This evening, I drove past the old neighborhood where I used to deliver newspapers. This reminded me of an experience I had while going around to collect payments. I stopped by one house which was always late making payments. The lady I was going to collect from would tell me to come back later. It was later, so I was stopping by.
I rang the doorbell and waited for someone to answer the door. No one did, so I rang the doorbell again. Still no answer so I figured that no one was home. Besides, who doesn't answer the door when someone rings the bell? Anyway, since no one was home I decided to just ring the bell a bunch of times. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Over and over. I did this for about a minute or so. Well, low and behold, someone was home and this got their attention. Finally, someone answered the door and said to me, "that is not the way to ring the doorbell. Go back out and ring the bell right." She then closed the door and I rang the doorbell again. She answered the door and asked what I wanted. I told her I was there to collect for the paper and she told me, again, they didn't have any money to pay for the paper.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Who's Lying?
OK, so it really has been a month since my last blog. I thought I was joking, but I guess not. Here's the lie. I was not born with 11 toes... I was born with 12! Yes, all the others are true. I did have the cops called on me when I was eight.
I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was eight; however, my brother, Mike, did try to teach me on a bike that was twice my size. This being the case, it was hard for me to reach the pedals. One day a friend of mine let me use his bike. It was my size. I got right on, rode down the street and back without any problem. He asked me if it was really true that I didn't know how to ride a bike.
As for learning how to swim at 12, I had volunteered at the SCERA pool during my 7th and 8th grade years. As part of volunteering, I got to go swimming twice a week. I had lots of opportunities to be in the water and learn how to swim.
OK, I wasn't really born with 12 toes... I was born with 9!
I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was eight; however, my brother, Mike, did try to teach me on a bike that was twice my size. This being the case, it was hard for me to reach the pedals. One day a friend of mine let me use his bike. It was my size. I got right on, rode down the street and back without any problem. He asked me if it was really true that I didn't know how to ride a bike.
As for learning how to swim at 12, I had volunteered at the SCERA pool during my 7th and 8th grade years. As part of volunteering, I got to go swimming twice a week. I had lots of opportunities to be in the water and learn how to swim.
OK, I wasn't really born with 12 toes... I was born with 9!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Tag, I'm It
Well, someone I know decided to give me an opportunity to post another blog. I have been tagged to give two truths and one lie. So, first off, I lie each night when I go to sleep. Is that good enough? I'm being told this is not the way to do it. Okay, I'll comply and do it the way it's supposed to be done (maybe).
First, here are the destructions because there supposed to be here.
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 2 true facts about yourself and 1 lie.
3. Tag 4 people at the end of your post by including links to their blogs.
4. Have people guess which one out of the three is false.
1. I was tagged by "Jenny from the Block".
2. First, I was born with 11 toes. Second, I have had the cops called on me. And finally, I didn't learn how to swim until I was 12. Well, I want to make this even harder by putting in a fourth one, so here you go. I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was eight.
3. I am going to tag the following people Karen, Becca, John (Becca's Husband), Mark (My Bro). I hope they still like me after making them post something on the internet.
4. Well, I did four statements to make it harder. So, you get to decide if one is a lie or if two of them are lies. He He. Have fun deciding.
I hope you don't mind waiting for awhile because this is my post for the month. I'll let you know whats what in December.
Okay, maybe Jen will get me to do one sooner so she can find out the real lie(s).
First, here are the destructions because there supposed to be here.
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 2 true facts about yourself and 1 lie.
3. Tag 4 people at the end of your post by including links to their blogs.
4. Have people guess which one out of the three is false.
1. I was tagged by "Jenny from the Block".
2. First, I was born with 11 toes. Second, I have had the cops called on me. And finally, I didn't learn how to swim until I was 12. Well, I want to make this even harder by putting in a fourth one, so here you go. I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was eight.
3. I am going to tag the following people Karen, Becca, John (Becca's Husband), Mark (My Bro). I hope they still like me after making them post something on the internet.
4. Well, I did four statements to make it harder. So, you get to decide if one is a lie or if two of them are lies. He He. Have fun deciding.
I hope you don't mind waiting for awhile because this is my post for the month. I'll let you know whats what in December.
Okay, maybe Jen will get me to do one sooner so she can find out the real lie(s).
Friday, October 17, 2008
Marital Bliss
Before I got married I had a phylosophy about getting married. Their are only about four things required for a wedding: someone to get married too, a place to have the wedding, someone to perform the ceremony, and a couple of witnesses. This is all that is requied to getting married. However, if you want a wonderful day that will be remembered for a long as you live you will need a few more things. I am writing this because Jennifer's and my wedding day was the most wonderful day in all the world (at least up to this point). I think having a baby will rank up their as one of the most wonderful days; that will have to wait, at least for nine months. So, how was our wedding day the most wonderful? It took three months of preperation. Granted some people have done it in two or even one; we wanted to be alive for our wedding so we took three. I recommend not going past three months. We spent those three months planning our invitations, who we would invite, what food would be served at the luncheon and reception, what cake we would have, how the reception would be decorated, and many other such things. We also needed to get a dress for Jennifer (well she did that one without me). By the way, JEN LOOKED NICE IN THAT DRESS, RARRRR. We needed to get a tux for me, get the honeymoon planned, etc. All of this planning went into our wonderful wedding day (also some loss of sleep on Jen's part, she took care of that for both of us). Despite all of this planning and preperation the day would not have been wonderful if it had not been for everyone who pitched in and helped. I would like to say thank you to everyone who helped make our wedding day wonderful. It truly would not have happened if it had not been for all of you. THANK YOU!!!
