Pics

These are from the first team we played in Memphis. I was going to take more but my camera was acting a little funny and wasnt working the rest of the trip. Too bad because the second team we played had such a nice field. It was really nice. I was jealous. We leave for North Carolina tomorrow. We are staying overnight again, so that will be a fun one I think. Thats about it

Im Back

Well I got back last night at 5:30am, that was rough. Not a very fun drive in a van. It was a long trip. I tried to sleep, but everytime I would get close, or comfortable, I would just get so uncomfortable and awkward, so I had to move and stuff. It was tough. But that is about as far as we have to travel I think, so at least it is out of the way. We lost all four of our games, I did alright this tourny, especially the last two games. That wasnt too bad. We just couldnt put anything together really. Hopefully we start getting things together. If you want to check out how we are doing, you can check out our school's website. You can just navigate around and see whatever you want to see on it. I really dont care what you see!
Thats it for now.

MEMPHIS!!

Well Im off to Memphis, wish me luck!! I will take pictures for you to see.
Oh by the way, it snowed like 4 inches here on tuesday. Pretty crazy

I got this from Mark Smith

Brrrr

I bought a small heater fan thingy today. I couldnt take it anymore! This morning, the thermostat needle was below all the numbers! This is all crazy. The housing lady is supposed to come over and get a guy to fix it, but I just am going to use mine in the room because my room is almost colder than all the other ones. It is supposed to be this cold for a while which is definately not a good sign.

This picture is of my genious invention to keep my legs warm during practice yesterday. I was pretty proud of it. It worked too! If you cant tell, that is an extra pair of my long sleeves, and I just tied a not at the top to keep it around my waist!

Cold

Oh man, it is so cold today! It is 19 DEGREES!! The wind is just terrible too. Our heater in the house barely works too, so the house is like 65 degrees no matter how hot you put it. It is so bad! My room is especially bad because of the windows, we have 5 in our room alone. I hate it!! We have practice outside today, and it is going to be just miserable! I am not excited.
In other news, I forgot to tell anyone, but on Sunday, I was called to be a teacher in Elders quarum every 2nd Sunday. We will just have to see how that goes. I start this Sunday, but I actually might not even be there because we will be coming back from our game. Who knows. I will only have to teach 3 lessons total, so that wont be too bad I guess. Yep

SVU vs. Averett

Check it out! This is a crazy site that Lumpy showed me, you can design your own m & m to look like you, or whatever you want. Its pretty funny.
In other news, we lost both games today. The first game was 5-2 I think, and the second was like 8-0. We played pretty well the whole time in both games, our pitching was good, and our hitting was not too bad, we just couldnt come up with the big hits to score runs, and we werent catching any breaks. They got so many lucky bounces, and stuff like that. Both games we had just about one bad inning where they broke the lead open, and put it out of reach. Some of it was our fault, but most of it was just that the ball wasnt falling our way. Oh well, it was a good day overall, I feel pretty good about it. I played center both games, I didnt hit too great, but I was hitting everything hard, jus right at someone. I almost took one out, the guy ran it down on the warning track in left center about 385 feet. If the wind hadnt been blowing so bad, I would have hit it out. Oh well. It was a good day. I am glad that we are started, its good to be back. Now we know how good we can actually be if we do the little things right. So there

New Uni's!!!

Check it out!!!! Not too shabby huh??

Windshield

Well after all fall and basically winter, I finally am getting my cracked windsheild replaced. I am getting it done thursday. The bad thing is that I have to leave my car there all day. I would have done it earlier, but I could never find the right place to do it, and then when I finally did, I would check out the place and it would be closed on Saturdays. How stupid is that? Saturday is the day to do that kind of stuff! I couldnt believe it! Same story with oil places and stuff. I dont understand how they do it. Oh well.
In other news, I sold 2 of my books from last semester on amazon for a little over $120.00 total. I am pretty glad about that!
Thats about it
We play on Sat.!

