Whoop Whoop, Semster Close to Finished

So the semester comes to an end. Let’s look at this rationally, school never ends there’s always something else to study one last paper or project that you are trying to rush to finish. You pull all nighters drinking Red Bull and eating Funions because that all you have time to go get at the gas station. Its alright because this is what we sign up for as students, professors were there they want us to experience what they did continuing the pressures to perform. It’s a illustration of the real world, the boss man asking you to do a presentation the day you plan to leave for a wedding anniversary and your kids running a fever and your dog ran away. The pressures of life don’t slow down, time just seems to speed up. All of this makes you realize how nice it was when you were young playing outside no cares in the world. It makes you appreciate the good time and look and say maybe that wasn’t so bad.

Cherokee People Cherokee Pride!!!!!!

Cherokee…North Carolina by far one of those places that is in the middle of nowhere. Why can I say that well because in order to get cell phone reception you have to sit on you head, while whistling a folk song and touching you nose. It was bad and there was no place to eat, besides big bobs and backwoods burger. There was an Indian casino which we couldn’t go into to get the buffet because everyone on our team was not 21, come on no wonder there not making any money. Well the trip itself was successful. We were able to take a sweep from Western Carolina and boost our teams RPI rating up to number 13 in the nation. That is not too shabby. I hope that we can continue the good play and make it to the regional tournament which as of right now we are project to make it in the final 5 picks of the 64. All of this doesn’t change the fact that we were in the middle of nowhere. Oh well it was worth it to get further behind in school.

Hunny? Honey? Moon?

So the groom’s job is to make sure there is a place to go for the honeymoon. So why it is so hard to find a place that is affordable. I have a theory on this. That is most people that are getting married are older graduated and have been working in their job for a few years. This marital economy knows that this is the niche market and milks them for all they are worth. Now the people who really get in trouble are the poor BYU couples who don’t have the time and have morals of non cohabitation that they can’t wait till they are 32 to get married. So back to the honeymoon, why they are so expensive as well as having so many choices, this one has that, that one has this. None of these resorts or hotels have offers the same as other offers or discounts or times available. It’s all one big conspiracy to me.

World Baseball

So we are here in San Diego and are here between games. We as a team got the opportunity to go to the World Baseball Classic. The two teams that were playing were Japan and Cuba. It was a great opportunity to see different cultures play the sport I love. Some of the amusing moments of the game were watching the Japanese fans cheer, they had all sorts of chants and balloons they would blow up it was crazy hearing all the unison of the cheers for their favorite players. The Cuban fans on the other hand were flat out crazy. They had drums, trumpets, marachas as well as every other type of noise making device. They played and banged all game without stopping which was amazing in on itself. It got annoying towards the end of the game but none the less entertaining. I did get a ball from one of the players in the Japanese bullpen and had front row seats down the right field line. It was great getting to spend an evening seeing something I would not otherwise had the opportunity to do if we were not playing in San Diego.

Study Study for what? Not Sucess

So life in the fast lane continues to get more and more exciting. By that I mean missing more class every week as the semester continues. Have you ever tried to take a test that you missed half of the material and had to teach yourself? No, I have. It’s a great and wonderful feeling leaving the testing center getting miserable grades. I just love it. So baseball continues, class continues the endless war between coach’s demands and teachers demands. There are sleepless nights of trying to get your exhausted mind and body to move, to think, to study. Then when all is done, you think you’re ready to take the leap to take the test. The last day even paying your 5 buck late fee, you sit down confident read the first question and there it is a blank mind the light bulb burned out and you’re sitting there staring at the paper thinking oh, JUNK this is going to suck.

BYU BASEBALL

I am so tired of not winning close games. Our team has so much potential yet we cannot find the secret receipt to finish the games off. We so far have six losses and four are by one run. This is so frustrating. I think that our team has the ability to make it to the regionals and World Series if we can win these close games. I don’t think it has to do with coaching motivation or anything that the opposing team is doing. I think that we as a team need to decide that we are not going to lay off the pressure on the other team. We are going to win every inning, every out and make every game as if it’s the last of the season. I think our teams should be worried about the team winning not the individual. When we can accomplish this I we can finish the season on the right note.

Sickly PART 2

So sick again, this is going to be a long run. So this past week I found out that not only am I sick with unholy phlegm disease (aka death cold) as well as a staph infection in my leg. All of this hits me while we are playing games every week. The end is never there, I feel better then it hits again. I got to fight this sickness as well as an infection. I am doing the best I can as well as I seeing a doctor to get medication. I hope that I can soon feel better, though I don’t know how long it could take seeing that we are traveling a lot lately. Airports have lots of illnesses around I hope that I don’t get anything else while my immune system is torn down. Well until then its drugs and coughs, oh well, I’ll live to see another day.

