Who Cares.?!,;

EDIT:  Lauri and Brenda.  You have officially been mentioned.  You don't have to say it.  You're welcome.

3 days I have been in Pahrump.  2 brothers of mine are here.  3 more sleeps until my beautiful wife appears in Las Vegas to join the Christmas festivities.  In fact we might get lucky and have her show up on our 23 December Festivus celebration.  I would start the time of grievances with caleb for his irritatingly funny proof reading abilities.  23 times I will tell him about his annoying habit that I want to punch him for.  I hope you enjoy this disgusting update specially made of CAW.  He's the man.

Video

In case Zach hasn't shown you this, here you go. This is hilarious and I had to put it on here. Hope you dig it.

How many times has it been said?

I know, I know. Never put God in a box. He doesn't belong in a box and frankly even when my mind does put Him there, it doesn't really happen. Again I'm baffled by the shear awesomeness of God. I don't deserve His blessing and yet God freely gives them to me.

Just so we're on the same page, Katie got a job with Blue Shield today. She had an interview last week and she got the call today letting her know that they were going to hire her.

I just don't know what else to say. I am so thankful and ecstatic that God is always in control and works everything out for his good. Even more so, that we are reaping the good that is His. There is nothing better in this life than God showing up and letting me stand in awe of Him. Nothing.

Chris Tomlin

I've added a new clip from youtube of Chris Tomlin playing at a Passion conference in Manila.

Oh the relaxation!

It's been a good weekend. Katie and I went to the lake on Saturday and picked up some Holiday sandwiches on the way out. Sunday we had church and youth group and hanging with Z&M. Today I had breakfast with the old men and then golf.

<------> few hours passed

I also went to a deacon meeting for the first time. That was a hoot! Fortunately I had my iBook and Z had his mac book pro, so we could converse across the room using remote desktop. Made the time go much faster.

All in all it's been a great weekend and I'm more or less ready for work to start this week. Considering I have no choice, I'll take the high road. If that makes any sense at all......

I know it's been a long while.

I'd be surprised if anyone actually checks my blog, but hey, what can you do?

I just transferred to a new job at Wal-Mart. I am now an unloader on the receiving dock. So far I am already loving the new position. I am not as tired or beat up after a nights work. My back feels great and can only get better as the days go by. My trainer does not speak English well, but I'm sure I will catch on eventually.

As far as the rest of my life goes, I'm alive and I'm breathing and for the most part am glad to be where I am. I could get all melodramatic on you but I'll save that for another time.

Thanks again for reading, I'm going to bed.

Went to Tahoe

It was great fun, great skiing and good times. Took some video of Emily that I will have to post as soon as I upload it onto my computer and then it will be hilarious. I updated, so there.

Give some words

It's been well, days since I last interviewed and was conditionally offered a position with Wal-mart. I have not heard anything from them and it would be awesome to know what the deal is. I'm to the point of just hoping they don't call or do call and tell me that training doesn't start until Nov 1. That way I can meet the rest of the familia in Pahrump, NV. It would be especially fun to shoot my father-in-law with an airsoft gun again. I'll go as far as saying it would be great to shoot Zach and Caleb too. And before all that it would be the greatest thing to see my beautiful wife. I haven't seen here in a month and twelve days. In my book a month and twelve days way too long.

Anyway, not much else has been happening around here other than hanging with Zach and Brenda and Emily and occasionally hanging with the rest of the homies Steve, Trish, Jeremy and Kristi and the rest of those folks.

Ok so I've been just a little lazy in my updating.

Don't know what to update about though. I've applied for a few jobs and now I'm waiting to hear from Walmart DC. Still praying and I know all you folks out there are too, so thanks.

I've been playing music with Zach on Sunday's and that has been going surprisingly well. I was a little nervous playing in front of a bunch of people, but it's not nearly as bad as it could be. In fact there's been a few times when we just don't want to stop playing because we get so into it.

More to come later.

Almost there.

