October is almost over.

So I haven't posted in a long time. That's ok I don't think there are that many people out there reading this. But just in case here is an update.
I can't believe that it's already the end of October. Kara just had her birthday (even though she didn't want to celebrate it) and this weekend is the best ever Halloween costume party and daylight savings time. Wow! 2009 has gone by fast.
I'm halfway finished with my second quarter at school. Still pulling in the A's. It's only core classes right now, but maybe this winter quarter will allow me to get into some of my major studies.
Work has been sparse at best. I sat down to catch up on my paper work for the business and after all the deduction (not including miles) I have made a little less than $5,000 this year. There are some good possibilities on the horizon, but I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch. This has given me some time to work on the business proposal for the snowboard park. I heard that the USNWC might be looking at moving into the action sports area to drum up some more business. Apparently whitewater rafting isn't making as much as they had hoped. I hope to have my proposal finished in a month.
I finally got to ride Snowflex up at Liberty. It was just as much fun as I had hoped it would be. It was awesome being able to get on my snowboard in Aug.
Since work has been non existent we haven't had a lot of money to do fun things. This could put a huge damper on my snowboarding this winter. My only hope right now is that I win this contest for two free season passes at Beech Mtn. If I win those I plan on selling them and then getting two passes at App. I also have some friends that moved out to UT. They offered a free place to stay out there. Possibly even some free lift tickets if they get jobs at a resort. I have some flier miles with US Air, maybe I can get out West this winter.
I was invited to go to Costa Rica with a friend. He is turning 30 and wants to go down and surf for a week. I did some work on his house in exchange for a plane ticket. There will be at least 3 of us going. Since I've been surfing Costa Rica has been on my "must travel to" list. We leave 3 weeks from today. AWESOME!
I keep trying to workout. A friend of mine got the P90X workout videos. He let me borrow them so i could put them on my computer. I thought it worked, but when I tried to start it only copied 15-20min of each video. bummer. I really feel the need to workout for some reason. I guess it's because I'm getting older and I know that with me doing all the "action sports" I don't bounce back from falls like I used to. Plus I'm sure Kara would love for me to have ripped abs. =) Plus I need to keep things up for the spring kickball season. I can't be slacking off.
Maybe I need to stop blogging right now and go work out.

Leak

Monday I get home from working and I head to the bathroom. As I'm sitting there doing my business I hear a rather loud dripping sound coming from the tub. After I finish I start to investigate. Yep, there is dripping behind the freshly tiled wall. Go check under the house...yep a stead stream of water dripping into the crawl space. Great! I have to be at class in 40 min and I don't get out until 10:30pm. Lowes will be closed so I won't be able to start work on fixing it.
Tuesday morning. Get up, let Kara take a shower and then turn off the water. Fortunately there is a closet on the other side of the shower (where the leak is) so I don't have to take down the tile. Bust out the wall and there it is. Just as I guessed. One of the pipe fasteners is not doing what it's supposed to. Run to Lowes get a couple things and it's all fixed in like 40 min. The down side...a lot of stuff got wet. So I have to let it all dry out before I patch the wall in the closet.
At least it wasn't worse. And it could have been much worse.

BORED!

So I haven't worked in 2 weeks. I'm going a little stir crazy. It's not the $ thing. I've always seen God provide and come through. So I have HUGE trust in that area. I just don't like not being productive. I hate sitting around.
Now I have been doing a lot of house work (laundry, dishes, building a garden, vacuuming, etc.) and taking Bella out for exercise. But I want to work. Ok, maybe just be productive, like building something.
I will be starting school soon, so that's kinda cool. Getting a Multi Media degree at ITT Tech. Oh yeah. That will start early June.
Ok, gotta go find something to do.

Another weird dream....

Ok, I don't know what the deal is...but lately I have been having dreams. They say everybody dreams. If that's true then I don't usually remember mine. Ok....on to the dream...and it's a weird one.

