Another Sunday Afternoon

I was thinking this week how a blog can really become a modern day journal.  I guess that's kind of cool.  Lucky for me no one really looks at my blog so it can just be a journal if I'd like it to be and google will just keep it online for me.  I was thinking about how it could be fun someday to look back at a journal and remember small details of things that have happened.  Now I just need to figure out what those small details should be.  It snowed like crazy yesterday and I had to go down to Provo to take a grammar test.  Never really has been a strong suit of mine.  Far too many rules to follow.  I got a 77 percent.  Probably better than I would have done at the beginning of the semester.  Oh well.  What can you do? I might get a chance to retake it.  Although I am not really sure that I'd like to retake it, that test gave me a major headache.  After that I had an intramural basketball game to play in.  It was ugly.  Our team has played four games and we have lost them all by double digits.  It's with a couple mission buddies and none of them are very good.  Until yesterday I hadn't been playing that well either but yesterday I had a really good game.  I had 14 of our teams 22 points.  Maybe if they would have gotten me the ball more it would have been a closer game but too late now. Hopefully next game will be different.  I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure I had all of our teams points in the second half.  Having one player score is never very good for a team. Well I did what I could to help the team win and enjoyed making some shots again.  Shooting deep 3's and step back fade away 3's like the old days is really fun. Even though I did not do very well on my grammar test I still look at many of my sentences in these posts and realize how poorly they are formatted.  Hopefully Professor Clarke does not read these too carefully, but if he does then hope he enjoys this!  That's all for now.  Start another long week tomorrow!

Saturday Mornings

Well it's another Saturday. Thank goodness it's a 3 day weekend to catch up on some homework and sleep.  Kelsey right now is off to lacrosse practice; she was named the head coach this week!  Although it's awesome that she's head coach now I'm sitting here on Saturday wondering what to do.  The only things there really are to do is do some homework or watch some infomercials.  Right now I'm doing both.  There's some commercial about a healthy eating plan, a skin cream for aging, a "hurry cane", and something to get rid of hard water.  As I'm watching I can't help but think about this marketing class I'm in and analyzing the commercial.  It's actually interesting that despite all the ridiculous customers they show they really are trying to show reasons that people that use the product love it.  They are selling to the swing group through the eyes of the love group as Dr. Swenson would say.  I feel like such a loser right now.  I'm doing all kinds of lame things.  Oh well, maybe I should just buy one of the workouts then I'd have something to do! But would I really do it... that is the one-hundred forty dollar question.
 Well time to move onto my next homework project which hopefully isn't more writing because I'm really not good at this whole thing.

Sad sad week

I'm not sure I've ever had a week quite like this week.  I had three midterms to take: linear algebra, probability, and marketing.  Fun times for me.  Hopefully they go better than last semester's tests did. Believe it or not that was not the worst part of my week.  Maybe I'm a little too invested in sports.

49ers finally made it back to the Super Bowl only to get my hopes up and lose on the final drive of the game.  It was a sad night. Not to mention that it was 4 1/2 hours long! I had to sit through 4 1/2 hours to watch my team lose.  The day before Kansas basketball lost for the first time in 18 games. That's not too bad but it was sad.  It got ugly when they lost the next game to TCU and then their next game to Oklahoma.  Kansas lost three games in a row!? What on earth is that?  I have always had them to lean on when all my other teams lose.  Kansas is supposed to be the good team.  Well they weren't this week.  Then to top it all off BYU, oh BYU.  What are we going to do with BYU basketball? First the go and lay and egg in San Diego and lose to a not very good team.  Then they come home and I get to go to it.  Starts off great with BYU leading by 15 for most of the game.  Then all the sudden San Francisco comes back and beats us.  What else should I expect this week?  I know it's just sports but it is ridiculous to think that every single team I cheer for at this time of year just couldn't pull out a single win, even against pretty sub par teams.  Oh well what can one do but wait for next week.  Maybe it will be better.

