Why don't we sing this more often

The words of anyone who's ever truly met Jesus and the words that are slowly becoming my own:

verse 1:
Jesus, I my cross have taken,
All to leave and follow Thee.
Destitute, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my all shall be.
Perish every fond ambition,
All I’ve sought or hoped or known.
Yet how rich is my condition!
God and heaven are still my own.

Verse 4:
Go, then, earthly fame and treasure,
Come disaster, scorn and pain
In Thy service, pain is pleasure,
With Thy favor, loss is gain
I have called Thee Abba Father,
I have stayed my heart on Thee
Storms may howl, and clouds may gather;
All must work for good to me.

Your welcome

If you're stuck on the toilet, nothing's coming out, but you have your laptop w/ wireless internet with you, I highly recommend visiting these sites.

1. Watching Mary Lynn Rajskub's latenight appearances on youtube (she's Chloe on 24). I am so entertained by her. Her sense of humor is its own genre.

2. Start playing Lemmings (click on 'Lemmings Spel')

3. Read the different posters at this site. Brilliant and hilarious. Their slogan behind these products is: Motivational products don't work. But our Demotivational products don't work even better!

4. Interesting intelligence test (unfortunately, they don't give the correct answers later)

5. If you like sports, entertaining writers, or velcro, I recommend reading Bill Simmons...great articles, here's a good example of his stuff. (although i will have to forgive him for his comments bashing Mr. Holland's Opus)

6. Find out the exact salary of any of your high school teachers or college professors.

7. If you've been able to visit every site thus far, you probably need this.

Bowling's gettin expensive

Story 1:
The owner of the bowling alley gives away free game coupons for anyone who bowls a turkey (three strikes in a row for you roast beef people). A girl in our group of 11 had bowled four strikes in a row plus a spare. So this Jamaican looking guy who worked at the alley came over to our group and said the girl "Alright here's a free game, but if you bowl a strike on this next bowl, I'll give you another free game." Sure enough, she bowled a strike. We were all making a ton of noise with our excitement. Even the dedicated bowlers on the bumper lanes next to us were distracted enough to stop and watch us. I was the bowler after her and he said "ok, now if this guy gets a strike I'll give everyone in the group a free game!" I was like "dude, don't do this to me." So after 23 years of always failing under pressure, I wound up and bowled a strike. Amazing. Everyone was going crazy; the guy was running around the alley saying "oh snap!".


Story 2:
I only knew 2 people out of the 11. Within the first 2 minutes of my arrival I made a really funny comment (it happens every blue moon). There was this guy who you could tell has been popular all his life; he heard my comment, thought it was hilarious, and consequently wanted to hang around me. As I noticed this I sorta tried to avoid him because I was thinking "if he hangs around me long enough, he'll realize that I'm not as cool or funny as he thought I was...and he'll eventually reject me."
I just thought this was interesting because this gives insight into how incredibly conscious I am of the social status of myself and those around me.
I have so much respect for people who aren't aware of differences and see people as people; I envy them because I try so hard to be that way, but fail constantly.

Ah the smell of sweat and beer

I was reading the nutrition facts label on my bottled water and got to thinking about all the bands I've ever seen live in concert. I made a list in case anyone ever asks how many bands I've seen that start with the letter "3".

311
Adema
Amy Grant
Andrew W.K. (4)
Backstreet Boys
Bebo Norman
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Blink 182
Boy hits car (4)
Caedmon's Call (2)
Celtic Woman
Collective Soul
Creed (2)
Dashboard Confessional
Dave Matthews Cover Band (3)
Derek Webb (5)
Disturbed
Drowning Pool
Elf Power
Eve 6
Everclear
Finger Eleven (4)
Flaw*
Flyleaf
Fuel
Godsmack
Green Day
Hoobastank
Indigo Girls
Jars of Clay
Linkin Park (2)
Live
Manheim Steamroller
Maroon 5 (3) *
Marvelous 3
Michael Card
Modern Skirts (3)
Nickelback
Nickelcreek (2)
no doubt
Nonpoint
O.A.R. (3)
Offspring
Oleander
Our Lady Peace (3)
Papa Roach
Rebecca St. James
Rehab (2)
Sevendust (2)
Shane and Shane
Silers Bald
Skillet
Smalltown Poets
Sonic Flood
Staind (3)
Static X
Stavesacre*
Stone Temple Pilots (4)
Stroke 9
Sufjan Stevens
Switchfoot
Third Day
Waterdeep
Wes King


Bold - in my top concerts of all time
* - saw it by myself