The Baby

My sister-in-law is pregnant, what an amazing thing. I am going to be an uncle and I just absolutly cannot wait, I am going to spoil this baby so much, I think that it will be quit possible that it is going to be my most favorite baby yet born in my family. This Baby is bringing them back to Owensboro faster than they had originally planned. My brother is coming back and will be living just 5 miles from my house. I will be at their house probably everyday after school that I can, I will be riding horses and biking to his house from mine, its going to be awsome. I am hoping that it will be a boy because I think that it will be more fun but whatever it is will be okay.

Training

Triathlon training is still going well. My race is on June 12 and just the other day I was thinking that it was just a couple of weeks away, but then I realized that I forgot about the whole month of May. That was exciting news because now I have an extra month to get better that I didn't realize I had. I have been doing some kind of activity each day: either run, swim, bike, or a mixture of two or sometimes three of the events. I absolutly love this stuff. My brothers training is also coming along, he will be able to complete the race, he hasn't be able to train as hard as he has wanted to but he has had to work extra lately and his wife has been having pregnacy problems. I'm just glad that he is going to do it with me. I think that I will get done much sooner than he so I plan to go back out once I finish and finish the race again with him for the extra support.

Describe a Childhood birthday.

I remember as a child when I would have a birthday it would just be amazing. My mom would do so much for me that I looked forward to it so much. She would make any cake that I wanted, and my sisters birthday is really close to mine so we had the party at the same time, so we were able to kind of talk and get two of our favorite cakes. Also we were able to pick out what we wanted to eat, Mom always wanted to make us feel extra special. Our birthdays are in the December so it was always cold so it had to be inside but it was always so much fun with the entire family in the basement having a good ol' time. I never really wanted to have a party with my friends because I loved getting together with my family and having a party with them.

What was the last CD that I bought and Why?

I actually don't remember the last CD that I bought because I guess it has just been too long ago that I don't remember. When I was younger and before I bought an ipod I wasn't really into music and didn't want to waste my money on a CD that I only wanted for a song or two on it. I was young so their for I didn't have a whole lot of money. For as long as I can remember I have had an Ipod and was just downloading each song that I wanted on it directly from the computer. My Ipod has been fantastic though because it is so small: I can run with it, mow the yard with it, and do all of these things that are more handy than lugging around a larger CD player and CD's.

Spring Break

I didn't really have a spring break due to the fact that I had tecnical classes on the mornings of Monday thru Thursday and had to stay here for them, and most of the days I got out of class and went to work from 11:30 till 11:40 that night and did it over again the next day. During my college spring break about a month ago I had to come to the high school each day. I did however during the break take a couple of days off from the college and went to Murray to hang with my brother. We did some fishing and did some triathlon training as well. I did get instructer permission to miss class before I did so to ensure that I wouldn't miss anything to important. I mowed some grass as well, with all of this work I greatly regreted it at the time but when I get my pay check for it I might change my mind just a little bit.

Bro and sister-in-Law coming back

Today me and my brother and mom went to look at a house on Todd Bridge Road that he has been interested in. It sits on 2 acres of land and is an old farm house, that they will have to do a little work to, but it has potential. He is currently living in Murray Kentucky until his wife graduates from the nursing program at Murray State University. She has recently become pregnant and now is wanting to move back home, they are home sick shall we say. I can't wait until they move back and the great thing about it is that they will only be 5 miles from my house. I can either drive to his house, run, bike, or ride my horse and then lock it in his small field. It will be great.

Swim training

Today after school I went and meet up with my brother at the YMCA where we did some swim training for our triathlon. This was the first time that we were able to swim together when it comes to lap swimming. I started this kind of swimming last year when I started training for my triathlon, I didn't do much of this swim training because I didn't really have a place to swim train, but this year I have been training at the YMCA and usually go 4 plus times a week. I have really improved my technique and training this year when it comes to training, I am no where near a lot of my competition but I have improved quite a bit. Zach has just started this year when it comes to lap swim and haven't really expected to see him do as well as he has in the pool until I saw him today. He has taught himself everything that he knows at this point, he has heard be talk a little about it but never been shown what to do. Today I was able to show him a little more that would help in the future, but anyways he is doing great and I am very proud of what he is doing. Perfecting a swim stroke all comes with time and how often you swim.

