"Those who are not courageous enough to take risks, accomplish nothing."

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Survey Deal

I know there is someone who probably would like to see this: Whats an act of service? Sex? If thats the case why didn't it just say sex? Is it a bad word? sex sex sex sex...hmmm does not feel like a bad word to me.

I feel loved when...

The Five Love Languages

My Primary Love Languages are probably Quality Time and Physical Touch

My Detailed Results:
Quality Time: 8
Physical Touch: 8
Acts of Service: 7
Words of Affirmation: 5
Receiving Gifts: 2

About this quiz

Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak.

Tag 3 people so they can find out what their love language is.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Thanksgiving

As we all are aware Thanksgiving is on Thursday. Some of you are excited to spend quality time with family and eat good food. I do not mind the holiday or spending time with the family. The thing that does bother me is the recycled rerun that Thankgiving has become. It is the same shit, different year, every year. I can already predict my whole day up to the part where I finally leave to hang out at Aaron's. This year is looking is dismal for a few reasons. First, I will have to explain to family why I am leaving Minnesota when I graduate college in May and why I chose Las Vegas and then I am sure I will get the "don't give me a speeding ticket" speech like I have received every year since I was 17. Second, I only get about a 36 hour break because of work. And third, I have a 20 page police stress paper due on Monday afternoon that must be done over the weekend. So while my fellow classmates will enjoy a long weekend with friends and family I will be spending most of the weekend alone in Mankato working at G Mill and typing a paper.

The only thing that keeps me from going crazy about the possible fun I may be missing is thinking about LVMPD testing and getting that call inviting me back and getting offered that job. I have come too far to start half assing now. A small part of me tells me I am selfish for making this my non debatable number one priority (my number two isnt even close) but the other part tells me I cant be happy unless I accomplish this goal. 6 weeks left until round 1 of testing.

So I have been shown the youtube of pornography today. Its called youporn, clever name I know. I also saw a lecture called the J Spot tonight. The lecture's main theme was criticizing the US sex education from childhood to adulthood. It was interesting and definitely proved its point in showing how uncomfortable people were talking about sex due to poor education of the topic. Its been a sex filled night to say the least, just without the sex, lol.

Happy Thanksgiving, hope your holiday is everything you hope.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

24 Hours

The last 24 hours of my existence have, perhaps, been the best of my life. Even the not so great occurrences have been laughed off.

Looking for a restaurant in a part of town you are not familiar with can be tough. I trusted yellowpages.com to help me with this one. After a brief search I decided that a place called The Italian Pie Shoppe sounded good. Yellowpages.com had their hours of operation and directions on how to get there. Sounds great, right? Wrong! I drove to 777 Grand Ave. in St. Paul to find a dark store surrounded by an even darker parking lot. The store had closed down! Thanks yellowpages.com for failing to mention the restaurant was closed. I actually laughed at this situation pretty damn hard. Leave it to me to choose a closed restaurant.

After my advanced criminal investigations class I was walking back to my apt for a much needed nap after a night of staying up until 8am. Not relevant, don't ask why. Tough to sleep when you are enjoying a good night. Anyways back to the story at hand. I checked my mailbox like I always do when I come back from class. I find a letter from the Minneapolis Police Reserves. I had recently done a background investigation with them for a volunteer police reserve position. Since I had not heard from them in almost 2 months I assumed that I had been denied a position based on a mistake in my background or failure to omit something they wanted to know. I open the letter expecting bad news, but to my surprise the letter was the exact opposite! The letter stated that I had successfully completed the background check and now I need to make an appointment for an interview!!! This is huge! Way huge! On so many levels, this is so big and such good news that I wanted to wildly pump my fists in the air and scream! The acceptance is huge because I am one step closer to getting the police reserve job that gives me experience, training and not to mention a major, major reference for my Las Vegas testing, if I receive the police reserve position with Minneapolis. Second, this means that my driving record is not in serious enough trouble to fail a background check with a major metropolitan police department! If I can pass Minneapolis police reserves background checks, my chances of passing Las Vegas background checks just skyrocketed!! Wow, I am on cloud nine right now. I also have Mall of America security calling me about a open position, which would be another huge job for my resume when I test in Las Vegas this winter and spring. My life is coming together nicely and my hard work and honesty are paying off. Every aspect of life right now is great. Holy cow my adrenaline is pumping right now.