Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in bigmike_286's LiveJournal:

Thursday, March 25th, 2004
11:58 pm	Thinking about the Colorado Crew Well, I've been thinking a lot about the crew back in colorado, I miss everyone there so much that I don't think I can wait a whole summer just to go back. Those were the plans until Bruce Company called saying I got the job there. It was a difficult decision for me, but I couldn't pass it up. I plan on making a career out of it. I had so much fun when I was there that I had mixed emotions the day it was time for me to head back home to Wisconsin. I was homesick both in Wisconsin and in Colorado. The crew back in Colorado taught me a new perspective on life. They taught me that there is more to life than just work, school, other things like that. They taught me how to have fun. Everyday was full of non-stop laughs. It was a lot of good clean harmless fun, (except for some of the jokes that jp and the others cracked up) They know how to have a good time without the alcohol, and I know this when I say it, those parties are a lot more fun then the drinking parties. I thought I could throw some good parties here, but they got me beat by a longshot. JP, April, Bobby, Nadia, Brad, Lyzzy, Colbie, Mom, Dad, everyone down there, thank you so much for everything. You guys are my home away from home and I know that you all will take me in anytime. You guys are my family, I love you all. You are all welcome to visit me anytime you like also. I know December from here seems like a longshot, but it will fly by like nothing else and I'll all see you again. But until then, have fun and we'll stay in touch. Thanks Love Mike Current Mood: giddy Current Music: The Reason Hoobastank (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 13th, 2004
11:48 am	hey peeps Well, Well, Well, it hasn't been awhile since I've wrote in this, I've actually found time again to write in this. Well most of this is pretty good news. Ok, so here it goes. This past Wednesday, I had an interview with The Bruce Company. For some of you who are wondering what the hell is The Bruce Company. Well its a Landscaping company, they also have a store and they specialize in flours, plants, trees, grass, decorative things, just anything you could think of thats the outdoorsy type. But what I will be doing is Landscape Construction. Its a mix of things like planting trees, paving dirt, planting new grass, putting in rock walls, things like that. I'll get back to you all on that when I start working for them. June 3rd will be my last day at the cleaning company, I can't wait to get out of that. I'm just really happy that I got the job there, you couldn't really call it an interview though either because I was in and out of there in about 10 to 15 minutes, all he asked me was the day I could start, what I would be doing, benefits, job description, stuff like that. Its gonna be a lot of fun I can't wait. On the other hand, bowling hasn't been going well for me, its been a tough month now and I still haven't been able to get out of my slump. I'm gonna retire one of the balls I use, its a really high maintenance ball and I'm really tired of getting it fixed all the time, so I'm gonna get a new ball, probably one that hooks a lot more. I just hope everything works out by the State Tournament next month or I'm gonna be screwed. Well I'm gonna get goin ttyl Mike Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Wild West Show Big and Rich (Comment on this)
Monday, March 8th, 2004
10:32 pm	Its been awhile once again Well its been awhile since I've wrote in this. So much shit has been going on that I don't think I even have the time to write all of it down. I can't even remember the last time I wrote in this. Well I'll start off with what I can remember. I'm just getting so fed up with the way things are going right now, I wish High School was over with, I'm getting so sick of some of my classes and dealing with the underclassmen in them, its mostly in my shop classes where the underclassmen are so annoying. They use no common sense when using the machines, and the work ethic is just pitiful, its bullshit. Sorry, I'm gonna be doing a lot of venting in this journal. And some of you may know that I had plans to enlist in the United States Air Force. Well I've decided to derail those plans and go to Blackhawk Technical College sometime within the next two years and get my one year technical diploma in Landscape Turf Services. I've decided that is what my career is gonna be since I'm getting a full time job there and quitting my cleaning job. I'll be glad when that finally rolls around, then I can get my feet off the ground. Well with all that college stuff comes finacial and living plans....this is where I'm so confused on, I don't know what I'm gonna do for living accomodations, what I'm gonna do to make rent as far as money goes, shit like that. I never knew that life in the real world would be so tough, I've heard about it from some people, but I guess its one of those things you gotta experience first hand. Well this past weekend I had a tournament in Janesville, boy was this tournament a crock of shit. Friday night we had a game scheduled, and it was pretty much a tournament of janesville teams and three madison teams, our team being one of the madison teams. Well friday night as I've told you, we had a game scheduled for 6:30, well we get there about an hour early and start shooting around and warming up, 6 o'clock rolls around, the other team doesn't show up, 6:15 rolls around, they still don't show up, 6:25 rolls around and you start to wonder where the hell are they. Well its finally 6:30 and it turns out we won by forfeit. This is what pissed most of us off, we came all this way with one thing in mind and that was to play and win a basketball game, and the janesville team doesn't show up, turns out they wanted to see the janesville girls b-ball game and knew they weren't gonnna show up. They could have at least told us so we knew ahead of time. But we all had reservations for Shakeys and that was pretty good. Saturday and Sunday were bullshit too, we lost both games and you could tell the officiating was for the Janesville teams so we didn't stand a chance. Well thats all I can think of for now, hopefully things go better, basketball is over with now. TTYL Mike Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Honesty Sevendust (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
