Rock Climbing.

After not getting harnessed for 2 years. I am starting to really miss the pain and enjoyment from rock climbing. And with multiple people telling me I should join climb club I decided it would be in my interest to start going to Climb Time again. I can use it as my workouts instead of track.

cleats

I've been doing intermurals at my school since freshman year. It could be flag football, soccer or just ultimate frisbee for fun. During my entire first 3 years. I had decided not to buy a pair of cleats to play in, I was just a lame-o that had running shoes that slipped all over the place. Well, today I finally bought a pair to play in. I got in these puppies and boy did they make a difference. I then realized that I must have been lucky to play as well as I had without cleats. I went all out on buying these pairs of shoes. Went to multiple stores and spared no expense on what were going to be on my feet. $15 for these amazing feet covers.

Sidewalk Prophets!!

After going to chapel for 4 years, they have had 2 actual singers. Today we were able to have Sidewalk Prophets give us a concert for chapel this Tuesday. I guess they wanted to start off Homecoming week with a bang.

The funny thing is, I had woken up a little early this morning and then went back to sleep. During that sleep I had a dream I was in chapel listening to the concert. For some reason I had a pillow with me, and I was using the pillow to cover my laptop light(I don't have a laptop) so as not to get caught, because I was on the internet updating my blog about the concert I was in. I they fell asleep on the pillow and woke up a minute before my alarm went off.

Almost Fail

I seem to not be as good in my psyc class as I thought I would be. I managed a 60/100 for my grade. Which is quite devastating. But I found out today that he was taking away the 5 most missed questions raising everyones grade by 10. So I guess a C- isn't that bad for the first test.

Drivin' Home

Well, I had a wonderful time with my sister and her family. But school starts on the flip side and I need to get home. After, my successful mid-drive break last time. I repeated the process but elsewhere. I stopped at the National Corvette Museum and at the Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. I would have loved to of actually went on a tour and explored a cave, but sadly if I did that I would fell even lamer than just driving alone. Also, I wanted to get home and be done with driving. So I cut it short and just explored a bit more and saw this creepy old (probably haunted) house, which begged to have its picture be taken of and put on the net. So there you have it my spur of the moment trip to Murfreesboro, TN.

Grovin' for a Cure

What a magnificent day for the walk. The theme was the 70s. Complete with a band, awesome music, free food and a rock wall. This was the lead singer. What a great person. He kept the crowd entertained with his awesome dancing jokes and great lyrics. They played the classic songs and had everyone on their feet dancing and having a blast!! Boy does he look great in those tights.

Road Trip.

I am off on a weekend trip to Tennessee to support my niece at a walk for diabetes. It is a 6 hour drive that I am making solo. So I was quite bored driving alone with no one to talk to. How lame. So to spice things up a little bit I stopped at places along the way to add some fun to the drive. Quite possibly the best idea ever!! I had lots of fun and even though it would have been much more fun with someone else. I would recommend everyone to live a little sometime and not be afraid to step out of the box they live in.

Today, on the way south I stopped in Elizabeth town and looked at some of the old places. This is the town that has a movie's title named after it.

USB

My poor flash drive has been broken for the past 2 years. I would have to hold it at an angle it I wanted to use it at all. Today I was able to repair it. Today was also the first day that I have ever used a solder. I think I did a bang up job, considering that it now works.

Library

After having two weeks to due a 750 word paper. I finally start reading what it is over and writing it the night before it is due. After spending 4 hours attempting to do work I managed to get 200 words done.
I think my way of working isn't very effective though. Reading a totally unrelated book, napping in a chair and then taking a 15 min bike ride around campus probably didn't help either. Not to mention starting a conversion with everyone that I know. All in all very productive evening.

Drivers!!!

As I was on my way to class, driving along 8th st. I saw this wonderful accident. It is a marvelous example of the skill of many of the drivers in America. I am sure that at least one of the cars involved was parked at the time of collision. And yes, there are 3 cars that was damaged. I was lucky that there was a stop light that allowed me to get at least this picture. Would have been grand if I was able to get one with some tangled metal.

Football Season

It is that time of the year again. Football is back in swing and like usual it will pass me by unnoticed till someone is going to yell at me for missing the Super Bowl. Thing looks to be a promising year for my intramural team that I am on. Hopefully we can do real well.

Aus Trip

My homework for the weekend was to create a webpage over a topic of my choice. The easiest thing for me was to write about my trip across the Pacific Ocean to Australia. I put on there most of my favorite pictures. Too bad you can't see them that well. Maybe you will if you have luck on your side.

Rainbow Camp

This is the place that we go each year to finish our rush week. Nothing is more relaxing than camping after a hard days work. But for us, no one particularly wanted to stay at the place they were going to have us sleep. They shacks were not very much better than the place you can see me and Tindall working on in the picture. They had us thatching the roof. Which you can see how amazing of a job we are doing.

Strictly Business

Well today I was to dress up in business attire. This is the best I can come up with. I think I need to invest in my wardrobe a bit more.

Lami' Fidel

After a day of wearing short shorts today I choose to support our sister club by dressing in tights!!! What is better than a guy that can show his mastery of dressing like the opposite sex.

Dress Up

This is the first our rush week here at AU. We dress up each day and today we were suppose to dress up like the Dukes of Hazard. The favorite person to dress after is Daisy Duke if you couldn't tell.

