The Life of Ryan...

Hello Fans! Sorry for my lack of post's over the past month. I've been, for a lack of better words, lazy. So now that today was my last day of school for the semester I thought I'd do the world a favor and update everyone on the crazy life of Ryan James!!! Well first off... I GOT A JOB!!! Sound the Alarm! An honest one too! I'll have everyone know that I am a proud employee at the Olive Garden. Yes, yes it is true. For those of you who read who aren't part of my close family, the Olive Garden used to be my favorite restaurant. So it's only ironic to my family members who remember the little Ryan James freaking out about going to Olive Garden when we got the chance. Now that I'm older and I have had time to mature my pallet, the Olive Garden has been bumped from the number one position and is replaced by none other than Beto's Mexican Restaurant. HA! Just kidding! That place is gross. I'd rather lick an STD infested toilet seat. I think my favorite is probably Johnny Carinos, but there are so many places I love it's hard to say. I just heart food. So I got done with my week and a half training at Olive Garden and just barely started serving. It's been really fun so far and I think I am going to enjoy it.



Last week we held another party at our humble abode, and the turn out was a success! The theme was a celebrity party and we had red carpet, paparazzi and loud music outside. Almost everyone who came was dressed in Hollywood fashion and it turned out to be really fun. We had people dress up as famous characters such as Indiana Jones to a bald Brittney Spears. Very creative I must say. I dressed up as Zach from Saved by the Bell , while Erin was of course Kelly. We looked ravishing to say the least. The party was such a hit we had the blue and white show up to crash the celebration. I knew this would probably happen and kind of wanted it to as well. You know a party is cool when it gets broken up by the cops!!! It even took five or six police cars to tell us to be quite. Since when does it take that much law enforcement to tell a college party in Logan to be quite?! Oh yes...it's Logan. Now I know why it's the safest city in the U.S.

Lastly, it is the end of another school year. I will be spending this summer here in good ol' Logan working and going to school. The year went by so fast and It was truly one to remember. I learned a thing or two outside of the classroom and also have been credited some life lessons. I can't wait to use the summer to figure out some more of life's mysteries and tackle on another year at USU. Some of my friends are moving on and getting married while others will be doing their own thing for the summer. I will miss some of my peeps, especially those who head down south for a fun filled adventure in babysitting. :) My family will miss me I'm sure, but I will be up there a lot, so no worries fam, I still love thee. Until next time... Chao!

It's true everyone... I'm 23!!! Crazy huh?! April 1st was the day I celebrated my coming into the world, and it was truly magical! My friends threw me a wonderful midnight party the morning of and I got to beat the tar out of a pinata (how do you spell that?). We had cake and played with some squirt guns for a while and it was neat. The next day I didn't have school, which was so convenient!!! Erin then took me to the best place in the world... FUN PARK!!! They have this game/arcade of Deal or No Deal and I am so addicted. Long story short, I dumped a few dollars in it and won the maximum amount of tickets you could win which was a whopping 400!!! Victory!!! So we bought a bunch of random stuff and went on our way. Right after, I went to help my buddy Nate at a talent show held up on campus. I just backed him up on guitar and vocals but it was pretty fun.
After that all the gang got together and went to Chili's for dinner. I really enjoyed being with everyone and laughing our heads off about random things. Good times... gooood times. The finale was brought by an Oreo cake (my favorite) and a dream deciphering book given to me by the lovely Erin. She is just great. :) So a pretty swell day I would say. I was sung to far too many times but I guess I can handle a little attention if I have to... :) We all know I hate it.

Hello all!!! It has been a while! My how the time flies by. I hope I haven't left many of you lucky readers dying for a new blog. No worries though because here I am!!! So... I just got back from spring break and boy was it a hoot. I'm talking about sunny weather, good tans, good friends and all the junk food you can eat! Whoo Baby! So I will start from the beginning and work my way to the end since that is usually how they do it these days. So on Friday March 7th, me and thirteen of my awesome friends drove down to St. George, Utah, for the weekend. There the weather was already thirty degrees warmer than Logan. During the duration of the weekend we mainly just hung out, checked out a few little hot spots and were merry. Sunday arrives and we pack up the three cars for California. The drive was pretty fun and I got to see a girl on the side of the road throwing up everything she had ever eaten in her life. It was cool. By the way, I took down my car so I did most of the driving. I'm not complaining however for Ryan James likes to drive and talk in the third person.



