adam's blog

2006-12-13T17:05:00.000-07:00

Christmas traditions, in my family we like to make cookies and take them to people we know. Sometimes we do it secretly but most of the time we don't. We tried caroling a few times it didn't work very well. My wife, her family and I go caroling each Christmas Eve, they sound really good, minus me. We also try to do service, each year is a little different. On Christmas Eve we get to open a present and my sister usually gets everyone up very early to open gifts. We celebrate the birth of Christ and enjoy the spirit of Christmas.

2006-12-11T10:50:00.000-07:00

My least favorite class at school has been chemistry. All of them. I cannot wait until I am done with all my chemistry class. I dislike them to a large degree.

2006-12-08T10:43:00.000-07:00

I remember getting in trouble a bunch of times. Usually I knew that it was coming. Once I scratched a new car door with my bike. I didn't realize that it was that bad and kept going. My little brother was blamed for scratching our neighbor's car and he was crying because everyone was super mad at him. I realized that I was the cause of the damage and felt horrible. I knew I was going to get in trouble but I felt bad that my little brother had been blamed for the door scratch. I confessed to my parents and I may have received a punishment. To fix the door cost a bunch of money. I think my parents my have saw how sorry I was and paid to have it fix. Plus I didn't have that much money as a little kid any way.

2006-12-06T10:49:00.000-07:00

For Christmas I am getting a rad pair of Denali Evo Ascents snowshoes made by MSR. I am excited to go out tromp around in the snow.

2006-12-01T10:53:00.000-07:00

If I could drive any vehicle I would chose a the new FJ Cruiser from Toyota. It looks like a sweet off road vehicle. Not to luxury in the inside to take it in the sticks but still nice!

2006-11-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

What is that smell, I think it is messing with my head. I am hungry but my head tells me not to eat. I have many embarasing moments in my life. One of them is when I told a lady that she was ugly on my mission and she got really mad and walked away. What I meant to say in spanish was that we (my companion and I) were ugly. Oh how one little conjugation will miss up the whole meaning of a sentence. I was very embarased and we never saw that lady ever again. Hopefully I didn't turn her away from the gospel forever.

2006-11-27T10:31:00.000-07:00

I decided not to do any homework over the break, besides memorize my minerals. That way I didn't have to worry about it over the break or feel bad when I didn't do any.
The nice thing is I didn't do any homework and was able to not worry about school for the whole weekend.

2006-11-21T13:38:00.000-07:00

My favorite Thanksgiving food includes a large group of foods. To begin with pretzel salad - a fun twist between pretzels, raspberries, cool whip, jello and other good things. I also like pumpkin pie, apple pie and many others of the pie family. I especially like left over pumpkin or apple pie for breakfast. I like the ham or roast with some good mashed potatoes and other goodies. Basically I enjoy the feast quite a bit.

2006-11-20T10:56:00.000-07:00

Our worst family vacation was the trip we didn't take to Italy. My brothers both got the chickenpox and we had to cancel the trip. One of them ended up having the chickenpox during his birthday. I am sorry they had the chickenpox but I was very disappointed at missing the trip to Italy.

2006-11-17T10:55:00.000-07:00

If I were an animal I would be a bear. I am already half bear because I am hairy, grumpy at times, and I like to sleep. I don't mind the cold, snow, and I like the mountains. The only thing I don't like that bears like are fish. I like to fish but I don't like to eat fish.

2006-11-16T19:20:00.000-07:00

My favorite toy as a child and still today are legos. I love legos. I could play with legos all day except my legs would fall asleep forever and I would never be able to walk again. All my legos are currently at my parents house, because I don't have enough room in my apartment for them all. Some day I will have them again and play to my hearts content.

2006-11-15T10:58:00.000-07:00

Who is the weirdest person in my family? I will have to say that we are all funny weird people. Plus I don't want to say who I think is the weirdest because I will probably get busted by them if I did. In other words I would get in trouble with myself.

2006-11-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

Christmas music, I usually start listening to around thanksgiving time. Sometimes I have the desire in the middle of the summer and I indulge my happy music desires.

