I was about ready to wish that I had a date for Valentine's Day, when the thought came to me...I would have to buy my date a gift, and show some form of appreciation. That is alot of Responsibility! Then I thought well, it is only one day after all, but that obviously isn't true! If I had a date, I couldn't dissapear for a few days like I like doing without telling her. I would have to always be texting and checking e-mail. I would have to be ready to give HALF of my life as I know it to...my date!
So, after this Revelation that I would have to commit myself to a relationship if I had one, I tried to figure out why people do it. You know, why do they willingly bring all of this trouble and expense onto themselves? It seems like it would put a damper on having fun!
Well, I think I have it all figured out. Ladies! Don't read what I am going to say next because it is gauranteed that you will automatically fall in love with me!!!
I discovered that people who are in LOVE don't notice that they are doing stuff, like stopping dead in the middle of a heated basketball game to reply to a text, or stopping dead in the middle of an engaging conversation with a client because someone with the same name as their significant other (herebye known as S.O.) on their name tag just walked by. These people in love (hereafter known as P.I.L.'s) are CLUELESS that they are missing out on life as they used to know it! They don't care! Value has shifted from going about important daily duties to dwelling on a single S.O.'s memory. Crazy ya know?
So what happens? I have tried to observe the change that takes place here...this morphing from just an average guy, or average girl (hereafter known as A.G.'s) into a full blown P.I.L.; Going through some shape-shifting metaphysics and coming out with changed values and a new perspective on life! What sort of power does a potential S.O. have on all those poor A.G.'s out there?
Take Jimmy for instance. Jimmy is a normal A.g.; Totally oblivious to life, just going about his thing. Here he is taking a day at a mall, just hanging out with a few of his friends in the Food Court. He goes up to the window at Orange Julius eyes glued to the menu on the wall, trying to keep all of his saliva in his mouth, and mentally calculating how much a Tropical Fruit Julius with a large Chili Cheese Dog and small fries would cost. He finally gets it, processes all the information and looks down to give his order...and he forgets everything. His name, his phone number, the food he was about ready to savor, EVERYTHING just gone...poof! That saliva that he was so carefully controlling is now sliding out the corner of his mouth and onto his shirt. Embarrasing? Shocking? Dissorienting? WELL YEAH! This A.G. has just become a P.I.L.!
Well the young lady behind the counter knows exactly what is going on. The fact that there is a mentally imbalanced guy staring at her with drool on his shirt doesn't really bother her. She is enjoying it. Girls somehow make the transition from an A.G. into a P.I.L rather gracefully. Once they find the right guy, they know exactly how to change him from a smart, witty individual to a drooling retard, and back again. The problem is that us guys can't resist the metaphysics going on! Some of us recognize it when it happens, and can try to control the neurological breakdown, but the symptoms can't be completely managed. We will still forget what we were going to say, and end up saying something really really stupid, and the duration of the mental collapse is characterised by a perpetual daze.
Alas! Such is life! Well, this A.G. is going to sign off for now. I hope that I was able to make some sense about what was going on in my mind. All you potential S.O.'s out there please be merciful to me! Thanks for reading,
-David
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
My worst day ever
{This is a true story, somewhat embelished by the author}
So yeah. I woke up Monday (Jim Davis is not the only person who doesn't like Mondays) morning with a killing headache and a craving for coffee cake with sesame seeds. It was barely light outside, and cold enough to freeze the hydrolic fluid in the floor jack in the garage. I stumbled into the bathroom and started the shower because it always takes like 5 minutes for the water to warm up, and I moved down the hall into the kitchen carefully because didn't quite have my balance yet. I started a pot of coffee and went to wake up my younger siblings so I could take them to school.
I opened the door to my little brother's room...he is 4 years old, and found him crying because he had wet the bed in his sleep. Gross. I calmed him down and threw him in the shower (not literally) and started to clean up the mess. I wished my parents were still around. They were refugees from another country and had been deported about 2 months ago. They arrived here in America about 5 years before I was born looking for a better life. They indeed found it, and shortly after they came they had a house and good jobs. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom cleaned houses in Scottsdale. I was born in December of 1990. The first American Citizen in our whole family line. 1 year later, they brought another baby to the family, and 12 years after that they had my baby brother. I know I am skipping alot of time here, but all I want to talk about is my bad day. My horrible horrible very bad day. We had a happy 3 years together as a family. My dad got a raise at work and my mom was able to stay home and raise us kids. We weren't rich by any standards, but the way my parents talked about the old country where they came from we felt like millionaires. But I said all that to say that they got deported on my baby brother's 4th birthday.
