A Mile High Salute to Barrel Man

The greatest and bravest Broncos fan ever to live passed away today.

RIP Barrel Man, we'll miss you.

Can anyone tell if he's driving the car with the barrel on? I don't want to know what he's wearing if he's not.

I Was Born a Capra, I Was Born a Capra, I Was Born a Capricorn

You can thank Kali for this one. Who are these people who think that these things are good ideas?

Oh No No No, Oh Canada,

This movie is 27 minutes long, and the rest is actually pretty cool if you like hockey and are interested in how the Nordiques logo came about. If you aren't interested in that then just watch the intro, because it sure is entertaining and seems to slam several ethnic groups.

Ladies and Gentlemen, our neighbors in Quebec.

P.S. I have now made it a goal to sing "Oh Canada" at a game. It's in my range, I know the words, and I'm pretty sure I could kill it. Anyone want to help make this happen?

Dear Santa

Please bring me this. I don't even care if it works the way the infomercial tells me it will. If you bring it to me I will wear it to the new years dance. I'm almost certain it will get me a man.

Cool Ski's That I Will Get...Someday

These are sweet skis. Check them out here. My friend Vanessa's brother is one of the founders. Support.

Bluehouse Skis

Halle's Best Friend

Bethany called my last post gay, so I will write a real post.

Here is my conversation with Halle last night. She's 2.

K: Halle, who's your best friend?
H: no answer (Just angry eyes)
K: Am I your best friend?
H: No Chee-chee
K: Is Trey your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Is your mommy your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Is Grandpa your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Is Kali your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Am I your best friend?
H: No Chee-chee
K: Is Jordan your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Is your daddy your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Is Grandma your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Is Jeremy your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Is Kayce your best friend?
H: Yes
K: Oh Phew.

There you go Bethany. I hope that's not a gay post.

Remember How I Don't Blog Anymore?

Yep, still don't. Follow me on twitter. That gets updated almost as frequently as my blog.

Kayce's Rules for Dating

This about sums up my rules for dating.

Why Mormon Guys Stay Single: Interleague Play

So, the guys that write the blog, Why Mormon Girls Stay Single, have been asking for a response to their comments, but most of the responses just come off sounding bitter, which really just adds to the problem. We are single because they think we're bitter. We are bitter because we're single. We're desperate and clingy they are selfish and shallow. It's a whole messy circle. So in an attempt to remedy this situation I will write about this issue in terms the guys can understand.

All girls hate Christie Brinkley. No, we're not jealous. She's pretty. We get it. Angelina Jolie is pretty AND a homewrecker and we like her (except for being mad at her for hurting our F*R*I*E*N*D).

No, no, no. We hate Christie Brinkley for making this happen.

She made all guys think that they have a chance. She could have had any guy she wanted and yet she chose Billy Joel, which resulted in unfortunate consequences for all women, AND for her offspring.

Guys, you may think you are better looking than Billy Joel, and you probably are, but you don't have a million dollars and you don't play the piano and sing, so you don't have a chance. Being a musician and having money makes you seem much better looking than you actually are.

The problem is this doesn't work in reverse. A-List guys don't usually go for C-list girls except for maybe in one case, and even her status is debateable. Girls are much more likely, if not required, to date down.

I'm afraid the men have stopped reading this since I mentioned Christie Brinkley , but now that I have you back here are the terms I believe you can understand.

Baseball.

Almost everyone in your ward is in the major leagues. There are some that fall in the triple-A category, but triple A guys marry triple-A girls, causing the major league girls to wonder, "How in the h*** did she get married before me?"

Well, the answer is because, they get it. They are dating within their league.

Generally in MLB, the American league(AL) has dominated the National league (NL). The best the NL teams can hope to win each year is the pennant. The World Series is 9 times in 10 out of reach for the NL. Now some of you, from St. Louis and Philadelphia, may say, "Hey NL teams are just as good," but really the only reason why they win the World Series is because the Tigers and the Rays just really didn't have enough confidence to represent the AL. There are some instances where the NL players are good enough, but those are few and far between.

AL Girls: These are the ones everyone talks about, and to win in their league requires a high price tag. The AL girls know they're good and demand high paying contracts, and are great in the regular season, but end up losing some of their shine when it matters and it sometimes turns out that they were enhanced. (You can recognize these girls when their bear their testimonies about the spiritual experience they had at the mall or the tanning booth, or about how they almost died during their surgery, type unknown.)

