12-12-08

Today will be the last in class blog of the year I believe. I am glad that Christmas is right around the corner, and the semester is nearing closure. I will be a busy bee come spring, but who's even thinking that far ahead yet. The main thing that needs to be done is sleep and study. I have plenty of things I need to do before the end of next week, so I'll be set until then. I don't seem to be focusing on my blog today, and niether is Jayna. She's texting, so she's not blogging which means that if this is read aloud, I just told on her. Oh well life goes on, I mean Gary Anderson hit how many field goals in a row until missing when? Oh yeah, for those of you don't know the 1998 Vikings vs Falcons game was a thriller, for Falcon fans that is. I mean atleast when they played the Giants to go to the Superbowl, they had more than 1 loss. With that, they still got beat 41-0, pretty embarrassing. Even if the Vikings made it to the Superbowl they'd most likely lose, I mean 0-4 in the big game isn't something to be bragging about. There are teams that have won 5 Superbowls, three to be exact. The Steelers, 49ers, and Cowboys all have won 5. I wonder why the NFL doesn't have the weird curses like MLB. I mean there's one for the Cubs who haven't won in 100 years, but the Vikings haven't EVER won. I'm sure in about 40 years when they haven't won ever yet they will recieve a curse. Atleast then Viking fans will have a real excuse.

12-10-08

I woke up this morning thinking, wow it's time for class already? When I heard my alarm I thought I accidentally set it off, so I about went back to sleep. I need to take a nap after class today. As I sit here, in this greenish chair, I listen to the sounds in the room. I hear typing hardcore from someone on the west wall and also someone down the row just coughed. I also heard someone drinking their beverage. A sniffle and a cough just interrupted each other while a pleasant bless you was thrown out in the air. Out of all the noises, typing is eliminating most others. If there wasn't such an enmormous amount of typers at the same time there would most likely be more noises that we could hear. If I had the time I'd do things I'm able to see in the room, but that would take awhile because there is more to see, than hear. Well time to hit the old dustry trail again.

12-05-08

I am really tired. I don't think I've been this tired, this often since I had mononucleosis. I hope I don't have that again, that would stink, especially this close to finals and Christmas. I wouldn't mind getting it over Christmas because I would be home atleast. I think I need to sleep, but whenever I try to, something comes up and I end up not even getting a lash of sleep. After English I'm going up to the fieldhouse to hit, and lift. I had a crazy dream last night. First I was driving home with my dad, and all of a sudden I saw a plane go down. When I got home the plane was in my yard, and it was people we knew. The pilot said nobody died from the crash, they died from disease I guess. After that, my friend and I went to Wal-mart for something to do, and some guy was forcing us to take alcohol from him as a free gift. I think I went outside to park my car and he followed us, but in the end we made amends and he just checked us out for whatever we purchased. A good song that is on my mind right now is Second Chance by Shindown. In the song there is a line that says, "I just saw Haley's comet" and also, "Even the man on the moon disappears somewhere in the stratosphere". It is a good song. I request that anybody that likes music from Shinedown listens to that, and also Theory of a Deadman. I can't wait for this weekend to start, its going to be awesome, well probably not but we can pretend.

12-03-08

Today is December 3rd, and I am mighty tired. I didn't have English today which was really nice because I slept until 1. I feel pretty revived but still tired for some reason. I took my quiz for the class just a little bit ago and got 5/7, but I wonder what ones I got wrong. I thought I got them all right, but who knows. I took my Music Appreciation Exam yesterday and got an 83 overall. It's not that good, but it will actually bring my grade up a little bit. I am sitting in my dorm room bored, and kind of hungry. I am probably going to go get ready for class at 2, which makes me have to focus once today. I also should probably go hit up at the fieldhouse for baseball, but I don't think I'll have time now that I slept so long. Well, I better go get ready so I am not lat for class.

11/26/08

All the thing's I'm greatful for.. .. ..

My sister
My brother
My mother
My father
My house
My room
My bed
My ps2
Able to Live
Able to Breathe
Able to Eat
Able to Sleep
Playing Baseball
Playing Football
Playing Basketball
My Friends
All Food
All Animals
All Teachers
Thanksgiving
Christmas
Easter
Valentines Day
Mother's Day
Freedom
Living in America
Small Life South Dakota
My Relatives
Literacy
Math
Wellness
Health
Music
Television
Movies
Games
Church
Religion
Spending time with Family
Spending time with Friends
Money

11/19/08 Dad's B-day

When I'm in my 20's I will...

