OK, so I've told josiah the first time i saw the revamped chattablogs site and told him I didn't like it... I still don't. One thing I hate about it is it displays the most recent entries. Therefore it favors people who blog extensively mainly Roe and a few other people who I guess have jobs where they aren't limited to simply yahoo. For instance Clifton, not sure who you are, don't know if I know you, don't even think I've read your blog, and no offense or anything, but Clifton's is referenced four times on the chattablogs because he has posted four blogs today. Well say joe shmoe stumbles across chattablogs looking for a certain blogger, if that blogger's blog is not on that first site they may not have the knowledge to go deeper and search. The old site had everyone's blog listed on the side leaving the middle of the page for interesting news and updates about the site. The old way allowed for you to find a blog, although it wasn't alphabetical which it should have been, and go strait to it and also catch up on any news that may affect the chattablogs. I would like the old blog style revamped and put back into place. For one you can't really get an overall shot of how many bloggers there actually are on chattablogs and it usually takes me forever to find some people's blogs because the newest and oldest sort doesn't always seem to work. I think a side bar of all the bloggers (in alphabetical order) should be reestablished that way if someone is looking for a particular blogger they can check that list, go to their last name or code name and find it instead of having to fiddle with finding their most recent entry or fiddle with who is newer or older. which still doesn't make sense because if you're searching alphabetically its not a matter of newness or oldness. There's also plenty of room for the side bar with every blogger on it on one page. I realize this is a lot of bloggers and alot of names, but it can be done, not hard, i guess i don't know anything about computers and internet stuffs. THats my complaining for today. off to st. louis tomororw and turkey eating.
I'm wanting to maintain some sort of consistency in my life on many levels. I realize a lot of things I used to do and have passion for I don't anymore. I used to run fairly decently regularly. I'd make it out to the trails of Covenant at least three times a week, especially while on campus. So far since I've been married I think I've run one week. I tried getting a routine started but when I get home, its near dark, when i go to work it's totally dark--all the day light is wasted at work. Its truly frusterating, the best hours of the day wasted in a cubicle. So tonight I started doing situps while watching TV. Its nothing big but I figure if i can maintain that and my round of pushups then I can at least same I'm doing something, even though it is by far so minor.
So I guess you can say I've been more and more convicted about my inactivity. Another thing I've also been convicted of is my faith or at times lack there of. Another thing I had established at Covenant was a fairly regular devotional time> school helps so much in keeping your life structured and the more structured it is the smoother it can go. While real life seems different. You go to this job where you bust your but, work real hard, and come home completely wasted and just want to veg out. So thats what Americans do, they're mashed potatos by day, couch potatos by night. That analogy doesn't make any sense but you get the point. And its not necessarily that Americans work so hard at work, its just the thought of hard work makes us feel that we're working hard. At least thats what it feels like sometimes for me. I know what I have on the agenda for the year and it boggles my mind how I'll ever get it all done, truth is it comes in small pieces and is really just a bunch of small miniscule tasks that come at me one after another, if I look at them from the big picture stand point my job is enormous and drastically important, but from the day day to view, its just a task driven day where i go in, do my part, and clock out at the end of the day. But as usual I digress from what I'm getting at. So i had this structured devotional life, it was cool, I learned a lot, fealt good about myself, the whole self righteous thing can really make a Christian feel like a better person. And since I was at Covenant away from the real world of crime, corruption, politics, and general mucky muck, I seemed to have a pretty good grapple on this crazy world that had so much order and sense to it... ahh the naivity of a college student.
