The medicated child

Last night while staying at the station I watched part of a very disturbing documentary on how over diagnosed the kids in our world are truly becoming. I myself was medicated, and I believe that it was a valid diagnoses of ADHD however I do not believe this happens every time. The kids on this show were being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 4. I'm not a licensed professional, I have not even thoroughly researched the reasons and side effect of this particular disorder but 4 years old, really? The kid IS 4. I believe the same thing has happened with the diagnosing of childhood adhd, a kid walks into his kindergarten class and can not sit still, the teacher immediately points her finger at him and says "you have adhd" actually no he probably doesn't, what is most likely going on... His underwear are too tight, he had a cookie for breakfast, or maybe just maybe HES ONLY 5 YEARS OLD. I fell like these doctors are jumping to conclusions, and the result of these "conclusions" is 5 to 10 year old kids on 5 or 6 different pills to control side effect after side effect. My opinion? Its out of control.

Theres a place on this side of town

We call it the Station. It's a place where you can hang out with your true friends, not be pressured by the world to have sex, get drunk, or do drugs. True fellowship happens here. Late night talks about girlfriends, college, and life in general are regular occurrences. A party with lots of food is not uncommon. And, of course, on any given day at any given time the Xbox is on playing Halo or watching a movie on Netflix. This is a good place to be, a place I am truly blessed to be able to visit.

A day in the life of...

As you know by the title of this blog I work at Safeway as a bag boy. It isn't the easiest of  jobs, pushing carts through an inch and a half of snow in 10 degree weather with the wind blowing, but its a job, one that i am truly thankful for.

A lot of you may not know this but you can learn a great deal of stuff about a person just by simply bagging their groceries. Ill give you one particular situation that I learned from. I was going along my day bagging groceries a lot like my job description describes, when a lady entered the line with one thing, it was a box of tampons. Now when this particular item was swiped and passed down to me to put in the bag this lady, whom I'm sure is a very nice lady on any other week of the month, said "O I don't need a bag", I made the mistake of asking her if she was "sure". She looked at me with a dazed and somewhat confused look on her face as if too say "did you really just ask that question to a women who is buying something like that?" and boy did she let  me have it. In a very annoyed tone she continued to ask me if i was serious, and if i did indeed just ask her if she was "sure", she asked  me if she looked "unsure", and proceeded to tell me that i should probably NEVER ask a lady if she is sure when buying something like this box of tampons.  She wasnt very quiet about it either.

So what is the lesson i learned that day. When a lady walks up with a box of tampons, ask her little to NO questions about how she is doing or how her week might be going just simply put the item in the bag unless told otherwise. And when a lady comes through your line with a box of tampons and 6 candy bars...well I'm no professional but i strongly suggest not even thinking about opening your mouth.

~Yoseph

Playing Catch Up

Wow my life has been crazy this past year. Turning 18, getting a car, and a job, Getting accepted  to college (more on that later) , hanging with friends, paying for gas in your own vehicle, having that vehicle break down and having to pay to get it fixed, o a trip to Canada was thrown in their just for fun. If I could sum up this whole year in three words they would be, "Becoming an adult". And let me tell you something, when I was a kid, like most of us out there, I dreamed one day of becoming a so called "adult" having no bed time, doing what you wanted, being an adult quite literally meant "hakuna matata", no worries. Wow, I believe I was wrong. Adult hood is filled with twists and turns, giving up what you like to do in order to do what you have to do, paying for almost everything yourself, waking up and going to work when you don't really want to, the stress of getting into college, and finally realizing that God ultimately has his plan for you and you don't have a whole lot of control over it. Now I know to most of you reading this it sounds like i may be complaining or whining but let me assure you that i am not. I am simply telling you all something you already know, the truth. 

Over the next couple of weeks I will log my journey of life while I start college and I embark on a WHOLE new chapter of this thing they call life.

Stay tuned.