Survivor Man-Bear Grills

Have you ever watched the show survivor man with Bear Grills, a British man that served in US forces (the Greenbaraa (don't exactly know how to spell it but the speacil forces.)) He goes to all of these different places in the middle of no where and finds his way back to civilization. He shows us how all of these helpful hits that can help us in different terrains. Things to do to live off of the land and how to make things that will keep us surviving in the wild. He does a lot of things that the average person would not attempt or even be able to do, but he is always sucessful. That is an inspiration to me because I want to be the best at everything and I know I am not the best but I try to be and work hard to get as far as I can. I like to do the type of things that he does and watching him will help prepare me for what I am going to face when I am in the wild. Something that every man should do.

Survivor

Survivor is a reality game television show that comes on every Thursday night at seven. It is my absolute favorite television show. There has been 21 seasons of survivor and I have not missed an episode. If I missed an episode I would either have my mom record it or watch it on the internet on You Tube. I love the game and have been watching it for eleven years which would mean I have been watching it since I was 7 or 8 years old. And ever since the first episode that I watched, it has been one of my dreams to become a survivor. People in my family have said that they wanted to sign up for the show but what makes me different from them is that I will do everything that I can to get on the show now that I am old enough. I have a type of mind set that when I want to do something I will.

American Pickers

I've been sitten here watching the show on the history channel called "American Pickers." It is just an awesome show. These two guys are traveling across America searching for old American historical junk that seems to be worth nothing but can usually make a little money off of. They go to these places that are cluttered and crowded and junk laying all over the place, buildings full and even the yard just has junk lying around making the place look bad and sometimes seems if looking is just as if it is a hopeless cause, but these two guys seem to be able to find stuff of value and end up making a few dollars over it. They will buy something and are happy even if they make a buck out of it. Some of the stuff that they buy are really interesting and I wouldn't mind having it, they pull out some really old stuff that is half in the ground half out. It would be awesome to be able to restore some of the stuff they find.

Bucket List and Kick it

5 thinks that I would like to do before I die...
-Get Married
-Have kids
-Buy a huge farm
-Become an Electrical Engineer
-Travel the World
-Find a Treasure

Training

Training is going good, but I am currently at a stand still. When a person trains they tend to improve in spurts; they will start their training and have a huge increase in ability, but that is only because they are so out of shape. Then they get to a peak or run into a cliff, figuratively speaking, and that is when they have a stand still. This is when the athelete is going to have to start to increase their training, buckle down and focus on what they want. When you get to this peak atheletes have a hard time to keep moving forward because they see no improvment and get discuraged, but this is the crushial point, and when you keep on before to long you will have another spike of improvment. Training is great and I wish that I could make more time in my day so that I could do more of it. I know people that can just keep going, they get only three to four hours sleep each night and and eight hour sleep on Saturday, yet they still going without problem. But for me I can't do this because when I try I eventually crash and can't keep going. it would be awesome if i could do this because I feel that I would be much better an athelete. I would have more hours to train and still be able to work and get things done, but this ability does come before me.

Obvious Warning Labels

Under arm deodorant: Caution, do not spray in eyes
Hammer: Misuse may lead to property damage and bodily injury
Children's Cough Medicine: Do not drive or operate machinery
Label on baby stroller: Remove child before folding
Label on hairdryer: Do not use while sleeping
Bottle of drain cleaner: Warning: If you do not understand, or cannot read, all directions, cautions and warnings, do not use this product.
Toilet Brush: Do not use for personal hygiene

Brad and Zach Tri-Training

This coming Friday is my brothers birthday and he is coming to town from Murry. My brother is awesome and I can't wait to see him this weekend. It has been a couple of weeks sense I saw him last. I started to do Triathlons last year, starting to swim a lot and run a lot and biking a lot. I bought a trek road bike last year and started to ride a lot. I did the Lake Wood Valley Triathlon last year and finished with a fairly okay time for the first one I had ever done. I loved doing this kind of stuff and just wanted to keep continuing with it and getting better. I hope to eventually do a full Iron Man someday, I hope to do a half-Iron Man this coming Summer or Fall. Anyways in me completing this it inspired my brother who had gotten well out of shape to start training, lose a bunch of weight, get into shape, and finish the Lake Wood Valley Triathlon. He has bought a trek bike as well and has started to ride it, he also has been running and swimming in a pool at Murry State University. He has been improving a lot since he started his training and I look forward to competing against him this summer and to watch him finish. He is coming in this weekend and I am going to help him train and show him some tips that may help him improve even more.

