Health and the Holidays!!

A few of you may know already that I am pretty conscious about health and eating a healthy way. I have struggled to be healthy and maintain a certain way of living. It is truly hard to stay that route when growing up a certain way. But needless to say it is always on my mind and I get into a health style conversation at least once a day. I am grateful for the friends who are trained in the field that I can talk to. But I still want more, I want something different, I just never feel like I get what I am truly looking for.... and I think I may have found it.
I have recently been reading on a trainer/lifestyle coaches way of life, he promotes wholesome food diets and total organic foods. I have always struggled with the concept of organic because lets be real, it was introduced a few years back by east coast culture and out here we do not jive well with many of their antics. When we started to carry organic in Wal*Mart, I laughed because who would buy it, and no one bought it. It was the most expensive and tasted the same. But now I have a better understanding of how it works and why they do it. Of course I may have a little bit of the reasoning that processed and chemically fertilized foods will... kill ya!
This past week I ventured out to the pocatello co-op to see what they had. I liked what I seen, they have a lot of organic foods and they had the milk minus the bovine hormones that we all hate so much. Because those hormones get into our systems. So I have decided to start incorporating alot of his antics into my own diet. Which I have been doing mostly steamed veggies with some olive oil for some fat. I think I will buy some herbs and bake some chicken here in a day or so.
So those are my thoughts, but I think because it is the new year and its the biggest tradition to make the resolution that the new year is going to be the year you will loose all the weight you dont want anymore. I really doubt I will do that, I never do, LOL, I just enjoy the party I am at and hope to get home to sleep.
So what do you think about organic foods? Do you think the chemicals we use on our produce is bad or ok, just as long as we wash it?
It would be neat to hear some others views on this,I also am watching "thepeopleschemist" on youtube, you should check him out. I like his info he talks about.
Ok, well this kind of lost track, thats what happens at two in the morning.

Freaking snow! I love it!

This morning was awesome, waking up to about 6 inches of snow. I really like it, the part I dont like is that bengal creek does not have their guys plowing the place out, we have 3 or 4 cars stuck in the middle of the drive. Oh well, I am not going any place so I am not worried, just going to walk to the gym and that is it for me.
I checked grades, I am really annoyed, by today all grades should be posted. The policy on grades says that the instuctor has 36 hours after the time of the final to get them into the office. its well past that on the one class that I want to know the final grade. I guess I work in the best place to complain about those sorts of things.... because the people I deal are the ones who enforce alot of the policeis. GRrrrr. this is almost as bad as last spring when a few instructors didnt get grades in for a month. I think that should of been coaching and should show up on thier annual reviews.
I have all A's but I am not please that most of them did not even have A+ on thier sylabus as a possible grade. So if I do not get lower than an A- in that class I will have a great GPA for the semster, too bad I wont make the deans list. :(
It is almost Christmas time!!!

Road Trip Nation

What better is there to do then blog on a cold night after cleaning all day and having a class when no one else has class...... Yea, I think so too!
Today seems kind of sad, everyone is leaving me, I will be here in my little whole in Pocatello all alone while everyone goes back home for the holidays. But that is ok, I will get over it and it gives me a great chance to take a road trip!!!



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I have had lengthy conversations and decided after a few weeks I will head to the other side of the state to visit a bunch of people, it is going to be so cool!! I will head to Wendell to hang out with Tyler ( the little brother I never had), probably spend a few days there with his family, his brothers are so fun and outgoing... I think we mesh great too! Then I will be off to Mountain Home to visit the fam, thats right, go hit Mountain Home for a day or two and hang out with Robert and Linda with the kids and grandkids. Then go see a few kids in Boise that I have not seen since last summer, also I will call the Oregon peeps and see if they wanna hang out with me in Boise or just go to Nyssa to chill and meet thier families. I think it would be fun, they are all so much like me... the outgoing part is what I mean, ha.
I recently got asked to respond to a report of doing a 'road trip nation' taping, I have not replied to the lady yet. I think it would be really fun but I have not found a few people to go with me to make it an interesting road trip, I mean I got people who would be fun and enjoy it but they dont want to go. I guess I have not totally wore out all my avenues to do this.
last night we all went out before everyone left, played free laser tag, that was so much fun.

Finally more snow, but bad roads!

Tyler and I, he is the little brother I never had.

The Temple

Tyler and myself

me, Tyler, and Genniel

Tyler, me, Dustin

Saturday we headed to downtown SLC to see the lights and go visit some people from around the way that we knew. We headed to the gateway and window shopped, because we are all broke, then had dinner at Tucci's, then went and hung out on temple square with the lights. It was good, I liked it alot because there was so much going on, lots of christmas concerts.. then the Motab was doing the big christmas special so we was able to go watch in the overflow seating which was good. It was just a great night with the freinds. I thank the Lord for the good memories we made and the good times we have had together.

Hey Hey Hey

I have not written a good blog for a long time, well not since the days of myspace blogging. I cant sleep so I thought I would read, then I was reading some pretty interesting stuff and thought I still cant sleep so why not blog about it.
So here is a story that an old indian told of how Blackfoot became Blackfoot, the name that is, we all know it was once "Grov City" but then got changed.
The Pegan indians were enemies of the Bannock and Shoshone tribes. They came on the land to hunt, trap, and to get wahtever other gains they could. The Pegans came from Montana to the Gray's Lake country in the winter when the lake was frozen over. There were many tule (bulrushes) growing on the edges of the lake and someone had set fire to them. As the Pegans crossed the lake they left black foot prints in the snow. When the trappers saw these footprints they called the Pegan "Blackfeet" and the river, so the town was named Blackfoot, after the Blackfoot river.
This was a story that Ralph Dixey told, it is something that could have been passed down through story telling of the indians.
I havae a few other stories that were more orally told and not written down, this is a written story, and where it came from I do not know who got it from him. But I will pull some other out just because I really like some of the things the natives talked about. Their religion and such...
Well I guess that is all for now.

SNOW!!!

Well today I was setting in my office, high above the road and other buildings on campus. I have the perfect view from my dest also, I look out and see the moutains and some of the valley also, so today we were setting here listening to the radio play christmas music, and it started to snow. I have to say it was a wonderfull view!! It looked pretty good, now it has melted some but the moutains still are frosted with snow and every time I look out I see it. It is starting to feel like December to me, finally!!!