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Name: Jared
Country: United States
State: Arkansas
Metro: Little Rock
Birthday: 3/4/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: my wife heather, living in benton arkansas for the first time
Expertise: bass guitar, writing, eating
Occupation: Lab tech for GMQ
Industry: construction, minerals and met
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  mononinja912
Member Since:
5/14/2005
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| So I haven't done this in a while i'm wondering why really? Well I have gotten quite sick of Xanga but not of blogging I guess I needed a blogging break. I almost went to another blogsite and I started a blog there but I doubt I will ever update that. I fell becak here I guess. Uh well I do have some good news I am getting a new car everyone, I don't know what I am getting right now It will be a sedan thought. Probably a japanese car, I've never had a japanese car before really the only car I ever had is my escort. I don't think I will miss it although it was a good car while it lasted but I'm due for a new car and it's totaled. What else has happened? Heather and I went to Texas to visit Nadia and Darren and their kids. It was pretty fun I had a good prime rib at the Texas Roadhouse. I mean if you're in Texas you have to eat a steak for sure. Well I guess that's it. I didn't do much else for spring break but work, but that's ok cause I like working for the first time ever. This is the first job I have ever had that I actually like. I like working by myself. Something that bothers me now, greeting cards. There are way too many companies that make these things and they're all really bad now. Barely any of them are funny. Who want's to make greeting cards anyway besides Ellen Degenerus? Well everybody apparently and they think that they're so funny well I got news for you they aren't and I know someone who would aggree with me, my wife. Besides the other millions of people that would aggree with me if I asked them about this. How hard could it be to write one of these things? All you have to do is read the last Hagar the Horrible comic and steal it's current corny joke and make it into a card. No offense to the comic though because that is one of my favorite comics. Well I think there should be only two companies that should make greeting cards and that's Hallmark and The Far Side Comics. Cause those are good cards and they are funny and thoughtful. Ok that's my rant for today. I should make this series. My wife's birthday is coming up and I already know what I'm getting her I just have to buy it. If you are in need of a new videogame that is good(who want's a bad videogame except the AVGN?) go buy Super Mario Galaxy it's a mario title so it has to be good, and it is and it's a lot of fun and very original. So far it's one of the best games I have played on the Wii. Well I guess this is the end. | | |
| I don't know what it is today I think I;m just tired but I don't feel like doing anything. not really anything just going to school and going bible study. I prayed about this today just to be more excited about going and more excited about reading the Discipline of Grace, which isn't a bad book but at the same time I would rather just read swamp thing comics. I don't know why I would always choose fiction over non but I do I guess I always have. I have been thinking about reading some Frank Peretti or picking up Black by ted dekker again it was pretty good I just never got finish it I only got like half way through. That's the problem with me I guess I can't finish a lot of good books I never finished the cather and the rye and it's a darn good book. I need to pick that up again. I don't know it's just so much other stuff always going on it's hard to find time to just sit down and read nowadays. Watching TV or playing vidoe games is easy but reading requires some self disicipline sometimes for me anyway. I mean I like to read it's just I need the patience for it most of the time. Well I guess should make this sound better and not so negative now. This is a good book, but (you know there was going to be a but here) it seems like he could of just wrote one chapter and summed everything up in it. But he didn't like most writers we like to expand like no one else does. I like what he put in the book that John Murray wrote maybe I should read some John Murray stuff. I just need toi relax today and goto school goto class learn some stuff you know the usual school stuff. I am very thankful for wife. I am thankful for having someone who cares so much for me and wants me to feel good and know what's going with her and someone who just is thinking about me when she is at work. It's great to have someone like this in my life. I'm glad it's getting warmer. I just needed write today I haven't done this in so long it seems. I hope to do this more in the future. No matter what we do it's never enough but yet we still strive to do it and it's should always be about the reward even though most of the time it is it should be because It's the right thing to do to make ourselves better in the eyes of Christ to be a better witness and to represent his presence more than we could yesterday. It's an endless dedication that we all must have in our heart if we truly want to imitate Christ and live out the life that he wants us to live for him. All we do must be in him. This is not as easy as it is seems. These things are always tought to end for me especially now recently. | | |
| I think this should serve as a preview to my story, If anybody read m last post I told you that I was wnating to right a story about a country singer who raises money for his dad to get a liver transplant. Here are the first page and half of the second page. I hope this turns out good.
Dynamic Dirt
Living the Dream
The last time I saw my father he said his talker had stopped. It was so sad to see him in his condition, he couldn’t walk anymore he just layed there on the couch like he didn’t want to get up. I guess he thought what’s the use I could go anywhere without someone to help me walk there, it’s too much trouble.
The last thing he said to me was, “Jeb, don’t ever drink, you see what it did to my liver, it will do the same to yours.”
The thing is that alcohol may had been the cause of his cancer. Sure it was in his liver, but he really didn’t drink that much maybe like once a week, I know he had drank more when he was a kid, but not that much now. I myself was never much of a drinker anyway, but it was good advice so I take heed.
He had been diagnosed with cancer of the liver about four months ago. The only way that he might get back up on his feat was with a transplant, but that costs way too much. I wish I could give him mine.
