The Prodigal Son

Sermon for today has one motto: Have more parties! You heard me right. We need to party more. We need more excuses to party. Or at least, we need to take the little reasons we have right now that don't seem like an reason to party and we should use them to party anyhow. We are social animals and I imagine most of us don't socialize enough and get together and have parties enough. Times for fellowship are really important and we don't use them. Or we don't try for whatever crazy stupid reasons.
Anyhow, I must get to bed because I have a big interview tomorrow for a new job. Ill give you the update later. Peace!

p.s. generations of vipers and whitewashed sepulchres with deadmen's bones

My New Blog

So I started a new blog, and added a link to it. Check it out.
I figured today as I was sitting at work being bored out of my mind and reading a new magazine called Worthwhile and my book called The Other 90% by Robert Cooper that I should really write down these ideas that I come up with all the time. So I made a website for it.
As some of you know and some of you don't, if you are a member of someone's blog and they allow it in the settings you can make a post on their blog. So I want as many people as possible to become a contributor to this blog so it can be "OUR" blog instead of my blog. Visit it at Thee Olde Idea Factory Email me to be added.

Concentration

Work has been going really well since last week. Surprisingly well. You know, work may suck, but I look at my bank account and I am happy. If I keep at it, the bills will be paid off really soon, and I can buy the toys. ;-)
So Im concentrating right now on getting the Tahitian Noni business up and running again. Tom decided to start his own business too and we are working together. Sales is one of the oldest and greatest professions on Earth. Many people would disagree with me but I really want the so called "mom & pop" stores to be more prevalent. I love small business. Id love to buy my shoes from a cobbler rather then have them shipped to me from Sri Lanka. Id rather know the farmer that produces my food. Id rather know the person who put my furniture together. Id love to be able to ask the local grocery store owner how business is going then interact with the cashier at Walmart. Call me old fashioned, but I craze more personalized interactions.
For example, I walk into Wild Oats and people know my name, and I carry on conversations with many of the people who work there. Same goes for Caldonia's aka Cal's. The door guy doesn't ask us for our ID's anymore, and we always seem to get one of three servers we know there. We walk into the gym and nearly everyone recognizes us. The lady who owns the place, Gina, asks us if we want the usual, two gyros with cottage cheese, as we head in to work out, and we say yes. As we come back from our workout we sit down and she has a pitcher of water for us and two gyros out in like 3 minutes.
Or maybe Im just a sucker for service and have been spoiled by it. Who knows. ;-)

Todays Sermon

David loses the training wheels. His wife, his good job, his best friends, his self-respect. He loses them all to grow into the person God wanted him to be. So goes the story of a son who was using all his strength to lift something. He is struggling to do it and his dad asks him if he is using all his strength and he says yes straining hard against the weight. His father asks him again, and he replies the same straining harder. His father asks him a third time, and he says yes again through the sweat and the tears. Then his father replies, "No you haven't because you haven't asked me to help."
Where does your strength lie?

So What?

Ive been a little cynical lately. Big deal. Tom had the audacity to say its ok for him to be cynical, but not ok for me because Im not like that. Big deal. I think he is blowing it out of proportion like he normally does, but he says he isnt alone. Big deal. Ive been cynical lately, is that not allowed? Can I not change a little, can I not be different? Am I always going to be how you remember me? I hope not. Can I not become a cynic, do I have to be born that way? I dont want to be a cynic, but if Im going to be then at least allow me to point out your inadequacies as well.
Current Mood = Angry

IM...

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

So my life doesn't stop

I just need a rest. I know how my mom used to feel now. Come home from work and you have more work to do. Im almost to the point where going out with friends is work and I just want to rest. Even going to church is work. I need rest. Rest Rest Rest. I cant decide whether I should get a new job or not. I am making a lot of extra money right now to pay off my debt but its a slow process. I dont want to be a burn out either. *sigh* just my thoughts for now...

Who are these people???

As time goes by I realize a lot more people are actually reading this blog. Go figure. You guys won't believe this. There is actually another Jeremy Michael Day out there and he read my blog, and sent me an email. Crazy huh? Then there are the other wackos who post to our sites. Totally random. I have a feeling Google keeps their blog searches high ranking so more people will see them and get them, but thats just a thought. I guess Im just "tickled pink", whatever that means, by all the people I don;t know who actually visit my site, and yours! Long live the World WIde WEB. Ciao!

JUMP!

Just jump into the deep end, and start swimming. Enough talk, enough play, I gotta go seize the day! ;-)

This is SO True!!!

