The definition

I know it was a great cliffhanger and I must admit that I enjoyed it. So, I guess I can come out and make it official:

Trisha and I are dating!!!

Actually we have been dating for quite some time now and we decided the other night that we are happy and we are still gonna date! I guess DTR's aren't that bad afterall...

4 thoughts

1- LOGAN TYLER, son of Tyler and Shannon was born at 1:15am on Sunday September 28, 2008. I can't wait to see him in a few months! Congratulations to my bro and his wife!



2- I have been waiting and waiting for my offer letter (offering me a job) from CVS to come in the mail. Not because I'm going to work for CVS cause I'm pretty sure I'm not. This just made me really excited for my future in a few months. It looks pretty promising and I'm really excited! I have til February to accept the offer and when I don't I will be terminated (Can't wait to actually get fired from a job). By that time I will have another employer and I will be starting on my career in pharmacy.

3- The whole two years that I have lived in MA I have always wanted the "boston experience." I wanted to live in boston and not have to commute to see my girlfriend and other friends and go to church. Well now is my chance! I got a great deal to stay with some friends for the month while I have my rotation at East Boston Neighborhood Health Clinic. I may even buy a subway ("T") pass and have the true experience so that I don't have to pay a $3.50 toll everyday to get to my externship. It's gonna be so fun! Stay tuned for all the good times.

4- I have gone my entire 26 years of life without a DTR, in fact I have made it a strong point to deflect them and avoid them at all cost. Even boasting at my extreme skill regarding the matter. But alas, all good things come to an end... hahaha

Another "deep" thought

He hasn't seen a drop of rain for months it seems
Rollin' river is nothing but a trickling stream
The crops are dying in the harsh sunlight
The dust on his tongue is dry
The fatted calf is down to skin and bones
We carry on

Alone in the city and she's only seventeen
The boy left her black and blue in the street so mean
Just twelve weeks along and she's got a life inside
Says she's never ever felt so alone
She walks in the shelter, they say "welcome home"

And we carry on
When our lives come undone
We carry on
Cause there's promise in the morning sun
We carry on
As the dark surrenders to the dawn
We were born to overcome
We carry on

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells
The happy endings and the fairy tales
Is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams
We carry on
It's the family that grieves for a lost loved one
It's the soldier who won't leave til the job is done
It's the addict trying to turn his life around
It's picking yourself up off the ground when you've been knocked down

And we carry on
When our lives come undone
We carry on
Cause there's promise in the morning sun
We carry on
As the dark surrenders to the dawn
We were born to overcome

He stands in the field, cooled by the winds of change
She smiles as her baby moves and it starts to rain

This Tim McGraw song has been in my head since I heard it on sunday during my long drive to church. I found it almost inspiring as I sang along and listened to the words and the message. "WE WERE BORN TO OVERCOME!" What an awesome line! I definitely think there is promise in the morning sun and we were destined by our maker to overcome. It empowers me to continue to overcome and it makes me proud of what I have already overcome in my life.

Fun Weekend

To get a few days off of my boring rotation sitting in a cubicle, I went to the New England Pharmacy Convention. It was at Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. Its a really cool place but what I enjoyed most about the whole thing was the free food, that was not even that great, and the expo. I remember every summer my family used to pack up in the car, sometimes it was our old "Eagle". I swear some of us would be laying on top of suitcases in the back of the car very near the roof. Back in those days I'm pretty sure none of us had seat belts on. We would go play in St. George while my dad attended the conference and later my mom would go as well and it would just be us. CJ's blog referenced this experience once as he convinced all us boys to go on a church history tour of St. George by ourselves. Sometimes we would get to go to parts of the conference and always we would look through the bags at all the cool stuff that my dad would get. Pens, papers, toys, samples.... Anything you could ever wish for and it was free. Needless to say, I still love getting these free things, especially pens. I walked shamelessly around the expo collecting as many things as I could while trying to avoid the drug reps and recruiters that wanted to actually talk to me. It was awesome.

Saturday night I went into Boston and met up with CJ and Tania who were in town for a conference that CJ was presenting at. Not surprisingly, CJ is already presenting at national conferences. Surprisingly the topic he presented was good sexual health (hehehe). Those of us who have known him for a long time know that he was destined to do great things. He is gonna be a successful guy, thats all I have to say. Anyway, we went to a good restaurant in Harvard Square called Spice. We then went to a good chocolate place and got hot chocolate and walked along the Charles until strenous circumstances cut our walk short... It was so cool that they got to come to Boston and that I got to spend some time with them while they were here. I sure do love them!

Follow up

Let me just follow up on my last post. For those of you who have looked in the comments and used CJ's translations, he did an okay job but he led you astray. Here is the translation:

"To love or have loved, that suffices. Don't demand anything after. One has no other pearl to find in the gloomy folds of life. To love is an accomplishment."

What a great quote! I think it illustrates well the fact that life without giving your heart and loving is in fact no life at all. I don't think there is anything more important in this life than learning to love in all capacities. Some loving comes easy, some takes a lot. However, when we can reach a state of reciprocated love with others our lives become meaningful and full of happiness.

A thought

"Aimer ou avoir aimé, cela suffit. Ne demandez rien ensuite. On n'a pas d'autre perle à trouver dans les plis ténébreux de la vie. Aimer est un accomplissement."

-Les miserables