chaz carrillo

2005-06-27T01:12:00.000-04:00

Okay so that was fun about 7 hours of cards and drinking also. my "hey your getting married and such lets have a party just happened and it was neat. i was playing really well after losing my first 5 dollars and then i went head to head with rick. i didn't know how he played and was really tired. the combination ment i broke even on the night instead of walking away with 20 bucks. the best part of the night was beating sean with a straight that was a slightly higher straight than his.

tomorrow cedar point here we come. and it will be neat. i haven't been there in about 2 years or something. last time i went the dragster was new and i tried it only to be let down. we are contemplating renting an suv so we can all be together and comfortable.

i painted nicole's room today. i will have it done by tues when i get back. yellow will take three coats i think. it will be great when me and nicole live with each other and stuff other than the obvious sex related things.

ok. me tired. sleepy sleepy. nighty nighty. bye bye.

p.s. i get married in five days.

2005-02-20T19:29:00.000-05:00

Mentally I am quite tired and physically I feel ok. This week has been trying but seems like so little in light of the situation with Dan's dad. That actually has been a big thing for me this week.
My mind isn't working as well and I generally just feel sick about it.

Nicole's mom is in town and we have been hanging out with her a bit. Last night the family (Nicole, Nicole's mom, Melissa and Kyle,) went to P.F. Chang's for dinner. Rick and Joey were there working, so Joey served us and Rick stopped out a couple of times to say hello. We all talked and laughed and caught up on Rhode Island news.

Well today we had lunch at the Price's and now are going to have dinner together at Melissa's house. We rented "Wicker Park" featuring the untalented Josh Harnett. I was told it was good and hopefully it is. Something like "Momento" I was told. If it is like "Momento" it will be cool, if not then the night will still be filled with good filling food, and an nice East Coast accent.

2004-12-03T02:14:00.000-05:00

i wrote a ton and then it all got lost.

i hate ie.

sorry you're left with this crappy post. instead of a real one.

2004-07-28T22:38:00.000-04:00

well i have been at the painting thing for awhile. i get paid on friday and it will be sweet. 12 to 13 hours a day with breaks for bob and students and sleep and food and a chiropratic adjustment. It has been a wierd couple of weeks.

my computer died for no reason whatsoever. sean f. was using it, my room mate sean that is. and it wouldn't start up again. i tried messing with it but the i ended up giving it to my friend greg. well... i want to write more but i am tired and need to sleep.

sorry for the short post. more will come when i am in vermont.

ok,
bye

2004-07-06T23:21:00.000-04:00

I took the personality test that's going around. Here it is.

You are an SECL--Sober Emotional Constructive Leader. This makes you a politician. You cut deals, you change minds, you make things happen. You would prefer to be liked than respected, but generally people react to you with both. You are very sensitive to criticism, since your entire business is making people happy.

At times your commitment to the happiness of other people can cut into the happiness of you and your loved ones. This is very demanding on those close to you, who may feel neglected. Slowly, you will learn to set your own agenda--including time to yourself.

You are gregarious, friendly, charming and charismatic. You like animals, sports, and beautiful cars. You wear understated gold jewelry and have secret bad habits, like chewing your fingers and fidgeting.

You are very difficult to dislike.

_______________________________________

This is the same result that Noel had.
Neat.

I watched Last Comic Standing tonight. I watched the first couple of episodes and then lost interest but tonight wasn't that bad.

There was a Roast and it was funny.

at the end there was a challenge where someone got voted off. It was the very unfunny comic 'Ant' vs. the reasonable ok comic Gary Gulman. During the show I was flipping channels on the commercial breaks. Unfortunately that resulted in missing the out come of the show. So someone got voted off but I don't know who.

hopefully the internet will tell me tomorrow.

gotta sleep.

