Chiara, Jess, you'll like this post!

So, Chiara and I are sort of nerds... and now Jess downloaded the song as well, plus lyrics, and said she's going to listen to it until she knows every word of it. Well, sadly, I've already done that. Okay, okay, not every word, but pretty close to. Ask Mariel for EVERY word. So, just like I was singing yesterday, here is an extremely nerdy video to the song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel.

Looking to the future is like looking at your death. We all die sooner or later.

I've commenced the worst two-weeks of my life today. I love my Grandmother to death, and I completely love being with her... just not for two weeks. I am going to have a wonderful time in these days-to-come. Other things are flying up in the air as well. 

To leave things in such a state of disrepair, possibly past the point of repair. How could I be such a jerk?

Please read this...

People spend their lives searching for l ♥ve, money, greed, power, companionship, happiness, forgiveness, solitude, solution, inspiration, conclusion, identification, confidence, retaliation, reincarnation, peace, relaxation, consolation, curation, understanding, acceptance, recognition, and the one. Which two, three, or even 4 are you? Post about it. Show others who you really are. So, who are you?

"You don't get a lot of things...we just leave you to blessed ignorance."

Well, that's something a dear friend told me. Wonderful, how people love me so much, isn't it? First and foremost, I apologize for not blogging in... 6 days or so. This is the longest hiatus thus far in my blogging career. Okay, now on to the rest of things... ...Today was a beautiful day! The weather was marvelous, and the passing clouds, along with the slight breeze that hugged and kissed you as it went by was very relaxing. The water lapping at my feet...ahh, it was just a beautiful day today at the bea-- I mean pool. Chiara' pool is bery nice. I like it A LOT. I'll probably stop by tomorrow. =]. I love living in such close proximity to Chiara. Not just the pool, but she is an amazing person. I am blessed, truly blessed to have a close group of such good friends. The best best friends in the world. Well, today, most of today was fun. I'm laying on my bed blogging from my aunt's laptop that she sent for me to fix...I was on the phone with my Indian Homies from Dell about an hour ago. All is well, and I'm in love with being able to blog from my lap. I'm definitely asking for a laptop come Christmas time. Ohh...hahahaha. Random thought, that reminds me of a line in How I Met Your Mother. Heheheheeh.... Ted says "COME ON, LILLY! IT'S CHRISTMAS. You know, Christ-mas? It means more Christ to our Spanish friends." Okay, sorry. I know Meghan doesn't read this, so it didn't spoil anything for her. Okay, well I must restart! Maybe you'll hear from me tonight or tomorrow morning, but I doubt it. Seeeeee yaaaa!!! =/

Ex exordium

Not that I'm going to be very dedicated to this blog...this should be interesting. Yup. Okay. Alright, well the phone is ringing. Bye.

That was my first-ever blog post, on May 7th, 2007, when I never in a million years saw myself becoming a self-proclaimed blogger. If I was going to, I figured it would last...maybe a week, and that would be all. I would reach the proverbial climax within a week, and things would collapse from there. Well...that was far from the truth. In fact, thats pretty much opposite of what happened. I know, no anniversary or anything, but just here to commemorate. By the way, I love this blog. It is truly my sanctuary. Thanks for reading, it really means a lot. 348 as of 9:19PM, 7/19. Party tomorrow, can't wait. =] Oh, and, by the way, I didn't make that title up. It's Latin for "from the beginning."

BWDEA

Fine, fine, I"m guilty. Please, kill me now. I'm commiting a crime. I mean, I guess it might be, by those unwritten blog rules. BWDEA. Blogging While Doing Extraneous Activities. Jess, is this part of the rules? Because if it is, I've broken it far too many times for reconciliation. What a beautiful night.  It is simply gorgeous outside, bugs aside. The day was simply marvelous. A lot of reading, and talking to people I don't normally talk to a lot, and the day has composed to be a nearly-perfect day. Well, I hope tomorrow shapes up to be much the same. NOW I GOTTA GO WATCH POWER RANGERS <33.

Fish or sticks? FISH STICKS!

gooodddnighhttt people.

WOOHOOOO!!!

Something new! You will see

Something new! You will see some short random posts ending with an @ symbol. These are posts from my phone. Yay!! @

Hey. This is my new

Hey. This is my new mobile blog. You wont see any lengthy posts... Just random tid-bits. Enjoy!

okay, ignore that, please?

John 4:19

If you have a Bible, please read that. I think its perfect. That's quite possibly my favorite verse. 

Today was another stagnant and mucky day. It was positively sunny outside, and around 8:30PM, when I was going to throw out the garbage, I heard this loud music. I think there was a concert at Stanley~Demming Park tonight. 

