MEMOIRS OF A SCOOTER

So i was thinking today how much i love my scooter, and how deaply sadden and down trodden i will be the day it really dies on me, we have been great friends.

So in an early rememberance of our dear friend THOR i have decided to commemorate the fond memories we have created in the sunny skies of dixie to the mountainous terrain of the county of weber.

The year was 2005, what a great year, the year of the wood rooster. It was summer time, and I was enjoying the great weather and the cloudless skies. A few days prior to this event i had got a new Cd from my friends in Salt Lake, All-time Quarterback (a band made from members of Death Cab For Cutie), and i loved the music so i got my cd discman (a precursor to the ipod for those not of that era)...(ps it was only 3 1/2 years ago i was just retarded and didn't have an ipod yet, darn me) and i put in my cd and i drove to work and well the best thing happened, work told me to go across town to drop off a money dilly, i never really got caught up in what i was doing for them, i just knew dont loose it and go straight to the bank... done deal. So as i left and everyone was laughing at me at work due to my stature on the little THOR beast as i jumped it off the curb, sorry dad yes i jumped it... alot... and flew off in the distance at an incredible 28 miles an hour, on a 40 MPH road... well i was rockin the beats and loving it, stareing up at the blue sky, the black and red rocks, the honking cars and i came across the red hill and made my descent on to st. george blvd i crossed the road listening to the sweet harmonies and got to the teller and saw an old friend, we chit chatted and i sped off and got to the new road that goes up the red hill by la policia and i was like "wow this cd rocks, but it has like the same beat for every song... in fact i think there is only a couple of songs on the cd... no there are like 10..." so i took out the old discman and checked it out... upon my gathering i noticed i had hit the repeat button.... so this entire ride i rode listening for well over 30 minutes to the same song and never realized it.

two things to be learned...

1- i am a retard on a scooter, i had no idea i was singing the same song while i was driving a motorized vehicle and probably cut cars off while i sang

2- i love my scooter and sunny weather that much that nothing mattered to me on that ride other than heat, sun, blue, and song

I HEART THOR.

SNOW BOCCE

Bocce Snow king of the day... king of the day is when you get your bocce ball touching the cue ball, quite a event, especially in snow. hooray for Tim

Stevie showing off her skills... Skinny pants + golloshes = frozen body
but she was a champ and stuck it out

The wide world of sports just got wider, so i might be in love with the sport of Bocce, its an event that takes place everytime we go to st. george, well some of our comrades have ventured up yonder to our frozen tundra and now we started the Northern Utah Bocce Association, its great and i must admit i couldn't be happier with our results thus far, we have a tournement in a couple of days in logan. Snow or not its going to be grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat

GEEKS ON ICE

So this is what happened.
weber state has gotten glazed over with snow and ice.
well i have been saying that people drive stupid on the snow, and i sorta became cocky i guess and i would walk much faster than i should because i don't slip. well one day i had just gone to the bookstore to see how much my books were and to also see if people we looking for the books i had last semester so i could sell them cheaper then they would buy and i started to walk to my car which is on the top parking lot. and well i was ya know listening to my ipod and walking right in the middle of the campus where weber's bell tower is. well that day i had my dress pants on and some church shoes that are not to much for traction. well before i knew it my right foot slips out and being from st. george (not known for its ice or snow or cold and the ability to walk on them) i try to put on foot down as soon as possible or get my left foot under me, well i pretty much put all my weight on my left to get control and the next thing i knew was my left and right leg are getting above my head and i hit before i knew what happened and i was just like "what just happened?" and i get up look around and no one is there cause i was super embarrased and i got up and realized that i would have paid money to see what happened. needles to say i walk like a grandma everywhere i go, shuffle steps and everything, i totally look like a geek but there is no way i will do that again.
i hate ice

