I Love My Adopted Moms!

So we all have those people in our lives that aren't really family, yet somewhere inside you feel like they are practically family. I love all those sorts of people for sure. The favorite ones I have those are all those women out there that are my "moms." Now I do have quite a few of them and they all have certain things about them that makes them unique and awesome. They all have one thing in common though and that is that they all care about me.

Calie Tomblin from Coeur d'Alene is a great example of an adopted mom. Calie is a great friend of everyone in the family. She loves to come over to the house and play card games. She claims that she is the best card player around. She is pretty good but whenever I come to the table she just doesn't quite step up to the plate like she does when she is playing without me. She is so funny too. Oh man there is never a dull moment when she is around. One of the greatest things Calie has introduced me to is her bean dip. Can you say PHENOMENAL. Man my life has been drastically altered because of that bean dip, not going to lie. Like I still have cravings of it. The greatest thing about Calie though is that she treats me like one of her own kids. She is there and loves to talk to me, gets excited to see me when she sees me around town, and she is willing to do anything for me. I trust her so much and know that I can rely on her for anything. I love you Calie!

Connie Nemeck also hails from Coeur d'Alene and she is so funny. She likes to play card games to. Same game that Calie loves to play (Hand and Foot). Connie is so funny too. Whenever we are playing games with each other she causes an uproar in laughter easily. What is even better is to have both Calie and Connie together. There is like non-stop comedy everywhere. Connie likes the same things that my family likes too, especially me. She is so entertained with football and lacrosse it is awesome. It would be better if she would realize the amazingness of Boise State football but I will cut her some slack. Connie has done so much for me and I appreciate it all very much. I love you Connie!

Ma (Natalie) Robison hails from a city close to Coeur d'Alene. She is from Post Falls but is still awesome. She was my Ma for our church's pioneer trek we had this past June and has always been there for me since. On my last Trek I went on, my Ma was good and all but once Trek was over that was kinda the end of it all. Ma Robison has been there and cares the same for all of her kids from Trek. Immediately following Trek she held a big family reunion and we had such a great time there at her place. Before I left for Hawaii she actually drove over to my house to drop off a gift for me. She is the best ma that anyone could ask for and I know that she is willing and wanting to do anything to help me out. She made Trek such a great experience and she is awesome. I love you Ma Robison!

The newest addition to my adopted moms is Karen McCabe. Karen is from Riverton and has technically only met me once, but she is still a mom to me. She has always been the one to check up on me when I go through rough patches since I have been here in Hawaii. She is there to always offer me support and someone to talk to. Recently I have gone through an extra rocky patch and she was so sweet today. So I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today and was not really wanting to talk to a whole lot of people. Well, I am sitting at my computer just about ready to break down and I get a text message. I really am not excited to see who it is from. Well when I looked and saw it was Karen, I wasn't to bummed to read it. Well I open it up and she sent me a text to see that I was doing ok in this rough time. Do you know how big of a smile I got on my face just because she was checking to see that I was doing ok. Well we get talking and she is just willing to give me advice and support on everything I tell her. She even offered solutions to help me feel better. Karen made my day a whole lot better in just one quick text message. I have not felt like someone cared as much as she does. I appreciate her so much. Thanks for everything you have done for me Karen, especially today. I love you Karen!

Now having all these adopted moms doesn't take away from how awesome my Mom is. My Mom is the best in the entire world. Oh man she has given me so much that I don't even know where to start from to start showing her appreciation. She is always wanting to do everything to help me out and sacrifices everything she has in order to make life easier and better for me. She has put up with me for over 18 years now and I am glad to have someone like her in my life. I could not have asked for a better mom. She is involved in my life and interests so much is is great. She may like to try to be a little too involved, but she does it because she loves me so much. I wish I could have the opportunity for her to know how much I love her. I trust her with my life and know she is there for me. I love you Mom!

I just want to once again say thank you to all my moms, adopted or not. I appreciate everything you do for me and hope the best for all of them. I know I can personally trust each one of them and wish that they realize how awesome they are. I love all you guys so much!

