Life blows
School sucks
All I want is coffee and an xbox controller in my hand

Shampoo

One of the better parts of staying in somebody else’s house is when you hop into the shower and see that there are a bunch of different kinds of shampoo. At my grandma’s house there are at least three different shampoos in the shower, so every time I take a shower I try out a new shampoo, I savor the smell, see how it makes my hair feel afterwords, the usual you know? The smell of shampoo is very powerful to me, certain scents take me back to when I just moved into my dad’s new house. He bought me a two gallon tub of shampoo from Sam’s Club, took me about two and half years to finish that off, but every time I smell anything similar to it I think of my dad’s house. Other shampoo scents (Old Spice™ mostly) remind me of freshman basketball when we showered at school after our morning practices, I know I can speak for the whole basketball team when I say those were some great times in the shower. You know what I should do, just walk up and down the shampoo at Wal-Mart and sniff each one and then record what each smell reminds me of, could come away with some interesting results. *Forrest Gump voice* Well, that’s all I have to say about that *Forrest Gump voice*

(For of those wanting to know what shampoo I’m using now, it’s Suave for Men shampoo AND conditioner 2 in 1 (cleans and conditions all in one step))

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Is this not how it works?

Someday

One of my biggest fears in life is becoming divorced, if I got a divorce I would see it as THE BIGGEST failure in my life no questions asked. Yes my parents are divorced; I have seen firsthand how it affects the parents, the kids, and the rest of the family. It’s not fun and it is not something that’s going to happen in my life. I am going to marry a “tea cup girl” whom I love 100% and she is the right woman for me. I know just about everybody feels this way when they are getting married, that’s the way they should feel, but I want to feel that way about my wife until the day I die. I am going to love her, care for her, look out for her, make her feel like a princess, I will make sure she knows that she is the only one for me. I don’t want to be crude but I want to have sex with my wife until the day comes that I can’t, I truly believe that sex is an important part of a marriage and it should not be taken lightly. I want my wife to be my best friend, a companion that helps me through the ups and downs of life and me doing the same for her. Our relationship will be centered on God and we will raise a family in a Christian atmosphere. I know this isn’t all going to be easy, it’s going to be very hard but you have to work at it, you have to work on it together and by yourself. Look in the mirror, ask yourself what are you doing to help or not help, how can you make yourself better? Pointing fingers, especially at your wife, usually is not the right thing to do. Yes, I am a 20 year old sophomore in college who has never been close to marriage but I like to think that these are some of the core things that a marriage should be based on. My dream is to be the best husband for my wife and a great father to my kids, all the while following Jesus and being the best man of God I can be.

Olivet

This year at revival I started to notice certain things about Olivet, how amazing this university is, how different it is, how blessed it is. I stood at every revival service and watched, as the pastor called people to the altar, a multitude of students go and do you know who followed these students to the altar? My professors, the faculty, the president of Olivet, all went up to pray with them. This alone showed me how awesome Olivet is, name another college that has this happen. Professors here are investing their time into every aspect of our lives, yes knowledge is very powerful but a person’s walk with God is the greatest thing somebody could invest their time in. How honored am I that my professor wants to make me a better man of God let alone a good engineer, how proud are they when they see us leave a completely different person due to our walk with God. Think how Dr. Bowling (Olivet’s president) feels about Olivet, he must be so proud of what big changes happen here, what the hand of God does to thousands of kids on campus. Yes there are rules and there are things that we are kept accountable on but I appreciate it because they are doing that to look out for me, to build me up and to make sure I’m doing the right thing. Olivet is an amazing university and I’m so glad that this is where I am supposed to be.

Mornings in Chicago

Over the weekend I went to Chicago very early in the morning, we are talking 3:00 A.M. early, and let me tell you what, it is an awesome experience to be in a major city when it is completely dead. The tall buildings around you, complete silence, the air is still, maybe even smells kind of nice. It’s the complete opposite of what it is during the day and that’s why it’s such a cool experience. Anyways I went with Mullen for one morning and we just drove around, but when we got back Naldi really wanted to go. We left Sunday morning at 2:30 we leave campus and stop to get a good ol’ five hour energy drink to keep me awake (I’m driving) and drove off to Chicago on an empty highway 57. We parked by the parks and walked around for a couple of hours taking random pictures, relieving ourselves in the bushes, and trying to find a way onto the statue in the middle of the fountain. We finally headed over to the yacht club where we watched a B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L sunrise, a great way to top off a good morning. I did not get much sleep over the weekend but it was so worth it. Next weekend my dad flies in on Saturday night so we can go to the BMW championship on Sunday. It will be my first time going to a PGA event and I am soooo stoked to see Tiger Woods, Woods by three strokes on the field is my prediction. Saturday night I’m bringing my dad to Gino’s East in Chicago, it is the best pizza I have ever had and hopefully he agrees.

