I am not a big fan of going to birthday parties of people I dont know. I am especially not a big fan of being one of the first people to a bday party of someone I dont know. However, I am a much bigger fan of this stuff than Travis. Zach Stott, I believe that is your name, I'm so sorry. We had no idea this was a bday party, would have either not gone or been much later had we known. But holy crap it was so funny! I can find the hilarity in an awkward situation like that, unlike travis, who was thoroughly angry. Well it ended up being alright, even if we just chilled for most of the time. I think we werent the only people zach didnt know, so I feel better about that. Definitely not the most uncomfortable party I have been to *cough Ethiopian Wedding reception cough*.
Yay, its halloween. I dont care. apparently. I really did nothing special. I had church, went to the club, went to a senior intersect meeting, and hung out with bryan. I know it comes as a shock to you all that i didnt dress up. I usually get so excited about everything, but i get super excited about costumes. I'm almost euphoric usually. So tonight was basically a normal Sunday night. Once again dont bother telling me how cool I am.
So... the challenge for seniors this week was to worship God every day, but without music. I really dont know if I will do this. I mean, I can pray thanksgiving, but I dont really feel like that counts. In my opinion, worship without music is like cake without frosting. I realize that might sound blasphemous, but let me explain. You still get the main part, the cake, worship God and connecting him, but the frosting makes it so much better. It's more enjoyable for me with music. Which might be the point of the discipline, but why shouldnt I be as happy as possible when worshipping the Lord? I just dont get it, and there is usually some kind of song running through my head at all times, so it would be really hard not to have music.
Here's the deal with music: I can feel connected to the Lord through instrumentals, I can feel connected through singing. I dont know if this is different than most people, I know most people worship differently. Romans 12:1 'Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God- this is your spiritual act of worship.' My thought is that you can offer your body as a living sacrifice by doing your best at whatever as if unto Christ. Whether it is shooting hoops, doing guitar riff, or screaming at the top of your lungs. I think music is inherently good, no matter what style, until we twist it to be say a stoner song, all about sex, or full of cursing. If you disagree, I'd love to hear other opinions.
I did end up writing a song after the last blog post, it is not terrible, I just dont know how good it is. I have such a hard time judging how good anything I do musically is. If I write a song, I think the lyrics or the guitar line sucks. Its just how it goes, and I feel like Mr. McFly with his novels, I dont really feel like putting my work out there. I just like writing stuff, and its another way to worship.
Last note for this blog, I will not be participating in no shave november. 1. I have senior pics so I need to shave. 2. Who wants to not shave for a month? I mean, that is so dumb!!! That is really, really dumb!!! For real!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
I never know what to call blogs, probably because they all talk about similiar stuff
NBA has started!!!!!! To clear things up, so that I am never considered a bandwagon, these are my favorite teams, and I will explain why.
1. Portland Trailblazers. I was a fan a year or two before Roy was drafted, but I really didnt care about the NBA til about 2006. So the Blazers are my local boys. Nuff said
2. Oklahoma City Thunder. Sonics and Blazers have been my teams forever, but when the sonics went to okc I didnt like them for about a month. Then I realized they were one of the most fun teams to watch in the NBA. I am not riding the kevin durant bandwagon, I was a fan of kd's team before and kd just made the switch to okc quicker for me.
3.Golden State Warriors. I know, they are not good at all. This is also the first year of declared fanhood for them. Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis are two of my favorite players, I'm down with David Lee, and even if they always lose, the Warriors are still really fun to watch. They have no d, but their offense is incredible.
The Rockets are growing on me since they have Kevin Martin, Aaron Brooks, and Chase Budinger, but I cant be a Rockets fan. Please look up Chase Budinger's highlites, basketball AND volleyball. Now. Do it. He is an animal. Also, I hate the Lakers and the Celtics. You might say 'Hate is a strong word! Meh!' Yeah, it is. I like Ray Allen, Nate Robinson, and Pau Gasol. Other than that, there are a few people im okay with, the rest, I cannot stand.
Also, I'm helping out with middle school basketball now. It started yesterday, and there is already some nice improvement. I love teaching form shooting, which we got to do today. Reece is a really good coach, I've always thought that, and I lose it whenever he makes nonchalant comments at conditioning or skills. I cant type the situations out well, but trust me it is good stuff. Also, I get to chill with Marques Harrier too since he is the b team coach. It's a pretty fun group.
I feel really inspired musically for some reason, but I feel like it's too late to do anything about it. I want to work out for a while before the bball meeting, and I'm not sure if I can pull good lyrs out of my mind right now, but I might try it. These are the worries that go through my mind on a daily basis. Basketball, workout, music, school, family, and friends. How do I balance it out. I really dont like putting bball or workout over doing stuff with people, because I feel like in the end relationships with people will matter more than working out, and you can really do meaningful stuff around others, I have yet to see how working out or one bball practice will be truly meaningful.
Anyway, bball meeting tomorrow, so I'm going to see what I can do to help out. Also I want my hyperdunks even if I wont wear them for a while. My dad gets the second pair I ordered so that worked out fine.
So, maybe I'll be a bit spiritual now. STOP WORRYING!!!!!! I cannot tell you how much I hear stuff about how upset people are about a range of different things. Not being accepted by people, struggling at sports, just overall sadness. It bothers me. I've said it before, be yourself. People wont always like you(unless you look as good as me, which in the senior photoshoot stuff i bought yesterday, its pretty nice hahaha.)
