a new day

so last night, if anybody actually read, i was pretty angry....more or less frustrated with just about everything, i don't know why, i just was....

anyways, schleich and i slept over nayhosues last night...i woke up at like 1130 and schleich was gone by then....nayhouse and i made some food and then i left around 230....i came home and played a little poker and got ready for the doubleheader...idk, i kinda wanted to go to fireworks since i never saw them at caste before but i def. didn't want to abandon the team for fireworks....the first game was a train wreck...destroyed in 5.5 innings 12-2...i got to bat once and grounded out...muck....second game was much better....a 4-1 defeat, but only because we hit the ball hard and it was right to them...excellent defensive game by our team....i was 0-0 with a sacrifice and a walk....gg....anyways, tomorrow is my grad. party at 2 at knights of columbus in bethel park...if ur coming and didnt RSVP it's cool, i sent the invites out very late...just call me 4124011433 if u need directions there....so all in all i hope to see you all there and it will be an exciting day....lastly, i'm going to start incorporating a poem a day in because i think poetry is good stuff.....let's start with an easy one, one of my favorites

Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

truly disheartening

wow.....idk, this whole week has been just that....disheartening to say the least...i'm not even going to expound upon the details on all of the things that happened....but i'll provide a few examples at the end...

so today i woke up and went down to the batting cages...good stuff, by round 4 i was killing the ball....afterwards i went to hrehas to play cards....holdem i didn't play bad, got outdrawn twice and outplayed once by gerner....oh well....afterwards the cash table just got out of control...seriously, i couldn't hit a draw and when i would hit something, someone else outkicked me/flopped two pair or in two instances that i remember i was outdrawn by a 8 outer....in the last 4 days i'm stuck 180 playing poker....and i'm not really that angry at the way i've played....i mean, ninety percent of the time i'm getting my money in with the best hand....so anyways, i'm also dumbfounded by the stupidity of some people...i mean seriously, i would have to say that quite a few people that are supposed to be "smart" are quite shallow people indeed....nice

so besides being down big, i had baseball tonight....we played the team that kills us everytime....big suprise, i don't even want to go into the details of the game, we just got killed again, 12-2...i started at extra hitter and didn't see a fastball in all eight pitches and ended up striking out....well i didn't really care....shit happens....the rest of the game i sat on the bench and stared out into the field as our team was devoured by the clearly superior bethel park team....i just don't really agree with all that is going on with that team right now, but who am i seeing that i don't know anything about baseball, eh?

mh

muddyfoot

title will come later....

