Im sitting down to write the blog...and thinking about what is happening in the upper elevations of the atmosphere this morning.... reading a few other blogs of the morning (congrats Jake for getting it done already this week!) ... and it dawns on me that Christmas is upon us. Its amazing how the pressure to blog about my own personal feelings of Christmas is weighing on me. However, always striving to be a "good example" for students (other than that whole ... pie incident over Thanksgiving) I thought I would talk about something other than Christmas. Dont get me wrong.. Christmas is important. And of course, it isnt what it is supposed to be anymore.. Since Sean Covered that... I dont need to go into it. Both the Grinch and Charlie Brown can teach us alot about Christmas. On another front, Jake had a wonderful story about his Post Tankgiving Christmas Kickoff. While congrats are in order on the finding your tree, You might have to start changing the date from the Saturday after Thanksgiving to the Saturday after Halloween, since thats when the credit card companies start pushing Christmas shopping. Ok, so it was only two blogs that have been posted recently... both having to do with Christmas that spawned my peer pressure.. But, the season tends to make it hard as well.
So, since Im not going to talk about Christmas.... What am I going to talk about?
Well, I think it is time... prior to tomorrow... that I give the youth group a little insight into the Box! Hehe. You see, for those of you that do not know... Jake and I get together for lunch on Tuesdays. Lunch goes quick so we can get down to the real work... PING PONG. We've been playing for quite a while, and I have to admit, Im really pretty impressed at how good he has gotten. He's got some really nice serves. Nice spin and even some general tricky-ness to it. And while I will admit, I dont know what Ive got on him, we are pretty evenly matched. We tend to go back and forth on the "Best of 7" games that we play. Somedays one of us just has a bad day... or like only plays with one contact... but overall, we are pretty evenly matched. We can have one game that one of us gets blown away at 21-10 and then the next game goes to 25-23. I hardly ever let him get skunked...cause thats no fun.. so I tend to make sure he gets one of the first seven points... and generally it goes the other way as well.
Another thing I have been eager to write about since Sunday, I must give another kudo to Sean. Well, actually his parents. They invited us over for pie Sunday (which meant I was there early...and stayed late!), however, the pie was not the fun part. We were sitting in the living room talking about all sorts of random topics.... and then I found it. The couch that I was sitting on had two things on it that vibrated. What a cool idea. Thats all Im going to say about that...
Im glad I could do a post today that wasnt Christmas related. So I cant really be called a bah-humbugger in this time of hear... I will say one thing. I dont remember where I heard this.. but, here it is... "Dont take Christ out of XMas!"
Have Fun!
7 comments:
Go Roger for not giving into peer pressure!
That's right! I shall join you in your defiance.
So Roger and I played some ping-pong today and let's just say it didn't go so well for the big guy. I took the first two games pretty handidly winning 21-17 and then 21-13. I then graciously gave Roger some hope by letting him take the next two games barely as they went 31-33 and 20-22. In the end though I topped him winning 21-18. And I'm not going to lie to you, it felt pretty good.
Very nice Roger, I too shall join the Hill-Webb (wait a second, repeating last consonants...) anti-christmas-post-coalation. Which is now a Hill-Webb-Franklinn dealio. And good job Box, I'm sure the character building losses were good for him...
Jake, All I can say is.. I coulda let you win in 3 games.. but, I had to at least keep you a little humble..and make you sweat. Anyway... all my losses aside... At least I didnt lose a game because I couldnt serve game point! Oh wait.. that was last week!
Okay, now I have a large predicament. I was never going to write a post about Christmas, but now that everyone else is not going to, not writing a post would also be giving into peer pressure! I have no solution thus far, but I will let you know when I do.
dang...
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