20oz steak for the win!

Yesterday, I had a testing database and I did quite well on it. There were only a few questions that I wasn't sure about so hopefully I will get a good grade on it. The best part about yesterday though was I got to go out to Outback for Jonathan's birthday and his parents were paying for it all, so of course I couldn't pass up an opportunity like that and got my self the 20 oz Porterhouse, mmm tasty. Yesterday was a great day, I was in such a great mood even before the streak, hoorah. I have may presentation coming up next Thursday so I will be working on that quite a bit, so pray that it goes well and continue praying for wisdom, strength and fearlessness. ~Semper Fi

I had a productive day

Today I had a really productive day for a Sunday. I got the oil changed in Bethany's car, got Courtni's computer virus free and updated and watched the movie Stealth, it was quite good. I also got my pictures from spring break uploaded so go check them out. Bible class was good this morning and worship was nice too, even though I was almost asleep though most of the sermon so I don't remember any of it. Last week I got my stupid research paper done for one of my capstone courses and all I have left for that class now is to give my seminar, which hopefully I will get done this week. It sure has been nice being back and hanging out with my friends down here again. Oh yeah I also have some movies from when the family played Dance Dance Revolution to upload, once I get them up I will put the link here. Continue praying for strength wisdom and fearlessness for me. God Bless. ~Semper Fi

Heading Back to School

Well I am on my way back to school. This break was much to short. :( Anyway yesterday my friend David and his wife Kira came down for dinner and games and they brought Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero with them. We got the whole family to try DDR at least once, even my Grandma gave it a shot. I took pictures and some video, but again I can't post the pics or video till I get back to school. So they may be posted today, but most likely tomorrow. Only three of us played Guitar Hero, David, Nick and myself. It was a lot of fun and I was much better at Guitar Hero then DDR. Anyway pray for a safe and speedy return. ~Semper Fi

Shooting stuff for the win!

Yesterday, my Dad, brother and I finally got to shoot up some stuff we ment to over Christmas break. Before we started shooting, we took the old microwave and put a bunch of foil and bottle rockets in it and started it. It didn't take long for the arcs to light some of the fuses and boom we had explosions in the microwave :) After a few more of those the microwave quit working, so we got and old tv and plugged it in and started shooting it. We put about 30 rounds in to before it quit making noise :) Then we got a styrofoam head and put two blood packets on its forehead and started shooting it up, got a nice blood running done the face effect. Finally we got out a old ceramic owl bank and shot that up, it only survived three rounds before it was totally annihilated. Then we shoot up the microwave to finish it off completely. I have lots of pictures but I can't upload them till I get back to school so I will let you know when I get them up.

After dinner the whole family plus Alycia and my Grandparents played Loaded Questions for almost three hours! Because the game took that long, it was still lots of fun and we all died laughing at some put, I pretty was laugh the whole time and was one of the best times I have had playing that game. Some of the answers that came of my grandpa cracked me up it was great. I almost killed my grandma with laughter when she read one of my answers. The question was: What is a hidden talent you have the most people don't know about? I put throw a ball with my foot and for some reason she that was hilarious and then we all started laughing because she was laughing so hard. Man was that a fun night. That's it for this post. ~Semper Fi

Spring Break

Yesterday, Alycia, Erin and I made it to Washington safe and sound. We spent the afternoon in Seattle and went to Pike Place Market and visited the Space Needle and took a few pictures. Which will be showing up on my photo site once I have a broadband connection again. Today we went hiking upto Goose Rock, then down to the bridge and finally to the beach. I took some pictures along the way and they will posted aswell. Man am I going to be stiff and sore tomorrow, I haven't gone hiking like that in awhile, but it felt good and was a beautiful day. ~Semper Fi

The tomorrow post

Last Friday, Sara had game number two in a tournament to see who would win regionals. The game was tense for a while because they were playing a team they totally dominated in all previous meetings, but they were losing for part of the game, it didn't help that the refs were favoring the other highly, 8-1 in fouls until the very end when it didn't matter anymore. They won in the end even though they were playing against a team, the refs and at the start themselves. After the game we came home and I met Bethany's sister Rachel and her two friends Chelsea and Christy. We chatted a bit while we waited to go out to dinner because those that went to the game hadn't eaten yet. We went out to a Chinese buffet place and I eat three plates of food since I was really hungry, mmm tasty. After that went back and Caleb, Lindsay and Alycia were over because Alycia was taking Caleb and Lindsay, who was leaving her truck at the house, to the train station in Little Rock around 10:30. We didn't do much else that night, but around 11:30 I get a call from Caleb saying the directions he got were no good and he needed some help. I was looking it up on Google Local, when he told me they were stopping at McDonalds to get directions, since they were really close. The directions they got there worked and they made it to the train station. Then I went to bed.

