My Dad somehow changed the phone service so that now it runs over the internet and it's a lot cheaper. My mom and dad were then arguing about if long distance is free or not with this set up and all my dad replies is:
"The only thing that's ever free is death and that's only for the person dying."
Even though it's sad all I could do was burst out laughing. That is ultimate wisdom right there.
Wednesday, June 30
Tuesday, June 29
Draft
Today as we were talking about the civil war in my history class our teacher mentioned that there is a bill in Congress right now that will reinstate the military draft by spring 2005. This draft would require everyone including women between the age of 18 and 26 to serve for 2 years. And college and Canada this time around are not a way to escape the draft. The reason why it is kept quiet is because of the upcoming election. Go figure, that's typical politics. Now the draft is most likely not going to happen because it would reduce the quality of the military, the training is too long and it would simply cost too much but just the thought that it might happen scares me. It really scares me.
Fun Times
I just got back from my roadtrip to DFW. It was fun and it was really good to see Amy and Lib and Lib's family. And it was really good to get out of Lake Jackson. Now just a couple of random thoughts.
Dallas rush hour sucks just as much as Houston's. Especially when you look down that hill on I 20 and all you can see is nonmoving cars all the way to the horizon. Ridiculous I say, absolutely ridiculous.
DFW floods just as much as Houston. It was amazing how one can have a lake in their backyard when there normally isn't one.
Toby is one crazy dog, but cute I have to admit.
$8.50 for the movies is just ridiculous but yeah for student discounts. $4.00 for the movies in the evening is awesome and both Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Terminal are good movies.
Grand Theft Auto has to be my favorite video game ever because I suck so bad at it, it's really funny to watch. Oh and the nail gun mode is awesome.
Car covered in tons of bumper stickers look kinda cool, Fort Worth's downtown is really cute, the Radio Shack Headquarters is insane and the guns up Jesus rocks.
Frisbee Golf is really cool too and once again it's another thing I suck at.
Oh and whoever orders 45 burgers at Wendy's at 10 o'clock at night should be shot.
Now it's time to read 3 chapters of history and go to class. Wohooo
Dallas rush hour sucks just as much as Houston's. Especially when you look down that hill on I 20 and all you can see is nonmoving cars all the way to the horizon. Ridiculous I say, absolutely ridiculous.
DFW floods just as much as Houston. It was amazing how one can have a lake in their backyard when there normally isn't one.
Toby is one crazy dog, but cute I have to admit.
$8.50 for the movies is just ridiculous but yeah for student discounts. $4.00 for the movies in the evening is awesome and both Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Terminal are good movies.
Grand Theft Auto has to be my favorite video game ever because I suck so bad at it, it's really funny to watch. Oh and the nail gun mode is awesome.
Car covered in tons of bumper stickers look kinda cool, Fort Worth's downtown is really cute, the Radio Shack Headquarters is insane and the guns up Jesus rocks.
Frisbee Golf is really cool too and once again it's another thing I suck at.
Oh and whoever orders 45 burgers at Wendy's at 10 o'clock at night should be shot.
Now it's time to read 3 chapters of history and go to class. Wohooo
Friday, June 25
Thursday, June 24
Wohooo
German riots after Euro 2004 exit
Thursday, June 24, 2004 Posted: 0836 GMT (1636 HKT)
HAMBURG, Germany -- About 150 German football fans went on the rampage in the northern city of Hamburg after their team was eliminated from Euro 2004.
You just gotta love those soccer hooligans. They never dissappoint you. Oh and yeah blame Cananda for the flooding down here.
Thursday, June 24, 2004 Posted: 0836 GMT (1636 HKT)
HAMBURG, Germany -- About 150 German football fans went on the rampage in the northern city of Hamburg after their team was eliminated from Euro 2004.
You just gotta love those soccer hooligans. They never dissappoint you. Oh and yeah blame Cananda for the flooding down here.
Wednesday, June 23
Stupid Czechs
Ok, this is what I said in a convo to Laura during Germany's game against the Czechs today. "Give me Germany in the quarterfinals or give me death." Hmmm, I guess that means death. So I take that back. Instead I will just blame Canada. Blame you Canada that Germany can't get the ball in the goal. There, I feel much better now.
I hope my back is gonna feel better too after Yoga tonite. I love Yoga. Besides climbing it is my favorite....hmmm, you can't really call it a sport. But anyways I just love it.
July 6th my family will fly to Germany or to be more specific to Amsterdam. From there we will drive to Brussels and get our Visa renewed on the 8th. Then we will drive all the way up to Hamburg and chill there for a couple of days and then it's back down to Aachen for my cousin's wedding and the baptism of her cute little baby Celina on the 17th and then it's back to the US. It is all gonna be a lot of fun but it all depends on one simple, small thing. If we don't get our travel letters from the BCIS then we can't leave the country, which means we can't go. Stupid bureaucracy....y'all better make it quick.