Go to a San Francisco 49ers game
Go to a San Francisco Giants game
Wait 8 years to start a family
Stay in shape
Try to achieve
Fail to achieve
Find a new way of living
Wish I was still young
Move somewhere tropical
Miss South Dakota
Move back to South Dakota
Hopefully be working somewhere
Be getting old
Try to get on big game shows
Be poor
Do crazy things
Definately go to Casino's and blow my cash

11/17/08

Brittany's mom must be a good mom. She has raised quite the child. If I were Brittany's mom I would be proud. Anyways, on a real topic because I just told Brittany I was going to do that so I kind of had too, how about them 49ers. They come off a close game to the division leading Arizona Cardinals and absolutley own the Rams. It was 35-3 at half before the 49ers decided to not run the score up. The final was 35-16 and Frank Gore and Shaun Hill both played really good. I think Shaun Hill has what it takes but he needs the coach that will give him a chance, which I think Mike Singletary is. The 49ers aren't a bad football team, and haven't been terrible over the years, it was just that the coaching staff was playing conservative football, and the players they had weren't that type. They haven't had the pleasure of winning games, and most of the players on the roster now haven't been to the playoffs. I miss the good old days when I could watch the 49ers more than once a year on tv, but now it's just one game a year they play on tv. I have liked them since I can ever remember and I don't know why I do, because everyone in my family is a Viking fan. I am a loyal fan.

11/05/08

I am sitting in English, the class I almost missed this morning. I was super tired, and hopefully I am not getting sick. Ipswich beat Langford/Roslyn on Monday, so they are now one game again from the dome hosting Chester. Last year, we were in the same situation, and got murdered by Gregory. It was heart breaking. I will probably go to the game on Saturday in Ipswich, but I wish I had someone to go with. It is going to be weird going there without someone I know, then seeing people I haven't seen or talked to since college started. Ipswich is a small town, so it won't be that bad I guess. I kind of have mixed emotions whether I want them to win. Of course I do because it'd be sweet to see my hometown in the dome, but on the other hand I'll be kind of jealous that I never got to play there and we should have. Chester has played all the good teams in the State, and has only lost to Hurley/Marion and Stickney/Mount Vernon, whom they had to beat to continue in the playoffs. They got killed by the Cobras of Hurley/Marion, but also killed Emery/Ethan a team that almost beat Hurley/Marion. So either way I can't wait to see this game.

11/3/08

Our team worked well together when we had to clean up the field. We had to go in a couple weeks back to the baseball field, and we had to edge everything, and clean up the remaining grass but try and leave as much dirt as we could. It was a lot of work to be done in little time, but with a team of baseball players wanting the field to look good, we stepped up. Everyone was finding something to do, whether it was edging, cleaning up, or even carrying new buckets to put grass in. Even with that many people it was a long process and still took nearly 3 hours. Imagine if the team had not pulled together and worked, it would have taken much, much longer. When it was almost done, we had another job at hand. We had to spread the dirt evenly around the field, and then rake it in. It wasn't that hard but still took time and people. Even though this seems like alot, the team takes care of the field every day. Everybody pitches in and the work gets done faster. Taking care of the field is just one of many ways the baseball team comes together to get a job done.

10/29/08

I woke up this morning at about 10:35, thrilled that I got to sleep in. We were supposed to have conditioning this morning for baseball but Coach Berry cancelled it until we finished our Blue/Gold World Series. I was glad that he did that. I have been working pretty hard to improve myself and hopefully it's paying off. I haven't hit the ball well, and that has always been my strong point. I think it is more confidence than anything and I need to start having confidence. I am actually really excited to play today, since we haven't played in forever. I want to hit the ball for once. I havent hit the ball hard at all and I'm sure that people are starting to think I can't. Heck, I'm even starting to think that. I think that could be a reason and today I'm going to prove it all wrong.

10/28/08

I woke up today realizing I had spaced off for English an entire day yesterday. We didn't have class, but we had a quiz and a blog, and I didn't do either. Even if I don't get credit for this, I felt as though I missed out on a day to share my ideas and other aspects of life. Today already feels long. I feel like I'm getting sick again, but hopefully not as serious this time. I am definately due up for a nap today. I haven't had good sleep the past couple nights and a nap right after lunch sounds scrumptious. It is Tuesday today, and I am planning on going home this weekend, probably saturday, for hunting. I haven't seen my family in only a couple weeks, and I wasn't able to come home for my mom and dad's anniversary last weekend so I figured I'd try to make up for it.