Here's the story. My last day of work is tomorrow. We get our house packed up the same day we move into our new apartment. The next day our house stuff will be picked up and moved to the great state of California. We have a lot of stuff to do within the next 36 hours.
I bought my one way plane ticket last night and will be flying to CA on Sunday September 2nd.

Please pray that we can sell my car before I leave. Also pray that we pack wisely and don't forget stuff that we need now or within the next couple of months as most of our stuff will be tightly and securely stored who knows where. And finally pray for peace and grace for this whole situation. Long days/stress/tenants that need a mortgage/huge amounts of time away from my awesome wife will all add up to make life crazy nuts not so fun but dealing with it anyway kind of stuff.

Anyway, not sure what that last sentence means or translates to, but thanks for the prayers.

See you Californians soon enough.

That much closer to being an old man.

Yesterday was my quarter century old day. You could also call it my 25th birthday, but not nearly as fun. As I'm sure you've read Bean's blog we had a classy meal at Panda China and then went to a even higher class movie. All in all it was a great birthday. It's funny too because I was telling Katie that birthday's just don't hold the same excitement as they used to, but then when Sunday came, I was quite surprised at all the fun I had. Good times.

Can you say uhhh?

As I'm sure you've heard, we went to Mexico. It was fun, Katie already posted about it, I won't rehash everything.

Right now I looking for cars, apartments and jobs in Redding. I'm hopeful that this time we will actually close the deal with this mortgage broker guy, but we'll see. If you haven't heard all the details, just pray for this to go through. We really want this to work, but we also know God's will is paramount even if it's hard to deal with sometimes.

Anyway, life is about the same other than all the possible moving stuff. I've got wednesdays and thursdays off now. You could say I'm stoked.

I'm eating soup. It's good soup. No, I'm not sick, just too lazy to make anything else. In case you were wondering, I am still here. It has stopped raining for two days and the sunsets the past two nights have been excellent.
It's only thirteen days until we go to Mexico. It will be fun and I can't wait to go sea kayaking...and snorkeling. The best part will probably be sitting around the pool doing absolutely nothing. Enjoying the sun and a good book, that will be the highlight of vacation.
I've been only averaging about 47 hours a week, down from 49 ever since I've been back from doing my military stuff a few weeks ago.
In other news, we still live in Texas, but at least now that our contract with our realtor is up, we seem to be pretty popular with many other Realtors. One realtor went as far as guaranteeing he would sell our house in thirty days or he would take $500 off his fees and also take us to dinner at some super expensive steak place. Give me the prime rib, medium well please. Probably be better than this soup.

Uh, are you serious? I just told you....

Deja vu! Dude, I totally started to type this post and had the weirdest sense of already typing about what I was about to write about.

Anyway.

I just got home from work. It is now 1:03 in the am. What the dealy? It's so late and I have to be up and ready to leave to go back to work in 8 and a half hours. That's the coolest. But not really. I'm glad my boss likes me, but in another way, I'd sure like to have some time off.

Before I forget, I'd like to take a second to say what a stud my wife is. She made one of my favorites today. Bertha Burgers. They were so good and I can't wait for breakfast. Yes I will eat Bertha Burgers for breakfast. Why not when my life clock is all whack anyway. Then again, I'd probably eat them for breakfast even if I had a regular 9 to 5. Whatever, I'm stoked to eat them again. Oh and not like a cow...

Well I'm off to bed so I can get up and make some more pizza. Oh the life of a pizzamonger.

It's officially official.

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that most of what I post on here, the majority of you readers already know by talking to bean. So really I could just discontinue this blog as my posts are what you already know, in my own words rather bean's. Oh well.

For those of you who only talk to katie every once a week or so, I'll fill you in on the latest. We still live in Texas where we own a house that we no longer want, and we are not moving as of this post anytime soon. I just got off of work and it is very late. Actually Katie will probably be up in three hours to go work out. Sad on many different levels. I helped close tonight as an official manager of Pizza Hut #47. It did not go as well as I hoped, as I am unskilled with printing calculators. A story I'm sure you'll hear from bean because she talks to y'all much more than I blog.

