What would be better then sitting on the edge of your fifth row seat, unblinking, and hearing the sound of thousands of others chanting jibberish in unison with you, as a man in tights with a red cape spears a bull in its jugular and blood gushes from its throat until it falls into a dead heap of twitching muscle and fur? Honestly I can think of many things better. But it does remind me of a movie I watched tonight. The Matador. It was about an assassin that looses his mind a bit. It was self assuring to know that even a character in a movie, if cleverly written and brilliantly acted, could be more jumbled up then I. Anyways, the movie was cleverly written and brilliantly acted, by both Pierce Bronson and Greg Kinner. If I had the authority to give thumbs up I would, but that is taken. Stars and Jalapinos are taken too. So is One-thru-ten System. So, I will just give it my own made up rating score of $^# This stands for IT WAS WELL WORTH THE MONEY($)AND IT STANDS ABOVE(^)A NUMBER(#)OF OTHER MOVIES I HAVE SEEN. I'll go into more depth about my rating system in another blog. Because that is something pointless and unnecessary, so it should be easy for me to write a 500 word blog on it. I can go on for hours about stuff like that, it is the serious stuff I have problems with. So with that in mind, I would like to share with you a few things that I used to never notice, but I have since realized that they are quite useful in life.
Shopping for cereal is a treat I save for days when I am really tired, down and hungry. And last Wensday I was all of the above. So I bought three kinds of cereal and a gallon of milk, and some Big Red Fire Hot gum if you must know. Anyways, I got to my car holding three plastic bags, opened up my car door and reached into the back seat to place the bags down when I noticed a small hook behind my seat and about eleven inches off the ground. After staring at it for close to 45 seconds, I decided that it was there to put the handles of the plastic bags I has holding on, and so I did. And you know what? Ever turn I took it too on the way home, I smiled because I knew my milk and cereals were not going to be sliding all over the back seat because of that little hook that I had no idea was there. So for the rest of the week I have been trying to think of other objects of things that have gone unnoticed to my eyes that are quite useful. Low and behold, the next night while eating some good 'ole healthy Taco Bell for dinner in front of the TV, another thing dawned on me. I never use the napkins they give me. Nobody in my house does I believe. I looked at our coffee table and there was a stack of unused napkins from 15 different fast food joints and they were all right there. Brown ones, bright white ones, ones with the company printed on them and some with the company embossed into them. I kid you not, but as I was thinking about how strange it was to have so many random napkins on a coffee table, I spilt my coke all over the floor. That is when I realized why there were so many napkins right there. After I cleaned up the mess, I was on high alert for anything else that was useful with out me really even knowing it. This lasted 45 seconds and then I decided to watch a movie from the cosey confines of my bed. I threw in a dvd, jumped in bed, smiled and then froze. Something was wrong! The remote to control the TV was not where it has been 365 days a year(that being within arms reach). I panicked, I looked high and low and could not find it. I lay there on the bed staring at a blank TV, while I watched the DVD player sitting with the power on. I sat staring for a good 45 seconds when I realized something I had not noticed ever in my life. The TV had buttons on it. And upon closer inspection they had buttons that controlled the POWER, the VOLUME and the CHANNELS. Wow, another unnoticed object has just effected my life. So my goal for the remainder of the weekend was to searched the house, my car, and pretty much everywhere for things that I never noticed before. I found cleaning supplies under a cabinet that I never knew where there, and I promptly shut that cabinet. Then I opened another cabinet that had mouthwash, deodorant, toothpaste in it. That is when I realized that I should have had all these thoughts years ago. So I tried to stop thinking about the things in life that are not always noticed but are very useful. I stopped thinking about it just long enouph to drive over to my parents for dinner(6 minutes and 45 seconds) on Saturday night, and the whole family was over. My brother was there with his wife and kids, my sister was there with her husband and kids and of course my parents where there with there kids. We all had a great time of fellowship, lauphter and had wrestling wars. It got me thinking later that night that the most useful thing in life is family and most of the time we don't even know it. They provide all the love and support we need to get through life. Well.. I didn't see the blog turning in this direction earlier but since it is already turned, another thing I have noticed, is that small things that seem like they go unnoticed, like a smile, a pat on the back, or a simple word of encouragement can brighten someone's day even though it might not be noticed by the encourager. Think about these for 45 seconds. Ok, now there was one more thing I just realized. One of the major thing that I have not noticed lately is sleep, but I think I am going to see if it is useful right now. So in keeping with the more serious topics, my next blog will be on the Seven Secrets of Dating. It will be all questions. Until next time.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
1mp0rtant Num6ers in My 1ife.
Sitting here thinking about what ridiculous thing I was going to share with the 4 of you that will read this on Wed the 25th of 2006, I realized that numbers play an important part in each of our lives. I began to think about numbers that have been showing up on TV and the movies over the past few years. Hollywood has given us 7, The 6th Sense, 21 Grahams, 28 Days Later, 3 Amigos and Shreck 2. Television as made famous 24, 2 and 1/2 Men, and the Lost numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, & 42. Thinking about this led me to begin thinking about numbers in my own life. I spent well over 5 minutes and I came up with in numeric order from largest to smallest, numbers that have been of importance to my life over the past near 28 years. Lets start with a really big number.
2,456,111 - I am not the first person who was born in San Antonio Texas, this many people were born before I was. I was however born with the 17th largest head.
980-2498 - Phone number of my first girl friend. Hahaha Of course I don't remember that :(
1,000,000 - How many black men in suits happened to visit the White House at the same time I happened to be visiting for the first time.
823,555 - What I thought my dad made a year as a boy, after he brought home a Snoopy Snow Cone Maker.
350,000 - Customers I have greeted with, "Hi, How are you today?" and finished with "Have a good day!" as of Jan 20th, 2006. As of today it is 350,341.
123,456 - Always one of my favorite numbers to write.
120,678 - People I know in my dreams.
92,525 - People that witnessed live the Texas Longhorns win the National Championship in Pasadena California in the Rose Bowl. I was number 92,526!
55,000 - Number of miles I have driven on Spring break trips. Over 30 states conquered, over 120 shot glassed collected, and at least 4 nights forgotten. I think I can't remember.
23,417 - Total times I yelled at told to come in for dinner from the time I was 6 until I was 14. Divided out that comes to roughly an average of eight times a night.
10,104 - Total days I have been alive birth.
7,566 - Nights in my life that I have gotten what doctors say is inadequate sleep.
2,449 - Movies I have watched, a combination of movies I have seen at the theater (1,101), movies I have seen on DVD(789), movies I have seen on TV(540), movies I have seen at school(16), and movies I have complete dreamed up during daydreams(3).
1,000 - What I feel I would be more then happy with making and hour.
786 - Number of people who attened my University(of Letourneau). 784 as Engineering Majors and 2 as Sports Management Majors. I was 1 of the 2.
687 - Grey hairs I had before I graduated from high school. My friend Leigh picked 469 of them out. Leaving me with 212 while walking the isle. For the record I now only have 687 dark hairs on my head.
230 - DVD's I own. Yes if you multiply it out I could have a down payment for a house if I had not bought all these.
179 - Points I scored in high school in 4 seasons of playing 22 games a season. I'd prefer if you would not do the math to see what that comes to a game.
99 - Bottles of beer on the wall. We used to call the fridge "the wall."
97 - Blog entries I have made.
76 - Times I have watched Dumb and Dumber. (Insert your own joke here)
69 - Ummmm... Oh yeah, Number of different cereals I have tried.
44 - The number I wore proudly while on the bench during my basketball career.
30 - Books I have read from cover to cover. 679 if you count just starting a book.
24 - Hours I took my last semester of college. Strangely enough I had my highest GPA this semester. Ok enough bragging.
21 - The age at which I had my first alcoholic beverage. Ok enough lying.
14 - Number of girls that said no to me at our high school prom. Of course I only asked one and the 14 others I never really asked.
8 - Number of nephews and nieces I have. All of which are joys of my life. But also are the best source of birth control.
5 - Records I have set in my life. Non of which I can prove.
3 - Times I have cried that I will admit.
2 - My favorite number. For a reason I will not admit.
