Blog Influences

Hello Everyone,

I know there has been a slight delay in the new blog release. You may have heard the circulating rumors that I am going to retire from the blogging scene and let someone else have the blogging spotlight. I want you all to know that this rumor is somewhat true, I did consider retirement. I have given this important issue lots of thought and I have come to some conclusions. The first thing I figured out that is that, I am never going to write a blog without putting my heart into it and just try to rush out a half-assed blog for everyone to read. My blogs may take a bit longer to be released, but I will still be releasing them and they will be quality. I realized that the reason I even do these blogs is to share my thoughts and feelings with my loyal fans. I write my best blogs when I am really inspired. I have one loyal fan whom I have never given a shout-out, even though they deserve so much more. I have to get this off my chest because it's way overdue. This person is someone who has always inspired me, even before the blogs. She has been an extremely important figure in my life when other family members haven't been around (but she has always been there). She has always showed me mad love and served me as a perfect role-model. I am just now appreciating how much she means to me and just how much she has taught me. This well deserved shout-out is to my older sister Megan (the beautiful girl in the picture above) who recently moved to Chicago. Its really tough to show how much you mean to me but this quote helps, "There's no way I can pay you back, but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated" -Tupac

Now I have addressed that, we must move into another topic that is equally (if not more important). The Colorado Rockies are 6 games back of first place in the N.L. West. We are really heating up (our last ten games we are 9-1) and there is a long road trip that awaits us. We have a 3 game series with the god-awful Pirates, and then we travel to Florida to play a 4 game series against the Marlins. We are 17-36 on the road this season, so if we can tear up this road trip and then return home playing well, we are mos. def. in this race for first. I think the Rockies have a real shot at the playoffs (again!!!). I know I cant expect what happened last season, to happen again this year, or ever again in my life time (it was like catching lightning in a bottle). I hope to attend at least 6 or 7 more games this year, while I have the chance (so let's go!!!) There is nothing better than attending Rockies games with your friends!!(Erik, Jake, Joe, Nikki, Lacey, Jessie) and if you're really lucky you may even get the chance to wait in line all day for tickets!!

I really hope everyone has had a really good summer so far and is getting excited for college next year!!! (even Harshman as a sophomore). We still have a couple of weeks left, so lets have some fun!!! I really appreciate all of my fans and I hope all of you keep updated on the blog page!!! Also vote in my new poll if you haven't yet.

Thanks for your time
Shaun Hicks

The Funny Man

Hello everyone and thank you for visiting my blog page. I hope everyone is doing very well and is having a great summer! To start things off, I would first like to take the chance to thank all of my loyal fans for making my blog page the enormous success it has become. The last poll on my blog page has had a very good turnout, and everyone who voted got the chance to show how they feel about Sammy's return. I am surprised that people actually voted against him! I wonder who could have voted for, "Wow, don't ever come home" and "My life is amazing now Sammy is gone". Surprisingly each of those choices both had two votes along with, "I don't care", which also had two votes. I can't possibly imagine who would vote for those (Joe Tusa and Jake Baltierras). Anyways, the most popular choice was, "Skip the rest of this summer school nonsense and spend the rest of the summer with his friends!", which had a dominating 8 votes. If you didn't vote in this poll, I invite you to vote in the upcoming polls because your opinion is important! (even Jake's)

Now lets get started with the real blog, which everyone has been begging for. I know everyone waits in anticipation, and the demand for my blogs are huge, but the wait is worth it, I promise. This blog takes us back to King Soopers (my current place of employment). I have had to work like 20 hours in the last two days and it almost killed me,I'm not exaggerating. I had to work all day on Sunday and the store was disgustingly busy. I was a cashier and it was slowly killing me. I worked from 10a.m.-7p.m. and was just in a terrible mood as the day pressed on. As time passed on, it got closer and closer to 7, the time for me to get off. I was extremely upset with a most crappy day at work. Just as it was time to go and I turned off my light (showing that I just closed) one last customer came into my line. I was not happy at all to see him because it was time to go home, but I decided to help him anyways. He appeared to be a normal customer until I started to check out all of his groceries. While I was working, he started to tell me all of these random jokes, such as,"An invisible man and an invisible woman had a kid, he was nothin to see". He then followed, "The invisible kid was sick, so they took him to the doctor and the doctor said I cant see him". This guy seriously went on for like 15 minutes of just random jokes that actually were pretty funny. It's like he had an entire show to put on with comments like, "Did you hear about the peanut that walked into King Soopers? It was assaulted". By the time I was done checking out all of his groceries, I was in a much better mood. After his comedy skit was done I said, "Thanks for making my job more interesting". He looked at me and said, "No problem kid, sometimes you've gotta laugh and never take anything too seriously".
That one customer changed my negative outlook on the entire day. He provided me with some of the best advice I have heard in my 18 years of existence. I am really glad that I took the extra time to help that guy out. It helped me realize that sometimes you really need to laugh (especially when you're having a bad day). That guy was pretty tight and I would be glad to help him out with his groceries anytime. It's important to enjoy yourself and be happy, or what would be the point?

