JOURNAL: squall1986 (J.J. Montgomery)

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  • November 4, 2003 2003-12-15 15:00:30 Tuesday 11-4-03
    As I was reading my last couple of entries I realized that I never wrote about Echo's birthday. On her birthday (August 26th), it was her second day of school, and the day before I went back to school. I had gotten the tickets for the Evanescence concert after receiving permission from her dad, and I was planning on surprising her when she came home from school. The thing was though, that she had already invited me down to have dinner with her family. So it wasn't a complete surprise. I'm kind of skipping over the details because it's 1:16 in the morning, I have school tomorrow, and this happened two and a half months ago, so sorry. Anyway, I showed up, gave her a card with one of the tickets in it, and she loved it. Then we went bowling. I don't think she will ever step foot on the bowling lane again. She bowled a score of 26. She was so humiliated, I felt kind of bad, especially since it was on her birthday. Anyway, after that we went back to her house and ate dinner with her family. Then the funny part came (funny to me, extremely embarrassing for her). But her dad got out the camera and started recording her opening all the presents, it was fun to watch.
    Anyway, the concert was September 4th at SaltAir, it was pretty fun. The line of cars going trying to get there though extended clear back onto the freeway, so we were stuck there forever. After about 10-20 minutes of sitting on the off ramp, I decided, "Heck, I'm in a 4x4 truck, I'll just park off to the side of the road." So I did, which I'm pretty glad of, because we didn't have to pay for parking, and I didn't get a ticket. When we were trying to get back onto the road after the concert though, a cop spotted us and had his spot light on us. He didn't do anything, though. Anyway, the line of people trying to get in was enormous, too. I lost my watch in that stupid line because somebody said I couldn't wear it in, so I just stuffed it down my pants and I guess it fell out. I really liked that watch, too.
    So when we got in we realized the seat number on our tickets meant nothing because it was all standing room anyway, which was okay. About four different bands performed that I didn't know until finally Evanescence came on. During the whole thing Echo and I were just walking around sifting through the crowd and it was then that she first held my hand. Yes, it sounds corny, but I remember stuff like that. We also found a table to sit on and she rested her head on my shoulder, I thought it was really cool. So that night I didn't get home 'till about one or two, and it was a school night, but it was worth it.
    So what I really wanted to get to was Sunday, but wait, I forgot about Friday. Friday was Halloween and a bunch of my friends got together and watched movies at Joe's house. So I decided to bring Echo along, ofcourse. Neither of us had school that day, but I still couldn't get down there until about three in the afternoon. And I had to have the truck back at four so my mom could go pick up an engine lift so we could fix the car, but ofcourse she didn't, so the Metro's still just sitting there in our car port, taking up space. Anyway, we really wanted to go to Lagoon because it was the last day it was open, but it didn't open until six, so we just couldn't make it. I feel really bad because Echo wanted to go so much, and we didn't.
    Anyway, I had to take the truck home, so that meant she had to see my house, and come inside. Thankfully my family had cleaned up the front room so we could sit in there. I called Dave so he would come pick us up. When I told him where we were he said, "Wait a minute, you're at YOU'RE house? ... Where's Echo? ... She's there, TOO?!? ... I'll try to hurry." He knows how crappy my house is and how much I don't want Echo to see it in all its crappiness. But Dave was at Tiffany's waiting for her to get ready, so we were stuck at my house for a while. We just played some card games and then my sisters started to come bug us. They decided they wanted my hat, so ofcourse Echo had to help them, that was kind of fun.
    Well Dave finally came. He pulls up and instead of coming to the door like a normal person he called on his cell phone to tell me he was waiting outside. Oh ya, I never told you about UEA weekend. So me, Nate, Cole, Dave, Mark, Chris, Joe, and Steve took our computers up and had another huge LAN party at Cole's cabin in Bear Lake. I love those trips so much. We left on October 15 after school and were up there until Sunday October 19. We arrived at about 9:00 at night and just set everything thing up then went to bed some time in the morning. I rode up with Nate, so we just talked and listened to music for two hours. Cole rode with Dave. They had the Dave's video camera, which we've brought along before, and I've made a music video from our footage from the last time we went, which was the first weekend of school (August 29-September 1; we had a three-day weekend). Anyway, Cole rode up with Dave and filmed most of the trip, who knows why? Who knows why we film half the stuff we do? So ya, Cole rode up with Dave, Chris rode up with Mark, and Steve came up with Joe the next day because Steve had to finish his swimming merit badge so he could get his Eagle.
