Hey there everyone. Before I get into the fun of my 8 days of Hanuka and Christmas and New Years, and the hard time, I need to talk about the weekend before. I took the Friday off because I had vacation time to use, so I went to see Doctor Strange. I didn't realize it was also opening day to Rogue One, so the theater was pretty crowded. There were guys in storm trooper costumes, and a REALLY long line. But that was just to Star Wars. Doctor Strange was empty. I was the only one there. I probably could have moved to a better seat (it was assigned seating), but since I had the manager tell me I had to turn off my 3DS when the movie started, "even though [I] was the only one there," I decided I'll live with my seat. Watch my review here.
It was a good movie.
My bother also came in that week, so that was fun.
OK, now for the real start to the festivities. If you're new, I'm Catholic, and so is everyone in my family. However, seeing that the miracle of the oil burning for 8 days is in the Old Testament and there isn't anything in the New Testament saying I can't celebrate it, I celebrated my own form of Hanuka. I didn't do all the traditional foods like latkes, or light candles seeing that I don't have a menorah, and I didn't have to gather all my family because everyone was there for Christmas, but I did with everyone happy Hanuka with the appropriate day. It worked really well because it was at the same time as Christmas and all my family's usual festivities this year.
On the first day of Hanuka, Christmas Eve, we did the gift exchange with my grandparents on my mom's side, like we do every year. We went to McDonald's like we do every year. When we were little we went to McDonald's because that was "when Santa would deliver the presents." Now it's just "because tradition." I got a shirt, Kirby Planet Robot, TMNT Mutants in Manhattan, candy, and money. With the games I was all "it's just what I wanted, how did you know?" as a joke. My grandma was legitimately curious and asked "yes, how DID you know?" I bought black Friday and mom paid me for them. I gave my grandpa a movie gift card, because he likes to go to the movies with me. After doing Christmas Eve with them, we went to church. It was a good mass, and I wished the greeter a Happy Hanuka.
Now for Christmas Day. We went to my aunt's to see my grandpa on my dad's side. We went there REALLY early because we were going to skype with my cousin in Japan, so my grandpa can see his grandson and great grandson. The thing is though, there's a 10 hour difference, so we have to schedule far in advance. We had to get up at 6 AM to get there at 7 AM, so it would be 9 PM there. It was fun seeing them again. We did some gift exchange with them, and my gift to them was a DVD of the great grandson/nephew. My cousin sent me videos of his son, and I edited them together to burn to a DVD. They really like getting them. Since we got up so early, all of us took naps, and slept where we fell basically. I brought my laptop, and when everyone else was napping, I watched the preview of The Mick. Watch my thoughts here.
It has potential.
We didn't do our family exchange because be were all so tired when we got home, so we did it on the day after Christmas. I also didn't do my tradition of watching at least 1 airing of A Christmas Story on TBS, because it just didn't work out. Oh well.
So on the 3rd day of Hanuka, we exchanged Christmas gifts. I got Recore, candy, chips, a homer bucket, money, and a Pikachu blanket. It was fun. Now this is when it gets hard. My oldest friend's dad had some health problems, and they became really bad a week prior. We went to the hospital to be supportive. The day prior we went to the airport to pick-up the mom's sister, and that was kind of fun because our mom "did it all by her self," and only brought my brother and I just in case. After the hospital we went to see Sing with my grandpa, because "lets use the gift card while everyone is in, and then we can drive around the neighborhood to see the lights, they can see our tree, and go out to dinner. We went to the theater the gift card was to, but my grandpa made a mistake. See, the gift card I gave him was to AMC, but he also got a gift card from his neighbor to one of his local theater chains. When we got there he pulled out the other gift card.
I asked him "where's the gift card I gave you?"
He said "you didn't give me a gift card!"
I said "yes I did! There was popcorn and an empty pop can. That was to this theater. That gift card is to the theater by your house."
He said "oh yeah, that one's up stairs. Well use this one from the neighbor."
I said "I can't, that's to a different chain. That gift card was the reason we had you come all the way out here."
Oh they can be some work. Oh well, we'll just go another time. We went to see Sing by Illumination. Watch my review here.
Another good movie.
