Home is where you hang your hat

I'm not really sure what that means but we may be getting closer to finding a home. We put an offer on another home. I'm not going to give you the info yet. Maybe I'm superstitious. Maybe I'm trying not to get attached to it yet. I think that's it. It's an offer that's kind of low so we might not get it. So I'm trying not to get too familiar with it. I feel like we shared too much info with too many people last time. We'll find out tomorrow. Sure is different from last time.

Another update

Ok. I'm in Kokomo. Steph and the girls will be here tonight. We're renting a house and looking for one to buy. Hopefully that will be soon. I start at the church this Sunday. Last night some of the youth group guys came over and we played Halo. It was a good time. Today I'll be working on unpacking some and trying to figure some things out. I think I'll get my new computer today. The church bought me a laptop and a docking station for it. I'm pumped. Hopefully next week I'll put some pictures of my office up.

Update

Ok here's the update. We just found out that we didn't get the house we put the bid on. This puts us a little behind. We're going to have to rent something while we find a house. We're looking at stuff now and hopefully we'll find something soon. I've finished my time at Chip Hills and now I've got a couple of weeks to get down to Kokomo and start there. I'm packing my office up today. Steph and her mom seem to have a good start on the house. I've got a truck reserved for Monday. I'll try to keep you updated.

Butler!

Oh man. Butler almost did it. We went to some friends for Easter dinner so I missed most of the game but I came home and it was tied with very little time left. Then the game went into overtime. But CBS kept switching to the Davidson Georgetown game. I'm blaming CBS for Butler losing. Man I like watching that team play. Notre Dame lost too. Now who am I going to root for?

Stress

Oh man I'm trying not to be frustrated but yesterday I read through our bid on the house to see if there was a way I could get out of it. The rumor is that it could take longer than the 10 days that we were originally told. The reasoning is that they dropped the price last Wednesday or Thursday. Our bid went in last Tuesday. They might wait the 10 days from when the price dropped. I wanted out of the bid so I wouldn't have to wait any longer. By the way when we made the bid we were told the asking price was 98,000. Now that they've dropped the price it's listed at 98,375. Colossians 3:1,2 tell me to set my focus on what is above. Verse 5 tells me that if I obsess over what's here I'm committing idolatry. Great now I'm going to live inside of an idol. Ok so don't obsess and it's just a house again. Who cares. It's just a house. There's thousands of them. I just want to know which one I'm going to live in.

It's March Madness!

It's that time of year again. I'm pumped. I've made a bracket challenge for readers of my blog. It's free. Sign up and pick. Just click this link. The password is weaveswrites. Sign up. You don't have to know a bunch, it's just for fun. Oh and make sure you cheer for Butler.

Usually I'd be complaining about somebody that was left out, Arizona State, or how a team was seeded wrong. But I'm just glad there is a tournament, take that BCS. Now I need to plan my menu for Thursday... Got any ideas?

This walrus is great!

I don't often put these types of videos here but this one was great.

We have to live somewhere

Ok I put an offer on a house. I know it's very fast. I'm just as nervous as you are about it. Ok, more nervous. We only looked at 9 houses. This one stood out far above the rest. I must have looked at 1000 online and this was one of my favorites right away. It has 4 bedrooms all decent sized and upstairs. It has nice sized living areas downstairs. It's on a busy road and has a small yard but is a newer house and is in the right price range. I'll let you know what happens and put some pictures up later.

Edit: Here's the link. http://indianamls.com/property_residential.php?mls_no=77043123

Just when I thought I saw the top

We just paid the last of my student loans. We've paid off our car. We're getting closer on Steph's student loans. Just when all of this was starting to look good, we're going to buy a house. I know that's a good thing but... How great would it be to have no debt? We'll keep working towards that day.

Chippewa Hills Baptist Church

Where do I begin? I love this place. I love these people. But when God calls, I go. I really believe God has called so we head to Kokomo. But more about that later. We had some good times here. Great fishing trips, good times golfing, incredible times with the youth group. I could go on forever. I cried like a little girl as I read my letter of resignation. We'll miss these people. Thank God we get to spend eternity with them. I'll be telling them about the blog so you may see some of them around.

A lighter note

NBA All Star Weekend went great. The dunk contest was better than it has been for years. The All Star Game was close and both teams actually wanted to win. And Stephanie pointed out that the halftime show put any recent Super Bowl halftimes to shame. She was right. The jazz/blues stuff was really impressive. Great job New Orleans and NBA.

