Year: 2008

Hey

Christmas time is here… and it passed.

Brandy came over again this year for Christmas. We had a home cooked meal (on Thanksgiving we had KFC). It wasn’t all about the presents for our family. This is the second year that we haven’t exchanged presents (next year we should be doing it – as everyone should be in a better financial footing) – and I’ll be totally out of debt 🙂 On top of everything.. Christmas just isn’t the same when you can wear shorts and a tee.

I took the whole weekend off. Wednesday the 24th to Sunday the 28th.. and on Saturday we decided to go to San Diego (as a last minute .. spur of the moment trip). We attempted to make something out of the week in which we had a few days off.

We hadn’t been to San Diego since I was in 11th grade.. (year 2000) – 8 years. I must say that not much changed in SD over that time.. at least not much that was very noticeable. We enjoyed our stay. We took my car (because it doesn’t matter how many miles we pile on it) and drove. We stayed at the Hampton Inn in downtown – which would appear to be a great location; however it had a train which ran very close to it. Right through the center of the city commuter trains were coming through ever couple hours. It didn’t help our night of sleep – but before bed we went walking downtown.

We came across this building. Which was a skyscraper – but it wouldn’t have turned out very well… so I took a picture of the lower half.

We also went over to Coronado and walked along the beach. This is a rather far off picture of Hotel Del Coronado (we were walking along – this picture enlarged is kind of cool looking).

I will sum the next bit up rather quickly. We woke up the next morning to find that one of the beds had blood on it- but not our blood. We told the hotel and they ended up comping our room. Then we went to the Golden Acorn casino to play some 20 dollars my mom wanted to play. My dad was playing this Twilight Zone machine and won 50 bucks. Our total winnings were like 55 dollars. So overall – our spur of the moment trip was pretty cheap.

Blazers last week were .500 – we Lost at Denver – won at home vs Denver… then Lost on Christmas day to Dallas (the first time in quite some time that has happened). We attempted to watch the Toronto game at the hotel but the internet was bad- so we couldn’t. We beat Toronto.

Tonight we play Boston – likely without BRoy – this would be a statement if we win 🙂

Tomorrow is my last day to work this year– until January 6th next year.

I have been talking to Aleesha a lot. We are talking.. often 🙂 It has already been one month as of the 28th/29th. Learning about each other a lot. She is 19, and has never in a relationship before. It was very random we started to talk. She lives in California.. so that is how it goes….

I haven’t been to church in a few months – yet I don’t miss it.. one bit.

just Pray

Hey

On my last blog, on the video I said I would find a video of Oscar and share it if I could find one.

I found one…

That is it.

I only worked Monday and Tuesday of this week.. today I did 249 accounts. That’s a lot for my position… 120 is a lot. so 249 is great. haha..

I now will have five days off. I am glad. I know they will go by quicker than I will realize- and I shall be back at work before I know it.. but I always like this feeling. The one where you won’t be back to work for a least a little bit.

Speaking of work.. JJ has dropped a bomb on me. He is thinking of transferring to Texas or quitting his job. I asked him what it meant for our plans for moving. He said that it might not happen.
Yeah. now… after a year of paying down loans and looking forward to moving- being only months away…. he tells me this.

I told him he should do what is best for him – but I am still really.. taken back. I tend to have faith in people when everybody around me tells me not to. I had that faith in friends/family all at times when I shouldn’t have. I don’t want that to be the case again. I guess I should listen to what everyone says about people – but I think … that would be depressing.

Depressing, like the thought of having all the plans in the world to — nothing (if this does indeed fall through).

Blazers play on Christmas vs Dallas at home. Hope it’s good… for us. 🙂

Here is one link that I meant to post a while ago… (this is saddening).

just Pray

hey

so first thing.. I did this video a few days ago..

Follow up: The five days of rain turned to two and a half. The rain we got was more of a mist most of the time. Everywhere else got some weather. Portland got snow, Vegas.. snow. Malibu… snow. Phoenix… mist??? ugh

Second thing is that this week my manager told our team about a QA job that opened up within the company. She urged me to apply – so.. being bored with my current position, but not really caring if I end up with the job or not.. I applied.

Quality Analyst. I would go over incidences and calls.. ensuring top quality. That’s the basic idea.

Not my ideal job if I could pick any job – but it would be a change – and good to have on my resume. Expanding my options and talents a little more.

