Sometimes Blogging Hurts.

The title of this blog might *sound* like a joke, but sometimes it’s the bitter truth. Given the way most things in my life have been going lately, blogging has become a back burner thing, and we all know that the things lurking on the back burner tend to get cold. Likewise, my blog has stopped cold in it’s tracks over the past month or so and I have been left with that terrible lazy feeling that you only get when God is reminding you to do something… and you don’t do it. So without further to do!

News: Now, what exciting things have happened between the time I last blogged, and now? You’ve got to be kidding me. I don’t have much time tonight, so I will just hit an a couple things really fast. One awesome thing that has happened is that we got to go up and help Gathering Point church with preparing for their grand opening! Of course, this is old news, but it was a great opportunity, and it helped me to gain a new appreciation for the people who stand on the medians in the streets and have people look at them funny… Lol.
I am also excited about the upcoming missions trip, I do wish we where going somewhere far away. Out of state atleast. Hey, it’s my first missions trip ever, and all of the prior FeatherSound trips I have heard about where all exciting away from home adventures. But still, I must remember that the missions trip isn’t for my personal enjoyment as much as it is for the helping others *from which I extract quite a bit of enjoyment anyway*, and I am sure that the leaders have found some exciting ways for us to do that. We will see.

Goals: I guess most prominent goal related issue considering the nature of this text is the fact that I haven’t blogged in over a month. I have essentially failed Goal 5. Surprising? Not to me. Considering that is was my “Emotional” goal I am lucky to even be posting to my blog at all. Anyone who knows me well enough to get inside my head knows that I am not the most emotionally sound person around. On the contrary, there is a side of my mind that still remains a partial mystery even to myself… Imagine that.
Let’s take another look at the list.

• Goal One (Spiritual): To pray at least 3 times a day, and to read a Chapter once a day from the bible.
• Goal Two (Physical):To get in shape, and form some real muscle.
• Goal Three (Relational):To get to know, and hang out with people more.
• Goal Four (Intellectual):Completing Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry and possibly Advanced Math.
• Goal Five (Emotional):To post a blog entry once every week… At least. Go ahead and say it. Uber Fail. Well… I figured something like this was going to happen, but than again, maybe that’s why it did. Goal Failed 2/16/2009 @ 11:59pm *The day I should have blogged.*
• Goal Six (Financial):Getting a steady source of income.
• Goal Seven: To complete the project that I have been working on… BEFORE FEBRUARY! Did I say complete? What I meant was to bring it into beta, and I did that. Goal completed 2/1/2009 @ 11:37pm
• Goal Eight:To beat 10 different people in arm wrestling matches.
• Goal Nine:To practice my Bass Guitar to a point of perfection. I need to be able to play entire songs (the goal is 5 songs) and be able to perform live in front of an audience.
• Goal Ten:To finish my book that I wrote half of during NaNo. That includes finishing the storyline, and giving it 2 edits.

On other goal type notes, none of them are doing well at all. I think I can rescue most of them, but this year is going to be very interesting. On the good site of things, I am having a few good song ideas… we will see where it leads.

Random: Ever noticed how much things change as you grow older? Of course you do, whether you’re 16 years old and just gained the trust required to drive a car on your own, or your 95 and you’re realizing that you cant clean up and cook your own meals anymore *I know that doesn’t apply to everyone*. Thing is, I don’t like change (Sorry to all you Democrats…), yet I am being forced to deal with more and more of it all the time. I will be getting a job soon if I can take care of a few problems. I will be going to collage at some point next year. At 15, it’s easy to look ahead and think that everything is going to take care of itself, but the truth is, it wont. There are going to be many important life decisions I am going to make, and honestly, I’m a little afraid of them. I don’t know what I am going to do for a living, I have no idea who I am going to marry, all I know is that whatever happens to me… God has my back. The fact that someone so divine has already pretty much planned out my life according to his plan is reassuring. I cant go wrong with this guy on my side. It’s a great feeling.
On another less encouraging note, I have an online friend who just told me a few nights ago that she has been diagnosed with cancer. She is only 19 and she isn’t saved. I am trying to get her saved, but there isn’t much time, and honestly, the Christian argument sounds a lot like crap when you are telling it to a non believer. It is all in Gods hands, but if anyone is reading this, please pray for her. God will know who you are talking about. This is one of the most time sensitive and important things that I have been a part of, God’s will be done.

Conclusion: Well, I have come into this long overdue blog post losing a goal and gaining none. So far I have a 1-1 ratio out of ten goals. Eight to go, I will work harder on these ones for sure.
I’m not sure what the next few months are going to bring… but I think I am alright with finding out. Life will go on, and I think for now… I’m going to stick with it. Thanks to anyone reading this blog for helping give me a place to talk about things I don’t normally get a chance to hit on. I wish I had something better to feed you than excerpts into my everyday life, and my opinions about various things including religion, but this is all I have for now.

Until next time,
-Seven_Rings

Who’s laughing now?

The answer is nobody (and if you *where* bored enough to sit there and laugh at me I wouldn’t know anyways. ^_^). Problem is that I didn’t get a blog post written last week at all. However, I think I can excuse myself seeing as how *most* of my other goals aren’t going quite as planned. And technically (you like that?) I won’t have failed the goal ’till the end of the year (and only *if* I don’t make up for that lost post). This blog post may be a little bit longer than usual seeing as how I have missed a weeks worth of content (It’s not like I have much to say anyways). Moving on.

News: It seems like forever since I last posted to my blog, and it has only been two weeks. Still, two weeks was plenty of time to miss more than a few random occurrences. One that I am particularly happy about is the re-activation of my Facebook account. Why would I want to deal with those sloppy admins anymore you ask? Because I have to, just like everyone else. Facebook is where the action is during this trend, and whether I like it or not, that’s where the people are too. Besides, I have to have a way to contact my Youth Pastor if my sister dies and my phone breaks again (now I’m just making excuses). Another exciting thing that happened this week was the… Premiere of Heroes! (I am lost as far as what season we are in). Even though I was careless (some call it busy) enough to miss it, I can still catch up online. I’m just glad its back. *long pause*
You all already know this, but since I have been mentioning him in my blog lately, I might as well say it here. Sennit has gone to be with the lord. Nobody knows how the cancer was caused as of yet, and it’s not likely that they will find out. I don’t see why that matters. Right now Sennit’s family is going through a very hard time as you can imagine, and if there is anyone out of my possibly non existent readers that isn’t already doing so, please take a moment and pray for his family. Pray for his friends. Everyone who knew him closely is grieving right now (though I will admit some are doing it differently than others), and they all need your prayer…

Goals:: Sadly in this category there is much more bad news to be gone through than there is good. I personally don’t like bad news, so I am going to try and keep this as short as possible (even if that ends up being longer than usual). One of my goals this year had a deadline of Feb 1st. I am going to assume that most of you thought I took a week off from blogging because I was afraid to admin that I failed. That isn’t true. Because one of my goals this year has been completed. Could I get a drum roll? *crickets chirp* That’ll do. Since a goal has been completed, I think I should pull out my complete list (names only) and cross it off. Makes it more official, right? What better way to give a status report than goal by goal? Here goes:

• Goal One (Spiritual): To pray at least 3 times a day, and to read a Chapter once a day from the bible.
• Goal Two (Physical):To get in shape, and form some real muscle.
• Goal Three (Relational):To get to know, and hang out with people more.
• Goal Four (Intellectual):Completing Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry and possibly Advanced Math.
• Goal Five (Emotional):To post a blog entry once every week… At least.
• Goal Six (Financial):Getting a steady source of income.
• Goal Seven: To complete the project that I have been working on… BEFORE FEBRUARY! Did I say complete? What I meant was to bring it into beta, and I did that. Goal completed 2/1/2009 @ 11:37pm
• Goal Eight:To beat 10 different people in arm wrestling matches.
• Goal Nine:To practice my Bass Guitar to a point of perfection. I need to be able to play entire songs (the goal is 5 songs) and be able to perform live in front of an audience.
• Goal Ten:To finish my book that I wrote half of during NaNo. That includes finishing the storyline, and giving it 2 edits.

