Hey it's Blogtober!!!!!

This blog is dedicated to Taz Verstappe

Just gonna let you know this a little long but what can you expect it has been almost 4 weeks since I have wrote a blog. Don’t worry it is well worth the read.

Okay well I know that it has been a long time since I have wrote a blog or anything like that but I have been really busy and just haven’t had the time to do it I have been behind on work paperwork too I don’t know what has gotten into me lately I hope it has just been because of Taz because I don’t want this to become some sort of habit or anything like that because last thing I need is to be a lazy bum for the rest of my life that simply will not do.

           

Like I just mentioned I’ve been lazy because of Taz. As most you know already I lost my dog on October 24 to old age he was 13 and he almost made it to 14 he was a few months away to his birthday. It has been really hard for me knowing that when I come home I will not have my best friend to great me when I walk in to my dads house anymore. I really wish it didn’t have to happen but sadly it is a part of life and I know he is out of his pain and he is in a better place because I believe that All Dogs Go To Heaven.  Ok enough about that because otherwise I will just keep upsetting myself. I’m not sure how I will ever get over it. He was my first dog ever that I picked out and has been a part of my life for almost 14 years of my 19 almost 20 year life.  I LOVE YOU Taz Verstappe I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU BUDDY, YOUR PART OF THE FAMILY.

            One of the really cool things about doing this job for a second year and being in the same tour area is I have been to so many of the same schools as I did last year it’s kind of cool because I remember the school once I walk in and especially the person that helped us get in the school as last year. Sometimes I think oh I remember you… huh I think you were the guy that was a jerk to us last year and complained…. Yup that’s you. Although like a couple of weeks ago we went to this school that I did last year and they gave us pizza they bought us a whole large pizza all to ourselves ok so the pizza sucked really bad but still they went a long way just to buy us pizza and it was with their own money that’s how much they love Camfel. Which by the way I do to because it’s the schools that scream and sing along and really enjoy the video that makes this job worth it you just know when they really get the video. It really makes the 5 o clock morning well worth it.  Although I could have 2 year of school taken care of by now like all my friends do I have ZERO REGRETS for signing up for this job I LOVE it so much but don’t worry this is my last year once June hits I’m done then it’s school that August. Hopefully I will have a job that summer and a brand new car. I don’t think a new job will be hard now that I have experience. I hope.

So I’ve started on your Christmas presents it is a lot of work making them and making sure that they look good too. I will give you a hint about what they are. They… just kidding. What fun would it be if you figured out what they are? I will tell you that it is not another key chain though. I want to know your opinion on something because I’m getting mixed responses would you want me to do a new game this Christmas or do you like the unwrapping present game.

Well the weather is starting to cool down now like today we were in the 40’s and most of the states over here have been snowing but here in Rhode Island it just poured rain all day. But I think when we drive up to Maine on Sunday we may hit snow. Also I’m excited because I’m going to be in a new state for my birthday. Also if you didn’t know it is only 9 days away till my birthday from October 29^th 2011 just in case you forgot. I can hardly believe I’m gonna be 20 years old I hardly feel 19 I haven’t even got used to this age I can not believe how fast time flies because it has kind of been nice with this job because we have been so busy I don’t have time to be home sick.

Okay I think I’m done writing now, hope you are all doing well and I can hardly wait to get home and see everyone again I just hope it’s for more than a week because a week is just not enough time but we will just have to wait and see and deal with it then.

My Sick New Blog :)

*** This time there are two different would you rather questions be sure to answer them both and because I only had two people vote I guess I need to mention where to find the would you rather questions. They are located near the top of the blog on the left side. Enjoy.

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So I don’t know if I have told you guys about my co-worker so here goes. His name is Timothy James McCarty II but I just call him TJ because Timothy James McCarty II is to long.  He is from Stapleton Alabama and he is really great to work with he is always cracking jokes and making comments like I do. I think we really work well together we get our setups done with normally with like an hour to spare which is really good if we are ever short on time because if the school lets us in late which is happening lately is they don’t think we need any time to get setup apparently they think we can just walk in with 3 huge screens and be ready to go in 20 minutes ugh now that was an annoying school to go to they were all like oh the company never told us you were going to need 1hour and 45 minutes to set up we thought you just needed a little bit of time.(which by the way the contract specifically says that we need time to set up all of out equipment.)  or if we get lost or things like that. TJ is 22 he just had his birthday on the 17^th  to be exact which is Chey-Pie’s  Birthday too. (He’s gonna be OLD) uhhh I think that’s about it… so enough about him and more about me because I’m selfish like that.

