Tripping and Falling

So I know I haven't posted in a long time so no one is probably even following this anymore lol...
butttt i have a ton of stuff to talk about

Anyways, last wednesday we went to a crazy lcd soundsystem which is a techno bands concert.  I heard their music before and it was ok but the actual concert was really good.  And i got my over 21 bracelet hells ya!  And I got some alcohol... light beer though really isn't that good, but it wasn't too bad either.

I don't even think I posted on this but in florida I went to the beach and went for the first time into the Gulf of Mexico!  Woot!  Ok and the freakin water is warm.  Not like they say "Oh california water is warm or hawaii water is warm (actually hawaii water is pretty warm)" but florida was like a hot spa it was so warm, literally it was about 80 in that water and it felt soooo good.

But ya so the LCD soundsystem concert was crazy, before the concert I met Lia who is a pretty cool girl who is johnny's friend, we've hung out several times, she's kinda nuts but the kind of girl that I would definitely be friends with, her boyfriend was really cool too even though he was a stoner... but they kinda all are stoners so whatever lol... But before the concert we had dinner with her parents it was so funny, I had met her for the first time and I was meeting her parents along with jon.  So I totally hit it up with her dad because he was a boy scout and his two sons are eagle scouts so we were talkign about backpacking and stuff...  the funny thing is I make really good first impressions on people's parents, but I guess I just suck in all the after time...

But they went to the concert with us pretty funny and all her family bought the same exact t-shirt, lol, but before we went in they had to of course smoke a bowl aka smoke a bunch of weed and get high... SO they walked down a dark street to the side and lit up while i walked with them and watched them smoke.      The concert went well and that night was fun.  The next day jon had to work from like 5pm to 3 am freakin nuts!  so I didn't do that much... Oh i also walked all around boulder campus and that was crazy and their music hall is phenomenal its like a modern opera house...

Thursday I was trip sitting Lia and her friend Katie... which means they were on mushrooms and I had to watch them to make sure they didn't do anything stupid, "tripping" and "rolling" are basically slang terms for being on drugs and hallucinating... but i thoroughly enjoyed watching them go totally crazy it was kinda funny they weren't totally nuts but they would stare at something and be like "Whoa! pretty colors" and crap like that.

So friday was nuts... we went to the hill (which is like the party central for a college that is ranked like 5 in top ten party schools) earlier and jon and the others lit up the hooka with weed and did mega weed... funny thing is one of his friends (a girl about 18) is a drug dealer, but she is like a normal college kid not some freaky scary person.  But anyways we went back picked up lia then went to the hill again for a fancy wine party.  I had a glass of wine there... they all smoked more weed and cigars at the place again and jon had like 6 glasses of wine so he got pretty drunk and lia had a couple also, her boyfriend just smoked weed... anyways we got back to lia's house later and her roomates are both drunk... one of the her roomates, Daniel, was like grinding up on everyone and running around like freakin crazy, Lia and her boyfriend were like hooking up and stuff, jon was just sitting there stoned smiling, and heather (Lia's other roomate) was hardcore trying to hook up with me.  Anyways, so they were all drunk and wanted to play bear pong but there was no beer left lol, so Heather was kinda falling me around, but she was pretty drunk so I went outside where Daniel was throwing up hardcore from drinking so much and running around... I made sure he was ok, and just kinda walked down the street and left since I was the only sober one there and I didn't want to hook up with anyone...

So that's a crazy story i know you can ask me about it if you want it's pretty funny, but everyone smokes weed ALL THE TIME here.  Like every house smells like weed when you walk in its rediculous and jon and all his friends smoke every day sometimes a few times... but its definitely been real...

Tonight we are seeing a prescreening of Due Date with jon and his roomates all right!  I'm excited to see it with Zach Galfanakis or whatever and Robert Downey Jr.  Maybe, we will hit up a party later haha...

Anyways I also had half a glass of Vodka with Red Code Mountain Dew on that friday night and it was really good... mixed drinks were definitely awesome...

I miss you all like crazy and love you!  At least yesterday I was able to ahve a conversation with jon about not smoking as much as he did.  He said it was not an addicting drug, but I told him anything can become addicting whether or not it has addicting properties if you can't control it... so that was good, it's nuts here though like legitimately freakin crazy with all the weed and stuff but ya...

I love you, Jesus, and may he keep you and continue to bless you...

Love,
Dale

Claire De Lune

Yes the moonlight is bright tonight... Well that's what Claire de Lune means anyway...

It's actually a piano piece I have just started working on, I've been cranking out Brahms Intermezzo 188 Op. 2... that's a beast of a piece, definitely beyond my skill level, but you learn the most when you push yourself is what I believe, and it's such a beautiful piece I don't think I could ever do it justice, I don't really think anyone could for that matter but when I play it I feel so alive, so passionate, sometimes I can sit hammering it out for about three hours and still feel like no time has passed at all, besides the sweat pouring from my body I wouldn't even be able to tell.

