Went to Chinatown Friday night- it was fun. In Dallas there is this strip of shops on Greenville Avenue and every one of them is Chinese or Japanese or Taiwanese- you get the idea. Anyway, we bought the movie Hero- it has Jet Li in it and Zhang Ziyi and it is a lot like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. We watched on the wall at our house with jimmy's overhead projector- could it have been more fun? I don't think so.

Saturday I was in the 3P Challenge- Nikki and Amanda ran for 3 miles, Brandon and Brad canoed for 3.8 miles, and Sara and myself biked for 12 miles. We came in 2nd! I was so happy- there was no way when we signed up for this thing that I thought we would come in second. We got plaques and everything- it may be a little cheesy to be so happy about the plaque, but it has been a loooong time since I have gotten a plaque for anything- and it was really nice.

I also went to Nascar this weekend and hung out with my good buddy Braun. He works for the Charlotte Motor Speedway up in North Carolina. We did "the program" together back in 99-2000. It is always good to see good friends. We watched Serving Sara after going to dinner at Clarks Barbecue in Tioga- the barbecue was delicious- the movie was lame, but hanging out with Braun at the Reatta Ranch was also fun.

Played Ultimate Frisbee yesterday. I was in a much better mood, most everyone was actually moving around and working. I didn't want to shout at anyone, except to say- if you drop that frisbee one more time I am going to kill you! It was unbelievable how many times my teammates dropped the frisbee. But, we all have our off days- I was throwing like crap myself.

that pretty much sums up my weekend. overall it was A+.

here is my attempt at an anology- please don't start thinking that I am trying to be too deep or anything, I don't think I am all knowing, or super intelligent. I don't like Jazz, or NPR, and I rarely like any form of talk radio. However, I did stumble upon this anology while getting rid of some old clothes the other day.

Friends are like clothes.

Friends are like clothes
Sometimes they go out of style
You wonder why you loved them so much
But now they are just in a big pile
At the bottom of my closet
Or in an old bag
I'll just get some new ones
I don't mean to brag
But I can't dare to part
With the extra special shirts
I remember that stain
That time I fell in the dirt
The sentimental times
The good and the bad
I clothe myself
With the memories I've had.

Sometimes my friends
They come back in style
It don't happen much
But every once in a while
I pull them out of that drawer
That recess that space
I find that I missed them
Or maybe they'd been misplaced
But whatever the reason
I'm glad that they're back
Like a worn pair of jeans
or a great pair of slacks
they just fit, they are comfy
They compliment you well
They hide all your problems
And they'll just never tell

But with time, you change
they clothes stay the same
You tire of keeping them
this wash and wear game
You grow out of them
You don't hate them
They just take up room
so you sweep them out of your life
no need for a broom
Just a really large back
and a trip to goodwill
With new room, for new things
it is no big deal.

So, if you were my friend
And i just threw you out
It didn't mean that you weren't special
You were- no doubt
So don't take it personal
Don't worry, don't fret
Because I cleaned a space in your closet
That's right don't forget.

See- it ended up being just a poem- nothing special- sorta vanilla if you ask me.

Saw Shane and Shane last night at Irving Bible Church- they are so amazing, but that building was hot, hot, hot and humid to boot.
I always have a great time with cody and dumas- they make me laugh so much- it's just joke after joke after joke! (wink)

negro please!

so, last night i had some friends that went to see dreamcatcher- that demonic movie by stephen king. i hear it was sorta vanilla- you know- nothing special. anyway, let it be known AGAIN- that i do not like scary movies. what is more, i don't like being made fun of for not liking scary movies. i am not a pansy, maybe my imagination is just more vivid than yours- i don't make fun of you for being afraid of snakes and spiders or whatever it is your afraid of- so, if you want me to ever talk to you again, stay out of my face and don't invite me to scary movies. i remember a time when i walked out of that movie "the cell" because it gave me the heeby jeebys. the main freak had about 100 hooks in his back and he was hanging by his skin- that's just nasty. then he was bleaching women- vomit. so yeah, i left, i don't like be totally desensitized to everything in this messed up world. i am reminded of a time when some friends invited me to see "the ring". I hated it, and a piece of me hated them for making me go and see it- i didn't want to, especially not at the theater where I couldn't run from the demons- that sometimes are only in my head, but when they are in your head, that is when they are the hardest to get away from.

so, get out a pen, make a note, jot it down, put it by your phone- DON'T INVITE EDDO TO SCARY MOVIES, DON'T MAKE FUN OF HIM- or else he will have to tell everyone some things you would rather have kept in secret...

