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Hey guys. What's going on in your life that's interesting?

The only thing that's going on in my life is I am on a bowling league with my brother and a couple of his coworkers. I have a 106 average. And that's good enough for me.

And I bought three of my fave artists albums. Celine Dion,"Loved Me Back To Life", LeAnn Rimes,"What A Wonderful World" Christmas album, and last but certainly not least,"ARTPOP" by Lady Gaga. Yes I said Lady Gaga.

Anyway... What's going on in your life right now? Hope something fun is happening.
 
Working on one crazy project! Working late hours and weekend.. Hopefully it will all get over before Christmas.. Looking forward to meeting my brothers for Thanksgiving holidays..
 
finished the clutch on my Nissan over the weekend and awaiting the new vss so that my speedometer will work again
 
In my ongoing job search I have two prospects that are quite interesting. The first one is completely in God's hands. A month or so ago I attended a job fair for Chevron (the oil company) where they were looking for a number of trainees/fieldmen. I honestly didn't think I had much chance, but went anyway. Well, as rumor has it, a total of about 1500 people went to the job fair. Of those 237 were invited to take an assessment (I was one of them, and I passed!), of those who passed they invited 100 back for interviews (again, I was one of them). That was last week. Now it is just a waiting game to see if I am one of 45 people they will be hiring for 2014, the earliest group of 15 is to start in mid-January.

The second one is, I was contacted by Bankers Life & Casualty to attend an informational meeting a couple days prior to the Chevron job fair. Well, after talking to the manager for an hour he basically said as long as I get my Life license he will appoint and train me. So, I am currently trying to squeeze time out of working a full-time temp job, running a paper route in the morning, and managing a family of 7, to complete the pre-licensing training, then on to take the licensing exam. This is also really in God's hands as without Him I would be a puddle of human mush at this point.

God is good.
 
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Lots of martial arts practice. Getting better at Karate and having fun, but making very little progress at Kendo.

Also I'm struggling with being quite broke, although a lot of friends of mine will have their birthdays during the next weeks and I have no money to buy gifts or make gifts myself.

This week is "volunteer week" (or whatever I should call it in English) in my town. Most of it is happening in our biggest and centermost shopping mall. Today I was sitting at a table in that mall representing a self-help group that I am part of. It's a group for computer gaming addicts. Lots of self help organisations and groups were there to represent themselves to the public. But most people walkig by were minding their shopping business.
But I had one touching conversation with a woman who told me that her daughter is totally immersed in her internet activities and is neglecting and throwing away her real life. That Mom was really desperate, but there's not much she can do unless her daughter understands she's addicted and genuinely wants to change. :-(
So I'm now thinking about starting another self-help group for family/ relatives/ friends of computer/ gaming/ internet addicts, because they are facing a very specific set of problems, different from the problems of the gaming addicts themselves.

Tomorrow I'll be sitting in the shopping mall again - this time representing my church.
The pastor's wife has sent everyone an email with some hints and instructions and she mentioned that we may get some negative responses because we are christians. So I'm a bit scared about what kind of spiritual warfare I might find tomorrow.

On the weekend I'll be in a christian retreat place for a meeting with some of the other leaders of a christian summer camp where I had my first big leadership experience this summer. In july I basically went right from the psychiatric hospital into being a leader of a part of the camp site, caring for the well-being and the organisation of the camp-life of almost 100 people for an entire week. :lol I really had an epic summer this year.
The camp and the leadership went very well for me, it was scary and exciting, I made a number of new friends and I felt very blessed and alive and purposefull like hardly ever before in my life.
So this weekend there will be a kind of late debriefing of the camp leaders and some planning for next year. I just really don't like that retreat place where we are going to meet, but I'll survive that.

Sorry for writing so much. :confused
 
Karate and Kendo. And some Kenjutsu, but not totally seriously. It's just for adding some more knowledge to help with learning Kendo.

No Judo though. But when I get the chance I'll look into Aikido or Ju-Jitsu some day.
 
Karate and Kendo. And some Kenjutsu, but not totally seriously. It's just for adding some more knowledge to help with learning Kendo.

No Judo though. But when I get the chance I'll look into Aikido or Ju-Jitsu some day.
What about Krav maga(sp?)? It has gained in popularity here in the states.
 
I am teaching myself Japanese...though not at a quick rate. :tongue

I've heard some of the songs from Gaga's new CD. I'd have to listen more to really give an opinion.

Celine Dions Christmas album is really good. My fav song on it is O Holy Night.

 
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I am teaching myself Japanese...though not at a quick rate. :tongue

I've heard some of the songs from Gaga's new CD. I'd have to listen more to really give an opinion.

Celine Dions Christmas album is really good. My fav song on it is O Holy Night.

Angel:

On I've heard Celine sing O Holy Night, and it's excellent! I've heard it over and over. Seems like this is what I do when there's a track that I really like.

The words are really special, too. :)

Blessings.
 
My favorite line is where she sings "Christ is the Lord"

Very passionately sung!
 
krava maga is what one does to defend the bagel from your enemy. judo is what you do to make the bagel.
 
Oh really?
lol. I had a guy in the guard ask me this:

what is karate and what is judo.? so I went on to explain them. and he stpped me. no karate is a martial art and judo is what you do to make a bagel. I died when he said that. I had to pass that on to my family. they loved it. I added krav maga since that is a Hebrew martial art for the idf. lol
 
"Without Him I would be a puddle of human mush at this point."

Human mush is what we are. Dirt and dust. Nothing more. Yet into us comes the Spirit of Life. Life eternal. What trial may assail us to the point were we can not endure? Has God, the Maker of Heaven and Earth not declared, "You shall not be tried beyond your endurance,"? He has indeed. That one who gives such assurance as, "I will never leave nor forsake," is here to heal us of our wounds, is here to direct angels to administer an entrance unto Heaven where we shall be seen to be like Him. We know not what we shall be but we do hear that promise, given in utter truth, we shall be like HIM. It is to His glory that our lives shall reveal the ancient truths spoken of so resoundingly in the Word of Truth.

May I speak to praise the Holy One? It is His life that is born in me and I am thrilled beyond my understanding to see and to watch and to witness this service rendered so tenderly and with such love that my only reaction is that of being astounded at the faith that is given along the way, that faith which, when tried, produces endurance. We are strengthened by His Joy over us and the understanding that as we stand He not only stand by us, but dances over us, causes each to know and declare, "In Christ I may do all things."

Go with confidence, you who are now called Brother of The Christ. Have and enjoy the experience of His Mind being formed in you. Great is our God!
 
What about Krav maga(sp?)? It has gained in popularity here in the states.

Krav Maga is not very wide spread here.
From what I heard it's a different category of arts. While Judo, Ju-jitso, Karate, Aikido and all those are traditional martial arts with modern rules for competitve fighting, Krav Maga is plain brutal self defense without rules or sports ambitions. It's probably highly effective and it's definitely something I'd like to study (there's just barely any schools here teaching it), but it's a different category of fighting.