last night i couldnt sleep because it was too warm in my room. i decided to listen to my ipod for a little bit to see if that would bring me sleep. after listening to Mr. Bojangles by Neil Diamond twice, Glycerine by Bush once, and December, 1963 (Oh What a Night) by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons half way through i decided to take my pillow and sheet to the living room to see if that would work. Lucky for me my friend Mikey doesnt like sleep either and he was there playing NBA Live 07. Watching him play made me very tired and around the time that his game was going into overtime and he seemed upset that he had to play another 5 minutes of overtime i was asleep. i woke up twice and he was still playing which led me to believe that i hadnt been asleep long since overtime was only five minutes but this morning i was told he played another 3 games after that. AND WON ALL THREE!!!!! The 2007 Chicago Bulls are now 13-2 in their 82 game marathon of a season and are making an early run for the post season. Mikey had this to say: "wizards, raptors, and kings aint got nothin on me. I gave them the illusion they might win by allowing it to go into OT, but as soon as ben wallace secured the tip, i blew that game wide open." cocky or confident? we'll see as the season unravels. over the past years i have said that i am going to do a few things and have not yet accomplished them. i would now like to make a list of the things that i can remember. if there is anything that i am forgetting please remind me because i intend to complete everything on the list.
run a 1/2 marathon
start a clothing company
go to san francisco
do a triathlon
hike the y
watch all of season one of welcome back kotter
I think that about covers it. maybe there are more. but my mission now is to complete everything on the list and i will keep you, my small audience, posted.
on a side note i would like to mention the links to the songs that were mentioned in this post. first off thank you to youtube, you guys keep amazing me. i would like to make it clear the man singing mr. bojangles is not neil diamond but he brings as much passion to the song that neil would. the bush video would probably be my first mtv moment that i can remember and i believe i saw it the day after in 1996 at morgan taylors house, im sure kfc or dominos with orange juice was involved. the last video surprised me. i had no idea the drummer sang that song. it has turned my world upside down.

memorial day

a couple of weeks ago was memorial day. i met my family up at brianhead to celebrate the occasion. on sunday we drove to monroe utah where we decorated my grandparents graves and had a picnic at a local park. i consider myself to be somewhat athletic. i mean, i couldnt make any sports team at byu but i can throw a ball and stuff like that. for some reason my athletic abilities really struggled at that picnic. first, me and my brother-in-law decided to play catch with a baseball. i probably over threw him six times. sorry scott. then we played catch with a football and i over threw it and hit the top of the medal covering which was a good thing because if it hadnt it probably would have pegged devin in the head. sorry devin. then we were playing catch with a baseball again and i threw it and almost hit my nephew dax in the head. given that wasnt all my fault, the person who was supposed to catch it lost the ball in the sun and got out of the way. the ball bounced right over dax's head. i yelled watch out dax, fully expecting the one year old to react. he didnt and never even realized he was almost hit. sorry dax. then my dad found a frisbee and threw it to me. i threw it back as hard as i could and the stupid thing curved on me and landed on top of the metal covering, i dont think anyone really wanted to play frisbee but still, i can do better than that. after that i retired to sitting in the grass.

oceanside

i dont really feel like writing anything right now but i feel like posting since its been a while. i figure two random pictures would be a great post.

WHERE YOU AT?

