OBAMA IS A FAKE

Please watch this and forward to everyone you know!!!!

Maybe it’s my head, maybe it’s the world…but lately I’ve been having to explain to people that you should go ahead and respect other people even if it doesn’t jive with the way you are wired.  This past week’s The Office was a great and hilarious example.

I know I’ve said this to Chels at times, but many people–for some strange reason–feel like respect and the “way they are” are mutually exclusive and therefore cannot coexist.  They choose not to respect other people’s wishes, choose not to respect people in authority, choose not to respect the position subordinates are in, or choose not to respect other people’s character.  When someone’s been through a stressful situation and wish not to talk about it, just because you are inquisitive by nature doesn’t mean you must violate that mutual respect. (I have a hard time with this.)  Just because your boss does something extremely stupid, doesn’t mean you have to disrespect him and his decisions. (See Below.)  Even though you have a certain personality, that doesn’t mean you should neglect and treat without respect the personality of your mate.

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I thought I would share what happened to me last Saturday night at the “35 and older Singles Group”. I know this will give my brothers fuel to rib me about, but I hope the rest of you will sympathize ;-).
Our class is after the Saturday night church service. So, I went to church by myself, found a place up front and the worship was wonderful. I had my eyes closed worshiping God and felt someone tap me - it was a gentleman who had come in about 30 minutes late who was wanting the seat next to me. Ok fine. I close my eyes and continue to worship the Lord. Of course, I can’t sing, but this is the voice God gave me so I praise Him with it. However, I just couldn’t help but hear how off key the guy was next to me. Oh Lord, help me think about You I am saying over and over in my head. Then all I can think about is how strong his cologne is, Oh Lord please help me think about You. The service was great and afterwards when we are all leaving, he was being a gentleman and allowed me to go in front of him to walk down the aisle. I then get a good look, he has those glasses that are really thick and in the center of them is a round circle where the eyeglasses are even thicker (I’m sure Sherry knows what I am talking about and I hope you guys know), and he is balding. He smiles, and apparently noticed I wasn’t wearing a wedding ring. He tells me he is going to the singles class, asks if I heard of it. Yes, I said, I was thinking about going, but haven’t decided. He says he helps serve the food and for me to look him up, better yet he asks me to seat with him. Oh my goodness. I smiled, said I am not sure. He already has a handwritten name tag on, points to it, says my name is Rene. On my way to the other building where they have our class, I am really wanting to back out - it is hard enough going to these things, but I hate this kind of situation. If you are nice, they think you like them and get the wrong idea, and will probably ask you out on a date. Maybe I am vain, but this is what I think, and I know you have to have some kind of physical attraction. Well, I make it in the room, find my girlfriend Monica, sit down in the last chair in that small group. OK, good there are no chairs left in this group, and I do look around and see him serving the food. I am thinking maybe he forgot what I looked like, there are a lot of people here. We had our class, discussion, and everything is going well. Then across the room I see him, he stands up and gives me a big, I mean big wave and smile. Monica says who is that - who, I ask. That guy waving at you. Oh, I explain he sat by me in church and we start talking. Our group starts breaking up and there is an empty seat by me for about a second. Here he comes, sits down, points to his name tag, says my name is Rene. He says he missed some of the class and wants a woman’s perspective. So I start talking to him, he keeps asking me more questions, where do you live, where do you work…. Monica, starts gathering her things, and I am thinking oh please don’t leave me sitting here with this guy. I grab my purse too, and he just keeps talking to me. Monica says she is going to go, and I say yeah, me too. He just keeps talking, I stand up, and then he says are you going? Yes, I say, then he says he is too, points to his name tag again, says my name is Rene.

So whenever you guys are praying for all those single people in our family for mates, please pray for me!!!!!! :-S

Someone, removed this from the main page, so I put it back.
So the Friday before last I had one of the wierdest days of my life. It started from the moment I opened my eyes. I had not set my alarm, or turned it off in my sleep, that morning and woke up about 30 minutes later than I should. So I rushed as quick as I could throwing clothes on and hoping that the spritz of water and soap that was my shower that morning could last the entire day. I hurry past the refridgerator grabbing a couple Necter of the Gods, or Dr. Pepper to those outside the circle, one for breakfast (being late and all) and one for the afternoon. I hope in the Jeep and head for town.

