I left my church, Ridge Baptist, last June but returned this past August to start a college-aged ministry called Morph. Things are going very well and some developments have occured in which I have, in a way, taken over the ministry. This means planning events and teaching the bible study. Might be a shocker to those who know me but I felt led to teach.
We are currently doing the study, Multiply, by Francis Chan and this week's lesson was about loving those around us. However there are some people, that no matter what they do they say "love you." This is something that has been bugging me as it seems that after they say it SO many times it loses its meaning and power. I am talking about friends to friends and not family members to each other. I am talking about when someone posts a status update about a bad day and their friend responds with "love you." To me it doesn't seem like an appropriate response and this happens with every status.
Is this because I am a guy and I don't express my emotions like my other homo-sapien counterparts? It is because I am jealous that it doesn't happen to me? I don't know.
Just some thoughts on my mind tonight.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
2013 Movies
Here are the 2013 movies I am looking forward to:
- Iron Man 3
- The Wolverine
- Thor: Dark World
- Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
- Monster's University
- Jurassic Park 3D
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Lone Ranger
- Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
- Saving Mr. Banks
2012 --> 2013
It has been a very long time since I have blogged. Was thinking about the reason why and the main reason is because the holiday season had me very busy between two jobs. The other main reason is because I have had nothing positive to say lately.
2012 is over and it was one of my worse years. It started off good with graduation and coming home. From here it went down hill. It took me five months to find a job. Having to deal with roadblock after roadblock in regards to finding a meteorology job and getting into grad school. These roadblocks continued throughout the entire year up until the few days before Christmas in which I was pretty much guaranteed a job and some uncontrollable circumstances took it away. This was the icing on the cake of disappointments. What a great year....not.
2013 is now here and I thought it would be better. Hasn't been that much better. I have already ran into two more roadblocks in regards to reapplying to grad school. Another setback is that I am sitting here in my room writing this blog.....still living at home. The job front is still the same. I was up for two promotions at my two jobs and I was declined by both companies. So much for hoping that 2013 would be better.
So yeah that is why I have not blogged. Welcome to my life. Who knows, maybe it will get better.
2012 is over and it was one of my worse years. It started off good with graduation and coming home. From here it went down hill. It took me five months to find a job. Having to deal with roadblock after roadblock in regards to finding a meteorology job and getting into grad school. These roadblocks continued throughout the entire year up until the few days before Christmas in which I was pretty much guaranteed a job and some uncontrollable circumstances took it away. This was the icing on the cake of disappointments. What a great year....not.
2013 is now here and I thought it would be better. Hasn't been that much better. I have already ran into two more roadblocks in regards to reapplying to grad school. Another setback is that I am sitting here in my room writing this blog.....still living at home. The job front is still the same. I was up for two promotions at my two jobs and I was declined by both companies. So much for hoping that 2013 would be better.
So yeah that is why I have not blogged. Welcome to my life. Who knows, maybe it will get better.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Breakthrough
A lot has happened in the past month or so.
The most dominant thing is my growing desperation to return to Mobile. This really started when Christina told me that she was not going to make it to Charleston in January. This made me very sad as no one has come to visit SC yet but I have been back to Mobile twice since I have graduated. I was looking forward to Christina and Colin coming as this is was just the small taste of Mobile that I needed. I miss all of my friends greatly! Any job that opens up in Mobile or near Mobile I have applied for, trying to get to Mobile permanently or at least for a long temporary time.
This obsession to get Mobile also stems from the fact that I am in a runt. Everyday I sit around and do a bunch of nothing. Work has picked up a little but not as much as I wanted. I enjoy going to work because it gets me out of the house. I still haven't found a group of friends that I can constantly hang out with like I had in Mobile. My group of friend changes, at this point, seems like every month. I watched "End of Watch" the other day and the movie about best friends who would put their lives in jeopardy for each other. I desire to have that person. Am I ready to get married? Yes...kind of. But how am I going to find a girl when I don't hang out with people? Hmmmm.
