Oh and one more thing...

DON'T MESS WITH CHUCK NORRIS (peace be upon him) bi-otches!

Anything new for me???

Nope. Well except I got pulled over by a cop, I played the stupid "just moved here from Utah" card and got out of a larger ticket. How nice. I still think cops are stupid though.

Um... so far 6???

Um so far my puppy has had 6 puppies. Creepiest thing ever. They come out in these little sacs (kind of reminds me of a scene in Fire in the Sky ) and then the mother eats the sack. couple of minutes later the thing their chord is stuck to comes out and the mom eats that also. Then to top it all off, she continues to lick the puppies until they are all clean of blood. I sure hope my wife doesn't do the same thing. Definitely would have to think about kissing her after that...

Voices that rock...

I am so glad that the whole teen pop scene has finished. To me personally, I hated it. I bugged me. Ya I thought they were all cute and all, but as for singing, it wasn't really music to my ears. Well actually, I don't think it was music at all. For that time it was kind of shameful to say you liked a female vocal. But now I think times have changed. Here's a few reasons why:

1. Kelly Clarkson has a voice that can really just get into it and rock out. Considering she is the biggest star so far to come out of American Idol, she has done really well. She is like the "back in the day" Alanis Morisette (I know everybody rocked out to her "back in the day"). But as I was saying Kelly Clarkson has a voice that can really carry and rock out (ie. Gone).

2. Christina Aguilera can definitely be a slutty slutty whore sometimes and she was part of that whole teen pop and she is a dirty slutty slutty little whore, BUT, when she sings Jazz, I am sorry to Norah Jones (which I will talk about later) but one of the best female Jazz vocalists I think around. I suggest everyone listening to the song "A Song For You" by her and Herbie Hancock (and no it's not just something you call a signature).

3. Norah Jones kind of sneaked up on me by suprise. When Foo Fighters (my favorite band of pretty much long time) came out with there new double album cd, In Your Honor (buy this ALBUM!!!), on the 2nd cd (which is the acoustic cd) song #8 "Virginia Moon" they had Norah do a duet with Dave. I feel in love from that moment. Norah has done many duets with many large bands. You might not even known it but you've probably already been listening to her. And as many of you may know, I am quite partial to brunette's.

4. Shakira can not only sing in Spanish, but also ENGLISH!!!!! (that's a joke y'all). Not only is she real small and hot, I like the way she moves. But with that all aside, I don't know what it is about her voice, but I like it. Kind of scary to say but it's like Cher's but a lot better. I don't know how to explain it. It just sounds good

5. Amy Lee is another one that carries there voice when they get into it. You may all recognize her as the female vocals from the band, Evanescence. Like in the the song, "Bring me to life", when it gets to the chorus and she is belting out the chorus, her voice holds and it pulls through very nicely.

Well just for right now I will only give you these five. If you have any good ideas, let me know.

I need to go to bed now. I have to go shoot bambi's mommy and daddy in the morning.

Ramblings of a boy that listened to the ramblings of a traditional mormon girl...

So the other night I was at institute and one of the "typical mormon" girls in class said somethings that made me start to wonder and remember things from my mission. These are my thoughts.

Wait... Smallville... I will be right back...

Ok, 1st thought:

Back early in my mission in Japan, I remember sharing the Book of Mormon with people telling them how the Book of Mormon was a companion to the Bible. Because what I had learned growing up in the church, I would say also things like, "it helps us more distincly understand the difference between God the Father and Jesus Christ." It would be very common for members to use Mosiah Chapter 15 verses 2-4 as a reference saying, "see it makes it easy to understand." Well the same thing was brought up in institute and a girl had used this as an explanation. Well, back in my mission, I would share this also...

Until one day on my mission, I read it over and over and over again and realized that it was actually confusing to me. After that point, in my explanations of the Book of Mormon I explained it as a companion to the Bible and I didn't use it as an explanation between God the Father and Jesus Christ, cause well I couldn't use it to "so easily" explain the distinction. In the wording of the Father and the Son, it is no different then the Bible. (Now after having read this paragraph, it is not to be misconstrued that this is the only thing I said about the BOM. It is only in this aspect that i changed. I discussed many other explanations of the Book of Mormon.)

