Sunday, November 15, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
buying stuff.
so hank of the vlogbrothers is releasing anther CD. i am so hype for it. almost as excited as when i bought his "so jokes" cd, from the cathrine, got both papertowns and looking for alaska signed by john, then got the cd signed by hank. one of the best evenings of my life. i have since then purchased 2 other cd's from dftba records and a john green bobble head. i also got a ninja turtles t-shirt (i got a whole bunch of compliments on it today, thanks to all who did so)...
anyway. i just ordered the hanks new cd and the t-shirt that goes with it. i spent $40.50 on it. and this to me as a teenager is a good amount of money. i always seem to pain over the purchases of items of things... but as of late the spending of money, non physical money, is seemingly easy. (i say non physical because i am not handing cash over, its a simple click and then my dad does a few clicks to withdraw money from my bank account) this can be the cause of many things, i do have a job, and i am making money. i am growing in age. i don't know.
here is one thing that i know for certain. the things i buy are things i love. i get t-shirt that says something about me, like a nerdfighter t-shirt. i refuse to buy clothing that doesn't tell a story about me. like hollister. i have and will never enter that establishment. i find the idea of a brand defining who you are to be absolutely redonkulas. i want what i wear on my torso to be true to me. if i wear a coke t-shirt, a black rock t-shirt, a TMNT t-shirt, or a "the office" shirt i want it to define a part of my life. this is all i wanted to say.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
hiking
so today is the first of november. and i don't really know what else to say about that. my plan is to just type and see if an actual plot or reason a merges. sofar for nanowrimo i started what seemed to be a great idea, then i realized i was basically writing my life down. and all i could think about was my life and what i've done the last too days (hiking on both). that brings a great topic of interest. i dub this blog post as "HIKING"
as much as i love the indoors and the internet and such, i have a outdoorsy side of me as well. it doesn't come out too often and if you don't really know me you don't know this side of me. unless your reading this and then you know that and it kinda gets rid of that... umm. ANYWAY. my family likes to every once in a while go out and about to different locations and go hiking. most places we found were from when we did "letterboxing" you had to follow clues and such to find a box with an inkpad and book that you would sign in with your specific stamp and then stamp yourown. my favorite place from that is called "theodor A parker natural area", but we'll come back to that later.
again i will go off subject to try and make this story make sense to you, the reader because you may not know me. professional sports don't matter to me. i find watching them on tv to be a waste of time. i don't care if you do it but i don't find it to be that great.
back to the tale:
it was thursday evening, the world series is on the tele, i just got home from work and was putting "Serenity" into the PS2 and i get a phonecall from one of by best friends dill. (as seen in machete man) he tell me to get over to his place right now and such. so i agree and head over. he calls me twice durring the 5 minute drive to his place telling me to pick up the pace. so i get there and they (both dill and dax) just wanted to watch the phillies play the yankees. so whatever, i can talk to these two clowns and half watch this game. so we talk more that we watch and i say that i only have a half day on friday (the next day) and we should hang out. somehow hiking comes up (maybe my idea, im not sure though) and we all think its a great idea. i'm thinking of one place and they are thinking of another, but the descriptions sound extremely similar, especially since they are both in the area of quarryville PA. so the next day after school we meet up at the kings house, our friend christian is also invited, we pile up in the jeep and we begin to drive. of course, im thinking one place and dax is thinking another, but i don't have a dominant personality, and i suck at directions so i basically drive were im told to even though it feels wrong. we ended up making a few wrong turns, but we made it there anyway. it was called (tuquawin, tuckawin, i havn't a clue) trail. it was awesome. we didn't really follow the trail, we followed the creek. crossing almost every time there was a log across. it was alot of fun. especially since i could keep up with dill and dax, two farmkids who are always the superior in the physical area. but i was keeping up, i was even better in a way. that was cool. we didn't have enough time to do all the cliff/hill/moutain rocks we wanted to do because i had to be home at 5 to get ready for work. since we had to cut it short we decided we would go again the next day. we got home no problem.
