The Utah Return

Once again i go months without a entry... Last time I wrote i was livin it up in Boston for work. I was out there with some good people and had lots of fun times. While i was out there there were a few highlights that are Turpy-World worthy... If you are reading this on Facebook... Be sure ti visit Turpy-World (http://www.turpyworld.blogspot.com) for the videos that facebook removes.

The Celtics/Magic Game 6

We got tickets to go see the 6th game of the Orlando Magic and Boston Celtics... Even though i am a avid Utah Jazz fan and would never support a team over the Jazz. I am a NBA fan in whole, and i love going to any sports events! The game itself was a complete blow out and the Magic dominated, but it was a great experience. I got to see the Boston Garden!

Possibly the coolest thing happened to me this year was at the game though! All my life i have tried to get on the jumbotron at the Jazz games. I have tried many signs, face paint... I have done it all and have been unseccessfull! As we were sitting there at the Celtics game all of a sudden a guy walked out with a camera... What was this camera for? Was it a stadium camera? TNT? Regardless of why it was there, there was one thing for sure! I was gonna try and get him to film me. Carson and I stood up yelling and screaming! He was going side to side looking for the perfect combination of enthusiasm, and beauty. All of a sudden everything just fell perfectly into place. The music started playing! And it was a perfect song! Carson and I synchronized out dance moves and before we knew it we were picked with the perfect combination. We did it! We were on the jumbotron. And it wasn't like "oh look there is Brandon in the back... if you squint!" No the whole jumbotron was taken by Carson and I! It was like a life long goal that i had accomplished

The other great event on Boston was 1 weekend I had Brittney come visit me. We went around and did tourist things and i got to see all the fun, cool parts of Boston.

Thefirst thing we did, before even going back to the apartment, was go on the Duck Tour. This was a WWII vehicle that looks like a boat... probably cause it is.

It drives on land but can also go right into the water as a boat. We went around and saw a few cool places and herd a lot about the history of Boston. Then we dipped in the water for a tour on the water. Our tour guide was Sven the Viking! He was a tool! Brittney and I were the last ones on the Duck so we were stuck in the very front right next to Sven. He came on the vehicle wearing a viking hat, tight shirt, and a wool skirt that made it half way to his knees.. This man was not a man that can say he was in shape either! Right as he comes on the first thing he does is check all the safety features... Unfortunately for us it just happened to be right in front of us... On the ground so he had to bend over! His butt was within inside voice distance... And i know she wont admit it, but i cought Britt taking a peek! ;-)

After we got off the Duck tour it started pouring rain! Rain so hard that we had nowhere to hide from it. It felt like each drop was 2 inches in diameter and we were blocks from out car. We ran all the way to the mall to get cover, but by that time we were soaked to the bone. As we walked through the mall we noticed a abundance of weird people dressed up like it was Halloween! With neon hair, swards, capes, bunny ears, you name it, and it was there! We were baffled on the reason why so many people were like this. As we were looking for a exit we stumbled across a convention center that was full of hundreds of these weirdos.. All dressed up so weird! As we walked we noticed that we had entered the Anime Convention. They were everywhere! I couldn't help but take a video of these people! And the sick thing is most were wearing outfits that i would not recommend! Big girls in mini skirts, white pale guys with pot guts in a belly shirt! We could not help but laugh as they passed us. And they couldn't help but notice that we were laughing at them! :)

Fire And Ice

Later that night we went out to eat at a place called Fire and Ice. This place was the bomb. You go in and it is a all you can eat style restaurant. There are tables of veggies, meats, sea food, salads and flavors. You get a bowl, go get all the food you can fit in it. Once you fill it up you get any flavors you may want and take it over to a huge grill that is positioned in the middle of the restaurant. They take your food and place it on the grill and grill it all right in front of you, then they place it on a plate and you eat! The great thing is you can go back as many times as you want! And it isn't cheep chuck a rama food! They has shrimp, crab legs, steak... Good food! And all that for just $14 a person. I decided to top the dinner off with a nice Italian Lemonade... Little did i know that the main ingredient was liquor!

