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Wow so sorry for the break, Twilight and I had an experience. It pretty much consumed me for a few months. Well actually I read them all in a week but that made me want to read a bunch of other books so now Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia are all read and accounted for. It was fun but now all I am reading is the Wheel of Time. It was hard to keep tract of all the books I was reading at once. As expected since March a ton of things happened because I am that awesome. jk For the span of three months almost nothing happened.

My mom came and visited and we found out we have hogs on our property, this is cool because I am planning a hunting party this long weekend and hope to bring back the pork. We went and saw Star Trek and it was awesome. Marilyn and I happened across a drive in move theater that was also awesome. Everyone support your local drive in, it's a lost art. Any Teenagers that are looking for date ideas go to a drive in. They are cheap in a glorious way. It was $6.00 a person and the snacks were way cheap. And no one is in the seat behind you so let the necking commence. Yes I said necking because that is more fun than saying making out. I think time should go back to the fifties either that or I was born in the wrong era. Which I have often thought. In the fifties man they had big band swing and zuit suits, basically endless possibilities. If my facts are wrong I don't care this is the fifties Andrew wants to live in.

Oh everyone make sure you lock your cars. It turns out people steal thing even from pastors whom don't lock their cars. Just a word to the wise. Love you Levi and H-money.

Twilight

I read the complete series last week and am shocked to tell everyone that I am obsessed with these books. I kind of feel bad for out right disappearing on my wife last week. She would come home and turn the TV on as I was sitting down stairs reading. I don't know if anyone else has the same problem but I am extremely easy to distract when I am reading. So all of last week Marilyn would come home expecting us to watch TV and I would retreat to the bed room for the rest of the night I even missed a couple of dinners just to finish these books. I don't think I have been this invested in a book since Harry Potter. (which I started reading again last night.) The Twilight series was amazing. I can't stop running it through my head. I really recommend the Books.

Tomorrow I am going to a concert that I have been waiting for, for about two years. Two years ago I went to The Warped Tour here in Dallas. My favorite band of all time was playing there and Killswitch Engage put on the best concert I have ever been too. I waited for them to come back but the hadn't until know. I am going to Music as a weapon tour which has Killswitch Engage and Disturbed whom are at least co-head lining. I am super pumped.

I am extremely tired. This entire week I have been going to sleep late and getting up early and Saturday took the cake. We had some friends over and didn't get to sleep until four. The night before that I didn't get to sleep until two o'clock. Both of these days I got up at about 8:30 or 9:00. If I make it through the day, I may take a coma tonight. Starting at about 5:30 when I get home.

Will be back soon.

Peace

Oh the Weather

Out side is frightful. jk I love that song and it fits so I will use it. Do you think I will have to pay a royalty? I hope not. I finally got all the issues on my truck figured out and 850.00 later it is reliable again. I saved us about 300 though by putting on my own alternator. I find it unbelievable how much dealers charge for simple tasks. I sat down yesterday and looked up a computer program that I am going to save up and get. It is the same ones dealers use to fix cars. Basically if you know what you need to fix you type it in and it gives you step by step instruction on how to fix it. I would save so much money if I can find one that covers all makes and models. I would fix everything myself. Any way the alternator literally took 20mins to switch out and saved 300 bucks. You're welcome bank account..

Today is my 2nd Wedding anniversary with Marilyn. I got her something she always wants but can't write it on here yet because I don't know if she has received it yet. I love her and am still happy with my choice.

This weekend is another full of no rest. I am looking forward to one day actually getting to relax all weekend. Maybe it is coming soon.

Peace Andrew

Lay offs!

