The Best Of Times

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umm...wow?

hahaha...wow. what a difference a night makes huh? last night...i think i witnessed a miracle!!!! if you want the full story....i'll have to tell you...because i can't relate it all here. but anyways. so last night...i helped decorate for my girlfriends little sister's birthday party. i learned something: i am definitely not meant to be a decorator or interior designer..or anything to do with any of that. teaching suits me just fine thank you very much!



Well I was raised by the good book

Learned to work hard everyday

thought that if you can't say something good

there's nothing good to say

and I caught on pretty early It's no use to work

no harder then you play ...

So I guess that's How

I ended up this way



Chorus

Some where between raising hell & amazing grace

that I keep finding myself

Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun

then I end up back where I started from

Down on my knees, I pray

O Lord let me see another day

Some where between raising hell & amazing grace



Well I give everything I got, try to give more then I take

For Heavens sake I keep on smiling

No matter what comes my way

And I may be passin' out on Friday night

But come Sunday I'll be passing the collection plate



Some where between raising hell & amazing grace

that I keep finding myself

Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun

then I end up back where I started from

Down on my knees, I pray

O Lord let me see another day

Some where between raising hell & amazing grace



Yeah I know I'm a sinner,but I've got faith

Oh my Good side is what he's gonna see

When Im standing at them Pearly Gates

He'll have nothing but mercy for me



Some where between raising hell & amazing grace

that I keep finding myself

Yeah I get a little crazy trying to have a little fun

then I end up back where I started from

Down on my knees, I pray

O Lord let me see another day

Some where between raising hell & amazing grace

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wow. it's been a LONG time

just how long you ask??? well...too long. i have been so crazy crazy busy. not too too much has happened...except i happened to meet the bestest person ever :D and you know who you are....COURTNEY!!!!!!!! i've pretty much spent the past 2 months hanging out...and getting to know her...and her family. and pretty much...they're all awesome! of course i always knew that. hard to believe they've been here for what...3 years now?? and it's taken this long for me to realize that courtney lived like a mile from me? i've been to their house so many times...and i never knew. stupid stupid me!!! anyways...yeah. courtney...you guys are pretty cool. maybe eventually they will share the same feelings i have :D i could wait awhile though!!!!!

other than that...i haven't done anything. but i think that's enough right???

am amazed
When i look at you
I see you smiling back at me
It's like all my dreams come true
I am afraid
If i lost you girl
I'd fall through the cracks
And lose me track in this crazy lonely world

Sometimes it's so hard to believe
When the nights can be so long
And gave me the strength
And kept me holding on

Chorus
You are the love of my life
And I'm so glad you found me
You are the love of my life
Baby put your arms around me
I guess this is how it feels
When you finally find something real
My angel in the night
You are my love
The love of my life

Now here you are
With midnight closing in
You take my hand as our shadows dance
With moonlite on you skin

I look in your eyes
I'm lost inside your kiss
I think if i'd never met you
About all the things i'd missed

sometimes it's so hard to believe
when a love can be so strong
and faith gave me the strength
and kept me holding on

You are the love of my life
And I'm so glad you found me
You are the love of my life
Baby put your arms around me
I guess this is how it feels
When you finally find something real
My angel in the night
You are my love
The love of my life

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i've been disappointed with toby keith lately, but i love love his new song. the lyrics are so true.

Sometimes I think that war is necessary.
Every night I pray for peace on Earth.
I hand out my dollars to the homeless.
But believe that every able soul should work.

My father gave me my shotgun that I'll hand down to my son, try to teach him everything it means.

(chorus)
I'm a man of my convictions. Call me wrong, call me right. But I bring my better angels to every fight. You may not like
where I'm going, but you sure know where I stand. Hate me if you want to, love me if you can.

