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[Feb. 18th, 2005|04:03 am] |
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a night of jr. perez and kenny delp leads me perfectly into.....VEGAS!!!! tomorrow....Im just glad to have a weekend of complete chaos leading into this life thats so carefully planned out.... |
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| 2005 |
[Jan. 3rd, 2005|09:37 am] |
Thought I would take this opportunity to write down some New Years Resolutions. I don't think I have ever made a serious resolution but this being my last semester in college, I thought I should make an effort to improve myself.
1)Get in touch with those I have lost contact with due to lack of effort on my part.
2)5 hours of Cardio a week. No exceptions.
3)Wake up before 8 o'clock every day of the week.
4)Go to the beach for at least an hour each week.
5)Road Trip as much as possible.
6)Organize everything in my life including giving all clothes that I havent worn in a year to Salvation Army, throwing away any nick nacks that just sit on shelves or my desk, make my bed every morning, and organize school work and notebooks.
Think thats it for now... |
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| frances... |
[Sep. 1st, 2004|08:47 pm] |
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Today pretty much consisted of half a day of school, then beer and putting up hurricane shutters. Tried to be a good samaritan by cleaning up the neighbors yard but he paid me $40 for 2 hours of work. Anyways...hopefully the storm will take a big turn to the north. Good luck Melbourne, Orlando and Tallahassee.... |
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[Aug. 6th, 2004|01:13 pm] |
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great great sunrise this morning. if only i had a damn digital camera. oh well....caught 6 baracuda on the beach and wouldnt you know. i forgot my hemastats so therefore i get to pull the hook out of their mouths with my barehands. thats why i only caught 6...my bloody stumps for hands wouldnt allow me to catch more. then had a nice paper reading, coffee drinking session on the back porch followed by some chatting on IM and the phone. followed by 2 trips to school to sign papers and a trip to IWS for sunglasses which was not successful. the rest of the day shall consist of drinking beer and packing for the keys and hopefully dinner with mom and ross. i would like to go fishing but i hate friday because every damn mexican, haitain and piece of white trash likes to fish in my weekday spot. not that i have anything against those people its just that they tend to A)travel in packs of 12 B) be drunker than I am and C)have the most horrendous taste in music that must be played at the loudest level possible. so what to do? ill have to think about that one. keys tomorrow till the following saturday. so i should be drunk and full of lobster till then. well wait, i leave for maryland after that so double and insert crab cakes instead of lobster.....late |
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| boredom... |
[Aug. 4th, 2004|07:42 pm] |
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| | taking back sunday - one eighty by summer | ] |
the plan was to wake up between 5 and 6am to go fishing this morning but my body decided that was a bad idea. i guess its probably a good idea i slept in since i only got about 10 hours of sleep over 3 days in chicago. anyways...spent most of the day attempting to clean and unpack but i wasnt too motivated. hopefully i will get that done tomorrow. it always seems like you house is a wreck after traveling. went to kmart and then fishing until it decided to pour on me. the walk home was a wet one but i really didnt mind. im definently getting up at 5:30am tomorrow and going fishing. off to get some cream because i will definently want my coffee before the sunrise.... |
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| Chi-Town |
[Aug. 3rd, 2004|09:27 pm] |
Got back from Chi-town at about 2am today. What a great weekend.
Flew in early on Saturday morning and Rich's grandmother took us to breakfast. good good food. Then hung out with Rich's cousin in Olrand Park. I about shit myself when i walked into Jewel Osco and saw all the liquor sitting there and there big walk in beer fridge. Had some beer then took the train into town for Venetian nights. Ate some dinner on Michigan then the craziest thing was that we ran into Becky. She knew i was coming up sometime this summer but had no clue it was that weekend. And she though she had seen me the night before. Went and picked up some Old Style and liquor and sat at Buckingham fountain and watched the boat parade/fireworks. Then we hopped on the red line up to division street. Went to a couple bars then ended up in Mothers. Had a lot of fun in there but had to head home because the last train left at 12:30. Sunday we caught the train into town and headed to wrigleyville. i got chills when i got off the train. i had to stop and look around a few times to remind me where i was. the game was great, drinking old styles was great, maddux didnt get his 300th but we won. hung out down there for awhile then headed back to the southside for dinner with Richs fam. woke up early sunday and went downtown. Went up in the sears tower, walked the magnificent mile, a couple walks around the loop, went to grant park, then to millinium park, then up to navy pier. what a great place, couldnt of asked for any better weather. to the orange line to midway then had dinner and picked up some old style at the grocery and then caught our flight back home. what a great weekend. this week is going to be excruciatingly boring. but im heading to the keys with anne's family and mine saturday for a week and then ill be in the D.C. area for a week before i drive back with johnny. then school starts. time is flying... |
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| morning.. |
[Jul. 30th, 2004|08:02 am] |
woke up at 4:55 this morning to go fishing. didnt catch anything but the sunrise was pretty nice.
