Jon Ruff's Staples

i love friday's. i love . i love my mom's mashed potatoes. i love visiting other states. i love diet soda from the fountain with pebble-y ice. i love working as much as i can. i love my nieces. i love my wine collection. i love running into people i know at church. i love being generous. i love crew hair products. i love my road bike. i love the julien's (pictured above). i love having coffee with fellow teacher's. i love philadelphia sports teams. i love happy hour food. i love texting. i love friends with history. i love jesus. i love employers that appreciate my desire to give them everything that I have. i love Walnut Creek. i love watching tv and videos online. i love http://dirpy.com/. i love playing golf. i love the sound of monrovia's vernacular. i love my mom's cinnamon rolls. i love oil paint. i love going to u2 concerts with my two favorite fans. i love really nice wine. i love to stay up late and work on my computer. i love eating at chili's. i love finding amazing deals at Marshall's. i love making people smile. i love the SF Chronicle Sporting Green Section. i love staying up really late. i love my amazing friends. i love treating people to dinner. i love working at a winery.i love my sisters inspiration.

and that's not the end.........

Single....... Not Divorced

The Big D word.
I hate it.
My current situation that is.
Starting a new in February of this year has been more difficult than I previously had thought out.
I have had many quiet sessions with the Big Man upstairs on this subject.
It sucks.
I never asked for this.
I wanted to work things out, make it all better.
But in the end I wasn't successful.
Forward to this past Sunday.
Sitting in Church waiting for the sermon to begin, writing notes back and forth with A,
Pastor Matt
suddenly got my attention.
He began answering all of the questions that I have been needing answered.
HE hates Divorce that is true.
However, I can become a better person through this personal unfortunate predicament.
I need to be stronger in my faith.
I need to make wiser decisions about the way I live.
I'm surrounded by legitimate quality.
I will never say to people around me that I am divorced
however it will always be in the back of my head going forward as I strive to make me be
a better man in all facets.

Honesty

Just Saying......

I will always be honest on this blog. At times my heart burns
but I need this to transition. I try to push my feelings to the side
but at times it's the only way to get it out.....
My entire life I have kept things inside.
I've been told that it's not healthy
this is my rehab in so many words.
Trying to paint can only get me so far
My heart... My thoughts...
The Detailed Laughter in My Life

9 days until................

I enjoy A Cuban with Richard Edward Burke the 3rd

I hang out and play with Penny

I get to laugh at the ugliest Italian Hunter in New Mexico

I get to jump all over my roommate from 710

I Golf with two of my Closest Friends

I laugh out loud at the man who wears sunglasses at 9:15 at night

I am able to snap pictures of fruitshacks that ask me to take a picture of them in front of a statue.

I laugh with partners

I am able to play with my "niece" Tabitha

I get to see my Friends

My life long Companions

9 days until............ is what I've been waiting for.

5 things to like or not to like

Right now I like.......

1. The look of my paintings
2. Chicken Bacon Alfredo Pizza with Ranch
3. ChannelSurfing.net
4. Stanford's Happy Hour (prices and Hanging with my friends)
5. Text messages that Brighten my Day.



Things that I don't like.......

1. No Contract for the 10-11 School Year
2. My life
3. Having to drink my wine all by myself :(
4. Living next to the property manager at my new place.
5. Transition

Have you ever watched The Office with a friend?

It's Freaking Amazing. Giggled, laughed, blushed for 58 minutes? I could watch a whole season on DVD while not getting out of my seat. Well that is to get my glass of wine and my 2 Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies. Things like that just make my soul feel good. Sitting with a pillow on my lap as I cover my mouth to hide the laughter is good, right? I think laughter is good for the soul. At least I know for me it is. Today was a great Day. I didn't work, but I was extremely fulfilled. Things are turning around for the better. A year ago, I was having trouble finding that smile, but, people are making the smile happen for me. Thank you guys. It means so much to me. I can't wait for what's next. GOD supplies me with an adequate life that I don't deserve. My life and everyone that is included in it is a blessing and I thank him for it.

Palette

• Palette (painting), a wooden board used for mixing colors for a painting
• Palette (computing), in computer graphics, a selection of colors
• Palette window, in computing, a window type often containing tools
• the valve under an organ pipe which is connected to the keyboard(s)—as opposed to the stop valve
• Palette AOC, a wine Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in the Provence region of southern France
• Palette, a villages part of Le Tholonet, which gives its name to the Palette AOC
• Palette Records, a record label
• Palette knife — artist's (painter's) palette knife

My Palette.