Mike Tyson

So I have been playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out lately, and I am addicted! I am stuck on Mike though, he is so hard to beat! I only have made it to the second round with him once, and then I just got dominated! Dont worry, I will make you all proud and beat him, then I will take a picture for posterity reasons.
I really dont have much else to say right now, so see ya

Swimmin'

We still cant get out on the field because it is too muddy, but we were supposed to just throw and hit, and for our conditioning we were had to swim for a half hour. Well it turns out that we had people late and forget stuff, so we had to do some killer sprints forever. Our coaches were not happy at all. But needless to say, the swimming was hard at first because we did laps, and then we just messed around, it was so fun. It was good conditioning, but it didnt even seem like it because it was fun. Well thats about it. Its Friday night, and I need to party!! ha ha just kidding, I dont even think we are doing anything.
See ya

Oh mom,I sent letters to aunt veda and aunt rhonda, and I got my contacts yesterday, thanks!

New Fleece

This is my new fleece that we got today. It is pretty cool, we can only wear it to practice and games, so it is kind of a bummer, but they are cool anyway.





It is SO COLD outside!! I freeze at practice! The wind is so bad. All we can wear to practice is long sleeves. I never can get warm.

Stupid house

No one ever cleans our house, it drives me CRAZY!! I am always the only one that ever does anything. I just got done cleaning the kitchen, it was so bad. No one does their dishes, or puts stuff away. Tomorrow is when the RA comes and does a house check, and it seems like I am the only one that ever cares. Last week I cleaned the bathroom, and I did a dang good job if you ask me! I cant stand it when everything is just dirty everywhere. I cant just let it sit there, I have to do something about it, because I know that if I dont do it, it will never get done. GRRR this is tough stuff!!

New internet and stuff

I finally just got my internet working today. I had to buy a new wireless card becuase I think I fried the last one. But now its working like a charm.
One of my classes got cancelled today, that was AWESOME!!! I love it when that happens. I was done with school at 10:00 today. Here is a picture of my car after the storm. It was completely covered. The white part it at least an inch thick. It was so bad.






This is our HUGE 50 inch tv





This is some random sign that is in the middle of the city, I thought it was funny

Frain

Today I had my first experience with freezing rain. It was crazy! It has been doing it all day, and the ground is just covered with ice. It was really weird. I am glad I didnt have to drive anywhere, because I dont think that my car would be able to handle it, especially since I live on a huge hill. Crazy stuff.
So we have been watching Prison Break all week. We all finished season one yesterday, and they have all been catching up on the beginning of season 2 to get ready for the next episode tomorrow night, so that is a pretty funny thing. Everyone at the house is completely hooked, its funny!

Some random thoughts

Well I am just sitting in the library killing time during study hall. It is pretty boring. I got my work done, and now I have nothing to do. I have to come for baseball so thats a bummer. It has been so cold lately. Practice has so freakin cold this week!! It has been so bad. I can never feel my hands, and it is so hard to run. We have been doing a lot of running, and my legs are so sore!! I can barely get out of bed in the morning. Oh well, I am hitting pretty good so that is encouraging. I think that we will have a pretty good team, I am excited!
School is going good, I really like my institute class. I am taking a Book of Mormon class from Mosiah to Moroni. My teacher is a couple missionary in this area, and he teaches 3 or 4 classes. He is a really good teacher. He taught at Utah State before this mission. He really keeps you involved and interested. Good stuff. We actually have 2 sets of couple missionaries here it is a pretty cool thing.
I need to buy groceries pretty bad. I havent shopped since I first got here, and all I bought was cereal, milk, P, B and J fixins, and some Brats for the good ole George Foreman. Oh man those were so good!!
We have 3 George's at the house, its funny. Mine is the medium size, another one is newer and smaller, and there is a really wide one too. Its funny, the people that own the grills dont usually cook on their own one.
Anyway, that is about it for now.
Have a good one