    So Thursday morning, I forgot what happened Thursday morning, let me watch the video from that day real quick ... oh ya, I had a pretty bad cold most of the time, so I was coughing in most of the videos, that's just what I noticed first. I got sick from Echo (not by making out), and she's been sick since the beginning of September. She's still kind of sick, I hope nothing's wrong. Anyway, Wednesday night we just set up everything, played a few games then went to bed. Then Thursday morning, we just all kind of woke up some time and started playing Counter Strike. Then we started taking the four wheelers out. That has to be the best part of the trip; I love those things!.
    Oh ya, I forgot what happened with the four wheelers. Sorry if I'm not making any sense, I'm just watching some of those videos and typing at the same time. Anyway, Nate and Dave were the first ones to go out and ride them around, so I sat and waited patiently back at the cabin. As soon as they got back, Chris and I took them down to the beach. After about five minutes, we were just cruisin' down the beach, I was ahead of Chris, and I look back and Chris was on the ground on all fours and the ATV was ahead of him. I turned around and asked him what happened and he said he didn't know. He said he remembered that we were at Bear Lake and he knew who he was, but he had no memory of the past half hour. He said that the last thing he remembered was playing Halo back at the cabin, he didn't know why he was on the four wheelers or how long we had been gone. So we went back to the cabin, looked him over, and decided that it wasn't much. There was no damage to the ATV, and he seemed fine, so we just continued on with our lives. Chris ofcourse was too shaken up to get back on the four wheelers, though. So Dave, Nate, and I just took them out and drove around, and went off jumps, and stuff. And ofcourse we got it all on tape!
    While we were riding around on the beach, we found this huge murky puddle that was staked off to warn everyone that it was there. We thought it was quick sand, so we just threw stuff in it. But then we saw that some of the really dense rocks we threw in it floated! So I concluded that it was a spring of some sort and after probing it for a while, Dave and Nate decided to jump in. I didn't because I wasn't wearing my swimming suit, and I was recording it all. I did get in later, and it was really weird. It was like you were a bouy in the water. You could sink past your waist, and yet there was nothing holding you up, your feet touched nothing, it was really weird.
    So that night we played a few games of Counter Strike, ate spaghetti that Nate cooked, and went to bed sometime in around three or four. Dave was on his cell phone a lot up there. Lately he's been talking a lot to Tiffany and Chelsea. They've really screwed him up, too. They've turned him into their little slave. It's pretty funny to watch, too. He spent so much time on the phone with them up there, talking about NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING. He hated it, I don't know why he puts up with it. But he got his phone bill the other day, and of the 1000 minutes he has to share between him, his mom, and his dad, he used 978! 600 of which were used at the Cabin! His family went $94 over in minutes. I feel kind of bad, because I used some of his minutes to talk to Echo up there, so I'd better find out how much that was and pay him back.
    Thursday night was the night I talked about before when I was outside and suddenly felt the spirit so strongly. I wish I could describe that feeling better, but I just can't put it into words.
    Friday was much of the same stuff, fourwheeling and computers. But Saturday was a disaster. I woke up and found out that Dave had invited Chelsea and Tiffany to come up! He asked me if it was alright, and I flat out told him that I did not want them up there. I was really pissed off. Especially since there weren't any adults. My parents and Cole's parents would flip if they found out girls were up there. But he said that he talked to everyone, and I was the only one who didn't want them there, so I reluctantly agreed on the basis that Dave said it was alright with Cole, and that they would be spending the night at Chelsea's cabin and not Cole's. So he left to go meet them in town and show them where the Cabin was, and we're all just sitting there talking and luckily I had the camera rolling, and I found out that Dave didn't ask anyone if they could come up! Nobody else wanted them up there! Well except Nate, but ofcourse he didn't say anything, because he has a thing for Tiffany I guess. I don't know because he won't admit a thing to anyone, not even himself.
