Redemption/A Morning To Remember

Last night i was watching the Lakers lead dwindle away until the suns, got back to down 3 with 30 seconds left. As the Lakers ran there offence the shot clock was coming to a near end when Artest put up a shot, luckily Gasol got the rebound and kicked it back out to Artest, at this point there was about 25 seconds left. The Lakers could have pulled the ball out and let the clock run down to about 2 seconds before having to shoot, but for some stupid reason Artest felt the need to shoot from behind the arc, yes no body was on him but not a smart basketball move. the Suns got his rebound pushed it down court, Nash missed the first 3 point attemt, with an offencive rebound Barbosa got a go around to tie up the game but yet again another miss and another offensive rebound, the ball got kicked out to jefferson and he backed it off the glass to tie the game up with 3.5 seonds left. Now anybody who watches basketball knows that Kobe is the best closer in the game and everyone knows he is getting the ball. as the Lakers in bound the ball Kobe shakes the double team and puts up the shot, it was short and out of no where Artest grabs the rebound and flips it in as the buzzer goes off, i stood and yelled REDEMPTION as i woke everyone up in the house lol.
So i leave today for OHIO and im so excited to see my brother niece and nephew, along with some of my friends mainly my best friend Andrea. So i wake up bright and early to head to my apartment(i stayed at my parents with my dad last night since he is in pain and what not) i got to my apartment to find and Kobe Jersey and wierdly enough its not in my closet. I search everwhere and its nowhere to be found. It was getting late so i got back in my car to head to work and what do you know? My car wont start, so i run back inside and grab my buddies keys and start off to work. About halfway to work i notice in the rearview that there is a 5 0 behind me (a cop lol) i look at my speed 55 on the dot so i think im good. Then all of a sudden the lights go off as i said FUCK to myself. the cop comes up with a flashlight and says hands on the steering wheel, as i asked him what this is about he looks through the back window in the back seat and begins to explain there was just a robbery in the area and i looked like the suspect lol as i chuckled he finish's his search he says you can go. So i finish my drive to work i get to work and i realized SHIT i dont have my badge so i had to turn around drive back home ( about 15-20 minutes) grab my badge and here i am now. I cant wait to just get out at 10 and get ready to be on my way to OHIO. Troy (my nephew) hopefully loves his present, its 150 classic cartoons lol the good ones he loved the last ones i got him so hopefully he likes these. well its time to depart and get back to work.

You Win Some You Lose Some

So the western conference finals (Lakers vs. suns) is tied 2-2. most fans would be worried about losing this series but a true fan wouldnt, its back to LA there we will take a 3-2 lead, lets just take it one win at a time. Kobe is playing like the true BLACK MAMBA right now, 38 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists its time for our BIGS (Pau and Bynum) to step.
On a second note i have a date tonight, i think im taking her to a new restraunt that just opened and looks right over the beach, its a little pricey but first impression is everything haha then we will prolly take a little walk on the beach before making it an early night because im an old man and have to be up at 515 for work.
Lastly im so excited for this weekend i get to go back to OHIO and see my nephew troy, my niece Julianne, brother zack and sister in law trish, and not to forget andrea, samario, and many others but my main focus is to spends lost of time with my niece and nephew since im only there for a few days. well its off to start working
GO LAKERS

ALO Concert

This is Zack Gill from ALO also the Keyboard player from Jack Jacksons band(Who i am seeing this summer with G Love)

Work Time Scare

so i get to work yesterday,and all the lights were off except the emergency lights. come to find out all the power at work was out(that leaves about 3500 ppl in the dark, and the ironic part is we work at a nuclear power plant haha). I come in at 6 A.M at around 8 it was brought to our attention that we wouldnt have power till about 11, so i walked out to my car and plugged my phone in because it was dying. About 30 minutes after letting it charge i go and grab my phone only to see the picture from above and the caption dad is at the hospital, ok and most ppl would think if there was something really wrong i wouldnt get a picture right? But how many ppl sit there and think about that, so i ran in told my boss i was leaving grab my keys and darted out the door, sped all the way there freaking out hardcore before finally gettin my mom on the phone. Asked her what happened if he was ok where they were all in one breath while gasping for air, she began to laugh which was a shock and kind of a relief but to much for me to take in at the time. she began to explain that the night before my dad decided to take the dogs out to the back yard(my dogs were staying with them for the night cuz i was at the ALO concert which i have a few pics from) my dad paused the movie him my brother and his fiance were watching to take them out, as they got out to the back screened in portch my dad bent down to pick up my puppy, as he did this Kobe jumped up and pretty much kicked him from behind haha. My father ended up tearing 2 tendons in his knee as he fell down the 3 brick stairs in the back yard. about fifteen minutes later my brother went to look for him and found him laying out there in massive pain. it scared the crap out of me seeing that picture and i feel so bad that my dogs did this, he is in so much pain and he has to get surgery now, and to say more that knee isnt even the bad knee, well untill now.

