An Angel Opens Her Eyes....

So earlier today I had a small conversation with a friend of mine via text.  Brittany tells me, "So I experienced my first electrical shock today while plugging in my computer.  It's a very monumental moment in my life so I thought I'd share."  I said that getting shocked is crazy fun, but she didn't agree.  Shame on her. 

That got me to thinking though.  Growing up I remember going to the penny arcade and going to the "Electricity is Life" shock machine.  You'd hold on to these two metal rods as the machine would send electricity through you.  I thought it was great fun.  The last time that I recall doing this was during Grad Night 2001.  Tim and I were walking back to the bus around 6 am and we were dead tired.  I told him about the machine and we decided to go give it a whirl.  I don't know if that was a good idea because we were pretty juiced and wide awake on the ride home, or at least for a good part of it.  Everyone else was a sleep.  Six Flags Magic Mountain also used to have a type of shock game.  It had something to do with Uncle Fester, but they got rid of it.  From what I've heard, Disneyland also modified their machine so it doesn't really shock you anymore, but I'm not sure about that.  Sad day if it is true. 

Also, some random memories about stringing up the old christmas lights and getting shocked entered my mind. I was just 10 or so when I first got shocked while getting the lights ready to put up.   How could you not enjoy times and experiences like those?  Oh those were the days...

One Flight Down...

Here is the costume clue for the week...

What if everything you had was like a castle made of sand?

Well today just feels like a day in which something needs to be written.  However, I don't feel like I have much much to write about as of right now.  Life is going good and I'm staying busy.  That's the usual story of my life, and I'm fine with that.
Yesterday I spent a good hour or so in JoAnn's, a fabric and crafts store.  This isn't typical behavior for a single male who happens to be straight.  Well maybe if I was going with a girl or something, but don't worry, I didn't.  Most people wouldn't second guess the fact that I wasn't there with someone else, but it's the truth.  It's just kind of funny when you go up to the register, or the person who is going to cut some fabric for you, and you feel you have to explain yourself.  Luckily for me, I do that all the time whether I'm in the right or wrong, it's just something that I've always done.
News: I haven't shaved my goatee in 3 weeks now, and I just got a hair cut.  Boy howdy doesn't my life sound exciting?!  I've also had the chance to say goodbye to two friends of mine who are both leaving on their missions, one in the Winter Quarters mission and the other in Boise Idaho mission.  Good for Kaylee and Katie.  I'm sure they will be good missionaries.  Anywho, exciting times for them.

Times like These and Times like Those...

Well it's about that time of year again.  Last year I planned ahead for Halloween and went as the Joker.  A lot of work and wasted time went into it, not only by myself, well the wasted time yes, but my mom and sister contributed on the work part, to which I was grateful.  Nothing like wasted time and money all in the name of fun and entertainment.

That being said, Halloween is just around the corner.  That means that I do something either worthwhile or nothing at all.  Yet again I've taken the wasting my time and money route and decided to do something worthwhile, at least as far as wasting time and money can seem to be so.  Hopefully when I'm done, the end project comes out looking something like this

More to come...

up, down, up, down, up, down, up down...

As Justen Furstenfeld said,

"There'll be a bump and there will be a bruise
There'll be alarms and there will be a snooze
There'll be a path that you will have to choose
There'll be a win and there will be a lose and

You gotta hold your head up high and
Watch all the negative go by
Don't ever be ashamed to cry
You go ahead
Cause life's like a jump rope"

      Sometimes, and for me personally as of late, life can take a different direction than the path that you thought it was going down.  Sometimes this just plain sucks, but hey what do you do.   In life we do have many ups and downs, times when we are doing well and other times when we aren't doing so hot.  I just hope that my ups are longer than my downs.  One thing about the downs, the rope isn't just going down, but that's when we get tripped up.  It might take a while, but you need to get up and dust yourself off and keep jumping, or the rope will just keep whacking you while you're down.

so what else is new?

Well call it a lake of being entertained, not on my part, but everyone else. I guess you could say that's why i'm starting to blog. Maybe i've heard that there are some funny blogs that I can't see unless I have a blog. It might just be that i'm not cool enough unless I have a blog. That or, well... yeah, i'm just bored so I thought, hey, why not?! Then everyone would know how bored I am. Whatever the reason, i'm here. That's about all i've got right now.