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Post weekend with Whit update…

This weekend I took Whitney home to meet the folks… always an anxious feeling there… All in all it went about as perfect as any weekend I could have ever planned… funny how thinks work out when you give up on the idea that you can control everything that happens.

So here are the highlights (music intertwined):

-         Dad singing and dancing in his truck to Rascal Flats (looking more than mildly retarded)

-         Driving around with Whitney feeling “Reckless”

-         Moments that can only be described as “Beautiful Disasters”

-         Getting lost while getting “a little dirt-road backstreet”

-         Leaving school with Whitney so excited realizing “I don’t have to me till Monday”

-         Sharing things... some may say having a “Dashboard Confessional”

-         Whitney seeing exactly why “I might be a little bit loco” I was raised that way…

-         Looking at homes finding out we both “Love the sound of the rain on a tin roof”

-         Looking at someone and seeing that “There’s a difference in living and livin’ well!”

The overall highlight really can’t be discussed here, but I hope ya’ll find something sim-you-ler to what I have. Here’s to hands held and words whispered…

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Post Lynchburg Weeks…

I have come to the conclusion the Disc Golf was created by God as the pinnacle of all joyful activities. So the cookout with Meagan Whitney and Jon was a stinkin’ blast… here’s to lighter-fluid and chicken wings. Who would have thought that I could have hit that tree twice in the same spot?

The other night I decided to take Whitney (the wonderful young woman I’m proud to say I’m dating) out for a fun evening on the town. To prepare for the festivities I decided I need a new pair of jeans and stuff so I went shopping and bought some trendy clothes. Before we left to go out I decided I was going to impress this girl with my good-looks and charm… I even gelled my hair and left the belt-buckle at home! I know… CRAZY huh? Needless to say she was most definitely “WOO-ED”, but I felt like I looked a bit… queer-ish. After a great dinner, romantic-comedy like banter, and “Ice Age the Meltdown” we decided we needed some pie from Magnolia Café. Still feeling uncomfortable in my new clothes, I sit down. A few minuets passed when a man walked up and asked me to be on the cover of Shout Magazine. I was flattered that he offered to pay me to take my picture, but humbly laughed it off. He persistently asked and proceeded to tell me that I am a really “SEXY” guy, looking to Whitney for confirmation. He then lets me know that this a Gay and Lesbian lifestyle magazine, hands me his card with his producer’s number and walks away. I had two options… Work this guy over or laugh it off. I would like to say that I would always laugh it off, but we all know that’s just not me… then again I was with a girl I like so I just let it slide… Chalk it up to trying too hard to impress a girl. All that aside, I had a wonderful time… it was… well it was an exciting and fun night with Whit.

Sometimes I catch myself wondering if I am reliving Danny’s life… I have made every mistake he ever did plus a few of my own, but somehow the Lord pulls though for us all the time. It’s a scary but exciting thing to know (judging by past precedent) everything will work out for me just like it did for him. Thanks for clearing a path brother… but I’ll always do it bigger… stronger… faster. Love you guys and here’s to next weekend in Tyler... We will have a blast!!!

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Well what can I say… This past week topped any Spring Break I could have ever imagined. There isn’t enough to be said about good friends, family, and laughs shared at 2a.m. Sometimes it takes a look at the obvious for a guy to see the things he needs and loves most. Here is a list of the best moments during the break:

-         Lunch with the mouser and being ridiculed for not ordering the #1 and mixing catsup and mayo.

-         Laughing hysterically in the lost baggage line; “They are going to ask you to describe your bag and then you give them my address”

-         Kissing Nate Taylor’s hand (Heavenly)

-         Letting Mouse feel like she got her keys out of her car on her own.

-         Trying to carry a conversation with Lynne after 1 in the morning. “That Hick thinks he’s British”

-         Cookout with the crew

-         Hearing Justin yell “MAMA!!!” after he drove every Frisbee Golf hole

-         Danny’s obsessive need to please me

-         Mouse’s Mom trying to make Lynne feel better about making a fool of herself by saying “Maybe one of the girls was struggling with hallucinations.”

-         The look on Danny’s face with Justin yelled “Daddy likes it Tight” at The Depot

-          Lists of things to do at Wall-Mart and Fast Food Drive-Ups

-         Being told “You just talk a big game”

-         Derrick and I drinking the greatest milk ever squeezed out of an utter!

