I Don't Care For That

2009-09-09T23:12:00.003-06:00

Wow. Its after midnight and I am wide awake. I usually go to bed soon after getting home from work...I've been home for about two hours now. Probably the coffee I got at the gas station prior to the trip home to keep from falling asleep before reaching Siloam. After exhausting my knowledge of websites to go to, I decided I would write a new blog entry. There for a while I blogged pretty regularly, and even since then I've attempted a few restarts of the ol blog. I'm not great with following through though. This will probably be no different. But hey, it passes the time. A few things of note:

1. I recently bought an Ipod. I long resisted due to the steep price and not wanting to be seen as a pretentious Apple user. It was well worth it though. The sound is amazing. And it passes the time at work. And I have been getting some hints that my co-workers are not crazy about my listening to sports talk on the clock radio all the time.

2. I need some new songs for the Ipod. Its like I have loaded a depression mix tape on it. Lucero, Jim Croce, Iron & Wine, various old sad country songs, after the first half dozen songs I wanted to climb in a waterbed and cry for 45 minutes.

3. I got my truck back today. It has been at the auto-shop since Friday. I love my truck and am glad to be driving it again. Next February will make 10 years that I have had it.

4. I've decided I will never spank Duncan. Meghan doesn't think this decision will last. We'll see.

5. I'll try to come up with some topics for future blogs this week. That's all for now. See you later Alligators.

Josh

Pineville, Missourri, Here we come!

2008-05-01T18:00:00.002-06:00

Our 1st camping trip of the year will kick off tommorow night. And possibly my first canoing trip ever. Two nights away from our jobs, school, and most importantly, our dogs. I love it.

Belvis

2008-04-23T17:23:00.005-06:00

Last weekend Meghan's parents went out of town to visit Adam and Jessica, and we got to house-sit for four days. We had to take care of a half dozen crazy dogs (their four + Buck and Loretta) and feed the dozens of chickens and pick up their eggs. This was all very worth it, though. Why you ask? They have cable. I watched baseball games, I watched basketball games, drug court, american gladiators, some history channel, and even the Office on Thursday night. But the best part, by far, was a new show on CMT called, "Can you Duet?". It's the same premise as American Idol, but the contestants are all duets and country singers. I watched a two hour marathon of this. One of the duets was a 20-ish redneck guy from Kentucky with long thick hair and a bandanna and his cousin "Belvis" a 30-ish bald guy who had taken him under his wing. Wow, I thought what a name! Belvis. That is a name for the male heir to the Walton name right there. I love that name. Anyhow, the judges end up letting Belvis's cousin move to the next round, but tell Belvis he didn't really have any talent. I was pretty bummed for Belvis. So, anyone with cable, you have to check this show out. And, if you're like me and a Belvis fan, you can offer him your condolences here. Yes, that's right, Belvis has a myspace.

2008-04-22T20:27:00.004-06:00

I have a birthday coming up so naturally I have been thinking about that subject. I am really feeling weird about it this year. 26 years? wooooo. I am now closer to being 30 than to being in college again. My parents are FIFTY years old. In ten years my parents will be 60. 60! I always figured my self as being a bit more successful in the world by this age. Like owning a home maybe or something. Or having a career. Although, I do have a good job now. But come on, I still drive the same truck I did eight years ago. I still wear the same clothes from high school. I feel like the Justin Bateman character from Juno. Its weird.

Anyone going to Springfest? I want to see this guy.

My dog craps more than you could ever imagine. And most of the time it's in the house. This has got to stop. Other than that, he is awesome. He likes to chase his tail, nip the buds off of flowers, chew up shoes, and sit in the sunshine.

Does anyone know how old George Harrison was when the Beatles broke up? He was 26.

2008-04-21T19:10:00.003-06:00

Well I just spent about an hour on a new blog post, I went to preview a link I had put in it, and came back and the whole blog was all gone. This my friends, is why I haven't blogged in almost a year.

I don't care for that: Blogger

Hey! I found my 1st blog! It was in the drafts folder.

2008-04-21T18:36:00.005-06:00

***Blogger's Note: Most of this I reposted the next day, but here is the original.

Hola Amigos! I have returned. For how long or of what quality of blogs I will make, that is anybody's guess. I will not attempt to catch everyone up with the last year of my life that has not been blogged about. I will start from today and move forward as if I never stopped blogging in the first place. Because that is how I handle my problems, I ignore them and just keep on going as if they were not there. (I would not recommend this approach when dealing with creditors, collection agencies, or the Washington County Library, as I have discovered.) So with out further ado....

Things going on in my life currently:

1. Camping. Not that I have been doing any, but that I want to be. Between my two week-ends a month spent at Rockline and Meghan having to work in the nursery every other Sunday, we hae had no camping trips thus far this year. And in May I will start my new schedule of being off on Thursday and Friday and working every Saturday and Sunday for a month. So hopefully we can pull of an awesome camping trip to the Elk for my birthday. That segues us into point number two.

2. Birthdays. For the last couple of months I have been feeling kinda depressed about aging. I've never been the least concerned in the past. But Its been on my mind a lot lately. I'll be 26 soon. I'm closer to being 30 than to being back in college again. My parents are 50! Crazy, no? In 10 years my parents will be 60!

