It has been a good day. 

It started by staying up way late last night and setting up the Juneau Life profiles all over the web. I awoke this morning with heather arriving around 10 am. I laid in bed a bit longer while we chatted about miscellany… Finally around 11am, we got up and moving. She cooked a lovely breakfast of banana-macadamia pancakes, eggs & bacon, and I tried to finish the final wrappings I had yet to do. Next we had some food around noon, and when finished, I jumped back to business with submitting a contest entry for the All Day I Dream About Photography blog, for a year’s subscription to Smugmug. I guess I’m one of 3 submitters, so we’ll see how I do against the competition. Here’s the full-resolution link, if you like.

We’ll also see if I can insert a smaller version in the blog entry to try to make things a bit more flashy: 

Christmas Collage (Entry for ADIDAP)

So, theoretically, that image will take you to the jumbo version, but really, I don’t know for sure. 

On with the day. 

Next Heather & I picked up Shane and headed out to Mom’s house for dinner. She had cooked up a storm and had all the fixin’s. It was good. At some point through the night, Shane decided to get feisty with mom about a gun he left behind, and I stepped in and told him to drop the issue; I think he was upset about something prior and, it seemed he might have been disappointed by the gifts he received when compared to the items my mom got. We eventually gave shane a ride home and then went to see Seven Pounds with Will Smith; a very heavy show. 

While I’m in that neck of the woods, I’ll see if I can articulate some of the items I received (and gave): 

For me: 

• two dress shirts, one had a matching tie
• dress pants
• pocket wizard plus (though it may require a return or a purchase of a second one to make it a useful tool for off-camera flash.
• a carhart zippered sweatshirt (though it’s a bit small, so will get a return)
• some tire repair kit pieces to patch bike tires

For other people: 

• heather
  • crash course dvd
  • $1000 of chiropractic care
  • custom photo-book of cherished memories
  • personalized accents ribbon gift album (for jewelry)
  • two (regifted) mugs and hot-cocoa.
• mom
  • flat screen monitor
  • mark kelley calendar
  • crash course dvd
  • allman brothers band chronology
• shane
  • book on dreams
  • earnest collection dvd
  • 4 classic rock cds & cd case
• jason
  • ribbon gift album (variety style)
  • movie viewings (one card, one paid for tonight)

And I got some stuff for other people too, but I don’t really feel like chronicling the list now.

I think heather & i will be sitting down to do something else (or go to sleep early) so we’ll see where that heads, but for now, I’ll be signing off. 

nighty, night.

February 28, 2007

I stopped out to my Mom’s house to drop off a couple of items and to visit. Upon arriving, I found the house to strongly smell of something. It seemed that Shane had decided to mix a large amount of oil essences in a pan of water and it smelled strongly. It was obvious that my mom didn’t like it as she was covering her face hoping to shield the scent.

Much of the conversation was scattered with Shane. He brought up concerns about past interactions (specifically, during a recent trip to Nebraska, I had a friend watch his dogs – he was concerned about their welfare, whether or not they were mistreated, unhappy or poisoned.). I consoled his concerns, and he moved on to other subjects, but most of the time, the converasation was, at best, confusing.

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Day 2 of the year down, or at least mostly. Last night I watched the final movie of LOTR trilogy – all 250 MINUTES OF IT! John and Mariah stayed up to kiss and flirt and talk even after my 3:40 bed time. And then of course, this morning, John and I had a talk about the whole relationship world – it’s tough when you have hormones AND common sense – sometimes they really conflict.

Lets see, Helen called me silly, mostly because she caught me with my pants down while she was dropping off laundry for me. I must admit that I feel silly about being so prone to such carnal desires.

I met with Eileen today and made another $65 tutoring. It started out with about 40 minutes of chatting about her recent preformance review. It’s nice to be able to reach a deeper level with her. I had intended to ask her if she was interested in attending Dreamnight, but chickened out so I feel a bit weak there.

