Hello?
Anyone out there?
Can someone help me? I am writting to you from an undisclosed location on the boarder of northern Pakistan. I am hunkered down with clarise (my machete) in a cave waititng for it to calm down around me. To think just a couple of days ago I was siting behind the queen at the royal wedding. Soon I will be back tho to start my first real job but until then I look forward to filling you all in on my recent activities.
Well this is definetly somthing that I have not done in awhile. I knew I said I was going to start this ole thing up again but honestly I have not had to much to write about. Id like to start off by saying that my machete known as clarise is doing very well. (thought all my old followers would like to know) I recently killed a fly with her the other day which is a credit to the pinpoint accuracy that she possess.
There really hasnt been anything going on recently except for the fact that i'm graduating, got my first big boy job, walkers bill, watched the royal wedding.....not, japan is in ruins and o yea....Bin Laden is dead.
What a terrible year for the ocean. Bp oil spill throwing so much oil in the ocean and nuclear waste leaking into it from Japan..... and O YEA they decided to just lob Osamas body into it as well. Now my moral character says that it is not right to sit back and cheer about the death of another human but I guess that if I had to this would be about as good as it gets. I gotta believe he liked the ocean burial tho. I mean come on the guy has a nappy beard and has been wearing a towel on his head in the middle of the desert for 20 yrs.
I have succeded in landing my first position as a field engineer with J.P Cullen. This is honestly a dream job for me and look forward to working my tail of for them in the upcoming years. I will be starting at Epic Systems in Verona and working there until transfered to a different jobsite. I am looking forward to getting some dough so I can start getting my new life started in good ole Madison.
In closing I would like to say thank you to all those that may still be following and look forward to hearing from you all soon.
Yours Truely,
Matt
Interesting fact: Im getting sick of school.
Interesting fact: Bin Laden had 4 wives. How may of you ladies like him dead now.
Shh. someones coming
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Vet Day
Hows it going everybody. Sorry I havent posted in awhile but not much has gone on in the past couple days to report about. I did absolutly nothing last weekend except rearrange my room. Now to report on my action packed week so far:
1. Completed 4 HW assignments.
2. Took test.
3. Hung single lousy strand of Chirstmas lights. (Holiday Lights...to be pc)
4. Blew out light bulb in room.
5. watched roomate eat half gallon of salsa in 24 hours.
6. found out rollerblading is the most efficient way to burn calories. I dont believe it.
7. continuing to battle the 3,000 lady bugs that have taken over the house. (worse than the fire ants)
8. Almost gave my roomates dog a massage after he chewed on one of my hats.
9. Updated my Quicken (EVERYONE SHOULD TELL MY MOTHER)
10. Ran 8 miles. (should have rollerbladed)
So I hope upon reading this list you feel better about your life. I am now going to eat lunch bc im very hungry...shouldnt have forgot to eat dinner last night.
Matt
Intersting fact: We have killed 5 bats in our apt this year.
Interestign Fact: Weapon of choice.....yellow broom.
1. Completed 4 HW assignments.
2. Took test.
3. Hung single lousy strand of Chirstmas lights. (Holiday Lights...to be pc)
4. Blew out light bulb in room.
5. watched roomate eat half gallon of salsa in 24 hours.
6. found out rollerblading is the most efficient way to burn calories. I dont believe it.
7. continuing to battle the 3,000 lady bugs that have taken over the house. (worse than the fire ants)
8. Almost gave my roomates dog a massage after he chewed on one of my hats.
9. Updated my Quicken (EVERYONE SHOULD TELL MY MOTHER)
10. Ran 8 miles. (should have rollerbladed)
So I hope upon reading this list you feel better about your life. I am now going to eat lunch bc im very hungry...shouldnt have forgot to eat dinner last night.
Matt
Intersting fact: We have killed 5 bats in our apt this year.
Interestign Fact: Weapon of choice.....yellow broom.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Clarise
Well I am proud to report that my machete has been cleaned, rust removed and sharpened. I know this is very exciting to you all because it is to me. I will now be carrying it on me 24/7 365....except for when im in class. That could get dicey. I would also like to report that I was not notified yet if I have won the election so im just gonna go out on a limb and say I didnt win. Bummer. While I was going to institute the concealed carry of machetes and now this law has no shot I will still follow it anyways.
I figure I should mention a little about my schooling since that is now my main priority. The school is going good. The main thing this year is that I am a member of the NAHB construction competition team....Sounds exciting huh. I am the head of marketing and pretty much what I have been charged to do is to make a marketing plan of how I will draw potential customers to model homes in a small town in North Carolinas wine county. This is a pretty hard task seeing as that im a construction major and am not to prevelant in the marketing industry. If anone out there has any good marketing information I would be open to listening to any ideas.
The next aspect of school that is pretty non interesting is that I won a NIOSH scholarship this year which consisted of 1,800 bucks. I am pretty happy that I wond this and am glad I took the 30 minutes to fill out the app and write the letter. I think for that one moment I got paid more than Brett Favre. O well. Other than that life has been good and when somthting interesting comes up you better know I will fill you people in.
Matt
Interesting Fact: My Fantasy football team plays my brothers this week. (ill get crushed)
Interesting Fact 2: I hate Justin Beiber
I figure I should mention a little about my schooling since that is now my main priority. The school is going good. The main thing this year is that I am a member of the NAHB construction competition team....Sounds exciting huh. I am the head of marketing and pretty much what I have been charged to do is to make a marketing plan of how I will draw potential customers to model homes in a small town in North Carolinas wine county. This is a pretty hard task seeing as that im a construction major and am not to prevelant in the marketing industry. If anone out there has any good marketing information I would be open to listening to any ideas.
The next aspect of school that is pretty non interesting is that I won a NIOSH scholarship this year which consisted of 1,800 bucks. I am pretty happy that I wond this and am glad I took the 30 minutes to fill out the app and write the letter. I think for that one moment I got paid more than Brett Favre. O well. Other than that life has been good and when somthting interesting comes up you better know I will fill you people in.
Matt
Interesting Fact: My Fantasy football team plays my brothers this week. (ill get crushed)
Interesting Fact 2: I hate Justin Beiber
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Vote Natzke
LAdies and Gentleman. Thank you for meeting me here today. It has been awhile since I talked to your through this medium but I belive that there is a very important issue at hand. Today is the state elections and I encourage all of you to go out and vote. More importantly I encourage all of you to go out and vote for Matthew Natzke for State Treasurer. I think I can be a great asset to everyone in this great state of our by directly impacting our government funds. Here is some of the hot topics and platforms I will be inacting if I am gracious enough to take down the dreaded Dawn Marie Sass (still hasnt taken off her halloween costume......witch) and Kurt Schuller (This guy has nothing going for him except for the fact that he looks like Chris Farleys brother....im not sure thats good though).
