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I’m still alive and kicking. I think it was all this blog-spam holding me down. Not really.

Like Jeremy said, I’ve had a lot going on. So I just ask for everyone’s prayers who happens do read this (does anyone visit here anymore?) Can’t go into specifics, but just ask that I can clearly hear what God’s saying to me and my family. Many thanks.

I think I’ve got that spam thing kicked. I downloaded the MT-Blacklist Plugin that should take care of most of it. I might have to update it now and then though.

What’s been going on in my life the last two weeks during my blog silence? My home town lost in the first round of the playoffs. That was surprising. I didn’t expect to win it all this year, but figured we’d get to the 2nd or 3rd round. MSU has continued their losing ways. If we get much worse, Steve Spurrier might not come to turn us around. On the flip side, UMiss has been winning big. Hopefully that will end this weekend when the LSU Tigers go to Oxford. I’m no big LSU fan, but I’m screaming GEAUX TIGERS this weekend, no doubt. And the fact that we might be getting the LSU OC as the next Bulldog head coach makes me a little more interested in the game as well.

MissSportsTalk.com has been blowing the top out of things. Tons of traffic and posts. I remember when I was happy if I saw 10 posts in a days time. We’ve been averaging over 350 the past few days, even hit 550 one day. It’s surprising. But I think it will drop off a little once football is completed. But word of mouth has been our friend.

My fam is doing great. My daughter seems to be maturing more and more every day. Before long she’ll catch up with me! But she’s now sleeping in her twin bed instead of her baby bed (her “Big big big bed”, according to her). She has made the move quite easily. But now there’s an empty baby bed. Maybe we’ll fix that before long. No, there’s nothing in the proverbial oven. But maybe the cooks thinking about it.

My church…where do I start? Let’s just say the church as a whole needs prayer. What’s wrong? Well, let’s just say that a church is made up of people. Nuff said.

I’ve gotten a few “projects” brewing in my head right now too. Maybe I’ll go into more of those later.

Nothing really special. We skipped Halloween by going out to eat then to a high school football game. Our team won (as expected) and finished 2nd in the division (one spot lower than I expected). Then went to a 5th Quarter til Midnight. Came home and watched House Rules with my wife. It’s another reality show that’s sucked me in. Basically you have a huge home store (Lowe’s) who sponsers a contest between three couples to do renovations on some pretty nice homes. They do it room by room and are grades on their work. Of course, they go to Lowe’s to buy all their products. You have the older wiser married couple, the late 20’s/early 30’s couple who is living together, and then the young newly weds who wear Christain t-shirts but slip cuss words when they hit their fingers with a hammer. It’s interesting..check it out.

Then I got to enjoy a Saturday when MSU didn’t lose a football game…they were off this weekend. But I got to see UMiss win their 5th SEC game in a row…(*puke*). My wife took me to Celebration Villiage. A hugh crafts bazzar which wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Then after going out to eat (for the 2nd night in a row) we came back home and watched Whale Rider. Rachel told me it was awesome. The reviews at Amazon said it was awesome. It won various awards at international film festivals. And it was a movie with a good point, but to me it was slooooooooooooooooooow. Yeah, it was a drama, but a slow drama at that. But interesting, none the less.

After a day and night at the church with a lazy afternoon inbetween…I called it a night after watching tv for an hour.

So..there’s my weekend.

I must admit, I loved Halloween growing up. Not so much the candy and going house to house, but when I got older enjoyed hanging out with friends at Halloween parties and going to haunted houses (not real ones, just the fun kind) and all that. But as I got older and began to look into the history of Halloween and all that jazz, I started to wonder if I should celebrating/involved with all of it.

It was fairly easy to stand a distance away and not really make a big deal of it all. I did have to voice my opinion a time or two. But now, with a child, and everyone asking her and us, “What is she going to be for Halloween?” we’ve had to be a little more upfront. I guess some of the hesitation is that I don’t want to come across as judging someone else if they choose to (or let their kids) participate in the holiday.

But I saw this post (you may have to scroll down just a bit if his archives are not working properly) on John’s blog. He’s quoting someone else, but it makes pretty good sense.

And my wife and I are still searching for exactly what we believe/think about Halloween as well.

….I’m a Survivor Addict.

Brad told me about it back when the first one was still in pre-production. I marked my calendar, but seemed that every Wednesday night I had something going on and couldn’t watch it. So the first one I saw was post-merge and I missed out on half the fun of the season.

But the next season they moved it to Thursday nights to battle with Friends. And I’ve seen nearly every episode since then. Some are better than others. They’re not always GREAT! But they’re usually worth spending some time on.

Tonight’s episode was the first that brought back expelled survivors to compete in a challenge for the right to get back in the game. I’m not sure I like this development. But I guess CBS and Mark Burnett are having to constantly look for new was to freshen up the game.

Would I do Survivor? In a heart beat (if my family and work schedules work out …) I think it’d be a fun time.

…well, there’s not anything I’m dying to turn back time for, other than an extra hour of sleep. Though I know that won’t really happen because my daughter doesn’t understand the concept of day light savings time. She really doesn’t understand the idea of a clock or sleeping in. So when her internal clock says “I don’t care what time it is, I need to pee pee and eat some breakfast” she starts letting us know she’s ready to get up. “Come in here, Daddy!” over and over and over.

But I am thankful for the extra hour I might get. Because even though I was fighting sleep, I remembered I needed to make some changes to my fantasy football teams before I went to sleep…and now I’m up, listening to it pour down rain outside and my dog pant with nervous fear from the pouring rain. She’s strange like that.

