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Two blog posts?! Yeah, I'm crazy. I've saved these pictures and wanted to use them so here we go!

He has a lot of good quotes.

Heehee, pardon the language.

Neil Patrick Harris.

Snow Patrol.

 Yuppers.

AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH!

Haha, like my dentist... except he's seriously hilarious, really, he doesn't just force the smile. He somehow makes it come out naturally which is odd, since your at the dentist...

Good sweatshirt.

Who'd want to be a copy? More people than you'd think.

 So I should be able to fly. YES!

 Creative.

 That's quite a few ways you got there Tom...

No comment.

Certainty? 

I like reading handwritten ones much more than those 'blocky' fonts...

Failure and Ficklyness

Humans are fickle and petty. Pretend they both have the same definition. I'm using fickle, as it rhymes with pickle. Which is a completely obvious and irrelevant fact.

Hmm.

What is relevant however, are baseball games. Yes, I was at a friends house a while ago, and my friends lil' bro had just lost a baseball game! Oh the horror!

Charlay! Ouch! Charlay bit my finger!..... That really hurt,

He started recounting all the tales of the terrible things that happened during the game. Such as the referee not calling fouls on the other team, how the referee was related to the coach... He went on and on...

Always whispered into your ear...

Thing is, he was crying the whole time. I was thinking, "Really? He's crying over that?" Then I realized I cried during a pet-abuse commercial, but in my defense, there was a Sarah McLachlan song playing in the background. Anywho, the kids only eleven. In this case, it was failure that hit him. On us adults, it usually doesn't phase us too much, but kids... parents always want the best for their kids. But what is best for the kid and what the parent thinks is best for the kid can be two different things.

I'm not sure. I usually can't see my face when I cry.

Parents don't want their kids to experience failure. But, it is a necessary thing. In fourth grade, the soccer team I was on didn't score one goal the entire season. We even had the goalie come out and try to help us out during our last game! It didn't work. Yet, for some reason our team got trophy's. Trophy's! I felt accomplished... but I didn't do anything. It would have helped me later in life to cope with the other team getting trophy's and me getting none, than to get that dangable trophy which I threw away last week.

What the heck is this dog looking at? Must be something really really terrible. I mean, his eyes!

I'm just trying to say, failure is a good thing. To really hit success, you need to know failure. The fear of failure makes us stop doing what we want to do. Take a moment and be honest with yourself, what are your dreams and desires? Those things that if they happened, you would just LOVE it? But for some odd reason we are terrified of this failure. We need to follow the actors and actresses - don't look for validation. Look at the motto at the top of my blog...

Founder of DISNEY! 'Nuff said.

As to my topic of humans being fickle and petty, yes. Obviously little kids are, as he cried after losing a baseball game. But us adults worry over the most petty and fickle things too. I shouldn't have to mention anything there. Just think of what you were worrying of yesterday, "What should I wear?" Ya know that doesn't really matter much. You matter.

Best picture ever.

But, everybody is fickle and petty in their own way. It's a part of being human. We just have to deal with it in both ourselves, and others. And try to not take little things too seriously, that's always a good motto :)

Yuppers.

The fence

Ah yes. The proverbial fence that sits between good and evil, yet another thing we've all heard about.

You could also think of it as a highway. Like ACDC's 'Highway To Hell' Song.

But, there is a problem with it. It doesn't exist.

Hahahaha, know I have a huge sense of humor :)

No matter what in life, you are either on the good side, or the bad side. You may unintentionally be on the wrong side, however, as the saying goes, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

Good ol Wizard of Oz

But you know which side your sitting on. The dead grass, or the alive grass.

See, the grass really is greener on the good side of the fence! And it's well kept :)

...But, as usual, there is always a 'gray area'. Take for example, James Roday's character, Shawn Spencer, in the TV show Psych. He lies all the time, which is usually considered a bad thing, but how I'm looking at it... to what end is he doing it?

Love this show, it gets so ridiculous at times xD

The gray area is called a gray area for a reason. But, he is clearly on one side of that proverbial fence. The green grass side, as he's catching criminals using his 'psychic powers'. He may be lying to the average person, but that however, is something that will eventually have to be reconciled... probably in Season 7... At least I want him to tell his girlfriend that in Season 7... He's still on a slippery slope however no matter what happens.

There's a gray area

But it also goes the other way around. You can do bad things for a good reason, but you can also do good things for the wrong reasons. But no matter what, your on one side of the fence.

In this TV show they do bad things to bad people for good reasons. It's a fantastic show.

P.S. Don't get this confused with the saying, "Good, better, best.", as that saying is all on the 'good' side.

I've always wanted one of these clear boards. Someday I'll get one.

Sin

There are so many ways I could cover this topic. I may have covered this topic already, but if I did then I am going to go ahead and cover it again.

I love these things. It says two things, one in the other.

So today one of my friends brought me to one of his father's neighbors...and they had both a pool and a trampoline.

Kind of like this, but not as beautiful. And with a trampoline.

Yeah. Not too many people had both. Annndddd their pool was all of ELEVEN feet deep! To add even more, their entire backyard was designed awesomely. Even with a full length basketball court (I would have preferred a volleyball court however). What also astounded me was their immaculately kept lawn and all their pets. They had three dogs, three birds, two bunnies, and lots of fish.