So back to the wet sheets and cleaning solution and washing machine. Took me about 10 minutes. I knew we were going to be late, and I wasn't going to make it to work on time. I woke up my sixteen year old sister and told her to get a move on, and then got my brother ready to go. I dashed up some pancakes and while I was doing that I had a brilliant idea...coffee cake...pancake...coffee pancake. Worth a shot. I mixed some coffee grounds in the batter and set it sizzling on the griddle. Time is awasting! I gotta get moving. I turned up the heat a little on the stove and ran to get my sister out of the shower so I could have a turn before the water got cold. An arguing match broke out swiftly because there was a disagreement about how long my sister had been in the shower. What was all that thickness in the air? She really had used up alot of hot water to make even the hall outside steam up... I opened my mouth to add this fresh argument and filled my lungs with...Smoke! Oh no! not my coffee pancake! I dashed back into the kitchen to see that my coveted flapjack had just started on fire. I flipped it into the sink and ran water and whipped around to get the windows open.
My sister finally comes out of the bathroom looking like a fried prune and starts gasping like a beached whale. I whither her even more with my don't-even-say-another-word look and start dashing around getting my little brother ready to go and myself cleaned up. Finally, we are ready. I don't even look at the clock because I didn't want to know how late I was and we dashed out the door into my 1986 Nissan Maxima and we cruise out to do business! My stomach was growling, my head was aching and it looked like I was going to run out of gas. I dropped my little bro. off at daycare, and my sister off at her job at Subway. I worked at Pizzeria Uno as a dishwasher. Yeah, since my parents left, we had to drop out of school and get jobs, but what is a little more heartache on top of a whole lotta heartache ya know?
I get to my work and open the back employee entrance hoping to get to the time-clock and at my place before the supervisor even notices me missing. No such luck. There he is. His big beefy hand resting on the shelf that holds the time clock. He says to me, "I don't even know why you bothered showing up today. I told you last time you were late that if you were late again not to even come to work." Hm, so he did. I forgot about that. How long ago was it that he said that? Oh yeah last week. Well I didn't even reply. I just turned around and got back into my car.
I turned the key and the ignition caught, and the engine fired up. Nothing wrong with this baby. I threw it in reverse and pulled out of my spot. I decided that the last thing that grease pit of a job would see of me is burning rubber and a cloud of smoke. I pushed the stick into first gear, revved it up to 3500 rpms and popped the clutch and my engine sort of sputtered and my car lurched and stalled. What happened? I couldn't have stalled it... I try to start it again, but no such luck. I look at my gauges and find the problem...I am out of gas. So much for that.
Two hours later, my car has a gallon of gas, and I am poorer by the cost of a one-gallon gas can and a sesame seed covered coffe cake. I was going to catch some flack for being out of budget and buying snack food, but I needed alittle comfort. I decide to spend my day looking for another job. I go from one place to another, but most of the good jobs need me to have an i.d. "I don't have a drivers liscense" I keep telling them, "I am not 18 and my parents can't help me." Tough luck...I keep driving past the seedy-looking establishments and crossing my fingers at all the high-end stuff. Nope, nobody needs anything. Fine. I will try again tomorrow.
I pick up my sister from her job, and by this time it is nearly 6 o'clock p.m. I pull out of her parking lot and she is griping about all of the people that she hates at work and how bad of a day she had and I am just sort of distracted by my bad day and I think I see a hole in traffic and gun it. Nope. not a hole in traffic anyway. Bang, Crash Scrape...whatever words you want, is the sound of me making a hole in the side of a green Hyundai. Oh Man. This is the pits. I am ready to scream, but my sister is doing enough for both of us at the moment.
So I am not going into detail about the rest of the day...I don't want to relive that anyways. My car got towed and I have a court date and a big fine to pay. Even worse is that those sesame seeds showed up in a drug test as positive for me doing drugs. Well, such is life I guess.