    So the girls get there and I just don't talk to them. I went out four wheeling with somebody and came back and just ignored them. It bugged the crap out of them, and they thought that because I had a "girlfriend" I just couldn't talk to any other girls. But Echo had nothing to do with it, I just did not want them there. One thing I like about the cabin trips is that we can do whatever and be ourselves. I noticed that all changed with everyone the minute the girls were there. Everyone was a lot more polite, nobody was mooning anybody else (well, that was one good thing from it).
    Anyway, I didn't end up saying anything to them until later in the afternoon, they had been there since about eleven in the morning. I told Tiffany why I didn't want them up there, and they got pretty mad at that. They didn't think we changed at all when they were around. They didn't want us to act differently around them. I don't know why they want to be accepted by us so badly. Well Tiffany does, and I think I know why, but it's not so much Chelsea. Chelsea is just annoying as all heck sometimes. Anyway, so Saturday sucked. If we were playing on the computers, the girls sat there and whined saying "This is so boring, let's do something!" which annoyed the crap out of me, because that was the whole reason we were there, was to play computers!
    I forgot to mention that Chris had to leave for home right after the girls arrived, I really should have left with him. I could have gone home, spent the rest of the day with Echo, it could have actually been fun.
    Anyway, I was sitting in the kitchen when Nate and Dave came back from four wheeling and I saw Cole and Nate carrying Dave, so I knew something was wrong. I ran outside and found out that Dave flipped one of the ATV's and badly hurt his whole right side of his body. The ATV's handle bars were all bent and ruined. We knew that was the last time we could take the four wheelers out, ever. Dave said he was alright, but they still took him in to the emergency medical place at Bear Lake. Thankfully, the girls went with them. So I sat in the master bedroom and watched "The Great Escape" while they were gone.
    That night I found out that the girls were planning on spending the night with us. Which I freaked out at some more. All Chelsea said was, "Dude, you need to chill out," I hate her so badly sometimes. Well I assumed that they would be sleeping upstairs in the master bedroom, and we would be sleeping downstairs. But again I was wrong. Everyone was downstairs watching Family Guy on the big TV down there, and I was upstairs out on the deck just watching the stars. I went down to see what everyone was doing, and I found Nate and Tiffany under a blanket snuggled up with each other, and Joe and Chelsea doing the same thing, so I just took my stuff and slept out on the deck.
    The next morning I woke up to find that Dave and Chelsea slept together in the same bed, and that Nate and Tiffany fell asleep together on the couch. I was so disgusted! Thankfully I wasn't the only one that felt that way, though. We then got ready and went to church up there. Joe and Chelsea left for home to attend their churches, and the rest of us got up and went to the church at Bear Lake. Afterwards Nate and Tiffany went back to another couch and slept together. Then we just cleaned up and headed back home.
    Except for Saturday and Sunday, I had an awesome time up there. I love going up to the cabin, just the guys, and sitting around playing computers. It would have been nice to have Echo there, but not in a situation like that. Where there were no adults and she'd be sleeping over. That's just one situation I'd rather avoid.
    So anyway, after I go off on that huge tangent, last Friday, Halloween, I picked Echo up and we were at my house until Dave came and got us. Then we went to Joe's house and watched "The Ring" with Dave, Joe, Tiffany, Chelsea, and Nate showed up about half way through the movie. After that we went to Wendy's and got something to eat, and then went back to Joe's and watched a movie called "Dutch." It was some old comedy. It was pretty hillarious, but probably not the best movie to watch with Echo.
    Well I took her home and I got back at about 12:30. She had to work Saturday at 9:00 AM for cleaning. I just sat at home all day and cleaned. Around 4 or 5 in the afternoon she called and said she was off work. I was supposed to go in Sunday to work, but she said that they got everything done, so no one had to come in Sunday. We talked for like six or seven hours after that. That was the longest I have ever talked to anybody in my life on or off the phone. It didn't even seem like that long either, I had nothing else to do that day anyway, so it was good after a long day of just cleaning. While we were talking the idea came up that one of us should visit the other one's church on Sunday. I asked my parents if I could go down, but they said they didn't want me wasting that much gas, so instead she came up. I didn't pick her up like usual, though.
