at Klein Highschool (her school). They were showing "Singin' in the Rain." It weas actually REALLY GOOD. I enjoyed it a lot, and I'm glad we went to go see it. On Sunday, that was the first time in a LONG WHILE Inactive Ignorance practiced. This is when I found out that we kickass...like REALLY. KICKASS. Right now it is Monday, and I'm just about finished summarizing what the heck I did since my last entry. For now, I bid you all, a good day, because my days are gonna be good for a long while. Website: Klein High School Drama!!! - See a great theatre group!!! ShoUt out: Emily Goebel - For being well...YOU!!! ENOUGH SAID. current mood: AWESOME!!! EXCELLENT!!! HAPPY!!! STUPENDOUS!!! EXUBERANT!!! current music: Jessica Andrews - There's More To Me Than You Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "Yuppers" ~Emithan and Jonily Comments Wednesday, January 7th, 2004 18:12 - ONE MORE WEEK Well everybody, call me crazy, but I sort of want school to start. The main reason why this is so, is because I have NOTHING to do at work now. I mean, I come in at 12:45 and do a round which I finish at about 13:45, I look up names in Healthquest and type up my report, and then what do i do? NOTHING. I sit on my ass listening to music. Either that or I just walk around aimlessly in the hospital looking for stuff to do. With school here, I have some stuff to do. There's homework, there's books I would have to read, and there's just STUFF to do. I mean, don't get me wrong...I love not doing any work, but that's when I actually have something that takes up my time. For example, for the past like two months, I've had Christmas to take up my time (thinking of gifts to buy, making cards, drawing pictures for those cards, et cetera). I usually have SOMETHING i could be working on whether it's a best friend's birthday, or a major holiday that shows togetherness and caring. The closest thing is Valentine's Day, and that's not for another month. I usually start working on that stuff the first week of February...Ana Valladares' Birthday is also on February the fourteenth, so i have to keep that in mind too. Valentine's Day is another Day of the year where I like to get a lot of my friends (the girls) something that shows that i'm always here for them and what not. It makes me feel good making them feel good. It's truly a great feeling. Ok then...on with the update. Whoa, that was a really long journal intro. HERE WE GO!!! Well, last week was the last week of the Johnny/Jonathan Show. He left on Sunday, January 3rd, 2004. They started school on the fifth. I had fun this last week of hangin' out with "Duck." On Tuesday well, on tuesday, ah hell...what did I do on Tuesday? I just can't remember right now. Hmmmmm...I'm gonna have to get back to you all on this one. I really don't know. Well I know what I did on Wednesday...I worked. On this day I was wearing two hats in the hospital. I was both the bedfinder AND the nursing administration secretary. It wasn't too bad...really smoothe day. Real nice for NEW YEAR'S EVE!!! After i got off work, I got home and took a shower because I was due at Priscella's house for her party. I arrived there at about 22:30-23:00, and said hi to all my buddies i saw there. Well, the clock struck 00:00, and it was the year 2004. Well, everybody there was drinking, and we sort of missed the ACTUAL countdown, but we did one of our own. I was buzzing pretty hard when Melissa Johnson gave me a call to wish me a happy new year. It was about 01:00 now, and Mel asked me to meet her somewhere to talk a little bit. We met up at the Conoco by Langham Creek, and then went back to Prisella's at about 02:00. There weren't that many people left there, so I had one more beer, and then we all left. i drove Melissa home, and then myself, and I crashed on my bed. It was a good night. I was off on Thursday!!! Yeah, but the only reason I was off was because my boss doesn't like to pay time and a half to us bedfinders and couriers. I mean why would she? Everyone ELSE but me gets paid holiday pay. I hate being supplimental...it sucks the big one. And ya know what REALLY boils my blood? I work more hours than part-time employees, and I STILL don't get the benefits. Every time I try to talk to my boss about switching me to part-time all she says is, "talk to me about it later." EVERY-DAMN-TIME that's what i hear. It's SUCH bullshit, but if you know me, you know that I wouldn't get all mad and throw a fit...that's just not me. Well, on Jan. 1st, 2004, I slept in until about DON'T:KNOW, and then when i went downstairs to get something to eat, my mom told me about the coupons that were only good for New Year's Day. There was an Oshman's coupon that was like 25 percent off your entire purchase. We didn't really need anything from Oshman's, so I called up Johnny and told him about it (he's been wanting to get some Nike Shoxx shoes). I drove up to the mall, and about 5 minutes from it, Johnny calls me and tells me that their running behind, and they'll just call me when they get to Oshman's. I say ok and then arrive at the mall 4.8 minutes later. I walk around, looking at just anything to pass the time. I remember I had that gift card from Kristyn for Hot Topic. I go in and look at the shirts, but they don't have the shirt I want in my size, and I knew that they wouldn't be getting it for a while or even never. I get another shirt that I've been wanting to get for a while. It's a light blue ringer shirt with the old school nintendo controller on the front. Not like my "Know Your Roots" shirt though. I was in Spencers Giftsd when Johnny gave me a call telling me that they're at Oshman's (his brother David and him). I leave the mall, and meet the at Oshman's. He says that they don't have a good selection of shoes at oshman's so he doesn't buy any. We look at the weight sets and work-out gear for a little bit, and then we left Oshman's. David went home while Johnny and I went back to the mall. He was still lookin' for some Nike Shoxx so we hit up the shoe places at the mall. We went to Spencers again, since he cut my browsing short, and I ended up buying a new keychain (a bottle opener with Homer on it). Over this Christmas break, a bottle opener has become a necessity to us and since my nintendo keychain broke, I was due to get another one...one that's more reliant to NOT break. After we left the mall, we were both hungry, and since Johnny wanted me to try Chipolte (pronounced Chi-pole-ae), I drove to 290 and 1960 to eat there. We arrived at Chipolte, and found out that they were closed on Jan. 1st. Right now we're like, "shit what are gonna eat now?" Then we just go over to chili's and eat there. I had the ranch bbq burger with some boneless buffalo wings, and Johnny had the bottomless nacho basket thing with a regular burger and some soda. He had so much to eat that he could hardely breathe. When we got back to the Salinas house, we watched Seabiscuit. This is an alright movie, but I don't think I would need to see it again. That night, me and Johnny hung out...first just drivin' around thinking of something to do, and then just deciding to go back home and watch some Family Guy while stuffing our faces with more food. Crispy Bars (generic rice krispy treats) and Pringles (Salt & Vinegar and Pizzalicious). Well on Friday, I had to work from 09:00-21:00, and that wasn't too bad. Once again I was bedfinder AND secretary for the nursing administration. When I got off, I met some friends up at the Copperfield Bowl (Jorge and his friends, Sam Medley, Katy Borhurst, Johnny, David, and Brian Payne). The first game I bowled, I threw a damn 62. I lost in that first group. It was me, Patrick ???, Kalin Culgar, Prisella Olivares, and myself. Yeah that's right...I was beat by them all. I think I did bad, because my ball was too heavy for me. But my second game, I did way better. This time i was bowling with Johnny, David, and Brian. This time I was havin' some beer while I was bowling, and this time I used a ball that was the correct weight. I couldn't believe it...I more than doubled my score. I bowled a 125...prolly the best game of my LIFE. Who knew beer would make me better...hahaha. After we were done at the bowling alley, we met up with Kalin and all of them at a bar on Barker Cypress and West Little York. Well, I was already buzzing HARD when I got there, and I pushed that buzzing feeling into just flat out DRUNK. They were ordering more pitchers of beer, and they were urging me to chug more and more. Of course, I like to give the "audience" a good show, and of course, I showed them all that I could chug like some sort of chugging machine that chugs really fast. Now I didn't know it at the time, but Johnny tells me that I shotgunned three beers in a row (chugged three beers in like 10 seconds...one after another). Still I have no recollection of going to IHOP after the bar, but according to Johnny, we did. I found out that I threw up all over myself IN IHOP. I can't believe that i did that...i mean, at a house or something I can live with, but I mean IHOP is a public place, and I can't BELIEVE that I made a fool out of myself. It's times like these when I look at what I'm doing and think, "do I really need to be doing this?" But, that mode of thinking doesn't really last a long time. Johnny drove me home, and still according to him, I was throwing up the WHOLE WAY HOME right out my window. Johnny brought me inside, and accidently left my house with my keys. He went back to IHOP to get my cell phone, becasue I left it there too. Good ole friend that Johnny Salinas...he knows i would do the same for him if the time ever arises..which it prolly won't but hey, shit happens. The next day, I wake up with the sound of the doorbell. Of course, having a hangover and everything, I REALLY don't wanna get it, so I just lay there and listen to my mom get the door. It's Johnny returning my keys that he says I left at his house last night (but you all really know what happened). My mom doesn't think anything at the time, but later on in the day, she asks me, "Jon, how did you get into the house if your keys were at Johnny's?" I don't know how to answer this question so I just say, "i dunno." She asks me if i was drinking, and this is something that you should NEVER lie about, because it'll be like you're trying to hide it, and it'll end up biting you in the ass later. Some how, we get onto the topic of my money, and the last thing my mom says is, "how are you gonna live when you're on your own? And now you've started drinking." Now right now, I REALLY don't wanna get into a big scene so all I say to her is, "I've been drinking for two years" and I walk out. I know it wasn't a good way to end that discussion, but I didn't want