mellow

do you ever just need to have that feeling of just kind of chill? for me, nothing influences my mood more than music. lately i've been feeling mellow...not a bad mellow, but a kind of relaxed mellow. i was going through my ipod and stopped on an album that i hadn't listened to in a while. i love tracy chapman her voice has a real soothing element to it and the album has a real folksy feel to it and tends to relax me. anyway...here is a sample...love it. you should definitely check out some more of her music.

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"before you get to wonderful you have to go through alright"

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tonight i went to my great-grandma's 87th birthday party. it was neat. that's all.

this is brandon, my dad and i with my great-grandma in florida a few years ago.

my flavor of the week

i think i'm in love......with an iced mocha. it's name is mocha joe....i heart burger king!

wait, rewind that

for one of my classes i had to lead a problem solving meeting using a technique that we learned in class and it was video taped so that we could watch it and write a reflection paper on what we did well and what we could improve on. as i was writing my paper this morning i was thinking...wouldn't it be great if we had that for our spiritual lives. think about it, we would have a chance to see what we were doing well and things that we could work on. it's one thing for someone else to tell you that you're doing something wrong, but to have the chance to see yourself doing it would be a whole different thing.

while i was giving my presentation of the meeting i found myself trying to stand up straighter, talk more eloquent, and things like that because i knew i was being recorded...maybe i should live my life like i'm being recorded, because i guess i sort of am...God sees everything i do.

fail

a few weeks ago msn.com had a list of the 10 best ways to waste time online and my current favorite is failblog.org. basically, it just has pictures and videos of things that are huges fails! pretty much amazing...

here is my lastest fav..

and so it begins

so here i am joining the wild and crazy world of blogging. i've tried this before and it sort of died, so this time i'm not going to try and make it anything that it isn't...it will just be a place for my thoughts, funny stories, random things i find online, etc.

enjoy!