HARRY POTTER

So recently stevie might say i have had an obession... well thats what she would say
The last week of school a girl in my math class had all the books on her itunes and
so naturally i downloaded them all onto my ipod with the exception of the 7th because
it wasn't on. So it was like a dream cause everywhere i could go i could listen to harry
potter... however i think this was worse then listening to music my first winter at bus
stops and would dance because now i would be walking and i would here something
that i liked or was funny and i would bust up laughing or smile and i would have to cover
it up cause people would totally stare... i have a problem with entering another world
when i have my ipod on and harry potter which made it worse. but the last book i read
and holy crap it is so good again, i just finished it a couple of days ago. this really is such a good series on so many levels for
myself.
1. it got me to read a book
2. it was very unique
3. stevie liked it with me so we could watch them or read them together

this time around was good because i never read the first book i only "had to listen to it"
with my parent on the way to our cabin my sophmore year and i had to do a book report and i never read a book and i figure hey i listened to most of it so i read the last chapters and it
hooked me and i became a harry potter geek from then on.

MMMM CHINESE FOOD

Lately i have been craving chinese food, you would think i am prego or something.
It started when we went to PF Changs with friends of ours and then a buffett that
was awesome! I could have stayed there all night but stevie doesn't have the eating
ability that i possess, its a talent i would say... but then we went to another restaurant
where my friend works and she hooked us up. This would be a dream right now to have
all this food right now

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

This year was fun for us because we are poor. so what we did to have a fun christmas was try to decorate out little house. We also set a spending limit of 25 dollars for our presents, it actually made it fun because we really had to look hard for something good. we were terrible though and did our christmas shopping like 2 days before but it was way fun.

We spent christmas eve and day with stevie's family which was pretty fun.

ISN'T IT OCTOBER... NOT JANUARY STUPID MOTHER NATURE

So this is what we woke up to last sunday... what did you wake up to, oh probably blue skies right souther utah, lame-o's.
Well i was not so ready for this snow and when i saw it i was like, what the crap yo, its october i wanna party with the colors not hermit myself up cause of boring old white... you know every year i spend up here i think i might just hate the color white even more.

So stevie and i were talking about halloween and this stupid thing called snow and i was like "what the crap homes, i didn't snow exsisted until december or january." and S-dawg was like "yo g funk, i used to trick or treat in 4 feet of snow up hills both ways..." i mean she was like "yo thug halloween usually meant dressing up in wiggity wack sweetness costumes and then covering up because it snowed, or was snowing..." are you kidding me? i used to sweat in st. george because i was usually rollerbladding from old peoples house to rock the candy and then it occured to me... if i was up here for trick or treating i could not dress up like a TMNT!f

Dude imagine me Rolling like this dude, his face even shows how happy he is, wanna know why... no snow for this TMNT.
ps if you can find this costume i really want it
pss really bad

MY DREAM CAR

I LOVE THIS BUS SO MUCH, A 1968 IS GREAT BUT I WOULD KILL FOR... WELL MAYBE HURT SOMEONE REAL GOOD... FOR A 1971 TWO TONE YELLOW ON THE BOTTOM AND WHITE ON THE TOP.. OH WAIT ITS ON EBAY, AND THAT STUPID WANTS LIKE 12 GRAND RETARDO ITS NOT IN GREAT CONDITION DROP IT TO 5 AND I WILL WALK THERE.

LOOK HOW PRETTY THAT IS... NOW JUST IMAGINE ME IN THAT CAR

DONT I LOOK GOOD

THEY LET ME STOP BY FOR SOME GLAMOUR SHOTS WE BECAME FRIENDS, WE WENT FOR A DIP LATER THAT AFTERNOON IN THE LAKE

THIS IS ANOTHER LOVE IN CALI (HI LOVE)

ONE THIS CAR JUST ROCKS, SECOND THE FACT THAT SOME DUDE SAT IN THE CAR FOR THE PICTURE MAKES IT SO MUCH BETTER, I HOPE HE IS FROM ALABAMA AND WAS LIKE "Well dang ma i best be sittin in that there picture so them compooter folk you talk to on your compooter tink that dis really is a big car, not some micro machine car... should i wear my racoon hat?"

YES GRIZZLY ADAMS GOES TO COLLEGE

So the beard is back and raging to rule supreme and i have let it do so, we brush it and wash it and sometimes feed it, none of which Stevie likes but, i think the beard can take her... it cuts like diamonds.