I sent in my resume on Thursday (the deadline) and my appointment was quickly scheduled for Friday (today). I had the interview during my normal shift – but I’m not really sure how it went. I didn’t have any nerves until 12:59 (interview at 1) – it was weird. Then during the interview I didn’t feel like I normally would. I kinda just went with it. I didn’t prepare for the interview – but any interview practice is also good to have. I’m not sure if I’ll get it – and it doesn’t really hurt my feelings either way.

I would have liked to try something new, but if it comes – it comes. If not.. I move on.

Last night the Blazers played the Suns – the Blazers won 🙂 We snapped an 11 game losing streak to them. It felt so good to win against them.

and Brandon Roy had 52 points.

All of these Suns fans at work gave me a hard time until today. Those same Suns fans asked me what Rip City meant – I wasn’t totally sure. They asked if it meant we rip other teams. I knew that wasn’t what it meant. I looked it up and gave them an answer. Today, after the game last night .. they all disappeared.

Rip City baby.

That’s the last thing I’ll touch on… Rip city.

The term was coined by the team’s legendary play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Blazers’ first season. Schonely explained that a three-point play by Blazers’ player Jim Barnett caused the net on the basket to rip. Schonely exclaimed “Rip City!” at the sight, and a member of his broadcasting team urged him to run with that as a rallying cry for the young team.

just Pray

Hey

So I made this blog for another website, but I thought I would also put my rant on here 🙂

Christians & Others

I Never blog on here, but I feel the urge to tonight..

Why is it socially acceptable to bash Christianity? Yet if you try to bring
up fights against other religions, Christians are seen automatically as
intolerable!

Why do so many people harbor hate against a certain religion? I just got
done reading an article about how Christians bash and force feed anything
we believe down others throats. I don’t get it. Yet there are countless
others who think that if you are Muslim you are a terrorist.

The funny thing about that, is that most Muslims in the middle east would
LOVE to have you over and probably fight over you (with others) about who
can take you home for dinner. Not for dinner, but to eat and join with
their family. Hospitable. These are not things our media equates with their
religion. How twisted the images can be construed by just a few people who
get it wrong.

There will be bad people in every “religion” – bad people.. extremists call
them what you want..

Hypocrites are all around- Christianity is not exempt from this – we turn
to Christ because we know we can’t do it on our own, but just because a
person is part of a church doesn’t necessarily mean he or she is a follower
of Jesus. Some people are cultural Christians but not authentic
Christians.

I leave with a quote.. ‘The greatest need you and I have, the greatest need
of humanity in general, is renovation of our heart.’

just Pray

750.
Seven hundred and fifty.

This is my seven hundred and fifthith blog.

I have been listening to this song “Bravery” by Jonah33. It is such a good song. I tried to find a clip of it on youtube- but apparantly they aren’t as mainstream as I thought as my search turned up no results.

This was my night on Saturday. It was the highlight of it at least. I drank most of the bottle and don’t remember a whole lot else. I know JJ came over for a little to watch the UofA vs ASU game (which UofA won) but Tina (my ex) also came over (early in the morning). We were to hang out and somehow we ended up kissing. Nothing else happened she assures me.. but that was enough to make me feel sick. More than sick.

The next morning I still felt sick about it – I couldn’t get that taste from my mouth – it was making me sick. I made myself throw up and then didn’t feel much better.. but I felt a little cleaner. I did a ton of laundry in the process.. and yet the feeling still wouldn’t let up. I hardly ate anything the whole day. Really bad feeling – just from our kiss. Laying inside of me.. eck. I can’t remember much but I know that she shouldn’t have come over- that would have stopped the rest. Retrospect is just that- and in this case useless; as this will never happen again.

Yikes.

Anyway.. I have to move on.

I have an updated picture of Alexis below:

She really is getting big very quickly.

I have met this girl named Aleesha.. I am leaning a lot about her right now but I like her a lot.

At work- they are going to have me on a special project for the next month – it should be good, it will get me away from the routine of everyday things that I do. I am looking forward to it – I should have been starting the new project today- but maybe in a few days? It all depends on when the managers coordinate to get me trained in other areas.

I shall end it with a really random vlog thing. I don’t have much for format yet to an vlog I will post… I assume that will come in time. Just like this blogging thing did. A lot of people say that I am good at articulating what I want to say in my blogs. I would like to think so – but I know so many people who do a better job at it than me.

that is all I have for now.

just Pray