    It was wierd having her over at my house because I never have anyone over at my house, let alone a girl. Honestly she is the first girl who I've ever introduced to my parents, and who has ever seen the inside of my house. Suprisingly it was pretty clean because we spent the day before cleaning.
    She came up and we went to church. The first class is the seperated Young Men's and Young Women's classes, then the next class is where we are all together. Our regular teacher wasn't here, so we went to Lorin's (brother Marler) class. Which kind of disappointed me, because it would have been fun with our regular teacher. During sacrament, there were only three priests, so I had to help bless the sacrament, and Echo was stuck sitting with my family for a short time.
    After church we went home and got changed (not together you pervert) and then played this game called Mind Trap in my living room until my Mom finished dinner. It was really wierd because we had dinner at three in the afternoon. We've never had dinner that early before. Anyway, after dinner, Echo had brought her homework so I could help her with it. The thing was, she needed to use a computer so she could make a presentation for school. The only computer we could use was in my room, so I took her down there. I was really nervous to have her in my room, I don't know why, I guess it's just because no girl has ever been in my room before. So we spent the next couple hours working on this project. I don't think I was of much help to her, but we both had fun. At about 7:30, she decided she needed a break, so we went walking around and walked up by the canal road and sat and talked for a while. It was freezing cold, but it was still fun.
    When we got back to my house, I borrowed the truck and took her home. That's pretty much all that happened. Well, while she was in my room and on my computer she was poking around and found a lot of embarrassing stuff such as my baby book and incriminating photos, but she never found the videos from the cabin. Which is a really good thing, because I haven't had time to edit them, I don't think she'd like seeing everybody's back side. 
  • October 28, 2003 2003-12-15 15:00:05 Tuesday, October 28, 2003
    I had the greatest date ever on Saturday with Echo. I've got a lot of catching up to do, but I think this is more interesting. Anyway, neither of us worked Saturday, but she had the ACT, so we decided as soon as that was over, we were going to spend the day together.
    So after I helped out at this little league wrestling tournament from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM I headed down to Layton High to pick her up. I just walked in the front doors and down one of the hallways and luckily everyone's name was on a sheet of paper outside the class room they were taking the test in. So I found which room she was in and just waited for about ten minutes until they got finished with the test.
    The plan was to go to Salt Lake and take a tour through a couple of furniture stores for an assignment in one of Echo's classes. So on our way down, we stopped at Lagoon, but it was a black-out day, so we couldn't be on the park. But we did play a round of free mini golf.
    We went through two stores Ethan Allen, and At Home. It was pretty fun and I think we both had a good time. After the stores we went down to CottonWood mall and walked around because we've only been there once before and we just wanted to see what the whole mall was like. It was pretty cool, it's the best mall I've ever been in. We got something to eat and went mini golfing there too. The place is called Glow Put. It's all in the dark and the balls and parts of the course are glow in the dark and there are black lights everywhere, so it's really different.
    We've been there once before on the Saturday of October's General Conference. It was really neat, because I took her to the Saturday morning session of conference in the new Conference Building and then we went down to CottonWood mall to minigolf. We had to cut that date a little short, though because I had to be back in North Ogden for the Preisthood session.
    Anyway, this time after minigolfing we went driving around trying to decide what to do next and I noticed the sun was about to set so I suggested that we find a place to go hiking and watch the sunset. She also really wanted to go hiking because all the leaves were changing and that. Anyway, we just started heading east, and I finally went up this one road that led to Neff Canyon, (I think that's what the name was) and we hiked up a ways and sat on some rocks.
    This sort of tradition was started about a month ago where we would find a place with a nice view and watch the sunset and just talk. Actually, now that I think about it, it was started Semptember 26, the week after homecoming. Echo wanted to take me up to this place called Fernwood Canyon in Layton and we sat and talked and I remember the date because we saw fireworks from Northridge's homecoming game. This is usually how we end our dates, we either go to a place with a nice view (my favorite place is Frog Rock right above Weber High) or we go to a park and we just sit and talk about stuff.