 So  I went on my first train ride that didn’t go in a circle and end up in the exact same place that I stared in like in an amusement park. This all stared when we went to TJ’s aunt and uncles house which by the way was awesome. We were able to stay at their house for a few nights and pick up some free lodging which means free money for us I think we each got 60 bucks just for staying at their house for a few nights. Which worked out for us (oh you should really hear this song it’s a good one)because we got home made food which even though I’m really picky it was all very good the first night we were there we had lasagna (Tante don’t worry I didn’t like hers better and I took off the top cheese part just like I do with yours.) umm OH and then after being there and being so close to Boston and all they treated us to a train ride to Boston and we were able to go and walk around and do things. The train ride was not exactly what I thought it would be I would have rather have took the train ride at Knott’s Berry Farm and have robbers ask me if I have any sense. Or to put my hand up not my hair. Hahaha good times. Anywho it was a free train ride because TJ’s uncle was in the military so he got us all on for free and once we were there we went and saw a of few things which by the way I was surprised to know how small Boston is I thought it was this big huge city but in all reality it’s not that big at all. Enough about  the city and onto the things we did in the city one of the first things we did was followed to Red Brick Road not the Yellow Brick Road we weren’t going to OZ we were staying in Boston. We went to this museum that was all about the ship The Constitution it is the oldest ship that is still in use by the navy even today. It was really interesting because right after we went through the museum we were able to get aboard the ship it was right outside the museum. It really was Bee E A You Tiff Full (beautiful-for those of you who couldn’t figure out how to say it.) Sadly that was all we were really able to do when we were in Boston but we still had a great time there well there was one other thing we did while in Boston was we went out for pizza TJ’s Aunt and Uncle claim that this is the best pizza that they have ever ate in their entire life. By the way I do have to admit that it was pretty darn good pizza. It was some hole in the wall place really small not much room maybe enough seating for about 15 people (barely) it’s called Ernesto’s. Which not later after eating at Ernesto’s I came down with a cold. This is the part where you all go awwwww and feel bad for me and say nice thing to make me feel better. 

So I think this rap up this week’s blog and I look forward to seeing you guys in December. Christmas time!!!!!!! I’m so excited I’m sure it will be here before you know it. Just so you don’t for get there is only 38 day until my birthday starting from Friday 30, 2011 so don’t forget my presents and if you don’t send them make sure you wrap them in birthday paper when I get them in December.  I’m so excited for my birthday I only wish something exciting came with this birthday I’m turning 20 but nothing special comes with being 20 except your that much closer to being 21  Love you all and hope you are all doing well and not missing me to much. By the Way Tante why have I not heard anything about a bowling date I mean seriously you need to keep me up to date with these things. 

Are We There Yet? ... Are We There Yet Now? ... How About Now? ... Now?

WOW where do i begin... WOW it has been a long time since i have done one of these blogs. Okay so as you may know already i have signed up to do another tour with Camfel. If any of you or any of you know somebody that may be interested in joining Camfel please let me know if they would like to find out a little more on the company here is the website http://www.camfel.com/ WELL enough about them and more about me. First thing first i started training our newcomers on August 8, 2011 and i was the best trainer there, mainly because i was the only trainer there beside my boss and his wife. 2 weeks later I'm told I'm leaving on Saturday 20th, 2011. I was so pumped because I'm touring with the most A-mazING guy named Timothy McCarty (TJ). After a few days in training we both knew that we wanted to tour the new york area together and guess what??? Oh wait sorry you don't know  because it's my story. We are touring the east coast area we have been traveling from California all the way to New York where our first show was in Highland, New York. It was a long drive here but we made it safe and sound well almost at least, we did have to avoid a major earthquake and now a hurricane but no biggie i know that i will be safe as long as i keep my trust in Him.  Our first show went great i was a little rusty and a bit tired because the night before i we went to go and see the Phantom Of The Opera on BROADWAY!!!!!!! By the way my profile picture will be changing each time a new blog is posted this picture is of the key-chain i bought after seeing the Broadway show. I was so excited we got our tickets really cheep and then right before the show stared we snuck down like a good 20 rows or more so we could get better seats and we were able to stay there the whole performance. Before we went and saw the show we were able go spend some time in the city of NYC which by the way if you have never been there i would highly recommend it. It is to die for and i mean that literally OH and if you can avoid driving do it because when I was driving in the city it was crazy i almost died and got squished, ran over and ran over again.  But no biggie life goes on. When we were in the city we were able to go to central park and walk around for a few hours and we were also able to look at the shops in time square. We were originally going to go and see two Broadway shows the second one we were going to go and see was The Lion King but they canceled it the day before because of the hurricane Irene. By the way there is no need to panic we are fine the hurricane didn't hit where we are and we are leaving New York tomorrow on Sunday the 28,2011. Another cool and fun fact is as you hopefully you already noticed that  i have changed the layout of my website. One of the cool features i added was a question box. I will be asking a new question every time i post a new blog and i would like you to answer it. It's really simple all you have to do is click the answer you like and then your done it takes you no more than 1 second to do it so please do. As I'm coming down to the end of my blog today i want to leave you with this last very important thing.      Hello :)