to start screaming. I went to Johnny's after that, because I thought we were going to go shoot some hoops, but i didn't get teh message that they're going to church instead of basketball, and then going out to eat after that. Mrs. Salinas invites me to tag along to church and then eating. Of course, i accept the offer, and go home to get dressed for church. We go to church at 17:30, and then I brought Christina home to meet Vince (her boyfriend) so that he could go with us to eat. We all met back up at Los Cucos, and MAN OH MAN...GOOD MEXICAN FOOD. I ordered the beef enchilada with some Pink Lemonade. That place was PACKED, but thanks to Mrs. Salinas being good friends with the owner, we go a table in like 10 minutes. After eating, Andrew and I go to Blockbuster to rent some games ("Mario Kart: Double Dash" and "Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg"). We make a pit stop at Starbucks to buy Christina, Andrew, and myself some frappachinos. On the way back to the Salinas house, we make another stop at the Radke house to pick up some Gamecube controllers and Finding Nemo. Before playing the games, we watch Finding Nemo with teh Salinas parents, and after they go to bed, we start playing MK:DD. It's a nice game of Jonathan, Andrew, Christina, and Vince. Andrew is doing hella good this night, and he wins just about every race. After getting tired of MK:DD, we pop in BH and the GE. This is quite an innovative game, and I had fun playing it. Sega and the Sonic Team did a good job at a new and fun game. After growing tired of Billy Hatcher, we watch an old "In Living Color" episode (the music one). Johnny and David get back at about 03:30 from the pool hall, and I leave their house almost immediately. That whole night, Christina and I were craving some tuna, so after i left their home I went to kroger and bought everything involved into making a tuna sandwich (the kind i like). That is, white sub rolls, mayonaise, mustard, TUNA, pickles, black olives, and yellow peppers. So, I get home at about 03:55, and start making my sandwich. I'm so excited about making my own sandwich. I dunno why, but it was fun. Me walking around in my room wakes up my mom, and she comes up asking me what the hell I was doing (the time now was about 04:15). I tell her that I'm going to go to bed right after I finish the sandwich and she goes back to bed. After finishing the sandwich, I stay up to finish the last two episodes of Fmily Guy on that disc, so I evetually get to bed at about 05:15-05:20. On Sunday, my mom tells me that I can't go ANYWHERE until i clean up my room. Now, I HAD to clean it up by at least 14:00, because that was what time Johnny was leaving for Chicago. I wake up at 13:00...now FUCK...I'm thinkin' that I'm gonna have to say bye to Johnny on the phone, so I give him a call, and ask him what time he's leaving. He says about 14:15 or something like that. I jumpr outta bed, do hella quick job cleaning my room, jump into the shower, and by the time I'm ready to go see him it's 14:05. I go over there, and I actually rode to the airport with them to see Johnny off. Johnny got onto the plane safely, and then it was the Salinas parents, Andrew, and myself on the ride back home. When we get back, I go with Andrew to Jack in the Box to get some lunch for us AND Christina. An old classmate of mine, Derrick Gibson hooks us up with some huge "quencher" cups for no charge, and then we go back to Salinasville. We eat our food, and then play some more MK:DD. After getting tired of that, Andrew puts in BH and the GE and we play that until I want to pull my eyes out of my socket. I hand the controller to Andrew, and then fall asleep on their couch while watching him play. I wake up to him playing MK:DD, and decide that it's about time for me to go home. I get home at like 20:30, and then start watching the last Family Guy disc. At about 23:00, I start taking out the trash, and ya know what? You all don't care about that. Well, I go to sleep at about 03:00 after watching Joe Dirt. i would have to say that the BEST part of this movie is this girl...Brittany Daniel. That's not really a good picture of her on IMDB.com, but let's just say you have to see the movie. Monday was here, and I have to work. I wake up at like 10:00, and eat a little breakfast. Before leaving for work, I take a little nap, but I wake up late again, so I have to leave without taking a shower. I get to work, and do my job. I bought a brand new bag today and a new cd case!!! You wanna see the bag I bought?!?! OK!!! HERE IT IS!!! I bought a cd case that holds 208 CDs, because I ran out of room with my other two cases. I was fun organizing my cds in my new case, and I only have one case now that holds all my cds. That takes up about 15-30 minutes, so that was good. After work, I go and meet Pratho up at his Grandma's other house that he's fixing up, becasue the old owners moved out on Sunday, and his grandma is trying to sell it, and it needs to be worked on. I leave there at about 23:45, and get home at about 00:01. I actually went to bed at 02:00 this night after watching the newest South Park episode and Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler. On Tuesday, i was off from work, and I still had no school. I get the day started at about 10:00, and I LEAVE the house at like 13:00 to go pay for my classes and get some other shit done like get a haircut and stuff. I get back home at like 15:30, and watch The Goonies. It has been SUCH a long since i've seen this movie, and I completely forgot that Samwise Gamgee is the main character in it. This is really a good movie, and the best line of the entire film is prolly, "I'm gonna set Booty Traps!" by that little asian kid. Man...you gotta love those asians. After watching the movie, I go and help Pratho a little more on the place, assisting him in painting the walls and such. I fall asleep while listening to some Queen, and then i leave for home at like 23:15. I stop by Krogers on the way home to get some sodee pop, and then i retired to my room. Last night I watched Miyazaki's Spirited Away, and STILL...this movie is amazing to me. I know I've seen it like fifty times, but it still entertains me. Today, I woke up at like 11:00, and got ready for work. I left at about 12:10, and got here at 12:35-12:40. But listen to me ramble on and on...that' should be it for this update!!! To all you Radkiddies out there, I will say this to you: "MAY THE DIABETICS TAKE CONTROL OF ALL THE ALLIGATORS!!!" Hahaha...a little Pilar-humor for ya there. YA KNOW YOU LOVE IT!!! Website: Top 94 Songs of 2003!!! - See the top 94 songs played on The Buzz in the year 2003 ShoUt out: Johnny Salinas for taking extreme care of me last Friday current mood: How do I put this into words? Ah yes...BORED current music: Queen - Boehemian Rhapsody Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "Fuck the Honda" ~Jonathan the Koala Comments Monday, December 29th, 2003 18:32 - IT'S BEEN A WHILE!!! Well then...I haven't been updating this AT ALL lately. I said I would now that school is over, but ya see, there are these things called friends...and they're home right now. I've been hangin' out mostly with the Salinas kids and Melissa Joy Johnson. Fun times we all have been having...playing Cranium and all. Lemme think about what I wrote about LAST time I updated...hmmm... .... ..... oh man...has it REALLY been that long? IT CAN'T BE!!! I can't remember all the shit I've been doing for the past month...or more. Ah man...I can't even think right now, because I'm so flaburgasted of how long it has been since I've updated. I'm like sick to my stomach right now. Well, I'll just talk about what I DO remember. My truck has been running fine since the "incident." I got brand new tires, and I love 'em...I don't squeal anymore when I make turns. It's so nice. Well, I might still squeal, but it won't be coming from my truck. Christmas time was here, and that meant I had to search for gifts to give to MOST of my friends. I was still shopping right up to two days before Christmas. The first paycheck in December went to my sister's, dad's, Johnny's, Christina's, and Kristyn's gifts. Would you all like to hear what I got all of them?!?!? SURE YA DO!!! Well, here it goes... Kristina Radke X-Men Collection DVDs (Parts 1 & 2) (pic) Robert E. Radke Backyard table for beer (pic) Johnny Salinas "LIFE: Is this all there is?" Nintendo Shirt (pic) Christina Salinas Build-a-Bear Koala that's wearing scrubs and says "Fuck the Honda" (pic) Kristyn Fukawa Nintendo Shirt with Mario, Toad, and Yoshi on it and twizlers & almond m&m's (pic) Choosing the gifts were a little hard, but I had no problem getting something for each of them that they would like. On my second check of December, I used it to get the rest of my gifts...my mom, Andrew, David, Tony, Grant, Pratho, Melissa, Ana, and Christin... Susan Radke Pillow that adjusts to contour of head and scented candle (pic) Andrew Salinas Fantasic Four Book with first nine issues and DVD comic Book of Wolverine vs. Hulk (pic) and (pic) David Salinas Cowbell holder for his drumset (pic) Tony Salinas Snack Dispenser (pic) Grant Mueller Chasing Amy (pic) Chris Pratho Requiem for a Dream (pic) Melissa Joy Johnson Pink GAP Fleece (pic) Ana Valladares Creme Savers and Sour Punch Straws in a heart shaped box I decorated with her name (pic) Christin Moore Heath bar bites in a heart shaped box I decorated with her name (pic) Everbody liked their gifts, but I think the person that like theirs the most was Christina Salinas. I hope she'll cuddle with Jonathan (the koala's name) for a while instead of throwing him in the big pile of stuffed animals in her room. I try every year to get something that would be unique enough so that when ever they see that item, they would think of me, and I think I did that quite nicely. In addition to buying memorable gifts, I also wrapped each present in my own style (which made it look NOTHING like what it actually is). For instance: I wrapped my sister's present diguised as a stuffed dog, and there will be a quite funny anecdote a little later. I stuffed Johnny's shirt into a poster package I received from allposters.com. Andrew's gift I taped them all together, and taped a bunch of cds that are corrupt or garbage all over it. David's gift already had a strange shape, so I didn't have to disguise it, my dad's was too hard to wrap so I just wrapped a bow around it. On Grant's, I took a toilet paper rool, and taped it on the cover, with pennies on each corner to round off the edges. Tony's was just a box so I didn't need to do that one. I put Christina's in a FOLEY'S box and added a few like little crumbles of newspaper to it to give it a little "hmmmmm" factor. On Kristyn's shirt, I took two of the drumheads i had from highschool still, drew her name all creative-like on one of them, and on the other one, wrote a little note. I put the candy and the shirt in one of them, and then close it up with the other head...so it ended up looking like two circles stuffed with SOMETHING. I really enjoyed Christmas this year...I had fun disguising the gifts, and I had fun doing my own cards. My thing this year was a "CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD" kind of thing. I'll post an example once I make one. Basically, it's just a letter with missing words, and the numbers in front of the blanks have corresponding word choices, and they fill it out themselves. It's card...AND A GAME!!! I hope they all liked it. After all...i was up until 04:00 Christmas Eve finish up all of the stuff. Well, up until Christmas, I was working a little more, and earning a little more money. Of course I have been goin' out with Johnny and them just about every night...regardless of what time I have work the next day. Ya know...I gotta get my fill of best friend while I can. OH!!! Good ole buddy, Matt Muskiet was in town for three days!!! Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday!!! It was AWESOME seeing him again...since the last time was Christmas 2002, and I didn't get to hang out with him that much because I was working so much. The first night he was here, we went and hung out with Wayne Warnke and all his friends. We were hella hungry at like 00:45 on Christmas Eve, and even WHATABURGER was closed. We thought it was hopeless until the bright, beautiful sign of Denny's shined upon us. It was like a miracle had happened...or it was like Denny's was open on Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day. I ordered the French Slam and finished it hella fast. Good shits thems are. I got back home at like 02:00, and stayed up doing all the finishing touches on presents and giftwrap. So...the time had finally come, and Christmas was here. I was the first one to wake up at 09:00, and I walk downstairs. No one is up yet so I'm like "hmmm...why aren't they up yet?" Then I come to the conclusion that they weren't up because they were up all night with the aliens that were controling their brains with tootsie rolls. It turns out I was wrong about that one...they just wanted to have plenty of sleep before the big day of opening presents and cooking dinner. As a treat to my whole family, I sat down at the piano and started playing Christmas songs for them to wake up to. The time is now 09:05, and my fingers need to wake up. I run though some of the mario stuff before i start in with the Christmas stuff to get my hands warmed up. I start playing Christmas music at 09:10, and I go through our whole Christmas book. By the time i finish all of them, everyone is awake, and doing their own thing. My dad woke up at about 09:30 to have his time with mister toilet and then start on breakfast. My mom wakes up at like 09:45 and says, "Now THAT'S what I like waking up to." I give her a little smile and continue with my little performance. Sister is the last one that awakens, which is about at 10:15-10:30...i wasn't really too sure. She doesn't come down until about 11:45 though...when we eat breakfast. I was done playing at like 10:30, and I still had nothing to do...my sister was in the shower, and dad was still workin' on breakfast while mom reads the newspaper. The telephone rings, and I assume it's my grandparents calling to wish us all a Merry Christmas. It wasn't them though...it was Mr. Rick Holm (my dad's best friend). He tells my dad that he's comin' over to wish us a Merry Christmas. My dad tells me to set up the Nintendo 64 so that they could play a little Mario Golf before the dinner preperations start. So, I go upstairs, grab the 64, bring it downstairs, and set it up. Since I was still waiting for breakfast to be cooked, I had some time to kill. I grab Dr. Mario 64 and go away at that for a little bit. Now when i play this game, time goes by SO FAST!!! I start playing, and the next thing i know, Rick's here and we're eating breakfast. It's hypnotizing it is. Breakfast was excellent, and after we ate, we went to open the presents. Keep in mind, that it's about 12:30. This must be the latest we've ever unwrapped our presents but no one seemed to mind. I got a little tool set with only the basic tools, some gift cards, a wooden remote control holder for my room, and The Family Guy Volume Two DVD set. Now ever since I wrapped my sister's gift, she was under the impression that it was a stuffed dog or something of that nature. so she starts to unwrap the "dog" and just goes apeshit at it (since I put so much damn tape on it). Well, she goes for the head first, and RIPPP!!! she rips the head right off!!! now the look on her face is so priceless that I would pay money to see it again. Ironic, huh. She thought she had destroyed her gift and so she was trying to still unwrap the head until I tell her there's nothing in it. she unwraps the rest of it and figures out that it's the X-Men Collection. Her disguised gift was prolly the most creative and the most believable. It was GREAT. Man oh man...G-R-E-A-T. After the family unwrapping presents time is over, we stay and talk for a little bit. I was the first one up and into the shower though, since I had to deliver presents all over the place. I leave my house at like 13:30 with my Santa hat on to Kristyn's house. I get to meet her mom, and give her her gift. She was also confused in what i got her, but once she opened it, she gave me a big ole hug and thanked me. I would have stayed and chatted with her somemore, but I had more deliveries to take places. My next destination was Melissa Joy Johnson's grandparent's house. I drive by, don't see her car, and come to the conclusion that she's not there. I then drive to her mom's house and whadyaknow...her car is right there!!! I get out of my truck, ring the doorbell, and no one answers. I ring a few more times, but I get the picture and just leave until later so I can check again. I plan on driving all the way out to Memorial City to give Pratho's gift to him, but the thought crossees my head that he's prolly at his old house with his parents, brother, and sister. It's a good thing I go back and check, because that's where he was. I ring the doorbell, and I hear a voice that says, "DON'T GET UP...IT'S FOR ME" as if he KNEW it was me. I give him his gift, and he gives me a copy of the new Offspring CD. I sit down with his family, have a piece of ham, and socialize for a little bit. He had to go to work at 15:00 though, so i was outta there by 14:30. I drive by Melissa's house one more time, and there's another car in the drive-way that wasn't there before. So I ashume (that's for YOU, Melissa!!!) they're back home. I get out of my truck, ring the doorbell, and her brother answers the door. I ask if Melissa's there, and he says "nah...she's out with my mom." So I leave the present with him and I ask him to give it to her. I was a little dissappointed, because I really wanted to meet her mom and sister. There will be other times though. So...the time is about 14:45 now, and my next destination is the Salinas house to give them all their gifts. I drive with the Santa hat on with a huge smile on my face...I love this day. So much giving, so much love, so much togetherness. I suddenly remember that I didn't get anything for the Salinas parents, so i stop by at Walgreens...thank god for Walgreens...even open on Christmas. I buy a scented candle, and I'm ready to be Santa Radklause. I happily drive down to the Salinas house and bring all the gifts in at once. It's not that easy to carry all those presents at one time...I dunno how SC does it. Hahaha. Christina is still in the shower when I step into the house, but everyone else is up...in the kitchen. I give Mrs. Salinas the candle first, and give her a hug wishing her a Merry Christmas. Andrew is the first one to his present, opens the card, looks at it, and tells me he's gonna do it later (the choose the right word thing). But he CHEATS!!! He looks at the correct answers FIRST!!! The NERVE of that guy!!! Hahaha...it's ok though...I didn't mind. He opens his present, gives me a hug, and thanks me. David receives his gift next and tells me that he's gonna do it later also, but he had a good excuse...he was cooking his famous lasanga. He opens the gift, gives a hug, and thanks me. Johnny opens his card and actually DOES it in front of me. He figures out that it's a shirt, and opens the poster wrapping thing. He tries on the shirt right away, and it looks good on him. He gives me a hug and thanks me for the gift. Lemme tell the anecdote about how I FINALLY came across this shirt...I bought him an extra large before he even got into town. I wrapped it and everything but the only problem was that he's a LARGE, and not an extra large. It's December 23rd, and I still don't have his size shirt. I check the Hot Topic at Memorial City Mall, and they have like EVERY other size BUT large. So no luck there. I then go down to the Edwards Marque, becasue they have a HT there also. No luck. Right now I'm extremely frustrated. I decide that I'm going to keep on searching for this shirt in a large, so i fight the traffic and go to West Oaks Mall. Guess what!!! They don't even have an HT at his mall!!! I'm just about to crack right now, until I remember a good way to get to Katy Mills from West Oaks Mall...drive right down Westheimer. I arrive at Katy Mills about 20-30 minutes after I leave West Oaks, and I find the HT. YES!!! It's a success!!! A LARGE!!! AND THE VERY LAST ONE!!! I exchange the shirts, and right now, I'm so relieved. Ok then...back to Christmas Day. Everyone has opened their gift except Christina and Tony (Tony didn't come home until the 27th). Christina is still in the shower, so Johnny gives me the gift from his parents and the kids. His parents gave me some cash along with Chocolate Cordial Cherries. Now, I not a big fan of chocolate cherries, but my family LOVES them. I enjoyed the currency though. Christina, Johnny, David, and Andrew all pitched in to get me a gift, so I'm waiting with anticipation to open it. I unwrap it, and see the box..."HOT TOPIC" it says. I'm like, "badass." I open the box, and what do I see? The Nintendo Technical Support shirt that i wanted and that I put on my gift webpage. I thank them all, and we then head upstairs to play the "The Simpsons Hit and Run" game that Andrew received from Johnny and Christina. EVENTUALLY, Christina got out of the shower, and saw my gift. First she opened her card and filled it out the CORRECT way. Even though she got two of 'em wrong, I let her open