-Got back from the dentist. Just once I would like them to be like, wow Taylor you have done such an amazing job keep up the good work. Not, Taylor floss more and “Do you smoke? because there is a good amount of tartar.” Look, I don’t smoke, and I do floss every night. I am not lying. At least I had no cavities.
- To the biker who wants to drive down the middle of the road and pretend you’re a car and want everyone to treat you like a car, you better stop texting while you bike, because you’re even more annoying and distracting if that is even possible. And if this is don’t drive and text at the same time month, where is the police officer that is going to make a stand and pull over the biker to teach them a lesson. I really hope a bike rider hits my car so I can sue them for a hit and run and riding recklessly, or hit someone else’s car and it gets to be on TV so I can see justice finally served.
- At work a woman asked me how I could eat so much and not be fat. I didn’t know whether to take that as a compliment or a backhanded compliment. So I just said, ” I bet you get jealous that men can just stop drinking soda and walk around the block 3 times a week and lose 15 pounds in 2 weeks on that alone.”
- I wore a tie to work today. Everyone was so happy for me, and they treated me better. They just kept saying how good-looking I was, and the usual. Maybe I should wear ties more often.
- I met the Cupcake Princess Dorothy from Cupcake Wars. I think that might be the most famous person I have ever met, even though I have no idea there was a show called cupcake wars, and all she is known for is just making really good cupcakes. However, joy from work says she is going to introduce me to Journey this summer, and they are way more famous than Dorothy the CCPrincess
-Kings just went into overtime, if they lose I am going to punch a hole through this wall. Not because they lost, but because I stayed up past 10 again just to see them lose.
I just got back from getting fingerprints today at Bank of America. After 8 and a half long months of waiting to convert to full-time employee, it finally happened. Raise, benefits, vacations, sick days, and vacation pay all included. Throw in a small promotion, 401k, and a new badge, and maybe I can tell myself the wait was worth it. And I have no idea how long this job will last at the bank, but I am very appreciative for the opportunity, the job, and I am hopeful it leads to good things.
When I reflect on this last year from when I lost my job to the 2nd months long unemployment stage to now, I can’t help but feel appreciative and lucky and blessed. I think sometimes it can be really hard to not know what to do on a daily basis or hard to go through life without a structured life of work to fill up most of our free time. I think being unemployed exposes my weakness of being lazy and lacking discipline in so many areas, and when I see those weaknesses in myself it causes me to become depressed like or feel helpless. I enjoy being at work, meeting new people, having new friends, and so I thank God He has placed me here. I am not sure I want to work for the bank forever, but who knows, maybe I will be president of the bank someday, and I can look back and see how fortunate I have been and how God can bring you to places you never imagined.
I am thankful God has still managed to bless me because of who He is. I don’t think I deserve much of what I get or have gotten, but yet God still hasn’t given up on me despite the ways I have neglected to come to Him and speak with Him or just meditate on His goodness. I think I have the same prayer requests now that I had last year when I was let go from work. To meditate with God, to pray with God, and to trust in God. I just want to let go and just be appreciative of God’s gifts instead of always trying to be in control of every aspect of my life and trust in the wisdom of me over the wisdom of God.
I have been reading Proverbs with Pastor PJ, and I like the first few chapters because it talks about wisdom and what a precious gift she is. To see the consequences of neglecting wisdom, and trusting in oneself, and choosing your ways over the ways of the Lord has been a good reminder to me.
Proverbs 3: 1-4: My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,
for length of days and years of life
and peace they will add to you.
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good success
in the sight of God and man.
also Proverbs 3-14-16
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,
and the one who gets understanding,
for the gain from her is better than gain from silver
and her profit better than gold.
She is more precious than jewels,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.
I pray God would give me wisdom, and that if He does, I would cherish the wisdom of God and not forsake it for the things that the world offers but yet has no long-term eternal significance. I don’t want to be really good at fantasy sports, or really good at making jokes, or someone people think is really nice, if I don’t know how to love someone, pray for someone, or share with them the saving message of Jesus Christ. In fact, when I got the job, I thought, it is nice to have a job, but without Christ’s righteousness, a job really doesn’t matter, and a job can’t save me, only God can. I am really appreciative God died for me, and that He raised from the dead and conquered death so we as sinners could have life. I hope and pray that people who don’t know that truth would someday embrace it, or that if someone thinks life is better without God, that God would give them wisdom and convict them of the lies from the devil or the world.
