So its been a few days since I've done anyting on here, so I figured I'd say hi, so HI! Its been a pretty crazy last couple of weeks so far.
We had our last weekened of H.M.S. Pinafore. It was a fun run. I'm gonna miss everyone but I'm happy the show is over. It was a long run. But we had some good shows and I loved playing the goof. Its nice being in a show were I dont really have to do much to be in my character. Lol
Last Thursday I auditioned for Once Upon A Mattress at the Scera Theater. I've done things at the outdoor theater last summer but I hadnt made a show for the indoor theater just yet. The audition went well and I was asked to come to call backs on FRIDAY night...Oh yea I had a show that night! crap...so I talked to the director and producers and such and they said I could just come down right after the show and join in on call backs. I was called back for a lead role. Went in did the call back and thought it went well. Well they had dance auditions MONDAY night. Well crap have a show that night too. So we drove down as soon as the show was over to do the dance part of the audition. But when we got there they just had us read and that was it. So now the wait. Now for some reason I like to tourture myself by doing consecutive shows in a row. I've been doing shows nonstop since march of last year. It wears on you so much! But they are so fun....and somehow I manage to fit in everything else that I do in my life. The last few rehearsals have been really good. Well actually we have had only 2, but we are basically memorized on the ensemble numbers and our directors as well as us are pretty dang happy. Its cool to think also that out of 110 people she had audition and go to callbacks she only ended up with I think 32 of us. And we already get along so well and sound so great together...As much as I hate admiting it, I look forward to the dancing next week and seeing the show finally come together.
My knee is still killing me and during the winter months, my shoulder starts to hurt more and more. But hey when you dont go to the doctor to get it fixed what can you expect haha. It also makes me amazed at how well the body can heal itself..I've hurt myself so much and the fact that I haven't been in the hospital more then I have amazes me...I did go three times within like 4 months last year but hey it had to happen eventually. I really wanna go do a doc one day and just take X-rays of my body to see how many bones I really have broken lol. As far as I know I've never broken a bone that I'm away of...Surprise I know! But thats not gonna stop me. I also got my first set of stiches in my chin last year which is also a huge surprise...but hey I dont go to the doctor as much as I probably should.. lol.
I'm looking forward to summer and spending a lot of time biking and on the water with my friends and having some nice weather..I love the snow and I love boarding but it gets old after a while. I'm a southern Cali boy and I love the warm weather!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Climbing Mt. Mahagony
My friends and me enjoy doing rather random things, as you will learn as this blog progresses. One such random thing we did came to be one night around 8 at night because we were bored and had nothing to do. We were maybe 14 o 15. It was around summer time i believe and my best friend cam and me decided to climb Mt. Mahagony. Its at the enterance to AF canyon on the right side. So we grabbed a couple other buddies of ours, road our bikes up there in the dark, ditched our bikes in some bushes and started climbing.
It was a pretty fun hike, well for what we could see with our head lamps. The trail follows the cliff legde and its a good fall as you got higher and higher on the trail, so we were for the most part carefull haha, the first fun thing we came across, was a rattlesnake that was coiled up on the side of the trail, we didnt want to wake it so we just walked on by as I poked it with a stick. It woke up attacked the stick, me and the other guys giggled and we continued on. We got to the top of what we thought was the trail about 2 hours o so later, and decided to make this our place for the night. We pulled out our sleeping bags set them up drank some water and fell asleep.
We woke up the next morning and decided to look around. Well we were pretty happy that we had stopped where we did because about 5 feet away from us was were the trail stopped. And by stopped I mean there was a good 200 foot fall down the side to a nice and rocky bottom. So we were happy about our choice of place to sleep. We didnt bring much food and we had eaten most of it, so we decided to run down the face so we could get home and get food. We started cruizen down the trail when I put on the brakes and stopped. Cam was in front of me and had jumped over what he thought was a stick in the trail, which actually was a 6 ft rattler streching out for some morning rays. Normal people would of just let it go past but nah we dont do that, so we all tried to catch it! It went under a rock, we almost had it once but we decided to let it go. We went down a different way then we came up just so we cold see what was around there, we found no trail, but it was still fun going through trees, finding a cave where a mountain lion was staying and found someones mag light they had left for us to find. It was a way fun spur of the moment trip! And those kinds of trips have always been my favorite.
It was a pretty fun hike, well for what we could see with our head lamps. The trail follows the cliff legde and its a good fall as you got higher and higher on the trail, so we were for the most part carefull haha, the first fun thing we came across, was a rattlesnake that was coiled up on the side of the trail, we didnt want to wake it so we just walked on by as I poked it with a stick. It woke up attacked the stick, me and the other guys giggled and we continued on. We got to the top of what we thought was the trail about 2 hours o so later, and decided to make this our place for the night. We pulled out our sleeping bags set them up drank some water and fell asleep.
