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The Price is Right - Bob’s End

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Laurence Anderson
on June 15, 2007
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The Price is Right

I don’t know about you, but The Price is Right played a HUGE role in my childhood, everyday I would be dropped off at my Grandmother and Aunt’s house when my mom would leave for work and be left there for the day, to watch TV and sit in the living room, I always started my day with some random talk show at 9AM, move on to nothing at 10AM, and when 11AM rolled around we all agreed that it was time for The Price is Right!

Every single day I’d always watch The Price is Right, I’d get so into the games, I’d be yelling at contestants when I thought they made a wrong move in a pricing game, it was just insane I loved it.

Today was the air date of Bob Barker’s last filmed episode of Price, which aired at it’s usual 11AM timeslot and again at 8PM tonight, I missed the second half today due to a final exam I had at 11:45 so I watched the whole episode again when it aired at 8PM and I must say, as weird as this sounds I felt like Bob symbolized my childhood and now that he’s retiring it will never be the same. Most children/teenagers know it’s like an unwritten rule if you’re “sick” or you skipped school that you have to watch The Price is Right, which I always did whenever I was home from school.

Granted nobody can replace a man like Bob who was on the show for all 35 years, and a total of 50 years in television on various shows, Price will never be the same once they find his replacement at the end of the summer for the season premiere.

From the bottom of my heart Bob you will be truly missed, you were and always will be the face/voice/personality of The Price is Right, and nobody can fill those shoes!

Prom 2007

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Laurence Anderson
on May 12, 2007
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See all the photos on flickr.

On May 11th, 2007 (aka last night), Stephanie and I attended my schools prom, at Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg, NY from 6:30PM - 11:30PM. The night started out by everybody meeting at a couple places, the group of us was Derek, Me, Stephanie, Cartman, Flora, Lucca we all pretty much just stuck together the whole night. When we got there, we entered, had the option of taking pictures, we passed, picked out a table, we chose the table in the far corner with different colored (red) chairs (versus the normal green), to you know be different. Then soon after that they started to serve dinner, I wasn’t too interested so I didn’t eat anything except maybe a dinner roll so dinner was kinda null, just joking and talking to each other for a couple hours, in fact we made friends with one of the staff members there, his name was Dave, nice guy.

Next came just time to socialize and relax before the “dancing” started, that mostly involved talking, making fun of one another, walking around, mingling with other friends. We ended up going outside for a while and just sitting absorbing the air, talking to a few teachers just social time. Then time came where the DJ started to play music, they had packed over 400 kids into I swear to God a “dance floor” that’s a little bigger than my room, so it was quite small, everybody was complaining, but the banquet hall and “dance floor” were connected so Stephanie and I stayed towards the outskirts of the floor but closer to the banquet room in case we wanted to sit down. Eventually, after a few songs and a slow dance, we spent the remainder of the time outside sitting on the balcony just relaxing with each other and some friends would come and go.

Overall, it was a good time, and next week I’m attending her prom at Creekside.

Destination: Florida

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Laurence Anderson
on March 29, 2007
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Florida!

Well expect the blog to run dry again over this coming week and the week after that, we have our 2nd week long break coming up April 6th - April 15 so my parents, a good friend of mine and I are driving down to Deltona, Florida (NOT Daytona) to stay for a week with my Dad while my parents go to my mom’s husband’s parents house for the week.

They have internet there, but I’m not that much of a geek, I’ll be out in the sun, etc catching some rays and just relaxing, so I’ll be outta here for a while.

See you guys around! Don’t miss me too much.

Valentine’s Day: A Double Hatred

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Laurence Anderson
on February 3, 2007
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Valentine’s Day: A Double Hatred

Valentine’s Day is February 14th, as it is every other year that it’s celebrated. It always falls on the same day and it’s a symbolic representation for “love” and togetherness and to appreciate the one you’re sharing your life with. The day is filled with reds, pinks, “pretty colors” and love happiness and joy.

Well I can’t stand Valentine’s Day, and I’m tempted to snap the neck of anybody who wishes it to me. For two main reasons, one that can change and one that cannot. The obvious reason is that I don’t have anybody to share this sense of togetherness, or appreciation for her company and faithfulness. That can take a backseat, I’m content with that in some weird way in my heart, because I am weak and cannot change it. But what takes precedence here is that every Valentine’s Day for the last few years has been horrible for me.

