Day 2..... and 3, 4, 5....

Well, I already sucked it up on the 30 day challenge. I have a good excuse, don't worry: I was working on my Eagle project/ Youth Conference.

Well, Day 2 of the challenge is supposed to be about the meaning behind your blog name.

I think it is really straight forward... Joshua's Jots: Where nerds and humor unite.

This blog is a collection of my disjointed, cluttered, and scattered thoughts. I think they tend to be funny, and I tend to be nerdy... but the good kinda nerdy.

Like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings nerdy :D


but it's a simple, yet cluttered journal. Kinda like a bookshelf. Everyone has one, and they are chock full of phrases.


Day 3: My first love.

I was four. maybe five.


Young, stupid love.


and it was with a girl named... I can't remember.


hahahahahaha, that's great. I just remembered we kissed.


and we were playing monopoly. Or a rather what we thought was monopoly.



Day 4: the old folks.

What's to say? They're tired, and I am the oldest kid currently living at home.

So we just joke around and get through each day.

My dad works at 1 800 Contacts, and I get free stuff aplenty and cheap eye stuff. Free soda, movie tickets, eye exams, and discounts on glasses and contacts. *jazz hands*

Mom stays at home and reads.... at least that's what it seems like ;)


Day 5: A song to match my mood.

this one is hard. Like a rock.

 I pick Taylor Swift. I just like this song.... (:

I don't know why I like it. It's just a good drum I guess...

Facts and Sportsmanship.

So, a friend of mine is doing the 30 day post challenge thing, so I decided to join her :)

This is me. And I am an interesting person.

I know, I know, you're probably thinking, "this guy is full of himself..."



I am.

And I can prove that I am indeed full of myself and an interesting person. Won't be that hard, I promise.

1. I am an interesting person.
2. I read. A lot. I lettered in English because I read 15,000 pages outside of class assignments in three years.
3. I am the first assistant in my priest quorum.
4. I can't eat veggies or fruit. not because of the taste, but because of the texture. UGHHHHH!
5.I turn 18 in a week.
6. I am enrolling into college.... LDSBC
7. I keep all my movie ticket stubs. actually, I keep all of my ticket stubs. I have stubs from Brighton, movies, and Boondocks.
8. I will listen to pretty much anything, besides metal and rap.
9. I am preparing to serve a mission (can't wait)
10. I have a journal that has over 125 pages written in it.
11. I am a night owl. I sometimes get ready for my day around 3 PM, and will really wake up around 6 or 7 PM.
12. If you steal my food, there is really only one thing in my way of killing you. The law. Not my conscience.
13. I will scream random things.






Armadillos.


See, random.


14. I am running out of facts.
15. If you meet me, you will be entranced. I am like an oompa loompa, or a car crash. You just can't help but look. You will slow down, and think about me.




Today, I went golfing with my brother-in-law Austin at Fox Hollow. While we weren't too great at it, we still had fun. The people that were in our party were entertaining; one kept hooking it into a hill of trees.

So he threw his golf club into the trees.


Sportsmanship: Something he hasn't have.


We did decent, for, ya know, never really playing that much.

 Also have been working on my Eagle Project....

the week before my eighteenth birthday. hahaha, procrastination.


I think the literal latin translation for procrastination is:

To put off until tomorrow.

It's bad. It's convenient. Until the end.

and then you're screwed.

on that lovely note, I leave you. G'night!

Summer.

Wow, a lot has happened this summer already. I have done more this summer than I have any other summer.

I graduated.

I got scuba certified.

I went down to Sand Hallow and scuba dived.

I even went to the St. George temple, and I have to admit, I hadn't been to the temple in awhile. It was great.

Kodiak was the week after St. George. I went up with a friend to Wyoming, not really knowing anyone else, and had the best experience up there.

We went river rafting

Fought with foam swords

and met some new people

and best of all, felt the spirit.

I went to Harry Potter, part II

even to a Harry Potter party that same night






worked on my eagle project

and got contacts.

.

But right now, I think the best thing that has happened to me, is my new calling. It's in my original ward. I am the 1st assistant for the Priest quorum. Which I thought was very odd, seeming as I should technically be going to the singles ward, and I turn eighteen in two weeks.

But I think it's where I need to be.

and I love it.

The Glass Castle

I just finished reading The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Wells.

The book is a memior of the author's life, and it is a powerful story of a little girl that overcomes her family's biggest trial: Her father.

Her father was a drunkard, and he just couldn't hold a job. But the family would get into loads and loads of debt, and then, when the creditors would come for the money, her family would upack up and leave to another town. Usually the next town would be a dying mining town, such as Welch and Battlecreek.

Another one of the trials was her mother. Her mother would not be responsible. Since money was always tight (really tight), she would go for a teaching position at the local school, but always would be overwhelmed. The mother would throw tantrums, and could not take the pressure.

The family was, quite obviously, poor. Stunningly poor, actually. The father would always spend money on alchohol and cigarrettes, and, in the end, would stumble past the sagging porch and through the rotting door.

And the author made it through the trials, enduring even the worst part.

She made it to New York, and became a writer, and lead a normal life.

And I think that this book shows that anyone can be like that.

Be such as a phoenix, rising from the ashes, from the dust and becoming so much more...