After the movie, we went to dinner at a local restaurant, and all of us had breakfast. It was good. Afterwards we drove around some to see the lights. After that we visited in our living room. That is also when we got the call that we lost my friend's dad. That was sad.
On the 4th day of Hanuka I recorded the Sing review and got my parents gift cards. Bath and Bodyworks for mom and Home Depot for dad. When delivering I sang "on the 4th day of Hanuka, your son gave to you, a gift card valued 18 plus 2." The rest of the day was pretty normal. I watched movies on Crackle before they expired, as I did throughout the week. I think I watched Bucky Larson Born to be a Star. I know I watched it one of the days. REALLY bad movie, and very curious how it managed to get made. I also went to see Moana with Mskate. The first theater we went to sold out as we were standing in line, so we went to a theater that was 40 minutes away, to see a show that started in 30 minutes. We made a little adventure out of it. Watch my review [when I upload it].
After the movie we went to see my mom, because mom always asks me questions about mskate that I don't know the answer to. Well, mom always asks me questions like "how is her master's program going?" But we don't talk about things like that, we talk about stories like "my mom found a dime in a brownie at a fancy restaurant." So I just said "here she is, ask her yourself."
On the 5th day of Hanuka we had a party with my mom's old college friends, like we do every year. The host rotates between the friends year to year, and this year it was our turn to host. That happened later in the day, so the day was getting ready. At the party I mostly played with one of the friend's son's step-daughter. OK, to clear things up, my mom's friends are all 1st generation, all their kids (me, the married son) are 2nd generation, and any of the kid's kids are 3rd generation. One of us from the 2nd generation got married and he gained a step-daughter making a 3rd generation. I played with 3rd generation. We mostly "played" Super Mario 3D World. I say "played" because she didn't want to play by the rules of the game, and didn't realize that we can't spend all the time in the one pond in a level, and that I don't have unlimited cat bells. We also played some Diddy Kong Racing after I pulled out one of my N64s. But then others from the 2nd generation wanted to play because they grew up with Diddy Kong Racing. Fun times. We also watched some of Jonah a Veggie Tales Movie, because the married 2nd generation is expecting and we gave them a Veggie Tales nativity. However, the 3rd generation daughter didn't know Veggie Tales, so we had to show her what everyone was so enthusiastic about.
On the 6th day of Hanuka I gave ZeldaMaster93 his gifts, from both our out of state friend and myself. Since he didn't add an address to his amazon wish list, and since ZeldaMaster93 lives just a couple streets down from me, the friend had to send the gift to me to deliver to ZM93. When I delivered the gifts, I put on an elf hat and gave him a little story. I said this in a goofy/santa voice.
"Hello there [ZeldaMaster93], Chris [our friend] Kringle said you were a good boy, and you deserve something special. However, he also said you were a little naughty, specifically that you didn't link an address to your amazon wish list. So as punishment, you have to deal with me [Pokematic] the annoying elf."
After giving him the manga volume from our friend, and the target gift card and Super Mario toothbrush, I sang him this. "On the 6th day of Hanuka, your friends gave to you, 1 Mario toothbrush, 1 gift card, and a maaangaaaa voooluuuuummmmmeeee."
I recorded the whole ordeal for our friend, and he just did his strait man reaction. I would show you the video, but it got corrupted. Oh well. ZeldaMaster93 wouldn't like it all that much if I shared it publicly anyways. I shared what I could privately with our friend, and he enjoyed it. My main gift was the gift card; I just gave him the toothbrush because years ago he got me a nyan cat plushy, and this was my version of that (he would like it, but it's also a gag gift).
After giving ZeldaMaster93 the gifts, we went to the visitation for my friend's dad. I saw a lot of people I haven't seen in years. It was a nice visitation. Since he didn't want anything formal, and loved hunting and partying, my brother wore flannel and I wore one of my island shirts.
On the 7th day of Hanuka it was the celebration of life. Everyone that had stories told stories. Since my family is very close to their family, my grandpa told a story. After the "formal" celebration of life ceremony, we had a luncheon/"dinnereon?" later that evening at his local eagles club. My family did a lot of the set-up. One of the pictures on the boards was from our kindergarten picnic. I showed one of our friends from kindergarten the picture and it brought back memories. It was a good celebration.
