trying to find my charger.

This weekend was slam packed!  The frisbee tournament happened, ping pong happened, middle school hangout happened, church sunday morning happened, sleep happened, bagels happened, halo 3 happened, cracker barrel happened, traditional sunday afternoon nap happened, monday happened, and so far, tuesday has happened too.  

yesterday, i took some rest time.  i read all over the Word about why God set the example of resting on the 7th day.  it wasn't because God NEEDED rest, but taking that 7th day to rest was a way for the people of God to worship Him and remember that He created everything in 6 days.  that amazed them....and they didn't even have planet earth to watch on the discovery channel!  i usually take rest because i DESPERATELY need it.  yesterday i took some time to rest so i could stop and thank God for the enormous amount of blessing He is pouring down on us.  

My car's trunk doesn't stay open, you have to hold it up. Unless you're on some kind of decline and get it to stay just right.  Well i found that perfect spot, and it was staying up on it's own, and i was searching for my cell phone charger in my trunk.  Robbie decides to step out on the porch and throw an uncooked hot dog at me.  He said "catch!"    well...i didn't catch it.  instead it hit my trunk and it came crashing down on my forehead.  nobody makes me bleed my own blood!  i kicked him in the shin. not really.  because he gave me the bag of chicken rice that i cooked later.  note to readers:  anytime you harm me in any way, give me food and i will quickly forgive you.

i am now in Dr. Pater's World Religions class..and Dr. Pater is an avid mountain dew drinker.  today he told us that it is the most efficient drink for his body...because his body doesn't have to change the color during it's digestive cycle.  what a guy!

If i want to stand out in a crowd i just need to stop taking showers.  too often i find myself striving to be holy NOT because God is holy, but because i want to appear holy, i want to stand out in the crowd.  that's Dee You Em Bee with a capital DEE.   the hard part is...people don't usually look at motives, God does. approval by people is usually right in front of us.  God's approval is sometimes harder to see and find.  So usually we are more inclined to make things look good on the outside and forget about the inside because ONLY God really looks there.  thank goodness He isn't giving up on me. 

wall.E

....is one of my fav movies ever.  

so if you haven't heard already, last night i was in one of those recording moods and recorded a version of peace like a river.  it's on my facebook page here.  you can also see my new possible album artwork there!  

so ricky, one of the guys that lives in my house, discovered that i have the snowboarding game Amped3 so he is flipping out right now and spending 30 minutes designing his character.  quite awesome.  i went on a used game buying streak...except i bought the game burnout paradise, which has completely changed my life.  i mean, over thanksgiving and christmas break me and my dad probably put in like 40 hours.  that's a lot of gaming.  so Amped3 got pushed to the side...until now!  ricky JUST said "this is AWEEESOME!"  in the same tone that i had when i first got to play on the new mcdonalds playground in 3rd grade.  

so i'm doing my internship at stone bridge, doing media stuff, so basically i get to edit videos and lead worship and hang out with youth and i get CREDIT HOURS for it.  by the way...SUPER pumped about worship this week, we're doing an extremely bluegrass version of peace like a river, kinda like the one i recorded!  it just makes me want to jump around and dance.  but i've been really pumped about every week.  by the way..i think the final version of "centripetal love" is also up on that facebook page i linked to earlier.  i'm working on a rocking version of "lead me to the cross" for the EP as well. exciting stuff.  me and robbie went to waffle house tonight, i was quite thrilled to know that i could get two eggs, biscuits and jelly, and hashbrowns for under 3 bucks.  that makes my heart happy.  unfortunately waffle house makes everything else in my body upset.  very upset.  dad gum.

duuuuude

it has been a full two months since i last wrote on this thing.  i was going to say "i'm not going to try to catch you up" but i'm not going to say that.  nope!  i'm gonna catch you up.  here we go!

-thanksgiving

-christmas

-new years

-all of them:  on a scale of 1 to 10...total awesome.

now school has started back, and i have 3 jam-packed months until graduation!   it's supposed to SNOW tonight!  oh my goodness.  and i am freaking out.  i just showed all the kids in the office my snow dance, which consists of me singing "snow!...snow! snow! snow!..." to the tune of eye of the tiger.   i am getting ready to go home to get my skim board, just in case it snows. i've been wanting to try it on the snow for months now, and so if my next blog is written from a hospital bed with 2 broken legs...you'll know why.  and you can say "chris...skimboards weren't made for snow" and i'll cry and say "you're right" and i'll pull out a snowball that i stuck in the freezer and nail you as you're walking away.  i have been reading a LOT of calvin and hobbes lately...i don't know if you've ever read calvin and hobbes comics, but it's helping me to remember and get in touch with my inner 6-year-old. that's where hitting you with the snowball came from.  my inner 6-year-old.

stone bridge church is going pretty incredible.  leading worship is something i have become extremely passionate about, and i get to play with so many talented musicians and we get to play some AWESOME stuff.  and i have an office with christmas lights.  that generally makes me smile.  and the YOUTH at stone bridge are the bomb.com.  i am also getting ready to order 3 books of amazon.com.  this is a first for me...i never order books, and rarely ever buy them at all.  but they are three books that look promising, and i'm sure once i get them that i will mention them several times in this blog..thing.  i am currently sitting in computer services at school, where i work, (or pretend to...i mean, i'm writing this blog.)  and i'm surrounded by these computer screens so when people walk by i put on this serious look on my face and talk loudly about how i'm hacking into the CIA's headquarters or something.  not really.  but i have been giving violent suggestions to students without really knowing it...such as "well if it happens again, just throw it out the window."  the problem is...i don't think some people know i'm joking.  if you see computers flying out of any windows...let me know.  thanks.

i said if gas goes to 1.00 a gallon or less, i was gonna make a road trip to Niagara falls or florida or something.  but it hasn't.  i still want to make the road trips though.  i don't know where i was going with that.  i'll start a new paragraph now.

3 more months.  and then i believe life will become much different.  i think God is working out a youth ministry job for me as you read this.  and i might walk off the stage of graduation into full-time teaching kids about Jesus, and investing and pouring my life into that.  now THAT is exciting.  even more exciting than SNOW.  and yeah i just said that.   i'll try and keep this thing updated...AKA update it less than once every two months.  k bye.