Day 1

I woke up a vegetarian. I had a simple meal, it was some Kashi "strawberry fields" cereal. It was a good way to start the day off.

My big hurdle for today though was giving blood. It has been about 2 years since I have donated blood and I was worried about how my body was going to recover from this. I took in about a gallon of water over the course of the day to help the process. Something worth noting while I was giving blood, I witnessed a girl that passed out. She was talking to me just a few minutes before, and she finished giving blood, then I saw her face go pale and neck go limp. First time I had ever seen anything like that. She was ok a couple minutes later.

For lunch I had some cheese pizza, and an apple.

I had practice at 2pm that included a lot of running today, so I didn't really feel to great, I am sure that was because of donating blood. I made it through practice, had an hour off then had to go hit. Hitting went fine, once again I am pretty sure that my body was a little slower because of the missing pint of blood. I actually worked out as well, right after hitting. I felt just fine lifting, felt like I had all of the energy I needed.

Dinner was couscous with some peaches, and lightly sauced potatoes with some onions. It tasted very good. Made me full. I like to eat good food. I capped the night off with some cheesecake that my girlfriend so graciously gave me for valentine's day. Thank You Quinn.

I must say I did have trouble not eating pepperoni pizza today. it was offered to me and I almost slipped up because I was not thinking as a vegetarian. So I am going to have to work on keeping my mind involved in making these eating decisions.

Let's see how I feel on day 2.

Coming soon...Vegetarian

So a while back, I believe it was in august, I was approached by my good friends Sara Tall and Anna Mullen. They told my buddy Colton and I that they were going to try going vegan for 40 days. They asked us if we would want to try going vegetarian for 40 days. We accepted enthusiastically.

Now, Colton and I being baseball players wanted to know when exactly we would be doing this, and when we were informed that it would be during lent, we both started a cold sweat. We were thinking about how it would effect our body and performance. We do workout and have practice everyday, so we don't want to lose anything physically, but we did still agree to try it.

Well, on Monday I let Colton know that we start our new vegetarian diet on Wednesday, the 17th or this coming Wednesday. Colton replied, "I don't think I'm going to do it man." I was mad that he decided to back out on this and let him know. He may still want to participate, but probably not.

Anyway, I have been getting ready for this day. I have been eating boca burgers, more veggies, granola, soy milk, pastas, salads, smoothies, you name it. I am going to try and be a vegetarian for 40 days, that means no meat for me at all, not even fish. I plan on making this a great learning experience not only for myself, but all of the people reading this blog.

I will blog as much as my schedule allows me. I plan on sharing with you what I have been eating, how I feel both mentally and physically, and if it really sucks being a vegetarian or if it is the best thing that ever happened to me.

So my first day already poses a nice start, I am going to give blood, have practice and lift. Plus all of the homework that has to be finished as well.

Here I go.

My update

It has been a while since my last blog. I am now the Station Manager of 90.1 KFKX the Hastings College radio station, I am a college junior ready for anything.

I am constantly busy with the new job, but i remain excited anyhow about what the station can do for the campus and community. I am however, ready for this semester to begin winding down, soi can see friends and family for the holidays.

I will try and keep up to date last week was super busy for me, because of the Artist Lecture Series here at Hastings College, for which I set up a press conference, made audio packages and even wrote my first column for the campus newspaper, The Collegian. If you want to check that stuff out go to www.hcworldnews.com.

The grind it out days

Here I am in Hastings again, I really made the most of break in my mind seeing everyone that I could and just relax.
Being back in Hastings however means once again that it is business time baby. I have plenty of cool things to continue working on in HC media and baseball is in full swing, by the way I had a game doubleheader yesterday in Iowa against Iowa Western Community College, went 4 for 5 with a 2 doubles 2 singles and a pair of walks. We won both games, and I needed a day like that.

Anyway, I had my radio show Tuesday night, that went well I will be uploading the Podcast soon so look for that on itunes under HC media Podcasts. I also created a YouTube Channel for KFKX the Hastings College radio station, so once I load some videos on there be sure to check that out and join our channel it's called KFKX, pretty simple ay?