The Billyunaire

Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:07:00 +0000

Rachel and I went to The Antique Sandwich Co the other day for open mic night. Our neighbors are really good friends with someone that was performing there and it sounded like it would be a good time, live music and antique sandwiches, how could it not? The place was pretty full when we got there we managed to find a spot to sit next to our friends but kind of ended up sitting by ourselves. We ordered sandwiches and a drink and prepared to be musically inspired. There was quite the line up that night, something like 20 people back to back performing and when they read off the names I realized that Alina was like 4th up. I wasn't prepared for what I would see next. The Scatman was introduced, I thought what and interesting name I wonder what he's all about. He got on stage with an American flag and continued to try to lay on him correctly but he kept twitching and moving around in his chair so it kept falling off of him. He grabbed the mic and I don't think I caught one single word he said for his opening or his lyrics, it was hilarious. I was laughing to myself when I realized that nobody else was laughing, then I felt Rachel's hand on my back and when I looked at her she was crackin up. I caught a glimpse of my friends Chad and Jordan and they were laughing as well, but that's it... everybody else was quite. I decided that I needed to take some pictures of this so that I could blog about it and show you all this guy. Alina performed a couple people after that and while I was listening to Alina I realized that the Scatman was pulling out his video recorder and started taking video of Alina! I got pictures.

Scatman

Scatman - close up

Alina jammin out

Alina Jammin out - close up

Scatman taking video of Alina

Slurpies and Park

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:27:00 +0000

The other day I was talking to a neighbor-friend of mine and he was drinking a Slurpee from 7 Eleven and I was able to get a taste of it's greatness. As my taste buds exploded with joy I thought to myself, I need to get more of this goodness in me! I told Rachel that we were gonna get Slurpee's and go to the park. After heading up the street to 7 Eleven and creating a concoction of frothy goodness that your taste buds would leap out of your mouth for we took a journey over to Bradley Lake Park. We found some parking and good spot to drink our Slurpee's and eat our hot dogs. Soon we realized that we were cold and packed up our stuff and headed out. We made a brief stop by the swings and I got some great pics of Rachel on the "toddler swing" (We were told by a 4 year old on the regular swings that she was on the toddler swing).

Slurpee + Swing = Joy

Lost shoe!

7 Eleven Slurpee model

Weekend with DMB

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:16:00 +0000

Hey all, Rachel and I went to go see Dave Matthew's play at the Gorge this weekend and it was incredible! I took some shots on the way out there on my iphone and 1 while we were there. Check it out!

Rachel - chillin

Billy - Chillin

Sweet weather shots

Thug face

Dave Matthew's Band

We had such a great time hangin out with friends and listening to awesome music. We were able to stay with some friends of ours that have some property out in eastern Washington so we stayed the night Friday night and then came back on Saturday. Of course our weekend didn't end until Monday night - Labor Day weekend!

Positive Person

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:55:00 +0000

Man I love summer time. It's funny that in Washington we spend 8-9 months in the dark and rain with most people complaining about the weather only to get to summer where people then complain about the heat. I've figured something out. People complain. I don't want to be known as the guy who always has something negative to say or is always criticizing. I'd rather be known as the positive guy who is always encouraging. I've found something else out. It's a choice to be positive or to be negative. I've recently found myself being negative in some areas of my life and when I realized this I decided to stop. Not that I don't have it in the back of my head still but I know that if I don't turn those thoughts into words, I won't give those negative thoughts oxygen to breath. I can choose to think and speak differently about the situations in my life. I can choose to be a positive person.

SunButter!

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:25:00 +0000

My awesome wife Rachel is allergic to Peanuts - like deathly allregic. This is an issue because to me if you can't put ranch dressing on it you can put peanut butter on it, I love it! I realized when we started dating that I had to give up the peanut butter goodness that I loved so much becuase if I ever happen to have some peanut residue in my mouth and I kiss Rachel, she could... well... die. We were at the store on Saturday and I thought to myself, they've gotta make something that Rachel can eat that doesn't have peanuts in it but is like peanut butter and viola, SunButter came into my life.

