nothing

sorry guys...i promise i'll post something soon..i just really feel like i have nothing to say...yes yes...feel sorry for me...it's okay...i'm just writing this so you know that i still exist and that i do read ya'lls blogs...every day......i need to get my numbers up so i need to write something extraordinary.....something about cats..or my Lack of Dating Because of Putting in No Effort Extravaganza....that should be both boring and depressing.....or maybe i'll write about how i really want to leave the country..or at least state, for at least a couple months because i feel like i'm ticking away till the day i blow up..soon..but some days it feels like someone wet the fuse and cooled me down....those days are good...anyway, i really want to go to homecomeing....it's sad...going to abilene will feel like a great vacation to me....and a great opportunity to find a good freshman girl to date.....here's the way i see it....i get hooked up with a girl who is fresh into college (notice i did not say fresh out of highschool cause that would just sound bad.)..anyway..we would agree not to marry till she graduates...by the time she graduates i should be advanced in my career making a good income and i could immediately start buying her everything she wants(which will luckily not be much cause the girl i marry will be happy enough just experiencing me as her fiance)....then i could have my three kids....after having our fun time first(living in colorado, wyoming, idaho, or montana first for a few years while i work a relaxing job and snow ski, and hike, and rock climb, and travel, and camp the whole time...even make money doing photography on the side...i'd have my own little store at Yosemite or something. i'd have a good barn cat..but short haired so it doesn't get all scraggly full of burrs...i'd also have an alaskan husky cause they are beautiful...but intimidating..i'd probably breed it with the cat to make a superpet of sorts....umm...oh...i'd have to have an RV too...but i dont' wanna drive it cause it's big so i'll hire someone to drive it but he would take the job for free just so he could travel....anyway, i'm going to bed..goodnight

finally..i'm ahead of the game

I bring you my latest fix to satisfy my electronic needs...here now I introduce my nano...don't drool on your keyboard



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Ode To Red-Eyed Tree Frogs

thanks to zach, i used my creative talent to give my ode to red-eyed tree frogs.

dangit...i've been tagged

First memory: umm..my first memory takes place in california, where i was born. I remember a party...it was at night and their was a campfire type of thing. everyone was dressed up all country like..i remember a lot of the kids had these horses on a stick and we were riding (running) around the campfire like a bunch of cowboys...anyway, i was probably 3...or even two.... .


First kiss: ummm...assuming my sister or mom does not count, i have yet to lock lips with a hottie..or even a not so hottie...but one day it will happen, and then cows will be coming home, and fat ladies will sing, and it will be snowing in hell.



First concert attended: this is a tough one..i never really went to any concerts...i did see some banjo band play songs in a town called lipan....but that's hardly a concert in today's standards...i would say the Carmen concert i went to in junior high..it was fun...at reunion arena.


First love: well, it would probably be my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Laritzen (Mrs. North now)...but my first love that was attainable would be a girl named alicia from 5th grade...we were on a field trip when i first noticed her...she was wearing a long pretty dress and she had such a pretty face..i was pretty giddy about her...but then there was amy reed from church camp...she really got be frazzled...she the first that i actually spoke to in person...besides Mrs. Laritzen.


First thing you think in the morning: Lord, give me the strength to push away the masses of single, hot, christian girls that flock to me on a daily basis...Help them understand that I can only pick one.


First book you remember loving: of course it was The Pokey Little Puppy...it was very comforting to read or have it read to me...it was one of those books with the gold spine on it...and cardboard pages.



First pet: well, when in california, we had a dog named charlie...i don't remember anything about him, but apparently he was a huge dog that loved to chase gofers...he protected us but also got hit by cars or sprayed by skunks or maybe even stuck my porcupines..i forget...the first pet that was a big part of my life was a cat that my dad got from a coworker....her name (the cat) was Mrs. Roosevelt...she was a very good natured cat..ugly as sin, but very sweet and motherly...she got even uglier when her tail got chopped off by belt or fan in a car...we were on vacation and she went to a neighbors house and got up under the car where it was warm, but they started the car and it chopped off her tail...she just had a scabby nub from then on..she lived quite a lot of years..i need to find a picture of her.


First question you'll ask in Heaven (If that's allowed): Is there like really awesome camping spots here?

First place you think of when you hear the word vacation: i would say Colorado..or California. My family has gone to colorado almost every year i can remember..it's so awesome to go camping..so relaxing...their is nothing better than colorado in the summer...perfect temperatures, beautiful places, great camping...awesome.



First best friend: well, i don't like putting my friends in an order..i love the friends i'm with here in dallas. they all are a huge part of my life...there would be no reason to be here if they werent' here....but if i had to single a person out, i would say Guillermo Gonzalez....he's up in baltimore working at johns hopkins now...but i've been friends with him since kindergarten...we grew up together we know more about each other than anyone else. we can say anything to each other...we are like family sometimes..if i went to his parents house they would feed me and treat me just like guillermo...his dad would even make me do some work for him..my mom is his second mom......it's cool.

Last time you dressed up: i don't know what dressed up means...i mean, i have to wear sunday type clothes to work...but i guess at my sisters wedding was the last time i really dressed up...being a groomsman, i was in a tux...and very hot.

Last thing you ate: Mexican food with the neilands and nathan gray and bethany powell. see the futures blog for this question.


Last CD bought: um..Jars of Clay Redemption Songs...and Moby 18....then Jars of Clay got stolen as it was in my car CD player when it got stolen. stupid freaks.

Last time you cried: when i watched Remember the Titans the other night...the end is emotional..very sad..my eyes watered a little....my last actual cry was when i lost job i got right before i moved into my first apartment...i didn't know what i was gonna do..i needed a job fast so i could actually pay my rent. yes i cried...boo hoo...then i got my revenge...not so much.

Last time you told someone you loved them: to my mom..on the phone..yesterday


Last really fun thing you did: oh man...same as the futures blog again...playing keep away in the pool with some of the youth group...so much fun..my feet hurt..and zach almost broke my nose..it's bit crooked and bruised but it was worth it....we swam again.


Last thing you watched on T.V. um..an awesome Discovery HD program about Tigers of the Sunderbans...very freaky...man eaters


Last Halloween costume: I was a Snow Skiing Hobo this year. It was very original and entertaining. I need to find a picture of that so you can see the splendor.


Last Concert attended: Well, when i was in New York this past week, I saw Ciara perform a few songs. It was a 7:00am concert so i didn't know who would actually have a concert at 7:00am...but it was for Good Morning America, so that's why it was so early...it was okay...i didn't relaly pay much attention..but i have pics to post of that.


Last time you had a really moving spiritual experience: i don't remember exactly..but ive prayed really hard at night then slept and had a great sleep and woke up feeling very refreshed and lively and knowing that all is right...it feels like God has appointed that day to be a great day.

Your Brown Sugar Update

It's been a while...i've just been lazy so i apologize....There have been several notable events in my life that past few weeks, and there are things coming up for me.....So a few weeks ago, my bike was stolen.....it was a good mountain bike. only had a it a few months....i had it locked up to my apartment stairs and someone done come and snipped the cable and took the bike....it sucked....it was only a hundred bucks or so but i still just want to run over the guy that took it and then beat him with the cable and lock he left behind. I never had anything of any value stolen from me before it sucked.......anyway, a couple days later, I woke up to go to work, but when i got in my car, i noticed the middle console was open and stuff was laying around....then i looked to my radio and it was gone....some homo jackass thug took my radio.....two days after my bike....i could have been the same person..but i just don't know.....i put in a police report and contacted apartment security but nothing has come up yet so i guess i'm out of luck on getting anything back....and i don't have any of that covered under insurance....it really sucks...so every drive in my car is silent and really dark at night..my radio provided most of my light in the car..........oh...and i deactivated my car alarm a long time ago because it was annoying and causing problems, and i never had any problems, but i reactivated it now....but there is nothing else to steal.

