Month: August 2009

The Little Engine That Could

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Now that I am reading lots of kids books again it is interesting to look at what we teach children and what we end up doing with the information as we become older.  When growing up we tend to learn to forget what is possible, we better understand our capabilities, we doubt ourselves, we let others tell us what we can and cannot do.  When you ask a young child if they can do something, chances are they will answer yes.  Once older that same child will likely learn to analyze his or her past experiences, as well as what others have advised in similar situations, and make an “informed decision”.  Don’t let others hold you back from your dreams and don’t let others tell you what you can and can’t do.  If you look at all of the people who have become successful at something in life, chances are they failed when they first started doing it.  I’ll probably mess up a quote I heard but it basically said “can’t never could until it tried”.  As long as you learn from your mistakes and continually remind yourself that “I think I can, I think I can”, chances are you can.

Julie and Julia Review

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Went and saw Julie & Julia tonight which was overall pretty good.  In case you missed the trailer for the movie, according to IMDB it is about “Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession which is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book.”  I certainly stayed with it mostly due to the fact that it was a movie with half of the story about a woman who blogged about her passion for cooking.  I would say if you are a person who doesn’t like to blog or who doesn’t like to cook I’d at the very least wait for it to come out on DVD.  I would give it a solid 7 out of 10.  You definitely get a Julia Child accent going on after seeing it so watch out.  Bon Appetite!

J. Diddy

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Jason Parks sent me this picture with the following which was funny:  “You could be P. Ditty’s new bodyguard. We will call you J. Diddy and get you a big diamond earring and fancy sun glasses to bling you out. But don’t quit your day job”.  I guess I had that coming posting all of the Diddy pics didn’t I?

Tyler Finding Nemo

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Our church had a little get together last night.  They played Finding Nemo outside by the playground and did a really good job with it.  They served popcorn, sweedish fish, gummy worms, and goldfish which of course was fitting for the movie.  They had little fish tents setup so the kids could hang out in them too.  Tyler is on a sunglasses kick recently and insisted that he wore his sunglasses throughout almost the entire movie.

Google Me Trailer

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For everyone who has Google’d themselves, this movie is for you (hint: everyone has probably Google’d themselves at least once).  Office Space is one of my favorite movies and in it Michael Bolton proclaims that the famous singer is a “no talent clown” (he actually added another a word in there but this is a family oriented blog) ever since he became famous and stole his identity/name. Can you imagine having someone ultra famous with your exact same name?  Luckily I reserved jeremyperson.com years ago and Jeremy#2 below has jeremyaperson.com (bet he hates me).  If you are a Jeremy Person, I want to talk to you.  It is so strange to think we have the same name. When I was in Portland over the weekend I was going through one of the “Street of Dreams” condos and one of the agents had his card on a desk with the name of “Ryan Person”.  I haven’t met another “Person” outside of my family so if you are a “Person”, contact me!

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Check out these Jeremy Person’s (Note: pictures are clickable):

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Aphorisms

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Aphorism:
A short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth.

  1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
  2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
  3. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you probably don’t  have any sense at all.
  4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
  5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.
  6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
  7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
  8. Why is it that at class reunions, you feel younger than everyone else looks?
  9. Scratch a cat, and you will have a permanent job.
  10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
  11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
  12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM. – Like this: It could be a right number.
  13. No one ever says, ‘It’s only a game.’ when their team is winning.
  14. I’ve reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
  15. Be careful reading the fine print. There’s no way you’re going to like it.
  16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
  17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we’ll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? And rap music will be the Golden Oldies!
  18. Money can’t buy happiness — but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a GT500 than in a Yugo.
  19. After 60, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead!
  20. Always be yourself. Because the people that matter, don’t mind. And the one’s that mind, don’t matter.
  21. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.