Sorry, no good post tonight; I'm too tired.
This morning i woke up with the alarm (6:00), and Josh said that there wasn't much point in me coming early because I can't set up much with my foot anyway, so I closed my eyes and next thing I knew it was 9:00. Now I panicked because my mom didn't even know I was still home, and they were just about ready to leave, so I got ready in about ten minutes and left.

After later in the afternoon I rocked out at the church with a few other guys from the church. I'm reluctant to call it a band even though we fulfill the basic essence of what a band is, our piano player is like 13 (not as a diss, seriously he's incredible), our E guitar player is 16 (and fairly new to it), then I lead and play A guitar as well as E guitar (and I really am horrible at leading because I'm not used to it at all), then Josh plays drums (and rocks), and we have a 15 year old kid playing bass (and he also rocks.).

And alone we could all play great, but most of us have never played in a band so it's a learning experience. Last time we jammed it was horrible, but this time was sweet. We worked on Come You Saints off the Fuse cd. Next week we're probably going to learn either O Praise Him, or No One Like You, or both.

And now I am going to either read until some outrageous hour, or sleep.

GN>

since the boarding pictures went over well, and because I like posting pictures right now, and because since posting that one picture I'm having skateboarding withdrawal. here's some from the good old days when I was short. hahahaha.






















out.

Going to the USA tomorrow to pick up my dad.
Hopefully we'll have some random adventures on the way.

more random pictures.((_{??












I can't believe it's been over a year since I've been on a skateboard.
crazy.

Ok.

OUTS>

I just realized today that NA is pretty soon.
I haven't really thought of it at all since I registered in December or January or whenever it was.
It should be some good times. All I'm dreading is the travel.
A redeye flight with three plane changes. On crutches. ouch.


\I like pictures. Here are some more../






















The randomness.

Adam Clayton and the The Edge in the last one.
Unfortunately we have none of me as Bono.
And Josh takes a power stance in a Houston train, and uses the wheel chair method of transportation in the airport.





I was thinking about how sweet it would be to ride a wheelchair on one of those flat escalators that they have in airports that make you walk fast. At the end you would really shoot off it.

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I shouldn't promote my upcoming (and unwritten) posts as being good, because that seems to be when you run out of time or just have a complete creative blank. Fortunately I'm not short on time, and so far I don't see the big "END OF CREATIVE FLOW" wall, so I appear to be in good shape.

Today was fairly laid back, and here are the highlights:

-Good reading time this morning.
-A few hours of editing weddings.
-Some song writing time.
-Some electric and acoustic guitar playing ( I wrote a little instrumental acoustic guitar song, but couldn't record it because I couldn't figure out how to use the recording software we have. so much for being good with technology.)
-Went to the music store and got a big multi-guitar stand because our room seems to be overflowing with guitars and Basses. (I guess overflowing is a bit of an exaggeration but we have one Electric, two Basses, and two Acoustics (mine and my pop's) but it seems like a lot when they're leaning up against walls everywhere.)
-Ate Pizza
-Posting and more editing.

That was basically what my day was like.
Our Soccer team lost last night.

haha.
that was random.
I wasn't laughing at the team.
they played well.
they just lost.
Josh had a wide open net at the end, jumped up and took a lunging kick at the ball and.......

I could feel the wind from the sidelines as he missed it completely.
Sorry josh.

You'll bury the next one.

Finally AJ scored.

But we lost anyhow.





































Hahahaha.

Random pictures.
I don't know how that last hoser got in there. hahah. He's in Louisville right now at Together for the Gospel.

Heading..

OUt.


P.S.

thinking about this this morning:

The Judge of all, judged by men,
God's own Son, the Spotless Lamb,
Beaten for my guilt and sin,
Torn that I might enter in,
He bore the wrath for all I've done,
I gain the righteousness He won,
The wonder of wonders forever will be,
That God came from Heaven to suffer for me.



Song of the week: (I thought I could never really enjoy listening to these guys) Relient K, When I go down.

goodnight.

Went to the doc.
No new news.
The crutches remain.


I'm going downstairs.
bye.

(I mean, for the purpose of signing off the way I always do, out)

I have a blog!

Restating the obvious can be very funny.

Today was an interesting sunday. I woke up a bit late (6:45am), then went to Tim Horten's for a bagel on the way to church. I arrived at the building and chilled out (that's unusual) while everyone else set up because I can't carry much with my crutches, until the sound board was out. When they finally got the Board out, I plugged everything in and then went and was hanging out on the stage when my dad walked up and said "So......you want to play electric guitar this morning?" I laughed and said sure, but I didn't think that he was serious until he came back and told me to hitch a ride home with my cousin Marty to get my guitar. It was cool, considering it was my first time ever playing in the band. Then we had a guest speaker named Bill Farley who spoke about God's passion to bless. One thing that stood out to me was when He talked out our generally inaccurate views of what God's blessing is. We tend to think of God's blessing as material things, when in fact His blessing is Himself. It's funny to think about how I could be the poorest, most sick, and most persecuted person in the world, but be blessed far more than some that lived comfortable lives. That's because trials bring us closer to God, they make us rely on Him with a trust that is much less easy to have when we are comfortable in our current position. It made me think about my ankle and how God is blessing my life through the injury. True I might not be able to walk on it for several months, but those are several months that I will be able to spend unfettered by a regular job and mostly at home where I'll have lots of time to spend with Him, and that is a blessing.