Well, this is short. I'm currently synching my iPod, and just waiting, happily for some things =]. 

So, friends, goodnight.

=]

Yes, Chiara, I know you're reading this one, thinking it was an utter waste of time. =]

Hey, hey hey! The dork is proud of this one.

What a glorious day. Just simply...beautiful.

So, what's in my day? Okay, here goes:

I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, put the wrong foot out first, awoke to a lackluster sunrise, tripped over Mother Nature herself, trudged out the door, and pranced off to grandma's, and had a glorious sunset.

Hey, I'm proud of that. =].

Well, how, you ask? Don't worry, I know you didn't ask. But I'll tell you anyway...

I absolutely HATE waking up to the phone ringing, and the person says "I'm almost there. Be ready."

That was my grandmother. She was taking me to her house. She was at the post office...which is only...eh, a 10 minute walk from my house. Great. I was rushing. It took me a whole half hour to get ready. I know, Jess, Chiara, that's not long you're saying. But without breakfast, for a guy it is. Sorry, I can't go out without a clean face, fixed hair, and perfectly...err...'non-wrinkley' clothing. I can't. I just can't do it. (Brushed teeth, other things, too, of course. Including my dog.) She waited outside for a good... okay, the entire half hour. I felt so bad. So I went to her house. With my advice, she bought a brand new laptop, from Dell. (A steep $1,400...) Well, anyway... then we went FISHING! We went fishing, hoping to bring home some dinner. I figured we would be there a while. Call me a freak, but I brought a Bible. Today was the first time I've ever gone "Awwwwww!" at a worm. (Not the cute way, the "That's horrible!" way.) Well, I caught a fish... I was going to take it. It was far too little to be eaten though. Maybe its length was...from the tip of your middle finger to the bottom of your palm. I took out the hook...from its lip. =[. I felt horrible. Oh, and then, while taking it out, it shook and pricked me with its very sharp fins. Hey, you know what? I deserved that. Nothing else was caught. As the sun began to set...out on the dock I was, reading the bible. Finishing with John 3:16. How nice. I really didn't plan that. It was amazing. So an off-balance morning turned into a gorgeous and beautiful day. Oh, I can't forget to mention, when I was walking out on the dock, a little buddy joined me. It was a monarch butterfly. It flew to my jean-shorts, and didn't let go. =]. So, today I was quite literally high on nature. Oh my! There is so much to say. Dorry I'm jumping around so much, but I'm thinking as I type. I know, no writer should ever do that, only in diaries, and journals. But, this is my journal, eh? The sky...over the lake, there were huge puffy storm clouds in the distance. But it was sunny over the lake with a slight breeze. The water was lapping at our feet. It was amazing. Picture perfect, something that words cannot possibly capture. So, we got back to my grandma's house. Then it rained. I love the rain. What a stellar day. Ohh... hehehe=]. Anyone in Earth Science.......... okay. Let me set up what happened. My grandma wanted to know why a spool, the circular thingy on a fishing rod that spins and has all of your fishing line, glides so smoothly. I then see the words "GRAPHITE SPINNER" written prominently accross the side. Oh boy. I really shouldn't know that graphite... is a 'greasy' type of mineral, that glides easily on any surface, which is why it is used for pencils, and has a hardness of about 1. Mr. Mesic...why did you do this to me? Why did you make it so that when the sun sets, and I see the reddish sky, I think of your classes, or when the moon is out... I know what phase its called? Mr. Mesic...you're a dork. I am, too. 

Earth Science was traumatic.

So tomorrow I'm going to get The Girl That Loved Tom Gordon...

Goodnight! 

OH! I forgot to add someone very obvious to my heroes...

One last thing...well overdue.

Congratulations to the confirmant. =]

That was a really fun party. I really got to see what fun its like to be around your familyyy.  So much fun.

DOCTOR PEPPER ON MY PANTS!

[Sorry for breaking that chair...]

What do you think? (My profile).

This was almost my profile, until blogger told me it was too long. 600 characters over the allotted 1,200. Here it is, anyway. I'm going to write a new one... soon.

