2013: A Year in Review

2013 is almost over. Can you believe it?

Because I really can't.

I mean truly if I'm not thinking I will sometimes put 2012 on my papers.

I can't believe that 2014 is just right around the corner!

Holy crap.

But I thought that I would put the highlights of 2013 down here. 

In pictures of my and my friends of course because that's just how I do.

So get ready for picture overload. Because it's gonna happen in about 3...2...1...

OH and these aren't in any kind of chronological order...a little bit to piss off those of you who are OCD but mostly because I am too lazy to put them into order.

I went to a hockey game....I know right?
{February}

Basketball season. We love free games.
{January}

Sometimes you match your best friend on campus without ever planning it.
{March}

Brad and Emily's wedding
{February}

I got this BYU Cougar out to a couple of games at the beginning of the year.
{February}

My Ravens won the Superbowl. NBD.

I found a major that I truly love and am excited about. And declared it officially. I'm a big kid now.
{June}

This kid went off to Florida to work for Disney!
{August}

Saw this guy in concert with my favorite girls.
{September}

Florida 2013. Yeah, you're jealous.
{Spring Break '13}

Lexi even got me to go to the Sig. Techno 2013.
{December}

HALLOWEEN AT COWBOY!
{October}

Many, many, many football pics. Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
{August - November}

What's the difference between Utah and BYU?
One of us can snap a 4 year losing streak.
#GOUTES
{December}

Utah basketball is getting exciting again! Just in time for senior year.
{December}

This one time our picture made it on to a national Instagram account. Killin it.

We met Swoop
{November}

MUSS buddy
{November}

FroYo dates with this chick
{July}

Some of the best nights of my summer were spent in this stadium.
{August}

Missy got married, and had a photo booth at her wedding
{August}

Mama Dan got married. The only reason we would ever go to Logan.
{July}

Ok...so we matched more than just occasionally, but it was never planned.
{Summer}

Anne got married.
{August}

LUKE BRYAN
{September 20}

Pit upgrade at Luke Bryan
{September}

Took in a couple of Utah baseball games with this dime
{Summer}

I TURNED 21!
{March 23, a day that will live in infamy}

A couple of my most fave grubateers left on their missions.

My baby Prince passed away

Here's to 2013. What a helluva year it has been.
Bring it on 2014.
Bring it on.

Much love.
-L

What is Love?......Baby Don't Hurt Me

Guys....the 80's had to have been such a good time...I mean consider the song I named this post after.

Gold. Pure Gold.

And no, don't worry...this post isn't about some boy that I've recently met and decided is the one.

Please.

Ain't nobody got time fo dat.

But seriously, I've been thinking about the L word for a little bit lately because I've had more than a few friends and acquaintances get engaged in the past six months.

To me, right now, love is a scary thing. How do you know that the person you are with is the one you want to see every day, every morning, every night for eternity?

That's a really long time you guys.

Like a really long time.

I can't even imagine spending that much time with one person.

Of course maybe that's because I haven't yet met someone that makes me want to be with them for eternity...unless you count Tom Hiddleston...I may love him more than Otters...right?

I just think it's a little bit crazy that people my age and younger have decided that they have found the one that they want to be with for the rest of eternity.

I'm still figuring out who I am.

No way can I add another person into this mix right now.

Relationships that last longer than a year still blow me away.

It's not that I am against relationships and love, on the contrary I'm all for them. And props to the people that have found the one and are happy....I'm just blown away that they were able to do it so quickly.

But all this got me thinking about how people even meet now.

We live in something that experts call a "hook-up culture" meaning that people our age merely hook up with each other once and then move on to the next with no attachment or strings.

Consider the popular app Tinder that matches you solely based on physical appearance. Or Higher Ed Hookups a site dedicated to the sole purpose of anonymous sex on college campuses.

People don't meet each other the same way our grandparents or even our parents did anymore.

Nobody's eyes meet from across the room and they dance the night away and fall in love.

It just doesn't work that way anymore.

That room still exists...it has just become digital.

And in my personal opinion the whole digital revolution has ruined dating and meeting people a little bit.

Talking to friends of mine I can see the frustrations that this digital age has created.

It's almost as if we don't know how to talk to each other face to face anymore.

It's so much easier to shoot someone a like on Instagram or a tweet than it is to actually go up to them at a party and start a conversation, and no amount of staring makes up for that loss.