'May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation.' Galatians 6:14-15. STOP BEING DEFINED BY THESE EARTHLY THINGS. IT DOESNT MATTER. Yes, I am very sad that I dont get to play bball this year, yes it will be very hard for me to watch Liberty bball this year knowing that I could help, but I have decided not to be defined by basketball. I am not going to boast in it, I'm a new creation and God has got something planned. Look for his purpose in your life, and how you can follow Him. As long as you do that, it doesnt matter what others think about you, and it doesnt matter how you are doing in your respective sport. In the end those things will fade away, and if you waste your time worrying about them, it wont lead to anything except emptiness.
1. Portland Trailblazers. I was a fan a year or two before Roy was drafted, but I really didnt care about the NBA til about 2006. So the Blazers are my local boys. Nuff said
2. Oklahoma City Thunder. Sonics and Blazers have been my teams forever, but when the sonics went to okc I didnt like them for about a month. Then I realized they were one of the most fun teams to watch in the NBA. I am not riding the kevin durant bandwagon, I was a fan of kd's team before and kd just made the switch to okc quicker for me.
3.Golden State Warriors. I know, they are not good at all. This is also the first year of declared fanhood for them. Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis are two of my favorite players, I'm down with David Lee, and even if they always lose, the Warriors are still really fun to watch. They have no d, but their offense is incredible.
The Rockets are growing on me since they have Kevin Martin, Aaron Brooks, and Chase Budinger, but I cant be a Rockets fan. Please look up Chase Budinger's highlites, basketball AND volleyball. Now. Do it. He is an animal. Also, I hate the Lakers and the Celtics. You might say 'Hate is a strong word! Meh!' Yeah, it is. I like Ray Allen, Nate Robinson, and Pau Gasol. Other than that, there are a few people im okay with, the rest, I cannot stand.
Also, I'm helping out with middle school basketball now. It started yesterday, and there is already some nice improvement. I love teaching form shooting, which we got to do today. Reece is a really good coach, I've always thought that, and I lose it whenever he makes nonchalant comments at conditioning or skills. I cant type the situations out well, but trust me it is good stuff. Also, I get to chill with Marques Harrier too since he is the b team coach. It's a pretty fun group.
I feel really inspired musically for some reason, but I feel like it's too late to do anything about it. I want to work out for a while before the bball meeting, and I'm not sure if I can pull good lyrs out of my mind right now, but I might try it. These are the worries that go through my mind on a daily basis. Basketball, workout, music, school, family, and friends. How do I balance it out. I really dont like putting bball or workout over doing stuff with people, because I feel like in the end relationships with people will matter more than working out, and you can really do meaningful stuff around others, I have yet to see how working out or one bball practice will be truly meaningful.
Anyway, bball meeting tomorrow, so I'm going to see what I can do to help out. Also I want my hyperdunks even if I wont wear them for a while. My dad gets the second pair I ordered so that worked out fine.
So, maybe I'll be a bit spiritual now. STOP WORRYING!!!!!! I cannot tell you how much I hear stuff about how upset people are about a range of different things. Not being accepted by people, struggling at sports, just overall sadness. It bothers me. I've said it before, be yourself. People wont always like you(unless you look as good as me, which in the senior photoshoot stuff i bought yesterday, its pretty nice hahaha.)
'May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation.' Galatians 6:14-15. STOP BEING DEFINED BY THESE EARTHLY THINGS. IT DOESNT MATTER. Yes, I am very sad that I dont get to play bball this year, yes it will be very hard for me to watch Liberty bball this year knowing that I could help, but I have decided not to be defined by basketball. I am not going to boast in it, I'm a new creation and God has got something planned. Look for his purpose in your life, and how you can follow Him. As long as you do that, it doesnt matter what others think about you, and it doesnt matter how you are doing in your respective sport. In the end those things will fade away, and if you waste your time worrying about them, it wont lead to anything except emptiness.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
My Life is so, not finished
Nice long blog to make up for a bit shorter one last time. It's still worth reading I think.
So, I still don't understand why I tore my ACL again, it bothers me a lot. I have been thinking about it a lot. I don't know if I will ever find out. But I decided when I get back to playing bball in a year, I'm going to go hard because I love the sport. I can't get rid of it. Yeah, Ill let it heal, definitely make sure I've got myself and my knee in ridiculous shape to cut down on injury rates. If I give all I have, like I'm playing for the Lord, and I get injured, okay. It's happened before haha. I'm okay with getting injured playing the sport I love for the One I love. Thats it.
But that is a ways off, and I'm sure God will use me in great ways because of this injury.
So back to life right now. This wednesday I am planning on helping out Reece Loeffler with middle school basketball. I'm so excited. I loved having Reece as a coach freshman year, he was strangely fun to work hard for. And trust me, it was hard work. I'm not sure how this will work out with middle schoolers, not because I dont think middle schoolers have good work ethic(this group might for all I know), but I know that I was not a big fan of hard work in middle school. I didnt like mitson's running, I dont know if I could have handled Reece. Yeah, I'm excited to help out with bball, hopefully I can be a good senior leader, and help lay a foundation for when they get to play in high school.
I did have a pretty solid weekend. Friday included Liberty football, probably the dumbest car accident I have ever heard of(I feel for your car, Big T), and a "Pizza, pizza part-y! Pizza, pizza! Chomp, chomp!" Saturday consisted of a workout, several lawn mowings, and NVYC. Good message about Daniel and changing the culture around us for Christ, even if I am short on places where I feel I can have a huge, culture changing impact. I really like that youth group though. I really feel like the people that come each week are truly trying to follow God the best they can, and it's refreshing to see. I get sick of seeing Christians that just go about life, not doing anything to develop their faith. It's something I've felt I need to change in my life, and I'm really trying.
I'll start what happened today with basketball, get more spiritual later in my description. I went to fall ball, we played Hermiston today, and from what I hear they werent the friendliest of people on the court. However, they did dunk it 3 times, which was ridiculous. I wont pretend I didnt get excited after ever dunk, its fun to watch.
