The Weekend of Firsts

John Denver was once quoted in one of his songs saying... "Thank God I'm a country boy!"

Well I'm here to tell you, that John Denver was full of sh**!

This weekend was a get away weekend for me. Needless to say I had a very bad week, Brandt called me and said that I was gonna come down with him to Mt Pleasant with him to go to our friends sky house for the weekend. Now those of you that do not know, Mt Pleasant is just down the street from Ephraim, where I went to school for one year before my mission. To keep it short and simple.. I hate that town! So I was not really wanting to go. And honestly I was not in much of a mood at all to go out! I told him no a few times but he was a stubborn sucker and told me I was going and I better be ready when I get there! So I did just what my #1 told me to do! It ended up being a week of many firsts for me!

I ended up going down with Brandt, Kendall, Whitney and Sky!



The first night we went to the drive in movies... Kendall's truck defiantly was not a drive in truck... and we could not hear any of the sounds. But it looked good! :-) It was a great night.. we just chilled and talked and played! It was a great thing for me to just get away from the worries and have some stress free fun with great friends... I will say though... That night thanks to me there were 3 very happy girls!! 1 of them was double happy! ;-)

To this point I was starting to understand where Mr Denver was coming from. While I would not like to spend my life in the country it was nice to just get away! But my weekend of firsts was not quite finished.

Saturday we went down to Fairview (which is another hole in Utah) to ride horses! This was the FIRST time I had ever been on a horse!




It ended up being one of the funnest things I have done in awhile... But it didn't start off that way. When we got to Fairview we went to this little arena thing. They started assigning us horses. I was the last one to be assigned. They told me to hop on, so I did. I then continued how to work this thing and they told me to give it a gentle tap in the side to go... So I did! Laffy Taffy (that's the horses name) started to walk. I was thinking inside, "yeah! I can do this its no so hard.." And just then Laffy Taffy wanted to catch up to the other horses and started going faster... and faster.... and faster... and faster! Soon enough it was off! I didn't know what to do, how to control this animal that was 5 times my size, or how to get it to stop. As it approached the group the other horses, that had people on them, started scattering a bit. And everyone had to control their horses! I didn't know what to do and honestly i thought I was in big trouble. Laffy Taffy was not slowing down. All of a sudden i herd sky say, pull back on the ropes!!! So I did and finally got her under control with no damage done to myself! But after that bad incident they decided to put me on the horse called Angel... and mainly cause she was a angel. It was the horse that little girls rode their first times, cause she is so calm. And even if it was 1 step above a pony.. You know what I just had a life threatening moment and was happy to take Angel. Then we continued to ride the horses for about a hour or so, it started hailing, raining. But it was still a blast!

Then later that night we hit up the Hot Pots out there! They are naturally warmed water pots that didn't smell like sulfur! It was real nice and relaxing! It was a great weekend... A weekend I really needed... A weekend of first

First drive in movie with girls, first kisses, first 17 year older, first 40 year older, first time on a horse, first time almost getting killed by a horse, first time to the hot pots. And first time in a long time I was able to get out with my best friends and have a great time! Thank you all that were there! It was a blast!

Living in a girls world!!

... I am blessed to have some wonderful friends in this world... That are willing to do some wonderful things for me! And I appreciate every kind act that comes my way. Recently I discovered that one of my better friends had a hidden talent of knitting! I didn’t think that anyone under the age of 65 even had that talent... I would like to take a min to introduce Wits Knits!!

Founded by young entrepreneur Whitney Lynch, Whits Knits has been around for years. At the young age of 19 Whitney has successfully knitted hundreds of beanies, sweaters, blankets, place mats and much much more! She picked up this talent as she watched Nana Lynch knitting and was quickly fascinated. Her work has been locally agnologed by many and look to as some of the better knits in the whole Utah Valley. I personally have received many knitted goods from Whit in many different styles, and give my Turpy stamp of approval on her work. You can find more about Ms. Lynch at her facebook profile here!

