in bed...

I ate at PF Changs for the first time ever last week, it was great. While we were there someone in our party told us to add "in bed" to the end of our fortunes. It was pretty funny, and without further ado here was my fortune with "in bed" added to it:

"Your positive atitude this month will improve your present problem, in bed"

the end.

the worst.

Today might have been the worst day of my life. It started off all dandy and sweet, cousin Bryson and I went to Park City Mountain Resort to do some skiing, snowboarding for him. The snow was much better than expected, powder in the face is always good. Then tragedy struck! (don't worry we are both physically ok) So, i'm skiing along, quite fast, down a double black, powder going everywhere. I decided to split two trees, kind of two big bush things. I go between them and one of my skis catches on a twig! I tumble forward, a ski pops off, i do somersaults for 30 ft. Get up a little ticked that I had fallen! I don't fall! I look up the hill to see how far I have to hike up to get my ski that fell off, but I can't see it. So I hike up and use my other ski to prod the snow to find my other ski. I STILL can't find it! It had never taken me more than two minutes to find a buried ski before. Bryson and I looked for about an hour. We dug through sooooo much snow! He goes and gets ski patrol. Another hour passes and we still can't find it. Ski Patrol guy goes and gets a metal detector...nothing. Ski Patrol guy tells us its 3:45 and we have to get off the mountain. I AM NOT HAPPY at this point! Needless to say I came home with one ski!

I admit tears DID come out of my eyes, more than once today! I'm still depressed. Now, to make things MUCH worse, I bought those skis last week, because I broke my other pair a week and a half ago!! (I did get a good deal from the company because my other skis broke) I loved my new skis, their time with me has been far too short, they were beautiful see! Now i'm thinking that my ski, while I was flipping, slid down into the little ravine at the bottom of the run. I was almost to the ravine when I crashed, so I think it's down there somewhere. If it did slide to the bottom it is probably under only an inch or two of snow, so i'm hoping that someone skis into it tomorrow. If I have any hope to find it before spring I have to find it before it snows again. I will go search for it ASAP. Maybe not tomorrow, because it's Sunday.

However, when you realize that the worst day of your life consisted of you losing a ski, a beautiful ski, then maybe your life isn't half as bad as you might think it is. It's not like something really bad happened, items can be replaced, I got a huge tax return this year, i'll buy another pair, I would rather do other stuff with my money, it's just frustrating!

p.s. I wasn't even kidding when I said I cried a little, i'm on the verge of tears right now!

happy birthday to me.

Hello friends, I write this blog post from my revamped computer! If you hadn't heard, I dropped my macbook down concrete stairs! So it's almost at 100% we need to make a few changes and get it to stop freezing sometimes, other than that its doing great!

Anywho, I just wanted to share with you what I bought myself for my birthday. I already had a speedlight (flash) for my camera, so I picked up a set of radio triggers, the transmitter slides onto the cameras hot shoe and the receiver plugs into a port on the flash. To top it off I got a light stand and an umbrella! Thus I have my very own mini studio, that is portable.

This is what it looks like:


I haven't had too much time to play with it all yet, but this is what I came up with in a few minutes on saturday night. (while watching The Princess Bride by myself) I might be a tiny bit out of focus if you make the picture bigger, but hopefully better pictures will come soon.

ps I put the flash on the cameras left mounted up kind of high looking down on me, just have one flash, but some light bounced off the wall lighting up the other side of my face a little bit.
pps the glasses belong to my friend Katie, they are fake.

Today.

As I sit here eating chocolate and watching TV I can't help thinking about all of the great stuff I have accomplished today. *pretend you are hearing a record skip, like this* Actually I haven't done anything today!!! It's been pretty great actually. I was going to go skiing, but I decided that I didn't want to, weird right. I have been 4 of the last 7 days, my legs are tired. The plan was to do some homework so I don't have to do it on my birthday on Tuesday, feel free to call me, text me, write on my facebook wall, and/or just give me money :) But then I didn't want to do any homework, so here is how my day has gone:
-got out of bed at 9:30
-read Helaman 10
-walked up to school in my gangster sweat pants, they classify as gangster because they have cargo pockets on the side, to turn in my Geology homework.
-on the way back realized I haven't really talked to or hung out with very many friends recently. Probably due to skiing during the days and doing homework in the evenings, instead of hanging out, but hey, we all know what Elder Oaks thinks about hanging out...
-sat on the couch for at least 15 minutes with the TV off and thought about life.
-bowl of ceareal. Capn' peanut butter crunch, it was 5/$5 or else i would be eating Cinnamon Chex, it's the best cereal out there.
-practiced guitar. d, g, a7, d7, and c chords. I'm pretty sure that I have to be one of the worst players in my class of like 80 people. srsly. I guess my dad didn't pass on any musical talents to me.
-our new roommate's car got booted.
-I erased all of the awesome quotes froom the quote board so new guy could get some quotes up there. I even erased the *censored* quote, and a quote about Raspberries...
-researched radio triggers for my new flash. Also looked up stands and umbrellas to mount the flash on. Thus, I can have my own mini studio with off camera flashes, and I would be able to use it outdoors, because it's a radio trigger, and they run on batteries so nothing needs to be plugged into a wall...to be totally honest I did this for at least two hours...so I actually got a smart grant for school, so a tiny bit of it will go to these things, the rest will be in the bank for sweet adventures! I was going to buy new skis specifically used to ski in powder, but this winter sucks. So i'm not going to.
-threw magnetic darts, i'm pretty good.
-checked my phone, nothing. haha.
-thought about cleaning. Didn't.
-tried to figure out how to pay the rest of my tuition...couldn't figure it out...I have just been told that I have to use firefox, not safari.
-blog stalked, but who??
-decided to blog about my wonderfully lazy, but productive day.