I felt sick for the whole game, and for a while after. It kills me to sit on the bench when I know I could be helping if I was healthy. I know we probably still wouldnt have won, but I just want to contribute.
Tonight I skipped Intersect since it was some game night, and decided to hang out with Danielle, Bryan, and Amber. So that was pretty good, even if all we did was talk, I actually enjoy just talking about stuff sometimes.
This morning we had a guest speaker at Bethel named Dr. Allan Meyer. I've seen the guy speak before, so I knew it was going to be good, and he did not disappoint. He is Australian, so he has a sweet accent. He is funny, so I can laugh while the sermon is going on. And he has some great stuff from God. Today he talked about how to deal with paradoxical people, who are good and bad. The point is everyone does stuff that is for our good, and stuff that hurts us. His way of dealing with these people that are difficult: honor your father and mother. But this honor isnt thinking that they are perfect, its looking at the positive and the negative. Look at the positive, and show gratitude for it. Look at the negative, as bad as it was, and show forgiveness. If we can do this for our parents, we can apply it for all paradoxical people. Pretty good stuff.
So, I still don't understand why I tore my ACL again, it bothers me a lot. I have been thinking about it a lot. I don't know if I will ever find out. But I decided when I get back to playing bball in a year, I'm going to go hard because I love the sport. I can't get rid of it. Yeah, Ill let it heal, definitely make sure I've got myself and my knee in ridiculous shape to cut down on injury rates. If I give all I have, like I'm playing for the Lord, and I get injured, okay. It's happened before haha. I'm okay with getting injured playing the sport I love for the One I love. Thats it.
But that is a ways off, and I'm sure God will use me in great ways because of this injury.
So back to life right now. This wednesday I am planning on helping out Reece Loeffler with middle school basketball. I'm so excited. I loved having Reece as a coach freshman year, he was strangely fun to work hard for. And trust me, it was hard work. I'm not sure how this will work out with middle schoolers, not because I dont think middle schoolers have good work ethic(this group might for all I know), but I know that I was not a big fan of hard work in middle school. I didnt like mitson's running, I dont know if I could have handled Reece. Yeah, I'm excited to help out with bball, hopefully I can be a good senior leader, and help lay a foundation for when they get to play in high school.
I did have a pretty solid weekend. Friday included Liberty football, probably the dumbest car accident I have ever heard of(I feel for your car, Big T), and a "Pizza, pizza part-y! Pizza, pizza! Chomp, chomp!" Saturday consisted of a workout, several lawn mowings, and NVYC. Good message about Daniel and changing the culture around us for Christ, even if I am short on places where I feel I can have a huge, culture changing impact. I really like that youth group though. I really feel like the people that come each week are truly trying to follow God the best they can, and it's refreshing to see. I get sick of seeing Christians that just go about life, not doing anything to develop their faith. It's something I've felt I need to change in my life, and I'm really trying.
I'll start what happened today with basketball, get more spiritual later in my description. I went to fall ball, we played Hermiston today, and from what I hear they werent the friendliest of people on the court. However, they did dunk it 3 times, which was ridiculous. I wont pretend I didnt get excited after ever dunk, its fun to watch.
I felt sick for the whole game, and for a while after. It kills me to sit on the bench when I know I could be helping if I was healthy. I know we probably still wouldnt have won, but I just want to contribute.
Tonight I skipped Intersect since it was some game night, and decided to hang out with Danielle, Bryan, and Amber. So that was pretty good, even if all we did was talk, I actually enjoy just talking about stuff sometimes.
This morning we had a guest speaker at Bethel named Dr. Allan Meyer. I've seen the guy speak before, so I knew it was going to be good, and he did not disappoint. He is Australian, so he has a sweet accent. He is funny, so I can laugh while the sermon is going on. And he has some great stuff from God. Today he talked about how to deal with paradoxical people, who are good and bad. The point is everyone does stuff that is for our good, and stuff that hurts us. His way of dealing with these people that are difficult: honor your father and mother. But this honor isnt thinking that they are perfect, its looking at the positive and the negative. Look at the positive, and show gratitude for it. Look at the negative, as bad as it was, and show forgiveness. If we can do this for our parents, we can apply it for all paradoxical people. Pretty good stuff.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Lets talk about my ACL
Alright, here it goes. I feel like Lil' Brudder talking about tearing my acl again. "dont worry about me, homestar, I can make it on my own!" But, really, this sucks. I worked really hard to get better and then boom, no more bball for me.
I dont know what Scovazzo saw or was saying about it being alright. On monday I was told I had partially torn my acl, but maybe had torn it bad enough to need surgery. My options were to wait til the season and then check if it had healed, or scope it and then heal from that or if they saw something they would fix it. This sounded sketchy to me, so I decided to get a 2nd opinion. This guy named Dr Kody was recommended, so we went to spokane to see him. Probably the nicest, most understanding doctor I've ever met(besides dr krause, of course, my employer), Dr Kody was easily able to tell my acl was fully torn. Sad as I was, I was glad to get a definite answer. At least it's over, I can move on.
On the positive side, something else is going to come up. God apparently has a different plan, and I am "filled with a glorious and inexpressible and glorious joy, for you am receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls." 1 Peter 1:8b-9. I'm excited to see what is up next, but sad to see my senior year of bball go. I want to help out on the team, preferably not as the manager though. I've never been big on getting people water and carrying the ball bag. That doesnt change just because I have a torn acl. But, if that is the only way I can travel with the team, I will do it.
So, surgery probably on December 1, 1 year this time before I can play bball again, but I only have to be on crutches for a week, so that is good. All in all, I should be able to stay in better shape than last time, but wont be able to be 100% in my legs for a while longer.
