7 Random Things

so a couple weeks ago, i was tagged to post 7 random things about myself....so i guess i'll do that now. I'll try to think of things that you already don't know.

1. (a) I was born in Selma, California on December 26, 1980. (b) When I was born, my lungs were way underdeveloped and I couldn't breath and was all blue and purple and they had to rush me to another hospital for treatment. (c) Since I was born on December 26, I was put in a stocking when they were finally able to release me to my parents care. (d) that stocking has been used as my Christmas stocking ever since then.

2. My unoffical nickname of "quiet" goes back to highschool when I was working at Sonic. They other employees called me Silencio.

3. A few years ago, I moved up to Arkansas with my brother and sister-in-law in search of a job. My sister-in-law worked at Del Monte at the time. The very first Walmart store in Bentonville was having a grand reopening. Lots of the companies that sell products in Walmart had their mascots show up. Since my sister-in-law worked with Del Monte, they were going to send a couple people dressed up at Sweetie Pea and Fuzzy Peach. I got the job to dress up as Fuzzy Peach for a day and walk around Walmart. The costume was huge and very very uncomfortable...and I was the only costume without arms. I ended up scaring some kids and making some cry. Maybe there are pictures out there somewhere.

4. My grandparents lived on a lake most my life. We would go swimming a lot during the summer, but we would never swim under the doc that led up to the boat. When we were younger, we were told there was a troll that lived under the doc. When I got older, I was still nervous any time I got near the doc. I knew that there wasn't really a troll under the doc, but I just knew that something would hurt me or grab my foot and bite me. If my grandparents still lived on the lake today, I still won't go under the doc. I just know there is something there that doesn't want me to live.

5. I was always the 2nd fastest in Elementary school. During every field day, I would do the 50 yard dash since I was fast. My friend Guillermo would always bet that I would win.....and every time, I would lose by a hair to Aaron Matthews. Guillermo always believed in me though...sorry to let you down Guillermo.

6. My other grandparents live in Missouri. They do not have a septic tank, but they have a septic pond. We always called it The Lagoon. As kids, my siblings, cousins and I would take turns flushing toilets in the house and the rest watching the flushed water flow from a pipe into the Lagoon. Sometimes it wasn't just water if you know what I mean....we also did some bad things that got us into a lot of trouble like throwing our grandparents garden vegetables into the lagoon to see if they would float or sink....squash floats...but I know my grandpa wanted to throw us in the lagoon for that.

7. I've always had destructive habits. All through school I used to chew on my wooden pencils all the way down the lead...i would have wood chips all around my desk.....so i started using mechanical pencils...after a while, started chewing those until they broke. I would also chew pens and pen caps. I also chew apart styrofoam cups and tear up napkins. I have done these things a long as I can remember. If it's able to be destroyed, I will end up destroying it.

Five Years in the Making....or Six

hello all you who still come back to my blog every once in a while just to see if I've uttered a single word in OVER A YEAR!!......Oh My Gosh....a whole freaking year?!!? geeze.....sorry..that even caught me by surprise when i just when back and looked at my last post.

So yeah, things in my life this year have not really been blog worthy too much....and when something did happen that was blog worthy, I probably wrote about it on Facebook and not here.....so that's that....but now i tell you something here.

Since I was a young child, I was blessed by parents who knew the awe and beauty of nature....and many of my vacations included going to the mountains of colorado and california and wyoming for some good old camping. Not hard core roughing it....but not luxury RV w/tv, shower, bathroom. We camped in a cozy little pop up trailer......but that's besides the point. We had still gone to more places and seen more mountains and drove over more summits and dangerously narrow passes than most people ever will in there lifetime. I gained a huge appreciation for nature and wildlife. I also loved preserving those memories in photographs.

So ever since I started to think about my future, I've always wanted to live in Colorado....to be right there in the mountains so close to all the beauty......now granted, i had never been to colorado in winter, but I was always was certain it couldn't be THAT bad. So here I am in dallas, tx. It will soon be approaching 6 years since I graduated college which is both frightening and sad. Throughout all those years, I've been saying "Some day i'm going to live in colorado.". My friend Jeremy has even lived there a huge part of that time and has tried his best to persuade me to come.....promising adventure, fun, friends, women and booze....and even a chance to spoon. (i made that last one up...or last two or three)....but he did his best.....but I always had excuses not to go. Although my excuses have been valid in my opinion, I have finally made a mental step in going. This won't be easy for me though. I love my church family at Skillman Church of Christ. I also have great friends both at Skillman and Prestoncrest Church of Christ. The thing I will miss most however, is being so close to my family which includes my 4 nephews. I love all those little guys. I have a ridiculously good looking family.

So how do I move to Colorado while still being able to visit friends and family fairly easily???? WORK AT SOUTHWEST AIRLINE!!!......so that's my goal. My very specific goal is to live in or around Denver at Southwest Airlines.....and hopefully be a ramp agent which are those people you see outside the plane driving your luggage or directing the plane into the terminal or doing other important stuff for your safety and the safety of your belongings. One kink in this specific plan is that the economy sucks right now and Southwest will be hiring a lot less than usual....but I fear not. I do believe I will get this job......but my plan as of now is to start out with a very specific job search. If a few weeks go by and nothing seems to be coming up, I will expand my search to other airlines (i prefer southwest cause they are stable, i am friends with several of it's employees, and i feel like i have some loyalty to them even though I've never worked for them).....I I still get no results, then I will look into any job in the Denver area that will get me by until something at Southwest opens up. Now this plan is stricty an ideal situation plan. I do have stuff to consider with my life here in dallas. I am in a lease that I need to find some info on about subleasing or breaking the lease....I need to watch my financial situation and know when it's smart to move. I have projects to do....and I have family to see.....and of course I have to get a job in Colorado first...cause I can't afford to live there without a job.

