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Day Four of My Five Day Vacation

SO... I had planned to blog every day of my vacation, but... I kind of let the time get away from me.  I have gotten a ton done though.  Not as much as I'd have liked to... But a good amount.

This afternoon turned into a very weird experience...

I decided to work on some more of the book.  The scene I'm working on right now is very action packed and emotional and it leads up to the resolution.  Anyways, I'm sitting at a Starbucks near my house and just doing some writing.  I got pizza and a coffee and just sat for a couple hours... After that I went to the gym and then to the store.  That information isn't really relevant I guess, but I figured I might as well give a full picture of how my evening went...

Well, so I'm sitting writing, and these three college age young mature women are chatting about some very mature topics for their young minds.  Okay so, I can't help but just hear what they are saying because I'm literally sitting RIGHT beside them.

Well, they start discussing religion and Christianity and love and religion.  And then the one starts talking about dating someone who doesn't share your faith, and then the other one starts talking about her friend Kara.

So, here I am sitting writing a book... That's, influenced by this girl that I met also named Kara... And then when we dated I went to church with her, when I wasn't a church going person (technically I'm Jewish, although I like to say I identify with the buffet religion which is, I want to take some aspects of all religions and put them into my own world view... Which should be an actual religion, if it's not already... Because I mean there's a LOT of religions and they all have interesting things, so I just don't know why someone has to pick one specific faith... Why not be a part of half a dozen at the same time?  You know?  I feel like it could work.  Or I just plan to go with whatever religion of whatever girl I end up marrying one day, which has been my plan all along mostly.).

So that whole dating and religion thing is what the other girl was talking about... This guy she likes and wanting him to go to church with her.

I'm just like well that's weird.

Their conversation was interesting.  Mostly about guys and dating material... Basically a guy can be cute, but cute isn't enough to date.

I didn't interrupt their conversation until the end when I chimed in as we were all getting kicked out by the Starbucks barista.  Well, I just kind of got sucked into their conversation a little by accident.

But I just found it very coincidental... I'm working on this book that has some of the same themes of what they were talking about inspired by this girl named Kara that I once knew... and the one girl kept referring back to her friend Kara in the conversation.

I mean, yes, maybe it's a total stretch.  Which is why I'm not really saying to myself "Oh my God this means something!!!!"

It was just something interesting in an otherwise run of the mill day.  Just made me smile I guess.

Maybe it's just Gods way of sending a little humor into my day.  I definitely believe that God has a sense of humor and likes to make people realize it.

Anyways... Also what's interesting too is as I was writing this scene, listening to what they were saying was influencing my writing.  SO the scene changed from what I had initially wanted to write when I sat down.

That's kind of what fascinates me about life.  How the unexpected will almost always happen.

For example, I went out the night before Thanksgiving and ended up going to a bar I wasn't going to go to because the one bar I wanted to go to was TOO packed.  SO, I tried to go to a different one, they had closed already, but then I was right down the street from another bar.  I decided to stop in there... I then ran into one of the girls from my acting class... Now, this specific person I had linked up with my neighbor because she wanted personal one on one classes.  SO now this girl and my neighbor are working with each other.  He's giving her personal acting coaching, which is what he does.  He did acting coaching in LA for like 15 years.  So he's working with her.  She said that so far it's great.  We chatted for a little bit.

Then I ended up staying at that bar longer than anticipated and then came up with another book idea actually.

But my thing is, my OWN plan didn't have that bar in the picture at all.  Just like when I set out to write tonight at Starbucks, my course was changed by these 3 young women.

Although, the writing thing only happened because I met Kara.  Before that I was super focused on playing music only and working on music.  So, my life was changed by meeting Kara.

That's kind of how life is though... It's changed by who we meet and in what order we meet those people.

Well ANYWAYS... I'm going to go do other stuff.  Work on some more book, work on some more music... Clean a little more.  Seriously, the more I clean around this house, the more I feel like I notice more things to clean!

Or, sometimes I feel like these cats of mine know I'm cleaning so they run around making more messes each time I clean.  I mean, that's probably not the case... But I have my suspicions about these cats.  I call them, catspiracy theories.

And I'll leave it at that.

Oh, well, last night I witnessed a bar fight.  That was entertaining.  Not really much to talk about, just two guys that started fighting out of nowhere, and then the bartender broke them up.  She jumped over the bar with her cat light reflexes.  It was crazy.  That was while I was having a couple drinks after watching Monty Python's Holy Grail movie out in Phoenixville.

Well, anyways... Off to do more stuff around the house.