Missed the Boat

Well 9 was a MAJOR disappointment which was a bummer. Oh well I did go to a U.S vs. el Salvador world cup qualifying game that was awesome, U.S won 2-1. Pretty sweet. And now I have quit my job, not sure if this is a good move yet but I was tired of being there so I feel better now. And I finished catching fire the other day it was a really good book.

Lately my life has been fairly dull and honestly moving very slowly. The only thing that really has changed in the past few months is I have gained about 5 pounds. Oddly i'm pretty happy about those 5 pounds and would like 5 or 15 more to go with it. Prefferably in muscle form. So ya that's about all lately, siting around gaining 5 pounds. And sadly the thing the only thing I am looking forward to between now and my mission is quiting my job and the movie 9. Both coming fairly soon. wahoo!

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I should have posted this a long time ago but I didn't. Sorry. Anyways I got my mission call to the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East mission!!! AWESOME! I am very excited to serve the people there and spread the gospel. But I also can't deny that I am way excited to sight see and be on a tropical Island.




To bad I can't swim or play really that is going to be torture for me : ( I have heard a lot of stuff about the DR since getting my call and everything seems to make me more excited. The people are nice, very excepting to gospel in general, I get my own maid, the fruit is amazing, the beaches are paradise, lots of colonial history, and tons of other good stuff. The worst part about it is having to wait till November 4th. ugh

So I recently realized that I have a secret love. This is a love so secret that it was actually secret from myself until recent realization. In fact its so secret that I thought at one point it was actually hatred but now I think its love. Love for a girl named: my radio at work.

The way I stumbled upon this love was listening to the radio at work one normal day I think it was this past Tuesday. I had turned on the radio around ten that morning and decided to tune into a different station then my usual ones. I turned on 100.7. Within two hours of running around at work I had heard different sections of Lady Gag fests song Love Game FOUR different times!! WOW! Plus its already an inappropriate song for pretty much anyone to hear.

That is when I found out that I have a love for old rock and roll like def leopard, AC/DC, Ozzy Osborne, Metallica, the Beatles, queen, led zeppelin and basically the classic stuff. Of course I still need to do some research on the new found love and see if its really true but I'm pretty sure it is. An ideal day at work consist of me flipping through 101.1, 103.1, 103.5, 104.7 and taking some filthy car inside and out and spending endless hours detailing it without interruption. Turning it from a lump of dump into a sparkling beauty.

Last Sunday: Sam Orton's farewell talk. This day just kind of brought the reality of the situation to me that Sam really is leaving. He did a great job on his talk and overall it was a great day full of friends and happiness and fond memories of better times. With the fact that he was leaving looming over us all day.

Monday: I went to work. Work was pretty much the same. I think we went to wing shack this day? Verify me if im wrong. After work we watched The Burbs. Pretty good movie props to Parker.

Tuesday: Woke up and felt like I needed to throw up, then I did. Spent the day at home sick and watched The office all day. Then went to turn my papers into the bishop, said bye to Sam.

Wednesday: Longest day of work in my life.

Thursday: Just another long day of work with my mind lost all day.

Friday: Really busy day at work. Then I went to the carnival later with Jeff, Parker and Andie.

Saturday: Slept in. Went and spent way more on a new phone then I planned to but it is pretty sweet. Then I got ready for the sweetest show of my life. Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, it was awesome. I really wanted to get an autograph and would of if I knew Parker was staying late to see him and got to touch him. But really its my own fault.

Sunday: Dropped my parents off at the airport and saw the Real Salt Lake team and didn't have the guts to bug them and ask for an autograph again. Then I came home and went to church. It was really strange to not have Sam there and a reminder that he is gone but i'm pretty sure the church is still true.

With all of my best friends leaving on missions soon and me getting a call pretty quick I have been thinking. Among other things oddly enough it has been making me think of Eragon the book series. I am a fan of these books and I know how geeky that seems but I do like them. In the book there is magic and spells of all sorts but the ultimate way to use magic is to know a persons or objects true name. The true names are not the name you go by like "Creed Stephens" there like a description of your deeper personality. I feel like this is how mission calls are and if you guess where someone is going then you know them and its almost like their true name. I wish I knew my true name right now..