So imagine when you eat a peanut... then when you eat peanut butter, there's that creamy sticky goodness in the peanut butter. So now think about eating a sunflower seed... then think about it in a creamy & sticky texture - that's SunButter. I made a SunButter and jelly sandwich the night I bought it and I was impressed, it's actually pretty good. I'm excited to see what else I can make with it. Currently they have 6 flavors, so I think I'll get the creamy next time instead of the Honey Crunch. YUM!

You can color your very own SunBuddy HERE.

Here's my SunBuddy, doesn't he have an awesome quote.

I'm thinking about buying the SunBuddy t-shirt from the website for Rachel. Hahaha.

T-Shirts @ Work

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:28:00 +0000

So the dress code changed at my work on January 1st where instead of dressing business dress and occasionally business casual we are now allowed to dress casual. I don't mean we can now wear shorts and flip flops but we can wear t-shirts, jeans and tennis shoes every day. It's awesome. It's funny because I don't see to many people actually wearing t-shirts... I think that I may be the only one, do I care? NOPE! The dress code says I can, so I do.

I kinda fell like Jennifer Aniston's character in Office Space where she had a minimum amount of flare that she had to have on her vest at work. Because she had the minimum her boss was like... so I see you have the minimum... what does that say about you? She's like, "so you want me to wear more flare?" The dude can't say she has to wear more all he does is uses the suck up that has 50 million pieces on as an example of him expressing himself. It's awesome... if you haven't seen that movie you need to, it's a great depiction of what cubicle life is like if you've never worked in a cubicle environment. My point is... I feel like I'm supposed to still be dressing nice, like business casual, but I'm not gonna. I'm dressing casual because the dress code says I can. So yeeeaaaa... about those TPS reports.

I Love Dick's

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:47:00 +0000

Dicks Drive in.. that is. Check out their website!

Seriously, I friggin love this place. I wish they would put one closer to where I live. I don't really like driving all the way to Seattle to get 2 Dick's Deluxe's, some fries and a shake. They have 5 locations in Seattle and one in Spokane.. yep I know you're thinking what I'm thinking... Let's go to Spokane, eat at Dick's and then rob the place... seriously... Spokane?

I'm a Hero... A Guitar Hero.

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:17:00 +0000

So on New Years Eve I played guitar hero and fell in love with it! I had heard about it here and there but thought really nothing of it but when I went to a friends house for New Years and peeps were playing I had to give it a shot.. I didn't put it down for hours. I woke up on New Years Day with a mission. Buy Guitar Hero. After spending about 2 hours going from store to store only to find out that it was sold out everywhere Rachel thought that it would be a good idea to call our local Fred Meyer and guess what? They had it. They were sold out of Guitar Hero 3 so we ended up getting the Guitar Hero 2 bundle (guitar and game). I didn't stop rockin until midnight, it was awesome.

My birthday is coming up on Tuesday and I'm hoping that I can get Guitar Hero 3. I feel like a child again, asking for games for my birthday and spending my Christmas money on them haha.. If I get the bundle for Guitar Hero 3 then I'll have 2 guitars, then I can battle people and play 2 player mode...

10" of freshie

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:23:00 +0000

You guys.. I was in powder up to my knees yesterday. It was awesome.

I took the day off of work yesterday to hit Crystal Mt. At the beginning of the season I attended a Warren Miller film in Tacoma and got a bunch of free stuff, one of those being a free lift ticket to Crystal on a Tuesday. The lame thing was that there was only 6 Tuesday that it could be used, 3 in December and 3 in I think March. The past 2 Tuesdays Crystal has hardly had any snow so I've put off going until the last one available in December and thank God I did. I checked the snow report on Monday night and there was 33" at the base but when I checked Tuesday morning it was at 43"! It was beautiful. Besides that fact that it snowed all day while we were up there, the visibility wasn't to good at times and there were 55mph gusts of wind at the very top of the mountain blowing snow in your face like daggers the day was awesome! I went off a ton of jumped and landed more than I didn't land which is a sign that I'm getting better and for the first time I landed a jump with a grab.

I'm back to work today and wishing that I had about 6 more hours of sleep, my body is beat and all I can think about it getting back up there. I can't wait for the day that I don't have to wake up in the morning and go to a job. When I can wake up, look at the snow report, see that there's new snow and decide that it would be a good day to go to the mountain. I don't think that day is to far away, and I'm siked! (now that's a word I've never spelled out before) Our business is grown steadily and financial Independence is closer than ever.