Now, I have heard a few people make comments like, 'Why dont you just play through pain, since it is your senior year? Just wear another brace.' For all you who dont know, this would be a perfect way to 1. Tear my meniscus to shreds, giving me knee pain for the rest of my life, and 2. Probably from the meniscus, I would end up with some nice arthritis when I'm older. Well, I would like to play bball someday again, even if just for fun, and I would like to have kids, and hopefully be able to play with them. I know that might sound weird to think that far ahead, but it needs thought since I could really mess up my life playing. So no, I will not be playing through the pain.
I appreciate peoples prayers and am incredibly thankful that I have such good friends to support me in my struggles. Pray that God makes himself clear to me on what he wants me to do, and for as quick of a recovery as possible.
I know that this blog is just a bit shorter, but I felt like I should just focus on my injury for this blog. I still believe in miracles, just not this one.
P.S. Me, Robbie Hummel, and Michael Redd are on the 2nd tier of the Brotherhood of People Who have Torn Their ACLs. I generally just refer to it as the Brotherhood though
I dont know what Scovazzo saw or was saying about it being alright. On monday I was told I had partially torn my acl, but maybe had torn it bad enough to need surgery. My options were to wait til the season and then check if it had healed, or scope it and then heal from that or if they saw something they would fix it. This sounded sketchy to me, so I decided to get a 2nd opinion. This guy named Dr Kody was recommended, so we went to spokane to see him. Probably the nicest, most understanding doctor I've ever met(besides dr krause, of course, my employer), Dr Kody was easily able to tell my acl was fully torn. Sad as I was, I was glad to get a definite answer. At least it's over, I can move on.
On the positive side, something else is going to come up. God apparently has a different plan, and I am "filled with a glorious and inexpressible and glorious joy, for you am receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls." 1 Peter 1:8b-9. I'm excited to see what is up next, but sad to see my senior year of bball go. I want to help out on the team, preferably not as the manager though. I've never been big on getting people water and carrying the ball bag. That doesnt change just because I have a torn acl. But, if that is the only way I can travel with the team, I will do it.
So, surgery probably on December 1, 1 year this time before I can play bball again, but I only have to be on crutches for a week, so that is good. All in all, I should be able to stay in better shape than last time, but wont be able to be 100% in my legs for a while longer.
Now, I have heard a few people make comments like, 'Why dont you just play through pain, since it is your senior year? Just wear another brace.' For all you who dont know, this would be a perfect way to 1. Tear my meniscus to shreds, giving me knee pain for the rest of my life, and 2. Probably from the meniscus, I would end up with some nice arthritis when I'm older. Well, I would like to play bball someday again, even if just for fun, and I would like to have kids, and hopefully be able to play with them. I know that might sound weird to think that far ahead, but it needs thought since I could really mess up my life playing. So no, I will not be playing through the pain.
I appreciate peoples prayers and am incredibly thankful that I have such good friends to support me in my struggles. Pray that God makes himself clear to me on what he wants me to do, and for as quick of a recovery as possible.
I know that this blog is just a bit shorter, but I felt like I should just focus on my injury for this blog. I still believe in miracles, just not this one.
P.S. Me, Robbie Hummel, and Michael Redd are on the 2nd tier of the Brotherhood of People Who have Torn Their ACLs. I generally just refer to it as the Brotherhood though
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Break the spell of the typical
Currently, I'm supposed to be mowing the lawn, but it is soaked, so I will just write. I dont like that the lawn gets wet all the time now. It makes it hard to shoot in my backyard, because on the rare occasion that I miss, the ball rolls into the wet grass, then picks up the dust on the court, which not only gets my hands all gross and hard to shoot with, but also when I go to shoot a layup, little muddy bits spray into my eyes, which results in me getting angry and irritated by the pain in my eyes. So I dont like the grass getting wet with the dew.
Music. I sung on Wednesday, and no one could hear me. Thats about all there is to it. Mutemath is growing on me, they are pretty sick and original. I also want some more rap core music, because I like the feeling but I hate just straight rap with no musical talent. I just dont know many good rap core bands. If you say Family Force Five, I will kill you.
On Thursday I watched my four regular comedies, and I am thankful that 30 rock isnt live every week, because it just wasnt the same. The whole episode was just like a giant, lame snl skit. So it was funny at bits but not really worth watching week by week. But let me be clear, not all of snl is like that so I can watch week by week. However, if Fred Armisen and Kristen Wig were the stars of EVERY sketch, I wouldnt watch.
Friday, if you havent read Victors blog, I went to the Richland football game with Vic and Hannah. Denny's afterwards for like 15 minutes and then to Peter Meyers house. X-men 2? Maybe not the best movie ever made, but entertaining enough with Victor, Peter, and this guy named Travis.
In the morning, I did a job shadow with Dr Miles McCartney. After 3 hours of watching Optometry appointments, I decided two things. 1. This job is pretty sick, there is always something unique with everyones eyes. It was cool to see people getting helped, and how much they appreciated Miles work and care. I liked it. 2. If and when I get my own patient rooms, I am going to put prank posters up, that are purposefully blurred. So people will be like, "Dang, that poster of the eye is so blurry, I must really need glasses..."
Saturday, woke up, worked out, went to pf changs for dinner, went to New Vintage Youth Church, and then hung out with Bryan and Victor. Thats it. I dont understand why people think working out isnt fun. I love it. I could work out for two or three hours a day easily. oh.. wait. New Vintage was good again, although smaller than last time. I'm looking forward to Matt Molts series on creating culture in Daniel, I think it will be good.
