Tom, the Humble Hero

If someone were to write a book about me, I’d like them to call it “Tom, the Humble Hero.” Or better yet, just “The Humble Hero.” I don’t want all the praise for myself. And “Tom” and “Humble” are somewhat synonymous anyways. I was telling my sister all of this tonight as I was doing the dishes and hoping that I wasn’t robbing my mom of the blessing of doing the dishes. Jen mentioned that sometimes you just have to be selfish and grab a blessing for yourself every now and then. But, as I told her, I’ve pretty much been grabbing other people’s blessings my whole life. I think sometimes you just gotta share the blessings, know what I mean?

Anyways, if any of you ever decides to pen that thriller, keep my title choice in mind will ya?

A new post!

So I haven’t written in a while…sorry, been busy! I wasn’t sure if I still had any readers, so I wasn’t real motivated to keep writing. But then I thought…I’m not writing for THEM, I’m writing because it’s so fulfilling, and I really enjoy it. So, whether you read or not is up to you, but I’m writing for the sheer joy of it.

My car is running. I have a job. I went to camp. That’s what’s new in the world of Tommy D.

Dumb skunk

Jennifer’s dumb dog and a dumb skunk to’ up my car cover!

It’s almost my birthday!

Tomorrow is the big day! 18! Can you believe it? I am sure there were some people who thought I would never make it to this day, but here it is! I hope you all will call and text (my absolute favoritest thing in the world) and tell me HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Of course you can always leave comments on here too, but I don’t always ever see them so…

I was CHEATED!

Guess what I found out today? I never had a baby shower when I was a baby! Jennifer had TWO, Steven got one, maybe EVERYONE else had one, but I never did. I feel really deprived! I was crushed when I found out! Can you believe that? No baby shower. My mom said it was because she had already had a few boys and already had everything that she needed for me. So I guess I got the leftovers. I feel so special. She says I can have a baby shower/18th bday party all at once. Jen says I can keep all the baby items I receive for when I have my own much anticipated kids. I don’t know though. If I do, you are all definitely all invited.  (Can you register for motorcycles at Babies R Us?)

BTW

In case anyone’s wondering, I am now accepting applications for new friends. Not getting rid of the old ones, even though they are a really bad influence on me. Just accepting new ones now. So if you are interested, send me your application and I will file it for review.

Thanks!

I’m a spelling champ

Never mind about the blindness. I don’t have the pics and it wasn’t funny anyways. Had to be there to get it I’m sure. It was temporary blindness anyways. It went away.

Yep, I’m a spelling champ. Well, I got 3rd place anyways. My family is speechless. They thought I had entered as a joke. Can you believe that? They had no faith in me. None. I guess I showed them though. I am much more of a scholar than they give me credit for. I did get first in ping pong, first as a bball team, and second in chess, so I do tend to still do better in sports. But still…3rd place. Not bad, right?

The blind leading the blind?

I am supposed to tell you about my experiences in the Philippines as  a blind person. But I am pretty busy at the moment, so stay tuned…one of these days….There might even be a few pictures.

The man in the uniform

In case you are wondering, the headless man behind me in the header picture is my big bad brother James. I secretly deep down, and sometimes not so secretly, wish I had a really cool uniform like that to wear. Chicks dig the uniforms. Or so I have been told. That and guitarists. I wish they wouldn’t stand so close to my girlfriend. But that’s for another day.  Like I said, I really want the uniform. I have even offered to wear it for him. When my dad wanted him to wear it to church and he didn’t want to, I gladly offered to take his place. What honor code? Sigh. It almost worked. Baseball uniforms don’t count, do they? Basketball? Football? Well anyways…I might come back from the Philippines with a barong. I know chicks dig those!!!

Yearbook pics

Wow, my mom found some really great pictures of me when I was little for the yearbook! Ha ha, I wish I could put them up here so you could see how cute I was, but she won’t let me because they are for the yearbook. Guess you will just have to wait till it comes out. Anyways, my senior pics turned out pretty good too. Course it might just be that my photographer was really good…