Almost Summer!

Well everyone, I hope you all had a good week, because I did; it was good and busy. So my parents came down on Friday afternoon so they could go to the big auction in the HPER. I let my parents sleep in my queen bed because there’s no way they could sleep in my full size bed. Before they got here, I changed the sheets and pulled the bed out away from the wall so they both can get to their sides easier. I had to work the auction on Friday night; most of the football team was signed up to work. The jobs varied from parking cars, waiting on tables, showing auction items to running the games in the back of the gym. I heard we made somewhere around a hundred thousand dollars. I was tipped very well on Friday night and made seventy dollars from my table. Then on Saturday was the Green/White game. It is is our big scrimmage of the spring and is the last time we all will be together before the beginning of next season. I couldn’t play in the scrimmage, because my ankle isn’t full recovered yet, but I’m sure making great progress with it and still rehabbing it everyday. My boss for my internship called me on Friday and was checking in on how things were going, and we talked a little more on what I will be doing this summer and that they are getting ready for me. I will be starting on Monday, May 11th and have to head out to a conference on my very first day, so I’m excited to start right away and to do many different things during my internship. Today, I went to the Library to study for my accounting test tomorrow at 8 in the morning, so I have to do a little more studying then I’m off to bed. I hope you all have a great week, and if you’re a student here at Tech, you all better start thinking about finals, because this is our last week before them which puts us around twelve days until school’s out for summer!

Mobile Once a Again!!!

Hello to all my loyal blog readers! Well great news everyone: I got my cast cut off today, and I’m not going to lie, it’s amazing not to feel restricted. I was not even put into a walking boot. The doctor told me just to rehab my ankle and knee. When the doctor cut my cast off, I walked right after and still had a gimp to my step, but after a while it went away. I can drive again, and Mav and I will be doing rehab until I’m back and good to go. He said that we aren’t going to rush anything and are just going to take it slow. So I have been doing the ABC’s, which is outlining the letters of the alphabet with your foot. Well my parents came down today and brought me the hunting truck. My dad picked me up from practice and we came back here while my mom brought us dinner from the Bonanza Freeze. Then after we ate, I brought them over to the house that I’m thinking about moving into after this year. My parents will be coming back on Friday for the Digger Auction and the Green/White game. Event though I’m not playing, they still want to see how the team is looking. My aunt and uncle are going to the Digger Auction with my parents like they did last year; they all had a really fun time. So this is the last week of spring football, and it has gone really fast. I only got to practice for about half of spring this year, which really sucks, but when you get hurt your focus is really all about the fall. Well everyone, if you aren’t keeping track, just keep reading my blog and I’ll be updating you on how many days are left in the semester. There are only eighteen days left until summer will officially begin, and those eighteen days are not just school days so we don’t have much longer. Well everyone have a great week!!!!

Out For Spring Football!

Well everyone, my right leg is all casted up after I hurt my right knee and ankle last Tuesday during football practice. We were doing a drill called runway, and I took a step and my foot got stuck in the mushy ground and my knee popped then my ankle popped as well. I was a hooting and hollering when I hit the ground but luckily I didn’t do anything to my ACL. So on Thursday afternoon I went to our team’s orthopedic surgeon, and we decided to cast my right leg until next Monday, April 20, 2009. So everyone, if you haven’t ever tried to walk with crutches before, they suck so badly. Your triceps get sore really fast, and it takes you so long to get around everywhere. And the crutches aren’t the half of it. Since I have a cast on my foot now, the parents decided to take my truck away for this week until I get my walking cast on next Monday. They took it away so I didn’t have any urges to try and drive. It really stinks not being able to drive, since my life is so hectic. My parents came down for my appointment on Thursday, so my dad drove me and my truck home. We didn’t have school on Friday; they were calling it a mini spring break. Friday, my parents and I went fishing, which was really hard since I always help my dad out with the boat and everything. It was hard to just sit there and have him do everything. We didn’t catch anything but really didn’t try to fish that hard. I dropped a pole in the lake a couple weeks earlier, and we tried to snag it for at least two hours. On Saturday night, my dad talked to one of his old friends who scuba dives, so my dad is going to have him dive down and get our pole. On Saturday, I went to Bozeman with Abby and her parents so we could have Easter with her family. Her two little twin nieces had a blast at the Easter egg hunt, and then we went to the mall and saw the Easter Bunny. After the mall we had a barbeque at her brother’s house and came back around seven that night. Sunday we had dinner at my house. We cooked fajitas and nachos, and Abby, Vance, Autumn and Brad all came over so we had a really nice dinner. Abby drove me home last night and stayed the night. We really didn’t do anything but watch a little TV and go to bed. She went home this morning after she dropped me off at the HPER so I could try to lift, which didn’t work out. You don’t really realize how much you push off your foot when you do upper body lifting.

