Work

Well the guy quit and now I am busy at work. The only plus side of this is that now the day goes by quickly. I barely have time to blog. Jk I can always find time for that. :) In all seriousness I haven't ran around like I have the past couple day since I framed houses. Its been fun. There is nothing more manly then getting in a huge earth moving machine and driving it around. In the little skid steers you can pop wheelies and just ride it out. I love doing that by the way. That and they do the tightest doughnuts. I cant wait until we get our land then I can rent a DOZER!!! Take that Marilyn. I will have to invite friends to this and we can all take turns. It is going to be awesome. I may make a weekend out of it.

Our pastor at church gave a crazy sermon on Sunday. It was so good I am afraid to do anything except sit at the house and pray. It talked about gossip and taming your tongue. It was like he lives with me. It really woke me up to how much I still need to grow as an adult. Sometimes I forget I am still a kid. Not literally of course but I am very young. I really don't like to stir up drama but have noticed that lately I have started talking about people when they aren't there. Nothing really bad just little comments. Some people I am around have a lot more to say but its not about them is it? I need to work on my self. Levi said that the things you say are a reflection of inner problems. I realized that I lie a lot. Not to everyone mind you, mostly to the woman I love the most. How sad is that? I have really been working on this lately and to hear Levi talk about it this way really gave me motivation. Its not that they are big lies they are usually because I feel it would be easier to say one thing cause it creates less opportunity for me to get in trouble, when actually it does the opposite. Like the other day she asked where I was and I said I left work early to play disc golf with Levi. I had actually taken the whole day off cause I didn't feel like going in and used my sick time. I was in the middle of a round and was trying to get off the phone to continue playing. I don't know why I felt I needed to say that but I did like it was second nature. I fesses up later and got in way more trouble than i would have been in had I told the truth. How childish! It was like a natural reaction and after the sermon this scares me big time. I realized that I have some crazy trust issues. I am not sure why i can't be open and honest. If any one wants to help feel free to jump in this mess. I mean I might need an army of loving people to whip me into shape.

I know this is random but it has really got me excited. I need to work on my truck next month and I plan on doing the brakes. I hope I don't mess them up and crash. Foretelling any one. Jk I hope.

Peace

THE OFFICE!!!

Tonight is the night all the waiting ends. Are Dwight and Angela getting back together? Will Jim finally ask Pam to marry him? Will Micheal say something stupid? Of course he will. If you have no clue what I am talking about you need to slap yourself and get with the program. I am a huge fan of the office and tonight it comes back on for another season to make me uncomfortable with all of its awkward glory. We are having a party at my house to enjoy this with most of our friends. Whom I hope wont judge me to much on how into it I get. It is going to be so much fun. I think it is the greatest comedy on TV right now. I am really excited about watching this if you cant tell.

Saturday we are seeing the other property that we are interested in. This one will be a really good hunting property but it might not be as nice as the other one for a house. I think this one would be better for hunting but not for living is what I am trying to say. I found out my mom is bringing her shotgun down here for me to have until she moves down here. This is awesome by the way. It is a 20 ga Mossberg tactical. She has a pistol grip and a regular butt. How cool. Any one that has ever met my mom should stop and think about this tiny little lady holding this big shot gun. I chuckle thinking about how cute it would look as long as she is facing away from you. I might see if I can talk her into getting a pistol instead I think she could handle it better.

I have started reading John for a bible group thing and when I did it took me way back to my baby christian days of TEEN QUIZZING!! Maybe not that cool but I remember it was on the book of John. I hope that when we get together to talk about it I don't jump out of my seat and rattle off any memory versus. jk. I started thinking about how awesome I was at quizing. I am a little ashamed to say that in Colorado there was only one kid that beat me in the three competitions I did with the whole state. I had trophy's for each of the three competiions. When I quit quizing there were a lot of people that were upset by it. OK well there is your Andrew's haunted past tidbit for the day. keep it real hommies!

Week End Up date

This weekend was BUSY. Saturday we spent all day looking at properties. we have one that we all really like and two more to look at. The only thing about the one we like is that the neighbors have cows and there is no fence so they just come on over. I don't know how we could get them to put one up or if we would have to front the cash. Sunday we had church and were missing some vital people to help set every thing up. It took a little more time but over all went ok. After that we went to a lunch and it was really fun.