Now what I also am going to say next may "offend" some people but it is true. There has been some changes in the Book of Mormon. Now the changes I am refering to is the changes in the previous link under the sub heading of "God or Son of God". There have been several times where changes were made to make it more clear which "being" was being spoken of. Many critics of the church like to criticize this point saying that Joseph Smith obviously didn't have a clear view of the trinity that we as mormon's today hold (as in a God the Father and Jesus Christ being two seperate beings) and as such the Book of Mormon was changed.

Now my thought about this is as such. I think in religious wording, maybe he didn't. If you look at Joseph Smith's life, he grew up with the Bible. Now I know that a lot of members like to think differently, but in the process of translation, I believe the Bible played a significant part. I am not saying the BOM (Book of Mormon) was copied from the Bible. I am saying that there was some influence of the Bible in the translation. Joseph Smith's perception of relgious things stems from mainly the Bible. Yes, I believe he received revelation, but, like all of us when trying to receive revelation, some of things had to be thought out on his own. So when he thought, obviously the Bible played a large part. So when it comes to parts where it talks about God the Father and Jesus Christ, it is obviously going to come out some what like the Bible.

Now there is one HUGE thing that makes a difference though. From his own personal experience, Joseph Smith DOES have a greater understanding of the fact that God the Father and Jesus Christ are TWO seperate beings. He doesn't need the Bible in helping him translate that part. That is what makes us understand and believe that God the Father and Jesus Christ are two seperate beings. Not necessarily by the discriptions in the BOM, but by a testimony. The BOM comes into play by helping us understand our Savior more and the importance of his life and sacrifice.

That's all I got to say about that.

Now 2nd:

"The Wrath of God" in the Old Testament.

It was funny, many people in Japan would always bring up the thought that how could the God of Christianity be so destructive and angry, like he was in the Old Testament. (Here are a list of scriptures with the term God and Wrath in it, now understand this is not all stories) Once again in institute, somebody brought up the terminology "the wrath of God" and "God's anger". Now, I don't know about y'all, but I like the term "God of love" better.

Now before I get into this, please understand that I believe that God is powerful. I believe all the "typical" beliefs about God and then some. But (and these are my thoughts mingled with beliefs) I think that maybe somewhere in between the idea of a God of wrath and a God a love, we get "Lost in Translation" (you ought to see this movie. Very good. Nothing spiritual about it though, unless you call the same kind of feeling that I get when I watch Braveheart and William Wallace yells "Freedom!!!!" spiritual).

Here are my thoughts. I think that back then, the world they lived in only really consisted of God as being the source of things that happen out of the ordinary. Now, back then, the things that happened out of the ordinary would be like weather, famine's, large masses of locust's, and plagues. They had no other way to explain it besides the fact that God had his hand in the situation. Now I am not denying that God could of had his hand in these situations but not as being the one who "causes" these things to happen but more or less, lets them happen.

I mean if you look at it today we have a lot of better of understanding of the weather, because of that we also understand famines. Large mass of bugs and other creepy things is not wierd to us anymore. We know certain things make them migrate in large groups. We even have the "killer bee's" that move in migration patterns. Plagues are all around us. If you think about it, AIDS is a plague. The new scary Bird Flu is a plague. Back in the olden days, there was the black PLAGUE. But now because of science, we don't see it as much as the wrath of God. WHAT HAPPENED TO US????

Nothing, I think. Well, I mean we have taken away from the idea of God's presence more and more, but as for what's happening in the world, I don't think much has changed. For example, everyone knows the story of Noah and the Ark. Now I would liken it to a make believe story about a man that lived in New Orleans all his life. This man did not know if there was anything outside of New Orleans. He was a humble man. A lot of the people around him were bad people. One day this man received revelation or feeling that he should buy a boat and get ready to leave New Orleans. Well he did what the feeling told him to. Then Katrina hit new orleans. To this man this man world was flooded. Do to science, we think that God did not send this Hurricane but that because weather happens like this it happened. So to him, the world flooded and he had a feeling he should leave.

Noah was a prophet of God at that time on the earth. I believe that and I don't doubt that the Lord warned Noah. I think by natural means (which God created in the beginning of time) the flood happened. Now to me also (this is bob's thought only) the whole world wasn't flooded. Just the world that Noah knew.

And I think the same thought's goes for a large part of the Old Testament and that is why we don't see the wrath of God as much these days. To us, through science, they're explainable. But back then, everything out of the ordinary was God.

