Wow… I guess I’m just not very good on staying up to date on things am I? I guess we can all rely on me updating about once a month, yes? Unless something super sweet happens that makes me break this trend. Well here’s a quick update on things…
Countdown to things:
Black Lake for the summer – 17 days
School being over – 12 days
Days till Caroline and Lianna visit from Pine Valley – 12
One of my favorite days of the year is Opening Day. I believe it is a holiday, but its a shame not many share this feeling haha. Seattle Mariners play the Minnesota Twins tonight, actually in like 30 minutes. Here are some things that I will say about tonight’s game:
Griffey will go 1-3 and an rbi. Brian Aaby and I talked last night about this but I still don’t think he can stretch one out in the Metrodome into a double. he’ll either hit it high enough to go out for a home run, or (what I think will happen) he will get a long single.
Felix will go 6 innings. Striking out no more than 5. Either a loss or a no decision.
Sweeney will have the best offensive night. He’ll go 2-3 with at least one rbi.
We will not see Morrow tonight, but we will see Kelley or Jakubauskas make their Major League debut.
Liriano is the key for the M’s tonight. If 2006 Liriano shows up ( 12-3 2.16 era and 144 strikeouts) its lights out. But if the Liriano since then (6-4 3.91 era in only 76 innings) *missing the entire 07 season* We have a shot.
Last post was on Tuesday when we were all off at college in Cuyamaca. Here is a lowdown of the rest of the trip to Pine Valley.
Rest of Tuesday: We came home from college and switched houses and took pictures with Dusty and left her our contact info. Then had family time at the Murrell’s.
Wednesday: We went on into El Cajon. Went to Guitar Center and showed them what’s up about playing guitars in the acoustic room and let Josh do his thing on the drums. Then we went on a tour of the Taylor Guitars headquarters which is probably my favorite part. Super sweet! Then we met up with the girls and went to In N’ Out again. Still super good every time. Then we went to the mall and I bought my San Diego Padres baseball hat and we went to this awesome store that was Christian owned, called C28 or Not of This World. Even got to pray with the sales guy! Then we went back to the Murrell’s house and watched Van Hellsing the youth pastor Jeff scared well, really only me… but I jumped and and screamed. But I was closest to the window so it was okay to be scared.
Thursday: Went to College again. The guys that apparently don’t actually take classes and only play Magic: The Gathering all day were back. We also looked up exciting happenings on everyone’s birthday on Wikipedia. After school we had a game night at the church building and that was SUPER FUN! SUPER, SUPER FUN! after that we attempted a movie at a friends house but that turned to an epic fail cause we all fell asleep and went home like 20 minutes into the movie.
Friday: We went to go see Estaban at the Bible camp. We also painted a side of the Murrell’s house. Which with the four of us boys, only took about a half hour. After that we went to a lake and had a BBQ. This was my second favorite part. We played volleyball, swam for a little bit, canoed, and chilled. The food was super good and Dylan and I met the exact way we want to be as dads. After the BBQ we attempted a movie night again and this time it worked! We watched Twilight and I got to complain the whole movie to this girl that loves the movie. Turns out they totally change everything about vampires in the movie, but they have a black MacBook and talk about the Seattle Mariners so I was surprised to say that i almost kinda liked it.
Today: Woke up SUPER SUPER early, left and came back home. Dylan and I decided we are going to move and live in Pine Valley and want t go back at least once a year until then.
School starts on monday…. meh… But I get to write creatively in Creative Writing, so we’ll see.
For those of you who aren’t a friend on Facebook with me or don’t get to see me in person, my friend Dylan and I had this huge countdown to us returning to Pine Valley, CA. A few years ago we came here on a mission trip and for our spring break we decided to come back and hangout with everyone here. We got in Saturday night and for these first few days have been staying with an extremely nice lady from the church named Dusty. Both Dylan and I are incredibly thankful for her super kind heart. Here is the low-down on what has gone-down so far:
Saturday: We landed, and our welcome party made a mean joke that they were in LA not San Diego… We went to In N’ Out. We took pictures at the “Welcome to Pine Valley” sign. We learned that there is apparently a platypus that lives in the creek here… (we’re still skeptics).
Sunday: Went to church. Got to see a friend who we thought wasn’t going to be in town. He sang a super sweet song. Dylan and I got to talk to the youth group for a few minutes. Played Rock Band for like 3 hours at the Murrell home. (Pastor’s house). Watched movies at Dusty’s with Lianna, Angie and Caroline.