Lately I have been feeling rather weird which I normally do over the summer. It's probably because I actually have lot of time to think, to contemplate which I usually don't do during the school year. I feel lazy, sad, yet grateful,lonely and once again trapped. I feel trapped not because I'm down here in Lake Jackson and all my friends are somewhere else, but because I somehow can't find a way to vent my feelings and thoughts. I have been writing in my journal every night to try to make some sense out of my thoughts and feelings. But it isn't really helping. I once again seem to be waiting....waiting for something...someone...but I can't figure out what. I just wanna be happy, truly happy, not just something that's temporary but it seems like a very long and difficult road to get to that point and I have been getting quite discouraged. I'm to the point of just giving up somehow. But then I came across this quote.
I learn every day of
my life, learn it with
pain I am grateful for:
patience is everything.
~RAINER MARIA RILKE
Patience truly is everything and it is something I don't posses.....yet.
Ok, now I'm depressed. Today is just not a good day. Yoga here I come. Time to relax
I hope my back is gonna feel better too after Yoga tonite. I love Yoga. Besides climbing it is my favorite....hmmm, you can't really call it a sport. But anyways I just love it.
July 6th my family will fly to Germany or to be more specific to Amsterdam. From there we will drive to Brussels and get our Visa renewed on the 8th. Then we will drive all the way up to Hamburg and chill there for a couple of days and then it's back down to Aachen for my cousin's wedding and the baptism of her cute little baby Celina on the 17th and then it's back to the US. It is all gonna be a lot of fun but it all depends on one simple, small thing. If we don't get our travel letters from the BCIS then we can't leave the country, which means we can't go. Stupid bureaucracy....y'all better make it quick.
Lately I have been feeling rather weird which I normally do over the summer. It's probably because I actually have lot of time to think, to contemplate which I usually don't do during the school year. I feel lazy, sad, yet grateful,lonely and once again trapped. I feel trapped not because I'm down here in Lake Jackson and all my friends are somewhere else, but because I somehow can't find a way to vent my feelings and thoughts. I have been writing in my journal every night to try to make some sense out of my thoughts and feelings. But it isn't really helping. I once again seem to be waiting....waiting for something...someone...but I can't figure out what. I just wanna be happy, truly happy, not just something that's temporary but it seems like a very long and difficult road to get to that point and I have been getting quite discouraged. I'm to the point of just giving up somehow. But then I came across this quote.
I learn every day of
my life, learn it with
pain I am grateful for:
patience is everything.
~RAINER MARIA RILKE
Patience truly is everything and it is something I don't posses.....yet.
Ok, now I'm depressed. Today is just not a good day. Yoga here I come. Time to relax
Tuesday, June 22
Blame Canada
My brother and I were talking about the Euro 2004 and I said that Germany absolutely has to beat the Czech Republic to get into the quarterfinals. My brother starts singing: "Stupid Czechs, stupid Czechs" then shortly after that switches to "Blame
Canada, blame Canada, blame Canada!" I thought it was hilarious, but it is a good strategy. If Germany doesn't make it to the quarterfinals then we can blame Canada.
Canada, blame Canada, blame Canada!" I thought it was hilarious, but it is a good strategy. If Germany doesn't make it to the quarterfinals then we can blame Canada.
Monday, June 21
The usual daily update.
The common sideeffects of every drug...tiredness and nausea. Not the best feeling in the world, but I'll get over it.
History test tomorrow. Should be just like the last one thus I'm not worried about it.
My brother and his girlfriend are really cute. They didn't see each other for an entire 10 days b/c Rachel was at some camp. My brother was in one of the grumpiest moods ever during that time and he gave Rachel the biggest hug at the movies today. Totally cute.
I had some extremely good seafood yesterday at Willie Joe's down at Surfside Beach with my entire family yesterday evening. I love seafood.
Visiting Amy in Fort Worth this weekend. Fun....
Oh, that reminds me. It's time to take my next penicillin. Yuck, I really hate those pills.
History test tomorrow. Should be just like the last one thus I'm not worried about it.
My brother and his girlfriend are really cute. They didn't see each other for an entire 10 days b/c Rachel was at some camp. My brother was in one of the grumpiest moods ever during that time and he gave Rachel the biggest hug at the movies today. Totally cute.
I had some extremely good seafood yesterday at Willie Joe's down at Surfside Beach with my entire family yesterday evening. I love seafood.
Visiting Amy in Fort Worth this weekend. Fun....
Oh, that reminds me. It's time to take my next penicillin. Yuck, I really hate those pills.
