Thursday, April 2, 2009

April Showers

-April 29th. My Grandparents ended up cooking dinner so I had to stay home till dinner was ready. By the time dinner was ready Nato came over and was going to stay for dinner. After dinner we headed over to B-Money's to pick him up. We stopped at Brian's for a second and then left. We went and picked up Ivan and for some reason I've been tired as fuck. We drove around complaining till we found something to do. Nico met up with us at trax and we headed to Taco Bell afterwards. Taco Bell started with Nico arguing with the cashier because he won a game, and it ended with Nico yelling at random girls. After Taco Bell we headed up to Shayne's to hang out with everyone. We spent most of the night up there playing halo 3 and making fun of Jared's conversations on COD 4. It was a pretty ok night. We decided to leave Shayne's and meet up with Kimmeh, Morgan and Kai? at Sun Set Coffee. We were there till about 3 A.M and I couldn't stay awake for the rest of the night. On our way home from the shop Nato got pulled over again. That would be twice in one day for him. The Cop was the biggest piece of shit ever. He walked up to the car and asked Nato if he spoke English because the passengers didn't have there hands on top of the seats so he could see them. Than he asked me what I was trying to hide because I was moving around so much. I looked at him confused and replied I've been asleep with my head on the sit so I can see where you thought I was moving around. I said my Water Bottle is on the ground, but I don't know why I hide that. He picked it up and I told him Water was in there and he could drink it, sniff it, do whatever he need to. He asked me how old I was and I replied 18. He looked at me and said you know it's illegal to give a officer false information. I replied back I'm not giving false information. Than he had to be super tough guy. When is your birthday than? I replied April 6th, 1991. He asked me for my name and all that shit and than walked off. The cop was the biggest piece of shit. Fuck Cops, they are worse than the Swine Flu and fuck their quota!!! He ended up letting Nato go with a ticket and just bounced because we didn't do anything. Fucking faggot! -April 28th. I kicked it with Nato all day. We picked up B-Money and they went to there screw up class. Afterwards we picked up Ivan and drove around for a bit. In the evening we headed down to Nato's so he could change his brakes because they are so bad it sounded like we were stopping ourselves with boulders. Than on top of it the car sounded like a space shuttle and I feared for my life every time we came to a stop. It was quite the day. -April 27th. It was pretty much a crazy day. School went by way faster than usual. We started to discuss what a crazy month this has been. Justin sold out of Straight Edge, Newton bought in, Shayne sold out of Vegan and want's to be a cop, Sam cheated on Cody and now they are getting a Divorce, Adam Gay is going to have a baby, Dan P and Cheltz broke up, and Nato keeps on getting pulled over. It has been quite the month for bizarre month for things to happen. I'm still waiting on my room to be finished by the way. It still hasn't been painted, and I'm still waiting. Hopefully this week things will get done. -April 26th. It was Sunday and Kayla's last day in town. Today was day I refused to get up because I just wanted to hold her for so much longer. She finally got me up and we got ready so we could go eat. We had to go pick up Ivan and Kendra and than double back and hit up Noodles and Company for lunch. Noodles was so amazing! They were on their A+ game again. Afterwards we drove to an old spot where I got arrested. We walked around and enjoyed the nice weather. Than we headed down town to show Kendra some of our legal walls and all of the local spots. We ended up state street and past the Capital to the top of the World. It was pretty cold for some reason. Everyone took in the view and than we left. We drove a little ways up the street to Enzyme Peak and decided to hike it. Ivan and Kendra took the side of the Mountain in order to get up their faster. Kayla and I stuck to the trail for most of the time. It kicked our asses. We arrived at the top and rested for awhile. The sun was starting to go down and Kayla and I sat and cuddled and watched it. We spent a few hours up there and than hiked down/rock climbed. We ran down a hill, chilled in a cave -April 25th. Kayla and I woke up to my mom doing laundry and laughing at us sleeping. We lied in bed for a bit and I was kind of stubborn and didn't want to get out of bed. We finally got up and started getting ready. We had a bowl of cereal and chatted with my family. Kayla started getting ready and I chatted with my grandma and gave Kayla a pair of Diamond earrings. We both finished getting ready and were both getting hungry. We headed to Wendy's to grab some food and talk. Ivan and Kendra kept calling and asking when we would be on our to pick them up. We were about half way done with our food when Ivan called and told us that everyone was already there. Kayla and I finished up our meal and headed toward Ivan's house. We arrived there in about 10 minutes and headed back down to Brian's. It was a pretty good turn out for the bbq. We hung out for a bit and chatted, played with the baby, played halo and just hung out and watched some cop thing. Later in the evening everyone wanted to play football and when it came down to it, no one wanted to. They decided to play basketball instead. I didn't play for the first two games because I didn't want to. Than Cody came in and said they needed help because Brian was messing their shit up. I went and picked up the game and we ended up losing because Cody doesn't know how to guard anyone. I wanted to go to the Drive-Ins but didn't know if they were open or not. So after the game everyone sat around and just hung out. We watched a few things and Kayla and I both got really tired. We ended up leaving around 5 A.M in the morning. We came straight home to cuddle and fall asleep. -April 24th. Kayla and my Grandparents both came into town today. Kayla and Kendra ended up arriving in town around 5 o' clock. We met up with in Draper so that we could all head down to the show. We met them at Smith's. After we met up with them and Nato shouted things at Kendra we headed over to Nato's to drop off Kayla's car. It was finally time to head to the show down in Orem at our buddy Justin's new venue. The show was pretty good. Grant hooked it up fat with some tickets and we had a good ol time smashing and jumping on kids. It started raining a bunch and it was a very good night. I finally got to see Joy Dupree after some months. It was very nice to see you. I'm really sorry your camera broke during the pile-ons and you need to get those pictures up soon. After the show we headed back home to hang out. We did some little things here and there. We went to Sunset and everyone started getting crabby. Later in the night we met up with Dan, Dallyn, Duran, Kimmeh, Morgan, Mark, Hailey, Evan and some other kids down at Beto's. That pretty much ended the night for us. Kayla and I came home to sit in bed and fall alseep for the first in our new place. It was quite the day. -April 23rd. We headed down south to go check out these Freight Trains that have been dead for quite awhile. On our way down there we had to stop at Death or Glory to see our boys. All the boys were there except for Dimples; this is nothing new. The time spent at Death or Glory was taken up with riding the low rider bicycle, drawing on the side-walks with chalk, watching Breck have a water fight with Aurora and the kids, putting bottle rockets in Nico's ciggs, and mostly just talking and kicking it. After we had spent some time at the shop we still had to head a little further South to find these Trains. We arrived at the place in less than 20 minutes. There are over 150 cars full of color just dead. We pulled up to this dirt mound to find this old cop car. We thought it was a cop at first but knew it couldn't have been a cop because of the gangster rims it had. We pulled around the vechile and Ivan said "Is that car moving?" Nico replied "Holy Shit! It's moving! Look at the wheels!" Nato and I looked at the tires to see them rocking back and fourth. We pulled around to see this Cholo mo'fucka fucking the shit out of some chick. We laughed our asses off and sped away. It was honestly one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed in my life. We walked the line till we could see no more. Vader and the Ons cats murdered the back side of the Trains. We seen a few Kuhr handstyles and knew he had been there. It was kinda like a little scavenger hunt. Once the sun passed the mountain just to give off enough light we found Kuhr on the freight. It was honestly of the greatest things of my life to see this in person. Kuhr, the king of freights. After we gazed into this artwork we decided to head back to the car before it got any darker. Nico and Ivan thought they could jump from Train to Train but wussed out. We arrived to the car right when a cop showed up. We thought we were off the hook but we ended up getting pulled over due to people snitching us out. Something about kids are playing on the train tracks. Fucking snitches. We found out though that Nato has his license suspended and a warrant. Nico ended up driving us back to Salt Lake. We had to drop Nico off at Trax and than it was off to Devin's to play poker. All of the Bingham homies were there and that was the night. -April 22nd. It's pretty much MSK week for me. That's all I've been able to look at on Flickr. (photos by RareFind) Some other Life time goals are: Get tattooed by Norm from Msk. Kick it with Revok at a Art Show in Los Angelos. I can't wait for the road trip out to L.A. this summer. I want to go now but I know it will be worth the wait. I can already feel the hot, burning sand underneath my feet and the cold salty water on my skin. I wish there was a way to bring that day sooner. -April 21st. My favorite month of the year has almost gone by. There's been two handfulls of things on my mind. Road Trip to Rain Fest 2009 in May. Road Trip to Sound and Fury Festival 2009 July/August. Want to hit up the L.A. River to flick and see this in person! You can see a little black circle on the B. That's actually Saber sitting on this for scaling. This is massive, one of my favorite pictures of this, and I found it on Google Earth. Props to Saber Awr Msk Wanting to listen to Trash Talk or Stop At Nothing, I can't decide at the moment. Burning a disc full of photo's; I wish I had my Scrub flicks so I could put them on the disk for him. Going back to sleep and wondering if Kayla got up. It's been a nice week and I'm down to own in some Ping-Pong!!! -April 20th. I had Court today and I'm going to trial. I finally got to watch a video that made the news and I'm quite upset with the whole situation and wish you the best of luck homie. We love and support you through this all. You've been set up and the law will pay those fat faggot fucks! Once again I'm sitting in class trying to update my blog and kicking it with Beau and Garret. I've also filled up my limit on my Flickr account and need to invest on upgrading to a Pro Account. Someone should be kind and get good Karma by paying for it. I should be trying to get that done and will be getting a new camera very soon. I'm so stoked! I need to start catching photographs like this. This photo is amazing and I will need to start catching shit like this.