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November 23 Black BLACK fridaySo I have found that there is very much 1 thing 10 times worse than Ebay.... the day after Thanksgiving.....
Wow, I have never spent so much money... ok, yes I have, but not recently...
So I now have nifty new Sony Vaio laptop, A Phillips dvd player with surround sound system (it also plays divx!!!), and my first MP3 player. What a day... Now if only I was'nt so tired....
Yes, I did show up at Best Buy last night at 11 PM and sit there with my cousins (and Jen) until 3 in the morning, when we got vouchers for the really cool items, then waited around for another 2 hours till 5 when the doors opened. Me and BJ got the only two Phillips DVD/suround sound packages they had (they were supposed to have at least four, but we didn't find any others...) and then I booked to the Computer line, where I was probably one of the first 15 people to get my computer.
So, yeah, i made out pretty good... and pretty bad...
Good buy money.
November 19 ...In a Valley By the Sea (EP)...When I first put this CD on, I wasn't completely thrilled, but it did catch my attention. Now, a few weeks later, I'm completely hooked. There are only 7 songs (hence the EP), and only 5 of those are new songs, but each track is amazing. First of all, Second Chance may be my new favorite United song, ever. What can I say? I'm a sucker for the "typical" United medium to slow song with the sudden build up. I love it.
The first three songs are all great upbeat songs that each make you think of the typical Hillsong upbeat song, but they are just different enough that you don't get instantly sick of them (ala Everyday/King of Majesty/One Way/etc). Did I mention that these songs ARE great?
I'm sorry. I'm probably giving this cd to much credit, but I got it just as I was getting sick of the All of the Above CD and it was just the difference I needed. As much as I really loved the Studio recording of AotA, I'm really glad that the United guys haven't completely cut us off from the LIVE worship experience.
Get this CD. November 14 Ebay: the Downfall of MankindNo, but seriously, Ebay could end up being the end of society as we know it. How could this be? It comes down to one very simple thing, overspending.
What do bored people do? They get on the internet, and everyone on the interent eventualy visits Ebay. It might not happen at first, but the more time a person spends on Ebay looking for the things they wish they could buy, the better the prices seem to get. Pretty soon, this thing you've always thought was pretty neat shows up for a relative bargin, and you bid. Then, sometimes, you win.
You know you didn't need it, and yeah, $50 is a good price, but it was $50 you didn't need to spend and you deside you won't be doing that again anytime soon.
Until you get bored a couple days later... You don't plan on buying anything, but you start to check the prices on this other item you wanted. Then, BOOM, before you know it you've just purchased another completely unneeded item. It's adictive.
I'll be the end of Mankind. November 12 I'm back to MSN!!! WOOt!So, after about 2 years of giving up on this amazing little thing called MSN spaces, I return.
The reality is, Myspace doesn't really have much as far as options are concerned. I also like how the blog is the, or can be, the main focus of the MSN space.
So, yeah, not that anybody ever really checks this thing out anymore, but here is an update. I have a new job (now down graded to "newer" job). I am longer part of the restraunt industry. I no longer spend a large chunk of my life preparing food for 100s of other people's consumtion. Now I talk with old people who don't know how to use their computer, and try to make them understand...
Well, at least the pay is better.
My spare time gets split between hanging out at my friends' place in TC, hanging out with my cousins, and, everyonce in awhile, actualy spending time at home. I've been trying to do more of the latter, but it doesn't usualy turn out that way.
To night I will be watching a lot of TV programing. Monday and Thursdays are the only days I really watch tv shows (although I will eventualy start watching Lost on Wednesdays again), and I missed last monday, meaning i need to catch up today. What will I be watching? Heroes of course. This is one amazing show that, honestly, I don't always enjoy watching, but I HATE missing. It is weird like that. The other show that I feel a need to watch every Monday night is Chuck. I LOVE THIS SHOW. It is consistantly entertaining. It is a great geek show for the mainstream audience. I would try to explain everything I love about it, but I wouldn't be able to do it justice. just watch it.
Ok. I'm done. I'll be back. April 11 spring timeHello spring!
Hello Ryan's allgeries!
Hello Alegra!
Why is it that my favorate season of the year must be the one that makes my body turn upon itself for no reason? It doen't seem right to me. I would thing that my subconsious mind would, through the power of perswation, make my body respond to the different things in the air with positive side effects... Perhaps I could have more energy when i wake in the morning? Maybe my eyes could clear up, instead of blurr... I don't know, maybe my body could form ant-allergies, where it makes thing better rather than worse...
