Author: cebliss

So, one of my youth group students bugged me about not updating this enough…

My Bad.

I can’t promise a daily run, but I will try to make it worth your while, KF.

I have been doing some fill in work this week, for our Morning crew.

That requires getting to the studio at 3:45 each morning. A 2:30 wake up call comes quite quickly. While I don’t like waking up that early, I do love BEING up that early. It is fun to be on the road before anyone else. It is great to beat all the traffic. It is REALLY nice to call it a day by noon!!

It ISN’T so nice to have to try to be in bed by 7:30. I missed the NCAA championship, and last night’s 24 (actually, I taped 24, and the NCAA game was a blow-out, so all is well).

Time now to give my kids a bath, and go to bed (the sun is still up…)

I went “Shoe Hunting” this weekend.

That is always a bit of a task for those of us with size 14 shoes.

I first tried Sears, since I have an unspent gift-card for that fine retail establishment. I was thrilled to see the big letters hanging over the shoe department stating their Big Shoe Sale was in full gear. “Sweet”, I thought, “I wear big shoes!”

Unfortunately, the sale was big, but the shoes stopped as size 13.

Next stop was a Payless just down the hall.

They had 8 Size 14 shoes, but only one of them was made of real leather, and it was a brown casual shoe that slightly resembled a sneaker. Not TOO bad, but I didn’t want to have to settle.

I kept walking and saw a shoe store with a beautiful Italian Leather casual dress shoe that was exactly what I was looking for AND in my price range.

I asked the young lady if they had that in a 14. She went back to check. When I saw her with a box, my heart jumped! Then she explained that she didn’t have any 14s, but she did find the shoe in a 12!

WHAT???

Why even bother bringing it out? Should I try to squeeze in to it? Should I visit the cutlery store across the mall and cut off a few toes before coming back???

I smiled nicely and went on to Kohls.

They also stopped at a 13. However, I always get a kick out of their pricing. If you know Kohls, you know that everything there is always on sale.

They had an All Man Made Material Shoe that appeared to be glued onto its sole, for $24.99 (not bad) discounted from its original price of $49.99. I usually get a kick out of their “Regular Prices”, but $50 for a pair of fake shoes was a bit unbelievable.

I finally found them at Famous Footwear.

Again, I felt a bit like I had to settle, but I was happy with what I picked out and feel really bad for the guys who wear 15s

Saturdays:
We set no alarm for Saturday morning.

We still got up at the same time, but there is something blissful about not having to wake up to that noise.

I rolled over and asked “the Pretty One” what the day had in store (expecting the usual…”I have a get together tonight and you are watching the Kids” or…”We really have to go get groceries” or… I want to completely clean the house top-to-bottom”)

Her response was the also blissful: “Nothing”.

We spent the morning doing some light housework, then bundled “Thing 1” and “Thing 2” up for an afternoon in the snow.

Snow Forts
For the family out of state, we have had nearly 12 inches of snow this past week, but the temp yesterday was near 40. For my brothers on this Blog, you know that is PERFECT snow fort weather.

So “Things 1&2” and I spent the afternoon making a snow fort. “The Pretty One” joined us after “Thing 3” went down for her nap.

Usually, our forts come from making large piles of snow and digging them out. We did this snow fort a little differently. We took large clumps of snow and built them around the slide portion of the wooden swing set in our back yard. There is a platform about 4 feet off the ground, with a nice wooden area underneith it.

We used the clumps of sticky snow as bricks and built walls around the slide and the platform. We dug a small hole near the base of the slide as the entry (To enter, you crawl through the small hole, through the tunnel under the slide, and come out in the larger room that is made up of the area under the platform.. but don’t tell the girls I told you so… it is supposed to be a secret…)

Misc
We also came across some old walky-talkies I had around the house. I put some fresh batteries in them and had fun talking to “Thing 1” around the yard. The funny thing, however, was that when I first turned them on, I could hear talking. I hadn’t put the battery in the other radio yet, so I knew that it wasn’t locked on.

It turns out that the walky-talkies are on the same frequency as the baby monitor in “Thing 3″s room.

Knowing that most monitors approximate the same frequency range, I thought it would be fun to walk up and down the blocks of our town, with the radio, making baby crying noises or saying things like “Hey Spike… there’s a Baby in here!”

But “The Pretty One” stopped me from reliving my childlike ways.

I had to work from 11pm – 3am last night as we did maintenance on a web server.

Fortunately, I was able to do it all from home. I watched some evening TV, brewed some coffee then retreated to my basement office to get the job done.

So, I found it humerous when I saw this report in the morning.

I can certainly say I was in the other 90% last night. Those of you who have ever experienced the temperature of this room on a late winter night can back me up on that.

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Sitting in West Des Moines tonight.

You can tell I am alone on a business trip, because I am actually taking the time to blog.

Des Moines is really a nice town. It is kind of like the Twin Cities, without, well… the Twin Cities.

Fortunately there was a 2 hour 24 tonight (and a pretty good one too).

There was a sad ending to the show this week and “The Pretty One” called me after the show and expressed her sadness. I told her that I too was sad. She quickly informed me that she hadn’t actually seen the show yet.

We are both pretty big Twins fans, so we each shed a couple tears over the loss of the greatest Twin ever.

Sob!

I noticed a few clever license plates in the last few days.

On the way to work I noticed one to the effect of:

IJHN 47

My first thought was “Hey… 1st John doesn’t have 47 chapters!”

I quickly realized it was 1st John 4:7

I had my Bible on the car seat next to me (because I am just that type of person), and thought I should look it up. It didn’t immediately occur to me that that wasn’t a good idea when driving.

Then I thought “Hey! I have that one memorized” (Beloved, let us love one another…)

So… Scripture memory may have saved my life.

The other plate I saw said:

SATURN

The best part was that it was on a Toyota.

Sorry about the lack of posting.

My sister introduced me to the joys of the NES emulator, so I have been wasting time playing “Mike Tyson’s Punch Out”.

Also available…

Just plain “Punch Out”, released shortly after some of Mike’s early “issues”.

…because this would be my luck

This is in response to those who needed something a bit more shallow.

Good “guy” fodder.