I didn't review becaue of work

I woke up early, like ohh maybe 7:10AM. I went to the Y to work out and feel real good. As soon as I got to my car to drive home, I had a voice mail from a lady at a YMCA day camp. She called to ask me if I would be interested in "subbing" for one of the ladies who wasn't able to come today because of a hurt back. I said of course I would, and drove to the other side of town to hang out with kids. I helped feed them, I helped organize them and laugh at them while they played Kick-Ball, and then I pushed many, many children on swings. It was fun, as soon as that was over, I went to the YMCA downtown location to work with those same kids at more of a day care type setting. I left at 5:00PM and went straight to class, where I had my second Quiz. I knew the stuff pretty good that is why I was okay with "not" reviewing, although I would have liked to, I think that I did very good. The only thing that I am not sure of is the difference between cummulative frequencies & relative cummulative frequencies. Ohh well though, I will find out soon enough and next time I will plan on going for the GOLD and getting that review session in no matter what!!

No pictures today, even though I could have taken so many EXTREMELY CUTE pictures, I don't know how parents feel or what the laws/rules are of taking pictures of young children with out parent conscent and posting them on a BLOG....probably better safe than sorry maybe. I dunno.

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I slept in today, I didn't go to church because I was darn tired. I mowed the lawn which is massive with a push mower, and then went to Dave Church at 5:00, it was good because my friend Mitchell came and I haven't seen him forever.

After it was over, I was going to go to Collateral, but I didn't because....well, because I just had every push in me not to go, I mean it was deep, right down to my bones telling me or persuading me not to go. lol, so I went over to my friend Andy's house. I hadn't been over there and caught up with him in so long, it was good for me to do so.Andy is the one with the long hair sitting close, and his brother BJ is in the back ground. I got to take B's mini bike out for a ride, that thing was quick and got me up to around 50 in no time. IT WAS SWEET, but I almost laid it down/threw myself off when I was downshifting at high speed. "NOTE TO SELF" be careful when downshifting at high speed on a mini-bike. :-)

Then we went in and ordered 10,000 B.C. off of Verizon Fios ON DEMAND and it was a pretty crappy movie, pretty crappy in deed.

yup yup

to the lake

I worked out this morning, and ya know what? It felt good! I burned some calories and felt the burn, and then I got in the hot tub/whirl-pool and relaxed. When I got home I read a little bit from this book I am reading by Philip Yancey called The Jesus I Never Knew, It is good and points out important stuff. After all that my mom said I should come to the Lake with her and my dad. It is their friends lake cottage, and I love their friends so I said, sure why not. This is what came of that.Well, everyone knows that a good lake cottage has nice toys to play with. And play I did!Dennis has a brand new Sea-Doo, the thing only has 12 hours of use on it, and it is FAST! I love those things!!! It is great fun to go out on one of those things, I always feel like I really belong on the water......"sigh" If you knew my story, you'd know why I have such a connection to the water. But, that is not where God has me...right now, so I am cool with that. Well, after the Sea-Doo and some really good lunch (Chili) we went out on a really nice boat ride.Ahhhh, the open water, the wind in your face, the splash of the water on the side of the boat, it is all so relaxing and calming. I LOVE IT!!! Someday I hope to have a boat, and maybe even a lake cottage, you just never know!

Well, once the boat ride was over, we (guests & lake cottage owners) did not want the party to stop. So, we did the one thing that made the most sense. WE PLAYED APPLES TO APPLES!!That picture is a little fuzzy, but you get the general idea. It was a good day today.

G'Night...I sure hope I can sleep

Bible Study

On Friday's I don't have class, so I suppose I didn't have enough motivation to get my butt out of bed, even though I woke up at 7:10 and ate breakfast like I was going to go, then found the couch and made reasons for not. I am going to wake up early tomorrow and go work out though. It feels good once I am there, it's just the initial push to get there that is the hard part. I can also read tomorrow and get things accomplished that will better my life, so that is exactly what I am going to do. Yesterday when I was working at the Y I saw my friend David, who also works (lifeguard) at the Y and he told me about this Bible study that got started by some of the familiar faces that I had made friends with at Collateral a while back. Well, I called one of the guys up and he was all like, "yea man, come over, you know we'd love to have ya!" So I did and I am so happy I did so. It was a serious boost of Christness and just really spiritually fulfilling. Ya know how you feel after like a thanksgiving dinner, all full and content. Well, that is exactly how I felt once I left Matt's house. Matt is so strong in the faith too. I really admire his life because it is all for Christ, he has many strong stories that constantly come up. I am back in the Christian brotherhood. Those guys were so glad to see me, and really made me feel so welcomed. Matt is the one in the blue shirt in the picture above. We were going through Ephesians and God showed up, just like he promises and I learned in the name of God. I love digging into the word with a group of guys. After the Bible study was over, their girl friends, wife and fiance's came over. They have all found the one who they will spend the rest of their lives with, but I felt okay that I haven't. And i'm cool with waiting for her. That's just that.