We woke up the next morning and decided to look around. Well we were pretty happy that we had stopped where we did because about 5 feet away from us was were the trail stopped. And by stopped I mean there was a good 200 foot fall down the side to a nice and rocky bottom. So we were happy about our choice of place to sleep. We didnt bring much food and we had eaten most of it, so we decided to run down the face so we could get home and get food. We started cruizen down the trail when I put on the brakes and stopped. Cam was in front of me and had jumped over what he thought was a stick in the trail, which actually was a 6 ft rattler streching out for some morning rays. Normal people would of just let it go past but nah we dont do that, so we all tried to catch it! It went under a rock, we almost had it once but we decided to let it go. We went down a different way then we came up just so we cold see what was around there, we found no trail, but it was still fun going through trees, finding a cave where a mountain lion was staying and found someones mag light they had left for us to find. It was a way fun spur of the moment trip! And those kinds of trips have always been my favorite.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Car Washes Are Cold
My story today takes us back to a time of sillyness when Mont was a little crazy. And no this wasnt 5 minutes ago. I'm still crazy and love doing "stupid" things.
Taylor, Me and Reece were coming back from swiming one day. This was like the week before I left on my mission. During that summer we tried to go swimming almost everyday, we did a lot of Mt. Biking and just did a ton of outdoors stuff. It was one of the funnest years of my life. We made tons of movies and just had tons of fun.
One day coming back from swimming in Tay's land crusier that we were borrowing for the summer from a guy in our ward, It started to rain, we were just getting off the freeway and it started pooring on us. Which was so lame! lol, but as we drove past our friendly neigbhorhood gas station, we looked at the car wash looked at each other, ran home grabbed the camera and headed back to the car wash.
Now many of you are probably thinking we are retarded for taking a land crusier through a car wash without the top on. Wouldn't that ruin all the inside of the car? Well we do think sometimes and thought of this and the cool part about this particular crusier is that the owner had taken everything out that could get ruined by water, mud, dirt and so on and replaced the whole inside with rhino liner. So whenever he took it out diggin o anything like that afterwords he would just spray the whole inside out.
So we walk into the gas station ask for a car wash and the girl at the counter gave us the "are you serious" look. It was funny, she gave us the ticket we drove around to the car wash enterance, and tried to figure out a way to set up the camera so it wouldn't get wet and would be able to catch the whole thing. A little red head kid was walking by at the time, so we asked him to stand there and push the little red button when we got back to the car and started the wash. He "did" and we started screaming as we were being blasted with cold soap hard water and so forth, it was actually pretty fun. The little kid at the camera was laughing his head off and there was a line of 6 o so cars behind us that had stopped to watch what was going one. Now we did the full car wash, so we got pre-soaked, soaped, washed like 4 times, soaped again, then washed again, then powerwashed, and then waxed. I highly recommend the closing of ones mouth if they are to do this. The wax wasnt as bad as we thought and it left us nice and glowey. The dryers sucked! They were so hot and blowey!
Now we finished the wash much to the delight of the smallish one that was filming us, thanked him and made some after show commentary. We got back to Tay's house turned on the camera and much to our dismay, there was the begining commentary, the end commentary but no middle. The little small one forgot to push the button and we had no proof of our really smart idea. Now the smart thing to do would be to hang our heads up high and know that we did it and no one could take that away from us. Sadly and really awesomely we are not those kinds of people! So we head back to the same car wash ask the same cashier for another ticket got the same look and laugh and went on our way. This time we pushed the button ourselves and made sure it was on. And we now have some dang funny film! I showed it at my Mission Farwell party and it was a huge hit. That and my grandpa who is a huge car buff trying to figure out what we were thinking.
So moral of the story, if thou desire to make funny video of car wash washing, do not ask passer byers to push little red button.
Taylor, Me and Reece were coming back from swiming one day. This was like the week before I left on my mission. During that summer we tried to go swimming almost everyday, we did a lot of Mt. Biking and just did a ton of outdoors stuff. It was one of the funnest years of my life. We made tons of movies and just had tons of fun.
One day coming back from swimming in Tay's land crusier that we were borrowing for the summer from a guy in our ward, It started to rain, we were just getting off the freeway and it started pooring on us. Which was so lame! lol, but as we drove past our friendly neigbhorhood gas station, we looked at the car wash looked at each other, ran home grabbed the camera and headed back to the car wash.
Now many of you are probably thinking we are retarded for taking a land crusier through a car wash without the top on. Wouldn't that ruin all the inside of the car? Well we do think sometimes and thought of this and the cool part about this particular crusier is that the owner had taken everything out that could get ruined by water, mud, dirt and so on and replaced the whole inside with rhino liner. So whenever he took it out diggin o anything like that afterwords he would just spray the whole inside out.
So we walk into the gas station ask for a car wash and the girl at the counter gave us the "are you serious" look. It was funny, she gave us the ticket we drove around to the car wash enterance, and tried to figure out a way to set up the camera so it wouldn't get wet and would be able to catch the whole thing. A little red head kid was walking by at the time, so we asked him to stand there and push the little red button when we got back to the car and started the wash. He "did" and we started screaming as we were being blasted with cold soap hard water and so forth, it was actually pretty fun. The little kid at the camera was laughing his head off and there was a line of 6 o so cars behind us that had stopped to watch what was going one. Now we did the full car wash, so we got pre-soaked, soaped, washed like 4 times, soaped again, then washed again, then powerwashed, and then waxed. I highly recommend the closing of ones mouth if they are to do this. The wax wasnt as bad as we thought and it left us nice and glowey. The dryers sucked! They were so hot and blowey!
