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Hunting high and low... mostly low...
We're looking to buy a house.We have visited SO MANY houses recently, and looked at SO MANY MORE listings online that they are all starting to run together.
Like so many things, house-hunting, to me, is a really fun idea to talk about and play around with...
But a really, really, horrible, existential, soul-reaving process in which your very notions of priority, maturity, budgeting and self-esteem are blown to pieces, baked in a pie, and served back to you in relentless perpetuity.
It's also very complicated for first-timers. No wonder so many people screw it up, get foreclosed on, and ruin the world's economy.
But hey - you know - NO PRESSURE.
I say all that to say:
We actually found a house we like. It's a little farther out from work than I'd like (it's in Katy, TX), but it's very cool, within our price range, a good size, and in a great neighborhood.
We're meeting with the Realtor tonight to work out the details of an offer.
I'm scared to death. I don't understand why everybody else is NOT scared to death of committing to something for 30 years. Renting feels very, very safe to me right now.
Nevertheless! -we are pressing forward. And yes, I'm actually a little excited. There are a lot of pieces to consider, and a lot of hoops to jump through. Plenty can go wrong.
Sherlock Holmes Trailer!
Trailer is out for the new Sherlock Holmes movie starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams. Check it out HERE in HD at Yahoo Movies, and eat your heart out.
Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie, is due in theaters Christmas Day 2009.
CAN'T FREAKING WAIT.
Now I can die in peace...
Reading back over the last few posts, I noticed a couple of things I had mentioned off hand that I wanted to follow up on.
Namely -
Now I can die in peace.
Secondly, Abz and I leave early tomorrow morning with our friends Raine and Andrew Neilson for The World's Best Vacation of 2009 (so far)!! Codename: Project Rodent. We're going to Disney World (again)!!! We're staying at the plush Sheraton Vistana Villages in Orlando, and spending 5+ days park hopping, relaxing, and playing LOTS of Settlers of Catan. Wish you were there butnotreally!! Comment with your address, and I'll send you a picture e-mail from EPCOT!!
Lastly - My summer reading list.
As soon as I finish High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, I'll be reading:
Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostriecher
The Reason For God by Tim Keller
A Christianity Worth Believing by Doug Pagitt
and just for fun,
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
And hopefully LOTS and LOTS of comic books, namely the Batman: Battle for the Cowl, and Green Lantern: Blackest Night series.
What are you reading?
Also - do YOU have U2 tickets?
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Namely -
I HAVE GENERAL ADMISSION FLOOR TICKETS TO
U2 @ RELIANT STADIUM ON OCTOBER 14, 2009!!
(Muse is opening)
Patrick Gilgour bought them for me as a "birthday present". As promised, he is hereby exempt from all future birthday, Christmas, and anniversary presents (You're still on the hook for baby showers, though, suckachump!).U2 @ RELIANT STADIUM ON OCTOBER 14, 2009!!
(Muse is opening)
Now I can die in peace.
Secondly, Abz and I leave early tomorrow morning with our friends Raine and Andrew Neilson for The World's Best Vacation of 2009 (so far)!! Codename: Project Rodent. We're going to Disney World (again)!!! We're staying at the plush Sheraton Vistana Villages in Orlando, and spending 5+ days park hopping, relaxing, and playing LOTS of Settlers of Catan. Wish you were there butnotreally!! Comment with your address, and I'll send you a picture e-mail from EPCOT!!
Lastly - My summer reading list.
As soon as I finish High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, I'll be reading:
Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostriecher
The Reason For God by Tim Keller
A Christianity Worth Believing by Doug Pagitt
and just for fun,
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
And hopefully LOTS and LOTS of comic books, namely the Batman: Battle for the Cowl, and Green Lantern: Blackest Night series.
What are you reading?
Also - do YOU have U2 tickets?