So, I have been praying at least twice a day and I am still half way through Genesis. If I don’t get the ball rolling now it’s pretty much a given. My push up count has gone up by about one (Don’t judge me. >.>). My math has been seeing good grades but terrible quantity. Anyone reading this probably knows how I have been doing in the blog area. My *steady* income has gone up significantly from zero to about… Nope, still at zero. I haven’t beaten anyone in arm wrestling this year, and the situation is looking pretty bleak as I try not to show fear while looking at Jordan’s muscles (I have a match with him and Pastor Tom both this Wednesday.). My bass is unpracticed, my songs are unwritten, my book is untouched, and my dog is dead (Alright, maybe not. But he would be if I had one.). I see more than plenty of room for improvement.

Random: I wish I had something to share tonight in the way of revelations or realizations I have picked up during the last two weeks, but I don’t. Even if I did, time is dwindling and if I don’t hurry this post along, I am going to get sent to bed before I can finish it. All I can do is promise a better blog post next week filled with more of my heart (it’s debatable whether that’s a good thing) and hopefully a bit more time can go into the planning stages. I’m going to have to take the easy way out and say that I can’t think, because quite frankly, I can’t. Next Week.

Conclusion: Well, I guess not all blog posts are the same. Tonight’s I barely made it through anyways. But for my souls sake, I’m glad I risked it. One thing I would ask of you is that if you are reading this blog (and hopefully enjoying it) that you would leave a comment or something to let me know you are there. It’s much easier to take an hour you didn’t have anyways on a Monday night to blog when you know someone will be reading it. Thanks for your time.

Goodnight, tonight, goodbye.
-Seven_Rings

So I’m a day late…

Well, here I am again. This time lying here on the couch at 10:17 am when I should be sleeping. The reason for it is that last night I had a one day “stomic flu” which I still cant explain. I need to get to bed per my parents request, so I will be rushing through this post. Hopefully I still pull off decent spelling and grammar.

News: This week has passed and seen no response from the Facebook team. I regret that the online lives of so many people have been put in the hands of such careless admins. Hopefully I can do better with my social networking site… which is still yet to be seen. But it’s coming. More good news this week is that my laptop has started working again. It took more than a few tries, but anything is possible given enough work. Lastly for the news section, my birthday was Sunday (the 25th for you math whizzes out there.) I might mention this a little later, because I think there is something to be learned about my experiences. Also I have to mention the Winter Retreat this past weekend. It was amazing, some great things happened over that time (Including J.P.’s proposal to Melanie (spelling?). Congratz guys). Thanks to the people who put the event on, I think it helped me in more than just a few ways, and it was a heck of a lot of fun. Well, that about sums news up, moving on.

Goals: My goals are not all doing so well. Though I should be able to get that working beta of my app put before the 2nd of Feb, and that was a goal (the only of which needed to be completed by now). Still, I am behind on my Bible reading (thanks to staying up till the wee hours coding PHP). And let’s just say the only arm wrestling match I came close in this year was messed up by Jahid (Thanks buddy. ). Still, It’s early, I can pull through. The question is, will I survive? There are many different things that could go wrong this year. All the more reason to pray.

Random: Speaking of prayer, have you prayed for Sennit lately? Most of you know that he has been given a month or so to live (At least, I think.). But I think that with God’s help, we can give him another 60 years at the least. I wish I had gotten to know him, but the collage kids don’t usually befriend the highschoolers (in my case) anyways. Maybe after he has recovered (Faith!) I will get a chance to know him. Until than, God’s will be done.
I said I would probably end up coming back to the subject of my birthday. Trust me, I don’t like to talk about myself, but give me 5 minutes to share a few things I have learned this year (Yes, I already knew both of them, but I think this could benefit a lot of American Teenagers, even Christians). Here is the deal. For the past 5 years, my birthdays had been going what most would say “well”. We didn’t (and still don’t) celebrate Christmas, so I would get a gift on my birthday and in my mind, it kind of made things alright. But this year I came closer to learning a valuable lesson. Given our current financial situation (as if I don’t mention this enough) my birthday was the first to take the hit. I am very thankful for what I got (My sister bought me headphones, and my Parents took me out to eat) but I have to admit that I came to expect more than that. I was ashamed when I realized that greed was trying to get in my way. Why is it that everyone else I know has an Ipod, all of their friends have Ipods, and when they break, they get a new one? I am just using Ipods as an example of course (I have yet to own an MP3 player, much less an Ipod. Maybe next year. :/), but it always seems that my side of the grass isn’t only more dull, but it’s beginning to die from drought. But is this really what God deserves from my heart when he gives me so much every day? I urge you to ask yourself, how much more time have you spent with your Ipod than with the lord? As Americans, we have a standard for the Holidays and for birthdays. When that standard goes away, so does all hope for tomorrow. We fall into depression, or worse, we start to get greedy. I have been there, and the only one who can save you is Jesus.
So the great question comes around once more. For some of us, it’s a tough one. And for some of us, it’s easy to answer Yes. If Jesus came to your door and told you to give everything you have to the poor, and follow him, would you do it? You might answer Yes, but I have yet to see any of you living out that answer. You don’t understand the question. What if a brother or sister knocked on the door of your room asking for help with their homework? You have two options: Drop your Ipod (Yes, I know you have one.) and help them, or tell them tough luck and to figure it out themselves. I don’t doubt that some of you would choose the former because it is the right thing to do. But if you would drop everything to follow Jesus, to fulfill his calling, than why are you sitting here reading this post? The Lord told us all to be fishermen of men, and he also said that if we loved him, we would do what he said. To me, it sounds like I need to go find some souls to save.
Guys, the sky is the limit, you have never done enough until you have died doing the Lord’s will. So here I am on the street Lord, I have nothing more important to live for than you, show me the way, “Thy will be done”. Who’s with me?

