Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Quick note from me...

So, just to keep you all informed and for prayer updates, I am in Oregon now. As many of you know, my mom has been sick for a little while now with liver problems and over the weekend she got much worse. It was not looking good saturday and sunday so my dad told me to find anyway to get home asap. I got a ticket for Christmas day and after traveling for about 24 hours, I made it home to Portland. I guess one cool thing was my Christmas day was actually 33 hours! Unfortunately all but 1.5 hours of that was used in some form of traveling.

So, my mom started improving yesterday and now is able to talk better and eat a little. She is having trouble keeping food down and has very little energy. She will have some tests done tomorrow that will hopefully be clean and hopefully she will come home soon. Please pray for her healing and strength through the Lord. And that the following would be true for all of us:

"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set you minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life, appears, than you also will appear with him in glory"!!

Monday, December 18, 2006

Check out the Eurostyle!

So, as I have threatened to some of you, I have bought a furry, fluffy jacket! These jackets are very popular here amongst both genders. So I guess that makes it all good. When my dad asked for me to send them a few things that I wanted for Christmas last month, the last item was money for a jacket with fur on it.

Note a few things: the puffiness (that's not just fat under there), the beautiful fur around the hood that is removable (not that I would ever take it off), the arm pocket with four separate pen holders. And it was on sale! It is almost too much...

At this time, I want to remind you of my purse blog to affirm my claim of eurostyle.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

This is a cute picture sent to my by my sister of her little boy. It is from my family's tree farm in Oregon. The local fire department decided to come out and get a tree from us. Isn't he just the cutest little nephew ever?!

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Thanks to my boss in Portland, Matt Mikalatos, created a poster off a previous "John and Andy" posting. Thanks Matt for caring so much! And it is true: STINT did bring about the sharing of my banana costume. Hopefully this will inspire more men to go on STINT...

Monday, December 04, 2006

I love it when I remember a story from years ago. I have an interesting brain; I remember hundreds of stories for many occasions, but I can never seem to remember what I did last week. Thanks to a friend, Justin in Germany, who I know from Clackamas back in Oregon.

I had forgotten a great story from a few years back involving a bed (hence the bad to the left). We had a conference with CCCI after Christmas in Vancouver, BC. I was in a room with Justin and another buddy, Ryan. The bedroom was equipped with two queen beds that four guys shared. For those of you that don't know me very well, I am just a big toddler, which must be why I love working with kids; I understand them since we have the same level of maturity. So, I never had a brother or two beds in the same room growing up, so I never got the desire to jump from bed to bed out of my head. One afternoon this desire became too great to ignore. This is not a good idea since I am a big guy and tend to get a little excited.

So, I start jumping on one bed and then flying across the room onto the other bed. After many successful jumps, I start getting more daring. Finally, I decided to cannonball the other bed. I KNOW, I KNOW!! bad idea... I jump and realize that I am not heading toward the center of the bed, but toward the corner. It is difficult to change directions mid-air, but I did try by clawing at the air and trying to pull on the imaginary rope to move myself. It did not work.

I landed not very gracefully and the bed gave way with lots of cracking and smashing. It was interesting the different reactions in the room. I was totally freaked out because I had just demolished the bed, Justin was in shock and pretty silent, and Ryan was running around the room clapping and giggling.

I flipped the bed up and noticed that I had splintered the plastic post on that corner, the box spring was cracked badly and screws were either bent or broken. I decided that the best plan of action was to try and fix it. Justin remembered he had a few tools in his car. He ran down and came back with two things: a small crappy screwdriver and duct tape. Well at least we had that...

I then started shoving duck tape into the stripped out screw holes, taped together broken bed posts, and switched out the broken post for another solid one that was in the middle of the bed. Finally, we were able to test it out. I laid on the bed and did a little jiggle around to test the stability. It was definitely much shakier. I guess no more bed jumping for me.

We actually slept two more nights on it. I like to think that some family came along later after the conference was over. Maybe their small child was having some fun jumping on the bed and then BAM!! Broken bed. I would love to see the reaction of the employees when the looked at it and saw all the duct tape that once held the bed together.

Now you might be asking yourself if I had learned my lesson. Yes, I did! I now always look under the bed at the frame. If it is metal, I can jump on it; anything else, is off limits!
 
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