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12:42am 08/10/2005
  hey guys. long time no see. what's up? how's it hangin? pretty well i hope. i get to go to lake wales' homecoming dance tomorrow night. i know you're jealous. i know it. i hope not though. see you monday.
(probably the last entry for a couple months)
-david
 
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03:07pm 05/08/2005
  haha, i got to eat lunch at lake wales high school today. i met one of my friends outside the office when i got there and she took me inside and pulled some strings in the office so that i could get a pass and go inside. it was coolness-- my first time on the inside. It was funny seeing so many people inside for lunch when i'm used to All Saints'.... and that was only their 1st of 3 lunches. It was fun though. to do it again would be amazing.
g' day
 
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12:08am 04/08/2005
  yes LJ, i am still alive; i haven't fallen off the face of the earth forever, let's just say that i took a nice break from the community, "share your life" thing for a while. so, here goes nothin'-- for old time's sake:

a couple days ago i was playing raquet ball at the YMCA and i hit myself in the face b/c my arms were tired from having recently worked out. so if you guys get to see those nice cuts all over my top lips (though i think they're finally healing-- yes!) then you'll know why.

more recently, so homo thought he'd be sneaky and steal my wallet out of my pants from my locker at the YMCA while i was working out... my dad's Debit Card was in there, plus Driver's License, plus other undoubtedly invaluable items. i wanted to cry. so now, after already getting yelled at for being dumb enough to leave valuables in an unlocked locker (which there might be only 2 other people who actually use locks there) i get to wait in line at the DMV at 730am tomorrow morning. everyone think of me while you're in school. do it.
g' night all
 
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03:15pm 26/06/2005
 
mood: I'm freaking ecstatic
combined highest SAT Scores: Critical Reading:700 Math:680 Writing:690 Essay:12
Total: 2070/2400
Hopefully I can get into Wake Forest. That would rock.
Bright Futures is so tempting. Will probably end up going to UF/FSU anyway. oh well. Pray for me.
 
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03:04pm 26/06/2005
 
mood: church camp pwns
music: DC Talk
hmm. i just got back from an amazing leadership camp @ florida southern that was actually really cool, and merely ended up sleeping for most of the evening to make up for the sleep i missed at camp. then today i went to church and found out that yesterday there was a cancellation for americamp (church camp in Ocoee, TN) so my youthpastor told me to pack my bags!! i'm so excited-- it's gonna rock like whoa. i wanted to go so badly b/c i haven't been in several years for whatever reason, and i even thought i was going to miss it this year b/c of that leadership camp b/c i thought the dates conflicted. i was gone for a week, then i've been hoome for about a day--sleeping most of it-- and now i'm about to leave for another week; we leave tonight at nine.

i met some really awesome people at the ldrship camp that i really hope i stay in touch with. hopefully i'll meet more amazingly awesome pple at church camp and feel the same way. God rocks my socks. i love it.

relationships were designed that others may see God's love. Think about it. Don't be too anxious or too hasty to enter a relationship that you're not going to take seriously-- b/c they deserve it.

See you next week, LJ.

Sry i couldn't come to ur bonfire, Merris. i was wiped out. :/
 
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They knew her as Brittany Horton. They know her as gone.   
05:36pm 10/06/2005
 
mood: getting better
music: you and the boom
i have this weird faction within me. I'm grappling normality and the reality of and the pain indelible of the reality of death. these opposing forces i fight with are unquestionably extra-ordinary and will soon pass i'm sure, yet they're present nonetheless. I pray for lost souls.

i haven't looked at LJ in a few days...Its obvious that there's a vivid hiatus btw the recent entries coming from my winter haven/lakeland friends [life is as usual for the most part, excluding whatever "emergencies/controversies" might be going on in any given situation] and my LW friends. with unknown skill though certain chance-- somehow pockets of entries have come through the avg entry carrying with it a depressing aura of a current morbid mentality; its an emotional quagmire that has consumed so much of the LW youth since the tragic death of this 16 year old girl [apparently was the funniest, nicest, most caring and beautiful (i can back up the beautiful part b/c i saw a pic) girl who had somehow touched the lives of countless people at lake wales HS.] a week ago tomorrow. the service was yesterday with reportedly 200+ present, mostly students.
I'm inspired. I'm destroyed. She died in a car. I nearly died in a car once. Not my condition, but how the wreck was: i was 12 years old in the back of an old van w/o a seatbelt that lost control after !!nearly!! dodging a quickly oncoming semi then roll several times, once over a barbed wire fence (crushing it) to end with all 4 wheels not touching the ground, cradled in a young oak tree that had snapped catching us. my entire bicep on my right arm was bruised and i had abrasions all over my face (which came from tumbling through the cab like a rag in a clothes drier). i stumbled from the scrapmetal formerly known as the van, 20-30 minutes after the actualy wreck, with the help of a sheriff gawking wide-eyed that not even at least 1 of us died...