~Yoseph~

As some of you may know some exciting things have bee happening in my life lately... Ive recently returned home from a trip to Mexico and had my 18th birthday. So I'm going to run you through a typical day at the camp in Mexico.

We would all wake up anywhere between 6 and 8 in the morning (this trip some of us woke up earlier because they had to be at the prison for an outreach ministry) we would flush and brush and get ready for the day starting it off of course with a very nice cup of hot chocolate. We would get to the dinning room at around 8:30 for a day briefing a prayer and BREAKFAST(one of three of my favorite parts of the day) , girls always go first. at around 9:15 we would finish up with breakfast and go into worship and devotional time which would last till about 10:00. After worship and devo. we would have ministry prep time, this is where the four ministry groups; construction, youth/sports, women and children, and prison/rehab outreach, would get together and plan what they were going to do for the day, this was also the time to get supplies ready like sports gear or crafts or make and pass out flyer's in San Anita, this would usually last around 2 hours, which would bring us to my second favorite part of the day LUNCH at 12 or 12:15. When lunch was done we would do a "TAG time" or Time Alone with God for 40 minutes, during this time you could do whatever the lord was leading you to do memorize scripture, read your bible, or journal. When tag time was done my team would head straight for the soccer field everyday at 2 o'clock for our outreach which consisted of 2 hours of soccer, the best sport in the world, and sharing of testimonies. Reluctant to leave every single afternoon, we would head back to the camp for an hour and a half long free time. if it was your day to shower then you would if it wasn't then you could play soccer or basketball, walk to the store or take a nap whatever you felt like doing. At 5:30 or 5:45 we would have DINNER my third favorite part of the day, after dinner a music and devotional time then small groups and finally bed. We would fall asleep around 11:00.

There was some other things we were able to do there as well, like shopping in the town square, and church service at the local church both of which are amazing. My trip down to Mexico although it was my third one was still eye opening and life changing, i made even more new friends this trip, I will never forget them. I encourage you if God is calling listen to him he's never wrong.

O by the way im a legal adult WOOOO WOOOOO

not really a thEory

I'm over in Seattle right now, its been pretty awesome. Two days ago I got to meet up with some friends that i grew up with and we actually got along pretty well it was very cool. I spent the night at the trout house with zac and zach, it was awesome we watched paranormal activity which was a MESSED UP movie just in case you were about to ask, went to the coffee stand and winco... yes it was fuN with a capital n.

today we head back home to idaho then i leave at 6 on saturday morning for my mission trip to mexico which i am very excited about. yo aprendo mucho espanol porque soy un missionario en Tecate, Mexico.

Cant wait. Ill blog more about Seattle, and the gum wall which was pretty awesome, when i get home.

~Cookie Monster

The thEory #5

I realize that i am slacking in the WRITE A-BLOG-A-DAY thing but i have been rather busy. Yesterday, after church, I spent the whole day with my Girlfriend, its not a normal relationship you see because well we have one simple rule "NO kissing anywhere except on the cheek", what do you guys think of this rule just out of curiosity? I really like this girl and my reason behind the rule is this, I want to be an "exception" to everyone around us, we want high school relationship where making out is not the glue that holds us together.

Today was rather uneventful, I cant reveal much just in case the person I'm surprising tomorrow happens to read this but, I took a six hour trip to an undisclosed location to see some family and surprise a certain someone I haven't seen since i was about 10 ha ha it should be fun. The Gum wall Thursday should be lots of fun.

I'm sitting here typing and thinking about all the good restaurants i use to love to go to when i lived in this place, isn't it weird how we always wish we could come back to where we grew up but we know deep down it will never be the same? Which is a good thing i guess, if we never move on we can never GROW UP.
To tell you the truth i have no Yager thEory on this i simply don't know why we long for the things we can not have. So this is my answer and its a really rather simple one.
God made us that way.
~Cookie Monster

The thEory #4 (a)

For all of you who truly read my blog everyday sorry i didnt post one yesterday, we had some issuse here at la casa. So today i will do a double post one to make up for yesterday and 0ne for today.