2006-11-08T10:53:00.000-07:00

Kellen, I don't know why he needs attention. Maybe it has something to do with height, standing as middle child, or some bizarre effect of drinking water in Utah. I have heard that he has had some run-ins with skin walkers, I can only imagine that those type of experiences would cause some kind of trauma. I guess in Kellen's case it must have caused some kind of attention need to cover up the scaring of meeting a skin walker, or something like that.

2006-11-06T10:49:00.000-07:00

One of my worst dates was a homecoming dance in high school. I wasn't feeling great and I was a little nervous. My stomach was doing somersaults all night. During the dance my date and I went out to the refreshments table and had a bite to eat and drink. As soon as I took a drink I immediately felt very sick. My date and I went back into the dance and started swing dancing. The strobe lights were making me dizzy and just thinking about it now is making me sick. I almost threw up on my date. I quickly said excuse me and walk to the restroom where I was promptly emptied all of my nice dinner and refreshments. The date was a disaster, its okay I eventually married her sister.

2006-11-03T10:58:00.000-07:00

You should ask us where we would like to live, if we could live any where.

2006-11-01T11:01:00.000-07:00

The best practical joke I have ever done, I can't think of a good one right now.

2006-10-30T12:39:00.000-07:00

My Halloween costume this year Sully from Monsters Inc, my wife Trudy went as Boo and our pumpkin was Mike Wazowski. We won the award in at our ward party for best jack-o-lantern. My wife made my costume with a fuzzy blue and shaggy purple fabric, it was awesome.

2006-10-27T10:59:00.000-06:00

My worst hair cut ever, was when I cut my own hair on the mission. It was my first hair cut in the mission field. I did fine until I got to the sides. I heard a horrible ZZZZZzz noise as I cut just a little too short. My companion had to cut my whole hair shorter with a number 5 guard to make it look some what okay. It was a very short, bad, no good hair cut.

2006-10-18T10:55:00.000-06:00

What did the finger say to the thumb? -- I'm in glove with you
That has to be one of my favorite laffy taffy jokes, I love sharing it with this girl I love named Trudy.

2006-10-16T10:57:00.000-06:00

Languages, I speak English and Spanish fluently. I also know some German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Someday I will be able to speak all of those more fluently but right now I am learning the language of rocks.

2006-10-13T10:58:00.000-06:00

My favorite place to eat is at home, but I'll admit that we don't always like to make food. My favorite place to eat depends on my mood for food, so I'll have to say I don't have a favorite sorry.

2006-10-11T10:54:00.000-06:00

My first love was my blue bike. It was the best bike. We meet each other in a used bike shop. My dad had taken me out to get a bike. We bought the bike and went home. I spent the next couple weeks learning to ride by costing down our long dirt driveway. I managed to hit the all of the trees and ditches along the drive way. My bike and I had some memorable experiences together, including the breaking of my front tooth. Many scratches, scabs, and almost broken bones. We had a wonderful friendship. I think my blue bike is a friend to another child now. I am not sad but happy for my bike and its new friends.

2006-10-09T10:58:00.000-06:00

Scary moment, having someone attempt to rob my parents house while my mom and I were home and asleep. My whole family were out of town, except for my mom and me. I didn't wake up to the intruder coming through a middle floor window. Actually I didn't even know it happened until the next afternoon when my mom told me that she heard a noise and wakeup to a man standing in her doorway. Luckily she didn't scream or move enough for the man to know that she was a wake. After he looked at her for a couple minutes he left the top floor and must have exited through the same window he came in. That wasn't the first time someone had tried to rob our home but it was the first time we were home.

2006-10-06T10:56:00.000-06:00

Scars, it sounds like a pirate word. Once upon an 8 year olds life changed dramatically. He was a nice little boy who had just bought flowers for his visiting grandma and was riding his bike to a friends. His bike was a cool blue bike with checker pads on the handle bars and frame. This little boy decided to ride his bike through the dome gazebo. As he was about halfway through or so, he though his back tire felt a little flat. He looked back at it to see the tire was fine and perfectly pumped. In a split second he looked forward only to see the side of the dome and it's support bar coming straight for his face. It was to late his little body bounced off the bar in a tremendous bike wreck. Laying in shock on the ground his mouth and face began to fill with blood. He now had a broken pirate style tooth in the very front and a huge hole between his lip and chin. Without making this short story any longer, he had many visits to the dentist over the next couple years and now is the proud owner of a nice scar on his chin. In fact his chin scar has been compared with that of Harrison Ford's great chin scar in likeness and greatness.