This leads me to my next point. I left Ridge Baptist in the beginning of June and was visited churches and found one, Newspring Church. Great church with a lot of great people. The pastor had a message called "What's Next?" The message was mainly about people being baptized but the pastor also talked about asking God what to do next. God spoke to me to return to Ridge and help with the formation of a college-aged ministry as part of the leadership team. (Side note: This is also why I am missing Mobile being around college students.) We started and it is going great. However the bible studies tend to lean toward making future decisions in college life. The problem? I have been through this and am past it. This is one reason why I left Ridge because they didn't offer anything for my age group or group for recent graduates. So I am at tough spot. Did I truly listen to God or did I return to Ridge just because it was something to do. Tough spot to be in.
So the runt continues. Of course working at a retail store with a degree in meteorology and being rejected by each job application doesn't help.
I need something to happen, a breakthrough.
The most dominant thing is my growing desperation to return to Mobile. This really started when Christina told me that she was not going to make it to Charleston in January. This made me very sad as no one has come to visit SC yet but I have been back to Mobile twice since I have graduated. I was looking forward to Christina and Colin coming as this is was just the small taste of Mobile that I needed. I miss all of my friends greatly! Any job that opens up in Mobile or near Mobile I have applied for, trying to get to Mobile permanently or at least for a long temporary time.
This obsession to get Mobile also stems from the fact that I am in a runt. Everyday I sit around and do a bunch of nothing. Work has picked up a little but not as much as I wanted. I enjoy going to work because it gets me out of the house. I still haven't found a group of friends that I can constantly hang out with like I had in Mobile. My group of friend changes, at this point, seems like every month. I watched "End of Watch" the other day and the movie about best friends who would put their lives in jeopardy for each other. I desire to have that person. Am I ready to get married? Yes...kind of. But how am I going to find a girl when I don't hang out with people? Hmmmm.
This leads me to my next point. I left Ridge Baptist in the beginning of June and was visited churches and found one, Newspring Church. Great church with a lot of great people. The pastor had a message called "What's Next?" The message was mainly about people being baptized but the pastor also talked about asking God what to do next. God spoke to me to return to Ridge and help with the formation of a college-aged ministry as part of the leadership team. (Side note: This is also why I am missing Mobile being around college students.) We started and it is going great. However the bible studies tend to lean toward making future decisions in college life. The problem? I have been through this and am past it. This is one reason why I left Ridge because they didn't offer anything for my age group or group for recent graduates. So I am at tough spot. Did I truly listen to God or did I return to Ridge just because it was something to do. Tough spot to be in.
So the runt continues. Of course working at a retail store with a degree in meteorology and being rejected by each job application doesn't help.
I need something to happen, a breakthrough.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Catching Up
Nothing major has happened in the past two or so weeks. There have been some pretty funny/cool moments....so let's catch up.
Work is going great. I am averaging about 20 hours per week....finally! A week doesn't go by in which I take up a new shift from somebody, so the hours continue to grow. The store is getting ready for the Christmas season already, which means even more hours. Score. Funny/awkward story from the other day....
I walked into the break room and was waiting for the time clock to turn so I could clock in. Two people were in the back, an older lady and mid-aged guy. The guy asked me if I worked with computers. I told him that I had a basic knowledge. He then asked if I could work on web-sites and said not really. HTML is not really my expertise. I told him that and his response was "oh, well I guess I can't tell you my idea." I was like okay. I then suggested that there are web-sites that help you design. His response was then "well my idea involves web cameras if you catch what I mean." I didn't catch it again and then I caught it. He realized that I caught it and was going on and on about how that industry is booming. In case you didn't catch it....he is talking about making a porn web-site. ................................ yeah he asked me to be a part of a porn web-site. Ummm, no thank you. And you shouldn't be asking that at work.........duh.
On non-work topic....I have officially left Ridge Baptist church. For a while it was held back but now the cat is out of the bag. It started when the music minister messaged me about going to a handbells meeting. I decided at this point that there was no point in holding back. I messaged him back and said that I no longer to Ridge but thanks for the invitation. He then consisted on asking where I was going. At this point I have narrowed it to two churches. What upsets me is that the minister went to the youth minister to ask about certain reasons why I left. Why not ask me? I'm not going to fret about it. RBC is behind me and it is now time to look forward. The two churches I'm looking at is Newspring Baptist and Northwood Baptist. Praying for guidance on which church to go to.