have you ever said yes to someone when they asked you to do something, but you really didn't want to do it?
have you ever tried to avoid someone, but they just didn't take a hint, that maybe it wasn't about them, maybe it was about something else that they never would begin to understand?
have you ever wanted to just leave the planet earth for just a few days, a short escape from your everyday life, just until things settled down, or moved on?
have you ever had any of these feelings, and then felt guilty about not facing your problems head on?

for those of you that know me know that i am an emotional person. fortunately, i am about one hundred times less emotional now than i used to be. during this time of the year I always want to quit my job, or buy something new, or find a hot chick and settle down- however, i am a an adult and i have to just chill out- wait till the weather turns nasty, and just endure and plow through.

so, if you notice my mood swinging- it is just march madness- not the kind associated with the 64 teams playing 63 games in like 3 weeks, but the kind of madness that comes from wanting more out of life than an 8-5 job, thursday night tv, and papa johns pizza.

must run.- no really, I need to run.

Interesting things that happened over the weekend-

Went mountain biking at Grapevine lake- the new bike worked extremely well- I love it!
Went to Joe T. Garcia's with Josh Wiese, Erika Leo, Cody Miller and a couple of other new people that I hardly talked to at all due to the noisy crowd inside Joe T.'s.
Played a serious game of Ultimate Frisbee- I am getting a little too into this game though. Yesterday, I started playing serious. That is something I rarely do. I usually play to have fun, but man, I am so tired of people that don't get their head out of their butts and play the freaking game. Some people just stand around on defense, and then they wonder why I don't throw them the frisbee when they are wide open on offense- BECAUSE YOU ARE LAZY!!! I am 300 pounds people- if I can run my fat ass up and down the field, then so can you- and for crying out loud, yesterday we had some people leave or quit because I wouldn't split the teams up into 4 smaller teams- the problem with that some people leave during the middle of the game, then you have teams with like 3 people against 8 and it gets crazy and people whine- it's Frisbee!!! SHUT UP AND PLAY!!!! Work- if you want the frisbee- or, do what some people did, sat out or went home... don't think that I am going to be upset at all whatsoever, your leaving made the teams smaller and you probably aren't that good anyway!!! Yeah, I am the leader and this is so not the Christian attitude, but none of those people read this site anyway. Besides, I am always so freaking nice- I deserve to be mean every now and then.


And this might sound extreme, but Michael Moore (oscar winner for hid dumb documentary- bowling for columbine), keep your stupid opinions to yourself- maybe you will get smallpox or anthrax or a bomb on your doorstep- is that what it will take to make you wake up? Man, I am so tired of people thinking they know how to run the country- if you can do it so well, if you are so freaking smart- then run for president you retard! And please, do you think Gore would have done better? He was on Saturday Night Live! He is a J-O-K-E!

Okay- my ranting is over for now- I feel sooooo much better, but please for your own safety, stay out of my face this week.

View from the Top- starring Gwinnie Paltrow, Mike Myers, and Christina Applegate-

While this movie is funny, it is not "hold my stomach" funny. It is a cute movie, perfect for watching with friends and family, a movie that everyone can enjoy.

Last night we had burgers cooked on the grill at the Cody's house. Soooo good. Of course they were, I made them. The it was time for a very fast game of Cranium, and then to the 10:20 showing of View from the Top.

I bought a new bike- yeah- my list of things to do while on Vacation- it's complete- almost. Anyway, I got my headlight replaced on my truck. I did it myself! I thought it was going to be expensive- it was 10 bucks for the headlight and 6 for the screwdriver and the instructions were on the box! Bonus! So, in 60 seconds I had the headlight replaced. Oh, back to the bike- got a little sidetracked.

I am going to be in a race this Saturday morning- it is going to be a triathalon of sorts. 2 people will be canoeing, 2 people will be running, and me and Sara Arnold will be bike riding for 12 miles. 12 miles is a nice length, right now in the shape I am in, that is about all I would want to do- I hope it is all downhill!

Tonight we are going to Joe T. Garcias- I will tell you all about that tomorrow!

Love you all-

eddeaux

How do I know a movie is going to be good? I find out what the critics think is bad. Usually what they hate, I love. My roommate jimmy usually doesn't like the same movies as me either I am noticing. Howvever, he does like what the critics like. So, what does that say about me? Am I a fool who doesn't know what makes a good movie? I don't know, but what I like in a movie is:

-Hilarious lines or phrases
-Fight scenes
-Car Chases
-Explosions- yeah- lots of big explosions
-Pretty Girls-

That's pretty much it, if it has even one of these elements, then I don't really care about anything else.

I just went yesterday and watched Cradle 2 the Grave. Critics gave it a C- at best, I give it an A+++. Let me elaborate.

