Friday Night Fever

Hey folks, s'woh ti 'niog?
Tonight I had a lot of fun, yes indeed. Keith and Stacey, Liane and I were invited to Heinrich & Irene's place for supper. The supper was...well umm...the supper was great! (Just a little inside joke there...really had nothing to do with Irene's cooking :) After supper we played a little bit o' Jenga. That's a fun game. And for the record, I never made the tower fall...just call me Mr. Rocksteady Hands...must be from all the photography ;)
Tonight was also my uncle Paul's 30th birthday party. He's the youngest of my dad's 5 brothers (7 years older than myself) so we get along pretty good...we're both into the hiking-skiing-outdoorsie-kinda stuff. And he's got the cutest little girl :) So Lucky Liane got to meet my most of my dad's family. Must have been quite a shock. I was a little unsure if I should introduce her to them so early in our relationship, but I figured it's gonna take a LONG time for her to get used to them, so we'd better start early :) Just kidding! I love my family. We're just a little weird. I must say though, I was surprised that we didn't receive a whole lot of the bugging/joking that I have come to expect from them. They were pretty nice to her :) Good times. She was welcomed by Uncle Paul & Auntie Nita's dog (can't remember his name at the moment) who ate a treat out of her hand...apparently with more affection than he showed to Bruce!
Well, I should hit the sack...it's still before 11. I've had the hardest times getting up in the morning recently. Without the sun to wake up to, I just can't seem to roll myself out of bed. Every day I seem to fall a little farther behind in sleep. Oh well. The other night I had the nastiest, most realistic dream I've had in a long time. I was an English guy (from England) and a bunch of people who don't like English people (maybe French? I don't know 'cause I couldn't understand what they were saying) were chasing me down with knives and swords. They would not give up. Fortunately this wasn't one of those dreams where you can't run...I could run all right...quite quickly indeed, and I was astonished that no matter how much I outran them, they kept showing up. I ran through all these old houses trying to hide, through forests, streams, small towns, you name it. It was way to real though...I woke up with my legs and arms seriously cramped and my body just soaked in sweat. Nasty. Well, here's hopin' for better tonight! Cya,

Lyric of the Day

Today's lyric of the day comes to us from the David Crowder Band. The song entitled "I Need Words" is from their 2002 release "Can You Hear Us". I chose this song because it's got some really nice acoustic guitar work, and I think the lyrics are great. So many times I feel inadequate with words I've chosen...when talking with people, or with God. Especially with God. How does one communicate with the creator of the world?

"i need words

as wide as sky

i need a language large as

this longing inside

and i need a voice

bigger than mine

and i need a song to sing you

that i've yet to find

i need you

i need you

to be here now

to be here now

to hear me now

to hear me now"

I would definitely recommend any of the DCB's CDs. They're super duper.

!!!WEATHER WARNING!!!

Hey folks, this is an urgent weather warning brought to you by the letter 'S'. S for snow that is. Hurry, it's a balmy -5 degrees outside, and it's snowing oh so beautifully. But alas, it shall not last long. It's supposed to drop down to -27 tonight, with strong winds. The next four or five days are supposed to be -24, so seize the day!

Get out there and frolic!

Oh how I wish I did not have to work today!

My apologies

Hey, I know there are a few of you out there with too much time ;) who actually check this thing daily, and I apologize for not posting very regularly as of late. I guess I haven't done anything extraordinary since saturday that was worth posting. Not to say good times haven't been had.

C&C got together at my place sunday night, and we had a blast. Actually, before that, Liane, Justin, and Sharlyn came over for supper. It was kind of fun to have people over for a meal at my own place. Liane helped me with the making of the meal, so things ended up being quite edible actually :)

Monday I had the day, but really didn't do a whole lot. Actually spent a good bit of time at the Co-ops checking out a home theatre system. There's this nice little Onkyo system I'd like to get...1000 watts of nice clean 6.1 audio...the only problem is they didn't have a black unit in stock.

Heather came over monday afternoon to show me how to make Kiele (don't ask me how that's pronounced...it's a tricky one for me :) She's really good at it, and it's one of my favorite meals, so now maybe I can make it for myself.

Monday night Heinrich came over after worship team practice, and we played guitar for a while. It was really fun. We should do it more often, but finding time always seems to be the battle :) I really miss having Nat as a room mate here...not that we jammed too terribly often, but it was good.

Tonight Liane came over. We were going to watch this movie which I'm not sure what it's called in english, but the beginning of it was battle scenes from Vietnam. Guess I'm not much of a war movie lover, but tonight I really didn't feel like it, so we ended up watching Napoleon Dynamite instead. That is one HILARIOUS movie. I have literally never laughed so much during a movie. Every single scene was seriously funny, and there were numerous times when I nearly fell off of the couch, and my cheeks hurt so bad from laughing all the time. Definitely gonna buy that one.

So I guess I had more to write about than I thought...just nothing terribly exciting for you the viewer. But hey, at least those of you I don't see very often know what's goin' on with me.

Now, what I really wanted to post today was Psalm 139. I was reading it at work on my lunch break today, and boy is that a good one. If you ever need to know that somebody loves you, knows you, cares about you...that's the one to read. Check it out:

"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tonue you know it completely, O Lord.

You hem me in - behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from you Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there, if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"

even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious concerning me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Where I to count them, the would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. "