halloween!

I remember being a little kid and halloween was on my list of favorite holidays! 2nd next to chritmas of course! The idea of kids dressing up in costumes and knockin on peoples door for candy is kind of weird when you think about it? Ha but it was always a lot of fun. My friends and I use to get pillow cases full of candy! Once you get older halloween sorta fades a little. You still remember it and maybe go to the haunted house, watch a scary movie or two, or go to a party! This year we were fortunate that the holiday landed on a friday! What a great time to have a party, I will be attending one shortly and im somewhat excited. I am stealing my youth directors idea of being a sandwich! Take 2 pieces of bread put one on my stomach one on my back and saran wrap it! ah great fun. k bye

Choir Concert

This past Friday was our first choir concert of the year. I am in concert choir this year, like all the other sophomore boys, and our concert choir is pretty good. If you compare them to last years we are absolutely terrible! But that's just because last years concert choir was amazing and i wish i could have been apart of it. Our first couple of songs went pretty well. When we pulled out the book of Vivaldi it wasn't so great. In the book there is 4 pieces we sing with the orchestra when we performed them they weren't but they were by no means good. We had two shows that night the first one we did alright but the second one was a little better! I think choir concerts are a lot of fun and the majority of the time you arent performing so its a good social time for you and your friends. I know i had fun. I hope our choir can improve some and im looking forward to all the upcoming shows and festivals! k bye

Fifa 09

Fifa 09 has officially come out as of October 15th!..I got it on that day. Although I played 07 and 08 with my friends all the time, I havent owned a fifa game since 06 which is a great game! Let me tell you im happy with the purchase! I bought it for xbox 360, the graphics are great, the movement is good and all the extras and features are great! If im not playing in tournament mode with my friends I like playing manger mode and be a pro, they are both really fun. In manager mode you pick a team to coach and you deal with trades rosters scouts and basically everything! In be a pro you pick one pro (or make your own) and you play with a team and try to lead that team to a cup! There are only a few things I dont like about the game, they are only minor things though. One is when your looking at your roster you have to push a button to see the fatigue/tiredness, where in 06 it was right there with the overall! This might not sound like much but its kind of a hassle when you need to sub your tired players and you dont know how good the subs are. Another thing and probably the only other thing is you cant manage your roster right before the match you have to change it for good, then change it back. These little flaws do not keep me from playing the game and they also dont stop me from beating Jeffy, Spencer and Dan everytime i play them! :P

Vikings vs. Bears

I was on my way home from the boundary waters today (sunday) and we were listening to the vikings and bears game. It was a pretty close game all through. But from what I heard it was a typical bears win, they get a couple lucky bounces and they win. I mean Kluwe could have easily just fell on that ball instead of trying to pick it up and punt it again! Its just stupid mistakes on are part that are holding us back from the 1st place position! Who would expect a 48-41 game too! I mean we are talking Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears!! Two of the leagues best defenses and not so talented offense! 13-10 sounds more reasonable! But at least it was an exciting game!

BWCA

Today ended the long weekend for us. I just got back from being up north for 4 days. It was a lot of fun like I said in my last blog it was my dad and I and then Joel and Sam Matheson. We had a ton of fun. The first night we stayed at Lake Polly and the camp site we stayed at was amazing! The next day we headed up to Malberg, this lake is really pretty, our camp site there was pretty good too, but im not sure any of the sites could beat the one we stayed at on Lake Polly. If you dont remember from my last blog, the boundary waters is up north, and there are many different entry points you can start at, once you portage and paddle in aways you are far from the real world it is so peaceful and nice. Portaging is where there is a gap of land between lakes and you have to take everything out of the canoe and hike to the next area. They are measured in what they call "rods" A rod is about the length of a canoe, or 5 yards. None of the portages this year were to tough the longest one we had was 136 rods. And although it might seem easy its not, because you are either carrying a heavy canoe, or a really heavy pack! The ground isnt flat either there are a lot of rocks and hills along the way, but its totally worth it once you get to the spot you want! I highly suggest you think about going sometime if you havent already!
k bye

Upcoming Week!

This upcoming week is going to be a ton of fun. To start things off on the right track we dont have school Thursday or Friday! So we have a short week, but on either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning I'm headed up to the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota for a canoe trip.! I love it up there, We haven't taken a trip there in over 2 years. When I go its usually my dad me and Joel and Sam Matheson. Joel is my dad's friend and Sam's a friend of mine so it works out nice. We always have fun up there, its incredibly beautiful and every lake in the Boundary Waters has restrictions on boats, there arent any that can go on the lakes, so you can basically drink the water straight fromt he lake. We always see some wild life up there, one time my dad got about 10 yards away from a big moose. He got an awesome picture off it as you can see. So to end this blog I just wanna tell you im really excited!
k bye

The Glass Passenger

I just got the new Jack's Mannequin CD "The Glass Passenger" not to long ago. I've listened to it a little and I like it a lot. Some of my friends don't like it as much. One of them said that they changed to much. I think bands change all the time and I personally like the so called "new sound". The first half of the CD is awesome!!.. and then there are a few live songs from there old CD on the bottom half. There old CD is pretty good too! My favorite song so far on the new album would have to be "Spinning"...I dont know maybe you won't like it I recommend it though, give it a chance and check it out !

Cool people dumb decisions

I dont know where to start. I guess you could just say im really fed up with gifted and talented human beings who potentially throw there lives or highschool career away just to get high/drunk or have sex on the weekends. I mean to me its just not worth it!! What if you had a kid or gotten an STD!? And for drinking and drugs, not only will you get a bad reputation, your parents pissed at you along with some of your friends, but your gunna get kicked off your team or at least have to sit have the season pending on the situation. It just doesnt make sense! You work hard every practice trying to improve and get better you take one drink get caught and bye bye to all the hard work/the season! And then colleges find out and your screwed there too! Not for all colleges but maybe the one you were thinking about going to! It just makes me sick to my stomach to see these wonderful athletes/students throw everything away cause they think there invincible. If you truly take the time and think about it, ITS NOT WORTH IT! k bye :)