my bro in law made this for my fantasy baseball team haha

Worth A Thousand Words "Andy Arnold"

I went to the tutorial page on how to post pictures, but the screen they showed on the example was not the same as what is on my computer. So I'm putting the pics on my blog (that I haven't updated forever haha).

This first picture is my family's last Christmas photo, that's me on the right. My hair has only been short for 5 days now haha. I chose this picture though because my family is important to me, the most important thing.

This second picture is a picture I took at Colorado Rockies playoff game 3 years ago. I love sports, and am going into sports journalism. I'll always remember this, I flew out from Idaho Falls to Denver and met up with my older brother. I'm from Wyoming and grew up going to Rockies games and had never been to a game as packed and intense as this one. Rockies won this game and we went crazy haha.

My last picture is a picture of the Tetons I took a few weeks ago. I chose this picture for two reasons, one is because I love nature, I go hiking in the mountains in Wyoming as often as I can. Second reason I chose this is because I've also tried to take more pictures of nature the past few years, I'm doing a Photography cluster.

So that's me, in three pictures.

Favorite songs of 2009

I just copy and pasted this from my facebook, I'm lazy, so what haha

I was thinking about making a Top 10 list of my favorite songs from 09 and then my buddy C-Bass did it, looked like fun so I decided to go through with it haha.

10. Anberlin - Baby Please Come Home- This was my Christmas song this year, listened to it a ton around the holidays. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_NtRN0-8E

9. The Mars Volta - With Twilight As My Guide- This was my stargazing song, nothing like listening to these guys while watching a meteor shower haha. The Mars Volta is awesome, they pretty much have their own genre in music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Mx1K2a4KQ

8. Weezer - The Underdogs- This song is off of Weezer's newest cd that recently came out. I love it, Rivers is the man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9mpWMB4aQ

7. LIGHTS - Saviour- This whole album is really good, something about her voice, I like it haha. Ok, she's good looking too, but her music is good too. One of my biggest regrets of 09 was not seeing her in concert when I could have, dangit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jtaWVkNn0

6. Jay-Z - Young Forever ft. Mr. Hudson- When I listen to Jay-Z's newest album on Rhapsody before it was released, this song stuck out to me the most. I love how smooth and chill he is in this song, and the chorus is catchy haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1iC94MDgM

5. Mastodon-The Czar- So this album blew my mind when I listened to it the first time, I love it when that happens haha. This song is so awesome, you have to listen to the whole thing. It's a long song but awesome. My favorite part starts right before 8 minutes in, so rad!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Vf5syTfmE

4. fun. - The Gambler- First hearing this song on the album it was really awesome. But then seeing fun. in concert, this song was AMAZING! You can tell it means a lot to Nate. I love how much into it he gets into it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIL8ejMden4

3. Muse - Undisclosed Desires- Off of their new cd, this was the song that grabbed me the most. Sweet song to cruise to. The chick in the music video is kinda freaky though haha.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OOWcsFj0U&feature=fvst

2. Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends- Something about this song, I like it a lot. The music video is pretty sweet too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuixT3IGClY

1. fun. - Be Calm- First track on Aim and Ignite, when it was released I listened to this song first and my mind was blown once again. My favorite song off of an amazing album. Good message too, when I get stressed I listen to this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qMXBUjm8tM

So there you have it my favorites of the year. "If you don't like it, you can shove it. But you don't like it, you love it!" haha

Honorable Mentions
The rest of the fun. album Aim and Ignite
Michael Jackson- Man in the Mirror
Muse- I Belong to You, the album version, not the retarded New Moon version haha
LIGHTS- Ice and The Listening
311- Golden Sunlight
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster- Listen Close

We Went To SLC, It Was FUN.

Back on September 8th, Luke and I made a 1 day down and back trip down to Salt Lake to watch a band perform, their name is Fun. I know I know, you might be thinking "What the heck kind of name is Fun for a band!?" Well after seeing them live, the name definitely makes sense!!!

Back about 3 years ago, I was introduced to a band, The Format. The first week I heard them, I went down to a concert of theirs in Pocatello, Idaho at Idaho State University. When I heard them live, they had me hooked, I was a fan. I was lucky enough to see them again 2 summers ago at a music festival in Salt Lake, which ended up being one of their last concerts before they BROKE UP! It was hard to believe that this band, that sang with so much heart and meaning had broken up, we were crushed. But the lead singer Nate Ruess wasn't done. That's where Fun. comes in.

Nate formed the group with Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost, who had both already been in other bands. Many of us Format fans waited, having high hopes for their first album, and about a month ago, we were finally satisfied. Nate picked up where he left off with his lyrical genius, their album Aim and Ignite was what we had been waiting for, and more!