One last thing that has happened is that I made a decision to change the health of my body. I decided to start an exercise program, Insanity. I started it yesterday and wow it is tough! Today was rough but I have a support group and a coach and I will make it through the 60-day program. Hopefully I will be able to post results on here. I am pretty excited about it.
Well, that is a rough catch up.
Work is going great. I am averaging about 20 hours per week....finally! A week doesn't go by in which I take up a new shift from somebody, so the hours continue to grow. The store is getting ready for the Christmas season already, which means even more hours. Score. Funny/awkward story from the other day....
I walked into the break room and was waiting for the time clock to turn so I could clock in. Two people were in the back, an older lady and mid-aged guy. The guy asked me if I worked with computers. I told him that I had a basic knowledge. He then asked if I could work on web-sites and said not really. HTML is not really my expertise. I told him that and his response was "oh, well I guess I can't tell you my idea." I was like okay. I then suggested that there are web-sites that help you design. His response was then "well my idea involves web cameras if you catch what I mean." I didn't catch it again and then I caught it. He realized that I caught it and was going on and on about how that industry is booming. In case you didn't catch it....he is talking about making a porn web-site. ................................ yeah he asked me to be a part of a porn web-site. Ummm, no thank you. And you shouldn't be asking that at work.........duh.
On non-work topic....I have officially left Ridge Baptist church. For a while it was held back but now the cat is out of the bag. It started when the music minister messaged me about going to a handbells meeting. I decided at this point that there was no point in holding back. I messaged him back and said that I no longer to Ridge but thanks for the invitation. He then consisted on asking where I was going. At this point I have narrowed it to two churches. What upsets me is that the minister went to the youth minister to ask about certain reasons why I left. Why not ask me? I'm not going to fret about it. RBC is behind me and it is now time to look forward. The two churches I'm looking at is Newspring Baptist and Northwood Baptist. Praying for guidance on which church to go to.
One last thing that has happened is that I made a decision to change the health of my body. I decided to start an exercise program, Insanity. I started it yesterday and wow it is tough! Today was rough but I have a support group and a coach and I will make it through the 60-day program. Hopefully I will be able to post results on here. I am pretty excited about it.
Well, that is a rough catch up.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Bye-Bye Summer
Everything associated with Summer.....heat, movies, beach....are all coming to an end. That's right, summer 2012 is in the record books and for me, it was not the best one. But I am not hear to talk about the past but the future.
September and October are turning out to be pretty good months. The main thing is all of the releases coming out. All of the summer movies are coming out in DVD starting with The Avengers on September 23. Once this starts it's a domino effect and pretty much every other two weeks, a new movie comes out. Yep, Avengers, Madea, Spiderman, and Dark Knight....those are the four I am looking for. Also NCIS Season 9 comes out, just in time for me to catch up before the new season starts.
Another slew of releases come out in September and October, but in the video game genre. October is the main month for video games and there are is a time when a new video game comes out every week. It starts out with "Epic Mickey 2" on October 2nd. This is a video game where they go through the history of Disney. Yeah......I'm a nerd, but it only gets worse. October 16th comes with the release of "Lego Lord of the Rings." I'm a HUGE Lord of the Rings fan and I thoroughly enjoy the Lego video games. Looking forward to this one. October 23 is when "Playstation All-stars" comes out. This one I am not too sure about. Going to wait to see what the reviews say before I buy this one. October ends with the release of "Assassin's Creed III." I have never played any of the franchise games but this one takes place during the American Revolution and looks great! That is all of the video games coming out that I am interested in.
Yea I am going to be spending a lot of money in September and October but to make up for this, I am starting to get more hours at Kohls. Speaking of Kohls, I am not a permanent employee and no longer in a trial period.
Well that is all that is happening in the near future. Should be fun.
September and October are turning out to be pretty good months. The main thing is all of the releases coming out. All of the summer movies are coming out in DVD starting with The Avengers on September 23. Once this starts it's a domino effect and pretty much every other two weeks, a new movie comes out. Yep, Avengers, Madea, Spiderman, and Dark Knight....those are the four I am looking for. Also NCIS Season 9 comes out, just in time for me to catch up before the new season starts.
