Party Points (PP's)

Life is one big party, or at least it should be. Our lifespan on this Earth is finite and we only have so much time to blah blah blah... (insert everything you've ever heard about living life to the fullest here).  Today I'm not writing to promote any of the usual Nike "Just Do It" ideology but rather to explore a concept I like to call "Party Points," or PP's.

Party Points, although intangible, are something that we all accumulate. They can be accrued through exercise, studying, doing taxes, working on a project, or any other activity that we should be doing. Every task you complete and every goal you accomplish should be rewarded with PP's. Some tasks are easier to accomplish than others and they will earn less PP's than a task that requires more time and energy. When we have accumulated enough PP's we can redeem them for something we enjoy. Perhaps it could be for a party, the bowling alley, or maybe just a trip to the beach. The choice is yours; they're your PP's.

You'll know how many PP's you've accumulated based on your gut feeling alone. It's that feeling we keep bottled up, ready to explode at any moment after preparing for 2 weeks straight for some meaningless final exam or job interview. That feeling of near implosion is your body telling you that you need to go Buck Wild and redeem your hard earned PP's! The outcome of whatever you have spent 2 weeks preparing for does not always have to be positive, i.e. you don't always have to win the job, do well on the exam, or win the game. As long as you gave your best effort, the PP's you gained during those intense two weeks can be redeemed towards any of your favorite activities. I personally like to apply PP's towards their namesake: parties!

If I haven't earned enough PP's to go to a party then my body will tell me so. Everything going through my head as I think about getting ready for the party will "not feel right." You've had this feeling before I'm sure. It's a feeling of unworthiness. It's a feeling of guilt that we should be doing something more productive. It's an indicator that we have not earned enough PP's to let ourselves enjoy a night out. Continue to work steadfastly towards your goals and you will soon accumulate enough PP's.

If we allow ourselves to party or go out without the sufficient amount of PP's then the effect of guilt and unworthiness will have a double whammy effect on our body and mind. However enjoyable the night was before, the next morning will bring back old feelings of responsibility, deadlines, and commitments. The time and energy spent on a night out could have been applied towards earning more PP's for yourself. This will work against your health (physical, mental, etc.) You'll tell yourself that you should not have gone out the previous night and then you will realize that you're more behind than ever with all of your projects and tasks.

Regret and unworthiness: nobody wants to feel these. So why do it to yourself? Don't go out unless you have earned enough PP's for yourself. Work hard, play hard. There is a universal balance in everything in life. Try to find the balance in your life by applying the quantization of PP's to your current situation. Have you put in enough work to go out and have a good time? Yes? Great! Go out and enjoy yourself. No? Then stay focused on the task at hand and stop wasting your time on YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Myspace, Skype, AIM, StumbleUpon, and my blog!

~Anthans

Rambles

I like how iTunes has a play count tab. My current top song is The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds at 90 plays. I've had my computer for almost a year but Lucy wasn't added to my library until 11/7/2009. Do the math.

If I could I'd make all lights come with a dimmer function.

The middle scroll on my Apple Might Mouse sends me on a roller coaster of emotions. 50% of the time the little ball works and the other 89% it won't respond to my caresses!

Whoever drew the above drawing had one hell of an imagination. Speaking of hell, I'm reading Dante's The Divine Comedy. Video games usually have a strong influence over me. "Aint no sunshine when she's gone."

I've been accumulating a lot of Party Points (PP's). I can't wait to redeem some next week. I think they're going to expire soon. I'll explain how one can accumulate PP's tomorrow.

I've been reading some interesting blogs. Apparently other people like doing this, too. The good ones are hard to find though. I'd appreciate it if someone pointed me to one that is engrossing.

I always like it when a song builds you up and then..... it breaks it down! It's like in Ke$ha's song, Tik Tok, "...you bring me up, you break me down."

I feel like I'm throwing away a lot of ideas by typing a storm of unrelated thoughts. I'll stop myself here before I get too carried away.

~Anthans

Giving In

I was going to write about how easy it can be to give up and how I was going to quit the night but then I came across the picture above. Giving up is easy, and nothing achieved that easily is ever that promising. 