On another note. I wanted to let you all know that I like the way that Ibuprofen tastes. I don't eat it or anything but if you've taken it before I'm sure you can remember the taste that it leaves in your mount after you swallow it. I just took this hurkin 800mg Ibuprofen to get rid of some of this pain I'm feeling from getting up yesterday at the mountain.

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:59:00 +0000

If didn't already know.. when I was in 5th grade I was shot in the eye with a bb gun by my brother. We had a genius idea to have a bb gun war and shoot each other. Well, I got shot in the eye. Thankfully the bb didn't go into my eye and cause me to lose my eye, but it didn't injure me and blurred my vision in my right eye. If you look at my right eye you can see a little black spot in it and it's pretty cool, it's a good conversation starter.

Well there.. now that we have that out of the way, I was browsing around the world wide web today and saw an add for a marshmallow shooter! I thought to myself - now wouldn't it suck to have had my eye shot out by a marshmallow shooter? I wonder how many marshmallow shooters will be under or are already under Christmas trees right now and how many marshmallow related injuries will follow?

If you look closely you can see the little marshmallows in the chamber. It holds 25 Marshmallows for non-stop fun!

So apparently these marshmallow realated toys are quite a big deal. They're actually trying to cover the world in marshmallows. I like the Bow & Mallow - how creative!

It's a Deep Burn...

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:23:00 +0000

I've been working out this week in the mornings at 5:30. It's feels good, I usually get to work and think to myself, dang.. I've already done a lot this morning. I've had the hardest time getting consistent with working out in the past, it seems like everytime I would get on a rythm something would happen that would cause me to get off. I had a shoulder injury in the winter that has been the biggest deterant, I got all sick for a while and then had like 2 migranes a week, then I ended up with a crazy work schedule for the past few months. I've made the decision though that I'm not gonna let anything get in the way of me this time. My shoulder isn't feeling good these days and I probably should go see a doctor but I just don't want to deal with it right now. I'm determined to get fit.

Holding a Baby

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:35:00 +0000

So i did it... Overcame the awkwardness of holding babies. Well maybe not all babies, maybe just Kaydence. I actually had a great time with her, and find myself thinking about how awesome she is, and how I want to hang out with her again. We're pretty much best friends now. I got some really great pictures of her and I, I'll be sure to post them on here as soon as I get them. It's so weird that some day she'll be all grown up and I'll be able to tell her "I remember bouncing you on my leg."

Miniature Humans

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:30:00 +0000

So my sister Alicia had a baby girl a few months ago. She was living in North Carolina when she had her so I've never had the opportunity to meet the little thing. Her and her husband just moved to California about 3 weeks ago and she just so happens to be visiting in Washington for a couple of weeks. Tomorrow, I'm gonna be hanging out with it. I'm not gonna lie you to you... Babies kinda freak me out. there's something about them being all small and fragile. They cry if you look at them wrong, they'll barf on you & drool on you if they so desire. They just do what they want. It's just kinda weird. I think the thing that wierds me out the most is hold a baby. I've never really known exactly how to do it... every time a friend of mine has done the "old baby hand off" to me I'm left there with this wiggling little creature all paranoid that something crazy is about to happen. This is what goes on in my head:

Oh here we go again...

Yep I'm hold a baby.

This is awkward.

Am I holding it right?

This has got to be uncomfortable for this thing.

This is uncomfortable for me.

What if I drop it? Yikes.

I'm weirded out.

What if someone sees me all weirded out about holding this thing?

What if someone sees me all weirded out about holding this thing and then I drop it?

Alright this seems to be working.

I'm cool.

Just hanging out.

Me and the baby.

We're like friends.

Why is the baby starting to cry?

Why won't this baby stop cring?

Will someone please take this baby away from me!

So.. I'm gonna have to get over this whole babies are weird thing one day so I decide that tomorrow will be the day. I will learn how to hold a baby and be comfortable doing it.

Back to School?