I haven't really been blogging because I usually do it at work. I have had to try and avoid the Internet at work due to the fact that my company is doing lay offs. You know keeping my head down. Being busy, looking busy all that stuff. Well today the axe was dropped and we had a ton of people get let go. I was not one of them thus me blogging again. It is sad to watch people I have worked closely with for two years get let go like they don't matter. I hated watching friends looking so lost like they had no idea what they were going to do. It made me appreciate my job more and also I think I realized that even if I had lost my job like them I know I would have been ok. Its like my mom always said when I was younger and never believed her or just brushed it off, "God will always be there." It is so true. I mean it is hard and there are a lot of people that don't think it will happen. After things in my life and my moms life and friends lives I have to start buying into that fact that while it may not be easy God has a plan and will watch over us.

I went to a birthday for Keegan on Tuesday and was having what my wife calls a "Fat Day". I just hate the way I look and want to do something about it. I wish I wasn't so lazy. I have blogged about being all worked up about this before and I don't want to day the old. "but this time I mean it." I am going to put up or shut up no more complaining I do it or I don't. I love the gym is my new mantra.

Any body want to go help me some Saturday put up a fence on my land? All volunteers reply below.

Peace Andrew.

Stage

Tonight we start construction on the stage at church. We will be mostly cutting up studs and marking the floor where everything is going. My goal for tonight is to get all the angles figured out and to get all the studs cut and maybe the plate cut and laid out. If we get all that done, on Saturday we will start on all the fun stuff of nailing it all together. I really hope this turns out good. I think it will but now I am stressing because if it doesn't it reflects poorly on me. The good news is Brad and I got some more help which will be useful and make our lives so much easier.

Work has been a little stressful with layoffs. Fortunately I am pretty sure I am in the clear. I guess I will find out for sure next week.


This weekend I have work to do as usual. It seems like when the weather gets nice the busier I am. I am going to have fun tonight after the stage meeting, then its up early to get some work done around the house and then hit the stage again tomorrow.

Have a great weekend.

Peace

Hard work

This past weekend I spent out at the property with a couple of friends putting in fence posts. We had 40 something to do and got all the hole drilled and only have five posts to set in. It was such a hard working weekend. We started sat at about 12:30 Saturday and finished Sunday at about 6:30. I was exhausted. I have bruises in places I had no idea were getting beat on. Any way we are going again in two weeks to stretch wire, put in t posts and hopefully finish it all up. If there are any more volunteers that would like to come let me know. the help would be much appreciated. jk Kinda.

This week I finally get to go back to church. I have been so busy lately that it has been about two and a half months since I have been. Our church is about to move into our new building and we are waiting on me and the "Wilderness" to get a stage built. Hopefully we can get that done over the weekend or by the very latest next week. We are waiting on lumber, when it hits it is game on.

Well hopefully I will have more later. Thanks for checking in.

Peace.

Well Hey There

Oh looky there I am still blogging just went on vacation. It was a ma za zing. I love Cruises they are so much fun and every place we have been so far has been gorgeous. I really love the Caribbean. I wish I could live there all the time. The beaches and the weather, it is all perfect. We went on an excursion to the Yucatan Peninsula and on the beach there is a rv park. I thought that, that was the perfect set up. If a hurricane blows in, just hook up to your house and take off. Talk about beach front property. I would love to do that. Marilyn and I had a really good time and really re-connected with each other. I love being reminded of all the reasons I love my wife. This vacation was one of the best for us. We didn't fight and really soaked up our time together. It is so good for our relationship to just get away from all the distractions and just love on each other. Sorry about the mushy stuff but Its my blog and I will do what I want.

I miss all of my friends I feel like I haven't seen them in a while. Sometimes I question the friendship thing if I only see them at church. I need to invite people over more, and try harder. Looks like the Russell's need to have a Smoke Out. I will see if I can work that out. It is coming on Brisket season.

This weekend I will be doing some big time manual labor. I am setting all the posts four our fence on our propriety. Pray for me I will need all of your prayers. I do love manual labor though. I know it sounds strange but working hard and getting my hands dirty is what I love to do.

Peace

Andrew

TWO DAYS!!

