So school is crazy and I haven't had much time to blog, or made time for it -- whatever. So here are some brief rundowns.
We went to St. George three weekends in a row before this weekend. Logan came home, which was awesome. Picking him up from Vegas was pretty fun. It was a nice long car ride down to Vegas with my family plus Shellee, and my aunt Jodie and cousin Trisha found us later on the trip. Once the long car ride got over, the long waiting at the air port began. The funniest part about the trip was wandering back and forth between terminals to try and find him. The incoming flights get off on their gate and then ride a train/tram thing to the main area. We didn't know which section of the train he got on so we didn't know which door to wait by. We marched back and forth a lot once we saw people coming off the train to try and find him. We eventually did find him and it was a happy event. We got dinner and then drove home. We (the brothers not named Konner) stayed up fairly late talking those first few nights...good ol brotherly bonding.
Anyways, we finished out the week watching Dixie High School football beat Springville and then we left on Saturday so that we could get back on time to teach sunbeams on Sunday because we couldn't find a sub.
That Monday I gave my two weeks notice at the bookstore and I don't really remember what else happened the rest of that week. We did leave on Friday with the McArthur's to come back down to St. George because my brother was giving his homecoming talk and we were having our western woods fantasy football draft that Sunday night. We also watched DHS play again...and Konner got some decent playing time. Logan gave a great talk...other than he confused Geppetto and Jiminy Cricket in his talk. The draft also went well. Then we came home...and then school started the next day -- dun dun dun.
Monday was orientation and Tuesday, the I Sys Jr. Core began. Good golly there was so much homework that first week. But I got it all done, and I'm hoping to keep the habit up, but who knows. So far so good, but I'm starting to procrastinate more. So Thursday we went to the BYU/Washington St. football game. I had fun and was impressed that BYU's defense did so well. Too bad the game was so late. Friday was another busy day of work, school and homework. My parents came up to watch DHS play Provo. 3 High school football games in 3 weeks. Jocelyn has never been happier. Konner got a little bit of time, so it made it all worth it. Saturday morning was my last day at the bookstore and then we took off with the Pierce's to St. George.
We went to St. George this time for my 5 year high school reunion as well as for my other fantasy football draft. Everything went well, other than after the reunion we went to play pickleball and the lights turned off early on us. Also that Saturday, my brother got engaged...yes that same brother who had been home less than 3 weeks. They will be getting married November 3rd in the St. George Temple, FYI. At least that is what I've been told...I doubt the date changes, but sometimes things change the further you get into planning the wedding. So Monday we came back to Provo and had school week 2 starting Tuesday. This week hasn't been so bad as far as homework goes, but it's still plenty tough.
Wednesday, the NFL kicked off. Let's just say I was very happy. Jocelyn's brother Derek also got in that night so we went to dinner with him and then played Settlers of Catan. I do not have a love for that game as much as I used to. It was a bad game for me overall, but I just got bored so quickly. Intramurals started on Friday, and we got smoked. We were down a man and we didn't have our QB there. Later that night I watched Dixie/PV online (Dixie won) and then on Saturday we went to the BYU/Weber St. game. Today was church, and more fantasy football. Not the best week for me, but I found some silver linings. Derek also left today. It was fun having him stay with us a couple of nights. We did go mini golfing (he beat me by 3 or 4, and I beat Jocelyn by 2-4) and out to eat a couple of times, plus he entertained the cat while he was here.
So that's it. You might not hear from me in a while, but I'm sure you're not complaining about that. Also, everything on my countdown list is done except Disneyland. 37 days left and counting.
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Upcoming Activities
So today at church, I may have been a little bored...I'm no Spencer W. Kimball (at least I think it was him that said he has never been in a boring sacrament meeting)...and so I started going through my calendar to see what was coming up in my life, and now I want to blog about it because I normally don't post positive things on my blog.
In 5 days...I find out if I make it into the Information Systems Junior Core. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on myself, 1. Because I'm awesome, 2. Because I got an A- in the 303 class, 3. If I can't believe on myself, why should anyone else, and 4. see #1. Ok in all seriousness, I'm hoping, but I don't want to get my hopes to high up and then have them crushed, so I'm still waiting anxiously. If I get in, you'll see it on facebook.
In 37 days...My brother Logan gets home from his mission. I'm very excited because even though I've been in college almost the entire time he has been gone, I still miss him. My boss was kind enough to give me the week off that he gets home and so I plan to enjoy it. Too bad he's going to DSC and not coming up here to go to school.
