Update`

Figured it was time to update.

Weekend
Had zou on Friday as always, went great. I was expecting Robyn to come home (she's in Toronto if you didn't know) On Saturday morning. I picked up my messages off the phone after zou to find out she was coming home on Friday Night. Excitement...RISING! She was home all weekend. Went back this afternoon (Sunday) We went to a hockey game last night. She said she likes going...aha I dont' make her! I really don't! . Went to that, then watched...married to the mob last night. It's some real old movie, it wasn't to bad actually. Church this morning, Lunch with her family, airport, video games, Hockey Game tonight. It was a pretty good weekend. Next weekend...get to do it all over again :)

Hockey
Blades Weekend Record - 1-2-0 They lost to some super tough teams. Moose Jaw and Vancouver. They won tonight against Swift Current in a shootout. The winning goal was unreal! Colton Gillies...unreal, he is 16-17 years old. Should get drafted into the NHL. That's all I'll say.

The Simpsons
There is a new simpsons episode on right now!

That means I need to go.
I'll be back later.

A little survey

1. What time is it: 241

2. Name: Thomas

3. Nickname: Tominator, T-Bone, Tomohawk, Robert, Mcthomas. I may have made up most of those on my own.

4. Piercings: Ears

5. What is the most recent movie you've seen in the theater: Wow...umm...Maybe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I am going to Wedding Crashers tonight though.

6. Eye color: Blue

7. Place of birth: Hospital (Regina)
8. Favorite foods : anything that's not poorage

10. Ever been toilet papering : muahah, YES!

12. Been in a car accident: Yes

13. Croutons or bacon bits: mmm bacon bits

14. Favorite day of the week: Saturda without a doubt

15. Favorite restaurants: Yard and Flagon...it's a pub not a restraunt but it's just delightful there!

16. Favorite Flower: Let's go with the butt flower!

17. Favorite sport to watch: Hockey, Bullriding, Snowboarding, Poker (if that counts as a sport?), Baseball live, football...

18. Favorite drink? Brisk Iced Tea

20. Disney or Warner Brothers: Disney! Animaniacs are great but still Disney
21. Favorite fast food restaurant: Tim Hortoni's or Mcdonalds.

22. What color is your bedroom carpet: Beach tone Laminate

23. How many times you failed your driver's test? ZERO!!!

24. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail: Robyn

25. Which store would you choose to Max out your credit card this week? MM...maybe future shop, or a car store so I could get all the stupid little things fixed. My drives side door broke again. 3rd time, UNREAL!

26. What do you do most often when you are bored : Play guitar, watch tv, video games, computer. Of course if I am actually doing those things. I am not really bored...

27. Bedtime: Usually sometime early in the morning.

Favorite TV shows: Lately it would be south park, Simpsons, Poker tournaments, CSI, sports, etc
32. Last person you went to dinner with: Tyr

33. Ford or Chevy: Chev

34. What are you listening to right now: Football Game

35. What is your favorite color: Go brown...

36. How many tattoos do you have: 4

37. How many pets do you have: 22 or so...I don't know..they are all fish. I don't count all the bugs in my house.

38. Which came first the chicken or the chicken
egg? Jesus

39. Are you married? 151 days

Do you want to be married? Yes, Most days :D

Give me one good reason: Cause i'm in love (cue the music)

40. Do you want children? Ahah, not so much.

41. Do you have any news you want to share?
Blades are on a 6 game winning streak and play in Regina tonight...in other news...it's cold outside so bundle up

42. What is your fondest memory? Learning to pee standing up

43. Do you have a wish? No, I have no goals or aspirations what so ever!

well well well....

Look who comes crawling back...
How long has it been...1-2...months? Long enough...without any further....a do...(?)
David Lettermans top 10 reasons I have not blogged in so long...

10 - The Blogger site was down, I swear!
9 - Stuck on a school bus that had to stay above 50 mph, leaving no time to blog
8 - My computer crashed
7 - My car crashed and my computer was in it
6 - My hands were both amputated in the car crash
5 - I was in a coma
4 - My passion flew out the window like the dog from peter pan
3 - I lost my marbles
2 - I got a new tv...no time to blog
1 - Terrorists attacked my house **

**this statement in no way, shape or form, is intended to offend anyone or anything. If it has done so...lighten up. ***

*** if being told to lighten up offends you...try smiling ****

**** if being told to try smiling offends you...it means you probably are offended because you know you don't smile enough which makes you quite an angry person and not very enjoyable to be around *****

***** if being told that your not fun to be around offends you...the reason your not fun to be around is because you get offended easily!

------------What's been goin' on----------------

Since Sept 20th - Zou started, I sold a car, the blades are tied for 2nd spot, Trevis Smith was exposed (as if we didn't already know), I checked into drug rehab only to find out I was addicted to snorting a mixture of sugar and flour, Robyn got hired as a flight attendant for Air Canada, I lead goal scoring in NHL 06 on Xbox this season (most likely has something to do with my future wife being gone so much) and that's about it.


