another quiche please? (FTL)

another thought. if you ever want a new experience while walking somewhere, try to avoid looking at your shoes. don't look at them whenever possible unless you are tippytoeing around puddles or someone's feelings. it gives you a different view of things. you can notice a lot more of your surroundings i feel. it also makes me feel better. especially when on rainy days, like today, when everyone is looking down anyway. notice your surroundings, make friendly eye contact with someone new, enjoy yourself.
vitamin water. try it.

quiche (pronounced quicky) (FTL)

so i'm gonna blog about the epic isu vs. nebraska game pretty soon. and post some epic pictures. it was an epic win. 9-7 epic. but i dont have a lot of time before i go to work so here is a thought.

coffee shop blogs are lame

mid weak (FTL)

so here i am. bloggin' at the library. it's wednesday. mid weak. not enthused cuz i'm at the library.
some positives:

• this weekend is halloween
• going to iowa city ;)
• dressing up as stepbrothers with isaac
• not stepbrothers as in are parents got married, but from the movie, Stepbrothers
• had a confusion with the girl at JC Penny
• no journalism class on friday
• this week is almost over
• i get to preview Final Destination something or other
• this week has been pretty good so far
• that's it

again i'm at the library. unenthused. so here are some vids i unenthusiastically wrassled together so you knobgobblers would stop whining. enjoy and you better be bloggin'

mid weak "festivities"










btw... i have no idea what the audio is for any of these videos, since i'm at the library i can't listen to them because i forgot my headphones. just tell me how funny they sound

reeecap (FTL)

new term FTL. it means From The Library. at least i have decided to make an effort to blog even without a computer. ya...
be bloggin'

so i wanted to blog the weekend of the isu vs. baylor game. it was really fun. but that's when the comp problems began. it was a good clean victory that the cyclones had control of the entire game. unlike most of the hawkeye wins.
i snapped this pic during the fourth quarter when the game was out of reach. they handed out towels to everyone before the game. the students began to enjoy themselves and people started tying up their towels and throwing them. it started with about a handful of towels. the funny thing is, one person would signal and then a barrage of tied towels would fly from one side of the student section to the other. it was really a cool thing to watch. people behind me started tying their towels and throwing them towards the front of the student section where it was happening. it just kept becoming a bigger and bigger towel fight. i was not about to throw my towel. i'm keepin that! they even mentioned how people were having fun at the game on the post-game-call-in-radio-show. oh ya. we also did the wave. epic
but the main thing that i wanted to blog about over a week ago now, was that right before half time i went to go get something to eat from the concessions. if you have ever been to an isu game, you might have had Cy's Fries. i couldn't find a picture of them, but they're potatoes that have been spun into big shavings. almost chip like. you get a big plate of them with nacho cheese. DELICIOUS. but it was cold out and the cheese got cold fast. only down side
as i was waiting in the really long line, BEFORE half time, (i thought there wouldn't be a line because the game was still going on, but apparently so did 42 other people) i noticed that a lot of people were cutting through the line instead of walking around. at first i didn't notice this because i was trying to peak at the game from the top of the stands, smell the delectable smell of cinnamon roasted nuts, and try to keep my spot at the same time. but when the half ended people came up to get food. and to me, it seemed like %80 of the people walked right in front of me. i mean like right in front. they needed to get through and instead of going around they decided to play cutsies. for some strange reason, i was the person to cut in front of. it started to make me mad! some people said excuse me as they walked by and some didn't. but everyone thought that i would be the best person to walk in front of. i have no idea why. maybe i was wearing a cut me off sign that i wasn't aware of. maybe i looked the cutest, ya that's it. or maybe i seemed like the person to care the least about it. when in fact i did care about it. i was standing the same distance from the person in front of me as everyone else was. i even took a step closer to try and prevent any more cutters. nope didn't work. that was all i could think about while waiting for my Cy's Fries. needless to say, i was peeved. then when i sat down the marching band was dancing to beyonce's song Single Ladies. yes dancing. it was awesome. and they did Jump On It! gotta give it up to the ISUCF"V"MB. the BEST marching band in the state of Iowa!
also the other night i watched Zombie Strippers with my roommate on Spike. it had Jenna Jameson in it. i know right? pass on that movie...

