Homeschoolers

Yeah so I met some homeschoolers today at college, typical, big family, smart kids. I guess I am not alone in this world, well i guess i always knew that but it sounded like the right thing to say right there.

Listining to skillet right now, back when they were good, like the hey you I love your soul album. I really like the song Your Love(keeps me alive), Deeper, and More Faithful is one of my favorite songs of all time.

Also I have a mullet right now, and I actually kind of like the look, granted the ladies, well most of them don't dig, but oh well, they always liked me for my personality anyways. But I made a deal and so I will have to cut it here, maybe tomorrow and then I think I am going to go for a different hairstyle like a blast from the past for those of you who knew me in my past, I'm talking preshag marine high and tight.

So it is 3:14 in the A.M. right now and I get kind of lonely at this time of night, nobody else is up really this late. There are a few kids that are up till 2 or something like that but really the hours of 3 to 5 get pretty lonely but I get some good thinking done in that time, not like studying for my psychology test thinking but the other kind of thinking.

Along those lines though now that I am thinking about it I think I might work on my essay questions for Psychology... just kiddin there will be time for that in the 25 min drive from work to school.

I never minded calling You a King If that meant that I could count on You To give me everything I never thought to ask You I always thought You knew It was never my intention to question You. You never minded calling me a child Well, I guess that's how I acted all the while But You live through every tantrum, You see through every lie Though they seem to be more common I just wanted You to know why. You never minded giving us the stars Then showing us how blind and unaware of You we areYou painted me a picture and showed me how to seeThough I just won't behold it Unless it pertains to me... These are some great lyrics about how we can be so self-centered in our attitude towards Christ.

With that.

Andrew Vik
Oranges advocate.

Sleep

Sleep is the most essential function we as Human's have ( excluding socializatio and water consumption ) in context to our health and mental aptitude. We have all sorts of disorders associated with sleep like sleep apnea, sleep anxiety disorder, narcolyspsy, hypersomnia, and chronic fatigue syndrome which if we are being technical does not always have to do with sleep because no matter if we get 4 or 10 hours you would still be tired but I am going to throw it in there anyways.

With that...

I have found that certain reqriums need to be met ( wait isn't reqrium a catholic mass for a deceased person? Well yes it is, so I apologize for that mis-vocabularity there, but admit it you would not have known that if I had not put this little part in here ) for me to be able to sleep well.

For instance... temperature, I cannot sleep if I am too hot, like all this winter my stupid heater in my loft runs too hot and i wake up in the middle of the night sweating and then cannot get back to sleep. Now this distillation of temperature is all to deisolationed for my deprivation of dormancy and lethargy, and i can't sleep so I have taken to dropping the temperature so that it is cold when I go to sleep and I have found that I sleep very well when it is cold in the room but I am warm under my blanket. Now my torpidity ( sleep for all you non-homeschoolers or while not defined as sleep but uncounsiousness it is a synonym for sleep) it quite important to my functioning and for me to be non-imparied in judgement or my acumen state of acute and apprehensively astue state of mind that we like to describe as counciousness.

Next... Music helps me to sleep and I could almost say that I have become dependent on music for sleep, I always put some music on before I go to bed, usually at a very blantantly blustered cacophonously emphatic fulminating obstreperous raucous resonant resounding sonorously stentorianed tumultously vehement and vociferous level, as such that one time my mom called my apartment and told me to turn down my music at about 2 in the morning, but I missed the call because of the deafening nature of my music. But as I said I like music and I like it loud or very loud at night to get to sleep, and I almost always wake up in the middle of the night to turn the music off without fail. I have had about 6 times this year so far where i woke up and my music was still on which meant that I slept through the night, which is a rare occasion for me. The nature or genre of the music does not seem to have an effect on my sleep but can have an affect on my mood in the morning, I have found that heavy metal or angst music blarred throughout the night produces a worse mood in the morning than say some jazz, or Leo Kotkee 6 and 12 string steel guitar or some Guster or the Spider Man Two Soundtrack or some Rocking Jason Gray, but still I like rock music sometimes and a chourus of smashing pumpkins through the nigth seems to produce a good sleep for me.

Next, not knowing what time it is helps me to sleep, if I look at the clock and realize that i only have a few hours left I almost seem depressed and have a hard time falling back to sleep or in some cases just get to sleep as I stay up very late at least a couple of nights a week. You might say that my sense of self - efficacy is shot after I realize that I have no control over time, so I try to not look at the clock and in this case ignorance is sleep as the old expression goes.

Well that is what I have for now and if you don't understand it ( do you see what is coming? I know I could) then sleep on it.


Andrew Vik
The fascinating prodigiously stunning and suprisingly unbelievably wonderful and marvelous person interested in the Quasi-Psychology of sleep.

Music

I am a fan of the music. So I assume that I know more music than most of you so I am going to drop a list of awesome songs that you should check out.