(mad photo cred to Keegan Gibbs) -April 19th. I woke up to the phone ringing; I was hoping it would stop ringing or it would be a telemarketer. I crawled off the couch to answer to hear Werst on the other side of the phone. I had to get ready quick so him and Scr.01 could come get me so we could get started on the canvas. That was the whole day! We watched Aerosol from AOD/ARS. That video was so old school it was ridiculous. I ended up losing my bouncy ball as well; that sucked! -April 18th. Did a whole lot of nothing. Ended up driving around and got way too tired, way too early. I kicked it with Ty, Beau and Garret all day and watched some play off games with the homies. Bulls beat the Celtics. Cavs beat the Pistons. It was a pretty good day for a Saturday. -April 17th. Went to Werst's party and took flicks for an image that will hopefully be in In Da Life Magazine. Aaron Roth has it down. That party last night was....(photo by Tom Sykes) -April 16th. I'm sitting in class trying to update my blog as fast as possible. It will be under construction with the picture part till I find what fit's the blogs. Good announcements though is Rain Fest 2009 is finally complete. All the bands are set to play and life couldn't get any better. I wish the god damn electrian would finish the basement so I can paint my room and start living down stairs. Currently...I'm tired as shit and I wish it was Friday. F*@!K I also took this off Revok1.com. It's one of the most random things but it made me laugh a bit right after the image below. I re-updated this blog on the 20th of this month. Enjoi again! -April 15th. Cleaned the old house, ate dinner, hung out, went to Dee's and that was it. That was the whole complete day. A Day To Remember played tonight but I didn't go. So not too much went on. I found this photo on Revok1.com and it pretty much made my day as I came back to add this photo. Enjoi! -April 14th. Today was my little brother's birthday. Happy Birthday Lorenzo! THE BIG SWEET 16! Once the night dowelled into it's self and everyone got done at the Parkway Drive show. Mark, Nato, Ivan, Lyndsey, Kimmeh, Nico came and kicked it for most of the night. Lately I've been tired and it doesn't help any by having everyone over till 3 A.M. -April 13th. Pretty much moved the whole day and than Nato and Ivan came and kicked it later in the night. photo by flickrmao -April 12th. We woke up to Easter Sunday! We headed over to Kayla's families house for some dinner. We were having steak, salad and some bomb ass food. We arrived once everyone was done but it was still a good time. We chatted with everyone, laughed, made jokes at Fat Anthony. After Dinner it was time to leave and go back home. The drive was nuts! Nato and I laughed as we weaved in and out of traffic, drove down the center lane to pass 20 cars, and had some good ol' music. 4 Hours finally went by and we were finally home. Home didn't feel like home anymore... something felt off, it wasn't right. We ended up meeting up with Devin and Adam G because they were out on the Vespa and cruising. The rest of the night consisted with everyone hanging out and doing absolutely fucking nothing. It was a weird night. HAPPY EASTER! by Brandy Shaul -April 11th. Have you ever waken up out of no where? Today this happen because I woke up to the breeze of coldness. I looked down to see Kayla had stolen my blanket and had left me to freeze. I got my blanket and Kayla back to keep me warm and was out for a few more hours. Kayla was wide awake by than and was keeping herself entertained by playing with the candles. Shortly after her int rest in the flame was gone it was time to wake me up. She stole my blanket, sat on top of me, tickled me, kissed me, did everything she could so that I could get up to be with her. I wasn't very happy with this because I had an hour of sleep in the car ride home. Shortly after adjusting my eyes to the daylight Kendra came running down the stairs yelling good morning. We got up and started to get ready for the day. It took a good two hours for everyone to start moving and what not. We headed over to pick up Brenda so we could drop her off at work. Once we dropped her off we headed into the mall and hung out for a bit. We ran into Toby, Holly and Toby's women. A few hours went by and we were finally with Nato and Anthony again and I picked up some new headphones! Finally everyone was getting hungry so we headed over to Apple-bee's for dinner. Kayla and I would be Celebrating our 6 Months that was yesterday. Dinner was good and it was one hell of a time. With plenty of jokes, laughs and Nato hitting on the Waitress it was one hell of a dinner. Once the food was digested we headed back to Kendra's to hang out for the night. Los, Toby and Holly ended up meeting us at Kendra's and they brought a ghetto ass potato gun that didn't work. Once the night died out we watched Pineapple express and went to bed. Kayla and I cuddled and chatted, had ' some pb and js and went to bed. It was quite the day at sea. -April 10th. We woke up pretty early and didn't know when check out was. We grabbed our bags and left our mess and headed out of there. We drove down to the mall so we could meet up with Caitlin. We hung out at the mall for a bit and just checked out what was going on. The mall was pretty big and it was a beautiful day. Nato and I went into Vans to check it out and I ended up getting a nice cholo shirt. I'm very happy that I got it because it's something that I've wanted for so long. Afterwards from walking around we gathered in the mall's parking lot to discuss what to do next. Nato was going to Dinner with Caitlin and her parents. Us boys, were left on our on. We drove around for a bit to find something to do. We got stuck in traffic, saw some ghetto ass ride with switches and drove around with them for a bit. Then Anthony ended up getting us lost, Ivan fell asleep, and after an hour of driving around I fell asleep as well. Once I woke up we were back at the Denver 16th Street Mall. We walked over to this other hotel that we were going to stay at and picked up some left over cookies. We walked around for a bit and than headed to Johnny Rockets for some food. We got some mad cheese fries and waited for the call from Steve. We ate our food and chatted with our waitress and we got the call that we could head over to Chris's place. None of us had ever met Chris, but he is one of the coolest mother fucker ever. Once we got up to his Studio Apartment and watched Life After People; which is by far the best series I've watched. We got to talking and I actually ended up growing up in their neighborhood. My brother is friends with his little sister and Chris and I vaguely remember each other from growing up. A few hours went by and we went out to Dinner with Chris and his wife at this place called Earl's. It was a nice and very fancy restaurant. During dinner it came to the conclusion that Kayla and Kendra were going to be driving down to Denver to get me and Ivan. We hung out and ate dinner with Chris and his wife, watched a waitress drop a beer and have it go over and than headed back to Chris's for a Halo Night with the boys. Once we were leaving we met up with Nato and Caitlin and headed to the apartment. On our way their we seen a fight, and a few arrest. We laughed at the incident and carried on. We arrived at Chris's. Steve and his women were already there; along with Chris from Rebel Force. They ate their dinner and we watched Slum-dog Millionaire which a very good movie. I highly recommend it. Once the movie was over the Xbox started working and it was time for Halo. Nato and I fucking murdered everyone, it was way too easy. Finally Kayla and Kendra had made it to Denver. We hung out for a bit and within a hour we were back on the road to Grand Junction for some sleep. -April 9th. I woke up at 9:06 to see if Kayla had taken Brenda too school. Brenda wasn't up or something so I ended up falling back asleep to The History Channel. Kayla ended up waking me back up around 11. The boys had been calling and was getting ready to hit the road. I got dressed and made sure I had everything packed. We stopped at some little cafe to get Brenda food, and Kayla and I went to Wendy's to grab some food. We too this back way to get to Kendra's. It was a nice little back country drive. Nato and them said that they had already left and I was pretty pissed off that they would pull a prank like that. Kayla and I ended up taking Brenda to school while the boys had their laughs. Once Brenda was at school we zoomed down to Kendra's so I could hit the road. We said our goodbyes and I wasn't happy at all. We were finally on the road to Denver. The estimated time was roughly about 4 hours. Through driving through little snow patches, hard rain, seeing little towns and a shit load of fucking ski resorts. We made it to Denver in about 3 hours cause we are that damn good. I called my Mom to let her know I made it ok and to verify that one of my good friends would be getting locked up. Once again....fuck the police. We drove around the city a few times and did some hotel hopping until we found what we wanted at the Crown Palace. We kicked it at the hotel for a bit and than headed down to the show. Once arrived at this place that looked like a bar we instantly knew it was going to be a 21+ show. Sure enough we asked the people and it was. We ended up talking to Lee (Trash Talk) to see if there was anything he could do. He wasn't able to pull any strings, especially even using my cousins drove here from Salt Lake City didn't work. He told us about this other show that was going on at the Blast-o-mat. They would be swinging by to play for the kids who couldn't get in the bar. Skare Tactic! was playing so instantly we were like fuck yeah. Especially when we found out that the Skare Tactic and Hammerfist show got cancelled down in Cedar City