Super Bowl Sunday

Well the Super Bowl is finally here.  It's been a really long time since I have actually cared about who wins the Super Bowl.  In past years I've been rooting for a team to lose more than I have a team to win. So this is fun! The one thing I am not a fan of at this point is that it's fast Sunday! Can there be a more cruel thing to do?  I mean this day is all about eating chips, drinking soda, and eating more chips.  I saw a stat that said 11.2 million pounds of chips are going to be consumed today in the USA.  That's pretty impressive.  Yet I need to wait and wait I shall.  I don't know if there is any way around this but it's just not right.  I guess the Church would look pretty vain if it were to delay Fast Sunday just to allow a guy like me to eat some chips on Super Bowl Sunday.  If the Church did that they would be approving watching sports on Sunday! Who knows what kind of uproar would be heard among Latter-day Saints about how the Church is no longer true.  Since there is really no end to fast Sunday being on Super Bowl Sunday I will just learn to deal with it.  Fast for the 49ers to win the Super Bowl!  Woohoo! Go niners!

Just another week

Today was the day that Kelsey and I got to introduce ourselves to the ward in talk form.  It's funny how the church does that.  We're so glad you're here come speak to us!  It went well enough and now it's over and now shouldn't have to speak for a while we hope!  Only problem was right after I got asked to teach a lesson in Elder's Quorum next month.  Great! Love getting to teach.

It has almost been a month since Kelsey and I got married.  That is bizarre to me.  A whole month has just gone by in a flash.  We're moved into our apartment, hung up pictures, reorganized, and made many trips to the local stores for things that we've realized we forgot.  It's fun moving in and starting a new home.  We get to go to Home Depot, get memberships to Costco, and figure out banking and all kinds of details.  

In the last month and a couple days we have been extremely busy.  We moved all our stuff(at least the stuff that fits) to our apartment, we finished wedding preparations, got married, went on a honeymoon to Hawaii, started another semester of school and work and much much more.  Quite the month if you ask me.  All grown up! Well not really.  But trying to get there!  Life is fun, life is great!

Cougar Disappointment

Year's past this was the week that I'd have been camping out for big BYU Basketball games.  Luckily this year wasn't one of those years.  Couldn't have been colder for those poor souls out freezing on that concrete.  That being said it makes it all the more exciting for those students knowing what they've sacrificed waiting for this game.  It provides a whole lot to the environment and anticipation of everyone.  In fact last year at the Saint Mary's game, students may have gotten a little too invested.  I remember walking out of the Marriott Center watching students get handcuffed after throwing things on the court.  It was a little bizarre.  Well this year for the most part students and parents behaved themselves despite bad calls and frustrations on the court.  The thing that bothered me the most though is all of the basketball coaches BYU seems to employ in the stands.  It's amazing to me how quick we go from utter happiness as a player drains a three to screaming insults at them.  I have a question for all these fans: Do you think that player doesn't feel horrible for having screwed up in front of 24,000 fans? Let me tell you as one who screwed up plenty of times in front of 24 fans, it sucks.  Players feed off of emotion and the emotions in the Marriott Center are so bi-polar it's insane.  A home court advantage is so great because you shouldn't be worried about how your fans are going to react.  The home fans are supposed to always be cheering.  As a player lines up a shot on his home court he shouldn't ever have a thought of, "If I miss this man am I going to hear it from the fans."  Now I'm not saying we can't be upset.  These guys and girls down there have put themselves in the spotlight and are doing what most people dream to do.  But as fans if we want our team to win, we can't be booing and screaming how idiotic that last play was. Believe me when I saw they know even more than you do, no matter how much you may know about basketball, how idiotic that play was.  At BYU there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. 

So this is my first Blog ever, I've never even really looked at a blog before so I don't really know what these do.  My wife seems to enjoy them.  So I guess this whole marriage thing means that I should give it a try. Right? Or maybe that's not the reason at all that I'm blogging.  Maybe I just really got into the whole spirit of this blogging trend (word courtesy of my wife) and decided I should just give it a whirl. Really though that just doesn't sound like me.  There is a slight possibility that one of my teachers has asked me to create a blog for credit in his class.  Of all the options that seems like the most likely one if you know my personality.  I'll leave it up to whoever might stumble upon this blog to decide though.  I don't really know who would even read this blog.  I'm not that great of a writer. I probably am not going to tell many people about this blog, so in all reality I'm really writing this to myself.  It's pretty interesting I guess, this whole blog thing that is.  Maybe by the end I'll actually enjoy this and write something about my life, but as of right now this is all we are going to get.