My southern virginia university education

So I like my school schedule. I am done a 12:00 on MWF and I have an 8:00 class and 1:00 instutute on Tue Thur. I like it, Its nice to be done so early. I think that I will really like my astronomy class. It has been really interesting so far, and the teacher is really good. He is good at keeping everyone interested, and he is a pretty cool guy. I really am going to like my athletic training class too. I have I think 7 other guys on the team in the class with me, so it is fun. Plus the teacher is the athletic trainer here, and he and I get along well. He is really a cool guy. He is the one who taught my volleyball class.
Well thats about it for now, I have to finish my laundry, and then go to practice.

TTFN

Practice and some KILLER ladybugs

Well I had a post that talked about my first practice today, but it got erased, so lets just summarize and say that it went well, and it was good to be back! My hands are getting torn up though so thats not to cool.
I am pretty sore from lifting this morning; we did legs, and my legs were so tired for practice. I could barely run normal when we ran at the end. It was hard.

Oh, we pretty much have hundreds of ladybugs in our room. It is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. We are the only room with them, and they just chill by the lights. You can always here them banging on the lights, I just dont get it. The gross thing is that the guy that lived in this room before left his stuff over Christmas, and there were dead ladybugs all over the room when we got in. He had a mini fidge, and there were tons under it, and they were spread out over the floor. Stupid ladybugs! I just vaccuumed the room, and that made it look ten times better. I couldnt do it before because I thought that the vacuum was broken, and of coarse no one esle would do it, so there ya have it.
Dad, did you ever get ladybugs on your mission? Or how about you in Jersey, Chad?
Kind of a weird phenomenon if you ask me.
Well thats about it for me.
Talk to y'all later


Happy Birthday Staci and Clark by the way.

Ahoy

Today was a good day. I am supposed to go to a new ward because I moved, but I decided to stay in the same one. I am really glad that I am. I like my ward a lot. There are a lot of people that didnt come back this semester. We have like a 3 to 1 girl to guy ratio, its funny.
Man, I just got done watching 24. It was pretty good; intense as always. I am glad the good shows are finally coming back on tv. Prison Break has really got me excited.
So I bought some Listerine, and it came with a free trail container of Listerine Whitening. You use it before you brush, and after like 12 weeks you get results. I think it will be pretty cool, except you swish it for a minute, and it has hydrogen peroxide in it, and it is making my tongue feel weird. Oh well, it is just a price I will have to pay I guess!
Farewell

More pics

Well we found out today that Josh could move in with us. He got a single room in our house for the same price as us because he couldnt stand living with the other people in his house. It is funny that all four of us live in the same house: Me, Kellen, Josh and Dustin.

Speaking of Josh... I called him today, or so I thought. I put Josh Burton's number in my phone at the Christmas party, and i accidently called him today. It was so weird at first. He said at first he was wondering if there was something wrong or something like that. It was a surprise for both of us. Pretty funny.
Well I should be sleeping right now, so here are some more pictures for your viewing pleasures

The kitchen is on the top floor, its weird. The house is a split level house.

This is my side of the room

This is Kellen's side

The New Mustachio

I accidently erased the last picture of my mustache, so here is another one.
fyi i dont have it any more so settle down! ha ha

Pics

I got it to work, so here they are


This is where the new dorm is going to be built, its right behind the house

This water tower is why its called the tower house

Howdy

Well I am back in BV. It isnt too bad yet, I had one class today: it was English. It was not too bad, plus I have a lot of friends in the class, so I am not too worried about it. I think this semester wont be too hard at all. Its still pretty warm out here. I am just about completely moved in. My room is pretty sweet, it is so big. I will put pictures on here, but it didnt work when I tried it, so I will do it later.

Grettings from the B.V.

All packed up and ready to go!

See y'all at home!

ALL DONE!!!

WOO HOO!! That test was easy. I dominate!!

Last day of school!