-chaz
p.s. I know it's redundant to have a blog and then write that the post is from you. I guess I'm old fashioned like that. I write the posts like emails.

bye

-ch...nevermind

tickets and bills, ladies and pills

2004-06-25T11:58:00.000-04:00

So as you may know me and kite got pulled over two blocks from noels house on our way to Wisconsin. I was driving cause Kite was tired and I was awake. Well, needless to say we got three tickets. One for the light being out on the rear of his care. The second for no proof of insurance. The third for no registration. This all sums up to about 305 dollars. Since I was driving, I was given the ticket. Well, it turns out we are going to court over that. Also I had a ticket from awhile ago that was a muffler fix it ticket and no proof of insurance and I just wrote a letter and gave proof that I fixed the car for that. Also I got pulled over for speeding a couple of weeks ago. So all together I have six tickets in the balance but only one of them holds points. I am fighting the speeding ticket.

So I went through and sent out all the ticket stuff today hoping that it will workout. I also went through and did my bills. I never thought I would purchase address labels, but I was sent some in the mail by this 'handyman group' and I love using them. They have a handyman logo on them and then have my name and address. It looks really funny.

So I miss Nicole, no secret I'm sure. Which of course is never a pleasant thing, but I appreciate her more when she's gone I think. I really see what she adds to me when there's only a voice on the phone. We have been going through honeymoon planning and think we may know where to go. I think our wedding is going to be really different. I just hope that different is in a good way.

I was taking multi-vitamin things cause they make me feel good, but I stopped. That was a month ago. I was examining why I didn't feel as well lately and thought this might be the ticket. So I pop'n pills like I'm an addict now. Well starting today. And only once a day.

Well tons of stuff to do today, so I will be one my way. Man I rhymed and didn't even mean it.
...
does anyone wanna peanut?

-chaz

Nicole is now leaving

2004-06-20T10:29:00.000-04:00

So yeah. here for a weekend and gone for the two - three weeks.
that is tghe story of my fiance and friend Nicole.

The good thing about her leaving is that i get to see her again. and when i see her again it is fun.

alright i was going to write more, but i am in the kids room in Riverview and they just started to playing a really cheesy kids song.

"give me a j, you got your j you got your j you got your j, e, you got your e you, you got your e you....what's that spell? JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS oohhhhh JESUS, yeahhh yeah JESUS."

so i have to leave right now.

-chaz

Nicole is Back

2004-06-18T13:05:00.000-04:00

Nicole is back and that is really cool. However many problems occurred while planning her return.

I went to see if I could get a haircut at regina's place but as I was pulling in she was pulling out. I went in anyway to see if someone else might be free. After standing there for five minutes I left to look for another place. Anyplace. I went to two or three places and all of them had a line that was going to take an hour so I skipped that idea.

I went to meijer to pick some things up for the night and quickly ran through got what I needed and went in line. I had 20 items so I had to go to a bigger line. I ran for the shortest one there was only two people in front of me and one had already scanned all her things through. Or so it seemed. After about ten minutes I noticed no progress had been made. Looking forward I overheard the problem. It seemed that two boxes of cereal were on sale but they were scanning in at the wrong price. Heaven forbid the granola cereal was a dollar more they sent a freckle-faced teenage bagger to go double check the price. When he got back he indicated that cereal she was purchasing was the wrong size even though the same kind as the one on sale. So she didn't buy any cereal cause 'that's not that great of a deal. A little frustrated and anxious as I was in a hurry I stuck out the line thinking those type of things only happen once in awhile, what are the chances of something else holding this line up. Needless to say I should have paid attention to the age of woman in front of me. After all her items were scanned in she very slowly reached for her pen and check book and started to write a check. I could have written a novel in the time it took her to get write the amount, date, and sign. So that quick trip to meijer took 4 minutes of shopping and 50 minutes of standing in line.

when I picked up Nicole I gave her a rose and we went to shop for a few things, then we made dinner and it was really nice. My expectations were not met because of my time crisis, but I got over it. I was happy she was home.

then I went to ross's bachelor party.

but that's the next post.

-chaz

Painting in the Rain

2004-06-12T13:01:00.000-04:00

I have been painting all week and have had no time for the internet altogether. It is a really weird time because my friend Ben is getting married in like an hour. He is the first one of 'us' that is getting married in the next year. We are all engaged. All my friends. Well except for Sean. By this time next year everyone will be married except for Myself and Nicole and we will only have a month to go.

