Blog #24
I have had a really up and down semester. I think that I have learned that taking online classes with a full time job, a house, and two kids is not a good mix whatsoever. I underestimated the work I would have to put in and how much time away from my kids and everything I love to do. I think that if I would have tried harder and gotten into a rythm at the start of the semester it would have been alot easier. Now I know what to expect next time I have online classes though. Life has been hectic in the last few months, but it is finally starting to slow down and things are getting alot more simple. Im hoping it keeps going this way so that I can have a little more simple time going through school or else its going to take me a very long time to get done with school. I have found out that kids go hand in hand with procrastination. It is really easy to use kids as an excuse also, so I need to try and steer away from that and just own up to it and get my stuff done. Hopefully I get the hang of it next semester and get into a routine that fits me and my family much better than the one I am in right now, because obviously this one isn't working too great. I sure do wish I would have got the majority if not all of my school work done before I got married. That is in the past now and I dont regret the decision of getting married at all. It is much easier to go through all of this with another person right there, that is for sure. I know if I work hard and change just a little, I will be just fine and I'll be able to knock this thing out. (325)
Friday, April 27, 2012
Blog #23
Smith Optics
-Leadership skills
-Discipline
-Work ethic
-Organization skills
Pro Image (Cashier)
-Taking inventory
-Counting money out of a till
-Speaking with people and selling things
Mountain West Research (Survey taking)
-Persuading people to take a survey
-Perseverance
-Computer skills
Baseball
-Working out
-Hard work
Hunting
-Outdoors man skills
Smith Optics
-Leadership skills
-Discipline
-Work ethic
-Organization skills
Pro Image (Cashier)
-Taking inventory
-Counting money out of a till
-Speaking with people and selling things
Mountain West Research (Survey taking)
-Persuading people to take a survey
-Perseverance
-Computer skills
Baseball
-Working out
-Hard work
Hunting
-Outdoors man skills
Blog #21
Christmas is a very special holiday in my family. Everyone is spread all over the country and spend most of the year with little to no contact. Christmas is the holiday we plan to all meet together and have a mini family reunion. We will decide if it is going to be here in Utah, in California, or maybe in Arizona. The best Christmases are the ones where everyone can afford to make the trip and we can all see each other for that one time of the year. It makes the holidays more fun when you can have your entire family with you to celebrate it.
I love Christmas in my family. Throughout the whole year we dont get to have much contact with one another until christmas comes along. I enjoy Christmas even more when I can see all of my cousins and have someone to hang out with. Now that I have a family it is even more fun because my kids get to meet their relatives for the first time on occasion or get to see their cousins for only the second or third times.
I actually liked writing the first one more. It seems more like a story instead of a journal entry or something like that. It seems more fluent to me when you dont use "I".
I haven't heard much about using the word "I" in a research paper. It does seem that it would be a better paper without it. After all it is a "research" paper, not a "my opinion" paper. Which is what "I" usually means, that you are giving your opinion. If you are using quotes from an article or something, than there is really no place to put "I", unless you are filling in between quotes, which then I think it may be ok. So Im not positive on the rules about that. (317)
Christmas is a very special holiday in my family. Everyone is spread all over the country and spend most of the year with little to no contact. Christmas is the holiday we plan to all meet together and have a mini family reunion. We will decide if it is going to be here in Utah, in California, or maybe in Arizona. The best Christmases are the ones where everyone can afford to make the trip and we can all see each other for that one time of the year. It makes the holidays more fun when you can have your entire family with you to celebrate it.
I love Christmas in my family. Throughout the whole year we dont get to have much contact with one another until christmas comes along. I enjoy Christmas even more when I can see all of my cousins and have someone to hang out with. Now that I have a family it is even more fun because my kids get to meet their relatives for the first time on occasion or get to see their cousins for only the second or third times.
I actually liked writing the first one more. It seems more like a story instead of a journal entry or something like that. It seems more fluent to me when you dont use "I".