~Anthans

Throwback Thursday: Trends of Three

In college I took a philosophy class called "Mind & Self" and it was one of the most thought provoking classes I've ever taken. I don't remember too much about the class, but I do remember how confusing the texts were. Simple ideas like "happiness is the greatest good in life" took chapters to explain! The reason why it took so many pages to explain these ideas was because the philosopher's had to formulate their ideas from scratch. They would start off simple, then provide examples, and next add more to their philosophy, followed by providing counter arguments, giving more examples, and then providing more counter arguments. The rhetoric from these philosophies encouraged me to write out one of my own theories in a similar manner. Try to decode my Trends of Three philosophy.

Trends of Three – a Philosophy

(circa 2007)

When a claim is made to the word “always,” one must take into consideration of what qualifies for such a term. The main concern with the word “always” lies with people and their actions being labeled as realized behavior. Behavior may be associated with a person when a person completes three similar consecutive actions. Only then will the claim of “always” be rightfully attached to a person’s namesake of acting in a particular behavior.

Three acts are necessary for usage of the world “always” because two, one, and zero acts are not sufficient. Two acts would be a grantor of determining a pattern, as in plotting points of a graph to form an equation. Behavior requires an additional act and is less predictable to that of a pattern. One act is not sufficient in determining behavior because there is no telling what a person might do on a second instance. And zero quite obviously does not qualify for determining behavior because there is no evidence of any kind; a false claim. Therefore, the usage of “always” may only be applied to refer to a person’s behavior when Trends of Three occur. 

~Anthans

Growth

I visited Fresh & Easy a few days ago to purchase some ingredients for a new dish I was making when suddenly I came across some fresh produce. This was produce that I had never seen before: they were plants! I thought to myself, "why are they selling plants here?" The plant pictured above is the one I saw. It was nicely planted in a small black plastic container and had plastic around it, similar to a bouquet of flowers. As I stood there looking at it I slowly began to envision it sitting on the window sill of my room. I thought to myself, "That plant would bring a nice biological vibe to my room". I immediately picked it up and took it home. The thing only cost 50 cents. What a bargain!

The only thing written on the item said, "Fresh herb." It reminded me of the kind of herb I would collect in a video game to heal myself. This, however, was not that kind of herb. When I came home I decided to finally smell it. To my surprise I discovered that it was a mint plant. You can never mistake the odor of mint because it's something you put in your mouth everyday.

The only recipe I'm familiar with that calls for mints is a mojito. It's hardly the time in my life to be making any of those right now. Given this, I have decided not to consume the mint plant. Starting tomorrow I'm going to put it in the ground so I can reconnect it with mother nature. It already had the chance to grow on me, now it can grow on the soil again.

~Anthans

This one goes out to all the Night Owls

I'm a night guy – always have been and probably always will be. There aren't too many of us nocturnal folk around; if there were then I probably would have seen you by now. My day usually starts around 10:00 AM and ends around 2 or 3 AM. It's still a standard 16 hour day. On the contrary, my day has a 4 hour delay in starting compared to most people's 6 AM beginning.

Anyway, the song above has been constantly replaying through my computer and my head lately (I'm also a repeat guy). It's called Nighttime by an electro-romance group from Miami called Afrobeta. When you listen to this song it will make you want to embrace the night in ways you never imagined. The ending in the video is worth seeing, too. Have you ever had a night like that? Have one.

~Anthans

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According to my friend, Joe, the title of this blog is how you spell the word "inconsistesizing." It's a word he made up when we were at a cool fountain in Vegas one day. It wasn't any ordinary fountain though: the water came from the ceiling. The ceiling was painted like a sky and the water that fell form above was supposed to simulate a storm indoors. On the ground level there was a pond filled with a few rocks and a wooden bridge to cross over. It was very Vegas. When the show began the rain drops started to fall. It was peculiar the way the rain drops fell though. All across the lake the rain drops kept dropping in the same spot. There must have been about 30 rain dispensers up above. I mentioned this to Joe and we both thought it was odd how rain drops could consistently hit the same spot in a pond, over and over again. It didn't look natural. However, as time progressed, the rain drops began to spread out. Joe said to me, "Hey look, the rain drops are inconsistesizing." I immediately knew what he meant. The rain drops were no longer consistently hitting the same spot. It was the perfect word to describe the situation.

~Anthans