I stand by my right to speak freely. But I worry 'bout what kids learn from TV. And before all of debatin' turns to angry
words and hate, sometimes we should just agree to disagree. And I believe that Jesus looks down here and sees us, and if you
ask him he would say

(chorus)
I'm a man of my convictions. Call me wrong, call me right. But I bring my better angels to every fight. You may not like
where I'm going, but you sure know where I stand. Hate me if you want to, love me if you can.

not too much has been going on here. i've been doing so much school it's not even funny. been bored as heck...i havent seen any of my friends, except my neighbors in forever.

oh. yesterday was lauri annes birthday apparently. happy birthday girl. i can't believe you're five already....it's funny, i remember holding her as a baby. *gets all emotional* :)

anyways, thats all i have to say.

if the embed thing doesn't work here's the link...for some reason it's been cutting off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ixC-LYDGc

i dont know if y'all saw this...but if this doesnt bring tears to your eyes i'd get your tear ducts checked =) its beautiful

these are the lyrics

If you're reading this
My momma is sitting there
Looks like I only got a one way ticket over here
I sure wish I could give you one more kiss
War was just a game we played when we were kids
Well I'm laying down my gun
I'm hanging up my boots
I'm up here with God
And we're both watching over you

So lay me down
In that open field out on the edge of town
And know my soul
Is where my momma always prayed where it would go.
If you're reading this I'm already home.

If you're reading this
Half way around the world
I won't be there to see the birth of our little girl
I hope she looks like you
I hope she fights like me
Stand up for the innocent and the weak
I'm laying down my gun
Hanging up my boots
Tell dad I don't regret that id follow in his shoes

So lay me down
In that open field out on the edge of town
And know my soul is where my momma always prayed where it would go
If you're reading this, I'm already home

If you're reading this, there is going to come a day
You move on and find someone else and that?s okay
Just remember this
I'm in a better place
Soldiers live in peace and angels sing amazing grace

So lay me down
In that open field out on the edge of town
And know my soul is where my momma prayed where that it would go
If you're reading this
If you're reading this
I'm already home

the concert was amazing....those guys really put on an amazing show.

it was even cooler meeting jason aldean. he's really cool....and his music is even cooler. you must check him out.

hmmmm.....i don't really have much to say.

i've been thinking so freaking hard lately about what i wanna be...as usual. and i haven't made any headway. as usual. all i know is i wanna work with people. people are cool. kids are cool. oops...wait. guys aren't allowed to like kids. it's weird. or so i've been told. but you know what? i don't care. i'll be weird.

country music is also weird. apparently it's redneck to sing songs about family and God. or so i've been told.

so it seems someone is weird. is it me? or them

a dream

last week i had a dream. it wasn't one of those DREAM dreams, like Martin Luther King had. It wasn't even a dream like my little sister had. it was a i don't like the way i am so i am going to change dream.

i decided i need to work out. i need to do the things i need to do. i need to figure out what i want out of life. and what i want to put in it.

all i got out of that dream was one of those oh cool tomorrow is a new day and i will start over feelings. the kind of feelings you get everytime you realize your last dream died young.

i have come to realize i never really do start over =) i move on. i'm not a let go of the past guy really. i'm a sit around and look at the past and wonder why it is the past, and not something else that i wish was the past but really isn't the past at all. see...it's way easier to dream than to act.

and sometimes its way more fun. you get results quicker.

someone once said "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time."

makes sense to me

even if this post didn't

i won rascal flatts tickets!!!!! how cool is that? last night the DJ on kj wanted to know what the first song rascal flatts ever came out with, and the first person to email her with the correct answer wins. so i did. and this morning i found out i won.

so listening to the radio at 11:00 really does pay off.

so does listening to a lot of music. wait till i tell my dad. lol.

the ironic thing is he won tickets to a concert yesterday too.

must be a DeGennaro thing huh?? =)

a midsummer nights dream

last night there was the bestest sunset ever. it was amazing. these pictures don't really do it justice.

this summer has been a letdown so far. i mean, besides the JCC deal, i haven't really done anything. But that was cool enough to satisfy me.



more sunset pictures from last night. yea.

check out all my pictures at www.flickr.com/never_surrender

Please click here to vote for my entry in the Big Huge Labs "$100 Funny Motivational Poster" contest.

i took this long exposure out my bedroom window. it was pretty cool.