the next day was saterday and following a late night of work i slept in till about 11:23 am. when i got up ate ate breakfast and bathed and such and i talked to dill about going to my place today, the natural area mentioned in paragraph two. so we plan on leaving at whatever time but that gets pushed back because dill invites his sisters fiance bret and bret was at the time out to eat with his father. so we waited till he was done and we met up to go. we had to take two cars this time because 5 people don't fit too well in a car. so i ended up having to drive again. and the jeep gets like 19 miles to the gal so i wasn't too happy. ANYWAY, we get there and everything is honkeydory. the trail starts off as a easy flat thing with signs about bird migration and abunch of other signs found boring to teenagers. then we get to a sweet rock formation that looked kinda like pride rock. we had to cross the creek to get to it and that meant jumping rock to rock, no sweat. dill, dax and i begin scaling this rock formation and bret and christian kinda walk up around it to get to the top. (as i typed this i found a deer tick on my back, so if i get limes, you know from where) anyway, since i had been there before i was leading and wearing dax's hiking back back. it was rainy the day before and had drizzled all morning and as we were about halfway up i slipped and slid on my belly back about five feet were dill was, there was a bunch of leaves so they slipped out from under me and i rolled onto my back straight down the next 20 ft to the ground. luckily the backpack protected my me from real danger and i only had a scratched up chest and and nice bleeding wrist. i was wearing an orange tiedie shirts so i just wiped it on that and and made it part red as well. luckily bret's belt was broken and he was using an ace bandage for a belt. he cut me a piece and wrapped it around my wrist and that stopped the bleeding. so i was all good to go. i would like to state now if i hadn't already that this was the first real thing we had done that day and i already almost died. sweet deal.
so we trekked on. till we got to the sweet bolder part of the river, where you could jump back and forth and it was fun. at one point bret and dill decided that they were going swimming, right after they said that a photographer popped up... that was weird. he left about 51 seconds later. they then striped to their boxers and got in. i am no fool so i didn't enter the water, it was the end of october, so you know it must be fidged. instead dax, christian and i went up the hill and scaled somerocks and such. it was lots of fun. later, after dill and bret were redressed we continued on. we got a part were a rock kinda judded out at an awkward angle half over another rock and half over water. so to get past it to get to that other rock, dax hung from it and worked his way around it that way, dill followed suit. Me on the other hand, lacking the upper body strength needed, jumped and used the rock to swing me to the place. bret saw a gas can and got it, and in doing so was unable to return to our possition, so he jumped from the other side of the rock to get where we were. christian walked up around a hill thingie to get to us. we continued on till we reached a sign saying that we were entering privet land so we turned back. unfortunately we got back to that spot and hand get back up. dax lead the way and then helped dill and i get up. christian attempted next and failed to grab dax's arm and fell into knee deep water. christian got out of the water and he and bret walked the other side of the creek for a while until a suitable crossing place would be found.
i believe that is all of the major stories from the trip, except for dill amazing dismount the first day. real quick. we were crossing a log. i lead followed by dax. dill was next and about three fourths of the way he slips, catches himself with his hands and pulls himself back on. like a boss.
so that is my tale. i hope you spend time outdoors and get some vitamin D before winter sets in the rest of the way.
leave comments and challenges in the comments below.
-taylor fritz
as much as i love the indoors and the internet and such, i have a outdoorsy side of me as well. it doesn't come out too often and if you don't really know me you don't know this side of me. unless your reading this and then you know that and it kinda gets rid of that... umm. ANYWAY. my family likes to every once in a while go out and about to different locations and go hiking. most places we found were from when we did "letterboxing" you had to follow clues and such to find a box with an inkpad and book that you would sign in with your specific stamp and then stamp yourown. my favorite place from that is called "theodor A parker natural area", but we'll come back to that later.
again i will go off subject to try and make this story make sense to you, the reader because you may not know me. professional sports don't matter to me. i find watching them on tv to be a waste of time. i don't care if you do it but i don't find it to be that great.