Now if you remember, not all the "wrath" instances are from natural things. Many wars were won based upon the wrath of God. This is my thought. God gave us commandments and guidelines that we may live healthy constructive good lives. When we don't follow those lines, we basically destroy ourselves. God could be disappointed in us, but he is not just going to destroy his own children. To me I think these instances of the wrath of God, were because it was the consequences of these people's actions. I am trying to think of examples, but I am getting very tired. Basically it's like this. Bad people in some great and mighty town get drunk cause they like to party because they have gone away from the commandments God gave them, small army comes and destroy's them. Hoorah for ISRAEL!

Now I hope I am making some sense. If not, I am sorry. Ask and I will clarify more. I am getting very tired. But please understand, this is not my thought for everything in the Bible. I do believe in the power of God. There is some instances where I think God's hand had a part in, but as for all the destroying and wrath, most of it was just unexplainable to the people back then so to them obviously it was God.

Now as for the talking ass and flying axe? I have no clue. Maybe one too many sips from them old bottles of wine, eh?

Alright. This is my religious post for the time. Make comment. Get sleep. Nice bed.

I AM SO PISSED OFF... (one of the reasons why I left utah)

I am so pissed off right now. Okay I have seen this idea used in Utah most. Now I am not saying everyone is like this (hence I feel differently and I am from Utah), but there is a large population that just pisses me off. Now the thing I am talking about is this, there is a large group of people (since I lived in Utah and most of the people I knew who said this was mormon) who say that they don't think they could marry someone who had premarital sex. Doesn't matter even if they live the "mormon lifestyle" and can get married in the temple, people still look down upon it and say they will have a hard time and that they don't think that they could marry someone. The thought is for them that, hey, if I saved myself, why can't my wife? Now my response? Eat sh*t and die.

Let's say, you feel your in love with someone, you think you can marry them, you get those butterfly things in your stomach, and then she feels the need to tell you a little about her past. Right now she feels and knows for herself she stands righteously before God. And then ye, who is high and mighty, says, I am sorry you did what??? I don't know if I can be with you now. (Next part is dramatized) I saved myself. I am special. Why can't you? God doesn't give special brownie points for non waiters. Now is where I am pissed.

Did not Christ himself teach an important lesson about this? In the New Testament, The Gospel according to John chapter 8. Or is this the part where you can be like "Oh, well, Article of Faith number 8. As long as it's translated correctly." Well I am sorry, I don't see too Joseph Smith's Translations on this section. Verse 11 even clearly states the Lords feelings "neither do I condemn thee". Now you can say, "Oh but I am not condemning her." Well um, ya you are. Look at what the dictionary has to say about the word condemn. Now definition#2 says about judgement, which Christ is mostly speaking of in this scripture, BUT you can take to heart definition#1 which would be the meaning if there is no law. And well after checking much Mormon doctorine (no not the book of ramblings of an old guy who had many personal idea's. This is not a link saying to buy the book. Please do not buy this book.) and the Constitution of the United States, I see nothing against marrying women who have not "saved" themselves. Get off your freakin high horse, and learn what true charity and love is. The kind that we need in more marriages today.

Last I want to quote The Gospel according to John, Chapter 8, Verse 15: Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

If any of you got to say anything about this, say so. Cause I can go on for hours, I just had to put something on here so I can vent my frustrations and actually get some sleep.

ps. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT USE MY LINK TO BUY MORMON DOCTRINE. I PERSONALLY FOR ONE DO NOT LIKE THAT BOOK!!!!! THERE IS SOME OK STUFF (I DON'T WANT ANY HATE LETTERS) BUT PERSONALLY IN WHOLE I DO NOT LIKE THE BOOK. AND I DON'T LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT I TALKED ABOUT IN THIS POST. I ALSO DON'T LIKE GREEN BELL PEPPERS! YUCK!

I AM SO PISSED OFF... (one of the reasons why I left utah)

I am so pissed off right now. Okay I have seen this idea used in Utah most. Now I am not saying everyone is like this (hence I feel differently and I am from Utah), but there is a large population that just pisses me off. Now the thing I am talking about is this, there is a large group of people (since I lived in Utah and most of the people I knew who said this was mormon) who say that they don't think they could marry someone who had premarital sex. Doesn't matter even if they live the "mormon lifestyle" and can get married in the temple, people still look down upon it and say they will have a hard time and that they don't think that they could marry someone. The thought is for them that, hey, if I saved myself, why can't my wife? Now my response? Eat sh*t and die.

