So, MineCon has started today and I wish I was there meeting all the important people who have created this game. but alas I am poor and have no money.

I should be making breakfast so that mom and I can get to work on the basement as it is still a huge mess.

we haven't even touched the shed yet.

I have a stake dance tonight up in Provo. I will be taking a girl Named Jessy, she is from great Britain she is pretty awesome.

Madison and Duncan are still sleeping and mom is talking to Parris on the phone. some things just never change. which can be a good thing. I am just a little jealous that they get to sleep in till all hours of the day but I never got to when I was growing up.

oh well. that's life right? the older kids get the strict rules and the younger ones get the relaxed you'll live rules.

the weather out side is pretty nice as of right now. its a little windy but it should "blow over" haha.

well I am going to make some eggs and cheese to put on some tortillas.

ttfn.

Dear Blog,
sorry I have abandoned you for the past few months, life has been crazy.
I have been introduced to a new game called Minecraft and it is "Flippin Sweet".
I had my Friend Scott Holt set up a server and now Stephen wall, David Wall and my self are all playing on the same world, its pretty addicting.

also I have moved from the Glenwoods since our last encounter, I now live in the Moon apartments just one block south of campus, its great, the ward is fun, I am still trying to get to know all the people in the ward,
the ward consists of the Moon apartments Building D only, and a bunch of random houses.

each house has its own name,
such as " the big house" "the brown house" "that house" "corner house" and a few others, I think all the houses are guys only. which is kinda funny.

this past week I decided I would get out and date, tonight I am going to see the play the "Drowsy chaperone" with a girl from my ward Named Ashley Hasna, it should be fun. I will post pictures if I remember too :)

Tomorrow night is Friday and I am taking a girl from the Glenwoods to BYU's "world of Dance", I hope it will be good.

right now I am working, or rather should be working on the MCS orders that come in on Wednesdays, they are a list of about 100-150 schools out in Memphis TN, MCS stands for Memphis County Schools, these orders are a real pain because there are so many of them and the customers never order on the correct days, we always have to modify the accounts to make sure the customers will get the correct product.

these are not the worst though,
the worst Orders are the OCPS orders which are the Orange County Public Schools, it seems like the people in Florida( Orange County in FL) are stupid. I would not send my kids to school down there just because of the problems they have placing their bread orders.

they never order on the correct day, they use the wrong product codes and they don't put the orders in a format that is understandable. its rather aggravating.

I almost quit twice this week because of those orders. I am still considering quiting but the problem would be trying to find a job that pays as much.
I think I just need to take the pay cut and move on.
I also need to get back into School but am hesitant because last time didn't work out so well.

well its been about 15 minutes of wasted time. I should get back to ordering. I will write more later if I remember too.

Blog ya Later.

Expiration dates.

Okay so today while at work I go to the vending machine which gets reloaded EVERY week right?and I buy some potato skin chips. Which are normally very very tasty.

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and as I take the first bite, I think, this bag tastes weird.... and then I think wow this tastes stale..... and then I look at the expiration date, its 02/09/2010 . one of the most nastiest chips I have ever eaten. I am going to keep them and give them back to the Vending machine man and demand my money back. I spent a dollar on these stupid chips. I am wondering where the heck they came from. who in their right mind would try and sell chips this old? ugh nasty. I keep having the taste come bubbling up. yuck.

well that is all I have to report for now.

B.Y.L

Wheel of Time update

Okay so I restarted the W.O.T saga, I am on page 123 and Rand just found out he is adopted and that he has to leave the two rivers with Matt and Perrin to save the the Villages. pretty crazy at the detail that Robert Jordan put into this first chapter.

I will try to keep reading and update every so often.

B.Y.L

Day off.