And it's only 2pm!! Maybe i'll take a nap before I go to work... I figure if i'm going to work from 4:45-1230 tonight, i can do nothing every once in a while if i want.

BragFest 10'

Please excuse me for a moment I NEED to brag. About myself? No, of course not! I would never brag about myself. Today I will be bragging about cousin David. (for those of you that aren't in the family dave is my bestfriendcousin, he's my age, we're cousins, and best friends) Now, we all know he's smart and stuff, but did you know how smart he really is? The following is a conversation we had last Sunday when he and Nat came over for dinner.

me: oh my gosh dave, have you taken the LSAT yet?
dave: yeah
me: did you do well?
dave: yeah.
me: really well?
dave: yeah.

So come to find out dave scored in the 98th percentile of all the people who took the LSAT this year. Thats good. Dave is smart. His choices for law school, in order, are: Columbia, Georgetown, and George Washington.

and that's the end of bragging for Dave. I had to do it because I KNOW he is waaaaay to humble to brag about something like this.

p.s. Did you know that Dave's wife might be smarter than he is?

Dear Santa

Hi Santa, I just wanted you to know that I have been a really good boy this year, even better than Janna. (not that she's been a good boy... well you know what I mean.) I'm always nice to everyone, that includes people I don't like. I'm not even mean to people at work anymore. I recently helped do a service project for an old crazy lady and her husband who leaves his hearing aid off on purpose (if you know what i'm talking about. *cough*nagging*cough*). Well, I guess I could go on forever about all of my good qualities, but I'll stop because I know you have like 6 billion other people to get gifts for. So here is my very own christmas wish list. ps I wont be too specific with some stuff, because I would actually like to be surprised on Christmas.

-Canon 580ex ii speedlight (aka a flash) its legit. click here. this is the cheapest i could find it at a place that is reliable.
-Snuggie. you can't have too many of these things, it's just not possible.
-Ties!!! i really really really need a couple new ties. use your own discretion or Janna's discretion. Maybe some nice dress pants from BR or something.
-A nice v-neck sweater (the thin kind) that matches the previously mentioned tie and or pants so I can wear it to church. or possibly something like this instead of a v-neck sweater.
-60" led-lcd tv 1080p. thanks.
-Planet Earth on BLUERAY.
-Love
-This thing yes it is expensive, but can you put a price on looking good? ps not the white one like on the website. The store in Orem has it in blue.
-Insurance so I don't have to pay BYU for it.
-Shoes. these or red or all black or all white. ps if you get vans make sure they are the low-pro ones the sole is thinner
-I could always go for some new jeans.
-World Peace
-Anything that says Oakley on it.
-Maybe one of those cool cell phones...
The End.

PS
t-shirt size: M
Sweater size: M
Pants: 30x32 or if its an expensive brand i.e. from Nordstrom 29 waist.
shoe: 8 1/2

what if...

So tonight I was playing the game "what if..." with some friends. Its a game where you write a "what if..." question, then another person answers your question. You pass the piece of paper around the circle, then one person will read the question from the paper they now have. Then the next person reads the answer on the paper they have. After everyone has a good laugh that person reads the question on the paper, then the next person reads their answer, and so on.

Here was the funniest sequence of the night:

What would you do if... Jessica told us she was really a man?
Answer: That would never happen in a million years, and if it did he would already be dead!

The next question was the original question to that previous answer, making things really funny.

What if... Jeff got a sex change?

Jeff obviously got to answer the question that was about him. HA!


Looking back it may not be as funny as I thought, but it still is. You be the judge.