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| Facebook is all things social networking nowadays, but I'll have to use old faithful xanga for my real-life updates. If you're cool enough to know me on here then you are granted access. Actually, few will read this but it will help me to write it. And I do miss this whole blog thing anyhow.
So I'm at an interesting point in my life. Just quit my job after 3 years. Starting a new job, er...career... on the 19th. I just got a tooth pulled out of my head and had Vicodin for the first time. I'm already unhooked and not in any pain, but that was a fun ride. I'm living on the Kansas side of town now with my old roommate- goofy Calvin. I feel like I've drifted into adulthood with my eyes closed somehow, but I'm here. I don't have a college degree, in fact I have 4.5 years of Bible school training. That's not the type of plan I had for myself in high school and not the 'business degree' that I need to get these jobs. Experience is now somehow more important than education.
Regardless, I'm here.
I'll be working for Perceptive Software, a document imaging software company with headquarters in KC. Voted the best place to work in KC for the past few years- a progressive, young, sharp company who slogans "work hard, play hard". My kind of place right? I'll be surrounded by young professionals, be required to join a dodgeball team (played on the in-house regulation dodgeball court), and given the tools and training to succeed. Over the past 3 years I've gotten the opportunity to dream of the things I would do if I had the resources, and this next step is going to precisely give me those. I was faced with the decision of "easy money" and coasting to a bigger paycheck for the next couple years, or starting something challenging and exciting with awesome potential for the future. Easy choice. I will try to learn everything there is to know about it.
It seems there have been key times in my life where I've been given the chance to stay where it's comfortable or go somewhere.
1) switching high schools for my final year
2) leaving a university for unaccredited school
3) dropping out for a job
4) leaving the church I grew up in
5) going to seek a career
It's always been emotional at these times, but I always had a strong feeling of the right way to go. I don't think I'm tough, I've just been guided. This past week (and my last) brought a real sense of accomplishment and gratefulness. I heard from my customers whom I've had the chance to work with for 3 years. I did well at my job and it really meant something to the companies that I worked with. Professionally and personally. In fact I'm about to go out to dinner tonight with a customer who wanted to say thanks. That's really rewarding. I take these experiences with me and recognize that they've made me who I am. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on the way.
So that's where I am. Another step, another chance for my plans and ideas to take shape or be reformed. The Fire still burns inside me, and it won't go away. His Glory is sure to follow.
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| too cold to go out and get coffee...after i woke up at 2pm. I made black loose leaf tea, enough for 30-40 cups, in my press, for a single cup. Another lesson i've learned before i turn 25- do not do that. I'm sick as explative, not because of the tea. Sleep, stress, schedules...all messed up in my body right now. I was rollling hard at the gym and getting strong, feeling good, killing laziness. Now it appears i am at the mercy of a bunch of different viruses out there....i've been surrounded by it and i guess you can only keep it out for so long. The couch is uncomfy but i'm sitting here watching a barrage of shows like survivor man type shows, finacial news, basketball, stand up comedy. I desire to lay on a bed of hot stones and let the inside of me burn away the virus and fever and send me into a short term rest coma. What if that was an option right now? man, i would pay money for it....maybe even $500. If i did pay for that though i would require to be transported without me spending any type of energy or waiting more than 5 minutes before i felt the heat. I think that's a possibility now that Obama's in office. I mean now anyone can do anything, which is great. I have such a whirlwind of thoughts right now it's almost humorous and its good that it's the weekend so i'm not in an environment to make decisions that will affect the rest of the world. I'm thinking about work some and what i'd like to do with some of my clients. I'm stepped out on a limb the past couple weeks and pressed some issues and forced my will. sometimes i get bored at work but there is so much freedom to try things and to learn business on the fly with real risks on the line with thousands of dollars in the balance. Throw in relationships with clients and it can be exciting...I get sarcasm, anger, and sometimes orders via text message from my guys and girls. It's overall cool and i'm making money. I just now took dayquill. I think i'm going to stop typing, i just wanted there to be some soft of record of this. I would also like to make a formal request for one of my dear freinds who's reading this to bring me nyquill tomorrow, and a coffee around 10 or 11am. I need it because i'm not doing tea again, and i'm not getting out to cross the siberian desert for coffee. my cellular device will be on if anyone chooses to help me. I'll be ok if you dont, so dont feel guilty. I'm going now..hopefully to sleep again soon. | | |
| EDIT: The vaporizor is nice, but the sticky blinds that are made of paper don't enjoy all the moisture.
It's ridiculously cold...what is that all about? Soon i will go into my tropical climate room and sleep. Goodnight
It's worth posting because i'm up and had a few lame-yet-noteworthy things today.
I:
slept till noon after a night of coughing.
drank a press of christmas blend.
met up with an old friend for chai tea to hear about married life
went to the store and got bunches of healthy food
got mucinex dm because those commercials seem soo cool. Nah, i got it because my friends say it works.
went to the gym for a good workout, looking forward to my after-christmas workout explosion.
had a tea with Calvin at JP's
went to wal-mart with calvin to get a warm air vaporizor. He got a humidifyer. We're still trying to figure out the difference, but we'll see which one works better.
turned said vaporizor on in my room with vicks stuff to make it smell all good. It's ready for me to go to bed and be humid.
after wal-mart we ate dinner...at 10:45. Weird timing but we were both hungry. 54th st. bar and grill...yummmm
watched bloomberg financial news...live from London. Love this channel, love this cable. love this internet.
realized how often i referenced pirated wifi in my previous posts...it's always fun to re-read them.
Now i need to sleep as i have to get up in 4 hours to meet my boy tyler for coffee in the morning before an important day at work. End of the year...so many things to get done.
Sorry for the awful writing structure of this post, but it just came out that way. Say hello if you wanna, but i'm going to post regardless
Listen to the soundtrack from Once. Dance like Ne-Yo. drink Naked fruit drinks. | | |
| The snow is powder dry and I love it! I am overly excited because instead of cleaning off my car at 6:30am, I cleaned it off at 12:30 as i made my way out into the white to starbucks for my quad americano. It made me want to be skiing again, and/or to live in Denver. Planning on another February ski trip that will be 'epic' as they say.
I'm off work today to catch up on sleep, get rid of the lung cold, and watch the snow from inside.
I ordered some new protein and creatine so for the next 2 months I'm going to hopefully workout in a very systematic way that includes much cardio...swimming and running.
Last night i went for a swim at 10:15 and made it 10 laps. I just felt like a swim and i think i'm getting better too...soon i'll be doing 20 laps. It felt really good. i'm 160, for those of you following my weight reports.
I'm in need of a fire, but no chance of that. Maybe I'll borrow some money at 0% and buy a house with one so I can be cozy in the winter. I'm looking forward to getting 'stuff" like furniture and dishes. I'd like a house too...who knows though.
There are things that greive me deeply in ways i can't explain. I think that's a blessing actually, and an even greater blessing that I can't explain it away to people. It only makes sense before the Lord...I'm starting to realize that. There's great blessing in sharing with community, to 'fellowshipping' as the cliche goes, to sharing life in Christ with others, to accountability. But I tell you there's nothing greater than the actual life in Christ...with Christ. You know...the relationship, the 'personal' thing that is stamped all over what we call the Gospel. It shocks me to see how little I value that and how well I can thrive without that. I can transfer my need of that actual communion with Christ into the "good things" that actually act as counterfeits to steal the real life in God. I also transfer that need to not good things, just in case your picture of me was turning too noble; doubtful :) It's not the obscene sins that are hard to identify, it's the good ones, the ones that have so many elements of true things in them that keep us thinking we are pursuing God when we indeed are not.
I sell computers...I build relationships, pursue clients, argue with people on my own team to make our business good. I like it. We'll see how much longer it will last.
OPEC members are my short term best friends. I most likely won't care about them by the end of the week, but for now, those robed oil ministers can make me some cashola.
Peace, the real kind.
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