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here's a funny blast from the past

Posted in: on Sunday, December 31, 2006 at at 3:03 PM 0 comments  

if you remember the first blog about oranges, one which i still recieve comments on, then this one is nothing like it. i will not compare our lives to those of oranges on the side of the road. but i will say that i have partnered with those relatives, parents and friends of mine who chose to give cash as a christmas present and together we will be sending me to the orange bowl. go deacs. that is all.

Posted in: on Friday, December 29, 2006 at at 6:51 PM 0 comments  

while i never did fully reach christmas spirit in my brief attempt to attain full fledged deeply moving holiday cheer, i did have some success in a spiritual sense. After a few days spent focussed on jesus and his birth it would be hard to not start evaluating my own relationship with him. thus i think i was on the right track with my holiday plan. the full weight of christmas was not really ever felt but i think i am still moving toward it though the day is behind us now. why? well, ironically, i think that my relationship with god has been helped by the whole comercial gift giving side of things. my parents got me a new ipod for christmas given that my old one broke a few months back. since that afternoon, once i got all my songs loaded up, i have been rocking out to worship music like a fiend. passion songs, shane and shane, crowder...its great. after half a year stuck with talk shows on the radio in the morning i can now drive to work singing music i love praising my god. i love it. and god might too. so anyway to sum up on my experiment i think i've turned a corner thanks to the ipod and am now moving back toward a better and deeper relationship overall with the big guy.

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so here it is less than a week before christmas and i'm not quite ready for it. no its not the shopping, i'm done with that. it's the mood. i'm working on it but i've yet to really spend any time thinking about christmas and what its all about and stuff. you know how every year christmas starts earlier and earlier but somehow goes by faster than ever and with less of the...i guess just the feel of christmas. perhaps we start it earlier every year in hopes that by giving ourselves more time with it we'll fall more into the spirit. i think that maybe we're a bit off if that's our thinking. why? well i think that the real problem is the depth to which we experience the season and what comes along with it. another week or two of skimming the surface with some christmas tunes and shopping is not going to get us any more into any kind of christmas spirit. so here is my challenge to myself. given that i have spent all month working 70 hour weeks and spending little to no time involved in any kind of attempt to experience christmas on a level deeper than the pictures of families and kids sitting by the christmas tree that i take every day i am embarking upon a test. i am going to spend the next few days (hopefully even those which are spent at work) in an attempt to go deeper with this whole christmas thing. how? reading the bible's version of this whole christmas thing, actually making it over to church on sunday and spending some time in community with others seeking to experience the real depth of christmas, and at the same time enjoy the things that have come to be a part of the season (ie: watch a few christmas classics like white christmas which i am enjoying as i type, maybe its a wonderful life or elf too, as well as spending time with the family away from the distractions of our typical lives once i make it home). anyway, i'll let ya know how it goes.

Posted in: on Thursday, December 21, 2006 at at 1:00 AM 0 comments  

i went into borders today after picking up a kayak paddle from great outdoor and overheard a wonderful conversation. a couple sitting reading and a lady shopping for mad libs for little christmas gifts fell into conversation. i know not what caught my attention save the rush of fresh air that swept me when i heard their voices and the excitement in them. the excitement of speaking of something that broke from the stream of comercialized american culture in which this conversation and its participants swam. and when they bobbed out above the river i did too and i felt the same breeze against my face. i dont know how or why it started but when i happened upon them the topic was the mind and travel. ah yes, it started from a discussion on the environment in which one reads. the mad lib lady professed to being a bed reader while the lady of the couple opted for variety and atmosphere. variety in atmoshere widens her experience of life you see. and the environment of which she reads does the same. its a win win. she can travel to rome without even leaving the comforts of a local eatery. she can travel the world at the cost of picking up a book. this she claimed was the beauty of the mind. and mad libs thought this to be a very profound insight to which lady of the couple replied, "no he is the deep one. i am very simple. i think like a child. but simplicity can be deep too, i suppose. and so can children." children create in their minds they live beyond their own world, beyond the rome of lady of the couple. they create entirely new worlds. their minds grow from use and travel. and when they question their own world it is with the simple penetrating observations that we have missed in search of something that makes us sound profound or at the least quite learned. so tonight i will take my paddle, which i am borrowing from great outdoor until i get my own, and i will paddle my kayak through my apartment and down the greatest rapids my mind can fathom and when i tip over i will not drown nor even get wet. come spring when i get this thing out in the water we may have quite another story altogether. dream dreams. hope. travel (inside and out). expand your mind. love. question life. live life. and if you happen across either of those ladies in some other world, thank them for me.

Posted in: on Friday, December 15, 2006 at at 10:00 PM 0 comments  

so...james just left to go home for christmas. he'll be gone till mid january and until then i have no roomate. i didnt think it would be too huge of a change but pretty much the second he walked out the door i felt like something was off. i think its that given my long hours i have no time to spend with friends and therefore coming home and having someone here to talk to is incredibly nice. anyway now i get to experience living on my own for a while which i'm not really excited about...

i mean who's gonna be here to laugh at me when i paddle my kayak around the apt, who's going to help clean, who's going to pick up my mail from the office while i'm at work, who am i gonna play connect four with, who's going to organize frisbee golf games, who's going to cook so we can have people over, who's gonna be asleep on the couch when i get home from work?

i guess i'll make it but things will be a bit more quiet on the home front.

Posted in: on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at at 8:56 AM 2 comments  

some of you may remember the last time i went into a frenzy over a musical artist. if you're thinking "oh yeah, lilly allen" then you are right. except its spelled lily and you thought it with two l's. since hearing her last year i'm pretty sure she's made it into every mix cd i've given/ been on every list of artists i've recomended for anyone. why do i bring lily up? only because i've run upon another musical phenom who, i hope, i will share as much over the coming year as i have lily since i heard her music. (ps if you still havent heard of lily she's big in england not here yet....but getting there)

so who is my newest musical crush?

regina spektor. remember that name. if it doesn't become famous thats ok because there are some amazing songs attached to it anyway. by all means check her out. got to the website and watch the video for fidelity imediately. if your not hooked after that then there is something wrong with you and i will need to terminate our friendship immediately.

Posted in: on Thursday, December 07, 2006 at at 7:09 PM 2 comments  

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