Early Halloween

If my physical activity mirrored my blog activity, i might just have a hard time walking around the block without panting. ugggghghhh!!!

So this weekend marks the beginning of the Halloween party marathon. I was quite unprepared with any sort of costume, but luckily i have accumulated a few pieces of quality thrift store product over the past few years. So i just threw them against the wall and hoped that they stuck. you be the judge..

We wandered up to a party at my friend skip's house, he manages to live in houses that are close to forclosure, so he offers the owners small amounts of $$$ to live there and it works, he's been living in multimillion dollar homes on the draper bench for the last few years. the house was huge and that means lots of people. (Not to mention a good guy/girl ratio) It was a good turn out; the crowd was a little older and not to many out of control constumes.

Seriously though, halloween is a time to dress up. (Dress up= to put clothes on) it's not a license to dress like a"whore". :) (such a funny word "whore") seran wrap is not a costume. probably fun for a honeymoon or date night but being 30, single and abstinent isn't exactly easy and i don't want to spend all night singing hymns in my mind, trying to mingle here.

Yes i do have a job!!!

This is my current job, i've been working on this rock wall with Francisco for the past 3 months, the arch is something that Alan and I concocted, but the actual steal work was done by moi. i won't lie, it's not the job that i dream of growing old in, but there is something satisfying about coming up with a concept and then building it. hopefully the arch is finished by the end of june, it'll be close to 11 feet tall, it's a big deal. :) [sarcasm] so this one of the projects i'm doing and there is a roster of more to do on the farm.

Two rainbows, doesn't double the chances of gayness.

this was a little bit of spectacularness.
just because i enjoy a beautiful rainbow now and then, doesn't mean that i have posters and stickers of them decorating my windows and walls. i like girls just as much as the next guy. IMPORTANT NOTICE (the next guy is not gay)

mmmmmm, did someone say steak????? ya got me all excited.

Nikee took me out to the fabulous ruby river steakhouse for lunch/dinner. i guess fabulous isn't really the best describing word, but i regress. i did her taxes and she sprung for the meal. i'm experiencing conflicting body parts. my stomach says " too much meat, too much meat, too much meeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaatttttttt!!!!!!!" my mind on the other hand says " that's impossible, DEAL WITH IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" so i find myself laying on my bed with my eyelids hanging at half mast.
For some reason, it wasn't enough to get the large ribeye, i needed wings and ribs. (the three basic food groups:beef, pork, poultry) not to mention salad and bread.
tia and amelia came with us, i feel bad for the gentleman in the adjoining booth.
now i have to figure out a way to go run five miles??? would self inflicted stomach expulsion be wrong???

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John watching JAZZ

DISCLAIMER: this picture was not taken during the actually game, but a re enactment taken shortly after the game.


so we brothers decided to get together and watch some play off basketball. mark was very enthusiastic as you can see, the was out before halftime.
The plan was to get some pizzas and soda and just enjoy the game, well mark wanted a salad, and john is "allergic" to cheese. so i grabbed two pizzas for luke and i, we polished off a little over one, then when mark got there he finished the left overs, and then when john got there, he decided he wanted some pizza also and was surprised when it was gone. what gives, luckily jess saved the day and made him some food. it was fun, the jazz won and marky didn't even start snoring.

Worst Movie Ever???

I've learned a lesson, if you go to a redbox on a night when, let's just say BYU is having it's reading days, which essentially means that all 30,000 students are out and about lollygagging. With that many wandering students the idea of a dollar dvd creates quite the attraction, the redbox becomes an entertainment mecca. The lesson is that on nights like this you better not even plan on getting a good movie, of course we had to check the list twice just to make sure we didn't miss anything.(we = my date whitney and myself) The movie we picked was "Lucky You"Now don't get me wrong, it's not as painful as the titanic, but perhaps that is because i had some female companionship and we had lots of fun, making fun of the show. i won't lie, there were a few good lines, but if put in the mix with a trip to the proctologist, a coin flip would be the deciding factor.
So in a hasty generalization, byu students ruin movie watching experiences for the rest of the community. lesson learned.

I won the raffle, but there wasn't even a raffle....???.....

Monday, April 14 around 10:55 a.m. i glance down at my phone and notice a text that i apparently received sometime while i was sleeping, it said"Hey! Sorry i know this is really late notice but i have 2 extra tickets to the concert tomorrow night if you want them. Please let me know asap" The text was from Bridgette, a girl that my friend Kammon used to date. Since i rarely ever talked to her, i just assumed that she had sent that text to the wrong matt, and went back to work. just as my mind had put the text aside my phone rang and it was bridgette, i was the right matt. She reminded me that last week Kammon and i had entered a raffle that she was supervising, but the people holding the event forgot to do the raffle, so she had two tickets to Jimmy Eat World concert , that is if i wanted them. It was tough but i said yes, i'll take them.
Since Kammon had bought a raffle ticket with me, karma would dictate that he got first right of refusal. He was stoked(excellent word from the early 90's). then at about 2p.m. Kammon starts forwarding me these texts that he's getting from a girl that is trying to convince him to go to the jazz game and sit with her on the 14th row.(this is the last home game) He told her he was already going to the concert. I called him and told him he should go to the game, heck i know i would, i had debated a little earlier if i would rather see the concert or stay home and watch the game. Now since she was trying to subvert my friend into flaking on me, we devised a brilliant plan. She could have Kammon for the game as long as she provided a pretty face to take his place. And she pulled through, so i ended up going with a pretty girl, which of course is much better than a dude. :)
As it turns out the concert tickets were vip tickets, so we got to miss the lines and the frisking and were escorted upstairs to a buffet of Costa Vida and a bottomless bin of vitamin water and vitamin energy drink. Of course i drank a few, i had to get all the value out of my free tickets.


Obviously this is Paramore, the singer was a spunky
little angry girl.

And if the other was Paramore, this of course is Jimmy Eat World
if you look really close and cross your eyes, you can almost see the lead
singer in the middle. with a really good imagination you probably can.

so i'm falling asleep trying to create the ambiance of my blog. Hope you enjoy the music, i tried to stay on the chill side of the scale. So i've gotta tell Luke-n-Jess and Amie Jo that i'm tryin to keep up with them and their blogs, but since i'm neither married nor living 600 miles away, i guess i'm gonna have to try extra hard to keep up and stay entertaining.

My First Time

This is my first time, first time blogging that is. I wasn't sure if i was ready to write anything, but hey if i don't, the spam detector keeps thinking that my account is crap and locks me out of it. So here i am a couple of swear words later and starting to ramble. So there is my first blog, perhaps a little short but oh well.
cheers