Let me recap the last few years, in 2004 I was taken to MACC (Mercy Ambulatory Care Center) for slicing my finger tip with a jagged knife trying to open a package the wrong way (towards me), was out within an hour or two but they numbed me wrong so I could feel all 6 stitches they did in pain, and in the year 2005 my Grandmother passed away at 1:57PM while I was forced to sit in a classroom and listen to an overweight polish earth science teacher talk about rocks when all I could think of is my grandmother, and last year 2006 the lonely factor had time to hit me.

I’m not looking forward to this Valentine’s Day, in fact I think I’m purposely skipping school, because if it’s anything like it always is, it’s a shitload of people wishing you “Happy Valentine’s Day” and all this red, pink, bright cheery colors around the school and it’s festive and joyous and I can’t stand it, I’ve gone as far as to actually (with a knife) cutout February 14th from every calendar I have in my room.

What’s good is my friends understand I hate the “holiday” and try their best to keep it out of my face, but sometimes they just need a reminder.

I know there’s more to contribute to this entry, but I just don’t feel like going into full detail, my love life (which is partly what this holiday is dedicated towards) blow the big major fat one, and so just waiting for the 14th is like pulling each one of my teeth, slowly as to make sure all the blood drains before you sever the nerves attached to the tooth to make sure I go through the full amount of anguish that I must.

Love bites and Valentine’s Day can fuck off, and St. Valentine or whatever can just get fucking shot so my pain can just go away and be extinguished.

If you celebrate this holiday with a very festive outlook, don’t talk to me that day, you’ll only piss me off.

2007: A Thought

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Laurence Anderson
on January 1, 2007
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With 2006 now gone, and 2007 as a “fresh start” I’m gonna share something I’ve thought of all day today, feel free to post a comment or share your opinion about it, here goes. Very personal and I don’t know why I’m sharing it with all of you, but what the heck.

As humans, why do we have so much trouble sharing our feelings? Why can we not tell our own parents how we’re feeling at the moment but we can pay $100’s per hour to just talk to a psychologist/psychiatrist? I thought about going to therapy last year because I’m tearing myself apart inside and it’s not manifesting on the outside as it should, on the outside I’m fine, and nothing is wrong. On the inside, I’ve got a fiery passion, a hatrid, a need to just talk, to someone, anyone, but no, I’ve had opportunity - mom’s given me times to open up to her, and I haven’t I’ve shrugged it off.

My mom got upset with me when I shared all of my poetry I’ve written with my friends, some close, some not-so-close. My poetry is something I take very seriously, and she flipped a gasket that I did not want to show her them. Well after that talk I had a slight change of heart, and today printed them all out to show to her, but now I’ve just left them sitting underneath my desk because once again I don’t want to show her.

I think it’s because I’m afraid of her opinion/critism. I can take what I get from my friends, I value their opinion, not that I don’t hers but I think I’d take it more to heart.

Love. I hate the word, I hate the feeling, because I’ve only had one relationship and it wasn’t ended because it wasn’t doing good, we were great together, but she had to move away because her dad worked for the army and relocation was imminent, I’ve moved on from her. I think I’ve found love again, yet with two women, each different in their personalities and actions and both have gotten my attention. I’ve never felt this way about anybody, they both know who they are, one is accepting of the fact, and the other just seems to shrug me off and Carly said “seems like she’s pushing the nice guy away…”.

I’m ready to open up to somebody, if I found that one, I’d share everything, honesty is the best policy, I don’t share some things with my closest friends, or even my “brothers” Elijah and Cartman, it’s just not somethings I want to talk about, but should something arise with somebody I’d be completely honest, and would never not talk about something unless I had a strong compelling feeling it’d be of no benefit to either of us.

Verbal skills. I’m a great public speaker, and I can influence somebody to do/buy something fine, but put me in a 1-on-1 with anybody, male or female, I can’t carry squat, I can’t keep a running conversation. This is the basis of communication between two people on any level of a relationship platonic or elsewise.

There’s more, or at least there was, but I forgot it, so take what I’ve written and analyze me from there if you wish.

Enjoy 2007, hope it’s a great year for all of you!