today's shout out is a no doubter...

it is one thirtyish and i am thus unable to go to sleep so what do i do??? i blog... that is right... i am back on the wagon hardcore...

well today was a long day and it would have been a much longer day had it not been for the recipient of today's shout out... it has been a couple posts since i have given one, but today's shout outee is very deserving for many reasons...

shall i begin: i have known this person for a very long time and we have certainly had our ups and downs, but our love has lasted through the bull snot of life... there have been many competitions between us and despite the heated rivalries that have been formed we now have the ability to get past the winning losing thing and just appreciate each other... i was able to see a transformation in this person's life over this past year as he gave his life to the Lord after much prayer by me and other members of my family... despite the fact that this person was once smaller than me and now has grown up much larger, i will always be very protective of this person... this fact is true even though i used to pick on this person unmercifully and even have a catch with them... not like catch with them with a ball... (although we did do that and still do) i literally used to have a catch with "this person"... yes i threw this person and later attempted to catch them again... not always successfully i might add... whoops... rabbitt trail there... ahem... this person will always be someone close to me who i love and appreciate despite the fact that i could strangle them somedays... i am sure that sentiment is mutual... and finally my shout out goes out to this person because when it seemed like the rest of grand manan was a ghost town or raptured or was playing a really big game of hide and seek, he took his only day off in about a million days and helped me move all of my belongings from north head to seal cove... and incase you have not figured out who my shout out goes to today...

here is your final hint...



Love ya Bro!!!

hold still...

well, i hope that this is it for a good little while... i would say that i am as big a fan of moving as i am interviews... not on my top 120 things to do list... but i guess i cannot complain since in the last week the Lord has provided me with another job and a place to live... so hopefully i will be landed now for a little bit and achieve some stability in my life... i am truly thankful for the blessings the Lord provides... as for now, i will be packing and unpacking... if you wanna help, give me a call... that's all...

not a member of the interview fan club...

this will be brief because i hate to torture those whom find so much in my words to jump on, but i will share because others have pressured me to do so...

so as you can tell from my title, i am not the biggest fan of interviews... i had one today and once again i say, i hate them... the thing that gets me is this... i used to be good at them... what happened? did not getting a couple of jobs that i interviewed for really shatter my confidence that badly? i don't know...

i just wish that there was a way for people to see in a visual way someone's passions, gifts, talents and the like... the interview setting seems so fake and even though people say "just be yourself" there is pressure to be better than that... i hate that... myself is so frigging good at what he does, and yet i feel like that does not match up once i sit down and talk to people in this setting... my pic above demonstrates how i feel once things get going... i am the branch...

so anywho, this is my post... funny? not for me... interesting? not so much... real? that it is...

have a wonderful day all... love you all...

scottie

Reflections...

today i am in a reflective mood so there will be no shout outs, unless they go to Jesus and if that is a problem, your issue is not with me... k... so i just finished a week of one on one mentoring, T.A.ing, and tutoring and it has done some things in my mind... beside the thought of our children's education being in trouble with my helping them, i have discovered that i love mentoring... i think i knew this, but being around groups of people (friend, church, classrooms, youth groups, etc...) i have forgotten the value of the one on one time... in today's culture it is so taboo for an adult to have a mentoring role with a young person because some idiot's have ruined it by perverting in ways that will not be discussed... (but we know) nobody trusts anybody anymore because of these things and i have to believe that satan (piece of crap) loves it this way... well i for one will not stand for this... as of late, God has given me a passion for the one on one mentoring role and i think perhaps i may try to find other avenues to persue this passion...

i think we as adults have so much to offer teens and children today, but we do not because we are too affraid, too busy, too uncomfortable or any other lame excuse... what are we affraid of??? making a difference??? i was blessed as a teenager to have many mentors who i knew cared about me and i could chat with them at any time and sometimes i am sure that i did even though it was inconveinent for the adult... yet they still listened...

now i know that i said i was not going to give shout outs in this post, but i have officially changed my mind and hey, it is my blog right? so i guess i can do that... my shout out first off goes to Jesus for loving, providing and mentoring me by His example... also for sending these mentors in my life who at one point or another have been an awesome example in my life: frank and gloria trail, scott and sharon lewis, danny and wendy linton, eliot shepherd, julie shepherd, teena ingersoll, sherri urquhart, rhonda hettrick, troy russell...*** thanks all and i love you... you will never know... i trust that i can only try to make the difference that you have made in me...


*** - this list is only my list of youth leaders while i was in school... many more from other points in my life could and may be added at a later day... ***

for those who are having a bad day... STOP IT!!!

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yeah, enough said... i complain, you complain, we all complain... complaining stinks... amen, amen... go eat lunch...

today's shout out goes out to people who take funny pictures and put them on the internet... oh, i could look and laugh for hours... if i see another cat in a fishbowl or a person being kicked in the groin i just might explode... it is too much really... phew... catching breath now...

hey i wonder how someone becomes a funny picture taker for the internet??? could i do that for a job??? what would it pay??? hmmmm.... i guess i better buy a camera... now i will be rich and famous with my beloved disposable camera... way to go picture taking types... you inspire me and for that you get today's "shout out"...