I like to say its for the Archery hunt, but since i called sportsmans warehouse a day late i could not get a tag, so we are still debating on the Elk hunt, which i have never done, but i wouldnt mind it at all... so basically the beard is hear for warmth in the next few months as for the hunt... even if i dont get to shoot an elk, i will still support the troops.  

oh and its going to make one awesome halloween costume... i am debating if i want to let it known on the world wide web of what i am going to be, cause you never want to go to a party as what someone else is, much less the host... so Ashlynn or Coby you know my costume don't go and grow a beard! cause well i can't stop it, and it will sandpaper your face... 

SAVED BY THE BELL ANYONE?

Well there is no Zach or Kelly but there is a bell. Well this semester should be fun, i have Human Physiology, Trig, Pharmacology, and some health class, and a two hour long lab with the cadavers i think, i am pretty sure though and thats going to be way cool.  Well not much has happened to us lately, we are just hanging out and keepin it real with the hommies around us... having to tell our latino neighbors that its not okay to have your bass shaking our pictures at 8 am on a sunday... or pretty much any day, unless of course its vanilla ice or sir mix alot and then we can all shake our rump, but if it is just Julio De Maria Juares De San Fransico then it is not ok....

Southern Utah Bocce Open Classic

It was a furious night of Bocce as Stevie, Adam Del Toro and I played a great game of bocce. It began pretty intense as an old rivarly between Adam and myself was reignited...

To bad for these two suckas that they were facing me a legend in the sport

Stevie, Me, and Adam after a great match

2 YEARS BOO YA SUCKAS

Dang we look good

So monday was our 2 year anniversery and time is flying, but i guess that is easy when you have an awesome wife like stevie who likes all the same stuff i do and is very calm but is the brains of this whole shin dig. I sure do love her. we just took the day easy, it was just really nice we took Gryffindor to a dog park and let him run his butt off, and it was super hot and we got hot from chasing him so we went home and dropped him off and went to Tepenakis??? its a chinese place that cooks right in front of you and it was way good. then we came home and crashed.

FLY HIGH GRYFFINDOR

This is more Gryffindor, we found out he really loves to chase this chew toy and its way funny, sometimes he runs to it and forgets to grab it and runs back super excited.

Gryffindor is the funniest dog, he thinks he always has to be next to us, regardless

MEET SEBASTIAN

Sebastian is our carnivorous plant, if you look closely you can see some dead bugs on it, they are like gnat size, but still it thirsts for blood.  G'mork

It was either going to be Sebastian, Falcor, or G'mork but Falcor was just to good (and falcor looks like Gryffindor and grif does not thirst for blood) and G'mork but then i thought this plant is not going to hide in Spook City and try to kill me, just defend me thus  SEBASTIAN

CALIFORNIA

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR CAR WHEN YOU MEET ME IN THE STREETS...

Well not really but when we got off the plane we had a rent a car place come and get us, and the guy taking us was funny he was sorta flying around everywhere like everyone there. well we get to the ghetto and look at the car we are going to be in for the next few days and its blocked by a big moving van so we get out and that guy was like oh we just move these and leave. well he totally just zoomed out, yes zoomed that how they drive there, and made a big swinging turn into the driveway and totally cut a lady off and pretty much got t-boned and they pushed each other for like 50 feet and stopped. we ran up and they both were fine but he broke his nose and it was crazy. that started our trip.

Getty Muesum

The Getty Muesum was super awesome, its free and its a bunch of collections
of art that John Paul Getty collected which included some Monet, Van Gogh, Manet and tons of other stuff

All the building were super cool like this and huge!

i think that this was called the confused man, i just thought he was cool and looked like me. Siiike
we were later told "No Flash Sir"

I cant remember the name, but it looks like the constaption face Stevie and her sister pulled it off great

We were beat tired afterwards and fell asleep on their nice bermuda grass

stevie and her family

CALIFORNIA

Stevie's parents flew us all out to california to go see the play wicked and to just have fun. we definitly did, but this beach was bad, we all got fried, my shoulders blistered up and it was pretty bad.

