Let the Voting Begin

I got the names and stories picked out. Have a blast.

Faith, I hadn't even read yours, I never saw it. Then when you told me to just make up a name I realized that I had missed it so I'd better read it. I must say I was impressed with your story-telling. Too bad none of it's true, huh!? So I came up with the name "10G's and 2 J's". I hope that's acceptable!!!

By the way, I'm going to reset the IP addresses each day so you can keep voting.

Voting Time

I'm going to put a Poll on the site for everyone to vote on the Greatest Story Ever Contest. I have a max of 10 entries, so I need to narrow it down big time. So each blogger needs to tell me his/her favorite story...your OWN story that you want submitted for votation. Give me some funny titles too. Here are some examples of the titles I need based on stories I've seen online...
Jake Box's: Family TP Thivery
Jake Box's: B's 5k Marathon to Vomitland
Jason's: Take the Dive(r) With Me?
Jason's: TP COPS On Patrol
Colin's: Flight of the Nerd
Lindsey's: All Tied Up
Wack Sisters': Mystery Meet
Sean's: Cry For The Little Kitty

My Wife Rocks *(and more info)

So I get home from work on Friday and Beth is sitting in her car with the engine running and as soon as I park she makes me get in. I have no idea what is going on, but she proceeds to drive us all the way down to San Antonio where she had booked us a hotel on the riverwalk for the whole weekend. As many of you now know, Paul subbed for me this last Sunday...she had set that up unbenounced to me over a month ago. So we an incredible weekend in a great hotel with great food too! My wife rocks!

Music Stuff
Ok, so I got some feedback on the current music poll. I am limited to what I currently know as far as songs are concerned, and as you know I'm trying to teach some songs that you guys probably haven't heard. But I am pretty out of touch with what is "cool" so I need your help. Please leave your suggestions for what songs you want to hear and why on my comments. Make sure you give me a song name and an artist. Optionally tell me what genre it is in and give me a rundown of what the songs is about.

Murder Mystery

Hey guys, you can now RSVP for the Murder Mystery online at www.two14sw.com.

Also, I have a new poll up. With this one you can vote once per day since there are so many options.

Greatest Story Ever Entry #2

So back in high school, namely 9th grade, I was pretty much awesome. I was great friends with all the cheerleaders which as a 9th grade dude, was about as good as it could get. One of my biggest "ins" is that I lived one street away from Cherish, the head of the cheerleading squad. Well, one of the awesome things I was known for was being the King of house wrapping (don't worry, this story isn't lame like Box's). Nobody messed with me cause they knew my mom and her minivan were always willing to go out past midnight and buy as many rolls as possible to make our mark. Everyone wanted me on their team and nobody wanted the wrath of Jason's Mom. Well, there were a few good wrap exchanges between me and the cheerleaders. I had hit up pretty much all of their houses over the course of the summer prior and the schoolyear thus far. They never directly got my house, but they would get one of my friends when I was staying over at their place. Eventually, however, they decided that it was time to get Jason directly. There was a HUGE sleepover with all the cheerleaders at Cherish's house and I knew they were going to try something. My friend, Brandon, and I thought long and hard as to how we would prevent them from success. Of all the great ideas we had (water balloon bazookas, paintball guns, etc.), the genius idea we decided on was to call the cops. Not 911, we weren't stupid, just the local police department. Of course, this idea was not shared with my parental units...we just thought we could pull it off. We stayed up all night waiting, then finally the moment of truth. As soon as we saw them rounding the corner at the end of the block it was "go time". *ring, ring, "Dallas Police Department, how may I assist your call?" Here's where I took over and my stupidity shined... "There are a bunch of people at the end of my block wearing all black and they look like they're up to no good" click.

