Living for the weekends

This past weekend has already come and gone as they say, and I had a real good time. I will be honest and say that I was worried about poker at Joe V's but it was a blast. I suck at poker just to let you all know. Then the surprise visit to go to Merrits was real fun. I also worked on homework for this upcoming week; so I feel like it was real productive as well as fun.

I am already thinking about next weekend, not because its a three day weekend, but because I am not motivated to be back at school. I am having a hard time focusing on this last semester because I am taking some classes that I just don't care about and they're going to be tough. Argh. But now thinking about the weekend, it is going to be great. Lots of fun stuff planned but the most fun is the stuff that isn't planned. I am not going to say what is going down, but if you're looking for a great time this weekend, stop by the house or give one of us a call; but watch your phone cause we'll probably call you anyway.

Off to go swimming.......^o........ (that's my head and arm swimming in the water; I don't expect everyone to see it)

A GREAT LOSS

As Andrew and I were brushing our teeth and getting ready for bed last night, we heard a knock at the door and after a minute of putting on clothes I answered the door. It was Jenna, Andrea, Becca, and Kristin; they were wanting to go to Merrits. So after some good schmoozing and Andrew and I remembering my new life motto, "You only live once" we up and went. We had a crammed car which is always great for the oddly longish ride.

This was the first time that I'd been to Merrits this semester and was saddened to see the new addition as well as experience a little piece of myself break apart; they replaced the classic jukebox with a new slick, high tech one. I didn't look through the songs because the price has now risen to I think a dollar and I just felt like I needed to have a time of remembrance and silence for the old jukebox which gave us many a great songs throughout the years.

You will be missed old jukebox; you were a legend. I hope the new one will step it up with classics like "Take it Easy", any Queen song, as well as my personal fav. "American Pie."

Other than this loss, we had a great time.

What does my future have in store?

Oh magic 8 ball, tell me your great wisdom! Well I don't have a magical 8 ball to predict my future, but as you can see by the picture, that the outcome doesn't look that good for me anyway!

Everyone keeps asking me what I'm going to do after school and my answers have varied. To be honest, I have no clue. There are a lot of things I am looking into and different opportunities at hand. People always tell you to go to college and you'll have a ton of jobs at your hand over people who don't. This is true, but where are these jobs? I have been looking around and most of the jobs that I have seen are jobs where you already have to have 4 years of other work in the field. I haven't found any entry-level work.

Right now I don't feel like I want to settle down and start in a career. There are some things that I really want to do; I don't know where or how I could make a living but I want to travel and I want to help people. I have been looking at many organizations such as WorldVision, Peace Corp, Jesus Film, and then jobs working for Discovery, History Channel, as well as National Geographic. I have a lot of options and I have been really praying about them and looking to see what doors will open and which ones will close.

I am trying real hard to not worry because I am the kind of person that likes to have his whole life planned out, but you know it just doesn't happen that way. If you have any ideas, suggestions, or organizations to look into I'm very open to them.

I thank you all for being so supportive and I appreciate the prayers. If you need to talk about your upcoming plans I feel like listening is one of my talents and would love to sit and help you out.

I am a soundboard.

Potterized

After two long nights, I can now say that I have watched all of the Harry Potters that have been made. I was so lucky to have a another person watching them with me or I probably wouldn't get them done, thanks Jenn. So the picture above is how I feel, I'm a Star Wars kinda guy but I just couldn't really stop watching the Potter movies because they were fun, looked good, and had good stories.

What I really enjoyed were a couple things that Dumbledore said; I'd like to share these with you:

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."

"The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."

"It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?"

As cheesy as it is for me to put these quotes up, I feel like these are all quotes that we need to remember while we live our daily lives. I feel like people dwell so much on bad times or things of the future that we do indeed forget to live the present times. I know I have done this, especially with our upcoming Spring Break and Europe trips.

Truth, its a great thing but also something very destructive. I am trying to be more truthful, I have sadly been lying lately about petty things for no reason. Very odd. Some may say that I am now the "New Bobby Hall" but I feel like I have a ways before this occurs.

The last quote that I want to talk about is the one about choices; in a couple of my screenwriting and scriptwriting classes we talk about characters revealing who their true selves are through their actions and decision-making. I am constantly reminded of this especially when people try to get me to do things that is out of my "character". But also, we may get caught up in our abilities and knowledge and forget about who we really are.

We are who we are, except when we lie.

"Playing for Pizza"

Today I finished John Grisham's newest book, "Playing for Pizza." It was about an NFL quarterback who basically became the biggest goat in football history. His team was ahead and the starting QB was injured so Rick, the main character, came in and threw interception after interception until his team lost their lead and the AFC championship. He got hit real bad giving him a third concussion.

He awoke in the hospital: the lowest time in his life. No team wanted him, fans were angered and hostile, friends...well he didn't really have any friends, and his agent was trying to get him off his hands.

His agent finally found him a QB opportunity in Parma a small town in Northern Italy and the rest of the book talks about how he grudgingly went and played, but fell in love with the people, food, the game, and of course a girl.

As I was reading this, I was just captured with every page with the description of the food, cathedrals and attractions, as well as the passion that the Italian players had for football (they weren't paid to play). This book didn't really have a real profound meaning to me, but it really opened my eyes to how important it is to make the best of your situation even when it seems like it can't get any worse. Also that sometimes we have to self-sacrifice to bring about good to others. I don't want to ramble on giving a synopsis of the book, but this has really gotten me excited for our trip to Europe this summer and is making me want to travel more and more.

Back to the basics

I have been back to school for basically 2 days now and we're back to the same o' same o' activities: jamming whenever we want, laying around reading, listening to music in the living room, and our favorite: roaming around campus looking for mischief to get into.

Tonight Cork, Andrew, and I went strolling around campus trying to find the "good golf cart" so we went to search around and in environmental services but in the meanwhile we were walking there, Cork with a butane lighter lit an old Christmas tree on fire and it started blazin like crazy! He gave it the old "two kick" try to put it out but it was so dry that it quickly started chuggin out the fire. We left it alone until it went out.

We then went into the ES (Environmental Services) garage and hung out in the athletic bus, but got spooked and left. We then went around campus trying to find it but we had no luck, but did indeed find a great new "mobile" that we are planning on modifying. You will all have to just wait and see; if done then it will be hilarious.

This is all I have. I just want to say that I am very excited to be back at school and can't wait to see the others who aren't here yet.

See you all soon.

Headed Back

Tomorrow I make the great trek from Alaska to Idaho; I am very excited to go back, but a little sad to leave at the same time. Even though I was all packed and ready to go since yesterday afternoon and sitting around bored for a good portion of the break, I still enjoyed my time here with my dad and Brigid, Mike, Becca, Nick (the little that we were together), and others.

I don't have much to say, but I know I will be back home sometime during the summer. I will miss the frozen lake, Matty and Jerry, as well as the Hamblen's next door.

I arrive back to Idaho around 9:30a.m. and will hope and pray that one of my great roommates will find it in their hearts to come and pick me up anywhere between the times of 9:30-noon (that's what Andrew said to me). I wish Matt luck traveling, I can't remember when he was heading back. It'll be good to see everyone soon.

A new semester; a new adventure.