Rocky Took a Lover - Bell X1
Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire
Lazyeye - Silversun Pickups
Firestarter - Jimmy Eat World
Life is Beautiful - Sixx: AM
Oil and Water - Incubus
Hellodrama - What made milwaukee famous
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Acid Rain - Liquid Tension Experiment
Typical - Mutemath
Suspension - Mae
The Gift - Seether
Hafsol - Sigur Ros
Words - 7 Sharp 9
Invincible - Crossfade
23 - Jimmy Eat World
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot - Brand New
Jesus Christ - Brand New
Not the Sun - Brand New
Sing Through Me - Jason Gray
Buddy Holly - Weezer
Perfect Situation - Weezer
Head on Collision - New Found Glory
My Friends over You - New Found Glory
Taylor - Jack Johnson
God's gonna cut you down - Johnny Cash
Save Yourself - Stabbing Westward
Dig - Incubus
Take my picture - Filter
He'll take care of the rest - Keith Green
Dear John (letter to the devil ) - Keith Green
Intervention - Arcade Fire
Long Long Time - Guy Forsyth
Beauitiful Night - Burden Brothers
Romeo and Juliet - The Killers
For Nancy - Pete Yorn


I will add another list some time.

Andrew Vik
I make that name look good.

I'm 100 miles away son... ready to strike.

Wow I still love that line, but now I got another one two, My quick smells like french toast? Yeah amazing. As you could not tell i spoke that "yeah amazing" as Jim Rome but not Jim Rome Jim Rome but frank calliendo Jim Rome.

Whatever that ment

Anyways I am employed as an assistant manager at the Pizza Ranch in George but I am working at the Rock Rapids pizza ranch tomorrow.

In an effort to make this all as random as possible i may consoledate.

I doubt I just spelled consoledate right.

With that as they might say...

I almost got in a fight tonight with an old guy when i was playing basketball, but like i said it was an old guy and I would have felt bad about fighting with an old guy. And by old I mean he is like 35 or something like that. And I will say however if this were a couple of years ago there probably would have been a fight. But as they say three blind mice or something like that are best made plans.

Next on Agenda... I doubt anybody has read any of this right now which would make this dangerously close to a diary or manly journal. I will save face by inserting some explitives right here - Firehouse - I heard someone say something about an F word and I assumed that is the only thing it could have meant, I was homeschooled after all.

Well I suppose that I am going to be going to bed... alone.... cause that is what good young christian men do... we sleep alone... none of that monkey buisness for us.

Andrew Vik
Quite possibly too sexy for his shirt and spelling.

I'm 100 miles away son... ready to strike.

The Geico commercials with the kid Loren Wallace are hilarious, I like them like Sugar Toast.

Sui Generis anyone?

Andrew Vik
The Rock as per my middle name.

Ah the great silence, that of course being the time between the old testament and the new testament. As for that and as for this then I digress or something about blah blah blah I am getting off subject, and about right now I should say something along the line of I digress.

Well today marks a new milestone in my life, I finally learned today how to spell wednesday right. Believe it I had been spelling it wrong all of these years, so how about that, the Lord is gracious is a very little thing and I now know how to spell wednesday right.

I had spring break over the last week and I had a very good a refreshing time, i got to spend time with my Friend Graham Harms, you might know him from such films as Seize the day and Somewhere out There. That was tuesday but oh wait I was not done yet oh no sir you better believe it I was not done.

Wednesday Night I call my friend Bethany Ruby because I had heard news of a track meet being going on at the happening or the it was going to be and it was running no pun intended but it was going to be on the next day or tomorrow as I called it on that yesterday. Anyways I called and she told me that it had gotten cancelled because of snow and that Tim was coming to pick her up from College and so one thing eventually led to another ( no drinks involved) and I ended up picking up the girls and getting to go out to lunch with them and Kiah my sister and Heidi Hildebrant and her dad, and we ate Chinese and I am not even chinese. Anyways it was a fun time there but yet the fun went on.

Thursday night i stayed at the ruby's , and for the record my friend Tim Ruby was there so it was not inappropriate, but I digree and I am getting off subject. So I got to spend time with the whole Ruby clan and it was awesome to see Tim again.

But as they say all good things are a penny saved, so I ended up going to see my Friend Jason Gray and his Family, and that was amazing.

I got up there about a little before about 2 and I played some Wii with Jacob and Kipper and they both properly whooped on me. But then we went to the Good Friday service at the Church of the Open door and I saw a girl that looked like Julia Shultz but it ended up not being her. But more than that it was a great service, going over the last 7 things that Jesus said while he was on the cross and the worship and music was very moving and it was a great reminder of who I have placed my faith in and what it cost my Savior.

Side note, I enjoyed Punch Pizza, so yes I give it a kudus.

So after the service we traversed back to Janesville, the town of renowned rockstar Jason Gray.