This will do for now but I am still not satisfied at all. And as for the title of my blog I thought I had a good one but then I realized how much better it could be. Plus the one I had in mind reminded me of a blink 182 song so that kind of blew it.

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So I decided that my blog title is pretty lame and needs some work. The sad part is I can't think of anything better at the moment, and by better I mean inspirational/deep or something better then just my name?? It just seems like I have been using my name for everything lately. Is that really selfcentered of me? Or am I just very uncreative and unthoughtfull. Well by the end of the night I should have a new title and hopefully have worked on my blog a lot. So really there is no point to this post. the end

So yesterday I had the wonder full opportunity to get my wisdom teeth yanked out of my head. I went to an office called Utah Surgical Arts. I would recommend this place I think, it was very nice and a pretty comfortable environment to be in.
The first room they took me in was not that great. I'm not sure what you would call it, kind of like a patient informing loby room thing. Anyways there was carpet flooring and a computer on a desk in front and to the side of me, and above it was an x ray viewer. I was sitting in the middle of the room on a type of patient chair and the doctor just explained what was going to happen pre op and post op.
Then they took me into the surgery room where I sat on an even bigger chair and more comfortable. The doctor's assistant then rolled up a big desk that went over my lap and it had some big rubber tubes on it that I didn't really want to know what they were for but I had a pretty good idea. Then she hooked me up to a few machines that im guessing monitered my heart rate, pulse, respritory rate, and other important things.
We were telling some jokes and I could hear the beeps get faster and when I took deep breaths it would get slower. Finally she did the only part I was really nervous about. The IV. Really it was nothing to be afraid of, it wasn't any worse than a shot. And those don't bother me at all. Then I saw her push some drugs into it and thats all I remember till I was in the truck riding home. Over all the recovery has been the worst but im just glad to have it over with.

This past year I have started playing soccer again after a year or two break after my sophmore year. My first season on the Champions club was pretty awesome I think we ended up taking second in the league. Then in the winter I played two seasons of futsal which is indoor soccer on a gym floor, our team didn't do to well in either of those seasons. Then I finished with a great ending game to a spring season this past monday. We won something like six to zero, the whole season wasn't like that at all though. Mostly we found ourselfes strugling with a lot of ties and loses in the season. Its pretty sad to think that I won't be able to leave work early three days a week to play such an awesome game. Mostly I'm just really going to miss the sport, I love playing soccer more than anything I think. I hope that I can play it until im at least 60.

So I don't think very many people know but I got a little Honda xr 250 enduro bike. The reason no one sees me riding it around everywhere is because I don't have a license for it. Which really is not what is preventing me from riding it. I could ride it without getting pulled over but unfortuantly the registration for it is expired... So if a cop saw me they would have no hesitation to pull me over and give me a nice pricy ticket and possibly a record preventing me from going on a mission. Hopefully I will be able to take care of both of those problems this week and get ridding that thing! oh yeah and the blinkers struggle to do their job : ( ugh I just want to ride

These are just some pictures of the parties me and my friends usually go to on weekends.

Alright so here is a thought that I thought of at work yesterday. Its not very deep and its out of date sorry. I was thinking of that time when Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) started smoking or just when the press was making a big deal of it and how he was setting such a horrible example for all the little kids who watched the movies. Well half of the U.S wouldn't even know about his bad habit if the media hadn't put it on the front page of the papers and all over TV. Anyways I just think that we really don't need to know some of the stuff that the media shows us about celebrities and their personal life. I'm sure that this is arguable but it's my opinion that we don't need to know half of the things the media tells us. That's pretty much it for now.

This is just me playing in the ward talent show. I played folsom prison blues by Johnny Cash

Hello everyone my name is Creed Stephens and I am new to this whole bloging thing. I thought maybe it was time that I gave in and tried it like the rest of the world. Yeah I am excited about it cause sometimes I get some pretty deep thoughts and just don't know what to do with them so hopefully you guys will be able to see some soon. Till then hang in there it may take away, im kind of slow