Unbenounced to me, two weeks prior there had been some gang activity close by my neighborhood. So, they didn't send a cop car, THEY SENT 5! From both directions of my street came the cop cars racing with lights and sirens and the whole shabang. Me and Brandon?...our jaws dropped to the floor as we said to ourselves "what have we done!?" Out of each car popped 2 cops each (yes, 10 policemen for a house wrapping raid)! Guns drawn and everything, half of the girls (10 of the 20) dropped straight to the ground, the other half RAN. Yes, they just bolted; climbing fences, running in between houses...anything to get away. With all of the confusion and craziness, it actually took the police quite some time to realize they weren't stopping any gang activity at all, they were interrupting a teenage house-wrapping. Once all of the policemen that had chased after the girls had gotten back, they proceeded to gather information for each and every one of them, call all of their parents in the middle of the night, and issue citations. One of the things we hadn't thought of was that it was PAST CURFEW!

To wrap it all up, those things I said at first about being pretty much awesome and being great friends with all the cheerleaders........yeah, that was pretty much over after 9th grade.

Great Stories Contest

In case you were not aware, Jake Box started a new contest...check out his blog to figure it out.

I have so many good TRUE stories that people can hardly believe are true. From Audio Adrenaline using my guitar on stage at a concert, to playing football with Jars of Clay 5 on 5, to being the head engineer for a national Warner Brothers publication (twice), to being in a band and selling 1000 albums and getting interviewed and played on the radio, to playing as the opening band for the Supertones and All Star United, to meeting Shaded Red, Plum, Shane Barnard, all of the aforementioned bands, and more. It's just too hard to decide which story to use. However, I think for my first official entry I'll go with how I proposed to my beatiful wife, Beth...

JASON'S OFFICIAL GREAT STORIES CONTEST ENTRY #1

It was getting close to our 4 year dating anniversary and she was sure I was going to propose on the actual day so I decided to do it about 2 weeks before, just to throw her off. It was a Wednesday and we were both at our respective jobs doing our every day routine...so she thought. I had taken the entire day off and had even contacted her boss a week prior to make sure what I was about to do was OK. About an hour or so before she was scheduled to leave for the day, I showed up in her office with my guitar. She worked around a corner so she couldn't see me coming. I just started playing my guitar and walking around the corner singing a song I had written for her the week before:
"Words to Say"
I searched my heart for words to say
That might explain just how I feel
It almost hurts to search so deep
When I've never felt this way before
You are the answer to my prayer

Cause you are more beautiful than I could ever know
And you are more precious than I'd imagined
Elizabeth, I'm in love with you

I took her to the car and blindfolded her. The actual destination was in the same parking lot of downtown Dallas, but I wanted to throw her off so I just drove around in a big circle for about 5-10 minutes. We ended up at a place called the Dallas World Aquarium. It's basically an indoor rain forest with monkeys, crocodiles, birds, penguins, snakes, fish, tons of wildlife and tons of cool plants/trees.

The coolest part was that we were the ONLY people in the aquarium other than staff. A normally crazy crowded place was closed for regular business and I had rented the place out just for us.

Outside we went to the penguin exhibit, and on the way back in we had to walk underneath the big aquarium arch (you're completely surrounded by water and you can see the fish, etc.) and in there was a diver who as we walked underneath held up a giant sign that said "BETH, WILL YOU MARRY ME?"-and then it had a "YES" and "NO" checkbox By the time she turned around towards me to make sure it was for real I was already knelt down with a ring in my hand. I proceeded to tell her how much I care for her and how much I love her, then with tears in my eyes I asked her to marry me.

Of course she said YES!

We walked out to the rest of the aquarium exibit and there was a table set up for two with a candle and a rose (yes, in the middle of the aquarium all to ourselves). We were served wine and bread. They brought the sign from the tank (it was in waterproof ink) out to Beth and handed her a marker to check the "YES" box! We ate our dinner surrounded by many tanks of exotic fish from all around the world! We were free to wander around the whole aquarium to see and go where we wanted! Dessert was a decadent chocolate cake with rasberries, blueberries, and blackberries and champagne!
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Beat THAT TRUE story!