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I, Benjamin Jakob Wilmington Isaac Ferdinand Oscar Peeler, am officially ENGAGED! Plus, I didn't even have to force anyone with a sharp stick to get it! If you were to ask me this time a year ago if I would have everything that I have right now, I would have called you a blatant liar, peed in your cereal and would have asked what you were smoking so I could get in on that action before the market saturated so I could become rich. So how did I do it you ask? How did I pop the question to the most beautifully perfect and radiantly stunning (like my adjective use there ;-D) person in the entire city of Hays, nay, the whole world? Well I'll give you, the fair blog reader, a very condensed version, kinda like chicken noodle soup, because frankly I'm tired of explaining how I did it. I set up many different geocaches all around Hays (if you don't know what a geocache is, google it, it's pretty awesome) and had her go and find them. Each one had a little note and represented a country we would like to visit someday. After I had her travel all over the world, I told her to meet me at the first place we really got to know each other and I had it all decorated with candles and I popped the question there. It was actually a lot more elegant and perfect than I have just described, but hey! Like I said, I'm tired of telling the story! And for those of you who are curious NO! We haven't set a date yet because lord knows that after being engaged for only a week we'd have the whole event planned out to a tee... even though I know Sheila is just biting at the bit to get started  This life changing event always makes one reminiscent over the past and all the people who have gone into my life, left my life, and have left behind some sort of resounding mark. It's liberating to have reached this point in my life, to have found someone I am completely secure with, someone that I want to entrust my entire future to. With making such a positive and satisfying life decision, I can honestly say that there is only one way to look now, and that is forward. The past doesn't even matter anymore. It has taught me what I need to know for this upcoming future, but that is about it. All those who have entered my life and have now exited are going to fade into obscurity, to not even be a fleeting thought in my mind again. This is not an attempt to pretend as though the past never happened, but a realization that its importance doesn't exist anymore, that all that I needed to learn from the past is now a part of me and not some separate entity that hovers close behind. It has now been absorbed into my being, a part of who I am, and a segment of my conscience that will guide my future self. This seems like the most appropriate tribute to the past, to allow the residue to dissipate and to lift my head up with extreme resolution as I continue down the exciting path that is my life. Now, I have the best companion a man can ask for and together, we will face all that life throws our way, smile as we take all the hardships in stride, and live life the only way we know how, to the fullest. | | |
| MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I am a genius!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, ok or maybe just ridiculously nerdy, more than likely the latter  I can never access xanga at work because NexTech in all their infinite wisdom, but a filter up and xanga is considered "adult" luckily I am one, but apparently that isn't enough for them. I hardly find people rambling insignificant nothings that nobody cares about as adult, but ooohhhhhh well. I guess I should have kept those damn nudey pics of me off of there. Sorry, I can't help myself, I like to flaunt it. So found this fancy do hickey called an "anonymizer" which allows me to surf the net all incognito and stuff, really a lot of fun… I imagine my IP address with sun glasses and a sweet trench coat. So basically what all this mumbo jumbo amounts to is that I can now post more often since I have so much of nothing to do! Hooray nothing to do!
Where am I at right now in my life? Good question self, now here is the answer: right where I want to be. I'm ultra excited about where life is going to take me soon, I just have to get past the plateau of boring nothingness that is this very moment. Good things are happening and they are happening as they need to  I'm making great strides in networking with individuals who will be in a position to help me on down the road. I have been very fortunate in the fact that I always attract people at just the perfect moment that can help me right when they need to and move me down the proper path. It's really amazing sometimes.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever going to make that much of an impact in the world. I know that impact is relative and I know that only I can justify exactly what kind of impact and at what magnitude I will accomplish what I want to. But sometimes one just wonders as to whether or not he will truly be all that he hopes. I feel that I will be something grand and amazing, I've felt it in my gut since I was yey high, but I just want to get out there and begin to take active control of exactly what it is that I am going to be doing. I guess time will tell. Till next time Xanga browsers, Hast'a Lego.
