(mimicking other blogs)
Mood: I'm not too sure, I feel like I have a headache, maybe from thinking too much.
Listening to: "Trouble" - Coldplay
Well, my life plugs on as per usual. It's a real challenge to make it as interesting as I want it to be. As for the moment, the exciting news is that we have one more wooden wall frame to put up upstairs, then the electical, ductwork, and finally the drywall and plaster and paint! Also, I'M GOING TO FINALLY HAVE A ROOM! OH JOY! For those of you who don't know, my "bedroom" is the corner of a room that has 20 five foot tall and 2 foot wide windows. This room also holds the computers, the kitchen, living room, office, and school room. So, I wake up in the morning to my Dad getting coffee and my mom sitting at her desk or cleaning. not to mention the sun and all of creation looking in on me. so, We're moving my bed and everything into the basement. I will finally have four walls and it will be dark and quiet in the morning when I wake up. so, YAY!
This Saturday, Mom and I are going to take out our 3 ton horse trailer and going to the Quinlisks to help them move the heaviest of their furniture. That should be fun. just a minor side note.
Life in general has proven interesting for me recently, in the midst of all this work, and school, I'm trying to build new friendships, and at the same time, strengthen old ones. I'm reminded of Proverbs 27:17 "As iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another", This is so true and so profound, and the concept's presence is so evident in my life that I'm blown away by it. I need to figure out how to make new friends again though, I've been concentrating on the tight ring I've formed in Dan, John, Shannon, Justin, etc. I need to look outward and find new friends, so, I'm working on it, even though its hard to find just the right topics of conversation. :-) I'm improving though. For the past week or so, by brain has been racked so many times it hurts.
Just today: I discovered I can actually sing in the same key as Chris Martin (lead singer of Coldplay) this I found quite astonishing because of how low my voice is. I'm not saying I sang WELL, I'm saying I matched the notes.
I listened to the Doxology performed by David Crowder, it moved me to tears. (not that thats a hard thing to do...)
Ahh well, life goes on. Until next time.
-Wes
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
I'm "That Guy"
While surfing around the net today, I came across a selection of image contests. One of which read " 'That Guy' contest" I browsed around looking at different pictures that had some random guy poking into the picture at some odd angle or who was somewhat out of place...
I was Stunned...
I found a picture of myself... At Kennywood... On the bridge...
Me... in a " 'That Guy' contest"..............
I guess I should have leaned in with the girls...
Friday, October 14, 2005
A New Venture... for the Quinlisks at least
Ahh, well, my family had a very industrious Thursday at the Q's new house. Mostly, the evening comprised of tearing up and cutting up carpeting and the wooden strips that hold carpeting to the floor. When we first got there to work, we say a large piece of green carpeting rolled up on the floor. So, my Mom got right down to business and started cutting it up and rolling it into tight rolls for the garbage service. Only later were we to find out that Matt wanted that particular bit of carpet for his bedroom in the basement... Luckily, after some measuring of the guys room (and the dining room) we discovered that the--egshb (sorry, my cell phone just went crashing down onto my keyboard-- anyway, we found out that the carpeting in the dining room(same carpet as the shredded one) was exactly the same size as the guy's room. So, phew, that was close a major blunder. So, the rest of the evening was consumed by the removal of 99% of the carpet on the first floor. The second big event of the night was Mr. Q. Sticking his bare hand inside the wall behind the sink and drawing forth a slew of razors and some black gunk. Thankfully, his hand was still intact, and he would soon draw literally a hundred razor blades from this hole.
Tonight, I went to Youth Parent Care Group (and no, its not one of those support groups, its like the youth group for our church.) There, we expeienced an awesome message on faith and trying aspects of life that tend to take us away from God. Truely awesome stuff, along with some reading from hebrews. With the addition of splitting off into two groups (boys and girls) which kinda helped some of the guys "come out of the shell" so to speak. Afterwards, we adjourned to the basement for some different activities. Dan and I decided to try our hand at Fix You, sounded pretty good dispite Dan's AWEFUL singing (hehe) and a lack of a decent organ sound. We continued to The Scientist which was pretty easy. (for those who don't know, these are songs by a band called Coldplay) After some general hanging around and other different minor stuff, I funally made my mark on Justin Harvey's computer moniter which already possesed the scrawlings of many a person's sharpie. I added "And it was called YELLOW" (also another Coldplay song)
I stepped out onto the lawns of suburbia and the cool night air hit my face, mingles with the smell of freshly cut lawns. I looked down the rows of nearly idenical houses and I looked up at the clear yet starless sky, it is times like hese that I understand why God put me in the country where I can smell the fresh un-tainted air and see thousands of stars and the thickly sprinkled Milky Way.
Being distant is hard, but it has its benifits.
To my friends, each and every one, those who were at the Harvey's tonight and those absent: I love you guys...(now, girls, don't take this the wrong way. :-P I mean as friends.) but, seriously!
I LOVE YOU GUYS!
