tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11982074021301630002023-11-16T08:09:04.733-05:00unmuffled thoughts from an unbridled individualAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-87938990830671686902015-05-10T15:12:00.000-04:002015-05-10T15:12:11.298-04:00Liquor Cabinet: Starter Bar for my birthday!<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4;">I bought a starter bar for my 30th. I've never had a bar, and I must say that it's a pretty damn awesome selection of liquors. I love my wife for letting me spend the money. This bar cost a little over $100. I'm going to give you my take of each top shelf liquor. Keep in mind that I don't know much about liquor. </span></h3>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I'll start with Woodford Reserve <a href="http://www.pageandamber.com/">continue reading</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-37319038414589253532013-07-24T17:24:00.000-04:002013-08-22T11:36:41.526-04:00It Wouldn't be @pageandamber Without Amber <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's a morning like every other save now I'm married. Being married is exactly what I thought it would be. Taking showers together and having to convince my wife to have sex with me. (I'm pretty hairy) She insists that she likes me the way I am. What an awesome woman, and a good liar!<br />
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I've been wanting to be married since I was 16 and now that I am I'm encouraged to know that my thoughts on marriage have always been right: <b>it's hard but worth it</b>. And thanks to a lot of humility on both our parts our first month has been great.<br />
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Throughout our dating the past two years our desires have lined up quite nicely in only a fashion God is capable of bringing about. We are currently on a path to <b>being <a href="http://www.unmuffledthoughts.com/2009/05/keep-your-bailout-check-ill-handle-this.html">debt free in a year</a> and moving overseas</b>. Being a full time missionary with Amber is going to be difficult. She's never been to a foreign country and I've spent a <a href="http://www.unmuffledthoughts.com/2010/08/korea-land-of-free-and-home-of.html">lot of time overseas</a>. She's never had to squat over a outdoor toilet and I squat on the indoor toilet we have now.<br />
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Despite the potential hardship we face overseas I couldn't be happier to spend my life with Amber and her weird little quirks. For instance, she sleeps with the AC set to meat locker and puts extra covers on herself that when we wake up she says, "I was sweating last night." I look at her with the silent strange face that she's so accustomed to seeing and I smile and think #mywifeiscrazy. Then I remember that's what I love about her.<br />
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<b>I don't know which country we'll end up living in, </b>whether we'll be rescuing Korean babies in South Korea, or babies in the Sudan, but what I do know is that I'm glad to be doing it alongside the coolest, best dancing chick in the world...my wife. love. war. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">-Why is Obama adding to the discussion about </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Trayvon Martin?</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">-Not buying things you don't need.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/XUvhAPs38RA">DJ play my song</a></span><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/0oOD9U9VQ5Y"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Awesome Board Game</span></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com1Chapel Hill, NC, USA35.9131996 -79.05584450000003535.8103276 -79.217206000000033 36.0160716 -78.894483000000037tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-84172694747955448282012-10-22T20:56:00.001-04:002012-10-22T20:56:38.478-04:00Doing People Dirty in the Big D<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was having a conversation with a friend last week and she said that as you get older it's harder to make quality friends. She thought it might be because the older you get the more friends you already have, and the desire to make friends lessens.<br />
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As I get older it's interesting to see how relationships change with the people I am close to. What's equally interesting is how people don't grow out of the desire to be in cliques. <b>If you hang out with the same person/people every week</b>, including your wife, you're probably in a clique; albeit it might be a small one.<br />
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I've been in Dallas for two months and I've recently had to take a step back and ask myself if I'm going out of my way to meet new people or if I'm happy with the amount of people that I <a href="http://www.unmuffledthoughts.com/2011/02/you-call-it-being-waiteri-call-it.html">already have as friends</a>. I was, until last week, happy with the amount of people that I'm friends with. #selfish<br />
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While my friend is probably right to some extent, I think the more friends you have over time the more you realize that people are<b> crappy and undependable</b>; for the long-term and the short. But I don't want that to be a reason I stop being friends with old friends, and I definitely don't want that to be a reason I<b> stop pursuing new relationships with people. </b><br />
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If someone asks you to hang out...hang out with them. Better yet, ask someone to hang out. If there wasn't ever a time in your life that you didn't have to make friends than you can stay in your clique forever.<br />
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<u>Things to think about:</u><br />
-Does anyone ever call you back when you apply to jobs on job websites<br />
-Where do you go to listen to new awesome music<br />
-My ipod from 2008 still works<br />
-In Korea they have washers that also dry clothes...or dryers that wash clothes<br />
-Are you <a href="http://www.bingiton.com/Landingpage.aspx?form=&publ=&crea=">Bing or Google</a><br />
-I eat more Ritz than could possibly be healthy<br />
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<u>Things to watch:</u><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Ixsn81SqU6E">Why I love Korea</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Ujf7b0EK7xA">Presidential debate analysis</a><br />
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<u>Phrases that I hate:</u><br />
<b>It'll just work itself out</b>. "I really need a job when I get to Vegas." "<b>It'll just work itself out</b>."<br />
<b>No worries</b>. "Hey man I put that pencil back on your desk." "<b>No worries</b>."<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0Dallas, TX, USA32.802955 -96.76992332.589413 -97.08578 33.016496999999994 -96.454066000000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-81748002290880575452012-10-04T15:02:00.001-04:002012-10-22T19:20:25.906-04:00The TV Shows That Keep Us Off the Streets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This life that we're living is consequential only to the matter that we make it so. The meaning that you give to this existence of yours isn't something you've earned but rather a free gift. You don't put life in your lungs and feelings in your heart. They are there and you can't explain them. If you want to have meaning, any meaning at all, you have to do something that is worth being alive for.<br />
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I hear so many people say things like, "you only live once." This isn't true. What they should really say and what is more accurate is, "you only live in these bodies once." Your soul has a body. And what you do with your life matters.<br />
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We watch television shows in order for us to experience something we aren't able to experience in this world. We want excitement in our lives, but we want that excitement to be safe and non-threatening. TV shows like Dexter and Breaking bad allow us to fantasize about what it would be like to live a lifestyle where guns rule and anything goes and there is no consequence.<br />
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What I'm asking you to do is live a life where your life is threatened. Where you aren't safe. And where you depend on God to choose to keep you alive or take your life. The safer you are the more you can be assured that you won't have any meaning in your life. <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2011/06/smell-of-past-lovers-tortures-heart.html">love</a>. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-Is protecting yourself the most important thing to do<br />
-Does Romney really have the power to change America<br />
-Is eating organic food really what matters<br />
-Do you have nothing to do if your internet goes out<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/h9eX7URM_hU">S.E.T.I.</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/WrnGnwuqOA8">Schiff</a><br />
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Places to give money to:<br />
<a href="http://www.ijm.org/">IJM</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-50327132382622208782012-06-18T21:41:00.000-04:002012-10-22T19:22:45.800-04:00A Page Shaped Hole in All of Us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Two days ago I picked up two women who were walking. I drove
them to the store, waited for them while they bought some beer and fags, and
drove them back to their apartment. One said it was the nicest thing anyones
done for her in a long time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I started sponsoring 3 little boys with <a href="http://www.compassion.com/">Compassion</a>. It costs
me 114 dollars a month and I write them letters, out of my free time, so I can
encourage them and make their lives less crappy. Because of my sponsorship
they’re getting education, food, shelter, and a brighter future. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At a greyhound station, waiting on a bus, I bought a
homeless guy a bus ticket to Houston.