I have been planning some parties at my house and the first is Thursday a which is "The Office" season 4 premier. We are super excited about this one. All my shows are coming back on. I love fall all my TV shows are back. the next party is the first annual Russell Halloween party. It is going to be awesome I have my costume picked out already!!!

I might lose my first fantasy game tonight. I hope that Gates does terrible.

this week should be a good one. Real busy but I will make the most of it. I am really excited about Saturday looking at the last two properties will be really good.

Manly

For those of you living in a bubble, last week a hurricane blew through Texas. We just got high winds and a ton of rain where I live. Our electricity kept clicking on and off, and sometime during that our refrigerator broke. We spent about two hours on Saturday cooking a ton of meat to keep it from spoiling. I tell you this to explain why I stayed home yesterday.

I woke up to the repair man calling to tell me he would be late. So I got up and decided to work on my truck. I love working on my truck nothing makes me feel more manly than doing auto work. All I did yesterday was an oil change and I changed out all the plug wires for new ones. Its amazing how important I feel when I do these little things. Some where in doing this I mess up a fuse again and it would start. Talk about a huge blow to the ego. Here I am thinking I am the manlyest man in the entire world, go to start it an nothing. (ouch my pride) I am officially not ever taking the truck to an auto shop again. They charged me 100.00 to put a fuse in my truck. That is wrong. It was like 10 dollars in parts and 90 in labor. I could have done it myself for way less than that. I will not be making that mistake again. I would rather ride my bike than pay some one to look at my truck, then try and stick it to me. I ended up missing a whole day of work which sucks but had to be done cause the repair man didn't show up until a little before 2:00pm. They were supposed to be there between 8:00am-12:00pm. The dreaded four hour window. During all this I get a call from the tow truck driver and he tells me that he broke my mirror and that he needs a couple days to get me a new one. I called the office where he works and he told me he will get one today. We will see but at least I have called the office so that if he doesn't I will get me new mirrors.

I am getting rally excited about looking at all the land my mom wants to look into buying. I hope Marilyn is ready to take some pictures. It is going to be so much fun to spend that day hiking around my new potential camping ground. This is all going down Saturday.

Last night I went over to my buddies house. I really like hanging out with him. I need to invite him over though this friendship is so one sided and I feel bad.

Twosday.

Yes I know that, that is not the correct spelling. Hidden meaning? maybe? Any way. The past couple of days have been really busy. Sunday we had church and a full day of foot ball, we also ate with family and went to a birthday party. Yesterday we had people over for dinner and Monday night football. The game last night was crazy for anyone that missed it. I watched as my fantasy team slowly started to lose its grasp of the lead. I won by .55 of a point. I am still undefeated and feel pretty good about my chances to take this whole thing. I have been busy helping my mom find some land down here in Texas and then trying to just relax. It has been really nice but when I think back on the past two days I see that I have gotten a lot done. My poor wife, man I love her. I went to bed Monday night and woke up to a spotless house. I just want to publically thank her for all the work she does. I think I do a lot around the house but then I see all the little stuff shes done and it puts me to shame. I love you Marilyn and all the nice things you do to keep the household moving. (intenet kiss) Sorry about that guys but it had to be done! Moving on.

I went last week and played Disc Golf with my friend Levi and he found this new course, it was a really fun course. Also a while back I asked my neighbor whom I am trying to get to know better if he would like to go. I told him let me know when ever he is free to go and yesterday he said he was free Thursday and Friday. I never thought he would take me up on my offer. So I am going to take him to this new course, I hope he has fun and that I can start becoming his friend. Thats not to girly is it?His name is Kyle and he has two little boys, the youngest one is the only one I have met and he is so cute. I came home one day and I hadn't mowed my yard in a while it was getting long. Any way I pulled up and his son is in my yard cutting my grass with scissors. How funny is that. The little boy really wants to meet my dog Kobe and is always coming up to the fence trying to see him through the boards. Any way I hope it goes well.

I have to cut my grass today and I am not looking forward to it.

Oh the Texas state fair is almost here. I think I am going to go tonight and get my wife and I's season pass. It is so much fun to go out to the fair for a fun and cheap date. We have a friend that lives for the fair it seems like, so we go a lot. Shes kind of got us hooked on it. The food is good and we like to just go and act like kids again.

I am sitting here trying to think if there is anything else I want to tell you guys but I cant think of anything. If something comes up I will let you know.

