Im sitting in Humanities listening to my teacher talk about The Odyssey and for some reason the Joe Dirt quote came into my head, "Lifes a garden dig it." Although that may seem corny and lame, its actually a pretty good thought to think about. Its quite similar to the quote, "Life is what you make it." I am 24 years old right now and both of those quotes are very true, life is really what you make it. Whether its taking risks you thought you couldn't take: Skydiving, going for that promotion at work, telling that special someone how you feel...whether its doing any one of those or doing something totally different its true you need to make your life so great and do so that when you die it leaves behind the feeling of accomplishment and the feeling that when people find out about it they are saddened but at the same time it helps them realize how great of a person you were and the things you did.
I say do what makes you happy and that has been one of my philosophies over the past little while. Why would you do something that doesn't make you happy, its a very easy statement. If your at a job and you aren't happy with what it is, fix it be happy at all times there is no reason to be sad ever. When your sad that is showing God that the devil has succeeded cause when your sad the devil has won. He will continue to bring you down in such a way that you may not know your sad or mad but the feeling you have is not happy. Keep the light in your life as I have heard so many prophets and apostles say. When the light is in your life you will have and feel happiness all the time. I mean Im sure everyone gets down sometimes but don't let it stay very long only for a few mins, even if you have to pray to make the feeling go away do it, the longer it stays there the more dramatic and hard it will be for it to go away. So yeah Lifes a garden dig it. Make your life happen, make it full of love and happiness, make it exciting, make it how you want and have always dreamed of your life to be. The only one that can change your life is you.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
A different feeling....
A different feeling.....
I just started going to school up here at BYU-Idaho. It's my first semester going to school up here, although I have been living in Rexburg my entire life I have never experienced the college experience period. I have been putting school off for the past few years trying to find myself and trying to find out what life is all about. People are always talking about the spirit of Ricks or how awesome the spirit is up there and me being hard hearted and not wanting to know what that feeling is or not caring I can say I honestly had no idea what they were talking about. I never really wanted to go to school here. I mean who prays at the start and end of class, who relates all of the classes back to the scriptures and the church. I have only been going to class for almost 2 weeks now and my attitude has changed about life cause I decided to finally start letting myself feel the spirit and I'm trying to find out what it's about. As I am doing this I can tell a huge difference in the way ifeel each day, whether it's just putting a smile on my face or just sitting in class and knowing that going to school up here is pry one of the greatest things I've done with my life. I know that as I continue to go to school up here over the next few years that my testimony is going to grow stronger and that my love for this church and for our heavenly father is going to be so great that my heart is going to go past expectations. I would recommend at least just taking a religion class up here so that you can have that feeling that I am experiencing right now.
I just started going to school up here at BYU-Idaho. It's my first semester going to school up here, although I have been living in Rexburg my entire life I have never experienced the college experience period. I have been putting school off for the past few years trying to find myself and trying to find out what life is all about. People are always talking about the spirit of Ricks or how awesome the spirit is up there and me being hard hearted and not wanting to know what that feeling is or not caring I can say I honestly had no idea what they were talking about. I never really wanted to go to school here. I mean who prays at the start and end of class, who relates all of the classes back to the scriptures and the church. I have only been going to class for almost 2 weeks now and my attitude has changed about life cause I decided to finally start letting myself feel the spirit and I'm trying to find out what it's about. As I am doing this I can tell a huge difference in the way ifeel each day, whether it's just putting a smile on my face or just sitting in class and knowing that going to school up here is pry one of the greatest things I've done with my life. I know that as I continue to go to school up here over the next few years that my testimony is going to grow stronger and that my love for this church and for our heavenly father is going to be so great that my heart is going to go past expectations. I would recommend at least just taking a religion class up here so that you can have that feeling that I am experiencing right now.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Life as I have learned it so far.....
Life is as simple as Hahns puts it in the movie Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. "Life's simple you make choices and you and don't look back." Ever since seeing that movie in 2006 while I was in Indianapolis, IN. I have decided to try to put that methodology into my daily life. Sometimes its easy and life is smooth sailinig, other times its harder, alot harder, and it makes life not as easy. Its all about doing right from wrong, yes from no, wants and needs.
