More to come

I know it's been awhile, it has been a busy year. 08-09 Winter Season was a good season. In this March I visited Savannah, GA, and then in June I spend a month on the West Coast, and Alaska.

Tomorrow, I will catch everyone up.

Cheers

-Sir Justyn

75 days of 25 thing before 31 years

75 days of 25 thing before 31 years

01. Go to Alabama
02. Get Ashley to eat Sushi
03. Visit 11 different states (OH,VA,WV,NC,SC,GA,CA,OR,WA,AK)
04. Reach 400
05. Do something that scares me
06. Dance Party at Club Justyn
07. 30 days of drinking enough water
08. Have one hell of a make out session.
09. Go hiking at my favorite spot at Bluestone
10. Stargaze on the mountain
11. Work on my “Redneck List”
12. Eat some wonderful Sheppard’s Pie
13. Learn a new recipe
14. Finish the walkway
15. Reach 15
16. Carve pumpkins, & have a fall festival
17. Follow someone blindly
18. Commit a Faux Pas
19. Eat something new
20. Coffee Date
21. Take a risk that puts me out of my comfort zone
22. Spend an afternoon someplace I don’t know
23. Watch a sunrise
24. Send a message in a bottle
25. Leap before I Look ( and not think twice)

It starts today!

Updated: 25 Oct 9

Satori - Complicatedly Simple

As I sit here writing this I feel the world as hopeless. Not the hopeless where nothing will ever be accomplished again, but the hopeless where I’m powerless to do anything about it. I see situations around me, and I just want to make them better I want to save them from heart ache, from family drama, from the extraordinary stress of ever day life. I want to be the great escape. I can’t and it’s a hard feeling to deal with. I just want to sweep them away and show them the love and compassion they deserve for being great people.

I had a conversation about “Carpa Diem” seize the day. I want to seize the day, I want to tell them, I love them, and I love what they have overcome, what they are, and where they are going. I want to protect them from what I feel is pointless hardship life throws at us. But, I don’t. I just sit and smile, and listen. It’s something I’ve just learned to do. I guess it’s the easy thing to do, but maybe not the right thing to do. I just don’t want to be a burden. It’s not my life; I’m just a player in their game. Patients, patients you try to have patients when you feel you need to say what’s on your mind. When you enjoy being around someone, when you …

I also woke up this morning with the longing to vanish this loneliness that has overcome me in the past few weeks. I enjoy the company of myself, but the company of other recharges me. The company of … the people I want to be around.

Balance, in my life is something hard to achieve. I either have too much, or too little. Extreme shades of gray. For nothing in life is simple Black or White.

Your choices are half chance, so are everyone else’s .Which puts far more of the control to fate, to destiny, into the realm of the unknown where anything is possible, and nothing is given.

I also guess its moment likes these when I firmly understand that as we play this game we call life, we must play within a set of rule we don’t always know, we never know the outcome, and we rarely know when it’s our turn. We try to plan ahead, to wait patiently for our next turn, and we may have missed a chance completely, One word, some random act, the fact that it rained on Tuesday, may have changed everything.

My life will never be a simple life, but I can wish for something complicatedly simple.
- JJ Ryvers

Waiting Patient for love ... <<>>

waking up wondering where you are, looking back at what you’ve just experienced and thinking hmm, boy life isn’t too bad. No I’m not talking about waking up after a drunken night not knows what her name was. I’m talking about waking up and knowing you’re alive. Looking at the world you just remember is out there, and knowing that you want to live in it. Explore what it has to offer, and find that co-pilot, the lover, someone who enjoy your company to experience the merry-go round with.

I know my direction; I also know my direction is not meant for everyone, it will take a lot to be a silver spoon lifestyle. Old Money, isn’t a luxury of mine, when I have fancy thing it will be caused by my brain power and a passion to be “Nuevo Riche”.

This may sound like a weakness to you strong willed minded readers. Life for me is missing the love story. I want my love story. Sometimes it makes me laugh, for all my ability to understand people, to learn what makes them tick, to be friend strangers; the mystery of love still haunts me. Why we do what we do for and not for love amaze me. Love is truly a human conduction.

