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Well another day has come and gone. It was a pretty decent day. Nothing too exciting. Last night I ended up staying up until around 1:00 just because I wasnt tired, and I was talking to some guys on my floor. I knew that I needed to go to bed, but I just didnt feel like it. I also was doing homework too, so it wasnt completly random. So I went to bed late, and then I had to wake up at 5:30 for lifting. Not cool. I had to take a test in health after that and it was a pretty hard test just because for the end, you had to write in a bunch of facts that I didnt have completlyhave mesmorized. I did good on the rest of it though I think. Its weird to think that tomorrow is Halloween. I feel like I have been out here forever, but at the same time it has gone by really fast. Not too shabby. I took some cool pictures of the leaves yesterday, they are pretty cool looking. As soon as I finish out the camera I will put some more on here so everyone can take a gander.
Im tired.

I am going to bed

Check it out:

Free Food!

Today was a pretty good day. I got to sleep in until 12:00. I havent done that for quite some time now. At 4:00 the team got together and listened to a presentation of a company that sells security systems in the summer. 2 guys on our team did it last summer, so they were using this as a recruiting chance. The company also became a sponsor for our team which is really cool. They gave $2,500 to the baseball team. That was way cool of them. The company is just filthy rich and growing like crazy, it is called APX security systems. They talked to us today about the company, what it is about, and the benifits of working for them. One of the huge and obvious benefits is that you get paid rediculous amounts of money for only working for 3 months during the summer. The guys on our team made over $30,000 just this past summer. They are both getting married, and have that all paid for, and they both bought new cars and stuff. It seems like a scam, and that you would work the summer and not end up getting a check, but it is the real deal. Last summer they were in Bakersfield, CA and sold there. It is the basic door to door salesman job but it is one of the most successful, and largest summer sales programs out there. I am thinking about doing it. They start right after school gets out all the way until a few days before school starts again, but I talked to one of them and they are pretty leanient with that if you have other circumstances. For example, I asked him if I would be able to work the main portion of it, but then leave on a mission, and he said they are all for it. It is cool, I am definately going to look into it more. They said some of the guys that have been selling for about 5 years or so have made at least up to a million dollars. That is crazy. I think that the company has a location in Provo. Oh I almost forgot to say that they took us all to dinner at Applebees too. They let us get whatever we wanted, so I got an appetizer, the Fiesta Lime Chicken, and then some apple pie. It was awesome! I love free food! They gave us a bunch of cool shirts and hats too, they were cool guys.
The funny thing is that after that, I went to a movie in Lexington, and we saw them in the foyer after. It was funny. Cool beans, I am tired, I am up too late... again
bye

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball

So the next intramural we are playing is dodgeball. It is so intense! I think it is more intense than wiffle ball! It is way fun. It gets so intense when you are one of the only ones left on your team. Oh man its fun. We are tyed for 1st in our pool. I think the playoffs start on Wed. It is way cool, but I am so sore today. We played last night, and throwing a dodgeball is different than throwing a baseball, so my back is way sore. Not used to using those muscles. Good stuff. I am glad it is the weekend, this week in some ways went by fast, but in other ways it was way slow. What can ya do. I have been kinda flaky writing on this lately, but at least I havent given up! I actually like writing on here, at first I didnt want to, but I find it a good way to stay in touch as well as keep me busy and stuff... its good.
That is about all I can think of for now, maybe I will add to it later.
Bye

oh ps I got the Halloween package, Thanks Mom and Dad! I was way surprised! I love the candy!

Mom thanks for sending my mail

Jeff tell Russin thanks for the card

I already told Lindsay thanks for the picture of Jay

Uh if I left anyone off of the thanks list, sorry and thanks for whatever!

Check out our baseball schedule for this season!

I better see all of you at EVERY game!! Just kidding!

ok bye

Alumni game

At the request of Dad, I am going to give an update on the alumni game on sat. It went well, we ended up winning 17-9 or something like that. I did pretty good, I went 3-3 and got hit by a pitch in the funny bone. It was so weird my hand was numb for 10 or 15 minutes! My first at bat I hit a grounder but the field was so bad, it just stuck in the dirt, so they didnt even throw it over. Technically it was a hit. My second at bat I hit a line drive to left and got a single. My third at bat I hit a grounder inbetween first and second. I think I ended up with 3 or 4 RBIs. Not too bad. I hat 2 catches in the outfield too, I almost caught on that went to the the fence, but I was a couple steps too late. Overall it was a good way to end the season. I was happy with it.
Right now, I have nothing to do, so I am getting pretty bored. I havent really had homework, and without baseball I dont really have anything to do. I took a nice 2 hour nap this afternoon after class, that was real nice.
Other than that, I dont really have anything else to say right now, so see ya later.