In other news, I am a bit more than slightly depressed that the Mavericks lost to the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the NBA playoffs. And now I'm bummed that the Phoenix Suns lost their first game to the Spurs. And for the record I would like to say how much I loathe the Spurs, the team and even more so their trashy loud mouthed fans.

And on the note of sports, what's the deal with Oscar de la Hoya losing to ghetto Mayweather? Someone please answer me that.

How many times do I have to say it.

I love Pizza Hut. It's been a month now and I still love Pizza Hut. At least once every shift I eat pizza and on many occasions I bring some home. What's not to love about free delicious pizza?

On another note, I got a call from Starbucks today. The guy on the other end was calling to see if I was still looking for a job and that they'd like to speak to me about hiring me. How funny is that? I mean if they would have called a month ago and the choice was between Starbucks and Pizza Hut, I'd probably have gone for Starbucks. Then again, with either one you end up smelling bad. Take your pick, stale pizza or stale coffee and old milk. I'll take stale pizza any day over old milk. Anyway, I just thought that was a pretty funny deal.

I also found out that signing up to use my military GI bill is not going to be as hard as I had thought. I emailed back and forth with a rep from the University of Phoenix and he put me in contact with a VA rep there. So now I'm just waiting on getting back to CA, so I don't have to stress about school while hopefully moving.

Moving soon you may ask? Not so much. Though we did have someone come look at our casa today. We haven't heard back anything yet, but now as with any time, God's got this under control. It's funny how the longer this takes the more we're trusting God to take care of things.

I'm tired

So basically...

... God truly works in mysterious ways. After going from job to job to job here, I have settled at Pizza Hut. That, however y'all already know. As well you know from Bean's blog that I have been given a promotion. What you may not know is that I have no earthly clue when it will take place. My boss told me there is some paperwork and some evaluations to be done, but he has yet to give me an effective date. Either way I'm thankful and glad that he thinks so highly of me after only knowing me for a few weeks. Then again if y'all could only see my competition. I joke, I joke, I kid, I kid.

Seriously though, thanks to all of you for so faithfully praying for us. Like Zachary just posted about, we have so much to be thankful for. I don't know that I can say much more without just making a massive list of all I have to be thankful for, so I will just say Thank You God.

Not much going on.

I figured I would post even though I don't really have much to say. The Atlanta Braves won their season opener, and my fantasy baseball team is winning. Being that we've only started keeping score, I'm sure it won't be like that for long.
I met with my life group leader yesterday. We mostly just played guitars and tried to learn some new songs. The songs are pretty easy to play, but I can't remember the melody very well a day after, so I need to see if I can download them. Hopefully they are around. If not I'll have to see if he has them and then I can just burn them.

Anyway, that's about all I've got to say.

Aging....

So what's the deal with balding? I mean, who wants to have a chrome dome? Well not me. Sure Zachary and Kevin may like the look, but I for one am against it when it comes to my head. Anyway, after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that having longer hair just is not for me. So here is a before and after so you can see the sweet new do.

I also had my first day at Pizza Hut today. I'm a little bummed because I'd like to be working forty hours a week, but it seems like initially until I prove myself, I'm stuck with 20 to 30 hours a week. Even the manager was saying that it's great that I'm available to work so many hours, so hopefully that means he will give me more hours soon. Other than that awesomeness, Pizza Hut is a fun place to work. Right now I'm learning how to make the pizzas and do odd jobs around the place, but hopefully after that I'll be able to start doing deliveries, or maybe waiting tables. Either way really would be nice getting a little extra cash. So if you could pray that I'll catch on and show this manager guy that I'm worth keeping around. And if your praying anyway, we'd appreciate a little word to God about our house selling. You know, priorities. Pizza, house, God. Or should it be God, house then pizza. Okay, I'm sure it's God first then you can decided between the other two.

Hope you like the sweet photos. And the Pizza Hut talk. Oh yeah, the best part of the job is that I get free Dr Pepper, free pizza while I'm working and 50% off for Katie and I and whoever comes with me when I'm not working. Good times. I mean who needs one of those fancy jobs where you get stock options and bonuses. Oh wait.