the world is bright and beautiful

Tonight was the end of my birthday festivities for this year. I was happy to have people around me happy to celebrate. There is nothing better than knowing you are loved and invested in. We had a joint party for Tiff and myself which kicked off at Mt.Fuji in Southlands. This would have been a much better meal had the mysterious meal I ordered turned out to be something more than fried chicken and BBQ sauce. “Tenkatsu,” I believe, translates roughly to “Sucker American orders McNuggets at Hibachi restaurant.” After dinner we went back to Bone’s for cake and presents. Jared got me a lovely bottle of Chiraz which I am anxious to sample, Jonas got me some Christmas Cookie blend for my pipe, but it was Mark and Judi’s present that floored me: A gorgeous pen, the selection of which was obviously laboured over and not taken lightly. This wasn’t just a gift taken from a list of things I’d be sure to like. This was a gift for me, from people who love me. All Mark could say was, “Every writer needs a good pen.” I couldn’t think of much to say. Thanks everyone for the best birthday ever.

Not to mention Time Capsule, Apple TV update, and iTunes rentals.

MacBook Air

today will be a good day. MacWorld begins tomorrow, so people at work will be in good spirits. I have “Break Free”stuck in my head. I’ll probably get to watch a movie with Ricci tonight because we both have tomorrow off. And I still have Eggo Waffles left for breakfast.

“I mean a big part of pro life beliefs is to not use birth control and let what happens happen. that is pretty jacked up thinking.”

ROFL.

BTW, Ricci’s blog is awesome.

Recent quote from my friend Ryan Furhmann at work: “Yeah, you worship leaders are so emotional.” This is the lesson of 2007 for me. It is so easy to just live off your feelings when you’re musical/artistically minded. You equate how you feel to how you are. And when you don’t feel “it,” you think that “it” is all wrong. You think you’re broken, that you’ve screwed everything up. You think about yourself constantly (why don’t I feel…)

It is funny what your life looks like after your brother, girlfriend, best friend(s) and co-workers all tell you that you need to get over yourself and stop letting your emotions control your life. Suddenly God is real again, and love is present in your life again. It doesn’t matter if you feel God at the moment. Your feelings don’t change Him. He Is who He Is.

And, ironically, that feels great.

hey! my web gallery is up!! check it out! I’ll be adding more and more pictures in the days ahead, thanks to my ability to post via e-mail. this excites me!

my web gallery

well, Windows Vista doesn’t really support iTunes worth a crap. Big surprise. any attempts to play the music vides I bought fail, and cause iTunes to crash. No, this is not an iTunes problem because the same version of iTunes is fully supported by XP. No issues. Now iTunes crashes when I just try to open it to play music. so I can’t even listen to my music.

I’M AN EFFING GUITAR PLAYER.

Not having a computer of my own officially blows.

Thanks for indulging my teenage angst.