catch-up...mustard?
grey poupon?
poop-on?
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...poop.
hahaha...
so, here's another round of...me.
february 22nd
another night, another corrupted file.
[sigh]
so, i look about me and see...stuff. i have my very own stuffmart - right here in my house. ugh.
things are very crazy around here... everything is pulled off of the walls so that we can paint, only now we find that we cannot paint at this point in time. neither do we wish to move everything back only to move it forward again next week. so, i cope and praise God that we have such stuff in the first place. :)
i did much cleaning today. miscellaneous scrubbings and straightenings and such... only to observe that my house is more of a wreck than it was when i started. hahaha... that's not so funny, but i play as if it were. (also, it is not so bad, but i play as if it were...)
i woke up on time this morning - you should be proud of me! and then i went to work and left promptly at two..ish. cashed my paycheck, went to wendy's for a taco salad, visited melonie and the girls (saw skye's new guitar - boy is it spiffy!), came home and threw in a flick while i cleaned various household items... kelly came home and we ate leftover steak from longhorns (the NY strip is the best thing there - no contest.) and then i went to hang out with aerin while kelly did laundry and other things.
aerin and i were total slackers tonight. man, that stinks. ...do you know about self-improvement tuesdays? no? don't feel bad - sometimes, i feel like i do not even know what they are...and i invented them! self-improvement tuesdays is when me and aerin get together on tuesday nights and...improve upon ourselves. this is supposed to include (but is not limited to) physical exercise, but we haven't gotten that far yet. but we made a pact... next week we do it. no matter what.
you wanna know somethin'? just now, i feel totally sick to my stomach. for no real reason, i think... except that i'm not supposed to be awake, and i know it. big weekend coming up - i'm not sick yet, but it would be SO typical of me to procrastinate on all my work and then stay up too late trying to finish and end up getting sick over the conference.
i won't go for that
noOo, noooooo
no can do...
so, me needs to go to sleep now. sorry to be so abrupt,
me:)
the 24th of february
so...our first night in melbourne.
the youth conference is going well... very well, i'd say. gabby and i drove up in phatboromir and never listened to the radio/CDs once. we seem to always be able to talk about one thing or another. sometimes i get downright silly. how frightening.
hahaha...
and then we get to the conference and...none of the food is provided. nuts. so, we all brought only $50 for food AND gas, so... oh well, the Lord will stretch it, i suppose. i know He will. either that, or we will all have a very grand adventure indeed.
but the rest of the conference is very excellent, IMHO. tonight we saw david crowder and his band play. sometimes, i get confused when i go to "worship concerts". i mean, what the heck is it? worship or a concert? in my mind, they are two different things. i suppose it depends on the position of the heart of the person doing the listening...and the playing. well, i hope it was worship...to as many people as possible.
i want to say that david crowder band was awesome (cos i thought they were), but if it was worship, i know it's weird to say stuff like that. i mean, i wouldn't go up to him (david crowder) and say, "wow, man, it was so awesome."... but i guess it would be very valid for me to say that i was very blessed by the things the Lord put on his heart to share...
oh yes, and there was a kid who was dressed like david crowder. i mean, did his hair like the guy, glued on a fake beard and everything. it was really creepy. what must that feel like? to come to a church to do worship and fully have a kid look like you...on purpose. weird.
oh - i almost forgot! the whole conference opened with "His love endures forever"... i almost died! i SO cannot handle the MWS in my head...
also...we're staying at this really cool house - right on the beach. with a heated pool and a fireplace. we are very spoiled and blessed. only weird thing is that it is completely unfurnished, so we don't have any of those things you take for granted all the time. sponges...a broom...frying pan...toaster...trash bags...trash cans. but i'm not complaining. we're very blessed.
okay, everyone is going to bed now and my eyes are starting to ge dryed out, so i'm gonna go...
wake up bright and early for me - i gots to go to publix by 7 AM and bring breakfast back by 7:30. i hope. maybe i can find some coffee as well (grr, LOTR). and then all our lovely workshops tomorrow. it's gonna be a good day, i think.
good night, all...i loves yous guys
me :)
the 25th of february
as i type this, steven is squeezed into a 2x2x3 foot space...with an ink pen...and a large-ish worship folder...and aerin's mandolin, which he is playing. hahaha...i love this kid!
oh wait. now he wants to start a revolution (woot woot!). a manhunt revolution... i wonder how far they'll let him go...
tonight was a very good night. actually, today was a pretty good day - for the most part. boy...was it long though.
last night, we retired to our rooms at 1-ish, but the girls didn't go to sleep until 2-ish... i got to read three stories. one about a coal-eating poodle, ane about a sausage, and one about a pink.