It started off with me and my twin sons (yes...in the dream I had twin sons) and the whole family lived close to the beach (I love the beach but I would never want to live full time there). I never saw Kara or anyone else in the family, but I felt like we had other kids. My twin sons were really good surfers and they were around 10-12 years old.
I remember finding out that something/someone was coming to be in charge of the area and everyone was freaked out. They kept talking about it being really bad and the description they gave me made me think they were like the Ringwrathes from LotR.
My twins and I were out at the beach when this thing showed up flying through the sky. All of a sudden this brick wall started forming in the water and cut off all the waves and made this big pool that looked like some immaculate multi-level swimming pool. Then this gigantic shark started swing in the ocean just off the side of the pool. It had spots all over it and then I noticed horns coming out of it's head.
The dream then jumps to my twins and I at a movie theater. They really wanted to see some movie. They went into the theater and I was in the lobby getting snacks or something when I heard that this Thing was coming to the theater. Everyone was freaking out that it could kill you just by walking by. All I could think to do was to completely surrender everything to God and keep my focus on him. I ran in to check on the boys and then this thing came past me.
At that moment it started looking like Gene Simmons of Kiss.
The next sceen I'm working for Gene in this crazy castle thing that was built on the beach next to the pool that had formed earlier. I had alot of influence, but I don't know what I was doing. The only thing that kept me alive was the fact that I constantly kept my focus on God.


So, if you have ANY interpritation on that...please feel free.

random stuff

Well the other night I had a couple dreams. And since this is kind of a journal for me I thought I should put them in here. So if you get anything out of them let me know.
1) I was in a sort of military group and we were seen as the "bad guys" but we really were the good guys. We set an ambush for the police (were seen as the good guys but were really bad). It was an intense gun fight. I mean like crazy movie type. It seemed like the "set" (ambush area) looked like some sort of Roman architecture.
2) I was driving around a city. I don't know what city but the road was like 485 going around CLT but the condition of the road looked really bad/old and resembled 1-74 driving to Wilmington around Laurinburg (where I grew up). I remember stopping at some building that seemed like an art gallery, but there was a wedding going on there. Don't really remember much about that one.
3) I told Kara I wouldn't put this one up....so I will just say that it was a dream about us getting something we both really really want. It was a great dream.

I was recently given two motorcycles. They don't run, but with a little work I will be able to make one really cool running motorcycle. I have some pictures posted on my Facebook page so if you are friends with me on there go check them out. It will be awhile before any work is really done on the bikes.

Four years...

Yesterday was my 4 year anniversary with my lovely wife Kara. The time has flown by.
For the celebration we went to dinner at a favorite of ours. Mac's BBQ. I know...really romantic huh? It's good food and we have fun together there. Then we went and saw "I love you, man". It's the latest Paul Rudd movie. This is one funny movie. It deffinitely has its awkward moments, but that's part of what makes it so funny.
There was nothing super "romantic" about the evening. Kara and I just enjoy hanging out together. What's better than that?
So four years...a lot has gone on in those years. We lived in Myers Park for the first 2 years in a great little condo just a couple blocks from Freedom Park (where we had our first "meet", where I asked her to start dating and where I proposed). We then bought a house and got a dog. I know...what a typical couple. Our house was broken into twice that first summer. We have gotten two "new" cars. We've enjoyed traveling. Mexico for the honeymoon, a trip to NYC (ready to go back), many trips to the beach and we have gone on solo trips. Kara has been to FL, NYC and on a Disney cruise. I have been out to CO and enjoyed places like Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone and Breck.
It's been the best 4 years of my life and I'm looking forward to 80+ more years together.

Convicted...

Have you ever spoken poorly about someone or judged their ability to hear from God? I have. Today, God gave me a pretty stern rebuke. I judged people that were stepping out in faith. Something I had no right to do. I'm not even really sure why I did. Maybe I was jealous or maybe I just thought I knew what they needed to do more than God did.
Either way it was very wrong of me.