I am going to be cruising in Two days. We are so excited about getting on this boat. We really need a vacation. All week Marilyn and I have been having a big problem focusing on anything other than the cruise. ... Like right here I started thinking about it and didn't type anything for a full minute. Today is my mommies birthday though. I would say how old she is but i don't have a death wish. Lets just say she has worked really hard raising us for a very long time. Love you mama. Any way back to the cruise. Marilyn and I are going with a bunch of friends and we are so stoked to be going with them. I hope everyone is really jealous. Marilyn already said this is going to be the stress free screw it week of our year. Screw it week means that we say screw it to every thing and relax and do what we want when we want to do it. It is going to be Legend... wait for it .... Dary. Every one should watch how I met your mother it is the greatest show on the planet followed by big bang theory.

we went to the killers concert last night with a few of our friends. They did a great job and really put on a good show. My wife really liked it and that's why we went. Speaking of concerts I got the greatest tickets in the entire world. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and Disturbed in the same show. I can tell you are all jealous as hell. I will admit it is hard to live such and awesome life. Jk. But I am wetting my pants in anticipation of this concert. We got crazy awesome tickets and I am so ready to rock the house out. "COME ON!! HOLY DIVER." Look into that you wont regret it.


And then I found 20 dollars.

Peace

Where has all the time gone?

I have been so extremely busy as of late. Not so much at work but right after work I have to kick on the after burners. I really don't mind because its for stuff that I enjoy doing. Last week I bought a new, well new to us camper for our land out east. It was in pretty good shape for a 70's model. Marilyn was excited because the 70's style is coming back and out old camper is hip again. i had to fix some stuff in it but it looks so much better. I also got to spend the weekend out there with my wife and some friends. We had a great time and I was really impressed with the camper. It was the first time I have been camping and slept past sunrise.
While we were out there I met the County Commissioner whom also works for a survey company. I found out exactly where out property line is and was pleasantly surprised. We had a lot more property than I had thought. We actually have a creek on our land and that's awesome. Our hunting area is prime I am super stoked about it. can't wait for deer season. I need to get a feeder out there.
Marilyn and I are getting ready for our cruise we leave in 9 days. We are riding to Galveston with some friends of our and can't wait to chillax for a whole week. As soon as we get back it is back to work. My buddy brad and I are going to go put up a fence out at the land to keep all the people and trash off our property.
Well that's a small update I have done more and have a lot more to do. Good talking to ya. Take 'er easy.


Peace

Duck hunt 09

I went camping this past weekend with my friend Rippey. It was awesome! I finally got to hunt something and was victorious. I got my first two Mallard Hens. They were beautiful and I hope they taste as good as they looked. Rippey got one of his own and we had a really good weekend. We tried to catch us a hog but luck was not on our side. Next time we are going to call the guy that owns the land and see if he will spread out some feed before we go to keep them around then we will bait our trap and get one.

These next few weeks are all very busy. This week my wife and I are going out to my property to get a survey done and also to go camping. I always have fun camping and its supposed to be a good weekend for it. I excited to see exactly where our property lines are. I hope its bigger than I think. If not that's fine too its still the coolest place to go camping at in Texas.

Marilyn and I also went to the Fort Worth Stock Show. This was a unique experience. I had a great time and I Would go again. The rodeo wasn't very much fun but I think it was the type of rodeo. I found the auction very interesting. They were really giving away longhorns for cheap. I think when it comes down to it that I might push for us getting our herd from an auction.

Hope everyone is having a great week talk to you all later.


Peace.

Ouchiewawa

I went to the gym for the first time in about a year. For some reason I always go in with the mentality that I can work out like I was in high school again. Needless to say I am extremely sore. I woke up yesterday and could barley move. Yesterday it was just my arms today its my chest arms abs basically everything I worked out two days ago. I wanted to go again today but really don't think I would get much done. It hurts to open the doors at work. I think I will try and go a little easier tomorrow when I go back.

