What a year 2009 was!

Hey everybody,
How was this past year of 2009 for you?, well for me it was full of many great & surprising things that is for sure. I certainly can say that over all I've enjoyed the year on a personal & spiritual upswing because of everything that has/had went on in a daily basis, now this doesn't mean I didn't have bad days in my year of 2009 of course I did. I wouldn't be human if I did otherwise, Right? One thing that I can say that actually helped in expressing myself is this very blog itself which my mother got me in tune with back in the summer of 2008. I'll admit I know I'm not the fastest writer in the world in fact I will admit I maybe one of the slowest writer ever when using a computer keyboard. Back in October of last year I came up (with a still working in progress story called "Clone of Me") while I was at work one day. The main reason I haven't put out any more of it yet is because I feel that a person I know feels that they have to Judge me by what I should be like to them. I will deal with this in my own time so please don't send me harsh remarks about this, pretty please?! I felt it would be best to get what has been bugging me off of my chest first in this blog of dealing with end of the year stuff.
A lot of people don't necessary think you can understand the world through religion & relate it to how we see everyday life now, or people seem to think not knowing religion is better than ("knowing the ways of the world") my own coined phrase if you will in understanding what sin is or bad stuff is when we know we're NOT to do that. There are also many people who see religion way to much like the only way to dealing with worldly problems. No matter how you see religion or wish to react to it is okay, just so long as you remember one thing most of all GOD will love you (insert your name here.) as long as you learn as best you can before leaving earth. Why all this rant about religion & GOD here? is it because of it being the time of year where your suppose to love your fellow man?, no it's because I want to share with all of you how I relate to GOD if that is alright with you? AS I 've shared before about GOD & how I've known shouldn't surprise really anyone here it is in brief I learn mostly about Jesus & his teachings from my grandparents on both sides of my family, and then for a long while I had chosen to (Knowing the ways of the world) till GOD found the way to pull me back to HIM, the loss of a loved one. What I'm trying to say here is I love my heavenly father but I just can't find a church home & it's eating me up inside. Sorry I guess I just needed to let that out to as well.
Now on to better things that happen through out the year of 2009, in total I saw six movies in the theater they were The Time Traveler's Wife, Inglorious Bastards, Star Trek (2009), Surrogates, Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, and finally Planet 51. I felt that TTW was a very interesting type of movie it was billed as a romantic love story, which don't get me wrong it was but for me it also had the SCI-FI twist as well with time travel part & for me it redeemed actor Eric Banna who a few years ago play a bad written Bruce Banner in 2003's HULK movie by Ang Lee.

Inglorious Bastards was a fair movie by Quentin Tarantnio which starred Brad Pitt it had some funny parts in it but that's all I'll say about it.

Star Trek (2009) was great even with a whole new cast playing classic Kirk, McCoy, Spock and all of the rest from Gene Roddenberry's "wagon train to the stars" as it was envision back in the sixties. I'm also a big fan of Mr. J.J. Abrams other works of entertainment as well, and I'm still a BIG fan of Star Trek still as well.
Surrogates was a fair film that starred Bruce Willis that was trying to stop a world full of a perfect health system when it lead to end of all life instead.
If any of you see this film on DVD when it comes out look for a brief cameo by what looks like California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, because I swear I saw him in a scene. Seeing Cloudy with a chance of meatballs made me hungry just from the title alone, I saw this with my brother & his family in 3-D no less, (boy seeing this was an adventure in itself I'll blog about that sometime later in this year). Finally the last movie I saw of two thousand nine was a si-fi cartoon movie titled Planet fifty one, I saw this with some friends from work. I liked this because it was that I saw this it before Thanksgiving and it had a great short film that was just plain funny as heck for any music lovers my friends from work will also agree with me there too. It is as you can tell it was a good movie, from it's poster. There were a couple I missed like Astro Boy Astro Boy will have to wait till it becomes available on DVD for me to see it. ( I did want to take my niece Hedi & her brother Cannon to see it back in the beginning of November but we'll catch it together on DVD sometime.) The other movie I'm willing to wait to see later this in January is James Cameron's Avatar, which I hear is in three D and standard two D my brother & his wife saw it last weekend while I watched their kids, I also wanna see the 2012 movie, but still not as much as Avatar in three D no less. As a huge fan of the comic book character Spider-Man I was delighted as punch on Memorial Day weekend on May twenty fourth when I saw at the Spider-Man website called "CRAWLSPACE" that in the newspaper strip of Spider-Man his creator Stan Lee went and revived what the fans of Spidey had wanted for two years his Marriage to Mary Jane Watson, to find out more about this please check out my blog posting "A brief but very important message worthy of a break in my story of "Clone of me" from me". Before I tell you of the best part of my year of two thousand nine I have to tell you St patty's day at where I work we could dress up here's how I looked. The previous year I dressed up similar to this to sell a LCD forty two inch screen television from Costco in Kennwick Washington.
The best thing that had happen to me in the whole year of two thousand nine was I was able to visit with my folks in Ecuador after tax time till the first of May. Here are some photos from that trip, this is the center of downtown Cuenca, where my folks live. Here's Chuck my step dad ready to blow away his problems.
Chuck & me in what's known as a mixtoe, here's the Conner of the center of the equator monument in a another part of Ecuador,
here are some dancers readying for a performance, What is one to do when you find a clown can? fill your wife's mouth with trash or at least look like you are? In June we have what is known as "Cool Desert Nights" it's where if your a classic car collector you have a whole weekend to show off your Pride & Joy. Hey isn't that Cannon, Micheal & the rest of that other Byrd family.
People that are ready for the Friday night race.

