Wheel of the World

ok.

im making a new years resolution...2 weeks late. to update at least twice a week.

they probably wont be very fun...haha. all i do nowadays is fill out crappy government forms so i can live in belguim and the netherlands for 2 years. and that sure is fun...

not.

so, im really obsessed with american idol, especially the ones that even i feel awkward for them...oh, but what fun it is! and just the whole music competition, is just so, fun to watch! lemme expand on my feelings.

so, as many of you know, last year, me and my daddio went down to california, (much to lakes displeasure) and i auditioned for this reality tv show called "high school musical: get in the picture". it was some good times. waiting in endless lines in blistering heat with a whole bunch of teens. what fun! so we drove for like....12 hours straight from SLC! it was some good times, and we arrived at our destination at like...5am. we were about in the halfway point in the line. so this competition was kinda vague on what it was all about, what we did know though was that the winner was going to become the next member of the "HSM" family. but it would be some sort of singing/dancing competition. so, i like to think i can sing, and if i was terrible my dad sure wouldnt have drivin 12 hours to take me there...haha, im not the best but im not tone def for sure. but, as many, many of you know, i am 100% white boy, i cannot dance, even the amazing mr. mcclellan said i was his hardest subject to teach to dance when i was Ryan in HSM(i have some vids on facebook and youtube if you wanna see my "dancing"). so, that would be an adventure. so back to the story. we got in line, and there was another guy my age right next to me in line, named Jacob Haren. and oh my, we became fast friends. it would have sucked being in those lines without him! we talked and sang and just had a good time! ( OH MY GOSH JACOB! ITS NICK LACHEY!!) hahahah, oh man good times! so when it finnaly got to audition time, we sang to some girl (there were all sorts of these "booths" with people in them that you sang at and auditioned. so got to my station and sang some songs, and so did the other 2 that were in my little group. one guy got through, and me and the other girl did not. i guess i just wasnt what they were lookin for!! its a thing that you can be good, but if you dont fit a profile you are a no-go. and thats how american idol kinda all plays into this.

i have heard alot of people talk about the process, where there are some who have incredible voices, and will be turned down just so some horrible person can be on the show instead. so, not only do you have to be good, its also just a load of luck! no ill feelings about not makin it! jacob made it through the first 3 rounds i think...oh, and he also played ryan in HSM on stage, so pretty much we are the coolest. haha.

i was sad i didnt audition for american idol when they came to slc, i mean, i could have walked to the auditions...but i just...didnt. and i have my mission coming up so maybe in 2..or 3 years!!

speakin of my mission, ok. so i havent blogged since i got it...wow.

im bad at blogging.

so, if you didnt know, i got my mission call to the Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission Dutch speaking!! so now im just working on getting my visa so i can live there...haha. i leave for the MTC (missionary training center) April 22, go into the field june 23rd, and come home April 27 2011. so i will be gone for 2 years and 5 days. or 735 days.

for those who arent LDS(mormon) or familiar with them, a mission is where i will act as a representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and i will go out and preach the restored gospel as we belive, and i will do this for 2 years. you are always with your companion, another missionary, and it is just an awesome thing! any questions just ask!

so i am super pumped for that. and im really excited to learn dutch. it is such a knarly language! i hope i can get it down!

right now, im listening to Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift. what a GREAT combo! man i would marry any of them witout hesitation...mostly taylor, shes my age. and so attractive! man, i cant handle how attractive she is...

i got skype. so skype me. brady.macarthur

so in the next little while, i am going to go to cali (for real this time) and visit jacob, and alec. so if your in, lemme know. we should do it soon, while gas is cheap!

so, i am here for 3 more months here. if anyone wants to hook me up on a date or 2, lemme know! haha (i know jacob does...!!haha)

i got a new electric razor to shave my peach fuzz. i am very excited about this.

man, my blog is more lame then...not exciting things...haha, i tried to come up with something clever, and it failed. as you well know.

i lost the game.

whipped cream(dont ask)

so now i will leave you with this.

Oktober overvalt ons ieder jaar
We kijken naar elkaar, naar een overvolle zomer
En we zijn alweer veranderd
Maar het voelt niet meer vertrouwd
Nu we plotseling beseffen dat wij onszelf niet zijn
In oktober
Oktober is de wreedste maand oktober
Met de dingen die voorbij gaan maar wel ergens blijven hangen
Ze komen steeds weer bij ons terug
Ergens in oktober
Oktober overvalt ons ieder jaar
We blijven bij elkaar na een veel te korte zomer
En we zijn alweer veranderd, niet ten goede of ten kwade
Maar veranderd niettemin
In oktober
Oktober is de wreedste maand oktober
Met de dingen die voorbij gaan maar wel ergens blijven hangen
Ze komen steeds weer bij ons terug
En meestal in oktober
Meestal in oktober

lyrics to the song "Oktober" by the band BLØF

until next time!