The next day at work I was trying to write a song before all the dump trucks left. Sometimes I bring my banjo in my station at work just so I won’t get so bored. I work all day, then I come home. Just to see that I’m not alone, you’re there to comfort me. I try to tell you how it went, but by the time I’m spent. It’s to find, great labor in this time when the economy me ain’t fine. I just sit here at work wonder who’s to…blame? Who feels the same? I can’t get the end of that verse quite right.
I go home to see my wife, Priscilla, who already has my dinner ready it’s just five thirty. It’s beef stew with vegetables on a plate of rice. “What’s on your mind, Jeb? “ She says. I tell her it’s my dad, he can’t walk and he can barely talk now, I wish they could cure him.
“If only had the money, we could sing up for that liver transplant,” She said.
“I know, but I would need to make a lot of extra money.”
“I could get a second job.”
“No, one is fine, don’t worry about that. Well I guess I should eat rest of this.”
“What you don’t like it?”
“Na’ll it’s good. I’ve just got too much on my mind as of late.”
“Is it all about dad?”
“Pretty much I’m just wondering what to do.”
Later that night I curled up to her in bed and she still smelled like work, but I didn’t care that was fine with me. I knew I would take me a long time to get to sleep that night.
I’m in a band called Dynamic Dirt, we play country, bluegrass, and some hard rock stuff. Think of it like Lynard Skynard with mountain music. I play the banjo and sing, Robert Sardust plays the bass, McCarthy plays the guitar and Micheal Jones plays the drums, he ain’t from around here hince the name, but he’s a good drummer, so we keep him. We have pratice every Tuesday night, we kind of just run through the current songs a couple of times, and then we go home. We were working on this song called “He ain’t here no more.” It kind of inspired by the movie Fight Club. By the end of the song I told Robert, “you know it’s been a while since we play a pay gig here.”
“Well there’s not a lot of places to play here.”
“There’s some I guess we could play at Juanita’s again.”
“Hmm, I might call them and see if they have any opening dates, well I got to pack up and go.”
“Ok I will see you later.”
We always played at Michael’s house, so he wouldn’t have to move anything, and he lived alone kind of out in the middle of nowhere so we didn’t bother anybody. It was like the perfect place to practice.
It was only nine when I got home. Priscilla was still up I told here about wanting to play somewhere again.
“I have an idea, why don’t you guys play somewhere but not raise money for yourselves, but to raise money for your dad to get a transplant.”
“Why that’s a great Idea, honey, We could book a small tour with some other bands I guess and raise some money that way.”
“An all donations tour that would something else.”
“Yeah I had never heard that.”
“I’ll tell the other guys about this.”
So it was set in stone we would play about a twenty date tour of just places around here and may some in Oklahoma or Texas. Everyone in the band agreed to do it. We all had other sources of income so it didn’t really matter to us that we weren’t getting paid for the shows it would be an adjustment though. Since Robert book most of our shows and he knew some promoters he would get the job of managing the money and the tour. The first place we would play was Juanita’s a place we had played before.
Next I told my dad about our tour and he told me it was great too. And that he would even try to make to it to some of the shows.
It would be two months before could play at Juanita’s so we had plenty of time to prepare, we had about six songs to play right now minus some of the really old stuff that we had. So we had a full set of new songs. It wouldn’t be long now.
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| hey I think this is going to be long ok so get ready. ok ready there um so I am friends DC Talk on myspace now isn't that cool?Probably not well I do remembere when I used to listend to them were really good. I never liked Toby mac's stuff though it was too rap influenced for me. I need more rock foo! Foo...foo fighters? I don't know well i don't really feel like writing anymore on here so I think I;m gonna close it up now i guess i thought I would write some more ok maybe I will I'm reading this book called The discipline of grace by jerry bridges and it's like reading 200 pages of the book of james it's hardcore man. this guy is very blunt and in your face about being a christian in today's modern world the subject of course is an easy concept that not a lot of people can grasp, grace. To me personally Romans and James are the most hardcore books in the bible one says that all sinners will die unless they believe in Jesus as their lord and the other says that your tongue is like an asp. or maybe that's romans I can't remember right now but James does have a whole chapter on the tongue so watch your language fool! Anyway this is Jared and I am out. | | |
| I was thinking today you know I've never seen any myspace pages for old bands like Nirvana, or the who, or even Bob Dylan who is one of my favoirte artists. A lot of people like these bands why don't they myspaces? Well I was wrong they do have myspaces and they aren't bad except for the Nirvana one when i went there something horrible happened I'm not even sure what it was but it was bad, myspace.com/nirvana, enter at your own risk. So I guess that answers my question. Of course this makes me wonder if those pages are operated by the bands themselves or people related to the bands or just people. They should operated by the band or by someone who works for the band like a manager. I wonder bands still have managers most of them don't today I guess that was more of an 80's thing. Well I haven't written in a while and that's bad I hope to begin writing my next fictional piece, Dynamic Dirt, living for a dream soon. It's about a country singer whose band raises money with his band, Dynamic Dirt, in order to get a liver transplant for his dying father who has liver cancer. In the meantime I just need to write some more period. I'm not sure about what but just more. | | |
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