Step 4: Going Public

So ends the first week of my second semester of college, even though its only Thursday it still feels like the end because I only have one class tomorrow for less than an hour and then my weekend begins. I wasn’t planning on doing a blog today until I went to my Health class, but I will get to that in a little bit. The classes I am taking are: Interpersonal Communication, General Biology: Cell to organism (with Lab), Personal communication (or its community because all it shows me is “Comm”) health, and Music Fundamentals. So far I love all of my classes and have high hopes for all of them especially Music fundamentals.

In the General Biology: Cell to Organism class I was nervous because I planned on taking just a General Bio class but it was filled so I thought I picked a class that was a lesser class. It turns out the regular General bio is lesser while the one I am taking is for majors, which is exactly what I wanted. The Interpersonal class is self explanatory and same with the health class. In my Music Fundamentals every is going fine because I have a leg up on some people because they don’t know how to read sheet music yay for me! but I think its going to be really fun because on Tuesdays its just lecture while on Thursdays (today) is a performance appointment where we play some things on the piano for him then the rest of the time we can just fiddle around on the piano till the end of class.

Anyway now to explain the main reason for this blog. So in Health class we talked about how we are going to have to change a bad behavior of ours for a class project, and one of the steps is going public with your resolution because it is shown that those who go public with it have better chances of success which sounds good to me. I plan on doing two things that will help each other, I plan on losing a bunch of weight, and each more fruits and vegetables (Which I have been doing pretty good about doing). So there it is and to set a realistic goal I have planned to have this done by AT LEAST the end of this semester.

I planned on doing homework between school and work but alas it is time to get ready for work... But I love you all (who ever reads this) and I hope you have a good day.

RIP winter break 2009/2010

It is said that today is the last day of my winter break *tear*. Well this semester will be a little easier because I am only taking 13 credits I could take more but my laziness wins this battle. At least I have a week to exchange my classes or add one but definitely not drop one. One thing that has been surging through my head all day while I was over-hauling my room because sam has a bunch of stuff stuffed in all the nooks and crannies, and that was trying to get more responsibility by getting my own place. I really want to get my own place because I think it would be great to have my own place where I cook my own meals and clean up after everything I do, which I think is a great way to express my freedom. I mean seriously that would be the best thing to happen to me *sigh*. It just feels right to just get up and go, and it is for the right reason this time. All the previous times I wanted to move out it was for the wrong reasons, it was to run away from my problems, but now it is to help fortify my future. Holler! haha I don’t know why but it felt like a holler moment so Holler Back if you know how I feel!

Anyway I gotta get ready for tomorrow peace out!

Blog: New Years Edition

*Sigh* Its a new year and a new slate. Even though I have made resolutions, they weren’t made for the new year, they were made as my life goes on because I believe that saying “This year I am going to ______” is very important but so is making mini resolution (or larger ones) all year around. I just hope my 2010 resolutions won’t turn into a 2011 resolution. Which reminds me that it feels sort like a fail when you have to do that for a couple of years in a row *cough* *cough*. But hopefully this year will be the final year for that resolution *fingers crossed*. Sadly the transition from 2009 to 2010 was filled with despair not because of the news years party, which was fun, but because I was afraid that I was going to be expelled from college and possibly be in jail =[.

This is how the story goes. On December 29, 2009 I received a letter from IHCC (Inver Hills Community College) saying that they received a letter from Warner Bros, and yes that is the warner bros the movie company, saying that they had information of movie infringement from my laptop. That is that they technically caught me downloading movies off the internet. Even though I downloaded the movies I thought I was doing it legally because I paid a website for the privilege to download movies which said “100% legal”, which I now realize that was a scam. So I called because it said i needed to set up a meeting with the dean of IHCC to discuses this. Of course I started to freak out because I might be expelled and/or go to jail and owe WB millions of dollars. When I called no one was there so I left a message saying that I needed to set up a meeting. They returned my call on January 4 so this meant that I spent the next 7 days trying to pull my hair out, people who saw me on New Years Eve can attest to that. So then we set up a meeting on January 6. I went in hoping the dean wasn’t a jerk who punishes people who didn’t do anything wrong. Then the time came at 10:04 AM I entered his office where we talked. I explained what happened and 20 minutes later I left the office as happy as I could ever be because:

A)I wasn’t trouble and just gave me a warning

B)WB did not ask for my name so they are not going to give it to them

C)This will never be on my record and the only people who will know about this incident will be him and his IT team (and of course the people reading this right now)

So I am sure you can understand how relieved I was. Of course the happiness died down when I had to say good bye to my favorite brother Patrick Decker. It is sort of sad that in 3 days I will be back in college while most of my friends of at least another week to themselves BA! HUMBUG! I don’t hate them I just envy them. I sincerely hope that I will have as much fun as I did last semester and FYI I had straight B’s which is a curse and a blessing at the same time... I guess

Now I have to go to work and it might be boring so make my day brighter by stoping by or even a little text would be nice (651-247-4723) =] Stephen AWAAAAY!