Monday: We hung out at the camp. took pictures outside of the room we stayed in 2 years ago. Played around at the camp for a while. We had a picnic in the park with Lianna and Caroline after going to the handy mart/deli/pizzeria. Met more people back at camp and played around some more. I made a full court (technically only half court) shot on film! Everyone got sunburned. We drove up to Mt. Laguna and took pretty sweet pictures. Then came back to Dusty’s and she made Spaghetti and we watched Heroes.
So far today: Woke up at O’Dark thirty. Came to school with everyone who goes to Cuyamaca College. Sat around playing on our computers cause we have Wi-Fi here. Then we got left alone cause everyone had class. So now Dylan and I are upstairs in the cafe and I just had a sandwich and we are waiting for our friends to get done with class. Later today we will be switching to staying with the Murrell family for the rest of the week.
Tomorrow the plan is to go to the mall and the Super Wal-Mart! I will be buying my San Diego Padres hat at the Lids store in the mall tomorrow!
We’ve been taking tons of pictures and a good amount of videos so be prepared to probably see them soon!
So I decided today that I’m going to start running more. It was a nice day today so I was more motivated that the normal, ‘I should start running again… Meh just kidding, it takes exercise’ But after a few minutes of searching around my mess of a room for my running shoes and my knee braces, I found myself at Fred Meyer looking for those fancy little iPod holders for your arm and some nice running earphones. To my surprise there was a coupon for iPod accessories so that helped me get pumped for running too.
About 15 minutes later I’m standing by the street waiting for ever to cross because cars were driving (Can you believe it? Who do they think they are? King’s of the road? sheesh =P) When I finally crossed the street and got to the jr high’s track i started to run. I was feeling pretty good about the running. For like 100 feet. Then my not playing sports for over a year kicked in. I made it about 2 laps before I was coughing from being so tired. After a ‘brief’ stretching break (and a lay down break) I got back to the track. I ended up running about 2 miles and walking 1.
My legs are sore and even now, like 3 hours later I still feel the side-ache. But I think I am going to stick to this plan of trying to run, maybe not EVERY day, but more frequently.
Other updates:
Work closed one store so I work less now (good and bad thing I guess)
YoungLife has started back up for this year and I’m pumped about it
Got an A on my history paper last week!
Going to Black Lake for the Lake Club tomorrow! Skateland! woo!
I’m progressing at my guitar skills
Oh, my ukulele string broke… =/
Um… My dad’s new dog has finally gotten used to me
My dad got a new dog. (missed that one until just now.)
Going to the Lion King play with Frankie on the 11th!
Sorry for the big gaps between posts. But anyways, on to the good part!
So I was working sunday afternoon at the mall, at my store the Seattle Team Shop. A ways into my shift a man and his college aged son came in. Over hearing the older gentleman speak, I couldn’t help but think I had heard it before. Some minutes later, some older ladies joined to and they said hi to “Tom.”
That’s when I had a thought about who this guy might be. Tom Huttler is the PA guy for Safeco Field. He says like “now batting for the Mariners, Right Fielder number 51 Ichirooooooooo Suzukiiiiiiii!” And when they paid for the Seattle Sounders FC coat I saw his name on his credit card. Sure enough it was Mr. Huttler himself. I didn’t want to be like a little school girl and be like “oh my gosh! your Tom Huttler! You say, ‘now batting for the Mariners’ ” So i let them go. Afterwords I told myself I would say something next time a famous person (locally or nationally) came in.
Well I got my chance a few hours later when none other than Darryl Tapp of the Seattle Seahawks came in to buy stuff for his little kid. The only thing is that I didn’t realize it was him till after he signed his receipt and was walking out.
MAN! It was totally Legit that they came it, but I missed two opportunities to talk to someone who is involved with professional sports… How unLegit is that? I can guarantee you that next time someone famous comes in I will have an autograph or picture or something!
Well I’m off to work again! Hopefully someone cool comes in again! *crosses fingers*
R.L. Judd
For those of you who want to join my campaign of making Legit the word of 2009 and want more clarification on what it means, how to use it and when to use it, etc. Urban Dictionary had this as a definition:
(adj.) A modern synonym for words such as “cool,” “ill,” “tight,” or “dope.” Used to describe a noun that is of a particularly excellent quality. The slang use of this term is slowly but steadily increasing in popularity.
Now if that last little bit isn’t a beckoning call to bring it mainstream, then I can personally come to you and give you a flick to the forehead so you will understand better haha.
As far as usage is concerned, use Legit as much as possible. If at anytime you have an opportunity to say anything like “that’s cool” or “that’s the best” or “sweet” or pretty much any phrase that can be taken in a positive context can be changed to “that’s Legit” or “I’m Legit”.