Everything Tastes Better in Hawaii...Well Almost Everything

I have found a great discovery here in Hawaii since I have first arrived. Everything tastes better in Hawaii! Especially chocolate. Back home on the mainland, yes there are very, extremely delicious. But having come to a place where chocolate must be eaten immediately and ice cream lasts about 5 minutes before it melts, ya it tastes better. It is almost like it is a delicacy. Ok, so Hawaii is one up on chocolate and ice cream...however, the mainland has some stuff I miss too. Burgers and fries here just aren't the same. The burgers are just missing the mainland grease I love and the fries just don't taste like french fries. And the ultimate thing I miss though is steak. I didn't get it much back home but here I never get it. So the mainland is up by one at this point.

So besides the normal American fattening food tasting great, most of the Hawaiian stuff I have found here is beyond delicious. Pineapple at every meal makes for a great compliment to anything. Another thing that they serve with every meal is rice. I have grown to love rice so much. I sometimes only eat that for meals. Another popular item here is chicken. They have so many varieties of chicken products it is insane. Teriyaki and barbecue are the favorites though. The best things though are found only at work though. So I work at a luau right? Well any luau has kailua pork and at ours we have taro rolls. The best combination in the world. Actually, I have found that anything with taro in it is amazing. Now if you like coconut, I have something for you. Chocolate Haupia pie. Now, haupia is just a coconut pudding. So the pie is a chocolate pudding pie, but on top it has coconut pudding and coconut shreds. So good!

So if any of you decide to travel to Hawaii, be sure to hit up these things for sure.

Why Does my Body Hate Me?

Well last night I had one of the greatest things happen to me. I actually got about nine hours of sleep! I know it is great. It is the first great sleep I have gotten in a while. Now I don't want to jinx it but I'm hoping my insomnia is starting to back off a little bit. I honestly hope it is because I am just to tired for it to go on. My body has not allowed me to just fall asleep like everyone else. I always feel like I have no energy; yet at the same time I feel wide awake and capable of anything. My body is just bipolar I swear.

Now not only does my body hate sleep, but I swear it doesn't allow itself to recover either. So last week was a rough week and many things happened. Many of the things that happened led to me getting not only emotionally hurt, but physically hurt to. I was stupid and would allow myself to literally tear itself apart for hours a day. Now I know me being in pain is my fault. No duh. But, it has never taken this long for a recovery either. Like a few pulled muscles should have gotten to be a little better by now one would think. Ya but not only is my body throwing a fit about not recovering from these past injuries, no but it keeps hurting itself. These new one I swear I have had nothing to do with. But like the past couple days my wrist is acting up again like it used to, my hip is going all whack, and my back has gone from being fine to once again cramping up.

Can't I just like send it a memo saying:

Hello body,
You do realize that  I actually do have to do stuff during life. If you wouldn't mind cooperating with the rest of me and helping me out by stop hurting yourself and recover already it would be a great help. Maybe I might be in a better mood if you did this for me. Thanks!

Your friend,
Geoff

If he could cooperate with me life wouldn't be to bad. Like, at all bad. Ok maybe a little bad but I can't blame that on my body. Well I have been trying something new the past couple days and it seems to help with my sleep. Lets see if it can help with the rest of the healing process.

Sleep

Well for all those aware of it and all those who will now be informed of it, my insomnia is attacking worse than ever right now. Ok, its not to bad because I can still go throughout a day just fine with only a few hours of sleep. But what got me at least last night was that when i finally did go to bed there was a power surge. Ya power surge + needing your alarm clock to wake up for church = church - Geoff.

So last night I couldn't get to bed and actually ended up talking to one of my friends till 3:00 AM. I mean even when we ended the conversation I still wasn't even close to being tired; but you have the whole voice in the back of your head saying, "You are going to have to get up in five hours for church." Ya well needless to say set my alarm, crawled into bed, and actually got to bed fairly quickly. That right there is a miracle by itself actually.

I don't know what it is but apparently if I am just in a good mood when I crawl into bed I can get to bed fairly quickly after getting in there. So anyways, ya I was in a good mood going into bed and I crashed hardcore. Well like I said before, after I fall asleep we get hit with a power surge. Suck! Ya so I get like my 5 or so hours of sleep and I wake up and I am thinking, "Man my alarm hasn't gone off. Is it seriously before 8:00?" Ya I take a look at my alarm clock and it starts flashing like it does when it first gets plugged in. At that moment I'm pretty sure all that was going through my head was, "Dang it! I honestly can't miss church today." So i hastily pull myself out of bed and over to the desk. Flip open the phone and find out the church has already started and was already a good ways into the meetings. Well I drag myself out and over to the location of where the meeting was supposed to be. . .no one is there. I go over to another meeting place. . .no one is there. Then it dawns on me, today is ward conference and it is already over. Ya, not cool guys.