1 of my sister's closest friend's older sister- soon to be valedictorian/ cpt of vollyball team/ beautiful/ senior year/ kind/ outgoing- died horribly and was turned into a vegetable when a car T-boned the passenger side of her boyfriend's car, where she sat.

teenage death= devastation

be careful. *specifically song #4, but they're all cool; don't throw your life away; don't waste it. (here's your plug wade) http://www.purevolume.com/youandtheboom
wade's cool. him making music then getting it on the internet inspires me.
 
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01:52pm 08/06/2005
  workout. then hangout. then praise God (organized, other than random acts/thoughts of praise/worship that will be done throughout the day). then probably play video games on my off night tonight. no baseball. woot woot.  
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09:39pm 07/06/2005
 
mood: complacent
i'm slowly getting stronger- i can feel it.
our game got rained out after spencer craig did a rain dance. simply amazing.
 
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01:21pm 05/06/2005
 
mood: getting better
music: rilo kiley + a little AFI + a little jack johnson = odd mix
I went out on friday night then i took the SAT on saturday. don't care. why did my dad make me take it again-- i got a freaking 1340 on it the first time. bleh.
My friends are one by one traveling away, leaving me w/ not much left of a summer other than baseball + workout. [i pitched in our game yesterday for the first time sinec last year b/c i hurt my shoulder in december and messed me up for the season. it was rad and we kicked butt-- it was travis moore's team at the school he went to and i talked to him at the game (he's their coach). weird-- i saw him that night @ AMC in lakeland... what are the odds- he was w/ this pretty girl, too. go travis. she said she played soccer and was a goalie. i almost remarked *so you've got good hands, huh?* but i didn't. i wished i had- it would've been funny, yet still awkward.] Caroline's in New Orleans for a movie and ashleigh's going to lots of places and jon got a job at publix so now i won't even have anyone to talk to when i'm bored at home (aka now, except i don't think he starts working until sometime next week).

i hung up on ashleigh last night because i was just getting frustrated because i know once she leaves on saturday i won't get to see her again like forever, so i was trying to make any sorta plans this last week while she's still here, but every single one she had something to do. not her fault, i guess, but still. that + the fact that she won't call me if she wants to hang out- ever- just was getting to me, then when i said i was getting frustrated she finally said something like "oh yeah, how angry will you actually get- CLICK. i was off and didnt care.
have fun at BonClarken, ash, sry i never got my stupid forms/$ in. and have fun at cedar point. maybe next summer.

but hey, i'll still be rockin out in lartow w/ 2 cool chicks, maybe making some scary movies. :). you guys know i wouldn't go out to lkland for just anyone ;)... coming in an hour past curfiew-- stupid movie getting out late! >< -- just might kill me... i haven't talked to my dad yet, hopefully he's forgotten it all. *cross your fingers*
 
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10:16pm 29/05/2005
 
mood: good summer so far...
music: dashboard
this summer has been pretty rad so far, but i'm scared that it's already june basically. so close to senior year, so close to graduation. mmm, graduation. so close to life being totally different for the rest of my life. hello future.

caroline + merris + sarah was a lot of fun this whole past week, that is until all three of them ran off to the Beach. i didn't know what i was going to do. i've been house sitting for the jahnas. their house is fun, but it's definitely the people that make it awesome. definitely the people.

hanging out w/ ashleigh consecutive nights, trying to make her midnight curfiew (sp?)= beaucoup d'amusant=lots of fun. haha-- phoebe, phoebe, phoebe *slaps forehead*. tonight i met wendy and ash @ ash's house and we basically ate candy for 3 hours and just talked about random stuff in the middle of her living room. way cool. C^3 ROCKS!! haha yes.

i've gotta make sure this summer keeps on rockin. i've gotta hang out w/ all my friends because we're running out of time...
i've gotta turn in my bonclarken form and $. $400+ by tuesday if i wanna go. bleh.

how was the beach sarah mcG and merris goodcock? where you guys @?

somebody talk to me. somebody i'm not expecting to just come and make me hang out w/ you. it'll be amazing. swear.
 
