t-town and BITR: 10 annoying things about me [in no real order]

tomorrow i get to go to tuscaloosa to see aimee and the kev. it should be fun. they are pretty cool [usually], and i am expecting good times. but that’s not the point. the point of this blog is to talk about how annoying i am, so lets cut the crap and get down to it.

10. i am very, very indecisive, and so is my best friend jake. this works out well. “where do you want to eat?” “oh, i don’t care. wherever.” “well, i don’t care either. anything is fine.” this just goes on. if you want me to give you a direct answer anytime in life you have to ask me something awesome. otherwise, it’s just not happening.

9. i don’t think this is annoying but everyone else appears to. in my car i always play really random music. it’s not typically music that i sincerely feel like listening to most of the time. for instance, today, i turned on the imperial march in the car on the way to sonic and told my friend amanda to pretend we were on a really important mission and we were the bad guys. right before that i played and sang every word to i drove all night by cyndi lauper. i do not take cyndi lauper seriously. at all. i think this is annoying because, when my friends want to hear something good, i instead play the mortal kombat theme song.

8. i really don’t like to listen to people talk crap about anyone else. like, i understand if you have a problem in a relationship and you need to talk about it, but just sitting around and saying really awful things about people you don’t really even know that well absolutely drives me insane. and when people do this i ALWAYS, in turn, go talk to someone about how annoying that is to me. it’s annoying on my part because that makes me a hypocrite, and i really feel for the people i end up complaining to about it who are thinking it themselves.

7. i make all my friends watch all the videos of babies doing funny things i can find on youtube. they don’t care, but they humor me.

6. apparently when anyone in my family has anything critical to say about me, i get very defensive. this is what matt says. maybe i do get defensive, but, the context is always ridiculous. trust me. am i being defensive now? no way.

5. i stay up too late when i should be sleeping [for instance, right now]. this isn’t really annoying for anyone other than me. i hate waking up in the morning.

4. i hate talking on the phone. most likely, if you want to talk to me, text before you call. if i don’t answer a text i’m probably dead. if i don’t answer your call i’m probably listening to a good song. that’s how it goes. and if you’re one of those people that likes to ramble on the phone, pleaase don’t ever call me. i just don’t even know what to say to those people. “oh, yeah, weird, some guy i don’t know has a wife who has a huge wedding ring. sweet. cool. well, listen, yeah, i gotta go. i’m tired. yeah. or something. i just. i gotta go.” click.

3. i’m one of those people that will be lying there at someone’s house or something and, at 5 AM, wake up the other person and say, “hey, do you want to go to waffle house? come on. it will be awesome. it’s 5 AM and we’re both really tired. come on!” very few people in my life have actually said yes. i’m also one of those people that likes to have heart to hearts right before bed.
“you ever think about how we’re just these tiny little people on this huge planet in this huge universe among so many other universes?”
“what? seriously, can we sleep?”
“yeah, yeah, in a minute. so it was weird tonight when so and so said whatever, wasnt it? i mean, did you think that was weird?”
“yeah.”
“gah, i know. so do you think i’ll get married one day? i mean. really. do you think you could see me like, owning a house with someone and raising kids or something? doesn’t that seem so far away?”
grunt.
“i know, right? it’s just so weird to think one day we’ll be like that. so have you thought much about like, religion? i mean it’s a weird topic. by the way, who are you voting for? do you like politics? do you think people are born good or evil? do you think i’m evil? i’m totally evil.”
no response. my friend is usually breathing heavy at that point.

2. i don’t really have a filter at times. one time drew rickles called his mom a slut because of either aimee or myself. whichever one he heard call the other that. i mean, it was really funny, and i kind of don’t even regret him picking it up from me/aimee, but april probably didn’t like it very much. this is only one example but there are many occasions. i’m just tired and don’t feel like elaborating anymore.

1. any time i walk into my brother’s room for no reason. matt usually spends all his time in his room when we’re at home. he’s in there playing wii or reading or watching sports or whatever. who cares. typically if we’re home at the same time i end up knocking on his door and walking in there to tell him something random. this happens, oh, every five minutes. no matter how apparent what he’s doing may be, i always ask in this really weird voice, while making this really horrible face, what he’s doing. he answers, “reading a book,” and i just stand there and repeat in the same way, “ye readin’ a book.” this is awkward because i stand there and make that face while matt just nods, stares at me, and says, “yep.”

by the way, writing this blog made me realize how weird i am. thanks danielle for giving me an insightful topic. otherwise i could have remained ignorant and full of self confidence.

today i went with jake and david, two of my best friends, to oak mountain state park. the last time i went we got to meet a mutant deer goat thing and we went back with intentions of finding it again. the petting zoo was closed by the time we got there, unfortunately, so we decided to just drive around, eventually landing our feet on the dark brown sand of the oak mountain “beach”. we rolled up our pants and decided to step in the water to see the temperature. (everybody [in alabama] knows nobody sane goes near a body of water and doesnt put their feet in.) it felt so good we just got right in. in our jeans. with nothing to change into and no real worries about it. the water felt incredible and i laid on my back and breathed deep and could only think about how good it felt to be there, in all my clothes, with my best friends.