Well right now I am just inbetween taking my last test today. I just took my health final, so now all I have left is art history in a couple hours. Health was a piece of cake, I think I aced it with ease. I am a little worried for art history because there is a lot more material than was on previous tests, so I am hitting the books pretty hard in a few minutes. So with that note, I will see everyone in a couple days!!

Philosophy

Well I just took my philosophy test today. It was so hard!! It was similar format as the previous tests, but more questions, and covered more material. It was so hard! I studied so long, and I still couldnt remember half of the arguments that I needed to memorize. I dont even care anymore, because it is over! I am thinking my grade will be somewhere in the C range. Oh well. I have two more tests, both on friday. They shouldnt be too bad.

2 DOWN.......

English tomorrow... shouldnt be too hard. I am not worried about it at all. It is an open book test with an essay at the end. Not too shabby.

Plasma

So Wednesday, and today at the b-ball game at halftime one of the sponsors of the basketball team came in and had a contest to give away a 42" plasma tv. It was intense, the whole school was there pretty much. They drew tickets like a raffle, and 2 people went at a time, and had 30 seconds to make a layup, a free throw, and three pointer, and half court. No one could get it under 30, so they moved it to 45, then tonight they moved it to a minute, and finally a kid got it. It was intense, the whole place was going crazy!! I wanted to try it! The night before we were in the gym and we tryed it, and i just couldnt make the half courter. Tough stuff. Oh well it was cool to see, even though it should have been me!!

Amazing Comeback!

Plano East-John Tyler 1994 Football

Best comeback ever!!! Watch the whole thing because it is intense. Remember the black team is down 41-17...

Laundry

Hey Y'all
So I just had the biggest laundry day of my life today! I had to do so much of it! I am glad it is done though, because I actually have stuff to wear. I went to Wal-Mart and bought some more hangers so I could free up some room in my drawers, and I am pretty excited about that too. Maybe I am just a nerd. Probably.
Thats about it for now
See yuh

Hi everyone, its been a while. Our mens and womens basketball teams each hosted a 4 team tournament. The guys team beat the two schools they played by like 90 combined points. They were both pretty terrible teams, but it was fun to watch because we just dominated them. The baseball team was in charge of taking the money to get in, and so I did that for two games, it was kinda fun.
So I have been playing Rampart on Nintendo a lot lately. Me and Alex (both of them) have been addicted to it lately, because it is a way fun 2 player game, and it is just addicting. I love it!
This is the last week of classes, it has gone by so fast! I cant believe it!
I just found out that Dustin Tycksen is for sure going to come out here next semester. He called me and told me, and then asked me what all my classes were, so he could be in them all, it was pretty funny.

New glove

I got my new baseball mitt today, it is pretty nice, but definately not a Rawlings. I played catch with it today, and it is pretty stiff, but overall I think I like it. I did a powerpoint presentation today for my computers class, that was the last assignment in that class before the final. I have an easy A in that class, so I am pretty happy about that. The only class that I am pretty worried about the final is in Philosophy. I am not good at understanding everything in that class. From what he said today, the final is going to be a lot harder than the other tests we have taken. At least we have the whole week off the week before finals so I can cram as much as I can in my noggin.
Here are some more pictures:

Back to work

So, today has been a good day, I only had 2 classes, Institute, and Art History. So basically I only had one real class so that was nice! I dad and I bought my plane tickets home, and we got a good deal! I am going on jetBlue, and it is only costing $250.00! that is a steal compared to the other carriers. The next cheapest flight I could find was $383.00 from Delta. I am proud of my findings!! I only have 18 days left before I come home by the way! I got my film developed from my other disposable camera here are some of my favorites from that roll.
I dont know know what this orange stuff is... weird

