Kids Today

Hello faithful readers... I mean, mom.

It has been a few days since my last entry and so here is another.

The eXalt conference is done again for another year and it was GREAT! It was called "Meant To Live" this year and we had a blast. I was continually impressed by the youth, they were just great. We had great worship times; there was a great speaker, great talent show with great judges. It was all... GREAT! I very much enjoyed the weekend.

I would also like to update you on the youth group end of things. Even though we didn't have too many out to the conference from our group at Sherwood, youth group is very good this year. We've made some changes but mostly it is going so well because of the amazing group of youth we have. They continue to impress me. I love it.

And that is why it drives me bananas when people crap on our youth. I'm not saying we have a big problem with that specifically in our area, but really folks, how many times have you heard something negative start with "kids today..." Sure, they are definitely different, but so are today's adults! Sometimes I think we judge other groups (myself included) to distract attention from flaws in our own lives. There is a radio script on http://www.lifelinepro.com/vote_for_scripts.html titled "Kids Today" that you should listen to. A lot of Life Line Productions are funny but some of them really hit home too. Check it out and see if your problem is where you think it is.

Waiting in line

As some of you may know, I have acid reflux and as such I have to take 2 pills everyday of human life so I don't die of heart-burn. Well I ran out of pills and refills (that rhymes) yesterday so I had to go visit the clinic to get more. I really hate going to the walk in clinic mostly because you always have to wait forever and if you want to get in at all you have to show up an hour before the place even opens. Well, this is exactly what I did. I had been waiting behind like 10 people in line and then this car pulls in. A young lady and her outstanding hero of a citizen who I can only assume is her brother. Well, for those of you who never leave the house or have never been to the clinic, most people standing in that line are sick, not feeling well or haveing some need of some sort. And as we all stood in line this moron rolls down his window and smokes. And the smoke blows all over all of us. Including little children! What a creep, I was standing there vibrating thinking "does this idiot have an ounce of brains at all?" I mean, go smoke somewhere else! Like China or something! I have a bad habit, spitting, but I don't go around spitting on everyone! Come on! and then they get out of the car and stand in line right behind me. oh joy. He's done with the smokes though, now he pulls out a big wad of chewing tabacco and jams it into the front of his bottem lip and starts chewing away. The stuff reaks and he's spitting it all over the place! AHHHHH! I couldn't belive it, man people are dumb. Then the lady who works at the front desk braught us all sweet relief and let us in and away from this guy.

If you ask me, I think that you should only be allowed to smoke in your own home and no wheres near any other human beings who like their lungs. And as far as the chewing goes, why don't you do some research and see what else you can do to distroy your gums, mouth, and everything else!!! frig

Its been a long time since I rock n' rolled

Wow, it has been quite a long time since I've posted anything. I made a post around Thanksgiving but somehow I managed to lose it before I was able to post it. So we've finally started practising for eXalt with the band and it sounds good. I was a little worried because eXalt starts on the 22nd and it has been a long time since we've played together or since I've played much at all. Soooooooooooooo... what else, We had a all weekend long intensive course on bible translation, linguistics, phonetics and such. Not too, too bad but very long. Like from 8am to 9pm on a Saturday. Oh well, thats the way it goes. at least we made it to Hockey on friday and thats all that matters really. Well I have more than enough things to get done at the moment like finishing my Romans Questions... let me get at that riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.... NOW!

Just To Smile

Good evening class, how is everyone tonight? Good. This week's assignment... smile.

What a little thing that can make such a big difference. It's something that I certainly notice. People just don't smile that much anymore. I was at the superstore today with my brother getting our bi-weekly truck-load of food and when we came up to the cash the young lady there didn't seem to have a smile in her. I moved up in line, smiled at her, said hello and asked how she was. She kept ringing in my items and said "fine, how are you?" without looking up and continued. Then my brother approached with his "perm-a-grin" and enthusiastically greeted her only to get an identical response. It makes such a difference to me to be greeted with a smile. And it can turn around my day. But this poor girl couldn't even look up. Kind of sad.

I don't know what all this means really... but I thought someone should write about it!

Today's lesson

Welcome faithful readers. Today's lesson is one in the art of procrastination and non-productivity. Is that even a word? Anyways, the point is I got nothing accomplished that I had planned to accomplish this weekend. So now I have to try to cram the essentials into the last end... Fun. Frig. Oh well, it was a relaxing weekend anyways.

Last night Sherwood Chruch had a college and career supper dealy for couples. Jacquelyn and I went and weren't sure what to expect really, but it was fun. We ate corn until well past the point of gluttony and then cheese cake was served. We chatted, played pictionary and just enjoyed ourselves, it was nice.

But there was not one ounce of school work done in the duration of this entire weekend. So I should do that now... Cram, cram, cram! Here I go!

HOCKEY!

Well yesterday was a good day. Or more of a good evening. First we went to the PEI Rocket game (Quebec Major Junior) and the Rocket defeated Baie-Comeau Drakkar (what a screwy name) 2-1. really good game. Pretty good pace, great goaltending, some really good fights, nice goals and a Tims double double, ahhhhhhh life is good. After that went played some game-cube NHL 2005 where I lost with a minute left in the 3rd due to a pass out front of my own net made by my own goalie! (couldn't believe it!)

Then on to our ice time. It's that time of year again where I live for Fridays cause we have ice time at 10:45. Although on this particular night we only ended up having one sub and I'm still coming of the tail end of this whole sick thing so I kept getting so winded that I felt like I would be sick. But it's still hockey and still great. Gotta miss next week because it's Thanksgiving. But we'll be looking forward to the next one.

What a great game.