I am an usher. Well head usher. The other usher was suppose to be Eric h. but he is running lights. So it's me and the groomsmen. Walking people down and stuff. This meant the rehearsal was last night.

We walked through the wedding twice and then off to olive garden. I got this steak alfredo that was really really good. I had an orangtina that was ok but made me feel tipsy right away. I think the lack of sleep had something to do with it. So I am focusing on focusing and Ross keeps laughing at me. I was at a table with Ross and Ashley, Jeremy and Kristen, Aaron and Eric. When I told Nicole this over the phone she said, "You’re the only one without a date." And I laughed. At one point during dinner Ashley got up and her napkin fell down. She immediately sat back down crossing her arms. She thought her dress fell off when the napkin fell. We all laughed. Then when we were ordering the waitress said, "We have a cash bar if you want an alcoholic beverage."
Then I replied in a sarcastic tone, "well do you take credit or debit cards at the cash bar?" No one really heard me except Aaron. Then Kristen asked, "Can you take credit or debit cards at the cash bar?" Except she wasn't joking.

We decided on the way to dinner that we were going to have a bachelor party for Ben after the rehearsal dinner so that's what we did. We went to my house and played poker got some drinks and smoked some cigars. It was great fun. I was down and out when I bought back in for $2.50. Then I was going head to head with Eric for this winner take all game. We were going to play until one so at one and still down in the last game. He went all in and I had to reciprocate for the win I had ace and jack of diamonds but he won it with a pair of sevens after the cards were laid.

I am at the church now waiting for the people to leave so I can take down the chairs. The wedding’s over and so off to the after I move the chairs reception where we are sure to have tons of funs.

Yeah.

I found this thing called the antibloggies: http://www.antibloggies.com. They give out awards for blogs like BIGGEST POTTY MOUTH, DUMBEST TITLE, BIGGEST A-LIST SUCKUP and tons more.

Well gotta run.

mere information

2004-06-05T11:21:00.000-04:00

I have a whole bunch to do and too much time to do it.
It is hard to get in the swing of things since Nicole has left.
Yesterday, I went to the school but the lunch hours were different because of a year book thing so they had lunch early I guess. Then, I went over and hung out with my sister Amanda for awhile. I haven't seen her in a month or something so I thought it would be cool to hangout. I was hoping to find out what she was having. What kind of baby she was having, but alas no. The next doctor appt. is on the 17th then we'll find out. We talked for a short time about stuff and then I left as they were going through 'the bills'.

I then hung out with Dan. I came over to play racquetball and they gave me dinner. It worked quite nicely. We played basketball while the food was cooking and then off to MSU. We went to IM west to play and Dan scorched me the first game 15 to 6 I think. Then the second game went a little longer and I won 11 to 8. I after he drove me back to his place I ran over to Travis and Shanna's to see there house and help them unpack. We'll there house is really cool, but they didn't need any help unpacking. We played this weird game with balls called Bocce. It was the european equivalent of horseshoes. It was pretty fun.

I hung out with Jaden for sometime as people played euchre. I feed him but he kept falling asleep while I was doing it. He then would wakeup a couple minutes later complaining that he was hungry.

He’s a funny kid.

I played euchre and ended 1-1 as the good mother Suz took over Jaden duties.
When I came home I had a nice conversation with Nicole and went straight to bed.
I woke up a few hours ago and noticed that my phone was dead. I was waiting for a call too. Neat.

Well that was my strange day of doing stuff.

-chaz

open-theism question

2004-06-01T01:52:00.000-04:00

well i have only time for a reply to noel's question about the conversation.

it went well. most of us agreed that God is not bound by time. then we discussed a couple of people who profess to be open-theists, namely author John Eldredge. we then discussed how we can critically look at things that people say
1 without agreeing with all of it, and
2 taking all the good out of the book or teaching.

the example was given of c.s. lewis who believed in purgatory. i defineatly don't believe in purgatory and i defineatly love c.s.lewis and think he was super smart and talented in writing truths about God and christianity. that drove us to intelligence, charisma, and appeal of these people, all of which are qualities found in non-christian people. the example then being; i would agree that many many people are more intelligent than i am. in fact most people, but that doesn't give them a position in christ and the knowledge of truth.

we continued for awhile so i'll stop there, but the conversation was very honest and....normal.

anyway.

i need to sleep.