The first issue that I promise I will tackle is allowing everyone in this state to carry concealed weapons. NO I SAID NO....guns. The only weapon you will be allowed to conceal and carry is that of a Machete. This has nothing directly to do with government funds but in a way it does. I will be allocating certain funds to purchase machetes for all Wisconsin citizens over the age of 7 (you just cant trust 6 year olds these days). I think this will cut down crime and raise enjoyment levels for all people of this great state.
Next I will be sending funds to the town of Green Bay. This is very important. As all of you know the Vikings are the worse team in the NFL and we need to keep it that way. We will directly fund the efforts of the Pack so we dont lose in a couple weeks. Next the Pack will use the money to sign Randy Moss. we will then proceed to sit him on the bench for the remainder of the season or until we have awritten contract that he will retire at the end of this year.
Last but not least. There is a great deal of hoopla in the state today about creating jobs. I think that creating jobs is a great idea. But why not go one further and NOT create any jobs. Many of you may be scrathing your heads... Yes no creating jobs with government money. Spending all this money seems to not create many jobs therefore I will just pay every unemployed citizen a salary of 30,000 a year and they dont even need to work for it. This being said they need to vote for me the next election.
Ok one more thing. I will keep this short and sweet. I will be allocating certain funds to buy John Clay a treadmill.
thanks for reading( hopefully ur at work)
GO VOTE: MATT NATZKE
Slogan: Who wants to work for money when I can give it away.
The first issue that I promise I will tackle is allowing everyone in this state to carry concealed weapons. NO I SAID NO....guns. The only weapon you will be allowed to conceal and carry is that of a Machete. This has nothing directly to do with government funds but in a way it does. I will be allocating certain funds to purchase machetes for all Wisconsin citizens over the age of 7 (you just cant trust 6 year olds these days). I think this will cut down crime and raise enjoyment levels for all people of this great state.
Next I will be sending funds to the town of Green Bay. This is very important. As all of you know the Vikings are the worse team in the NFL and we need to keep it that way. We will directly fund the efforts of the Pack so we dont lose in a couple weeks. Next the Pack will use the money to sign Randy Moss. we will then proceed to sit him on the bench for the remainder of the season or until we have awritten contract that he will retire at the end of this year.
Last but not least. There is a great deal of hoopla in the state today about creating jobs. I think that creating jobs is a great idea. But why not go one further and NOT create any jobs. Many of you may be scrathing your heads... Yes no creating jobs with government money. Spending all this money seems to not create many jobs therefore I will just pay every unemployed citizen a salary of 30,000 a year and they dont even need to work for it. This being said they need to vote for me the next election.
Ok one more thing. I will keep this short and sweet. I will be allocating certain funds to buy John Clay a treadmill.
thanks for reading( hopefully ur at work)
GO VOTE: MATT NATZKE
Slogan: Who wants to work for money when I can give it away.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Last Post?
Well peeps. I would like to say thank you for following me the past couple months. ITs been hard to keep you too updated because of such an iffy internet connection in Tarpum Bay. I would like to thank you for following as best as you could. I would also like to shout out to my actual followers. All three of you. You three have meant the world to me and if there is anyway I can repay you please feel free to let me know.
I am currently sitting in the Philidelphia airport with 2 hours left of a 7 hour layover. This is almost as a 7 hour hangover. I have been excited to come back but also a little weary of leaving Tarpum Bay. I have had such great times there, but I know it will be better at home. There was only so much to do in Tarpum Bay. I mean right at this very moment...im sitting in the airport watching news about a man being burned to death in the world sauna championship. Welcome back to America I guess. Land of the free.
The last couple days were very cool in Eleuthera. We went out with lester a lot to pick fruit and have different local delecasies. (prolly didnt spell that right) We had a wilk salad and some good cracked conch. If you dont know what Wilks are....your on the internet. Ok scratch that. I tried to look them up and couldnt. They are sea snails otherwise known as the boogers of the sea. Well thats what I call them. It was all fun until our stomachs started to hurt....
I would also like to report that I am thinking of continuing the blog to let you all know a little more about my life as it continues. If you think this is a good idea...please post.
Thanks again and here are some pics of my trip.
Love
Matt
God Bless
Interesting Fact: Im very excited to see you all.
Interesting Fact: Tiger Woods sucks
I am currently sitting in the Philidelphia airport with 2 hours left of a 7 hour layover. This is almost as a 7 hour hangover. I have been excited to come back but also a little weary of leaving Tarpum Bay. I have had such great times there, but I know it will be better at home. There was only so much to do in Tarpum Bay. I mean right at this very moment...im sitting in the airport watching news about a man being burned to death in the world sauna championship. Welcome back to America I guess. Land of the free.
The last couple days were very cool in Eleuthera. We went out with lester a lot to pick fruit and have different local delecasies. (prolly didnt spell that right) We had a wilk salad and some good cracked conch. If you dont know what Wilks are....your on the internet. Ok scratch that. I tried to look them up and couldnt. They are sea snails otherwise known as the boogers of the sea. Well thats what I call them. It was all fun until our stomachs started to hurt....
I would also like to report that I am thinking of continuing the blog to let you all know a little more about my life as it continues. If you think this is a good idea...please post.
Thanks again and here are some pics of my trip.
Love
Matt
God Bless
Interesting Fact: Im very excited to see you all.
Interesting Fact: Tiger Woods sucks
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
God Bless America
Well peeps. The time here on my internship is running down. Today was my last official construction work day. It will be hard to go home after meeting some great people here but I am definetly looking forward to seeing you all. I was walking down the street today and one kid yelled my name from a moving car and then I recieved a hug from another. I mean, at this point im pretty much a local celebrity around here. I guess being one of 2 white guys in town has its advantages. So anyways. Done with the mushy stuff.
So like I have previously mentioned, today was my last work day. It was a tough one at that as well. I was down in the pit the whole day and the weather was taking its tole on me. Lets just say. I was hotter than lance bass at a ricky martin concert. We moved to forms up the previous day and poured the second stage of our wall today. The canadian group is great and they arent as big of hosers as I thought they would be initially. Having said that, if I hear one more thing about the Edmonton Oilers someones going to end up with a horse head in their bed....courtesy of Clarise of course. I have also decided that my machete needs to come home with me. I was thinking it may not be worth the hastle trying to get it in the country but having thought about it...I dont think anyone will care. I mean the thing is completely rusted and isnt even sharp enough to cut warm butter. I mean grandpa dick would have an absolute fit using this knife.
So I also hate to say it but I forgot my camera back at my place so the photos will be on hold another day. Going on the free day tomorrow I will have a chance to take some good pics anyways so it will prolly be twice as good.
Im out homies
Love
matt
Interesting Fact: recently we have found a huge sea cucumber population out in the bay. Pretty much it looks like a lot of people went number 2 in the water. This is twice as bad because the canadians are 5 times more excited to take an aqua dump.....God Bless America
So like I have previously mentioned, today was my last work day. It was a tough one at that as well. I was down in the pit the whole day and the weather was taking its tole on me. Lets just say. I was hotter than lance bass at a ricky martin concert. We moved to forms up the previous day and poured the second stage of our wall today. The canadian group is great and they arent as big of hosers as I thought they would be initially. Having said that, if I hear one more thing about the Edmonton Oilers someones going to end up with a horse head in their bed....courtesy of Clarise of course. I have also decided that my machete needs to come home with me. I was thinking it may not be worth the hastle trying to get it in the country but having thought about it...I dont think anyone will care. I mean the thing is completely rusted and isnt even sharp enough to cut warm butter. I mean grandpa dick would have an absolute fit using this knife.