They have a huge drag race around uptown on Friday night.

Hey look here's Bo & Luke Duke from Hazzard Georgia in the race as well.

Here's a old car on display during the Saturday morning pancake breakfast.
Then of course came that Big birthday of the country known as the fourth of July. There were sword fights with those things called sparklers.

We had a few those red ropes we made a bomb with a few of them.

With others we made the Bat-Man symbol out of fire works.
In late August I went to the local county fair known as the Benton County Fair here is a line of people waiting to get through the front gate.
They had all kinds of entertainment, this was a cow lady as she called herself on the kid's stage doing rope tricks.
While looking around the fair I ran into a massive Spidey & Bat-man blowup toys (points to you if you can find Bat-man on the stick.)

Since I love art so much I stopped by the fair's art building here's a small taste of what I saw. That was near the end of August when the fair had happen, also something Very Big was going to happen to the company known as Marvel Comics which was celebrating it's seventieth Anniversary. But in the earlier part of August Chuck or "Poppy" as he's known to the Grand children came for a short visit. While he was here we had fun at Round Table pizza.
I remember waking up on August twenty ninth to get my daily Spider-Man newspaper Sunday strip from the "Crawlspace" website when I saw that the mouse had bought the spider or for those of you not in the non lore of character name assistance, Disney bought Marvel boy did it ever cause a uproar with Marvel fans on the internet for sure. I will have a two part blog about this coming soon. Not a lot had happen in September except spending time with friends. Then of course one time in uptown at the comic shop there I found another thing I'll be blogging about in mid October it's the Spider-Man Daily Newspaper strips from the beginning in the late nineteen seventies.

Then of course I can't forget ol Hallows Eve better known as Halloween and the one of two thousand nine was very super heroically themed I wonder who this guy in a kid's Spidey mask was thinking doesn't he know the night is for kids and treats.

Here are two little ones dressed as Captain America and Flash I wonder if they enjoy reading both Marvel & D.C. heroes well I can say I didn't ask so you and I are left to wonder?

Oh I guess even Bad guys popped up to share a treat or is that a trick or two?

Here's Green Lantern's girlfriend. I don't know if the current Lantern has a female relationship in the comics but let's call her "Lantrena".

Here Heidi (as Dorthy from the Wizard of OZ), and her brother Spider-Cannon under a bear. In November on Thanksgiving I did something I hadn't done for a long while on Thanksgiving that was watch the Macy's day parade. It was because the Spider-man float don't worry not a picture this time made it reappearance after eleven years of being gone from the parade but the Spidey float had been part of the Macy day's parade since nineteen eighty seven. So I leave it to you to find out where the time gap was if you can?

My niece Heidi showing her daring do to everyone on "If she likes Deviled eggs?"

Our first snowfall was on December twelfth.

I went to a presentation called "A Night in Bethlehem on the day of our first snow here are some things I took home with me.

Here are some lights from on Christmas Eve, it's something we my brother and his family do every year.

Here is my Christmas gift from my sister Kylie.

I hope your year of 2010 will be nice and full of new & bright fulfillment for you. Just remember take each day as they come and you will be alright no matter what!