Please see the comment on this blog entry for an important letter from an anonymous viewer of our blogs.
So (unlike my title implies) today was one of the more uneventful days of ever. I did however strike it rich on partypoker.com, making approx $300 in about 15 minutes (at a $25 buy-in table too!). But alas, it was play money, as I do not gamble.
On other fronts I was attacked by a giant wallabee, I designed a new hybrid engine for cars, I learned to speak Mongolian, and I lied alot.
You know, I really wasn’t kidding when I said this was possibly the most boring day in the history of days. I guess I…talked to Abe some and watched as Andrew got to go out to eat for merit lunch even though he skipped class just like the rest of us.
As you can see nothing exciting is happening here and you might as well leave. Go to the ladies’ blog. Check out our new member David, and check out our first e-mail answer! GO!
Why are you still here?!?!? You can’t be this bored!! GO READ ABE’S BLOG!!! HE’LL WARN YOU ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING!!
Ok…Kelsie has convinced me that this was a really weak post. Please accept my heartfelt apologies for leaving you with such a shallow and base feeling in your heart. I will now try to leave say something semi-beneficial.
GRPLABERSLATIGRANDIBLAGWIDGE!
Ok we’ll try that again. I’m gonna get going here really. I just need a topic. A topic…topic…topic……
GOT IT! Drugs (thank you David). Here’s my thought of the day. Should marijuana be legal in the United States? I asked several people for input…
Ansen B: Should marijuana be legal in the USA?
Nathan E: If the participating individual possesses the necessary faculties to perform the most mundane daily activities, then no.
Ansen B: So it shouldn’t be legal.
Nathan E: Naw. It’s too much fun to be legal.
Ansen B: Should marijuana be legal in the USA?
Kelsie D: No Way!
Ansen B: And why not?
Kelsie D: I say no way because I hate drugs and I don’t wanna go around town and see people getting high. It makes me sad.
How was that for substance? Or…more like…substance abuse! Hahahahahaha. That’s the joke. Ha. I like that one.
Ok, well, I’m feeling really outdone tonight with all the deep stuff everyone else is writing. So if you’re still reading, which I’m sure you’re not, here goes…at least something.
Have you ever felt like you were standing on an iced over lake, and at any moment it could crack and you could plunge into the bottom? Now, don’t start freaking out and think I’m going manic depressive again (even though that came out sounding really dark and evil)…just hang with me for a second. Right now that’s our whole family. All the sudden we went from nice comfortable salary and stuff to literally nothing. We have no income so far this year. All of the sudden, eating out is something we may do once a year, and I have to try to get scholarship stuff for everything from Silver Bells to school lunches. And as far as college goes, forget the parents helping out or anything. I might just be taking a year off.
Now like I said, don’t think I’m all depressed again. I’m not depressed, just a little worried. But the cool thing is I’m excited as well. Preachers and such are always saying to “walk by faith”. You know, just “get out of the boat”. Never ever before has that phrase meant to me what it means now. You hear things like, “You should have the faith in God to be able to give everything away!” That sounded fine, but I never thought anybody (including those preachers) ever did it. And then all of the sudden my parents say, “Woah, ok, hang on cause we’re in for a ride now!”
And it is a ride. Already we’ve seen God move in so many amazing ways. We’ve already been able to get pledges for 20% of the money we need for this year. We’ve had unexpected things (good things) happen to us all over the place. Now, it’s just up to me to say “Ok God, you’ve worked things out so far, now I just hope you can get on to this other stuff.” Paying for college seems impossible at this point, but who am I to use that word?
So I guess I’m saying that we all have things we need to entrust to Him. Whether it’s as big as getting some food on the table or as small as getting that homework done on time, He can handle it. It’s definitely not always easy to see how He could do it, but you just have to remember that that’s not important. What’s important is that He will do what needs to be done.
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dear Rachel and former boyfriend (who shall remain anonymous),
I must say that your comments concerning the “breakup” were very encouraging to me. Too often these days relationships are simply flings which leave both parties ravaged and unwilling to reconcile their differences. The manner in which the two of you have turned a potentially devastating event into a beneficial and learning experience is quite refreshing. I must say that i was once involved in a relationship which i didnt feel was where i needed to be and only wish that both of us had been able to get along as the two of you have. To Abe keep swingin bro, the timing just wasnt right on this one. Plus tragedy produces some of the greatest songs, (see all emo music).
To Rachel way to handle the situation well. To have hidden your feelings would have simly hurt both of you even more. I hope to hear from you both in the future , Which means advice, preferably meaningless with some value sprinkled in, sessions for the single highschool student who “had a bad experience”. And Rachel, for goodness sake, catch up on your blog entries, this is no time for laziness or that big word that Abe uses.
Until we speak again,
Hopelessly Anonymous….possibly remaining anonymous if Ansen keeps the secret.