10/24/08

I am very tired. We had conditioning this morning and it absolutely totalled my mind. My legs are tired, my arms are tired, my head is tired, and worst of all, I'm tired. I didn't think I'd get up in time to make it to English this morning. My alarm went of, and I just sat in bed, quietly singing along. My ringtone is a song, obviously. It is Rise Above This by Seether. It is a song about his brother comitting suicide, and is one of my favorite. Getting on this subject, music is one of my favorite things to do. I have alot of songs I can list, but that would be way longer, so I am going to list some of my favorite Artists, and some other ones I know and like a song or two. So in no particular order, Boston, Cheap Trick, Augustana, Seether, Eminem, Backstreet Boys, Boys II Men, Breaking Benjamin, Static-X, Disturbed, Metallica, Chris Brown, Mario Vasquez, Mario, Leonna Lewis, Rihanna, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, John Michael Montgomery, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, George Straight, Gary Allan, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, The Killers, Bowling for Soup, Akon, Avant, We The Kings, Sick Puppies, Green Day, Yellowcard, The Afters, Secondhand Serenade, Lil Wayne, Lil Jon, Ludacris, Chingy, Nelly, Styx, C-Side, Verve Pipe, Stroke 9, The Offspring, 50 Cent, Ray J, The Beatles, Newfound Glory, Sum 41, New Kids on the Block, and Kate Perry.

10/22/08

The last 12 hours have been bad. I was doing math from 8-1 in the morning, and still didn't finish it all. I had to wake up at 6 for baseball, and I was dead tired. Even though I ran pretty good this morning, I really need a nap. I doubt were going to be having baseball again today since it is raining pretty bad. It is supposed to rain all day, and start snowing tonight. Steve also told me yesterday that they took a month off of baseball and merely did conditioning and weight lifting until after christmas. I think that would be radical dude (not really how I talk). The only bad thing about now is that it takes up so much time running, lifting on my own, and practing with the team. If we only ran and lifted weights in the morning, I would be able to get way more homework done, sleep more, and even lift harder. I woke up and I was just like, oh no, this is going to be a long day. So far, it has been. I haven't done anything and I need to go to bed. I wish I had the courage to skip class. Actually, no I don't, I'd rather go to class and just get a little bit of the information in my head, than not go and get absolutley nothing.

10/20/08

We had a choice to write about a problem, but my internet just started working and I don't want to be far behind. I guess the internet not working is a problem so maybe I'll see what I can do. So it was about 10:12, and we were assigned to write in our blogs. I looked at my screen and saw the internet was down. Oh No!, I thought to myself, what was I going to do, there was work to be done, and I didn't have internet. Call Superman, he could definately fix it, after all, what is there that he can't do. As long as there is no kryptonite in my computer he'd be the key. He could fly from his secret lair, but wait, how would I contact him, my internet is down! I carefully thought, and the next solution was telegraph a message to Superman. That is the best way, I mean its been around longer than any other means of communication. So I began my message, "Dear Superman, my internet is down so I this is the only wa....". Oh no, I just thought of two more problems. The first one, I've seen, let alone used, a telegraph before and what makes me think that it's that easy. The second problem, I have no idea where Superman's secret lair is, and if I just randomly send out a telegraph (which I don't know how to write anyway) someone might intercept it and than they'd think I was Superman trying to lure them in. Just then, something happened I never expected. I pushed the repair button on my internet and all of my problems were gone. I had internet so I didn't need to telegraph Superman anymore, I could e-mail him, actually, I had internet so I had no use for Superman period, other than wanting to meet him. So I guess after this I still have one problem, where does Superman really live?

10/15/08

Today is another long day. I had conditioning this morning and alls I could think about is what am I missing from school. It's getting pretty hard to keep organized since everything is on computer, and I never know what to write down in my planner. It's pretty much a waste for me to even have it because the only thing I have written in it so far is that there is a music appreciation thing tonight at 9 that is optional and I'll probably attend it so I can figure out what I'm doing in that class. Internet around here isn't the greatest, even though when it's working its really helpful. Running this morning wasn't that bad at all, actually I thought it was really easy. I ran a sweet 16 in under a minute, but after that I was pretty much gassed. I don't know much right now. My head is just a wandering around. Jana is sitting to my left, and she is a loud and bad typer. I am just kidding, but life continues. I almost stopped writing to help her fix a dent in her bottle. I didn't really, because I like writing in blogs. It'll be fun looking back, as I have mentioned before in previous journals. There is a black thing floating around her bottle. Ewww. I hope I can find enough sources for my paper to finish. I have 2 that I think will be alright, but most of the stuff I right is coming from my head. Thank goodness I'm such a fan. I think this is the most I've written in the journal for a long time.