I haven't heard much about using the word "I" in a research paper. It does seem that it would be a better paper without it. After all it is a "research" paper, not a "my opinion" paper. Which is what "I" usually means, that you are giving your opinion. If you are using quotes from an article or something, than there is really no place to put "I", unless you are filling in between quotes, which then I think it may be ok. So Im not positive on the rules about that. (317)
Blog #20
I am not the most outgoing guy in the world, except for when it comes to public speaking. It is pretty wild actually, I am quiet and have trouble coming up with stuff to say when I am talking to someone one on one. Public speaking is a whole different thing for me though. I can stand up in church and talk for 15 minutes without anything written down and have no problem at all. My dad is a business consultant and teaches classes to many people, so I think I may be getting it from that. I dont think that I have any conscious strategies that I use while im speaking. I think it just comes naturally and pretty fluent. I think Im pretty good at making eye contact with people and all that good stuff. I think my favorite part of public speaking is making a presentation where I can make a point to people. I like trying to persuade people to agree with my opinion on something. I like the self accomplishment feeling that you get after you make a good presentation and people recognize the job you did. The first major public speaking event I had was my farewell before I left on my mission. It was in front of a few hundred people and it came alot easier than I thought it would, and I really liked it. That may be what swayed me to going into business. The actual confidence I had while I was up there and the realization that I could easily do it. I never really had any fears that I can remember, maybe just a little nervousness but nothing major. As soon as I get up and start speaking I dont have a problem with those nerves anymore and it becomes really easy. The one thing I remember when im speaking is that people arent paying attention enough to hear the mistakes that you make and that you recognize. I try not to over analyze what people are thinking of me. (343)
I am not the most outgoing guy in the world, except for when it comes to public speaking. It is pretty wild actually, I am quiet and have trouble coming up with stuff to say when I am talking to someone one on one. Public speaking is a whole different thing for me though. I can stand up in church and talk for 15 minutes without anything written down and have no problem at all. My dad is a business consultant and teaches classes to many people, so I think I may be getting it from that. I dont think that I have any conscious strategies that I use while im speaking. I think it just comes naturally and pretty fluent. I think Im pretty good at making eye contact with people and all that good stuff. I think my favorite part of public speaking is making a presentation where I can make a point to people. I like trying to persuade people to agree with my opinion on something. I like the self accomplishment feeling that you get after you make a good presentation and people recognize the job you did. The first major public speaking event I had was my farewell before I left on my mission. It was in front of a few hundred people and it came alot easier than I thought it would, and I really liked it. That may be what swayed me to going into business. The actual confidence I had while I was up there and the realization that I could easily do it. I never really had any fears that I can remember, maybe just a little nervousness but nothing major. As soon as I get up and start speaking I dont have a problem with those nerves anymore and it becomes really easy. The one thing I remember when im speaking is that people arent paying attention enough to hear the mistakes that you make and that you recognize. I try not to over analyze what people are thinking of me. (343)
Blog #19
It is really hard for me to think of someone that I really admired. I would think that the first thing to come to my head would be an athlete. I grew up always wanting to play pro basketball, baseball or football. I dont know that I ever admired the person but more admired the situation. I guess I will go in a different direction and say I admired my grandfather while he was still alive. He passed away two years ago from heart failure. He was the rock that held all of my extended family together. It may have been because he was always sick, so we were always up there to help take care of him. It seemed like he was always the calm one in every situation and every problem that our family had. It is hard because he passed away before I ever had a family. I kind of feel like I missed all the good advice that I would have got if he were still alive. I got the teenager advice before he died but never got the adult and father advice that I could have gotten. He was someone that would hide his emotions if things were going bad and he would always put on a good front for people. He didnt want you to see that something was wrong, so in turn it always seemed like he was happy and that made a huge impression on me. He was feeling the same things that everyone else was, but he got labeled a happy person because of the way he acted with you, regardless of his mood. The longer he has been gone, the more and more I miss him. Our family has grown apart since he passed away and I know if he were here, it wouldnt even be close to as bad as it is. (315)
It is really hard for me to think of someone that I really admired. I would think that the first thing to come to my head would be an athlete. I grew up always wanting to play pro basketball, baseball or football. I dont know that I ever admired the person but more admired the situation. I guess I will go in a different direction and say I admired my grandfather while he was still alive. He passed away two years ago from heart failure. He was the rock that held all of my extended family together. It may have been because he was always sick, so we were always up there to help take care of him. It seemed like he was always the calm one in every situation and every problem that our family had. It is hard because he passed away before I ever had a family. I kind of feel like I missed all the good advice that I would have got if he were still alive. I got the teenager advice before he died but never got the adult and father advice that I could have gotten. He was someone that would hide his emotions if things were going bad and he would always put on a good front for people. He didnt want you to see that something was wrong, so in turn it always seemed like he was happy and that made a huge impression on me. He was feeling the same things that everyone else was, but he got labeled a happy person because of the way he acted with you, regardless of his mood. The longer he has been gone, the more and more I miss him. Our family has grown apart since he passed away and I know if he were here, it wouldnt even be close to as bad as it is. (315)
Blog #18
Some of my favorite hobbies are hunting and fishing. I like to group these together because I get the same peacefulness doing both of them. I find it fun to go out and just sit in the wilderness or next to a river. I get a relaxing feeling that I just cant get when I am anywhere else. My favorite thing is to come home from work and just head out to the river or lake. I enjoy being out by myself with no one talking and nothing to bother me. Im not someone that you would call and adrenaline junky, but the little thrill of catching a fish or shooting something while hunting is just perfect for me. The hardest thing for me is to find the time to go out and do it. I struggled to find time before I had kids, but now with kids it is nearly impossible to escape for a while. We just bought a house which takes away any of the extra time I had before. Now I pretty much have to schedule my time to go hunting 6 months in advance in order to find the time. I guess that makes the peacefulness even better, because I dont get it nearly as much. If Im not out by myself I love to go out with my dad. I dont get a whole lot of time to spend with him and I like to make it count whenever I do. We enjoy pretty much all of the same things and get along really well. Hunting or fishing are things we can both enjoy together. The biggest problem with these hobbies are it is the easiest thing in the world to break the bank with it. The more you get into it, the more you can spend on it. (307)
Some of my favorite hobbies are hunting and fishing. I like to group these together because I get the same peacefulness doing both of them. I find it fun to go out and just sit in the wilderness or next to a river. I get a relaxing feeling that I just cant get when I am anywhere else. My favorite thing is to come home from work and just head out to the river or lake. I enjoy being out by myself with no one talking and nothing to bother me. Im not someone that you would call and adrenaline junky, but the little thrill of catching a fish or shooting something while hunting is just perfect for me. The hardest thing for me is to find the time to go out and do it. I struggled to find time before I had kids, but now with kids it is nearly impossible to escape for a while. We just bought a house which takes away any of the extra time I had before. Now I pretty much have to schedule my time to go hunting 6 months in advance in order to find the time. I guess that makes the peacefulness even better, because I dont get it nearly as much. If Im not out by myself I love to go out with my dad. I dont get a whole lot of time to spend with him and I like to make it count whenever I do. We enjoy pretty much all of the same things and get along really well. Hunting or fishing are things we can both enjoy together. The biggest problem with these hobbies are it is the easiest thing in the world to break the bank with it. The more you get into it, the more you can spend on it. (307)
Blog #16
I really am going to enjoy this because I have many stories of it! So I served my mission in Fort Worth, Texas. As most people should know, it is a very diverse group of people. I served most of my mission in the city of Temple. It was very wild when I first got there. It was a bike mission, so we made our way around on bikes all day. The city was big enough that we could only cover about a quarter of it in a day on our bikes. Well the first day we set out and we are riding through a fairly nice neighborhood. We were stopping at houses and I couldnt help but notice, every single person that I had seen, was white. All the other places I had been in were so mixed that this city just didnt feel normal. So the next day we get on our bikes and head to the other side of the city. We got off our bikes and started going door to door. This time, I didnt see another white person the whole entire day. The city was split dead down the center. White people were on one side of the city and african americans were all on the other side. The stereotypes come into place when you would talk to people about why everyone was segregated. One lady told me she didnt want to go into the african american side of town because of all the violence, that there were shootings all of the time and that it wasnt safe. It baffled my mind to hear that because we were over there all the time and never heard of anything. I have some of my best friends that came from that side of the city. The flip side of that is for the first two weeks that we were going to the black side of town, everyone thought that we were cops. No one would tell us anything, afraid that they would get in trouble. It was just wild to me of all these misconceptions that could have been solved if they would talk to each other and realize they were false stereotypes.(368)