Now on the 8th day of Hanuka or New Years Eve, we went to an end of year party thrown by some of our camping friends. My godfather was there, and I wished him a happy Hanuka. He was a little confused, but I said "there's nothing in the New Testament that says I can't celebrate the miracle." He was like "well you got me there, happy Hanuka." It was a fun little party. I got to visit with everyone, and had some fun with my "godbrother" (godfather's son). We played Monopoly until he got board (he's 7 and Monopoly is a long game). We stayed until about 9PM, then everyone started to disperse. For New Years I was going to watch the ball drop, but I realized I hadn't showered yet, and I was tired and ready to go to bed at midnight. I showered and JUST missed the ball drop as I was getting out of the shower. Darn it. Oh well.
On New Years Day we had a party with my mom's best friend and her kids. We played the forbidden island and liars dice. My brother had 100 D6 dice because he's a tabletop geek, so getting 36 D6 for the 6 of us to play was easy. I wanted to play "96 dice, 1 life, liars dice," but everyone thought that was a bad idea. We did some gift exchange. I got trobelone, a Pikachu button down shirt, and the board game worst case scenario. I look forward to wearing the Pikachu shirt to work, because even though I work a professional job, everyone knows I'm a little eccentric and I do my job so well I've earned a little eccentric. Plus, it's no worse than the "highly visible man" I was for Halloween. The worst case scenario is a bit of a joke, because last year we played worst case scenario jr. (the kids version) and mom's friend asked "why aren't you playing the grown up version," and I said "because you didn't give it to me yet" (because she gave us the kids version). That was fun. Afterwards we took down my grandparent's Christmas tree, and I fixed on of their strands of lights. I have now run out of spare lights. The next time a strand breaks I'm stripping it for next time.
So now 2016 has come and gone, and we look towards 2017. Normally people would do some resolutions. Seeing that I haven't uploaded any of PSS lets palsy last year, I plan to upload at least the rest of the battlefront videos. I also have some vlogs and other videos I need to edit, so hopefully I can get those uploaded. I also want to get my TV logs uploaded within the week after initial airing. Why? Because I was STILL uploading previous season LMOE logs when the current season was airing. Otherwise, that's pretty much it. Well, this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Graduating College and the Last Weeks
Well everyone, after 4 and a half years, 9 total semesters, I am fully graduated. Boy, this was a journey. I had some really crazy classes, really fun adventures, and all sorts of fun and stress. You can look through the last 4 years of posts if you want to remember the fun. But this isn't a time to talk about all the old times, I already have. Today, I'm going to talk about the ending of it all.
Lets go back to the week before finals. This was when I had the last meetings of all my clubs. With my students for life club, we had a nice Christmas party where we listened to Christmas music, ate snack foods, made baby blankets to donate to the crisis pregnancy center that Brandi volunteered for, and were our overall goofy selves. I played Veggie Tales Christmas Silly Songs (Oh Santa and 8 Polish Foods Of Christmas) and Bob and Doug McKenzi's 12 Day of Christmas. Since we're like an unofficial Christian group (all the members just happen to be Catholic), everyone recognized the Veggie Tales songs, and then the older guys in the group thought Bob and Doug's 12 Days of Christmas was funny because of the "on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a beer." Good final time with them.
At my last filmmakers club meeting, I gave a going away speech as the last OG member. I gave a history of the club from the beginning, and how all the events impacted me and the group as a whole for better or worse. It was a really moving speech, and a great way to say fair well to the club that kept me from just being surrounded by engineers 24/7. At my Pokemon club we had a little pizza party, and I brought book marks for all the club members. These were official scholastic book fair Pokemon bookmarks my mom got to give to her students, but she said "no, my son and his Pokemon club will appreciate these more than my students," and they did. We played some Pokemon TCG, and then played smash bros and Pokemon Stadium. I dominated at the minigames, for the most part. There were some games where the input lag on the HDTV screwed me over, and I was like "I want a rematch, on a CRT. Lets go out to the smash players with their CRT's and play without input lag." Yeah, that's me. We didn't though, and I still won. Afterwards I tried selling some of my duplicate amiibo, but that failed. Oh well. Anyone want to buy Sonic new in box?