I thought I was pretty smart back in college, it took graduation and the real world to show me I don't know squat. Foreign affairs, politics, and global events aren't these black and white issues that can be figured out with a "Bush Sucks" statement or a "Bush is the next Hitler" these statements made by so many of today's protesters are so far from unfounded that they're almost as funny as they are insulting. To compare President Bush to one of history's infamous men of seemingly pure evil is a little unfounded, heavy handed, and just plain rude. It seems the people making these statements never stepped out of the classroom and took a look at the world adn realized, "Hey that textbook didn't have it all figured out, and frankly just because i believed that textbook doesn't mean i have the slightest clue what the heck is going on in the world" What am i arguing? I dunno know, i'm not that bright, I kind of just ramble on and hope I reach a point by bed time. I guess a point would be its easy to hide behind a wall of ignorance. Do i think the war in Iraq is a good thing or bad? I dunno know... yes and no and I don't want to get into that.
One thing I realized while at the books a million the other day is how reactionary and arbitrary the media can be. Right next to each other you have Al Franken's book 'Lies, and the Lying Liars who tell them a fair and balanced book at the right" which sits next to a book similar in title about the left. The only thing I get out of looking at these books is that these people both have their head up their butts, basically of their respective parties. Fraken is so blantly left that he can see anything good on the right and what good on the right he ignores for fear of actually vindicating them, while the right is doing the same thing to the left. When in actuality they have i think redeemible qualities on each side. I've often gotten into arguements, lost them usually, with people at covenant about government programs. I don't think they're all that bad. Do i think some of them are bad, yes, but then again some of them are very good. The government helping the arts and sciences in my mind is a good thing. We need to develop the art of our country and the science that propels our country forward, that is a government program funded very intensively by tax payers money. Do i think welfare is a bad thing, not necessarily. This often is rebutted with "thats the church's job" well my friends da church ain't doin it. I don't get too peaved when i have to pay a 10% sales tax, or when i have a smaller paycheck because i live in Georgia and have to pay income tax, and I don't get too frusterated when it costs 4 bucks to buy a pack of smokes (mainly cause i don't smoke heh heh heh). I figure we have a good country, my taxes are keeping me quite comfortable, why not help out the guy who's out of a job or the single mom who can't afford to pay the rent. Its no real skin off my nose. I'm not saying let the robbers and crooks rip off the system, and I'm not saying i'm a fan of the welfare state. I just think that everyone needs a little help now and then, just like the western union add used to say. I don't know its late, and i'm rambling and i can't back any of this up. Who knows maybe in the morning i'll be a die hard conservative and be on my way to alabama to storm the courthouse and force the 10 commandments up someones nose. We'll see what happens when the sun comes up... i most likely we'll just go to my cube and sulk.
Weekend, over... holiday week beginning. Me and the whole family, basically that encompasses me and wifey, are heading up to the mothership--St. Louis for giving thanks. My brother Hunt, aka concerned, we'll be home as well as my grandparents from me pappi's side, and an aunt and two of her kids--none of which I'm too familiar with. Thats the problem with distant catholic families--too many kids and too many of the same names. For instance my dad is the third generation of Jim and he named his first born jim too carrying on the tradition. There are about three John's on my mother's side, two peters, and on my dad's side, two ricks, a couple robs, a few daves, one Trent, and a couple of marks. For some odd reason my family thought it was dang cool to name their kids after themselves, my guess its some sort of ego trip thing or a salute to tradition as most things are in the realm of Roman Catholicism. "Screw what the Bible says, we got tradition." Hey its worked well for the catholic church so far I mean look at that whole child molestation thing.
Well wifey and I are definately not naming our kids after either of us, we kind of don't like our names. I'm really pushing for the name "Eli" however the reviews from the other side of the bed have been far less than good. We kind of decided on the name "Luke" she likes it because it flows off the tongue and I like it because its a homage to Luke Skywalker, "Luuuuuke, Luuuuuke.... I am your faaaather..... Iiiiiittttss time for Diiiinnner." Stuff like that would make my life ten times as fun as it already is. Now I just need to get her to go with Chewie, Leiah, and Obi Wan Kenobi Holton. I plan on using the name Isatar as a threat to my kids. "If you don't behave I'm headed strait to the court house and legally changing your name to Isatar!" I know I'd behave, I mean come on "Isatar" thats horrible, right up there with Malacrotchey or Hasnoballs. Girls names we don't ever really fight about, maybe its because I don't care and I'd pick a dumb girls name anyway. Fact is I went four years of my life without even talking to a girl during high school so I feel generally out of the loop with feminine culture anyway. Occasionally the wife cues me on things that are important to know, "Don't ever bring up the issue of weight when talking to women. The outfit always looks good and doesn't make them look fat. Its always the man's fault in a woman's mind so just take the blame for it and it will make bed time go over more smoothly. And don't ever tell a woman how their cooking could be better, even if you know what the food is missing as far as spices or salt and never never never ask for barbeque sauce unless you're eating barbeque." That last one I'm still working on.