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i dont want to sleep past 6am ever again.... |
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[Jul. 27th, 2004|09:52 pm] |
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orlando was good last week. got to hang out with tomlinson and a lot of other people i never get to see. then i had a great weekend in tally...got to spend a lot of time with anne. also got to see jonny d and got to talk to brosche which was pretty cool. heading up to chicago saturday. i cant believe that im going to be sitting in wrigley in a few days. man thats awesome. then to the keys for a week for lobstering with annes family and mine. then to DC for a week to hang with johnny and al and to road trip back down with them. cant wait. then just like that fall will be here and my last year of school begins. gonna be a crazy one. trips to UF and FSU as well as Vegas and NYC already planned. good deal... |
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[Jul. 22nd, 2004|01:33 am] |
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i think this has been the best trip to orlando yet...last night i hung out with tomlinson, phil, clayton, JR over at robert lee's...woke up today and went to home depot to finish my project for my mom in the yard. then went to lunch with my grandma. i love hanging out with her, what a great woman. i think she likes hanging out with me so much because i remind her of my grandfather. we are pretty much twins....then i had to go to the dentist for a cleaning...fun stuff..they always tell me i have great teeth but i dont know what they are looking at. then i worked in the yard for the rest of the afternoon. took a nice dip to clean off. i havent been in a pool for fun in years. headed to my dads for dinner which was actually fun. he is becoming less and less like an authority figure and more like a friend. after that my sissies dropped me off at gators to hang out with will and matt. i havent seen will in like 4 years. pretty crazy. he has a wife and a good job which i knew he would have since he's a great guy. but its just crazy to see people like that...its a lot of fun to hang out with tomlinson again. really makes me realize how great of a friend he is. hopefully we will keep in better touch in the future....anyways..i head up tomorrow to tally. helping anne move and hopefully do some partying with some old friends...we will see... |
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| orlando |
[Jul. 19th, 2004|08:35 pm] |
made it to orlando last night after running out of gas, having to move brents stuff in the rain, and driving the whole distance in a monsoon. it was good to see anne last night even though she had to be in tally this afternoon. im heading up thursday after she is done with tests....maybe with a stop in gainsville...who knows? maybe a stop on the way back.
Today was pretty boring. woke up at 7:30am to see anne off this morning then i ran on the treadmill for 50 minutes. drank a lot of beer the last 2 weeks, gotta get back to some excersizing. spent the rest of the day on the couch. i am definently not doing that tomorrow. i think my plans for tomorrow are to wake up early and run. then take my car in to the dealership for a check up then put up some fencing for my mom which should take awhile. then going to drink some beers with tomlinson. all in all that should lead to a productive day. then wednesday im either going to do something around her or find somewhere to crash in gainsville. we will see. im out... |
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[Jul. 19th, 2004|08:32 pm] |
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[Jul. 17th, 2004|10:18 pm] |
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going to be in orlando, maybe gainsville and definently tallahassee the next 2 weeks. who will be in what city and who would like to drink a beer with me? |
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| california dreaming... |
[Jul. 16th, 2004|11:35 am] |
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| | the eagles greatest hits | ] |
Well I have been back from cali for a few days now. The last few days have consisted of large amounts of keg quality beer and other recreational habits. Florida seems extremely bland after being in places with so much history and that are so eccentric. But it does feel good to be back home.