Let's say, you feel your in love with someone, you think you can marry them, you get those butterfly things in your stomach, and then she feels the need to tell you a little about her past. Right now she feels and knows for herself she stands righteously before God. And then ye, who is high and mighty, says, I am sorry you did what??? I don't know if I can be with you now. (Next part is dramatized) I saved myself. I am special. Why can't you? God doesn't give special brownie points for non waiters. Now is where I am pissed.

Did not Christ himself teach an important lesson about this? In the New Testament, The Gospel according to John chapter 8. Or is this the part where you can be like "Oh, well, Article of Faith number 8. As long as it's translated correctly." Well I am sorry, I don't see too Joseph Smith's Translations on this section. Verse 11 even clearly states the Lords feelings "neither do I condemn thee". Now you can say, "Oh but I am not condemning her." Well um, ya you are. Look at what the dictionary has to say about the word condemn. Now definition#2 says about judgement, which Christ is mostly speaking of in this scripture, BUT you can take to heart definition#1 which would be the meaning if there is no law. And well after checking much Mormon doctorine (no not the book of ramblings of an old guy who had many personal idea's. This is not a link saying to buy the book. Please do not buy this book.) and the Constitution of the United States, I see nothing against marrying women who have not "saved" themselves. Get off your freakin high horse, and learn what true charity and love is. The kind that we need in more marriages today.

Last I want to quote The Gospel according to John, Chapter 8, Verse 15: Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

If any of you got to say anything about this, say so. Cause I can go on for hours, I just had to put something on here so I can vent my frustrations and actually get some sleep.

ps. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT USE MY LINK TO BUY MORMON DOCTRINE. I PERSONALLY FOR ONE DO NOT LIKE THAT BOOK!!!!! THERE IS SOME OK STUFF (I DON'T WANT ANY HATE LETTERS) BUT PERSONALLY IN WHOLE I DO NOT LIKE THE BOOK. AND I DON'T LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT I TALKED ABOUT IN THIS POST. I ALSO DON'T LIKE GREEN BELL PEPPERS! YUCK!

There will be more later...

I HAVE TO POST THIS RIGHT NOW. THE LITTLE NERD IN ME TELLS ME TO DO THINGS SOMETIMES. GO SEE THE X-MEN 3 TEASER NOW!!!! I will right normal stuff later.

Gingervitis, Tom Cruise not coming out of the closet, DC, and others...

I got a lot to talk about so I better get started.

1. Gingervitis and Tom Cruise will not come out of the closet:

Ok I don't care if y'all think South Park is bad, but I find it pretty freakin hilarious. The two recent episodes I saw are: Ginger Kids and Trapped in a closet. In "Ginger kids", it talks about the thing we all think but don't say out loud. Little kids with red hair and freckles, creeps us out pretty bad. In "Trapped in a closet", it pokes fun at Scientology and the fact that Tom Cruise is homosexual, and he doesn't want to be open about it. It also then pokes fun of R. Kelly and his gay opera rap. I mean, what is that all about? Retard... Trying to get someone to look at other gay things he does besides pe... well I don't think I need to explain on here. Go to this site for some clips of the episode. It's a worth watchin moment. Oh and the picture above is from the last episode that was aired, pretty cool I think.

2. DC:

DC was a blast. Beautiful place up there. Temple there was beautiful. Not as many christmas lights as Temple Square, but it's good for my home away from home.

3. and others...:

Went to the First Presidency Christmas Fireside tonight. It was nice. Got me in the good Christmas mood, even though there is no snow still here. What's the deal with that?

Well I got to get to bed again but tomorrow, I will write more thoughtful stuff. Laterz

Alvin, Simon.....

THEODORE!!!!!! So before I left the Happy Valley of Utah, I ran into a bunch of my old highschool friends. They were playing a concert that night. The band was Theodore. Check them out at their myspace page on any of the links in this paragraph.

Tomorrow morning I am going up to Washington DC early in the morning so I have to go to bed. I hope all is well.

I DID IT!!!!!

Here it is. I take a name my brother once used for a shirt. I call it... DICK FACE. (He's standing in grass you sicko's!)

The coolest stuff I found on the net today...