Killer hat hair
The hill is a lot steeper than it looks

My day and stuff

I basiclly have run out of room on my hard drive, so I am trying to figure out how to fix it, but I am not smart, and I probably will do more damage than good. The basic problem is my music. I am doing a defragmentation right now, so hopefully that clears up some room for me. Thats about all I have to say about that.
I am back in VA and I spent a total of 13 hours traveling today. (including the 2 hours I lost in the time change, airport waiting, etc.) Pretty big day I would have to say.
So Dad and I got all the way to the airport, and I realized that I forgot my keys at home. Not a god feeling at all. We called mom, and she made a mad dash to the airport, and dad went and met her, and brought them to me just in time for me to wait in line for security and just make the flight. Pretty nerve-racking experience. I dont recommend it. I was close to pulling out hair, but it turned out to work, so no big deal.
The end.

i just went to my last class i had to go to before i leave to come home... woo hoo!!

Check it out times 2!!

Howie Day - Ghost + Beams of Light

this is awesome too! i wish i could see it live

CHECK IT OUT!!!

Order of the Phoenix Trailer

It is dark because it is from a movie screen, but this is the real deal!
Excited?

My talk

Well I just finished preparing my talk. It should go pretty well, it wasnt a hard subject to talk about I think. I will fill you in on how it goes.
Last night I got some good sleepin'. I went to bed around 1:00 so that wasnt too great, but I slept until around 1:00. I was so happy becuase I usually dont sleep in very long. I was out like a light last night too, Kellen was playing nintendo in the other room, and I just was sick of it so I went to bed and I fell asleep almost instantly, which is almost miraculous for me. I always take forever to fall asleep. Anyway, I am glad I went to bed, because they stayed up until 3:00 playing a football game. They are crazy they are playing as we speak actually.
Tonight was the Stake General Priesthood Meeting. It was a good one, I enjoyed it. I it is strange how small the stake is here though, it only went to one overflow, and the stake center is the exact same church design as the Dunsinane church, so there werent many guys there. It make me remember that the last time I went to a Stake General Priesthood meeting back home I spoke! I had to speak to a lot more people than was there today, thats for sure! I had never spoken in front of that many people before. But I dominated, so it was all good.
I need to go to bed.
Travis sorry I didnt write back to you today, I always just leave the computer on so it looked like I was online, but I wasnt there. Too bad. I liked the song though, much better than the original!
ok bye

Pictures from when Alex went to NYC

Some pictures of the leaves on the way to Richmond

Our soccer team lost today. They made it to the semi's but they lost. Everyone is good though because they are mostly all on the soccer team, and our team didnt have any soccer players and we went far, so that was pretty cool. I couldnt play the last 2 days of games because of my bum toe. Oh well.
I have been listening to a lot of like "chill" music lately. Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Matt Costa, Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love and basically anyone that sounds like Jack Johnson. Good Stuff.
The End

MY TOE!!

So I was playing intramural indoor soccer on monday night and I did a slide tackle, which led to a very painful experience. Somehow my big toe got affected by this offensive attack. I did something to the ligaments. I had volleyball on tuesday, but I couldnt play so after class I had the trainer look at it (he is my volleyball teacher) Its almost a sprain but I dont know. He just told me to stay off of it for a while. Pretty weird. It hurts pretty bad, its way swollen and it is bruised too. I took a picture of it, and I will get that on here asap because it is cool looking. Now I kind of know why when football players sit out a game because of turf toe or something like that. It HURTS!! I cant even bend my toe at all. Its funny.

This is someone else's dirty grubby toe that I found on google, but you get the idea. It actually kinda looks like this but with more bruise

The Streak is OVER!!