Peace.

GOD OF THIS CITY!!!!!

Dibs on this song. I was asked to blog about a song we sing in church and how it speaks to me. I think it was so important that will post it on two different blogs. Man there isn't a song I have heard in church that speaks to me the way this song does. My wife said that it should be the "theme" song for our church. I would whole heatedly agree. Not just our church but any church. This song to me talks about how great God is, and how much he has done for us. It also reminds us that it is our job to share his love. Not force it on people but to just love people. What greater compliment could we give God then to try and love the way he does. No strings attached or hidden goals, just love. I know in my personal walk with God I want to be someone that just loves people no matter what. I don't care if you agree with who they are or what they choose to do, just love them. This for me is very hard to do, but is something I really am trying to work on. It is not our job to judge. If Jesus can be around the people and love the people he was with then I should be able to do the same in my life. How great would our world be if everyone just loved each other with out question or expectations? Not just the people that are Christians but Muslims, Jews, Atheists, or anyone that believes anything. What I wish would be that as a community of humans we could learn to love. This would change the world. "Greater things are yet to come. Greater thing, are still to be done in this city!!!!"

Excited

Well I don't know if I have blogged about this yet, but the people I hang out with are probably sick of me talking about it. Well suckers here it is again. I really wanted some land to start my professional hunting career on. (not a pro at all) So I started looking at leases for my friends and I to share. In doing this I saw that people are making a ridiculous amount of money off this land. Like 1500-2000 dollars a person. For that much money you can only bring yourself out to hunt. Like your family can't even go camping on it while you are out there. LAME!! So I started researching how much it would be to buy a plot of land. Turns out you can find some great deals here in Texas. I found some that I would be like four or five years from even thinking about buying seeing as I just bought a house and got married so it wasn't in the cards. I called my mom just to catch up and mentioned it in passing about how owning land down here would be cool and the deals I found on the Internet. Next thing I know she calls me up and asks me to look into some land down here for her to buy in the next year and a half. I called her back to tell her what I had found and she said, "well I want to retire in four or five years and would like to live in the country close to my future grand babies. It would also be nice if it was all paid off by the time I got there." I thought that was very cool. Then she unloads the mother load of good news. She wants to buy land in November. That's right I said NOVEMBER like in two months from now November. This is so exciting! Maybe not for you but for me I can't control how happy I am about it. Next weekend we are going to try and get out to go look at some of the properties I have found on the Internet. I don't want to say where seeing how this is so public someone might snipe the land from my dear Mommy. I guess the gun purchase wasn't in vain after all.

Another bonus of this is having my mom so much closer to my family again. I have really missed her. I am about the biggest mama's boy in the world. Who wouldn't be when you have the bestest mom in the whole wide world. In a few years when Marilyn and I are ready for kids it will be a jack pot of love, they will be able to see their Nana a whole lot more than if she was living in Colorado.

Fantasy Foot ball

Turns out doing fantasy foot ball was a bad idea. Not because its not fun or anything just because I AM (sorry about the type o) addicted. Its not good for my mental health. I sit at my desk at work and just read over all these NFL happenings and see how I can use that to benefit my team. I keep talking my self into and out of starters. I am basically panicking about if I might win this weekend. This Sunday I will be curled in the fetal position watching the game with my lap top out yelling at the players. I ended up wining last week and this week I am facing one of the top teams. If I can pull out a win here I feel I can take the whole thing. I am gambling on some people this week though. I don't want to say whom it is cause I will jinx them.

Last night (pastor) Levi called about doing some in depth bible boot camp with me and I couldn't go, bummer. I am really excited to start reading and studying the bible more in depth. I hope to be his best student. Jk its not school. Every time I read the bible I get half way through Genesis and get bored and stop reading it. Maybe with a little accountability I will be able to get all the way through it. Levi better carry a big stay on track stick.

Any one want to play disc golf? Oh I bought gun the other day here is a pic. Its my first shot gun for my new hunting career. Its a Remington 1100 12 Ga semi auto.

