Year of 2010

This is a collection of all my posts on Facebook for the year 2010.

• ...and a happy new year! • School has now begun! I finally have something to do :) • Thank you all for your congradulations :) Спасибо всем за ваша поздравления :) • Green is my favorite color :) • "Character is the substance. Reputation is the shadow" "Life will be glorious, no matter how old you are, only if you're taking care of yourself" - L. Tom Perry • There's nothing like a good winter hike up Stewart Falls :) • "...peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment" -Doctrine & Covenants 121:7 • Oh life... You're always full of mountains to climb, storms to endure, rivers to cross. Of this I am sure. • got 86% on his Prehistoric Life exam! That's passing :) • A rain drop from the sky above, Falls upon the ground below. A seed underneath in soil awaits, A tree in time will surely grown. • ♪♫ through thorny ways leads to a joyful end ♫♪ • Live like you were dieing • My life is such a rollercoaster. It always has been, and it seems like it always will be. • Life is a journey through the wilderness. Without a compass we would be lost. • What is the differnce between liberal education and hands-on experience? Is one more important than the other? Can you gain hands-on experience without first understanding the theory behind what it is your doing? And can you truly understand a concept without seeing and experiencing its effect? • I feel like getting lost in a forest... then finding my way out :) • just enjoyed an amazing 1hr 15min run :) When the Ragnar comes... i'll be ready! • loves being in stake choir :) • woke up, went to school, went home, finished a 4.5 page paper, went to FHE and had delicious soup, chicken, carrots, and cookies :) went home again, bought groceries, printed out a 4.5 page paper (lack of time didn't permit me to print it out earlier, hehe), wrote this message, took a shower, read scriptures, said a prayer, and went to bed. • ♫♪ I love music ♪♫ The right kind of music is enrichment for the soul. The right kind of music lets discovery be full. • Trust in Christ, because he can fix anything. -Ted Gibbons • I thought it was going to be so much harder than it really was... it was a breeze to file my taxes :) www.freetaxusa.com • just ran for an hour up mountains, down roads, through the woods... ;) • Loves running up Provo Canyon :) • One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! She left it dead, and with its head She went galumphing back. • is so excited for general conference! Especially the saturday afternoon session ;) • is listening to Lord of the Rings music. Oh the longing to see that movie again...a LotR marathon even :) • enjoyed conference very much. Especially the Saturday afternoon session, for more than one reason :) • feels poetic...   
  The winds of time flow by  
Sand covers this Earth
Wind blows around in the sky
We are imperfect from birth
  Wind obeys every command
The sand moves unconditionally
The Master rules this land
We should obey freely.
  We should be as the sand.
We should trust His command. • St. George was awesome! Swimming, rappelling, hiking, and more swimming...how much funner can it get? • Just remember: The light at the end of the tunnel may be you. • just enjoyed an amazing and very spiritual performance by the awesome Latter-day Saint Celebration choir :) • thinks that being sick was a waste of time, especially during finals week :/ But I'm glad that it only lasted two days. • "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more" –Dumbledore • "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present." -Babatunde Olatunji • Happy Happy Mother's day :) • The search for a job still continues... • Why does my stomache and lungs hate me when I run only a couple miles at just under 8 min/mile? :S I need to be at 7 min/mile pace by june! • Oh Utah weather... What are we going to do with you? One minute you think it should be 80 degrees in april, then you decide that's too hot, so we get 40 degree snow. I love it, lol :) • just got done watching "Fun with Dick and Jane" while donating Plasma :) $25 for getting pricked and a movie... not a bad deal. • has a sprained foot and is handicaped for a couple days from running :( • is glad his sparined foot is better and is no longer handicaped from running :) • I love running! I love runners!! The Ragnar was awesome!!! • Yesterday was the most fun packed day I have had all year: Softball, Ultimate frisbee, tubing down Provo river, more softball, BBQ, hiking, and fireworks! • went on a 9 mile hike that was only meant to be 4, lol. I love it when that happenes. • just got done doing major reconstruction on my albums :) • The best rain is from a clear sky :) • will by hiking Timpanogos from 3pm to 3am :) I love that mountain! • woke up a few