due to Venue problems. The show was simply amazing. All of the band were so amazing to the point where I don't even know where to begin. Trash Talk was later than expected to show up. Skare Tactic played a few more songs and afterwards was a big ol dance and sing party. During all of these sing-a-longs to the songs we all know we started getting asked where we were from. We answered with from Salt Lake City, we drove all the way down here. After talking with a few of the locals and meeting Steve (Killing Kings), Alvino (Crooked Ways) and a few other homies from Wage War, Skare Tactic, Trash Talk. It was honestly one of my greatest birthday shows ever. Thanks Trash Talk for the shout out to all of us, and hooking it up fat. Enjoy the Polaroids! -April 8th. I had Court at 10:15 this morning and it was honestly the most ridiculous and unprofessional thing I've ever seen. Fuck the Justice System, and fuck Cops. I have court on the 20th. After running into a good family friend at court we headed home so I could change and grab my stuff for school. I only went to one period because that's all that was left when I got back. Once school was over I made a phone call and it was set that the road trip would now be taking place. We hit the road around 6. It was a pretty nice drive besides hitting every red light and traffic going into Provo. I came to find out that we would be spending the night in Grand Junction. Once we arrived in Grand Junction we stopped at McDonald's to grab a bite to eat and headed to the Wal-Mart to meet up with Kayla and Brenda. We hung out there for a bit and than we parted our ways. Ivan, Nato, and Fat Anthony would be staying the night at Kendra's. I would be going with Brenda and Kayla to spend the night with Kayla. We arrived and I was really tired for some reason. Keevan was there and it was very nice to see him. than him and Brenda got in argument over some dumb shit. Kayla and I spent the rest of the night watching the History Channel. It was a good show on crucifixion and was pretty damn interesting. -April 7th. I woke up and had to say my good-bye to the women I love. It has become a lot easier to say good-bye. It will hopefully be a few days till I see her next. The house wasn't the same without her here. I slept most of the day and later woke up to eat dinner. I got the computer to upload some things and got in the middle of not finishing because I'm working on some little things at school. You will be able to see them soon at www.flickr.com/project337photography. Melanie got on and told me how sorry she was for missing my birthday. At least I made it into her 365 project she is doing =] by mels. I ended up doing some laundry as well tonight and realized that I was missing a bunch of my shirts. I went into furious style mood and ripped everything part to find them. I ended up finding them at the bottom of my basket, and not the top. I'm sure my brother went through my basket to find some clothes to wash. As of now; I am sitting here writing my daily input on my day and listening to Final Fight. I have court tomorrow morning and I will hopefully get off house arrest and I'm praying my case gets dropped. There's no way in hell I can miss this Trash Talk show in Denver. Pray for me tonight.by Mitchell Wojcik -April 5th. We woke around Noonish to my Mom tapping my arm and letting me know that it was a beautiful day to go up to the mountains. Kayla and I sat in bed for another 15 minutes than we got up to get ready. Once we had everything ready to go and packed we loaded in the car and headed out to pick up Ivan. Ivan wasn't answering so we decided to stop by the Gpc Yard so I can could a picture of the new things. I built some ghetto stepping stool and it ended up breaking and I fell on top of the barbed wire fence. Thank God that Kayla was there to rescue me or I would have really messed myself up. Once we had flicked everything in the yard we decided to try to wake up Ivan again. We arrived and finally got a hold of him; well after we had rang the doorbell and called a few times. Ivan had to shower and get ready so Kayla and I played with Annie and watched some Army thing on The History Channel. Once Ivan was ready to go we headed downtown to get some food and start off our day. We got Wendy's on Fourth and than went to the Project Wall to eat and take some pictures. We drove around all the local spots and took some flicks for about an hour and a half. Once our duties were down in the City it was our time to head up the Canyon. It was such a nice day up in Brighton! We had some good ol car ride talks and laughs. The drive was pretty damn good! We hung out in Brighton for a bit and than weaved our way in and out through the Canyon on the way down. We laughed at the poeple on the side of the road making a big deal over a fucking Moutain Goat. Photo by Calanan Once we were out of the Canyon we decided to go see the new Fast and Furious. Ivan called to check for times and got in a fight with the message dude. It started at 5:30 so we had some time to take some last minute photos and drive. Finally our houre and a half was up and we head to end down to the theater to get our tickets and seats. I ran into a good old friend while we were there. Your still a ugly asshole navajo Gilby!! That was pretty nice to see him. If you haven't seen the new Fast and Furious I HIGHLY recommend that you see it if you are a big fan of the Fast and Furious. Simply amazing! The movie let out and we headed towards Ivan to drop him off. Once we dropped him off, Kayla and I came home to rest. I ended up getting really sick from the pop corn or something. I rested and so did Kayla. Later on I started feeling well and we went and got food again. We chatted a little and laughed and than came home. Kayla ended up being my model for a bit and than we spent the rest of the night talking and hanging out. She played with my back for awhile while I blogged the last couple of days and we ended up falling asleep to Good Luck Chuck. It was a pretty eventful day. -April 4th. Kayla and I woke up around 2 o' clock in the afternoon and had a lunch/dinner. It was a pretty relaxing Saturday due to overcast weather. We sat around most of the day and just watched movies. Possibly around 8 we ordered in our favorite dishes from Noodles and Company. Once again they were on their A+ Games and the food was amazing (kudos). Once we watched Evan Almighty my upstairs neighbors kid decided to drop some kind of bowl a billion times and annoy the piss out of me. Kayla and I ended up leaving to drive all around the Utah Valley. We drove down to Salt Lake to get some Wendy's and to eat and drove up to the Capitol to eat. Afterwards we went from the house by the "U" that lights up, to the new temple in Draper and further. On our way back from our little adventure we ended up seeing the guys driving the street and caught up to them. They were coming home from the Show and was taking a friend of ours home. We ended up following them for the drive and chatted once we arrived at our homies house. We took Ivan with us, and Nato took Fat Anthony home. Ivan ended up leaving his phone in Nato's car so we had to meet up with him at Fat Anthony's house. Once we retrieved Ivan's phone we headed to McDonald's to get some late night dinner to chat and laugh at the delirious Ivan. After our little meal and laughs we took Ivan home to call it a night. What a glorious rainy day. I also came that since their will be a photo for everyday this month. There will also be the photographers name with the picture. Check it out by Mugley -April 3rd. I ended up waking up around 3:40ish to a telemarketer that pretty much shouted the product or whatever it was over the phone to only hear my response of the phone hanging up. Shortly after I went to the bathroom, the phone rang again and after waking up to a telemarketer shouting I was furious. But it was only Kayla on the other line confirming that she was on her way down and to see how the weather was. After I got off the phone with Kayla my Mother, Brother and I headed down to the train yard so I could work on an assignment. Once I was done using my camera our stomach's were ready for food and the clock was getting closer and closer to Kayla's arrival. We headed to our family favorite of fine Mexican Food; La Puente'. We sat around eating our roots and laughing at the love of life. Once dinner was settled in our stomachs it was time to head home and wait for Kayla. Kayla arrived around 10 o'clock. I opened the door to see her standing there in her Colorado hoodie holding a birthday present. We exchanged hugs and kisses and it was back on the road. This time it was to take my brother out to Sheila's for a sleep over. Once that was out of the way we spent a few hours driving around. I took her to the place that I will soon be living and just some other local spots. It was a pretty decent first night. -April 2nd. My goal for this month is to have a photograph for every blog entry. This is my favorite month and I will rant about that more on the 6th. Today was a laid back day. Spent the morning listening to Sugar Ray and looking at my window. I got in the shower to get ready for the day and once I got out Nato was at the door knocking. We kicked it for a little bit til Ivan and Big Anthony came over. We sat around and talked and did the usual nothing but spent the times of our lives doing so. BIG ANTHONY SOLD OUT OF VEGANISM!!! CARNS 4 VEGANS 0 It was a pretty decent day. Kia ended up coming over once the boys went to get food. It was also Rochelle's Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARDCORE HEAD CASE! Once Kia had left and some phone calls were made we met up at Wingers the first feast of meat for Big Anthony. The food was mediocre but the conversations and the time we had was worth it all. We ended up getting our waiters number for Ivan and laughed our asses off in the process. We made fun of other people and watched the Denver Nuggets give our Utah Jazz a good run for their money. Once our food was done and the bill was paid for we headed down to Brian's to visit and see the baby. I woke up to a blue and grey day with Sugar Ray in the air. Now I sit on the darkest nights listening to Sinking Ships. It's nights like these I will sit up to watch the rain fall down my window. -April 1st. Happy April Fools! I woke up around 9 something to get ready and to wait for my Mom so we could go meet my Lawyer. Things went well and the dude is a fucking bad ass! Afterwards we headed home for some Lunch. Pizza Roles and talks with my Mother possibly the best thing about being forced to stay home. A few hours went by and my Brother was up and running about things. Around 3ish we headed out to pick up my Mom and to take him out to Jesse's and Brett's. Once we dropped the little brat off it was time for us to head to the Library. I found a good grip of Cd's I've been looking for quite some time now. While I was searching I found a WhiteChapel Cd, ADTR Cd, and a Clifton Cd for the locals who know them. It made me laugh to see this in a Public Library. It was a good day...I even got to play a prank on Kayla. Plus there is only 5 days until my 18th Birthday. It's weird to think that...where has the time gone. I've made memories I will always remember and have a life most people spend their whole lives wishing for. So I can say I'm pretty damn comfortable with who I am. Oh and I could do 5 to 15 years in Prison; what have you done? hahahah