Well start with right from wrong. As everyone grows up we are all taught to do the right thing, but every once in a while we want to experience what it would be like to do the wrong thing, whether its drinking, smoking, stealing, lying, cheating, doing what ever it is that gives us our high and gets our endorphines running. And if you look at it in a sense, doing the right thing is almost the exactly the same feeling. We get this amazing feeling from doing good; whether is a warm fuzzy feeling, or just being happy from doing the right thing. What I have learned in my life so far is that even as bad as we want to do the right things all the time, we don't. We don't always do the right thing. People tell lies at least 3-5 times in every 10 mins. of conversation. I have never tried drinking or smoking, but stealing, lying and cheating I have done. After I have done those things I felt really bad about what I had done but I made my choice to do it so I have to live with that. But there is good stuff that I have done in my life. I love helping people out whenever I can, seeing someone walking on the street and asking them if they need a ride, its simple gestures like that, that would make our society so much better if we could all just do little things to make the one life we are living to live in.
Establishing when to say Yes from No, is not as easy as everyone thinks we should. There are many factors that come into play when that question is being asked: Our peers and the way we feel. Our peers play a gigantic role in the way we think, cause it doesn't matter what anyone says we do care about what people think. Example, I know this one is dumb but if your at a party and some one asks you to have a drink more than likely if its someone you trust your going to do it. There are other things that come into play, the way you feel. If your at a party and everyones drinking and you don't wanna drink and someone asks you to you can say no if you have a bad feeling say no cause you know its not what your supposed to do. But other things like helping out an elderly person across the street or with the door or simple things like that you should say yes to. Its not hurting you one bit to help out and do service or even around the house with chores. Just by learning when to say yes and when to say no will help you out greatly in life.
Now establishing what the difference is between a want and a need, and how important it is in your life. Ive been struggling with this one for a long time now, and Im pretty sure everyone has in their life. Lets define what a want is, Websters dictionary states that a want is a desire: feel or have a desire for. Like at Christmas time every little kid and teenages just wants wants wants. While other kids in other countries need things. A want is a new car, when you have a perfectly good car especially it is paid off. A need is a car, if you don't have one but need one immensely. Having a new pair of pants, or needing just a pair of pants. Everyone in every day life has their own wants and needs, its just if we can distinguish between the two. We need to learn to do this and I feel if we do we would be better off in life. Do we really need too go on that expensive cruise when we can't even pay off our credit cards that dont have that much on them to pay off. We need to all do this and I feel if we do this we could live a happier life, and be better off.
Well start with right from wrong. As everyone grows up we are all taught to do the right thing, but every once in a while we want to experience what it would be like to do the wrong thing, whether its drinking, smoking, stealing, lying, cheating, doing what ever it is that gives us our high and gets our endorphines running. And if you look at it in a sense, doing the right thing is almost the exactly the same feeling. We get this amazing feeling from doing good; whether is a warm fuzzy feeling, or just being happy from doing the right thing. What I have learned in my life so far is that even as bad as we want to do the right things all the time, we don't. We don't always do the right thing. People tell lies at least 3-5 times in every 10 mins. of conversation. I have never tried drinking or smoking, but stealing, lying and cheating I have done. After I have done those things I felt really bad about what I had done but I made my choice to do it so I have to live with that. But there is good stuff that I have done in my life. I love helping people out whenever I can, seeing someone walking on the street and asking them if they need a ride, its simple gestures like that, that would make our society so much better if we could all just do little things to make the one life we are living to live in.
Establishing when to say Yes from No, is not as easy as everyone thinks we should. There are many factors that come into play when that question is being asked: Our peers and the way we feel. Our peers play a gigantic role in the way we think, cause it doesn't matter what anyone says we do care about what people think. Example, I know this one is dumb but if your at a party and some one asks you to have a drink more than likely if its someone you trust your going to do it. There are other things that come into play, the way you feel. If your at a party and everyones drinking and you don't wanna drink and someone asks you to you can say no if you have a bad feeling say no cause you know its not what your supposed to do. But other things like helping out an elderly person across the street or with the door or simple things like that you should say yes to. Its not hurting you one bit to help out and do service or even around the house with chores. Just by learning when to say yes and when to say no will help you out greatly in life.