Thanks for your time,
Shaun Hicks

A good time to be Alive

Welcome back to the blog spot!!

First things first, I would like to invite all of my loyal readers to vote in my brand new poll on the bottom of the page (check it out). Anyways, I hope everybody is having a good summer, even though that is somewhat impossible when you are stranded up at miserable DU. I hope this blog can at least provide Sabatino with some form of entertainment and drag him away from Halo for 10 minutes. So, I just got back from Chicago and I was able to play golf with my brother (Justin) who I haven't talked to in like a year. It was really good to see him and even better to absolutely destroy him at golf! My golf game game is getting scary good!! (Like almost as good as Sammy with a lefty Pitching Wedge!!)
It was a good trip out there because I was able to see everybody that I miss (Shout out to my Mom). It's always good to see family because they will always be there for you, and they always have love for you! It was also good to see all of my cousins who all live out there. But don't get me wrong I'm happy to be home with all of my friends and my Dad. Interesting thing about my Dad, he keeps saying that he tries to read my blog but he cant access it from work. He could be telling the truth, or he straight up doesn't care about me enough to spend a couple of minutes and read what I pour my heart and soul into. At least I am home for the rest of the summer so I can direct my attention to the two most important things in my life; Golf and the Rockies. Rockies games are always fun to go to. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend it. I actually attended the July 3rd game against the Marlins. Wow! What a game, and the fireworks afterward made it unreal!!! It was nice to go with a close group of friends (Shout out to Nikki). Seriously though, this game was almost as good as Opening Day, which remains as the best day of my life (Sammy can relate). The opening day game was the day before prom when we ditched school on a Friday and went to prom on Saturday, which was also fun (Nikki can relate).
I am really happy with how successful this blog is becoming! Please stay updated because the best is yet to come!

Thanks for Your time
-Shaun Hicks

P.S.- If you take my advice and go to a Rockies game, don't ever, ever under ANY CIRCUMSTANCE enter the whitehouse bar and lounge.

Where I have been

Hey Everybody!!!!

I sincerely apologize for the layoff, I know you've checked the blog spot and have disappointed lately when there wasn't a new posting. Anyways, its been a pretty interesting, but good week. I got to play golf with my Dad, which definitely doesn't happen as much as it should. I also was forced to go to orientation at the University of Wyoming from June 30th-July 1st. That was most def. a new experience for me. Here is where it all started...........................................The first day I arrived there (the 30th), we had to check in, get in groups, the basics. So for the first day we were broken into small groups and we did activities to get to know each other (extremely horrible). We then got tours and ate dinner to complete the first day. This is where the real story begins, so read closely (Sammy). After dinner the first day, we had time to be on our own and experience the freedom and Independence of a real college student. Each person at the orientation was assigned a room, where you were paired with another random student for the night. We had the option to go check out our room anytime after 7 p.m. and drop our stuff off in the room. Well, I was busy exploring the campus and hanging out with all of my new Wyoming friends that I didn't go into my room until around 9:30 p.m. When I went in, I saw my roommates bag on one of the two beds in the dorm. I knew he had been to the room first and claimed his bed. He wasn't in the room when I was there, so I just went back out with my backpack on. I had everything in my backpack so he wouldn't be able to tell I had been in the room yet because I didn't drop anything off. I figured I would come back later and meet him in the room later in the night. I went and hung out around campus for about an hour and a half and thought I should probably return to my room soon to meet him. I was back at my room at 10:30 p.m. to finally meet this punk. This time there was a duffle bag on each of the beds, which was shocking because someone else claimed my bed, that I was assigned to. I then threw one of the duffle bags on the floor and replaced it with my backpack. I then left my room, (with my backpack on the bed containing all my stuff) and went to another kid's room who was pretty chill and who was in my group all day. So I went back to his room because we were hanging out before I went to my room and dropped off my backpack. So I hung out for a while and told my buddy what happened. We plotted how I would go about this situation. So I returned to my room for a third time hoping for confrontation with these cowards. It was 11:15 p.m. by this time and I was standing at my door, room key in hand..........I looked in the eyehole from the outside and saw the light on and instantly knew they were in the room. I slid my card and opened the door (expecting to see two guys). I opened the door and there were 2 redneck-cowboy bastards and 3 ugly girls in my room! The door opened and it was dead silent and they were staring at me. I looked and my backpack was on the floor, and the retard who stole my bed was now sitting down with his duffle bag on my bed. I kindly said, "Why are you in my room you stupid cowboy redneck??" Anyways, I realized that these guys had thier heart on staying in my room and wouldn't settle for anything less. I was like whatever, so I grabbed my backpack and peaced out. I went back to my friend's room and we hung out there with his roommate (who was kind of a nerd) for a while. I eventually ended up staying the night on their floor which wasn't bad because we just chilled and played cards. The moral of this story is that if two flamers ever steal your room kill, dont let them get you down. A night that could have easily been bad, ended up being pretty good. You just have to make the best of what you've got to work with.
Thanks for your time,
-Shaun Hicks
P.S.- I now realize how boring college life can be during the summer (Sammy).