what?!?! steven just walked by and scratched his rear. wha... i don't get it. this behavior is quite unbecoming to young men. tsk tsk tsk.
so anyhoo, i read three stories last night and then i went to bed. my alarm went off at like 6:30 and i didn't get out of bed until 6:40. without brushing my teeth (gross - i know andrew...i'm so very sorry, but i really wanted that extra ten minutes of shut-eye), i changed my clothing and ran off to the grocery. of course, we had about 10 minutes to eat by the time i was able to get back, but that's beside the point. (wait, was there even a point for that statement to be-side? i don't think so.)
so anyhoo, they sure do give away lots of stuff at these things. lots and lots of free stuff. it was really quite obnoxious - they would throw these little squishy balls into the audience and if you caught one, you could come up and get a free thing (cd, book, messenger bag, etc...) and we got denied not once but twice today. by the same guy. once, pastor michael overthrew and the ball sailed over our heads, bounced off the balcony wall and then the guy grabbed it on the rebound. next, michael threw it right at us and this same guy ran and actually intercepted it. man, that was cheap. some of us were quite steamed, let me tell you. but then, he came and sat with us when we played worship in the commons later, so i'm glad we didn't act too stink towards him cos that would have ruined our witnesses. a bit. uh-huh. d'ya think? whatever.
so we did workshops today and then came back for a general session with Joel Engle and then 2 mini-concerts. all things were excellent.
Oh crud. Can’t finish this entry now. Gotta run!
so... i know it's newly the 3rd of march and i haven't updated in almost a week, so, here i is.
i went out and bought a new cradle/charger/synch thing today. which is how i got all those past entries out, BTW.
i just realized that i didn't even write about the last couple days of the conference - they were probably the best, but we were so stinkin' tired. i hate that i didn't write about them cos now i can just look back and record memories, but not with the same...emotion.
well...
on saturday, we went to two sessions with vodie bachum (very good indeed) and also workshops and very good worship with joel. and the crew from cc miami came to our house and had lunch wif us. woohoo! and then we went to andretti thrill park and did boomer-ish things until 1 AM. i played laser-tag for the first time. i hate teeth in blacklights.
church on sunday morning was excellent also. good worship, great Bible study. all the teachings of late, within this conference and without it as well, have all been pointing to the same thing. bigger and better things. there's more to life than being a couch christian.
can i get an amen, people?!
(if you can't say "amen", you otta say "ouch".)
and since being back in town, i've thrown myself full swing into this crazy schedule of mine. i have been so very busy... doing good stuff. i like this accomplished feeling. but i am very skeptical as to just how long i can keep this up.
tomorrow i'm throwing a not-birthday not-party for jeff at worship practice and cleaning my house before ann marie comes to expose all my dusty corners. (hahaha - i'm not really going to do that. when do i have time to do that? ann marie will just have to deal with the dust.) friday is work again and then more time for the house and then youth group and flocking...
did i tell you we're flamingo flocking? i suppose you might not know what that is... well, we bought 32 lawn flamingos (the really pink pink ones) and we're using them as a fundraiser. you wake up in the morning with these obnoxious birds all over your yard... one of them has a scroll in it's beak: "you've been flocked by ccbb's youth missions team!" flamingo removal service is free, but if you would like to send the bird to a friend's yard, that's gonna cost ya. if people want to send them, they pay us whatever they want and we send our birds on their merry way.
it's very fun. tonight, we flocked steve and stormy's house... they were sitting right at the dining room table, with a full view of most of the front yard. it was pretty crazy. about 25 of us, belly-crawling in the grass under the window so they wouldn't see. we're nuts.
so, we're gonna flock on friday night and then saturday...i have a baby shower at noon and then a birfdae party at 7.
sunday is pretty free, except that kelly has pastors/elders meeting and then the deacon's meeting that night. ooh ooh ooh...mebber (mebber? wha...?) i can help aerin move that night... that would be fun! we'll have to see.
so, that's what i'm up to. not that it's so terribly exciting, but it's life. :)
the Lord is doing a big thing in our church... people are being woken up. freed from things that weigh down. roused and rallied. sometimes, it feels much like we're entish... it's very exciting; i can't wait to see what He's doing next.
our big Day of Dedication and Celebration is coming up on May 1st. george has so many things planned for this day. we've already lined up 2 bands, facepainters, go-karts, a bouncehouse... it's going to be mad. :)
okay, well, i have got to go - i'm trying to sort my thoughts out, but they all seem to be so scattered... happily scattered though. like a hyperactive labrador. or corgi.
i love you guys - thanks for reading this crazylong post...
me :)
poop-on?