Monday, March 2, 2009

March is Spring Fever

-March 31st. It is finally time to announce another month is down in my books. This is going by so fast and I wouldn't trade anything from the life experiences I've had. This is my life and I'm not changing it. Thank you for reading -March 30th. Laundry Day -March 29th. I woke up pretty late to a call from Kadee. We chatted for a few minutes and I got out of bed and started watching The Office with my mom. We laughed and chatted for a bit and than she went and got my brother. While she left I jumped in the shower and cleaned the house. It made some time go by pretty quick so that was nice. After the house was cleaned and me as well. I sat down to keep watching The Office and have some Pb and J's. This was pretty much the whole day with talking to Kayla every other hour. -March 28th. Saturday and finally a chance for me to get out of the house all day. My whole family and Sheila's family was going to I think all our firsts' Roller Derby Match. It was quite the day! We got to watch girls throw and push other girls around. Our team ended up losing but it was still a good experience. After the Match my Mom, Sheila and I went to Chili's to get some dinner. It was some bomb ass dinner besides the faggot blue guys coming in and having dinner. At the end of dinner I went to the bathroom and I guess our waitress told my Mom and Sheila that her boyfriend beat the fuck out of her, went to jail and got released. Than went to the hotel that her and her kids were staying at and shot out the windows. Than she stated that she was scared because she got pulled into the office by her manager because he called and was flipping out. She was scared he was going to shoot up the place so we bounced out their really quick. Oh what a night -March 27th. Justin came over to visit because he hasn't bee out of West Jordan and no one has really visited me. We had some good talks while listening to some good ol' hardcore. We were to get some food and Ryan pulled in and I was like what the fuck? It was good to see Ryan, I haven't seen him in quite some time. We headed down to Noodles in Justin's rental car. We arrived there and once again Adam was working and I joked with him about this picture I found of him on Flickr. We got some food, sat down, chatted about what's been going on and hung out. On our way out Ryan noticed that he walked out with their cup and said fuck it. We went back to my place to hang out. I really wanted to go benching and some how The Wall of Fame got brought up. I said I knew where it was and we all have never been there so we were pumped. We drove up there and had some difficulty finding it but than we finally found it. It was the highlight of the day. It's been awhile since I've taken pictures and I finally got to start on my Panorama for School. I played in the River for quite some time. Ryan and I had a blast jumping from rock to rock and finding a bunch of random shit. That was pretty much the day. -March 26th. I got a Journal yesterday and left it with Kaysha by accident. I gave her the green journal. I received mine back today and I'm pretty pumped to start writing in that little guy when I travel. It is also officialy Spring Break now! SCORE; I get to sit inside the whole time with barely anyone who comes and visits. In 8 days though I get to see Kayla and than it's my birthday. So I'm getting ready for that. -March 25th. Went to the Springville Art Museum today with my school. That was pretty fun and it was a nice place with a bunch of great work. There was some stuff that me and my friends could have easily out done in there but it was nice to see the things we did. During lunch we stopped down in Provo and I ran down to Death or Glory to kick with the boys down there and made Breck take me to Wendy's. We had some good talks and I found out some stuff that has been happening in the South. Afterwards he took me to the bus and we headed home. It was a good day at school. -March 24th. It was just another Tuesday. House Arrest blows...I kinda wish I had a ankle bracelet so I can re-inact Disturbia. My neighbors aren't even interesting to try to find things out. Except for the people who live across from me. They leave their door open some times and their computer is right next to the couch. -March 23rd. It was the beginning of the week and I really wish Kayla would have got to stay another day because she didn't go to work. School was really the highlight because I found this litte thing on Flickr today during Commercial Art. -March 22nd. Dinner Date with Kayla was today. We woke up pretty early once again. We got ready and sat aruond the house, chatted with my Mom, cuddled, made jokes, ate popscicles and watched The Office. A little later Kayla and I was getting hungry and we decided to have Noodles and Company for a second night. We ordered in and Kayla went and got it. I told Adam to hook it up with some drinks so we got that for free. She came home and we had dinner together. We watched The Office and made silly jokes. I've never had something that means so much. I mean come on..we are adorable. -March 21st. After Kayla spent 4 hours in the car just to come see me and I talked to her mother most of the night we fell asleep and woke up pretty damn early. It was about 10 o'clock am and that isn't like us. We got ready, ate cereal and ventured around the house. Nato ended up showing up when we were getting ready and brought me food and kicked it with us for a bit. Kayla got upset with her friends and Nato and I cracked jokes and laughed. Around 2:40ish we all left. Nato left with Fat Anthony and we headed down town to get my hair cut. That was the highlight of the day. I've needed one so bad and I finally got it cut all off. Afterwards we all ordered in food for dinner. My Mom ordered Mexican Food and we ended up ordering at one location and than went to another. Kayla and I ordered in Noodles and Company because that's our thing. We stopped at 711 afterwards to get some drinks and headed home to watch The Office and eat. After dinner Kayla and I cuddled and made jokes. She ended up falling alseep on the couch while we were watching The Office and I went and got ready for bed. Kayla got up to join me and we sat in bed and talked. Nato called around like 2 and came over to spend the night. It was a good day at sea -March 20th. It was a beautiful day today and I have to sit inside all day. Fuck House Detention. Kimmeh came and visited me which was really nice. Since none of my other so called friends have. It's been relaxing I assume. I've done some reading, writing and have listend to a good portion of music. Later Kayla got on and informed that she was going to come down tonight because she couldn't take it anymore. It made the rest of my day -March 19th. HARRY SOLD OUT OF VEGETARIAN!!! Probably one of the greatest days of my life. Carnivores 1. Veg heads 0 -March 18th. After my allergies kicked in I came home and slept the rest of the day. I've been really tired lately -March 17th. Trying to get back into a routine with court shit on my mind. Honestly wish I would have stayed in Seattle and took some consequences. Least I would have my youth. -March 16th. Got home around 8ish from the Road and had court at 10. HOLY FUCK is it stupid as fuck. I don't even know where to begin with the shit they are trying to get after me. It doesn't even make sense...but as long as you have a badge, and a crooked system you can charge anyone with anything. FUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK! -March 15th. Woke up to our last day in Seattle. It was a day filled with rain. I didn't want to go back to Utah. Nato and I played a prank on our friends stating that we weren't coming home and that we were staying. So that was pretty fun. We drove around the city last time and got in our last photos. We stopped at the Harbor and looked over to Canada and than it was off to the baseball park. This trip had made my life. Fell asleep a few times on the way back, stopped in Portland and than came home. Fat Anthony got pulled over again and got a ticket this time. It was one hell of a road trip. -March 14th. This is all I have to say. This is the beginning and the ending of the day. FUCKING WOW! Fuck who you want to see. I stage dived and piled on with Terror. We are not tough, we are not hard, we are not cool, we are all fucked up kids. Doesn't matter if you have long hair, or short hair. Whether your light skin or dark skin. Or have a dick or a pussy...we are all fucked up kids who have gathered in one single place for one thing. Music. It was a good rainy day in a place I want to call home so badly. I've met some people and ran into a friend who left us all. It was nice meeting you Jaimie and Aubrey. It was also nice meeting all the locals. -March 13th. Around 10:30ish we were talking about what to do since Dan's parents have cracked down and got all strict. The boys started talking about a road trip. Everyone threw in their suggestions. First it was going to be Boise, than it went to Wyoming for fireworks, than Denver and finally Seattle was the last destination. Everyone was getting hypy; except for Ivan because he knew he couldn't go and had to sit home with gays. I told Nato and Anthony just to wait a day and I could go...we said fuck and we were going to talk my Mother into it tonight. We headed over to my house and got into my house. My Mom was walking around and we told her that we were going to Seattle. It took a minute for my Mom to realize what was going on and had to ask us multiple times if we were really going. We said hell yeah we weren't playing and all she said was "you have school". I told her that it was an un important day after Nato was answering all of the questions she asked me. I made a few calls and tried to get a hold of Melanie. But since she changes her number every other week I couldn't get a hold of her and had to leave her a voice mail. We packed our shit and grabbed