creative chaos

we’re putting on a couple of big cookouts for the age groups that i lead. i wanted something a little better than sending out an e-vite, so zach and i recorded some stupid videos to tell people about them. here’s the one we made for the 20-something group. their cookout is on [...]

running man

as i mentioned briefly in previous posts, gretchen and i are going to run a marathon. a MARATHON BABY!! yeah, i’m not really as excited about it as i just led on, but i am excited about how i’m gonna feel when the forty or so excess pounds of lard fall off of [...]

tuesday tunes

i have spoken a grand total of probably 100 words since i arrived at the office this morning. my voice is tired and sick and sore. i just got out of staff meeting, and the majority of my words were spoken in there…but i tried to keep it to a minimum.
celine dion doesn’t [...]

sunday night after church

whew. (that’s onomatopoeia…) what a day. a long, wonderful, intense, stressful, relaxing (at different times), fun day.
1. this morning at the last minute, i found out that my drummer wasn’t going to make it. so first service, one of my guitarists filled in. then between services i ran through [...]

w

i’ve got no idea what he’s trying to say here…
“Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to
enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”
George W. Bush
January 14, 2001
Quoted in the New York Times
anybody know how to translatify this wordification?

muffin top challenge

it’s been a week. i have failed in many ways.
start weight: 213
goal: 180
current weight: 211.8
weight lost: 1.2 (…eh… basically, i fluctuate at least that much day to day, so i didn’t lose anything…)
this week’s plan, drink a lot of water, run at least four times, control myself at graduation parties and staff lunch.
how [...]