The Year

this is the first song i listened to this year "The New Year" by Death Cab For Cutie:

so this is the new year.
and i don't feel any different.
the clanking of crystal
explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

so this is the new year
and I have no resolutions
for self assigned penance
for problems with easy solutions

so everybody put your best suit or dress on
let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
as thirty dialogues bleed into one

i wish the world was flat like the old days
then i could travel just by folding a map
no more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
there'd be no distance that can hold us back.

there'd be no distance that could hold us back

so this is the new year
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i thought it was quite fitting.

So 2006 is over and i really don't know how i feel about that. A lot of stuff happened, maybe some stuff that shouldn't have, and a lot of stuff i was hoping would happen, didn't, but that's mostly cause of me. and to quote another blog (Britta's): "Let's do everything that we weren't brave enough to do last year. Let's love without holding back. Let's think less about what other people think. Let's make every single day one to remember for the rest of our lives.
Well, here's to the new year. I'm not just going to sit here and hope that 2007 will be amazing. I'm going to make it happen. Are you up for it?" and to answer, Yes, i most definitely am.

*steal*

for those of you reading this, you might have read some before, but i had a hard time coming up with my own haha. so it wont be nearly as long as some.

Remember when...


we played the emoticon story game?

we had the best group for a dance ever?

we stayed up talking until the early hours of the morning?

we would visit Days like every day?

i owned everyone at halo?

we would share lyrics to good songs?

beeeeeeeep.

you almost ran me over that one crazy friday?

we practiced karate moves on him?

we'd have the w's?

she thought i was a trash can?

you were really happy at me playing that song on the drums?

we were excited we both knew death cab?

you got all that Mountain Dew for your birthday?

we went to her house and walked to the empty lake?

you let me play with your hair for once?

we played ping pong outside?

someone stole your hugs i got you?

you'd beg me to blog?

we had that Tetris tournament?

no one came to our band concert(s)?

french music, barefoot, speeding, bandana thing.

you tried to get me to go to prom?

we painted on her car?

i made up that one word and you laughed?

you drove me home and pulled some amazing driving skills?

we went snowboarding and you got a girl on your lap?

we decided to start a band?

we broke the cymbal?

"it's like wearing death!"?

we started playing and everyone left?

we raced around like crazies?

everyone had someone but me?

i had the best ride buddy ever?

we painted our faces and were the best fans ever?

we would fight when he wasn't looking?

i told him we were already married?

you were embarrassed by our cheering?

we'd share our problems and help each other?

we had arguements about who loved who more?

i'd steal your glasses?

we kept calling him during announcements?

hmm..that's an okay list for now, i'll probably expand on it later.

Love,
Berto

Time to Blog, eh?

Well it's been a heck of a long time since i last blogged, and people have been Nazis so yeah, here ya go.

hmm where to start...Friday, ok. So Friday, thanks to Cowboy Poetry, we got out of school at 11:30 and anytime we have short days we eat at Don Pedros, so to not break tradition, we did. Like usual i was without money so they (Hannah, Jeb, Britta, Jake, Enano, Mike and Spiva) were gonna have to pay. well it turns out while we were eating Enano's Dad came and ate and left and when we went to pay for all our food, we found out that Enano's dad had payed for ALL of our food. it was extremely nice of him seeing how it was probably like 100 dollars.

Afterwards, we had to go drop Hannah off at her house cause she's too cool to hang out with us anymore, then we went to Enano's. we pretty much just watched Jake, Spiva and Enano spar the whole time and watched amazing drum solos on youtube.

Then Mike, Enano, Britta and I treked through the wilderness to Britta's house where we made cookies for Enano's dad. they turned out good and we watched TV for a while until Lurpe, Randi and Spiva showed up. so we headed over to Enano's pasta partay and lots of people showed up and we ate lots of pasta. We had previously planned to play there, but we didn't decide to until the last minute when no one wanted to hear us and we just scared everyone away haha. so we all gave up and watched Nacho Libre, which i love.