Samurai Swords

Me and my best boy Earl other wise known as my sisters boyfriend and most likely my future brother-in-law if everything goes as planned and works out accordingly, were in Gatlinburg last weekend and bought some sweet Samurai swords. We are young boys that love cool things and lets just say that Samurai swords are among the coolest things ever. I got a sweet mid-evil sword for Christmas. Anyways we were at the China Bazaar and found a deal on Samurai swords that we couldn't pass up. On the church trips no one is allowed to buy weapons but we got permission because he knows that he can trust us and have much more dangerous weapons at home. We want to learn how to sword fight because it is a sweet skill and who knows when it will come down to a battle and swords have to be drawn. We got some sweet wooden swords as well so we can learn to fight with, without killing each other, but something that will hurt so we can learn from our mistakes. This probably sounds silly to a lot of folks but awesome to us and some of our other best boys from the youth group. I love learning new skills and want to learn as many as I can in my life time.

Old Time Photo

Last weekend when we were at Gatlinburg we took our annual old time photo. I must say that it was awesome and is always lots of fun and something to laugh about later and also while were getting ready and taking our photo. The first year that they took to old time photo I was at baseball tryouts and was not able to go on the trip and was not able to participate in the photo. It was also the first year that our new youth minister was at our church and went on the trip and they did a gangster theme. The next two years we have had a incredible attendance on the trip and was mandator to take the picture and it was a western theme. I always made a great looking cowboy and everyone thought that I had been born in the wrong time period, it would have been awesome. Then this year we went to the same old time photo place in which we really didn't like the owner there cause she was stressed and not very nice. Anyways we went and stood in line and then her machine broke and had to leave and find another one, which we liked better. We decided we wanted to bring back the gangster theme beings we didn't have near the people that wanted to do it. Of course they put me in the center cause I stood out due to the fact that I took the best stuff (hat and tommy gun with my sweet suit) and I was the tallest. We stood in front of an old car with our sweet outfits and took possibly the best gangster old time photo ever.

Gatlinburg Church Trip

Last weekend me and my church youth group went to Gatlinburg for a church retreat. Leaving from church at 8:30 A.M. we started on our journey. It was a farly long trip that took approximatly 6 hours driving but about 8 hours time after we stopped for lunch and all of the times we had to stop for bathroom breaks. With all of the people in the bus you can see why we had to stop so often, bladders seem to get small when your driving. When we got to Gatlinburg we found our hotel and then imediatly headed to the convention to get some worship time in. The convention was over at about ten o'clock their time and we headed to the room to do a devotion and have some fun. The next morning we got up early to hit the convention again and by noon we had a break til 6 o'clock to do whatever we wanted. Taking our yearly old time photo and then just roamed the streets buying and having great fun. Me and Earl bought a couple of Samarii swords each (a longer and a shorter one.) Anyways we went back to the convention for a couple of hours and then went to eat Bubba Gumps Shrimp. I then bought a new STALLION shirt. Then next morning we went to the convention for church and headed home.

What is silly?

I think that many things are silly, things that make me happy, and things that make things go by quickly and with a lot of fun. It may seem that I'm not a very outgoing person but when I am with people that I know well of people that I have a good time being with I can get very silly. This often happens when I am with my family, friends, or with my church youth group. Movies that I think are silly is Napolean Dinamite, Joe dirt, Nacho Libre, and Christmas Vacation. I love watching these movies becasue they are hillarious and I get a many of my quotes that I like to say all the time from these movies. Silly times are when you are with your family for a get-together and just spending that time together is when many things that are silly come out. When your are a young kid a lot of the times we get embarassed becasue we think that they are laughing at us and that they are making fun of us when really it is just good fun. But when we get older we realize that it is just all good fun and they are usually laughing with us, not at us. And those are the times that we come to realize are the times that we remember the most, because they have such an impact in our life.

