Give poor kids crayons!

Today I found out that a friend knows someone who teaches in the Balsz School District in Phoenix. She says the kids at the school are very poor and they have trouble even putting food on the table. [Insert my bleeding heart liberal socialist stuff here]
Ok, I'm not asking you to do anything major (although it would be major to these kids), but Fry's has crayons on sale for $.50 (fifty cents) a pack with a limit of six. If you could buy up to six packs of crayons, I'll figure out a way for you to get them to me I will make sure they make it to these kids.

You can message me via facebook if you like to let me know you have some that need to get to me. Maybe I can work something out with one a business in Phoenix to drop them off or something.

See, that was easy!

The guy from the date

The guy I went on the date with turned out to be a flake. I don't know that he was avoiding me, but really, how hard is it to say, "Thank you for paying for dinner" (he did get the tip),"but I don't feel as though...." I figured I would do him the favor of not having to tell me when I would see him again by deleting his phone number from my phone and our text messages.

Enough about that. I was feeling pretty down about this and my best friend Gary, I'm sure could see it, picked me up so that we could watch HBO at his house. He wanted to go for a walk afterward because he ate a lot of food earlier. Here is what happened while we were out on our walk.

Random Thought

I hate carnations.

Thank you.

I had a date

Last night I had a date with a guy. I'm finding I'm very attracted to this guy. He doesn't share my faith, but he does share my disdain of trying to find someone I really like. He's not big in to all the early dating BS and I really like that. There is not "game," it's all very straighforward.

I like him a lot.

Great Observations

"It's interesting when the Religious Right claims we were founded as a "Christian Nation" when trying to push their intolerant agenda, because while most (if not all) of the Founding Fathers where christians, they were also painfully aware of the power of religious intolerance and corrupting power of religion combined with politics, and took pains to separate the two."
Will Coucheron-Aamot

Been a while again

I'm blogging by accident today. I meant to post a poll on the COMPETE blog, but ended up logging into my own blog. Oops.

I deleted but figured since I'm here, I should probably post something so that's what I'm doing.

Since the beginning of the year I've finished most of my court-ordered classes
I've finished my Bachelor's Degree
I've lost about 40 pounds
I've preached the main service at my church
and that's just the start.

I'm planning to start working on a cover-type act with my friend Danny and working on writing some stuff with my cousin Nicholas.

I AM getting stuff done this year. I HAVE turned my life around and things are just getting better.

Wait until I lose another 30 pounds.

I know, I'm a total buttface

Well, at this point it may appear I have abandoned my blog, but that's totally not the case. Going to seminary takes up the time guess I normally would have spent on this. But it's all good. I'm still learning alot and trying to get my taxonomies finished. I'm supposed to preach on Youth Sunday at my church. When I first found out about it, I was excited and thought it was such a long time away, but we're down to a week and a half away. I REALLY gotta get my stuff together for it VERY soon.

Oh, I'm doing fairly well with my weight loss. I'm down about 35 pounds since the beginning of the year. I feel so much better about myself. The only issue I still have is the more weight I lose, the more I realize I have to keep going. I've decided I'm going to do two more rounds of HCG. I know it is kind of expensive, but I stay out of trouble when I'm on it and if get myself used to not getting into trouble, then that's a plus, right? I would totally end up spending the money on other stuff, anyway. I'd rather get something good out of it. Depending on how much weight I lose, after the next two, I may even go for a third. We'll see.