i just want to go back to college

Yep it's true...leaving college was the most assanine thing i've done in a while...we there was also the time that i slept on my glasses and broke them...but that is in a whole other category of assaniness....any way i have just returned from a weekend in the ville..that is to say steubenville...land of dean martin and my alma mater....although this little ohio valley oasis is full of smog and and toothless residents there is just something about it that i miss oh so terribly..could it be the fact that there is no real responsibility when you are in college....my biggest concern of most days was will i go to dinner at 5 or 530 or will i go to lunch before or after mass...but now that i've entered into the world of how will i stretch my meager church paycheck this week to eat and possibly buy some starbucks? i'm usually not the most philisophical person but reflection was inevitable this weekend....so that in a nutshell is why i just want to go back to college

I'm back for good

I though that I could give up the world of blogging but it turns out that somehow nicotene is injected into my fingers via the keyboard that i blog from and i'm once again addicted. plus..in the recent weeks i found out that i actually did have some readers that missed my sometimes cheezy and dumb commentaries on the reality that is my life...so joey and jimmy this is for you! Let's see what's new? I'm moving on from the luxurious florida panhandle to a somewhat undisclosed location....i say that like it's secret but the truth is that i quit my job here and literally don't know where it is that i will be going. I have my plan but who knows if Jesus has checked it out yet...who knows he may think it's the most assanine idea! in other news i've lost over 20 lbs. since my last blog...do these letters look thinner to you? So i guess you could say that i'm new and improved and tan on top of the loss of a toddlers worth of weight...there's just something about skin that it looks better tan even if someone is slightly unattractive, being tan makes a world of difference. I love tanness. I was in Steubenville last week which was great to see the old stomping ground and the old college peeps. I will also be going this week for young apostle captain training. not really sure if im doing the training or getting trained but there will be training nonetheless. So someone tell the Ohio Valley to get ready because I'm coming (you were supposed to sing that like in the Puff Daddy song...) I found my perfect Kareoke song this week, usually i admittedly suck at the sport of kareoke. in my mind it's a real sport since i hate sports. but this week at around the corner tavern in parker florida formerly known as toejams i found that the song i was born to sing is in fact about dying, tim mcgraw live like you were dyin' the kareoke jockey donna made me sing it twice i was so good! I could put out a single if iwanted but im not all about publicity so i won't...anyway those are my thoughts
peace

If I was a betting man

If i was a betting man (at certain points in my life I have been...yeah not being able to walk be a scratch off lotto machine in the kroger in steubenville without purchasing multiple tickets, is that a problem??) anyway if i was a betting man today...I would venture to say the unthinkable that the novelty of blogging has begun to wear off...a whole week without a single blog, sad day!!!
So I apologize to all of my faithful readers, especially tara! But let's see what has happened in my illustrious life this week, i got a haircut which normally isn't a big thing but this week it was, all summer i have been frustrated with my hair and the dilemna to grow it out or to cut it, so i did a little bit of both, I would grow it until it looked gross and then cut it until slightly before the gross marker. But this last haircut I left to the discretion of the nice lady at costcutters and i have returned to a clean cut hairstyle that i have been told on multiple occasions looks like that of jimmy neutron. i had a meeting for work this week as well, two hours away!!!I thought it would be a meeting of a good chunk of the youth ministers in the area, and that it would actually be a meeting, however it turned out to be eating fried chicken with middle aged women and my friend lee, and on top of that i got a migraine on the way which resulted in one of my eyes going blurry and me slurring my speech, while driving!!!! But to make it all better we got gilati on the way home...I experienced homecoming for the first time in my life this week, i went to an all guys schools so unless we have a homecoming drag queen the whole homecoming thing would have been confusing to pull off..anyway some of my teens were in homecoming court so I went to the homecoming "fantasia" which was nothing more than a spectacle of popularity, and of course i sat in the designated mom section and probobaly looked like a stalker all for the sake of sharing jesus with teenagers....I threatened the middle schoolers on wednesday...i told them quote "i have a college degree and i can think of really hard homework!!!" i don't think it was as scary as it was in my head...afterwards they told me i was the coolest teacher they've ever had...i think it was a ploy for no homework....well it's off to the beach because I can!
peace
Dan

