Okay, I know its been a really long time since i have posted anything on this blog. But I think im  going to turn a  new leaf and start posting more.

Updates:

~In 3 days I will turn 23.. Where has the time gone.
~Im now an assistant coach at Benedictine University. Its a brand new program and its amazing watching it grown.
~ spring is approaching, even though there is snow on the ground, so im thinking about what im going to be planting, both flowers and veggies!
~ I've jumped on the Game of Thones bandwagon. But im reading the books before i watch the show. Im currently on book 2

Marselle the Mailman

Every pet owner has nightmares of the day that their beloved pet(s) passes away. Last month that day came to my family and we lost our dog, Marselle. He wasn't ill or seemed any different from any other day. He was taken from us, out of the blue. As sad as it was being with him while he past, I'm  glad that I was able to be with him and say good bye. Marselle was my best friend, he knew all my secrets and always new how to put a smile on my face.
The lost of a believed pet isn't easy for anyone, whether you have to put them down because of an accident or illness, or losing them randomly. Its all very hard to deal with.
While I was saying my good byes to my dog, crying my eyes out and wondering how thing could possibly happen. A friend was trying to comfort me, in saying that she was told that when a pet dies and goes to heaven they are giving a job, like a nurse or mailman. I smiled as I imagined Marselle wearing a blue hat and delivering mail. He was one of the friendliest dog, he would make an amazing mail carrier!
I miss Marselle so much, he will always have a spot in my heart. I think about him everyday, and I know that he is watching over everyone in my family!

Posted below is the Rainbow bridge poem, Its a great poem and can mean alot to someone who lost a pet.


~~~~~The Rainbow Bridge~~~~~~~~~~~
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Rest in Peace Marselle

I hope everyone is off to a great first day of spring!! We are actually having some good weather here in Mittenland (Michigan). Its nice to wake up for practice and not half to wear undergear! Shorts and T-shirt weather finally. Over the St. Pat weekend, there was alot going on on campus! Friday was the Spring concert! Jake Owen, Josh Gracin, and Natalie Stovall, the concert was amazing. I stood front row and gave high fives to both Josh Gracin (Whom I love), and Jake Owen. I want to give thanks to the staff members who were kind and got water, because it was soo hot in the gym!

Yes I am aware that you really can not tell what the picture is of. This picture is more to use as a reference of how close i was with the stage. ( and it is Natalie Stovall)

 On Saturday it was St. Patrick's day which is one of my favorite holidays, not only cause of the drinking aspects, but because green is my favorite color. We had a game in the afternoon! We Won !!!!!!!  <-- Game info. Didn't do much celebrating on St. Pats. Just went out to the Pizza House in Ann Arbor with a teammate and her  mom and had a margarita!

due to spring, I really wanted to get a jump start on my gardening. I went out shopping with a friend and we planted a bunch of seeds. The seeds included chives, dill, okra, basil, cilantro, oregano, kohlrabi, jalapenos, peppers, and catnip. I can not wait for everything to start growing. I will be starting my own garden at home but i am also going to be working on mother days gifts.

this is what im will be working on for mothers day! I hoping to make at least 5, and instead of leaving them stone color i want to paint them! It'll be so sweet!

 Well I shall wrap up this post, got to get some school work done!  Here are some of my current countdowns!

~~40 days till graduation (including weekends)
~~~~29 days of school left!!! (no weekends)
~~~~~14 Lacrosse games (counting MWLC tournament but not the national tourney)
~~~~~~123 days till country tunder

It's been awhile!

So lately there has been this Pintrest Craze and at first I had no idea what people where talking about, when they said they "pinned" something. So I finally deiced to jump into the water, and see what this was all about! WOW! That's all i have to say. Pintrest is another website that I can get totally lost on, looking at all the fun stuff that people have posted. my "boards" are filled with "pins" and i have alot of new things that I want to try.( i.e recipes and crafts!) I am so excited to start all of that.

Other than pintrest, everything is going well. I am in the last stretch of my college career. I only have around 50 more days till I graduate. The lacrosse season has started up, and we currently have a 2-1 record! We have two more games this weekend, hopefully we come out 4-1! that would be great! We flew out to California for our first three games of the season, it was nice to be out there, and have some sun shining down. Back in Michigan its still crappy weather, but its supposed to be getting nicer.

My 22nd Birthday is coming up and I am not sure what to ask for! Any ideas??
Well I should back to doing homework/pintrest!
Have a swell weekend everyone!

FripFrop

www.pintrest.com 
http://pinterest.com/fripfrop/     ~ check out my boards

You can see the Hollywood sign in the background!!! How awesome!?

Its begining to look alot like chirstmas!

'Tis the season! Don't you just love the holiday season. Its the best! I love driving around and seeing all the decorations in town, and then driving around at night and season some great yard decorations. My mother is one of those people that goes nuts for Xmas decorations! You could see our house from down the street because of the glow of our front yard. I wish i had a picture to share with you, but I don't have one. So ill try to put a picture in your head, We had at Least 5 of the those blow-up decorations. I think we had one for all the major holidays! And then Imagine that someone threw-up lights on the front lawn. We made it look good though. You could always tell when you did a good job on your yard decorations when people drive really slow or even stop in front of your house! Its always fun to decorate!
 Decorations the yard, the Christmas tree, cookies, and the inside of the house! Its all fun until December 26th when having Christmas decorations is  no longer needed and it all has to come down,  but when does anyone ever get all the decorations, I  know that I'm finding decorations well into July that I just totally forgot about! As soon as I really start hitting the decor I will be sure so share some pictures!
Happy Holidays!

My dogs!

Over thanksgiving break I always enjoys watching the national dog show! I love dogs, and my family can back me up on that fact. While watching the national dog show John O'Hurley recited the best poem i have ever heard. Its about giving thanks and is more geared towards thanksgiving, but I must share it with those who didn't watch the Dog show! I swear I was on the verge of tears after hearing this: 

I give pause to my paws on this day of Thanksgiving,

Whether wide-eyed, or doe-eyed, or with eyes that seem hidden, 

They're focused on you, 

As I watch for a clue
Just wink or a touch,
Says I'm important to you.
But my words sound like woof
My voice kind of gruff,
So I know that
My thanks may seem never enough,
But this secret I share
With you on a whim
All dogs speak best with what's farthest from them,
Whether fluffy or skinny, full-sized or "a la carte"
Always watch for our tail,
It's attached to our heart.

Marselle

Jake

I love my dogs!

Operation yellow chalk

Since it's the end of the semester and today was the last day of actual classes, I decided to pull a small prank. To some this prank may seem completely stupid but to me and the other two students in my environmental chemistry class, it was the perfect way to end the semester!
In the classroom in which my chem class was being taught the room still had chalkboards, no new age white board. (all green markers smell bad!) And throughout the semester our teacher had always used white chalk no matter how small the piece, even when there was a perfectly good piece of yellow chalk on the ledge. He would also always note there was never enough chalk in the room. So one day in the middle of the semester I deiced to conduct a small experiment. I arrived early to class on day and took all the white chalk in the room, leaving the yellow chalk at the front board, and placed it in the back of the room under an eraser. (there were multiple erasers so there was no need to have this on the main chalk board in the front of the room). You couldn't exactly tell that there was white chalk under the eraser and in order to get it to you had to walk all the way to the back of the room. When class started the teacher started lecture and then noticed that only yellow chalk remained at the front board, he then looked around and notice the eraser and walked all the way to the back of the room with our skipping a beat in the lecture. Now before class started and my other two class mates arrived I had told them what I had done and thought it to be as hilarious as I did. So as the teacher proceeded back to the front of the room with the white chalk, we could hardly keep our composure. So I started thinking of when I would conduct my final experiment of only having yellow chalk in the room!
So today being the last day of classes I thought it would be the perfect day!
What I didn't expect, was how hard it would be to get a box of only yellow chalk, ( a box of white.. not a problem, and a box of multicolored no probemlo...  but a box of only yellow chalk.. you must be talking craziness)
So my partner in crime (who I shall keep anonymous, for her safety from the Wal-Mart chalk patrol) deiced that we would take the two pieces of yellow chalk from the multicolored boxes and create a yellow chalk box!! PURE BRILLIANCE!

The starting product. A 12 multicolored box of chalk

What happens when you take out the yellows and replace with different color. someones gonna get mad.

Our finihsed product, a box of only yellow chalk!

Operation Yellow Chalk on 12/01/2011 at 13:00 was underway.


I decided to make it more believable that there was only yellow chalk at the board when i got to the classroom, and started studying, before class. I was at the front board working on a problem with a classmate, using the YELLOW CHALK. We worked it out and then made it to our seats and class was to begin. The teacher took a look at the chalk ledge and noticed that there was only yellow chalk, turned to us students looked at me and states "Hey, you stole me white chalk!" I thankfully said nothing aloud, but i was screaming "HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS ME!!!" in my head.. he then laughed and said "just kidding, its funny there was so much chalk before now there is only yellow". Class resumed and he used the yellow chalk the entire time. At the end of class, me and my two classmates were glad that operation yellow chalk had been successful and found it hilarious that he jokingly blamed me for the missing chalk. I then took the white chalk out of my backpack and placed it back on the ledge,... after the teacher had left. We left the classroom having a successful semester! Good times!

Its that time of the semester!

So currently I am sitting in the library here at Adrian College. It's the week before finals, and its gets pretty hectic in the library. During the day its hard to find an open computer. Its simply a tease to lets students go home for Thanksgiving break for 5 days and then bring them back for two weeks. One week of classes, which usually consists of two things... 1. Well finals is next week so we are gonna cram all the stuff we haven't gotten to during this semester and Yes it will be on the Final! and/or 2. Its finals next week so we will go over everything that we have done over the semester to review for the final, yes I know you could have studied at home, but its more fun at school... right!...
Finals are the most hectic part of the school year! And it's different for everyone. Finals can be tests or even presentations, both need plenty of studying, which means long hours in the library. Some people are lucky enough have one final, because their teachers want to get out of here as much as we do. Some have maybe two to three finals over the finals week, and they are nicely spread out, with plenty of time to both sleep and study. some have three to five finals and they are crammed into two days, meaning that they have finals back to back, which just plain sucks.

My current desk situation, woot! Stats, you can even see that this blog is on the screen!

Luckily this year I got an okay finals schedule. I have a total of five finals. One of them is a presentation. the rest are all exams. Even though five finals sounds like a lot, and i won't lie, it is. The nice thing is that most of then are spread out. I have one Monday morning at 8:30am-10:30am, one on Tuesday 3:30-5:30pm, two on Wednesday 8:30am-10:30am and 3:30pm-5:30pm. the time between these finals is more than enough time to get a cat nap in and some last minute studying, and I'll make sure I don't forget my brain food! and then I ave my last final Thursday morning which happens to be that presentation I was talking about. After that I am Chicago bound. I will probably make it easier on myself and park outside the building that my class is in, that way I don't have to walk all the way back to my hall, just to jump in my car and go home!
Here at Adrian College the C.A.N. program (campus activities network) happily help us struggling students and give us something fun to do, to get us away from the book for a bit. Since it is so close to Christmas, tonight was our annual campus wide Christmas party! And yes, Santa did make an appearance. another fun event is B.I.N.G.O night! this is something that many students love about finals time. Its also breakfast under that stars! Who doesn't want to eat a pancake breakfast at 7pm and play bingo, for some great prizes.

Some people have a hard time sitting down and studying...like me! I always find myself doing something else.. one example would be writing this blog that you are reading. I should be doing some stupid web assign homework and working on an ESS paper that I have yet to start. Some people find it hard to study when they think they can be something more fun. The topic of the current post was going to be on this website that i stumbled across. http://www.rainymood.com/ this is a website that make it sound like its raining. I think that rainy weather is a good time to get stuck in the library and study! So if your having trouble getting your studying done, put your headphones on and check out the website.

I wish everyone the best of luck on their finals! Just remember that this means that the year is halfway over, and to my fellow seniors, its the halfway point of our last year! Good Luck! and make sure to get some sleep!

Day time T.V.

Do you remember stay home during school cause you sick or "sick". Sitting on the couch and watching day time TV was always the best. Well now that I’m in college and no longer have an 8am-3pm class schedule. I have time during the day to watch Day time TV. So I wanted to make a little blurb about what I watch during the day... I will try to follow this with my Prime time TV shows that I watch/live by! 

Who does not love the food network. I have always been a fan of watching this channel.

I love Ellen! she is so funny and know how to put on a great show!

Now I only recently started watching Nate, I love it cause he has alot of DIY and personal stuff on the show. I love it!

The doctors is a daytime show i have liked for a while. It always has great information on the show that you can use. I love that they added Jillian Micheals to the cast. she knows allot about fitness and that is something everyone should relate to health.

Now these were not the shows that I always watched when i stayed home, these are the shows i watch now, between classes, that is.

Shows that I watched while I was home "sick"...

