The New Blog

OK, I have recieved my feedback on my site, So we have made some MAJOR CHANGES.

1- New Name, lots of effort has gone into this name. It really adds to the site.
2- A- Team music no longer starts automatically. Its still playable, but it will not start by itself.

Hope you enjoy the new and improved blog, watch for more changes in the future!

24

OK, hold on, I need to go read Aidans post to make sure that no where in his post has he written about 24 or any other numbers because, I would hate to have my "friends" turn on me AGAIN!!!

OK I am back I did not find anything so lets go.

My favorite show right now, (Besides MASH King of the Hill and The Simpsons) is 24. Very clever. its something new and fresh on the over crowded airwaves of my evenings. I am so sick of the crap that is on TV, so its great to have a show like 24 that is new, and is not based around everyone either being gay or trying to sleep with each other. I highly recommed watching it if you like a good drama/action show. Plus Keifer, phew, you ladies know what I am talking about. The only problem is they sucker you into watching every episode or you are totally lost, but it still is worth it!
Sorry my blog is short, boring, un-funny, and not creative, work has come crashing in on me, and I am just trying to make it to the new year.

The A Team

(Please Turn Up your sound on your computer to make sure you get the most out of this post)

I must say that growing up, I had a complete love affair with the A Team. What a great show!! Heres why it is:

1-Every week they drugged BA Baracus to get him on the plane, "I pity the fool who tries to get BA on a plane, I hate planes"
2-Every week they turned their black van into a tank, adn it would get blown up and shot up, but the next week, it was perfect (Kind of like the General Lee)
3-Mad Murdock, come on the guy lived in the crazy bin, but yet every week he escaped then made i tback in.
4 Face-- HIS NAME WAS FACE
5-I love it when a plane comes together.
6- They lived in the LA underground, what in the H is the the LA underground?
7-Somehow they always ended up in Mexico jumping their van through the gates of a monestary.

Of course this sounds sarcastic, but I really did love the A Team. It was a classic. Along with the A Team, I put Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider and Facts of Life.

The Origin of Man, a theory on our beginning and our disposition.

The big bang intrigues me . I find it fascinating. However, that not what my blog is about. That’s just a Kacy trick to get people reading my blog! Suckers.

I want to actually want to write about all the things I have done with Ed. (If you do not know Ed, well you simply must meet him)
I met Ed 5 years ago, it was at ward prayer, yes I went once. I was wearing my maintenance worker shirt from Harrah’s of Las Vegas. Brent and I had found them at the Savers in Vegas. The name on the shirt said “Ed S”
Well when I shoed up with that shirt, Ed about jumped on me and said, I MUST HAVE THAT SHIRT. Later that evening, I went with a new girl in the ward to a park, (after having stopped by Ed’s house to arrange a “date” with her and Ed. Well to make a long story short an hour later the girl looked at me and said, “You want to make out don’t you” (which I thought was silly, duh, you are a girl, and I am a guy, do the math). Wel needless to say, yep. The funny part about Ed is, is that he took her out 4x4ing the next night, and they ended up making out. We did not find this out till year later.
Ed is a nerdy brain. (He is getting a Dr’s degree at U Chicago)
Once Ed and I went canyoneering with my dad, and my dad went off this drop first, and told Ed he could make it with his pack on. So he tried, but slipped and fell about 10 feet face first into the mud, with the weight of his pack driving him deeper. I laughed, he bled.
One time Ed and Ted road in the back of my truck to Moab with a TV back there watching the simpsons the whole way. Another time Ed and I were driving to Escalante to hike and his truck broke down, so we slept in a horse coral, and when we woke up there was a bunch of old broke up video tapes that were some classic porn films.
Ed one time climbed the face of the BYU library to hang a huge AF (Air Force) Banner he had sewed on the front of our lawn, out of bed sheets. It hung for about an hour before the police took it down. He later tracked it down and went on a “tour of campus” and got to go to the top of the Kimball Tower. He hid with a fellow Air Force Academy Alumni and they hung the banner again off the top of the Kimball tower. Both times were because BYU was playing Air Force. He also backed an AF shaped cake and took it to President Bateman’s house and gave it to him.
I like to go out and visit Ed and his wife in Chicago. Last time I went, we went down town to get some famous Chicago style pizza. The restaurant was on a corner of two one way roads. Both were about 5 lanes across. He pulled into the corner and jumped out and told me to drive, his instructions were cut across these 5 lanes of traffic, and then hang 4 lefts and you will end up back here. So I started, but I only made it across 2 lanes before I hit the intersection, and I ended up having to go straight. I did not realize that going straight would put me on a freeway. SO now I have no clue where I am going, so I go for a few exits and get off thinking I can swing under the freeway and jump back on. Nope. I end up in the ghettos and I am shizzing myself I am so scared. So I drive around for awhile and pull up at a light, and there is a black guy next to me with the music cranked, and his car all tricked out. SO I roll down my window and yell to him, he rolls his down and I ask him how to get to the pizza place down town, he says he is heading that way and to follow him. So I follow him, then he starts taking me down so back roads, and then he stops him the middle of the road, does not pull over or anything I think, “I am going to die, he is going to kill me and steal Ed’s car” he walks back to me and says, “Hey little bro, I gots to turn at that next light, but go is going to go straight. Then at this street turn right, and if you gets lost again just axe someone down there”. Well I actually made it back and Ed was mad and told me I should not be playing around on the streets of Chicago.
Well that’s my Ed stories, there a whole bunch more. And most of them are actually a lot better (like the night we went dumpster diving at the Frito Lays plant and we got over 120 bags of chips out of the dumpster)
I finally broke down and gave him the Ed S shirt after a few years, just cause he’s a good friend.

Mele Kalikimaka

Tis the Season








So as that old song goes, "It's the most wonderful time of the year" No not Christmas, it's ski season! Nothing is better then skiing. This is a picture of me skiing at Sundance, (The only place the Hills ski, don't know why). It was a blast, though I have something I do not understand about snowboarders. WHY THE ATTITUDE? Every girl up there on a snowboard was wearing the same thing. I long sleeve white shirt, with some cute little pink belly shirt over it. With something like "Princess" written on it. They were all wearing little beanie caps and pig tails. EVERYONE of them. On the male side the little 12 year old boys were being so cool F this and F that. Classy! Would make a parent proud! And that's another thing, do these parents have no control over there kids. I think that is a general problem in the world. Everyone is so worried about gratifying themselves, that there kids take second place. Maybe that's how I could make a million dollars. I could offer child punishing. Take some of that attitude out of these little punks!
But don't get me wrong, I love little kids. Though the odds are against it, I ended up with the 4 most beautiful, cool and fun nieces in the world. Nothing against anyone out there with kids, its just they take second place to my awesome nieces.
Sorry Becca, (and Kacy) yours are cute! But, the Graves and Hill girls..... can not be beat.
Well everyone, Mele Kalikimaka or have a Merry Christmas everyone!
PS, my new ski coat should be here anyday, please visit

Marmot

to see it. I have not been this excited since I got my new couches









Now please do not comment on the flowers, YES I PICKED ONE WITH FLOWERS! I still have more tools then any male that reads this! And I can USE THEM!

I’m pissed I’m happy

KAYCEE, HERES OUR LITTLE TED







So a good thing and a bad thing happened at work.

First the bad: I took a lateral promotion @ work. Yes this is a good thing however with it I lose my company car and gas card which I loved very much. The $ rewards better be worth it.
The good: Our building has offices on the outside of the area and an open area where the walls only go up to 4 feet in the middle. Upper management has the outside offices with windows that look outside and some that look into the center area where I work. My boss is right behind me and his office configuration makes it so he is looking at me all day long. So I feel guilty about getting online or if I just sit back in my chair for a minute and relax. But today he moved down three offices J I am kind of happy now. Not that I slack, I just don’t want anyone looking at my back all day long, let alone my boss.

So I guess for every negative there is a positive!

PS I have never seen Ted naked! I do not know why he is insisting that I have. Apparently he is checking me out, but I can honestly say NEVER has Ted’s naked body been seen by my eyes!!!

Moral of the story, always check the FULL package when accepting a new job. And NEVER CHECK OUT TED’S

Arm and Hammer to the rescue!