Conclusion: I should really be going to bed now, but think about what I have said. I may not have a way with words like J.J., but I hope you have heard me tonight. I also hope that next week brings a more timely blog post but…

Until next time,
-Seven_Rings

Less than a hour ’till midnight.

Monday finds me in more than one unfortunate situation, but at least it finds me sitting here writing my second blog post this year. There are a few things that have been bouncing around in my mind during last week, and I am happy that it is finally time to assess them.

Firstly, If anyone is reading this, I am happy to inform you that I will be implementing a new blog structure to my weekly blog post to assure that it is consistent. I have everything directed into categories. But instead of listing it all out and giving you too much unneeded info to read, I will just skip onto the post.

News:
Well, this week has been madness (Mostly good.). But that “good madness” isn’t going to end here, especially with the Winter Retreat coming up just later this week! I honestly can’t wait for the Retreat, I am sure it will live up to the monster J.J. boasts of.
As for the “mostly” part. My pink laptop is sick, it’s having a DNS problem that I cant seem to fix even with the addition of the experts on The Tech Arena forums. Hopefully this problem is soon resolved as its costing me dear time, and could cost me one of my ten goals (will get into this later).
Another crazy thing that happened this week was that I was banned from Facebook for no reason. My account has disappeared from everyone’s lists and has apparently been “disabled by an admin” this is nothing new in the world of Facebook as many people are sure, but why me? I didn’t do anything wrong. I may have been among the Facebook saints if nothing else. In the hope of getting it back, I have already sent an email (which according to most people, shouldn’t do me much good) to Facebook trying to convince them that I am innocent.

Goals:
It’s January, I have got nothing to lose yet, right? It doesn’t matter that I still haven’t read my Bible for the month yet, that I still look like a badly paid Disney actor trying to play my Bass or sing.
The reason for this being that goal-wise, January is mostly dedicated to my time limited project goal. After reading over my post last Monday, I noticed that I left out a few minor details about the project, so I will try to clear it up a little bit. Basically the project is an advanced PHP application that I am making for a Role Playing Game I used to have time to play called Runescape. The project it’s self is basically an AJAX based content system for the game, just a tool for the players to use to help them through the games many trials, and seemingly endless content. None of this likely matters to you at all, so I will get on to the predicament. I have 10 days left, and it’s not even close to being done. I can’t work on it without the laptop having Internet, so it is very likely I will fail the goal, a fact of which I am not proud. I’ll be praying about this one.
The reason I am building this app is for practice and for site traffic. If I could get enough Runescape players interested, I could make decent money with ads and such. All of course for the family budget (and that Lamborghini Pastor Tom was talking about in church this Sunday). You gotta roll, right?
Additionally, I am actually working on a much larger project that should be out the first half of this year. Basically, it’s going to be a Facebook for Church Groups. Of course, the site its self will differ quite a lot from Facebook, but the idea will be about the same. I will include more info on this as I get farther in the project. Any feedback is appreciated, you know where to find me.