So back to the trip down to Salt Lake, Fun. was first going to have an in store performance and and 2 hours later were going to have their big show. The in store performance was at a Graywhale music store on the University of Utah campus (GO BYU! haha) and they played outside with the fans gathered around, it was really cool. Then after we got to meet the band and get autographs.

After the in store performance we killed some time at the Gateway mall by doing some people watching haha, always fun. After chilling for about 45 minutes, we headed over to the venue for the night concert, Kilby Court.

Kilby Court is in the middle of nowhere in Salt Lake. From the outside it doesn't look like a venue. When we finally got in, the venue was SMALL! It's like they were playing in a garage haha. But that just made it even more awesome. The smaller the venue, the closer we all were to the band as they played, it was an amazing atmosphere, and an amazing show.

The day started at 9:00am and ended around 1:00am after we returned back to Rexburg. It was an awesome day and now we can't wait to see Fun. again.

3-11 3-3-11

I finally got to check another band off of my need-to-see list, 311!!! I've been wanting to go to one of their concerts for forever, and it was awesome. Now I just need to see the Foo Fighters, Incubus, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Linkin Park. I'm looking forward to those concerts!

This is an up close shot, not by me but by Rob Hall who gave me my ticket!

I thought it was cool

So on Sunday I went to Victor, Idaho to go to church and eat dinner with my parents and grandparents. I went out to get some watercress with my grandpa and took some sweet pics.

On the way back to Rexburg from Victor, I could tell that there was going to be an amazing sunset, the first thing I thought of was "I gotta get to the temple!" So I sped back to Rexburg and went straight to the temple and got some amazing pictures, here are a few of em, enjoy!

My bad, haha

Sooo, it's been a really long time since I updated this, you'd think I'd be able to since I'm a jobless slob. Ok, I'm not a slob, just jobless haha.

I've been out of school for a little over a month and I can't find a job. I've been shot down at a ton of places, sucks. It's my first time ever spending a summer in Rexburg, and it's the worst time ever to try to find a job. But there is hope.....

I interviewed at Hollister in Idaho Falls on Tuesday, so we'll see if I get hired there, I sure hope I do, I don't know what else to do if that fails.

Plenty of students here in Rexburg donate plasma twice a week for $50 and have no problems with it. Well I was broke and needed money, so I have in and did it, despite my hatered towards getting needles stuck in me. First time I went, I was fine the whole time until I had about 5 minutes left and I started getting light headed, I didn't pass out but it was a close call haha.

I went back a few days later since you can only go twice every seven days, and my second time, was worse than the first. They said the pressure was bad or something so they had to adjust the needle around and did something. 2 days later my arm started bruising and now it looks all jacked up. No more donating plasma for me, I hate it.

My arm after 2 days

My arm after 6 days

My arm after 8 days

So yeah, I don't want to do that anymore haha. Hopefully I get the job, if not, anyone want to give me some money? Hahaha, jk, I'll find out in a day or so if Hollister decided to hire me, I'm keeping my fingers crossed until then, haha.

Poor Chuck

Poor Charles Barkley. He just showed up to jail to serve his 3 day jail sentence for a DUI. It was his Phoenix Suns jersey that was my first ever basketball jersey to own. He's one of my favorite players of all time and he's just hilarious. I guess it's good that he's serving time though, because stupid people would whine if he didn't. I just thought I would put something up since it's been a while, but I'll try to make another update soon

The Waiting Game

So here I am, Friday night, waiting for a kid to call me. I need to get some quotes from him for an article that I'm writing for the school paper. I've already had 3 articles in this semester, and it just adds to the stress level that I already have thanks to my other classes. Oh well.

I went down to Salt Lake on Tuesday with a group of about 15 students for the Intermountain Sports and Entertainment Fair. All the sports teams in the Salt Lake area were there, like the Jazz, the Bees, the Real Salt Lake and some others that aren't as prominent. Well, I was expecting a lot more out of it haha. When we got there, our group made up about 1/3 of the people there haha, and instead of booths, there were just plain tables set up with a piece of paper on it that said what team that person represented. I talked to a few teams,  but the team that I talked with the most was the Jazz. They only have 1 internship they are looking for at the moment, and it's in sales. The guy seemed to like me and gave me his business card and told me to send another resume if I was interested. So we'll see what happens with that, it's probably a pretty competitive internship. I have been planning on going to Reno this summer with my roommate Luke to install security systems for APX, it'll probably still happen.

