I'll Have you Knowe (Like the English way....)

I was at Wal-Mart the other day, and noticed all the toy impossible-claw machines were titled

"Toy Shoppe"

First of all, shouldn't it be called Suck your money into a hole-waste of time-trying to impress a girl-impossible claw thing-Shop? Second......What? Where the CRAP did ShopPE come from? AREN'T WE IN AMERICA? Maybe i've been spelling it wrong as "Shop" all my life...anyway, hence the title.

So I know i haven't written anything for a REALLY long time, but i just wanted to inform all those....probably 3 people that read this....that i had my first banjo lesson today, from this guy....

Geoff Hohwald

Man, What a guy. First of all, what a sweet name. I think i was actually going to be a Geoff, but my Grandma feared i would hate it and convinced my parents to just go normal Jeffrey. Maybe i should change my name to Geoff? Opinions?

When i got my Banjo, I received with it an Instructional DVD and Book (The book is lost...) So since i didn't really have any other way to learn, i put it into my computer And Geoff taught me for a while. The Banjo is weird....So if anyone has any Pointers on playing the banjo, to make it feel easier or more comfortable let me know. I don't want to make it feel like the guitar, but any similarities would be awesome. I'm guessing there's not though. It's probably one of those things that takes getting used to. I tried to think of a good example, but it's late and i can't think. My brain is dead. Sorry this is all you get for now.

Ok i lied. I recently discovered a secret truth....i think alot of people know so it probably isn't much of a secret, but really Restaurants will make you whatever you want. It happened the other day at Wingers, and tonight at IHOP.....i'm going to start making up things i want and make servers make me special orders. (It's kind of like the exceptions thing at my own work. People think we have a rule and like the "System" or "computer" won't let us budge from that rule. But 99% of the time, it's just a rule and can be bent.) Because i'm the customer, and the customer is always right. Even though today at work I am 100% sure that the company was right and the customer was just completely insane and dumb and should never call us again.

I seriously WONDER how some people live so long in this life, not knowing how to live life and be good at it. Really. I'm not a pro, but i think i'm getting pretty good at it. I treat people right, I don't drive insane (ok only on occasion has Reagan had any reason to call me a utah driver...), I'm honest with people, i understand situations and what i'm doing in them, and if i don't, i don't act like an IDIOT trying to figure them out. Casual is what makes the world go round. All the people tied up in politics and debates, and unnecessary stressful situations, are wasting their time. Well that's my opinion...not sure where that came from. But it's true! Ok we are ALL children of the Same God, but sometimes i wonder if some of us were adopted from another God of Another Planet :)

PS. I Read today that Boozer is signing with the Jazz for this year. I really think they need to just get rid of him. Steve thinks he'll get traded, and i think that would be awesome. Then we can sign Millsap, he can develop more, and him and DWILL (if he actually stays with Utah) can dominate and destroy the Lakers. Ok it's a dream i know. Dreaming is good right?

PSS. My Rays are catching the Yankees. This is good news and makes me happy.

Pictures? Family is cool.

I have a fellow blogging friend that said Pictures make a Blog Awesome. I think this has a lot of truth to it....and i rarely ever upload pictures. Probably because i don't take many? But i love photography and have a good video camera, that also takes pictures, so it leaves me question myself....why am i not taking more pictures. Ok. I will start

I also discovered hanging out with my brothers is quite enjoyable. Especially when you go to wal-mart, and the brother (Brent) you are with, had to get up at 5 am...on a Saturday...to go to Drivers Ed...and didn't sleep after. Yeah. Quite Loopy, but makes for a pretty funny experience. Even choosing Ice Cream can be a chore...... I'm actually kinda wondering what it will be like when Austin goes on a mission. I've gone on a mission, and i remember the letters and reactions of my family when i left. I hope i can be a good letter writer and supporter, because missionaries need that...especially from Family.

Also, Since when did "hair care" things get put in a completely different section in Wal-mart? Apart from the "Home" section, which includes things such as towels and bathroom stuff..... Wouldn't hair products, such as the Brush i bought (my hair is getting out of control, and i realized i had never purchased a brush in my life), fall under the "Home" Category?.
(Yes, this is the first brush i've ever purchased.....Go Me)

I really want Thai food. Any takers? I think i need to learn to make Thai Food. That would be stellar....but i don't think it would turn out nearly as well.

