Cool story I heard about bricks.

                    So I am a huge sports lover and anyone who loves sports probably knows who Jerry Rice is. Jerry Rice was a NFL wide receiver who played for the San Francisco 49ers. He is widely considered to be the greatest wide receiver in NFL history and among the greatest NFL players overall. He is the all-time leader in most major statistical categories for wide receivers, including receptions, touchdown receptions, and receiving yards. Rice was selected to the Pro bowl 13 times and named All-Pro 12 times in his 20 NFL seasons. He won three Super Bowl rings playing for the San Francisco 49ers. Rice holds over 100 NFL records, the most of any player ever. 

   As a young man and a son to a brick layer, Jerry Rice would often help his dad with his jobs. So the story goes that Jerry would stand two stories up on whatever building they were working on and he would have his brothers through bricks way up to him and he would snatch them out of the air. This is one of the many reasons people think he could catch a football so easily. So are bricks the reason why Jerry Rice had so much success? You could relate him catching all these bricks to the original use for bricks, to build the base and structure of these houses and building. So are bricks also the base and structure to having the best hands to ever play in the NFL? Hey you want to be a good football player?...Then go catch a bunch of bricks.

Little kids can get away with anything.

Growing up I’ve realized that kids are mean to everyone, and that's great. When I was a little kid I once pointed at a very large lady and asked in my loud little kid voice, “Mommy, how did she get so fat?”. When I was an adorable 5 year old I could get away with that, if I said that now the fat lady and my mom would beat me up. You can be as inconsiderate and grouchy as you want when you're young, because you're dumb and cute and don't understand the world yet. Eventually, you reach an age when being a jerk is unacceptable. You've got to spend most of your life being polite, respectful, and ever so slightly afraid. Nowadays we have to worry if something we say might offend someone, like honestly I couldn’t care less if  I’m politically correct or not. Every time we speak, we are walking on egg shells…..so be careful. Hahaha.

  If it makes you feel any better, once you hit 70, all bets are off again. You can go back to being a complete asshole, only this time you're allowed to say that word. It's not all bad.

I used to be love drunk but now I'm hungover

Love to me is a bunch of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from pleasure (“I loved that burrito”) to interpersonal affection (“I love my hipster grandma”). It can refer to an emotion, strong attraction, or personal attachment. Love can be a virtue like kindness, compassion, and affection---“the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”. Love may also describe affectionate and compassionate actions toward someone or one’s self.

Most of us understand what it means to love another person. The feelings of intense desire, admiration and emotional investment in another person are likely familiar. But loving yourself? That can feel like a foreign concept to many of us. Self-love is a combination of self-acceptance, self-possession (different than self-obsession), self-awareness, and kindness and respect for ourselves. So before you throw your heart at your crush this Valentine’s day, try to learn to love yourself first. So go buy yourself a dozen roses. Go open a notebook and write down stuff you love about yourself. Love yourself. I’m not saying to be Ms./Mr. Independent or to make it your goal to die alone, I’m just saying that before you try to love someone else learn to love yourself first. Accept and love yourself for who you are then go love and accept someone for who they are.  

Have a great Valentine’s Day. I love you.

Super Bowl Commercials.

Super Bowl Commercials.

                 

                 Super Bowl Sunday is American as it gets. Millions of people gather around a television to watch a bunch of grown men running around and beating eachother up. I love it. 

While I watched the game I always look forward to the notorious superbowl commercials. I mean honestly some people watch the super bowl for the commercials. On super bowl sunday a commercial break is no longer a bathroom break. Whether they’re amusing or serious it always fascinates me to see what these multi billion dollar corporations will put together for their single most important advertisements of the year. The commercials aren't always great but every year there is at least one that makes me crack up. Here is my favorite commercial. Feel free to comment and post your favorite commercial below. Hope you all enjoyed your super bowl sunday. Go Broncos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbSpAsJSZPc

Hat hair.

HATS

                  My hat gives me terrible hat hair. I’ve been busy covering the messy curls on my head. I wish there was a hat to cover these messy emotions in my head. Everyone wearing hats. All kinds of hats, boat hats, snapbacks, trucker hats, and baseball caps. Not the hat, but beneath the hat. We didn't start wearing hats until we got older, maybe it’s because we didn't care about messy hair or what people would wear. Maybe because when we were younger we weren't afraid to show who we were, never covering up with a hat on our heads. We wore our emotions on our sleeves.

 You look good in that baseball cap...but I’d rather see your beautiful hair.

While my heart beats

 

 Your heart beats about 4,800 times per hour. 

That's a whopping 115,200 times per day.

 Your Heart Beats 42 million times in a year.

If you live to be 80 years old, your heart would have beaten approximately 3,363,840,000 times!

What will you have hoped to accomplish in those 3,363,840,000 beats?

By the time I had reached the age of 11 I had already lost someone close to me.

Their heart never reached 3,363,840,000 beats..

How do you want to spend  your heart beats?

Here is a number of things I hope to accomplish with my heart beats before the age of 30.

1. Become financially independent from your parents: 
2. Decide what you truly want from a relationship and stop settling for anything less than that
3. Go off on an adventure:
4. Get in shape:
5. Set goals for yourself and accomplish them
6. Find a career you really love
7. Do some serious activism or volunteer work
8. Develop your own set of principles
9. Stop comparing yourself to others:
10. Graduate from college
11. Love and accept yourself
12. Face your fears
13. Realize there is good and bad in everyone
14. Have a savings account that you contribute to every month
15. Learn to control your anger:
16. Be able to accept criticism:
17. Learn how to say “no"
18. Realize that every phase of life has something new and good to offer
19. Do some soul searching
20. Make a decision regarding kids
21. Learn another language
22. Get rid of bad habits
23. Forgive yourself
24. Forgive your parents
25. Get rid of toxic friends
26. Stop trying to change people
27. Fall in love with yourself
28. Do something “crazy”
29. Take other people’s advice
30. Deal with your issues

These are things I hope to accomplish and strive for. A lot on this list is what I will discuss and talk about during my blog.  

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau