keepin it small for this one, because I have a busy day... sorry
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I found it slightly amusing that if you search "knowing when it's the right time" into google you get results in the origin of:

• knowing the right time to potty train (when things are getting messy)
• knowing the right time to buy stock (now)
• knowing the right time to hire an employee (when things are getting messy)
• knowing the right time to ask a favor from your boss (answer is never)
• knowing the right time to give up (when things get messy)

and so on... but what I was trying to find was just a generalized article on knowing the right timing in social interaction and life events but that type of article was nowhere to be found... i guess I am the first to write about it then!!! woot.

Hello Readers,

Life can be a confusing mess flustered and meshed with expectations, wants and needs. I expect this, I want that and I really need that one, but with valentines day a stone throw back from this empty silent morning, I find myself realizing that the holiday was never what it was put up to be. I apologize in advance to any of those valentine go getters out there but I just want to state that I don't honestly understand the holiday and I stand behind all that I say in this post. We are mentally hardwired by the media in this day and age to think that we must become these romantic experts who become love droids for our partner (that is if we have one) and purchase for them something that shows our affection that can't be just some lousy half-asser. In a world where Hollywood's saying one thing and our lives state another, we are left with high expectations and much disappointment. I guess what hits me is the fact that we are given a specific day to show love to a partner where we have the ability to do that whenever we want. Why is one day appointed to an everyday expectation. Not to throw out bible verses at you but doesn't John 13:34 state that we must love one another as he (GOD) has loved us? I am almost 83% sure that is correct.

Another issue that just ergs me is that we are controlled to think that if we are single, me being one of them, we show of little importance to the valentine season when the season is truly about showing love toward another. I know how to love, why am I of less importance. It is just one big love fest in my eyes. On my half I actually ended up spending the day with a few friends going on a road trip to Oakland, MI for a basketball game and there seemed to be enough people there giving their love out in a different fashion. So all in all, it just doesn't crack up to what it is said to be in my opinion.

I once have heard that suicide rates were higher during valentines day and Christmas, but there happened to be no statistical data to backup that statement. I was doing some small side research and apparently the media boosts their reports on suicide during these times just to get more attention which ends up leaving us, the public, assuming that rates are higher and people are more in the dumps. During this small browse through the web, I found out that on any given day the average amount of suicides happen every 17 minutes in the US. That is around 82 suicides a day. What kind of world do we live in where we feel like taking our life is a better option than improving it? The human race is so messed up to think that depression is the smarter way to go and suicide is the only form of medication.

That is basically where I am at in this situation. I wish I could do something to help those who are not mentally stable but that is way above my head. Anyway, I will leave the post at that and I hope you guys had a happy safe valentines day.

Later

Aaron Greene

Good morning readers,

Not sure what to do yet, but yesterday I fainted in mid-bloody nose and I am sort-of freaking out. Waking up to a pool of blood around my head isn't really what I have in mind for my daily to-do list. And it isn't like life is already hectic enough. Paper here, friends there, homework here, and life there... Bleh... So I guess I am just in need of some prayers if you guys get the chance. I would not be able to thank you enough.

So back to the true reason I started this blog for. THE SHIRT COMPANY. I met up with my brother this weekend to talk business and just to see him of course, and we finally got hard quotes. So our next plans are to throw a good 30 designs up onto a survey for you people to vote on 8 favorites and then we can launch from there. So far 20 down and 10 to go. Here are some names of our designs so far.

1. Icarus
2. Bad Hare Day
3. St. Louis Swinger
4. Artsy Fartsy
5. Big Fish in a Little Pond
6. A Bird is A Song
7. Last Straw
   

and there is more but that is what I can list off at the moment. If you ever have something in mind that you thought could make an awesome shirt cover, please throw a title or an idea at me. Who knows, it might end up on a shirt. So yeah that does it for now and I will post to you later.

graphinki carabooka alaneni forgatsi chini pow
meaning "I want to faint right now"

Aaron Greene

My body decided to take a mental/physical/immune system crash these last couple days.


