So tonight we had another birthday party for Keao. I tell you, that girl sure knows how to milk birthday. I need to start taking some notes. But I guess it’s not really her doing since we planned the first surprise birthday party and then today is actually her birthday…but, that’s where I draw the line. If I do get invited to another birthday party for her I’m definitely not going (well, probably not, depends on where it is). Actually…
Whew, what a busy weekend I had. Since I already wrote about my Saturday, I’ll just recap Sunday. At our church we have two Sunday morning services. So my goal every week is to make it by the break between the services. This Sunday I got there a little late so the break had already started. Imagine my surprise when I got flooded with questions about me moving to Japan! Apparently they showed a video in service of this this…
Ahhhh Saturday. I think that Saturdays in the fall are my favorite days. Not only are there the baseball playoffs, but college football is in full swing and the golf season is winding down and most importantly the basketball season hasn’t begun yet (although I am a huge fan of March Madness). Anyway, I was super tired this morning and a long day really hasn’t helped that from going away so I will quickly give you the recap about why…
So when I wrote last (which would be last night, I know, I turning into a regular Doogie Howser) I was pretty much just complaining and griping about how I didn’t like being between the Red Sea and the charging Egyptians. Of course, I am still in the same spot but I did manage to get some key revelations. First, it’s amazing how God places certain people in your life just to lighten things up. For instance, last night my…
Life. Is anyone’s life turning out the way you envisioned it five years ago? Tonight as Leadership Advantage (this big leadership conference our church does every year) ended and I was taking out the trash (I know, I get the good jobs) I did some reflecting on my life. Actually, I was trying to convince Keao that we had the same birthday just on different years and that I was turning 28 on the same day that she will turn…
So last Saturday night I finally got to see Kill Bill Vol. 2. If you haven’t seen this movie yet and you are planning to see it and you don’t want anything ruined for you then you may not want to read this until you have seen the movie. WARNING: POTENTIAL MOVIE SPOILER. DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. Of course if you know anything about these Kill Bill movies, you know that they are basically the story of revenge with…
Here’s a little story for all of you golf fans out there. As you may or may not know, the first full week of April brings about golf’s first major, the Masters (www.masters.org). In golf, there are the regular events and the majors. There are only four majors a year (the other three being the US Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship) and these tournaments are a little more highly regarded than all of the others. In golf,…
So a little while ago I was talking to one of my friends at work discussing a certain group of individuals that were for all intents and purposes doing the wrong thing. I asked her why she didn’t invite them to church. She replied that we wouldn’t want those kinds of people at church because they were so bad. But, I replied, those are exactly the kinds of people we want in church. Even Jesus said that “it is not…
So about a year ago, I received from my uncle, a nice puakenikeni tree. Actually, it was a little shoot of a tree because as anyone knows, you can’t just grow a puakenikeni tree from a seed. You need to graft it to a tree branch or something (I actually don’t know the full extent of the growings of this tree, but that’s what I’ve been told). So my uncle did all of that and gave us a little treeling…
A few weeks ago while I was in Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to watch some women’s basketball. My friend Raelen (there was recently a nice article about her in the Star Bulletin http://starbulletin.com/2004/02/29/sports/story14.html) plays for Loyola Marymount University so I went to watch her in action. Now if any of you watch sports, you know that it is rare that any one team or individual wins wire-to-wire. That’s part of the fun of watching or playing sports. Watching…