There is no real reason for no blogging except for the fact that I really didn't feel like it. But due to popular demand (or not so popular...mainly just my mom telling me that she wants to know what's going on in my life...) I am back and better than ever...or maybe I am just back.

--------Flying--------

I have a somewhat healthy fear of flying. Not many people know this, in fact, almost no one knows this. There is just something about flying at 200 miles an hour 40000 feet above the ground over mountains and large bodies of water that scares me. I don't know what it is. To many movies probably.

Stat of the day
Your more likely to be killed by a donkey than you are in a plane crash...True Fact!

Back to fear of flying. So it makes that kind of funny, somewhat of a coincidence that my fiance (I hate that word! ALOT!) has been hired with an airline. It's also funny that we can fly any where in the world for virtually nothing once were married. This is a real nice perk, if your not afraid of flying. In all honesty it will be extremly nice to be able to go to Paris for a weekend or take a trip for 5 days to Australlia (not sure if that would actually happen, but it's possible). Your all thinking....wow...that's so awesome...he's so lucky...
also realize that it requires your spouse to be gone a substantial part of the time each month and a very confusing and incosistent schedule.
So yes there are perks to it, but with ever perk there comes a negative. Robyn has been able to be home on weekends to this point. She is gone from last monday till around Dec 3rd I beleive. So that is a good chunk of time, but it does give me time to perfect my cyber slap shot and practice my gang leading skills via X-Box...both skills will come in very handy later on in life, I am sure of it!

-----Work-------
Work at the church has been going ok. It's been alot tougher this year than other years. Alot of days or weeks for me have been very up and down. I had a big change in my "philosphy" of ministry over the summer which brought a big change in my faith and life and how I go about the job and things like that. It has been a very positive change but has brought some challenges to the job. Is this really what I want to do? If it's not, what else can I do or would I want to do? Is all the pressure and politics and everything really worth going through? Some would say "well of course it is, your "furthering" the kingdom." I don't really like that thought cause it's making it sound like working in a church is more important than ministry outside of a church, which is definitely not the case! How much longer can I go at this pace? What will change when I get married? Etc Etc. Just alot of questions in my head about everything which make it tough sometimes to figure out the answers, not to mention try to throw together a program and message every week :) It's going well though. Most days I do enjoy what I do very much. It's just the down days that make a guy think.

Anyways...that's kind of where I am at these days. Doing well and I hope to update this alot more often than I have been and I hope the readers come back.
Heck...people might not even check this at all anymore...but for those that do...You rock my world like a little country girl! (it's from a song...not from my heart :)

Peas out
Thomas

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Your suspending me cause I'm Fat?
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Tkachuk Suspended Cause of Weight
That was the heading of an article I read today. For anyone who know's a little hockey. They probably have heard or know of Kieth Tkachuk, Captain for the St Louis Blues. Anyways...I read today that he was being suspended from the team because he was to fat. He had to lose an "undisclosed" amount of weight before they would let him play again. How harsh is that! It's kind of funny to me...I just see the players filing onto the ice...right when Keith walks past the coach he pulls him aside and has a little conversation.

C: "Not Today Keith..."
K: "What Why Not Coach"
C: "Well...how do I put this...your a fat ***" (A hockey Coach would swear...)
K: "What???"
C: "You heard me.....Do you see that pile of sand over there Keith?"
K: "Yeah Coach..it kind of looks like a beach"
C: "Yes...yes it does...we had that hauled in espescially for you!"
K: "What Why?"
C: "Well...what I want you to do...Is take off all your equipment, put on this tiny speedo..."
K: "ok???"
C: "Then I want you to go lay down on the beach..."
K: "Ok??"
C: "and make whale noises..."
K: "What?"
C: "Maybe flop around a little bit...It would add to the humor...fatty!"
K: "But Coach...."
C: "Do it tubby, I'll buy you a donut..."

Today if you think of it. Take a moment of silence for Keith Tkachuk as he is discriminated against for being overweight. Or you can donate money to the Wheezy Keith fund...Check or money order only to...

Wheezy Keith's Overweight Fund
1617 Kilburn Avenue
Saskatoon Saskatchewan
S7M 0k1

Thank you in advance for your donation...


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My car...you should buy it!

Riderville.com
Go Riders...6-6!!!

Quote of the day
You know...God is like an apple...You don't really see the core but you know it's there which is kind of like a tree cause, it comes in all different sizes...like underwear...One time I got a wedgie and my underwear ripped worse than a plastic bag...that you get groceries in. CRAP I AM OUT OF MILK!
- Pastor Aaron Daniel Dickens (Pastor A.D.D)

This is not a real person. If there is a Pastor Aaron Daniel Dickens that reads or hears about this. This is in no way, shape, or form mocking you in any way, shape or form. It is purely a person from my own mind

since when...