So I am very excited today. I have narrowed my recent itching problem down to one of two things. My Soap or my laundry detergent. I am a cheap bachelor; laundry is very very evil in my world. By the way, my $10 washer and dryer I bought at the D.I. died over Thanksgiving so I finally broke down and bought new ones. I bought the cheapest ones possible in Utah Valley. And I am still light headed at the cost of the “cheap ones”.
So I have felt that my cloths were the big problem with my not so fresh feeling. I buy the cheap Albertson brand detergent, and there is usually some left in the washer when the cycle is done. My clothes just don’t look like they could take a teddy bear falling from the sky and landing in them and then bouncing because of the softness of the clothes. Mine are more like a nice 75 grit sand paper. So today at the Harmon’s I found new dermatologist tested “For Sensitive Skin” Arm and Hammer Liquid soap. So I bought me some. Now I was thinking, the whole muscular arm and the sledge hammer logo does not instill confidence that my clothing is going to be soft, but a dermatologist somewhere tested it. I am going to pull my bed sheets off and do a test wash! I will miss the funky smell that Albertsons soap had, and the new soap does not have any perfume or dyes, so I guess I will have to smell myself all night, but I am hoping that this works. My poor body hates my rough clothes!
I will let everyone know how it goes.

PS Did I mention that my damn furnace died again? You know on the morning that it was 6 degrees at my house. It did, I fixed it myself, because my landlords really have no clue what they are doing.

Official Bikini Inspector

OK, its time all of us bikini inspectors speak out. When I was 13 my whole family went to Hawaii, my grandma bought me a hat that said “Official Bikini Inspector, Waikiki Beach” It was one of those trucker hats that the kids these days were making fun of 5 years ago until Mr Demi Moore started wearing, then Brittany Spears, and now all the kids are. But anyway I got my first call of duty as an inspector of bikinis on Waikiki beach, and let me tell you for a 13 year old, I had not idea what I was inspecting. Well I knew the hat certified me as an OFFICIAL inspector, and I knew that bikinis were on the “taboo” list, so I knew it must be good.
Well I wore that hat to Dixon with honor and pride, and it was not even the cool thing to do wearing nylon mess trucker hats. I even had an “F-Dude” tell me that he thought my hat was cool, which is always much better then getting the crap beat out of you by them.
So the hat lasted a few years, then I just stopped wearing it. It just didi not feel right Being a swimmer by trade, most the girls at swim meets, don’t wear bikinis, and Utah in the 80’s was not exactly a bikini state, so I found no need of flexing my power as a bikini inspector. I felt a deep lose and I was saddened for years.
It was not till years later that I went again with my family to Hawaii and being in my 20’s was completely surprised when someone bought me an “official bikini inspector” shirt. Then I realized why I had stopped wearing the hat, (no not because it was really tacky) It was a Waikiki beach inspector, I had not authority off the beach, it was limiting me in my success as an Official Bikini Inspector. So there I had it, the way to bring the excitement of being an official bikini inspector back into my life. I could be a GLOBAL INSPECTOR, no limitations. I was not bound to Huntington Beach, Northshore, or any other beach. I could inspect bikinis at the outdoor pool in Provo if I wanted to. I could go to raging waters, 7 peaks, ANYWHERE. Oh I beamed with pride over that shirt. I had my power back, I WAS AN OFFICIAL INSPECTOR OF BIKINIS!

Now it has recently come to my attention that some people (Becca) don’t respect my authority! The shirt certifies me, it empowers me, gives me all the rights and respect that any diploma could afford. Now how crushing it is to have someone question me power. Does Becca think that it is easy to inspect bikinis? NO ITS NOT It’s a hard duty, some of them are so small that its hard to inspect, others actually disappear in the back into a void, you think that is easy inspecting? NO. All we are asking is that all you bikini wearers out there give a little respect to your local inspector, and try to make it easy on a dirty old guy. Most of us have very little happiness left.

The Only Reason I blog, a comprehensive list!

So I was excited a few weeks ago when my boss gave me a trip to a shooting club in Mesquite NV for 3 days. Now I know why… He was buying my loyalty, because he knew how busy he was going to make me over the last few weeks, so this is why I have not blogged.

But the 10 reasons I do blog are

10-Every once in awhile my tree house buddy Christian makes a comment
9-Ted
8-Kacy
7-Becca
6-Becca
5-Kacy
4-Ted
3-Becca
2-Kacy
1-Becca, Kacy, Ted