So this week has been an exciting one for the fiancé and I. I mean that in she is one of the most accident prone people I have ever met. I don’t know if that is a foreshadowing for the rest of our life but I would sure hope not. First she hurt her shoulder when we were horsing around, that was exciting because I got blames, probably somewhat my fault. The rest of the week though I am free from guilt. At work she proceeded to have a stool fall on to her toe and possibly break it. Today though she decided when we were leaving for church she wanted to try to walk on ice with stilettos this didn’t work our good as to that she fell and scraped her hand and her side. I know, I think to myself should I stay with a person this likely to make foolish decisions as to walk on ice like that? I just can’t help it she is just so darn cute.

If assets really = dividends?

So I realized the other day that in a way college is the biggest waste of time ever. Not the overall experience of college but some classes in particular. There are classes that are supposed to make you well rounded in knowledge. I know I need to know Mozart and Chopin as well as the famous painting of the 1500-1900. Come on really? How is that going to further myself in life if I needed to know that I would Google it. Isn’t that funny Google is a verb. Ok so what am I really mad about? I’m PO’d about the fact that I studied over 30 hours for an accounting test, knew the material as well as how to do the problems and still got a 52. Sucks I know, why professors must persist to put information they don’t teach you on test and quizzes. Is it because they had the same experience when they were student? How about make students have the desire to learn not smack them in the face for the effort. I feel that this just frustrates students more and discourages them from studying hard the next time. This is solely my opinion and in fact biased at the moment because of my recent grade. The good thing is teachers deep down want you to fail that’s why they invented the CURVE.

The sick get candy

What happens when you mix disease with the human body? I’ll tell you, lots of sleep and a whole lot of phlegm. I know, to descriptive, well its true how can someone who is so healthy get sick? It’s because when you’re around a team of 35 guys all the time you because a breading ground for infestation within the clubhouse. I know, I know why didn’t I take my vitamin C, and get better sleep? It wouldn’t have mattered. Well, the thing is that while in college you have to balance so many different activities, church, school, sports, friends that you can’t possible go to bed at 10:30 like you body wants. Teachers assign projects that are more important than the other teachers. So they assign more homework so that you will know what it feels like to want to choke down the feelings of stabbing your eyes out with your pen. I know an exaggeration a bit, but still when you’re sick your sick. You want to sleep but school and life impede that. Hh well life moves on a few Dayquil and Nitequil at a time.

The Great Hudini

The economy is in dismal times. That is not obvious enough huh. So this week we got a new president wooohh hoooo, now were are all going to be saved by our new great leader of CHANGE. If that isn’t the biggest load of manure I’ve ever smelled. Obama isn’t some superman born for this generation he is like every other politician getting elected on a soapbox of false promises and making the tax payers pay for it. So you want stimulus package to help save the free world, come on now how is that going to do anything? Tell me that. Most of this money is just going to put further burden on the generations to come. There is no crystal ball to the future I know that but you would think that these great education people would be able to make better decision with the tax payers money. How about this let the companies that make stupid financial decision go away that how BUSINESS works retards. If you don’t make money you can’t stay in business. To finish up this rank you would think maybe some of this masterful political figures should go back to basic business class maybe there they can learn how to manage a countries economy. 1+1= 2 Obama not 1+1=print as much as you want.

COKE PROJECT

This here valley of Provo is a swarming infestation of charity. Well that's what everyone thinks isn't it? Around here things are the same as everywhere else minus the mass drinking for a college town. For the assignment of giving to someone and checking the reaction, this was a lot harder than I thought. I figured I would find an easy opportunity just sitting around on the couch, right, got to move and do something. I was first given a observation of first hand being a receiver of someone’s generosity. I had to get something fixed on my car and took it up to a small business, usually car repair places try to pick you up and shake you for all you got. Taking your cell phone, wallet, bubble gum and first born if you were holding them. Yet this man did the work took his time found nothing wrong and didn’t charge me for his labor. Wow, amazing I know. Back to the Soda project, I was at Arby’s and ordered my food was waiting and the people behind me didn’t want to order a drink so I said “hey here’s a few dollars drinks are on me.” “No no no cant do that I wanted water anyways” they said. I told them sorry I can’t take the money back, they smiled and said thank you. A simple smile and thank you wow amazing how just a small act can give someone a huge lift through the day. I got a great deal on the car and they got a great deal on a coke. Amazing how the world works.

this is a picture of me playing baseball in the summer.

engagement pictures.

Kelly and I took engagement pictures over Christmas Break at Oatlands Plantation and Mountian Gap school.

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Welcome to my blog.

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Thank you for viewing this blog. I would like to introduce myself as Brandon Michon. I am 21 years old, I live in Provo Ut. I play baseball for Brigham Young University. I am engaged to the hottest girl alive, Kelly. We are getting married June 27, 2009 in the washington DC temple. I have a roommate who is currently building a robot costumes. I am in the Marriot School of Business, studying finance. I have a great life. I have 3 younger brothers back in my hometown of hamilton Virginia. I have one sister back in Virginia, brittany and my sister Coventry lives here in Ut. I cant wait to marry kelly. She is the most wonderful girl ever!!!

My Goals for 2009:

Make a Billion dollars
Buy a 69 Camaro
To get drafted
become a professional stock broker
get married
be a good husband
not go broke
not have my wife spend all my money
make enough for my wife to spend.