Emergency Blog!

yes. i have been pulling an isaac strohman. i have not blogged for a while. but, unlike the other schmucks, sorry but you've been schmucks, i have a valid reason. i don't have a computer. yeah its crazy. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITHOUT MY COMPUTER? very sassy.

to prove to you fools that i am not making this up so i don't have to blog. here is a pic of my EMPTY computer desk.

my comp used to sit there. yes that is a small tower of raspberry iced tea. and a calculator.

now i have to resort in bloggin' at the library. just so you don't try to fight me on this one too...

no i don't know her.

ok well i have sooo much to blog about. i've been gone a long time. i've been itching to blog but i haven't been able to. it is hard not having a computer. especially when everyone is so addicted to technology these days. i can't even get onto facebook that often. speaking of which. last week facebook deleted all of my friends. it was a stressful week too and having 0 friends did not help.

i have been going to my parents house lately to use the ssssllloooowww internet to check email and such. and yes, i did start bloggin' this summer at home. but i found my niche bloggin' in my apartment on my computer. i feel comfortable there. the computer lab at the library is a scary environment. i think i will be returning to the library to blog until my computer problems are fixed. yet to be determined.

oh! and another thing. yes i haven't been bloggin' i have been reminded several times. well ya know what? YOU haven't been bloggin' either! and YOU don't have an excuse. you are using my excuse to not blog yourselves. ya know even though i may not be bloggin' while i'm on the computer, i'm checking them out. and i think you two know who i am talking about. so be bloggin' you schmucks.

cmptr prblms

sry. rte nw im hvng sme cmptr trubl. ths is y i hve 2 b crfl wth my lttrs. i mnt 2 blg on fri. i mnt 2 blg ths wknd. sry. i wll blg as sn as i cn. i hpe u cn ndrstnd ths. mr blgs 2 cme. i wll pst sme vds 2 mk it up 2 u. ltr

how is that not funny?

YKWRGMG?
i hate it when i try to show someone a video on youtube, that i think is hilarious, and no one laughs. i frequent youtube, often. i watch a lot of videos. not as much as some, but i watch more than others. so i see a variety of videos. i am always open to people showing a video that they enjoy. i like being introduced to a new video. that is the basis of a viral video. someone finds it, shows their friends, and it gets passed on. i like being shown new videos.but there is nothing more peeving than showing a good video and it doesn't get appreciated. i see a lot and i like to share them with people. now, i do have a different type of humor. there are some people that i know, who i think our humor just clicks together. like my old manager rachel. we could go back and forth with each other all shift. i miss that.
people say that i am a "funny" guy and sure people laugh. but i know what other people find funny and i don't necessarily find it that funny. i can be watching a comedian, and acknowledge the joke as being funny, but i might not think it's that funny. i usually don't laugh out loud while i'm watching something. seeing something live is waay different though.
there are certain things that i find legitimately funny and things that are funny when you're with your friends. i laugh at things my friends don't and only laugh with them at stuff they like when i don't think its funny. it may not be funny to me, but i enjoy having a good time. get it?
too much ranting about something being funny/not funny.
here is an example of something i find funny, but you may not. i've gotten poor feedback from this.

i think that this is funny. but i do have a different type of humor.

idk you may like this one.
the point is i might be in the middle of a youtube sharing circle. i'll be like Oh! I know the next one. then i'll explain it and get laughs. then we watch it... and people are like heh. sweet now i lookalika fool for hypin' up an unfunny vid. and don't say i explained it better cuz that's bushleague.
i realize people like different things but i just hate the feeling after sharing a video that you enjoy and it is not well received by your peers. it's like you are opening your soul to them, and they would rather laugh at a montage of kids getting hit in the face with big balls.

mid weak

ok so this is really mid WEAK. i have never felt so reluctant to blog before. i mean it's wednesday! half way done! hump day for cryin' out loud! i just don't feel like bloggin' i feel bad for not totally being "into" this post. (shakes head)
so this week i took a journalism test. got a 92. nbd.
that's pretty much the highlight. i worked out for the first time in like a year. i'm really sore. it was hard holding the phone up to my ear. then i gave plasma today. now i'm sorer. woah is that a word? i had to wait five minutes at biolife because my body temperature was too low. it was like 95 something. i guess i'm cold. i guess that MIMS song doesn't apply to me.
uhh... i'm gonna preview sorority row tomorrow. it looks bad, but i'm bringing my iowa state snuggie. cuz it's so frickin cold at the theater! wow if i had two pennies for every person who came to the snackbar this weekend to complain or ask to turn off the air conditioning i'd probably have a handful of pennies. then i could put them in my pocket and use those off road credits.
this is actually the first picture i took with my phone. they're aren't actually any credits but i was testing my phone while i was loitering at the theater (go figure) because i wanted to show everyone. i just realized i had a picture of off road challenge on my phone. boost.
so this week is isu homecoming and i really could care less. it's nothing like in high school. i miss that so much. but comparing high school festivities to college deserves a completely different blog. any way home game vs. baylor on saturday.
sorry for the lack of enthusiasm. i'm so confused why i feel like this. so i will resort to some entertainment. random videos. hopefully next week will be full of excitement and great things. can't promise anything.
time wasters:can't go wrong with cute animals!

uhh...
this is tilt shift photography. when you speed things up, real life images look miniature. i love disneyworld
last one. i strive to be this guy. IT POPS! VISORS!!!