Now we finished the wash much to the delight of the smallish one that was filming us, thanked him and made some after show commentary. We got back to Tay's house turned on the camera and much to our dismay, there was the begining commentary, the end commentary but no middle. The little small one forgot to push the button and we had no proof of our really smart idea. Now the smart thing to do would be to hang our heads up high and know that we did it and no one could take that away from us. Sadly and really awesomely we are not those kinds of people! So we head back to the same car wash ask the same cashier for another ticket got the same look and laugh and went on our way. This time we pushed the button ourselves and made sure it was on. And we now have some dang funny film! I showed it at my Mission Farwell party and it was a huge hit. That and my grandpa who is a huge car buff trying to figure out what we were thinking.
So moral of the story, if thou desire to make funny video of car wash washing, do not ask passer byers to push little red button.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Hunting
So for those of you who may not know I love hunting. From the months of September to the end of the year that is what I'm usually doing. I love hunting anything I can. I'm the redneck surfer boy as my mom calls me. lol. Even if I dont get anything, I still love just being out and about in the mountains, most of the time in places people dont really know about, Or would want to hike to. The hunt I'm gonna talk about today was my first Antelope hunt. It was about a year before I left on my mission. The hunt itself is up in Wyoming, and before we started just drawing out for them, we had to drive up to Wyoming at 3 in the morning to get in line to buy the tags. And the hunt isnt for a few months after that. So we get our tags head up to Wyoming on the day of the hunt and we get ready, now hunting of the Antelope is rather interesting. They are really quick, have great eyesight and are most of the time pretty smart. So it takes a lot of skill to bag one of these critters. But its also one of the funnest hunts I ever go on. We set out in our trucks and started looking for them. The reason we go after them in cars and trucks instead of hiking for them is as soon as they see you(now this could be hundreds of yards away) they run. So the purpose of the trucks is to get close enough to get out and chase them down on foot to get a shot. So most of the time they are also running at full speed which is around 40 miles when you get to them. So you have to lead them by about 8 feet before you shoot. Which is also challenging. So we get out there start driving and looking. We spent a lot of the day shooting and missing and getting animals. There was 12 people with us and they all had tags. Well I get up to take a shot at one and as soon as I shoot my scope shifts to the left side....Well crap thats bad I said...I took it off all the way and I was basically shooting without a sight for the rest of the day..Which needles to say landed me with leaving empty handed for the day. It sucked. Well that was the last time I was able to go before my mission and I didnt get to go again till last year. We get set up head out there and first we went to a different area to go after the 6 buck tags that we had. And boy did we have fun. We had one buck that my bosses son shot and missed turn and walk within maybe 10-15 feet of us. I call those kinds, animals that God wants dead. Mainly because they are like stupid people...We ended not being able to fill all the doe tags for the day, I think out of again 12 tags total we filled all but like 4. So we went out again about 2 weeks later and had a blast. This time it was just me, my boss, and our buddy Steve. Well we get there, and there is a doe just standing there looking at us. So I get out get a bead on her, and squeeze the trigger. Well I shot about 6 inches below her. Suck! So we kept moving along and moving along whinging shots at does far away just for fun. I was starting to lose confidence in my self and my shooting. Mainly because i shot like 5 times and missed all 5 lol. My boss and Steve were starting to worry as well lol...Well we come around a corner at a place were 2 weeks before we saw about oh 250 antelope maybe more. It was a place where we almost hit a group of about 8 as well with our car. They were running down the moutain and cut right in front of us, it was so cool to see! We came around the corner and in the field there was around 15 o so running around. They were all does and were running around so much becuase they were being hearded by a buck. So we try and get close enough and me and my boss had to take one of the harderst shots for me that I've ever taken. 250 yards at a probably 35 mile an hour dead run.
Well I was basically crapping my pants because I couldnt even hit a doe standing up looking at me picking her nose at 100 yards. So i get out of the car try to find a place to set up my gun for the shot, well I have no time whatsoever for that because they are just about ready to run past us. So I just hold the gun up to my shoulder, aim at the first doe, aim in front of her and shoot, Bang! well my boss shot at the same time and dropped one, and my first shot missed. So I racked in another round aimed in front of the doe at what I thought was 8 feet, turned out to only be like 4 and shoot! Well I didnt see her fall so I put in another round and get ready to shoot again when I hear you got her! I look back and I ended up hitting the 3rd doe back..which was good because the 4th one back was a buck and that would of been bad haha. So I lucked out on that part. haha
I ran over to her had to put one more shot in her because the first one want the best shot in the world and it was done. I learned some valubale lessons that day. How to shoot at a running Antelope and also learned how to bone out an animal. Honestly it was like the coolest thing in the world!