-ducky

Because Every Pretty Girl Deserves To Go To A Ball....

hi

im sorry. i told you all i was going to post again super soon.

i didnt.

my bad.

so anyways, i dont really have much to say.

thats actually a lie. so first off, im just waiting for his mission call! its so crazy that just a few people get to decide where i go for 2 years of my life! crazy. but most likley i will get it on christmas eve! how cool is that?! i am super excited.


i love snow. more than kids love santa, and anthony loves batman. really, its the best stuff in all the land! and yesterday on the radio they said we were supposed to get 4-6 MORE inches. all it has done today is been warm enough for the snow to melt and snowed barely enought to stick to my car. booo.

so good news. my little nephew and fam are coming in town tomorrow morning!! hallajluah! to see them go to their blog! they are under my friends as april danny mason or something like that...

my phone broke. im very sad about this. why couldent it have just waited till right before my mission? instead of a few months before it. lame! but my dad got the new blackberry storm from work, and heather got it from santa early, and so i got my dads old motorola Q. it is ok, but it has the WORST battery life ever. i was on pandora for like 1 hour and the batt was almost dead already.

so currently i am at my place of employment, looking out at the shop, seeing how i need to clean the floors. but im blogging instead. haha, ill get it done. but probably not till the last second.

i really wanna go to the peter breinholt concert, but i dunno if i can. it is at 730, i get off work at 7, but...i doubt there are tickets left and i have no one to go with. oh well i guess.

and i am aware this is a lame post. get over it. haha

oh, and im going to marry taylor swift. she doesnt know it yet, but she will....she will....

Absolutley Zero

so i usually hate these, but i read someones and it was super funny. so ill give it a shot.

1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. The Name of the song is your answer!
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 15 friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.

1.IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Everybody!

2.WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Mobile

3.WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Last Living Souls

4.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Hamoa Beach

5.WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Did you get my message?

6.WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Won't go home without you

7.WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
The Great Divide

8.WHAT IS 2+2?
Celebrity

9.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
No son of mine

10.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Gypsies in the palace

11.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Dreams come true

12.WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Redneck Rhythm & Blues

13.WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Lovers Live Longer (haha!)

14.WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
A Home

15.WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
And She's True

16.WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
You Win, I Win, We Lose

17.WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Two Days in February

18.WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
The Dutch Courage

19.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Everything

20.WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Running out of days

21.HOW WILL YOU DIE?
With or without you

22.WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Yellow

23.WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Do i have to say the Words?

24.WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Angry

25.WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
National Working Womans Holiday

26.WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Tiny Daggers

27.DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Broadway

28.IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Not A Moment too soon

29.WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Sun

30.WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
AbsolutelyZero


ok, so some worked super well, and some are just dumb. haha.

well, ill do a real post tonight, i have a few things i wanna blog'bout. but i have to go clean the house, my sis and her best friend are comin in town tomorrow night!

And Maybe.....Well, I Dont Know.....

Now playing: Citizen Cope - Brother Lee
via FoxyTunes

ok guys, here i am like i promised! so i seriously need to blog more. i feel lame if i dont. so i will try to.

so good i haven't even started, and i dont even know what to talk about.....

well, Christan bennett is finally starting up his bluegrass band, which freakin excites me like you can imagine. being in a bluegrass band is like....a dream come true! hahaha. so i am very pumped for that!

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Now playing: The Weepies - Dating A Porn Star
via FoxyTunes
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ok, random pet peeve i just realized. its something ppl have started doing, as in girls. pretty much making at least one word in every sentence a completely crazy color. ahhhh! i dunno why it bugs me, but i would think it would be a huge pain to do, and it makes me forget what im reading, and sometimes its a color that blends with the background and you just have no idea what it says. its a bummer.

so i saw the dark knight for a second time a fes days ago with good ole' chloe. man that movie is so freakin incredible. it was for sure better the 2nd time! oh, and we watched juno again, and that definatly ranks up very high in my favorite movies.

so i am going to provo on saturday to visit bekah and the rest of the provo people, so if any of you would like to come, gimme a jingle and your in! ill take the space van, so i can take 6 others. lemme know!

so i am obsessed completely with peter breinholt. if you dont know him, i pity you. oh my, he is so incredible, i just....could never sick of him! so amazing! so you all have an assignment, to go and listen to him. he has a few songs on youtube, go look at'em.