So Sunday evening we arrive in La Mirada, California and check into our hotel. There we have three rooms split between fourteen people, so everyone pretty much had a good place to sleep. We settled in and got our spirits up for Disneyland the next day. So Monday we wake up bright and early and take a shuttle bus from our hotel to Disneyland. Now we tried something new this year and bought our tickets off Ebay. The sellers basically buy a week long pass and rent them out for half the price of general admission. All of us thought this was a little sketchy but it turned out all right. The coolest part about it though was we had to meet our person in the Mcdonalds parking lot across the street from Disneyland. That was probably the closest feeling of buying illegal drugs I'll ever get. But like I said the tickets worked just fine!!! So There we spent a good thirteen hours in California Adventure and Disneyland!!! Whoo! I love Disneyland!!! Sorry mom, no souvenirs this year... I'm cheap.




So Tuesday arrives and we are all pretty exhausted from our magical adventure the day before. We planned on sleeping in a little and heading to Huntington Beach for some relaxation. There we played sand volleyball and jumped into a not so warm ocean. Still it was pretty fun. We spent the majority of the day there and walked around the shops at night. Just a typical California day.




Wednesday we traveled up a few miles north to the city of angels, where we stopped at a neat little outside mall called "The Grove." It's got a nice little feel to it and it wasn't crowded with people. There we ate at a Cheesecake Factory... Delicious! I'm telling you that they have the best strawberry lemonade in the world. After we stuffed ourselves we headed to Hollywood Boulevard to check out the Chinese theater and sidewalk of stars. After a while looking around we went across the street to wait in line for the Jimmy Kimmel show. For those of you who are out of the loop, Jimmy Kimmel is a late night talk show host. He's pretty funny and is growing increasingly popular. It was really cool to be an audience member and to see how a show like that is run. His guests were Adam Carolla and Sheryl Crow. Adam Carolla is going to be on this seasons Dancing With the Stars and everyone else should know who Sheryl Crow is. If not... she is a singer. Nough Said. Sheryl then had an outside mini concert after the show which was pretty cool to see. After Jimmy Kimmel we headed two hours south to San Diego and checked into a retro looking hotel. Everyone was pretty tired so we weren't up too late before it was lights out.



Thursday morning we checked out and headed to the San Diego temple. It was truly awesome and had an amazingly peaceful atmosphere. I felt really relaxed and really wanted to just take a nap on the grounds but I don't think they would have liked that. After we left everyone kind of did their own thing. A group of us went to old town San Diego and ate lunch at a cool little outside taco place. It was delish! Then we just walked around and checked out the town.
We met up with everybody that evening at mission beach. There we rode a roller coaster, played a few carnival games and hung out on the beach. We stayed and watched the sun set which was beautiful and most of us hung around to eat and tell funny stories. It was a good way to spend our last night in California.





Thursday night we drove back up to our hotel in La Mirada and crashed. Friday we left California and headed to Las Vegas to put our money down. In Vegas we met up with a few members of our group and just walked around and checked out some of the sites. Everyone decided to head back to St. George to call it a night but a few of us had other things in mind. After we ate, me and my friend Matt and his girlfriend went to a bodies exhibit. Basically they have preserved bodies dissected in different ways on display. It wasn't gross at all and was really cool to see. I would recommend anyone to see this. Meanwhile... while we are being educated, Erin and Jessica decide to take a walk on the wild side and go see a little attraction called Thunder from Down Under. Now this is pretty much a male strip show. They don't get naked but they show off their juiced up bodies for female entertainment. Now even though Erin and Jess went just because they thought it would be funny... I however found myself getting a little perturbed at the idea of Aussie men shaking what their momma's gave em in front of their innocent eyes. However... I bit my lip and dealt with it, but I keep hearing stories of what happened that I'd rather not hear.

The trip was really fun and everyone had a blast. Luckily there were no problems and for a group of fourteen people everything went smoothly. I got to see some exciting stuff and was able to grow closer to some of my amazing friends. I also learned something I wish I hadn't... girls fart. This is news to me. I thought this whole time girls didn't poop or fart, it just dissolved and was turned into fairy dust. However... at least three girls passed gas on this trip and my universe as we know it is crashing down. I feel I'm in for a rude awakening...