There were very few disappointments, but here they are

-         Being told that Nate is the Christian (oops LIBERTY) version of me

-         Waiting so long to loose my ADD tendencies… If only…

-         No weight room

I love you guys and hope that ya’ll had as much fun as I did. Danny… Keep on harmonizing those songs on the radio… I had a great time…a GREAT time.

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At 11:59pm on Monday the 13^th day of March, the T-train will return to the burg…

I have recently been asking myself some tough questions… Who am I?… What is it that I want?… Do I really have to slow my life down and pick up those I want to play a part in it?... These questions SUCK and I don’t think I’m ever going to care about them so much again!!!!!!! Maybe it’s a waste of time to sit and think of the perfect world I want, especially since I’m the first to ask “Since when do people know what they want anyway,” but I think that’s just what I need today. Anybody who really knows me at all knows that I only have two speeds, STOP and GO. I prefer the latter. I want to be surrounded by people who want to hop on board and roll through things going full throttle. I don’t really care about what job is waiting for me when I graduate because the Lord has that all worked out. I don’t stress over tests because I’m either prepared or I’m not. I like to dress a little country because that’s how I feel comfortable. Buy in or get out… (using the words of D)… The T-train is pulling out of the station you’re either in or you’re out. Is it too much to desire for a girl to be pumped about going out with you… to actually be excited that you asked her out? HECK NO… maybe these girls just don’t understand what’s going on here. I never thought I would get caught up in girls that weren’t caught up in me. I can’t stand the girls that want me, but when I find one I like… the table gets flipped on me. I think I’m best defined by a quote from Cole Porter: “I want to ride the ridge where the west commences. I can’t look at Hobbles and I can’t stand fences. Don’t fence me in.” Oh well… I have had plenty of time to listen to music so here are some quotes that I think define either me or what I want… or what I’ve been through.

“Sunshine, on the horizon, over two young lovers, while it's going down”

Hootie and the Blowfish

“Hard rain Rough roads so my life goes. That’s alright that’s OK It aint nothing but another day.”

Montgomery Gentry

“I guess I didn’t see it coming. How could I have been so blind? And as I cry myself to sleep I wonder do I ever cross your mind? So won’t you smile for me my Texas Angel it will be alright.”

Honeybrown

If we would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who giveth us occasion to fight, to the end we may get victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

- Thomas A Kempis

Good Day 

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So I just dropped her off… need a little break from school?... How bout a little weekend trip to Acapulco? Must be stinkin’ nice. My world has been flipped upside down in the last 6-7 days. To be perfectly honest, I’m a pretty cocky guy. I have developed a fool-proof system to getting a girl modeled after the “Tao of Steve.” There are three steps to getting any girl…ANY, but mind you this is NOT the way to find true love (I know got to this lonely state through the ability to get most any girl… ironic). This is Lamonchez pullin’ system in three main steps which must be taken the first time you meet a girl and on the first date:

1. Be Cool- This means you have to be desireless… wherever you are is the only place that anybody who knew anything would be. Nothing is a big deal. You are the end of the line and the best has been saved for last.
2. Be Excellent- You have to do one thing better than anyone else around. It doesn’t matter what it is; it can be anything from a card-trick to dunking … it literally does not matter what it is… just something.
3. Be Gone- Seems simple enough, but it can be the hardest of the steps. No matter how much fun you are having you ALWAYS leave before you said you would. This is the most important thing you can do. This step can be repeated throughout the first week.

(I hear you LU guys kinda need some help to here you go… be careful… with great power comes great responsibility)

(Don’t try this process on the phone or try to make it work over long distances… Bad Call… take it from me)

All this being said, I will reiterate that my world has been flipped upside-down. All this time she was only a few steps away and I never even thought about doing anything. My process went straight out the dang door. I put myself out there a little… no fronts and that is a scary thing. Ya’ll know me better than to just throw it around (IF ANYONE IS THINKING… “WHAT ABOUT MOUSE” JUST KNOW THAT IM PUNCHING YOU IN THE TEETH IN MY MIND she is amazing, but she was just plain not interested) but I … I’m caught up. I’m currently in a bit of a protection mode thinking this is too good to be true. Play it chill and kick it a’ lil is my plan for now, but there will come a time… I do believe. I think the Lord shields us from things when we’re not ready for the fight, but I’m all taped up now (been single for about 6 months)… lets roll on this.

It stirs my drink… the words of the greatest and sexiest man ya’ll know as the kickin’est of the J-MO’s.