umm...work is going okay...we were bought out by our biggest competitor, but i won't say much about that except that we all kept our jobs and things haven't changed much yet....i'm almost afraid to talk about work related events just in case i have to keep things confidential.....so...you will hear more on that later....but i am in no danger of losing my job...sooo..that's good......ummm....i am going to an FC Dallas soccer game this weekend...It's the grand opening of the new Pizza Hut Park in Frisco....it's the first soccer complex of it's kind in the U.S.......a soccer sadium that holds about 20,000 with suites and clubs, and all sorts of cool stuff......and 17 other championship grade soccer fields......It's gonna rock....My good friend Megan and I will be going so we will get to witness history in the making.....awesome.......................ummm.....coming up for me is a trip to Baltimore to see Guillermo....I haven't seen him in a very long time and I've never been in that part of the country so it's gonna be fun....we are actually going to spend most the time in New York where there is more stuff for us to do...or like to do.....I will be leaving wednesday august 17 and come back sunday night.....almost 300 dollar tickets...plus whatever i spend in new york.....i'm gonna be soo poor....i hate worrring about money but i have needed to go see him for too long now......i'm spending too much in too short of time....in two weeks time i'll have spent money on phone bill, credit card bill, utilities, rent, plane ticket, soccer game tickets, dinners and attractions in new york, place to stay in new york, clothes from the mall, eating out here in dallas, and grocery shopping....oh and gas that's horribly expensive....i'm sure when i get back from New York, i will be broke......but hopefully not....

i have been procrastinating a couple projects that will get me some money...i really feel bad for doing it but i just have no discipline to work once i leave my actual job....i really need that money....i'm not really rolling in dough anyway.....but i am Brown Sugar and I do have my ways. anyway, that's it for now...sorry...i want to add links to some stuff but my browser doesn't support that feature for some reason....maybe i'll add them later....peace.

Thanks Everyone!

I'd like to take this time to post my thanks and appreciation for viewing my blog. I never knew I was gonna be such a hit. It's you, my audience, that are the real heros. My life has not been full of exciting things to post. I do not write debateable posts or really anything worth the precious time God gave you, but you still come to my site, seeking meaning to life and answers, and maybe some humor. I do what I can to raise the quality of life for the common man..and woman.

My blog has almost reached a milestone in blog history. I'm am approaching the 20,000 visits mark, and I have only had the counter for about a month. Somewhere out there must be thousands of strangers who don't know me, but make it a priority for me to be a part of their daily routine. If you are one of those incredible strangers, then please feel free to comment with a word or two....kind words only...please......if a negative word is typed, then i will imagine you being severely wounded from a rabid cat....trust me, you dont' want that...

ok..here is another Ode to La Gato.
here is pokey. pokey was a wonderful pet...a pure joy. but don't be fooled by the name....he was quite the rambunctious character when the mood hit him. His favorite activity was to run and pounce on your back if you were working in the garden. sure it hurt, but you can't help but love it. he lasted for a good while. he died peacefully in his sleep on the porch...it was sad, cause i was petting him for a while before i realized he died.....i knew he was sick, but whatever sickness he had, it came fast and hard....i'm sad thinking about it.


here is pokey and another cat...we must not have kept the siamese long cause i dont' remember it...but he looked pretty cool.


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autographs

so this is cool....when i went to my parents a couple weeks ago, i was searching in my old closet for stuff i want to keep with me at my place....and i found my autographs of the i believe to be 1992 US National Soccer Team. They were training in dallas one night, and my sisters soccer team got the hook up on the info so they went to the practice and we all got autographs. it was most cool. here are the autographs...all i had was paper..no cool soccer stuff with me for them to autograph on.


WAIT A MINUTE THERE!.....I knew my old roommate had a hidden talent he never told me about.....Travis Tidmore DID play on the US National Soccer team......i knew it...i lived with a sports star for two years....how sweet is that.

Cruisin

Yes...we are cool and we do mean business....you betta watch yo self!