Hal, Kjerstin, Jon, Lauren, Taylor, Heidi, Stevie, Derek

Taylor, Derek, Heidi

Derek and Stevie

one WICKED night

Me and Stevie infront of the theater in hollywood for the night of wicked

I am amazed i was super nervous about this play, i have heard the songs and they are funny but i have never really been to a play like this in my life so i didn't want to be a jerk and fall asleep or just not like it, but i loved it, we had such a good time. We went with Stevie's family, they bought us all tickets to the play and to california. It was such a funny play i laughed so many times, it was really good. it was like a dream come true for Stevie and all the girls in her family, they have heard the sountrack forever and finally got to see it.

DOE, A DEER, I ALMOST HIT A DEER....

ON MY SCOOTER!!! HAHAHA
It was running next to this fence and i think the roar of THOR scared him and he wouldn't cross the road and when i stopped at the four way stop like a mile down the road he finally crossed, yes it was a mile cause i didn't want to be late, and honestly i was laughing cause i would rev it up and he would go crazy, good thing he wasn't a buck, i would have been gored or had a new hood display on the scooter, i think antlers and a cadillac sign would go hand in hand right?

REAL SALT LAKE IS THE PLACE FOR ME

This weekend was fun we went up to Honeyville for stevies mom's mom's side of the family... hope you got that... it was fun we got to see her cousins and they all loved gryffindor. we then went to the RSL game which they won and it was awesome, we had good seats thanks to stevies sister, we saw the first goal really good, Kenny Deuchar their new scottish or irish striker put a header in, he missed one like 2 minutes earlier it was awesome.

Apparantly this is a Derek smile or face according to stevie's family

MEET GRYFFINDOR

This is Gryffindor 

we got him at the pound almost a week ago, he is 4 years old and really well behaved.  We are loving him, and we hope he gets used to us.  

ps he could be quite possible the best dog in the world for stevie because he will wake up with us at 6 when i get ready for work or school and then take him to go pee and then him and stevie fall asleep on the couch... lazy bones

peace hommes

BEHOLD THOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I PIDDY DA FOO WHO EATS MA CEREAL AND FIND THOR ONE ON ONE IN A DARK ALLY WOO HAA

So THOR has been unleashed on O-TOWN and they dont know what happened, all this cold weather, foo's its THOR bringin his form of H E double hockey sticks viking style... we cruise Washington BLVD like Vikings conquering a country... at a whooping 40 miles an hour SUCKA going down hill WITH wind, I PIDDY YA... i show all the little hommies whats up as i ROAR his horn at them... and i show them how he flies... mom dont read... over the train tracks SUCKAS!! i caught 4 inches at least today THOR unleashes his fury when i am late to work.  BASICALLY THOR DESTROYS!!!!

i love THOR... we are best friends

PEACE THUGS

WHY I LOVE O-TOWN

SORRY long time no blog???? well here i sit in the computer center at weber in the summer as i ponder on why i really do like gangsta's paradise... i have my little red scoot back THOR, it fits him well... and i get to see the coolest things ever! For example while riding THOR home i witnessed the most awesome thing ever, its better than hammer pants... i dont know how to even start let me paint you a visual image... cruisin for a bruisin on THOR on a small side street listening to Minus the Bear sorta swaying back and forth singing probably really loud (THOR's really loud after his muffler and exaust pipe came loose, don't worry dad i fixed it, but really THOR is a viking god and needs to scream so i might have let it come unloose again.. whoopsie) and i look at the trees and i see this dude on a wheel chair cruisin pretty fast for a non electric and i think... wow he's moving fast for not having an electric and i drive by and see that he is holding on to another person from behind that is cruisin on a rascal

i couldn't help myself but laugh so hard and swerve like dumb and dumber i couldn't believe it, oh how i wish i was dorkier and had a camera mounted to my helmet to record random things...

PEACE THUGS

D-BONE

i am D-bone now

NO MORE SOCCER

TODAY I STRAINED MY LEFT HAMSTRING MUSCLE, JUST ABOUT A YEAR TO THE DAY THAT I STRAINED MY RIGHT HAMSTRING. THIS SUCKS

WARREN G

So i am in the lab right now getting my summer and fall set up and Warren G came on and i decided that he is the only rapper i like, well basically just Regulators.

"Regulators mount up, it was a clear black night, a clear white moon..."

