I think that one of the most intimidating things I have ever done is buying a bridal gown. Well, I didn’t actually buy it, my parents did… But anyway. It’s a really scary thing! You want it to be absolutely perfect, and there are so many styles and options you can get. Formal, informal, white, diamond white, ivory, beaded, embroidered, sleeveless, strapless, A-line, princess, mermaid, corseted, petticoat, no petticoat, chapel train, cathedral train, with gloves, without gloves, with veil, without veil, blusher veil, two peice veil, chapel veil, cathedral veil, beaded veil, unbeaded veil, hair up, hair down, flowers, jewelry, tiara, no tiara, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. And then there was the price…. but we won’t dwell on things that are in the past and can’t be changed. 
Man I LOVE thanksgiving food. I thoroughly enjoyed the mashed potatoes and gravy (mmm…gravy), the stuffing, the turkey, the craberry sauce, the green stuff, the dolmas, the green bean casserole, the sweet potatoe pie, the pies (apple the good way, pumpkin, and not so much on the pecan), and most of all the time of sitting around with family. Granted this year the people I was around aren’t quite family yet, officially. They just feel that way to me. So I had a good time.
I also got to talk with my mom and my other family over there in Arkansas. So that was good too. I think that next year Kim and I are going to go over to Arkansas for thanksgiving.
Ok that’s all for now.
Happy T-day everybody!!! Make sure that you eat waaaay too much and enjoy the time off.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Hope you have a good one!
It’s monday, but it’s not a bad one. The nice thing about today is that I’m actually going to get to stay home today, since I don’t have choir practice. Speaking of choir, the performance saturday was awesome. Everyone sang great, we had a good time, and the audience was thoroughly entertained. Dad says that I really set the stage with my solo peice, which is probably true. He started out with dimming the lights until there was only a spotlight on the piano, and I walked in all by myself. I was terrified, but apparently it was the dramatic touch he was looking for. I sat down at the piano and just started playing, no introduction, no nothing. People slowly stopped talking, and after about 30 seconds I was on a roll and the audience was silent, just listening. Not bad, if I may say so. It’s been a long time since I enjoyed manipulating an audience like that. I played Edvard Greig’s piano solo called Butterfly. It’s not a very difficult peice in technical terms, I learned it when I was 13, but it’s breathtaking when played with the right amount of expression. I put a lot of feeling into it, and I like to take a few creative liberties in how I interpret some of the passages. It’s really a beautiful piece. I had a lot of people come to me and congratulate me afterwards, and one man asked if I played professionally! Wow. If only they knew that I was shaking to pieces out of nervousness, and that I actually forgot part of it and skipped an entire section to cover it up. All in all, I had a good performance, and it’s made me miss playing the piano the way I used to. I feel like I want to start practicing regularly again, maybe take a few lessons. But can I really find the time? I don’t know. Will I make the time? We shall see….
Well I have been looking around for possible positions as a real estate agent and have been finding a myriad of opportunities. I have talked to several agents who are all working for different firms and have been able to get a good grasp on what I’m going to need ask about while I am interviewing, so we’ll see how that goes. I have an interview today with one of the larger firms in the north county ReMax. I’m also going to be talking to a gentleman who works for Coldwell Banker and see if I can get another job interview there. So things are going quite well.
In other news, I have nice new flannel sheets on my bed because it has been really cold these last few nights and if I’m going to be going to the North County where it is even colder than I am going to need something like that. Flannel sheets are good.
Oh and Davidyo has said that he will be able to help us with at least a little bit of the construction that Kim and I are going to be doing to the apartment. I’ve already mentioned that Kim and I are going to be living in an apartment on her parents’ property right?
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Yes, I did. So yeah, that’s going to be great and we’re really excited about it. I think probably shortly after the holidays we’re going to start cleaning the place up and see about getting ready for all the changes that we want to make to it. Yay!
That’s all, except I also want to give a shoutout to Pam to “Feel Better” and to keep hoping that all her medical tests are going to pinpoint the exact problem and figure out how to make her better.