so i thought, well today is not going to be blogworthy at all....more or less, other than assorting random things in my room and playing some baseball with my brother, my day was highly uneventful...i played a seven card stud tourny where i was up and down and just playing quite stupidly to be frank...so logan im's me and asks if i want to play....i agree....i go there first at 730 and the game starts at around 8....i start off strong, not seeing many good hands but u know how it goes, i was able to make a few plays but then my mental attitude changed....i think i realized that i liked hangin out with them socially and playing cards with these guys and had no problem with the slow moving blinds at all....but for whatever reason, i completely lost interest in the game....i mean, there was immekus' game later that night, but idk why i just decided to start playing very stupidly....my allin was like 9-9 vs zack's A-10...he spiked an ace on the flop and that was game over...so in my mind i began crafting a plan on how i could fully gamble throughout the night....immekus event started at 9 and with the help of nayhouse i found the perfect "anti 11 o clock" scheme....anyways, the first game was a ten dollar game....i felt i played very well and accumulated almost 1/3 of the chips going into seven handed...however, my stack dwindled and i at one point was very close to short stack....when blinds rose though, i took command winning 4 or 5 big pots in a row....it got down to heads up where it was me v king...he had me about 3:1 and i found the perfect place to double up...or so i though....flop was KK2 and i had 32o and he bet allin....i knew he had overs but nothing yet....he turned over A10 and didn't look too displeased with the play....he must have known that runner Q-Q was coming to net him the win lol....just kidding, gg....in between game one and two there was just a lot of making fun of nick and everyone else(all in good humor) and nick earned the name "muddyfoot" for the dirtiness of his foot...the second game was just disaster for me....buyin was like 12 bux(wtf???) and i lost a huge pot to nick when he flopped a set and AK was no good after spiking a king....i ended up going allin with 15 outs to catch and 2 tries to catch them(45% to cass' two pair) and i hit neither, gg....so that game wound down and it was about 230 but nobody was ready to stop gambling....i ended up gaining great respect this night for kloby as he and i just went back and forth tearing nick apart....we even went as far as to say the next tourny u have to show a diploma and a driver's license to be allowed to play(if u don't know nick, that won't be funny) and the "nick immekus dropout/kickout(from h.s.) tournament"....great fun....going into the cash side games i had....eight dollars lol....but i scooped a queens and what follows pot early and doubled that up....at max i had like 55, but then the cards turned against me...i really feel that in queens i'm a big favorite to scoop the pot quite often b/c of my experience with the game, but the cards turned sour at about 4....it was the last rotation and i had only 11 dollars left...i should have saved it to go to eatnpark but by the time kloby followed nick's queen with a six, making sixes wild, i had quad nines....i raised kloby and he had only trip kings....sixth was a blank for both of us and seventh came devastation as a king fell and i failed to make five of a kind....oh well, i don't mind losing to ppl that i consider some of my better friends, seeing as i've won quite a bit from some of the games in the past....so after that, i just went to sleep and woke up at 5, got donuts, and departed for home....i'm exhausted, but i'm only gonna get like 4 hours of sleep and then i have to head to the bank and around to get stuff for the grad. party....

mh

yuck

nothing happened today....well i shouldn't say nothing happened, instead, nothing great happened...i woke up around....11:20 AM maybe and got some breakfast and nayhouse came over....he brought pizza and i had a few pieces and that was all good and well...at about 2 i left for cass' house to play cards...i expected a much larger crowd for the supposed thirty dollar game that was going to happen there....well only 5 ppl showed up and we decided to play for 20 bux...truthfully, going into the game, it was my opinion that i shouldn't have done any worse than second...but then stuff happens...u see, bluffing only goes so far, eventually your stack starts to dwindle and you need to flop something/pick up something to make value bets to back up bluffs in the future....well that didn't happen...the best hand i saw all day was KQo or something....no reason to complain really, i only made one mistake and i couldn't be too upset with my 47o allin against gerner...i had two live cards and nothing on the board helped either of us so his K8o was good....after cass finished the game relatively quickly, side gaming began...the three games in rotation were 5 dollar acey ducey, 1, 2-4/3-6 Queens and what follows, and 2/5, 10-20 King low.....personally, i felt like a huge favorite in queens and what follows seeing i've been playing that game for the better part of ten years....king low is my worst game, i usually just get anted there because i feel that i don't know the game well enough....acey ducey is really a toss up, although gerner was scooping most of the pots there...cass was taking down most of the king low pots, and i the queens and what follows pots....after about 2 hours i was up something like 50....gerner was way down, but the tides began to change....i found myself making dumb plays in both king low and queens and not hitting many of the draws i had....at the end of the day i was stuck like 60 bux...o well, that happens....afterwards, i played pokerstars for a little and nayhouse came over....it's a little weird, we've been hanging out a lot lately since neither of us has a gf(doesn't happen too often) and his parents are in virginia and mine are just never home....well anyways, i was able to boost the ps play money account up into striking range of getting back into real money....i'm hoping to deposit next week(somewhere in the range of 150-200) depending on expenses for grad. party and everything...oh by the way, if anyone who i haven't talked to is coming to my grad. party just let me know and we'll be all squared away in that regard...well tomorrow i think....well actually i don't know yet....i want to do something so if anyone wants to do something before like 8:30 PM let me know....

