Celeb deaths...what?

So what's going on with all of these celebrity deaths? I've been known to bust out the moon walk numerous times, so I must pay my respects with a blog to MJ. I picked up the People magazine today and MJ is all up in there...literally, 50 pages of articles about him, not to mention the amount of pictures. However, poor Farrah, maybe 6 pages. I understand her death was expected, but still, I feel like she's being a little overshadowed. To add to the list, Billy Mays! Who would've guessed. Just crazy. I'm not normally into celebrity drama...but 4 deaths (forgot to mention Ed) is just too much to go by without a comment; I guess I felt compelled. 

I worked Jr. Elks this morning. It's a program for Elks members' relatives - kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, etc... The kids, age 7-12, come to the country club Thursdays where I work and golf half the morning, play tennis the other half, then eat and swim in the afternoon. 

The kids were all "jacked up on Mt. Dew" as Ricky Bobby's son would say. I'm pretty positive 3 children were almost seriously injured under my supervision. It's not that I wasn't paying attention to them and telling them what to do; they were so spastic that one second they would be standing nicely to the side watching a tee shot, the next second they're bending down to pick up a dropped Starburst right behind the other kid's backswing. I don't know how many times I yelled "stay behind [insert name]'s ball while they hit or else YOU'RE going to get hit". Today was just a crazy day - last week they were good little kids. Must be the weather. It was abnormally cool today; I think they had extra energy that the heat normally sucks out of them. Only one Jr. Elks Thursday left! 

Oh yeah, had a Dirt Diva softball game tonight. We won 13-3. That's what I'm talkin' about.

Good Chi

Played terrible at Weibring today - first day of two. Terrible.

At least my hair looks good! I got a chi the other day. It really is worth the $100. Geeky picture, I know. 

I've been working with this Intro to Financial Management class all summer. By working, I mean struggling big time. It really, really is not fun. I've got a quiz tonight and normally they open up online to start at about 7:00, which is an hour early because they're supposed to start at 8:00 and allow you 30 minutes. Well, I'm a little concerned because it is now 7:41 and no quiz is available, which means it's probably going to really start at 8 this time, and not give me that extra hour to flip through my notes and re-read everything I've already read to find the answer. I wish I had a photographic memory.

Stoned Wallabies

'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'

With a headline like that, you KNOW it's good. I want to go to Australia to see this firsthand. 

Thanks, Liz!

Bad News Bears

I just got back from Bloomington. B-Town. Great day for golf...NOT. It's glorious temp. wise but it's soooo windy! Everyone that knows me knows I go insane in the wind. I think I'm getting better. I didn't 100% want to commit suicide when I was in it today. I was at about 60%. 

Anyway, I played Weibring Golf Course, which is ISU's home course. It's really nice, but tough - tight fairways, lots of trees, cement greens. Quite challenging. Anywho, Brent and I played a practice round today. We both are playing in the Country Youth Classic tomorrow and Wednesday. As long as it goes better than the State Am. for me I'll be in heaven! WOW, that was a bad tournament...rain the entire time and a tough course on top of that. Definitely got my money's worth in strokes that I took. I'm thinking it can't get much worse than that so I'm kind of looking forward to testing my game against Weibring.

Besides that, I've got a night of softball ahead of me. I assistant coach a little league 10 & Under softball team in Lincoln. I did it last year and really think I'd miss it if I hadn't done it again this year. The girls are goofy and they're at that age that they say dorky things, which is entertainment for me. They just won a double header the other night against our "rival", Mason City. It's so funny to say that they're our rivals, because it's just summer ball. But the girls are finally understanding that it's cool to be competitive, so they showed up to those games like "let's win!!! we have to beat them because they beat us last time and we can't lose anymore to them!" It's really interesting to see how some of them have changed since last year and how they really grow as players. Some of them couldn't throw a ball 15 feet last year and now they're throwing hard and hitting hard and really understanding the game. Anyway, we have pictures tonight and then a double header. Sometimes I think it would be hilarious to act like Billy Bob Thornton in Bad News Bears - but I would hate to see how the parents would react. I'd probably be asked to leave. I was going to include a team photo...but I seem to have lost it. Darn.

Google Me Green

I know, terrible headline. A bit of a play on "tickle me pink"...google me green? It should mean something with the environment - going green and all, but it doesn't. Google me til I'm green with envy of other Erin Semples? No, but anyway...give me a break. It's summer. Brain is half-off.