Saturday, had breakfast as usual and then we all kinda just bummed around the house till about seven when it was time for Sara's final game of the tournament against their rivals, who they have lost to in their three previous games. It was an intense game and one of the best of the season. The teams were only a few points apart the entire game, but Sara's team won in the end and were regional champs. After the game we headed home and played some games and then went to bed.

Sunday went to church and had a huge lunch with a bunch of friends at home. Then I bummed around the house until later that night when we played Loaded Questions and I wrote about that below, but another funny one that came up was, what is your worst physical feature? The answers were all related to hands or feet, but Rachel's was the funniest with corpse feet. After that we actually played hide'n'go seek in the house that was a lot of fun and I was the last one found the two rounds we played, leet hiding skillz for the win! ~Semper Fi

Quick update more to come later

Just a quick post to let you know I am still alive and kicking. I have a lot to write about for this weekend, but you will have to wait till tomorrow for that post. I learned about two more neat things I have in common with a certain somebody :) The first one is we both have to sleep in a colder room and the second one I learned while playing Loaded Questions with Amber, Bethany, Christy, Chelsea, Rachel and Branson. Off topic real quick Rachel is Bethany's sister and Christy and Chelsea are two of Rachel's friends, who came down for the weekend, they will be in my post tomorrow. So back on topic now. A question came up asking: What is it you don't like to share? I put down toothpaste tube, because I can't stand it when people leave the lid off or squeeze the tube from the middle it just really urks me. Anyway after they all got read both her and Branson said they can't stand that either and we got a good laugh out of it. Anyway I thought I would share that. Time for bed. ~Semper Fi

Happy Valentines

Man did today, Monday, start off crazy. On our way to school we, Luke and I, saw our roommate, Nate, get rearended by some lady, he was fine, and then after we get around the corner we see flashing lights down by the next stop light, so we decided to go around by Searcy High School. We are waiting for the cop, who is directing traffic for the school, to give us the green light and right after he does we almost get creamed by some HS girl on her cell not paying attention. We are almost to school and another lady starts to pull out in front of us and so we almost creamed her. It was not a good day for woman drivers :P

Today in my chapel seat was a stuffed valentine gorilla with kisses all over him, it was nice surprise. That's him on the right.

Then later today I got to go to a free concert for Shawn McDonald in Conway, with Alycia, Amber, Bethany, Erin, Jess, Laura and Sara, it was a lot of fun and I like his songs, plus he is a fellow pacific northwestern. I also made some funny valentine cards for friends and still need to make two more tomorrow morning before I go to school hopefully. Well its late and I need to get to bed soon. Good day it has been. ~Semper Fi

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It has been awhile since the last post but then again that's been the norm. Saturday I had a bunch of gamer buddies over to watch Doom and we all had a good time watching it and making funny comments during it. Doom was a lot better then I thought it was going to be. The first person section was the best by far. Bethany was also having people over to play games and then there was a surprise party for Alycia. I had some good conversation and then before I went to bed I played a round of Oh Well, its a simple version of Spades, with Amber, Bethany, Nate, Sara and Tracy it was fun.

