Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.

I hope everyone is pleasantly stuffed with turkey and other various foodstuffs. I thoroughly enjoyed my day with lunch with the family and then cooked up what is possibly the closest think I've ever come to a perfect bird... or at least part of one; I only did the breast.

In honor of all the shopping tomorrow here is my wishlist.

I will start with my Amazon.com list, but add these as well...

Not to start a trend or anything... but let me know if you have a similar list and I will be sure to check it out.

Got a new printer...

... and had to cance Eidos for this week. Eddie Bauer had to schedule a staff meeting tonight at 7:30. Eh figures. It was hard to figure out which is most important though, weighing my work responsibilies and aspirations against fellowship and establishing this new thing.

Not sure what I am going to do with Thanksgiving. Mom, Dad and Amanda are going to be at Woodleaf to celebrate the holiday and Amanda's Birthday. The family up here is getting togather at Stuart Anderson's at noon to have lunch. Seems wrong to me to be having a holiday which encompasses a cooking tradition at a restraunt. I will probably cook for myself later that night. Wish I had folks to share it with... Need to see what Janie is doing.

Funny thing happened today at Church... Illuminate was packed this morning and I slid over two chairs towards the center while thinking to myself,
"Self?"
"Huh?"
"It would be nice to have company right now... I wish I had friends at this service."
"Yeah that would be nice"
(Like my interior dialogue?)
At the exact moment this lovely conversation concludes, Mary, the first friend I made at Overlake back in July, came in with her father and sat in the two chairs I had just cleared.

Coincidence? I think not!

Grace and Peace to you all from our Heavenly Father.

Women... Grr... >(

Why, oh why do they do this to me?!

So heres the deal... I finally sit Janie down and tell her that we are going to find an evening where we can make something work. We agree that Tuesday will work... Ok, yes that is tonight... She's supposed to get off work at 7:30. So I scour the web looking for cool stuff that is going on tonight. I find out that "Cats" is playin in the next town over and I can get half off military tickets. And I am thinking to myself "Yeah I am missing my college group and stuff but that is totally ok because were going to have a great time." Well, she calls me at 4:00 pm to find out what we are doing and I try to play it as a suprise. Unfortuantely, her mother is extremely protective and Janie has to tell Mom exactly where she is going (Janie is 19 btw) so I finally break down and tell her...

AND SHE GETS UPSET! She gets mad at me for wanting to keep her out too late and here I am thinking that its great cause she'll be home before midnight... So now I have no ideas what to do tonight and apparently she wants to be home early...

I'm not so sure this is going to work out...

Eh...

Women.

"Eidos" (Dinner,discussion) coming to an apartment near you !!!

Eidos:

The word means "image" and is used in philosophy, particularly ancient Greek philosophy to indicate "idea" or form. In Aristotle, we find eidos to be that set of qualities which a scientific definition (logos) analyzes into its constituent parts. Elsewhere, in Plato, Kant, and others, the idea is a knowable aesthetic sense of the whole, a clear intuitive grasp of synthetic relational meaning, as opposed to that order which is merely represented in human discourse.
www.texascollaborative.org/Urban_Module/glossary.htm

Since I have decided to keep my Sundays off limits to my work availability, I would like to put that good ole Torrey itch for good discussion to good use round here...

It seems like most of my church friends are content to discuss random and (as if I could ever say this without sounding extremely pretentious) inane topics, this would give us a chance to change a small aspect of that (Considering my own life of the mind has been suffering). I sort of instigated a small discussion the other night while we were having Starbuck's and had a good time and I think some other people did too. However this raises some interesting questions I must ask you dear reader. What should we discuss? What should we eat? (I was figuring the usual massive amounts of pasta, salad and fresh french bread were good ideas to start)

thats enough for the moment

A mans home is his castle...

Got my place rearranged... and clean, REALLY CLEAN. Its almost scary

The living room is really bare with only the one couch. Dunno what I am going to do about that...
Really puts a kink in trying to have people over and stuff.

Tried to suprise Janie last night and wisk her off on a date when she got off work, bt apparently she hadn't been feeling well the entire day and needed to go home and rest. Bummer. We're going to do something tomorrow night.

Thinking of having a theology discussion at my place on Sunday nights for folks from Illuminate (the church service I have been going too). Had the idea when I found the course notes from Dr. Thoennes Theology Seminar. Would be good to add a bit of hard core doctrinal discussion to the mix I think... Totally informal, just like pizza and Gruden.

Thats about it for here... Since I haven't posted to this blog in a while I will be mirroring it on
"What if someone gets hurt"