This week for my day off I talked Ben into going down to the Hot pots in Meadow, it was a blast. He picked me up from work we then went and picked up some fins from Target and then headed to Kanosh. we Picked up Jessica Wall and Shelly R. two girls from Fillmore, Justin Wall had to work and couldn't make it.
we spent about two hours out there swimming around. when we first got there. a couple was swimming around but when we pulled out the fins and goggles they got out and left :) so we had it all to our self's :) after staying in the big one for about forty minutes we went out to the bigger ones and played around. the wind was blowing and it dried us off pretty fast. it was a very nice day.

on the way down to Kanosh we hit a piece of metal and it took a nice big chunk out of Ben's exhaust pipe. pretty ridicules.

after the Hotpots we went to Kanosh and stopped at Moms house and changed clothes. we then headed to Fillmore and had a hot dog and marsh-mellow roast in the Walls back yard. after we ate and it was dark Justin and I played cops and robbers with some of the neighbor hood kids. it was pretty darn fun :)
Ben and I ended up leaving around eleven.

it was a wonderful summer day. I wish I would have taken pictures. I need to start doing that. it would be nice to have pictures to post along with my boring words.

well that's all I can think of right now.

Blog ya later.

Day off, camp out, trip to vegas.

okay so Tuesday morning I got up at five thirty and went to work after work I hung out with one of my good Friends ,C.P, we went for a walk and talked about life, girls, and school.
after that I booked it to Kanosh got my sleeping bag from moms and then went down to Manderfield where I met up with D and his scout troop... after I got un-lost :)
when I got there the kids were just finishing up random skits. it was pretty funny.

we then got the camp ready for sleep, cleaned up the cooking area put fishing poles away and made sure every one was going to be warm enough. in the morning we got up at about six fifty and had flag ceremony after that the boys got into swim trunks and did a "polar bear" swim. the water looked really cold. D stayed in for a while but then climbed out as last time he did this swim he got hypothermia and didn't want it to happen again.
I then had to race back to Kanosh and pick up Mom and we went down to Vegas to pick up her new van, we got to Vegas around one pm Nevada time Mom had an appointment with DR. Royal. after that we went to the guys house to pick up the van he was supposed to be there at four but he wasn't, we waited for about 45 minutes then he finally showed up and he was driving Mom's Van. he was supposed to have had the windshield fixed but "didn't have time" he even drove it 1,000 miles after Mom Paid for it. stupid man.
I then got lost trying to find the windshield replacement place and we missed our appointment. Mom's I phone screen then got magnified and wouldn't go back to normal. so we went to Verizon store to see what they could do and they said they couldn't fix it and that we should go to the Apple store so we did and the tech guy came out and said hit the screen twice with three fingers and every thing will go back to normal. it was that simple. so we went back to the gas station where we left mom's van got it checked the fluids and filled up on gas and headed home. it was 9 o'clock by then and we got to Kanosh at one ish. I then continued on to Provo, mom gave me a caffeine pill that I was told to "nibble a little bit off if you get tired", at about 2 I was really tired so I pulled out the pill looked at it and said its really small why the heck would I nibble it if I can just eat the whole thing. so I tossed it back and bottomed up my water bottle and about half an hour later I was wide awake. it lasted till about eight the next morning. I didn't sleep that night. I cleaned my apartment and did my laundry and then watched Netflix till five thirty when I headed to work. I then worked all day came home and took a three hour nap then went to a Johnathan Jones concert with my good friend "B.K" it was pretty fun. oh and as I was pulling into the Glenwood parking lot that night at three thirty in the morning my exhaust pipe fell off. it was perfect timing. and a huge blessing. I am now back on my bike until I can get it fixed. I have a friend working on it who used to work at an auto body shop before he moved out here. another blessing some one who knows what he is doing. its times like these that I miss Karch.

Blog ya later.

alive and well

hello reader!

yes I am alive, busy, kinda not really.

any who. I started working for hostess foods program at DMI, I now take orders for hospitals prisons and jails as well as grocery stores and hostess thrift stores. I am enjoying it a lot.