What’s he going to do in Houston? Who knows. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I called a small prison not far from me and got a list of
all the inmates and wrote them each a personal card encouraging them not to give up
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<b>And that was just this week. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The funny thing about me doing all those things is you don’t
know if I really did them or not…<o:p></o:p></div>
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And guess what…no one
cares. How good I am doesn’t concern you, even a little bit. The things that I do throughout the day don’t
make me a better person or even good. The small amount of good a person does
doesn’t earn them anything. It won’t get you a spot in heaven, it won’t make
you a righteous person, and it won’t even forgive you for the wrong you’ve done
in the past. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Would it matter if I did the things I said above? Would it
change the way you think about me? Would it allow me to be self-righteous like
somebody owes me something for the good I’ve done. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Pride. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The people I come across throughout my life are all infected
with this little thing called <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2011/05/pursuing-jesus-and-other-important-shit.html">pride</a>. It seeps into our hearts and makes us think
that we’re better than we are. It makes us think like there’s a small hole in
everyone’s heart and if they got to meet us that’d hole would be filled. Pride
causes you to look at disdain at the man begging for money, even if you're the one doing the begging. Pride causes you to
constantly say “I know” to people as if you’ve never been told something you
don’t know. Pride causes relationships to be ruined. It causes you to take
insult to things people say to you. And the biggest thing pride does is that it
makes us think that we don’t need a savior. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love your neighbor as yourself. Do you want to know why
Jesus said this? Because he knows how much we love ourselves. It’s so much it’s disgusting. If you spent the amount of
money you spent on yourself on your neighbor you might actually start to see
your pride go away. love. war. <o:p></o:p></div>
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"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a
fall." –Solomon<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked. "Only
God is truly good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: red;">update 10/22/12: I didn't do all the things that I said I did in the post. I hope you got it. </span><br />
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Things to think about:<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Do politics matter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Where does most of our air come from.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Have you turned your back on any of your friends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Leaving for work earlier</div>
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Things to read:<o:p></o:p></div>
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-<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+1&version=NIV">James</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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-<a href="http://blogmaverick.com/">Mark Cuban’s blog</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCi66-PFESM&list=PLB33C4A0F505DCC94&index=2&feature=plcp">Have you heard of US?</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com1Austin, TX, USA30.267153 -97.743060830.047727000000002 -98.058917799999989 30.486579 -97.4272038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-59376967660445210202012-03-25T14:09:00.000-04:002012-03-25T14:09:10.911-04:00My Goal is More than Irish Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I stood in the shower this morning, as I do every weekday morning, peering at my body. As I get older there are some things that I notice about my body that have taken place over a period of time that I wasn't paying attention to. The largest of those small, seemingly unnoticeable changes is the small belly that I acquired right below my rib cage.<br />
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As I stood in the shower looking down at my fattening, hairy body, my vision auto-focused on the bar of soap, the one thing that I used to clean myself each morning. I begin to come to reality that I'm not as disciplined as I'd like to be, allowing myself to gain weight from lack of exercise and an inability to change past habits.<br />
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This naked shower experience, which is much different from clothed shower experiences, came to work with me this morning where I thought about it most of the day.<br />
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My company had a quarterly meeting this afternoon for two hours. It was pretty awesome. The first hour they brought in a speaker of a successful pizza business to talk about the culture that he had in his business that allowed him to be one of the top ten pizza business in America. The second hour my CEO talked to us where the company stood financially, telling us all the numbers. The last thirty minutes were spent making individual, personal goals that each employee wanted to obtain, writting them on a board along with a fear as to why we weren't accomplishing the goal on the other side and having a board breaking ceremony. All 85 people in the company did this.<br />
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One of my goals is to <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-you-think-that-smelling-bad-is-awful.html">lose fat</a> and gain muscle. I'd ideally like to weigh around 150-160 lbs and be physically fit and a lot stronger. This is definitely a doable goal but the question I have been thinking about is what do I have to do to obtain this goal. What goes do you have? Most people I come in contact with have zero goals. There might be several reasons why, but my question is when are we together going to stop making excuses for the goals we want to achieve and start achieving them?<br />
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My company's CEO is great at personal development and having people hold you accountable. Who do you have holding you accountable for the person you're becoming? When you come up with certain goals that you have you need to tell people about them so <b>you can start towards a path of actually achieving them.</b><br />
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The goal that I wrote on the board was to pay off 20% of my <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/05/pick-pluck-pluck-off-gatherhorace.html">credit card debt</a> ($1500) in 60 days. This is a huge goal for me and it's going to take a lot of sacrifices to be able to achieve it. I'm done with worrying about the reasons I've got into this problem and starting to focus on how I can get out of it. Shifting the focus from why did this happen to <a href="http://roryvaden.com/">how</a> can I get out is a huge step.<br />
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<b>You should take time now to write down some goals. </b>Make them big and make them the ones you've always wanted to accomplish. Then tell people you love and that love you what they are. Then write down smaller goals that will help you get to the big goal. And then accomplish them.<br />
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My best friend <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ryan.corbello">Ryan</a> writes down his goals on a card at the beginning of every year and checks them off as he does them. He usually accomplished 80% of the goals. The other 20 get added to next year if they are still something he wants to do and taken off if they are not.<br />
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I want to own a multi-million dollar company some day. In order to do this I need to pay off my debt. Hints the goal. I have a purpose to my goal so I want to accomplish that. <br />
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I look at the bar of soap and think. This isn't going to wash the fat off me. I'm going to have to do a little work for that. But we're not interested in work. We want things to be handed to us. We think we're owed something. You aren't owed anything. You very life is a gift. You actually deserve death. love. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-<a href="http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1/2012">NCAA tournament</a><br />
-Sports not mattering<br />
-Not swearing<br />
-girlfriends<br />
-<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294304/sun-also-sets-mark-steyn">Obama has a big spending problem</a><br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/michaelalvaradomusic">Have you heard of us</a><br />
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Things to read:<br />
<a href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates">Total delegate count </a><br />
<a href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/12/CompliantAmericans.htm">More of a different America</a><br />
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Life is Austin has been <b>slow</b> at times; sitting in coffee shop after coffee shop (really just the same shop) applying for jobs one after another; taking some time off from job hunting to look on craigslist for free furniture. And having found an amazing leather couch sectional just to have it go to the Jones'; who, word have it, are still living better than me.<br />
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While this life is pretty exhilarating I had to take some time off from job and furniture hunting to have a little fun. Mind you that the fun I'm talking about having is 26 year-old I'm-looking-for-a-job-in-a-coffee-shop kind of fun and not the I'm-18-going-to-get-a-little-crazy fun. So I decided to do a little social experiment. I posted on craigslist this ad on the 20th of Janurary at 12:08pm:<br />
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<span class="fbod quote" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Date: 2012-01-20, 12:08PM CST<br />Reply to: your anonymous craigslist address will appear here<br /><br />I have one crisp new dollar bill free for whoever wants it...no kidding. I'm at Epoch Coffee House on North Point. My name is Page. 512.663.7513. Just call when you get here and I'll give you a nice new dollar bill. It's 12:06 on the 20th and I'll probably be here another 2 hours.</span><br />
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The funny thing I thought was I was being pretty genuine. (You can call me if you need to talk...about anything) I had a nice, new crisp dollar bill and I wanted to see if someone wanted to come pick it up. I received two texts, one goes as follows:<br />
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<i>Me: crisp and new. (actual picture I sent him)</i><br />
<i>Dollar Enthusiast: An wut maked it new...u can iron it an look just alike</i><br />
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At this point I have no idea what this dude is talking about...ironing money...?<br />
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<i>Me: Nah man...no iron...just new. No tricks.</i><br />
<i>Dollar Enthusiast: Where u get it</i><br />
<i>Me: It came out of the machine</i><br />
<i>Dollar Enthusiast: Lol...no thanks...thought it was a new print</i><br />
<i>Me: Where do you get a new print from. And who doesn't want a dollar even if its not new?</i><br />
<i>Dollar Enthusiast: Loose 5x that drivin to get it</i><br />
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Having felt bad about not being clear who would be losing here he sent another text clarifying.<br />
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<i>Dollar Enthusiast: Ill loose 5x that jus drivin to get it.</i><br />
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He does have a good point here but I go on to explain why'd it be worth it for him<br />
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<i>Me: Do you collect coins and money? you aren't thinking what you would gain by coming...think of the big picture.</i><br />
<i>Dollar Enthusiast: An wuts da big pik</i><br />
<i>Me: You'll have a contact in Austin with endless possibilities</i><br />
<i>Me: Who can teach you how to spell</i><br />
<i>Me: Among a whole host of other things.</i><br />
<i>Me: No?</i><br />
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And although I never heard from him again, during my conversation with said dollar enthusiast, I received an email from Craigslist saying <b>my post was flagged and removed.</b> I was annoyed by this because there wasn't anything illegal or wrong with my post, that I could tell. So I saw there was a way I could ask a community of Craigslist users why my post could have possibly been removed. Within seconds I received back a host of very keen observers all with unbelievable insight into the world of Craigslist.<br />
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For people that don't have craigslist to go in and read the posts I've copied and pasted the threads so you can at least get a picture of what's going on here. If you do have an account it's worth logging in.<br />
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I am <b>Yonks7</b>...hear my roar.<br />