We were all up in Ephesians chapter 3. in vs. 8 it talkes about how the riches of Christ are unfathonable (NASB) , unsearchable (NIV). To me this means that as Christ followers we will never be able to fully comprehend the grace God has given us. In vs. 19 it talks about the love that surpasses knowledge. In vs. 18 Paul still talks about how we must keep trying to grasp how wide, long, high & deep the love of Christ is. We'll never do it, we aren't even capable of grasping it, BUT it is more than enough. That is quite powerful to me, the Spirit really pressed that concept on my heart. I love it when He does that. :-)

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I am going to sleep like a baby 2night!

I am so tired, I can hardly keep my head up. I am not dosing off yet, but I sure am tired. Like my body is just wore out. I was at the YMCA by 8:00AM, then came home and studied and did homework right up to the time when I needed to leave for work. I went to the down town YMCA and swam with little kids for 3 hours. Then, I went to class. I was yawning the whole time. I am ready for the quiz on Monday and that is that. By the way, Lions are crazy!

Also, I keep seeing this commercial on the ole tele-tube about the new Thin Mint Blizzard from Dairy Queen. OHH MY YUM!!I always fall short of the glory, even when all I want to do is right, I can seem to find a way to not do right. It may not necessarily be a "big deal" but falling short is falling short. I must be strong, and make time to be in the word every day. I MUST.

listen to what I did today

Today I was at the YMCA by 8:15AM or so, I worked out and it felt great. I am going to keep going as long as I am able to get home and start working on my STAT 125 homework before I go to my job at the YMCA doing childcare. That is in fact, exactly what I did. I worked out and then came home and worked on homework. I am feeling good about the work so far too. IT IS JUST THE BEGINNING THOUGH. All is well, I can do it.

Time flew by and soon enough it was time for me to go to work, ya know, that new job I got at the YMCA doing childcare. It was great, I am more of a "glorified babysitter" but I already enjoy and will continue to do so. I did mostly some swimming with the kids today, and it looks like that will be the "norm" through the summer. I like it, they are a cute bunch, most are younger like 5-7ish or maybe 8 or 9, I dunno. They are cute and funny, and I can tell they are already testing me on the first day! But guess what, I was just like, or worse than the most rambunctious one of them. This gives me a little bit of an edge because I know how I appreciated or needed to be handled when I was a young buck. Not to back down, but not to let someone walk all over, and PATIENCE! Which I just so happen to have a lot of and will continue getting more and more as I am tested.After work, I went to class. After class I met up with some of the Young Life guys from the camp I went to in Michigan. It was good, they were honest and we "talked." Then they got in the pool, I had enough pool for the day, so I dipped out after we got done talking. It felt good to be home today, I was super ready to stop the go GO GO! But at the same time I seriously love being busy so much. I am excited to go to the Y & work out and feel healthy. It's all good.
Prayer Request:
That I meet some people that I really get a long with who love Christ and are SWEET/AWESOME. Meeting guys would be awesome, healthy & help to keep me accountable in ways that would be hard for a female. Meeting females, or "a female" would be great because I wouldn't mind meeting that special lady & I get a long really well with females.

G'Night

(about 35min later) I posted this BLOG, and then thought about my prayer request. Maybe I don't need "new" friends. Maybe I just need to put time and effort into the Christian friends I already have. Thy will be done, whatever he has planned for me, I want to be game for. So I guess I just tweaked the prayer request a little bit. God will understand. :-)

char·is·mat·ic

I wonder if charisma is something you can attain. Like if you feel that you aren't charismatic enough, and want to become more charismatic, can you set your goals and try to gain more of this trait?

I found this picture on a random BLOG that I came across. I love the way this person puts so much emotion and expression into her art. If you don't enlarge the picture, you can't see the writing on the lower left of the picture. It says, "The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; He utters His voice, the earth melts. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress... Be still and know that I am God."I love it, and it makes me very curious. To the left of the man it says, Spain 1 Germany 0. I am wondering if maybe this man is watching a soccer game, he looks the type, and whatever he is focused on, he is really intent on "it." The verse above is from Psalm 46:6-7, I am not sure what translation it is from, but I like it. The be still and know that I am God is from Psalm 46:10. I really like it, I like it a lot (Dumb & Dumber).

I was up early this morning, like I actually woke up at like 6:50, got around and met Josh at a coffee shop and chatted a bit at 8:00, it was good. Then I went on over to the YMCA and worked out, I really like this whole early morning work out session thing. It gets me going, and I feel really refreshed afterwords. I think I would like to keep that up.

In the afternoon, a pretty big storm rolled through. You can see by the looks of this video I captured on my phone that it was the real deal. If only my phone really did the storm justice. It was pouring down rain like CRAZY! There was intense lightening and thunder, but my dad doesn't throw in much of a shocked look either. There is a tornado siren going off in the back ground, and I think a tornado actually touched down somewhere near by. It was cool. I LOVE STORMS!!

Other than that, my day was pretty average but very enjoyable. I start my new job at the YMCA doing childcare, and I am totally pumped about that. Class went good today, and all it well. :-)