Has this digital revolution caused us to lose our nerve when it comes to talking to the opposite sex? 

Have we become so shy publicly that the only way we can interact with someone we might be interested in is through the internet?

Top Things You Need to Know About This World Series

Yeah...you read that title correctly.

I am indeed doing a post about the World Series...I mean hey, why not?

So borrowing some things from MTV's GuyCode (I love that show....just sayin...judge me) I decided to post this little list.

The top things that you need to know about this World Series (as presented to you by a football fan)

1. Both fan bases suck
1. Really tho....these two teams have the most obnoxious fan bases in baseball. (Besides the Yankees of course). Cardinals fans claim to be "the best fans in baseball" which automatically makes them the worst. Any fan base that claims to the best in an entire sport just makes it obvious to the rest of us that they aren't. (Guy Code agrees with me, I'm not the only person saying this.) And Red Sox fans are from Boston.....home of Celtics fans and Patriots fans...just let that sink in. Usually it means they have a gigantic chip on their shoulders. 
2. This is a rematch
1. Like most other professional sports the MLB loves a rematch. These two teams faced each other in the 2004 World Series. I couldn't tell you who won that...because I don't care. But to be fair I couldn't tell you who won the Super Bowl in 2004. Google it.
3. Both these teams have broken something they claim are "curses" (silly superstitions)
1. Red Sox: Curse of the Bambino and the Cardinals: The Curse of the Pujols
4. You don't need to watch every minute of every game
1. Seriously. Highlights, ESPN's greatest invention ever. Especially for those of us who struggle to enjoy baseball
5. Baseball players have really dumb nicknames
1. i.e., Big Papi......
6. Nobody expected either team to get here
1. This just proves that both teams sucked at the beginning of the season
7. Playoff Beards
1. Baseball players enjoy growing "Playoff beards" that they won't shave until they either lose or win the whole enchilada. And just proves that not all men can rock the full facial haired look
8. Sit back and relax
1. It's gonna be a long time before they crown a 2013 World Series Champ. And there seems to be nothing that the Red Sox love more than making a game feel longer than it actually is. Seriously...highlights
9. And yes I ripped most of this from a GuyCode article that I found particularly funny

As the avid football fan that I am I can guarantee that I won't be catching any of these games any time soon. I have zero stakes in either of the teams so I will be cheering for whoever is the winner.

Much Love and go winner of the most games in the World Series.

-L

A Tree Falls In Rice-Eccles

     Hey guys....remember that one time my favorite boys in red took down Stanford? Remember how we shocked the nation and definitively grabbed their attention for the week? Remember how that was probably one of the best displays of college football I have seen in my short 21 years of life?
     Last weekend was one of the best games I have ever had the pleasure to witness. Although to be honest I thought that my heart was going to stop on that fourth and two...thank heavens for good red zone defense. The kind of play that we saw out of Wilson, the kind of leadership that he was exerting on the field, only made me excited for the next couple of years of Utah football. That boy has some serious potential and even more talent. I'm excited to see what he can do once he matures into this role. We forget that he is still a 19 year old boy {which is easy to do considering he's 6'6'' and 200+ lbs....}
     I promise this post isn't just a play by play of the game last week, there are plenty of professional blogs out there that that is their sole job, no where I was going with this post is to explain that this game is just one more reason why I believe that football is the best sport in the world. Last Saturday we were underdogs. We were more than underdogs. No one believed that we could take down Stanford....newsflash: Stanford is really good at football. But we did it. We did the impossible. We grabbed the nations attention and held it for 60 minutes. A tree fell in Rice Eccles and an entire nation heard it. They were #5 guys. Were.
      Obviously they didn't take us seriously. Unfortunately the worst part of taking down a #5 team is the rest of schedule takes notice. No other team will make the mistake of not preparing for us. We better bring it this week against Arizona. Good luck boys. I and the rest of Utah Nation knows you can do it. Now just show the rest of the nation what we already know, that you are elite.
     And this being my blog I'm gonna share some pictures from that game with those of you bored enough in your day to read this {but really tho...thanks...nice to know someone reads my musings}

Only in the MUSS

Dres's INSANE touchdown! 

Twerk skirts.....it's a thing

27-21 Utes
I repeat: 27-21 UTES

Chaos. Absolute chaos.

We made some Snooki boots. Poms poms....greatest idea ever!