So I also hate to say it but I forgot my camera back at my place so the photos will be on hold another day. Going on the free day tomorrow I will have a chance to take some good pics anyways so it will prolly be twice as good.
Im out homies
Love
matt
Interesting Fact: recently we have found a huge sea cucumber population out in the bay. Pretty much it looks like a lot of people went number 2 in the water. This is twice as bad because the canadians are 5 times more excited to take an aqua dump.....God Bless America
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Tropical storm colin is weak....very weak
Well its pouring again here in ole Tarpum Bay. It rained heavily last night and slowed our concrete project down because of sediment getting behind the forms. This means that hopefully, it dosent rain over by the site tonight so we have to deal with the same crap tomm morning. We have been getting some chopppy waves here again on the exma sound side. I think this is due to the tropical storm becuase the same thing happened when the last tropical storm went by us. This one has already broken appart however. The storms name was colin and like all things named colin it was pretty weak and embarrassing to watch. (Please post comments below making fun of colin).
We have been having a lot of fun here the past month and it is going to be hard to leave. I have met many great people here and done some wonderful things. I am very greatful for all the support you guys have given me and I look forward to talking about everything with you in the future. For the past month I have missed you all alot and felt like this place was all work and no fun. Recently I have seen the better of my ways and have relized how nice this place actually is. Tommorrow is my last official construction work day and we are doing a huge concrete pour. It will be sad to leave the site but hapy at the same time. Please tune in tommorrow for a lot of pictures of the site.
The canadians and I have still been going at it pretty hard in disscussion about whose country is better. They still seem to think its them but of course....I disagree. Canadians suck....but they are better than the french. They smell bad. But I mean if you count colin I guess we smell bad as well. Im telling you man foot fungus is a disease......
Lester the jester has taught me many cool things out on site and Im looking forward to showing you all the cool dances that I have learned. And by all i mean the 1. And no. I refuse to do it at the banquet all you Next Step readers.
ok guys. have fun tommorrow slash today.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Im leaving you to go jump off the dock....hopefully I dont see a 4 foot wide stingray like last night.
We have been having a lot of fun here the past month and it is going to be hard to leave. I have met many great people here and done some wonderful things. I am very greatful for all the support you guys have given me and I look forward to talking about everything with you in the future. For the past month I have missed you all alot and felt like this place was all work and no fun. Recently I have seen the better of my ways and have relized how nice this place actually is. Tommorrow is my last official construction work day and we are doing a huge concrete pour. It will be sad to leave the site but hapy at the same time. Please tune in tommorrow for a lot of pictures of the site.
The canadians and I have still been going at it pretty hard in disscussion about whose country is better. They still seem to think its them but of course....I disagree. Canadians suck....but they are better than the french. They smell bad. But I mean if you count colin I guess we smell bad as well. Im telling you man foot fungus is a disease......
Lester the jester has taught me many cool things out on site and Im looking forward to showing you all the cool dances that I have learned. And by all i mean the 1. And no. I refuse to do it at the banquet all you Next Step readers.
ok guys. have fun tommorrow slash today.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Im leaving you to go jump off the dock....hopefully I dont see a 4 foot wide stingray like last night.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Hockey Eh
IIIIIIIIII''mmmmmmmmm BAAAAAACCCCKKK
Sorry about the delay everybody. The internet cannot be trusted down here. I have found a spot to steal internet but as soon as I found that our interenet started up again. Its playing jokes on me. You have missed a bit since my last post so I will get right to it.
This week is the annual Tarpom Bay festival. If you didnt know that you are prolly living under a rock because it is being broadcasted on every station worldwide...well maybe not every station...but while I havent turned a TV on in about a month, judging by the turnout there had to be a spot done on BET. The festival is of the chain. I mean there are people dancing, drinking, gambling, singing, eating, shooting some bball outside of the school, theres a couple of guys their up to no good, trying to make some trouble in the neighborhood, there was one little fight and my mom got scared she said your moving with your aunty and uncle to belair....Ok well maybe the second half of that is from the fresh prince of belair theme song.. But otherwise everything that is going on is nice christian stuff right?!?!?! The festival is actually pretty cool for the town of Tarpum Bay. It brings lots of people into the community and is actually somthing the citizens have to do. The kids hang out at the bbal courts and have a great time.
The second major thing that I have not reported on yet is that we have our third and final group of our Eleuthera trips. They also happen to be from Canada....eh. I have been asking multiple questions from trying to figure out different myths from our friendly neighbors to the north....Canada...Americas Hat. My first question I threw at them is how many people in Canada actually wear canadian tuxedos? Most of them did not even know what the heck a canadian tuxedo is. I mean talk about not liking your country. Thats pathetic. For those of you that dont know what one is...your currently on the internet so look it up. If you are to lazy here is a link that will display many canadians rocking their best. thecanadiantuxedo.com. I know what you all thinking. why didnt us americans think of that first. Its alright. I dont think it looks that good plus we have the dickie anyways. The next question was do you really say EH after everything they say eh. They said that they usually dont eh. But sometimes it sneaks in there when they dont notice eh. They arent embarrased to say eh..eh.. Its not like they try and broadcast that they say it eh. So all in all, they say it sometimes eh. Third I asked what they thought of america. At this point I think they were all a little ticked about the questions I was asking them so they made fun of me about the US changing from french fries to freedom fries after they didnt back us in the war. So then I came back and said. Im sick aboot all you hoosers teasin me eh. Go back to americas hat and make me some bacon and wear your tuxedos at your stupid hockey game hoosers....then I said. Hockey sucks eh. That shut em up pretty good. Except little did they know I wore my badger hockey shirt the night before....Canadians are so gulible.
Well that about it for the night. Its like 435 degrees here and I need to go to bed. Its been awesome writing to you and have a good monday. Dont get caught reading this, your boss will be mad....unless they read it too. Which they prolly wouldnt like it...so keep your cursor on the minimize button and have a good day.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: My hair is turning blonde. I think its about time to get out of this country. If one more person says I look like Lance Bass someone is going to lose a finger.
Interesting Fact: A small girl on the trip told me that my name Matt is short for madam. Then she said I should wear a pink dress, blue wig, glass slippers and purple makeup. She then stated "If you shave your armpits you will look more like a girl". I told her to go move rocks because no one touches my armpit hair but me....
Sorry about the delay everybody. The internet cannot be trusted down here. I have found a spot to steal internet but as soon as I found that our interenet started up again. Its playing jokes on me. You have missed a bit since my last post so I will get right to it.
