santa

I had a good friend of mine say something really funny right before christmas. "I've seen santa on a motorcycle, boat, and sleigh; how the hell does he get to my house?" I thought that was priceless. I laughed really hard. I still laugh out loud when I think about it. Any one who knows me, knows that I love to laugh. Christmas was really good this year. I am a little overwhelmed at how blessed I am. I really got too much stuff! I am blessed beyond what I deserve, I hope that I can be thankful for all of my gifts. I really enjoy all of them and will be able to put them to good use. The week leading up to christmas was the busiest week of my year. I have just recovered toady from that week. I didn't anticipate my time at home being as hectic as it has been. I have really enjoyed being home and I will continue to do so as long as I'm able to kick it here. Starting Auburn in January is a little nerve racking. It's a change, and with all changes takes some getting used to. I am looking forward to my time there. I'm really looking forward to not taking my time down there for granted. It's not gonna be long and I'll be out of there and into the REAL world. I'm dreading that day. I'm fixing to head to heardmont park for some exercise. Here is a link to some pictures we took last week. We took family pictures b/c Mom is having surgery in about 3 weeks on her neck.

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what do you do to start off your day?

Life is Beautiful.....

The definition of beautiful........ having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind.........I believe that life is beautiful. I don't believe that beauty is always happy, attractive, easy, smooth, joyous, etc. Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes you are cruising through life and you have no worries. Sometimes it feels as if you are always tired and living one day at a time. The past 6 weeks or so, life has been passing me by. Rascal Flatts has a song about that......"There comes a time in everyone's life, when all you can see are the years passing by........." I can usually find the emotion I'm going through in music. During this time in my life, this song has been my anthem. I've come to realize that life isn't as easy as I thought. Of course I didn't think that life was easy, but I definitely was not anticipating all of this. There are times in life where you go through the day pretty much care free. Nothing really happens that will keep you up at night. Then there are times like these where you just try to get through the day. God is gracious. He continues to get me through the day. He continues to wake me up everyday with a beautiful day. God has always been good to me. About life being beautiful.....I believe you have to see the beauty of life whether times are good or bad. God didn't create life for it to being dark sometimes and light sometimes. He created life and it is beautiful to him. No matter what happens he receives glory. THAT concept I will never wrap my hands around as a finite human being. Whether you are happy or sad, life is still beautiful. If life sucks and your neighbor just won the lottery, your life is still beautiful. When you walk in the door and say, "hey mom," and she says, "hey shug." That is BEAUTIFUL!! She won't be around forever, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna miss the beauty of her saying it now. I'm gonna have to call it a night, I need to rest my bones even if my mind won't rest.

I'm scared of getting old.....

It's my birthday. This is a special one, not just because I'm 21. I wanted to write a blog about 21 years of life, and where I am right now. I guess I'll start with what has been on my mind the most lately. Some of the people that I know, know that my mom had breast cancer when I was a senior in high school. About a month ago my family found out that her breast cancer is back in her bones. Life has been rough ever since. The best way that I can describe it is for someone to imagine your mom telling you that she has terminal cancer. With my mom being sick, makes this birthday the most special for me. I have come to cherish the special times that I can spend with her and the rest of my family. I really wanted to put this out there for people to know, and for people to understand if I have/will act a little different. So if your pray, please pray that my mom is healed, so that she will be able to share many more birthdays with me. I really didn't want to turn 21. I loved being 20. Anyone who has spent any time with me knows that I never really want to grow up, and that I love being young. For some reason I want to stay 20 my whole life. This past year was a great year for me. It's funny how many things have happend over the course of the year. This year started off with me enrolling back in school. I took the whole year of 2006 working in Colorado and opening a business with my dad. Going back to school was a little weird at first. It's funny that I started back in school at southern union. I have been an Alabama fan my whole life and hate auburn. For some reason I really wanted to go to Auburn and do building science. I moved to Auburn and have not looked back since. You always end up where you are supposed to be. I have fallen in love with the city of Auburn. I find that when I'm gone, I really miss being down there. Something about the town makes me smile everyday. I try to take advantage of everyday that I have there. I know that I will miss Auburn when I have to leave. Until then, I know that I am going to have a great time! I start classes at AU in January. I'm excited for the "next chapter" to begin. I never thought that I would be pursuing a civil engineering degree at AU. I can't wait to see what the next 3 years hold.