hours ago after a well needed sleep after getting to bed around 4am after hiking Timpanogos. I feel great now :) • almost finished watching the movie "Seven Pounds" while donating plasma. What a depressing movie :S Has anyone seen it? • has been having a very relaxed day just reading, eating, fixing things :) • has a very uneventful day ahead of him. Is anyone doing anything fun today? • Hurray! My phone is alive again! :) • just saw "How to Train Your Dragon" for the second time. I very much love that movie. Nightfurry reminds me of my dog Mandy :) • What is reality? Is it what has happened in the past? Is it what's happening now? Or is it what is possible to happen in the future? I say reality is just as real as the imagination of a little child. • I ran out of gas today... it was quite the adventure. • did 4 climbs today and totaled around 600 ft :) I'd say that's a good day's worth. • Who you are is what you do. What you do is what you think. What you think is what you desire. What you desire is who you are. Who you are is what you do. • I love hiking :) Me and my ward friends just went on a nice hike up to Big Springs up by South Fork.
• The answer lies within.
When doubt flows through my veins,
I trust the present to build my future,
Into mysterious plains,
Where answers lie within.
   What lies within these plains?
Only time can say for sure,
But truth will always win,
And there I will find the cure,
The answer lies within.  
• Just hiked Silver Lake, then went to Iceburg for an amazing burger and fries with awesome friends! :) It was great! • went on an awesome date with an awesome girl :) Tucano's, Rock climbing, shopping... fun stuff. • $37.39 at Aeropostale, and $37.37 at TJI Maxx. If only two of the three shirts I bought at Aeropostale were $0.01 cheaper, lol. • Who knew that carving pumpkins could be so fun • What grows slow grows strong • I need to go to the temple. That will hopefully cure the homesickness I'm feeling today. I just need a break from this world. • We are here on Earth on a reckless vacation away from home. Let us visit home often by attending the temple. • "All we can do is decide what to do with the time that is given." 10 points to whoever can tell me who said this ;) • Hates that sick feeling I had this morning when I woke up, causing me to miss school because I'm afraid it might get worse :S • Ya, it looks like I'm not going to school again :/ I am feeling better than yesterday though • just got a call from a mysterious customer:
"Hello?"
"Ya, Hi. Can I speak to the owner of the Davis business?"
"Umm, this is the Dalley residence"
"Oh... this isn't a restaurant?"
... "Nope, *ltmq* "  • Bring on the beast! I will tackle you to the ground! No book report on a founding father of American politics will survive this battle! • There is a bug named Gubby and he is a creature of peculiar sorts that has traveled many places around the insides of Colby. Gubby has reached the inner core of Colby's brain, the fibers of his muscles, stopped for a short break at Adam's apple inn and is currently residing in his place of birth; Colby's stomach. I know you're not doing too much damage anymore Gubby, but you can't stay in Colby's stomach forever! • Express gratitude often because you never know how soon it'll be too late. -Thomas S. Monson • Jumping in circles, latching her teeth on his arms, Mandy pounces around Colby in the most epic wrestling match of all time! Colby lunges forward thrashing Mandy to the ground! That's 2 to 1 with Colby in the lead! CHOMP! THUD! BASH! KABLAM! Mandy's in the lead with 4 to 3. KERSPLAT! Tackled to the ground Mandy lays under Colby leaving the match with a tie 4 to 4. I think I'll call that good for now, whew. • Feels like doing something crazy and dangerous today... Maybe I'll just go to work • I will be leaving this world for a while. First I will venture to the top of the mountain of Provo temple, then I will explore the mountains of Rock Canyon :) • Has reached the light at the end of the tunnel I've been digging :) I'm not meant to be underground in the darkness of fear and doubt. I'm meant to be above my fears, climbing this mountain to the top! • "You have new updates to install for Adobe Reader"
"ok..." *clicks to install*
"Error 1602 has occured..."
What is this all about? • Oh this could be fun, somebody didn't log off my computer :) • *thinking* Hmm, since my status was abruptly changed by some mysterious being I now need to think of a new status. I wonder what I should write... • What's on my mind, you ask? A few simple words will suffice:
Connection, rain, faith, pain,
Patience, thunder, hope, gain.  
