happy 64th!!!

Hey look!!! celebrate!!! it's my 64th post!! man has it been fun thus far. i've laughed, i've cried, and lets face it...i've had a great time.

why are 50 and 100 the best numbers? I don't understand. i've decided that 64 is a better blog milestone than 50 or 100. everyone please feel free to share your milestones involving the number 64. i bet you'll have like 6400000000000000000000 of them.


Yeah i made it to minnesota. It's pretty cold. there's a lot of snow.


AND I AM SO GLAD TO SEE MY FAMILY

i hopped out of the car when we got in from Duluth, dropped my stuff off in the house, and went straight over to the church to play a little basketball with emily. good times. now it's late, it's quiet and my mom is reading on the couch.

it's quiet.

I've needed quiet. I've gotten quieter as the semester has gone on but i feel like real, alone quiet time has not been had very much this semester. I get so caught up in myself and other things that make my mind run around.


so now my cell phone has no reception, the tv is OFF and no one knows my home phone number ;) (it rarely gets answered anyway so there's really no point)


basically computer/internet/email/blog are going to be the main line of communication over the break. John seems to think that his blog is now devoted to that. Personally i'm cool with that, but i don't know why it would be his blog and not mine...;)

In other news, i'm currently reading The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. I actually only have like 5 pages left.

It is quite amazing. I love his style of writing. I dont feel like describing it so just read his books. I think i'm the last one to start getting serious about reading his books. i read the narnia series when i was younger. I thought they were ok but didn't like them near as much as i liked the Redwall, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings books (my favorite fictional series). i figure i'll have time to pound them(narnia books) out over break considering my current pace is 1 book per day :).

well that's pretty much it. stay safe, warm and well. i'm sitting next to a fire with a book, a loving mother, father and an even more loving Father who has poured out so many undeserved blessings on me and my family. you guys are definitely some of the biggest of those undeserved blessings. I love you guys and am so thankful for the time spent learning, sharing and growing w/ you this semester. I'm definitely here, now. But i'm also definitely excited about being w/ you guys again next semester.

-dave


"'you are heartless. everyone is heartless. the past was all i had.'

'It was all you chose to have. It was the wrong way to deal with sorrow. It was Egyptian--like embalming a dead body.'

'Oh of course. I'm wrong. Everything I say or do is wrong, according to you.'

'But of course!!' said the Spirit, shining with love and mirth so that my eyes were dazzled. 'That's what we all find when we reach this country. We've all been wrong! That's the great joke. There's no need to go on pretending one was right! After that we begin living.'"

The Great Divorce
by CS Lewis