3. I really want to see this guy . Anyone going to Springfest this year?

4. I am going to try to start learning sign language.

Copied and pasted from myspace

2007-08-01T20:14:00.000-06:00

Hello friends and neighbors. I have decided that I will give up myspace. I haven't actually done that much on here lately. Usually just log in see nothing has changed and log back off. So it won't be that much of a change for me. I have turned over a new leaf and part of that includes giving up the myspace. I do plan on now actually using my blog. I hope to write in it at least once a week. For those of you who have forgotten it is www.idontcareforthat.blogspot.com
For any of you worried that you will not be able to correspond with me, have no fears. Part of my reasoning behind giving up myspace is that I am going to start writing letters. Few things give me more joy than getting a letter or a card in the mail that someone has took the time to write to me. Very rarely do I ever get those anymore. Very rarely do I, or much anyone else, send those. So, as of today I am going on a campaign to write letters. So, if you would like to help with this project of bringing back the lost art of using the postal system, I would appreciate it. You can either send me an email at mr_walton01@hotmail.com or drop by my blog and leave your address there.

Josh

Job Interview

2007-05-15T19:49:00.000-06:00

Let me tell you a little story.

Five years ago or so when I was in college I had an internship at Arkansas Rehabilitation Services. I worked there every Tuesday and Thursday. Every year Arkansas Rehabilitation Services issued a scholarship to an incoming Senior. My boss there, Jim, really encouraged me to apply for this scholarship. I think it was for $1,500. Anyhow, this scholarship was to be awarded at the annual Rehabilitation conference in Hot Springs. This conference was the highlight of Jim and the other counselors year. Jim prepped me on all the questions I would be asked in the interview and gave me the scoop on the conference. He had us eating all the shrimp we we could hold and drinking the finest of import beers in Hot Springs. So I have my interview with a panel of 8 counselors. Two of whom I work with, and another who is their boss. So 3 of the 8 I know. There was only one other applicant. She was in a lot of my classes her name was Christy Keele. The next Tuesday I go in to work, eager for Jim to let me know I won the scholarship, and he's not in the office. The next day I get a letter in the mail saying Christy was awarded the scholarship. Now I'm not mad at her, we were friends. But when the scholarship is given BY THE COMPANY I WORKED FOR????? On Thursday, my last day there. Jim was out on business. I never saw him again. I would have at least liked an explanation as to why I didn't get it.

My next internship was at Friendship Community Care. I actually did two semesters there. So when I graduated I was told no worries, we'll get you on here somewhere. I knew most of the staff and they all spoke glowingly of me. I applied for a case manager position at one spot and didnt get hired because they hired the intern who worked that office specifically. Another hired someone who went to the same church, and so on. On the 4th position I applied for I thought for sure was a slam dunk. I even had two interviews for this job. Then I hear the news that Christy Keele was chosen for the job. Of all the people! I could not believe it, twice in a row, on things that I deserved and was semi-promised, they go to her. I applied at several different non-profits in Russellville, and never did get a job. So, I ended up moving to Fayetteville. I worked for a year at Life Styles, hating nearly every minute of it. I applied for many jobs, not even getting but a couple of interviews, and no job offers. I see an add in the news paper for a new preschool facility that Friendship Community Care was opening up in West Fork. I thought wow! I used to work for them in Russellville, I'm sure they'll remember me. So I called, and ended up taking a job there. After about a year and a half of working there the school has had massive turnover and I'm the only one on staff from the year before. They've hired a new lead teacher and new onsite director. So, Friendship sends someone over from Russellville to train the new director. That person happens to be Christy Keele. While I am downstairs slopping out lunches, cleaning toilets, mopping floors, and chasing after kids, Christy is upstairs in the office telling my boss how to do her job. Now that was a hard pill to swallow. How did our paths take us into such different roles? That could have been me in Hot Springs drinking beer with Jim. That could have been me being a case manager starting out at $25,000 a year. That could have been me up stairs training the director. We were no different. Same degree, same classes, same age, why her and not me?

I have a big job interview coming up next Monday. It is for a position I'm already working as a temp, but this will be full time. And I will get over a $5 an hour raise plus benefits out the wazoo. I'm already doing this same job I'm applying for very well, my co-workers will be giving the interview, and I feel very excited that I will do well this time. As far as I know Christy Keele isn't applying. I would appreciate every one's prayers. As you have read I have a pretty rotten history of job interviews. Please pray that I may be exactly what they are looking for. That I will give them the answers they are looking to hear, and that I have the charisma and confidence that I naturally am lack. Thanks.

Kansas City

2007-05-08T21:40:00.000-06:00

So we went to see the Royals play last weekend. The game was really really fun. Even my non-sports-fan-wife had a good time. The sun was a shining, the wind was a blowin'. It was great. The game was exciting with lots of home runs and such. The true high-light of the day was when SLUGGER, the mascot of the Royals, came down the aisle right next to us to throw free hot dogs to all the hungry Royals fans. Now who wouldn't want a luke-warm wiener in a stale bun wrapped in a thin sheet of plastic thrown to them by a man in a suit of some indeterminable animal species? I wanted one. Bad. And I screamed and hollered and cajoled with Slugger to toss me one. But did he? No. He brushed me off. The only satisfaction I could take from that mangy mascot was when he flung one hot dog at this dude's head knocking his glasses off his face.

I Don't Care for That: Slugger.

Introduction

2007-05-08T21:26:00.000-06:00

Welcome to my new home on the web. Who needs Myspace? Not I, said the duck.. And not I said Josh Walton. So save this page on your favorites list because I will be here providing my insight on the world, my life, and your life as well. You may even want to go ahead and just make this your home page. And finally, if you are wondering about the title of the blog... I don't care for that is one of my favorite phrases. So at the end of every blog will be a section labeled, you guessed it, I don't care for that, where I will share with you something I don't care for.

So I hope you visit often. And comment. often.

Josh