So, my wife and I took a momentary break from the debate to watch a little bit of an amateur circus show, which got a similar response out of my wife, then we want back to the debate and my wife seemed very, very concerned with a statement that Sen. Edwards said. He said “if I get elected my first day that I am on the white house I will have no corporate lobbyists around.”
Now, I was concerned for her, I am a political science major at school and I thought, wow, my wife is seriously distraught by this message. When I asked her what was wrong she said “Does that mean he won’t have any secretaries!?” She was not happy with Edwards. She believes Hillary is very emotional. She likes Huckabee because he’s nice, she thought Obama would win because he’s clean cut. I love this memory, our very first presidential race as a family… we laughed. I teach her politics, she teaches me about everything else in life.
Slowly, real slowly I have gathered a milieu of thoughts to post on this blog. My wife is awesome. That’s the first thought. The second thought, the word caucus. It somehow offends people, last night there I was talking about the Iowa caucus and people started laughing. Tonight, I watch the presidential debate but I stop as I look at my wife. This is how she watches the debate. There, a slow, quiet sunday night return to the blog.
I live in one of the most multicultural cities in the United States. If you don’t speak spanish and you are a worship leader/pastor you may encounter some difficulties this Christmas, especially if you sing the song “Feliz Navidad” by José Feliciano. The letter Ñ is crucial in this song, crucial. Let me translate it for you without the ñ.
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, prosperous (anus) and happiness.
Now imagine sitting in the audience, you are a spanish guy and you read the words…without the ñ. You can’t help but laugh. The ñ changes the meaning to “year” CHEA!!! For those of you who don’t know how to add your ñ let me show you how to do it in Mac and Windows.
MAC - press alt/option and n at the same time and you may get the ñ, or you may get just the ˜ with a yellow box. In the case of the latter just press n afterwards.
WINDOWS - Get a Mac. Or press alt and the number 164 or 165 at the same time.
The last thing you want is a guest laughing about “prospero ano” when he or she needs to focus and hear the message that may change his or her life.
My birthday is this friday. My wife decided that the number seven is of special significance to us so she decided to give me 7 days of gifts (impressive I know, she’s amazing). Anyways in some ways these great gifts… well they may not be helping me win the fat man challenge, one of them was a cookie card. A mrs.Fields giant chocolate chip cookie card that I practically ate by myself and then felt incredibly guilty about. But hey, then I read having cheat days is actually good for you, just not when you have them twice a week. And when you run it off (although the piece was so massive that honestly, I don’t know if the calories can be lost even in one spinning session) you can afford it. Pics of the 7 gifts coming soon…
Here at Christ Fellowship we have a worship leader meeting every monday where we dissect the past weekend and where we talk and dream about the weeks to come. Sometimes the artist inside the worshippers will come out. Yesterday I realized that I was amidst a group of poets and romantics. I’ll give you two quotes from the meeting yesterday to prove my point…
Pastor Sammy Flores (on why you should use a click track)
“Some people just have an awesome tempo in their soul, others just don’t”
Berchman Paul (talking about lighting and how he looked on video in the screens)
“When the camera was panning from left to right all you saw were shiny glasses and a smile”
Here at Christ Fellowship, much like in many other regions of this World, humans have struggled and battled against a nasty villain, a virulent vermin that has crept into our body from cattle to kitchen to mouth to stomach to casket. Let’s call this enticing, and temporarily satisfying villain, Victoria. She’s bad, and here at Christ Fellowship we intend to defeat her. The strategy… The 2007-2008 FAT MAN CHALLENGE.
Some of the contestants participating in the challenge are “Geiger’s daddy” Jeff Borton (CF Student Pastor, fisherman), “Your daddy” Eric Geiger (CF Executive Pastor, Ping Pong connoisseur), “Big Pappa Pump” Carlos Torres (Entepreneur, Pappa John’s customer), “Kendall Buddha” Jamie Seohanes (West Kendall Drummer and former Priest) , “Robert” Robert Crisler (Revolution Media Director, Bounty Hunter) , yours truly, and others…
It is a competition to not only see who loses the most percentage of weight but also fat. CHEA!
Whoever loses the challenge will show his before and after picture and endure other forms of humilia… accountability. (when positive reinforcement is just not enough)
Stay in tune for videos, pictures, stories and more!
I live in one of the most multicultural cities in the United States. If you don’t speak spanish and you are a worship leader/pastor you may encounter some difficulties this Christmas, especially if you sing the song “Feliz Navidad” by José Feliciano. The letter Ñ is crucial in this song, crucial. Let me translate it for you without the ñ.