About a week after that I had made the decision to come back to Utah. I felt really bad letting down my good friends out there. I was out there with my college room mate John Gay! And my manager Malko it was very hard to tell them that i was coming home. It was mainly for personal reasons. When i was out there i did good and was selling OK! But over time i had lost my motivation and selling was getting harder and harder to motivate myself to do. And since i was confident that i could come back and find a good job i decided to make the county side trip again back to Utah.

I left Monday morning about 3pm EST (5pm MST) and drove for 11 hours strait till 2am EST (4am MST) i slept that night until 8am EST (10am MST) and went to the gas station to fill my car up. I went in the bathroom and gave myself a quick wash, washing the important things to avoid being dirty (face, hands, pits, and even feet) then hit the road again driving this time till 3am EST (5am MST) 18 strait hours stopping only for gas! I slept for 3 hours and then finished the trip the rest of the 7 hours home to old Utah.

There are many things that happen to the human mind being alone all that time.. the following video is a demonstration of just the type of games your mind can start to play on you.. and did play on my on a regular basis durring the drive home! :)

It is good to be back, there were many things i missed, but for those of you out in Boston i do miss you a lot! I regret that we were never able to hit the clubs.. although we defiantly did try many times before!

I am happy with where things are right now. I am confident and positive that the decision to return was the right one, even though it was a very tough decision to make!

For now I look forward to hang out with those of you that went through Turpy withdrawals while i was gone.. I have seen a few and apologize that i can not see you all in the same night! But don't worry! You are on the list and you will get your Turpy-Time soon enough!

The Transition to the East Coast!

So it has been quite some time since i have blogged! For all the dedicated readers I apologize it wont happen again, but now it is time to catch everyone up on what has happened in the past few weeks... I have quite a few stories...

The Drive Out

Well the trip out here was.... HELL!!! I drove 2400 miles cross country.... ALONE! It was the most boring time i have ever experienced. I started Sunday morning at 11:00am The plan was to get to Omaha NE and spend the night in a hotel there! I bought a car charger for my phone before i left and downloaded a gps application so i could find my way no problems.. Well about a hour into the trip i found out the hard way that the charger was not working and since the gps was on the whole hour the battery was dead... I was not sure exactly where to go. I went as far as i could remember then got off in a Cheyenne to get a new charger. First T-mobile did not exists there so there was no t-mobile store. I found a walgreens that had crap charges so i went on a hunt for a walmart. I was directed from a very disgusting associate at walgreens. After a hour i finally found the walmart and bought the charger... plugged it in and my phone still would not charge! WTF? I didn't know what to do, i didn't know where to go! I figured maybe the charger was bad as well so i found a wall outlet at a gas station to plug it in. But that did not work either.. i was pissed! Figured my G1 was busted! i sat there letting it sit plugged into the charger... thinking of what to do. So i took the battery off and found out that the battery was half out so it would not charge! Once i got some juice i got back on the road! I arrived in Omaha at 3am which was 30 min too late for check in! I worked with them and they gave me a room without having to check in.

The next day i drove for 6 hours to chicago. I got a hotel online from hotwire.com and it put me in the McDonalds Hamburger University Lodge! When i got there i was thinking what the Hell did i get myself into? I checked in and it was actually quite nice! I was happy! That night i went out and hung out wiht one of my friends that i had not seen in over a year! Susie! It was good to see her we went and had some chicago style pizza and jsut chilled! The next day i set off to finish the drive! another 14 hours to boston. At about 3 am i started getting tired so i pulled off the toll road to one of the rest areas and slept till almost noon the next day! Then i finished my trip the next morning!

Time in Boston

I have been here in the Boston area for a few weeks now. It is a lot different! Everything is old. The roads are crazy, and they people are different! Very nice but in their own way can be jerks! We have drove downtown a few times only do get lost in some underground tunnel that goes under the whole city! I have met a new good friend out here.. I would like to introduce everyone to Ri Ri the Security Guy!