Now establishing what the difference is between a want and a need, and how important it is in your life. Ive been struggling with this one for a long time now, and Im pretty sure everyone has in their life. Lets define what a want is, Websters dictionary states that a want is a desire: feel or have a desire for. Like at Christmas time every little kid and teenages just wants wants wants. While other kids in other countries need things. A want is a new car, when you have a perfectly good car especially it is paid off. A need is a car, if you don't have one but need one immensely. Having a new pair of pants, or needing just a pair of pants. Everyone in every day life has their own wants and needs, its just if we can distinguish between the two. We need to learn to do this and I feel if we do we would be better off in life. Do we really need too go on that expensive cruise when we can't even pay off our credit cards that dont have that much on them to pay off. We need to all do this and I feel if we do this we could live a happier life, and be better off.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Lets see here......
I lay here in my bed,
Not sure how to feel.
All my friends are getting wed,
And Im just trying to deal.
For the past 4 years Ive been Traveling around,
Trying to figure out what I want to do.
And the thought of being rich was sound,
But it just left me feeling Blue.
All the money in the world can't make me happy
instead doing that job just made me feel crappy.
Im home now and i don't know for sure how long this time,
But Im at BYU-I now and Im in my prime.
The trials to get here were tough,
Some for good and some for bad.
Its made me learn alot of stuff
Even when it made me sad.
Im starting a new chapter in my life,
its gonna come with alot of trials.
school, careers, and maybe a wife,
But im gonna continue to smile.
Not sure how to feel.
All my friends are getting wed,
And Im just trying to deal.
For the past 4 years Ive been Traveling around,
Trying to figure out what I want to do.
And the thought of being rich was sound,
But it just left me feeling Blue.
All the money in the world can't make me happy
instead doing that job just made me feel crappy.
Im home now and i don't know for sure how long this time,
But Im at BYU-I now and Im in my prime.
The trials to get here were tough,
Some for good and some for bad.
Its made me learn alot of stuff
Even when it made me sad.
Im starting a new chapter in my life,
its gonna come with alot of trials.
school, careers, and maybe a wife,
But im gonna continue to smile.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
A long time coming...
Where do I even begin with this blog post? Its been around 8 months since I have last posted on here, I almost forgot all about it. Well let me tell you what Ive been up to the past 8 months I'll go month by month.
January--
Well it started out awesome by having a sick freakin New Years Party at Ashley Smiths soon to be Mcnairs house. It was a black and white party and we had around 30-40 people there it was pry the most fun Ive ever had on New Years. I also had the oppurtunity of starting college finally. I got onto the summer/fall track which is going to be nice so i can finally have a summer in Rexburg which hasn't happened in like 4 years. So that will be very nice.
February--
Nothing really happened this month to exciting anyways.
March-- yeah same nothing really happened either
April--
Finally time to start working. I left for Tucson, AZ, on April 14th. It was hard to say goodbye once again to everyone I love but I gotta go make that cash flow you know. So I arrive at our apts in Tucson and can I tell you how crappy they are, straight ghetto, but i guess the one i was in we were only being there for like a week then we moved into a 3 bedroom which was a lot nicer annd not so ghetto. I lived with Mike, Kade, and cameron masters.
May--
It was time for me to make my return to the Burg, my little sister Hayli got married, k she isn't really my little sister but I call her that cause ive known her for to long. So I went to phoenix and picked up Whitney Richardson and we started our adventrure in the Red dragon that didn't have A/C so we rolled in 100 degree weather with the windows rolled down and the tunes blaring hahaha, Whit I will never forget that trip. I got to rexburg and started getting to work well kind of seeing everyone you love and care about in like 4 days isn't a very easy task to acomplish. But I did it, cause im that cool.
