Get in line!

I'm not sure if I posted about this yet, but Jana believes she can take me in a fight (more like wrestling). She isn't kidding either, she really thinks she can take me! Now let me first say that Jana isn't a girl that'll snap like a twig, because she's got muscle from softball. But I'm by no means a small guy either and I'm pretty sure I can take her. I was really shocked though, when I found out that she was serious because that's never happened in my life!

Then yesterday at youthgroup, one of the girls, Angel, said that she could beat me up and that if it was warmer out she'd wrestle me right at that moment! What is it with girls wanting to fight me all of a sudden and thinking that they're gonna win?? It doesn't really make sense to me since this didn't happen to me 9th-11th grade and that was when I weighed 160-200 lbs and they had at least a chance. So they just choose to fight the 220 lb guy? I don't think I'll ever fully understand girls.

The Countdown!

(I apologize for the gay spacing, blogger has a glitch)

Late January, I posted about how I was going to Nebraska for Jana's prom, well that was 63 days ago, and now it's only 8 days away!! I'm so excited! I have my suit and I got a new dress shirt because my neck was too big for my old one. It kinda seems like this is just something we've been talking about but will never happen, but no it's really going to happen! I'm going to try to get some sleep on the flight from Detroit to Minnesota, because I know there's no chance of me sleeping on the flight to Nebraska. Hopefully I get some good sleep because we're going to pull an over nighter there. This is kind of an outline of what's the plan: (from what I know)

Friday

Jana will pick me up from the airport at 6:37 pm.

When we get to Humboldt (where she lives) we're going to hangout with a bunch of her friends.

Sometime late, we're going to attempt to get some sleep, (I don't think I'm going to sleep a wink)

Saturday

around 11:00 Jana's going to get her hair done. I really don't know what I'm going to be doing during this time. Maybe sleep?

Sometime in the afternoon we're going to get pictures taken for prom.

Attend prom from 7pm-12pm (Show off my rad dance skills, then blacking out and waking up in a hospital)

Sunday (Technically)

Get in the bus for the post prom party at this family fun center in Omaha. It apparently has laser tag and a bunch of fun stuff.

This is where it's a little sketchy. I don't really know the details but I know we're planning on hanging out at Jana's friends house after the family fun center. I hope I don't just crash in all of this because the time change, and jet lag has me a little worried. I guess I gotta start sleeping in a bit and going to bed earlier to make up for this drainage of sleep that's going to take place. Hopefully I don't look like a zombie when all of this is through.

How was I able to do that?

This past weekend I found out that I could do, not one, but two things that I never thought I could do! The first was when I was babysitting my little cousin Christian on Friday. Christian wanted to show me how he could do a handstand for a few seconds. He then wanted to see me do a handstand. To my shock, I could do it for about 5 seconds! I never have been able to even do it for a millisecond in my life. But now it looks like my shoulders are strong enough to support my weight for a while until I lose my balance.

While I was at youth group yesterday, I found out there was another thing that I could do. We were singing and praising God - I like to go crazy with dance moves, but they're usually just funny and take absolutely no skill to pull off. So after a while the song said "Dance with Joy for God" after it said that once or twice I decided I'd go all out and make a fool of myself next time it came to that part. So when it came again, I ran to the middle of the circle and started break dancing!

I knew I was going to look like a baboon there break dancing, but I was just having fun. Well after a few seconds, I realized that I was pulling it off! Of course this was probably the easiest move that you could call break dancing, but I didn't expect to do it. After a while it dawned on me, that I didn't know what to do next because I expected to crash and burn, and so I didn't even think about what other move I'd do!

I can't wait to try some other break dancing moves and get myself killed!

Stay tuned for the post: "I didn't know my knee could bend that way!"

I know how to fix boo boos!

On Friday night, I was babysitting my little cousin Christian, who's 4 years old. While we were running around the house, he hit his elbow on a corner and started to bawl. I ran up to him and asked him if he wanted me to kiss his boo boo. He shook his head in disgust from his elbow being subjected to such a horrible prospect.

I was trying to think of something else that could cheer him up...when I checked my phone and realized my background was a picture of my girlfriend Jana. I then asked Christian if he wanted his boo boo kissed by "Jana" instead. Being a smart kid, Christian said yeah! So I then had my phone (with the picture of Jana on it) devour my cousin's elbow with kisses.

He was soon laughing his head off, but then that little booger kept asking for more! I soon had to "constrain" Jana in my pocket so she could stop kissing his elbow. It was really funny, and now I know what I'm gonna do when I'm a dad. I'm going to keep a picture of mommy on my phone in case our kid has a boo boo that needs kissed!

Ninja Fail

A few days ago, my mom dropped off me and hunter to the house while she and Sienna could get Sienna's drivers permit. We almost always lock the door when we leave the house, and neither hunter or I had a house key. Fortunately one of the windows were open so Hunter went through but when he opened the door he said "It was unlocked!" oops I guess we kinda forgot to check the door.

Lifting update

I haven't had anything completely embarrassing or humiliating happen to me lately, but I realized it's been about a year since I posted how much I was lifting. So here it is.