Goodbye Texas Hello Somewhere Else

So I know it has been a long time since I have wrote a blog it has been like 2 weeks but that is because I wanted to be able to tell you where I was going because I didn’t know if I was going to the east coast or the west coast up towards Oregon.  My boss Andrew called us the other day letting us know that we will not be going to the east coast which I was a little sad about but it is not all that bad because I am leaving Texas and not going back. YEAHHHHH : )

          Anyways I had the coolest time at this middle school in Louisiana. So the show started a little before noon and so when we arrived we had the help from 4 7^th graders which they were really great we were all set up in no time. It only took us like 1 ½ hours of the 2 so we had time to spend with the kids so we were talking with them and then the topic of sports came up and me not really liking sports talk (because football is all guys like talking about) was like oh great here comes the most boring conversation of my life but when one of the kids mentioned that he pole vaults for the school I was like  OH, so me and him went on talking about pole vaulting and everything that goes with it he told me that there are only like 6 of them that pole vault between the middle school and the high school. I was just so surprised to hear that a middle school would offer such a cool event. What is funny is I probably had the most fun talking in that conversation than anyone. It’s not very often that you get to talk with people that know pole vaulting lingo.

          Just to let you know I will have meet the half way point when I get to Oregon. I will have gone to at least half of the states I can’t wait to go to more. The way I will be doing this is by doing this another year after this one. I know some of you are not gunna be happy with my decision I have made but I feel it is the right thing to do and well it is not like I will not be going to college ever I will just be pushing it back a few years. So yeah I will be graduating 2 years after all of my friends but they will not be able to say they have done the most exciting job ever in the world best of all I have no bills right now I mean if I did this job after I went to college I would be older have more responsibilities but right now I’m just loving life right now. Don’t get me wrong I love you guys and would love to be there with all of you all the time but for right now I feel that this is the place I need to be right now in my life and I will not be able to go to college if I do not have the money for it so in a way this job is great for me because I love what I do and I’m getting paid for it. I hope you are all okay with this decision. You know there is a saying that “You never work a day in your life if you love what it is that you do” and that is how I feel I’m getting paid to do something that I am extremely passionate about and not to mention I’m really good at what I do.

          The weather here is not as bad as it is in the east coast but it is quite cold here in Idaho some of the states I will be going to soon is Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Montana 3 of the 4 I have never been to and well most of those are rainy states but it is warmer than snow so it is okay.

          Do you want to know what I did that is super exciting??? You don’t? OH WELL!!! So here goes when I was in Colorado we went to go see the ice sculptures that they had. They were so cool there were only like 15 or so but still they were really cool. Some of the ice sculptures were star wars, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas sleigh, Lord of the Rings, oh and they had a slide that had little sleds for you to slide down on but some stupid little kids were hogging it and didn’t let me have a turn to ride down the slide but anyways it was cool because the ice sculpture were not just something to look at but something for you to either sit next to and or stand next to for you to take picture.        

          The other thing I was going to tell you is that well this is kinda sad, but here goes anyway. We were driving (oh course) and there was a bunch of birds that were flying and one of them dove right in front of the van and well... he made it!!! We saw him fly away safely hahaha you thought I was going to say we hit that bird didn’t you well your wrong we didn’t hit that bird we hit a different bird and well he is just chilling in our grill of the van all smooched and crammed, not to mention dead. I mean I feel bad for the bird and want to get it out of the van but I just don’t want to touch it so there it will stay until it comes out on its own which I’m sure will never happen. : ( 

Like I have been doing in the last couple of blogs I have let the readers choose the colors as long as they answer one question and here it is. What is your favorite kind of dog? Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Football Sucks!!!!!

Hey there ya I know I said that I was going to be posting the new blog yesterday but as you can see that didn’t happen.

