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| I don't have much time on here but I wanted to give an encouraging New Years message. We don't know if we're going to see 2010. We may not celebrate another Christmas. We may not make it to summer and we may not even see tomorrow. The Lord is returning soon. The more time goes by the closer we're coming to the day when we'll here the trumpet and the voice of an arch angel. It's going to happen.
How much of what we're doing now will matter when that time comes? Let's be encouraged to watch and be sober. Let's be sure to live for the things that matter. Let us enjoy the intimate relationship that we have with God, who loves us so much.
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thessalonians 5:16-18
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| Hello Friends, I've been meaning to do this all day but it's been a busy Christmas eve. I drove mom to the "Mart" this morning to buy some last minutes and to our surprise the store was very not too crowded. Later my sister and brother in-law came with my two precious nieces (of course) and we had a Thanksgiving style dinner, turkey, mushed potatoes, sweet potato and green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, etc, (the etc was my favorite.... very tender and sweet!) After that we exchanged gifts between our families but Cody gave us his gift today because Erin and Paul gave us a Play Station 3 game and controller which would have given away something if Cody didn't give us the Play Station 3 today instead of waiting till tomorrow.
After that we had a good time visiting until they left and then we had a big mess to clean up to prepare the house for Santa tonight. The kids are now in bed and to my disgust they're sleeping. When I was a kid I would have given anything to be able to fall asleep on Christmas eve but the excitement of waiting for Santa kept me up for hours. My little sibs just go to bed and fall asleep like it's just like any other night. I have so many good memories of childhood that I feel like when my siblings don't do things the way that I did they must not be having a good childhood 
Anyway, what I wanted to say was;
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.
I really do. I'm not just saying "merry Christmas" because it's Christmas and that's what everyone's supposed to say at Christmas. I really hope you have a good, relaxing one. That as you spend the day with dear ones, whether they're people you spend every day with or people you haven't seen in a while, you enjoy they're company and love and are an encouragement to them.
Now, even though I'm sure most, if not all, of you are reading this on Christmas morning or after, as I write it on Christmas eve I hope that you all have a good night as you sleep with visions of sugar plums dancing in your heads. I hope that if you shrink in the middle of the night and are attacked by rats, there will be an enchanted nutcracker to save you. I hope that if you are visited by three spirits tonight that you will learn how to avoid being captive bound and double ironed. I hope that if you wake in the morning and everything in your house is gone, you can still join hands with one another and sing Davu Doris. And so on and so forth.
"And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that truly be said of us, and all of us. And so, as Tiny Tim observed,
God bless us everyone!
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| Some of you who commented told me that you were glad that our dream world is not the real world because of the dangerous and scary things that happen therein. But wouldn't you like to be able to say "I nearly drowned in a white water rafting accident yesterday"..."it was scary but I survived and I'm ready to take on the adventures of tomorrow"..."but I'm going to go to sleep tonight and enter my dream world which is a really dull place but it's nice to get the rest from this action packed reality"... (or something like that)?
Anyway, last time I was "awake" I was trapped, with several other people, in some sort of old abandoned brick warehouse that had been turned into some sort of military base and it was heavily guarded by several military personnel. And I don't know if this was the American army or what but whoever they were they were bad. There was a commander of some sort there heading things up and he was evil. He was so evil you could feel it when he was near. It was like he wasn't human. But they were planning on doing something terrible with us. There was a lady there with a young baby and I found some way that night be a possible escape and I had to get her out so we tried the escape and it got us so near to the exit of the building when we heard people approaching, who may have been on to us, so we crawled in to an unlit chamber with a dirt floor and a ceiling held up with old wooden pillars and hid behind a partly broken column of brick and waited breathlessly. Suddenly the cavern was flooded with light from a spot light. The evil commander walked back to where we were hiding but he was talking on a cell phone and I couldn't tell if he suspected anything or not. He walked right past us but didn't seem alarmed or anything and I couldn't tell if he even saw us but then the lady I was with said aloud "I guess they've caught us" and because he had to have known we were there, now that she said that out loud, I grabbed something like a fireplace poker that was nearby and before the man could react I beat him to death with three hard strokes of the rod and we ran out of the building as fast as we could. The outside of the building was surrounded by search lights and security lasers and I had to figure out, on the spur of the moment, the best route of escape and running in a certain direction I came real near where a security laser was monitoring and it started to turn in my direction so I fell flat on the ground and closed my eyes, hoping it would scan over top me and miss me but within seconds I could see through my eyelids the bright red light of the laser and hear the sirens going off.....
I don't know what happened after that but I must have escaped because I'm still here and I can only hope that the woman with the baby escaped too and that, because the evil leader was destroyed, their mission failed and all those other people escaped too.
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| I guess I should post something. I don't know why I don't feel motivated anymore. There was a day that I just couldn't get enough of Xanga and I posted all kinds of things. Now I have just enough motivation to keep in touch with my friends that I want to make sure to keep up with this site (even though I'm getting very tired of the inappropriate ads and links to other people's xanga sites).
What should I post?.... You all don't really want to hear about my life because I haven't slain any dragons or anything exciting like that lately. I changed my oil today! no? not exciting enough for you? I replaced a thermostat in someone's base board heater yesterday, which was the first paying job I've had since before Thanksgiving (although I only made $20)! Still not exciting enough?.... Ooh last week I ran power out to our shed/chicken coop so now we have lights and a place to plug in our table saws and air compressors! I know, you're ecstatic now.
What to talk about now..... I had a dream the other night about a person I hadn't seen in a long time, well I can't say the dream was about this person but this person was in it. This is not an unusual thing to happen to me but when it does happen it makes me miss the person more than I did in the first place. Does that happen to you? It could be a person that you never even think about or someone that you don't really want to see until you dream about them and then you have a longing to get together with that person.
Have you ever wondered if maybe our dream world is the real world? What if we "fall asleep" but we're really waking up to the real life where we remember very clearly everything we dreamed about but knew that it was only our dream world but this was the real world. And when we fell asleep in the real world we entered this dream world where we could sometimes barley remember anything that happened in the real world and think it was just a sequence of random dreams. And we'd wake up from this dream life and laugh at ourselves for worrying so much about so many things when it was just a dream.... hmmm.
Anyway, I figured it was time to get Christmasy. Christmas is such a great time! But I won't make this post any longer. Long posts scare people away and I don't know if you all have noticed but the longer the post the less comments are received. Have you noticed how many comments those little pulses get?
Anyway (again) I'll try to post before Christmas, but you all enjoy this season! It's time for me to go "wake up".
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| Something very weird happened this morning. I bought a couple of things from Lowes this morning and had to return them because one was damaged and one was the wrong color. I returned them and received $9.76 back in cash. I got the replacements and checked out and the total came to $9.77. I was cheated out of a penny. I don't know how that happened and a penny is nothing to me (except for the fact that I had to run out to the truck to get the penny) but it makes me very suspicious about computers. They seem so innocent. Look at your computer right now. It's staring up at you as though it wants to be your friend but behind it's little blinking eyes there is treachery. Don't trust them.
Beth Nell told me to say something cute about one of my twin sisters. Let me rephrase that, she told me to tell you about something cute about one of my twin sisters. (There is difference between those two statements). There is a book (there is also a movie now too) called "The Polar Express" and Sundance called it "Polar Bear Breath". That was cute (trust me). And something else cute, one day last week one of the twins asked her omniscient, older brother, Strider, what Thanksgiving is and he answered "It's the day we eat chicken".
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