January 2011
109 posts
RIP Tim McCaskey; Bears VP, father, friend and son.
I remember being a little girl, and my parents going out with Tim for their weekly bowling league. He always had some sort of present for me, and told me jokes that a young girl probably shouldn’t hear.
He’d sit me on his lap and tell me story after story, and he taught me how to shoot cucumber seeds across the room at people.
His house around Christmas time always was decorated so nicely, and he had this big bear that would hang out near the tree. I thought it was the coolest thing, and I loved to pretend like it was real and run away from it.
My parents have great stories about when they would go to games with them, and how he’d always start fights with other fans, and how they’d go tailgate with the players after the game.
He loathed his brother, Michael. He was the president of the “I hate Mike McCaskey” club. At his father’s funeral, the Packers sent flowers, and Tim promptly told them to “put them in the mens room”.
He was a good friend to my parents for a long time, and though in recent years they’d lost touch, he’s going to be greatly missed. He was a good man. A drunkard, a fighter, a joker, but still a genuinely good man. Even if he married a packer fan :).
RIP Mr. McCaskey, I will never forget you. Thank you for everything.
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”
—Stephen Chbosky (via sydnie-d)
http://jackbarakat.tumblr.com/post/2821459213
lol ummmm. That’s weird. I don’t think that picture is anywhere but facebook.
and that’s a horrible picture of me lol. Great day, bad picture.
So this is a response to your "I'm just curious, I want an honest opinion" post. I never really got to know you too well, but I respect you for a number of reasons. Your friends mean the world to you, and you let them know that. It's awesome, cause there are a lot of really shitty people nowadays who say they're your friends and then hurt you countless times or only use you for one thing or another. With that said, I think you get a little tied up in other people's opinions from time to time. Also, if somebody rubs you the wrong way at first, for one reason or another, it seems like you kinda never give them a second chance.
But again, I really don't know. Hope all is well!
Thanks for you honesty anon :) It really means a lot.
You’re right, sometimes I do get caught up in other people’s opinions sometimes, and sometimes I can be hard on people if they rub me the wrong way. I ~think those are just human reactions, and both are things that I’m aware of and trying to work on :).
I hope one way or another we get to know each other better. You seem like you’d be a good friend to have too. I really respect honesty in friends.
Hope all is well with you too!
you thought about watching Misfits?!?! ahahahah
Thought about? Yes. Had time to yet? Not so much lol.
An "Up" inspired engagement shoot
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I want a love like this. Okay? Okay.
I honestly love you to pieces! You never cease to make me smile. You are nice, funny, charming, awesome, fantastic, magnificent, I could go on. :)I hope you continue to be as lovely as you are, and even when people are bringing you down or bashing you, I want you to know that I will always love you. You are one of the most awesome friends I have ever had. I will always be there for you if you need me (even though this is anon because you said it should be lol). I miss seeing your face errrrryday! I hope in the future we get to hang out because I miss you dearly. I love you and I love your face and I hope you never change the person you are because I love it and I love you!! <3
:3 you’re adorable whoever you are and I’m sure I miss you too. <3. Love youu.
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lol thanks duder. you too.
that was obnoxious.
Why are you so interested in what other people think of you? It feels as if you're just trying to get people to say mean-spirited things about you in hopes that, if they tell you why (like you so obviously suggested that they must do if they had the intent of 'bashing' you) you'll be able to prove them wrong. If that's the purpose of you wanting people to tell you how they feel about you, I think you may have some priorities to sort out. And yes, I could be completely wrong, and you could very well just be curious about the people that follow you, and you want to know their opinions of you--but if that is the case, then why are you putting so much emphasis on them explaining why you may be on their "Not so nice" list. They may have actual reason, and in either case, why would you waste your time trying to prove someone wrong that may not like you? Your ability to win an argument and disprove all their reasoning for doing so isn't going to make them like you any more than they did before, quite possibly the opposite would occur.
Nope, I’m just genuinely curious. And I wanted specific examples because it’s something that I’m interested in. I don’t always realize when I do something to piss someone off, or give them a reason to dislike me.
I never said I’d try to argue it, I fully recognize and understand what you’re saying. It was a genuine curiosity.
Whether we chose to realize or accept it, we all do care what people think of us. I wasn’t looking for hate, I was looking for opinions because I’m someone who likes to know when I’ve done something to upset someone. I don’t like upsetting people, or being on their bad side, but I also don’t respect people who will say something but not have a good explanation for it. If someone calls me a bitch because they caught me on a bad day and I unknowingly gave them a look that they perceived to be condescending or rude; there was no way for them to know that it wasn’t what they thought, and I’d like a chance to explain myself.
I’m just a curious mind haha, especially when I’m bored. And that’s what I was. Curious and bored.
Thanks for the message though, anon :)
I mean, I guess Come Clean - Hillary Duff could be one of the songs
also true.
I'm just shooting more for cleaning you know.
Nah, I don’t know any good cleaning songs off the top of my head. Except that Barney song.. clean up clean up everybody do your share..
bathing. I feel like it could enhance the experience
haha I suppose it would depend on what type of shower ~experience you’re looking for
know any good songs for a shower playlist?
