Buss Ride From Hell!!!!

So I can officially say that I had the bus ride from HELL to Eastern Oregon last Thursday night. It was pretty bad. I rode from Butte to Missoula in the bus’s bathroom puking all the way there, and then we arrived in Missoula, and I puked in the gas station’s bathroom for let’s say thirty minutes. My outlook on life during those hours was pretty awful. I wanted to quit school and football. I’m not joking around. I was wishing I was dead LOL. Then the ten hours left went terrible too. I lied on the floor, but my stomach was killing me, and I just wanted to be in a bed. Then we got to Eastern Oregon, and our hotel rooms weren’t ready, so I slept in the lobby for about an hour until Cole Berg’s room was ready. I slept on his floor for another hour, and then I begged the housekeeper lady to clean my room so I could sleep. Coach Green let me sleep through practice so I could get better for the game the next morning, and it worked. I felt loads better for the game and played pretty well since it was my first game starting in my college career. The bus ride back went much better, and we got home around 4:45 in the morning. My mom came down from Helena yesterday to help me put the finishing touches on my house and also to bring my suit for the career fair tomorrow. I love when my mom comes down to see me, cause then I get a home cooked meal way better than what I eat during the week and she just mothers me, which is nice every once in a while. We went to Wal-Mart last night at like 9 and didn’t get home till late, and we got some essentials for my house like food and other goodies. Well, I’ll let you know how the career goes and if I get any leads on job opportunities.

Cold Season!

Well being sick is never a good thing and I have been sick for the past four days with a stuffy nose and soar throat. Well school is starting out pretty well it seems like at the beginning of every semester we do tons of reading which I hate doing it makes me fall asleep but you got to do what you got to do. This past weekend Abby came back over Friday and we didn’t do much go and get dinner at Arby’s which was nothing spectacular but satisfying. Saturday was a great day off from football and school which I used very intelligently by watching many movies and relaxing. My buddy John came down and that night Abby ended up going to bed early so John and I watched Van Wilder and Jackass the Movie which put me in bed around 1 in the morning. Sunday John left and I had practice and film from the game on Thursday which didn’t go well for the Offensive Line because of our performance during the game. Well I don’t have much else to say because of my bum around weekend talk to yeah later gators!!!

Seem's Just Like Yesterday.....

Well another school year has officially started and I’m really excited for this fall to begin for many reasons. One main reason is FOOTBALL SESAON yes once again we have college football and the NFL getting back into the swing of things. Also hunting is another reason but I have a feeling this fall may be a little different then most others because of me actually playing this year so it’s pretty much a win loose situation, I actually get to play this year but I don’t get to hunt nearly as much but that’s perfectly okay with this dude! So me saying I’m a Sophomore in college makes me feel old I guess you cold say because it seems like just yesterday my mom was holding my hand walking me into my first day of Kindergarten and kissing me on the cheek saying, “Have a great day at school Drew.” Where does the time go everyone kept telling me growing up that every year you get older the faster time goes by but I didn’t really believe them until the past couple of years. So our first game is on Thursday and I’m getting really excited for it but with that excitement brings nervousness along with it. So for the game I have tons of family coming, from my great aunt to my sister’s boyfriend so I will have a rather large cheering section cheering me on!!!! Well hope everyone’s school year goes great and I’ll be back later this week!!!!!

Football Football Football!!!

So sorry it’s been so long since my last blog, what a crazy time it’s been around here from starting two a days to trying to unpack and get settled into my new place. Well two a days is officially over and I’m so glad I’m much over due for some R&R and it’s not looking good. So for a little update on how football is going I guess you could say I moved positions from guard to tackle and I LOVE every second of it. Our first game is coming way to fast and we are approaching nine days until kickoff. Now tomorrow I will be starting work in the dorms and I’m excited about that I worked the other day taking keys form the football players when they moved out of the dorms so I got to meet Annie my boss so is wicked cool LOL. Well this Saturday my parents are coming down for my scrimmage and so is my buddy John, his girlfriend and Abby are also coming down so we will be having some fun. Now today I finally got cable and internet put into my house by Bresnan and I’m really stoked because watching movies was getting pretty gosh darn old. Also today I had to bring the old BLUE BEAST into the shop for a tune up just to keep in roaring LOL!!!! Well I’ll check back this weekend after my scrimmage to let you know how I did.

