My Life

Whoa

2006-02-15T00:11:43Z

Well I had typed a long entry, but it mysteriously disappeared.... But here is the short version.

Working in Florida for New Years was great!! Being there once again was great. I missed my friends and I got to see most of them... I'm looking forward to visiting this SPRING BREAK to experience Expedition Everest first hand... I already own the ride shirt... just need to experience the ride! I miss my friends from there a lot.. and I can't wait to see them again.. Monique in particular... She was always one of the nicest peeps there!

Work here in Mcdowell has been good... I was offered a couple band positions here, but I would rather watch my goofy kids grow through their elementary years... I let them try a DDR game... and it was hilarious to watch!

Snow is great!!! I got a snow day on Monday and it was a great relief!! Ok, good enough for a summary of my long post... Hope to see you all soon!

WDW

2005-12-27T19:05:58Z

Hey all,
I'm finally here back at disney for the New Year, and it is packed! MK was a madhouse to walk through.. When I walked by, The Haunted Mansion had a 30 minute wait. which isn';t bad actually. I work on the 28th and 30th at Town Square as a Character attendant. Hope to see some of you there!!

http://www.ghostyroasty.com

Dawn of a New Day

2005-12-06T00:41:08Z

Well, kinda. I actually have found someone to be with!! Me and Felica have been hanging out a lot lately. We went to a wrestling show together on Saturday, which was a blast, and then today we went to eat at Texas (MY FAV) and hung out at my house watching Fight Club.. yeah, I know, what kind of person would show a new friend Fight Club... Well she read the book! It was great, and I actually had someone to cuddle with. It was great and I really missed having that.

OH MY!!!! DDR TIME!

2005-11-20T23:44:55Z

Well I went out and bought DDR Extreme 2 for the PS2... And a network adapter. This game is feature rich!! Mission Mode is kinda boring, but it passes time. Also, you can play it online!! I am 2-1!!! lol and it is my first day of playing it. I've been playing the songs on standard mode for the online play.. All of them I was sight dancing.. Lol, that sounds funny.. Sight dancing. in other words, I was playing them for the first time. It was odd playing online, but it was definitely an exciting feeling!! I'll be playing online a lot this weekend coming up! I'm using way too many exclamation points!! Ok I'm gone!!!

My Addiction

2005-11-18T02:07:55Z

I have yet another addiction... Command and Conquer: Generals... I just spent three hours playing it, and it only seemed like 30 minutes... What an addiction!!!

Great, just great

2005-11-17T02:39:20Z

Tonight was my final game as a coach for this season. My kids have lost every game, but everyone has noticed they have gotten a lot better every game. Except for one set of parents.
I had a couple parents yelling at my DURING the first quarter of the game saying some degrading remarks, such as I was pitiful amongst other things. This was done in front of my kids from BOTH schools that I teach at. It was so disrespectful and embarassing. I have to put up with the fact that my kids heard the guy and wife yelling at me. I ignored him for a few seconds and then told him if he didn't stop I wouldn't put his kid in at all. I've never done anything rude to anyone down there. He deserved me saying that. I did put the kid in... and what do you know, the first play he received a three seconds call to all you basketball fans. He also played out of position the entire time he was in the game. The parents were arguing that I had a kid in that did not deserve to be in (a fifth grader and it could very well be his final game of organized basketball due to knee problems resulting from a car wreck). Their kid is a fourth grader, and it's kind of a tradition that the fifth graders get more play time mainly due to more experience. I have 12 players to put in which includes 7 fourth graders. All the parents understand the fact that the fourth graders need to just get the experience, play a little this year, and be prepared to be next year's starters EXCEPT for this set. Also, the mother is the principal's daughter. I did the professional thing and let him know what had happened to let him handle it. It's disheartening that parents can be worse than their own kids, even though the kid constantly bugged me about going in.
I doubt I will coach next year just because of this one incident. I've been professional and done my job. The kids had fun and learned about the game. A game is not all about winning and losing, it is about having fun and learning.
If you can't tell already, I'm bummed out majorly about all of this. I know the kids are probably not sure what to think about the encounter, and I'll probably have to think of something to explain the behavior of the immature man. I can't believe I called someone immature. I don't do that too often.
Sorry about the long rant, I just needed to get it out of my mind and put it somewhere else. I hope everyone is having a good week!

