HERE ARE THE RULES
1. Grab the book closest to you(has to be at least 123pgs.)
2. Turn to page 123
3. Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the sentence on your blog
5. Tag five people
I'm not sure why page 123 or why the 5th sentence. What really baffles me is why I had to skip other vital grouping clicks such as paragraphs and chapters. But I'm here, I'll play by these rules, and tell you my selection.
But just because I'm a rebel, I've chosen three books.
First: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, page 123 falls on the story "Ms. Found In A Bottle" and it reads "It is true that I may not find an opportunity of transmitting it to the world, but I will not fail to make the endeavor"
Second: Emily Dickinson Collected Poems, it is the middle of a poem and says "These are the days when skies put on The Old, old sophistries of June, -- A blue and gold mistake.
Finally: We Thought You Would Be Prettier by Laurie Notaro " "How will I ever be able to trust you with another book again?" he said, not even able to look me in the eye. "
I tag you if you are reading this.
I also tag Cammeron, because he is funny, Amanda, because she needs something to do, and I dont know anyone else.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
I'm no track star, but I run like a gazelle
So this last sunday I had to work a 24 hour shift. It's not so bad now, goes by pretty quick and I enjoy the work I do, which helps out. It's about 11:45, I'm in the dorm with my family of 8 boys, the boys are enjoying a constructive free time when all of a sudden over the radio I hear a "Code Red! The student is running towards the mountains by Stone Ridge". Translation: Code Red means someone is trying to run away. Stone Ridge is the campus that I work at, meaning the "runner" is close to me. So I get up, put my family on a "white out" which means they can't talk and have to do exactly what I say, I tell them all to get in one spot, had the staff across the hall watch my family, and I run out to where it was happening.
This boy that ran was in "Homeless" meaning he had just gotten to the program (about 2 weeks ago) and was going through the first componate of the program called Homeless. His homeless group was taking a bathroom break at the port-a-potties when he decided to take off. Now this kid was on a Run Watch, so he didn't have any shoes, just flip-flops, which he took off, and was running through the desert in only socks (not such a great idea for the record). I get there and asked the Homeless staff which way the kid went, my boss type guy was running over and I asked him if I could take off after the student and he said yes. So I take off. And I'm running running running, until finally I see the kid who is about 100 yards ahead of me. He sees me running after him and he takes off again. He is following the base of this mountain and takes a bend around to where I couldn't see him. By the time I get to the bend he is no where in sight, so I head up a hill to get a better view and I see him, so I run towards him, around another bend and he sees me coming after him. By this time I am within 15-20 yards of him and I start to yell out to him "Stop! Stop or it is going to hurt! STOP OR IT WILL HURT!" To which he just falls to the ground. I get up to him, grab him by the back of his shirt, and asked him if he was going to come peacefully or if I needed to escort him. He chosed to come peacefully. I radioed that I had caught him and where we were at. And we started walking back.
Got to where everyone else was, they took him from me, and I stood back to throw up a little bit in the bushes. Seriously, from the time I heard the Code Red until the time I had caught him took only about 10 mins, and it was about a mile out that I caught him. When my boss guy got to the kid he says "What were you thinking?!!? You never even had a chance! See this guy right here? (Pointing to me) He is like a gazelle, you never had a chance!"
And that is how I became a "hero" or sorts. The kids give me even more respect now because they never thought I was so fast, or that I could even catch him. A lot of different staff (like big important guys there) have been giving me props saying "I hear you are getting stuff done out there! That's great" and one even told me that the kid I caught told him "If I had known Daniel was that fast I wouldn't have even tried, I didn't know he was that quick".
For the record. I'm not that fast. It's just easy to catch out of shape drug addicted teenagers. Who are running in socks through the desert.
But I'm still the hero at work.
This boy that ran was in "Homeless" meaning he had just gotten to the program (about 2 weeks ago) and was going through the first componate of the program called Homeless. His homeless group was taking a bathroom break at the port-a-potties when he decided to take off. Now this kid was on a Run Watch, so he didn't have any shoes, just flip-flops, which he took off, and was running through the desert in only socks (not such a great idea for the record). I get there and asked the Homeless staff which way the kid went, my boss type guy was running over and I asked him if I could take off after the student and he said yes. So I take off. And I'm running running running, until finally I see the kid who is about 100 yards ahead of me. He sees me running after him and he takes off again. He is following the base of this mountain and takes a bend around to where I couldn't see him. By the time I get to the bend he is no where in sight, so I head up a hill to get a better view and I see him, so I run towards him, around another bend and he sees me coming after him. By this time I am within 15-20 yards of him and I start to yell out to him "Stop! Stop or it is going to hurt! STOP OR IT WILL HURT!" To which he just falls to the ground. I get up to him, grab him by the back of his shirt, and asked him if he was going to come peacefully or if I needed to escort him. He chosed to come peacefully. I radioed that I had caught him and where we were at. And we started walking back.
Got to where everyone else was, they took him from me, and I stood back to throw up a little bit in the bushes. Seriously, from the time I heard the Code Red until the time I had caught him took only about 10 mins, and it was about a mile out that I caught him. When my boss guy got to the kid he says "What were you thinking?!!? You never even had a chance! See this guy right here? (Pointing to me) He is like a gazelle, you never had a chance!"
And that is how I became a "hero" or sorts. The kids give me even more respect now because they never thought I was so fast, or that I could even catch him. A lot of different staff (like big important guys there) have been giving me props saying "I hear you are getting stuff done out there! That's great" and one even told me that the kid I caught told him "If I had known Daniel was that fast I wouldn't have even tried, I didn't know he was that quick".