until then
mh

jam packed weekend

so it was finally time for my so called summer vacation....well we left around 3:30 on friday whenever my mom got home from work...nothing really great to speak of....about halfway there the country really started to open up and the view was really good....i couldn't really look for the last 1.5 hours b/c i was driving but i bet it was just as good...so we arrived in lititz, pa at some place called the warwick inn(it's a really nice place....if u ever go to lititz i would recommend staying there)....so we check in, get unpacked and all and go down to the lobby to talk with the other hartmans from around the country/world....nothing too interesting to speak of, my dad and i walked over to a completely italian speaking pizza place which was just ok...well nothing was too great and i had difficulty sleeping the first night....

saturday i woke up around 8 and limped down to the continental breakfast which just happens to be my favorite meal of the day but i was disappointed to see the lack of quality breakfast food selection. the only positive was the hotel attendant(no i didn't know her name/get her number) but to sum it up she was pretty hot....i ate and then got the passes off of her to go to the community center which was pretty cool, the equipment was a little beat up but fun all in all...then it was time for the horror....at 12 we trekked over to this shitty fire hall where the family reunion was to be held...there was really nothing great to speak of there, seeing as most of the people that were there two years ago opted not to go this time for whatever reason...i did learn some interesting things about my relatives though, we're all descended from this phillip hartman guy who was certainly a badass...i would have to say the highlight of my day came as my uncle dave challenged me to a rematch of a throwing contest(you may remember that in an earlier post- perhaps easter? he and i had a similar competition in bethel park) well this time we took it to the fields of shaefferstown....after three throws we were dead even(you have to remember, he's 49 but he's a world marathon runner making him an incredible all around athlete) and the last throw i probably got it near 300 feet and he had nothing....so he lost the 5 buck bet and that was that, i'm the king of throwing....after we ate the horrible food, in the last 729 days i haven't had a worse meal(last bad one came at this thing two years ago)....after the reunion was over, we headed back to the hotel then to the mini golf courses....bad idea, it was jam packed and after like 13 holes we just decided to give it up...once again hunger set in and i went over to the italian place and got pizza and breadsticks and watched date my mom(wtf???) for the rest of the night...

so today i woke up at like 915 and was delighted to see the attendant back and the lobby empty....i asked her if she wanted to sit down and she said yes but it was only briefly as her manager returned soon enough....well shit happens...i finished breakfast, packed up, and we left...the ride home was uneventful except for the gorgeous country scenery...we got home around 3 and i headed over to nayhouse's because we had a game tonight....after we bullshitted around for awhile we left for the game...i'm not really going to go into detail because it was so bad(we lost 13-3) and i really can say i played terribly, i couldn't hit and i made too many mental errors for supercolt level....maybe i'm a little overwhelmed at this level having not played for so long but i think that i can compete with a little bit of practice....afterwards i went back over to nayhouses and we watched chapelle and did nothing really....quite uneventful night....

well the trip actually had a good effect on me....priorities for the next year are two things, poker and school....we'll worry about the whole girl thing later, truthfully speaking, there are more important things to concern myself with now......also, i'm quite excited as i recieved message today that my cousin mike is moving about 3 minutes from my house....he's about 30 and engaged to this girl kim and he's an overall awesome dude so i'm actually really pumped that he's coming to live in whitehall(he was in like dormont or brookline before) but he and i have already talked about playing poker and some ps2 this summer so it should be fun...

last note, tomorrow i'm playing over cass' house....before any tournament of any size i play for like 3 hours in order to prepare myself for what's to come....it was interesting, i was up and down all session(only with play money) but by the end i was making some good reads and three times three seperate guys caught either a runner or runner-runner to scoop the pot....arg lol, that's part of the game

until next time
mh

third time

ahhhh....well the title refers to what happened on tuesday...more or less the whole day was a washout(no pun intended) but anyways, it was raining very hard for most of the day and i doubted that we would play....however, the skies parted....well at least the rain stopped, but the heavy stuff started around the fifth inning lol....after four innings we were actually ahead 4-3 to the peters team that had beaten us twice already....so we bring in nayhouse in the fifth inning....well that was the first mistake, no just kidding....he had a rough outing and i think that they scored like 6 runs off of him in the fifth and then five off derek in the sixth and that was that....simply put, we blew the game by not making the simple defensive plays....arg....anyways i took home ben boo and his gf and then went home for a depressing night....