Next went to see my brother at the Mental Health Unit (MHU). Every time I see him, it’s strange because I just don’t match him any longer, and he’s still drawn onto the blood connection. I don’t know how much of him is him, and how much is the drugs, and how much might be whatever medical condition he’s working with. This evening he revealed that he stole a jacket from the Nugget Outfitter, so I let him know of my perspective, and then left – mostly because I didn’t have a lot to say to him, other than that I disagreed with his choice to steal, and that it was illegal, and I hoped that he would make amends at some point.

Next, came home to get a bite to eat, and then run to the post office to mail off the Return of the King that someone had bought from me over ebay – my paypal account is getting nicely round. I’ll be getting a Digital Camera in no time flat.

Last night before going to bed, I picked up The Richest Man in Babylon as it was a suggested reading a while back – it’s about finances and the laws surrounding them. I read another chapter this morning.

This evening I read another chapter from Travelling Light about reducing worry in our lives. The core point that I picked up on was that God will support us when the time comes because he leads us (example of the father handling the details and distributing tickets at the appointed time, not too late, not too early).

I also read Genesis 3-5 and Matthew 2. Gen 3-5 talk about Eve being deceived and then God talking with them about that. It left off by leading the lineage into Noah’s time. Matt 2 was about Jesus’s birth and the 3 wise men coming to greet him, and then Herod (the king of the area) wanting to have Jesus killed.

Lastly I read the 2nd chapter/day of the Purpose Driven Life. It’s core subject was that I am not an accident, and that God has created me for His purpose.

Verse to remember: “I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.”

Alright, so since I’m doing this at 6 in the evening, I suppose it’s more of a June 6, 2004 than the previous entry.

First things first

Watched my little brother graduate today. That was interesting. Bruce Bothello was the speaker (he’s presently the Juneau Mayor). I got to see lots of people that I haven’t seen in quite some time. Nico Bus, Salena Kasler, Robert Ridgeway, and more. Then I went to eat with my mother, Shane, Dawn, and her daughter & daughter’s boyfriend. We ate at the salmon bake which was nice. It’s really nice out right now.

Sleep Log

I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, and then promptly fell back asleep. I think I got out of bed at around 10ish.

Humor

Today during graduation, while the conferring of degrees was taking place, someone threw out a couple of beach balls into the crowd. I thought it was sorta funny, but I guess the lady who came in to take them away didn’t.

Struggle

Trying to figure out what I want to do with the relationship I have with Helen. On one hand, she’s a great person, on the other, I don’t think I’m ready to be in a committed relationship. I guess I should have thought of that years ago, huh? I think I need to grow up, or get something out of my system, or something… I don’t know how to explain it at this point.

Beauty

At the Salmon Bake today, my mother had found out that one of the girls working there had graduated the same year as myself. I was thrown into a conversation with her which was nice, but at the same time slightly strange. It seems that she was looking for some sort of adult interaction, as though she didn’t get much of it at times… Which might be the case – she’s got a 1 year old at home. Anyhow, the beautiful thing is meeting new people, and making them feel special. She has a gorgeous smile, and when I told her such, she lit up.

Kindness

I guess it falls back to the meeting new people. In addition to Cara at the Salmon Bake, I met Kay Anderson who is a sophomore at UAF – studying Spanish. She’s here over the summer working, but is originally from Oregon. It was nice to chat with her.

Goals for the evening

Go work on the garage. Possibly go for a walk out Kowee Creek or somewhere like that. Put together an order. Figure out details within my finances. That’s about it.

Well, today was a somewhat decent day. I just finished watching a movie called “Striptease” with Demi Moore, an all-right flick. I didn’t think it appropriate for Shane to watch but mom thought otherwise.

I got my teeth cleaned yesterday & Suzie said if I don’t keep care of my gums, my great set of teeth would fall out; I spent most of my movie watching hours with a rubber pick massaging my gums. They bled, but it feels good now.

Just dawned on me: I need to share w/my new electric razor that I got for Christmas – bye for now!