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[Jul. 14th, 2004|01:32 pm] |
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sometimes i want to disappear to somewhere in california and never come back..... |
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| i leave for california in 12 hours and 6 minutes... |
[Jul. 4th, 2004|09:09 pm] |
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| | townes van zandt - dead flowers | ] |
strange day...first 4th of july i havent drank on in about 7 years. (yes i was drinking at 15 years old). probably my favorite holiday and i couldnt even enjoy it. 66 days sober. which will abrubtly end wednesday when im done swimming forever.
i think when i got out of the pool this morning, it was the first time it hit me that i wont be an athlete anymore. of course i will work out for the rest of my life but i wont be an elite athlete competing at the top of my abilities, pushing myself every single day of the week to my limits. kind of impossible to explain. 17 years of competing, training, sacrafices (mine, my parents, and loved ones) all coming to an abrupt end. huge amounts of effort with nowhere to channel them to. people are always like well...now you can focus on school, your friends/family/loved ones, partying, traveling, your future. but it just doesnt work that way or at least i dont think it will. swimming may come naturally easier to me than those things but it was also the one thing i knew that could challenge me. i could always count on it and i could always count on myself to teach me something new about myself. i guess this is going to be a big change. the place where i come to that big fork in the road....at least im going out in the best way i could imagine. at olympic trials...in one of my favorite places...with my family. i have a flight in the A.M. and i doubt sleep will come easy tonight...here's to tomorrow... |
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| Travel Plans |
[Jun. 30th, 2004|01:47 pm] |
Had a great weekend with Anne. Made me realize that the part of the summer that I thought would never come is here. My plans for the rest of the summer.
July 5th-13th: Olympic Trials. Long Beach, CA and then a few days in San Fransisco
July 13th-22nd: Drunken Days in Boca Raton.
July 23rd-26th: Orlando then Tallahassee to help Anne move into her apartment
July 30th-August 1st: Chicago for the Cubs/Phillies series.
August 7th-13th: Keys with my family and anne's.
August 16th - 20th: Fly to D.C. and drive back with Johnny.
and then the school year begins....going to be fun fun times ahead.... |
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[Jun. 20th, 2004|10:39 pm] |
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| | hot cross - a tale for the ages | ] |
51 days since the last time i drank, 16 days till olympic trials, 14 days till my flight to long beach and 4 days till anne flies in. my calender is all by days now....
it was a different sunday than usual but it was still a good one. practice early, some cleaning, watched the cubs win, watched band of brothers, cooked a thick steak on the grill, carlin and becky came over and reminded me of how great the fall is going to be. i meant to call a lot of people today to catch up but never got to it. i never get to things like that. i can pretty much count on one hand the people from high school that i have called in the last 4 years. i dont know if thats a good or bad thing. im just horrible at keeping in touch with people....there is always something to work on i suppose. off to try and get some sleep. something that i wont do well or at all for the next 2 weeks...up before the sun rises, the story of my summer... |
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| ever get in those moods where everyone on the planet annoys you? |
[Jun. 18th, 2004|08:04 pm] |
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| | modest mouse | ] |
last weekend my dad came down and took alex and me fishing....
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had a lot of fun. a lot more fun fishing from a boat rather than from shore. wanted to go to boca grande on the west coast to go fishing with my dad again and to see my grandparents but i have to train saturday and sunday. thats the way it goes when you are 19 days out from olympic trials. going to be a boring weekend. alex is on a cruise and im not drinking (7 weeks without a beer)and yes i am now insane from it. but anyways... anne comes to town next thursday so im really looking forward to that. i really need to see her, especially since i wont see her for another month since i train for 2 more weeks and then i will be out in cali for almost weeks. been thinking about grad school a lot lately. where to go? where to go? i guess i am going to apply everywhere in florida but my mom told me to think about out of state as well. i dont even know where to start with that. i think my top choices for in state are: rollins, florida atlantic or university of north florida. each has its pro's...very few cons. most of the cons come from the fact that i dont know where anne is going to grad school. time will tell i guess. alright, im out... |
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| 27 days till long beach... |
[Jun. 10th, 2004|11:35 am] |
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| | red hot chili pepers - by the way CD | ] |
As much as I complain about swimming and how much I have missed out on because of it...I don't think I could ever live without it. I went 2 months without it. Partied a lot and lived the easy life but I felt like I kind of had no direction. I love waking up early, I love watching the sunrise every morning, I love testing my limits every single day and I love getting more done in those 2 early early hours than most people do all day. I think the fall is going to be a good balance for me. Practice won't be mandatory so I can take off on road trips when I want but I will still be able to practice, stay in shape and have some sort of positive release/focus. And swimming won't be an absolute obsession as it tends to be now. I'm thinking about doing triathlons so that will be a nice mix up. Just have to make sure I do it for fun and not obsession...alright i am out...going to go on the back porch, eat some lunch and watch this storm pass by... |
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