As for being married it is wonderul. Each day life gets better and better. My love for Jennifer grows and it's hard to leave for work in the morning. The work day takes too long and the weekend goes by too fast. One thing I have found about being married is that you can never know how wonderful it is unless you get married. It is like life just instantly becomes 10 times better. For everyone who has not had the chance to experiance marriage I wish you the best and hope you find that someone special soon.
P.S. For everyone thinking I was hinting that we are expecting, sorry the answer is no.
As for being married it is wonderul. Each day life gets better and better. My love for Jennifer grows and it's hard to leave for work in the morning. The work day takes too long and the weekend goes by too fast. One thing I have found about being married is that you can never know how wonderful it is unless you get married. It is like life just instantly becomes 10 times better. For everyone who has not had the chance to experiance marriage I wish you the best and hope you find that someone special soon.
P.S. For everyone thinking I was hinting that we are expecting, sorry the answer is no.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Staying Up Late
As some of you may know I play Wold of Warcraft (WOW). I have decided to cancel my account until after the wedding. This really is not a hard thing for me to do because I have so many other things happening that this past month I only played about an hour or two each week. Also, I have other games which I can play that don't require a monthly fee. Some of my Co-Workers also play and they are sad that I won't be playing for awhile. This being the case we decided to have a Bachelor/WOW party for me before my current months subscription ran out. Before we started playing WOW we had a party in which the women were invited (Jen attended this part). We had a great time with great food prepared by my co-workers spouse and even better company.
Now to the point of all this, we planned on staying up until 4:00am. We ended up playing until 2:00 because we were all tired, talk about getting OLD. When I was younger I use to stay up until all hours of the night playing video games. One time I stayed up all night and went to work the next day. The reason for staying up all night is that if I had gone to sleep I would have been late for work. I was glad when work was over and I could get some sleep. Now-a-days I like to get to sleep at least by midnight, 10:00 is better. Does that make me OLD???
Now to the point of all this, we planned on staying up until 4:00am. We ended up playing until 2:00 because we were all tired, talk about getting OLD. When I was younger I use to stay up until all hours of the night playing video games. One time I stayed up all night and went to work the next day. The reason for staying up all night is that if I had gone to sleep I would have been late for work. I was glad when work was over and I could get some sleep. Now-a-days I like to get to sleep at least by midnight, 10:00 is better. Does that make me OLD???
THE END
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Its About 'Time' ! ! !
Okay, so I haven't posted anything for more than a month. This is because I have been busy with other things. Mostly the wedding and my fience. Okay more the fience then wedding things. besides I would rather be with her than spending my time writing something. And, if I am not with her I would rather be playing World of Warcraft. So, I am writing this after we have said our goodnights and before I turn on the game. (Actually its to late to start playing tonight because I need to get up for work in the morning)
Speaking of wedding stuff, Jen has that covered like paint on the wall. She has been on the ball like a football players in a tackle. She has been going, going, going like a fly buzzing around a light. Alright, I'll stop with the comparisons; however, I think they are clever. Back to the wedding stuff, Jen has done a great job and everything seems to be coming together nicely. We have seven weeks to the wedding and we have our invitations, we are hoping to get our engagement pictures taken this Saturday, the invitations will be addresses soon, and so on, and so on. One nice thing about all of this, is that Jen has been willing to listen to my opinion and respected it. We have needed to compormise on a few things but all has been well and both of us have been happy with how things are turning out. Really one of the most important things has already been taken care of, both of us are looking forward to the wedding and being with each other.
Now back to the time thing, I need to end now as it is past time to goto sleep. So, I will end now and take some time to sleep. Granted you will most likely be reading this during the day and I will have already woken up. I guess that is a problem with the internet, whatever I post right now will be in the past when you get around to reading it. I don't think anything can be done about it so I will stop worrying. Wow, it must be late because I'm writing things which will not make much sense in the light of day. Well goodnight, or good day if you are reading during the day.
Speaking of wedding stuff, Jen has that covered like paint on the wall. She has been on the ball like a football players in a tackle. She has been going, going, going like a fly buzzing around a light. Alright, I'll stop with the comparisons; however, I think they are clever. Back to the wedding stuff, Jen has done a great job and everything seems to be coming together nicely. We have seven weeks to the wedding and we have our invitations, we are hoping to get our engagement pictures taken this Saturday, the invitations will be addresses soon, and so on, and so on. One nice thing about all of this, is that Jen has been willing to listen to my opinion and respected it. We have needed to compormise on a few things but all has been well and both of us have been happy with how things are turning out. Really one of the most important things has already been taken care of, both of us are looking forward to the wedding and being with each other.