The hunt is still on this weekend and I have YouTubed a bunch of videos on how to field dress any animal I might get this weekend.


The "Wilderness" and I are volunteering to build the stage at our new church here in the next month or two to get it ready for opening weekend. I really enjoy planning this stuff out and miss building houses like I used too. I wish i could do it as a living and make the money I am making now doing it. I am really excited about the blue prints i drew up. My pastor Sprang gave me a picture of what he wants and I think that I drew up exactly what he was looking for. When we are done building this thing it will take a bomb to get it out.

Last night we went and celebrated our Friends daughters birthday. Shes such a cute little girl and it was so much fun. I hate to admit it but I really like Chucky Cheeses. All the video games are a quarter!!! It doesn't get any better than that.

Hope you all are having a great week.

Peace

1-13

Sorry about the title I just had no motivation to think of a good name. Today is a blah day. There hasn't been much of anything going on. Work is getting busy but as you can tell not busy enough to keep me from blogging. Yesterday after I bloggered I got invited to go on another hunting trip. I am going to go hunt hogs on my friends property in Oklahoma. I really hope I get one, one hog will give us a ton of meat. I also might try and score some ducks while I am out there. last night I went and bought a ducks call and chased my wife's Pekingese around the house with it. I think she likes it. Duck calls are loud and so much fun to make noises with.

This weekend is the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. Marilyn and I have tickets to the rodeo and are looking forward to it. We are going to go early and enjoy all the live stock and especially the longhorns. Hopefully I can get some connections and kind of network a little and learn who I need to deal with when we get into the cattle business.

Peace

Sneaky Ducks

I was all pumped up about going duck hunting and I didn't see a single one. The guys I was with saw one flock fly over but that was it. I had a great time on the trip but wish I could have shot at a ducky, maybe next time. Brad and I went on a trek through this marsh though, and saw some pretty cool stuff. We were looking for a better place to post up when we go back out and learned we were in the best spot already. We walked around for ever and learned trudging through the plants in a marsh is a lot of work. I was beat when we got home. While we were out though I looked up and we saw five does walk not 50 yrds away from where we were standing. If I only had my rifle on me and it was still deer season. We did get a lot accomplished though. Fred got this laser sighting tool for Christmas and we tried it out. We got both our 30-06's sighted in and super accurate at 50 yrds. I am going to try and make it a point to get to the range in the next few months and just shoot all my guns. Try and get a little more comfortable with them. The trip was a blast and I can't wait to go again. I just like being outdoors it so relaxing and just peaceful out there. I need to go out to my property and do some camping / work if anyone is interested in taking a weekend and hanging out with me let me know.

Peace

Washer

About two days ago I came home from my work and my wife says, "I have some bad news." Not what I wanted to hear at 7:15pm on a Tuesday night. It was the washer. It crapped out. I open it up and our laundry is floating in a basin of water. So after I took the metal off the back and yelled at the wires to start working needless to say it didn't work. So yesterday my wife went out and Dave Ramsey us a new washer. Turns out all the places we went to wont work on the price at all. We couldn't believe that a place the sells dented and scratched up washers wont let you haggle. Any one that thinks they are getting a good deal at that place needs to go to a sears store first. We stopped by a non sears outlet on the way home and found out they only had taken off 100 bucks for a used washer. Not ok. We found a few on the Internet we are going to go look at today. I hope this goes well, I need this to end. Shopping for this type of things is so draining. The only thing good about it is that my wife and I get to spend some time just the two of us. Even if it is shopping for stuff I like being around her with out anyone distracting us.

Only on day until "The Wilderness" and I go on my first hunting experience ever.

Only 31 days until i get to chill in the Caribbean. Bring on the Beaches and the Margaritas.