The Dark Day

Amazing stuff today. I'm preparing to reuse a series of lessons I did a while ago about light and as I'm going over it I'm watching one of the darkest days sports has ever seen. The main one in everyone's eye is Roger Clemens testifying at a congressional hearing. One of baseballs most famous pitchers has been accussed of cheating. I honestly don't know whether or not to believe him. I want to believe him. I've been a Pettitte fan for a while and I definitely want to believe him. The same day that baseball is on trial; Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, is meeting with Senator Arlen Specter. Specter wants to know if the NFL was all the way honest about the extent of the Patriots cheating scandal. As if that isn't enough, today Indiana University released the letter stating the violations that their basketball coaches committed. Their coaches, including their head coach who was already in trouble for cheating, broke rules in their recruiting of players. I love sports. For me it is sad to watch the darkest sports day that I can remember.

Basketball

Last night I watched Butler and Valpo. I've been rooting for Butler for a few years. I've been to a few games there and Hinkle is a great place to watch a game. Plus their last coach coached at my high school. He's now at Iowa. It was a crazy game. Valpo was ahead until the very end when Butler pulled it out. Go Bulldogs.

In the pros the rumors are that the Suns are going to trade Marion for Shaq. What?!? Why would a team that is built on running trade for Shaq? If I'm the Heat I make this trade in a heartbeat. If I'm any other team in the NBA I'm on the phone with the Suns. I can make an offer that comes close to Shaq. Craziness.

Jalepeno stomach

Man what a great game yesterday. It had everything you want in a game. It was close. I had a couple of comebacks. It had a last minute lead change. The underdog won. Great stuff. Now unfortunately I'm paying for the stuffed jalepenos. I mean really paying. My stomach hates me and is trying to turn itself inside out. Good thing these things only happen once a year. I won't have stuffed Jalepenos again until... Well there is March Madness next month.

More Patriots love

Here's a game for all you football fans.

Give 'em the boot

Alright conspiracy theorists, I've got one for you. Maybe I'm giving the Patriots too much credit but I think the boot was a planned decoy. No I don't think they were trying to fool the Giants because nobody was really fooled. Instead I believe that the Patriots intended to derail the sports media. Whether it was intended or not, it's worked beautifully. How many questions have you heard about Rodney Harrison's suspension for HGH? What about Vince Wolfork's fourth fine for dirty play? Anybody heard a questions recently about spygate? Hmm maybe Randy Moss's restraining order? What better way to deal with all of those questions than to just avoid them altogether by putting the focus on a boot.

Love of Boston week

I figured this week since the patriots were in the Super Bowl again I would show them as much love as I could this week. I'll be giving you some media to help fuel your love as well. The song and video comes from Ryan Parker. He writes all kinds of funny sports songs. His site is ryanparkersongs.com

Vote for anybody else

Here's the best political analysis you'll see around. I couldn't vote for Romney because...

"When we say I saw the Patriots win the World Series, it doesn't necessarily mean you were there."

I know the statement is a little old but my hatred of the Patriots and their fans who believe that Brady could pitch a no hitter in the World Series will most certainly carry over to the ballot box.

(Oh and dad check out the 5th paragraph of this http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070423-6.html)

I love the Detroit Lions

The Lions fell apart halfway through this season. They started well and then blew up. So what do you do to fix a mess like that? You fire Mike Martz. I don't really care if you fire Martz or not. I kind of like him but you can make him your scapegoat. Here's what is crazy to me. They promoted Jim Colletto to offensive coordinator. Colletto was the O-line coach this last year. Marinelli said "Jim is an excellent football coach. He knows what it takes to win in this league and I am confident that he will do a tremendous job leading our offense." Jeff Backus says "I'm looking forward to playing in his offense". This is the Jeff Backus who was in the top 5 in sacks allowed this year. Kitna was sacked 51 times. More than any QB this year. This is the new leader of the Lions offense? Man I love that team.

Ok now you're going too far

People that know me well know that I'm incredibly careful on the music sharing ideas. I'm against stealing of any kind and I carry that over to music. So I won't copy music from other people and when I lend out a cd I always tell people not to copy it. I'm annoying on it because I'm trying to set an example to youth group kids. I take some pride in having an iPod full of legal music. Or what I thought was legal music. This article tells me I'm wrong. To tell you the truth it has me a little angry. The RIAA is suing a guy who bought each of his cds and then put them on his computer. So you're telling me I'm supposed to go back over and buy each of the songs I have already paid for on cd from iTunes to put them on my iPod or computer? That's not happening. RIAA I've been on your side in the past. I've defended you to young people. I've encouraged others to buy music. Here is my message to you "Quit being dumb". You're stabbing yourself in the foot on this one. If you win this case I'll be forced to stop buying cds. I listen to most of my music at work off of my computer or from my iPod while running or in the car.