Today? Church this morning, going to watch Liberty play Richland from the bench(although I can run, lift weights, and do stairstepper again, I dont trust my quick stops just yet.) Got to clean the office today, eventually mow the lawn, go to the senior journey for Intersect at 4, then go to Intersect again at 630. That seems to be my life right now, always doing something but having a good time doing it.
Music. I sung on Wednesday, and no one could hear me. Thats about all there is to it. Mutemath is growing on me, they are pretty sick and original. I also want some more rap core music, because I like the feeling but I hate just straight rap with no musical talent. I just dont know many good rap core bands. If you say Family Force Five, I will kill you.
On Thursday I watched my four regular comedies, and I am thankful that 30 rock isnt live every week, because it just wasnt the same. The whole episode was just like a giant, lame snl skit. So it was funny at bits but not really worth watching week by week. But let me be clear, not all of snl is like that so I can watch week by week. However, if Fred Armisen and Kristen Wig were the stars of EVERY sketch, I wouldnt watch.
Friday, if you havent read Victors blog, I went to the Richland football game with Vic and Hannah. Denny's afterwards for like 15 minutes and then to Peter Meyers house. X-men 2? Maybe not the best movie ever made, but entertaining enough with Victor, Peter, and this guy named Travis.
In the morning, I did a job shadow with Dr Miles McCartney. After 3 hours of watching Optometry appointments, I decided two things. 1. This job is pretty sick, there is always something unique with everyones eyes. It was cool to see people getting helped, and how much they appreciated Miles work and care. I liked it. 2. If and when I get my own patient rooms, I am going to put prank posters up, that are purposefully blurred. So people will be like, "Dang, that poster of the eye is so blurry, I must really need glasses..."
Saturday, woke up, worked out, went to pf changs for dinner, went to New Vintage Youth Church, and then hung out with Bryan and Victor. Thats it. I dont understand why people think working out isnt fun. I love it. I could work out for two or three hours a day easily. oh.. wait. New Vintage was good again, although smaller than last time. I'm looking forward to Matt Molts series on creating culture in Daniel, I think it will be good.
Today? Church this morning, going to watch Liberty play Richland from the bench(although I can run, lift weights, and do stairstepper again, I dont trust my quick stops just yet.) Got to clean the office today, eventually mow the lawn, go to the senior journey for Intersect at 4, then go to Intersect again at 630. That seems to be my life right now, always doing something but having a good time doing it.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Get Ready, I might be the next Chris Martin...but probably not
Oh boy, quite the eventful half of a week.
Saturday. I dont like the SAT, it's boring. nuff said.
Homecoming was pretty tight. took the ultimate chick magnet car to Homecoming. Thats right. 1999 Honda Odyssey. Ethan, Amber, Victor, Sarah, Danielle, and I took it around town, which was pretty sick. Overall the night was pretty awesome but other than going to myfroyo, two crippled people doing a surprisingly good job at dancing, and a late night Albertsons run, it was pretty close to normal event wise. So I wont go into detail.
Sunday. Five hours of sleep, I woke up at 7 to be at church for rehearsal at 8. I played guitar for the 11 oclock middle school service, and our trio of me, Jimmy rutkowsky, and Lauren Swanson did pretty good for never playing together before with 30 minutes of practice. The middle schoolers liked my guitar and I'm looking forward to going off a bit more on my guitar during songs.
Good message at Intersect that night, I still dont feel totally connected to the group, but I'm committed, it's gonna happen. Anyway I'm on a challenge for seniors to read the same 5 verses for 5 days to see what I get about it and dig deeper into the Word. I'm not really used to it, but whatever I can take a week of it. And already excited to go to NVYC on Saturday for the first time in like a month.
Monday. I didnt really do anything, except there was a serious creeper at the club. Get this, middle aged white guy, glasses, long sleeve Utah Jazz shirt, and shorts. He laid on the ground for probably 15 minutes, occasionally readjusting his position. I'm guessing he was stretching somehow, but I'm not totally sure. What makes him a creeper was this: as he was laying down he stuck his knees up, making his shorts slide down his thin thighs, showing off a bit more than I would like to see. And his Utah Jazz shirt slid up, revealing his large white belly. Dont bother fixing your shirt dude, Im just doing my flys over here. Ridiculous.
Today. No English class tonight! Im so excited to not waste 2 hours of my life.
I did however, go to one and a half doctors appointments. I say one and a half because the second one I sat in the office waiting for an mri for 45 minutes only to find out it was broken. The first one was an ultrasound to check for a blood clot in my calf since it has swollen up a little bit over the past few days. It came back negative as expected, but I felt some of my manhood stripped away. I wont go into further detail, but it was not okay. I am never doing that again.
I then go straight to worship team practice. Oh it seems like a pretty normal day, I start setting up, wondering when I will get my music because I always forget to bring it. Nathan walks in. "Hey ron I dont know if anyone told you yet, but you are singing this week since Colton won't be here tomorrow."
For those of you who dont know, I make joking comments about singing to Nathan all the time, so I automatically assumed he was kidding.
"You think I'm joking but I'm totally serious."
Oh boy. So yes, I am singing tomorrow, it will be quite eventful, and Im more than a little bit nervous. I dont know why, I sing in front of people all the time. Some people have said I have the voice of an angel. But really, I'm hoping I dont totally blow it.
I have been compared to Mario, so let's hope this plumber has pipes. Ill update you on how it goes.
Stay classy, planet earth.
Saturday. I dont like the SAT, it's boring. nuff said.
Homecoming was pretty tight. took the ultimate chick magnet car to Homecoming. Thats right. 1999 Honda Odyssey. Ethan, Amber, Victor, Sarah, Danielle, and I took it around town, which was pretty sick. Overall the night was pretty awesome but other than going to myfroyo, two crippled people doing a surprisingly good job at dancing, and a late night Albertsons run, it was pretty close to normal event wise. So I wont go into detail.
