Wake up calls

I hate being woken up in the morning. It is the worst thing. Ever. What's worse is when I get woken up on the weekends. Now a shout out to my cousin's fiance Jessica...the guilty culprit. I usually give her angry words every weekend because she calls and I am woken up in the process (side note:her and Brady are in St. George for the weekend) because his phone is on loud or he talks loud. Now, I'm not blogging to rag on her, but rather to thank her.

This morning Brady got a phone call and I thought it was early, and I asked him why she was calling at 7...He said ya, 7, whatever you say. Turns out it was 9:45 and I had class at 10...the class where I had stayed up till 2 the night before writing a paper. So thanks to the wake up call, I was able to get up and turn in my American Heritage paper. Brady, thanks for the ride...Jessica, thank you for waking me up...at least for now. I'm sure I'll be mad next weekend again, but we can work that out later.

3 (almost 4) day weekend

It's almost here...I only have on class at 10, and very little homework, and then I'm free. Hopefully I can be done with everything by about noon...that would be epic. I don't know what I'm going to do with all the free time... any suggestions out there? I'm thinking a nap is in place for sure. Maybe a movie. Maybe not, I just don't know.

I really don't have much to say, but I like saying it, so here come some statements... some important, some not so much.

1. Have you ever noticed how light it is when there is a cloud cover at midnight? All the lights on reflect off the clouds. It's actually pretty cool.
2. The fantasy football page just updated the history section, so now you can go in and see how the season went if you so desire. Most of you wont, but just in case you do... you can click your way on over to see it. Kudos to Geoff. That season was legen... wait for it...dary. as a side note, I love Barney Stinson... and posting hyperlinks...except when I can't post pictures of Barney Stinson... Go do a google image search if you want to know.
3. Coach Miller - Made some not so good choices, but I'm still cheering for you coach.
4. I've had to relive MJ pushing of Bryon Russel twice in the past 2 days. FML
5. That is all
6. Goodnight

Free T-Shirts

I love free stuff. There is just nothing better. When you're a poor college student, you take what you can get. This week it was 3 t-shirts for free...and maybe a chance for more tomorrow. In my Tuesday class, the I Sys club (i think it was them) came and gave a presentation and then asked questions. I answered the first one, got a t shirt and went back to not caring. Great way to get a t shirt. It's not the best looking shirt, but it was free.

Today, Glenwood had their 20th annual "Polar Bear Plunge". They opened up the pool and let you swim one lap to get a sick blue t shirt. So we (Adam, Seth, Brady, and me) went and did that, followed by the fire and ice challenge. We had already completed the ice (swimming) part, but after that included eating a cup of chili. It wasn't overly spicy, but it was very hot. A little hard to put down -- the roof of my mouth is burnt -- but we did it for another t shirt. It wasn't as cool as the first, but still awesome nonetheless.

That was about it for the day...I took a nap during accounting homework, listened to Jocelyn and her mom plan the wedding...and I don't really remember what else; naps make me forget things. So that's it for today, although I do need to give a random shout out to a certain female...you know who you are... (not Jocelyn) no using my blog posts against me or anyone else. This is a safe space, free of judgement. No need to get mad for nectar runs or awesome polar bear t shirts. That is all. Peace out world wide web.

French Fries

Today was relatively stress free. No homework for tomorrow, no crazy classes, work was put off for another day... it was good... minus all the reading I did for American Heritage and still only scraped a 79, but I wont let it get me down. Besides, no one does well in that class, right? So I caught up on some tv shows while Jocelyn talked to her mom about the wedding and reception and honeymoon and lots of other stuff. It was great...they talked and I watched how I met your mother and the community. I am so helpful sometimes.

So why french fries? Because they are simple, yet thoughtful and awesome. One thing about my relationship with Jocelyn that makes me so happy is the little things we do for each other. We will sometimes "fight" to see who gets to do what. Like some days we have a wrestling match to get to the tv to see who can change the channel. Or today when we had a race to the garbage to throw it away or to get the mail (I won both times). I must say, I love having someone who is willing to do that kind of stuff for me, and that I love doing that kind of stuff for her....anyways, back to french fries.

So I'm a fan of doing small things for Jocelyn. Today she had to grade about 9 papers for her writing fellows job and she was dialed in... no distractions or anything. I left around 10 45, which is early for me to leave, and i went home. However, me being the sneaky person I am, I wanted to do something for her to be nice while she was working: enter french fries. We love the wendys fries and so I decided before I left I would get her some.