    Well, I should talk about homecoming, too. That was Saturday, September 20. It was cool because before we were just kind of going on dates with each other a lot. But we both started to really like each other, well at least I really started to like her. And the Monday before there was a concert for this acapella group called T-Minus 5, which we found out on our disaster date with Chris. (Quick explanation: I brought Chris to meet Echo at the mall because she said she was going to bring a friend, but it didn't work out, so it was just us three. And Chris is the greatest one to have as a third wheel.) Anyway, after the concert we were walking around the park and we sat down at this table and we were just talking. To spare the details, I guess we decided we were officially "going out" or whatever as of then. I have no idea what that meant, but oh well.
    But about homecoming, it was me, Echo, Dave, Chelsea, Joseph, and his date whose name I forgot. Maybe it's Amanda, I don't know. Anyway, we all meet at about 2 or 3 at Joe's house, oh wait before that I went to go pick up my flowers to give to Echo, and I was EXTREMELY protective of them because I wanted them to be *perfect*, so I took them over to Dave's house because I couldn't leave them at my house. He said he was going to take his over and put them in Joe's fridge so I told him to take mine with him.
    Anyway, I drive down to Layton to pick up Echo. We come back and meet with the rest of the group and go hiking up Coldwater Canyon in North Ogden. It was fun, but ofcourse Echo didn't say a word to anyone. She's VERY shy around other people, but that's alright. We hiked up to this little clearing and we sat and talked and tossed the frisbee around. Echo just kind of sat there because she didn't know anybody and she doesn't usually participate in group things. But I felt really bad because it felt like we were excluding her. So Dave tried to include her by tossing her the frisbee a couple of times. But every single time he threw her the frisbee, it hit her in the head. So he felt bad about that. On the way down we passed this huge hill covered in little rocks, so Joe and Chelsea decided to have a race up that.
    After that we went and played in Oaklawn Park, which was pretty fun. We then dropped the girls off to get ready for the dance. This was the wierd part, because Echo just brought all her stuff with her and got ready with Chelsea and Karla (the infamous Bart). I felt really bad about that because she had no idea who either of them were and she spent somewhere around two hours with them getting ready, she said it wasn't that bad, though. While they were getting ready, I went to Joe's house to check on the flours and discovered that Joe in his infinite wisdom decided to stick my roses in the freezer, he honestly thought that's how you preserved them. Needless to say the were deader than a door knob. I was freaking out right about now, so I took them home, explained it to my mom, and she went out and got three replacement roses and just stuck them in the dead rose's places. I then got ready and headed back to Joe's house with my hideous flowers. I tried to cool down a little bit and I didn't kill Joe, so it was alright.
    The plan was to eat dinner at Joe's and then go to the dance. When I arrive at Joe's house all dressed up for the dance, he's still trying to get dinner done. So I'm helping him prepare some pasta stuff. (Another example of Joe's infinite wisdom: he decides to make the messiest dinner ever possible for us all to eat in our dance clothes; pasta with cake for dessert covered in chocolate and strawberry sauce) Well I'm helping him stuff this green spinach sauce into some pasta shells and as I'm squeezing the bag of sauce it explodes and get all over my white shirt. Well it wasn't all over it, it was just a couple of specks, but still, I was not having a good time. Well Joe got dinner all set and we went to go pick up our dates. Dave and I both went to get Chelsea and Echo from Chelsea's house, and Joe's date got ready at her house. When we picked up Chelsea and Echo, we had to take a million pictures with a ton of different cameras. I looked so bad in those pictures. But Echo looked great. Chelsea had done her hair, she was wearing a very modest blue dress, I thought she looked very nice.
    So we had dinner, and afterwards Joe's parents had to get a ton of pictures. And then before we could go to the dance, I had to take Echo over to my grandparent's house so that my parents could get pictures. (Ofcourse we couldn't do it at my house, it's a pigsty!) This was only the second time Echo has even seen my parents. The first time was on our date with Chris as a tag-a-long. We were at Country Boy Dairy, and I guess my parents saw the truck there so they decided to stop by and see how we were doing. Talk about embarassing.