After being completely inspired by the Jessica Endaya, I just googled myself. Here's what I got. Erin Semple must be a common name because zero of the results have anything to do with me on the first page. The first four or so are social networking sites, a LinkedIn professional profile and some New York, NY facebook accounts. It's after these results that things start getting interesting.

Government security, the number of arrests in the Hollywood Entertainment District in LA, and  school shootings are a few of the headlines that stuck out to me. Unfortunately, I found that these were only topics I have written articles about. 

The one that really gets me is my artist page. Apparently I've been writing since the age of 12 and my songs are emotional and heart felt. Yeah, there's definitely another Erin Semple in this world.

I was a graduate of Waldwick High School in Waldwich, NJ in 1987, and then Pope High School in Marietta, GA in 2000. You can find me on classmates.com.

I'm getting married to Jesse Beck! Bet you've never met him.

Ok, so I'm not the most famous Erin Semple in the world, apparently. I did finally run across the real Erin Semple (me) on Google Page 2 of my search. Just some golf scores from some college tournaments. Anyway, it's nice to confirm that I do exist in the Google world, in case anyone were to search me.

For some laughs, I googled images under my name. The "Charm of the Farm" pic is my fave. I thought the little girl was "Erin Semple", so I started laughing because I live on a farm and could picture that being me if we had sheep when I was little, but turns out it's the article writer Erin Semple that took the picture. Unfortunate, really. I laughed some more, anyway. Oh, and there's a picture of a glass of beer. Just thought I'd throw that out there. That Erin Semple and I just might have something in common, too. :)

'Tis the Season

Tis the season!...for tornadoes, that is. Last year, or maybe two years ago, part of a tree in our yard fell on my bedroom in the middle of the night during a bad storm. I remember hearing a massive crash, jumping out of my bed instantly, and running to the basement thinking that our house was being torn apart by a tornado. Turns out, there was no tornado, at least not by our house...

I reminisced of that day last Thursday at about 5:20 in the a.m. I awoke to really loud wind, really loud rain, and lots of thunder and lightning. I was in the same sleepy state of mind as I was that time the tree tried to flatten my room, so I instantly thought it was a tornado. My mom was working (she works nights) but my dad was home. I was expecting him to be in the kitchen watching the weather, but noooo...he is in his room (right next to mine) sleeping through Hurricane Katrina of the midwest. Here's how that conversation went:

 

"DAD....it's, uh, windy."

"Yeah, it is. Go sleep in Scott's room." 

"Shouldn't we go to the basement? The sirens are going off in Hartsburg."

"I think that's just the furnace."

I am no fool - the sirens were going off five miles from my house. We stayed upstairs, however, "whethering the storm". Anyway, a telephone pole at the end of our driveway snapped during that storm. I took a picture on my phone of them putting it back up...kind of an interesting Thursday. 

Oh, summer...

I've been horribly neglecting my blog, I apologize if it has affected you. I'm realizing that once school gets out, I quit going through my normal routine of "truman email, facebook, hotmail, blog, bank, and, of course, youtube" every single day. I have been somewhat busy. When I came home for summer, I thought I was going to have to find a new job aside from my pro shop duties for fear of having too few hours there. Turns out, after I took on coaching little league, taking two online classes, working the beer cart and playing slowpitch, I have just as many hours as I did last summer at the pro shop. Needless to say, I was a bit overwhelmed...and this is summer. So, of course the first to go was one of two online classes. Who wants to read 50 pages a night about contemporary art, anyway? Not I. 

I had a pretty good May, though. First there was the trip to NYC for my cousin's graduation. I could definitely take that trip once a year. The city is just a whole different world - one where you can never be bored - and where you can see Rock of Ages the musical and drink beer with your mom. :) Had to throw that in there. Have you ever seen "My New Haircut" on YouTube? Met that guy at a bar called McFadden's. I bought him a jager bomb because I had to (watch the video), only to find out they cost $10 a piece. Luckily, I put that one on the credit card for dad to take care of. I know...I'm terrible.

My mom and I took a mini trip to Wisconsin one weekend in May for my nephew's school program. He's almost 4, but he looks pretty young compared to the other kids in his class. He insisted on having his shirt tucked in before the program, so of course he stood with his hands in his pants making sure it stayed that way while he sang...not to mention, in spanish. I was impressed! Goofy kid...

I also made $110 for caddying in the Pro-Am at the State Farm Classic. I'm a college golfer, and I just got paid to carry a bag - I don't think my scholarship is paying me enough!

So, that pretty much sums it up for the end of May! I'll update you on my June life when I get a little more motivated. Something about summer...ahhh.