Thanksgiving Plans

Every year for Thanksgiving since I was  young, My dad, sister, brother and me have always gone to my grandparents house in Lockwood, Mo.  I love going there for Thanksgiving. My family is really fun to be around and my grandma is a really good cook.  She makes the best green beans ever and this is the only time of the year I get to have them.  We always watch football and just sit around the living room and eat all day and joke around with each other. My uncles and dad love to pick on each other and everybody else too. My grandpa is probably the best on picking on people.  Some times we play games or cards or some years most of us take a nap.  I notice the older I'm getting the more the nap part sounds good.  My dads side of the family is pretty good sized.  My dad has two brothers, one of them have five boys and the other one has one boy and one girl. So there are ten grandchildren in total ranging from four to twenty three. I am the fourth oldest grandchild at twenty. But it is always a good time and great food and that is about one out of two or three days out of the year that I get to see that side of the family since they leave a little ways away. I think this year my girlfriend, Tara, may come out with me.  She has met that side of the family before but only once and I think she will fit in just fine. So these are my Thanksgiving plans that I do every year and plan on doing every year until plans change.

World Series here we come!!

My favorite baseball team is the St. Louis Cardinals and they made it to the World Series this year and tonight is game one! No one thought they would even make it into the playoffs.  With thirty days left in the regular season the Cardinals were ten and a half games out of the wild card.  They went on a hot steak and it came down to the last game of the regular season.  If the Cardinals won and the Braves lost, they were in.  If the Braves won and the Cardinals lost then the Braves were in and if both teams won, they would have one playoff game and winner would continue into the playoffs and the loser would go home.  So in the first series, the Cardinals had to play the Phillies, which had the best record in the National League.  It was a best out of five series and it came down to game five. Only problem was that it was in Philly but the Cardinals were the second best road team in the regular season. So the Cardinals went into Philly and beat them in a need to win game and moved on to the next round.  So in the second series, they had to face the Brewers who were the best home team in the Majors.  This was a best of seven series.  This one went back in forth but the Cardinals won it in game six in the Brewers stadium, causing a huge upset.  Now they have to face the power hitting Texas Rangers.  A lot of people are counting out the Cardinals, but they have been counting out the Cardinals all season long and look where they are now! I plan on watching every game that I can, unless I have to work but I am really excited that my team made it to the World Series and is the best National League team in 2011!

The Ranger

When I was sixteen, my grandpa traded a gun for a 1989 Ford Ranger, four speed to help me practice with stick driving.  So me and my best friend Dexter would take it out to the field and practice driving it.  Dexter and I loved to have bonfires and loved to camp but always hated sleeping in a tent.  So we got an awesome idea. We decided to make the Ranger into a camping truck. We made a bed frame that fitted the bed of the truck perfectly and we went a bought a mattress and it fitted in there perfect too.  Then we found a camper shell to put over it and it worked out perfect.  It was big enough for both of us, it had windows for the day time and we could close it up at night.  It was much better than sleeping in a tent which people say thats the only way to camp but I thought our truck was pretty close too.  So our next bonfire everyone loved our camping truck and thought it was the coolest thing ever.  Now we didn't have to set up a tent or worry about tearing it down either. It was always built up and it was way better than a tent too.  But the older we got, the busier we got and ended up tearing it apart.  But it is still the coolest thing I have put together and i'm glad I got to do it with my best friend.

My favorite songs of the week

So almost every week a new song comes out and it becomes my favorite song of the week. Well this week I have three favorite songs all by the same artist from his new album. Luke Byran is the artist this week. The first song is called Too Damn Young.  This song is about a young couple that sneak out of their house's to go to the dock for a swim and they fall in love and how they are too damn young to know any better. Here is how the chorus goes. "Every time my feet are dangling in the water, I can't help but think about her lying there, with her wet hair. Didn't know what we were doing but we didn't care.
That old wooden dock was warm on our backs, a t-shirt for a pillow and just like that, she kissed me like she meant forever. We were too damn young to know any better. The second song is called Drunk On You. In this song he talks about a girl he likes and that she is his drug or "beer" in this case. Here is how the chorus goes. "Girl you make my speakers go boom boom, dancin' on the tailgate in the full moon. That kinda thing makes a man go mmm hmmm. You're lookin' so good in what's left of those blue jeans, drip of honey on the moneymaker gotta be the best buzz I'm ever gonna find. Hey I'm a little drunk on you and high on summertime." The last song is his new single called I Don't Want This Night To End. Here is how the chorus goes. "You got your hands up, you're rocking in my truck. You got the radio on, you're singing every song. I'm set on cruise control. I'm slowing loosing hold of everything I got. You're looking so damn hot. And I don't know what road we're on, or where we've been from starrin' at you. Girl, all I know is I don't want this night to end. These are my favorites songs of the week!