it anyway. She saw it, and it was love at first sight. Once she heard Jonathan talk, that was it. Friends for LIFE. We were playing Hit and Run for a bit, and then I got tired of it once we got to a level I couldn't beat. The lasanga was complete, and I must say: MMMMM!!!! I think that this was the best batch. After we were done eating, Johnny and I went to my house to eat a good (and second) dinner. Ham, mashed taters, bean casserole, friend rice, and topped it of with home-made pumkin and apple pie with whipped cream made from scratch. Add a little coffee at the end, and we had ourselves a MEAL when we were done. I was so full by the time my coffee mug was empty, but that didn't stop me from doing stuff. To get the food down, I played my drums while Johnny was watching the Rockets game downstairs with my dad and uncle Jim. When I was finished playing, my Tita Bette and Uncle Jim already left. I went downstairs and joined Johnny in watching the Rockets pummel the Lakers. GREAT game...Rockets 99 Lakers 87. We were quite content. After the game, we went to Melissa's and met with with Jorge a little later. That night, we got home at about 03:30 or so. On Friday I had to work at 13:00 until 21:00, but that wasn't THAT bad...I only worked about five hours since there was no need for a bedfinder, and all I had to do was print out some reports for all the unit directors. The only problem is, is that the directors all went home by the time the reports were printed, so there was really nothing for me to do. It was REALLY nice going home three hours early, and I took FULL advantage of it. That night, I went to Erin Gardner's house to chill with her and Kristyn, AND the little bonus was getting a present from Ms. Fukawa. She got me a fifteen dollar gift certificate to HT. I still haven't used it yet, but I plan to either today or tomorrow. I just need to find this one shirt in my size. After chillin' with Erin and Kristyn I went to Melissa's to join up with the gang (Christina, Johnny, David, Matt, Wayne, Brandon, Melissa, and Kristen). I got there, made some "girly" drinks, and then took Christina to get something to eat at J in the B. We had to make a pit stop at Wal-Mart for a deck of cards and some Dominoes. We came back, and then started eating. I had a few beers, and enjoyed them immensely. Dos Equis, YOU ARE MY NEW LOVER. Wow...that's only one less 'x' than my previous lover. Hahaha...just kidding. Saturday was a pretty slow day...I met up with Johnny, Christina, and Mrs. Salinas at Memorial City Mall, and then we got back at about 17:15 because we THOUGHT we were going to the 17:30 mass but Christina and Mrs. Salinas were still at the mall by the time we would have had to leave for church. Johnny bought the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack so me, Johnny, and Christina all laid on Andrew's bed, listening to it and falling asleep. It was TRULY a Kodak moment. That night, we had pizza from Dominoes and welcomed Tony home. He opened his gifts and then we all went to go see The Last Samurai. Two words people...WORTH OWNING...or BAD ASS...or AWESOME MOVIE...or GREAT FLICK. You can choose which ever one you like the best...it's your decision. We stopped by at Samantha Medley's house after that, and had a few beers before we went home. It was fun seeing all them again...Katey, Larissa, Sam, and Laura. I once again showed off my chugging skills, and I must say...they are SUPERB!!! Hahaha. Sunday I worked for Stacy Reyna, as courier. It wasn't that bad except for the part where I had to wait for the central supply guy to get back because the equipment and stuff can't stay unattended. I stayed in that damn room for a little more than two hours...from 20:00-22:10!!! I was OUTRAGED!!! When I got off last night I wanted to do something, but nobody else wanted to hang out with me. I ended up walking around my neighborhood a few times talking to Faith, and then going to bed after watching Wayne's World. Well, today i'm working ONLY as a bedfinder, and it is a relief since all last week I was secretary, courier, AND bedfinder. It's just so nice to have all thie time to update and do stuff like that. Which I am doing RIGHT NOW. Well, there's really noting else to say so I'll bid you all a good night and pleasant dreams. PEACE I'M OUTTA HERE!!! Website: Build-A-Bear WORKSHOP - Making bears to make love to making bears!!! Um, WHAT?!?! ShoUt out: EVERYONE WHO IS READING THIS LONG ASS UPDATE!! current mood: A little mad, but I'll soon get over it current music: Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "Fuck the Honda" ~Jonathan R. Radke (while bringing Christina Salinas to a band practice one day, four years ago). Comments Wednesday, December 10th, 2003 22:49 - NO MORE MATH!!! Ah...well, now that I'm in a good mood, I GUESS i can update my journal...a lot of shit has happened since i last updated And i haven't even told you abvout my incident with the WATER!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Where has the time gone?!?!? Well, where I last left off, I was JUST about to talk about the "problem" with the water I had. Ok...I know where I left off now... Well, I got to work alright, and of course I had to park in the garage, since i didn't want to get wet. I get to my "station" at about 14:00 ready to do my round. I print out my shit, circle the empty rooms, and then go downstairs to change and get my clipboard. Well, from walking to my truck while I was still at school, my pants were wet all the way up to my knees (i was wearing pants that touch the ground a lot). So, after i changed into my scrubs, I hung my pants on the back of my chair, and let them dry. I walk out of the business office, and start my round as a bed finder. Things are running pretty smoothly, because there are no transfers or shit like that because of the weather. I get done with my first round as a bed finder, and whadaya know...Stacey (the usual courier) calls in and says that she can't get out of her house because of the flood. So, since I'm already there, and I'll pretty much do whatever they ask me to, I was asked to be courier also. I didn't really mind that much, because I didn't have any tests comin' up or anything, and my time was free. The day was running smoothly with no charts to be copied really, and hardely any pumps needing to go out. Don't let me confuse you...my day at work was REALLY good...no problems what-so-ever, but it was just AFTER work that pissed me off the most. When I got off at like 22:45, I didn't think it was safe enough to drive home yet, with all the high water and shit. So, I go to my buddy pratho's house, which is like 2 minutes away from the hospital. I chill out there for a little bit, and when he started to read his book, I decided that it was about time to go (it was like 00:30). I thought enough time had passed for all the water to go down. I couldn't have been more wrong...and this, in here, lies our little problem me and H2O had. So, me, being little stupid Jonathan, thinks "HEY!!! I'm gonna take Gessner to Clay and take Clay to Hwy. 6 so I could stop by at HEB on the way home because I'm craving a pizza!!!" Well, being me and all, I did not think about how Clay is constructed to FUCK people when there's a flood. There's no drainage!!! Well, I'm crusin' down Clay...I pass Beltway 8, and everything is running smoothly. I'm going about 40 miles per hours, and then i see the guys in front of me start putting on their brakes, and being me still, I didn't take any consideration into WHY they were putting on their crakes. I should have known that they were braking because of the road still having about a half a foot of water on it. So, I hit the submerged road, and then I start to hydroplane...i start freaking out...my truck is fish-tailing like crazy, the people in front of me are probably saying to themselves, "what a dumb fuck," my truck does a complete 360, and ends up in the center with my back left side in the water. Right now I'm fucking screaming shit ike, "NOT AGAIN!!! NOT AGAIN!!!" Since ya know, this kind of shit has happened to me before. If you don't know the "before" story, click HERE. Ok...now that that's out of the way, I can continue with my story. Well, the time was 01:00, and there was NO ONE on the road. I stayed in my car fora few minutes trying to look at the situation, and trying to think of ways to get out of it. First, I started flashing my brights at every car passing by, honking my horn. Since that wasn't working, I got out of the car and ATTMEPTED to puch it myself out of the ditch. I quickly stopped doing that when I realized I wasn't the Incredible Hulk. I look down both sides of the street, and what do I see? DARKNESS. Utter darkness. I see one car coming, and I walk out into the road to wave him down. Since I left my cell phone at home that day, I had no way to reach my parents. This guy stopped, and i asked him if I could use his cell phone. He didn't have a cell phone, so I say, "that's alright...I'll just wait for the next car" (knowing that the next car was gonna be like 10-15 minutes from then). The guy in the truck, out of the goodness of his heart, asks me, "You wanna ride to the gas station?" A huge weight is lifted off of my shoulders, and I gladly accept. As we start driving down Clay Road towardsEldridge, the guy asks me, "so where do you live?" I respond to him, "about two minutes from here." So, he offers to just drive me home. When we arrive at my house, I ask him his name, and shake his hand. His name was Richard, and I told him that he would be in my prayers. I walk into the garage, towards my dad watching TV. Now approaching him, I can already tell that he has been drinking that whole night, later to find out that he had nine or ten. I tell him that I'm stranded out on Clay Road, about a half a mile from Eldridge. He gets REAL quiet, walks inside, and then gets a look on his face as if he's about to hyperventilate. He then has another beer for road, and tells me that I'm driving his truck to go get MY truck. We slowly drive down Clay Road, and arrive at my truck. Now, my dad brought along his big like boot things that come up to his chest taht he uses for fishing and shit like that. When we get to my truck, he takes about 20 minutes to get these damn boots on, and then he walks in the water to see the situation we have. I drove to a place where I could turn around, so that my dad's truck was facing the same way as my truck, and then we could pull my truck out with his truck. Oh...and a good rope too. When he was down there trying to tie the rope to my truck, a toe truck pulls up behind him, and asks him if he needs any help. Now, before the tow truck came about, I was on the phone trying to get a hold