Where I come from, st. louis, more specifically at my old home with the old folks live, me and me kin always put sauce on anything. If the meal tasted great, then a ton of ketchup, A1, Stubbs BBQ Sauce, or KC Masterpiece will make it heavenly. I used to put BBq sauce on my vegetables and baked potatos to make them taste better. Now I don't even think there's BBQ in our apartment.
So, thats about it. Weekend was good. We hung with the Roes on friday. Roesiah and I went shopping saturday morning for the wives which was eventful. Then I went shopping with the wife in the afternoon, and then came home and crashed while the wife watched football, its sad she's a bigger college football fan than me, guess we know who wears the pants in this family... neither, we're both wearing shorts. Then saturday night wife wrapped christmas presents while i played REd Faction 2, which although i thought was really lame the first few times i played it, after i put it on insanely easy and didn't care that game presented no real challenge I finally was allowed to sit back and relax and just shoot the bad guys. Churched it today and then had the future Lutz's over for dinner. It was a good weekend and we're anxious for thanksgiving. adios.
Work this week has been crazy. I actually had to stay past 4:45 last night, it was intense. I went home last night and watched 2 towers, all 8 hours of it. Seriously that movie is too dang long. It was good though. I didn't like it the first time around but watching in again I got a better feel for the story and although I hate hate hate what they did to Boromir's brother by making him try to take the ring and that whole side trip to Minas Tirith, I think other parts really made up for it. Really most of the frodo parts I can't stand but thats more my bias against Elijah Wood and the way everything he says comes out melo dramatically.
Tonight i went out and did some christmas shopping. I got the wifey almost taken care of, just one more thing ought to do it. I unfortunately bought more stuff for myself. It was stuff I felt I couldn't do without though, even though thats not true at all. I bought the new U2 Dvd Live at Slane Castle. For those U2 dorks they know this is a Dvd that fans signed a petition that U2 release because it apparently is that awesome. It apparently is real charged and has a lot of historical ireland undertones. Go to Rob's site if you want to ask the expert. I won't be able to watch it for a few nights though, Wifey is watching the Crapelor or that is the Bachelor tonight. I also went to the used video game store, i knew i shouldn't have but I couldn't resist. I saw an item there a few weeks ago when i was looking for christmas presents for my brother. The Nintendo 64 version of Zelda for gamecube. I loved the N64 version and alas i had to sell my 64 to get the gamecube so Its kind of like i bought my favorite game on the old system for the new one. It was cheap and you can't find it in the stores so i figure it was worth it, except the fact that lousy crabby has my gamecube. I reemphasize the fact that PS2 is lame. Well i was going to write more but i got a phone call from an old friend and its now too late for tv.
Here's an update on the Law School hunt. After getting an email from my personal council, Bud "Lunger" Lutz, I realized I left everyone hanging with the idea of me pursuing my dream of Law School. Well on friday I applied to three schools. For those of you don't know me or my last year too well, I applied to a bunch of Law Schools last year: Georgia State (Atlanta), University of Louisville, UGA, Samford, Ole Miss, and St. Mary's. I only got into St. Mary's but after closer inspection it didn't look like the right choice b/c its in texas and its a school trying to recover from some stupid mistakes.
