The Decade of Decisions

Ok, I know it has been a super long time since I have written a blog entry but after all of the events that have been happening in my life I figure that I should definitely jot some of them down.
This decade that I live in, namely the one from 20-30 years of age has been termed as the decade of decisions. I can't remember who it was but it was in one general conference about 3 conferences ago that these 10 years are the most important in my life. For a few reasons.
1. I am deciding what I will be doing for the rest of my life concerning an occupation.
2. I am setting up patterns, habits, goals, and other lifestyles that will continue with me throughout the rest of my life.
3. The most important of anything that will ever happen at any point in time is I will end up finding that "significant other" that will weather all of these viccissitudes of life with me.
For right now I know that it is basically only the family that reads my blog so I feel safe in saying that I have met the girl of my dreams. She is this super cute girl from Farmington, Ut and her name is Libby Schwab. Thus far we have been dating for 13 days and have just been enjoying life to the absolute max. We have done everything from playing tetris on the Super Nintendo for hours on end to going on 4-wheeler rides in Oak City. Yeah, talk about a sweet spectrum. What could be more fun than having a blast courting someone and being in college and being at this age? Seriously! Having the best diet(ramen and mac-n-cheese) in the whole world totally rocks too! I can have the one of the most tasty meals ever for only 30 cents! haha Libby and I have had uber amounts of fun and the fun just won't stop. One weekend ago I went on the longest date of my life. Not long as in dreadful, long as in it started on Friday and didn't end uptil Sunday night. Yeah, you'd think you'd get sick of each other but not this time around. All I would like to say to those who read this is that she is a special girl and I think i'm falling in love. I say this because I figure most who read this are girls. So, there you have it. You don't have to speculate any further. More news will follow:)

p.s. VIVA Las Disneyland!!!!

Message in a Bottle

Pretend you found this e-mail typed up and printed out in a bottle that you stumbled across.

Day1




Day12: I am still here. This is my 12th day at this fire camp. I think people are there in the outside world. People are losing it here. I think i'm starting to lose it here. I have begun to sing to myself when there are no other "insiders" around. Rumor has it there are still people alive on the outside. If you get this, help me... .... .... ....

haha, ok I guess that might have been a little far stretched but at times, it really does feel like that! It's crazy being the only one from your company here for this long! You can only do so many things to entertain yourself before you just hit ultimate boredom. To the point where things that you once thought were fun, aren't really that fun anymore, they just fill up the spare time. Things really aren't too bad but I can tell you, it's great to be able to call "outsiders" and just talk for hours on end! One thing is to be learned from this: If you ever go on fire, be prepared with multiple activities to keep yourself busy:)

Ben's Law of Fire

Hello everybody! I have come up with a new law that will shake the foundations of the Earth. This new law is that when a person goes on fire they need to accept that everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Yup, that's all there is to it. If you expect anything different then "you got another thing comin'". Thing that have gone wrong thus far:
1. The order they gave us was wrong, almost got de-mob'd.
2. Set up and almost got sent home because some dude was afraid of radiation from the dish.
3. Had to move and repoint.
4. Set up and everything was fine and dandy up until a solar flare hit G26 and fried the power supply to half the satellite. Had to repoint again.
5. Up and running and the wireless doesn't work because there is too much congestion with allt he other wireless devices in a nearby vicinity.
6. Had to run hard lines to half the camp.
So as you can see I have been having a hunky-dory time up here:)
Things that have gone bodaciously awesome:
1. I'm in California about 1 mile from the ocean.
2. Approximate temperature is 65 degrees.:)
3. I am making loads of money... can't complain.
4. I'm surrounded by some really neat people.
5. Everything is working for the time being and there hasn't been one problem for at least one day now!!

Just remember: What can go wrong, will go wrong.

A little thing called the internet!!

Well, here I am sitting in the airport and I have just realized that it doesn't matter where I go, the internet will be there. It is the magnificent stalker! I go into the middle of nowhere and set a dish up and the internet follows me there. I go check into a hotel room only to find that the internet has found me there too. I go to the airport, get frisked and checked the point of no comfort, walk into the terminal and the internet is yet by my side. I am right now at the airport waiting to get on the plane back to Salt Lake City and was just thinking about how immersive(sp) the internet is. Anyway, see ya'll back in the greatest state in the country, world, universe, omniverse, underverse, benly-verse, scripture verse, and all those other verses:)

To do or not to do... too many questions!

So recently I have been trying to figure out what I want to do with my life and I have come to the conclusion that God will just have to write something in the sky because the thoughts of understanding seem to be like the clouds, always out of reach! I have been tossing up ideas of work/marriage/school/more work. The one thing that is a constant in my life is my ramen. Yes, for all those who don't know me I am a walking noodle, nothing more. It's like on Spongebob when Plankton is put into that vaporizer that determines what the object is made of. He was made up of 99% hot gas, and 1% something. I, I am 50% ramen, 20%pasta, 10%meat, and 20% confused! But, after all the talks with the myriads of people that I come in contact with I guess I am still going back to school, ("to prove to daddy that I am not a fool"). Which I am kind of excited for. College is a real challenge which makes it real fun when you can overcome the obstacle lying in wait to tear you down... haha. Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that I have a billion more questions than they do and my life is completely different from everyone else's... right! Thanks for the advice you guys!!

Economics... whats that?

Well, here I am sitting in my economics class and am finding that I don't any desire to pay attention whatsoever. Although I did somehow pull myself out of my apartment and walk all the way up here just to be bored to death by this "fun" econ professor for 90 minutes. Who wouldn't want to do this? Who wouldn't want to go to college? Seriously, could life be any better? hehe Ok, it really isn't that bad. I have learned a lot from this class but to put it simply, I am glad that there are many types and varieties of people in this world. This way i am allowed to choose what I would like to do for life and I won't have to be forced into being an economist. For all those out there who do understand economics, more power to ya!!

p.s. Did I ever mention how cool it is that I can access the internet from anywhere on campus? Such a relief;)

Viva Las Vegas

Ok, so it has been a while since I have blogged... Brett! hehe Yes I did end up taking my first road trip ever and it was super sweet! We had a great time driving a total of 815 miles. Did you know that there is an order to the whole driving system when taking a road trip? I do now. Let me explain. The driver does nothing but drive(obviously). The one in the passenger seat is in charge of trash and being the DJ. The person(s) in the back are in charge of the treats. Well, I thought it was pretty cool that there was a system!!!
We started this excursion on Friday and stayed at Jake Nielson's house that night. Took off the next morning to see Vegas. We ended up going on 2 different roller coasters and watching the infamous Bellagio fountains!! Man was that awesome. I would say that the trip was worth just because we got to see those!!!! We ate at a buffet that night and we were all so tired that we decided to leave at about 9:30. So, I guess you could say that we got out of there before too many crazy things started happening.
Overall it was a total success and a lot of fun to just leave for the weekend and not think at all about school!! Seriously, college is getting tougher and tougher. I am not sure yet whether that is because the semester is coming to a close or as summer nears, the desire to do homework fades. All in all this trip was a much needed relaxant to help me come back and get even more focused on school!