"The cross is the Mount Everest of God's blessing. All His other blessings are just mole hills in comparison"

Bill Farley
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out.

P.S.

"But the legend of the rent was WAY HARD COOORRRRRRRRRREEEE!!!!!!!!!"

"Now raise your goblet of rock."

School of Rock.

hahaha.

Big escalators are fun.

Not good at all.

This is how things stand: today I went to the doctor to see if my foot was broken.....it isn't broken, but it is a severe sprain, which needs to be immobilized for at least another week (meaning the splint and the crutches remain), and possibly for up to a month, before I can even begin to try to walk on it again. That's pretty bad, considering that it means I can't work for at least 4 weeks, and probably more realistically 6. And then as if that wasn't fun enough, the doctor and his students told me he was also referring me to some other doc because he thinks that I might have muscle damage which will need some repairing (meaning surgery).


There it is.

Ugly.

out.

I miss travelling

Maybe it's the warmer climes or maybe it's just breaking the normal routine.

out.

Good night, and Good luck.

watching it tonight.

A very good movie.

Directed and co-written by George Clooney.

Based on a true story about a news anchor in the fifties who spoke out against the Mcarthy trials.

Very good story, and a good message in the end about our motives for even watching TV.

out.

I CAN"T WAIT FOR THIS WEEKEND TO BE OVER!!!










I"M GOING CRAZY!!!!!!!




oh yeah, I forgot....I was always crazy, this week/weekend is just bringing it out.


out.

Still Crutching.

Easter Production to film tonight. I had to end up training an apprentice to shoot the moving shots because I'm gimped and can't get around much faster than a turtle who's torn his ACL. Then I have a wedding to shoot saturday. Then church on Sunday.
Then hopefully on monday I'll get back to the doc to see what's going on. I should have taken a picture of it when i took the splint off this morning. It was huge. Kind of like when Joby was blowing up those rubber gloves, except my foot isn't rubber.

It's crazy how hard it is to just get around. I don't really like it. for instance, if am in my room (in the basement), and I want to get something upstairs, it takes a good ten minutes. AAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


oh well. I have to chill today. I've been working it too hard.

outs.

Propped up.

Yesterday began as any typical day does with an early morning ride to work, 8 hours of work, and a warmer ride home in the afternoon. I played my guitar for a bit, as usual, went to a rehearsal for a wedding we're shooting saturday afternoon, and prepared for the first exhibition game of the soccer season. We were playing our arch nemesis team (the other team from our church) FC International, and it promised to have some intense action, and a very lopsided victory for FC Inter. The game began with an early goal by Danny Woelders for Inter, but then the Red Army began to fight back, controlling the ball and having some quality chances against Inter's goal keep Mike Woelders. As the first half was winding down I switched up to midfield from defense because Doug was getting tired out. being full of fresh energy I chased down Inter players and stole the ball, and passed and what not until about two minutes before halftime. I was chasing an Inter player who had the ball. The ball bounced up in the air and we both jumped and tried to kick it. As I was flying through the air, I seem to recall seeing my right foot go flying out from under me, then I hit the ground and heard "crack". That is never good to begin with, but it's often the pain that comes after which is really tough to deal with. So basically my ankle was messed up, and the prognosis on the field was that it was most likely a sprain, though later on when I went to thee hospital, someone said it's possible that it could be a break. After getting X-rayed and waiting a very (very) long time to see a doc, he basically said that he couldn't see an obvious break, but couldn't rule out the possibility of it, so he put a splint on me that runs from my toes to just below my knee, and told me to see another doctor today. I went to see that doctor this morning, and he basically said the same thing, thinking it was a sprain, but not ruling out the possibility of a break. He told me to prop it up lots this week to bring down the swelling, and to see him again in a week. He said if it's still really bad after a week, then he said he'll probably have to cast it whatever it is.


So there's a few things I have to work out now, like how long I'll have to be off work, and how I'm going to film a wedding reception by myself on Saturday night, and stuff like that.

But God is good, and unfortunate things like this don't change that at all. If anything I need to adjust my point of view to see that anything apart from hell is grace, and this isn't less than I deserve, it is in fact far more.

off to get some Ibuprofen.
out.

WHAT'S wrong WITH me.

I don't know why I haven't posted of late.
I've been commenting but posting never really entered my extreemly (haha) distracted brain.
I'm headed off to a rehearsal for Crossway Community Church's Easter play "The Look". www.whatsthelook.com.
It's our biggest production yet, with almost fifty actors/background people. I'm not really doing anything because I have to miss the first showing of it filming a wedding reception, then the second night I'm filming the play.

so I need to run.

check out the site.

Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do.

sigur ros.

the EP.

.........

Actually I'm supposed to be fixing something for Als, so I won't post right now.

sor
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