IM STARE AT CADAVERS THRICE A WEEK

So i have been notorious for telling people that i spell death when i am at work or school cause the smell of fermalahyde? gets stuck in my nose. Its okay though cause everyone else in the class says the same thing. anyways i got a 98 on my Human Anatomy Lab Final which sucks though cause if i would have put InterloBUlar rather than interLOBAR in the nephron loop of the kidneys i would have got 100. I am still happy though, but Stevie constantly needs to tell me that these are good grades i always look at them as how i could have been better, it sucks.

SOCCER SOCCER SOCCER

Well if stevie has not said anything yet, she may say im addicted to soccer, i have been playing in two leagues up here and one week i played in 5 games and then we watched her sister play and RSL so its been soccer fever up here. last night we played our last game against a team we have beat before, but our team has no chemistry so we played like crap but i had a free kick and put it in the top right corner for our first goal it was a perfect shot, it was awesome, and in the next half i had a left footed volley  that was going to the top right corner but the keeper barely touched it and it hit the top bar and went out. its been fun.

PS summer games are june 6th & 7th for me and my friends in Cedar town

HOME, WORK, SCHOOL AND PLAY

Home - so last night the home teachers came and i swear the guy said thursday night so our house was a bit of a mess, just a bit embarrasing.
Work - Work is going the same for me, just really boring, but my new boss is a whole lot better than my old boss. Stevie is still liking working at the Bun Basket the bakery, but she is looking at working with her aunt at a art gallery which would be really cool. yesterday she went to work with her dad and helped him out and is thinking about working there as well, that would be good cause it would give her insurance
School - school is good, my finals are coming up in two weeks but i have a teacher that is giving our final tomorrow.
Play - I have been playing soccer about 2 times a week with some people up here and its been really fun, except my games range fom 5:45 pm to 11:15 pm. this weekend stevie and i watched her little cousins and it was really fun, but tireing, stevie got to their house friday morning and we left the house sunday afternoon. They have 3 kids, an 8 year old, a 5 year old, and a 3 year old. the 5 and 3 are the funnest kids ever, the 8 year old has ADD pills and we forgot to give them to her sat. that day sucked.

REAL SALT LAKE

REAL SALT LAKE SOCCER IS BACK!

KYLE BECKERMAN

This weekend was so much fun, well this entire week, i played 5 indoor soccer games, watched stevies sister taylor play saturday with stevie's family then we went to the RSL game later that day. It was so much fun! they played soooo good, it was so much better than the season opener last year, they tied but it was a crazy shot by a man i hate, but he is good, but i hate him cause he is super dirty and flops alot.

We will be going much more since the tickets are only 14 bucks a piece.

PEACE LOVE AND SOCCER

IM LEGAL AGAIN!

So what has happened was i apparantly have not been legal to drive for the last... 5 months. my drivers license was expired since october, but youhave to agree that its lame because i had only gotten the thing in 2006 that would almost make 2 years, they usually last 5 years i believe... so anyways i had to get a new license and i gave them Magnum... needless to say i got many glamour shots by the Drivers License Division babe, her name was Wanda

BOOK OF THE MONTH

THE COBRA EVENT

This is one of the best books i have ever read, the list does include harry potter so you can decide what that means (for me that is good), but this is a book about the things i like. its a book about a terrorist (dont like) who releases a biological weapon in the states and its is sorta like a mystery a sorta style of dan brown. i read this back in my senior year, and i am going to read it again. however this book might make you pee your pants because he bases all his books off of real stories, interviews and things of that matter. this book is so good and real President Bill Clinton made his people read the book and check the book and see if it was fiction or not.

EASTER IS HARE <== GET IT LIKE A RABBIT HARE...

So during our easter egg hunt it will have nothing of this and holding hands due to the extreme nature of the allen family egg hunt. mostly the faces will be like the one below

pretty much this will be our faces during the hunt, don't grab our eggs
ps you are all going down

SOCCER

So last night i went and played intramurals soccer and stevie came and watched and i am beat! we won so thats good and we played a man down the entire time, so i think if we would have had a 6th person they would not have scored on us at all.