Wow so it has been a few days since my last post. I have had a pretty busy weekend and stuff. Friday, we played b-ball, and then we went and watched Nacho Libre. Good movie. "Its the best, I LOVE it!" ha ha. Saturday I went bowling with a huge group it was way fun. There were 17 of us. I did increasingly worse after every game. Oh well it was fun. Sunday was a good relaxing day, and then we went to our coach's house and had dinner and watched football. That was fun to get together.
On friday, we had a baseball meeting, and one guy was 15 minutes late. Late = BAD NEWS!!!
Today we had to do ladders in the gym in under 27 seconds. That is absolutely impossible. I couldnt even do it. We did about 10 of those, and remember this is all at 6am. Well to put it mildly, we had about 5 people throwing up. Not fun. I broke my streak of 6 years without throwing up. It technically wasnt a real throw up, I did some dry heaves, and then on the last one, about a tablespoon's worth of stuff came out. DANG! I had a good streak!
The only funny thing about that is after dinner, I was telling Kellen about my little streak, and we talked about the Seinfeld where Jerry had a 13 year streak. Sure enough, that episode was on 20 minutes later!! What a strange coincidence!!
Another funny thing about that episode, a different part of that episode Elaine was talking about how a guy named Alex that sat next to her in Art History in college was annoying, and my friend Alex sits next to me in Art History, and he was watching tv with us!! CRAZY!!
Tonight is soccer. Pretty pumped about that.
Thats about all I have to say about that.
See ya.

LOST!!!

WHY IS LOST NOT ON UNTIL FEBRUARY??!!! I hate tv they do this to you on prupose just to make eveyone mad. I cant take it anymore. Man im going crazy, tv is all there is to do here! ha ha ha. Prison Break is pretty good so far, if that stops until february I will rage though. Stupid tv.
I am a little aggrivated with itunes. I preordered a cd last week, and I keep trying to download it but there is something wrong with it and it jsut says to try back later, but it still doesnt work. I dont appreciate it.
I think I am going to bed. I got a good nap in today after class from like 11:00 until around 3:30. It was a good one. I think that is a sign that I need more sleep though, because I was out. I usually dont take very long naps. So without further adieu, I am going to bed.

These are both from the State Playoffs against Jordan. I thought they were pretty cool.

So today I took a test in Art History. Not good. I definately didnt do good on it. It feels like i didnt even have time to study for it. Last week was pretty busy. But it was harder than the other ones have been. Everyone didnt think that they did too good on it.
Yesterday I drove to the airport again to pick up Alex. It was a good trip. I liked being able to be by myself for a while. It was a good way to relax and unwind.
Today was the first home basketball game, it was a good one. We won 90 something to 78ish. It was a fast paced intense game. It was our first win too so that was good. They are 1-2 now. It was cool because the gym is small and the ceilings are low, so it got pretty loud in there. Good stuff. Its raining right now, it rains like in a mist, but it just comes down way hard. Really different than back home.
I dont really have anything else to say right now so see ya.

Stuff

Well its been a while, but things are about the same around here. I have been pretty busy with homework and dodgeball. As soon as I can, I will put some pictures up on here, I just have to finish out my camera. My t-shirt for dodgeball is pretty sweet though! Friday was the first time that I didnt get really any sleep. I had dodgeball thursday night and that didnt get over until 12:00 and the, and I had to finish up a presentation that I was doing in Art History the next day and I stayed up until 2:00 doing that and then I had to get up at 5:30 that morning for lifting. I was so tired, I slept through one of my classes and I slept through the devotional. It was crazy! After my last class I took a really good nap though. It all works out.
Last night was pretty cool, we went to Roanoke and went to TGI Friday and then we went and saw The Prestige. That movie was AWESOME!!! I really liked it, I want to see it again so I can pick up some more things that I missed. It was a fun day. We had a pretty big group that went so it was fun.
Tomorrow I am going back to Richmond to pick up Alex, so that will be pretty interesting. I had a good trip when I went on Thursday, I actually enjoyed being away for a while. Pretty relaxing. I like driving long distances, I guess I get that all from Dad, becuse Mom doesnt like it. I think that is funny!
Time is winding down until I get home! I cant wait!!

DODGEBALL

INTRAMURAL

CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

I dont really have anything to write about. Hmmm tomorrow I am driving Alex to Richmond to the airport. It is a 2 1/2 hour drive. I am actually kind of looking forward to it.