the name game

let's do "chuck"... chuck, chuck, bo buck...

Ever hate your parents for your name? Be glad you're not one of these kids.

backtrack

allow myself to introduce... myself

Okay, so it wasn't a HORRIBLE Christmas. It just really wasn't what I had in mind as to how I was going to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I didn't get to go visit my mother in Ohio, but I DID get to attend the 2:00 Christmas Eve service at my church. I was excited about this because I put in a lot of work on the service and wasn't going to get to enjoy the fruits of my labor. So it would've been pretty much like last year. A lot of people were surprised and happy to see me at the service. In fact, a few people even invited me to join them on Christmas Day so I wouldn't have to be alone. So I spent most of my time alone, but it wasn't horrible. And tonight I headed down to Nashville, TN, to get ready for the EDGE conferences in North Carolina this week. When I arrived, Ben, Craig, and Craig's wife - Brittany went to the "chop suey joint" for dinner. When I walked in, I felt like it was "A Christmas Story"... Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

So, even though I didn't get to be with my family for Christmas, I survived. You could almost say I just about "skipped Christmas" altogether.

Tis the season

fa ra ra ra ra

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, may your season be blessed with family, friends, fun, and safe travel.

worst christmas ever

yep, it's official

Well, Christmas 2004 will be henchforth known as the "bad year" for me. Due to weather conditions northward, it will be impossible for me to see my family for the holidays. This is the first time ever that I will not get to be with anyone during this time of year. As my mom stated, "I always knew some year you wouldn't be able to make it, but I always thought it would be because of a girlfriend."

So here I am, and here I'll be. No family, no friends, no cheer, no eggnog, no wrestling with the little cousins, no getting to see the face of people opening the present I gave them; just me, a TV, a bag of chips, and my computer... [sigh].

I must be getting punished for something.

Christmas alone?

mother nature has it in for me

It looks like for the first time since I've been alive, I might have to spend Christmas alone. If the weather has anything to say about it, anyway. It's looking like I won't be able to spend Christmas with my family, this year. Which really sucks. I like my alone time as much as anyone, but not around the holidays... that's the worst. And to top it off, I've just moved into a new place, so it feels even weirder being alone in a place that's not really home, yet.

Is this cause to be unhappy? I think so.

quote of the moment

i'll be your huckleberry

Jack Johnson: Why you do it?
Doc Holliday: Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Jack Johnson: Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: I don't.

- from "Tombstone"

words

the simplest phrase can touch the soul

A friend of mine named Mike Tuttle has said some amazingly kind words in reference to me... I would like to repeat them here. They've patched a little piece of my soul.

"Scotty loves life and he loves the little things. Everyone should have a Scott Glascock. If you don't, you can borrow mine."
- Mike Tuttle

Y'know... I just think it's wonderful that the words and sentiments that you seem to need but don't know you need, come your way when you really need them to.

3000 miles away

I need to get back to You

This post is really geared toward the people who know me best, but also to anyone who knows me well enough to understand what I'm talking about.

Over the past month (or maybe more, I don't really know) I have been acting strangely toward people, and I have not really been acting my normal "happy, energizer-bunny style, zesty, excited about life and living and the small things", self.

I'm the kind of person that doesn't realize I'm doing something until someone brings it to my attention - and when it's brought into the foreground of my mind, I'm able to at least recognize I'm doing it, although I may not know or understand why. Once I'm able to recognize, I then move into trying to figure out why I'm doing, saying, or acting the things or ways that I am. I have come to one general conclusion for the moment.

I'm not happy.

I realize that the basis of my happiness is and has always been God. And the reason for my unhappiness is that I'm so far away from God right now, and I just feel like I'm struggling to hang on to where I am and trying to get back to Him.

To my friends: I know I have not been the friend to you that I normally am or should be, and I apologize. I don't have that many friends, so I cherish, treasure, and appreciate every one of you.

If you don't hear from me before then, I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and an exciting and fun (yet safe) New Year.