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| ... Aw my blog space... It's so peaceful here, I can sit back, feel the virtual wind blow through my golden locks of hair and relax. Hark! is that the sound of a digital swallow creating a beautiful new nest from the remains of my recycling bin? Why is my blog so peaceful, so elegant, like an untouched expanse of land just waiting to be settled... BECAUSE I NEVER F-ING UPDATE ANYMORE! Sheesh! I'm such a pathetic slacker. But no worries, for I now have a means to update just about anytime I please now! For I have purchased... *insert drum roll here* A LAPPY!!!! This thing is amazing. Intel dual core with 1 gig of DDR2... *salivating* X1600 Vid card with 128 megs of its own memory.... this beotch hums.
So what has happened since the last time I decided to be productive. My job out at Sternberg is AWESOME! A lot of fun, can be boring at times, but a great experience builder. Plus, I get to feed the dinos and I get to see the fish with in a fish anytime I want... screw healthcare and a 401K, now those are some fringe benefits. I get my BA in History in December. I also decided to take the plunge and get a second degree in Political Science. I'm such a gluten for punishment. I'm also going to try and get an internship with the State Department for the summer... *crossing fingers and doing a pusedo pee pee dance* All a part of my plan to get my DREAM JOB! I discovered this thing about a year ago, but never gave it much thought because I thought it didn't it into my life goals. However, many of my priorities have changed and this job is EVERYTHING I WANT. Its as a Foreign Service Officer working in embassies overseas. Basically, I get to go live in an embassy for 2 year cycles and get to travel the world. 40,000 start pay and I get all the federal perks... talk about sweet. It is basically all I could ever want. It within my grasp and I will do what ever it takes to get it even if it means to kill... you... yes, you... or maybe that guy... doesn't matter I'll just kill both to be on the safe side... that is how badly I want it Here is some linkage if anyone truly gives a crap: careers.state.gov Give her a whirly do.
Sheila and I are incredible and still going strong. Its such a satisfying relationship. I finally feel secure and completely content. Our 6th month is coming in September. Time just flies... I'm very excited about the future.
That's all I have at the moment... kinda sad considering I haven't updated for like 4 months... oh well, back to staring at the mammoth's butt and wondering if Inuits ever got stuck in the wooly doo that exited from such a large ass.
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| Long time no update my peeps. Sorry, I’ve been so busy with this little
thing called life that practically consumed all of my time… funny how that
works. I just turned 21! So those of you who have those envelopes
filled with money but still haven’t had a chance to mail ‘em off because little
Timmy was lighting fire to the table cloth may now do so. All major forms of credit cards are accepted
as well, except American Express… seriously, who takes that crap. Anyway, I had an amazing time. So much fun, good friends, it was a
bang. My brain is mush at the moment so
I won’t be giving an update that all of you folks deserve, but I’m sure you’ll
move on in due time… now on to the pictures of my birthday bash!
The first one is of me and my beer army... today the dinner table, tomorrow the word. The next one is of me with my number one main squeeze Sheila! YAY! She's so great, aren't we cute. (Those of you with weak stomaches may now puke) The final is obviously of me enjoying my spoils. What a fun night. I get to go to Clay this weekend for Caylyn's wedding... CONGRATS CAYLYN!!!! I'm sure it will be an amazing time! Well, I'm out.
Catch you on the side that isn't this one!
~Ben
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I really need to write an actual blog post sometime soon,
describing all the fun I had in California
and how great life really is right now. Unfortunately for me, its 2:10 in the morning
and I just got done pulling some BS out of my ass and completing a completely frivolous
assignment that has no real bearing on my existence. School is dumb. I have
so much to say, but I’m really tired right now to delve into beautiful prose
and wow my blog reading audience with tales of grandeur and adventure. I will soon enough, but not now. Consider this a little teaser. Plus, if I pull bullshit from my ass, does
that mean I’m part bull? I wish I had horns
that would be pretty freaking neat.
I wrote down the greatest goal of my life this morning,
about 30 minutes ago actually. They say
that if you write down a goal, you are 80% more likely to complete it. Let us just say that with this goal, I’m 100%
sure that I’m not going to be in that uncommiting 20% and 110% that upon
completion of this goal, my life will so complete that happiness will have to
be changed in the dictionary in order to even begin to fathom what it is I’ll
be feeling. To think how happy I am
right now, just imagine that. Wow. Pretty incredible really. Here’s to goals and writing them down. And here is to the % sign for making my
typing less arduous. And here is to
love, for there is nothing grander and more awe inspiring.
Too dulls all
~Ben
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