Laura is up and running

Hey everybody, Laura has a new post up!!!!! Checked it out. You might have a few good belly laughs!!!! Just click on the title of this post and you will be connected.

Me in a Nutshell

8 jobs I have had
1. My first job was for the YMCA. I was 15 and I was field manager. I sat at the baseball field for four hours and made sure I gave necessary notes to the different coaches. I slept most of the time. This job didn't last long. I forgot to tell my boss that I went on a trip and so I missed a few shifts. Once I found out that I had missed shifts I never went back. I am not proud of it but that is what happened.

2. Juice man at Jamba juice. I have worked here on three different occasions. Once before my Junior year of High School. The second time was when I was living in Provo right after my mission. The third time was the following summer.

3. Daycare supervisor. I loved this job. I played with kids all day. We went on field trips to the pool, the zoo, and other fun places. However, I was always really tired after I was done. I don't know how Mom does it.

4. Mail opener. I received, opened and sorted lots of mail for the Dish Network. The most memorable part of this job was working with a really weird guy named Kevin. He had quite the history and if 1/4 of it was true he would have lived quite the life. ex-he owned over a million dollars worth of toys that he kept in his basement.

5. I was the official cantaloupe cutter at the Cannon center. The only cool thing about this job was the machine that was designed to cut the rind off. I hurt my knee after working here for about a month and I couldn't work anymore.

6. I worked at the Malt Shoppe at the same time as I worked at Jamba Juice after getting home from my mission. I hated it. I swore that I would never work in the food industry again. Although I became the face of the Malt Shoppe because I always worked the register.

7. After my second surgery, while I was recovering, I worked at the same plastic factory as Drew and Kristen. Very boring!!! This was only for a few weeks.

8. I have been working at the MTC teaching Japanese for almost 3 years now. I love the missionaries and the daily dosage of the spirit that comes along with the job.

Places I have lived
1. Jefferson City, MO (birth-6 years)
2. Littleton, CO (6years-19years)
3. Provo, UT (19, and 21-25years)
4. In and around Hiroshima Japan (19-21years)

Favorite foods
1. Barbeque Pork steaks with fried Potatoes
2. Little Bread Things
3. Mom's meatballs (Come to my wedding reception because we will have plenty)
4. Poullet de Normandy
5. Okonomiyaki (This can only be found in Japan. A cabbage pancake)

Top Five movies
1. Life is Beautiful
2. Contact
3. Miracle
4. Hoosiers
5. Karate Kid

Top Five shows
1. Lost
2. 24
3. Seinfield
4. March Madness
5. College Football national championship (USC vs. TEXAS)

Four weird things about me
1. I randomly start choking while I am eating. I have yet to find a pattern to this phenomenon. However, I can now recgonize when it is coming on so I just stop eating until it passes. For the longest time I have thought this was due to scar tissue built up in my esophagus because of a previous injury (abrazed esophogus). I do not believe this anymore. Drew is a witness to this.

2. I have been in one official fight and I lost. This was in first grade and I have never fought again.

3. I hate wearing sandals. This is a big difference between me and Laura. The woman will wear flip-flops in below freezing weather. I don't know why but my feet need to feel protected.

4. I like to feel in charge. If I am in a situation and no one else takes charge I automatically feel like I am the one in charge. Very strange!!

Toughest Foster
1. All Foster women that have given birth
2. Tyler Foster
3. Matt Foster
4. Drew Foster ?- this one is up for grabs. I picked Drew because he runs a lot and experiences more pain than most of us.

I think I choose Ty because I have seen him in action more than Matt. However, when I try to picture Ty and Matt in a cage fight I have a hard time imagining a winner.

Humbled

I have tried on 3 or 4 different occasions to figure out how to get Laura's blog linked to mine. I have failed on all 3 attempts. Why make it so hard? I can't read the stupid HTML stuff. Anyway, the link is www.sunflowerpuppy.blogspot.com. I have failed my future wife on my first attempt to provide. Someone else do it for me. Later

What is my Part?