It stars Jet Li, DMX, Tom Arnold, Gabrielle Union, and that really big black guy that was in Barber Shop and Kangaroo Jack.

So, the movie is action packed- Gabrielle Union is super hot- she does do some rated R scenes, no nudity- but really close- this I don't condone so please don't think that i do. But she is that really hot girl that played a role on Friends, she was Eva in "Deliver us from Eva" and she was the Black head cheerleader in "Bring it on". I love her, that's all I am going to say- I looove her.

DMX and Jet Li- they kick butt- both of them will bust you in the head before you even move. I love it, I don't care if it is unrealistic, the fight scenes in this movie are awesome!

Tom Arnold- he's a goober, but he is so funny- and for some reason he reminds me of my sisters husband.

The best part of this movie is the chase scene- you get cars, motorcycles, and 4 wheelers- it is un-believable.

Enough about that- it rocked.

Thursday night was all reruns on TV so I made fried chicken at the Miller's house. It was delicious as usual. Hey, I call it like I see it- or taste it in this case.

After dinner, Cody, Mindi, Sean, and Myself all played CRANIUM- so much fun. Let me just say that this game is like the ulitmate frisbee of board games- I love, love, love it.

I also had lunch with Chad and Lisa Miller- they are fun. Chad is such a hoot, he is like a character out of a crazy book. I just sit back and look at him and say, I wonder what is going on in that head of his. But I love him.

Do you ever get into a frenzied state? Like a Jack Russell- or a small child who has just had a package of twinkies and two glasses of strawberry Kool-Aid.

Well, that is me- I am house siting, and at the same time, I want to be at my house so I can do some things that I need to do to my website. Right now it is so creatively inept that I can't stand it. It looks like someone who just started created a website, someone that is forced to use someone else's site to host their own site, someone who doesn't even know a thing about HTML or CSS created it. Well, I am no guru, and most of the time I just use frontpage becuase I don't have the time to do everything in code and it looks about the same, but still, right now my site is a wreck- I apologize.

So, here I am, this is my dilemma- I am house sitting and this house is nice and cozy and has a really nice big screen TV and brownies, my house has no big screen and no brownies, and I don't want to go back there until I have too, but it does have high speed internet, which is a must when you are doing any type of web design. So, do I just postpone my webdesign and continue to let the ugliness of my site drive me insane, or do I run over to my house and sink into what will probably be around 3-4 hours of redesign, which normally involves so much metamorphosis that only the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers could even begin to understand or fathom.

And who puts blogs on their website one right after another? Me. It's that eddie goes crazy in March thing- just plow through eddo, just plow through...

Today is Friday for me- I am taking off Thursday and Friday for a little spring break fun. The interesting thing about this time of year is that it is a pivotal time in my life. March of 2000 I started working for Custom Food Group- a lucrative contract position, then, in March or 2001, I bought my Jeep Grand Cherokee, March of 2002 I quit that lucrative position, and became unemployed for a while- and here it is March of 2003 and I got rid of that same Jeep I had bought in 2001. I don't know what it is- maybe the weather? Maybe God just likes stirring up my life in March? I don't know, but each of these major decisions have all happened in March around the same time- funny.

On another note- have you ever had to walk down long hallways at work and pass people that you know repeatedly? Or perhaps you had a long conversation in the grocery store with someone and you keep seeing that person later- what do you do? Why is it akward? I never know what to say- do you ignore them and act like you don't see them every time you run into them, or do you keep making your small waves and smiles each and every time?

At work, I have to walk down a long hallway to get to the bathroom or the break room. You see the same people all the time, do you give them the head nod? Here are a list of things I have noticed about people-

1. They speak to you- "Good Morning"
2. They ignore you
3. They pick lint off their shirt so they can keep from making eye contact with you
4. They look at their watch for the same reason as above
5. They keep their head either down, or straight ahead, but at no time do they let their eyes stray in the direction of your presence.


personally I do all of these things too- sometimes I don't feel like talking, or making nice. Sometimes I am in the Eddo Zone and I really don't see them, sometimes I read a book while walking down the hall.
When i am in the grocery store, I hate running into that same person over and over again. I don't know why it is so akward for me- is it akward for you?

Synchronicity- that is what some people call it when things just work out for good.

That happened to me yesterday- I was hungry, had no friends in town- and so I was just going to have a pizza delivered. I even called Papa Johns, but they put me on hold for too long so I decided to go to Hooya's instead. Right when I got there, I saw Josh Wiese and the Leo family- Tony, Mona, and Erika. They were just sitting down to eat and they invited me to join them- serendipitous synchronicity! I had a Killer Hooya- so delicious- with double meat and queso and cilantro and guacamole and barbecue sauce- it sounds gross, but it is muy delicioso!

