This election scares me. I am not particularly excited about any of the candidates but Obama's policies scare me more. (Really sad that our choice comes down to picking the best of the worst.) I am really scared that people are going to vote on looks and not pay attention to what the policies are. I do not want to become socialist, I want my freedoms, and I want the constitution to be reinforced.
This video below (even though its howard stren) really affirms my fears:
I haven't posted on here in over a year. So many things have happened but there is no way to get caught up so I'll just start again (and hopefully be better at it - for the whole 2 -maybe- that read it).
At church, since my wife is the children's chorister, I get to have my youngest with me for all my meetings. Today during Sunday School, since he will not sit still anymore, we walked around the building - well I followed wherever he decided that he wanted to go. Right before Priesthood we went into the gym and I had a little ball in my pocket so I put it down and kicked it to him. He was so excited that he chased it down and then kicked it himself. He then proceeded to be a little soccer player and would kick and chase it for a few times then pick it up and throw it and chase it down again for another round of kicking.
Bedtime has gone through many ups and downs since our schedule has been quite crazy but tonight we said family prayer when son#2 went to bed and then we had a little bit of time before son#1 went down. After we brushed his teeth and were heading into bed, he climbed into bed and looked at me and said "Daddy, I wanna say prayer so snakes don't get me in my bed." So we kneeled down and I asked him to say it.
"Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you. Please bless me to be safe. Please bless me to be brave. In name Jesus Christ, Amen."
We have said prayers before to be brave and safe and to help him sleep but it is usually me coaching him. But every now and then he just comes off with these perfect prayers and has the faith that Heavenly Father and Jesus will keep him safe.
I love the faith of a child and now completely understand why we need to become as a child and have the faith, love, and complete trust. I am so grateful for the blessings of the gospel in my life. It brings such a comfort as a father to know what I need to teach my boys and that I'm not alone but can turn to God with anything that I need help on. Mormon.com is an amazing resource to answer questions and help anyone searching for the truth.
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I found this blog about creating passionate users and so i printed it out, hung it on my cubicle and we defined where our apps here at work fit. Its been hilarious to personalize the apps and give em attitude.
What is your app?
A few of us at work have discussed this topic a few times and how we really aren't that that prepared for life when we graduate high school. College helps a little bit more but I think people really learn about the difficult things the hard way. Brian Kim has a website where he talks about different things to make yourself better. He has this one article that talks about what classes they should really teach or should be mandatory learning in high school. I agree with him, I think that these classes would really help but I also wonder if kids will really understand/take to heart the things that they need to learn from these classes. Maybe we let them live on their own for about 6 months and then try and teach em... i don't know. ideas?
While I'm not a new blogger (well still kinda am, but its now been a year and a half since I started), I have been trying to get my wife to start, to give her a little creative outlet as well as communication with the outside world. I have invited her to blog - hopefully being able to actually blog occasionally - and hope that she accepts.
PS. I hope you enjoy the new look. I'm trying to figure out how to do a design in Photoshop and upload that so hopefully it'll change again soon.
I really can't believe that it has been that long since I've posted. Well I'm still alive and doing well. David is almost a year old and as soon as I can figure out how to put a video on here I will!
I still don't have internet at home and its hard to be able to blog at work. I'm hoping to get internet soon but we'll see. I am really enjoying my new job. I get to go to Canada to train next week and I am stoked about that. My wife and my son are going to visit my family while I'm away. I'm really sad that my family lives so far away and we don't get to see them that often. More than me not being able to see them I feel bad that my son doesn't get to know his grandparents that much. I worried about that before we had kids. I'm closer to my mom's parents than I am to my dad's. I really want my kids to know and love to visit my parents too, so I'm glad that they get to go spend time with my family even though I won't be there. I'm still here, still alive, still kicking - for anyone that might be following this... don't know who but you never know.
I still don't have internet at home and I haven't been able to blog at work because I've been so busy. I started a new job, well position at work, so I'm a salary man now! Its a nice change and I'm excited to be here. The day goes by faster and I'm enjoying it more. I just wanted to post and say that I've added the Google calendar button to the right, Something I'm trying out. Google has some amazing products and I've been pleased with the calendar so far, I just hope I keep up to date on it. Well until I can post again, peace!
update: ok, so I didn't know you have to have a google account to view other people's calendars, sorry but if you decide to sign up for a calendar... never hurts to try it!
ok cheezy title but what else do you quotes pirates but RRRRRR? COOL new site for those of us that are stuck in cubies all day. Office Pirates will help you stay sane! AVAST!
I'm sorry I haven't posted this sooner but its been a crazy 2 weeks. This is him! This is my oldest son. This picture was taken a few days ago so he was about a week and a half old at this point. He was born Feb 13th at 7:45pm. Came via c-section cause he was 9 lbs 15 oz and didn't want to come the "normal" way. He is the most perfect, adorably baby ever. I'll try and post more pictures later.