Finals pre-weekend I did what I always do, lock my self in my dorm and study like crazy. I did, for the most part. I only had 3 REAL finals considering that 1 final was a presentation (Tri-Z) and another was a guided discussion (Health and Wellness). Saturday I studied for Digital Logic, and Sunday I studied for Mechanics of Materials and History of the World. I probably should have divided them up more evenly since History and Mechanics were the harder subjects. Oh well. I ultimately did well in all my classes. My Tri-Z presentation went well, and I got my ISM challenge coin afterwards. That presentation was on Monday, my only test Monday. I did help my one friend study for digital logic on Monday. He somehow got a bootleg copy of the final from last year, and we studied off that. I helped him by showing him how to do those problems, and it helped me by having to teach the material.
On Tuesday I had Digital Logic and Health and Wellness finals. Digital Logic was one of the easiest tests I've ever taken. We had 2 hours to do the test. I was done in 45 minutes. It wasn't just because the test was almost identical to the one from the previous year, but because I was just so prepared. Boy, a 2000 level class is REALLY simple when you're used to 4000 (almost 5000) level classes. Then the discussion for Health and Wellness was really easy, just talk about the semester as a class. After the final some friends and I went to McDonald's to get Pokemon Happy Meals. Yeah, 3 college students, 1 a graduating senior, went to get Pokemon Happy Meals. We were a sight. It was great to hang out with them outside of a classroom setting. I'm going to keep in contact with them.
On Wednesday I had my Mechanics of Materials and World History finals. Mechanics I was confident, but kind of unjustly so, because I only knew about half of the stuff on it for sure, and the other half I kind of knew the general concept. Ultimately I think I did well enough considering that I got an A in the class. Whatever. In my history class I think I also did fairly well, even though I just kept cramming and cramming without much results. I went to the room an hour beforehand in hopes that it would keep me from getting distracted. It kind of did, but not really. I still got an A though. That night my friend since freshman year and I hung out to celebrate the end of finals and film a parody theme song for Pokemon based on engineering. I'll get that uploaded at the end of the week. Fun time.
Now for Thursday. On Thursday the only big thing was going to pick up my brother. He was getting a ride to about where my college was. OK, it was like 50 miles from my college, but closer than his college at the other end of the state. He and I did some packing, but mostly hung out. We watched a James Bond film until he passed out from exhaustion on my futon.
Friday is when the festivities really began. First of all I had to get my brother's ticket for graduation. I showed up to the ticket counter at about 9 AM, told them my name and how many tickets I needed, and then went on my way. My dad got up to my school around noon, and we were moving out my stuff. I was planning on checking out on Saturday, but because I didn't go through the necessary steps, I had to move out on Friday. Whoops. Oh well, we were able to get it all out and in the vehicles. Not long before I was all done my mom arrived after dropping my grandparents off at the hotel. She moved some things. After getting all my stuff out, I went through the procedure to check out and turn in my keys. I said bye to my dorm room of 2 and a half years. It was alright. After that we went to the hotel and picked up my grandparents for my honors college chord presentation. I graduated with honors and got honors chords to show it. There was a little ceremony where we were presented with our chords. It was a nice little ceremony, and my mom got to see the parents and grandparents of my one friend who is the cousin of one of her friends. It's a really small world. We met in calc 2, and by coincidence my mom found out that he's the cousin of some of her old college friends. Yeah, funny how life is. At the ceremony we have someone important to our college journey present us with our chords. I had my grandma give me my chords.
After the ceremony, we made our Christmas card photo with me in my graduation get-up and my parents and brother. After the picture, we went right to Costco to get them in so they would be ready the next day. However, since it was a really slow night, they said they would be ready in an hour. So we ordered our pizza and waited. For some reason this kid just walked up to me and started talking with me about Pokemon. I asked him "do I know you?" and he said "maybe, you look familiar." My mom found it very surreal since the kid dressed and acted like me at that age, and was very into Pokemon. I tried to be as uncreepy as possible, since he was like 10 years younger than me and I was a stranger, but I also didn't want to be all "go away kid." It was really weird.