I'm (sometimes) Marc-Anthony. I'm (kinda) Marco~Polumbo, or one of my other various nicknames. Sometimes I'm a TV freak. Sometimes I have OCD. Other times I have ADD (Well, not really.) I'm a music lover. I'm a guitarist hopeful. I'm a floating Christian, not devout to any specific religion just yet, but I'm just about done wading. I'm a reader, from the most frivolous scriptures, to the holy scripture, the Bible. I'm an avid baseball fan, mediocre soccer fan, and tennis lover. Hockey is also a sport I enjoy. I'm the child of a mother and a father that are no longer en masse. I'm a dork. I'm a nerd. I'm funny sometimes (so I've been told.) I apparently have an ear, and, more importantly, a tongue for accents. 1 @m @ g00d spllr. I absolutely love meeting new people. Sometimes I tend to be shy, sometimes I'm outgoing to the point of obnoxiousness. I'm sometimes a video game player. (See: DORK.) I'm far from conceited. I found recently, that somewhere, deep inside, I have an inate pleasure for math, when I actually solve a problem I once thought impossible. I walk my own path. I know the beaten, torn, and woed trail isn't always the right one. I'm an internet-surfer. I'm a pool/stream lover. I am a nature lover (To me, nothing beats a long, serene nature walk with two of your best buds, even if its only to a stream down a small hill =].) I love going to friends' houses. I love spontaneous visits. Sometimes I'm a really cool kid. Sometimes I'm just plain anoying. Sometimes I'm worse than a PMSing woman (No offense, my mom told me that one.) I actually know, that when a girl says something hurts, it HURTS. I'm a pet lover, any size (Just no spiders, please.) I'm a child of God, trying to be better every day. I'm Marc-Anthony, Marco~Polumbo, and sometimes I'm even Marco~Polo, an actor on the stage called life.

My Heroes:

Jess

Chiara

Meghan

Christian

Sam (The jewish one =])

Caitlin

Jess

Marco

Katy

Andrew S

Sara G

Okay, BSchnab

Michelle

Katy

My entire family

Thanks a bunch

---And so many more people! Comment me if I forgot you, please! I can't remember tham all, there are far too many.

Voicing...a concern that probably only I have...

I'm here just to... uhhhh err, share something. Something that probably only I'm concerned about. 8th grade was an amazing year. I got closer to many people than I've ever thought possible. In retrospect, the year was simply wonderful. Great, now I have all of these strong ties, which I cherish all of the time, but now comes High School. I hope I'm not separated from too many people. I would...not be happy. At all. I really hope I'm not separated, or others, as well. I mean, I know the high school is big, but there will probably never be a day where I won't see my friends, but I just don't want to be too far. Well, anyway...that's just me. And it's bugging me lately, especially after I got those two letters in the mail. Oh boyy...I thought that was my schedule/placement...

=[

This postt.....just look at the video.

This video is hilarious. I just thought, you know, with the business of late, you guys can take a breather, and laugh at this video. This is from Saturday Night Live. Okie dokiieeee. Enjoy!!! P.S. Chiara...how is your pool coming along? =]

"And when he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet." Luke 24.40

Well, as you can see, I was just reading the Bible. This magnificent composition is the World's all-time selling book in all of its translations, applications, and iterations. The best part is that you don't have to start from the beginning to get meaningful and inspirational words from it. (I guess, as Jess said too, is handles very well. You know, how it feels in your hands...A regular Bible would. I'm not sure about the Metal Bible Jess told me about at the Christian Living Store, which I'm desperate to go to, by the way.) Well, I'll keep reading, and then I have something of my own to write in the 'notes' section. I'll be going now! God Blesssssssss! =]

"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

Hehehe, I like that one. -I woke up to the most amazing sound this morning. I woke up to the truly soothing sounds of the birds happily chirping outside of my window, and the sound of mother nature running her fingers through the leaves of the trees. The sunlight was peeking through the blinds in my window. I positively had to get up. Then I got a call phone my Grandmother. It's nice to know someone cares about you so much. Remember, grandparents spoil. Few love you like they do. She asks me "What kind of bagel do you like, because I'm getting you one?" (Chiara...correct me if I'm wrong...but doesn't a question mark go there? I don't know, it seems a little weird.) I told her, and I jumped out of bed, knowing that food would be brought to me today, instead of me cooking, yet again. Even though cooking brings me much joy, it gets tiring after a week or so. Yes, I cook for myself. I find cooking as an art of expression, not a troubling work...but when there's only eggs in your house, with some ham, onions, and bacon, you get tired of cooking. So at about 9:43 I got ready. It took me all of... a half hour to get ready. Guys have it easy, this is definitely true. To fix my hair, brush my teeth, wash my face, generally get cleaned up, pick out and iron clothes...feed the dog, pick up after him, and give him water, put on sock and then sneakers took all of a half hour. Oh, and I got dressed, too =]. Sooo...now I'm waiting for my grandmother to finally get here. It should be soon! And then we're off...to hop and sk....not really. We're off somewhere. Maybe Middletown. This is really, the calm before the storm. After my mom ... shes here

9:00!!!

