Quick update more to come later

Just a quick post to let you know I am still alive and kicking. I have a lot to write about for this weekend, but you will have to wait till tomorrow for that post. I learned about two more neat things I have in common with a certain somebody :) The first one is we both have to sleep in a colder room and the second one I learned while playing Loaded Questions with Amber, Bethany, Christy, Chelsea, Rachel and Branson. Off topic real quick Rachel is Bethany's sister and Christy and Chelsea are two of Rachel's friends, who came down for the weekend, they will be in my post tomorrow. So back on topic now. A question came up asking: What is it you don't like to share? I put down toothpaste tube, because I can't stand it when people leave the lid off or squeeze the tube from the middle it just really urks me. Anyway after they all got read both her and Branson said they can't stand that either and we got a good laugh out of it. Anyway I thought I would share that. Time for bed. ~Semper Fi

Happy Valentines

Man did today, Monday, start off crazy. On our way to school we, Luke and I, saw our roommate, Nate, get rearended by some lady, he was fine, and then after we get around the corner we see flashing lights down by the next stop light, so we decided to go around by Searcy High School. We are waiting for the cop, who is directing traffic for the school, to give us the green light and right after he does we almost get creamed by some HS girl on her cell not paying attention. We are almost to school and another lady starts to pull out in front of us and so we almost creamed her. It was not a good day for woman drivers :P

Today in my chapel seat was a stuffed valentine gorilla with kisses all over him, it was nice surprise. That's him on the right.

Then later today I got to go to a free concert for Shawn McDonald in Conway, with Alycia, Amber, Bethany, Erin, Jess, Laura and Sara, it was a lot of fun and I like his songs, plus he is a fellow pacific northwestern. I also made some funny valentine cards for friends and still need to make two more tomorrow morning before I go to school hopefully. Well its late and I need to get to bed soon. Good day it has been. ~Semper Fi

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It has been awhile since the last post but then again that's been the norm. Saturday I had a bunch of gamer buddies over to watch Doom and we all had a good time watching it and making funny comments during it. Doom was a lot better then I thought it was going to be. The first person section was the best by far. Bethany was also having people over to play games and then there was a surprise party for Alycia. I had some good conversation and then before I went to bed I played a round of Oh Well, its a simple version of Spades, with Amber, Bethany, Nate, Sara and Tracy it was fun.

Sunday I went to morning church and then came back and had a nice lunch and then watched/slept through Miracle. I didn't do much else today and was just lazy this weekend. Anyway a group of us(5 girls and me :) ) went to downtown tonight and as I was sitting there thinking during the devo, it really hit me how much singing focuses my thoughts on God and how easy it is to fully worship Him while singing versus just sitting and listen to someone talk. Cause while I'm singing I am not thinking about anything else to the words to the song and what they mean, its just refreshing to be able to focus that much. I'll probably write some more tomorrow, but its late and I gotta get up in the morning. Continue prayers for wisdom, strength and fearlessness for me. ~Semper Fi

Guys Night Out

Tonight, Friday, we had a guys night out. Allan, Caleb, Kevin, Kyle, Jonathan, Luke and I went down to Little Rock to get measured for our tuxes, just Allan, Caleb, Kevin and I were the ones getting measured. After getting measured we went out to Chili's for dinner and had a lot of funny conversations about all sorts of things, it was most enjoyable. Then we headed for the bowling alley, but about half way there Caleb called informing me Jonathan had about six minutes of gas left, so we pulled off at the next exit which of course had no gas stations, so turned around and headed back towards the previous exit. Some how in the process Jonathan didn't see us take the first exit and kept going. A few minutes later Caleb called asking where we are and I told him we took the first exit and some how the missed it. So we decided to go on to the bowling alley and give them directions after they had gotten gas. Well after about 15mins of waiting they finally showed up, so we gave them a bad time. Well at the bowling alley we found out it was an hour to an hour and half wait for a game, so we said forget that and went to see a movie. When we were almost there Jonathan made another wrong turn thanks to bad directions from Kyle, so we made fun of them some more. Once at the theater we decided to see Good Night and Good Luck, it was a good movie and I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't so tired. We had a lot of fun and it was nice to hang out with just guys for once. Well I'm really tired and need some sleep. As always please keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi

Big Update

Not much happened during the week, except for skipping chapel on Tuesday to work outside with Abraham before going to school and Thursday, I found out the results of what I did previous Thursday and they were good. Other then that I don't think anything else happened of note.

Friday, Sara had an away game so the usual people went(Ray, Rebecca, Bethany & I) plus Zak. It was a good game which they won. Then we went out to dinner before coming home since we hadn't eating dinner yet. When we got back Bethany, Sara and I finally finished this 2000 piece puzzle we had been working on over the last couple of weeks and just as we were putting in the last couple of pieces we came up short and had little nooooo and booing, but luckily after looking around for a bit I got down to look under the table legs and say the last piece reflect light so it stuck really well against the patterned carpet. After it was placed and the puzzle finished there was much rejoicing and a few pictures taken.

Saturday, there was no breakfast because Rebecca was having a ballet troupe over for lunch, so a bunch of girls were cooking and getting everything ready for them. Then they came over and ate and chatted for a bit before heading out to the school to setup. Several of us guys went to help them setup, because they needed some muscle to do some heavy lifting. I got a good work out from moving some of that stuff. The light bases, sandbags to hold them down and their rolls of floor mat were pretty hefty. The heaviest thing I was enlisted to move was their light controller box or power supply thing, whatever it was, it was heavy. I enlisted Allan to come help get it up the stairs and he must have been surprised and made some comment about me working out, but I told him, you would be surprised how much strength you build cutting wood and doing other heavy grunt work. Before moving that big box, Lydia, who is from Washington insta connection, was telling me about the rivalry that they have going for the Super Bowl and on our way over to the box she point out two Steelers fans, so I booed them and that got a laugh out of them hehe.Well after getting all setup we guys headed back home for some relaxing before the ballet.

The ballet was really neat and I enjoyed it. It was the story of Ruth put into a 1900s setting. They had some neat costumes and dance routines, quite enjoyable. After that was over we started tearing everything down and packing up. By then it was 11pm and we still had to go over to the high schools caf and eat some dinner, man was I hungry by then. Just after praying for dinner, Sarah and Mandy went to move some stuff to Veasna's truck and they found a cd stuck to the front of her truck and it was from a guy in her apartment complex, so we started giving her a bad time about it. At some point we started making a song/rap about the situation and Mandy said something like, "I'll make you back bend" and I followed a few secs later with "I'll bust a cap in your rear end", which killed the entire table and made my stomach hurt from all the laughing, lol it still makes me laugh. After helping clean up, we headed home to bed.

Sunday, other than doing homework and going to church, nothing else happened of any note that I can remember.

Monday night I spent about an hour watching/playing with Cole, having a good time and it was a little taste of being a dad and it was nice and is something I am looking forward to. After push him on his trike, at hi-speed of course, I was pooped out, but it was all good.

Oh yeah here are some pics of all the wood I chopped last semester, the platform, the wood is on, is 8x8x4ft to give you a reference.
And here is a picture of my current project of putting down a stone walk way. I will post an updated picture next time.

Well how was that for an update. Before I forget if you read this leave a comment even if its just hello, I would appreciate it much. And as always continue prayers of wisdom, strength and fearlessness for me. May God bless you as much as He has me. ~Semper Fi