On Saturday, it was the main event. It's all been leading up to this. I wake up, eat breakfast with my family, and get fully dressed for the occasion (freshly ironed gown, honors stole, 2 sets of honors chords, and hat with 2 tassels, one for my college and one for my university). We drive up to the auditorium to drop my grandparents and I off. I had to go check in. I found my way to the graduate area. After finding the right place for my college, I got my things and found a seat. I looked for friends to sit next to, but none of my friends had showed up yet. I'm really glad I brought my 3DS with me. After about 15 minutes one of my good college friends showed up. We talked for the other 15 minutes while we waited. Nothing super earth shattering, just some nerd small talk. I filled out the card for getting graduation pictures once those came around. All went well.
Well now it's time to march us out. I was expecting alphabetical order, but instead they called our names when we gave them the card with our names on it, which made it fun to sit next to friends, but hard to coordinate when to take snapshots of the event. I set-up a text to tell my brother to get ready when I was next. Before we walked into the auditorium I got my picture taken back stage. We walked out into the auditorium and got some speeches. They were nice speeches. The best was when the president of the university used the meme that surrounds him. It was great. I walk back stage, get in line, tell the people calling the names my name, and then walk out. I had my family cheer for me, shook hands with the university president while receiving my $100,000 piece of paper, shook hands with the dean of the engineering college while receiving my engineering challenge coin, shook hands with my professors that were there, and hug the lady that works in the admission office. It was great to walk. Afterwards I made some jokes to my friend, like when the president said "by the power vested in me by this institution, I now pronounce you graduates," when I leaned over and said "you may now kiss the diploma," and also when there was a 3rd "the third" I leaned over and said "that's the third third." Great ceromony.
So after the ceremony I was tasked with finding my family. I ran into the same friend that I filmed the engineer Pokemon parody with. He somehow got a ticket to see the graduation. I gave him a hug and thanked him for being there. In true style, he said "no problem bro, I'm glad I could be here." I found my family not to hard, and we took some pictures and went out to lunch. I invited my friend, and he came to say hi to my family, but he wasn't able to stay. My family liked him, and he liked them. At the restaurant he thanked me for the academic help and I thanked him for the "have some fun" help. Another friend to keep contact with. After lunch we went back to the hotel room and relaxed. I opened up my graduation cards later that evening.
Sunday was the last of the graduation festivities. We went to my student church, me dressed in my graduation get-up. Hey, I spent around $100 on this, so I'm going to get some wear out of it. I got recognized as a graduate as well as other graduates. After church we went to get some final pictures, basically recreating the ones I took as an incoming freshman, but with my cap and gown. After that I drove home, alone. The last thing of mentioning with regards to graduation is how I wore my cap and gown tor my other grandpa who wasn't able to make it to the graduation. He got to put my honors chords on me, and pull me around by them like a pack animal. Just some fun.
Man, this was crazy. It's weird knowing that I won't be going back to school at the end of my little break. Right now I'm working on fining a job, and my prospects seem OK.
Well, this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.
Lets go back to the week before finals. This was when I had the last meetings of all my clubs. With my students for life club, we had a nice Christmas party where we listened to Christmas music, ate snack foods, made baby blankets to donate to the crisis pregnancy center that Brandi volunteered for, and were our overall goofy selves. I played Veggie Tales Christmas Silly Songs (Oh Santa and 8 Polish Foods Of Christmas) and Bob and Doug McKenzi's 12 Day of Christmas. Since we're like an unofficial Christian group (all the members just happen to be Catholic), everyone recognized the Veggie Tales songs, and then the older guys in the group thought Bob and Doug's 12 Days of Christmas was funny because of the "on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a beer." Good final time with them.
At my last filmmakers club meeting, I gave a going away speech as the last OG member. I gave a history of the club from the beginning, and how all the events impacted me and the group as a whole for better or worse. It was a really moving speech, and a great way to say fair well to the club that kept me from just being surrounded by engineers 24/7. At my Pokemon club we had a little pizza party, and I brought book marks for all the club members. These were official scholastic book fair Pokemon bookmarks my mom got to give to her students, but she said "no, my son and his Pokemon club will appreciate these more than my students," and they did. We played some Pokemon TCG, and then played smash bros and Pokemon Stadium. I dominated at the minigames, for the most part. There were some games where the input lag on the HDTV screwed me over, and I was like "I want a rematch, on a CRT. Lets go out to the smash players with their CRT's and play without input lag." Yeah, that's me. We didn't though, and I still won. Afterwards I tried selling some of my duplicate amiibo, but that failed. Oh well. Anyone want to buy Sonic new in box?