Yesterday was pretty crazy, we saw a dual/quad engine plane fly over our house about 50 feet over the tree line, we thought it might be crashing so we hopped in the back of my brothers truck and tried to find it, well we couldnt, long story short he ended up getting the truck stuck in a dry creek bed, nearly inaccesible by a full size vehicle. It was not pretty.

I went and saw a documenty at the theater in newport, and I got to see Isreal =D shes awesome, and no its not official yet. Anyways i have to go out and work soon so ill blog later. BYE BYE

~Cookie monster

The thEory #3

WOOO WOOO!!!! Five people are now following me which means one more month of blogging, thanks guys. Today's subject is on St. Patrick's Day. I love this "holiday", if you can call it that so here are just a few facts about the greenest day of the year, and of course the Yager ThEory on why we have it.



First a little history on the day. Saint Patricks day started as purely a Catholic holiday and became an official feast day sometime in the 1600's. Its was mainly celebrated by the Patron Saints of Ireland, but has grown quickly in popularity, as you all know.



Here is a sweet fact: The original color of Saint Patricks day was BLUE, however green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of the day as early as the 1700's. It is said the shamrock symbol was used by Saint Patrick to explain the trinity to the pre-christian Irish.

The Question: Why do so many Americans, many of whom have absolutely no tie to the country of Ireland, have no irish ancestors, and have no knowledge/care of what the original Catholic holiday means?

The Yager thEory: yet a simple answer comes to you through my adhd mind, FRIENDS AND BEER. What is better then a cold GREEN beer and a group of friends sitting around a pub talking about anything that may spark in their slightly intoxicated brain? NOTHING. Its a day to wear a bright color and not get looked at funny, if your younger its the green eggs and milk dyed with GREEN food coloring at the lunch table during school. And how on earth could we forget the pinching of the "O SO DULL OF A LIFE" people that dont wear the COLOR.

I love this day so much because of one simple reason, I love the color green and I will wear it proudly today.

Here is my farewell to you. Lads its Saint Patricks Day, you be drinking and smilin and havin a merry old time down at the pub tonight, so while your at it throw a smile to some chap thats alookin a little blue and say "Top of the mornin to ya" and ill betcha they smile straight back.

~Cookie Monster

The thEory #2

Entry 1 of ?. I have been informed that I spelled MckMama's name wrong in my original post so I'm officially fixing it. *Shazam*, there its fixed. So are you ready for my rant today? So Ive been recently informed that people I'm not going to mention who but there name starts with an "M" and ends with an "ckMamawithoutpity" and quite a few others that i do not know the names of ACTUALLY take the time out of their O SO EXCITING LIVES AS "ADULTS" and make blogs, twitter accounts, and facebook pages just to bash other peoples lives. So here is The Yager thEory on that subject, and its rather quite simple, you 1. either didn't go to high school, and or you didn't get ENOUGH drama there so you have to satisfy your undying need for it over the INTERNET, or number 2. you seriously have NOTHING else to do then to judge other people online. So here is the solution: If you do NOT pay the bills of the house you are judging, DON'T JUDGE. (that's an unofficial copy righted quote by yours truly).

Today i am at the library while G-ran goes to the docs office, then maybe a movie tonight I'm not sure yet.

~cookie monster

The thEory

The Yager ThEory: The more you do one particular thing, the more you will get recognized for it. Example, run one marathon in one day "good for you", run 50 marathons in 50 days "World record". So I'm going to see if the same thing will apply to blogging. I will enter one blog post every day that I'm able to for 1 month about my O SO EXCITING LIFE AS A TEEN, if my followers triple in size, which shouldn't be hard that will bring the grand total to 3, I will blog for another month until my blog either quits growing or I become a famous blogger, like McMamma.

P.S. i like McMamma
P.p.s I don't like people who hate on McMamma