of a tow truck myself, through Pratho (he has a friend that's a tow truck driver). As the tow truck drive that was by us approacked behind my dad, my dad yells at me, " DID YOU GE THE TWO TRUCK GUY?!?!" I try to scream back to him, "THERE'S ONE BEHIND YOU!!!" But he just reapeats in asking, "DID YOU GET THE TOW TRUCK GUY?!?!" Then I point behind him ,and the look on his face is so good that I would PAY to see it again. He goes and talks to the guy while I sit there and wait in his truck. The tow truck guy offers to pull my truck out for forty dollars, but when my dad told him that he didn't have it, tow truck guy says, "just gimme what you have then." So, my dad had twenty dollars in his wallet...he gives the tow truck guy the twenty, and tells him to follow my dad to the ATM to where he could give him the other twenty dollars. Now, I'm sure that the tow truck guy could SMELL the alcohol on my dad's breath, so he didn't want my dad to get some money out at the Corner Store, with a bunch of cops around. So, the tow truck guy comes back to me (THAT'S BACK IN MY TRUCK!!!), and tells me to tell my dad not to worry about the other twenty bucks. The ironic thing was though, that my dad was gonna give him an EXTRA twenty bucks for helping us out. So when we got home, my dad sat me down and had a little talk with me...about not moving out...because of this "incident." While he's talking, all I'm hearing "blah blah blah blah blah." I hate when he throws this shit in my fafce...I mean, everyone has problems every so often, and it's not like i was the ONLY one out there stranded. On Clay Road alone, there were four more cars in the ditches. Anyway, he passes out on his bed, I talk to a few friends online, and then I go to sleep, relieved. There goes ONE day for updating. I don't think you want me to keep going since this one was SO LONG, so I'll just finish updating later. Peace out. Website: Jonathan Radke - Find my name on this page!!! It's not me, but hey...it's kinda cool. ShoUt out: Juan Martinez - We'll get done with that room eventually bud...then we'll fucking jam out in all hours of the night. current mood: Happy - Now that school is OVER. current music: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fortune Faded Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "Do you have diabetes?" ~from the website I found...heres's a picture Comments Tuesday, November 26th, 2003 02:40 - Let's try this again (second time writing this) Ok people...now this is the second time I'm writing this...ya see...Right as I was about to press "save," my FUCKING computer crashes on me. So, I told myself i would update now, but ya know, I'm kinda pissed...I'm gonna go to bed, and finish this later. BLAH. Tuesday, November 18th, 2003 04:04 - Water...AGAIN!!! Hey everybody....well, it is pretty late...or early...depends on how you look at it. Ok...so you know I had a couple tests on friday, and one path leads to horrific images, while the other peads to a happy rainbow smile land. Well, I'll get back to that later...ACTUALLY, I'll tell you about the actual test, and then after I talk about the weekend, I'll tell you about the results!!! So, i take the Calculus 2 test, while thinking I know about everything on it. Ya see, there were 20 problems, three multiple choice, and she didn't grade three of the problems. You would THINK that this test would have been easy, right? Well, in a minute...so I was all happy about the Calculus test, so I was ready steady for the Government test. First of all, our teacher comes in about 10 minutes late, but then we all found out that she was late due to her grandmother being hospitalized for pyche reasons. So, since she couldn't really stay there, we only took the multiple choice part of the test, which I studied THOROUGHLY. With the other part of the test (short answers and essay), she gave us them to do at home. This MADE MY DAY...no wait...it MADE MY WEEK!!! She also gave us a little note card that had something she wanted us to research on. I got World War II, and I was happy, becasue it was something i knew a LITTLE bit about. So, school was done for the week...and that night was Phi Theta Kappa induction (that's the honor society for juinor colleges). I got a white rose along with a candle, and a free t-shirt. I made a new friend...a girl named Kristy...or Christy...or Cristy...or something of that nature. It was good clean fun...this was my little schpeil...or at least this is how it went: Jonathan Robert Radke - Jonathan plans to become a Pharmacist by going to the University of Houston with a pharmacy major, while remaining the drummer for his band, Inactive Ignorance. He would like to thank all of those who have stuck with him through all of the hard times. Everyone laughed at the band title, which I liked. made me look like the funny guy in the society...which i really think i am, since a lot of people have taken a shine to me so far. hehehe. Well, I didn't not know ANYBODY...I knew Misty Crowe and this guy named Eric Barstow. That night I chilled out with Kristyn Fukawa, Katy Burno, Annie (something) and a few other girls that I KINDA knew. I saw Jessica Wakeford and Ashley Achitson at the Krogers on Highway 6 and Jones. The next day, I had to go to this PTK (Phi Theta kappa) meeting at 09:30 in the morning. There were duck races, and I got another free shirt (long sleeved) along with a FREE rubber ducky. I also got a free Panera Bread sandwich too. Being in PTK was already worth the 75 bucks!!! Hahaha...well, I went to work after I was all done with the PTK...worked 15:00-23:00. It went alright...well rather boring. Although, I got to work in "street" clothes. After work, about two hours after work, I went and chilled with Kristyn, Katy, Sara Izard, and James Carlson. James got TOTALLY drunk...well i would be too if I had an entire bottle of McCorrmick vodka. It was INSANE. Kristyn told me that after I left, he threw up all over Katy's bed. Thank God I missed THAT. On Sunday, I slept until like 13:00, and that felt NICE. I can't really remember WHAT I did on Sunday, but that night Klienickie came over and hung out a little. After he left, I watched the rest of Chasing Amy. That movie was pretty good, but I give it a 9 out of ten asses up, mainly because the ending was depressing. Ok...now on to the Monday where I get my Calculus test back. On Monday, I woke up, and it was POURING outside...I debated whether or not to go to school, and then I decided i had to, becasue I had to turn in the rest of my Government test. I got the Calculus test back, and I got a FUCKING 64 on it...I was so pissed, that I slept through the rest of the class. I just don't care about that class anymore...now that I've found out that I don't even need it for a Pharmacy major. In Government, the presentations went in alphabetical order, so I didn't have to go. I GLADLY handed the rest of my test in, with a big smile and a body full of happy juice. After school, it was still pouring down, so I was a little hesitant about goin' to work. I knew that I didn't have to drive through any deep ditches, so I went. All the way from West Road to I-10 on Barker Cypress, and then from Barker Cypress to to Gessner on I-10. I made it ok, and shit...it's 05:00...I need to go to bed. I'll finish tomorrow...nighters all!!! Website: Yo-Yos - I had no idea on what to use...I just thought of the word "yo-yo." ShoUt out: Chris Pratho - For being a cool buddy. current mood: Tired...plus I need to pee. current music: P.O.D. - Will You Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "It's fun to be diabetic!!!" ~from my mind JUST NOW Comments Friday, november 7th, 2003 13:18 - I know what you're thinking...well, not really, but i have some sort of idea on the matter...ah hell who am i kidding...i have no idea what you're thinking. Man oh man it's been a long while ever since RJ has been updated. Asa a matter of fact, A WHOLE MOMTH! Well, since it has been such a long time, I can't really update EACH AND EVERY DAY like I usually do. Don't get me wrong...I DO have the time, but I don't think your brain would be able to contain itself. It would explode on impact. By impact, I mean it would explode the second it started reading this entry. That is how fusadous and recapical my words are. Hahaha. What did I talk about last time I updated? It's time to step into the "Jonathan Radke's 'look at the last RJ entry'-mobile." . .. ... .... ..... Ah yes...but of course. The last thing that I talked about was having to go to calculus and all that stuff like that. I also watched Patch Adams, which as you can now tell, i REALLY enjoy watching. Damn...I gotta go start my round right now, bnut once I get back, I'll try to fill in everyone on the Radster...update when i RETURN!!! Ok all...the time now is 19:17, and I am done with all my work shit and am now listening to some Hoobastank. Oh MAN people...i LOVE this weather!!! I know it's cold, but i love it. I've always loved the colder weathers. i think it's because I'm from Michigan, and the cold air and stuff reminds me of snow and all the fun we've had together. So, nothing is really comin' to my noggin' right now about what has happened since my last update. i guess I'll just typing until everything gets out. Yes!!! Sounds like a FANTASTIC idea!!! Well, school is still in session, but it's getting a little better. Oh YEAH...I dropped physics, and I must say, GAFARKINGLATTEOUIGA!!! Man it's been a while since I've made up a word. GAFARKINGLATTEOUIGA: (n.) A feeling of EXTREME exuberance as if someone has pulled the gigantic SPIKE from out of your ass. Man that was fun...good stuff good stuff. I hate you Faith for giving me that little saying...that's totally GAY. Well, I want these things from Hot Topic...I know what I'll do...I'll put a link to what I want, and then you can tell me whether it would be a positive addition to my little array of clothes, or NOT...well, HERE is one of the things I want from Hot Topic, but the other thing that i wanted is no longer on their website, so I guess so much for that. Hoefully I'll find it someplace someday though...it's a Nintendo controller watch that i REALLY wanted, but I guess I can't get it anymore. Oh well. So much for lost dreams. Hahaha...just kidding. Ya know, this IS actually kinda dissappointing. I mean, I've been thinking about going online and buying this for a while now, and then when I finally get paid, and have money TO get it, it's not there. I guess I'll move on. Man I'm going to the mall now to walk around a little bit..I'l be back in a little bit... 01:13 (Friday, November 14th, 2003) - Continuation...FINALLY Ok, so it's obvious that I didn't get back to work in time to finish updating my RadkeJournal, because I got back about 2 minutes before I had to clock out. I bought a nice new Nintendo shirt though...HERE'S a picture of the item I bought on the day I last started updating (last friday)...OH MAN...I just ordered something else online just now...I know I shouldn't but i just had to...LINK!!! We got a lot of compliments, and it was good ole fun. OH...well, I almost forgot to mention my party that I had on October 17th, 2003. It was the debut (is that how you spell it?) of INACTIVE IGNORANCE!!! I am sad to tell you though that I fucked us all up. Ya see, I had way too much at the party before we planned to play, and with me being the drummer, in control of the tempo and such, it wasn't too good that i was totally smashed. It was good clean fun though...we played 'The Ataris-In This Diary' and 'The Used-The Taste of Ink.' GO DOWNLOAD THOSE!!! OR DON'T!!! IT'S UP TO YOU!!! Well, after we played our little show thingy, Miss Christina "Sprint" Salinas urged me to play my well known solo on the drums. Of course, for her (or anybody in the stance i was), I played it, so happy yet so DRUNK. After that, I tried playing piano, but ya know, it's not real easy when all the keys just kinda merge together and become two big keys...one white and one black. I think I did OK on the piano though...you're going to have to ask the other people at my party, because I was totally gone. I don't even remember playing our original song by Inactive Ignorance. I found out the next time I saw Juan (our singer) at school. He said something like, "you did good on our song" and I was like, "we played our song?" and then we had a good laugh. Well, the whole night wasn't fun and games...someone threw up on my carpet, my kitchen floor got all sticky from drinks, there were cigarette butts all over my yard, and to top it off, I got flipped resulting in two big gashes in between my eyes but a little higher by this guy named Alan. Thanks Alan...no really...THANKS...I couldn't have thanked you enough...since ya know, I had a portrait with my sister that next weekend. Schmuck. hahaha...i'm just kidding...thank god I was drunk, because if I wasn't it would have hurt like HELL!!! So once again, alcohol saved me from immense pain. Oh I would love to give a shot out to the people who nursed me back to working order...Christina and David Salinas, Brian Payne, James Bagabagon, and Mohamed Chakar...i THINK. Well, my dad got back that Sunday and called me out on most of the things i just listed to you (cigarettes, broken beer bottle in back of his truck, sticky floor, CUTS IN HEAD, etc.)...eh...he'll get over it. My mom got back a week later on Saturday...the day I went to get my portrait with my sister done. They actually came out nice..if it weren't for my gashes. I'll post the poses once i scan them later. I promise. OH MAN...ok when she and I got there to Krogers to take our pictures, the guy taking the picture tells me to sit down with my legs on both sides of a stool a little shorter than the one I was sitting on. Then he tells my sister to sit on the one in between my legs. Next he say to her "lean back into him." Then finally he says to me "now put your hand on her waist." NOW STOP...this is when me and my sister look at eachother with the "I hope he knows we're brother and sister" look. So he takes the picture, and then in the next pose, it's like she's leaning on my shoulders, and she's kinda like a little away from me, and he says something lie, "now pull a little bit closer...you don't wanna be tryin' to get awway from him." She then says "well we ARE brother and sister." You should have seen the look on his face...it was like soeone hit him with a "shocking" bat. Then he asks "how long have you been brother and sister?" Kris (my sister) says "ALL OUR LIVES" and then he says "same mother and father?" and by this time we're like YEAH. So he finally gets the picture and we do our brother/sister poses. Those few seconds with my hand on her waist were kinda creepy though...I didn't like that. It wasn't good AT ALL. Fucking professional picture takers over there at Krogers. Oh well...the hand on waist picture didn't come out THAT bad. Sadly, my mom developed a case of a disease called Dangee fever that she acquired in the Phillipines. Oh wow...I didn't tell you guys...my Uncle Fidel passed on to a better place recently. He was only 49 and had a wife and kids. He was actually my favorite uncle on her side of the family...the only one that I got to know and hang out with. He beat Super Mario Brothers 3 for me...I miss him, but I know that he's watching over me and all of his family up in heaven. That is why my mom had to leave for the Phillipines. She had and wanted to attend the funeral and spend some good time with her family. So yeah...she caught Dangee fever down there...you get it froma mosquito sort of like malaria, but it's not as severe. At first she thought she had the flu, but she just kept on getting worse and worse, and she actually drove herself into work on the friday that she was admitted. That is how commited my mom is to her job...she put her life on the line by driving herself JUST to get to work. You gotta admire that. She said she was going about 20 mph on the I-10 feeder, and the whole time her legs were shaking almost violently. She got up to her office, and put her head down and without trying to, she fell asleep. One of her co-workers and best friends, Pat Cluthe, came in to see how she was feeling, and she saw that my mom had her head down on the desk, sleeping. Now, if this was me, she would just wake me up and I would be on with my business. But being my mom, Pat KNEW something was wrong. Susan Radke asleep on the job?!?! NEVER!!! So Pat took her in a wheel chair to the emergency room to be tested for all sorts of stuff, but actually, my mom diagnosed herself before she got the labs back. She KNEW she had dangee fever. So, she was admitted into the IMCU, and I had no idea until I was doing my rounds. I didn't even notice her name on my print out. Her nurse asks me "did you go see your mom in the room?" I was like, "um, what?" I thought I had heard her cough earlier from the other side of the unit, but since I didn't see her anywhere working, I thought I just imagined it. Up until I looked down and saw it..."SUSAN T RADKE." The moment I saw that name I was shocked...I had never seen my mom sick...especially to the extent of being a patient in the hospital. It was just so emotional for me. Seeing her there, in the hospital bed, with a damn hospital gown on. I thinik I got so use to being the one in that position that I never thought about MY family members being in here. I went and visited her after my rounds, and stayed with her until I went home. She wanted me to have fun regardless of her being i the hospital that night, since I already had some plans to do stuff with Pratho. So, I respected her wishes, and I went out to the party. On Satruday, I got back in at about 08:00, and then I passed out on my bed. I went to visit my mom in the afternoon, and I stayed there until the shift change that night. Later at home that night, I started to cry...I thought about if the people visiting me when I was in the hospital felt like this, and I hated the way my pain made people sad. I fell asleep hugging Humpal just thinking about my mom...wondering how she's doing, what i could do to help her, stuff like that. On Sunday I went to a church with James Bagabagon, with me feeling like crap. But I went anyway to pray for my mom and wish my uncle is doing fine up there. I threw up a few times while church was in service, but I stayed, fighting the sickness I had at the time. When service got out, I went up to the hospital to spend time with my mom. She saw how I was feeling bad, so she told me to go home and get plenty of rest. I did as she told, and then I went home to pass out for about 8 more hours. I woke up the next day feeling completely like crap and more some. I stayed home..I couldn't have gone in...I was in pain. The next day was the same thing, but I was feeling a bit worse...my boss told me to get up and wait for my dad to bring me to the ER (she called him and told him to). So, I was back in the hospital while my mom was just three floors above me. I had lost 13 pounds since saturday afternoon, and I could feel it. I haden't been drinking or eating since. It turns out that I had DKA (Diabetic Keaton Acidosis). This is where your body stays in a state where your blood sugar is so high for a long period of time that it makes you sick. You body is still producing urine when you are not drinking, so that's what makes you dehydrated and weak. Since I haden't been drinking the past few days, i had absolutely NO VEINS whatsoever...remarkably, they were able to get an IV into me, but both them and I knew that it wasn't going to last. They were able to get one bag of fluids into me though which was good. Well, when my doctor came in, he said that I needed to be put on a insulin drip, and since my IV couldn't have taken that much medication, they had to start a central line in my chest. Now, with my history, I have had lots of tubes going in and out of my body in all different parts. I had that one big (tessia)(<-Don't click if you're faint at heart...remember...I was on steroids and this was at the worst of my times) catheter in the right side of my chest back in 2001-2002 for nine monthes, I've had numerous femoral catheters in my groin area (not ON my groin...just on both sides), I've had another smaller catheter in the left side of my chest, so to get another big central catheter into my chest, I made them doctors work. First of all, the ER doctor (one that started right as I stopped working in the ER) tried to get one into the right side of my chest...now this starts off with preperations like cleaning the area, and putting a little sheet over the rest of me so that he would have a clear area to work with. Now, for anybody that has never gotten something like this before, they would have been fine...no anxiety, but with me, i knew that some local anesthetics were involved, and that's prolly the worst part of the whole experience. That numbing medicine REALLY stings, and if you're not use to the pain, then you have got something comin'...especially if the Lidocaine is being injected into the muscles of your skin. Ok, so I was all numbed up about an inch into my chest on the right side, and he was now ready to insert the catheter. He didn't expect it to be so difficult since he's use to old people with small and weak veins. he thought I was a normal young boy with big juicy plump veins, and no scar tissue under my skin. WRONG!!! My dad told me that he was diggin' in my chest, trying to get the catheter into