[03 Nov 2008|07:15pm] In the spirit of Anya, and Emily as well... New blog: http://matthewscottreyes.blogspot.com/ start to feel.

[20 Jun 2007|10:41am] [ mood | okay ] Updates about my life: Where to start....hmm....Me and Elaina are doing well! Very well, actually. I think this is actually the best we've been. I think I hit a level of maturity with her that I needed to get too in order to make the relationship go forward. She got a job at Lanterna being a waitress where they make absurd amounts of cash. That should help her chip away at the awful school bill all of us kids have to deal with. I'm very excited for her. She still is working at Starbucks, but is getting her hours cut. Speaking of Starbucks, it's been a little stressful lately. I have to work for the next four days, which is a tad odd because I've been off since Saturday. So far it's been a bit of a lazy summer. Just lots of "hanging out," which has been hard for someone like me who likes everything scheduled to get used too, but it's been a rewarding summer. Me and Elaina have been grocery shopping for the past month or so, and it's been fantastic. She's a great cook, so she does the cooking, and I do the cleaning and we only spend about 40 dollars a week on groceries. As far as music goes, I've been listening to Rufus Wainwright for the past month or so, becoming completely obsessed with him. I'm still missing his first album, but I've been shuffling his last four around for a while now. Want One/Want Two is probably my favorite double album ever made. His last album is fantastic also, probably tied with Want Two (which are both being Want One). Poses is great, but it took me a while to get into it, it's so different from his new stuff, but I really like it now. I still need the first album (selftitled) if anyone has it! That's about it for me. Been getting a lot of reading done, and I'm actually excited for my classes this fall. 1 start to feel.

[09 May 2007|11:01am] [ mood | calm ] My hair is way too long. I should have had Elaina cut it before she left for Chicago. As of midnight tonight I'll be able to go out to a place that isn't a diner or a restuarant for the first time in my life, legally. It's interesting when someone thinks of themselves as being "very liberal" when in the grand scheme of the world they are probably just a moderate. So I'm off to work, then out to eat with my parents, then I don't know what. I did well in school this semester, but I decided I basically want to get straight A's so I can go to NYU or the New School of Philosophy or Columbia. I probably won't go to any of these because of grades or money, but a boy can dream. "Check the Rhyme" by A Tribe Called Quest has the best hip-hop intro ever. That and maybe "Apollo Kids" by Ghostface. That's all for me. 3 start to feel.

[25 Apr 2007|09:12am] [ mood | groggy ] Just woke up, so the normal morning disclaimer about bad grammar applies here. So...lots of stuff has been happening, where to start.... 1) I decided last night to try veganism again. People may think this is ridiculous that I keep going on and off but I feel that this is the only way for me to be healthy. I've been told many times "you can be healthy while eating meat" but it turns out I can't. I'm sort of starting to deal with myself as someone who is pretty addicted to food. I need boundries when it comes to food in pretty much every way. It will be more expensive, but that is fine because me spending money on my health is the best thing I can spend it on. I'm planning on doing the 1500 calorie diet I did when I lost a lot of weight and then when I hit the ideal mark, I'll go up to 2000. It sounds like a fad diet probably, but if I go off of it I will gain the weight back because I have no moderation when it comes to food at all. So I will see how it turns out. Lots of hummus, salads, soy milk, soy chicken and tofu are what is in store for me. 2) The last show with my band happened on sunday. Turns out it was probably one of the more fun times I've had with them so I'm glad it ended on that note. The last rockland show I played with them a few weeks ago turned out great too. We created great music, definitely the best I've ever been apart of creating, so I'm glad I was apart of it. 3) Currently, mine and Christian's living situation is going very well. I'm so happy I live in an area like Nyack, and nowhere else in this county. 4) The amount of stress I've had in the past month has been ridiculous. I've had to seriously look at myself and how I deal with problems. Elaina has been so patient with me and so helpful with getting me to an improved state of mind. A good part of that stress is completely over, which I'm very thankful for. On to a few stressers: 5) School is dragging along slowly but it is over in nine days. My last day of regular school is tomorrow, which will be a very long day for sure, but an important one for me to pay attention. I also know that next semester will be way less stressful schoolwise, I think anyway. But I am going to school five days a week, so who knows. Next week is finals week which will probably be less stressful than this week. I will need to study though. 6) Work. Work is going well. The problem with work is that working during school makes work 10 times more tiring and stressful. So I will be working full time in the summer which is good so I can store up some money. So if you see me in two weeks and I'm much happier it's because a lot of my stress has gone away. 2 start to feel.

[05 Apr 2007|10:56pm] [ mood | okay ] So I'm trying to swallow about 20 books in the near future. Meanwhile I'm reading this great book that just came out called Consumed about capitalism's transformation from the "protestant work ethic" to "infant-like hyper-consumerism." I'm very happy with the book. I want to read the tipping point soon, it's supposed to be good. I can't wait until this month is over. Lot's of stuff I have to do in the next few days, but starting in the second week of May, everything is smooth sailing. It should be a perfect summer. I hate dealing with people that are completely manipulative with everything they say, but it's a pretty common thing. It's just hard when they mask themselves as kind friends, and that they're always the victim. How am I? I'm doing ok... Despite being off from school and work until Tuesday, I have a ton of stuff I need to done. How is everybody doing? I hope everything is going well in Suffern and North Rockland. Tomorrow is the good friday service. I hear Redeemer has a great one, I hope it's a good time (as fun as a Good Friday service can be). I know it's important, though. Ok, I'm done, Jess Dulaney should be over soon. Fun. start to feel.

[04 Apr 2007|11:07am] [ mood | just woke up ] The Normal Disclaimer: I just woke up, so I apologize if this is not quite coherent. I'm getting all this money soon that feels like it's free even though it's not. I'm getting a 238 dollar tax return, which every year feels great. An amazing thing is that I have 43 vacation hours which will be something like a 300 dollar check from it. I'm also getting 50 dollars soon from an old Insurgents fiasco I was involved in. I'm going to take a personal day at work the first week of may (finals week), which is a free paid day off. So that's basically a free months rent, which is fantastic. My manager got fired at work. I remember coming in a couple of days ago and being completely floored by it. I figured it could have happened at any point but it was surreal when it did. EVERYONE was there, because we were putting together the new layout for the store. I feel very bad for him, because as bad as I thought he did at his job, and as annoyed it made me to work with him, he worked constantly and all of his time to support a family that he basically thought did nothing to help him. So hopefully he finds a new job to work at. We also have a new assistant manager and our old assistant that just left two days ago for nanuet, was brought back as acting manager which I am very excited about. It is now that time in school where I'm going to have to do a ton of work. Next thursday I have an experimental psych test which I don't think I will do on, a Psych of Learning test (which I should do well on) and a New Testament paper (which I should also do well on). Then on the 24th I have two different group presentations due, and somewhere this month I have a huge group paper due (which I can not stand to work on). Then is finals week.  But I'll definitely be glad when the semester is over, this one has been boring. But it's been great to knock out 16 credits in only two days a week. Next semester I have five days a week of class, but the day I have with the most classes are all philosophy classes (sweet!). Me and my parents are going to Italy next summer for a week and a half or something like that. That's so awesome, because who knows if I'll ever be able to go back again. And a week and a half is way more time than I've ever had in any culture to absorb it, and it's my first time traveling (besides tour) as an adult. So I'm incredibly stoked even though it's like 14 months away. So that's what's been on my mind as of late basically, same old. My main problem are things changed, I'm not good at having things change around me (which isn't good because that's life) and just going with the flow. I'm going to work on that. start to feel.

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