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08:43pm 23/05/2005
  lately i feel like i'm just all over the place-- more than usual and more than most people think i am. are these far ventures intriguing or just passifying? someone tell me what to do. i'm excited that it's almost summer, but i'm scared of what to do-- how will i spend my time? *who now is thinking it will be with them; who will let me be with them!?* will i work hard to improve myself or will i be lazy all day and get nothing accomplished? will i read many books (atleast the 2 assigned) or will i rott in front of the T.V/ computer instead?
how much could we get done if we never had any distractions? why do i play video games/ dumb internet games when i could be reading? after several hours every day all summmer of playing the comp what would i have accomplished; after reading several hours each night all summer i can't fathom how much i'll learn.
there are times for R&R, but there are also times when you know you're just being lazy even though you've already been lazy all day and you feel lethargic and lifeless. that's the point when i need to get up and be productive, or else i'll go nuts. that'll be the time when i go to the YMCA/read/play soccer @ webber. that's my safety plan.

see you guys later,
burnzyboy [S.M.;)]

sarah, poppy, and merris: you guys rock. merris, watch out for the creepy mystery guy who lives in ur house across the lake ;)
 
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06:20pm 19/05/2005
 
mood: workout burnout (good)
I think i'm in love with the YMCA. It's so much fun. So i went into the weight room on wednesday feeling good about myself for actually getting out there and taking the time to work out (b/c that's what i've really been needing to do for such a long time now) and i was starting to feel strong and buff when i looked over at this black guy whose biceps could destroy me... i was humbled; yet nonetheless i was inspired atleast to work harder so i wouldn't look so string-beany when compared to him. it'll come, just give it some time.

last night jon and i went to the Y and played raquetball for a while-- well, we hit the crap out of it b/c we don't really know the rules. it was still fun anyway. i recommend it as a good stress reliever. :).
After that, we went and did yoga. it was my second time and his first at the YMCA's yoga (he said they did some pseudo-yoga for swim team). we did mostly the same moves; my favorites were the head stand tri-pod style (standing upside down w/ weight on hands and head) and the "crow position": squat as if you were a frog but w/ your palms on the ground, then lean forward and rest your thighs on your triceps, eventually so that you're floating in a tiny, compressed ball being supported only by your hands **no one go and try these at home and break something, i'd feel responsible** it was fun though.

today is my off day. body = so tired. tomorrow caroline and i are going matching style w/ the star wars shirts we bought @ wally world today for sr. dress down day. it'll be rad, i might even wear my cape ; ).

1 more day of pointless class then exams on mon, tues, wed. well, the french exam actually starts tomorrow b/c we have to do this speaking portion during our last day of class that wouldn't fit in the alloted exam time limit. super.

everyone check out my cool new background. you're jealous, i know.
 
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09:12am 17/05/2005
  To all of life's enduring troubles,
To Life and love and bubbly couples.
Here's the song with the child's beat,
Racing along to the drum of the feet.
Innocent angel with a halo of gold,
Naive to the world that's deadly and cold.
No other choice but to seek for sight
Pray to Him at every night.

Fall down-- all around the world is melting.
Catch yourself, fight against the rising tears.
Run now, away from life and all of its fears.
Watch out, persist to know they won't tell me.
Surmount the obstacles to the highest of heights,
Hail to Him the Lord of light.

Find the truth, the light and the way.
Hail to Him the lord of light
Search for Him with every beautiful day.
Pray to Him at every night.

Don't be bound by teenage persecution
And don't fall to troubles of irresolution;
But fight the waves and the currents of peers.
Catch yourself, fight against the rising tears.
Hold your tongue and mind the truths that you say.
You'll be the light to another, some faithful day.
Fall on your knees into prayers for what's right,
Hail to Him the lord of light.

Stay true and stay firm in your speech and talk,
Stay steady stay smooth in your disciple's walk.
Be the guide to the others who know not what I speak,
For the sick and the poor, to the humble and meek.
Stand firm your ground and don't give into flight,
Pray to Him at every night.

Find the truth, the light and the way.
Hail to Him the lord of light
Search for Him with every beautiful day.
Pray to Him at every night.
 
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03:21pm 15/05/2005
 
mood: eh
music: Jack Johnson
sigh, so we lost our game on Fri: season and all its toils are over... We got royall screwed by the umpire, too-- called our guy out on a bogus call in the last inning when he would have tied the game :/. I don't know what to do with myself... so much free time not spent on baseball.