Saturday was Science Day at the U. they day started off with me waking up and showering and leaving Heber around 8 cause check-in was from 9 to 9:30. we got there and sat around until they had the opening ceremony thing. then we went to a little Academic Advice thing where we got to pick a field in science and see what there was available job and college-wise. I picked Geology and Geophysics which interested me quite a bit and i might consider going into, but we'll see. After that we had "lunch" which was just a little sandwich and chips haha, it wasn't very satisfying to my hunger, but it was better than nothing. When lunch was over we headed over to our first little workshop deal and mine and Mike's was 3-d analysis. It was an ok thing, we pretty much just watched a presentation about 3-d x-rays and such which would have been more interesting if we didn't have the guy tell the same thing over and over again. haha. 2nd came Nanoscience which is about technologies being made from very little to not so little, such things as computer chips and such and we got to play with a magnet, twas cool. Last was my favorite, Observational Astronomy. All we did was watch a slide show and we would've looked at stuff in telescopes, but it was cloudy :(. sounds boring, but i'm into that stuff a lot. During the closing ceremony we bumped into Cameron, Alexia and some other chick i didn't recognize. well it turns out they met her in one of the workshops and she was pretty cool, Marta was her name. Mike and i then mention we were going to the Pie and asked for a ride and they just decided they'd come along, so we all headed down to the Pie and ordered the biggest pizza they had. 23 inches. it was sooo big and delicious haha, from then on i decided the Pie was my favorite pizza place.

We arrived in Heber around 7 ish cause Mike's mom had to do lots of errands and such. When we got to Mike's house we thieved the van and picked up Brady and then headed over to Kelsey's house. Kelsey was watching a movie with Bryton and Britta, so we finished the movie with them and Lauren came over (i don't really know her, at all) and Britta had to leave. While we were bored with nothing to do, we came up with the idea to play Fugitive. Bryton would be the police, seeing as Mike didn't want to and they were the only two with licenses (Brady had forgotten his at home) and the rest of us would start at Kelsey's house and try to make it to the Valley Hills sign. well, through much 'hiking' and cutting through people's yards, we finally made it there. it was kind of a rip off for him though cause he was the only one and he didn't have a flashlight or anything, but it was still fun. by the way, for those of you reading, we will have to play Fugitive with as many people as possible, and it will be amazing.

Sunday i drove with my parents to Orem and ate Chinese food. While we were there, i remembered that i still needed some things for snowboarding so we headed over to the mall and i got some sweet pants and some sweet goggles. they rock. i'm still in a desparate need for gloves though, so hopefully we'll find some during the week cause i'm going to opening day on saturday at the Canyons, and i'm not even sure if anyone's going with me. oh well, i'm used to it.

I started driving with Coach Shoell today and it went pretty smooth, he told me that i shouldn't even have to wait until March to get my license haha, but too bad i have to.... On Friday i will be taking the test and after that i'll just have to get some more hours in and i'll be ready for my license, WAY before March btw. stupid laws.

Argh, that be it for now matey.

Love,
Berto

UEA and being Owned

Ah, UEA....it was definitely a great break. sleeping in, friends, no school related things, it was a good one. so UEA pretty much started Wednesday after school got out, when we went to the park to get Martial Arts lessons from Brady and Erin lol. it was pretty funny watching everyone sparring and jumping around like crazies, and Jake is actually getting kinda good at it. then Morgan and Jeb left to drop off Hannah cause she had a hot date and when they came back, they brought a guitar with them. after that pretty much everyone left except Morgan, Jeb, and I so we sat and did a "concert at the park" haha. after that Jeb left me at my house so i ate some food and left to the footyball game. i got there pretty early and no one got there for a while, so i actually played with the band for a little bit for a change. during halftime we went to Trimart and i got this really good white chocolate and caramel cappuchino, it was yummy. after the game we were supposed to go to Jake's and watch a movie, but he wouldn't open the door, or wasn't home, or something like that, i forgot, so we got Randi's window markers and colored all over his car. seriously, his car was covered in marker lol. after that we decided to go to Brady's instead so we went and watched RV which was pretty funny.