our bags. After we got everyone that was going and was set on going. Nato called or received a call from Brian and we went and seen the new born baby. It's so weird to think that I'm so close to someone and they have a kid which is now going to be apart of mine and my friends lives. The baby is beautiful and has both features of Brian and Courtney. CONGRADULATIONS KIDS!!! We left the hospital to meet up with Anthony at his house. We threw his shit in the car and we headed down to Provo to pick up his friend Alicia. By the time we picked her up it was 1 o'clock and hit the road. The drive to Boise consisted of us guys singing N'sync and Backstreet Boys. We bumped a bunch of old tunes such as The Crannberries, Mortal Kombat(FULL FUCKING SONG), Space Jamz and than the typical road trip music: Trash Talk, Bracewar, (n1nth) cloud, and Y@K Ballz!. Somewhere after we got this boost of energy I was out like a light. Possibly an hour later I woke up to Anthony nudging me asking me if I could get in the glove compartment. I woke up and looked over to see red and blue lights flashing behind us. We laughed for a minute and I got to searching. The cop ended up coming on my side and it was really awkward. This took place around 5 am. Once again I was out for the rest of the trip. I would wake up to adjust and get situated, pick a song, and drink my orange shit. I was up for the rest of the trip a little while before we reached Portland. We drove around Portland for an hour trying to find the Mall. My good friend Melanie called us up when we were at the 711 and told us she was going to meet us at the mall. We got to the mall and it was ridicolous. It was a three story mall with a fucking ice rink in it. We complained about why our mall doesn't have one and than argued with a Phone Sales Man. We ended up walking around the mall and found this little Pirate Shop. It was very sweet little shop. Not to long after we kicked it in their Melanie and Jordan walked in. It was so nice to finally see this girl who has had such a big impact in my life. After four years we finally sealed something to do on our to do list. It was very nice to meet Jordan as well. He makes one of my best friends happy and has showed her what a real boyfriend can be like. Plus that mother fucker is taller than I thought. We chatted for a bit and laughed at dumb little things. We asked Melanie if she knew any vegan places for Anthony to eat at and made fun of him like we usually do for eating turtle food. After we got a few places for him to eat at. Jordan said we had to cross the bridge into the city. One of my favorite things about Portland so far had to be the bridges and the whole city. We arrived in the city and parked in China Town. We started our adventure from their to find this Veganoplis place. We stopped at a Starbucks to ask for directions and found out that the little vegans went out of business. We laughed our asses off and the guy gave us another place to eat. It was called Rocco's...it was a little pizza shop that had Vegan Pizza. This place was fucking bomb! It was pretty sweet though...The slices were bigger than our faces and they sold beer at this place. You don't get that shit in Utah. Pizza was amazing and was so close to the road it was like eating in the middle of traffic. Anthony didn't want to eat his Vegan pizza because it had mushrooms and some shit he didn't like. So Nato and I eat that shit! After we got food we went back down to Chinatown so Anthony could eat. That place was really creepy with some crazy asian lady on the tv. Once Anthony was done eating it was time to get on the road. We had three hours ahead of us due to traffic. I love the road more than anything. This road trip has to be one of my favorite trips. Just everything about the road is incredible. The nature, the bridges, the overpasses, the train tracks, the road and the images. I fell alseep on and off during the last three hours of the trip. We finally arrived to Seattle around 8 o'clock. We have drove around the city, ate food, got lost, checked out the Stratisphere and got a dope ass deal on a Hotel. We got a room with a King Size Bed. A hottub in the room and a extra bed. It's legit and probably the greatest thing to me right now. -March 12th. Today was a pretty good day. I got Married to Hannah in Adult Roles and for some reason found myself shaken. My mom checked me out right before lunch to deal with some things and I ended up going to lunch with my Mother and driving around talking. Once we did what we had to I went back to school to tell Shelly that I was done for the day and to talk to my brother. Afterwards I bumped into Hillary and spent half an hour talking to her. After school I had to take my brother downtown to get a hair cut. We ended up chatting and than coming home afterwards. I hung out by myself for a bit till my mom got home. Than we went to Jamba Juice, confirmed some paypal stuff and I ordered some clothes. Today was the first time I've had Jamba in almost a year. The last time I had Jamba was with Taryn around the ending of the school year. I ended up falling asleep and didn't finish my Jamba Juice. I'm pretty upset about it....than Nato came over and we ended up taking a mini-roadtrip through the canyon with Ivan and Jon Jon. It was a pretty laid back day. -March 11th. I spent the day with a friend who has become a good part of my life. He will be missed...I will write more later. -March 10th. Some of my friend Sara's writing. I really enjoy reading here writing. In a way it's been a big inspiration. -It's in the Wind I expect too much. from you, from me, from the world. I expect too much, but too much by their standards not mine. what I expect, what I need, what I know can and will happen, is not too much, but just enough. we are so much more. so much more than everyone says that we are and can be. what they tell me is beauty and joy isn’t enough for me. I must and will have more. and I will because the little gap in my heart that causes me so much pain, the skip in the record that needs to be filled, gives me room to find the extraordinary. and I will. my heart will feel more than you ever thought a heart can feel and my mind will see things that no one even knew existed: the little gossamer threads that tie life together, and which, if you don’t look carefully enough, you will miss as you see things moving in space and not the ties that bind them. just watch me. -March 9th. About an hour into the day I'm glad to call it a day. It was planned to be a "headache day" and sure enough that's what it has been. The headache has came, thoughts have rushed, Shook Ones has played my Ipod out. It's times and nights like these were I don't feel much. My Ipod repeats my favorite songs and bands like a broken record. My hair gets dirty and I procastinate on taking off my socks. I get hot and cold flashes that torture me into ripping off and throwing on my Champion Hoodie. Is this the Change I've been looking for? Or is this what I've been destined to do? Is this your so former God's punishment for me not being able to look up and call him Father? I'm only a brother; and no Son. I've forgot what's it's been like to be a Son cause my Father was never there. I've become a Brother among families and families. I'm still moving things for my chance....moving things to put in the perfect place to make me. I've made a name for myself and I've started to do something with my life. I will be remembered in someones eyes....I just hope they remember me enough to visit my tombstone and celebrate my death. That's a thought that has scared me into not sleeping. Will people say they miss me enough to visit my death bed? Or use me as a way to get out of work and school? Answers and thoughts that keep me up throught the night I call sanctuary. You know the quote from Stand By Me and how you never have the friends you do when your twelve? I thought about it today for some odd reason more than others. The other night I had a dream, I guess even a nightmare. I was in my old neighborhood and they were tearing my friends old house down. And for some reason we went in it...I don't know for memories or just to break things but I was walking up the stairs with someone..someone who is a blurr to me. We were walking up the stairs to the second floor. Which would lead to Justin and Brennan's bedroom. There was family pictures of this family that was almost my family. For some reason I broke down...I cried my eyes clean. Since that dream I've thought about the Helstein family and how much I miss them. That family was supposed to be there forever. I was supposed to Jr. High with my bestfriend. Go to school dances, experience growing up forever. They moved away and I haven't heard from them in years. I don't know if this has to do with being a Senior and almost graduating. But it's starting to hit me. The closest people I've had in my life have seemed to go on to bigger and better things. It gets to me...what do I have to look foward too? It scares me sometimes -March 8th. A Sunday with an overcast that showed my life in the heavens above. It showed blue skys with shades of grey. The only thing I've been looking foward to. Y@K BALLZ! with the boys. A last minute show and one artist I thought I would have never seen. It was a good day down at the shop. Nato and I got in dirt cheap because we are homies and went down to Carl Jr's to get some food. I've always felt dirty when I eat there...I don't know why but I feel homeless or scummy. The show was amazing, KOSHA DILLZ was sick. Check out that lil jewish homie. Nice guy great music. From Definition opening up, to open mic and watching friends and strangers freestyle to Kosha Dillz was amazing but during Y@K's set I started getting that feeling...the same feeling of when you don't get a call from a loved one, the same feeling of being away from home as if you are a runaway, the same way you feel when you look back at the friends you once had or even the promises your parents coulnd't keep. Music is my life...and I got put in this mood for one song. I seen the disapointment in my friends eyes when the set was over and he still hadn't played that one song. Once he thanked everyone and brought up that the song that wasn't played and why it hadn't been played. He told the story of why he was now going to play it. The excitement and sparkle in my friends eyes and including of mine made all of those past feelings of insecurity and of confusement away. Y@K played "Spy On You" and that was the night. Plain and simple. From beginning to the end. You have to know my friends, the memories that song has and brings. The meaning...the night -March 7th. Woke up and started playing some Halo. Jumped in the