Something More

Thinking? Forget That.

tyroid — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:59:51 GMT

I don't like all that deep theological apologetic stuff. (Not discrediting the importance that it can hold)

But I see people get wrapped up in thinking so much that it's like they forget to live.

I'll take life.

EDIT:

I made a post about not thinking too much, and so many of you overthought it.

That's kinda funny.

I live as monosylabically as I can.

This Disgusts/Sickens Me

tyroid — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:09:27 GMT

So I'm doing some research to see what new CD's I'm going to buy, and I'm running across the same problem over and over again.

No one is willing to stand up and say from the go, "HEY! I DO THIS FOR THE SAKE OF CHRIST! HE OFFERS EVERYTHING TO YOU, AND WANTS TO LOVE YOU!"

How many Christian bands are out there that are willing to give up even just one paragraph on their main website to clarify what they are speaking about. Ambigious lyrics mean nothing to a person who does not know Christ. If someone can listen to the entire album and not figure out that you are WITHOUT A DOUBT, speaking about God and your reltionship with his son, then something went wrong.

Bands who's CD's I will not be buying:

Kids in the Way
Thousand Foot Krutch (not putting it on YOUR website is not saying it, you had to have someone else say it for you, this one upsets me)
Switchfoot (it was good while it lasted)
POD (never really listened to them anyway)
Emery (maybe I just misunderstood you from the beginning)
Hawk Nelson (I was really hopeful about these guys)
Slingshot 57 (sounds nice, but not yet)
Demon Hunter (I hope this changes before October when they drop a new Album)
Grits (Love the music, but I''m spending my hard earned money on it until you say it)

Bands Who's CD's I want to Buy:

Stellar Kart
FM Static (which is strange since it's lead singer is the same guy from Thousand Foot Krutch)
Big Dismal

Bands I'm still not sure about:

Everyday Sunday

I was so hopeful about a lot of those bands. And now I'm not sure what to do about the CD's that I already own from those on the "do not buy" list.

For those wondering why I'm even stating this, here's my viewpoint. You cannot call yourself a Christian band if the music is not glorifying God's Name. If you are not praising God, or singing of his goodness (and you can't leave it open to interpretation about what you're singing about), then you are a band comprised of Christians, not a Christian band.

I'm fearful for Relient K. They seem to be heading in the wrong direction.

I know not everybody agrees with me, so I'm open to your opinions.

There is nothing in common

tyroid — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:53:12 GMT

So I just went through my friends page for the first time in what feels like a year, though it's only been something more like a week.

I'm amazed at how out of the loop I feel after just one week of not keeping up with people. And what this makes me realize even more, is not that I don't care about my friend's or not that I don't consider them friends anymore, but more of the fact that I feel so distanced from them, and I don't really care that I'm so far away.

I feel like my life has completely changed center, and the center is no where near me anymore. I see what my friend's are going through; most of them having to deal with graduating, or other school woes, spiritual fights, and believe me, I have my own load of them as well. But these problems are not what I even care about.

As I see my life from my eyes, all my focus is around the fact that I am a Christian MAN (we'll talk about that topic later), with a wife (though not officially mine yet), and that I have a job to do for the glory of the Kingdom of God. My life is based around these three things, and I feel that it distances me from all of you.

My life is based off of a system of necessity. And don't anybody take this the wrong way, but I don't need any of you. To the world, that may sound harsh, but all of the necessities of my life have been met.

I have my wife, who is my best friend, and who is the fulfillment of a promise of God to me. I have my salvation, from which comes my mission on this Earth to spread his word. And what else is there that I need? Only the things to support those two. I do not turn to those my own age for guidance in the scriptures, or mentoring in the faith. I feel we're all at the same level, so there can be no real growth from having only those relationships. I must look to those who are wiser, (as is mentioned in scriptures time over time) and the growth that I can receive from fellowship with them.

None of you can tell me from experiences that God has granted you, how to deal with the things that lay ahead of me.

Here's what it boils down to:

1.) Compared to others my age; I have only one common goal with them, and that is to spread Christ's love to the world. There are no other comparison's between what you and I are going through.

2.) I miss Sarah.

3.) I miss having older men of God who I can learn from.

4.) I've learned to deal with being away from my Christian support, but there's only so much I can do on my own.

I'm telling all of you, beware of how you respond to this if you so choose to.

Coming to you from Lenny!

tyroid — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:20:53 GMT

So this is my first update from my new computer Lenny.

It's a Linux box, and I'm having much fun learning a new operating system. At least now, when I spend all day behind the keyboard, I feel like I'm at least learning something.