I want an Adventure. But I am afraid to take a step into the unknown. Not really. Kat Taught me, well tried teaching me, that I need to just dive in head first....(or feet first?)....sometimes. I think she's right. I'm going to do something, extreme, sometime soon. Before July. I promise. I just need to "plan" it. Maybe it'll involve moving...i doubt that, but who knows right?

PS. The New Green Day CD Is freaking AMAZING!!!

Summer 2009 Goal

My Goal is not:

1. To be Stewie Griffin.
2. Eat a Straw of wheat
3. Sit on a Box...maybe i will though, just for fun.
4. Have a football shaped head.



My Goal IS:

Learn The Banjo.

Of course i have other goals i would like to accomplish this summer as well, but The Banjo has been sitting there collecting dust for way too long. So It's gunna happen.

It's Been So long. Hi......This is it....well for now, it's Me.

Hello All you Blog readers!!! It's currently 3:38 AM, and i'm at work. End of Month, covering calls from Spain. It's quite fantastic really. I get to sit here and do basically whatever i please for about 4 or 5 hours, until the normal markets open. I'm currently watching the move "Atonement," and doing this as well. I know it feels like I've been away for....ages....I thought it had only been a matter of weeks, but apparently it's been over a month....and the last post i wrote was short and sweet. So even longer since I've really hounded anything out. This last semester kept me crazily busy, so busy I never realized I was that busy until the semester ended and I had nothing to worry about. I realize now too that I even let some of my friendships slide down the hill a bit, nothing irreparable. I'll be ok. I think?

I don't really know where to start. School is over, Thank goodness. I don't think i'll end up with HORRIBLE grades. I know for a fact in my Speech Anatomy class I didn't do well, at all, but i am pretty sure I'll at least end up passing the class. Sometimes that's all that really matters right? I had a teacher who made a good point once. When you are a professional "Whatever," and you have a masters or a PHD in this field of "Whatever," no one is going to care in any way whatsoever what grades you got in you undergrad courses. Of course grades do relate somewhat to where you go to Grad school, which could also in turn matter when you get your PHD and people don't recognize it unless from a certain school, but in the end it's just the same. Education is important. I love learning, i just don't test well. I've known that my whole life, and I guess that's how it's always going to be.

My brother got his mission call to the Arizona, Tucson mission. I cannot believe it is already time for my little brother Ozzy to go on a mission. I've been home now off of mine for 3 years and almost 5 months. So it's been 5 1/2 years since i was getting ready for mine, like my brother is now. I had the opportunity to go through the temple with him for his first time last Friday, the 17th, and had a pretty amazing experience. You know how the Lord will answer things for you when you aren't really looking for an answer to any particular question? Or maybe you don't.....it's kind of crazy actually how he does things sometimes. I was just excited to finally get back to the temple, I hadn't been since December sometime. The Lord in his tender mercies decided it fit for me to received probably the strongest testimony of temples and the importance of them, that anyone could ever have. I haven't had any kind of strong spiritual experience since being on my mission, that I had in the temple that day. The strangest thing of the whole ordeal, as i mentioned above, was the fact that i was not expecting anything like this to happen at all. The Lord knows what he's doing, that much i know for sure. He puts things in your path and people in your life to help you gain an understanding of simple things, complex things, small things, large things, anything really that he wants you to understand. And in ways you wouldn't expect, at all, in fact, in ways you would think completely the opposite.

I gained a new Friend this past semester, a Friend that was one of the unexpected things/people referred to above. She was in my ASL class, for the entire semester, and only the last 3 or 4 weeks or so did we even become real friends at all. She is a very good friend to me now, and we've already shared alot together. I know she trusts me and i trust her. She is the reason i was able to gain such a strong testimony of the temple. I really don't know honestly if anything will really ever happen with her, and that's ok, since sometimes people come into your life for a short season and for a particular reason (no rhyme intended :) ) and once that reason has come and passed, i suppose it's possible to 'lose' that friend, although in my case i hope to never lose her as a friend. I don't lose, or let go of, friends very easily. Probably one of my stronger...downfalls...or maybe it's a strength. I just know what it means to have a good friend, and i appreciate those that i care about and care about me the most.

This movie is weird.

