Gone for two years

Its really depressing when you realize that your friends are gone for two years.  Guys I have seen everyday in high school, jr high, and elementary school are now gone around the country and the world serving the Lord.  A lot can happen in two years.  I am proud of them for going.  But also it makes you realize how old you are getting and how old you will be when they get back. 

Life goes up and down, its always changing. It is your mood that changes the direction. Don't let others decide or mood.

GUYS ARE RUDE, SELFISH, PIG-HEADED IDIOTS! Well some guys are. I am grateful for the guys who are kind and smart gentlemen.

Grey's Anatomy

"Suprise parties are hostle.  They're dark, people jump out and scream at you.  They never come to any good."

"Caught between Babel and Disneyland"

This is from a book I read called Jihad vs McWorld. I thought it was interesting and makes a lot of sense.
   "The first senerio rooted in race holds out the frim prospect of a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened balanization of nation-states in which cultue is petted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe, a Jihadin the name if a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every kind of interdependence, every kind of atifical social cooperation and mutality: against technology, agianst pop culture, and against intergrated markets; against modernit itself as well as the future in which midernity issues.  The second paints that future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing econimic, technological, and ecological forces that demand intergration and uniformity and fast food-MTV, Macintosh, and McDolnald's-pressing nations into one homogenous global theme park, one McWorld tied together by communications, information, entertainment, and commerce.  Caught between Babel and Disneyland, the planet is falling precipitously apart and coming reluctantly together at the very same moment.
    Some stunned observers noticed only Babel, complaining about the thousands newly sundered "peoples" who preferto address their neighbors with sniper rifles and mortars; others-zealots in Disneyland-seize on futurological platitudes and the promis of virtuality, exclaiming "It's a mall world after all!"  Both are right, but how can that be?"

My biggest pet peeve is when an author ends a book with a cliff hanger as an ending. What the heck happens next? I mean come on!

I've decided that the guy i am going to marry needs to be able to play the piano and sing. Yep :-)

Growing up

People say that guys grow up with age. That they mature when they get into college or after their mission. That is so not true. They act the same as they did in junior high only they can drive, date, and are more intelligent (or they think they are more intelligent). They still say and do stupid things.

Now there are some who are the exception.

Also girls are immature too ao i'm not just dissing guys.  Its pretty annoying when you are surrounded by immature guys and girls.

The Notebook quotes

young Allie-"Say i'm a bird! Say it!"  young Noah-"Your a bird."  young Allie-"Now say your a bird"  Young Noah-"If your a bird, i'm a bird"

Young Noah-"I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping."  Young Allie-"OK, OK. Fine I'll go out with you."  Young Noah-"No, don't do me any favors."  Young Allie-"No, no I want to."  Young Noah-"Say it."  Young Allie-"I wanna go out with you."  Young Noah-"Say it again."  Young Allie-"I WANNA GO OUT WITH YOU!"  Young Noah-"All right, all right we'll go out."

[lying in the middle of the street] Young Allie-"What happens if a car comes?"  Young Noah-"We die."

Young Noah-"Get in the water."  Young Allie-"No! I'm scared."  Young Noah-"Get in the water, woman! Get in the water!"  Young Allie-[looks at him, puzzled]  Young Noah-[calmly] "No I'm sorry baby, please just get in." Young Allie-[hesitates]  Young Noah-[once his friends start yelling again] "GET IN THE WATER!"

Young Noah-"So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out."  Young Allie-"What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt."  Young Noah-"Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT?"  Young Allie-"It's not that simple."  Young Noah-"What... do... you... want? Whaddaya want?"  Young Allie-"I have to go now."

To try or not to try

Have you ever wanted to try something that was dangerous but exciting such as skydiving?  I really want to!  But at the same time I want to try other things that are just as exciting as going to other countries to teach english or explore.  There is so much I want to do with my life and yet I know that I won't be able to but I will try to do as many as I can.