Marriage
Sometimes... when my wife and I are getting dressed in the morning... independently of each other... we end up wearing almost exactly the same outfit. It's weird because she usually picks her clothes out first, and I don't see her until she is almost all put together.I guess what I'm saying is that - in a really uncanny way, I think I can sub-consciously sense my wife's color and pattern vibes and misread them as original thoughts on what I'M supposed to wear that day.
This morning we both wore jeans and a green t-shirt. Sometimes she gets mad when it happens, as if I were doing it on purpose. I actually think it's sweet, and kind of hilarious. Sometimes I even change my clothes when I notice.
Let me make one thing clear: I would NEVER intentionally dress just like my wife, unless we were going as chaperones to the Parkview Baptist School Homecoming dance in 1994.
If you live with someone for a while, you start to become like them in little ways. Have you ever heard about how if women live in the same house for a long time, their menstrual cycles can start to synchronize? Two thoughts.
A) Whew! NO THANKS!
and
B) This is kind of how I think about the whole dressing-alike thing. I don't have a menstrual cycle, so maybe this is the next closest thing.
And that, friends, is what marriage means to me.
Spinning (Seder) Plates...
Baruch HaShem!Happy Passover, go brain, go! followers!
A lot going on right now. I'm not really the kind of guy who gets stressed out - but if I was going to pick a time, it would probably be now.
In fact, all of 2009 so far has been in such a hurry. I don't like it. I don't think it's good to live life at such a pace.
Here's what's coming up:
- Abby and I leave tomorrow morning for a weekend in Baton Rouge. My sister is getting married and has asked me to perform the ceremony. What an honor! The catch? It's a Renaissance wedding. At a castle (in Louisiana? Yes.) With costumes. And the ceremony, I guess, is going to be in King James English. I should probably know that - I'm writing it. Anyway, there's something about our family that we enjoy getting married right around major holidays. Abz and I were married 2 days before Christmas. Casey and her husband are getting married 2 days before Easter. That's right - Good Friday. Frankly, I don't know how she pulled it off. Much of the celebration of Easter (these days) revolves around children. She is a Children's Minister at a church. She's going to be gone Easter weekend on her honeymoon. She's either brilliant or crazy.
- Sunday morning is Easter, of course, and our youth ministry is holding a Passover Seder that morning at 9:30 and 11:00. It's become kind of a tradition in our group (2 years in a row!) that is very cool. It does, however require a monumental amount of preparation, that I'm not sure I have time for (and yet here I am blogging). It's a beautiful experience that connects us with the history of our faith, our roots in Judaism, and reminds us of what it means to be in covenant relationship with each other and with God. If I wasn't so exhausted thinking about all I still have to do before I leave in the morning, I would say that I'm really looking forward to it. Maybe I can get some help from some students during our Journey Group meeting tonight.
- Easter Sunday afternoon my Young Couples small group is having a crawfish boil (OH YEAAH!) to celebrate the resurrection. I'm not sure how 5 pounds of bugs per person celebrates the resurrection - but I'm willing to go with it. Also - are crawfish Kosher? Who cares.
- The weekend after Easter? Disciple Now.
- Then a short break to write 3 papers, prepare for and take 2 finals (early) before our trip to WALT DISNEY WORLD in Florida May 8-15, 2009.
WHEW!
*sweat drops - sweat drops*
*worry lines - worry lines*
Left arm for sale - hardly used....
New Rob Bell tour - Drops Like Stars - is coming to Austin in November.
U2 is supposedly coming to Houston in Sept./Oct.
Time to start saving-up-slash-get-a-second-job.
You better be sure!!
Benji extols my back-in-the-day basketball virtues.
A lesson on how the universe fundamentally works.
A demonstration of my skillz.
All in under 10 minutes.
Enjoy!
I used this for part of my teaching on February 8, 2009.
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A lesson on how the universe fundamentally works.
A demonstration of my skillz.
All in under 10 minutes.
Enjoy!
I used this for part of my teaching on February 8, 2009.
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