Since everyone who still reads my blogs must been somewhat interested in what I do with my spare time here is a short blog about my past week. Excited?! Good! Because I'm excited to share!!! Here we go. First off, I have resorted back to selling my body. Yes donating plasma. Yes I know family, you absolutely hate it when I donate but it's thirty bucks each time you go!!! C'mon! Thats a deal. I'm in college still, so I do what I can kapeesh?! Besides, I'm saving lives. That accounts for something right? That's what I thought.

Also, It fell like I had a surprise birthday party this week. But wait... my birthday isn't until April. I'll explain for those of you out of the loop. My friends were in on a little "secret" this week that was kept from me until Wednesday night and it totally blew me out of the water. I'm sure most of my friends and family know what the secret was by now and if you don't know... well you'll just have to call me or something because I'll get carpletunnel trying to explain it on here. The whole situation was pretty gosh darn funny to say the least.

I saw two movies this past weekend. First was Jumper. BORING!!! I wouldn't recommend this
movie to my worst enemy because It was absolutely ridiculous. Enough said. Second was Definitely, Maybe. This was a pretty good heart felt movie. Although not amazing, I thought it was good. Ryan Reynolds, who is one of my favorite actors, was in this movie so I probably would have thought the movie sucked if he wasn't in it.

Do you think I'm weird? This is a question for everyone. I mean, I know I have my moments and I can be a little crazy at times, but I think I can be serious we I need to be. I wont care at all if everyone thinks I AM weird, because I am pretty content with who I am as a person. I just wanted to know if everyone has put me in the weird people category. Apparently people who I think is weird ( in a good way... cough) isn't as weird as me. I don't understand this... but oh well.


Well... It's Sunday and I'm bored and I just realized I don't have a lot to talk about but there ya go. Hopefully everyone else has had a good weekend. Also, I found out that certain members of my family have let other members of our clan know about my blog. For this I am sorry. You may say you love to read them, but just because your family don't feel obligated to read these. I don't want to put that pressure on your poor hearts. I will however say to my auntie Laurel who lives in Maui, if you need a house sitter, please think of your favorite nephew. That is all.

It has come to my attention that Idaho falls no longer feels like my "home" anymore. I guess that's okay since Logan has been my place of residence for two years now. So now when I make a trip up to Idaho Falls, it's like I'm going on the coolest vacation/road trip EVER!!! My most recent trip to the great gem state was nothing short of awesome! First I wake up early Tuesday morning and grab my friend Jeff ( hey Jeff) to bring him along to keep me company. On the way out of town, I notice that I have stopped at at least four different places and have waisted over an hour doing so. So far so good. Finally we hit the road and make our way to Preston, ID (only about twenty five miles out) when we realize we need to stop once more at a gas station before our trip can fully begin. I guess we needed an odd number of places to stop at before the gods would allow us safe passage. So the sky was clear, the roads were good and we were off!!! About an hour into the trip I hit I-15 northbound and look to the side of the road. What do my eyes catch but a cow squatting herself silly pushing out a newborn calf!!! This is huge people!!! You only see stuff this good on Animal Planet. So I flipped a U-ey and broke many traffic laws to catch a glimpse of this amazing miracle. By the time we got back to the scene, the cow had just plopped the thing out and was licking the goo and yummy delicious placenta off. It was still the coolest thing I had seen. I almost cried and felt strangely like I had just become a daddy. But that would just be weird right?!


So we got into Idaho Falls and I grabbed some things from my room to take back to Logan. Mainly my snowboard and snow gear. Then my dearest grandmother Nani, or "Delyla" as the normal world would call her, came in to greet me with warm hugs and kisses. She is great. She then showed off her furniture and nit picked the extremely minor flaws in the sectional couch. I didn't notice anything but whatever. It looked good and was comfortable so thats all that matters to me. We decided to treat ourselves to Applebees where we ate and were merry and called it good. My friend Jeff then asked if we could drive further north to see the newly built temple in Rexburg. I accepted that the temple was sort of a big deal and agreed to take him up. So we bid farewell to my Nani and headed North where the white temple stood. We looked at it, said " yep... looks great," and headed back. Nothing too exciting happened on the way back but I do want to throw out that we listened to my favorite band Nickel Creek, who's style is a very chill bluegrass, and Jeff and I sang some sweet harmonies along with the tunes. It was cool.
Oh ... I almost forgot. We did get kind of bored and made a video on the way up. Here it is... enjoy.

