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End Of Year Blog
December 31, 5:05pm GMT+5 by Andy Roddick
The new season is upon us!!! I am so pumped. The offseason was great and there was a lot of work done and fun had!
Some new tunesNew kings of Leon disc I, probably my favorite of the year….
Check out the new Killers album as well… they continue to be one of my favorites
New DMB album coming out this year…I normally don’t stop listening to it except while sleeping when this happens
Saw Michael Tolcher acoustic show also…. very talented and nice guy and has some new tunes coming out in the next couple months.. check him out on itunes
Ok so here is how I am gonna do it this year…. 24 blogs promised this year… sign, sealed, delivered…. am willing to take suggestions for what I have to do if I don’t meet the quota…. this one counts for the new year
I really hope everyone had a great holiday season…mine was perfect and I am thankful for the great friends that I have back home. It’s always so nice to be around them all on a regular basis during the offseason.
So I listen to a radio show called the Bobby Bones show every single morning when I am home… it’s on 96.7 fm in Austin and podcasts are available on itunes.. that’s what I do on the road ha ha…lame .. anyways, I was driving to track workouts early on in the off-season and the cast was talking about their annual name that tune tournament which is basically 2 teams of 3 hearing a track and seeing who the first to buzz in and name the song and artist…… Doug and I pretty much spend every car ride throughout the year playing our own version of this game … I needed to get into this tournament!!!! so I ran the idea by my buddy Huston Street who is a pitcher for the Colorado Rockies… coincidentally he had Bobby Bones’ cell number… so we basically called and begged our way into the tourney…….. my buddy Neal was our 3rd partner… ok so we get there and teams are practicing and have team names and uniforms and are talking about how they do these tourneys all the time…. we are clearly overmatched. I tell the guys I would be happy to win our first round only cause then Bones wouldn’t rip us apart and make fun of us on air the next morning for all of Austin to hear. We win our first round by a single point… its a 32 team tourney, and to make a long story short we ended up making the final pretty much shocking the entire crowd watching ( 300-400 people ha ha) anyways it was a blast and it shut lunchbox (loudmouth on the Bobby Bones show) up for at least a night….. oh and I was sure to call in the next morning and rub it in cause he lost first round….. trust me he deserves it ha ha ha… much love lunch!! Anyways, it was a blast and hopefully we can get in next year!!
Arrived in Abu Dhabi last night which was the 30th and woke up at about 5 in the morning cause of jetlag… nothing was open in the hotel, so I decided to go for an exploratory jog for about 30 minutes…. I was about 20 minutes in just running around the grounds of the Emirates Palace where we are staying… definitely one of the nicest places I have ever stayed…. anyways, about 20 minutes in and its foggy and dark outside… you can see light poles and that’s about it…. so I cruise up on these wooden tiki looking shacks… a little out of place for the resort… intrigued, I cruise down the side to see if they open up towards the front….. I cautiously walk around the corner and literally head bump a camel!!!! I jumped back like a girl (no offense to girls who take offense) and then figured out what it was staring at me and started laughing hysterically…. I guess it was a stable for the camels and you can ride them around the resort and stuff…. I sent Brooklyn a text that simply said “in just jogged into a camel” she proceeded to laugh and make fun of me…… good times
Alright so we will get back to the weekly awards on the next blog….
Have a safe and happy New Year


Although Andy Roddick can hit a mean first serve, i think he needs to work on his blogging skills. Maybe i put him up on a pedestool and expected something amazingly inciteful, but i ended up being quite disappointed. I read half way thru it and was basically falling asleep. He metions how he loves a couple of bands and then goes on a tangent about how he competed in a song contest. Boring!

i also think he needs to use the enter key every once and a while. When you combine a boring topic with a gianormous paragraph your eyes tend to get lost in the sea of neverending words.

Now i have to admit that bumping into a camel was somewhat interesting since it just doesnt happen on a daily basis. But then that was ruined for me when he mentioned his fiance brooklyn and how he texted her. I never got a text about a camel. Im a bit upset.

Maybe I could give Roddick lessons on blogging. Then he could realize his true love for me and we could get married and be the best mixed doubles partners in Nebraska.

stalker kids

so this weekend i met someone. but dont get excited. this isnt a good someone. this guy was a creeper. i didnt think that i had ever heard of him before, but unfortunately i had. earlier in the school year vicki had gone to food for less and had a weird kid who claimed to go to midland follow her out to her car. stupidly vicki gave him her phone number, but she soon realized she had made a mistake. she immediately stopped texting him after looking him up on the midland directory and realizing that he did not even attend.

Unfortunately for me, i was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. My friend alexa had just broken up with her boyfriend and i was being nice and bringing her ice cream. I was not the only person at her house though. She invited one of our friends, Tay Pat, who just so happened to work at Food For Less. he brought with him a so called friend. it was the stalker. he immediately took a liking for alexa, and would not stop texting and calling her. i felt bad for lex, but i was just glad i wasnt in her situation.

Now i wish this was the end of the story, but it continues on to the next night. Stupid Tay Pat was hanging out with us again, but he decided to call up the creeper and invite him along. The entire time he couldn't stop talking about alexa and finally to put the poor kid out of his misery i straight up told him that he was being wayy to forward and just needed to lay off. he was crushed, but it needed to be said. He had met her only a day ago. can you say Creeper? After i got home that night i thought that this was the end of the stalker. but no, he decided to change his mind and wouldnt stop attempting to call and text me (which btw i did not give him my number, stupid Tay Pat gave it to him without my permission) After giving succinct answers he still didnt get the hint. So since then i have not responded to the fifty million texts that he has sent.
Now i just hope that Tay Pat never invites him along ever again. I'm also going to avoid Food for Less and shop at HyVee instead, where the employees arent scary stalkers.

Tennis Trivia

After studying the athletic field of tennis for almost fourteen years, I think it is safe to say that I have more expertise in the field than most will experience in their entire lives. It started even before I was born. My parents met at a tennis tournament over twenty years ago, and before that my mother played high school and college tennis while my father played in the USTA. My older sister has also been involved in tennis and played at UNO in the 2 Doubles slot. So, needless to say, tennis runs in the family.



The game is fairly simple. You hit a small bouncy yellow ball inside the lines of a court without letting the ball bounce twice on your side. In order to start a point someone must serve a ball into the opposite side of the court from which they are standing. The point system may be the most difficult part of the game. To win normally you must win 2 out of 3 sets. In a set you must win 6 games and be ahead by two. In the games the scores goes love, 15, 30, 40, and game. If the players are both at 40 it is called deuce. During deuce one person has to win 2 consecutive points in order to win the game. If the server wins the first point it is called ad in and if he/she loses that point it is ad out. In the occurance of a set going to 6 all, a tiebreaker comes into effect. Tiebreakers normally go to seven points and you must win by two. Although this scoring system may sound complicated, it becomes much easier when you are playing.