Finals pre-weekend I did what I always do, lock my self in my dorm and study like crazy. I did, for the most part. I only had 3 REAL finals considering that 1 final was a presentation (Tri-Z) and another was a guided discussion (Health and Wellness). Saturday I studied for Digital Logic, and Sunday I studied for Mechanics of Materials and History of the World. I probably should have divided them up more evenly since History and Mechanics were the harder subjects. Oh well. I ultimately did well in all my classes. My Tri-Z presentation went well, and I got my ISM challenge coin afterwards. That presentation was on Monday, my only test Monday. I did help my one friend study for digital logic on Monday. He somehow got a bootleg copy of the final from last year, and we studied off that. I helped him by showing him how to do those problems, and it helped me by having to teach the material.
On Tuesday I had Digital Logic and Health and Wellness finals. Digital Logic was one of the easiest tests I've ever taken. We had 2 hours to do the test. I was done in 45 minutes. It wasn't just because the test was almost identical to the one from the previous year, but because I was just so prepared. Boy, a 2000 level class is REALLY simple when you're used to 4000 (almost 5000) level classes. Then the discussion for Health and Wellness was really easy, just talk about the semester as a class. After the final some friends and I went to McDonald's to get Pokemon Happy Meals. Yeah, 3 college students, 1 a graduating senior, went to get Pokemon Happy Meals. We were a sight. It was great to hang out with them outside of a classroom setting. I'm going to keep in contact with them.
On Wednesday I had my Mechanics of Materials and World History finals. Mechanics I was confident, but kind of unjustly so, because I only knew about half of the stuff on it for sure, and the other half I kind of knew the general concept. Ultimately I think I did well enough considering that I got an A in the class. Whatever. In my history class I think I also did fairly well, even though I just kept cramming and cramming without much results. I went to the room an hour beforehand in hopes that it would keep me from getting distracted. It kind of did, but not really. I still got an A though. That night my friend since freshman year and I hung out to celebrate the end of finals and film a parody theme song for Pokemon based on engineering. I'll get that uploaded at the end of the week. Fun time.
Now for Thursday. On Thursday the only big thing was going to pick up my brother. He was getting a ride to about where my college was. OK, it was like 50 miles from my college, but closer than his college at the other end of the state. He and I did some packing, but mostly hung out. We watched a James Bond film until he passed out from exhaustion on my futon.
Friday is when the festivities really began. First of all I had to get my brother's ticket for graduation. I showed up to the ticket counter at about 9 AM, told them my name and how many tickets I needed, and then went on my way. My dad got up to my school around noon, and we were moving out my stuff. I was planning on checking out on Saturday, but because I didn't go through the necessary steps, I had to move out on Friday. Whoops. Oh well, we were able to get it all out and in the vehicles. Not long before I was all done my mom arrived after dropping my grandparents off at the hotel. She moved some things. After getting all my stuff out, I went through the procedure to check out and turn in my keys. I said bye to my dorm room of 2 and a half years. It was alright. After that we went to the hotel and picked up my grandparents for my honors college chord presentation. I graduated with honors and got honors chords to show it. There was a little ceremony where we were presented with our chords. It was a nice little ceremony, and my mom got to see the parents and grandparents of my one friend who is the cousin of one of her friends. It's a really small world. We met in calc 2, and by coincidence my mom found out that he's the cousin of some of her old college friends. Yeah, funny how life is. At the ceremony we have someone important to our college journey present us with our chords. I had my grandma give me my chords.
After the ceremony, we made our Christmas card photo with me in my graduation get-up and my parents and brother. After the picture, we went right to Costco to get them in so they would be ready the next day. However, since it was a really slow night, they said they would be ready in an hour. So we ordered our pizza and waited. For some reason this kid just walked up to me and started talking with me about Pokemon. I asked him "do I know you?" and he said "maybe, you look familiar." My mom found it very surreal since the kid dressed and acted like me at that age, and was very into Pokemon. I tried to be as uncreepy as possible, since he was like 10 years younger than me and I was a stranger, but I also didn't want to be all "go away kid." It was really weird.