But i know, I'm just dreaming... March 29 some sharing of songs...I was just sitting around tonight digging through some old writings when I found a couple short little songs that i had forgotten about. I say old, but there are probably from only a month or to ago... Still long enough for me to forget them. I was pleasantly surprised that they were actualy pretty neat. I like them, and so I desided to put them up here for the world to see. There is no music, and if there ever is music I will have to probably rewrite some parts, or add some... or something, because these are by no means publishable... still I like them. They are very much me.
So with out further ado...
Today
It's not just another day,
not today.
Tomorrow? It'll get here when it comes,
But today is just beginning.
Oh, how I hope for joy today...
Don't let me down, not today...
I should be with You...
with You today.
I can't wait till tomorrow, no...
I need Your hope today.
Oh, how I need You here today.
You won't let me down, not today, not ever.
You are the one who wipes away all tears
You are the one who makes us all laugh
You are the one who lived and died for me
You gave everything to be my everything today.
Be my love,
Be my peace,
Be my strength,
Be my joy,
Be my hope,
Be my dream.
Be my everything in everything.
Fairest Jesus
Fairest Jesus:
You are my everlasting source of strength,
In You I live, and move, and have being.
The beauty from of Your throne is beyond my imagination:
Far beyond any universial measure.
You are God, and Your holiness is pure and true.
Be worship and adored.
Be praised in song with singing.
Be lifted high before all men,
And let them be drawn to You.
Yup... So that's pretty much it. I've got a few other songs that I've not forgotten about that are very slow in coming, and that is probably because ihavn't really spent any time on them in the last month. Where does my time go? Never mind, I think I know...
Anyways, finding these excited me and I felt like sharing. March 11 O' Happy dayI don't know what's been up with me lately... I've been very iritable, stressed out, not feeling all that happy and such... especialy at work. There are many factors that could be at fault. One may be the many late nights as of late, and hence the lack of sleep. Another may be the mixing up of things at work and being stuck on positions that I am not used to and having that hanging over my head... Then there could be the fact that I'm starting to come to terms with going back to school, which is kind of a scary thought... Or it could be this gaint wall that seems to have popped up between God and I in the midst of all of this crap...
None of these things are really that bad (except for the whole God wall thing), but the combination of it all seems to have freaking out a bit... :)
Makes me smirk because life really isnt bad... I think the biggest thing for me is just preparing for the future... makeing plans for school and trying to still keep my options open... and then not having any sort of direction or conformation from above... It is making me feel like I'm out on a limb with no net, and no idea exactly how big the limb is (or how much it can hold).
I know that I should be living in faith, and I am... I really am. But it is so very hard for me to feel right about any part of my life when my Spiritual life doesn't seem to be agreeing with itself... There is so much relience that I've put in what God is planning todo with my life... It has been in my heart and part of everything I am that God is going to something big with me.. with my church... with my family, with my community... I've always felt like being a part of that was my calling in life. Maybe I'm just a lazy guy who's looking for an easy way out of life by just getting up and leadding worship music and getting paid for it, but I don't think so. The enire time I've been going to college I've never expected to get a degree... I really never did. I figured that God was going to move in some huge way before I ever had a chance to get one and that I'd be needed full time to work with the church or something... That or be out touring with the badn, or something.
Lofty dreams... I know... BAsed on reality? I don't know... The troubling part is that I've had so many people speak into my life over the years... People who have had no idea who I am.. No idea what my hopes and dreams are, but they spoke to those dreams, confirmed them... told me that I was in God's hands and everything was going as planned. Lately these people have been speaking about things more imediate. No longer are all of these dreams supposed to be on there way... They are supposed to be arriving. Explosive things are supposed to happening... but I feel deader than I've felt in years...
I know, we don't live our lives by our feelings... but it still sucks... a lot... I suppose this could be one last lesson before the real test... Can I live by faith? Can I know that God is in control and be ok with that even though I don't feel like its all okay?
that, or maybe I'm just really really messed up and I really am in need of fixing my life...
:)
Hmm... Ok, sorry for the depressing sounding blog.
Really thoguh, my life has its high points. God has given me good friends, and they make life better, and he is still sround and shows Himself when I need him the most.
So just ignore all the crap I just wrote.
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