Diary of a Strange Boy

A couple weeks ago, I went home and searched my old closet for things I would want in my new apartment. Mainly, I wanted to find my autographs of 14 of the US National soccer team members from the early 90's. I did:). I also came across my old diary (i will call it journal to be more manly). I received this journal on Christmas 1990. I never was good at writing stuff in it. There are only a few pages that i actually wrote something on.....except for the flip page stick figure animation that goes from half way through to the end of the book....It's a stick figure falling from the top of the page to the bottom and big explosion happens...anyway, i read through most of the d..journal in a couple minutes...it was frickin hilarious....i'm sure it's more funny to me than it would be for ya'll...cause..you know.....anyway, i decided i will do the no no and show ya'll my journaling....ok....here is the first page...this must of been written near Christmas of 1991, a year after receiving it.


ok..as you read, you know i am obviously in a state of remembering. I'm remembering the other gifts I received the Christmas before, when i got the journal...the keyboard was great, but i doubt i actually played neat music on it...except cool sound effect..and a song from the water dropplet effect that was pretty and made me tear up......now the bebe gun was awesome...we shot many things...mostly empty cans, occasionally bad stray dogs or cats...and i killed a bird which i've always felt bad about...it wasn't even a crow...it was a blue bird of some kind i believe....i said it was an accident...i was really skill....i even "shot a pez away"...the candy dispenser.

Now the second paragraph is the Christmas that's near....i'm guessing Christmas of 1991....that christmas i guess i "wand"ed lots of stuff. I must have used up all my bebe's that i received the previous year...i needed to shoot the gun again..you know how it is....i was also into lizards...it's weird...i'm afraid of them now, but if i didn't hurt me then, i guess they can't now......anyway, that's all i wrote on that entry....more to come..i hope you enjoyed.

Moving

Well, this weekend, I am moving out of my efficiency apartment and going across the street to The Cliffs. I will be rooming with Tim in a two bedroom apartment....in the process i will be saving money too..yay. I think it's gonna be good for the both of us.....we have a cool backyard too....a lake and green grass to play on. I should be packing now but instead i've made a cool new title picture and stuff...I will be without internet for a couple days after we move until the cable people come...then i will get internet the honest way...instead of "borrowing" it like i am now. I also hope I get better phone reception...i keep forgetting to check every time i've gone to the new apartment....if i dont' get better reception, i would be tempted to get new service...or gripe out sprint for being sucky in this part of Dallas. i've almost destroyed my phone cause of it's cutting out...but it's not the phones fault i'm sure...he just gets stuck with the blame.....let me know if you want my new mailing address...i don't want to post it here in case there actually is a psycho stranger or freakishly obsessed stalker girl who would like to hunt me down...but then again...that may be a good thing. ok bye.

Ever Wonder?

Don't you guys ever wonder how i became such a world class athlete?....where did i start?.....what is the origins of my awesomeness....well...today you still have to wonder because i can't find my pictures of me on The Scooters......but you will see a slightly later time.....maybe a time when i realized without my parents telling me, that soccer was the ultimate sport....this was the time that i began my path to manhood and no longer was a weenie girly boy....this photo marks the beginning of my journey. see those girly legs, those inch thick shin guards, those Tops cleats, that blond hair.


as you can see, it all started on the A-TEAM. That's Right!..not the B-Team or JV Team....but the A-TEAM!!..i so wish i still had my A-Team jersey...not this one..but a later one that had 3 stars on each sleeve..it rocked...anyway, soccer is what developed my skill as a human being...it made me an ultimate man....soccer gave me incredible strength and agility......i can run to and fro like a gazelle...i can kick small animals farther than most....soccer made me a new man....one that pictures can hardly express, but it's the only thing that comes close.



BOOYAH!....LOOK AT ME NOW!!!!

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IM A TECHNO DANCIN FOOL!!!!!!!! RIGHT ON!!!

MORE FUN WITH GIF ANIMATION!!!

Random Picture Story On Crack(little sleep but lots of sugar)

This is a story by Adam Brown to all who accept me as me.....

So while in New Orleans, we were all in search of the magical crawfish....this crawfish was magical cause it was of the jeremy jackson breed. After going through many many ordinary crawfish, I found the magical one. He was happy as all get out....I was relieved yet ticked for how smiley that little guy was for hiding so long....i felt like thumping his little head.....even doggy was a bit suprised at him. He said, "by golly, that little feller done smiled at me."......cat was a bit less amused...he stayed his distance not knowing what crawjackson could do......even mr. snake wanted in on the action(jackson).