I really am going to enjoy this because I have many stories of it! So I served my mission in Fort Worth, Texas. As most people should know, it is a very diverse group of people. I served most of my mission in the city of Temple. It was very wild when I first got there. It was a bike mission, so we made our way around on bikes all day. The city was big enough that we could only cover about a quarter of it in a day on our bikes. Well the first day we set out and we are riding through a fairly nice neighborhood. We were stopping at houses and I couldnt help but notice, every single person that I had seen, was white. All the other places I had been in were so mixed that this city just didnt feel normal. So the next day we get on our bikes and head to the other side of the city. We got off our bikes and started going door to door. This time, I didnt see another white person the whole entire day. The city was split dead down the center. White people were on one side of the city and african americans were all on the other side. The stereotypes come into place when you would talk to people about why everyone was segregated. One lady told me she didnt want to go into the african american side of town because of all the violence, that there were shootings all of the time and that it wasnt safe. It baffled my mind to hear that because we were over there all the time and never heard of anything. I have some of my best friends that came from that side of the city. The flip side of that is for the first two weeks that we were going to the black side of town, everyone thought that we were cops. No one would tell us anything, afraid that they would get in trouble. It was just wild to me of all these misconceptions that could have been solved if they would talk to each other and realize they were false stereotypes.(368)
Blog #15
So I have been absolutely horrible about this whole blog thing! I had better get a move on and get them all done really quick so here it goes! For one of my classes recently I had the assignment of watching the Pursuit of Happyness. I watched it with my wife, and it was the first time either of us had seen it. I found it to be one of my favorite movies that I had seen in a long time. I started just chatting with her about it to get some opinions for the assignment that I had to do. She talked about how much she loved the movie and how real it felt. She mentioned of how sheltered we really are here in Utah. You dont see a lot of extreme poverty or people fighting to get shelter and food. She talked about never having to worry about being out on the street her whole life. It was a very genuine movie and touched her very deep. I have noticed since we watched that movie, she has started valuing things in her life more. She doesn't ever take something for granted, she always cherishes it. She is always worried that our kids won't have what they need and is always looking out for their best interests. How often do you get a movie that can teach you a life lesson that can be so important? Movies are changing quickly to the violence or sex and we dont get many of the important soul searching movies anymore. That's why I took this one to heart so much and so did my wife. I would rather take that to heart than the other crap that we could be watching. All in all, I think we both saw the same values in the movie and enjoyed it. (308)
So I have been absolutely horrible about this whole blog thing! I had better get a move on and get them all done really quick so here it goes! For one of my classes recently I had the assignment of watching the Pursuit of Happyness. I watched it with my wife, and it was the first time either of us had seen it. I found it to be one of my favorite movies that I had seen in a long time. I started just chatting with her about it to get some opinions for the assignment that I had to do. She talked about how much she loved the movie and how real it felt. She mentioned of how sheltered we really are here in Utah. You dont see a lot of extreme poverty or people fighting to get shelter and food. She talked about never having to worry about being out on the street her whole life. It was a very genuine movie and touched her very deep. I have noticed since we watched that movie, she has started valuing things in her life more. She doesn't ever take something for granted, she always cherishes it. She is always worried that our kids won't have what they need and is always looking out for their best interests. How often do you get a movie that can teach you a life lesson that can be so important? Movies are changing quickly to the violence or sex and we dont get many of the important soul searching movies anymore. That's why I took this one to heart so much and so did my wife. I would rather take that to heart than the other crap that we could be watching. All in all, I think we both saw the same values in the movie and enjoyed it. (308)
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