Aunt Nut Has Arrived!

Well hello everyone! I hope this snow isn’t bringing your spirits down. We really need it so this summer our lakes will be full and we won’t have as many wildfires. Well I have great news everyone: my aunt from Twin Falls, Idaho came Thursday afternoon with her friend. That night we went down to Matt’s Diner, and my aunt absolutely loved the homemade fries, milkshakes and burgers. She was telling me that it has been years since she has had a milkshake like this one; the ones from McDonald’s and those fast food restaurants aren’t even in the same league. Then my mother came down Friday afternoon, and we went to Herbergers and went shopping for some new work shirts. Since my mother came down on Tuesday, we went through all my clothes to find out that pretty much all my darn clothes don’t fit at all. So at Herberger’s we bought two new polo shirts for work this summer. After shopping I took them both to the Hanging Five, which they both just really loved. I keep telling my aunt she’s going to get back from vacation and have gained 50 pounds. All we have been doing is eating LOL. Well Saturday was our first day of spring football. Practice went fairly well except during our last team session we struggled through for some reason. Then on Sunday, since it snowed so much, we had our meetings and then watched film for about an hour. On Saturday afternoon, Ms. Abigail made a pit stop here in Butte on her way home to Helena for spring break. We went to dinner that night with Sully, Asheypoo and her friend at the Montana Club. Abby and I slept until ten in the morning, which felt so good. Abby went home around noon, and she said the roads were absolutely terrible. She couldn’t see the whole way home and drove around 15 mph the whole way. Then last night Sully, Wacy and I gamed for a couple of hours on our Dynasties. Today we had a full padded practice in the gym; we ran through our offensive plays then had a thud period against our defense. My mom brought my aunt back today since she’s starting to cut hair again, so if any of you loyal blog readers live in Helena, lose your old hairdresser. I promise you that my mom is the absolute best. Call her at 442-0655. I promise she’s legit. My aunt and I went to Chef’s Garden tonight for dinner. We just finished up watching Two and a Half Men and she’s going off to bed.
My aunt’s staying with me until Wednesday, so tomorrow we are going to the book store and then going to lunch down to Joe’s Pasty’s. After lunch, my aunt will be going to Micro Econ with me since she loves those kinds of subjects. Well everyone Have a great week, and enjoy the snow while it lasts.

Spring Break!!!!

