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I've been really busy lately. Doing what you may ask? Well, working and seeing friends, but I've also been working hard at gaining back some lost personal space. I've really been enjoying not being around people a whole lot. It's been nice to go for a walk alone, go out for coffee to read alone and do just about anything, alone. I am definitely looking forward to seeing everyone again, but, while I have this opportunity, I'm taking advantage of it!

I also recently got the privilege to meet up with Luke(alberta) for coffee one night while he was down in my area visiting family. That was really nice, it was fun to talk about things that only we would care about. Things from school, etc, that kind of thing.

I also just got back from a friends concert, Simon Hoskyn, which was really good, I went with Jake and Marg and we had a de-lightful time.

That about does it for my update, I don't really have alot I feel like saying, so before I move on to more trivial matters, I'll give you a quote I like to think about regarding contemplative prayer.

“This method of prayer is a movement beyond conversation with Christ to communion with Him.”
-Thomas Keating


Lately I've been looking at some of the stats for my webpage, and I've been noticing that when I include a famous persons name in the midst of an entry, I get people searching for that and stumbling across my page. So, in order to fully exploit that, I composed the following short story using top search keywords compiled from various search engines. I hope you enjoy this, and if you don't, well, it's boosting my traffic soooo...

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After a long day at the Golden Globe Awards, Britney Spears sat on the couch, turned on the T.V. and flipped past the NFL game, a WWE match, briefly settled on the Miss Universe competition but then sighed, shut of the T.V. and said to Paris Hilton, "You want to play some Nintendo Wii?" "What?" Paris Hilton asked, "Sorry, I was listening to Beyonce Knowles belt out a tune on my Apple Ipod."

"Whatever," Britney flippantly remarked, "you and your Christmas music. You'd probably rather play XBox or PS2 anyways."

"Well let's do something, like throw around the baseball, play a round of golf, try out for the NBA, anything!" Paris cried, "I'm so bored I'd even watch a YouTube video of Tupac and Eminem teaching Lindsey Lohan how to play "Pokemon Poker"!"

Britney laughed, "I'm not quite that desperate yet, why don't you go on your Apple computer and see if Clay Aiken is online on MySpace, he always has good ideas!"

Paris Hilton squinted at the laptop that Hilary Duff gave her. "Something is not right," she declared, "My spyware detector is blocking all sites except, NeoPets, Wikipedia and a Barbie fansite. How could this happen? I only ever use this computer to look up prom hairstyles that are endorsed by Jessica Simpson!"

Frustrated, Britney put down her wine accessories and came over to have a look. "I know what the problem is, when you let Harry Potter borrow your laptop over Halloween and Easter, he installed LimeWire and KaZaA so he could download all his favourite Shakira songs."

Paris Hilton sighed, checked the time on her Nokia N80 and suggested, "You know, why don't we just invite Jennifer Lopez over and write ourselves the best darn High School Musical since SpongeBob SquarePants!"

Britney Spears jumped up, dropped her PSP and said, "You know, that's even better than Oprah Winfrey's suggestion! Let's go!"

And so they did.

The End

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Sleepless in...

The weekend is over. It was good, some fun was had, but it's gone now. Now it's back to work for me. I thought I'd throw up a few pictures of my trip to Seattle on Saturday with a few friends, we went to a Death Cab for Cutie concert. It was a pretty good show, I didn't know it was a stadium show, I'd never been to one that big before, as much as I did enjoy it, I think I much prefer smaller shows and little venues where you can hear them clearly and see them even better. Regardless it was a nice little roadtrip. We were right beside the space needle and the Experience Music Project building, so that was pretty neat, they have some nifty buildings in downtown Seattle I must say.

Well for lack of anything else to say, this is it.

Painters have more fun

It's been a while. I thought I should at least post something, anything, so I don't lose my devoted audience!

Well it's been a nice change for me. Currently I'm working full time, painting up a storm, and that's about it. Sometimes I see people in the evenings, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I do things, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I drive, sometimes I don't. That kind of freedom and whimsy is something I'm really enjoying while I'm here. I've really enjoyed just hanging out with myself, going to read or whatever. It's been really great to have a vehicle again, I'm definitely liking that!

Let's see, what're some highlights so far... Well I had a great day with Jake and Marg, we went to watch his brother race in the Canadian Championships, an 8k race in the snow. Definitely not something I think I'll be doing, the winner did it in like 26 minutes, it takes me 26 minutes to do 1/2 a kilometer, let alone 8! Then we hung around Vancouver for a while, went to Chapters, and that night went to a play called Caribou Magi, it was a really good play, all in all, a pretty excellent day.

I also had an amazing movie night with Adam, we watched two old movies that were so bad they were pretty good. Not too many people like watching those old B-movies, so it's good to have someone to do that with.

This weekend I'm going to a Death Cab for Cutie concert in Seattle with another friend, that should be most excellent as well.

So really, now that I saw those things, it sounds like I've been pretty busy, but it's been relaxing. I've found it kind of relaxing getting back to work, it's a good feeling getting back to work, doing something productive with your hands. That said, I'm sure I won't mind a 6 month break from painting in January!

I've really enjoyed being back, and the solitude and rest I've been able to find in God since. Never have I felt so connected to my creator and the supernatural in my daily life as right now. It's totally unique to me, I find that instead of striving for godliness, righteousness, spirituality, gifts, character, whatever it is that we try to attain, I am starting to understand that I just am. As I begin to accept who I am in Christ, the promises He's made, the person He said I am, I just am. I can rest in Him and he lets me be who I truly am.

It's easy to feel close to God when you are surrounded by 30 or so other like minded people who are all relentless in their search for intimacy with their Creator, but it's been an interesting and encouraging season for me here at home, as I go about my daily routine, doing sometimes something, sometimes nothing, and the whole while feeling perhaps the closest to God I've ever felt. Even in my good and bad times, the reality of Him is so much more apparent. I don't understand it, and I don't expect to feel this way forever as I understand there are always highs and lows in every relationship, sometimes it flows very naturally, other times it seems like much more work getting to know someone.

It's kind of hard to describe what this time is like, I haven't even really thought about it until now, when I decided to write something out, it's been good for me to just reflect on what God has been doing in my life, then and even now. He has a way of constantly encouraging that I truly admire.

Well I'm not sure I have more to write at the moment. I'll try to post a few more times, but come on, give me a break, this is my holiday for goodness sake.