new chapter to embarrassing book

Ode to the embarrassing moments... If you know me at all, you know that i have many many of these. Honestly, my mom is always telling me i aughta just write them down into a book somewhere. So with that i've joked with a bunch of my friends of an idea of something like that. A book of rob's slip ups or other embarrassing junk. How about one of those calandars? you know, the ones that you tear off a page for each day, and there is a little message or picture of some sort one each page. I just need to write down 365 embarrassing moments and i could be a calendar!! wow, that'd be great wouldn't it.
k, well i had quite the experience today. One full of interesting stuff, allow me to enlighten you...

Once upon a time rob had some work pants that he wore to work at macey's. Well these pants had a few little holes in the backside. Rob's mom being the kind lady she is was concerned for everyone who had to look at it... yet Rob being the dumb kid just thought "who's gonna look at my butt anyways?" So Rob's mom takes the innitiative and goes to the store for more pants. She brings em home and throws away the bad pair. Well... the next day rob needs to go to work. So he gets up at 5 to get ready to go. First he takes a shower, then comes back makes his bed cleans his room a bit then finds the new pair of pants.

Well rob tried to put them on... turns out they are two inches to small in the waist. and of course the other pants are long since gone. But rob is running late there is not very much time for many options here. He had to choose to either suck it up or go get his dad's pants which would be wide enough for him, but there just is something wrong with guys wearing capris... I chose to suck it up.

I go to work... feeling so awkward. Please put this image in your head if you dare. Rob is wearing pants that are skin tight to work. If i kneel or bend over at all i am somewhat limited to how much i can do before i hear a rip in the back side. but if i was really careful... and slow... i could do anything i needed to at the job! now add this to the image. The only way to get the pants on is to pull them up clear up to my belly button, thats the only place i could get the button to work... So i get my apron on and get to work. I'm working, hard workin man at macey's... all of the sudden i just feel so sick. I'm guessing its all the pressure on my bladder. You really have no idea, i felt like i was getting stabbed in the gut. I practically was.

So My mom, being the fabulous wonderful and most awesome mom ever sends me a text saying she got new better pants and asked if i wanted them now or not. I said yes as fast as i could. So she says she'd hurry but didn't know exactly when she'd be over. I wait patiently and get back to work. So now your wondering where the embarrassing part is right? well let me tell you, its pretty embarrassing to be seen in these pants in the first place, but the worst is yet to come...

Mom shows up with nothing in her hands. I go and talk to her and i ask her where they were. (totally expecting them to come out of her purse or something...) but listen to this. This was not the answer i needed to hear. "I gave them to emily at the service desk."

Emily just happens to be one of the cutest girls i've ever met. A girl that it took me months to even get the courage to talk to. But now we talk and just kid at each other all the time. can you imagine the fear i have going up and getting the pants? "hey uh... can i get my pants?" no doubt the first thing she would say would be a question of why i need them... oh boy that'd be bad... well turns out everything went fine and it didn't turn out to be as embarrassing as i thought it'd be... but it still was pretty bad.

Thats the embarrassing plug for today, maybe i can dedicate a day of the week for embarrassing stories.. i'll think about that one, but for now, peace out world. Keep in touch. I love you all.

P.S. Congrats to matt ruben, going to perth australia!!! aussies rock! haha way cool, two missionaries in australia from the same ward at the same time!

Life, the way it used to be

So I know this is the second post in the same day and that is all sorts of nerdy... I just have a lot on my mind and I want to get it all out on this post while I've got it there. Remember back in the days where we were all so innocent? Think about it, it all starts in elementary school when you hardly know anything other than the fundamentals you learn in school. No one cares about other religions, or problems of any kind. All you care about is what your going to do at the next recess.

Lets move forward a few years now. You go to Jr. high. As far as I'm concerned, girls still were another species and nothing to really associate with other than homework buddies or something like that. But compare to elementary school, and you notice a lot more things about other people. Suddenly cuss words are coming out of peoples mouths you'd never imagine. You start hearing about kids your age going out and getting involved with sex, drugs, and all sorts of other problems. Separations start to happen. Pretty soon you don't want to be around certain people because they are "different."

Next comes high school. Relationships become normal. Everyone seems to have someone else attached to their hips. Kids get more serious about life. Religions are being all but set in stone, Friends seem to be locked in place, ideas and thoughts of the future and careers are beginning to be developed if not completely done already.

Then you graduate.

How crazy has the past year been. From a death, to a few marriages, engagements, pregnant women, mission calls, kids moving in every direction. Everyone has a different path. Everyone makes choices, and sadly many bridges that connect friends together fall apart.

