Well

Here we are again, now in the month of June, and the last time I updated my blog was the beginning of May.

I just got some rather bad news from my mom today. She says the house was broken in to while she was gone. I don't know if anything was stolen. I have a few expensive things that I would be sad to lose. My dad has gone home and the police were called while I'm still here at work with no idea of what's going on.

As of now, it does not seem that my checkbook has been taken. I just checked my 'Withdrawals' using my bank's app and nothing seems out of the ordinary .. yet. It's possible that the person who broke in didn't get far before leaving. I guess I'll find out later today whether anything was stolen.

Update: I just found out that the person who broke in was only looking for jewelry. So, I am very thankful for the fact that my electronics and checkbook were not stolen. They are rather important to me.

Granted, I did have SOME jewelry that was stolen and, from what my mom told me, it was pretty expensive. My mom had jewelry taken, too. :(

Happy Friday Night!

 

To be honest, I don’t have much to say tonight.

Um .. I haven’t exercised for a couple of days now due to Mother Nature showing up early yesterday morning.

Also, I thought I was going to have to work this weekend, but now I’m so glad to find out that I don’t have to after all.  

So, I guess that’s it for now. I’ll try to post on here more regularly, but I can’t promise anything.

The Latest About Me

#NowPlaying Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons – “Across The Great Divide”

So, here’s the latest info.

I did some more career searching today at almost the end of my work day while I wasn’t needed for anything else. I found this article telling people to NOT be research scientists because it’s probably not going to be what you think. (I’m paraphrasing here.) The author complained that the officials are putting out too many Ph.Ds. that the supply is too high for the demand. So, that means most Ph.D grads are doing something else for their careers. The only reason that the author said that he was a scientist was because he became one in the ‘70s, when they were still in high demand and shorter supply, I guess.

So, I’m thinking about other areas of science, too. Like the study of sleep – Polysomnography. It might mean my job is at night, but at least, if I look into it more, it could be something that I might be excited about. I do have (and have had) interest in the phases of sleep and things like that. 

More Random Thoughts

Now Playing: Metallica - The God That Failed

Well, this evening, after work and dinner, I helped my mom with continuing to make her Ancestry book.

On another note, my cellphone’s USB cable now seems to only charge when it’s turned off. Unless, the reboot I did fixed that. Then, I won’t be in such a rush to get a new phone. It may just be me, but I like to be able to charge my phone overnight, while it’s turned on so that my alarm can wake me up.

Oooh! Speaking of which, I can use the latest Hanson single as my alarm/ringtone!! I’ll have to try to remember to do that at some point tomorrow or this weekend! (Watch me forget in about 5 minutes.)

Hanson’s latest single!!

So, let’s see. What else can I add?

Um .. I just heard that Justin Bieber has gotten into drug use now. I’d kind of like to say ‘poor kid’, but from what I hear, he’s an ass to most of the non-famous. I simply don’t understand why his fans appear to be in love with him. I don’t bash him or anything. I see no point in doing so. I don’t like him, but hey. Who am I to tell people they can’t like him? That’d be .. an almost fundamentalist thing of me to do!

Does anyone consider me a ‘fundamentalist atheist’ or whatever? Fuck it. Just go ahead and say it, if you think so.

So anyway, I guess that’s it for now.

(What Could Have Been) A Saturday Date Night

So, I almost went on a date tonight, but the guy that I've just started talking to on OKCupid waited too late to respond to my texts. He asked me out to go bowling with him. I asked him if Midtown Bowl was okay. He said he didn't know where it was and I told him to Google it. He never got back to me until I finally said that something had 'come up' and 'maybe we could try again tomorrow'. Of course, he immediately responded to THAT text saying "Damn, that's a shame."

WTFis wrong with this guy? I gave him plenty of time to respond to me! Yet, I still feel bad for being the one to back out of the date? I know I shouldn't feel bad at all since he was the one to approach me about the date, but seriously, I feel like I could have .. tried harder when we first started talking. 

Actually, now that I think about it, I could be thinking of the other guy I just started talking to as well on the same day. He still hasn't responded to my first reply to his message to me. I don't know.

What I need to do is get started on this application for a volunteer opportunity as well as looking for classes or a new job. It's not like my boss isn't super strict to not let me do that during the day at work when I've got nothing else to do. Or I could just do it any weeknight, but instead I'm posting onto my blog, tweeting, looking at youtube videos, or just writing more of my fanfiction stories. 

