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Christmas Comes but Once a Year

By on December 26, 2008 in Journal
Christmas Morning

The Untouched Tree Christmas Morning

Ah Christmas, what does it mean to you? Presents, giving, receiving, Santa, God, friends, family? What ever it is, it is a special time of year. You generally reflect back on the year thinking of all the good times you had with friend and family, unless your a kid all that matters is present, right! At the young age of 18 I have come to the realization that its not what I get for Christmas that makes the day or season. Its the People. Whether it is just our small family of four on Christmas Day or sharing the days before and after with all our friends, which can make for one crowded house. Its company. Knowing that people are happy to see you and glad you are apart of their lives. Its the young boy who helps the old lady get her gifts to her car. Its getting just the right gift so you can see their face light up like the 4th of July when they open it. Its the Mail Delivery guy who smiles and says Merry Christmas as he hands you your package in the -40 weather. Its having a family for Christmas day even if you are a complete stranger, and seeing that someone who doesn’t even know you cares. Christmas can mean so many things and thous are just some that make the Holidays special for me.

I got up slow this morning, not sleeping very well I was welcomed by a headache. After a hot shower I was feeling much better and proceeded up stairs where Taylor was eagerly waiting to open presents. We all sat down and started, I flashed several pictures. One of my highlight was when I had one present left and everyone else had opened up all theirs and Taylor was itching for me to open it because it was a bigger box and he wanted to know. I played him and said I wanted to wait and savor the moment and didn’t say anything else. I guess he didn’t know that I knew what it was, because I picked it out in the store in order for Mom to get the right one. He finally got to eager and ripped some of the paper off and I have to make his painfully wait, so I slowly opened it and laugh as I told him I knew. We did not do much throughout the day and all waited for the dinner Dad was preparing. We had planned for an early dinner which was lucky because of the power outages that ocurred 4 or 5 times through out the duration of our meal but that was fine with all ate by the candle light. As we were all very tired we didn’t have any ambition to do much else for the rest of the evening but lounge around and enjoy each others company. So Merry Christmas everyone, I will be reparting back after the Boxing Day Shopping!

Christmas 2008 Photos

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The Eve Before the Day

By on December 25, 2008 in Journal, Travels
Christmas Eve

Kids and Grampa Straker waiting for Santa

This Christmas Eve was like none before. We spent it with lots of friends at Benji and Ev’s place. We all arrived around 4pm or we were suppose to. Some of us did, others didn’t. We enjoyed a wonderful Ham prepared by Benji and Eve with contributions from everyone else. After eat, chit chat and photos we all jumped outside into our cold vehicles and drove over to the Church where Scott, Benji and Jonathon played some nice slow acoustic song before kicking it up a notch after Scott’s talk. Who knew Go Tell it on the Mountain could be such a rock song. All said and done we were only at the Church for an hour and half before all heading back to Benji & Ev’s for desert and Santa! The kids waited anxiously waited for Santa, Grampa Straker as well as you can see in the photo. When Santa arrived, Chase was stunned for one, he handed out presents to all the kids including Randy and took some pictures and was off to deliver the rest of his presents. For the rest of our time there we opened one gift and said our Thanks you’s and left as well.

I on the other had still had work to do. I two guys who use the Sidedoor as a place to sleep while I work, had been invited to said a ladies house who I knew threw a friends. So I went and picked them up and took them over to her house. Said my Good Bye’s once again and went home. I’m currently writing this at 1 am Christmas Day, but I wanted to write it before I went to sleep so everything was still fresh in my mind.

To veiw all my Christmas Phone got to Flickr —> Here

UPDATE: All Christmas 2008 are here

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From the Phone

By on December 24, 2008 in Journal

Once again I’m posting fromy my phone’ only this time it is threw the mobile browser on the phone. I’m currently only able to do it this way but finding a wifi networkor having the phone plugged in to a computer hooked to the internet. Making it piontless. Tomorrow although Christmas eve I hope to get to Roy’s again to get my data plan set up enabling me to send and recieve e-mails as well as using the internet. For my more lengthy posts I would continue to write from a real computer. The phone is only good for short posts on the go.

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Poll Page

By on December 24, 2008 in Random

I have made a Poll Page. I want to get more on this site for the readers to do so polling it is. Polls will change every Sunday-ish depending when I’m up. You may wonder why I didn’t just put it on the sidebar and heres why. The sidebar is getting cluttered… to me anyways. I don’t want people to have to scroll down the page to find it, thorw posts they have already read. Doesn’t make sense, so until I find a new theme I like with 2 sidebars I made it, its own page. Go Check it out! This Weeks Poll

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By on December 24, 2008 in Journal

I’m currently playing with my new phone. I bought another HTC Touch but this one is a pro! It is a combination of a couple phone I have already had. One being the touch. The interface is much the same and the touch flo features are much more advanced now. The other is the HTC 6800 which has the slide out keyboard like this one. There are a lot of features I need to learn about to get the full usage of the phone
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Just Call Me!

By on December 23, 2008 in Journal

I have been thinking about writing about this for a couple days now and with me breaking my cell phone it only seemed right to write it now. The other day here at work I was taking the fleece blankets out of the dryer. Now I don’t use any dry sheets because we don’t have any so those blankets are some static. Well I was pulling them out and at the same time I pulled out my phone and ZAP! Ouch that was big! Right to my phone. I honestly didn’t really think that could break it but I guess I have been wrong before. Phone Dead, I put it on the charger when I got home and still nothing BAM. How does that make a person feel?

How would you feel if you phone broke? Lost? Alone? Shout out? Look around in today’s world who doesn’t have a cell phone. That’s fine I have nothing wrong with that. Good way for business, emergency, resource or what ever. It is test messaging through out teens that drives me nuts. Their whole lives are on phones. Messaging first thing in the morning, at super time, in the freakin bathroom. Where will it stop! What do they constantly talk about and why. I’m a “so, hows the weather today” type of guy, and that maybe one of my problems I can’t just chit chat with people on and on. I needed a purpose for conversation, business, work, family, etc.  Relationship are built and crumble through messaging. I know people who are just messaging people because they can, even if they are already with other people or doing something. It gets to a point where if no one replies to them, they send consecutive messages with question mark. Do you know how annoying that is on the receiving end.  It all so impersonal. If you want to talk to that person CALL THEM! That’s what the stupid things was originally made for. I work all night and sleep most of the day and I wake up to messages from the same people asking the same question over and over. If I’m not responding chances are I’m ignoring you or I’m sleeping. I don’t text people through out the night, although maybe I should start. What do you think huh?

Oh and to those who think its a bad idea to charge more than 10$ a month for unlimited messaging take a freakin hike. Its called business. The cell companies see that, oh, most of teens today have cell phone and have an outrageous amounts of messaging and I mean thousands. So why not charge a little more. Its the way the world goes. To the parents who would complain about this because they pay the bill, hears an idea make you freakin kids pay for it, their the ones using the stupid things. I’m the bushman and I’m leaving the 21st century, out to the cabin I go.

I felt like Lewis Black screaming writing that last paragraph!

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