State Qualifier

Yesterday I competed in Section finals at our home pool. I qualified for finals in the 100 fly, and 100 breast. I swam the fly in a 56.4 and and my momentous swim of the 100 breast. The state qualifying time is a 1.01.95 and at prelims I swam it in a 1.03.38. At finals yesterday I swam it in a 1.01.78! I’m going to state!! I’ve never qualified individually before so it brightened up my day quite a bit. However there was a sweet and sour bit that followed my race. I hurt my shoulder, I’m not positive what happened but I can’t lift my arm above 15 degrees. And to top it off I had a cold yesterday. So although it seems pretty bleak if I go to acupuncture/ physical therapy I should be better and be able to swim better provided my shoulder feels better. But overall good day yesterday! This time really helps colleges decide whether or not they want me. (Even though most of my colleges are D3 coaches still have some weight in the admission process).

 

5th place 1.01.78

Break.

Here’s a tough subject that I now have real experience with, breaking up. Today Duke broke things off between us, because things were getting too serious. In a way I agreed. It’s hard to go through this. I wish things could’ve turned out differently and we were still together. To be single all over again still missing that special someone. Duke said he still wants to be friends so hopefully that will pan out alright. In the meantime, I’m just going to have to be strong. Breaks are funny in a way, they make you reconsider many things. Hopefully, I can channel all of this bad energy into my swimming sections is coming up and I have to swim on thursday and saturday.

Cinnamon Challenge

I just learned what the cinnamon challenge was. I am in love with it, it is soo funny!! All y’all should check out a cinnamon. This is one of my favorites by Glozell who I love!!

I’ll make a deal with you guys, If I can get 50 twitter followers. I will do the Cinnamon Challenge, and it will be awesome. Follow me @itgetswetter

Happy Wolf Shirt Wednesday!!

Actor Matt Bomer Comes Out

I haven’t paid too much attention to him but this is awesome!! It’s great to have really charismatic people that are gay that will help change our society!

Dear Old Nicki

Okay who’s ready for another controversial topic? I think I am. And this has to do with Nicki’s Grammy performance last night. Which can be found here:

Roman Holiday

Anyways, there is quite a number of people in particular Catholics who are outraged with this performance. They think it glorifies evil and that she is disgusting and God basically hates her for it. Thats what I’ve gotten from several reviews, fan posts on Nicki’s Facebook page, and people talking about it at school.

Here is my opinion, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion so here it is. I think this performance was overall good for a few reasons but also bad for a few others. Musically, I was kind of disappointed it had neither good raps nor and kind of catchy-ness. Theatrically, the performance was entertaining, it was bizarre and I liked that. Now here’s where people will disagree with me, I think that this “criticism” to the Roman Catholic church was a good thing. The Catholic church has been known to have quite a few problems with it wether it be priests touching little boys to the Pope publicly condemning homosexuality as an evil. See I feel like the Catholic church (while it isn’t all bad) they haven’t received any criticism that could check and balance the church’s less than desirable qualities. I don’t know if the bluntness of her performance was completely necessary but it was nice to see that there is public criticism of the Catholic church on a broader scale than the blog of some atheist or some small rally.

I’m not an expert but this is how I feel. I love Nicki Minaj (more her older stuff) and I hope more people do too! Thanks for reading everyone and like I said I MEAN NO DISRESPECT TO ANYONE (well maybe to the pope for saying my homosexuality is a form of evil).

Sweethearts

This weekend was my second to last dance at my school, also known as the sweethearts dance (a girl ask guy dance). I was asked about two weeks ago by a girl who has only been to one other dance so it was really nice to try to make this dance the best dance ever for her! The dance was very fun we had this dance off campus in a cool part of downtown Minneapolis. Our group was only 6 people so we were able to get a limo to drive us around that night. This was by far the classiest dance I’ve been in from the limo to the dinner which was in a retired bank to this cool exotic venue for the dance. The dance itself was a blast! The DJ was off the chain definitely my second favorite DJ and the kids were dancing their pants off (with the help of alcohol, but not me!) The dance was so hardcore/crazy I actually found a used tampon on the ground…gross but funny. Overall it was a great dance. Then our group went to another groups after-party where we played 10 fingers and Truth or Dare, I was dared to make out with a cupcake haha. Overall I’d say it was the best dance ever the only thing that could make it better was if I could go with Duke 🙂

Well anyway hope you guys had a great weekend and are watching the Grammy’s! I hope it’s not to morose because of poor Whitney. Oh and here’s a pic from last night:

High School Wrapping Up

Tomorrow marks my last dual meet as a high school swimmer which I think will be a bitter sweet moment. On one hand I am ready to get a new coach at a new school and not have to swim hardcore this Spring. Although I still had many great memories of high school swimming and I will miss my teammates. Back to tomorrow, our team is swimming against the #2 team in the state and they have been our classic rivals for many years so we always save this meet for last. Although we aren’t favored to win it will be an amazing meet and we have senior recognition!! Anyway nows the time to start looking into racing suits.

I’m a speedo guy so my top choices are between the Speedo Fastskin 3 which is the latest and greatest addition to the fast suit line up.

Or to go with the LZR Elite which is trusty

Hipster

Not doing homework. Hipster day at school tomorrow.

Advice to a Scared Gay Boy

Before this most recent summer, I was scared little gay kid. I didn’t want anyone to know my secret I felt it would disappoint everyone around me and it might be the very end of the world as I know it. I wish I could’ve gone back and told the 11-16 year old Andrew some comforting things that would’ve helped me cope, focus on what’s important, and accept myself. If I could I would send this letter to little Andrew/ any scared gay kid.

Dear Little Andrew,

By now you probably have concluded that you aren’t like the other kids. You’re different. You’re gay and it’s okay. First of all, you were born gay. There is nothing you can say or do to be straight you can act straight and spend lots of time and effort to convince others you are straight but you are just lying to yourself and others. The greatest good you can do is be yourself, because all the people that don’t like who you are don’t matter. Fuck the haters. You don’t have to come out right away but you can stop convincing yourself that conforming to everyone else in middle/high school will help you survive it. Being different is a great gift it makes you interesting and stand out from people.

Stop fearing the gay community and your future in it. The parades, “flamers”, and all that pride are not bad things. You will find that the gay community has some of the nicest people you will know be it LGBT people or those who support us. They are friends who will like you for you, embrace it. Also stop hating on the “flamers” although you may not feel and act the way you do and you don’t appreciate the stereotypes they bring, they are human too, respect that.

Focus on what is really important. I know people have been “dating” from 5th grade to now, but being gay is different. For one, you can’t expect to get a boyfriend without being out, plus even if you are out not many others are. Gay relationships are rare at young ages and if you do happen to get one appreciate it. However, relationships aren’t the most important thing to worry about and get hung up on. You have talents, hobbies, sports,  school, and friends to focus on. They are dependable and useful and ultimately your safest bet to succeed in life.

Surround yourself with the right friends who will support you. There’s not much of a point in befriending that really homophobic kid that trash talks gays all the time. Find the good ones that support gay rights and ultimately the true you. Also, you’ll be surprised how many of the kids these days really do support LGBT. Change is happening!

Lastly, I can’t stress this enough. Love yourself. You are perfect the way you are, hold on to your uniqueness and appreciate it. Any obstacle you face can be overcome, there will always be tomorrow so keep calm and carry on.

Sincerely,

Older Andrew

Younger Andrew