Running :)

I love running. I just can’t tell you how much I love to run. I am currently on the Fairfield Track Team and I am also currently training for a half marathon. I have been on the Fairfield Track Team for 3 years; this is my third year. When I was in 7th grade I ran the 4 by 4, the 100m, and the 200m dash. The 4 by 4 is when you have four people on a relay team and each person runs a four hundred. The 200m and the 100m are exactly what it sounds like. Then when I was in 8th grade I hurt my knee so I was only able to do the long jump. I probably should have just have been out for the season but I was too stubborn. So I think I made it worse that year. Now that I am in 9th grade I am only running the 100m and jumping the long jump. I am one of the fastest in the 100m and I am the 2nd longest jumper in the long jump. My knee is still hurting but I have a brace now so it is not bugging me as much.

So one day Cambree Dotson came to me and asked if I wanted to run a half marathon with her. I was hesitant at first because I am not a distance runner. However, she convinced me to run it with her so now I am training for it. I started training on March 30, 2012 with a 3 mile run. We were only supposed to run 2 miles but we wanted to get a courtesy cone from Artic Circle. So we ended up running an extra mile to get our ice cream cone.

Since I have been running at track and training for the half marathon I have been really tired. I have been trying to eat better, but it has not been going well. I am a really picky eater so it is hard for me to eat healthy foods. I had an earlier post about how much I just hate almost all meat… I think you know where this is going. When you are exercising you want to eat protein to help your body to keep up with exercising. So I don’t know how this is going to go with eating meat. So on my way to school this morning my dad was talking to me about how much I need to eat healthy. I don’t know how I am going to survive this summer… oh well I guess. At least I get to have fun running. :)

the move

So I moved over the course of this week. It was an experience that I have never experienced before. We had been trying to get this house for about 6 months. My mom wanted to have a bigger gathering area so when we have extended family over we have room to put them. So that’s what sparked the idea of moving. At first it started off of just “oh it would be nice to move” and that kind of thing. So we got an agent and we set off house searching. I think we probably looked at around 30 houses. Most of our weekends were filled with looking at a couple of houses each day. Then we found this house. But we couldn’t get an appointment to come and see it. So we drove by the house and my mom suggested that we go ask and see if we could look inside the house. They were a very nice family, and said yea it was no problem. So we looked inside and we really liked it. The walls were painted really weird patterns and colors but other than that we really liked the house. So we kept on it put an offer on the house and did all of this stuff and after about 6 months we got the news that they accepted our offer and we could continue to get the house. Then after another additional 1 and a half months we signed and got the house.

It took us a couple weeks to completely move in. We started packing and taking non essential items over to the new place to the basement. Then this past weekend not yesterday but the weekend before, we had the big moving day. It took only took about half of the day to move the rest of the stuff to the new house. It didn’t take very long. We had a big turnout of help, (which we all appreciated very much.) But I forgot to tell you that before all of the moving that took place we had to get everything painted and the carpets cleaned. Like I said before, very briefly, they had very weird and abstract designs and colors on their walls. The lines were not straight, there were pink, purple, orange and every other color except blue was painted in that house. There were zigzag lines up and down the walls and none of the lines were straight. So we had the entire house painted. It took 2 weeks and 5 people to paint the house. It took a whole lot of time and effort. We found their job chart and the people before us only vacuumed once a month. So the carpets were very, very, very dirty. So they were also cleaned. We had many more exciting experiences with this house, but now we are mostly moved in and settled. I can’t wait for that day to unpack the last box and move in that last piece of furniture. Oh what a great day that would be. I will never forget my first move. J

Birthdays

Do all those quizzes on the internet tell the truth? I see a lot of people taking those then feeling better about themselves or worse. Sometimes they just want to see what things mean. So I decided to see if these quizzes tell the truth or they are just random.

So I choose the birthday topic to test this. I know my strengths and what I am like. So hopefully this will come out as accurate as possible. I took a test that supposed to say what my birthday means. My birthday is Sep. 15, and this is what it came up with.

“You take life as it is, and you find happiness in a variety of things.
You tend to be close to family and friends. But it's hard to get into your inner circle.
Making the little things wonderful is important to you, and you probably have an inviting home.
You seek harmony with others, but occasionally you have a very stubborn streak.
Your strength: Your intense optimism
Your weakness: You shy away from exploring your talents

Some of these results are accurate and some are not so lucky. The green part is what I found was accurate. However, the yellow highlighted part is what I didn’t find accurate. I am not very optimistic when it comes to life. Sure I can be at times, but mostly I am neutral. I could go one way or the other. I usually don’t take sides.  I don’t like sharing my talents and I tend to hid them. That part is true, and along with the other highlighted part.

                I took another test that supposedly predicts about you. It predicted that I’m nurturing.

Ever since you were born, you've loved being a caretaker.
Whether you're caring for people or animals, you love making others feel good.
You don't stress or worry much in your life. You think it's important not to sweat the small stuff.
You have a soft spot in your heart for children and pets. You are drawn to anyone in need.

