What are the odds of it snowing on Christmas Day in Alabama, less than 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico? Muahahahahahahahahahahaha! . . . . . . Muahahahahahahahahaha! . . . . . . . . Muhahahahahahahahahaha!

It’s Christmas.
Current Reading: Relevant Church
Current Listening: Coldplay, They Might Be Giants, Walter Brueggemann lectures, N.T. Wright lectures, and Jimmy Eat World
Current Viewing: Spanglish, Simon Birch, & Napoleon Dynamite

So my first full day home for Christmas looked a little like this.
I sat in my brother’s car for 3 hours reading and listening to Green Day and Jimmy Eat World while he cut the grass in 2 yards. We then drove around for a while and ended up at an old man with a [...]

I begin this post much like many others that have gone before it. With no agenda and nothing important to tell or describe or relay. No story. Just writing. And hopefully my apparent lack of a story substance will truly translate into something worth telling.
Once upon a time, there was a boy. Pain consumed him [...]

So I had 5 Zaxby’s chicken tenders for breakfast with a side of wimpy sauce and a Coca-Cola Classic and they were good. The only problem I have is with the title of the wimpy sauce. Now granted I am somewhat of a wimp. I’m scared of deep water, occassionaly use a night light, and [...]

More notes/ideas from my little idea notebook . . .
- A girl who is always hot for whatever reason
- a 49 year old woman, with 3 kids and 1 husband who has to ask her mom’s permission to get her hair cut a certain way
- uncomfortable chairs at restaraunts
- professional christmas tree lighters, people who [...]

One Step Closer
U2
I’m ’round the corner from anything that’s real
I’m across the road from hope
I’m under a bridge in a rip tide
That’s taken everything I call my own
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
I’m on an island at a busy intersection
I can’t go forward, I can’t turn back
Can’t see the future
It’s getting away [...]

Now its time for my “Best Songs/Albums I Heard For The First Time This Year Even Though May Be 2-20 Years Old, However I Had Not Heard Them Until 2004″ list. Followed by a look at the things that have stuck with me all year and continue to resonate and stir me even now as [...]

And the sage continues . . . move home and live with my parents and pay off debt and then have no prospects once I pay off debt or stay here and have little to no money to pay off debt and work for the man. What do I do? What do I do? What [...]

tiles, paint, broom ball, grinch music, a christmas mix w/ the ramones and hanson back to back (you ask how, i say because), bad shampoos, emeril’s - the nicest restaraunt ever, pompano is good, musical twinkling bells on trees suck, smashing pumpkins are now #2 behind weezer as the best band ever, and #1 on [...]