Monday, July 21, 2008
Keeping Busy
I have been busy lately between work, the wedding and the move. I was hoping to blog more often but things haven't gone as planned on the blog front. At least I have been able to keep people posted for the most part. 4 more days to go.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
Update
What is the latest? Well I'm less than a month away from a trip down the altar. I have also picked up a new contract at work so I will be working full time for Christian Horizons for the summer. The contract will give me 41 hours a week for July and August and most with it being a floater I will be mostly working days and will be working every Thursday and Friday. With my upcoming marriage I will be moving as well. Mercifully it will only be 15 minutes away from where I'm living now. Also, I am enjoying the summer although I would like the rain to stop and to see the sun more often. Anyways, I will be quite busy and hopefully I can post more frequently.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Birthday Blog
A happy birthday to me. I'm once again a year older and hopefully a year wiser. At least I have the day off today.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Great Weekend
My parents came up for the weekend and got to see Muskoka in all it's beauty. They got a very good look at Huntsville and the surronding area. It also didn't hurt that the weather was great. I now get to visit my future-in-laws and it should be a great time as the weather is nice and I'm in a great mood.
Friday, June 06, 2008
My Return
I'm back and it looks like I may have more time to actually post these days. Anyways, I am patiently (and nervously) awaiting the big day. In the meantime I hope to return to posting regularly.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A Brief Gripe
Been enjoying my day off but I am not enjying the snow outside even if it is wet snow. At least spring is around the corner and this white stuff will finally go away.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
My Vow To Post
It looks like I will have more free time on my hands in the next couple weeks so I hope to post more often here in that time.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Just Some Things
There's not much going on right now but we are encountering some weird weather as it is raining up here in the north in Feburary. I also have been busy with my course and with my upcoming wedding. I just wish winter would end already as I am getting cabin fever and I notice many around me are getting the same way. Anyways, I get tomorrow off the new Family Day holiday which I would have had off anyways as I usually have Monday's off. Anyways, I will enjoy myself tomorrow and hopefully have some more to keep this blog going.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
PEACE
A little poem from Max Lucado:
PEACE
When you wonder if there will ever be another peaceful day for you,
open your heart to the God of peace and to Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
They will envelop you in a peace that trandscends understanding.
PEACE
When you wonder if there will ever be another peaceful day for you,
open your heart to the God of peace and to Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
They will envelop you in a peace that trandscends understanding.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Time Files
Hard to believe in about six months I will be a married man. It seems like only yesterday that I got engaged. Also, is it just me or has this winter flown by so far.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Finally
I know it has been a while since I have been here. Anyways, my holiday season went well although I had to work a lot during that time (even Christmas day). I also been keep busy with my courses and with the big day around the corner I have been getting ready for that as well. Also, I got enjoy the brief thaw we had as it looks like winter is back somewhat. At least I have been able to keep busy which is important.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Busy, Busy, Busy
I have had quite the week as I look to put in close to a 60 hour work week and I have also been working on my course. Also, I have been doing my Christmas shopping. Amazingly I have not had to pass out from exhaustion yet ( HEE HEE).
Monday, December 03, 2007
Just A Lot Of Snow
Other than the pile of snow we have gotten here over the past week there is nothing really new to report. This is why I have not been writing very often here.
Friday, November 23, 2007
A Christmas Tale
Here is something my fiancee sent me.