Anyway here we go – so today is the super bowl and truthfully I don’t really care because I don’t get any little hotdogs or any of that good stuff. But at least I get to watch the commercials truthfully I’m writing this blog during the super bowl so when ever they are playing the game I’m writing but as soon as the commercials come on I …………(sorry a commercial came on) I stop what I’m doing to watch them. 

Well enough about that so I have some big new FOR YA’LL hehe I did that on purpose because it relates to the new I have. I will no longer be in the Texas tour area anymore after Valentines Day I will be making my way up to Oregon and Washington State. I am really excited to get out of this area because it is so boring here. As of right now today I have checked off a total of 23 states here is the list if you care.

1. Arizona
2. California
3. Colorado
4. Connecticut
5. Illinois
6. Indiana
7. Iowa
8. Kansas
9. Louisiana
10. Massachusetts
11. Michigan
12. Nebraska
13. Nevada
14. New Jersey
15. New Mexico
16. New York
17. Ohio
18. Oklahoma
19. Pennsylvania
20. Road Island
21. Texas
22. Utah
23. Wisconsin

Again I have a couple of people to mention in my blog because it is their birthday month. Here goes.

• Tante & Jeffrey
• Danny (Danny gets his own bullet because he gets his own party) Ya that’s right… be jealous.

So my shows have been going well just the other day we had a double school and because I have not been working hard and or doing a lot of show I was very out of shape for that day I was so tired after setting them up. But it was great because we showed the video to K-3^rd grade it was so great because you would think that they are too young to even understand what was going on but no they were really good, quiet, and understood.

            Oh Oh Oh!!!!!!! for those of you who have a Facebook AND read my blog I will be posting picture real soon not many probably just the ones from my flight to Las Vegas Nevada and Midland Odessa Texas I will not be posting the others from Texas and such until I get out of this area and into Oregon.

            Okay so for my last part in this blog the first person to tell me your favorite number you will get to choose the next color of the blog so all you have to do is send me your favorite number with your color choice included and I will make it happen like for the next blog I write. I have to make this blog pink because my mother completed the challenge of the last blog which was to leave me a comment about the blog. By the way I want to know your favorite slide from my PowerPoint that I sent to you guys.

The Long Walk To Nothing

So I know it has been a long time since I have wrote a blog but I promise that I will keep them up from now on. So here goes.

            I’ll start it off with my walk to a Wal-Mart I was at my hotel and well we were at this hotel for 12 days and I was really interested in going to go to a Wal-Mart so when I looked it up  I was so excited to see that there was a Wal-Mart not even a mile away. So I walked over their it took me like 30 minutes to get there and I was looking around for a Wal-Mart sign but could not find one when I realized I was in a parking lot and it was empty. When have you gone to Wal-Mart and the parking lot was empty ya that’s what I though NEVER.  So I walked a whole mile just to get to a Wal-Mart that does not even exist it was closed down a moved to another location.  Now I have to walk all the way back at the hotel it was such a waste of an hour of my day. Not really I was really the highlight of the week because I didn’t really do anything that whole 12 days.

            One of the things I have been doing is walking around the towns that I stay in. I would say I have walked over 20 miles total this whole month. Most of the time I would walk 8 miles in one day 4 miles out and 4 miles back which I’m sure you probably could have figured that out on your own but just in case you did not want to do the math on your own.

            As I have said already I have been really bored so to keep me busy I would have to watch movie so lucky or me there was a Redbox across the street from our hotel at a CVS. I would rent 2 Redboxs each day I would watch one at night before I went to sleep and I would watch the other one anytime the next day before 9 O’ Clock most of the time I would cut it close to the return time some of the times that I returned a movie it was 10 minutes before 9 I had totally forgot that I had them. I would have been so mad if I had been charged that extra 2 dollars PLUS tax

            As all of you know I’m in Texas and there is nothing really special about the place it is as bad as I thought it would be there is nothing to do here and well there are not very many shows that we have been doing so it is nice because I’m getting paid to be doing nothing but sit in a hotel all day and just relax so I’m not complaining.

             As I do in all of my blogs I mention birthdays and this months birthday goes to my father sorry I couldn’t be there and well I hope it was a good one

As all of you know I have a new co worker his name is Zac he is 26 I believe and he is a returner meaning that he has done this job before. He has been with the company for many years meaning he is really good at what he does and so we have not had any problems with our shows so far. I have yet to have any problems with Zac like I had with my first co worker Cameron. Cameron was just different then me and we had a very different ways of settling things it’s just to bad that his ways were not always the best way and things didn’t work out between us. You know we can’t all be Anthony’s. Hahaha I make myself laugh sometimes

I’ve had a hard time getting though the month I have been quite homesick lately but I’m hoping it’s something I just need to get used to again. I’m sure not having work is not helping since I have nothing to keep me busy I will have to come up with some thing fun and creative to do like I did last semester.