Then I went back to the Miller's pad since I am house sitting for them and I watched TV- Drowning Mona was on Comedy Central- a very bizarre comedy that was hard to follow since it was half over- but it did have Will Farrell, Danny Devito, Amanda Peete, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Bette Middler in it! I mean, with an all star cast like that you can't help but watch it.

Wow- what a looong weekend- which then landed me right onto a long Monday. I mean, I went to Waco, so that was fun, but driving in traffic, and shopping, while fun, can wear you out like nothing else.

So what is new in my life? Well, nothing really. Still struggling with school work out the wazoo- I had these papers to do and I just couldn't seem to get it together and finally I just buckled down and did it- you ever get that way, where you don't even care what the outcome is, you are just glad to get it over with? So many times I have not even re-read the final paper just because I knew I would see some gaping hole that I had overlooked and then I would spend another 3 hours butchering my paper until I didn't have a paper at all. That is the worst.

Last night I went to Chili's with Michelle, Matt, Josh Wiese, Erika Leo, a new guy named Jason, and Sara- it was a great time. I had a peppercorn burger and was quite disappointed in my stomach for not being able to consume the entire thing! I was soooo full. I hadn't eaten any lunch, and I had played Ultimate Frisbee and usually after that combo, I am ready for a combo meal- make it a Super Sized one, but yesterday my tummy let me down. Later it wanted some brownies, homeade or something, but I was like noooo, if you can't finish your dinner, then you aren't getting dessert!

Did I tell you that I was applying to work for Hallmark? The application is in the mail! Well, much to my chagrin I never finished the cover letter. I tried, and it always sounded sooo cheesy, so I said, shoot, if God wants me to have this job, then I don't even need this dumb cover letter- which I had printed out and was fixing to mail when I noticed a minor typo. Not to mention that I started the cover letter with a personal add- I mean get real. It read- Loves Music, Loves to Laugh. A partially borrowed line from a Mary Higgins Clark novel- Loves Music, Loves to Dance- which is also quite fitting, but I didn't want to totally plagiarize. So, here I am so totally over my job in Plano at the Texas Instruments- I mean, it is great and all, but the drive is killing me! 45 miles one way- yeah, not a typo- and it is not like I am making what I am worth- but no matter how much I make I know I will feel that way, cause I think I am worth about 76482.03 an hour- no, really, I do.

Ever been on a diet? Well, not everyone has, but I think most of America has at least heard of it- anyway, I like to try them all- Weight Watchers, Atkins, Jenny Craig, Sugar Busters, Bulemia, The Zone- I lose 15 pounds or so, just enough to start to tell I am losing weight, and then I am like- crap, I am sooo hungry, and I gorge myself to the point that I put that 15 pounds back on in 3 days- but heck, I am still young- I will give myself to the age of 30 to get down to 235 which is about 70 pounds- that is roughly 23.3 pounds a year-

okay- enough blabbing for now- I got to order a large pizza, I had a lean cuisine for lunch and now I am starving!!!

Movie Critics inspired this- That dumb Epert guy really gets my goat-

People think they are so clever
They turn their knobs, I pull their levers
What makes me turn, is the words they spout
They talk a lot, they prance about
Knowing all, and nothing at the same time
they miss the point, they miss the sign
That points them, leads them, to where freedom lies
Instead their bound, and their inside dies
Fed with nothing but negativity
They rot within, they never see
That sometimes simplicity, taste so sweet
Delight in the little things, it’s such a treat!
But people rarely see the light
Until it’s too late, 6 feet, one night
buried with their empty goals
Their body’s a coffin, a box, no soul.
They missed it, oh yes, it passed them by
Not once, but twice, oh no, three times
Each time they laughed, and just moved on.
But no one remembers them, when they’re gone.

Movie Critics inspired this- That dumb Epert guy really gets my goat-

People think they are so clever
They turn their knobs, I pull their levers
What makes me turn, is the words they spout
They talk a lot, they prance about
Knowing all, and nothing at the same time
they miss the point, they miss the sign
That points them, leads them, to where freedom lies
Instead their bound, and their inside dies
Fed with nothing but negativity
They rot within, they never see
That sometimes simplicity, taste so sweet
Delight in the little things, it’s such a treat!
But people rarely see the light
Until it’s too late, 6 feet, one night
buried with their empty goals
Their body’s a coffin, a box, no soul.
They missed it, oh yes, it passed them by
Not once, but twice, oh no, three times
Each time they laughed, and just moved on.
But no one remembers them, when they’re gone.