gdp's Comments

inprogress : Accents, Grill Outs and Ticks...

Sat, 7 Apr 2012 12:39:20 +0000

This southerner HATES modern country music, so don't get sucked into that one. Sweet tea is mandantory. Don't EVER complain about the tea being sweet. You will NOT minister to those people. Ever. :) Brent's obviously already owned a good 4x4, so that's not really a thing for you, I guess.

El Chupacabra Writes a Blog : choose this day

Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:37:20 +0000

You and Jamie continue to rock my world, bro. Seriously. I'm sick of perfect Christians. Not that we shouldn't want to be, but just that I don't think anybody is, and yet some act like they are. Thanks for admitting that "authentic" isn't really something to brag about.

inprogress : Alla Y'all. An-Dun't Fergit'it!

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:27:05 +0000

Y'all looked awful prim and proper in them thar days.

inprogress : Alla Y'all. An-Dun't Fergit'it!

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:04:16 +0000

Y'all need help.

inprogress : SATISFIED - One Word Challenge

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:21:08 +0000

Pretty darn sure that I'm NOT as satisfied as I should be. Period. But I can't decide exactly how satisfied I should be. I think there's a part of existence that we SHOULD be satisfied with, and a part that we should always seek for excellence, or at least for growth and improvement. Otherwise we sit on the couch and eat Twinkies all the time.

inprogress : Make Your Dash Count

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:06:38 +0000

Ouch. Be strong. I'm sorry.

inprogress : Inked With Love

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:22:55 +0000

While I know tats are more "memorialish" and I really recognize the significance of what you guys are doing, I'm just not a tat person and I'm curious if there might be some other ways we could "unite" on this as well. I'm a sticker dude :) If I had tats, I'd probably have a lot. My Bible is covered with some totally inane and useless stickers. I consider it personal and public in the same way many do tats.

El Chupacabra Writes a Blog : masculinity and the church

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:43:00 +0000

Georges St. Pierre, man. The man. :) http://www.gspfightclub.com/en/

El Chupacabra Writes a Blog : masculinity and the church

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:25:29 +0000

I like the "fight club in the youth room" idea. VWM, EC, and GSP. Cool.

inprogress : What would you tell a teen?

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:44:10 +0000

Enjoy being a teen. Don't freak out about what you have to be as an adult. Plan for it to a certain exten, work toward it as you have opportunity, and always give it your best shot, but don't let it ruin your life. You'll be old soon enough. Some people will tell you that you need to find God's will for your life just as early as possible. I say bullcrap. Just live God's will for today - Love God, Love People, and take the opportunities as God brings them to you. He's not going to tell you tomorrow what you're supposed to do when you're 40, or who you're supposed to marry, or where you're going to work when you're 22. Every day is a forked road. Follow Him. Daily. If you live your best for God every day, 20 years from now just comes naturally.

inprogress : Help Wanted

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 04:16:32 +0000

I suck at accomplishments of all sorts right now :) Can't seem to get ANYTHING under control. Gak.

inprogress : I'm Sorry.

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:55:46 +0000

Hope you feel lots better soon, btw. :)

inprogress : I'm Sorry.

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:55:02 +0000

Ha! Someday we'll actually, like, occupy space in the same Starbucks, introduce ourselves, and you'll see that I really am a cool, studly manly man, and all the "genuine" nonsense will be blown to the wind... You know, since you only live like, 4 hours away now instead of 24. Then my wife will tell you how weird I really am and all hope will be gone. I put up a pretty good front, in other words. :)

inprogress : I'm Sorry.

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:07 +0000

"...because I assume people don't care. I'll be honest - I've learned in the past two years that people I thought were good friends were actually only pretty superficial friends." That's been a lot of my experience, too. I'm not hunting somebody that WANTS me to whine and moan and groan, but there's a different feeling to it when somebody really cares, even if only a few words are swapped.

inprogress : I'm Sorry.

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:00:42 +0000

If I shared all my "negative things", I'm pretty sure that nobody online would think I'm very cool, or that I'm an expert, or that I'm a studly manly man, etc. You all would realize that I'm often just a frightened, lonely, sad, depressed, tired, discouraged little boy stuck inside a body that wishes it was able to play more and harder than it really is. So I just share the cool stuff that makes me look good. I talk about the things I'm good at, or that somebody else is good at. While I claim to be "real", "authentic", and "genuine", I know exactly how to filter things so that my REAL demons are never exposed. So, yeah, I carry a lot inside that nobody knows. I hurt physically and emotionally and spiritually and I can't let down the walls enough to tell anybody about it, largely because I don't trust anyone to really care. I don't want to be a victim. I want to be a solution. After all, crying, whining, depressed Christians make Perry Noble get upset, and I don't want to be that kind of guy. Just the truth.

inprogress : PSA

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:20:27 +0000

We'll be here patiently waiting :)

RandomlyChad : Wednesday Haterade, Friday Edition: Why I "Hate" @michaeldperkins

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:58:36 +0000

Funny hate :)

inprogress : Grooming Confession - Greasy Edition

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:26:26 +0000

I shower three and four times a day when I'm on vacation.

inprogress : One Thing

Thu, 7 Jul 2011 21:27:44 +0000

That sounded much more "whiny" than I thought it did when I wrote it, but I do feel that way about myself a LOT. It's part of why I DON'T have a lot of friends - I don't trust anybody to really like me, so I don't put a lot out there. Part of it is because so many people that I HAVE risked a lot with have treated me badly by considering our friendship unimportant. I don't really know how to make that make sense, but it's there. It's a fence. Some people fall of on the cool side, and no matter what they do, everybody still drools at the thought of being their friend. Some of us seem to fall of on the other side, and friendships come hard. Ever friendship is a "reacher/settler" situation. There are no peer relationships. My son has the same problem with his own cousin. EVERYBODY thinks Brooks is awesome, but Brooks just tolerates Travis, and often even makes fun of him. If you were like me, what would I say? Probably that more people like you than you think, and sometimes you just have to turn off the negative and pretend like people like you even though the little voice says they don't. Sometimes you have to fake it and tell yourself that you really are somebody, much like Steven Furtick does church. (Act like what you want to be...) What am I doing? Most days, just longing for better days and wishing I weren't a disappointment to quite so many people. At the same time, trying to be honest about it to some extent with people who have the good sense to push me toward the FACT that I am the apple of God's eye thanks to the blood of Christ and that he made me because he wanted ME, not somebody else, to be Travis and Krsti's dad and Karma's hubby. And praying. And falling backwards, a lot. :) I have terrible esteem / projection issues. Lots of people think I really have it all together. Very few people offer to help me, because most would not believe that I have as many "issues" as I do. So, many times, I just feel like a lying SOB, you know? Tain't easy being me, but I guess I'm the best I've got... :) Thanks for listening.

inprogress : One Thing

Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:29:06 +0000

I value loyalty extremely highly. (Probably too highly...) If "you" ever once act like you're not really my friend, as in laughing at me while you are with someone you "like better" (adults do it too, all the time!) I will basically never trust you again. At least not at the level of being a "good friend." I won't hate you or beat your face down, but neither will I regard you as highly as I once did. As to being my own best friend? No, I despise myself way too much for that. I'm never as much fun as I would like. I get offended way too easily, I stop laughing way too quickly, and I take things way too seriously. I'm much too self asbsorbed, much too introspective, much too quiet, and far too neurotic and nervous in general. No, most people probably don't really want me around at all, especially if they know me very well. Those who don't know me very well think I'm an okay guy. My family loves me deeply but often doesn't enjoy me at all. So, hey, guess I've got a lot to work on. Just a wannabe.