I'm still at my job. I considered quitting for the summer and going to install security systems. I decided against it though more because i feel it important to be around to spend some time with my brother before he leaves. I know i've threatened to quit Nuskin for...like 2 years now...or longer...probably longer....but i just can't seem to get away. I keep applying for jobs, and not getting them, but when i find out who got the job, it makes sense and i agree they were better qualified for the job. If anyone knows of any actual good, real, jobs for me. Let me know k :)

I guess this is where I come to an end. I know this isn't really alot for over a month of no writing, but the fact is I just have come to a blank. It tends to happen when you're at work at 3 am.

I'm alive

I'm not dead, or dying, or anything similar. I'm sure no one reads this...but in case you do, don't worry, I'll be writing something soon. I kind of have a lot to write about actually. Just be patient :)



I attempted a mustache a while ago. This is as gross as i let it get.

aLL i wAnTeTh: SoMe tHiNgS

I've decided all I want, is to Serve people. I came to this realization two nights ago after talking to a friend who is/was going through a really really rough time right now. All I could think of was how much I really want to help them in SOME way or form. I do realize though, that this is almost a selfish desire….I love the way I feel when I help someone, or serve…which is normal, but is it bad for me to have a desire to have that feeling always? I dunno. I think this is why I want to become a doctor, or a physician, or a therapist in SOME way or form. I just want people's lives to be better because of something I did to help them. It's a selfish, but good desire, I just need to figure out a way to do it….I know there are a billion places I could volunteer at, and I really should look into those. It's just a matter of doing it.

I want to go on a service "mission" thing or something…an opportunity to serve people again. My aunt recently gave me the number to a girl she wanted to set me up with. I made a date with her, but then had to cancel it because I was deathly…ok not really…but I was sick. Now, she's in Honduras doing medical stuff….I WANT TO DO THAT!!! Man I wish I were smart, like my brother Brent. 15 years old, and got a freaking 32…THIRTY TWO on the ACT, withOUT studying!! GEEEEEEEEEZE!!! But in all honesty, I'm quite proud of the fellow. Good job Brent.

I need to get better at going to school. Enough said.

How can I get the guts up to actually just walk up to a girl, or anyone for that matter, and just talk to them? This has always been an extreme mystery to me. I have never met a person that can actually walk up to someone, and just blatantly start talking to them. I mean it doesn't even have to be about meeting someone of the opposite sex, just being able to make friends I guess? My roommate and I were discussing this today, that it seems hard to make friends sometimes…especially of the same gender. You'd think it wouldn't be since that's all a youngin would do, or even kids in highschool. I dunno. It just baffles me.

I like my Lucky Jeans. I decided that tonight. That's all I wear now…I have 4 pair. But only wear two of them really. They are sweet.

I want a new guitar. Preferably a Martin, or an ovation. I just want a partner for Samantha Jordan. Yes that's my guitars name. She is my one true love, who always makes me happy and never angers me, or plays games, or gets frustrated at me. She knows me and I know her. She's great.

I love my family. I realized this when we went to Dinner for my Dad's Bday. He turned 50. Holy crap…I'll be half his age this year….that's nuts…what's more, I'll be a quarter century old. Yikes. Happy Birthday Father Dearest! We just have fun together…Camille is dating Brandon, he's a good kid, and I really think and actually hope it works out. They just are a good couple, and would be happy together. Austin will be going on a mission soon. His papers are in, so he should have his call here pretty soon…which is absolutely insane, and I've already mentioned the genius Brent Above. And Tiki is as loveable as ever. I love my Mom and the talk we had a few nights ago in the car. She is such a good Mother and I Loveth her.

I like Rockband 2. It's pretty much amazing. Especially playing with our new roommate Reagan, who is better than I am, but still it rocks. Actually, he bought an xBox 360 tonight. So now we have all 3 of the next gen systems…PS3, Xbox360, and the WII. I also just finished playing Zelda, Ocarina of Time tonight. I love that game, one of the best ever made.

I loveth my friends. Friends are great. I like having them, and talking to them, and hate losing them. I can really only think of 2 people I've ever really lost as friends. Actually 3 now. It's a sad thing to lose a friend. I don't like letting go, even when I need to or should have let them go ages ago. Girlfriends are nice too J

I need to get back on track. I'm lost in a lot of ways and there are things I need to be doing to do better at life. So I will start doing them. This very night. I want to go to the DogParkInn, so a friend of mine and I have made a deal to do things better and then we're going to go. I wanna go!!! I WILL go.