So overall me staying up late talking to my friend was a plus, me getting to bed quickly was a plus, me not getting more than 6 hours of sleep is a minus but also a normal, me getting scared when my alarm clock got reset is a minus, finding out I freaked out and got dressed super quickly is both a minus yet a plus. So if you add all of these elements together, I would like to claim that last night and this morning were positive experiences.

Hau' oli la Hanau Nancy!

Hey just so everyone knows it is Nancy Dea Weber's birthday! Be sure to wish her a happy 19th birthday today! I hope she has an awesome day today. I wish I could be there to spend this special day with her.

Who to Trust?

Don't you hate it when you go along in life and people say to trust them and they never seem to keep up a reputation that is worth trusting. I don't know but I have had multiple experiences of placing trust in people and then them taking advantage of it. So up until recently I had resolved to just not trust anyone. If they want me to trust them then they have to show me I can trust them instead of giving them a free ride. This theory of mine actually was working out great. Notice I said "was." Well recently I ran into an instance where me not giving someone trust at first kinda backfired in my face. The person I guess was trust worthy enough to have one of the people I trust most in life say he was trust worthy. I haven't met the kid and under the circumstances there was nothing to trust him with. Well we resolved that he was trustworthy and I need to change my philosophy and just blindly trust everyone.

Well that sounds like a good idea right? I mean that means that I should be able to let myself think that no matter what no one is going to take advantage of my trust and that they won't do anything that I would disapprove of. Ok so that philosophy seemed to go fine for the last couple weeks. I mean I trust boys 3,000 miles away, I trust roommates, I trust friends no matter how new or old they are, I trusted everyone.

Well this new philosophy gained much approval...by everyone but one. Myself. I mean I was trying really hard to follow this new doctrine of mine. Ok so Last night I get fit with a big load of crap. Like life changing, slap to the face, make me want to break down and cry sorta crap. Ok so lets just say I didn't sleep hardly at all last night.

Ok so this morning I'm sitting in English 201. I have my laptop open and I get a couple skype messages from some people. So I start chatting with these two girls. One of them has been my best friend for a while now and the other is Kelsi's roommate. Well we start chatting about the crappy situation I got myself into and all of a sudden the two stories go from being identical to being complete opposites. I am told that things weren't as bad as they seemed to me from one of them and the other says that there is a whole new level of crap that was being covered up. Ok well under my new philosophy I am supposed to follow I should trust both, and both of them are telling em to trust them. How can both be true though? How can I trust both of them if they are complete opposites? Who do I trust? I am so confused and the only person who can answer the truth is never on or willing to chat about it. I just need some answers. My mind is torn, my heart torn more, and my physical capacity is definitely struggling. I wish that things could go better for me...but i guess that's what I get for not being able to decide whether what I was feeling was emotion or inspiration. I can tell you this inspiration I thought I had was definitely just emotion and Heavenly Father chose the only way possible to make me realize it.

The Power of Inspiration

I have always been told to trust my gut feeling. Lots of people don't know why the should follow it or what good will come out of following it. Well my gut feeling is the reason I am out here in Hawaii. Back in February, I got accepted to a few different schools and had to decide which one to follow. I mean all the schools were awesome schools. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, BYU Hawaii, and BYU Idaho. I got the gut feeling to come here to BYU Hawaii. I mean I love it here. It is one of my most beautiful places in the entire world here. The school is amazing. The people are amazing. The environment is amazing. The church is amazing. Well this past week I have gotten another gut feeling. Now I no gut feelings more as an inspiration from Heavenly Father. He brought me out here for a reason and he must have had me accomplish my assignment or I will complete my assignment because I have a feeling that he wants me back in Idaho. Now I don't know why he wants me back or why he brought me out here in the first place but it must be right.

Well today I decided to make sure it was true. I fasted and I went to the temple and it is definitely true. I guess I need to work on getting back to Idaho. I have contacted many different people to see what all needs to get done to transfer. You know throughout this whole thing i can only think of one scripture that fits this perfectly. 1 Nephi 3:7 talks about obedience. And you know Nephi didn't really know why he was called to do certain things and especially to be sent somewhere only to come back. Yet he still did everything he could to accomplish it because of faith. Along with many other things I have picked up, I think this all is a test of my faith and the faith of my family. Well I guess since we haven't let him down so far, might as well keep going. It will be worth it and there are blessings that await just following in faith.