I work from six to two thirty mon, tues, thurs, fri, sat, with sunday and wednesday off.

so far I really like having wednesday off.

today will be a kinda busy day. I get off at two thirty and will go get some sun by the pool, then I will go donate blood at four and then FHE starts at five thirty we are going to go do some service for a cemetary in springville. It should be fun. after that we are going to go to a bishopric members house and play games.

any who Blog ya later.

Wheel of Time.

Okay so I am going to re-read the Wheel of time, Starting tomorrow.

its one of my favorites and it has been a while since I read the first one. Two of my friends have already started.

now I get to play catch up :)

weather here is kinda blustery and I never know what each day is going to bring.

Sun? Rain? Snow? Hail? how about a twister?

who knows. what ever the weather May be.

today was gray and overcast and I woke up in a bad mood. I worked, I ran some errons and picked up a free CD/DVD shelf, not sure what I am going to use it for since I only own two dvds and a few cds. how well, I will see what can be done with them.

I did my laundry and surfed the web. I found this awesome site-https://taverentees.com/threads/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

If any one reading this wants to be my Best BEST Friend then please buy me one of these shirts...

:)

well I need my sleep. have a great day/Night and I will blog again sometime down the road....

New Car!

Okay well here is what's new, I bought a car. a nice little Toyota Paseo, its a 1992, it has 196000 miles gets good gas mileage so far, I am going to be taking it to Kanosh this weekend. we will see how it drives.
I noticed this morning that it pulls to the left. I need to have it aligned. I also need to have a chip in the windshield fixed. and then it needs to pass safety and emissions.
which was going to be tight on the wallet but thank you government for taking to much out of my pay check and thank you for giving it back, I will now be able to fix every thing on the car with out having to worry too much about spending too much.

I am thinking its going to be a good car.

I need a name for it though. it came with a name but it just doesn't fit....

funny story....
so I have been on a bike and bus for the past many months right?
I have not been tardy to work in four months.... and then the day after I get a car I am tardy. how lame and embarrassing is that?
plus to day was the mark for when I would be able to have two more points pulled off my record.

I will write more later.

In a Nut Shell

today is Tuesday. this past week end I went to Overton for Jaren Gates home coming talk. I left on Saturday. I took the Aztec shuttle, it was nicer then the st George shuttle but the running times are less flexible. so it has pros and cons. I think next time I will be taking the st George shuttle just because the run times are better.
So on Saturday I had Parris take me to the shuttle stop got on and drove the five hours to ST. George, Nadia was planning on coming and getting me but was not able to so she had one of the guys from the singles branch pick me up. his name is Allen Fabbi. he is a cool kid. getting ready to put in his mission papers just waiting for a few more interviews.
the shuttle got in to ST. George at about six thirty and Allen showed up around seven fifteen. After we got back to the valley I dropped my stuff off at Treve and Anna's where I spent the weekend. I got to play with Sophia for a little while it was great. I then met up with Barbara Becker at Maverick and after purchasing some sugar and caffeine we went over to Chase Hauvers new apartment behind the Overton Post office. we sat and talked till about eleven thirty about old times it was pretty darn fun. Sunday morning I woke up at nine thinking it was ten and got ready for church. I then realized that I was going off of Utah time and played with Sophie for a little bit. I then walked down to the Overton Chapel for Jaren's ward. he gave a great report. he has changed a lot in the maturity level but he is still the same old Jaren.
we then went over to his house for tacos and salad. we then watched some old movies that Chase,Jaren,Patrick Hull,Brad Bloodsoe,Dustin Spreuge, and Oliver Hauver made back when they were 12-14. it was pretty fun to watch. we then went to ward prayer and had cobbler for dessert, afterwards we stayed in the Gym and played line tag, Smurfing, mafia and freeze tag. It was a really fun evening. Monday Morning Chase was kind enough to take me to the shuttle drop off in ST. George, at Five AM. he is my hero. I had such a hard time staying awake. I then Rode the shuttle to meadow where I met up with Mom Madison and Duncan. I bought two Work and the Glory books from DI for Madison, I was able to give those to here while the shuttle stopped for a break in Meadow.
When the Shuttle got to Orem, I waited at McDonald's for the 830 Bus and took it home. I then lazed around the apartment for a while and eventually went down to the hot tub. it was great. FHE got cancelled and so I watched NetFlix all evening.
at about ten Parris Texted me and asked if I could follow her to Lindon to drop Darla off at the Auto Shop so that her Header could be replaced. we drove up there and as we neared the exit parris took off in front of a car and I missed the exit. I then went to the next one and flipped around. we then drove back to her apartment and I rode my bike home. I went to sleep at about twelve and got up at five and am now at work.
I wake up between 4:45 and 5:05 and catch the 811 bus at 5:26 I then ride my bike from the UTA Transfer station to work and usually get here around 5:40.
I then wait about ten minutes for people to show up and then the drama starts.
So far today its been okay.
I mostly sit and wait for any questions to come in.
and that is my weekend in a nut shell.