So the weather has been quite nice it’s been in the good below 30’s so while I’m here freezing my buttocks off you guys are enjoying the nice 80 degree sun :P

If you were wondering yes. Yes, I did already buy a key chain this semester.

COMPUTER WIPES OUT SAY WHAT!!!!!!!!!!

Can you guess where this is going? Yea you got it, the worst thing of all that can ever happen to a computer happened to mine. Worst of all I had a total of 8,000 pictures on my computer. They have been collecting ever since I had my first camera not to mention all of the documents I had saved on my computer as well they go from PowerPoint’s to work stuff. All of these pictures I have took from being on the road sightseeing are gone just wiped out and disappeared into thin air. It all started one night when a pop up from AVG Computer Anti Virus came onto the open asking me if I would like to boost up my computer speed. I said sure why not what is the worst thing that could happen. When all of a sudden my computer just shut of immediately. So I turn it back on and it is acting like I just bought the computer because when I got to the desktop all icons were gone, and I was like CRAP!!! So I go to My Documents in the computer and see that nothing is there. Then I open My Pictures hoping that I would get lucky and only have my pictures from the trip and of course knowing my luck it was empty only the sample pictures were there. So immediately I called the Geek Squad with Best Buy waited 10 minutes for someone to talk to just to tell me to take out the battery put it back in and hope for the best. He also said if it is all gone still then there is nothing we can do to retrieve it all and if we do try and get it all back it will cost you thousands of dollars even though it is under the 1 year warranty. Have a nice day.  I thank God till this day that by putting in the battery fixed all the problems and all is well now. I know now the importance of backing up my computer to a USB Drive or something of that sort.

            Well we have not encountered anymore snow lately, rain, but no snow so that is good. I have the ideal picture of what weather should be like and I would like to share it with you so here goes. Rain: Dry, Snow: Warm, Sun: Hot. Yep that’s just perfect weather for me J 

            What to share next??????? Ahhhhhhhh I know. Do you remember those things you used to do at school when the alarm went off and you got to get out of class????? What were they called again????? OH I know Fire Drill yea those are nice when you are at school and you want to get out of class but not when you are at a hotel after work relaxing and enjoying the quiet. What’s that? You want to hear more? Ok. Here goes. So we just got back from work like not even a more than 1 hour and a half ago. I go and lie on the bed and go on the computer and go though my old pictures I have on my computer. It was nice and relaxing and I even had some music playing, so I was comfortable. Then all of a sudden I hear this (it’s kind of hard to type out the sound of an alarm so just picture a really annoying alarm sound and thats what I heard along with this) Please walk to the nearest fire exit and exit the building. Do not take the elevators please walk patiently down the stairs. Then 3 alarm sounds, and a repeat of those words again and that was just on a loop. So I finally made it out of the building walking down 8 flights of stairs. When I realize Dang! I should have grabbed my jacket before I left because it was really cold outside. Then I heard the fire department on there way and I was like Crap! Maybe I should have grabbed my computer just incase the hotel really is on fire because I don’t want to loose all of my stuff again. Well 10 minutes passed by and they let us back in the building but we were not allowed to take the elevators so I had to walk up 8 flights of stair AGAIN. That was I one time I was not happy to be on one of the top levels of the building level 1 or 2 would have been fine for me. J

            So who wants to here all about the cool exciting places I have been to???? Anyone??? Well to bad because there is none, well not for this week that is J

            So I have my schedule until thanksgiving week. And I have to say I’m really like the way it looks at the moment. The reason for that is because I have a easy work week and what I mean by that is only minimal 2 school work days, all others are 1 school days and some of those days are day of no schools so in a way I have days off. At least 1 day off every week. AT LEAST because some weeks I have more. Yea Me!!!!!!

             I don’t really know what made me want to run a mile but the other day but I did. It could have been the cookie I ate but I don’t know I eat stuff all of the time. So after running the mile I came to the room and I was like I feel like I should reward myself so do you know what id did. Yep. I ate another cookie. I don’t think that is how it is supposed to go oh well I could use the weight.

            Guess what there is only 2 more days until my birthday and I can’t wait till then. Not like I’m going to be doing anything, but just the fact that I will be that much closer to coming home for the holidays.