Two of their dogs looked like this... except one of the two was really huge.

One of their birds however was not a parakeet. That disappointed me, I'm gonna get one at some point in my life and teach it how to talk, sing, and play the piano. But they had two birds of some African variety, and a white cockatoo that kept trying to bite me! Lucky he never got me ah ha!

Cockatoo, their bite can hurt.

Anyways, to the topic of sin. One of their three dogs, Walter aka Wally, absolutely hates the water. It's believed that before he was rescued by these people that his previous owners had attempted to drown him. So, when I got on the diving board he just went stark-raving yoinks (figure out where I got that vocabulary from haha).

Some people are this abusive to their pets. Hard to believe, but it happens. He's now in a good home though.

Wally is passionately concerned for anyone whom he thinks might get into the water. So he barks like crazy. Anyways, later I was splashing my friend, Alex, and Wally started biting some of the water in the air. So I decided I'd play a game with him. I started splashing up the water toward him and he'd bite it. I did that for around twenty minutes attempting to get him into the water by slowly backing up, making him have to reach out farther.

If they wanted to get Wally in the water, this is what they would have to do. But then he would be barking the whole time.

It was only then that I realized if he fell in he would bite me and his outrageously long fangs would pierce my skin. It was almost too late. He nearly fell in but caught a leg still up and somehow stayed up...it confuzzled me but then at that point I decided I was done playing that game. Might as well stop playing while I'm winning, well really when I'm still fine and not in the hospital for a 'stab wound'.

I feel so sorry for this kid. But the memes they put in front of him are soo funny...

That's how Satan gets you. He slowly lures you in. Just do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and before you know it...your completely immersed in the water.

No worries, there will be no drowning on my watch. I'm a certified lifeguard.

Reason: Find It!

Rephrase my last quote: "It's the worst times that bring out either the worst or best in us."

There's a reason behind everything. You just have to find it.

In Irish it says, "Reasons are behind everything that happens."

Long long ago (possibly right now, as time may not be linear after this life), we signed up for the life we have - and knew the many different pathways that we could take - we wanted to come down here. Every possible decision you could make, was pre-determined. But it's up to us not knowing that knowledge anymore, to choose what to do.

Yes, your dog biting your mailman's butt repeatedly is a decision your dog did not have to make. And you did not have to let him... You also did not have to let your dog run into your neighbors basement every few months but that's a different story. Haha, there was no stopping Clancy... he was huge and loved my basement for some reason :)

Up in the sky/heaven/pre-earth life we thought, "I want these challenges. I can do this." It's possible you even said, "Throw Lucifer himself at me." You may not have... but you never know.

One of the many personas of the Devil...

What we did not understand while up in heaven, was the experience of forgetting. We didn't know what it was like to forget. Everything. And FYI, that 'forgetting' is referred to as a veil... and was a good thing. At least for me :)

Here's a drawing that shows what I'm talking about. If you notice the absence of Hell, it exists, but Hell is different than what is commonly thought.

With all the pre-earth knowledge this life would most likely be a cakewalk. But, I think one of the most important reasons why we are here (aside from get tested) is this: we have the chance to re-invent ourselves. We have the chance to find out who we truly are, and who we want to be.

I believe I have blog posts essentially saying this.

What makes that hard each and every day is Lucifer, who uses God's own creations for nefarious purposes. And many fall victim. They've lost sight of who they truly are. A part of God. A child of God.

It's true. Nothing can really hurt you. Pain is just a reaction.

And that's why I'm leaving for two years, plain and simple. To give people the opportunity to remember that they are one of Heavenly Father's children.

I found a picture that provided a definition for a missionary: "A missionary is a person who leaves their family for a short time so others can be with their families for eternity."

Kids and other things

"It's those of us with the worst that know how to give the best." - From the archives of Ben

Take my quote how you want. But I believe it's true on many levels... of course, on some it's completely opposite, but it gives you something to think about...

I believe this was a commercial for insurance...

Okay, now to talk about kids and other things. Kids are one of the most often talked about subjects, yet are also one of the most neglected. Today, I will most neglect talking about kids but I will talk about them a little bit.

Suzeey, Apricot, Hillbilly, Cynthia (From Rugrats), and Chuckie the doll

My kids will most likely be quite messed up, buuutttttt they'll be super smart at the same time. How? Well, I teach them how the brain works.

Yup, there were two of these movies

I did quite a bit of research to train my own memory, and I'm still not quite at the level I want it to be. Maybe in a few years.

Yesssss

Back to my future kids, I probably have mild forms of OCD, ADD, ADHD... The list may be able to go on on 'diseases' whether made up or not, that I could possibly pass on to my kids.

And, well, I didn't learn left from right till I was nearly ten.. I figure I'll teach my kids left is right and right is left. That'll teach 'em. Haha :)

Left, right, right, left their all the same...

I won't think of any more 'mean' things to do to my future kids... I swear. Well, for today anyway. Oh, next post... okay, an eventual post to be realistic... Additions to my future house in California since I'll be stuck there the rest of my life :) ...it'll be a unique post most likely. I have very grand plans. I've spent hours thinking and finding these ideas haha...

Shake it up!

Shake up the happiness!

Wake it up!

Wake up the happiness!

Come on ya'll,

It's Christmas time...