Tomorrow, I can put this to good use. Tomorrow, with the aid of my teacher and fellow techy Carolyn Mejia, I will run the lights for praise and worship on the fantastic Maximus, the Maxim light board owned by the church. Finally, after thirteen years as a subtraction, hopefully I can, for the first time, become an addition.

I wish I could say thank you to each person that I know. I know that it would be an almost impossible feat. Ihave the pleasure to know hundreds, maybe thousands, of people.

If I had the time and mental willpower, I would sit down and find at least one thing about everyone that I knew that I was thankful for.

I probably do not have the capability to do that. There is,however, one man who did.

Paul wrote letters to everyone saying what he was thankful for. He couldn’t even type it!

He had to sit there, think about every single thing, the person’s name, and then write the whole thing

out! can you imagine that? Hundreds of people he wrote to , some people with more than one thing he was thankful for.

I can’t do that, but I can do something else. I can live out my life being thankful towards everyone. I can put a smile on my face, find someone who is putting themselves second, and thank them.

That’s something I can do. Is there something you can do?

1. Love. I am constantly surrounded by people who love me.
2. Food. I love that I am able to go into my pantry, pull out some type of food, and eat it. there are millions of people who can’t do that.
3. Family. How many people today can go ask their mom a question, then go to their dad and tell him a joke, then call up both sets of grandparents, then both sets of Great Grandparents, then hang out with a ton of my aunts and uncles?
4. Church. as you can see, church is a big chunk of my life.
5. Education. As much as I dislike my school, i will one day be able to grow up and get a great job, because of my education.
6. Quirks. almost everyone I know is abnormal. notice the ab. ab means better than. everyone I know is better then normal.
7. Intellect. God has placed me among groups of people so that I am never the smartest person in the room.
8. Wisdom. God has also placed me among certain figures of wisdom, my grandfather and dad, for example, that can teach me.
9. Hope. Thank you god for giving me people that are perpetually hopeful.
10. Thanksgiving. Thank you god for giving us this time of thanksgiving, where almost everyone  analyzes all of the things they are thankful for, and thank you for the people who act on that list of things.

Most of my life so far has consisted of a box. I lived in that box. everything that I needed was in the box, or brought to the box. My food? It’s right here, in the box. My Clothes? Oh yeah, right here, next to the college fund. Everything I need is right here, in the box.

I can’t live in this box forever. I will eventually have to provide the food, provide the clothes. I will have to be my own person. That is Kind of scary.

Imagine being taken care of for your whole life, and then that just stopped all of the sudden. That’s how I’m worried it it going to happen. I have friends who have saved THOUSANDS of dollars for college, because that is the only way they will be able to go to school. I have friends who have been studying very hard all their life for a scholarship, because that is the only way they will get into college PERIOD. It makes me kind of sad, but I know that is the way it is gonna go down. Me, actually in a job, probably having to wear a tie, just to thrive in today’s society. That is a scary thought!

her name is Rylee Lyric Printy came into the world at about 12:07 PM today!

I am sure she is extremely adorable!

if I can find some, I will post some pictures of her later today or early tomorrow.