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<a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=205395505">https://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=205395505</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">post 205395505 is located in thread 279434 of </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?forumID=3" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="_top">cl - flag help</a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" title="austin">aus</span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392180" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>I tried to give away a dollar for free</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:47 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392264" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Huh?</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=MizBozMaam" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">MizBozMaam</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:48 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392278" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Scams as well as lame attempts as "best of"</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:48 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392286" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Humm? Any reason you ignored this?</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=LDMF" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">LDMF</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:48 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392288" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Just for giggles, please post your ad </b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">< </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=EyesOfBluestSkies" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">EyesOfBluestSkies</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:48 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392360" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>let's see </b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">< </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=buzz_word" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">buzz_word</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:49 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392528" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>not at my house</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:50 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392693" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>You want to lure strangers to a coffee shop?</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=MizBozMaam" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">MizBozMaam</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:51 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392791" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>it's packed</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:52 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392851" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>^ Obvious troll - I'm out. §</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=MizBozMaam" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">MizBozMaam</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:53 <span style="color: #009900;"><b>+3</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394567" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>What's a troll</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:11 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392934" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>The opinions of other users on why</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:54 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393154" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>that makes sense</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:56 <em style="color: red; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">-5</em></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393359" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>re-read all the rest of the replies,</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:58 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393089" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Says the loser who can't find a friend when </b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">< </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=EyesOfBluestSkies" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">EyesOfBluestSkies</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:55 <span style="color: #009900;"><b>+1</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393246" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>I have plenty of friends</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:57 <em style="color: red; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">-5</em></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205395505" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b><em style="color: red; font-style: normal;">give someone a dollar at the coffe shop §</em></b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=jdreaper" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">jdreaper</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:20 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392778" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>your house/coffee shop same thing </b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">< </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=buzz_word" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">buzz_word</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:52 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392674" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Ya'lls responses haven't helped me understand</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:51 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392800" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Okay, I'll play.</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=MizBozMaam" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">MizBozMaam</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:53 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392802" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Because you still haven't followed directions</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=EyesOfBluestSkies" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">EyesOfBluestSkies</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:53 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392825" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>readers may flag ads for any reason they want</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:53 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392861" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Your post is illegal because it </b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">< </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=LDMF" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">LDMF</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:53 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205392991" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Free $1 (Epoch Coffee) ...this was the post</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:54 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393183" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>You sound desperate and pathetic.</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=EyesOfBluestSkies" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">EyesOfBluestSkies</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:56 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393320" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>I'm not but that doesn't matter</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:58 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393382" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>You are too stupid for CL. Please log off now. §</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=EyesOfBluestSkies" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">EyesOfBluestSkies</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:58 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393791" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>it's a simple question</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:02 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393988" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>The stupid one is the one that doesn't grasp</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=EyesOfBluestSkies" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">EyesOfBluestSkies</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:04 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394497" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>People</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:10 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394698" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Whatever helps you sleep at night §</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=EyesOfBluestSkies" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">EyesOfBluestSkies</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:12 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394057" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Yes, they do</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:05 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394265" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>I understand</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:07 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394524" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>And most people we see coming in here</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=MizBozMaam" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">MizBozMaam</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:10 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394742" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>What were the instructions</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:12 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393449" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>People flagged your ad,</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:59 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393658" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>lots of people do it</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:01 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393904" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>If it offends your sensibilities- flag it! §</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=dirtbag" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">dirtbag</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:03 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394052" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>That's for most things. </b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">< </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:05 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394182" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>You may flag any ad you feel should be removed</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:06 <span class="R" style="color: #cc6600;">link</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394398" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>that's pretty awesome</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:09 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393923" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>coupons/promotional items are prohibited</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:04 <span class="R" style="color: #cc6600;">link</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393254" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Even if people didnt think your ad was a complet</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:57 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393470" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>I didn't know that</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 10:59 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393707" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>Far more people likely thought</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=TheWorldOver" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd hnd" style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">TheWorldOver</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:02 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . : . . : . . : . . : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205393905" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>I guess that makes sense</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:03 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> : . . </span><a href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=Q&ID=205394934" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><b>So anyone in Austin want a dollar? §</b></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> < </span><a class="pln" href="https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=su&handle=yonks7" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="R"><span class="hnd own" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">yonks7</span></a><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;"> > </span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">01/20 11:14 </span>
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That was all for me. :)} No one on Craigslist understood. So what I've concluded is that I'm a freak and have no friends. Will you be my friend? love. war.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"Meaningless! Meaningless!” </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">says the Teacher. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“Utterly meaningless! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Everything is meaningless.”</span>
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Things to think about:<br />
-How long can you do nothing in<a href="http://www.heritage.org/"> politics</a>.<br />
-Is milk really bad for our bodies.<br />
-Are you getting wisdom from people that are wiser than you.<br />
-Are dishwashers really easier.<br />
-leaving a comment<br />
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Things to watch.<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/6YzGOq42zLk">Gotye</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/hYKMBIX291M">Kramer</a><br />
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Things to give your money to:<br />
<a href="http://www.shapingdestiny.org/">Shaping Destiny</a>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com2Austin, TX, USA30.267153 -97.743060830.047727000000002 -98.058917799999989 30.486579 -97.4272038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-62255714500346598342012-01-18T08:00:00.000-05:002012-01-18T11:14:08.780-05:00Single, Engaged, Divorced, Single, #selfish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Engaged life seems unreal. You've asked someone that you love to spend the rest of their life with you...and you have no idea how that life is going to turn out. You say yes to a question asked. It's a simple answer to a <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2009/11/politics-ran-through-my-veins-like.html">huge question</a> and now you're going to be married. #bummer. I have many friends who are married, and none that I know against their will. One of my good friends just got engaged. I know people who are divorced. I met a lot of them and they all seem so all right. Most people seem all right. I mean how many people do you see walking around that just start crying for no reason?<br />
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So as I sit here drinking coffee and crying for no apparent reason I have some real hang ups with the thought of marriage that I'd like to talk about. Why are so many people committed to each other by living together but not committed to each other through a public statement of their commitment. How can you justify getting a divorce? <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2011/07/you-said-i-do-forevernow-how-do-you-get.html">#tilldeathdouspart</a> Why is Coldplay such a good band?<br />
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I guess for all intensive purposes it seems quite natural: my parents relationship wasn't that great so why go through the same thing they went through? We'll just live with each other and if it doesn't work out go our separate ways...I mean we're not married. And who wants to deal with that messiness of getting a divorce? My parents got a divorce why would I want to do the same thing? You have to live with someone before you know you can be married to them. blah blah blah.<br />
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I'll attempt to answer one of them but am well aware that in all my wisdom there is ignorance right around the corner. So I welcome criticism but keep in mind my thoughts are from an open, welcoming stance. #nahmean. Most things I don't have answers for but I believe I do for divorce.<br />