Random:
First off, Winter Jam was AWESOME. It was a joy to be their, and a blessing to get the seats we got. (Could have been better? Tell that to the thousands of people standing outside hoping to get in.) Toby Mac’s finish was one of the most amazing I have ever seen. Church and Sunday School this week where equally amazing, but it leaves me wondering when we will stop joining with the middle schoolers. It’s not that we don’t love you… *Evil Grin*

On a very random note, for those of you that know Kaeli (one of the collage students on the A-Team), you probably know that she has an amazing voice. It was great this Saturday on the way to the concert listening to her sing in the van, great stuff.

Earlier this week, I was thinking about ministry. Some people that know me might know that I am very interested in getting the word of Jesus Christ out. I was listening to a radio show about how much God cares about the people that the Bible refers to as “lost people”, and it got me thinking about one aspect of Jesus’s trip to earth. He was THE most efficient “shepherd of men” that ever existed. And his methods are clearly visible to anyone who reads the bible. Now while I admit that our society might think a little differently these days of a person walking around in robes preaching on the streets, what are ways that we as (less than) normal people today can make a big difference? If you just turn one friend to Christ (and I have been fortunate enough to lead a few friends to Christ over the Internet) that is huge. But what if we could do even more? I know that some of you as pastors and youth pastors already do a whole lot, and save people every day. But does that mean you have done enough? Imagine all of the lost souls out there that are going to burn in hell if we as Christians don’t do something. It’s our job, our duty. If anyone has any ideas for me, please let me know. I wish I knew how to be doing more.

Well, that is it for my categories for now, there will be many changes as I go forth into the world of blogging. They might change every week for all I know.

On a slightly more serious note, our financial situation entails more and more cutting back every day, and to be honest… it gets hard. It’s an amazing thing to know that there are people out there that are willing to help in little ways to make life a little bit better not just on Sundays and Wednesdays, but on a day to day basis. It’s thanks to those people that we will be able to go to the Winter Retreat, and it’s thanks to those people that we are able to attend church, youth group, catalyst meetings, or any other church events. This section of the blog is a dedication to these people’s kindness. You guys know who you are, thanks for making life a little more worth living.

To my church family,
-Seven_Rings

The new year is here.

2009 is finally here after some serious waiting, and a minor delay (being December). It’s funny how people get so worked up every time the year restarts. Everyone makes some “New Years Resolutions”, and those who don’t (like me) just sit the year out hoping for the best. I have never been partial to sitting around, so this year I have decided to throw a few goals into the old sack. And hopefully the sack (or what have you) runs out before the year does.

This was partially inspired by my sister, Phaidor. You can check her blog out by clicking the link that you just read past.

My “goals” are going to follow the same basic format as Phaidor’s, considering we where both at the same church service. I am going to list one goal for each of the following category’s: Spiritual, Physical, Relational, Intellectual, Emotional and Financial. Than I may add a couple for good measure.
This list is more for me than it is for you, but in case somebody cares, I will list it here.