Another slew of releases come out in September and October, but in the video game genre. October is the main month for video games and there are is a time when a new video game comes out every week. It starts out with "Epic Mickey 2" on October 2nd. This is a video game where they go through the history of Disney. Yeah......I'm a nerd, but it only gets worse. October 16th comes with the release of "Lego Lord of the Rings." I'm a HUGE Lord of the Rings fan and I thoroughly enjoy the Lego video games. Looking forward to this one. October 23 is when "Playstation All-stars" comes out. This one I am not too sure about. Going to wait to see what the reviews say before I buy this one. October ends with the release of "Assassin's Creed III." I have never played any of the franchise games but this one takes place during the American Revolution and looks great! That is all of the video games coming out that I am interested in.
Yea I am going to be spending a lot of money in September and October but to make up for this, I am starting to get more hours at Kohls. Speaking of Kohls, I am not a permanent employee and no longer in a trial period.
Well that is all that is happening in the near future. Should be fun.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
A Little Venting
Yeah I know it's been almost a month since I blogged but I really don't have much to say besides venting for a moment.
This past week or so has sucked. I got back from a great trip in Alabama where I always doing something. I come back here and I am bored out of my mind.I tried to hang out with people but they are either busy, don't respond, full of drama, broke, or don't respond at all.
My friend has recently been going through a tough time with his family and he reached out to me and we started to hang out a lot. Something that hasn't happened since I moved back to Charleston. I actually was enjoying it. Sure there was the family issue to deal with but that is not why we were hanging out...or so I thought. In the past two weeks this friend hasn't even text me to hang out. It's almost like he fell off the face of the earth. I have tried to reach out to him but nothing has come back from it. To me it almost seems like I was just his crying shoulder and now that the issue is beginning to be resolved he doesn't need me anymore. Great feeling...........just being there for hard times and no more depth to the friendship.
Another friend is about to drive me crazy. His lack of dedication is so horrible. I hung out with him almost everyday right when I moved back. Then I left the church and he hasn't text me since then. It seems like he only hung out because he was getting something in return as I helped out at the church. I decided to try that theory this week and suggested he text me if he needed help with an event coming up this Saturday. He said he would text me for sure. He did text me on Monday and asked what I was doing. I wrote back and said "nothing." No response back. Weird. Yesterday he text me again and asked if I was working last night. I said no. No response back. To me it seems that my theory is coming true. He casually mentioned we are going to get lunch either today or tomorrow. Let's just say that I am not holding my breath.
There are other people who are broke and don't respond. The person who doesn't respond is my cousin.....how about that?
I am so ready to move out of this house and out of this city and start over all fresh.
This past week or so has sucked. I got back from a great trip in Alabama where I always doing something. I come back here and I am bored out of my mind.I tried to hang out with people but they are either busy, don't respond, full of drama, broke, or don't respond at all.
My friend has recently been going through a tough time with his family and he reached out to me and we started to hang out a lot. Something that hasn't happened since I moved back to Charleston. I actually was enjoying it. Sure there was the family issue to deal with but that is not why we were hanging out...or so I thought. In the past two weeks this friend hasn't even text me to hang out. It's almost like he fell off the face of the earth. I have tried to reach out to him but nothing has come back from it. To me it almost seems like I was just his crying shoulder and now that the issue is beginning to be resolved he doesn't need me anymore. Great feeling...........just being there for hard times and no more depth to the friendship.
Another friend is about to drive me crazy. His lack of dedication is so horrible. I hung out with him almost everyday right when I moved back. Then I left the church and he hasn't text me since then. It seems like he only hung out because he was getting something in return as I helped out at the church. I decided to try that theory this week and suggested he text me if he needed help with an event coming up this Saturday. He said he would text me for sure. He did text me on Monday and asked what I was doing. I wrote back and said "nothing." No response back. Weird. Yesterday he text me again and asked if I was working last night. I said no. No response back. To me it seems that my theory is coming true. He casually mentioned we are going to get lunch either today or tomorrow. Let's just say that I am not holding my breath.
There are other people who are broke and don't respond. The person who doesn't respond is my cousin.....how about that?
I am so ready to move out of this house and out of this city and start over all fresh.
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