Plus, Sarah comes into town tomorrow, so I'm happy about that. We've been together over a year and a half now, and these three weeks are the longest we've been apart.

I need to shave myself from the neck up. (except I think I'll leave my eyebrows)

GASP A real update?!

tyroid — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:35:58 GMT

I'm not even sure if I know how to do these anymore, but I'll take a stab at it.

Being "home" is extremely strange. If the me from today was talking to the me who had been living in San Angelo for 2 months, they would get into a huge argument about the statement that I am about to make here today.

I miss home.

I'm not talking about San Antonio anymore. There are still plenty of reasons why I love San Antonio, but it is no longer my home. My home has become San Angelo. I don't know exactly why, and yes I'm sure that a lot of it has to do with the fact that Sarah is there, but that's not all of it, it's only a large chunk (like 65%). It has to do with the fact that my life is there. I have a pretty good thing going there so far, and it has been extremely difficult to just up and leave everything that I have made there.

So Anyway, my "life" in San Antonio is also extremely non-productive, and hate being non-productive. I feel like I'm doing nothing right now because all I can think to do to kill time is write in this stupid thing. So I'm not happy right now, but I know that it's stupid because I'm moving back in August, but I'm not looking forward to the fall semester or the fact that I have to reapeat the whole process again next summer when I come back for another class. The only end that I see to getting back to my normal existence is when I move back up in July (hopefully) of 2006. I'm planning on moving into the apartment that Sarah and I will be living in at that time. No she won't be living with me until May of 2007, but I figured it might be a good idea to go ahead and get the apartment we want as soon as I can.

Alright. It's not pie, but it was one of two requests.

New Icon

tyroid — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:44:48 GMT

What more do you want from me?

This thing? Oh yeah. . .

tyroid — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:06:09 GMT

Most of the time I forget that this thing exists. Which is strange considering how much time I use to devote to it.

Anyway, A hello and howdy do to all of you. I really don't have anything to say aside from that.

Oh yeah, Sarah and I have a date set: May 19th, 2007.

Yes, we know it's a long time. So if you're not going to say anything encouraging; Don't.

Adios.

Semester Finale

tyroid — Wed, 18 May 2005 21:13:57 GMT

OK, I got four A's and a B.

3.8 for the semester, which brings my overall up to a 2.898.

I'm getting closer to that 3.0 that I want.

Sarah and I leave for Arizona in the morning.

Been a While and A lot has happened

tyroid — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:35:19 GMT

Well it has been quite some time and quite a lot has happened in that time; none of which I will delve into details about, as they are the mundane.

1.) I'm engaged. She said yes. I'm a dork (and really blessed).

2.) I'm still awaiting my grades to come in and still have to take two finals. So far I'm sitting on 2 A's, and I'll probably end with a total of 4 A's and 1 B. I'll post the official scores in the future.

3.) I will be attending SAC this summer, taking 12 hours. I will have no official job, and will be doing almost any and every odd job that comes up to make some spending cash and to try and save up for a new cell phone/PDA or pocket PC combo device. So for those who haven't seen me in a while, I'll be home this summer.

Can't think of anything else.

Goodbye.

The End of it All?

tyroid — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:07:33 GMT

I gaurantee nothing.

No more LJ posts.

No more E-mail responses.

No more phone calls.

None of these things are gauranteed anymore. My life is not something that I am allowed to dictate. So whenever I get around to you, I get around to you.

Good, Better, Best; Never let it rest, until your Good, is better than Best.

I spend too much time here

tyroid — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:33:43 GMT

I'm taking a one month hiatus from Livejournal.

I spend too much time on the internet (mainly LJ), that could be spent doing something constructive. What something constructive is, I don't know, but right now, it's not LJ.

Enjoy.

Stolen from Krystal

tyroid — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:47:29 GMT

Your Brain is 40.00% Female, 60.00% Male

You have a total boy brain

Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts

And while your emotions do sway you sometimes...

You never like to get feelings too involved

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Thanks Chera!!

tyroid — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:53:21 GMT

So this cool picture was taken by Chera on her trip to England. This is a pub where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien would go to hang out and do cool stuff.

I don't know if I should feel bad about not cutting this pic, but it's only one picture (Roy!) and it's not that big.

Anyway, I am now the proud owner of said picture, and am quite happy about it.

Thanks Chera!!!

I am officially a Pedestrian

tyroid — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:52:48 GMT

So Danielle and I went to my theatre last night to go watch the preview of Constantine. A couple of minutes after we close the theatre, I take Danielle up to the booth to give her a tour of our projection area (to people who have never seen it before it can be intresting). Less than five minutes into the tour, one of my co-workers comes up and say, "Joel. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but somebody just nailed your car."

A Beautiful '01 Black Mustang Cobra had the accelartor stick, and he jumped up onto the hill that I park next to. When he came down off of the hill, his car landed on top of mine.

So my car and his were towed away, but it took nearly two hours to get it all sorted out. He is fully insured, and luckily has the same insurance company as I do, so there should be no problems with getting the vehicles fixed. Unfortunately I'm out a car until then. I'm going to meet with the insurance adjuster later today and hopefully get a rental.

More details to come, but I need to get going to class right now. Hope your days are going good. I'm doing OK, just mostly in shock and awe at what happened.

Good day.

Just cause

tyroid — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:01:12 GMT

John Cooper is sitting across the computer lab from me and he doesn't see me.

Haha.

Being invisible is fun.

Broadcasting Live from Firefox

tyroid — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:52:34 GMT

So this is an entry from Firefox. Just trying out all the functions and everything, I guess. So far, I've noticed two differences;

1.) Firefox seems to enlarge text and offsets the page vertically just a little bit. If I'd never used IE before and if I hadn't done a side by side comparison, I would have never even noticed.

2.) Firefox seems to load pages just a tad slower than IE, but not even so much that I can notice.

If things go ok with this I might switch to it permanently so I can have the hassle of IE exploits out of my head.

Speaking of, the latest batch of XP updates has done something to make Norton upset. for some reason Norton can no longer download Virus definitions, which is a HUGE problem for me. I'll see what I can do to remedy the situation later, but right now, I'm going to go eat and head off to AWANA's.

I despise Quark

tyroid — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:43:53 GMT

So I just spent nearly an hour and fifteen minutes trying to create a business card in Quark Express. I would have been finished in less than fifteen had I been using Publisher or Photoshop. I do not like thgis program with all it's own little controls that carry no continuity between similar programs.

Quark, how I loathe thee.

Disclaimer: Though this and my last post both contained messages of how much I hate something, I am a rather content and happy person.

WARNING: Random Thoughts Ahead(long post)

tyroid — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:56:58 GMT

LJ Cut to save space on everyone's Friend page.

A couple of million thoughts are running through my head at the moment. I liken them to the couple million lines of code stored in my computer, but unfortunately for me, Bruiser (my computer) is better equipped to handle that than I am. So forgive me if coherent thoughts don't flow, but the system is lagged down and running kind of buggy.

I've been recently given a look at my own life from the outside in and I don't quite know what to think of it all. I am sure that my ministry needs MUCH work, as there is really only one person who I have been witnessing to. Dalgliesh's sermon this morning was good for me to hear because up until it I still felt bad about all the time I've essentially wasted not spreading the gospel. But now I have a clearer understanding that my reward is not changed because of lack of time spent serving. Thank you God for saying that through Ryan.

I love Norton Internet Security 2005. I love technology in general, and there are so many things that I want to learn and do, but I just have a hard time finding the time to devote to those things. I hate that I have to work inside of time. If time were never a problem, I could get so many things done.

I miss Sarah. Even though we still live in the same city, we have to force ourselves to make time to spend with one another. I despise doing that. I long for the days when we could just veg out, and do whatever we wanted to do with the whole day. I'm not looking forward to going home due to the separation that I will have from her. I'm not looking forward to a 2 year engagement. But I keep having to be reminded that all these things serve a purpose and they wouldn't be happening if God didn't want them to. I just want to go home to her at the end of the day. Last night, we left the banquet and we got back to her house we sat on the couch to rest and I started falling asleep. I just so badly wanted to fall asleep with her in my arms, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. So I angered myself and told her good night. Got back to my place and nearly fell asleep on the couch so I went to bed after talking to Sean for a while.

Sean's a great roommate.

I love this music. It's the song East Hastings from the 28 Days Later soundtrack. It's so cool. But now it's ending, but since I'm listening through Music Match, the entire CD will play again.

I wish I had a million dollars. That way I could get Sarah the ring she truly deserves instead of the one I can afford to get her. I could also then afford the rest of our Arizona trip. The airline tickets are paid for, but I still need to set aside $80 for Gas to get to San Angelo to pick her up and take her back to San Antonio, and then after the trip take her back to San Angelo and get me back to San Antonio. I don't know how I'm ever going to visit during the summer. And then I still have to figure out how I'm paying for summer school. I hate school with all the fire that is within me. If my passion were rated as a fire, the passion that I have for hating school could burn down all of the Amazon.

I'm not quite sure what to talk about next, but I know that I'm not done talking. AS I said the system is lagging and is running kind of buggy. I need to finish my laundry that I started a week ago because I have no clean black shirts remaining. I want to watch a movie with knights and dragons. I want to watch Dragonheart. I still need to watch Braveheart.