a pretty big nut shell if you ask me.
so I wonder why we use a nut shell to summarize the size of a story.... why not a pea pod?
what other small Item/container type thing could we use to summarize the size of a story?.

well that's all I got for now.

Blog ya later.

Long weekends

Is it just me or does it seem like you need a vacation from your vacation? I really am sick of traveling I used to think it would be fun to have some kind of job that would take you all around the world or all across the United States, I have come to the conclusion that I would not like it in the least little bit.

I Just got back from Nevada for the fifth time in a month and a half, I hope its a while before I head back down that direction.

It was so good to see friends that I have not seen in a long long time. It was nice to feel at home again.

well the weather is clearing up so I am going to go on a bike ride.

blog ya later.

Random

Well I have changed my schedule back to six am to two thirty pm, I now need to find a second job so I can start making money that will stay in my savings.

I went to the hot tub this after noon and just relaxed, it was great. now I am going to go to the office and grab a cookie.

oh dang, the cookies from Glenwood office are just perfect don't you wish you were here so you could have a Nice warm Chocolate chip cookie fresh out of the oven? well for all I know you could be eating one now, or even something better( not many things are I can only think of a few) The ladies in the office make a new batch every twenty minutes or so. the cookies are so very satisfying. I have had two today.

As I was eating the cookie I walked around and took some snap shots of the place. I like it here, I guess I must since I have been here for a year and a half.

the weather today isn't the best but its nice to get some clouds every once in a while.

I love the smell of rain, there is just something about the smell that is so unique. I have yet to meet some one who doesn't like the smell of rain.

work was okay today I got to do some research for my superviser and listen to some calls to find out if our agent did what she should or if she messed up. from what I found out she did pretty good.

not sure what else to talk about now so I am going to upload some pictures. see if I can get this figured out.

here is the hot tub that I spend a lot of time in. I love this thing, you hear the most strang and interesting stories from people sitting in here. its a lot of fun. although some things just shouldn't be talked about.... any where...

here is a picture from the back side where there is a pond, I wish they would put some gold fish in the pond but one of the office ladies said it would kill the fish.

a different angle on the hot tub

here are some pictures of parris as she was making dessert for dinner group, she was trying to make some chocolate shell bowls for some Ice-Cream, we used to make these during our fancy Valentines dinners. :)

this first picture is right after we melted the chocolate and parris started dipping, the chocolate was just a little too hot and the balloon popped.

here is what was left of the chocolate bowl....
the rest of it made it to the floor :)

and thats all that I have for today.

blog ya later.

Colton

Alright so I think its time to do a picture session... not sure how or when that is going to happen as this week I am hanging out in vegas but some time soon it will be posted.... hmmm my definition of soon is some time this month....

but who knows.