The Coolest People Around

So you may all think you know the coolest people around...sorry to break it to you but there are two people who trump all.I never get to see them except through skype anymore; but hey are still the coolest people around. Kelsi McCabe and Nancy Weber go to school down at BYU Idaho because they were crazy and didn't want to join me over here in Hawaii. They are just crazy in my opinion.

Ok so I will start with Nancy. Nancy spent most of her life growing up in an alright state. Only recently did she discover the greatness of Idaho when she decided to move there in June. Ok so For all of you who have seen "Napoleon Dynamite" and have lived in Southern Idaho, you know that there is a lot of truth to the movie. It's not completely made up. Ok so I was trying to convince her of this and she wouldn't listen. A couple Sunday's at church and she gets handed this...

Ok talk about total Napoleon Dynamite moment right there. She is no longer a skeptic. She is pretty awesome though. Oh man there was this one time that she came to visit me back in Coeur d'Alene and we went to an awesome store called Figpickles and we got parachute guys. Dude, i have never had so much fun with parachute guys as having races with them out my family room window. She is pretty funny though. She could make a decent comedian by herself...now if you put both her and Kelsi together than they are a stand up comedy show right there.

Kelsi comes from an alright state as well and has once again realized the greatness of Idaho as well. I'm pretty sure it is the potatoes that converts everyone. But she comes from Utah and is a total BYU Cougars fan. It is really funny to kinda tease her about them when they lose to Utah State :P Kelsi is completely awesome though. She is downright gorgeous in every way possible and loves to have a fun time wherever she is. She hasn't quite had a Napoleon Dynamite experience yet but just wait. It should happen. She is completely sarcastic too. It is awesome! When I first met Kelsi down in Utah this past spring, we had gone out on a date and I had brought her back to hang out with my family. So if anyone knows my dad, they know he is not serious about anything and loves to joke about it. Well most people who he jokes around with don't understand his humor and if they do then they don't respond to it. So he starts to mess around with her and all of a sudden she gets even with him. I don't remember what she said but it like totally made me realize that side of her. Ya so Kelsi is all around awesome! I don't think she really enjoys me being over here in Hawaii but here is a beautiful picture of her with a lei from Hawaii...

See so she gets something out of the deal.

Ya so these two girls are like the coolest people on the face of the Earth! If only they had chosen to come to BYU Hawaii with me.