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my daggum counter

so about two or three days ago, i put the counter on my page (below all the links on the right). now, earlier today, it showed like 27 hits to my page....now, that could have been real...but no one wrote any responses to my blog.......but that's besides the point...well....2 hours later i checked the site and it said 600 something hits....then 10 minutes later it said 800 something.....then now like 30 minutes later it says 1000 something its......i don't think that's right...there may be like 20-30 people that even know my blog exists...and only half of those have probalby actually looked at it....something is wrong with my counter....what the heck.......anyway that all.....i'm not as popular as you would think i am looking at the blog......well, i guess the counter isn't gonna do me any good.

Gothic, Colorado....almost paradise

Hey guys..sorry, cats will have to wait till I gather some pictures....anyway, this post is meant to be informative. Maybe I was inspired by Jeremy's pictures, but I felt like letting you know of a wonderful place all should visit. I introduce to you gothic Colorado...that's my sister in the picture.


Gothic Colorado lies north of Crested Butte on a dirt road. We had never heard of Gothic but a kindly person told us of some great camping up that road...We almost didn't take it cause it was a rough muddy dirt road that went on forever. It was a beautiful drive. It was like the most green lush and beautiful place I had seen in a while, but little did i know what Gothic really was like.

After driving a while we started noticing strange things....wonderful things happening. We saw people wandering through the woods. They were walking slowly, looking around, then we would see more people and more people..back deep in the woods randomly wandering around....we didn't know what was going on...it was like something weird out of an X-files episode. Then I noticed the wonderful part as we started getting closer to the people...all these people we saw were young women...they very very attractive young women...we saw probably 15 beautiful young women walking around...It was like some weird paradise....I wanted to get lost out there and run across one of these mysterious people.......anyway we make it to the camping site and it's awesome...so peaceful, great trails, great views. We went on some hikes where I took this picture.


The next day we wanted to find the actual town. Finally we find the sign (in the first picture) that reads,"Gothic Colorado, site of The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, founded 1928." This sign was the explaination of all the weird things we saw....this whole town is basically a school for studying and experimenting biology. All those incredibly beautful women walking around were students or scientists. (we did eventually see men for you ladies out there.)...These people we saw wandering around were examining plantlife, and wild life...they planted plants, and tagged animals, and did all sorts of biological stuff...and they do it deep in the woods in random places. They were all attractive people and in shape cause they all hike and bike ride, and ski for excersice. Gothic, Colorado was a very interesting and beautiful place..they even have a gift shop and post office for those who need those things. I believe everyone should camp up there some time...i know single guys would love it....(by the way, Gothic was named because of a mountain that looked like buttresses (spell?) on a gothic cathedral. I leave you with a view from the dirt road near Gothic. I have many more great pictures...(sorry no Gothic babes were photographed)

correction

i do have a correction to make...Calamity was in fact a male and he was named before the attic fan accident occured. He was named Calamity because of it's hard times as a kitten who was abandoned. His name had become a hint of what was still to come through the rest of his life. please read previous post if you don't knwo what i'm talking about....i still want your feedback about cats. thanks......more cat stories to come...cat's like Mrs. Roosevelt, Pokey, Agent Orange, Toby and Lulu...maybe even Smokey if i have time. Please stay tuned...hopefully i can find pictures of them all.