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Now playing: Peter Breinholt - Birken Street
via FoxyTunes
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oh, and random, but one of my favorite christmas songs i have found is "bring a torch jeannette isabella". i dunno why, but peter breinholt sang it on his christmas cd, and it is so incredible, and has made me fall in love with that song.

so, this has so far been a very lame post.

im truly sorry.

this is how lame i am.

i was going to tell you all a story, but i dont really want to. i am bad at typing on my keyboard. ya know? this is just one keyboard i am not so good at. anywho, i am just going to tell you all the story of bopalopaskiwhompsado, a story that i told sam in like....8th grade. its quite a masterpiece.

one time, there was a sqwirl ( love the spelling). this sqwirls name was bopalapaskiwhampsado. one day, he was hang gliding. he was just about to go for a second flight, when he saw an hippo that was just about to jump off to hang glide aslo, but his glider was smaller than bopalapaskiwhampsado's!!!! so bopalapaskiwhampsado ran as fast as he could to stop him, but he was too late. bopalapaskiwhampsado jumped after him, determined to save the poor hippo. the hippos glider ripped apart, and he started to scream! bopalapaskiwhampsado used the force, and lifted the hippo back to saftey. but right then, bopalapaskiwhampsado relized that he didnt have the force, nor did anyone, so the hippo started to fall again! he didnt know how he lifted him how far he did, but bopalapaskiwhampsado went into a steep dive to catch up with the hippo. when he got there, he relized it was his mom, just disgised in a helium filled hippo suit, and she was sreaming because she broke a nail on the bar she was holding on to. so after that whole catastrophe, bopalapaskiwhampsado was very mad at his mom for wasting a jump for her. so got he back to the top, and jumped. he was soring through the sky, when he got hit by lightnig, and went tumbling towards the ground. this confused bopalapaskiwhampsado becuase they lives on planet shmerp where clouds, let alone lightning, did not exsit. once he relized this, he started to fly again after the non-exsistant lightning had struck him, who knows why. after all of the confusion, he hadent been paying attention, so hit a flying pig, and fell to the ground. he ran home to tell his mom what a day he had, but then relized that his mom was out hangliding, and probably had seen his day. so he went to go tell his best friend peachakingabellafeenabopalopsk

i about it, but found he was supergluing himself to the celing, to see how strong it was. so bopalapaskiwhampsado said he would come back another day to tell him about his day. bopalapaskiwhampsado was sad. he had no one to tell about his day. so he invented a magic lamp that, when rubbed, a magic genie would come out and do everything you told it to. but, the genie rebelled, and would only give him three wishes. he asked for a pet catipiller ( which tragicly died in a ant ambush the next day), a ice cream cone (he forgot to wish it WITH ice cream on it) and a new friend for him to tell his life story to. he gave him the new friend, and dissapeared. but sadly, the friend was only imaginay, the genie made him think he had a new friend. bopalapaskiwhampsado sad on the curb. suddenly, he started to float away like a ballon. sadly, he was never seen again!

tomorow, i will tell you all a new original story. but no promise it will be good....haha.
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Now playing: Peter Breinholt - A Call I Hear
via FoxyTunes
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um....what else to say....i dunno, but as promised, another grand poem...haha

i wrote this one on the bus ride home from trek many a years ago.

endless plains of dust and sage
hold the secrets of our past
to our begining
and their bitter end
these pioneer plains they suffered in

with few belongings and little food
they left with little handcarts
off to Zion
not knowing where
the endless plains would lead them

the journy was long and nearly futile
yet they held their heads high and pushed along
hundreds sick
many dead
the relentless plains cant take them

they reached their goal
with strong hearts and minds
well worth their perseverance

Copyright ©2008 Brady Richard MacArthur

well, till next time!

oh, and i liked the idea of the random fact.

so here is one of mine
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i LOVE blueberries. fresh blueberries are probably my favorite food of all time. they make me weep with joy. hahaha. i love them oh oh so much! so if you want to make me a very happy person, fresh blueberries are the way to go. or kumqwats. haha
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I PROMISE...

to update my blog tommorow.

IM MOVING TO TAHITI!

wow, now that we are going to have a pretend president, i must say....

im leaving the country.

ok, so not really, but now i wanna go outta state for my mission oh oh so much more. i mean, the man scares me. really.

oh i feel the change in the air. its all around. i feel the change, and it is making me want to cry in a corner.

Change is all we will have once obama is though. and man do i hate pennies.

ok, maybe im being harsh. i mean, i really hate it when our country spends more time hating against our leader instead of actually doing something to change what they dislike. when they all just hate on the president, and then sit there hoping it will change. so i will support him, but i sure wont agree with him.

