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Farewell

Some of us saw Pastor Joe and Suhee SMN off at the airport. (Why are we in the middle?) See you guys soon.

I Hate Change

This weekend was our Pastor's last weekend. It was also the last weekend before my friend Daniel moves to LA. I am pretty sad. On Saturday we went to Pastor Joe's son, Gideon's 100 day celebration.

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Afterwards me, John, and Simon hung out with Daniel. I wanted to do something, but we ended up doing nothing. Partly because I'm a bad planner and secondly I had to watch Christian and most of my planning involves places where I can't take Christian. =) We did have fun talking and watching the Cal game. After John and Simon left, Daniel and I went to Church's chicken and got a family meal. It was ghettoriffic!

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Sunday we had Pastor Joe and Suhee SMN's farewell at DJ's and Bonnie's. They made some awesome food. We gave them a farewell gift, a really nice camera lens.

Christian playing the guitar.

On Sunday, I prayed for the service and when I started to pray about Pastor Joe leaving I said, "He came here a single man, and now he's leaving a husband and a father." Then something weird happened. I got all choked up and started crying like a little bitch. It was weird because I never cry. I am really sad that Pastor Joe is leaving, I mean I hung out with him almost every week at least once if not two or three times for the past 4 years. I mentioned in one of my old blogs that he was the first Pastor that I have ever really become friends with. And it is true, he is a good friend and I will miss him. But again, not enough to cry. There's no crying in baseball! What's wrong with me!? Maybe it was a mixture of Daniel leaving too.


I feel like I have been through a lot with Daniel. We became friends pretty quickly, especially these last couple years. When he broke up with his finance who also was a good friend of ours, my heart broke. That was the first time I have ever been that devastated at someone else's break up. That Sunday morning when he told me before church that they split up, I felt a pain in my stomach and I thought I was going to cry. (Maybe all the times I want to cry I should just let it out?)

I've mentioned that Daniel is a guy that you really have to get to know, because he kind of has this tough outer shell. I remember the first time I went to the college guy's small group years ago, and Daniel shared his thoughts on the book of James, I thought to myself "Wow this kid is pretty deep." He was like a little brother to me. He didn't have much to say but when he did, it was usually pretty profound. I think he does that on purpose.

I think I hate change. No, I know that I hate change. I like things to stay the same and this is not the same. My moving around all the time throughout my childhood has really traumatized me. I had to say goodbye to too many good friends. I think that's why I was so jaded in high school and early college, pretending to be a tough guy. But eventually I let myself open up, become vulnerable and get close to people. And when these people move out of your life it hurts. Yeah I'm a bitch for sure.

I'm going to try my best to keep in touch with Pastor Joe and Daniel. I think bloggin is a good way.

Where have all the sitcoms gone?

Where have all the sitcoms gone? When reality shows first came out, I thought they were so stupid and I swore that I would never watch them. These are some of the shows scheduled to record on our Comcast DVR (TIVO):

Survivor China

Big Brother 8

Hogan Knows Best

Dancing With The Stars

So You Think You Can Dance

Hell's Kitchen

Top Chef

America's Next Top Model

UFC Fighter Serra vs. Hughes

American Idol

Project Runway

Young Adult Small Group

Yesterday we had our first new Young Adult small group meeting. It was actually my first time leading a small group since College. I was praying very earnestly throughout the week for the meeting as I felt really unqualified and unprepared. I also prayed that people would show up.

I have to admit that I had a great time. A lot of people came and we just had a great time of eating, sharing, and just hanging out. It felt like I was back in college sort of. We sang some praise songs, went around sharing about our week, prayer requests, what we wanted to get out of small group, and what we thought about the pastor that visited us this past weekend.

It's funny but normally when you hang out with people from church you rarely ever talk about God or your spiritual life. I think that is funny and I hope that we can break out of that uncomfortable zone through this small group. Also we need more girls, but I think it will be very uncomfortable for that first girl because, well just look at the pictures.

Rediculous!