My Best Friends

So i got a new puppy on friday, i read a craigslist ad that the pound does that tells which animals are being put down at 5 p.m(they do this every friday) she is so precious and adorable, i had a hard time coming up with a name for her but ended up naming her camia-cami. she gets along with my other dog(KOBE) very well i have take them to the dog park serveral times and its cute how he already protects her when the bigger dogs come around. Anyway i am proud to say i have a rescue dog, Kobe and i are very very clothes and i never really understood how much he respects me untill this weekend. alot of dog enthusiasts go to the dog park and they were all surprised on how well Kobe followed directions from me, but more so how much he looked into my face while i spoke to him, and the funny thing is the puppy is starting to do it as well. I love my Dogs not only are they pretty pretty dogs but they are just great dogs they listen they are fun to play with and i just love them. Kobe is the big brother yes, but he is still 100% puppy haha he is about 7 months old, he is a goof ball. He thinks he is still a little puppy always trying to sit in little tiny places he actually sits on cami(thats what i named my pup) its cute. While at the dog park kobe wont let big dogs get to close to cami and if they do he warns them off just like a big brother should. i have more to write but on a different topic so here is a picture ill end this one with.

Listen To Your Parents lol

I got this as my first tatoo my freshman year in High School, its not the best looking tatoo but i drew it my self. it represents my family and the love i have for them. it includes my parents bother my brothers and my sister who passed away.

Parents, sometimes it feels like you cant live with them but you also cant live without them. I myself got really lucky to have the parents i do, they both have worked very hard to get our family want we needed. My father came straight out of High school and started working for GE nuclear (he is an employee of 35 years now). He told my brothers and i (i have 2 brothers i will get to) he has worked and will work this job so that we never have to go through what he did. Although my younger brother Alex and i work for the same company as he does we both know that we can never amount to our father and that the stuff he has been through has been hard but has always been for us. After graduating High school my mom went to a two year college before started to work for GE as well. At this time they lived in San Jose California, they met at GE and later got married. They then had my older brother Zachary Adam Sandoval. About 4 years after having Zachary my father got a job in Mentor OHIO, at this point my mother was no longer working she stayed home with my brother. About 2 years later They had a baby girl, Julianne Sandoval. Julianne Passed away a few months later from SIDS. Sortly after my father got a job at another plant right down the road and my parents and brother moved to Cuyahofa Falls, (330) where i was born about a year later, Nathan David Sandoval. Now i was the cutest baby of them all haha my mom told me so. About a year later my parents would have one and final child Alex Micheal Henry Sandoval(the baby and still is to this day). My parents raised us right they were very strict made us work for what we got as children, and between the three of us boys we protected each other. Family to the sandoval family is a strong bond, we cant be broken. We have lived together and we have lived apart but we are always one thats just how we are. My father got a job in Wilmington NC in 2006 the year i was a senior. He came back for my Grad party and at the end of it he pulled me off to the side and ask me if i would move down with him. I knew i wasnt ready to leave but i also knew my dad was living 684 miles away(thats from where he was staying to our driveway) and he had never been that far from his family before and on top of it he had been doing it for 7 months. the following year was my younger brothers senior year, my dad and i drove back almost every friday, we would leave at 6 A.M so that we could make it back to see his football games, and the same for basketball season. after he graduated my mom and my brother moved to NC, by this time i was ready to go back to ohio, both my parents were heartbroken and i felt like i was dissapointing them but i wanted to get back to my older brother my nephew and his wife(like i said before my brothers and i are best friends, but something is different with my older brother we have been through alot together). i moved back and stayed for a little over a year where i met the most beautiful girl the most amazing person i had ever met(the girl from my very first post, which if you read you know how it ended lol we arent friends anymore she is to cool, or maybe i did to much for her and was always there for her thats why we arent friends lol). after she moved me back here telling me she was coming i had it rough for awhile i didnt have my older brother anymore my younger brother was now engaged and i felt alone. my parents have always been there for my brothers and i and have always done anything they can to help us. they helped me through this low time. My parents have always been PROUD of us, we all work hard, we all have done our own things but they were always happy for us. Something about my parents that you dont see to often anymore is that they still LOVE each other, they legitimently do. Yes they argue but what married couple doesnt, they still say I love you i know alot of ppls parents who dont, they still try to make the other happy they still laugh and as a family we still always do stuff together. We all miss my older brother and we all talk to him everyday, but he is there taking care of business just like my parents have taught him. Some ppl have said my parents do to much for us, that we wont ever know how do do it on our own, that i wasnt good enough for someone, well heres what i have to say to you. Fuck you bitches look where my brothers and i are now, we all live on our own, we all pay all our bills, we all have great jobs, and we all are our own persons, can you say the same? sorry i made this so long but i love my family and especially my parents who have put in so much time and effort to get us where we are today, us three boys(who are now men) gave them alot of shit through out the years(and sometimes that lead to the belt or the wooded spoon lol) but they taught us right and i thank them for it i love my parents THANKS MOM AND DAD.