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First I want to say that marriage is messy. The reason people get divorced mainly is their affinity for themselves. "I'm not happy," "He doesn't love me," "Things didn't turn out like I wanted," "I have things I want to do in life" <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/eat-pray-love-review-jump-up-my-ass-lady.php">#eatpraylove</a> </span>#selfish When really we should be asking ourselves questions that point to sacrifice. I mean isn't this life? Isn't this what true life is about? <b>Sacrifice.</b> Not selfishness. Don't people know going into a marriage that it takes sacrifice...and for many years you might be poor and begging for money. That's what it's talking about when you say for better or for <b>worse. </b><br />
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You might say "Page, you don't know until you've been there." I'll agree with you on one point: I haven't been married...but I've been in other relationships that take sacrifice and resemble marriages. Like all my friendships. And while I'm not married I do have brothers and sisters who I'm in a lifelong relationship with. Even the relationship with my girlfriend takes sacrifice.<br />
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So in the end my answer to divorce and most other things in life is this:<br />
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<b>Stop thinking about yourself and start walking humbly in fear before the maker of the universe. If your spouse left you I'm sorry. <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2009/11/if-my-family-doesnt-give-me-joyful.html">#dontgiveup</a> </b>If you're too selfish to get married than don't. It's possible you could learn to be selfless and sacrifice but that takes a true love ready for <a href="http://pastormark.tv/2012/01/18/what-readers-are-saying-about-real-marriage">real marriage</a>. <span style="font-family: inherit;">#<span style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: nowrap;">KimKardashian</span></span><br />
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He knows what you're going through. Give it up to him. The answer is sacrifice. Do you think Jesus wanted to die for your sins? love. war.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."</span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-being bolder than you are now</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-taking up an issue and fighting for it</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-talking to a homeless person</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9fdff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-going out of your way to help someone</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">-<a href="http://youtu.be/qnrJVTSYLr8">Hell</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #001320; font-family: inherit;">-<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/your-world-cavuto/index.html#/v/1395466613001/mark-levin-we-are-in-a-post-constitutional-america/?playlist_id=86929">America</a></span></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0Austin, TX, USA30.267153 -97.743060830.047727000000002 -98.058917799999989 30.486579 -97.4272038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-4649909512775250372012-01-16T19:42:00.000-05:002012-01-16T22:09:22.758-05:00If it Weren't for Stereotypes I Wouldn't be in Texas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As I boil my soup on my rather old none brand name stove, I start getting a little hot. I proceed to finish cooking the soup and then open the kitchen window. I add milk and cheese to my Wolfgang Puck Signature Tortilla Organic Soup given to me by my very thoughtful girlfriend and open the window to the kitchen. As I proceed to eat my soup standing up, because I yet have no furniture, I hear a rather annoying noise coming from outside my window. It was the chirping of hundreds of birds resting in the trees sitting above my apartment complex 50 yards away.<br />
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I've been in Texas over a week and I was baffled to be honest. Hundreds of birds and not one person shot one of them down out of the trees. Now if you're like me you tend to believe things that trusted people say regarding things you don't know and one of those things is that in Texas everyone's a bad-ass and carries a gun. (I mean you don't even have to register your gun here) So I asked myself, "How could this be that these birds just sit atop these trees unafraid and songs unhindered?" Not that I don't love to hear birds singing in the afternoon to the sunset, perhaps praising God for the life that he gives them, but since I've been here I haven't seen one gun fired at anything. I also haven't seen one cowboy hat or anyone wearing stirs on their boots.<br />
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In the short amount of time between my dinner and my blog writings I've come to the conclusion that Texans aren't any less awesome that I thought but rather they've learned to not trouble themselves with trivial matters such as shooting birds out of trees when they're interrupting your supper eating. I imagine that they save their guns for more pertinent matters. Which is food for my soul because the last thing I want to be is living in a state that claims to be awesome but really is full with a bunch of wimpy cowards. I'm asking for Texas cowboys and I'm going to get Texas cowboys. Until then, Rick Perry told me that there's jobs here in Texas so until I get one I'll continue pounding the pavement. Maybe I'll nab myself a steer while I'm at it. love. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-Saying what you think<br />
-Not lying, seriously<br />
-Jews vs Christians<br />
-Catholics vs Protestants<br />
-People don't comment on the actual blogs website but rather facebook where the same blog is posted.<br />
-Paying to dry your clothes<br />
-Your state compared to Texas<br />
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Things to watch<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-yLGIH7W9Y">Sh*t girls say</a>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/f-x8t0JOnVw">Sh*t people don't say</a><br />
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Things I'm reading<br />
-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bend-River-V-S-Naipaul/dp/0679722025">A bend in the river</a><br />
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While most of the world is trying to figure out which brand of teletubbies they love the most my friend was hard at work completing his degree in Chemistry to fulfill his lifelong dream of dissecting plants to see if we could find any real sources of fuel in them. Even though he is failing miserably and nuclear is still by far the best; he persists at his work and I've decided to take some time and tell you how awesome he is because every once and a while humility is a good thing to experience.<br />
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Have you ever tried to write down why you think someone is amazing. It usually goes something like...they are smart and funny and have patience with me and are so good looking. They always know what to say yada yada yada. I'd like to focus my energy instead today describing one simple aspect of my friend Patrick that makes him more amazing and that one simple thing is responsibility. Now whether you're wearing depends on not, we can all appreciate people who are responsible. Patrick graduate with honors in a difficult major, married the girl he loved for a long time, has a steady job, and goes to it everyday without fail. <br />
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There's a lot about Patrick that I love. He's a fanatic for sports and his team, the St. Louis Cardinals, the best baseball team to ever play baseball, just won the World Series of Poker last month. (Not the world series of Poker sorry...but the one that came after the World Series of Poker) He also enjoys discussing politics, which is important if you're going to tolerate me for any of five minutes. Patrick also is on time when he goes places and is a man of his word. <br />
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This blog isn't to tell you something that you didn't already know because you probably don't know or care about Patrick. This blog is to tell you that being extraordinary sometimes is really just about being responsible. Because these days being responsible is very extra ordinary. love. war. <br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-Is it <a href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/11/EndingIncomeInequality">greedy</a> to want more money.<br />
-Is there any unbiased information.<br />
-Can you talk about issues without having a doctorate.<br />
-Do people silence you because they don't like your opinions.<br />
-Tim Tebow/John Jones<br />
-You could be <a href="http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/view-all-children.htm?Page=5">amazing too</a><br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTeCqnBuDdU">Take a ride x-country</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/IpCHvHWUAvw">Idiots exist</a><br />
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Thinks to look at:<br />
<a href="http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings">Your team sucks</a><br />
<a href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/11/FreeToDie">Free to die</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-11693238753317992422011-11-03T11:15:00.001-04:002011-11-03T11:15:12.042-04:00Gluten Gluttons Parish in Time for Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>The gluten challenge is over</b> and as you expected I lost nine pounds four ounces. This comes to no surprise to most people who know that Jesus is the bread of life and since Jesus compared himself to bread it must be a pretty important part of our digestive system; as shown by my one month nine pound four ounce weight loss. (not to be confused with Will Smith's Seven Pounds, a documentary where Smith loses seven pounds by not eating anything supersized at McDonalds)<br />
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There was a minor slip up with some gluten-full soy sauce and while I am to blame I'd like to put the real blame, as all good friends like to do, on my best friend Ryan, whom at no fault of his own, suggested we partake in eating at this sushi place close to where he goes to school. I indulged my appetite and stabbed my wallet for a split-second and find myself in Amber's apartment <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-want-to-look-good-naked-and-let.html">cleaning everything</a> from shoe board to popcorn ceiling. This was because I lost a bet with her on who would eat gluten first. I did, accidentally, but I fessed up and got to cleaning. And because I wish not to make this blog not apply to just the handful of important people that I call my friends I'll highlight the pros and cons of this thing Celiacs have learned to call home....<br />
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THE GLUTEN FREE DIET.<br />
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Yes yes it was rather <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/08/you-better-bring-more-than-10-koruna-if.html">difficult deciding</a> what I could eat and what I couldn't. I spent the first 6 or 7 days learning what contained gluten and what didn't. I was very hungry these first 6 or 7 days. <b>But I didn't let hunger get the best of me.</b> The hardest part about not eating gluten is that things have gluten in them that you wouldn't expect...like french fries...hello potato...welcome to the Celiac diarrhea list. Other things on the celiac hit list are lots of chips, tortillas (said in spanish accent), and almost everything...save meat and fruits and vegetables...but who eats those. GIVE ME WHOLE WHEAT BABY.<br />
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So here are the pros and cons.<br />
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Pros:<br />
-lose weight<br />
-can justify eating a bad of Doritos in one sitting<br />
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Cons:<br />
-can't eat wheat<br />
-can't eat anything good<br />
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While there are lots of more serious pros and cons I can add to this list I'd like to simply say that if you don't have Celiacs disease there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't eat wheat products. All month I wanted a sandwhich. All that being said the gluten free diet isn't that hard. There's imitations of almost everything out there now. There was gluten free pancakes, chips, and really nasty macaroni and cheese brought to you by<br />
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"Annie's Homegrown Totally Natural Nasty Crap." Despite the name I gave it a try and to my delight they weren't wrong.<br />
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The point of the challenge was to see if I could do it. I did it...piece of cake (no you can't eat cake)...now on to the next challenge: get your heart rate up for at least 30 minutes a day. Goodbye fried rice, hello weight gain. Love. War.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-being a part of the challenge<br />
-heaven and hell<br />
-Herman Cain being at the top<br />
-Being truly honest with people<br />
-Thinking "and I'm a Mormon is very stupid."<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
-<a href="http://youtu.be/qnrJVTSYLr8">Crazy crap about hell</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0Kernersville, NC, USA36.1198588 -80.073653336.068552800000006 -80.1526173 36.1711648 -79.9946893tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-45586325780142020232011-09-28T21:58:00.000-04:002011-09-28T21:58:05.628-04:00You said BFF...WTF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are a couple things I'd like to talk about for just long enough for you to read them all. The first one is friendship; what it means to me, what it should mean, <b>and why most people suck at it</b>. The second is <b><a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/09/im-headed-to-hooker-hill-maybe-ill.html">loyalty</a></b>; to your friends, and their loyalty to you.<br />
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The friends I've made in the past I care about...a lot. Like a song I loved in middle school. I still love the song but it's in a different way. I don't listen to Five Hundred Miles on repeat anymore but I still love the song. Without my friends I'd be miserable and probably dead.<br />
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I have lots of friends. I have older friends, younger friends, liberal friends, Christian friends. Friends that act like retards and ones that act smart. One great thing about friendship is that you're not married to the person...you can quit the friendship at any time. Sometimes it's necessary but rarely do I feel this. <br />
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The main reason I believe that most people <b>suck at <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/12/im-no-monkey-and-im-no-catdo-i-have-to.html">friendship</a> is because first...they are selfish</b>. You want a friend if it is good and convenient for you. As soon as it's not good for you you don't care about the person anymore. The second is that they feel that the other person doesn't want to be friends with them...doesn't care...and has moved on. If you're the friend that has moved on, shame on you. If you're the other friend I'm sorry that people suck.<br />
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My father tells me that no matter how close you are with your friends, how many blood brothers you've initiated, and how many times you've cried in front of each other, that you'll grow apart. I can see this in many an adults life. <b>How many older people do you know don't have any friends? </b>Is that a joke...<br />