Sunday. Five hours of sleep, I woke up at 7 to be at church for rehearsal at 8. I played guitar for the 11 oclock middle school service, and our trio of me, Jimmy rutkowsky, and Lauren Swanson did pretty good for never playing together before with 30 minutes of practice. The middle schoolers liked my guitar and I'm looking forward to going off a bit more on my guitar during songs.
Good message at Intersect that night, I still dont feel totally connected to the group, but I'm committed, it's gonna happen. Anyway I'm on a challenge for seniors to read the same 5 verses for 5 days to see what I get about it and dig deeper into the Word. I'm not really used to it, but whatever I can take a week of it. And already excited to go to NVYC on Saturday for the first time in like a month.
Monday. I didnt really do anything, except there was a serious creeper at the club. Get this, middle aged white guy, glasses, long sleeve Utah Jazz shirt, and shorts. He laid on the ground for probably 15 minutes, occasionally readjusting his position. I'm guessing he was stretching somehow, but I'm not totally sure. What makes him a creeper was this: as he was laying down he stuck his knees up, making his shorts slide down his thin thighs, showing off a bit more than I would like to see. And his Utah Jazz shirt slid up, revealing his large white belly. Dont bother fixing your shirt dude, Im just doing my flys over here. Ridiculous.
Today. No English class tonight! Im so excited to not waste 2 hours of my life.
I did however, go to one and a half doctors appointments. I say one and a half because the second one I sat in the office waiting for an mri for 45 minutes only to find out it was broken. The first one was an ultrasound to check for a blood clot in my calf since it has swollen up a little bit over the past few days. It came back negative as expected, but I felt some of my manhood stripped away. I wont go into further detail, but it was not okay. I am never doing that again.
I then go straight to worship team practice. Oh it seems like a pretty normal day, I start setting up, wondering when I will get my music because I always forget to bring it. Nathan walks in. "Hey ron I dont know if anyone told you yet, but you are singing this week since Colton won't be here tomorrow."
For those of you who dont know, I make joking comments about singing to Nathan all the time, so I automatically assumed he was kidding.
"You think I'm joking but I'm totally serious."
Oh boy. So yes, I am singing tomorrow, it will be quite eventful, and Im more than a little bit nervous. I dont know why, I sing in front of people all the time. Some people have said I have the voice of an angel. But really, I'm hoping I dont totally blow it.
I have been compared to Mario, so let's hope this plumber has pipes. Ill update you on how it goes.
Stay classy, planet earth.
Friday, October 8, 2010
I Believe in Miracles
So yesterday after English class I went to Richlands open gym for some good 5 on 5. I was playing pretty well, hitting shots, dishing, encouraging players, you know, being an all around cool guy.
After a few games, still playing well, I drove the lane, like I had done plenty in the night. A guy came over to take away the left side of the rim. Whatever, I'll just cross over to the other side of the hoop and make the layup anyway. I dont exactly remember how I set my feet I just know I felt a pop as my leg gave out.
It was the same feeling I had when I tore my acl, same leg, the only difference in feeling was that my knee buckled out instead of in. I hit the ground. "Crap. I think I just retore my acl."
I called my parents, had them come pick me up, since driving clutch is really fun when you cant even walk. I was pretty convinced that was it. About time to start looking for a new hobby. I was encouraged before I went to bed by the fact that I could put a good amount of weight on my leg still, but figured that was because I had treated my leg better after injury. (Keeping it straight after injury, not bent like last time when I lost some flexion.)
I expected the worst. My ACL was torn, I felt the same thing as last time. I couldnt help but question God. "Come on, why God. Isnt this a bit much? I mean, why do I get all this bad luck. I worked so hard and now my career is probably done. Please God, I know you can heal me. I know it."
I always seem to learn more from God's Word when I'm hurt. I decided to finish Galatians. There is a part where Paul talks about only boasting in Christ. Several verses before that he talks about comparing ourselves to others, testing our own actions. I realized that I was boasting about how hard I worked, and comparing how good I was and how hard I worked to how others did. Then it hit me. I've read stuff from kevin durant and point guard college saying to drop comparisons. Just respect everyone's game. Worry about yourself. And now the Bible is telling me the same thing. So thats what I've got to work on. Dont compare myself, dont boast abouthow hard I work. My confidence should come form hard work, not my boasting.
I then decided to read 1 Peter 1, since that meant a lot to me last time I tore my acl. As usual, I love verse 6-7 about our faith being proven through trials, but somehow I missed the part after it. It says to be 'filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy for you are recieving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.' How did I miss that?! Be joyful in my trials because I know my faith is being proven.
After these lessons I had seen I talked to God some more. "Wow God, that's really cool that you showed me this stuff, but can I please not have to be out for six months just to learn these things?"
Getting up in the morning, I was going to the doctor in a little bit. "Okay God, please heal me. I know you can do miracles, and if you heal me it will be a miracle, since I felt my ACL go just like last time."
So I went to the doctor, took an xray, and waited for the doctor to come in. She felt my knee, moved it around checking for ligament issues. The she said the best sentence I could have imagined, "Well, your ACL looks great."
Yeah, God's pretty much the coolest guy ever.
So I need to rest it over the weekend, it will probably be better in a few weeks. They arent totally sure what it is, probably a strain, possibly a slight meniscus issue, but nothing that serious.
I'm thankful for the prayers, and I definitely believe God can do miracles
After a few games, still playing well, I drove the lane, like I had done plenty in the night. A guy came over to take away the left side of the rim. Whatever, I'll just cross over to the other side of the hoop and make the layup anyway. I dont exactly remember how I set my feet I just know I felt a pop as my leg gave out.