Parting Shot (ala Mike Tuttle):

"Your absence changes me and everything seems so wrong;
but with no sense of irony I write you this sweet love song;
Distance is my tutor - so well he's teaching me
in the education of appreciation - and I got my Ph.D.;
Take me home to that face - 3000 miles away."
- 3000 Miles Away by Daily Planet

Quote of the Moment

inspired by Mike Tuttle

I want pancakes! Yo quiero pancake! Click click, bloody CLICK - PANCAKE!!!!

-Stewie, Family Guy

moving

pull the truck around back, boys!

Don't worry, my blog isn't moving. I am. Physically. For the record, I really dislike moving. I don't like packing up and taking all my stuff from one place to another. I don't like finally getting set up or settled in somewhere and then having to do it all over again.

Well, that's what I'm doing all this week. And what makes it worse is that my stuff is going to go to three different places. Storage, my mother's, and my new place. So I'm slowly moving some of the small stuff to my new place and storage as I can with my car. Saturday, hopefully, will be the BIG move day. At least that'll be the day to get all the furniture out and in... and in.

Ah well. This too shall pass.

weekend update

live from New York, it's Saturday Night!

Enough with the blatent rip-offs - I had one of the best weekends I've had in a long while. (Take it however you want) Aside from the poor and slow start (see previous post) it was really great.

Saturday
Woke up and picked up one of my best friends to goto a rehearsal in Frankfort. Little did I know that the day would take off from there. Rehearsal went well and fairly quickly. My friend and I then went to take in a matinee. Y'know, I really think matinee's are a wonderful gift to us. Whoever first thought up the idea of showing a movie in the afternoon at a lower than normal price should be hailed as a king. But, let's get back on track; And speaking of tracks, the movie we went to see was Polar Express. It has already become one of my favorite holiday movies. I can see it becoming a tradition for me around the holidays. After the movie, we did a little bit of Christmas shopping. Now, I don't usually shop in the prime shopping hours, especially on weekends. I generally like to shop a bit more leisurely in the early or late hours of the morning/evening. Traffic was really rediculous in the Hamburg Pavillion shopping center. After shopping we were supposed to meet some friends for dinner at Ted's Montana Grill. Have you ever eaten bison? I'd like to rave about it - but really it doens't taste much different than beef to me. It was really good though. I liked it, but it's more expensive than beef, and for the same taste, I don't feel it's worth it. After dinner we went to our friend's home to play some games and hang out some more (with a brief detour to the liquor store). We ended up playing Catch Phrase with more of a catch than usual... we turned it into a drinking game.

Sunday
Sunday found itself starting out with a stop-off at my friend's house to pick her up to go to church. It was very interesting for me, it's been a while since I have been in town and not been running lights for the services, so I was actually sitting in the congration. My church is running a really awesome series this holiday season which has gotten a LOT of press and response - both good and bad. This year, we're skipping Christmas. Check out the website they've set up. And before you jump up and down, scream and shout, and yell at me things like, "How Dare You?", "Where's your Christmas Spirit?" and "You are a cultist organization that's going to heck!" READ WHAT IT'S ABOUT!

After church I had another rehearsal for "A KY Christmas Carol" being performed at Liberty Hall in Frankfort this weekend. Focus was a little off for many of us, but that's mostly only on account of us not being in the actual space that we'll be performing in.

After that I spent the evening helping my friend put together a wine rack she purchased the day before, we watched "A Muppet Christmas Carol" (one of my new favorite holiday traditions), baked cookies, ordered a pizza for dinner, and then just watched some TV before I left to go home and crash.

It was a very low-stress, VERY fun weekend. And that's how I really feel.

now THAT's what I call fun

wait, no... it's sad

friday night:
1 can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup
4 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 2)
3 episodes of Smallville (season 2)
30 minutes of playing Halo in multiplayer mode (by myself)
2 small bags of Doritos Cool Ranch chips
3/4 large bag of Ruffles (with ridges)
1/2 jar of ranch dip
and 1 bottle of champagne

yep... pretty much par for a friday night.

attack!

weapons for today's warrior

Eat your heart out 007. I've got some gadgets of my own.

