Dedication Here I Come!!!:)

   Ok, i know all of you are probs mad at me because I kind of abandoned this blog... well, guess what?? IM BACK!!! so LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!(loud announcer voice)
   To start off, i guess i will just sum up summer in like on line. Summer was work, work, and more work. As my friends know, and now the whole world, I work, A LOT! I am manager/boss/crewmember what ever i am of my farm. I just pretty much run everything, so i am always crazy busy in the summer and fall. So because of that, i kind of neglected this, and also hanging with all of my friends:/ But i did manage to make it to logan quite a few times to hang out, and to ogden to party it up with my friends there!
   I really dont like sharing my feelings for the whole wide world to know, but for some odd reason tonight i feel like the whole world should know.. I am in a rut... a serious extreme rut!! Why you may ask?? because my whole life, i have always did the same things, school, then work after school. And when summer hits, it is just work work work. And this has gone on for... who knows how many years. But this year is going to be the most epic, amazing, life-changing year i have ever had! I am starting new! A whole new and improved me!!
   All summer, i have been dieting, exercising, and tanning. Why? Because i finally decided that I actually cared about how i looked... Mostly impart because of another change i am going to make this year. I think i may actually get serious and date... no more little lets go get a slurpee, or lets go get a snack, or just hanging out.. I mean actual Dating... Plus, all those little outings got quite expensive last year, so i guess i should at least make it worth while. So yeah, i am also growin my hair out.. which is a work in progress... Last year everyone told me to do it, but at about an inch and a half, I would cave and chop it all off and do the oldschool missionary cut, which i think is extremely boring to have for more than a month or two.. so i want to mix it up. My hair is so thick that i have to have it thinned every 2 weeks, or else it becomes a super afro mess! Which is quite annoying, but i love my hair, and yes... i would like it to look nice haha So yeah, Phase one is underway.. New look... CHECK
   Now i dont really know what phase 2 is just yet... but i am thinking now that school starts Monday, that I am going to start a new hobby... Since I got out of high School about a year ago, i have felt like something was missing in my life.. I mean really missing. During High School, i was always go go go everyday all year. I was striving to do more things, and do them better. I was FFA V.P, in madrigals, and even was even in the lead cast of our musical "Grease." My life was full of music, and preparing for competitions for madrigals, and for FFA. Now that im out, i decided i need to work for something else. So this year, i am either going to start a singing group, join a singing group, join the jazz band, or find some sort of thing to develop my skills for becoming a teacher.
   I really really want to start either an accapella guy/girl group (accapella meaning just voices no instruments or accompaniment for those that do not know), OR (this one is my favorite idea) find a girl that has a great voice and start a duet and learn to play the guitar ( to swoon the ladies). I really miss music in my life. Now that i am in college, i can do what ever i want, but now that i have picked a major, i have to take classes on certain semesters because i want to stay on track so i am not in school for ever and a half. So because i cant join a school choir or group, i will make one and we can practice in our spare time!! Its brilliant i think! hahah I really do love to sing, and play instruments, so i am going to try my hardest to bring it back into my life full swing! 
   Oh, and i think i know what phase three will be.. but it should probably actually be two, but for now, it will be three lol Number three is Become an A Student!!!!!!!! Last year, i was a slacker. Fall semester came, i moved away from home for the first time, and i thought i was ready for life!! Then SMACK!!!! the end of the semester came and when i got my grades.... well, i was extremely distraught.. I did a little too much socializing and partying, and not nearly enough studying. So spring semester rolls around, and i knew i needed to do better. So i studied a little more, partied a little less, and my grades improved.. instead of a D Student, i was a C student... so i still hadn't improved that much. I passed my classes, but not with a grade i wanted. This year is going to change, and i am really excited too. I am taking 17 credits, which is a heck of a lot, and i have a bunch of hard classes. So why am i so excited??? Well, i have not just made up a goal in my head, but wrote down, well typed at least, a goal to study more than 2 hours a day. Which, i think should drastically improve my grades, as well as set me up for the rest of college i say. I am not going to socialize til 3 in the morning on school nights, and am going to go to bed early, and get up early. They say that early to bed, early to rise is the way to succeed in life. Sleep is the most neglected thing in college i think, and i am going to change... (It will be a process)
   So yeah, i know i kind of went overload on this post, but i have so much to say, and school starts in 4 days, so i better get ready, because here comes the new and improved Jake :)


The End.... Now you can stop reading, because i am done... for now

Peace Corps....

I am thinking that after i graduate, i would love to join the peace corps!! I want to join the agricultural sector or education. After i graduate with my Agriculture Education degree, i want to help people that are struggling in foreign countries. Will this happen for sure, idk, but i know that it would be an AMAZING experience!

The life of My Dad, Grandpa, Great Grandpa, and Great Great Grandpa... And one day Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWpeNAUe5Vw&feature=player_embedded

Wow, its been a WHILE!!

