What has happened?

Well i realized today that i haven't blogged in quite sometime. I blame that on thanksgiving, when i am home i have other things i can do besides chillin on my laptop and i missed story time Tuesday again yesterday, kinda a busy day. Anyway I've still got plenty of stories for just about every topic under the sun but thinking of them on my own is kind of tough most the time they just come up in conversation so I'll be back on track next week as it will be the last story time Tuesday before Josh goes into the MTC so it will be a good one next week.

Anyway enough of me explaining why i haven't blogged, on to the blog. Well this last week has been kind of an interesting one. Since my last post i had been home for Thanksgiving. I loved every minute of it. I was able to chill with Josh, Preston, John and a bunch of other people. Plus it was Thanksgiving i love Thanksgiving and people always skip it jumping right ahead to Christmas, i say give thanksgiving some props cause it is such a sweet holiday. Well anyway since being back from the Thanksgiving break i have been feeling kind of nostalgic. I got to go home for more than a few days and i did some of the stuff that i haven't done it quite some time. Josh and i worked together for the last time, we played a little Lion House curling such a great game. Josh killed me both times we played but it was still fun. Well that brought me back to the days when Josh and I would work together all the time and compete in the Lion House Games. That would be a good story for a Tuesday hmm.... we'll see. Well just things like that brought me back to last year when things seemed a little more simple. I'm hoping that when the semester break comes I'll have a nice break and enjoy some of those things again.

Well anyway that's whats up as of the moment be sure to check out next weeks story time Tuesday, it will be a good one.

Oh What a Beautiful Day

Holy Crap people today has been one amazing day. I woke up scared as crap because i had my chemistry test today. For those of you who don't know Chemistry has become the bane of my existence, it just kills me inside, and today i had a test. Boo Chemistry Test Hooray Beer!! Anyway i had to sit through an hour of Biology with him rambling on about plant cycles, what a joke. Anyway after i tried to enjoy my breakfast which is impossible when you are worrying about a Test that will determine whether i pass or not. Well anyway i get to Chem and sit down and open up the test and i went through it, it wasn't easy but i had put in my time and it was out of my hands now. It took me almost the whole class but i finished.

Finally done now i could put it behind me for a few hours till i would get the results. I had decided that getting through this test was grounds for celebration so i skipped my Chem Lab, we are allowed to skip one and i figure hey why not skip today. Well anyway i get home and wait around for my scores. I check.... nothing so have to wait a bit longer. When finally the key to the exam shows up I look and you heard it here first folks i pulled out a B yes relief, The Day is Mine. I felt like i could Flippin run a Marathon or climb Everest. Don't you just love that feeling cause i do. I was so happy i am still shaking right now, this means that i can still pull a B out of the class very good news to say the least.

Well other than getting a B on the chemistry test i checked my mailbox today and what do you know i received a letter from Elder Brock Dehlin. This is a very exciting thing cause i don't hear from Brock that often and i really wanted to hear his reaction to the package that we sent him. To explain, Brock wrote me a letter and told me that he really missed Mountain Dew and that we has having a few other problems. So Josh and I got a package ready with some Mountain Dew and a few other things and a letters from us as well as John, Ellen, and my Mom and Josh sent it off. Well i got his letter today and it was an excellent letter two pages front and back and a picture. He answered all my questions and just told me whats up he seems so excited about serving i love it. I can't wait to get out and serve myself. If any of you want to see the letter let me know I'm gonna bring it home with me. Well that was today, such a great day plus only 24 hours from right now and i will be back in good old M-Town so really this is amazing!!