• Spiritual: Though not guilty of J.J.’s latest warning in Sunday school about being “Good but not spiritual” (Not sure on the wording), I have found myself lacking in my communication with God. Though I have been praying for Sennit a lot, I have not been just praying in general as much as I would like. So my first and foremost goal is to pray at least 3 times a day, and to read a Chapter once a day from the bible. If only one thing was going to get done this year, this would be it. God is more important than anything else.
• Physical: I have always been strong, and I have never been in that bad of shape. I could certainly live with myself… but I’m not going to let that happen. Making my second “goal” this year to get in shape, and form some real muscle. (I will expand upon this later) I have what it takes (even without a Gym membership) and I need to make it happen. So look out girls. =)
• Relational: I have always kind of been the person buried behind the computer working on some technological thing or another. People ask what I am doing, and soon run for shelter when they find that I am writing in a language that most people don’t understand anyways… I am a Coder, I am a Writer, and I am a good friend to those that have given me a chance, but I tend to hold myself back. I have a problem with most people my age, in that a lot of them are just… idiots. So I don’t have many friends. This will hopefully end this year since my third “goal” is to get to know, and hang out with people more. The only time that I do this is during Youthgroup on Wednesday nights, and sometimes after Church. We will see how this “goal” turns out.
• Intellectual: I need to feed myself a lot of knowledge. I need to perfect my spelling, grammar, etc (“Witch” is already halfway decent.), and do A LOT of math. I think I am going to continue down the road of learning through exposure on the Spelling and Grammar for now, and therefor making my fourth “goal” this year completing Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry and possibly Advanced Math. Completely finishing my High-School studies. This leaving only Pre-Calculus material to study before starting Duel Enrollment during Fall 2010. This of course is going to require that I do two lessons a day, and don’t take any breaks (Or prepare for any breaks accordingly). Sound impossible? We’ll see.
• Emotional: I’m not good at the whole emotional thing, but my fifth “goal” this year is (and I am going to have to copy Phaidor on this one.) to post a blog entry once every week… At least. I am going to be posting a general entry (like this one) and hopefully pull out a few additional things worth blogging about during the week. I really hope this one works out, but I guess that’s all up to me now.
• And finally, Financial: Money over the last couple of months (As anyone relying solely on my blog wouldn’t know. :/) has gone from passable, to bad, to worse. Falling victim to the current economical situation was certainly the biggest downer of the year, and has caused me to plan a slightly different route. My sixth goal this year is part of that plan, in that it involves me getting a steady source of income. I need to find a job, and whether I am able to sign up for a steady one at minimum wage, or if I have to find a way to make what used to be my hobbies into part time jobs, I can going to get that done this year. By the end of this year I will have turned some part of my house into an office, and I will be earning an income to help pay the bills. I have worked on this in the past, and I have no doubt that this will be one of the last things I get done this year, but this is the year to do it.

That concludes my 6 “goals” for this year as I interpreted them from Pastor Tom’s words on Sunday, but that’s not the extent of my plan. I am going to make four more slightly layed back goals. These will be my fun goals, just a few things I WILL force myself to do this year. And since I am limiting myself to 4, expect at least a couple of them to contain more than one goal.

• Goal Seven: For starters, my first fun goal this year is going to be to complete the project that I have been working on… BEFORE FEBRUARY! It is a huge program, and this is so close to impossible that I can’t wait to see how it turns out. It will be fun to try and juggle school and other work with this given a set time line.
• Goal Eight: My eighth goal for this year kind of leans on my physical goal in that it is to beat 10 differant people in arm wrestling matches. I know next to nothing about arm wrestling, and I’m not exceptionally strong in either arm. As if it wasn’t hard enough already, each person has to be past the age of 18, and a male. I am only 14 (15 on the 25th) so this will be a tough goal to complete.
• Goal Nine: My ninth goal this year is probably going to be the hardest of all the goals. This goal consists of three things, all three of them hard. The first thing is that this year, I am going to practice my Bass Guitar to a point of perfection. I need to be able to play entire songs (the goal is 5 songs) and be able to perform live in front of an audience. Whether that be 3 people or 30 people. The second thing is that I am going to learn to sing. This includes screaming. I need to be able to do that well, whether that means taking lessons or practicing myself, I am going to force it. The final thing is that I am going to write at lest 3 songs that I can not only play, but am very proud of, and would actually listen to repetitively. This could arguably be the hardest goal I have set for this year, and the most likely that I won’t finish.
• Goal Ten: My final goal is to finish my book that I wrote half of during NaNo. That includes finishing the storyline, and giving it 2 edits.

There truely are many, many things I could have added to this list such as doing a better job of carrying my own weight (and some of other peoples) around the house, practicing other instruments than Bass, becoming better friends with certain people, etc. But these Goals are the “Crème de la Crop” for now.

This could all take a while, maybe all year. But I hope that this completes my year well, because any other goals I think of are going to be next years batch. I would appreciate any help anyone is willing to give on these goals, as they are all quite unreasonable, and I’m not sure I can do it on my own.

