umm, so, uh, yeah...

So i'm supposed to be writing a paper that i have due tomorrow morning, but i'm not writing it... I think that's a problem, well more of a problem because i'm blogging instead of doing homework... i believe i can write this off as an utter FAILURE!!!! but the question still stands.  Of everything that i can possibly do to effectively waste my time, Why on Earth am i doing it blogging?
anyways, so what to write about...
Oh Yeah!! so as previously before stated, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and lately i have been preparing to serve a mission for the church.  For two years, I get to go out and serve my Heavenly Father, my Lord and Savior even Jesus Christ, my church, my family, the Love of My Life, Marissa :)  i will have the opportunity to preach and teach by the power of the Holy Ghost, and i really must say, i am SO excited!!!!!!! This really will be wonderful experience.  I really wish i could say that i am ready, but i know i'm not, you know, you always prepare for a test, you feel ready, but then you get there and realize you were reading your chinese book instead of your math book and you have no idea what's going on! yeah, i think that's how i'll feel, so i'm not even going to pretend that i think that i'm ready, because i know i'm not... oh well, i'll be as ready as i can make myself and just go at it when i get there. I will serve with all of my heart, my might, my mind, and my strength. 
Sorry, i guess this was kinda random, i actually did get on for a reason... i was going to write something super special and super long but i really do need to write that paper, so i'll have to write tomorrow possibly when i have a whole extra day to procrastinate! but i figured i might as well put this quick note down... i'm just excited, i'm supposed to get my call within the next two weeks, so i think anyone who reads this... if anyone at all... should make a guess at where i'll go... anyways, i believe i should be done now, i'll go write my paper, i'll get back to this tomorrow :)
signed,
          Jacob

mY littlE boY fantasieS!! :) YEAH!!

Knights in Shining armor? Maybe the stereotypical dream of a little girl…but come on, what if I want to be that knight in shining armor?  Castles, swords, dragons, heroic exploits!! Yeah, what if I want to be a knight in shining armor too?

Growing up I loved that stuff, I would make a pillow fort and watch the “Sword in the Stone”  and “Knights of the Round Table,” while I ate macaroni and cheese, best movies EveR!! I could imagine myself charging off fighting those dragons and defeating tyrants, I didn’t so much think about the princess at the time, I really just wanted the sword…(girls still had cooties :P ) 

I really believe my dad is the one to thank for that though, we’d always watch those old movies, my imagination just ran wild with dreams of grandeur and those heroic deeds.  I can’t even tell you  how many dragons I slew, the countless hordes and kingdoms I conquered, or the number of medal of honors that I received, and of course the heroic deaths… haha, a heroic tale just isn’t complete without an epic death.  My dad would sing me the Marine Corps’ anthem for my bed time song, that for itself just shows where I got it from…

My dreams haven’t quite unfurled that way though… but I do owe my dad thanks.  I haven’t served in the military, I haven’t conquered nations, I don’t carry a sword everywhere I go,  but I will say this, I do serve a princess :) :)   I do believe I gained something from all my wishing and dreaming, the many hours spent watching “Knights of the Round Table,” it paid off, my imagining, it did have a purpose... 

“Yes Sir!”

“No Ma’am.”

“let me get your books…”

Respect! I think that’s something I learned. Or at least I hope I did:  Chivalry, the Gentleman’s code, manners, Honor. Call it what you like, I’m trying.  It’s not dead… It’s not hard to open a girls door, or to say an extra three letters when talking to a teacher…sir… respect, that’s what it is.  Honor! Something people once gave their very lives to defend, and not just their own honor, but for their families, for their friends, for women.  Obviously we aren’t all going to go out and start dueling to the death again… but how did we lose sight of that? of the importance of honor and respect? 