I am really lucky. Not because I have a great family, a good job, Melody, good looks, really good friends, and other material things, but I am lucky because God rescued me from a path of destruction I had no idea I was even on.
Melody and myself just got back from Happy Hour. At Sonic. I love those slushes so much. And they are like a dollar during happy hour. Why can’t Sonic and Chik-Fil-A come to the valley??
What happened to Super Market Sweep?
It is one thing to take away healthcare for seniors (honestly who really cares) .. but once you take away their soap operas like One Life to Live and All My Children, you know their wrath will be felt very soon. ABC do the right thing, don’t take One Life to Live away from my Grammy!! In fact I was so upset they decided to end One Life to Live I just had to email ABC and make one last-ditch effort to save Grammy’s favorite show. Here is what I wrote, note I only had 500 characters to use, and I really wanted 5,000:
To whom this may concern: My name is Taylor Erlbaum and I am writing because I want to make one last-ditch effort to save One Life to Live from being taken off the air. When I heard the news my heart dropped, and it isn’t because I watch One Life to Live very much, but because ever since my Grammy took me in to her home to live while I was unemployed she always told me of her two loves: Grandpa and One Life to Live. She means so much to me, and I don’t want to see this joy taken from her.
I learned today I can take better pictures than Melody. I learned if you just keep clicking you’re bound to take at least one good picture.
Every time someone types to me “your dumb” online I smile because I know that is just one person I am smarter than.
Gas is getting really expensive.
My mom made me transfer 5 dollars to her that I owed her. If you think this is some passive aggressive statement of bitterness because I know my mom reads my blog, then you would be correct.
Go Kings!!! Beats the Sharks.
This week I had a shower door crash down on me getting glass all over me. I also got knocked down playing basketball going for a rebound which caused me to sprain my ankle and get a bruised nose, tailbone, and lip. Melody also punched me, but that happens every week…
But if I am being honest, the pain of this week isn’t even 1/100 of the pain that single women all across the world must be feeling now that their reason for living has been ripped away. To see the one thing you want more than anything, the one thing you dream about, and to see that dream fade is worse than any man can ever imagine. And if you still don’t know what I am talking about, Justin Hong got a girlfriend. The beautiful, funny, intelligent, runner extraordinaire is no longer on the market. The one man who every girl liked at least once in college ( at least half the readers of this blog I am guessing, and I am serious) is no longer single. And bad news is we still haven’t found a way to clone Justin, so that means 3 billion women are going to have to live a life wondering what might have been and if it is better to live a life alone or settle for a man who isn’t even one-quarter of the man Justin could ever be. A decision I am ever so thankful I will never have to make.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that truckers are drivers too and I shouldn’t look down on them if they don’t always drive in the far right lane.
It is official, after a long season, after 10 straight victories to end the season, and after getting so desperate and so down this last week only the addition of Derek Fisher could save this team, we did it!! Brian Young vengeance was ours, and we have once again taken the advantage in championships at 2 wins and 1 loss. We also swept you this year, and celebrated our victory with a Nicolas Batum 3-pointer to clinch the title, the very same man you dropped just weeks earlier. Your Name is Below Mine, I congratulate you guys for a great season, one of the best teams ever assembled.
Special thanks to:
Lebron James
Derrick Rose
Javale McGee
JJ Hickson
Shawn Marion
Nicolas Batum
Peja
Roddy Beaubois
Channing Frye
Derek Fisher
DeJuan Blair
Jordan Crawford
Nick Young
Aaron Brooks
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute
Martell Webster
Toney Douglas
Tyreke Evans
YAO MING!!
Tonight for dinner me and Melody decided to go out. When our waiter sat us down, he went on to explain all of these wonderful wines and alcoholic beverages that me and Melody could enjoy. Even went as far as to say this one wine is going to be the next big thing to sweep the nation. So when we decided to order something he suggested he asked us for some ID…. Why is the waiter telling is all these drinks we can have if he doesn’t think we are over 21. Is that even legal? What if we weren’t 21, that guy just spent 2 minutes wasting out time. I would think you should be sure that the people you are serving are over 21 before you explain the drink menu to them, because to be honest I was pretty insulted. I mean, I hadn’t even shaved, I looked at least 23. Anyway, I am going to write a complaint letter so stay tuned.