NL Girls: These girls are not triple-A girls. They are good enough to be in the major leagues, and they work hard to be there, but they aren't playing for the money. They are just looking to do as well as they can. They are more likely to be franchise players and loyal to the team, and aren't really appreciated till late in their careers.

Some of these girls are even the most beautiful girls on the street, depending on the street, but definitely in the top 10.

You have more in common with these girls, but you usually overlook them or run away once they show interest in you. "Oh my gosh, this girl just called me to hang out, and she talks to me at every activity and sat by me in class. She's in love with me, and is probably naming our babies and I feel smothered, so I'm going to go ask out this girl that has 10 other guys falling all over her and doesn't know my name." AL girls have practice saying no. They will say no to you without batting a fake eyelash.

Most of you guys left out there are NL guys. If you think you might be an AL guy, you aren't.

Stop preparing all offseason for, spring training, 2 interleague series, the All-Star game, and the World Series. Those are the most unimportant games, and if you never look at your division you'll be eliminated from playoff contention before the All-Star break. Sure you may get on base, and maybe even win against the AL teams in these battles, which is an accomplishment for you, but the AL teams only use these games to rest their aces and test their prospects.

Maybe someday you'll break in to the AL, but usually it will happen at the end of your career when you're clearly damaged and the only one who will take you is the ex-girlfriend that has had a lot of bad relationships since she dated you, and you didn't have a real good reason for breaking up anyway, and all you can remember now are the good times you once had.

NL girls won't try to control you, or run everything. They want what's best for themselves and their teammates, and are much more willing to do what it takes to win and improve themselves rather than rely only on their talents.

Besides, AL girls look great when they're shopping at the mall with somebody else's (daddy's)money, but as soon as you sign the long-term contract, she's suddenly spending all your money, you aren't getting what you really wanted when you signed her, and it isn't as much fun to have her on your arm/payroll.

Post Request 1: The Nuggets

Well the Nugg Doctor made a request, and I was going to just comment on his blog, but I figured I'd better follow through with my promise so I'm going to post it here as well. Here are my thoughts on the Nuggets right now.

. I'm trying to avoid making any comments about the Nuggets cause I'm a little sick about the last 2 weeks. I'm not going to lie I physically couldn't watch the second half of the game on Fri, and I nervous anyway going into halftime. Mostly because I thought the refs were terrible, and kept killing our momentum, and totally turned that game. I hate complaining about the refs and other variables like that, but I have heard several non-denver commentators talk about this problem that seems to happen frequently in Salt Lake. The most boring games I've watched have been in Utah because it feels like every other trip up and down the floor results in free throws.

And either flopping and elbow throwing is taught by Jerry Sloan or there's something about that building that makes it ok. Way to go on taking the high road, but I was a little disappointed that the officiating and cheating wasn't brought up more since that was what really killed the momentum of the game.

This is the best team we've ever had and I always feel like on paper we can beat any team, anywhere, any night. Now having said, I always get nervous for every game because I know we can lose to any team, anywhere, any night. I like George Karl, and I'm grateful for how far he's taken us and how much he's helped Carmelo develop (not finished), but I don't think he's ever going to take us to the next level. I can't think of anyone to replace him, but in the meantime we can take comfort in the fact that the Jazz won't be going to that level either with Jerry Sloan in charge. Both are great regular season coaches but that inconsistancy is what kills both teams in the playoffs, and that boils down to coaching. (inconsistancy isn't a problem when you play Tracy 'First Round' McGrady every year.)

Those are my thoughts, and I'll probably talk about it some more after I stop throwing up.

Done and Done. Oh and Kali, I'm not sure I'm going to publish your comment so don't get your hopes up on me writing about your comment.

Bop Shoo Waddy

This is my new favorite song/band. The 2:10 mark is especially good, and barely outshines the drummer.

And now we know what Tom Brady did with his time off.

Started a band with Carol Burnett and Alexander Ovechkin.

To the Anonymous Commenter and Others,

If you want me to bring the blog back leave your name and suggest what I should write about.

I have become extremely bored with blogging, and my creative writing is being represented in facebook and our ward activities email.

So I need a challenge. I am knowledgeable about many things. If you make a suggestion I will write about it. Test my limits. I will write a post about everything topic suggested as long as it is appropriate.

Bring it on.

Another Post About Hockey

I'm starting to love hockey more and more and I even got to see some of the Av's game the other night. Awesome. Anyway, I saw this commercial and I know what I'm doing new year's day now. Last year's classic was awesome, and hopefully it will snow in Chicago this year so this one will be just as cool.

