More Than Just A Game, let the king reign supreme!

Dear Diary,

HELLO HELLO!!! It has been an extremely wonderful weekend for me and myself. Sorry for all of you who didn't get to be a part of it but the next weekend is only 5 days away and the party never stops! So Friday night I had the night off so we rocked the night away for a few hours, why does Rock Band make my life so much better? Maybe because I am unnaturally good at every aspect, especially singing Tenacious D or the song Down With The Sickness. I am sorry for all of you who have not yet had the opportunity to listen to me lose my voice to those songs. It is quite a show every time. So Paige was coming down to hang out Friday night with me and a few other buddies at the Nickelcade but I forget that there is something called High School kids here in Provo and that they actually go out and do things on Friday, like take over the Nickelcade. That plan went up in smoke pretty quick so we just ended up going to the theater to support my man Denzel Washington. Post movie my tummy was a rumbling so we swung by work and snatched up J-Hep and Sarah and made the exodus to Denny's to partake of midnight feasting. I got their new Meat Lover's Trio and as delicious as it was my gut/intestines/etc. hated me about 2 hours later. I'll let your imagination fill in the rest with what I need. After we ate J-Hep and Sarah came over to watch some Arrested Development with me and the twins at my place, why is that show amazing regardless of how many times I have watched it? Which is probably in the ten times through range. So I finally went to bed around 3 in the morning, scratch that, probably a bit later because let's be honest, it was a friday night and I was just enjoying life and I didn't want that night to end. However alas, I did eventually fall asleep on the couch and woke up Saturday just in time to do my job for cleaning checks. I just need to say that cleaning checks here at the Elms are the biggest joke of a cleaning check ever. The kid basically walks in and we just chat with him for a minute about sports or whatever, just to entertain him and he checks everything off and leaves. Pretty sweet deal if I do say so myself. Well I just sat around for a little relaxing until I had to go into work. I was surprisingly looking forward to work that night, little odd but my job and co-workers rock so why wouldn't I be excited to head in to work. Ok, maybe every now and again I am not but that is only because I am not a fan of working with a certain individual who I apparently offend every time we work together, I find it amusing in a odd way. Oh well. So anyway I was working with Courtney and Emmanuel that night, which also happened to be Emmanuel "Manny"'s last shift, peace out home skillet! So all in all Saturday night, although being a long 8 hour shift was a real good night for me, watched some good movies, listened to some good/great cd's and had good conversations and company. Around 11:45 Sarah came in with a delicious treat. One of those cups of pudding and whipped cream and crushed oreo's on top with gummy worms in it, only this one didn't have gummy worms......no comment.....sarah....... but thanks for the treat!!! Also I decided you can make me a delicious carrot cake for my birthday. So yes, we get out of work and since Courtney missed out on Denny's the night before because her oh so legit Corolla couldn't drive in the snow we decided it was only right to go again with her so Sarah, Courtney, Dirty, James-on, Stephen, Megan and myself went for some dinner. I was smarter this time to not get the Meat Lover's Trio so I just got some blueberry pancakes without syrup because syrup is GROSS!!!! Two nights, two Denny's trips, now that is patriotic! I then got home from Denny's and got to talk to Miss Rich for a little bit which was a nice little reunion over the phone. Today, Sunday, I woke up and got ready for church, it was the Bishop's "That's Just the Way it is" talk. I'll tell you all later. Once church got out we all rushed home to see the Colt's and Saint's win! Finally a game goes the way I wanted it to this post-season, now lets just hope Drew Bree's and the boys and keep it up going into the Super Bowl in a fort's night. I then drove on over the Brett's place, for some free dinner. Steak, potatoes, corn and Dr. Pepper! Wow. That's all I need to say. Wow. Yummy yummy in my tummy. We decided to throw in Whip It and see if it was any good. Surprisingly I was quite entertained, much better than I was expecting it to be. After that Sarah, Brett and I started planning the Murder Mystery dinner that will for sure go down next week. Nothing like blowing the dust off a game from 1993 and finally getting a first time use out of it. Haha, it should be pretty great. Well guys, that was my weekend, a rather fantastic weekend if I do say so myself. No complaints and no regrets. I've got to admit it's getting better, it's getting better, all the time! (Thank you Beatles). So yeah, I am now just counting down the hours until I head up to Salt Lake to watch my boy Steve Nash do work on the Jazz! Come on SUNS!!!

Night everyone! Come back next time for another installment of my life, your entertainment.

~Bracken Rawlings

P.S. Thanks for the talk and I am here for another one anytime!

I take pills that make everything look orange!

