{"id":126,"date":"2006-11-25T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2006-11-25T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T13:41:00","slug":"thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/25\/thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so I&#8217;ve known for a long time that there was a god but he\/she is really making his\/her presence known.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been tested and I&#8217;m guessing that I passed because I&#8217;ve been blessed with everything I could ever want or need.&nbsp; Lets review shall we?&nbsp; I have a great job on campus which is looking like it&#8217;ll turn into a full-time position if I work hard enough on it.&nbsp; I have a great place on the east side and its cheap too.&nbsp; I have a car that I&#8217;m almost done paying off.&nbsp; I have my health and sanity (for the moment).&nbsp; I&#8217;m in great shape for the first time in a long time. I have great friends.&nbsp; I have my little baby boy who is getting bigger and smarter everyday.&nbsp; I have family.&nbsp; I have almost every electronic known to man.&nbsp; I&#8217;m almost done with school.&nbsp; And last but fo damn sure not least, the person who makes it all better.&nbsp; Ray.&nbsp; If you know her, you know what she means to me.&nbsp; She is everything I ever wanted in a woman but was too scared to look for.&nbsp; Sometimes I stare at her thinking to myself, &#8220;This shit can&#8217;t be real&#8221; or &#8220;Somebody must be paying her to act like this or to say these things.&#8221;&nbsp; I feel like I&#8217;m just waiting for her to tell me that I was just punked or something.&nbsp; She enhances everything else in my life and provides help that I never knew was available.&nbsp; She isn&#8217;t without her faults but her strenghts far outweigh them.&nbsp; Like an icecube next to an glacier (sorry for the ice analogy but I&#8217;m watching ice age 2 right now).&nbsp; And its all the little things that she is.&nbsp; Meeting somebody like her let me know that there is a god.&nbsp; She understood what I meant when I said that she was the best gagdet ever.&nbsp; I think she was right about the whole soulmate thing.&nbsp; I just hope she doesn&#8217;t get bored with me, actually I won&#8217;t let her.&nbsp; She is too good to let get away.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve only given her a small bit of what she deserves but I&#8217;m cautious after what happened last time.&nbsp; I&#8217;m being careful no matter how I feel.&nbsp; But anyway, I swear its like God just gave me everything I would ever need and then said, &#8220;Show me what ya got?&#8221;&nbsp; I&#8217;m in a very good position right now and I&#8217;m going to take advantage and not fuck it all up.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m finishing up my 35-plus hours in 3 days.&nbsp; Aden is out of town to I figure I might as well take advantage.&nbsp; My check will be big enough to give birth.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I officially want an xbox 360, if anybody knows of a good deal on any let me know.&nbsp; I also want that new Nintendo Wii so Aden and me can play it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I love being taken care of.&nbsp; If marriage is anything like this, sign me up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so I&#8217;ve known for a long time that there was a god but he\/she is really making his\/her presence known.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been tested and I&#8217;m guessing that I passed because I&#8217;ve been blessed with everything I could ever want or need.&nbsp; Lets review shall we?&nbsp; I have a great job on campus which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,266,74],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aden","tag-god","tag-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}