This week is the annual Tarpom Bay festival. If you didnt know that you are prolly living under a rock because it is being broadcasted on every station worldwide...well maybe not every station...but while I havent turned a TV on in about a month, judging by the turnout there had to be a spot done on BET. The festival is of the chain. I mean there are people dancing, drinking, gambling, singing, eating, shooting some bball outside of the school, theres a couple of guys their up to no good, trying to make some trouble in the neighborhood, there was one little fight and my mom got scared she said your moving with your aunty and uncle to belair....Ok well maybe the second half of that is from the fresh prince of belair theme song.. But otherwise everything that is going on is nice christian stuff right?!?!?! The festival is actually pretty cool for the town of Tarpum Bay. It brings lots of people into the community and is actually somthing the citizens have to do. The kids hang out at the bbal courts and have a great time.
The second major thing that I have not reported on yet is that we have our third and final group of our Eleuthera trips. They also happen to be from Canada....eh. I have been asking multiple questions from trying to figure out different myths from our friendly neighbors to the north....Canada...Americas Hat. My first question I threw at them is how many people in Canada actually wear canadian tuxedos? Most of them did not even know what the heck a canadian tuxedo is. I mean talk about not liking your country. Thats pathetic. For those of you that dont know what one is...your currently on the internet so look it up. If you are to lazy here is a link that will display many canadians rocking their best. thecanadiantuxedo.com. I know what you all thinking. why didnt us americans think of that first. Its alright. I dont think it looks that good plus we have the dickie anyways. The next question was do you really say EH after everything they say eh. They said that they usually dont eh. But sometimes it sneaks in there when they dont notice eh. They arent embarrased to say eh..eh.. Its not like they try and broadcast that they say it eh. So all in all, they say it sometimes eh. Third I asked what they thought of america. At this point I think they were all a little ticked about the questions I was asking them so they made fun of me about the US changing from french fries to freedom fries after they didnt back us in the war. So then I came back and said. Im sick aboot all you hoosers teasin me eh. Go back to americas hat and make me some bacon and wear your tuxedos at your stupid hockey game hoosers....then I said. Hockey sucks eh. That shut em up pretty good. Except little did they know I wore my badger hockey shirt the night before....Canadians are so gulible.
Well that about it for the night. Its like 435 degrees here and I need to go to bed. Its been awesome writing to you and have a good monday. Dont get caught reading this, your boss will be mad....unless they read it too. Which they prolly wouldnt like it...so keep your cursor on the minimize button and have a good day.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: My hair is turning blonde. I think its about time to get out of this country. If one more person says I look like Lance Bass someone is going to lose a finger.
Interesting Fact: A small girl on the trip told me that my name Matt is short for madam. Then she said I should wear a pink dress, blue wig, glass slippers and purple makeup. She then stated "If you shave your armpits you will look more like a girl". I told her to go move rocks because no one touches my armpit hair but me....
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Ladies and Nerds.
This is a quick post. My internet doesnt work downstairs. I am up in the girls room before they get here stealing our neighbors internet. This means that I will not be able to write later due to the fact of no internet....unless I were to sneak in here...but sexual harrasement lawsuits arent cool. These will also be canadians so they will be smelly so I dont want to be in here. Thank you for your sweet sweet time during your not so busy workday ( bc ur reading this). Thanks and hopefully I can write later.....
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: there is no interesting fact....
This is a quick post. My internet doesnt work downstairs. I am up in the girls room before they get here stealing our neighbors internet. This means that I will not be able to write later due to the fact of no internet....unless I were to sneak in here...but sexual harrasement lawsuits arent cool. These will also be canadians so they will be smelly so I dont want to be in here. Thank you for your sweet sweet time during your not so busy workday ( bc ur reading this). Thanks and hopefully I can write later.....
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: there is no interesting fact....
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
hello
Welcome back everyone.
Not much has happened in the past couple days as much as trips go. I am happy to say however that my wonderful mother and girlfriend were down here visiting, thus, the reason I have not been writing. Dont worry all my fingers are still in tact. Today was a hard day of work. I tied rebar and worked on getting materials ready for the next crew. I was rewarded by a nice dinner though. My crew and I went out to eat on our weekly budget and got some good grub. I had a ribeye steak with fingerling potatoes and a desert of raspberry pound cake. It was great. Tommorrow will be much of the same work. Getting the site ready. I may bring clarise to the site with me tommorrow just to make sure all gets done. I feel I have a lot of athority with her in my midsts. To bad she does not scare away cockroaches from my bedside table.....Yea tell me about it. I know you dont think thats cool either.
Well its been fun.
Just like always,.....
Why stay up late and read this aweful blog when you can do it at work tomm.
For all my fellow next steppers that read this......we all know you have enough time to read this at work tomm. Dont think your fooling me.
Love
Matt
Interesting Question: Who is a better hero to society? Captain Underpants or Captain Sully Sullenberger. Discuss amoungst yourselves
Not much has happened in the past couple days as much as trips go. I am happy to say however that my wonderful mother and girlfriend were down here visiting, thus, the reason I have not been writing. Dont worry all my fingers are still in tact. Today was a hard day of work. I tied rebar and worked on getting materials ready for the next crew. I was rewarded by a nice dinner though. My crew and I went out to eat on our weekly budget and got some good grub. I had a ribeye steak with fingerling potatoes and a desert of raspberry pound cake. It was great. Tommorrow will be much of the same work. Getting the site ready. I may bring clarise to the site with me tommorrow just to make sure all gets done. I feel I have a lot of athority with her in my midsts. To bad she does not scare away cockroaches from my bedside table.....Yea tell me about it. I know you dont think thats cool either.
Well its been fun.
Just like always,.....
Why stay up late and read this aweful blog when you can do it at work tomm.
For all my fellow next steppers that read this......we all know you have enough time to read this at work tomm. Dont think your fooling me.
Love
Matt
Interesting Question: Who is a better hero to society? Captain Underpants or Captain Sully Sullenberger. Discuss amoungst yourselves
Monday, July 26, 2010
NERD ALERT
Ladies and Germs:
I have not been writing for awhile. I lost the tip of my right index finger in a circular saw accident. Im sorry for the inconvenience but im sick of getting blood all over my computer. Its hard to clean under the keys so it was best to avoid the situation all together. My blood type is O so if there is any need for a donor you can consult my computer.
I am very upset I missed comic con this year. I always go to San Diego to hang out with other nerds. I tried to send drew (One of my BFFs) haha instead. I was upset when one nerd stabbed another this year. I mean come on. Those nerds have bad raps anyways. Why do they need to be attackin others because they sit to close to one another.
Night
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: I will start writing heavily again tomm.
Interesting Fact: Everything above has been made up....except for the nerd stabbing the other....what are nerds doing these days. Please yell nerd alert to warn others of nerds. Its for the common safety of society
I have not been writing for awhile. I lost the tip of my right index finger in a circular saw accident. Im sorry for the inconvenience but im sick of getting blood all over my computer. Its hard to clean under the keys so it was best to avoid the situation all together. My blood type is O so if there is any need for a donor you can consult my computer.
