Freedom comes from Confinement

In Michigan one of my first rommates was a born again Christian. I took this as a good sign and got to know him. But what I found out in the course of that first year was he pretended to be born again to try and win back his ex. girlfriend. I lost a bit of respect for him at that point, he was a good guy, but very strange. The other religous aspect was Campus Crusade for Christ. Oh what memories of that one short visit. My friend's roommate was big into this and being as I was searching for answers and trying to draw closer to God I decided to give it a shot. I was not very open with new people, but thought this would be a group to understand and listen. So I went to my first meeting. They started the meeting with a devotional which I found very interesting and then proceeded with the meeting. The meeting started with me telling them about myself and I should have seen it coming with the looks I was getting. They would ask questions about what kind of music I listen to, ...

So I've never really discussed religion or my views with alot of people before. Partly because I was afraid of being judged and partly because I wasn't sure what I believed so it was hard to put to words what I wanted to say. This is still the case, but in the last two years I've taken a hard look at myself and my thoughts and this blog has been brewing. So as a kid I was raised in a church family. My mother being the secretary at our church helped matters even more. We were in church every Sunday unless we were sick, or out of town or our family had a late event such as a wedding the night before, we rarely ever missed. We always went to Sunday school and if we were at a different church for services for whatever reason we reported back our attendance at the other church, it was important to my parents that we always attended sunday school. I learned the stories and made friends with people that were outside of my usual "group" I've never been sure if ...

I have a friend I thought this about, but it could be said for everyone. There are good people around you somewhere, have you paid attention enough to see them? Perhaps what you wanted out of life is not what you needed. Take a moment and ponder that.

So I have come to the conclusion that most of america thinks themselves as "above" the person making their food at a fast food restaurant. I find this completely repulsive and infuriating. When watching the new Burger King commercials where they stop selling the Whopper for a day, do you laugh? Do you find it funny that adults are treating the person behind the counter like crap? I found those commercials so replusive I can't stand to watch them. How people can find that kind of abuse hilarious is beyond me. Why aren't more people saying...."How can someone become so biligerent over a freakin hamburger? And to someone who only does what they are told?" I just want to find those people and smack them. If you are unhappy you can't get your fat laced microwaved burger from them, get over it and move on. Is it really that important to you that you feel the need to raise your voice or threaten another human being? I mean really? From time to time at We...

What a lovely weekend!! I just reviewd my last blog to see how long it's been, and it hasn't been that long! Woot! Go me. ; ) So this weekend I worked on Friday, big surprise, but it was pretty painless. Had a decent night so I can't complain. It started out pretty rough, but it did get better so I should just shut up. But it does bring up some interesting points I'd like to rant and rave about, but I'll save that for blogger. Let me just break it down for you on here. Fast Food was not designed to be the most amazing bountiful pleasent experience everyone seems to think it should be. These drama filled teenagers are paid $7/hour to work after a full day of drama filled school and serve cheap food to ungrateful people who are usually pretty nasty. If you don't recieve a smile, get over it. Take your $1.98 worth of food and go home and get over it. I'm sorry we didn't do cartwheels in your honor, or put up a plaque for the $1.98 you just spent a...

Updates Mohring's did not do well with the Shop till you Drop extravaganza, in fact no one did. I do believe this is what happens when a south side business tried to participate with something happening downtown. We just don't mix, it's like oil and water. Lets see what else..... We'd like to welcome the latest addition to the Mohring's complex: Hoop's Accounting! Jon Hoops, owner, moved into the recently renovated space in the front of the store, the former location of the school clothes and has begun his tax season in a new home. Hoop's Accounting has been around for nearly 12 years now and is growing every year. He does great taxes and very reasonable, he's been gathering new customers from the store already! I invite you to check him out. His number is 419-592-1115. We are holding meetings with a few interested parties of the space in the rear of the store, we are hoping to have it filled by the end of the year, making the building full. We wil...

Yes, quiet shy me does this. I have to wait until I hang up because I don't have a hold button that I can figure out, but yes, you piss me off and I say some funny things to you after I hang up. I don't know a single customer service person that doesn't.

