2006-02-28

the first post

"To all who posess the great power... All things are possible" -Tommy Oliver, "Power Rangers The Movie" (I do not watch, but I used to, when it first started... oh so long ago...)

It might sound cheesy, but in a way, tis very true. But the great power is not something you attain by winning championships, or fighting in a war. It is something you are born with. And we are all born with it.

There is the fact that I am a duelist. I play the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. I'm not afraid to admit it and I will not tolerate flaming me about it. THere is a story about why I duel. Here it is...

I wake up late, round 6:45, bus comes in 15 minutes, so I rush around the house trying to get ready for school, then Dad and my stepmom leave, dad to go hunting and my stepmom to go to work, locking the door behind them. Mind you it's at most 20 degrees out, and I can't get in. I check my watch when I get out there. It's 7:10. I figure that the roads are slick, so the bus will be late. I check again what seems like forever later and its 8:00. I turn on my radio only to find out that there's a 3 hour delay of school and that I had froze my arse off for nothing. I jump into my dad's van, which still stunk from when he spilled deer urine, to get warm, and turn on the radio, only to find out that school's been cancelled.

Now at this point, I'm pretty ticked. So Dad comes pulling in half past 10, and he thinks I skipped school to stay home. So now I'm in for the beating of my life, or so I thought, but all he says is "You're helping me skin this deer." Which he doesn't do until about a quarter of 6 that night. But before then, I had to straighten up the shed, get the ropes, the meat saw, all that other jazz, and to top it all off, right before we start he confronts me...

"Russ, I want you to have this:" and he gives me his prized Guardian Angel Joan card. I put it up in my room and go back downstairs to continue helping dad. Then not 10 minutes later, he starts to stumble. I ask what's wrong and he says "I don't feel right..."

He had a stroke and died then and there. I never got to thank him for the card, or apologise from the fight we had the day before.

Above care of TGCplayer.com, under my username there, MagePower

I still have Joan, and she's been in my platinum case ever since then. I've dueled to keep his tradition alive.

I have a song that describes the break up with my girlfriend also. the song is called "Just close your eyes and the band that sings it is Waterproof Blonde. (Lyrics care of letssingit.com)

Deceived by my eyes and all I was told I should see

Opinions not mine, the person they taught me to be

One night in the dark, a vision of someone I knew

And in the darkness I saw, a voice say, I'm you.

Inside me a light was turned on, and Then I was alive

Chorus

If you close your eyes your life, a naked truth revealed

Dreams you never lived, and scars never healed

In the darkness, light will take you to the other side

And find me waiting there you'll see, if you just close your eyes

Hearts uninspired, trapped inside somebody's dream

Too close to the fire, yet cold and numb with the pain

But the fever has broken, and the river has run to the sea

Washed to the ocean, and saved by a voice inside me.

Inside me a light was turned on Then I was alive

Chorus

If you close your eyes your life, a naked truth revealed

Dreams you never lived, and scars never healed

In the darkness, light will take you to the other side

and find me waiting there you'll see, if you just close your eyes

Bridge

Never thought I would be here, so high in the air

This was my unanswered prayer

Defined by another, so much wasted time

Out of the darkness, each breath that I take will be mine

Chorus

If you close your eyes your life, a naked truth revealed

Dreams you never lived, and scars never healed

In the darkness, light will take you to the other side

and find me waiting there you'll see, if you just close your eyes

I think I'll leave it at that. Comments are nice, you know, as I am new here. I'd like to get to know you all.