What's happening in Clinton???

Update time. Let's see.

The few weeks since Christmas have been good ones for our church and for Julia and I. They have been tough ones too though.

1. Got back to our normal routines after a week (week and a half for Julia) in Ohio, and a weekend in Duncan.

2. Began planning for the 2008 year for the church.

3. Had our 1st annual planning meeting as a church and we made the following decisions.

a. Begin new Sunday Night Home groups every 1st Sunday of the month.

b. Update our youth program (jr and sr. high) to be more beneficial for our teens.

c. Scheduled four "Super Sundays" as attendance push Sundays.

d. Approved mass advertisment for these "Super Sundays"
(ie. radio, postcards, newspaper, etc.)
e. Made commitment to upkeep of website.

f. Made commitment to step up our efforts to invite people to church and ordered
buisness cards as tools to help invite and inform people.

g. Made decision to incorporate praise and worship choruses with the hymns durring our
Sunday morning service.

4. Julia and I began planning for a trip to Orlando in March with her family.

5. Julia began looking for a new job.

All in all hectic, fun, crazy, exciting, sad, happy...pretty normal.

Giving this the old college try.

Since I haven't really kept up with my blog too well, I am going to try and start a new commitment to blogging. We'll see how it works out.

New Year...New Obsession

So far this new year the Christmas present that has been the most popular is one of the gifts I got Julia. She has been a fan of the NBC show "The Office" since it came on a few years ago and even enjoyed watching the original british version for a while. So I bought her seasons 1 and 2 on DVD (great package deal at a store in Penn Square)...I had seen a few episodes and found them somewhat entertaining, but I had never really got into them.

Well we started with season 1 after returning from Ohio just after Christmas. The six episode season 1 didn't last through the 1st night...season 2 lasted just about a week. Before we finished season 2 I started telling Julia we needed to get season 3. We did (while visiting my parents in Duncan...they have a Wal-mart, we don't) and it was a good thing, because season 2 ended with a huge cliff hanger...

Season 3 is going a little slower now that we are back to our regular schedules following the holidays. We are ready to get caught up to the show in real time (made a little easier by the writers strike)...Luckily all of the current season (season 4) is available on NBC.Com.

That way it is just a once a week thing and not an every night thing...Not that I haven't enjoyed it, but I've got plenty of other things to do with my evenings...Not that I'm complaining...The office is great.

Airports...gotta love them.

I like to travel...don't know why just always have. I remember family trips in the car across the country to Georigia from California...

Lately I've been making lots of plane trips though. I like flying almost as much as making road trips, but it seems like I've been in the airport more than I have been out of it the last 2 years.

It all started when I met Julia....I've been in the OKC, Houston, Memphis, Boston, New York, Chicago (this weekend), and Columbus airports (I may have missed one or 2...maybe St. Louis, I can't remember) Anyways...I have been in some of these airports multiple times in the last 2 years...Every time I walk through those doors to get on a plane or pick someone up, I get these weird feeling like I had just been there. Crazy...too much travel??? (maybe)...but I'm not burned out just yet...I'm starting to feel at home in the airport though...not sure if that is good.

COLD!!!

It is freezing in my house right now. I try not use to much heat during the day right now because we are using a jet engine (actualy a 125,000 btu diesel heater) to heat our house right now and I hate going to the gas station to get more diesel every two days.

Atleast we have power...

Thanksgiving!

I didn't want time to go by without saying how thankful I was to have all our family at our house for thanskgiving this year. We had 10 people in our old, cold house, but we loved it. I hope we get to do it again next year.

Plumbing, wood floors and sheet rock...

Every week I try to spend one day working on my new (very old) house.

A few weeks ago Julia's dad came and we spent a few days sheet rocking the living room. Two weeks ago I started trying to clean the wood floors in that same room (getting no where fast with that job).

Last week I installed a dishwasher. Never done that before, but it went in alright. Took me most of the day, but I got it in. The only problem was that our bad hot water pressure (which makes for warm, not hot, showers) wasn't good enough to make the dish washer work.

So my project this week was to replace a few clogged connectors under the house to improve that water pressure. I ended up trying to do this on a Saturday and ran into some problems, so I had to pick it up this past Monday.

Before it was said and done I had replaced 20 to 30 feet of hot water lines (usually just cutting out the old galvanized ones out with and saws all), and spent over 13 hours on my back under the house.

End result...the hot water pressure is now as good as the cold...the dishwasher works, and we have enough hot water pressure to take hot (not warm) showers.

And I hate working on plumbing now more than ever...