I had this crazy dream where I was a part of the goonies gang on an adventure. We had just discovered a cover up of sorts in the government. We were headed to the top of the Statue of Liberty to expose a cover-up. As we were walking we went right past a male and a female security guard like they didn't even notice us. As we walked past the female security guard lookd over and said 'Barack' with a sternness in hear voice. I looked over and there in little kid clothes was Barack Obama, some how I hadn't noticed it was him. He replied, I have discovered for myself that all of the governments problems are a direct result Congress and The Senate. As we walked by the women replied, I didn't vote for you to blame your problems on other people. The funny thing was, Obama was absolutely right in what he said as he was going off what we discovered. I wish I remember what it was we discovered, I do know it had something to do with oil and government officials lining their pockets with money from cover-ups.
Later, in the dream I asked our leader if the door to door sales men would make any of the extra money saved from not advertising. He stammered and never gave me a clear answer. I turns out the whole adventure was for my boss who had set up a door to door program selling oil. By him exposing the corruption it allowed him to get a better deal on the oil. Which by his lack of response was going to only benefit him and no one else in the group, even though we did all this work to help him. In the end it looks like the money went from one greedy source to simply another greedy source.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
My Trip to Colorado
I'm sitting here in Grand Junction waiting for my car to be fixed, I've been here about 48 hours now due to parts needing to ordered from Denver.
I thought I would write about the weekend before all this car drama started. A few weeks ago my friend Stephen committed suicide. This past weekend was the memorial, which was really good, he was such a great guy and his death is really tragic.
As sad as it was to have to know a friend died, it was great to see my remaining friends that I grew up with. When I was a growing up I lived in a neighborhood of mostly boys. We played a lot of sports and did a lot of fun crazy boy stuff. I moved away when I was 17 but a large part of who I became resulted from growing up with that neighborhood of boys.
My brother and I both commented on how we just felt, "at home". It was a really comfortable feeling being around our old friends. I haven't seen some of these guys for over ten years but after seeing them I felt like almost no time had passed. Up until last weekend I've never had any desire to go back and live in Colorado, but somehow this weekend changed that. Of course, all my friends all are married now and live all over the Denver area so really there is no way of recreating what we had growing up. I now realize I need to be grateful for what was there and that I got to grow up with such a good group of guys. It's just so sad that one of them had to die in order for us to reconnect.
I thought I would write about the weekend before all this car drama started. A few weeks ago my friend Stephen committed suicide. This past weekend was the memorial, which was really good, he was such a great guy and his death is really tragic.
As sad as it was to have to know a friend died, it was great to see my remaining friends that I grew up with. When I was a growing up I lived in a neighborhood of mostly boys. We played a lot of sports and did a lot of fun crazy boy stuff. I moved away when I was 17 but a large part of who I became resulted from growing up with that neighborhood of boys.
My brother and I both commented on how we just felt, "at home". It was a really comfortable feeling being around our old friends. I haven't seen some of these guys for over ten years but after seeing them I felt like almost no time had passed. Up until last weekend I've never had any desire to go back and live in Colorado, but somehow this weekend changed that. Of course, all my friends all are married now and live all over the Denver area so really there is no way of recreating what we had growing up. I now realize I need to be grateful for what was there and that I got to grow up with such a good group of guys. It's just so sad that one of them had to die in order for us to reconnect.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Short Arms
Short arms is a term I coined in my family, we use it when someone says something awkward. It's real meaning to me comes from when someone says something awkward that is unintentional and possibly funny but doesn't have to be funny.
In a little bit I will share a few examples of short arms in my own life but first here is the origin of how short arms came to be.
I had a roommate in college with who we discovered that we had the same length arms as each other even though he was only 5'9 (I'm 6'1). He had me do the test where you put your arms against a wall and with one hand touching the ground the other goes as high as it can. For a normal person it should be the same as their height. Mine only goes to my nose, about 6 inches short. Which means on either arm I am about 3 inches short in arm length.
Anyway, later I started realizing that certain relatives that were the most awkward also had short arms. A connection was made and a term was coined in my family. I have known about my awkwardness for awhile, I used to get this comment often "Well Adam, that normally would offend me but I know you don't mean anything mean by it". And I wouldn't mean anything mean because I never understood what was offensive in the first place.