I am very upset I missed comic con this year. I always go to San Diego to hang out with other nerds. I tried to send drew (One of my BFFs) haha instead. I was upset when one nerd stabbed another this year. I mean come on. Those nerds have bad raps anyways. Why do they need to be attackin others because they sit to close to one another.
Night
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: I will start writing heavily again tomm.
Interesting Fact: Everything above has been made up....except for the nerd stabbing the other....what are nerds doing these days. Please yell nerd alert to warn others of nerds. Its for the common safety of society
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Fire
Welcome to the fire.
Its only burning hotta.
I need to get some Wata.
Cutting weight like a wrestla.
I was working in the pit today and it was hot. The only way I stayed sane was by telling everyone I was hot. Then I would say....."Im also a little warm tempurature wise too. haha gets them every time. We got a lot of work done today and I attribute it all to my leadership. I stood there and watched all the work get done but I mean come on. If i didnt watch them, they would have slacked off and not done anything. My select crew of kids i picked worked well. I feel a little bad that we chose kids for a certain crew. I mean its like being the fat kid picked last on the dodgeball team. Just rediculous. If the big kid were to get picked first this time. He would have melted away 30 pounds down there...Missed the opprotunity I guess.
Spending time in the hood
Ive learned to rap pretty good.
If you could.
you already would.
if you wanna try you should.
I work alot with wood.
Not just plywood.
I dont deal with driftwood.
But am close to sainthood.
Thanks for reading. Thats all. Sorry very tired.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Today a Tarpum Bay mans dog was barking. So I witnessed him pick up the dog. Carry him to the end of the dock, and throw him in the ocean. Toooooo funny.
Its only burning hotta.
I need to get some Wata.
Cutting weight like a wrestla.
I was working in the pit today and it was hot. The only way I stayed sane was by telling everyone I was hot. Then I would say....."Im also a little warm tempurature wise too. haha gets them every time. We got a lot of work done today and I attribute it all to my leadership. I stood there and watched all the work get done but I mean come on. If i didnt watch them, they would have slacked off and not done anything. My select crew of kids i picked worked well. I feel a little bad that we chose kids for a certain crew. I mean its like being the fat kid picked last on the dodgeball team. Just rediculous. If the big kid were to get picked first this time. He would have melted away 30 pounds down there...Missed the opprotunity I guess.
Spending time in the hood
Ive learned to rap pretty good.
If you could.
you already would.
if you wanna try you should.
I work alot with wood.
Not just plywood.
I dont deal with driftwood.
But am close to sainthood.
Thanks for reading. Thats all. Sorry very tired.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Today a Tarpum Bay mans dog was barking. So I witnessed him pick up the dog. Carry him to the end of the dock, and throw him in the ocean. Toooooo funny.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
yo
How yaaaalllll doing. We have had 2 groups from the carolinas and suddenenly I am catching myself almost saying yall. This sucks. The projects have been going awesome. After some time away from the systern pit we will be back in tommorrow. Which means I will have a crew down there and thats it. I have selected all the most physically fit members to go in the blazing heat chizel rock. I guess I am the supervisor because the say the perfection in my abs and wanted that same bodywork down in the pit....I can iunderstand that. But o well. Heres to another day of losing 10 pounds of water weight. It will be fun and there is nothing but great things to look forward to. Im happy to be showing off this beautiful area to my lovely mother and girlfriend starting this thursday and going until monday. Maybe then ill actually have time to take some pics and get a nice tan in. haha
On a more serious note... I would like to say that one thing that I have learned over this summer is not to judge people by what they look like and diffreernt stereotypes. I would encourage for you guys to do the same. For weeks I have dealt with groups that are strong christian organizations that claim to be right minded yet they come down here and judge people instead of helping or aiding them when they can. People have great conversations with locals then joke with others that they cant believe they werent asked for money. These people are rich in their own way. Other countries are not as rich as ours but they dont sit and whine about it. They live the way they like. These people value time with others and friendship which are values that our statesman should hold more dear as well. It hurts to make good friends and then see them cast aside by people that dont know them or their story. Donovan has a great restaurant and loves to talk with visitors but people belive he only wants buisness not friendships and good conversation. James asks to come to worship and be helped as a struggling christian and the groups youth pastor remarks about not being hit up for a buck. Its a cruel world that we live in but quite honestly...why does it have to be on our parts.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: That was prolly the only serious thing I have wrote on this blog. But I mean every word.
In the words of Tebow...>God Bless
On a more serious note... I would like to say that one thing that I have learned over this summer is not to judge people by what they look like and diffreernt stereotypes. I would encourage for you guys to do the same. For weeks I have dealt with groups that are strong christian organizations that claim to be right minded yet they come down here and judge people instead of helping or aiding them when they can. People have great conversations with locals then joke with others that they cant believe they werent asked for money. These people are rich in their own way. Other countries are not as rich as ours but they dont sit and whine about it. They live the way they like. These people value time with others and friendship which are values that our statesman should hold more dear as well. It hurts to make good friends and then see them cast aside by people that dont know them or their story. Donovan has a great restaurant and loves to talk with visitors but people belive he only wants buisness not friendships and good conversation. James asks to come to worship and be helped as a struggling christian and the groups youth pastor remarks about not being hit up for a buck. Its a cruel world that we live in but quite honestly...why does it have to be on our parts.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: That was prolly the only serious thing I have wrote on this blog. But I mean every word.
In the words of Tebow...>God Bless
Monday, July 19, 2010
Barefoot Bandito
Well just another day at Next Step. Soaking in all the flirting comments of a bunch of 15 year old girls. I try and fend them off but with this mug it can be to hard at times. Thus I have recieved the nickname of the Barefoot Bandito. Im not a criminal but it is a crime what I do....What is it I do you ask. Well I will tell you. I unknowingly steal the hearts of high schoolers from states around America. Do I want to. No. Does it happen accidentaly. Yes. This is A gift but a disease as well. Keep me in your prayers so I do not get mauled or attacked by gaggles of women. Thank you.
I have been getting close over the past couple months with the man that owns the restaurant next to our mission house. His name is Donovan and he likes to ryhme every single sentence with the one before. He also has dollar sodas and conch fritter baskets......... that may be the main reason but he is awesome none the less. He claims to be the mayor of Tarpum Bay. He prolly should be seeing as that he is the nicest and straight forward guy here. So what he sounds like he is always hammered. The guy is cool to be around. Everyone that sees him instantly likes him. He claims I have secret bottles of cologne that make all the girls want me. I dont. But I am telling him I do to try and swing a deal for some conch salad.