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Chances are that you've had friends in the past that you really care about and now you don't talk to them anymore. This is LAME. What every happened to loyalty. People grow apart it's true...and it's okay...what's not okay is leaving someone in the dust. You know if you've done it. It's time to correct it. Having loyalty is doing what it takes to ensure the person your friends with knows you've got their back. Ride or Die. Pick a side and be committed.<br />
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Take some time and catch up with an old friend. Not having enough time is not an excuse. Do some soul searching and get deep with them.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Spending time with your significant other is important but <b>second</b> to spending time with God.</span><br />
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The third relationship, in ranking order, is a close race between your enemies and your friends. Love is the key. Stop being selfish and reach out to someone you used to love. Chances are they'll reach back...if they don't direct them to this blog...or you can give me a call...I'll do my best to give you some advice.<br />
<br />Lastly, stop being afraid of being hurt. Take some chances and get your heart broke. At least you were being a good friend. Isn't being a good friend more important than self preservation?<br />
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<dd style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><b>Clark</b>: Yeah, but I will have a degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.</dd><dd style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><b>Will</b>: <i>[smiles]</i> Yeah, maybe. But at least I won't be <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Good_Will_Hunting">unoriginal</a>.</dd><dd style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><br /></dd><dd style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 2em;"><br /></dd><br />
love. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-We spend too much time debating. Howard Roark for president<br />
-People say there's no reason to ever hit a woman. Is that true?<br />
-<a href="http://www.equifax.com/3reportsandscores/2/?CMP=equifax_G_E">Checking your credit.</a><br />
-Getting out of debt sucks.<br />
-Crossing the line<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/TWfph3iNC-k">Grinding the Crack</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/PPtSKimbjOU">The music video</a><br />
<a href="http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/internet/wilfred_(us)/season_1.html">Wilfred</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com3Kernersville, NC, USA36.1198588 -80.073653336.068552800000006 -80.1526173 36.1711648 -79.9946893tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-56252579949228282512011-09-07T19:03:00.000-04:002011-09-07T19:05:17.310-04:00The Best Clothing Company in the World...and Not a Slight Bit Slutty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I was thirteen years old I started a clothing company. It was your average clothing company started by a thirteen year old. But the company really started when I was nine and in the 4th grade. I started to doodle the name of my future company on my binders and notebooks. My friend Kyle was big into drawing so I had him design me a pair of Yonks shoes that I was going to make someday. The extent of my clothing company knowledge was a little less than what the average person knows about <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2010/10/06/politicians_exploit_economic_ignorance">supply-side economics.</a></div>
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My dad knew a guy who printed on some tees so I made a design, took it to him, pulled together $200 from my KFC work money, and launched the greatest clothing company in the world. My goal...to be on the backs of 1 in every three people...in the world. I know I know I should of set my goals higher. The first design was nothing amazing but yet people started to buy the stupid white shirts with red letters. The front said <a href="http://costellodesign.blogspot.com/2008/08/yonks-clothing-company.html">Yonks clothing co</a> with my logo and the back had my logo even bigger and underneath said Sknoy...which if you haven't figured it out by now is Yonks backwards. I was pretty creative when I was thirteen. I instantly became, "that tee-shirt guy."</div>
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After I sold all those I came out with another shirt. This time geared more towards ladies, the real clothing shoppers, and then another and another and another. By the time I was a senior in high school I had two investors, one salesman, a handful of articles in the school newspaper written about me, a legit website, and girls from every grade rocking my tees...and, of course, a crap load of people who knew me as "that tee-shirt guy."</div>
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Into college I continued running my company taking off a semester of college every year to run Yonks full-time. My friend Bryan started helping me design the clothes and by this time I was only making woman's clothing and I had some real awesome crap. As you can see from the intro pic. Black sleeveless hoody with two-tone lime green lines. I lived, breathed, and ate <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2009/09/pretty-girls-are-better-to-look-at-than.html">Yonks Clothing</a>. I had a photographer, a model, a web designer, a graphic designer, a salesman, and brought my brother on to handle the money side of the business...all working for me for free. (all of whom I owe a great debt of gratitude) I eventually was in five stores in three different states, girls everywhere rocking my gear. "This is my friend Page, he owns Yonks clothing." "Oh you're that tee-shirt guy. I've heard of you." I'd look at them and say...I do make tee-shirts.</div>
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<b>Nine years had passed...and I gave it all up</b>...never to be "that tee-shirt guy again."</div>
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For nine years of my life people knew me as a tee-shirt guy. I never saw myself as that. I saw myself as Page: the fun loving, spontaneous, good friend, let's find ways to break the rules, kid. I always wondered if a tee-shirt guy really encapsulated me. As if to say oh John you're that retard. I'm not a retard, I'm just a person who happens to be retarded. But that doesn't define me. "Oh you're that orphan Sam." "Oh you're that crazy girl Sarah" "Oh you're that slut Jenny." I know <b>all</b> about you.</div>
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<b>As if the one thing we've done defines everything that we are. </b></div>
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Having been out of the tee-shirt game for three years now I look back at Yonks as a very interesting time in my life. It was with me the majority of my adulthood. Even though that's true Yonks isn't who I am. This is who I am...</div>
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and if you don't understand that maybe you have some soul searching to do. love. war.</div>
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-Who is a wedding reception for: the guests, or the married?</div>
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-Should a woman break up with a man over video game playage?</div>
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-<a href="http://costellodesign.blogspot.com/2008/08/yonks-clothing-company-ii.html">Bryan Costello</a> is an awesome graphic designer.</div>
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-Contra dancing.</div>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/vs7XB5X1U48">Missin' you like Crazy</a></div>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/KQ6zr6kCPj8">From 3:40 - 4:12</a></div>
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Recently I've been making these faces to my friends. You know the squinty-eyed eyebrows come down and your mouth curls are you serious face. And this face is followed by the begging question: Are these people serious?<br />
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I've recently connected with a couple of friends that I was friends with a long time ago and I wanted to share something blazingly obvious and peculiarly annoying. The <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2011/04/brilliance-wreaked-havoc-on-few.html">brilliantly obvious</a> is that people don't change. I've heard it before from thousands of boring, thoughtless people and I agree with the premise but disagree with the conclusion. People don't change...but people can change. The parculiarly annoying thing is that people do change but sometimes it's not for the better. It's peculiar because I just assumed everyone's changing for the better. And it's annoying because they think they are.<br />
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This road of life we're ask to find ourselves. Someone somewhere along the line has asked us to ask ourselves who we really are; what our likes and dislikes are, how we think, why we think the way we do, and a whole lot of other useless <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2011/02/you-call-it-being-waiteri-call-it.html">garbage</a> in the middle. My uncle told me once you shouldn't get married till 30 because you don't know yourself till then. I love my uncle but I disagree with him. (Though I speak from ignorance I feel it's reasoned and semi-educated ignorance (the best kind)) Getting married isn't about knowing who you are but rather knowing who you'd die for. Once you know that you'd give up every thing to be with someone it doesn't matter that you like vanilla ice cream and despise watermelon chocolate ice cream. You just eat the watermelon chocolate because you love. And loving is the most important.<br />
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I'm reminded of the When Harry Met Sally quote:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> "I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." </span><br />
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And while I wasn't intending this blog to be a marriage blog I guess it's just turned into one. Marriage is hard as hell and as rewarding as the spoils of war. Raising children is equal to it. But how we should act in our marriage, men, is how Christ acted in life. He died for the thing he loved. us. If you're thinking about divorce, there was a time in your marriage you were willing to for them.<br />
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I'd like to be the someone along your road of life that doesn't ask you to find yourself because once you find yourself you'll realize you were looking for the wrong thing. What it is about is finding other people. <b>Other people are there, I swear they are and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">they need you</span></b>.<br />
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So we come back to my friends and the change thing. My friends are great. They love but there's this sense of "who I am" that is frustrating them. Finding your identity does matter, don't get me wrong, but finding your identity isn't done by looking for it. Because when you look for your identity in the world you end up divorcing your spouse. Can you make the connection on your own or do I have to draw it for you?<br />
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I'll leave you with this simple conversation I had with a very simple girl today. <b>She's 5.</b><br />
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Page: Mackenzie, it's not good to be selfish.<br />
Mackenzie: I want to watch yo gabba.<br />
Page: Do you know what being selfish is?<br />
Mackenzie: No.<br />
Page: It's when we only think about ourselves.<br />
Mackenzie: (laughing) That's a good thing.<br />
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When we try to find who we are we're being selfish like 5-year-old Mackenzie. It took me years of looking for myself to realize this. <b>Love God and Love your neighbor as yourself.</b> All that matters fall on these two commandments. All the rest is your insecurities that should just go away. love. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-google+<br />
-You can always find a better wife<br />
-Being broke. literally without money. what do you do?<br />
-Ron Paul<br />
-What finger you should wear a ring on? (The pointer finger is the worst)<br />
-natural blondes vs red heads<br />
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Things to watch/listen to:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Rq-nBujdb4I"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Listened to non-stop for 3 days</span></span></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-</span></span><a href="http://youtu.be/2otVBGcG1kw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's Dancy Dance time</span></span></a></span></span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com1Unknown location.36.115690180653395 -79.9887084960937535.910300680653393 -80.304565496093744 36.3210796806534 -79.672851496093756tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-38882541905652505072011-06-09T00:04:00.001-04:002011-06-09T00:08:05.009-04:00The Smell of Past Lovers Tortures the Heart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://www.reallyjapan.com/images/20080506124621_sleeping_lovers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="http://www.reallyjapan.com/images/20080506124621_sleeping_lovers.jpg" width="320" /></a>The problem with love is giving yourself over to it and in return being burned by the butt you were smoking yourself. A pathetic excuse for not partaking in drunken indulgence of love to come. One might say they're looking for love in all the wrong places but one's love looks in any place it knows best and sometimes it's best happens to be wrong. But more frequently I've found that one's best is usually a great place to start when the quest isn't quenched from what has been found in the past. I've loved a lot and the unspeakable words to past lovers never do justice the feelings in ones heart...<b>because the lovers have found other goblets to drink</b>; goblets much larger and golden than mine.<br />
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Come back to me intoxicating aroma of the past. The perfume teases with vanity. If but one more kiss could remind you of the laughter we once showed to crippled vagabonds in the streets. Homeless drifters in search of the story they once heard. As if their next fix could come through a simple pacifist memory. Love they shout from their juxtapose angle with the sidewalk. War I yell back begging them not to remind me of their gay memories. It isn't hate but a desire for the warm touch that swells through and through. And then I breath. You can't drown your sorrows in anything if there's nothing in the cabinet. And so this melon collie drifts on and on into eternal sorrow, begging to be picked up by the boots and forced back to labor. I'll pick myself up when I'm good and ready. But for now self-loathing is doing the trick that liquor could never. Never does the Bible talk about forgiving yourself but sometimes we have to do things that the Bible doesn't talk about in order to move on.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> love. war. </span></span><br />
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Things to think about:<br />
