I've been home for 9 months now and though there are some good things to being home, I'm getting really tired of it...
You see, my stepmom is a real neat-freak, to the point of insanity. A good example happened just last night. Every sunday evening at around 11-12 at night, my stepmom will go around cleaning, vacuuming and tidying up the kitchen and ground floor rooms. She likes to do this with the kitchen TV on. My room is right above the kitchen so I hear EVERYTHING. When I used to sleep at 1am, I didn't mind but with the job now, I sleep around 11pm. The obvious solution is a) I move to the guest room to sleep that night b) she move her cleaning schedule to daylight hours
So last night I decided to sleep in the guest room across from my room. No big deal right? Wrong! Today I get in trouble because she doesn't want me sleeping in the guest room....sigh....says she doesn't wanna clean it. I offer to clean it up but it's a no go. Sooooo frustrating.....and if you're wondering, she wouldn't move her vacuum schedule either. Her solution? She wants me to pack all my stuff and completely switch bedrooms with the guest room...ridiculous! I feel like her argument today defied all logic and common sense. Why would I break my back for a full day to move my entire bedroom including all furniture to the guest room, and then move all the guestroom stuff to my room for the sake of 1 night a week of sleep. Does anyone else see logic in this?? Sigh....
So there you have it, my rave of the day, I feel like i'm an outsider in my own home sometimes...Anyone else ever have problems like this? It seems so dumb to me that this is a problem but I guess not everyone is easy to live with....I miss being on my own!!
Monday, January 31, 2005
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Random update
Well, it's been awhile since I've written anything here...
I have a laptop from work and they've locked me out of my laptop so I can't install anything, check my email, play games, etc etc....until now. I have an extra hard drive and just ordered a case for it to fit the laptop. Now I can swap work/play hard drives pretty easily. Yay! I know, I'm a geek. I'm installing windows now as i'm typing this.
My church friends can't decide where to go for holiday. Here was the progression of our decision:
1. Cancun - warm, presidential suite, all you can eat...$1200
2. Vancouver - cheap, good food, cheap....cheap
3. Nova Scotia - lobster....expensive trip
4. Chicago - expensive....probably get shot
5. New York - even more expensive, get shot and mugged
6. back to Cancun - poor students in school can't afford it...
7. back to Chicago - boring...expensive....
8. back to Vancouver - FINAL DECISION! yay!
So Vancouver it is...from April 23 to May 1st. This should be fun. Too bad we won't go camping though...ah well, maybe later in the summer I'll go back to Vancouver to go camping.
I've already planned out some holiday for this year...
April 23-May 1st - Vancouver
August 22 - Atlanta, GA
Aug 31-Sep 2 - Backcountry camping trip
Dec 28-30 - Christmas holiday
I still have 6 or 8 more days on top of that so probably another trip to Vancouver with Christina. This will be a fun year....
I have a laptop from work and they've locked me out of my laptop so I can't install anything, check my email, play games, etc etc....until now. I have an extra hard drive and just ordered a case for it to fit the laptop. Now I can swap work/play hard drives pretty easily. Yay! I know, I'm a geek. I'm installing windows now as i'm typing this.
My church friends can't decide where to go for holiday. Here was the progression of our decision:
1. Cancun - warm, presidential suite, all you can eat...$1200
2. Vancouver - cheap, good food, cheap....cheap
3. Nova Scotia - lobster....expensive trip
4. Chicago - expensive....probably get shot
5. New York - even more expensive, get shot and mugged
6. back to Cancun - poor students in school can't afford it...
7. back to Chicago - boring...expensive....
8. back to Vancouver - FINAL DECISION! yay!
So Vancouver it is...from April 23 to May 1st. This should be fun. Too bad we won't go camping though...ah well, maybe later in the summer I'll go back to Vancouver to go camping.
I've already planned out some holiday for this year...
April 23-May 1st - Vancouver
August 22 - Atlanta, GA
Aug 31-Sep 2 - Backcountry camping trip
Dec 28-30 - Christmas holiday
I still have 6 or 8 more days on top of that so probably another trip to Vancouver with Christina. This will be a fun year....
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Monday, January 10, 2005
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
I'm currently learning photoshop and this is the previous pic with some work done on it. Notice the missing fence shadow that I took out...photoshop is awesome! Unfortunately, I have to crop it to make it fit 8x10 for printing and I don't like the crop but nothing I can do about that. I'm still not done editing this pic yet...I'll post the finished product soon...
Softball
A friend just asked me if I'd coach my church's senior softball team for CCSA.