My new mitt

We ordered all our stuff that we are getting from this company. We get any mitt we want, a pair of sunglasses (not as cool as mine) a shirt, and 2 pairs of batting gloves all for $150! That was what the BBQ was paying for, but I didnt do so well at selling tickets... oh well.
It was nice, today was the first day that we didnt have to do anything for baseball. It was real nice to just relax.
School has been nice and easy this week and last week. I dont really have much homework lately.
Man, toiletries and stuff like that are so expensive! I never really noticed it because I never bought it before. I had to get shampoo and razors and deoderant and stuff like that today. I ended up spending almost $50! I couldnt believe it! I bought some other stuff like food and snacks, but still I was amazed!
I cut my frinds hair today, we borrowed some clippers from another guy on our floor, and I gave him a haircut. I didnt do too bad, but I dont know how to blend it in very well, so I didnt take too much off the sides. But I dominate.
I got a picture of Jay in his Halloween pictures today in the mail, that was a cool surprise! He just gets bigger and bigger! I cant wait to see him.
I am off to bed, talk to everyone later

Sleepin' In

So today started out pretty good... I went to lifting, ate breakfast, and went back to the room to lay down. Usually when I do this, I just rest and dont fall asleep. Well today was a different story. I ended up laying there, not very sleepy, but next thing I know I look at the clock and it is 10:45, 5 minutes before my class gets out. Man I was all disoriented. There are devotionals every Friday at 11:00 and I have to go to those, so I hurried and showered, and after that I ate and went to lunch and Art History. Luckily my professor teaches the same class at 2:00, so I went to that, and hurried and made it to practice. It was an interesting day, but it all worked out. It was weird going into the other class, the atmosphere was completely different, and it was just weird. Oh well, like I said, it worked out.
After practice, I watched the last episode of Prison Break that I needed to watch in order to get caught up for the new episode on Monday. It was a good one, I really like that show. Along those same lines... Lost is really crazy too! I am all confused with all the new twists they put in there. I love that show! I sure hope Jeff and Russin's car (aka Mr. Eko) are going to be alright! Such a good show.
Tonight, me and a bunch of guys went and played basketball, and volleyball for like 2 and a half hours! It was way fun. Basketball was ok, I dont really like basketball as much as I used to, I think it is because I am not very good. But volleyball is so fun, I love it. We had a good time, I hope we do it again but with more volleyball.
Tomorrow is the big bbq that we are putting on. I am glad it is finally here, I was getting sick of hearing about it. The alumni game is tomorrow too. I am excited for that, but we might not get to play because the field is wet. It rained a lot this week, and it is just straight mud. It will be a shame if we dont play because we put so much effort into getting that field to actually sort of look like a baseball field. We actually can see the grass. I guess we will just have to pray that it is warm, sunny, and windy tomorrow so it dries out.
That is about all for now, I need to get rested for the big game... I hope

My turn

Mark the movies you have seen, and count 'em up. See who is the winner.

(x) Nacho Libre
( ) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the caribbean 2
(x) Orange County
( ) The Green Mile
(x) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
(x) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane!
(x) Red Eye
( ) Stick It
( ) Shes the Man
( ) 8 Mile

Total so far: 7

(x) The Princess Bride
( ) SNL's The Best of Will Ferrell
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Fun With Dick and Jane
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 13

( ) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
( ) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 13

(x) Harry Potter
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
(x) Cinderella Man
(x) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 20

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(x) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
( ) Robots

Total so far: 26

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
(x) Meet The Parents
( ) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(x) King Kong (2005)

Total so far: 33

(x) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 41

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) 10 Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
(x) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask

Total so far: 47

( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Identity
( ) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
(x) Superstar
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice age 2 The Meltdown

Total so far: 52

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
(x) My Boss'Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2

Total so far: 58

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3

Total so far: 64

(x) X-Men
(x) X-Men 2
(x) X-Men 3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
( ) The Others
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of fire
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total so far: 74

( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle
( ) Old School
( ) K-Pax
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Boogeyman
( ) The 40-year-old-virgin
( ) The Hills Have Eyes

Total: 79

Travis, you beat me by one you jerk!
This is pretty interesting though.