I went to this BBQ out at this shooting range in Frostproof that my dad's a member of, and it was a bunch of old/redneck guys loving life and eating some amazin' food. ribs + BBQ baked beans + coleslaw= grubbin. After that we went to the YMCA in LW and got me signed up so that i can workout all summer and come back next year a big burly man who can hit home runs merely by flicking his wrist. yeah- it'll be like that. wish me luck.

Sat. night brought this cool post-graduation party in Frostprf at the DeLestang's house which was probably the last time all those people are going to be in the same place at once. So sad, yet the night was fun.
1 easy week of review + 3 exams (pre-calc, physics, french IV) = 1 long summer and 1 senior me. sweetness.
 
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10:37am 10/05/2005
 
mood: long day ahead of me...
music: I heard Fallout Boy this morning...
hmmm: Regional Quarterfinals tonight... I'm excited that we're in regionals, but we've already played this team 1x this season and we gave them a royal spanking (royally royal, like 23-3 or something rediculous like that). so it's nice knowing it'll be an easy Vict. for the good guys, but i'm still bummed that we have to drive soo long to get there-- i think they're like 11/2- 2 hrs away :/ Oh well, that's just one more step o teh road to states. hoo ha [oh yeah, definitely broke out w/ the Johnny Bravo there].

wish us luck!!
 
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01:25pm 08/05/2005
 
mood: happy mom's day
yesterday was pretty worthless until around 7pm when i picked up ashleigh to go to the symphony thing @ Bok Tower. it was pretty cool: first time in a while the whole fam had done something together that wasn't gay--my big sis is always at college (or so she says).
ash had never been there before, so jon and i gave her the nickel tour. the music was pretty good, but it was kinda chilly outside on the lawn area where everybody was, so like 5 people tried to squeeze into the 2 unzipped sleeping bags we had out there. haha it was a funny sight.

afterwords jon, ash and i met up w/ leah and candace and some other people, this one girl completely trashed by about 1030, and we headed out to this party near lake aurora (out in BFE). it was pretty cool, i guess. we stayed for about 1 1/2 hrs but it was still sorta near the end. it was still funny to watch the stumblers though. i laughed.

tell all your moms that you love them. they deserve it. happy mother's day LJ.
 
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05:06pm 04/05/2005
 
mood: why not- no practice: rain :)
music: guess
We won our district semifinal game yesterday 4-0 woot. we're going to regionals, though we play santa fe in the district championships tomorrow so wish us luck.
ashleigh told me to make a poem for her, so here it is:
(they call me the master rhymer)

Ode to Ash

This golden girl of northern birth
Joys the heart and lightens soul
In late night chats when laughs abound
And funny stories fill the sound
With tone and tempo so full of life
That fixes the sad and makes my night.

Fruitful sweetness falls on her lemonade head
Where she sees the world while lying in bed,
Dreaming of things that nobody knows.
Dreaming away in the futon with clothes.


She’s moving away and trying to get free,
Like a camel with water she drinks the sweet tea.
If life deals her a hand with pain and sorrow
She’ll drink it all down like there’s no tomorrow.
So I give her a hard time because she’s just that cool.
And she tries to be smart and go to collegiate high school,

Haha, I rock
 
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09:15pm 02/05/2005
 
mood: drained
music: Coldplay
Candace turned me down. she said she had ~~~~~ to do, but next week maybe. sigh. i feel desperate for people to know Jesus, like i'm running out of time. oh well-- next week it is, or sooner. 3 1/2hr AP English exam today. wow. i thought the mult choice was a little easier than the practice, but that the essays were a little harder. we'll see. 2 hours of straight up pencil pushing= sore hand. oh well, we got out around noon and we were free to go home. stupid baseball. >: (. oh well, i called 1 of my coaches and he left work and met me at the field around 2 and worked w/ me 1 on 1 for about an hour and a half. little did i know that we would practice forevever today under the blistering heat and stifling humidity. 4 hrs of practice= 1 tired david. districts tomorrow W007.

This one's for you ash, and you're not the only one who can post poetry on the internet. hoo ha. : )

POEM by me: (please comment about making changes to make it amazing. cool, thanks & enjoy)

Sweet like the fresh flow--

Down your throat runs the cool coke--

Way beyond the garden showers,

Bound only by the earthy powers:

Cumulus, Cirrus, through lazy days;

All dance amid the summer rays.