1 - Times I have been speechless. HAHAH I mean just in writing.
Until next time.
2,456,111 - I am not the first person who was born in San Antonio Texas, this many people were born before I was. I was however born with the 17th largest head.
980-2498 - Phone number of my first girl friend. Hahaha Of course I don't remember that :(
1,000,000 - How many black men in suits happened to visit the White House at the same time I happened to be visiting for the first time.
823,555 - What I thought my dad made a year as a boy, after he brought home a Snoopy Snow Cone Maker.
350,000 - Customers I have greeted with, "Hi, How are you today?" and finished with "Have a good day!" as of Jan 20th, 2006. As of today it is 350,341.
123,456 - Always one of my favorite numbers to write.
120,678 - People I know in my dreams.
92,525 - People that witnessed live the Texas Longhorns win the National Championship in Pasadena California in the Rose Bowl. I was number 92,526!
55,000 - Number of miles I have driven on Spring break trips. Over 30 states conquered, over 120 shot glassed collected, and at least 4 nights forgotten. I think I can't remember.
23,417 - Total times I yelled at told to come in for dinner from the time I was 6 until I was 14. Divided out that comes to roughly an average of eight times a night.
10,104 - Total days I have been alive birth.
7,566 - Nights in my life that I have gotten what doctors say is inadequate sleep.
2,449 - Movies I have watched, a combination of movies I have seen at the theater (1,101), movies I have seen on DVD(789), movies I have seen on TV(540), movies I have seen at school(16), and movies I have complete dreamed up during daydreams(3).
1,000 - What I feel I would be more then happy with making and hour.
786 - Number of people who attened my University(of Letourneau). 784 as Engineering Majors and 2 as Sports Management Majors. I was 1 of the 2.
687 - Grey hairs I had before I graduated from high school. My friend Leigh picked 469 of them out. Leaving me with 212 while walking the isle. For the record I now only have 687 dark hairs on my head.
230 - DVD's I own. Yes if you multiply it out I could have a down payment for a house if I had not bought all these.
179 - Points I scored in high school in 4 seasons of playing 22 games a season. I'd prefer if you would not do the math to see what that comes to a game.
99 - Bottles of beer on the wall. We used to call the fridge "the wall."
97 - Blog entries I have made.
76 - Times I have watched Dumb and Dumber. (Insert your own joke here)
69 - Ummmm... Oh yeah, Number of different cereals I have tried.
44 - The number I wore proudly while on the bench during my basketball career.
30 - Books I have read from cover to cover. 679 if you count just starting a book.
24 - Hours I took my last semester of college. Strangely enough I had my highest GPA this semester. Ok enough bragging.
21 - The age at which I had my first alcoholic beverage. Ok enough lying.
14 - Number of girls that said no to me at our high school prom. Of course I only asked one and the 14 others I never really asked.
8 - Number of nephews and nieces I have. All of which are joys of my life. But also are the best source of birth control.
5 - Records I have set in my life. Non of which I can prove.
3 - Times I have cried that I will admit.
2 - My favorite number. For a reason I will not admit.
1 - Times I have been speechless. HAHAH I mean just in writing.
Until next time.
Monday, January 23, 2006
May I Touch on Papers?
Do you remember what it was like to sweat through the toils of writing a paper for college? Finding someone to pay a $100.00 to write one for me was always real stressful. Of course I am kidding but knowing a paper was due always caused me to feel basically scared. Mainly because I always had a problem with procrastination. And I would remind myself my paper was due for the final time about this time at night the day before it was due. A friend was writing a paper today and it had me thinking back on those nights. Her paper was to be about a handout she got and a video she watched in class on the healing power of touch. So I thought for good ole time I would try my hand at a college paper again. Given I only browsed the article and did not see the video I may not have all the facts down but it was to be a one page log with a intro, body and conclusion, so that is what I am going to do.
What do you think of when you think of the word touch? Do you think it is something that is more physical or emotional? Every time we use our hands to do daily tasks we end up touching over 1,000 objects a day. This is a physical touch. When we hear a song, watch a movie or read a note that stirs up feelings inside ourselves, we have been emotionally touched. Touch however, can not be simply split into these two categories, it needs to be explained even further. We must first understand the power of touch before we can understand the real meaning of it.