If this isn't real than death shouldn't hurt<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
Californication</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0Kernersville, NC, USA36.1198588 -80.07365329999998936.0669793 -80.138328299999984 36.172738300000006 -80.0089783tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-43054903236954437592011-05-25T03:18:00.001-04:002011-05-25T10:42:28.852-04:00Pursuing Jesus and Other Important Shit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~bjones34/battlescene.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="http://home.comcast.net/~bjones34/battlescene.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I have a bike. It's a sweet little number; a Trek 500 worth about five hundred smackers. I've been commuting to work, back and forth like a metronome. The ride to work is fast and strenuous with my back soaked with loads of my Godly, smelly sweat. The ride home is a glorious, post midnight, trek with myself and the drunks. It's a calm, slow and steady peddled four mile journey to Weather Ridge road; clear light blinking in the front warning others of the immediate danger, red lights blinking in the back giving the drunks a one in three shot of taking out their target.<br />
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It's these twenty minute rides that help bring some perspective to my feeble, vaporesque life. I find myself asking questions like: what's the point? What's the point of reading countless articles about the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/obama-skirts-rule-law-reward-pals-punish-foes">Obama administration</a>'s lack of understanding international politics? What's the point of love?<br />
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Tomorrow is my last day at Hams and everyone is asking me what I'm going to do now. What's my future look like? Why am I balding? Why's there a hole in your shirt?<br />
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When you're riding a bike you can put your head down between your arms and hear the sweet sound of the chain connecting with 20 mile per hour efficiency; a slow hum that reminds you why you're doing what you're doing. <b>It's a sound that you could only understand the emotions behind if heard.</b> It brings my head back to Earth. <a href="http://coverings.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/love-simple-part-2/">Simplicity</a>.<br />
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I don't bike to work to save the Earth; the Earth doesn't need saving and I'm incapable of doing any saving of something so big, something that God controls. I bike to work to hear that sound; a sound that is only beaten by the whisper of a loved one in the ear.<br />
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I haven't read the Bible in a couple months...but I did quote it in an interview I had yesterday. I quote the Bible in every interview I have with every important hiring manager thinking about hiring me. Yesterday I quoted my favorite scripture from Proverbs. It's mad legit and never ceases to amaze me. He asked me what my favorite animal is and I said the Lion...because...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">"There are three things that are stately in their stride, four that move with stately bearing: a lion, mighty among beasts, who retreats before nothing; a strutting rooster, a he-goat, and a <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-your-life-sucks-good-antidote-is.html">king</a> with his army around him."</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wallpapers-diq.net/wallpapers/15/The_King_Of_Smiles,_African_Lion,_Tanzania,_Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://wallpapers-diq.net/wallpapers/15/The_King_Of_Smiles,_African_Lion,_Tanzania,_Africa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Who retreats before nothing. What are you retreating from right now? What is it that you're afraid of? Goodness. To be in such a place emotionally where you retreat from nothing. Not out of pride per say but rather out of a conviction that what you're pursuing is right...<b>and just</b>.<br />
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So...what is right and just? Get on my bike for a minute and I'll show you. love. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-A six pack of Yuengling and a pack of camel 99's.<br />
-Your best friend and the reasons you love them.<br />
-The 2012 presidential race.<br />
-"God damn" isn't as bad as people think it is.<br />
-I didn't brush me teeth at all today.<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/tHqFWYYOUAM">I pray my daughter is this awesome</a></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://youtu.be/fIN8MmMloZE">They should still be able to advertise</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><a href="http://youtu.be/2BbmbIoynZQ"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wish he was still alive</span></span></a></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com1Kernersville, NC, USA36.1198588 -80.07365329999998936.0669793 -80.138328299999984 36.172738300000006 -80.0089783tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-6069297379279230252011-04-04T02:41:00.000-04:002011-04-04T02:41:47.880-04:00Brilliance Wreaked Havoc on the Few; Ignornace on the Masses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://teachingjobsportal.com/wp-content/uploads/sir_isaac_newton_1702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://teachingjobsportal.com/wp-content/uploads/sir_isaac_newton_1702.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br />
I'm not brilliant.<br />
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I've been wanting to be the type of person that can make a list. Best this or most that. <a href="http://www.dlmark.net/hundred.htm">A list like this.</a> You'll never make the list. This should disappoint you considerably as it does me. I've taken some time of considerable thought to figure out why it is that I desire to make such a list.<br />
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When I see men, influential men, who people look up to, who people respect, I have this feeling that I want to be those men. They drive cars that have heat and good sound systems, wear suits that cost more than $15, and know what they're doing in life. Men who have good wives and whose kids play soccer. Who laugh.<br />
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<b>I have this thought that if I make such a list God will look at me differently; as a important person. </b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, </span><span class="woj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="woj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL';"><br />
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She put in everything she had. All she had to live on. Does this bother you?<br />
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Most of the men that are on the above linked list are brilliant men. I'm not brilliant. But in the place of brilliance I substitute <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/12/im-no-monkey-and-im-no-catdo-i-have-to.html">curiosity</a> and discontentment which has brought me to where I am now; curious and discontent.<br />
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I've come to realize that the men that I look up to aren't necessarily the people that God looks up to. And I look up to a lot of really great men. I've come to realize that the meek will inherit the earth. That blessed are the poor in spirit. A good deal of the way I look at people comes from this worldly belief that God cares about power and success. How are you looking at people? I'll lite up a cigarette while you think. love. war.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Things to think about:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-</span><a href="http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/3675.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Menthol vs non</span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-Ben and Jerry's $1 singles in the grocery.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-Wanting more out of life than you ever thought. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-Rules. Which ones you can break without guilt.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-Picking up people that need rides.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-Being up front with the lover that you love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-What you are giving the people around you. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Things to read:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5-7&version=NIV"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The sermon on the mount</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Things to listen to:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The still quiet voice.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL';"><br />
</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0Kernersville, NC, USA36.1198588 -80.07365329999998936.0669793 -80.138328299999984 36.172738300000006 -80.0089783tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-78302911802047418132011-03-25T01:47:00.001-04:002011-03-25T12:30:55.302-04:00I Kissed a Girl...Well Actually She Kissed Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.theapplegallery.com/Photo_Mexico/Mexican_Girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.theapplegallery.com/Photo_Mexico/Mexican_Girl.jpg" width="320" /></a>Sixty kids all running around. "Spin me Page, spin me." I pick them up by the hands and twirl them around till I can't walk straight, regaining my composer and doing it again. I go as fast as I can and them laughing the whole time. My friend Haley once said, "I just want to love them and so I hold them for hours at a time because maybe they haven't ever had anyone hold them." Haley's better at loving kids than I am but I've applied her attitude to spinning kids.<br />
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I walk in the gym and she runs up to me, "Page, Page, I missed you."<b> Her long, wild black hair unbrushed for days.</b> I pick her up, "Hey Marissa. I missed you too." Her little body fitting perfectly in my arms, never wanted to let her down. "Now go back and sit with all the other kids like you're suppose to." During direction time I scout the kids looking for a couple that I love more than the rest, making sure they're there.<br />
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David, <b>who's dad is an alcoholic</b>, shooting a basketball with one hand because he's too short and too weak to do it with one. Quiet and unassuming but gets that little smile in the corner of his mouth when you tell him the hearts that he's drawing are awesome. Leslie, the self assured 10 year old who tells it like it is; attitude and all. Josh, my main man, rambunctious with the Mohawk, who just likes to kick balls with his friends as long as he can. His little legs carrying him slower than I was at his age, with the biggest grin on his face. I look at Marissa, my favorite, and ask God to bless her life.<br />
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<i>L</i><i>ord protect this child from men wanting to abuse her body. </i><br />
<i>Lord watch over this child like you watch over the ones you love and lead her to understand your ways. </i><br />
<i>Lord help her not to give herself over to the first man that wants a piece of her. </i><br />
<i>Lord help her parents love her at home and not abuse her. </i><br />
<i>Show me </i><a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/07/if-hadassah-was-my-slave-id-let-her.html"><i>how to communicate</i></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><i> </i></span><i>my love towards her. </i><br />
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"Page can we play sharks and minnows today?" She looks up at me with her brown eyes holding on to my legs. I rub her head and tell her I'd love to. I dominate in sharks and minnows, the reason I want to play. I'm faster than all the kids.<br />
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She doesn't follow the rules; when being tagged by a shark, she continues to be a minnow. I tell her to follow the rules but she says...I want to be a minnow. She's wild. She does what she wants and I'm protective as hell towards her. It's a hard thing to do to be impartial but I look at Marissa like my own daughter and I'll spin her till I <b>vomit</b> if she feels the love I have towards her.<br />
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People spend time doing things that I think are a waste of time: video games by yourself, reality TV till your eyes bleed, endless facebooking, sleeping. In a effort to make my time valuable I go to hang out with these kids from 3-6 on my days off. An after-school program unlike any other...allowing children to be children and not drug addicts.<br />
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I bent down and looked Marissa in the eyes and told her to listen to the people that tell her what to do. <b>She looks at me and smiles and kisses me. </b>I feel warmth and love and fear. "Marissa, don't kiss me anymore okay." The affection of a child is the purest most amazing thing. <b>Safe.</b> I just desire for her and all the other kids to be safe. I volunteer because they are safe at this program. Safe to laugh, get spun, and kiss a leader now and again to show their appreciation.<br />
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The days that I go to the after-school program are long. Three hours can wear any energetic 25 year old out but I look forward to them every time I leave. But I praise God for the opportunity to serve him and these children in this way. It's one thing to waste your time but it's another to waste your time when there's kids out there to love...right here in our backyard. love. war.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea. - Jesus</span><br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-taste, touch, sight, smell, hear...which is the best?<br />
-Going camping with me for my birthday.<br />
-2012 Presidential election<br />
-Duke and the ACC vs UConn and the Big East.<br />
-Wisconsin's public workers debate.<br />
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Things to read<br />