I. HATE. piano

yes sir. i do. last night i did the worst re write of a Tchaikovsky piece you can ever hope not to hear. i played the first notes well enough =) but then i looked down at my hands to change position, and when i looked back up i had lost where i was. so i was like ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!! so i pounded away at related chords until i found my place, hoping no one would notice. it was MISERABLE. i plyed the whole first page wrong. but i got my other two songs good-ish. so that was cool. but......ugh. i bombed the first one.

dude it was so cool getting to do the pictures for the JCC stingrays this year. it was like awesome to get to make a product for people, that, if done correctly, they'd want to hold on to, and it would serve to remind them something amazing they've accomplished. hanging out with these kids was like super cool. seeing them come from not really knowing what the heck they're doing out there to competing and winning....beating other kids....and seeing the looks on their faces when they did....that was cool. you can see some of the pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/never_surrender

You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless, like you've lost your fight
But you'll be alright, you'll be alright

Chorus:
'Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what your made of
You might bend 'til you break
'Cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe you hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand

Life's like a novel with end ripped out
The edge of a canyon with only one way down
Take what your given before it's gone
And start holdin' on, keep holdin' on

(Repeat chorus)

Every time you get up and get back in the race
One more small piece of you starts to fall into place - yeah

One

One
Originally uploaded by stilllearninghowtofly - W W Tribe Psychiatrist

only one. maybe i can't do everything. but i can do something. maybe i'm not the best. but i will be. maybe this life is pointless and dull. maybe its not. maybe someday i'll fly. maybe i won't. at the end of the day, does it matter? when you look at that one person you really love, does anything matter?

i was born a rambling man

yes i was . i was also born an i HATE racism with everything i have man. i hate it when people refer to people of different races by racial slurs. i hate it when people are turned down for jobs or housing because of the color of their skin. why do some people think America should be for white people only. that everyone else can 'take their sorry asses back where they came from.' never mind that everyone here at some point. never mind this country was built on the blood of immigrants. never mind, that on the statue of liberty is written the words

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your Huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send these the homeless, tempess tossed to me
I lift my lamp Beside the golden door


Never mind it's neither American, or even Christian to hold these principals. i'll shut up now. but first i'll print these lyrics from a song by the Warren Brothers.
We ain't just Democrats,we ain't just Republicans
It's all for one and one for all were Americans
And we pray that we see our children's children
And our sons grow to old men

bikes. and tykes. yikes.

me and maddie
Originally uploaded by stilllearninghowtofly.

yay. so last night we had a bike rodeo at scouts that i helped at. it was interesting. wanna know what you get when you combine 5-12 year olds, wheels, and ego?

you get a bike rodeo. =)

everyone found it necessary to compete against each other. even though we said it wasnt a competition. even though we said 'you'll get hurt'.

do you want to know what you get when you combine a photo op, kids, a great sunset, and a camera?? dead batteries.

so i barely got any pictures. oh well. life will go on.

please pray for those families of the victims killed by the shooter at virginia tech. how the hell can this happen?? isn't God a loving God?? wait...thats what everyone always asks. then they follow it up by asking why he's 'punishing' us. why he's trying to teach a lesson. But does that make sense?? would you throw your son down the stairs to teach him not to play on them?? would you punish someone by killing them?? certainly not. So, it is no different with God. This really is terrible...and my prayers are with the families and the students.


I have decided to start taking photography more seriously.

i can't wait till these lyrics apply to me. though that might be a while =)

Big and Rich
Lost in this moment

See your mama and the candles and the tears and roses
I see your daddy walk his daughter down the isle
And my knees start to tremble as I tell the preacher
Don't she look beautiful tonight?

All the wonderful words in my head I've been thinkin'
Ya know I wanna say em all just right
I lift your veil and angels start singing
Such a heavenly sight

Lost in this moment with you
I am completely consumed

My feeling's so absolute
There's no doubt
Sealing our love with a kiss
Waited my whole life for this
Watching all my dreams come true
Lost in this moment with you

I smell the jasmine floatin' in the air like a love song
Watch my words draw sweet tears from your eyes
Bow our heads while the preacher talks to Jesus
Please bless this brand new life, yeah

Lost in this moment with you
I am completely consumed
My feeling's so absolute
There's no doubt
Sealing our love with a kiss
Waited my whole life for this
Watching all my dreams come true
Lost in this moment with you

arghhh

well....my xanga has decided it does not like me. at all. so i cannot log on to it. which sucks. but i am now mad at xanga. so i will start using blogger. yay!!!

well....thats all i have to say for now.