Daydream Believer

When I was little my imagination ran wild. I usually kept a lot of these day dreams and fantasy's to myself. But yesterday I was sitting in our weekly BD meeting and I remembered one of those fantasy's. I will now bear my soul on this blog.

I was in Mrs. Thompson's 2nd grade class. Everything was normal. The teacher was boring us with stupid homework. She was talking but you could hear a pin drop in the room. I thought I heard a noise. But everything went back to normal. Then the ground started to shake, which was weird because we lived in Alabama, the ground never shakes in Alabama.

The ground started to shake harder and faster. Lamps were falling off the teachers desk, shelves started falling, women started screaming. There was a loud BANG! Like a train had just ran through half of our school and it kept going. Water started pouring through the door. Everyone was freaking OUT!

Me and my 3ft 85lbs friends tried to shut the door to save the women and children (yeah we were the children). But the water pressure was too much the room started to fill and bodies started to float to the top. Luckily i was on the swim team.

I swam to the ceiling I pushed them out of the way. I turned around and had to jump back into save the beautiful damsel in distress (and my second grade crush she will remainnameless) I pushed her up into the ceiling tiles with me.

We stayed there soaking wet. Waiting for rescue. She thanked me for saving her life. She leaned in and we kissed, she put her tongue in my mouth and it was so gross! WTF?! This is my day dream why the heck did she just stick her freakin tongue in my mouth?!

That's how it always ended, with her tongue in my mouth. At the time it was so weird! Now that I'm 25 I finally figured out why she put her tongue in mouth.

Mid-Life

I survived my first mid-life crisis. I know I’m only 25 but I only expect to make it to about 50 so it’s mid-life for me. I had an episode.

I realized that this work stuff will never stop. Ever. EVER. IT WILL NEVER STOP. I will have to work everyday for the rest of my life. Whether it be for pleasure or obligation I will always have to get up and go to work. Every single day.

On top of that I am not only supporting myself, but with our new president I will be supporting many (fill in your own adjective here) Americans who voted for Obama so that they don’t have to go through this “work” thing anymore… that’s millions of people.

It was a lot to handle. I had to grab a paper bag and start breathing deeply into it.

Spurrier

Im a huge Spurrier fan. I've been a Gator fan since I was born basically Spurrier's offense is the only way I thought that you could run an offense. He put UF on the map. I hated to see him leave UF. I hated to see him do poorly in the pros. He's a winner. Yet I could not help but chuckle when Danielson commented that "Spurrier now knows what it felt like to be on the other side of the ball getting beat by 50".

I think he's a great guy and doesn't whine when other people think the gators are "running up the score".

Ask me again and I'll tell ya the same

I have been having these conversation with a friend of mine, Megan. The conversations are stemming from theological questions. She asked me,

"So did all of the people who lived before Jesus who sinned go to hell... no forgiveness? like. if someone dies 1 second before Jesus did... hell."

Which is a legit question. A question that i have asked myself. The answer is no they didnt just go to hell because God had yet to send the Holy Spirit. They were under the law and because no one could perfectly satisfy the law's demands, the law brought awareness of human sin and our inadequacies (Romans 3:9-23; 7:7-14 ; Galatians 3:19-25) through animal sacrifice. Whereas once Christ came back he abolished the law so today we now present our bodies as a living sacrifice, Hebrews 10:1-17.

I don't know about most of you but I honestly think I'd be easier to just sacrifice a few cows than to offer my body daily (don't worry it's just a joke, anonymous who takes these post to seriously).

So then I asked her a question that I have yet to find an answer on...

"There is no sin in heaven right? so how did Lucifer ever become jealous of God because jealousy is a sin"

Guess what, she answered it...

I believe the Heaven of the past that Satan was in was one where you had the choice to obey or disobey GOD, similar in how we have a choice on earth. The new heaven mentioned in Revelation, this is where we've "endured to the end" and by GOD's grace for our damage already done (sin) we are now in Heaven (new Heaven) with Jesus forever. The old will then be passed away and the new will be without sin nor sorrow. So after God kicked Lucifer out, he made it impossible to sin in heaven.