Last Weekend of Duck Killin'

Well well well, the season has finally become to an end and the looking forward to the next season has begun. This weekend I went to Murray to go hunting with my brother for the last weekend to hunt. My dad and a few others were planning to come along as well but with the ice and the snow they decided that it may not be the best idea. One day we went out there and only killed one duck all day long and after I had been sitting there I was picking up decoys and a buffle-head landed within 20 feet of me and I didn't even have my gun on me. The next day we decided to go a little later when the sun was already up beings it would be safer with all of the snow. It was a good thing cause when we got there the next morn, we would have been able to get the boat in but not back out due to the fact that the ramp was too icy. Anyways we took the boat back to my brothers house and then drove back down to the lake and found a place off the shore that we would have been able to hunt. Hunted until dark and we ended up killing 6 ducks, and when it was time to start picking everything back up another buffle-head came in and landed beside me, just like the day before. So this weekend I learned a valuable lesson that I will never not have my gun on me when I picking up. Now time that duck season is over hard core triathlon training has begun.

Snow Day

Last Tuesday or Yesterday was a snow day that I very much enjoyed. I woke at 7:00 A.M. with my mother telling me that I could stay in bed a little longer due to that fact that School had been canceled. I have Tech College in the morning at the OCTC main campus but earlier that morning when my father went to work he called and said that the roads were really icy and that he and my mother agreed that it wasn't safe for me to be driving on the roads expecially with the driving record that I have. I have fallen asleep at the wheel, resulting in a minor reck; I have recieved a speeding ticket for 22mph over; and also I have spun out of control on a black ice spot on the road. All of these resulting in pricy expenses, I didn't want another experience like this. Next time it could be my entire vehicle or worse my life, not necessarily for my sake, but the sake of my family. Anyways I called my tech teacher to tell him that I wouldn't be making it to school and he completely understood and agreed. Me and my mom hund out all day watching a movie, playing a game and making lunch together. We just had a good time until it was time for me to go to work at 3:15. Then I work the rest of the night until it was time to come home at 10:00.

Ugly Words

There are words out there that are just plan out ugly. You speak of them and they don’t sound like they could possibly have anything good about them, and usually most of the time that stands true. Are these words really ugly or are they to us just because we associate them with something that disgust us and makes us think of the nastiness of them. Some words that I think sound ugly would be the word “ugly” it just makes you think of a foul picture. Other word that is ugly to me is the words “vomit, puke, phlegm, slaughter, snot, damp, moist, and mucus.” These words stand out as ugly to me because vomit and puke is just chunks of acid and old food. Phlegm is the nasty yellow slim you cough out of your mouth and snot the same out of the nose. Damp and moist makes you think of misery and from when your hands are all pruned up. Slaughter makes you think of blood and gore. Mucus is just who knows what, that nasty yellow stuff. These are just a few of all of the nasty, ugly words that are in our language, but as you may have noticed they all represent things that are nast to us as humans.

Dog Advice

—If a dog could give advice what would it be?
I think that if a dog could give advice to us I think that they would tell us to grow some fur in the winter because it really helps to keep them warm and for all of the hunters out there it would really come in handy beings they (the dogs) can jump into the water in the dead of winter and swim for fun. They would also say that the fur is really awful in the summer when the sun is out and they are getting roasted. I think that a dogs advice would also be to become a house dog and mind your owner so that you can stay in cause the flees are horrible. The dog would say that be good to your owner no matter what he does because he is the one that takes care of you, unless he abuses you then use the teeth that you were given and take his hand off. Man is dog’s best friend and no matter what you do to that dog, it will still love you. Dogs can love many different people, but they have one owner and will take to that one no matter what.

Bad Ideas

There are many things out there that many people attempt to do that should probably be kept out of; these are usually bad ideas no matter how they turn out, they could turn for the good and just be plan awesome (which is how they usually turn out for me) or they could and most likely end up hurting yourself or someone else. A lot of people would say that running 10 miles and biking 20 miles the first day back from training after a couple of months would be a bad idea (but I guess I am just really dedicated.) Also biking in the rain is said to be a bad idea, it’s suppose to be safer to run on ice than bike in the rain, (which I almost did but ran out of daylight.) Jumping off a 50 foot cliff into Kentucky Lake could also a bad idea (thankfully I made a good jump.) Waxing your upper lip or anything for that matter is probably a bad idea. (not that that is something that I have done.) A few bad ideas that I found while working the google on the Internet machine would include: a glass hammer, a concrete parachute, a three-way mirror, un-bounce ping-pong balls, helium filled space-hopper, clap activated stereo, helicopter ejector seat, and also a flameproof firelighter.