I'm not twenty anymore which makes this feeling even worse, but I do feel like I'm running out of time already. I'm still so young and yet I feel like time is nearly up already. I feel like I'm no where yet, like I have accomplished nothing.

I can't believe it's been 11 days since my last blog, I'm horrible!! How do you people put up with me? Seriously, how? I don't deserve you, I really don't. I'm just going to leave now in shame...... yeah right, you can't get rid of me that easy. So I'm not really sure why I've been neglecting blogging lately, it's really become a time issue. Somehow my time is getting less and less. My laundry is piling up, my blogging is behind and my check list in the store is falling behind as well. I'm not sure where all my time is going as customers haven't really been an issue. Business is not the greatest in the store, but it isn't the greatest anywhere in town so it's not just me, it's the ecomony in general. Can we all say recession? It's going to be a rough year, I can feel it. So this weekend I took two entire days off of all jobs and went to Cinci. I had such an awesome time and relaxed so much I felt stupid! I lost voc...

It's been awhile since I've updated this blog, mostly because of time and a physical accident that happened that restricted my use of one of my typing fingers and put a damper on all updates to any of my blogs. But it's getting better and I'm back. So this weekend I finally took some time off and went to see my friends B and D. They live a few hours from me and I was so excited to go down there. I had told B about being gay a few months ago. She's become a spiritual advisor to help me bridge the gap in my heart between who I am and the part that holds my faith and how I view myself in that faith. B has been on be since then to tell D. I have known D. for many years and we have had a very "manly" relationship and he's met both of my ex's from my hetero relationships and I was kind of nervous how he would take the news. I knew deep down he would be o.k. with it, but there was a part of me that was so afraid to tell him. He had come into town a...

I too am jealous, I need to buy one of his books, these are great!!!

Wow, I hope I remember everything I've wanted to talk about! I have just been so busy I haven't had the time to blog! So last weekend I took a few hours off and drove to Michigan to meet with L and S for dinner. Dinner was just the best as always! Besides being a little more than fashionably late things went great. It was so great to see the girls again! It had been three years since I had seen S and nearly two years since I had seen L. We had an awesome time and then after dinner we headed back to S's house. I fell in love with her house and we sat and chatted, we caught up, watched some movies, watched S pass out and L and I were up to all hours of the morning talking, about nothing in particular, just talking. S is quite the host and quite the decorator! So anyway the next day after saying goodbye I headed back to my old stomping grounds of Novi, Milford and South Lyon. I didn't get to hit Southfield this time, I'd like to see campus again. When I was in Mi...

This is my mind, nuff said.

So I was watching I am Legend and had a thought. What would I do if I woke up one day and realized I was the only person alive? You know what my first thought was? Hmmm.... I'd probably run naked through town, why? well really, why not? It's wierd I know, but don't judge me. ; ) How do you really know that you are the only one alive? What would you do? Would you have the courage to examine all the buildings to see if you were the only one alive? I don't think I would. I would be a hermit, I've seen too many horror movies to go into dark buildings alone and travel through the country trying to get somewhere! So what would you search for? In the movie, Will Smith makes the statement, "There is no god" I was a little floored by that statement, but at the same time I think, in that situation, would my faith be there for me? Would my faith still be there if the rest of the world was gone? How strong is my faith? How far will my faith take me? Where ...

Well well well, it's 2008. How have you been since last year? I'm doing well. What does the bringing of the new year mean to me? Not much really, it's just another day. But on the other hand it's much like a fresh start in a way. It's new numbers for the business, new times and times for trial and error (again). So what did I do for new years eve you ask? Nothing. I worked the store until seven, things were quite a bit better than last year so I was happy. Then I got ready and went to Wendy's. How fun huh? We got closed and on my way home I stopped at rented Spiderman 3 and then came home and opened a bottle of wine, got into some really comfortable clothes and sat down and relaxed, all by myself. It sounds so pittiful but it really wasn't. It was nice. I didn't have to get up in the morning and I recieved so many phone calls throughout the night I went to bed feeling totally loved and at peace with the world. It was a good night. Lets see,...