shower and got ready. Nato got home right when I got done getting ready and started back up my Halo Game. We went and got food and than went to a party for his friends. I ended up knowing some people from the party and they were people I haven't seen since they graduated or moved. It was a pretty ok night... it's always nice to get away from things and surround yourself with people who don't know you outside of those walls. It was like the party scene from SLC Punk. I was Herion Bob and didn't say much. It was in reality a weird night. Afterwards we met up with everyone at CC and tried to decide what to do for the night. We sat around and chatted. Nato, Alyssa?, and I went back to Brians to call it a night. I watched Stand By Me as they fell asleep. After the movie I played some Halo and than fell asleep with my two blankets feeling completely alone. -March 6th. It was a blurr really... -March 5th. Fashion show, with Keylow and Werst. -March 4th. I headed down to BFE with Werst to photograph this thing he was painting for a Fashion Show. The day started off pretty good and than it got really cold. We met one of the biggest dogs ever. A stray dog that looks like you would find it running on the Train Tracks, and probably some of the nicest people/hippies ever. Once it started getting cold we built one of the ghettoest huts ever. We decided if we were homeless we would do it easily. It was ghetto but was legit as fuck and kept us warm as the Sun came down and the storm pushed it's way in. We finished around 6ish and had to wait a few hours for a ride. We doodled in some magazine and I ended up passing out. Around 8ish we left and finally got to come home. We got free passes to the Fashion show tomorrow though and had a lot of pizza. I was out like a light bulb as soon as I got home. I got some sleep that I've really needed but still need more. -March 3rd. I couldn't get much sleep today. I went to bed an hour before I had to be up for school. -March 2nd. I've looked back on prior events in the last months that I started this 365 blogging project. I I'm so glad everything that has happened so far has happened. These last couple of months things have been good for me. I love every life I lead and every culture I have. There are more days I cherish than others. You probably wouldn't know it because they barely happen. I'm sure only a handful of people know when I love my life and the people who surround me. From the thought of what my Aunt Tami told my Mom. I'm glad people can look at my life or read about it and envy what I have. It seems very simple and care free but at the end of the days I still have the same problems and thoughts a fully complexed person has to deal with. These last couple of Months I've kinda been getting sick. Sick with this routine. It's a constant routine of school, breaks, hang out, friends, girlfriend, emotions, and stress. I love my road trips; they are probably only thing that has kept me sane except for the days I spend with the old hang out kids from Uprok. Everyone has been so hyped up on "Change" and how we need it. Where is my Change at? I'm still waiting for something new and don't know how much longer I will be able to wait. Patientance is something I've mastered growing up...but it's starting to run out as the days and the same routine drags on. I need something....I need another breath of fresh air. In a way I'm honestly lost with myself. I don't know what I want...it could be the Change and not about Obama. To sum up how things are though other than my wishing for "Change". It's perfect and going really good. I'm still connected to my Mom, Lorenzo and the rest of my Family. My friends have been getting to me and I'm still trying to find my niche. My art and culture are going very well and I will be entering a Weber State Univeristy Art thing coming soon. School is also almost done and I'm slowly crossing days off the calendar. My hair needs a haircute and I will possibly help out Christina with a modeling thing in about two weeks. I will also be helping her add a few more things to her shop. If you are a local and need a haircut check out Kaos Saloon. We are bringing the Salt Lake City life back into our lives. Denver Roadtrip needs to come faster than two weeks as well. RAIN FEST! I only have a few months left and that year wait for Europe really needs to speed it's process up. I've become close to new people and I hope they become more apart of my life. And my Ipod seriously won't die! Now that you've read that all and might be a little lost. This is Ricco. This is who I am. This is my Spring Cleaning. Nothing has felt better than this! I've become a lover of our Utah Valley Polution. It always seems to come in at times like this in my life. It's like the dirt in my life. Soon it will be gone and will be back to blue skys. I will always have my blue skys to look up too! -March 1st. This month started off on a Sunday; and what a glorious Sunday might I add. It was an nice grey and overcast sky. I spent the day with Kayla. We laid around the whole bed holding eachother for seconds upon minutes wishing we wouldn't have to let go of eachother. Around 6ish we decided to start moving around and make some food. I picked up around the house and grabbed our blankets, Kayla made us some pb and j's and I got the milk and chips. We went to our tradition of wrapping up in our blankets, eating food, and watching a movie. After our little snack Kayla and I cuddled and watched Baby's Mama Kayla ended up leaving around 7 or 8ish. After she left I came back in my house to finish Baby's Mama and called Hannah. We chatted about our project and after 30 or 45 minutes of talking about the assignment she ended up coming over. We chatted for a bit and finished Baby's Mama. My mother ended up coming home a little later and we all laughed and talked. Hannah left an hour after and I went and got dinner. Ended up coming home and finished the first day of my Spring Fever. I'm way past due for Spring!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

February

-February 26th. It was the last day of the school week. We have Friday off due to parent teacher conference. My proposal turned out really cute and good. I had the best one in the class and showed a lot of people of who I really am. The day ended and I came home to help my Grandparents with some things. Had some lunch and fell asleep till 6. We were having pizza tonight for movie night. Ashlyn and McEllie stopped by again cause they were in the neighborhood. It was a really laid back night. I kept falling asleep, Lydia called, talked to some old friends and now I will finish my night with talking to Kayla. -February 25th. My grandparents are in town and are staying with us till they leave. We had some amazing mexican food just as I remember growing up and eating at their dinner table. We all sat around and chatted, watched American Idol and more. Ashlyn and McEllie came over to play with my Super Heros and then left. Later in the night my Grandma and I went to the store to get some supplies for my proposal. I know your thinking your only 17! Why you getting married and to who? It's not a real proposal. It was an assignment for my Adult Roles class so you don't have to worry reader. My Grandma helped me get things ready for the proposal. It turned out perfect. I was really satisfied with it. -February 24th. Tiefighter played tonight and it was amazing. I thought they were playing yesterday cause I thought it was the 24th than but it wasn't. Around 5ish we headed down to Provo for the show. It was Nato, Cody, B-Money and I all in the car. We called up Adam G and we decided to pick him up on our way down. Once we picked him up and was about to get back on the freeway we stopped at the gas station for gas, drinks and sweets. B-Money and I walked over to Mickey D's to grab some food before the show. As usual the rest of the car ride was sing-a-longs and good ol talks. We finally arrived in Provo and Pier 49 was actually letting people inside before the show. It defiantly beat the cold. All the bands played good tonight. Urban Terror jumped on stage in between one of the bands and did a Bearclaw cover. All the bands played and I couldn't wait till TieFighter. Finally Tiefighter was up and I was pumped. Not a whole lot of people knew about Tiefighter. So it was Nico, Mark and I running around all pumped and singing along. They played an amazing set and every song I wanted to hear. Defiantly one of my favorite bands that I have seen live and some very nice guys. That was my night and how I wish I could relive it!! -February 23rd. It was Monday. The highlight of today was that I went bowling and beat everyone on my team once again! After school I went to Brians and hung out with Nato for a bit. Brian and Courtney came home and Nato had to go to work. I ended up falling asleep while Brian played Fight Night. They were leaving and I had Brian drop me off at home. I slept for the rest of the day and woke up at 11:23ish and checked some stuff, talked to some kids and did my daily routine. I just hope I will be able to fall asleep tonight and not reply yesterdays night. -February 22nd. It wasn't your average Sunday. I was up by 12 trying to work on some stuff that needed to be done. Things weren't going the way they were suppose to so I gave up on it for the day. Once I got back home I got ready for the day and waited till Nato came and got me. We hit up the bank and it was off to Uprok. We arrived at the shop and it was dead closed. We called up our homie and asked how this was suppose to go down. He told us and than told us to come over to Model Citizen and kicked it while they worked on some stuff. Nato and I started walking and Dekoi came flying by honking his horn and screaming. We kept walking to our destination and found all the homies painting. Days like these are just a break from my day to day routine. It was a nice overcast day and we just got to kick it with a good set of kids. Stem, Anemal, Dekoi, Kier, Phuze, Gilby haha, Demr, and Kuhr was getting down on the wall. This would be the first time I would meet Kuhr and finally get to watch him paint out of the 7 or 8 times I've missed the oppurtunity. That dude is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met. It was more fun talking to him than watching him paint. After hanging out a bit at the wall Nato and I were getting pretty hungry and went to grab some food at Burger King. We got there and ordered our food. Some homeless fool one a free Whopper by playing that quarter game with the spinning axel. All of the homeless people were celebrating and were pumped off the win haha. It was pretty funny to watch this all go down. Nato and I ate pretty much our