To all of my facebook friends, thank you for my birthday wishes. I hope that everyone enjoys their christmas break. I have to say thank you to my parents for 21 great years of life. To any friend or family member who can't make the birthday "party" you will be missed. I have to say thanks to God. He has blessed my life more than I deserve. I know that I wouldn't be where I am today without him watching over me. I have wonderful friends and an amazing family. That in and of itself is enough for me to have a great birthday.

If you are in Birmingham on friday the 21st, my boy Michael Warren is playing at Workplay Theatre 9pm.

text messaging

The first thing that comes to mind when I think about technology are cell phones. I remember back in the day when I had a black and white screen, snake was the only game, and my battery lasted only 4 hours. My phone did have text messaging though. I remember trying to text on that stupid thing. You had three letters to a number. You had to hit the button a certain number of times for the desired letter. I know that technology has changed, but some people still use this way of texting. I can understand now why people still hate to text on those types of phones. I believe that this type of phone is killing the phenomenon of text messaging. I have a blackberry. I don't say that to be special. I can throw out essays on that thing in no time. Blackberries come with a full computer style keyboard, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. I would never go back to texting on an "old fashioned" phone ever again. I hear people say that text messaging is useless. You should just call if you have something to say. That is a good point. The reason I like text messaging so much is how easy it is to communicate with someone. I can do homework and carry on a conversation with 1-4 people at a time. I can do a math problem, write a couple sentences, and then answer the texts I've received. I don't have to stop what I'm doing to talk to someone. Sometimes I get stuck on the phone with someone talking about nothing. That's not a bad thing, but sometimes talking on the phone is the last thing that I need to do. I can even carry on conversations with people in class. I think that everyone needs to enjoy the phenomenon of text messaging. If you don't have a querwty keyboard then you need to get one asap. Hey, chuck liddell text messages all the time, that should be reason enough. So the next time I text you, don't get mad, just text back. It's still communication, just in the 21st century.

Scott Peterson

I've been meaning to get on here for a long time. Lately, there has been a number of things come up that have taken up the majority of my time. I am going to try and do a blog on my birthday, maybe I can talk about all of that stuff on there. Scott Peterson is the man who killed his wife and unborn child. He is now on death row in San Quentin State Prison. I want to talk about Scott being guilty of murdering his unborn child. The child was 8 months old when it's mother was killed. According to Roe vs. Wade, 7 months makes an unborn child viable. Viable is the ability to live outside the mother's womb without artificial aid. So according to that supreme court decision, Scott's unborn child was a human being, and so he was charged for murder. I don't understand how you can call a 7 month old unborn baby a human being, but not a 1 week old unborn baby? In my opinion, Scott should not be charged with the murder of the unborn baby. Why should he? The baby wasn't born yet. You can have an abortion after the baby becomes viable if it is harmful to the mother's life. Who is to say that this unborn baby would live through birth? Who's to say that the mother might die during delivery, causing the unborn child to be harmful to the mother's life. That is my opinion based on the current state of abortion and the way that case went. This has nothing to do with my belief. I believe that it take a mighty arrogant person to take someone's life into their own hands. If you think about taking someone's life in your hands, that is a HUGE deal. I feel like a lot of people forget about that. Say when people drive drunk, kill someone, suicide bomb, abortion. I just don't know at what point someone thinks that they are hot enough shit to take someone's life into their own hands? Floyd Mayweather Jr. can't take someone's life into his own hand's, but I can't blame him for being cocky b/c he is still undefeated. I don't know if anyone reads this but I would love for someone to respond.

"I want to marry someone just like my daddy."

This quote has been said a million times, a few times directly at me. I believe that this is one of the greatest compliments a father can receive from his daughter. I think about how proud a father must feel when he knows is daughter thinks that highly of him. There is just something about hearing great compliments from the members of your family, it means more than words can ever describe. I hope that I gave enough credit to that quote before I rip it. I believe that this quote is unrealistic. I havn't put much though into this blog, so I'm having to hit it on the fly. I usually have a topic and then think about it, then write. I believe that the amount of love of the father should be given by a husband. I don't fully believe you know a parent like you do a future husband or wife. You don't grow up with your parents. You usually don't have a lot of contact with their former friends. Your grandparents only give you the fluffy versions of them as a kid. You don't see them before they had you. You see them as your parental unit. You see them direct you, love you, care for you. I don't believe you really get to that "level" where you know a parent like you do a husband or wife. I love my family to death, and i don't need anymore confirmation from them except the fact that they love me and that they will always be there for me. I believe that you have to have that in a marriage, but you also have to have a knowledge about that special someone that no one else has. You have to have so much chemistry with that person that you want to spend the rest of your life with them. I hear all these people using this quote, and I know not one person who could stand to live back at their parents hosue for one week. I love the quote and I admire the love that it represents. I don't see it as an in depth concept. I see it as shallow. I think it is more commendable to grow up with your own worldviews, shaped by your upbringing, mature, and develop for yourself what you need in a husband/wife. I don't claim to be an expet on this topic nor any topic. Take the topic, chew on it, and form your own opinions. That is the beauty of intelligence and a free country. I pray that the LORD be with every soldier in harms way. I appreciate all that the military does for our country. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!