So, here I’m patiently waiting and wondering when the next chapter of my love story will be written. Patients, that curse of the youth. I truly understand something, some people are worth waiting for. I just need the strength to wait, and the understanding that “she” is worth the wait.



Honestly, I’m going to play this hand out. Some say we only live once.If that is true, I have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. I’ve loved and lost, not loved at all, and I've been left with that taste of scorn in my mouth. Even if this girl only offers me a few good year, it should be one hell of a ride, and if I’m lucky a love that could set my soul on fire. So, yes I will wait; no expectation, no fast forward button, just sitting in the rocker watching her grown into the most beautiful experience I may ever see.

Baron's Advice -Why you aren’t Rich. YET!! revisited

Baron’s Advice -Why you aren’t Rich. YET!!
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
The list of reasons you may not be rich doesn't end at 10. Caring what your neighbors think, not being patient, having bad habits, not having goals, not being prepared, trying to make a quick buck, relying on others to handle your money, investing in things you don't understand, being financially afraid and ignoring your finances.


Here are 10 more possible reasons you aren't rich:

You care what your car looks like: A car is a means of transportation to get from one place to another, but many people don't view it that way. Instead, they consider it a reflection of themselves and spend money every two years or so to impress others instead of driving the car for its entire useful life and investing the money saved.

You feel entitlement: If you believe you deserve to live a certain lifestyle, have certain things and spend a certain amount before you have earned to live that way, you will have to borrow money. That large chunk of debt will keep you from building wealth.

You lack diversification: There is a reason one of the oldest pieces of financial advice is to not keep all your eggs in a single basket. Having a diversified investment portfolio makes it much less likely that wealth will suddenly disappear.


You started too late: The magic of compound interest works best over long periods of time. If you find you're always saying there will be time to save and invest in a couple more years, you'll wake up one day to find retirement is just around the corner and there is still nothing in your retirement account.


You don't do what you enjoy: While your job doesn't necessarily need to be your dream job, you need to enjoy it. If you choose a job you don't like just for the money, you'll likely spend all that extra cash trying to relieve the stress of doing work you hate.


You don't like to learn: You may have assumed that once you graduated from college, there was no need to study or learn. That attitude might be enough to get you your first job or keep you employed, but it will never make you rich. A willingness to learn to improve your career and finances are essential if you want to eventually become wealthy.

You buy things you don't use: Take a look around your house, in the closets, basement, attic and garage and see if there are a lot of things you haven't used in the past year. If there are, chances are that all those things you purchased were wasted money that could have been used to increase your net worth.

You don't understand value: You buy things for any number of reasons besides the value that the purchase brings to you. This is not limited to those who feel the need to buy the most expensive items, but can also apply to those who always purchase the cheapest goods. Rarely are either the best value, and it's only when you learn to purchase good value that you have money left over to invest for your future.

Your house is too big: When you buy a house that is bigger than you can afford or need, you end up spending extra money on longer debt payments, increased taxes, higher upkeep and more things to fill it. Some people will try to argue that the increased value of the house makes it a good investment, but the truth is that unless you are willing to downgrade your living standards, which most people are not, it will never be a liquid asset or money that you can ever use and enjoy.


You fail to take advantage of opportunities: There has probably been more than one occasion where you heard about someone who has made it big and thought to yourself, "I could have thought of that." There are plenty of opportunities if you have the will and determination to keep your eyes open

Satori - In the Mind of My Soul

In the Mind of My Soul (29.Mar.9)

Achieving the simple life is a lot harder then I once thought. I have no rock star dreams, my dreams of fame and riches are not for money and power, but too truly make a different on this spinning rock we cohabitate for a short time on. You’d think that when you have the greener grass, when you’re living on the right side of the tracks things are grand. I’m thankful for my dreams being achieved, for having the ability to fall in love, for smell the fresh air. I’m also alone. This is my price, the trade off. I can sit here in my grand house, looking over my small town and dream a great schema about being the Baron of Flat Top, and one day having the lands for my kingdom. The reality is I clean, cook, and work on my chorus just to keep my mind off my loneliness. Meet me on the street, and I will mesmerize you with tales of my life adventures, the history I have rediscovered, and may even expand your present plans of existence. Then, I return to my ivory tower waiting for the 8bit chime, the digital words of a love lost miles away, unable to reside in my kingdom.


