I’m not entirely sure why I’m a skeptic but I definitely am, especially when it comes to Church. I’m a very visually judgmental person (even though you will never notice it, and you wouldn’t think it.) and I know that is a bad thing. I also have a tendancy to think that people are what they appear to be, and I know that is wrong as well.

Although I find Church strange in the fact that the same Bible verses are referenced a million time in the span of only half my life time, it would appear there are more than a million different ways to look at something. Believe me I know what the right frame of mind can do for any sermon, and I know what the wrong frame of mind can do as well.

So as I sat there I pulled out my pins and began to draw a few doodles while listening, and as I listened I thought about a few things.

Here they are… I scribbled these down in Church as they came into my head…

Stories for us that we’ve never done or seen, but examples for us to think about. To pretend that we would give up our first born to trust God. Metaphors for life and examples, yet every time the same concepts with a new wrapper… Not always… It’s like a bag of different kinds of candy.

Will I really move mountains?
Will I really have the voice of even the Apostles?
To do what we can to break the Mold…What will we do?
I don’t like the Mold I feel like we stand in.
Is there something different coming?…different in the sense of social structure, something bad.
Is this Mold being built to make us weak?

Make no mistake, I don’t say these things because I’m new believer. I don’t say these things because I’m loosing my faith. I don’t say these things because I want an answer from you. these are rhetorical ‘?’s… But questions all the same, and when I find my answers I think things will be different.

Yes I’m still a little under the weather. My head is kind of achy and it hurts to concentrate on the screen and type so I’m just not going too.

But for those of you that are really looking something sexy, check out the latest pics that have surfaced on the web of me. Here and Here…. it’s a good thing I don’t care if my face is on the interwebnets and the ebays…

I don’t really get sick that often, I get food poisoning more than colds. But my head has been hurting all day. To the point where it hurts to look at the screen.

I’m fairly positive that I need more Sleep, Water, Food and Sunlight. Also, I’m fairly positive that I need less Computer Screens, Keyboards, Long Drawn out Blog Posts and Mocha Frappacinos.

I wish laying in bed felt better, but we’ll see… Maybe it will go away with a good nap…

Today I got up went to check on some things here and noticed one very important item… My stat counter just clicked 10,000…

Yes, I’m kind of a stats junky, but only in the sense that it’s good to see progress. I know I’ve never had a serious message or an over all theme (apart from just trying to have fun), but I’m not to worried about it.

Just want to say thanks for the interest, you’ve made this an actual creative outlet for me…

October 24, 2007 to July 11, 2008
Here are a few un-impresive stats I’ve gathered that I thought were interesting to me…

• 391 posts
• 65 categories
• 399 tags
• 700 comments

It’s just to bad I’m not cool enough to be taken seriously by Technorati… No worries, I’m not even a year old yet.

I like this chart… It’s cool to see things grow.

Referring Sites are at the top, I guess that means this community things is working.

Apparently I’m not quite a global commodity yet, heck I’m hardly even a national treasure.

Here’s the deal, I have these pics in the sidebar… & there coming from my phone. I thought it was kind of a cool thing to be able to send pics from where ever and kind of post my retardedness as it happens.

If you happen to see something weird like a piece of paper that says I’m in trouble (or I’ve fallen and I can’t get up) than I might be in trouble. Other wise I’ll keep it clean…

Added bonus… For my adoring sexy fans I’ve put a ShoutBox under my Flickr stream so you can say how much you love me. It’s the same format that CoolDad, CoolMum & CoolBaby use on their monday night chat. Say what you want, but if I don’t like it I’ll probably retaliate with my photoshop fingers.

Hope you enjoy… Happy Blogging

I’m Glad to be an American, but I’m not entirely sure I’m Proud to be an American. Of course I’m not sure if I’m proud to much of anything. I know this is a topic that has probably been completely over done so wont get into much detail over my position.

I’ve always thought that being proud to be an American was something that the WWII generation may have felt, or maybe the Reagan administration promoted.

Every time I think about the flag for more than 30sec I think about this piece of art by Jasper Johns. I think about objectivity and thousands of people standing in perfect lines with their hands over their hearts with some lame song playing in the background.

I suppose that I’m proud America is an enabling country. People come here because they are able to live.

On the other side of the coin, I’m not sure what our country does that pisses off the rest of the world. Things I might not be so proud of. (consumerism, fast food, ignorance, and the A-Bomb…)

Dictionary.com says of –> Proud

It’s the 4th of July and it’s kinda raining out side. I’m beginning to wonder, do fire works still go boom in the rain?

A couple of things that I was thinking about last night were Money, America, Capitalism and what if I became Rich… Basically the independence of America has lead to Capitalism and the pursuit of happiness. In the end it seem Money helps.

On the drive back from Nashville Brody and I went through the rich parts of town and looked at some huge houses. I began to wonder what I would do if I became Rich.

Here is my thought…

If I became Rich due to my own work ethic and from the sweat of my brow what would I become? Basically, would I have a huge house with lots of stuff, a nice car, furniture, pictures on the walls and shoes that said, “I paid for these bitches with my die hard American spirit”.

I’m a simple person, I’ve never really had much to speak of and I don’t have any claim to fame. People always told me when I was a kid that some day I’ll get older and I’ll stop wearing clothes that have stains. So far I’ve managed to beat the odds, than again I’m not married or even dating at this point.

I’d like to think if I did become rich you wouldn’t know it. I’ll admit there are a lot of things I’ve always wanted that cost a lot of money, but every time I go to a house where people have obviously spent a shit load of money I feel a little weird. Like I should take my shoes off when I go in side, or how many toys does one person need. Or, are your employee’s doing this well?

Back to the 4th of July… Have fun, be safe and I hope it doesn’t rain on you or me…

I took a test today and this is what it told me…

I am the Hulk

Take the “Which Superhero am I?” quiz…

I was thinking about a few things this morning as I was having my cup of coffee. There are a few things that define me that are good and bad. Here is what I was thinking…

• Musically inclined, but not Musically interested.
• Self reliant
• Anal about specifics.
• Distracted
• Day Dreaming
• I tend to pace
• Workaholic
• Creative
• Irritable
• Judgmental
• A little shy
• A little odd
• Cant Spell
• Slow Reader
• Bad Vision
• Slightly Dyslectic
• Prone to a temper
• Creature of Habit
• the list could go on…..

I always seem to get the same thing when I go to tacobell. I don’t go very often but when I do its always the same thing. I am such a creature of habit.