For the record. I'm not that fast. It's just easy to catch out of shape drug addicted teenagers. Who are running in socks through the desert.
But I'm still the hero at work.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
That's my story and I'm sticking to it
1. What is your anniversary? November 17. It was going to be December 1st, and I came home from my mission thinking that. Then the night I go home we changed the date.
2. Where did you get married? St. George LDS temple
3. Who proposed and how? I'd hate to bore you with a whole big story of who chased after who, how it go brought up, and etc. Lets just leave it at we came to a mutual agreement that it was in both of our best interests to spent etenity togeather. There might have been a walk on the Las Vegas Strip involved, and yeah okay maybe a trip up a mountain to a very pretty and secluded place, and something to do with the Bellagio, but no one wrote it down right after it all happened so the details aren't all that clear or conclusive.
4. How long were you engaged? Star Girl and I we have a saying, "Why be engaged when you can go from hardly knowing each other to being married all in the same day?"
But if anyone is interested, it was 2 years and almost 3 months.
5. What was your favorite part of your wedding day? (and it can't be your husband/wife!) I remember waking up that morning with the calmest/happiest feeling I had felt in a long time. It might have had something to do with the I stayed up until 3 am watching old tv shows. But my most favorite part was finally being able to take her by the hand at the alter, look at her beautiful glowing face, and say "Yes" to my vows.
6. What would you change if you could? Not getting to the Temple late. If you look at my wife you would think she is so cute and nice, but the first thing she said to me on our wedding day was "WHAT!? You couldn't have called to say you were running late?!" ... yeah I would so change my tardiness.
7. Wedding colors? I remember there was a lot of white. But that is only because I could only look at her and no one else.
8. Remember anything special about your wedding ceremony? Seeing my dad and her dad sitting in the front with the sealer as the official two witnesses. Hearing about all the old ladies that were trying to comfort my bride to be over the fact that I was late, only not helping and putting it into her head that I got scared and run off and had ditched her, and then seeing the looks on everyone's faces when I walked in. Don't know if that would be considered "special" enough.
9. Were you clean or messy when you cut the cake? We had pie. And we didn’t cut it ourselves. Though if we did have cake we would have been very clean about it.
I get to tag someone now to fill this out, and I choose JM and my Dad.
2. Where did you get married? St. George LDS temple
3. Who proposed and how? I'd hate to bore you with a whole big story of who chased after who, how it go brought up, and etc. Lets just leave it at we came to a mutual agreement that it was in both of our best interests to spent etenity togeather. There might have been a walk on the Las Vegas Strip involved, and yeah okay maybe a trip up a mountain to a very pretty and secluded place, and something to do with the Bellagio, but no one wrote it down right after it all happened so the details aren't all that clear or conclusive.
4. How long were you engaged? Star Girl and I we have a saying, "Why be engaged when you can go from hardly knowing each other to being married all in the same day?"
But if anyone is interested, it was 2 years and almost 3 months.
5. What was your favorite part of your wedding day? (and it can't be your husband/wife!) I remember waking up that morning with the calmest/happiest feeling I had felt in a long time. It might have had something to do with the I stayed up until 3 am watching old tv shows. But my most favorite part was finally being able to take her by the hand at the alter, look at her beautiful glowing face, and say "Yes" to my vows.
6. What would you change if you could? Not getting to the Temple late. If you look at my wife you would think she is so cute and nice, but the first thing she said to me on our wedding day was "WHAT!? You couldn't have called to say you were running late?!" ... yeah I would so change my tardiness.
7. Wedding colors? I remember there was a lot of white. But that is only because I could only look at her and no one else.
8. Remember anything special about your wedding ceremony? Seeing my dad and her dad sitting in the front with the sealer as the official two witnesses. Hearing about all the old ladies that were trying to comfort my bride to be over the fact that I was late, only not helping and putting it into her head that I got scared and run off and had ditched her, and then seeing the looks on everyone's faces when I walked in. Don't know if that would be considered "special" enough.
9. Were you clean or messy when you cut the cake? We had pie. And we didn’t cut it ourselves. Though if we did have cake we would have been very clean about it.
I get to tag someone now to fill this out, and I choose JM and my Dad.
I'm an addict for dramatics I confuse the two for love
A few months ago my best friend from my teenage years came out to see me. He drove from Texas to where I live all night long. No sleep. Well he confided in me that he did stop for an hour or so to sleep. How did he do it? More will power then I ever had (ask my wife about that and she'll tell you), a lot of Dr. Pepper, candy, and some good tunes. I asked him about these good tunes, and he happened to have the newest cds of bands I particullary enjoy. So I did what any other good American would do. I ripped them off onto my computer, and promptly put them on my MP3 player. It wasn't until about a week ago that I started to listen to these good tunes. They are infact, good. Although I don't feel it was either of the two bands "finest" work, it is still very very good and I listen to them everyday. My point? I went to one of these bands website's the other day in search for the Holy Grail of hoodies. This hoodie I have wanted since I was 18... maybe younger... maybe older... age and time isn't so important in this story as the next tid bit of info I am going to share. Back when I oringally wanted the hoodie I couldn't because they were "out of stock". You know what the problem is now? IT'S NOT EVEN LISTED ANYMORE! Yeah, it's like it never even exsited before. Which gets me thinking. Maybe I never exsited before either. Weird huh? That could be something.
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