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Stephen James

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About Me

My name is Steve Noski and I currently reside in Olympia, WA with my beautiful wife Jennifer. We've been married since December 2, 2005 and don't have any kids yet (oh, but we will one day, believe you me).
Random & cool Steve facts:
- I love Mountain Dew.
- I work as the General Manager at the Lacey Grocery Outlet.
- I can often be caught on XBOX Live playing Halo 3.
- I am ninja.
- I drive a beautiful blue Mazda6.
- I am a huge fan of the Super Smash Bros. series (go Kirby!).
- I am a licensed pastor with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel .
- I love graphic design and would probably be a graphic designer by trade (hence my MySpace page) if I hadn't decided to work with kids and become a writer.
Oh, what else.
Well, to be blunt I'm an aspiring author working on my first novel, The Awakening Saga . However, I'm not your typical fantasy novel writer. I am neither reserved nor melancholy, neither studious nor eccentric. Instead, I have a witty sense of humor and would rather be playing Halo 2 with friends than curling up with a good book. However, I do share at least one quality with more traditional authors: I am a deep thinker. Case in point:

Am I wrong because I choose to believe that there is more to life than meets the eye? Is it wrong to challenge the very core of who you are? Am I the only one to see that the path of least resistance isn't always, and is actually very rarely, the path that leads to true happiness? Far too many are content with how life leads them. Life begs for me to slow down. I choose to achieve the highest for my life, and I choose to learn from the mistakes of my fathers and peers, instead of making excuses and justifying myself making the same ones. When you realize there is no one else to blame for your life other than yourself, something happens inside and you are presented with a choice. To live the lie or fight for truth. The lies and misconceptions of our society, culture, and generation are so numerous and so blindly accepted that when those lucky few realize this fact, they are overwhelmed by the task of uncovering what truth really is. What is truth? The only ones worthy of knowing are the ones willing to seek it for themselves. I am willing. Can you say the same?

My Interests

My faith, my wife, my friends, writing, Mountain Dew, Texas Hold'em, video games and online gaming, collecting DVD's, online forums, drawing, graphic design, modding my car, composing music, video editing, ninja's, and custom computer building.

I'd like to meet:

Myself in 10 years.

Music:

Bethany Dillon, Chris Daughtry, ES Posthumus, Fergie, Group 1 Crew, ILYD3, KT Tunstall, Linkin Park, Mark Roach, Modern Day Epic, the Offspring, and 'Weird' Al.

Movies:

300, A Walk to Remember, Anchorman, Batman Begins, Cars, the Chronicles of Riddick, Click, 'Cloverfield' (1-18-08), the Day After Tomorrow, Die Hard (series), the Emperor's New Groove, Fast and the Furious (series), Ice Age: The Meltdown, Independence Day, John Q., Jurassic Park (series), the Lake House, Lord of the Rings (series), Major Payne, Matrix (series), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Next, the Notebook, Over the Hedge, Pirates of the Caribbean (series), Poseidon, the Princess Pride, Reign of Fire, Signs, Spiderman (series), Star Wars (series), TMNT, Transformers, Troy, UHF, Van Helsing, War of the Worlds, and X-Men (series).

Television:

24, AFV, the Daily Show w/John Stewart, Full House, House, Mythbusters, the Office, Planet Earth, Real TV, Robot Chicken, Thundercats, Whose Line is it Anyway?, World's Wildest Police Videos, and just about everything on the History and Discovery channels.

Books:

The Awakening Saga, the Bible, and Wild at Heart.

Heroes:

Cyndi Noski, Faith Johnson, Seth Himes, and T. Joe Patterson.

My Blog

Pumpkinja - The Living Legend

I have recently made a very important addition to my family.  Here's the scoop: A few Saturday's ago, I was running the 'Kids Craft' booth at work where kiddo's would come in and make a mini pump...
Posted by Stephen James on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:32:00 PST

Moving back to Oly

Haha, alright everyone.  You win.  Sorry for the crypticness of the last bulletin (I have like 500 messages from people angry with me, haha).  I just wanted to have a few more concrete ...
Posted by Stephen James on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:37:00 PST

My Crazy Night - Cinco de Mayo

First of all, I want to say that I'm fairly used to witnessing and/or experiencing random, out-of-the-ordinary events in my life, and I am not really one to post on every little thing that occurs.&nbs...
Posted by Stephen James on Sun, 06 May 2007 01:41:00 PST

Oh Taco Bell/Pizza Hut Express, how I love thee...

An ode to the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut Express on Pacific Ave.Oh Taco Bell/Pizza Hut ExpressYou always make my dayFor your food fills my tummyAnd under 5 bucks is what I payTwo double deckers and a PH4*Wit...
Posted by Stephen James on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:19:00 PST

The Future of the 6 (06/22/06)

For those of you that know, I drive a Mazda6 (check out my pics, though that pic is outdated).  I've modded it a tad, and love it to death.  However, I am at a cross-roads.  I have...
Posted by Stephen James on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:41:00 PST

Random Deep Thought of the Night (07/02/05)

I wrote this as a bulliten, but I was told I should 'blog' it as well so those not on my friends list can see it.  I hate that word, blog.  *sigh*  Anyways here it is:   Initiative...
Posted by Stephen James on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST