He was made a servant unto the Lord, and he was blessed greatly among all men.

I have always wanted to get my ears pierced ever since I saw my first pirate movie. With thier swaggering charm and manly scars. Ear rings were all part of the persona. I mean really in a time of sissy dressing men Pirate's were real men's men.
As I grew up my parents forbid us boys to get our ears pierced. Probobly a good idea since it wasn't very custom to our time. Now that I'm 25, free of my parents rule(technically)and free from the Marines I have gotten my ears pierced, and I am posting today to help those who wish to read this why.
For the vast majority of our civilized world Slaves and servants have existed(even to this day). One sign of slavery is the pierceing of the ears. As God called us to be servants and humble I have taken to fasting once a week to consider these things. I use fasting as a way to remind myself of my duty, not just my duty but my pleasure of serving Christ. I have taken to piercing my ears as an added reminder that I AM a servant of God, He has blessed me, I should rejoice in being able to serve him, not window shop over sinful acts.
Now don't get me wrong here but there is also a dual purpose in getting my ears pierced. I also wanted to be abl to wear all different kinds of ear rings becuase I think they are cool. Like I said though missunderstand my earlier statement as a cover up to my true intentions. My true intentions are that they will be a reminder to myself that I should humble myself before the work of the Lord.

All things in time will burn.

Well one guy left work and another got injured so there is only two guys working this week, me and the manager. Guess who gets the crap shift. Anyways I have been working at this store for around two months now. I have seen alot of the lower end of society.
i.e. One woman comes in with her two teenage kids (both of whom spend alot of money on candy and the like at other times) and hands me her Oregon Trail Card (Food Stamps and welfare money rolled into a debit like card). She spends around 30 dollars on junk food and soda, then she buys, with the welfare portion, around 50 dollars in scratch lottery tickets. When she told me that she wanted to put the lotto tickets on the welfare I almost blew my top. I can barely believe that this is legal. It sure as heck shouldn't be. Our stores biggest sellers are cigarettes, beer, and lottery in that order. It's acually kinda sad to see people wasting thier money, and our tax dollars away.

I also have been propositioned several times while working there which while flattering in one sense, in a more important measure is disgusting. I am remembering the sermon last sunday all week about how we shouldn't find sin tempting, but find it horrible. One great quote from the sermon was talking about how "dogs return to thier vomit" It is so true that we should find sin (vomit) disgusting yet we return to our sins anyway. I find myself thinking alot about that lately. So I have decided to try to fast and pray once a week to help me think about my relationship with God and my walk as a christian. I tried to today but it is so temping to do at work becuase i'm around candy and food all day. I have decided that a weekend day or non-workday is a better choice. I think being temped so much to eat can only lead to failure every time.

Work on the house is going well although this week I have not been able to do as much as I would have liked to.

Next weekend I'm hosting a costume party at my house which hopefully will prove to be a good time. I have invited quite a few people and I have a week to get the house ready. Ok tired must do work and sleep cya lata all.

I can't fly with broken wings.

Ok sorry for not posting in a while (Brielle).
I noticed last night how many dang commercials that we watch while viewing TV, and how many times the are shown over and over again. Most of them were based around general commercialism. To be expected. But around a 6th of them were either innapropriate or being sold by sex. The most commecials centered around advertisining for other tv shows or movies. The average commercials were about video games, medicine, food, and general items. Anyways I was kinda surprised I thought I had seen more commercials before that I thought shouldn't be aloud on TV. Maybe they were taking a break last night.
I have been feeling depressed lately, but things are starting to look up. Even though I'm still single, lonley, and out of shape. I have resolved to fasting once a week. I will try to do this on Mondays, but this doesn't always work.
The house is coming along pretty well. Steve had the week off and we got quite a bit of work done. The biggest project we have is getting the HVAC system done, so say a little prayer for us and this project to run smoothly.
I will write more lata I'm tired, Peace.

Dinner

Well I just got back from wedding crashers, the movie. In some ways I found the movie to be increadable funny yet at the same time derogitory and shameless. Anyways If you liked Old School you will probobly enjoy it.
TO the Dinner! I made a dinner tonight for some friends of mine, Micheal (canadian dude), Sarah (RUF gal), and Slappy. I invited a few others but apearantlt people have busy lives. To the point now.
For an appitizer I made asperigus wrapped in procuittio, and Italian mushrooms stuffed with chopped onions and green olives. For the main course I served a light salad and lemon garlic tenderlion, which I baked slightly too long, with a cabernet sauvignon. Then we had some cherry chocolate ice cream for dessert. I guess the only part I wasn't very happy about was forgetting to buy napkins and not having a great place setting set.
Over all I thought everything tasted great but I'm hardly not bias. Tonight has only reinforced my desire to attend the culinary arts school.
Work is going well and I got offered another job working as a dishwasher at a really nice resturant/bar where with time, not alot hopefully, I will woprk up to prep cook. Either way I think it's a good idea to start to get into the resturant buisness if I'm looking at becoming a chef in the future.

The House

Well with the Deppe's coming in Dec to live with us work on the house in starting to kick into full gear. It's kinda exciting to think about how to start bring everything together and running. Work is going good right now and I'm pretty happy there. I enjoy a few of the customers alot. I talked to one (on my day off) for about an hour down at the store and we walked home together, as she lives up the street from me. Anyways talk to ya ll lata.