Winter

It is winter time....

It is cold. But not cold enough. I would really like it to snow.

Now I know it is still officially FALL, but in Washington once you have hit December it is officially winter time.

Some of my favorite parts of winter time are:

- Christmas music

- Hot Chocolate

- Layers of warm clothing

- Lights everywhere

- Skiing

- Snow

- How quiet everything can get in the middle of the day (so long as your not shopping)

- The fireplace that i don't have

- And the best part is the scenery. In washington when everything is dead in the winter we still have our good ol pine trees!

I hope everyone has a fantastic winter.

-Cheers

Monday Update

Over this last weekend: Friday I spent the day going hunting with my brother in law. I have never been hunting and maybe I still have never been hunting because I didn't have a riffle. I basically went with him with an extra set of binoculars so that I could help scout out the deer. We didn't see any deer all day but I got to go hiking and spend some time outdoors in the great northwest. There was one trail we blazed along side of a river. It was a beautiful layout of God's creation. Saturday was a difficult day. I had two funerals to go to. One was for a former student of mine and the other was for a friend and long time church member who had an impact on many over the years. I also had a work day with my volunteers to give our youth room a new look. Sunday was the normal church stuff, followed by lunch at my Pastors house. We watched the Broncos lose. The night ended with cleaning and the board games.

Todays Events: Another Monday off to read and clean. I really enjoy having Mondays off. I think I will spend some time today re-evaluating my goals and find ways to hold to them better.

To-Do-List this week: Put my old car up for sale. Fix my wife's old Saab. Wash my Subaru. Catching on to the car theme? And of course there is this holiday called Thanksgiving. I also need to clean and organize my office.

Current Procrastination: Posting almost daily on this blog as promised.

Books that I am currently reading: Finished Forgotten God (review to be posted soon), Reimagining Church by Viola, Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon.

Music that I have enjoyed this week: Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas, Jars of Clay - Good Monsters (had to go back to this album for a while this week, great album).

How do I feel about this week: Selfish

Monday Update

Over this last weekend: Friday I spent most of the day getting caught up on work tasks that had to be done from my computer at home. Some times I work from home instead of my office so those projects are all on my computer at home, plus they are usually projects that my lame work computer cannot do. Friday evening I went out with my wife and some friends and saw 'Where the Wild Things Are'. As mentioned in the previous post this was a great movie. Saturday I spent the morning sleeping in. Then that afternoon my wife and I decided to go to are favorite pumpkin patch even though we knew most of the pumpkins would be gone. We still got to walk around take pictures and buy some tasty good fresh cider along with other farm foods.

Saturday night was Halloween and I stayed home and watched some classic movies and ate candy. Sunday morning we lead the youth service and then went home to finish making lunch before our guest came over to watch the Packers vs Vikings game. Unfortunately the Vikings won. I am still not ready to talk about this. It is a very sensitive topic for me so I will move on. Sunday night was followed by relaxing and another movie. Over all it was a good weekend!

Todays Events: I always take Mondays off so that I don't get the case of the mondays. I spent the day cleaning and reading scripture and trying to memorize John 1: 1-14. I am not good at memorizing anything. Later I plan on going for a walk with my wife and then going to the bank and a couple of stores.

To-Do-List this week: Finish planning for Wednesday night. Work on getting organized more at work. Work on some mail outs. Start putting together materials for Winter Camp. Go to a coffee shop and get lots of reading done. Finish Advent Conspiracy tasks.

Current Procrastination: Memorizing John. Catching up on my John Piper book for my Thursday class. I love books but find this one boring.

Books that I am currently reading: The Forgotten God by Francis Chan, Reimagining Church by Viola, Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon.

Music that I have enjoyed this week: The Swell Season-Strict Joy and Karen O-Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack.

How do I feel about this week: Energized!

Where the Wild Things Are.....

Last night I had the privilege of finally seeing a movie that I have been waiting to see for quite some time. I grew up reading the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' time after time until I had to buy a new copy because I wore the old one out.

The movie was everything that the book was and more. Jim Henson Studios made magic with their creature creations once again. Looking over the illustrations in the book I was truly impressed. It felt as if MAX really wrote the extended movie script himself. The humor and random parts of the movie kept me on the edge of my seat smiling.

I cannot wait until this comes to DVD. It will be a must buy for sure.

As for tonight, I plan on watching a few episodes of the Munsters, and possibly watching movies like Beetlejuice and Young Frankenstein.

I hope everyone has a fabulous Halloween!

-cheers!

im back.....and well while I have been gone and why.

It feels weird to be posting again. But I have decided to come back and post very regularly.

However, I should start off with a brief explanation. Last summer I had a minor or maybe major (its all a matter of perspective) anxiety attack. Since I went away for college for the first time I have often dealt with anxiety. I don't know what triggered it but something did a while back. Since then it has been off and on yet struck harder than ever last summer. Through the help of my beautiful wife Christina and many friends and God I was able to battle this and get through it. I also deal with a bit of OCD. So for a while I shut myself off from the world. No more internet, took some time off from work, gave up facebook and twitter. And then read books, listened to music, prayed, and slept.

I finally went and saw a Christian doctor and have been getting better since. while I have picked certain things back up like internet, I am choosing to still not participate in things like facebook or twitter. I found that I was spending to much valuable time online with things like this. Since then I have used more time writing, especially music. I have written more music in the period than any other period of my life. I also used playing music as therapy. I am now currently playing in three music groups. One actually (ironically) called autobahn thought, one where I am backing up a recording artist called Robert Wade, and another I am doing on my own (no name yet).

I still read blogs and find that to be a much more interesting and a time worthy adventure online than other social web pages like facebook and twitter. I am very excited to start my blog up again. I am currently figuring out a way to post on different categories depending on what day it is. For instance....maybe every thursday you can count on a small post about music where tuesday might have to do with Christianity.

With that to say this is my first post back, it is an unorganized post but one that speaks truth.

Thank you God for loving me no matter what, thank you Christina for being the love of my life, and for all my friends and especially Tung who is currently discipling me.

It is good to sort of be back to 'normal'

-cheers!

Monday Update

Monday Update, June 1, 2009

Over this last weekend: Friday night my wife and I went to a BBQ to visit with some friends of ours at their house where an additional mutual friend from high school was visiting from Texas. It was good catching up and having a great time together. Saturday was a sleep in day. I had a little bit of a lesson in life that day as well and I hope that I will learn from it. Lets just say my afternoon did not go so well. That evening my wife had a middle school small group over night event at one of my volunteers house (Kaitlyn) and because of this Kaitlyn sent her husband to stay with me that night. Because of this we stayed up late playing games. Sunday we did the church thing and I got to see one of my students get baptized, very cool! 

Later that afternoon we celebrated my father-in-laws birthday. We had lunch and shared fun stories. I ended the day going down to Olympia to play in my last regular season Ultimate Frisbee game. Next week we will have the tournament. Out of the 6 teams we have the #3 seed. 

Today's Events: I did a little bit of work from home this morning and then spent the afternoon on the lake. A bunch of guys that I am friends with and I had the afternoon off so we went wake boarding. Then I had a 3 hour meeting at the church tonight. So today went by very quickly. 

To-Do-List this week: Plan for the last middle school small groups of the year. I need to plan out a better writing schedule. I would like to figure out a way to make this blog better (not visual but content, more consistency with what I am writing), Work on summer camp, and catch up on some reading. 

Current Procrastination: Silence, prayer, exercise.

Books that I am currently reading: 1776 by David McCullough, and Reimagining Church by Frank Viola. 

Music that I have been into this week: Oasis and M. Ward 

How do I feel about this week: Ready for change. 

-Cheers

So you think you can dance.

This show has got to be the most boring show ever! It is also so clear that they made of blueprint of American Idol and added dances and another British guy in the hopes that ratings will sky rocket without having to think and use an original format. Join me in saying no to watching this poor excuse for a television show!

-cheers