Bowling for Sleep

It's weird how sometimes even the blessings we receive come at a cost. For example, a lady that used to go to my church called me up earlier this week and asked if I would be willing to do some landscaping for her. Seeing as how I could use a little extra cash, I told her I'd be happy to. It would take two nights after work to complete the landscaping. The only nights I have available are last night and tonight. However, tonight(Thursday) is the night that I usually have set aside to hang out with some friends; this particular night, we're going bowling. So, I know I have to get the landscaping done, but I don't want to skip out on my friends either...so I decide to test my limits. After finally falling asleep at 2am last night, I wake up at 5:30am to be to work at 6 so I can leave two hours early at 3pm and finish up the landscaping. Well, it's 11:15am and the entire pot of coffee that I've ingested is still going strong. And by going strong, I mean hand tremors, occasional dizziness, and frequent zoning out. But hey, it's better than falling asleep at work. The extra money will be nice as long as I don't fall asleep mid-throw tonight and end up using my head as the bowling ball. Thank God I have the weekend off.

Bittersweet aging

Saturday night, while watching my brother and roommate play video games, I started to look up some bass guitar solos on youtube. This reminded me of one in an old live White Heart video that my brother and I used to watch religiously as kids. We would get out our Tinker Toys and make guitars and drum sets out of them and rock out while watching the video. It made me think in reverse for a bit. When we're little kids, we can't wait to grow up and do "grown-up" things. But once we get here, it's not so amazing. We have jobs, commitments, and more responsibilities than we ever expected as an eight year old kid. And to think that I used to complain about having to wash the dishes or fold the laundry...at least that didn't involve hundreds of dollars in bills and expenses every week. But I think we make life too complicated sometimes...well, most of the time. I know there are big issues such as job loss and family issues that will obviously cause stress; but when it comes to the little things we deal with every day...why are they made into such big ordeals? Who cares if that co-worker didn't say 'good morning' to you?...or that you didn't get asked out to lunch?...or that someone made a small mistake that you had to fix?...Just deal with it and move on. We're not really as important to revolution of the world as we make ourselves think. To think that everyone around us has it on their agendas to make our lives as easy as possible is just ludicrous; and the more we make ourselves believe that, the more we're going to be stressed out and disappointed. The only one we should be putting our effort into pleasing is God. Seeing as how he's the one that gives us everything we have in the first place, shouldn't he be the one who gets all the credit and attention? So just chill out, tell your pride to hit the road, and quit caring what everyone thinks of you. Because, in the end, what they think isn't worth squat.

If you want a little light entertainment, watch this video and imagine an eight and a ten year old sitting in front of the tv with sunglasses on and a Tinker Toy stage set out on the living room floor...tell me that doesn't make you laugh.

Sick At Home

It's such a weird feeling sitting at home by myself when I would normally be at work, in my office, counting down the hours and minutes until the day is over. If it weren't for the plethora of distractions, working at home in an easy chair is actually much nicer. But I know I'd never get an efficient amount of work done. It is nice to be able to look out a window tho.