Things for 2009

Goodbye 2008. Overall this year has been okay. It has had it's ups and it's downs, seemingly more downs than ups. Though the end of the year, starting in November has been amazing.

Hello 2009. I'm ready for so many things to happen this next year. Things I want to do in '09 include:

Sky dive
Go on a road trip
Grow closer to the friends I have
Make new friends
Work hard in all my classes
Fall in love
Practice playing the keyboard twice a week
Catch up on my reading before investing in a new book
Own a motorcycle
Write more
Actually spend time with God (if that's possible)

There are so many other things I want to do, but those are the ones I feel like are going to be possible this next year.

This last year.

2008. A big year for me. There are so many things I have done that I could never have seen myself doing a year or two ago.
People I couldn't see myself talking to.
Places I never thought I'd like to be.
Things I would have thought to ruin my life.
Ideas I would have never thought.
Thoughts I couldn't imagine before.

Who I am now, is nothing like I thought I'd be.
I'm content. I'm fine. I have my ups and my downs.
But they are nothing like they were before.
This makes me wonder, what happened to all that emptiness?
The "hole in my heart"
I don't think anything has filled it.
I know things did not change between God and I starting November.
In fact, it's almost a miracle that things got better in the beginning of November.
It was perfect timing.
Who knows where I'd be if things didn't change when they did.
People I might have never met.
Things I might have missed out on.
Wow.
It's amazing how one little thing could have changed my life forever. . .

Wow, always so amazed.

Once upon a time I wrote a blog about how I was happy being single. And I was totally fine with it. And I really meant it. Now I'm not so single and even happier.

Life is so crazy sometimes, up and down, up and back down again. Well right now I'm up. And I'm loving every moment of it. And it feels like it could last forever. I hope that it does.

God is so crazy sometimes. Changing the way I look at things. Like how my dad said he was proud of me the other day. Not because of a "good" choice I made. But because I made a choice and stuck with it. Because I understand the consequences of my actions. I understand that it is unhealthy to smoke, but he is proud that I have made such a "big" choice. Even if he believes it is the wrong choice.
That really surprised me.
A lot.

It's nice to know my dad is behind me. Always.

Surprise!

Surprise parties are fun (:
Obviously.
So thanks to Promise and Kyle and everyone else that made it possible(:
Props on a great party that was truly surprising.

But I don't know, some people don't like surprises, which is strange to me.
I have always been a huge fan of surprises.
The suspense that I get when I'm awaiting a surprise is awesome.
And the overwhelming feeling that happens when I am truly surprised, fun.
Fun indeed.

In other news, I think I did well on most of my finals.
Three were of the "Take-home final" variety.
Math, Music, and Philosophy.
I think I bombed my Philosophy final though.
The grade is going to end up being like a "D" or something bad like that.
This is the problem with online classes, you forget to do the work. . .
And that is never good.

Hahaha, my friends say stuff sometimes.

Jake-"Why, what are you guys doing"

Josh-"We're having sex!"

Jake-"Can I watch, I need to know how that works."

Josh-"I stick it in his ass!"

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Book Binding and Geese.

This would be my job as a book binder [= Here I have a piece of leather, a spineboard (the pink thing), and two cover boards. Everything is sized correctly and about to be "Put together"


This is me using a roller to put glue (R-25) on the spine board.


Now the two cover boards and spineboard are glued in place on the leather. I just cut the corners so they are not super bulky. Next I'll glue the four edges onto the cover and spine boards.


And this is the finished product. This is far from the whole process of making a book, but this is most of the process of making a cover.

Now, for something completely different. Geese!


They were just chilling the the middle of the street, so strange. . .

John Mayer

So yesterday I went with two of my friends, Monet and Jake, to go see John Mayer at the Nokia theater in Los Angeles. It was amazing and I can't even begin to describe how awesome it was, like Monet said, it felt like we were chilling with John by a campfire. Which it really was because he talked a lot about his music and how life has changed and how his old stuff takes him back. It was so chill.

Surprised.

Life catches me by surprise. A lot.
Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in bad.

Lately though, every surprise has been good (=
Really good. I don't think I ever expected life to turn around like it has.
Actually I kinda expected it to keep going like it was.
I thought that I would drift through life forever.
But no. I feel like I've finally been released.
And I know that I won't feel like this forever, what goes up must come down.
But I think I'll enjoy it while it lasts (=

p.s. "Left-handed" smilies rule (:

Ugh!

So many things I want to write! But instead I'll just go on about the beauty of math. And other math related stuff (=

"If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one."
John Barrow






Beauty Of Math - The funniest movie is here. Find it