Jason's Thoughts

Well everyone,  It’s been awhile since I’ve talked to you.  I feel like I owe you an update, but that is the problem with why I don’t post.  I sit down to write what has happened in the last 5 months,  get three paragraphs in, and decide it’s time to go work on homework or take a nap. So I am going to try and tell you what is going on NOW, and in the near future.  I am very disapointed in myself:

I haven’t done anything creative in months.  I read like 14 webcomics daily.. I think to myself.  I could do this.. if I had any talent whatsoever.   I am very  disapointed, I wanted to spend this semester doing more writing… I wanted to spend this whole year really exploring the edges of my talent. 

I have gained nearly 30 lbs since getting married and leaving the marine corps.  I am REALLY out of shape, and can’t seem to run from here to there without collapsing.  (quote from “a few good men”.)  None of my old Larges fit me..  and once again.. it KILLS ME to run.. something I used to love doing. 

I have come to only one conclusion with my self hatred in these regards.  I am confessing to each and every one of you, and extending an invitation as well.  I am DONE with this.   I have a resolution, and I have a determination, and a goal in mind.  (yes I have all 3).   They are as follows:

           1.  I am going to run the Arizona Rock & Roll Marathon on January 18, 2009.I am going to run 4 miles a day until I can do so without walking,  then I am going to do it until I like doing it.   Then I am going to run 6 miles a day as well.   (at least 5 days a week) 

           2.  I am inviting Russ, Steven, or pretty much anyone else I’m related to (who thinks they can do it) to come join me.  I will host you in my home, and I will pay your way in ((but you have to get yourself to San Diego or Yuma, for me to pick you up :-(     ))

           3.  I am going to lose 20 lbs before the marathon.  I do not know my exact weight right now.. but you will be informed soon, as I track my weight progress.

           4.  I am going to be giving up video games for the entire month of November.  I will be participating in National Novel Writing Month.   This is going to be a major challenge, and I’m told that most won’t finish,  I am going to try and beat the odds.   I invite Steven, or anyone else who desires to join me, and we will read each other’s books after we are done.

I can feel you all cheering me on already :-),  I just hope some of you will cheer me on… while WE are doing it.  *cough* Steven *cough*  Russell *cough*

 Let me know by Nov the 15th (I think)  Then the price goes up.   

  Thank you all,  and Russ I’m sorry for not getting back to all your comments.  I always told myself that I would do it later.. but later never got here.

We the founders and proud owners of Rushingaround.com have been pooling our brains for ways to better serve you, ways to expand the site, and new ways to shake things up.  If you have noticed we do have some new links, and have updated the about me site in small ways.  But today I want to focus on what has been decided in our last corporate meeting.

If you will look on the right side of the screen you will see a small map of the world with red dots on it.  This map is a portfolio of all the places we have readers!  If you notice there are quite a few more viewers in Southern California (Jason), Washington (where Maria used to live), and Hawaii (Where Steven and Maria log on daily).  What our studies seem to prove is that the longer readers stay in a place the more readers there are in that region.  So when people stay in an area for an extended period of time.. Rushingaround gets more dots!!   Now I’d like to address the issue that we have,  There are NO dots from Africa, and none from the Formerly known Russian Republic (north central Asia)..  We here at Rushing around have analyzed these results and are addressing the problem.

As we have plenty of readers in the Texas and Washington Region,  The Albrights and the Rushings are hereby being commissioned as spreaders of the site to foreign nations.   I’m afraid you have no choice in the fact of moving.. but you do have a choice of destinations!!!  One of them is going to Africa, and the other is going to Northern Asia..  The first one to move gets to their pick of destinations!!!  Isn’t this a great opportunity?!!   The race is on!  Get started and send us a post when you get there next week.

Isn’t it a great time to be a viewer of Rushing Around?!!

Day one of the Märia watch.   Where has she gone?!  No more posts?!!  Has the Brotherhood captured her?!!

                           AHHHHH.

Sarah and I have been talking about it for a while, and decided that even though some of you know.. eventually the rest of you are going to find out… So this is the official notice to all of you.. judge us.. or whatever..  Sarah and I have good reason to believe it’s a girl and chose to name her bella.  We are telling you now because we do finally have pictures to show of our new addition.  Now obviously these pictures are prearrival,  but I think it’s pretty delightful anyway.  So.. here’s you first glimpse of her.  Don’t judge us.. just love us..

http://www.foreverabove.com/bella2.jpg

I’m pissed.  I am going to go ahead and warn you that I’m probably going to offend Christianity in this post, so if you fall into this catagory… AS I DO…  than you might want to just save yourself the stress.  Today I went to church that I’ve been to for 4 years.  They were short people to carry the offering plates.. and Mr. Schofield came and asked me to carry one.  I am wearing jeans, a belt, a t-shirt, and a hoodie zipup.  I get out of the pew, take a plate and am stepping off with the guys, when another deacon takes it away from me, and looks at Mr. Schofield and says “He can’t serve the pass the plate dressed like that.”  He picks a gentleman with long sleeves and asks him to take my place.   I of course pass the plate and don’t give him anything but a confused look that someone could be so ABSOLUTELY IGNORANT!   Heaven forbid that you judge a man by the substance of the human heart, rather than the clothes he gathers about himself.