June---
So it was my birthday I turned 24 and for my birthday me and all my co-workers all went to Olive Garden well the ones I like anyways and it was terriffic. A week later our office packed up and we all moved to Albuquerque, NM. This is supposed to be the promised land and it kind of was but then it turned out to not be haha. Our apts are so sick, its gonna be fun being here.
July--
Well July is here and there was some good times and sad times that came my way. Then came July 19th, we lost a precious member of our Family, Kira aka Little Red. She was such an inspiration to everyone and such a joy to have in our family but now that she is passed we can be happy that she isn't in pain anymore, and know that she is up in Heaven with my mom running a million miles an hour. My prayers are still with you Scott and Cheree and the whole family, you guys mean the world to me I love you guys. Going to the funeral I drove 14 hours through the night, and come to find out Nick Beckley aka my BFF was ther ein rexburg also and it had been 3 months since ive seen him and man that was so fun kickin it with him all weekend long.
August--
Well its only the 8th but yeah Im so bored all the time now. I sit and play Halo around 7 hours a day and I wish I had a team of 4 to play with. I did go see G.I. Joe which was alright not the best but still pretty cool.
Well thats it for the past few months I hope you enjoy this.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Well where do I start, this past week has been pretty freakin amazing it is exactly how I have wanted to start out my new year. New Years day I woke up around noon and decided to go get some food with a bunch of my friends, so we went to Taco Time, and then went to Carsons house took like a 3 hour nap, then watched the movie 21 and then decided to go hot tubbing at Pinnacle. That was a Thursday. Saturday Morning Kyle Peck calls me at 8 am bright and early to wake me from my slumber to tell me that we are going on a Group date so get a date and were going. I call up my lady friend and she says yes so we meet over at Kirby's house and there is about 16 people that show up, we all jump in our cars and drive to Idaho Falls. We arrive at the Idaho Falls Ice rink to go skating and wow that was an adventure, it was fun I didn't fall but almost did. We all lace our skates up and hang them up and get back in the vehicles and drive to Chili's where I show up just to find out that the Chargers have just tied the game and then end up winning and beating my Colts. Way to go Payton Manning, was it worth it winning the MVP, if you don't get the Super Bowl maybe so. But the night goes on to Pinnacle where we go and play games for about an hour or 2 and then go home it was a pretty good date its been a while since I have been on a good date like that. Sunday is here and sunday comes. Monday night I finally meet up with my friend Ryan and we kick it at Ashleys house all night long playing games and watching movies. Finally to Tuesday I wake up and Mikes says, " Wanna go on a trip with me? " so I say yeah lets go. So we head out and while on my journey I got to go out with a pretty cool girl, meet some new people and have alot of fun. Im on my way back and I start school tomorrow and Im really nervous about it but I think Ill be fine just gotta get into the groove of things again. But ill let ya know how my day was have a good day peace.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
2008 is gone, 2009 lets see where it goes....
So 2008 had some really good times and some really bad times, there was laughter, crying, adventures, and alot of chilling with some amazing people. Im gonna go month-by-month and tell you about my whole year.
January started out with a bang and alot of traveling it felt like. On the 5th I got the offer to go to Atlanta, Georgia, to go do some installs for a month and I figured I have nothing else to do so why not, so that next morning I jumped on a plane not knowing what to expect and there I was in ATL, where I had left the freezing tundra of rexburg and to 60 degree weather all around. While I was there I got like 10 installs done which sucks, an infection in my tooth, and just a really bad time. But I did get to misss out on the -30 degree temps that flooded the whole southeast Idaho region for that whole month. I left with like 6 inches of snow and came back to a winter wonderland it was amazing.
February was me getting back into the groove of things and not going to bed 2 hours later than I usually did. For Valentines day I went to Ashley O'donnals house to decorate her room and surprise her, I cut up about 300 hearts and put them all around her room and she was so surprised it was amazing. That is pry the most exciting thing that happened in the month of February.
March went by and by I can't really remember anything critical taht happened on that month cause its kind of a lame month but oh well.