I need to connect my Itouch( such an awesome birthday present from my mom and dad) and then up load all of the photos that I have taken since then.

well I am going to go now post again soon.

addictions and idiots

Okay so at work today I was asked by a girl if she could throw up on me....
what a great start to the week,
and then she starts whining about how she is left out of instant
chat messages because she is not a senior agent any more....
Then I had this conversation with another agent which follows.
I have changed the names for privacy sake...
also if this ever gets to someone from work It can't get back to
the agent I am talking about....
we have been asking the IT guys at work to Give access to four agents
so they can access a folder full of Excel spread sheets
with customer information on them.
Its been months and IT has not done it for us.
They FINALLY got it for three of them but not "guy#1"

(8:10 AM) Guy#1: guess who still doesn't have J drive access haha
(8:22 AM) Me: I will kill some one to get you j drive access.
(8:23 AM) Me: I AM going to kill some one maybe that will hurry them up.
(8:23 AM) MrsMental: Why are you going to kill?
(8:24 AM) Me: because people are stupid.
(8:25 AM) Me: meaning they say they will do some thing and then don't.
(8:25 AM) MrsMental: Oh no.. Was it me?
(8:25 AM) Me: If it was I would have told you. It's IT with the stupid
J drive access issues.
(8:27 AM) MrsMental: I'm surprised that mine is working finally.


some times I wonder if the agent is really mental....
this job can be so fun some times and so aggravating the rest.

I woke up on time today and am in a pretty good mood.
which is way nice as it is a Monday.
I do need to make a dentist appointment as well as do some shopping.
Its going to be a long day.
I also should go to the gym as well as FHE.
busy days are good days. I hope this week goes by fast.

I can't wait till February, I get a whole week off as well as going to a monster
truck jam with my Dad and a few of my brothers.
it should be awesome.

Okay we have a slight problem... I am an addict and I need a hit!
it has been over a week since I have read a book and I need some suggestions....
I like mystery fantasy and historical fiction,
actually I would take anything right now. I just need a good dose of awesome.


Thanks,
Colton.

My tooth

Dear blog readers guess what! My front tooth just got chipped pretty darn good. I was at one of my mission buddy's and he decided it would be fun to eject shells from his twelve gage shot gun and one hit me in the mouth. It feels weird.

well I went and had the dentist fix it for me. he did a pretty good job too. below are the the before and after pictures. It feels okay now that my nose and upper lip have feeling again. besides the drill the feeling and tingling that happen after the Novocain wear off is, I think, the worst part of going to the dentist.

well I am glad that my teeth look semi normal again. I am now off to break in my new front tooth.
T.T.F.N.

New Year

Well its another year and its already flying by. why is it that time has to hurry on? We can have moments when it feels like time has slowed down, but all in all time is always rushing on.

Today.

To do or not to do. that is the question for today.

why is it hard to choose what to do. some one suggests something and you might consider it but then you think about it and you decide against it. but then as the time for what ever it is your thinking about gets closer you start wondering if you should do the thing or just let it go.

on the one hand you might regret not doing it but on the other hand it might not be worth doing...

Today I was invited to go to a masquerade dance in sandy for tomorrow night. The invitation came from a coworker but it was more of a " some friends of mine are going and we need more people do you want to come" kind of invitation. I have asked a few of my friend's and no one wants to go. I really don't want to go with people from work as they are not the greatest kind of people.

oh well I will sleep on it and see what I feel in the morning.

Tonight Stephen, David, Brewer and Emilee all sat around the kitchen table and played with the Neo Cube, it was way fun to watch.
those magnetic BB sized balls are so much fun to mess with.

Tonight on the Bus two guys got on while the driver was taking a break in the transfer station and when the driver got back on the bus he went around to every one to make sure they had passe's or tickets and when he got to the two guys one of them had a pass but the other one had "left his pass and they needed to go back to the dorm to get it so couldn't the driver just get him home so he could get his fare?" I was laughing so hard on the inside.
It was a great excuse and pretty creative.
I mean asking for a free ride so you can "come back and pay for the ride later" is a pretty cunning way to try and beat the system. the driver was able to talk the guys into getting off the bus with out any major problems. at the same time part of me wonders if those two guys actually thought the driver would fall for it. I mean you in a college town, who is going to come back and pay for a ride after they get dropped off? ya thought so not very many. especially if they are wearing earrings and have Mohawk's.
for some reason those two things tend to scream " Don't Trust Me".

the weather has warmed up just a tiny little bit. the snow is starting to melt but not by much. I am sure there are going to be a few more frozen puddles to worry about tomorrow.

well it is getting late. time to end for another night.
take care until next post.