En finn Hunting has helped me become a better person and have more respect for the enviroment and the animals that our Heavenly Father has put on the earth for us. Now my friends that are against hunting and dont believe me, well too bad for you because it truely is incredible and through hunting I've seen more things and learned to appreciate our earth more then anyone I know that doesnt hunt. Have a good day and until tomorrow!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Week of Love...and stuff
As we come to the weekend and I probably wont be getting on again till next week I figured I'd talk about this a little bit and let you into Mont's life of dating, or lack there of lol. Valentines day for me is a really hard day...I usually end up spending it alone in my house, Or out with a group of friends and all their girlfriends. I love being around my friends but on this day I'm never really fond of it..luckily its on a sunday this year so I wont feel so bad for just staying inside all day after church lol.
The reason this is such a hard day for me is I've never had a girl friend on Valentines day. And I hate walking around and seeing all the happy couples all the little flowers and everything...I was actually dating someone pretty serious last year(talked about marriage) and when it came to the week of Valentines day, she pulled me aside sat me down and proceeded to tell me that she realized that she never was actually in love with me like she thought she was and didnt want anything to do with me anymore...that was two days before, and that Valentines day was one of the hardest I've ever had.
Now everyone that reads this if anyone ever does and all my friends that know me and know I dont like this day will probably say your time will come just be patient, or dont worry you a great guy and any girl would love to be with you. I full heartedly believe the first. My day will come and when it does I'll be the happiest guy in the world..The later I have always had a hard time believing. Mainly becuase all the girls I've ever expressed interest in run from me at the first chance they can get...I just recently had a girl that I thought I had become good friends with over the last couple weeks find out that I had an interest getting to know her on a more personal level do the high school thing and completely cut all contact with me period. And I will admit that I've had a few girls that did show interest back we did spend time together and then as it always goes they find something wrong or as many of them say you are a great guy, I really enjoy being with you and spending time together, any girl would love to date you and you're the kinda guy I should be with but I just cant right now..Thats one phrase I've never understood. I should be with you, your the kind of guy I want to be with I just cant. And then I see them run off with the next guy they find that treats them like crap and really never cares for them in the first place..
I remember back in high school every year I would have one little crush, I think everyone does that. I wasnt the best looking guy in school and was only popular because I was playing football and was friends with all the popular kids..But when it came to girls I knew that I probably wouldnt ever get the girl I had the crush on. It just never worked for me that way. I always said hi to everyone in the halls that I knew and always took the time to talk to anyone if they needed a listening ear. I remember one day a good friend of mine Stephinie Bullock came up to me at the end of the year and asked if she could write in my year book. She was the girl I liked at the time but knew I could never be with and was a little surprised that she approched me. It was our sophmore year and I remember what she wrote to this day. "Dear Mont. Thank you so much for always saying hi to me in the halls and in class. It always made my day" I read it that night and was curious why she would say that to me so I asked her the next day. She was new to the school and said that it was hard for her at first to get used to it as it is for everone I think lol, anyway, she said that even on her worst day she could always count on me being there to cheer her up with my smile. She was gratefull that I was there to make her feel special and cared for..I didnt know and probably never would of known that me saying hi to people could have such an impact. We became great friends through out the rest of high school. I went home that night and thought a lot about what she said and made it a point in my life to say hi to everyone I could. And I realized that even though most or all of the girls I liked back then, most likely didnt share the same interest, but they always knew that the little goofy football player could always be counted on to cheer them up and be a listening ear. I love being that listening ear and shoulder to cry on for a lot of my friends, but at the same time it breaks my heart..Most of those girls could be with someone that would treat them a thousand times better then they were being treated, but a lot of girls in the good ol state of utah today and probably every wear will settle for the crap they get handed because he has a great car, he's way hot, he is super fit, he makes lots of money, he's way popular. And they will put up with all the crap they get because of these things and all there friends are jealous because of the guy she has. Its helped me to realize a few things. I'm not one of those guys. I'm not the greatest looking guy in the world, I love the car I have but it may not be that huge truck, or tricked out beamer. I've also realized that most of those girls arent even looking for a guy they may possibly spend the rest of there lives with, they just wanna be with someone that makes them look good to their friends or someone to cuddle with that they dont have to worry about hurting later on. I have a really good friend that I dated about a a year and a half ago or so, that right after we started dating started to date some idiot that she herself has said many times sees no future with. My question is why do girls continue to date guys they see no future with? Because you feel sorry for them? Becuase you enjoy the fact that someone really likes you and you dont share the same interest? Now guys do this all the time as well and that also bugs me...If you dont think its gonna work out with a person whats the point of continuing anything? I'd rather stay single then date someone that just has me around because she likes having someone hold her. And after the little vent there we are almost done haha...
I know she's out there...and I wish with all my heart that I was ready for her to come into my life so I could start my life with her, and we could start our journey through life together..I've always been told by my Relationship teacher at church that we marry our best friends. Well who wouldnt you wanna spend the rest of your life with? Someone that you can wake up to every day and act like the 5 year olds that just love seeing friends, I cant wait to look into her eyes and let her know every day how much I love her, and will always be there for her. To just fall asleep in each others arms and just enjoy life together..Now I know it will never be like that always but I've learned from teachers and leaders, and one of the things I plan on doing is writing down everything I love about her, and when those hard times come I can go sit somewhere quiet, and just read those reasons and be able to see her always through the eyes of the savor as he sees her. We are all not perfect, we have flaws and we get married to help each other become better people and reach the eternal goal. Something I cant wait to have happen to me.