This year I applied to Georgia State, this time as a Georgia Resident, however I really think I'm not going to get in there. There average LSAT score is a 158, my LSAT score was a 151, big difference. Also after further consideration commuting down town for school five days a week doesn't sound great and living in student housing might be tough to swallow for the wifey. I also applied to Mercer which is a private college in Macon. Oddly enough I thought it was a real high brow, at least like a vanderbilt or emory, but there average LSat score is only a 153 so I feel a little better about my chances there. Also living Macon would help us being close to the in-laws what with a free meal here and there adn a roof until we could find one for ourselves. The third school I applied to was St Louis University. Now here's where Bud scratches his head. He applied and didn't get in and he had a higher LSAT and GPA. Well the only hope I have of getting in there... good old nepotism. My father, both grandfather, and countless uncles and aunts are alum of SLU. So if for some reason SLU has any loyalty to my family I may have a shot, if they don't then lets hope something else comes to fruition. My legal council Lunger thinks I should stear towards Mizzou. I may but what stinks is I lost my Missouri state hood when i married Janelle and stayed in Georgia taking GA residency. Oh well. You got to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them. So Mizzou possibly this week, maybe Ole Miss again, and maybe Samford again, I think i was on the waiting list at Samford so we'll see. I figure my dream just needs one more shot.. and if it fails, if I fail, then i stick with Cigna and have to play the corporate ladder game for the rest of my life. We'll see. More updates to come.
I've been watching Monday night football and was rooting for the Niners until i realized that the niners are in the Rams's division and only one game behind the said rams. I still have some affinity for the good ole rams even though i think Mike Martz is a moron of sorts of a coach. He's too much of an offensive coordinator and not enough of a head coach. Though I have been somewhat impressed with Lovie Smith and the defense this year, well except for the past few weekends, but the shut out of the Falcons, although the falcons stink, a shut out of anyone is impressive.
Well where were we? Oh yes. Well wifey and I headed down to Macon this past weekend to see the in laws. We got there late friday night after a stop at the outlet malls to finish up the xmas shopping. We played Rumi cube to about one in the morning. For those who don't know what rumi cube is its like a game of jin (the card game) only with tiles instead of cards and you have to be the first to get rid of all the tiles. Wifey is the usual winner of almost every game, but yours truly decided to play for keeps. I won an unprecedented amount of times and like Terrel Owens on Monday night football i left the defense in the dust. Then if that weren't enough the next night wifey and I went to town on her parents in spades. We went and saw RADIO this weekend with her folks. Now I know what you're thinking, "radio come on chris thats not cool thats sentimental." Well kiddies, like I always say "Every good sandwich needs a good slice of cheese." The movie was perhaps the most moving, sentimental, and sad/happy movie i've seen in a long while. I'm man enough to admit it, it teared me up pretty good. I haven't been that teared up at a movie since Glory or Saving Private Ryan. It truly was a cute and wonderful story. If you want to go feel good, go see it. But leave your cynicism in the car, thats my new technique to movies, leave my cynical side in the car. I've ruined too many good movies by having a bad attitude.
We went up to Atlanta after church in macon to meet up with the Crabbs. We met up with them and went to another movie, this time it was ELF, another feel good movie. Elf was pretty dang funny I must admit. "You're not santa... You stink." It was another movie you had to just be a child and laugh to your hearts content. It also put me in the holiday spirit.
I felt bad for the crabbs, we went out to dinner and they're on the Atkins diet, or as I call it, THE DIET FROM HELL!!! We went to a steak joint but they're so sick of eating meet that they settled for salads. Wifey of course got a salad, so it was up to me. I felt bad for ordering pasta and eating in front of two people who couldn't touch a carbo. So i caved to the salad call, although it was the most expensive dang salad I've ever seen--ten bucks! Next time I'll bring my own lettuce... hmm, not a bad idea. Then we got home and I had the worst diarea ever, I'd go into it but I might offend my female constituency.