yesterday i woke up at like 1 pm....got online for awhile then went to practice at 330....i really thought the conditioning part of the practice was going to be very difficult, but it really wasn't....we needed the practice badly, but most of the time rog just talked about the mental game....i agree with him somewhat, i mean all of what he says is undisputable fact, but there's something missing from his coaching in my opinion....he just looks at everything in the physical world when he doesn't realize that there is more to baseball(and life for that matter) than just the laws of physics....well enough lecturing, afterwards i came home, ate, and did something that's slipping my mind right now....eh whatever lol

today i woke up late again....arg i need to stop having these 4 am nights...well my brother and i agreed that we were both hungry for chinese food so we ordered from some castle place in castle shannon and i went to pick it up....i told him not to drop it b/c hence it was worth more than his life....so after that we went home and devoured it and then we played baseball for awhile then i got ready b/c me and nayhouse were going bowling and we met bethanne, her bf daryle(sp?) and maura there....all in all i can say that it was genuinely fun....like old times, idk it's been weird lately almost like there's some sort of tension there but today was fun and we were all laughing so that's good to see....after bethanne showed her genius by paying for both lanes, nayhouse and i left and i took him home and i departed home as well....i played some stud h/l, ate, and then played basketball for like 2 hours later....fun night....tonight will prob. be another 4 am night....

oh btw, my "summer vacation" is happening this weekend! Yeah, that's right...poor kids like i go away to shafferstown, pennsylvania, for 2 nights, 1 day for family reunions for summer vacation destinations....i really want to go to the beach, but i doubt that will happen this year....so i guess kudos to next year....

mh

update

wow...hectisity....i know that's not a word but i just invented it, it describes my life as of late...

hmmm saturday was interesting....i woke up early and my other grandparents(long story) took myself and my cousin Robb(yes that's with two b's, florida kid) to a yard sale...except it was inside an independent old people's living place....so i basically did nothing after setting up, i was just kinda dazing off....then out of nowhere in walks this absolutely beautiful girl....she was probably 20 or 21 but she was so good looking that when she left i wrote a poem about her(don't ask, i love to read and write poetry for some ungodly reason)....and then....she came back! i found out her name was kayla and that she was 22....a bit too old for me....she just commented on how bored i looked and then said bye as she exited up the elavator....ahhhhh.....well anyways, we cleaned up and got subway and then i did something that is completely slipping my mind....oh wait, no, i went to steve kazour's grad. party where the arabic girls(whom i dedicate my life to) were in abundance....afterwards we shot a few hours of pool at cue and cushion

sunday...nothing really that exciting, game against mt lebanon which we won 6-2 without all the legion players....aftewards, my family went out for dinner at frisch's which was good....i came home and got some stuff done around the house and then watched this movie called gia at like 1230.....good movie lol

today- i woke up somewhat early, like 1030 i think....nayhouse called and i ate breakfast quickly and then we went to wendy's(i know that makes no sense, but i'm always hungry) and saw bro mccartney there and we discussed a few things about upcoming future plans lol...next we headed off to sugar and spice and got some ice cream...afterwards we went to best buy to get team america and then i went into quaker steak and lube and filled out an application there....then we picked up the one and only ben hreha and trekked over to matt schneider, better known as carmelo...'s house....the game was supposed to be tight, but i found it loose enough to build up a big stack going into the final four of myself, nayhouse, ben, and alex kimmel....nayhouse was out in fourth when his eights got busted by one of two aces left in the deck....then ben went out third...the heads up duel was quite interesting....he had the advantage early and had me on the ropes as he called down a bluff of mine early....so i was thinking, i've finally met my match heads up....eh well, i started clawing back and made a huge double up post flop and i just stole blinds and wore him down from then on in...personally, i felt like i was the better heads up player, but he was not very far behind and with some luck he could have easily won that game, gg....afterwards, me and nayhouse came back to my house and we watched team america while my mom made us chicken sandwiches that were delicious....then we went to pick up my brother, then to krispy kreme and i dropped off nayhouse then went home....and now i'm exhausted lol