Peace

Andrew

Gods Creatures

As most know I am just starting to get into hunting. This is very unfortunate because I grew up in one of the greatest hunting states and never got to experience it there. So as I am getting more immersed into this activity I looked into what it costs to hunt in another state. This blew my mind!!! To hunt in Colorado you have to put you name in a drawing. Even the residents have to do this, but a resident has to pay like 30 bucks for a licence. I have to pay 250 for just elk and 290 for just deer. In Texas I had to pay 60 and that came with birds fish and animals. That is ridiculous Colorado!!!! My friend Rippey said it best "That's a lot to pay for something no one owns.". God needs to lower his rates! :) I guess it will just take more convincing to talk my buddies into going to Colorado for a hunting trip. Maybe I can talk them into going for a week on a guided thing like a super, man vacation. You up for it Wilderness? One thing I will say about Texas is there really is a lot more animals to hunt here and a lot of area to do it in. This weekend keeps getting more awesome. My brother in law is coming now it should be fun for the four of us to hang out and shoot guns at birds. *fist Pump*



Peace

Bass Pros Mean Side

Last night I went to Bass Pro to get some stuff for my hunting weekend. It started off great we went to try on waders which is very comical to see me a large man squeeze into skin tight waterproof cloths. Lets say it was like an trying to dress an angry hippo into child size tights. Sad but humorous just the same. After my wife, our friends, and the bass pro helper got over laughing I found the pair and headed to look for some other things for "The Wilderness" aka Brad. We get all our shopping done and head to the counter. I go the the customer service counter because I needed to get my hunting licence. Well this is when it started to get ugly. Now I have had some jobs where you have to "close" down for the night. I have been in the sitch that you are so eager to go home you are shaking. When I worked in restaurants we would hate it when people walked in with five minutes left and it would be like our world ended but we would make the food and quit crying. NOT THIS LADY. She had already put up the duck stamps. She looked me straight in the eye and said Sorry you will have to come back another day they are already in the safe we close in five minutes. So I looked at the door because I read when we walked in that they closed at 10:00pm and it was 8:55pm. I said the door says you close at 10. Then in a snotty tone she looked over then back at me and says well if you would have looked there is also a sign saying our new store hours are 9. It wasn't enough that she wouldn't get me my stamp but then to be a complete punk about the time change. I mean She admitted they weren't closed yet and told me they couldn't help me. YEAH GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE. It took everything I had to not freak out. Needless to say I wont be buying my hunting licence from there and will take a break spending money with B-ASS Pro. Ok i vented thanks everyone fro reading.

Peace

Mon-eeon-eeon-day

I am in a great mood today. Which is a shock since I woke up so tired I almost fell asleep brushing my teeth. How do horses sleep standing up? I would be a terrible horse. any way... It is raining and nasty outside but it is cool watching the water freeze to the trees and make everything look plastic. We needed the rain which is strange for me to say in the winter time because no one in Colorado talks about rain in the winter. They don't panic until about July when we run out. In Texas though we always need rain.

Last night we went and saw a movie with our friends the "Sizzling Sprangs". That's a new nick name I just made up and it is officially patented right here by Russell's Inc. (also just patented.). I better not hear anyone saying it, or I will go crazy. We saw Valkyrie with Thomas Cruise. It was really good. I really wish in school they taught more about how not all the German people hated Jewish people. When I was in school it seemed all of the Germans were ok with it. I learned later they weren't but youngsters deserve to know the truth. The movie was fun and full of good knowledge.

Brad "The Wilderness" Bloomer invited me hunting this weekend. He has duck fever since he shot his first one. I am stoked about it and hope I get a chance at one. Marilyn will have to pluck it and gut it cause that's gross and I wont do it but I think shes ok with it. JK I will be doing it all. I may see if she can use some of her super cooking powers and make some crazy French recipe on it that she heard some where from someone she can't mention. My wife is a good cook but I swear she gets her recipes on the black cutting board market. Get It?

I will keep you posted.
Take er easy

Peace.