In 56 days...I will have my 5 year reunion in 55 days, and on the day after we will be having our fantasy football draft (a few days after that is NFL kickoff. Instead of making a 60 days, I just thought I'd include it here). That day is definitely one of the top 5 Sunday's of the year. Other's include the Superbowl, Easter, and general conference Sunday's. **Bonus Sunday's** if there are Christmas or birthdays going on, the list gets expanded that year. Maybe I'm a hypocrite for mentioning the Superbowl and Easter in my top 5 Sunday's together, but don't you judge me.
and In 100 days...Disneyland. Really I feel that I should have capitalized the whole word, made it bigger, bolder, italicized, a different color, and included pictures...but that wouldn't follow this blog format and it would give away the 100 days later too soon. Just know that I am excited to go to Disneyland with all my family...which for the first time ever includes Jocelyn. Thanks to my generous parents, they will be flying us down there, covering the hotel, and paying for the tickets. Before you think my parents are loaded, let me say, flyer miles, hotel points...and the Disney tickets are straight cash from their pocket. So like I said, quite nice of them, but they haven't won the lottery (as far as I know). So let me recap, free travel, free lodging, free tickets (for us...thanks again mom and dad), Disneyland, California Adventure, the Beach (eh...not a huge fan, but whatever), with my wife, my brothers, my parents, and no school...yes, I like to think I have great reason to be excited.
Too bad Jocelyn will probably kill me before day 56 or 100 happen because she will get annoyed with me talking about them so much. So there you go, now you know what I'm looking forward to in life. And now it's bed time.
In 5 days...I find out if I make it into the Information Systems Junior Core. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on myself, 1. Because I'm awesome, 2. Because I got an A- in the 303 class, 3. If I can't believe on myself, why should anyone else, and 4. see #1. Ok in all seriousness, I'm hoping, but I don't want to get my hopes to high up and then have them crushed, so I'm still waiting anxiously. If I get in, you'll see it on facebook.
In 37 days...My brother Logan gets home from his mission. I'm very excited because even though I've been in college almost the entire time he has been gone, I still miss him. My boss was kind enough to give me the week off that he gets home and so I plan to enjoy it. Too bad he's going to DSC and not coming up here to go to school.
In 56 days...I will have my 5 year reunion in 55 days, and on the day after we will be having our fantasy football draft (a few days after that is NFL kickoff. Instead of making a 60 days, I just thought I'd include it here). That day is definitely one of the top 5 Sunday's of the year. Other's include the Superbowl, Easter, and general conference Sunday's. **Bonus Sunday's** if there are Christmas or birthdays going on, the list gets expanded that year. Maybe I'm a hypocrite for mentioning the Superbowl and Easter in my top 5 Sunday's together, but don't you judge me.
and In 100 days...Disneyland. Really I feel that I should have capitalized the whole word, made it bigger, bolder, italicized, a different color, and included pictures...but that wouldn't follow this blog format and it would give away the 100 days later too soon. Just know that I am excited to go to Disneyland with all my family...which for the first time ever includes Jocelyn. Thanks to my generous parents, they will be flying us down there, covering the hotel, and paying for the tickets. Before you think my parents are loaded, let me say, flyer miles, hotel points...and the Disney tickets are straight cash from their pocket. So like I said, quite nice of them, but they haven't won the lottery (as far as I know). So let me recap, free travel, free lodging, free tickets (for us...thanks again mom and dad), Disneyland, California Adventure, the Beach (eh...not a huge fan, but whatever), with my wife, my brothers, my parents, and no school...yes, I like to think I have great reason to be excited.
Too bad Jocelyn will probably kill me before day 56 or 100 happen because she will get annoyed with me talking about them so much. So there you go, now you know what I'm looking forward to in life. And now it's bed time.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Illuosry Superiority
***Warning: Sports blog ahead...and even worse than that, it's fantasy football. Feel free to turn back now***
If you know me (chances are that you do if you are reading this on purpose) I think I'm awesome. Hey, at least I can admit I'm somewhat egotistical. Admitting it is the first step, wanting to change is the next step...and I don't plan on getting their anytime soon. Anyways, like I said, I think I'm awesome, but I think most of us feel that way about ourselves. According to the all-knowing Wikipedia this is call Illusory Superiority -- it basically says that we all think we are above average...and I think most people suffer from it, or enjoy it, whatever. So now that we have established we all think we are awesome, I can go on.
