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My Beautiful Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl (Vanessa)On Saturday I had the pleasure to take my very special girl, Vanessa, out for a dinner cruise on Lake Michigan. We enjoyed a beautiful sunset, dinner, and a little dancing. I enjoyed every moment celebrating the day with Vanessa. I don’t know if I can really express how much I care for her. I can honestly say that I don’t think I can imagine a life without her. I’m always in awe at how great God is to have brought us together. A year ago I never would have thought I’d be living in Michigan and have such an amazing woman in my life.

Life has been a little out of the ordinary lately. I ran sound again this week for Splash, it was a little crazy once again. Things should settle down eventually once everyone gets in tune with everything that needs to happen. Hopefully the next couple months will start to show some normalcy.

I’ve been kind of struggling with the whole podcast thing lately. I’m finding it hard to have the excitement to get things going. I think in part with so many other things going on the podcast seems like just one more thing to tackle. Perhaps there was a time for that podcast and now it’s over. To begin with my hope for the podcast was to included others besides myself. I’ve always gotten some very good feedback from those that have listened to my podcast. We’ll have to see what God has in store next for my podcast.

Well, I know that this was a very short update. I’m still working on trying to get back into some regular updates. I’d like to get myself back to posting a little of my thoughts each day. I think I’ve perhaps been a little more apprehensive because of perhaps the fear of saying something that would get misinterpreted by people around here that don’t know me very well. It’s kind of strange to feel that way. I used to feel so free with my thoughts. I wish that I could have that freedom again.

I’ll need to be going for now. Until the next post.

BTW, I think I might have finally found a base template that I like. I’m still feeling the need for some heavy customization though. I’m missing some of the little features I had before. Although, I do have to say that things are a bit less cluttered and out-of-hand. We’ll have to see what features I actually bring back.

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5 Comments

  1. I like your layout… Glad you’re having a good time out there; miss you though. I’m not having as good a time here with you gone. There’s no one to play Settlers with around here; we’ll have to try to line up some time when you, Robbie, and I can play. Though it might be difficult; Robbie and I are quite busy with school.

  2. Hey… great new design! I’m glad you and Venessa had such a great time, I hope you have a good rest of the weekend. I’ll talk to you later okay? prayin for ya
    Cass

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