10/8/08

I woke up this morning at roughly 6. We had to meet at the football field for conditioning and I was really excited. Well, no I wasn't really, but I pretended I was. When I got out there it was really cold and wet. I figured it wouldn't be hard because they didn't want a player to pull a muscle or something but I could have been wrong. We ended up starting 10 yard sprints, and then 30, then 50, and then 100 yard dashes. It was about the funnest thing I could think of at 630 in the morning. I think that overall its better for me to be waking up early like that and getting awake for class and being ready than doing it at the last second. Now I sat by brice in the TC while he is eating overprice biscuits and gravy. He is sick so I laugh.

10/6/08

I just interacted in class and I was the big bad wolf. Anyways, I woke up this morning at about 5 A.M. and believe it or not I was super happy. I still had another hour to sleep. We had baseball practice this morning at 6:30, so I had to be up and ready to run by then. It started off not to bad, but that was because the first sweet sixteen isnt bad. It's after the first one the day gets long. We run 1 for every person who is late or doesn't show up. We only had to do 4 before we started doing the regular conditioning. The regular conditiong was a deck of cards with jokers, which represented what we were going to do. The number on the card represented how much we would do, and the suit was the type we would. Jokers were the sweet sixteens, so we ended up doing what seemed like a lot. Everytime we did them I would start out hard and end up dead. We also did burpees, sit-ups, push-ups, and squat jumps. After practice I went to my room and tried to sleep, but was unsuccessful. I just laid there looking at the clock anticipating it would jump over the hours so I could go to sleep for a good nights rest. It never happened, and soon enough I ended up in class. The weekend wasn't too bad, other than having to get up for baseball on sunday, but other than that I finished about 90% of my homework, which I know isn't good enough but I was happy to get that much done. I was so tired all weekend I hardly had the ambition to do anything. I am pretty sure I'm over the mono, but I am still eating healthy, like I always should, and getting sleep when I can. Today is the first time we've written in our blogs in what seems like forever. It is nice to get some of the details out again. It's interesting looking back a year or two from now and seeing what I was thinking at this particular moment. We did this throughout my High School and Junior High years, and I still look back and laugh because I would do some of the strangest things. I would draw pictures of dinosaurs, or write about how the guy next to me was tapping his foot. I would also barely touch my pencil on the paper so it's hard to make out what I was writing. The most common words I used had to be umm or I don't know what to write about. There were days that I would write an entire 3 pages just using that. I don't even know why I wasted the paper or the time. I could have just sat there and stared into space like most other kids. I was always a shy kid so I never shared anything important or anything that people would laugh at me. It was always pointed towards something random. Goodbye.

9-26-08

I went to bed last night stunned. I had just watched the Minnesota Twins come back from a 6-1 deficit to beat the Chicago White Sox 7-6 in extra innings. Next, when I turned to ESPN to see what they had to say, I then found out that wasn't all that happened. The #1 NCAA College Footbal team, the USC Trojans were trailing the Oregon State Beavers 21-14 in the 4th quarter. Both teams would score again, but the Beavers ended up winning 27-21 becoming the first team to knock off a #1 team since 1990. Yet, that wasn't the end of the crazy night in sports. The New York Mets had a needed walk-off hit to beat the Chicago Cubs 7-6 in a regular 9 inning game. Then, the Milwaukee Brewers won on a walk-off grand slam to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in another crazy game. The sports analysts had to be going crazy because I knew I was. The Brewers and the Mets are tied with 3 games remaining, while the Mets are 1 game behind the Phillies. The Twins are half a game ahead of the White Sox, and that is after sweeping the White Sox in a 3 game series. Man, times like this is why I absolutely love sports.

9-24-08

I woke up this morning feeling way better than I have been. I still have sore throat, and I haven't been able to stay awake for more than a couple of hours because I'm so tired, but I just felt that I had made improvement. My mood is happy, and I am excited to head back to school. I feel like I have been missing out on classes for weeks, and that I'm falling behind even though I have been keeping up and trying to stay ahead. The only classes that I'm really nervous about are music appreciation because I left a needed CD in my dorm, and my wellness life class because that is the only one I have thats not online. We had a quiz today, but I haven't been able to take it. I should be ready as I have been reading up on it at home with nothing else to do. Home is beginning to get old as all I'm doing is sleeping, watching tv, and sleeping. I will most likely be going to bed at 10 as soon as I get to college again and have something to do each day. I wonder how tired I'll be when I actually have goals in my day.