Official Driver

Today I wrapped up a two day effort that ended with me being a licensed driver again. I took the written test yesterday, which is way harder than I thought it would have been. I am pretty sure I was one question away from failing. Today it was all different I owned the driving portion. The lady said I had one of the best scores she ever had. Take That! So basically I am getting bored with everyone telling me how great I am at every thing. JK. Also I am now a registered voter in Texas. Thats right I am going to make a difference. Jk Voting for president is like arguing over which M&M color tastes better. They are all the same. Not only do they not make decisions for them selves they are basically pawns the do what the house and senate tells them to, Or whom ever the highest bidder is. Any way now when I get pulled over I wont have to make up a lie about leaving my licence at home. I can take the tickets like every one else.

Oh THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY. I don't know if I could take much more of this week.

Hunting

Well over the holiday weekend I got to shoot some guns and really enjoyed it. Now that I am an adult I want to pursue something I have never done before, hunting! I spent the last two hours of yesterday and most of today looking up camo on the Bass Pro website. Man its expensive stuff. Every time I look at it though I get excited. I don't know what to buy first the out fits or the guns. In looking all this stuff up I started researching where to go hunting in Texas. Turns out it is nothing like Colorado. Here you have to lease land from some one and it runs about 2000.00 a person!!!! So I got the idea of just buying some land and making the payments. I found some plots of about 10-20 acres of forest and ponds for 30,000-60,000. If I went into it with a few of my friends that would want to hunt, camp or ride four wheelers or what ever there, I think it would be a much wiser choice in the long run. Not only would we own the land but we could turn it into our own lease if we didn't feel like hunting that year. So now I just have to talk my buddies into going in on it with me. Well no talk them into it but see if that is something they might be interested in.

Wish me luck.

Week End Up Date

If you cant tell I blog at work. So these weekend updates may get a little lengthy. That being said lets get started. It all started Saturday when I slept in. That was fabulous by the way. I woke up and my wife made biscuits. There is nothing better in the morning than waking up to the smell of warm biscuits. Any way I got up after laying in bed awake for like 30 minutes. The only reason I got up is because I had to work on my wife's car and it was getting hot out side. Got up ate buttery biscuits and jelly then took out my wife's head light and headed to the parts store. Got there and saw they were having a sale on some things so I bought stuff for my truck that I thought would be easy to fix and headed home. After a minute my wife's car was fixed. I think that the first time something on her car took such little time. Newer cars are so complicated. So I started on my truck, I am a little embarrassed to say this but I got bettered by a little piece of plastic. I couldn't take my plug wires off because a little plastic clip got stuck and I couldn't get it open. The fact that it was a million degrees and I was soaked with sweat might have had something to do with me giving up so easily. My truck had been riding a little rough lately and I took the plugs out and found out why. They must have been the stock plugs from the factory. they were old and not good. I replaced those and it runs so much better. After I finished that up I got the bug, The cleaning bug that is. It doesn't happen often but when it does watch out. I took the seats out of my truck vacuumed under them and then shampooed the entire truck. I also cleaned all the interior and then armor-alled the entire inside of the truck. I love that truck and now even more cause all the nasty stains came out. I highly recommend shout to anyone that has stains in the carpet on seats. It took out everything!!! Now I need new floor mats to match the sexy interior! Oh all this cleaning made us late to our friends house whom had big news by the way. Congrats friends!!!!

Next was church we had a different service. I don't know if I liked or loved it. It was ok and hit good topics but was a little slow. Maybe I was just tired. I think the things we talked about are important I just have never been a fan of reading and for lack of a better term "chanting" together. I will say that the music gave me a work out. Man this was the hardest Sunday for me the sound guy for some reason. Maybe cause I am getting better and notice the little things now, or maybe I was just struggling.

We went camping and it was AWESOME!!. There were guns, and fish, and fire, and burgers, and four wheelers, the list could go on. It was like a highlight reel of camping adventures. I did have a rough time in the fishing pole department. Last week I went camping and broke one of my fishing poles. So I went out and bought a new one just for this trip. I put on the reel and got it all ready. I set it up with a bobber and catfish bait cast it out and let it sit. I noticed it was drifting so I reeled it in for another cast. As I cast I heard a noise and looked just in time to see my reel fly into the lake. So I was tried to pull the string off of it and save it but the reel fell of the string and was gone for ever. I thought well at least I have the pole still. So I gave up fishing for the trip seeing as I had lost three lures and a reel. On the drive home the poles caught wind and I got to watch a semi run right over my new pole. The fish gods hate me. I will not be buying any more fishing stuff for a while.

And that was my weekend. Hope every one else's were just as eventful and fun.