i like cats, alright...geeze

what can i say, i like cats....the title bar cat is my grandparents cat.....it's really cool....an outdoor cat, like cats should be.....it likes to take walks.....but it stays behind you a little ways so it appears that he's independent and doesn't need protection....he's gray soft and cute....i just don't understand you cat haters out there who think they are evil.....tim, josue, debbie, you know who you are...you think they are useless........some cats are mistreated or they are not raised by cat lovers, and throughout time they become bitter and hostile towards humans....there are some cats i'm afraid of....i don't like that cats that you can't get 20 feet from without running...those cats are giving other cats a bad reputation....i dont' steriotype all dogs just because my friends pitbull amost bit my face off......or my neighbors dog almost got a piece of my backside..........or my other friends dog that has known me for 15 plus years and has growled (in a bad way) at me for the whole time........i don't hate dogs...just those dogs....so why do you cat haters hate cats.....what experience made you turn from all cats.......my cats have been nothing but pure joy for all who come near them...they are nice, they are kind...they are giving and and never ask anything but love in return........so, i'm gonna post pictures of cats that have come through my life. this first picture is Calamity or Cortez....they were of course later in my life....sadly they didn't last long...they were people loveing and very fun. we nursed them back to health. Calamity (solid white long haired) was named after getting caught in the attic fan. my sister thought it was a mouse so she turned on the fan to kill it i guess...next thing she knows is fur, blood, and meowwwing!...broken tooth and chopped ear but okay otherwise....the vet drugged and stitched and she became better....Cortez (solid black short hair) was built like a panther...looked dangerouse and could do some damage, but knew people were good and so was he....he was name cortez because he loved to explore...he adventured the farthest from our house at a younger age than other cats we had.........both cats are no longer....calamity must have had more calamity with bad dog or coyote...she will be missed....cortez adventured too far away and decided he liked it better across the street...i haven't seen him around....if he is around, hes probably protecting lady cats....he was nice like that.

testing

hello....if you are reading this then my blog must be working again.

It Could Have Been Your EYE!

alright guys, so i have also put carmex in my eye....it runs in the family...at least between me and my cousin (who is currently attending ACU)...Carmex does hurt so you better be thankful it wasn't your eye.....I was demonstrating the effect of haveing carmex in the eye so ya'll would know not to do that when so urged by peer pressure to do so. I didn't want anyone to learn the hard way. I was placing the life of my eye in danger for ya'll....it's all in love....and what do i get?..i get harrassed and made fun of. Isn't the eye pain enough?...must i go through personal humiliation from ya'll too.........my goodness gracious....someday i will be thanked.....if not for saving your sight, at least for a good laugh.....But, i have grown out of that stage. I will not be posting pictures of carmex in my eye...just cause i don't wanna get carmet from my finger onto the camera....you know.....BYE.

Funny Story (Treadmill of Death)

Hey everyone, I have yet another funny story. Its on up there with my listerine incident. So I was at the weight room last night. Zach and Melissa went with me....or I went with them...whatever...anyway, I was doing my rounds on the weights. First my legs, then my pecs, then legs again then arms, then the treadmill. So I was on the treadmill doing what I do pretty good and that is run....I started slow then got faster and faster. Some very kind Indian dude was on the treadmill next to me. There are three TV's in the room. One on the corner to my right side, one in the middle and one in the corner to my left side. I was scanning bits in pieces on each TV. One playing basketball, one playing news, and the other some political comedy. I'm pretty good at quickly looking while staying straight on the treadmill, but that night had a different fate for me. i had the treadmille up to 7.5 miles per hour....a rather fast speed for doing a mile. I glance up and to the left to see the TV on the left corner. I mean to just glance but I end up paying too much attention to the TV. I end up running crooked on the belt and my left foot steps half way off the belt causing my left leg to spin quickly. I loose my balance and fall forward after trying to save myself. It happens so fast that I cannot grab the rail on the front and I fall on the spinning belt with my head on at the front. Then it shoots me backwards on my stomach and off the treadmill. That moment it became an angry beast...or the giant fish/whale that spit Jonah out. It spit me out....at 7.5 miles per hour. I have the knee scrape and knuckle scratches to prove it. I quickly stand up flustered and look around to see if there was anyone who saw...Of course Zach and Melissa and the kindly Indian dude saw. The incident was loud and I made some panicky moan that could not have gone unheard. The Indian dude quickly got off his treadmill to assist me, but I told him I'm okay, then I made some stupid joke to lighten the situation. I'm just so glad that there were no more people in the weight room. That would have been really embarrassing....only nerds fall off of treadmills. So I have become a nerd.