I hope everyone that has someone this weekend enjoys there time together, and makes it worth it. I'll be chillen at home or with my family doing what I do best and thats being the dork I am lol. None of this probably makes any sense at all but hey it makes sense to me.. Happy Valentines day to those of you who are gonna go for it. And for the rest of us still looking, dont worry, He/She is out there and is wondering the same thing. But realize one day you will be the happiest you ever have been. That always helps me through the day.
God gave us two ears to hear, two eyes to see and two hands to hold. But why did God give us only one heart? Because he wants us to find the other one.
The reason this is such a hard day for me is I've never had a girl friend on Valentines day. And I hate walking around and seeing all the happy couples all the little flowers and everything...I was actually dating someone pretty serious last year(talked about marriage) and when it came to the week of Valentines day, she pulled me aside sat me down and proceeded to tell me that she realized that she never was actually in love with me like she thought she was and didnt want anything to do with me anymore...that was two days before, and that Valentines day was one of the hardest I've ever had.
Now everyone that reads this if anyone ever does and all my friends that know me and know I dont like this day will probably say your time will come just be patient, or dont worry you a great guy and any girl would love to be with you. I full heartedly believe the first. My day will come and when it does I'll be the happiest guy in the world..The later I have always had a hard time believing. Mainly becuase all the girls I've ever expressed interest in run from me at the first chance they can get...I just recently had a girl that I thought I had become good friends with over the last couple weeks find out that I had an interest getting to know her on a more personal level do the high school thing and completely cut all contact with me period. And I will admit that I've had a few girls that did show interest back we did spend time together and then as it always goes they find something wrong or as many of them say you are a great guy, I really enjoy being with you and spending time together, any girl would love to date you and you're the kinda guy I should be with but I just cant right now..Thats one phrase I've never understood. I should be with you, your the kind of guy I want to be with I just cant. And then I see them run off with the next guy they find that treats them like crap and really never cares for them in the first place..
I remember back in high school every year I would have one little crush, I think everyone does that. I wasnt the best looking guy in school and was only popular because I was playing football and was friends with all the popular kids..But when it came to girls I knew that I probably wouldnt ever get the girl I had the crush on. It just never worked for me that way. I always said hi to everyone in the halls that I knew and always took the time to talk to anyone if they needed a listening ear. I remember one day a good friend of mine Stephinie Bullock came up to me at the end of the year and asked if she could write in my year book. She was the girl I liked at the time but knew I could never be with and was a little surprised that she approched me. It was our sophmore year and I remember what she wrote to this day. "Dear Mont. Thank you so much for always saying hi to me in the halls and in class. It always made my day" I read it that night and was curious why she would say that to me so I asked her the next day. She was new to the school and said that it was hard for her at first to get used to it as it is for everone I think lol, anyway, she said that even on her worst day she could always count on me being there to cheer her up with my smile. She was gratefull that I was there to make her feel special and cared for..I didnt know and probably never would of known that me saying hi to people could have such an impact. We became great friends through out the rest of high school. I went home that night and thought a lot about what she said and made it a point in my life to say hi to everyone I could. And I realized that even though most or all of the girls I liked back then, most likely didnt share the same interest, but they always knew that the little goofy football player could always be counted on to cheer them up and be a listening ear. I love being that listening ear and shoulder to cry on for a lot of my friends, but at the same time it breaks my heart..Most of those girls could be with someone that would treat them a thousand times better then they were being treated, but a lot of girls in the good ol state of utah today and probably every wear will settle for the crap they get handed because he has a great car, he's way hot, he is super fit, he makes lots of money, he's way popular. And they will put up with all the crap they get because of these things and all there friends are jealous because of the guy she has. Its helped me to realize a few things. I'm not one of those guys. I'm not the greatest looking guy in the world, I love the car I have but it may not be that huge truck, or tricked out beamer. I've also realized that most of those girls arent even looking for a guy they may possibly spend the rest of there lives with, they just wanna be with someone that makes them look good to their friends or someone to cuddle with that they dont have to worry about hurting later on. I have a really good friend that I dated about a a year and a half ago or so, that right after we started dating started to date some idiot that she herself has said many times sees no future with. My question is why do girls continue to date guys they see no future with? Because you feel sorry for them? Becuase you enjoy the fact that someone really likes you and you dont share the same interest? Now guys do this all the time as well and that also bugs me...If you dont think its gonna work out with a person whats the point of continuing anything? I'd rather stay single then date someone that just has me around because she likes having someone hold her. And after the little vent there we are almost done haha...
I know she's out there...and I wish with all my heart that I was ready for her to come into my life so I could start my life with her, and we could start our journey through life together..I've always been told by my Relationship teacher at church that we marry our best friends. Well who wouldnt you wanna spend the rest of your life with? Someone that you can wake up to every day and act like the 5 year olds that just love seeing friends, I cant wait to look into her eyes and let her know every day how much I love her, and will always be there for her. To just fall asleep in each others arms and just enjoy life together..Now I know it will never be like that always but I've learned from teachers and leaders, and one of the things I plan on doing is writing down everything I love about her, and when those hard times come I can go sit somewhere quiet, and just read those reasons and be able to see her always through the eyes of the savor as he sees her. We are all not perfect, we have flaws and we get married to help each other become better people and reach the eternal goal. Something I cant wait to have happen to me.