Pretty crazy. This is just some of the stuff going through my mind. I enjoy theological debates and things like this so if you have a question I'd like to hear it.

Also I'd like to put this out there. This is a message from Matt Chandler (right-click on the link and select "Save Link As", to download). It singled handily changed the way that I see Christianity. It is the first part of a 6 part series. If you want the rest visit this website and look for The Cross under 2007.

*If you post the question "Can God make a rock too big for him to lift?" I will hunt you down and beat you with the mercy of the Lord.

Christ Like

I cannot stand people that scam other people online. I'm looking for SEC Championship tickets and I come across this deal on craigslist, 12 tickets for $2000, which is perfect that's like $166 each!

So i asked the guy could he do 6 for $1000? He said yes. So we set everything up. I was skeptical the whole time. I tried to call him out on it once saying that his email wasn't on eBay and we setup everything through eBay. Well he was using the user name of a woman on eBay msveggie123, who sells Arabian Night Disney Show Tickets. It's still fishy so emailed msveggie123 directly from eBay and she shot me back an email saying,

Please report him to ebay. He is not the same person as me (MsVeggie123).

I was pissed. I hate these people. I just wanted to waste the guy's time even more though. So I was emailing him and he set up this money order and he wanted me to send it to London.

Then I snapped...

You are a low life fraud. I'm reporting you to eBay and whoever else I can. You can spend the rest of your pointless time trying to setup another email account to scam people, because I will be telling anyone I can about this email address.

It must be very rewarding spending your whole day taking other peoples money. It just shows the low-level of worthless piece of trash that you are.

Yeah. Not exactly the do unto others mentality that we're supposed to have but I just have zero patience for those people. Honestly I think this guy should go to jail. For a long long time. The death penalty would suffice. Unfortunately for me all eBay said was we'll look into it.

Literally think about it. You spend your day looking on eBay for people who have good seller history so that you can use that and try to steal from people who trust them. Because you yourself have zero credibility you have to go so low as to steal someone else's reputation.

Get Money, Get Paid

New post soon to come today. Until then enjoy this from FSU.

“I don’t mind taking no shot,” he said. “As long as I get out there and make my money – that’s what it’s all about. That’s all I’m about right now, this is my senior year, I don’t got no other go arounds …”

Antone Smith doesn't mind taking no shots to improve his game or gettin' his money for his senior year.

SECccc You in Atlanta!

Well the Gators clinched the SEC East! We were there to celebrate with them in Nashville. We got to meet almost the whole team. My little brother was in heaven... heck I was in heaven. I never thought I'd get pumped to see Urban Meyer or talk for a second with our Offensive Coordinator, Dan Mullen or "The Voice of the Gators", Mic Hubert. But it was really a lot of fun. Kory talked with Jeff Demps for a little bit while Katlin was shaking Urban Meyer's hand. Julianna was just going up to everyone asking me who all the famous ones were so she could get her picture with them, then she'd say "roll tide". It was a great night!

Also I found this information about next years SEC TV Schedule.

Anonymous

Ok so that has been a recent increase in visitors to the blog and people commenting on the blog. I just want to go over how we view comments here.

Comments are my paycheck. I really like reading your comments. There are some really hilarious people out there. There are some people that are really passionate about their football and universities. There are people who are just deliberately trying to be jerks, but you never see those because i delete them.

Anyways, I like 'em all good and bad. It just makes it a lot easy to read the comments for myself and others if you post a name... sign a name... make up a name. it doesnt really matter. Take for instance one of the comments that I thought was hilarious, someone recommend that I dress up as Joe the Plumber for Halloween and signed their name as Obama. That is funny and you can read in the link. I'll never find out who the person is, but it makes reading the comments a lot easier.

Here is another example, This person commented as Anon Y. Mous. Probably the most clever name that I have seen seriously I thought it was good. They did this because we used to adopt a no-tolerance policy for anonymous comments.

But I have since allowed anonymous comments because... well because I'll take whatever I can get.