School is good. I'm actually enjoying learning math, something I never thought possible. I just like being able to understand it and see why it matters…(actually sometimes I really don't think it matters at all, but I'm sure it will one day) I mean, I actually ENJOY going to math Lecture...even though I've missed a couple times already, it's just relaxing. I do my math homework when I get bored…yeah, its bad. All my other classes are ok too. ASL is fun, but sometimes just long and tedious. My online class is…..Easy. Speech Anatomy is so interesting, but hard. It's almost discouraging….but I'll get through it.

I like adding Eth to the end of words. It's a new thing I Doeth. See, like that. And like my Blog title.

Life is good right now. Today I decided life is good. I really have absolutely no complaints. My job is secure (although I wonder how I'm still sane), School is going well actually…better than I thinketh sometimes…and I'm just not worried about the small things. Meaning…dating J

I misseth my Grandma Mabey. I just miss hearing how she is doing. I know she is watching over me and is with me when I need someone. She is Special Special.

I loveth Music. I want to write music and be amazing at it. I Love OPEN C. It's so epic and incredible!!

I love my Savior. Even in the times when I am down and hurting, which has been for quite some time it seems, he is always there to comfort me. I want to be more like him. I like the primary song "I'm trying to be like Jesus." I wish I could be a little kid again and sing that song and feel the spirit.

I love kids. I can't wait to have my own some day. Michelle and LJ recently had their first kid, in fact this past Saturday. I can't wait to see him. Lj was a good roommate, and is still a good friend. I misseth him, and Michelle being around too.

I love life. Life is good.

2 Timothy 2:3 Thou, therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ

I Spent way too much time on this Entry

As i explained in my last entry, I came upon some of my Freshmen English class papers that i thought would be pretty awesome to put on here. The first of which, caused me all kinds of grief today. I wanted to just copy and paste the entire original file onto my blog, but this turned out to be much more of a chore than i expected, AND, it didn't really even work. Here is Why: Technology. The computer i had written ALL of these papers on, happens to be a ghetto old school desktop. Ok, not THAT ghetto...i mean it still runs, barely....i wonder if the hamster inside is dead? That could do with it running so slow...

So today, Saturday, I went through this huge ordeal to pull the computer out of my closet, actually the massive monitor and massive box containing the computer, JUST to find this document. I connect everything, even find the tiny speakers that came with it. (This computer actually happens to be the one my sister used when she first went off to college...so probably purchased back in 2000, or maybe 2001 at the very best..yeah, dinosaur.) I turn it on, and it's going so incredibly slow...i wait 10 minutes for it to finally finish loading. My roommate is a Computer person, so i ask him a couple questions. 1. Can i put more RAM in it to make it faster. I know we tried once before, but Best Buy told us it wouldn't work. He said i Can...but it's probably honestly not even worth it. Next, Wireless Internet: It just has a jack for a cable...and we only have one place in our house where the Internet actually connects to. He has a Wireless card thing, but after attempting to make it work. It does not. Right now, i am typing from said piece of ju....Computer....connected to the Internet through a cable running from my room to his. Great huh?

Since this computer is an antique, it has like Microsoft Word .97839 on it. It's pretty ghetto. So when i try to copy and past my paper thing over, the pictures don't copy. Of course i realized after, this had nothing to with the Hud i'm working on, just the fact i have to add the pictures in myself. So i searched for some pictures closely resembling the ones on my paper, and came as close as i could.

Lastly, The final picture on this entry has words written on it. I don't know how i did it for my report, but somehow i did. I couldn't save the picture from my original document, so i had to search a new one, use a photo editing thing from work (picknik...ever heard of it?) then re save it, and add it. So in all reality, the making of this Blog entry probably took...from start to finish, with many failed update attempts (it doesn't even have service pack 2 for Window XP on it....and then while trying to do the updates, to at least bring my windows up to speed, it told us/me my windows wasn't a registered product key....no idea how thats possible...unless my sister had someone install an illegal version...), and after some restarts, and downloading Firefox, new iTunes, etc. I got to finally writing the entry. SOOOOOOOOO You'd better enjoy this...actually, it wouldn't suprise me if no one makes it past all this mumbo jumbo about how i wasted my Saturday trying to setup a stupid Computer (Good thing this girl bailed on me....so i could end up having no life, AGAIN, on a Saturday night.)