Here we are again another Story Time Tuesday. Looks like good old scout stories won this week and i am happy about that. I have a lot of stories about scouting and mostly because i had Philip Klc in my troop for those of you who don't know at least one Klc, they are a breed of there own. The story that i would like to tell happened during my first week long camp as a scout. We were up at Camp Hunt for our scout camp and i was having a blast it was great just up with a bunch of the guys I'd grown up with having a good time. We did all you normal stuff and a few things that weren't that normal but hey we are scouts what do you expect. One day about halfway through the week a couple of the guys show up telling us that there is a great tree just a little ways away that we should all go climb so when we had some free time we all went down to the tree. It really was a great tree, perfect for climbing nice sturdy low branches to start on and then it only got better the higher you got. There was about 13 of us on the tree and as we all climbed up we each picked a branch that was "ours" whatever that means. Well being the smallest and newest member of our troop i got shafted with the crappy branches. Most would not hold my weight and the other ones just didn't look great. Well i decided to pick a branch that looked alright but it also meant it wouldn't hold my weight. I step out on to it testing the branch and it felt sturdy enough so i put all my weight on it. And wouldn't you know as soon as i did the branch gave way. I don't know what it is but every time i have fallen out of a tree i fall head first maybe i have a big head i don't know but sure enough i was falling from my branch about 30 feet from the ground head first. You know how people always say they see there life flashes before there eyes? Well mine didn't, i just remember thinking oh crap this is it mom is gonna be pissed. Well when i was about a foot or 2 from the ground something amazing hap pend. My foot caught in the last branch before the ground. So here i am hanging upside down about a foot off the ground and one of the other guys who was about to go up the tree just looks at me and starts to climb up. I look at him and yell "What the Heck, are you gonna help me down?" Well he did help me down but not without protesting that he hadn't climbed the tree yet. I almost die or maybe paralyze myself and he is complaining that he didn't get to climb the tree wow us scouts are real smart. I walked away with a few scratches but that was it. Well there you have it i don't know why but I guess i am needed on this earth to do something and that thing requires that i be able to move around on my own. I am grateful for that cause just think all of the things i would have missed out on wow i am one lucky guy. Well anyway because of that incident some other scout troop comes over and there leader is yelling something about taking points away from us, what the heck are points its scout camp, and quite frankly none of us cared cause 1 i was alive and 2 none of the guys saw me dead or seriously injured. Well at that night fireside type thing they made an announcement that from now on at Camp Hunt climbing trees is against the rules, because some kid fell out of a tree. Philip Klc who was sitting next to me yells its because of this kid pointing to me so of course everybody looks at me the kid that ruined there fun. Wow did i feel great. At least i was not seriously injured or dead so I'll take it. But there you have it folks fall out of a tree and walk away none worse for the wear. I am pretty lucky and i hope i am able to do whatever i was needed on this earth for.

That's Life

I realized that besides my first post i have only told my stories which is good but kind of defeats the purpose of my blog and its name. I can't really place myself somewhere on the continuum in the past so i am going to try a lot harder to post at least twice a week obviously story time Tuesday and then one other to kind of balance things out. Right now i am kind of shifting from the right(good) side of the continuum towards the middle. Why you may ask well there are a few reason, first of all it really hit me hard a few days ago that Josh leaves in like 20something days and i am stuck up at school because of stupid finals and something about keeping my scholarship i hate it, lets just say I live for the weekend when i can go home give Josh a call and chill doesn't matter what we do but it is always 10 times better than being up at the "State" pretending to study. And also finals are coming up and the best grade i can pull out of chem is a low B or High C and that's if i do extremely well on my next few tests. Really the only thing that keeps me going is knowing Friday is just around the corner. But alas this week i don't even have that refuge because although i am coming home i get to waste my time at my brothers wedding. He is getting married Saturday so i figured Friday i could chill with Josh and John and whoever else but no my parents have a last supper of sorts for the Fam cause i guess my brother is dieing on Saturday and we'll never see him again, lame i know. And then of course Saturday is an all day affair so there goes my beloved weekend. Other than weekends i have the wonderful Holiday of Thanksgiving in which i get a 5 day weekend plus the most succulent food there is that is wonderful. And Finally end of semester which is bitter-sweet because I do get 3 weeks off of the hum and drum of school(yes i did just use hum and drum) but josh will be gone, luckily Preston will be up and Alvin better be or I'll go down drag him up and slash his tires so he can't go back. Well anyway that's my life right now, i just need to keep living for the wonderful weekends and enjoy them while i can.