Stupid wiffle ball

So we lost in the championship today in wiffel ball. We played the team that had 4 guys on the baseball team on it. We played pretty good defense, but we couldnt score any runs. It was stupid. Now we are all mad, one guy on their team will never stop talking about it. He is just like that, he just wants to always prove he is better and cooler than everyone. Oh well it was fun though. WAY intense. I got a 76 on my health test. I didnt do that good, but I was in the higher percentile of the class. Not many people did very well, so I dont feel too bad about the score.
This morning in lifting, 3 guys were 6 minutes late. For every minute that someone is late for practice or lifting we have to run our guts out. Today since 3 people were so late (they are all roomates, slept through alarms) we had to run like crazy. We ran for about an hour. We started by running 2 miles (that was easy) and then we had to run up the monster hill 5 times in under 45 seconds. That is barely enough time to do it, so we all had to push it so hard. I almost threw up. It was bad. Our coaches were definately not happy at all. Oh well, its in the past now.
time for bed
bye

Midterms

Its officially miderms.
So far it has been a good week of school. I got my philosophy test back on monday, and I ended up getting a C+ with a 77. Not too bad, it was a really hard test. I got pretty much the class average, so I dont feel too bad. I also got my Art History test back today: I got a 99! I was so pumped! My professor put some extra credit on there, but even without that, I would have still gotten an A I think. Most of my frinds in that class got a really good grade because we all studied together a lot, so that really helped! I was really glad though. So far, I havent had any homework since thursday night, so that is really good. I really am enjoying being able to watch all of the baseball games without worrying about doing homework later. Not much has been going on really, it has been rainy yesterday and today, but it is not as cold as it was last week, so that is good.
This week is our last week of practice, and then we are finishing it off with the alumni game on saturday. Kinda mixed feelings about it, but it will be alright.
I am almost registering for my classes next semester, I have to see my advisor, and then I can register.

no wiffle ball this week :(

time for bed.

my arm is twitching

i have to get up early

i need to wash my jeans

I dont have any clean ones left

ok bye

Our football team actually won their second game of the season today! They played Goerge Mason. I think that it is just a club team though, they werent very good. But they won. Today was the unofficial homecoming game. The actual homecoming weekend is next weekend, but the team has a bye so the game was today. Kinda weird.
Its cold here! We are getting frost in the mornings, its weird. I am not really excited for the winter here because I have heard so many bad things about it! Oh well I can handle it, im a tough guy.
I started watching prison break finally. I have the tape that Staci gave me but I havent been able to get a hold of a VCR, so I just downloaded the next episode thinking I would already have watched the first one, but today we were really wanting to watch it, so we just went ahead and watched the second episode. I am pumped to be getting into it again. I am into 3 series now, Lost, Prison Break, and The Office. I love being addicted to shows like this, its cool.

Thats about all I feel like writing now, I have early church and stuff, so thats it thats all thats all there is

Wiffle Ball!!

Hi everyone! Its been a while, but I guess I have been pretty busy, and also I just didnt really feel in the mood to sit down and write. Uh, things have been good, I wont rind out about my Philosophy test until Monday. I took my Art History test on Tuesday, I think that I did pretty good, better than the last test for sure. I am actually waiting to get scores back on 3 tests.
I was able to talk to Tyler on Monday night so that went good, he was really excited. I am glad I got to talk to him, he and I were pretty close. I wrote Mark Smith a letter, but I didnt get it sent off until Monday, and I found out later that day that he left for Baltimore that day! I hope they just forward it to him. I thought for sure I would get it off in time, oh well.
They have a lot of different intermural sports here, and this week the new one was a wiffleball league. Me and kellen got a team together with my friend Alex, and a guy from the team that is older, but we get along really good, he is cool. So it was us 4 and you have to have 2 girls on the team, so we got a girl that is in our volleyball class, and then a girl from the soccer team. We DOMINATE!! We played last night and smoked 'em, and we played again tonight and won big again. It is intense, we play in the SAC (stoddard activites center) its a small gym basically, just enough room for 1 basketball court. If it hits the ceiling you can still catch it and get an out. The ceiling is really low and triangle shaped (like a barn). But it is cool, our only real competition is a team with 4 guys on the baseball team, so it will be intense playing them! Oh man it was good. The winner of the league gets a t-shirt, and its like a coveted prize here, everyone wants to win that shirt. Every sport they do they give shirts to the winners. Its cool.
The weather is starting to get colder, the leaves are changing more and more, and a couple of trees are already dumping leaves all over.
I just found out about a band called Motion City Soundtrack. They are pretty cool, I like them a lot.
Uh, I think that is about it for now, tell Grandma I am thinkin about her mom!