Let’s rush afar from juvenile crime,

And swim beneath the length of time

Let’s slow our walk and steady pace,

This must be life-- a simple race.

 

Beautiful girl of golden beauty,

Give me your trust as life’s great duty.

Sitting here ‘neath pine’s tall tower,

Whisper words of youthful power.

Oh, please to me will you confide:

The secret swifts of ocean tide;

Reveal your secrets—of love and life.

Tell me of your hidden strife.

I’ll be a witness, to you will stand,

To keep all truths and make a man

Of my simple heart so dreams of angels:

 

High above, they fly above the

Moon--tender like oil on blue waters--

Surf Pacific bays, its coastal daughters

Where cocaine beaches bear sinners’ feet

Fiend and imp feel fast heart’s beat:

After every deed of demonic plunder

Souls flee without from angels’ thunder.

 

Wake up, all has been shaken up:

--Tonight her mother died--

I lie in bed like graven mime,

Find a haven for a quiet ride

This night must reign the mourners’ time

 

Brush up; fix up your hair,

Life’s to stop near anywhere.

Home from show with tire bustling

All go past the leaves’ dry rustling.

 

None so far to kiss the child.

Lying still so dead and wild.

Death before her doused with horror:

Hellish nightmares work their might

And plague her dreams with hellish fright

 

But we, the separate breed,

Seek the day when we can say,

“Ever life: this narrow path,

Beyond the reach of Satan’s wrath,

We’ve found the home of saints before us,

Where angels sing the hymnals’ chorus.

Now reach to father and broken child,

The one with eyes so lost and mild,

Speak heavenly truth and God’s own wisdom

Just say it loud so they will listen:

We’re all bound to take the fall,

But enter with us to glory’s hall.


 
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03:21pm 01/05/2005
 
mood: calm
EVERYONE needs GOD. period. I might invite Candace to youth group tonight b/c i don't think she's been saved yet. she just needs to know Jesus, along with EVERYONE else. She said she wanted her bf to meet me b/c maybe i can "make him better". i want to save his SOUL and nothing less, though i don't think that's what she meant. who cares about *getting trashed* (starred word= arbitrary, can be filled in w/ own pleasurable vice)-- if it comes between you and knowing GOD, then it's definitely bad. i don't mean to sound Southern Baptist here, but call me crazy for not wanting to spend eternity (think about how long it would take to wear down a chair by brushing a handkerchief over it-- a looong time, right? now try and picture how long it would take to wear down mt. everest w/ a handerchief-- and that's only like the first instant of the first second of eternity.) in unbearable pain and loneliness-- in hell you're totally alone; as if being tortured by the worst pain imaginable isn't bad enough, you're alone in a dark, lonely place. so yeah, hell is bad.

GOD= love. think about that 1 person that you thought about every second of the day; practically obsessed. you worshipped the ground they walk on and despised any who would even think about coming between you and that person. that's what GOD's love is about. HE loves loves loves (yeah, the same kind that makes the world go round) you, all of you, sooooo much. that's what my GOD is all about. i hope you know him, too.

if anyone has any questions, you know where to find me.
cell= 514-9083
house= 638-1204
 
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11:03am 30/04/2005
 
mood: 1030= good wake time
music: kill bill vol2 (jon and andrew are watching it behind me
we won our baseball game on friday too. we totally kicked butt and i started 2 double plays and it was amazing. so, my mom and ashleigh finally got to the field when the game was almost over, but it was cool that she got to see me play, even if it was only an inning or two. afterwards ash and i went and ate @ andy's (mmm) before going and watching mellie and jill's boyfriend's band play. they were...ok. it was just cool seeing them play b/c i've never heard them before. hahaha, one of their songs sounded so awful ashleigh and i just had to cover our ears and we were laughing so hard.

i have found love, and its name is Triple Vanilla something from Barnie's. sooo gooooood.

we walked around the mall and it made ashleigh giggle that this weird eddy guy was there b/c i "made him jealous of me" according to ashleigh.

well, with nothing to do ash and i made our way down to the little league field in LW. it was great. we didn't want to go home but nothing was going on, so we just parked and rolled down the windows and listened to rap while watching the sucky kids play ball.

we eventually wound up and candace's house where we just talked for a while about random things. i didn't care b/c i was finally able to go pee from that barnie's drink that had been killing me for a while. i was good to go :).

who knows how tonight will end up. who ever does?
 
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