    So we finally got to the dance and I thought it was great. I loved dancing with Echo. She even tried to teach me a dance she learned in her dance class, it didn't go too well though. Even though she says I learned faster than most of the guys in her class. We took pictures and while we were in line, I saw my cousin Nicole there. Which really surprised me because she wasn't with her boyfriend, and she went to Northridge. I didn't say anything to her, and I didn't see her again that night, but it was still wierd.
    After the dance (which went by way to fast. I don't think that was really two hours.) we went to Smith's still dressed up and bought some ice cream that we brought back to Dave's house and ate. Here's a funny story, I drove seperately the whole day except to the hike. When Echo and I headed back to Dave's, Dave dropped Joe off at Joe's house so that Joe could get his car because his date had to be home earlier. So Echo and I were heading up to Dave's and on the way up, Nate and Cole were driving by and saw my truck and followed us to Dave's. I never saw them, this is just what they told me. Well, Echo and I were sitting in Dave's front yard and we noticed the view was really good from his back yard, so I suggested that we just go in and sit out on his porch (you have to go inside and through his kitchen to get to the porch) I was kind of planning on kissing her there since it would be a romantic place for a first kiss. Remember, this was after two months of dating, it's not like I kiss just anyone, at least not anymore. Just kidding. Anyway, we were headed towards Dave's door when Dave and Joe pull up so we just went inside and ate some ice cream in Dave's Kitchen. We then go down to Dave's room and by then Joe had to take his date home, so it's just us four in Dave's room. Well we here this tapping on the window and assume it's either Joe, or it's Nate (we didn't know he was there already). But we never saw who it was. Nate told me later that it was him. He had been there the whole time parked on the street below. They were standing right under the deck the whole time, so it was a good thing Echo and I didn't go out on the deck at all. That would have been bad.
    Well Dave left the room for something and I decided to take Echo up to the deck to see the view. I guess I didn't make it clear that I wanted to be alone, because Chelsea just followed us right up, and so did Dave. So we all just sat there and talked, it was alright.
    It's getting around midnight or so, so Dave takes Chelsea home and I take Echo over to Chelsea's house to get her stuff and we head down to Layton. On the ride down she fell asleep in the truck holding my hand, I thought it was funny, but I just let her sleep. When we pulled up to her house, ofcourse her mom wanted pictures, so we spent forever taking more pictures.
    Anyway when I'm leaving, Echo walked with me out to the truck and after we hugged good night, she kissed me. It was so cool. I wasn't really sure before how she would react if I kissed her, but she seemed ok. So that was our first kiss. And also my first school dance. Pretty sad that it wasn't until my Senior year, huh?
    So we've been going out on at least two dates a week since then, and I've really begun to like her a lot. More than I have anyone else before. We have so much in common, and she's such a unique girl. I was thinking a lot about whether I loved her or not. I don't know why, I do kind of think we're both really young and probably don't know what love really is, and she knows I feel that way, and she feels the same. But on one of our dates we went minigolfing (we do that a lot) at Mulligan's, then we went and played pool up at Weber State (we didn't go bowling because she will not go bowling after what happened when we went last. To put it this way: her score was 26) and ofcourse we ended it up at Frog Rock wathing the starry sky and the city lights. This time we were just talking about all sorts of stuff like we usually do, and I have my arm around her, like usual, I don't know, maybe we do get too close, but it's not like we're all over each other. We don't spend our time making out, and we're not always lovey-cuddly either. Anyway, we're just talking and out of the blue she says "I love you," and I can tell that she had been thinking about this for a long time and that she really meant it, so I told her that I loved her, too. So she is the only girl I've said that too in my entire life, and I'm pretty sure she's the only girl that that statement was actually true for.
    So anyway, back to Saturday, we were sitting there on the rocks in Neff Canyon watching the sunset over the Salt Lake Valley. We were just talking and we decide to go to Temple Square after. So we drive up to Temple Square and walk around for a little while. We went right up to the temple and sat on the stairs and talked. It was so cool, being there with her, on the steps of the temple, I really felt the spirit there. We were talking about the temple, about how it was built and how she's always on the steps taking pictures when someone in her family gets married.