After a quick nectar (Dr. Pepper) run with brady, I got the fries and went to Jocelyn's apartment and dropped them off. I decided to have some fun with it. Her roommate Amy opened the door and I told her to shhh... (not let Jocelyn know it was me) and I told her to give the fries to Jocelyn. Corny and lame? maybe. Worth it? yes. i ran off, brady drove away, and about 2 minutes later I got a text from Jocelyn.

So maybe it was lame, but I enjoyed it because I was able to do something small for my fiance...I love calling her that... and i really like doing small things for her. I figure if i get good enough at it, we should have a perfectly fine relationship. So today, I would like to thank Wendy's fries for making that possible.

Weddings and Countdowns

Today, Justin and Kinsey were married. It was a very nice event and I'm happy for the both of them. I was able to go to the sealing, luncheon and reception (perks of being family) and it was all very enjoyable. The food was good, as was their video. The sealing didn't take long and I enjoyed the comments from the sealer. The reception had an ice cream bar...yes, it was awesome. I had seconds...I had thirds on the cheesecake at the luncheon. Anyways, moving on away from the food...

They gave me some advice for my wedding coming up soon* but I figure I'll ask them again in a couple of weeks when their minds aren't so frazzled. One thing that Justin said that I know I will need help with is the smiling. I'm not a smiler, so pictures and lines will be tough on me. Oh well. One last final shout out to the new happy couple: Justin looked fly in the white tux and Kinsey looked beautiful. Despite their long day you could see the happiness in their faces. Good luck guys.

So, now to the me part of this blog. My wedding day wont get here fast enough. Jocelyn and I talked about it today, because that's just what you do at other peoples' weddings...and it needs to hurry up. Sometimes time just goes too slow. I suppose we'll need the time to get ready and everything, so that's a benefit, but I still really want to be married. I guess I'll just need to learn patience until then.

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2 Weeks...

Where to begin? Oh man, life has been hectic these past two weeks. Get engaged and BYU dumps more work on you than you know what do do with. It's worth it though. Too bad I've missed the past 2 weeks of blogging. I don't know whether to blog about Jimmer, the Superbowl, losing 2 free cafe rio meals when I had a straight, Jimmer, trying to plan a wedding, being in St. George twice, Jimmer, or this "bachelor party" we did for my cousin.

St. George

yes, it's awesome

Poker

I went all in with 3 people left on the straight draw... I got it...but Chad had me called and had a flush draw and got it on the final card...grr... but we finished top two in both cafe rio events, so it's fair

Superbowl

Good game, good party, good crowd, good fun. Didn't get back to provo till after 12, but it was worth it

Jimmer
If you haven't seen all the Jimmerness on facebook, you're beyond hope, but he's awesome, i hopefully can catch the game tomorrow.

Bachelor party

It wasn't much, as awesome cousins, we bought justin a glacier from frostop... the after party is when he left for home and me colby and brady watched the social network. you should all be jealous.... on the topic, early congrats to justin and kinsey and their wedding tomorrow

School

It hasn't been that bad, I like what I'm learning in I sys 201 and Acc 200, but it's challenging. I don't mind it too much...yet

Well, there is the summary of my last two weeks. hopefully i'll blog again and more consistently

January 31st

Greatest day of my life to this point? YES. I'm tired, so I'll jump to the points I'm making, which are three.

1. January 31st 2010, I asked a girl I had known for about two weeks to be my girlfriend, hoping to have some fun and get back into dating 2 months after my mission...nothing serious. She was fun and I wanted to get to know her better. That was a great decision.

2. January 31st 2011 at 11:10 am...one of the kids I baptized found me on facebook. I hadn't heard from him in a year and he told me that he was still active, 1st counselor in the young mens presidency, that some other kids were still active and that he was going to start his mission papers soon. Simply an amazing feeling 14 months after my mission ended and about 17 months since he was baptized, and there are still blessings to be seen. I loved my mission and just today made those 2 years worth it. Fortunately, I've been blessed with more days than just today.

3. January 31st 2011 9:45 pm. I asked the same amazing girl that I asked to be my girlfriend a year ago to be my wife...in the same place I asked her to be my girlfriend. Best decision I have ever made. We are both so excited that it's ridiculous. I can't wait. It's great to see the 2 biggest decisions of my life (Mission and Jocelyn) come together in one day to make it the best day of my life.