Latest Happenings

Met a new friend a little ways back whom I love hanging out with. No future there, unfortunately, since she can no longer have children and that's a major deal-breaker for me. But she's a really great person and I enjoy her company. Other than that, I've just been working on my latest 1970s toy book. I also have about 15 more ideas for new books and manuals, which will slowly but surely come out throughout the course of the year. I've just been enjoying this great Florida weather and all that it has to offer. I've been seeing a variety of wildlife here recently. Tons of wild turkeys, 4 deer, and we have a family of 4 Sand Hill cranes roaming around the neighborhood, with the largest male being around 4 feet tall. Needless to say, I live in a rather untouched part of Florida close to the woods.

My new book is on Amazon!

My new book is on Amazon! This is MY interpretation on what it should take when someone's dragging their feet....

http://www.amazon.com/Someone-Altar-Without-Dragging-ebook/dp/B007UCC176/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334512440&sr=1-1

Anyway, I just revised the text on the cover since the spacing was off, but that may not have show up yet. Enjoy!

How to Get Someone to the Altar Without Dragging Them: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Someone Want to Marry You

I just wrote a new book! It's entitled:

How to Get Someone to the Altar Without Dragging Them: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Someone Want to Marry You.

It should be on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in about 48 hours, and is currently on Smashwords at:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/151898

Winning the Lottery as a Single Person--What would YOU do?

I was thinking about something today. If you were single and you won the lottery, if you were dating, would you really let anyone know you had money? Just a thought, but I seriously think I'd buy a second "shack" and a beater car, so I'd be assured that someone fell for ME and not what I could give them financially. Then, once she was hooked, I'd tell her what I had and show her my "real" place and real vehicle. She might be a little miffed at first that I held that from her, but hey, isn't it better to have someone fall for you without dollar signs getting in the way? I'm sure that after time she'd understand if she were in the same situation.

Houses looking like parking lots...

I was riding my bike today and I was amazed at how, even in neighborhoods that, literally, have no teenagers, how everyone seems to have their driveways looking like parking lots. I'm just going to say this once.

If you have a house that has a garage, and have no teens with vehicles or other family members staying with you and you can't park what you have in your garage, you A: Have WAY too much stuff packed into your garage and seriously need to have a rummage sale, B: Your vehicles are WAY too large, C: You have more vehicles than you need, or D: You're just tacky and don't realize how horrible that makes the house look.

Okay, just an opinion.....I just remember the days when people took pride in their houses and how they looked from the front and you almost never saw extra cars in the driveway unless a family had late teens or other family members staying with them, and then they had a third car with nowhere else to put it. But otherwise, the driveways were almost always empty because the cars were where they were SUPPOSED TO BE!

Love and Like

I recently had a person tell me that I did not love them because I could not accept them how they were. That, in fact, is not true. I cared about her, as I did all of my ex-gf's in some way. But just because you care about someone and those feelings blossom into love does not mean you always like them or what they may say, do, or do to themselves (Or you). So, I have loved people but not always liked them, and I also have liked some people but just didn't have the feelings of love for them, but not once have I loved AND liked everything about someone at the same time.

Now, I do realize that everyone has flaws in one way or another, and for some things I didn't really see them as flaws, but with others, I suppose I did. I guess the tolerance level of what you will and will not accept as a likable trait is going to vary with each situation.

This is why I have vowed to never settle for less than what I want, need, and deserve. I no longer need people in my life who are not going to respect their own bodies or their sense of self worth, respect my feelings, make me suspicious of their motives, or make things seem chaotic and unpredictable.

I am, finally, looking for a woman who is put together. Someone who is already "there" without me feeling like there's something about her I need to improve. This is why it's finally time to meet a woman as opposed to little girls who have so many issues. Because, although I want to BE a dad, I do not want to be a father to a girlfriend or future wife. I can no longer sit there and wait for them to grow up. I just don't have the time for that.

New friends

I made a new friend from the area that's wanting to hang out. No romantic intentions..she's seriously not my type, but we're both bored so it'll give us something to do. So that's cool. First meet is Wednesday. I also made a new friend from England who is awesome. But, as with everyone I seem to be interested in, she lives too far away. Sigh.

Books

I have 1 relationship manual about to be published, I'm working on the third volume of my 1970s toy book, and have 2 specific toy guides as well as a Comic book guide in the works, so stay tuned!

Saw a funny video that had to do with the penis and the vagina

I recently saw a video that was quite hilarious. It had to do with a woman who thought a guy she had been with had too small of a penis. When confronted by a friend, he responded by saying he didn't have a small penis, but she had a large vagina. I'm sure most people would instantly think that it was the guy's issue but, in fact, it was actually the woman that had the large organ. It was funny because, in the end, they found out she had been smuggling expensive collectibles out of the friend's house in, well, that same vagina.