Duck Hunt Gone All Right

Last Thursday my dad went down to Murray to hunt with my brother. It was super cold and from the last couple of weeks when the temperature had gotten down below zero, and snowed. Anyways they went hunting on Kentucky Lake were rarely does any of it freeze over. The water was a lot lower than usual and so in the shallows the lake had frozen over. Kentucky Lake is really not all that deep like many think, except in the barge channel it is about 80 feet deep. The lake was about half frozen over and was thick enough to walk on. They saw a ton of ducks and geese and ended up killing 13 ducks and 1 goose. This day couldn't have gotten much better for them unless me and Earl was there and was able to kill a bigger limit. They limited out on ducks and also got an extra bonus-a goose. The limits per person is everyone can kill 6 ducks, 2 Canadian geese, plus Mergansers, Speckled Bellies, and Snows. The ducks is our main quota and they reached it that day.

Duck Hunt Gone All Wrong

--After the great day that my dad and brother just had, we had extreme warm temperatures for this time of year and all of that ice had melted by the time me and Earl had gotten there on Friday night. The three of us went hunting the following Saturday. Getting up at 4 A.M. to get out in the lake and set up before daylight. About 20 minutes before shooting time the fog rolled in and were couldn’t see anything until it was just about too late. The fog was so thick that it didn’t burn off until 10:30 A.M. Then finally it started to warm up a little due to the fact that the sun was beaming down on us. According to the weather man we were suppose to have 5 to 10 mph winds that would have been perfect, to keep the water moving and the ducks in the air. But from the last couple day of warmth the ice had melted everywhere and allowing the ducks to spread out on to ponds and other lakes. We didn’t see hardly anything and only shot at a couple of coots that as I’m concerned the nasty black birds of the duck world. This was a day that we were going to put our numbers over a hundred.

Snow board-ski trip

Last Friday Night through Saturday morning I was suppose to go snow skiing and snow boarding with my church youth group, but my youth Minister cam up sick and the trip was canceled causing us to not to get to go. I look forward to this trip every year because it is so great and fun, also I like to go during the night when the moon is out when there are not as many people and the sun is not glaring off the snow into your eye's. The ski resort that we go to is Paoli Peaks in Indiana. It has real snow when it actually snows, but during the times that it is not snowing there, they have snow machines that take water from the creek below and make it into snow. The trip has been rescheduled for this coming Saturday during the day, but I am planning to go duck hunting because the season goes out at the end of the month. So probably next month in Febuary me, Zach, Earl, Hayward, and Brittany are going to go one night so that I will still be able to get to go. I will probably enjoy this more anyways because it will be with people that are closer to me in my life.

Possibilities

-"The Old Year has gone. Let us dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!"--Edward Payson Powell
--The Possibilities of the coming twelve month is that I will be a High School graduate and most excited at that. Also I plan on killing several more ducks before the season goes out. I plan to go snow boarding and skiing this coming Friday night and Saturday morning at Paoli Peaks, an all night ski trip with my church youth group. I will continue working at the Malco theaters for probably a few more months and then hope to move on to a better place of employment that will pay more than just minimum wage. I hope to get on with an electrical contractor to help with continued education in college. By the end of this coming school year I hope to have a year of college content behind my belt and hope to get ahead in my studies as an electrical engineer. I will train and compete in a triathlon, in which I will also help my brother to also train. Zach, Earl, and me plan to go on a 120 mile hiking trip throughtout Land Between the Lakes, with only the things that we can carry on our backs. I will go on several camping trips this year as well as a summer trip to Colorado or Wyoming with my family. I will start my fall semester in college. That is about as far in advance as I currently know.

Time For New Beginings............

--This is a time for reflection as well as celebration. As you look back on the past year and all that has taken place in your life.
For me the year of 2009 has been a great one at that and one that has gone by very very quickly. It seems that as any year it has its ups a downs. The major event that started the year off was the ice storm that was horrific and made a lot of extra work for me, but I made some extra money off it. Went to my Junior Prom. Also I train heavily for a triathlon and competed in that triathlon. I finished my Junior year in June. Went to Perdido Keys, FL for vacation with my family. 2009 was the year for my first official girlfriend. Went camping several times with my family. Started my Senior year off with a bang, riding my bike to school with my stallion clothes on and a brown suit coat. Also I have done a lot of fishing and hunting as I do every year. I have turned eighteen which makes me legally allowed to buy guns, ammunition, and paintball attire. I have completed a little more of college credit that will count toward my degree in Engineering. I can only think of great experiences, if there was any bad, which I'm sure there was, I must have blocked them out for now.