Finally...

Here you go Mack...this blog is for you. Mack has been nudging me to write a post for a week now. I haven't because I'm so busy with homework and car nightmares that I barely have time to eat and sleep. Also, when I do think of things to post about Mack goes and writes about it so I have nothing to say. But he has been a great help to our blog posting and keeping our 1/ occasional 2 readers entertained. I finally have some free time today so I thought I would contribute somewhat and hopefully get Mackenzie off my back.

School has been crazy. This is my hardest semester yet even though I have the least amount of classes I've ever taken. I guess this is what happens when you are a junior and start taking challenging classes. I almost wish I could take this semester off to do wedding things because there is not enough time in the day to do both. Its a good a thing I got fired so I don't have to worry about going to work. (I'll explain that in a bit) My psych personality class is ridiculous and philosophical, my advanced writing in psychology is a lot of what seems unnecessary writing (go figure..writing in a writing class...what a joke), my cooking class gives me a break from abstract thinking, thank goodness, and it feeds me, and then there is Russian. WHAT THE HECK WAS I THINKING!?!?!? Even though I have a private tutor, Mack, I suck. Russian is a ridiculous language. I have emotional breakdowns daily doing that homework. I have Russian everyday so I get no breaks. I've come to acquire test anxiety. We have quizzes every other day and I freak out. My teacher calls on people at random to answer questions and I always get asked the hard questions or the ones that I don't know the answer to. Just my luck. She knows I'm terrible so I think she is out to get me. Thank goodness for Mack. The only reason I'm barely surviving is because of him. I'm sure he will be happy when I'm done with this class too so he won't have to wipe my tears anymore and can focus on his school rather than helping me every second.

Oh yeah... my job thing... I was working as a student secretary for the Advancement Vice President of BYU. My boss was Kay who was the actual secretary for Fred, the VP. Well Kay is a nice lady but kind of scatter brained. She would forget to tell me things or forget that she told me certain things. In the summer I was working and one day I show up and Kay is not in the office. So I decided to just stay and work. Then I found a note she had written to Fred saying she was on a trip for the next 2 weeks, which she neglected to tell me. So for the next two weeks I didn't go to work and figured she would call me when she got back. She never did so I tried calling her once and she didn't answer. Then Mack came back from Texas so I didn't bother seeing if I should work for a week and assumed she would call me if she needed me, like she always had. No calls for 2 weeks from her. It got to be the first week of school so I called her to see what the deal was. She called me back the next day and asked where I had been for the past month. I told her I was right here. Because she hadn't heard from me she assumed that I had "moved on" and gotten another job. As if I would have just quit without telling her. I explained how I found out she was on a trip and thought she would call me like a normal boss would. She then basically told me that she didn't need me anymore to help her in the office because the new VP could do things himself leaving less work for her. Then she acted all nice nice and was asking me about my sister and Mack and asked if it would be hard for me to find another job. I was like whatever lady. So that is why I no longer have employment. It was just really weird.

Well I hope this post is satisfactory to Mack. I must begin my homework now...after eating a few cookies first though. :D

Sittin' on the King

So I was doing my normal P90X workout this afternoon and somewhere during the hour of my plyometrics routine a tweaked my back. It has steadily gotten worse and has been spasming for the last few hours. Really the only reason that I'm upset is I can't do my YogaX workout two days from now. Hopefully it will be healed up by then. I've taken a few muscle relaxers and those seem to help a bit.

It's been great being back in school these days. But now that I'm back Bre and I naturally want to be together all of the time so we just find ourselves doing homework whenever we're together. We've worked out a system where I go to Provo one night and we go to the BYU Library, then she comes down the next night where we just hang out in my parents guestroom (my room for the next couple months) and do homework. All we ever do now is homework....and planning for the wedding. We have the reception center picked out for the event in Utah on January 3rd. Its called "The Atrium at Western Gardens". It's a charming little place right over by my dad's carwash. The wedding planner Lance is going to do great things for us. I'm actually excited about the whole thing. I never thought that I would be too interested in all of this crap but I actually am. We're on to finding a caterer now and what food we want to have there etc. Bre still hasn't gotten her dress picked out. She is most likely going to have it made by some lady up in Heber. She hates all of the dresses wherever we go, so it'll go over better if it's made for her and she can tell the seamstress exactly what she wants.

This is in the main area of The Atrium.

Cлово моим домашним братьям!!!