Living Social and groupon and those sites are pretty cool websites with cool deals. The other day they were selling a crepe maker for 10 dollars. It was originally 20, but 50% off. I can’t think of a more pointless thing to buy than a crepe maker, even if it is 50% off. And I feel bad for anyone who bought that thinking “what a deal.” It is a crepe maker, no one makes crepes who is normal. But there is something about 50% off that makes us want to buy things, so I am hoping that my friends or the people who read this blog know what a good deal is, and can show some restraint when it comes to buying ridiculous products… A crepe maker… LOL
-Have you ever considered what the word Okay means? Where it did it come from? who said it first? Well… neither have I, until work this Thursday, when we got into a word origin debate and educational discussion on the word “okay” or shall I say “oll korrect.” Now I can get into what we said, but you had to be there. All I know is that it is so crazy to think about how no one really knows the most common phrase used around the world came to being ( look up that statistic ). Who knows if it came in the 1790s or it was abbreviated in the 1800s, or came to being because of some fad where it was cool to mispel words. ( I did just do that ) Sidenote: if it was a fad and cool to misspell words, then I cannot count my blessings enough that I wasn’t born in the 19th century. So for the last 24 hours I keep using the word “oll korrect” as a substitute for the word okay, and people keep looking at me like I am really dumb..but honestly, when you think about it, who is the dumb one really? Unless you consider it dumb and pointless to look up the word origin of the word okay, in which case I actually might be the dumb one.
- I tried using a different soap from Dove for about a week because I thought, “Hey, it is soap, brand doesn’t matter.” I learned my lesson, and I am never using another soap again.
- I find it funny when I am in the car and I answer the phone and the other person realizes I am driving they always say “Oh, you’re driving, okay don’t talk to me, call me when you’re done driving.” That statement isn’t funny, but after they say that, they then go on to tell me ten different things and don’t really care if I hang up, it is just like they wanted to make that an introductory statement but not really act on it. If I didn’t want to talk on the phone while I was driving, I wouldn’t have answered. If you really fear for my safety about me talking on the phone while I am driving, then hang up, don’t just tell me I should hang up and then go on to talk to me for 10 minutes, that doesn’t make any sense…I could also write for an hour on people who answer the phone only to say they can’t talk right now… Then why did you answer the phone?
- I really it hate it when I need to make a password that is 8 words long and needs a symbol and a number. I get it that you want to protect my information and it is for my own good. But it is a real pain, and I can never remember my password unless it is my name and a few numbers, so if you give us the option to make our own password, please stop giving requirements, because it is really annoying.
- I think we should boycott movies so they lower the prices. If we don’t go to the movies for a few months, maybe we can get the prices down to 10 dollars. If it works for gas it could work for movies. It worked for gas right?
- Some co-workers left a message on my friend’s phone of popping balloons. My friend has a phobia of balloons popping. Why would they think that is funny? Tormenting your friends over their phobias and fears has never been funny, and I can only blame TV shows like Glee, Friends, and How I Met Your Mother as the reason why comedic IQ has suffered so tremendously in this country. Only Curb Your Enthusiasm coming to cable TV could save comedy in the USA at the rate we are going at.
- The slithering Bronx Zoo cobra was found, calming the nerves of everyone in New York. My only question is, was it really found if it wasn’t really missing? I just took a drink of Gatorade, does that mean I also “found” my Gatorade. Should I do a word origin? I just imagine after days of not finding the cobra, the snakes people were like, “well, did anyone check the reptile house, or his cage, or where we left him last.” ” Oh, here he is, he was in the snakes cage, we should have checked here earlier.” I can’t believe the cobra really didn’t go free, but he was in the cage all the time. The zoo made a statement finding the cobra could take weeks, but that’s probably because that is the interval in which they feed the animals in New York. It could take me weeks to find the pair of underwear I wore yesterday, but I guess it just depends on when Grammy decides to do laundry next. Now, I think I am not being fair, because I believe in all honesty the cobra was a few feet from its enclosure, and not exactly in it, but then again maybe I am? It was found in a dark corner? Really? This has to be one of the most mismanaged “lost” incidents since balloon boy. Sidenote: The killer whale who killed the trainer in Florida is performing once again in Sea World. I would expect more outrage, but apparently it is really good for the killer whale’s mental state. You know what is also good for their mental state? Being in the ocean.
-Finally got my new sonicare after my old one broke . I honestly don’t know how anyone can brush their teeth without one.