Ok, so yeah, its been forever since i posted anything on here. School is going amazing so far... I love the classes i am in, so yeah, i am happy. Its now may, and the snow just left today, but its supposed to snow tonight or tomorrow again...:/ I love the snow, but i think it is now time for it to be gone.. considering that it is the second week of April lol So yeah, i am hoping to post a lot more in the near future, but i keep forgetting about this, so yeah :) hahaha

Its Sleeting??

   K so once upon a time, there was a bunch of students at college. It was a mid winter day, and was quite warm when the day started off, so everyone broke out their less-warm clothes for the day. Little did they know, that later on in the day, a horrible storm would roll in, causing everyone to freeze their butts off! But, dear Jake looked at the weather the night before, so he was prepared!! hahah  Isn't that a wonderful kids tale about being prepared??

Warmer Weather

       It was sooooo beautiful outside today!! While walking, i started to sweat, with two feet of snow too!! Crazy huh? Well yeah, it has been bitterly cold here lately, but today was nice, i only wore a light jacket!!         And today in Humanity in the Food Web, my favorite class i have ever taken, we started to talk about our "presentations" for April. Yes it is far away, but we needed to start. I am excited, but not excited at the same time. I know i sound crazy, but i really wished it were a longer presentation. We are supposed to prepare a 3 minute presentation on a topic in Agriculture we have kind of covered in class. I am doing mine on how today farmers children aren't coming back to the farm, they are going to college. Which is a good thing, and also a bad thing.

     In todays world, the average age of a farmer is i think like 57 and rising every single year. So who is going to feed us in 20 years??? A bunch of 90 year old farmers?? And this is how i get myself going. I have such a passion, and so much to say, that sometimes i stick my foot in my mouth... But yeah, i don't know how on earth i am going to make this 3 minutes! I could fill up 3 hours easily, but i guess i must go with the rubric. That class is the reason i am really loving college right now.
   That class is all about looking at what is happening in todays world with our food. Where is it coming from? Where is it going? and what is happening in todays world.. It is such an amazing class! Every single day i learn something amazingly interesting, that i just want to tell everyone i know about it. And sometimes I do, and my friends go.."Really?" hahah and i just laugh. I guess I am just crazy or something..

This was yesterday:/ my bad

      So, day one of college craziness,Feb. 27, 2011, which is about halfway through spring semester of my Freshman year. Today, I had planned on going to my dear friend, and former roommate Danny's farewell, but due to my, well studpidness, I stayed up too late, thus sleeping through my alarm. Well, i woke up at 11:15, the farewell started at 11:30, think i could make it 1.5hrs to sandy?? well, i dodged out the door, and flew down. It only took me a little over an hour. Which i was impressed with. Thank you car, for going no less than 95 the entire way down, and thank you police for not being out today!! I made it, and well, i didnt make it to see him talk, but i did make it to the afterparty. And then, back to Logan. Alone. Which wasnt all that bad, i had lots of time to think about what has been going on in my life, which is, well, nothing really. 
Thats when i decided that i need to make some "jumps" and go for some things i have been wanting for a long time! K, well enough with the whole, "inspirational moment". Then after that, i came back and took a nice long nap, which felt amazing! Then, it was off to "make the rounds" like i do. Then to end the night, i made a mad dash home with Brianne to take my loving mother my laundry. (yes i know what you are thinking, he is 19, and still doesn't do his laundry?) My mother is just AMAZING and i love her to death. I have the convenience of living close to home. So yeah, that and the fact that my mom is AMAZING, if i hadn't told you that already, makes me one lucky guy! And oh how the swamps were foggy!!

Party!!!

    K, so a couple weeks ago, it was courts b=day, and through the craziness of me and keasha, we decided to throw a nice little party. Consisting of : root beer floats, cake, lots of energy drinks, and tons of friends!! I know this is kind of late, considering it was a couple weeks ago, but hey, i just started this blog, give me a break. The night started out with a wonderful dose of dare "shots" which, for us non-drinkers, or all of us, we used the other wonderful thing, supercaffeinated beverages (energy drinks)! I think i have to say that, I was terrible! I lost three times!!!  
      Poor Esther lost, and thus, she had to get her makeup done by b-day girl court, blindfolded.. Dallin had to eat a spoon full of cinnamon.. oh, and prob the best was Perry eating a spoonfull of chunky penut butter, chocolate, and.... MUSTARD!! haha, while he was blindfolded. He almost lost his stomach there..

        So, i had to,
1:  Roll around in the crusted over snow without my coat on, which scraped up my arms
2:  Eat 2 cotton balls!!!! Oh my heck do they taste terrible! when eating the second one, i dipped it in the drink and put peanut on it for palatability, but still didn't help much. I had to literally gag it down with all  my might.
3:  I had to go find someone random, walk up to them, and give them a hug and then walk away without saying anything.... Well, lets just say they were a little confused.. poor justin

    So, yeah, it was one heck of a party I have to say, and court... well i will just say that i'm never giving her energy drinks again... she was.... just a little crazy, well more like, insane!