Now even though the work is top quality and unbeatable, you still have to be careful what you are ordering. Recently I got a new white knitted beanie from Whits Nits! I love it! Thick, soft, comfortable, warm... I couldn’t ask for anything better. But tonight I realized that there were some out there who did not appreciate the work as much

 as I and did not like it as much. Tonight we went ou

t on the town a little. Went bowling at Fat cats and got some Frozen Yogurt at Red Mango. To these events I was clothed in the new white knitted beanie that I received form Whits Nits. And I was loving life... But that soon changed toward the end of the night. When we walked into Red Mango the girl at the counter seemed upset that we would enter the facility 15 min before they closed! She mumbled something under her breath which I don’t even want to know what was said! As we were eating the less then good frozen yogurt a conversation came up about my wonderful beanie! As I was bragging up my beanie by BFF brandtly decided to ask a few girls there if they liked the beanie. The problem was h

e went to the girl at the counter that didn’t even want us in her store. He asked her what she thought... As I modeled the beanie for her the girl the first thing she said is... "I think its lame when guys wear hats when it’s not winter" Besides the fact that we did not ask if it was adequate weather for the beanie, and she didn’t answer the question. It was brutally rude! I looked at her and said... "Its 40 degrees outside!" As she realized that I had a point and that the beanie was appropriate for the weather she told me that it looked like a girls beanie. I was pissed! Who would say such a thing? Even if she didn’t like it you don’t say that to a complete stranger!! I had my friend Krista model it and she said that it looked better on her than me! At this

 point I was furious!! I wanted to drop a few swear words.. But I didn’t! I swallowed my pride and forgot about it!

So that’s it. A beanie I love and a girl I don’t... which to I believe? My instinct or someone else’s? After many many hours of contemplation of what I should do I have decided to leave it up to you! You tell me if it looks good or if I should give it to my sister? Vote below! At the end I will do whatever the general public tells me to do... I am leaving my fashion future in your hands. The only thing I ask is you think deeply before making a decision! Thanks

Dating goes online....

Since the beginning of time man has had something deep down inside him that makes him need a woman. Something that drives him to fill the other side that is empty that only seems to be filled with the company of a female. I’m sure when the first men stepped foot on the earth, man looked at woman, I’m sure she was in the nude, and within the first 10 seconds of the earth’s creation the attraction a man feels was felt for the very first time as he saw woman standing there among the trees and bushes, wearing the same thing that each one of us wear coming into this world... NOTHING! Also from the first 10 seconds of history woman had a crazy hold upon man! I’m sure back in the day man tried to find any way to impress woman, and since then tactics may have changed but the idea is the same!

When Mr. and Ms Turpin were young, before the conceived the very good looking man in 1984, things were different. When a man wanted a woman, he went down to the local burger joint or the drive up theatre to watch Grease! As times change so do the tactics used by man. The drive up theatre is almost inexistent, and those that are left are not good places to find the female race… burger joints? I don’t think McDonalds is the place to go sat night.... so these days where do men go to satisfy that side that needs woman!?!?..... ONLINE!!

Technology changes and finding new people gets easier and easier to do from the comfort of your own home. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and many more! Well sooner or later no matter who you are. You will become victim of this tactic!

Tonight Brandt and I went out to hang out with 2 females.... They were not girls we worked with, we don’t go to school, and church? we haven’t been to our ward for weeks upon weeks. How did we first contact these girls?.... Facebook! 24 hours ago Brand and I were sitting on the couch after our search for our Applebees hotties! Unsuccessfully we sat watching the NBA game wondering where we can find them... At that moment my good looking buddy Brandt received a IM on Facebook... It read something like.. "Do i know you?... If not we should change that!" It was a girl that Brandt thought he knew but as the friendship was accepted and we looked closer at the photos we realized we did not know her. But she sure wanted to get to know Brandtly... 24 hours later we had set up a meeting at Iggies with the mysterious Facebook friend and her friend! We got there, unfortunately had to wait a extra 20 min for them to show up since they were late, but once they showed up we went in to get food... Now I’m not gonna go into details! The dinner was good, the girls were cute and cool but that is not the reason of this post! Could it be possible that picking girls up online has become a mainstream thing and not creepy? Or if a girl gets a friendship invite from a random man are their first instinct to think they are a creepo!?! I have come up with a few ideas to take the online picking up to a whole new level...

1) Online Speed Dating - Webcam and a mic is a must!
2) Online State Street - People drive virtually up and down the street in their car until they find one that has a cute looking girl. With the keys on the keyboard you try to signal them to pull over... Once they do then a face to face chat will start where you can chat online and maybe go to the next lever and meet in person

It just makes me wonder how far this whole thing will go... What about a virtual conference wedding? Who knows!! Tonight was good for us, and currently is good for Brandt as I sit home blogging to the world. But my entrepreneur side is thinking that there is something big that will come out soon.. A social pickup website. I should invest now!!