    Then we walk around some more and as we're leaving Temple Square, we went out the gates towards South Temple and we saw all the carriages lined up waiting to take people around, and I knew she really wanted to go on a carriage ride, so we went on one of those up to Memory Park. That was so fun. It was just Echo and me on this long carriage ride through Salt Lake, it couldn't have been better. She really liked that, too.
    After that we walked around the Crossroads Plaza after it was closed (it was like 10:30 or 11:00 by then) and we got hot chocolate and headed toward Layton to drop her off. But she really didn't want to go home, so we made a detour to Farmington Canyon and sat and talked there. I finally ended up dropping her off around midnight and getting home by 12:30, so I was with her all day, and it was the funnest date we've ever been on. And now it's 1:19 AM so, I'm off to bed. 
  • August 21, 2003 2003-12-15 14:58:43 8-18-03
    Today was a really fun day. Well, except for this morning. I woke up and had to mow our lawn, then after I was done with that, I had to go down to my grandparents to help them clean up all that junk of my grandpa's. While I was there, my grandpa asked me to look at his computer because it was going awry. I took a look at it, and it had a bunch of problems with it. After a while, I fixed all of them, and he was greatful.
    After my grandparent's house, I went over to Nate's to show him the knife Echo gave me for my birthday. When I went over there, I discovered that Justin, one of our former friends, was already over there. This confused me alot, because we haven't even seen Justin this whole summer. As soon as I walk in the house Justin goes off on one of his cursing runs. "!#$*@, this and *!@#( !@#*(@ @*&#@!!!!". That's just a little of what it's like around him.
    I asked Nate what he was doing over there, and he said that he just came over out of the blue! He was trying later to notice if anything had been stolen or not. Anyway, Nate told me to save him from Justin, but I couldn't see anyway of getting him out. Then Justin called one of his pot head friends, and left saying he'd be right back, so I took Nate down to Layton with me to see Echo.
    The plan was that I'd take Echo up to North Ogden to do something and meet some of my friends. But when she heard that Nate was coming, she thought it was going to be a double date, so she invited one of her friends. That was really wierd, because Nate already has a girlfriend. So we decided to go do something really fast and ditch Daja, Echo's friend. But that didn't work out.
    We went to Burger Stop and stayed there for a while eating shakes. Then I was just driving around trying to find a reason to get out of there without Daja, but then we just ended up going to the park. We walked around and talked a little bit. But for some reason I had the worst gas ever. I held it when Echo was around, but if she wasn't, all heck broke loose. Well, Nate wouldn't shut up about it, so Echo kind of found out. Then while Echo was in the bathroom, I bent over to get a drink from the water fountain and Nate and Daja were right by me, and I just let this huge one that was really loud. No doubt about it that Daja heard because she just started cracking up. I'm sure Echo will hear about it sooner or later.
    Anyway we finally dropped Daja off, but it was too late to do anything else. When I got out of the truck to open Echo's door so Daja could get out, (the truck is an extended cab, but to open the back right door, you have to open the passenger side door) Nate jumped in the driver's seat. I didn't care, so I just let him drive to Echo's house.
    We dropped Echo off and I gave her brother, Aaron a CD with a bunch of stuff on it, like the Anarchist's Cookbook, hacking programs, funny video clips, just a bunch of different stuff. Then I asked him if he had gotten his tickets yet to Evanescence, because he and some girl are going with us, so I wanted to make sure we have seats next to eachother. When I told him that I had already asked their dad if it was alright if I took Echo, his exact words were, "Wow, you're brave." I was scared out of my mind to ask him, but it did make me look good to her parents.
    Anyway, Nate and I headed home, but first we stopped at Wangsgard's to see if Mark had my poker chips from when they took them up to the cabin. He was working when we got there, and he said that they were in his back seat and gave us the keys. So ofcourse Nate and I took his car for a spin and parked it on the other side of the parking lot.
    After that, I just dropped off Nate then went home. Tomorrow I've got to go shopping for school clothes, and then I have to work. 