For those of you who know how I feel about CCSA, you'll know that it's kind of a strange request. For so long I've always said that CCSA has tried to become two different entities. On one hand, they are a Christian organization and thus, embrace all the morals and standards of the Bible. On the other hand, they foster sometimes fierce competition that casts an ugly pale on the league. So, what's the solution?
I've said it many many many times. ELIMINATE PLAYOFFS. Why have a playoff if you are really there to have fun? It would fix most of CCSA's problems. It wouldn't fix my problem though. Should I join or shouldn't I? On one hand, I love softball and have been retired from it for several years now. On the other hand, I really don't believe that CCSA is really meaning what they say when they claim that
"The primary goal of the league is outreaching to seekers and nominal Christians in order
to incorporate them into existing fellowships and churches"
As far as I know, in all my years of being in CCSA and seeing other CCSA teams, none have become Christians through softball. Yes, there might be some or even a few that I don't know of. There are 1,100 participating in CCSA and a few doesn't cut it. I've seen people throw away their valuable summer free time just playing softball. It's not worth it. God can do better, I've seen Him do more with my church when we didn't have softball for 1 year than in the past 2 years of softball.
I know many of you are in softball. I don't want to discourage you from joining it. Just be aware of where your time is going and know how valuable it is to the Lord. I know I'm not one to talk as I waste lots of time too, however, I can't stand seeing so many young people who can do so much in our city throwing it away to playing softball for all the summers of their youth.
Anyhow, that's my rant. Looking over it, makes me wonder why I even am considering coaching. I think i answered my own question....
For those of you who know how I feel about CCSA, you'll know that it's kind of a strange request. For so long I've always said that CCSA has tried to become two different entities. On one hand, they are a Christian organization and thus, embrace all the morals and standards of the Bible. On the other hand, they foster sometimes fierce competition that casts an ugly pale on the league. So, what's the solution?
I've said it many many many times. ELIMINATE PLAYOFFS. Why have a playoff if you are really there to have fun? It would fix most of CCSA's problems. It wouldn't fix my problem though. Should I join or shouldn't I? On one hand, I love softball and have been retired from it for several years now. On the other hand, I really don't believe that CCSA is really meaning what they say when they claim that
"The primary goal of the league is outreaching to seekers and nominal Christians in order
to incorporate them into existing fellowships and churches"
As far as I know, in all my years of being in CCSA and seeing other CCSA teams, none have become Christians through softball. Yes, there might be some or even a few that I don't know of. There are 1,100 participating in CCSA and a few doesn't cut it. I've seen people throw away their valuable summer free time just playing softball. It's not worth it. God can do better, I've seen Him do more with my church when we didn't have softball for 1 year than in the past 2 years of softball.
I know many of you are in softball. I don't want to discourage you from joining it. Just be aware of where your time is going and know how valuable it is to the Lord. I know I'm not one to talk as I waste lots of time too, however, I can't stand seeing so many young people who can do so much in our city throwing it away to playing softball for all the summers of their youth.
Anyhow, that's my rant. Looking over it, makes me wonder why I even am considering coaching. I think i answered my own question....
relief help!
I just found out that my company will double match any donation by an employee. If I donate $50, it will be tripled to $150!! If any of you want to donate to ANY charity and want the most money to go to helping, give it to me and I'll give it to whatever charity you like and it will get tripled by my company!!! Let me know ASAP!
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Holiday is over =(
Well, the holidays came and went so fast. I had a great week and a half!
Having nothing to do makes me not want to come back here to work but I guess this is what the working world is like...
The new years party at my house was a blast and I'm really glad to have had everyone over.
I have something to say about another party that was happening at the same time as mine but I'll save that for my next blog entry.
Anyhow, I read the newspaper this morning and again, there's more coverage and more news on the tsunami devastation. I feel really sad for these countries that already are impoverished and now have to deal with this. At the same time, and I know this will stir up controversy, the affected countries are also the ones where a great deal of religious strife occurs and where much spiritual darkness reigns. Is there a coincidence? I don't know...we can only speculate.
Back to work for me!
Having nothing to do makes me not want to come back here to work but I guess this is what the working world is like...
The new years party at my house was a blast and I'm really glad to have had everyone over.
I have something to say about another party that was happening at the same time as mine but I'll save that for my next blog entry.
Anyhow, I read the newspaper this morning and again, there's more coverage and more news on the tsunami devastation. I feel really sad for these countries that already are impoverished and now have to deal with this. At the same time, and I know this will stir up controversy, the affected countries are also the ones where a great deal of religious strife occurs and where much spiritual darkness reigns. Is there a coincidence? I don't know...we can only speculate.
Back to work for me!
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