good times had by all or at least some

Well where do i begin...it's actually good to be back in the souf, what if every one said south with an f, souf.
this week i learned that the christian bookstore is the devil...every time i walk in it costs 50 dollars, this is me..oooh trendy christian parafanalia i need you...do i really? no probobaly not lets just be honest, but i end up buying the crap anyway...
i also learned that shane and shane are pretty much my new favorite christian band, i went to a concert with my friend lee, and her friend gina, who happens to be a behavioral therapist. needless to say she had a field day hanging out with me and analyzing me! anywho the concert was a big baptist hootnanny. good times good times...lee and i wanted to go up the altar call just to get front row seats but we discerned that that would be wrong, but we ended up in the front nonetheless. i think we even did some liturgical dancing, well the concert wasn't a liturgy but we danced, now i'm confused. from the concert we travelled to destin but first stopped at a sketchy bar that was playing sketchy music....and then it was on to blue point fish something or other a different bar full of trendy people, i felt like a big nerd at first until people started leaving and i started drinking then i was the trendiest person i knew. i was shmoozing with the best of them! I felt like a real young adult!!! someone even thought i was 26, thats a big step i usually get 12. anyway we closed the bar down and i felt like i was in college again, my social world was at my finger tips, then i woke up in a retreat center and realized it was my home and was brought back to reality.!! oh humble pie you taste so good. time for bed...gnight

to read the articles

to read the denver post and rocky mountain news articles google daniel morrone
peece

The day God filled me with grace

Okay the events which I will mention in this here blog are unmistakably true and not made up!!!So as you all know I took a little vakay to Denver, the land of mountains and ummm mountains? so i left the beauty of the beach for the beauty of God's creation in topography, big word I know, sprawling masses of land that reach into the clouds oh boy right? yeah i was pretty pumped as I got onto the plane to head to the west. I arrived safe and sound and was met at the airport by two friends, Shannon and Bernadette, so we went back to their nice little apartment where I feasted on a left over fajita which didn't quite do it for me but i didn't have the heart to tell them as i choked it down. Shannon is also a youth minister so we stayed up pretty late and chatted about ministry and the joys and struggles of it, becca i'm sure you can relate. So the plan for the morning was to go to daily mass at the church that Shannon works at. So we left the apt kind of late and as we were driving we saw money on the side of the road, pulled over and started picking up money, 100 dollar bills!!!! in stacks of $10,000!!!! we got back into the car and i started counting, 31,000 to be exact. So we continued on to mass no knowing what to do. Try focusing on our Eucharistic Lord with that much cash at your feet in a purse. We finished mass and said a prayer to Mary to ask for guidance, We ended up bringing the money to the police and later finding out that it belonged to an afeminate vietnamese 19 year old and his crazy goth girlfriend they had 50000 for a down payment on a house. they placed it on the top of their car and drove off. anyway i was on the news in denver and made the front page of the denver post. The rest of my trip was pretty uneventful. I told the junior high kids about my experience today and I was their hero for a good 30 minutes = victory was mine in the classroom today!!!!


thats all for now, sorry for the lack of blogging last week
peece (spread the new spelling for the word formerly spelled peace to all you know and love)
dan

I'm about to tap the rockies

Yep tis true, tommorow marks 90 days at my job here in the PCB, panama city beach, and the day of my first vacation. The title may have given it away but I am jumping ship after class and going to Denver to visit some peeps and enjoy the labor day festivities, speaking of labor and festivities i just saw one of the grossest things on tv possibly ever, there was a woman and her husband who wanted to have a completely natural childbirth so she literally gave birth to twins on the toilet while her husband videotaped, yuck!! is that what labor day celebrates i sure as hell hope not!!! speaking of gross my youth minister partner in crime lee was driving her church van and she got a flat tire, after hitting a opossum you would think flat tire, maybe a nail is lodged in said tire, nope definately a opossum tooth, should that a have been an an? I feel as if I cheated on my two readers since i haven't written in days!, Francesca I'm sorry! I get a raise tommorow and I've been invited to join a family from the parish to the turks and cacos islands in october, I love my life even though i am still loftless, I'm applying to live at a place called eagles landing now, pray that i can land and perhaps perch there some day soon,

much love, off to the mile high city
dan

so much for lofty dreams

So I went to be last night with dreams of my new loft...oh how trendy I will be, come to my loft for dinner saturday night, oh i just have to run back to my loft to grab something, sure you can dock your boat outside my loft on my private dock. yep these are the things i would say.

So I went to my youth minister meeting, translation, 15 middleaged overweight women who wish they were still teenagers in one place function, had lunch with said ladies and proceeded to call the guy about the loft, and he said he had rented it this morning, my world crashed before my eyes.....sad day.....i was pumped and now here i sit, no loft....I think I was obsessed with it and still am, so pray that I can find an apartment

I'm going to bed so I can wake up early and go to the beach to observe Katrina, the hurricane.

gnight

dan