I have enjoyed (weird to say that about $1.90 a gallon) the cheaper gas prices. I have been bummed that they have been creeping back up. I found an article about changing cars over to using ethanol as a gasoline substituted. The problem is in order for the country to switch would be for us (the consumers) to demand it, as we all know money talks.
I think it would be great to move to a power source that would be less harmful on the environment, be cheaper to buy, etc... I think one of the best reasons to move towards this is that it would help make our country more self reliant. We would be an independently strong nation. If anyone has any good ideas on how to make this a stronger possibility, or on how to make it known to the "powers that be" that we want this let me know and help me spread the news.
I have been a NM resident for the passed 10 years, I have relished in the fact that I am not a UT resident. As of next week my NM driver's license expires and since I don't make it to NM that often anymore and since my son is going to be born in UT it made sense to get a UT one. Well today was the long dreaded day. Went to the DMV as early as possible to avoid a long wait. We got there and there were only 4 people ahead of me so I was excited.
"In and out" we thought but no. Today of all days the computer system there had to go down and they had to do everything manually. I realized that if the DMV was a retail business and not a goverment sanctioned and even required process no one would ever shop there. It has to be the worst and most ineffective place in the world (not counting government work).
It took almost an hour to get thru 4 people, get me up there and give me the written test (yes, you have to take the written test again in UT if you are getting your license for the first time), less than ten minutes to take the test and then another 20 or so for them to grade it, take my picture and tell me they will mail me my license in 2 weeks and give me a temporary one for the mean time.
I don't get it, you think with as many people that they have to process daily they would have a much better system of getting people thru the process. Every one has DMV horror stories... why do we put up with it? Why don't we demand a better way? Probably cause it takes so long to get thru it noone wants to spend their life trying to get something changed in a government process.
On another note, why is it always old grumpy people that work there? Like how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a lollipop... no one will ever know.
I just had this passed on to me and I've been getting a real kicker out of it. Snoop Dog has is own language and it can be rather entertaining. My friend sent me this link where it changes any website you go to into S-N-double-O-P D-doube O-G language. I just put my blog address in and got a really good kick out of reading the "Dancing Queen" post. Try it out and enjoy!
Sitting here thinking, wondering. Where does time really go? Some days it seems to fly by and other times it drags on so slow you wonder how you're going to survive. The last couple of days I've just sat here wondering, how can it be 2006 already? I feel like I accomplished a lot in 2005 but theres always more to do.
With all that 2005 brought it makes you wonder what else is out there. What is in store for me? What opportunities will I have this year that I didn't have last year?
I know that 2006 will be a very interesting year for me because my first son will be born shortly. Its hard to believe that I will be a dad. I will be responsible for another life. I will be responsible to raise my son and teach him all that he will need to survive in the world. I'll have to teach him right from wrong. How to make good decisions, how to deal with heartache, and how to learn from mistakes...
I am really glad that I found a woman for my wife and mother of my children, that I know will be a good example for them. I am glad for parents that taught me well and have shown me a good example. I am grateful for my religion and my faith in Jesus Christ. I have so much that I have been blessed with, even to the point that I don't feel worthy of it.
I look forward to the New Year and the new challenges cause I know I want them and I will grow from them. Bring on 2006!!
I never thought that I would do a product review because I never really thought that it was necessary. But recently I started using a product that I think needs no push from me but I want to give it still. I used to make fun of my roommate for using his "sonicare" toothbrush. I used to think that it was just a cheezy tool that was overpriced and over-hyped.
For a christmas present (on recommendation from my dentist) I bought one for my wife and myself. Its only been one week since we started using them but we are sold. My wife said to me yesterday "i think we may be sonicare people for life" and continually raves about how she feels "just home from the dentist clean."
It doesn't take much pressure, none actually, and it keeps your teeth nice and clean. They are a little bit expensive but they are definately worth it for the cleanliness it provides. Try and enjoy!
So I was reading my friend Brian's blog and I decided to check FLICKR out. I uploaded a few photos and was just having fun with the settings and what not. I came upon a what they call the "flickr badge". I don't know coding that well but I am learning how to manipulate some code a little bit. I had my friend Tristan help me so I wouldn't totally screw it up but I was able to create my own Flickr badge. You can go to flickr and look at my pictures. I am just on the free account so I don't have a lot up there yet but its fun to do new things.
I have since removed the flickr badge.
I couldn't resist posting this. This is my sister-in-law in her halloween costumer. Yes those are her real lips and her real hair. Her mom made this for her and she hated to take it off. She always did her little disco dancing moves and it was HILARIOUS. I had to share the love. Cutie aint she!?!