It is late, or early, and I am getting ready to go to bed but I just felt like writing a blog. Today at about 5 oclock my roomate and myself decided to go help search for Camille Cleverly. We went to a neighborhood just south of Seven Peaks and knocked on some doors and asked the residents if they had seen any strange behavior from their neighbors and if they would search their property for anything out of the ordinary. Most people were very willing and sympathetic to the situation. What a terrible situation? It is getting to the point that one can only start to assume the worst. As I was knocking on doors my mind and heart turned to Camille's mother and what she must be feeling right now. I can not imagine. It got to the point where I felt like we must do anything and everything we can to help her.
However, after about 2 hours of knocking on doors and searching through a suspicious field I found myself battling inside of my head. One part of me felt like "I have done my part, I want to get back to what I was doing." The other half of my brain was asking the deep and profound question, "what exactly is my part here?" Am I done when I am satisfied? Is this over when she is found? Or when the abductor is found and punished? When is my part done? Obviously, there is a limit to what I can add in aiding Camille. Can I or should I ever be satisfied with what I've done? Especially when the problem continues to exist.
When does someone else's problem become mine? There is obviously not a right answer to that question. When is my part done? Or should it ever be done? I don't know. There are so many problems and people that are needy. No one person could possibly take responsibility for all of it. The main issue for most of us would be time and awareness. Often, more than we think, those who need something that we could provide are standing right in front of us and we don't even know it.
I want to solve the world's problems. I want to take suffering away. I want people to laugh instead of cry, I want there to be educated and self motivated individuals in place of demoralized poverty stricken homeless men and women. I wish I could take it all away. What is my part?
I stand in awe of Jesus Christ. He did suffer all the bad and pain the world can dish out. He understands the feelings that of mother with a daughter that is missing. He know the thoughts of the seemingly thoughtless homeless man. He feels the pain of the lonely widow, the devistated mother, the angry man. All of this weighed and continues to weigh on his heart and mind. Why doesn't he stop it? Why not just heal the wounded heart? There must be some kind of purpose behind the suffering. There must be a reason for the crying. I simply just can't understand what it is. But perhaps that is my part. Faith in Jesus Christ. Trust in the His atonement and His teachings. There is a path to freedom from sin. There is an oasis of peace right in the middle of the desert of pain, sin, and heartache. I believe in the promises of Jesus Christ. I believe in the resurrection. I believe in the covenants I have made with him and I believe that He can deliver fully the blessing He has promised. I suppose that is my part, faith in every footstep. What else is there to do?

BYU FOOTBALL

I am getting pumped up for the football season!!!!! I believe that BYU is going to have a great season. I have talked to several people that have told me that we lost to many key players from last year to be really good this year, but I disagree. We are going to have a very tough defense and we have some great returners on offensive. We have got Manase Tonga and Fui Vakapuna in the backfield. We've got Michael Reed, Ausin Collie, and Matt Allen at the receiver postition. I have been reading some really good stuff about Max Hall. He has had a while to get to know our system and I think he can be very productive. Lastly, we've got Bronco Mendenhall running the show as the coach. I have become a huge Bronco fan. Not only because we have been winning but he has done a great job of restoring peoples faith in the football program. (faith that was lost under Crowton) BYU Football is back and we are going to have a fun season. If nothing else I think they are going to be a fun team to watch.

Miss Laura Ann Knight

I know everyone would like to see a picture Laura and I found this one on our ward website. She is great!!!!!!! It is amazing that she would even talk to me with my hair looking like that. She's very forgiving. :)









No, we are not getting married.

A busy few weeks

It is midnight on a Wednesday night and I can't sleep. So I thought would write a blog about a few of the things that I have been up to the last couple of weeks since Iron Springs.

Perhaps the biggest most exicting thing I did was this last weekend. Me and a few friends went hiking down in Moab. What a place!!!!! i have to say that I was very impressed the beauty that can be found in a burning hot desert with very few trees.