Touch is the most powerful since of our senses. It is the most healing sense. As early as 1400 b.c. there have been drawings found depicting laying on of hands to help heal. Today many hospitals use touch to help premature babys grow at a more rapid pace. It is a fact that when you are touched by a person in almost any way you will be effected. Either you will not like the feeling or your will. Waitresses that make physical contact during their service to a table will generally get a larger tip. It is because the touch no matter how brief or if it had emotion behind it or not, still had an effect on the customer.
So, touch can not be defined as simply physical or emotional, it has to be a combination of the two. Not in the case of touching an object like a book or a dirty sock, but in the case of making contact with another person. A simple touch can provide a great deal of information. It can convey anger, sadness, love, compassion, tension, nervousness and more all with out needing words to go with it. There are nervous pats, compassionate hugs, tense handshakes, loving kisses, and angry slaps, all kinds of touch all proproviding unspoken meanings.
In conclusion, it is important to not downplay the meaning of touch. We need to recognize it in our everyday lives, and harness its healing power as well. Look at the rise of message therapy over the past five years. People are seeing that touch is very powerful. Wether it be a simple brush up again the hand or a 60$ and hour message, a touch stirs emotions in our minds and feelings that would never be stirred if it were not for the power of touch.
It is late and I haven't written a paper in a good 6 years, and I had no notes or videos to pull info from, so forgive me for this paper. I did start sweating as I wrote it, getting nervous, thinking that I was actually going to get a grade on it today. Anyways, I think I will stick to writing blogs from now on, and maybe lend a hand when friends need a helping hand on papers. I will be there for the finishing touch. Until next time.
The Power of Touch
What do you think of when you think of the word touch? Do you think it is something that is more physical or emotional? Every time we use our hands to do daily tasks we end up touching over 1,000 objects a day. This is a physical touch. When we hear a song, watch a movie or read a note that stirs up feelings inside ourselves, we have been emotionally touched. Touch however, can not be simply split into these two categories, it needs to be explained even further. We must first understand the power of touch before we can understand the real meaning of it.
Touch is the most powerful since of our senses. It is the most healing sense. As early as 1400 b.c. there have been drawings found depicting laying on of hands to help heal. Today many hospitals use touch to help premature babys grow at a more rapid pace. It is a fact that when you are touched by a person in almost any way you will be effected. Either you will not like the feeling or your will. Waitresses that make physical contact during their service to a table will generally get a larger tip. It is because the touch no matter how brief or if it had emotion behind it or not, still had an effect on the customer.
So, touch can not be defined as simply physical or emotional, it has to be a combination of the two. Not in the case of touching an object like a book or a dirty sock, but in the case of making contact with another person. A simple touch can provide a great deal of information. It can convey anger, sadness, love, compassion, tension, nervousness and more all with out needing words to go with it. There are nervous pats, compassionate hugs, tense handshakes, loving kisses, and angry slaps, all kinds of touch all proproviding unspoken meanings.
In conclusion, it is important to not downplay the meaning of touch. We need to recognize it in our everyday lives, and harness its healing power as well. Look at the rise of message therapy over the past five years. People are seeing that touch is very powerful. Wether it be a simple brush up again the hand or a 60$ and hour message, a touch stirs emotions in our minds and feelings that would never be stirred if it were not for the power of touch.
It is late and I haven't written a paper in a good 6 years, and I had no notes or videos to pull info from, so forgive me for this paper. I did start sweating as I wrote it, getting nervous, thinking that I was actually going to get a grade on it today. Anyways, I think I will stick to writing blogs from now on, and maybe lend a hand when friends need a helping hand on papers. I will be there for the finishing touch. Until next time.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Maybe my Worst Blog to Date.
