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

This break update brought to you by noodles

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

Made it home

It made it home yesterday safe and sound, even though we had a good gust of wind the really knocked the plane around during our landing approach, it made quite a few people nervous and one lady even half screamed that made me laugh. I thought it was a nice change from the normal boring landing sequence :) Anyway after that was over we drove home without incident. I love being back in Washington surrounded by mountains, trees and the ocean, I just really love it hear. I'll post again when something happens around here. Until then God bless and have a merry Christmas. ~Semper Fi

On my way home

I am on my way home for Christmas break. I will write again when I get home. Pray for a safe journey for all those that are traveling. ~Semper Fi

Finished Finals

Today I had my last two finals for the semester, so I am done. Not much went on this week other then spending way to much time studying. Sara had a game on Monday so I went and it was really good even though they lost in the last few mins. Today day I spit wood for 2.5 hours because I needed to do something physical. And tonight we watched Braveheart, which I had really been wanting to watch for the last few days. I had forgotten how much I like that movie. Well I am really tired, to bed I go. ~Semper Fi

Gaming Party

Tomorrow night I am hosting a old school gaming party nothing newer then N64 will be played. We even have an NES to play. Tonight I went to Sara's basketball game and man was that one of the most intense games I have been to. The game was close the entire time and the Wildcats (Sara's team) only won by 2 points in the end. It was a great game. I am sad that I will be missing her last game in this tournament, which is tomorrow night :( oh well if her team wins I'll have a good welcome party for her :). This week I had two nasty tests in GUI and File structures. I got owned on the GUI test, made only a 43%. They file structures test score was better then expected, 65%, but neither will really damage my grade in either class. Other than that not much has happened since my last post. ~Semper Fi

Weekend for the win

This weekend was a lot of fun. Friday I went out with Bethany, Caleb and Lindsay, it was kind of a double date, we went down to Little Rock and ate dinner at Sticky Fingers, a really neat restaurant, and then we went to the Rave to watch First Descent, its a movie/documentary about snowboarding and the footage was mostly all in Alaska, which really makes me want to go to Alaska even more, it was a good movie and had lots of cool snowboarding shots. We have some pictures taking so I will see if I can get them and post them sometime. Today I spent part of the day studying and reading for file structures. Then around 5 Goonies came on in HD ftw!, so I watched that and had forgotten how funny that movie is. For dinner Bethany cooked some tasty quesadillas and there was some good guacamole too. Then a bunch of people came over and we watch Raiders of the Last Ark. Good relaxing yet productive weekend. Thank you Lord for all the blessings ~Semper Fi

End of break is at hand.

Today Sarah and I went riding again and this time we went for about two hours, doing some trotting, cantering, and near galloping myself. It was lots of fun and felt really great. Though I am ready to get back to school now and finish up. It has been a very relaxing and restful week. I will be praying for safe travels. I have taken a few pictures that I will be posting on my pictures site: http://jrommann.zoto.com for those that don't know about it yet. It's late, I am tired, to bed I go. ~Semper Fi

Thanksgiving

I am really tired so I am going to keep this short. Before the Thanksgiving dinner Sarah and I went riding for a little bit, it was a beautiful day, and man did it feel good to be on a horse again. Around one was Thanksgiving dinner and a lot of Sarah's family was here, so I met them. I ate so much food that I didn't get hungry till around eight tonight. I watched some football but mostly just played NS all day. Around ten tonight Sarah, Abraham and I went running, first time in a long while for both Abe and I, but we ran about a mile and half and my legs are already getting sore. Going to have to do a lot of stretching. Wednesday the three of us went out to eat and then went to the mail and hung out there for a bit. I think that is about it for now. I will post again tomorrow most likely. Thank the Lord for all the things he has given you. ~Semper Fi

Mmmmm break

Break has been going good. Getting lots of sleeping and relaxation. Here is what I have done so far: Saturday and today I helped paint the rec room in Sarah's bar, probably breathed to many fumes today. Also today I met Sarah's maw(grandma) , she is a big fan of Taco Bell instant connection for the win hehe, we chatted for a bit and then she Sarah money to take us out to Taco Bell for lunch. Sunday went to church and then after the night service we went and saw the new Harry Potter movie, it was good. Besides sleep and gaming a lot that's it.