We were able to hike up to delicate arch and walk around it. Most of the National Parks I have been to you can only look at the cool things that they have there but at arches you can hike up to them and climb all over them. We actually hiked there in the middle of the night and it was hard to see the surroundings but it was still very impressive.


DELICATE ARCH

My favorite arch out of the few that we saw was definitely double arch. We were there right as the sun was setting and the light was shining through one of the arches and made it quite a spectacular view.


Double arch

In the middle of the afternoon we were all burning up so we decided to go swimming in the river and we found this really cool spot to go cliff jumping. It was a lot of fun and felt very good to cool off a little bit.



All in all it was a very fun trip. Moab was awesome and it was fun to go with some of the people from my ward and have a good time. I can't believe that I have lived in Utah for almost 4 years and I have never taken a trip to Moab before now. I hope I can go back before I am out of here. i also want to try and make it down to Zions. I have heard that it is equally impressive.


Manrichment

I was asked to be in charge of manrichment again this summer and we had a good time. This time around we went for the manliness man competition. There were events like the car pull (power), Shakespeare quotes (the cultured man), wall sit (endurance), the tie tie (finger dexterity), Book of Mormon game (spiritual man), a burping comptetion (I'm not sure what this was testing but it was fun). We had about 15 men show up and I am sad to say that I failed miserably. There were about 8 or 9 men in front of me. Very sad.


This is me trying to hold up a couple of cars for as long as I can. We had a some elder's arms pop right off, but it was all worth the entertainment.

Marriage

I have been surrounded by marriage for the last month and a half. Not only am I living in Provo in a singles ward that has been very successful in cranking out marriages in the last year )I think there have been well over 20 couples get married this year), but three of my four roommates are engaged and in various stages of engagement bliss. In the next 4 weeks I know of 5 couples getting married and they are all good friends of mine. It is a lot of fun but also slightly annoying. I have heard quite a bit of lovy dovy words, I have witness a lot of staring into each others eyes, I have heard a lot of love songs.

All my roommates are good men and have found themselves good women. I wish the best of luck to them.

Missionaries

I have been rehired at the MTC and I love working with missionaries. They can be very frustrating at times, but there is no other place on the earth like the MTC. You have a bunch of 19-21 year old men and women racking their brains to learn dozens of different languages, while trying to learn how to teach the gospel, and all the while becoming very aware of their own personal flaws and weaknesses. And they do it voluntarily. I love them for their faith, sacrifice, and courage. there is no better feeling than watching a 19 year old kid realize that he has it in himself to be blessing in other's lives, to catch on to the fact that he (and usually his family) has something that the rest of the world needs and to watch his attitude morph into the idea that "I will give my whole self to this cause because THEY need it, because Christ wants it." I love the missionaries.


i hope you enjoyed a look into my past couple of weeks. Keep smiling everybody. Life is good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The MICK

To the man that gave me life
And married himself a wonderful wife,

It is always nice to know
that when I need money there is somewhere to go

It is always nice to see
A man willing to give and me willing to receive

It is always nice to say
"I am a Foster" all the way

It is always nice to have
A father to call and share a good laugh

It is always good to feel
A father's love and know it is real

What makes your father so great? they regulary inquire
My father is honest, true, faithful and the bass leader in the choir

To the man who put meaning into my name
A name I carry with no regrets or shame

I say thanks for your life, your friendship, and money
and thanks for marrying the woman you call honey

Yes, I am proud to be on the roster
Of the team captained by Mickey Foster

A funny joke

I have no idea why I thought this was funny, but I am pretty sure mom will appreciate my joke.

What is bright yellow and weighs 500 pounds?


































two 250 lb canaries.