mh

how sweet it feels

so after feeling the calm today my sleep was interrupted at like 830 by....none other than bethanne lol....she's like, "did i wake you up" and i was like....no, i usually like to wake at the crack of dawn for fun....haha no just kidding, much <333....anyways, i went back to sleep and had another of my very weird dreams...i've had one for like the last 2 weeks and before that i can't remember the last time i had a dream....maybe it means something is about to change, i doubt it though...so i actually woke up at like 1200 and got some pizza and then went to pick up lauren and bethanne....i took them home and chilled for the afternoon...i got the sh record though and found that the new quaker steak and lube place is opening so i intend to try to get a job there...so after that nayhouse gave me a ride to the baseball game....i'm not going to lie i was almost ready to quit that team before tonight because of the players on the team and not agreeing with the whole concept.....so i was just completely pissed at everything going over there tonight...i was reading my time magazine get more pissed at the wealthy aristocrats who are eating up the real estate market across the country...anyways we arrive to the game, stretch and warmup and stuff and then it starts...it's cool though cuz we only had 10 guys and no roger....and something that briggs said before the game immediatly changed my outlook...it was like, "these guys have wiped us out the last four years, we've only won twice." now, if you know me, any sort of underdog or revenge cause i'm all ears for that kind of thing....so anyways, we jumped on them early with a 2-0 lead....and conroy shut them down until the fourth when we expanded the lead to 4-0....the fifth inning the flood gates opened and we scored seven times to make it 11-0....the bottom half of the inning they made it interesting by scoring one run, but we still ten runned them....props to conroy for a gem of a game, personally i played horribly on offense goin 0-2 with a walk but my defense was stellar to make up for it...i don't know, somewhere during the game it just felt like...we got a sense of team identity...maybe it was looking at the hot girls or derek yelling shit as loud as he could but it was definitely good to beat a team that has trashed us for four years straight....afterwards, the team went to sugar and spice which was good and we just sat around talking baseball for awhile until it was time to go home....after i went to nayhouse's briefly and then went home....

i think it's amazing how your perception of the world changes when your mental attitude changes....you will always be faced with daunting tasks in your life but to overcome them and keep a good attitude about it is priceless....well that's all for now

mh

it hit me

the title is interesting and i won't get to it until the end of the post, so that's to come.....