Rockin' Out at Rockin' The Rivers

Well since the last time I checked in a lot has been going on. I got all moved in to my new house, went to Rockin’ the Rivers, and started Two a Days for football. To say the least it’s been very busy. I had my moving crew up here again along with a trailer and my moms Yukon full of stuff. It was such a hot day, but by late afternoon we had everything pretty well moved in and had even started unpacking. I didn’t actually stay here though until this last Thursday. Thursday night my roommate from last year came up and we hung out with some of our buddies. Rockin’ the Rivers was going on this weekend so Sean, Abby and I all drove down to Cardwell to see some concerts. Just as we saw the road construction signs, we drove over the hill to see the whole left side of the road covered with campers and tents. That night we saw Boston, Nazareth and STYX!!! The other bands were good, but Styx was great! Of course we stood by the fence for an hour and a half just to be in the very front. It was defiantly worth it. During the concert, two guys got pulled over the rail for fighting or something. It was pretty sweet. If you are expecting to get a good nights sleep, Rockin’ the Rivers is not the place for you! That night we stayed there, the people next to us were playing really loud music. After awhile the music stopped, but then the guitar playing started. It was as if our tent was on stage with a whole band playing around us. The zippers on the tent were shaking even. This off key guitar playing continued for a few more hours. The next day we drove back to butte to take Sean back, and then Abby and I went back to the concerts. This time we saw Bad Company, Fog Hat and EDDIE MONEY!!!! I really like Eddie Money too, so again we stood by the fence for an hour and a half just so we could have good spots. This concert was great too. Afterwards he was signing autographs so I bought a really sweet shirt, a CD and a picture of him and had him sign all of them! I wanted to get a good nights sleep that night since football was starting this week, so we drove back to butte at 1am. After the fun filled weekend, two a days started. I have never been so sore in my LIFE! In between practices I come back to my house and take a little snooze, but I guess its what ya gotta do. Only four more days of it and then we only have one practice a day. That’ll be nice. Well I better get ready for my next practice. I’ll get back to you in a few days on how the practices are going.

Memories Are Forever!!!

So this had to be the shortest summer ever in the history of summers! I feel like I did nothing all summer long but in reality what didn’t I do. Many things happened this summer Brett Farve came out of retirement, oil per barrel hit record highs of all time to John McCain and Barack Obama winning their parties. Well the summer started out by moving out of my home for fifteen years which hit me pretty hard because I grew up in this house and not having a home to come home to from my first year of school was pretty hard. But let’s say living down at the compound has made my family close I would say maybe a little to close LOL! So my first summer back I hung out with friends that I never hung with in high school but were close friends. We hung out for weeks straight and stayed up later than we really should have. But we slowly quit hanging out and the summer moved on just like any other summer would. Going camping was a total new event for me this summer not because I never camped before it was just we have not camped in a looooooooooooong time; it was a blast but like I said in an earlier blog it just didn’t have the camping feeling because I was partly living in the camper back at the compound. I think everyone can agree on that this summer really wasn’t that hot which has it up and down sides, it not being hot makes it hard to go swimming and floating when the water is freezing and upsides are not being hot and few forest fires are nice too. Went to one wedding, played out at the lake, went fishing but not nearly enough and cleaned up my truck to sell it. Now the summer is over and I wouldn’t have changed the summer one bit and summers come and go but the memories are forever!!!!!!!

I'll Let you Decide....

Well sorry it’s been awhile since I’ve written my last blog but what a crazy time it has been lately. Well I went down on last Thursday to move into my apartment for the school year and let’s just say that this place was not acceptable. The landlord or slumlord was supposed to have the apartment cleaned and ready for me to move into and we show up early Thursday morning and he had nothing done and we ended up not renting this apartment. This guy has over two hundred rentals and probably rents too many Montana Tech students and everyone needs to pay close attention to their landlord and make sure they do what they say. I’m not going to mention any names but if you would like to know more about whom it is I would gladly tell you in person. We ended up ridding around all day and finally found a house which is a one bedroom house on Mercury and Excelsior. This house is so SAWEET it is a three story house with a pull under garage and fits everything perfect. We tried to move into my house on Friday but we had to get an in depth credit check which I guess the owner of the property requires to rent her house which I’ll tell you about below. So we drove down on Friday for nothing but found a back up house incase this house didn’t go through. So all weekend we packed up stuff to bring down today and got up this morning and got a phone call from my landlord saying we passed with flying colors and we could move in today. So there is a stereotype for all football players I found out while trying to rent my house; people love to go to football games and cheer us on but when it comes to renting that is a whole different story. The owner of the house I’m renting did not want to rent to me due to I’m a football player which is not really fair. She was convinced that all football players do is party and wreck houses, I guess because she made me jump through hoops to be able to rent this house. I know not all people stereotype football players \and I know you get your occasional bad apple every once in a while but thinking that all football players are terrible people is just insane. The owner of my house made me put down a $1,000 deposit which was bumped up from $500 because I’m a football player which I’ll leave up to you to decide if you think is fair. Well in between the moving situation Abby, John, Rochelle and I went out to Hauser Lake on Sunday and did a little tubing and cliff jumping. But instead of taking my boat out we took Johns boat out and had a blast John had only drove his boat one other time so I gave him some help which I didn’t know if he wanted it but I gave it to him. So I'll be chatting back in on Wednesday on my last blog from Helena and I will be blogging on summing up the summer so stay tuned.