Christmas and a little extra

Well first off its been a while and I apologize for not writing.
I really don't know where to start, well just before Christmas the family (Mom, Dad, Parker, Maddy, Duncan and Parris) came up and we went up to the polar Express which is in Heber Utah, (normally the Heber Creeper) It was way fun, we had some interesting Helpers on our car.
they had Parris and Madison in tears, the helpers were a little "special" the one was very feminine and his partner was just slow...
the femme helper was prancing and skipping and half the time you couldn't tell if he was a boy or a girl the slower one was giving out name tags and when he was filling out Madison's he told her to spell it out slow so she started spelling it slow. M.... A.... and he looks up and say s go faster so she did D..I..S and he looked up again and said I am not that fast. (or some thing along those lines. I got it second hand I just remember looking over and seeing her and Parris almost dieing of laughter) he finished the name tag and moved on down the train.
They handed out cookies and Hot Cocoa it was tasty and fun. Santa got on the train halfway down the tracks and handed out little tops that you spin by squeezing between thumb and fore finger, I got a red one.

That night Parker and I spent the night at aunt Shelly's house so that we could ride with their family down to Lilly's Funeral, it was an eleven hour drive down there. We packed seven people in a little car that only had 5 Seats, up to salt lake where we met up with Anna and Josh, Aunt Shelly and Jenni got in with them and then we headed to Cali.
we got to Keri's house at about five fifty ish, we had dinner which was really good ( Lunch meat on Rolls) it was provided by some family friends.
we then watched a Christmas movie about making sure to Focus on the real meaning of Christmas then we helped fold and tie ribbon on to the programs for the Funeral, after folding two sheets of paper together we tied ribbon and a little fight cancer charm or pin to the ribbon. The Programs were very well done. after we finished that we went to the hotel where Parker, Kendall, Spencer and I shared a room, I slept on the floor because I thought Daniel and Mikey were going to be sharing with us. when I woke up the next morning I found that Spencer had had a bed all to himself :/
we then met up with Dad who had Driven all through the night to get there on time,(which I am glad he was able to make it with plenty of time to spare)
we then had lunch and headed back home. it was another eleven to twelve hour drive back. it was quite a trip. I really enjoyed it.

some time later in December the family came up to do some shopping so that Madison ,Duncan and Mom could all have beds before Christmas as they have been sleeping on air mattress's. We went to Ikea and had a really good time. we then headed up to salt lake and saw the Lights at Temple Square for about ten minutes and then they closed it down so we had to leave :)

Christmas was good, Parris and I went down to Mom's and Dad and the kids came up from Overton. Aunt Robin and Uncle Gary also came to Mom's.
It was really good to see them again after 9 years. Aunt Robin and Uncle Gary got each of us a nice comfy blanket with our Initials on them, as well as Gift Cards to Target.
Santa Brought each of the Boys a Cross bow and Darts,(SOOO MUCH FUN!) we took them out past the cemetery in Kanosh but it was really foggy so we really didn't get to shoot them much.
When I got home I realized I had a nice box Full of old Calendars that I could shoot it was thick enough that the darts wouldn't go through and it was big enough that I can't miss it :) I have been shooting it at random times through out the day, I am getting pretty good at it now :)
I also got the Game Curses, a Grooming Kit with old style shaving cream including the soap and Brush to make the foam, as well as a popcorn maker and A Neo Cube, I will post pictures soon of all my awesome Gifts. Thank you family for another Great Christmas. it was wonderful.

It is now my bed time but I will try to write more often as I have a little more to cover.

any way good bye for now!