adios

Grandpa Butterfield

We are supposed to write an essay describing someone who influenced your life, or describe that person in detail. I chose to talk about grandpa Butterfield. I was trying to think of a few things that I could say about him, and I decided to "Google" him. It was pretty cool, it brought up this website called Zoom Info, and it had his obituary along with link to things that were talked about in the obituary, like Butterfield Ford, Riverton Historical Society etc. I thought it was pretty cool. Check it out!

Once I turn in my final draft, I will post it on here for all yall to read. Its nice, in my english class, we are required to do 2 rough drafts, and get them critiqued, and then turn in the final draft. It helps take off the pressure and also helps you make it better. I like it, I thought it was dumb at first, but its good. I got a B on my first essay, but I didnt spend as much time on it as i should have. I sort of just breezed through it. Oh well, I have an A in the class, it is way easy.
Gotta read Philosophy. Man that book is so hard to read, I read some of it after church and I kept falling asleep!

bye

New York, New York

Dont pay attention to the video, just listen and enjoy the wonderful song!

Man I love saturdays! Nothing but relaxation and playoff baseball! I woke up at 9 (not a fan of that) because we had that study thing for art history. I got back around 10 and just crashed until 1! It was so good! I really needed to catch up on some sleep. I just took it easy for the rest of the day and watched all the games on tv and listened to some of the byu game on the internet, and hung out. I just got done watching a couple of episodes of "The Office" that a kid that lives nextdoor had downloaded on his computer. Good stuff.
I was talking to Kyle about this today, but we should get tickets for the BYU Utah game. I am pretty sure that I will be in town, and that would be way fun to go to, especially now that that game could possibly determine the conference champ. Just a thought.
Anyway, I have 9:30 church tomorrow, so I am going to hit the sack.

GO YANKEES!!!! ha ha

Philosophy = Bad News!

I think I did ok on my test today, but definately not as good as I did before. He wasnt lying when he said the test would be harder. I know I didnt fail, but I didnt do as good as before, I didnt know all the stuff for the essay which is like 80% of the test. I studied hard too. Oh well. I am really glad it is the weekend though. Especially because I watch all the playoff games and dont do my homework until later which is hard because I go to bed late and get up so early. My eyes have been hurting lately and they were bloodshot yesterday. I try to go to bed early, but I am not even tired and I end up just laying there wide awake. I am starting to get a little better though, and I end up taking at least one nap a day, which I was never able to do before. I like naps!
I am so glad that the Yankees are losing 2-1! The only possible way that I would like to see the Yankees go far is for the possibility of another subway series. That would be rad. Its cool we always get a crowd of around 5 guys that are on our team or just like baseball that watch the games with us so it is always on and we can all talk about it together.
Thats about it for now, I need to sleep. I have to go to a study group at 9 tomorrow for art history. I have a test in that class on tuesday which will be pretty tough. We have to memorize a ton of paintings with the title, artist, and date to get the points, so we made flashcards and that helps, but yeah, time for bed.

Test

Big test tomorrow, im pretty nervous about it. It is my second test in philosophy and I have no idea how I will do. I wasnt able to find that same group of people I studied with last test, so I had to do it on my own. I guess we'll just have to see how it goes. I got my essay back in english, I got a B on it, not too bad. Right now I have an A in there so im not too worried about getting that score on the essay. My professor gives bonus points for going to the devotionals every friday afternoon, so that bumped me up. Its an easy class.
Tonight they did the intramurals 3 point competition and dunk contest. It was pretty sweet, the 3 point contest was kinda lame, but the dunk contest was pretty rad. One guy threw down some pretty cool dunks.
Im glad you enjoyed the prank. We were pretty proud of that. That started a little interest in jokes. We are already planning on doing something to another person on our floor. Its all beacuse of the great idea we had yesterday! Every once and a while I think about it and it just makes me laugh! It almost played out perfectly, pretty funny.
Ok I need my sleep so I can dominate on my test tomorrow.

