Like I was saying....
Has anyone ever seen their one year old reach into the trash, find some raw chicken discarded from lunch time. Get her hand all juicy and then stick it in her mouth?
I kept expecting her to get really sick or something. Diarhea or some vomit or something.
But she escaped it all I guess.
Back from Colorado. It was one of the best snow conditions I’ve ever experienced on a ski trip. Lots of good snow just before we got there and the first 2 days of skiing we were dumped on even more. The only thing someone might could complain about is that the temperatures were absolutely freezing. Or below freezing. In the mornings, the windchill was actually below ZERO!
I skiied like an experienced skier. But my skill level was let down by my legs. For some reason my thighs would burn like liquid fire after a while. And I even tried to do some exercises a while before I went on the trip. I didn’t attempt to snowboard again. Though I was humbled. There were people who tried it w/ no lesson and got the hang of it quite well. Now I want to do it again, but don’t want to waste any time.
Our nightly church meetings were great. Greg Taylor was our “speaker” and brought God’s word to us quite effectively. The rooms were good, as expected. The kids were fantastic. No problems. No over the top crankiness. No disrespect. No complaints. Everyone got along really well.
All in all, a fantastic trip to Copper Mountain, Colorado. I would definately do it again. Might look at another mountain, but it’d have to be a great deal to sway me from Copper.
Appetizer
What job would you definitely not want to have?
Rat catcher
Soup
Oprah calls and wants you to appear on her show. What would that day’s show be about?
People who don’t like Oprah.
Salad
Name 3 vegetables that you eat on a regular basis.
Potato, Spinach, Tomato (not really a veggie, but will have to do)
Main Course
If you were commissioned to rename your hometown, what would you call it?
Rail Town
Dessert
If you had a personal assistant, what kind of tasks would you have them to do?
Pick up after me, give positive criticism, read to me while I drive, play ping-pong.
It’s nearly past midnight, so I’ll say 2 days.
But we’re almost ready for our trip to Colorado. I think there are a few last minute details as usual, but I think we’re pretty much set. And it looks like we’re going to have some fine conditions. The next 2 days’ forcast says 4-6 inches of snow on Wednesday and 6-10 inches on Thursday. Holy Cow!
If it stays cold enough after that we’ll have plenty of nice powder to be ripping up. When I think about skiing and put myself back there in the condo, on the mountain, going down the slopes….it really is indescribable. Nothing like it.
Still trying to decide whether to take the laptop and try to post from there or not. We’ll see.
So tomorrow I go to The Core. It is a half day training event sponsored by Youth Specialties for youth workers. That’s me. I’ve been to one a long time ago in Montgomery, AL. But I’m looking forward to this one. It’s here in the Metro Area and I’ll probably see some friend there as well. And it seems the theme for this year is Passion.
Here are the Session Titles:
Session 1—Why Teens are Dying for a Life Worth Living: Understanding Their Search for Passion
Sessions 2 & 3—Marks of a Passionate Youth Ministry
So we’ll see how it goes. It is supposedly going to be anti-hype. And I’ve been reading some about hype lately. Is it okay to build a little hype as long as there is punch to go along with the hype? That sort of thing.
I’d really like to be able to go to the National Youth Workers’ Convention this fall. I’ve been a few times before, but not in a long while. But I’m a little curious as to how the continuing education $$ works out here at this church.
Fun times at BreakThru. Lesley and Holly were acting pretty thugged out. So I had to represent as well.
Tagged by Rick!
Seven things to do before I die:
1) Snow Ski at Whistler/Blackcomb
2) See my grandchildren graduate
3) Get season tickets for MSU’s football, basketball, baseball
4) Go on a one year mission trip
5) Hear God speak daily
6) Visit England and New Zealand
7) Have a swimming pool
Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1) Touch my toes
2) Keep a straight face when I get in trouble
3) Eat Coconut
4) Go to sleep on time
5) Be an Ole Miss fan
6) Skip Breakfast
7) Sleep Late
Seven Things That Attract Me to My Mate:
1) She loves me even when I’m grumpy
2) She is the best snuggler ever
3) She is a fantastic mom
4) She loves to pray for me
5) The glimmer in her eyes
6) Her laugh when she makes fun of me
7) Really listens when I really talk
Seven Things I Say:
1) …and what not.