the major vesel. He was not able to stick the vessel, and so, they called took it out, and called a specialist. So, a Dr. Ngo came in (one of my regular surgeon's partners), and very quickly numbed up the LEFT side of my chest and was able to manuever the needle to be able to puncture the vessel. It took him about 20 minutes, but he was able to get it. MAJOR pressure I felt, but compared to what it would feel like without the Lidocaine, it was a stroll in central park. So FINALLY, I had a durable catheter in me, and it was time for me to go up to the floor..get this: I went up to IMCU!!! The same exact unit as my mom!!! I was in room 401 and she was in 423. We were on opposite sides of the room. That's KA-RAZY!!! Well, I got to play with the new pull down tvs in the room, and stuff like that, but my doctor had the orders to come in on EVERY HOUR to check my blood sugar. That was prolly the worst night of my life. Every damn hour..."we need to check your blood sugar, Jon." ARGH...everytime I was about to fall asleep, they came in. Now I can't speak for everybody, but when you have numerous amounts of wires sticking from you, it's hard to get some sleep...everytime you try to roll on your side, you have either a catheter sticking more into you, or you have a lead come off resulting in the machine beeping non-stop...that was another thing...that damn machine NEVER stopped. I couldn't take it anymore...I broke down into tears at about 03:15 in the morning. I was just such torture for me...I've been a patient in the hospital before, but never in IMCU with the constant monitoring of you, and attached to all the wires that you can't move around with. Ya see, most of the patients in IMCU are bed bound...they're use to just lyin' in bed, and I'm just NOT. It was horrible. I was also ordered to be NPO for the next 24 hours since I was in the ER. That means I couldn't eat ANYTHING until 24 hours later. Now, when my blood sugar was high, I was fine because I wasn't hungry, and all I wanted was water. But as soon as my blood sugar started to lower, I just got hungrier and hungrier...now when I was able to eat again, all they had were some cold eggs, a dry biskit, and some warm milk. NOT very appetizing. The orders for them checking my blood sugar every hour was stopped now, and I was able to get some rest, so I slept until our lunch trays got here. Two words...DOG SHIT...as in I would rather eat DOG SHIT than the stuff they gave me. I called the kitchen and asked them to make a tuna sandwich sandwich for me, and they did, and I was happy with that. My doctor came in after that, and then asked the nurse if my blood sugars were stabalizex (they were), and then he says "alright...discharge him." Then I was a free man again. I've had a lot of arguments with my mom about controlling my diabetes, but I never really took account to the importance of checking blood sugars until this has happened. I am now monitoring my blood sugars regularly, and I must say, I'm a lot happier. I feel alot better, and I'm just generally happier. It took a visit to the Intermidiate Care Unit to get that stuck in my head. The important thing is that I learned though. Oh yeah...my mom was also released earlier that day, so the Radke's were out of the hospital, and back at home. I couldn't have been happier...I think I've gotten so use to being healthy that i almost forgot how much it sucks to be sick. Believe me...IT SUCKS. That's enough motivation for keeping track of my blood sugars. Well, I was released on Wednesday, and I had missed three days of school already...one day of chemistry, and two days of cal 2 and government. I think I'm caought up though...I still don't get a few things in calculus, but I think i'll do alright on the test tomorrow...or today. That weekend I had planned on going to the galleria with Melissa Johnson and Chris Pratho. Well, the whole Melissa thing didn't pan out, so just me and Pratho went. I bought yet again, ANOTHER Nintendo merchandise...let's see if I can find a picture of this: ah yes...NINTENDO. Don't mind the model in that picture...i look MUCH better with it on. It's perfect for this weather, and perfect for someone like me who is collecting the nintendo products. So, if you want to get me a gift, a Hot Topic gift card isn't a bad idea. Hahah...just kidding...it's not even Thanksgiving yet. Well, the Galleria was SO CROWDED, since it was the lighting of the tree and there was some ice capade thing goin' on or something or another. I bought it thought, and i LOVE IT. I've gotten so many compliments on it since I got it...it's GREAT. Well, on Sunday, hmmmmmmm...what did I do on Sunday? Ah yes...I went and bought some Arizona Diet Green tea for the mother and myself at the local Super Wal-Mart. Ok...that sounded kinda gay...it was meant to sound funny, but it just sounded kinda, well...GAY. I also went to go see Matrix Revolutions. It was a good movie. Overall, I give this 9 out of 10 insulin units from my pump, mainly because it still had a few unanswered questions, but I'll let you see it for yourself and decide. OH! It was James Bagabagon's 21st birthday on Sunday, so I took him out to eat at Fuddruckers! Ya know, a place that is more glamorous than Jack in the Box, but less extravagent as Pappadeaux or something like that. It was his first time there, and I think he really liked it. I went and hung out with him at work with a girl named Emily that we have become friends with. That night, I came home, and RESTED. This whole week in Calculus and Government was catch-up week, and I think I did an alright job. Not much has happened...um, I went to work, and OH..I'm joining the honors program here at Cy-Fair College. Phi Theta Kappa, that is. Today is the induction, and I have skip a little of work to go to it. Well, since the time is 02:34, and I'm FINALLY done updating, I will wish you all a good night and let all of your thoughts be of positive ones. See yas!!! Note: I'll try not to keep it so long to update, because I know all you people hate reading my LONG ASS updates. Website: LEGO.COM - Remember LEGO?!?!? I DO!!! ShoUt out: Fidel Thiam - I'm going to miss you a lot Uncle Fidel, but I know you're in a much better place now. current mood: To be honest, I'm a little tired current music: I've listened to SO MUCH music this past um, more than a month, but one song has stood out from all of the others...Fountains of Wayne - Stacey's Mom Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "ok, i dont know what a free inactive ignorance braclet is, but i love jewlery... haha... so here you go big man.... I LOVE YOU because you always make me laugh, we seem to hang out, doing a whole lot of nothing, but i have more fun than i would have had with a whole night of planned events. you are a wonderful, kind, warm, caring person and I truly treasure our friendship. there is my warm fuzzy. :-)" ~Rachel Ann Newburry <-That made my night!!! Comments Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 02:13 - This movie gets me right in the heart EVERY time Hey everybody...I'm in a especially good mood tonight, because I just finished watching Patch Adams. Whether you're a medical student or not, this movie is a GREAT one. I don't care saing it...this movie makes me cry more than any other movie out there. It's not like I go all out and ball the whole night, but it's just that this movie inspires me to become a doctor everytime I see it. It's just so emotional, and the passion that Robin William's character just is so damn pure. I LOVE this movie, and I believe it is my favorite movie of all time. No matter how many times I've seen it...it never gets old. I never grow tiresome of it. Maybe it's because i PLAN on being a doctor, not for the luxuries, but for the cause to help people in NEED. Have you ever just like helped someone do something they never thoght imaginable? Have you ever walked an old lady across the street? Have you ever helped someone work out emotional downfalls? Have you ever helped someone accomplish a goal they have set for themselve? If you haven't, I SERIOUSLY reccomend it to EVERYONE. Don't do it because you want a reward, but do it because you care. Do it because you want to see that person's smile on their face or sparkle in their eye. Do it because you love helping. Man I'm in a GREAT mood. I wish I could feel this good everyday. This is how I want to live my life. Seeing the world in the most optomistic way ever, look for the GREAT in everybody, and always thinking about what I can do to help the human race. Man...if you've never had this feeling, then go out, and find what makes you happiest. I wish everyone could share this feeling I'm having right now. Whew...now that I've got that out, we shall continues with the UPDATE. When was the last time I updated? Ah yes...almost two weeks ago. I apologize if I don't update this very regularly, but with the combination of school, homework, work, and sleep, I really don't get that much "off time." Lemme see if I can remember what has been happening since my last update. Ah yes...On Friday, the 26th, CCU and IMCU both moved their units to the new building! It looks GREAT, and it seems like eerybody is happier! The doctors, nurses, and the most important people, the patients. Get this...EACH room has a pull down LCD touch screen computer that has games, the internet, TV, and it's connected to the restaurants close by so that the patients can order food straight from their room. Kinda makes me wish to be a patient again...JUST KIDDING. I know it would hit a lot of people in the heart if I went back in, and I thank all of you for that. That's another reason why I love this movie so much. From being a patient in the past, I really connect with this movie on a deep level. Ok back to updating. On Thursday I took my Chemistry test, and I tried my hardest. I can't say I passed it with flying colors, but I thought I did alright. Eh...I'll get back to that later. Friday was upon us, and so was the beginning of the end of frustration. Calculus went by ok and all, but the class that did it for me was Government. She gave us a review that showed us what was gonna beon it. She gave us three esssay topics, and eight short answer questions that she was goingto choose three out of. I REALLY had no idea about any of the tpics. I was WAY BEHIND. I guess I've been spending too much time studying for my harder classes, that I fell behind in the one "easy" class I have. I went to work, and stated to try and understand government. That didn't really go over too well, so I just put the book up, and worked on my calculus homework. I know I swhouldn't have, but I just couldn't take any more of Government. Which is ironic, because I haden't really done anything involving it. That's it for friday. The weekend went by fast, and I can't really remember what I did. Aha yes...on Saturday night I hungout with none other than Chris Pratho at his work place (he started doing this night watch thing for a flea market-type thing that runs their business under a tent. He works from 20:00-08:00, so I would be glad to shed a few hours off of that just hangin' out with him. We had some fun, and I got back home at like two-ish or three. I can't really remember. On Sunday night, I was doing my Calculus homework while watching Adult Swim...funny stuff that Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. Well, on Sunday, I was suppose to give II (Inactive Ignorance) a call since we were all off, but the only problem with that day, was that I woke up at 16:00, and didn't find my cell phone until lik 19:00. So when I finally found it, I tried callin' our singer and our guitarist, but no luck. Didn't really get much done that day. On Monday, I worked, and that is all. Well, not actually. The rest of the units moved into the new building too...1 North (general surgery), Ortho (Orthopedics), Surgery, and PACU (Post Anesthesic Care Unit). I had to get use to the room, because they moved to completely different floors. 