I’m in college and all I hear and see are people (boys) slacking off, my own roommate wouldn’t even get back till 3 in the morning from playing basketball? Really?! There is no ambition there.  And then the way the other boys talk about girls… I don’t know, that’s a topic for future thought.  Something happened at my college though, BYU, that received national attention, they questioned if the honor code at my school is too much? No it’s not, maybe to everyone else’s standards it is, but not to mine.  They merely hold me to a higher standard than the world holds me at, they know I’m better then the world gives me credit for or the other students. It is not simply rules and standards to which we are asked to follow, it is respect for others that we are asked to give and to show. I appreciate these standards. It’s not hard to follow, I decided in coming here that I would follow and obey these rules, that these are the standards to which I would hold myself, standards that I chose to guide my life, to determine what kind of man I become.

I don’t even know where I’m going with this or where it’s coming from… I guess I’m in part thanking my dad for the way he raised me.  Maybe he raised me in the past, maybe I’m old fashioned, but I don’t care, I’m proud of myself for what I do.  My princess and queen, I thank her for the bar she has set for me, for her expectations, more so for the respect that she has for herself and that she demands from me.  That too is another problem, I believe in the fall of respect that people give, people also expect less respect, the whole system seems to be collapsing.

“You have enemies? Good!! It means you have stood up for something in your life.”

I may be different, maybe I’m in the past, maybe I’m old fashioned in my feelings towards this subject, but I don’t care, I enjoy it and am proud of it.  Maybe I won’t ever wear the shining armor, maybe I won’t carry the sword, or ride a white stallion and sweep my princess off her feet, but I don’t need the horse, the sword, the armor.  There are different ways to fight your battles, there are better ways to champion respect today then a fight. People need to stand up for themselves, and for others, people need to respect themselves just as much as they respect others.
I hope I’m doing enough, I hope I show my princess and queen especially that respect that she deserves, that in my actions, be she around me or if I’m on my own, show how much I care for her and love her, that shows that I will stand up for something, something more then myself, that i can make her proud, make my dad proud.  I just hope I’m doing enough, I hope I have an impact on someone, I hope my princess knows, I hope that maybe, by the respect that I try to show her that other girls can hopefully see that they deserve the same, that the dream of being swept off their feet by their knight in shining armor isn’t such a dream after all, girls need to demand that higher standard from us boys!! And I can attest to that, I’m a boy, I have roommates, and I know boys, girls, you need to expect more, and don’t drop down to our level.

Signed,

                Jacob

Um...Me? I guess... in a nutshell anyways...

A blog huh? so pretty much I think blogging is the dumbest thing... but i guess i can't say that because I'm doing it, but then again, i don't even know why I'm doing it, but i am, well i do know, I was kinda told to do this, but oh well, we'll see how it goes.
Alright, I suppose I should start by introducing myself.
Hi Ya'll, My name is Jacob!! Jacob not Jake, i know it's pretty generic, but I like it. :)
So i guess i'm gonna start this out and tell you everything anyone needs to know about me...
Alright, well, I love sports, watching them? not so much, but i do love sports.  I love watching people I know play, but i can't usually handle sitting and watching a lot of it, I'd rather get out and do something!!! I'd rather do something, If i want to know the score i can find it out later. 
But my sports... Well, i'm not a professional athlete, I'm not even an NCAA athlete, sometimes I wish I were, but then again, I really don't want to.  In high school I was varsity wrestling, soccer, and football.  And yes in that order, I love wrestling!! great sport, I love it, and I miss it.  I played soccer too, I played on a club team and for my high school, great sport, love playing in it.  Football, well, yeah... still not sure how that one happened, but it did.
I got to coach the high school wrestling team as an assistant coach, and then I got to run the junior high program as the head coach, that was an AMAZING experience!! yeah, I love that job, that, I would have to say has become one of my true passions.  Playing and participating in sports is fun, but teaching and watching others learn and grow from what you can give them, now that is truly amazing!!
I also love Music!! calming and peaceful.  I play the piano and technically I can play the trumpet too, but I don't much anymore.  Just the piano, but that's all I need. I can entertain myself for hours on one of those.
I love learning, going to school, classes, reading (I'm a dreadfully slow reader, but it works for me), just everything.
I believe in God too, yes I do.  And I am proud of it! I will be serving a mission for my church here shortly, I'll get to telling you about that later.  But I will say that I love my God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, and my church, I can't wait to serve and teach.

Well, that, my friends, is Jacob in a nutshell, nighty night...