On Saturday, it was the main event. It's all been leading up to this. I wake up, eat breakfast with my family, and get fully dressed for the occasion (freshly ironed gown, honors stole, 2 sets of honors chords, and hat with 2 tassels, one for my college and one for my university). We drive up to the auditorium to drop my grandparents and I off. I had to go check in. I found my way to the graduate area. After finding the right place for my college, I got my things and found a seat. I looked for friends to sit next to, but none of my friends had showed up yet. I'm really glad I brought my 3DS with me. After about 15 minutes one of my good college friends showed up. We talked for the other 15 minutes while we waited. Nothing super earth shattering, just some nerd small talk. I filled out the card for getting graduation pictures once those came around. All went well.
Well now it's time to march us out. I was expecting alphabetical order, but instead they called our names when we gave them the card with our names on it, which made it fun to sit next to friends, but hard to coordinate when to take snapshots of the event. I set-up a text to tell my brother to get ready when I was next. Before we walked into the auditorium I got my picture taken back stage. We walked out into the auditorium and got some speeches. They were nice speeches. The best was when the president of the university used the meme that surrounds him. It was great. I walk back stage, get in line, tell the people calling the names my name, and then walk out. I had my family cheer for me, shook hands with the university president while receiving my $100,000 piece of paper, shook hands with the dean of the engineering college while receiving my engineering challenge coin, shook hands with my professors that were there, and hug the lady that works in the admission office. It was great to walk. Afterwards I made some jokes to my friend, like when the president said "by the power vested in me by this institution, I now pronounce you graduates," when I leaned over and said "you may now kiss the diploma," and also when there was a 3rd "the third" I leaned over and said "that's the third third." Great ceromony.
So after the ceremony I was tasked with finding my family. I ran into the same friend that I filmed the engineer Pokemon parody with. He somehow got a ticket to see the graduation. I gave him a hug and thanked him for being there. In true style, he said "no problem bro, I'm glad I could be here." I found my family not to hard, and we took some pictures and went out to lunch. I invited my friend, and he came to say hi to my family, but he wasn't able to stay. My family liked him, and he liked them. At the restaurant he thanked me for the academic help and I thanked him for the "have some fun" help. Another friend to keep contact with. After lunch we went back to the hotel room and relaxed. I opened up my graduation cards later that evening.
Sunday was the last of the graduation festivities. We went to my student church, me dressed in my graduation get-up. Hey, I spent around $100 on this, so I'm going to get some wear out of it. I got recognized as a graduate as well as other graduates. After church we went to get some final pictures, basically recreating the ones I took as an incoming freshman, but with my cap and gown. After that I drove home, alone. The last thing of mentioning with regards to graduation is how I wore my cap and gown tor my other grandpa who wasn't able to make it to the graduation. He got to put my honors chords on me, and pull me around by them like a pack animal. Just some fun.
Man, this was crazy. It's weird knowing that I won't be going back to school at the end of my little break. Right now I'm working on fining a job, and my prospects seem OK.
Well, this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Family Camping 2012
Hey everyone, just came back from camping with friends that I have been camping with since, well forever. Mom and Dad were in a singles group, where they met, and they've all been camping together for over 20 years every year. We've grown and shrunk over the years, and this year seemed much smaller. I used to have trouble keeping tack of everyone's names, because we would have like 10-15 families all with kids and I only saw them a couple of times a year. This year we had 6 families, all of whom have been constant in coming to most gatherings. I know their names, except for a few who still trip me up.
Well now for the fun. We arrived Friday where we helped our friends who we were staying with set up their tent. Mom and Dad didn't want to do full camping so they stayed in a motel while we stayed with some friends in their tent. Friday tends to be a day where we all just kind of hang out and catch up. It's also the day when we go to the ice cream store that's right within walking distance, and is affordable, and as what happened a couple years ago, has onion water. I had crunchy munchy peanut butter. It's vanilla ice cream, with chocolate chunks and peanut butter. Really yummy.