I need to just buckle down and get it done. What's stupid is that I am rarely ever busy on weeknights or weekends, so it's not like I don't have time or can't make time to do it. I'm just a procrastinator and I get distracted quite easily from tasks that I know I should do. I keep telling myself that every day that I procrastinate is one less day I have to get to my potential life-long career, if I will ever have one. Yet, I haven't managed to do jack squat about it!

I can't seem to decide on what my future career will be!! Ugh! It's like I'm stuck in the mode between high school and college - without a direction and a lack of ambition. Yep. Fear of the unknown. That's probably what it's boiled down to.

I could lose 15 pounds in bodyweight. This shouldn't be too different. I just have to figure out what my big goal is and set little goals to get to that big goal. Then, work on achieving said goals! The big goal is the hardest part for me to set, though. I know I want to change careers at least somewhat since I don't want to be a lawyer or do anything in the field of law. Others have suggested things that they say I'm good at. 

I'm partially scared that, if I do go back to school, that I won't push myself hard enough to do well. Maybe, since I'll be using my own money and no more inheritance or scholarships from high school, I'll be able to force myself to just do it. Maybe. Hopefully. 

I know, once I get old, I'm going to look back and regret being such a procrastinator and so fearful of change. I'm going to regret how long it took me to finally do what I know I should have done once I graduated from college back in December of 2007. (It took me an extra semester to graduate than most of my class.)

Anyways, if anybody's read this far, I applaud you. It seems like a hell of a lot of nothing to me and I fucking wrote it. Hmm .. I wonder ...

Oh, later all.

Another Friday Night Posting

So, here I am on my laptop in my room and listening to music on my iPod as I do some multi-tasking. Right now, my iPod is on a very old Hanson song. I mean really old - probably around 1995 or 1996 at the latest. This was from before they hit it big in 1997.

Anyways, so as I think I've said in a past blog, I'm an atheist. But, that does not mean that I've changed how I act in any way. I don't think I've really changed that much. I admit, I was more vocal on my FB page with sharing pics that I didn't need to be sharing - criticizing religion and all. I've since stopped that. Less .. family members .. see my Twitter posts (I think), so I still do sometimes retweet things on there that criticize religion. I also follow several atheists/agnostics on Twitter and Facebook - like Ricky Gervais, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Seth MacFarlane to name a few.

Well, it just never seems to be the right time to do a video blog. I still don't know if I'll ever do one. I'd probably feel stupid or something - like I'm talking to myself. I suppose I should try it once. I just feel like I'm already so scatterbrained that I don't know if I'd make any sense. Not sure I'd be that great at eye-contact either. I don't know. I'll keep thinking about it and try and get the courage to do it once. Ha ha!

Hmm .. well, I guess that's it for now. Have a great night, all!

One Quick Post

So, this is my first blog post from Windows Live Writer which includes some new plug-ins. One that generates tags from stuff I post. The other (for now) is a “Now Playing” plug-in that gets the current song from my iTunes! So, I think that’s pretty cool since I don’t have last.fm or whatever it’s called.

Um .. I guess that’s all as this particular song is winding down. I know it’s short, but so is the song and I’m not sure what’ll happen.

Huey Lewis & The News - Huey Lewis & The News: Greatest Hits - The Power of Love

Religion and Science

Weird! On my way back from the bank today, I saw a flyer someone had taped to a post about religion and science. I wished I had my cellphone with me to get a picture of it so I could show you what it said. I didn't even get a chance to read the whole thing. I may even drive back to the place tomorrow just to take the picture.

Some of you know what my stance is on the two. If you don't, here's my take. Science is reality; religion is ancient people making stuff up to try to explain reality.

It makes sense to me that ancient people came up with a God concept when they could not explain weather and other natural events. Each natural thing was a separate God for some - like the ancient Greeks, who believed in Zeus, Athena, Apollo, etc. It also makes sense that this idea of a God or Gods 'evolved' as people could investigate and dig for the truth of things they did not understand. What religion used to (and still does) attempt to explain, science has been discovering the truth about. 

Science has certainly been wrong about things, but it doesn't claim to have absolute truth the way religions do. Science is always being questioned! (Something you're not allowed to do in almost all - if not all - religions.) There are always scientists looking to disprove what we think we know. But, it's always updating itself - in just the same way we update our technology all the time! Would you really want unchanging ideas about what actually is reality? To me, that seems like one would want to live with the cave-men. 

Friday the 22nd

Well, got my dentist appointment out of the way at 8am this morning. My last early morning for another couple of days! I am gonna try to sleep until like .. 10 tomorrow since I've been waking up earlier than usual all week. Not that it's such a big deal, but my main .. challenges were to do with the dogs rather than anything else. I know I've mentioned some before.

