Random Warning

Do you ever feel like your mind is cluttered with a bunch of random thoughts and you can’t seem to focus on any of them? That’s how I feel this week so far. Here’s a rundown of the things going on.

• It’s a blast having a full house. With 8 people (Patti‘s family is here) laughing, playing Wii, and having a good time its really fun to be home. If I had one word to summarize our time together it would be: Laughter. There have been some moments where everyone just erupted into laughter… that’s a very good thing for us.
• Taxes are done and submitted. I finally finished the taxes last night and submitted them at 10:12 PM Eastern Standard Time. Why the delay? When you have to pay what is the rush?
• Street teams are underway. Yesterday I talked Bob and Jimmy into helping me hand out flyers for our concert at Romeo High School. I’m headed to Romeo Middle today to do that same. Wanna join me?
• There are lots of more cool things headed our way at YMX. In case you didn’t know… we’ve somehow survived the first 2.5 years of existence and suddenly find ourselves one of the largest independent youth ministry sites out there. [insert head shaking, I have no idea how it happened. It’s so obviously a God thing.] And there are some fun opportunities coming.
• Speaking of YMX, Patti and I collaborated on a news item last night. It’s a cross between a product review and a sneak peek at a September release. Check that out here.
• Today I’m going to help Bob do his first ever vlog. One of the things I love about Bob is that he’s always game for a crazy idea if we think it’s going to help us reach people. Bob is not “the safe pastor” and with 96% of people to reach in our area… that’s exactly what we need.
• Spring has broken out wildly in Romeo. It may hit 70 today. I think the last time we saw 70 was October or early November. It’s time to change the oil in the mowers.
• We had two really ugly, mean cats outside of our house last night causing trouble for Explorer and Lovely. (Explorer was wildly scratching to be let it) They were howling at our cats from outside and being generally annoying. A bucket of water took care of them.
• I’m really, really, really, really excited about the next sermon series at church. It starts this week and is called “Change Without Compromise.” We’ll be teaching through parts of our doctrinal statement. Someone asked me the other day, “When will Romeo stop changing?” Never. A living organism changes constantly. When your body stops changing they plant you in the ground. I’m not quite ready to get planted.
• Paul started karate yesterday. He’s got some new moves. They worked on punching yesterday… he’s not a good height for that.
• Next week I’m headed to Chicago for some continued education. If you are in the northwest burbs and want to hang out, let me know.
• I ordered the replacement lamp for the projector. We joked on Sunday that it was like a Polish joke… “How many pastors does it take to change a light bulb?” Turns out the answer is 1. And about 6 trustees and 1 deacon.
• Kristen just got back from taking Megan to school and the coffee is about to be pressed. Wednesday has begun.