Saturday is typically beach day, and this year was no different. We spent time at the beach, and since the friends we were staying with brought their dog, we spent time at the dog beach. The other time their dog came, 9 or so years ago, she was afraid of the water. This time, she went all the way in, with a little coxing, but fine, and had fun. I went toobing, and was able to stay in, until they made me turn around, then I kept falling off. The toobing was taken on the way to the sand bar with the drop off. It wasn't to too special. It was kind of on the other side of the lake with a bunch of people docked there. I swam off the drop off, and it's like a 45 degree angle. I did see drunk people partying on a pontoon boat. My friend that also went toobing didn't see much with the sand bar, so we just hung out on the boat and chatted about things. One drunk guy swam up to the boat and asked if we'd take him toobing in exchange for the rest of his beer. Friend handled it well with "this isn't my boat so not my call." He was like "OK I can respect that, but if you want to just find me." Well that was our fun on the beach and on the lake.
It was nearing dinner time, and Saturday dinner is always the big dinner with everyone. We have had different dinners over the years. This year, we had pizza and bread sticks. I had my pieces and we just had fun visiting. Our group has a Bob and a Larry, both dads, and they have young kids. As good Christian families, we all love Veggie tales, so Bob and Larry both have Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber T-shirts respectively, and their respective kids have shirts just like their dads. We got this really cute picture of Bob and Larry with their "little Junior Asparaguses." I would upload it but I don't know if they would want it up for the world to see. Just take my word for it.
Sunday, today, was go to church together, pack up, and say goodbyes. We're all Catholic, so we all go to church together. It's a nice church, and to my knowledge, we've all sat in the same spot since we can all sit in this one area. We normally go out to breakfast, like we did back when we all went to the same church and before everyone started moving away, but we had to get my brother to boy scout summer camp and had to miss it. To bad, it's normally quite fun. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.
Well now for the fun. We arrived Friday where we helped our friends who we were staying with set up their tent. Mom and Dad didn't want to do full camping so they stayed in a motel while we stayed with some friends in their tent. Friday tends to be a day where we all just kind of hang out and catch up. It's also the day when we go to the ice cream store that's right within walking distance, and is affordable, and as what happened a couple years ago, has onion water. I had crunchy munchy peanut butter. It's vanilla ice cream, with chocolate chunks and peanut butter. Really yummy.
Saturday is typically beach day, and this year was no different. We spent time at the beach, and since the friends we were staying with brought their dog, we spent time at the dog beach. The other time their dog came, 9 or so years ago, she was afraid of the water. This time, she went all the way in, with a little coxing, but fine, and had fun. I went toobing, and was able to stay in, until they made me turn around, then I kept falling off. The toobing was taken on the way to the sand bar with the drop off. It wasn't to too special. It was kind of on the other side of the lake with a bunch of people docked there. I swam off the drop off, and it's like a 45 degree angle. I did see drunk people partying on a pontoon boat. My friend that also went toobing didn't see much with the sand bar, so we just hung out on the boat and chatted about things. One drunk guy swam up to the boat and asked if we'd take him toobing in exchange for the rest of his beer. Friend handled it well with "this isn't my boat so not my call." He was like "OK I can respect that, but if you want to just find me." Well that was our fun on the beach and on the lake.
It was nearing dinner time, and Saturday dinner is always the big dinner with everyone. We have had different dinners over the years. This year, we had pizza and bread sticks. I had my pieces and we just had fun visiting. Our group has a Bob and a Larry, both dads, and they have young kids. As good Christian families, we all love Veggie tales, so Bob and Larry both have Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber T-shirts respectively, and their respective kids have shirts just like their dads. We got this really cute picture of Bob and Larry with their "little Junior Asparaguses." I would upload it but I don't know if they would want it up for the world to see. Just take my word for it.
Sunday, today, was go to church together, pack up, and say goodbyes. We're all Catholic, so we all go to church together. It's a nice church, and to my knowledge, we've all sat in the same spot since we can all sit in this one area. We normally go out to breakfast, like we did back when we all went to the same church and before everyone started moving away, but we had to get my brother to boy scout summer camp and had to miss it. To bad, it's normally quite fun. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.
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