Conversation I had with myself today.

"Knock knock!"

"Why, who's there?"

"Uneventful job search!"

"Wait, you were here yesterday. That's not very original..."

Good afternoon.

This week has been quite normal. Normal in the sense of unpredictable and semi unbalanced. I've been as Jon would say "A good sunny", waking up at 8:30 to have a routine of sort. My day looks like this. Go running, come home take a shower, do the dishes from the night before, scope out an area by our house and start the on-foot portion of my job search. Then, come home for lunch, go to the business center at our apartment and look for jobs on the web.

I checked my sent inbox today. I have sent my resume with a specific cover letter to 47 different people.

I guess there are several reasons I really want a job yesterday.

1. I want purpose and a solution to what I've been doing for the past week.

2. I want an accomplishment. Nuff said.

3. I want money. Money can't buy me happiness. I know. But money can be a conduit to my short term happiness. Meaning, God hasn't revealed much of his big picture plan for my life, and that's kind of a long time coming thing.

4. Meeting new friends.

5. Buying a pint for Jon and I.

6. Affording a reliable car.

7. Saving for my undetermined future.

Being alone a lot has taught me about being really genuine in all of my interactions with people. It's funny to think about how many minutes go by without having to say or respond to some one. I talk to God a lot more, but not really vocally. Just in my head.

I've started a new music project. I was listening to some pandora worship music station the other day and an old hymn came on. The words were amazingly good and the music was horribly boring. So, I've decided to take five old hymns and totally revamp them. The only original piece I will keep are the actual lyrics. Different time signatures, different keys, different melodies. It's gonna be badass. I've started with Jesus paid it all. I'm deciding if it sound to rushed with the lyrics to change the time signature from 6/8 to 4/4. I will post them here when I'm done.

I've also started painting recently. It's been a very relaxing thing. No rules or expectations. Just a great way to express myself.

Ok back to work.

The Houston Brown Family

Hello!

Its been a very long time since I've written a blog. So, time to catch you up!

I moved to Houston almost two months ago, I'm unemployed looking for a job, and taking a hard look at my life(Goals, future, job, spiritual walk, hobbies, habits and etc).

I now live with my oldest brother Jon. Its very interesting and refreshing how the dynamic of our relationship evolves in different ways. This is one of the only relationships where we wear multiple hats for each other that seems to work. What I mean by that is, we each are there for each other in different ways that two normal roommates don't usually do for each other.

For instance.

I am not employed - Jon is our bread winner.

Jon is at work most of the day - I keep the house quite clean.

We are both working through different parts of our spiritual walk - We are both ready and happy to help each other work through those thoughts.

Jon and I have many things in common, from the music we like to the type of TV we watch to the approach we've taken to life. The latter is the one that is the glue to our family here in Houston. Its funny the evolution our relationship has taken. Two brothers that are ten years apart that didn't share really that much time at home together are now roommates who's life parallel in some major ways.