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