Monday - Headache, coughs, fatigue
Tuesday - Headache, sore throat, falling asleep during classes
Wednesday - again headache, voice box melt down, drugged up, motion dizziness, cold with 5 sweaters on! (Thanks for dealing with me Monica and Lucas... hah...)
Thursday (today) - slight dizziness, sore throat and cold 24/7


Let's just say it has been a BLAST! (sarcasm) Glad it is taking it's end though. I want to say it all began last Friday where I took that nice crash landing during sledding. My body has just been going downhill (haha... notice the pun) since that day. Although the crappy days continued I was blessed to have company two of those days. Monday night and Tuesday night Lindsay was over to keep my psyche occupied. Although she had no idea that I was feeling like crap when she came over, she stayed and kept my mind off of it. I have to say that the best moments of this last week has been her company and our random conversations running everywhere from where her grandma lives, which is freakishly close to where I live, to bed time stories as a child. To those who know this small insert and laugh "Doritos and Pop" power to you!!! Well, I want to end it at this. I need to rest one more night, and that should end this week of long lost winter blues. Stay sweet, fall deep, and crash hard. It's how you live and how you pretend that define the true soul of your inner being.


graphinki lalapala duchakini
lol that means "I love you" in my abstract world
i just made it up!

Aaron Greene

"crazy" by Aaron Greene

sI went to Franke Park last night and went sledding with the amazing SALT group. Sledding at 7:30 though wasn't really what I had in mind to spend my time, but I did it anyway. It just seems a little dark and cold outside at the time to try and have fun sledding, but it ended up being a blast even though I left with a major headache, a bloody mouth, and loss of any feeling in my toes and face. Nothing a few ibuprofen couldn't fix though. Plus, it was my fault all of those things happened so I could care less on how much they hurt... lol

I guess it just hit me that fun depends on who you are with not really what you are actually doing. Well, that isn't always true, but we will just negate those other options, because they don't support what I want to talk about... haha Like I was saying, it may have been 9 degrees outside and you couldn't see the bottom of the hill while sledding, but I couldn't have had a better time. I do wish a few people that I thought may have gone would have but I can't control that. They have plans of their own or they just don't like the cold as much as I do. Another example; think back to the last time you just sat around with friends and talked. There could have been running around, playful banter, or loose flirting, but those moments stick. It may have not been too eventful on the other hand, but you kept on smiling and having a great time. I love those moments and I hope to have many of them, but that just shows that fun is where there are friends and friends are where there is fun.

That does it.
For an ending, I want to just spiel out just random words.

rando mango filliopolis shambango

tada,
Aaron

"Heart In Hand" by Aaron Greene

I fell in love with a new music... but I don't know if I should make anything serious of it. I mean, seriously, it lifted me off my feet and left a smile on my face bigger than I ever imagined... It was like one of those smiles that tend to slap across your face after a heart whelming story was just told or you see an old friend you never expected to see again. There is that moment of bliss; there is that shiver of excitement; there is that keen sense of no senses whatsoever. It's unbelievable. But back to what I was talking about, if my other music ever found out, it would be the end of me. It's not really like I am cheating on my other music, I just am listening to the newer music more. It allows me to tap into my abstract world. My abstract world where nothing could ever go wrong and designs fly past my head non stop. I LOVE IT.

The bands that I am talking about are Metavari and Deastro. A friend and I just got back from their small concert going on here in fort wayne at the tiger room. I left breathless and dizzy, but in a good way, if that were to be possible. If you have never heard of them, I truly recommend them to anyone that appreciates good music. Metavari is all instrumental and Deastro is more of a vocal light rock in my opinion. Check them out!!!
www.myspace.com/metavari
http://www.myspace.com/deastro
you will fall in love as well... i promise

peace

Aaron

"still life" by Aaron Greene

WOW!!!

I got home way too late to post anything... give me a day to shake this off and I will bring you up to date! bleh...