Sunday, June 20
Bunch of Quotes
The six cubit body
contains the origin
and the dissolution
of the world.
~BUDDHIST SAYING
"Whenever I meet even a 'foreigner,'
I have always the same feeling:
'I am meeting another member of the human family.'
This attitude has deepened my affection
and respect for all beings."
~His Holiness the Dalai Lama
With a wish to free all beings
I shall always go for refuge
To the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha,
Until I reach full enlightenment.
Enthused by wisdom and compassion,
today in the Buddhas' presence
I generate the Mind for Full Awakening
For the benefit of all sentient beings.
As long as space remains,
As long as sentient beings remain,
Until then, may I too remain
And dispel the miseries of the world.
A lot of friends have been writing about love, serenity, and happiness in their profile lately and it makes me really glad to see it. Life is just unbelievably awesome.
On a good note. My teeth are still doing great or more like the lack of my teeth.
On a bad note, German only tied Latvia 0:0 which means that we now absolutely have to beat the Czech Republic to get into the Quarterfinals. We shall see if that is possible.
contains the origin
and the dissolution
of the world.
~BUDDHIST SAYING
"Whenever I meet even a 'foreigner,'
I have always the same feeling:
'I am meeting another member of the human family.'
This attitude has deepened my affection
and respect for all beings."
~His Holiness the Dalai Lama
With a wish to free all beings
I shall always go for refuge
To the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha,
Until I reach full enlightenment.
Enthused by wisdom and compassion,
today in the Buddhas' presence
I generate the Mind for Full Awakening
For the benefit of all sentient beings.
As long as space remains,
As long as sentient beings remain,
Until then, may I too remain
And dispel the miseries of the world.
A lot of friends have been writing about love, serenity, and happiness in their profile lately and it makes me really glad to see it. Life is just unbelievably awesome.
On a good note. My teeth are still doing great or more like the lack of my teeth.
On a bad note, German only tied Latvia 0:0 which means that we now absolutely have to beat the Czech Republic to get into the Quarterfinals. We shall see if that is possible.
Saturday, June 19
Iron Chef German
So I made some awesome chicken fricassee today. My entire family loved it. Maybe by the end of the summer I can call myself Iron chef German. Haha, that would be too funny. Anyways, this is only the first day after surgery and I'm already eating solid food. Go me. Anyways, my dad and I are gonna fix my computer. Later...
It's a good day
I'm a little sore but otherwise I feel great. I really recommend my wisdomteeth doctor. He did a very good job even though he was a longhorn.
Otherwise life is really great. I'm reading "How to practice the way to a meaninful life" by the Dalai Lama right now and I plan on reading a lot more of his books and getting ahead in my Buddhist studies. It's going to be a lot of work b/c Buddhism isn't an easy religion but will make it.
This weekend I'm probably gonna go visit Amy in Fort Worth. That should be fun. After that it's Germany on July 6th if the govt has our paper ready. I really really hope so, because I really want to be at my cousins wedding.
Then on August 16th it's finally back to Lubbock and moving into my house with some awesome girls. Wohoo. I can't wait.
Just finishing with a quote and then eating some choco mousse my lil bro made me. :)
In zazen we do not expect anything. Zazen is not a
technique to achieve anything. It is much more natural.
And yet, somehow, the most natural thing is difficult
to do. How come? Because we think. There is nothing
wrong with thinking. Thinking is a very natural process,
but we are so easily conditioned by our thinking and
give too much value to it.
~MAEZUMI ROSHI
Otherwise life is really great. I'm reading "How to practice the way to a meaninful life" by the Dalai Lama right now and I plan on reading a lot more of his books and getting ahead in my Buddhist studies. It's going to be a lot of work b/c Buddhism isn't an easy religion but will make it.
This weekend I'm probably gonna go visit Amy in Fort Worth. That should be fun. After that it's Germany on July 6th if the govt has our paper ready. I really really hope so, because I really want to be at my cousins wedding.
Then on August 16th it's finally back to Lubbock and moving into my house with some awesome girls. Wohoo. I can't wait.
Just finishing with a quote and then eating some choco mousse my lil bro made me. :)
In zazen we do not expect anything. Zazen is not a
technique to achieve anything. It is much more natural.
And yet, somehow, the most natural thing is difficult
to do. How come? Because we think. There is nothing
wrong with thinking. Thinking is a very natural process,
but we are so easily conditioned by our thinking and
give too much value to it.