He is a good man we have had lots of fun from getting lost going to church and having to pay $7 for driving through a parking garage or getting lost every time we drive around!

I am also out here with my good friend John Gay (Burch) from the snow college days!

Best Experience

I think the best experience out here this far has just been the fresh start. Even though i miss home and cant wait to get back. It was a way for me to put all my worries aside, and start fixing everything i had been lacking! I fell like i have changed a lot of personal things that will help me be a better person!

Worse Experience!

this one was a toss up... It may have been the drive its self! But i already told ya bout that so the close 2nd was the man in the park...

So there i was on a warm MA day working my butt off! I had to go get some paperwork signed by a customer i was working with. I went to their place and got it and drove to a secluded parking lot to fill out the rest. As i was sitting there in my car, another car drove by! He was inspecting my car. First thing that went through my mind. "oh perfect another person paranoid about a Utah car in their neighborhood!" the car parked close to me but not next! As i was filling out my paperwork i would look up from time to time. And he was looking! Great i was just ready for the police to show up! It was only a matter of time cause im sure this paranoid old man called them! then he got out of his car! Started walking over to my car! Inspecting the car as he passed, looking at the plates, lookin at the side of the car! Man this guy was super paranoid! He came over to my window! I didnt wanna deal with this! As i rolled down my window i could only imagine what he was going to say to me... But i defiantly was not prepared for what i was about to hear... As i rolled the window down i said "hey, what can i do for ya" he looked at me then said "oh just thought i would come see how you were doing" pffewf i thought, just a crazy man looking for a friend... And that he was, i was just not aware up to that point what kind of friend he was really looking for. After a moment of silence he asked me "so what ya up to?" I quickly replied "just doing some paperwork before i get back to work, what you up to?" That was the wrong question! I should have realized that i was not in Utah no more! That statement was like a open invitation! He quickly casually replied "oh you know, just lookin for some sex!" WTF! Did i just hear that right? Was he trying to pick up on me? That sick old degenerate man!! I was appalled sooo much that i didn't know what to say! The only thing that came out was "well big guy i think your lookin in the wrong place! maybe you should go find yourself a good looking girl." The old man was crushed! He put everything he had into a young, good looking, hansom, in shape, good looking, cool, nice, good looking man! As he walked off he said well,, you never know!

I was so disgusted! I had never been picked up by a man before! And if i did, i didn't want the first one to be a old creepy man! I didn't ever want a man to pick up on me, but i would like to think that if i did ever butter that side of the bread that i could get a decent young man! If that is what is waiting for me on the other side of the place... than no thank you! I will stay where i am! I like my team!

Like Kids In A Candy Store

So this year I celebrated my 25th birthday! For the first time in my life I felt old, the first time ever I felt like my dad always said about me! And i don't like it, I miss being a kid. And even though 25 really isn't that old and i am still in the prime of my youth, I still like from time to time like to go back in time... And today was the best day that i have had in years.

When i was a wee lad me and my family lived over in Orem over on center street. One of my favorite placed to go when i was a toddler was a place called Chuck-e-Cheese! And i had not been there since i was 8 or 9.

This is the last week before I leave for Boston, I have been saying goodbye and hanging out with a few of my close friends. Today I hung out with my good friend Megan, and we visited that place that I used to love as a kid. Chuck-e-Cheese!

Today was the best day of my life, from the time we walked in there was a special magical feeling in the air. The music, sounds, smell... Everything about the place reminded me of my time as a young kid! As we sat down to enjoy our pepperoni and olive pizza, we watched the show of chuck himself and his friends sing to us. Then we went to play some games, and ride some rides. With $10 in tokens we had hours of fun. Ski Ball, Shooter, Basketball... and much much more! Every ticket that we won we donated to the cutest kid in the room at the time. Each time the kid would smile and get all excited like we gave them gold!

Then the last thing we did before we left was have chuck-e-cheese sketch a photo of the great time we had! It took a few takes but we finally got Megan to not laugh and hold the pose!