Now back to the time thing, I need to end now as it is past time to goto sleep. So, I will end now and take some time to sleep. Granted you will most likely be reading this during the day and I will have already woken up. I guess that is a problem with the internet, whatever I post right now will be in the past when you get around to reading it. I don't think anything can be done about it so I will stop worrying. Wow, it must be late because I'm writing things which will not make much sense in the light of day. Well goodnight, or good day if you are reading during the day.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Got Engaged :)
I am writing this post in hopes I will beat Jen to the punch. Really though I am just beating her to posting as she sent out a MASS email earlier today letting all of her friends know about what happened over the weekend while we were visiting her parents in California. She also included a picture we took while there. One more thing, only about five people who read this post anyway: Jen and four of her friends. So much for me being the first to share this wonderful news to the WORLD.
Most of you have how our relationship got started so I will go over the events of the day according to me. Friday morning we attended the LA Temple and did an endowment session. I was hoping to have talked with Jen's father before we went so that I could ask her after attending the temple. I think it would have been nice to be on the temple grounds to do the asking. Since the opportunity to talk with her dad had not presented itself I needed to wait.
After we had gotten back from the temple her father and nephew were sitting in the kitchen eating lunch. This did not seem like a very good time to ask so I abided my time. After they had finished lunch I was playing with Jen's nephew and her father was cleaning up the kitchen. I think he knew I wanted to talk with him and he was making himself available for me to ask him. It wasn't until an hour or so later, when we were all sitting and relaxing, that I got up the nerve to finally bring up the subject of marriage. I was somewhat nervous but knew I needed to talk with him. His response was that Jen is a big enough girl to make her own decisions. I felt like that was him giving us his permission and blessing.
As a side note, Jen and I had talked about going to the Griffith observatory sometime during out trip. I had been there before and Jen, who grow-up in LA, had not. I wanted to go again and she expressed the desire to attend for the first time. Jen thought that I would ask her while there instead of at the beach. This worked out well because Jen suspected nothing while we were at the beach Friday night.
So, after we had dinner with her family we took off to the beach to watch the sunset. We had about 30 minutes at the beach. While there we waded in the water and watched the wave’s crash against the shore. It was enjoyable to be there with Jen; feeling the sand in our toes and the water at our feet, hearing the waves crash on the shore, and seeing the sun as it set on the horizon. This was the perfect time to ask the question. I had my back to Jen while I pulled the ring out of my pocket, I turned around and started to get down on one knee, and before I could even ask the question Jen said, "YES". After putting the ring on her finger we kissed and took in the beauty of the moment.
Later on I was thinking I should have let Jen's family know I was going to ask her at the beach. This way the could have followed us to watch if they had wanted to. Oh well, it was a romantic evening and I am glad we are finally engaged and can move forward with wedding plans. And, spend the BIG BUCKS so all of our family and friends can celebrate this special day with us.
Most of you have how our relationship got started so I will go over the events of the day according to me. Friday morning we attended the LA Temple and did an endowment session. I was hoping to have talked with Jen's father before we went so that I could ask her after attending the temple. I think it would have been nice to be on the temple grounds to do the asking. Since the opportunity to talk with her dad had not presented itself I needed to wait.
After we had gotten back from the temple her father and nephew were sitting in the kitchen eating lunch. This did not seem like a very good time to ask so I abided my time. After they had finished lunch I was playing with Jen's nephew and her father was cleaning up the kitchen. I think he knew I wanted to talk with him and he was making himself available for me to ask him. It wasn't until an hour or so later, when we were all sitting and relaxing, that I got up the nerve to finally bring up the subject of marriage. I was somewhat nervous but knew I needed to talk with him. His response was that Jen is a big enough girl to make her own decisions. I felt like that was him giving us his permission and blessing.
As a side note, Jen and I had talked about going to the Griffith observatory sometime during out trip. I had been there before and Jen, who grow-up in LA, had not. I wanted to go again and she expressed the desire to attend for the first time. Jen thought that I would ask her while there instead of at the beach. This worked out well because Jen suspected nothing while we were at the beach Friday night.
So, after we had dinner with her family we took off to the beach to watch the sunset. We had about 30 minutes at the beach. While there we waded in the water and watched the wave’s crash against the shore. It was enjoyable to be there with Jen; feeling the sand in our toes and the water at our feet, hearing the waves crash on the shore, and seeing the sun as it set on the horizon. This was the perfect time to ask the question. I had my back to Jen while I pulled the ring out of my pocket, I turned around and started to get down on one knee, and before I could even ask the question Jen said, "YES". After putting the ring on her finger we kissed and took in the beauty of the moment.
Later on I was thinking I should have let Jen's family know I was going to ask her at the beach. This way the could have followed us to watch if they had wanted to. Oh well, it was a romantic evening and I am glad we are finally engaged and can move forward with wedding plans. And, spend the BIG BUCKS so all of our family and friends can celebrate this special day with us.
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