Andy’s Blog

Well here I am 16 days into 2009 still reflecting on what went wrong/what went right in 2008. And I am in no way “emo” but I must say that the “what went wrong” outweighs the “what went right”. Towards the end of 2007 I moved in with some people that at the time I didn’t know would change my life. This was definitely one of the “what went right”s. The became my best friends and my second family pretty much and even though roommates came and gone I developed new friendships and found myself doing different things. I was starting to go out a lot more and just having more fun in general which is what I was lacking for a long time in my college life. I happened to move in with Nathan who was an avid dancer at ASU. He took me with him one day and things changed for me from there on too. I really started getting into dancing around August when I took a class. This was one of the best choices that I’ve made in a long time. It kept me happy and was a cheap way to have fun for the whole night. Those were the best things that happened to me in 2008.

Well sadly 2008, wasn’t all good as some people could probably guess. Besides on a global scale all the economies of the world starting to fail affected all of us. As far as work is concerned I couldn’t find anything when I most desperately needed it. I always had a job where I worked from home on web pages and etc, but that could only go so far as to how much money I could make and how much I needed…sadly the amount I needed way outweighed the amount I could make. Other than money I turned 21 this year which I’m still trying to determine if that is a good or bad thing. Sure it’s fun to go out to the bars and stuff, but it’s extremely expensive and I’ve made some poor choices that I’m bettering myself on now. As far as my personal life goes I ended a relationship that I have yet to this day figure out why I did and I feel like an idiot still and am always wondering. My grandmother that I was extremely close to passed away this year which was probably the hardest part of the year because it was just like that and suddenly she was gone. I also had mono and pneumonia at the same time which forced me to withdraw from the spring semester at ASU.

Well 2008 wasn’t the best year of my life, and I’m not sure if it’s the worst and if it’s not it’s definitely in the top 2. I’m hoping 2009 will be much better but so far it’s been good. I have an amazing job that’s going to help me get out of the debt I’m in, in no time. Thanks for ready and comment I hope to talk to everyone soon!

Andy

Hey everyone I haven’t updated since oh beginning of September and seeing as a whole month has gone by I really want to start this thing up again.  First of all school is going good nothing really new to report just taking each class day by day.  A little annoyed that Veteran’s Day happens to be tomorrow instead of today.  I would much rather have had today off considering tomorrow I only have genetics and dance both classes I don’t mind going to since they start so late in the day versus today which I have a class at 9:30 and one at 5:00 so I have to wake up early and stay late.  It’s all good though I respect our veterans and what they’ve done for us.  Now that I’m somewhat on politics.  I’m so glad this election is over and I didn’t end up voting for who I thought I would in the end, but I think Obama will do a fine job in office.  Home life is going pretty good not really spending too much at home with all the school and dancing I’ve been doing.  Dance is going great and I’m so glad that I’m doing it.  It gives me something to do on the weekends besides going out and drinking, which don’t get me wrong is a lot of fun, but it’s ridiculously expensive especially if you go out.  Dancing costs me $4 for the whole night and is an amazing workout!  I’ll try to update this every day or as things happen at least.  Leave me comments I’d love to hear what you’re up to!

So I’m not really sure why I forgot to mention this in my last post…but apparently I’m a baby saver and no one cares.  I went over to Joe’s niece’s birthday part on Saturday…she turned one.  Anyways everyone was hanging out by the pool…well not everyone but I was and we had some babies with us at the steps so they were tall enough to stand.  So one of the babies decided to take one step too far and ended up going under and natural instinct kicked in and I went in and grabbed him…yes with all my clothes on.  Here’s the real kicker cell phone = in pocket = bad.  Grant it I probably had enough time to take my cell phone out of my pocket before getting in but I didn’t think about anything else except to go in.  And if you think breaking my cell phone was bad here’s the worst part of it at all.  I bring the kid back up and the parents told me I didn’t have to do that and he would have been fine.  WHAT?!  He was probably at oldest one…2 feet tall at the most in a 3 ft pool completly underwater.  Yes I got him in probably less than 3 seconds, but I don’t know of too many babies who go under water without some kind of panic setting in meaning his heart rate increased (and if you know about the heart rate of babies compared to adults it’s already much higher)…the higher heart rate and adrenaline rush means you need more oxygen meaning you need to breath…and what happens when you breathe underwater?  You drown…no bueno.  So basically I lost a cellphone with no gratitude at least from the parents.  Anyways after that incident the party was pretty fun ended up going in the pool myself with the older (by older I mean like 8 year olds) and did the whole big brother like thing with Joe doing monkey fights and races and all that fun stuff.  Kinda made me realize that I need to start swimming again because just from that stuff it was a huge workout.  Okay enough about the weekend two exams today whew!  Neither one of them were bad at all though pretty easy.

So I couldn’t find my wallet this morning so I was going to have my roommate Tom drop me off but I found my wallet and decided to take the bus so he didn’t have to go out of his way.  So I leave the house at 10:00 and my class is at 11:20 plenty of time right?  No I get to class EXACTLY at 11:20.  I’m so sick of this crappy bus system so I’m just going to buy a crappy car…hopefully with a/c for like $600 or so.  I’m going to set up a paypal account for donations anything is greatly appreciated…haha no I’m joking but if anyone knows of anyone selling anything for cheap let me know

So hopefully will be a good night compared to an eh day.  Nathan is coming over for dinner then me, Joe, Kendra, and Nathan are going to go and see The Incredible Hulk tonight.  I’m really excited about both because I’m going to attempt to make my own teriyaki sauce from scratch so that will be fun!  We’re going to be having a stir fry with pork and various vegetables.  Other than that nothing really has been going on except for school and work maybe this weekend will bring more interesting things.  Anyways till later yo.

So I’ve started to realize my sleeping has gotten more sporadic and is becoming much and much less per night.  I think it’s due to my bed which is incredibly crappy.  I’ve come to this conclusion because when I stay at my mom’s house in chicago I sleep just fine…in fact I over sleep which NEVER happens here in Phoenix.  I’m going to be looking for mattresses possibly when I move in December or earlier if I can’t get a better sleep because it’s just tearing me down right now.  I’m looking to spend a little more on a mattress probably two or three hundred dollars or so.  So if you guys have any good suggestions for a good mattress let me know because the one I have now just isn’t cutting it

So when I woke up this morning the internet wasn’t working so what ever I went to school.  I get home today and my roommate tells me that my dog got out by the side gate and clawed through the internet cable so that’s why.  It was pretty interesting because when he woke up in the morning (before me) Ellie was just sitting outside and saw him and got all excited.  Kendra (Joe’s girlfriend) has 2 dogs over while her parents are out of town and they got out too but they stuck together and were just down the street.  Joe’s dog decided not to run away and just stay in the backyard what a goof ball

So this is my new blog that I’m making .  If any of you want one just let me know and I can give you the hookup .  So today kinda started off sucky…I got into Phoenix at 11 and usually I goto bed around 9:30 if I have class the next morning which of course I did…I got up this morning exhausted took a shower and got ready for school.  I missed the first bus, but made it to class ontime anyways which definatly helped out.  Especially because we had an exam in ochem!  It was really easy though so no worries there.  But now I’m here and I have another exam at 11:20 which I forgot about but at least this class will drop the lowest exam score which I’m really thanking right now.  Time to study some more peace out