-Wes
Tonight, I went to Youth Parent Care Group (and no, its not one of those support groups, its like the youth group for our church.) There, we expeienced an awesome message on faith and trying aspects of life that tend to take us away from God. Truely awesome stuff, along with some reading from hebrews. With the addition of splitting off into two groups (boys and girls) which kinda helped some of the guys "come out of the shell" so to speak. Afterwards, we adjourned to the basement for some different activities. Dan and I decided to try our hand at Fix You, sounded pretty good dispite Dan's AWEFUL singing (hehe) and a lack of a decent organ sound. We continued to The Scientist which was pretty easy. (for those who don't know, these are songs by a band called Coldplay) After some general hanging around and other different minor stuff, I funally made my mark on Justin Harvey's computer moniter which already possesed the scrawlings of many a person's sharpie. I added "And it was called YELLOW" (also another Coldplay song)
I stepped out onto the lawns of suburbia and the cool night air hit my face, mingles with the smell of freshly cut lawns. I looked down the rows of nearly idenical houses and I looked up at the clear yet starless sky, it is times like hese that I understand why God put me in the country where I can smell the fresh un-tainted air and see thousands of stars and the thickly sprinkled Milky Way.
Being distant is hard, but it has its benifits.
To my friends, each and every one, those who were at the Harvey's tonight and those absent: I love you guys...(now, girls, don't take this the wrong way. :-P I mean as friends.) but, seriously!
I LOVE YOU GUYS!
-Wes
Friday, October 07, 2005
well, long time no write
(DUN DUN DUN...)
Yea, I'm back.
Well, it has most definitely been a while, since the 24th actually.
The biggest thing that happened to me recently is that I won an Xbox 360 from Pepsi! I entered in the 12:30 AM drawing and actually won! So, thats really cool. Lets see, last Sunday Dan orchestrated another Frisbee game. I was actually going to be doing the same, but he beat me to it. I discovered a new/interesting was of throwing a Frisbee, you place your palm ontop of the Frisbee and wrap your thumb around the underneath and use a fore-handed flicking motion to throw the frisbee. Now, bear in mind that this method is by far not practical in any way... But it makes it fly so I count it as a throw. In the pre-game, Dan, Mike, and I were out warming up (unfortunately, I was wearing a polo shirt and jeans, but YAY for undershirts!) Sadly, and disturbingly, Mike wasn't as fortunate to have an undershirt and he had to expose the beacon of light he calls skin. *shiver* BUT! On to the game.
The game itself was, shall we say, interesting. Luke ran ALOT.... like, 5 times as much as anyone else... and it produced results. Several good passes and plays by the usual power players. Heather made a few good end-zone catches, Mike was his usual crazy self, Dan unleashed the power of a foreign beer company logo... So, all in all, pretty normal. But, after Frisbee, we broke away from the norm and played some soccer, by far the most astounding thing that happened thoughout the entire game was an amazing stunt pulled by luke... in some circles its called the "sphere shot". the ball was coming straight down, luke did a half backflip and kicked the ball when he was parallel with the ground. needless to say it was very impressive, but not only that, it actually helped his team score! Very fun.
POST GAME: hangin out at the Q's. We just hanged around outside, and listened to rap.... THE NEIGHBOR'S RAP that is. They had a car stereo or something going at full blast pumping gangsta rap into the hood... with some pretty disturbing lyrics...
Not much has happened since Sunday... I'm bogged down in school and i'm up to my neck in homework for the first time in my life. I'll be sure to make another post if anything interesting happens.
RANDOM FACT: Au Bon Pain means "Some Good Food"
-Wes
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Yea, I'm back.
Well, it has most definitely been a while, since the 24th actually.
The biggest thing that happened to me recently is that I won an Xbox 360 from Pepsi! I entered in the 12:30 AM drawing and actually won! So, thats really cool. Lets see, last Sunday Dan orchestrated another Frisbee game. I was actually going to be doing the same, but he beat me to it. I discovered a new/interesting was of throwing a Frisbee, you place your palm ontop of the Frisbee and wrap your thumb around the underneath and use a fore-handed flicking motion to throw the frisbee. Now, bear in mind that this method is by far not practical in any way... But it makes it fly so I count it as a throw. In the pre-game, Dan, Mike, and I were out warming up (unfortunately, I was wearing a polo shirt and jeans, but YAY for undershirts!) Sadly, and disturbingly, Mike wasn't as fortunate to have an undershirt and he had to expose the beacon of light he calls skin. *shiver* BUT! On to the game.
The game itself was, shall we say, interesting. Luke ran ALOT.... like, 5 times as much as anyone else... and it produced results. Several good passes and plays by the usual power players. Heather made a few good end-zone catches, Mike was his usual crazy self, Dan unleashed the power of a foreign beer company logo... So, all in all, pretty normal. But, after Frisbee, we broke away from the norm and played some soccer, by far the most astounding thing that happened thoughout the entire game was an amazing stunt pulled by luke... in some circles its called the "sphere shot". the ball was coming straight down, luke did a half backflip and kicked the ball when he was parallel with the ground. needless to say it was very impressive, but not only that, it actually helped his team score! Very fun.
POST GAME: hangin out at the Q's. We just hanged around outside, and listened to rap.... THE NEIGHBOR'S RAP that is. They had a car stereo or something going at full blast pumping gangsta rap into the hood... with some pretty disturbing lyrics...
Not much has happened since Sunday... I'm bogged down in school and i'm up to my neck in homework for the first time in my life. I'll be sure to make another post if anything interesting happens.
RANDOM FACT: Au Bon Pain means "Some Good Food"
-Wes
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