>> An early Christmas tale.... In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket. Their father was gone.The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two.Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared. Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds. He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries. Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either. nothing about it I scrubbed the kids until they looked brandnew and then put on my best homemade dress, loadedthem into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job. The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town. No luck.The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince who ever wouldlisten that I was willing to learn or do anything. I had to have a job.Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in t hat had been converted to a truck stop.It was called the Big Wheel. An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of the window from time to time at all those kids. She needed someone on the graveyard shift, 11at night until seven in the morning.She paid 65 cents an hour, and I could startthat night. I raced home and called the teenager down the street that baby-sat for people. I bargained with her to come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night. She could arrive with her pajamas on and the kids would already be asleep This seemed like a good arrangement to her, so we made a deal.That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we all thanked God for findingMommy a job. And so I started at the Big Wheel. When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent her home with one dollar ofmy tip money-- fully half of what I averaged everynight. As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my meager wage. The tires on the old Chevy had the consistenc of penny balloons and began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and again every morning before I could go home One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and found four tires in the back seat. New tires! There was no note, no nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires. Had angels taken up residence in Indiana ? Iwondered. I made a deal with the local service station.In exchange for his mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office.I remember it took me a lot longer to scrub his floor than it did for him to do the tires. I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't enough.Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids. I found a can of red paint and started prepairing for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning. Clothes were a worry too. I was sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon theywould be too far gone to repair. On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les, Frank, and Jim, and a state trooper named Joe. A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels in the pinball machine.The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up. When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and sizes. I quickly opened the driver's side door,crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat. Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box. Inside was whole case of little blue jeans,sizes 2-10! I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans. Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes.There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes.There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, piefilling and flour. There was whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items. And there were five toy trucks and onebeautiful little doll. As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude. And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning.Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop....THE POWER OF PRAYER. I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer: 1. "Yes!"2. "Not yet.3. "I have something better in mind."God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar. You maybe going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that you cannot imagine. My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass this to at least four people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me. This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards
>> An early Christmas tale.... In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket. Their father was gone.The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two.Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared. Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds. He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries. Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either. nothing about it I scrubbed the kids until they looked brandnew and then put on my best homemade dress, loadedthem into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job. The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town. No luck.The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince who ever wouldlisten that I was willing to learn or do anything. I had to have a job.Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in t hat had been converted to a truck stop.It was called the Big Wheel. An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of the window from time to time at all those kids. She needed someone on the graveyard shift, 11at night until seven in the morning.She paid 65 cents an hour, and I could startthat night. I raced home and called the teenager down the street that baby-sat for people. I bargained with her to come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night. She could arrive with her pajamas on and the kids would already be asleep This seemed like a good arrangement to her, so we made a deal.That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we all thanked God for findingMommy a job. And so I started at the Big Wheel. When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent her home with one dollar ofmy tip money-- fully half of what I averaged everynight. As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my meager wage. The tires on the old Chevy had the consistenc of penny balloons and began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and again every morning before I could go home One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and found four tires in the back seat. New tires! There was no note, no nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires. Had angels taken up residence in Indiana ? Iwondered. I made a deal with the local service station.In exchange for his mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office.I remember it took me a lot longer to scrub his floor than it did for him to do the tires. I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't enough.Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids. I found a can of red paint and started prepairing for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning. Clothes were a worry too. I was sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon theywould be too far gone to repair. On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les, Frank, and Jim, and a state trooper named Joe. A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels in the pinball machine.The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up. When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and sizes. I quickly opened the driver's side door,crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat. Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box. Inside was whole case of little blue jeans,sizes 2-10! I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans. Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes.There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes.There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, piefilling and flour. There was whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items. And there were five toy trucks and onebeautiful little doll. As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude. And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning.Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop....THE POWER OF PRAYER. I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer: 1. "Yes!"2. "Not yet.3. "I have something better in mind."God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar. You maybe going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that you cannot imagine. My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass this to at least four people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me. This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards
Monday, November 19, 2007
Nothing New
Just worked another weekend and am resting today. Also, nervously waiting for winter and already experiencing the colder weather up here. The sooner the snow stays away the better.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Just Another Rant
A few nights ago I watched the Rick Mercer report as my finace moved into a new apartment minus cable and all she gets is the CBC. I got to see how bad CBC programming really is these days(Hockey Night In Canada excluded). Actually it wasn't the Mercer report that was awful but the other shows on primetime (although the political jokes got old real fast and I don't find Mercer very funny). One was After Mercer and Before the Tudors formerly known as This hour Has 22 Minutes which sucked and the Tudors which was unwatchable. All I have to say is thank goodness for DVD's.
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