I don't quite know how to deal with Sarah's mother. She has all these preconceived notions about men and I can't convince her otherwise. I've been the exception to every rule I've ever heard in my life. So she'll make a general statement about males and if I try to rebuke it, it feels like I'm just trying to pick a fight. Rex taught out of Song of Solomon this morning and hit the point that guys have to have parental permission before asking a girl to marry her. I'm not sure if I have to have her mother's permission as well or just her father's. I'd be afraid that her mother would say no and her father is going to give me a yes without too much thought. I should not resent her mother and her mother says that she doesn't want to do anything that would make me resentful of her. And I tell her that it doesn't want matter what she wants me to do, I'm going to do it even if I hate it, because I must submit to her will. She and Mr. Thompson are still the governing head over Sarah. I think Mrs. Thompson doesn't like it when I say that. But I can't say anything else because anything else would be a lie.

Any girl ever wanna make a guy totally submissive to her or her parents. . . . . . . . . . . . .just have him be in love you. It'll make him more submissive than you're suppose to be to your husband.

I want the Harry Potter Soundtracks, does that make me gay?

I've only been typing at this thing for 9 minutes and it feels like an hour.

Still don't know what I'm doing for Sarah for Valentine's day this year. It has to be cheap.

Speaking of cheap here's something that's not, Sarah got into another accident Friday night. Front right quarter of her car nailed a suburban. I know from first hand experience what it's like hitting a suburban. They are very unforgiving. But hopefully it will just be body damage which I think I can fix. She's taking it to the mechanic sometime next week. Hopefully there's nothing broken mechanically and I can then just bend her car back into shape and install a new headlight housing. She and the people in the suburban were all ok.

I think I want to download Firefox and give it a try. But I'm so clueless on other browsers (here's where Kyle laughs at me). I can have more than one browser installed at a time, right? They're both just programs, right?

I have things I need to be doing and I'm putting them off. I'll get to them soon.

I care about your friends page unlike Roy who posts copious amounts of pictures!!!!

J/K <3

Desktop Publishing

tyroid — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:34:00 GMT

Quick update from my desktop publishing class. The prof. might make me turn off the monitor in a minute. . . .oh!

Gotta Go!!

The joy of my day

tyroid — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:12:48 GMT

I like band-aidsd that stick to you, but don't pull out the hair on your arm when you pull them off. :-)

Also, do not, I repeat, do NOT go see Alone in the Dark. Horrible, stupid, badly acted, badly written, action movie with little action. I guess that next weekend, there will be one person per showing sitting Alone in the Dark watching it.

I'm off to do my homework.

David- I thought high school stunk the entire time I was there too, but you'll miss the good times when they are gone. College is better though, and I assume being done with college and being married would be even better than that.

As always, I cannot generate original content

tyroid — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:22:41 GMT

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Joel
2. Seven
3. Kumal
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. Starlightterrace
2. Neophyte
3. Tyroid
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My Girlfriend
2. ability to quote movies in almost every situation
3. video editing ability
THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. Stomach
2. my fears
3. my contradictions
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Irish
2. English
3. Redneck
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. not having faith enough
2. failure
3. not knowing the future
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. God
2. Music
3. encouragement
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Shirt
2. boxers
3. tired/waking up look on my face
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (or artists(at the moment)):
1. Ten Shekel Shirt
2. Relient K
3. Kids in the Way
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Ten Shekel Shirt- Risk
2. Falling Up- Broken Heart
3. Relient K- I am Understood?
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. Making all A's
2. Proposing
3. Going to Arizona
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. God
2. hand holding
3. hugs and kisses
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
1. I love San Angelo
2. My hair is brown
3. My eyes are brown
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Shoulders
2. stomachs (I like 'em all)
3. the way they caryy themselves
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. give birth
2. give blood
3. give up
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. videography
2. computers
3. Disc Golf
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Eat
2. have some money (to eat with)
3. get the diamond for Sarah's setting
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Teaching (I'm taking Alford's job)
2. some job in TV production
3. Military
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Ireland
2. Alabama
3. Hawaii
THREE KID'S NAMES
1. Mordechai
2. Daniel
3. Ty
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Get married
2. have some money put off to the side
3. own the fastest computer I've ever used

Ye Olde Update

tyroid — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:06:14 GMT

Nothing new really. Classes have started. Intro to business will take a lot of work and probably more of my time than I want it to. If I don't get A's in everything else, then I'm a moron and just didn't do the work. The first assignment in my Data processing class is to e-mail the teacher, similar assignments to follow.