I’m just going to say it, AT&T is awful. I barely get service anywhere on campus where as my Verizon friends have 3-4 bars. It was even bad when I was at home in my basement, I couldn’t take a phone call down there so I would always have to run upstairs. Anyways, if you try and call me at school consider yourself lucky if I pick up and answer.




I'm out

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Lately I have been really anxious, on edge, a little lonely, quick to anger, straight up pissed, and lost. I have this underlying feeling that time is running out, that I need to start making my moves now or my opportunities will be gone. I feel the need to make big decisions now because it’s going to take several years to put those decisions into action. I’ve never really felt lost; never really felt like I didn’t know what was going on inside my head or around me, never this confused. I feel like I’m quickly heading into a dead end and I need to make my left or right hand turn as soon as possible because who knows if another chance will come my way. Who do I have by my side and who isn’t…why aren’t those people by my side anymore? How did I mess up that badly? I’ve gone from thinking I knew what was going on, knew that everything is under control, to feeling so lost and disoriented…running in circles. What am I to do? There are people that I really want to talk to but…I can’t, some don’t want to talk because I bug them or annoy them, some just flat out don’t like me, some just don’t have the time or wouldn’t understand. Then there are people who are always willing to talk but to be honest I don’t want to talk to them, I shutdown and zone out. There are times that I just want to cry, maybe it’s because I feel like I have lost control of everything due to me messing up or not paying attention. The world is flying by me and I’m standing still, I don’t know what to do.

Summer and School

It’s good to be back at school again, nice to see my roommate and best of friends that I said goodbye to four months ago and kind of nice to get back to classes and homework. I had an excellent summer at home, yes I did have a girlfriend over the summer, Megan, and she was so much fun to hang out with. My daily routine consisted of going to work from 6-2:30, playing golf, and then getting to go hang out with Megan. My golf game was so much better than it was last summer and I really enjoyed working on it so I could be ready for tryouts when I got back to school. Best round of golf this summer was a 78 at the Olde Course and an 80 at Mariana Butte on my birthday with Mullen, I was much more consistent in my irons and putting then before but my driver struggled off and on through the season. The end of the summer was a little rough in general and I was really ready to get to school and start doing my own thing.

My dad and I drove out several days before school started so we could play TPC Deere Run in the quad cities, this was by far the most beautiful and hardest course I have played on and it was so worth the struggles I went through while playing. Got to school, played the course I was going to try out on (shot an 83), moved in all of my stuff, then ran off with my friends. The first night I was at school I’m at Kyle’s apartment and I hit my head on a concrete balcony. This resulted in a decent size gash in my cranium which took four stitches to close up, a great way to start off my year. I tried out for the golf team this past weekend and it did not go well, just fell apart and had a hard time recovering and it ended me not being on the golf team. I’m just going to have to work harder next summer…and get a new driver.

I’m positive this is going to be a good semester for me because classes will be challenging but fun, I’ve got good friends around me, and I’m going to be able to explore myself for the first time. I’m excited to see what road my relationships will be taking, I pray for the best and I pray for God’s will to be done, it’s in his hands. If you could pray for me, it’s been a little rough lately and everything helps. I’ll keep posting on a weekly basis.

Middle school movie nights always had awkward seating arrangements in the theater.

Time to go check my farm on Farmville!

Spring is here!!!

Finally it’s here! I was getting to the point where I thought I would never again experience warm weather and now I can finally walk outside in a t-shirt and shorts. When it starts getting nice out we all know what happens to the grass…it turns a beautiful green and becomes very lush, and when that happens it is time to break out the Walker Mower and start mowing.

Mowing is a passion of mine that started about five or six years ago when I was mowing my mom’s grass every week. It felt soooo good to look back at the lawn after it was mowed and see every blade of grass cut evenly, to see long straight lines in the lawn, and the smell of fresh grass. This passion of mine got fueled even more when I started working at L&M, everyday at 7:00 in the morning I would drive a my fellow partner, Adan, and a huge trailer with two beautiful Walkers on it and head to Denver to mow Quest properties and Home Depots. I learned how to mow quickly and efficiently due to the fact that we had a certain number of properties to mow each day; I learned where to place the outer wheel of the deck on line that I just mowed, that made it so my stripes were nice and wide. I eventually became a string trimmer champion being able to evenly cut a small patch of grass with ease and trim around sidewalks both ways (left handed and right handed). Although I did not think very highly of it then, I really enjoyed waking up early in the morning to go mow green lawns; the smells that accompanied me in those mornings still linger around in my memory. I spent two full summers doing this job, it didn’t pay as well as I would have liked but I got some awesome experience on the mowers (probably around 15-20 hours on a mower each week) and I learned how to drive a truck with a huge trailer attached to it through Denver traffic.