So, this is my goal for 2009....unless something amazing comes up between now and 2009.....but I am hoping to be in Colorado by June at the latest. I am for real. My mind is made up.

a list of why colorado is good for me
1. I feel at peace in the mountains.
2. I love nature
3. It has 4 seasons
4. I love photography and Colorado will definately help my photography hobby get a boost.
5. skiing
6. when the icecaps melt, i will be safe ;)
7. it will be one step closer to me owning a huge genuine wooden lodge/cabin in the mountains where all my friends and family can come and enjoy life.
8. I like earthy girls...but not hard core tree hugger...just a little granola (I also like Texas girls which is why i'm so late in coming to colorado.....but it's time to move on)
9. adventure
10. gold mines

My Dreams Are On Hallucinogens

So throughout my life, I've had many crazy dreams. I don't know what everyone else dreams, but sometimes I believe mine are absolutely on crack. I will just quickly tell you the two very short dreams I remember from last night. If you want to know other dreams I've had throughout my life, you can ask me later....it would make for some good coversation.

First dream from last night I remember:

-----I'm swinging from a rope above a pool of sharks. They are jumping trying to eat me while I am kicking them when I can. I'm holding onto the rope with one hand and holding something in my other. I don't know what i'm holding but I am trying to protect it for some reason.-----
I wake up, roll over and fall back asleep

Next Dream

----I'm holding this little creature in my hand. (it must be what i was trying to protect in the previous dream.) It's cold outside. I look down and notice it's a 3 inch tall little Human Cat Baby i'm holding. I approach a camping trailor that I must be living in. I put the 3 inch tall Human Cat Baby in a little box mounted on the side of the camping trailor. He is a cheerful little fella. He is hungry so I spoon feed him some Marshmallow Cream. Some gets in his eyes but he's okay. He's happy. I close him in his box and the dream comes to an end.-----


WHAT THE HECK!!

I HAVE TO WAKE UP AND GO TO WORK AFTER THAT?! I ALREADY GOT TOO MUCH GOING ON IN MY HEAD WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT THE MEANING OF ALL THAT.

If you can interperet dreams, please let me know.


Adam Brown
-making your wildest dreams come true-

My New Car

So last Saturday evening, I end up purchasing a brand new car. It's my first new car. I traded in my Camaro and got me Honda Civic. It's quite the change but it was needed. I was hoping for $1,000 trade-in for the camaro, but I only got a whopping 500......this was mostly cause the AC was no longer functioning. In Texas, I guess that's a big deal. Other than no AC, my camaro had no radio, and no lock on the driver side door, and it was over heating. The sucky part is that I spent so much on my camaro this year but it was falling apart faster than I could fix it. The dealership is getting the better deal cause the EGR Valve was new, the door window motor was new, the brake system was rebuilt, the thermostat was replaced, the catalytic converter was new.......but still, they don't care how much work I put into it.

But my new car is great. 2007 Honda Civic EX sedan. (got the sunroof and fancy wheels)..the pics are below.







I hope you liked it. I love the color...and the ride is way smoother and quieter than the camaro.....and it's pretty zippy when I need it to be. the end

Yea! I got a new car!!!

See title. Pictures will come when I have daylight to take them. I'm happy and you should be also!


adam

My Photoblog

hey guys,

I followed the steps of Jeremy Jackson and created a photo blog. I hope to add a new photo every day. My photo blog is at adambrown.aminus3.com . Please take a look and critique/give compliment/acknowledge my pictures. Also visit jeremiahlee.aminus3.com to see jeremy's photoblog. thanks

Adam Brown

a little known interesting fact.....about me and a cave

There is an interesting fact about me...but i'm not sure of the year or date of this event...and I tried finding information about it online but there was none. It's probably kept secret to keep from scaring people away.
A few (or several) summers ago, my family went to Carlsbad Caverns because we hadn't been there since I was too young to remember. The night we got there, we watched the bats exit the cave. It was very cool. We were to go through the cave the next morning. We woke up early the next morning because we wanted to beat the crowds. We showed up before they started letting people in for the day. We waited around and we got to go in shortly behind the first of the cave guides. As we were going through we heard the cave guide ahead of us talking in is walkie talkie with a panic/excited/concerned voice. We finally get to him and there was an enormous rock that had fallen directly onto the trail...completely crushing the hand rails and blocking the path. The guide helped us safely get around the huge obstacle and we finished the tour...We seemed very much alone during the rest of the tour..it was rather pleasant.Come to find out, they had stopped letting people in for safety reasons....they needed to inspect the cave-in and see what the danger was of more rocks falling. The cave was closed the rest of the day I believe.This may not seem too interesting, but my family made history that day. Never before or since has a cave-in ever been recorded at Carlsbad Caverns, and the odds of a huge chunk of the cave falling directly onto the walking path was out of this world. And the odds that my family was a few of the dozen or so total people to enter before they discovered the rock was very very small.My family made history....we each were 1 out of 549,587,335 people worldwide who could have experienced this secret (yet highly significant) event.