Sunday I went to morning church and then came back and had a nice lunch and then watched/slept through Miracle. I didn't do much else today and was just lazy this weekend. Anyway a group of us(5 girls and me :) ) went to downtown tonight and as I was sitting there thinking during the devo, it really hit me how much singing focuses my thoughts on God and how easy it is to fully worship Him while singing versus just sitting and listen to someone talk. Cause while I'm singing I am not thinking about anything else to the words to the song and what they mean, its just refreshing to be able to focus that much. I'll probably write some more tomorrow, but its late and I gotta get up in the morning. Continue prayers for wisdom, strength and fearlessness for me. ~Semper Fi

Guys Night Out

Tonight, Friday, we had a guys night out. Allan, Caleb, Kevin, Kyle, Jonathan, Luke and I went down to Little Rock to get measured for our tuxes, just Allan, Caleb, Kevin and I were the ones getting measured. After getting measured we went out to Chili's for dinner and had a lot of funny conversations about all sorts of things, it was most enjoyable. Then we headed for the bowling alley, but about half way there Caleb called informing me Jonathan had about six minutes of gas left, so we pulled off at the next exit which of course had no gas stations, so turned around and headed back towards the previous exit. Some how in the process Jonathan didn't see us take the first exit and kept going. A few minutes later Caleb called asking where we are and I told him we took the first exit and some how the missed it. So we decided to go on to the bowling alley and give them directions after they had gotten gas. Well after about 15mins of waiting they finally showed up, so we gave them a bad time. Well at the bowling alley we found out it was an hour to an hour and half wait for a game, so we said forget that and went to see a movie. When we were almost there Jonathan made another wrong turn thanks to bad directions from Kyle, so we made fun of them some more. Once at the theater we decided to see Good Night and Good Luck, it was a good movie and I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't so tired. We had a lot of fun and it was nice to hang out with just guys for once. Well I'm really tired and need some sleep. As always please keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi

Big Update

Not much happened during the week, except for skipping chapel on Tuesday to work outside with Abraham before going to school and Thursday, I found out the results of what I did previous Thursday and they were good. Other then that I don't think anything else happened of note.

Friday, Sara had an away game so the usual people went(Ray, Rebecca, Bethany & I) plus Zak. It was a good game which they won. Then we went out to dinner before coming home since we hadn't eating dinner yet. When we got back Bethany, Sara and I finally finished this 2000 piece puzzle we had been working on over the last couple of weeks and just as we were putting in the last couple of pieces we came up short and had little nooooo and booing, but luckily after looking around for a bit I got down to look under the table legs and say the last piece reflect light so it stuck really well against the patterned carpet. After it was placed and the puzzle finished there was much rejoicing and a few pictures taken.

Saturday, there was no breakfast because Rebecca was having a ballet troupe over for lunch, so a bunch of girls were cooking and getting everything ready for them. Then they came over and ate and chatted for a bit before heading out to the school to setup. Several of us guys went to help them setup, because they needed some muscle to do some heavy lifting. I got a good work out from moving some of that stuff. The light bases, sandbags to hold them down and their rolls of floor mat were pretty hefty. The heaviest thing I was enlisted to move was their light controller box or power supply thing, whatever it was, it was heavy. I enlisted Allan to come help get it up the stairs and he must have been surprised and made some comment about me working out, but I told him, you would be surprised how much strength you build cutting wood and doing other heavy grunt work. Before moving that big box, Lydia, who is from Washington insta connection, was telling me about the rivalry that they have going for the Super Bowl and on our way over to the box she point out two Steelers fans, so I booed them and that got a laugh out of them hehe.Well after getting all setup we guys headed back home for some relaxing before the ballet.

The ballet was really neat and I enjoyed it. It was the story of Ruth put into a 1900s setting. They had some neat costumes and dance routines, quite enjoyable. After that was over we started tearing everything down and packing up. By then it was 11pm and we still had to go over to the high schools caf and eat some dinner, man was I hungry by then. Just after praying for dinner, Sarah and Mandy went to move some stuff to Veasna's truck and they found a cd stuck to the front of her truck and it was from a guy in her apartment complex, so we started giving her a bad time about it. At some point we started making a song/rap about the situation and Mandy said something like, "I'll make you back bend" and I followed a few secs later with "I'll bust a cap in your rear end", which killed the entire table and made my stomach hurt from all the laughing, lol it still makes me laugh. After helping clean up, we headed home to bed.

Sunday, other than doing homework and going to church, nothing else happened of any note that I can remember.

Monday night I spent about an hour watching/playing with Cole, having a good time and it was a little taste of being a dad and it was nice and is something I am looking forward to. After push him on his trike, at hi-speed of course, I was pooped out, but it was all good.

Oh yeah here are some pics of all the wood I chopped last semester, the platform, the wood is on, is 8x8x4ft to give you a reference.
And here is a picture of my current project of putting down a stone walk way. I will post an updated picture next time.