PS: I love my new hair but it seems like everyday that goes by it gets more dull =[

Blog: Christmas edition

December 26, 2009

Blogging Christmas edition!... I started this blog at noon December 26, 2009 and didn’t decide to start till 4:02 AM to start. Shows how much I planned ahead. A lot of events have happened since my last blog such as:

-I went to what we like to call “Christmas Camp”, this is a place we rent for a weekend to just relax and socialize. This year was enjoyable because believe it or not as I grow older I start to realize that what my aunts and uncles talk about are very interesting issues. Even though they might think I don’t think it is interesting because I don’t say much but that is only because I don’t have a lot to say.( 3 days later: December 29, 2009) I am sorry thats just they way I am, because I am a man of few. I have been critically thinking about it and I think I might have a mild mental illness, I don’t really know but I am 70% positive that I do... Getting back to the topic at hand, My whole father’s side of the family gets together and we also exchange presents.

-And then a couple of days later it was christmas eve where my family went to midnight mass at Nativity. We woke up the next morning to open presents I got: A cord that plugs my keyboard up to my computer so i can mess around with my music (It’s lots of fun), Some cooking utensils, Coraline, Sponge season 4 volume 2 and season 5 volume 2 (Even it sounds completely childish), and a DTV convert for my TV. And every time I tell people what I got they say “No money?” I don’t know why people are surprised I have never gotten money for christmas.

-Usually there would be a party for all of the relatives on my mom’s side of the family but for some reason they decided to cancel because of “bad conditions” which I thought was stupid because it didn’t stop me from doing other stuff that day. So it was moved to the next day, and sadly it was a small turnout, it was the smallest group in the history of the christmas party to my knowledge and I don’t know why it was.

-Its hard to remember on which days I hung out with my friends I just know they were all really fun for me because I have had no regrets. YAY! for Friendship!

-Which brings us to today, not a lot happened today I was really intrigued by what I witnessed though. I went with my cousin Andrew to get his nose pierced at the Holy Mackerel. If you want to get a piercing or tattoo you should go there because they know what they are doing. And if you think the people who run those places that have tattoos all over their body and a gauge in their ear you can put your hand through are not so bright you would be wrong. I was baffled to hear the guy talk about nose piercings, he knew why a nose piercing takes a long time to heal and why he should go for a certain piercing and not another because it wouldn’t agitate the wound. There is a whole lot more scientific explanations he did but frankly I don’t remember them all and it would be a very long list even if I could remember, but all I have to say is WOW! I also feel bad for andrew because he has to wash it twice a day for the next YEAR! which is because that is the piercing that takes to longest to heal and it shows.... have fun cuz.

-On one final note everyone should check out a song that has been in life for about 5 years now It is Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. No matter how many times I hear it, it never gets old... In fact, I think I fall in love with it even more every time I hear it because I also hear something I didn’t before. Please check it out.

Your Guardian Angel- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

When I see your smile

Tears run down my face I can't replace

And now that I'm strong I have figured out

How this world turns cold and it breaks through my soul

And I know I'll find deep inside me I can be the one

I will never let you fall

I'll stand up with you forever

I'll be there for you through it all

Even if saving you sends me to heaven

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

Seasons are changing

And waves are crashing

And stars are falling all for us

Days grow longer and nights grow shorter

I can show you I'll be the one

I will never let you fall (let you fall)

I'll stand up with you forever

I'll be there for you through it all (through it all)

Even if saving you sends me to heaven

Cuz you're my, you're my, my, my true love, my whole heart

Please don't throw that away

Cuz I'm here for you

Please don't walk away and

Please tell me you'll stay, stay

Use me as you will

Pull my strings just for a thrill

And I know I'll be okay

Though my skies are turning gray

I will never let you fall

I'll stand up with you forever

I'll be there for you through it all

Even if saving you sends me to heaven

Some People! EH!?