The last time I remember being in a physical fight was in high school. I don't really know who won, but I remember both of us walking away with bruised ego's and bloody lips. I hate fighting. Whether it's with words or daggers or a simple argument. It just seems silly to me. Well I find that if I do start an argument or try to prove a point I simply just can't give up. I don't know why. Stubborn maybe? I just feel like I have something to prove. Rarely do I accept I'm wrong, but I need to understand that frankly... I'm not always right. Where is this going? I'll briefly tell you. The past while I've been fighting pretty hard to prove something. What that is is classified information, but I'm sure most of you already know. :) It's something I'd wake up to in the morning to think how was I going to tackle this great obstacle. Even when hope seemed lost there was still this voice in the back of my head saying, "Ryan James! Don't you give up." So I would hold on to whatever I could. I'd sit back and wait for the glory to come to me. Victory would be mine! I just knew this would happen because I have never wanted something so bad in my entire life. I have never put so much heart and soul into anything! And this people....was worth fighting for. I'd get encouragement from both sides of the lines, that would fill my hope bottle drop by drop. Sooner or later... all this was going to be worth it. All the sweat and tears and restless nights and prayers would soon manifest into this wonderful gift from God.

But not all stories have happy endings. I'm afraid mine isn't so lucky to be happy ever after just yet. I've come to realize that there is only so much one can do... and sometimes, that isn't enough. So...I'm throwing in the towel. Raising the white flag and walking away with my tail in between my legs. This fight was not meant for me to win. Which SUCKS! I'm pretty sure I've never taken anything like this so bad, but that's life sometimes. I know by doing this I'm giving up so much and it rips my heart into pieces I'm not sure can be fixed anytime soon. This isn't what I want at all... but It's what I have to do. I hope things can turn out in the end... but I feel like I'm losing one of the greatest things to have ever come into my life, and that... is the worse feeling in the world. I don't care who you are... it sucks. So I guess it's time to move on, but I sure will miss my cucumber...

It's true. After thinking long and hard about my current condition I have come to the conclusion that my mind is literally messed up! What am I talking about? Ha! Well... I have learned recently that my cerebellum and my mendulla oblongata frankly cannot co-exist. Here is why. During the day my mind works just fine. I have total control over what I think about and it's great! At night however... I find myself in a mixed up world of pure insanity. To put it simply...I dream . I dream a lot! Too much to be honest. It really does affect my life to the point where I spend most of my day thinking about what I dreamed the night before! Not only do I dream but I have ridiculous crazy dreams. Dreams that make me wake up and literally say, "seriously?!" That happened this morning. Get this... I dreamed that a guy I see at the gym every now and then, (who I don't like very much because he thinks he's Gods gift to Mens Health Magazine) was singing a musical song in my Family Finance class. During this time my roommate Kenny was throwing cards at him and playing sherades with class. To top it off, perfume in a bottle shaped like an apple was spraying the class. The end. So what does that mean?! I DON'T KNOW!!! But I want it to stop! So... I have decided to donate my body to science. Yes it is true. I am going to partake in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) studies up at the university. Does my university have such a study going on? Who knows. But I aim to get someone crazy enough to study my brain because I think it would help that scientist win the Nobel Prize in the Study of Crazy Dreams nomination. Maybe I'll even get paid for it... how's that for an honest living Nani?! Ha!

Here are some random bits of info that have happened recently.

• I am currently a B student in all my classes, except in Career Analysis because we have yet to receive a homework assignment or test.
• I learned pretty much everything there is to know about the females monthly cycle... I'm so thankful to know all that there is to know now. Yep.
• I wrote a new song. Thats currently five originals by Ryan James.
• I learned that potato soup makes me get severe cramps below the navel. I seriously thought an alien was going to pop out. I was going to name it Barack if it was a boy and Hillary if it was a girl.
• I was walking down a hill the other night with my guitar and totally slipped on my butt. My guitar is fine but you should see the bruise on my tail bone. It's a doosey.
  
• Giants won the Super Bowl. Haha! What now mom?!