Lost!

Oh man Lost was completely out of control tonight! I couldnt believe it! Oh man it was such a big twist that I wasnt expecting. WOW thats all I have to say about it. I wont talk about it just in case someone missed it, but holy cow it was good.
No school today was nice and relaxing. I got to sleep in, watch the baseball games, play a little tennis, and pull a prank on Kellen.
Me and my friend upstairs named Alex were sitting watching tv and the lady came in and was stocking the vending machines. If you have seen the certain "The Office" episode you will know what I am talking about exactly. Ok in the episode, Jim takes all of Dwights random stuff like stapler, wallet, phone and other office supplies and puts them inside of the vending machine. Dwight goes for his wallet to buy his stuff back, but he sees that his wallet is inside.
Well, Alex had the great idea to do that to Kellen. We talked to the lady and she was fine with it, so I went into the room and snaked his ID card and room key and the lady wrapped it aroung one of the things inside (they were both on a lanyard). So just a little bit ago, Kellen says: "We got a problem, I dont know where my ID card is." I am the worst liar, so I started laughing, and told him to go get me a honey bun(thats what it was around). He was like: No, you go get one and give me my card. I told him to follow me and we went to the rec room and I said again: "man, those honey buns look good, you should get one." He didnt catch it, and just got mad and kept looking around in there. I finally told him to look inside the machine, and he still couldnt see it and I finally pointed it out, and he went crazy on me. It was so funny! I gave him the money to get it our, and the first time it got stuck, so I bought another one and it came out. Oh man, such a good prank, the only bad thing is that Alex was in his room and didnt see it, and the other bad thing is now I am going to get some paybacks, and they probably wont be as nice as mine was... It was worth it though!!

Hmm i dont really have much to say today... playoff baseball started so thats real nice. I am afraid that I wont get any studying in now that its the playoffs though so I will have to work at that.
No school tomorrow! The school is having a trip to the DC temple tomorrow so they cancelled all classes. I wasnt able to get a recommend though so im staying here. Real excited to sleep in though, the coaches are letting us just do a workout on our own instead of the 6 am workout as a team, so thats even better news.
Not much else to say...
I hate the Yankees

My bat is here!!

So I got my bat in the mail today!! Its so rad! I used it in practice today and I love it! Mom, I got my package from you today, thanks for sending my meds and of coarse thanks for the hot tamales! I already ate one box in one sitting! I got a letter today from my friend Mark Smith in the MTC, I was really glad to hear from him. He sounds like he is doing well and loving it. Its funny, he said he runs into Mark Davis every once and a while and he says that he is "still the same old Mark" I thought that was funny. So the internet was down again all day, but tonight I think I fixed the problem for good. I have no idea what I did or how I did it, I was just playing around with some settings and now it works like a charm. I really think that it wont give me any more troubles which would be real nice.
Oh man, the mosquitos here are driving me absolutely CRAZY!!! I get a few new bites everytime I am at practice. They arent just normal bites though, they swell up to the size of a golfball and dont ever stop itching. It seriously is just a lump sticking out of my leg, or wherever it is. I cant stop scratching them. I hate it. I think I attract them more than others too because no one else really gets them as bad as I do. Grrrr.
Well best be off to bed.
nighty night

ps this is my shower situation:

Pictures

Well im just listening to conference on the internet, and I though I would put some pictures on here. So enjoy!

This is the front of my dorm, Craton Hall. I think it is cool looking.



This is the back side of the student union building. It has a pool inside and a couple of ping pong tables and a couple rooms with big screens to watch movies and stuff



This is Durham Hall, its where all the classes are held.



This is the outside of the Knights Sports Arena, everone calls it "the barn" because it used to be horse stables. Its pretty cool.



My new hat and sunglasses



Its a good thing that my finger is in the way on all of these! Oh well.