~MAEZUMI ROSHI
Friday, June 18
Wisdom Teeth
I got my wisdom teeth pulled today. It was kinda interesting. They completely sedated me and I basically don't remember a thing. Just random bits and pieces. Like asking my mom if she got my purse, getting wheeled out to the car through a back door in a wheelchair, my mom being upset b/c Walgreens didn't have the prescription ready, me popping a couple of pimples cause it didn't hurt and just getting home and crashing on the couch. According to my mom I kept on talking nonstop on the way home but I don't even remember that. Not remembering feels really strange, this is what getting wasted probably feels like and frankly I don't like it very much and that's another reason I don't drink. But the good news are that I'm not in a any pain...yet and that my family pampers me the entire day. My brother especially made chocolate mousse for me. And my mom rented movies for me to watch tonite. Woohoo and I'm probably gonna go to the beach on Sunday to relax. Ok, I think I'm gonna lay back down cause I'm dizy. Later
Thursday, June 17
Again
And it's happening again, that would be the second time this year, and again I'm right in the middle of it because I'm stupid enough to let this get to me the way it is. I should just stop, I have done it before but it is rather difficult. I'm just gonna get my mind onto something else. Period. But it hurts.....
Wednesday, June 16
It's raining men
It's raining men...Hallejulah...It's raining men...Amen
It's been raining since yesterday and at first it was kinda cozy, sleeping while there is a thunderstorm outside. But now our pool is about to totally overflow and flood the entire backporch. Should be interesting to watch. I hope it's stops tonite though when I have to go to yoga.
It's been raining since yesterday and at first it was kinda cozy, sleeping while there is a thunderstorm outside. But now our pool is about to totally overflow and flood the entire backporch. Should be interesting to watch. I hope it's stops tonite though when I have to go to yoga.
Tuesday, June 15
Sooooooccer
Btw Germany played the Dutch today at the Euro 2004 and it ended up being 1:1 due to a lucky shot from the Dutch in the 80th minute. I dislike the Dutch with their unfashionable orange jerseys. And I dislike US television for not showing the games. Ok, I'm quite upset now, bedtime.
History...
Today at 5:15 pm I left to go to my history class at Brazosport College. I almost was late again. I'm too used to just walking to my classes in 5 minutes that I totally forget that depending on how many red lights you hit and how many slow grandpas in oldsmobiles drive in front of you it can take up to 20 minutes to get to class. I really have to get used to that this fall. Actually driving to school is gonna be an new experience. Anyway, my teacher passed back our test today and I was happy about my A :), he then talked a total of three and a half hours about history. Three and a half!! We covered the entire American Revolutionary War AND every single detail about the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. That is even too much for an American to take, except for those few crazy History majors out there ;) Boy am I happy I don't have to learn German history. It would probably take a grand total of 6 semesters or so. But the greatest thing yet, next Tuesday I already have another test. Yipee....not. I will hereby solemny swear never to take a 4 hour evening class again. I'm tired, I'm going to bed. Nighty Night
Monday, June 14
Splish Splash
Just got back from Splashtown with my family. It was tons of fun...my lil bro got burned and we know now why Houston was voted fattest city. Now I'm exhausted and I will probably just play a couple of board games with my sister. Later
And yeah Harry Potter was awesome. I loved it how it was a lot darker than the first movies just like the books. I think I'm gonna reread all HP books again if I have time.
And yeah Harry Potter was awesome. I loved it how it was a lot darker than the first movies just like the books. I think I'm gonna reread all HP books again if I have time.
Saturday, June 12
Aloha!!
My parents got back from Hawaii on Friday. They had a great time and now I really wanna go to Hawaii. Hmm, maybe for my 25th anniversary whenever that will be. Anyway my dad took some really cool pictures so just check it out and become jealous too.
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dirkaheimer/
I'm too tired to get the link thing working so y'all are just gonna have to copy and paste it. Later...
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dirkaheimer/
I'm too tired to get the link thing working so y'all are just gonna have to copy and paste it. Later...
I'm not gonna complain
I'm not gonna complain, I'm not gonna complain, I'm not gonna complain....Geez, that's difficult.
If you would be a real seeker
after truth, it is necessary that at
least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
~RENÉ DESCARTES
If you would be a real seeker
after truth, it is necessary that at
least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
~RENÉ DESCARTES
Wednesday, June 9
Missing Lubbock
It's the second week of June and that means only one thing. TWO more freaking months til I go back to Tech. It's getting to the point of being unbearable. I never realized that I could miss my friends, Lubbock, and Tech that much. Mainly it's because the only people I hang out with down here is my family. And you know what I'm gonna stop complaining right now. I'm gonna enjoy this time with my family as much as I possibly can. In fact no more complaining about being stuck down here and missing my Tech buddies until the end of summer. I'll just add that to my to do list. Oh boy that list is actually quite long. Anyway, good night. Oh add order contacts to that list too otherwise I can't see.