2006-10-04T10:55:00.000-06:00

My favorite rock is, I don't have one yet. I know that is boring but I have so many I like don't have a favorite. I have been collecting rocks since I was little and I have boxes of rocks I found when I was a kid stored at my parents house. They told me that when I graduate I have to take all the rocks with me. My at home storage rights end when I graduate, which is fine I guess since they are my rocks.

2006-10-02T10:55:00.000-06:00

My favorite carton is Batman, the animated Warner Brothers version. I use to watch it every day and early on Saturday mornings. There is a website for it http://www.batmantas.com/

2006-09-29T10:11:00.000-06:00

Conference Weekend. I usualy watch all the sessions and try to make it to them if I can. The rest of my time I plan on spend studying, since so many of my classes have exams the week after conference I have to get ready for them all. If I had a choice conference weekend would be five days long, that way I could watch conference, go camping, hiking and still have time to study.

2006-09-27T10:42:00.000-06:00

Cereal? I like lots of different types. I like cheerios, frosted cheerios, any kind of grain cereal, basic four, the kinds with nuts, honey bunches of oats, grape-nuts with yogurt, honey comb and many many others. But usually I don't take the time to eat cereal I eat yogurt.

2006-09-25T10:54:00.000-06:00

Once upon a time I played the trumpet. I stopped after a bad band teacher experience. I liked to play at one time. I still like to listen to music but I have no desire to play. My brother is now playing trumpet with my old trumpet.
Today I liked learning about how to put in the tabs, alignment and leaders.

2006-09-20T10:52:00.000-06:00

I decided on geology because I have always liked rocks. I am interested in other things like accounting, humanities, and languages but in order to graduate with in the next decade I decide on geology. Plus I like being outside. I have no idea yet on which career I would like to do but I still have lots of time to figure that out.
Today I learned a little more then I knew before about writing a resume and cover letter.

2006-09-18T10:54:00.000-06:00

If I was a super hero, or have a super power. I would be Heman, with more cloths. He was cool and fought the evil Skeleton guy. I think I would be a great Heman.
Learning about writing papers is great, to bad I'm not Heman so I wouldn't have to write. I could just ride around on my thunder cat and pull out my sword.

2006-09-15T10:57:00.000-06:00

I love to eat pizza. I like east coast pies. If I had a choice I would eat a supreme, or a pepperoni, or Hawaiian, or sausage. I like most types of pizza. If there is something I don't like about a pizza it would be the sauce, I don't like nasty sauces.
My learning moment for today was learning how to change the pictures on my web page by changing the pixel value to the size I want.

2006-09-13T10:52:00.000-06:00

I seem to have a few personality traits that get me in trouble. One is that I love to scare people. My favorite is to jump out of a door and tackle my victim. Another good one is to crouch down and crawl up the stairs from the basement of my parents home. Then when the victim come by, I let out a growl and jump up the stairs grabbing their feet. I have been hurt, by the victim, a number of times but so far every injury has been worth it. I did have a close call one time, my sister was holding a pair of scissors, luckily I wasn't stabbed. I have to be careful not to scare the old or weak of heart. I would not want to be someone's cause of death.
Today in class I liked learning about the difference in color between printing and web or TV type color. The hard part now is figuring out what colors I want to use for my web page.

2006-09-11T10:48:00.000-06:00

I love movies and purposely forget anything about the ones I don't like. However, I do remember a horrible geology movie called "Volcano." I love and hate the part where the lava flows onto the streets of L.A. and they miraculously stop the flow with fire engines and cement blocks.
Today I learned about a little bit of code in making a web page. It all is still very new and a confusing but I'll get it.

2006-09-08T10:57:00.000-06:00

Today I learned how to begin to make a web page. I understood all of it perfectly. My favorite vacation place is Switzerland. I have been there numerous times and I would love to go back.

2006-09-06T10:53:00.000-06:00

My favorite color is green.