Thank you

He's Back in Black

This is for Mr. Ghosal. I told you Rex would be back to take the Bears to the promiseland once more!I found this on The Onion and I believe this is exactly the kind of statement Rex needs to make.

Lyrically Challenged

Sometimes the snow comes down in June
Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon
I see the passion in your eyes
Sometimes it's all a big surprise

I think this song says it all... question is what is this song? and when does the sun go around the moon?

Change

Well now that Obama is our new President I will submit to the authority (like i have a choice). No, seriously I hope he does really well. I hope he brings change. I hope that he doesn't execute his tax plan, I just don't think it's fair.

I'm really hoping that this Presidency is like the SGA elections we had in high school. You know where the popular guy promises that all drink machines will be 25 cents! School will get out at 2:30! And he will do away with all homework!! YEAH CHANGE!

I'm hoping that it's all just election talk and we don't pull our of Iraq and our taxes aren't given to those who won't work themselves.

I pray that Obama is an amazing leader, that he will bring change, make this nation stronger and that God guides the hand of our President.

Joaquin Phoenix OUT

Johnny Cash is done. He is no longer doing movies. Check out this interview, I don't usually get caught up in this celebrity whoha, but this is funny. I kind of liked the guy. He was a good actor.

Trick or Treat

For Halloween I dressed up as Michael "Nelson" Forsythe. I wasn't new school Nelson. I was old school bag boy Nelson. As expected the ladies wouldnt get off me. Here is a picture of my elaborate costume, you can barely recognize me.
People that know Nelson thought it was hilarious, other people thought I just got off work and came to the party.

One lady stopped me at the gas station and said, "Do you work at the Publix on Airport Rd.?" I responded, "Uh no ma'am actually I'm dressing up as one of my friend's who works there".
She continued her story like she didn't even hear me, "I was at that Publix getting my husband prescriptions because he is very sick we buy more than $900 worth of medicine. There was a boy in front of me trying to buy Sudafed."
Me, "Ohh ok".
The old lady continued, "They asked the boy, who was obviously sick, what his address was. The young man gave a New Hope address you Publix people WOULDN'T sell Sudafed to the New Hope AREA!!"
(needless to say it's getting reeeally awkward).
"They said that there are too many druggies in NEWHOPE! I just walked out of the store. I took great offense to that because ya know what?" (awkward pause) I respond,
"Um you're from New H.." "THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT! I'M FROM NEW HOPE!"

at this point I wanted to kill Nelson for ever working at place like Publix.

I ripped off my manly apron, threw it on the ground and shouted "Screw this PLACE I QUIT!". Just kidding I just said something like, "well that sucks... Next time you go to Publix ask for Nelson he will sell you all the Sudafed you WANT!".

Happy Halloween Mark

LSUFreek from Everyday Should Be Saturday puts some of the best clips the SEC has ever seen. Here's his latest take on the cocktail party...

Taking Care of Business

What a massacre. I thought they'd win by 2 touchdowns but i never envisioned our defense holding the second best offense in the SEC to 10 points, with knowshon and stafford never even getting in the endzone. what a great game. I've watched the replay a few times, it was a grade first class beat down.

Looks like Tebow was right, a lot of good has come from the ole miss loss... we've only out scored opponents 201-43 since then. we lead the SEC in scoring offense, scoring defense, lead the nation in turnover margin... our redzone offense is at 97% (the only time we didnt score was when we took a knee in the redzone at UT).

It'll be great to be at Vandy this week and watch my gators clinch the SEC east!

Looks like knowshon was a noshow... our back up out rushed him 7 carries for 71 to his pathetic 17 for 65. Meet brandon spikes...
The best part about this whole video is aj and ahmad desperately trying to pull spikes off knowshon. Spikes looks like he's about to murder knowshon right there on the field.

Dear Barack

Happy Halloween

Yes it's Satan's day everybody GIVE-IT-UP!!! sickos. I personally am indifferent about halloween. It's just another day. The good thing is that people will go crazy today and bring awesome food to work and not much will get done.