MSU lost again today. After going up 17-0 I begin to feel confident. Yeah, crazy me. I thought we might actually put together a good game and have a shot at saving some face the end of the season. Then the light went off and we remembered we’re supposed to suck and we let Kentucky score 6 straight touchdowns to lose the game. But guess what? We’ll have a new coach next year!

Went and looked at lawnmowers today at Lowe’s. We decided to give ours one more shot with a new spark plug and a clean air filter. But I think that’s like putting a new antenna on a radio you run over with your car and hoping it will work again. But it’s maybe worth the effort. Not really mowing season right now anyway.

Still have early service tomorrow morning, then a really busy afternoon. So I’m going to go crawl back in bed and try to remember how tired I was earlier. Laters.

When we moved into the house we now live in, one of my wife’s favorite things about it was the yard. The house had a huge side yard (actually it is an extra lot) that looked pretty nice. Mostly flat with grass except for the very back and side parts where there was a moss growing there under some trees. But apparently she really likes mowing and I thougth it would be a great place for her to mow our entire yard.

So we got a mower. We had to borrow one the first time or two when spring got here. But we went to Lowe’s and bought a good push mower (not self propelled) so my wife could mow the yard. I’d be glad to mow. But she enjoys it. So I would never want to take that enjoyment away from her.

So she mowed all last summer. Sometimes longways, sometimes short ways, sometimes diagonal, sometimes in squares. It usually all looked the same a day or two after the job was done. Then she mowed this summer too. It’s been a good mower except for the one wheel that I had to tighten all the time. Just the one…strange. But a few weeks ago she came inside and asked if I would help her crank the mower. She was mowing, but it quit on her and she couldn’t get it cranked again.

I went out there and couldn’t get it going. She said it had plenty of gas. Then I thought, “Uh-oh”. “Have you checked the oil?” Nope. Neither of us had. Since we’d gotten it. Two summers ago.

We ran that puppy dry, and it died because of it. It’s now dead.

Well, Jackie Sherrill has turned in his resignation. He’ll quit the ranks of college football after this season. He made his announcement Friday night, on the eve of the Auburn football game. I halfway wondered if it was to try and motivate the team. You know, we won two games in a row (the only 2 this year) and were going against a tough, but (what I thought at the time was a) beatable opponent. Well, let’s just say it didn’t work.

Auburn’s coached by a man who probably hates Sherrill more than anyone else in the SEC, even David Cutcliffe. Carnell Williams, AU’s RB, scored 6 touchdowns on us. Holy cow! The only good thing about the game was that I was able to say, “Well, it will a little different next year at least…” knowing that Sherrill was leaving.

I’m not a Jackie hater. He’s taken MSU to great heights. He’s raised expectations. He’s done more for us than any other coach. But it’s time for a change. But who will that be? Will it be a black guy? The SEC sure seems to want a black guy to be a head coach now.

1. Name five things in your refrigerator.
Milk, chocolate syrup, jello, mustard, corned beef

2. Name five things in your freezer.
Pizza, ice, chicken breasts, ice cream, chocolate chips

3. Name five things under your kitchen sink.
Lysol, Armor All, Febreez, sponge, pipes

4. Name five things around your computer.
Wallet, Printer, Pens, Cereal Bowl, lamp

5. Name five things in your medicine cabinet.
toothpaste, Advil, floss, tooth brush, Old Spice High Endurance Anti Perspirant

It’s all about babies and peeing on trees…

Here’s a cool little story.

Last night after putting my daughter to bed I got to thinking about her…a lot. She has got to be one of the coolest people in the world. At the same time, she can be frustrating at times. But usually those are the times that I’m being selfish of my own time and I allow that to affect my attitudes. But seriously, she’s the coolest.

When we found out we were pregnant, you start thinking about “Do we want a boy or a girl?” I guess I thought that as a guy I’m supposed to want a boy. You know, so we could do all the guy stuff together…that’s what expectant dads are supposed to think, rigth? But it really became, “What ever pops out I know I’ll enjoy.” It wasn’t just cliche either.

When we went to the Dr. for them to squeeze the liquid nitrogen gel on to my wife’s belly (she said that’s what if felt like…below freezing) to rub the little sonogram dealio on her, we figured it would be a really sweet, touching moment. But the lady doing it was like, “There’s the head. There’s the heart beating…see? There’s a arm/leg/etc.” Then she said, “You want to know the sex?” My wife and I looked at each other like it was a Hallmark moment, grinned, then nodded to each other (as if we just decided then and there…) and said, “Yes…” With the warmth of a flagpole on a frosty January morning, she said, “Girl.” then flipped the machine off and left. They said she was batting about .998 on her predictions, so we knew we were getting a girl.

I remember when I first made a public announcement about our pregnancy. It was at a church board meeting. I gave my normal monthly report. Then asked for prayer for my wife. I could see the looks of interest creep onto the faces that watched me. I told them that we’d gone to the doctor that week because she’d been feeling week and sick for a little while. And that the doctors found something. [Concern clouded some faces] They found a growth within her… I paused. [Intake of breath and some open mouths] Then I begin to grin, “But the doctor said that everything should be fine in about 6 months the baby is due!” Heh heh. That was awesome. I really had everyone going for a second.

But back to my daughter…she surprises me everyday with something new in her personality, in her intelligence, in her creativity, or just in her goofiness (she must get that from her mother!) She’s amazing. And I hope I realize more and more everyday that she is a precious gift from God that He has given to me to grow/lead/shape her for His purposes. And oh, how I need His help.