9-22-08

I woke up this morning to write in my blog because I have been sick and I didn't know what to do and I don't want to fall behind. I haven't felt good for over a week now, but I went to the doctor on Friday and she told me I had Mono, how exciting. As soon as she said that I had a plan. I was going to go home, and mom was going to make it all better. Well, she's tried and I still feel terrible. The hardest thing about is all this is that I'm worried I'm going to fall behind in all my classes. I have been trying to be ahead of it all, but I have had absolutely no energy to even attempt it until this morning. I am curious to see how long the little energy I have lasts. It's times like this that I realize how hard some people fight against more serious diseases and infections. How do some people manage to put up with cancer for years, and have little or no energy but still manage to be fighting it the whole time. That has to take more will power than anyone could imagine. Hopefully I can get over this before too long and be back in class not worrying about it as much as I am now.

9-15-08

This weekend was an alright weekend. Not very many amazing things happened this weekend but I still lived through boredom. I found out that I forgot to study for a quiz, but it turned out to be kind of easy. Kind of only because I don't want to say it was really easy and then end up getting a D or something. My neck is kind of stiff this morning. The best part of my weekend was when I got a text saying the 49ers had won 33-30 in OT against the Seattle Seahawks, and then that text was followed by one sayin the Giants had won 8-6 in extra innings. Although the San Francisco Giants have no chance at making the playoffs this year, they are starting to look good and I keep getting more and more excited for next season. The 49ers, on the other hand, should be able to win their division if they can play some football. They lost to the Cardinals in the first week by 10. Another good part of my weekend was watching the Minnesota Vikings blow a 15-0 lead and lose 18-15 to the Colts of Indianapolis. Adrian Peterson of the Vikings dominated the first half with over 100 first half rushing yards, but was shut down pretty much in the second half. Other than that not much really happened this weekend. I pretty much just walked football all weekend. The Steelers beat the Browns last night 10-6. Those games are the more intense less action games. I wonder who plays tonight. I am going to guess the Cowboys and the Eagles maybe. I don't remember a score for either of those teams.

9-12-08

1.What are your strengths?
I am a funny athletic guy. I am not shy very often.

2.How do you perform well?
To get the job done I usually keep at it until the job is done. I believe that if you take a break for too long you're not going to come back with the same intensity you had in the first place.

3.What are three of our top values?
Three of my top values would include sports, College, and family.

4. What do you want to contribute to this class?
I want to express my creativity of writing.

9-10-08

As I went to bed last night I had the chills. I was sweating up a storm and still freezing out of my mind. I didn't get much sleep and still feel sicker than a dog. I have a sore throat and I almost didn't even make it to my first class because I thought I was going to die. I think I will make it but I noticed that I was feeling sorry for myself earlier so I made sure that I would make it to class. After I showered I made my way downstairs for my routine of an 8:40 Monday,Wednesday, Friday breakfast. I had a ham and cheese omlette and noticed that it wasn't the same thing as my fathers omlettes but atleast it was edible. I also know that I left my chapstick upstairs and my lips are as dry as a desert and I'm to lazy to make my way up to the dorm and get it. I messed up on my Algebra quiz and I got one accomplished and my computer froze up or something and now I can't finish it, so hopefully the professor will allow me to redo it.

9-8-08

During the recent weekend there was a lot of things I learned. I learned that I enjoyed my roomate being gone rather than him being along, and also that there are some guys in our hall that can be really loud without being enjoyable. I woke up this morning dreading school, but now I am kind of glad that I'm in it. I also noticed that my roomate is the shyest person I have ever emt and its not even a good time when he's there. I went to shower and the shower was crowded so instead of standing around a bunch of guys in towels I waited in my room, and thought I was going to be late for class. When I finally got in I hustled so I could get down to breakfast in time to enjoy it. With my great time managing skills(almost), I made it to class with breeze. I found out I did have homework this weekend but luckily it wasnt alot so now that I have my laptop I can write down a schedule of todo list stuff, and not worry too much about it. Today we have to run the mile I'm kind of excited to see where I am at from the past, but also nervous I might not do so good. It's hard to be in front of a new group of guys like the baseball team where nobody knows me yet. While I was typing a minute ago I noticed that we might have to do projections throughout the year which I am not looking forward to now.