Just Chillin'
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Ever get sick of a song?
Apparently I don't. Looking at my iPhone and it says I have listened to My Immortal by Evanescence 3,094 times.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Basketball Updates
There hasn't been any basketball updates for a few weeks due to an ankle injury. I haven't been able to do much and it's really starting to bother me. Especially with the NBA playoffs happening right now. I watch the games and I want to play the game but the ankle is too weak to even stand on for more than a few minutes.
Today was the day I was talking about before. My new team played Jason's. All I could do is sit in the stands and watch. My team killed Jason's but it was hard to watch. I want to be better so badly that it's really been a struggle to not try to rush back into playing. Though I did go out and take a few one-legged shots and I still got it.
Without being able to stand on my ankle for long I haven't been able to go to work and I've got to be honest, my house is BORING. I can't stand to sit around so much. I know I need to to get better but still, it sucks.
Today was the day I was talking about before. My new team played Jason's. All I could do is sit in the stands and watch. My team killed Jason's but it was hard to watch. I want to be better so badly that it's really been a struggle to not try to rush back into playing. Though I did go out and take a few one-legged shots and I still got it.
Without being able to stand on my ankle for long I haven't been able to go to work and I've got to be honest, my house is BORING. I can't stand to sit around so much. I know I need to to get better but still, it sucks.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
New Basketball Team
Since I graduated from high school I have always played with pretty much the same group of guys. In those years we have won about a dozen championships and I have always enjoyed playing with my oldest and best friends. Times are changing however. I have moved on to a completely new team and my best friend has moved onto another. Jason and I were always the ones that put the team together and unfortunately we always ended up paying for most of the cost. We both got sick of it and so we have moved on. Jason was asked to join a team and I was asked to join a different one. So after playing together for ten years, now we are going to compete against each other. I find it exciting.
Out two teams played there first games tonight and Jason's team won by two points. My team on the other hand destroyed our competition by thirty points. It was a lot of fun. I scored 20 points and had 5 or 6 assists. We play the team that Jason beat next week so I can use that as a measuring stick to see how we compare. I can't wait until our teams meet.
Out two teams played there first games tonight and Jason's team won by two points. My team on the other hand destroyed our competition by thirty points. It was a lot of fun. I scored 20 points and had 5 or 6 assists. We play the team that Jason beat next week so I can use that as a measuring stick to see how we compare. I can't wait until our teams meet.
Screw Up
Lately I feel like my life has been in cruise control. I've just been living with nothing really to strive for. The problem with this is, when you don't have any thing as a goal that you can see you can wander. You run into speed bumps that normally you avoid with ease.
I am in no way perfect and I realize this, but lately stuff that I used to take tremendous pride in being able to do or things I've been able to avoid have been running into me.
One of the things I have fallen short on is my church attendance. I've never been the person who was all excited to go to church meetings to sit and listen, especially when church begins at 9 A.M. I know they are important and I always feel better when I go, but I have let other things take priority when they shouldn't. It's lucky that our ward had a basketball team or I would have to say that I wouldn't know more than two people in the ward.
Another thing is my language. I have worked construction and played sports for long enough that some words have become so ingrained in my language that they would just come out in normal conversation. Playing online video games with my friends didn't help. There have been a few times in my life that after an extreme bout of potty mouth that I look back and feel embarrassed at the things I said.
The good thing is these are things I know that can be fixed. Kristin deserves a husband that is willing to wake up and go to church with her. I know that going will make me the person I want to be. She also deserves a husband that knows when things might be getting out of hand and it's time to step back and calm down before his mouth makes him look like an idiot.
I am in no way perfect and I realize this, but lately stuff that I used to take tremendous pride in being able to do or things I've been able to avoid have been running into me.
One of the things I have fallen short on is my church attendance. I've never been the person who was all excited to go to church meetings to sit and listen, especially when church begins at 9 A.M. I know they are important and I always feel better when I go, but I have let other things take priority when they shouldn't. It's lucky that our ward had a basketball team or I would have to say that I wouldn't know more than two people in the ward.
Another thing is my language. I have worked construction and played sports for long enough that some words have become so ingrained in my language that they would just come out in normal conversation. Playing online video games with my friends didn't help. There have been a few times in my life that after an extreme bout of potty mouth that I look back and feel embarrassed at the things I said.
The good thing is these are things I know that can be fixed. Kristin deserves a husband that is willing to wake up and go to church with her. I know that going will make me the person I want to be. She also deserves a husband that knows when things might be getting out of hand and it's time to step back and calm down before his mouth makes him look like an idiot.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Basketball Mentality
If I could change one thing about myself it would be the ability to apply my basketball mentality to everything I do.
Let me explain. I have never in my life entered into a basketball game with the thought that I was going to lose. That isn't to say that I never lose or that I am so arrogant that I don't think I can be beaten. It's just that even if I know the other team is better it just means that we have to work that much harder to win.
Now, if I could just get myself to apply that to all of my classes. When I sign up for classes before every semester I see new unexplored territory and I always doubt that I have the required knowledge to get the A in the class that I want. Even though I doubt myself going in I always do well, I just wish I could have that positive outlook from the beginning.
Let me explain. I have never in my life entered into a basketball game with the thought that I was going to lose. That isn't to say that I never lose or that I am so arrogant that I don't think I can be beaten. It's just that even if I know the other team is better it just means that we have to work that much harder to win.
Now, if I could just get myself to apply that to all of my classes. When I sign up for classes before every semester I see new unexplored territory and I always doubt that I have the required knowledge to get the A in the class that I want. Even though I doubt myself going in I always do well, I just wish I could have that positive outlook from the beginning.
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