sweet dreams

last night, my dream(s) consisted of the following:

teaching seth cohen/adam brody how to make a pop up card


and spending some quality time with the gosselin family (of jon & kate plus eight)

too bad they were just dreams;
i would really love to do both of those things in real life.

think before seeing "burn after reading"

for english class, last tuesday, we went on a field trip to the theaters, and payed a whopping $9 each, to see the movie "burn after reading"...

...it's $9 i will never get back.
you'd think that such a good cast would produce such a good movie, right? wrong.
it was awful. and now i have to write a paper on it.

anyways, you should think before seeing "burn after reading"
or better yet, just don't think of seeing it at all.

philosophy class was cancelled today

my initial reaction:


sheer bliss. i hate that class.

my following reaction:


oh crap. i now have four hours until my next class.
what the heck am i supposed to do for four hours?

i'm bringing blogging back

that's right. after an extended absence of nearly two years, alli reinhardt has decided to return to the world of blogging. hm, let's just see if i can stick to that decision.

stay tuned...

boy meets heaven

"i have never had anyone close to me pass away."
this is a phrase that, until recently, i could say with ease and a thankful heart.

but no, no more can i utter those nine words. to my extreme dismay, this past saturday...septempber 16, 2006...some one very dear to me died. you may know him as ben savage, but i knew him as corey...corey matthews. that's right, the exuberant character from the greatest show known to man kind, "boy meets world". for the past ten years or so, corey and i have bonded daily, as a plopped onto the couch, after a long day of division and prepositional phrases at school, i would push the buttons on the clicker that led me to my play date...my play date with "mr. matthews" (as mr. feeny always called him...you know mr. feeny, right? right.) as he grew up, i grew up; yes, it seems as though we grew up together. we were pals.

but, as i said before...this past saturday corey passed away. he was in a fatal accident...one that put him into a coma in which he did not wake. and so now, my heart is in a state of sorrow in which i am not sure it will come out of either. luckily, i still get to see my friend...weekdays from 2:00-3:00 p.m. on abc family. corey and i still have our play date, but it's not quite the same knowing he's not still with us in reality.

i already miss you corey matthews. i can only imagine my sorrow once "boy meets world" gets taken off the air. but in the mean time, rest in peace my friend..i now have had someone cloes to me pass away.

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i wonder how tapanga's feeling.

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[this blog has been based on a myspace bulliten, posted by an unreliable source. the fact that ben savage is dead may possibly be a rumor. a cruel and disgusting rumor. after long research hours on line, i could not find any information on the actor's death]

the fpoons + nickel nickel = <3

i know i havent been blogging lately...but after "the fpoon's" band outing last night, i feel as though i have no choice but to take some time out of my busy schedule and write about it. before i go on about the venture itself, i figure i should give some background information. for example, you may be asking yourself, "who the heck are 'the fpoons'?" well let me tell you..."the fpoons" are not only spoons used in the consumption of frosties...but the name of my band in the high school ministry at church. there's eight of us in the band, but only five (plus shea) could make it to the fiesta last night. you see, every band gets $100 to spend on a band hang-out. but seeing as the fpoons are an exceptional group of people, and won the bowling competition between all of the hsm bands a few weeks back, we got an extra $100. (as a side note, i should mention the fact that shea joined the bowling team and aided in our victory, which is why she was included in last night's activities). so anyways, we smoked the other bands, and now had $200 to spend on our adventure. and where better to go and spend rediculous amounts of money than nickel nickel?

before going to the arcade, we (me, landon, jason, drew, cris, and shea) all met up at fudruckers for some one pound burgers and assorted fried foods. on our way out we all rang the bell...you know, the one with the sign next to it that reads, "if you had a great time please ring our bell." after dinner the real party began...it was off to nickel nickel, where we still had over 100 bucks to put towards a night of fun..(that's 2000 nickels, in case you arent so good at mental math.)

if you've never been to nickel nickel, let me tell you it's in a class of its own. it's full of 9 year olds who have consumed about six-too-many energy drinks prior to their arcade experience, as well as the random old guy who, sadly, has nothing more productive to do on a friday night or perhaps its trying to cling to his youth. there's also, of course, the one guy who plays dance dance revolution, or as i like to call it DDR, the entire time...and has mastered every song on expert. there are also many interesting games there...none of which i would consider modern, including a retro version of guitar hero, as well as the aligator bashing game...which, dont get me wrong, i love a good round of aligator bashing...but the game didnt even work. all in all, the games in which you win tickets are where the fun was at. but even better than winning the tickets, was spending them. seeing as shea stole a bag of jasons coins "on accident", she ended up with 1000 tickets; i ended the night with 820; and together, landon and jason got 800 (they spent too much time trying to beat virtual tennis). shea and i spent a good amount of time at the prize counter...mostly since everything we asked for, such as giant inflatable punching gloves, was sold out. in the process, i was considering spending 200 of my tickets on a good old "water snake." if you dont know what it is, i wont bother trying to explain. but shea and i decided to talk to the prize man about it...the conversation went as follows...

alli: i think i want one of those [pointing at item]...what do you call those things?

ticket man: those? those are water snakes

shea: what exactly do you do with them?

ticket man: you just play with them...like, uh, this [putting hand in an "o" shape and moving it back and forth...in a seeminly sexual gesture]

all: awkward moment of silence

shea: uh, can you play with it in the bath tub?

all: EXTREMELY awkward moment of silence, and wonder as to why it is shea just asked that obscure question

ticket man: errrr....i guess?

all: feeling quite embarassed about what just happened...and wishing we had just gotten the tacky boomerang instead

the whole thing ended in, as i just said, extreme awkwardness. at that point i couldnt possibly get the water snake...so instead, i got a blow-up hammer, as well as a blow-up monkey named gerard. i also got a faulty woopy cushion and harmonica, a few parachute men, a balloon toy of some sort, and some fake hair extensions. all in all, i'd say i scored big time; 820 tickets go a long way. after getting all our prizes, we took some time and, of course, endulged in the entertainment they bring. (which isn't very much...i havent yet bothered to take mine out of my car yet, and they will likely end up in the trash by the end of the week).

by the end of the night, i think it's possible that i lost 9.43 pounds from laughing so much. i definitely propose that it should be an occasional friday night hang out from now on. i have also decided that it is more than likely that at age 62 i will be that weird old person that i mentioned before. despite it's germ infestation, rusty games and lack of decent prizes, i have fallen in love with nickel nickel.

the summer of my sixteenth year

..it's kind of poetic, in a sense. i will never be "sweet sixteen" again. the year of my youth has come and gone; and a huge peice of that year was the summer. the summer of your sixteenth year should be filled with lots of things...romance and adventure, laughter and tears, new friends & old. my summer was filled with all of those things, and more. there's no possible way that i could write about each memory individually...but the summer's highlights consist of the following...

+the orange county fair [and starship 2000]

+hume freaking lake [with all its bush diving fun]

+disneyland [the three or four times i went]

+"the park" [because i cant name all the parks i went to]

+my birthday [read the blog below]

+the pdym conference [and my first all-nighter]

,.

...and that's just a few. this summer came along with a lot of firsts, and a lot of lasts. i feel as though i did it all. to me, summer is about so much more than tan lines and sleeping in. it's about truely enjoying life and all of its freedoms. last night, i have to admit, i shed a tear or two as i looked back on the past three months, and realized it's really over...summer is really over. i loved this summer with all of my heart. it was only as amazing as it was because of the people in it, so thanks to all of you guys (hopefully you know who you are). i'm counting the days until next year. but until then...i bid you a fond farewell, summer; you will be terribly missed and reminisced upon often.