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tons and tons and tons has happened between my last entry and now including but certainly not limited to

my birthday. funny enough i didnt write an entry about it. but sure enough...a bunch of friends, family, and family friends rallied to celebrate my birth. relatives from california happen to be in town so they came on over to bbq it up and stuff. i got to see a lot of my friends on my bday come to think of it. and for the first time in a long time niki was hanging out with the same group that casey was hanging out with. we watched willie wonka. i fed people. i fed em til i couldnt feeds em no more, n thats when i gave them stuff to take home hehe...we played ping pong, i got gifts. pretty thoughtful gifts i might add. the usual gift card from the cali relatives, the usual tshirt from uncle rommel. those were of course appreciated. 50 bux at best buy and a white nike tshirt? not bad. but then theres the gifts i received from my friends. sank and ashley had made me a shirt. an inside joke reference to a night of loaded questions. "If you could make a radio station, what would it be?" er something along those lines and i answered "69.9 i.j.i.z." hehe...so they made a shirt for it with the station and a slogan on the back that says midnight love, the only station that comes fully loaded. or something like that hahaha...i dont have it on at the moment. but u get the gist. wow and i also got a book from desi. 'the naked roommate' and 107 other thingamabobbers about college. now i must say the book didnt contain anything earthshatteringly enlightening, but it'll definitely be something i can use as a reference, should i run into a problem or question of some sort. i havent gotten around to actually finishing it, i only have like 20 pages or so left. i got a card from christine which was really sweet of her to give me. i wouldnt've thought any less of her if she didnt, but she gave it a shot. k-sandra made me a cutesy card too, quite the crafty one that casey. kinda funny cuz mike didnt really give me anything but its completely understood how he doesnt really need to give me anything. i mean we have so many experiences i can look back on, it would be more than the equivalent of a thousand birthday presents. n the same goes for everyone who didn't give me a tangible present. if you wanna hear why everyone's special and doesnt really need to give me a tangible present, refer to the entry directly below this one. haha....anyway. meghans present. holy smokes. she put a lot of effort into like...a poster. a posterboard with various pictures of a bunch of the people that have been in my life as a marylander. she collaborated with a number of my marylander peers to gather pictures, and comments to be posted on the board as well. just having meghan around made it my best birthday i ever had. but if you stack on the ton of love i got from all my friends, the bunches of great presents, and the loads of good times...i'd say it was the best birthday anyone could ever have. haha and before i finish writing this bit about my bday, i HAFTA (yes 'hafta') mention the kareoke that took place. it was soooooooo cool seeing nick and sank sing n*sync's "its gonna be me". hahaha pure hilarity . watching the girls (smash, tine of chris, des-ih-gay, n meggyo) sing was pretty endearing to say the least hehe.

7 folks including me from maryland road tripped up to meggyos house aka 'the north pole' the 7 of the marylanders plus meggyo making 8 (4 couples) plus david a/li (5 couples, 10 ppl if ur keeping count) went to hershey park all on a mere 13 dollar ticket, a couple bucks for gas, and the rest expenses during the trip. aside from breakfast and the drive back and forth, meggyo's entry [one house + 8 awesome ppl = good times ] was a good summation (is that a word!?) of the antics that took place during this weekend of pure ridiculousness....no pun intended.

WARPED TOUR '05!!! ..due to lack of funds, i was planning on sitting out this years warped tour, but the denisons/brett had other plans. they secretly purchased me a ticket a few days before the concert and told me about it 2 days before the concert date. nick mentioned after i found out about the ticket, "it wouldnt have been the same without you kit". brett was also driving to the venue (nissan pavillion in virginia, about a 2 hour endeavor from home with morning rush hour traffic). and so. the situation was for me...a free ticket to warped tour, and a free ride to and from it. pretty sweet deal i'd say. and warped tour was pretty freaking righteous. definitely something i'll never ever forget. yeah, slept at mikes the night before, left mikes house at 7:30, met up at the denison household for the final departure, drove up to virginia in good time, and there we were...at warped tour 2005. 2 cars drove, brett and desi drove in their respective cars. n we got split up pretty much 3 minutes into the trip. kinda funny. i was in bretts car with mike, n desi's group (niki, alan, and georgie) split off into a mcdonalds while bretts car braved the unknown and navigated our own way to the nissan pavillion with directions of course. all together at warped tour there was.... nick, casey, greg, becca, niki, alan, desi, george, mike, christine, michelle brown, brett, and i-(not to mention the oceans of other people that attended warped tour). i was surprised to see the amount of pre teens there. kinda crazy, and equally surprising was the amount of older people, like ppl in their 30s+. but ANYWAY- it was pretty warm out for the majority of the day. not like scorching hot but if ur walking around in the mild sun alllllll day, then it'll get to ya. i got my first tan lines ever at warped tour. a beater tan line at that. BUT OK, damn on to the bands. i got to see like 11 bands and a couple others i was kinda just spacing out to during breaks. in shifty chronological order...