-chaz

p.s. Jaden is a cute baby of Dan and Suz's. He is fun. that is all.

last half day and then a long ride home

2004-05-31T10:45:00.000-04:00

well it's my last day in wisconsin. we are leaving around one o'clock to go back MI. i got a talked to nicole more in depth about the ar situation and it worked out really well.

her car's alternator slowly broke and they were not very mobile. they called a tow truck and since no places were open the tow-trucker-guy said that he could fix it. so they bought the part and he fixed it in about 2 hours. when nicole asked him how much he just said, "ummm, 25 dollars i guess." so nicole gave him 50 and was on her way. the trip took about twice as long as usual with the car troubles and waiting they had to do. the cool thing is how everything worked out so well.

anyway i played cards last night and it rocked. i learned a game called Golf which is really easy, but fun. I also played two games of euchre and won both times.

inbetween the card games i watched the det. pistons win game 5.

after that it was inda late but there were tons of people over. i went downstairs close to the pool and talked to people for about 3 hours. it was very open and deep spiritual conversations about the Church, open-theism, and predestination type stuff. i really enjoyed it and it was very relaxed and felt very unplanned. i don't know how to say it, but it was cool.

after everyone went home me and kite talked for another couple hours and then finally decided to call it quits.

this trip was definately worth it. even though some of yesterday was filled with blank pauses and smiles in front of kite's much quiter family, the conversation and general free-ness of the trip was really fun.

i am really glad i got a chance to meet kite's family.
they are cool.

o. one more thing.

kite's family hasn't seen him since his birthday early in the month, so his mom made 'birthday doughnuts' they were really good, but thats not the point. so everytime someone came in and ate a doughnut Kite's whole family, including grandparents, would sing happy birthday to him. not just one verde but the whole thing. that made me laugh everytime.

alright, i'm out.

-chaz

church and open houses

2004-05-30T18:42:00.000-04:00

today me and kite headed to church a little late. i kept getting calls in the middle of the night from nicole. she was on her way to rhode island early in the morning and then her car started to break a couple hours into the trip. i wasn't really awake when i answered but i do remember talking to her a little bit. the fourth time i wasn't very happy thatshe was calling back. after church there was a pot luck sort of thing and then we went to a couple of open houses. it has been fun talking to people and pretending to know them.

last night at the wedding i pretended to know the newly married couple. it was funny because i saw on there face that they didn't know me but in that situation you can't really ask. i walked up to them and said, "thanks for inviting me to the wedding! I just wanted to say congrats before i take off! i'm so happy for you!" I preceded to hug the bride and then the groom. After the hugs they thanked me for coming to the wedding and sent me on my way.

anyway the open houses were fun. I have never had a peanut butter chocolate ball, until the open house. they are good.

the people were interesting. Kite's friend Joel is quite unique and made me laugh a ton. he reminds me of Joel on mystery science theatre 3000 for those of you who have seen that. which probly isn't very many.

right now Kite's mom Max is making Dinner for Me and Kite's grandparents, and sisters. Mac and Cheese for me! woohoo!

alright well we are going to hangout with some people tonight and i think the dinner is almost ready.

i should get in there and converse amongst the old.

peace.

-chaz

yo from wisconsin

2004-05-29T14:24:00.000-04:00

Hey, I got a free ride to Wisconsin with kite. Wisconsin is very rural, and so far pretty fun. Yesterday we went to a graduation and a movie. Basic date you know. We went to see "The Day After Tomorrow". It was very funny and not on purpose, just bad enough in spots to cover your mouth and try to not laugh out loud. It probably would not have been as entertaining if I would have paid for it. Anyway I am Kite's date to a wedding and I have to take a shower now. The wedding is at 2:30 and I haven’t showered yet. After that I don’t what we are going to do. Maybe got to reception and eat some good cake.

Anyway.
(pause)
I gotta run.

-chaz