• A diamond in the rough: He sits on his rock looking up at the sky. A year and a half he searched to find his diamond in the rough, only to find out it is locked up in a deep vault secured by a very complicated combination. The only one who knows the combination is in a distant land far away... It's been a very long journey and he needs a break. He will wait here for now, because where another diamond like this one is or how long it will take... he doesn't even want to think about it; it could take years. He would rather wait than go searching for another, because as he was once told, "the things that mean the most to you in life are the things worth waiting for." • needs to stop picking roses that won't bloom in my vase • just got back from Lagoon. Woot! Fun times :) • is finally off the roller coaster... for now, lol • Has finally given up resisting the urge... I have started a blog :) (Legends of Greendom) yablek.blogspot.com. It is still under construction because I started it about 2 hours ago, hehe, but the main idea of my blog will be to tell my story, collect favorite quotes and share some of my writings. You can watch it develop if you want :) • Wow, writing a blog is harder than I thought it would be, lol. I thought I could somehow connect my fantasy world - Greendom - with my life in my blog... but it just doesn't seem to be working out so well... Maybe I'll just stick to the basics and try writing just whatever I feel at the time and see how that goes • Today is a good day :) Not for any reason in particular. I just woke up and thought to myself, "Wow. I feel great!" I wish I could wake up like that every day.   
• ♫ ♪ The works of God continue,
And worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression
Have one eternal round ♪ ♫ -Hymn 184   
• Okay, Super Dragon (that's my computer), if you act up again... I'll... well, actually I don't know what I'll do. I guess I'll just have to fix you... again • Super Dragon, now that you're behaving, tell Mrs. Lexmark (my printer) to get her act together and print my paper... • just felt like I was in Russian again. Apparently the water heater is broken... so I had to take a cold shower :S Lets just say I broke my record shower time, lol. • Why can't it just snow already? Give some rose to the thorn of this bitter cold • got his very first ticket today :/ At least the cop was nice and knocked it down a bit. 25mpg is just SO slow! lol. I guess I need to get use to driving like a turtle now :p • It hurts to swallow and my stomach is talking in a different language again :S On the positive side, I found my flash drive! - it has my semester project and important information on it - I thought someone stole it. Mrs. Lexmark has decided to print paper now - but she still makes me hand feed the paper in... ":/ weird. To top it all with a cherry on top, tomorrow is going to be a fun day :) • I realized there are many ward friends I still haven't added yet on facebook. I just finished :) I'll probably have to do this again in a month seeing how many new members keep coming into the ward, hehe • Blue Jay (my car) is getting old :S I just got done putting in a new starter. Hopefully he won't need anymore repairs, besides new tires, before I get a new car. • Now that my last drawing project is finished I need something else to draw... any ideas? • It's over! It's finished! The 700 page beast of a book lays dead and conquered. As he just stands there, sword still in hand, he sees the monster stir... It's still alive? The beast he thought was dead has now transformed into a 5 page report ready to be slayed... • Woot! I have money :) What? Uhhh... where did it all go? ":/ • Finally finished the journey he started before the 700pg monster came and stalled him. Earthsoul prophecies by Greg Park has lead me back to a part of my world full of the fantasies and wondrous creatures I always long to be with :) • It looks like Gubby is back :S (for all of you who don't remember who Gubby is, he's a pestering bug that thinks he can just come and go as he pleases) • Feels poetic...  
• Spring, summer, winter, fall
All the reasons to be free
And think of the reasons
Change affects us all.
   There is nothing more constant
Than change itself.
Everything in life will never
Stay the same.
   Beauty, color, reason, love,
All the things that bring to life
The joys and seasons we enjoy
And long to experience.
   To everything there is a time.
To nothing there isn't a season.
Come and go are rhyme and reason,
But constant always is progress.  
• loves snow in sunshine :) • I guess all it took was some snow :) Gubby is packing his things to go. The snow is too much for him to handle, lol • Jase Fairimor climbs hellish mountains, fights off demonic beasts, finds himself walking through the depths of hell itself surrounded by a darkness more tangible than light in a pit of eternal dread. It is in this moment that Captain Alleilwin, his faithful Elvish companion, recites this poem to those in the group who are on the edge of giving up the fight:
