Year: 2013

Daylight savings time starts Sunday (tomorrow) at 2 am and will remain that way until Sunday November 3rd.

For most of my life I grew up in Arizona and did not have any time change what-so-ever. I do remember taking trips across the border to CA and enjoying the time change. Now I am on the other side and the time change is nearly here.

I don’t mind it. Now-a-days technology makes such things so easy. My phone and computer will update the time by itself. The only thing in the house that won’t automatically change time would be the stove, the hanging clock and microwave. That’s not so bad.

Here is a video from a channel I follow on youtube. It breaks it all down… and gives some neat facts too.

So it rained yesterday with temps in the 40’s and by Tuesday it will be sunny, warm and in the high 70’s to low 80’s.. how crazy. I looked up the weather for AZ and they’re in for a bigger change. 40’s to 90’s. Ick. No thank you.

Things have been seemingly productive the past few days. My mom and dad have both been bed-ridden with flu like symptoms. Maryia and myself have been taking care of them up until today. It’s been nice actually. We have pretty much had the whole place to ourselves and have been in charge for meals and everything else. I can’t say that my favorite thing in the wold is taking care of Willie, but hey. Ya do what you should do.

Maryia and myself have gone through the garage stuff 110% and are now a total of 90% done REPACKING nearly every item we own. We await a purchase on a larger container to hold some frames and larger items- then we will be complete. It is a nice feeling… now I go and in the garage I feel organized. Everything is labeled on what is inside, if its fragile and the weight of the container. Weight? Yes, we have even labeled the containers to light, moderate, heavy and super heavy. I wish we didn’t have any super heavy containers- but what can you do.

My consolidation on my emails is going very well. I have pretty much gotten rid of all my emails (minus my oldest). Hmmm, come to think of it.. I don’t know why I blogged about that. But I did.

I suppose that means I don’t have much else to update on. Still looking for work – in all places. Still waiting for the phone to ring.

“Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!” – Psalm 27:14

just Pray

Hey,

A recent study was published that stated all pages on the Internet are connected. It went on to say that all pages are connected in 19 clicks or less.

Well, that’s a little crazy. Dare I say believable?

So… I was watching Boy Meets World on ABC family. I decided to look up the BMW cast and see where everyone was at and what everyone was now up to (13 years later… Eeek that makes me feel old)

I found from one webpage links to one character to the next. Then I found links to the upcoming show Girl Meets World. Yes, I am somewhat excited for the show- especially when the producer said he has given an open invitation to anyone from the original series who wants to be on the new one. I ended up reading interviews from the producer Michael Jacobs… and even read personal views about the new show from nearly every old cast member. I then found links to most everyone’s Twitter account including yes, Mr. Feeney. (On a side note: I was surprised that Will Fridele [Eric] has virtually no social media presence.

From these pages I was somehow taken to the Wayback machine. There I ended up looking up old websites I previously had, old domains, you name it.

This is a very random post – I admit it. I can however make the point that I understand how so many things can be linked so seamlessly. It wouldn’t be that far of a reach to think that you can get anywhere with just a few clicks.

I think I have always known this, but now we have a nifty number to go along with our assumptions.

19.

just Pray.

Hey

This title seems to imply something positive?

Perhaps.  The truth is: I am getting rather discouraged by this non-job finding atmosphere.  It really bothers me beyond belief .

I am starting to resign to the fact that I will be stuck in a shoddy call center type job long term if I am going to get back to working.  Unfortunately even call center jobs don’t seem to be calling me back on applications.

What is a person to do?  I’ve made a marker to gauge where things are so that if I don’t find something by June I am going to start applying more aggressively at the local retailers.  Target,  Walmart,  JCPenny and the likes.  Not anything I want to do..  but at this point I really need work for my own mental health.  I’ve briefly been applying to those type of jobs in the past months (Ross, retail banks etc) but have gotten no feedback.  It is VERY depressing not being able to find work and watching what was a normal bank account sink down into the 0.00 levels.  Thankfully my bank doesn’t have ANY minimums or fees.  (It’s Ally Bank, the best bank I’ve ever had.)  I’m not necessarily giving up on life per-say.  Just giving up on finding a job that I would actually like to have or work at.  Why keep looking for something that simply isn’t there?  I’ve all but given up on the idea and am trying to move forward (mentally) from that point.  I am forcing myself to think this way.  It has been pretty bad though- I’ve never felt so deeply that I am in a rut that I can’t get out or climb out of than I have recently.  All I get is silence when I pray.  It reminds me of a song that is really one of my favorites.  Not always for the happiest of reasons.  That struggle.  That faith.  That pain.  Ugh.

Anyway, I didn’t want this post to be a complete downer.  Picking up the tone a little bit I will happily report that we have had some rain as of late.  It was nice.  In fact – yesterday there was a chance of snow (it didn’t snow) but it was cold enough for it.  Just no precipitation was left.

Just a photo a took at a stop light  yesterday- I liked the look of the focus on the raindrops instead of the backdrop.

OH!  Last thing.  A video I’ve really liked lately.. it has got my feet moving, my head a bobbin.. haha its something that makes me want to get pumped up.  FF5 and Lecrae.  The song is Cray Button.  I’ve posted the video below.

Otherwise.. that is about it!

