God and Garlic

Dammit…I just wrote a whole new blog about a conference we were at today with Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani, but somehow it got completely erased so one day I’ll do it again…Honestly, it was kind of exhausting to write about it…The speakers were completely awesome, but after listening to people speak all day the last thing I really wanted to do was speak about people speaking to me (is this considering speaking?)…Either way, here I am re-writing for the day.


Ironically, when we were on the way to the conference which was a “Get Motivated” conference, we hit so much traffic that I told my wife and bro-in-law that I was officially un-motivated to go to the motivational conference and almost turned around…I am always the guy who gets everywhere an hour early…which reminds me of a cartoon I saw once: It was of a guy sitting alone in a circle of folding chairs (similar to an AA meeting), but this was the “pre-mature ejaculators anonymous meeting”…there was a sign on the wall that says “meeting at 5 O’clock” and the clock showed 4:00…the thought bubble over his head said “looks like I came too soon”…that’s me (not the pre-mature ejaculating part…ok sometimes :), but mostly the being early part)…My wife on the other hand will push things to the very last minute…that drives me crazy!!! (this is going in a weird direction:))...next subject!

I will touch on one thing that struck a chord with me at the conference…Every speaker, and there were about seven of them, made a mention about God at some point in their speech…Now most of you know me, and I am by no means a saint nor a huge church-goer…I’m not real proud of that because I do believe in God and I feel like I should go to church more than I have been (holidays…okay you got me…most holidays…alright, some holidays...Damn, I’m going to hell)…I guess I have developed a problem with organized religion…which is a little ironic because I went to Catholic school, but I feel like it has become all about money and I can pray in my bedroom without being guilted into paying for it (10% to the church? That’s a little much, right?)…We do have our son in a Lutheran school because not only will he have the groundwork in place for him to believe in God, but also because the education seems good… But here’s what one of the speakers suggested…It’s an affirmation and he said if you say it every day it will change your life (I’m just passing it along…I haven’t tried it yet and I’m not trying to preach here)…I do know that we could all use a little help from the big guy every now and again so this can’t hurt (unless you’re a Satanist, then this will probably burn a little bit…but you deserve it :))

Here is the affirmation (basically it’s a prayer)…”Jesus, come into my life and become number one…forgive me of all my past mistakes and show me the kind of person you want me to become”…that’s it…he (Krish Dhanam) says that if we just say that every morning it will change our lives…I’m going to try it...I won’t bring it up again though, because this isn’t really the forum for that…I hope it works for those of you that do try it!

Side Note: I was sitting in the living room last night and my wife was in the family room watching a movie with her brother. She was laughing hysterically at some parts and I found myself smiling just thinking about her laughing…I love her laugh…I love her smile and I love everything about her (although she talks way too much and eats too much garlic…as a matter of fact, she was eating garlic hummus last night while watching the movie…the bedroom reeked of garlic last night…the whole bathroom smelled like garlic this morning…imagine that for a minute…walking into the bathroom first thing in the morning and it smelling like an anti-vampire rally…there are definitely no vampires in this house…she’s gonna kill me)…wow that got off subject a bit…the point to this was…we should tell the people we love that we love them more often…and I think I am going to start loving more people (not like that)…just people in general…so here’s to doing both of those things!



See Ya…KC