So today I decided to change my homepage a little. (You know the page that comes up when I start up my brand new Mozilla Firefox 1.5 ) Well I set it so that google comes up. Well now (well I don't know when they started letting you) but you can setup google's main page so that it works well for you. You can add weather, quotes for the day, top news, cnn, and all sorts of things to add onto it. So you can just pop up your Firefox, and all the things you need can be right there.

Also today I found a picture of Dick Cheney. Oh the fun I am going to have with my photoshop.

So let's recap. MOZILLA FIREFOX 1.5, GOOD. VARIOUS EXTENSIONS AND ADD-ONS AVAILABLE WITH MOZILLA FIREFOX, GOOD. BEING ABLE TO CHANGE GOOGLE'S MAIN PAGE, GOOD. dick cheney, bad. DICK CHENEY'S PHOTOSHOP OF FUN, AMAZINGLY GOOD. Stay tuned

You excited? I am. Richard better WATCH OUT!

Okay I changed my mind....

I started to read the 5th book like I said before, but I have changed my mind. I am going to go with the 3rd book first. Harry Potter and something rather. We'll see, still kind of skeptical.

Besides that I am starting to find that living out in Virginia is more of an adventure then I thought. It is starting to look like living here could be more of a permanent idea. Why? I really don't know why actually. Just people out here seem to be more real. I like it. Mormons, seem to be mormons out here. and if they don't act like one, they ain't going to be acting like they are one on sunday. Just it means something out here to be Mormon, and I kind of like it. It's different I guess. Plus, out here you hang out at a lot more bars, cause thats where all the cheap stuff is and that's all that is really out here to hang out at. Good night yall, I am tired now.

Hey guys. Harry Potter huh. Well, see ya later...

So I went out and finally saw the new Harry Potter movie (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). I must say, after watching all the movies and enjoyed all of them, I have decided to finally read the books. Since I have watched all the movies, I decided to start with the 5th book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix. Hope their all good readin like every says so.

Well besides that, I really don't have a lot. I am tired.

IT'S A BOY!!!! AND IT'S STILL NOT MY KID!!!!!

Well I got some freakin awesome news today. I AM AN UNCLE ONCE AGAIN (well to a little itty bitty person for right now). And for all who know my family, it's a boy AGAIN. My oldest brother Chris and his wife nancy are expecting another son in April of next year. It's going to be almost exactly two years from when Levi was born. I am excited. Looks like it's going to be a race for favorite uncle again. And once again I am many many miles away so I "SUCK AGAIN!".

Tomorrow is thanksgiving. MMMMM smoked turkey and football with no work. What more could I ask for???? Ummm.... a whole lot more, but I ain't like that. Good night yall.

Bullet In a Bible....

Okay now it took some time cause a bunch of store people don't know jack squat about what they sell, but I bought the new Greenday Live Dvd Bullet In a Bible. Here's the story. Well First I went to Circuit City, but they are so small out here that there was no chance of finding it. Then I went to Walmart. NO ONE HAD A CLUE!!!! Well I figured as much since most the people at walmart don't know what the white guy is sayin anyways. So then I went to Best Buy. They told me it would be in the DVD section. Nope. So they told me to go to FYE at the mall I asked them if they had it. They acted like they were lookin something up for a while, then give me a stupid look like, "Do you know what you are even talking about?". Well they didn't have it. I went home giving it up. The next day I decided not to trust anyone at Best Buy and looked in the CD section and found it.

So now I sit in my room and I am ready to watch it. I am excited... Can't you tell?

PS. EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHECK OUT WHAT THE REAL ULTIMATE POWER IS!

So, um ya good times...

Today I went to VA Beach singles again. A lot of fun. I think I am starting to like it out here.

At work we are starting to work on the phones tomorrow. Yippeee (In writing you can't really tell the sarcasm. This sucks.)

Funny story for the day- MIKE THE HEADLESS CHICKEN! - read and enjoy. Goodnight yall.

Changing the license plate doesn't mean anything...does it?

Sorry I changed the license plate on my car. Were it once said "Sky Utah" now says, "Virginia" How lame is that! Couldn't they think of anything better? I guess not. Virginia can screw itself. But I must say, I am slowly coming to really like this state.

Today I taught primary. Today a 7 year old girl has a crush on me. Today, I hope a seven year old boy DOESN'T have a crush on me.

Tomorrow I get back to work again. This time we are going to get started on the phone. We are going to be calling people telling them, "GIVE ME YOUR MONEY OR I TAKE YOUR CHILDREN!" We then sell them into children slave labor over seas and collect our money that way. Don't you just love the system!

Well I don't think I can talk much more today cause I got to get to bed.

Today she looked at me and smiled...

So... a couple things today.

Well today was a good day. Something interesting was today, first time in the longest time as I could remember, my pee was some what clear. The only color was a little green which I think came from the mountain dew I drank today. How exciting.

Tonight I went to go take a math test at my neighbor's school (she's a principal). When I went to the school I noticed a sign that said, "All visitors, presh button for help", on the outside of the door. It was an intercom system. The school is run on a lock system. If you don't go to the school you don't get a key card to enter the school so you have to check in first on the intercom. Then I realized, I am in the projects of Portsmouth. Projects? Projects? That is a newer word to a little boy from Utah. I love VA!

Ha ha ha, sorry you said you were from where?

GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA!!!!!!!! Now, I am sorry if I am the only one that finds this funny. The other day I told you how I was drivin to Buena Vista VA and thats when I passed a road sign that said GOOCHLAND! Now I don't know if any of you know what I am laughing about, but for purposes known to me, I am not going to explain. Let you think about it for a while.

I made it out a live and I didn't even know it

Well apparently according to a poll taken here, Richmond VA is the 9th dangerous city in the US. I drove through it last weekend on my adventure across VA. And even looking at the safest cities, I notice OREM, UT being on there also (the last place I lived.) It's ranked 23 on safest. Told you I ain't in Utah anymore.

Something new each week

Well I decided to add a little flavor to my page. Each week I am going to post a quote. Yup... and that's as far as I have gotten so far with this idea.

Today was good. Tomorrow could be better. What could the day after tomorrow be? Two days away. Freak I am tired. Goodnight.

So what's VA like?

So yesterday I took a big adventure across my state asking myself, "what is viriginia like?" and well the answer is, nothing. VA has nothing. Well at least the west side of it does. It was funny cause I was driving out there and was like "Hey, MOUNTAINS!" Then thinking about it again, they were just hills. Saw my buddy's sister Katie out at college so that was fun.

I think I have found the ward I want now. The singles ward out in VA Beach looks pretty good and is a fun lookin ward. Only thing is that it is about 30 minutes away. Well I guess it ain't that much. We'll see.

Tomorrow is work. Next week is work. Tomorrow night though, is sleep. Goodnight.

Better Than Ezra, $25. Fall Out Boy, $23. Being the ONLY cool white guy in a class, PRICELESS!

So I have now learned that GOOD bands tend to frequent this area with GOOD live shows. Coming up on December 10th, Better Than Ezra and Jason Mraz will be playing at the Norva. I have enjoyed the jazz influenced rock band from New Orleans, BTE, ever since my oldest brother Chris introduced me to the song "Good". Being from Utah, I never got a chance to see the band play. Then on December 14th, Fall Out Boy, Lifehouse, some other people, and then some supposedly good looking people from the show Laguna Beach are coming. December should be a fun season.

I have now succesfully gone through one week of training for collections. It's been a lot of fun. To tell the truth, I felt out of place a little. You know, being one of the only two white guys in class is not what I am normally used to. So I kind of just started only really talking to the other white guy. Then realizing he was a complete moron, I started to actually get a long a lot better with everyone else in class and basically completely have nothing in common with the guy you think I mostly would. So I am actually considered the cool white guy in class. I love VA!

Good morning, starshine... the earth says hello!

Well, I just bought the special edition 2 dvd set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I must say that I love that movie. Now seeing it for the second time, I think I learned a very important lesson. Freak apply it to your life dang it!

"Candy doesn't have to have a point. That's why it's candy." - Charlie Bucket

When anything is enjoyable and it makes you smile, don't think about it too much cause that makes it into something that it's not.

Well that's life so, "Let's boogie." - Willy Wonka

Is there something seem to not belong in this room or is it just me....

Well it is me. Being the 1 out of the 2 white people in a class of 22 definitely makes me feel awkward sometimes. Then even looking at the 1 out of 2; 1) the other white guy is very wierd and I don't like associating with him and 2) I am only half white.