Thank you for your many comments about the picture that I posted. I must say that I take offense to being called disproportionate and "porky." Although the argument can certainly be made that I am, in the words of Dad, "all jacked up," this is in reference mainly to my extremeties. When it comes to sheer looks I am clearly the best looking out of all of us. (and don't ask your wives if they think you are better looking than me because that don't mean a thing to me. They're your wives for Pete's sake)

Anyway, Drew was correct in noticing the height discrepancy between himself and myself. I am about two or three inches shorter than him in the picture. Jeff towers over me by a good 6 inches. Mark, who in real life isn't more than an inch taller than me, appears to be able to look down on me from his lofty heights of six foot nothing. For some reason I appear to be very short in the picture. At first I thought it was because you couldn't see my legs and I was standing spread eagle or something like that. This isn't the case because at a close examination my legs are clearly visible. I really can't explain why I appear so short in the picture. Perhaps it is the camera lens or maybe it is my bad posture, I don't know, but what I do know is that I am most cerainly taller than Drew. Shrimp!!!!

What is wrong with this picture?

This is a picture that was taking at Matt and Wendi's wedding. I apologize for the poor quality. It is the best I could do with taking a picture of a picture. I was looking at it the other day and something just didn't seem right to me. Try and guess what it is.

The Goose is Loose

This is Guzy running his heart out. He broke his PR with a 1:52.37. When you throw altitude into the equation it is equal to a 1:51.9. Not too shabby. He is only going to get faster from here. Go Guzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My theory about my knee
To save some time I first need to explain a little bit about the anatomy of the knee. My theory is mainly about the ACL and the hamstrings. It is important to realize that these two structure have a close and very important relationship. The ACL serves the purpose of keeping your tibia in place. More specifically it limits anterior (forward) movement of the tibia in relation to the femur.
You have three muscles in your hammies, the biceps femoris(red), the semimembranosus(orange), and the semitendinosus(purple). They all originate on the ischial tuberosity (fanny bone). However, all three insert (distal attachment) at a different spot. The biceps femoris attaches on the head of the fibula, the semimebranosus attaches to the back side of the medial epicondyle (back inside of your knee), the semitendinosus wraps around the front of your knee and attaches on the anterior (front) medial (inside) aspect of your tibia. These origins and insertions are critical to knowing and understanding the different movements caused by the muscles. All three muscle cause flexion of the knee. However, our knee can also rotate internally and externally. Bend your knee to 90 degrees and turn your toes inward (internal rotation) and then outward (external rotation). The biceps femoris is primarily responsible for external rotation. The semimembranosus and semitendinosus are responsible for internal rotation. I know there is a good chance that some might have any idea what I am talking about, Dad, but it is important to understand the mechanics of the knee to understand my theory.
One more important role of the hammies. Because the biceps femoris and semitendinosus wrap around the knee, they play an important role in preventing anterior gliding of the tibia on the femur. Also, the ACL is must susceptible to tear when the knee is in a rotated position. For instance if I am cutting to the basket and plant my leg in a position that is forcing external rotation, then my semitendinosus will contract to hold my knee in place and keep the bones from moving to much in the wrong direction.
Next important thing for you to understand in order understand my theory. When I tore my ACL for the first time Dr. M decided to use a hamstring graph. This requires a cool instrument that runs along the tendon of the semitendonosus and shaves off a chunk large enough to serve as your ACL. The doctors then drill some holes and screw this graph into place. The semitendonosus tendon is left to hypertrophy and grow back to normal size. I did not know this until recently. I had also thought that they had just taken the entire tendon and had somehow tied my semitendonosus into my semimembranosus.
I specifically remember a moment during my first recovery when I thought for a short time I had retorn my ACL. It was my freshman year and all of my friends and roomates were playing snow football. I had decided to sit and watch (I was still in my brace). As I was getting up to leaving I felt a pull and what I thought was a snap in the back of my leg. I think I probably hyperextended it slightly. I thought I had retorn my ACL, I went and laid in my bed terrofied at what I had just done. I woke in the morning my knee felt okay, I had a check up in a week and my ACL was still there when the doctor checked. So I just forgot about it. You all know the rest of the story, I have continued to hurt and retear my ACL and other knee structures over and over again.
My theory is this: that day when I thought I had torn my ACL I acually tore the tendon of my semitendinosus. This makes sense, mainly because it is easy to feel that my right knee has a tendon where the semitendonosus should be when my left knee does not. The semitendonosus causes internal rotation and will help control excessive external rotation. the third time I tore my ACL occured when I was driving the lane and jumped of my left leg to the right. this action must of caused excessive external rotation and the semitendonousus is meant to restrict that. However, I did not have a semitendonosus and therefore my knee twisted to much and my ACL popped. I remember feeling that external twisting of my knee as I felt the ligament tear. I haven't run this theory by Dr. Noonan yet but I plan on doing so and seeing what he thinks. If I am incorrect I am curious to know why I am missing that tendon.
What does this mean? absolutely nothing. Except that now I think that I know what is wrong and that gives me some peace of mind. Thank you for reading this.