Call Me! oh wait, i don't know your number

matt referenced me bloggin' about phone numbers earlier. well actually i didn't, we just talked about it. so here i go.
remember those days where everyone lived at home with their parents and had home phone numbers? the days of sneaking out of the house during a sleep over to light fireworks and riding bikes to the mall. good frickin times. but you also remember your friends home phone number. you knew how you could reach them. or you could leave a message with their mom.
nowadays we all got cell phones. and when you meet someone new and get their number, you put it in your phone. you don't have to memorize it. and now if someone asks you what that number is, you have to look in your contacts because you don't know it. remember the days where people actually used their brains to remember things? now you can write anything down to remind you. but this is mostly about phone numbers but this subject could go on and on.
we are so dependent on technology that we don't use our brains as much anymore. its weird. idk if you've ever seen the movie Idiocracy but think about it.
i used to know all of my friends home phone numbers. i still do remember some. but how many of your friends phone numbers do you know? so you know your home number, maybe your parent's cell phones, maybe a few of your friends, or at least people with really easy numbers. the fact is that the cell phone numbers you use most often, you don't remember. they are in your phone and scrolling through your contacts is as much work as you should do to know the number. it's kinda sad.
i know like 7 cell numbers that i use today. i'm ashamed.

Picture Day!

today is picture day! just some pics i would like to share. some relating to things that have happened. enjoy


this is for isaac. he never got to seem em. becky made these on her last day at work. they are cupcake front row joes. the cinemark theater's mascot. pretty frickin awesome and delicious. i miss becky.

this is an advertisement i made at the theater. i was told i could promote a candy of the month. of course i chose goobers. i'm pretty proud. yes that is chalk. sadly hours after setting it up some out of control kid smeared his greasy chubby fingers though it. the posters to choose from are post grad, ice age 3, aliens in the attic, and lastly post grad.

yet another theater related picture. the hangover. awesome movie. in my living room. awesome living room. as you can see, it is larger than the futon. for those who don't frequent the apartment this is for you

uh ya. that IS an iowa state snuggie. a snuggie! and it is warm and awesome. its warmsome. i'm gonna wear it when i preview this thursday.

going back to the last mid weak here is the pic of my water bottle. shattered. i am so disappointed. i thought it was like nalgeny but it was crap. you can't really see it that well but the bottom "corner" has sheared off. i wouldn't have expected it to break that way. weird note, this water bottle broke on wednesday. i brought the big piece and the edge piece with me after it broke. this morning i walked the exact same path i did when iy broke. there was the lid that broke off. sitting on the sidewalk. like a broken lid would. sigh

so thanks everyone for showing up and participating in picture day. i hope we left you with some fond memories and we hope to see you next time. you will be able to pick up your developed pictures in homeroom in a few weeks along with any notifications of overdue books from the media center.

untitled blog

so i meant to text blog on friday but that just got all messed up. numbers and characters and what not. i was going to blog friday afternoon. but i had to turn in homework at two and then work at three. notta lotta time. and why would i blog on a friday night. surely i could find something better to do. for future reference if i do end up bloggin' on a friday night, i will probably be very sick or very lonely.
so to wrap things up, this weekend i worked a lot. not a negative. i opened at the theater friday saturday and sunday. this makes me tired. i might get to bed at a decent time for once. or maybe not. my body's accustomed to a lack of sleep.
its hard with a bye week for the bears. i feel empty. luckily i was working so i didn't have to focus on that. but i still thought about fantasy football. which since i haven't kept updates (shame on me) i am currently 4-0 but i lost this week. not a big deal. i don't take it too seriously. i had soo much fun working this weekend though. nothing like an epic baby story just lots of little really fun moments. i have some pics to post. not today. maybe tomorrow.
last week went by soo fast it was unbelievable. probably because i never went to bed the same day i woke up on. all the days ran together. this made a surprisingly fun/fast week. interesting.
here i am on sunday night bloggin' which i have realized is not the weekend. no i do not consider sunday to be the weekend anymore. the only difference is you have church and its basically a day off. since you have class the next day you can't stay out and have fun sunday night. i dread sundays so much because of that. sunday nights are the beginning of the week. they are not the weekend. its almost as if you got off early, that is your sunday afternoon. i mean it's fun cuz you're done and there's football but monday is school again. anyway
cards got swept lol. school's alright. test tomorrow. LAME. sunday is no longer the weekend.
i write down any ideas i have for the blog in my phone. i have enough for a weeks worth. we'll see if i get any more ideas this week.
catch phrase: you gotta do what you gotta do