Found another prayng mantis today. It was a male tho so I wasnt afraid. The females you have to worry about. I feel like thats the same for all species tho. Also there was a very chipper girl that found some baby geckos today. She kept showing everyone on the site and thought it was the coolest thing is the world. So. Naturally I told her that baby geckos are like baby birds and if you touch them, none other of their species go near them therefore they die. Yea. Nobody is happy on my construction site. Thats the way I like it. Increased productivity when everyone is sad. hahha
Have a good day today/tomm
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Today I went swimming with about 20 people...As soon as I got out...75% of them got stung by a school of jellyfish. Rookies. Then I told one kids to go pee on his to relieve the pain.....He did...I laughed.......Hard........Rookie
I have been getting close over the past couple months with the man that owns the restaurant next to our mission house. His name is Donovan and he likes to ryhme every single sentence with the one before. He also has dollar sodas and conch fritter baskets......... that may be the main reason but he is awesome none the less. He claims to be the mayor of Tarpum Bay. He prolly should be seeing as that he is the nicest and straight forward guy here. So what he sounds like he is always hammered. The guy is cool to be around. Everyone that sees him instantly likes him. He claims I have secret bottles of cologne that make all the girls want me. I dont. But I am telling him I do to try and swing a deal for some conch salad.
Found another prayng mantis today. It was a male tho so I wasnt afraid. The females you have to worry about. I feel like thats the same for all species tho. Also there was a very chipper girl that found some baby geckos today. She kept showing everyone on the site and thought it was the coolest thing is the world. So. Naturally I told her that baby geckos are like baby birds and if you touch them, none other of their species go near them therefore they die. Yea. Nobody is happy on my construction site. Thats the way I like it. Increased productivity when everyone is sad. hahha
Have a good day today/tomm
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Today I went swimming with about 20 people...As soon as I got out...75% of them got stung by a school of jellyfish. Rookies. Then I told one kids to go pee on his to relieve the pain.....He did...I laughed.......Hard........Rookie
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Ladies and Gentleman. This is a great day for me. I will officially name the machete....but before we get to that there is even bigger news than that. I have my first official follower.
Yes people this is very exciting. For many months now I have been skating through with all you half followers of the blog. This is official like a referee with a whistle. Bryan Lenz is my first follower andbecause of that I am eternally grateful. I would like all of you to write below at least 2 things that you like about Bryan. For those of you that dont know to much about him. I will give you a quick synopsis of Bryan.
1) His name is Bryan. Spelt with a y. But he prefers to go by the name hollywood.
2) He likes mimosa's. A little to much I think.
3) He is very fond of accessorizing. I believe bracelets are his main go-to in this department.
4) He currently works at Pacific. Which is a college in Cali
5) He is from Greenwood and is an ex qb.
6) He is still a fan of Brett Favre.
7) He is in a relationship with a female. (many think this is surprising...not the relationship..the female part of it.)
8) He likes long walks on the beach sipping mimosa's while accessorized near pacific thinking about if he could date Brett Favre.
This is about all there is to know about Bryan. Remeber all you half followers of this blog must write one thing you like about him. Participation is mandatory and maybe one day I will we can all be like Mr. Lenz. Thank you
This leads us to the official winner of the machete competiton. This was a very hard decision to make. All finalists are very special in their own way. There has been some behind the scenes bribage. But interesingly enough the winner did not participate in any of that. (This would eliminate dads answer of Iron Braun from the competition. However thank you once again for paying for my girlfriend to come down here and see me.) This only leaves three contestants left.
Drumroll please........
The winner of the name my machete competition is..............
Clarise.
Congrats to the winner who would be my Aunt Holly. The name you have chosen has been stuck in my head and has led to many movie quotes. I look forward to congradulating you in person. Everytime I see the machete I cannot help but say "Hello Clarise". For this you are the winner. Acceptance speach is allowed. Bragging is encouraged.
Thanks again for reading.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Coke for the Bahamas is canned on the island of Nassau. Nassau has taken it upon themselves to decided that natural sugar tastes better than corn syrup. What does this mean you may ask. That all coke in the Bahamas is made with natural sugar.
Yes people this is very exciting. For many months now I have been skating through with all you half followers of the blog. This is official like a referee with a whistle. Bryan Lenz is my first follower andbecause of that I am eternally grateful. I would like all of you to write below at least 2 things that you like about Bryan. For those of you that dont know to much about him. I will give you a quick synopsis of Bryan.
1) His name is Bryan. Spelt with a y. But he prefers to go by the name hollywood.
2) He likes mimosa's. A little to much I think.
3) He is very fond of accessorizing. I believe bracelets are his main go-to in this department.
4) He currently works at Pacific. Which is a college in Cali
5) He is from Greenwood and is an ex qb.
6) He is still a fan of Brett Favre.
7) He is in a relationship with a female. (many think this is surprising...not the relationship..the female part of it.)
8) He likes long walks on the beach sipping mimosa's while accessorized near pacific thinking about if he could date Brett Favre.
This is about all there is to know about Bryan. Remeber all you half followers of this blog must write one thing you like about him. Participation is mandatory and maybe one day I will we can all be like Mr. Lenz. Thank you
This leads us to the official winner of the machete competiton. This was a very hard decision to make. All finalists are very special in their own way. There has been some behind the scenes bribage. But interesingly enough the winner did not participate in any of that. (This would eliminate dads answer of Iron Braun from the competition. However thank you once again for paying for my girlfriend to come down here and see me.) This only leaves three contestants left.
Drumroll please........
The winner of the name my machete competition is..............
Clarise.
Congrats to the winner who would be my Aunt Holly. The name you have chosen has been stuck in my head and has led to many movie quotes. I look forward to congradulating you in person. Everytime I see the machete I cannot help but say "Hello Clarise". For this you are the winner. Acceptance speach is allowed. Bragging is encouraged.
Thanks again for reading.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Coke for the Bahamas is canned on the island of Nassau. Nassau has taken it upon themselves to decided that natural sugar tastes better than corn syrup. What does this mean you may ask. That all coke in the Bahamas is made with natural sugar.
Friday, July 16, 2010
This is my favorite show because it is my show.
Welcome one and all to the greatest show on surf.......as in surf the web.
I would like to be the first to welcome you to this wonderful show. Today we have the finalists for the sunken treasure of fun machete competition. We have had some extrodinary entrys and the finalist will be known for years to come. Before we start the voting we will get down to the rules. (RULE ONE) The first rule is that there are no rules. (RULE TWO) There will be 3 finalists and they will be voted on by the staff of NEXT STEP MINISTRIES. (I have chosen the 3 finalists). (RULE THREE) Rules suck. Now lets send it back to myslef for the first finalist of the night............Silence and drumroll please......
The First Finalist of the Sunken treasure of fun Machete Miracle Competition is...........
IRON BRAUN.......Congradulations to the submitter of this name you have won nothing yet but that could change.
Now for a little story about myself and my cahoots around the island today.
Today was the day off for the kids and it started by going to a huge ocean hole and going off the blob. For those of you that dont know what a water blob is...google is a hell of a friend. The kids went cliff jumping and then we headed out to Governors harbour to go to a beautiful beach. We ate at a bar named Tippys and it was good to have my first pizza in a couple months. After spending time on the beach we headed into town so the kids could go to a gift shop for goodies. At this time I went to a local beach to wade out into the water. We would like to interupt this regularly scheduled program for an announcement. SILENCE FOR OUR SECOND FINALIST....