back to the tale:
it was thursday evening, the world series is on the tele, i just got home from work and was putting "Serenity" into the PS2 and i get a phonecall from one of by best friends dill. (as seen in machete man) he tell me to get over to his place right now and such. so i agree and head over. he calls me twice durring the 5 minute drive to his place telling me to pick up the pace. so i get there and they (both dill and dax) just wanted to watch the phillies play the yankees. so whatever, i can talk to these two clowns and half watch this game. so we talk more that we watch and i say that i only have a half day on friday (the next day) and we should hang out. somehow hiking comes up (maybe my idea, im not sure though) and we all think its a great idea. i'm thinking of one place and they are thinking of another, but the descriptions sound extremely similar, especially since they are both in the area of quarryville PA. so the next day after school we meet up at the kings house, our friend christian is also invited, we pile up in the jeep and we begin to drive. of course, im thinking one place and dax is thinking another, but i don't have a dominant personality, and i suck at directions so i basically drive were im told to even though it feels wrong. we ended up making a few wrong turns, but we made it there anyway. it was called (tuquawin, tuckawin, i havn't a clue) trail. it was awesome. we didn't really follow the trail, we followed the creek. crossing almost every time there was a log across. it was alot of fun. especially since i could keep up with dill and dax, two farmkids who are always the superior in the physical area. but i was keeping up, i was even better in a way. that was cool. we didn't have enough time to do all the cliff/hill/moutain rocks we wanted to do because i had to be home at 5 to get ready for work. since we had to cut it short we decided we would go again the next day. we got home no problem.
the next day was saterday and following a late night of work i slept in till about 11:23 am. when i got up ate ate breakfast and bathed and such and i talked to dill about going to my place today, the natural area mentioned in paragraph two. so we plan on leaving at whatever time but that gets pushed back because dill invites his sisters fiance bret and bret was at the time out to eat with his father. so we waited till he was done and we met up to go. we had to take two cars this time because 5 people don't fit too well in a car. so i ended up having to drive again. and the jeep gets like 19 miles to the gal so i wasn't too happy. ANYWAY, we get there and everything is honkeydory. the trail starts off as a easy flat thing with signs about bird migration and abunch of other signs found boring to teenagers. then we get to a sweet rock formation that looked kinda like pride rock. we had to cross the creek to get to it and that meant jumping rock to rock, no sweat. dill, dax and i begin scaling this rock formation and bret and christian kinda walk up around it to get to the top. (as i typed this i found a deer tick on my back, so if i get limes, you know from where) anyway, since i had been there before i was leading and wearing dax's hiking back back. it was rainy the day before and had drizzled all morning and as we were about halfway up i slipped and slid on my belly back about five feet were dill was, there was a bunch of leaves so they slipped out from under me and i rolled onto my back straight down the next 20 ft to the ground. luckily the backpack protected my me from real danger and i only had a scratched up chest and and nice bleeding wrist. i was wearing an orange tiedie shirts so i just wiped it on that and and made it part red as well. luckily bret's belt was broken and he was using an ace bandage for a belt. he cut me a piece and wrapped it around my wrist and that stopped the bleeding. so i was all good to go. i would like to state now if i hadn't already that this was the first real thing we had done that day and i already almost died. sweet deal.
so we trekked on. till we got to the sweet bolder part of the river, where you could jump back and forth and it was fun. at one point bret and dill decided that they were going swimming, right after they said that a photographer popped up... that was weird. he left about 51 seconds later. they then striped to their boxers and got in. i am no fool so i didn't enter the water, it was the end of october, so you know it must be fidged. instead dax, christian and i went up the hill and scaled somerocks and such. it was lots of fun. later, after dill and bret were redressed we continued on. we got a part were a rock kinda judded out at an awkward angle half over another rock and half over water. so to get past it to get to that other rock, dax hung from it and worked his way around it that way, dill followed suit. Me on the other hand, lacking the upper body strength needed, jumped and used the rock to swing me to the place. bret saw a gas can and got it, and in doing so was unable to return to our possition, so he jumped from the other side of the rock to get where we were. christian walked up around a hill thingie to get to us. we continued on till we reached a sign saying that we were entering privet land so we turned back. unfortunately we got back to that spot and hand get back up. dax lead the way and then helped dill and i get up. christian attempted next and failed to grab dax's arm and fell into knee deep water. christian got out of the water and he and bret walked the other side of the creek for a while until a suitable crossing place would be found.
i believe that is all of the major stories from the trip, except for dill amazing dismount the first day. real quick. we were crossing a log. i lead followed by dax. dill was next and about three fourths of the way he slips, catches himself with his hands and pulls himself back on. like a boss.
so that is my tale. i hope you spend time outdoors and get some vitamin D before winter sets in the rest of the way.
leave comments and challenges in the comments below.
-taylor fritz
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