mid weak (plus 36 minutes)

so i was gonna blog about some youtube videos. but i'll do that later. i'll tell you about my day. school went well. i was bored. took some notes. turned in homework. typical. OH BUT WAIT. i was carrying this really cool water bottle that i really liked. i got it for free from the ames welcoming committee thingy at the fire station on welch at the beginning of the year. i thought it was a legit water bottle but it was free...
i was walking to my morning class i had my bottle in the side pocket of my backpack. for easy access of course. i don't even remember making a dramatic movement or anything, but i heard a crash and felt water on the back of my leg. the water bottle shattered, but not shattered shattered. well it didn't actually shatter the lid broke of and this piece from the side broke, but it essentially shattered. ill post a pic of it. i was so disappointed.
side note that will segue into next story. the other day i noticed my tires were low in the front. filled them up wit air. rhetor. afterwards the low tire light in my car came on. i was like wtf. i figured i set off the sensor and it needed to be reset and would eventually turn off. this went on until today i was giving plasma. i'm in the business of saving lives. as i drove out of the parking lot i could tell one of my tires was screwy. i pulled in to the next parking lot and sure enough my tire was low. except this was my rear tire. not the ones i filled up in the front. soo the tire light was telling the truth...
i pulled into benson motors to see if they still had they're auto care station open. but they are completely closed for good. :( BEEEEENSOOOON MOOOOOTOOOORS!!!
then i decided to fill up at the conoco down the street. i had to drive slow and one person honked and pointed at my tire. i was like ya i know thanks. i turned in, pulled up to the air tank. walked around the car with the hose. to see a shredded tire. "No use fillin' that sucker up," some old guy said to me," I could tell yer low when ya pulled in, I could hear 'er." thanks jed clamppett (actually his hickness was exaggerated for the sake of the story. sorry)
anyway i had to buy some new tires. LAME

mid weak festivities: man babies

(sound of a cough)

nobody likes interrupting class. nobody likes being a distraction. but if you have to be one, you might as well wait until someone else does it first right? in class you don't want unwanted attention brought on yourself unnecessarily. i think that some people don't want to cough in class because they're making a loud noise that might bring attention to them. i've noticed while in one of my many lectures that if someone coughs, within the next 10 seconds another person will cough. it's like they are waiting for someone else to do it
oh that guy coughed. its ok for me to do it now
(cough)
it's like a person coughs and gives the go signal. a single cough is not annoying, like a sniffle. but a series of coughs are. i just think its weird. it may not even be on purpose. your body may hear a cough and just cough. i have no frickin clue. it just seems like coughs follow coughs, like ants.
i've also realized if you change one letter in cough, it can be couch. which has a completely different meaning! or another could be dough. then you take it the next step further and it becomes douch which is how justin misspells douche on the message boards for fantasy football. my mind wonders

wknd

so i realized, i never blog on the weekend. i guess i'd rather lay around or something. and then on monday or whatever i'm like, i should blog, its been awhile. and earlier today i thought to myself, im not doing anything and i don't blog on the weekends either. i should blog today. but i decided to watch football. recap. the bears beat the lions today 48-24. ya sweet. thats what i did today. football.
i wouldn't have blow-gged on saturday anyway though. i was at the isu ksu game. at arrowhead stadium. in kc. it was awesome. for the most part. i have class with grant mahoney tomorrow morning. i should pat him on the back.
so many people told me they saw me on tv which is cool. i was also on the jumbotron at arrowhead. doin the robot. holla at ya boy. i kept it real

props to isu for winning best football poster

i see you ryan helgerson

and really, the only reason i am bloggin' is because i was checking my email and happened to check out youtube. new freakout video. i'm gonna show up isaac and embed this mofo.


really the only reason i do blog is when i am online and should be doing homework. i mean people get distracted. we arent only supposed to use the internet for homework. thats why we have facebook

Shoutouts/Shout-outs?
shout out to Anne. i brought home some more hot pockets
shout out to andrew rohlf. be bloggin' case in point.
shout out to ryan helgerson. i got to see you at the game thats tight
shout out to ashley if you're reading this. i will tell you that baby story
shout out to isaac. this picture coincides with your last post.

my umbrella broke too, i just didn't throw it away. it was trbl

shout to matt, cuz i know he'll be jealous if i don't LOL!!!

and who blogs on a saturday night anyway?