1 North went to 5 East, and Ortho went to 6 East. I don't have to worry about PACU or surgery. Tuesday was here, and we got our chemistry test back...not as good as the first one though...SEVENTY. But it's ok...she drops one test grade at the end of the semester. I just hope I do better on these test that are coimin' up. Now Tuesday night, at the mid-point of Physics, I just had to get outta there, because I knew I wasn't gonna be ready for this Government test the nexy day, and the Calculus quiz also. I fell asleep with my face literally on top of my government book, and with calculus crap all over my bed. Again, I passed from both lack of sleep and brain overload. Wednesday...ah...the day of reckoning. hahaha...just kidding. Actually, the Calculus quiz wasn't so bad...it was just like algebraic things that I screwed up on. I made an eighty on it though. I'll do good on the test though...things are clickin' left and right in there. Now Government...that's another story. Of course, we took the test, and I don't think I did all that great. I know I got all of the short answer questions, and some of the multiple choice questions, but the essay...OH BOY...the essay. The topic was "Name the characteristics of democracy and why they are important." Now of COURSE, she picked the one in which I didn't study on...the one i WAS studying, but then passed out right on top of the page talking about it. I bullshitted my way through it, and surprisingly, I got a good page and a half, so I'm hopin, she'll give partial credit. After the test, I just stood up and left. My brain had enough for that day, and it was time to go to easy ass job where I mainly did NOTHING the whole day. Well, not NOTHING...I got my new portable work phone with it's bright carrying case to go along with it. That was some good news. That was the end of wednesday. Thursday rolled around, and I GOT TO SEE PILAR CHRISTINA SALINAS TODAY!!! That pretty much made my week. It made me WANT to get up at 09:00, so I could clean up my room for her. She came over at about noon-ish to burn some CDs, and let me burn some CDs too. I let her check out my parent's new massaging chair, and I must say...i think she LOVED IT! Ask her for yourself! Well, it finally came when I had to leave for school, and drive Sprint back to her home. We said bye, and then it was off to school. Chemistry...what else can I say but...AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I really can't stand this woman. It's like every little thing about her annoys me. But alas, I was able to ignore it, because I was glowing from the fact that I saw my best girl that morning. So chemistry went by with confusion squared no wait...confusion CUBED. We did an experiment where I was the designated weigher of our objects. Not because she chose me, but because I didn't want to stand there doing nothing. That's what everybody else did...just stood there, and waited whil I was weighing the objects. Well, there were a few other people like writing the results on the board, and a few people making sure the two beakers were even, but they weren't really moving around the room like I was. My lab partner was though. After chemistry, I went to go eat at Subway...six inch tuna baby, with everything on it but jalapenos, onions, oil, and vinegar!!! That's my regular. I even got extra cheese because of the shirt I was wearing (this ZELDA shirt). It's a good one if you don't mind me saying. I got extra cheese for it. So from now on, I'll call that "extra-cheese shirt." Yes...that'll work out quite nicely. Except for Melissa Johnson though (she's a cheese hater). So I guess you could say she's a...Anti-Cheesite! HAHAHA!!! OK enough with corny Jon. I like regular Jon better. After I ate, I went back to Physics. Lecture was boring (like usual), but the lab was kinda cool. We were messing with like motion sensors, and like proving that the acceleration of gravity IS in fact, 9.8 m/s(squared). We also did this thing with like an inclined plane and a cart that we had to measure the acceleration and decceleration of it, with look at the graph the motion sensor plotted for us. We threw the cart off the tracka few times, but once our professor did it, we didn't feel so bad anymore. I went home a little earlier this night, because my group finished early. I went home and um, did NOTHING...well I think I did something, but I don't remember. Friday...ah...my favorite day of the week. Last work day, last school day, and last stress day (OF THE WEEK). That night, I went to the langham homecoming game...not to watch the game, but to see old friends from that place. It's amazing what a few months in college can do to people. It's really quite amazing. I'm glad I didn't watch though, because Langham lost to Jersey Village, 40-19. That's pretty sad for a homecoming game. But I don't think we ever beat JV at homecoming. I don't htink it was ever THAT bad though. I also went to see my friends that were nominated for homecoming queen...Ana Valladares and Erin Gardner. I'm sad to say that neither of them won, but hey...they looked great out there, and that's all that matters. It made me glad to see my old school buddies, and I had a great time. That night, I didn't really do anything. I hung out with Pratho a little more, but then I went home at like midnight. I watched a movie that night, but I cant remember which one. Oh well! Saturday was here, and it was the actual homecoming dance for the lobos. I worked a few hours to help James out with the new program for our bedfinder stuff (I'll get into that later). I didn't go of course, since I only know a few seniors, and they are all quite breathtaking, so they didn't really have trouble finding dates. I layed aroud the house for the most part...cleaned my room again, and uh, played my drums. It wasn't until after homecoming when the fun started. I was at the Blockbuster on 529 and Barker Cypress talkin' with my boy, Chris, and then I called Kristyn Fukawa to see what she was up to. She said she was just leaving the dance, and to meet them up at Leroy's house. Of course, I didn't want to spend another night at home, watching ANOTHER movie, so I went!!! I mean, WHY NOT?!?! The night started off ok, but towards the end, it kinda crapped out on us. But I got to hang with some senior cuties, and that was fun. I made it back home at around 03:30 without a scratch on me. I passed out on my bed while watching the "Lemmiwinks" episode of South Park. Sunday arrived, and it FELT like a Sunday. I woke up at 13:30, and immediately got ready for the day. I didn't want to waste the whole day again like last Sunday. Hmmm...I really didn't do anything the whole day though. I layed around the house, and played my drums, and struff like that. I went out Sunday night to rent a movie...Quiz Show. Now this is a good movie, but I think since I've seen it once, I don't need to see it again. I got it for free, so what the hell, right? RIGHT. I went to sleep at about 01:00 or 01:30. OMG OMG OMG OMG...my fan stopped working in my room, and right when it starts gettin' hot outside again. So I took up all my bed sheets, and went into the drum room, where I slept, really quite comfortable, with the fan blowing hard down on me and the window open for the fresh air. I don't have to worry about waking up my parents with my footsteps either. It's a real nice chill room, and it can be used for sleep too. I just can't get the temptation to play my drums. hahaha. MONDAY. It had come...yesterday...I thought I would have never gotten here, but here we are. I went to Calculus, and this is where I foud out about the 80 on my quiz. I found out we have to memorize about 20 formulas also. Trigonometric Hyperbolic function crap. This is gonna be tough, but I belive I can do it. I went to Government after that, but our teacher didn't show up and everyone left. I mean, I KNOW she's gonna be bitchin' us out about it on Wednesday, but for now..OH WELL!!! She should come to class on TIME next time. She was 20 minutes late, and I didn't want to be the goody good that stayed and waited for her. You know how it is. I actually arrived to work somewhat on time today...12:55 to be exact. Didnt really do much other than used our new system of spreadsheets for the bed finder reports. NO MORE PAPERS!!! YEAH!!! I clocked out at 21:20, and I was on my way home. I didn't stop anywhere tonight, because I just wanted to get some rest, and finish this damn physics homework. I took a little nap while trying to do the Physics, and then I woke up at 23:43. I went into my rooms, and watched the movie. You know the one I'm talking about. My FAVORITE movie EVER. Well, since the time is running thin, I must leave you all with one last message. As a matter of fact, it's gonna be my Quote of the Day. So read it and truly understand it's meaning. Oh yeah...I was bored, and I added a little extra to my movie and CD list...CHECK IT OUT!!! Website: HotTopic.com - See where i get all my shirts from. ShoUt out: Hunter "Patch" Adams - Thanks for giving me this feeling of "excessive happiness" tonight. current mood: EXUBERANT!!! FANTASTIC!!! GLORIOUS!!!!!! current music: The Music that's playing when the old woman is swimming in the Spaghetti (on Patch Adams) Current Word/Phrase of the Day: "You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a PERSON I'll guarantee you'll win" ~Hunter "Patch" Adams Comments > recent entries > previous 10 entries > next 10 entries > top of page