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.

I still like cartoons! And I don't care what you think!

Yes I know that I'm 20 years old but I don't care! I still like to watch cartoons.  My favorite is Looney Tunes! It was my favorite as a kid and it's my favorite cartoon now! You have to love Bugs Bunny, he always out smarts his foes in funny ways!  I also like to watch this show called Phineas and Ferb!  Its about a boy and his step brother and its during summer vacation.  They do something different everyday and its always amazing things like building a roller coaster or a mini golf course or once they made it snow in summer! But their older sister, Candace, is always trying to bust them and get them in trouble but every time their parents, their mom used to be a 80's pop star, get home, everything they have built disappears some how.  They also have a pet patter puss that is a secret agent who goes out everyday and fights against this guy who is trying to take over the tri-state area then returns home to be their pet.  So its kind of a story in a story.  I also like a show called Adventure Time which is about a boy and his talking dog go on adventures to help others and Regular Show which is a bird and a raccoon buddies that work to make money to do fun stuff but they always screw up.  And I like adult cartoons like Family Guy which is my all time favorite show and American Dad.  So yeah, I'm 20 years old and I'm almost done with college, have a car payment and insurance payment, about to move out on my own, and when I do move out on my own I will watch cartoons there too! I still like cartoons and I'm proud of it!

One of my crazy McDonald's experiences

This is just one of many crazy McDonald’s experiences that I’ve had.  This one is from when I worked for McDonalds.  I had put my two weeks notice in because I had found a higher paying job.  Well I was down to only about three or four days left and they started messing with my hours.  They would work me till one a.m. then bring me back in at eight a.m. so I wasn’t getting enough sleep for the kind of work I was doing.  They were doing this to me because they were mad that I was quitting because I knew how to do everything there.  I could cook, wrap the burgers, run the cashier, clean, make the tea, do the dishes, run the drive thru, and unload the truck when it came.  So they didn’t want to have to train new people how to do all of this.  Well one morning after working till one in the morning, I came in and we had a morning rush and after it was over I walked up to my manager and told her that I was going to take a break cause I was tired and that I was being over worked.  She told me no, that I haven’t done anything that morning, which was a lie, I worked my butt off for them.  So I went off on her in front of all the customers, calling her liar, and that I work my ass off for them and then I called her an f-ing bitch.  That’s when she told me to go home and then I got a call later saying don’t worry about finishing your two week notice.  And that’s only one of many crazy times at McDonalds.  There will be many, many more crazy McDonalds stories to come.

Karma's a Bitch

I was over at a classmate’s house and it was Shuey, Dube, Jarvis, Tab, Tara and I.  We were script writing for a project in class we all had together.  We decided to take a break and play some hacky sack in the front yard and we hit record on the camera just for the heck of it.  So we are in a huge circle in the front yard playing hacky sack when a girl walks up to us holding a bag and a take out box.  She walks up and says, “Hi, my name is Cassidy and I’m a runaway.  I haven’t slept in 28 hours and I’m walking to a friends house, can someone give me a ride?”  We all looked at each other for a minute and replied, “How old are you?”  She said she was almost 18 but to me she looked like she was maybe 16.  Well we told her that we couldn’t aid a runaway minor.  To which she said, “I’m not a minor, I’m legally independent.  Tab said, “If your legally independent then why do you have to runaway?”  The whole thing didn’t make sense.  She looked down and stated, “Karma’s a bitch.” Then after telling us that, asked for another ride.  We said no again and she walked off.  During this whole thing we noticed she was twitching, so we knew she was on something.  So we called the cops, told them a girl named Cassidy walked up to us saying she was a runaway and that we have the whole thing on tape.  So about 10 minutes later the cops show up and look at the tape and they recognized her and said that this wasn’t her first time and that she was only 16.  So they drive down the road to see if they can find her.  So after awhile we get hungry and all hop in a car and drive to get some food and we drive down where she was walking and we find the cops in a close by park with her in the back seat.  We thought we were heroes caused we saved a 16 year old girl from danger and drugs.

November 28th, 2011

On November 28th, 2011, my girlfriend, Tara, and I are going to go watch the Steelers take on the Chiefs on Sunday night football.  I have been to a couple of Chiefs games but never a night game so I am really excited.  Tara has never been to a football game so she is even more excited.  The reason we picked this game to go to is because i'm a Chiefs fan and Tara is, well, a Steelers fan.  But we aren't in each other faces about which team is better, mainly because Tara doesn't know that much about football.  It should be a fun game and probably colder than crap but i'm hoping for forty degree weather.  And I just got Tara her very own Steelers jersey with her name on the back and a terrible towel to wave, that's a Steelers thing.  And I have my own Chiefs jersey but it's from a player who doesn't play for the Chiefs anymore so I might to get a new one.  I wanted to get one of either Eric Berry, their best safety, or of Jamal Charles, their best running back, but both of them are out for the rest of the season.  But I might get one anyway and just say I had it before the season started.  I'm hoping the Chiefs start to do better before that game comes because they have sucked the first two games so far this season and it might be a long night for me if the Chiefs suck again.  But the fun part is being there.  It is really fun to go to a Chiefs game. They say its the loudest stadium in the NFL.  It's going to be a great game, a lot of fun, and maybe really cold but at least I'll be with my girl watching the whole game from great seats.

Head First

Today I am blogging about a picture.  The picture is of me but it reminds me of something else.  The picture is of me diving head first onto a water trampoline while we were on vacation.  We went to Lake of the Ozarks and rented a lake house for an entire week.  At this lake house there was a dock, a boat, and a water trampoline.  So one day we spent the whole day jumping off the dock and doing poses for the camera.  My older sister, Ashalyn, was sitting on the water trampoline taking the pictures.  So I had an idea.  I would dive head first toward the camera onto the water trampoline to see what it would look like.  And although we took a lot of pictures that day of us jumping off like all the boys doing the YMCA in mid air or my younger brother doing a causal lay back jump which was funny, my favorite picture was the one of me diving head first with my arms out like super man, my goofy shades on, and my mouth wide open. We also took pictures of us tubing which were some funny pictures too.  We had a thing to where if you wanted to go faster you put your thumb up, if you wanted to slow down, you put your thumb down. We got a picture of my younger step brother putting his thumb down and the boat wasn't going very fast at all.  We also got a picture of my brother on the boat with his whole head wrapped in a towel except his eyes which were covered in shades.  He looked like a movie star trying to cover their face.  We ended up taking over two hundred pictures that week and even took some videos, but the best picture of all was the head first dive towards the camera.