Shower like.. bathing? Or shower like.. a wedding shower or a baby shower?
are you satisfied with your badunkadunk?
Overall, yes, but it could be more toned.
i have too. i hate everything :/ i'm too busy jamming to avril lavigne
Dude I was totally just doing the same thing, and then earlier I was watching the 3rd season of Skins. My life.
do you want to help me with my homework?
I don’t even want to do my own. lol I’ve been such a bum ALL day
no i'm sorry i don't even know you i was just curious who you were and where you were coming from since jeff seemed so excited about it and i thought it was a cool idea.
oh haha, well alright then. Kind of creepy, but hey.. that’s tumblr for you.
yeah it makes sense, but i mean, that is what you are to them so there's no need to get upset or get your hopes up. there's a lot of older fans who they remember and haven't chilled with, at least from my experience of noticing that happen at meet & greets and shows and such. i'm sure you wouldn't feel the same if they weren't famous band guys.
I wasn’t upset, or getting my hopes up. I was laughing, and kind of saying “ah, oh well”. I know exactly what I am, honest haha. I promise you I’m not going to go around being like OH MY GOD THEY’RE MY BEST FRIENDS. Or friends at all for that matter. I said before, I know I’m a fan. I don’t deny that I’m a fan, haha. I don’t think I have any sort of ~chance with any of them, and quite honestly I don’t really think of any of them that way anymore anyways. As much as I love Jack, I’ve even sort of, dare I say, lost interest.
What I meant by the tweet was that it felt kind of awkward being referred to as a fan (though, again, I completely accept that that’s what I am) because let’s face it, the stereotypical All Time Low fan is between the ages of 13-17, madly in love with one of the members of the band, and quite frankly; bitchy and territorial. For as much as I love all of my friends who I’ve met more or less because All Time Low exists, there are tons of All Time Low fans who are just horrid. It’s a constant battle. People are constantly fighting about something to do with the band, and it’s obnoxious. Being lumped in with that isn’t the proudest feeling. For someone to see that tweet and not know me, it’s like “okay, just another creepy fangirl” hahaha. Which is why I joked “Can’t I just be an awesome..girl?” because that’s what I am too. Yes, I’m a fan, but what is a fan? I’m a 20 year old girl, who happens to enjoy a band’s music. It was really just a joke that I apologize you seem to have taken the wrong way, and I see where you’re coming from and how my words could have given you that impression.
I know I’m kind of talking in circles, so I apologize, it’s just that I’m not sure how to phrase what I’m trying to get at without it making it sound like I think I’m better than anybody, or that I deserve anything more than anyone else. Because I honestly don’t think either of those things. I firmly believe anyone who does is an idiot hahaha
I can’t say one way or the other how I’d feel about them as individuals if there was no All Time Low in existence because I wouldn’t have known who they were. They would have been a couple of John Smiths, and I don’t know that my path would have crossed with any of theirs. All I know, is that for every time I’ve ever had a conversation with any of those four boys, or their crew members, I’ve taken something away from it. A laugh, a smile, an embarrassing story, a new idea, something to think about, etc. and I just wish I had more time to do that. To be able to say, “hey let’s go to the bar for a couple of drinks” and be able to chat. I’d love to pick their brains on things they’ve seen and experienced, and get a chance to really know them as people. I’ve been saying that for a long time hahaha. The likelihood of that ever happening is slim to none, and my life will go on.
I’m going to be really honest and say that I find it really interesting that all of this sparked from a tweet haha. I hope I explained myself adequately and that you have a better understanding of who I am. I don’t think I can really express exactly what I mean through tumblr, especially when I don’t know who it is I’m talking to haha. Please know that I am in no way angry or upset by you asking these questions, and I would like to have an opportunity to discuss it with you further where I can really try to explain what goes on in my head with these things haha. So please please please don’t be shy and message me on facebook, or text me, skype me, whatever. It would be so much easier for me to explain! haha
its cool that jeff tweeted about you and all, really it is, but why did you tweet acting surprised he referred to you as an all time low FAN? that is all you are and all you will ever be.
I wasn’t surprised given that when I gave him the blanket I was at the secret santa meet and greet, it’s just that sometimes it sucks that that’s what I’m thought of as. I was/am really appreciative that he remembers me at all, it’s just that I’m 20 years old and there’s so much more to me than being an All Time Low fan. That’s why I tagged it as still being really appreciative, it’s just that I wish he wouldn’t think of me that way. Just like I WISH they wouldn’t think of me that way. Because I think more of them as just a fan. I accept completely that that is who I am and probably always will be to them, I just wish I could just chill with them and that they’d know that they’re more to me than just some band that I love. I really respect them, and think they’re great people. I could care less about how ~famous they are/think they are/ etc. Every time I talk to them it’s usually about something other than music/ their band.
I think Alex knows that, and it’s totally cool that they know my face, and Jeff described me as a fan, because I am. I just wish they knew me as more than that. Make sense?
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Dude and I totally remember now, you saying your favorite color was green way back when. FML. xD
hahahaha it’s totally cool, you made up for it with knowing my love of penguins when it didn’t even ask! :)
I love that you're so awesome! :D Don't ever change!
<3 You’re more awesome. Take your own advice! :)