to start off this post, i think an apology is in order. I would like to apologize to the few people that read this blog. Who knows, maybe you dont check it anymore, maybe you have given up on me. if so, i would have stopped checking this blog a long time ago. It gets old checking blogs that never post or that post youtube videos because they are too lazy to write something (note my last 3 posts) and want to make it look like they update their blog (to my credit i had just learned how to put youtube videos on and i thought they are cool videos). Life is pretty good. A lot has happened since i last posted. school is over. spring has come. I've learned a lot about myself. Im more afraid of failure than i thought. I take the LSAT on june 8th. I cant wait for it to be over not because i am sick of studying but for the fact that i am sick of this worried, anxiety feeling i have all the time. Every morning i wake up with a kind of worried feeling. even when im not thinking about it, its like my body knows that the test is coming up. Anyways getting away from my emotional well being, I finally have a bike to ride. it is a different feeling riding a bike that you have fixed up and put together yourself. a feeling that at any moment (especially the moments that you are going fast) the thing is going to fall apart. but i love my bike and would like to give a shout out to mr. cobbs for giving me the bike in his garage, who knows maybe he reads this. probably not. nonetheless thank you. Im at work right now. most of the other people are in the back corner of the computer lab playing Call of Duty. I usually dont go over there and play but last week i decided to give it a shot. Now, ive never been very good at these kinds of games. whether it was 007 for n64 or Halo for xbox i usually am the person to die the most and get the least amount of kills. 007 was the worst because not only would i lose most the time but at the the end of the game when it would give everyone awards, it was not uncommon to see the words "most cowardly", "most harmless", or some other award that made me feel even more defeated flash onto my part of the screen. I guess the question could be asked "Why do you play those games then?" (i just want to throw out this disclaimer that i dont play these games a lot, hardly ever, but it was more frequent in high school because thats just what we did when we went to peoples houses - i feel better about continuing now) The reason why i would play is because every once in a while i would do something great. I usually target the best player and go after him. I do this for two reasons. first, if i end up dyeing its no big deal i'm supposed to lose. the second is that if i end up beating the best player than it gives me the right to talk trash for those few seconds until that person comes back to life and brutally seeks revenge on me, usually getting another 10 kills at my expense before the end of the game. for example: in high school, my friend david strobehn was the self proclaimed king of halo and rightfully so. i mean he was amazing at that game. he could destroy kids that played in actual halo tournaments. anyways whenever we played, my whole existence for being in the game was to sneak up behind david's guy on the screen and hit him in the back of the head with the butt of my gun resulting in his instant death. Then for the next 10 seconds (that was the usual amount of time it took for his guy to come back alive, find me, and get his revenge on my guy) i would laugh hysterically and usually yell taunting comments such as "WHERE YOU AT STROBEHN? WHERE YOU AT?" those moments would make the whole 2 hours of constant losing all worth it. Back to present day. about a week ago i decided that i would go play with some of the people i work with. nothing was going on and i felt that i could at least play and not embarrass myself. i figured i would only play for a little bit because after more than 10 minutes of playing those kinds of games i get a headache. I sat down and started to play and within the first 5 seconds i realized i didnt know what i was doing. so i followed my instincts and looked at the radar on the top of my screen, found a little dot on the radar and walked towards it. i finally found someone. for some reason they didnt shoot at me but i figured they just didnt see me because i was so sneaky. i snuck up to the guy real close and started shooting. Then i heard "what the heck man?" (just a note: the people i work with take this game very seriously) It then came to my attention that i had shot someone on my own team. My bad. i then decided to retire from the afternoon Call of Duty games at work. I just realized that they played that game on the office when jim moved branches a couple of seasons ago. i guess you could say that my experience was a lot like jims. if you dont know what im talking about ignore that last office reference it was just a sudden realization that i decided to add in this post. I have no idea where this story is going at this point. so im going to end it.

cease to impress

the sundance film festival started last week and runs through the end of this week. Its cool i guess but to go to a movie costs like 20 bucks plus you dont know if the movie is good or not. some movies that come out of sundance are amazing and their are some that don't make it out that leave you wondering if the people who made it were serious. a few days ago i was looking through a few descriptions of movies and found this one about a movie called Dead Snow. it reads: "A group of teenagers had all they needed for a successful ski vacation; cabin, skis, snowmobile, toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them anticipated not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains had other plans." (thank you LA times for this thrilling description) I would add a picture from the movie that was above this description but when i first started this blog i promised myself no pictures of nazi-zombies, especially ones that haunt mountains, and im sticking to my promise. i dare you to find a better description for a movie. if you do please share. Some movies have gotten pretty ridiculous. Have you seen the trailer to this My Bloody Valentine movie? i forgot to add that it is in 3D. i have a theory. any movie that comes out in 3D is making up for something. Im sure if the technology was around there would have been a lot of movies coming out in 3D. The Return of the Mummy 3D!(or any brendan fraser movie) Brendan Fraser is officially the first all 3D actor. i hope brendan doesnt read this. Homeward Bound 2 3D!!!! one time i went home with my brother and sister in law and sat in the back of the car with my nephews and niece. We had to choose a movie to watch. I wanted toy story but got out voted 3-1 losing to Air Buddies. horrible horrible horrible. the dogs talk. but i could see how if it was in 3D it would be an instant classic. the list of movies go on. so thank you 3D technology for giving bad movies something to fall back on. this is a long post. thank you to eric for bringing brendan fraser up while i was writing this and for making this picture of brendan become 3D and morgan for listing bad movies on facebook chat. hes still going as i am closing this. thats enough morgan.