Birthday Trip

Alright so I know that I talked yesterday about my life and how I was gonna keep on listing things that had been going on but I thought about this last night as I went to bed and decided to share it today. Above I have posted a picture of the flyer from last years Roger Creager's Party South of the Border. I think that Roger Creager is one of the best Texas Country singers ever and he proves it even more so with his brand new CD "Here It Is". Now the flyer above says that the dates are June 8th through the 12th. As everyone reading this blog knows, my birthday is on the 17th. However i called to find out the details for this years trip and it will be going on from the 14th  to the 18th. I think this would be the best birthday present ever. You get to visit Playa Del Carmen, Mexico and stay at the beautiful Sandos Caracol Beach Spa and Resort where during the day you can do anything from swim in the pool or play golf with Roger Creager. Then at night you of course get the Creager Concert two nights and then one night the special guest puts on a concert (last year it was Cory Morrow).  So what my plan is is to just get a whole group of my friends together and go down there for four days this summer to celebrate not only my birthday but also our last hurrah in college as most of us will be graduating very soon afterward. Anyways I hope that you guys check out Creager's new CD and give some serious thought to joining me in Mexico. Everyone needs a vacations so you might as well head out. Oh and here's to hoping that Mom finances most of this trip...you know what im sayin? Dueces!

My Life Lately

So I was talking to JMob earlier on Facebook's GREATEST addition ever...Facebook Chat...and we decided that there was not a whole lot to blog about lately. Especially since the Christmas break is here and my days consist of eating, sleeping, TV, and XBox. So I am going to go ahead a list a couple of things that I have started doing here recently.

1) I have recently rediscovered my love for Texas Country music. Not only am I listening to the big names and all the popular songs that have been coming out but I have really started to pay attention to the entire texas country music scene. You should try it out too cuz its pretty incredible.

2) I've been hanging out with a couple of my old friends here lately especially since most of my new friends are gone. Me and Garrett have especially been checkin out the bar scene. Last night we headed out to Bluffdale to go to the Greenwood Bar and then drove about 45 minutes to Mingus, Tx to check out the Boar's Nest. Mingus is a pretty dangerous place but we met a lot of cool people and I got to hear Garrett sing Piano Man on the karaoke machine.

3) I have started rewatching all the seasons of Scrubs again. The 8th season is starting on Tuesday and I am freakin pumped about it. So to brush up on everything I have started watching all of the previous ones again. It is an incredible show and I am excited about it coming back on.

4) I have started thinking about life a whole lot. About what I'm gonna do after college, if I will ever graduate college, how I'm gonna make a living with this crappy economy, and what the crap is my problem with commitment. I have been pondering a lot of these things and am yet to figure out one of them.

5) I have begun the very, very slow transition from the NFL season to the NBA season. I do like to watch basketball but it is nowhere as fun as watching football. However since the Cowboys sucked it up in December yet again I am now forced to turn my attention to the Mavericks. Go Dirk!

6) I have been looking for a new job even though I am dreading getting a real job. I am very excited to start coaching my youth basketball team and I have my first practice tomorrow night. Hopefully we will be able to pull out a couple more wins then we did during our football season.

I have a longer list but I am really in the mood to play XBox right now and I have to leave something to blog about tomorrow. Now I know that 6 is a strange number to stop on but who cares....i'm starting a trend. Dueces!

Just Jammin'

So I know that this song isn't new or anything but I heard an acoustic version of it the other day by Randy Rogers and so it got me thinkin about how great this song is. It's written and performed by Ryan Adams and it's pretty great. As big of a Texas Country fan as I am I still find that the Ryan Adams version is much better. Here are the lyrics (sorry for the language but it happens)....

When they call your name
Will you walk right up
With a smile on your face
Or will you cower in fear
In your favorite sweater

With an old love letter
I wish you would

I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
Theyre all full of shit
With a smile on your face
And then do it again

I wish you would
When youre walking downtown
Do you wish I was there
Do you wish it was me
With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes

Do they all look like mine
You know you could
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends behind my back
With a smile on your face
And then do it again

I wish you would
I wish youd make up my bed
So I could make up my mind
Try it for sleeping instead
Maybe youll rest sometime
I wish I could

I just really, really like this song and have recently started to branch out to listening to the messages behind the music in a lot of songs like this. No idea why I felt like sharing this song but I did.  Below is a video of him performing the song live on the David Letterman Show. Its pretty awesome just to listen to the angst and pain behind the song so check it out and I hope you enjoy it. Dueces!