However, using Legit is only acceptable if said properly. Although many are brainwashed to believe Legit and legitimate are the same thing, they are wrong. Legit is more Legit that legitimate. Saying legitimate instead of Legit is not Legit. Also, non of you are MC Hammer so saying “too Legit to quit” is also unLegit.
I hope this has made your understanding of Legit more Legit. If you have questions or concerns whether you usage is Legit or not, leave a comment with your usage and I will give you the ruling.
Also, when used correctly and in order for it to be correctly used, it needs to be a capital L. Legit is Legit. legit is NOT Legit!
So I finished up a 3 day winter retreat at non other than Black Lake this week. Imagine that? But upon arriving, I found out that people actually read this blog to keep in touch with me. I was told by a number of people that I needed to update. So here it is all you waiting fans haha.
With this being college bowl season, I thought I’d go with a university feel to this update (pretty much, how my resent time to Black Lake went. The University of IN YOUR FACE has many great features that appeal to many types of people. we have…
Athletics: With a camp-wide dodgeball tournament the highlight of monday, I was part of a team known as Staff Infection (my idea). Because staff infections can kill you if you don’t get it fixed, and we were too LEGIT to be fixed. So we were gonna kill everyone. (athletically speaking) Turns out we pretty much did. I ended up hitting a camper in the face and popping out his glasses lens.. which I felt super bad for. (Chance, or Sage, if you read this I still feel super bad for that) But in the finals, I pretty much laid down the smackdown. So our athletics are IN YOUR FACE! (literally)
Schooling: With trained staff and talented speakers we are prepared to bring you to the brink of your norm. With a theme of Elemental, Binky took things back to jr. high. well, for the campers maybe to a science class they have yet to take. But he broke down the process of Matter being made of Atoms and Atoms to Protons and Protons to Quarks. And even smaller is a “thing?” that has a name that I forgot, but it is shaped like a cross. It is Super Legit to see that at the base of our life, the life He created, God stamped a sign of his love for us. IN YOUR FACE! HOW LEGIT IS THAT?!
And I have officially decided what my 2009 New Years Resolution is! And everyone is invited join! But I am going to try my hardest to make the word Legit the official word of 2009! Its already spread all over Black Lake, and if they follow through, to Sequim and Anderson Island. However, Legit is not to be confused with the phrase popularized by MC Hammer: “Too Legit To Quit”. Not being MC Hammer and saying this is totally UNLegit. So use Legit whenever something is awesome, cool, you really like it, or it just feels right to say it, SAY LEGIT ALL YOU CAN IN 2009!
So what you can take from this blog about the University of IN YOUR FACE is that, if you haven’t yet realized, I LOVE BLACK LAKE, and That’s Legit, and DO YOU PART TO MAKE LEGIT THE WORD OF 2009!
I decided to expand my “sports” posting beyond just baseball for once. Each saturday I am greeted with what my mom calls a “sports fan dream”. College football from about 10 in the morning till about 8 or 9 at night. I really enjoy watching all the different games ranging from watching Washington and Washington State battle for the award of most pathetic to what I really enjoy watching this year, good college quarterbacks.
For the most part in years past quarterbacks have had to play two different roles in their careers. It always seemed like in college the only way for a QB to excel was to be completely two dimensional (a passing treat and a running threat) Jake Locker and Tim Tebow to name a couple. But when they get to the NFL you can’t succeed that way. You have to be a pocket passer first, and in extreme cases of possible face-meets-dirt you may be able to run away.
But this year I am seeing quite a few legit drop back and let it fly passers. Most coming from the Big 12. With QBs like Chase Daniel, Sam Bradford, Graham Harrell, and Matthew Stafford it looks like the type of play needed to succeed in the NFL is breaking through into the collegiate level. Colt Brennan for Hawaii was the golden boy of let it fly when he was in college the last few years. He set an NCAA record for most career touchdowns when playing for the Warriors.
I will say that when you have a quarterback who can dominate both the air and the ground it is mighty fun to watch. I just don’t care much for Tebow or Colt McCoy much myself. My favorite current two dimensional QB is Pat White for West Virginia. However bad he and his team may be doing, he is very fun to watch when on his A game.
All this coming from the guy who whenever he plays any football video game, focuses on the run game more than the passing game.
I’ve been in a very superhero mood lately. Sitting around after getting my wisdom teeth pulled doesn’t really leave me with much much to do. So what else would I do? Watch a bunch of superhero movies, DUH! Watching my Marvel movies and the fun new poll aspect to WordPress has brought the latest installment in my Blog’s Polls. Have fun and remember, I do judge you on who you pick. haha