How about opening your bible?  How about following the nature of God rather than the nature of man?  I feel like most Christian i know just do whatever they’ve been raised to do.. they won’t stop to think for themselves.. to stop and think about the standard they live to.. and why do they live to it?   Look at the pagan culture behind every major holiday, but we as Christians line up at Wal-Mart to buy and buy.. and decorate our pagan trees, and hang our pagan wreaths.. We do what we were raised to do.. we don’t even stop to analyze if these things are righteous.. we don’t even stop to think of the words coming out of our minister’s mouth are truth.  If you can’t find it in the word.. than look at the nature of what is being told.. if you can’t match the words or spirit to those of Jesus to those of the bible.. then this is not of God..

   So I know none of you want to hear all this.. I’m just sick and tired of being told that I’m a ’Christian rebel’ because I gravitate towards the word and away from ‘the way it’s always been done’   So I make this decleration to you now.   I will never dress up for Church again.    Never.

       1 Timothy 2:9-10, 1 Peter 3:2-5

http://www.foreverabove.com/update3.wmv

i can’t make it work.. maybe steven can fix it

Random facts about me:

I have the capacity (or the desire) to clap… 10x louder than everyone during presentations..  I guess I cup my hand differently, but people sometimes stare at me based on the volume of my clap.

 I feel that I can whistle… really well.  I can’t do that (hi i’m at a basketball game) whistle.. but I can do pretty good pitch while whistling.. and I’ve noticed that some people are not very good at this.  

I enjoy attention,  and I hate this about myself.

I can contact juggle.. if you haven’t ever seen this done.. search for it on youtube.  I’m not nearly as impressive as the people you see on there.. but I’m okay.  Another example.. what the main villain does with the crystal balls in “The Labrynth”

I remember crying.. watching Bambi.

I sing in my car… I’m the guy that you are driving next to on the highway with this mouth open that looks like he’s in the opera, or talking to himself. 

 I can open the book of “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card.. read only one line and know exactly what is going on.

 I can sing nearly every word of every song of every musical.. I’ve ever seen.. even if I’ve only seen it once or twice. 

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered,
considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I’m handsome?   

I love musicals.

I make up crazy titles to every single entry I put here.. this is me thinking I’m inventive..  but I have to ask.. do you like them?

 I still think that tattoes are dirty

I still think motorcycles are unsafe.

I don’t think I’m very good looking.

I still call Sarah my Girlfriend even though we are engaged.   I just don’t like the word Fiance.  (probably because of the Marine Corps)

I am obsessed with Christian Music… but not as much as I used to be.

I am known to do “The Lawnmower”  randomly, while bored, throughout the day.

I sometimes quote 70’s or 80’s pop songs in everyday life.. when it makes absolutely no sense to do so.

  Every answer to the question “do you know why?”  Is  “because Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A”  and I definitely get wierd looks about that.

I approach people randomly with my fists raised to challenge them to mock battle.

As a child, we would have sock wars, and this still sounds fun to me now.

   I think this list started cool, and just got dumb :-(..  Sorry to waste your time.

my EAS tracker!!

Well I currently have less than 51 days left in the Marine Corps, and am happily looking forward to being free of this established government.  I was actually talk to a friend of mine the other day, and he asked me if the last 5 years has dragged or flown by.   I started to think about it and realized that I’m really not sure.  After a couple of hours of thinking about it, I came back to him and told him this.  “My time in the Marine Corps is very unaccounted for.”  Let me explain.  I have spent 9 months plus 7 months, in Iraq.  I have spent 2 months Plust 2 months, plus 2 weeks, Plus 5 days, in the field (as pest I can remember).. I spent 3 months in bootcamp..  So where were the other three years of my career?  I remember one deployment dragging, and the other FLYING by.. some parts were cool, other parts really sucking… but I have no clue what I did with three years of my enlistment.  I have gotten in many arguements over my attitude towards military life, but have come up with a central ground I think Steven, Dad, Russ, or anyone who has served would agree completely with.  The military is a good alternative for people who are going nowhere in life, or have little drive to get anywhere in life.  But what you need to get off your butt, isn’t a four year enlistment, all you really need is to address authority issues.  So my suggestion.. my middle ground.. is that I highly encourage anyone who needs to refind their focus.. their ambitions.. go off and join the reserves.   You will gain the military identity,  you will gain a work ethic, and you still have the majority of your freedom. 

              So..  just a little bit of time left.. and I’ll be off to college..   Just a little bit left and I’ll be married.. O.O    and..  I really have my family to thank for my success..  so thank all of you so very much for supporting me through these trying times.

  (May 17th is the day everyone.. start getting tickets, start stressing out,  and no.. we aren’t flipping the hour glass over..)