Big week for the mayor of Green Bay, first a photo-op with the President and then with me...wow.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Choo Choo
Many people blog from a plane at 33,000 feet in the sky but this is my first attempt at blogging on a train...riveting.
Sunday, January 09, 2011
El Centro, CA
I awoke around 4am Saturday morning and although happy to receive it, the dogs were confused as to why they were eating their breakfast at such an early hour.
They were because I had to leave the house by 5am to make sure I was at St. Mary Catholic Church in El Centro by 8am for a youth day I was speaking at. Having never driven to El Centro I wasn't quite sure how long it would take me so I made sure I left in plenty of time. he fact was I had no idea were I was going. I had asked about 3 different people for directions and had, well, 3 different sets of directions. The interweb had let me down and had no idea how to get me there either. Was I dejected? A little. But I figured if Jesus wanted me there He would get me there. I was taking that bumper sticker, "God as my co-pilot" to a whole new level. I drove past Lakeside and up into the mountains, uncharted territory for me alone.
At one point the fog rolled in and I couldn't see a few feet in front of me and then in an instant it would open up again and be clear. The road didn't change, it was just I couldn't see it. I started to think on my drive how that's how it is in life, we never get to see the whole trip right away we sometimes just see a few feet ahead of us at a time the rest has to do with trust and quality tires.
Before someone calls the shmultz police I will let you know I drove for two and a half hours and found it no problem. I had two talks for about 200 very nice teens and made it home by 3:30pm. I love my job, even the commute.
They were because I had to leave the house by 5am to make sure I was at St. Mary Catholic Church in El Centro by 8am for a youth day I was speaking at. Having never driven to El Centro I wasn't quite sure how long it would take me so I made sure I left in plenty of time. he fact was I had no idea were I was going. I had asked about 3 different people for directions and had, well, 3 different sets of directions. The interweb had let me down and had no idea how to get me there either. Was I dejected? A little. But I figured if Jesus wanted me there He would get me there. I was taking that bumper sticker, "God as my co-pilot" to a whole new level. I drove past Lakeside and up into the mountains, uncharted territory for me alone.
Before someone calls the shmultz police I will let you know I drove for two and a half hours and found it no problem. I had two talks for about 200 very nice teens and made it home by 3:30pm. I love my job, even the commute.
Monday, January 03, 2011
Clean Up on Aisles 5, 6 and 7!
Friday at 10:15 a.m., I was sliced and diced to remove another alien from my body and some built up scar tissue. It was just "minor surgery". The famous last words of someone not getting "minor surgery". I got laparoscopy which is way better than getting filleted like a salmon but still, not when you are the fish in question. So now I am sitting here quietly recovering (my favorite mode to recover) with 3 holes in my belly and the overwhelming urge to crawl out of my skin thanks to the general anesthesia that was pumped through me all because I signed a waiver giving them the high sign to pump away.
To prepare for Friday was quite the adventure the day before. It involved a jello/broth diet and drinking 2 bottles of this stuff: Magnesium Citrate, loosely translated meaning the devils spit (grape flavored).
Basically it causes you to have your first miracle; everything solid in your body turns to liquid. Not just once, but thousands of times until your head melts into your toes and you are so happy to show up to surgery you will sign any waiver they put in front of you. Praise God indeed.
So I'm hanging out recuperating and forgetting at times why I am sore until I see the pictures from the hospital they took during surgery (of my innards, not pictures like those infamous Guantanamo Bay photographs with the anesthesiologists thumbs up over my knocked out lifeless body).
I go to do a simple task and then a nice warm feeling comes over me and I have to sit down until I forgot why I got up in the first place. My mom says I am just warming up for my later years. Maybe she is right, as long as I don't have to perform any more "miracles" this week I will be fine!
Basically it causes you to have your first miracle; everything solid in your body turns to liquid. Not just once, but thousands of times until your head melts into your toes and you are so happy to show up to surgery you will sign any waiver they put in front of you. Praise God indeed.
So I'm hanging out recuperating and forgetting at times why I am sore until I see the pictures from the hospital they took during surgery (of my innards, not pictures like those infamous Guantanamo Bay photographs with the anesthesiologists thumbs up over my knocked out lifeless body).
I go to do a simple task and then a nice warm feeling comes over me and I have to sit down until I forgot why I got up in the first place. My mom says I am just warming up for my later years. Maybe she is right, as long as I don't have to perform any more "miracles" this week I will be fine!
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