2) Have you heard of podcasting?
3) Right on!
4) Later.
5) I’ve only read the first half of it.
6) Have I told you this already?
7) I’ll get to it tomorrow.
Seven People Tagged:
1) Brad
2) Jeremy
3) Kevin
4) Chris
5) Tim
6) Russ
7) Lyle
I get a call today at the office. It’s my wife. She tells me that she’s at Walgreens, but that she ran out of gas. So I’m wondering where the car is. Turns out, it is in front of Walgreens. In the left turn lane with the hazzard lights on and a line of cars behind it.
Now if you know much about Clinton, you know that Walgreens in on a corner. The corner of Hwy 80 and Springridge Road (or is it the Parkway? same road, but it changes names a lot). And if you know much about Clinton, you know that this is the busiest intersection in all of Clinton. Honestly. So she asks, as she stands in a drug store w/ my 15 month old daugher, “What should I do?”
Yeah, she asks that question. But she isn’t really asking a question. She’s just telling me that she needs me to come help her out. So like the good husband I try to be most of the time, I tell her, “Wait right there, honey. I’m on my way.” Now really, where is she going to go?
So I go to Advance Auto Parts and get a funnel and a big blue gas can. Then get some gas at Shell. And then pull in to Walgreens and get a view of the situation. There it is. Our white, late 90’s Tahoe sitting there with it’s pretty hazzard lights flashing and a group of angry drivers behind it. So I begin the walk across the drugstore lawn and through traffic to begin to pour gas into the Tahoe. Silly people are honking at the thing. I mean, c’mon. It’s driverless. The emergency lights are blinking. But you think it’s going to all of a sudden take off? Or did you think the driver needed a nap and decided to do it mid morning at the most congested crossroads in the whole city? C’mon, silly people.
But I perform my husbandly duty of the day and all is well again after the engine finally turns over. And we did get a new blue gas can out of the whole experience!
It came in the mail on Saturday. I charged then loaded the thing up using Windows Media Player 10. Played with it some. Then decided to unload it all and reload it with the software that came with it. To be honest, I’ve not had tons of time with it. But I think I’m liking it quite well. Seems to have a great screen, good controls, nice sound, and easy to manage.
If there is any one thing that I’m not so sure about yet is that there’s no ALL menu option when looking at an artist. I’d gotten used to it on the Zen Micro and know that the iPods have it too. It’s where when you look up a particular band or artist you get a list of their albums and also an option for ALL. So I can look at the David Crowder Band and either pick a particular CD, or select ALL and get everyone of the songs from each disc in one big list.
Not a big deal, and one I expect they’ll fix in a latter firmware release. But I’m about to crawl in bed and listen to me a sermon from Mark Batterson of National Community Church in D.C.
One of the things our pastor wanted the staff to do was submit to him goals for 2006. That way next October or November he can sit down with us to either pat us on the back or wag his finger at us. Not really, but he wanted some measurable things to look at and aim for.
It’s sort of humbling. You know if you give your pastor, your boss, a list of goals, then you’d better try to stick to them. It’s not like making a list and putting it in a journal or blog or whatever. But he’ll keep you accountable. I don’t have the list w/ me on this computer, but maybe I’ll post it for you soon. But I’m looking forward to hopefully keeping the goals. They’re both ministry related and personaly related. And a lot seem to overlap. I think that’s the nature of youth ministry, or any ministry really. A whold lot of things you do are related to both ministry and personal lives.
Has anyone else had to do this?
But here’s to the Goals of 06!
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