Haven't posted in a good week or so. Here is a little update on what's been going on with me since you heard from me last. Went to a riders game, fell off the church stage onto my back four times, helped with kickoff weekend, drove a stock car, garage got graffitti'd, went to two blades games, recruited 4 leaders, bought four new fish, mowed my grass, bought nhl o6 and madden o6, (for very cheap might I add). And a bunch of other random stuff I am sure. It sounds busy....maybe even exciting but it wasn't really. There were some exciting things like driving a stock car and the blades hockey tournament, other things that made me mad like my garage getting hit (I have a target on me I swear!). Anyways...quite lovely.

It's just one of those days
This could be read as a poem or something...but really, it's just how I feel today

Why I feel like blogging today. Well I have been at the church for 3.5 hours this afternoon and I haven't done a thing. Other than look at houses, cars and jobs.
It is just one of those days.
Not one of those "good" days as you would put it. More one of those "bad" days. It seems as though in full time ministry these days come more often than for others, but who is to say really. It's just a day where I just want to quit this whole ministry thing, find a well paying job, have no worries about my income, etc.
Just one of those days...
Ministry is so strange...for those of you in it or close to someone who is you may be able to relate. It's not really a job, it's a life. For me...I am fully engaged in this 24/7 in my mind, body and soul. There is no escaping it. I can't watch a movie w/o looking for video clips. I can't watch tv without figuring out the characters problem. I can't read a book without taking quotes from it. When they say full time it's full time. Even if it's part time, it's still full time. Maybe this is me just complaining and having alot of self pity but...
It's just one of those days.
I am sad, I feel burned out and the year hasn't started. I feel like crying and being comforted but there is no one around.
It's just one of those days.
I worry about my money because I don't seem to have very much. Maybe I shouldnt worry about it, but if I run out of money. I am in big trouble. It would be very easy to find a better paying job than this. Very very easy. But is that really what I want. Today it is...tommorrow it might not be. Who know's.
It's just one of those days.
So today I have just sat and stared at this screen for abit. Then at the wall for abit. Trying to figure out my options. Trying to figure out my life. Trying to figure out why no one has asked me if I am ok today. Yet I am no further ahead. Probably further behind. But I guess...
IT's just one of those days.



A dream of mine : To be a full time speaker, wether it be christian, motivational, whatever. That is where my heart is. That is what I enjoy the most.

A dream of mine : To maybe someday run or work on a ranch. Maybe it's the farm kid coming out in me. The lifestyle is not easy, but it's laid back. It's at peace. I am tired of feeling restless.

A dream of mine : To be a hockey scout. Wouldn't that be the best job in the world. If you like hockey?

A dream of mine : To write a book that inspires people or helps people in their job or life.

A dream I once had : TO become a full time youth pastor with no schooling, just experience. Maybe the problem is I am living my dream right now but am feeling like the next one is taking to long to come or I am not doing anything to get me there? Who know's?

A perk...

I just had a phone call from the president of a sports business and scouting school. For an interview to take a course. Interesting...

That's all for now, I need to go and look at the wall some more :)

yummy

Titles bother me...I can never thing of anything witty or intriguing enough to make you want to read this...the end....with that...

Well...I followed through on what I set out to earlier this week and I bought a new car...last night. It's a little hummingbird of a car (that is what it sounds like cause there is a hole in the muffler...well a second hole) it's a 1997 Suzuki Swift, 5 speed, 3 cyl, black, very basic, it is in pretty good shape and should save me alot of money on Gas. So the second part of this is...

CAR FOR SALE

1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
Drives like new
6 cylinder, (I think)
Blue
218 000 Kms
Excellent Shape
Asking 3500$ (w/0 repairs)
4500 with repairs
(windshield, drivers side lock, back panel, stereo needs to be installed) minor things that do not affect the drive or quality of the care at all.
If intersted leave a comment or call me @ 931-0038

Forrestry Farm
For the first time in my whole life I went to the Forrestry Farm/Zoo yesterday. **note avoid the butterfly garden till after the weekend...we saw 1 butterfly...ONE!** Anyways, it was pretty cool. Monkey's are crazy! I decided that instead of Kids I would rather just have monkeys. I could watch them for hours, just in awe of them. I am wierd maybe but man, they are so so interesting. I have been finding lately that I am seeing God in the small things in life, like how amazing monkeys are to watch. Or watching praire dogs, it just makes God more and more evident to me. Last Night Robyn was just walking out of the house and she turned and screamed right when she got outside. I didn't think to much of it cause...I am a heartless jerk (just kidding) she just pointed to the corner of my house. There was a huge spider and he was about half way through making a web. It was so cool, I stood outside for about 15 minutes after she left to watch the thing, it was simply amazing how precise they are with making a perfect web. I couldn't beleive it. Just another little thing that blew my mind and showed me a little more of God.



I was going to upload some pictures tonight but I am feeling a tad tired and it's pretty late. So I need to hit the hay...bed...This was a tad uninateresting but it'll get better I swear :)