service with a smile!

I take Monday s off. And my son, PDub goes to preschool Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9-12. This means my wife and I have a truly awesome morning that we tend to spend in some sort of date mode. Although it is not always the most romantic, we tend to eat breakfast out together (you can get a great breakfast here, eggs bacon toast sausage hash browns for 2.99). Then we run errands and leisurely make our way back to the school to pick PW up in or around noon. For those of you who know me, you know that I have the attention of a...what was I saying? As a result of this, I like to try new restaurants as opposed to finding a good one and sticking with it. So today we tried the restaurant attached to a Shell station on the Trans Canada Highway just outside of Portage. We walked in and found a waitress whose name surely must have been Spaz. She was completely friendly but utterly unaware of where she was, who you were, what you had ordered, if you had ordered, was she wearing pants, is there such a thing as pants, who put this restaurant here anyway, why am I here and why am I holding bacon. All of these things were very forgivable because of the mood of our morning which was lazy and easy does it very pleasant. So I opened the menu and ordered the Great big eat. This came with 3 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, hash browns, 4 pieces of your choice of meat and a coffee. All for 6.99. I ordered it eggs over easy, 2 sausages, 2 bacon, hash browns extra crispy and white toast. What I received was 2 eggs 2 slices of bacon, 1 sausage, brown toast and a cup of coffee. At this point something that was taught to me by Darrell Ulriksen (not actually spoken but absorbed) rang in my ears. Really, how much do you care? I like brown toast I was not incredibly hungry and I still had my cup of coffee. So I quite happily ate the food and considered myself lucky that Spaz had got my food to me at all. When Mandy and I had both finished our meal. Mandy went out to sit in the car and I went to pay the bill. I did, however, care about paying for food I had not received. I had received, instead of the Great big eat, the big eat. So when I went to the front counter to pay, I pointed out that I had received the Big eat instead of the great big eat. To which Spaz looked at me, bewildered, and said “I know, that’s what I got for you”. To which I had replied that I had ordered to great big eat. She looked at me dead cold in the face and said “The Great Big Eat is 6.99. Yours was 4.99. The Great big eat was too expensive”. I thanked her, shook her hand, kissed a baby and walked out. Mmmmmmmmmmm small town.

better now

got accretited most of the pressure is off, i want movies and natchos

How I'm Doing

As I lay in bed last night I felt a very strong yearning to pray my way through all of the stresses in my life. I am fairly easygoing but my stress meter is currently in the danger zone. My problem was that even the thought of laying out all of my stresses and simply saying them to God was in and of itself, daunting. Perhaps if I didn't say them they would all go away. However, common sense prevailed and I began to pray. I prayed for a long time. I did not pray anything indepth sometimes just saying a person's name or if that was insufficient, saying their name and then saying situation, as in Chris's situation. Nothing really more indepth, certainly nothing insightful, nor did I find the opportunity to teach God anything. Even with this very simple tactic I found that my prayer was quite long. This can mean only one thing. There is a lot going on in my world. I was no less daunted at the end of the prayer than I was before but I did feel like sleep, for the first time in many days, was a viable option. I drifted off into deep unconsciousness. It while I was sleeping that my mother reminded me in a dream of the best way to interact with God. She said words that I have taught. There was no new ideas but what there was was a very concrete reminder of a very real truth. You see, my dream was about one of my prayers. My prayer had been that God would give me renewed passion to be in his word everyday. The stress came from how do I do this. So I will leave you with my mother's words "Do it like this. Pray, read, pray." Thanks Mom.

well I think i bought a truck

still some what ambiguous because we need to get the financing in order but if everything works the way i think it will, i shall be driving this truck! (the pictures are off my cell phone so they are fuzzy)

2002 ford f150 crew cab is what is on my mind!(forest green with cow on the innards)(speaking of cow on the innards, im hungry)

2 things #1 i hope to buy a truck today
#2 my son and my wife are having a battle of wills today, Mandy will win but it is going to be a loud, long day.

on the other hand,

2002 ford f150 crew cab is what is on my mind!(forest green with cow on the innards)(speaking of cow on the innards, im hungry)