I miss life, the way it used to be. I miss my friends. Now i realize a good portion of my friends are scattered across the four corners of the earth serving the lord in a great work. I also realize that i soon will be like them all. Out in Australia preaching the gospel to the people of Melbourne. But I am scared.

I don't want to grow up. I don't want people to go off in separate directions just yet. I don't want everyone to be married off, have 12 kids, pick different religions, living life any differently than the way i remember it, or even more than that... i don't want people to die. I've come quickly to having my biggest fear to be to lose the ones i care most about. Whether they be family, friends, pets, you name it. i want life the way that i liked it. Why can't we all go back to the days when there was not any stress other than high school finals.

Minus the drama of the relationships or lack thereof life in high school wasn't so bad. Can't we just please go back to that? Life is kinda stinky. You love it and hate it at the same time. Unfortunately, I do not think it'll get any different at anytime. Life is great, just make sure you look at the glass half full. Keep in touch. I love you all.

vegemite

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is vegemite. let me explain what it is real quick. Vegemite is considered as much a part of Australia's heritage as kangaroos and the Holden cars. It is actually an Australian obsession that has become a unique and loved symbol of the Australian nation. A Vegemite sandwich to an Australian kid is the equivalent of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to an American kid - but the taste is very different! Its basically an extract of yeast with a few other ingredients... if you really want to learn more just google it up.

It has a very interesting taste... You either love it, or you hate it. Turns out my friend's cousin who went to australia on his mission loved it. Thus he sent it home with him a couple years ago and brought it with him to a party last night. I had some of it. He put it on there nice and thick for the first time, and later said that he would garuntee the other missionaries pulling a vegemite prank on me once i got there.

I was nervous a little but i sucked it up and tried it anyways. and here is what i thought of it... The smell itself was so utterly disgusting. I cannot put into words how bad it smelt, but he put it on some toast for me and i ate it... I didn't hate it, but i didn't love it at the same time. I guess I'll grow on it when i'm out there but yeah. So thats it for this blog, i just thought i'd share this new experience with ya'll... so next time you have something you really don't like, just think..."rob had some vegemite, i can handle this"

Useless trivia

k you've got to love it. Seriously, if you ever need a laugh go google useless trivia. How great is it? lets just look at a few...

The day after October 4, 1582 was October 15, 1582. Is this true? who knows? i mean really how would you ever find out? 1st you'd have to find someone that was alive back then, which obviously would be pretty tough... i guess you could dig someone out of their grave, wave some special voodoo and then ask them, but that'd be all so creepy... 1582... k this is just dumb, no wonder why its called useless trivia... lets find another one Hmm...

The letter "J" does not yet appear anywhere within the periodic table of the elements. Don't believe me? go check it out. I was surprised...well sorta, i don't really care though, whats next?...

Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern US state. this one just makes my head hurt... but sure, sounds good, if you say so...

So these aren't all as good as i thought they would be... but there really are some interesting things out there. I hope i can come up with a better blog to write about for my next one, this one was pretty lame i wont lie! haha if anyone has any ideas let me know... til we chat again. Goodbye world

the ultimate sports hero!

I wanted to make a tribute to all my favorite sports hero's. Who better to start with than Brett Farve?!?! Seriously, this guy is the man. Not counting kickers, who all play til they are about 92, the oldest any players really get in the NFL is around 30, not much longer than that and they are out of there. Of course they all make enough money to life for a whole lifetime in about 3 games but that's besides the point. This guy never played for the money, never played for the fame, never played for anything other than his love for the game. He was a high school kid every time he got out on that field...so what if he was almost 40? That itself is remarkable too! he didn't miss a SINGLE game for 275 games including playoffs... that's almost 16 whole seasons without missing a game. Sure he got hurt, and he'd stop playing for the rest of the game... but sure enough, you would see him, no matter what the injury, starting the next game. Incredible! especially for a quarterback taking all the hits for the team.

I was lucky enough to go to a game this last season (I'll have to post about that sometime), and got to see him play. I even went down to watch em warm up, i kid you not i was within twenty feet of that guy! it was so sweet! then he broke a record in the game! Great guy, great athlete, now lets move to the next one...

K the next one is a legend too, but I'm feeling like sharing the wealth so I'll put both of these guys pictures up. John Stockton. classic. Look at those shorts! that's great! haha no but really! what a guy. All time leader in steals and assists. A leader to a team that should have won championships. He is still considered one of the greatest to ever play the game. You can't say enough about this guy. I remember the good ol days watching him and Malone... horneseck and Russell. Things were good back then were they not? k the guy who is sharing the spotlight today with john is Deron Williams. He is just like John. In fact I've even heard many people comparing the two of them. Deron is definitely going places. I just hope these places are championships in Utah, it would hurt me to see him in a different uniform. He is one of the greatest guys to watch, without a doubt.