I rented a Ps2 game tonight but it stinks like most ps2 games i've come accross in my one week or so of owning it. I rented Red Faction 2, a game adapted from the computer. I should have known it would have stunk. Adapted games are never as good as they are on computer. Especially on PS2. This one i can't tell if people are shoot at me or i'm blinking. I also rented teh 2 towers. I didn't like it the first time but i rented the super edition to get me in gear for the third one. That's my weekend on the initial level.
One thing hard about being married, you lose complete control over how you look. No more black belts with brown shoes, no more hawain shirts with plaid pants, no more socks with sandals, and no more wearing my underwear on my head. One thing I lamented to by good friend the Crabbinator the other week was I would never again be able to shave my head. Shaving my head two years ago was one of the most freeing things I ever did. I did it on a bet at camp, I bet the kids I lived with that if they were good for one day (these were the worst kids ever) that I'd give them a surprise... they were good their treat was me shaving my head. No shampoo, no combing, and fast cool off. Well I live the dream yet again...I have gained freedom...
How you ask? Did I get enough guts to stand up to my wife? Not bloodly likely... No it was more a mistake. I was cutting my hair that was annoyingly long when I asked my wife to come in and trim the back and burns a bit. Well she assumed the guard was on... she was wrong. She took care of my side burn... a little too much. Before I knew what she was doing... I had a bald spot on the side of my head. IF you've seen that commercial for the digital camera where the guy shaves the eyebrow of his friend b/c his friend shaved his head, it was like that, only I didn't go after wifey. I cried, then wifey cried, then Hunt laughed... he's such a little trooper. Actually I laughed so hard and wifey laughed and cried at the same time. So if you see me on the street stop, say hi, rub the head for luck.
Its going to be odd at work going from hairy to baldy. I'll have to tell the story a million times... oh well it was worth it. I'm going to count this as losing weight. WHA HOO I lost weight!!! Well i got to go put some vaseline on my head, don't want it gettin all chapped up on me.
Well, I saw the Matrix last night with wifey. We went to a matinee and I must say my overall opinion was favorable. It was a kick bootie action sci fi flick that ended with peace between humans, robots, and me. I understand how people feel that it doesn't match up to the first one. But here's my theory on why the second two movies don't seem to be in the same league with the first. The first movie i think was made under the suspicion that "Hey lets make this action sci fi flick, we have this bigger picture in mind with a huge chunk of story we could tell, but lets see if we can get the first one to do well first." The first one did very well, then they set out to make the second two. I realize they had the idea for the whole story from the get go and I'm not calling that into question. But the high powered world of hollywood you can't make a trilogy without having the first one be a blockbuster. That's the first part of my theory.
The second part is after seeing the Animatrix you really get a better picture of what the Wacoski bros are trying to do--make a live action anime esque movie. You really get a good understanding after seeing the behind the scenes and bonus material from the animatrix movie of that desire. Now I really don't want people to go rent the animatrix because it wasn't worth the money i paid to rent it. Only four out of the nine movies was really good, and three of those I know you can download off the internet. But if you watch the second two movies and think anime it kind of takes on a different feeling. For one thing I've noticed about anime, its high in action for the most part, at least the ones i enjoy. It melds several philsophical worldviews and themes and makes a confusing thematic cartoon. That and unless you're Morris or japanese you'll probably never understand completley what the heck the story is saying. Anime cartoons are so confusing, and maybe its just my feeble mind, but consistency doesn't always seem a priority in the anime world. Thus the Wacosoki bros making a real life anime have made the matrix inconsistent. More to come on my thoughts on this
So I've heard the Matrix is so so from a few people, well I think I know why some people are being disappointed. When the Matrix first came out people thought it was this spectacular and innovative. Well that's a half truth. Spectacular it was, it was an awesome movie that had levels of depth and awesome action. However it pulled most of these themes and action from other sources. It was a conglomeration of Anime influences and other stuff. Now the second one came along and added to the action and added to the confusion. It didn't necessarily get more deep, but it got more confusing... especially with that 10 minute orgy scene, I still have no idea what that was about. I think too many people have been expecting a Star Wars esque thrilogy. Well although I'm a big fan of the Matrix i don't think it can compare to the Star Wars stories. The way each star wars movie deepened the story, increased in intensity, and made us want to go to a galaxy far far away was unmatchable. It had characters we all could relate with, Girls wanted to be like Princess Leigha who was both part beautiful woman, part kick butt royalty. Han solo appealed to all those kids who were part bad guy part good guy. Me personally, I always wanted to be Jaba the Hutt. Eat all day, get scantily clad women dancing around me entertaining me, watch prisoners get eaten by my pet Rancor, and best of all eat frogs, man i could go for some frogs right about now...