                This time the blue is the truth and the red is not the truth and the pink is in the middle.  I do love animals and I love helping out people. On the other hand I do stress out a lot in life. I don’t take it easy and not worry as it says I do. I stress a lot. I have to get things done in a certain order and if I don’t I freak out. It depends on the day on thinking the small stuff is important. I mostly do but there are those days were I don’t think it is important.

I should have done more tests but I have come to a conclusion. These tests in this instance have a pretty accurate prediction. I mostly highlighted the truth. There was only one or two things that I thought were not true. The tests are fun to do and could or couldn’t be true. So if you just love doing them then remember they aren’t always true. So don’t put all of your trust in them. Otherwise have fun.

Eventful Week

This week has been a very eventful week. There have been so many things that went on. First, my dog had her puppies, hung out with Brenna Sorenson, the Davis High Marching Band beat American Fork, and I had another marching band competition.

          My dog, Daisy, had her puppies early Tuesday morning. I asked my mom to not wake me up if she had them that night because I had a marching band competition that fallowing day. When I woke up my mom informed me that Daisy had indeed had her puppies that morning. I went in to see the new puppy. She was the cutest thing ever! She fits right in my hand it’s 2 so cute. Then on Saturday we took her to get her dew-clawed and had her tail sniped, in other words its 1 tail had to be cut off. Because they are so small, they have to get their tails cut so it won’t 9 be so big on them. It’s funny when she tries to play with the other dogs’ toys. When I’m gone it’s my parents’ responsibility to watch her. Her eyes and ears aren’t even opened yet. It will be another couple of days before they start to open. We were told that the Jones 3 family wants to buy her. Lucy will be the Jones’s 5 dog. I asked my mom what the Jonses’ names were, but she didn’t know. So in the mean time the she will just keep getting bigger and bigger.

          On Tuesday, I had a marching band competition at BYU. On our way, there Garret, a person in my section, was showing me all these pictures on his 6 iPod, and laughing at me because I didn’t get what it was trying to portray. However, when we got there I was happy and ready to do the show. When we were on the field, I performed my best field show that I have ever done. In the end it paid off. When the judges were announcing the winners, they announced American Fork as 2^nd place we went crazy. Since they got second, it meant that Davis High came in first place. We were so, so, so happy! Davis High hasn’t beaten American Fork for 5 years until now. On the bus ride there everyone had so much fun. So when we got there we were pumped and ready for the show. The show really fun to perform and to make it even better we receive first place! Marching band is the best.

          Then on Friday, night Brenna and I hung out, and watched a movie and  ate pizza. We were planning on watching a scary movie but we couldn’t figure out what movie to watch so we watched Thor. That night was so much fun. I showed Brenna Lucy, our puppy, and she just loved her. She held Lucy during the entire show. She kept saying that she wished Lucy was hers 6. Every night should be as much fun as that night.

           I had another marching band competition Saturday night and this time it was at USU. That competition was also really fun. When the awards were announced we didn’t do as well as last time... We placed 2^nd and ‘American Fark’ placed 1^st. We made a lot children’ mistakes...  Man, we thought we did so good. But apparently the judges didn’t think the same way as we did. It was still so much fun. J

Wow my week was really jammed pack with fun nights. My dog had her puppies, I hung out with Brenna and I had two marching band competitions.

Driving

A couple weeks ago I obtained my driving permit. Driving has always been an excitement for me in my life. For as long as I can remember I have always been counting down. From the years then as time passed it was only months then only days until I could drive. I didn't get my permit on my birthday because I had marching band with Davis High School. Then my parents were at work and didn't get off until the DMV place had closed. So it took me a whole good two weeks until I could get my permit.

When I was filling out the paper work and doing all the tests I was more worried about not passing the eye examine more than the driving test itself. Even though I had only skimmed through the driving book. Anyways when I did the eye exam/ test I passed with flying colors. Well I guess not exactly with fly colors but you know what I mean. So after the paperwork was all done I was sent to go take the test. The test was on a touch screen computer thing, I’m not sure how to explain it, you will just have to see for yourself. So I completed the test and I got 86% on my first time. The lowest you can get to pass is 80% so I did well enough to get my permit.

My first time driving I took my little brother to his soccer game. My dad didn’t feel comfortable with me doing left hand turns on busy streets so he drove on the busy, main streets and then let me take over once the traffic was less traffic. I only drove a little bit that first day but it was really, really, really, really, really, and many more “reallys” fun.

I have gotten a lot more practice sense then. I have driven on busy and congested roads, but I don’t want to drive on the highway or the freeway just yet, I know that I’m not ready for that. But I did go 35 m/h once and that my friend was just about the funniest thing I have ever done. I can’t wait until I can drive on the freeway and the highway. I wish this song was on the radio one of the times I have been driving it would have been so cool.

Well, life's like a road that you travel on

There's one day here and the next day gone

 Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand

 Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There's a world outside every darkened door

Where Blues won't haunt you anymore

For the brave are free and lovers soar

Come ride with me to the distant shore

We won't hesitate

 To break down the guarding gate

There's not much time left today, yeay

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

 All night long

 If you're going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Through all these cities and all these towns

It's in my blood and it's all around

 I love now like I loved you then

 This is the road and these are the hands

From Mozambique to those Memphis nights

The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights

They knock me down

And back up again

You're in my blood

I'm not a lonely man

There's no load I can't hold

 The road's so rough this I know

I'll be there when the light comes in

Just tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

 All night long If your going my way,

I wanna drive it All night long

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, yeah

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

 All night long (mmmm yeah)

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

There was a distance between you and I

 (between you and I) A misunderstanding once

But now, we look it in the eye

Ooooo...Yeah!