Well how was that for an update. Before I forget if you read this leave a comment even if its just hello, I would appreciate it much. And as always continue prayers of wisdom, strength and fearlessness for me. May God bless you as much as He has me. ~Semper Fi

SEATTLE IS GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!

Man was it a great game, Seattle totally dominated Carolina. I can't wait for Superbowl Sunday now. I was hoping it would be Denver on the other side but they played so badly today and Pittsburgh was nasty on the defense and opening offense. The Superbowl should be a really good game. Well that's all I wanted to write about tonight. Continue your prayers of strength, wisdom and now fearlessness for me. ~Semper Fi

Checking In

I haven't been up to much lately other than school, so here is what I have been up to. I have learned how to play this new game called Settlers of Catan and it is lots of fun. Everyone should try it at least once. I have had a blast watching the playoffs and can't wait till they are on today.

Friday Sara had a big conference game against their rival, which happens to be the number one team atm too, and a whole bunch of us went out to watch them play. We got out our shirts that spelled here name and everyone else had Wildcat shirts or red and white on, a few even got out some face paint. Of course Emily and Luke got into a fight with the paint, that was entertaining. The game was quite lame, the Lady Wildcats just plain sucked, it was the worse I have seen them play. The game wasn't even close, as opposed to the last time they played were they only lost by one or two points right at the end. This game they started losing after the first quarter and went down hill fast afterwards.

Yesterday I and a few others spent the whole day watching movies and doing homework. We watched How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Braveheart, Tortilla Soup(lame movie), Patriot and Fat Albert to end the night. Believe it or not at least one person had not seen some of these, including Braveheart.

Thursday Luke didn't have his ten o'clock class so we slept in, which was really nice and I did something I have been needing to do, but I don't know the results yet but hopefully I will soon, until then my lips are sealed. Continue you prayers of strength and wisdom for me. ~Semper Fi

I want a personal transportation device please.

Man after traveling for freaking forever, thanks to late planes and delays because of maintenance I want my transportation device. Our plane in Seattle got in late from Hawaii so we left Seattle late causing us, my sister and I, to miss our connection in Detroit. It took almost an hour to get that fixed up because several other people missed the same connection, but we did get 20 bucks in vouchers for food and what not plus we got bumped to first class for our flight to Houston. Then we had to wait for our plain in Houston because they were doing maintenance on it so we got delayed another 30 minutes. It ended up taking us starting from 11pm Pacific time on Saturday night to 3:30pm Central time before we reached Little Rock, ugh what a long day.

Anyway we made it back safe and sound. Of course there where a couple of people at Montgomery's so I already have ran in to Abraham, Branson and Jess. Bethany will be in tomorrow and I am looking forward to see her again. Oh yeah, I also saw Dana and Amy when they came by to pick out a movie or two from the Montgomery Library. As well as the Montgomery's and Lindsay and Cole.

Well I think that should do quite well for a post tonight. Continue prayers of strength and wisdom for me. May God watch over you. ~Semper Fi

Geek for the win!

Tuesday I spent the whole day with David and his wife Kira. They took my out to lunch at Boss Tweed(I think that's what it was called) where I got clam chowder in a sourdough bowl and was it tasty. After that we ran some errands and then we headed to their apartment to take care of some stuff and put together the two lamps they got. After that we stopped by the UPS store and picked up a package and we headed back to Oak Harbor, we had been in Bellingham all day where they will be living once they get their stuff delivered. It was real nice to spend the day with them and catch up on what has happened since the last time we talked in person.

Wednesday I didn't to anything remarkable except play Guild Wars and Resident Evil 4.

Today(Thursday) I woke up at 5am for no good reason, I even tried to get back to sleep for an hour could not so I got up and had to stretch a whole lot to try and get my back and legs to loosen up, because they were so tight. So I played Guild Wars for a couple of hours until I got hungry just before eight. I ate breakfast and took a shower and then waited for my mom and sister to get back from dropping my brother off at school. We then went shopping but I got really tired on the drive over so I just slept in he car for about two hours will my mom and sister were in the stores. After that we went to the mall to meet up with the Beaches, Marcus' family, and had lunch at a Japanese place. Then we went and saw Cheaper by the Dozen 2, it was pretty good. Then we came home and I put my brothers new computer together because the case finally showed up today and got it all running and working on the first try, Geek power! After that we had dinner with Grandparents at Applebees, pretty good food, but I didn't have much of an appetite because I haven't been feeling to well all day.