Until next time,
-Seven_Rings

Life and NaNo

The balancing of life and NaNoWriMo has been interesting at best so far. I can’t believe its been 17 days since I posted last, I had intended to post every day in November. Oh well, these things happen, and at least I am here talking to myself now. Life has been, well, life. The newest and most exciting things are going to be covered in the next few sentences, and the minor details are going to be forgotten and lost forever…

Most recently, I just got back from church. Today was a very interesting, and very awesome day at church. It all began in the morning with the 9:00 contemporary service that I love so much, but that was only the first of the many happenings of the day. The band was great, the testimonies from the missions trip where great. And than it was over. After church, we headed up to Sunday school. It was very nice to have J.J. back in Sundays school, and not so busy worrying about preaching, still, I really liked the messages he preached, wish he did it more often. Maybe just for the first service so that he can still teach Sunday school. After Sunday school, that’s when the normal Sunday morning turned into an amazing full day of goodness. Immediately after Sunday school, I got to help set the tables for the harvest diner. It was lots of fun, mainly because it was strangely entertaining to watch the large 200lb tub of knifes get lighter, until it was only a slightly heavy tub of knifes. After that, me being a part of the Catalyst leadership movement at our church, we had a meeting, and it went fairly well. Now to find free time that I’m not writing in to use for the homework… Following that, we went out to McDonald’s, and than headed over to the park for football practice. As you may have expected, I really sucked at it, but I still had fun making a fool out of myself. I just can’t wait to see the look on J.J.’s face when the final game has crept up on us, and he realizes I’m still not only slightly clueless as to the rules, but I have no idea about the different positions. Odds are, I will try to get a job as mostly just hiking the ball. Its too bad, at the end of practice, we where fooling around. One of the best players there, with a slightly light build was running with the ball, and when I went to tackle him, his body slipped through my arms, which got caught on his chin. The next thing I knew, he was flying through the air. Though he was swung around by the head, he ended up alright. That’s good, but I still feel a bit bad about it. Well, time to move on.

The final part of the day, and I must say, one of the highlights, was the Harvest Diner. A time when a bunch of us could get together and do one of my favorite things. Eat good food. Also, tonight I got a chance to help backstage with the video playing. It was awesome, I hope I get to do it again sometime. Dinner was awesome, helping was awesome. The whole day was amazing. This was definitely a day to go down in my collection of the rare “Not so boring days”.

Now I suppose I will talk about NaNo. Even though the very though brings fear to my heart. Fear that I will go play tetris and watch Saving Private Ryan instead of getting some word count. NaNo is defenitely as hard as people said it would be… And a half. Keeping up with word count has been much more of a challenge than it seemed. But seeing as how I recently bought a laptop, my computer isn’t Blue Screening every few minutes, making this that much more possible. Damn, I wish I had some ginger ale.

I will talk more about NaNo in the coming days, I regret I can’t include it all right now, but I can’t really think at the time. Anyways, J.P (From church) said he would buy me a MAC, so I am very happy right now. *Just kidding, I will have to find other means to get my hands on one.* and my joke for the day would be too sad to list here, but I’m sure it would have something to do with the Timothy who couldn’t cross the word count.

Until next time *goes to listen to Rise Against*,
-Seven_Rings

The day before NaNo.

Its one day until NaNo, or as Pat puts it “26 hours and 13 minutes to go “. I am excited, but I cant say that I am ready. At this point, I will be doing at least most of NaNo on my desktop computer which… Has serious problems. I wont get into that. I am working on a new story idea, but there isnt enough time to finish it. Lucky some of my friends are able to give me insight.

I just got back from Thursday night Youth group, and it was awesome. I loved the message tonight, about being a servant. I had figured most of these things out myself, but it was still nice to hear.

The Rays losing the other night was nothing easy to take. It was a huge letdown to lose, but making it to the playoffs was enough for me, maybe next year. Something especially annoying that happened was that I was in a chat room with Pat and a few other friends during the game. One of these friends really acted out during the end of the game. I cant say I remained completely calm, but still, he just wouldn’t let it go. However, its things like these that teach me who my friends really are.

On the subject of the site I mentioned. I have way too much coding going on to pay enough attention to one project. I have KSA coding (KSA is a runescape help site I work with), Family code projects (A few projects that I am doing for the family.), A huge project I am working on personally, a runescape based project. I also have a Display site to make (Displaying web coding abilities to potential customers), And of course, the project I mentioned. The nature of witch I wont discuss for the time being. And next month wont be my most active month for any of these projects. I will be focusing mostly on NaNo.

Another thing that’s important to me is my Bass. I am trying to practice frequently so that I can possibly join a band, or play at one church or the other. I also have had song ideas that I lose for lack of a Notepad and Pencil. I want to write music, and than play it. Other goals include learning Advanced Computer and Math classes In collage, getting a job, writing novels, and witnessing to random people about Jesus. How am I going to do all of this stuff in one lifetime? I don’t know. I have alot of dreams, most of witch I wont list here. At least not yet. Lets see what happens.

