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I will be on the "In-law tour" 2004, for the next 8 days. Question of the week...


Besides Tomatoes, what else could you make Tomato sauce out of?

Playa hate-a

Melanie said...
"Well I'm still waiting for your review on Yankee Candles.....I don't think I said reading your blog was the highlight of my day everyday, just the day I read it. Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I don't enjoy it, but believe it or not I have enough to do some days that I don't get around to it. However, if the content gravitates to Yankee Candles and things like that it may fall under one of my top ten things to do on a daily basis. You are quite entertaining and everyone needs a good laugh to get them through the day.....Signed...you know who"

For those of you who have not found it, she commented in a previous entry for some reason. Is it true that anyone over 27 really can't deal with technology???? I really am just kidding. But in response to your comments Melanie.
Why hate?
It's okay to admit that reading this blog is the *hightlight* of one's day. I think we can all attest to this. I mean, so what if Dave Burke uses the comments section to really only talk to other people about nothing to do with the blog and talk about topics that nobody else knows what the sam hips they are talking about. I mean, just because of that, you don't have to downgrade your love for jeremiahcox.blogspot.com.



I think I'm going to the doctor's tomorrow.

Melanie, where are you?!?!?

Kortny and I went out to eat with our friends Matt, Erin, and Adam at Red Lobster (which was lovely) last night. We were celebrating that Adam took and kicked the GRE in the throat. Then we went back to our place and put in the blockbuster hit smash "The Bourne Supremacy". Not 2 minutes and 30 seconds into it, did Erin and Adam leave to go home. How do you leave early for a night that was celebrating YOU?!?! I digress.
Rewind.
When we were at dinner, Adam informed us how Mrs. Melanie Rogan told him that reading my blog was the *highlight* of her day. I was very happily suprised to hear this. The great thing about this is, is that I had NO IDEA that Melanie ever read my blog, and I have no idea how she heard of it. I have 2 things to say to Melanie about my blog being the highlight of her day.
1. It better be the highlight of your day, girl.
2. You need to post. A Comment.

So, I guess I never realized the global impact of my blog. I mean, not to toot my own horn here, or to not to blow sunshine up my own butt, but I guess I never thought it would get this big. I know that everything I touch turns to gold, but this ???? So, Melanie cannot hide anymore. No more closet blog reading. Quit being a Wall-flower and get in the comments section!

I think now that I know that my blog is reaching out to the masses, I need to start really talking about the hard hitting issues that effect us all.
Tomorrow I will discuss my views on choosing the right Yankee Candle for your home.

Don't Judge me

I was thinking something today while I was helping one of my 8th graders study for the Constitution test.
Being a Supreme Court Judge would be a sweet gig.
You have a job for life, get paid a ton of money, nobody really gets in your personal life. I would make this one law. And I am very suprised no one has thought of this yet.

I would make a law that would make it illegal for anyone to break the law.
It's a no-brainer folks.



Unrelated, I need to rant. I am getting more and more discusted by the state of Major League Baseball. Now you might be saying to yourself, "oh, jeremiah is just jelous that the Red Sox out bid them for their All-Star gold glove shortstop" or "he's just mad because Tim Hudson was traded to the Braves and not the Cardinals". True. You are right. But the amount these teams like the Yankees and Red Sox are throwing out are rediculous. Making it so that most other teams have to pick up the leftovers that the Yanks or Red Sox don't want.
The Cardinals payroll is 83 million. The Cubs 93 million. The Brewers 27 million.
I am sick of everyone saying that everyone's BELOVED Red Sox were a "team of destiny" and "the feel-good story of the year" and stuff like that. Well, with a payroll of 160 million dollars, it's very easy to be the feel good team of destiny of the year.