Tomorrow the new digital camera and back up drive my grandpa order for himself will be showing up so I will be showing him how to work all that loot, which will be fun since he is a smart guy. Well I think that is it so continue praying for me. God bless. ~Semper Fi

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New Years party on Sunday was a lot of fun. Mostly played Guild Wars with Marcus, but also played a new card/board game called Joker, its like Sorry but a lot more fun and requires some thinking. When I played we did guys vs girls. Guys won the first game then the girls won the second game and we didn't play a tie breaker game :(

My friend David is in town and I will be getting to see him sometime tomorrow, looking forward to it I am. Well that's it for tonight because I am really tired and need to get my sleep debt caught up. Good night, sleep well. ~Semper Fi

Happy New Year Noobs

Zombie Day went well we watched Land of the Dead, which was disappointing. Then we play a lot of Resident Evil 4 and a lot of Guild Wars, which isn't a zombie game but it does have zombies in it so it counts. I forget how much fun Marcus and I have and I can't wait till he can come down to Harding so my other friends can meet him. We my kill them all with uber geek talk if where not careful though :) Geek for the win!

The party on Friday went really well. First we sung songs for about two hours, which was really neat as it reminded me of Wednesday night Bible study. After singing most of the people played some games. I went a grab a chair next to the food and then my dad and grandpa joined me so we chatted for about and hour or so, then my dad got up and so I had a really good talk with my grandpa, which I really enjoyed. My brother, grandpa and I got my sister a new digital camera for Christmas and it got delivered on Friday so we got to give it to her and she really likes it.

Today I didn't really do anything but watch Denver stomp the Chargers and play Resident Evil 4.

Tomorrow I have the party at Marcus' to go to which we will be starting the new year right with mass gaming. RAWR!

May God bless this year and continue your prayers for strength and wisdom. ~Semper Fi

Another Break Update

On Monday a few friends and I went and saw King Kong and it was amazing. They did a great job on the gorilla and you could even see emotion in his eyes, I was really impressed. My favorite part was the fight between Kong and three t-rex like dinosaurs, it was sweet. I also went hiking with Kyle and Ryan too. We hiked down to North Beach and threw rocks grenade style and then tried to hit them mid air with another rock, we never hit one but came close several times. We also threw rocks at floating logs and watched the tide going out and even saw a seal, an overall good time.

Thursday my brother and I are hosting a zombie day party. We will be watching several zombie moves and playing zombie related games, its going to be fun. Zombies for the win!

Other then playing Guild Wars a whole lot, I haven't done to much since the last update other then what is mentioned above. We do have two new years parties coming up, one on Friday and another on Sunday. We are having the one on Friday at my house and hopefully and I can get some people to play jungle Uno. The one on Sunday is at my friend Marcus' house and that will be lots of fun too.

On more serious note, I have been tempted quite a lot this break, so please pray for strength and diligence in my Bible reading and prayer times. Phil 4:4-7 ~Semper Fi

Merry Christmas

Today(Saturday) I didn't do much other then watch Seattle BEAT Indy, yeah buddy! Then my family went and watched Narnia, a must see movie. We also opened our presents tonight because we will be going to church in the morning and we all wanted to anyway. I'll get some pics up of my loot later. Merry Christmas. ~Semper Fi

Break Update

Thursday we where supposed to go caroling to some of our older church members, mostly windows, but it decided to pour rain with a nice lightning show for the win, so that didn't happen. Friday we went to my dad's work Christmas party at Rocky Point and it was fairly boring for myself as usual. There was good food and after eating we played seven eleven, which is a game with two sets of dice traveling in opposite directions of each other in the circle and you roll the dice to see if you get a seven or eleven, if you get either you get to pick a prize off the table or steal someone else's and this goes on for a predetermined amount of time, it's quite fun. Saturday I am very much looking forward to the Seattle vs Indy game, GO SEATTLE! Well that is about it. Merry Christmas. ~Semper Fi