Well everyone today was very hard to get back into my life back here in Butte. Going to Helena is always a lot different than here in Butte for me. My sleep pattern changes, and day to day operations all change. Spring Break is exactly what I needed. I was getting pretty run down from football workouts and school, but having that week off sure makes me want summer to come ASAP. Well over break I did tons of fishing. We put our boat in the water for the first time this year last week, and it was purring like a Cadillac. Before we put the boat in, we took a couple of days to do some routine maintenance on it and also installed the new fish finder that we bought dad for his birthday. This fish finder has about a thousand different options that my dad and I didn’t even begin to scratch. The first day we went fishing was on Wednesday, and we caught seventeen trout and released fifteen of them. The two I kept I gave to Ms. Abigail’s mom. Now these fish averaged around five pounds and twenty four inches. I joke you not everyone. All these fish were big, healthy fish. Thursday we caught seven trout averaging the same, and Friday we caught ten trout, and guess what? They averaged the same length and weight as the first two days. Then on Saturday, Abby’s dad and I welded me a sweet setup for my clay pigeon thrower. We welded a piece of pipe horizontally to my receiver hitch and then welded another piece of pipe vertically to that and welded my thrower to the top of the vertical pipe. We based our project on a model we found on the Internet, we didn't do exactly what it shows but pretty close. So now I can sit in the back of my truck and shoot clays. Ms. Abigail and I didn’t have the same break together so she came to Helena this past weekend and then came to Butte last night and we made tomato soup and grilled cheese. This weekend we hung out at her house on Friday night, and then on Saturday night we went over to my sister’s house and played Wii. Vance and I ended up play Tiger Woods golf. So on Wednesday my parents and I went to wing Wednesday at the Overland, and the service was terrible and the food was even worse. We have been there three times now when our waitress was drunk and the food was terrible. On our way out I grabbed a March Madness bracket to fill, out and I have all my final four teams left plus lots more. I think I might have a shot. Well everyone I hope the weather doesn’t bring you down the next few days. Have a great week!

Another Busy Weekend!

I knew that it had to snow sooner or later. Here in Butte four inches was dropped on us, and in Helena it was snowing when I left earlier today. This weekend was so much fun but very busy. Like I said, Abby, Vance, my sister and Vance’s friend came down to play in Mulletfest. They stayed Friday and Saturday night, and then Abby went back to Missoula early this morning because she had to work. The rest of us went to Helena to move Autumn and Vance into their new apartment. So back to this weekend. Friday night Abby and I went to Mackenzie Rive Pizza with Sully and Ashton; it was really packed. After Abby and I went home, we met up with my sister and Vance and hung out at my house. Then the girls went to bed and Vance, his friend and I stayed up and played cribbage. We had to wake up early for our warm-up softball game, which was at eight in the morning, so us guys didn’t catch much sleep. We won our warm-up game and really didn’t play bad at all, and then we crushed our first opponents by somewhere around nine runs. After our game, we went up to the M&M for some breakfast, which was amazing but afterwards I got really tired due to the lack of sleep and also my belly was really full. Sadly we lost our next game, and since the tournament is single elimination we were out. Saturday night we played some more cribbage and tried to catch a few more hours of sleep so we could move Autumn and Vance into their new apartment today. So this week I will be very busy. I have three tests and also have to strength test. Then when this week is over SPRING BREAK will finally be here, and I can relax and maybe do some fishing if the weather is good. Well everyone talk to you later.

Mr. Vice President

Well I would first like to thank everyone who voted for me during the elections last week. Thanks to all of you who voted for me, I was officially elected as the new Vice President of the Associated Students of Montana Tech. Also, the expansion and renovation of the HPER passed, which is supposed to start this summer. Well this weekend is Mullet Fest, and Ms. Abigail, my sister, Vance and his friend are going to be staying at my house Friday and Saturday night. If you don’t know what Mullet Fest is, it’s a one day softball tournament held by M Club. This is going to be a blast, just like last year. So on Monday I received a very nice care package from my aunt Debbie, whom we call nut, because maybe she is a big NUT (lol). In this care package she sent me my Las Vegas season back, and she added her Michael Jordan highlight DVD with it. But the best part of the entire care package was the cowboy cookies that my grandmother used to make. She sent me three whole bags and the best part was that no one else got any, not even my mom or my sister. So I would like to thank you NUTTY NUT for the sweet care package you sent me and just to let you know, I’m down to one bag, so don’t be afraid to send more down whenever. Well on Tuesday I had an interview in Helena for a summer intern position with the Department of Transportation. During this summer intern I would be making the Department of Transportation more appealing to college students through various projects. I thought my interview went extremely well and I really hope that I can get this internship, it sounds like a blast. Well everyone, it was good talking to you all! Talk to you on Sunday night!!!!!!