ALMOST Famous

Upon waking in my bed this morning I remembered that it was General Conference Weekend!
O what a glorious weekend it is!!


I quickly turned on my new MacBook and began watching live on lds.org.
I had missed the first two speakers or so, but I caught most of the action. (If you can call it action.)
This made me reflect on a time that I was actually IN General Conference and sang in the Conference Center.  I bet you didn't know that I did that, huh?  Well I did!
Let me tell you about it...

In the 2005-2006 school year I was a student at the University of Utah located in the somewhat beautiful Salt Lake valley.  While there I was in a show choir called Encore!  While in this choir it was expected of us to sing, dance, and entertain for the many crowds that gathered to see us do so.  It was a jolly good time, I assure you.
I also partook in Institute at the UofU Institute!  I met a lot of great people while there and in my show choir.
BUTSPENSERWHATDOESTHISHAVETODOWITHANYTHING?!
Calm down.  I'm getting there.
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Where was I?
Oh ya...
During the April 2006 conference the UofU Institute and the Orem Institute created a combined choir that was privileged to sing during the Priesthood session of conference.
I, being the singing beast that I am, partook in this choir!
and so I got to sing on the stand where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir usually sings, and got to be less than 50 feet away from a Prophet of God.  It was quite amazing!


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All of this is what I reflected on this morning when I woke up, and so I began a search for the video of us singing our couple songs.
AND TO MY SURPRISE I ACTUALLY FOUND ONE!
Strangely enough it had only been uploaded about 7 months ago!
And so I will also post it on our video section.
I will post the one song that you are actually able to see me in and I will make a challenge:  If you can find me, and show me, or post a comment that indicates that you actually know where I am, not just a generic comment that says "YOU ARE IN THE PICTURE, OMGLOLZ!!!1!11"
I'll even give you a hint: Look around 42 seconds in and around 2:27.  You will see me, I promise.  Even if you don't know that you are seeing me.


That's all, really.  Nothing else to update! :)

~Sp-ecial


P.S. Can I also just add a little note on the bottom here?
OF COURSE I CAN!
It disturbs me a little bit that when I check where the traffic for this blog is coming from, the second source is apparently a news story about a "man arrested raping little sister using housecat as sex toy."
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What on Earth are you people looking at before stumbling upon this?!

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So, you remember that one time I posted from an iPad?  Those days are in the past...and they sucked.

Was it fun being able to touch everything and interact with it and make it go without the medium of a keyboard?  SURE!  But now I have a more reliable source of blogging goodness.

I finally gave in to my carnal desires and am the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro.

I am a PC guy.  Always have been, PROBABLY always will be.  Unless for some reason you have to sell your soul to Steve Jobs because he bought out, and is now running with an iron first, the pearly gates.

Anyway, I like it.  It's fun.  It's sexy. (and yes, sexual attractiveness IS something that I value in a computer.  No one wants a Mac2.  NO ONE.

Anyway, so like I promised, now that I have a more reliable source of typing (that fully understands the internet and that I want a break when I hit enter instead of having to go back and manually enter in < br > to every place I wanted a break.)YESTHATREALLYHAPPENED

I wil now post more regularly!...also due to my over-abundance of free time.

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Related to that whole "free" time thing, I really wanted to pick up FInal Fantasy IX right where I left off last August.  The problem is that I was having a lot of fun watching daytime Cable television and playing Plants vs. Zombies, so I didn't get to it until last night.

TURNSOUTLEAVINGFINALFANTASYALONEFORALONGPERIODOFTIMEISNOTAGOODIDEA.

Upon returning to this mystical land, I was lost, confused, and entirely useless when it came to managing my HORDES of items and collectable goodies.

This quickly wore off, however.

After 30 minutes I was back to micromanaging every plot twist* and random encounter* like a pro!  It was fun, and I may have played until almost 4 in the a.m.  I also may have wanted to play really badly tonight, but told myself I would lie in bed instead and post this.

That's right.  I am currently lying in my bed typing this.  In my pajamas.

in bed.

How does that make you feel?  Knowing that I am currently thinking about you reading this while I am laying horizontally in a place of so much pleasure and goodness?

*In case you know nothing of Final Fantasy, these two elements are staples of JUST about every Final Fantasy game ever made.

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There is nothing to report on the lady front.

As far as I'm concerned, the enemy doesn't even know there is a battle on that front.  They didn't even show up!

My men are on the front lines, squandering in their fox holes, pooping in BUCKETS, and there isn't even an enemy on the other side of the field.

Talk about sad warfare.
If love is a battlefield, my soldiers are going to start killing each other out of boredom soon.

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So...

The other day Mike-al Jordan and I, Young Speasy, were in a male beauty pageant.  It was exciting.  Not TOO exciting...but enough to create a sense of non-monotony in my life.
I will post a video of a certain part of it as soon as I am done writing this post.

DON'TWORRYIDON'TPUKEORANYTHINGINIT

ok.

i lied.

I DO puke.

But it's all in the good name of fun, right?

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It is VERY much my bedtime now.  I am sleepy.

and therefore it is my bedtime.

~Sp-ine Tingling

Ace Dan 2012

Aw yeah, ninjas! You KNOW I ain't dead!! Ha HA!!
That's right, I'm back from the dead. And by dead I actually mean just silent on this blog.
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Random note, I'm watching Conan right now and the musical guest is Macy Grey...
WHAT?
When did she become relevant, again? I can't hear her name without thinking of saying good-bye and choking or walking away and stumbling.
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Look over there! It's a bright and shiny change of subject!!
(give yourself +9 to agility if you ACTUALLY just looked somewhere other than your computer screen)
(give yourself +7 to virginity if you actually just marked THAT down somewhere)
I can neither confirm nor deny the fact that I may or may not be sitting on a toilet while typing this very thing... BUT I can confirm that whatever I'm doing right now makes B-rizzle proud.(Ya! It's totally time for nicknames, again!! Aren't you excited?!)
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So, I know jut what you're thinking. Which right now is "How on earth does he know what I'm thinking?" but right before that you were thinking "Sp-ectre Vision, what have you been doing with your life?"
Which I must admit, Sp-ectre Vision is kind of a silly nickname. No points for Gryffindor.
Well, let me tell you what I've been doing!
I spent the entire last semester working. Instead of schooling...it sucked. While I somewhat enjoyed the time to NOT be in school, I hated going to work everyday. Well, I hated driving everyday to a job that definitely didn't pay enough to be driving to it everyday.
I digress.

Um...

Where was I going with this?

Oh yes. I was describing my life...
Life was good.
Except not so much.
I totally got screwed out of a break during the holidays, ultimately stealing me away from my family. So I went into the next 3 months of work ultimately knowing that the end of my time with Best Buy was near. That I would have to end soon so that I could spend some time at home with my family!

PERFECT SEGUE

That takes me to where I am RIGHT now!
Well, somewhat. Not EXACTLY where I am now...because I am sitting on my couch in my basement. Watching Conan.vtyping this.

But I'm home in Minnesota with my family. Jobless. But so very happy.
With a bowl of ice cream next to me. Actually...it's an empty bowl of ice cream. So really, it's just an empty bowl...that used to have ice cream in it.
Wow, that took too much work.
Why can't you just understand me the first time...we have communication problems.

MANIAMEASILYDISTRACTED
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Being home, I have a bone to pick with all those people I know out at school who have not ONE but TWO X-Chromosomes. That's right, you, women.
I have now attended the school of my choice for 11 months. And I have gotten nothing.
Don't act like you don't know what I mean.
Not so much as a peck on the cheek.
Nada.
Zip.
Nothing.

ON THE CONTRARY...
I am home in Minnesota for less than 12 hours and I get not only one, but TWO kisses!
And so I pose the question "what's up with that??"
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Man...I just keep getting distracted. It really make me lose steam for posting.
It's a good thing that I basically got everything I needed to say off of my chest. At least that I can remember...
If I think of more I need to say later I will say it! Don't even think I won't.

~Sp-end Time Not Money