We listed and jammed to really good tune the whole way back. And once we got back we got some awesome snacks prepared by Taya ( Nurse Taya) and she made me a awesome drink, but it was non-alchoholic because friends don't let friends drive a penny saved. We played Scotland Yard and Jacob put up a heroic effort but we eventually caught the elusive and evil Mr. X.

We watch Stranger that Fiction which was a movie that I will see again and I even recommended it to my parents because it seems like a movie that they would enjoy. I know I did.

All in all my spring break was a really good time and a blessing from the Lord because of the encouragement and refreshment that I got from being around these people.

Also Jason Gray, yeah buy the CD and represent.

Steve Carrel!?

What we do here echos only if we are in a cave.

Andrew Vik
Poet Loriet of this little colony we affectionatly call America.

And I'm back din and din a din a, for those of you who don't know that is off an Eminem song, and, oh wait, I already used that intro, well then... ummm, well hello my name is Andrew Vik, you kill my father, prepare to die, ok also not working, so skip lame intro and lets get into the rest of the blog post.

Well then, the big news is I get to see Tim Ruby tomorrow who is one of the sweetest coolest guys you will ever meet.

Gas rose to 112$ a barrel today, and if Gas goes above 125 a barrel and stays there for more than 2 weeks then drilling in Alaska will start to take place, but in an eviromentally friendly way.

Well then, the big news is I get to see Tim Ruby tomorrow who is one of sweetest coolest guys you will ever meet.

Well then, the big news is that i found out I suffer from short term memory loss today but usually I can't even remember I have it.

Well then, the big news is that I should never have used that joke, sheesh. peace.

Andrew Vik.

The story continues and maybe even evolves.

And I'm back din and din a din a, for those of you who don't know that is off an Eminem song I heard 12 times a year or so ago, and for those of you who are wondering... no I do not endorse rap, but I have rapped freestyle style a few times but I did get my butt kicked pretty good the one time.

Ok so today I discovered an awesome song, it is by MGMT and it is called Time to Pretend and I am diggin it like a gravedigger after a running of the bulls at a senior citizens center.

Now Page Two: on to venting, I would have to say that it is really annoying to no end (until it ends) when people don't use their blinkers when they turn, and sometimes I want to shake my fist at them but then I don't because that's not what I'm about.

What am I about? well... here goes

1. Finding Joy in Christ, I believe that Christ wants us to have joy abundantly and to teach us in our Joy but I think that all too often we have to get down to the depths of dispair and depression when there is no where left to go before we are willing to allow Christ to teach us, so I am endevoring to not let my pride get in the way of the Lord teaching me when things are going well because like I said I don't think that Christ wants to teach us in our sorry as much as He would like to teach and bless in our Joy.... now as to sustaining that joy? Well I just need to keep reminding myself that nothing on earth is capable of bringing me as much joy as a relationship with Christ can. The ol John Piper is a good read on this catigory.

2. I like to play sports and to be active, and I have a extremly huge competitive drive, one that comes equipped with no safty mechanism to tell me when to stop going, normal peoples brains tell then "hey don't go diving into the bike at the corner of the garage just to score a touchdown in a pick up game of football" but mine, nothing doing, and so I got a pretty big scar to show for that. Taming a competitive nature and competing in a Christ like manner with Grace and humility is a hard thing to figure out, but it something that is acheivable, and something that i strive for.

3. I love music, it is a great passion of mine, but i am finding that some genres just don't have much to offer me, so I have been trying to give up on Heavy Metal.

4. really that was mainly what I had but here is a list of things that give me simple joy

- Sunshine - just seeing the sun can pull me out of a depressive slump
- A full moon when the snow is on the ground, I think could honestly be just about my favorite sight in the world.
- Sitting around talking with families
- Just goofing off and doing something that completly ammuses no one but myself
- The Song, Move Along by the All American Rejects, everytime I hear it I feel just a little better.

And yeah... how about that?

Yason?
No it's Jason!
Yason?
Jason!
Yason
JASON!!!

Andrew Vik
Biligual in 3 major types of chaos.

Well this is cool

Oi... for those of you who don't know that is Brazillian for Hello and for those of you who don't know Brazillian means portuguese and for those of you who don't know, I really don't know how to spell portugease, but that's ok because I know what Oi means.

On with the show (blog)

I am at the moment writing a paper for my sociology class and the paper is about homeschooling, and how if you were homeschooled you are a loser. Actually my paper isn't that mean, but seriously, homeschool? Lets get real.

Well that was just an inside joke with myself, because i found it very funny.

Now on a serious note, gas rose to over 1o8$ a barrel today.

Now on a lighter note, I was thinking today and.... HOlY CRAP its Geraldo.

Ah well Bien, I will say this is that and that is all and all is now done and I am done now, with that and this... WHOOSH! over you head and below your knees I am guessing? Well not to worry I wrote it on the fly ( actually a keyboard) and I can definately say that....

DUN DUN DUH

Too be Continued...