After the business fair was over, my Aunt Alison picked me up and we went out to eat and I got some amazing Thai food, only the second time I've had Thai, it was amazing! After that, Alison dropped me off at Energy Solutions Arena (formerly known as the Delta Center) and I went to a Jazz game. The Jazz played the Grizzlies, so we were expecting it to be a lame game, but the Grizzlies made it close. 

I came back to Rexburg on Wednesday and had to get back into school after having 5 days off.  It's kind of hard getting back into it after that many days off, but whatever. It's still school, I still don't like it a whole lot, but I only have 1 year left, so that's good at least.

Well, that kid still hasn't called me, he said he would around 7:00 and now it is 8:00, what a punk haha, jk. My editor isn't gonna be so happy if I can't get my story done haha, oh well, I already did a small article for this week, it might be enough to make her

 happy. I'm thirsty, time for a drink, laters!

Jazz win!

Picture of the Rexburg Temple I took a week or two ago

Oh, It's February

Well, I decided to put another entry in. It's been a few days and the Super Bowl has come and gone. What I expected to happen did. I'm pretty proud of myself, the Super Bowl preview story I wrote for the school paper was almost dead on to what happened in the game, oh yeah! But now that football is over, I want baseball to start already haha. 

Something to look forward to is a trip I have coming up to Salt Lake. In a week and a half I'm gonna go down with a bunch of students who are interested in working around athletic teams. We're gonna go to a Jazz game and then go to a job fair that'll have all the sports teams in the area, including the Jazz, the Real Salt Lake, the athletics departments from BYU, U of U and Utah State, the Salt Lake Bees, and I think 1 or 2 others. I'm pretty excited about that. I would love to work for just one team, so it'll be interesting to see what all the different teams have to say.

Oh yeah, something new started up too in my life, dodgeball!!!! We had our first game of the semester yesterday, and we won of course. But it's really funny how into it some people get, just like the kid we played against yesterday. He started getting mad, so we started laughing at him, which made him even more angry. One time he kicked a ball really hard and it was hilarious. I was like "Wow! Did you see how hard he kicked that!?" hahaha! Then he kept on talkin' crap and one of my teammates told him to shut up and play, and after that he put his finger in my teammates face and said "Don't tell me to shut up!" Haha, that was funny too. So we are 1-0, we didn't play that great, but good enough for the win. Our team also wears ugly vests, it's funny haha, I went and got mine at the D.I. haha, it's niiiiiiiiiice. 

School is kind of a pain at the moment, but I'm pushing through it. I can't wait for it to be over with. I like being in Rexburg, but I don't like doing the school work. How weird haha. Oh well.

Tomorrow there'll be a concert here in Rexburg. It'll be a benefit concert for a girl that goes to school here that had a vein burst in her head while she was in a class. I'm going for sure, to support the girl and to hear some good music, Allred is playing, they're pretty good, i've listened to them online.

But speaking of music, recently I've been listening to a lot of Muse. The song I've been listening to the most is Supermassive Black Hole, it's pretty rockin'. And during Christmas break, I saw the music video for Knights of Cydonia for the first time, and it was one of the sweetest music videos I've ever seen haha, it's pretty epic. 

Well, I'll leave it at that, I'm pretty proud of this entry, it's some-what long haha.

Oh dang

Well so much for my hopes of the Eagles making it to the Super Bowl haha. The Cardinals!? Haha, oh well. So even though the team I wanted to win it all is out, I'm still excited for the big game. Not a whole lot is going on in life right now, just school, which has always been boring haha. I did have my first article of the semester in this weeks edition of the school paper, I wrote a Super Bowl preview haha, what can I say, I like the Super Bowl. 

I guess I went to a concert last Tuesday, it a fun time. The bands 

were Love You Long Time, Neon Trees, Teen Hearts and The Elizabethan Report. The keyboard player in Teen Hearts was a hottie haha, and she was nice too. We might be going to another concert on Saturday, the tickets are sold out but they said they were going to sell some at the door, the concert is Anberlin, Between the Trees and Medina Lake and it's in Pocatello, we'll see if we can get tickets or not.

Well, I just figured I should do an update since it had been a while.

Yup, that's me next to Charity from Teen Hearts

Fly Eagles Fly!

Donovan McNabb is the man! 1 win away from the Super Bowl!

How much longer do I gotta do this? haha

Well, winter semester started on Wednesday. I drove back Sunday and only almost died once, so it was a pretty good trip overall haha. The roads were really icy but once I got into Idaho the roads got a little better.