Haven't been sleeping well I guess. I mean the sleep is ok, but I always wake up in a painful position, or with aches and soreness, which just negate the sleep all together.

Bruiser is acting wierd and won't let me export Jen and Myles' wedding video in the right format to be burned onto the DVD, so I'm still working on that one.

In desperate need of money for the rock for Sarah's ring. I just want it to be in there already, so I can give it to her as soon as her dad comes back.

Sleep is coming over me and I have to get up around 4:45, so I'm gonna actually let it cover me.

Good night all.

I am the LJ Thief

tyroid — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:50:07 GMT

It seems all I do as of late is steal quizzes off of other peoples LJ's.

You scored as Punk/Rebel.

</td>

Punk/Rebel

31%

Drama nerd

31%

Goth

25%

Prep/Jock/Cheerleader

25%

Stoner

25%

Geek

19%

Loner

13%

Ghetto gangsta

13%

What's Your High School Stereotype?
created with QuizFarm.com

HOW DID I GET 25% STONER?!?!?!?!?!?

But yeah, I did mostly hang out with the punks.

Stolen from Amanda

tyroid — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 22:27:41 GMT

I liked her 90's quiz so I yoinked it.

*I Heart The 90s*
First of all, were you born in the mid/late 80s?	Yes (I consider it, though technically the first half)
If so, what year?	1984
Did you own any jelly shoes?	No, they were for girls
...do you still have them?	no
What was your favorite Power Ranger?	The Green one. He got his own cool Dragonzord.
Could you name all of the Ninja Turtles?	Always. For the rest of my life.
Name as many as you can.	Rapheal, Donatello, Leonardo, and Michealangelo
Who's cooler... Alex Mac or Clarissa?	Alex Mac had cool powers
Did you ever try to climb up a ladder to your best friend's room?	No, but I wish I had
How many times did you watch 'Scream'?	4 maybe
...did you think it was scary?	nope
Did you own a pair of Zubaz?	wha?
...how many...what color?	?
Weren't Koosh Balls fun as hell?	I WAS JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT THEM EARLIER!!!. . . .ehem, yes.
Eh... what were they for, anyway?	Throwing at people
How many Beanie Babies did you own?	none
Did your mother ever have to tackle somebody for one?	I doubt it
Did you/your parents cry when Kurt died?	I didn't know who he was until like 1997/8
...do you think Courtney did it?	it is conceivable
Did your parents vote for Clinton?	no way
How did they react to the whole "Monica" ordeal?	not sure, we've never discussed it
Did you watch Friends?	sometimes, my sister was a huge fan
Who's your favorite character?	Chandler
What is your favorite 'Friends' expression?	"Don't you mean WHAPISH!" "That's what I said, WHAPOW"
What is your favorite 'Seinfeld' expression?	I hate Seinfeld
Who's worse... Barney or Tinkie-Winkie?	Tinkie Winkie
Did your family have a fallout shelter for 'Y2K'?	No
Where were you and what were you doing on New Year's eve, 1999?	I can't remember what I did that year
And finally... what is your favorite thing about the 90s?	Elementary school.
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

And I'm out for the night.

Sleep well.

It's wierd

tyroid — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:22:51 GMT

Everyone that I know and have gone to for advice about my relationship with Sarah, is so against a long engagement for the two of us. But where I come from, a long engagement is normal if not customary. It was always the idea I had in mind for my future. So I don't quite know how to exlain to these voices that I've always listened to and trusted that this is what we want and are OK with.

On the other hand, today was one of those days where God just consistently reminded me how much he was in control from the start to finish. Literally from before I woke up, until right now. It started with a bad dream. Sarah had died in a car wreck, which is a humbling reminder of how little control I really have over the things I love in my life, and made me appreciate more what he has given me. I had realized on Tuesday night that even if I save $100 from every paycheck from now until my last day at work, I will only have saved $900, which might be enough to get the rock I'm wanting to get Sarah for the ring, but would leave me with no money saved for our Arizona trip. Today I checked my on-line bill with ASU and found out that with my estimated financial aide, I will be recieving the biggest refund check of my life which will not only give me enough money to save for spending on the Arizona trip, but also add to whatever I save for the ring. Which is very nice to have that provided right when I need it. I was quite concerned with how small my upcoming paycheck would be, but I checked my current hours through today and realized that I'm picking up a coworkers shift tomorrow which will put me right at about 40 hours on this check, which means I'll be able to pay for everything I need to. Everything is in his hands.

Kyle- Congrats on getting married and whether you would appreciate it or not, you'll still be in my prayers.

I have to be up in less than five hours, so I shall retire my bed now. Good night to all.