Who Moved My Cheese?

I have been complaining about the job market lately because there's just nothing out there for anybody. No one I know can find a job, especially not the dream job. Right now we are all kind of stuck where we are until things get better. If things get better. Last week, my dad handed me a book that was about 80 pages long called Who Moved My Cheese? He said a client handed it to him and he read it in about 30 minutes. The book tells the story of change through mice and their cheese. I found the PDF of the book online and I highly recommend it. They even made a movie about it. I hope it inspires you.

The Dream Catcher

I used to have some really scary dreams when I was a kid. So scary that I would make my dad sleep in my bed and I would sleep with my mom in her bed. Finally, one day my mom got me a dream catcher to stop all the bad dreams. It worked really well. Of course we all have nightmares here and there. Some were even cool enough to write down and recant at any moment. I had a dream once where I was at a soccer tournament and people began disappearing and no one could figure out where the people were going. They would literally just vanish into thin air. Someone decided to start digging where the person had been standing when they vanished. They would dig until they found an open hole in the ground where they could see the person who had disappeared lying on their back covered up to their necks with a white cloth seemingly sleeping. The person would be rescued from the hole and they would have aged 5 years and they couldn’t remember a thing. It was a pretty sweet dream. I wrote it down and gave it to this guy who was a director and he said he could see it becoming a mini series or something. Whatever, I was young.

I haven’t had a dream like that in a long time. I would read stories and turn them into my own and write those down, but nothing was really coming from my dreams until the other night. I had a dream that I was an actor and we were on set filming a scene. I had become friends with this one crew guy and he and I realized we had the same taste in books. He handed me his favorite book about this guy who would turn into spiders and spy on people. Similar to the movie “It,” but the guy in the book wouldn’t eat the children. The crew guy told me his name was Michael and he showed me where he was staying while we were on location for the shoot and he let me check out his book collection. While I was in there, I found some very suspicious things. Eventually the dream goes on to show that the crew member was in fact the guy from the book and his name was actually Todd. It was pretty cool and I totally want to write it down. I usually write these things for fun, but it would be cool if one day they became something more. I tend to write them in script form so maybe I should try book form even though I have no clue how to do that. We shall see where it goes.

Resolutions

I was never one to make new years resolutions. I never had any huge goals I wanted to achieve and if I did, I would try to achieve it right then and there. No one ever seems to stick to their new years resolutions anyway. People want to diet and they do it for a month and then stop or they want to paint their house and they pick out paint colors and then never paint. Well, I think I am capable of not dropping the ball on this one and therefore I am stating my new years resolution. I would like to read more. I have so many books sitting on my shelf that need to be read. The things that keeps me from them is the fact that I never really have time. I go to work and the go home or hang with friends and the only time to read is before bed and it makes me very tired and I get very little reading in. This year, I am going to make time to read. I have a list of books I would like to get through. We shall see where I am by the end of the year:

The DaVinci Code
The Lost Symbol
Angels and Demons
Atlas Shrugged
The Temperance Brenon Series
The Percy Jackson Series
Finish the Twilight Series (I know I know, but I started and never finished)
Books of Ember Series
The Den of Shadows Series
Julie and Julia
Sunshine
The Fairest of Them All
The Wild Things
Prophecy of the Sisters Trilogy (I have read the first book)
A Brave New World
The Illustrated Man

I'm sure there are more that I can't think of right now, but this is a good place to start.