It was the same feeling I had when I tore my acl, same leg, the only difference in feeling was that my knee buckled out instead of in. I hit the ground. "Crap. I think I just retore my acl."
I called my parents, had them come pick me up, since driving clutch is really fun when you cant even walk. I was pretty convinced that was it. About time to start looking for a new hobby. I was encouraged before I went to bed by the fact that I could put a good amount of weight on my leg still, but figured that was because I had treated my leg better after injury. (Keeping it straight after injury, not bent like last time when I lost some flexion.)
I expected the worst. My ACL was torn, I felt the same thing as last time. I couldnt help but question God. "Come on, why God. Isnt this a bit much? I mean, why do I get all this bad luck. I worked so hard and now my career is probably done. Please God, I know you can heal me. I know it."
I always seem to learn more from God's Word when I'm hurt. I decided to finish Galatians. There is a part where Paul talks about only boasting in Christ. Several verses before that he talks about comparing ourselves to others, testing our own actions. I realized that I was boasting about how hard I worked, and comparing how good I was and how hard I worked to how others did. Then it hit me. I've read stuff from kevin durant and point guard college saying to drop comparisons. Just respect everyone's game. Worry about yourself. And now the Bible is telling me the same thing. So thats what I've got to work on. Dont compare myself, dont boast abouthow hard I work. My confidence should come form hard work, not my boasting.
I then decided to read 1 Peter 1, since that meant a lot to me last time I tore my acl. As usual, I love verse 6-7 about our faith being proven through trials, but somehow I missed the part after it. It says to be 'filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy for you are recieving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.' How did I miss that?! Be joyful in my trials because I know my faith is being proven.
After these lessons I had seen I talked to God some more. "Wow God, that's really cool that you showed me this stuff, but can I please not have to be out for six months just to learn these things?"
Getting up in the morning, I was going to the doctor in a little bit. "Okay God, please heal me. I know you can do miracles, and if you heal me it will be a miracle, since I felt my ACL go just like last time."
So I went to the doctor, took an xray, and waited for the doctor to come in. She felt my knee, moved it around checking for ligament issues. The she said the best sentence I could have imagined, "Well, your ACL looks great."
Yeah, God's pretty much the coolest guy ever.
So I need to rest it over the weekend, it will probably be better in a few weeks. They arent totally sure what it is, probably a strain, possibly a slight meniscus issue, but nothing that serious.
I'm thankful for the prayers, and I definitely believe God can do miracles
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
I'm back in the Beemer again! I'm back!
If you couldnt tell, I like using song references, but really, I got my car back!!! Not my cat like my facebook says. The coolant was low. That's it. Even though i put more coolant in there like a month ago... I dont think there is a leak my mechanic Jeremy says that e36s lose coolant pretty often. So now I have to check the coolant level every day to make sure it's okay and just add more if it gets low. Whatever that's pretty easy and it beats driving the van. I dont care what Honda and Barracuda have to say, the van is NOT cool again, because I am no longer driving one.
I'm pretty sure Bryan and I frightened some of our fellow Calculus students today. The prof was talking about finding the slopes of tangent lines(fun stuff, really).
Me: Hey Bryan, its the derivative
Prof: There is another name for the slope formula...
Bryan: Ron, it's the derivative
Prof: Its called the derivative.
Me: Oh snap!
Bryan said some other generic phrase I dont recall at the moment, I was a bit distracted by the people turning to look at us or smile at how weird it was that we were excited in math class.
Yeah, I feel like a math nerd right now. I'm just so smart, it's almost like I've taken this class before...
So Homecoming is Saturday and Danielle has a torn ligament in her foot. I'm pretty experienced on crutches, and just might bring mine along haha. I will say that if Danielle wanted to dance with crutches, it would probably be better than my white man moves.
Mrs Lindquist told me yesterday that she wants me to do more to stand out in the worship sets. Use different sounds so that I dont just blend in with the rest of the band. I never thought these words would come out of her, but now that this day has come I'm not sure what to do. This is a very a hard decision, deciding what to do, I am in a pickle!
Basketball, I think I will make my shots goal, so I'm excited about that. I have trouble waking up for morning sessions, but things like only 4 people showing up for liberty practice have helped me keep to my daily quota. It's been good and I am excited to see it pay off in the season.
I will be honest, I dont want to read Galatians again for Mr Taylor. I dont appreciate the amount of reading we are supposed to do and how big an effect it has on our grade. I personally believe Bible should be easy to pass, not harder than physics by a long shot like it is currently. But I have strong opinions on this subject so I wont go any deeper into it. I will just pray that God helps me get past my dislike of Taylor's assignments and still learn something, since it is God's Word. I always feel bad about complaining to read the Bible.
"Learn about God and get closer to Jesus!"
"No!!" See?! See how terrible that sounds?
I'm pretty sure Bryan and I frightened some of our fellow Calculus students today. The prof was talking about finding the slopes of tangent lines(fun stuff, really).
Me: Hey Bryan, its the derivative
Prof: There is another name for the slope formula...
Bryan: Ron, it's the derivative
Prof: Its called the derivative.
Me: Oh snap!
Bryan said some other generic phrase I dont recall at the moment, I was a bit distracted by the people turning to look at us or smile at how weird it was that we were excited in math class.
Yeah, I feel like a math nerd right now. I'm just so smart, it's almost like I've taken this class before...
So Homecoming is Saturday and Danielle has a torn ligament in her foot. I'm pretty experienced on crutches, and just might bring mine along haha. I will say that if Danielle wanted to dance with crutches, it would probably be better than my white man moves.