I know that the hand full of you people that check this site have been waiting patiently for another blog. But unfortunatly I do not have another one ready. I do not have anything ready right now. I do not have anything ready in my life right now. In fact laudry has been sitting clean on the foot of my bed for three days. I think it is turning dirty. I have just not been able to finish anything lately. If I make it through this blog it will be amazing. I started a book last week and was really enjoying it, maybe one of my favorites I have ever started. And you know from past blogs about my reading habits, but for some reason this week I have just not picked it up. I am not uptight about too much but there is one thing that bugs me and it is sitting down to watch a movie and not getting to finnish it. Well again this week has been crazy for that too, I have started two movies, Academy Award calaber movies, and I have not made it to the end of either. It has just been the weirdest week ever in terms of getting things finnished or completed. And I know that I do not usually use this blog to complain about me but it just seems strange. I have been out to eat each day this week and if you have seen me in person you know I do not miss meals regularly, and as you would know it I have not finnished a one of them. I eat half and then for some reason sit there and only read half the article form the magazine I brought with me to read. It seems like I am being tested as to weither I look at life as being half full or half empty. What does that mean? Seems to me that if I am not getting things done and nothing seems to make since this week that it is half empty, but even with it half empty it is still half full at the same time. Ok, so that makes since only to me but I do know I have ruined a blog with pointless babble about the level of my life. So maybe we should move on to the real problem. I think that I am
(p.s. I know I ended another blog in the same way but for this to be a worst blog ever it needed three things, 1. to be unorigional(hince the ending) 2. Be boring(hince the talk of my boring life) 3. gramatically inaccuarate(hince the no spell check today) Until next time.
(p.s. I know I ended another blog in the same way but for this to be a worst blog ever it needed three things, 1. to be unorigional(hince the ending) 2. Be boring(hince the talk of my boring life) 3. gramatically inaccuarate(hince the no spell check today) Until next time.
Monday, January 09, 2006
A Top Ten of my New Year
The first week of this new year has provided me with quite a few revelations. Some amazing some not so amazing, but all easily explained in a sentence and listed from 10 to 1.
10. Brought in the New Year with a bang, only having to apologize to one person for my actions, setting a new personal record.
9. Instead of gaining 10 pounds over the Holidays, I actually lost weight, meaning I am probably hungry or still in a funk.
8. Made 7 three pointers in one evening playing basketball, breaking my old record of none.
7. Drove over five hours in one sitdown and not once had my mind focused on the road, which explains nothing.
6. Drank five Red Bulls and listened to sad country music for five hours in one sitdown, which almost explains everything.
5. Got so ill one night that I thought I was going to die, which makes this list because I never get sick, and when else in my blog could I say extreme vomiting.
4. Ate a quarter pound bag of Skittles before 9:45 in the morning breaking an old record of 9:45 in the evening.
3. Spent 44 hours out of 72 driving in a van over a three day span, breaking no personal records.
2. Got to tell one of my child hood villians that "I hated you my whole life!" and then snaped a picture of his expression.(see pic below)
1. Oh yeah and I got to wittness the Rose Bowl first hand, watching Vince Young completely befuddle a team that had two Heisman Trophy winners and a winning streak of 34. TEXAS 41-38 USC!
Until next time.
10. Brought in the New Year with a bang, only having to apologize to one person for my actions, setting a new personal record.
9. Instead of gaining 10 pounds over the Holidays, I actually lost weight, meaning I am probably hungry or still in a funk.
8. Made 7 three pointers in one evening playing basketball, breaking my old record of none.
7. Drove over five hours in one sitdown and not once had my mind focused on the road, which explains nothing.
6. Drank five Red Bulls and listened to sad country music for five hours in one sitdown, which almost explains everything.
5. Got so ill one night that I thought I was going to die, which makes this list because I never get sick, and when else in my blog could I say extreme vomiting.
4. Ate a quarter pound bag of Skittles before 9:45 in the morning breaking an old record of 9:45 in the evening.
3. Spent 44 hours out of 72 driving in a van over a three day span, breaking no personal records.
2. Got to tell one of my child hood villians that "I hated you my whole life!" and then snaped a picture of his expression.(see pic below)
1. Oh yeah and I got to wittness the Rose Bowl first hand, watching Vince Young completely befuddle a team that had two Heisman Trophy winners and a winning streak of 34. TEXAS 41-38 USC!
Until next time.
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