The writing assignment we had, was to think of a "Grown Up Rule" that our parents always tried to enforce on us when we were young. I remember racking my brain trying to think of the best thing i could, and from any experiences i'd had in the past. Of course there were such rules as "don't swim until at least a half hour after eating" or "if you keep making that face, it'll freeze in that position." All Wives tales. I thought of one that actually happened to me, and my cousins on a trip to California

My entire Dad's side, meaning all of his siblings and all of their families, plus Grandma, Aunt Leora, etc. took a trip to California. We rented out a house that was basically sitting on the beach. There was a sand volleyball court in the "backyard" and the ocean was literally 100 yards away. It was pretty amazing...i think i took it for granted now that i look back on it. I remember staying up late and watching Comedy Central, mainly South Park was airing at this point in time. Sleeping on the hide-a-bed couch, waking up with a sore back from the center bar in the bed (why can't they make those more comfortable? I've never really quite understood this), going to Disneyland, going with Great Aunt Leora on the Jurrasic Park ride at Universal, and just having fun. I also remember listening to Third Eye Blind repeatedly throughout the entire trip. I still love that CD. One of the funniest experiences from this trip was going to Hard Rock Cafe. (which is where this entire post is coming from) There was the kids table, and there was the Adults table. If anyone hasn't ever been to a Hard Rock Cafe, it is exactly as it sounds. Hard Rock. It's pretty dang awesome. Actually, i really don't know how we even pulled off even going to the Hard Rock, now that i think about it, it's actually kind of shocking. During our meal, we noticed the volume of the music was turned down drastically. We asked the waiter what was up, and they said someone had asked for it to be turned down. We said "yeah right, this is Hard Rock, crank it" so they did. AND....it was turned down again probably 10 minutes later. This went back and forth throughout the whole time we were there. We later found out, it was our own adult table asking them to turn the music down. "The Decibals are too high for your ears" That was the reasoning.

Most of the rules Adults/Grown Ups use, are basically made up anyway, and even if they do have validity, aren't official Laws as some parents would make you think. Part of the assignment was to disprove the said "rule" and come up with some way to figure it out. Anyway, it'll probably just make more sense by reading it. Again, the pictures aren't as cool as the ones i had in the original, and due to the Blogging format, not really in the same spots either. But it'll do. Enjoy!

Grown up rule #136: Don’t listen to music to loudly!

Location: Warner Bros. Records Inc. Burbank, California

Date & time: January 2, 1998 11:56 p.m.

Log:
Break into studios in back of
Equipment truck, disguised as a large speaker.
Break into large file cabinet during rehearsal.
Find grown-up rule #136!! Escape in garbage truck,
Claiming to be broken speaker.

Grown up rule #136: Don’t listen to music to loudly!

Official grown up reason: You’ll blow your ear drums out!

Real reason grown ups are hiding: The louder you listen to your music, the more nearly invisible notes float into the public air, causing mass love for rock and roll music, which means more rock bands formed!

And who wouldn’t want that, why parents of course! We all know that as a young person growing up in a world so full of turmoil, we all need something to turn to get our minds off of all the bad. For centuries classical music was used as a way to calm the mind, and to help a person think well. As good as this works, for some people it just wasn’t enough. Early artists such as Beethoven, actually tried something different similar to rock, but the people disapproved. The electric guitar was invented, and caused a mass forming of rock groups. People flocked to these concerts, where it appeared this calming need was finally found, as well as more rock bands forming thus after.

Over the past 50 or so years, many many great rock groups have been formed, much to the parent’s disapproval. A group of parents hired a scientist named George F. Rockahater to find the reason for so many rock groups being formed. Rockahater found that in a high powered electric guitar song, many nearly invisible “Rock Notes” were sent into the listeners ears,



This giving them the ability, if so chosen, to form a rock band. As we all know, to ban rock bands is a crime against music, and must be stopped! Don’t ever let an adult tell you to “TURN IT DOWN!” Better yet,