23 candles

It will be a real birthday treat to see Deftones' newest in-studio clip in their blog. I have to say I am excited for that album to hit. Winter cannot some soon enough (in that regard...)

Also, I have had three very good interviews this week, so hopefully by tomorrow another birthday treat will be for me to have three job offers on the table and be able to choose.

Today I interviewed @ St. John's, and at the end the lady exclaimed "You interviewed well! I believe what you say!" and then she smiled. So pretty much on that end I got hired on the spot. Now for the red tape. If AG HQ decides that I am the right candidate for that job, I would be able to choose between those.


So yea.

so today i have an interview for Assembly of God Headquarters at 2:30. It is a warehouse job, 8.38/Hour, I am assuming benefits. It would be nice if I could be the primary bread-winner in my home, so that my wife could focus more on school and finding a job that doesn't require her to go in from 9 PM to 1 AM, and right in the middle of intimate time.

I have other reasons, but mainly I would feel like more of a husband if I actually was the provider. Now I understand gender roles and the rising woman and all of that, I do. I support my wife in persuing higher education and working as she feels called and as she sees fit. I get that.
But she should work as a supplement, not as a primary...

But when I am, at the moment, jobless, and she is working from 9-1 AM on her "day off" I really do not feel that comfortable in my sweet recliner, you know what I mean?


So all of that having been said, please please pray for me. 2:30 Central Time, 3:30 East Coast, 1:30 West Coast, Aight?

Thank you all.

peppermint madness/recliner chairs

i love peppermint. i do. it is possibly the most delicious taste for autumn, at least in hot chocolate or coffee. chocolate raspberry is a close, close second. (pumpkin pie stands alone in a league of its very, very own...)

also, i got the privilege to be with my extended family this weekend, and do quite literally, nothing. it was nice. also i received a nice reclining chair. although used, it is comfy and cozy, it has its own character. plus it is my first recliner as a man. woot
in other news, i have an interview at AG HQ on Wednesday, working in the warehouse. i am working on enrolling in school at MSU for spring, and i am also nurturing a new marriage.

my birthday is this coming friday, and i get to eat at lambert's for freeeeeee!!! also i am pretty convinced that my siblings and their significant others will be down and sleep on our spare bed, the pull out, and the air mattress.

vast

I am currently reading "The New Friars" by Scott A. Bessenecker. It is a really good book about missionaries and living life devoted to loving the marginalized.
That is my passion. Somewhere, sometime within the last year, the love I have for people has been dumbed down and covered with a critical nature. I have started to seek my own way, and I have seen only negative effects of being so selfish.

Currently I am enrolling in MSU for the Spring 09 Semester. It feels like God wants my attention and wants to send me in a new direction-and why not? I am married and my life is in front of me. I am growing, and seeing things more objectively, not just in abstracts or generalizations.

Does that make sense?

I want to go to school and become professionally trained and certified so that I can go to the ends of the earth. I am meant for more than Missouri, or the U.S. for that matter. I know that my wife wants that too. There's a world out there...

uninspired

ok, the day after starting my blog i get all uninspired... laaaaame.

I need to go listen to some classical guitar- maybe practice a nice blues lick while burning incense...

an open letter

never settle. 

      find a dream. 

                  (go for it.) 

read a book. sing a song at the top of your lungs- in or out of key. dance as if you don't care that anyone is watching. 

draw a funny picture in the condensation on your window as it rains, rains, rains.

if anyone tells you that you can't, then do it. never buy into the lie that you are limited. 

do not focus on the things that seem to matter, because you may end up forsaking the things that actually do. when pursuing your dreams help others pursue theirs. do not use your dreams as an excuse to trample those of another living, breathing human being.

talk to god- in whichever form you choose.

[I choose jesus.]

pray that you may receive mercy and give it to others. 

let true love and temperance guide what you do. 

deal with anger before it becomes hate. 

accept differences and understand equality.

be fair

be just

be kind.

respect women.

burn incense and do yoga. have a cup of coffee and run everyday.

strive to be better

even if you fail a thousand times. 

get back up a thousand times.