I say this because I love to buy books with the intent on reading them.  In fact last Thursday 3 more were delivered to my work.  LOL.  So this is what I bought.

Crazy Love by Francis Chan.  I heard this is a really good book.  I have heard in speak in person and watch his weekly vidcasts from his home church.  He is an awesome speaker, check him out if you have some time.

Men’s devotional NIV Bible.  I saw this some time ago in a store and loved the way it had a daily devotional before you read parts of the bible.  It should help with my reading plan.

Max Lucado: God Came Near.  This one looks pretty good and I’m a fan of his writings.

Those are the most recent 3 books I got.  But the list goes on and on.  Now I just need to set away some time and actually READ them, LOL.

I also am a huge fan of fantasy adventure and a few sci-fi books..

What are your favorites?

It all started Friday afternoon.  I hadn’t felt good the previous few days and I just canceled going to an overnight retreat with a couple guys from our church.  I had then decide to leave work about 4:45pm and catch a high school soccer game that a player I coach is on.  Well I guess she didn’t show up, lol, so off I went at half time and headed home.  I cooked up some dinner and when Leslie got home we started talking about the phone call we got that her dad was in the ER and not feeling well.  As we gathered more information it wasn’t sounding good, so we started planning a trip to their home town.  (2.5 hour drive)  Then we get a call cause the hospital where he was at freaked out and called in a helicopter to take him to Oklahoma City.  Wow, Great.

So we started to panic pack and found a home for our dog for the night and next thing  you know, we are leaving the house on a 3.5 hour trip at 10:40pm.  We arrived at the hospital about 2:15am and then arrived to the hotel about 4:00am and the bed about 4:30am.

The next morning we were up about 8:00am and back to the hospital.

We spent most of Saturday at the hospital.  This morning as we were driving from the hotel to the hospital we learned that my father in laws sister has having heart issues and was transferred to the hospital around 3:30am, so we spent time with her today while they were diagnosing her problems.

So now it’s almost 8pm and I’m writing this from the hospital.  Looks like tomorrow we might be going home with my father in law going home on Tuesday.  My wife’s aunt however probably not for awhile.  Her heart cath showed no blockages but after the ultrasound I guess she might have leaky heart valves.  We will know for sure tomorrow after the doctor visit.

I hope you had a better weekend than we did.

Ah It’s finally here, the weekend is upon us.

This week has been pretty rough.  Work, being sick, soccer, etc.  A lot going on when your not feeling good.  I should be working it out of my system on a treadmill, but i think that will have to wait. I did have soccer tomorrow but just got a call from my father in-law and he is in the hospital so we are about to hit the road for 2.5 hours to be there. I hope everything goes well, and we will know more when we get there.

So I guess I will save my post for now as I will be gone most of the weekend.

I sure am.  Although I have a busy schedule, it will take my mind off of the 40 + hours I spend doing my work.

I think tonight I will play some Wii (which I did *fifa 09*) .  I got a new game recently and haven’t had a chance to play it yet.  Tomorrow morning I will wake up and I might actually head to the gym.  That way I can avoid weight loss products. Then I’m off to another soccer game.  Hopefully we will do good tomorrow.  After that, I’m off and running to a friend’s to learn some Adobe Illustrator and I’m going to teach him some web skills.  Then a small break before heading off to dinner and then to the Chris Tomlin concert.

And that is just Saturday.  Wow..  Of course I hope to get some rest in there somewhere.  Sunday just has two things on the agenda outside of the house and about 3-4 things in or around the house that need some attention.

Oh and I’m sure I will need to remote into work and do some of that too so my Monday won’t be that crazy..

What are your plans?

In more ways than one.  It was pretty windy out almost all weekend.  At times it felt like there were gusts between 25-30 mph with sustained winds in the teens.  Our backyard patio chairs moved a few feet Saturday.

Secondly Saturday and Sunday seemed like a disappearing act.  It went by really fast.  Saturday we had two soccer practices.  The first one from 9:00am to 11:00am and the our afternoon practice was 3:00pm to 5:00pm.  Toward the end of the afternoon practice I almost let them out late as I wasn’t paying attention to the time.  Maybe I need to finally get a watch or something.  I should check out Oakley watches, as they have some really nice ones.

Sunday was more laid back.  Church in the morning and the our small group that evening.

To finish out the weekend I awoke this morning about 3:00am with a huge wind and rain storm pounding against the house.  I stayed awake long enough to realize it was the storm finally hitting and then I went right back to sleep.

How was your weekend.?

Mine was ok.

I can’t really complain about it right?  Although I didn’t have a whole lot on my list to accomplish this weekend, it sure seemed that I was always doing something or occupied.

It started Saturday with the dog waking me up way too early.  7:30am is a time I like to sleep past on Saturday.  And of course once I got up she went back to bed, lol.  Then I came into work about 11am.  We had a bunch of things on the list to accomplish:

• New phone system cut over.
• Upgrade our Quickbooks Software to Enterprise 9.
• Update our Active Directory Servers.
• Update the firmware on our Exchange server.

There were a few other things but I won’t bore you with them.  Finally got out of work about 5pm due to a last minute emergency and proceeded home.  Sunday morning we got up and went to an awesome church service and then met up with some friends for lunch and a couple hours of Wii time.  I left them to pick up my little brother and we went and saw Valkyrie.  Movie was simply Awesome! After the movies I dropped him off and headed home to relax and prepare for the upcoming week.

Did you do anything special this weekend?