As some might know, I now live about 10 miles outside of Lubbock. Therefore, I have to travel a good ways to get to work. I hit the road and got all the way to 98th street, or 6-7 miles away from my house, and realized…I’m not wearing any shoes. Yes that’s right, I had forgotten to put on any shoes in my rush for the door. So I turned around and headed back for the house to find some flops to throw on my feet. I did and jumped back in the Jeep for work.
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So the Friday before last I had one of the weirdest days of my life. It started from the moment I opened my eyes. I had not set my alarm, or turned it off in my sleep, that morning and woke up about 30 minutes later than I should. So I rushed as quick as I could throwing clothes on and hoping that the spritz of water and soap that was my shower that morning could last the entire day. I hurry past the refrigerator grabbing a couple Nectar of the Gods, or Dr. Pepper to those outside the circle, one for breakfast (being late and all) and one for the afternoon. I hope in the Jeep and head for town.

As some might know, I now live about 10 miles outside of Lubbock. Therefore, I have to travel a good ways to get to work. I hit the road and got all the way to 98th street, or 6-7 miles away from my house, and realized…I’m not wearing any shoes. Yes that’s right, I had forgotten to put on any shoes in my rush for the door. So I turned around and headed back for the house to find some flops to throw on my feet. I did and jumped back in the Jeep for work.
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I have goals, and I have dreams. I have hopes and wishes that sometimes might be beyond what is necessary for a particular situation. So when I first spoke with Dad about a family site, I began thinking…dreaming…reveling. I had goals for the site, but never did anything about it because I did not have the knowledge or the tools to achieve what I wished. But then it happened, I stumbled upon a tool that would fix everything that I had to deal with. So I set it up, paid the initial costs and presented it as a gift.

I had big dreams of communication being expanded, a place where it didn’t matter if you were Blain, Davis, Purnell, Bryant, Hendricks, Black, Higginbotham, Connor, Chaimberlain, or any other–and I apologize if I misspelled some of your names. A place where people could leave their comments on anything, just to hear what someone close to you might have to say about that too. A place to centralize where everyone is going, where they’ve been, and what’s happening here and now. Dreams of posted Christmas letters, but more year round.

You get discouraged when your hopes seem to fade away. You start putting your effort into other things, neglecting what first drove you. What drives you now, what is that specific motivation? When you find that which moves you why don’t you stick with it? I’ve found the answer: people who lack that same passion.

When doing something that requires effort from other people besides yourself, you have to find the people that share your hopes. The problem is, is that too many times your the only person you can find. So what do you do? You do it all yourself in hopes of spreading the passion, but it never works out that way. People simply see the time and effort you had to put in because the lack of help, and they run and hide to keep away from that which could consume them.

Time. Time is the one thing that pulls anyone away from simple tasks. It was the first thing I thought of when pondering over all this. Is it really too time consuming to come and post what’s on your mind? Is it really too time consuming to read someone else statements and then throw in your two cents of acceptance or denial? I don’t have an answer for this. All I have is my life. I spend a great part of the day reading emails and responding to the senders. Are these business emails? No. Many are jokes, politically related, or just hellos. In the time it takes me to work through those emails, I find no problem or logical extra waste of time in dropping by a friends website and reading what they have to say, and giving the two quick statements about what I read. This is me, maybe people don’t see it the same way. It just confuses me the time we waste on other things when some people may just want a little feedback or updates from the people they are close to.

So in light of these piece-milled thoughts, I’m going to work a bit harder…or let’s say I’m returning to more active place with blainweb.com. Yet there are things that can hinder this, and to be without tact and frank, it a lack of support. I will try and hope things go well, if they don’t then we can look at discontinuing the site. I probibly wouldn’t be saying all this, if it wasn’t for the fact that payment on the site is coming up pretty soon and there’s no reason to feed a dead animal. So we will see. If you want to contribute to the content and are unsure how, all you have to do is ask.