Oh, and I included the second video because that is kind of what our family was like at the hospital with Trey last week, and we already have skates waiting for him to put on as soon as he starts to walk. He really is the BEST BABY IN THE WORLD!!

Final Thoughts

I'm sure you're all dying to know how I feel about the results of the election, and I think I'm finally ready to sum it all up and put it aside.

Quite frankly, I'm disappointed. I can't believe that there were so many people knowingly or unknowingly who would vote for a self-proclaimed Marxist. This is very indicative of where we're at as a country, and the good thing about this is now we know what we're up against. We really know what the majority of the country believes and now we can get to work changing people's hearts by first knowing exactly what you believe and why you believe it and then through honest and civil discussions with friends (which also means you have to make friends with people you don't agree with.)

This is not going to come by saying this is not my President, by saying the election was stolen (even though there is a lot of questions with ACORN), or by saying his birth certificate was forged. How often did you dismiss a persons argument when they said Bush stole the election? We lost a battle get over it. Honestly, who really wanted John McCain anyway? We knew there would be similar problems with him that we are now going to face with Obama. I would rather not fight those battles against someone who claims to be a conservative.

I know many of you who are frightened and disheartened by the threats from the opposition to Prop 8. I'm disgusted by it, and cannot believe the hypocrisy threaded throughout their "logic." I don't want to be anything like these people in crying foul when votes are cast by the majority of citizens to decide something different from what we believe. I don't want to be like the people who blame all their problems on the fact that Bush was elected. The ones gave that much power to Bush are the ones who view Obama as their savior and their only hope. I am in control of my fate, and no matter who is president I will continue to make my life what I want it to be.

Now let me say I'm done with parties. (Not real parties. You can still invite me to those. i.e. I really need some invites.) I'm done with political parties. Democrats and Republicans. I really believe the only thing they've accomplished as of late is to divide people who should be united. I saw a nasty comments fight on facebook about whether or not you can be a good Mormon and a democrat. It is horrible that we can be so disunited by a title when we should rather be united on principles. Let the Lord judge which principles we really uphold on an individual basis.

Finally, don't dismiss the writing on the wall. I believe a lot of the stuff we are currently are signs of the last days, but we shouldn't dwell on these entirely. Signs were given as a warning to get our lives in order and to remind us we need to share, and they aren't intended to scare us. We have a prophet to guide us. I love this quote from Pres. Monson.

"The past is behind--we must learn from it. The future is ahead--we must prepare for it. The present is now—we must live in it."

It's time to move forward, and I'm ready to move forward with hope for the future. I found this scripture and I realized it's not just hope, but a promise that we can go forward with.

"Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world"

"Hope"

By Liz Lemon Swindle

(Oh and Palin/Jindal '12)

Hold on to Your Butts, I'm Ticked!

So I've been pretty mellow the past few weeks. I've refused to talk about the election because I've talked about the issues for 2 years, and if you don't know where I stand then you don't know me at all.

(Oh and before I forget the only slightly less well-known blunder than never going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line is this: Never go against Mindy in racquetball the night before an election when a democrat is favored to win.)

There is one issue however that pisses the h*** out of me, and I'm going to rant about it for a while. Hang on though because this is a more important issue than you think. (Sorry for those of you with short attention spans, i.e. me, but please read on.)

So I'm starting a new asthma study and it's one that will help get a generic brand of a drug on the market. I was talking with the study supervisor and I mentioned how the last time I got an inhaler they didn't have any of the generic brands and so instead of $7 it cost me $32 even with insurance.

She then asked me if they told me why and then she said it was because of they aren't allowed to use chlorofluorocarbons in the inhalers anymore and the generic brands will take a while to catch up with the name brands. Chlorofluorocarbons deplete the OZONE! My medicine cost almost 5 times as much because of GLOBAL WARMING policies. Not only does it cost more it is a smaller container and the chlorofluorocarbons were the propellant and whatever they replaced it with doesn't work as well.

So before you blow me off for griping about a couple of bucks, which I don't care that much about because fortunately I don't need to use my inhaler that often, let me tell you why this such a huge problem. (By the way, I'm actually against Bush's prescription drug program that got them to $7 but that's because I don't believe government should be involved at all in health care.)

One of the greatest benefits of having a free market society brought about by the US constitution are the medical advancements that have occurred in the past 200 years. These types of environmental policies will set these advancements back or at least hinder any future developments and innovations.

