It's Time....

Cougar fans IT'S TIME.....time to sit down....time to walk out...time to sell those beloved season tickets you've always dreamed about....time to move on....pick a new team....time to admit your fair-weather fanness.....time to sell the blue paraphernalia and change it to re.....ok....I'm getting carried away....let's start over

Cougar fans it's time...time to rally....time to gather around your team...time to use you all-sports passes and season tickets to their greatest extent....time to rise and shout....it's time to be a real fan...

Losing two games at home is not the end of the world. It's like little league, or YAFL, or junior Jazz, or whatever....if you had good parents they didn't leave you at the game because you lost yet another painful game to watch....it's time for the fans to step up...be the proverbial parents and keep cheering the team on....be there....or don't....but if you are there....be there. This is a call to stop being that fairweather fan....the obnoxious fan that throws things onto the court and ends up hurting out team more than proving any kind of point.

And while I'm at it...remember that we all human...athletes and coaches are no different.....

My Year in Review...

I've been thinking back on this last year and everything that has happened in my life....
1- In January I met the famous Shayla Matthews who revolutionized my world
2-I went to Vegas again for the tournament and this time my mother came along as well
3-I picked up a second job at Comedy Sportz
4-I moved out of the Villa....which was a very sad event. After living there for two years it was really difficult...I still wonder about that decision to this day....
5-I moved into Park Place which is not as glorious as it's Monopoly component.
6-I took a trip to Nauvoo and my dad took a trip off the bed and into a broken femur...
7-I brought my roommate Laurel home with me...she now says she understands why I am the way I am...I'm not sure what that means but I'll take it.....
8-Boy Aaron got home from his mission...woot woot...finally someone who gets what I'm saying at least part of the time
9-The Dark Knight came out....one word...awesome...
10-I got to go to Ohio to see my brother and his family...it was quite the adventure
11-I started another semester and finally had a normal roommate situation...well as normal as it can get...it is me after all
12-I turned 21!!! woot woot....I've decided it's not as exciting to turn 21 if you don't drink...although the oreo ice cream cake was very worth it...
13-I went home for Thanksgiving for the first time in ages. It was upon this occasion that I realized that I'm now older than all of the missionaries....awkward and weird...don't ask me why it just is...
14-I completed said semester...yay!!!
15-I spent yet another Christmas in Utah

Well this may not be very exciting to you all....but it is to me....good to know I actually did something this year...

Welcome to the Facebook World.....

So I've noticed as of late that I've stopped added people who are my age on facebook and are beginning to add my older sisters, their friends, and even my parent's friends....oh what has this world come to?? Well at least now I know I have no secrets......

Sports Ticker.....

Okay....it's the end of the football season and here's a review. In the beginning it was good....well except the Northern Iowa game which was a little sketchy....and the Washington game....whew...weren't they a great team?? (just in case you didn't know Washington didn't win a game all season) The wins over a not so great UCLA team and Wyoming were exciting....finally a little football. In my opinion...that's when we got a little too cocky. The rest of the season was riddled with unnecessary mistakes. Now....I don't want to criticize too much. I really to think this season was a step in the right direction. If nothing else it gives our team motivation to improve next season. The loses to TCU and Utah were painful but needed. I now compare this to real life. Sometimes we just float along in life....events occur where we have to suddenly snap out of it and actually do something to help ourselves out.....and sometimes that waking up comes a little too late. I still love BYU football and I always will. I still think Bronco Mendenhall is a great coach and more importantly an outstanding individual. His priorities are what BYU football should be about. Let us as fans rally around him and the team....and help them reach their potential....

Check up....

Well it's been a few weeks since I last wrote.... Barack Obama is the new president and the now infamous (is that like super famous?? if you don't know it look it up) Proposition 8 passed and all in all the world hasn't totally fallen apart. I wish I had some awesome story of everything that has happened the past few weeks....but I don't really. I went to Ohio to see my newest neice be blessed. This time two of my sisters came along, which was a lot of fun. I definitely haven't spent a lot of time with them without their children and husbands seeing as I was like 11 when that all started. School is still school. It's a lot of work.....well stats is a lot of work the rest is the normal amount of schoolwork. I'm ready for Thanksgiving....a chance to once again step into the brown desert that I call home. Oh....I just remembered something kind of exciting. As those who have talked to my mother about the quality of the apartment I live in I must talk about some recent improvements to the complex. There used to be these cage-like edifices that were in front of the apartments... I am pleased to report that those are now gone. We've upgraded apartment status from Mexican prison to just plain Mexican ghetto.....awesome......

Politics and such....

It's that dreaded time the rolls around every 4 years...presidential elections. Maybe I'm just a little older and wiser now but it seems that this election has been particularly grueling. While it does have some merits for its many historical "accomplishments" for women and blacks it will be a brutal race to the finish. Can I just express how excited I am for next Tuesday to finally be over?? Which ever candidate wins there will be no moral victory...it will just be a victory. I think I have been somewhat hidden from the heat of the political race because let's face it...I live in Utah and John McCain is going to win here. The only information I get is from national media sources and each has their own opinion about the candidates.

The next president has enough to worry about. I honestly don't know if any man or woman can "fix" the issues facing our nation. There is so much at stake in this election...let's just hope that we choose the man who can best follow the plan that Heavenly Father laid out for our great nation....

Why I Need To Become Less Obsessed with Football....

In middle school I had very few things going for me. Let's just say my mom was pretty much my only friend in those days....and it was a long three years. Another other "friends" I had were few and far between. I had to find something to occupy my life and that thing was BYU athletics. Luckily my sporting love began with the 2001 football season. That was a great year that culminated in a very very cold and sad....and cold...football game in Memphis, TN. I would call myself a bandwagon jumper, but I was still a fan during the following seasons of the Crowton reign....I think that makes me a true fan. Also during this time I found out that I had a cousin of sorts (my mom's cousin's daughter) on the women's basketball team. Together with boy Aaron and Kaylee we formed the biggest women's basketball club. It was awesome....oh the dreams that came true.

Moving on to high school....I was still the obnoxious BYU fan just a little more docile....okay so selectively docile. In high school I moved past the drooling stage and more into the analytical side of sports. Sure...the player were still men and good looking men at that but I realized that I was approaching their age and that was somewhat stalkerish...Soon I got into BYU and onto the current stage.....

So the whole point of this post was to talk about my obsession with football. I didn't realize until this Thursday during the infamous BYU v. TCU game. After the game, I was totally numb. I drove home....went to bed....got up the next morning and remembered the pain of watching the game....sitting in Aaron's apartment wondering what in the heck happened. I went to work Friday morning not willing to face the truth. I refused to look at CougarFan, ESPN, CBS Sportsline or anything remotely connected with football. I hoped that the drug reps who like to talk football would avoid the office. (I'm still sure one of them was sitting in front of his TV wondering what in the heck happened.) The whole day was blown...totally depressive and sad....and it wasn't even that bad of a day.

It was at this point I decided I didn't want to do anything about my "habit". I mean other kids are hooked on drugs....I am hooked on BYU athletics....to cap the week off I watched the volleyball team get swept by Utah....it was all good....numbness overruled any sad emotion I could feel. I am now in anticipation of the next football game....yay team!!

P.S.-"The Quest" isn't over people....it just extends on until next year. I mean should we continually be on a quest for perfection anyway?? Way to inspire us all to be a little better Bronco.....