April to August here it comes up on you so fast. April is the month that I leave for the summer out to who knows where and this summer I got the oppurtunity to go to Seattle, Washington, the rainy city. The apts we got were pretty nice 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. The start of the summer was rough with 13 techs and 35 salesman, I knew we were going to be busy for a while. The production stayed at a constant 15-18 a day and I knew I had to let 2 people go so I did, I hate firing people but it comes with the territory and the job. In about mid-May we had combined with the Seattle North office and acquired 5 more technicians and a few more salesman so once again I had to let some people go or make some different roles in the office. I let another 3 people go so we were set with 12 technicians. In June was my friend Jared "Pud" Stewart's farewell, so Me Nick Beckley and Kade Matthews left sat. evening about 5 in the after noon and arrived in rexburg at 6am in the morning leaving me 1 hour to sleep before I had to wake up and shower for his 8am farewell. It was awesome Im gonna miss that kid but time goes by fast and it will be good to have him back. So we left that following monday night and got back on tuesday so wee could get back to work. When we got back I was having a rough day and I had wanted a tattoo for a long time so I went and got one. It meant alot to me by having 2 of my best friends there with me to get it, Nick and Kade your my boys. It had rained a consistent of about 47 days the first few months we were there and then in July it finally started to get nice enough we could go swimming. It got to about 100 degress for about 5 days straight and I got some sweet tans haha. August came so fast I was like where has this summer gone, we went to a Seattle Mariners game which is way fun causee pro sports are always the best to go to. The summer was fun, alot of ups and downs but mmore ups than downs. Im grateful for the people that I had with me during the summer Cy, Andrea, Christy, Dub, Rockwood, Spony, I appreciate all your great advice and for being such a good role model to me, you taught me alot and staying close tot he hcurch was one of them and since then I have stayed close and I owe all of you.
So its finally time to come home the summer is coming to a close and Im so excited to see people I haven't seen in ages especially my family. Right as I get home the fun and the adventures begin. It start with my friend Jason Hughes getting home off his mission I finally catch up with him after 2 years and It was good seeing that kid. The day after I got back Mike goes, "Hey I got ya a four-wheeler find a girl were going." I was like nice and from then on out I met a ton of new girls. Thanks Mike I owe you.
October came and here it is the awesome Black light Party on Halloween night. It was awesome got ready and went out on the town for a bunch of fun stuff, and ended up dancing until like 1 am then went home and kicked it for the rest of the night. BUt the things I did that night I won't ever forget, and Im not gonna mention who you are but you know how fun it was and I won't forget it.
November is here and I got my backend check from Pinnacle and I finally got out of debt, it was a good summer I paid everything off and bought myself a new car, 99 infinity QX4, and we had Thanksgiving at my dads new house, the whole family came up it was a blast. The most exciting news of all though my best friend in the whole world came home off his mission Tyler Patterson returned from Africa. And a few weeks later I bought some tickets to the Jazz game and me, Tyler, Kelsi Kesler, Amy Schriver and Angela Lilnquist, all went to the game it was a blast, pry most fun Jazz game I have ever been to.
December is here and is now gone, we started it off with me and Mike going out and buying a bunch of Christmas Lights to put on the house, I got alot of Christmas shopping done and bought a lot of presents for everyone, I love this time of the year it really is the best. OH and I got into school at BUY-Idaho and Im so excited its going to be a great start to a new year. And Im going to love it. Finally give me something to do that isn't playing Halo, hahaha. Yes I am still playing Halo and I am planning on attending all of the events in 2009 first stop is the Meadowlands in New Jersey. That was my year I left some stuff out but I didn't feel like writting a novel, but I loved it one of the best years ever. I love you all its been a great time.
January started out with a bang and alot of traveling it felt like. On the 5th I got the offer to go to Atlanta, Georgia, to go do some installs for a month and I figured I have nothing else to do so why not, so that next morning I jumped on a plane not knowing what to expect and there I was in ATL, where I had left the freezing tundra of rexburg and to 60 degree weather all around. While I was there I got like 10 installs done which sucks, an infection in my tooth, and just a really bad time. But I did get to misss out on the -30 degree temps that flooded the whole southeast Idaho region for that whole month. I left with like 6 inches of snow and came back to a winter wonderland it was amazing.
