My next birthday party is going to be a Chuck E. Cheese. Yesterday was my nephew ethan’s third birthday. And since his brother just had a big party that involved planning and invitation and dozens of little kids, mom decided to throw a smaller party that involved little or no work. Chuck E. Cheese or CEC as was decided upon, the place where a kid can be a kid. For only $121 we had more than enough pizza, and drinks, for 7 adults and 2 kids. Plus we left with almost a whole pizza left over. On top of all that we also got 250 tokens. Now in Chuck E. Cheese, every single game costs only one token, so with 250 tokens we could all act like little kids, running around from game to game with no concern for the cost and not playing so many games that the “kids” are left bored after twenty minutes. We all played games for about three hours before running out of tokens it was great. Among my favorite games were skeeball, and 99 cents. Skeeball i am sure you all know how to play, but 99 cents was a game of luck and skill. You are given a rubber ball and you must roll it down a short ramp and try to get it down certain paths just big enough for the ball. there are about ten different paths which change in “amount” after each roll. the point of the game is to try and get as close to 99 cents without going over. The closer you get the more tickets you get. Colette and I played this game for quite a long time. So with that being said I want to be a kid again and have my next birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. So anyway Chuck E. Cheese is the place where a kid can be a kid and adults can be kids. Bikini Destinations: Fantasy divx
Chuck E. Cheese
June 3, 20077:30 am1 CommentBooks
June 1, 20074:31 pm3 CommentsWhile listening to the Adam Corolla show i was presented with a genius idea. while danny bonaduce was high on crack for the better part of two decades he read books that were important to other people. So i am asking you, what books are important to you (besides the bible). What books influenced your life or simply books that you think everyone should read. you see i have a lot of time to read at my job and i have run out of books that i know i want to read right now. so what books do you want me to read?
The name revealed
June 1, 20074:29 pm3 Commentsthose of you on the edge of your seat on how to actually pronounce the name. (i know of at least ten million of you). The name is pronounced Elijah. Ya i don’t get it either, the name looks like a girls name in fact i was looking for a girl as i called role, until someone said, “oh, elijah.” And then i realized, “she” would be a “he” with parents that can’t spell.
Ummm…
May 31, 20076:28 pm3 Comments
This is was too good not to put somewhere. Drawn by a student who wouldn’t do his work, this truly captures my likeness. Completely.
Giving Up
May 30, 20074:49 pmLeave a CommentBe Kind Rewind dvdrip So for some reason i never really ever prayed about this. it doesn’t make any sense, if anything is going to happen with this situation it is not going to be me doing it. So here we go. I am asking you to pray for the entire situation. What happened is (if you don’t know) i was in a band and we just recently broke up. The most pressing issue is an issue of money. We had just bought a van and along with that got some debt. We really need to sell the van ASAP. we have bills to pay and no money to pay them. The other issue is more personnel in nature. Certain people are taking this really hard, harder than we thought they would causing relationships to be strained. To be perfectly honest i feel like a bunch of little kids. It is weird. So i would appreciate prayer with selling the van, as well that relationships would be healed and that they wouldn’t be lost forever. Thanks and we appreciate it.
p.s. here is a picture of the van if you know anyone that wants to buy a 15 passenger van that runs great.
My Amazing Wife
May 26, 200710:20 am4 CommentsColette is sick. It has been a long week and it finally caught up with her. yesterday she took half the day off and tried to get some rest and start to feel better. This did not happen and I thought that I would be a good husband. i made soup for dinner and then we sat and watched a movie and I was going to give her a massage and get her to sleep early. Unfortunately, it has been a long week for me as well. By eight o’clock i had passed out on the couch and was woke up by colette at nine to go to sleep. I was completely out of it and am surprised I made it to bed. I woke up this morning and not only did she get me to bed and take care of me but she also cleaned up after dinner, which i didn’t do because i was asleep on the couch.
Stupid Students
May 24, 20073:48 pm1 Comment
Kids think that they are so clever and are shocked when you catch them doing something they are not supposed to do. Like texting in class. they sit there looking at their laps clearling doing something and they wonder how you know they are texting. Then after you catch them and ask them to stop, they do it again and are surprised that you caught them yet again. Today though I had a student that just didn’t get it. First he walked out of the class to blow his nose and continued walking to hang out with friends. Now this was all noticable to me because of the giant windows he was walking in front of. so i asked him to come inside and work. About 30 min. later he asked to use the restroom. “ok just come right back” so he walks out to the bathroom and stops short turns around and walks to his friends. Again this was right in front of the windows. Again i walk outside and tell him to either come in or go to the bathroom. he says ok and starts walking but again turns to his friends. Again right in front of the windows. so i said him to detention for the rest of the day. Surprise, he didn’t go. but instead of just walking away and leaving the area. he hung out right next to the classroom so that about 5 min before the end of school I saw him with his friends again. Anyway his sneaking ability is lacking so tomorrow when i go back to this class he will spend the entire period and possibly all saturday in detention. All because he wouldn’t just sit in his seat and do a tiny bit of work.
Old Friends
May 24, 20073:27 pm2 CommentsOn tuesday my parents had a wedding at their house of some old family friends. it is sad to see marriages fall apart and people lives get turned inside out, but it is good so see them piece back together what they can. A few years back some good friends of mine starting getting into the wrong crowd and began doing drugs. But since then they have returned to their faith and are going to church and trusting in God. they still have some work to do and cobwebs to sort through but then again don’t we all? Anyway, like I said it is encouraging to see dear friends come back to the Lord and living a happy life.
Strippers and ADD
May 18, 20074:58 pm3 CommentsI had a wild and crazy student in one of my classes today. So bad that after a mere 20 minutes I had already sent him out to detention for the remainder of the 90 min class. The teacher warned me about him saying that he had ADHD. And i simply just don’t get. I can almost 100% guarantee that if we had a guest speaker in the class that happened to a stripper he would have payed attention and did his work if the other option was to leave. (I picked stripper to grab his attention because he is a teenage boy and he was constantly shouting out the lyrics to rap songs choosing in particular ones with overtly sexual references). Now if this is the case then it sounds like he just needs to learn how to focus himself. I have trouble focusing on a boring lecture, as does anybody else, but i have been taught the discipline to sit still and not be disruptive. Doctors have given people who have trouble focusing on things they are not interested in a name and thus an excuse. Kids labeled with ADD and ADHD are given an excuse. “I can’t sit still because I have a disease. It is not my fault.” Perhaps if we never labeled these kids and instead expected better behavior, then maybe we might get it. If we label a kid dumb and tell him we don’t expect him to get good grades or be very smart, then you can bet they will believe this of themselves and achieve the expected.