Oh boy

2005-11-04T23:46:08Z

One of the only movies to really stick out from my youth is Batman... I remember going to the theater to see it... I remember watching it on tape countless times, and today when I received the dvd, I still remember most of the lines. It is one great movie!! I bought the Anthology and the Batman Begins Deluxe Edition dvd. Also in the past week of purchases was In Living Color: Seaosn 4, Titanic, star Wars: Episode III with bonus disc, and The Wizard of Oz 3 Disc set... I have a lot to watch this weekend!!

"What are you?" ... "I'm Batman."

WOW

2005-10-26T20:26:18Z

Well, I tried the new Xbox 360.... Just wow!! King Kong was awesome!!! The ape looked like an ape.. fur and all!! I want one so badly.. but you know what? I'm waiting. Waiting to see about price drops after the PS3.. or even to see what the PS3 offers. I'm patient this time!! WOOHOO!!

Squealers and trained drivers.

2005-10-23T05:25:46Z

Yeah, so a couple of my best friends got married... big deal... I got to let birds out of a box... Not just any birds... Pigeons!!! There was this pigeon man who delivers pigeons... That is a job... Legend has it that he puts on a pigeon suit and becomes the pigeon. Amazing man!! I enjoyed my day though, being able to hang out with a psycho friend who hits himself, Dexter (who proposed to me), and Crazy Justin.. Yeah you can see it in his eyes... One craazy mo-fo. And there was this one lady we were hanging out with.. She showed us a monkey... It went peekaboo. Brad was also at the wedding, along with Mike White, and Bob. It was a great gathering of soulless souls. Mike will forever be able to say that he watched Where;s Blue to calm him down on his wedding day.. It is truly a work of art!! Look for it at http://www.ghostyroasty.com I'll have to start selling it on dvd!

Yup.. Again

2005-10-17T02:27:28Z

OH BOY!! I'm the proud owner of... another Xbox... Yup.. I now have two. One is softmodded and the other will be fully modded and tricked out with a LCD screen... It'll be nice!! this weekend I hung out with Roger and Tabitha, and the Nicholas County Marching Grizzlies... I got my fair share of hugz, which was great, I needed all I could get!! I miss hugz!

Yup

2005-10-08T12:58:31Z

So Jessica Biel was named the sexiest woman alive in November's Esquire Magazine... I have to agree with that!!
I started basketball coaching this week.. Boy did I wearthem all out!!

WOW!!

2005-10-02T18:24:29Z

I got the chance to catch the Hip Hop Honors on VH!... I must say it was an awesome show.. Big Daddy Kane busted it up!! LL did a great job... So many strong performances.. I was pumped after that show!! Grandmaster Flash also blew it up with the Furious Five, DJ Kapri, and DJ Jazzy Jeff.. It was like I was watching a time capsule being opened!

Total Darkness

2005-09-28T20:03:13Z

Well I've been staying quite busy lately, and I have no clue what I put in the last journal, but anyways, here is an update. I'm coaching basketball... Yeah.. Me... basketball. Should be fun. Also, Sometimes the lonliness kicks in, but you know, I don't let it get to me usually anymore... I let it fade away. My kids have kept me in pretty good company which I'm glad they are usually good. It isn't stressing me out too much anymore coming to school. I've had the kids sing a lot more than I did last year, but it is a good thing because most of their voices don't shatter my ears.
This past Saturday I was in the Register-Herald paper. They did an article about me working for Disney and included a couple pictures. It was great to see my face in the paper!!!
In other weekend news, I went to Parkersburg and visited with Michael Rhodes and his Fiancee Christy. it was a lot of fun and I have repaired Rhodes's original video and put together a dvd of old times.
For those of you who don't know about my college years... It was a time I don't think I would trade for anything... Even Disney... Well I dunno they are pretty close in terms of importance. The people I met were some of the greatest people I have ever known. It's an experience I could never have again with a different set of people. It was unique, fun, and the greatest experience I'll ever have. VIVA LA 2ND FLOOR!!

Awesome!!

2005-09-16T22:26:07Z

I've been looking forward to this for a long time!!!! Fraggle Rock on DVD!!! It is so awesome to watch this show again!

Jumpy

2005-09-14T21:08:09Z

Well it is 5 and I'm still at school surfing the net.... What a life I lead down here in the middle of nowhere. The kids are fun though. I've had some problems out of a few of them, but hey, what would class be like without them?
Life is very lonely right now, but I'm not going to complain. I earned it.. I decided to come back down here.. and I knew I would be lonely here. I did it for my kids. They deserve having me for more than one year. If I didn't come back, they would have been let down. Next year though, I might get out of here.. There is nothing holding me down in WV besides family and friends, and they would understand me leaving.
If I was Napoleon Dynamite, you know I would get a bunch of chicks... Well not chicks, but hens.. hehehehe. He's just so gosh darn cool.