February was me getting back into the groove of things and not going to bed 2 hours later than I usually did. For Valentines day I went to Ashley O'donnals house to decorate her room and surprise her, I cut up about 300 hearts and put them all around her room and she was so surprised it was amazing. That is pry the most exciting thing that happened in the month of February.
March went by and by I can't really remember anything critical taht happened on that month cause its kind of a lame month but oh well.
April to August here it comes up on you so fast. April is the month that I leave for the summer out to who knows where and this summer I got the oppurtunity to go to Seattle, Washington, the rainy city. The apts we got were pretty nice 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. The start of the summer was rough with 13 techs and 35 salesman, I knew we were going to be busy for a while. The production stayed at a constant 15-18 a day and I knew I had to let 2 people go so I did, I hate firing people but it comes with the territory and the job. In about mid-May we had combined with the Seattle North office and acquired 5 more technicians and a few more salesman so once again I had to let some people go or make some different roles in the office. I let another 3 people go so we were set with 12 technicians. In June was my friend Jared "Pud" Stewart's farewell, so Me Nick Beckley and Kade Matthews left sat. evening about 5 in the after noon and arrived in rexburg at 6am in the morning leaving me 1 hour to sleep before I had to wake up and shower for his 8am farewell. It was awesome Im gonna miss that kid but time goes by fast and it will be good to have him back. So we left that following monday night and got back on tuesday so wee could get back to work. When we got back I was having a rough day and I had wanted a tattoo for a long time so I went and got one. It meant alot to me by having 2 of my best friends there with me to get it, Nick and Kade your my boys. It had rained a consistent of about 47 days the first few months we were there and then in July it finally started to get nice enough we could go swimming. It got to about 100 degress for about 5 days straight and I got some sweet tans haha. August came so fast I was like where has this summer gone, we went to a Seattle Mariners game which is way fun causee pro sports are always the best to go to. The summer was fun, alot of ups and downs but mmore ups than downs. Im grateful for the people that I had with me during the summer Cy, Andrea, Christy, Dub, Rockwood, Spony, I appreciate all your great advice and for being such a good role model to me, you taught me alot and staying close tot he hcurch was one of them and since then I have stayed close and I owe all of you.
So its finally time to come home the summer is coming to a close and Im so excited to see people I haven't seen in ages especially my family. Right as I get home the fun and the adventures begin. It start with my friend Jason Hughes getting home off his mission I finally catch up with him after 2 years and It was good seeing that kid. The day after I got back Mike goes, "Hey I got ya a four-wheeler find a girl were going." I was like nice and from then on out I met a ton of new girls. Thanks Mike I owe you.
October came and here it is the awesome Black light Party on Halloween night. It was awesome got ready and went out on the town for a bunch of fun stuff, and ended up dancing until like 1 am then went home and kicked it for the rest of the night. BUt the things I did that night I won't ever forget, and Im not gonna mention who you are but you know how fun it was and I won't forget it.
November is here and I got my backend check from Pinnacle and I finally got out of debt, it was a good summer I paid everything off and bought myself a new car, 99 infinity QX4, and we had Thanksgiving at my dads new house, the whole family came up it was a blast. The most exciting news of all though my best friend in the whole world came home off his mission Tyler Patterson returned from Africa. And a few weeks later I bought some tickets to the Jazz game and me, Tyler, Kelsi Kesler, Amy Schriver and Angela Lilnquist, all went to the game it was a blast, pry most fun Jazz game I have ever been to.
December is here and is now gone, we started it off with me and Mike going out and buying a bunch of Christmas Lights to put on the house, I got alot of Christmas shopping done and bought a lot of presents for everyone, I love this time of the year it really is the best. OH and I got into school at BUY-Idaho and Im so excited its going to be a great start to a new year. And Im going to love it. Finally give me something to do that isn't playing Halo, hahaha. Yes I am still playing Halo and I am planning on attending all of the events in 2009 first stop is the Meadowlands in New Jersey. That was my year I left some stuff out but I didn't feel like writting a novel, but I loved it one of the best years ever. I love you all its been a great time.
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