On a more serious note the dark one was really after me today, I am not sure why but he hasn't hit me in a long while, but I didn't succumb to the temptation, it was close a couple of times but I made it through. Thank the LORD for providing protection and the strength. Pray continually for strength, guidance and wisdom as I do. ~Semper Fi

Thanksgiving Break

Made it to Sarah's house safe and sound. I will write about what fun stuff I do as the week goes on. We will be going to see the new Harry Potter movie tomorrow and I think that is all that is planned atm. I will be praying for those that still have to travel tomorrow. ~Semper Fi

FOG for the Win

Tonight we had our first real meeting, even if it was a short one, it was a good one. We just shared some of our favorite verses and chatted about them. It was really encouraging and got me pumped up and in a really good mood. I look forward to our next meeting.

What I did last weekend. Friday the 4th we had a shrimp cook out at Allan's house. Lindsay cooked the shrimp cajun style and man was that the best shrimp ever. I ate a ton of it and it didn't make me feel sick at all, like most shrimp does. After the eating frenzy was over we had a short devo, which was pretty good.

Saturday 5th, Several of us ended up making breakfast and then we just chilled out till it was time to go and see the new Zorro movie. It was alright but it turned out to be more comedy then serious, so I was a little disappointed. After the movie we came back and hung out for a bit.

Sunday 6th, I had lunch with Luke's family since they where in town at La Finc, a good mexican place. After that nothing notable happened.

God is good. ~Semper Fi

I know I have been slacking

I know it has been a long time since my last post but I have been pretty busy and then to tired to write anything. Quite a lot has happened since my last post so I will start with today and go backwards.

Today, Sunday the 13th, I got to go and see the Marine band play in the Benson with Luke and Emily, it was really cool and the where very good. At the end they played all the armed forces songs and had the people stand up if you had served or a family member had served. I got to thinking afterwards that I could have stood for all but the Cost Guard and that's kind of scary. I have two cousins in the military right now one is an Apache pilot and the other is in the Navy. After that I helped the Montgomerys move some of their stuff from their old garage to their new one. When that was finished it was time for Jess' birthday party. We played one of those How to Host a Murder games. It was fun but really strange and crude at times. After that I helped clean up and was washing dishes, just like at camp and having a nice chat with Bethany in the process. After the dishes where done Holly showed up in the kitchen, so her and I had a good chat as well and now I am here writing this post before I go to bed.

Saturday the 12th, I got up and had breakfast as usual. Then Jeff needed some help cutting down a tree so I went with him to help with that. It took about four hours to get it down and all cleaned up. Enjoyable it was. That night a huge group of 22 people went up, half the resturant was reserved, to Georgetown for catfish. It was the best tasting catfish I have had. I inhaled my plate and didn't even feel full, it was nice. We came back and a few of us sat and just chatted for bit. Then I with Luke and Emily watched I, Robot, it was really good. After that I went to kitchen and chatted with Branson, Bethany, Sara and Lindsay for bit before calling it a night.

Friday the 11th was a long day. Had CS seminar at 7:05 am and then I learned my only class for the day was canceled so after seminar I was done. I went to breakfast after seminar as usual, then to chapel. After chapel, Alycia and I went to the library to do some homework, but after about 30 mins of reading I couldn't keep my eyes open so I pulled my hat over my eyes and took a nice nap till about 11:45 when my alarm went off for lunch, I was meeting Erin for lunch and I wanted to get to the Student Center early for a table. Had lunch with Erin and Luke, we had a good talk too. After that I went to the CS lab to work on my GUI project till Luke was done with school. Got back from school and did yardwork till about 5pm and then got cleaned up and ate dinner before we left to go see The Brothers Grim, it was a strange and slightly creepy at times, but over all a good movie. Guin and I had good time talking about games on the way to and fro. When we had dropped everyone off and had gotten back, around 10:15pm, Luke and I where both really tired so we went to bed, the earliest we had gone to bed all week and it was a Friday night, go figure.

Any way I am getting tired and I have to get up at 6:45 tomorrow so I am going to bed. Tomorrow I will right about what I did last weekend, at least what I can remember. May God guide, guard and direct your hearts. ~Semper Fi