Well I Did It Again.

I cannot believe you people, you're supposed to keep me honest and doing these! Nah, just kidding. Seriously, I've been a little busy to be writing. Between job hunting and catching up with friends, I'm always exhausted.

Charlsie and I have been spending our nights with our friends, our mornings asleep, and our afternoons looking for work and waiting for friends to gather. Its not the most pleasant of existences, but it would be absolutely unbearable without Charlsie. She is, however, starting to lose her cool a little. I think that it's being around me, admittedly annoying, all the time. She would never admit to it though so I guess its academic.

As for the novel I promised, it is in progress, but it will probably be that way for a while.

Anyway, I don't really have much to share with you. My grandparents on my mother's side are both in the hospital with kidney failure, my parents are struggling to make ends meet, and I am having money issues as well. That sounds really whiny when I read it, but I promise you it is not. My grandparents are old, it happens. My parents aren't the best savers or the best spenders, `sall good. As for my money issues, I'm ok. I've always been very lucky that way. God has provided for me every time I needed it, so I'm not too worried. I know that some of you who read probably don't believe in God, but I have grown up with Him in my life and feel a personal relationship with Him. My favorite verse is from the book of Psalms and I find that it is helpful to me when I start feeling put upon by the world.


¹ How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?

² How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?

³ Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;

⁴ my enemy will say, "I have overcome him,"
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

⁵ But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.

⁶ I will sing to the LORD,
for he has been good to me.

Psalm 13

This Psalm always reminds me that when things are down, things have been up in the past, and will be again. The Lord is good to me, and he will be again.

Ok... religious moment over. I know my sister-in-law reads my blog, so I'm posting a pic for her to show to my brother. I believe that, if he could, he would do this to his weapon:

Looks like fun huh? By the way, if somebody could tell me what weapon that is once all the attachments have been removed, I'd much appreciate.

Finally, I grant you all a vision of DEATH!

Scary isn't it. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok done.

It's Been a While...

Well, I've ended up going most of this summer without writing on this blog huh? I guess that's stating the obvious, but I really don't know what to say. I just haven't felt like writing here since that whole spat with Jake's girlfriend. Not that I'm blaming her, I'm just saying that I'm wary of being open I guess. Maybe that's a good thing, but I'm not thinking it is. I'm an introvert by nature, so I thought this thing was going to be a very good way to make myself more open and accessible to people. Perhaps I'm just using those issues as a crutch and an excuse to revert back to my old comfort zone. In any case, it stops here.

Sunday, I participated in a political panel/focus group. I did it for the money (never did get a job by the way), but I think I got more out of it than the 50 bucks they handed out at the end. I really put my opinion out there in the interest of accuracy, and I fully expected to start an argument at times. Instead, the group simply listened to my opinion and said what they thought. It was great.

Don't get me wrong, I love to argue. Charlsie would probably tell you that it's my favorite pastime. However, the simple acceptance of my opinion as valid really did a lot for my self-confidence. So I guess that's why I'm back here again. I'm getting back on the horse and it feels great!

So. Quick summary of the summer (lol punny... sort of..). Charlsie and I had fun at my brother's house (GOT TO SHOOT A 50 BMG!!!!!!) and left early for an interview. Long story short, neither Charlsie not I got a summer job, but we did join my Grandpa in a part-time salesman's gig selling Rainbow cleaning systems (great machines by the way). We hung around the house, cleaned, watched my cousins and siblings, drove siblings places, and basically had fun and ate. I gained some weight doing that (pretty much a guarantee at Grandma's house...) and now we are back at home and attempting to remedy that and get jobs near school before all the college kids show up. *SIGH*

In addition, Charlsie and I have now set a date for our wedding. May 28, 2011. WOOT!

I think that's what I got for ya as far as summary goes. On to the graphs that are woefully overdue by now.

This. Graph. Is. So. True. Period.

Seriously, whomever created this is one of my best friends. Thank you, God for there being someone else right minded on this planet! ANYWAY... I want the conspicuous position of Twilight pointed out. Especially since I just HAD to see it.... thank you laws of the universe which state woman must be happy if she's going to marry you... whatever happened to good `ole selling your daughters to the highest bidder?

This graph made me laugh out loud literally. You know how people type "lol" and don't really laugh out loud 98% of the time? Yeah I laughed out loud. I love Shakespeare. It is classic literature and drama in my book. and those are quite literally my two favorite things. In any case, just in case you don't get it, the first one is "One may smile, and smile and be a villain." from Hamlet. Figure out the rest by reading them.

I'll quit for now, but I promise anybody who is still reading this that I will post more often now. I apologize for my moment of weakness, but to make up for it, I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to write part of a novel and open it up for criticism. So look forward to that.