Like is funny sometimes.  You make a plan A, then a plan B, then a Plan C, then  plan D, etc.  and God sometimes lets your plans go through but his plan is always plan Z something you never planned for and you may hate it at first or for a while, but the quicker you learn to except it the more you're bound to learn.  I've found out that even though I still worry about things, I worry less now because I know that they are going to end up okay.  I've had to trust God being lost in cities, running low on money, mixing up travel dates, but instead of resisting and trying so hard to get back to the original plans I had before, I'm learning to just say, "Ok, God, that's fine.  I didn't plan it that way, I didn't really want it that way, but you know better and it's going to be all right."  Because after it's said and done, I know God has better plans for me than I've had for myself my whole life.  

I mean if you would have told me 3 years ago I would have been a music major or I'd be travelling around the U.S. or I would have gone to China by now, I would not have had that in my playbook.  I never even intended to go to Vanguard, it was my last school choice, and yet I went and have been so blessed by it.  I'm seeing these puzzle pieces fall into place when I thought they didn't fit together before. I hate it, I know, but I've learned to resist less and just stop holding on to my plans.  

You know if I don't go to Graduate school, it's ok, maybe I'll go teach in China.  Maybe that's where God wanted me all along.  If I don't get a job teaching in China maybe I'll go spend a year teaching English or Music for a Christian ministry.  Maybe if that doesn't work out....

The possibilities are endless, and instead of fearing the unknown I've grown to love it more, because I know God has something exciting planned that is better than anything I have planned in my life.  

All you gotta do is look up at the Moon and stars and know it's going to be all right.

Love,

Dale

In this crazy life, and in these crazy times...

So haven't written for a while... sorry...

Wow, the buses are crazy out here.  I met a guy who wanted me to recite these sentences about green hills and gorillas or something.. i think it was a tongue twister, he was a little crazy in the head.  He got onto the bus and started yelling about how Jesus would come back and he was the reedeemed and stuff and was goign up to all these people getting up in there faces.  Everyone I think was a little freaked out so I decided to talk to him so no one else would freak out.

Anyways, he told me there was a film about him coming out.  Harry potter (Danielle Radcliffe) is apparently in it.  I don't know how true that is.  He said it was all lies about him though and only he knew the truth.  I was reading my screenwriting book so we talked a little about that.  He calmed down after a while and only ocasionally would yell out "The power of Christ compels you" or something like that lol. 

Haha so today I went on another bus (the buses are rediculous out here!) and this handicapped guy was screaming and cussing as he got on the bus and we were all crammed in like sardines.  Then this huge black lady gets on and squeezes in next to me, unfortunately she smells like urine, then two people with strollers get on and a swarm of kids.  All these old people are telling me to sit down then get up cuz I'm not being respectful of them, then telling me to sit down again.  Then we get so packed no one can move and the handicapped guy in his motorized cart needs to get off.  So he's screaming and cussing, and I'm seriously sitting there laughing out loud at how rediculous the situation is.  Then as if things weren't rediculous enough the bus driver is like, ok well this bus is no good you are all going to have to get off.  Lol so basically an hour later, going less than a mile I got totally screwed over.  I COULD HAVE WALKED THE DISTANCE FASTER!  haha

Oh man, Chicago is nuts but I love it.  So i got a nice surprise.  My mom sent me this email and it was like, wow I saw the check auntie hana gave you and wow thats a lot of money!  I was like really?  she gave me $20 i guess we're getting pretty poor.  But then I looked at the check again and it was $200!  haha wow dumb me. 

So much to tell!  Anyways I went out to a bar on Addison right next to Wrigley Park and finally Christened my birthday with a Margarita (I guess capitalizing Christened is kinda sacreligious since i was drinking lol oh well)  Anyway drank the whole thing and felt slightly buzzed but nothing that bad.  It actually felt really nice, kinda fun.  I wouldn't want to be drunk and wasn't but it was kinda fun just feeling a little lighter lol.

So we basically have finished up moving out of Hana's apartment.  Me and grandma just hide stuff from her and throw it away or else she will just keep it and her apartment is basically full with junk which she will throw away once she gets to her new place anyway.  I finished me screenwriting book it was great!  Now I'm reading my musical book and really excited.  Writing character sketches and finished the storyboard and wrote a few scenes for the musical I'm working on... we'll see how that goes, I guess I've always been a little too ambitious for my own good, eh but what the hell. 

I hope everything is going well with school and work for you guys, I've got some funny stories to tell.  I really wish I could tell you these in person they are way more funny.  I laugh otu loud thinking about them now. 

God bless you and keep you.  Somehow besides my resistance and sometimes anger he always finds a way to show me a way through life.  I know he has a story and path for all of you once you decide to give up your own.

~Dale