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Hyper Tired

wakebird — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:38:36 +0000

I have been really tired lately. Even my weekend away didn’t do much for it but I didn’t sleep very much there. I have found that in the late afternoons I am VERY in need of a coffee to keep from needing a nap. Maybe I should take a power nap in the early afternoons or something. Part of it is new job stress, part of it is new house stress, and I also think part of it is that we wake up everyday at 5 or 5:30am. I miss sleeping. My body doesn’t even know how to sleep in anymore. When I have a chance to sleep late, I wake up at 6am.

Then I did something I shouldn’t have last night and I met with someone at 11:00pm until after midnight. It was with a friend who is a youth pastor in Hawaii and is only in town for a few days. I am seriously paying for it right now. Well, I gotta go feed Ella. It’s 6:30am and you are all probably sleeping. I wish I was.

Awake Since 2:00am

wakebird — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:49:00 +0000

Yes…I have been awake since 2am. Ella was crying and wouldn’t sleep and I eventually just had to go watch TV with her on my lap.

TV Notes:
The Next Food Network Star – I want Amy to win. The other two are annoying and Jag is a cheater so they eliminated him. I like Amy’s point of view – a good mixture of culinary expertise, French style, and housewife.
Hell’s Kitchen – this show is getting annoying. The people can’t even cook. Where do they choose these people from? They suck. They overcook and undercook constantly. One potential executive “chef” didn’t know what ahi was. Give me a freaking break???
Top Chef – this is the coolest cooking reality show on TV and I just discovered it. They are all actually real chefs who know what they are doing. It’s a pleasure to watch instead of being painful.

Yes, I am a little too into cooking reality shows.

I have to speak tonight in Jr High and I’m going to be exhausted by 8:00pm after being at work for 10 hours by that point. I also went to sleep last night at around 10:30pm so that’s about 3.5 hours of sleep. AAAGGGHHHH!!!!

Surfing and Sabbath

wakebird — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:15:00 +0000

Right now I’m in the middle of my morning of sabbath and I thought I would type a quick post. I just got back from going surfing down at 41st St in Newport Beach. I had an awesome time today. Last week I seriously sucked. I haven’t got a new board yet, but today I surfed a ton better. I was dropping in with no problems and was able to get some good snaps off the top on a couple waves. I was so thankful to God for allowing me to have some fun out there. I was singing this old school worship song that goes “O Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. O Lord we magnify your name. O Lord we glorify your name. Prince of Peace, Mighty God, O Lord God Almighty.” I forget what Psalm that is but it is a Psalm and I love it. Pure worship. I was praying for direction and guidance for our church and for my life. Really good stuff.

I was listening to Mike Erre’s Preach It series that he gave me. It’s 10 hours of talking about preaching and teaching God’s Word. Awesome stuff. I’m really growing from it and feeling challenged to 1)do something like it with people at Calvary 2)continue to hone my teaching with some of the principles from it.

Now I’m going to relax and shower for another hour and a half and then go pick up Gracie.

Peace.

10 Briefs

wakebird — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:50:00 +0000

1. My first day at OC AIDS Services Foundation was good. I talked for a while with the head of volunteers and helped dispell some of his presuppositions about pastors. I helped make an email list for the AIDS Walk on May 12.
2. Matt Doan, High School Pastor at Calvary Church, started a blog. It’s called OrangeCountyPastor which shows Matt’s love for combining three words together (The High School group is called EveryDayLife) and his nerdiness. It’s a cool blog other than the lame quotes on top and the RSS feeds on the bottom.
3. I am valuing the concepts of Sabbath and sabbatical more and more. Especially after conversations with staff members struggling with burnout. We need to “feed our forgotten souls” as Paul Borthwick says.
4. I’m going to see the movie “300” tonight. I’m a combination of excited and apprehensive. I’ve heard it’s gnarly.
5. I’m going to buy a new surfboard. Mine is about 10 years old. When I realized that I wanted to turn myself into a dorky high school freshman and make fun of myself.
6. We have a Kenya meeting this Saturday. I’m looking forward to this trip but it’s a bit all consuming.
7. Trader Joe’s banana bread is excellent for breakfast – especially with Kona coffee.
8. Be careful what you say in staff meetings. It can backfire on you.
9. I recently got Logos Bible Software and I suck at it so I wanted to go to a training seminar and I saw this. WOW!! I need to go to this. It’s for ministry.
10. GO UCLA BRUINS TONIGHT!!

Sabbath

wakebird — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:14:00 +0000

We have been discussing sabbath in our VantagePoint3 group and my desire is to have my Friday mornings be a true point of sabbath for me. I have struggled with filling my Friday mornings with tasks like last-minute sermon prep, running errands, or watching tv. So today I was thinking of maybe going surfing alone during my sabbath or doing something else restful, but then I started thinking I needed to get my oil changed and get my car washed so I could sell it and my blushing bride asked me to go to the grocery store. Keeping a sabbath is a battle (and a fitting place for a war metaphor) that is tough to fight in our culture, but it’s more than just culture, it’s me. I like doing stuff. I need to stop for a bit.

P.S. I got 14 of 16 games right on the first day of the tourney.
P.P.S. It felt so good after telling my professor I was withdrawing from the Phd program. I’m so happy. I feel lighter. Maybe I should do a weigh-in.

Off to Maui

wakebird — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:11:00 +0000

We leave tomorrow morning for Maui and the place we are staying is a surprise to Bea, but I will tell the blogosphere. If you were to see my wife for any reason today, don’t tell her that we are staying at the Grand Wailea Hotel.

This is the view from the center of the hotel down the fountains toward the ocean.

It has waterslides and a lazy river. Check them out in the next two pics.

This looks like an awesome place to chill in the evening.

I think the sunsets will be pretty amazing.

Yeah, I guess you could say that I’m pretty excited. We fly out tomorrow morning. All we have left to do is pack. I can already feel the tension coming out of my shoulders.
You probably won’t hear from me until next Saturday. As they say, “Aloha!”