BIG weekend

So the end of the week is coming quick and damn am i ready for it, got some good plans. Tomorrow being Friday ima play poker as normal but the only difference is we are goin to a bigger game which means more money, Saturday my younger brother, one of my buddies who is down in NC visiting and myself are goin to a 3vs3 basketball tournament. First place is only a 400 prize but it will be well worth it when we win(which we will win) then after the tournament we are goin to the beach and the tiki bar to watch the celtics game then good ol Sunday (i hate sunday cuz it means i have to work the next day) we are goin to the beach then goin to the ALO concert they are holding in town(cant wait for august to come when we go see Jack Johnson and G love). so all in all its goin to be a damn good weekend prolly an exspensive one but shit gotta live life of the rich and famous haha jk but time to get back to work gotta make money

This is my Dog KOBE(yes named after the best basketball player ever)

this is him now, aint he cute lol

Just a normal tuesday

So yesterday was just a normal tuesday, i worked from 6 a.m till 3 p.m got off planned on goin to play some basketball but ended up taking a little nap haha(happens quite often). later that afternoon i ended up talking to my ex prolly not a good idea never seems to be anymore but i realized something, she isnt the same girl i fell in love with, who i wanted to spend the rest of my life with, just not the same, i myself am the same and thats the reason we shouldnt interact. now i wont lie i did engage the conversation for a few reasons 1)being she keeps posting stuff about the lakers and how she loves them and how KOBE is awesome and she isnt lying about any of it but she isnt a fan she even told me she watched it for me and didnt enjoy it all that much, and now what instant fan get out of here. And 2)She posted pics of her new apt and in them is two of my baby blankets ones that i have had for along time and she keeps them for who knows what reason its just annoying but i sent her ring back to her today so maybe she can send my stuff back now, if her bf says its ok that is, i know she doesnt want to talk to me but she told me she isnt allowed cuz he doesnt want her too lol anyway back to my day. after all that fun stuff i went over to my parents house to hang out with my dad and my dog(ill post some pics of my dog) i wish i could take my dog with me but my parents love him and my apt is just to small but i visit him all the time. I got there and my dad and i watched the celtics and magic game which i officailly am saying LAKERS vs celtics in the finals now but im not worried. like i said just a normal day but today should hopefully be a little more exciting, reason being i think im goin to play some ball then watch the lakers game at home with my dad, well or go out to the bar and watch it with my buddies who knows haha

LA Road To A Repeat

So since i havent set up the cable in our new beach house lol and since i am in a monday night bowling league with my family i thought it was a good idea to get the guys to come lunar bowling so we could drink and watch the game, now the only problem with this idea is we hate rollin in somewhere 4 cocks deep lol(meaning four guys no girls), but we changed that after gettin there, got some pitchers and started to mingle haha. The best part of the night was watching the game though, seein my team just whoop the suns ass KOBE dropping 40, odom going 19 and 19 we are unstopable, we need to keep our heads in the game and buy into our system and then we will be holding that trophy at the end of the year. So after the game i headed home cuz i have to get up at 5:00 A.M for work and i brought Big jim home(not my room mate) cuz he was wasted and the other two headed to the bar. Ima back track a little while watching the game this older black guy(named david) sat down and started talking to me and asked where i was from and i told him AKRON ohio and he was like no shit i lived there for many years, he actually went to one of the HS right down the road. So after bull shitting with him for a bit he bought us a pitcher (of FAT TIRE its a southern beer but really good try it) but anyway now im at work awaiting the day to get done so i can get home and take a nap before goin to play ball later. im out peace

LAKERS BABY

I'm a die hard LAKERS fan, its incredable that so many ppl doubted us this year, what are you thinkin come on we are the LAKERS we have the BLACK MAMBA get on our level before you try to talk shit

From 330 To 910

The title pretty much tells exactly what this post will be about, which is my move from Cuyahoga falls OHIO to Wilmington NORTH CAROLINA. I live in NC but OHIO will always be my home, that tiny little city of Cuyahoga Falls is and will forever be my real home. I would still be in OHIO if it wasnt for this one chick, up until about a month ago i was absolutely miserable. I moved to NC to get stuff ready for my girlfriend(at the time) to move down in a few weeks did alot of shit in preperation, then come to find out lol through a text she sent my mom that she never planned on coming lol (this was the plan we had for about 6 months) she let me pay 120 dollars for her orientation fee and buy a whole load of shit for the place we would be living lol but im here now and life is better. The story and relationship only got crazier and more complicated from there and now there isnt a friendship or relationship at all. i hated NC for the first few months until about two months ago i went back to C Falls to visit some friends and ended up running into my friend from high school jimmy ebner. Jim and i were pretty good friends throughout high school but we werent over close, we play ball together for school and for lesure and hung out here and there but that was the extent of it. I got back and started to hang out with him when he let me know how his life was goin and how he was having a few little problems and how he wanted a new start and what not, kinda joking i told him to come to NC and we would go from there, from the minute i said that he was on board told me to talk to my parents and he was in for sure haha( how crazy stuff happens). so i talk to my parents and they were very hesitant but ended up lettin him come. Anyway to make this not much longer since its already long and boring we just got our own place which i have lived on my own before but never had my own town home 10 min from the beach, we just had to friends come visit one who is stayin the whole summer, shits about to get crazy this summer let me tell you yesterday was already a crazy day and its just start of it.