Ping Pong The Ultimate Time Waster

I'm glad that whoever was the 4th vote didn't go for sports, cause then i would have had to come up with something not on the poll and tell a story about that. Don't worry i will revisit the topics left behind cause there are great stories for each. I would like to apologize for the length of last weeks "Story Time Tuesday" what can i say i spend a lot of my time in the car, and some great things happened in cars. This weeks story is good, some of you may have heard it but it is worth my time and should be worth yours if you are reading this anyway. Here we go!

Alright Ping Pong what a great game taking the game of tennis and putting it on a much smaller playing field i have to give credit to the Asians they made a great game and a wonderful way for me to waste so much time. Ping Pong has always been there throughout my life but for some reason i never had a table of my own kind of sad but oh well it just makes me appreciate the game more now that i do have a table in my building. Well the story that i have in mind is one of my many downfalls while playing the game, but none as great as this have happened since and most likely will ever happen again. I play Ping Pong with two of my Roommates Daniel, and Kyle. Daniel and I are pretty evenly matched and we trade off wins all the time but Kyle well Kyle has become my arch-nemesis in the game of Ping Pong for some reason neither Daniel or I can beat him. We may hit amazing shots but Kyle with his Gorilla arms somehow hits it back and wins the point the guy is a brick wall. Anyway to this date I have only beat Kyle 2 times in full games and once in a game to 11. We play a lot so my record is probably 2.5-1 billion. I come close to beating him at times but then i hit a point where for some reason i decide it is better for me to stop scoring and loose the game, i don't know why but i do. In one such game i was doing great. I was hitting shots in that i normally wouldn't and kyle wasn't hitting anything in. The game was going great I was up like 17-8 or something like that. The game is first to 21 winning by 2 so if i scored just 1 point for every point kyle scored i would still win but can i do that i don't think so. At this point in the game i got "greedy" i was hitting shots that i shouldn't have hit and i wasn't hitting them in so i would exclaim "I'm getting greedy!" And to this both Daniel and Josh who was up with me for the week would continue to make fun of me. I have since figured that while i am really laughing i cannot win a point in ping pong it is physically impossible no matter how hard i try i will not score needless to say kyle ended up beating me 21-19 yes that is right i only scored 2 more points during the game embarrassing i know but it wasn't my fault i blame it on Daniel and Josh, I was so pissed like unbelievably mad, keep in mind that kyle is the bad guy he always wins and Daniel and I never win. So to be up by more than double his score and to loose because people who should have been on my side weren't is infuriating. I proceeded to pick up the ball and hit it right into Kyle, Kyle is twice my size so as soon as it hit i started to walk down the hall ready to book it when i saw him coming. Well to my surprise he didn't do anything until all of a sudden i turn around and there is Kyle coming at me at he speed of light i about died. Josh tries to describe my face but to this day cannot because well only in situations of near death does one use this face. Anyway I start running down the hall towards the stairwell but i had to stop to open the door while Kyle had the luxury of running right through the door that i had opened well i had to do this twice so by the time i was in open space again Kyle was upon me. Like a Cheetah chasing its pray Kyle reaches his Gorilla arms forward and trips me up, but wait I'm still up i can make it, but no i was not that lucky Kyle with is Gorilla arms and Lighting fast reflexes grabs me and brings me down. Throughout this whole thing i was yelling "I Hate you guys, I Hate you guys!!" So when he caught me, I was toast. He was sitting on top of me and I'm not sure if it was the fact that my adrenaline was flowing or that someone came out yelling something about Ping Pong and Violence but i didn't feel the pain of Kyles fists crushing me. Wow one of the scariest events in my life and i pretty much escape unscathed well besides my pride being crushed. Well that is my story one of the lowest points in my life embarrassed and broken i didn't play ping pong against Kyle for a long time but when I did i held my own defeating him once more and only ever loosing by very small margins. So that is ping pong, a violent game very dangerous especially while playing a very fast Gorilla so my advice don't do it, it only leaves you crushed and broken.

Well that is my story for this week sorry again for the length i underestimate how long these stories really are but hope you enjoyed it and I'll set up another poll don't you worry.