Cheer, Part 22

By David on December 25, 2011

First off, I would like to admit that Santa Clause is seriously my favorite Christmas movie. Sorry, other Christmas movies. And there are so many others of you out there. I am not saying its the greatest movie for others, or try to defend it over other classics like Elf or Christmas Vacation. But Santa Clause takes me back to a time where I would watch that movie when I was a kid, and it reminds me of all the joy of believing.

I never truly understood what it was like to believe in anything truly. I barely ever stood a chance of believing in myself at first, but once you truly learn you aren’t alone in life, everything else seems to fall into place. This wasn’t an easy journey either, I like things being organic. Food and other aspects of life. And I am blessed everyone around me doesn’t force feed me anything about faith, it’s all about what I think and what I believe from what I see and read.

And I love this. I love this part of religion. I am not going to say what I think is over what you think. You believe what you want, and so shall I. I will. I do. I live by the love I feel around me, from Him to the people I am constantly blessed to have around me.

People usually don’t ask why I love Christmas so much, and I wasn’t really sure myself to this year… the year it all somewhat just fell into place… jigsaw style. I love believing in higher power and feeling loved and Christmas is the time of year where everyone jigsaw fades together and the love is always amazing.

I am no expert, I have much more to learn from reading and discussing with friends. So glad I have many Christmases ahead of me to celebrate and grow and learn. Love is all I wanted and I got it.

And now my favorite quote from all Christmas specials combined, Linus was streets ahead people…

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.’ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.’

But seriously, Merry Christmas to you!

From all of me here at DG,
DAVE. THOMAS. :D

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Turkey Rewind

By David on November 26, 2011

So let’s go over the goals from the last post fairly quickly…

  1. Go Hiking – didn’t happen, worked 40 hours this week. Yeah, tell me when too.
  2. Black Friday – didn’t happen, I hate people especially when they spraying the crap out of each other with pepper spray.
  3. Run every single morning – nope. didn’t happen. a boy has gotta relax! trying to integrate that back next week. gosh.
  4. Watch Game of Thrones – nope. didn’t have time. work swag.
  5. LOTR / Cracker Barrel jam – didn’t happen. friend was also working a ton too. also I worked. WORK WORK WORK. brag.
  6. EAT ALL THE THINGS – TOTALLY HAPPENED. AND I DIDN’T GET SICK LIKE LAST YEAR. AND LAID ON THE COUCH AND WATCHED FOOTBALL ALL AFTERNOON AND NAPPED. GET AT ME BRO. GET. AT. ME. FOOTBAWL.
  7. Be thankful – always, seriously… always.

So 2/7 is majority right? I hate Math.

Anyway, Christmas break is coming up so I am planning on a 3x longer list for the 3x longer time I will be able to do. Like chow down an entire box of Christmas cookies. Or something.

#OccupyNorthPole

ANYWAY, this last week has been fantastic. Like, I haven’t even thought of work last week. Yeah, that’s gonna kick me in the face in the coming week.. but I don’t care. I have never needed break before as much as I need it now.

And maybe I am just drinking the break juice, but I feel way more motivated to kick school in the face. I MEAN ITS THE BEST HOLIDAY OF THE YEAR COMING UP! So stoked for the holiday.

This blog is going to be all over the board. I mean, so many fun things happened over break I can’t even think straight.

From the awesome garage hangouts with the greatest friends I have ever known, to some of the more shameful events of my life. I seriously need to calm down bro on some things. New Years Resolutions? Yeah I think so. That list comes WAY LATER!

But seriously, here’s some short blurbs on what I can currently remember over break:

  • worked forty+ hours last week, can’t wait to swim in a bathtub of money (joke.)
  • hung out with my favorite people ever all week long, basically lived at the pyles’ house
    (I enjoy to note I slept in Ryan’s bed more than he did over break. Just saying.)
    and some other stuff happened like sleeping on the floor like a crazy person. My life.
  • awesome garage hangouts and basement chills
  • dexter and I watching community in my room
  • thanksgiving: went for my only run of the week, got to see the beautifulness of swoope, FOOD COMA, couch for hours, footbawl watching, napping, sleeping
  • got harry potter DHPT2 for $7 dollars. score. thanks amazon black friday
  • https://twitter.com/#!/loldave/status/140427877056380928
  • seeing stars. harrisonburg you so fun but SO BRIGHT. I love home. If you don’t, LEAVE. WE HOME LOVIN’ BROS DON’T CARE.
  • watching sports with the best bros a guy could ask for.
  • walking dead with previous people.
  • ground breaking moment for me happened this week too: https://twitter.com/#!/loldave/status/138310056671326209

I love break. Time to focus, then super relax over christmas break.

SAY WHAT. Love y’all.

I’ll say more deep stuff next time. I am still drinking that turkey break gravy on this one.

Love, D.

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Give Me A (Turkey)-Break

By David on November 18, 2011

Being bored isn’t going to be one of my things over break. Moving, sleeping, working, eating turkey. Always.

Setting goals I think is important for any time, but goals over an extended period of relaxation from schoolwork?

Bring them on!

  1. Go hiking!
    This goal has been a goal for a while, but something I never truly understand or have time to do. I mean, CS kids barely get outside as it is… but climbing the side of a mountain for fun? No way. So I want to do it, since we live in one of the most beautiful areas (in my personal kickass opinion) and I want to see it standing on top of the world (Titanic swag? Kinda.)
  2. Black Friday
    If you don’t know what the hell Black Friday is, who are you? But seriously, camping out for electronics? Score. Should I go bigger TV or a hella deal on a PS3? Decisions…
  3. Run every single morning.
    Not a skipped day, and MORNING. Not just during the day, the morning. Bright and early. Rise and shine, hop up out of bed… turn my run on. Seriously, morning runs. I want to make this a habit so I can add it during the semester. #nosleep
  4. Watch Game of Thrones
    I give up on you book. I tried to read you, but I am way to busy to try to keep up with it. Sorry. I will probably read you after the fact, but I so wanna see this HBO jam. People have been raving FOREVER about it, but I really wanted to finish the book first. Oh well. Watching 10 hour episodes
  5. LOTR / Cracker Barrel jammmm!
    This is all up to Andrew. Serious, 11 hour extended edition LOTR movies. He gets appauled every time I mention I haven’t seen them all. And a discount at cracker barrel, WHAT. Solid day it will be.
  6. EAT ALL OF THE THINGS (on Thanksgiving)
    Diet for the rest of the week, massive amounts of overeating on Thursday. Obvious goal from the start.
  7. Be thankful.
    I am, don’t worry. After this week here at JMU, it has been a purple out fest of emotions. But stepping back, being thankful is the most important goal of all.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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