Work Work Work

Work Work Work

        Your probably looking at this title and think what does work have to do with anything. Well actually more than you think. Work is essential to life. It makes us who we are and who we will become. Being that I grew up in a family business I had many opportunities to work. More than the average person. It would be an understatement to say that my dad is very creative when it came to having us do things. As a matter fact that reminds me of this time that. My dad had this idea to add on to the house, your thinking well that isn't that bad . Well that's because you are think of the normal way of doing it.  Like let's build a new wing to the house but not this time , his idea was to build down , yes I said down. My dad wanted to add a bedroom for my brother in the basement .nope this wasn't the kind of place that had a basement already. Well it did but it was a crawl space, about  a three foot  crawl space. And thinking about that little job reminds me of when my brother and i were digging in that pit of despair and we didn't want to be down there so we kept on arguing and climbing out the little door in the foundation and do like most kids do and go tattle to mom. I don't know how many times we did that, first me then my brother over and over until i know we must have been driving my mom completely nuts we both climbed out and went running as fast as we could  like kids do we got to my mom just seconds from each other and that was the last draw we had finally taken our mom over the edge and we had just pushed her. ( now before I finish the story let me tell you about my mom,my mom is probably the most wonderful person in the world, now im not trying to suck up, it's the truth she is so innocent it's actually refreshing. Especially with  a world  like we have right now. to show the amount of innocence my wife and my mom were driving to bring my dad and i some lunch we were working on one of my dads rental houses. Now this house wasn't in the most desireable part of town but while they were driving to us they passed a bunch of guys at a house on the corner that were grilling out and smoking  pot . Because you know you can't have bar b que without a little mary jane,  no i have never done any type of drug but you might think so with all the thoughts inside of thoughts.so my wife says "now that is a pot luck" so my mom replys "yea it looks like they have a lot of food there". Now if that doesn't speak volumes about the innocence of my mom then I don't know what will. My mom is one of the most  knowledgeable persons out there except when it comes to things of the world. Now back to my story about the pit of despair  we got to my mom just seconds from each other both speaking at the same time and that is when it happened . One of the most shocking moments in my life. My mom looked at us and said "GET in THAT DAMN BASEMENT AND DIG". It was a huge shock to the system the world completely stopped. Birds stopped singing, hell actually froze over, I even think that was the day that all fairies died that is why we never see them, I don't even remember going back down to the pit, time seamed to stop.  Yea that was the only time in my life that i have heard my mom say a swear word. I know your thinking that isn't bad people say stuff like that all every day well that is where you would be wrong . And if you actually think that then don't you think that is incredibly sad. When we don't get upset or are even shocked when  people use foul language .Bear in mind i was around 12 when that happened and now im in my thirties  Now if that wasn't shocking enough. It wasn't until about a year or two ago that I found out that after my mom said that to us that she went into the bathroom after saying that word and washed her mouth out with soap.   I asked her when i found  that out why did she do that . My mom humbly responded would I have washed your mouth out. .so now your think what did all of that have to do with working . Well guess what I'm about to tell you , but you knew that already . Well we need to work  we have a generations that are not working by choice and by force. But mostly by choice. and when i say by choice its because we seem to look for the loopholes to get money. Money doesn't solve anything it is a means to live. so all of you out there that say that there arent any jobs out there and i cant get one its time to grow up. and get over yourself. I have been there i have made lots of money and i have made no money. let me tell you not having a job is hard but the best thing for me was to loose my pride and just go to work.we have become lazy, I always say that my generation and younger are totally worthless . That's may sound pretty harsh but it's true look at us we don't want to work we just want hand outs my grandfather would be ashamed . I was talking to my brother the other day about many different things and work and living better came up  he lived in hawaii for a couple of years  while finishing  his  college education  he was told by a good close friend of his that described the differences in americans and most of the world, he said that  Americans live to work but a lot of the world work to live , if you think about it that speaks volumes on how we are. I myself am tired of the great run around we need to use our minds better and become more efficient on how we work . Im not saying don't get rich, what i am saying don't for get what is important in life we can have the nicest car the nicest house but if we don't have a good family life or pay attention to what matters most we dont deserve it. This  is why i say Work work work . Get outside and work, work with your family do something creative but just get to work 

Wednesday

New post on Wednesday , you have been warned

Greening the Family

Greening the family

         When it comes to being green and greening the family, the one thing to remember is that change can be hard for some . Being green means that we have to change the way we think and how we do things. And as I said before go back to the way it use to be .
          I know for children it is easy for change, they adapt very easy but for grown ups it is hard . Just like during the end of the Civil War, the north did what was called Reconstruction. They would basically force the older people to do what was not common for them and have the younger groups trained to follow, This kind of thinking isn’t a new concept it is a Idea that has been used through out all history. That is why it is easier for us in this day to recycle and get into other energy types, because they have been preaching it for years as far back as the early eighties is how far back as I can remember the green agenda being taught.
      Back then it was only excepted by just a few people but now it is easily excepted now. We have become an excepting society but that there is the problem.  That is why I say change can be hard I have been taught that I should believe that global warming is real I have been taught that we need to give up our rights to be protected by our big brother but I my self choose to learn to weed out the truth from the lies. This is why change can be hard because we are taught to not believe people like me because I am crazy, but Ill let you be the judge on that and what ever you decide i will be fine with. ( for one I don’t know You and You might think that you know me but Im just writing this book and it might or might not portray who I am, and 2 its just a book . So who cares)
   Change can be hard and it is hard that is why when it comes to being green we need to believe in what we are doing. If you believe in global warming that's fine with me but if you believe that you need to save money and then the environmental side effects will come as you better your life then that is fine also.
     Growing up, my dad would have us do this thing called the light patrol. It was a sort of a game that he would have us run through the house  as fast as we could to turn the lights off. Now his motives weren't to help the environment bit it was for the effects on his wallet. See that sounded a little selfish but the hard fact is that is the truth . The basic truth is if it saves you money then why not do it .  So you ask yourself how does this help me green the family, well we did the lite patrol as a family. And that is the point doing  things as a family. Like a stated before I am number six of seven kids. So that means that we have tons of stories about each other and with each other. One of the things we did as a kid was have water battles ( yea i know your thinking water battles... how can that be considered green and what the crap how many people were involved well being green as far as the aspects of saving water well that I can say it wasn't but being outside  and doing things as a family was. So I would have to say its time to unplug get your family outside and do something yea i know i saying unplug while I type on my iPad and have the tv on watching the mentalist. It would  seem that im not following my own advise well get over it I have to type this so you can  read it to realize that you didn't really need this but a little common sense. but hey by now we have some sort of relationship and now we have become involved. So keep reading!
       The one thing that I find pretty cool is when I see a family cook together. Which can be fun and entertaining. I have an old missionary companion that has taken is to a whole new level he and his wife have their own blog and Facebook page about their cooking adventures if that is the proper way to say it . But they do it together . They have and make some of the most incredible meals i have ever seen and many their recipes are awesome. But that is the point of this being green as a family and do something together it isn't that hard it all comes down to our attitudes . What? You want me to to tell you what the name of the Blog of course  i will tell you the name of this wonderful food guru it's two peas in their pod . http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com

    
      The key thing is getting outside. My sister is a great example of this her and her family seem to always be doing something outdoors. I was privileged to join them on one of these such events. I was out in Las Vegas working a few years back and i stayed at my sisters house for the weekend. one morning my sister asked if i wanted to join them on a hiking trip to Zion National park.  I'm not sure if you ever have had a chance to go to this awesome place but it is beautiful i wish it was possible to build a house in the park because it would like living in heaven. so of coarse i said yes so we drive a couple of hours to the park my brother inlaw suggested that we go up to angels landing which i think is one of the tallest points of the park. it was about a 13 mile hike if i remember right but who knows i could be wrong or it seemed that long.. anyway the hike was awesome the company was great and they way everyone worked together couldn't have been better.
     As far as doing things outside, one thing that i did a lot as a kid was Rollerblade all over town. i would say my friends and i did this all the time, in fact there was this one time we decided to go down this one hill in town that wad about the tallest and longest hill in town it was named Clock Tower Hill, on 5th Ave. the thing about this hill was that it had two traffic lights and it crossed those lights were usually busy intersections. So us brain dead teenagers figured that the best time would be at 2:am so as the night went on and it came closer to 2 we started getting ready my dad wanted me to get him up because he figured that we better have an adult there to at least call 911 for us since he and my mom couldn't talk us out of this. so its time to be stupid we my friends and i figured to be safe we would start at the middle just to see how we would maneuver the little dip at the bottom of the hill. so my friend heads down then i go but in the middle of my first run a cop drives up I'm thinking crap I'm committed now and I'm going to jail. so i get to the bottom the cop looks over at me and says son what do you thin you are doing... i looked at him  knowing that it is illegal to Rollerblade on the road and said well sir I'm just trying to see how big of an idiot i really am he said well you know the law don't you i s yes sir i reply he then said well lets see if i can clock you coming down. The fact that there gathered about 20 or 30 people were out watching a bunch of young idiots go down a hill might have been what saved me or he might have just wanted to us do it. well i turned around and got to the top of that hill faster than i ever had due to the excitement. he flashed his lights to let me know it was clear of crossing traffic so a went off from the top. i pushed it as hard as i could because this was an experience that most likely wouldn't happen again so why not. i hit the bottom in just seconds my wheels were humming i pass him and quickly turn to get back to him he says well now i can get you for speeding and blading on the street my heart sank and he could tell from the look on my face that i was a little scared and says wow that was worth now go home and don't be stupid like that again. by the way you were going 35 then he drove off. 
      The only thing that story was good for was the fact that i was outside having fun so weather it's doing something you enjoy,food, water battles, doing the light patrol it doesn't matter just un plug, turn your tv off get outside and do something with your family.



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