Illegal Immigration & Population Control

Today in sociology we talked about population. We discussed theories on whether the world can hold all of the people that we have? This topic immediatly took me to my favorite topic, illegal immigration. I was @ the Lee County health dept. getting a tb test for Auburn. I went to get my test read and there were two hispanic women with 2 children ahead of me in line. Both of these women are pregnant and both are illegal. How do I know? If you have any intelligence you just know. Some people may or may not know, their children will be LEGAL u.s. citizens when they take their first breath. No wonder they are coming over here and screwing everything that walks. Those kids will grow up and become bilingual. All that spells to me is pure trouble. On top of all that, they are receiving free formula and health care b/c of our tax money. This subject burns me up. There is no way to tell what our population is with the massive amount of illegal immigrants that our country gains everyday. I hope that somehow enough people can raise cain and we can stop all of this bs. America has zero effect on illegal immigration. I say we take all American citizens on disability who can drive and give them buses and as many police officers as they need. Go pick up a bus full of illegals and carry them back where they came from. Give them a credit card and tell them they can eat as much food as they want and drink as much of whatever they want, after work of course. In the end, that wil cost a lot less than illegals having babies, getting healthcare, and going to school on our tax money. I have zero problems with any of the ethnicities of illegals or them as people. I want to treat them humanely, but they have no rights in American b/c they are CRIMINALS and should be treated that way. What can one man do? - half nelson (pretty good movie, a little strange, ryan gosling is great) Joe Rogan is one of the funniest men I have ever heard.

reality television

I am a true fan of reality television. Most of my days are spent trying to figure out how to make life's daily tasks a little easier. This has been infamously named "bearisms." My old boss rich came up with that, b/c I, the genuis that I am, am always looking for an easier way to do things. While looking at easier ways to do things, I like to reflect back on the days when technology wasn't at such a convenience. I talk to my grandfather a lot about his childhood. How things were before phones, a/c, hot water. Before refrigerators they used to use salt to keep meat good. I think that all this is so cool b/c we have found easier ways of doing things with the help of technology. I would like to live in a time where we didn't know about technology to see what life would be like. This brings me to my topic for today. Reality television.......Reality t.v. brings you in contact with people you wouldn't have any contact otherwise. The Bachelor, Newport Harbor, Laguna Beach, Real World are all some of my favorites. We come in contact with these people through the medium of the t.v. I have learned so much about myself through these shows by seeing and learning from other people. I would never have any contact with people from Laguna Beach, California had it not been for MTV. Seeing those people's lives, it makes you realize that I know no one in Birmingham, AL who lives like them. It is almost a completely different culture. I think it is cool to be able to watch and learn as much as you can, whenever you can.

I was just accepted to Auburn University. I'm excited about the next couple of years in my life. It's crazy how I ended up in Auburn. I love the city, but I'll never say War Eagle. ROLL TIDE!!

1st Blog

I have to say that this blog is for chief. Straight from the bottom of caffe latte's heart. Rascal Flatts played at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre last night 10/18. During "He Ain't the Leaving Kind," they brought three marines out during the song. Reading the lyrics will shed more light on this. Gary Levox made the comment, "they aren't the leaving kind either." I loved the message that he sent. All three of those guys came out to the stage one at a time and thanked the crowd and stated how lucky they were to be where they are. It means a lot for arguably one of the most notorious and successful musical groups today be so grateful to their fans and the mlitary. On top of all that, they brought marines out to thank them during their concert. That is a huge statement during a time when democrats do nothing but forget what our military does for us. Whether you agree or disagree with the war, you have to remember that men and women are losing their lives and are away from their families fighting for our freedom. Freedom is not free.

up next..........reality television