Thursday i woke up around noon ish and not soon after, the phone rang. it was Randi and she said she had a surprise for me and to go outside, so i did and they showed up with my bike which had been at Lurpe's for like 2 weeks. they came in and i showered thinking we were gonna go elsewhere, but we just ended up sitting in front of the computer looking at random guitar junk while Randi slept on my bed, which apparently is really comfortable. sometime during that Mike called so they left to go pick him up and brought back donuts. then we sat here for another while until we finally left to go to Lurpe's house, but we had to drop Randi off so she could clean. well when we pulled up, i opened the van's door and it like fell out lol, so we sat there trying to fix it in Randi's driveway until we finally did, and by that time she had cleaned up and went to get Britta. so we all headed over to Lurpes house to write a Screamo song, listening to Hawthorne Heights on the way to get inspired. while we were there my mom called and said she had brought lots of food thinking we were still at my house, so we went to my house and ate it all (mcdonalds haha)

This has been in draft form for way too long, so i'm just gonna finish it

we watched Employee of the Month, Friday i can't even remember, Saturday we got owned, and Sunday i just sat around

I feel like slow Pumpkins

Love,
Berto

Psha

Frustration beyond all reason right now and i don't like it. i'm definitely gonna have to do something about it, but i doubt i'll get the guts to do anything. blah. i'm pretty much talking to myself here, but i think a couple of you peoples know kinda what's going on...

so UEA is this week, and i'm excited, only 2 more days of school for the week hehe. since all the girls are having girl's night on saturday, i think we're gonna have a more or less guy's night. haha. because there really isn't much of an alternative. oh and also, Erin says we're gonna go see Employee of the Month on Thursday, which i'm very excited about, cause Dane Cook rocks.

My computer died, it got like a virus or something and would freak out everytime i got on the internet and reset itself. i tried to get rid of it with everything i could possibly think of, until i had to resort to doing one of those Super Restarts, that ended up erasing everything, so i'm kind of sad about that. i guess that's pretty much it for now, this was mostly meant to help me vent, and it kind of worked so i'm done.

Love,
Berto

Blah....yet again..

Frustration (hannah knows what i'm saying). This blog wont be as long as the others have been, because it's pretty much out of pure boredom, also, it will be extremely random, and jump around a lot cause i'll just put down thoughts that are in my head.....

so i went and got yet another Dan Brown book (yes, even if he's an idiot, Jeb) because i really like his books, so i'll be reading Angels and Demons at school and Digital Fortress at home and it'll be great. haha. i haven't been into books this much since Harry Potter.

i think we're having a guitar club meeting this wednesday, and it'll be great because i wasn't even planning on it ha.

so my grandpa died today, from my dad's side (cause my other one was already dead) and it was extremely sad. even though i didn't know him all that well cause i hadn't seen him since i was 6, it was sad that i wouldn't ever get to see him or talk to him again, one of the worst parts was my dad, he was gonna leave to Mexico, but thought better of it and decided to stay. so for the next couple of days i'm gonna need to come home and stay here for at least a while for my dad.

hmm other thoughts.....aaaahhhhhhhh (once again, hannah knows) i don't know what to do lol. but we'll see how THAT goes. psht.

i bought Halo for my PC yesterday and when i went to play it, it turns out i need a better video card so it looked like crap when i played. but that's ok cause at least i can play halo now, stupid xbox....

ah yes, The Strokes, went to their concert on friday, it was amazingly good. this one band opened for them called Hello Amsterdam and i thought they were pretty good, considering they were a local band. then we waited around forever (this was In The Venue btw) and they finally came on....holy ****, it was the best show ever. seriously. played sooo many songs and all perfectly, took requests from the crowd, did an encore and played a Velvet Underground cover (forgot which song lol) which was pretty good. haha and at one point between the songs, some dude yelled "julian i love you!" to the lead singer and he was like "i love you too, but in a manly way" haha it was great. so jumping around singing like every word was really fun, but extremely tiring. i didn't have anything to drink until after the concert when we went to 7 eleven and i got a 64 oz. thing of Iced Tea and drank it all in like 10 minutes (no joke) and was still thirsty. i also got a shirt, which i wore today to school, and my ears are still slightly rining (it's monday and the show was on Friday night). haha so this was longer than i would have planned....but that's good, right?