So, this got me thinking...how many times do you think you hear one person say in confidence to someone else that someone was too small or too large? The truth of the matter is, it's ridiculous because, whether a guy is too small in the pants, or a woman has a theme park of a vagina, it's probably neither of their faults.

A guy only grows as big as he's going to grow, and although for a few months after childbirth a woman CAN be larger, for the most part it does stretch back to the normal size. Therefore, if she's at regular size and she's STILL too big for him, that doesn't mean the guy she's with is too small. Nor does it mean that the woman he's with is too big.

It just means, like all of our other body parts, that we all have different sized parts. I have tiny ankles, huge feet, long hands, thin wrists, a small neck and a big head. Everyone is mix-n-match in one way or the other, and our genitals are no different.

So, either find a way to make things work physically with the person you're with, or don't get seriously involved with them to begin with after some experimentation if that's going to truly bother you THAT much. But whatever you do, do NOT think anything less of them if they're not a perfect fit. Whether it's the woman or the man, it's not their fault, so be nice. Because everyone is formed differently.

ROTFLMAO. Another hilarious ad.

I read another ridiculously funny (And somewhat disturbing ad) today. A woman, 41 and divorced with no kids who WANTS kids still, but her requirements are that a man be 6 ft+, be within 35-45, and make 100-150K a year.

Excuse but...at that age...if she still wants kids, I think she should be changing that requirement to "mammal" or else she's only got a few years left before her chances for conception are gone gone gone.

I Met a Great, Sweet Woman....but....

she lives out of the country. Isn't that a kicker?

Dating and Lies

I never understood why women often times lied in their profiles pertaining to what they liked as a means to attract men. For example, if a woman doesn't like sports, she shouldn't say she does just to make her more appealing to a greater percentage of men. Because, if in a relationship, after time him wanting to watch the game all the time is truly going to annoy her.

I mean, if you reverse the situation it's the same thing. I don't like shoe shopping, so why on Earth would I put THAT as a like in my profile? Do I seriously want to go from store to store all the time with a significant other while she shops for shoes? Um, no.

So, if dating online, please, be honest about what you like.

Toys, Games, and Action Figure Collectibles of the 1970s Volume 3 (With Mego figures!)

I'm slowly but surely working on Volume 3 of my toy book. I can't promise how long it's going to take, but this will cover Mego's Pocket Heroes to Palitoy's Zorro and MANY toy lines in between from a variety of manufacturers. This book will include the listings and some pictures from Mego's World's Greatest Super Hero line, which is probably one of the most-coveted and collected of all vintage toys from the 70s. It could be a few weeks to as much as a couple of months before my final volume of the series is complete. In the meantime, if you'd like to check out volumes 1 or 2:

http://www.amazon.com/Games-Action-Figure-Collectibles-ebook/dp/B0075RG3DY/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4

http://www.amazon.com/Games-Action-Figure-Collectibles-ebook/dp/B007KN1N2E/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

Another funny profile I read...

I saw another funny profile. You can always tell a woman is unsatisfied with her job when she says she's a grade school teacher, but in the section where it asks if she wants kids it says "Undecided or No." Um...maybe it's just me, but if you don't like kids enough to want them and you're a grade school teacher, I think you may be in the wrong profession.

Love or Shoes--what would YOU choose?

I read the funniest profile today. A woman wouldn't date a guy the same height as her and wanted him taller because she wanted to wear heels. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but in nature, wouldn't we all be barefoot? So, in essence, some women are now choosing a man based on wanting to put something on their feet, which aren't technically even supposed to be ON their feet to begin with. Really? WOW! A potential love of someone's life, or high heels. Sorry, but if I were a woman, I don't think I'd be choosing the shoes.

Crazy Women with Guns

I don't know....maybe it's just me....but maybe it's not such a great idea if a woman says she's a "crazy kind of gal" in a personal ad, and then in one of her pictures shows herself at a gun range with a semi-automatic weapon in her hands. Run, guys, run! LOL

Self-Help Books

I think it's interesting how, if someone doesn't agree with something someone says in a self-help book because it doesn't fit THEIR lifestyle or how they're used to acting, how they magically think it may be wrong.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but if their ways were right and working for them, would they be seeking out a self-help book to begin with?

So, any time you read something by me or someone else, if something touches a nerve, and what you had been doing prior to reading that wasn't working for you, maybe that's life's way of telling you something. Maybe the things that are irking you when someone tries to help you are because you don't want to change and fix what's preventing you from getting what you want.

I mean, we all SAY we want to fix what's wrong with us, but our minds have a self protection mechanism/alarm that often goes off when we hear something that seems foreign to us or takes us out of our comfort zones.

It's sad, but it happens a lot. People would much rather snap at ideas that are different because it's easier for them than thinking that maybe those ideas could actually help them get what they want if they still don't have whatever that may be.

I'm Agnostic, but still...a have a question for Christians...

I find it interesting how, according to the latest studies, 60-76% of Americans identify themselves as Christians, which represents the majority of the population, yet a larger percentage (Not by much, but a little as of 2011) is pro-choice and we're constantly involved in war. Um, don't WE vote on things in this country? I mean, if the majority of our population is supposed to believe in peace, maintaining life, and basically doing as Jesus supposedly did, why are we constantly at war and killing unborn babies again? Someone…please…remind me.

Younger Women and Older Men

It amazes me how some women who are older are disgusted when an older man dates or marries a younger woman or even looks at younger women, even if as early as their mid to late teens as long as they're developed for their age.

So, for those ladies who are disturbed by this, let me ask you a question...since men can reproduce until they're dead, don't you ladies think that's genetically ground into us due to thousands upon thousands of years of biological programming? To look for women in their prime reproductive years?

Say, for example, situations were REVERSED. Say men could no longer produce sperm after the age of 51 (Average age of menopause for a woman) but women could have children until they're old and gray. Don't you think that would make women start looking at men in THEIR prime reproductive years if their biology was trying to get them to mate and reproduce? Just something to think about.

I mean, physiological differences can easily be why this is happening. It's not that we're "sick" or pervy, but, rather that we have thousands and thousands of years of evolutionary programming ground into us telling us why we should be looking for signs of puberty, potential motherhood, etc., etc., and it doesn't stop for US because, unlike you ladies, we can make babies up until we die! So why WOULDN'T we, at ANY age, be looking at women who are biologically "women"?

This would be why it's so difficult for women to relate to this mindset. As you age, your need and ability to have children decreases. Ours may decrease a tad bit with less hormones, but the desire is still there.

Also, I know that it's horrible and I definitely do NOT condone this, but why do you think men cheat with younger women? It's because they're often times more attracted to them because they're closer to the prime years of reproduction. You can't be ticked off at the ATTRACTION because they're younger. Because that's genetically ground into a male until he dies. You can only be ticked off at the cheating. But the attraction to those types is always going to be there due to how we can reproduce even when we're old and gray. It just is.

It doesn't make us sick, it just makes us male. There's a difference.

Thank You for Reading my Books!

I would like to thank all of my readers for their contributions. For years I could not figure out what I wanted to do or even what I liked to do, and just never could seem to find my niche in life. Lately, however, things are changing. I started my writing career, and it's actually panning out. I would like to personally thank each and every one of you who have read my work, and for those of you who will read it once you visit my author pages. If it weren't for all of you, my dreams would never have a chance of coming true.

Author Pages:

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Jonathon-Jones/e/B006PE7K8U/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Barnes and Noble:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/jonathon-jones

Smashwords:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/brighteyes71

Lulu:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?type=&keyWords=jonathon+jones&x=0&y=0&sitesearch=lulu.com&q=

Everyone judges, even Christians. Don't deny it!

The Bible is filled with conflicting statements or those that are rather ambiguous. When Christians say they don't judge, or anyone else says it for that matter, I start to chuckle. Because, technically speaking, every time we make a choice it's, well, a judgment call. Because we judge whether or not we like something, or whether or not we should make a choice, etc., etc. And everyone's judgment calls will be different since everyone has had a different life based on different experiences to tell them what they should do, what they like, what they don't, etc., etc.

Even Christianity's fundamental belief is a judgment call. By saying only people who believe in Christ will get to heaven, they have basically condemned everyone who doesn't believe to go to hell if they don't do what they do. How is "that" not judging? By merely associating condemnation with not believing, Christians are making a judgment call in the fact that "not" believing will lead someone to condemnation. So, in effect, just about EVERYTHING is a judgment call in my opinion.

So, yes, even Christians judge. If Christ was real, even he judged. If, in fact, Christ viewed people as sinners that needed saving, then he was judging that they were not UN-sinners. Does that make sense?

It's like....hmmm... one of those things...when people think that doing good deeds are for unselfish reasons, when most of the time they're not. Most people do good deeds because it makes them feel good for doing so. Therefore, by default, by doing an unselfish act, they're actually being appeased internally, which could be considered a selfish act.

The only unselfish act I can see that may truly be unselfish is if you risk your life for someone else or give it up for someone else. Because in that case, you may not be around to FEEL good that you were doing a good deed. On the other hand, perhaps knowing that people will admire your bravery after you died will make you feel good at the time knowing that, which means you are, technically, making yourself feel good by thinking that's what will happen after you die. Which could be considered a selfish act..since you're doing it in hopes that you will be admired afterwards.

Yeah, I know. I think way too much.