Change

I truly believe God works in mysterious ways. When all seems to go down the crapper, He shows us that He's been there all along - we just didn't see Him because we were focusing on everything going down the crapper! I want to live more passionately for what I believe. If I don't have passion, then I have nothing. Living with moderate beliefs is merely existing, just watching life go by without truly participating in it. I just finished this book, Blue Like Jazz. Although I've read it before, the second read definitely gave me more insight. Don't you love that about books? You can read it again and again, and each time you learn something new. That is definitely how I have experienced the Bible time and again. At any rate, I was really moved by Don Miller's passion for truth and meaning, for God...and it made me look at myself and realize how much I have just been living for myself really. Miller makes a sincere point (repeated throughout history by many figures of the great) of how joy cannot be attained by living for your own good self. I've always known this but never practiced it. Yeah, hardly ever. But I want to! I need to...it needs to start with those closest to me. The book reads like a novel, exploring different phases in the author's life as he searches for the object of his passion - it's beautiful, poignant. There is always room to learn and grow, and the journey never ends. I really recommend this book!

Albums

I meant to do a little review of these albums...but I chose not to. And I'm sure you appreciate that since we all know how many album reviews are already out there. If anything, I'll just say among these 5 albums there is good, decent, and pretty good with the exception of some freaking sweet songs. There you go!

The Fray with Jack's Mannequin

Last night's concert was fun! What with an awesome buzz going on and freaking sweet light shows blowing my mind...the night was...carthartic. Like I said, I'm not a huge fan of the Fray, but they put on a fantastic show. And Andrew McMahon of Jack's Mannequin is cute and emo and kind of a show off...everything I like. Superpages.com Center was a decent venue, I really didn't see anything that was so horrible. Afterwards, I watched Superbad by myself and went to bed, sorely missing Danish.

Picture from the Rough Riders game

I love these people. Even though I admit there were some similarities to the satirical description Carles gives in this blog entry about the typical girls' hang out rituals, I truly believe they've outgrown that partying stage. I think it happened gradually with Diana moving in with her boyfriend, Angie getting engaged, and Meagan buying a house. Whatever it is, I'm glad it's happened. I'm glad to have these people in my life.

Humpty Dumpty

Just kidding, that's mean. Yesterday morning, Danish had quite a fall on his bike ride with his cousin. He couldn't unclip his shoe from the pedal quick enough, so he lost balance and landed on a shoddy chain link fence where a metal prong punctured his hip! It's a small but deep hole surrounded by swelling and redness. It looks disgusting. We went to the doctor's to patch it up and get him a tetanus shot, but apparently it's still bleeding. He was lucky it got him in the hip rather than his side where it could have punctured a spleen or some other organ! The funny thing was he was so excited about his accident and the ongoings of yesterday. Maybe his life is so mundane and that was the most action he's had in a while. I don't know. But I'm glad he's alright.

Eric's mom is on her way back to Dallas today. Thankfully all her matters have been resolved! And I've decided to go to the Fray concert afterall. I wasn't able to sell my ticket. Meagan said she would go with me and I managed to buy a ticket for cheap on Craigslist (how come no one bought mine?!). Tonight, I'm going to another Rough Riders game with Angie, Diana, and Meagan and we'll be doing the whole free food and beer deal. I'm going to miss Danish over the weekend since he's going to an all-weekend bachelor party for Brad. Brad's wedding is next Saturday.

Tattoos

This was quite humorous. My favorite is the orange zone.

Prius marketing campaign

Toyota is planting Solar Flowers all across major cities in the U.S. It gives free power and Wi-Fi.


One comment read: It looks like a ploy to turn us all into the gay.