Mental Block

I am writing this blog tonight because i feel as though i just have to get my thoughts out there before my mind will let me finish my school assignment. There has been a lot of things going through my mind in the last few weeks and especially the last few nights. I have been trying to figure out my life and what is happening in it, how my actions as of late will affect my future, and lastly where i lie as a christian and what it means to be a christian.

I have realized over this past weekend that everything is not what it seems and that the image of a person can be easily faked into pleasing the present situation. In the last couple of days the true images of some friends were revealed to me and i feel as though it has turned me right upside down to a point of utter confusion. How could i have been so completely blind to what was actually happening completely baffled my mind. On the other hand i am extremely thankful because it showed me how easy it is for one to convince themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they are doing. The events that took place have provided me with an astounding epiphany and a depth of enlightenment into my own life as well as my own heart. I have realized that the way i have been living my life was not appropriate and the things that i had convinced myself of being correct were the direct opposite. I am happy that this epiphay took place before the trip to Peru. I honestly believe that the example i was setting would have ended up in devastation if i had continued without change before the trip. I just hope and pray that i can help other people realize what i did before something happens that will be regretted in the future.

With this epiphany also comes a chance to try and figure somethings out in my walk with Christ. This epiphany has made me question what a christian can or can not do or rather what a christian should and should not do. The major issue that i examined in my mind is alcohol. I believe that a christian can drink, the physical act of letting alcohol hit the acid in your stomach is not a sin. Then i asked myself the question should a christian drink? I used the physical act into tricking myself to believe drinking in any situation is okay. Now i realize that i have to be very careful in what situation i am in when i am drinking alcohol. I realized that it is to tricky for myself to distinguish and that it be better if i just avoided it everytime. These are just my opinions and decisions i have now made for myslef and i do not look down on christians that drink. Everyone has the right to answer this question for themselves. There are a few more issues that i have not finished contemplating yet but i will in the near future.

Oh well, its getting late and i still have to type some more homework so tootles and i hope that what i have had to say makes sense and that there was some reason for me to type this.

If you want to read a wicked book read Eragon by Christopher Paolini. I suggest you do so before the movie comes out in December. It is amazing!

Cough! Cough!

Between applying math to the culinary field, sanitation courses, regular culinary classes, theory classes, preparing for the trip to peru and trying to teach myself spanish; I'm surprised there is still enough room left in brain to remember how to type. However, I think it is going to pay off in the long run.
School is going great! I'm kickin' around a B+ average which is really good, the written portion of the course is a lot harder than i thought it was going to be. I just finished my first class, as some of u may know it was soup, vegetable and starch cookery. Now i have started Short Order which is really, really easy which makes for a nice break. For those of u who caught a small flicker of my training last Saturday with some eggs benedict, there is plenty more where that came from. I apologize to those who didnt get a chance to try it; however, i always save the best for last. John, i will give u the first Laurette Potato that i make in Cold Lake.
The other major thing that is happening in my life right now is that i get to go on a missions trip to Peru for two weeks in August. The bad news is i have to get a physical...cough! cough! Which i am NOT very thrilled about. But i have always wanted to learn Spanish and now i am forced to which is cool; on the other hand, i have to teach it to myself and im not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing. The other downside is that there is a heck of a lot of other stuff that we have to train for that i wasnt previously aware of. It is in God's hands and i know he has put me on this missions team for a reason.

For those of you who were not at skirrific u missed out big time. Congrats to Drake and Fehr the band was exceptional and that goes for Darren as well and all those other guys who worked on the movie, i was extremely impressed and left completely satisfied. Adiós Amigos!

Thankyou Chevy Chase!

"When Chevy Chase jumps into a pool he doesn't get wet,

the pool gets Chevy Chased." unkown

Holding In My Poop

Well I'm sitting here holding in a poop because im to lazy to go up stairs; therfore, this might be a very quick blog or just a normal one, or a very long one depending on how lazy my fingers get. Well the most exciting event that has just recently happened to me would probably have to have been at about 8:15 last night when my Pittsburgh Steelers won the Vince Lombardi trophy at Superbowl XL in Detroit. They are my Oilers of the NFL and for them to have done what they did was incredible. What makes the victory even sweeter is when i get to rub it in the face of all the Seahawks fans at work and claim my $20 from the Hospitality Manager.

Now a friend of mine, some may know her as Sumo Anne, said that if i never had anything else to write about that i could write about her. I have plenty of other stuff i could write about; however, i think this would be the most fun. My favorite thing about Sumo Anne is her openess in sharing and expressing the gas that comes out of her body. She is also harder to score on than any other girl i have met in my life and consumes more food than most of the people i know. In conclusion, she is lot of fun to hang around with and if your ever hungry she always has a snack in her purse and a wetnap for cleanup.

School is absolutely amazing! The dishes i am making are so amazing that i could turn a behemoth carnivore like Fehr Bear into a vegetarian. The best dishes that i get to make are the potato ones. I had no idea there were so many ways to prepare potatoes. My favorite potato dish, by far, was the laurette potato. It's pretty much like the lightest, fluffiest donut you have ever had but its potatoes. One of my favorite soups that we got to make was the Mulligatawny which is like a curry, chicken and rice soup which I hope I can make for everyone soon enough.

Well i got to go the Cosby kids are just screamin to get into the pool. I hope to see you all at skirrific where me and Fehr have prepared an extreme sports demonstration that will occur in the snowboard park at approximately 10:30. In the words of Jerome Betis, "the bus stops here..."

Losing My Blog Virginity

This is my first blog ever and I'm not really sure what the point of them are but it seems like the thing to do in my newly discovered free time. So here goes nothing...

I now have this free time because as of a week ago today I started the Culinary Arts Program at the Northern Alberta Institue of Technology. This is a really exciting time in my life mostly because i now only have to work on weekends. I decided going to school is much better than working because for some reason, even with the homework, I have way more free time. Take today for instance, my classmates and I had a three hour break in between classes. As a result, we took the initiative and played pool and bublbe hockey all afternoon in the NAIT pub called The Nest. It was quite possibly the best bubble hockey I've ever played. I figure that I am in peak physical condition for this rediscovered joy and am in the prime of my bubble hockey career going five and one.

The best part about going back to school is the class itself. I am extremely excited about what the course has to offer me, other than pool and bubble hockey. For instance, today we started the Kitchen Sanitation course, finally I will at least know the name of the smell that is coming out of my room. It doesn't bother me any, I leave the pile of food and dirty laundry on the opposite side of my room. The flies have their space and I have mine. Maybe they'll even recommend on how often im suppose to wash the sheets on my bed, but I don't think we cover that till week eight.

For those of you who I have not yet informed, I am now employed at Red Lobster where I am also enjoying myself. The managers there are really helpful and informative and spread light on things that I would never have realized on my own. For instance how terribly racist the movie Shrek is..."the only black guy on the movie is a jackass."

In addition to the bubble hockey excitement, there is also a lot of other exciting things happening in sports. For example, Papua New Guinea just won the Australian Country Cricket Championship. As well as the wicked awesome Pittsburgh Steelers advancing to the AFC Championship game. There is also the World Cup and the Winter Olympics coming up. Wow! This is going to be an exciting year for sports, especially when the Edmonton Oilers will defeat the Ottawa Senators to win the Stanley Cup.

Well it's getting rediculously late and I have to be playing with extremely sharp knives in just a few hours so i better be somewhat coherent or Uncle Jim and I will be counting fractions on our fingers together. So this is the first blog for Newman Unplugged and I hope you enjoyed it. I have now officially lost my blog vitginity right now...