<a href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/11/ContinuingStubbornIgnorance">A piece of land to give up Social Security</a><br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704076804576180522989644198.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories">Nation of Dropouts</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com1Kernersville, NC, USA36.1198588 -80.073653336.0505263 -80.190382800000009 36.189191300000005 -79.9569238tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-1026592823030088152011-03-06T16:39:00.002-05:002011-03-06T16:41:40.689-05:00Before he was Chuck Norris...he was WALKER, Texas Ranger!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<div class="im"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhhCzjyv9aJZ0SESSTJLqPUgQJsrMWhQoiM9iWo84-szpc6OQSg2c8o3Co6i3c_qb58PTNB_YUh0T4iUO4-dnYYMwBtNPEIS39yyaFy8jydHHyv55ZeBHCt2rP1n-AYeg8uhLlDSalEo/s1600/2007_tech_at_texas_flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhhCzjyv9aJZ0SESSTJLqPUgQJsrMWhQoiM9iWo84-szpc6OQSg2c8o3Co6i3c_qb58PTNB_YUh0T4iUO4-dnYYMwBtNPEIS39yyaFy8jydHHyv55ZeBHCt2rP1n-AYeg8uhLlDSalEo/s320/2007_tech_at_texas_flag.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm contemplating settling the Lone Star state. And, while I know that the great state of Texas has already been settled, it still lacks a certain man that goes by my name. This wouldn't be that big of a move for me being that I just got back from Seoul and before that Prague...but that's not the point. <b>My happenings around the world don't interest me much and should, therefore, equally not interest you. Been there, blogged that.</b> The point isn't whether this is a big move or not but is this a move that should be made?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> I've been to Texas once before. It was on a road trip that I took with</span> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=29703035&sk=info">Luke Logan</a>. The one man that is the craziest man I know. At the time we were not adolescences but not men either. It was the summer of my sophomore year at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_State_University">App State</a> and Luke had family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluma,_California">Petaluma</a> that he wanted to spend time with during the summer. I, a worthy road mate, decided that taking a cross country road trip was something long past due in my tenure as a human and so we set out. Eating one Oreo a piece for every state we crossed, we finally arrived in Texas. Skipping loads of amazing, blog worthy stories, I take you to Marshall. Now Marshall wasn't your average hitch hiker and it's safe to say that he wasn't safe. But not picking him up wasn't an option.</div><div class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Luke: Okay I don't have many goals for this road trip other than three things.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Page: All right let's hear them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Luke: I want to get to Petaluma.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Page: All right.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Luke: I want to do lots of things we've never done before.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Page: Good.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Luke: And I want to pick up a hitch hiker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Page: Awesome.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hours outside of Fort Worth, after spending a couple days with my lover’s wife and family, we see the thumb, the clothes, and the face of Marshall <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2009/10/into-buck-wildif-only-oprah-was-with-us.html">Hitch Hiker</a>, not to be confused with Herschel Walker,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Or Walker Texas Ranger,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">or Stranger Danger. Which I wasn't aware of.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCc0txes2uBfvcwzI1UixDRwaCLwLCsJe6ZzsCWCFfpyNg1PZ7pfBX4FrCqfVw-ZFMm_69uazbDGqbma93w19ihfM7fDtblRpzIcFJr-O8eUPRmLw6PqSCSiX0Az5L93xWl0DWnSBUBg4/s1600/StrangerDArt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCc0txes2uBfvcwzI1UixDRwaCLwLCsJe6ZzsCWCFfpyNg1PZ7pfBX4FrCqfVw-ZFMm_69uazbDGqbma93w19ihfM7fDtblRpzIcFJr-O8eUPRmLw6PqSCSiX0Az5L93xWl0DWnSBUBg4/s320/StrangerDArt.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Marshall didn't speak much. And when I say he didn't speak much I mean he spoke maybe 5 words the entire ride to El Paso. From the backseat of the car I could see Marshall in the side view mirror and his face went from steady to smiling to almost a laugh and back again to straight every minute for the next 2 hours we drove. By the time we got to El Paso it was dark and we decided to look around the town. I explained to Marshall what we were doing and he seemed to understand. He followed us 50 ft behind everywhere we explored. I was assuming Marshall would sleep with us now that we were like the Three Amigos, traveling the open frontier. Luke told me, as Marshall trailed, he didn't think it would be smart for Marshall to spend the night with us...in our tents...in the middle of nowhere. <b>I told Luke that God would protect us and giving this guy some hospitality might be what he needed...Luke disagreed</b>. Not wanting to get in an argument with my dear friend, I politely explained to our tear-drop-tattoo-faced friend that we weren't going any further and he couldn't sleep with us. He got his bag and walked away without a word. I'll always love that crazy man. And while it's obvious that Luke read the book Stranger Danger and I hadn't at that point I always wonder what would have happened had Marshall shared the tent with us that night. I'd probably not be writing you now. But...</span></div><div class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This story doesn't help me try to decide whether or not I should move to Austin but it seemed unbelievably relevant to explain to you the type of people that I've met in Texas before you're able to make an accurate decision and give me sound wisdom with irreproachable objectivism. Of course much of my decision is based on whether I can convince someone to employ me with this $50,000 degree that everyone told me I should get. If I'm able to do that it's safe to say I'll be in the </span><a href="http://texasmilitia.org/">Texas militia</a> in no time. Love. War.<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Things to think about:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">-Chuck Norris can sit while standing</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">-If Chuck Norris ever roundhouse kicked you in the face, you could never turn the other cheek because you'd be dead.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">-When Chuck Norris is thirsty he drinks a pint of peanut butter.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Things to watch:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6HyXCHndmk">Bill interviews Barry</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Things to read:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/11/PublicEmployeeUnions">Public Employee Unions</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Things I'm reading:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fountainhead-Ayn-Rand/dp/B0000CL57F/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1299446551&sr=8-7">The Fountainhead</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/City-Thieves-Novel-David-Benioff/dp/0452295297/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299446677&sr=1-1">City of Thieves</a></div><div><br />
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<i>I'm back</i>...Steven Tyler screams out of the 30 some odd melodious sound wave pushers screwed into the ceiling. I sweep the carpet at the end of the night with aching in my feet, 65 bucks in my smelly, light blue jeans, and a song thumping it's way into annoying repetitive overdrive. I'm back...My head contemplates a few things: why we use a broom to sweep carpet, how I got to be where I am today, and why didn't I make more money tonight.<br />
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I was in <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/08/korea-land-of-free-and-home-of.html">Korea one month ago</a>; teaching little Korean kids the reason why Addie had a bad day. One third of them understanding something was wrong, half of them realizing it was because she got her hair cut and <b>maybe one of them being able to explain it in complete sentences</b>. Now I'm explaining to people why we're out of crayons for the kids menus, and why we no longer serve mashed potatoes (in perfectly English of course. I not stupid. But I very disappoint)<br />
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I bum a cig, hop in my non-heated olds, put on my down, and traverse the 5 miles at 45 mph putting me home in roughly 7 minutes, give or take a couple minutes. I walk up to the house, lights off and the doors locked, my father ready for an ambush. I still haven't gotten a spare key <b>because the thought of actually getting a key means I'm going to be here for awhile and well</b>...that's just not acceptable yet. I check my email, my facebook, drudgereport, tell my cousin how much I made tonight as he plays black opps , try not to wake my step mom, and hop in the shower to wash off this stench that I can only attribute to good old fashion restaurant. I put on some fresh undies and pray to my God to help me to understand life. <br />
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<b>I lie in bed thinking this is my life. God knows and so do I</b>. Some of my friends are single parents, some are married. Some live in big houses and some don't live in houses at all. A lot of people I've seen don't have a job and don't have food. I've played with orphans and seen a woman cry in pain from malaria. I've seen human beings root through my garbage looking for food right after I've had a full filling meal. I've seen a <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2008/06/ive-never-before-seen-skin-rotting-but.html">woman 50 lbs dying of AIDS</a>. I know I'm not 100% satisfied where I am right now but I know that I'm blessed beyond reason and God's too good to not give him all the glory. Praise you Yahweh. I'm back...in America. love. war.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." -Paul</span><br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-Men are funnier than women<br />
-Love and thinking about love<br />
-Indie films<br />
-Fireplaces verse wood burning stoves<br />
-your past verse your future<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/15/obama_drops_s-bomb_at_presser_on_budget.html">S-bomb</a><br />
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Things to read:<br />
<a href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/11/CanOurNationBeSaved">Can our nation be saved?</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0Kernersville, NC, USA36.1198588 -80.073653336.0505263 -80.190382800000009 36.189191300000005 -79.9569238tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-59884241841826225052011-01-18T09:23:00.001-05:002011-02-16T11:36:03.688-05:00Imagine the Things We Could Get Done If You Weren't so Lazy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4cS4u14DR5CitEFSfqbwJjYWOLFQnobry8q0JQgylqHiXS8R-WyukJwqB6fz470LRSw5wKgXkQUbE1SAOGmzjvHdikfZTiyuL1ci41vL8TacaYIYVV7aLqPADwIDmjghHIWkhK6bfB0/s1600/raleighskyline.com_december_07_33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4cS4u14DR5CitEFSfqbwJjYWOLFQnobry8q0JQgylqHiXS8R-WyukJwqB6fz470LRSw5wKgXkQUbE1SAOGmzjvHdikfZTiyuL1ci41vL8TacaYIYVV7aLqPADwIDmjghHIWkhK6bfB0/s320/raleighskyline.com_december_07_33.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm back in America. And while it snows in Seoul it also snowed last night. It actually iced last night. The wind blew and the dogs barked but I didn't stir from my 3 x 6 foot pull out. I woke up this morning exactly the way that I've woken up the past 10 nights; at 0645. This drastic change in my daily routine of sleeping in till 10, 11, or even 12 was due to a simple prayer that I said exactly 5 nights ago. The prayer was this. "Lord I want to wake up early. Can you wake me up when you want me to wake up?" I set the alarm clock for 0700 in case the Lord wasn't listening or didn't care about this particular prayer and went to sleep around 2400.</span><br />
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Waking up early, I'm convinced, is the key to being more productive.<br />
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-You could use it as an opportunity to go through people's things when they're asleep.<br />
-You could wake everyone up early because you think waking up early is a good thing to do.<br />
-You could also walk around naked not being afraid anyone will see you.<br />
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Or you could use the time to <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2009/12/thinking-about-what-youre-thinking.html">sit, be quiet, pray, and reflect</a>. I strive for not just production but for quality. A quality life that I can get to the end of and be happy that I was disciplined enough to accomplish goals, avoid sin, and obey God through it all. I love Thomas Jeffereson's quote:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years." </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder what time TJ went to bed. Although I haven't been able to say this for a long time I've been able to say it the past 10 days...and now I'm going to be able to say it in fifty years just like our founding father, unless I stay out too late partying. love. war.</span><br />
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<div style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man." ~Solomon</i></span></div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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-Why you read blogs<br />
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I'm on my last cigarette and it's 144am. It's time to go home to sleep but the world keeps calling me asking me to engage in it with passionate rage. The Koreans are drifting home one by one from their passionate pursuit in their fantasy world. It begs me to question what kind of fantasy world I'm living in. Over the past 4 months I have felt like I am in one...without an avatar to fight the battles that come my way.<br />
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The people I meet think they are in an interview right off the bat. Tonight I had a date (well it wasn't a date exactly...but you know) with a <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/11/korean-eyes-and-knives-that-make-them.html">beautiful Korean</a> woman and she said "<b>are you interviewing me</b>?" I'm just curious; about everything. I'm curious to the point of madness. I'm curious about what spots are the best for cab drivers to pick people up in Seoul. I'm curious why the Seoul metro is so clean. I'm curious why Korean girls cover their mouth when they laugh. I'm curious why no one here cares about North Korea. I'm curious why I like smoking so much.<br />
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So basically I've figured out, to much of my astonishment, <b>that people aren't</b> as <b>curious</b> as I am. I'm very weary of people who aren't curious. The questions that run through my ever curious mind from day to day serve as a base point for how I interact with people. So are you curious?<br />
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I wouldn't assume that people should be curious all the time. Most people aren't curious...but I would assume that <b>curiosity is what produces many things</b>: great works of art, great companies, great salesman, and lastly great friendships. You can't have a great friendship if you aren't curious. I don't mean figuratively but rather literally. A great friendship consists on the basis that you're curious about the other person. Curious to understand why they view the world the way they do. Curious to take a walk in their shoes and love them unconditionally. Curious to know why they're crying or why they just broke up with their boyfriend. This is the curiousity that drives most of what I do and most, if not all, of my interactions with people I come into contact with.<br />
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People are always making fun of the amount of facebook friends I have. It's quite funny because I don't understand how it's hard for people to make friendships or why having a lot of facebook friends is negative. (I know you don't view them as real friendships but I do...because I've met 98% of the people I'm friends with) I simply think the whole time people are saying this that it's so easy to make friends with people...you just have to be curious. People think they're in an interview when I meet them because I ask them a lot of questions...not because I'm nosy...which people (you) probably think I am...but because I'm curious as hell why they are the way they are.<br />
