Thankful

I’m thankful for SO many things: the list is ongoing:

God

Freedom

Justin

Family

Friends

Food, Clothing, Place to live

Intelligence

Job/Career

Every Breath Every Day

…….to be CONTINED

We All Have Our Reasons

Mine’s GREAT!  This is the best thing that has ever happened, and it’s top secret, so enjoy that!  Here are some lyrics to go along and I’ll have to elaborate some time, because this is incredible!  Spare no trouble, enjoy the weekend.  My family is in town, and they get to find out some of the latest and greatest and we will bask in the truth and indestructible joy of the whole ordeal, bad economy or not.  Write Monday, check back then

Well you done, done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks and now I’m tryin’ to get back
Before the cool done run out I’ll be givin’ it my bestest
and nothin’s gonna stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it’s again my turn to win some or learn some

But I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I’m yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you’re free
Look into your heart and you’ll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing
We’re just one big family
And it’s our godforsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved

So I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I’m sure
There’s no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I’m yours

Do you want to come’a,
Scooch on over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear

I’ve been spendin’ way too long checkin’ my tongue in the mirror
And bendin’ over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed
I guess what I be sayin’ is there ain’t no better reason
To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons
It’s what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I’m yours
Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you’re free
Look into your heart and you’ll find that… the sky is yours
Please don’t please don’t please don’t
There’s no need to complicate
‘Cause our time is short
This is, this is, this is our fate
I’m yours…

Since Friday

Oh, the title is a good title for a song I wrote….

 

Anyhow, since Friday, I have done a little bull-riding, won my own little VIP party at PBR for 100 closest friends, won a 10K, set the world on fire (inspiration???), met my perfect match and someone to take on super-awesome achievements with, cooked a meat loaf and ate like kings, run 34 miles, laughed til I cried, watch stocks plummet, frozen and thawed several times (temps plus low resting heart rate), planned a Magnificent Thanksgiving, made more than one somebody smile, put out a few fires, made it to work on time every day, purchased a new 20 gauge for trap shooting and skeet, sang my heart out, maybe fallen really hard….., saved $4.10 at the grocery store, resolved to never say ‘no’ to the opportunity to seize the day ever again, called and wrote Grandparents and Dad, fallen to my knees in complete awe and praise and wonder at how someone so small could ever find any of this and I keep on thinking it can’t get any better, but it does

Promise

Friday night I was driving home down College Boulevard and it had been a gloomy day and a gloomy week, cold, dank and kind of left me in a doldrum of thought.  Well, the rainbow broke the funk.  And it truly set the precedent for the entire weekend.  Unimaginably wonderful.  I have met my match, moreso intellectually than in any other aspect, but every waking moment of this weekend, even perhaps the sleeping moments, has been outlandishly magnificent.  I’m about to head to JCCC to race a 10K and run home then head off to church.  I want what ever this is SO badly I can taste it!

Today, I’ll be running for Amy who passed away with Breast Cancer two weeks ago.

Today I will run for my Mom whom I want a better friendship with.

I will be running my heart out for Stephanie and a fight for Lupus.

I will run for my faith because it is a very meditative act.

I’m running for friends….those I cherish and those I haven’t met yet.

I’m running for women in Heaven and women on Earth. 

I’m running for my heart, for my body, for what is and what will be.

It’s only 6.1 miles, but just enough to set my heart on fire and my feet in motion.  Just enough to continue to dig deeper.

How Do You Know When Something Is So Real?

It scares you

It makes you smile

It gives you goosebumps that have nothing to do with environmental conditions

It is real and you have to smack yourself to make sure it is

It gives you courage, makes you stand a little taller

It affirms your true identity

It is a perfect match

It’s the same over and over again

It causes you to expect things from your life that you’d never otherwise anticipate

It gives you wings and opens all your doors

I wonder if this is one of those things……..

T minus xt

I’m SO going to pray for clear skies….and watch this from Liberty Memorial if at all possible

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

6:55 p.m. 1855 hours !!!!

Considering Science

I found this interesting, since most fungal elements that derive potently manufactured outcomes are responsible for cancerous lesions and genetic mutations that propagate carcinogenic organics responsible for cancer:

http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/science?type=scienceNews&w1=B7ovpm21IaDoL40ZFnNfGe&w2=B80EKKDZW7XjzuNGrifTUKY&src=blogBurst_scienceNews&bbPostId=BERQ6jFcNvRBB7r19q3uPtvrB2gX88Z4TOpdCzDC85p1wDCIb&bbParentWidgetId=B80EKKDZW7XjzuNGrifTUKY

Oy!

Hillary Clinton as head of the state department. I’m not saying anything except Hoy!  Argh.  Hmmm.  Huh?! 

Yeah, it just happened.

Investing As a SWF

I had a meeting with a financial advisor before a most marvelous massage this evening!  I need rest, but had to put this on paper, or e-paper by some means. 

I’m a high-risk investor.  I have lost bookoo bucks this year.  I had 20 percent in foreign investments.  This is still the best year of my life. I’m riding the tide.  What gives?  i’m only 23!  I have years to let it grow.  Saving is easy, spending is fun.  i’m still traveling.  I’m still buying Christmas.  I have decided to further diversify while the buying is good.  Prices are rock-bottom.  Warren Buffet bought 5 billion in four or five companies with staying power so I’ll follow suit, with less capital

Can I borrow to invest?  Can I afford the risk?  I want to remain aggressive.  I have more on this, but I don’t want to give out bad advice, just keep buying the stocks I see as winners.  The highest risk for someone my age also has the highest return.  I guess, what the heck.  Everything else I do is all-out.  I do everything with heart, confidence and faith.  Time to stimulate the economy.  

It can be so SIMPLE!  No pun intended.  I suppose I’ll elaborate when the time is right!

Chi town!

I’m going on a small hunting trip with a good friend the first week in December.  Rogue trip.  Everything is rogue.  Word of the day.  like a Bull Market, a Bear Market….except this is all rogue!

I’m also taking a trip to Chicago the weekend of Dec. 12-14.  I found an 8k to run…the Rudolph Ramble 8k in Chicago.  sounded like a hoot!  I have a 10k this weekend, half marathon the 23rd, 5k Thanksgiving Day and then a week or so off, but back at it hard, then on to Boston Training!  THAT excites me   got to start asking for sponsorships by January 1.

Well, Chi town brings several things.  I’m taking the Amtrak if possible.  Love trains, have never done that.  Totally scenic and rustic.  I’m not sleeping all weekend, taking the El to Chinatown, seeing the Blues Brothers, visiting the metro museum of art, having dinner atop the Sears Tower, skating in Lincoln Park, and I’m going to paruse everything of mystery, maybe do a little secret geocaching!  This will be the weekend of a lifetime!  I have nothing but a train ticket, registration packet and a heartful of desire.  I’m kind of like a streetcar

Only good because it will be with good people