tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68708322009-02-20T19:41:27.595-05:00The stories and people who bring joy to my life.Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1126968850503696282005-09-17T10:48:00.000-04:002005-09-17T10:54:10.510-04:00

My blog has moved. Please visit oldcomfyshoes.blogspot.com for more "Old, comfy shoes" fun!Enjoy!

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1126833470649021342005-09-15T21:13:00.000-04:002005-09-15T21:17:50.653-04:00

"A friend of mine, a young pastor who recently started a church, talks to me from time to time about the new face of church in America - about the postmodern church. He says the new church will be different from the old one, that we will be relevant to culture and the human struggle. I don't think any church has ever been relevant to culture, to the human struggle, unless it believed in Jesus and

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1126325034334353472005-09-10T00:01:00.000-04:002005-09-10T00:03:54.340-04:00

We are going through resumes at work and we got one that said something like this:Lifeguard - Summer 2002- Saved around 6 people.Did they not know if they all made it or did they just lose count? Either way it made me laugh.

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1126214366552906372005-09-08T17:10:00.000-04:002005-09-08T17:20:39.676-04:00

I have to quit my job. I love my job, but I have to quit. I just can't handle my officemate and me dressing the same anymore.Stephen and I's clothes matched for 1 1/2 weeks straight (his were obviously more masculine than mine, but we matched none-the-less). He swore he just picked his clothes at random, same thing I did, but I think he was stalking me. He had to have been hiding in my bushes

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1126008076919759552005-09-06T07:59:00.000-04:002005-09-06T08:04:59.783-04:00

Does anyone else think this picture is creepy? I think it looks like a still from a scary movie. One where I die.

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1125946846751038322005-09-05T14:40:00.000-04:002005-09-05T15:00:46.760-04:00

Yesterday my family, my aunt and uncle and my cousin and her family all met at my Mamaw's house to clean out her barn. I don't think this barn had been cleaned out in like 50 years. My Papaw worked in the heating and cooling industry and there were all kinds of parts and pieces of equipment in that barn. We threw away a lot of trash and set even more stuff out by the road with a sign marked "free

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1125695453634006552005-09-02T17:03:00.000-04:002005-09-02T17:10:53.640-04:00

It's finally the weekend. I went to work on Wednesday thinking it was Thursday. I was sorely disappointed to find out that I was one day off. There is something about mentally adding a day that just messes up the whole week. So I took some time off of work this week and now the long weekend is here.Ben leaves tomorrow which makes the weekend less than terrific.Such is life. Sad.In other news all

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1125119727784216322005-08-27T01:04:00.000-04:002005-08-27T01:15:27.790-04:00

I had the day off of work today and I spent it hanging out with the homeless people at the library downtown. My intent wasn't to hang out with homeless people, but I think they had the right idea. If I ever become homeless I am surfing the internet at the library.I went to the library today to do some research on downtown before I move there. Here are some of the interesting things I found:

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1125066013434443962005-08-26T10:10:00.000-04:002005-08-26T10:20:13.443-04:00

I realize that this blog has become extremely less interesting this summer. For that I apologize. My life hasn't been very blog worthy lately.Here's an e-mail conversation from my family that exemplifies the nerdiness of my family: Mom: http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/Lets all subscribe to this and see who can use the day’s word first at the dinner table.Who is in? Dad: I'm in,

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1124602452297755132005-08-21T01:20:00.000-04:002005-08-21T01:34:12.303-04:00

This past week in Huntsville I talked to an interesting engineer from Booz Allen Hamilton. We were all standing around at some reception and were supposed to be networking. Not that I, or any engineer knows how to do that, but that was the point of the reception.So, being true to my extroverted personality, I started talking to this guy standing by himself. It soon became apparent why he was

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1124482430148047052005-08-19T15:57:00.000-04:002005-08-19T16:13:50.166-04:00

This week I was in Huntsville, AL at a conference. It was pretty boring and I didn't meet anyone as interesting as Rocket Man from last year. I did meet an unsung hero from 9/11 but I'll post about him later.On Thursday as I was walking to the convention center dressed in my business clothes, carrying my briefcase in one hand and a Starbuck's coffee in the other, I had an epiphany. I've become

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1123813415981760242005-08-11T22:17:00.000-04:002005-08-11T22:23:35.986-04:00

Because seriously, I have 10.I don't want 10 cats. I really only want 2 and my parents only want 3. But apparently if you don't spay or neuter your cats within a reasonable time frame.... well you get more cats. (Lesson learned.) So anyway, we have 5 cats that gots to go.There are 5 adorable kittens that are looking for a good home.These are the 2 kittens that are ready to go. The other 3 are

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1123550249860004292005-08-08T21:10:00.000-04:002005-08-08T21:19:18.016-04:00

This is from my company picnic and the 100 ft slip-n-slide. Doesn't Ben look bored?

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1123334824125615202005-08-06T09:02:00.000-04:002005-08-07T21:19:32.376-04:00

God has recently been showing me little examples of His holiness compared to our human baseness. And it's blowing me away.We humans, not matter what we do, aren't even coming close to measuring up to God. I mean God's holiness is so pure we physically can't stand in it's presence. If I remember correctly, the Hebrew word for holy means something like "Not like us. Set apart." Isn't it cool that

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1123197582587259032005-08-04T19:18:00.000-04:002005-08-04T19:22:12.043-04:00

Thus says the LORD,"Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom,and let not the mighty man boast of his might,let not a rich man boast of his riches;but let him who boasts boast of this,that he understands and knows Me,that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness,justice and righteousness on earth;for I delight in these things,"declares the LORD.

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1122688400131892502005-07-29T21:42:00.000-04:002005-07-29T21:53:20.136-04:00

Well it's official. I am a real-live-honest-to-goodness-adult. I started working full-time, got a new desk, ordered business cards and had the "now-that-you-are-working-full-time" talk with my boss. (Which by the way went really well. I'll be focusing on program management, product development and business development. Doesn't that sound so important? I wish I knew what I was doing!)Tonight, as

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1122481052725276282005-07-27T12:14:00.000-04:002005-07-27T12:17:32.730-04:00

At a meeting at work today our accountant came in from his smoke break smelling very much like a cigarette. The ironic thing was that he was wearing a t-shirt that read, "Stand Today. Join the fight against tobacco."It made me laugh.

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1122251900788235022005-07-24T20:24:00.000-04:002005-07-24T21:02:53.036-04:00

The village in India that my team worked in was on the Indus River. The Indus River is owned by Pakistan as India and Pakistan set up this agreement that Pakistan would own all the water rights to the Indus River. Which means that India can't do anything with the river without first asking permission from Pakistan. Mexico totally should have done that with the Rio Grande. Anyway, here's a picture

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1122002700730269632005-07-21T23:14:00.000-04:002005-07-21T23:25:00.736-04:00

A house I pass on the way to work got TPed last night (rolled for some of you). That house used to get TPed all the time. Their kids were on the swim team and every night before a swim meet all the team member's houses would get TPed. It turns out that their mom was one of the people TPing the houses. She didn't want her kids to feel left out so she would TP her own house.That's right. Once a

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1121723607763268112005-07-18T17:27:00.000-04:002005-07-18T17:53:27.780-04:00

I learned in India that a lot of things are relative. Like the definition of dirty. I showered 6 times while I was in India; three of those times being in the last 4 days we were there. Yet I wouldn't have considered myself to be extremely dirty because everyone else bathed that often. Something about being in a desert and how getting water to bathe with was a lot of work. My definition of

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1121223779246777702005-07-12T23:00:00.000-04:002005-07-12T23:02:59.250-04:00

If you want to see pictures from the India trip, you can check out our team's on-line photo album. As of right now only some of my pictures are posted but the whole team is supposed to be uploading their pictures too.

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1121048589533862622005-07-10T22:15:00.000-04:002005-07-10T22:23:09.540-04:00

So after weeks of no posting I should post a really good story or something. But I'm not going to. India was great, but this whole jet lag thing is killing me. I would be in bed right now, except I am on hold with Delta to see if they found my luggage or not.So the trip to India was good. I saw God do a lot of really cool things. After moving through culture shock, I really began to enjoy

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1118842574708274432005-06-15T09:28:00.000-04:002005-06-15T09:36:14.713-04:00

God continues to rock my socks off. He has provided for this trip to India in amazing ways. Here's a small list of some of the things He has done: All of my funding, to the last dollar, came in the day before I was to turn it in. Some of it came from some very unepexected sources. Miranda and I had no idea how we were going to be able to buy the clothes we needed for this trip. My mom

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1118524601197649032005-06-11T17:10:00.000-04:002005-06-11T17:16:41.203-04:00

Today was the big day. They read my name and some Latin words, I took my envelope, shook the Dean's hand and walked across the arena. I graduated today. Oh it feels so good.For the record the ceremony lasted exactly 2 hours, there were closer to 1,200 people who graduated and Ben didn't cheer for the Ice Cats. Whew!Wow. I graduated today! I'm a grown-up now.

Andihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17532379815893426900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870832.post-1118407389280721972005-06-10T08:34:00.000-04:002005-06-10T08:43:09.286-04:00

During the summer, my family and I live in our swim suits. We don't have air conditioning and the only way to cool off is to take a dip in the pool.Yesterday, Nate and I were swimming (the water temperature is perfect!) and these two flies found joy in buzzing around our heads and then landing in our hair. It was so annoying.After we got out, Nate grabbed a badminton racket to combat the flies

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