You Are a Hunter Soul

You are driven and ambitious - totally self motiviated to succeed Actively working to acheive what you want, you are skillful in many areas. You are a natural predator with strong instincts ... and more than a little demanding. You are creative, energetic, and an extremely powerful force. An outdoors person, you like animals and relate to them better than people. You tend to have an explosive personality, but also a good sense of humor. People sometimes see you as arrogant or a know it all. You tend to be a bit of a loner, though you hate to be alone. Souls you are most compatible with: Seeker Soul and Peacemaker Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Am I really that old?

You Are 32 Years Old

32 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Steelers win again!

20-17 in overtime. Wow, that was a crazy, awesome, unbelievable game. Both teams were great examples of teamwork. And if the Steelers can still win a game like that with Big Ben in rookie mode Im sure they can win the Super Bowl when Roethlisberger is in Star mode.
On the work front, everything went fine with the doctors excuse. And I actually didnt get paid for those days instead of having them count as vacation time which is cool, but I wish they would give new people sick days. Just isn't fair. This was one of the worst weeks I have ever had here in Colorado. Im suprised Im not more depressed. When it comes to my job, Im totally out of my element. I dont belong there. My co-worker Matt, who Ive become friends with, said he didnt think I was going to come back after my sickness. I dont think he believed I was that sick. I wish I wasnt. Friday was just a day of blunders. I gotta get out of this job and find a place where I can really shine. I have never felt so incompetent in a job in my life. I dont know what to do.
The sickness has delayed my training for a whole week. Im glad Im starting early this year cause I had an injury set me back last year too. Gotta always plan for the unexpected. I guess Im not that depressed because I have hope that things will get better. They always do. ;-)

Speaking of Decisions...

I made the decision to take a third day off of work in a row because of the "sickness". I probably should have went in. Im feeling good enough to work, but I know Im still sick and I just didnt want to go. So I called today to tell them I wouldnt be coming in again and I was told I would need a doctor's excuse for taking all these days off. I knew it was coming. The sad thing is that Im using VACATION TIME because I have no SICK DAYS. I want to scream. So Im scheduling an appointment today to see a doctor and he will probably tell me Im not sick, that he cant give me a doctor's excuse, and that Ill have to pay $50 for the visit. And then Ill go back to work tomorrow without an excuse and be fired on the spot. How do I explain that to any future employers? haha. eh. cough cough....

Quotes to live by...

Writing is one of the hardest things for me, yet somehow the most joyful and rewarding. It can be extremely hard for me to start writing sometimes, but once I start everything in the world seems to come out allright.
So here are my quotes to live by, from some of my most admired writers. Enjoy!

One must be something, in order to do something. -Goethe

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. -Albert Einstein

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better then all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor of his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller

The work will teach you how to do it. -Estonian Proverb
(I write this one because of the loss of apprenticeship and the overemphasize on a college education. Perhaps Ill write more on this later.)

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better then they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less then your very best. -Reggie Jackson
(Sports, games, and play all have important lessons to teach us. Let us not underemphasize them. More later...)

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Alva Edison
(One of my favorites)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - Gen. George S. Patton

What is holding you back?

We are a society of dreamers yet to realize our dreams. We dabble and pretend, but we don't acheive. We are unhappy complainers of our lives, and yet we do nothing to remedy the situation. Or we try once, and fail and realize the whole world is against us, or we learn helplessness because everything we attempt will turn into utter failure, and therefore we try not.
We are knocked down and decide not to get up. We are wasted souls, in a wasted world, wasted by our invisible dreams that will not pass into this land. We know not how to take what is given and make it into something worthy of a dream.You can dream anything, except you can't dream a dream into existence. It must be made into existence with blood, tears, toil, and sweat. And where once nothing was something had been made and it is, ...beautiful.

I stol'd it

I stole this from Jason
(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:

(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.

(C) Then I want you to go to your journal/blog, copy and paste this and say that you stole it from me.

Happy New Year

This is a refreshing time. We had an awesome party last night, maybe not as great as some other New Year's parties, but great nonetheless. Jason is here and its great to be hanging out with him again. I cant wait till he moves out here.
Otherwise, things are same old, same old. Work is work. Life is life. Ive need to do some major guitar playing this weekend. And we have plans to head up to the mountains this weekend or when Im off this Tuesday and Wednesday. I cant wait.
Lastly, I figured Id let you guys know I got a new website. Its http://jday.ws Supposedly these guys bought the rights to use the .ws domain from Western Samoa. It only costs $10 a month and u can get your own domain name. And if you refer 10 more people to get their own website then its free through affliate marketing. Ah, we do love the internet don't we? Anyhow, check it out and give me suggestions of what you would like to see on the website. Thanks! Peace...