Drumroll please.............
The second finalist is..............Clarise..... This name has led to many quotes and has been stuck in my head all week. Congrats to the submitter for winning nothing.....as of yet.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming....
As I headed into the water I felt and uneasy silence around me. Foolishly I headed deeper into the water now nowing of the danger. I turned around about a hundred yards out and what did I see. A 3 foot diameter circle about 15 ft away from me. The stingray in question seemed like a very docile animal but is always hard to tell what any animal of the wild will do next. At this time I decided to do what few would....I tried to herd the animal up on shore. I decided to do what Steve Erwin couldnt and tame the beast. In the name of Steve I headed toward him and drove him towards shore.....as we were about to reach the shore the animal did all he could to escape...which was swim faster than I could walk and ....well he got away. The thrill of the hunt was electric. If only I hade my machete I would have a nice doormat for our intern digs here. Speaking of which......
The THIRD AND FINAL name of the name of the competition is.............
THE HAMBURGLAR.... for the sheer fact that I laughed very hard when I read it...
Go ahead and pray for your winners and comments and bribes will be accepted. Thank you for your time.
gnite all
love
Matt
Interesting Moment: WAIT A MINUTE......there is another name comming out on stage. Could this really be a real HARRY POTTER GOBLET OF FIRE MOMENT. I think it is. The fourth and final name is.......THE BAREFOOT BANDCHETE. Thank you very much for the response and good luck to you all. Have a great Night and tune in tommorrow for the results.
Remember the lines are only open if you can reach me on my cell phone. Having said that. The lines are not open and tune in tommorrow for the winner.
I would like to be the first to welcome you to this wonderful show. Today we have the finalists for the sunken treasure of fun machete competition. We have had some extrodinary entrys and the finalist will be known for years to come. Before we start the voting we will get down to the rules. (RULE ONE) The first rule is that there are no rules. (RULE TWO) There will be 3 finalists and they will be voted on by the staff of NEXT STEP MINISTRIES. (I have chosen the 3 finalists). (RULE THREE) Rules suck. Now lets send it back to myslef for the first finalist of the night............Silence and drumroll please......
The First Finalist of the Sunken treasure of fun Machete Miracle Competition is...........
IRON BRAUN.......Congradulations to the submitter of this name you have won nothing yet but that could change.
Now for a little story about myself and my cahoots around the island today.
Today was the day off for the kids and it started by going to a huge ocean hole and going off the blob. For those of you that dont know what a water blob is...google is a hell of a friend. The kids went cliff jumping and then we headed out to Governors harbour to go to a beautiful beach. We ate at a bar named Tippys and it was good to have my first pizza in a couple months. After spending time on the beach we headed into town so the kids could go to a gift shop for goodies. At this time I went to a local beach to wade out into the water. We would like to interupt this regularly scheduled program for an announcement. SILENCE FOR OUR SECOND FINALIST....
Drumroll please.............
The second finalist is..............Clarise..... This name has led to many quotes and has been stuck in my head all week. Congrats to the submitter for winning nothing.....as of yet.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming....
As I headed into the water I felt and uneasy silence around me. Foolishly I headed deeper into the water now nowing of the danger. I turned around about a hundred yards out and what did I see. A 3 foot diameter circle about 15 ft away from me. The stingray in question seemed like a very docile animal but is always hard to tell what any animal of the wild will do next. At this time I decided to do what few would....I tried to herd the animal up on shore. I decided to do what Steve Erwin couldnt and tame the beast. In the name of Steve I headed toward him and drove him towards shore.....as we were about to reach the shore the animal did all he could to escape...which was swim faster than I could walk and ....well he got away. The thrill of the hunt was electric. If only I hade my machete I would have a nice doormat for our intern digs here. Speaking of which......
The THIRD AND FINAL name of the name of the competition is.............
THE HAMBURGLAR.... for the sheer fact that I laughed very hard when I read it...
Go ahead and pray for your winners and comments and bribes will be accepted. Thank you for your time.
gnite all
love
Matt
Interesting Moment: WAIT A MINUTE......there is another name comming out on stage. Could this really be a real HARRY POTTER GOBLET OF FIRE MOMENT. I think it is. The fourth and final name is.......THE BAREFOOT BANDCHETE. Thank you very much for the response and good luck to you all. Have a great Night and tune in tommorrow for the results.
Remember the lines are only open if you can reach me on my cell phone. Having said that. The lines are not open and tune in tommorrow for the winner.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Free Time
How you all doing.
So I dont know if you have been following up on news, but... During my free time I have decided to hunt and apprehen the barefoot bandit. Yes it was me that caught him. While police are getting most of the credit I am the silent hero. Where his getaway boat slowed is where I saw the stingray. I mean come on brown water equals bogging down motor which leads to apprehention. OK OK all kidding aside the Barefoot Bandit was captured about an hour north of where I am right now. He was on a boat between Eleutheras main island and the city of Spanish Wells which is connected by road...it is located on an island. Pretty exciting stuff. Maybe someday they will make a movie about him and I can be in it.
The site was great today for work. We continued to work in the pit. There was zero clouds today which made it very hot. The temp outside is about 90 and the temp in the pit is about 110 to 120. I went in there with a thin pillow of fat on my body and came out needing a needle and thread because I was ripped. It was so hot donald trumps hair would have falled off. It was so hot Micheal Jacksons nose would have melted. It was so hot if dads truck was in the pit we would have to where astronaut gear to get anywhere near the thing. I love working out when its hot which is probably a good thing seeing as that im in the bahamers.
The survey is great. It is coming to a close however and if you have an entry that has not been submitted please do so now. We will chose the best and have a vote. Seeing as that there are about 2 people that comment on this thing if you recieve one vote your name will prolly be the winner. Tommorrow we will post the top three and procede from there.
gnite yall. Why read this at night when you can do so at work. Damn thats so catchy
love
Matt
Interesting Fact: My streak of swimming in the ocean is up to 10 days.
Interesting Fact: Ill prolly get at least 2 motherly comments making sure I drink more water because of this blog entry.
So I dont know if you have been following up on news, but... During my free time I have decided to hunt and apprehen the barefoot bandit. Yes it was me that caught him. While police are getting most of the credit I am the silent hero. Where his getaway boat slowed is where I saw the stingray. I mean come on brown water equals bogging down motor which leads to apprehention. OK OK all kidding aside the Barefoot Bandit was captured about an hour north of where I am right now. He was on a boat between Eleutheras main island and the city of Spanish Wells which is connected by road...it is located on an island. Pretty exciting stuff. Maybe someday they will make a movie about him and I can be in it.
The site was great today for work. We continued to work in the pit. There was zero clouds today which made it very hot. The temp outside is about 90 and the temp in the pit is about 110 to 120. I went in there with a thin pillow of fat on my body and came out needing a needle and thread because I was ripped. It was so hot donald trumps hair would have falled off. It was so hot Micheal Jacksons nose would have melted. It was so hot if dads truck was in the pit we would have to where astronaut gear to get anywhere near the thing. I love working out when its hot which is probably a good thing seeing as that im in the bahamers.