Some people really! oh but before I go on my next rant I need to say that I am ecstatic that my first semester of college is now over officially and it still has hit me. I still have this pit feeling that there is still some distant paper or project i need to do, but NOPE! it’s all over I have nothing to so for the exception of planing parties. FUN FUN FUN! F is for Friends U is for the Uddles of fun i plan on having this next month and N is for the hopes for the absence of Negativity this month. Anyway as I try to get the F.U.N. spongebob song out of my head and try to gather my thoughts for the next section I would like to say the I am watching Julie and Julia with Catherine Vandegriff, Becca Shrake, and Miss Bernadette Foley and it is sparking my culinary creativity. At one point I actually thought that I should become a chef and was actually planing on attending the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), but then I ended up deciding that a career as a chef would not be a good choice and that I will still pursue more skills to go about life knowing I can feed myself, and possibly my family *fingers crossed*. It angers me when I do something that it is considered normal but then someone who is clearly more attractive then my does it, it makes that person “cute” while I sit there thinking that they are not *as I turn green*. It kills me even more that people still say things that make people become angered at said person, and after a couple of days the person that is angered has now gone back into their original fantasy of said person’s “cuteness” UG! Why can’t people be more consistent with the way they feel...

By the by: look up Pomplamoose on youtube.... Have you done it yet?... how about now?.... Is it Great! I LOVE single ladies and Beat it! OMG haha I hate it when people use “OMG” in actual conversation it is alright when it is online... Otherwise if you use it in real life you might as well punch my future baby in the stomach.

Its like it came right from a FML

Oh blog, no matter how hard I try I can’t get away from you, I missed you. Anyway down to business, So finals are next week but I’m not stressing that much, at least not yet. I know this sounds completely nerdy but if you liked your classes as much as I like my classes you would also feel a little sad that today was the last regular day of class for 3 out of my 4 classes. I especially had a connection with my economy class, I learned so much! So yesterday I went to kuepper’s house and I had the chance to see Robert’s group civil war project which was very funny and entertaining, if you get the chance, watch it. All day today I was close to just putting my head down and taking a nap, and im pretty sure I took a small nap on the bus because from what I remember the bus ride was surprisingly short (oops), hope I didnt do anything embarrassing. The reason for my tiredness is something you might see off of Fmylife.com. I had made my rough draft into a final draft yesterday afternoon, than at about midnight I decided to do my works cited page. At this point I notice my essay is not on the screen, I open my essay to find out that it is just the rough draft there. So at this point I am pretty much going insane, so I stay up till 2 AM redoing my paper, I wasn’t to thrilled that I had a 5:30 AM wake up time, and the rest is history. I can’t hold in my excitement for the new series coming out this monday that is a competition with no instruments and I just saw a commercial for it OMG! I am excited for the weekend it is bound to be good, but knowing my luck everything is bound to fall through. Here is hoping that everything goes well (crossing fingers).

Dubois knew what he was doing

VAA VAA VAA VAAAAAA! Vi Descru es Templum Dei situs es Cristus Filius Dei Descende nuc et cruche uvidamus et credamos et credamus tibi! Dear God.... I love this song! Love, Stephen Cross. I would hope some people how read my blog would remember what this is. Anyway OUCH! (haha salvum te FAC!) you know its going to be a good day when your hair has ice crystals which hurt when you try to run you fingers through it. I like snow and with this powdery snow I like to watch cars have those snow rifts that are behind cars as the drive. But a women should get her broom and clean it up. I am just kidding this was my only thought of making a transition into my next topic Sexism. If you did not know I am with you girls. Every time I hear about a guy how is a “guy” I say what a F***ing Douche-bag! get off the couch and do what your wife says and get off the couch football is never that important. Seriously these people give me a bad name, and not only actual people TV shows are teaching children at an early that women belong in the kitchen to serve their good for nothing who does nothing for their wife (EX: Homer from The Simpsons Peter Griffin from Family Guy, ETC....). If ever become like these one of these “men” or even close to them I will have failed myself because I never want to be like that. NEVER! [time lapse as I get off my 74 bus and wait/get on to 71 to school]... And to be honest I do laugh at sexist okes sometimes they are funny, but I never say my own sexist jokes I just laugh at them which I guess is also bad but as I said above I am not like that. Hell, I love cooking there is nothing like going to the fridge and see there is nothing to just zap up and eat so then I like what can I make with all these ingredients and then the rest is history. I don’t know if its a good thing that I am doing my blog and not doing homework, but I read what I had to do for English and I don’t get what I have to do so I am going go to class unprepared and hope all goes well. Another thing I am worried/stressing out about is that I am asked to sing in a choir and it has been a while since I have done something like this but I am going to try and do my best because I am flattered that I am being asked in the first place, because like most singers I think my voice is “ok” and not special. So now that I am thinking about it I am already freaking out for it SHREAK! Anyway I hope you all have better and more relaxing day than I am already having. VA!