the last few days have been somewhat crazy in the fact that i have been so busy i haven't had time for anything....last night i slept over nayhouse's, something that i hadn't done in a long time....we always think of the funniest comments ever at like 4 am and then wake up to find that they weren't really that funny....so we woke up at 9 after 4.5 hours of sleep and went to eatnpark where i got the buffet....afterwards we went to his house and made several bets on who could answer more jeopardy questions in which i was clearly victorious....next we went and picked up sarah from school and then nayhouse dropped me back at my house after a wendys trip...i guess briggs called and said we had practice but i had to pick up my brother then i was going to the game that night....in between those two i snuk in a quick cash game where i profited a whole dollar, i think....after bradburn and i traversed to washington junction where we caught the T in....we decided to walk over to a parking lot in heinz field where ducker, klein, lauren w and brandy were tailgaiting already....it was a fun time there and then we walked over to the game to meet senora, aj, conal, amy, T, and steph and we got our tickets and went in....after settling in our seats for awhile i decided i was hungry and that i would get something so all in all i ended up getting a hot dog, mountain dew, and ice cream....all were delicious and the food was made so good by the pirates winning the game 6-1....afterwords we just went down to the north shore because nighttime at the north shore is completely beautiful....i seriously just sat on the grassy knoll and looked up at the clouds and stars for probably an hour....it made me realize how insignificant my life is...seriously, i'm one six billionth of a planet that's one six billionth of the universe...it has a calming effect though by just keeping in check that what you do really doesn't matter in the whole scheme of things so you should say and do things as if your unimportant, stupid little life would end tomorrow....after that i realized it would be way too late to get the car so we walked to max and ermas, but that was closed...so then we drove in senora's car to eatnpark on 51 where we got a table for 8 and everyone just ordered water and dessert...T told some funny homestarrunner stories and we talked about college plans and the erie trip which is going to be a complete blast...so for whatever reason i just told senora to drop me off at bradburns, just one of those things....as i was walking in the calm of the downcast night something just happened....it's one of those things they talk about in the morose hollywood movies with little plot in them as a life changing moment....but it's never like that, you never know when it is going to happen....but as it happens you can feel the whole world shifts right in front of you....it was very weird, i was just thinking, if i die right now, i'm going to miss too many people....will they miss me??? it was almost as if hollywood had scared me into thinking that my life should have ended right there and truthfully, i could have rested peacefully on that street and not had a problem in the world....but, no i did not die as henceforth i am writing this, but it did provide a very calming feeling, maybe because of the hundreds of grams of sugar i'm sure i consumed today, whatever it was, i feel so calm right now....anyways, tomorrow is going to suck because i have a damn supercolt game and i want to quit the team b/c i hate almost everyone on the team and the fact that they take my favorite game so seriously....so, just a precursor to future allegations...i've had 5 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours so forgive me if a lot of this sounds like jibberish.....well, it is time to sleep seeing as there is no need to stay up....

rest well,
mh

one slip

so today was the day....well kind of....it was the fifty dollar game at gerners house and i was quite disappointed to see the turnout...only nine players willing to risk the money for the reward....sad, no doubt....anyways, the tournament started therefore hence....the first hour was the worst for me, i sat throught prob. 20 hands and didn't have anything higher than a jack....just horrid....about 45 minutes into the second hour there was still nobody knocked out....kinger and i were both short stacked, he ran at about 800 and i was down to like 1000 or something....he got knocked out...to tell you the truth i don't really remember a lot from hours 2-4 so i'm just going to make it up somewhat....i got my money in with the best hand everytime on allins and i managed to survive as short stack with minimal cards until we got down to the last 5....i won a few pots and managed to get to the middle of the pack and kloby and n00b got knocked out before me...truthfully, i was somewhat relieved but i wanted first place bad....the last hand(didnt' know it at the time of course) the community was like J 6 Q K A and I held A3....i bet 800 and gerner raised allin....i thought about it for a second and knew that he usually liked to try to use the allin when he had a second rate hand so i called and he showed the 10, gg....after loadman beat gerner heads up me, gerner, king, and ben went to cici's buffet which was excellent for the 4 bux it cost....good times, afterwards i came home and am very tired....im thinking of putting some more money online but first i want to get one of those real jobs lol and we'll see how it goes after that

mh

another day

so today was the first day after graduation....it was rather weird knowing that I'll never be returning to baldwin high school because for the last four years bhs has always been there for me, whether i hated or loved it....i'm going to keep this short today because my computer is being very gay because it's moving so slow for whatever reason.....ahhh so anyways, in the morning i woke up and ate breakfast and helped my mom out for awhile b/c she def. broke her ankle i think but she's like it feels better today....then leigh came over and we watched dead poets society which is a great movie....twas fun and i took her home at like 330....after i played basketball until 6....then bethanne called and we decided to do something at my house tonight which would be fun...her and maura(i learned how to say it right lol) came over around 745....let's just say the first part of the night was rather bad, but if you never have any bad times in a friendship then the good times never seem as great....well after that incident, so to speak...the rest of the night was fun....we walked up to bradburns friends house and checked out some dvd's and then came back to my house and watched full house....and bethanne and i typed messages on her phone(<333) and maura was doing....just random things including asking for bradburns phone and getting online to talk to chris mesko....i finally got bethanne her letter although i'm a little disappointed because there were some things that i didn't put in there, but perhaps i will write another one....well good night in general, thanks to the favorite people for hanging out again....