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:10:00 +0000

I reciently have really desired to know more about the Bible and to be able to effectivly share my faith in Jesus Christ. I did a search for online Bible college's to just see if there are any online classes offered and if there are how much would they cost. I ended up coming across Ames Christian University, read about them and decided that I would join their online school. They offer free online self paced classes and if you desire to get a BBS or a BA you can. Their program is increadible, you have the ability to take the free online classes or pay $20 per class, of the sames classes, and they will be accredited. There are a total of 22 different classes equalling 87 credits toward the 120 credits needed for a Bachelors in Biblical Studies. Upon completion of the free classes I will be given a certificate of completion and if I choose to at any time I can pay for the $20 fee for each of the 22 classes and earn 87 credits towards a degree. I don't intend on ever getting a degree, I was just looking for a way to get some great inexpensive education.

I am currently on chapter 5 of my first class, Old Testament Survey, and am learning a lot. I'm really excited about growing.

Head Pains

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:30:00 +0000

I've been waking up in the morning with a dull headache and if I don't do anything about it right away I end up with a full blown migraine headache. Yuck. This has been happening for about 5 weeks now. The crazy thing is that it's been happening every Monday and then maybe 1 more time during the week.

Let's consider a couple of possible reasons for these headaches:

1.) Is it because I got glasses and my eyes aren't used to the correction?
2.) Is it because my body doesn't want me to work anymore?

Let's examine these.

#1
When I was in 4th grade my brother Mark and I has a BB Gun war and I ended up getting shot in the eye. Yea.. you know the proverbial, "you'll shoot your eye out!" Well I am part of the reason that that saying is still around. My eye... got shot out. Well kinda, I still have my eye but my vision is all messed up. In 8th grade I ended up getting glasses. I wore them all day but when I got home from school that day my head was pounding so hard that I was crying.. needless to say, I didn't really wear those glasses anymore. Throughout the next 9 years I ended up getting a couple more pairs of glasses but again, never really wore them. 2 Months ago, I got the great idea that I should get glasses again. How could instantly improved vision not be at the top of my list (thank you Brain Regan)? I ended up with a really cool pair but now I'm getting migraines again! I'm in a hard spot, should I try to figure out if I can keep wearing the glasses and try to figure out a way to heal the migraines, or do I toss the glasses?

#2
This most likely isn't the reason why I am experiencing migraines but I thought that I should list at least one other reason why I might be getting them.

Aliens?

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:35:00 +0000

Guys, I was researching Area 51 today and guess what I found out? The closest city to Area 51 is Rachel, NV! Check this out, Rachel is located on Extraterrestrial Highway! Do you know what this means? I hope you have drawn the connectino already - MY WIFE RACHEL... IS FREAKIN ALIEN!

I have yet to have the opportunity to interview her but I know once I do, I'm gonna learn some stuff. And when I do... I will know more about aliens then you do.

Nuff said.

Time Flys

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:29:00 +0000

I'm not where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be.

Website Issues

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:22:00 +0000

Ever since billyunaire.com stoped linking here I haven't posted anything.. it's been lame, lot's has happened and I haven't wrote about any of it. A friend from work started to host this blog when it started so that I didn't just have to do a domain transfer.. when you looked at the URL it said billyunaire.com about 4 months ago I got a text message from him and it said that I will have to go back into godaddy.com and change my settings so that I can forward the address to here, I went in and tried to do it but I ended up messing some stuff up so I did nothing. Today I was on google and saw that I was signed in and said to myself... I should post something. So here we are.

What are you fighting for?

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:16:00 +0000

I'm fighting for the person who never got the chance to be cool, the person who has a great heart and wants to do something great with their life, the one who knows that they were created for something great.

I'm fighting for the person that doesn't really believe in themself, the one that has their head down, half smiling as you walk by not knowing if you will smile back. The person who is holding onto hope, believing that someday they will be somebody.

I'm fighting for the person who is looking for sombody worth following. Who is sick and tired and being lied to. The person who hates where their life is going and is looking for a way out.

I'm fighting for the disabled people who never had a chance to walk or talk.

I'm fighting for the champion that's looking for a race to run, the one who is looking for an opportunity to get rid of the lid, the person that wants to get paid for the work they do and not for the level that they're at.

I'm fighting for the single mom or dad, who wants to create a better life for their child.

I'm fighting for the soldiers that put their life on the line for my security and my freedom.

I'm fighting for the mom and dad that want to leave a legacy. They want to have their children start life on their shoulders, they want to break the line of mediocrity in their family.