1. He can be funny sometimes
2. pretty good taste
3. not too dorky, just enough to know how to fix a computer
4. fun to hang out with
5. a great leader
6. a great pastor
7. very creative
8. has a sense of humor
9. he goes big, or he goes home
10. has great friends
11. has awesome kids! especially his eldest one
12. God focused
13. me, noah, and adam are the third most loved things in his life.
14. wise when he wants to be
15. very inspiring
16. prominent in his walk with god
17. hunble
18. hey, he lets me live in his house, and he feeds & clothes me.(well, that one doesn’t really count because according to law he kinda has to or he could be ,like, arrested!)
19. great at chess
20. understands kids and teens and everything in between (unlike a lot of parents who tries to “relate” with us.
21. admits his misgivings ( see previous post)
22. has such a zest for life
23. has a vision for our church
24. has a great smile
25. has a fun laugh
26. used to work as a dentist’s assistant!
27. used to work in a bicycle shop!
28. used to do triathalons!
29. can find a silver lining in every cloud
30. married my mom, cause I mean I wouldn’t exist otherwise!
31. he has awesome parents ,too!
32. he knows that all of the working parts of a system need care, or else the whole thing messes up!
33. he cares about even the smallest things!
34. knows that life has value
35. doesn’t know everything and has the courage to admit that!
36. knows his limits
37. very courageous
38. a pioneer
39. respects his mom, the mark of a true man!
40. loves god to the fullest
41. committed to our church
42. committed to my mom
43. committed to god
44. committed to us
45. committed to a bunch of other stuff
46. a great person in every aspect
47. doesn’t embarrass me, and can relate to me and my friends ( isn’t that rare?)
48. doesn’t wear those hideous sweaters! ( and , yes, this counts as a positive quality)
49. understands whats going on in the world
50. doesn’t make a huge deal out of Brittany Spears and all of those other celebrities who need Jesus!
51. thinks that Steve Jobs & Bill Gates are more intriguing than Brittany Spears & Brad Pitt
52. doesn’t read the news or watch it. ( a great way to avoid depression!)
53. has eloquence and knows how to use it!
54. If he did have muscles, he wouldn’t use those puppies to knock somebody out unless it was absolutely necessary!
55. is proud to be slightly geekish
56. knows when something doesn’t work
57. can play the trumpet and the piano!
58. can’t sing
59. can’t dance:(
60. can preach!
61. rides roller coasters!
62. can’t play most sports
63. is good at teaching those sports
64. he’s a modern day David. ( he’s a man after god’s own heart!)
65. there are a lot of people who love him
66. there are a lot of people he loves
67. I have never met someone who doesn’t like him.
68. very impacting
69. he can be funny
70. down to earth
71. his whole life isn’t dedicated to trying to “convert people” to christianity.
72. knows his place.
73. he views the world as a circle, no one point on the circle is any greater or lesser than any other.
74. knows peace
75. is not conflicted
76. knows when and how to discipline, and how to do it effectively
77. he isn’t religious.
78. will admit when he is wrong, and will not boast when he is right
79. has pretty awesome hair.
80. he doesn’t have one of those ugly humongo beards. on second thought, he doesn’t even have a beard!
81. he doesn’t understand everything in the bible, and he doesn’t pretend to!
82. He follows the ten commandments to a tee.
83. I have never seen him in spandex!
84. he isn’t unreasonable at all!
85. he takes precaution, but he lives life to the fullest!
86. I have seen him dive from a plane!
87. he scuba dives with sharks! And they’re not tame at all!
88. knows fear, but isn’t overcome by it
89. his heart is almost as big as his head!
90. he thinks big. like, universe-size big!
91. He has three loving children, and he is bringing them up well!
92. he has lived, loved, and been loved throughout his whole life!
93. he loves everyone, and most of them retaliate
94. when he leads, the masses follow.
95. he is DEFINITELY a people person!
96. he focuses on the good in people, and is very good at bringing it out in them.
97. he isn’t your average pastor!
98. his wife isn’t your average pastor’s wife!
99. He is my father, and he is one of my favorite people in the universe!
100. today is his day and his alone!( I mean aside from other dads, that is!)

Happy fathers day dad! I love you!

If you don’t know me, or know my family, or don’t know Matthew Paul Ray or Jen Roush(ms. Jen if I didn’t spell that right I’m sorry), than you definitely don’t know what I am talking about. So My Uncle, Who is like the king of awesomeness( aside from me of course ;P) proposed to to Ms. Jen Roush. Wow. That is like, amazing.

Uncle Matthew is getting married, and Noah is the ring bearer.

This is gonna be Massively huge

]]>Uncle Matthew. Ms. Jen. Wow. If you don’t know me, or know my family, or don’t know Matthew Paul Ray or Jen Roush(ms. Jen if I didn’t spell that right I’m sorry), than you definitely don’t know what I am talking about. So My Uncle, Who is like the king of awesomeness( aside from me of [...]http://www.gabrielsbrain.com/2008/06/wow/feed/http://www.gabrielsbrain.com/2008/06/wow/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/InsideGabrielsHead/~3/456540102/UncategorizedGabrielFri, 21 Mar 2008 16:08:22 -0500http://gabrielsbrain.wordpress.com/?p=38Okay, I know I don’t write that often, but this unnaturally long sabbatical from Gabrielsbrain.com does have a reason behind it.

Because of circumstances involving, but not limited to, The Battle Of The Books (commonly referred to as BOB) I have been restricted from the internet for a period of a few weeks. I am now going to fill you in on everything that has happened since then.

• I have discovered my favorite American Idol Contestants : David Archuleta, Ramiele Malubay, and Brooke White.
• I have ordered a copy of a book entitled Hero (can’t remember author) and Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac by Gabriella Zevin, both from Barnes & Noble
• I have cooked(excuse me, baked) a batch of snickerdoodles and a batch of Chocolate chip cookies
• I have complimented an extremely awesome person on her blue & black hair.
• I have lost in a game of scrabble to my mom ( she is really good at it)
• I cleaned out my locker & got organized
• brought a 78% in math up to an A

All in all, I have had a really good last couple of weeks!

So, yesterday I went to a birthday for my friend Victoria. It was at the favorite hang-out sweet spot for everyone under 30. Yes, Thats right.

It was at Mayfair. It’s called a shopping center/village but its more like an outside mall.

So, we were having a “Clue Quest” (it’s a scavenger hunt) where you have to get business cards/ catalogs from all the stores in Mayfair.

Winner gets candy. So, it was pretty well planned, well organized. Except, It turned out it was kinda illegal in Mayfair. Now don’t ask me why, because I don’t know. So yeah, first we got a warning from the rent-a-cops saying that we had to keep it down, don’t run, etc. Well, My best bud caleb’s team didn’t get a warning, they got detained! Yep, they got Kicked out of Mayfair Shopping Center . So, there was a plus ( + )

and minus (-) to this party. + side : I got candy. -side: Caleb got detained and the whole party got turned into an “illegal mess”.

I made a video interviewing everybody about it. Maybe I should post it sometime…