Last year I got offered to work at THE Walker Company….THE Walker Company!!! I got to use some of the best mowing machines with some very nice decks. L&M taught me how to mow quickly and efficiently because we were on a deadline so when I started mowing at Walker I was FLYING on the mowers. Eventually Dean Walker told me it’s okay to slow down a bit so I started slowing down and really focusing on mowing precisely and straight. Eventually I was mowing Dean Walker’s lawn!!! This is a big deal to me because this is the master handing over his territory for me to mow for him! The best mowing job I did was right before the Walker Reunion, I mowed the north lawn (the biggest lawn) with the 56” deck, I believe, and I caught all of the grass which is something I don’t usually do. My lines were spot on straight, I so wish I took a picture of it because it was one the most beautiful things I have ever seen. This summer I am going to be trying to mow the Walker “W” or the Walker logo into the north lawn, not mention some other cool mowing patterns that I have up my sleeve.

I walk around campus in the morning and I can smell that they have been spraying and putting down fertilizer and all I can think of is hopping on a mower and cutting some grass.




8 more days till SUMMER!!!

A relationship

This year of school has been all about relationships for me, from making new friends for the first time since pre-school, to talking to my professors, to my break up with Kelsey. It’s all been about relationships, Mr. King told me during a round of golf “Meet as many people as you possibly can while you are at school because you will never get another opportunity to meet that many new people in your life.” (I smoked Mr. King in that round of golf by the way…). I like to think that I have made plenty of new friends at Olivet (please let me know if I have not). I have ended a major relationship this year and I have started another, and thinking about this has led me to realize that what is really going on with my walk with Jesus.

I was talking to a friend of mine who was struggling with keeping up with his daily devotions and prayer. I told him that this….this thing that we have with God is not just something, it’s a relationship, we are not praying to something, we are praying to somebody. Even though I was the one saying this it opened my eyes too, God and I have a relationship…when I think about a relationship I think about Kelsey and I, how much it brightened my day, how much she loved me and how much I loved her, how it changed my lifestyle. I take that and I look at my relationship with God, that relationship doesn’t even compare to what I have right now. This realization came before Easter weekend and boy am I glad it did because it made it into the most touching Easter I have experienced. I stood there at the Good Friday service and was almost brought to tears, three days later I stood in the Easter service and was overjoyed. I finally felt what Easter was always about; I was consumed by the emotions that Easter brings to all Christians. All of the Easters in the future will no longer be about the basket that I get in the morning, the candy, or the Easter eggs… it will be about Jesus and the cross. “Thank you God!!!”

“Wow that was satisfying!”

Here is a list of things that I find satisfying or gives me that tingling feeling that runs through my body:
· Opening a new can of peanut butter and seeing that nice, smooth top layer of peanut butter untouched by fingers or a knife.
· Opening a new box of crayons and seeing all the crayons lined up evenly row by row, each sharpened to the very same point, and the colors are organized so it looks like a rainbow. (By the way, that sharpeners on the back of the big boxes were awful)
· Hitting a golf ball perfectly with your seven iron, it’s like you didn’t hit anything at all.
· A four shot in Halo, go ahead and laugh at me I don’t care.
· Doing a physics or calculus problem and have it flow off your pencil, you know exactly what you are doing and where you are going with the work.
· Having a sparkling clean car after it was covered in mud and grim.
· Hearing your favorite song come on the radio.
· Finishing a good book.
· Being the first one to drive through the fresh snow in the morning.
· Being the very first golfer on the golf course on a Saturday morning.
· Loving somebody
· Working out
· Getting done with a run that nearly kills you.
· Painting a wall, room, or building.
· After a long days work I hop in the shower and just stand there and watch the dirt run off my body.
That’s all I got right now, feel free to add to the list.