School Again

2005-09-07T20:43:48Z

Crazy kids!!! Here is one example: I had a first grader do a funny... LOL... I promised I would stay for a few minutes and watch them practice their cheers and I watched for a while.. Then the first grader asked me to guess which waterbottle was hers... So I said I had no clue, and I had no clue she used it as an excuse to get out of her line to give me a hug. She started running over to me stopped and point at a waterbottle and then ran over and hugged me. When one does it, they all have to, so I had a bunch of kids wrapped around my legs trying to get them back in line. That will probably be the last practice I come to!! Geez!

Life on the Dark Side

2005-09-03T00:08:31Z

Well, during the week I'm staying in Welch... Nice place, but it does nothing for my heart. It gets so lonely being there in Welch where I know noone. This is why I wanted to have someone before school started.. Something to look forward to when I got home. I don't have that. Instead, it's the same routine here, save for a few friends that I'll probably see this weekend. My life is boring... With gas prices up, I don't want to risk going out and end up spending 30 or 40 dollars for one tank of gas.
Anyways, I've been watching a bunch of news lately. I'm sure you all know what is on there by now, so I'm not going into it. I wished I could leave my job and go to help out. I went to new orleans when I was in the 8th grade. I loved that trip and I treasure that experience... Now I am left wishing I could have visited before this tragedy happened. It's sometimes horrible to watch the news knowing that I've been there in the Superdome... I've walked down some of those roads. It was such a beautiful place. I only hope and pray that they can restore the beauty.

Kids

2005-09-01T13:04:01Z

Kids are amazing. I saw a couple things yesterday that shocked me. I have a deaf student that really put the shock on me. I was teaching class, and showing the conga and he starting drawing something. He handed the drawings over, and behold, he drew quarter notes and eighth notes. The notes were nowhere in the room on the walls... nowhere at all. I went over them last year in class... but I had no clue of how much he paid attention to what I showed. I knew he was watching, but I didn't know how much he could comprehend just from pictures and movements without hearing what I was saying. Just awesome.. And the other kids in the other classes... just wow, I didn't know I would be missed that much!! Well time for class.. My young ones are waiting!

Back to School Back to School

2005-08-24T02:08:05Z

Well today was the first day back for teachers in Mcdowell County, and let me tell ya, it's gonna be a riot!! Some of the teachers from the school that closed down after last year will be joining me once again! I love those guys and I'm glad I'll get to see them again this year. I also ordered a laptop to help me get through the year... Yup... a laptop. I am selling my Ipod on Ebay as well.. but the laptop... Oh boy! It's a Ferrari!!

Awesome eh? I can't wait to get it!! It's going to be a beast of a computer, and I can do my editing while I stay in Mcdowell county during the week... Fun fun fun!

Being Discovered

2005-08-19T04:32:02Z

Well I haven't really typed much about feelings lately other than about my cat. I made a post earlier about band camp. The person I became close with found out a lot about me and how I handle anger, frustration, and just about anything else negative. She handles it in the same way. We were so much alike and we never knew it. We talked for hours throughout every night. That's right... talked... about emotions. Something I could never really get in depth with to anyone. ANYONE!! It felt so good to talk to someone about it and find out that she did the same thing. It's good to know that I'm not alone.. and I know it isnt healthy how I handle my anger. but it is better for everyone else.

LOL

2005-08-17T17:29:11Z

links

2005-08-17T15:12:59Z

Here are a couple hilarious links!!
http://www.idiots-guide.org/badday.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jvdkuyp/flash/see.htm
http://www.4dave.com

Amazing links!!
http://www.mysticalball.com/
http://www.sithsense.com/flash.htm
http://www.4dave.com/files/random/3d_sidewalk_art/

Music ones:
http://uploads.ungrounded.net/221000/221483_Play.swf
http://www.ded.kiev.ua/mus.swf
http://www.stupidcollege.com/Animation/Beat_Boxing.swf

ghostyroasty @ 2005-08-16T20:40:00

2005-08-17T00:40:48Z

LOL!!!

2005-08-17T00:32:05Z

I have been seeing a lot of funny pictures lately.. This is one of the many!!!

Single Serving Friend

2005-07-18T15:33:53Z

Well, I'm in Disney now, and it's great!! My first day back at work was awesome and it reminded me about how great some people that work here are... It's kinda like Fight Club... The single serving friend... But sometimes you'll see them again, which is really nice! That's all I have to say since I'm heading into the parks now!