Song Playing: “Brown-eyed Girl”
For some reason unknown to myself I have been recieving quite the influx of comment spam. I have a lovely plug-in for Moveabletype called Moveable Type Blacklist which will allow me to filter out spammers by both IP address and domain and allow me to delete spam comments en mass. However, the persistence of these spammers is significant for I recieve new ones almost daily. This is quite annoying. I will NOT however, disable comments. I am a firm believer that comments are an integral part of any blog. I will consider upgrading to MT3 though, as Sean did. His method of loggin in, though sometimes strenuous in that it doesn’t work properly, does make a more selective form of commenting.
Speaking of Sean I congratulate him, though somewhat late, on the official “titling” of himself and Sarah. You two are a great match.
So.
Yeah.
I have no @#%&ING clue what you want me to say about peanut butter candy.
It’s candy.
It’s peanut butter-y.
And they all lived happily ever after.
The End
This post is somewhat of a serious post and may come as surprising to some of you so only read on if you want to.
I have been attending church my entire life. I was in fact, quite involved at my church in Oregon before I moved to California. After moving to California however, I never found a church that I enjoyed very much and I just kind of stopped looking, so I didn’t attend church anymore. There has also been something else that kept me from looking for another church and that is my faith. I have for as long as I can remember had burning questions inside me and views that are quite contrary to what all the churches I’ve ever attended taught. I whole-heartedly and openly believe in God and believe that He is good, which is why I can still attend church and feel like I’m part of it. I don’t believe everything that the church has to offer and that is partially because of the origins of a lot of the traditions and the fact that organized religion is run too much like a business. Anyway, I’m not going to go into depth about my religous convictions and beliefs right now maybe some other time. I was just giving some background.
This new church that Kim and I have been attending is very, very much like the church that I was attending in Oregon and I’m really enjoying attending there because it’s familiar, the people are nice, and I can picture having a family at a church like this. Every single church that I have gone to here in SLO I have not felt like I could have a family there and I didn’t really have much fun it was mostly just a show and strengthened my dislike for organized relgion. I will admit there is a lot of good preachin going on at some of these churches, especially my friend Joe’s church, Shoreline Christian, or something like that. That preacher can preach. I highly reccomend going to at least one of his sermons just to listen.
So I just wanted to explain that, though I have seemed somewhat agnostic towards church to some of you people who read this blog, that has not ever been the case. I just had not found a church that I felt like I could be an active part of or would enjoy attending every Sunday. That’s all I have to say about that.
Church is one of those subjects I usually like to steer away from. Mostly because I’ve noticed that whenever people hear that I’m “religious”, they either look at me askance and start sidling away slowly, or they try to goad me into a debate over religion, faith, the meaning of life, moral issues, etc. etc. etc…. neither of which I care for much. But most people who know me well know that my faith is very important to me. Not religion, mind you, just faith. I have never defined myself as a “religious” person. But I’m not going to go into that right now. I’m too tired, and at the moment I really don’t care to get into that discussion again.
For a long time now I’ve been feeling like I’m drifting spiritually. It’s a feeling that’s inside me, and kind of nagging away all the time. I have this deep sense that I want to find a place where I belong, maybe what I’ve heard some people call a “church family”. I have plenty of family already, but it would be nice to have a group of people that I know and see often that understand where I’m coming from, who don’t look at me like I’m from another planet if I say the five-letter “F” word. I’ve tried a lot of churches in the area, and never really felt completely comfortable with any of them. But lately I’ve been attending the United Methodist church in A-town with Myles. I was surprised at how friendly all the people there were. They have been very welcoming to us. We went the first sunday just out of curiosity, because we were planning on being married there and we wanted to see what the church looked like. But everyone was so nice, we just kept coming back, and now it’s been over a month. I’m starting to think that this is going to be the place where we settle down for awhile. I know Myles likes it, and I’m starting to like it too. This church is certainly different than what I’m used to, but not in any bad ways. So we’ll see what happens. The only thing I’m worried about is that if I become a member, they’re gonna want to baptize me. That’s a definite issue with me. I’ve never been dunked, and I wasn’t planning on it anytime soon, for reasons of my own. So we’ll see what happens. But so far, so good, right? I’ll post more on that some other time, maybe. For now, I’m going to get some sleep. I’ve got a busy day ahead of me tomorrow.