SO stop comparing Matrix to other Trilogies. It will never be Jaws, it will never be the Godfather (Although that's not a trilogy, the third one is illigitimate in my mind), it is a sci fi action movie that looks deep, smells deep, and tastes deep. What does that mean, I don't know I havent' even seen the third movie yet. I'll let you know saturday night.
So the wife is watching the Bachelor and I'm gagging myself to death. How can someone so obnoxious be a sex symbol? Is the new rule for sex symbols you have to be annoying as sin and the biggest dill this side of the sun? Because if so than I am the biggest sex symbol this side of the sun. I'm playing Shinobi on PS2 its pretty cool so far. Its kind of a cool anime type game with very much the ninja theme spliced in, meaning the game is about ninjas. Though stupid wife shows keep getting in the way of some serious game play. I may call in sick work tomorrow. Some church folk went to see the Matrix tonight but I don't do late shows since the last one i went to, Matrix Reloaded at 10 PM I fell asleep at. I'm an old man. Internet? Whats an internet?
I'm on my lunch break now and writing a blog at wifey's work. Work is kind of dull today. That and its raining out so its just a dull day. When it rains in chattanooga the city takes on an odor of a wet dog. It really stinks out there. The wife rented legally blond 2 last night and watched the thing, I refused to watch it. I watched the first bit and realized, Life is too short to waste it on a dumb movie. Although wifey claims i watched most of it, which is just utter lies. Its ok, i still love her. I rented Shinobi for PS2, but we didn't have any time to play it. Crabby and I pulled off the switch, Now he's knee deep into Metroid which is a very awesome game for teh Lame Cube. Its one of the few that made the system not a complete bust. Well, got to get back to the grind, and I'm not talking about dirty dancing.
Today was a decent monday. After making some decisions about the future and at least having somewhat of a game plan for the next few monthes I feel like i can sit down and just focus on what I'm doing right here and now. I downloaded some applications for law school and will fill them out in my spare time this week at work... possibly have them done tomorrow who knows. We had dinner with the Roes which was a blast then played a game of settlers... which we shouldn't have. You'd think we'd know by now that the four of us can't play that game without wanting to tear each other's arms off and use them as tennis rackets, but as the crack fiend turns to crack, we turn to settlers. I then went to greyfriars and enjoyed a hair raising... jumata? chumba wumba? Jomato? I always forget the word for it but here's how you make it: One pull of espresso, a sugar in the raw packet, another pull of espresso, then a flavored syrup (I forget which one) then brew it on up and its a party in your mouth. It hyped me up real good. I talked with a fellow C-stoner Stephen Beck who is a resident cool guy. He's one of those local boys who hasn't left chatt but you can respect him since he's making his own money instead of those local boys who never leave chatt, go to McCallie/Baylor (is there a difference) and then live off their parent's/grandparent's trust funds driving suv's around town and sipping tea and crumpets like they're Chattanooga's very own Kennedy family. And heaven for bid they actually give back to the community and get a job, Noooo, they have to feed off society like a leech suckeling off the very nipple of life. What the heck am I talking about? Lousy rich people...waste of space
I'd be communist, but only if I could be in the upper crust of Communist society. Kind of like the government officials in Soviet Russia that would go to secret grocery stores to get their western Coke and food. I'd probably starve to death if I were one of the regular shmoes who had to wait 8 hours in line for a piece of bread. My ADD would kick in and I'd get bored and get out of line. Then I'd get so hungry I'd just start biting people trying to suck what life essence I could from their dirty clothes hoping maybe for a flea or grub that was on their filth ridden, mangie rags.