I hope everyone that has someone this weekend enjoys there time together, and makes it worth it. I'll be chillen at home or with my family doing what I do best and thats being the dork I am lol. None of this probably makes any sense at all but hey it makes sense to me.. Happy Valentines day to those of you who are gonna go for it. And for the rest of us still looking, dont worry, He/She is out there and is wondering the same thing. But realize one day you will be the happiest you ever have been. That always helps me through the day.
God gave us two ears to hear, two eyes to see and two hands to hold. But why did God give us only one heart? Because he wants us to find the other one.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
A Whole New World
I love performing, wether it was on a sports field or on a stage I just love being out there hearing people cheer you on, or in a stage type clapping and watching your every movement.
The acting part didnt happen till recently, almost 3 years ago. I always wanted to try out for the school plays in highschool but I didnt think I was ever good enough to make one, that and I was super busy with football, rugby and basketball at the time. But I did like to sing and I was pretty good at it. I just needed more confidence. The 3 of us that sang and were on the football team always loved asking coach if we could leave practice early to go to a concert. It was pretty funny.
I sang every chance I could get on my mission and when I got home I wanted to find a way to keep it going, but wasnt quite sure how. When I went to UVU(UVSC at the time) I sang for the Acapella choir there for 2 years. That was a neat experience but I dont know if I'll ever do it again. It just didnt seem to be up to where I wanted to be. Which I know makes me sounds bad, but hey if you want to be good at something you want to make sure you get the best training right?
I was playing rugby at the time for UVU as well and was having a great time with the guys playing on the college level. Which is wow super different! The guys were much more insane and tough and it was fun being able to practice with them. Although I didnt get to see the light of our first game or any games during that season due to injury I still enjoyed being a part of the team. The injury came to be when I was playing hockey with my friends and co-workers that I was ready to head out and do summer sales with. We were playing at Classic Skating, which is a blast lol. But as I was skating down the rink with the puck a little kid on a scooter decided he was gonna cross the court, well he also decided to do this right in front of me. I tried to jump him but when I did he got scared and lifted up his scooter to so nicely of him take out my legs. Well I went to brace myself and I ended up looking down right as my elbow locked and I hit the ground. Now I know it may be shocking to some, but I've never done anything like this to myself before. And holy crap it hurt! I woke up the next morning in so much pain and later learned that I should of been sleeping sitting up, something that would of been nice to know, but hey I didnt go to the doctor so what can ya expect lol The pain never really went away for a few weeks so I ended up going to see my doctor friend that is in my ward. He sat me down did some stuff with my arm and came to the conclusion that I completely tore my rotator cuff out of place. FUN! Basically my shoulder will never be the same and it put me out of any kind of physical contact sport for a while. Well that was lame so I asked him what I could do to get myself back into playing shape again, he said just find something to keep you in shape and start working out little by little. As a waiter dealing with that and the pain sucked! but a couple of the waitresses that I worked with had recently tried out for a show down at a theater in provo called Center Street Musical Theater. They came up to me one day and wanted me to come to a rehearsal cause they needed more guys. So I though hey why not. I went down on the night of the rehearsal expecting to have to audition which I really wasnt excited for at all. But when I got there they asked me what my range was and handed me the music and I was now a part of the Pirates of Penzance crew. Little did I know that, that night would start me acting career I guess you could say. Also I had no idea how time consuming rehearsals could be lol. Long nights of dance, music, and blocking to put together a show. I had never really watched plays before, the only one I did an ex that I dated took me becuase her mom got us tickets to go see the guy she had set Aimee up on a date with while we were dating. I told my family and they were excited and chuckled a little at the thought of me doing choreography and things like that. To be honest so was I, many of my friends in school at the time were dancers and I made fun of them all the time. Now I'm doing basically the exact same thing. The cast and the show were a lot of fun. I was first assinged to play a pirate, and half way through rehearsals I was also made a police officer for the second act of the play. Those were way fun roles. I remember being super nervous opening night for the show and for me in general in the theater world. The runs went very smoothly and the show was a great success. I never really had any intention of audition for another show after but I was asked by the owners of the theater that I go to call backs for 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. So I did, they called me back for a brother but in the begining I made the show as a sutior, I was highlway thinking about dropping out because the show required lots of work for the sutiors only being on stage for maybe 10 minutes of a almost 2 1/2 hour show. I was at work one day thinking if it was worth the gas and drive time, when I reveived a call from the directors wife. She told me that there was a good chance one of the guys that was playing a brother would be dropping out due to taking another job up in Colorado. They asked me to take his place as Caleb in the show. It was a huge surprise and to this day I thank one of my now best friends Nate for giving me this opportunity. I would say that in this show is were I got hooked on acting. This was one of the hardest shows I have ever done but also one of the funnest. It took more time and effort then any I've done, but I learned so much and it was worth every second. Since August of 2007 I went from doing one show to doing I think I'm up to 18 now. And I've performed in 4 different theaters from this CSMT community theater to the Hale Theater in Orem. In various roles from a backswoods man to playing Aladdin in front of hundreds of kids every night. I've done Christmas shows, summer shows and fall shows. Now CSMT has been shut down for almost a year and while the theater itself is gone I will never forget the Grooms or what they did for me and so many others in Utah Valley. They are such an incredible family and gave so many people including myself an opportunity to go from never being on a theater stage before to performing in one of the top notch theaters in Utah. They always threw random and crazy things in front of me(being asked to join the B&B cast 3 weeks into the run of the show) but as I look back on it, it was all for my well being as a performer. Ive had some of the craziest moment in my life in theater and some of those memories I will take with me for the rest of my life. Thank you Gavin and Sharaliyn for everything you taught me and for all the wonderfull times you gave me. I'm donig a show right now and while its not one of my favorite shows I've really enjoyed playing the villian. I will be trying out for a show in a few weeks and I'm pretty stoked to see how it goes. Theater is now a part of my life and I look forward to every moment and every role I get. I've made some life long friends and I've been told I've changed the lifes of so many people.....I hope anyone that comes and sees one of my shows enjoys a great experience and will have a different look on theater life.
