Christmas in August?.

This weekend I bought the Sufjan Stevens Christmas CD, Songs for Christmas.

Buy it now. It will complete your life. I've listened to it so much the past few days. And I love it.

"My Soul Has Never Had this Feeling and it Feels Like Gold."

Wow.

It's been forever since I posted. I can't believe that I used to update daily. That's absurd; I never have any time any more.

Last week I went to Virginia and saw CHELSEA DODD. It was the best trip I have ever taken in my life. It was so fun. Looking back, we did nothing truly extraordinary, just a lot of hanging out, but it was so real and so pure and so fun. And life is all about fun.

It was my first time on an aeroplane. I lovelovelove riding on a plane. It's mega fun. I got to fly FIRST CLASS into and out of Atlanta. First Class is niiiiiiiiice.

We spent a couple days in Richmond, near Virginia Commonwealth University. I love that town. So old and so city-like. Everyone there rides bikes. It was three in the morning, and there people were, riding down the road on their bikes. Three seems too late to me. Not in Richmond though.

In Richmond we stayed with Stephen, Chelsea's sister Katie's boyfriend. I'll give you a second to make sense of that previous sentence. Katie and Stephen are so radical. Stephen and I got along super well, and there were so many times that he had me weak with laughter. He reminds me a lot of my brother Reed, it's sort of nuts.

Chels and I went to the beach. I love the ocean. I love the little crabs that will pop out of the sand and look at you funny and if you make any sudden movements, they scoot real quick. I like seagulls because they are so awkward looking. I like seeing dolphins because dolphins are seriously radical. I like little kids in the ocean because they are overwhelmed by fun and surf. The sounds are soft and the air is nice.

The ocean at night is vastly different than the daytime version, and a brand of beauty and magic all its own. It is dark, but I have never felt so bright and happy. I like having my big feet in the cool water and feeling the foam and the sand. Being at the beach was very probably the best day of my life.

We went to Busch Gardens and I rode SO MANY ROLLERCOASTERS. Roller coasters feel like flying. And they are huge and terrifying. I love riding them so much. I always, always say a secret prayer on the bigger ones that we will not die. My prayers were answered that day.

There is a place in Williamsburg called Sno to GO and it is just like Jerry's. I felt like home.

Chelsea's family is so great. Her dad was so cool. He was not frightening like so many dads are. He was easy to talk to and easy to like. Her mom is, I'm pretty sure, my mom in some random body. Obviously, I liked her. It all made sense being there.

I like Chelsea so much. She gets me and I, her. We laugh a lot and joke on each other a lot. It was so great being with her. It feels like being home is the vacation and my real life is in Virginia.

I love that place. I am unsatisfied with this place.

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In other news entirely, I am done with my mission papers and will see the Stake President Wednesday. They will then go to Salt Lake and I'll get a call. Absolute Craziness.

Reed Michael Garrett, mi primo favorito, leaves for school on Wednesday.

Everything is ending. It feels right, though, for the first time. Weird.

I'm going Skydiving on Saturday(!) and I might see Cartel on Saturday. Woohoo.

A Few Thoughts.

I feel somewhat sickly. Hopefully I will get over this.

I am going to Virginia on Monday. Seriously.

I LOVELOVELOVE musick. I saw The Format (!!!!), The Honorary Title (!!!!!!!), and two bands which I've never heard before, Limbeck and Steel Train (!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Clearly, Steel Train was awesome. The Format was one of the best bands I've seen live.

I finished Harry Potter and it was everything I could have ever hoped for it to be and more.

Matthew is here and will soon be gone.

I randomly thought of this video that came on Cartoon Network in the days of my youth and found it on YouTube. I love it.


Enjoy. Good night.

Update: Harry Potter.

I got it.

It is awesome.

This is All I Frigging Think About.

These are the Things I Think about.

I am in Atlanta visiting my cousins.

It is safe to say that I love my family more than most everything on planet earth.

I miss Matty. I would be hanging with him at Warped Tour right now, but those plans fell through. I have to go to the cardiologist on Monday.

See, I have an abnormal aortic valve. More to come on this subject at a later date. At this time is is sufficient to say that said valve is interrupting my mission paper process. Bummer.

I am too excited for the future--mission, Virginia, Harry Potter.

Life is really wonderful.

Little Blessings.

I was a bummer until I heard Paulson!

And then Backseat Goodbye!

Wonderful musick.

The Anticipation is Killing Me.

I went to the doctor today.
I got a Hepatitis A shot. A Hepatitis B shot. A meningitis shot. A PCB tuberculosis skin test. And they pricked my finger. I go back on Wednesday and I will get a tetanus shot.

I go to the dentist tomorrow.
I will get three cavities filled.

This week rocks!

So I'm reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and then Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in anticipation for the new movie and the seventh novel. I am unbelievably excited, folks. It should be rad.

I love popsicles.

This post is kind of just a bunch of nonsense. But so am I.

Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care.

Man.

I am in a weird mood right now. I am sort of.
I dunneveno. It's odd.

I just saw Relient K. It was very odd and unexpected. Levi called me Monday, "Are you going to see Relient K on Thursday?"
"What?" said I. "Relient K? You're sure that Relient K is playing on Thursday?"
"Yeah," said he, "I heard it on the radio."
"You're positive?"
"Yeah."
"You're positive?"
"Well now that you're questioning me, no. But I'll make sure."

Incidentally, he was completely correct. It was just a bit of an acoustic set. Only six songs. But it was pretty mega rad and everything. I was like three feet away from Relient K. Odd.

I really think that everything just gets better as it goes along, you know? I love every day more and more every day.

But this odd feeling that I was saying about just a second ago. It's in my gut. Like I want to get naked and drive around. Like something really wonderful is going to happen. Like all of my hopes and fears are going to come crashing down in a heap of future happenings. And I won't know what to do because of the exquisite wonderfulness of it all. I'm not sure how that and driving naked coincide, but it seems they do.

I love love love love love The Honorary Title.

This One Goes to...100?!?.

That's right, folks. This is my one hundredth post on Blogger. I had over one hundred posts on MySpace, but it's safe to say that a lot of those were crap, and only a few are in existence today.

Any way, in celebration of this most wondrous moment, here are one hundred things I like in no particular order. Seriously. One hundred. Feel free to close this window.

1. The new Life cereal with the yogurt crunchies.
2. Rock and Roll.
3. Matty.
4. Big, goofy, women's sun glasses.
5. Trees.
6. Chelsea Dodd.
7. Dance Gavin Dance
8. Globes.
9. Dina.
10. KFC.
11. Pan's Labyrinth
12. Opening wrapped gifts.
13. Wrapping gifts.
14. Slip-on Vans.
15. Driving.
16. Swallows.
17. The lake.
18. Slurpees from 7/11.
19. Español.
20. Road trips.
21. Live Music.
22. Jerry's Snocones.
23. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
24. Lightning bugs.
25. Stirring orchestra music.
26. Getting goosebumps.
27. Plaid.
28. Subway.
29. Humid summer nights.
30. Playing tag.
31. Making a noise like a pterodactyl.
33. The desert Southwest.
34. Mr. Goodbar.
35. Kisses.
36. Hair cuts.
37. IBC root beer.
38. Popsicles.
39. Pears.
40. Rainbows.
41. Dopey hats.
42. Three piece suits.
43. Running.
44. Saying things like "Hii Ya!!," "Extreme" and "Karate."
45. Sonic.
46. Pickles.
47. Cartoons.
48. Antihistamines.
49. Being me.
50. Being a teenager.
51. Driving down Highway 70 real fast.
52. Tube socks.
53. Photographs.
54. Blowing bubbles.
55. Swing sets.
56. Star Wars!
57. Windows down.
58. Singing (badly).
59. Doodling.
60. Magazines.
61. Thick novels.
62. Ramen.
63. Scrub bottoms.
64. FOUR SQUARE.
65. Watching fútbol.
66. Playing vidjoe games.
67. Ultimate.
68. SLEEP.
69. Maps.
70. Family.
71. Pop-tart cartoons.
72. Below-the-ankle socks.
73. Tee shirts.
74. Lava lamps.
75. Parties.
76. Orange juice.
77. Fleece blankets.
78. Starbucks.
79. Hoodies.
80. My cousin Reed.
81. My brother Reed.
82. Naps.
83. The woods.
84. The relief of peeing after having to go REALLY BADLY.
85. Making plans.
86. Going with the flow.
87. College.
88. Showering.
89. Being tan.
90. Soft, warm cookies.
91. Pretending to be foreign.
92. Cracking my knuckles.
93. Laughing.
94. Telling really bad jokes.
95. Boats.
96. Banging on drums, pots, anything that will make loud noises.
97. Cowboy boots.
98. Wearing a watch.
99. Drawing with crayons.
100. LIFE.

Well, there you have it, folks.

Good day to you.