OIL AND VIRGINS!

(warning... i am really tired and this blog entry sucks... come back in 2 days after I get back from Kirkuk for the latest in this adventure...)

As I crunch a munch on Oriental Rice Crackers provided by Mysteria R-dl… I can’t help but think how does Oil and Virgin relate to Matrimony and Death… I will let you ponder that for now… Now I want to talk about Hooters…
You know the first person I went to Hooters with was my cousin Ann… good times… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………man I am tired…
I have a trip tomorrow to go to Kirkuk… I will be there for 2 days... so no blog for 2 days… but I am sure I will have something to say when I get back… In Shallah…
Now you are saying… Mark…! What about the Oil and Virgins… first of all I thought it was a clever play on words… Oil and Vinegar… Oil and Virgins… get it…? Anyways…
So let me tell you a story… a story about 10 Virgins… back in the day when Jewish people had the best thing going for them… a group of Virgins would wait for the groom bride to come and celebrate their wedding… but the Virgins wouldn’t know what time… so they had lamps… powered by Oil… funny how Oil has to do with everything… 5 of them just had their lamps… and 5 had their lamps and some extra vials… must have been on sale… so they waited… nighttime came and they turned on their lamps… and fell asleep… late in the night the bride groom came and people came out and yelled HERE DA’Y COME!!! So they woke up and went to light their lamps… the 5 without the extra vials said HEY! Let us borrow some… and the other 5 said… no way Jose… go buy some… By the time they bought some the Party was in full effect… they knocked on the club door and the groom opened it up… he said… You knew this party was going to happen… how come you weren’t ready… and shut the door…
So now you know about Oil and Virgins…
What about Matrimony and Death…? I have seen this before… how correlated they are… but I believe this example is the most vivid… The way weddings used to be something big… Not just putting a registry on the web at Target or deciding whether the dollar dance happens before la Marcha or after… It used to be filled with excitement and anticipation… you never knew when it was going to happen … it was like wondering when the jack was going to come out of the box… (I wish I had a Jack N’ the Box here… mmm taco… jalapeno poppers… blue straws…) The party would involve the town and last for a week… So you had to be ready or you wouldn’t be invited to the party… Matrimony is the end of your life and the beginning of two lives as one… What is more important than that…? This is the parallel to Death… You never know when it will happen… so you should always be prepped… and hopefully as I believe if you are ready… then it will be end of you and the beginning of you with whatever you believe… Heaven to me is like a nice big green chile burrito… perfection…

I hope you all could fill in the blanks… I know this wasn’t the most enlightening blog… it had so much more potential… like a so so movie… but I had so many f’n meetings today… I am just drained… So I better end this now before I drag it on… By the way… That story was derived from tomorrow’s Gospel… so now you are prepared…

If you have the patience to wait all night for Wisdom… it will be waiting at your gate when you go home…
-Unknown