Mrs Lindquist told me yesterday that she wants me to do more to stand out in the worship sets. Use different sounds so that I dont just blend in with the rest of the band. I never thought these words would come out of her, but now that this day has come I'm not sure what to do. This is a very a hard decision, deciding what to do, I am in a pickle!
Basketball, I think I will make my shots goal, so I'm excited about that. I have trouble waking up for morning sessions, but things like only 4 people showing up for liberty practice have helped me keep to my daily quota. It's been good and I am excited to see it pay off in the season.
I will be honest, I dont want to read Galatians again for Mr Taylor. I dont appreciate the amount of reading we are supposed to do and how big an effect it has on our grade. I personally believe Bible should be easy to pass, not harder than physics by a long shot like it is currently. But I have strong opinions on this subject so I wont go any deeper into it. I will just pray that God helps me get past my dislike of Taylor's assignments and still learn something, since it is God's Word. I always feel bad about complaining to read the Bible.
"Learn about God and get closer to Jesus!"
"No!!" See?! See how terrible that sounds?
Sunday, October 3, 2010
I miss my BMDub
Where to begin?
A little bit of music news. Brian Head Welch, Red, and Disciple are coming to the toyota center! I want to go, thats all there is. I bought Edison Glass' album A Burn or a Shiver today, and it is so tight. The riffs in basically every song are sick. Project 86's first cd is growing on me, since it is half ratm and half korn, so it's awesome but not much like the other proj stuff.
Also, I might be playing for Intersect next week, so someone should come watch. Another reason someone should come is because then I would have someone more familiar to talk to, I dont have any bros or girls I really know there, yet.
So on to basketball. We played Richland today, and lost 4 on 5. I played without my knee brace for the first time in a long time, and it felt good, so that was nice. I'm not too pleased with the guy at Hanger that put my brace together wrong. But whatever.
So yesterday I went to Ambers for her party, and holy crap there were so many people, but it was pretty sweet. I hung out mostly with a half liberty circle, that included Jordan Grier and this girl named Hannah. Seriously, Victor killed the entire night, and we had some pretty sweet conversations, mostly about Travis, who knows what he needs to do, but probably will be to lame to get around to it.
Anyway, everyone is turning 18, and that still seems really weird to me. It's like somewhat of an adult, like you can live on your own, vote, be in the army, smoke, go to casinos. But you are still sort of a kid. It's weird, and honestly, I dont really care about any of those privileges of being an 18 year old. I know you are stunned that I dont want to smoke or be in the army.
I just want to drive my car. I miss it. I manage in the van, because I'm cool like that. I make the van sexy again(?). But I miss the stick shift, low to the ground, roaring around like a b.a. It goes into the shop on wednesday, and it probably has a problem with the water pump, so I guess i will be broke again. Baby come back!
So homecoming is next week. I'm pretty stoked, and will have to go get sized in the next day or two, which is incredible uneventful, but I dont have a color yet(besides burgundy haha) since Danielle doesnt have a dress yet. Oh well it will all work out, except I'm not looking forward to the SAT that day.
Last thought of the day. Ladies, you are so pretty, but I really dont have the time for a girlfriend. I have more important things to do at the moment than have a most likely fleeting, and hard on my wallet relationship. So for the time being, I'm content to just chill. I know this is heartbreaking, i mean have you seen my eyes? I'm a bear, and I'm a daddy, I'm a daddy bear(for all of you who watch 30 rock). As crushing as this is, I'm asking you to deal with it.
That's what's up
A little bit of music news. Brian Head Welch, Red, and Disciple are coming to the toyota center! I want to go, thats all there is. I bought Edison Glass' album A Burn or a Shiver today, and it is so tight. The riffs in basically every song are sick. Project 86's first cd is growing on me, since it is half ratm and half korn, so it's awesome but not much like the other proj stuff.
Also, I might be playing for Intersect next week, so someone should come watch. Another reason someone should come is because then I would have someone more familiar to talk to, I dont have any bros or girls I really know there, yet.
So on to basketball. We played Richland today, and lost 4 on 5. I played without my knee brace for the first time in a long time, and it felt good, so that was nice. I'm not too pleased with the guy at Hanger that put my brace together wrong. But whatever.
So yesterday I went to Ambers for her party, and holy crap there were so many people, but it was pretty sweet. I hung out mostly with a half liberty circle, that included Jordan Grier and this girl named Hannah. Seriously, Victor killed the entire night, and we had some pretty sweet conversations, mostly about Travis, who knows what he needs to do, but probably will be to lame to get around to it.
Anyway, everyone is turning 18, and that still seems really weird to me. It's like somewhat of an adult, like you can live on your own, vote, be in the army, smoke, go to casinos. But you are still sort of a kid. It's weird, and honestly, I dont really care about any of those privileges of being an 18 year old. I know you are stunned that I dont want to smoke or be in the army.
I just want to drive my car. I miss it. I manage in the van, because I'm cool like that. I make the van sexy again(?). But I miss the stick shift, low to the ground, roaring around like a b.a. It goes into the shop on wednesday, and it probably has a problem with the water pump, so I guess i will be broke again. Baby come back!
So homecoming is next week. I'm pretty stoked, and will have to go get sized in the next day or two, which is incredible uneventful, but I dont have a color yet(besides burgundy haha) since Danielle doesnt have a dress yet. Oh well it will all work out, except I'm not looking forward to the SAT that day.
Last thought of the day. Ladies, you are so pretty, but I really dont have the time for a girlfriend. I have more important things to do at the moment than have a most likely fleeting, and hard on my wallet relationship. So for the time being, I'm content to just chill. I know this is heartbreaking, i mean have you seen my eyes? I'm a bear, and I'm a daddy, I'm a daddy bear(for all of you who watch 30 rock). As crushing as this is, I'm asking you to deal with it.
That's what's up
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