Im a Republican, because not everyone can be on WELFARE

more on my title later. i saw it on a bumper sticker, and liked it...

ok. well i know, i was doin pretty good at updating, but then that last post made me wait to update, cuz i wanted to see how many comments it would get....hahah

so about that, i did NOT write that post. i was logged onto blogger at anthonys house and he wrote it. so i hope that clears up a few things...

ok, so i wanna write a song. really bad. but i have a problem, i cant really play the guitar or banjo well enough to be able to sing along at the same time. so ill just kinda sing something to myself in my head. so i stayed up late like 2 weeks ago, and i had some pretty awsome lyrics goin down, and good tune and all. but wait! i realized halfway through, that i was pretty much singing "chicken fried" by the zac brown band with different lyrics and a slightly different beat. so that was sad. so ill keep workin on it and update you as i go along. i wish i was like alec, who can write an awsome song on a whim...any of you out there in blogger land that have ever written a song, what works best for you?

so shippy is gone. and i didnt get to say goodbye....tear

but, grahamn is here!! yes!! man i have missed that kid. good times with him. if you dont know grahamn, try harder! he is incredible.

ok, so not much has happend since my last post. i did go to Tennessee finnally tho! and it was incredible. ill do a post on that later with photos and all.

so the song bowl of oranges just came on my shuffle. and wow, i forgot how much i love this song. its by bright eyes for those who dont know, and if you dont then go and look it up!! but this song....wowsa, it brings back so many memories. of highschool, jocelyn (it was on a mix of hers), christmas, and a certain bus ride to a swim meet. oh man, good times. go listen to this song, its so happy and good.

so i taught myself taylor swifts love story on the banjo. so ladies, if you ever wanna sing it, i got your back.

so for all those who love a good laugh, my house, monday sometime, we are going to watch hot rod or maybe juno. so tell me if you wanna come. i just may have some pizza too....might....

oh movies. for all those who enjoyed juno, i HIGHLY recomend Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist! i thought it was freakin incredible. about some kids looking for their drunk friend that wandered away in the heart of new york, while they try to find fluffy, an incredible hard to find band. so so so so so good.

ok, no a shout out. to audrey rotormund (spelling? sorry...) haha, but i got an honesty box comment, and i think it came in august sometime, and my facebook didnt tell till like monday, and they said " i dunno if audrey wanted you to know, but you should really go and read her last post" and the person has not responded to me after that. so i am really confused. audrey, any help on this would be awsome....haha

so guess what. i think this is one of the few times that i really, truely, and 100% do not like anyone. crazy. this hasnt happend for quite sometime!! and lemme say, its odd, cuz i freakin LOVE it, but at the same time i really hate it, i like liking someone also. but its good, now i dont have to deal with denial again....and again....and again....haha. oh well, i guess its a good thing but i dunno.

just kidding. i have a huge crush on taylor swift. hahah. not like thats new....man she is so attractive....

so jas just got her wisdom teeth out. good times. im going to bring her a chocolaty minty shake from shivers, cuz thats the thing that she wanted!

so if you didnt notice, my facebook profile picture is of bridgit. its funny.

so i also noticed that all of my paragraphs...no, all of my Points of interest start with "so"

anywho, i just lost the game. but on a lighter note, i again want you all to go to my sisters blog, its the second link under my friends, and look at how freakin cute my nephew is.

so on a final note, ill be like anthony, and say something that alot of people will disagree with...

so in tennessee, my sister heather was in some crazy politics class of somesort, and she was arguing with her BF about socilized medicine ( she did a paper on it) , like obama wants. in like canada and france and stuff, their income tax, because of the socilized medicine, is 80%!! thats right folks, 80 freakin % of your total income. and ya, it probably wouldent be that knarly with obama, but still, tax is the only way to pay for things like that. and people just love taxes. second, in canada where they have socilized medicine, a man went to the emergency room for some knarly pain in his abdomen, and he wasnt deemed inportant enough, and died from a bladder infection after waiting in the EMERGENCY room for 34 HOURS! by the time they had seen him, he was dead and rigor mortis had already set in. wowsa. see the story here. they take people as they come, and doctors will not get paid NEARLY as much money, and they will have a regular work schedule. its just not good at all.

so in short, its not that i just dont like obama, but i truley am scared that he will win. SCARED. and he says you can keep your current health care plan if you like it. but thats not gong to chage what it will be like at the hospital or doctors or whatever. and i will still have to pay for everyone elses healthcare, which i really dont want to do, because we are already paying for the lazy craps that are living on welfare.

im done! until next time kids!

and as promised, another poem, but sadly im outta my good ones...haha

Conflicting Emotions

a beautiful girl in an ugly world
lost amiss the chaos
wanting so bad someone
she can confide in
but conflicting emotions
will never let her go

she stumbles through a haze
of memories and desires
unable to discern what
path may lie ahead
now only time will tell
what love this chaos can bring