In case you were wondering . . . the words above are letters from one of the hardest languages in the world!!! And Bre can now read it!!! She is taking a Russian class at BYU and she really has a knack for it. She just started a week or so ago and she knows the whole alphabet and can read really well! I'll be honest, I'm REALLY impressed at how quickly she has picked it up. It is an incredibly difficult language and seeing that I served my mission there and speak it, I'm really excited for her. Oh, and the title to this column reads "word to my homies".
(well, kinda. there is actually a different word for homies but the online translator didn't know what it was and I can't spell it out since I don't have a Russian keyboard, so this'll do. For those who speak Russian, it will be funny)
So she started all of her classes. She is taking the Russian class, a cooking class (lucky me!) and two Psychology classes that are going to be REALLY fun (and by really fun, I mean incredibly difficult and there will be tears...lots of them). So on top of all of this bull crap that she has to do for school, she is spear heading the planning of our wedding in December! Of course I'm always there for her with emotional support and help when she wants/needs it, but she is doing so well! I'm taking a lot easier load than her with a grand total of 3 classes: American History (same as the American Heritage class at BYU), a Public Speaking class, and a Biology class. It's still a fair amount of work but Bre sure does seem to be working a whole lot harder than me. I just can't wait til we are living together so she can help me with homework on a nightly basis. She's so smart! Marrying someone this smart and who remembers literally EVERYTHING is going to be blessing and I dare say it'll bite me in the butt. :)

Mack meets the 4am infomercial....P90X!!!

I'm not going to lie, I've never worked harder in my entire life. No I don't mean working for monetary means, but working my body to the point that I literally couldn't get into my car. It's tough, its hard, its EXTREME, its P90X! I saw it on TV at 4am one night and I'll admit, I was a little skeptical like I am of most workout videos I see that early in the morning. I'm the kind of guy thats just used going into the gym and pushing wieght around, eating protein and glutamine, and maybe doing a little cardio. But my brother and sister in law (Kurt and Noelle) tried it out and got great results so I thought I'd give it a go not knowing how hard it would be.
I just started my second week and it is going great! There are 6 hardcore workouts each week for 90 days. So I have a solid 11 weeks to go. I'm so excited to do this! There is an Ab workout that they call Ab Ripper X and holy crap it is the hardest thing I've ever done. It's 11 or 12 different moves of 25 reps apiece. I can't even finish it! I'm starting to try and finish the whole thing at 15 reps and I'm more successful. I hope I'll get up the the 25 reps and do the whole workout how its suppose to be done. I'm just excited to get ripped again! I let myself go during the summer because I just didn't have the energy to workout while I was in Texas and I lost most of my muscle. But its coming back! Thanks a lot to Kurt and Noelle for letting me borrow it!!! Off to a nice yoga sesh by P90X!

Back in Action

Well, I made it back to the good ole' USA from the country of Texas. It was pretty miserable as far as the weather was concerned. It stayed right around 100 with humidity between 50-90%. I'm just glad I didn't have to wear long slacks and a tie like on my mission in Russia. (In the summers it was well over 100 with a few weeks reaching around 116 with almost 100% humidity) So I'm just grateful I was able to wear a polo shirt and some shorts. I sold Pest Control for my cousins company called White Knight Pest Control (whiteknightpest.com) I actually don't mind the summer sales. It was worth it to my financially. Of course nobody ever makes what people promise them their first year but thats ok, I still made it worth my time. Bre and I will be going back down next summer to do it again. I'm pretty excited already to start going again because I won't have to deal with the few weeks of getting used to selling door to door so I can just get on it right off the bat. If anyone out there wants to give it a go, lemme know!!! So anyway, I made it home safe and sound, I still can't believe that I didn't get a flat tire or get anything stolen at the ghetto Motel 6 I stayed in in El Paso on the way back. I set my alarm to get up almost every hour to go check my car to make sure my stuff was still there. Everything that I own was in that car! If I had gotten it stolen I would've cried for a week. So I made it back and I'm working back at Cirque Lodge again. It's the top Drug and Alcohol Rehab facility in this great nation. It's located about a mile above Sundance with great views of the resort and the cirque of Mt. Timp. I really enjoy working there and meeting and helping people from all over the country and from all walks of life. I'm also going to school again taking a history class, a public speaking class, and a biology class. A little less hectic this semester but I think its ok since I'm getting ready to start my new life as a married man to my beautiful bride to be! I'm so excited to marry her! She is so so good to me and is so smart and funny. We never have a boring moment together. Ususally it revolves around me making a jack a** out of myself and her making fun of me, but its a good time none the less.