Things I NEED to Try!

So I have recently been thinking a lot about all the things that I want to try at some point in my life. Wake boarding fun and I love it and it has really made me want to try new things since I picked that up so quickly. Some things I would just like to experience once or twice but other things I would really like to get good at. Here are the things I have come up with (so far and in no particular order).

1. Cliff Diving- My sister used to go cliff diving and I have always been so jealous that I have never done that. I need to go before the summer is over!! I should probably find out where a good place to go is and try it!!!

2. Dirt Biking- So a couple years ago I had this friend that had dirt bikes and we were going to go out on them one time but never did and I am so disappointed. I just want to try this out to see what it is like, it seems like it would be fun to try.

3. Bungee Jumping- Now this is one thing that I would LOVE to try but probably won't ever get the guts to do. It would be so exciting and I would probably only be able to do it once, if at all.



4. Snowboarding- I have tried snowboarding a couple of times and I liked it but it is frustrating to me. The last time I went I did pretty good towards the end but then had no want to go up and try it again. I just decided today (while watching really sweet snowboarding videos on tv with my brother) that I want to go a lot this winter and get so I have control and don't fall so much. This is probably one of the more realistic things that I have put on this list and the one that I have thought the most about. Plus, don't you think it's kind of lame that I have lived in Colorado my entire life and don't know how to ski or snowboard? I do.

5. Scuba Diving- So my friend Brianne went on a beautiful tropical vaca to Hawaii and I was looking at her pictures today and thought to myself "I really need to go somewhere cool like that so I can go scuba diving." How cool would that be? Like when I think about fish I think "how lame are they, they are small and just swim." But that is probably because I don't see the really cool fish that are in the ocean. I need to go see them and see what these creatures are all about. I bet they are way cooler, bigger and better in the ocean and I just need to find out!

Well there is my list of things I need to try! These things probably won't all happen in the near future but hopefully they will happen at some time in my life.

Wakeboarding Again!!

So I haven't been wakeboarding a ton in my life but I'm pretty excited because I'm getting better and better each time that I go. Last time I went I started learning how to jump back into the wake! I am so excited to go again and try to jump higher but here is another video. Compared to the last video you will see the progress I have made.

Wakeboarding at Sunrise

This morning I did something I don't usually do... I woke up at 4:15am. I had a reason though, of course. I went wakeboarding!! I haven't been in a really long time, like Memorial Day last year!! I was expecting to do so bad and didn't think I would be able to get up on my first try. But guess what... I DID!! I am pretty much amazing!! haha I get right up out of the water and have a lot more control, which is amazing!! The thing I was working on today was getting back in the wake once I am out of it. I figured out how to keep my balance best and made it back in the wake several times!! One time I even got some air, though not on purpose, and landed it! I'm really disappointed though because I accidentally deleted the video of me doing cool stuff and instead just have this lame clip of me that follows. Also, my friend Kennedy is in the video and I just want you all to know that I haven't gone as often as Ken, so that's my excuse as to why she is better than me. haha Enjoy the video I made, it has a song and everything.

Ring RIng!!

Recently my dad decided that we (my family) needed to switch cell phone services. We used to have Verizon but, as of last Friday, we are part of the AT&T family. I was a little hesitant at first but now I am so happy we switched because I got a new phone and I love it. It's the Samsung Propel and it is one sleek babay!! Here are some picture:

Current Music Obsession

Well anyone who knows me knows that my usual music obsessions include Hip Hop or Rap music but recently I've been into some very different stuff. Just about every day for the last week or so I have only listened to Kate Voegele. She isn't very well known and is probably most popular from her role on the best show ever, "One Tree Hill." On the show she plays this musician that Peyton and Haley discover and makes it big in Tree Hill as a talented artist named Mia. She isn't my favorite character on the show but she does date Chase on the show, played by Stephen Colletti who dated Lauren Conrad at one point, so I guess Kate Voegele deserves some "cool points" with that one.

She is really good though and I love her songs. She is like Shakira meets Marie Digby which equals AMAZING songs that I listen to all day. I actually got her cd from my roommate Heather a while back but haven't fully appreciated it until now. Here are a list of my favorite songs (in no particular order):

• "Wish You Were"
• "No Good"
• "Kindly Unspoken"
• "It's Only Life"
• "Only Fooling Myself"
• "Chicago"

So that's almost the whole cd but it's so so so good. The album is called "Don't Look Away" by Kate Voegele and it is amazing. I would highly suggest it.

It's Been Confirmed!!

I have this fascinating obsession with Facebook and I am ALWAYS on there. Recently my 14 yr old brother, Michael, has gotten hooked and it is so funny. He is will sit there for hours chatting with his little friends, making my brother Derek (18 yrs old) very jealous of all his Facebook friends. Today Michael took one of those silly quizzes on there and sent an invitation to me to complete the quiz. Most of the time I just ignore these requests but when I saw the title of this one I HAD to do it. It was "How Black Are You?" and since I would consider myself to be pretty black, I thought I for sure needed to take this "very official" quiz to find out just how black I am. After answering a bunch of questions about rap music, KFC and KoolAid I got my results. They were as follows:

"Result: TUPAC
You are 100% Black, From the clothes you wear, music you listen to, and your characteristics. People fear you when you walk on the street."

I knew this all along but now it is confirmed... I am 100% black (minus the actual skin color). I love my life now!

Tweet Tweet

I was watching Jay Leno the other night and Ellen DeGeneres was the guest on it ans she kept talking about Twitter.com. I was interested in seeing what Twittering was since my dad had mentioned the website a week prior to watching this show. So I decided to sign up for a Twitter account. After all the good things I had heard about this website, I just didn't get it. I didn't get any of it, how it worked, what made it different from Facebook or MySpace, and especially why it was becoming such a big deal. I have yet to really figure out how Twittering works so I decided to look it up on Wikipedia - probably the most credited source there is - and see what I could find. There is a lot of information on the website but here is the basic sum up of what Twitter is.


"Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and feedalizr. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees."

So if anyone Twitters and knows what they're doing let me know. And if I ever figure it out and I think it's worth knowing something about, I will let YOU know.