Forbidden Fruit Creates Many Jams

I've been really in a bad, depressed, stressed sort of mood lately. I started cleaning my room today and 5 min. into it I realized I didn't have energy to finish, but I worked on it for a couple hours. I'll be getting back to it a bit later. I have a rosary to go to tonight for someone we know who died. This week I have 2 voice lessons, my 3 jobs, and who knows what else.
As for today's title-I found it online. It made me lighten up a bit today. We've all seen cheesy sayings on church signs--I found a site that actually has a gallery of photos of real ones--guess people post anything. In Yankton I saw that "Burger King Lutheran" (some will know what I mean) had a sign that read, "Go with the church that's been around 2,000 years". Since Lutheranism was founded in the 1500s, I found that interesting. Perhaps they are calling for conversion to Catholicism, a religion of 2,000 years?
I made my own sign but it won't post here--let me know if you wanna see it.
Much love,
SB

Fly by

This will be quick. I've added a banner link to "ONE" cuz I can--still think it sounds like a good thing. Any time we are using our wealth and power to make good changes you can count me in. All you have to do is sign your name to the list if you wanna make a difference. Of course, you can buy the bracelets, post icons, etc. as well.
Much love,
Steve

Night of encouragement

Don't you love it when you get just what you need and want out of the blue? I decided to check out the old coffee house (which isn't very old, but anywho...) and when I looked in around 11, no one was there. So I went next door and did some of my weekend cleaning at dad's office building. When I went to take something to my car, I noticed the car of a guy I've chatted with at the coffee shop. I went in and he was there with 3 other people, who were from CU I found out later. I heard my name mentioned and the guy (Chris) said he was telling people about how we compare ourselves and our abilities to others. He said that when I play, he feels inadaquate as a musician because I am so good. I told him I think he's nuts and that we play equally well, just in very different styles. It was nice to be bragged up in front of others though.
After hearing of my 'astounding abilities', one of the CU guys asked me to play. I was a bit thrown by the moment, but I sat down and played and even sang...it just came so naturally. All were clapping and speaking praises, which felt amazing. We exchanged names and such and I played and sang more...it was about 12:30 AM when I left. Chris said he's cutting a demo, but doesn't want to do the full CD thing due to the studio issues. When I told him I'm cutting a CD from my home studio this summer he told me that he'd buy one--apparently I'm the first person he's said that to. We'll see what develops as the summer progresses...Keep my calling in your prayers please.
What did tonight show me? My talent is God-given, other people compare themselves to me and I'm not always the 'lesser' in the comparison, playing and singing is completely natural to me, I have potential fans :), and I'm a good friend-maker.
I'm riding high tonight and thank God for that.
God bless,
Steve
Song of the Day: "Suspended" by Matt Nathanson--heard it on Launch.

Interesting

Found this (where else?) online. You are to take a few from the list and complete them and then add new occupations to the list...be creative!

If I could be a scientist...
If I could be a farmer...
If I could be a musician...
If I could be a doctor...
If I could be a painter...
If I could be a gardener...
If I could be a missionary...
If I could be a chef...
If I could be an architect...
If I could be a psychologist...
If I could be a librarian...
If I could be an athlete...
If I could be a writer...
If I could be a llama-rider...
If I could be a servicemember...
If I could be a business owner...
If I could be an actor...
If I could be a mime...
If I could be a chimney sweep...
If I could be a masseuse...
If I could be a taxi driver...
If I could be a priest...
If I could be a window cleaner...
If I could be a gynecologist...
If I could be a world leader...
If I could be a healer...
If I could be a proctologist...
If I could be a carpenter...
If I could be a reality-tv star...
If I could be an action figure...(Steve)
If I could be a superhero...(Steve)
If I could be a door-to-door salesman...(Steve)
If I could be an ice cream tester...(Steve)

Mine:
If I could be a musician...oh wait, I am!
If I could be a reality tv star...I'd be on The Real World or something like that--no bug eating or "tribe has spoken" for me!
If I could be a proctologist...I'd know why so many people were pains in my ass. (HA!)

Let's take a stand and use our power for change!

Let's try all this again

I WAS typing a blog earlier today....not sure where it went...evil pixies???
Anywho, I'm not in the blogging mood so I'm just keepin' it short. If you look above you will see the newly designed title tags ("Steve Brown"). Someone deleted the photo for the letter "V" on the main site, so it consequently disappeared from view. Since I'm not Stee Brown, I had to do a good deal of searching to find the site I borrowed the letters from and selected these to give a new look...kind of a "what would my name look like in lights?" theme. Hope you enjoy. Keep reading, commenting, and everything.
Love ya,
Steve