The Perfect Weekend

If I could plan the perfect weekend and money was not an option, this is how it would go.  First off, my weekend would start on Thursday. Early on Thursday, my girlfriend and me would fly to Washington D.C. and tour all the major museums and at night when the lights are out we will go tour the monuments.  Then the first thing Friday morning we would fly to Orlando, Florida and go to Orlando Studios all day and ride rides and later that night, I would take my girlfriend to a nice dinner with a beautiful view.  Then first thing Saturday we would fly to New Orleans because my girlfriend has always wanted to go there.  We would spend most the day enjoying the views, trying the foods and listening to my local music.  Then that night we would fly to Las Vegas and catch a show. Probably the Blue Man Group or that new act called Fighting Gravity.  Then the first thing Sunday morning we would fly to Pittsburg to watch the Steelers play football because that's my girlfriend's favorite football team.  I like another team but I love to watch football so I would have fun too. After the football team we would fly to Chicago and go to the famous Wrigley Field and watch the Cubs and the Cardinals play.  The Cardinals are my favorite team and I've always wanted to go to Wrigley Field because of the history of it.  After that game we would fly home and rest and talk about the fun we had on our perfect weekend.

Oh, I don't have AAA?

So on Monday of this week, I was on the opposite side of town running some errands and I go to get back in the car and it won't start. So I said great, now what. So I thought to myself, "Hey, I have AAA, I will just call them and get a free tow." So I call AAA and tell them what I need and give them my member ship number only to find out that I don't have AAA anymore because my step mom stop paying for it. So I decided to call my Allstate agent to see if I had road side assistants and of course I don't.  So I was trying to figure out what I was going to do.  I tried to start my car again and it started.  I thought if I babied it home, I'll just get there and then I'll look at it.  So I started driving and got about half way home when I pulled up to the light at Kansas and College.  I stopped at the red light and my car died and started smoking.  Great.  Thankful a woman and a man got out of their cars and helped me push it out of the road and out of traffic.  After that I called my grandparents to ask them what I should do.  They said they would call my cousin's boyfriend because he is a mechanic and he came and towed me to his house where he works on cars.  He thinks it's a head gasket which is not good but he can do it for cheap so i'm thankful for that.  My cousin took me to get my dad's truck to borrow for the week.  After all of this my grandma said something that made my day better.  She said, "Adam, if you didn't have bad luck, you wouldn't have any luck at all."

Mix it up

I love mixing songs together and putting them on YouTube for people to listen and give me feed back. I also love speeding songs up and listening to what they sound like. I have uploaded forty-two videos to YouTube and most of them are either mixes or sped up songs.  That’s kind of my hobby I guess.  Some people collect stuff or draw, I like to play around with music and see what I can make.  I really want to do some dj stuff on the side but the equipment for that stuff is really expensive so that’s why I don’t do that.  But I love to mix two or more songs together and make a cool mix.  I sometimes to run out song mix for local high schools so they can have their own custom song to run out too.  I have one on YouTube that has over two thousand hits and plan to put another one up there soon.  I have a lot of the sped up songs on YouTube and the very first one I did which is the song, “If I Die Young”, by The Band Perry has over nine thousand hits and an unknown artist named Jon Young used my sped up version in his rap song he made called “2 soon.” It makes me feel really good when people comment on my videos and say stuff like good job or that rocks and ask me how they can get their own copy so they can listen to it outside of YouTube. So this is one of my hobbies that I enjoy doing.  And I hope others enjoy the songs I make and mix and speed up.  If you would like to check out my videos, go to www.youtube.com and search ellis4216 and my videos should pop up.