K last one, This one is great too! what a guy! but before i go there, let me pull an honorable mention list out there. Albert Pujols!, Jeff Gordon, Tony Azevedo, Wolf Wigo, Edgar Rentaria, Jason Kreis, Landon Donavon, Cobi Jones, Michael Phelps, Logan Andrews, Jared Huff, Adam Huff, Michael McBride, Chase Hardman, Chad Fong, Sara Nicponski (never did get her number...), Tyler Johnson (swimming... not so much water polo) Roger Federer, Peyton Manning, Ryan Grant, and many many others... ooh! Sidney Crosby! what a kid.... that's it for now, i know there are lots i can't think of but love to watch them play.

Now the grand finale! Not the best of them all by any means... just thought I'd show this picture...

This was great! That's me! in my glory days! haha my kids will never hear the end of this one. But i wanted to put this picture up for a few reasons, one because its awesome! two, because it reminds me of the BEST water polo game i have ever played in my life!!!! it was like Disney! they should make a movie...

State championship, Murray vs. Cyprus. Super close game, but we found ourselves down towards the end of the 4th quarter. I think the score was Murray:10 Cyprus:11, when i went off on a fast break, poli hit me with a beautiful pass and i charged to the net, i pull up and shoot this shot, i made it (didn't even know the picture was being taken then actually, my pop told me..) and the game is tied. then they scored again and we followed suit... flash forward a bit... there is 35 seconds on the clock, tie game 13-13. Larry, our coach, calls a time out. Draws out this perfect game plan to spending out the clock and scoring the winning goal... he puts in his outside shooters, takes me out.

The plan went into play, but we shot it way too early. We were planning on shooting the last shot at the buzzer, if it goes in, we win, if it doesn't we go to overtime. well someone shoots it with 5 seconds left, and their goalie catches it. He hucks it clear across the pool, that's when our goalie catches it with 2 seconds left.

now freeze! a few thoughts before i continue. 1-the only thing i was thinking at this time was "alright, get my cap ready and tight, we're going to overtime and he's going to put me back in..."

2- poli is our goalie. The entire year he couldn't throw the ball past half way across the pool if his life depended on it, so really there was no way he could shoot it, let alone make it...

Unfreeze, Larry screams "YOU!" (which was the Larry code for "Shoot it!!!"). Poli shoots it... and it was all slow motion.... the buzzer goes off while its in mid-air... all there was was silence... finally, the ball hits the very top left corner of the net!!!! we won!!!! everyone went wild!!!!! the team jumped in the pool and lifted poli up everyone was so happy!!! Nothing will ever come close to matching the greatness of that buzzer beater, nothing! so for me, the ultimate sports hero is poli slaugh! what a kid! what an athlete! my hero! haha

Sorry this was so long, i just thought it'd be good to blog about and then i found myself blabbing on and on and on! you guys take care, i hope you liked it.

Plug for the Parentials

I know i have been doing serious ones a lot lately. but hear me out on this one, and the next couple I'll promise to be more useless facts going through my head for everyone to hear. I really just want to take a minute to recognize the greatest parents ever!

That sounds a bit bias doesn't it... oh well. You heard me! no but really, I enjoy every little thing about my parents. They are the greatest. But i want to give them each some of their own spotlight. I'll start with mom.

Mom, wow. You know this is right after mothers day AND her birthday, and i promise i am not trying to get anything out of them. I just have thought a ton about them but mom. Wow. She really is the greatest. I just recently gave her a present for mothers day.. still working on her birthday present... but my mom is great because there are so many things that she deserves. Usually a vacation or other glorious things like that. Yet what does she ask for? things like a new desk chair. or some pots and pans so she can cook for us, (which doesn't make sense because she doesn't even like to cook!), and other things that would not be for her own benefit but for ours. She is so complicated, yes she is a woman, that comes naturally, but seriously at the same time she is very very simple. Guess what i did for her? I wrote her a letter. Yes a letter. That's it, a letter, added to a funny mothers day card and a dozen roses, and once she got it, there wasn't anyone happier than her.

There is nothing greater in this world than the love from your mom. She loves me so much, and i know it. She is so nice and loving and caring and gosh dang it guys if i keep going like this i wont stop. She's great. Everything all in to one word, great. Or maybe even priceless. I wish i could take her on my mission with me. I mean think of all the wonderful things... food, laundry.... wouldn't it just be heavenly? I'll go spread the word and she'll feed us all. I'm obviously just kidding but really, i will miss her so much, not just cause of the food, but for all the million reasons she is what she is and does what she does.