   Though I walk through a valley shadow,
stalked by despair and hunted by death-
Though I tread the paths of misery
to approach the gates of Hell-
   I'll fear not the harm t'would be done to me. I'll know that all is well.
For I am clothed in righteousness,
Made strong by my faith in Heaven.
  So from this darkness I will rise,
to escape this darkling pain.
Gone shall be the darkness, the misery and pain.
And in the glow of my Lord's light
  I'll freely walk again.
*Greg Park. "Children of Ta'Shaen", Book three of the Earthsoul Prophecies (47) • Take me out, put me in.
Give me relief, give me stress.
I know, Lord, You won't burn me in the fire,
For I know all You are creating
Is silver.
• If satan had a hit list, I'd be on it. But you know what, this is what I'd tell him:
"Come if you must. Come if you may,
But this, my motto you stir up:
You can slash and tear my flesh away,
I will never, ever give up!" • Today is going to be a good day. Why? Because I say so.  
• Live every day like it's your last.
Don't be sad, but learn from the past.
Be grateful for what you have now,
And don't let your dreams be below
What you know is meant to come true. Be all you can be while being you. 
• ran out of gas today on the way to the gas station 5 minutes away :/ Luckily someone jumped out of their car right away and someone from the sidewalk came and helped me push it the rest of the way :) It's nice to know there are always people ready to give a helping hand. • New poem finally finished: Enemy of My Soul • Sitting on a piano bench at institute a girl says to her friend, "Guys are simple. We're complicated." Isn't this the truth? Lol  
• To all my friends and to all my family, 
I wish you all a great day and happy living.
I hope you will be full of much gratitude,
As you enjoy this day of thanksgiving :) • So I'm thinking about getting my snowboarding on. It's gonna take a couple pay checks to get all the gear, but I know it'll be worth it :) • Snow is finally here!! Hehe, no wonder I woke up in a good mood today :) This is more like it. • You will always find misery if you look at the cold side of the situation. If you look at the bigger picture as the snow coats this Earth with a blanket of frost you will see a wonderful winter wonderland :) • Snowboarding coat, check :) Next on the list is a snowboard... • Today I went to school, hung out with a great friend, sung at temple square, and did initiatories at the Salt Lake Temple for the first time. And it was perfect weather. Could today have gotten any better? I submit that it could not! :)  • Snowboard: $65
11 gallons of gas: $30
rent: $50
Wrestling with my dog then chasing her around the yard: priceless  
• So many cartoon profile pics. It brings me back to when I was a kid... not that I still am or anything ;) I will forever be young, lol • Today I took off my coat, got into my car, turned off the heat AND rolled down the window! Can you believe this Utah winter weather? I sure... can, lol. I love Utah weather :) • Colby thinks kaeli is the most awesome person ever!!! No but really. • Since I was sabotaged... yet again... I need to change my status... again, lol. Hmm, what's on my mind? *thinking* ... brownies! I think I'll go eat one :) • I am an uncle again :) • Ok, I'm convinced. Psychic powers do exist... but how does it work? There has to be a logical explination how twins can send messages to each other! • Rain... in December? I've heard of November Rain (a great song by Guns 'N Roses :), but December Rain... no. A better song would be December Frost :) • Holy cow! What a day. I'm glad I made it through alive, lol. • A child lets go of their helieum-filled balloon and starts to cry. You look at him and think, "What's your deal? We can just get you another one." How would you feel if you pulled out your wallet and it started to float away? "AAAHHHHHHH!!! NNNNNNNOOOOOO!!!" What's your deal man? We can just get you another one. • 1 more day!! :) After tomorrow I will be free of school... for a season, haha.  
• Our past has brought us here.
Here is who we are.
Who we are is where we're going.
And where we're going,
Is who we want to be.  
• Off to go Christmas shopping. Wish me luck :) • Jase Fairimore has walked many paths; fighting off demons, crossing bloody paths, and battling against armies of the dead. If there’s one thing he’s learned through all of this, it’s that the true battle lies within himself. It’s better to accept destiny and the path she has for you than try to fight it. For destiny’s battle will always end in misery. • SNOW!! You're back :) • Now I'm walking in a winter wonder land :) • is finally going boarding tomorrow! If anyone wants to come, meet at Sundance at 12pm :) • I was born to run in the summer. In the winter, I am born to snowboard! •

