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Fat Mommas

I am coming to the realization that pregnant women can get hilariously large.

Waking Up

Are you familiar with those nights where you've slept in the exact same position all night? No turning over, no getting up to use the bathroom, no flailing about, etc? My recent (ill-advised and idiotic) promise to start blogging again feels a lot like trying to wake up from what has amounted to a rock-solid sleep....only worse. There is a certain groggy contentedness that comes after such a restful sleep, yet the mental sleep from which I now attempt to rouse myself feels like I took benadryl right before I let someone hit me over the head with a frying pan who then gave me an alarming amount of horse tranquilizer and threw me into a giant bed in a pitch-black, soundless room. Sleeping beauty was in the room next to me. After she woke up she knocked on my door, though after receiving no answer she left and had a full and beautiful life and ultimately passed away and I still hadn't woken up. Imagine trying to wake up from that and you'll get a sense of what it's like for me to write creatively again. I spend all day designing things to very literal and non-creative-nor-humorous standards. It'll take a bit of work to wake up fully, but this post is the equivalent of me sitting up in bed.

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http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2010/10/part-kid-part-machine-all-cop.html

That is the web address for a link that I embedded in my last post. I think a big part of me taking such a long break from blogging is because NO ONE commented on how awesome that link was. The only comment was from my mother who didn't actually click on the link and was therefore very confused. Click on the link to see a little kid dressed up as ROBOCOP. It will brighten your day for sure.

This is why I will one day have children.

The only reason I'm posting is to pass this on: The Reason Why I Will One Day Have Kids

The Best Part....

The best part of buying something online is not finding a good deal. It is not when you've gotten years of use out of the product. It is not even owning the device/movie/book/jacket/part/present.... These are all great parts of buying something online, but not the best. The best part of buying something online is compulsively tracking your package. I ordered something from vanns.com last saturday, and it is estimated to arrive on thursday. I've checked the tracking information at least 30 times/day, and the information has only updated once...but I can't help myself. I sometimes wonder if I order stuff online just so I can track it.

Google Street View and Me

So I accidentally zoomed in while looking at BYU's campus and I got to street view and saw this picture and this other picture. I'm 90% convinced it's me and my buddy Scott.

The other day I went to Wal-Mart to return something, and since I had a little bit of time I decided to wander around the store. Basically, this means I went to look at tools, guns, and electronics. When I was wandering around electronics I ended up on the video game isle where there was a boy maybe 7 years old ROCKING OUT playing a baseball game on a Playstation 3. He openly shared his enthusiasm with anyone standing remotely near him, saying that he loved baseball and he loved Playstation 3s. Even when no one was standing next to him...or even in the same isle...he would give a loud play-by-play of his accomplishments. His excitement was as visible as it was genuine.

Walking away I thought about the last time I got that excited about something. It's been ages and ages, and I'm sad it's gone. Let's get back to basics people! I don't know what it was that made you uncontrollably excited as a kid or what it will take to find that excitement again, but for the sake of humanity and the world I hope we call all find it. If you don't look like this kid, you haven't reached it yet.