Well, not yet. 8:59. Sorry, I'm waiting for the fireworks to start. "The Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular begins now on NBC." 9:00!!! Martina McBride is singing. Oh, wow, she has a spectacular voice. I think it should be called Independence Day Fireworks Spectacular, not Fourth of July, because I believe America is loosing the aura of what July the 4th actually is. For example, I was watching Fox News before, and preceeding a commercial break was what's called a "splash screen", which is nothing but a still screen, but this one showed a poll. It was titled:

What Does July 4th Mean to You?

Lots of BBQ's and Fireworks: 48%

A Time to Celebrate Freedom: 40%

Other/Unknown: 12%

Margin of Error: +/-5%

...Wow. Very....err....American. Is this is what the United States of America has come to? A country surfeited with naïveté? This is Independence Day, where, in 1776, the document formally entitled as The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, drafted by Honorable Thomas Jefferson, seen below, and signed by the Second Continental Congress, was presented to the British government, right? Of course! This did declare our independence, but was NOT the first document that had done so. Not at all. This is a common misconception by the American people. The first document to do so was the Lee Resolution, an act of the Second Continental Congress that formally declared the Thirteen Colonies independent from the rule of the Kingdom of Great Britain. What's more? This document wasn't even presented on July 4th! This document was presented two day prior, on July 2nd. Here, have a look at this:

John Adams wrote his wife Abigail on July 3:

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

So, much to our once prominent disdain of the British, (I paused for a while. The fireworks started 9:23, and they are DAZZLING, and still on-going) and our adoration of all things immaculate and pristine, we sought towards the Declaration of Independence as our official doctrine, so to speak. Well, this paper of voluminous importance was dated July 4th, 1776. Subsequentially, July 4th was adopted as our 'official' date of secession from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies signed the Lee Resolution, as New York abstained, due to their belief that (9:51, fireworks conclude) they had been insufficiently empowered as representatives. New York finally signed declaring their independence on July 9th, signing the Declaration of Independence. While most people believe the Declaration was signed on July the 4th, this is far from the truth. In face, most delegates signed it on August 2nd, 1776!

So uhhh on that note...

Happy Independence Day

shmimy

Plastic surgery!

Well, well, well. This blog looks amazing. (To me, anyway.) I absolutely LOVE it. So.... THANK YOU SO MUCH JESS. YOU ARE AWESOME! YOU DO TOO MUCH FOR ME!!! Thankyyaaaaaa =] shimmmlllyyy

"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."

Hahaha, I like that quote, though I may disagree...

So, here's the SCOOP. (No, not like Frito scoop.)

OKAY. Due to a request, and a feeling of nostalgia, I'm going to be giving this thing another major facelift. Okay. That is all.

bye

Good thing I file my layouts in a folder on this pc...

if we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Well, well, well. Just more Stengelese or a Yogi

-ism to brighten up the day...or night, as it's 12:30

 right now, and the only thing keeping me going 

was that French Vanilla Iced Coffee with a shot 

of espresso that I had at like 7:20 P.M. at a 

Dunkin' Donuts in the city. Okay, well, my blog

 has received a long-overdue radical face-lift. 

Well, now I have 3 columns. My junk, such as

 pictures, tidbits, and random thoughts will be

 put on the left side. The right side is about me,

 which I need to change. I find it far too similar

 to Chiara's, and that's just not fair. Sorry 

Chiara! Oh, and so you know, and I'd like you

 to notice, any and all songs I put on my blog

 while using this layout will be at the bottom. (It has it's own little section.)

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Oh boy! What a long day today. I've done sooo

 much. I went out to the city, didn't get a haircut,

 texted a lot, saw a nice orange phone that my aunt 

bought, walked out to Westchester Avenue in 

the Bronx, and truly enjoyed today to the fullest

. I realized today that you really have to seize

 the day, because not many come as good as 

this one!

The TV is on behind me, running this report 

about Chris Benoit, and the double-murder 

suicide, and the London terror attacks. This is

 horrible. Such a beautiful say, yet filled with tragedy.

I think I should get going. That espresso is 

finally wearing off. Oh, I got a new 24" high-

definition TV today from my aunt. It's going in

 my room. Quite a treat! I can't wait to set it up. 

Talk to y'all later!

OH. And I think we should (Meghan, Jess, 

Chiara, and Myself) have a blog together like 

we once did, only keep it this time. How's that

 sound? COMMENT ME AND LET ME KNOW!

=]

ahhhhhh, tired.

sssshhhhiimmmmlllllllllyyyyyyy