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There is obviously levels of friendships <b>but I view friendships as a very sacred thing. I honor my friendships I have with people and think of them as very important...the most important. </b><br />
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A simple questions opens up so many understandings about that person that not asking that question didn't before. And everyone has some wisdom to bestow on everyone. I'm looking for wisdom.<br />
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When I'm asking questions, this is what's going through my mind: what question can I ask this person that no one has ever asked them before. I believe there's a question for every person that they haven't ever been asked before and I'm bound to find out what that question is for every person.<br />
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<b>There's no point to this post other than asking you to be more curious with the people you meet.</b> Why? Because people need to be loved and your curiosity will open up their heart to you to really know what's going on...in<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">stead of talking about Kim Kardashian </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">or the most rece</span>nt basketball game. People often say to me, "I can't believe I'm telling you this." <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-architecture-facade-in-anatomy-heart.html">I can...because I care. Get deep</a>. Don't be afraid. love. war.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then Jesus said to his host,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj">“When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj">But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj">and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.</span></span><br />
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Things to think about:<br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704610904576032033563531432.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories">Now can controlling something make it more free?</a><br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704610904576032033563531432.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories"></a>-Woman being lonely after they have a child.<br />
-downloading songs vs buying them.<br />
-watching too much TV.<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/rufus_griscom_alisa_volkman_let_s_talk_parenting_taboos.html">Lets talk parenting taboos</a><br />
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Things to listen to:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04fcgFs-mjA">Inna - Love</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com2Seoul, South Korea37.566535 126.977969237.430468000000005 126.74450970000001 37.702602 127.2114287tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-9705951065006625682010-12-09T12:40:00.001-05:002010-12-10T06:17:07.435-05:00A Three Foot Ball of Fire Wrapped in Korean Skin; Squinty Eyes and AllAs far as I know all little boys are a little wild but nothing quite compares to Vincent. He's more than your average wild child: he kicks chairs, doesn't let other kids answer questions, and insists on sitting in his chair the wrong way...and he is the reason I'm staying in Korea.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPogD7qrDqz1DDqR5dyAADev1vfXEjp44ND5o6umkxWGjuKW5MaptCX2IYL_I4veLQCPurPuKLu7Hpy9sQPr4NaZjl1u1Utkm2_Jop2RRSr9WSrTOXhplglik2TY4jJXdm1u6Z3ah2ahg/s1600/fire-ball-black-hot-burning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPogD7qrDqz1DDqR5dyAADev1vfXEjp44ND5o6umkxWGjuKW5MaptCX2IYL_I4veLQCPurPuKLu7Hpy9sQPr4NaZjl1u1Utkm2_Jop2RRSr9WSrTOXhplglik2TY4jJXdm1u6Z3ah2ahg/s320/fire-ball-black-hot-burning.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>Over the past 3 months I have considered <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/09/world-could-use-one-less-teacher-me.html">quiting my job every day</a>. All this has culminated with me actually quiting my job last Wednesday. Much to my regret I was convicted about quiting my job, because I'm not a wiener, and told my boss today that I want to unquit. I had a special meeting with the owner of my hagwon and she told me she was unhappy with me, to say the least,...for quiting and then unquitting to which I told her that I understand. </div><div><br />
</div><div>When I thought about quiting I was being selfish and only thinking about myself and what's best for me. Of course everyone is selfish, you're being selfish by taking time to read my blog and not doing the one hundred other things that you need to do, hopefully loving people is one of those thing. The question is when does doing something turn from being selfishness to selflessness, the quality that everyone should be trying to obtain. </div><div><br />
</div><div>When I figured out that there were other things at play in the picture I was convicted of my selfishness and told my boss that I had changed my mind. I've changed my mind a lot. And then I've changed my mind again. But never face to face with my bosses. There were loads of other things that came into the picture but I'd like to break down all the other minutia to one simple thing: Vincent. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Homeboy is the jam for real. When I thought about leaving Korea I was thinking about the no talent ass clown that would be teaching him after me and I couldn't think about letting someone teach him that might not love him, which is very easy to do. I was also sad about not seeing him grow up for the next 9 months.<b> Is this what it feels like being a father? </b></div><div><br />
</div><div><div>This is a typical excerpt of my classes with Vincent:</div><div><br />
</div><div><b>Page:</b> Does anyone know why Henry was scared Mudge had to go to the Vet?</div><div><br />
</div><div><b>Page:</b> yes...Vincent?</div><div><br />
</div><div><b>Vincent: </b>Your face is crazy.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Of course when I call on Vincent I'm not sure if he's going to give me the right answer, which he always knows, or the 'your face is crazy' response which is his, and now mine, personal favorite. I'm still trying to figure out if my face IS crazy. I'm white and everyone else is not white. To make fun of white people Korean kids use their fingers and open their eyes wide like white people...much like we did with Asians in the opposite way. </div><div><br />
</div><div>There are a few special things that I love about Vincent. Vincents handwriting is sub-par, but he doesn't care. Vincent is usually not in his chair, which drives me crazy, but he can't help. Vincent is in love with a girl in our class named Isabelle and he sometimes hits her and tells on her...not because he's trying to flirt with her but rather because <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_18860_6-animals-that-just-dont-give-f2340k.html">he doesn't give a F#@k.</a> He often runs up to the front and does flying kicks in the air trying to slam whatever is in his way. He leaves the room without asking. He reads his books upside down. He steals the fake incentive money that I have in my basket and gives it back just to show me who's boss. He's boss. </div><div><br />
</div><div>This description doesn't give him justice but Vincent doesn't do anything trying to gain approval, he just does whatever he wants. The main reason that I respect Vincent is because he just knows who he is...<b>AND HE'S 8 YEARS OLD.</b> I know you don't believe me but you have to believe me. He marches to the beat of his own whistle. And whistles don't even carry a beat. I guess you could say that Vincent is my favorite student...but he deserves to be because he's no one else's. love. war. </div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."</span></div><div><br />
</div><div>Things to think about:</div><div>-your make-up you wear. </div><div>-caffeine </div><div>-the gold standard</div><div><br />
</div><div>Things to read:</div><div>-<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/08/aaron-sorkin-sarah-palin">This idiot</a></div><div><br />
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Jeremy Current has a song he wrote after his girlfriend was murdered titled <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jeremycurrent">Violet Boutique</a>. The line that sticks in my brain, makes my gut grimace, and soul yearn: "I knew someday you'd dry up but I can't stop pouring water in your cup."<br />
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I feel as if my girlfriend has been murdered and I haven't had a girlfriend in six years. The second most humbling experience has to be someone saying they'll marry you and staying with you for life.<br />
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<b>I can't stop pouring water in your cup.</b><br />
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Agony, a feeling I have no right to sympathize with. Agony, an emotion that comes daily to my calcium non-deficient bones. I'm in agony for wisdom. I'm in agony for love. I'm in agony for understanding...and I don't understand. I'm not trying to understand the deeper meanings of life, having graduated from that thinking long ago, but rather the trivial things of life. Once one thinks for hours on end all one can do is think some more. Andre's dad hates thinking because he says that it keeps people from doing.<br />
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Maybe I'm not a doer, I think to myself, running through the small list of accomplishments in my life. Some worth noting, some personal gold medals snatched out of the hands of millions of other competitors. But my accomplishments are like snotty loogies spit in my face as I look at my future. Ones accomplishments are only as good as who you're comparing yourself to. I am currently comparing myself to Andre. Once number one in the world.<br />
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<b>I change the song. </b>Tired of wanting to cry. Not tears of sadness but tears of agony. What's the agony. I don't know.<br />
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"So why did you come to Korea?" She asks me as we stand waiting on separate taxis. She a Korean trying to understand me and gauging me with other Americans she's met; the ones that hang out in <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/09/im-headed-to-hooker-hill-maybe-ill.html">Itaewon</a>. I'm an American trying to gauge myself. Wonderfully beautiful and unbearingly attractive I tell her I don't know.<br />
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I don't know. <b>I don't know. I feel like I could repeat this a million times to anyone who asks me any questions about anything. </b> I said something about culture or some other bullshit that I didn't know why I was saying. I pride myself in my ability to think fast. I can't think that fast...we were waiting on taxis and taxis in Seoul are like ignorant people in America. She ignored a couple free taxis and let them pass much like I ignore ignorant Americans and let them pass.<br />
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I rest on Solomons wisdom in my daily agony:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun--all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.</span><br />
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The main reason I can't enjoy life is that I don't have a wife whom to love all the days of this meaningless life.<br />
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I agree with Jesus in my glorious loneliness:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.</span></span><br />
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What's next. I don't know. All I know is I want to be great and I want to do this with my wife. This looks different for a believer but I still can't understand why. love. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-not thinkingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com2Seoul, South Korea37.566535 126.977969237.430468000000005 126.74450970000001 37.702602 127.2114287tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198207402130163000.post-11269054000117165022010-11-10T11:52:00.000-05:002010-11-10T11:52:21.770-05:00People From All Over the World Reading the Same Crappy Thing...MY BLOG<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmgAr-lzU9FsgQBUBVZojDfMFz4H3nxkg4YRNIRfJpPC7_aPRTwWUY8wCcZKDpbnNeQKL2-EJ1WtOAFV7NHggDVZQ1-_mGcP9KsEoxqs_SdPvC8e8tdrOuq1lCoHwHbxMWQzEirjktb0g/s1600/wood1.512.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmgAr-lzU9FsgQBUBVZojDfMFz4H3nxkg4YRNIRfJpPC7_aPRTwWUY8wCcZKDpbnNeQKL2-EJ1WtOAFV7NHggDVZQ1-_mGcP9KsEoxqs_SdPvC8e8tdrOuq1lCoHwHbxMWQzEirjktb0g/s320/wood1.512.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Technology now a days allows for a lot of things that the past wouldn't of allowed. For instance...wasting hours gazing into other people's lives through countless photos of them and their friends that they make available to others for that specific purpose. Or even simple , extraordinarily things like using a plastic card anywhere you are when you want to buy something. (Something you take for granted).<br />
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Something else technology has enabled me to do is see the people that come to my blog and the things they search to find it. Recently someone that came upon it searched for this and I thought it was funny enough to share with you:<br />
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It brought her to this <a href="http://pagetrimble.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-not-twelve-step-but-its-close.html">blogpost</a>. Of course this begs the questions...What does the gym teaching think this chick did? (I'm assuming she's a chick) The next question is did my blog help her out? It probably didn't because most the people that come to my blog from searches don't read the whole thing. (I can see that too) But I still think it's very very funny. Here are some other things that people have searched that have come up on my blog...all funny but not as funny as that gym teacher apology letter crap...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I like the way she smokes her cigarettes</span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-I've told someones secrets to people, how do I get them to not say to anyone</span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-Should you keep secrets from people. bible</span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-Sometimes I'd rather build a fire than a relationship</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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The last one is probably my favorite...because sometimes I'd rather build a fire than a relationship...but in Seoul you can't build fires. love. war.<br />
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Things to think about:<br />
-how is life in america different from other places<br />
-does smoking cigarettes really make people mad<br />
-why does making a profit for oneself considered so bad<br />
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Things to watch:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw">Obama...2 terms...eh. </a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185944760102461889noreply@blogger.com0Seoul, South Korea37.566535 126.977969237.430468000000005 126.74450970000001 37.702602 127.2114287