Another weekend in the books children. It seems like they go by so fast these days and I look back and wonder where all the time went. Oh thats right, I spent most of my weekend at work...ugh. Lets hope I don't get another schedule like that again. So friday, even though I don't have school, I spent 4 hours doing accounting homework. Got a 5 out of 5 on my first assignment and a 1 out of 5 on the other...yikes. Oh well, that's life. I then had to go in and work that night from 4:15-12:15 so I am pretty sure I only got a 1 out of 5 on my second assignment because I was really rushed to get it done and make it to work. Work wasn't to bad because I had my boy J-Hep there with me, always makes work more enjoyable, especially when we have one-sided slap bracelet/koozie wars. Just know I am really good at getting back-to-back-to-back slaps on other peoples biceps. So post slap bracelet/koozie war Sarah, Brett and Courtney came in and kicked it with us for the last 30 minutes, always fun. They invited J-Hep and myself to come over to Denny's afterward to get some grub, invitation ACCEPTED! Blueberry pancakes and french toast...mmm... So as few of you know I HATE syrup. I can not trace it back to any one particular moment in time but I just don't like it so Helen Keller to my right snatches the little shot glass of syrup they gave me and puts it down in one gulp...gross, but super legit. Spent the next two hours laughing and having a good time, something I haven't had in a long time and greatly appreciated/needed. So I get home at 2-2:30 and of course my roommates are still awake so we pop in arrested development, if you have never seen this show you have just lost points in my ranking system. That's just the way it is. Finally I just pass out on the couch still wearing my uniform only having to be back to work in 6 hours... Another 8 hour shift in the books, yeah for a 24 hour period I spent 16 hours of it at work. Yikes. At least I had something to look forward to when I got off. Avatar in 3D!!! with Paige, Riley, Jace, Tyler and Ross. Side note: Mapquest, you confuse me and you suck at directions every now and again. We get to the mall and were planning on getting a red robin burger only to see it is out of control packed so being the classy individuals we are we went to the foodcourt. You are never above the food court. Never. Especially when they have panda express. I was talked into switching up my panda express routine and was pleasantly surprised. Maybe they're ramen noodle chow mein isn't as bad as I had once remembered it being, who would have thought. So yes, belly is now full time to go watch some crazy big blue creature things plug their ponytails into other creatures and take control of their minds and bodies! Weird? Not at all. So yeah, good night. Hung out with cool kids and met a new cool kid. Get home and as always my roommates are still up so we pop in Meet the Parents. I pass out about 30 minutes into it. The lack of sleep over the past few nights have caught up with me.

---Wal-Mart run---

Sunday: Wake up and do the Sunday morning routine. Charger's lose. End of day :( poop.

Very descriptive of my sunday right? Anyway it is movie night and so that is taking over. PEACE out you creeper's who follow my life!

Come back another night for the next installment.

what do you want for breakfast? GUMMI BEARS!!!

Holy cow, what a day it has been. It all started at 7 a.m. when I woke up. Yes you all heard me right, 7 a.m., that is early, I mean the sun still hasn't really come out yet, was I crazy for taking an 8 a.m. class or just a little retarded? So yes I had my 8 a.m. class, Accounting 200 with the always popular Norm Nemrow! He is a classy man, and by classy I mean a little crazy. Here is a break down of my notes from the class:

- If you are a freshman don't take this class, you are not competent enough yet to deal with it.
- If you don't need this class for your major/minor, you're a moron for taking this class.
- If you take this class and fail then 1.) obviously accounting isn't your thing 2.) you can't do simple math because that is all this class deals with and/or 3.) you're just a lazy person who has no form or schedule or motivation (probably the category I will fall into).
- You are wasting thousands and thousands of dollars donated through tithing if you don't take your time at BYU serious. Also find a wife.
**class bell rings, time to leave**
- Oh and by the way you have a quiz due tomorrow night!

I woke up at 7 for that?

Anyway I then had my Math 110 class at noon which was stellar, I am banking on my roommates Stephen and Ross to get me an A in that class. It's all on them if I fail.

Now it is 4, I haven't eaten since breakfast, cinnamon life!!! you're all haters if you don't like cinnamon life, and I have to be at work until 1 am, or so I thought...

11 1/2 hours pass....

It is 3:30 am, time to go home!

4:00 am, I knew that Dr. Pepper I drank was a bad idea, now I can't sleep and I just walked into my room only to have my roommate Dirty Dan sit up in his bed, call me baby, then lay back down. Uhhh... no comment. I'm going to just assume he was dreaming of Sierra. WELL... here is my suggestion for the day, go watch cloudy with a chance of meatballs, I loved it and so will you or else you have no soul, like bears, ginger kids and Ewoks.

Night!

~Bracken Rawlings