Burn…




Off to la clase de computadora programminga (For those of you who do not speak Spanish that means computer programming class)

Spring Break

Saturday:
Finally got to sleep in a bed bigger than a twin, for a guy my size it really kills me. It was really nice out and I knew that the weather was not going to hold all week so I made sure that I got outside as much as I could. I played 9 holes at Mariana Butte, my favorite course in Colorado, and really enjoyed myself. That night my dad and I went to DU's final hockey game of the regular season and it was against Colorado College, their rivals. It was a good game to watch but ended up tying 1 to 1.

Sunday:
Went to church in the morning where I felt like a rock star because everybody wants to talk to me. It’s always nice to see familiar faces at church, makes you feel like you really are home. After church my sister, my mom, and I went out to Chili’s for lunch where we ran into Aaron Watkins who is a waiter there. Later that day my dad and I went to the driving range to hit some balls and enjoy the nice weather, I have never hit the golf ball better than I have this week. Went to church that night and afterwards my mom and I went back to her house and watched Simon Burch, which didn’t make me cry sadly enough (pun intended).

Monday:
Monday was not a good day; I put a hole in the wall of my sister’s new room which really pissed off my dad. This incident here really set the tone for the rest of the week with my dad, awkward and “walking on eggshells”. So I spent the majority of my day fixing this whole in the wall and did not get to play golf which really bummed me out. Connor came over later that afternoon to play some Halo and catch up on things and then later the whole Krajec family gathered at my mom’s house for some dinner (fish) and dessert (oatmeal cookies).

Tuesday:
In the morning I had to go to my dad’s house to work on the hole in the wall, talk about walking on eggshells that morning. Sadly it snowed that morning so golf and doing anything outside was done for, only in Colorado can it be 50 degrees out and snow the next. Connor and I made more little boys cry on Xbox Live via Halo beatings and caught up even more on school and life. It was another relaxing evening at my mom’s house and I got to catch up on all of my reading that I have been slacking on.

Wednesday:
Still working on that hole in the wall in the morning and the snow was melting slowly but surely. Didn’t really do anything during the day until it was time to go to Anna’s winter sports banquet where my mom drove us there in her new Saab that she purchased that day. Afterwards we drove to church where we dropped my sister off and then went off to a nice little ride in the turbo car. Spent that night at my dad’s house and watched V for Vendetta, great movie.

Thursday:
Went and played golf by myself and then with my dad at the Olde Course, played decently well but not quite where I wanted to be. Connor and I headed to UNC to meet up with Zach and Chris for the evening, this made my week awful. It was really nice to see Zach and Chris but it was brought to my attention that Kelsey had a boyfriend; it hurts to even write that. You know I’m happy for her, I want her to move on, and the last thing I want is here to sit in her room for months crying over me, I don’t want her to be sad or unhappy, I want her to be happy…we have to move on. I want all of this but it still sucks to hear that news, especially since it’s only been a month and a week since we last talked, but hey you can’t get worked up about something that you cannot control right? Since I was with friends I didn’t really get to think about it that much.

Friday:
My dad wakes me while I’m having a great dream about having no worries, right away I realize what I heard last night, it overwhelmed me to the point where I became very quiet and slightly depressed. My dad and I went to Johnson’s Corner for breakfast where I didn’t eat a thing and didn’t really say a word to my dad. I struggled all day with the news; I struggled a lot, too many thoughts running through my head. I had a letter for Kelsey’s parents that I wrote for them early this week saying thank you and explaining the whole situation with Kelsey and I from my standpoint. I feel like they deserved to know what was going on since it was their girl whose heart was just broken. I delivered to her house, thankfully no one was home at the time. Hopefully that came across the right way for them. I headed out to Walker to make sure that I have a job for next summer, which I do, and had lunch with Jesse at his house. I went to the Olde Course and played some FANTASTIC golf all by myself, that round of golf made my whole week because I got to spend some quality time alone. My dad and I went to the DU hockey game that night; they were facing Alaska in the best of three series. This was probably the best DU game I have seen so far, it was a comeback win for the Pioneers after being down two and they edged out the win 3-2.

Saturday:
I finished the hole in the wall just in time for my sister to start painting the dull white walls a nice shade of orange. I slowly but surely got out of the house with my dad to play some golf, he was not in a good mood when we started playing so it was a little awkward for me to be playing with him. I played some great golf this round too because I was working the ball and hitting good shots all over the course. Zach and I played some Halo at my house that night and then a bunch of us hung out; it was a good way to end my spring break.

So overall this break was so-so, I really struggled with my dad and the news about Kelsey having a boyfriend. If I had to rate this break it probably be around a 6.5 out of 10, golf was really the only reason why it’s so high, not to mention having lunch with some great people.