This semester should be an interesting one. I'm taking a bunch of classes for my Sports and Exercise Science minor. And I'm writing for the school paper again, but it has changed since the last time I wrote for them, and they are kind of ticking me off already, if they aren't careful, I'll leave them and work for I-News instead. So they better watch it haha.

Other than school starting, not a whole lot is going on. NFL playoffs, NBA regular season, that's pretty much it. Well, tonight I'm going to a concert at a new venue here in Rexburg that my friends Brad and Leif opened up, the Locus. It's gonna be a metal concert, so I don't know how that's gonna go over here in Rexburg haha. I'm going because there's a band from back home that's played with my cousin's band and my brother's band, Picture it in Ruins, is playing so I'm gonna go support a local band from back home. And another band that's playing tonight has played with my bro and cousin's bands will be playing as well, Dethrone the Sovereign. So yeah, tonight will be interesting haha.

I'm sure I'll have more to say later, but the only other thing I have left to say is, GO EAGLES!!!!!! haha

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Well....

I figure I should update this because I have nothing else to do. I was trying to hold off as long as I could but I figure it's time.

It's been hard for our family to get into the holiday spirit with the passing of my brothers close friend. I got home from college the day of the funeral and found about 15 teenagers at my house spending time together after the funeral. It's hard to get happy about Christmas when someone you know really well and spent a lot of time with is gone. I've been sending a decent amount of pictures from my cell phone to facebook lately and every time I do, I see Garrick's name right next to facebook's. I'm never going to delete his number out of my contact list. Out of all my brother's friends, Garrick was the one that I texted the most, mainly to get ahold of Jake before he got a cell phone. But sometimes we would just text each other to make fun of Jake haha, he was a funny kid. It is tough, it's been almost two weeks since he passed, but it's hard to get over. Life will never be the same for my family, mainly my little brother. Plans that they had together are no longer a possiblity, it's just really sad.

We put up the Christmas tree on Sunday and put lights up on the house on Monday, it has helped a little bit, but it still feels like something is missing. 

Gonna Miss Ya Garrick

This morning I woke up to my phone buzzing saying I got a new text. It wasn't good news. It was my mom letting me know that my little brother's really good friend had passed away last night due to an asthma attack. My brother and my cousin and another friend of theirs stayed at the hospital with Garrick's family until 2 in the morning. It's so sad :( My brother Jake and Garrick have been friends forever and they had been double's partners in tennis the past 4 years in high school. I've spent a lot of time in my life around Garrick and he was a good kid, was funny and very friendly. I can't believe it happened, I feel so bad for my brother and Garrick's family, no one saw it coming. Garrick will be missed greatly.

Love ya buddy

Geeze Louis

I can't believe it, this week is almost over!!!! After Thanksgiving, we had 2 weeks of school left and Mon-Wed just went by really fast!!!! I can't wait for this semester to get over with though. I signed up for classes late so most of the classes I wanted to take were filled so I had to sign up for a few stupid classes. Next  semester I'm actually taking classes I want to take. 

You should be proud of me though, I'm finally going to pass the class that has been my kryptonite for the past 4 semesters haha, Intro to Communications. It is a required 1 credit class that is only available at 7am on Thursdays, and I've failed it the last 4 times I've taken it haha. It is just dumb and should be worth more than 1 credit with all the stuff we have to do outside of class. But I'm finally going to pass it, so I'm excited haha. 

Christmas break is gonna rock though, gonna be home for like a month haha, I'm gonna be so lazy haha. The place I interned with this summer said they could use me during the break though, I don't know if I should do it though. I had no social life this summer, and I don't want that do happen to me during Christmas break. We'll see what happens.

Hmmmmm, I don't know of anything else to say, just hopefully I survive the next 6 school days haha

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!

That was sweet!!!

So the streetball game I went to ruled!!!! I had seen it on tv of course and always wanted to see it, now I finally got the chance. There was some sweet stuff and I got to meet some of the players, they were all awesome. If you ever get a chance, gooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

Here's Hot Sauce going to work on some fool haha

    Luke and I met A.O. afterwards, he was way cool!

  We got a pic with Highrizer as well, this guy could jump!!!!!

These guys were awesome too, just don't know their names, whoops haha

Here Comes Hot Sauce!!!!!!!!

I'll admit, I am VERY white, but I love watching the And1 Mixtape Tours. And of all the places in the whole USA, a group of AND1 ballers are stopping in Rexburg, Idaho tomorrow!!!! I've got my ticket and I'm stoked!!!! And, my favortie And1 superstar is coming, Hot Sauce! He is sick-nasty, I can't wait! This is gonna be awesome, I'll take some pics for sure!!!!!