5:41 pm	Its been awhile Its been awhile since I wrote in this thing. I've been so busy lately, I can't remember when I wrote in this last. A lot has happened since I last wrote in this. So much shit has been going on at school and its getting on everyones nerves, including mine, some people just need to grow the f*&^ up and get over themselves. But thats some of the shit I have to deal with at school. Anyway, I found out last week that my uncle almost bowled his second career 300 game, but got ripped off by a 10 pin in the 10th frame on his 12th shot. He bowled a really nice series though, I think it was a 720 some series. Then saturday he bowled well again but didn't get a 300 game, but he bowled a 705 series. I bowled for fun afterwards for fun with him and my cousins and my second game I bowled a 245 game, which is good for me, I think I've finally got my groove back. I'm looking forward to this saturday. I think since I've found out I didn't qualify for regionals, has calmed me down a lot, I guess I was trying to hard to make it that I forgot to have fun. I'm still disapointed that I didn't make it, but oh well, there's always next year. Nothin else has really happened though, I've been so tired lately that I've probably forgotten some things. I'm gonna get going for now, ttyl. Mike Current Mood: stressed Current Music: Closure Chevelle (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 24th, 2004
12:25 pm	Hey Hey, its been awhile since I wrote in this thing. Sunday to be exact. Nothing really happened at all, sunday I had my basketball game which we won, now we are 3-1 on the year. One of my teamates got ejected from that game, but I don't blame him at all for it, the officating sucked that day so i understand why he lost his temper. But that didn't matter, i think it actually fired us up. Monday we had school which was dumb since it was MLK Day. But oh well, tuesday was cool nothing really to say about that. Wednesday was the first day of finals, I had to work that night so I had to miss tami's b-day party which sucked. I'm getting fed up with work, I didn't get off till 10:45 and didn't get home till almost 11 that night. It's time for a change. Hopefully Bruce Company hires me. Thursday was the second day of finals, all of them went well, I worked that night and got home at a decent time to finish up on some studying. Friday was the last day of finals, my parents went into lodi to get my dads new truck finalized, but I can't drive it yet till my mom gets the insurance papers and everything taken care of, oh well though. I'm anxious to take it for a drive but I can wait. Now today is saturday and my morning didn't start off well. I went to Starbucks this morning and got a Tazo Chai, very good. Then went to bowling, our team was in first place going into it, but we lost 2 games and I think we didn't get total pinfall so we probably are in a tie for first now. I bowled like crap, 507 series which is horrible for me, 10 pins were left standing left and right, it was frustrating. And to make things a lil bit worse, I found out I didn't qualify for the Pepsi/Mountain Dew Regional tournament to get to state. My coach made a little goof and found out someone else in my league jumped ahead of me. Turns out it was my own teamate. But hats off to him, he's a good bowler to so I wish him luck. The only way I can get into it now is if my brother Joey gives up his spot. But its entirely up to him, I'm not gonna force him to give it up, after all its his. Whatever decision he makes, I'll respect that. If he decides to bowl, i'll wish him luck. This is actually the first year that one of us didn't make it. All the other years, him and I have been in that tournament together. Oh well though. Well enough about bowling. I'm just chillen at home now, not sure whats going on tonight. Well i'm gonna get goin ttyl. Mike Current Mood: crushed Current Music: Sevendust Enemy (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 18th, 2004
4:23 pm	Hey guys Hey again, its been awhile since I've written in this. Nothings really happened since I've last written in here. Lets see here, Wednesday I had confirmation and that was boring as usual. Thursday night I got my room cleaned for the party. Friday, since the weather was gonna be bad we decided to move the party to Melissas house and we ended up staying the night, it was only joey, mel, lacey, and myself. Its ok the others didn't come, the weather was bad anyway. We'll try this again on saturday. It was fun though, too bad my Playstation 2 couldn't play DVD's, apparently you need a code for it and I was never told by the people at Game Stop where I bought it that you needed one. So we just watched TV instead. On saturday, I had league bowling and did very well. Our team won all three games and we also won total pinfall so that should move us out of the tie for first place and into sole possesion, thats a sigh of relief, I think the team is finally bowling good now, honestly I think we are unstoppable in the second half of the season. I bowled a 541 series, that should help my chances of qualifying for the Pepsi/Mountain Dew Regional Tournament. Last week of qualifying for it too. Then I went up to the church with my dad and helped him install some new lightbulbs, then his truck took a shit on me when I was driving it so thats some bad news there. Then later that day it was back to the bowling alley for the family two-some tournament, my dad and I both struggled, i had games of 148-148-223, it wasn't pretty. Better luck next time. Then I went with a bunch of friends to Hooters(damn good food!) and we ate dinner and then we went to the coliseum to watch wrestling, it was the road to wrestlemania. It was fun to watch, I enjoyed most of it except for a few matches. I got a lot of good pictures that I have to develop. Then I went home after that. Today wasn't really anything special, its only 4:35 right now. I'm kinda nervous for my game tonight, but its all good. Well I'm gonna get goin, ttyl. Mike Current Mood: okay Current Music: Zombie Nation Kernkraft 400 (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 14th, 2004
5:01 pm	Hey again Hey everybody, well where to begin, I'll just start with today. Well this morning, I couldn't get my ass in gear so I was almost late to school this morning, got there with 5 minutes left before the passing bell. Close call though. It was pretty much boring at school today, same old crap over and over again. Can't wait till second semester. Lunch was interesting, nuff said about that. 9th hour today was probably the best, I was able to get my engine started and it runs fairly good, just gotta do more tweaking with the carbeurator. I breathed a huge sigh of relief when it came to life today, now I can breathe easier in that class cuz now I don't have to worry about my grade dropping a whole letter grade cuz it wouldn't start. I'm just sitting at home here doin nothin right now. Confirmation tonight though, that sux ass, I hate that class, I get nothin out of it, but oh well, not much longer to go. Well i'm gonna get goin, ttyl Mike (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
4:23 pm	Yo Yo What up peeps, yeah I've decided to start one of these little things. But I'll write in it some more when I have the time. Later Mike (Comment on this)