Happy (25th if I am counting correctly)  Birthday to Brandy in 2 days!

just Pray

Hello

This week has been a quiet one.  Maryia has been gone since Saturday and will return this Saturday.  She went to the Portland area as her friend was able to fly her out to visit.  Needless to say it has been unusually quiet around the house.

If I ever wonder where she is I just pull up the “Find my friends” app.  Some people don’t like it.  I only use it with immediate family – although I’m not sure I’d care if my friends could see where I’m at.  You can revoke the access at any time.  Anyway…  one night I looked her up and saw that she was 800+ miles north of me.  It was kind of cool because I’m use to seeing a distance of maybe a mile or two, so I got a kick out of seeing her so far away.

Speaking of Apps… I have found a new one that I like.  It is called: “Note to God”

It is a pretty simple/basic app.  It gives you functionality to write a prayer and post it online.  Not a big deal, I know- but the cool part is: anyone who uses the app can see all the different prayer requests people have written.  Some people ask for help from addictions, others are just thanking God for xyz happening.  It is a really good concept. I like it.  Central has (or use to have?) this Prayer team that I was a part of.  It is kind of the same thing.  On the prayer team you were given access to the church website where people submitted prayers.  Then you would pray for the different things that have been sent in.  This is along the same idea – but it opens it up to anyone and it allows for a greater ease of use.  If you have iTunes or an iDevice, you can click here and download it (its a free app).

Hmm… what else?

Next week I’ll have an interview with a temp agency.  I’m not sure if they actually have a job lined up for me or if they just want to interview so they can get it out of the way in case something comes up – either way.  Temp jobs are at least  a job…

So I was watching the BBC this week & a commercial for a new Chef Ramsay show came on.  I got a kick out of the title.

It actually looks good.. I’d be interested to see it.  I think its only going to be on the BBC though.  Luckily I get that channel so I might just have to record it.

So I wanted to add pictures into this post as I haven’t really done a lot of that lately.  I know that I have my instagram feed in the top right side of the page – but I think pictures in posts help to liven things up a bit.  Adding anything to a post now-a-days is so easy.  Wordpress is by far the best blogging tool I have ever used & the latest updates are superb!

Last but not least.. I have been an active eBay user for 10 to 11 years now.  I’ve slowly but surely gotten to 100 feed backs.  Big deal?  Eh.  It was to me.  They even sent me an email congratulating me.  Now if you are one of those people with 1000’s of feedback this is probably not a big deal to you at all.  However it took me 10+ years to reach this accomplishment.  haha

That’s right.  I was a regular blue star, now I’m a Turquoise star.  If you are curious about the stars/reputations, I found a link that gives the low down.  I’ve posted it here.  I suppose that’s all I have for now.

Until next time,

just Pray

P.S.  I have been surprised to find that a lot of people agree that Facebook tends to deteriorate people’s social interactions with friends/family- yet most people say that they are too addicted to stop using it.  They either need the gossip or want to use it as yet another distraction to get their minds off of things.  Obviously this doesn’t go for everyone – just most of the people I have spoken with and/or articles I have read.  (I only thought of bringing this up because of FB’s latest “improvement” that will keep people hooked into their website even more than before.)

29.

Ouch. That stings a little bit. My last year in my 20’s? Is that even possible?

I haven’t accomplished what I wanted to by this point— what gives?

It’s amazing.

Now when I look at players in the NBA and NFL they seem young to me. Boy was that a shock. When did they go from old, to my age and now young?

I’m just glad Derek Jeter is around still!

What else? Music wise? I see the age when I look at the new Audio Adrenaline music video and see a much older Kevin Max. Or maybe on Instagram I see how much older TobyMac is looking. Yikes. I can tell time is flying.

A few short years ago (now 11) I had just graduated and moved to Portland. I remember listening to Tobys first CD ‘Momentum’ in my car on foggy mornings before I would leave to go to work at Target. I listen to that CD now and it just feels so young. He was less mature in his music career as I was in life.

I remember driving to the coast with JJ— my only friend who visited me in Oregon while I lived there.

I remember going to a Trail Blazers game in 2003 at the RoseQuarter and president Bush interrupting the game to announce we were going to be attacking parts of the Middle East to hunt Bin Laden. After he was done talking the arena burst into chants of USA!

Oh and then later on in 2003 I started this little thing called blogging.

So 29. I feel like I should be coming into my own at this point…. but

Life. It’s a funny thing. It could be over tomorrow or in 50 years. You never know. Maybe this year is going down in my life as a historic year. Hope so, and I hope for the right reasons.

I’ll keep praying that I can find the light in the midst of all the darkness. I have always felt like life is a map. A journey you are on. Sometimes all you need to see is the next step, other times even less than that.

Anyone have a light? Haha.

It’s frustrating sometimes, if not often. I sent a friend of mine a message and it is so true. I was talking about life and God.

It went something like… Sometimes I feel like God is going at a snails pace and I’m the stupid dog wanting to run ahead and push more and more. Yet if anything is true it is this: God Is Constant. Know what I mean? It’s a great thing. I really try to count my blessings everyday.

Alright so at this point in the post my mind keeps jumping around from topic to topic. So I’ll close it down for now.

just Pray.

P.S. Please pray for Emily as she goes in for her second interview with a company in California today.