BIGGEST LOSER

So i dont know if any of you have watched the biggest loser, but its a program where fat people try to lose weight and its really cool, some have dropped 100 pounds in i think 6-7 weeks from eating good and working out.
Well i think i should be the biggest loser of weber i have lost 23 pounds since we have moved up here, i weighed 240 now i weigh 217. so i am pretty happy about that.

GRIZZLY ADAMS HAS BEEN SORELY MISSED

So yesterday in church i had to guys come up to me and ask why i shaved... i was mixed with emotions because i was happy they were sad that i shaved and sad that i shaved... the first was when we were getting ready to pass sacrament and he sat down and was like... Derek right? so i gotta know, why did you shave it off? and i started laughing and we talked. the other was after and this guy while we were sitting down was like, your from st. george right? i thought that was you, why did you shave?

Beard will be missed:

November 2007 - February 2008

A dear friend who was there in the coldest times,

brought cheer to everyone around, especially children,

lover of nature and animals. RIP Beard

SPRING BREAK BROKE MY SPIRITS

So as I woke up this morning and i got to weber i totally forgot what class i had this morning, it was a bit scary because it was dark and i am used to going to class with the sun so i thought i was here to early and i was lost. But i was made happy when i got to campus and there is no snow! best spring break present ever! i was so happy untill the canadian geese started honking at me and wadaling or however you spell that towards me, i got sorta worried cause they bite. then they flew at me and i am not going to lie i froze and made sure they kept on going...

BAND-0-THA-WEEK....

BEN FOLDS
Even though he has cd's done as solo or with a band his music is amazing... i liked him a bit in high school but my music as the post below says i was a bit into my punk music, but stevie has helped me like his work.

Rockin' the suburbs was probably one of the more popular and has really good tracks on it, i really like Zak and Sara and Annie Waits... just really good music to chill to and wander around

As most of their faces show, its mellow but also pretty up beat at times, this cd was famous for Brick which could also be one of the most popular songs by ben folds and the band, but there are other really good songs on this cd, Kate is stevies fav.

ROCKIN' THE SUBURBS...

ITS TIME FOR THE CONCERT STEVIE AND I GET TO GO TO ONCE A YEAR... WELL WE MIGHT GO TO A FEW OTHERS BUT THIS IS A FOR SURE. BEN FOLDS IS COMING TO SLC AND WE ARE SUPER EXCITED, ITS A CHANGE FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS OF PUNK ROCK MOSH PITS TO THE STAND AROUND AND ENJOY MUSIC DAYS OF THE "INDIE ROCK" THAT HAS SWOOPED MY LIFE. AND I REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY ALL OF THAT BUT WE ARE EXCITED THATS ALL I KNOW! WOOT WOOT FOR GOOD MUSIC

BEN FOLDS APRIL 23rd HOORAY FOR STEVIE AND READING THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER

SPRING BREAK

So spring break hasn't been anything very exciting for us, other than just hanging out. I took a test the first day which isn't cool but i had to, and i will probably study math and anatomy for the rest... blah... anyways its warm and i can almost wear sandals which is an warm thing so that makes me happy. peace love and harmony

BARRY SANDERS - BEST RUNNING BACK EVER

So i am lame and i like to just research stuff on Barry because if you know me well you know i love the lions and loved to watch Barry run a show. so i decided to just say that he was the best running back ever and im sorry but no one will ever do what he has done.

MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES

This is by far one of the best movies ever. Just the fact alone that Kurt Russell slaps everyone makes it good.

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

PROBABLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS, A VERY CHILL BAND THAT CAN CALM THE SOUL AND MAKE YOU DAY DREAM AND WANDER AROUND A NEIBORHOOD LIKE MY LITTLE NEPHEW ETHAN... SOME OF THE BEST MOMENTS HAPPEN IN THOSE MENTAL FARTS I CALL BLISS
YOU GO LISTEN TO CD NOW!
P.S. I BELIVE THEY ARE IRISH WHICH MAKES IT 50X BETTER SINCE ITS IRISH MONTH

TV NIGHT AT STEVIES PARENTS

Tonight stevie and i are at her parents house checking my weber stuff and this and watching lost with her little sister.