Reasons I Shouldn't be Left Alone #3

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           As a soccer player my natural state is one of hunger. I constantly need snacks and foods of some sort to get me through my day. During preseason for my college soccer team I was alone in my dorm room between practices. I decided to make some Top Ramen (actually one of my favorites, not even kidding) but to throw in something new I added peanut butter. Most likely not my wisest food choice but it wasn’t that bad. I probably won’t do that again but hey when you’re alone with no one to feed you, peanut butter ramen is a solid choice. 

      

      Not really. Don’t eat peanut butter in your ramen kids. If you take anything away from this it should be 1. A reinforced feeling of common sense that says DON’T put peanut butter in your ramen and 2. I shouldn’t be allowed to cook for myself and 3. I shouldn’t be left unsupervised.

Reasons I Shouldn't be Left Alone #2

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      My baby sister, Zona, wanted to go to the mall with some of her friends and I being the spectacular shining creature that I am, took her to the mall. Not wanting to babysit a bunch of freshmen in high school (so adorable yet so awkward) I found myself wandering around the mall alone in search of activities. I jokingly told Zona that I was going to get my ears pierced out of boredom, but before I knew it I was questioning a sales lady on ear piercing and what that would cost.  After about 10 seconds of intense thoughtful consideration I decided to get my cartilage pierced, the earrings were very sparkly, and the lady asked which side I wanted it on. My mind went to Remember the Titans and left side... STRONG SIDE. So I let the lady punch a hole in my left ear based off of a movie quote and boredom. Solid decision making on my part.

Things I Get Irrationally Mad About Part 1

I tend to get irrationally angry about stuff. These are some of the things I despise. 

Don't be this guy.

·         People that get on sports teams fan pages that aren't actually fans of that sports team that bash on that team's fans and that team. You have no business here. If you aren't a fan of that team don’t like/follow/or comment on their page. Go away. If your passionate about your team, good for you. Stay on your own page.

Stop. Just Stop.

·       Sports puns bumper stickers. If you have a license plate cover or a sticker that says “I dig volleyball” I probably hate you. You like volleyball? Cool. Good for you. I don’t care. 

No. Absolutely not.

·         Predictable movies. I could do an entire rant about how much I hate the movie Avatar. I know. I know. It’s supposed to be very beautiful but if you can’t come up with a name better than “unobtainium” for your precious metal on the planet Pandora then you shouldn’t be making movies. Sorry James Cameron, calling a metal that is hard to obtain “unobtainium” isn’t creative. 

I'm Great at Breaking Stuff.

Seriously how does this stuff happen to me? I was taking a shower and was going to shave my legs for the first time in a week. I went to move the shower head away from me and THE WHOLE SHOWER HEAD COMES OFF. Water starts gushing out of the pipe and going all over the place. I am standing there with my razor in one hand and the shower head in the other, the only thing I could do was laugh. Everyone else in the bathroom was probably extremely confused as to what was so funny, seriously I'm showering not watching a cat video. I tried to screw the shower head back on then realized I should turn the water off first.. After that adjustment I got the shower head back on only to find the water sprayed in every direction when I turned the water back on. This is my life. How do things like that happen.

Making of a Champion

Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson

In honor of the Seahawks playing the 49ers on Sunday I was inspired to write about my favorite team.

My family is originally from Washington around the Tacoma area. I grew up watching the Seahawks  with my dad. I love Sundays, God and football, there is nothing better!

Speaking of God and football, recently a few of the players for the Seahawks put together a video called Making of a Champion. The video is a series of interviews of some of the players and coaches for the team. They talk about their lives growing up and how they started playing football. They talk about the turning points in their lives as they realized they were playing football at the highest level they could and still felt there was something missing. A relationship with Christ.

At Young Life a few weeks ago we showed Making of a Champion as the message during club. It was amazing to see 60 high school students perfectly quiet while watching the video. As we invited our Young Life kids to watch I would like to invite you as well to take a few minutes and just listen to what these players have to say:

I think it is incredible to see players and coaches talking about their relationships with Christ. It goes to show how important a relationship with Christ is to them that they want to share it with their fans.

Oh yeah... Go Hawks.

Reasons I Shouldn't be Left Alone # 1

·         One evening, my whole family had plans during Christmas break except me, so I was doing my usual home alone activities. Including but not limited to: dancing, singing, movie watching, playing with my dog, and random internet surfing. There was a pause in activity as I found my phone to be missing from my immediate whereabouts. After twenty minutes of searching I found it was located in the safest spot I could think of, the fridge. Why it was there, I’m not exactly sure.  Seeing is how I normally take things from the fridge and don't put things in there confuses me to the day on why my phone would be in there… But hey I found it. I probably shouldn’t be left unsupervised.

Adventures in Blogging

In the wise words of Soccer Girl Problems and David after the Dentist I find myself asking this question all the time. Standing at the bottom of a staircase determined to make it to the top with the enormity of the task in front of me. Taking things one stair at a time. My life tends to be a little dysfunctional. I do and say absurd things. It happens. But I am independent and strong with a mind of my own that often leads to situations like this:

or maybe,

or even,

I constantly live in this state where I assume the absurd things that happen to me happen to other people, that it's okay that I am a mess. So whether I am facing a large problem on my own, I some how end up with something that isn't mine, or I have a Nutella party and end up with it all over my face I get to go with it and now tell everyone about it through this blog. So have a laugh and enjoy the ride along with me...

Any yes I did just describe my life in cat memes.

Interesting Life Situations: The Vacuum

·         The other day my mom took Zona, my youngest sister, to soccer practice and texted Hailey, my middle sister, and I about cleaning the house while she was gone. I was in one of my random I’m going to be motivated in a weird way kind of moods and went all OCD on my house. Of course while cleaning I had put in my head phones and was having my own little dance party. I pulled out the vacuum for the living room and I swear on Abraham Lincoln I hit the button to start the vacuum. Fun fact about me, I listen to my music EXTREMELY loud and three minutes into vacuuming my song changed... It got strangely quiet in the room and I looked at the vacuum. I turned and looked at Hailey, who was sitting on the couch watching the Star Wars marathon on TV. She gave me a quizzical look as I just kinda said “this isn’t on” in a bleak attempt to explain what I was doing. Hailey replied “no” with a what is my sister smoking of course the vacuum isn’t on kind of look on her face. Realizing I had been vacuuming for three minutes without it actually being on is a feat in itself. The only thing I could think was: “does this happen to normal people?”