Lets move to dad now. This story I'm about to tell you means a lot to me. Its going in my real journal, and i just think its so great that you should hear about it. My family was without the priesthood for a little while... My dad wasn't able to baptize either me or my sister heather. Not that he wasn't a good guy though. He's still the greatest dad ever remember? he was just inactive for a bit. But eventually he came back, got the Mel. priesthood, and we all got sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. what a day that was! but lets flash forward to recent months. He is now the Elder's quorum president and a great blessing to all the men in our ward, as well as their wives. Everybody loves my dad, who wouldn't?!

This last Sunday was one of the greatest days of my life. Up until this last Sunday i had never ever in my life heard my dad speak at the pulpit. I had heard his testimony in elders quorum and in lessons and fhe's and stuff like that but i had never heard it in front of a congregation. Well this last Sunday he had the opportunity to speak. He did an amazing job. Seriously, i was so proud of him. He almost made me cry when he started talking about the example he hopes he is setting for me and Tim concerning my mom, my grandma, and our future wives. He is the greatest example for me. After his talk he bore his testimony, it was short and sweet. then later that night i got called by a return missionary who needed a blessing, it was so great to have my dad there with me. Within 5 minutes he and i were at the kids house blessing him. We are both worthy priesthood holders, we both love the gospel, and we both are excited about my mission. Life is just great with my dad!

I am really lucky to have these guys. They are almost more like my older brother and sister rather than my parents. Just cause they are only 18 years older. Its great, We get to grow up together, learn together, and most of all love each other.

World, i hope you all can find a way to love your parents as much as i do to mine. Life is great, don't waste a minute! I'm out, keep in touch!

Life

So I have been thinking a lot lately. and this is going to be another serious one, but i just feel like i should let out some thoughts, maybe y'all can tell me what you think about it. That's if anyone actually reads this...
But I've been thinking. I've come to the realization just how very precious our life here on earth is. I know this is only a blink compared to the eternities that we still have yet to come, but i still feel like this is very special. I feel like i should be living every day like it could be my last... cause in all reality you never know when your last day will eventually come. I've been thinking also about friends and family whom are very close to me. I've been thinking about their lives... What a great experience it is that i get to share my life on this earth with the people that are so very near to me. I know that I wouldn't want to lose anyone yet. Surely i sound like a depressing child after he learns about death, but i really just value this life so much. I hope everyone around me does the same.
If you think about it, you have two choices in life really, and its so simple. You either can go about life, not so happy, (we call these people the pessimistic, "half-full" kind of people) and just consider every day in life just another cruddy day. and when this cruddy day is over, then another cruddy day will come right along after. but to these people I ask one question, and one question only... why?
We have so much to look forward to, everyday brings about new and exciting opportunities. We should be happy for everything that we have, seriously. oh man, k only about 2 of you that read this will actually know who i am talking about, but i want to pull a plug for this great friend of mine that i have just met recently.
Actually, before i get to her, you all know Austin Mcdonough... and hopefully you know how to spell his last name... but seriously, have you EVER seen that kid sad? how about mad? now when you picture Austin in your mind, tell me that he is smiling. he is always smiling, always! there are only a few people like that in this world, we need so many more of them.
Which brings me to Steph. I met Steph hardly even a month ago. Can i tell you what blessing she is in my life? no I'm not married to her, and I'm not completely obsessed, i just tell you, there is no one like her that i have ever met in my entire life of 18 years!
She was on Bingham's dance company when i met her. I had the lucky experience to dance in one of their songs for their concert this year, (which is a completely different story... I'm great at dancing...anyhow...) First off, those of you who have seen Austins smile, you know it, it goes from ear to ear. literally! k now picture a girl with a smile on her face like that, only times ten! sometimes even more than that!!! Steph is the happiest girl I have ever met. Even when she is crying she is smiling! and you can tell she is the happiest because in EVERY text you get from her there is always a "tehe!" and/or millions of those girly smiles they do on the phone... and if she's REALLY happy, then that's all the text is is tehe's hehe's gollie's wow's and millions of smiley faces.
Now your asking yourself, why is he blabbing on about some girl and her crazy texts... well I'll tell you! its not the text, but the meaning behind it. She is so happy about life, everything that's in life, and she's willing to show everyone whether she knows them or not how she feels about it. We all have our grumpy days, but with steph, you wouldn't ever be able to tell the difference! we need so many more Stephanie Tobias's in this world. We need so many Austin Mcdonoughs here to.
We need to live life everyday like its our last, be happy, we were not sent to this place to be cranky old grouches all the time. Loosen up, smile, smell the roses, laugh at the fat bumble bees, let life be happy, that's the way it should be. Smile!