So, I kind of felt like writing/typing something - just wasn't sure of what. I'm still not sure on what I want to say. I guess what I will just do tonight is put up random thoughts in no particular order.

Right now, I'm listening to "Freedom" by George Michael. I already bought this song from my own iTunes account as part of a larger birthday gift for my dad.

I'm also looking at some photos online from random places and trying to come up with something else to add to any of my stories. Lately, I've just been re-reading some of my more recent stuff that I've edited or added.

Oh, I've noticed that basically since I've de-converted from Christianity - I find that I no longer believe that ghosts are real and other super religious songs/books/etc. I bought are not really fun to have anymore. I suppose they weren't a waste of money, though, because - at the time I bought them - I really enjoyed them. The TobyMac songs, Mandisa songs, Jamie Grace songs, etc. Most of them .. don't really apply to me anymore. The "Good Morning" song by Mandisa could still be useful, though. From what I recall, God is not a major .. topic in that song.

Now, about the ghosts thing, before I became a non-believer, I had bought two seasons of Psychic Kids from iTunes. I did enjoy them back then, so I guess there's that. It could be like getting something when you're young and then when you're older .. it no longer applies to you, so you want to get rid of it.

I don't know. Maybe that's just me. Whatever. Well, I think that'll be all for now.

Done!

Phew! I'm done with housesitting the two dogs I talked about in my last post. I got paid for all 8 days I stayed there, too. :) I've decided that I'm never doing that again. EVER. Those dogs are strange to me! One of them, I don't think likes me very much. The other one, I think he likes me a lot more than I like him. Sigh!! The problem is, he's just soo annoying! He's restless a lot! He whines a lot, too! Sheesh!

So, I just upgraded my YouTube channel page to the newest format. (Well, whatever they call it anyway.) They have the option of putting up a "Channel Trailer" and I suppose that I could try to make one. But, I have such a large variety of things that I occasionally upload that I think it would be just a bunch of random clips of different videos I have - unless I created a video blog or something just describing the videos I've already posted. Meh, I don't think I'll be doing that. Ha!

Hmm .. what else do I want to say? Um .. I've got a dentist appointment tomorrow morning at 8am, which won't be fun. But, at least I'll get it out of the way for the next 6 months.

My First Post From My Galaxy Note 10.1

This is my first blogger post that was created from my tablet. I am kind of bored right now as I sit around housesitting for my neighbor with 2 big dogs. This picture is one of the dogs. What he doesn't know is that I am going to have to leave again for a babysitting job in a couple of hours. Luckily, this babysitting job is for another neighbor who lives next door. I have to stay overnight here. This may be the only time I do this for this neighbor.

Anyway, now I am using my neighbor's wifi to post this and listening to my ipod via their ipod/iphone speaker. It's rather nice. :) Still, I would rather be at home right now - playing my Sims 3: Pets game. Haha! I guess that it will have to wait until tomorrow. These particular neighbors are gone for a few more days still.

Umm .. I guess that's it for now. I will try to update this more often. (Ha! Yeah, right. Oh well.)

Wow! Definitely Need An Update Here!

So, not too much has happened since my last post. I still love writing when I get the chance. I am, sadly, STILL looking for new job opportunities. I am now 28 and still a pretty big Hanson fan. I did actually go to their Orlando shows this past year, but not every show.

I still have all the same hobbies and my dog as well. She [my dog] is less afraid of new people/animals now than she was back in my last post.

My biggest change over the past several months, though, has been my de-conversion from Christianity to non-belief. I've stayed the same person on the inside - except for the fact that I'm more skeptical about what people claim to be true. I no longer, almost instantly, believe something to be true when there is little to no solid evidence for it. Whether it be religion, food, fitness, or anything else someone might make a claim about. I want to see some good, solid evidence for the truth of whatever the claim is.

I think the main reason for my de-conversion is a much stronger desire to learn more about the Universe and our planet. With more ideas floating around in my head from non-believers, like George Carlin, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Richard Dawkins, it was a rather slow process that went back and forth in my head for at least several months before it finally happened. And when it did, I felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders! Granted, I never believed in Hell or anything like that, but I still felt that way because I no longer believed that there was a higher power who took someone from us because he wanted that person with him from then on. That does, of course, mean I believe that we won't see our deceased loved ones ever again, except in dreams, memories, pictures, and videos.

I don't believe in Heaven or Hell. No afterlife at all. I believe that this is the only life we have. And it's beautiful, amazing, and inspiring.

Anyway, I should be in bed by now, so I'll just stop here for today.