I would have to say that this was by far the best experience i have had in a long time. Some people may mock me, say that it is not fun, but those people are stupid! Even though maybe most the games were not made for people over the age of.... 10! It was fun to just go out and do something different!

Dating Goes Online Pt 2

Ok so reciently i posted about how the world was changing.  How when i was a kid we didnt have internet or text message, or IM.. Heck we didnt even have a computer.  But with the recent technology changes everythign is going online from finding new friends, to finding a wife!  If you did not read it you can check it out HERE

With the sudden change i figured instead of being like my old man and make fun of kids these days i would become one and join them...  So i did it, no i am not engaged, I went online to find a date.  Was i going seriously?  Absolutly not! But i had fun in the mean time.   I found a few places that i would like to introduce as a motive of findind that special someone out there, or a new person to just hang out with.

1)  SpeedDate.com - I stumbled upon this as a application on facebook but aparently you do not need to have facebook to use,  you can just go directly to the website!   Basicly what SpeedDate is just regular speed dating but all online.  When you log in the system will find a person near you that you can chit chat with.  It pulls the person up. You have 3 min to talk to the person they match you with.  At the end of the 3 min you have to say if you liked the person or not.  If you both click yes then you are SpeedDate buddies that you can talk to at any time you are online.  I want to give you a short example of what a conversation consists of.

katiemae2007, 19 of Denver, CO

brandonturpin: hey you are beautiful!1

katiemae2007: :-) thanks

katiemae2007: how are you?

brandonturpin: im alot better now i finaly got someone cute on here! 

katiemae2007: lol

katiemae2007: thats good

brandonturpin: i would def have to say you are the best i have seen!

brandonturpin: whats your name?!?

katiemae2007: :-)

katiemae2007: Katie

brandonturpin: katie! Thats a good name!

brandonturpin: katie Turpin... Hmmmm that has a ring to it!

katiemae2007: ppl call me Katie Mae

brandonturpin: Katie mae Turpin!! Beautiful!!

katiemae2007: lol ;) thanks

brandonturpin: I wish i had another 3 min to talk to you!
katiemae2007: ad me on msn kt_aldrich07@hotmail.com

2)  PlentyOfFish.com - This is a free dating website that anyone can join!  This is jsut a basic dating website, but i like cause girls can vote on your picture and rate how hot they think you are... You can then view what everyone voted on your website... I would like to show you the top 3 people who find me the most attractive on plentyoffish.com

This is the photo I have on the website

Top Turpy Voter

This is Cristine219x  click here to see her

She Rated me a 9

Her name is Cris she is 20 yrs old. she used to dance doing ballet..jazz..etc.. she is a really nice girl, down to earth, i can get along with just about anyone she def a smartass but she also knows when to be serious.  She knows what she is looking for in a guy so you could say shes picky..but thats not a bad thing.. she is looking for someone between the ages of 20-26ish..someone whos nice but not toooo nice.they need that tough side :P anyways she likes to hangout with friends go out have a good time but she also loves watching movies just relaxing :).  she is extremely trustworthy shes never cheated nor will she ever...umm.. She absoultely LOVES animals..She donates to the aspca..and she thinks everyone should.. she does not know what else to say lol...if you want to know more then find me on her space my space dot com / cristineanne

This is solobigblue click to visit  

He Rated me a 9 DAMN HOMO

He is looking for a all time good person!  Im not going to go into detail cause he is a guy but i wanted to put him on here so he can be forced to come out of the closet! 

This is Kaitt1 click here to see

She rated me a 9

This is kait, she is 18 and goes to college, she is studying fashion journalism and photography... she's not here for dating just looking to hang out.. if youre twice my age or only interested in getting in her pants, dont bother. she doesnt really know what else to write.. she is fun and laid back and she wants to meet interesting people..

So that is it!  My overall success was pretty good!  I have learned alot of things I think the 1 thing you would have to remember when picking up online is...

1) Have fun!!!!   

Thats it!  I dont have any dates from it, nor do i think i will try.  (you never know though)  But i did have fun while i was doing it!!

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