I cant think about much more to say. I have  bunch of homework that needs to be done before tomorrow morning at 7:00am, I have an appointment with a friend at about 11:30. I didn’t have money for food tonight, so I didn’t eat. And that will certainly be working on my mood for tonight. But hey, thats life.

So I will see you all during NaNoWriMo, where you will be undergoing normal writing fears laying in bed on your laptop. While I am beating my computer with a dead hourse, driving myself crazy, and trying to get a halfway decent plot worked out while I am writing it. This is the period that I will look back on during the rest of my life and smile. Who said it would be easy? Lets make the best of it.

Untill next time,
-Seven_Rings

Hmm… The freaking?

Its 5 days until the much anticipated launch of NaNoWriMo, and my chances of going into it with a laptop computer aren’t looking good. With the recent demise of my computer chair, I am using one of the most dangerous chairs known to the creative mind… The kitchen chair. A hard wood spawn of Satan. I don’t wager I will be able to be work very fast in this chair, and I’m not just saying that, sitting has become more painful than standing. Also with my computer shutting off randomly, subtracting as much as 10 minutes of work, I get to try and remember what I was writing, and hoping it wasn’t very good.

So now I have covered my worst (public) problem at this point in life. Now I will talk a little about NaNo. First of all, me and my friend (Tom) aren’t going to be writing a joint for NaNo anymore. All of my work was invested in that, now I need to come up with some sort story idea… One worth 50,000 words no less. So to combat the problem, I am going to have to find a makeshift music system for inspiration and make the best of it. I cant very well quit NaNo at this point, can I? Maybe I can still push myself to do this, even if I do lose work, as long as I can keep my sanity having to wait for my computer to boot randomly. Only time will tell.

A few random things that may or may not catch your attention. I am starting design of a new site, the purpose of which I will name in some coming blog post. It should be pretty cool, though with my self esteem, I would be happy if just one member joined. On another note, the weather is getting cooler, and its starting to “feel” like thanksgiving. I cant wait for that day of… Giving thanks! (And eating food of course.). I intend to cook alot of good meals for thanksgiving that perhaps we haven’t tried before. But who knows? I am not feeling very inspired right now.

At least I still have some hope for NaNo, which means alot to me right now. After all, this is my first year, and I would like to reach the goal.

Well, I am going to go stream some missed Heroes episodes on Netflix. Maybe after that I will play some Quake 3 Arena. So go ahead, stop wasting your time reading my thoughts on life and enjoy the Baseball game! GO RAYS!

-Seven_Rings

First blog entry.

First of all, I would like to welcome you all to my first blog post. Through reading future posts, you will find that my life is really quite boring, and making this blog worth reading, will be an expert challenge in itself. However, even if nobody else reads it, this is mostly for me anyways.

What better place to start in writing about my day, than at the beginning. This is a very short scene, in which I find myself falling asleep in every position possible on the way to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I have no idea just how much time I lost, but this is certainly an example of why parents are always so persistent on getting you to go to bed.

After brushing my teeth, and normal morning duties on the computer, I, whether pleasantly or not, was surprised with the news that we weren’t going out early to an event at the part like we had planned. Hmm… 4 hours of extra time. Always a relief to know your day isn’t going to be as packed as you thought.

Doing math was a chore today, and it was a very easy lesson. I have got to get back into routine before November. November, being the premier of NaNoWriMo, and the start of something truly challenging. I have to write a 50,000 word (minimum) novel, and I have to do it in a month. No big deal, I could get that done in 10 days, if I wasn’t already gasping for time. And its nobody’s fault but my own. I admit that I have horrible time management skills.

Still, seeing as how I plan to have a writing club on Fridays with a couple of my best friends, I hope I can make headway with a plan, instead of just shooting in the dark come November.

Lastly, for those of you who watch it, and most of you probably do. Heroes is coming on tonight! This will be our third week, and our fourth episode. The bad news is that its less than two hours away, and I still haven’t watched the third (last weeks) episode. That and the fact that I have chores could be a problem. Thank God for Netflix.

Well, this pretty much concludes my post. I will be trying to update regularly, even if that only means once or twice a week.

Until next time,
-Seven_Rings