What Astounds Me About the Male Gender

I honestly don't know what it is but it seems like I do not get along well with the male gender. Everything that they do almost astounds me...some of the things I do even astound me. Most of the time it is just their complete lack of thinking that annoys me and the fact that they ignore everything that is happening around them. Ok, so yesterday I was working at our haunted lagoon at the PCC and so I was going along selling candy and musubi and what not. So the line for the ride moves up and right in front of me is this couple that are probably in their late teens, maybe early twenties. Ok so the guy leans over to kiss girlfriend and gives her a kiss and I was like oh that's nice. I look away and look back and he has her shirt pulled up to expose her stomach and is feeling it all up and he is, at the same time, guiding her hands all over his butt. Like seriously dude! I'm looking right at you as you are doing this! Wait till you are at least somewhere where people can't be forced to see you or don't do it at all. Ok, another example. Back home I at least am told that I am the good kid and whatnot; never does anything wrong (or so they thought). But a majority of my friends are girls because it is easier to get along with them, and almost simultaneously, they all get boyfriends. So I was cool with this at first. I mean it meant less hanging out but at least I could still see them yes. Ok, well all of a sudden I can't hang out with anyone. All their boyfriends place me as a threat to their girlfriends. It's like, "Are you serious right now man! This is me you are talking about. I have a hard enough time getting a single girl to like me." Well everything eventually worked out with them and I thought the most of that was over. I come here and all of a sudden it is happening again. I can't hang out with my friend because her boyfriend, who is also one of my good friends here, has some thoughts that I'm trying to steal her away. He knows that I have someone else way better back home I am biding my time for and yet I'm accused of being a threat. Example number three and four packed into one theory. Does the term taken have any sway with boys whatsoever?...especially to a player. Ok, so the first example involves my sister. Dude, she is one of the nicest girls you are ever going to meet and is completely innocent. So we go on a church trip and she comes back completely infatuated with a boy and one day he decides to ask her out. At first he was an awesome guy. I mean he brought me chocolate and Oreos and fireworks. This guy got me good. ok so i come over here to Hawaii for school and I found out he has been asking her if it is alright if he goes on dates with other girls, or holds other girls hands, or dance with other girls. What sorta a jerk asks his girlfriend that! Like he has to be mentally retarded and not know that if he is taken, don't do that. Ok so example four involves my girlfriend back home. Ok, she is the coolest and most beautiful girlfriend you are ever going to meet. She just is awesome in every way. Ok well another player asks her out on a date while she is down there. I mean I didn't mind a whole bunch since I was 3,000 miles away...but what annoys me the most is that he completely avoided reality. Ok so he asks her to go out on this date at a dance and then adds her on Facebook that same night. Do the words "in a relationship" mean anything to you. Ok well he already asked her so it is all good to still go on it; but he goes and not only does he not count the date as a date but keeps playing her because nothing was "the date" when in fact everything was! But he goes on leading her on and then she doesn't find out from him that he doesn't actually like her and has been leading her on. No, she finds out from her roommate that was told that by him. Ok, if you are going to lead my girlfriend on, at least tell it to her face that you don't like her and don't crush her heart by telling her roommate. But while all this is happening he is also completely avoiding me. It is like he knew that he was doing something wrong but was going to pretend that nothing was wrong with the matter. Are you serious! I am right here watching you as you are playing her. At least have the decency to accept the fact that I am here. No the newest one is this group of boys. Ok they haven't done anything to me personally yet, but i don't want it to happen. Like I'm honestly waiting to see what they do next to me. So tonight they invite my girlfriend out to dinner and then over for some movies at their place. You know cool stuff, have fun, and all that junk. But what gets me is that like I can read their intentions. I can tell when there are boys that are looking to hang out and boys that are looking for more. I mean I can pick them out anywhere. Before Kelsi left for college, her friend invites her over to look at puppies. What teenage boy is going to invite a hot girl over to look at puppies and then do nothing about it? Only an idiot would. Ok so his story turns out to be that once she shows up to look at puppies, his friend and his friend's girlfriend show up. You know ya maybe just a coincidence. But then coincidence changes into plan when he takes her out to a movie on what was pretty much a double date. Dude, I called that from a state away. Like make it at least obvious to her what your intentions are before you invite her over. Like going around my back is what annoys me the most. Like if they were to tie me in a little bit I would be less annoyed but the fact they do everything they do and not expect me to find out. I can find out anything I want about you, so don't even try. I don't know what it is but boys annoy me. Like I would be so much happier if guy drama could calm down a little bit. It feels like I'm living in Days of Our Lives or something. I'm cool with not chillin in there though. Well lets hope I don't run into anymore annoying boys. I have a lacrosse stick if they keep it up?

A Little Bit of Info on a Tuesday Afternoon

All I can say about my bio test is dang. Like I honestly knew all the stuff that was on there but was it hard or what. It felt like i was going through a flashback of my junior year of high school and IB chemistry. Organic chemistry was definitely not my favorite subject in the world and now I have to do it all over again in college. I can't complain to much though. I go to school in Hawaii. So in this first little bit I will just kinda go over the basics of me. I have come from a very spiritual family which has led me to pick one of the most spiritual places in the world to come to college, BYU Hawaii. I absolutely love it here. It is so nice to have a chance to be somewhere where it is always the same temperature. I love having the chance to go over to the beach just after class whenever I want and I can't wait for winter to come! the waves get to be huge here and there are even whales over here. Dude, how cool would it be to see whales just outside your campus. Ya today at school wasn't to fascinating really. Like I have gotten into my regular school habit. I wake up early, go to class, eat breakfast, go to class, and then I'm done until work time...unless you get the day off today like me. Oh, I forgot to say that I have one of the best jobs around Hawaii. Just sayin. I get to sell smoothies, water/candy, and ice cream at the Polynesian Cultural Center. Talk about easy money. And I work with some of the coolest people around. They are literally from all over the world and are all cool. Ya I have no idea what to write about or even do right now. I guess I'll find something. Till then, aloha!