...
..
...
..
...
..
...poop.
hahaha...
so, here's another round of...me.
february 22nd
another night, another corrupted file.
[sigh]
so, i look about me and see...stuff. i have my very own stuffmart - right here in my house. ugh.
things are very crazy around here... everything is pulled off of the walls so that we can paint, only now we find that we cannot paint at this point in time. neither do we wish to move everything back only to move it forward again next week. so, i cope and praise God that we have such stuff in the first place. :)
i did much cleaning today. miscellaneous scrubbings and straightenings and such... only to observe that my house is more of a wreck than it was when i started. hahaha... that's not so funny, but i play as if it were. (also, it is not so bad, but i play as if it were...)
i woke up on time this morning - you should be proud of me! and then i went to work and left promptly at two..ish. cashed my paycheck, went to wendy's for a taco salad, visited melonie and the girls (saw skye's new guitar - boy is it spiffy!), came home and threw in a flick while i cleaned various household items... kelly came home and we ate leftover steak from longhorns (the NY strip is the best thing there - no contest.) and then i went to hang out with aerin while kelly did laundry and other things.
aerin and i were total slackers tonight. man, that stinks. ...do you know about self-improvement tuesdays? no? don't feel bad - sometimes, i feel like i do not even know what they are...and i invented them! self-improvement tuesdays is when me and aerin get together on tuesday nights and...improve upon ourselves. this is supposed to include (but is not limited to) physical exercise, but we haven't gotten that far yet. but we made a pact... next week we do it. no matter what.
you wanna know somethin'? just now, i feel totally sick to my stomach. for no real reason, i think... except that i'm not supposed to be awake, and i know it. big weekend coming up - i'm not sick yet, but it would be SO typical of me to procrastinate on all my work and then stay up too late trying to finish and end up getting sick over the conference.
i won't go for that
noOo, noooooo
no can do...
so, me needs to go to sleep now. sorry to be so abrupt,
me:)
the 24th of february
so...our first night in melbourne.
the youth conference is going well... very well, i'd say. gabby and i drove up in phatboromir and never listened to the radio/CDs once. we seem to always be able to talk about one thing or another. sometimes i get downright silly. how frightening.
hahaha...
and then we get to the conference and...none of the food is provided. nuts. so, we all brought only $50 for food AND gas, so... oh well, the Lord will stretch it, i suppose. i know He will. either that, or we will all have a very grand adventure indeed.
but the rest of the conference is very excellent, IMHO. tonight we saw david crowder and his band play. sometimes, i get confused when i go to "worship concerts". i mean, what the heck is it? worship or a concert? in my mind, they are two different things. i suppose it depends on the position of the heart of the person doing the listening...and the playing. well, i hope it was worship...to as many people as possible.
i want to say that david crowder band was awesome (cos i thought they were), but if it was worship, i know it's weird to say stuff like that. i mean, i wouldn't go up to him (david crowder) and say, "wow, man, it was so awesome."... but i guess it would be very valid for me to say that i was very blessed by the things the Lord put on his heart to share...
oh yes, and there was a kid who was dressed like david crowder. i mean, did his hair like the guy, glued on a fake beard and everything. it was really creepy. what must that feel like? to come to a church to do worship and fully have a kid look like you...on purpose. weird.
oh - i almost forgot! the whole conference opened with "His love endures forever"... i almost died! i SO cannot handle the MWS in my head...
also...we're staying at this really cool house - right on the beach. with a heated pool and a fireplace. we are very spoiled and blessed. only weird thing is that it is completely unfurnished, so we don't have any of those things you take for granted all the time. sponges...a broom...frying pan...toaster...trash bags...trash cans. but i'm not complaining. we're very blessed.
okay, everyone is going to bed now and my eyes are starting to ge dryed out, so i'm gonna go...
wake up bright and early for me - i gots to go to publix by 7 AM and bring breakfast back by 7:30. i hope. maybe i can find some coffee as well (grr, LOTR). and then all our lovely workshops tomorrow. it's gonna be a good day, i think.
good night, all...i loves yous guys
me :)
the 25th of february
as i type this, steven is squeezed into a 2x2x3 foot space...with an ink pen...and a large-ish worship folder...and aerin's mandolin, which he is playing. hahaha...i love this kid!
oh wait. now he wants to start a revolution (woot woot!). a manhunt revolution... i wonder how far they'll let him go...
tonight was a very good night. actually, today was a pretty good day - for the most part. boy...was it long though.
last night, we retired to our rooms at 1-ish, but the girls didn't go to sleep until 2-ish... i got to read three stories. one about a coal-eating poodle, ane about a sausage, and one about a pink.