What kid didn't watch these shows! These are the shows that taught us that our parents are actually NORMAL. We learned to be glad that the people that are on these shows aren't our families!

Jake Owen is coming to AC!

Its official! The news has been facebooked, tweeted and now its been blogged! That's Right people let me repeat! Jake Owen is coming to Adrian College for the annual spring concert. Jake Owen will be preforming on the 16th of March, which just happens to be the day after my 22nd birthday. I will be making sure I have a great spot, up against the stage. Can't Wait to go to this concert! It's going to be amazing!

Getting started… again

So I have wanted to lose weight for a while now and now that I’m a senior in college and know that I don’t have a great amount of time till I get kicked into the real world, I want to look my best! So i deiced to sign up for My Fitness Pal, (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/) because i know people that use it! And they talk about how easy it is to use, so why not.

One of the parts of the profile wants to know what your inspirations are. I want to be healthier, i want to live longer. I want to show people that it is possible.  Now I’ll give you a bit a background of myself.

Me , my weight and sports.

I used to be a small kid, but like many people life changes usually are a cause of weight gain. Moving to a different town, a different school, and hopefully new friends were hard on my childhood. Things that helped me through: my mom, my new dad, my mom side of the family and my new family on my father’s side.

Changing schools was a huge change in my life, looking back at pictures you can see that I slowly started to gain weight. Being the new kid on the block isn’t something that makes you cool, especially when to start to gain more and more weight. And being bullied at school wasn’t exactly helping in the weight loss.  Even when I tried to join sports, I wasn’t good enough, or wasn't social enough. Let's just say that basketball and volleyball aren't my sports.

A lot changed when I went into high school, luckily some of my friends went to the same school, and I had a cousin that was in the same grade. So I slowly started to make friends and one thing that helped was the fact that I tried new sports. My dad likes golf and he encouraged me and taught me the ropes of the golf coarse. I began to love golf, and even though a wasn't good enough to play varsity, I made friends with a lot of the girls on the team. I also decided to play on the bowling team, it was a lot of fun and helped me make more friends!

Last but defiantly not least my start with lacrosse! My lacrosse career has gotten me where I am today. If I hadn’t of started playing lacrosse I would not be at Adrian College (http://www.adrian.edu/). I stared playing lacrosse my freshman year of high school. One of the girls on the bowling team was trying out because one of her friends was trying out. So I jumped on that train. After the first day of tryouts, the coaches ask everyone if anyone wanted to be a goalie. I decided to raise my hand since I didn’t think I won’t make the team otherwise. (I wasn’t in the best of shape). So I went for it and made the team as a goalie. My goalie skills were improving immensely. By the end of my junior year, I was on the Northwestern Wildcat Elite Team. Being on this team showed me that I should look into playing lacrosse on a college level! I was brought to Adrian College! (http://www.adrianbulldogs.com/sports/w-lacros/index).  I started pretty much all the games my freshman year! It’s an amazing feeling. I played my freshman, sophomore years and then took my junior year off, for personal reasons, not thinking I was going to return to the turf field my senior year. But now that I’m back I have to get back into shape and it’s not the easiest of things, I am hoping that this fitness website keeps me in line! We shall see!

Until next time, fripfrop

 Me at a family golf outing two years ago

 Me (in net) my freshman year, during our fall ball game!

Getting Started

So I have come up with a brilliant plan to start writing a blog. it seems to be what everyone is doing. Which is odd because everyone is paranoid that they are being looked at too closely, yet they post their life stories online to the world. But I really don't care what people know about me, and instead of pouring my heart and soul and probably boring someone with the detail, why not just post it online. Cause if they don't want to read this, they don't have to, and I don't care. And if there bored and there's nothing else better to do then read this, (then your life must be more boring than mine and you might want to change that) they can indulge in the wonderful world of FRIPFROP.
So I  have some stuff that I  want to  post right away but ill space it out, that way it seems like I'm on everyday,  but I assure you i will slow down in blogging once I get the juicy background info up and out there. I will hopefully have a large array of postings, and sharing activities. I love cooking and baking and hanging out with my family. I also love looking online and finding fun recipes and I absolutely love to use StumbleUpon.com. So you'll see allot of cool and fun postings. (At least what i find cool and fun! )

This is a wonderful picture of ME! Fripfrop is a nickname that one of my friends started to use, and i guess it stuck, but according to my lacrosse team I am Finny