I am a lover of sports (my wife still cries about it at nights) and I like to think I know what I'm talking about (blame the I.S.) most of the time. And any time I can talk about sports with someone, I'll do it. I feel especially strong about Fantasy Football. It doesn't help my ego that I won one of my leagues last year and took second in the other, but you can deal with it. So today I was trying to increase my fantasy football knowledge and was reading different articles, rankings, and strategies when I came across a "Bleacher Report" article.
I occasionally read their stuff but not too often because they are people like me (or in my opinion, worse than me) writing for them. I'm sure they have well-written articles and insightful information, but I haven't found it yet. Again, maybe this is the I.S. talking, but I feel like I could write wonders for them. Anyways, I'll give credit to Kurt Saunders because he actually writes for them and I don't, but his article was awful. I'll let you read it because I don't want to rehash everything he said (although it validates his article and gives him clicks...dangit!) but he basically said don't draft a certain 5 guys in the first round. I would easily take 4 of them in the first round and one of them number one (Arian Foster). Now maybe he plays in a very different league than I do, with standard scoring...and only 6-8 teams, but his advice was awful. Basically he wants your first round to be something like this
Ray Rice
LeSean McCoy
MJD
Aaron Rodgers
Marshawn Lynch
Ryan Mathews
Matt Forte
and after this I have no idea, so I'll make something up trying to use his logic.
Murray
Gronk
Graham
DMC
Steven Jackson
But that's a stretch because while he makes some interesting points, he eliminates too many people.
If you know this guy, get him in a 12 team PPR league where all TD's are 6 points...and make it for some serious cash. You'll thank me for it later.
So anyways, to wrap this all together, thanks to I.S. I thought I could be a decent sports writer (decent meaning nothing but educated opinions and stats from ESPN and other sites to back me up) on my blog or something, but Kurt's writing has inspired me to admit I too suffer from I.S. While I wont give up trying to talk sports, I will use Kurt as my inspiration to battle I.S., do some research, and to not be argumentative just to be argumentative. And again, please, if you know him, put him in your big money league...and invite me to join.
If you know me (chances are that you do if you are reading this on purpose) I think I'm awesome. Hey, at least I can admit I'm somewhat egotistical. Admitting it is the first step, wanting to change is the next step...and I don't plan on getting their anytime soon. Anyways, like I said, I think I'm awesome, but I think most of us feel that way about ourselves. According to the all-knowing Wikipedia this is call Illusory Superiority -- it basically says that we all think we are above average...and I think most people suffer from it, or enjoy it, whatever. So now that we have established we all think we are awesome, I can go on.
I am a lover of sports (my wife still cries about it at nights) and I like to think I know what I'm talking about (blame the I.S.) most of the time. And any time I can talk about sports with someone, I'll do it. I feel especially strong about Fantasy Football. It doesn't help my ego that I won one of my leagues last year and took second in the other, but you can deal with it. So today I was trying to increase my fantasy football knowledge and was reading different articles, rankings, and strategies when I came across a "Bleacher Report" article.
I occasionally read their stuff but not too often because they are people like me (or in my opinion, worse than me) writing for them. I'm sure they have well-written articles and insightful information, but I haven't found it yet. Again, maybe this is the I.S. talking, but I feel like I could write wonders for them. Anyways, I'll give credit to Kurt Saunders because he actually writes for them and I don't, but his article was awful. I'll let you read it because I don't want to rehash everything he said (although it validates his article and gives him clicks...dangit!) but he basically said don't draft a certain 5 guys in the first round. I would easily take 4 of them in the first round and one of them number one (Arian Foster). Now maybe he plays in a very different league than I do, with standard scoring...and only 6-8 teams, but his advice was awful. Basically he wants your first round to be something like this
Ray Rice
LeSean McCoy
MJD
Aaron Rodgers
Marshawn Lynch
Ryan Mathews
Matt Forte
and after this I have no idea, so I'll make something up trying to use his logic.
Murray
Gronk
Graham
DMC
Steven Jackson
But that's a stretch because while he makes some interesting points, he eliminates too many people.
If you know this guy, get him in a 12 team PPR league where all TD's are 6 points...and make it for some serious cash. You'll thank me for it later.
So anyways, to wrap this all together, thanks to I.S. I thought I could be a decent sports writer (decent meaning nothing but educated opinions and stats from ESPN and other sites to back me up) on my blog or something, but Kurt's writing has inspired me to admit I too suffer from I.S. While I wont give up trying to talk sports, I will use Kurt as my inspiration to battle I.S., do some research, and to not be argumentative just to be argumentative. And again, please, if you know him, put him in your big money league...and invite me to join.
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