Dinner and than bounced over to Uprok to kick it with everyone and wait for the show to start. We hung out for another 45 minutes while we waited for the guys to get to Salt Lake City. They arrived and were getting set up. It was finally time to have this show that we've all waited for. Egadz! through down first and holy shit was that dude amazing. I wanted him and Broken to battle but it didn't go down. After Egadz! Broken played a few tracks and then FINALLY (n1nth) cloud got up and killed it as usual. It's always a good time when our homies from the East come down to play. Restiform was like 3OH!3 and no one was getting in to it. We left pretty early during that set after chatting with broken, grounded, norm and egadz. We went back to my house to through some stuff down on itunes and hang out. The show was out way early so there was plenty of time in the night just to hang out. It was a nice way to end this eventfufilled week. -February 21st. Today felt like a Sunday. It was a laid back day. I hung out with my mother for most of the day. Nato called me up stating there was a slight chance that we might be heading up to Grand Junction. He came and got me and went over to Brians to bbq and play things by ear. His woman couldn't make the trip so we ate and hung out for the whole night. That was most laid back Saturday I have had in awhile. It was nice to have things not so cluttered and peaceful. -February 20th. We all woke up around 1ish 2ish and watched Step Brothers. Everyone got ready and we had some cereal. My brother came home and than my mother and we all visited for a bit. C-los and the girls decided they were going to hit the road. They all left around 4ish. After they left I called up Nato to come get me. It was Brian's birthday today. Everyone was over at the house for this event. Brian got birthday beatings, we played video games, ate food, laughed and etc. Later in the night we all went to the gym to play some basketball. We played a good hand full of games and called it a night. We bounced back to Brians once again and everyone did their own things. A few people left and the rest played games. Around 2 or something we decided to go back to the gym to play some more ball, hot tub, swim and sit in the steam room. We were at the Gym for pretty much the rest of the night. I didn't end up coming home till 4 am and passing out. It was a long and nice day. -February 19th. Today felt like a Friday to me considering it was only Thursday. I got checked out for 8th period and Jeze and I went to Ihop to get some food and visit. We chatted with Dallas and I got a Sundae. It's been at least 5 years since I've had a Sundae. So this topped the day off as the cherries topped my Sundae! I came home and straightened up the house because Kayla was coming in town. After I picked up the house I ended up falling asleep. I got some hours in and I woke up to Nato and everyone banging on my door. It was time to mob down to Provo. We had some good talks on the way down and laughs. Once we made it into town we did the usual and stopped at Death or Glory to see the boys. It was just another night at the shop. Ronnie and Breck weren't doing to much, Coach was getting inked and we hung out. Soon it was time for us to head down to the show. We arrived with Nico and Dan running around and shared our exchanges of I miss you and How have you been's. We paid got in; I got to see Kayla, old friends and had a good time. Open Fire is dope as crack. hahah I'm glad I got to see those boys live and hopefully they will take my word and jump on Rain Fest. So we will see what the future has for that to come! I Declare War was amazing. Everyone got real hyphy, John(singer) kicked me in the leg, I busted Corbin's lip open, circle pits, two steps and a variety of other things happened. At the end of their set we made them play one more and than everyone kicked it acopella to FireStorm. We ended up hanging out at the Ozz for a few hours. We all just kinda chatted while watching the local samoan's play ping-pong and pool. Got to listen to some good ol Reggae, and had some good laughs. Everyone was going to get a hotel and go down to Salt Lake City and hang out but things ended up changing. So another hour went by and we all got hungry and decided to head down to Brians. We arrived and he was cutting his hair, we asked him if he wanted to go get dinner for a little Birthday thing. He was down so we all headed to Denny's. Dinner was the perfect thing to do after the show. C-los is my boy...that's all I gotta say! When we went to pay we ended up buying a Shammork and put it on the wall. Once dinner was settled in everyone's stomachs we went back to Brians to play video games and hang out. I got a Running Riot! Another way to end the night. Than C-los, Holly, Kayla and I decided to go to my house to get some sleep. We arrived home and set up our beds, had some water and watched Step Brothers. Kayla and I didn't end up going to bed till like 8 tops. Today was a good day! -February 18th. Around 6 o’clock yesterday I gave one of my good friends a call to see what was going on for the night. He was at a friends birthday party and had to go pick up Ivan. He told me that today was the day that we were taking Ivan out to Vernal. I told him that I was up for the trip and I would give him company for the road. Everyone met up at my house around 7 o’clock and got on the computer so that we could Map Quest the fastest way possible for the drive. Nikki ended showing up a little bit later to I guess to drop off her Jetta. She bought everyone snacks and drinks and I thought she was going to come along for the trip. She had other plans though I guess. She had to deal with some relationship problems with one of my friends. So she went on her way and we got in the Jetta and started our adventure. We stopped at Wendy’s to get some food for the drive. We cracked some jokes with the lady at the drive-in and had some good laughs, paid for our food and started our way up the Canyon. By the time we arrived in Park City my stomach was killing me. Eating 25 chicken nuggets, large fries, and a large Coke wasn’t feeling to nice. I’ve never been so full in my life. I could barely finish my dinner; I had to give out some of my food to the other guys cause I couldn’t finish. I pulled my sit back to relax and at least attempt trying to get comfortable. We drove for hours and finally ended up in some town. Nato filled up with some more gas and asked the lady for directions. We got the directions and we were off, a few hours went by and we knew something wasn't right. We stopped and waited for a car so we could flag them down. Come to find out we were going the wrong and was on our way to Moab. -February 17th. I don't remember -February 16th. Justin, McEllie, Ashlyn came over and we had pizza and hung out. -February 15th. I don't recall what happened. -February 14th. Happy Valentines Day! I started mine off around 2 o'clock this morning. Kayla had been working on a suprise for me all night and it was just perfect. She is my first Valentine I've ever had and the first person to actually give a Valentines gift. Well besides the elementry Valentine's day where you would build boxes for other students to put cards in. I love you Kayla Rae Anderson so much! Later is when the rest of the day will go down. So I will be killing time until the Sun decides to call it a rest and give the other side of the world some love. -February 13th. Finally the week was over. I was supposed to head over to Josie's to kick it with her and P.O.S but I couldn't get a hold of her. I talked to Kayla while I was trying to get everything planned out and than I finally decided that I didn't want to go to the show anymore and I would rather spend the day talking to Kayla. Kayla and I talked till she had to go eat dinner. I took this oppurtunity to go get my mother and I dinner. Mom ordered pizza and twenty minutes later I had to go pick it up. I arrived at the place and had to wait another ten minutes because some lady ordered 28 LARGE PIZZA'S!! It was the most ludicris thing I've ever seen. They hooked it up with a free 2 liter of soda though. Afterwards I came home and had dinner with my mom. Once I was done with dinner Kayla and I talked for a bit more before I headed over to Brians. I was there for a bit and than Nato and I went to go get Ivan from work. We headed over there and arrived early; so we went drove down the street to get some drinks and than to go get Ivan. While we were at 711 I your teamed Nato with some gross classy Juggalo's! Nato wasn't too happy! Ivan called shortly after and we went back down the street to pick him up. He headed over to Alyssa's afterwords so Ivan could spend time with his women. We did this for the rest of the night and than I came home. When I cam home my night wasn't even close to being done. I logged in and sure enough my love was still up working on my Valentines Suprise. She finished it up and we spent the rest of the night talking and ended up falling asleep on the phone together. Ending my nights with her like that makes 280 miles worth the wait. -February 12th. I hung out with the usual -February 11th. This last week pretty much I haven't felt like writing. I still have that feeling of where I feel something wrong but I still can't place my finger on it. -February 10th. It was nice to be home. There was a part of me that felt like there was something wrong. I ended up crying to my mom and calling it a day. It was a weird day. -February 9th. Hung out at the Denver Mall all day. Nato met up with this girl he knows, walked around, got kicked out of the mall, got food, and came home in terrible snow conditions and a bunch of good times in the car. -February 8th. I thought we were supposed to be heading home today. The guys had different plans though. We weren't leaving till Monday. We hit up a mall close to where we were staying, made jokes with Hollywood because we were "famous" people. Laughed a shit ton. Came home to play a pick up game and drink hot co-co. The night was just a hang out night. We watched Cloverfield, and whatever was on the t.v. It was a pretty relaxing night just hanging out with the guys. -February 7th. Ivan woke me up around 9 to take him to work. My knee was killing me and it took about 10 minutes to get out of the door. I dropped him off and came home to pass out. Later I got a call from the homies asking if I still wanted to go to Denver. I said I didn't know if I wanted to because of my knee and I had no money. We left it at that and a "I'll call you back" within an hour I got a call saying it fuck it dude! You need to come with us. So I packed my bags up and waited for David. David arrived a few hours later