If Today Was Your Last Day

This song from Nickelback always inspires me to think about the things I need to do today, instead of worry about what I need/want to do tomorrow, or what I should/could have done yesterday. Too much we get caught up in our not-wanted pasts and hoped-for futures and forget about the needed todays.

My best friend gave me the best advice.

He said each day's a gift and not a given right.
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind,
And try to take the path less traveled by.

That first step you take is the longest stride.

If today was your last day

and tomorrow was too late

Could you say goodbye to yesterday?

Would you live each moment like your last?

Leave old pictures in the past

Donate every dime you have?

If today was your last day.

Against the grain should be a way of life.

What's worth the prize is always worth the fight.

Every second counts 'cause there's no second try.

So live like you'll never live it twice.

Don't take the free ride in your own life.

If today was your last day

and tomorrow was too late

Could you say goodbye to yesterday?

Would you live each moment like your last?

Leave old pictures in the past

Donate every dime you have?

Would you call old friends you never see?

Reminisce of memories.

Would you forgive your enemies?

Would you find that one you're dreamin' of?

Swear up and down to God above

That you finally fall in love.

If today was your last day.

If today was your last day

Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart?

You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars

Regardless of who you are.

So do whatever it takes

'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this life.

Let nothin' stand in your way

Cause the hands of time are never on your side.

If today was your last day

and tomorrow was too late

Could you say goodbye to yesterday?

Would you live each moment like your last?

Leave old pictures in the past

Donate every dime you have?

Would you call old friends you never see?

Reminisce of memories

Would you forgive your enemies?

Would you find that one you're dreamin' of?

Swear up and down to God above

That you finally fall in love

If today was your last day.

Enemy of My Soul

Approaches, the enemy of my soul.

Sword in hand I prepare to fight.

Lunges forward, the adversary of my soul

To send my spirit to the darkness of the night.

CHING! CLASH! BASH! SHANK!

Pierces my skin, the master of the night.

He steps back as I observe the wound.

The enemy thinks he has won the fight.

Lunging at him I strike. CHING!

He blocks my attack as I keep up the fight.

This adversary will never win the battle.

For I will fight with all my might!

CHING! STAB! PUSH! CLASH!

Striking down the enemy, I thrust

My Sword of Righteousness, THRASH!

The enemy falls to the ground, like he must.

I turn away and start to walk away,

Thinking I have won the war.

I see movement and hear him say,

“I am stronger than you! I have more power!”

At first I fought a man with cunning ways.

Now I face a monster that won’t ever stop.

At first I thought evil could be defeated.

Now I know my sword must never drop.

The CHING of battle must always be heard.

As long as I live, so does the master of the night.

Every sunrise will always be followed by a sunset.

Every day will always be followed by night.

Tho’ I get beat down, and torn apart,

My soul will forever endure the call.

Tho’ the enemy of my soul will never depart,

My Sword of Righteousness will never fall.

Welcome to Wherever You Are

I always love this song whenever I listen to it. It always applies to my life in so many ways.

Welcome to Wherever You are
by Bon Jovi

Maybe we're all different, but we're still the same.

We all got the blood of Eden running through our veins.

I know sometimes it's hard for you to see.

You're caught between just who you are and who you want to be.

If you feel alone and lost and need a friend,

Remember every new beginning is some beginning's end.

  

   Welcome to wherever you are.

   This is your life, you've made it this far.

   Welcome, you got to believe

   That right here, right now

   You're exactly where you're supposed to be.

   Welcome to wherever you are.

When everybody's in and you're left out,

And you feel you're drowning in the shadow of a doubt.

Everyone's a miracle in their own way.

Just listen to yourself, not what other people say.

When it seems you're lost, alone and feeling down,

Remember everybody's different, just take a look around.

   Welcome to wherever you are.

   This is your life, you've made it this far.

   Welcome, you got to believe

   Right here, right now,

   You're exactly where you're supposed to be.

Be who you want to be.

Be who you are.

Everyone's a hero.

Everyone's a star.

When you want to give up and your heart's about to break,

Remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.

   Welcome to wherever you are.

   This is your life, you've made it this far.

   Welcome, you got to believe

   Right here, right now

   You're exactly where you're supposed to be,

And I say welcome.

I say welcome.

Welcome.