Who am I? Bob Dole? No, Pineapple.. No...
I"M BRIAN FELLOWS!!
And just like that the weekend was gone. This weekend we headed down to the crabbs house in Hotlanta. Crabby and I let our wives run free with the credit cards and we had the day to ourselves. Crabby and I unfortunately have become a couple of old men. We tried doign some Christmas shopping, we failed at that so we tried to see a movie, failed at that, so what'd we do? Drank some coffee and read video game magazines at Borders.... Classy. It was fun and relaxing two things I like doing. Then we went to Carabas which I have convinced wifey that it is better than Olive Garden if you have to choose an italian chain restaurant. We then continued the tradition of guys verse girls Spaids. The men pulled out a stunning comeback behind the likes of a few Nills by yours truly. There's something about going nill in spaids that just appeals to my inner self. You see going nill is when you have to lose every hand, if you win one you're luggage as the govenor of Cali For Nia would say. I think I'm so good at going nill because i'm a natural loser and thus i just do what i do best. LOSE BIG TIME!!
Then we watched SNL which was disappointing as usual.
Wifey and I had a really great time in Atlanta. We'd really like to settle down in atlanta some day. We know a lot of people there and have already been to several great churches down there. This weekend we went to Rob Holme's dad's church which i was very impressed with both the sermon by Pastor Holmes and the overall friendly level of the entire congregation. As far as transferring down there with Cigna I'd have to go into another line of work within the company to do that. Underwriting is based here in chat, nashville, and two other cities in a far away galaxy, Pheonix and Bloomfield. So unless i could transfer to another dept more sales or service oriented I'd have to fidn some other job. There is still my dream of law school which I feel I need one last stab at. I feel like maybe if i apply one more time i'll be satisfied with the outcome i get. I plan on applying to a few schools, some i applied to last year and some i didn't. Part of the goal of us living here in Georgia, despite being close to Bucks Pit Barbeque, was to get Georgia residency, which i now have, and see if that helps my chances in getting into a GA law school. Only time will tell so we'll see. I'm not sure if a few monthes corporate experience will help me or not, i hope it does. As i told my wife we trying to see what cards we get dealt here in the next year and make a decision on our future upon what kind of hand we have. If i get denied entry into all the schools i apply to I'm taking that as a resounding "YOU AINT" GOING TO LAW SCHOOL KID" from God. I'm not trying to test God but no sense having a pipe dream if I ain't got da brains to do get into da schools. Plus I feel like if i give it one more college try that I'll be able to say "Hey I tried, it didn't work out, now i can focus on my career" which means climbing up the corporate ladder here at cigna or trying to jump to another ladder down in atlanta after a little more work experience is under my belt. We'll see its all a matter of time, patience, and trusting in God to lead us through. We're trying to place all our trust in him since he is God and all powerful and all. I mean he did save us from sin, the least we can do is trust in him.
We love chattanooga but we also love Atlanta so its just a matter of where God wants us to be. That may sound so trite as I here it tossed aroudn a lot but it really is true. We're unsure of the path we are to take and we're going to see what doors are opened, and what doors a shut in the next year or so. GOd's been so good to us, and we have to truly count our blessings. We've been blessed with great jobs, although not fun and exciting, great pay and great co-workers. Plus our church and friends have been so supportive and loving that we would've have had a hard time being married without their support and encouragement. I'm excited to see what develops in the next few monthes or so and where our paths will go as we get a clearer view of our future. Gots to sleep adios