Grounded, trying to keep both feet squarely planned in reality. Alas, this is my reality and you are merely a guest. I’m a dreamer, not just for my own preservation, but for the preservation of our future, to retool the world with smiles. Laughter is a great medicine, joy can heal, love is more powerful then the chemical bonds that hold the solar system in place.


Being idle, unable to make a difference destroys me a little each day. Her youthfulness recharges me, this person whom has been with me, helping me explore this corner of my rock, this angelic old soul who understood me from day one. This lover who seems to be lost inside her own head. How do I precede? First, I atempt the straight forward approach, this coming from a passionate being as myself can be way to over simulating. Second, I atempt to scale back, to dance on the fringes, but this I fear will allow her to burrow deeper into the mind. How do I find that spark that is being carried deeper and deeper into the dark cave? Does this cave have a second entrance which I can’t see, and patients are all I need to have?


If I want to save the world, why can’t I currently save myself, save the love of my life, save the future? I’m not seeing the entire picture, does this book have another chapter yet written? The author speaks of more enticing stories, but when I’m also locked in this ivory tower where do I go from here?


My love is strong, it will endure any storm approaching, my faith is solid. I believe our destiny is our epic story we will tell and retell many years in the future. We will change the world together, one small step at a time, and we will be heroes, if just for one day.


When I say forever, I will love you, forever not being the length of time our minds stay intact, not being until these biological machines fall into disrepair, not even being after the total destruction of the solar system, forever being the energy of love, that flows freely through the ether of being, to be felt by everyone, in that moment when you see a new kittens, in that moment when joy racing across a young child’s face, the moment when two elderly lover know that together they will share this last breathe, my love for you will be there.

When the days are dark, and you seek a hand to help lead you on our path, ask I will be there, when together we fear the unknown, know I will face it with you.

When life pitches curve balls, I will be there to dodge with you, when the world attacks; I will be there to shelter you with my very being to take the bullet for you. This so you may carry on. This is my love for you. This is how we save the world, this is how our Epic Love story begins, and this is just the beginning; I love you, Till I see you again, I hold my breathe….
(Dr FF)

Cyber Toys to help Business Grow

Fellow Adventurers,

I know I have been slacking at my duty of posting blogs about running the Inn here at Mavis Manor, it’s due to the fact that I’ve been doing a million other things, which isn’t really a good excuse. I have a few moments of free time so I will recap the last month.
Mild weather led to slower times, but that just meant I got to explore some cool new tech stuff to help out with around the manor. Let’s review some of them now.

http://www.skype.com

Skype is an IM and VOIP

Cost: Roughly $36 dollars a year. I did have to buy an air phone (portable phone) and I found one made my GE on Amazon for 100$. With that 36$ you can call anyone in the US/Canada Free, and you get voice mail, and Telephone Number which you get to pick the State and most of the Number. Downfalls: NO 911, caller id, could use some improvement. Major ++ : Price is great, if you’re away from your house, but have internet connection, you can always answer on your computer… Which mean you could be in Michigan, and answer your West Virginia phone number. SWEET!!
My Skype Number: 304.460.0136 or xDrfirefly

http://www.twitter.com

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service.
Cost: Free, it works with your Facebook, and lots of other social networking sites. It also works with your cell. This is a great way to keep people quickly informed about lots of little things. I haven’t really seen as disadvantage to having twitter. It’s a win/win for me, and my business.

Mavis Manor Twitter http://twitter.com/MavisManor

Justyn’s Twitter http://twitter.com/xdrfirefly

There is a lot more cool stuff I found, but I will save the rest for my next installment. Check them out; let me know what you think. And don’t forget out February deals here at Mavis Manor.

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