This job though, if I do it right, is going to make me a lot of money if I do it right. Plus, out of 900 people I am the only one that speaks japanese, so all the japanese clients (few but some) will be mine when they call in. meaning, I make the money on it. Today while listening to some of the announcements, the average bonus check was around $1000 with several over $2000. Trust me I counted those zero's right. Also one of the other perks of working here is also going to be the big party in january. Let's just say, I could rent a tux for it.

That basically has been my life for the last two days. Oh ya and driving home across the James River Bridge at 5:10pm into the sunset is a site to see. I need sleep now.

I feel like a kid going to the first day of school

So like I have been out here for exactly 1 month and 1 day now and tomorrow, I finally start my job out here. Its going to be a really good job. I will work for a company called Portfolio Recovery Associates. Its collections and all, but I have worked in this type of job for a long time so it really doesn't scare me. Plus when your making good money, hmmph you can deal with stuff.

Since I have moved out here I have been attending my parents ward each sunday. But for the last two weeks I have driven out aways and checked out a different singles ward each week. I think I have found a winner. I know yall must be thinkin, "oh well, I guess he found a ward with some hotties in it." Well that is true, but it also just feels like a ward that I can fit into well. It's out in Virginia Beach, so it's like 30 minutes from my house. So I'll just go have to keep seeing if its really worth the drive each week.

Well nothing more to say but I am excited for work tomorrow.

Do you think I did anything today?

Nope...

Oorah!

So tonight I went out and saw an awesome movie called Jarhead. Being a guy and all, your first thought is, "alright, war movie means big guns and tough guys". This was definitely not that kind of war movie. I don't want to give too much away, but I would say you should go out and see it. It is one movie that I think is "buy" worthy. Makes you think a little. And yes, it did hurt. You know... the act of thinking.

This morning I also finally got out and did a lot of excercise. Went to the gym for a while this morning. Felt real good to get into it again. Then after that, I spent all day painting our deck.

Right now, before I finally lay in my bed to rest I am watching a NIN concert off of the internet. Go to the link and click on "Watch Performances". Nine Inch Nails put on an awesome show. As I watch I get a little homesick remembering my last couple of days in Utah. Those where a couple of really good days. Then to top it all off, going to the Nine Inch Nails concert with my brother and his friend. Couldn't of asked for more.

I feel bad, but...

I swear my mother can't seriously drive worth beans. Then to make it even worse my parents bought a GPS system for the car and my mom looks at that more than the road. Let's just say I double timed in my pants while having to drive with her today.

So I have been listening to a lot of My Chemical Romance and The Used. If you ask me pretty good music. Some grade "A" tunes to get ready for the day with.

Today I saw a beaver stuck in gated off section of a large pond. That section that was caged in was about 1/50 of this GIGANTIC pond. Poor beaver was swimming against the bars looking at the other side wanting to be more free. You know, experience life on the outside of the cage. Too bad his parents don't live on the other side and have the means of getting him out, eh? Animal cruelty sure can be evil.

Is Virginia Really for Lovers?

Well I have moved on with my life seeking new thrills and opportunities. I went from the busy life of the Happy Valley of Utah to the chilled laid back life of Southern Virginia in a tiny town called Suffolk. Beach is close and all, but so is the raging south with all the southern accents, tasty grub and back woods hunting you can handle. Eh, I can get used to it. Big civilization is like 20 minutes away.

So ya, moved out here about one month ago now. I feel like in Utah I wasn't getting anything out of living there. I needed to be somewhere new. I watched the movie Big Fish the other day. I guess I felt like the main character. I was a big fish in a small pond and I had to get out. So I finished all my things in two weeks and moved. It was definitely hard and still is. I left a lot of good friends back there. At times, I feel like maybe I made the wrong decision. At times I know I made the right one. So is it better to go with the things we feel or the things we know?

All and all it's really not that bad out here. I start at my new job on monday. Little nervous I guess. I went to an open house for the job with about 44 other anxious job seekers. When we were all sat in a room, I looked around and noticed something. I wasn't in Utah anymore. One thing was I was definitely the only person that was apparent in the room with some asian background. Then something else clicked. I was the only white guy (well even my half wasn't good enough) in the room. This job will be an adventure in itself.

Well I am ready. I am ready for whatever life is headin my way. I wanted a change and I am getting what I am asking for. Oh... and as for the statement that virginia is for lovers? Well... I ain't seen none of that love yet... But still lookin.