Believe it or not I made it through

A couple of weeks ago (I think) I mentioned that if I could make it through that week then everything will get better! I was right! Last weekend was terrible, we were so busy that when I got to work on Monday it felt like I never left. It was actually nice to get caught in yesterday's and today's snow storm to slow things down a little. My work life is getting back to normal and homelife also pretty much back to normal(as normal as normal can be)! Saturday night I had a blast, I went out with some of the best people I know and we went to a comedy club! I was really tired and wasn't sure if I wanted to go. Man am I ever glad I decided to go because I had the best time I've had in years! I haven't laughed or had this much fun in I don't know how long! What a great night with some awesome friends!
This weekend has really put stuff into perspective and I have a new outlook on life. I just finished working on my sermon for Thursday and actually started working on the planning stages for next week's message with the youth.
So I would like to thank God for getting me through these last weeks and months, thank Roxanne for being so patient with me and thank my friends for the awesome night on Saturday, you guys Rock!

Talk at you later
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Small rant!

Last week I had the most expensive sandwich of my life! I went to this new restaurant in my building for 3 reasons 1: I wanted to try it, 2: it was in my building and 3: I'm lazy and it was in my building! I won't mention their name because I don't want to promote or bash this restaurant I'm just using it as an example. So back to my rich man sandwich, this restaurant promotes themselves as being "green" or "enviromentally friendly" by using "organic produce", "recycled materials" and "bio friendly energy" to power the restaurant (and by that they mean that they use sunlight for lighting the restaurant). I was proud of myself I'm getting a healthy sandwich and "helping" the environment. Well I get to the cash and the sandwich and a glass of tap water cost me over $10.00. ARE YOU KIDDING ME OVER $10.00 FOR A SANDWICH! I'm getting really frustrated with these companies that use catch phrases like environmentally friendly or eco-friendly or whatever friendly to a jack up the price! Why do I have to pay more to be environmentally friendly! Don't get fooled people some of these companies use these catch phrases just to raise prices to increase profit. They guilt us into a sense believing that we can make a difference and by paying more you're helping more and in some cases that's just a lie. It's marketing, really good marketing. If they trully believe that they want to help the environment these companies should sell the eco-friendly products at the same price as the regular non environmentally friendly products! But I'm not sure they want to cut into their profit margin to help the enviromnent or anyone else for that matter. If I had the choice to buy something that is good for the environment at the same price at the other brand I would easily make the right choice but why should I pay almost twice the price for the same thing that is enviromentally friendly made by the SAME company. Did you notice that a certain cleaning product company came out with "green line" of cleaning products however they still produce the non-green product and have those on sale while the eco stuff is twice the regular price!

Read the labels, be informed when making choices and don't get fooled by all the marketing out there! These companies pay millions of dollars a year in marketing to get our cash. Just be a wise shopper sometimes a green sticker is just a green sticker.

As for the sandwich it was good, but definitely not worth $11.00!

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Small Stuff

Funny how you can read a book and say to yourself, " Wow that is so true, or I really wish I could do that" Well that just happened to me. I finally had a few minutes to myself and started reading some blogs that I haven't had a chance to read in a long time and it hit me! Look at you're own blog, Wow November 18th was my last post. My how time flies when you sweat the small stuff. I know what you're thinking how busy can he really be. Well for once pretty darn busy. I'm working 10 hour days at work coming home to 5 year old twin girls and trying to plan and restart the youth program at church. And if that isn't busy enough I had an elective that I had to complete at school with a 4 to 6 page essay due tomorrow. So it's been a little hectic lately. Everything should start settling down by the end of this week and I'm really looking forward to it.

So if you can say a little prayer to help me get through this week and into the weekend trust me I'm going to need it.

Talk at you later

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