Sixth Round (cont.)

A little clarification on the last post: By sixth round I mean that he's the sixth of the cousins or people of the generation of Rossi folk immediately following the generation of my mom. Sixth cousin. Nathan, me, Jillian, Daniel, Lance, and Gavin. Sixth. Matt didn't do the drawing, Cindy. I decided to get with it and figure out how to work the photobucket finally. So, yeah. Here's another picture of Gavin. I guess Tom made a whole site just for him. Check it out if you want.

Be on the look out for more real posts coming from me in the near future.

Sixth Round Pick

You know what I've realized? It's hard work being such a stud. Which is why I'm glad we've recruited a new member of the team to help share the load. That's right, Team Rossi (motto: Watch out for my nose!) has acquired a new member. In this generations sixth round pick we picked up free agent Gavin Thomas Rossi on Sunday. Just thought I'd let you all know. I feel kind of like the guys in that Family Guy episode when Peter and Lois are trying to have another baby and the guys start acting like giddy housewives. Yeah. That was a good episode. If I knew how to, I'd post a picture of him. His nose is crooked and he doesn't have any eyebrows yet. Maybe I could commission Matt Brady to draw a picture of my new cousin in MSPaint and post it so everyone knows what he looks like. What do you say, Matty B?

Muerta A Mis Deseos

And this is how I choose to live,

As if I'm jumping off a cliff

Knowing that You'll save me

Knowing that You'll save me.

After all the stupid things I did

There's nothing left there to forgive

Because You already forgave me,

Yeah, You already forgave me.

I've been having a pretty rough week. Things haven't been working out the way I want. And I've kind of let that get to me a little too much. And it's taken me so long to realize that it doesn't matter what I want. If everything in the world turned out the way I wanted it to there would be nothing left. I have a shirt that says 'muerta a mis deseos' (death to my desires) and I never really understood it until the past few weeks. Isn't that always the way? It takes us so long to figure out something that's been right in front of us for so long. So, pray for me. I need something like courage or answers or hope. I don't know what it is. I pray for you guys even if you don't believe in that kind of stuff. I do, and forgive me for the times that I don't represent it the way I should. I know we all go through stuff like this and some of you have written about it in your blogs and I just want to be the first person to assure you that you're not alone with what you're dealing with. Don't hesitate to talk to me if any of you need some one to talk to or yell at or beat the crap out of. I'd go to the wall for you.

I'll tell you flat out

it hurts so much to think of this,

So from my thoughts I will exclude

This very thing that

I hate more than anything else is

The way I'm powerless

To dictate my own moods.

I've thrown away

So many things that could've been much more

And I just pray

my problems go away if they're ignored,

But that's not the way it works,

No, it's not the way it works.

When I go down, I go down hard.

And I take everything I've learned

And teach myself some disreguard.

When I go down,

it hurts to hit the bottom

And all the things that got me there

I think, if only I had fought them.

If and when I can

Clear myself of this clouded mind

I'll watch myself settle down

Into a place where

Peace can search me out and find

That I'm so ready to be found.

I've thrown away the hope I've had in friendships

I've thrown away

So many things that could've been much more.

I've thrown away the secret to find an end to this,

and I just pray

my problems go away if they're ignored...

but that's not the way it works.

Any control I thought I had

Just slips right through my hands

While my ever-present conscience shakes its head

and reprimands me.

Reprimands me.

Then and there, I confess,

I blame all this on my selfishness!

Yet You love me.

That consumes me.

I'll stand up again and do so willingly.

You give my hope, and hope it gives me life.

You touch my heavy heart, and when you do you make it light

As I exhale I hear Your voice

and I answer you, though I hardly make a noise

and from my lips the words I choose to say

seem pathetic, but it's a fallen man's praise.

Because I love You...

Oh, God, I love You.

And life is now worth living if only because of you,

And when they say that I am dead and gone

It won't be further from the truth.

When I got down

I life my eyes to you.

I won't look very far

'cause you'll be there with open arms

To lift me up again...

... Lift me up again.

Countdown

Um... I started writing a 'confessions' post just a few minutes ago but I couldn't bring myself to think outside of the bun so I decided to make up a quiz and answer my own questions. I think somebody else did this type of thing a while ago but I don't remember who it was. Oh well, it was a good idea so I'm going to run with it.

1.) Ten songs that you have had stuck in your head the past week:
- "Swing Life Away" by Rise Against
- "My Friend's Over You" by New Found Glory
- "Work" by Jimmy Eat World
- "Coffee" by Copeland
- "Tisbury Lane" by Mae
- "The First Single" by The Format
- "Echo" by Trapt
- "Only One" by Yellowcard
- "I Wanna Be There" by Blessid Union of Souls
- "When I Go Down" by Relient K

2.) Nine places you most want to travel to:
- Belize
- Tunisia
- Italy
- Ireland
- Australia
- Alaska
- New Zealand
- Japan
- Brazil

3.) Eight movies that will never get old:
- Dumb and Dumber
- Austin Powers
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Braveheart
- Anchorman
- Monty Python: Holy Grail
- Dead Poets Society
- Good Will Hunting

4.) Seven stores that you wish you could loot:
- Borders/B&N
- Guitar Center
- Target
- Best Buy
- Bed Bath and Beyond
- Macintosh
- Costco

5.) Six things that scare you:
- Going blind
- Money
- Growing up
- Sea turtles
- Decisions
- Loneliness

6.) Five things you love doing:
- camping
- writing
- hanging out with the group
- being with Alana
- eating

7.) Four people you wish you still talked to:
- Jesse Madsen
- Jared Lindo
- Brandon Gomes
- Jordan Purvis

8.) Three famous dead people you wish you knew:
- Thomas Jefferson
- Winston Churchill
- C. S. Lewis

9.) Two goals you hope to have finished in the next fifteen years:
- Winning a lot of money on Jeopardy!
- Getting married.

10.) If they made a movie of your life who would you want to play your role?
- Elijah Wood


Alright, theres all my free time of random parts of my day all combined to make enough time to write this post. I know most of the questions are dumb but its been a while since I put anything up. Making a quiz like that was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. Hope you liked it.