Love,
Berto

School, Life...the usual....

Hello people, how goes it? haha. so last time i had to stop the blog short cause parents and i were going somewhere so, sorry about that. but now i'm writing this blog. anyways. so Homecoming was amazing, it was one of the funnest days i've had this year and definitely the best dance i've attended. it started on saturday morning with Mike picking pretty much everyone up, haha. i was gonna get a ride from my parents, but when i woke up neither of them were home, so i was kind of stuck. we got to Enano's house where we ate yummy food that his parents made us and messed around in his little...living room downstairs. Hannah and Jeb played us the song that they wrote and played at efy and it was amazing, good job guys. i probably couldn't do that if my life depended on it lol. after that we got in the cars (Erin's suburban and Mike's shaggin wagon) and drove off to provo, which was pretty uneventful, other than the fact that they made me listen to rap...it still hurts my ears to this day. haha. upon getting close to Classic Skating, Mike pulled into the wrong parking, and us following him, did too. so mike decided to be lazy and go over a curb to the right parking lot, which probably wasn't a very smart idea, because he took out the little log that was the curb and the guys from the auto shop place ran out and kept looking at his car....so jake decided to go around. what we didn't know is that they had called the cops, so when we were inside he got called outside and he got a citation lol. it was gonna be for speeding AND wreckless driving because they other guys had said he had gone over the curb like at 35, which was a big lie and we all went out there and told the cop that it was a lie. so yeah, citation for wreckless driving for Mike. The rest of Classic Skating went well, we were there for about 2 hours and Kelsey ended up snowballing with an 11 year old. haha.

After that, we came back to Heber and got dropped off to get ready for dinner. i only need like half an hour, but the girls needed like 2 hours. ha. i got to jakes house around 5:45 ish and i was the first one there, cause Jake was picking up everyone else. when everyone was there, we took lots of pictures. and i mean lots. but it was fun nonetheless. then we had dinner, which Laurie and Julie had prepared and it was delicious. they even set up a little Italian Restaurant theme and everything, it was great. after dinner we sat in jake's room for a little bit then we left for the dance, stopping at Enano's and Britta's so their moms could take pictures. when we got to the dance, we waited for a little bit, then i realized i had left my wallet at jakes house, so Jake and I took off to his house as fast as possible, which ended up being 90 btw. it was crazy haha. i made it down his stairs to his basement in two jumps.

We got back to the dance...well more like the line.....and waited to take pictures for like an hour. then someone tapped me on the shoulder and i turned around saw Karevi (my cousin) who is a freshie. haha. it was weird cause i totally didn't expect her to be there, at all, and i guess it was last minute anyways, so yeah. they were in our group for the group picture, which my mom and hers will probably be all happy about lol. then we finally got down to the dance and yeah, mucho fun. we were gonna go watch a movie after the dance, but the freakin line for the pictures put us way back so we didn't. and that was pretty much all of homecoming, what a lengthy description, no?

As for other things that have been going on...pretty much nothing. Yesterday the church in Park City had a memorial thing for my uncle Aniceto that died last year, if any of you remember that. They blessed a picture of his that will be in the church permenantly from now on (it's a catholic thing you wouldn't understand...maybe.) and it really wasn't all that fun, the usual crying and whatever. blah. well at least i got to talk to Joel (my other cousin, Karevi's bro) and i guess we're meeting him at the Strokes concert, cause he's going separately, and today he's going to Muse...he's probably there right now, and i'm really jealous. freakin jerk. haha jk. i'm pretty dang sure that's it for now. oh jeez we have to take the rest of that Iowa test tomorrow and the day afterwards, at least i'll get to miss english on thursday. ha

Love,
Berto

Da strokes?

So i thought it would be good to blog again, so now i'll be able to touch your floofy hair all i want Jeb. haha. things around here have been same old. i'm gonna go see the strokes on the 29th, if we can get in, that is. does anyone know if In The Venue is 21 and over? cause that's what we're having difficulty with.......anyways i'll write the rest of this blog later. i have to get out of here.