The Beginning of a Wonderful Career
I can now say that I have been a model two times in my life. Once it was because of my beautiful hair. This time because of my class and dashing good looks. These are a few the pictures of me modeling a tuxedo. I don't know if you can tell but I am wearing a chocolate colored tux. I guess they are in style now. To anyone who might stumble upon these pictures, please feel free to forward them to any of your single friends.

These are all of the volunteers that helped out. Sorry you can't really see

I am glad I didn't have a white tux or a girly purple or pink vest.

Adam's CD cover
This baby is going to rock

The Playlist
1. The Roads We Walk
2. Dreamgirl
3.Off the Ground
4. Awake My Soul
5. Brad's Song

I think it is going to be entitled RISE and not Arise but I need to talk to my roomate about changing that. A guy in my ward took the picture, and my roomate Doug added the lettering. There is going to be a release party sometime before the end of the semester. Rock on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Why I love my Mom!!!

-She is the kindest person I know.
-She knows me better than anyone and is willing to give me advice.
-She will support me in any decision I make. (except to play tackle football)
-She loves me
-She has taken care of me innumerable times when I couldn't do it myself.
-She is a great cook
-She did my laundry for 19 years. (I had no idea how annoying laundry was until I started doing it)
-She is funny
-She cares for everyone around her. She is very unselfish
-She has raised a great family

Happy Valentines Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could write more but I have to go to class.
I love you Mom!!!!

WELCOME TO LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
















I took a break from studying today and was looking at despair.com. DESPAIR is my favorite one. DREAMS also gets a laugh everytime.

The Human Heart

It is amazing what one can feel all at the same time. I have this constant feeling that I need to be working harder at getting into Med school. The main task I am faced with right now is the MCAT. I want to study a lot for it so that I will do well. However, this would jeopardize the time I feel like I need to spent on school in order to keep my GPA high. I have three different labs this semester all of which take 3x to much time. I asked a girl out last night for tomorrow night and I am pretty excited about it. There is another girl I want to ask out for Saturday, but I am not sure if she will be able to or even want to. There are several people in the ward that I am aware of that need some special attention. i want to help the hometeachers get more involved. Sometimes they will and sometimes they won't. Frustration. Jack Bauer is interogating his little brother, who just happens to be one of the most evil men in the world. I am always wanting to work out or do something athletic, but can't find any time or my knee is sore so I feel like I shouldn't. There is always frustration and annoyance in my heart towards money and laundry. I have a test in Functional anatomy tomorrow morning that is going be very hard. We just held the third "manrichment" last night and it was a total success even though went out in the first round of the arm wrestling tournamnent (I was wrestling in the Heavy weight class), etc, etc. I think if everyone sat down and thought about it you could think of just as much stuff that is on your mind on any day. There is good, there is bad, and then there is probably stuff that is neither. I am sitting at computer eating macaroni and cheese with a polish sausage cut up into little pieces and am in awe of the human heart and mind.
What a blessing the ability to feel is!!!!