The acting part didnt happen till recently, almost 3 years ago. I always wanted to try out for the school plays in highschool but I didnt think I was ever good enough to make one, that and I was super busy with football, rugby and basketball at the time. But I did like to sing and I was pretty good at it. I just needed more confidence. The 3 of us that sang and were on the football team always loved asking coach if we could leave practice early to go to a concert. It was pretty funny.
I sang every chance I could get on my mission and when I got home I wanted to find a way to keep it going, but wasnt quite sure how. When I went to UVU(UVSC at the time) I sang for the Acapella choir there for 2 years. That was a neat experience but I dont know if I'll ever do it again. It just didnt seem to be up to where I wanted to be. Which I know makes me sounds bad, but hey if you want to be good at something you want to make sure you get the best training right?
I was playing rugby at the time for UVU as well and was having a great time with the guys playing on the college level. Which is wow super different! The guys were much more insane and tough and it was fun being able to practice with them. Although I didnt get to see the light of our first game or any games during that season due to injury I still enjoyed being a part of the team. The injury came to be when I was playing hockey with my friends and co-workers that I was ready to head out and do summer sales with. We were playing at Classic Skating, which is a blast lol. But as I was skating down the rink with the puck a little kid on a scooter decided he was gonna cross the court, well he also decided to do this right in front of me. I tried to jump him but when I did he got scared and lifted up his scooter to so nicely of him take out my legs. Well I went to brace myself and I ended up looking down right as my elbow locked and I hit the ground. Now I know it may be shocking to some, but I've never done anything like this to myself before. And holy crap it hurt! I woke up the next morning in so much pain and later learned that I should of been sleeping sitting up, something that would of been nice to know, but hey I didnt go to the doctor so what can ya expect lol The pain never really went away for a few weeks so I ended up going to see my doctor friend that is in my ward. He sat me down did some stuff with my arm and came to the conclusion that I completely tore my rotator cuff out of place. FUN! Basically my shoulder will never be the same and it put me out of any kind of physical contact sport for a while. Well that was lame so I asked him what I could do to get myself back into playing shape again, he said just find something to keep you in shape and start working out little by little. As a waiter dealing with that and the pain sucked! but a couple of the waitresses that I worked with had recently tried out for a show down at a theater in provo called Center Street Musical Theater. They came up to me one day and wanted me to come to a rehearsal cause they needed more guys. So I though hey why not. I went down on the night of the rehearsal expecting to have to audition which I really wasnt excited for at all. But when I got there they asked me what my range was and handed me the music and I was now a part of the Pirates of Penzance crew. Little did I know that, that night would start me acting career I guess you could say. Also I had no idea how time consuming rehearsals could be lol. Long nights of dance, music, and blocking to put together a show. I had never really watched plays before, the only one I did an ex that I dated took me becuase her mom got us tickets to go see the guy she had set Aimee up on a date with while we were dating. I told my family and they were excited and chuckled a little at the thought of me doing choreography and things like that. To be honest so was I, many of my friends in school at the time were dancers and I made fun of them all the time. Now I'm doing basically the exact same thing. The cast and the show were a lot of fun. I was first assinged to play a pirate, and half way through rehearsals I was also made a police officer for the second act of the play. Those were way fun roles. I remember being super nervous opening night for the show and for me in general in the theater world. The runs went very smoothly and the show was a great success. I never really had any intention of audition for another show after but I was asked by the owners of the theater that I go to call backs for 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. So I did, they called me back for a brother but in the begining I made the show as a sutior, I was highlway thinking about dropping out because the show required lots of work for the sutiors only being on stage for maybe 10 minutes of a almost 2 1/2 hour show. I was at work one day thinking if it was worth the gas and drive time, when I reveived a call from the directors wife. She told me that there was a good chance one of the guys that was playing a brother would be dropping out due to taking another job up in Colorado. They asked me to take his place as Caleb in the show. It was a huge surprise and to this day I thank one of my now best friends Nate for giving me this opportunity. I would say that in this show is were I got hooked on acting. This was one of the hardest shows I have ever done but also one of the funnest. It took more time and effort then any I've done, but I learned so much and it was worth every second. Since August of 2007 I went from doing one show to doing I think I'm up to 18 now. And I've performed in 4 different theaters from this CSMT community theater to the Hale Theater in Orem. In various roles from a backswoods man to playing Aladdin in front of hundreds of kids every night. I've done Christmas shows, summer shows and fall