{The author happened to be the one driving the green Hyundai, so his perspective on the life of the main character might not be accurate as he is not privy to the exact details thereof.}
e-mail me: not.a.pipe.dream@gmail.com
-David
So yeah. I woke up Monday (Jim Davis is not the only person who doesn't like Mondays) morning with a killing headache and a craving for coffee cake with sesame seeds. It was barely light outside, and cold enough to freeze the hydrolic fluid in the floor jack in the garage. I stumbled into the bathroom and started the shower because it always takes like 5 minutes for the water to warm up, and I moved down the hall into the kitchen carefully because didn't quite have my balance yet. I started a pot of coffee and went to wake up my younger siblings so I could take them to school.
I opened the door to my little brother's room...he is 4 years old, and found him crying because he had wet the bed in his sleep. Gross. I calmed him down and threw him in the shower (not literally) and started to clean up the mess. I wished my parents were still around. They were refugees from another country and had been deported about 2 months ago. They arrived here in America about 5 years before I was born looking for a better life. They indeed found it, and shortly after they came they had a house and good jobs. My dad was a mechanic, and my mom cleaned houses in Scottsdale. I was born in December of 1990. The first American Citizen in our whole family line. 1 year later, they brought another baby to the family, and 12 years after that they had my baby brother. I know I am skipping alot of time here, but all I want to talk about is my bad day. My horrible horrible very bad day. We had a happy 3 years together as a family. My dad got a raise at work and my mom was able to stay home and raise us kids. We weren't rich by any standards, but the way my parents talked about the old country where they came from we felt like millionaires. But I said all that to say that they got deported on my baby brother's 4th birthday.
So back to the wet sheets and cleaning solution and washing machine. Took me about 10 minutes. I knew we were going to be late, and I wasn't going to make it to work on time. I woke up my sixteen year old sister and told her to get a move on, and then got my brother ready to go. I dashed up some pancakes and while I was doing that I had a brilliant idea...coffee cake...pancake...coffee pancake. Worth a shot. I mixed some coffee grounds in the batter and set it sizzling on the griddle. Time is awasting! I gotta get moving. I turned up the heat a little on the stove and ran to get my sister out of the shower so I could have a turn before the water got cold. An arguing match broke out swiftly because there was a disagreement about how long my sister had been in the shower. What was all that thickness in the air? She really had used up alot of hot water to make even the hall outside steam up... I opened my mouth to add this fresh argument and filled my lungs with...Smoke! Oh no! not my coffee pancake! I dashed back into the kitchen to see that my coveted flapjack had just started on fire. I flipped it into the sink and ran water and whipped around to get the windows open.
My sister finally comes out of the bathroom looking like a fried prune and starts gasping like a beached whale. I whither her even more with my don't-even-say-another-word look and start dashing around getting my little brother ready to go and myself cleaned up. Finally, we are ready. I don't even look at the clock because I didn't want to know how late I was and we dashed out the door into my 1986 Nissan Maxima and we cruise out to do business! My stomach was growling, my head was aching and it looked like I was going to run out of gas. I dropped my little bro. off at daycare, and my sister off at her job at Subway. I worked at Pizzeria Uno as a dishwasher. Yeah, since my parents left, we had to drop out of school and get jobs, but what is a little more heartache on top of a whole lotta heartache ya know?
I get to my work and open the back employee entrance hoping to get to the time-clock and at my place before the supervisor even notices me missing. No such luck. There he is. His big beefy hand resting on the shelf that holds the time clock. He says to me, "I don't even know why you bothered showing up today. I told you last time you were late that if you were late again not to even come to work." Hm, so he did. I forgot about that. How long ago was it that he said that? Oh yeah last week. Well I didn't even reply. I just turned around and got back into my car.
I turned the key and the ignition caught, and the engine fired up. Nothing wrong with this baby. I threw it in reverse and pulled out of my spot. I decided that the last thing that grease pit of a job would see of me is burning rubber and a cloud of smoke. I pushed the stick into first gear, revved it up to 3500 rpms and popped the clutch and my engine sort of sputtered and my car lurched and stalled. What happened? I couldn't have stalled it... I try to start it again, but no such luck. I look at my gauges and find the problem...I am out of gas. So much for that.
Two hours later, my car has a gallon of gas, and I am poorer by the cost of a one-gallon gas can and a sesame seed covered coffe cake. I was going to catch some flack for being out of budget and buying snack food, but I needed alittle comfort. I decide to spend my day looking for another job. I go from one place to another, but most of the good jobs need me to have an i.d. "I don't have a drivers liscense" I keep telling them, "I am not 18 and my parents can't help me." Tough luck...I keep driving past the seedy-looking establishments and crossing my fingers at all the high-end stuff. Nope, nobody needs anything. Fine. I will try again tomorrow.
