Each Day Counts

The Dedication

I am sitting here working on some homework for a biography class that I am taking and I thought that I would post a piece of the assignment for you to read.  The assignment is to write a dedication of sorts that explains my reasons for wanting to write a biography.

This is what I came up with:

Dedication

I would dedicate my biography to my daughters. If I cannot get through the disease that I have I want them to know the real person that I was. I want them to know that they were thought of every day and that they influenced every decision that I ever made. I want them to see that I was a good guy no matter what they ever heard about me.

I would also dedicate it to my future wife, Megan and I would write within its pages the promises that she made to me while I was alive. She promised to live and love and never stop teaching whether I survived the battle or not and I hope that she lives up to that.  I only want her to be happy forever with or without me.

I would want people that need hope to read my biography and I hope that they can understand that I never gave up living no matter my circumstances. I want them to read about my anguish and my pain and my sorrow so they know that those things are natural and that they can be lived through.  There are times when I wanted to give up and die but fighting is the way to go.  A person should never give up hope.  Hope is something that can never be taken away from you.  Money can come and go.  Jobs can come and go.  Even love can come and go but hope is built in and needs to be nurtured and treasured.

More than anything I want people to sit and read my biography and laugh and smile at my misadventures. I want people to realize that living is the best part of life. Smiling in my opinion is good for the soul. It took me years and years to realize that but that is something that means more to me than anything at all. Think about when a child smiles. There is nothing brighter than a big toothless smile when sadness has set in and hope seems a million miles away. And when an elderly person smiles think about all the wisdom in that smile. That is a beautiful thing.

My biography will never be meant for me to make a fortune. I would like it published online so that the world can read my words for free. If just one person that reads it and finds hope within its pages my job was done. If just one person realizes that living like ‘Each Day Counts’ helps them, I was a success.

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One more thing...The photo above (click it to see it larger) is one that I took in a flower shop over this past weekend while we were out making wedding plans.  If you need an injection of insanity and color you can see all my online photos by clicking here. 

I have been updating them more and more lately.  Feel free to leave comments.

Smile today!

 

Really Sexy Apple

I got the coolest email in my box today.  My web host (Go Daddy) actually made some major changes to my account and increased the amount of everything that I was paying for.  This means that I can store 5 gigabytes of data on my account instead of 1/2 gigabyte and there is no price increase.  I am wondering what the catch is.  How can all that be only $3.95 per month?  Hmmmm.... I will let you know what happens.

Anyway, I have school today and today is the day that we put our paper together so it will be stressful.  I will rest as much as possible though and make it all as easy on myself as possible.

About the title of this post:  I am reviewing the latest Fiona Apple CD this issue.  I will admit that I have never been her biggest fan but this CD is killer!  Her lyric writing is amazing and all the tracks are catchy enough and strange enough to really get stuck in your head.

Click here to hear the song, Extraordinary Machine.  Give it a shot.  You may just love it.  I love when readers send me feedback on the songs that I link to here.  It is interesting to know what people think about certain tracks.

For instance, when I linked to Holiday in Spain by the Counting Crows one guy emailed me his honest opinion of the song.  He mentioned a four letter word ending in ing and something about toilet water!  Now, maybe that was not the response that I expected but it was honest.

Well, I need to get off my ass and put on some pants (sorry about that visual) and get ready to tackle school.  I will face the Tango dancing Professor in a couple of hours so that will be fun.  Do something exciting today if you can.  Maybe cliff diving or parasailing.  Ok...maybe just making something wild for dinner.  Add extra breading to your fried chicken! :-)

One day we will have to all get together and go on a crazy adventure in the jungles of Mexico or somewhere exotic ike that.  Maybe we will discover an ancient civilization.  Maybe all we will find is spider bites on our butts.  Either way, life should be an adventure.

Smile today!

Pictures and Words

It's after midnight and I am hanging out with Meg watching a show that we recorded earlier and typing this blog entry when I really should be typing up a front page story that is due for the college newspaper that I write for.  It is due in 12 hours and between now and then I should probably sleep a bit.  For some reason the pressure of a deadline makes me feel great and I feel like I write better when I get down to the wire.

My web connection was down for about four hours today because of a storm and I felt like a crack head without a fix.  I don't know what I would do without the web.  It is sad but it really has become a big part of my life.  A minute ago I was sitting at our desk getting the connection back, now I am on the laptop typing and when I hit the sheets I will break out the handheld PC and read the news.  I am a nerd.  A geek.  A freak.  And I love it! :-)

Anyway...here are the results for Flickr Friday.  I am not sure what to do with this project.  When it was born I was getting between 20 and 40 entries per week.  This week I have two.  Don't get me wrong.  I love the two that I got.  Maybe people are just too busy.  Maybe they are losing interest.  Please let me know what you think.

This week's theme was 'something new that you are really enjoying.'  This picture is actually one that another blogger drew of me.  I have been reading Ellen's blog for many, many moons now and I have wanted to be a member of her royal court.  To understand what the heck I am talking about check out her site.  She is an author and illustrator and all the art on her site is her own.  I really enjoy showing this photo to people because it really looks like me.  It even shows the stupid facial hair thing that I have been trying to grow forever to make me look a bit younger and more hip.  Did I say hip?  Holy crap!  I am old!  Anyone know where I can get a sweet deal on Depends or denture cream?

This photo was submitted by Nancy at CrazedMom.net.  This lady has awesome people in her life!  They bought here those pretty flowers and the iPod for her birthday!  If you have read my site for a while you know that I should be going to iPod Anonymous meetings!  Nancy, this little gadget really provides the soundtrack to my wacky daily existence.  I was thinking about having it surgically attached to my head!  I hope that you love it as much as I like mine.  Maybe we share some of the same taste in tunes and we can share a few!

That's it for tonight.  I took some meds and now I am getting sleepy.  I hope I can sleep!  Have a great day tomorrow!