Flagship

This is the place I drive to every Tuesday and Thursday for class. I spend normally about 3 hours here. The best part is that I've been coming about an hour early to stay on task. 20 min drive and 4 hours here each day adds up to about 10 hours each week for this class. At least I enjoy the class.

Just a Taste.

It was a very nice day out. Beautiful weather and 75. I had a very filling lunch. Feeding myself with more than food. I was very satisfied and happy after eating the sprinkles.

B-Day!

Surprise Party at B-Dubs!!! He thought he was going to have a nice dinner with his lady. But NO, we had other plans for this kid that was turning 21. Best part he had no idea it was even for him when he got there.

Lame

What a pitiful day. Woke up to it raining outside and put a huge damper on the mood. Figured it was a good day as any to catch up on some homework. So, I spent the entire day in my dorm, watching movies and doing the occasional problem. I did manage to fit a nap in there due to a suggestion from a friend. Thanks!

Book in Mail

Recieved another package in the mail. Today it was the other book I bought from the same seller. I can't quite figure out why they didn't send them together or why I got one 3 days before the other, but hey at least I had a package in the mail!! Score.

Favors

Sometime at the beginning of the year I had lent out my flash drive to a friend. Well after he used it, we had tried numerous times to get it back to me. Whenever he would bring it to something I was never there or he wouldn't remember to have it with him if I was. Well in my computer class I have a dire need to have things saved to a flash drive. There are some very geeky tech guys at the school and I believe that they may have procured one for me. The reason I say this is because last class they looked around for one and couldn't find anything and when I got to class today it was there sitting prettily on my table.

Odd Ball

Today was a day to be remembered. Whats better than getting a package in the mail. But this day it was strictly a book day. You get excited on the chance that someone else had sent you something even though you ordered the book to come. But this was not the only book I got today. The other one I had to pick up from the person. It was worth it though. It even appears as though this person left notes in the book that will help me get through the class.

Now about the picture, this was the frozen pizza that I made for lunch today. I found it quite strange. Never before have I seen a clump of cheese this huge.

Caramel

If you don't know anything about me then you should be informed on this little tidbit. I thoroughly enjoy baking. Cookies, pies, brownies and monkey bread all have known my touch. Each of them have made lasting memories to those lucky enough to have been graced with my food. I recently have come across a new recipe that somehow supercedes my previous cookie recipe.

Well the key ingredient is obviously the chips and the cookies I wanted to make required caramel bits. I had a little bit of difficulty finding these. I went to 3 different stores looking for just one package of something caramel. Once I did manage to locate the store that stocked them, they only had one left on the selves. I was so excited, it was almost as though the heavens wanted me to make them. These cookies are going to be fabulous and someone will enjoy each and every one that they will consume.

Labor Day!

I think this was my first labor day volleyball tournament I was in, definitely the last. It was a gorgeous day, sunny and very comfortable. The only thing is, was how long it was between games. Took forever for our first game and even longer before we got the second one in. With the first 3 hours there we had played one game. Then we, but after that we were able to get our next 2 games in the last hour I was there.

My team had some people that I'm sure had never touched a volleyball before. We managed to sneak a win with the first game. But afterwards our luck ran out. We won 1 and lost the next 2. I did manage to get a free lunch though. That was nice :)

Dinner

I wanted to get the year started off right. So I went to church. Little did I know what was in store for me. Once it started they had hymns to begin with, which I am not personally a fan of. And after which played more songs that droned on that really weren't exciting. During the service which I was thoroughly enthralled with, I was found out that the average age of the congregation looked to be about 65. I think that a few of them where probably 4-5 times older than me.

Now, on to the main part of my day. I finally got my first book today. I'm borrowing it from one of my awesome friends. Well, instead of just meeting him and leaving we choose to get something to eat also. We found this cute restaurant called Noodles & Company. It was a very nice place. I had the spaghetti & meatballs with a root beer to wash it down. The meatballs were ginormous. I had a tough time eating all of it. The food was great though, and the drink was very satisfying. I had meant to take the picture once I got it but my hunger had overcome my thinking and I neglected to take it. This is the what was leftover.

Windy

I decided to get outside today and read my book. After about 5 minutes of reading I had an incredible urge to climb trees. Well that is precisely what I did. After 2 mediocre climbs I went for a tuff one.

This was a tall tree. I had to shimmy up about 10 feet and then quickly grab hold of a branch with one hand unless I was to fall. I scrapped my legs and arms on the way up, which left a slew of marks. For the first time ever I carved my initials in a tree. I left it as a mark to whomever may climb that tree that they were not the only one. You can tell from the picture through the trees that my perch was higher than most other trees in the area.

One thing you notice while in a tree is how much they sway with the wind. A few times it become real windy and I hugged the tree to make sure that I didn't fall. Also, I don't think there were any ninja squirrels in this tree, at least any more.

Taradise

This is the start of my final here at AU. This place is what I will be calling home for the next 8 months. I have lived here once before but this year will definitely be different. 2 roommates that I don't really know, and an agenda to get out and live. I've got a biker gang to look forward to joining and no track. Bring it on world. I'm ready!

Hardcore

Now that I my bike with me I can express my true self. I have always wanted to be a hardcore biker. I only need a few more things to complete my dream. Now I only need to find a nice leather jacket and a gang to join and then I will be set. Watch out world, Bad A' AJ is coming. Be on the lookout. Spring 2011.