mh

untitled

there is no fitting title for this one....i could have said "saddest day of my life" or "the great end", but i don't think either of those titles are fitting because neither would make sense....

so now that we have off i really don't know what to do with myself....i just basically chill at my house all day until i find a job for the summer which will probably be tues. or wed. of next week...today really i just did a few little things around the house to help my mom cuz i think she broke her ankle but she won't go to the hospital so really i don't think that we'll ever know....before anything i'd like to give props to bradburn on his play of what i'd consider a perfect sitngo last night which garnered a win, vgg....anyways, tonight was commencements...ahh don't get me started, i'm not much of a crying person, but whenever bethanne and i were talking about all the great times we've had beforehand, i kinda started to cry a little(i won't lie)....so commencements went smoothly, we got the diploma, i shook hands with everyone i knew b/c this is the last time i'll see most of them until a 5 or 10 year reunion....afterwards. i saw ppl and then went out to eat with my family at duke's station which proved to be quite good for the money....

a few side notes...
first one goes to my best friend, bethanne....seriously, im not gonna spoil the letter or anything, but real quick...i'm not sure what i'm going to do without you and maura next year...you're an awesome person and don't let anyone else tell you different....i don't know about you, but i had just an absolutely excellent time since we started talking again in october(i think?)....from all the absolutely stupid to serious things, this year has been perfect...seeing and talking to you today i was like, wow, we really did have a lot of excellent memories from this year and some from last year lol....well i'll give you the letter tomorrow....and don't forget, we're gonna have a great summer and fun next year....i love you so much
congratulations to class of 2005....i wish everyone the best as in most cases i'll never be seeing you again....but good luck anyways lol
finally, i hope to see everyone at the 50 dollar game on monday at gerners....if you need the link, just IM me at Mrhmrh102 and I can hook you up...

i leave you with only the words of robert herrick, it just happens to be one of my favorite selections

To Make the Most of Time
by Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.

mh

baseball anyone?

today was the first practice for commencement...it was more or a less a waste of time other than the sweet yellow thing i got for having above a 3.5 gpa all throughout high school....then we marched in twice and heard that song that they always play when seniors come in....ahhhhh i have no words....afterwards i spoke briefly with bethanne and took home leigh....then kazour and i decided that we were hungry so sadburn called and said that yu's had a 7 buck special so we decided to go there...that was quite yummy and after that i took gibbons and steve up to high school to pick up two people.....anyways lol, we took home gibbons and went back to my house which was a great time....about 220 we left and i dropped the two people off at their houses and we again averted disaster lol(seriously, i don't think we'll ever forget these ridiculous days)....so after that, i was tired but i decided to stay up for a little bit...after a little while though, i couldn't really resist the temptation to take a short nap which i indulged in....i was awoken by my brother at like 6 and i got changed and ready for the game...i got a ride out to peters from nayhouse and was actually quite suprised when rog told me i was starting at first base considering i hadn't played since oct. and we have like 18 kids on the team....seriously, we have some ridiculous ppl on that team....first inning bam hit a two run homer and we lead 2-0....second inning i got a single but never got any further than second....after that it was up and down for the rest of the night....they ended up winning 10-4 and i finished the game 1-2 and no real defensive errors, which was quite suprising for my first game back....tomorrow is graduation practice no. 2 and hopefully i'll see everyone thursday at commencements....if not, i wish you all well with whatever you should go on to do....

mh