There ain't no load that I can't hold

 The road's so rough this I know

I'll be there when the light comes in

 Just tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long (all night long, yeah hey)

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

All night long

If your going my way, I wanna drive it

All night long

Life is a highway, I wanna ride it

 All night long

If your going my way,

 I wanna drive it All night long

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, yeah

family fun

 I have a lot of favorite songs but Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae is mine and my brothers theme song. For this blog I'm going to share it with you.

It's been a really, really messed up week

Seven days of torture, seven days of bitter

And my girlfriend went and cheated on me

She's a California dime but it's time for me to quit her

La, la, la, whatever

 La, la, la, it doesn't matter

 La, la, la, oh well

 La, la, la

We're goin' at it tonight, tonight

 There's a party on the rooftop

 Top of the world tonight, tonight

 And we're dancin' on the edge of the Hollywood sign

I don't know if I'll make it

But watch how good I'll fake it

It's all right, all right, tonight, tonight

I woke up with a strange tattoo

 Not sure how I got it, not a dollar in my pocket

And it kinda looks just like you

 Mixed with Zach Galifianakis

La, la, la, whatever

 La, la, la, it doesn't matter

 La, la, la, oh well

 La, la, la

We're goin' at it tonight, tonight

There's a party on the rooftop

Top of the world tonight, tonight

And we're dancin' on the edge of the Hollywood sign

I don't know if I'll make it

But watch how good I'll fake it

 It's all right, all right, tonight, tonight

You got me singin' like

 Whoa, come on

Oh, it doesn't matter

Whoa, everybody now, oh

Just don't stop, let's keep the beat pumpin'

 Keep the beat up, let's drop the beat down

 It's my party, dance if I want to

We can get crazy, let it all out

Just don't stop, let's keep the beat pumpin'

 Keep the beat up, let's drop the beat down

 It's my party, dance if I want to

 We can get crazy, let it all out

It's you and me and we're runnin' this town

 And it's me and you and we're shakin' the ground

 And ain't nobody gonna tell us to go

'Cause this is our show

Everybody

Whoa, come on

 Oh, all you animals

Whoa, let me hear you now, oh

Tonight, tonight

There's a party on the rooftop

Tonight, tonight

 And we're dancin' on the edge of the Hollywood sign

I don't know if I'll make it

But watch how good I'll fake it

 It's all right, all right, tonight, tonight

It's all right, all right, tonight, tonight

Yeah, it's all right, all right, tonight, tonight

Just singin' like whoa, come on

 Oh, all you party people

 Whoa, all you singletons

 Oh, even the white kids

Just don't stop, let's keep the beat pumpin'

Keep the beat up, let's drop the beat down

 It's my party, dance if I want to

 We can get crazy, let it all out

Future

My goal in life is to be rich and very famous. I don’t know what I would be famous for though, I just have to be famous. I would have so much money that I could do anything and go anywhere. I would have my own bank to put all of my money.

I would have a great deal of houses. I would have a house in every tropical place in the world. There would also be houses in Italy, France, Germany, Rome and so many more places that I just don’t have time to tell you about them right now. I have to tell you what my favorite house would look like and where it would be. My dream house would have to be in the Bahamas. The Bahamas is a nice tropical place that has the beach and the ocean. My house would be on the beach.

It would be 9,000 sq feet. I know you are probably saying that is a huge house. Nevertheless, who doesn’t want a big house? Inside the house it would have a swimming pool, game room, exercise room, and an indoor basketball court. Last but certainly not least I will have a room that is filled with pillows, yes you heard me right a pillow room. In that pillow room there is a diving bored. You can jump off the diving bored and fall onto the pillows. It’s impossible to get hurt because they are just pillows. The walls will have pillows on them, so that the walls won’t hurt you.

Now that’s just my houses that I would spend my wealth on. I’m not selfish so I would help out my dear family. I would give my parents their dream house, (what ever that is). My dad has always wanted a Doge Charger. So I would buy one for him and any other car that he wanted.

My sister wants to meat Taylor Swift so I would get her back stage passes and meet and greet passes to a Taylor Swift concert. She would be so happy. Yes if I ever do get rich and famous then I would do that for her.

See I’m not selfish I just want to be rich and famous. Of course I would give some to charity and stuff. There is nothing wrong with having a dream/goal. Even if it never does come true I still have something to work for. What’s life with out something to look forward to? I will tell you, life would be nothing. Life would be boring. You have to have something to look forward to or work for. If you don’t then you will just be a lazy couch potato. Who would want that? I surely wouldn’t want that to occur to me. So have a dream, pursue it. Don’t end up as a bum on the street. Because then you wouldn’t have your dream house or help out your family.

I have a dream and I’m going to go with it.