Christmas Break

This break has been NUTS! I have been hanging out with a ton of people and having a great time meeting new people. Life has been going great the past couple of weeks after my mental breakdown from last semester. I don't think that I have ever been as content with everything as I am right now. It just kind of seems like everything is finally falling into place and hoepfully that trend will continue. As it is my nature I am pretty worried about what the future holds but I also look forward to the challenges that are coming up ahead. Whether it be finally graduating from college, getting started in a career, or actually finding that sweet little mama that I am really supposed to be with. I guess I am just writing this blog to say thanks to all of the people that have kept me in their prayers when I was really struggling. I especially wanna thank Nic, Jo, and my Madre for helping me out through all of that crap even though they didn't have to at all. Also I just want to ask that you would continue to pray for me as I keep on truckin ahead. I will be praying for both of you that read this blog and will continue to hope that you are having blessings poured down. 

On a side note...I have made a New Year's Resolution to blog more often so hopefully it won't be too long before my next blog. YA MEAN???? Dueces!

Finals Week

I hate finals week. I especially hate finals week this semester. I have not been doing anything this semester. It's been absolutely terrible and I have had some of the hardest classes. It's so crazy because my teachers expect me to work on all this different stuff outside of class. The only problem with that is that I don't want to work on this stuff outside of class. So all that being said it has put me in a predicament now that finals have rolled around. My class grades are super low and my only real chance of passing is that I do pretty good on these finals. The only thing is that I SUCK at studying. I have been in the library for the past two nights for a combined total of 15 hours. I think that I have looked over my material for classes for about 30 minutes. I am really just kind of hoping that the information I learned in the small amount of classes that I have gone to this semester is still lodged into my brain somewhere and I can pull a passing grade for my test. We will see how it goes. Please be praying for me, my finals, and everything else that is going on with me. Thanks everyone....Dueces!

Update

Wow...I have not blogged in forever. I know that a lot of you probably have not missed my random thoughts and boring ramblings but I have missed sharing them. I will go ahead and apologize to the ones who do read my blog for not posting in so long but I feel kindo stupid posting without something to talk about.
Anyways my night has been long and I'm not asleep yet so I am going to go ahead and give an update on whats been going on here. My life has been going GREAT! I recently found out that I am very very close to graduating and while that does make me a little nervous I think that I am going to go ahead and get off my butt and get me a job that I actually enjoy so at the same time I am really excited.
I just got done coaching my youth flag football team for the season. It was by far the best job that I have ever had. Even though my team finished a very terrible 1-9 it was the greatest thing that I have ever done. I wasn't a coach yet when the kids were drafted so I got stuck with all of the kids that noone else picked. While that doesn't sound like a great thing to a lot of people I took it as a challenge and an opportunity. I had the best group of kids that anyone could ever ask for and they came out and busted their butts every time we had a practice. When we finally won that first game (which happened to be the last game of the season) I have never been happier due to a sporting event. The way the kids celebrated and the way the parents congratulated me just left me with one of the greatest feelings that anyone could ask for. I am looking forward do doing it again next year, as well as coaching youth basketball this January.
Classes are going extremely hard and I have found that I actually have to work hard to be able to pass them. But on the flip side I AM HAVING A BLAST hanging out with all of my friends here in Stephenville. I am looking forward to taking random roadtrips, going on retreats, and just sitting around and watching some TV for the rest of my time here at Tarleton.
Well that is about all I have for my update on life right now. Sorry for the long post but I suppose I had a lot to give you guys today. Anyways I hope that I don't take that long to blog ever again. Dueces!

Classes

I am taking all of my business classes this semester. I don't really know how I feel about this yet. My accounting class absolutely sucks. It's hard. I don't know how well this is gonna work out. So be praying about that one. Other than that though I have all marketing classes, which is my major. I really like all of those classes. A couple of them seem like they are gonna take a lot of work. And that really sucks since I don't like to do homework but instead of just lectures all of the time our classes are all discussion based which makes it a LOT more interesting. However my favorite class so far has to be my Public Relations class. We are getting together with a team and creating our own PR firm. My team's firm so far is looking pretty great. Granted we only have a name, slogan, and a logo I think that we are on the right track to being a very successful firm. Anyways, I think (I say I think because I'm not sure I was really listening to our teacher when she was talking about this) that we are supposed to go around town and find a business that will allow us to publicize their business. It seems like its gonna be a cool class and a really cool semester. Short post tonight but I was really just trying to make JMob happy. Dueces!