Biceps: the trophy for all weightlifters, I always focused on these even as a little kid. A year ago I was curling 40 pound dumbells on the preacher curl about 4 times. Now I'm curling 60 lbs and if I use a barbell I can curl 170 lbs. I have definitely improved with biceps.

Pectorals: I was benching 85 lbs dumbells 5 times with a spotter. Now I can bench 100 lbs dumbells 5 times without a spotter. I haven't been able to improve as much in this area as I wanted to because my workout buddy stopped coming and with benching you really need a spotter. I also use to lift 237 lbs 2 times on the butterfly machine, while now I can like 287 lbs 8 times.

Shoulders: My biggest improvement by far. I never even really worked out my shoulders last year, maybe once or twice per month. Now I'm shoulder shrugging 100 lb dumbells 10 times! I could probably go higher but unfortunately the gym doesn't have any dumbells heavier than 100 lbs! My shoulders are broader and my trap muscles are huge. I take some pride in my shoulder strength.

Back: In pull downs, I use to max out at 225 lbs and only be able to do one rep. Now I can lift the maximum weight (315 lbs) 8 times! Of course that's when I'm fresh but it's still a vast improvement from a year ago.

Overall weight: Last spring I weighed about 200 lbs and I'll admit that a pretty good portion of it was chub. Now I weight about 220 lbs and I have much better muscle to mass ratio.

McDonald's Love Strikes Again

Yesterday My sisters, mom and I went to McDonald's for a little treat. It was all great fun and we were walking back to the car to go home when we noticed something. In the car next to us there were 2 people in their 30's just making out! The girl was practically on top of the guy, so much so they had the door open a little bit because they couldn't close it!

My sisters were joking around about how romantic it a McDonald's parking lot was. Then of course they tell me "Don't do that with Jana!" and I respond with "Oh trust me I can do way better than that! Like a taco bell parking lot, with the door closed! I have higher standards than McDonald's."

Except one thing that Taco bell doesn't have that McDonald's does have is a theme song that's "bababumpaba I'm loving it!"

Henna Tattoo

As you probably know by now, I've had my fun with temporary tattoos and going to the gym to sport them off. I migrated from hot rod tattoos, to pirates of the Caribbean, and now to henna. Henna is a permanent dye that they use in the middle east, but it only affects the top layer of skin, so it can last up to a month or 2. Its a dark brown instead of black color. I decided to with a design that was a simpler version of Jake Long's tattoo (The guy in the picture) and I really like it! My older sister Katrina drew it on for me, and missed one of her favorite shows doing it so she must love me.

Technology Rules!

My girlfriend Jana and I have been calling each other as often as possible, and it's really great, but there are a few catches. We have to wait till 11 to talk (she's in another timezone) for free without having to worry about minutes, but by then we're pretty tired and she usually cant talk much on school nights. And lately Jana has been extremely busy with school, speech, and homework so we haven't been able to talk much.

But on Sunday Jana got a laptop...with a web cam! So we were definitely going to web chat through skype lickety split! Unfortunately she wasn't able to get wifi till Tuesday, and she was at a speech meet all day. So yesterday we were finally able to talk on skype! Except, I was at a calculus session on related rates for a while. So around 5:00 pm I booked it for home.

So I get on the computer and make the "video call" to Jana. [ringgg.....ringg...ringggg...connecting...connecting....connecting (at this point I'm thinking "CONNECT ALREADY!!!") Connected!] So then I finally see Jana....except I can sense there's something wrong. She's looking very pretty and excited, but I can't hear her! Soon I gather that she can't hear me either. I ended up calling her for a few minutes until she figures out how to get it to work. I was afraid that it'd be one of those situations where I could either see her or talk to her, not both. But thankfully that wasn't the case.

I had a blast, and I can't wait to go skyping later today.

oh this could be interesting...

Yesterday at Oasis (one of my two youth groups) my buddy Andy brought his girlfriend for the first time. He could have choose a better day to bring his girlfriend because we were talking about waiting till marriage to have sex! So on top of that awkward topic, we were hassling him like no other! Andy's face was probably blushing more than not during youth group. I'm kinda glad that I got to see that though, because now I know what to expect when I bring Jana to Oasis. Only I'm sure I'm going to get a whole lot more crap than Andy did. All I can say is "Bring it!" and I welcome the challenge.

You knew it was enevitable!

I've been working out in the gym almost everyday, and I'm stronger than I've ever been in my life. I think it's time to do the ceremonial picture with my shirt off so I can show you all my muscles and make you all so jealous! Notice my massive cheeks of steel, and I'm talking about the cheeks on my face! And look at my rippling biceps of pure POWA! and my penetrating eyes of intimidation. No one's gonna want to mess with the hunk of man!!

Tattoos part dos!

About 2 and a half weeks ago I posted about how I put on a bunch of temporary hot rod tattoos on my arm. Well they were finally starting to disappear, but then my mom got me Pirates of the Caribbean tattoos! and I decided to put them all over my arm, so now all is right with the world! I have to admit that I was missing my hot rod tattoos but now I'm as happy as can be! I have an addiction...of temporary tattoos!