People go nuts. They decorate their house, which is fine I've seen some awesome decorations. But grown men and women will dress up as a scarecrow or better yet a dead zombie or something. Sit out in front of their lawns and when 10 and 11 year old kids come walking up to trick or treat they will jump out and scare the piss out of the little kids. Just seems crazy to me.

Enjoy a funny halloween scare from Bob Sagat...

Scared

Look at the fear all over their faces. The trembling in their petty voices.

Oh Snap!

For those of you that have yet to see this video...


This should lighten the mood for you.

i'm pretty sure this guy has been commenting as anonymous.

Halloween

What to dress up as for halloween? That had been the question on my mind. Lacey is having this big blow out Halloween Party and I am personally inviting all of you to the party.

When I was a kid we never really dressed up. The coolest costume I had was a "Hobo" and it was basically me in my dads clothes (not that he was a hobo). Here are my top 5 ideas for Halloween.

Urban MeyerNick NolteDenzelRodman

1990's Steve Spurrier

I just think that the 1990's Spurrier would be too controversial. I really have no clue what I'm going as. I may just put a suit on and call my self james bond.

Maintenance

Some of you have been unable to reach the blog, which is fine bc I've been pretty busy with my full time job. We are under going some maintenance in order to better serve you. We will be back up shortly.

The World's Largets Outdoor Cocktail Party

I do not believe that I will be in attendance. It is tough being a Gator Fan and living in Alabama. I have like one or 2 friends/family members that I can count on for a football game and if they are out them I'm out. But it'll be fine. I'll be at UF Vandy the next week and then go see them play in the SEC Championship.

I'm pretty confident the Gators will pull it out. The fact is that we own UGA. Since 1990 the dawgs have only won 3 games, we are 15-3 in the last 18 games. Richt definitely put this game back on the radar with his little celebration stun last year and the dawgs went on to win 42-30 and Urban had this to say in his new biography Urban's Way,

That wasn't right. It was a bad deal. And it will forever be in the mind of Urban Meyer and in the mind of our football team. So we'll handle it. And it's going to be a big deal.

The line is Georgia +5.5, last time I checked (which means UGA is expected to lose by 5 or 6 points). I believe Gators come in with a chip on their shoulder. Neither coach is commenting about the classy dance in the endzone last year. But If you notice it is right smack in the middle of Geogia's name on our rival board.

The fact is we are out scoring them, our defense is allowing only 11.9 pts a game to their 20 and one big thing to knowtice is that we are OUT RUSHING THEM by over 20 yrds a game.

Georgia's ability to win this game will be on the arm of Stafford. I know that is vague, but I think our defense is quick enough that we can stop knowshon. I am worried about how good Stafford is. The teams that have been giving us problems are the teams that can throw on our secondary, not the teams that can rush.

Throw all this out the window though... it's basically the Eastern Championship. I'm confident, but then again I was pretty confident about Ole Miss.

Fall Retreat 2008

Well we just got back from Fall Retreat 2008! Chip Woosley is our student minister and he has done more than a great job with these kids. We took over 20 kids and had some great preaching from Scott Grissom and worship from one of the south's best Michael John.

We went to Barefoot Republic, Kentucky. It was out in the boonies. I'm serious we just kept driving and driving. Now don't get me wrong the place is really nice, for cabin standards. But to me it looked like a place where you could film a good scary movie. It's hard to believe there are still places in America that don't have cell phone coverage, Barefoot Republic is one of those places.

I had talked with a gentleman last week who was a good bit older than me and he was talking about how sore he was and yada yada. I assumed it was because he was so old, I run 12-15 miles a week this will be nothing, I thought... I could not have been more wrong.

I am so sore right now. We played flag football (going up hill), moved chairs, walked up and down hills mountains, built a bon fire with a tree we tore down, stayed up late and woke up early.

It was all worth it though. I got to meet some really cool kids and hang out with some great spiritual leaders.

Cycling

I think that the analogy, "It's just like riding a bike". Can be applied to everything. Not matter what you are talking about.

I cleverly used the analogy in one of our meetings, in order to really drive home the point. I think that it really summed up what I was trying to say.

Now, that I think about it I wouldn't use this phrase at a handicap convention.