The ones making these policies claim to care about individuals. They claim to care about the poor, and yet they make policies that make it hard for other drug companies to compete and drive down the costs of medications. They say they care about the people without insurance, and yet if they kept their hands out of it a lot of people would be able to afford the medicine without it.

Also, you remember how people think the only reason for DDT was to take the spots of our apples, and we didn't care about those spots because we like birds and bees better? Well, DDT is also a cheap way to control malaria outbreaks in Africa, but that's still no reason to kill birds.

The whole point behind this is the people who ban these things and pass legislation based on faulty conclusions (and a lot of outright lies) about the most unpredictable of the sciences could cause disastrous results for everyone else especially the poor. There is really no way to accurately predict the weather past 10 days and it's arrogant for us to believe we can really change the weather by passing laws to limit chlorofluorocarbons in INHALERS.

It's atheistic by nature to believe that we can control the weather, and trying to do that at the expense of the well being of mankind is, in my belief, outright evil. The Lord commanded us to take can of the things we have stewardship over, but we cannot let others convince us that we should care more about the environment then God's children.

All things in the earth will pass away but we are eternal beings and I think we have more responsibilities to take care of each other than to worry about the sea levels that may or may not rise.

I actually disagree with both candidates on their views on this, both support a cap and trade tax on carbons, but it will be much worse under Obama, and he has proven he has an utter disregard for human life, and I don't believe McCain will pass legislation on the environment in a bad economy.

Bottom line is this is just another way to redistribute the wealth and we all know how I feel about that. Please choose wisely and choose the things that will keep people free to choose, and not just between generic and brand name drugs.

Oh this commercial ticks me off too. Talk about scare tactics. Ticked. Ticked. Ticked. Ticked.

Foooball!!!

Dang I was going to post about this, but Victoria beat me to it. My niece loves football! I couldn't be prouder. It's so funny. I even got a little video, it's not the best, but you get the idea! Oh and this was a repeat of a high school game, it doesn't matter what it is she'll sit there with her eyes wide open watching it with a huge smile on her face!!

Saving You Money

There is a drive through Starbucks that I drive past every day to go to work, and every morning I am so tempted to get a caramel apple cider. It's seriously the best thing ever and since it's been so cold lately I've been even more tempted, but I'm always late, the line is always long, and I don't feel like paying 4 bucks for hot apple juice.

Well, I figured it couldn't be that difficult to make so I looked it up on the internet and I found this courtesy of Recipe Gal. Now I just need to get a new mug to put it in every morning since my old one melted in the microwave. Whoops.

Starbucks' Caramel Apple Cider
Starbucks' Caramel Apple Cider is truly the nectar of the gods. I asked a Starbucks' employee the other day how he makes it and this is what he told me for a large size:
Cinnamon syrup- a couple of squirts (sold in the store)
Treetop premium apple juice
Whipped cream
Caramel syrup drizzled on top

Blend cinnamon syrup with apple juice. Top with whipped cream and carmel syrup.

And now you don't have to get that icky feeling when you go into that sin hut.

Could Hockey Become Mainstream if Palin is Elected!?!

If this whole VP thing doesn't work out, I think she should run for NHL commissioner. Heck, I would vote for her for president on the platform that she wants more Americans to be introduced to hockey. If it didn't cost so much for teams to travel to Alaska I think the NHL would be justified in giving Alaska the Thrashers. Maybe that's why she's for drilling.

"When The Character Of A Man Is Not Clear To You...

Look at His Friends."

I'm sure some people have been a little confused about what Barack Obama really stands for. I get confused when one minute he's voting to not drill, but then says he's open to all solutions. Or when he says he'll meet with any leader at any time, but then says he never actually said that.
Well, if you really want to know the kind of person he is, and why he wouldn't have a problem speaking with Ahmadinejad you can now see exactly who he associates with.


Barackbook.com This is like having Obama as a friend on facebook (and it's pretty similar to the old format of facebook for those who don't like the new format of facebook). Although, I don't think any of you would have any mutual friends.

As If The Goverment Messing In Business Weren't Bad Enough

Wasn't sure which blog to post this on, so this is the default.

So I'm against government interference in business most of the time, but Gary Bettman, ruiner of the NHL, and one of the perennially awful teams in that league (I like Rick DiPietro though) shouldn't be allowed anywhere near that Wall Street bell. Although it's kind of fitting that they should be the ones to open the trading one of the days of one of the worst weeks ever.

Maybe I will spend a day on one of the sports blogs explaining why I can't stand Bettman and why the NHL needs a new commissioner.