I, Dick Cheney

Kortny rented I, Robot for me last night. After a really really rough day at the office, and then meetings at night, she rented me Will Smith. It was great to come home to Kortny and Will. Anyway, the movie was actually pretty good. I read part of the book a long time ago, and whenever I watch the Matrix movies, I realized that the whole premise of The Matrix was taken from I, Robot (the book). So, in all, not a bad movie.
Another movie that I saw recenty was Ocean's 12. I really want to go see it again.

I know that this blog is not funny, and for that I am sorry. I just feel like telling you about a couple of movies I saw. I just felt like explaining to you what I thought about these two movies. Again, it might have not been entertaining in the fact that I did not write anything funny, but maybe it was entertaining in that you got to read a very short movie review. Not even so much of a movie review, but more as my quick thoughts on them. If you remember, I talked about the movie I, Robot, and Ocean's 12. These two movies are the ones I talked about. I hope you don't get mad at me because my blog is not funny today. Maybe you never think it is funny. But, maybe you read my quick thoughts on these two movies and now you will go see one. Actually, maybe you have allready seen one or both of these movies and allready agree with me. Maybe you have seen one or both of these movies and you don't agree with me.

I am really sorry I just wasted part of your day reading this. I promise I won't do something like this ever again.

AOL Super Maximized 10.5 Screamin' Platinum Edition

Before I go on with my blog, I would like to challenge everyone not to steer direction the comments section to my personal downfalls (ie, fake gambling problem, the fact that I put too much salt on my food).
I will bet you all $150 that you can't do this.


Here is what I want for Christmas~
A pack of Pokemon Cards
A pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards
A pack of Digimon cards
A pack of Pok-e-mon cards
A pack of Donruss baseball cards
A pack of Fleer baseball cards
A pack of Upper-Deck baseball cards
A pack of Upper-Deck Ultra baseball cards
And a mouse.

Boy on a string.

No strings broken. And I rocked them hard.
Eat That.
Eat it with a big 'ol pile of salt on top. I take cash, check, money order, or paypal.
Dave.

It might be "yogging" with a soft J.

So when Adam and I were on our way to the Quest's men's hangout session at St. Joe's the directions we had had a part in it where it told us that we were to "take a jog to the left". I told my co-pilot that in the history of directions containing the word "take a jog" that approximatelly 93% of those people have to turn around or get lost.
We turned around once.
94%
Adam and I had different thoughts as to what I means to jog right or jog left. For those of you who have seen "This is Spinal Tap", you know the scene where the guys get lost back stage and the janitor gives them directions to the stage and tells them to "take a jog to the right" and they keep getting lost and eventually make a circle and find themselves right back at the same janitor.
That's right, that was all one sentence.
So, question of the time period: What does it mean to "jog left" or "jog right" in the road?
Please help me.

Holla atch'yall

I teach in a down town city middle school in Champaign. My wife took someone's maternity leave a few weeks ago, and she was here for 6 weeks. Because of the fact that she is very hot, some of the students in the school have told me some very insightful quotes. I'll try to convey these as best I can over the internet. These all happened on different days.

*situation 1*
Student - "Shoot, Mr. Cox. I mean, don't hate, but shoot, I mean your wife - she fine. I mean, she short, but she fine."

*situation 2*
Student 1- "Hey Mr. Cox, you're wife be fine. Shoot, playa."
Student 2 - "Shoot, Mr. Cox is married. His playa privelages have been revoked!"

*situation 3"
Student 2 - "Mr. Cox, Playa, can you come here? I have a question about this" (math)
Mr. Cox - "Playa? I thought you said my playa privaleges have been revoked?"
Student 2 - "Oh, yah, thats right. Shoot, you had to throw away your playa card."

Priceless.