Halo 2

something oddly satisfying about sneaking up on an alien and clocking him with the butt of your rifle

I don't know or remember if I've ever mentioned the fact that I own an Xbox video game system on this blog before. Guess what? I do. Now that we have that out of the way, on to the post:

HALO
Halo has been acclaimed as one of the best video games to come out in recent history. It was the first game that I bought when I bought my Xbox, and I tend to agree with the reviews. It revolutionized first-person shooters by leaps and bounds, not to mention the multiplayer facet of the genre.

Now Bungie has out done even itself with the sequel, Halo 2. I had the opportunity to play the second installment of the game via renting it from Hasting's. Alas the few days I had it in my possession left me feeling nostalgic, and, realizing I had never actually beaten the first Halo, I broke it out and finished the game.

There's something oddly satisfying about beating a video game. It has a sense of relief and freedom and accomplishment... but then emptiness. You think "YES I BEAT IT... ... but now what?"

Luckily for me, I'll be getting HALO 2 for Christmas.

quote of the moment

more words and wisdom to live by

"In life, the road to darkness is a journey, not a lightswitch."
-Lex Luthor, Smallville

HOLY CRAP!!!

"swimmers" be warned

This article speaks for itself... let's just say... I'm scared.

quote

words to live by

Truth only hurts when it suddenly slaps you in the face.

hello caller

would YOU want to ring the doorbell?


click to make it bigger



and.... GO!

revolving door life

and other things

The saying goes that for every door closed, another one will open. This can be true for many aspects of life; If that's true... then why does life feel like a revolving door? The door never really opens or closes, it just goes around in circles. Does a revolving door just make it easier for things to come and go?

On a more tangible tangent, the past two days have been absolutely WONDERFUL outside. Yesterday was really incredible with the temperature getting up to the high 60's. Today, the scenery is just as beautiful, but the temp is a little bit more chilly.

Mmmm... chili.

dreams - part two

still not a sex dream... although a bit closer

Mike Tuttle mentioned my last post in his blog... check him out - he has some interesting things to say about dreams.

Okay so the second dream I had goes a little something like this:

I'm standing somewhere. It's outdoors, looks like it might be a favorite spot of mine at Jacobson Park, but it really could be anywhere. I'm talking to a girl (I don't know her, or at least I don't think I do) and she's very attractive and I get up the nerve to ask her out or ask for her phone number so I can call her to ask her out. The funny thing is, in the dream, I'm not at all nervous to ask her - it felt very natural. The surprising thing to me (in my waking state) is that she seemed to be very responsive to the idea of going out with me). As I start to ask her out, a person I haven't seen in a while and don't particularly have any good or ill feelings towards shows up and takes a picture to capture the scene as a historic moment in my life.

So that's the second dream. I'll write more as it happens.

dreams - part one

Spoiler: not a sex dream

Like (or maybe unlike) a lot of people, I don't remember my dreams most of the time... which sometimes leads me to believe that I don't dream most nights, but I can't really prove or disprove that. Now on to the "meat and potatoes" of the post:

I haven't been sleeping well at night the previous week or so, so I've been sleeping on the hide-a-bed. The past two nights I've remembered my dreams fairly vividly, only to have them fade away as my mind shrugs off it's drowsiness. What I do remember is this:

A female friend of mine and I are in a play together - we're sitting down on my hide-a-bed and running lines for the show. At some point, I had to leave and went and talked to my roommate and the only thing I said to him was "Man you have GOT to remember to turn off your alarm before you leave in the mornings." As I left his girlfriend, in comfy bedtime clothes, walked past and said, "HI". I went back to the previous room and found my friend asleep, but she was sprawled all across the bed, leaving not even a corner for me to curl up in. I tried to stir her to move over and at that time she looked at me and said, "shhh, [cat] is asleep". She pulled back the covers and there was her cat (actual cat) asleep in the bed. I gently scooched him over and went to sleep... and I woke up (actual waking up) to the sound of my roommates alarm going off - he had forgot to turn it off before he left.

To be continued...

time for a change

I was getting a little tired (just a little) of the last template I was using. So I traded it in for a variation. Welcome.