In memory of the "awesome winter of 2008-2009"
Hello SPRING!!!

I have $10, which burrito joint do I go to?

I felt the need to talk about this after I got done talking to Mrs. Duerre of Olympia, Washington the other day. My argument is based from Colorado, so for those of you who do not know which burrito joints I am talking about I am sorry.

1. Big City Burrito (BCB)

This is a Colorado original, starting in Fort Collins and expanding to many other locations located throughout Northern Colorado. My burrito of choice from here is:
Jalapeño cheddar tortilla, cheese, potatoes, pinto beans, corn salsa, and ranch.
The potato burrito from BCB is to die for, the ranch dressing oozes out with every bite, the jalapeno cheddar tortilla wraps the wonderful mixture of contents inside, to die for. It will always top Qdoba and Chipotle because it’s original, who else has a potato burrito on their menu??? The combination of potato and ranch will meet and go beyond any expectation.

2. Qdoba

Qdoba is home of the great chicken/steak queso burrito. Here is my regular burrito:
Pinto beans, chicken/steak, rice, queso, corn salsa, sour cream, and cheese.
The mixture of warm cheese and beans with the cooling sensation of rice and sour cream creates an explosion in your mouth with every bite.

3. Chipotle

Another Colorado original, starting in Denver right next to the University of Denver, but that is about as far as my compliments go. The meat is very tender, which is good, but to many spices added to it. The burrito itself will come across as bland and boring compared to the great BCB and Qdoba. Not to mention that the chicken burrito is one of the unhealthiest things anybody can eat out of the three burrito joints. I struggle with Chipotle, it may be because I had the other two burritos before trying a bland Chipotle burrito, or it could be the fact that it’s just not that great.

What I’m trying to say is….Big City Burrito and Qdoba are so much better than Chipotle.


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!!!

Off to some good sleep in a full size bed…

Optimistic

#6 Team UNO vs. #2 Volleyball Team
Semi Finals (Purple Bracket)
Court 2 8:00 P.M.

On Tuesday my team (Team UNO) beat #3 Findin' Dogs in the first round of the tournament, this was a very big win because the last game we played they beat us by 20. We returned to the basketball court on Tuesday night still riding our "high" from the win on Thursday and were prepared to get another win. The Volleyball team held the lead the entire game, at one point we were within four points but eventually they pulled away with some timely 3 pointers. After the game I kept thinking, "We could have beaten those guys." My high school basketball team experienced many "L's" and not enough "W's" and after every loss I always thought to myself, "We could have beaten those guys."

Now am I being to optimistic here, or am I just being oblivious to the fact that we got beat by the better team? I believe anybody or any team can beat the "better" team if they know that they can. Best example for this happened in 1980 when the men's USA hockey team beat the Soviet Union, AKA The Miracle on Ice. I truly believe a team with a strong, focused mental drive can beat anybody that steps in their way.

I decided to find a Far Side comic due to popular request:





This was the first Far Side strip I experienced in my life, I think it was on somebody's shirt. The beauty behind Far Side is Gary Larson draws one picture to get his humor across.

Spring Break is coming up next week, looking forward to a good time with family and friends. Big City Burrito will be a frequent stop for me.

Time for some Halo 3 pawnage...

On your mark, get set....

Hello

I have decided to start doing this blogspot thing because Luke does it, and if Luke does anything then it's automatically cool. You may ask, "Why David Webb? Who is he?" Well David Webb is Jason Bourne's real name (Jason Bourne is the guy from all of the Bourne movies and books) and I decided to use his name because it's always more mysterious when you write under another name. Plus, deep down I want to be Jason Bourne.

I tend to wake up at 7:30 in the morning to take a shower and eat breakfast before my physics class, I find it refreshing. However, when I get into the cafeteria and I am in the eggs and bacon line I want to be able to serve myself. I am a grown man, for the most part, and I think I can decide how many strips of bacon I want, but the nice lady behind the counter insists on "helping" me get my breakfast onto my plate. She will put two pieces of bacon on my plate....two, "but I really want three." That's what I say to myself not to her because I instantly feel bad if I have to ask her for more, so I eat my "big" plate of breakfast and leave the cafeteria somewhat full. I can't wait for the day when I am truly free.

I think my main purpose of these blogs will to upload my favorite comic strips from Pearls Before Swine, Far Side, xkcd, Cyanide and Happiness, and a few others. I found this one today and it really "spoke to me" since I am single.

I think I'm going to like this whole blogging thing...