  • August 18, 2003 2003-12-15 14:58:16 8-18-03
    Today was a really fun day. Well, except for this morning. I woke up and had to mow our lawn, then after I was done with that, I had to go down to my grandparents to help them clean up all that junk of my grandpa's. While I was there, my grandpa asked me to look at his computer because it was going awry. I took a look at it, and it had a bunch of problems with it. After a while, I fixed all of them, and he was greatful.
    After my grandparent's house, I went over to Nate's to show him the knife Echo gave me for my birthday. When I went over there, I discovered that Justin, one of our former friends, was already over there. This confused me alot, because we haven't even seen Justin this whole summer. As soon as I walk in the house Justin goes off on one of his cursing runs. "!#$*@, this and *!@#( !@#*(@ @*&#@!!!!". That's just a little of what it's like around him.
    I asked Nate what he was doing over there, and he said that he just came over out of the blue! He was trying later to notice if anything had been stolen or not. Anyway, Nate told me to save him from Justin, but I couldn't see anyway of getting him out. Then Justin called one of his pot head friends, and left saying he'd be right back, so I took Nate down to Layton with me to see Echo.
    The plan was that I'd take Echo up to North Ogden to do something and meet some of my friends. But when she heard that Nate was coming, she thought it was going to be a double date, so she invited one of her friends. That was really wierd, because Nate already has a girlfriend. So we decided to go do something really fast and ditch Daja, Echo's friend. But that didn't work out.
    We went to Burger Stop and stayed there for a while eating shakes. Then I was just driving around trying to find a reason to get out of there without Daja, but then we just ended up going to the park. We walked around and talked a little bit. But for some reason I had the worst gas ever. I held it when Echo was around, but if she wasn't, all heck broke loose. Well, Nate wouldn't shut up about it, so Echo kind of found out. Then while Echo was in the bathroom, I bent over to get a drink from the water fountain and Nate and Daja were right by me, and I just let this huge one that was really loud. No doubt about it that Daja heard because she just started cracking up. I'm sure Echo will hear about it sooner or later.
    Anyway we finally dropped Daja off, but it was too late to do anything else. When I got out of the truck to open Echo's door so Daja could get out, (the truck is an extended cab, but to open the back right door, you have to open the passenger side door) Nate jumped in the driver's seat. I didn't care, so I just let him drive to Echo's house.
    We dropped Echo off and I gave her brother, Aaron a CD with a bunch of stuff on it, like the Anarchist's Cookbook, hacking programs, funny video clips, just a bunch of different stuff. Then I asked him if he had gotten his tickets yet to Evanescence, because he and some girl are going with us, so I wanted to make sure we have seats next to eachother. When I told him that I had already asked their dad if it was alright if I took Echo, his exact words were, "Wow, you're brave." I was scared out of my mind to ask him, but it did make me look good to her parents.
    Anyway, Nate and I headed home, but first we stopped at Wangsgard's to see if Mark had my poker chips from when they took them up to the cabin. He was working when we got there, and he said that they were in his back seat and gave us the keys. So ofcourse Nate and I took his car for a spin and parked it on the other side of the parking lot.
    After that, I just dropped off Nate then went home. Tomorrow I've got to go shopping for school clothes, and then I have to work. 
  • August 17, 2003 2003-12-15 14:57:55 8-17-03
    Well, today wasn't much exciting. I got up and went to church. This week Nate was still up at the Cabin, and Chris has been in Arkansas since Wednesday, so I didn't really have anyone to talk to, so I just listened to the lesson.
    In priesthood Brother Hepler, one of our taller young men's leaders, gave us a lesson about being missionaries all the time. I don't think I do very well at that. Part of it was to always set an example, and I try that most of the time, but I just don't think I'm to swell on missionary work.
    In Sunday school we read about Paul in the last chapters of Acts. I have trouble paying attention in that class, so I can't really say how the lesson was.
    In Sacrament, it was Luke Robert's homecoming, but I left after we administered the sacrament because none of my friends or family were there.
    When I got home I watched the Back to the Future trilogy, and that was pretty much the extent of my day.
    I've also been thinking alot about tomorrow. Both Echo and I have tomorrow off, so I was going to bring her up to North Ogden, seeing as how she's never been up here and all. I just don't know what we could do up here. Oh well, I guess I'll figure something out. 
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