Ho, Ho, Ho

In our weekly thrift store perusing, I found 5 boxes of brand new christmas lights for a dollar each. Add that to some walmart ornaments, and some gold-papered snowflakes and you got yourself a merry apartment. First christmas movie of the season, a muppet's christmas carol. I also think that thanksgiving should be downplayed and christmas should be considered a two month holiday. in place of thanksgiving, we will celebrate a day where we all eat pie and that is it.

My 2 am

adhd + restless leg syndrome + sleeping disorder = www.failblog.org at 2:00am.

these were two of my favorites



I found this one on failblog which took me to www.lamebook.com which is another excellent time waster.

My Coldest Day

To fulfill our goal of wakeboarding in November, Rob and I grabbed his boat on Nov 5th and headed out to Newton Dam. Unfortuantely betsy and sarah were both working that whole day. Although had we invited them, i'm sure they would have said no. We did learn some valuable lessons from our adventure which i will explain.

Lesson #1 If you want the lake to yourself, go in November.

Due to the cold air, we were the only boat on the lake which made for some incredibly smooth water. Although there were some people at the shooting range (dirt hill) next to the lake we had the place to ourselves. To try and stay dry, we scoured the shorelines looking for a good place to dock start. We came across some old PVC pipes lying in the dirt. Due to my years of subscribing to "Wakeboarding Magazine" I knew that the pro's used PVC pipe as a rail that they can slide across with their boards. This made perfect sense to line the rails up leading into the water so that way, we won't get wet, we can just slide in.



Lesson #2 Dock Starting on a wakeskate that is on some old PVC pipe= getting knocked over and dragged into the lake.

My first attempt was not very pretty. My desire to not get wet failed within the first 20 seconds. The second attempt panned out a little better and I was able to slide across the pipes and keep wakeskating. i tried to do a butter slide along the crest of the wake but my balance was off and I went into the water face first.


Lesson #3 Red 1-piece thermals= better wakeboarder
Rob not only slid down the pipes and across the water just fine on his first attempt, but was able to do some tricks and never wreck. to complete his run, I whipped him into the shore line and the only thing that got wet was his shins.



Lesson #4 The fastest way to loose Dirk's respect.

Dirk - "so does rob have to try very hard to get you to do these things with him?"
Danny - "Umm, Actually, if I remember right, this one was my idea"
Dirk- sighs, shakes his head and walks away.
All in all i think it was a successful November wakeboard run.




I apologize for the shaky camera, i also had to try and drive the boat.

My Halloween

Could be the greatest Halloween ever.

On friday, we attended USU's production of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. I went a couple days early and was able to get front row tickets. We were so close to the actors that we could see their spit flying out as they were singing. When Sweeney was singing to his razors about how they were his closest friends, it kind of looked like he was looking right at us. I coulnd't believe that this was a USU play due to how awesome the costumes and sets were. They had the meat shop with the barber shop on top complete with the barber chair that turned into a slide when Sweeney was done "shaving" them. Very complicated but well done sets. I think i read in the bill or something that they had over 40 people in the cast. Very impressive. Kind of hard to follow up Johnny Depp's and Bellatrix Lestrange/Helena Bonham Carter/Marla Singer's performance in the movie, but Anthony Eversole and Felicia Steihmeier did a pretty good job.

One of Bety's co-workers got a couple of tickets to Lagoon's Frightmares. Bety's friend didn't want to go so betsy and i headed down to farmington. It had been a couple years since i was last at Lagoon and i have grown a couple inches since then. I don't' fit inside the cars so well anymore. It was also difficult to get the lap bars over my knees. I usually had to twist and adjust to be able to fit inside at all. I just figured the chance of falling out of the coaster was what frightmares was all about. While waiting to be dropped on the ride "Re-Entry" i began wondering how much Lagoon was making profit-wise and if they had the money to thoroughly test these rides. We were then dropped. That was probably the scariest moment for me as i was falling towards the earth. Wait no, scratch that. We rode on the "Wild Mouse" ride and on the first turn, it seriously felt like the car was going to completly fall off of the track. This reminded me about a story i remember hearing about Lagoon having this ride at one time and the car did infact fall off the track and killed some people. Then like 15 years later, Lagoon brought the ride back. I was completly freaked out at that point. But i guess Lagoon's big thing is Frightmares and what better way to Frighten mares than by having rollercoasters that might break and fall apart and kill you any second. Good job Lagoon, you won. We also rode that big sky swing drop ride which was a lot of fun.


On our way home from Farmington, we stopped by this guys house in Ogden. His big claim to fame is on every Halloween, he turns his entire house and property into Hogwarts. It is a pretty big house up high on the bench and I was very impressed. Although its not hard to impress me as long as your an adult and like harry as much or more than me. But this guy went all out. He hires actors to come and portray characters and sets up a very elaborate set up. You had to run through an archway titled 9 3/4's to get into the place. Once inside, he had strung up about 350 battery candles from fishing line so it looked like they were all floating. He had a zip line that you could ride and while on it, you had to through a quaffle(nerf ball) through these gold painted hula hoops. He had the 3 broomsticks where you could get drinks, Prof Trelawney was inside a purple painted school bus (the knight bus) giving divinations. Hagrid was posing with pictures on a big motorcycle. Moaning myrtle sitting on a toilet. He even had a car in one of his trees. This guy went all out. Some of the actors that he had walking around included the dudleys, madam hooch, snape, lucious malfoy, madam pomfrey, fred and george, the weasleys, rita skeeter, A hippogriff, dobby, colin creevy just to name a few. I was sorted into hufflepuff. I almost swore but there was some small kids next to me. Betsy was sorted to syltherin so sucks to be her. pretty good night.

After walking around hogwarts with me grinning like an idiot for a while, betsy pulling me away, we headed back to Logan for the Howl. The theme was "Unhinged Reality" and that was good cause me and betsy were definatly reality unhinged. We were worried that people wouldn't get our costumes but everywhere we went people shouted out juno! to us. No one ever shouted Paulie Bleeker! to me, but they at least got Juno correct. If you haven't seen the movie Juno, then you probably won't get our costumes. So go watch the movie and then come back and tell us how awesome they are. We danced the night away with hundreds of our closest friends. best costumes, a group of four guys all went as tobias funke when he was completly painted blue for blue man group. A group of four guys all dressed up as army soldiers. My good friend Ben Wilkey went as an old man. completly dedicated to his costume, he shaved the top part of his head. the only bad part of the whole event was today at church when every one asked why me and betsy were not at the ward halloween party.

My long wait

Horcrux - "Horcrux" when broken down in many languages means "outside the cross." This is consistent with the very unholy nature of creating one, and why it is stricken from the pages in a lot of textbooks. "Crucis" means "pain or torture," and "hor" is a shortened form of the noun "horreum," which means "storehouse." Thus, "tormenting storehouse." A Horcrux is effectively a "storehouse" for the part of the soul that an individual destroys when killing someone. "Hor" can also remind readers of the words "horrible" and "horrid." The English meaning for "crux" is "the critical feature or essence," like the crux of an argument. Similar to the Latin translation, it then becomes understood as "essence storehouse." Many consider the soul to be the essence of an individual. A "crux" is also defined as a "difficult puzzle," so Horcruxes can then be seen as "horrible" or "tormenting puzzles." In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of the god Osiris, who became the God of the Dead. Crux is also Latin for "cross." If you combine these two words, you get the "cross of Horus," also known as the "ankh" (a cross with a loop at the top). The ankh was the symbol of life. Thus, a Horcrux would ensure life.

409 Days
22 Hours
58 minutes
45 seconds, roughly
until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Frickin A i can't wait that long.