Bank of ***** or why I hate Wells Fargo

(insert your own pluralized inappropriate word into the space above)

Apparently Wells Fargo's Car loan department does not accept a legal contract as proof of residence.  Instead I had to call Rocky Mt. Power and have them fax over my account statement, proving that I do live at my apartment.

Then an hour later they said that Stephanie also had to have different proof of residence (even though they had previously said that her pay-stub would be fine, since it did in fact have her address on it)!  The branch manager was apologetic and helpful in suggesting a credit union where he knew a manager who was really good.  It was actually the Wells Fargo branch manager that called the car loan dept. an inappropriate word that inspired the title to this post.

Because they were so dumb, we had to miss out on the Bees game, which I was ok with at first thinking we would have a new car.. but now I'm just infuriated with the whole process.  Interestingly enough the branch manager and our call seller both suggested the same credit union (UCCU) and said it would be really fast, with low rates, so I will hopefully have a post with our new car's pictures by tomorrow night!

102

I just realized that my last post was officially the 101st post on my blog.  So I guess this is a momentous occasion.  So happy 102nd blog post for me!

slogans

It may well be known that I love BYU sports, and of all college sports, I love football the most.  Sitting in priesthood meeting on Sunday for some reason I felt inspired by the slogans/logos released by BYU in the past several years.  Not only are they football themed, but they are very gospel themed as well.  I collected some samples to show:

Fully invested:  

BYU use - be a fan that is fully invested in supporting the team, be a hard working, undistracted (fan/player/coach).

Gospel use - fully invest yourselves in preparing for salvation, don't casually read the scriptures or pray, but really mean everything you do and make it important.

The Quest (for perfection) - thats a little bit self explanatory for both uses.

Rise Up:
BYU use - Coming back from a less than perfect season, it is now time for the Cougars to rise up, and become a national power again.  (which I totally think they can/will)
Gospel use - "Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?" Psalms 94:16.  Also, from Hymn #324, 
"Rise up o men of God, tread where His feet have trod, as brothers of the Son of Man, Rise up o men of God."


Yes, I do think that Bronco has been doing his very best to influence this team spiritually as well as physically, and I agree that a team that is spiritually healthy will perform better physically (due to the fact that much of the game is mental, and spirituality helps mental focus).



Not to mention the constant reference to the original slogan (the one introduced the very first year Bronco was head coach) "Band of Brothers".  At first when I saw coaches and ball boys wearing that shirt at a recent practice I thought they just had some old stuff, but then I realized that its the same shirt that Bronco wears to half of the games:

And they have it front and center on all of their helmets:

 And this year they made a poster/desktop with the slogan

So, Rise up!  Be fully invested in the quest for eternal salvation through faith, repentance and baptism in the true church headed by Jesus Christ himself, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Desktop Update

Since HP7.2 has come and gone (great movie btw) I decided to update my desktop background:

I thought about creating countdowns for each game... but I don't really have the time (or need) for that right now.  But in also exciting news, the apartment we will be moving into has internet and cable as part of the rent, so I'll have the ESPN channels I need to watch all the BYU games :-)

Also, I got this background from this page on the Cougar Board

Cruising

Not our boat.  but this is.

Serenity Bay on Disney's private island... notice how serene.

Queen's Staircase, an escape route from the Fort/Palace on Nassau (the capital of the Bahamas)

Goofy's Mini-Golf around the stern

Serious game of billiards

Sailing

Basketball

I was just standing there in the water and these guys came swimming up to me!

Swimming (snorkeling) with the fishes

and finally...
Disney World

and if that wasn't enough for you here's some more pictures and descriptions
Stephanie's blog
Photobook
Kacy's blog
Coleen's blog

Moosebutter

Every now and then I like to take a trip down good-music-memory lane, and today I came up with this song:
http://www.moosebutter.com/lyrics.php/harry-potter

and even better is the video:



22 days 'til the last movie :-D

Mutual Gift

This past weekend Stephanie and I celebrated our first anniversary!!  Our time was occupied with babysitting stephanie's cousin's kids, but we did go to Seven Peaks for the day.  One great thing we did was buy an anniversary gift for each other together.  Since getting our wonderful new camera for graduation we've been wanting to get some lens filters for it.

A month or so ago we went to a camera shop where we were presented with several very expensive filters.  Last week and I browsed around on the internet I found on amazon.com a whole set of filters for about the price of a single filter in the store.  We did a little investigation, shopped around the world wide web and placed our order.  The set we chose came not only with three standard filters, but also four macro lenses, somewhat of a bargain package.

Today I set out to test the filters to see just how effective the were and just to have fun in general:
The whole set (I also used the fluorescent light filter even though I shouldn't have, hence the purple-ish hue)

Polarizing Filter on, not polarizing

Polarizing filter, twisted 90 degrees (polarizing)

The fluorescent light filter again outside

The macro filter set (really just magnifying glasses, also useful for burning ants and leaves...)

Another example of the polarizing filter

 4x picture of my shorts