Anyway, here are two examples of Short arm comments that I have made recently.
1. A friend who is a bit over weight was over at my place and he noticed food had fallen on his stomach and I commented, oh that reminds me of that tv commercial where that guy is acting like he is pregnant and is brushing his teeth and he spits and it hits his stomach. I had intended to follow up with, but your stomach isn't as big as his. Instead he shots back, man Adam your kind of being harsh today, that's the second fat comment you've made today. Anyway, I felt awkward and explained short arms to him and used that as my excuse.
2. This next example happened tonight. I was at this guys place in my ward and I was looking at all these engagement pictures he had hung up. I was making comments on who was pretty and I came upon a picture where this girls eyebrows were really thick and so I said "Wow that girl has really thick eyebrows". His laughingly shot back, 'Hey! that's my sister in law your talking about'. I quickly apologized and he tried explaining how they had upped the contrast in the picture and it made all the darks darker and that is why her eyebrows appeared that way. As I looked at the picture I realized her eyebrows were like that a Hispanic girls that I had dated, who I also found really attractive. In an attempt to recover I told him, 'She looks like this Hispanic girl I dated' and I meant to add that I found attractive but he said 'she's not Hispanic' and I said, 'I know, I was just saying'. To this he started laughing uncontrollably and I quickly realized he may be really offended so I said 'I really need to shut up now, I'm just digging a deeper hole.' He continued laughing and for at least three minutes he would start calming down only to look at me and start laughing again as he mouthed the word 'Hispanic' as he shook his head. I am still confused, all I know is that I caused him to laugh really hard for several minutes and I don't know if he is offended or just found my comment really funny. Maybe it was the thought of how lot of hispanics (like Frida) have thick eyebrows.
In a little bit I will share a few examples of short arms in my own life but first here is the origin of how short arms came to be.
I had a roommate in college with who we discovered that we had the same length arms as each other even though he was only 5'9 (I'm 6'1). He had me do the test where you put your arms against a wall and with one hand touching the ground the other goes as high as it can. For a normal person it should be the same as their height. Mine only goes to my nose, about 6 inches short. Which means on either arm I am about 3 inches short in arm length.
Anyway, later I started realizing that certain relatives that were the most awkward also had short arms. A connection was made and a term was coined in my family. I have known about my awkwardness for awhile, I used to get this comment often "Well Adam, that normally would offend me but I know you don't mean anything mean by it". And I wouldn't mean anything mean because I never understood what was offensive in the first place.
Anyway, here are two examples of Short arm comments that I have made recently.
1. A friend who is a bit over weight was over at my place and he noticed food had fallen on his stomach and I commented, oh that reminds me of that tv commercial where that guy is acting like he is pregnant and is brushing his teeth and he spits and it hits his stomach. I had intended to follow up with, but your stomach isn't as big as his. Instead he shots back, man Adam your kind of being harsh today, that's the second fat comment you've made today. Anyway, I felt awkward and explained short arms to him and used that as my excuse.
2. This next example happened tonight. I was at this guys place in my ward and I was looking at all these engagement pictures he had hung up. I was making comments on who was pretty and I came upon a picture where this girls eyebrows were really thick and so I said "Wow that girl has really thick eyebrows". His laughingly shot back, 'Hey! that's my sister in law your talking about'. I quickly apologized and he tried explaining how they had upped the contrast in the picture and it made all the darks darker and that is why her eyebrows appeared that way. As I looked at the picture I realized her eyebrows were like that a Hispanic girls that I had dated, who I also found really attractive. In an attempt to recover I told him, 'She looks like this Hispanic girl I dated' and I meant to add that I found attractive but he said 'she's not Hispanic' and I said, 'I know, I was just saying'. To this he started laughing uncontrollably and I quickly realized he may be really offended so I said 'I really need to shut up now, I'm just digging a deeper hole.' He continued laughing and for at least three minutes he would start calming down only to look at me and start laughing again as he mouthed the word 'Hispanic' as he shook his head. I am still confused, all I know is that I caused him to laugh really hard for several minutes and I don't know if he is offended or just found my comment really funny. Maybe it was the thought of how lot of hispanics (like Frida) have thick eyebrows.
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