What a day to appreciate.

today. i went on an incredible adventure. kayaking. in the vast ocean. i went home with my roommate baxley this weekend. she lives in panama city. aka shes got connections with the pacific. doy. me, her, and another friend went kayaking to some islands. across the bay. goose bay, to be exact. however we didnt see much geese. none actually. maybe they should think about renaming it. when we pulled our kayaks onto the island, we stepped in a lot of mud. and when i say a lot, it went up to our knees. i tried running but i didnt get anywhere. we trail blazed. and saw fish bones. and rope, in which we made bracelets out of. then we traveled back across. and now we are eating chips and salsa. mmm.

things i saw on my adventure:
barnacles.
sea snails.
sailboats aka fellow seamen.
lots of dry seaweed.
manta rays.
oysters.
fish bones.
a dead crab.

ide say it was a pretty good day.

God bless sailor leo. i saw this on a sign last week.

'where are you christmas?' me and baxley just got through listening to that song. aka the celine dion version. doy.

Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where it's flat and immense
And the heat is intense
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home

i saw a book today at barnes and noble. i think i will go back and get it. it would teach me a lot of things. things that people used to do back in the old days. 101 things to be exact. like how to make a fire with only sticks. which ive always attempted doing. and mounting and dismounting a horse. and how to build a canoe. and how to act at a medieval banquet. and how to defend a castle. The time has come to reacquaint myself with the past.

im going to start using a barometer to measure my success.

ps 104 days til summer.

The story of my title is brought to you in part by my good friend Eric. He lives in TN. This christmas I gave humbly gave him a Dwight Shrute squishy head. It is now in the hands of Gumby, standing proudly on his dashboard.

Methuselah lived 968 years.

How is your left hand writing going? Im glad you asked. My ambidextrous writing is going very well.

The Australia open comes on tonight. 8pm to 5am. Ha. I guess I wont be watching the whole thing. I want to play tennis so bad.

I am going to be coaching an ‘upward basketball’ team with the church down the road that everybody goes to. I am so excited. I am going to have little ones. Also the pastor and his wife ‘adopted’ me into their family. Members from the church ‘adopt’ students from BCF. I basically have a roll in the church now. I am in the pastors family. Ha. AND im going to be helping the wife lead her little kids class on Sunday nights. A new beginning.

Curiosity= passion for exploration.

I bought a potato sack from an antique store and hung it on my wall. Its basically awesome!

CANOEING is to POPSICLE STICK as LED ZEPPELIN is to:
A. Luke skywalkers life saber
B. Dora the explorer or
C. the king of Iceland.

NO CHEAT SHEETS. NO PHONING A FRIEND. DUH.

this exact date last year i was posting my first post. january 23, 2008. i was a new one. an unexperienced blogger if you will. but now....noooooooow, im experienced. it took a lot to get here.

i remember i was at UCF (mtn brook) when rachael jones and heather talked me into getting one. i was sucked right in and didnt even know it. (please refer to my first and older posts).

its nearly 12:00 and im so ready to sleep. my roommate went home this weekend. aka its very quiet in my room. its nice. and lonely at times.

happy blogger birthday to me!

ps 109 days til summer.

last night me and my roommate baxley hung christmas lights. everywhere, literally. on the wall. on the ceiling. it looks incredible.

this morning:

alarm clock. snooze. alarm clock. snooze. shower. warm. mousse. makeup. blue dress. coffee maker. splenda. internet. overthe rhine.com. music. christmas lights: on. coffee: ready. music: playing. morning: perfect.

lets review.

christmas lights= on.
coffee= ready.
music= playing.
morning= perfect.

FISHING POLE is to HUNT as BIKE is to:

A. shark
B. mermaids
C. mittens

no cheat sheets. no phoning a friend. your on your own kids.

110 days til summer.

2 kings chapter 7:1-11. read it. before you read this post.

maybe we are wondering why the world is the way it is? why are the people acting the way they are acting? why did people vote for obama? its because of one reason. they are LOST. they are DYING. they are living in SIN.

however why don’t we ask the same thing…to ourselves…why are the lost acting in such a way? why are WE acting in such a way…? we are dying as well. we are also living in sin. why don’t we take a look at our flesh? its bc ‘we are christians. we are better than them.’ NO. we are such a selfish people. the lepers in the story were eating more than have in there entire life! …soon after that they said ‘we aren’t doing what is right! this is a day of good news and we aren’t sharing it with anyone! so they went back to the palace and told the people.’ what an incredible example of how we should live everyday! i am currently wearing jeans, a nice warm sweater, boots, and mittens. i am so rich! we are so rich friends. there are poor homeless starving people on this freezing day who, didn’t forget their coat, they don’t HAVE a coat. They don’t HAVE food. and maybe they don’t have JESUS. we need do be like the lepers and get up off our butts and go TELL! everyone.

so lets cast ourselves into the darkness! its uncomfortable. its ESSENTIAL.

we have to DARE to make the uncomfortable comfortable.

how big is our comfort zone? well, how LOST are the people outside of it?

we have to DARE to follow our unseen source. aka JESUS CHRIST.

we will DARE to share our ABUNDANT blessings. he WANTS us to.

lets go. lets go tell people. help people. take care of people. encourage people. lets be convicted. forgive us oh Lord for our laziness. and snobbishness. ‘we are keeping the GOOD NEWS to ourselves.

i am currently listening to this song. ive listened to it 6 times in a row now. my roommate is laughing at me. aka ive been dancing to it since the first time i played it.

Keith Green: You Put This Love in My Heart.

I found it hard to believe
Someone like you cared for me
You put this love in my heart

I tried but could not refuse
You gave me no time to choose
You put this love in my heart

I want to know where the bad feelings go
When I'm depressed and I get down so low
And then I see you coming to me and it's alright

I want to tell you right now
I'm not afraid to say how
You put this love in my heart

There are sometimes when I doubt
But you always find me out
You put this love in my heart

Cause when I see all that you've done for me
It's hard to doubt, I just have to believe
Cause you followed and proved it all of your life

Well I know
the loneliness I had before
Is gone now
I'll never feel it anymore

Cause your love has released me
From all that's in my past
And I know I can believe you
When you say I'll never be forsaken
Your love is gonna last

There's so much more I should say
If I could just find a way
You put this love in my heart

Is all this real or a dream
I feel so good I could scream
You put this love in my heart

I want to know where the bad feelings go
When I'm depressed and I get down so low
And then I see you coming to me and it's alright

You put this love in my heart

You put this love in my heart

You put this love in my heart

ps 112 days til summer.