The survey is great. It is coming to a close however and if you have an entry that has not been submitted please do so now. We will chose the best and have a vote. Seeing as that there are about 2 people that comment on this thing if you recieve one vote your name will prolly be the winner. Tommorrow we will post the top three and procede from there.
gnite yall. Why read this at night when you can do so at work. Damn thats so catchy
love
Matt
Interesting Fact: My streak of swimming in the ocean is up to 10 days.
Interesting Fact: Ill prolly get at least 2 motherly comments making sure I drink more water because of this blog entry.
Quick
Ok real quick everyone. It is tuesday morning and im about to go to the site. Im sorry I have not wrote in awhile but its been a little tricky finding time to write when we have moved houses and the 40 trippers have got here at the same time. I will fo sure write tonight as I have not forgot my computer this time and am looking forward to talking at all of you.
UPDATE: The Survey for the Machete name is moving along but there are only a couple entries. Aunt Holly is killing it so far. The rest of you are sadly lacking. Im thinking I may get her engraved with her new name as well.
Thanks for briefely reading. Have a great day at work because I know I will.
Love
Matt
UPDATE: The Survey for the Machete name is moving along but there are only a couple entries. Aunt Holly is killing it so far. The rest of you are sadly lacking. Im thinking I may get her engraved with her new name as well.
Thanks for briefely reading. Have a great day at work because I know I will.
Love
Matt
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Colossus of Clout...The Colossus of Clout. (if you dont understand watch Sandlot)
Warning: Good Blog post below. Extreme happiness upon reading is normal.
Today was a good day. It started off very well with a wonderful breakfast in a hammock on my second level porch. The weather was not to warm today which made it even more pleasant to be outside all day. STOP. Fastforward to the end. Today ended very well with a wonderful nighttime session in the hammock taking pictures of a beautiful sunset. STOP. 
Rewind...PLAY
Rewind...PLAYThe breakfast was good and is a pretty typical breakfast down here seeing is that a gallon of milk if 7 dollars. Cereal is about the same price but the milk is so expensive it is rediculous. What is iven worse is that the milk tastes like water what has about 2 tablespoons of whole milk in it. I mean I think you can see clear through it. If you poored it in a glass half full. Then poured water in the other half. Im pretty sure the water would sink to the bottom and the milk would stay seperate at the top. Good Grief Charlie Brown.
After I ate we headed out to the sites for more prep. We laid some tile in the cabins so that when the kids laid their tile it wouldnt start out all wonky. This way they can go off of what we have already perfectly laid. We also got all of our materials on site today for concrete forms, as well as thinset for the tiles.
The Touch The World kids are still working here and they were hard at work again today on the site. By hard at work I mean they were looking for hermit crabs and asking their supervisors if they could use the machete...probably to cut the hermit crabs in half. BUT SUDDENLY...out of the middle of nowhere. A girl had found a Prang Mantis (I have NOOOO idea on the correct spelling). Now alot of people think this is cool. But I.. MYSELF... know never to mess with a Prang Mantis. Here is a little background (specifically gentlemen). Before a female mantis can do the hippity dippity with a male mantis the female needs to cut off the head of the male so that he becomes fertile. Dont ask me how I know. But its the truth. Now...just think. Myself being a very attractive young man. I was a little leary of a Prang Mantis being anywhere near me for the sake of keeping my noggin on its perch. So I sprang into action. Kicked the kids over that were trying to get the machete. Stole the knife myself from the counsler and sliced the mantis in half while accidentally cutting off the tip of the girls fingure. Just because they cant use the machete to cut hermit crabs doesnt mean I cant use it to kill Prang Mantis.
Ok well that isnt exactly true. I have to admit that I did not kill the mantis. But I sure didnt go anywhere near it. I mean come on. The rest of the story is true. That thing prolly had the hots for me.
Upon reaching the mission house after work. I had another construction meeting in my office. Thus making it the 6th day in a row that I have been in the ocean. Dinner was wonderful and the night was very relaxing. It has been a great day and I hope yours is as well.
night/morning(Your Fired)
love
Matt
Interesting Fact: As of the day July 10th. I Matt Natzke have been dating the same beautiful women named Katie for exactly 4 years. I am extremely happy and couldnt wish for anything more except that she were with me.
Survey: I need a damn name for my Machete. I mean who doesnt name weapons they find in the ocean?
-Sponge Bob Machete Pants
-Jack Bauer
-Mad Machete Max the Murauder
-LunchBox
-Colossus of Crab Clout
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Day Cinco
Yesterday was pretty lame to start off with. And by lame I mean it was pretty damn boring. We didnt do much. I woke up and had breakfast. Then we went out to the work site to get some prep done for our projects. This was actually pretty important because without the prep we would be at a standstill come monday morning. Right now there is a group of kids out here from Touch The World. They all camp out for a week and learn basic construction techniques and then go on mission trips for 10 days. So right now we have them using all their new techniques to clear brush from a hillside. They work for about an hour and are completely whiped out. After working we came home for lunch. This is when my day started to pick up. We came back and ate at which time I decided that Jeff and I need to have a construction meeting in my office and ill grab the office supplies. Now when I say construction meeting I mean that we go into a different room where no one can find us so we will not be put to work. This is great becuase liz our site assistant who tries to put us to work does not know that we currently have all our projects done. Now when I say that we will be in "My Office" I mean that we are going to sneak out the back door and meet each other about 200 yards out front of the mission house which happens to be about 150 yards out into the middle of the ocean. Now when I say "Office Supplies" that means that I will go down to camp and grab the Kayak so we can go out to the island and check and see whats around. When we got out to the island we found a lot of conch shells where people dump them into the ocean to after they have the meat out of them. After we were done looking around for abotu 10 minutes we decided to come back....but just as we were about to head back I saw somthing gleaming out of the corner of my eye. what could this be....ah yes...it was an old rusty machete. Now I dont know how many of you have ever been in water and found a 2 foot long knife but believe me it is one of the coolest things in this world. I mean come on. Think about it. I got that machete which was a huge highlight of my trip and that has led to me hitting pretty much all inatimate objects with it....Which has led to about all the other highlights of my trip. I mean I was being circled by a small crab as I was exiting the water...I didnt know what to do because his scare tactics were working on me. I was so confused...but then I remembered... AH YES.. I am currently holding a 2 foot long knife. After that the crab was no longer. I know he prolly could have stayed alive but he started it. For all you readers out there I would suggest maybe filling up your tub with water tonight and placing you largest knife in the tub. Whoever walks past will undoubtly have one of the best days of their lives all because of you.
Thanks for reading.
Dont get fired for reading however....
Watch out your boss is right behind you.
Love
Matt
Interesting Fact: Here is a picture of me. This is proof that I am still alive.
Interesting Fact: Sunscreen is your friend.
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