I pick up my sister from her job, and by this time it is nearly 6 o'clock p.m. I pull out of her parking lot and she is griping about all of the people that she hates at work and how bad of a day she had and I am just sort of distracted by my bad day and I think I see a hole in traffic and gun it. Nope. not a hole in traffic anyway. Bang, Crash Scrape...whatever words you want, is the sound of me making a hole in the side of a green Hyundai. Oh Man. This is the pits. I am ready to scream, but my sister is doing enough for both of us at the moment.
So I am not going into detail about the rest of the day...I don't want to relive that anyways. My car got towed and I have a court date and a big fine to pay. Even worse is that those sesame seeds showed up in a drug test as positive for me doing drugs. Well, such is life I guess.
{The author happened to be the one driving the green Hyundai, so his perspective on the life of the main character might not be accurate as he is not privy to the exact details thereof.}
e-mail me: not.a.pipe.dream@gmail.com
-David
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Why?
I don't believe for a moment that one must live their whole life in the condition in which they were born in. I don't believe that one must have the religion of their parents, or believe in the same gods as their ancestors. I don't believe that traditions must be carried on. I don't believe that one must sin more or less every day. I don't believe that all rules have to be followed. I don't believe that one man is more great than another.
I do believe that one can better him/herself. I believe that a person can ruin his own life. I do believe that a person can find the truth about religion by following the advice of Jiminy Cricket. I believe that we create new ways to live every day. Sometimes we repeat history, and sometimes we create something original. I believe we have a choice how to live. "To sin or not to sin. That is the question." I believe that the letter of the law does not always encompass the intent of the law. The only man who achieve true greatness was Jesus Christ.
Why are you overweight? Why are you on Wellfare? Why do you live in poverty? Why do you live in the slums? Why do you kill other people? Why do you sin? Why do you smoke? Why can't you put down that beer? Why do you have AIDS? Why aren't you married? Why did your house get repo-ed? Why did you crash your car? Why do you torture animals? Why haven't you quit your job yet? Why haven't you paid your debts? Why are you addicted to drugs?
Why are you reading this? Because you have a choice. You can. You can just as easily close your browser window. You can lose weight, you can get a job; you can go to school; you can choose not to be a terrorist; you can live sin free; you can quite smoking; you can stop drinking; you can be healed of AIDS and teach others how not to contract it; you can stop illicit relationships; you can pay your mortgage or buy an affordable house; you can choose not to speed or drive drunk; you can have compassion on others; you can be out of your bad job and find a good one; you can get out of debt by careful budgeting; you can be free of drugs.
Don't believe me? Never heard all that before? Impossible? I think not. Having a good life is not a pipe dream. It all starts with you. In your head. It all starts with HOPE. Then goes to PRAYER. Then God answers prayer and meets your needs. Don't run from God. Choose life. Choose happiness. Why not?
E-mail me at: not.a.pipe.dream@gmail.com
Thanks for reading -David
I do believe that one can better him/herself. I believe that a person can ruin his own life. I do believe that a person can find the truth about religion by following the advice of Jiminy Cricket. I believe that we create new ways to live every day. Sometimes we repeat history, and sometimes we create something original. I believe we have a choice how to live. "To sin or not to sin. That is the question." I believe that the letter of the law does not always encompass the intent of the law. The only man who achieve true greatness was Jesus Christ.
Why are you overweight? Why are you on Wellfare? Why do you live in poverty? Why do you live in the slums? Why do you kill other people? Why do you sin? Why do you smoke? Why can't you put down that beer? Why do you have AIDS? Why aren't you married? Why did your house get repo-ed? Why did you crash your car? Why do you torture animals? Why haven't you quit your job yet? Why haven't you paid your debts? Why are you addicted to drugs?
Why are you reading this? Because you have a choice. You can. You can just as easily close your browser window. You can lose weight, you can get a job; you can go to school; you can choose not to be a terrorist; you can live sin free; you can quite smoking; you can stop drinking; you can be healed of AIDS and teach others how not to contract it; you can stop illicit relationships; you can pay your mortgage or buy an affordable house; you can choose not to speed or drive drunk; you can have compassion on others; you can be out of your bad job and find a good one; you can get out of debt by careful budgeting; you can be free of drugs.