shows. Now CSMT has been shut down for almost a year and while the theater itself is gone I will never forget the Grooms or what they did for me and so many others in Utah Valley. They are such an incredible family and gave so many people including myself an opportunity to go from never being on a theater stage before to performing in one of the top notch theaters in Utah. They always threw random and crazy things in front of me(being asked to join the B&B cast 3 weeks into the run of the show) but as I look back on it, it was all for my well being as a performer. Ive had some of the craziest moment in my life in theater and some of those memories I will take with me for the rest of my life. Thank you Gavin and Sharaliyn for everything you taught me and for all the wonderfull times you gave me. I'm donig a show right now and while its not one of my favorite shows I've really enjoyed playing the villian. I will be trying out for a show in a few weeks and I'm pretty stoked to see how it goes. Theater is now a part of my life and I look forward to every moment and every role I get. I've made some life long friends and I've been told I've changed the lifes of so many people.....I hope anyone that comes and sees one of my shows enjoys a great experience and will have a different look on theater life.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
One Step Closer To Working at Sea World
Another post from the past lol. Well this one I've wanted to write down for a while so just deal with it!
Last Feburary, Me and my current girl friend at the time had talked about getting married sometime later in the year. We were both extremely happy and had starting going out and looking at rings. She gave me an idea of what she wanted and I had started looking on my own to find the perfect ring. She was thinking of going to China for the summer and I had planned to propose after she got back, Or if she didnt get into the program I would propose during the summer and we would get married during the summer sometime.
Well the week of Valentines Day she called me up and wanted to talk, so we get together go out and get some lunch, but it just felt really weird like something was wrong and this was normal. She mentioned taking a drive up the canyon so we did and when we got to the lake we kinda just sat there for a few moments before anyone said anything..so I broke the ice and was like whats wrong? She then proceeded to tell me that she thinks she was never really in love with me and wanted to break up...kinda heart breaking to have the girl you love and want to be with tell you that....The ride home was definatly a long one.
Well I was taking it pretty hard for a few days that one day I finally decided I needed to get away from Utah for a few days. So I called up some friends and asked if they wanted to take a road trip. We got 5 of us together and decided to go to Cali, and Of course go to Disneyland. We set everything up and it all kinda just fell into place. It was really nice. We left about 2 weeks after. The trip down was way fun and hilarious..We finally got to Cali about 9 hours later super tired and excited. Got to our hotel which was about 5 minutes away from Disneyland. We enjoyed three days at Disneyland(it had been about 5 years since Ive been back to my home town. On the 4th day, I didnt really want to go to Disneyland again, and I wanted some time to myself to think about my ex and where i wanted my life to go next. So I got in my car and drove to San Diego to one of my favorite places in the world. Sea World! I love that place. I could easily spend days on end there. Kinda one of the reasons I wanna work there thats for sure. I feel at home at that place, I dont know why but I really do. And it was nice just be by myself and think about a few things, clear my head of the ex and just be in a fun place. I had tried years before to get into the dolphin program there and was unable to due to the fact that during the summer they are booked solid for months, but this was march so why not give it another shot right? So I walked into the office area where you sign up for the class, hoping I could get a spot. Well they had set up a new program about 4 years earlier that was called Wild Artic encounter. I gave it a looksy and decided that was the one I wanted to do.
I didnt have to be there till around 4 and it was only 1 so I walked around the park some more saw some shows and just kinda chilled. The time eventually came and it was amazing! They took us behind the scenes of the whole Antartica and Wild Artic exhibits and we got to see lots of critters. We stopped at the Walrus exhibit first and got to feed them and play with them for a bit, then we went back to were they keep the Polar Bears and watch one of the trainers feed the male and then the female. WOW! I knew they were big but seeing them from about 2 feet away was just incredible..I still really wanna ride one. Then we met some seals and then went to put on the gear to kinda keep us warm in the 50 degree water. We jumped into the pen with the whales and dang it was cold...im sure some body parts disapered for a bit during this time....The whales came over and it was such a cool experience to be able to interact with the whales. They taught us a lot about them and let us hold and swim with them(if we wanted to) and we spent about 45 minutes a piece with both of the whales. They let us teach them some tricks and they spalshed us with the freezing water..Being there that day made me realize even more how much I wanna be a trainer there..The trainers there even asked me if I've thought of doing something like that because the whales seemed so comfortable with me, and thats what they look for in trainers. So I cant wait to pursue that career someday. When the time is right!
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