It's 4 AM...and I'm not tired

Yeah, it's really weird that it's this late and I'm only beginning to get tired. Last night, I only had 5 hours of sleep and I don't know why I feel this good.

thursday- Nothing but work all day.
friday- Nayhouse and I chilled for the whole day. I woke up at around 11 and he came and picked me up at about 1250. We went out to the mall to get something to eat and then stopped in giant eagle to rent the movie saw. I was really surprised how cheap it was to rent a movie. It used to be like 6 bucks for 5 days with the movie or video game. That' s the only good thing that has come out of piracy of movies. Anyways, we went back to his house and copied saw and a few other movies onto the laptop. We ordered a pizza and shot pool for most of the rest of the night.
saturday- Work was extremely easy thanks to it being the day before Christmas. Basically, it consisted of me recieveing my Christmas present and standing around and talking all day. After I got off, I went home, hung out, and watched football for awhile. Next, I ate a bunch of different little appetizers like shrimp, pepperoni, and a few other things for dinner. The tree was decorated and it actually looked pretty good. It was kind of sad to see the presents under the tree the day before Christmas because it was such a tradition to me to only see them there one day a year. Now is always a great time for reflection on what has happened this year. If I asked myself what I was going to do this year last year, I would have never conjured some of the stuff that actually happened this year. All in all, I'd say that overall it was a slightly above average year. My health was great for the whole year. I had two girlfriends this year, Erin, and my current one, Anna. I quit my job at Chapon's, tried my hand at playing cards professionally, and then went to Ace Hardware to work when my financial situation became bad. I don't regret that move at all. In terms of accomplishments, I can say that I was the captain of the first Baldwin team to win the WPIBL's in five years. I graduated from high school with a pretty good GPA. I had a good summer, but not a great one. As always, I wasted too much of my time. That mistake will NOT be made again this summer, but I'll have to grind my way through a second semester to get there. I made it through the first semester of college with flying colors(3.73 GPA). I made new friends(Mt. Lebo, random girls in Ohio, PSU Mckeesport) and reacquianted with old ones(Bethanne, Anna). I wouldn't trade all the lessons I learned this year for any sum of money in the World. With a wordly perspective, I learned more about myself, my friends, the world, and other people this year than I did in my whole 17 years before this. Anyways, getting back to my day, I went to bed around 2 AM.
sunday- It was Christmas, but I would have to wait until 2 PM to open any of my gifts because my mom worked that day. I had no problem doing it, but drew was annoying the hell out of me. When we got home, the melee started. I got a comfy chair, a steelers jersey, a pink floyd hoody from drew, a video game, some cd's, and other things that I can't even think about right now. Material things don't really please me, but I was truly surprised how happy I was after all was unwrapped. Almost immediately after that, our family went to my uncle's house. It was a little awkward becuase some people who aren't usually there were there this year. All in all though, it was fun. I got to talk to my cousin nick for the first time in over two years, and he talked to me about extending his 6 year army contract and told me all the benefits of being in the army. It sounds great, I'm just not sure it's for me. I came home and chilled later.
monday- I woke up at around 10 and did some running around before going into work at 5. Work was perhaps the most boring, longest 3 hours of my life. Angie, Larry, and myself played games and stood around and talked about just about anything. After that, I came home, showered, and picked up bradburn and we went over bethanne's. It was the first time we had hung out in about 6 months and it was geniuely fun minus maura and bradburn ready to kill each other. We played this really bad version of twister and watched Coyote Ugly, which ended up being pretty funny. Bradburn and I left around 11 and picked up nayhouse and the three of us watched caddyshack and had a fact or fiction section before crashing at around 4.
tuesday- We woke up at around 930, which was really early in regard to the time we went to bed the night before. We ate breakfast, and then bradburn went back up to his house and nayhouse and I played FIFA 06, which is a very addicting game. When bradburn was ready, we went out to best buy and the mall. At the mall, we stopped in at a bunch of different stores and ate at the food court. I had the 7 dollar general tso's from manchu wok, which was surprisingly worth it. After, I dropped off both and got ready for work. Work really wasn't that bad, and it went by surprisingly fast. For the two hours after that, I chilled and got ready to go to stock's. Bradburn called and said that they were at walmart and would be home soon. The event got started around 1130 and we played a little poker. However, the game had to be stopped around 130 because we had to go down to the waterfront and mess with coda. Apparently, he was on a date with some really hot Bosnian chick and we decided to mess with him and put gey porn and silly string on his car. It was really funny to have him call kinger and ask him who did that to his car while we were sitting right there. We all went back to stocks and finished the game(gerner and I split) and played side games. For the night I was up 40, which isn't bad at all. I came home at around 4 and typed up this blog post.

Here's a little sample of what I've been working on. See if you like it or not.

No Mood For Sleep
By: Matt Hartman

4 AM, no mood for sleep,
Night died, no time to weep,
Sun rises, the people awake,
Sun falls, make no mistake.

Every day, same rise and fall,
Always moving, never a stall,
Sunrise, sunset, why is it then
It won’t be the same again?

They leave their things behind
To watch nature’s day unwind
And although it will never change
Nature’s glory remains the same