what?!?! steven just walked by and scratched his rear. wha... i don't get it. this behavior is quite unbecoming to young men. tsk tsk tsk.
so anyhoo, i read three stories last night and then i went to bed. my alarm went off at like 6:30 and i didn't get out of bed until 6:40. without brushing my teeth (gross - i know andrew...i'm so very sorry, but i really wanted that extra ten minutes of shut-eye), i changed my clothing and ran off to the grocery. of course, we had about 10 minutes to eat by the time i was able to get back, but that's beside the point. (wait, was there even a point for that statement to be-side? i don't think so.)
so anyhoo, they sure do give away lots of stuff at these things. lots and lots of free stuff. it was really quite obnoxious - they would throw these little squishy balls into the audience and if you caught one, you could come up and get a free thing (cd, book, messenger bag, etc...) and we got denied not once but twice today. by the same guy. once, pastor michael overthrew and the ball sailed over our heads, bounced off the balcony wall and then the guy grabbed it on the rebound. next, michael threw it right at us and this same guy ran and actually intercepted it. man, that was cheap. some of us were quite steamed, let me tell you. but then, he came and sat with us when we played worship in the commons later, so i'm glad we didn't act too stink towards him cos that would have ruined our witnesses. a bit. uh-huh. d'ya think? whatever.
so we did workshops today and then came back for a general session with Joel Engle and then 2 mini-concerts. all things were excellent.
Oh crud. Can’t finish this entry now. Gotta run!
so... i know it's newly the 3rd of march and i haven't updated in almost a week, so, here i is.
i went out and bought a new cradle/charger/synch thing today. which is how i got all those past entries out, BTW.
i just realized that i didn't even write about the last couple days of the conference - they were probably the best, but we were so stinkin' tired. i hate that i didn't write about them cos now i can just look back and record memories, but not with the same...emotion.
well...
on saturday, we went to two sessions with vodie bachum (very good indeed) and also workshops and very good worship with joel. and the crew from cc miami came to our house and had lunch wif us. woohoo! and then we went to andretti thrill park and did boomer-ish things until 1 AM. i played laser-tag for the first time. i hate teeth in blacklights.
church on sunday morning was excellent also. good worship, great Bible study. all the teachings of late, within this conference and without it as well, have all been pointing to the same thing. bigger and better things. there's more to life than being a couch christian.
can i get an amen, people?!
(if you can't say "amen", you otta say "ouch".)
and since being back in town, i've thrown myself full swing into this crazy schedule of mine. i have been so very busy... doing good stuff. i like this accomplished feeling. but i am very skeptical as to just how long i can keep this up.
tomorrow i'm throwing a not-birthday not-party for jeff at worship practice and cleaning my house before ann marie comes to expose all my dusty corners. (hahaha - i'm not really going to do that. when do i have time to do that? ann marie will just have to deal with the dust.) friday is work again and then more time for the house and then youth group and flocking...
did i tell you we're flamingo flocking? i suppose you might not know what that is... well, we bought 32 lawn flamingos (the really pink pink ones) and we're using them as a fundraiser. you wake up in the morning with these obnoxious birds all over your yard... one of them has a scroll in it's beak: "you've been flocked by ccbb's youth missions team!" flamingo removal service is free, but if you would like to send the bird to a friend's yard, that's gonna cost ya. if people want to send them, they pay us whatever they want and we send our birds on their merry way.
it's very fun. tonight, we flocked steve and stormy's house... they were sitting right at the dining room table, with a full view of most of the front yard. it was pretty crazy. about 25 of us, belly-crawling in the grass under the window so they wouldn't see. we're nuts.
so, we're gonna flock on friday night and then saturday...i have a baby shower at noon and then a birfdae party at 7.
sunday is pretty free, except that kelly has pastors/elders meeting and then the deacon's meeting that night. ooh ooh ooh...mebber (mebber? wha...?) i can help aerin move that night... that would be fun! we'll have to see.
so, that's what i'm up to. not that it's so terribly exciting, but it's life. :)
the Lord is doing a big thing in our church... people are being woken up. freed from things that weigh down. roused and rallied. sometimes, it feels much like we're entish... it's very exciting; i can't wait to see what He's doing next.
our big Day of Dedication and Celebration is coming up on May 1st. george has so many things planned for this day. we've already lined up 2 bands, facepainters, go-karts, a bouncehouse... it's going to be mad. :)
okay, well, i have got to go - i'm trying to sort my thoughts out, but they all seem to be so scattered... happily scattered though. like a hyperactive labrador. or corgi.
i love you guys - thanks for reading this crazylong post...
me :)