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It's awesome. The end. 
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| .... enjoy this new Xanga home page thing. It seems like every time I slack off in my bloggage upkeep, Xanga makes some drastic change that leaves me quite disoriented and much less eager to even post a blog. Fie, I say. Yes. Fie. Haha.
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| ... that once I start trying to make the effort to attend the college group thing more regularly, my manager would start scheduling me to work on Monday nights. Lol. I will be attempting to get my work schedule fixed soon. The end.
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| I've been sick, again. Can't seem to get over this "really bad cough" the doctor diagnosed me with about two weeks ago. Lol. Lamesauce. In a hand basket. I've been talking to my pal Beki about moving out and living with her. She says the sooner the better, but my income is not increasing very quickly, so it might be a while. Well, a few months, maybe. We'll see. Others might not agree, but I think it will be really good for me to "get out on my own" and such. Though I am nervous about leaving Merced, it is only about 2 hours away. So. *shrugs* Okay. I'm tired. Sorry I haven't been posting much. I haven't really been up to much, being sick and all.
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| I seem to do my best thinking while taking a shower. Odd. Anyway, couldn't sleep. Decided to share some of my thoughts. I hope you enjoy them. 
Sometimes I wonder about the difficulties and discrepancies surrounding the subject of contentment/happiness. (Woah, I just typed "discrepancy" into the search bar on Dictionary.com to make sure I was using it right. I typed it while the page was still loading, and the word showed up backwards. Creepy.) Anyway. Heh. "Difficulties?," you say. "Discrepancies?," you ask. *nods* I think it's safe to say that most people in this world are constantly striving to find contentment in one form or another. I wonder if it could be said that others are striving for discontentment, since reaching one's goal would result in some sort of fulfillment of one's desire... which might, unfortunately(?), lead to contentment! Oh dear. So, contentment. Seems to be a universal focus point, so to speak. (By the way, please feel free to argue/point out holes in my logic/make helpful observations/etc. I am curious as to what other people think of such things.) (Stop interrupting yourself, Naomi. Okay, I will. Maybe. >.>)
So. Contentment. I'm probably just recycling discussions I've heard on the matter in the past, and maybe drawing other conclusions from various observations I've made of people I know. But, anyway, striving people, contentment, goals, conclusions. People strive, people seek... they find things/people/situations/lifestyles that they think/hope will make them inevitably, ultimately, quite content. The perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect flat-screen TV... who knows? People have different aspirations and desires. For a couple of months recently, I ate potatoes every day for lunch, and sometimes dinner. Now, I actually can't quite stomach the thought of eating another potato. Our neighbor has a loud voice. It is breaking my concentration. Anyway, potatoes. Go home, Ken. Potatoes. Seems like sometimes the thing/person/situation/lifestyle we become content with, comfortable with, starts to make us anything but content. Perhaps one could even say that we start to feel contempt for it/them/that . Seriously, go home, Ken. <.< Anyway.
Maybe we just need to find some other thing/person/situation/lifestyle that we won't ever get tired of. Maybe we need to strive to find contentment in one Thing/Person/Situation/Lifestyle. Yes, I'm referring to all that true Christianity entails, in that latter sentence. Or. Or. Maybe we need to do both. Maybe every aspect of one's life needs adjustment when there is such a definitive change. The Bible seems to indicate that such is the case. Well, anyway... where was I? Or should I have developed that thought further? My brain is starting to get tired. Well, I suppose I should touch on the subject/notion that it might not be the best idea to expect to be completely content in this world. I've heard it suggested that if you consider yourself too content in your walk with God, you may become complacent and feel there is no need for growth, which is difficult to fathom, really. To reach the pinnacle of one's relationship and understanding with the infinite Creator of our universe? Hmmm. Well, now. Now. Now, I am losing a bit of my thoughting. Thoughting? Thinking. Brain activity. I may come back and edit this later. Maybe.
Oo, another thought/note. My next blog will probably be about my thoughts regarding the book, The Golden Compass/Northern Lights from the series His Dark Materials. I am reading the book. I was watching a trailer for it on the computer and my mother walked in and said that she had heard it was bad, and that it promoted atheism. I had read some information about it on Wikipedia.org, especially the section regarding the series' influences and criticism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials#Influences_and_criticism). From what it says about the author's intent/perspective, it does make me a little wary of what the series, as a whole, might contain (I'm almost done with The Golden Compass and have yet to see anything that could be seen as blatantly anti-God). And his opinion of C.S. Lewis is rather appalling to me. I'm curious to read the links they have there about C.S. Lewis' alleged "evils", since I'm very much a fan of his work. Anyway, I'm just trying to say that I am not unaware of the controversy these books have caused... hasn't the Bible done the same? I'm not implying that His Dark Materials is some sort of new gospel or inerrant truth. Maybe it's nothing but lies. After all, it is of the fantasy genre. However, perhaps there are some useful observations of truth that hold some merit as well. The end, for now.
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