Don't believe me? Never heard all that before? Impossible? I think not. Having a good life is not a pipe dream. It all starts with you. In your head. It all starts with HOPE. Then goes to PRAYER. Then God answers prayer and meets your needs. Don't run from God. Choose life. Choose happiness. Why not?
E-mail me at: not.a.pipe.dream@gmail.com
Thanks for reading -David
Friday, January 4, 2008
What is your "Pipe Dream"?
What is your "Pipe Dream"? Many people have grandiose dreams of riches, fame, and fortune. Others' dreams include frugality, self sustenance, and "living off the land". Many young people begin their adult lives with a dream and no path to follow to reach their dreams. For example, this blog started as the dream of someone. It has a catchy title and few posts. Not a pipe dream...still to be decided.
Many dreams become pipe dreams, but not because of lack of fire and enthusiasm. There are many real examples around each of us of people stuck in pipe dreams. One has only to look as far as students at the university, their coworkers in the office or shop, or the next door neighbors. Not all of these people are living a pipe dream, but most are. Most students of any subject do not become masters. Most people work their whole lives and do not become wealthy. Most get caught in the "keep up with the Jones" trap. They get excited when talking about their dreams and ambitions, but often are doing the wrong things or nothing at all to get there.
If you are sinning "more or less everyday" and think that you are going to arrive in heaven you are living a pipe dream.
Not every dream is destined to be a pipe dream (neither is this blog). Everyone wants to be laying on the dream liner and have the pretty stewardess wake them up with a "Bing, you have arrived at your destination". Somebody is going to get to heaven. There are many examples of wealthy individuals. Some people have what it takes to achieve their dreams.
Management is the key to a dream "arrival". Here are the steps to follow. ONE: Clearly state your dream. TWO: Create mileposts and measurable achievements. THREE: Create goals to reach those mileposts. FOUR: Strive to achieve those goals. FIVE: Be inventive. SIX: Follow up and be critical of why you are not achieving if you are not. SEVEN: Revise and Clarify your goals. EIGHT: Strive to achieve.
This is not ignoring the most important factor: God. What you want to achieve must be within His will if you want to serve Him. If not He will just let you go.
Check back for updates on making your dream a reality and not another pipe dream.
Many dreams become pipe dreams, but not because of lack of fire and enthusiasm. There are many real examples around each of us of people stuck in pipe dreams. One has only to look as far as students at the university, their coworkers in the office or shop, or the next door neighbors. Not all of these people are living a pipe dream, but most are. Most students of any subject do not become masters. Most people work their whole lives and do not become wealthy. Most get caught in the "keep up with the Jones" trap. They get excited when talking about their dreams and ambitions, but often are doing the wrong things or nothing at all to get there.
If you are sinning "more or less everyday" and think that you are going to arrive in heaven you are living a pipe dream.
Not every dream is destined to be a pipe dream (neither is this blog). Everyone wants to be laying on the dream liner and have the pretty stewardess wake them up with a "Bing, you have arrived at your destination". Somebody is going to get to heaven. There are many examples of wealthy individuals. Some people have what it takes to achieve their dreams.
Management is the key to a dream "arrival". Here are the steps to follow. ONE: Clearly state your dream. TWO: Create mileposts and measurable achievements. THREE: Create goals to reach those mileposts. FOUR: Strive to achieve those goals. FIVE: Be inventive. SIX: Follow up and be critical of why you are not achieving if you are not. SEVEN: Revise and Clarify your goals. EIGHT: Strive to achieve.
This is not ignoring the most important factor: God. What you want to achieve must be within His will if you want to serve Him. If not He will just let you go.
Check back for updates on making your dream a reality and not another pipe dream.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Hello Cruel World
"Who's this?" you may ask. What explanation can there be to why this blog now exists? What new thoughts and ideas can be birthed into an overcrowded market? What insurance has this blog of being heard amidst the noise of the blogging community? What audacity can the authors of this blog have to title it Not A Pipe Dream? That remains to be seen. The challange is not left unanswered, and the retort carries the zest of battle. Be warned o ye authors of poorly written prose. For now, the giant sleepeth, but upon it's awakening, ye shall see the bar of literary skill raised to a new level. Adieu cruel world and thanks for reading. -The Admiral
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