with Anthony and we hit up the gas station and Mickey D's to get some food. We got another call saying that Anthonee wanted to go so we went and got him. Afterwords it was finally time to hit the freeway. We were on the road forever! We had our road trip songs, talks and our moments of watching David push his car to the max. It was only 125 but we were making some damn good time. Wyoming is the most boring place to drive through! We ended up getting pulled over for doing 107 and tailing to close to the car in front of us. The officer was a real asshole and demanded that we paid 290$ in cash right there or we were going to jail. David only had his debit card and asked if he could go get cash. The officer told us to go back to the truck stop and he would follow. It was some real bullshit. After the cop took the money we were free to go on our way. We picked up some treats and talked shit on the cop and got back on the road. For the rest of the drive I dazed in and out of sleep, sang songs with the boys and laughed. We were pretty close to Denver when we got the call from Nato and the guys saying that we needed to hurry because there was two bands before CDC. We arrived in time to this little Punk House/Place. It was not so much diverse as California. Just a whole lot of punks. We chatted with CDC and some other dude who was selling old merch from bands that he had collected over the years. The bands that we got to watch was very good. A fight broke out between a hardcore kid and some punk during CDC. That was pretty funny, other than that it was a damn good show and look for me on the CDC Dvd!!!!! Afterwards we headed on down to our Motel. Nato almost killed us and went down a one way street which was pretty funny looking back at it. We arrived at Royalty Palace. This place was straight up Ghetto. You know the Motels people stay at in the movies? With blood stains and gross carpet and just nasty. Well this is what we got! We didn't believe the guys when they told us the room was horrid. We seen it for ourselves though when we arrived. The night went on and people made their trips to the gas station and other places. We spent most the night laughing and talking. Nato passed out to the point where we thought he was dead. Joe started dancing naked over Nato and doing Power Squats. I've never had a night where I've laughed so hard. Nato ended up waking up later in the night after we had a blast in the ghetto of Colfax. We showed him the video and Nato was furious. Nato wanted to mace Joe, but I recommend the fire extinguisher and Nato sprayed Joe down with it setting the fire alarm off that we thought was broken. It was one hell of a night in Colfax. Afterwards we left to get food and I should have been on my way to Grand Junction. But there was a big part of me that was telling me that I shouldn't. I followed my gut and stayed with the boys. David called in some places and got his hook ups and we got a real hotel that we could check into later. Nato, Cody and I headed back to the ghetto, got ready for bed and got a call saying come to the new hotel. They are letting us check in early! We bounced on down there to get a good morning of sleep. What a first day in Denver!!! -February 6th. The last day of the week and the first day to kick off the weekend. School went by slow as it could. After school I spent the time picking up the house for my Mother and getting my clothes ready for the Viewing. I ended up taking a little power nap. I woke back up to my Mom asking me if I knew what the time was and had to get going. I headed down the Viewing and actually went to the wrong Funeral Home so that was awesome and awkward. I called Lyndsey and found out where it was and got down there. I visited for a minute and paid my respects. I don't like the feeling of death. I don't like being in it's presence. I've escaped it plenty of times and I don't like that fact that nothing is forever. It brought a lot of the Nichols Family together. Family came across the states to see their loved one. I had a few tears shed on my shoulders and had to go. After changing out of my dress clothes it was time to go the show. The show was good besides the fact that I hurt my leg. I was bummed on that one; because that is the first time that I've ever been hurt at a show. Afterwords Kayla and I came back to my house and tried to spend as much time possible together before they had to go later that night. Once she left Ivan and I headed downtown to resolve some things at Nikki's. We had some damn good talks, met up with everyone and hung out. Later we went to Beto's and talked to some crazy crackhead and than came home. Ivan and I chatted some more while I iced my knee and laughed at Step Brothers. It was one way to start the weekend off. -February 5th. My last and final day to sleep in I passed up and didn't even go to school today. Today I mobbed down to Layton with a bunch of the homies to paint Propaganda Skate Park in Layton. I got a call around 8:30ish from Scr. 01 telling me to get up and he is coming to get me regardless. I got ready, ate some breakfast and watched a little bit of Step Brothers. With in a couple of hours him and Werst had arrived at my house to pick me up. We headed out around 11 and we started the drive by stopping at NPS to meet up with Dekoy and the rest of the homies. We arrived and chatted for a bit, we had to go pick up some kids so we got back in our cars and headed that way. We drove in a circle for a bit for some odd reason. Once we had everyone in the cars and had filled up the tanks, it was time to hit the Free-way and head on down to Layton. Scrubs, Werst and I ended up chatting the whole way up their while drinking our powerade and pepsi's and trying to catch up to Dekoy's van because that steez can haul ass!!! About a half hour later we arrived to our destination. This place was HUGE!!! It was a very nice set up for a indoor skatepark. Everyone chatted with eachother to find out who was doing what and who wanted what spots. Dekoy talked to the owner to see what he wanted and he wanted a big roller on the floor that said Propaganda. Phuze thought it was stupid idea and told the dude straight up. Scrubs, Werst and I went to the store to get some supplies and get some paint. We drove around for a good twenty minutes trying to find a store and than we found a Lowes. We mobbed up in their, went to the bathroom and than picked out the color for the paint. Once the paint was mixed up and we had our supplies and Scrubs was done throwing cards down isles we checked out and bounced to get Wendy's. Once we picked up food it was time to go back to Propaganda and get started. By the time we arrived back the boys had already started on the floor. A few other kids had started painting in the back. A few others were hitting the ramps and this went on for hours before the other set of us bounced home. Werst ended up getting sick so I finished his fill and we got things done a little faster. It was about 11 o' clock before we called it a day and everything was done. We cleaned up our mess and headed home. Werster fell asleep in the back; Scrubs and I had a life talk and it was a good one. I'm very glad I had the chance to hang out with these kids. It's been awhile and I'm not giving it up. -February 4th. Today was the second day of sleeping in till 9! I love having testing passed off and not having to worry about it. School was school and went by like usual. It seems to go by a lot faster when you don't think about Summer Break so much. Nikki and ABC came and got me and we headed to the mall. We stopped at Wal-Greens before so we could develope our pictures from the day before and headed to the mall. We were at the mall for quite a bit and than we bounced up to Nikki's and hung out. We ended up watching Requiem for a Dream and what a trip that movie was. I'm so glad I don't know anyone close that goes through that or have lost anyone in my life to something like that. It was a pretty laid back day. We went back to the train yard again but just to watch trains pass on by. It gave me the idea of getting a train set track. Like dumb little train sets that old people have. Yeah that's what's up!!! -February 3rd. Today was the first day of being able to sleep in till 9! The Grand Slam thing was going down at Denny's but I took sleeping in over food. School was pretty good and pretty quick. I came home and hung out with my Mom for a bit. We had dinner and than Nato and Nikki came and got me. Nikki stumbled upon my Fish eye camera and instantly requested that we go take pictures. I grabbed four rolls of film, the camera and we were gone. We got about half way down to Salt Lake before Ivan called us up asking if we could buy some pizza's for the kids he works with because he doesn't know how to cook. We made a U-Turn on 7th and headed to Little Cesars, got the pizza and headed to Ivan's work. Once we arrived we gave him 1PAC-Man pizza, and 1 complete pizza and than bounced back to Sl. We arrived at the train yard and took pictures for a bit and than bounced back to the car. Afterwards we bounced on over to Brian's to hang out and so Nato could get a haircut. Today was a very good day; you have no idea all what happened. Nikki gave me a Spa Facial and it was way relaxing. It was a first for me and I highly recommend it. Courtney has some bomb popscicles by the way and the damn pizza bites burnt my mouth. (photo taken by: Ricco Cordova 9/02/09) Today was a good day. -February 2nd. You know that feeling right before you get sick of having a heavy head and feeling slow? That's how all today was. I only did an hour of remediation and found myself stumbling to my bed when I arrived home. I slept for a good couple of hours and awake and 8 to get dinner. After dinner Ivan and Devin showed up to visit soon. It was a pretty damn good day besides the fact that I felt like a bag of bricks. -February 1st. I was supposed to get up and walk trax with Nick and take some flicks. I evidently decided not to get out of bed and feel my body weight sink lower into my mattress. I was way to tired to get out of bed. Kayla ended up getting me out of bed with a phone call. I miss her so much... Nadia, Michelle and Chelsex was supposed to come over but didn't because Nadia is lame and had homework. I headed up to Nikki's so I could get my headphones. Chatted for a bit and than Devin and Ivan showed up. I hung out for a little longer and than bounced to come home. Lyndsey and Micheala came over for a bit and chatted. It was a good nice little visit and that's all what happened. It was an easy going Sunday but a very good one to start off the first day of February. I'm getting closer and closer to being done with this 1 year project.