I'm fighting for the person that grew up well with morals and great character, have been given a inheritance from their family but want to create there own success, the person who doesn't want to live in the shadow of what their parents did.

I'm fighting for the person who feel's like they've done so much wrong in their life and want to make a change, the person who want's to believe that they are better than their past.

I'm fighting for the people in my life that belived in me when I didn't belive in myself, the people who have offered a hand down when I was reaching up.

I'm fighting for my wife. The most amazing person in the world. A woman who could have had any man she wanted but choose me. A woman who loves the Lord with all her heart. A woman of integrity and character. She deserves the best and I will give her the best.

I'm fighting for Jesus Christ who died on a cross for my salvation. Everything I am and everything I will ever be is because of Him. He saved me.

Holiday Season

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:52:00 +0000

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Trips.

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:54:00 +0000

Canceled the snowboarding trips that Rachel and I were going to take... It really sucks but I knew that it was the best thing to do. We have a lot of responsibilities right now and taking the time and the money to go on 2 snowboarding trips was just not a good idea. I really am bummed out about it, I was looking forward to going but I know that in the future we will be able to go on trips whenever and wherever we want. I plan to still do something special for Rachel I just don't know what yet.

Life is good..

Great Decisions...

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:45:00 +0000

I realize that everyday is just another day to make great decisions. I know what kind of life I want to live and what kind of legacy I want to leave behind, and I am willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Does it have to do with how much money I will have in the bank? Nope, it has to do with how much money I will be able to give away to causes bigger than me. Does it have to do with how many people I can impress? Nope, it has to do with how good and faithfull I am as a servant of Jesus Christ. Simply put, I want to spend my life giving to others what they cannot give to themselves. I want to be everthing that Rachel deserves in a husband and more. I want to be an incredible father who passes on his values his children... I want them to start life on my shoulders, doing more then I ever could. I want to share a business with people world wide that symbolizes the greatness of the human spirit, that stands for God, family and freedom, that stands for all the things that I believe in. Most important, I want to make my God in heaven proud of me. I want him to look down from heaven at me and know that when it comes down to it I will walk the valleys and climb the mountains, I will fight the battles, I will do the things that are aren't cool, that I will be everything He wants me to be. I will be standing when the smoke clears.

Do you know the freedom that you have when you allow Jesus Christ to free you from your sin? If not I encourage you to accept Jesus Christ into your heart, accept the fact that he died on the cross for your salvation and experience a joy that you have never felt before. Talk about great decisions... This is the greatest one you will ever make.

This is truth.

Whistler in Januray!

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:50:00 +0000

Guess who's planning a trip to Whistler in January?
ME!

Oh shaz you guys.. here's the scoop as of now.

I have been on 2 trips to Canada with the company called Destination Snow based in Canada. Both times have been incredible! I was thinking to myself the other how I would love to go again this year and I would love to have a ton of friends come along so I called up the company and checked to see if I could put an event together. Turns out that in late Januray Destination Snow was already having a trip to Whistler leaving from Tacoma!!!!! All I have to do is tell more people about it... no hassels on garenteeing them a number of people or nothin, all I get to do is what I love to do best! PROMOTE! so check it.

We will be departing from Tacom on Friday, January 19th and returning on Sunday Januray 21st.
We ride up and back on these rad motor coaches watching movies & playing games.
We stay 2 nights at The Coast Whistler Hotel
We get a 2 day lift ticket to Whistler/Blackcomb
Cost... $300.00

Everybody needs to come and everybody needs to bring somebody with them!

Phones...

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:47:00 +0000

I traded my T-Mobile MDA the other day for a Sidekick 3. I really really enjoyed the MDA and all of it's jazzy features but I missed the Sidekick's userfriendlyness, e-mail, & IM. I am sad that it is a little beat up and I'm trying to find a way to fix the dings in it by buying some replacement parts or something... all is well.

old phone

new phone

Spending time learning

noreply@blogger.com (Billy Mobley) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:56:00 +0000

There is so much to learn about so many things... I origionally just wrote a blog about the differnent religions that I have reciently been studying but I realized that it was going to be to long so I deleted it. So in an attempt to let you know what religions/beliefs I have started to study I have provided a simple list.

- Catholosism
- Calvinism
- Scientology
- Evoluntionism