You are the salt of the earth

My thanks to dave, who opened a big stinkin' can o' worms with me and the whole salt issue. However, i do really appreciate the good convos going on in the comments section. Keep it up. You all are looking good. Looking really good!
Here's the deal with the issue of the *salt vs. shaker* Let me get this out of the way. It's definatelly the salt. The shaker? The only thing I like to see "shakin' it" is my wife.
As for the salt. i know that its not healthy. I know that i use a lot of it. But c'mon people, lets not get bent out of shape here. y'all are making me sound like i eat such freakish amount of salt that i should be on an episode of Maury or something.
I dont smoke, I dont drink, I dont drink soda or pop, I dont really like chocolate, and I drink fruit smoothies. Let me have salt. And please, next time we eat together and i sprinkle on the salt, try not to be like everyone does when i eat with them and tell me "you are going to die".
I know this.

Question of the Week

I love rainy days. Who's with me?

Ocean's 13

I've recieved several commenst from peeps that they want to hear more from me than just sports. I've posted two posts and only one was of sports. Besides teaching, my real passion is in my other job - Worship leader at Quest United Methodist Church. Sweet gig. Anyway, this past Sunday was probebly the roughest one yet. I broke two guitar string on two different guitars at two different but equally important points in the morning. This was just part of my problem. One other even added to this, but in the end was very amusing to look back on...

So there I am in the first service waiting for our time to get on stage. My heart sank as I remembered that I totally forgot to get the lyrics for one of the songs. I totally did not have this song memorized and my mind was drawing a blank. So, with about 5 minutes left in Andy's sermon, I asked my friend Matt if I could borrow his cell phone. So, I took it out in the lobby and called my friend Dave to see if he could look up the lyrics on the internet and recite them for me. His phone wasn't on. So, I scrolled through Matt's phone list and found our friend, TJ's number. I called him, woke him up and told him of my perdicament. This is where the fun started. The entire time, this mission felt just like a scene from a really cool Heist movie. You know. Ocean's Eleven. and a much less cool Italian Job. When I told TJ I needed the lyrics, he actually said, just like "the computer guy" in the movies Always does, "Okay. How much time do I have?"
yes!!! Classic! I told him that we had 2 minutes.
He said, "Okay, I'm going to put the phone down so I can type".
All I heard for the next 45 seconds was typing like I've never heard before and words and sounds such as "ughhhh" and "dangit" and "c'mon google" and "here it is... oh wait. shoot."
Needless to say, my man did it. He recited the lyrics and the morning was saved.
TJ, you are worthy of any Brad Pitt and George Clooney heist team. You know the lingo. You know computers. And you dress well.

Am I #1 in your heart?

It's pretty pethetic when I post my second entry and most likely nobody as even read my first.
So, as you know or will know, I really like watching the St. Louis Cardinals play baseball games. They hav a lot of fun. Especially this year. They hit the ball and ran around the bases better than anyone. Except the Red Sox. But we won't talk about them. They are mean baseball players. Anywhoo.
I used to be into the Blues almost as much as the Cardinals, but now, I too have to use the off season to recover from the 162 game schedule.
Growing up, I never like nor still do not like basketball or football. Football is for girls. Basketball has too much scoring. I especially never like the Illini. For some reason it seemed that almost every Cub fan I knew was also a large Illini fan. I linked the two together, and I have never liked the Illini since. For the first time, I actually live in a city that has a sports team that rocks every one's body.
I know you are saying to yourself, "but didn't Jeremiah live in Decatur? Home of the Decatur Pride?"
Well, yes, but I forgot about them.
Anyway, I now live in Champaign and the Illini are taking Demon Decons by the ankles, twirling them around and throwing them in a pool of hot lava with lasers. I am trying everything I can to not get too excited about this. I have always prided myself in not being a fair-weather fan. I refuse to get into the hype of the Illini. I want to. But I won't.
Go Villanova.

I'm really cute for doing this.

I love Scott Stapp.
You all must bare with me as I have been a blog virgin before today. I will talk about any topic, 42% of which very well could be sports. Now, if you are not a sports fan dave, you can still read all about it as I will talk more about the ethics of the game I am talking about or of that nature. It will still be just as good or bad a read as any of the other posts I post. I will write more tonight. Stay tuned. I love you. The first line of my Blog was because today is opposite day.