Good tidings of peas.

So what do you do when you just can not get motivated to work but you still feel the need to not be completely useless? You Blog. I think blogger and slacker must be synonymous. Anyway second day back at work and second day in the completely deserted office people must know the secretary is away because the phone does not even ring. Normally these would be ideal working conditions, and yet here I am. Maybe I should consider this my stretch before going on to actual work, I hear this can be quite healthy and may actually prevent any exertion injuries that could otherwise occur over the course of my strenuous day.
Anyway I had a fantastic Christmas. Thanks to the fam for all the wonderful goodness we shared in. Maybe this has something to do with my lethargy? We’ll it was worth it.
Now for the new years resolution; From this day henceforth (props to Sarah for henceforth) Tim shall never again be seen eating over six pounds of any one type of meat in one sitting. I know it will be tough but I am counting on all of you (though I just realized there may actually be people I do not know reading this Blog, that’s a little odd) to hold me accountable. Thanks guys means a lot. Anyway stretch over, better get to work. Love you guys (well most of you, at least the ones I know anyway)
Tim<><

Christmas at last!!!

Hey kids
Well Here I am in GP. This is gonna be the last Christmas in the childhood home. Sorta sad I guess, but such is life really. Also I think it helps that Mom and Dad have been doing renovations like crazy. A lot of the things that mark this as "our house" are gone. Like the fireplace that had a bright strip of red on it from some of that slimy goop from the quarter machines. The rug that we could count every stain and where it was from the door that dad put his hand through has been repainted. Walls have been patched and painted. Actually come to think of it it’s lucky this place is even still standing. Even our old tree house is gone. All this has happened gradually over the past few years so we got a chance to ease into it. More importantly the move will make Mom and Dad happy so it’s all good in my book.
Anyway the food and drink are as awesome and plentifully usual, we still play cards with the same fervor, and Grandma still cheats. So all in all a fantabulus Christmas. So Here I am wishing all of you continued merriment and a fantastic Christmas. To God be the Glory forever and ever amen.
Peace guys
<><

One is the loneliest number….

So I have been pretty lonely lately. Not the "Oh poor me, sucks to be Tim." kinda lonely
(Despite what my title implies), just the not a whole lot is going on, off in my own little world sort of deal. Which is not necessarily a bad thing we all need our space and time to think, and I do interact with people. I saw Dave and Jen on the weekend, I have coffee with people, I’m not a recluse. But I think it is time for me to get a roommate. Preferably like a couple roommates it would be nice to have a community again you know. I think I have said this at least once before but every now and then it just kinda hits home. I have no idea how I will go about doing this, I guess I will just ask around see what pops up. There is always the paper, but I’m thinking that in Ponoka it may be a good idea to know someone at least a little before sharing a toilet with them. Anyway keep this in your prayers if you will, and send me your prayers too!! I have this great new prayer journal, and it is just so fantastic to be able to pray for people specifically! I usually forget stuff like that then my prayer times are kinda repetitive but to remember people, and pray for specifics is really quite a thrill.
Anyway peeps, keep it real!
<><

Charcoal is good!!!

I have been developing my taste for charcoal lately. This morning I got up and Put toast in the toaster then proceeded to read the paper (yet another way I am turning into my Father). Fortunately I have a hyper sensitive smoke detector so the toast only ended up mostly burnt but not so much so that I could justify throwing it out, nothing a little extra jam does not take care of. At lunch I burnt the grilled cheese sandwiches, which is nothing new. I just about always do that no matter how hard I try to focus on not doing it, something always distracts me. The thing was I was at someone else’s house and I burnt his too He ate it but I’m pretty sure it was only so that he could give me a hard time about it. Then for supper I left my chicken fingers and fries in the oven too long this time they were quite unsalvageable apparently I forgot to turn the smoke detector back on after Breakfast. So tuna melts it was. The funny thing was I burnt those too. My Confidence in my own cooking is seriously waning. Oh well charcoal is supposed to be good for your heart right? Well I got a Council meeting in an hour, second one in three weeks, so I may need it.
Anyway guys love ya!! See ya on the flip side.
<><

The Bull of Life

I want to leave an update but the words just are not there. I have always firmly believed that if you are not going to tell a story well, you should just not tell it at all. Unfortunately this mantra does not run over into many other areas of my life. Today I realized at ten to twelve that I was supposed to be teaching Old Testament Class at twelve forty. No big deal, most of my lessons are pretty much ready to go. I just have to photocopy some sheets, and if I can not think of something meaningful to say about the basic OT Bible stories after 24 years of living in the church I may as well just give up. But today I was just going to show a Christmas movie seeing as it is the last class before Christmas and I wanted to make sure every kid in that class had heard that Jesus really is what Christmas is all about at least once this season. This should have made life even easier, but unfortunately someone had swiped the movie I had been planning on using (I say swiped but they more than likely signed it out of the library like I should have a week ago). I ended up with Veggie Tales "The Toy that saved Christmas" I had never actually seen it myself, but someone had said it gave a pretty decent message. It did in-fact give a good message, but it was definitely not up to par with the usual Veggie Tales excellence. It wasn’t brutal but it was awfully close.
And then there is Youth Group. We are supposed to be having our Christmas party tonight but every kid I have talked to will not be able to make it. Fridays in Ponoka Suck!!! First thing I have planned on a Friday in two months, I should have known better. But I have this horrible sensation that some kid who heard of it but never comes for anything else may show up and I will look like a big boob. Christmas just can’t come soon enough and January is coming way too fast.
I love you all very much, I leave you with this really weird quote some old guy gave me today when I asked him how it was going; "Take the Bull of Life by the nadds and swing it around a couple times, then let it go and wave your hankie at it, you may just get an idea of what if feels like to be me" Crazy Old Vern Klause

Today... Actually it's kinda more about yesterday

Wow This sucks Dave is actually beating me in Bloggieness!!! Guess I had better pick up the slack a little here. I would give a great excuse about how busy I am, and self sacrificing giving every minute of my time over to the kids but lets be honest most of the kids are in school till three or so and even the seniors with spares don’t have them till afternoon. So really I don’t have much reason at all to get out of bed before noon. I do just to put your minds at ease, I usually saddle up to my desk round ten or so. I know that sounds lame, but I am hard at work till nine or so most nights so I have very little guilt.
Ok well enough about me, and more about Tim…
Had Bible study last night, which was pretty… exciting? Well we had some pretty good chat going on anyway. We talked about the images of Jesus that we create and the true image of Jesus that comes from the scripture. I even used this great analogy about how when we put faith in our own image of Jesus as opposed to placing faith in true person of Jesus it is like the Santa that we see at the mall; he looks all nice and jolly but aside from giving us a placebo sort of comfort, he is completely incapable of meeting our needs and fulfilling the requirements of the job. And besides that, he doesn’t even wash his hands after he takes a leak. Gross eh!!??
Anyway, the church is completely empty the secretary is away so the place feels deserted which makes my will to work almost nill (funny thing is that if this were the evening I would be like a billion times more productive, the morning just does not do it for me). So I figure I will take off and do some work related errands maybe the fresh air will rejuvenate my work ethic. You think? well its worth a shot anyway. Peace guys. Love ya.
<><