hawthorne heights
starting line
greeley estates
the receiving end of sirens
bleed the dream
funeral for a friend
a thorn for every heart
senses fail
emery
story of the year
fallout boy

fallout boy was my first like..mob band audience experience ever. waiting for them to start playing was the most uncomfortable part. just standing shoulder to shoulder with everyone breathing down ur back, everyone sweating pretty profusely. but then the music starts and madness ensued. ppl bum rushing to the front of the stage, pushing ppl aside. the mass of a ppl understated by a 'crowd' shifts forward and back unable to go anywhere but with the flow of the ocean of bodies. not to say it wasnt exhilarating, it was good times, something im proud i got to do. but if i were to pick a favorite performance, it had to be The Receiving End of Sirens or TREOS for short. holy moly. well they arent as well known as fallout boy, but they definitely rawked my face off live. brett, mike, and i jammed to their cd on the way to warped tour, but they were truly righteous live. and moreover, they were on a smaller stage, so there wasnt a big crowd viewing them, just a select priviledged few. so needless to say, i was like right up front no more than 20 feet away from the band. treos freaking rawked. so their performance was hands down my favorite of the entire day, i could've went to warped tour JUST for them. I wish i shook their hands when i had the chance while watching emery. i ALSO wish i had the money to buy a shirt of theirs. but its perfectly ok cuz i'll remember how awesome they performed live. im pretty jealous of mike who's going to see them again tonight at sonar. but yeah. theyre way cool. and gawrsh, not to say that everyone else sucked. the other bands i got to see weren't bad a-tall. hawthorne heights, senses fail, fall out boy, and story of the year were all among my faves too. so yeah.....got to warped tour at 11am, left at around 10pm. over the course of the day i had eaten a bowl of frosted flakes/one brown sugar pop tart for breakfast. i went all day in the nissan pavillion without eating, brett bought me a drink, and he also spot me a buck so i could buy a water, plus a couple water fountain refills so i drank a lot. cookies and soda in the parking lot to sustain me through hackeysack and catch with a football while waiting for the parking lot to clear out for easier departure. once i got into bretts car for the trek home, i was basically out like a light. next thing i knew i was home....2 bux for a drink, tan lines, and a bit of hunger for an unforgettable day of music with my friends.....well well worth it. im so so soooooooo glad that i didnt miss out on warped tour. thanks for pulling through for me guys....i can't thank everyone enough who contributed to my warped tour experience...

holy shit i've been writing this thing for like....3 hours....just thought i'd mention that.

SO! this brings us to the near past. this past weekend was supposed to be that of the 24 hour relay, but that got cancelled. meggyo was planning on participating, so she took a few days off....but alas, it was cancelled so she just decided to come on down anyway! she ended up being dropped off at my house on a sunday afternoon. we hung out with the gaggle (as opposed to 'the gang') at mikes house, played poker, watched blair witch project. meghan and i rented movies..the first time around we rented....mrs doubtfire, p.s., and lady killers. P.S. didnt turn out so bad hehe. we watched mrs doubtfire together too and that was still hilarious even though its old, i'd call it a classic. meghan and i also started something that we had discussed trying before: reading a book together. soooo yeah we started reading Five People You Meet in Heaven. we took turns reading aloud, so it was nice. she had already read it before but it was all new to me so yeah. we started it sunday and finished it wednesday. its a really good book. definitely worth reading. so yeah....anyway. after mikes/renting/reading...the next day...monday i believe meghan and i rented movies again, this time...iron monkey, enemy at the gates, and when harry met sally. we watched enemy at the gates-an all around good movie, ate ice cream sandwiches, and then we watched when harry met sally. now THAT's a classic movie. prolly the 'notebook' of its time. if not this time....making it...timeless. haha...but yeah... its a really sweet movie...and i'm glad i got to watch it with my meggyo...that night meghan and i went out on a date. we were supposed to go to dannys to say hey to everyone, but my tire was low on air, so i freaked out, put air in it n went home with a crappy state of mind. my mother said ur tire's fine, u worry too much, and i instantly felt ok. kinda embarassing but yeah..it put my mind at ease...so after the running around for gas, bank, and air...meghan and i decided to go through with the date. it was too late to go to dannys and to dinner as well...so i'm sorry fellas for not making it to daniel sans for a few games of halo..... but alas meggyo was all dressed up in her perfect shirt...and we went to t.g.i.fridays. stuffed ourselves silly, she got her order pretty messed up. she asked for a chicken finger BLT with no mayo....what she got was a chicken finger with zero bacon, and lots of mayo. *sigh*...never going there again....haha but it was still a nice night out..we caught the sunset as we were waiting for our table...so we go home...and we sit on my floor..n we talked. discussed. conversed. it was sweet..i think sunday night too we stayed up late laying on the floor listening to a lite rock station (101.9), adding songs to a list for an oldies cd i wanna make..that was really fun too. whop lunch time....lemme publish just to see how long it'll look...im not quite done yet.

(u forgot about coffee and cheesecake, but it’s ok J)~ says Meggyo

holy moly. Its currently 4:36pm and I have just been informed by my better half that I have my info mixed up. She arrived at my house on Saturday and not Sunday. So im not sure as to how accurate my depictions of festivities are but I guess one could just shift each day mentioned above one day back, but it doesn’t really matter. So yes I did however forget the day before we went to Fridays, we went out to the double T diner for coffee. We ended up splitting a piece of creamy cheesecake. So she taught me the wonders of making a cup of coffee, funny how I always drink it but never really made it well. Well anyway, she taught me how she makes it n now im gonna make it that way from now on cuz it tastes better than the way that I made it. So a piece of cheesecake and 4 cups of coffee later, we decide to go home. That’s when we decided to lay on the floor and listen to lite rock, as stated above. …..moving on.

the day after tgiFridays, had to drive Meggyo home.

its almost dinner time and i hafta bring the microwave/rug to my house!!! whoop. moving stuff already. i shall finish this another time. wubamaflam.