New Year, New Start, New Plan

What is up people? I know it has been an eternity since I have touched this blog, but I felt it was time for a break. I didn't have the time to keep up with a blog with school and everything going on. But now I'm back with vengeance!!!! This blog is gonna have a new direction. I'm going to be going into serious training for the next few months in attempts to tryout as a walk-on for the Auburn University football team. My current weight is 217 pounds, the last time I was clocked on the 40-yard dash, I ran a 5.56 (this was a turf field, so that actually translates to a 5.35 on grass). I am currently doing squats at 280 pounds (I'm not sure of my max yet). My only hitch is my bench press. Right now I'm only benching 145 pounds, but that will definitely be going up in the near future! I plan to be hitting the weight room hard these next few months! I will update you guys at the end of each month on my progress! Thanks for reading! TTYL

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If for some reason I feel like I NEED to blog about something, I will put up an extra post. But I will do my best to stay consistent with my end-of-the-month posts.

New Update!

Hey everyone! Sorry I've been so lazy about putting up posts. So what's new? Well, the year!! Happy New Year everyone!! I hope everyone had a great 2008 (hey that rhymed!) and I hope your 2009 is even better! So, as usual, I like to talk about my Auburn Tigers. Well, our coach, Tommy Tubberville, after 10 years of great coaching, has one bad season and quits. He is still at Auburn helping with the recruiting, though. Our new coach used to be our defense coordinator. Gene Chizik. After Auburn, Gene head coached at Iowa State. Yes, Iowa State! His record there was 5-19 in two years. But, That's Iowa State. You can't win at Iowa State. We have also brought along the offensive coordinator from Tulsa, Gus Malzhan. This is a plus. This man has coached one of the best offenses in the country. But enough with my Auburn rant. Beyond sports, our basketball team has gotten off to a really slow start. We are currently 2-6, but we still have 10 games yet to play. So, we still have a chance to turn this into a winning season. The bible quizzing season is also nearing the end. We have one more quiz before the district finals in March. In the last quiz my team placed 6th out of 14, and we are looking for the top 5 in the next quiz. Our year high has been a 3rd place finish. Well, this has been a really long post! I will try to keep up with the updates as I go. Later!

Update!!

Hey everyody! Ok so it's been a long time since I last posted so I'll get you up to date with what's been going on. First, Auburn's football team is not so great this year. We are plagued with injuries and we can't seem to generate a strong offense. We were able to snap a 4-game losing streak by beating Tennessee-Martin for homecoming, but we couldn't seem to finish the game against Georgia. So now we are 5-6 and have one game left against our bigest rival, the Alabama Crimson Tide, who are undefeated. Second, I now have a sister!! My older brother, David, married his long time girlfriend, Lindsey, and they are now living happily together. The ceremony was beautiful and continued without a hitch, the bride and groom both looked amazing, and everybody seemed to have a great time. Well that's it for this update, I will check back in with you guys soon! Later! 

Time, Discipline, and a quiet room.

Hey guys! Ok, I'm going to take a break from talking about Auburn's football season (even though I will probably post about this Thursday's game against WVU) and talk about another "sport." This "sport" is bible quizzing. Yes, I said bible quizzing. It's not like football, basketball, or any other sport for that matter, this is a sport that requires hours of study and memorization. Each year we are given a book/books of the Bible to study, and every month we spend a Saturday at a quiz competing with other teams from across the state. And, if your team is good enough, you might quiz with teams from your region, or teams from across the nation! But it is not easy, quizzing requires a lot of effort. If anything, quizzing requires time, discipline, and a quiet room. These things are important to the success of a quizzer. Time is required because how much material there is. Discipline, to focus on what you are studying. And a quiet room, just in case God has something to tell you. And one more thing, this is probably the most important, quizzing requires a desire to study God's Word. Without this, it is all pointless, we would just be reading the Word and not reaping the benefits from drawing close to God. Sure, you might win District finals, and maybe go on to regionals and nationals, but if you don't learn anything from it, where is the point? Well, that's all for this post. See you guys later!!  

Football frustration!!

Hey everybody!!! So another Saturday went by and Auburn failed to come out on top... AGAIN!!!!!! This should have been a victory. It was Auburn against Vanderbilt in Nashville. Auburn started out strong by scoring two touchdowns in LESS than FIVE MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!! But on our second score we miss the PAT!!!! (How do you miss the PAT????????????) It just seems like after we put the starting quarterback out of the game we can't seem to stop their back-up. After that it was all down hill. Vandy came back and scored two touchdowns, making both of their PATs. And the score stayed 13-14 the rest of the game. I don't know what he'll do, but Coach Tuberville better start whipping his team into shape, other wise I might have to have a word with him. 'Nuff said.

We need to pick it up!!!!

I don't know whether it's the coaching or the players, but the Auburn Tigers have some work to do before we play LSU week 4 of the college football season. The first week we had Louisiana-Monroe, piece of cake. We beat them 34-0. Week 2 was against Southern Miss, a little bit more difficult. We still won, the score was just 27-13. But Week 3 was embarrassing. The first quarter was nothing but punt after punt after punt from both teams! The second quarter Auburn drives to the 30-ish yard line and settles for a field goal which makes the score 3-0. After halftime it looked like things were pulling towards Auburn's favor... until we were called for a holding in the endzone which forced a safety!!! So it's now 3-2 and it would remain that way for the rest of the game. Brad Lester suffered a neck injury during the game and is questionable about whether he will play next week. Both defenses had a very, very good game and look promising for the rest of the year, but if Auburn wants to hang on to their winning streak their offense is going to have to a) STOP FUMBLING THE BALL and b) protect the quarterback. Let's see if we can keep up the winning streak and go for another undefeated year.

Waz up!!!!

Hello blogging world!!!! My name is Daniel , the newest edition to the blogging world. Here's just a little info about me: I'm 16 years old, born in Texas, now living in Virginia. I am a Christian, I play guitar and bass guitar. I am also a junior in high school, but I am homeschooled. I enjoy playing several sports, such as football, basketball, golf, paintball, ultimate frisbee, and soccer. I have two older brothers and one younger brother. I plan to attend college at Auburn University and major in either business, or music, and play play football as well. Well that's all for now. I will check back in with you guys soon. L8r!